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dozen years hence, but you hope, nevertheless,
the mean timea sheswill be alemoriH Seds
apd. come At last "a slayer State.y I tell YOU,
MOREOVER, that when she shalt come as q. slree
State, as she viii, youwill be unable to sxtSfy
yourselves upon the forms she has me
through with In attaining that happy co1di-
ton. Sir, We shall not deceive ourselvess-
There Is no freedom for, Kansas under this
bill. 49,, - <~.e.s -
Mr.. President while I am :, speaking learn
that this bill, Of SO munh evil omen, has pass.
cd tho House of Representatives, and that the
battle there Is ended. I confess to you sir,
that il produces on my mind, if some disap-
polntment, no acknowledgment. confess that
! was prepared for this conclusion, and1hat
now when it has come (for what remains t. be
done here is q matter Of oourse) it is to me tit-
tefly Indifferent. This have known all the
While;t that this was to be our; last defeat or
our first victory. Either result would have
been welcome. For Kansas, for freedom in
Kansas, l have not so much concern rs I have
about the place where shall sleep tonight,
although my home is hard by the place where
now stand. Kansas, sir, is the Cinderella of
the American family. She is buHeted; she is
insulted; she is smitten and disgraced; she is
turned out, Of the dwelling, and the door is
locked against her. There is always, however,
fairy that takes care Of the younger daugh-
tor, If she be the most honest, the most virtu-
Gus, the meekest, and The most enduring inmate
of the domestic circle. - -, -
'NsKansas wiliaiive and survive your persecu-
ton she viii live TO defend, protect, and sus-
tain you and the time Twill come, when:her ell
der sisters, now 90 arrogant, Louisiana, Virgin
H., and Pennsylvania, will repent all the injus-
tice they have done hcr. Her trials have not
been imposedonh her for nought. She has been
made to take fhe position, the dangerous and
hazardous position, of being the first 10 vindi-
cate practically by labor, BY toll, through des-
olation through suffering and blood, the princi-
pie that freedom is better for States and for
the Republic than slavery. She will endure
the trial nobly, and as she has been the first,
80 she will be the last to contend and to suffer-
Every other Territory that shall come into the
Union hereafter, pro6ting by the sufferings and
atOnement of Kansas, will come into the Union
a Free State. Sir, this unnecessary strife
draws to its end. The effort to make Slave
States within our domain is against reason and
against nature. The trees do not spring up
from the roots and seeds scattered by the par
ent trunks in the forest more naturally than
new Free States, spring up from The roots pro-
jected, and the seeds scattered by the old Free
States. New stars do not form themselves out
of the nebulm in the recesses OF space and
come out to adorn the blue expanse above US
more naturally than new Free States shape
themselves out Of the ever developing elements
of our benign civilization, and rise to take
their places in this great political constellation
Reason and hope rejoice in this magnificent
and majestic process Let, then, nature and
hope have their heaven-appointed way. Re-
sist them no longer.