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 THE WORLD»S FAMOUS ORATIONS policy, when freedom and not slavery was sec- tional, he arraigns as sectional. This will not do. It involves too great a perversion of terms. I tell that senator that it is to himself and to the ** organization" of which he is the ** com- mitted advocate," that this epithet belongs. I now fasten it upon them. For myself, I care little for names ; but since the question has been raised here, I affirm that the Republican party of the Union is in no just sense sectional, but, more than any other party, national; and that it now goes forth to dislodge from the high places of the government the tyrannical sec- tionalism of which the senator from South Carolina is one of the maddest zealots. With regret I come again upon the senator from South Carolina [Mr. Butler] who, omni- present in this debate, overflowed with rage at the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for admission as a State; and, with incoherent phrases, discharged the loose expectoration of his speech, now upon her representative, and then upon her people. There was no extrav- agance of the ancient parliamentary debate which he did not repeat ; nor was there any pos- sible deviation from truth which he did not make, with so much of passion, I am glad to add, as to save him from the suspicion of inten- tional aberration. But the senator touches noth- ing which he does not disfigure with error — sometimes of principle, sometimes of fact. He shows an incapacity of accuracy whether in 170