The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-06-12

this eternal agitation of Slavery. They
consult the commercial presses of Balti-
more, Philadelphia, New York and Bos-
ton, and those oracles respond with assur-
ances that the people are exhausted, and
willing and impatient to have the Kansas
question ended in any way, with popular
sovereignty or without, with fairness or
without, with or without Slavery. Sir,
they see only the eddy; they do not
stretch their vision far enough to see the
tide. They make the same mistake which
siilsskSelon did few months ago, when in
the darkness of the winters night, on the
bank of the Genesee, he slew his brother,
and precipitated the mangled body down
into the river, just below the first fall, and
just above the other, thence to float down
the last cataract, and be buried forever in
the lake below. But when the morning
came, the corpse of the victim lay floating
on the shallow water by the river side
He had mistaken the eddy near the shore
for the full and ever-swelling food, which
man can by no art or power compress or
restrain. Senators, you shall have peace
in Kansas, you will have peace in Kansas.
1t will come, not by reason of what you
do to court or compel it, but in spite of
yourselves but it will come in the train
of the triumph of peace giving policy and
principles.
How do you expect to get peace by this
bill? BY this bill, if it works as you ex-
pect, you viii get slave State, one way
or another. You will get slave State in
one case by popular election, urder the
operation of bribes and menaces. Will
the people of Kansas remain corrupted
after they have accepted your bribe and
escaped your terrors That is not in
keeping with the character of the Ameri-
can people. You will get it by fraud-by
a certificate from the President that pop
ular sovereignty has gone in favor of Lee
compton, when, in fact, it hes gone the
other way. Will that make peace? /
should ike to be near by, and see the new
slave State attempted to be organized
under the Lecompton Constitution.
l remember that legislators as wise as
we-the world thought them much wiser
who had seats in St. Stephens Chapel,
and had President whom they honored
as much as we do ours, though they called
him King, insisted that the people oi
New York should live under what to them
was slave Constitution, while they had
made up their minds to have free one
established by themselves. The Provin-
the Halifax packet, and thence sent forth
its remonstrances and denunciations, under
cover of his Maiesty's guns. They were
however, merely Jrutum falnsen. Aftel
short time, the British Government ant
the British ship disappeared together be
low the Neversink, to return no mOrt
forever. The British Parliament under
took, also, to rule Virginia under slavt
Constitution as it was regarded by her,
But, as the strife rose higher, the Provin
cial authority, with the prestige and powe
of the British Empire to back it, tool
refuge on board the schooner Fowey, anC
descended to Hampton Roads. There i
committed few pitiful invasions upon tn,
property of patriotic planters and citizens
of that great State, and then disappeared
forever.
Sir, your Lecompton Government o
Kansas will be afioat on the Missouri rive
when it begins. The Missouri will not b
wide enough for its safety. 1t must g
down, and pass into the broader channe
of the Mississippi; and when you mex
look for it, you will find it stranded OF
the beach Of the Gulf of Mexico. Their
is to be no Leeompton State, no slav,
State, in Kansas. Nevertheless, you enac
by this law that there shall be a slaE,
State in Kansas, and there shall be q,
other. Well, sir, if you shall pass th'
bill to-day, as you say you will, it vii
reach Kansas in about ten days. In abou
ten days more, the new State of Kansa
will be organized under the new Lecomp
ton Free State Constitution, and about tn,
7th day of June, when you are impatien
to 90 home, Kansas will be beleaguerin;
YOU here for admission as free State
She will be telling you that she know
nothing about your projected slave Stat
within her borders. She has not seen it
it is not there at all. You, of course, vii
spurn her from your path, and will g
home. The people of Kansas will theI
appeal to the popular elections throughou
the United States, which are TO send L
this Capitol twenty new Senators and
whole House of Representatives about tht
| first Tuesday in November next. Now,
ask the honorable supporters of this bill
here, belonging to the free States, abou
how many Democratic Senators and Rep
resentatives they expect will be returned
by the people upon the passage of thi
bill? / ask for information. The hon
orable Senator from California Mr.. BRoD
ERICK] has spoken for the only free Stat,
that | thought was hopelessly lost to u
for a quarter of a century. For all tn,
rest, think that, if it were not presump
tuous, might speak myself But leave
the Representatives of those States to speak
Mr.. BIGLER. Will the Senator from
New York allow me to interrupt him fo
one moment?
SIR SEWARD. Certainly.
Mr. BIGLER. do not desire to inter
rupt the Senator more than one moment
but thonght perhaps it would be wei
for him to know that the bill which We
are discussing here has passed the other
branch of the Legislature.
Mr. SEWARD. Well, ME President
then the people of Kansas viii come here
under the Lecornpton Constitution, anC
meet you on the first Monday in Decem
Der next, when you assemble here, and
they will ask you to admit them as fret
State. Have you any Law that viii pre-
vent their coming in that character anG
for that purpose? The Constitution o
the United States declares that the peo
pie may petition Congress, aud they may
petition for what they please. The peo
pie of Kansas may petition to be admitteC
as free State, under the Leayenwortf
Constitution. Have you any coDstitu
tional prohibition to prevent me from
voting in favor Of their prayer? shall
vote for their admission as free State, il
spite of thousand such laws as this.
tell you, moreover, that you yourselves
or large number of you, viii vote for il
also. to prevent the question going Owe
to the next Congress, then already elected