The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-02-16
SENATOR HARRIS ON TRUCKING
TO SHAREHOLDERS.
FivmM Speech on .m. Halle resolu-
ton.

The extension Of Slavery. The perpetua-
ton Of this institution, the rearing Of II upon
ill., inImovahle basis, has been elected by
the North by the Freemen OF these Northern
States. And, would that her ireemen
could all iccl it; never could there have been
a State admitted into the Union toleratlng
slavery. or an inch Of ground under the nfiu-
cncc of OF that institution acquired, had II
not been done with the consent OF the North.
The South understands this perfectly well,
and they know how TO CONTROL us.-Hear the
fIunring language OF the truth telling John
Randolph, OF Roanoke, in the debate on the
Missouri question:
I'VE do not govern them by our black
slave, but bv their own white slaves. We
know what we are doing-we haye conquer
ed Won once and we can again. Ay, sir, we
will drive you TO The wall, and when we
have you there once, we mean 10 keep you
ihrre, and nail you down like base mon
ey"
IL During only twelve years out of rixty
has President from The Free States been
tolerated, AM. no Northern Pre- sidcnt has ev-
hesu re-elcce6-nor ever will be, so long
as The North shall consent, as they have hith-
Ia. 10 make the support and extension OF
Slavery the leading policy Of the Govern
ment.
~ Who docs not know that a vast MA
AZ loriry of the high Offices in all the de-
~ partinents of Government have been
g. held BY slave-owncrs! Who does not
~ know that hree-lourhs of all The off
y GERS OF The Armg and Navy are from
iIjFthe Slave States? Who does not know
Il > ihu the power and patronage Of The
Az Government is bestowed in such man.
q ner AS to uphold this institution? Who
~ dnes not know that until within a lew
n months, we had not minister al For.
IL rign Court VIM Gls not Shareholder
The people ofihc Morrill, tennot be mis-
taken in the sentimeni-have come 10 sec
wha, Southern dciaion has forced upon
them. They have come 10 sec that the COM
l,incd influence the Souih-standing shout
der TO shouldcr-has kept the entire North
in stale of abieci subsection.
Let the South bluster. they have accom-
plislcd mnch by so doing They tell us that
Slavery is State Institution, and therefore
We must not interfere with it-So be it.-let
il he Stat. lnstiiion; bni if il be- how comes
II That by the consent of the National Lcgis-
lrture il has so rapidly extended ITSELF Have
ihcy..not whenever occasion required II sum-
- monned the North 10 come TO their aid
o. in extending This State Institution? And
{ y how have they done iR BY the power
~ of patronage. by appeals 10 the haser
~ passions. 10 the avnrice, the sefshness
~ of The North. OIL can but blush, wher
| rrmemheI that no slave would have worn
his thrall upon the wide prairies of Texas
had II not been for the subserviency oil the
North.
Little did the trainers ofthe U. s. Con
s,iIu,ion conceive thai when The ioreisI. slave
trade, nj the expiration OF twenty years.
should be abolished-whcr in 1908 il SHOULD
become piracy 10 engage further in that iraf
fc-that Virginia WAS IN become the GUN
en- Of America, and that the slave trade wa:
10 be carried on there as il had been before
on the coast Of Guinea, But such was th,
TACT.