Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-04-08


the voluntary aid Of poor fishermen Surely such reyou
ton this, with small loss Of life perfect change
with little to depore in its accomplishment should not pass
by without eciing our joyful approval
He express the hope that France would study well
the principles Of the she about to establish
that she would the good Of the governed and then
that France would be let alone by other Governments
France, had been said by of her and pho
sophes who assisted control the elements OF her Reyolu
was said by Lamartine propagandt
DESTROYS 10 disturb the other nations Of Europe All that
France wants is 70 be let Alone and she will vndcate herself
and secure her rights.
But he must pass ON to the next resolution which tenders
ympahes and hopes of every people who
seeking the blessings Of free and national tex
the opinion that whatever of blood and may
be spent the struggle of the oppressed against the oppesso
charged The unjust Of the oppresso who
strives to hold and exercise the rights Of the people, usurped
against their will and exercised for the benefit Of the few and
the oppression Of the and not 10 the people, who seek
only regain and exercise their natural rights in such
will best and promote their happiness and
safety And there bosom in that House that would
not heave reponsivey TO such sentiments When he drew
that resolution he had his minds eye particular Govern
ment he was contemplating the colossal power OF AUSTRIA
the enemy Of free government, and ready
royalty auence and power while its subjects pine poverty
and chains Now, he denied that the God Of Nature
tended that monachs should usurp the rights Of God
never designed that by ukase, should con-
sign miserable 10 Siberia, there nger out frozen
isience Governments which sanctioned such yrannes, and
usuped the rights of the people, unjust Governments
taught by the Governments Of Europe and he approved the
doctrine which they disappoved that the people possessed
the capacity for self government Under the surveillance of
the mniste the want OF capacity in the people and the d.
vine right Of kings nsted the minds Of the Aus
tans and her press nculcaes the doctrine For forty
years Prince Meenich, who knows superior a crafty
statesman has maintained these doctrines but he when
he heard that the rights Of the people secured in France
laid down bis robes and skuked from the place which he has
SO long disgraced.
In these resolutions he had expressed simple elementary
truths well fundamental principles of government for
the security of true bery and when they read by intel
gent minds, would be that they such all the
friends of liberty could approve. They simply this
We rejoice that the freedom Of mankind and the principles of
free progressing and in the of France
and Italy express the hope that they may succeed eff
ecng their reforms and in establishing free and consttu
onal governments which will secure to them liberty ard
safety He would longer Tespass the attention Of the
House. #
Mr. GIDDNGs desired to express his hearty concurrence
in the resolutions of his colleague, (Mr CUMmNs j and
he took this occasion thank that gentleman for the feelings
which prompted him to bring them forward this seasonabe
period He would be ignorant of the sensations of his own
breast the present he could indulge party
feeling occasion that reached further than party,
and took stronger hold Of the feelings of mankind These
resolutions broad the territory of civilized
nay further they embraced the whole family of They
look TO the raising up TO the exang OF the
tightening OF the ignorant TO the freeing of the bound and
the Liberation Of those who in shackes they look
the dsarmng of the ant and the wrestling of the scouge
from the overseer hands, and he again expressed his thanks
to his colleague for introducing them But he prompted
by another the present occasion The little expe
rence he had had in this hall had taught him resee the
fate of his colleagues resolutions They would pass this
body His colleague would have his aid carry them through
and the aid Of many others this floor but nevertheless their
fate sealed He would say the gentlemen who
ready TO for these resolutions, You get such
series of self condemning resolutions through this body He
cared not what party he addressed in this House these burn
truths would not be uttered by the who control this
Government It would be. it could be and in
making these remarks he repeated, he spoke not party
He imputed nothing wrong to the opposite party
He reoced at the evidence Of justice and proprety which
prompted member Of the other side Of the House offer these
resolutions He ejoice than hey had from
his SIDE
But he regretted somewhat that his colleague
little explicit and that he did go those who
sat here in 1916 and loose the feelings Of their breasts
in the undying truths and burning words which they uttered
He regretted that his colleague with them had maintained
that man, whatever his complexion, color, station,
degree might be- born free and equal though be did not
expect his colleague carry such burning truths through
tnis House. We dare not repeat what foreahes pro-
claimed to admiring world. No. dare the
rights of receive cannot stand forth free from contam
mating preudces and say the world that man, in all his
varied station and complexion is born free and equal His
colleague somewhat when speaking OF this point
While he mr.. g. rejoced heartily any could
oce that the chains Of oppression by which the people Of
France bound and held in bondage had been broken
while be rejoced heartily any could rejoice that the
crowned head Of that nation had lost his powerhe roced
more sincerely and deeply when he looked the 800 900
slaves bound down by chains that fostering and rusng
into the flesh, and considered what their feelings be
when the carried them that the hour Of their free
dom approached Had he the eloquence Of Patrick Henry
and inspiration Of ancient Roman he could give
expression the feelings Of his heart when he read the decree
OF the Provisional Government Of France that its colonial
slavery abolished. But be humbled and mortified
that his colleague dared alude those 300 900 men,
women and children, who for ages have goaned and sighed
and wep slavery but who stand forth in
all the dignity Of mankind They will remain longer in
the capacity Of chate to be bought and sold, but they
will be raised the dignity Of their nature, the dignity
Of man. and 10 the enjoyment Of those rights from which they
have been 50 long debared When the glad dngs
veyed those husbands and wives and fathers and children
what have been the emotions Of their breasts And
should be hesitate speak forth here in Christian land and
Christian Congress- the oupourings Of his heart and soul
such occasion
Mr.. HASKELL desired to say to the gentleman from
Ohio that there any slaves in the colonies Of France
he ignorant the spot where they to be found He
informed by gentleman who was well versed in the his
tory Of the French Government and he believed that this de-
cree Of the Provisional Government introduced by NJ
Arago who Of philosopher than statesman and
who was perhaps ignorant the subject Of colonial slavery
there were any slaves in the French colonies he would be
glad IL the gentleman from Ohio would tell him where.
Mr.. GIDDINGS Go 70 any abolition society north OF
Mason and DiIons line, and they will tell you. From them
the gentleman from Tennessee would learn something Of the
slavery Of Guadalupe and Martinique and the other colo
MES OF the French Government If the gentleman had
derstood the subject, il he had looked suffering hu
manity which existed those islands, he would have
asked where in the French colonies slavery existed He bad
expected such question The condemnation Tennessee
should have known that the under Louis Philippe