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t a political anti-slavery organization was formed in the North and West, which continued to gain strength year after year, till at length it had obtained control of every free State in the Union, and exacted himself, through free State votes alone, to the Presidency of the United States. He chooses to pass over the fact that the party to which he thus owes his place and his present power of mischief, is wholly and totally a sectional organization; and as such, condemned by Washington, by Jefferson, by Jackson, Webster and Clay, and by all the founders and preservers of the Republic, and utterly inconsistent with the principles or the peace, the stability or the existence even, of our Federal system. Sir, there never was an hour, from the organization of this sectional party, when it was not predicted by the wisest men and truest patriots, and when it ought not to have been known by every intelligent man in the country, that it must sooner or later precipitate a revolution and the d