The Kanzas news., 1858-03-27

warm, and slsrms and dangers. no,. ~,
looked for, shall stare them in :he f.o IN
men and parties, equally bold and zeslo,s
have done in ike circumstances before y
it Is the same position took in the cas- .'us "
California, eight years ago It is the ss,e ol
I maintained on the great occasion Of f"1e me
organization of Kansas and Nebraska son .ue
years ago. Time and added experience bou ,ouf
vindicated it since. and assume il 49,
to be maintained 70 the last, with cop6dsnu'
that it win be justified ultimately bv ,Te
country and By the civilized world. We
may refuse to yield it now, and for sbos.
period, but your refusal viii only animo,s
the friends of freedom with the courage ana
the resolution, and produce the an ion amon1.
them, which alone are necessary on tbe;s
part to attain the position itself stimuli.
neously with the impending overthrow ot
the existing Federal administration and tha
constitution of new and more Independent
Congress.
Mr.. President, this expansion of the eup;,. y.
the free white men is to be conducted through III
process of admitting new States. and not otbar
wise. The white man, whether you consent or
not viii make the States to be admitted, and bs
viii make them all free States. Ne must adm,
become independent and foreign States, consttn.
ting a new empire to contend with us for the con.
tinent. Teadmit them is simple, easy and nat
ural policy. 1t is not new TO us, or to our times
It began with the voluntary union of the first
thirteen. It has continued to 60 until the ends
Of the continent are the borders of our Union.-
Thus we become co-laborers with our fsthers and
even with our posterity throughout many ages
After times, contemplating the whole vast strue.
ture, completed and perfected viii forget the dates
and the erss, and the indiyidualies, of the build
ers, in their successive generations. It will be
one great Republic, founded by one body of ben.
efaetors. wonder that the President of the Uni.
ted States undertakes the Kanzas question, when
it Is part of transaction 80 immense and sublime
Far from sympathizing with him in his desire 10
depreciate It, and to be rid of it, feicitate nv
self on my humble relation to it, for know that
Heaven esnnot grant, nor man desire more fa
vorahle occasion to acquire fame, than he eniOys
who is engaged in laying the foundations of great
empire; and know, also, that while mankind
have often deifed their benefaetors, nation has
ever yet bestowed honor on the memories of the
founders Of slavery. - f1 r
have always believed, Mr. President, that thi.
glorious Federal Constitution of is adapted to
the inevitable expansion of the empire, which |
have so feeblY presented. 1t has been perverted
often by misconstruetion, and it has yet to be per-
verted many times and widely hereafter; but il
has inherent strength and vigo3 that will cast off
all the webs which the ever-changing interests of
classes may weave around it. If it fail US now, it
will, however, not be our fault, but because an in
evitable crisis. like that of youth, or of mankind
is to be encountered by Constitution proved in
that case to be inadequate 70 the trial. am sure
that no patriot who views the bject do, could
wish to evsde or delay the trial. By delays We
could only extend slavery at the most, throughout
the Atlantic regions of the continent. The Pacific
slope is free and it always must and viii be free
The mountain barriers that separate US from that
portion of our empire, are quite enough to divide
US too widely, possibly, TO ALLEVIATE US too soon
Let US only become ali slaveholding States on this
side Of those barriers while only free States are Of
ganized and Perpetuated on the other side, and
then indeed there will come division of the great
American family into two nations, equally ambi.
tious for complete control over the continent and
conflict between them, over which the world will
mourn, the greatest and last to be retrieved of
all the ealamities that have befailen the hu-
man race