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dozen years hence, but you hope, nevertheless,
that in the mean time she will be demoralized,
AND come at last . slave State. tell you,
moreover, that when she shall como as free
State, as she will, you will be unable to satisfy
yourselves upon the forms she has gone
through with in attaining that happy condi-
| ton. Sir, VIC shall not deceive ourselves
There is no freedom for Kansas under this
BILL
MIR. 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. l confess to you sir,
that it produces OH my mind, if some disap-
pointment, no Encouragement. I confess that
! was prepared for this conclusion, and that
now when it has come (for what remains to be
done here is a matter Of course) it is to me ut
terly Indifferent. This l have known all the
while; that this WAS TO DO our last defeat or
our first victory. Either result would have
been welcome. For Kansas, for freedom in
Kansas, l have not so much concern as have
about the place where l 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 butfeted; she is
insulted; she is smittcn and disgraced; she is
turned out Of the dwelling, and the door is
locked against her. There is always, however,
u
ter, if she be the most honest, the most virtu-
ous the meekest, and the most enduring inmate
Of the domestic circle. 7''
Kansas will live md survive your persecn-
| ton; she will live to defend, protect, and sus-
tain you; and the time will conc, when her cl-
der sisters, now so 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 and 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 sutferings and
atonement of Kansas, will come into the Union
q Free State. Sir, this unnecessary strife
draws to it's end. The effort to make Slave
States within our domain is against reason and
against nature. The trees do not spring up
from the roots and seeds scattered by the par
cnt trunks in the forest more naturally than
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 out
| of the nebul9 in the recesses Of space and
come out to adorn the blue expanse above us
more naturally than new Free States shape
themselves out of the ever developing elements
Of our benign civilization, and rise to take
their places in this great political constellation.
Reason and hope rejoice in this magnificent
and majestic process. Let, then, nature and
hope have their heaven appointed way. Re-
sist them no longer.