Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-12
Mr.. Calhoun, (in his seat.)-Not the bill

on the great triumph ne has achieved. lie
stands very prominently before the American
people, and is, ! believe the only man who
has a national nomination for the Presidency.
! firmly believe that on this floor to-day, by
The aid Of the Senator from South Carolina,
and the Senators from Mississippi, he has
more than doubled his vote at the Presidential
election, and every man in the Chamber from
a free State knows it! looked on with a
mazement for "A time, TO see whether there
could be an understanding between the Sem
ator from New Hampshire and his Southern
friends, calculated TO give him encourage
ment, strength, and power, in the contest
But ] know that those distinguished Senators
from the South, to whom | have referred, are
incapable of such an undertaking, yet | tell
them if they had gone into a caucus with the
Senator from New Hampshire, and after a
nights study and delibeation, had devised
the best neans to manufacture abolitionism
and abolition votes in the North, they would
have fallen upon precisely the same kind of
procedure which they have adopted to-day
A few such exciting scenes suiiiced to send
that Senator here. ! mean no disrospect to
him personally, but ! say with his sentiments,
With his principles, he could never have rep
resented a free State Of this Union on this
floor, but for the aid of Southern speeches.
1t is the speeches Of Southern men, represent
ting slave States going 10 an extreme; breath
ing a fanaticism as wild and as reckless as
that of the Senator from New Hampshire,
which creates abolitionisn in the NORTH
The extremes meet. 1t IS no other than South
crn Senators acting in concert, and yet with
out design, that produces abolition.
Mr.. Cak0un-Does the gentleman pretend
to say that myself and Southern gentlemen
WIN act with mo utnn This occasion arc IA
naiics! Have we done anything more than
defend our rights, encroached upon at the
North! Am | to understand the Senator that
we make abolition votes by defending our
rightsl If so, | thank him for the Informal
ton, and do not care how many such votes
we make.
Mr.. D0ugIaS-Well | will say to the Spna-
tor from South Carolina and every other SEN
atcr from the South that far be it from me to
entertain the thought, that they design to Gre
ate Abolitionists in the North or elsewhere.
Far he it from me to lmpute any such design!
Yet | assert that such is the only inevitable
effect Of their conduct.
Mr.. C~aihoun-(in his seat).-We are only
defending ourselves.
Mr.. Doughs-No, they are not defending
themselves! They suffer themselves to be
excited upon this question-to discuss it with
a degree of heat. and rive it an importance,
which makes it heard and felt throughout the
Union. 1t is thus that abolition derives its
vitality. My friend from Mississippi (Mr.
Foote.) in his zeal and excitement this NOR
ming, made a remark in the invitation he eX-
tended to the Senator from New Hampshire
, to visit Mississippi, which is worth ten thou
= sand votes to the Senator, and ! am confident
f the Senator would not allow my friend to re-
9 tract that remark for ten thousand votes!
Mr.. Foote-Wii you allow mel
MIR. DOugiaS-Certainly.
Mr.. F00te-If the effect ofthat remark will
n be to give to that Senator all the abolition
: votes, hei S fairly entitled to them. Had the
Senator from Illinois lived where | have ro-
5 sided-had he seen Instruction exhibiting
= its fiery front in the midst of the men, wo-
= men and children Of the communicated he
V had reason to believe that machinery of in
# surrection was at such time in readiness fol
@ purposes Of the most deadly character, invol.
wing life, and that dearer than life, to every
i Southern man-had he witnessed such sc mes,
S and believed that movements like that Of this
morning were calculated to engender feelings
out OF which are to arise fire, blood, and deS
If olation, the destruction finally of the South
he would regard himself as a traitor to the
IS best sentiments of the human heart, if he did
not speak ont the language of manly de
ir nunciation. | can use no other language.
n cannot but repeat my conviction that any MAI
10 who d2reS to utter such sentiments as thos,
I, of the Senator from New Hampshire; and at
v tempts 10 act them out anywhere in the sun
c. ny South, will meet death upon the scallold
of and deserves it!
re Mr.. Doughs-l must again congratulate
ir the Senator from New Hampshire on the ac
or cession of five thousand votes! Sir, do no
er blame the Senator from Mississippi for bein'
I'd indignant at any man. from any portion c
y this Union, who would produce an incendia
IT. ry excitement, who would kindle the fam
in of civil war, who would incite a negro insu
. %rection hazarding the life of any man in til
TO Southern States. The Senator has, | am
he ware reason to feel deeply on this subiec
tie But ! am not altogether unacquainted wit
in the peculiar circumstances of the section
mo- the country TO which he has alluded. | hay
ID, lived a good portion of my life upon the in
he mediate borders of slave State. | have see
nd the operation of such eXcitements as these
tie. which he speaks, upon both sides ofthe lin
he | can well appreciate the excited teelln!
of with which gentlemen in the South must T
of gard any agitating movement TO get up lnsu
to ~rections among their negro servants.
nth Mr.. Darts, of Mississippi-l do not wi
hat to be considered as participating in the fec
Du- ing to which the Senator alludes. | have
fear of insurrection, no more than | have
ow my cattle. | do not dread such incendiarit
on Our slaves are happy and contented. Tn
the sustain the h~appiest relation that labor c
ify sustain to capital. 1t is a paIernal insui
ton. They are rendered miserable only
ner the unwarrantable interference of those W
no. know nothing about that with which tn
ode NEEDLE. | rest this case in no fear OF ms
us. r%ection; and | wish it to be distinctly und
,nr stood, that we arc able to take care of o.
nto selves and to punish all incendiaries.
nen was the insult offered the institutions viii
her we have inherited that provoked my indigI