Now, sir, who departed from the lessons of wisdom taught by the fathers of the republic? Most of them slept in their tombs, and a wiser and purer and holier race (in their own estimation) had supplanted them; and "the sin against God and the crime against humanity" had to be blotted from Missouri, or she could hold no place in the Union. However, you made a good trade, and then the objection to the "sin against God and the crime against humanity" was waived for a consideration. You excluded the people of the South from all the territory north of 36° 30´, and then Missouri was admitted into the Union with slavery. [Here the hammer fell.] Mr. LANDRUM. I would thank the committee to extend my time for ten minutes longer. General assent was given. Mr. LANDRUM. I shall have to pass over a number of points which I should have liked to touch on, and will only make this remark: that having all the time a majority in the House of Representatives, and having secured an ultimate preponderance in the Senate, you passed the tariff bills of 1824 and 1828, in which the southern section, now securely in the minority, were to be made tributary to promote and pamper the industry of the North. Then came the opposition to the annexation of Texas, because it was a slave State. Then came the Wilmot proviso for Oregon, and for the territory acquired from Mexico. Then followed the struggle of 1856, when you boldly inscribed on your banner, "No more slave States to be admitted into the Union." At all events, you insisted on "prohibition to slavery in the Territories," and announced that our system of labor was a "twin relic of barbarism" with polygamy. Then followed the enunciation, in the platform of a great popular party, which struggled almost successfully for the government of the country, that the whole people of the South who owned slaves were living in that state of pollution and degradation which characterizes the polygamist. Yet we are told that we are the cause of all the trouble, because we do not join in the hue-and-cry. Now, sir, what is the state of parties? The greatest man, perhaps, of the Republican party--certainly the greatest in influence, and the one whose prospects are first for the Presidency--has declared that the three billions of property which we own must be destroyed, stating that "you and I must do it," meaning that it must be done by the present generation. Then follows the resolution of the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. BLAKE,] voted for by sixty members of the House, declaring that slavery ought to be abolished wherever the Government has the power to do it.