Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-08-09

know has been visited. IS we know from
the pages of Sacred History. by the ven-
geance and wrath Of Almighty God. In
thus characterizing this accused traffic.
speak but the common sentimen, Of all
mankind. could not. if taxed my fec
bic intellect TO the utmost denounce il in
language strong that uttered BY
Thomas: Jefferson himself. Nay more. the
spirit of that great man descending in his
grandson, in your Virginia Convention.
denounced the Slave trade as now carried
on between the States, as being no less
infamous than that foreign Slave trade
carried on in ships that wen. down into
the sea. ! spoke of Thomas Jefferson
Randolph. If you would no, GO 10 Africa
and thence people California with slaves.
may you not perpetraie equal enormiiies
here! You take the child from lis mo-
theirs hear-you separate husband and
wife-and you transport them three ,hous-
and miles off across the broad atlantic
know that this is peculiar institution.
and doubt not that in the hands of such
gentlemen as talk about il here. il NAV he
made very attractive. 1t may be very
agreeable sight 10 behold large company
Of dependents, kindly treated by benc-
VIOLENT master, and to trace the manifesto
tions of gratitude which they exhibit, But
in my eyes a much more grateful specta.
Gle would be that Of a patriarch IN the
same neighborhoo!. with his dependents
all around him. invested with all the at
tributes of freedom bestowed upon them
by the Common Father. in whose sight all
are alike precious! 1t is, indeed. IA very
peculiar institution. According to the
account Of the Senator from Mississippi.
! Mr.. Davis) this institution exhibits all
that is most amlable and beautiful in our
nature. That Senator drew Il picture Of
an old grayheaded negro woman. with
her hard hand upon the soft head Of the
masters child. and blessing him and his
I father-for what. For the stamp of par
ties seguitur reHtrmm But he concealed
the other side of the picture: and il was
only revealed to us by the quick apprehcn-
sion of tine Senator from Florida (Mr
Westcott) who wanted the power to send
patrol all over the country to prevent
this old nurse from throtlin. her young
masteri
! | had almost believed, after hearing the
beautiful, romantic. sentimental narration
Of the Senator from Mississippi that God
had indeed. as he said. made this people
/
US, till the Senate, from Florida walked
me up to a recollection of the old doctrines
Of Washington and Jefferson, by assur-
/ ing that wherever that patriarchal ins,iiu-
ton existed. rigid police should be main
tanned in order to prevent the old woman
| from cutting the throatS Of somebody
1t is then very peculiar" institution
Those who lived under il cannot exist IA
| dav NIfhc,f and tho
they must provide scores of constabcs
with clubs in their hands, to keep them
from cutting each other 5 thro ats! \ laugh
l do not wish 10 extend that institution
into these Territories. Is il pretended
/ that Slave labor could be profitable in Or
egon or California! Do we expect 10
yrLw cotton and sugar there! do not
know tina, it may not be done there; for
as the gentleman from New York has told
us. Just as YOU go West upon this CONT
nent. the SAME line of latitude changes
very much. SO that you may have very
different iSothermal line as YOU approach
the Pacific Ocean But do no, care so
much about that; my objection is radical
one To the institution everywhere. do
not believe. if there is any place upon the
globe which we inhabit where Il white
man cannot work, he has no business
there. If that place is fit only for black
men to work. let black men alone work
there. do not know any better law for
mans good than that old one which was
i announced 10 man after the first trans
erosion. that by the sweat of his brow he
should earn his bread. l don't know
what business men have in the world un-
less it is to work. If he is only TO sleep
and eat. he is reduced to the level Of the
! hog-the only gentleman | know! CA
lauyh.)
When YOU ask me then. not to prohibit
slavery in these territories, with my views OF
the institution itself, and Of our power. |
must assert the power to exclude slavery
forever. In your States where you, have
made slavery property. you may protect
it as you please. and | will aid YOU in
giving it that security which the Constitu
ton affords: but. with Gods help not one
inch beyond shall that in stisution 90. may
be mistaken in this: blu. Of one thing ! am
satisfied-of the honest conviction of my
own ludgment-and no supposed inter-
ruption Of the ties which bind the various
sections of the confederacy shall induce
me to shrink from these convictions when
ever | am called to carry them out into
law
But we are told that when the constitution
was made there existed certain relative
proportions between the power Of slave
and the power of free States. | under
stood the Senator from South Carolina
that we were under obligations 10 preserve
eternally these relative proportions i'll the
same way.
Mr. CALHouv-I said nothing Of the
kind.
Mr.. CoRwH.-I am very happy TO be
undeceived. understood the Senator 10
conceive that this is question of power.
1t is not SO. 1t is question Of municipal
: law of civil policy. The men who franz
ed the constitution never dreamed that
there was to be a conflict Of power be-
tween the slave and free States. They