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"The subject which you are called to cnn«ii!ernn this important and interesting occasion, relates In a controversy which h«s been fruitful of discord, hatred and rnaltee between the North and the 80s th for more than forty years. After the 'erunnntien ef the Kansas luiliroilio. I had hoped we should hear no more nl thisagitettagand exciting contro versy. 1 was. however, disappointed, lor in .in evil hour, when least expected by the raid, headed r.y