THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY.
Speech in the Senate, on the Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a Free State, June 4, 1860.
Thou art a slave, whom Fortune’s tender arm
With favor never clasped, but bred a dog.
Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV. Sc. 3.
A universe of death, which God by curse
Created evil, for evil only good,
Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,