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dozen years hence but you hope: nevertheless.
that in the mean timc she will be delnoralized,
and come at last slave State, ! tell you,
moreover, that when she shall come Us o free
State, MS she will, you will be unable to satisfy
yourselves upon the forms she has gone
through with in attaining that happy condi-
ton. Sir, wc shall not deceive ourselves
There is no freedom for Kansas under this
bill rss - = "A $50 W ~ 8
Mr. President, while am speaking learn
that this bill, of so munh evil omen, has pass
cd the House Of Representatives, and that the
battle there is ended. confess to you sir,
that it produces on my mind, if some disap-
pointment, no discoura cement. l confess that
| Was prepared for this conclusion, md that
now when it has come (for what remains to be
done here is matter Of course) it is to me ut
terly Indifferent This have known oil 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 concern as have
about the place where shall sleep tonight,
although my home is hard by tho place where
l now stand. Kansas, sir, is the Cinderella OF
the American family. She is buffeted; she is
insulted; she is smitten and disgraced; she is
turned ont Of the dwelling, and the door is
locked against her. There is always, however,
a fairy that takes care of the younger daugh-
ter, if she be the most honest, the most virtu-
Gus, the meekest, and the most enduring inmate
Of the domestic circle. s.
Kansas will live and survive your persecu-
ton; she will live to defend, protect, and sus-
tain you; and the time will come, when her ell
der sisters, now 50 arrogant, Louisiana, Virgin
ia, and Pennsylvania, will repent all the injus-
tice they have done her. Her trials have not
been imposed on her for nought. She has been
made to take the position, the dangerous and
hazardous position, Of being the first 10 vindi-
cate practically by labor; by toll, through des-
olation through suffering md blood, the princi-
pie 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 and to suffer.
Every other Territory that shall come into the
Union hereafter, profting by the sufferings and
atonement of Kansas, will come into the Union
u Free State. Sir, this unnecessary strife
draws to its end. The effort to make Slave
States within our domain is against reason and
| against nature. The trees do not spring ny
from the roots and seeds scattered by the par
| ent trunks in the forest more naturally thar
new Free States spring up from the roots pro
jected, and the seeds scattered by the old Free
States. New stars do not form themselves 0u
Hof the nebulse in the recesses of space ant
come out to adorn the blue expanse above vi
more naturally than new Free States shap,
themselves out Of the ever developing element
Of our benign civilization, and rise to taxi
their places in this great political constellation
Reason and hope rejoice in this magnifcen
and majestic process. Let, then, nature ant
hope have their heaven-appointed way. Re
sist them no longer.