Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . action. It is wielded by men of strong arms, adamantinewill, and hearts animated by the divine impulses of patriotism and liberty. They haveregistered a vow in Heaven to employ every lawful and constitutional means to roll backthe dark tide of slavery from the tenii)le of Freedom, and vindicate the character of theRepublic from the disgrace and reproach of establishing slavery in a free territory. Weare no abstractionists. The Representatives in this Congress from the lifteen slave-holding States of the Union, without an exception, and wit
Cleveland, past and present; its representative men: . action. It is wielded by men of strong arms, adamantinewill, and hearts animated by the divine impulses of patriotism and liberty. They haveregistered a vow in Heaven to employ every lawful and constitutional means to roll backthe dark tide of slavery from the tenii)le of Freedom, and vindicate the character of theRepublic from the disgrace and reproach of establishing slavery in a free territory. Weare no abstractionists. The Representatives in this Congress from the lifteen slave-holding States of the Union, without an exception, and without distinction of party, avowan intention to carry their slaves into these Territories, and there hold them in assert, with passionate vehemence, that they have such a constitutional have even told us, sir, that, regardless of the remonstrances of the people of theNorth—heedless of any prohibitory law of Congress upon the subject, they would invade :^ii OS Hi: ,. iM m nf jJ JBifJ i^v. •^S!1S« >1 . sdi vj ^i^(t\5^ el-. ,0
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