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,
Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things.
MILTON, Paradise Lost, Book II. 622-625.
With the night-wind,
Over field and farm and forest,
Lonely homestead, darksome hamlet,
Blighting all we breathe upon!
LONGFELLOW, Golden Legend.