Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-07-08


ask 's the condition Of the free negroesfor free negro
population Is every where te result Of this institution of
slavery How has it been described to bel How was II
described to be in Ohio by the gentlemaa from Ohio (Mr
SAwrrn) the Other day. And how have several gentlemen
from the savehodng States described the situation of the
free negroes there will undertake to repeat their
words, but viii produce authority OF permanent
character, contained in the records Of the decision Of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1884.
In the OF Fisher Dabbs in the Supreme Court OF
Tennessee, IN 1884, Chief Justice Cairon said
"The slave who receives the protection aud Of
toleabe MASTER holds condition here superior the negro
byword with the slave himself who his fellow slave BY
telling him he is worthless free nego' The
qusnee IS inevitable The free black lives amongst us
without motive and without hope He seeks ayocaton, Is
surrounded with necessities sunk in degradation crime
sink him deeper and he commits Of This
is only true Of the negro residing savehodipg
States Of this Union in he non slaseholdng States the
people are less accustomed to the squad and disgusting
wrechednes Of the negro, have less sympathy for him. earn
their means Of subsistence with their hands, and
more economical in parting with hen than him for whom the
slave abor Of which he is entitled share the proceeds,
ana q wn'en lhs ee negro y generally the anu
Nothing can be untrue than that the free negro is more
Respectable member of society in the Notwithstanding
States than the saveholdng States In eac he degraded
outcast and his anced freedom deusion With the
slave ranks him in character and comfort is there fair
motive to absolve him from the duties incident domestic
slavery, he is to continue amongst Generally, and
almost universally society suffers and the negro suffers BY
manumission.
States upon the condition Of free negroes therein It be
received in its full effect far relates to the sauehodg
STATES themselves As to its correctness in relation to
Of the free States will speak presently. Now how
these free negroes into the States and how will they
into Oregon and California They must be carried
there they must go there with the institution of slavery
they never would exist there If grant you, then, that
slavery ITSELF unconneced with its free negro consequence
is boon and blessing to these and free territories still
you prove before you establish there that
greater blessing than this Of the existence of free
negroes Whence did the free negroes in the North, in
any section Of this Union come They from the nst
tuition Of slavery All know that the inhabitants of
Africa would not have emgrated to this country if they
had not been forced by the slave trade that the A
would go into the territories not forced there
by the institution of slavery To suppose that the free
groes would assist in peopng the Territory of Oregon to-
suppose that they endued with the intelligence enterprise,
and energy Of the AngoSaxon The coored will
never be there In any great numbers unless the institution of
slavery carries them there.
In relation to the condition Of the free negroes,
raj Of the States of this Union have absolutely refused them
adnitance within their borders The law of the State
which YOU represent (Ohio well the constitution
of the State of Illinois, prohibit the introduction of free
blacks into those States Why what kind of populations
this against which States fencing themselves and
what kind of population is il which you about nct
upon the Territories Such population young and
free Western States building Chinese walls keep
cannot be denied that when the institution is established
and has for long time continued in the free Territories
portion of the blacks will be slaves and another large portion
free, in all the savehoding States. The question: then,
shall the two unnecessarily be planted together be
compelled to remain together for all time, the to exer
inmate the other In the Of all this territory protest
against it, If the free coored population in the slave States
is of such character shareholders describe it, it must be
greatly injurious to any country In of the free States
we TO judge Of the treatment they receive free coored
people in condition hardly less degraded In the State
of New York, recently, by very strong Of the people,
they have been denied the right of suffrage and also Con-
neccu In scarcely any of the States they admitted to
VOTE am happy to say the State which represent in part
exception There they constantly exercise the right OF
suffrage, and every other right Of reemen The consequence
apparent upon their character, which is improving, and
upon their condition, which is far respectable than in
those States where these rights denied them maintain
sir not only that the laws and policy of Massachusetts,
kinder and favorable the free coloed men, but kinder
the slave States themselves than those Of the free States
which exclude free blacks, deny them equal rights.
Why IT be expected that this is to from off
the earth have heard recently another part of this Cap
itol such idea doubtngy put forth But solid
ground yet upon which rest The statistics
rey insufficient yet to prove such consequence in
the remoest future. We teach these people govern them
selves they walk with the ballot box they elect with
their officers they themselves may be candidates for Of
fee and these the who have gone and will go Lii
beria and establish Of the ourishng republics
the face Of the earth republic which, trust will remain
until the mennia day, and the fulment of the prophecy
that Ethiopia shall stretch forth hands unto God Such
treatment OF the African looks blessed results every
way 1t relieves this continent Of them and makes them
a blessing to Africa
In relation the Territory Of Oregon, this question perhaps
may be considered stand different grounds. But none
OF these free Territories wish distinctly understood shall
ever far my concerned, be organized without
this restriction might say something more, and perhaps
ought 10 say something in consideration Of what has
been said this House Of the history of this institution for
claimed by the honorable gentleman from North Carolina
MR. CLISGalS towards the Of this session.
that in the history Of the world this institution had existed in
majority of the nations OF the earth This history of the
world is the history Of human in ruins The free
States Of antiquity knew not the Saviour Of the world his
gospel So the majority Of the Governments Of The world
have been desposms The ancient republics held the ns
tuition of domestic slavery. IL Of the immediate
wounds that destroyed them The most interesting pages of
their history those Of their decline and fall What the
slaveholdng States of Greece How little Of the history Of
Of history stars whose little light scarcely travels down
models Of the American republic Are initiate their
Pagnn who hope for perpetual Christian REPUBLIC
There necessity for the application Of the 9th article Of the
compact Of 1887 these territories II is that hold in
accordance with doctrines already expressed this Hoo that
The institution Of slavery does not exist any Of the territories
Of this Governmentthat does exist any where except
BY the force Of local and municipal laws that confer rights
beyond the boundaries that local State Government which
snacts them that for clause in the consiitu
ion respecting fugitive slaves every slave when he passes the
boundaries of the slave States would be forever free that
when be passes the boundaries Of those States any of the
rec States into any free country Of the world, with his
MASTER by consent Of his master, and not fugitive, he
made Free This the law Of England il is the civil laws
the law of this country and Of the several States. will
cite This time several decisions the Lous