It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable.
You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the people of the North do crucify their feelings in order to maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union.
I do oppose the extension of slavery, because my judgment and feelings so prompt me; and I am under no obligations to the contrary.

If for this you and I must differ, differ we must.

You say, if you were President you would send an army and hang the leaders of the Missouri outrages upon the Kansas elections; still, if Kansas fairly votes herself a slave State, she must be admitted, or the Union must be dissolved.

But how if she votes herself a slave State unfairly--that is, by the very means for which you would hang men?
Must she still be admitted, or the Union dissolved?
That will be the phase of the question when it first becomes a practical one.

In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kansas, I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law.