Slavery will be banished from the national capital.

I ask, Sir, shall our sons, who are offering their lives for the preservation of our institutions, be degraded to slave-catchers for any persons, loyal or disloyal?

With such communications, some official and others private, I feel that I should not do my duty, if I failed to implore the attention of the Senate to this intolerable grievance.

Resolved, That Trusten Polk, of Missouri, now a traitor to the United States, be expelled, and he hereby is expelled, from the Senate.

This metropolis, bearing a venerated name, will be exalted, its evil spirit cast out, its shame removed, its society refined, its courts made just, its revolting ordinances swept away, and even its loyalty assured.

Believing the inquiry important, not doubting the duty of the Senate to purge itself of traitors who have too long found sanctuary in its Chamber, and satisfied that the country justly expects this to be done, I have felt bound to…

Let the doctrine of Emancipation be proclaimed as an essential and happy agency in subduing a wicked rebellion.

The effect of the outrage of the Trent on the public sentiment of Great Britain more than fulfils the prophecy that we made when the arrest of the Confederate ministers was a fresh event.

All legal quibbling and selfish calculation has been consumed like straw in the burning sense of incredible insult.

The Abolition element of the Northern States would go straight to revolution at the least movement toward a surrender of the captives.… Spectators of these events, who can doubt that the Almighty fiat has gone forth against the American…

Vive Napoléon! … After the brave talk and the congratulations to Wilkes by both Cabinet and Congress, it would be to the last degree pusillanimous to retreat.

Plainly they announce, as the British alternatives, instant surrender, with suitable apology, or war.

At that moment the American Republic was straining every nerve to suppress a Rebellion whose single declared object was the foundation of a new government with Slavery as its corner-stone.

I believe that the Cabinet to-day and yesterday, and for some days past, have had under consideration a measure which involves more of good or evil to this country than anything that has ever occurred before: I mean the surrender, on the…

I have seen many gentlemen, and I have seen none, not a man can be found, who is in favor of this surrender; for it would humiliate us in the eyes of the world, irritate our own people, and subject us to their indignant scorn.

If we are to have war with Great Britain, it will not be because we refuse to surrender Messrs.

If war shall come, it will be because Great Britain has determined to force war upon us.

If we are to be humiliated, I prefer to take it after a war, and not before.… I pray that this Administration will not surrender our national honor.

Speaking for myself and nobody else, I declare my conviction that the question will be peaceably and honorably adjusted.

I do not believe that it is a question for war; and I hail with gratitude the declaration of the honorable Senator in favor of arbitration.

I know you will exert your great influence on the side of peace, and I rejoice that you have so much moral power in this matter.” Rev.

If not moved by justice to the slave, then be willing to act for your own good and in self-defence.

I am sure that the President and people of the United States would be but too happy to let these men go free, unnatural and unpardonable as their offences have been, if by it they could emancipate the commerce of the world.

If I were in the position of your Government, I would act upon it, and thus, by a great strategic movement, turn the flank of the European powers, especially of the governing classes of England.

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