The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-10
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P',S Ss,,t,On without tumbhng into max
N- --.I.r,,ions as solemn snd positive as pos
.'i 60 ...ont upcualifedly committing them L
.'' ' -s-ort. should the measure they denOune'
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msnL To-, from the Joint Commit
=, Conference, have gwen rrseio an exciting
lsya.e. -. L.s DISTINGUISHED him
-. hold opposition to them. We copy 4
= = NOR Of his speech, made IN the house 0
Ne NJ, ~, IN Fnday, the 18th ult. 1t vii
Dsi'sl'G Eth lively interest. The utterance Of
-. ..,,iments IN a Virginia Legislature should
'''l ''- Northern men:-Natiolai Era.
'-, So,,b Carolina did what you propose to
Ion eonuoverted question Of con-
o. law. she raised the standard oil
'.5siIion, The question now before US !, is
l9Oe L n"a,s controverted than that Of Null
e Il..a - In Carolina, there was Union
-.a'l' and Notification party. There will
P' 'so,s TAO parties here. Voice, near the
$50. : '-' d hope the Union party will
- If himself alone.l Father will be
.o,. -rs3 sgaius, son, brother against brother.
e. &C. me ! good cause, and though | claim
- ~ I.rg,r ousntity Of animal courage than
. - IS and | will sand boldly forth. But
Vs. -, he sword in my hand, and call upon
Z Z. "a strike at the children OF this Union
= !. socb a cause as this, and the shade oil
W.sbing,oD-that majestic lorm-wlll in
,srDoss 70 intercept the blow, and the steel
vii drop from my grasp.
There I another point from which | would
view ,be question. know how party feel
ms iodurats the heart; but | yet hope that
h motives 10 which | would appeal have
=, ,bs;r force. What is it that we wish TO
.,complisbl Is il to force the institution OF
,I.ysT UPON California and New Mexico!
Ia, this proud Commonwealth, at this day,
zsvved forth to force upon a conquered
usoole that thing! Then We have forgotten
he day when Virginia stood up to oppose
60 oppressor Tor creating that institution
against her will, within her borders. We
lcrgst the patriot who stood up in the Par
lsnen, Of Britain, and said that he rejoiced
70 know that three millions Of freemen
would neither be made slaves themselves,
nor The instruments to make slaves Of others.
Those words were once engraved in letters
Of gold upon the walls Of the Capitol; but
IL is halls, the representatives. OF Virginia
are now called upon to take the initiative
SEP 70 overthrow this principle. We have
conquered this people by our arms. But
he principle which lies at the foundation OF
our Constitution is, that each people have a
hgh, to their own forms of government
There IS no outrage in the wide world
greater than this We propose TO do. As a
colony. We legislated to prohibit the intro
i1cdon Of slaves into our territories. This
legislation was killed by the negative OF
he Crown. But the preamble Of the law
was preserved-it Is pref1ed to our present
Constitution. And in the enumeration Of
tie causes by which Virginia looked for her
Justification before the world, stands the act
Of that Prince in Perpetuating this inhuman
unfhc. And in the early Congress, in OPP
position TO the Northern States, Virginia
voisd TO declare that traffic piracy. recur
70 Ihese facts to show what Virginia once
thought Of measures like these-to show that
she thought them acts Of wrong, Of oPpres.
son, Of tyranny.
II stand alone in this Hall, in thi,
Commonwealth, andin this country, | will
FalSe my voice in pIotestatiOn against this
measure. For | regard II as an outrage
against every principle Of civil and religious
liberty, and an outrage upon humanity. Il
here Is one man on this floor who is willing
70 lend bis hand to aid practically in it,
should like to see bis face. There is no
one but would feel it an imputaiion upor
his honor to say that he would inhict slavery
uPon these territories. Then why quarre
win congress Tor proposing to prevent VIVA
none would do
lEhh to say few words upon the pro
posed measure Of abolition OF slavery il
@s District. | look upon that in a yer,
o1erent light from the light in which | view
NE ffoVIsO. | stand on the same principI
ID Doh cases. say that all Legislative
power sa trust. 1t should be exercised 70
VIC OenehI Vt the sousrned. When il cease
70 oe mus exercised, it is a tyranny. Th
,nneuon Of slavery on the territory woul
De such; the abolition Of slavery in the Di.
uio' would be the same. We see the la.
more clearly than the first, because it
near to US. But let us not be less lyn,
Yeo win regard to our more remote brett
ia. The abolition Of slavery in the Di
S'9 would resist to the last extremity, an
every means which lies within the reac
Of man.
Why pass these resolutions? You req
hm. Then you once affirmed. And.
matter Of consistency, you must stand
your old resolutions, and carry out no
what you proposed to do then. But yo
consistency is already gone. Why did n
as sword fash from its scabbard when 4
Oregon Bill was passed.
The papers have published that | was
member Of the House which passed the
resolutions. But that is great mistak
MY mind must have been in a singul
safe when voted that the slaveholdeT 4
natural and indeleasible right to carry
slaves into the territories. Voice. .Tba
Dot In the resolutions.1 (Scott read
pasSage.)
Mr; conway said that, as they were
corded in the statute book, that passage
not occur.
Mr.; Scott said, if Mr.. CONWAY had
!enoed to what he had said. he would +
been saved his pains. That MASSAGE d;d