stands, On the morrow crouches Jucas, with the silver in his mitted the guardianship of its good name, instead the Fathers and the spirit of the Constitution, of moving, with backward treading steps, to cover in order to give new spread to Slavery. Let the its nakedness, rushes forward, in the very ecsta-Senator proceed. It will not be the first time in cy of madness, to expose it, by provoking a com-history, that a scaffold erected for punishment parison with Kansas. South Carolina is old; has become a pedestal of honor. Out of death Kansas is young. South Carolina counts by cen- comes life, and the "traitor" whom he blindly turies, where Kansas counts by years. But a executes will live immortal in the cause. beneficent example may be born in a day; and IFor Humanity sweeps onward; where to-day the martyr venture to say, that against the two centuries of the older "State," may be already set the two years of trial, evolving corresponding virtue, in the younger community. In the one, is the long wail of Slavery; in the other, the hymns of Freedom. And if we glance at special achievements, Among these hostile Senators, there is yet anit will be difficult to find anything in the history other, with all the prejudices of the Senator from of South Carolina which presents so much of South Carolina, but without his generous impulses heroic spirit in an heroic cause as appears in who, on account of his character before the coun that repulse of the Missouri invaders by the be-try, and the rancor of his opposition, deserves to be leaguered town of Lawrence, where even the women gave their effective efforts to Freedom. The matrons of Rome, who poured their jewels into the treasury for the public defence-the wives of Prussia, who, with delicate fingers, clothed their defenders against French invasion the mothers of our own Revolution, who sent forth their sons, covered over with prayers and blessings, to combat for Human Rights, did nothing of self-sacrifice truer than did these women on this occasion. Were the whole history of South Carolina blotted out of existence, from its very beginning down to the day of the last election of the Senator to his present seat on this floor, civilization might lose-I do not say how little; but surely less than it has already gamed by the example of Kansas, in its valiant struggle against oppression, and in the development of a new science of emigration. Already in Lawrence alone there are newspapers and schools, including a High School, and throughout this infaut Territory there is more of mature scholarship, in proportion to its inhabitants, than in all South Carolina. Ah, sir, I tell the Senator that Kansas, welcomed as a Free State, will be a "ministering angel" to the Republic, when South Carolina, in the cloak of darkness which she hugs, "lies howling." named. I meau the Senator from Virginia, [Mr. MASON,] who, as the author of the Fugitive Slave Bill, has associated himself with a special act of inhumanity and tyranny. Of him I shall say litwithin that little was compressed the bitterness tle, for he has said little in this debate, though within that little was compressed the bitterness holds the commission of Virginia; but he does of a life absorbed in the support of Slavery. He not represent that early Virginia, so dear to our hearts, which gave to us the pen of Jefferson, by which the equality of men was declared, and the sword of Washington, by which Independence was secured; but he represents that other Virginia, from which Washington and Jefferson now avert their faces, where human beings are bred as cattle for the shambles, and where a dungeon reu to relieve their bondage by reading the Book rewards the pious matron who teaches little chil of Life. It is proper that such a Senator, representing such a State, should rail against Free Kansas. But this is not all. The precedent is still more clinching. Thus far I have followed exclusively illustrated by the debates of that body; but wellthe public documents laid before Congress, and authenticated facts, not of record here, make the case stronger still. It is sometimes said that the proceedings in Kansas are defective, because they originated in a party. This is not true; but even if it were true, then would they still find support in the example of Michigan, where all the proCeedings, stretching through successive years, Government was pressed by the Democrats as a began and ended in party. The proposed State The Senator from Illinois [Mr. DOUGLAS naturally joins the Senator from South Carolina in this warfare, and gives to it the superior intensity of his nature. He thinks that the National Government has not completely proved its power, as it has never hanged a traitor; but, if the occasion requires, he hopes there will be no hesi-party test; and all who did not embark in it tation; and this threat is directed at Kansas, and which called the first Constitutional Convention were