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Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. B. F. Wade, of Ohio, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bills: Senate of the United States, March 3, 1854 The power of the Roman Senate, in the height of her glory, was not so great as this. She could dispose of conquered nations, but had not the shaping and moulding of the institutions of a nation in its infancy such a duty belongs to America alone. The political relation that the people of these Territories are to sustain to us, as members of this great Republic, invests the subject with additional importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.