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Show 76 of the Plain " were in the past. But . would Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, con::,ent to be border Stat('s, with no Fugitive Slave Bill to fetter their bondmen? I do not propose disunion- at present. I would nevPr leave the black men in bondage, or the white::; subject to the slaveholding Oligarchy which rules them. The Constitution itself guarantees '' a Republican form of Government" to each State in the Union: no Slave State bas had it yet. Perhaps the North will one day respect the other half of ''the compromises of the Constitution." Certainly there must be National Unity of Idea, either of Freedom or of Slavery, or else we separate before long. This Regressive Force, which retards the Progress and diminishes the Welfare of the South, and yet con trois the Politics of America, is determined to conquer the Progressive Force, to put liberty down, to spread bondage over all the North, to organize it in all the wild land of the continent. The ablest cham pions of this iniquity are N ot"thern men. The same North which bore Seward and Giddings, Sumner and Hale, not to mention others equally able, i~ mother also to Cushing and Douglas ; and one of these would "crush out" all opposition to slavery, all love of welfare and progress; the other is reported to have said to the North, in the Senate, " We mean to subdue you." Mark the words,-" WE MEAN To SUBDUE vou! " That is the aim of the Administration, to make Progress, Regress; Welfare, Illfare; to make Democracy and Christianity, Despotism and Anti-Christianity; that is the purpose of the Oligarchy of Slaveholders, to be executed with those triple Northern tools already named,- base men, mean men, ignorant men. The fir8t great Measure i::; to put slavery in to Kansas and Nebraska, into four hundred and fifty thousand six hundred and eighty miles of wild land. 77 To accomplish that, five RtepR were neces~ary. Here they are:- 1. The first was to pass a Prosla very Act to organize the Kansas and Nebraska territory. That accomplished two things:- 1. It repealed the 1\'li::;souri Com promise, and laid the territory open to the slaveholder. 2. It established Squatter Sovereignty, and allowed the settlers to make laws for slavery or freedom, as they saw fit. The South intended that it should be a Slave State. You know how this first step was taken in 1854; what was done by Congress, by the President; you have not forgotten the conduct of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois. Massachusetts yet remembers the behavior of 1\ir. Everett. It is rather difficult to find all the facts concerning thb Kansas business; lies have been woven over the whole matter, and I know of no transaction in human history which has been covered up with such abundant lying, from the death of Ananias and Sapphira down to the first nomination of Governor Gardiner. Still the main facts appear through this garment of lies. II. The second step was to give the new Territory a Slave Government, which would take pains to organize slavery into the land, and freedom out of it. So the Executive appointed persons supposed to be competent for that work, and, amongst others, Mr. Reeder, of Easton, in Pennsylvania, who was thought to be fit for that business. But it turned out otherwise: he became conscientious, and refused to execute the infamous and unlawful commands of the Executive. Finding it was so, the Presideut- I have it on good authority- tried to bribe him to resign, offering him the highest office then vacant,- the ministry to China. Governor Reeder refused the bribe, and then was discharged from his office on the pretence of some pecuniary unfaithfulness. Mr. Shannon was thrust into his place, for which |