New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-03
Senator Harris on Trucking TO Shareholders.
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The extension of Slavery the perpetuation Of this
institution, the rearing Of upon its immovable ba.
sis has been effected by the North by the freemen Of
these Northern States. And, would that her free
men could all feel it never could there have been
a State admitted into the Union toerating slavery,
or an inch Of ground under the influence OF that IN
stituton acquired, had il not been done with the
consent Of the NORTH. The South understand this
perfectly well and they know how 10 control US
Hear the taunting language of the truth-teling John
Randolph of Roanoke, in the debate on the Mis-
souri, question
ave do not govern them by black slaves, but by
their own white slaves We know what we are doing
we have conquered you once, and we can again-snd
we viii conquer you again Ay sir, we viii drive you
10 the wall and when have you there once we mean
10 keep you there, and nail you down Ike base money
f1s5- During only twelve years out OF sixty has a
President from the free States been tolerated, and no
Northern President has been reeected-nor ever
win be- so long as the North shall ,amey consent as
they have hitherto to make the support and extension
OF Slavery the leading policy OF the Government
f>@S' Who does not know that vast majority OF
fY the high Offices in all the departments OF Govern
3 ment have been held by slave-owners, Who does
- not know that than three-fourhs oil all the
- officers OF the Army and Navy from the Slave
y States Who does not know that the power ana
n patronage of the Government is bestowed in such
~ manner to uphold this insitutioni Who does
~ not know that until within few months, we had
= not Minister at a Foreign Court, who was not
= r Slave Holder
The people of the NORTH canno, be mistaken in the
sentiment-have come TO see what Southern dicatlon
has forced upon them They have 10 that the
combined influence OF the South-standng shoulder to
shoulder-has kept the entire North IN state OF abJec
subsection.
Let the South bluster, they have accomplished much
by 30 doing. They tell us that Slavery is State In
sitution and therefore must not interfere with it
So be -let IL be a State institution but If II be, how
comes it that by the consent of the National Legislature
it has so rapidly extended itself Have they not when.
ever occasion required it, summoned the North 10
20 their aid in extending this state institution, And
I n how have they done IL BY the power OF patron
age, by appeals 10 the baser passions TO the fears
Sy5sthe avarce the selhshness of the North o. can
but blush, when remember that no slave would have
worn his thra upon the wide prairies OF Texas had it
not been for the subserviency Of the North.
Little did the trainers of the L. :. Constitution con.
ceve that when the foreign slave trade at the expiration
of twenty years should be aboished-when in 1863 1t
should become piracy to engage farther N tina, traffic
that Virginia was to become the Guinea OF America and
that the slave trade be carried there II had
been before the coast OF Guinea. But such was the