| Show PROPHETIC WORDS the following in extract CO contains the lust last c wui words ds uttered by gen dix in the senate of the united states in a speech against the extension of slavery words which have acquired additional gravity and force orce from tile great contest which isnow raging rg ing ando which there bereno particular sym symptoms at the lie P period delivery lt mr president two years i ago when I 1 first addressed the senate afi t t A 6 an this subject un under tai alie instructions s of the state of new york I 1 said that by no instrumentality of hers should slavery be carried into any portion of this continent which is free I 1 repeat the declaration now by no do act by do DO acquiescence of hers slavery S shall hall be cardd where it d does oes not exist I 1 said attile same time that in whatever nYa jiner this thia question should be S settled if it should be decided against her views of i justice anstice and rip right lit lier her devotion to the union and to her sister states should remain unshaken and unimpaired speaking in ill her name and for the last time within these walls I 1 repeat this declaration also she does not believe in tile the possibility of disunion I 1 am thankful that her faith is also mine my confidence is founded upon the disinterestedness of the great body of tile the people who derive their subsistence from the soil ind and W whose bosc attachment is strong 0 in in pr proportion op to their close CIOS communion un with it they habein leave incorporated corp orated with it the labor of their own hands it has gi given I 1 vai them thein back wealth and health and strong strength th health to enjoy and strength to defend what they possess 08 in seasons of tranquility and peace they are unseen too often perhaps forgotten but it is in their silent and sober toil that the afie public pros prosperity perit Y I 1 is wrought out it is only in the hour of peril that they come forth from fierri a thousand hills and valleys and plains to sustain w wath ith strong ln Z arms the country they have madr prosperous CrOUS in them the union will find its surest protectors they are too virtuous and too independent to be corrupted they are spread over too broad a surface for the work of seduction it is in towns and public assemblies where men are concentrated that tile the tempter can call with more assurance sit down as of old in tile the guise of friendship and whisper into the unsuspecting 0 ct or tile the willing 0 ear car the lesson of disobedience and treachery from this danger the great bod body y of f the people are secure and let us le be assured that they never will permit the banner which floats over t them item at home and carries their name to every so to tn be torn down either cither by inter internal fial di distention disse sention ution or external ri violence olence such stich is my iny firm my unalterable conviction bue bu f it if I 1 aln ain mistaken in all this if tle tive spangled field it baarts aloft is destined to be broken up then my prayer will bep iw that oat the star ilich represents represent new york in the constellation of yd fixed until 9 very a 79 S |
