The Missouri Compromise An Address Delivered Before the Citizens of Pittsfield
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We must stick to our party at all hazards, "though the heavens should fall ;" so that, when we meet them hand to hand a sufficient num- ber of deserters from our ranks go over, to give them the victory- So it always has been. It is by our help, that they have carried every question against as, and gradually extended their encroachments upon liberty, ever since the contest between slavery and freedom began. They now confidently expect to carry the Nebraska bill by the same northern treach- ery. ...But will they, can they V Everybody would declare it impossible, if we did not know what re- 9d wards they Lave to offer, and what patent screws they have to put on when need so requires, at Wash- ington. According to the last census, the population of the free states was, in round numbers, 13, 000, 000, while the free population of the slave states was only 6, 000, 000, a difference on the side of freedom of more than two to one* I hazard nothing in saying, that if the whole North could be polled to-morrow, and there was no fear of the whip and spur, nine- teen-twentienths of the votes would be cast against the Nebraska conspiracy.
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