Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-02-12
RICUMC-,n, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY -, 1872.

And it is the love Of the North Tor Ambition that has
brought her in favor of dissolution. The North ma
vowed that slavery shall cease and she resorts 10 ds
solution the means effect IL, While the SCUM i
equally resolved that slavery shall be maintained ana
therefore she rallies under the Constitution To support
it.; and my colleague The way Mr. nderwooo ue
carcs that if the Union is dissolved slavery WIN DC apo
lished. So far he and the gentleman from massachu'
sets perfectly agree. Now, all know, or may kno"
who read that the institution OF slavery IS gnafa
tied by the Constitution and placed exclusively I'M
der the control of the States. And all who know lile
facts Of the know that the people oil Inc ooul
are falsely charged, when they are accused oi al
tempting 10 introduce slavery into the free States
If, under the provision which gives Congress power
TO regulate commerce between the States, congress
can interfere with the transportation OF sase as arm
cles of commerce. then, under the provision oil The
Constitution, which declares that there shall be no
let or hindrance the free circulation Of goods and
merchandise among the States, aud that Congress can
not prohibit articles of barter FROM being exchanged,
is equally true that Congress cannot prohibit the trans
po.la,ion Of slaves. Ohio for example cannot proh
bt Tie introduction within Der borders, OF the beet, or
the hors, the corn oil Kentucky yet she has prohib
ted the introduction OF slaves. But II the argument
from the commercial power be sound one then OHIO
has violated the Constitution
4 Do not gentlemen perceive that their own argument
would admit The introduction II slaves into every Tree
State in this UHonl Butt is ridiculous % reason against
such plelcxtS No man doubts taa, slavery : rc2adcG
hy the present Constitution Massachusetts herself does
moi doubt il; and therefore seeking is abolition, She
looks 10 4 dissolution Of The Gon; ana my colleague
agrees with her that such dissolution is .he sest means
Of aboiishing slavery. 30. III M SOUL believe lhat
the gentleman from Massachusetts himself instead OF
looking into books could travel among Us and look al
facts As they exist, il he would with his own eyes and
not with his learning, he would Al once be induced ode.
| part from his plan.
Mr. ADAMS. Not an inch. [Aitcr words
lost the Reporter:l You are doing them that ser
vice much as you can.
| Mr. MARSHALL, resumed. 1t ~ the gentleman
privilege 10 interrupt and insult every man on this
floor: it is his privilege, and accord i to HIM freely
But slavery, seems, TO be sboshed 1t the Union IS
dissolved and the gentleman from Massachusetts says,
therefore dissolve the Union; and that therefore, is
that those whom he represents say too and these are
The men in whose he IS TO sound the tocsin oi
alarm, and whom he avows il his intention to rouse
| Abolish slavery--and how: Why, according TO my
colleague il Is TO be done by all the negroes running
away 10 Ohio and some OF them through Ohio into
Canada Well, Sir, this may 90 very well ur Ken.
lucky, but how is this TO work in South Carolina and
Georgia. Are they 10 come into Ono, too, and make
a regular march into Canada; And IS no hand to be
Lifted 10 interrupt this grand migration, this modern
exodus Of two millions OF peoPle-a migration equal to
that of the Gohs aud Yandas upon the Roman en-
pife: The blacks to come forth as the sraetes did
out Of Egypt. wonder who is to be their Moses j.
| il the venerable gentleman from Massachusetts,:
magnificent conception, truly Abolish slavery and
/ how, Never in that way.
