Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-01

the Senator adequate rmness from not duly considering
the amazing violence and turbulence OF the democrats
spirit. When great object OF government Is pursued
which seizes the popular passions they spread IKE wd
and become irresistible He appealed to the gentlemen
from New England whether experience had not then yeri
fed the remark" After referring many countries hs
said: What is the inference from all these observations
That ought TO go far in order 10 attain stability and
permanency republican principles will admit Let one
branch OF the Legislature hold their places for life al
least during good behavior let the executive also be io
/ 8 life."
1t may little singular Mr.. Chairman, that all refer
these debates disturbances in the sections Of
the Union having few slaves have not made the
racts however, with any intention OF showing this, but to
make appear in what the trainers Of the constitution
understood the meaning Of republican form Of government
As the clause originally adopted by the Convention in
Committee of the Whole, it stood thus:
$40 Resolved That republican constitution and Its
~ ps ought to be guaranteed to each State by the United
States"
Why guaranty the eristng ,cs ftweve of the constu-
tons, because they established slavery "epub-
cam and must of necessity be altered Though the words
tits existing laws ultimately left out of the clause it
was never inmated by any that the then State
situations not republican" because they sustained
slavery Govverneui Morris, of Pennsylvania, who said
"that domestic slavery is the most prominent feature in
the arstocratic Of the proposed constu-
tion," never pretended that it not fsafure of the
constitution of the United States itself; there at
that time disposition manifested to place the black
equal footing with the white The same Gouverneur
Norris in discussing the proposed basis of representation said
Another objection with him against admitting the blacks
into the was that the people Of Pennsylvania would
revolt at the idea Of being put foongsMh slaves"
His colleague mr. Wilson) sad He had some apprehen-
on ALSO from the tendency of the blending of the blacks
with the whites to give disgust to the people of Pennsyva
MIA, as had been ntmaed by his colleague, (Mr Gouver
neur Morris y To show that similar feelings exist in the
free States still, might refer to the laws of Ohio excluding
free negroes to the extraordinary provision in the
tuton of Illinois, prevent free negroes from being admitted
into the territory Of that Sae the decision the other day.
IF he hv
by vote of four to that free blacks should not be allow
ed to VOTE And, have alluded to that NATTER will say
that have doubt but that the people decided that question
Alright may be told that mischief has resulted in Massa
chusetts from permitting negroes And sir, have
doubt but that if of sympathy, all blind infants
allowed to vote political evil would have resulted the
Der of either class being too small to disturb that prosperous
commonwealth. Nor is it sufficient for to hear il said
that this that particular negro is as intelligent and as moral
as the average Of white voters 1t easy find females far
better qualified to think justly political subjects than
men, and sometimes we find those among them not
the hustle OF an election day Many young of eighteen
and twenty Of age better politicians than other adult
voters Why is it. then. that all females excluded from
the right 10 vote Why is it that, among the other half
OF the human excluded from the right of suffrage
I'LL they have attained age which the majority reach
answer in the latter instance say that all have
equal chance to attain the age of twenty So all
may become rich Grard Astor and you might on
the same principle fix the property qualification of voter
million You cannot deny that many Of the excluded
qualified to exercise the right but they excluded simply
because constitutions and laws decide upon general principles
and, as classes females and infants under tenyone pre-
suned not 10 &c as well qualified to vote adult males
Is this principle which excludes the negro because as class
they are nferior to The white race.
But perhaps, shall be arragned in certain quarters
charging injustice upon Providence when that he has
not made the capacities Of the different equal And for
sooh, am because of necessity scattered all
the earh there not being for all in the temperate zones
lest should arragn the justice of Providence maintain
that all parts of the earth have equal advantages of climate
M naGpFta inst Tho ayl-
dence OF that the climate Of Siberia pleasant
as that of Italy, and the peninsula of Arabia fertile the
valley Of the Mississippi He who admits that individual
has naturally greater bodily mental powers than another
guilty of the sort of impey. The scripture itself
teaches that while ten talents given a single
lent only given others. The difference in the Of
men, they have hitherto existed in the world obvious
as TO have always arrested the attention Of mankind What
regret may be felt among any of phiIanthop
cannot be denied that in the peninsula Of India population
more than five times great that Of the whole United
States is easily kept in subsection by the superior courage,
strength, and talent Of few Englshmen The African races
have been reyed upon by every invader from the earliest his
orc times Formerly by the Egyptians the Carhagenans
the Romans and the Saracens in day by the En-
gsh the south and the French on the NORTH The Amer
can Indians afford another striking instance.
SO great the differences among nations Of
that they observed readily by the careless spectators
though they often overlooked by Legislators in framing
constitutions of government that incalcuabe mischief is
produced Political systems have all ages been made by
wise men for those whose capacity sufficient
tain them and the ruins of which have been productive Of
misery The condition Of the Spanish race on this continent
affords to eyes a mournfu illustration Of this
The total failure Of the emancipation Of the negroes the
West Indies TO the expectations raised by great
with which the British Government effected the measure
striking instance remind Of the benevolent
attempt change the color Of the Moor recorded in Esops
fable II profound observation Of the most philosophc
Of human ncects that only govern Nature by obey
ing her laws The force Of this truth acknowledged with
reference the daily transactions Of men, They seek to avail
themselves Of the natural laws and in building houses and
ships, and in the various mechanic arts have due regard 10
the qualities Of the different substances they may employ and
their liability to be affected by different agents In framing
however, social and political systems the principle announced
by Bacon is dsegarded and condemned frequently by leg
tors who will understand that Providence has established
moral laws determnae those which govern the physical
world and who asonshed from time TO time because when
acting in defiance Of those laws they cannot find the same re-
suits if their conduct had been in accordance with them
maintain them Mr. Chairman that the people Of Connecticut
in deciding that the negroes not class capable Of adj
minscring complicated republican system Of Government
sustained by the results Of experience observation and
sound philosophy.
have, however occupied time on this part Of nv
subject than at first intended My main object was TO show
what meant by Republican form of Government in the
constitutions that was not thereby exclude slavery
either from the States Territories much less did il mean
that sort Of absolute political equality in all respects which has
existed yet in any Of the States The Constu
ton OF the United States made by men who had come
chiefly from the middle and parts Of Europe and who
felt themselves under obligations extend its advantages
TO the negro
II then, sir right in the view take Of the meaning Of