Indiana State sentinel., 1848-05-11


from the District of Columbia the arrest of the fug
tives the assault upon the National Era antslavery
paper in Washington city by mob of rowdies. and
the general excitement occasoned by these events,
found its way, matter of course into Congress.
Ultraists both Sides abolioniss and slavery men,
made themselves ridiculous by their Incorporate
speeches Others displayed better temper and occu-
pied more reasonable ground,-among whom may be
numbered the Representative from this district Judge
Wick. and Senator Hannegan. The discussion in
the Senate was prsdicated on bill proposed by the
abolition Senator Hale for the protection of property
in the district against mobs; and in the House upon
resolutions of Palfrey, of Mass, which embraced
something like the Wilmot proposition. We shall
be glad if we find opportunity to publish the
speeches of Messrs. Hannegan and Wick Mt length
but present obliged to content ourselves
with the following brief sketch of Judge Wick's
Speech which is furnished by the correspondent Of the
Baltimore Sun:
The consideration of Mr.. Pafrey's resolutions was
resumed, MIR. Wick having the floor. Mr.. w. disa-
greed with those who feared slavery discussions Dis
cussion conducted proper spirit, develops truth.
He should vote against the resolutions and amend
ments because a of privilege is not made out.
Mr. Giddngss statement disclosed the fact that any
menaces of which he had been the subject, were not
provoked by anything said by him in discussion here
or by any in the discharge of his public duty.
The menaces were aimed at certain acts of MIR. q.
performed in his personal character
| In England precedents could be found making the
personal acts Of a member of Congress sacred But
such doctrine would not do in this country The doc
trne of privilege is defined and narrowed by our
stitution and the fundamental principles of our gov
eminent.
On the subject of slavery Mr.. Wick assumed and
illustrated the following propositions among others:
Slavery, in this country, has It's origin in acts of
unmitigated wrong-the stealing of men In Africa.
When the wrong was committed the naval interests
of this country solely in the hands of New Eng
land New England, he said, stole the negroes. The
inhabitants of the Southern States, being engaged in
planting became the purchasers of the negroes-thus
being the receivers of stolen goods, and accessories
after the fact. What slaves the north retained were,
on the abolition of slavery in the northern states,
principally sold at the south.
| He proceeded to show, that in importing slaves,
New England made four profts-lst, on the rum,
guns and gunpowder bartered in Africa for slaves ;
I'd. the slaves bertered at the south for sugar,
ton, indigo and rice; 3d. the cotton sugar. indigo
and rice burtered in England for manufactures and
| 4th, on the manufactures sold at home.
| Besides this, New England has derived immense
profits from the carrying trade, growing out of the
slave trade.
! When by importation and sale of slaves she had
filled the south and gutted the market, she began to
grow moral, and in progress of time had taken in
hand the task of reproving, reforming and repenng
of her neighbors, in reference to slave-holding.
The present generation of shareholders, though tho
sons of receivers of stolen goods not responsible
for the existence Of slavery among them Slaye-hod-
ing may may not be sin, according to circumstances
Slave-hoding matter to be controlled by State and
local authority alone.
The Constitution of the United States forbids Con-
gress TO NEEDLE, except to provide for master
4 m ua slave fOrI nfp
with him in DOING and for the prevention of abuses
growing out of slavery in the District of Columbia.
On that subject the territories sovereign
| the states.
The increase of the of slavery cannot increase
its volume, in the absence of laws authorizing the
Importation of slaves, which no one thinks Of
If the volume of slavery could be restricted by
failing lis area such restriction would result from
emancipation caused forced by crowded slave
population.
The free states, bordering on the slave states, must,
as consequence OF such hasfy emancipation be over
by avalanch of colored population. His State
was in this category.
The northern states might feel from this evil
Not so Indiana. Indiana had legislated to prevent
the evil, but such laws would be evaded. He hoped
tie northern people would SO emancpate their slaves
as not 20 subject his State to such avalanche.
He could not see why this subject could not be DIS
cussed calmly. 1t is matter of policy, and feeling
and reasoning ought to be mutual. He thought the
sons of those who admitted that their fathers were
thieves ought be charitable towards the of
those who received the stolen goods. In the abolition
movement, the abolitionsts the aggressors, and
the of the pilgrims unjust and uncharitable.
The cavaliers, he thought ought to take the matter
coOlly They ought not to suffer the presentation of
petition, resolution, the speech of man they
called fanatic, TO throw them into spasms.
He heard threats of dissolution of the Union.
On behalf of the Middle and Western States, he
titled the North and the South that they could have
leave to survey boundary line through or their
borders
The Middle and Western States have been victim
lied politically, by these slavery abolition agita
tions. They resolved to be the '' debatable
land" of civil war. They the backbone of the
body polite, and were resolved to be ruined by
dissolution, by civil If they could not hold
the north and the south surees Of the peace, they
would unite their powers and pummel both pilgrims
and cavaliers.
here, on the subject of slavery. He denied that he
had ever, by any act of his this floor, manifested
disposition to interfere with the question of slavery
in the several states His efforts had been directed
to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
and to prevent its introduction into states and
territories.
Mr.. Brown. of Miss, after a few remarks to the
extended range which the debate was taking, and the
improperly of such discussion at this tlme moved
lay the resolutions the table. The motion pre-
vailed, l30 to AZ.
WHIG SPEECHES OUT WEsT-Mr. Lincoln a whig
memher Of Congress from illinois, made n sDeech n