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and persistent wars? The answer is, the
attempts of dethroned dynas'ies TO regain

Turn TO Eagland. What were the wars
Of the Roses ,blt the struggles of, families !?
How many bloody battles, prosecutions.
and insurrectiopaaa did not the Stuart fami,
~ bring upon England? Cromwell sup
posedtwhen he had Topped off, the head of
the king and driven the heir apparent head
long out of the country that the nation had
seen the last of them; but scarce had the
Lord Protector grown cold in his grave be-
fore the whole troop came back amid bon
fires and Examinations. Once more, in the
person Of James II, they were driven ,out,
and again, not only England, but Ireland
and Scotland, we're drenched in blood in
their mad efforts 10 regain power ~
Turn to France. The men of the great
Revolution recognized both king and no.
bility as their natural enemies, and. pro-
ceeded to behead them US fast as they laid
hands upon them ) it was their purpose to
annihilate them. But the vitality of the
dynasty and the caste survived the reign of
terror; it survived the consulate; it sur
vlved the empire it survived even the
mighty triumphs Of Napoleon, and rose
again to power upon his ruine. Again it
fell; and now, seventy years after its first
downfall, the Bourbon stands without the
gate Of France, patiently Waiting for that
hour when he may rush in and once more.
at any cost of blood and treasure, Seize up-
on the throne. =
And yet what dynasty, wha. family, what
race of men so permanent or SO powerful
as this Institution Of slavery, appealing at
once to the pride and the purses of its vo-
taries?' 1t has in it the soul of thousand
Stuarts; the blood of ten thousand Bour-
bons. If the lapse Of three quarters of a
century has mo-: taught the royal family of
France forgctfulness, what lesson shall i,
bring to this proud. ambitious system. hu-
inflated but not subdued, sIorched but
not killed: And yet the comparison is
scarcely just one. France drove forth
the Bourbons, and England the Stuarts.
Let us suppose them retained in their
midst; let US suppose that they had nur-
tured and fosttred them, and in the en-
grossment Of other pursuits had afforded
them free scope for every maehination
which cunning and ambition could devise.
What, Mr.. Speaker, would have been their
fate. 6ht well-dcserved, complete, and con-
tinuous ruin. -. 80: :. "..'3
Yet this is what We are asked to do with
TINS dynasty, slavery! Worn with fruit
less strugglings against US, dusty and
bloody from thousand fields, with droop.
ing jnws, glazed eyes, and detected visage,
he asks shelter at our feet, repose, protec.
ton; space to stretch his weary limbs
time 'or the exhausted juices Of his body
10 resume their accustomed flow. Spare
him but this little while, and once more
The monster will be upon his feet, once
nE15rs n5rs his roar will shake the worll, once
more MS '-,~-2:I el...; ,;,h ~
flesh and blood of those near aud dear to
you and and all of u.s. God in His inf
Mite mercy spare. US such fate! Let death
fall upon the offender, slavery This is
no wrestling match which the nation can
relinquish and resume At pleasure This
struggle means, and has meant from the
beginning, death to one Of the ccmbatants.
Why hesitate? Death let it be to the con-
Yuered. Let slavery die that the naticu
may live!
But VIC are told that we cannot subdue
the South. Our answer. is, ,ce ore doing IT,
But we are told by the gentleman from
New York Mr. Fernando Wood that no
purely agricultural people over have been
sHbdued. Our reply is, that if tha: be so,
weare great enough to create preoedents
But deny the statement. The gentle
maj. from New York has read history TO.
little advantage if he does not know that
tho record Of the world is underlaid By two
great facts-conqSest and suhjugation.
Turn to any point and the instances crowd:
upon us. There are the vast conauests of
the Romans, and in turn the conquest Of
Rome itself and its provinces by the north
ern tribes, conquest and subiueation
which have endured from that day to this.
Upon what does the dynasty and the nobil-
ity Of England now rest but upon con-
quest achieved in single battle, and up
on suhjngation which has remained un
questioned for nearly thousand years
Upon what, Until the close OF the last CEN
tury, did the dynasty and nobility OF
France rest but upon. q similar conquest
and subjugation =? The great Revolution
was but the rising up Of the subject Celt
against the dominant Goth. To come to
lister epoch: did not the French people,
the most warlike in the world, but a short
time since fall utterly conquered and sub
dued at the feet Of Europe, and accept ut
its hands and obey for fifty years a form of
governin ent and dynasty repugnant to
its desires Where is Poland? Alas!
we hear its unhappy cries ringing in the
air. Is there no such thih & Is the con-
quest and suhjugation of o purely agri-
cultural people? Let Poland answer! In
short, if we take away from the history
of mankind this rising up of race over
race. this giving way of the weaker people
to the stronger, its great salient features
ore destroyed, aud it ceases to be record
Of our race. "'''.'.' a..
How then does this question present
itself? If the destruction of slavery, its
utter and absolute destriiction; is necessa-
~ to the safety Of the nation; nothing
must be left to chance in reaching that END,
The seeds Of evil take root in the intersti-
ces Of chance. t@fIF"s3 ..&* .%F~%,.
If then the system proposed by the Freess:-
ident, while admirable N its general intedt;
is deficient in the machinery which will in
sure safely, it is our duty to supply that
defect. The plan Of the President, unsup-
ported by any action on our part, hangs
upon too many contingencies. It may Be
repealed by his successor; il may be an
nulled BY The Supreme Court. J It rests the
welfare Of the fdtion upon the mind ST
one man !, it, rests the Whole structure Of
social order upon the unstable foundation
of individual oaths. '7% PC jo"a ,arpf, ,,r,
The events Of this war have not strength
enea popular faith in the efficacy Of oaths.
One Of the rebel generals, JEFF Thompson;
tells. us that in travelling through those re-
gions alternately overrun by the contend
Ing, armies, when he spoke with the citi-
zens they would consult their note books to
see which oath Of allegiance they had TAX
en- last before daring.to express their SEN
timents. How many hundreds, yes thous-
ands, Of rebel dead have been found upon
our battleieldS with oaths Of allegiance,