denounced. Of the Legislative Council, even at the friends of Kansas throughout the country. Again occurs the parallel with the in 1835. all were Democrats; and in the Convenstruggles of our Fathers, and I borrow the lan- tion itself, composed of eighty-seven members, only seven were Whigs. The Convention of guage of Patrick Henry, when, to the cry from the Senator, of "treason," "treasou," I reply, "if "I reply, "if 1836, which gave the final assent, originated in this be treason, make the most of it." Sir, it is a Democratic Convention on the 29th October, easy to call names; but I beg to tell the Senator in the county of Wayne, composed of one hunthat if the word "traftor" is in any way applicadred and twenty-four delegates, all Democrats, bie to those who refuse submission to a tyran- who proceeded to resolvenical Usurpation, whether in Kansas or else-solemnly impressed with the spreading evils and dangers "That the delegates of the Democratic party of Wayne, where, then must some new word, of deeper which a refusal to go into the Union has brought upon the color, be invented, to designate those mad spirits people of Michigan, earnestly recon mend meetings to be who would endanger and degrade the Republic,courty of the State, with a view to the expression of their immediately convened by their fellow-citizens in every while they betray all the cherished sentiments of sentiments in favor of the election and cal of another Convention, in time to secure our admission into the Shortly afterwards, a committee of five, appointed by this Convention, all leading Democrats, issued a circular, "under the authority of the delegates of the county of Wayne," recommending that the voters throughout Michigan should meet and elect delegates to a Convention to give the necessary assent to the Act of Congress. In pursuance of this call, the Convention met; and, as it originated in an exclusively party recommendation, so it was of an exclusively party character. And it was the action of this Convention that was submitted to Congress, and, after discussion in both bodies, on solemn votes, approved. machinations of party, and the low level of vulgar These are imperial arts, and worthy thee! Already Public Opinion gathers unwonted า But the precedent of Michigan has another feafare, which is entitled to the gravest attention, especially at this moment, when citizens engaged In the effort to establish a State Government in Kansas are openly arrested on the charge of treason, and we are startled by tidings of the maddest efforts to press this procedure of preposterous Tyranny. No such madness prevailed under Andrew Jackson; although, during the long And trade, by unerring indications, pendency of the Michigan proceedings, for more attests the growing energy. Public credit in than fourteen months, the Territorial Govern- Missouri droops. The six per cents of that State, ment was entirely ousted, and the State Govern which at par should be 102, have sunk to 841ment organized in all its departments. One hun- thus at once completing the evidence of Crime, dred and thirty different legislative acts were and attesting its punishment. Business is now passed, providing for elections, imposing taxes, turning from the Assassins and Thugs, that inerecting corporations, and establishing courts of fest the Missouri River on the way to Kansas, justice, including a Supreme Court and a Court to seek some safer avenue. And this, though of Chancery. All process was issued in the name not unimportant in itself, is typical of greater of the people of the State of Michigan. And yet changes. The political credit of the men who no attempt was made to question the legal valid-uphold the Usurpation, droops even more than ity of these proceedings, whether legislative or the stocks; and the People are turning from all judicial. Least of all did any menial Governor, those through whom the Assassins and Thug dressed in a little brief authority, play the fan- have derived their disgraceful immunity. tastic tricks which we now witness in Kansas; nor did any person, wearing the robes of justice, shock high Heaven with the mockery of injustice now enacted by emissaries of the President in that Territory. No, sir; nothing of this kind then occurred. Andrew Jackson was President. Senators such as these are the natural enemies of Kansas, and I introduce them with reluctance, simply that the country may understand the 'character of the hostility which must be overcome. Arrayed with them, of course, are all who unite, under any pretext or apology, in the propagandism of Human Slavery. To such, indeed, the time-honored safeguards of popular rights can be a name only, and nothing more. What are trial by jury, habeas corpus, the ballot-box, the right of petition, the liberty of Kansas, your liberty, sir, or mine, to one who lends himself, not merely to the support at home, but to the propagandism abroad, of that preposterous wrong, which denies even the right of a man to himself! Such a cause can be maintained only by a practical subversion of all rights. It is, therefore, merely according to reason that its partisans should uphold the Usurpation in Kansas. To overthrow this Usurpation is now the special, importunate duty of Congress, admitting of no hesitation or postponement. To this end it must lift itself from the cabals of candidates, the It was said of old, "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's Landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen."