New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-27

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n comparison with inst recognition Of piracy and mur
der can conceive OF nothing IN the dark record Of
Mans snOrmfes from thc death OF ABEL down % this
hour 80 horrible that % stealing people from Their own
homes and making them and their posierty slaves tor
ever II crime which know has beea visited, a.
We learn from the PAGES VI Sacred History y the ven
geanre and wrath OF Amizh God. 10 mus character
1ing this sccursei traffic speak but ne common sen
mcnt Of I'll mankind could not Il taxed my feeble
intellect to the utmost denounce it language strong
A. that uttered By THOMAS JEsFEssOS himself Nay
more the spirit oi that great man defending on DIS
rrsufsor IN your Virginia Convention denounced the
slave trade - carried between the states as
being no less Infamous than that foreign slave trade
carried on IN ships thai went down into the speak
OF THOMAS JEEFEKsoN RANDOLPH If you would not
20 10 Africa and thTce people CaIiornl. vita
You take the child from s mothers heart-you sepsr.
ate husband snd wiie-snd you transport them three
thousand miles OF across the broad Atlantic.
know thstths Is pairisrcha Institution, and doubt
not that IN the hand. OF such gentlemen talk about
!, here il may be made very attractive Il may Be
very agreeable sight TO behoL large company OF de-
pendenis kindly treated By benevolent master, and
10 trace the manifestations OF gratitude which they
hibit But in ms eyes mucn more grateful spectacle
would be that OF patriarch in the same neshoorhood
with his dependents al around him. invested with AL
the attributes OF Freedom bestowed upon them BY the
Common Father in whose sight All are alike precious
II IT, indeed very peculiar institution. According
% the account Of the senator from Mississippi tMr
DAVIS this institution exhibits All that Is most ansoe
tIre of an old, gray headed negro woman, with her
hard hand upon the soft head OF the masters child and
blessing him and his fatheror what For the stamp
81 paTfss scgHfu ctHpa But he concca!cd the Olaer
side of the picture and IL was only revealed 70 b.
he quick apprehension Of the senator from Florida
Mr. WEsrcorT) who wanted the power TO send pa
troll all the country to prevent this old nurse from
throttiug Young master had almost believed after
hearing the beautiful romantic sentimental narration
Of the senator from Mississippi that God had indeed,
he said, made this people IN Africa, TO come over
here and wait upon Us. TIL the senator from Florida
walked me up % recollection OF the old doctrines OF
Washington and Jefferson by assuring US that wherever
that patrarchal institution existed rgd police should
be maintained in order 10 prevent the old women from
cutting the throat Of somebody II Is then very
peculiar Institution Those who live under II cannot
exist day without csresses and on the next they
must be provided with Of contsbles with clubs IN
their hands, TO keep them from cutting each other
thrOsts 4 laugh.
do not wish 10 extend that institution into these
Territories Is il pretended that Slave labor could be
profitable In Oregon or California; Do we expect 70
grow cotton and sugar therei | do not know that II
may not be done there for as he gentleman from New
York has told u.s. Just you go West upon THIS cOnu
nent the same line of latitude changes very much, go
that you may have very different isotherma line as
you approach the Pacific Ocean. But do not care 80
much about that my objection is radical one 70 lne
institution anywhere do believe that II there IS any
place upon the globe which inhsbit where white
man cannot work, he has no business there II tnat
place is M only tor black 10 work let black men
mans good than that old one which was announced to
Men after the fret trsnsgreson, that by the sweat OF
MS brow he should earn his bread don know what
business men have in the world unless II Is to work /
he is only 10 sleep and eat he il reduced 10 the level OF
the hog-the only gentleman know A laugh
When you ask me, then, not to pronioit slavery m
these eit ries with my view OF the institution Itself
and of power must assert the power 10 exciu1e
slavery forever In your States where you have made
Slavery property you may protect as you please ana
will aid you in giving it that security which the Con
ttuton affords but with Gods help not one inch be
yond shall this institution go. may De mistaken 10 all
this but of one thing am saiisfedof the honest con
| victon of my own judgment-snd no supposed inter
rupon OF the ties which bind the various sections oil
the Conedcracy shall induce me 10 shrink from these
convictions whenever am called upon TO carry tneIn
| out into law.
