Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-01-15
WHOLE NUMBER 57.4

f enough without blows from you? Why keep Up
this eternal turmoil and excitement, about ato.i>
sioh! why tins constant determination TO dis.
! .urb and NEEDLE with Us in our domestic concerns3
can conceive Of no other or better reason for IL
than the man gave for beating his ~ife-'becauso
| am abte to do IL" Ii was dangerous. he knew,
TO attempt TO prophecy, but this he would venture
10 predict: If ever this gorgeous, this glorious tenn
pie 10 human freedom, should be pulled down, or
consumed, that was the thing that wouid do il.
When Americans spoke OF d,ssoiving The Uni
on. they spoke Of what they sho"id no,-ihe idea
was unnameabie. The Greek legislator gave i,
as a reason fer providing no punishment for par
ricide, that such a crime ought never TO be men
toned, but # Northern gentlemen chose to uss
their strength Tor such an end as abolition, this
Union must c%rnmble, come what might. To al.
tempt such a thing was - violate The original com
pact of all the States. The slave States we're
slaves States before This Union EXISTED: they
were slave States when The Cavaliers oil The South
first joined the Northern Presbytcriars 10 drvo
back the assaults of oppression. When Greene
and Marion fought side BY side IN the ranks of
armed treemen for the protection of their rights,
the Southern States we're taveholdlnp States. and
their rights as Shareholders were among those for
the protection of which the sword Of the Revo-
luton was drawn. They held a constitutional re-
cognition aud n constitutional guaranty Of their
rights as Shareholders, in the provision which re-
CURED their sister States To deliver up runa
when found, 10 their righ,ful masters, and TO aid
their Southern brethren in case OF a seryiie in-
surrection. The dreams of modern phiianihro-
pists about all men of all colors being possessed
of equal political riph.s had not been The doctrine
of those days, and African slaves were not then
recognised or treated az American citizens. The
national guaranty then thrown over the slaves
holding States guarded them ne well against their
sister States as against the power Of The General
Government. The State OF Ohio must deliver
up the fugitive, despite of all her State sover-
eighty and all her abolition notions. Southern
institutions wero solemnly recognised by the or.
ganic law of the Confedcracy: and vet gentle
men now came forward and insisted that. because
they were the stronger party, they might do what
was expressly forbidden by the original compact
that held US all together! If they ehould attempt
this, it would be an act Of lawless vioIencc-sn
which could not, which ought not, and which
would not be borne.
On this subject Of slavery, Mr.. M. said he
might pursue what policy he pleased: his State
sovereign and could act her pleasure. For
he had done his part in her Legislature
TO prohibit the introduction Of slaves within her
borders, md the exertions Of himself and others
on tina, subject had been hitherto successful. SO
far as Kentucky was concerned the domestic slave
trade was at this hour absolutely prohibited
TO God il nigh ever remain go! But that
their affair: il belonged TO themselves. and
10 them alone. The Constitution had thrown it's
round The rights Of the master, and,
thank God, no power on earth could lawfully in
with it..
Why, then, must the Northern and The South.
ern States be forever wngipg war upon each 9TH
er2 Why must a jealousy be fos,ered between
Them amounting almost TO hatred? He must be-
himself, there were faults on both sidesf
As a Southern man, he looked upon New England
as an essential part Of this grent national Union.
entitled TO liberty and 10 the enjoyment OF all
her social rights. To crush her, to attempt 10
strike her down, TO diminish her CO pi,al and ruin
her manufactures. was to sin agains. the Union.
Every blow struck at her was a blow at the Uni
ted States. But, on the other hand, he spoke what
ne knew when he warned her, by all her respon-
to that God whom New England men
we're so proud TO acknowledge and TO believe in,
BY all their sacred responsibilities to pos,erity, to
beware how they stirred n fire which, when once
lilly cnkindled, would burn TO the utter desolation
md destruction Of all that was dear 10 US all.
They knew not what they did. Men who had
oeen born and lived all their lives at the North,
who had heard talk from their childhood about e.
political rights. and slavery being against
he natural rights of mankind, and all that sort
thing, knew nothing about the actual state of
hings IN a siaveholding State, or in the South
,eneraiiv.
Ii Mr.. Nj. had righifulfy read The greatest and
he bes, of books. slavery had been permitted and
.nipined by the God of the Jews, the great Jeho-
and ii had existed BY his liberation as far as
he human race had extended. The mere abstract
question was not worth debating. They had a
lass of persons at the South who were utterly
Iuht for The exercise of political rights; and #, IN
rosecuiion Of a new abstract theoretical right,
hese persons were 10 be turned loose upon their
the result must be that ono or The other
must perish, and that amidst scenes of horror
which even an abolitionist would shrink back
But on a matter OF right, secured by
he Constitution, The South was naturally seBsi-
i've. Would that the North and The South could
ONE together as 10 The oIden time, and unite in
us,aining and guarding what they had SO cordi-
lily united TO construct. Night Heaven aver.
hat a Union SO glorious, so pregnant with all ben
fits, should be threatened or subyerted by such
nen as the aboliiioBis:st
Mr.. NJ. said that no power had been con6ded
0 the GeneralG Government which was no, a pow
= over the whole Union. And If it could not