*'  Mill!  pii.jxjses,  and  God  disposes."  You  may  legislatie,  and  nhnt-
giite,  and  abnegate,  as  you  will,  but  there  is  a  Superior  Power  tlmt
overrules  all  your  actions  and  all  your  refusals  U>  act,  and,  I  fumllv
hope  and  trust,  overrules  them  to  the  advancement  of  the  happincw,
greatness  and  gloi'y  of  onr  country — that  overrules,  I  know,  wA
only  all  your  actions  and  all  your  refusals  to  act*  but  all  btuiun
events,  to  the  distant  but  inevitable  result  of  the  equal  and  aniTnal
liberty  of  all  men.
NEBRASKA  AND  KANSAS.
SECOND  SPEECH.'


I


I  RISE  with  no  purpose  of  further  resisting  or  even  delajiBg  tba
passage  of  this  biU.  Let  its  advocates  have  only  a  little  patience^
and  they  will  soon  reach  the  object  for  which  they  have  struggled ■>
earnestly  and  so  long.  The  sun  has  set  for  the  last  time  upon  the
guarantied  and  certain  liberties  of  all  the  unsettled  and  unorganiwd
portions  of  the  American  continent  that  lie  within  the  jurisdictioa
of  the  United  States.  To-morrow's  sun  will  rise  in  dim  eclipse  over
them.*  How  long  that  obstruction  shall  last,  is  known  only  to  tbo
Power  that  directs  and  controls  all  human  eventa.  For  roysclt  I
know  only  this — that  now  no  human  power  will  prevent  its  coming
on,  and  that  itii  passing  oft'  will  be  hastened  and  secured  by  othiMK
than  those  now  here,  and  perhaps  by  only  those  belonging  to  futunr
generations.
It  would  be  almost  factious  to  offer  further  resistance  to  this  to**-
sure  here.  Indeed,  successful  resistance  was  never  expectt'd  to  be
made  in  this  ball.    The  senate  floor  is  an  old  battle-ground,  on  wbicb


■On  tlie  rclam  of  tbc  bill  fWim  the  hooteof  repr««enUtWe(  with  aaMdmaite.  VaxS,  UM.
Bee  mrmolr,  paK<^  $H,  preitml  volamc.
