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- missouri Compromise be repealed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