Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-10

] and until "the leopard can change his : spots or the Ethiopian his skin" do not tell me, he said that it is unlawful to hold , slaves. He had been asked, with these views, what is to become of the country !, Fanaticism might be spreading at the North but slavery is getting stronger, and
 will continue to get stronger, whether in
 tue Union or out of it. If the worst must come, let it come; he was not afraid of the consequences. In or out of the Union, slavery will grow stronger as time rolls on.
 PROGRESS OF pRo-sLAvERY SENTIMENTS When he entered Congress, the Mis- souri Compromise excluded slavery from the Territories; now it is not excluded from any portion of land over which floats our national flag. He alluded to the anti slavery sentiment which prevailed in Vir- ginia, in the early days of the common
 wealth, and argued that it is useless to war against the progress of events. Every restriction has been taken off of slavery: fugitive-save law has been granted. There are more men at the North today who believe in the social and moral cona dition of slavery, than when he went to Congress. Wilberforce's theory has failed j; Carlyle has repudiated his abolition doc lrines; and even the London Times :" partially kept up with him in his opinion. Freedom for the negro has been tried in the West India islands, and failed; and the defect is now attempted to be reme- died by the introduction of Chinese :" cool ies," under the title of apprentices" It would be better for them to resort to the original state of things. All. he continued, depends upon ourselves, for the future. With our constitutional rights, and with present principles of political policy, we are just as safe, and even safer than we ever were. We must remain united. If we are ever divided, our day of doom will surely come.
 MANIFEST DESTINY.
 All nations when they cease 10 grow, begin to die. We should, then, continue to grow and expand. Mexico and Gen. traf~America are open 10 us. He did not believe that the country was large enough, and argued that diversity of interests would strengthen the government better than if all were homogeneous. He looked forward in the future to the acquisition of Cuba bat he was never in favor of pay ing Spain much money for that island - not more than one or two millions of dol lars If Cuba wants to come into the Union. he would not ask Spain; but he would be in favor of repeating the neu- trality laws, so as to give our people a chance to help her in carrying out her wish. He saw no reason why we should pay thirty millions of dollars for tfMt island We had already spent several millions in preventing Americans from going there; and he wanted the United States to quit holding the island while Spain skins 1t.
 GRAND FINALE.
 The best time to stop speaking, resumed the orator, is when nobody wants you to quit. What have said about the princi- ples of slavery is new thing. Philoso- phers never thought much about govern ment founded on nature. All things now are slow in development. He alluded to the theories of Copernicus, of Calico, of Adam Smith, of Watt, of Newton, of Fulton; to the steamboat, the electric tele- graph, etc. All these were slow in de- velopment; and the same principle will apply to our government.
 He would now take his farewell leave. My race is done, said he-my career is ended. Whether for good or for evil, the record has been made up. He would not say that he would never hold office, under any emergency; for that would be inso- lent. But if any great emergency should arise, even if it were necessary to shoul der his musket in defense of his country though he could not do much in that way yet he would hold himself ready to obey the call of his country. But there was no office under heaven which he would have in preference to that of Representative in Congress, and particularly from the Eighth District. sss,
 In conclusion, lie wished peace, happi l ness, and long life, to all his hearers, and prosperity to the country; and he hoped that our institutions might bless millions yet unborn, as they had blessed us. I