The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-11

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That he should take who has the power
And lie should keep who cans
They claim to seze and engross the whole Joint acqu.
sltons OF the Union to themselves. In the application Of
that principle they unless mistake much, would find
themselves wofolly deceived. But sir, debating
OF right not might and the pharsacal petenson that they
not other be only the subject of rebuke and
derison But how VIGOROUSLY untrue the assumption that
the free abore not to be found and cannot endure
gentleman to libel the whole white population OF
the savehoding States sothfu drones, and to main
tain that they not aborers tool Why, sir the whites
OF the slave States Industrious and energetic to the
full, much So in my opinion, any people oil the
north, or any other country They labor themselves IN
their different vacations. Many manuay and in the
severest kinds of toll. They honor labor the proud
est evidence OF manly Independence, and give to
all BETTING rewards in larger than is be-
slowed at the north 1t is utterly anlounded to pretend
that the free white labor, even OF the north, cannot en-
dure the presence tolerate the existence OF slaves with
in the same territory with itself Not merely will all
southern white men prove the contrary-he iaborers
| from the north who have been aured to the south
by its more genial CLINE, or ITS larger rewards TO la
Dor, (and such exist and thrive among in num-
bers,) will repel with Indignation the ,genemans
able to endure the contamination OF slavery IN the
same State with them, indeed let the gentleman
| from New York come to my own city, and will show
him not a few freemen of the north Yankees, if he
chooses-worthy industrious, useful citizens, applying
their characteristic enterprise and shrewdness to every
department of ganful labor. mean reproach to the
freemen of the north, whose energy and seadiness IN all
legitimate pursuits admire, but thought i WAS Their
own boast that rue-blooded Yankees would go any
whereo the uttermos isles of the oceano the arid de-
of Africa the frozen shores OF the Arccto the
wds of the savage the mars of the most civilized
whenever they could earn an honest penny or secure
comfortable livelihood The gentleman may safely DIS
miss his idle apprehensions on this
In this connexion, MIR. Chairman, it is somewhat
amusing TO note how the pretences on which the gentle
has chosen to rest his strange petensons IN behalf Of
the northern freemen, OF aversion their part to the
Negroes presence and OF contamination to them IN his adj
mission even to the territory with themselves,
mort Nytht he
oucres gentlemen OF his school are so wont to affect Tor
the equality of the two races. Why have the northern
feemen all at once become OF such mperlous port and
delicate sensbility, that the faint OF negro, even
within the limits OF broad territory cannot be allowed
to between ''the wind and their nobility" Has the
eye of covetousness been enlightened by visions OF
the fair la OF the southwest that to be exclusively
appropriated, to discern radical intirmes and m
herent dciormities in a race with which good neigh,
borhood To their feow-citlZens OF the south ana
constitutional obligations could scarcely before re-
strain them from determination and amaganaton Sure
the any n nus pfeSsn' HoaOe o ne
sympathes engrossed, and imagination so beset
BY visions OF manaced and struggling negroes that he
has neither feeling fancy Tor his own and color,
will rise up and rebuke such mawksh sensbites and
sudden anhpathes He, at Least will not be contamna-
tod by the presence association OF the negro slave, but
must desire that he shall be 10 his eemen OF the
north that he may receive their commiseraon and
lace. Perhaps Mr. Chairman, have already dwelt too
long that part of the argument OF the gentleman from
New York, to which have reerred but, before pass
to another cannot forbear to notice his vaunt OF the
achievements OF the eemen OF the north in subduns the
wilderness and usherng into being the thriving States OF
the northwest There is the reason to do SO, be-
cause, in such achievements, he seems to rest some
of claim for the exclusive privilege to the treemen
from the quarter, alone, to do like good works IN
the wds OF the southwest, OF hereafter to be ac-
quired by the Union. Why, sir is perfectly true that,
in an almost incredible brief space OF time, the stout
hearts and snewy limbs of the freemen OF the nortb have
won from the wilderness of forest and prairie, and subu
gated culture and civilization the broad eXpanse OF the
States Of Ohio Indiana, Illineis Michigan, and Iowa
tha, hnnOr nvp
more than the rich rewards of land and wealth they
plenteously enjoy But sir is not no less tIe that
in near about the same time, to the SOUTH and within
the limits OF the slaveholdng regions the wide domains
and lourishng sovcregntes of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri Arkansas, and Texas
have been with galantry and vigor, at least equa,
snatched from the wilderness and and establish
ed to illustrate the beneicence OF mans tllage OF the
EARTH and his capabilities Of advance in freedom pres
perity and happiness And although in these latter nigh
y works, the labor OF slaves, certainly to considerable
extent coopeatcd yet greater measure the heads
and hands OF white eemen were active and vigorous N the
attainment of the grand and peaceful results. Where
them sir any reason In the giant strides Union has
has made the wilderness and the forest Tor prefer
ence to the reemen OF the north over the savehodlng
population of the south Let il be- and it ought to be- IN
the future acquisitions OF the Union, IN those regions
have last alluded to, which were open equally to the
citizens OF all sections with their property Let the white
men of the north and of the SOUTH each with privilege
if so peases him, of taking slaves any other property
that may aid his enterprise facilitate his comfortable
settlement be Tree to go forth iogeher occupy ana SUD-
you may or hereafter acquire and having cut out ao
filled up territories till they have grown to the maturity
befng sovereign States Let them determine Tor them
selves according to their circumstances and necessities
whether they will be free slave States AS they de-
termine, in such character admit them to full communion
in the Union, composed alike of slaveholding and free
States According sir to the established principle OF thai
liberty baptized American in the blood OF the revou-
ton, which procaims that sovereignty resides alone IN
the people, you can rightully do While terri
tories their chrysas state, during their puplage
YOU may watch over and protect them but what right
have YOU to ebar these people from the admission and
enjoyment OF the property recognised as theirs by the con-
stituon of the country, and which the settlement and
culture of country is OF peculiar and speca! al
vantage. To the people alone, when from territory
they have grown into sovereign State, does It belong TO
determine the domestic institutions they will establish
them and their arbrament can be no more rghttuy IN
erceped than appealed from Such the demand OF the
fundamental principle of American law, no less than as
have, trust heretofore demonstrated the clear ogaton
of the constitution and of the equal right OF the people OF
all the States to participate in the acquisitions OF the
Union. Another of the pretexts OF the gentleman
IRON New York for the exclusive appropriation OF the M
ure acquisitions of the Union to the people OF the Tree
States, is still extraordinary than any yet noticed
II is that such exclusive appropriation IS due to the
| white men who fight our battles and constitute oui
strength This forces into Immediate consideration the
present with Mexico, through which alone is there
indeed any present prospect of the acquisition OF territory
To the Union and the composition OF the forces engaged
in its prosecution. | have heretofore, Mr.; Chairman
had occasion exhibit the share which the savehodins
population of the south have borne in forming the
armies and Drawing the hardships and pers Of ma
onal conflicts; and had sought the most opposite ex
ample TO prove it, could not have selected better than
the one the gentleman has strangely forced upon me
There have certainly been brave and gallant men fur