Remarks of Mr. Durkee, of Wisconsin, on the Lecompton Conspiracy
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Excerpt from Remarks of Mr. Durkee, of Wisconsin, on the Lecompton Conspiracy: In the Senate of the United States, March 20, 1858 After the many and able speeches which have been made on this Kansas conspiracy in both Houses of Congress, it would be idle in me to suppose that I could say anything calculated to change a single vote on the final issue. But there is a higher tribunal to which the friends of "free Kansas" may be called upon to take their appeal - I mean the tribunal of public opinion; and it is in anticipation of this contingency, as not unlikely to be forced upon us, that I desire to add my testimony against this monstrous iniquity. Too great indifference is still manifested throughout the country in regard to this disturbing element, which more than ever threatens the integrity and perpetuity of the Union; and until the whole people become aroused to the true nature of this question, it is better that the discussion go on. The honorable Senator from Connecticut thinks Slavery might be left entirely out of view in this discussion. Why, sir, it is the very gist of the question on which we are about to vote, made such by the advocates of the Lecompton conspiracy. Not one of them, on this floor or elsewhere, will deny that it was to prop Slavery, and strengthen its influence, and increase its power in the Government, that this Lecompton scheme was originally concocted. It is too late to plead blindness in this respect. The avowals of Southern statesmen and Southern Legislatures and Conventions, to say nothing of Southern newspapers, have been too frank to leave any doubts on this subject. No, no, Mr. President; it is the Slavery question we are discussing, and that, too, in its widest sense. It is that same question, notwithstanding partisans in National Conventions assembled have, over and over again, "resolved" it out of Congress! And, sir, but for the nationalization of Shivery, which the framers of the Constitution intended to be a temporary and local institution purely, our Federative Union might have remained a political Eden to this day. 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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