Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-05-20


bill to protect negro stealing. 1t could have
| no other name. 1t was butlittle better than
highway robbery to conntenance outrages
| like that which had induced the introduce
4 ton of this measure. The time had come
for the South to shed their blood, II driven /
to il in defence Of their rights. ifthe Sem
ator from New Hampshire would see us en-
hroiled in instruction and bloodshed-if he
| is determined to force this upon us-let him
come forward as hero, and say 10 us, now
| | am ready TO do hattie for my friends the
blacks. He viii then have an opportunity
to sized his blood upon the holy soil of the
District of Columbia, in this inglorous
cause. Does the Senator from N. Hamp-
shire expect, with the accursed individuals
| in the North with whom he is associated, to
trample upon us without resistance!
would advise him as the great liberator OF
North America, not TO coniine himself to
dark corner of New England, but TO go
through tho South upon his accused mis-
sion. cordially invite him to Misslssppi;
but frankly tell him that he would not get
ten miles in from Vickshurg, without being
tied up to the highest tree in the woods; and
| if there, promise to assist in putting the
rope around his neck. Twill freely help to
do it.
! Mr.. Hale-The Senator from Mississippi
! has charged that a Senator of the United
States counseled and ahetted the kidnap-
/ ping to which he has referred. Does the
Senator mean that charge to apply to my
self?
Mr.. Foote replied that he did.
Mr. Hale said any such charge of any
agency on his part, direct or indirect, in the
affair of the schooner was without a shad-
ow of foundation in truth.
Mr. Foote did not make the charge, but
believed it, from information he had receiv-
ed. He was glad the Senator had no agen-
CIV in the robbery; but some of his brethren
certainly had a hand in the work.
Mr. Hale said all men We're his brethren.
He reiterated his denial of any agency, di-
rect or indirect, by silence or by speech, by
knowledge or assent, in the late affair of the
kidnapped slaves. He did not know of the
affair until it occurred. He then proceeded
to the defence of his friend, the editor of
the National Era.
sWith this plain exposition ofmy course.
il is hardly necessary for me to say that, in
the recent transaction which has excited so
much feeling, neither myself nor any per-
son connected with me had any share what
ever; that the transaction, in fact, became
known to me only through the general re-
port.
write this to dsabuse the public mind
so that those who do not personally Know
me may not be imposed upon by any mis-
apprehension of my position. Certainly,
/ feel n great repugnancc to being assaied for
what have never done or dreamed of, but,
| if Illegal violence he inflicted upon me for
writing and printing freely about slavery, or
any other subject which il may suit an A.
lmerican citizen to discuss, then will ] suffer
cheerlully, In the confident hope that when
passion and prejudice shall have been dis
PEELED, Justice will lie done to my character.
But will not suppose that they who are re-
oicing over the enfraDchisenent of the
press in Paris, will themselves put letters
upon the press in Washington"
Respectfully,
G. BAILEY, Jr.
WAsHrNGToN, "Wednesday morning April
10, 1913.
Mr.. Hale was reading the paragraph ex-
GENERATING the editor in the late transaction,
when MIR. Calhoun asked, did he make any
denunciation of il. a
Mr.. Hale-No, sir; instead Of denoun-
cling, he had to defend himself Mr.. Hale
then finished the reading of the card, and
his defence Of his friend.
Mr.. Foote could not believe that so grand
a movement as that Of the vessel, with her
cargo Of slaves could have been gotten up
without the aid of Member of Congress.
Mr.. Hale resumed--The Senator from
Mississippi has promised if ! visit his State
that they win hang me, and that he will vol
unteer as an assassin in the work. If he
will come up to my dark corner in New
England, as he calls II, we viii receive him
in different way. We will weigh and dis !
cuss the question with him as intelligent
men should do The Senator's threats con-
firms the euIogium which he made upon his
State few days ago. MIR. Hale disclaim-
ed any invasion of the rights of sIayehod-
ers by this bill, and read corresponding
law of the State of Maryland in support OF
it. But if slavery was such an institution
that the rights Of property could not be de-
Tended without attacking IL, then let it stand
upon It's defence.
Mr.. Butler-Would the Senator vote for
a law to encourage the inveigling slaves out
of this District,
Mr.. Hale certainly would not; ! would
vote for law aboiishing slavery in this
District
Mr.. Calhoun-He would arm the robbers
and disarm the cifizens.
Mr.. Hale resumed bis remarks The
Senator from South Carolina says he j. 4
amazed at my temerify 10 offering this bill. .
Mr.. Calhoun-No; ! said brazeD.
Mr.. Foote-The audacity Of the thing.
Mf. Hale said the teinerity or the brazen I
facedness of the thing was, 10 the fact, that I
il came from fhe wrong side OF Mason s. 1
Dixon;s line. Does the Senator from South ]
Carolina suppose that we have stood 10 the
Free North with our faces to the sun and 4
our backs to TIE lash so long that we have /
become so craven that we dare not look upi /
I wish that we had a little more Of this bra
Zen aUdacity and temerify. III This bill il
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