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  1. hindrance to his onward march.
  2. The effect then of this final overthrow
  3. & destruction of the pet plan & hobby of
  4. of this class left them entirely at sea
  5. without rudder or compass & of course
  6. they could do nothing but keep silence
  7. & suffer the worst thus might come.
  8. Having so often said that Kansas would
  9. certainly be a slave state should the
  10. missouri Compromise be repealed
  11. how could they now argue against this
  12. own oft repeated prophecies & say that
  13. there was even yet hope of saving her?
  14. This they never did say until the
  15. victory was already secure.
  16. We had in the senate Samner, Wilson,
  17.  Seward Wade & Hale, a large number
  18.  of the same school in the House headed
  19. by the venerable Giddings, but not
  20. one of them all, in congress or out of
  21. congress, ever wrote a word or uttered
  22. a sentence to encourage our colonies
  23. to go to Kansas. The god of their worships
  24. had been overthrown & now these
  25. appeared to them to be no chance
  26. of salvation. Their hobby was gone
  27. & they were silent. They had struggled
  28. long & honestly against slavery only