Speech of Hon. William R. Sapp, of Ohio
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. William R. Sapp, of Ohio: Against the Outrages in Kansas, and in Favor of Freedom and Fremont; Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 23, 1856 The House being in Committee of the Whole - Mr. Sapp said: Mr. Chairman: Standing here a representative in part of the great State of Ohio - the empire of that West over which the star of empire still shines to guide moving masses of emigrants - multitudes "Like to which the populous North, Poured never from her frozen loins, To cross the Rhine or Danau" - and hearing the cherished principles of the people of that State constantly assailed by the other side of this House, I feel constrained to enter now upon the discharge of a duty which other pressures on my time have prevented me from performing hitherto. It seems to me, sir, that every representative of the free North should speak out at this time, however briefly, in order that a moral picture of the unanimity of sentiment which beats in the northern heart may be reflected by her true representatives, and held up for exhibition to the world, that all may see and fully understand that, in no idle spirit of threats and vaporing, but in all which evinces a quiet, firm, and settled purpose, the North has fully made up its mind that no more of our common territory shall have imposed upon it the blighting institution of slavery - an institution which Separates parent and child on the auction block; which shuts the gates of knowledge, and which snatches from the weak all the hard-earned fruits of their toil; an institution which upholds an aristocracy founded on the humiliation of labor; an institution that has violated the compromise of 1820, by which the Territory of Kansas was consecrated to free labor forever; an institution that is the bane of our social condition, that has arrayed the South against the North, and exposed us to danger from abroad; an institution that has no sympathy with Democracy, but secures to the slaveholder political power, making one hundred slaves equal to sixty free white men; an institution that exhausts the soil, and that moistens it with blood and tears, and always wants to spread itself over new domain; an institution that regards disunion as among the means of defense, and not always the last to be resorted to; an institution that usurped the name of Democracy and adopted none of its principles; an institution the extension of which has engaged Congress and the people for the last two years, while other matters of great interest and importance to the general welfare have been almost totally neglected; an institution, in short, against which are arrayed the sympathies of the civilized world, and the hopes of our race. Mr. Chairman, it is useless for the Representatives from the South, and their echoes from the North, to clamor about agitation and sectionalism - to charge upon us, the representatives of freedom, the productions of the bitter fruits which grew from the seed of their own planting. It is upon them that the responsibility rests for the present deplorable condition of things in this country. No sooner had the excitement which grew from the enactment of the compromise measures of 1850 subsided, than something must be done to renew it. The President of the United States - a mere tool in the hands of the conspirators (I mean no disrespect to his high office) - in violation of his oft-repeated pledges, using all the appliances of power and patronage, repealed the solemn compact of 1820, unsolicited by the people - and launched us into a sea of trouble from which the wisest pilots in the land have not yet discovered the means of escape. But, Mr. Chairman, it teaches us an important lesson, viz; that little men are dangerous in high places! It was hoped that everything would soon be moving on quietly, "keeping step to th
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