The Remedy for Kansas Equality of All the States in All the Territories
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Excerpt from The Remedy for Kansas Equality of All the States in All the Territories: Address of Hon. B. F Hallett, to the Democrats of Cheshire County, at Keene, New Hampshire, Fourth of July, 1856 Fellow Citizens of the United States of America! That is the proudest title for Americans on this eightieth birthday of our National Independence. Shall we surrender, or shall we maintain that title? July, 4th, 1770, our Fathers declared the then thirteen colonies "Free and Independent States." Eleven years after, Sept.17, 1787, "to form a more perfect Union," they "ordained and established this Constitution for the United States of America." Mark that expansive word "for." "For the United States of America," "for ourselves and our posterity." White men of Saxon blood, white men of foreign and native birth ordained that Constitution; not to interfere with domestic slavery, not for the African race, but for themselves and for us their posterity. Those words for "the United States of America," and those other words "new States may he admitted," made that Constitution then, just what the Democratic party North and South hold it to-day a Constitution for the thirty-one States now in this Union, and for all coming States, so long as there is territory on this Continent to annex or a people fitted to be admitted into the Union. That was what our Fathers meant in their expansive and prophetic statesmanship, by the significant appellations "Continental Congress," "Continental army," "Continental money." Think you they were narrowed in their conceptions of Republican Government to the thirteen Colonies then forming the little margin of States on our Atlantic coast, over which you can span your thumb and finger on the map of North America? No. They contemplated then what we are achieving now (with no obstacle in the way but this useless sectional agitation of slavery), a continent of States, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Hudson´s Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, and (if need be and honorably acquired) the adjacent Isles of the sea. They saw in the future of the Republican Empire they were founding, the time when that narrow strip of Colonies might say: "No pent up Utica contracts our power, But the whole boundless Continent is ours." Hence, constituted as they all were with laws recognizing domestic slavery, they put no such impediment in the way of extension of territory as a conflict between Congress and the States, touching the continuance or extension of slavery; but solemnly affirmed as the fundamental condition precedent of their first union for independence, "that the regulations of the interned concerns of each colony should be left to the Legislatures." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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