Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-04-15

ment which brought emancipation and had under
taken 10 show that it occurred prior any Of the Gov
eminent on that subject He knew that quite well as the
gentleman. He had said that abolition in St Domingo
brought about by the action of the French Government
On the contrary, IN explicit terms he could employ he
had said brought about by the agitation OF the subct
by English and French fanatics without the concurrence Of
the Government of either, and by the operation Of societies
there Of the character TO which the gentleman belonged
i Mr. ASHMUN (Mr Il. yiedng) said he had understood
the gentleman to make Of these words precisely he was
reported in the Intellpencer t-Ht
MIR BArLr said he mis,aken he spoke from the
book The House knew very he seldom addressed
il and when he did that he the habit speaking
OF what he had not looked into OF making assertions with
knowing they were founded But he would give
the protested phlanhropist Ohio instance horr-
Bile instance wawhere this OF universal emancipa
the aoos ea s@ o r @e q Ii
hundred thousand BY stroke Of the pen Who did
not know that could be done but through
mage and horror from which humanity recoed 4"
Mr. BAYLY (resuming) If the gentleman wonld hand
him the report would show him exactly what he had
That report considering the circumstances under which he
had spoken he free to say, very faithful His
impression was that in the connexion in which
there used he had spoken Of the St Domingo abolition
having taken place in consequences OF the dash OF But
if he had the former part of his remarks showed concuyey
that he understood then, now that it did not originate with
the French Government The remarks immediately after
what the gentleman quoted showed clearly enough what
his understanding. He said the thing had been effected.
How BY the action ofthe Government No such thing.
Then the thing had been effected by the busy inermed
ding Of visionary fanatics just now sought be done
by the gentleman from Ohio and his associates There
then band OF fanatics in London who met in the Old Jew,
and who passed resolutions similar to the amendment
which sought foist the pending resolutions
1t then proposed aid these negroes with and
money in struggle for their freedom and similar resolutions
were at the same time adopted in France by association
similar to that which the gentleman and his abolition friends
belonged among These naca Missionaries set tho revolt
OF the blacks in ST. Domingo in motion their Vaccinations
succeeded nexcitng sorye nsurrecon in the of
which white and and child in the leland
massacred with the exception of small remnant, who
fed TO the shipping the harbor barely escaped with
their lives Whole hecatombs bodies piled up
IN the Streets amid burning, MURDER and pllage. Nay
the fury of the blacks that their rage revenge
could glu themselves with butehery of every white
person. land they found no difficulty in drawing that hne Of
was no problem to the but they then turned
the m1atoes and exermnated them They seemed 70 hate
human that had white blood his veins with
bitterness that had parallel unless the breast OF the
Der from Ohio 80
He had made other remarks which were not in this report
The House would recoecthose who had paid attention
his speechhat he had referred expressly the fact that the
Abolition Society of London had furnished Oge with ship,
with men and moneys and by this aid, thus furnished
oy persons belonging TO associations precisely similar 10 those
that existed here that these negroes had been stirred
instruction, and been enabled to succeed How BY cut
ng the Threats OF every white man, and child in the
land except the few that escaped.
Mr.. ASHMUN wished to correct the gentleman
point Oges mission, he presumed the gentleman would
collect vindicae the rights of the mulattoes against
the whites. His mission not emancipation
Mr.. BAYLY knew, well could expect TO know
from general reading the history Of that transaction and he
repeated, if the gentleman would go his historian
Edwards he would find the whites would succeed
ed supPresng this nsurrsco but for the men and money
nished by these abolition fanatics of England and France
And how did the muaoes profit AS he had said the other
day. after the whites extermnated by the action of
the blacks and the mulaoes, they yet saated with
blood and at subsequent period the blacks turned the
mulaoes themselves and that hour this there had
been nothing but confusion and boodshed in that island until
il fast reapsng into that babarsm which he fully bev
cd It impossible 10 keep the out OF IN other
than by The guardianship and protection of the white
He said whether by the torch of the ncenday and the
~ ha nnff
enmeDt emancipation could take place any country
where there performance Of blacks without absolute
destruction TO the whites There who
thoroughly acquainted with the black who believed that
the could live together in the community
equals they did any where, and could Look
to the British islands British had admitted that
their attempt at emancipation there had proved failure. II
took place under circumstances more favorable than could ever
again the masters SOFT compensated Tor
their slaves by the appropriation of 500 Co., and there
was moi that acute sting OF which would occur where
they not thus emancpated they underwent probation
Of years they had British byoneis there keep them IN
order and protect the hroa Of white against their murder;
and with all these safeguards with all these favorable cit,
cumstances which did and which could
again. what the condition Of things there Look
to the debates in the British Parliament look the admis
sion Of her statesmen and Of her abolition Journals and
II every where conceded that the attempt had proved
failure. 1t had been maintained in the British Parliament,
here that white labor would be profitable than
slave abor that emancipation would enhance the products Of
those islands We Of the South (sad he knew otherwise
As young lie he reviewed Of the periodicals of
the day these posons he wise after the fact IN 1885,
IN this article which in print, he had predicted exactly
what had since occurred He undertook TO there was no
in the South who understood the negro character who
did not foreee precisely what had occurred English states
did understand the fact-whch II was pity could
not be learned hee-tha ignorance and presumption
substitute for knowledge and that men cannot wisely regu
late a subject who do understand IL
The gentleman Massachusetts, had referred to Che
sorry he (M AsaauN had refeuedo many miscellaneous
subjects this connexon, for had betrayed him into dis
cursiyenes debate which he hoped he not much
cuslomed toy and asked him the Oregon bill, with the anti
slavery restriction was libel on the Southern States He
regretted that the gentleman had made necessary for hint
refer 10 the circumstances under which that anssvery
sricton was put the BILL II had been in OF the terri
toa bills that had preceded it. except the Wisconsin bill,
and there loose and general phraseoogy that Il had
caped the attention OF the House The effort had been ADAM
doned in the case Of the Iowa BILL and had been
newed When the Oregon bill into this House in
ls45 reported BY gentleman from slave State, and from
committee the majority Of whom were from slavehod-
ing States there was such restriction in it. placed
theYe-and he regretted ton the motion Of a gentleman
whose elevated personal characters whose elegant
pishents whose urbanty whose ability whose statesman
shin ought to have made him to have parcpaedn any
such proccedings-bv the gentleman who then, now,
presented the city Of Boston II brought there against all
precedent against al necessityccumsiance which he
ereted as he regretted the from which il II il
had come from such this amendment he should
have expected nothing better but he confessed he dsap