Here we have already broken loose from these associations.

These ties, how dear so ever to us, we have already sundered.

The people with whom we once met, and with whom we once took sweet counsel, the churches in which we once worshiped, shall know us no more forever.

Here we are free to act, and to correct the mistakes that have been unwittingly made by the churches with which we have formerly been connected, just as our American fathers were free to frame a better government than the government of the nations out of which they came.
May I not appeal to you, my friends, and say you owe it to yourselves, you owe it to Christians in every land, you owe it to your Lord, you owe it to the future State of Kansas, to so act as to free the Christian profession from the trammels that have hindered its progress and glory ever since the days when our divisions began.

If Protestantism seas done so much in spite of all its divisions, what will it not do if these hindrances are taken out of the way?
Kansas is certainly predestinated to be a great State.