Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-01-05

"a,
place for suca a species Of warflre; which was
perfectly true. TINS hall was fiji place for
battle Of any kini--ihis was the place for DELHI
eration-for the deliberations Of trien5s, Of bro.
theirs: all CIT zsns alike Of one grea, nation, met
10 consult on a common 'ntercst--ani where all,
as he hoped had AZ heart a most passionate desire
for the good OF the countrv. All batiie, all con.
tlct and hostile opposition between different por-
!I5ns Of our country represented in this ball,
ought TO cease. This, Mr.. 4. said, he always
had hoped and he did still hope, notwi rs anding
the martial attitude assumed by be gentleman
from S. Carolina Mr. Holmes) and ia part also
by the gentleman from Virginia (Hr. Wtse) al
though the latter gentleman had given notice
that he would no longer hold the military post he
once occupied ard commanded but would take
anot her position. Certainly the gentleman new
err did thing ia his life, [. laugh for the
position not tenaUie: tho people OF this Union
never would support those who should attempt to
hold IT, The gontienaa had therefore doae wise
ly in giving in an unequivoca surrender. The
position longer tenable: thank God AL
mighty, The position OF Representatives at.
tempting 20 dictate TO their constituent sover-
eigns, aud turning out Of doors all petitions and
petitioners whose prayer they Did not think prop
10 grant, n position not tenabie, and they
who attempted 20 hold il would not be sustained
by the People OF these United States. Mr.. A.
would take the liberty 10 remind his good friend
from South Carolina Mr.. Holmes of this, and 10
express his hope that that gentleman would strip
off the gathering artnor, In which he had clad
himself capa PIE; that he should throw aside his
epauIe,s, and take off his sword--ay, tho'it might
he as great that of Darandana in ancient IA
ble or capable Of even greater miracles than the
far-iamed weapon Of Orlando, wheth Iaamora~
to or FURIoso! [much laughter The gentleman
surely must agree, on little reflection with The
opinion Of his friend from Virginia (Mr. Wise, J
that this IS not the place 10 brandish that sword.
MIR. y sal because this gentleman and oil
ers who had spoken on the sub ect after this
terrific threat TO PROSTATE the Uo.on, had ali
solved themselves ct last into the position that
they would stand upon the Constitution, aud by
implication seemed intimate that the abolition
petitions ttor neither OF the gentiemen referred
all TO the resolutions of the Legislature of Mas,
sachuse!ts, the reference of which the qlcs-
ticn before the Iouse) were Violations OF the
Constitution yes, that petitions viola
Of the Constitution! for that what il came
to. The gentlemen, in the very midst of their
military fury, all declared that they were mbsi
deeply, mos, devou,ly 10 the very bottom Of their
Utmost souls attached to the union Of the States.
and seemed TO intimate that tho Legislature of
Massachusetts, Though they made direct ref
erence 10 the resolutions Of that body,) and more
especially the abolitionists who sen, their peti
I tons here, not attached to tho Uuon
Sir, (sad Mr.. \ am not here to answer for
the purposes or views OF any abolition society
, or of any individual abolitonist- though am, IN
one sense. an ab0iItionist myself IN that sense
IN which Thomas Jefferson, IN the seventy Sc,
venth year of his life, deliberately committed TO
paper his opinion, which he addressed all The
slave holders Of the country, namely that aboli-
ton must come; that the IL came the bet
ter; and 1t noi that worse would ensue. Nho-
will read his life and writings, they have
, been published by his grandson, will fad one
OF the volumes OF that publication this sentiment
/ avowed. word Tor word, as | have stated IL
( Fate, he adds, 'hqs decresd he freedom Of tha
people," "Fate has decreed''-I will change the
word-the God OF nature has decrced the free
dom Of that people, and he viii make them free
IN his own tIme-not, as expect, in my day but
in some day hereafter. Ia that sense then, that
Thomas Jefferson was an abolltonist, and was
all his life, | am one | hope, with all my soul,
that the day viii come when slavery shall be a
word without meaning, IN the English language
and in all other INCARCERATION there shall not
be found slave upon all the earth. This, my
judgment. will be the consummaton Of the Chris.
tIan rel gon that will be the long hoped-for day
when the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and
when all the glorious promises and prophesIes Of
the Old Testament promises and predictions re-
pea ted and confirmed by Jesus Christ, shall re-
ceiye their complete fuhmeut. Ia that day |
believe that man Will be a nobler,a purer, more
elevated being by .Ir than sec him now; when
ne will approach much neare. TO the angels. In
that sense am abotionst: IN the sense ad
voca;ed and avowed by any abolition society that
I am now acquainted with, | am not, and never
have been. | h1,ieve, however, tina, 10 those So
ciet;es, and lauy Vt the anti slavery associa.
tons of this day, (snd many OF them have pub
Hshed most Sc. ere anInadversions and denuncia-
tons directed agains, me,) there Of as
much intelligence, as much virtue. as high recti>
tude, and as arden, patriotism is possessed by
any man upon this floor: STILL TO the measures
they pursue and advocate, think they are often
and greatly mistakea. The tendency Of their
course is TO retara the coming of that blessed
dag for ohich they all SIGH They doubt
think jus, the same thing of me think OF
them | have had little intercourse with these
societies generally, and hold communion with
verv few of them The opinions hold, | hold
from God and from my own Judgment, as we'll as
from the language Of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence which s,ili. believe, is permitted to hang
10 This hall, however any portion of IL may. IN