Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-05-11

ton. and come here and obtain admission
free or slave as we pleased. according to the
text of your statute-book, bi t We have come
here and demanded freedom. and have been
contumeliously spurned from your. presence.
They refuse to be admitted az slave State.
and they are remanded home to try it over
again. and reconcile themselves to slavery, on
the penalty of coming no more, or not until
they number one hundred thousand souls. If
Kansas shall do this, and be docile and quiet,
you think you will admit her when she comes
as free State, half dozen or dozen years
hence, but you hope, nevertheless that in the
meantime she will be demoralized, and come
at last a slave State. / tell you, moreover,
that when she shall come free State,
as she will, you will be unableto satisfy your
selves upon the forms she has gone through
with in attaining that happy condition.
SIR, ace shall! not deceiue ourselves. There is no
freedom for Kansas under this bill.
at is therefore, just no compromise at all;
it is pretense of compromise. Sir, L was
born suspicious of legislative compromises.
That temper has grown on me more every
day of my life. have seen the dangers and
the evils that have followed them; and made
up my mind when / came here that ! would
harden my face flint against any COM
promise whatever between freedom and
slavery This compromise. however inspires
me with hope unknown before. | look on it
with more complacency than on any other,
for it is such a miserable imitation of the com
promises which have been hallowed in the
respect and affections of the people of the
people of the United States for generations,
that it will bring the whole system of COM
promise henceforth and forever into ridicule,
and of unmitigated contempt.
/" Sir, your Lecompton government of Kan
sas will be afioat on the Missouri river; when
it begins. The Missouri river will not be wide
enough for it; it must go down for safety until
it reaches the broader channel of the Mssis-
sippi, and when you next look for it, you will
find it stranded on the beach of the Gulf of
Mexico. There IS 10 be Lecopapton iStote, no
sldUe State IN Kansas. Nevertheless you enact by
his lac, that there shall be a Stare iStaem Kansas,
and there shall be no other.
"Mr President, while l am speaking, /
learn that this bill, of so such evil omen, has
passed the House of Representatives, and
that the battle there is ended. | confess to
you, sir, that it produces on my mind, if some
disappointment, no Encouragement l con-
fess that was prepared for this conclusion,
and that now when it has come (fOr what
remains to be done here is matter OF course)
il is to me utterly Indifferent. This | have
known all the while; that this was to be our
last defeat or our first victory. Either result
would have been welcome. For Kansas, for
freedom in Kansas, have not so much con-
sleep tonight, although my home is hard by
the place where / stand. Kansas, sir, is the
Cinderella Of .the American family. She is
buffeted: she is insulted; she is smltten and
disgraced she is turned out of the dwelling,
and the door is locked against her. There is
always, however fairly that takes care of
the Younger daughter. if she be the most
honest the most virtuous, the meekest, and
the most enduring inmate of the domestic
circle.
"Kansas will live and survive your perse-
cution: she will live to defend, protect, and
sustain you, and the time will come when her
elder sisters, now so arrogant, Louisiana, Nir-
ginia, and Pennsylvania, will repent all the
Injustice they have done her. Her trials have
not been imposed on her for naught. She has
been made been to take the position. the dan
gcrous and hazardous position. of being the
firft TO vindicate practically by labor, by toll,
through dcsolation, through suffering 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 tn
contend and to suffer. Erery other TERRITORY
that shall come intOHe Union hereateer, profRg by
tie su7eyings and dtontn,ena of Kansas, acW come
into the Iiiton a free State. Sir, this unneces-
sary strife draws to its end. The c7ort TO make
STARE States lcithm damon as against reason
and GqdnSt nature The trees do not spring up
from the roots and seeds scattered by the pa
rent trunks in the forest more naturally than
new free States spring up from the roots pro-
jected and the seed scattered by the old free
States. New stars do not form themselves
out of the nebula in the recesses of space and
come out to adorn the blue expanse above us,
than new free States shape themselves out of
the ever developing elements of our benign
civilization. and rise to take their places in 4
this great political constellation Reason and
hope rejoice in this majestic and magnificent
process. Let, then, nature and reason and
hope have their heaven appointed way. Re
sist them no longer"