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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Paul Leidy, of Pennsylvania, on the Admission of Kansas: Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 30, 1858
Another consequence has been suggested by some honorable gentlemen as likely to result from a refusal by Congress to admit Kansas under this constitu tion, namely, a dissolution of the Union. Although I have no fears of such a result from any cause, and much less from such a cause and although this is the first time that I have had the honor to address a legislative body, I cannot conclude my remarks without entering my protest against this cry of dissolution. I am aware that this is no novel project. Since the first organization of the Republic we have heard these intimations. Scarcely had the ink become dry upon the parchment on which was recorded the sacred compact, until these prophets of woe began their doleful predictions. Massachusetts and South Carolina, Alabama and Wisconsin, and other States, each in her turn has pro uounced the doom of the Union. Vain prediction! Idle threat!
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