Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-07

bic Senator from Kentucky, Hr. CTittenden,
and the honorable Senator from Tennessee, Mr..
Bell have stripped you bare OF all Pretenses to
fairness in the maintenance of popular soveT-
eighty. You go before the people no longer IN
the character Of party that balances equally
between freedom and slavery, but in the detes-
ted character of party intervening for slavery
against freedom.
A party in power, in the first year of an Ad-
rniniStration, is bold and violent. A party 60
ing out of power, at the close Of an Administra-
ton, is timid and hesitating. You will search
the SUBMITS of the mountains in New Hamp'
shire the plains of Mexico, and the privileged
courts of St James in London, to find candi-
date in 1860 who was against the conference
Lecompton Kansas bill in 1858; and then, if
these honorable associates with whom have
labored for a short time pleasantly, shall be
found remaining IN your communion, think
can promise them and you, you will come to u
much better understanding with them than you
have now.
Mr. President, while lam speaking learn
that this bill, of SO much evil omen, has passed
the House of Representatives, and that the bat
tie there is ended. confess to you, sir, that
it produces on my mind il some dishppoint-
ment, 10 encouragement. confess that was
prepared for this conclusion, and that now when
it has come QOr what remains 10 he done here
is matter of cOurse) it is to me utterly indit
ferent. This have known all the while; that
this was to be our last defeat first victory
Either result would have been welcome. For
Kansas, for freedom in Kansas, have not so
much concern as have about the place where
/ shall sleep tonight, although my home is hard
by the place where Istnnd. Kansas, sir, is the
Cinderella of the American family. She is buff
fetcd; she is insulted; she is smitten and dis
graced; she is turned out of the dwelling, and
The door is locked against her. There is always
however, n fairy that takes care of the younger
daughter, il she be the most honest, the most
virtuouS, the meekcst, md the most enduring
inmate Of the domestic circle.
Kansas will live and survive your persecution;
she will live to defend, protect and sustain you;
aud the time will come when her elder sisters,
now so arrogant, Louisiana, Virginia and Penn
Sylvanin, will repent all the injustice they have
done her. Her trials have not been imposed on
her for naught. She has been made to take the
position, the dangerous and hazardous position,
II being the first to vindicate practically by Ia
bor, by toll, through desOlation, through suffer
ing and blood, the principle 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, so she will be the last
To contend aud to suffer. Every other Terrific
~ that shall come into the Union hereafter,
rroliting by the sufferings and atonement of
Kansas, will come into the Union free State.
Sir, this unnecessary strife draws TO an end
The effort to make slave States within our do
main is against reason, and against nature
The trees do not spring up from tue roots and
seeds scattered by the parent trunks in the for
est more naturally than new free States spring
up from the roots projected and the seeds scat
tered by the old free States. New stars do not
form themselves out of the nebule in the re
cesses of space and come out to adorn the blue
eNpance above us, than new States shape them
selves out of the ever developing elements of
our benign civilization, and rise to take their
places in this Great political constellation. Rea-
son and hope rejoice in this majestic and magni-
fcent process. Let, then, nature and reason
aud hope have their heaven appointed way
Resist them no longer.