In the race of emigration the Freedom-loving citizens of the North promised to obtain the ascendency, and, in the exercise of the conceded sovereignty of the settlers, to prohibit Slavery.

Would you know the secret of this unprecedented endeavor, beginning with the repeal of the Prohibition of Slavery, down to the latest atrocity?

This is strange; for in both cases the treaty is brought to an end by our special intervention, and this is done without the concurrence of the other contracting party.

Error is harmless, while reason is left free to combat it.

It is true, it has sent men to Kansas; and had it not a right to send them?

It is true, I trust, that its agents love Freedom and hate Slavery; and have they not a right to do so?

Union to save Kansas, and Union to save ourselves, should be the watchword.

His words go straight to the popular heart, and find there an earnest and immediate response.

I have carefully read your speech; I have read the concluding retort, which some of your friends wish had not been made; and I most fervently thank God for enabling you to say just what you said, and to say it in the very manner you did.

Our ablest, best, and most influential men, men who have been highly conservative, as it is called, have made up their minds on this subject.

How could any one, who had not measured all the length and breadth of slaveholding depravity, as I had not, have brought such a thing within the range of imagination or prophecy?

No other word will adequately express the mingled meanness and wickedness of the cheat.

It breaks forth in the irrepressible outcry, reaching us from Kansas, whose truthful tones leave no ground of mistake.

It addresses us in formal complaint, instinct with the indignation of a people determined to be free, and unimpeachable as the declarations of a murdered man on his dying-bed against his murderer.

All security of person, property, and labor was overthrown; and when I urge this incontrovertible fact, I set forth a wrong which is small only by the side of the giant wrong for the consummation of which all this is done.

But it is not to be denied that the fifteen hundred, apprehending that the Governor might attempt to play the tyrant,--since his conduct had already been insidious and unjust,--wore on their hats bunches of hemp.

Slavery stands erect, clanking its chains on the Territory of Kansas, surrounded by a code of death, and trampling upon all cherished liberties, whether of speech, the press, the bar, the trial by jury, or the electoral franchise.

I am not aware that any one in this community ever suspected me of being an Abolitionist; but I have been accused of being Proslavery, and I believe many good people think I am quite too conservative on that subject.

The Remedy should be coextensive with the original Wrong; and since, by the passage of the Nebraska Bill, not only Kansas, but also Nebraska, Minnesota, Washington, and even Oregon, are opened to Slavery, the original Prohibition should be…

Never was this efficient weapon more needed in just self-defence than now in Kansas; and at least one article in our National Constitution must be blotted out before the complete right to it can be in any way impeached.

But I will not stake this cause on any precedent.

In this contest Kansas bravely stands forth, the stripling leader, clad in the panoply of American Institutions.

Calmly meeting and adopting a frame of government, her people with intuitive promptitude perform the duties of freemen; and when I consider the difficulties by which she is beset, I find dignity in her attitude.

Offering herself for admission into the Union as a FREE STATE, she presents a single issue for the people to decide.

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