New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-27
Mr. CogWIN'S SPEECH.

Think these things are worthy OF co'-lu.i auJ'
nave looked AZ them with some concur Dcs' 49,. ".
one Of those who predicted rom the oesn','s ,na'
ms Sould no the result Of your acquisition nave al
- ,b,,rht suce that hour when you went abroad
with your hyp0crtica pretence mat you nad gone ioft1
in the spir Of love 10 give liberty 10 inc cspuVea ana
>, 49, ne Poems free that when you had got your iron
boof ppon these people your cuckoo note would be
bsn ,ed-that this dove Ike accent would become the
roar of the honand that, instead Of extending the
blessings OF peace and the oil OF consolation TO the OPP
creased of Mexico you would put the iron heel OF Ne
rro slavery as well that OF PeOn slavery upon them
an this have expected | about 70 say that this
was spectacle worthy Of snybodys curiosity about
the noon OF the Nineteenth Century We turned
around and said 10 the world that designed % take
nothing by conquest and for two years while you pro
gress through Mexico and 81 that land IS crnsoned
with blood-whie you make your way manifest AZ that
OF the lsraees in their march By the cloud OF smoke
IN the daytime aud the IRE that you made IN the night
YOU ceased not 20 proclaim that you would take noh,
ing 10y conquest that you meant not 10 conquer ana
subdue feeble people. Now, what do you near lou
say this land conquered by the common OlOOd Oh
the country YOU trace back the consideration wnlch
YOU have paid tor this country 10 the blood ana me
bones Of the gallant that you sent there 70 De sac
rfced and pointing 70 the unburiod corses OF her sons
who have fallen there, the South excaims These
these constitute my title 70 carry my slaves 70 tla'
land Il WAS purchased by the blood Of my sons; -
The aged parent bereit OF his children and the wid0"
with the family that remains desire 10 90 there to bet
ter their fortunes, 4 1t may be, and pointing 70 the
graves OF husband and children, ex lam mere
there was the price paid for proportion OF this ter
rifory o. j. that true II that could De made Out-l
Won dare put that upon your reCOrd- you assert
that you hold the country by the strong hand then you
have right 10 20 there with your slaves II We O the
North have united with you OF the south IN this eXpe
don of piracy, and robbery, and murder the Oldest
law known among men-"h honor smong thieves re.
qures Us to divide it with you equally. Laughter ana
subdued spplsuse.l Nay more II IS only httng
finale 10 that Internal tragedy that after having saush
tered fifty thousand human beings in order TO extend
Your authority over these hundred and nifty hous
and the murder should be followed by the slavery OF
every one that can be made subject TO the law Of
power
quest you hold il precisely by the same right that the
Virginian holds his slave today and by no other You
have stolen the man. and with the strong hand torn him
from his home-part Of his family you nave killed,
and the rest you have bound in chains and brought TO
Virginia Then, in accordance with the brand which
il seems the Almighty has impressed upon poor Wo-
nan-partes seguiur reHrup-you condemn to Slavery,
10 the remotest pOsterity. the offspring OF your cap
tive II is the right originally IN both cases-
This right Of conquest is the same as that by when
man may hold another in bondage. You may make II
into law If you please you may enact 'hst IL may DC
so il may be convenient 10 do after perpetratng
the original sin il may be better TO do So But the case
is not altered the source of the right remains un,
changed What is the meaning OF the old roman WORD
SIRIUS profess great skill IN pathological learn
ing but can very well conceive how somebody look
ing into this thing might understand what was the law
in those days The mans life was saved when his enc
conquered him in battle. lie became sUCaS-tnt
man preserved by his magnanimous foe and perpetual
slavery was then thought TO be boon preferable TO
death That the way in which Slavery began Has
ANYBODY found out the face of the earth man fool
enough 10 give himself up TO another and beg INN TO
make him his slave do not know OF one such IN
stance under Heaven Yet II may be So sul ! THINK
that not one man of my complexion OF the Caucasian
race could be found quite willing to do that luenefa
laughter
This right which you asserting to this coun-
try exists on no other foundation than the law OF force
and that was the orgins law by which one man appro
priaesd thu services and viii OF another 10 himself
Thus far we are brought alter having fought Tor TINS
country and conquered it, The solemn appeal made
to US" Have not mingled our blood with yours ID
acquiring this country :" sure, my brother But did
we mingle our blood with yours for the purpose OF
Wrestling this country by force from this people That
is the question. You did not say so six months ago
You dare not say now You may say that II was
purchased as Louisiana Florida was with the
common treasure of the country and then we come 70
the discussion of another proposition what right 90
YOU thus acquire 10 establish Slavery there But wac
about to ask Of gentleman-the senator from e
for instance-whOse eye at glance mas conpTehehueo
almost the history of the world what he supposes VIII
be the history of this Mexican War and these our
Mexican acquisitions, II we should give To II the dIec'
ton which he desires do not speak OF the proprety
OF slave Labor being carried anywhere VIII waive
that question entirely. What lie II OF which the senator
from Vermont has told this morning, and OF which
we have heard much during the last three weeks
Every gale that floats the Atlantic comes lfelgn
ed with the death groans of King every vessel that
touches your shores bears with her udlngs that the
captves of the Old World are ~ last becoming Tree
that they are seeking through blood and slaughter
blindly and madly, it may be-but nevertheless reso
utely- deliverance from the letters that nave nelu
them in bondage. Who are they The whole oil Lu.
