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

: she must not be forced into it. "Unit
or DE-" was the motto addressed to tn
States in the time of the Revolution
: Though Kansas should perish, she can
not be brought into the Union by force
So long as the States shall cmne in b.
free consent, thei: admission will pe ar
act of union, and this will be Confed
eracy. Whenever they shall be brough
in by fraud or force, their admission
will be an act of consolidation, and tn,
nation. ceasing to be a Cohfederacy, will
become in reality an Empire. All our
elementry instruction is wrong, or elst
this change of the Constitution will sub.
vert the liberties of the American peo.
pie.
You argue the consent of Kansas from
documentary proofs, from her forced and
partial acquiescence, under your tyran-
nical rule. from elections fraudulently
conducted, from her own contumacy,
and from your own records, mide M
here against her. ! answer the whole
argument at once: Kansas protests here
and stands, by your own confession, in an
attitude of rebellion at home, to resist
the annexation which you contend she
is soliciting at your hands.
Sir ifyour proofs were a thousand
times stronger. would not hold the
people Of Kansas bound by them. They
all are contradicted by stern fact. A
people can be bound by no action con-
dactel in their name, and pretending to
their sanction, unless they enjoy perfect
freedom and safety in giving that con-
sent. You have held the people of
Kansas in duress from the first hour of
their attempted organization as COM
munity- To crown this duress by an act
at once forcing Slavery on them. which
they hate, and them into union with
you, on terms which they abhor, would
be but to Illustrate anew. and on grand
scale, the maxim
'Prospsram e ielits celus, rirtus roca.ur.
Mr.. President, it is an occasion for
Joy ana triumph. when community that
has gathered itself together under cir
cumstanccs of privatlon and exile, and
proceeded through a season of Terrlto-
ria! or provincial dependence IN distant
cantrd authority. becomes State, IN the
tall ej oym nr OF civil and rcIi ;ious liberty
and rises into the dignity Of member
of this Imperial Uaion. But, in the
case of Kansas. her whole existence has
been, and 1t vet is, a tempest, chaos -
and now YOU propose to make her nup-
,ills a celabrltion of the funeral OF her
freedom. The peopia of Kansas are en-
tilted to save that freedom. The pco-
pie Of Kansas are entitled to save that
freedom, for they have won il back when
iszhal been wrcsted from them by inya-
sion aud usurpation. Sir, You a-e great
and strong. On this contincn. there is
~ Power can resist you. On any other
there is hardly Power that would not
reluctantly engage with you-but you
can never, never conquer Kansas. Your
power, like throne watch is butt OF
pine boards, and covered with purple, is
weakness, except it be defended by a
people conf lin. in you, because satisfied
that YOU are just, and grateful for the
freedom that, under you, they enjoy.
Sir, in view, once more, Of this subject
Of Slavery. submit that our dignity re-
qnircs that we shall give over this cham
pertv with Shareholders, which we prac-
tce in prescribing aequicscence In their
rule as acondition Of liberation of self
government in the Territories. We are
defeat cd in it. We may wisely give 1t
up, and admit Kansas as a free State,
since she will consent to be admitted
only in that character.
Mr.. President, if | coald at all sup
pose it desirable or expcdient to enlarge
the field of slave labor, and of slavehold-
in, sway, in this Republic, | should
nevertheless maintain that it is wise TO
rellnqush the effort to sustain Slavery
in Kansas. Th, question, in regard to
that Territory, has risen from a private
one about Slavery as domestic lnstltu.
ton, to one Of Slavery as national poll
icy. At every step, you have been fail
ing. Viii you 9 on still further. ever
confident, and yet ever unsuccessful:
believe. sir, to some extent, IN the
l>otAermll theory. tnink there are re-
gions. beginning at the North pole. and
stretchin, southwark, where Slavery will
die out soon, if it be planted; and know
too well. that in the tropics, and to some
cxten. nor,hwarl of them, Slavery lives
long, and Is hard to extirpate. But
cannot find a certain boandiry. l am
sure. however, that 36 30' is too fi
north | think it is ampvahlc boun-
dary, and that every year it advances to-
wards more southern parallel.
Bat is there Just now real want OF
new State ior tAe employment of Save
labor: see and feel the need of room
for new State to be assigned to free
labor. Of room for such a new State al
most every year. think see how i
arises. Free white men abound in thu
couEtry, and IN Europe, and even II
ASA. Economically speaking, their la
Dor is chcap-there Is surplus OF tt
Under improved conditions OF society, hi'
; grows longer, and men multiply faster
Wars, which sometimes waste them
grows less frequent and less destructive
Invention is continually producing ma
, chimes and engines, artificial laborers
crowding them from one field OF indus
try to another--ever more kom tn
Eastern regions of this continent to TIL
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