I think and will try to show, that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is wrong--wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska; wrong in its prospective principle, allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men can be found inclined to take it.
Stevenson argues against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and its implications for slavery.
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My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.
From the establishment of the Government the question of human slavery was the one perilous question,--the one constant menace to national unity, until its final extinction amid the flames of war.
To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.
In the presence of this wondrous fulfillment of predicted greatness, prophecy looks out upon the future and stands dumb.