The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-06-12
NUMBER 44---vOLUME 8.

or supply an army to subjugate freemen
and extirpate Freedom in Kansas. That
game is ended. You cannot even pass
bill to maintain, or rather to regain, your
authority in Utah against polygsmistss
without infinite trouble. think can
| take up the roll, and give the yeas and
nays from the free States. I think my
honorable friend from Pennsylvania Mr..
BIGLER will vote ave, because he always
stands squarely up to the Administration.
1t is a tower of strength to the patriotic
statesman. Il is calculated to fostify his
courage and sustain mis- devotion to popa-
lar liberty and human rights-so long as
it lasts. / think that my honorable friend
from California Mr.. GwIN viii give his
vote for this new army bill, for, like my
self. he is apt TO favor appropriations, and
not very particular about the objects to
which they GO. But there, l think the
| favorable responses will end. rather
think my honorable friend from Ohio
Mr. PUGH] will hesitate for want of in
structions. Nv two excellent friends from
New jersey Messrs. WRIGHT and THoM-
son would be found in the negative on
that vote, because things are mauifestiy
| coming to close quarters in New jersey.
As to my honorable friends from Indiana,
they will OF course be absent, securing re-
| elections.
Mr. President, you will fail in obtaining
a support of this policy, in the contest be-
fore you, because, for the first time, you
will 90 before the people of the United
| States stripped naked of every pretence
of equality or impartiality between Free
dom and Slavery, much more of that
virtue which is the only mantle that can
now cover and conceal political faults in
this country-devotion to Freedom and
free labor. The honorable Senator from
| Illinois, Mr.. DOUGLAS the honorable
| Senator from Michigan, Mr. STUART,
and the honorable Senator from Califor-
MIA, Mr. BRoDERIcK, with their associates
| in the House, and the honorable Senator
from Kentucky, Mr.. CR1TTENDEN. and
the honorable Senator from Tennessee,
Mr.. BELL, have stripped you bare Of all
| pretences TO fairness in the exercise of
maintaining your own ayowed policy OF
popular sovereignty. You will go before
the people no longer in the character of q
party that balances equally between Free
dom and Slavery, but in the detested
character of party intervening for Slavery
against Freedom. You will meet in the
elections, not as heretofore, two or three
factions, giving you a triumph by their
divisions, which you could not win by
your own numbers, but one party only.
and that party combined, resolute, and
and animated by a sincere, deep. and COM
mon devotion to the principles it main
tains. On the other hand, you yourselves.
no longer united, will reach the polls
in Jealous divisions, and under different
standards-one faction wanting Slavery.
absolutely and without regard TO partisan
success or popular consent, the other hes
itating and halting on the position Of
no Slavery anywhere, unless the people
choose it.
Mr.. President, let me try for moment
to lift this debate up from these tempo
rary, ephemeral and collateral incidents,
to that height of argument where it be-
longs. The sixteenth century dawned on
the decay throughout Europe and the
world, of a slave civilization, derived from
early antiquity, and left as legacy by the
, Latin or Southern States of the continent
of Europe, on the fall of the Roman En-
b pire But it dawned also upon the rise
/ of a new and better civilization-the civ
, ilization of Freedom the civilization
since developed of the German and Scla-
vonic races the civilization of Germany
, and of England, of Scotland and Ireland
, aud Switzerland; in short, the now we'll
defined civilization of Western Europe.
The principle of the old Latin civiliza-
ton, which was passing away. was that
labor must be involuntary must be So
cured by fraud and force, and must be
converted into property, and bought and
sold as merchandise. The new civiliza-
ton was based on the principle of the
freedom of labor, that it must be voluntaFygy
and that it should be not only political
power, but that it should even become the
ascendant and dominating political power
throughout the world. While Portugal
and Spain proved themselves competent
to open and lead the great career of dis
, covery, and the one revealed interior and
} southern Africa, and the % her America,
! to the ewes of an astonished world, these
! two nations were, less than any others,
qualified to inaugurate civilization On
either continent The Portuguese, with
cupidity and cruelty unparalleled, doomed
Africa to remain perpetually in the bar
barism with which she had been cursed
from her earliest history, by establishing
there the African slave trade, in which ten
men were sold in exchange for one horse;
} and the Spauiards compelled America to
receive, and for while TO remain encum-
} bered With the civilization of labor by
African slaves, captured and sold 10 them
by the Portuguese. Our Constitution and
our Union came into being seventy years
ago, in coniuncture when il was necessary
to decide between those two systems OF
civilization found existing together within
our borders. The States which have
founded or adopted the new civilization
are before yor Contemplate them, and
say whether the world has ever seen COM
munities so perfect aud SO prosperous
You see, also, the States which were
founded on or have retained the old de-
ciining civilization Of the Roman Empire.
Il all our States have to choose between the
two systems. We have voice, at least
an influence, in determining their decision.
You are bent on forcing that old and sfets
civilization upon new regions where poiit-
ical and social evil has, until now. been
I unknown.
This question in regard to Kansas ought
to have been settled fifty-fye years ago.
in 1903. when Kansas was added to the
national territory BY the treaty with
France, as part CT the Louisiana purchase.
II was omitted then. Itrecurred i6 1870.
and then il was well and wisely settled,
by dedicating Kansas forever to impartial
Freedom. In 1854 you repealed that Law,
but the Law you thus repealed was stat
ute of the Almighty, written upon the
rivers and prairies and rocks of Kansas. as
i well as IN the very constitution CT Ameri-
can society. Ali you have done since,
i consists of fr,;tless efforts 10 carry the i'll