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when Freedom shall be everywhere under the National Government when the National Flag, wherever it floats, on sea or land, within the national jurisdiction, will not cover a single slave; and when herald of that better day, near at hand,

installed



the Declaration of Independence,

now

name

reviled in the

of

American Magna Charta of Human Eights. Nor is this all. Such an act will be the first stage in those triumphs by which the Republic lifted in character so as to become an example to mankind will enter at last upon its noble " prerogative of teaching the nations Slavery, will once again be reverenced as the

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how

to live."

sir, speaking for Freedom in Kansas, I have spoken for Freedom everywhere, and for Civilization and, as the less is

Tbus,



contained in the greater, so are

all arts, all sciences, all

mies, all refinements, all charities, all delights of in this cause.

The

You may reject it

sacred animosity between



but

it

life,

econo-

embodied

will be only for to-day.

Freedom and Slavery can end

only with the triumph of Freedom. This same Question will be soon carried before that high tribunal, supreme over Senate and Court, where the judges will be counted b}>- millions, and where the judgment rendered will be the solemn charge of an aroused people, instructing a

new

President, in the

name of

Freedom, to see that Civilization receives no detriment.

When

Mr. Sumner resumed

his seat,

Mr. Chesxut, of South-

Carolina, spoke as follows Mr. President, after the extraordinary though characteristic speech just uttered it is proper that I assign the reason for the position we are now inAfter ranging over Europe, crawling through the back-doors to clined to assume. whine at the feet of British aristocracy, craving pity, and reaping a rich harvest of contempt, the slanderer of States and men reappears in the Senate. We had hoped to be relieved from the outpourings of such vulgar malice. We had hoped that one who had felt, though ignominiously he failed to meet, the consequences of a former insolence, would have become wiser, if not better, by experience. In this I am disappointed, and I regret it. Mr. President, in the heroic ages of the world, in the Senate,

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men were

deified for the possession and the exercise of some virtues wisdom, truth, justice, magnanimity, courage. In Egypt, also, we know they deified beasts and reptiles ; but even that bestial people worshipped their idols on account of

some supposed

virtue. It has been left for this day, for this country, for the Aboof Massachusetts, to deify the incarnation of malice, mendacity, and cowardice. Sir, we not intend to be guilty of aiding in the apotheosis of pusillanimity and meanness. do not intend to contribute, by any conduct on our part, to increase the devotees at the shrine of this new idol. know what is expected and what is desired. We are not inclined again to send forth the recipient of PUNlitionists

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