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Excerpt from Freedom National, Slavery Sectional: Speech of the Hon. S. H. Hammond, of the 27th Senate District, on the Governor's Message, in Senate, February, 1860
Sir, will the Senator from the 1st go further than this in the protection of State r1obts or in vindication of State sovereignty! Will he ask the Republican Party to go further in that dirce tion? Sir, I said the Republican Party loved freedom and hates slavery; and frankness de mands the avowal that, while it regards slavery as a State institution, and is ready to protect it there, it will never consent that it shall spread one inch beyond the boundary of the States. It will never consent that one inch of territory now free shall be surrendered to its sway, or that its shadow shall ever darken one foot of the nation al domain. It will never consent that soil once consecrated to freedom shall be desecrated by the footprint of a_slave. It will never consent to the acquisition of another acre of slave territory, whether by conquest or by purchase. It will never consent to the admission of another slave State into the Union, otherwise than as such State may be made by a division of Texas into two or more States. This, sir, is the Republican creed, as I understand it, upon the subject of slavery. Upon this ground the Republican Party will stand in 1860, and from which it can neither be persuaded nor driven. If defeated in 1860, it will stand there in 1864, and in 1868, and in 1872, and always, until this great con?ict shall have 'ended by the triumph or annihilation of freedom.
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