—(Deut. xxvii, 17.) Cursed, it is said, in the city, and in the field; cursed in basket and store; cursed when thou comest in, and cursed when thou goest out. These are terrible imprecations; but if ever any Landmark were sacred, it was that by which an immense territory was guarded forever against Slavery ; and if ever such imprecations could justly descend upon any one, they must descend now upon all who, not content with the removal of this sacred Landmark, have since, with criminal complicity, fostered the incursions of the great Wrong against which it was intended to guard. But I utter no imprecation& These are not my words; nor is it my part to add to or subtract from them. But thanks be to God! they find a response in the hearts of an aroused People, making them turn from every man, whether President, or Senator, or Representative, who has been engaged in this Crime-especially from those who, cradled in free institutions, are without the apology of education or social prejudice-until of all such those other words of the prophet shall be fulfilled-“ I will set my face against that man, and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him him off from the midst of my people."~(Ezekiel xiv, 8.) Turning thus from the authors of this Crime; the cause itself there is angelic power. Unseen-of People will unite once more with the Fathers of men, the great spirits of History combat by the the Republic, in a just condemnation of Slavery-side of the people of Kansas, breathing a divine determined especially that it shall find no home courage. Above all towers the majestic form of in the National Territories-while the Slave Washington once more, as on the bloody field, Power, in which the Crime had its beginning, bidding them to remember those rights of Human and by which it is now sustained, will be swept Nature for which the War of Independence was into the charnel-house of defunct Tyrannies. waged. Such a cause, thus sustained, is invinci In this contest, Kansas bravely stands forth-ble. the stripling leader, clad in the panoply of The contést, which, beginning in Kansas, has American institutions. In calmly meeting and reached us, will soon be transferred from Conadopting a frame of Goverument, her people gress to a broader stage, where every citizen will have with intuitive promptitude performed the be not only spectator, but actor; and to their duties of freemen; and when I consider the diffi-judgment I confidently appeal. To the People, culties by which she was beset, I find dignity in now on the eve of exercising the electoral fran her attitude. In offering herself for admission into chise, in choosing a Chief Magistrate of the the Union as a FREE STATE, she presents a single Republic, I appeal, to vindicate the electoraf issue for the people to decide. And since the Slave franchise in Kansas. Let the ballot-box of the Power now stakes on this issue all its ill-gotten Union, with multitudinous might, protect the supremacy, the People, while vindicating Kansas, ballot-box in that Territory. Let the voters will at the same time overthrow this Tyranny. everywhere, while rejoicing in their own rights, Thus does the contest which she now begins in-help to guard. the equal rights of distant fellowvolve not only Liberty for herself, but for the citizens; that the shrines of popular institutions, whole country. God be praised, that she did now desecrated, may be sanctified anew; that the not bend ignobly beneath the yoke! Far away ballot-box, now plundered, may be restored; and on the prairies, she is now battling for the Lib-that the cry, "I am an American citizen," may erty of all, against the President, who misrepre- not be sent forth in vain against outrage of every sents all. Everywhere among those who are not kind. In just regard for free labor in that Terriinsensible to Right, the generous struggle meets tory, which it is sought to blast by unwelcome a generous response. From innumerable throb- association with slave labor; in Christian symbing hearts go forth the very words of encour-pathy with the slave, whom it is proposed to task agement which, in the sorrowful days of our Fathers, were sent by Virginia, speaking by the pen of Richard Henry Lee, to Massachusetts, in the person of her popular tribune, Samuel Adams: "CHANTILLY, VA., June 23, 1774. 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