As well within the Territories attempt to make a king as attempt to make a slave.

It has been left for this day, for this country, for the Abolitionists of Massachusetts, to deify the incarnation of malice, mendacity, and cowardice.

There will be no backing down by us, and I am in hopes our people at home will pursue the same course.

The tone of the speech was not vindictive, and yet there was a terrible severity running through it that literally awed the Southern side.

The civilized world will hear you, and rejoice at the tremendous exposure of the meanness, brutality, blood-guiltiness, hell-black iniquity, and barbarism of American Slavery.

I say more,--for, though the ‘Crime against Kansas’ was the speech of your life, this is the speech of your life.

You may rest assured that the true, radical, Free State men of Kansas have no kind of sympathy with those who are so solicitous lest that speech should have injured our prospects for admission.

We have learned the Slave Power well enough to know that its schemes of injustice toward us are not the offspring of sudden and transient excitements, but are the deep and well-settled purpose of years.

And for one I would rather that we should remain out of the Union forever than that a single utterance in favor of Freedom should be suppressed in the Senate.

I see, too, the assassins have since sought your life.… You have struck a mighty blow at the very existence of Slavery.

You have laid the axe at the root of the tree.

The great mass of the people have become, or are becoming, what is now called conservative on the Slavery Question; they forget, amid their business and their many calls, the horrors, the crime, and the Barbarism of Slavery.

We thought their wealth and leisure led them to be generous; nobody has ever so plainly shown their accepted necessity of meanness.

It is small praise to say, what is here on all lips, that it evinces marvellous scholarship, and embraces a sternly logical statement of the whole question between Freedom and Slavery.

If you never say a word more, your record will be right, and may God bless you!

Whatever politicians and editors may say, or even think, you have more endeared yourself to the popular heart by your labors in the last Session than by all that you have previously done.

It belongs even to the criminal; for it is simply the right to pray.

There is no country, professing civilization, where this right is not sacred.

If the present question depended upon citizenship, you could not refuse to receive the petition.

The right to petition Congress is not an incident of the elective franchise.

It exists where the elective franchise does not exist.

Thus, Sir, throughout our history, you have used these men for defence of the country, you have coined their blood into your own liberties; but you deny them now the smallest liberty of all,--the last which is left to the miserable,--the…

My confidence in him has been unbounded; his relation to myself and family has always been such as to afford him daily opportunities to deceive and injure us, and yet he has never been detected in a serious fault, nor even in an…

I content myself with saying, that never before has this assault on Human Rights been made,--that petitions from colored persons have been often presented and refused, precisely as other petitions.

Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.