Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-05-28
sIr. Seward ON the Engllsh swIpare.

IoeWard was addressing the Senate on the
English Lecerspsor Subterfuge, Mr. Bioler
one of the SenaseTs from Pennsylvania, po-
lIteiy asked leave TO interrupt him E4c4aens,
which being granted, MIR. b. informed him
tnat the Conference Lecompton bill, then
under discussion, had passed the other branch
| oil Congress. Mr.. Seward having heard
this announcement, then nobly spoke as fol-
lows: se
Well, MIR. President, then the people e4
Kansas will have to come here under fhe
| LeaVenWorth constitution, and meet you on
the first Monday in December next when
You assemble here, and they will ask you to
admit them as free State. Have YOU any
law that will prevent them coming here in
that character! The Constitntion of the
United States says that the people of the
United States may petition, and they may
petition for what they please. The people
of Kansas can petition to be admitted as
State under the LeveRworth eoRstitstieD.--
Then there is no obstacle inthe way of their
coming here. Have you any constitutional
prohibition TO prevent nae from voting for
them! 1 shall vote for them as a free State,
in spite of a thousand such laws as this.
tell you more, you yourself will vote for
them too, large number of you, in order to
prevent the question going over to the next
| Congress, then already elected, because the
! next Congress will vote for them if you do
not, and you will then seek to save for YOUR
selves the credit of stanching the wounds of
bleeding Kansas, and establishing forever
the cause of freedom
All this will happen unless you will in
woke armies to suppress such proceedings by
the people of Kansas. Well, ] should like
to see she bill introduced into Congress now,
TO levy an army or provide supplies for any
army to ceaitrol freemen and extirpate free
men in Kansas. You cannot even pass
bill to maintain your authority in Utah, a.
gainst pofYgamists, without infinite trouble
| think can take up the list of yeas and
nays ard call them over. think my hon.
orable friend from Pennsylvania Mr. Bigler /
will vote aye, beCaEse he always stands
squarely up 20 the AdninistratioU. 1t is
tower of strength to the patriotic satesnanr
1t is calcalated to fortify his coaFage and
sustain his devotion to hsnsaD rights and
popular Iberty.--so long as it lasts.
think that my honorable friend from Calffor-
MIA Mr.. Gwinl world give It his vote, for,
and not very particular about the object to
which they go. But when these responses
are pronounced in favor of the measure,
there will be an end. | rather think nv
honorable friend from Ohio Mr.. Pughl will
hesitate for instructions. My two excel
friends from New Jersey would be found in
the negative on that vote, because things are
| already coming 70 head a. home. As to
my two honokable friends from Indiana, they
will. of course, be absent, securing q re-e-
| lection. t ,t rs..
Dir. President, you will fail in the contest,
because for the first time you will go before
the people of the United States stripped no
ked Of every pretense Of equality or impair
| tiality between freedom and slavery, much
more of that virtue which is the only mantle
that can cover up the faults of parties in this
country--devotioB to freedom. The hon.
able Senatur from Illinois Mr.. Douglas]the
honorable Senator from Michigan Mr..
Stewart and the honorable Senator from
California, Mr.. Broderick, with their associ-
ates in the other House, and the honorable
Senator from Kentucky MIR. Crittendeh, ]
| and the honorable Senator from Tennessee,
Mr.. Bell. have stripped you bare of all pre-
tences to fairness in the maintenance of
popular sovereignty. You will go before
the people, no longer in the character of a
party that balances equally between free
dom and slavery, but in the detested charac-
ter of party intervening for slavery against
freedom.
A party in power, in the first year of an
Administration, is bold and violent. A par
az nf AT ffHo pJo Of
Administration, is eir4id and hesitating. You
will search the summits of the mountains oi
New Hampshire, the plains OF Mexico, and
the privileged courts of st. James, in Lon
don, to find candidate in 1860 who was a.
gainst the conference Lecompton Kansas
bill in 1858; and then, if these honorable as
sociates with whom I have labored for a
short time so pleasantly, shall be found re-
naming in your communities, think can
promise them and you, you will come to q
| much better understanding with them than
you have now.
MIR. President, while am speaking |
learn that this bill, of SO much evil omen
has passed the House of Representatives
ard that the battle there is ended. confess
to you, sir, that it produces on my mind, il
some disappointment, no discouragement
conf ess that was prepared for this con-
clusion, and that now when it has come (for
what remaits to- be done here is a matter o
course) it is to me utterly Indifferent. This
have knowIt all the while; that this was to
be our last defeat OUR first victory. Ell
ther result world have been welcome. Fol
7 Kansas, for freedom in Kansas, have moi
SO much concern as I lraye about the place
where I shall sleep to-rght, although my
home is hard by the place where I stand.-.
Kansas, sir, is the Cinderella of the Amer
can family She is beffeied; she is iusulted
she is sfaitten and dsgraced; she is turnet
out of the dwelling, and the door locked a
: gainst her. There is always, however,
fairy that takes care of the younger daughter
if it be the most honest, the most virtuous
the meekest, and the most enduring inmat
of the domestic circle. s5F
Kansas will live and survive your persecu
ton; she will live TO defend protect and sus
tain youj and the time will come when he
elder sisters, now SO arrogant, Louisiana
d Virginia and Pennsylvania, will repent a
t the injustice they have done her. Her trial
have not been imposed on her for naugh'
y She has been made to take the position, tn
dangerous aHo haAaruouS PoSliou, Vi oelh
: the first to vindicate practically by labor, b
. toll, through desc lation, through sufferin
y and blood, that freedom is better for State
e and for the Republic than slavery. Sh
e will endure the trial nobiy, and she has bee
y the first, SO will be the last to contend ar
n suffer. Every other territory that sha
g come into the Union hereafter, proftiDg
N the sufferings and atonement of Kansa
1T will come into the Union free State. 81
h this unnecessary strife draws to an EN-
q! The effort to make slave States within Of