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care for her children Behold him there, with
all his warm attachments to his beloved country
with all the household affections which follow
the good man to the ultcrmost ends OF the earlh


ever leading him whence they themselves came
heavenward. And yet, sir, sooner taan rellnqulsn
one foot of that soil which rightfully is ours,
would see it utterly laid waste and made desolate


sneak not formyseif The mighty West speaks
as speak, Our brethren in Oregon speak as
speak speak for my well-belovcd State. She
forbids all compromise by the surrender OF a SIN
gle foot Of our territory. 1t is not the West alone
that forbids it. History. speaking from the sep
ulchre of the sainlcd dead, forbids it. The shades
of Washington, Of Adams Of Henry and OF their
immortal compeers, forbid it. The still small
voice of Camden and Concord torblds II. :! ne
holy blood that fell in torrents in the parched
fields of Monmouth, and Camden, and the Bran
DIVINE forbids it, All The spectral forms OF the
Past, as they sweep along in shadowy array, with
mournfuI voices forbid it. The Present torbds IT.
Seventenths of the American people forbid IT.
The Future, crowded with mighty events and big
with the fortunes of mankind, torblds 1t. BY all
the power and glory our counry-ln the name
of the past-in the name of the unborn millions
whose proud fortune it will be TO direct the destl-
nies of free America-I protest here, in the face
of heaven and all men, against any dismember-
ment of our territory-the surrender Of our prin-
ciple-the sacrifice Of our honor! Here take
nv stand on the side of our national rights Here
I abide the issue, be it good or evil. Come veal
or wo come peace or war, here hope to stand.
And let man impugn my motives have
studied this question not rs party man-not in
the spirit of faction. That this question has
wound itself around every fibre of my heart,
frankly confess; but my judgment has not, trust,
been blinded One thing know and repeat
nv motives are pure; and to the truth of that, if
know my own heart, 1 appeal, this august
presence, TO Him, who searches the hearts and
tries the reins of the children Of men, and of my
sincerity in all this matter, trust 10 be found
ready. with devout and rerercniaI awe, to appeal
to the omniscirnt Judge in that hour when l shall


breathe nv last faint prayer for mercy, before l
find myself alone with eternity and THEE