But the gentleman from Massachusetts does not look
to this mode Of doing the thing no, he Is not quite
much of inonomaniac that He IS not so little read
in the past history Of the world, unacquain,ed
with The practical affairs Of mankind, unable TO
look into the causes and springs OF national revo!u
tons as to believe fond tale like tins. What, then,
is 10 be dore, Abolished, slavery must be; and in
der TO effect that end, the Constltuton-tha vencra
be- that sacred that holy instrument, hose powerful
arm whose eternal voice and whose covering shield
had been hitherto pride and on. safety Con-
sttuton, with all the oas OF The North TO support It,
th.T la
abolished. And how BY FORCE. And what next:
Why then The Purtans the descendants OF the Br;s!
regicdee, who driven out Of England by tie OPP
pressons and prosecutions o! the EDg nobility: ind
the Cavaliers, who driven out by the prosecutions
o the Purtans, after both had united on tins SIDE the
ter had buried their ere noes, and had, with Their
mon hands constructed n new Government, united,
strengthened rented together by The shedding OF
their common blood, more to be driven asun-
der and all that fearful strife, which coEyused Europe
two hundred and fifty years ago. once more 10 atiront
the sun and pciiu,e the blessed light OF Heaven the
soil Of these once free and happy States. The de.
see ndans Of the regcdes, true 10 the principles oi
their fathers and the devotees Of human liberty
holding in one hand the right 10 give freedom to all
mankind and holding the sword III The other, elated
with the consciousness that they have the numerical
majority, to invade the South and TO terminate sa-
very by the power OF the sword. | warn gentlemen
that when that shall be done, attempted TO be done,
the Cavalier sword will, us it was wont TO do, drink
blood.
Sir, proceeded Mr.. NJ, there is in that region Of the
country state of society which that gentleman cannot
alter without involving consequences horribly
more terrific, than ne now conceive. The gentle
man will have gone far when he obtains the prcparao
~ legislative act. hut that which must follow will give
him in terrible ruon all the fruits and bolndess
consequences Of the crime which his constituents
mediate That for which they ask involves the utter
destruction the oblI.craon Of that 10 which he
should he allied by color, by common bood by edu
cation By association by descent, by friendship by
h,,l h,,a
uble canent that can bind the human heart; the
as certain destruction Of that very towards whose
liberation all his efforts given, and in consnmmating
whose Gcycrance he hopes TO close long and llluslF
Gus life in blaze Of glory, which shall rival that pure
eternal iIt whose halo cnclrces the name Of filbcr
force Ii that is his hone, it is that be
fulfilled because there is parallel between the
There is nothing in the enterprise OF Hhteftorcr, IN
\ the manner in which it conducted, or tic consc
qucncfs which we're 10 follow il, which can for mo-
ment be kened TO that achievement which seems the
object of this gentleman ambition.
| But will speak no longer Of this. do say that the
South is viiay interested in the preservation 81 tie Con
si;nn and is vain TO liken proposition 10 dissolve
the Union. which involves The obstruction III Tie Govern
ment and the termination oi the Republic 10 PROPOSE
on 10 amend the Constitution. such is under con
si!aon IN the other end Of this Capitol. That pro
position seeks preserve the instrument Il suggests
indeed modification OF il--a specific modification .!
il, and in onc particular The 81 sgc>on may hc acted
an III Ire distribution Of the powers Of Government
Won may give give less t. The legislative or 10
The executive department and still the Union viii
main: the bonds which hold together one people
will be unbrokcn There will still be such thing as the
H. S. There will be such thing the people Of the
! IT, S and there will remain Constitution nj the Y.
S That instrument itself has pointed out The only
peaceful and Legitimate mode of its own amendment,
and that The mode in which this amendment Is pro-
posed be effected The gentleman says that the pro-
position pending in the other branch Of tho Legs
ature does involve destruction Of this Union. That
proposition is a Wing measure And if what the gen.
leuan says is true, Whiggery must have wonderfully
changed lis physognomy the day when this Hug
trious gentleman Presden, Of the L. S, and the
distinguished gentleman who proposed that measure,
was Secretary of State. | am myself Wing am
not indeed, very old rlan yet it has been my fate TO
live see of these two eminent individuals intro
duce proposition dissolve The Union ut end Of
the Capitol and the olherat the ether end Laughter,
loud and long.