The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-27
correspondence Of the BALTIMORE SUM-
...yressionaI.
w.su1Nerox, Jan. 10, 1919.

10 %. -, tbe petition Of Daniel P. Be
aoa y % the Judiciary Committee. with
dng' ,'oo. 10 inquire and report whether
lnSlu.. as nossesses the constitutional power
COl 4,Ss appropriations for the cOl0nisa'lOn
% GiaA, ,sdIb 5 of color, was taken up.
a T Is' DAYTON suggested the ProPriety Of
M. ~, an, that part of the resolution which
sulAln5 s. ne committee to inquire and re-
iIs.lO, Inns merely referring the petition to
P0'' L,Ec;,U Committee without instruc-
n', a. TodsrwoOd wished to test the oPin-
.1 ~ Northen men as to the authority
D .O'i1 :, of making appropriations
~ SI ending smanciPated slaves out OF the
y, here their owners were willing
0ODn' ,.nc;nats them on this condition. lie
= ann nDnosed TO any restriction or discussion
~'s ,, m questions. He wished to assertion
" I n. constituents the length and breadth,
~ h. beiebt and depth Of the abolition feel
'as And il was for this reason that he
I'D moved the reconsideration oil the vote
an The abolition petition OF the Senator rom
New Hampshire, Mr.. Hale.)
Hs thought it perfectly useless to attempt
.uv sauuresson of petitions sent here
Sa,b : course would only aggravate the
evils The proper way was to send them
- committee and allow them to be an.
.rrred. The right Of petition had no doubt
brrn frequently violated BY people at the
North in asking for things which they could
a., EEL themselves hut which they would
mske others feel very sensibly. This they
had no right to do, but the proper way was
nevertheless to let their petitions go to a
committee and be reported upon. He had
40 fear Of any discussion which might arise
out Of such reports.
Mr. Metcalfe knew the petitioner well,
He was distinguished citizen of Kentucky,
Who had written much on this subject, a
lsndbolder and STAKEHOLDER in that State,
and who, like many others there, earnestly
desired the msnumission Of the slaves in
he way proposed. Ii was well known 10
I'll that i would be impossible TO manumit
snd retain the black population within the
limits Of kentucky. The white laboring
population would rebel against it. He hoped
they should have the aid Of the Senator
from New Hampshire. Mr.. hale,) for be
was a Philanthropisi, prOfessedly. in his
effort to provide for the emancipation Of
their slaves, TO send them out Of the coun-
Try.
Mr.. Hale rose for the purpose Of express
ing his thanks to the Senator from Ken.
lucky who had Just spoken, (Mr. Under
WOOd,) for his magnanimous motion to re-
consider the vote by which the question OF
reception on the petition presented by him
the other day had been laid on the table.
He dissented, however, from the argu-
ment Of that Senator that the petition must
be TO the body having the power to grant it;
and that il must not effect others than those
who petition.
Such reservations, he contended, would
be selfish in the extreme, and render the
night Of petition totally valueless. The
course Of Northern men had become so
tame and submissive on this subject that
The very women and children cried out
against them. He had that day received a
letter from Northern lady, inquiring why
i was that the independence and spirit OF
Northern members was thus oozing out
why they were thus becoming so tamely
Submissive, that, when petitioners came
here begging for their rights, they should
bow in base submission to a Southern fac
ton, and tamely allow their humble payers
TO be denounced as insolem.
Mr.. Douglass denied, as a Northern
man, that there had been any submission
by Northern men to the South---they had
always manfully stood up for their rights
Their only submission had been to the con-
sututlon and the laws. He undertook to
say that there would be no cause for com.
plant II the agltatng questions of slavery
were not introduced into these halls. New
Hampshire would never know how badly
uhe poor negroes were treated at the South,
were II not told to them here by men who
nave never seen it and know nothing about
a. nor would the people of the South know
10" badly they are treated by the NORTH
were 1t not told them here with the paltry
view ", oil influencing popular election.
ihe way TO prevent such excitement
was Tor every man to mind his own busi
"eo'-'o settle the territorial questions b,
giving to the people thereof State govern
'aents, and leaving them, as had been don,
WIN the other States, to settle the SLAYER,
fOes'iOn therein as they think proper. Go,
,'lOio that this country should ever be rule,
v any faction, composed of men of al
Polucal parties, bound together by no prin
olPles IN common, and whose movement
were ever calculated to keep up the fires Q
tssuon and foster the seeds Of disunion,
Hale. '0 'ePi'eu " WI
MI Dayton said it was evident that IN
u7Oale had wandered Ear away from IN
question at issue. In the motion which b
Hda made he had simply desired that III
petition might be referred, leaving an
a S! to the judgment of the commi.te,
plc tne Senator from kentucky expect an
selOn upon the subject involved! No.
pI' convention, it was said, was TO I
neid IN kentucky. and an expression
DP'ni0n from so respectable a commit,
would exert a very important influen,
therein. II was made known how III
committee was conslituted-that he I'M
Dayton) stood alone on that committee
'he position Of one TO four.
lie was prepared to go as FAR as any m,
u THIS subject, but he was unwilling tn
Sne opinion Of the committee should
lOfestal led-he was opnos.l a..