Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-03-26

tho advantages of strategy and intervcn
ton, and on field chosen by themselves
What would they gain. Can they com
pei Kansas to adopt Slavery against he
will? Would it be reasonable or Jus
to do it, if they could Was negro ser
vitude ever forced by the sword on an,
people that inherited the blood which
circulates in our veins, and the senti
ments which make us free people p
If they will agitate on such ground a.
this, then how, or when. by what con
cessions we can make, will they ever b,
satisfied =? To what end would they
agitate? 1t can now be only to divide
the Union. viii they not need some
fairer or more plausible excuse for a nro-
position so desperate How would they
improve their condition, by drawing
down certain ruin upon them selves
Would they gain any new security for
Slavery Would they not hazard Sc.
curitics that are invaluable. Sir, they
who talk so idly, talk what they do not
know themselves. No man when cool
can promise what he will 10 when he
shall be inhamed; no man inhamed can
speak for his actions when time and
necessity shall bring reflection. Much
less can any one speak for States in such
emergencies.
But, l shall not insist, now, on SO
radical a measure as the restoration of
the Missouri prohibition. know how
difficult it is for power to reinquish
even a pernicious and suicidal policy all
at once. We may attain the same result
in this particular case of Kansas, with
out going back so far. Go back only to
the grouad assumed IN 1854. the gpund
of popular sovereignty. Happily for
the authors of that measure, the 1salo US
an energetic resistance Of abuses prac-
ticed under it has so far been effective
that popular sovereignty in Kansas NAV
now be made a fact, and Liberty there
may be rescued from danger throu III its
free exercise. Popular sovereignty is an
epic of two parts. Part the first presents
Freedom in Kansas lost. Part the Sec
ond, If you will so consent to write it
shall be Freedom in Kansas rcy lined. -
l. IS d this ground that hill the emf
neat Senator from Illinois Nr. Doug
rs aud his associates. the distinguished
Senator from Michigan, (Hr. Stuart,
and the youthful. but most brave Scna-
tor from California, Mr.. Broderick. =
The late Mr.. Clay told Is that provi-
dencc has many ways for saving nations.
God forbid that | should consent to see
Freedom wouniel, because my own
lead or even my own ;cncy in saving it
should be jected, | will chcertully CO.
operate with these new defenders Of
this sacred cause in Kansas, aud | will
award them all dae praise, when we
shall have been successful, for their large
share OF merit in its dellvcrance
VIII you tell me that it is difficult TO in
luca tn Senate and the House of Repre-.
to take that short backward
step: On the contrary, the hardest task
that an Executive dictator ever set, or par
manager ever uuIarto5 X is to
rrevcn. this very step from being taken
Let the Prcsllen take off his hand, and
the bow, bent so long, and held to its
tension by 50 hard pressure, will relax,
aud straighten Itself at once,
Consider now, il you please, the con-
) .,l.n,es Of your refusal. Ii you at
tempt to coerce Kansas into the Union.
under the Lccompton Constitution, the
people of that Territory will resort u
civil war You are pledged to put down
that revolution by the swocI. IVll the
people listen to your voice amid the
thunders Of your cannon? Let bat one
drop of the blood of free citizen be
she'd there, by the Federal army, and
the countcnance OF every representative
of 4 free State, in either Hous, of Con-
.rcss. will olaneh, and his tongue will
refuse to utter the vote necessary to sus-
tain the army in the butcaery of his icl-
low citizens.
Practically, you have already one in
testine AMI Territorial war. A war
against Brigham Young in Utah. Can
you carry on two. and conino the STRIFE
within the Territory? Can you win
both A wise nation will never provoke
more than one enamy at one timr.
know that You ar cue that the Free State
men of Kansas are impractcablc, fac
tious seditions : Answer me three gu 5.
tons: Are they not a majority, and SO
proc,ajmad by the people Of Kansas =
Is not this quarrel. for the right of gov
erning themselves, conce lc By the Fed
eral Constitution, Is tAe tyranny oI
for5in, hateful Government upon them
less intolerl6Ie than three cents impoit
on poIn! of ten, or five cents stamp
duty on promissory note You say
that they can change this Iceonpton
Constitution when it shall once have
been forced upo1 then. Let it be abln-
d0ned now. IFhat guaranty can you
give against your own intervention to
prevent that future change? IFnat Sc
eurity can You give for yor owg
laetence to the construction Of IL. Coz
stitntion which you adopt, from expe
diency, to-day; What better IS Con
stitutlon than bylaw of a corporation
if it may be forced OF State to-day, ant
rejected tomorrow, in do5ogation of it
own express inhibition'
perceive, MIR. President, that, in th
way of argument, | have passed. alrcad.
from the ground of expediency, on wnict
was standing to that right of and justice