The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-13


basis, we might look forward TO a day. not very
distant, when North American sun would not
look down npon slave To those who have re-
jecled the plan of colonization, would ask if
they have well weighed the consequences of
emancipation withoutit? How long would the
emanci pated negroes remain satisfied with that?
Would any ofthe Southern States then (the ne
groes armed and organized) be able TO resist their
claims to participation in all their political
rights Would it even stop there? would they
not claim admittance to all the social rights and
privileges of community in which, in some in
stances, they would compose the majority? Let
those who take pleasure in the contemplation of
such scenes as must inevitably follow, finish out
the picture.
''1f l am correct in the principles here advan-
ced, | support my assertion, that the discussion
on the subject of emancipation in the non-slave-
holding States is equally injurious to tie SIaUeS
and their masters, and that ID has no sanction IN
tie principles of the Constitution. must not be
understood 10 say that there is any thing In that
instrument which prohibits such discussion. l
know there is not. But the man who believes
that the claims which his fellow citizens have
upon him, are satisfied by adhering to The letter
of the political contract that connects them, must
have a very Imperfect knowledge of the prnci-
Piles upon which our glorious Union was formed,
and by which alone it can be maintained. mean
those feelings of regard and affection which were
manifested in the first dawn of the Revolution,
which induced every American to think that an
inirrv in A;otod ,,-o~ L;~ co'i-.-- a.
--y ----..,...,. "pv,. ISIlvw-cIuleD, however
distant his location, was an injury to HIMSELF
which made us, in effect, one people, before we
had any paper contract, which induced the ven
cradle Shelby, in the second war for independ-
ence, to leave the comforts which his age requi-
red TO encounter the dangers and privations inc
dent to wilderness war; which drew from the
same quarter the innumerable battallions of vol
unteerS which preceded and followed him; and
from the banks of the distant AppomattoX, that
band of youthful heroes, which has inmoraized
the appelation by which ii was distinguished
Those worthy sons of immortal sireS did not stop
to inquire into the alleged injustice and immor-
aity of the Indian war. 1t was sufficient for
them to learn their felow-ctizens were in dan
ger, that the tomahawk and scalping knife were
suspended over the heads of the women and
children of Ohio; to induce them 10 abandon
the case, and in many instances, the luxury and
splendor by which, from infancy, they. had been
surrounded, to encounter the fatigueS and dan
gers of war, amidst the horrors Of Canadian
winter"
EctTGct from Gen. HarriSOB'S Speech at Ft1lcen-
mes, Indiana, July 1th, 1885.
II have now, fellow-citizens a few words
more TO say on another subject, and which is, in
my opinion, of more Importance than any other
that is now in the course of discussion in any
part of the Union. allude to the societies which
have been formed, and the movements of certain
individuals in some of the States in relation to
portion of the population in others. The conduct
of these persons is the more dangerous, because
their object is masked under the garb Of dlsinter
estedness and benevoence; and their course vim
dictated by arguments and propositions which in
the abstract no one can deny. Es
But, however fascinating may be the dress
with which their schemes ale presented to their
fellow citizens, with what purity of intention
IL how haop cd au6c thew
will be found 10 carry in their train mischief TO
the whole Union, and horrors to large portion
of it. which, il is probable, some of the projectors
and many of their supporters have never thought
of the latter the first in the series of evils which
are to spring from their source, are such as you
have read Of to have been perperated on the fair
plains of Italy and Gaul by the Scythian hords
! of Attila and Alaric; and such as most of you
| apprehended upon that memorable night when
| the tomahawkS and war clubs OF the followers OF
| Tecumseh were rafting in your suburbs. re-
gard not the disavowals of any such intention
upon the part of the authors of these schemes
since upon the examination of the publications
which have been made, they will be found to
contain the very facts and very arguments
which would have been used, if such would have
been their object. am certain that there is moi
in this assembly, one of these deluded men and
that there are few within the bounds of the State
If there are any, would earnestly entreat them
I
aely considered the consequence of their con
duct to the whole Union, and to those for whose
benefit they profess TO act. That the latter viii
be the victims of the weak, injudicious, presump
tuous and unconstitutional efforts to serve them
thorough examination of the subject must con
vince them The struggle (and struggle there
must be) may commence with horrors such as
have described, but it will end with more firmly
rivetng the chains or in the utter extirpation, o.
those whose cause they advocate.
Am wrong, fellow citizens, in applying the
terms weak, presumptuous g. unconstitutional, te
the measure of the emancipators2 A slight ex
animation will Il think show that am not. In a
vindication of the objects of Convention which
was lately held in one of the towns of Ohio, which
| saw in newspaper, it was said that nothing
more was intended than to produce a state Of
public feeling which would lead to an amend
ment of the Constitution, authorizing the aboli
ton of Slavery in the United States. Now can
an amendmendment of the Constitution be effec-
ed without the consent of the Southern Statesl-
What then is the proposition to be submitted to
hem2 1t is this 1.-THE present provisions oil
the Constitution secured to yon the right Ga right
which you held before it was made, which you
have never given up) TO manage your domestic
concerns in your own way, but as we are con-
WINGED that you do not manage them properly,
we want you to put in the hands of the General
| Government i'm the councils of which we have