The Senator, well fearing that all his eloquence and his arguments thus far are but chaff, when weighed in the balance against truth and justice, seems to find consolation in the idea, and says that which opposes the ulterior object of abolitionists, is that the general government has no power to act on the subject of slavery, and that the Constitution or the Union would not last an hour if the power claimed was exercised by Congress.  It is slavery, then, and not liberty, that makes us one people.  To dissolve slavery, is to dissolve the Union.  Why require of us to support the Constitution by oath, if the Constitution itself is subject to the power of slavery, and not the moral power of the country?  Change the form of the oath which you administer to Senators on taking seats here, swear them to support slavery, and according to the logic of the gentleman, the Constitution and the Union will both be safe.  We hear almost daily threats of dissolving the Union, and from whence do they come?  From citizens of the free States?  No!  From the slave States only.  Why wish to dissolve it?  The reason is plain, that a new government may be formed, by which we, as a nation, may be made a slaveholding people.  No impartial observer of passing events, can, in my humble judgment, doubt the truth of this.  The Senator thinks the abolitionists in error, if they wish the slaveholder to free his slave.  He asks, why denounce him?  I cannot admit the truth of the question; but I might well ask the gentleman, and the slaveholders generally, “why are you angry at me, because I tell you the truth?” It is the light of truth which the slaveholder cannot endure; a plain unvarnished tale of what slavery is, he considers a libel upon himself.  The fact is, the slaveholder feels the leprosy of slavery upon him.  He is anxious to hide the odious disease from the public eye, and the ballot box and the right of petition, when used against him, he feels as sharp reproof; and being unwilling to renounce his errors, he tries to escape from their consequences, by making the world believe that HE is the persecuted, and not the persecutor.  Slaveholders have said here, during this very session, “the fact is, slavery will not bear examination.”  It is the Senator who denounces abolitionists for the exercise of their most unquestionable rights, while abolitionists condemn that only which the Senator himself will acknowledge to be wrong at all times and under all circumstances.  Because he admits that if it was an original question whether slaves should be introduced among us, but few citizens would be found to agree to it, and none more opposed to it than himself.  The argument is, that the evil of slavery is incurable; that the attempt to eradicate it would commence a struggle which would exterminate one race or the other.  What a lamentable picture of our government, so often pronounced the best upon earth!  The seeds of disease, which were interwoven into its first existence, have now