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Pellow-citzens. let rs have nov the efee. OF the
rule by which the slave interest has oenea'ei 20
largely know that the d.y that TeIss was annexed
10 this Cnon express went out to AL parts
Of the ssvebreedng region telling slave holders topdt
their prices up - per cent aud TO buy slaves in order
10 profit largely by the great market opened by thst
aphe1atiop. know that Gov. Wise Of Virginia told
bic people 10 public speech, that If they could only
have planted Slavery in California, they could have
made their slaves worth s. 900 head to dig gold IN
your mountains. did lot then and don't now believe
L would work But if Slavery had been plated here,
il would have raised the vslue Of slaves throughout
the Union and conespondingy depressed the value oil
Free Labor in California. Now, they AK Us to take
up srd practice indifference, noDintervention, total
want of care With regard TO this question, while every
slsvehoder has direct personal interest In extending
the area Of slavehoding Whereby the demand for bis
merchandise may be increased. II IL totally Unfair
and asonable arrangement thst personal interest
and active eager care on the enc SIDE shall be
terbalanced by indifference and heedlessness on the
ether. We csbnot expect TO get Along that way You
might well give up at first that Slavery shall be ex'
tended everywhere, and Free Labor 90 nowhere.
Well, Their, speak to the questions between us as
they affect the peace and quiet of this Union. know
that-sbich bistory confrms-tbe doctrine pro.
claimed by jefferson. iIcorsed by Wsshington aud
to-day upheld by the Republicans gave the country
substanisl peace respecting Slavery for more th.n
thirty year,. II gave US peace. There was divis-
ion: there was lire All the Territories to be
Free Territories excepting only those thai came to us
burdened with Slavery. There was no other line.
That gave us quiet Under which principle-this or
the other-the principle that every Territory shall
be bone Of contsLoD, even OF collision, where free
labor and slave labor shall go ard struggle for the
mastery, would peace seem the Ekehe,t result
Against that new doctrine protest as necessarily EN-
broihng and involving us in perpetual contest lou
zee how opersted in Kansas The people were 70 be
eft perfectly Indifferent. Free-Sate men went there
10 make it Kansas Free STATE and Slave State men
TO make it Slave State by driving out riding out, or
killing out Free-State men. great struggle com
menced and continued for years with various success
The Leading city of that Territory was believe, twice
stripped Of all its Free State inbabtants some killed
in their own houses for nothing but earnestly desiring
the admission Of Kansas into the Union IS Free
State. Such has been the practice. II has covered
the land with contention, plunged Kansas IN civil
war and buried many of her citizens in bloody graves.
Tley had Popular Sovereignty there. We had Con-
gressional Intervention and prohibition in the States
between the Mississippi and the Ohio, and there we
had peace ard quietress and y the land had rest
am in favor Of the peacea5le doctrine-that which
YIELDS peaceabe fruits-rather than that which yields
contention.
hear men say, ooh well; bat the Popular Sew.
eregry doctrine has got that stsrt and obtained that
development that we can always make it work IN
favor of freedom" No you can't. We zee that you
cant in the Gaze, partially, of Kansas, now, and wholly
in that of New-Mexioo. was in Kansas thi, Spring
when election was going on for Delegates to Con
stitutioral Convention. There was the Republican
party, and the so called Democratic psrty-the party
which has given up the view of making Kansas
Slave State and turned round and committed itself on
its platform to driving out every free black man from
the future State. They have for years struggled TO
bring him in head and shoulders, and failed. Possibly
two three hundred might go there If let Alone but
Democracy Gays: eve must drive them out" They
can't live there. / believe to this party niggers'
smell very well when slaves but smell very badly, in
deed, when free. [Grest laughter and applause.
The controversy commenced and a part Of the Terri
tory was carried by the "nigger-drivipg' Democrats
How! BY the teamsters end officers OF the Federal
Government; by the men drawing their wages and
bs,.t from OF Nation:
Russell and Wadden the great Government contract
ore men--tesmsters and contract getters. AL these
were employed sustaining Delegates Tor the Slave
have carried the Territory But they had not the nu
Merical force.
We saw, during the last Winter, new law enacted
an act for the government OF slaves in New Mexico
II was free Territory when it came to us. Nobody
pretended TO hold slaves there, had the right to hold
them there legally from that time to this But Federal
oficeIs ard army contractors have gone there with
their slaves, and those slaves now held Under
tho influence OF there Federal mnions the Legislature
"a mere dummy, Democratic Legislature, COM
pleely in the hands of the governing powerhas just
paced one of the most atrocious Slave Acts ever
known. Not only slaves made slaves, they are
invited to come from Virginia and be held SUCH but
they passed Slave Act Of msny sections, of them
to this fleet says that any black man found in New,
Mexico shall be taken mp a. once by the Sheriff and
placed in Jail He shall then be kept six months TO
find an owner for him. If an owner come, very well;
he takes him and pays charges Bot If no over comes
within the speched time, he Is sold al the town pump
by the Sheriff. So, master or no MASTER free or not,
he il a slave by tina! act. That is Democracy and
non intervention that is the work Of the party which
complains Of the Republican party disturbers that
agitation; ard thus they are planting slavery
Government. So it would have been in a hundred
Territories but for Republican agitation.
II not by local feeling and local decision that
Kansas was made Free State, If she become one.
1t was by contributions Of men, money, and munitions
from the Old States. BY contributions Of provisions
clothing and Shsrp's rifles the FreeState men were
enabled 10 make stand there. Hunted by the Fed
eral Government, turned out of their houses by Mig
sour Border Rutians, secuted and spit upon by the
whole Slavehodipg Power, they stood there until they
rolled back the tide Of outrage, and Kansas to-day
stands free. l gave freely of money myself to make
Ksnsas Free State, and consider it good invest
uent But for those outside Of Kansas, Kansas would
have been polluted as New Mexico will be- II is the
Republican agitation the Republican organization, the
Republican spirit, which has made Ksnsas what she
to-day which has rescued her rom the grasp OF
the Slave Power. She was cut off and fitted IN be-
hind Missouri on purpose tina, she might become a
Slave State. The Missouri River was blocked against
u.s. go that peaceable white men going to Kansas 10
settle and return Cor their families despolled,
turned back, and get off on tie Mississippi or Ohio.
They were told there no freedom for them, no
night TO enter Kansas and there nothing left for
them but to submit. We bore with that for years.
But time endurance tenacity, and determination have
carried safely through Il. By the struggle ksnsas
mas beer INSIDE Freely graves ana martyrcou 1
demand thst Free States be made chesper hsresiter;
hs. without contention agitation every Territory be
transformed quietly ard peseeabiy TO Free States.
Such is the organization and purpose OF the RspubI
can party. know some men who think the Slavery
QUE stion small question. They wonder we doI't set
this aside and talk of other questions of importance.
FAY this question sbsorbs all others. You cannot
send dele alton to Congress, matter Of what party
but yon viii frd in il at cut in two, divided o.
arranged in regard 10 this question of Slavery.
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denly in both sections Of the Union. Delegations
were elected to Congress from different. States upon an