The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1858-06-12
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of the slave States, but it was not on their
own motion. The suggestion came 10
them from Senators from the free States.
and il was not in human nature that they
should ress. it.
81, in 1856, when Kansas came here as
a free State under the Topeka Constitu-
ton, and you rejected her, you still had
the-show ofan excuse, for those same rep
resen,atives of the free States assured you
that the people of the free States would
aequiesce. But you are now. after having
failed in these efforts to establish Slavery
in Kansas, persisting In and renewing them
without that excuse Two of those Sen
atoTs, one of them the leader in the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, the other
hardly less effective in that transaction,
now demonstrate with you agains. further
prosecution OF your attempt. as impossible.
Sill another, from Michigan, demonstrates
Il mean the late distinguished Senator
from Michigan. now st the head of the
Department of State, Gen. CAss do
not say that he demonstrates by speech,
but do say that the retirement Of that
eminent man from this Chamber 50 suited
to his talents, his genius, his tastes, and
q
Department. of the Government, under an
appointment by the President Of the
United States. is louder remonstrance
than any words he could utter, If his con
stituems hal allowed him TO retain his place
among u, the representatives of the States.
Even that is not all. at last a new
voire issues from your own region, from
the South, from the Slave States, and pro
tests against your further persistence in
this mad enterprise. The cohorts are
gathering in the South the men of con-
servaiism, WHO, as they have heretofore
moderated in favor of Slavery against
Freedom, will now be obliged, in cOBsis
tency with their just and we'll established
character and their political patriotism, to
moderate agar st you in favor Of Freedom.
when the people are demanding Freedom,
AMI rising up unanimously against Slavery.
SIR, his whole controversy is at last re-
juced and contracted into a quarrel on
yoBr part for revenge against these wise
advisers. Instead of listening to their
conasels. you will suppress their remon-
strances and punish theirauthors as mutt
neers. Well, sir, this is matter of small
consequence to me- To myself. personally.
the future of these distinguished Senators.
and ;heir associates in the House of Rep
resentatives, Is noihing, except so far as
the positions which they shall maintain
shall bear on the result of the present con-
test TO establish new and better uoIicy
in the country. | know not. indeed.
whether ] shall be found hereafter labor
ing with them in efforts to promote the
ntltIt I, z,
to your councils, and labor in your ranks,
as heretofore. Nevertheless, am sure of
this-that you will not succeed in discred-
iting and prescribing them; for either you
provide for yourselves defeat, which the
signs OF the times indicate, or, in lien of
thai, you will go down to 1860 under the
Influence of sentiments and feelings ver\.
different from that of 1858 a party in
power IN the fist year of an Administra-
ton is apt to be bold and violent, A
party going out of power at the close o;
an Administration generally is timid and
hesiiating. You vsill search the SUBMITS
In New Hampshire, the plains of Mexico
and the halls of ST. James in LoadoD n
md Presidential candidate in 1860, who
was against the Conference Leconpto
Kansas bill in 1853; and then, If these
honorable gentlemen, with whom / have
labored for short time so pleasantly, shall
be found yet remaining within your pOlit-
lcal communion, | think | can promise
them that you will come to a much better
understanding with them than YOU have
now
Mr. President, while am yet speaking
l learn that this bill, of so much evil omen
has passed the House of Representatives
confess to you, sir, that il produces in
my mind, If some disappointment, no dis
conrag" ment. IcOnfess that am prepared
Tor this conclusion and that now. when
1t has come, (ior what remains to be done
In this Chamber is matter of course } il
Is to me utterly Indifferent. have known
all the while that this was TO be either onr
last defeat or our first victory. Either
result was sure to be quite welcome. For
hahsas, for Freedom in Kansas, | have
Dot SO much concern as | have about the
place where shall sleep Tonight, although
my house is hard by the place where
stand Kansas, sir, is The Cinderella Of
the American family. She is insuIted. sh,
Is butfeted, she is smitten and disgraced
sue Is turned out of the dwelling, and the
door is locked against her. There i:
always, however, a fairy, that takes care
OF the younger daughter, if she be the
most ylrtuouS, the most truthful. the
meekest, and the most enduring inmate o.
the domestic circle Kansas will live and
sirEIve your persecution. She will live tc
defend, protect, aud sustain YOU. The
time Will come when her elder sisters
sisters now so arrogant, Louisiana, Virgin.
Ia, aud Pennsy lvania--will repent them.
serves OF all the injustice they have done
to her. Her trials have not been imposed
on her for naught. She has been made t,
take the hard and hazardous position O.
being the first of the States to vindicate
Practically. 10y labor. by toll, through DIES
oittlon, through suffering. and blood. the
principle that Freedom Is better for State,
aud Tor the Republic than Slavery. She
VIII endure the trial molly to the end. a.
she has borne it hitherto; and as she ha.
been The first, so she will be the last II
contend aud to suffer. Every Territory
that shall come into the Union hereafter
Fronting by the sufferings and atcnemenl
OF hanSas, will Come into the Uni.,n 3
free State. Sir, this unnecessary strife 81
uRwisely provoked by Slavery, draws "a
Its cad. The effort TO make Slave States
within our dominion is against reason and
against nature. The trees do not spring
up tom the roots and seeds scattered bg
tne parent trunks in the forest more natur-
any than new States spring up from the
political roots projected and the social
SEED scattered by the old free States
New stars do not form themselves out of
the nebuiae IN the receSses of space, and
come out to adOrn and illuminate the bIue
expanse above us, more necessarily or
more tremendously than new free States
shape themselves out of the eyer.develop.
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