rope And it Is only about year ago believe thst
that officer of the Turkish Empire who holds sway IN
Tuns one of the old slave markets OF the world whose
prisons formerly received those OF our people taken
upon the high and made slaves to their capofs
announced TO the world that everybody snouiu teIs
Al mot mi
that this magic line which the Senator from D I. pc
leves has been drawn around the globe when we III
habit with the view OF separating Freedom ana
Savery-36o 30 brings this very 1unls INTO tnat re
zion in which by the ordinance of God men are to be
held in bondage All the world the air Is vocal
with the shouts OF men made free What does II all
mean II means that they have been redeemed rom
political servitude and in Gods name ask II II De
boon 10 mankind to be free from political serVtude
must it not be accepted matter OF some graduation
that they have been relieved from absolute SuoJecuon
to the arbitrary power OF others What 40 we say Vi
them am not speaking OF the proprey Of TINS thlne
il may be all wrong and these poor fellows IN rams
who have stout hands and willing hearts anxious 10
earn their bread may be very consurabe iOr hShuhs
for IT, Il may be all wrong to cut on the head OF 3
King or send him across the Channel The problem OF
Free Government, call II, IS not IL seems yel
solved. II may be highly improper and ioosh IN Aus
tria and Germany TO send away Metierhcn ana say
We will look into this business ourselves. Accord
ING TO the doctrine preached in these Halls-ln Tree
Amerca-insead OF sending shouts OF congratulauoh
across the water 10 these people we should send 10
them groans and cOmmisseraon for their folly calling
ON them TO beware how they take this business into
their own hands-iniormng them that universal liberty
ia curse: that man is born with rght 10 gov
ern an Empire he and his posterity las Louis Pnhppe
of Orleans maintained when he announced that his son
should sit on the throne when he left W mus, continue
to exercise that power because in their case II Is not
exactly parties seqRw centrum but parties seqatHr pafer
that is all the difference. lLaughter.l The Crown
follows the father Under your law the chain follows
the mother lSubdued manifestations OF feeling
IL was law in the Colonies about 10 that Kings had
right TO govern US. George Guelph then said parties
seQHitur pd,er-My is born TO be your ruler. And
at the very time when Virginia lifted up her hand ana
appealed 70 the God OF justice-the common Father OF
ali men-o deliver her from that accursed maxim ana
lis consequences that man was born-as Jefferson
said-booted and spurred ride another it seems that
by the Hon Senator's account OF 1t, she adhered 10
another maxim 10 wit that another man should be born
10 serve Virginia think this maxim OF Kings being
born 70 rule and others being born only to serve are
both of the same family and ought 10 have gone down
70 the same place whence. imagine they came, long
ago together. do not think that your parties stqHf"
reHfrHn had much quarter shown II at Yorktown on
certain day YOU NAV remember. think that when the
Lion of England crawled in the dust beneath the taon
of your Eagles and Cornwalis surrendered 10 George
Washington that maxim, that man IL born 10 RUE
went down not TO be among us any more forever
and think that paYes sqHitur centrum, N the ESTIMATION
of al sensible men disappeared along whit so the men
of that day thought And are thus brought 10 the
..sA. ION ut Ian