Litchfield enquirer., 1858-03-25
Stewards Speech.-EXtracts.

Nothing has been said in the United States Senate for six years past, that has commanded such univesal admiration from men of every party, as the great speech of Gov. Seward on the Lecompton Bill It equals the best efforts of the best days of Webster We should be glad to give it entire, but must content our selves with the following extracts : r..
 Whenever we add new column to our Fed eral colonnade, we need so lay its foundations so firmly, to shape its shaft with such just pro- portions, to poise it with such exactness, and to adjust its connections with the existing structure so carefully, that instead of falling prematurely, and dragging other and venera- ble columns with it to the ground, it may stand erect forever, increasing the grandeur and the fabric, *S
 There is at last North side to this Cham btr, a North side to the Chamber of Represen- tatives, North side to the Union, as we'll as
 South sides of all these. Each of them is watchful, jealous, and resolute. fit be true, as has so often been asserted, that this Union cannot survive the decision by Congress of a direct question involving the adoption of Free State which will establish the asccndency of Free States under the Constitution, and draw after it the restoration of the influence of Free dom in the domestic and foreign conduct of the Government, then the day of dissolution is at
 It would be wise to restore the Missouri prohibition of Slavery in Kansas and Nebras- ka. There was peace in the Territories and in thp Sfatac uptiI thof fof, ,oPE
 dom was subverted. It is true that there were frequent debates here on the subject of Slavery, and that there were profound sympathies among the people, awakened by or responding to those debates. But what was Congress in stituted for but debate? What makes the American people to differ from all other na- tions, but in this-that while among them power enforces silence, here all public questions are referred to debate, free debate in Congress. Do you tell me that the Superior Court of the United States has removed the foundations of that great statute 1 reply, that they have done no such thing they could not do it, They have remanded the negro man, Dred Scott, to the custody of his master With that decree we have nothing to do, at least noth- ing now to do. This is the extent of the judg- ment they could render. Already the preten
 ded further decision is subverted in Kansas. So it will be in every Free State and in every Free Territory of the United States The Sn- preme Court, also, can revise its spurious judg- ment more easily that we could reconcile the people to its usurpations. Sir the Supreme Court of the United States attempts to com mand the people of the United States to accept the principles that one man can own other men, and that they must guarantee the inviolability of that false and pernicious property. The peo- pie of the United States never can, and they never will, accept principles so uaconstitational aud so abhorred. Never, never Let the Court recede. Whether it recede or not, we shall reorgomize the Court, and thus reform its political sentiments and practices, and bring them into harmony with the Constitution and with the laws of nature.
 Do you tell me that the Slave States will not acquiesce, but will agitate ? Think first whether the Free States will acquiesce in decision that shall not only be unjust, but fraudulent. True, they will not menace the Republic. They have an easy and simple rem edy, namely, to take the Government out of unjust and unfaithful hands, and commit it to those who will be just and faithful They are ready to do this now. They want only little more harmony of purpose and a little more completeness of organization. These will re- sultfrom only the least addition to the pressure of slavery upon them. You are lending all that is necessary, and even more, in this very act. Rutwill the slave States agitate? Why i? Because they have lost at last battle that they could not win, unwisely provoked, fought with all the. advantages of strategy and inter- vention, and on a field chosen by themselves.
 What would they gain? Can they compel Kansas to adopt slavery against her will =