But we are told that when the Constitution was made
there existed certain relative proportions between the
power of the slave and the power OF the rec states
understood the Senator from south Carohna tnat we
were under obligations 10 preserve eternay these rel
| alive proportions In the same way
Mr. CtLHoUN.-I said nothing OF the kind.
Mr. CoRwIS.-l am very happy TO be undo
ceived understood the Senator conceive that this
i. a question of power IL is not so. Il lis question
OF municipal law, of civil polity The men who framed
the Constitution never dreamed that there was gon.
to be conflict OF power between inc slave ana tn'
| Free states They never dreamed that the South wa
10 contend that they would always be equal in repre-
.enation In the Senate TO the North They had no ide
of that equilibrium OF power OF which we have hearc
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any such superstition. Looking ct all these circum
sisnces-and have no doubt those isrseeing men re
| gardad them carefully-you would have had fourteen
| Slave states and but nine Free. But every man wnc
had anything 10 do with the formation Of the Constitu
ton expected and desired that slavery should be pro
! hbited in the states and they even expected tc
have 1t abolished in many OF the states where It exist
ed They had idea OF conflict ana II the ianaucs IN
the south AS well those in the North would let the
! subject alone we should have no more trouble con
corning it. But what do we see While Northern ia
natcs for rushing into the states where Slavery eA
lists trampng upon your laws and setting your slaves
free-at which enOrmty the South holds up her hands
In pous horrothe fanatics Of the south are enterin.
upon the free soil of this Republic whenever they ART
able and converting IL into Slave Territory Sir you
say more about the fanatics OF tho North en-
desvorng to uproot your institutions while you initiate
the example OF those fanatic. in your treatment OF TIT
Free soil Of this Union. sir there Is no difference De
tween the two cases The fanatics Of the south are bu
counterpart OF those of the North. II there De any
difference it is only this That the fanatic OF the Norti
! has the poor apology OF aiming 70 give hoerty 70 MI
fellow man, while you OF the south are endeaVOrnS 70
pull down the temples OF Liberty and 10 rear your inst
luton of slavery upon their ruins. have declared my
opinions in regard this institution, as believe II u
| exi-t have no belief that man who owns slaves
| must necessarily be permitted 20 carry out MS owl
views rather think h. owns them because ne does
not know any better think upon the whole, they nae
all better come 10 the state OIL ONO Tor an example
where we drive the free negroes away. intenc
nothing offensive the scuslOtes OF gentlemen out
-
! cannot help IT, believe If we were to set about tn
business OF establishing Governments as our fathers dc
when they laid the foundation 81 this Republic OF ours
If the SAME shirt animated us-t happily they could
come 10 US this day from the sbodes Of the blessed
and ipart 10 Us little OF their wisdom there wout
be no difficulty in passing the Ordinance Of lf51 anC
applying il 10 these Territories. We are not SUCH met
| as they were.
Mr.. JoHSsoS of Md.-Iin his seat l-Certsinly
| we are. .
| Mr.. CoRwtN.-The Senator from Maryland may
be. but II so, he is an exception.
! Mr. JoHSsox-The Senator from Ohio, is Ger
tsinly exception.
/ NJ CoRwiS-The Senator is yery polite.
| Now Sir gentleman before me. Mr.. FITZGERALD
has with great propriey, explained 10 the senate tn
position in which he is placed in respect 70 TREND
III WHO'S not now in this body The subject has oeei
often adverted 70 and while on my feet wish b say
few words In relation 10 H. Gen. CAss il Is said,
Hkeiv 10 be implicated on sccoun. Of his friends
action upon this question Of Slavery know not nov
that can be- tor may as wei say here tnat nave ~
confidence whatever 10 the precise position In ~nlc
Mr. CAss may place himself tomorrow. lie mas oce
pied two positions already Sir he who can change ri
position so readily may change back at the snorD'
| notice Gen CAss has declared that Congress has n
power over the subject But the Senator from souu
Carolina has very properly declared such doctrine :
be Ia, sbsurdty because II we can transfer IN
power TO the Territorial Government 70 act upon u
subiect we must OF course possess the power our
.elyes we cannO. communicate more power than
have And here declare fsnybody concerned ~ no'
what Is ny opinion the subject and what Is "a