rent. Will you restore the Missouri Compro
iui«e line—[a voice, *'Nu"]—enacted 1820
t.t the detnund of the South, and repealed in
1854 at tKo same demand? Will you rc
enact it again? [A voioe, "N by any.
m'Muis."] Not bv any r.cans. No, I would
ruther suffer my right arm to be severed from
the (shoulder [chocre] than place upon myself
any such mark of humiliation and disgtace.
[Renewed cheers.] Are you willing that this
game of battledore anJ shuttlecock shall
lonper be played between the South and the
North? If you arc, 1 nui not, and the line
is drawn between ns as di*tinotly as it i«
drawn between tbe North and tho South. [A
voice, "He's exactly rigb ," and cheers.] As
for myself, I say it t.ere, and I say it dis
tinctly, desiring not to be misunderstood by
any man—m you will find 1 wiil oarry it
out through my life—no more compromise.
