Year: 1860

always good way off from themselves; es-
peclally, how natural was it, when the whole
Christian Church, with all its sects, bent it.
self to the support of the Union, mistaking
the claim of slavery for the cause Of the Union.
How extensive this prescription for the


sake and in the name of the Union, has been


and is to this day, you will see at once when


toll you that there is not in this whole Re
public, from one end to the other, man who


maintains that slavery shall not be extended,
VINO can secure at the hands Of his country,


any part in the administration of its govern
ment from a tidc-waiter at the Custom House
or a Postmaster in rural district, to a Sec
retarv OF State, a Minister in a foreign court,


or a President of the United States. How


could you expect that people, every one OF


whom IS born with a possible chance, and a


iair expectation OF being something perhaps


President of the United States-to assent to


the generalization prosecuted by such


means? And VIXEN it becomes hercsy, for


which man is deprived of positions in ar,
| ecclesiastical sect to which he belongs, how
| could you expect that the members Of Chris


tan churches would be bold enough to pro-
woke the censurc of the Christian world p


Above ALL our Constitution intended to give


us our frame Of government, IS we have always


supposed, was so established, that it did give


us Judiciary which cannot err, which must


be infallible, and must not be disputed and
when the Judicial authority, which has the
army and navy, through the direction Of the


Executive power, to execute it's judgments
and DEGREES, pronounces that every appeal
made for freedom is seditious, that every syl


liable in defence of liberty is treason, and the
natural sympathy we feel for the oppressed is
to be punished as crime; while that body is


unwilling, or at least unable to bring to pun
ishment one single culprit out of the thous
ands OF pirates who bring a way slaves from
Africa to sell in foreign lands-how could
you expect simple agricultural people such
as we are, to be so much wiser and better
than our Presidents and Vice Presidents.
Senators, Representatives in Congress, and
even our Judges?


have brought you down. fellow citizens
to the time when this decentralization was al'
most complete. How assured its ultimate
success seemed, after the compromise of 1850,
you viii learn from face which have never
before mentioned, but which will now ;
Horace Mann, one Of the noblest champions
OF freedom on this continent, confessed to me
after the passage of the slavery laws of that
year, that ne despaired of the cause of hu-
manity. In 1854, after the repeal Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, without producing SO
much alarm as a considerable thunder storm
would do in the nation, there was only one
man left, who hoped against the prevailing
dcmora'zation and who cheered and sustain
ed me through it and that man. in his zeal
to make his prediction just, was afterwards
betrayed SO far by his zeal that he became
ultimately monomaniac and suffered on the
gallows. That was John Brown. [Sensa-
ton. The first and only time I ever saw
him was when ne called on me after the alb
rogation of the Missouri COMPROMISE, and
asked me what thought of the future. I
said was saddencd and disappointed II
would persevcre, but it was against hone
lie said, "Cheer up, Governor; the people
of Kansas will not accept slavery Kansas
will never be slave State" fGrcat ap
plause.


tooN then, deliberate survey Of the
broad field; considered all; examined
and considered all the political forces reveal
cd to my observation. | saw that the free
dom in the future States of this continent. |
was the necessity Of this age, and Of this
country. saw that the establishment OF this
as q Republic, conservative Of the rights oil
human nature, was the cause Of the whole
world; and | saw that the time had come
when men women and children were depart.
Ing from their homes in the eastern States
and were followed or attended by men. wo. |
men and children from the European nations


all Of them crowded out by the press ofI
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