Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-04-04
VOL. 4.--NO. ID

. and violated humanity. In short, almost EYES
d ry institution, every prosperity, public and
Y private, seems to be sickening and dying from
0 the corruption and corroding effects of slavery.
= But the curse be on the head Of those who suS-
! tain such an institution"
: Now sir, ask you if you have ever heard
or read from any avowed abolitionist more hor.
, rible, shameful, miserable, malicious SANDER
} upon shareholders and the slavehoding conf
muniy than have here read in this letter from
this defender of the administration? Did the
gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr. Adams) in
all his Incorporate, unjustifable, remarks
about slavery, ever assert any thing half as
abusive? Has the gentleman from Vermont,
j (Mr. Slade,) who is regarded as the great lea
der OF the abolitionists in this House, has he
ever used expressions so unworthy a man Of
feeling, so unbecoming a representative of this
floor! No sir, no sir, neither one Of them, or
any other abolltionists, has ever done the South
greater injustice, has ever given expression to
such detestable opinions. No aboli.ionist ever
uttered sentiments of more .venomous maligni-
ltY. And yet, sir, this man who says slavery
involves in it, as we'll as in its present posses.
sion as in its future operations, crime, fraud,
| theft, robbery, murder and death"-who says
shut the curse be ON the head of those who sus-
tain such an institution" This individual is
who sirG Who ishe, Mr.. Speaker? Why, sir,
he is the representative from Hamilton county
Ohio. A locofoco democrat--the very per-
Sonficaton of locoloco democracy "dear
sir" of Amos Kendall and Levi Woodbury--the
beloved defender Of the measures of Martin
Van Buren,! And has he sir, lost any Of the
love or confidence ofthe President or his friends
since he wrote this letterY No sir, far from it.
At the last session he published speech "by
authority" which was never spoken; and now,
sir, we find him addressing letters 10 the heads
Iof the Departments, asking information for the
purpose of enabling him to make some reply in
favor of''the administration and the Democrat
ic partym He tells US in his speech to-day
that he had Conformation furnished him." and
he has shown us, by the letters he read from
whom the information came. Mr.. Van Buren,
is great friend ofthe South, but he loves those
who abhor slavery, and the abhorers love him.
Does not this strengthen the already stronger
idence before the world that the President is
but ",
"a lowering temperzer that III
Can 81 With thine eyes at once see good and y III
Inclinng to then: them both Z" Or
Sir, the gentleman who deals so largeiySf |
figures, land again give him credit Cfasihstsg
in figures, and believe he can take as many
strong piiits in a case as any democrat on this
hoor)-the gentleman surely never has been in
country where slavery was tolerated. Arc
there any evidences Of the sanger of God, and
the vengeance of Heaven" to be seen here, ex-
cept what loco-foco democracy has inflicted up
on US! Did he see the evidences Of the "blight-
ming effects of slavery in Kentucky? The
Kentucky line is not far from his home
Where are you, Representatives from old Ken
tuck? Ye who come 'front.' the State which has
been proudly called ''the land Of the brave and
the home of the free?" Is this correct ac-
count ofyour home? Does your fair land 'bear
the impress of poverty and dilapidation,' and
does it look "as if pestilence and famine had
been making their sad inuovationsw Here.
several voices were heard, "No, no! falsem
&c &c., Where is the Representative from
the district of Kentucky, near Hamilton county,
Ohio? Does, "ean, hungry sterility, squalid
wretchednesS, seem to cover" the face Of your
district? Is every prospect there withered
and wilted by the frown and dsapprobation Of
avengng Justice and violated humanity? Are
all your institutions sckening and dying from
the corruptng and corroding effects of slaveryg
Here Mr.. Southgate, Of Kentucky, said: 1t
is foul libel, base SANDER, upon my constit-
uents and upon my State.]
Mr. Stanley-Mr. Speaker, my blood runs
cold when read such expressions as these, and
think Of my home and my constituents. sick
Ell at reading such disgraceful Islander upon
men Of all parties, upon Christians of all de-
nominations who are shareholders. Nothing
sir, but the rules ofthe House restrain me from
expressing, in language which my feelings
would dictate, my adherence, detestation, and
contempt of the author Of such sentiments--of
this "dear sr' Of the party, ofthis Caliban pet
ofthe Globe, who writes thus Of shareholders,
and then votes with the South upon all the eau
Gus resolutions except that which lays petitions
on the table,
Would it be unkind, Mr.. Speaker, to ask if
the gentleman from Ohio, attended the caucusf
Would it be respectful sir, to hint that these
resolutions were so deliberately prepared, so
carefully worded, as to allow the anti-abolition
abhorers of slavery to vote upon them, and yet
be consistent? Could it have been, sir, that
these resolutions were reconsidered and a.
mended TO please such democratic friends of
the South as the anti-abolitionists? Verify,
sir, suspect as much.
Towards the conclusion Of the letter the
writer says, che has not been able to concur in
Iabolitionism" he "fears the effects would be-
more fatal TO the unhappy and unfortunate At
rican than even slavery ITSELF" How kind,
how full of philanthropy, how full offeelng for
the ''unhappy und unfortunate African, "--but
for the white not word Of PITY
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