submitted to a popular vote, would oppose by all the means within his
power, the admission of the State within the Union. You were also
excited at a dogma which had been put forth, to the effect that no
more slave States should be admitted. I agreed with you then, that if
the President took such position he would violate the obligations of
his office, and be faithless to the trust which you had reposed in
him. I agreed with you then, that the exclusion of a State, because it
was slaveholding, would be such an offence against your equality as
would demand at your hands the vindication of your rights. What has
been the result? The convention framed the constitution, submitted
only the clause relating to slavery to a popular vote, and applied for
admission. The President in his annual message referred in favorable
terms to the application, then not formally made, and when the
Constitution reached him transmitted it to Congress with a special
message, in which he fully and emphatically maintained the right of
admission.

After the convention had adjourned, Mr. Stanton, acting Governor of
the Territory, called and extra session of the Freesoil Legislature,
which has been elected, and it passed an act to submit the whole
constitution to a popular vote. The President removed him from
office,--a further evidence of the sincerity with which he was
fulfiling your expectations in relation to Kansas. And it gives me
pleasure here to say of him, what I am assured I can now say with
confidence, that he will not shrink a hair's breadth from the position
he has taken, but will move another step in advance, and fall, if fall
he must, manfully upholding the rights and defying the insolence of
ill-gotten power.

When the bill was presented to the Senate for the admission of the