Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-02-24
Political.
SPEECH OF MR. TAYLOR, OF OHIO

i SPEECH OF MR. TAYLOR, OF OHIO.
On the question of referring the bill to abolish the SIav
Trade in the District OF Columbia committee
the whole on the State Of the Union, Feb. g. 1919.
/ Mr.. TAYLOR said he did not propose to occup
much of the time of the House; but he had risel
principally to make an explanation of his own DO
sition this question, having been very mucI
misrepresented here and elsewhere in regard to th
resolution which had been introduced some week
| ago by the gentleman from New York, Mr. Gott
/ He would first say, he hoped that the motion
made by his friend and colleague Mr. Edwards
who had introduced this bill, would be carried by
the House and that the bill would be referred tc
the committee of the whole on the State of the
Union and printed, that all might see it, and be
enabled to act understandingy and deliberately
upon the subject. He here distinctly avowed him.
self in favor ofthe principals of the BILL He wish.
ed to see it, to examine it, to ascertain whether
there was anything unconstitutional in it or not
and there was lie told his friends from the South
he shrunk from no responsibility here, and he was
ready to vote according to the dictates of his best
judgment upon this and upon any other question
which might arise out of the subject of slavery.
Now, in reference to the resolution introduced
several weeks ago by the gentleman from New
York: 1t had been represented in various parts OF
the country by Democratic papers, and by the pa
per falsely calling themselves "Free Sol' papers,
but which were political nuisances in the country,
that he Mr. T. had .shrunk from voting on this
resolution. He was not present in the house when
the resolution was introduced; he was absent on
business as was frequently the case with gentle
mem If he had been here, he should have looked
into the resolution and then voted according to the
dictates of his best Judgment
A voice. "How would you have voted?
He would tell gentlemen, if they would hear him.
While he was willing to vote for law prohibiting
the saveholding States from sending their negroes
into the District of Columbia for Sale he was not
disposed to vote for any insulting preamble prefa-
ced to such a resolution or bill He was ready to
vote for the amendment proposed by the gentle
man from Indiana, Mr. Smith, upon the recon
sideration Of the resolution. He had voted to re-
consider it for the purpose of voting for the subst
tute proposed by that gentleman.
And now, while he was on the floor, he had
word to say with regard to the struggle which
seemed to be disappointed portions of this confed-
eracy. There was manifestation of disappoint-
ment by great party on the one hand, and by a
small party on the other, who were doubly trebly
disappointed in the result of the recent Presidential
contest. Those who favored the election of Gener-
Il Cass had failed most signaly to effect their OBJ
ject. 1t was natural that they should feel mort
led, wounded, disappointed; and, so far as they
presented the question of slavery here by the in
reduction of resolutions or by speeches calculated
% ALLEVIATE one portion of the confederacy from the
other, it was only involuntary manifestation of
If the regret, the despair and sadness that perva
led the party at their overwhelming defeat There
vas another party doubly, trebly disappointed who
we're known by the euphonious name of Barmb~r
aerS who had set their trap at Buffalo to catch all
such as choose to come into their organization.
they had succeeded in entrapping the political Alb
'litionsts of the State which he in part represent
ID, as though they were taken in a steel trap of a
lundred horsepower, and they were unable to ex-
ricate themselves. Hence they came up here, a
ew men on this floor, manifesting these feelings,
md were introducing Systematically frequently,
md unnecessarily, propositions which were calcu-
ated to disturb the peace of the country, without
giving the house an opportunity maturey to con-
Ider them. They were asked and forced by the
previous question to vote upon them without reaec-
ion and without fully understanding their nature
md objects. He sympathized not with these
Barnburning movements
Ifthese gentlemen represent the "anti-slavery"
society which met on the 18th of May. 1S4S in the
,ty of New York, where VIM. Floyd Garrison pre-
sided as president and whose proceedings he
ound published in the N. Y. Tribune, but with
which the great body of the citizens of that city, he
believed they had no sympathy and would find no
esponse from any part of the people of the State
sent. They threatened to dissolve the Union of
hese States, and break down the American
churches, to carry out their purposes He had no
sympathy with them. He looked upon them as
and dsunionists, who ought to be |
secuted by every good man in the country, from
he North or the South He had before him the
passed by that meeting and he would
'ead one that the spirit which they manifested
night be seen and understood by the country:
"RssolUed That Shareholders such, can have
lorights; that they have no rightful existence on
earth that they were never created by God, and
constitute no part of the human race; they are of
nonstrous and diabolical origin; and no law, no
compact, no religion, that endorses their humanity,
S to be obeyed or tolerated"
This was the spirit of these fanatical abolitionsts
who composed this anti-slavery society
Now, he said to his southern friends here, that
while they dealt in wholesale denuneiatlons OF the
North, they did great injustice to the moderate in
Lelgent and conservative men of all parties in the
North Who were the men in the North who COM
posed this miserable faction and who were instiga
ting trouble in the country? Many of them came
from the South That the house might know, and
that the attention of the country might be called
to the facts, he would name few of the leading
spirits who had come among them at the North,
and who were exciting this spirit of faction and
political abolitionism.
In the first place was Mr. Birney, formerly of
Kentucky, once a STAKEHOLDER, who either sold his
slaves himself or had them wrested from him by
the strong arm of the law and afterwards remov
ed to Michigan and became Democratic Aboli-