The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-02-26

had had cognizance of il on the supreme tribu
nal Of the nation, had said" On the unconsti
nationality of the law, it is not tosmuch to say
that 1t will not bear argument."s
A new Political aspect of the aase question
was now disclosed. The slave question hs,
closed the doors of the federal cepns, to which
it belonged, TO extand the secarity the federal
Constitution had assured. The Massachu use u
lawyer could not reach the bench before which
he would have pleaded for the liberty and right
Of Massachusetts, freemen. Nor ouly so. The
slave question had yet further aspects for him
self. He was expelled, aud sent home with in.
dignity, If it were possible for indknity to reaci
such man. Anc laws, so called, were forth
with enacted, making 1t highly penal hencefor.
ward TO seek legal redress in that region, unee
such circumstances, for the EXTREMIST outrage.
offered to New England freemah,
Mr.. Chairman, we have no present remedy
We cannot raise regiment, norfit out a ship
for the maintenance of the rigits Of those Il
whom the State owes protectiog, as much a,
they owe allegiance to the State-l We are dis.
armed by those compromises Of lthe CoBstitu
ton, which Massa :husetts respects. | shuddel
while | refer TO such expedents; bat in Other
times they would have been resorted to. Ii may
be,we shall hereafter, that thee dismal trans
actions are not merely to be deplofsd. Ii is suct
exfravagaBces thai. attract ateen On, arouse in.
doience, ami kindle feeling. 1t is method O
Providence, to provide for the ultimate over.
throw of great evils, by the practical develope.
conducts it to its fate. said to Hr. Hoar, when
| welcomed him back. III at conld not wholly
regret the annoyances he had endured, for they
seemed to belong TO that blacklist darkness that
Just precedes the cay. believe it was so; ant
that while the pea of History was recording that
shameful chapter, the pen Of Destiny was writ
ing the certain ami not distant dow nfall Of the
oppressive and insolent institution.
Then came, fer the strengthening and perpet-
uation Of slavery, the disastrous measure Of the
annexation Of Texas, with its long train Of PO-
htieaI Aspects Of the Slavery Question, long
enough already, and still stretching far away in !
TO the unknown and threatening future. The
first fruit of that proceeding, was the repeal OF
the Tariff Act Of 1912, a measure which took
the bread from the mouths Of thousands Of the
working men Of the free States and a measure
carried by two votes cast the othe. end Of this
building, by men who had NO more consttu-
tonal right TO come in aud act upon our affairs
than any two who might have been brought
over from England, or France, Algiers.-
The next blossoming Of the tree was in Ihe pend.
ing war with Mexico. Gentlemen please them
selves with making distinctions between the &C.
casion and the cause Of that war But no body
take il, doubts that, if Texas had not been an
nexed, war would not have taken place. Mr.
Calhoun, whose sigacity all the newspapers ex-
tol, thought he could set fire TO a barrel of gun
powder, ami extinguish il when half consumed
lie has lived 10 the failure Of the hopeful ex-
pertinent. We have spent an hundred million,
Of dollars, and are going on spending. No mat
ter for the money, # it had only been buried ia
the deep blle sea, "deeper than did ever plum
met sound" instead of being used TO purchase
so much disgrace and mischief. BUTT has beer
made to carry widowhood and orphanage int
thousands Of the homes of q sister republic, th'
homes of men and women who never injured US
u has been made 10 carry widowhoOd and or
phanage into thousands OF our own American
homes; to write a chapter in our history for III,
axecration and loathing of the civilized anC
christian world, aud the bitter shame Of our owl
wiser posterity.
OF system which leads 10 such political re-
sults-for, following the gentleman from NORTH
Carolina, have not spoken Of il as question
Of humanity-thit gentleman is the elaborai'
ipologist, and the gentleman from Maryland
thinks that Il ought TO be regarded with resPee
aud Difference. The gentleman from North
Carolina said, (pages ), g. thatii is miscalled 1
peculiar institution" for that it is "natura
among men," aud prevails widely Throughout
the South. | think he has been reading Rous.
seau, and learned from his fantastic dreams tina
the savage state in the natural and blissful state
Of man. Rather, he has been reading Hobbies
and has adopted from that vigorous champion
Of arbitrary power, the doctrine that Nigh
makes Right, and in his school has contracted 4
love for Slavery and Force, and all that condi
ton of humanity which in his nervous but MOI
dainty language the philosopher describes al
"without arts, withou letters, without manners
without society, and the life of man uncertain
disturbed, nasty, british, and short" 1 am no
so forgetful Of the state Of things in the ancien
republics, and in the cultivated communities o
the southern section of this country, as TO af
firm that Slavery cannot co-exist With a higl
civilization. But they have no natural or prop
er affinity. Ii is only by force Of earlier event
that they are brought into contact. Slavery !
natural TO man, ust as it is natural to him e
drape himself with fig leaves and bear skins. A
his rude nature is developed, he inyents bette
arts, and tends to a better culture. l know no
but il was natural to man, as the Scottish phi
losopher of the asst century maintained, to e
on all fours, and climb trees to regale on acorns
But in the progress Of ages he has learned 10 d
better. Liberty, justice, humanity. are natura
| to man, lust as Il is natural TO him to learn &
calculate eclipses, and build marble palaces, an
make books Of science ndpoetry, and surToun
himself with the charms and graees Of refine
society. And where is Slavery the "practice Q
mankind" Among the highly cultivated com
munities of the racel In England In France
| Or in Mozambique and Guineal Sweden, Hol
land, and Denmark have at length closed tn
procession of tie civilized nations that hav
abandoned it. Out of these United States,
know not that il exists in any part of christen
L ..ah nIDVaf
| And in these colonies its form is much milde
| than with us. OF its condition in half civil
zed Brazil, | cannot speak.
Again, the gentleman urged 10 this point III
natural inferiority of the negro race page
He has no doubt examined, and knows how
expose, the seeming paradox Of those ingeniou
men who have leld that the balance Of pows
was shifted, and the scePtre Of the world passe
| from the cblorei to the white race, some TWEEN
FIVE centuries ago, at the capture of Babylon b
| the Persians, and | presume, he decides. th'
question rightly. Mr.. Clingman interrupte'
and was understood TO say he had referred TO III
| Egyptians, and relied on the formation .of I'll
Egyptian SKULL The gentleman speaks Of II
| Egyptians. Undoubtedly he has attended to III
curious hint in fIerodotus, bearing on that Guei
ton. The gentleman reads Appian, writ
not commonly In the hands of professed scho
ars. He is a reader of Polybius, and has weigh
ed his merits ard those Of the other great ma
tiers in that department of composition in sue
exact critical scales as to feel justified in placr
him at the head of the list In respect to polit
cal sagacity (page g. He cannot have owe
looked that singular passage in so common q
author as Herodotus, in which the old chron
cler has been thought to say, that the ancie
Egyptians, the remote source perhaps of Gree
civilization, were woclly headed negroes. | wi
not defend that Interpretation of his words. b
it is no invention of any Of your high-aying a
olitionists of the present day; it has been recei
ed by grave aud Flooding English and Gern'
doctors, who read, and pondered, and smoke
and annotated, long before such iusus natu'
as an American abolitonist was ever heard 4