Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-08-09

,nd foolish in Austria and Germany TO
lend away Metternich and say, 1--WE will
ook into this business ourselves" Ac. !
cording to the doctrine preached in these
HaIIs-in free America-inssead Of send |
ing shouts Of congratulation scross the |
water 10 these people, we should send to
hem groans and commi.seration for their
folly, calling On them to beware how they
take Iris Business into their own hands
them that universal liberty j. a
curse; thit ~ ono man Is born with right
70 govern an Empire. he and his poste rity
tas Louis Philippe Of Orleans maintained
when he announced that his son should sit
On the throne when he lefi it) must con-
tinue TO exercise that power, because in their
case il is not exactly parties seqs,sxr rem
frHm, but parties scqni,er patey-that is
all the difference. Laughter.l The
Crown iollows the father! Under your
law the chain io!lows the mother! fSub.
dued manifestations Of fcelin.
II was law in the Colonies about rs
that Kings had a right to govern us.
George Guelph then said ..pavtcs sequi,ey
Pay"--My son is born to be your ruler.
And 1t the very time when Virginia lifted
up her hand and appealed to tho God Of
justice-the common father Of all men-
10 deliver her from that accused MAXIM
and its consequences, that one man was
born--as Jefferson said-booied and
spurred to ride another. il seems that by
the Senator's account Of it, she adhered
TO another maxim. to wit: that another
man should be born to serve Virginia.
think this maxim Of Kings being born to
- oehn k<sn h1pv~ IN
are both of the same family. and ought to
have gone down to the same place whence.
imagine they came, long ago. together.
do not think that your parties scqmitnr
rcsfyum had much quarter shown it at
Yorktown on a certain day you may
remember. think that when the lion OF
England crawled in the dust, beneath the
talons Of your eagles, and CORVALLIS sur
rendered to George Washington, that
maxim, that a man is born 10 rule. went
down. net tobc seen among usagain forever.
and think that parties scqnit"v centrum,
in the estimation OF all sensible men, dis
appeared along with il. So the men Of
that day thought. And we arc thus brought
20 the consideration Of the proper inter.
probation of that language Of those men
which has been somewhat criticised by
che Senator from South Carolina. What
did they mean when they said in the De-
clsration Of Independence. that all met,
are born equally free! They had been
contending that, ii we on this side Of the
water were 10 be taxed by the Imperial
Parliament Of England, we had a right 70
say who should represent Us in that Par
lament. need not refer gentlemen u
the arguments then advanced. need
not refer tho Senator from Virginia to his
own local history, which informs him that,
throughout the whole Revolutionary period.
the people in all the slircs and towns were
meeting and passing resolutions. as that
hook Of American Archives that you have
authorised 10 be perpetuated. will show
you. complaining 10 the Crown Of England
Of the importation Of slaves into this cOun.
cry. And why did they complain! LIE,
their own docunsents tell their own story
Then men in that generation in Virginia
in Connccticut--as tins Senator before me
will sec by referring to that book IN MSS
everywhere throughout the Colonies
said--"W While VIC are contending for the
common rights Of humanity, against the
Crown Of England. il does not become us
to enslave men aud hold them in slavery
They objected 10 the introduction Of slaves
into this country through the intervention
Of the slave trade. because it was a wrong
perpetrated upon the slave himself, and
especially because it prevented the settle.
ment Of tho country by artizans. mechan-
les, and laboring husbandmcn. ven-
ture the assertion that not three Counties
in the State Of Virginia can be named in
which resolutions Of that character were
not passed.
In 1884, not far from this Capitol, where
We are NOW engaged in talking about the
transfer Of the slavc-srade to the shores o.
the Pacific Ocean, there was a meeting in
Fairfax 1t which one Geo. Washington
Esq, presided. Some young gentlemen
may know something Of him. lie was q
tobacco-planter, sir, At Mount Vernon
The resolutions passed on that occasion
declared the intention Of the meeting to
refrain from purchasing any slaves and
their determination to have nothing 10 dc
with the observation-disclosures the intro
duction Of slaves into this country pre-
vented its settlement by free whites. This
then. was the opinion in Virginia at that
time; and il was the opinion in Georgia
too. A convocat OF men from every
county in that State asscmbled-as find
by this book-assembled at Daricn. and
resolved the very same things. giving the
same reasons. The men OF that genera
ton understood the work OF founding q
new country. They knew what was best
tor an infant people just struggling into
existence. II their opinions are worth
anyshing-ifs the opinions Of the venerated
men are to be considered as authority
ask Southern gentlemen what they mean
when they ask me to extend to the distant
shores Of the Pacific ocean the slave-trade
between Maryland and Virginia. and tina,
almost unknown country. ] am consi.
dcring the propriety Of doing this thing il
the question were now for the first time
presented to US. ask any Southern mau
II there were not slave on this continent,
would you send your ships to Africa and
bring them hcrei Suppose this COME.
Iteration Of ours had been formed before a