The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-08-05

slaughtered tiny thousand hn man beings. In q,
der To extead your authority over these on
hundred and fifty thousand, the murder shout
be followed by the slavery of every one tia
can be made subject TO the law Of power!
Sir, IL Il be true that you hold this lsrritor
by conquest, you hold Il precisely by the sam
right that the Nirginian holds his slave Il. dax
and by no other. You have stolen the man
and with the strong hand torn him from hi
own homs-part Of his family you have killed
and the rest you have bound In chains an
brought 10 Virginia Then, In accordanc
with the brand which il seems the Almlght
has impressed upon poor w oman--parfus Sc
gutter Usatrem-you condemn 10 Slavery, L
the remotest Posterity, the offspring Of YOU
captive! II is the same right originally in boil
eases. This right of conquest Is the same a
that by which man may hold another in bon
dage. You may make II into a law If yo,
please: you may enact that ID may ba so: afte
perpetrating the original sin, il may be bette
To do so. But the case h not altered; IN,
source Of the right remains unchanged. Whn
is the meaning Of the old Roman word Ssrrnsi
profess no great skill in phi biological learning
but | can very well conceive how som,body
looking into this thing, might understand wha
was the law in those days The mans life wa,
saved when his enemy conquered him In battle
lie became seruus-the man preserved by hi,
msgnanimous foe; and perpetual slavery was
then thought to DO boon preferable 10 death
That was the way in which Slavery began.--
Has anybody found out on the face of IN,
earth man fool enough to give himself up &c
another, and beg him 10 make him a slave D.
| do notknow Of one such Instance under hea.
ven. Yet il may be so. Sill think that not
one man Of my complexion Of the Caucasian
race could be found quite willing TO do that
General laughter.)
This right, which you ara now asserting q
this country, exists on no other foundation than
the law of force, and that was the original law,
by which one man appropriated the services
aud will of another to himself. Thus far We
have been brought after having fought for this
country and conquered IL. The solemn appeal
is made TO us-"Have We not mingled eur blood
with yours in acquiring this country Z" Surely,
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 ques-
ton. You did not say so elk months ago. You
dare not say so now! You may say that IL waa
purchased, as Louisiana a. Florida was, with
the common treasure of the country; and then
We come 20 the discussion OF another PROPOSE
ton: What right do you acquire 20 establish
Slavery there2 But was about TO ask Of some
gentleman--the Senator from :. G. for instance
whose eve at a glance has eomPrehsnded al
most the history of the world, what he suppOsesl
will be the history Of this, oar Mexican War,
and these, our Mexican acquisitions, IL We
should give TO IL the direction which he desires :
do not speak of the propriety of slave labor
being carried anywhere. l will waive that
question entirely. What is il of which the
senator from Vermont has toli us this morning
and Of which we have heard so much during
the last three weeks Every gale that floats
across the Atlantic comes freighted with the
death-groans Of a King; every vessel thai
touches yoar shores bears with her tidings that
the caplives Of the Old World are at last be-
coming free--thst they are seeking, through
blood and saughter-blindly and madly, il may
be-bat nevertheless, resoluiely-deliverance
from the letters that have held them in bond.
age. Who are they The whole of Europe.
And il Is only about year ago, believe, that
that officer Of the Turkish Empire who holds
sway in Tunis, one Of the old slave markets Of
the world, whose prisons formerly received
those of our people taken uPon the high seas
and made slaves TO their captors-annoanceS TO
the world that everybody should there be fee.
And, if l am not mistaken, il will be found that
this magic line which the Senator from 5. e..
believes has been drawn around the globe which
We inhabit, with the view Of separating Free
dom and Ssayery-36- 80 min brings this very
Tunis into that region in whsbh by the ordin-
All over the world the air is vocal with the
shouts Of men made free. What does il all
meant IL means that they have been redeemed
from political seTyitude; and in Gods name
ask, IL il be a boon to mankind TO be free from
political scryitude, must il not be accepted as
matter of some graduation that they have been
relieved from absolute subsection TO the nrbitra.
~ power of others. What do we say of them 7
| am not speaking Of the prOpriety Of this
thing; IL may be all wrong, and these poor fell
lows In Paris, who have stout hands and willing
hearts, anxious to earn their bread, may be very
comfortable in fighting fer Il. IL may be all
wrong to cut off the head OF King or send him
across the Channel. The problem OF Free
Government, as we call il, 10 not, il seems, yet
solved. Ii may be highly improper and foolish
in Austria and Germany TO send away Meter
mich and say, ave will look into this business
ourselves According TO the doctrine preach
ed in these Halls-in free Amsrica-instead OF
sending shouts Of congratulation across the wa
ter 10 these people, We should send TO them
groans and commIseration for their folly, call
ing on them TO beware how they take this bust
ness into their own hsnds-4nfOrming them
that universal liberty Is a curse; that one
man is bora with a right to govern an Empire,
he and his postefity (as Louis Philippe Of Or
leans maintained when he announced that his
son should sit on the throne when he lefi III
must continue TO exercise that power, because
in their case IL is not exactly paTfEs sequifur
Uenfrera, but parfus..seqaifHr pairem-that is all
the difference. lLaughter.l The Crown fol-
lows the father. Under your law the chain
follows the mother! GSubdued manifestations
Of feeling.
1t was a law in the Colonies about 20 that
Kings had night 10 govern us. George Guelph
then said, "partHs seqHiiW PatreE''- son Is
born TO lie your ruler. And at the very time
when Virginia had hftedup her hand and appeal
ed 10 the God Of justIce--Ehe common fatlier Of
all men---to deliver her from that accused max
I'M and lis consequences, that one man was
bom-as Jefferson said--bootel and spuued 10
nde another, it seems that by the Hon. Senator:
account OF it, she adhered TO another maxim, 10
wit: that another man should DO bonn TO serve
Virginia. / think this maxim Of Kings being
BON 10 rule, and Others being born only 10 serve
are both OF the same family, and ought to have
gone down 10 the same place whence, imagine
they came, long ago, together. do not tiHnH
that your pdrtus ssqlitHr paireia had much quar-
ter shown il at Yorktown on a certain day yos
may remember, ] think that when the lion @
England crawled in the dust, beneath the Talon:
OF your eagles, and Corvallis surrendered Il
George Washington, that maxim, that mar
is born 10 rule, went down, not TO be seen among
us again forever, and think that pariWs sefaifir
reHfresi, in the estimation Of all sensible men,
disappeared along with it, So the men oil tha
day thought And we are thus brought TO thu
consideration Of the proper interpretation OF thai
language Of those men, Which has been some
| what criticised by the Senator from South Caro-
lima. What did they mean when they said II
| the Declaration OF Independence, that all ,neT
were born equally free! They had been con
tending that, if we on this side Of the water wer
to lie taxed by the Imperial Parliament OF Eng