Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-04-20
Mr.. Palfrey'S Sn,cch.

E"Fffdct from q speech 0eItrcreG bU
J0hn q. Pdltrey, on the Territorial
Question. in the U. s. House Of Rep.
reseRiaiires, FEB. %, 1870
Again, gentlemen are fond Of charging
us with raising q sectional gucStioR.-
They shy that we are pressing Il cunlro-
versv between, North and South. and
they undertake to rcbukc us in the words
of the Father oil the Country. in his
Farewell Address. This charge Of excl
ling sectional divisions, makes the staple
IF not a few speeches which | have heard
in this House, and ii colors the whole
tissue of the two famous Addresses re.
Gently put forth from the secret nightly
conclave in this Capitol. Sir, deny Ut
terly the correctness of This representa-.
lion. SO far as | am concerned. the
abctlors OF Slavery shall have ne advan-
tage from a statements entirely u%n(oun-
ded in point Of fact. This is no question
between the North and South. 1t is a
question between a comparatively small
number of Shareholders living in the
South on the one side, and, on The other,
the vast majority Of American freemcn
who hold no slaves, living both at the
South and the North. Who are these
gentlemen that assume TO put themselves
in the place of the Southern section of
the United States, and to say. when they
cannot have their way, that the South is
assailed ? Do they constitute the whole
population of The South, iha, they pretend
thus TO identify themselves with it? Do
they constitute the greatest part of il p
How many are there a! The whole num-
Der Of The free white population South of
Mason and DiXon's line, in 1910, was
4,809,l 78; the whole number of slave
holders among them cannot possibly eX-
coed 100000. With what face does such
Il mere fraction of Il population undertake
10 speak for the whole, and to complain
that Il sectional question is moved when
only the cncroachments Of one limited
interest within that section are resisted !
No, sir, the Shareholders of the South are
not the South. Far from il. And not
only are they not the South, but they
represent an interest absolutely antago.
nislic and hostile 10 the interest and well
fare Of that large majority Of the citizens
oClhe South, that do not hold slaves,-an
iAAClNSN h'h = AllC llloiC billFpoCd ilC
wcil-being of Southern nCn-sIaveholders,
than TO the we'll being Of citizens Of the
Northern States. We of the North have
great reason 10 complain of slavery. Ii
has done, and does us great and grievous
Injustice. But il does not control our
Safe governments, and TO that extent
make us lis slaves. 1t does not, by its
presence among US, make our honest in
dustry disrepulable. 1t does not strike
! the bread of knowledge from our lips
All this it does for the Southern non.
STAKEHOLDER. And yet, when we under.
take TO resist some new impudcnt preten,
d, sion which it puts forth, we are to be
complained of as raising a secliona
question, and encroaching on the South
= a vast majority Of whose citizens are fal
: more wronged by ii than ourselves.
e No, sir, | repeat il this is no question
d between North and South. 1t is a ques
| ton simply between the friends Of Slave
o ry and the friends of Liberty, South a
well as North. The Southern non-sIave
holders belong fright TO our parly,-th
d party of the free. That is their natura
l. position, and they are on their way /
j. find it. The same abominab,e powe
which annoys us and insults humanity
Is grinds them in The dust. They are abot
s. 10 understand this, unless promising sign
&c deceive. And when they do and hay
e learned TO speak for themselves, we sha
IS see how long it will be that slaveholdel
V. will continue 10 call themselves n
South.
n
- We cannot consent so to settle OF
u conquered provinces, that a freeman
IL them, because he owns las il is called
five slaves, shall, in The administration
- the government which is over us boil
: have four votes where we have but on,
- This was not the entertainment to whic
Is the Constitution of our fathers invited III
u, What we have stipulated TO do, in III
III surrender Of our natural rights, we wi
a do,-sorrowfuIly, ii may he, but faithful
y ly. Beyond that line, il is idle TO expe,
~ US 10 so,