The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-02-06

issue with him upon that subject Congress has ex
elusive legislation the District OF Coluubsi yet
cannot pass Law establishing order vi nobility,
restrict the freedom Of speech, abridge the liberty
OF The picas, neither can II pass po faeo law
impaiIDs the obligation OF eoutracls, II pass
Ia" compelling man 10 give evidence against him
self. lhen. the exclusive legislative power that
congress has over the District, does not give II lhe
power 10 abolish slavery because negroes acknow
lodged ~ The Constitution 10 be private property,
which that instrument says shall not be taken tor
public use, except is paid for Gentlemen say that
Congress can pay Tor them; but Congress has no
use ior them, Does Congress want 10 purchase nc"
groes to wait upon the President Docs IT want
them to wan upon this body or does il want them
| 10 sweep Pennsy IyaDa avcnuei Oh nor Then Con-
gress has no use Tor them whatever and IL they are
not wanted for the public emphatcally decar-
cd ny The Constitution 1t has no power, under that
instrument, to pay for them Upon this very princi-
pie he denied the power 10 the State Legislatures, be-
| cause they have no right whatever TO take private
property except for public use, with due compensa-
ton therefor So long the Constitution exists as
The organic law OF the land he deed the Abolition
ISIS because under that instrument they have not the
power to abolish slavery. II il should be produced
| 1t must be BY another st. Domingo affair, which
would be beyond the Constitution but while that
| instrument existed, he defed the gentleman from
| Massachus It's and all Of the Abolilonisls.
The gentleman from Ohio MIR. Giddings) had said
that the North had to support the negroes Of the
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| the South had, in great measure, supported the
North in their manufactures by raising the staple
production for them to manufacture. He said he
would examine Tor moment the condition OF the ne
gro IN the non-say ehoidng States, and went into
statistical examination OF the fact, aud cited the
free negroes IN the States of Maine, New Hamp-
| shire, and Massachusetts, large majority Of
whom were idiots, and then as a parallel
| to those States he examined the statistics Of the
State OF Louisiana, thus going from extreme of
| the country the other hat the number
oil idiots among the negro population, which was
much greater bore no comparison whatever TO those
States lie then examined the subject in moral
point OF view, and proved from the statistics of the
State PRISONS that the largest portion OF the convcs
were negroes, whilst in the State of Mi sissppi and
tho other Southern States, there were very few in
their prisons. He SAID this proceeded from their de-
graded posi- ion, and all history justified him in as
seriing that wherever they have been left to them.
selves they were the most abect and demoralizng of
the whole human family He had visited Italy, and
had seen the laborlng population Of that country
bow down at the Pope's palace in misery and want
he had also visited France and other countries, and
he boldly declared in the face of the world that the
condition OF the laboring population of those coun
tries bore no kind of comparison in their comforts
their mora to the negroes Of the Southern States.
tie assured the gentlemen Of the North that the
Southern people were not afraid Of their negroes and
that their doors were thrown open of a night while
their children were asleep thout any apprehension
and that was because the negroes love their
and the children and the only crimes that had been
committed in the South had been done by Yank ees,
But go to Philadelphia and there it would be found
that the free negro was the most degraded of the
| whole population The same state of things exist in
New York and what had been done TO elevate the
negro! Nothing. They have not been cleva.ed or
made eligible to any Office Of honor profit nor
invited to dinner, TO sit alongside Of their white be
ncactors; but the ladies of Rehoboh the State OF
Massachusetts, had been little more considerable for
their welfare, and had pettioned the Legislature to
abolish the law prohibiting the marriage of the white
| and black populations. But as an Offset to this, the
colored ladies of Boston had protested IN the most
solemn manner against the repeal of this law for fear
that the white ladies should get all of their husbands
and they would be doomed to be old maids. The
Legislature however, had to yield to the solicitations
of the ladies' of Rehoboth and repealed the law. He
did not know who the ladies of Rehoboth we're but
he presumed from their anxiety on the subject that
they were old maids, who in despair of ever get
ting husbands The ladies of the South pursue diff
feren course instead Of running about the streets Of
nights getting up petitions to present to their Legis-
latnres, and TO Congress, they stay home attending
to their children But patriotic Massac husetts who
refused 10 Furnish her quota Of militia during the late
war, IS greatly interested in the fate of the negro
and asking pay for those very militia that she refused
to furnish. The States of Mississippi Kentucky, and
Tennessee furnished their quota Of militia aud defend
cd N. Orleans, but they troubled Congress with
pchlions. Before gentlemen push this question too
tar let them examine this subject all of lis
and they will find that there enemy behind The
throne greater than The throne iIsclf aud that was
Great Britain, who bad moved IN this matter. Look
! at the Worlds Convention" which assemble la
London, and at which Prince Albert he great Ger
man beggaI, with OH income of ESQ 900, bestowed
upon HIM presiding al this Con, enion. But when
the President alluded Ia the oppression of The Iish
people Lord Biougham, who was also an abolitionst
took exceptions TO IT. bot he ought to have though,
that before he had nodded with the affairs of hi.
country and yet 1t was supposed that the President
OF the ted States should have nothing say about
England and her afaiis with Ire and. II was hunt
iating enough and Notifying to the national p,je to
see The head OF this nation assaied he had been
by the press OF this country for thus expressing his
sympathy for the Irish pcople-this was sufficiently
CALLING To The national pride, but they were compel
led TO submit to IT, however much they might gret
Il, because they could not abridpe the liberty of the
| press but when an English aboIitonst-an a estate
ars,ocra,-a mouniebank politician and a traitor to
his principles tooke The liberty TO assal the head Of
| this nation, he asssilrd us all, because The Pre-
| sident was put where he is by the American
| people, and he had sust lined HIM elf on oc-
casions the most trying and important, and at
a time while the country was IN danger, when
| the Constitution threatened, and when no one
hardly knew what day would bring forth, with
moral hrmness worthy of Jackson himself and YET,
| this man, this traitor Brougham, assas him because
the President thinks there is justice 10 the movement
of the people of ireland in favor Of repeal.
| tie would admonish gentlemen that the South is
not afraid OF this subject because there is greater
population In the Southern States now than there
was during the Revolution. South Of Mason and
Dhons line there population of 900 900 free
white men, much greater than there was in the old
original thirteen States that declared their indepen-
dcnce ol Great Britain during the Revolutionary War
but gentlemen Of the North ask if there was war what
the south would do for coat lie would answer
them, IN the language Of DR.. Franklin, during the
Revolution-We would wear our old ones lie
would tell gentlemen that large Majority Of the re
/ of the N no tbo l,ry
portion OF the iron ore nearly the whole Of the lead
and all of the gold to be found there with the
finest I'll on the face of the rth capable Of raising
| grain enough TO feed nearly the whole world and