which it is sought to blast by unwelcome association with slave labor; in Christian sympathy with the slave, whom it is proposed to task and sell there; in stern condemnation of the crime which has been consummated on that beautiful soil; in rescue of fellow-citizens now subjugated to a Tyrannical Usurpation; in dutiful respect for the early fathers, whose aspirations are now ignobly thwarted; in the name of the Constitution, which has been outraged—­of the laws trampled down—­of Justice banished—­of Humanity degraded—­of Peace destroyed—­of Freedom crushed to earth; and, in the name of the Heavenly Father, whose service is perfect Freedom, I make this last appeal.

May 20, 1856.

Mr. Douglas:—­I shall not detain the Senate by a detailed reply to the speech of the Senator from Massachusetts.  Indeed, I should not deem it necessary to say one word, but for the personalities in which he has indulged, evincing a depth of malignity that issued from every sentence, making it a matter of self-respect with me to repel the assaults which have been made.

As to the argument, we have heard it all before.  Not a position, not a fact, not an argument has he used, which has not been employed on the same side of the chamber, and replied to by me twice.  I shall not follow him, therefore, because it would only be repeating the same answer which I have twice before given to each of his positions.  He seems to get up a speech as in Yankee land they get up a bedquilt.  They take all the old calico dresses of various colors, that have been in the house from the days of their grandmothers, and invite the young ladies of the neighborhood in the afternoon, and the young men to meet them at a dance in the evening.  They cut up these pieces of old dresses and make pretty figures, and boast of what beautiful ornamental work they have made, although there was not a new piece of material in the whole quilt.  Thus it is with the speech which we have had re-hashed here to-day, in regard to matters of fact, matters of law, and matters of argument—­every thing but the personal assaults and the malignity. * * *

His endeavor seems to be an attempt to whistle to keep up his courage by defiant assaults upon us all.  I am in doubt as to what can be his object.  He has not hesitated to charge three fourths of the Senate with fraud, with swindling, with crime, with infamy, at least one hundred times over in his speech.  Is it his object to provoke some of us to kick him as we would a dog in the street, that he may get sympathy upon the just chastisement?  What is the object of this denunciation against the body of which we are members?  A hundred times he has called the Nebraska bill a “swindle,” an act of crime, an act of infamy, and each time went on to illustrate the complicity of each man who voted for it in perpetrating the crime.  He has brought it home as a personal charge to those who passed the Nebraska bill, that they were guilty of a crime which deserved the just indignation of heaven, and should make them infamous among men.