Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-01

objections being obviously pelexs would not Of them
selves make sufficient impression the public mind the
North produce much excitement But great appeal is
made the prejudice Of the Ignorant They told that
STAKEHOLDER has three votes for every five slaves forgetting
however that all the free negroes counted and that there
FORE white men, in most OF the Northern States where
Qroes are not allowed yote have upon this principle FIVE
the Southern mans three and those of them who
camor for emancipation should remember that if all the
Southern slaves liberated the South would gamer
OF twofihs in strength and still Of the negroes would
be permitted to VOTE the constitution leaving that
geher the States and nearly all Of them in the Union
GLIDING free negroes from voting To excite the public mind,
too demagogues talk about the rights of free labor and the
degradation Of slave labor and say that its competition
not be suffered They do not pretend that freeman
work much because he knows that there slaves at work
somewhere ese and they should certainly know that the
petition Of slave labor, It is employed, much less
injurious the North than il would be if those slaves
liberated They haveeyen now much stronger nducemensto
seek the xpuson of the blacks and the exclusion the Irish
and other foreigners the influx Of whom diminhes wages.
They are striving to excite the preudices Of the env
Gus and mean against the exclusive privileges of shareholders
mean, sir, that class OF persons hope small one) which
is sometimes auayed against landowners and occasionally
camor for agarian laws and divisions of property They
denounce Southern men manstealers, sayedeaers &c,
not choosing remember that almost all the slaves of the
South were originally bought Of Northern shipowners who
brought them to the United States and sold them to u.s.
They should know that they under just great obiga
tons to return the purchase money which ancestors
paid theirs, under to give up the slaves The pre-
for the existence of swamps and pine barrens. the
words of Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, Of Boston, which
deserves be remembered wherever intellect and worth have
fame. a.,
Men at the North saying, it said by Duff
Green in 1888: The time has come the issue must be
met They quote the language of men at the South vo-
lent themselves, with view Of stimulating much pos
sbe the passions of their people. The abolonsts Of
the North and the ultras the South have united in lament
ing the existence of political parties, which they say prevents
mems making direct issue slavery But for this obstacle
they say that the two sections Of the Union could be araycd
in anger against each other Do they not that such
of things would break in twain this Confederacy
They however not afraid They taunt each other both
sides and boast Of their courage Sir from my limited know
ledge Of human natue have found that persons who
most Indifferent public caamites, and who most eck
less in pungng others into danger when in personal peril
invariably proved themselves c01ars True courage
because of the qualities which usually accompany it,
makes careful of the public safety and them to
shrink from exposing others peril These boaser there
fore, would DO well to remember that they furnishing
the world prina tacie evidence of their poronery
Whenever Mr. Chairman you political parties divided by
strict geographical lines the Union is virtually at end be-
the smaller secton seeing permanently excluded
from all share in those political rights which should be
mon to ALL would be justified in seeking, and doubt coud
seek, system.
There are those who are now looking to destruction of
the present constitution To show the sentiments of of
those who most camorous against the extension OF slave
ry let bring the attention of the House certain extracts
read them, sir, they have been coated by Mr. Nathan
Appleton, who, need not say this House. of the
first only Of New England but Of the United States
Because he expressed sentiments of regard for the constitution
and the Union, and determination abide by the laws
made, torrent of oboquy directed against him
obige him to publish pamphlet in his Defence
But come TO the extracts which he thought proper to
make to show the opinions of his assaants, many of them
persons Of no capacity standing at home. will read
but few of the sentiments collected by him from
quarters s'Accuscd be the American Union stupen-
dous republican mposture Accused be il libel on
Democracy and bold assault on Christianity Accused
be it it is stained with human blood and supported by hui
man sacrifices Accused be for all the crimes has
mited at homefor seeking the utter determination of the
red men of its wdemesses and for ensaving onexth part
Of its eemng population Accused be for its hypocrisy
its asehood its mpudence its lust its cruelty, its oppres
sion Accused be it a mighty obstacle in the way Of
universal freedom and equality Henceiorth the watch
word of every uncompromsng aboionist of every friend Of
God and liberty must be, both in religious and political
sense, union toifh shareholders Z"
This last sentiment he shows has been adopted motto
by many who do profess belong the Of abolition
m Others less openand candid profess regard for the
constitution, which they say has been always amped under
foot by the slave power stranger history, hear
ing the sentiments which uttered many quarters would
naturally suppose that the United States the gov
erned country EARTH and that the Northern section had
borne most Of the evil and the miserable portion OF it.
In the debates Of the Convention which famed the const
uon apprehension expressed that the three large States
might combine against the smaller Mr.. Madison, in
ply said that danger need be appeheded that account
because such the diversity Of between these three
large States that they could not combine. The staple Of
Virginia, he said tobacco that of Pennsylvania
four and Of Massachusetts, The staple Of Massachu-
sets then was fish. What n0c her staples New York.
then little State dreading close alliance with her great
neghborslook at her to-day Pennsylvania, whose repre-
senaves spoke contempuousy of the New England States
in comparison with the middle especially his she
sir Notwithstanding progress which of her at that
day anticipated finds herself in danger OF being passed by
Ohio State not then in existence creation OF the const
tuition ITSELF But the South, under whose control and for
whose benefit Il pretended the entire powers Of the Gov
eminent have been exercised though she has made ncon
siderable progress, yet in comparison with the North, she
seems to have refrigerated SO striking the disparity that
the aboionists constantly asserting that the South too
feeble to uphold slavery herself, and that If the protection
which the constitution Of the United States gives with
drawn, slavery would fall Of itself
That great disadvantages would result Mr.. Chairman,
hom the destruction Of the constitution, am the last 10
doubt The evils Of such catastrophe great that could
not conceal them would and would not conceal them
could But SIR may well be questioned whether the caamies
which il would bring would fall heavily than upon
others Though the slave States not equal to the free in
population and wealth, yet the strength they have is amply
sufficient for purposes defence either against the North
against foreign nations In fact might say with truth that
the smallest republican States that have existed in the
world, as long they actuated by determined spirit
have successfully resisted invasion. Not only is the popu
ton OF the South and its Of territory amply sufficient
for present purposes but its chance Of extending domnions
would be better than that Of the free States since have
our southern border feeble neghbor, while Great Britain
would most probably be able protect her colonies the
northern border Of the Union Though have little Of
commercial and manufacturing wealth, yet the tariff and navi
CATION laws which should establish by excluding the