The Kansas settlement did not conclude it.

If Kansas should sink to-day, and leave a great vacant space in the earth's surface, this vexed question would still be among us.

I say then there is no way of putting an end to the slavery agitation amongst us, but to put it back upon the basis where our fathers placed it, no way but to keep it out of our new Territories--to restrict it forever to the old States where it now exists.

Then the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction.

That is one way of putting an end to the slavery agitation.
The other way is for us to surrender and let Judge Douglas and his friends have their way and plant slavery over all the States; cease speaking of it as in any way a wrong; regard slavery as one of the common matters of property and speak of negroes as we do of our horses and cattle.