fl books limiting slavery in. any manner — ‘
% enforcement of the laws, the only complaint is thas #2
too much has been done—that we have —
eager to enforce the fugitive slave law.
@ what excuse kas the South for the Scheme:
githey have concocted to wind up the
a slavery question is a mere excuse.

Lincoln is but a ates The
Dveeen), is

de onstrate that the
hen the history of the
Lecompton Constitu

g The disuns cai ste O
carry its own elec and that the North was t
siclect Lincoln. “Then a united South was

Sci “Still the grand conspiracy e
; disunion movement wasthe result of it. But Thaveg j

on
complish : an easy
Linvolve civil war < a

is only to be averted by. united action. *
T repeat that so long as there was a possibility o}
veer uble peatefuily, every sacrifice
wn pI . en the question i
be transferrsdieed the cotton States to the eurn-
Ztfields of Illincis, ] say the farther off the bette
§ Waris a sad thing, out ivil wer mustnow be recog-
nized as existing in the United States. We can no.
opger close our eyes to the solemn fact. Ingthi
Soxigeney the government must be maintained an
ve stupendous and overwhelmin
eparations, the shorter will be the strug.
‘countrymen, we voust remember that t certs
ions are to be observed. We must not
Jhristians, and that war must be wa
ia spirit—not against the rights o
ple—not against the rights of women and ct
Say that you ‘sanction no war onright: ts
d say that never will you lay down your
those which you claim as your.own |
We were born under the Constit
iUuited States, and its provisions are on i
‘fhen be prepared to enroree ore iealionablo Tights
yhich it confers. e
_ We have peculiar reasons ¥
ize the right to secede an:
nee recogni eit and you not onl destroy the
rnment, but nihilate order, an¢ augurate an
hy such as disgraced the history of ¢
f the French ‘Revoluti on. My