Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-06

Thus the normal condition Of the Ter
ritorisS Is confirmed BY tho constitution,
which, when extended over them, renders
slavery Impossible, while It writes upon the
soil and engrayes upon the rock everywhere
the law Of impartial freedom, without dis
tinction Of color or racs.
Mr. President, this arguments now closed.
Pardon me for the time have occupied. 1t
is long since ] have made any such claim
upon your attention. Pardon me, also II |
have said anything which ought not to
have said. have spoken frankly, and from
the heart; If severely, yet only with the
severity of Q sorrowful candoT, calling things
by their right names, and letting historic
facts tel their unimpeachable stogy.
l have spoken in the patriotic hope Of
contributing 10 the welfare Of my country
and also in the assured conviction that what
| have said will find response in generous
souls | believe that | have said nothing
which is not sustained by Well-founded
argument or well-founded testimony, nothing
which can be controyerted without a direct
assault upon reason or upon truth.
Thus, sir, speaking for Freedom in Kansas,
have spoken for Freedom everywhere, and
for Civilization; and, as the less is contained
in the greater, 80 are all arts, ali sciences all
economies, all refinements, all charities, all
delights Of life, embodied in this cause. You
may reject it but it will be only for to-day.
The two assumptions Of slave-masters have
been answered. But this is not enough
Let the answer become a Legislative act, by
the admission Of Kansas as a free state
Then will the Barbarism of slavery be re-
PEELED, and the pretension Of property in man
be rebuked. Suck an act, closing this long
struggle by the assurance Of peace to the
Territory, if not Of tranquility TO the whole
country, will be more grateful still as the
herald of that better day, near at hand, when
Freedom shall be installed everywhere under
the National Government; when the National
Flag, wherever it floats, on sea or land, with
in the national Jurisdiction, win not cover
a single slave; and when the Declaration Of
Independence, now reyiled in the name Of
slavery, will once again be reverenced as the
American Magma Charta of Human Rights.
Nor is this ALL Such an act will be the first
stage in those triumphs by which the Repub-
lic-Iifted in character so as to become an
example to mankind-will enter atlast upon
its noble " prerogatiVe of teaching the nations
how to live
The sacred animosity between freedom and
slavery can end only with the triumph oE
Freedom. This same Question will be soon
carried before that high tribunal, supreme
over Senate and Court, where the judges will
be counted by millions, and where the judg-
ment rendered will be the solemn charge Of
an aroused people, instrucing new President,
in the name Of Freedom, to see that Civiliza-
ton receives no detriment.
Mr.. CHEsSUTs REJoINDER.
Mr.. Chestnut Of 8. c., made briefresponse
to Mr.. Summers speech, speaking of it as an
extraordinary one. Amer ranging over
Europe, sneaking through the back doors Of
the English aristocraey, and fawning at their
feet, this slanderer Estates and men has re-
appeared in the Senate. He had hoped, after
the punishment he had received for his former
insolence, that he would have learned pro
priety; but he had repeated his former vul-
garity and mendacity. The Egyptians deifed
reptiles, but it remained for Northern abOli-
tionists to defy an embodiment of malice,
mendacity, and cowardioe He was not in
clined to put further punishment on the re-
cipient q former chastisement, who had gone
bowling through the world, yelping out
volumes of SANDER, he would therefore
sndeayor to keepquiet
Mr.. SUMMERS RESPONSE.
Mr.. Sumner said he had pointed out the
barbariEm of slavery, and the Senator'S re-
joinder should 90 as an appendix and fitting