d its
origin in the political institutions or its growth in the social
organization of the country. Both crimes received the execration of
all parties and all sections. In the universal horror which they
inspired, in the majestic supremacy of law, which they failed to
disturb, may be read the strongest proof of the stability of a
Government which is founded upon the rights, fortified by the
intelligence, inwrought with the virtues of the people. For as it was
said of old, wisdom and knowledge shall be stability, and the work of
righteousness shall be peace!

ADDENDUM.

Hon. Galusha A. Grow, who filled the important post of Chairman of the
Committee on Territories in the Thirty-sixth Congress, criticises the
statements made on pages 269-272 of Volume I. The anomaly was there
pointed out that the men who had been most active in condemning Mr.
Webster for consenting to the organization of the Territories of New
Mexico and Utah in 1850 without a prohibition of slavery, consented in
1861 to the organization of the Territories of Colorado, Dakota, and
Nevada without a prohibition. Mr. Grow as a zealous anti-slavery man
writes in defense of the course adopted in 1861. The wisdom of the
course was not criticised. Its consistency only was challenged. After
giving a history of the various steps in organizing the three
Territories in 1861, and of the great need, by reason of the pressure
of thousands of emigrants, of providing a government therefor, and
the impracticability of passing a Territorial bill with an anti-slavery
proviso, Mr. Grow, in a letter to the author, says,--

"The Republican party, about to be entrusted for the first time with
the administration of the Government, must show, in addition to sound
principles, that it possessed sufficient practical statesmanship to
solve wisely any question relative to the development of the material
resources of the country, or it would prove itself incompetent to the
trust imposed by the people.

"There was this difference in the condition of the public affairs,
then, from what it was when Mr. Webster made his celebrated speech of
March 7th. The great battle between Freedom and Slavery for supremacy
in the Territories had been fought and won in Kansas, and the people
had elected a Chief Magistrate on Freedom's side, so that the
influences of National Administration would no longer be wielded for
the extension of human bondage. Besides, Kansas, a free State, and