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Q h o~jugia±be tee16 th ortwi nion-
Iam ~wel a ured, Mrn Chairmam, that-the s ntiman±ontsothesemboofthis'
' _,mmittee are: formed upon tbe.questionl nowviefore usifor uosideratiou.
.,have no doubt that gentlemenl have determincd upon the 'votes they shall gfre,
4wad the course they shall pursue iii refer&ee tio this mea~wre,.and that any fur-
ither Aebate, will, be 'withouit effect upon the. acti of th. e~rnomiee; yet, air, I
enmiot suffer .this bill to come to a viote Wi41ouI givng some of the reasons
.whieh will determine mny conduct iii op~position toit.
No one can be mome suprised thawmyself at meetingbhere ati hs sessairn~the
141~avery ,quiestion for discussion. I um one of ;those who 5early thought it my
-&ty tosulpport the compromis eiasures, of 1860, and to indnce so far sal had
k influenee, m~y friends -ana neighbors to do the. am. I aided, t teextto
Iny feeble powers, in, rallying, the Whigs, Masaausetts to, the. -support, of;
those measures; and I haid the creduility-to, sutppose that. those mensures wer es
filalitT on the question of slavery, sofar as it. affiected any territory tlienin, the:
Ypossesion of this Govrnmient. I,* therefore, am Rceediagly surprised. to be
opeJ~d fter the assurances I had given totny consituienZta it wasotld
St meet it-here so early in miy eongressional life.
]341t, Mr. Chirman; I have unwillingly come to -the, ~on1clusion that,,lvery,
will~not be.,still;,thatit is in, its natureL 'dvbuicing and. grasp ing.;-tia± tit ]
alarmc4 at every stride 'f, freem~en; _nd~hatiiJever*APe j wJtA%4tQ eAKO~
tAo itsel suc Oes n appliances as shall enable it to 4ontrol, as it~has here-
. Aofredone, the operations of this Go'vernm2ent. Viknow that it Js -said, by
.,gentlemen who support this bill, that tbis question, shoxUJA1betaken from~, Con-;
Ag-18; 1hUe1yat.i ijIwhl here, and that b'Pagsi2gl this niea-,
awre on the principles avow ed by, its frien~ds, and. thus drawg the subjeot en-
~tirely from Congress, we shall give peace to tbhe nationl, an4d'iiet that agitation
-which has subsiated at intervals during the wh,'Ae history of' the, G'overnment.
i-a*.sir, this is entirely delusive. 'Slavery is socowwcted With tho pohitica oU
the 'Government, and with its in4dItr. resourcesthatit must ever be # national'
Auestion; one wh~ich is to be met, -not at our firesides, not iu our Statce.Legisla-
4Qures, but in Ahe Hialls of Congresa;,-nnd'wheneve' its relations to the Jnion.,
,,are~roposed~to be ehangedeither by a restrictionl oraa etensioa of its area,
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