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

8 oppose and resist the destiny, not
), more of the African than that Of the
n white races. The white man needs
. this continent to labor upon. His
n head is clear. his arm is strong, and his
0 necessities are fixed. He must and will
: have it. To secure it, he win oblige
I the Government of the United States to
: abandon Intervention in favor of slave
5 States, and go backward forty years, and
resume the original policy of interventions
I in favor of free labor and free States
The fall of the castle of San Juan d'UlloA
determined the fate of Mexico, although
sore seiges and several pitched battles
, interviewed before the capture of the
Aztecs. The defeats you have encoun-
tered in California and in Kansas de-
! rhine the fate of the principle for
which you have been contending. 1t
is for yourselves, not for us, to decide
how long and through what further
notifications and disasters the contest
shall be protracted, before Freedom
shall enjoy her already assured triumph.
[ would have it ended now, and would
have the wounds Of society bound up
and healed. But this can be done only
in one way. 1t cannot be done by
off ring further resistance, nor by any
evasion or partial surrender, nor by
forcing Kansas into the Union as
slave State. against her will, leaving
her to cast off Slavery afterwards, AZ
she best may /; nor by compelling
Minnesota and Oregon to wait, and
wear the hnmiiating costume of Terri
tories at the doors of Congress, until the
people Of Kansas, or their true defenders
here, Shall be brought to dishonorable
compromises. It can be done only by
the simple and direct admission of the
three new States as free States, with.
out qualification. condition. reservation,
or compromisc. and by the abandonment
of al! further attempts to extend Slavery
under the Federal Constitution. You
have unwisely pushed the controversy
80 far, that only these broad concessions
will now be accepted by the interest Of
free labor and free States. For myself,
see this fact, perhaps, the more dis
t;nctly now, because l have so long
farsccn it. | can therefore counsel
nothing less than those concessions. l
know the hazards incur in taking this
position. | know how men and parties.
now earnest, and Jealous, and bold, may
yet fall away from me, as the controversy
sh I'll wax warm and alarms and dangers.
now unlocked for, shall stare them in
tie face. as men and parties, equally
earnest. bold. and jealous, have done. in
like circumstances. bef re. But it is
the same position l took in the case OF
California. eight years ago. 1t is the
same maintained on the great occasion
of the organization of Kansas and
Nebraska, four years ago. Time and
addel experience have vindicated it
since. and I assume it again, to be
raint lined to the last, with confidence,
that will be justified. ultimately. by
the country and by the civilized world.
You may refuse to yield it now, and fer
short period, but your refusal will
only animate the friends of Freedom with
the courage and the resolution, and pro-
ducc the union among them, which
alone are necessary, on their part, to
attain the position itself simultaneously
with the impending overthrow OF the
existing Federal Administration and the
constitution of a new and more indepen.
dent Congress.
Mr.. President. this expansion of the
empire of free white men is to be con-
ductcd tn ough the process of admitting
/ new States, and not otherwise. The
! vbat or not
will make the States to be admitted, and
he will make them all free Stats. We
must admit them, and admit them all
free otherwise, they will become in
dependent ard foreign Sta.es, constitu-
ting new empire tn contend with us
for the continent To admit them is
simple, easy, and natural policy. 1t is
began with the voluntary union Of the
first thirteen 1t has continued 10 go
on, overriding all resistance. ever since.
|: will 20 IN until the ends Of the con.
tinent are the borders of our Union
Thus we become co-laborers with our
fathers. and even with our posterity
throughout many ages. After times,
CDuLcU y dLiHp tlc WioiO NaS1 SttuSluiSs
completed and perfected, will forget
the dat ;. and the eras, and the individu-
, alitics, of the builders in their successive
generations 1t will be one z. cat
Republic founded by one body of bene-
, f,ctors. wonder that the President
= Of the United States undertakes the
Kansas question. when it is part of q
| Transaction so immense and sublime
Far from sympathizing with him in his
desire TO depreciate it, and to be rid OF
r it, fe!icitate myself on my humble
relation to it, for | know that Heaven
A cannot grant nor man desire moro
r favorable occasion to acquire fame, than
= he enjoys who is engaged in laying the
$ foundations of a great empire and
!. know, also. that while mankind have
c often deifed their bcne!actors. no ma.
i ton has ever yet bestowed honors ON
c the memories Of the founders of Slave
= ry.
o have always beloved, Mr.. Presi
n dent, that this glorious Federal Con
}. stitution Of ours is adapted to tn.
C inc table expansion of the empire which
ri ln.. cao11., r.nsauta1 ha