The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

MR. LOVEJOY'S SPEECH ON SLAVERY.

*e- extract iron" the ifisfd iork ri4e. .liereTti trie
opening of Mr. Lovejoy's speech in the House of Repre-
sentatives, which gave rise to the disgraceful outbreak
on the part of the members from slave-holding States,
already referred to in our columns :
The House then went into committee of the whole
on the state of the Union; Mr. Washburn (Republican),
of Maine, in tho chair.

Mr. Lovejoy (Republican), of Illinois---Mr. Chairman,
sve liakie had ft ldng do polvgrinl-hi Utah; and

now come to treat upon that other " twin relic of
barbarism," slavery. I would like to see the two go
down together. •

Mr. Cobb (Democrat), of Alabinia, iiitemipted, hut
was called td Order. Befdre resdnifug his ?eat lie said,
"Oh let hini itiake a speech about the I will
not object."
Mr. Lovejoy--.-I will proceed without your leave or
that of anybody else.
Mr. Stanton (Republican), of Ohio, asked of the
chairman whether, while the Tariff and Loan Bill was
before the Ildtise; gentlertieti should not be confiued to
that partictilar subject, and 'lot stray a*ay io the silthet
of the twin relics.

Mr. Lovejoy: The question is, Whether ila+eky isto
extend beyond its pieleiii, limits They say that ie tne
only question (Wet eyhik li i4re litre riot exeltieM birs-
diction . Slavery is called an "institutioa ;" but it n•w
is no institution. Sir, it is simply a practice, as poly-
gamy is a practice. The question now is,' what ire
the influences and what are* the elements of be
practice of slas ery ? The morality of slavery las
been scaled: long ago. The ethics of it are no
longer diseiusted. Agei and ages tigiO It' huts been setthd
by thb pHest9 ; atlOt noi, in, piteousness of giq,
it appears like the fresh bright glows which linter
round 'a summer's sunset. We- are told that whererer
slaveholding,will pay there it will go, precisely on be
came principle that wherever. robbery will pay live
robbery will go—wherever piracy will pay there, piney
will gti. And Wherever human.flesh is cheap cannibalst
will prevail, ti4catise it will nay. 71iari roilieiff'titui.
piracy, than polygamy, slaveholding it worse; lore
wicked, more criminal, more inglorious,.. and nom
abhorrent to God. Slaveholding has been justly culled
the " sum of all crime." You put every crime into
the moral crucible, every wickedness perpetated
among Men*-6:put all the crime in the.*:,,ita-
logue into the moral crucible, and then Ail--
Solve them all, and the result *ill lie 6141;e1144.
It has all the violence of robbery. I am speatim
honestly before-God; and :What I utter is Goa 'trail:..:

It has all the violence of robbefy ; it lies the blco4,
curse of piracy; it has all the offensiveness and brtitssi.
ising lusts of polygamy, all combined and concentrated
in itself, with the arnravatinz circumstances of each and
every crime that was ever known or dreamt of. Now,
sir, the justification of slavery is placed upon three
grounds—the inferiority of the enslaved race, the fact that
slaiTery imparts Christianity and civilisation to the slaves,
and that it is guaranteed by the constitution. These
are the three main arguments that are presented to
justify slavery in. itself,. and consequently it is those
which are claimed to justify its expansion. The
extreme men upon this.question are not the only men
who. have logical'argument on their side. I must be
right. in my position, o:r the extreme firenaters must be
rightl If. slavery is • right in Virginia, it must be
right in Itastas. If wrong in Kansas, it must be
wrong everywhere. Now, in reference to the first
point—the inferiority of the enslaved race. We con-
cede, as a matter of fact, the inferiority. Does it
follow from that that it is right to enslave a man
simply because he is inferior to me ? Sir, this is
a most abhorrent doctrine. This gives over the weak to
the mercy of the strong—the poor to the mercy of the rich.
This doctrine plaeei those who are weak in intellect at the
mercy of those who are gifted. This principle of ensla-
ving men. because of their inferiority, is the most
.revolting that was ever presented to the world. If a man
is old and weak, and bowed down with years, you enslave
him down. if he is idiotic, you- take advantage of him
a child you deceive him. Why, sir, this is the
the doctrine of the Democrats. But it is, sir, the
doctrine. of devils as well. (Sensation.) According to
this inhuman doctrine, the strong would enslave the
weak everywhere just as the angels might enslave men
because they are superior to men—just as the archan&els
might enslave the inferior angels. Sir, this horrible
doctrine, on the same principle, would transfer the great
Jehovah himself into an infernal Juggernaut, who
would enslave the world under the huge rolling wheels
of his omnipotence."

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