Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-07
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ey ag-zsssina Asr themselves
furnishes Gbe reaEsR wheh S e
defeat tAsn. ID Asf aftsr
eral nnoaths ~ passionate dictate. e
vhirh he etsanifY fstenee Nth teser
ish Interest Congress passed the hlil
Organizing tie Territories n Kansas
ard sebraska. ornsttlng the festric.
tons u the Missouri CouprOtnise
uhleh EXCUSED kzs4y from them
This acsIon Il oace ueipitatet ths
floating ansisiavey sentiment q
the country. A mighty ny n re-,
lnte Indignation arose from M ent
u the land 10 the other. The hoiios
trace. bonded upon the legtimat.
compromises which had been obsers
~ III good faith ~ one side and ruth
Iessiy violated by TIE other. vas )
a. cad Men began u search thei
spnrsenoes instead ~ lie argument
Of political expedifncy. a discas
Mon Of the right and wrong Of SLAYER
became general: the light was lei in
fatal U darkness a system whicI
degraded men. dlshonored women
dea5aed little ehiidren VI Tie racrel
soiate u hone sss doomed from Is,
hour Il passcd into tie afena of frel
debate. And even IL - shut Our sye
20 the moral aspects Of that hsarties
syHem. and confined ourselves 81
the examination Of its eequpui,
merits. 4 uas found % bH vas,efu
ard inefficient The Americans err
Il once the most sentimental and th'
most practical ot peopeand ahei
thsy 49, that a. insfItatien If moral
III rcsoltina, and. besides. does ~
pay ifs fate 5 sealed.
Ya the most wonderful feature O
that extraordinary campaign which
then began. and which sever cease
until the land vas Iureed oi III dead
" sln, was that even ii ire yer
tempest and xbirlwind of their "a,
sion the great leaders d The Repni
Lean party kept their agitation strIcl
~ within the limits Of the constItl
tion and the law There was no ger
eral demand for even nm anendmer
% the organic instrument. The
pleaded FOR the repeal 81 unjust 81
tutes ~ Inconsistent with The const
tuition. bur did MOI advocate their VI.
lasion. Only among The more 81
and ardent members d, the part
VA there any demand for The abol
ton o. slavery. but the whole par'
stood like a rock for the principle thi
the famnabie institution must be col
tent with what II had already gu
and must not b allowed 70 poilui
another inch ~ free soil. on m
impregnabie ground they made the
stand: and The mass convention Shic
assembled here IN 1854. while The !
brations Of the thunder u the eur
and the shoutings OF the birthday