The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-06-27
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there can be no reply by him who Is not willing
10 place himself on level with blackguards
cannot enter that arena | will leave the filth
and the slime OF Billingsg!te to the fsh.women.
aud TO their worthy cosdjutors, the gentlemen
from Virginia, MIR. MILLsoN, from North Caro-
lima, Mr.. STANLY from Kentucky, lAIr STAN
TON, from Tennessee Mr.. Wu.LlAns,l and all
that tribe. With them Can have no controversy.
When want TO combat with such opponents and
such weapons, can find them any day by entering
the fish market, without deiling this Hall
beg those respectable fsh-lades, however, to
understand that | do not include my colleague
from Bucks county among those whom deem fit
TO be their associates | would not so degrade
them.
There is, in the natural world, a little, spotted,
contemplate animal, which is armed lyy naSafo
with f9tid, volatile, penetrating rims, which 50
pollutes whoever attacks IT, as to make him often
sye to himself and all around him for a long time
Indeed, he is almost incapable of publication.
Nothing, sir, no insult shall provoke me to crush
so filthy beast
Mr. Chairman | crave your pardon for this
Improbable depression. | trust | shall never
again be betrayed into similar one, even TO
brush off these invading vsrmin.
When | turned of into this episode WIS
stating that gentlemen on this floor, and ia the
Senate, had repeatedly, during this discussion,
asserted that slavery was a moral, political and
personal blessing that the slSve WIS free from
care, Contented, happy, fat, and sleek. Compare
sons have been instituted between slaves and la
boring freemen, much to the advantage of the
condition Of slavery. Instances are cited where
the slave, after having tried freedom, had volun-
tarily returned TO resume his yoke Well, this
be so, let give all chance to enjoy this bless
ing Let the slaves, who choose, 20 free; and the
free, who choose become slaves IL these gentle
men believe there is a word Of truth In what they
preach the STAKEHOLDER need be under no appre-
hension that be will ever lack bondsmen. Their
slaves would remain, and many freemen would
seek s8mfsssos. aat0 mis- happy condition. Let
then e 80 s1pAssstjns their ,pyiBoinIas
We wiz hst plflh n tney esta5hsh societles
in the South for that purp0se-abolition societies
to abolish freedom. Nor will we rob the mails to
search for incendary publications in favor of sla-
very, even il they contain seductive pictures, and
cuts Of those implements Of happiness, handouts,
iron Jokes, and cato -nine-tails
IL these Southern gentlemen aud their North
ern sycophants are sincere aud correct then |
must admit that they have just cause of COM
plaint-the only real aggression which the
North ever inflicted on them. For IL cannot be
denied that for two centuries the North has
mainly contributed TO secure to particular race
the whole advantages of this blissful condition Of
slavery; and, at the same time, have imposed on
the white race the cares, the troubles, the lean
anxieties of freedom. This is a monopoly incon.
sistent with republican principles, and should be
corrected. Ii il will save the Union, let these
gentlemen introduce compromise by which
these races may change condition by which the
oppressed master may slide into that happy state
where he can stretch his sleek limbs on the sun
ny ground without fear of deranging his toilet
when he will have no care for tomorrow an
other will be bound TO find him meat and drink,
food and raiment, and provide for the infrmities
and helplessness Of old age Impose, il you please,
upon the other race, as compensation for their
former blessings, all those cares, and duties and
snxieties.
Ii may be objected that the white man is not
fitted to enjoy that condition like the black man
Certainly, at first, il will be So But let not that
discourage him. He may soon become so.
| will not 20 into discussion as to the original
equality and identity Of the human race. am
not learned in those things, nor, unfortunately,
in any other. But appeal to the learned men
of this House, the gentleman from Alabama, Mr..
HIILIARD1 from Massachusetts, Mr. MAsHl
from Vermont, MIR. MEAcHAM,l to say If the
chronological researches Of the past and present
age--whether drawn from the physiology or the
philology Of tribes and nations Of men--do not all
corroborate the recorded fact that He hath made
of one blood all Nations Of men :" and that their
present great variety in color, form, and intellect
Is the effect of climate habits food and education
Let not the white man therefore despair on &C
count Of the misfortune of his color. Homer in
forms us that the moment man becomes slave,
he loses half the man and few short years of
apprenticeship viii expungc all the rest except
the faint glimmerings Of an immortal soul. Take
your stand, therefore, coursgeously In the swamp,
spade and mattock In hand and uncovered, and
half-naked, toll beneath the broihng sun. Go
home to your hut ut night, and sleep OH the bare
ground, and 20 forth In the morning unwashed TO
your daily labor, and few short years, or gen.
GRAFTON or two at most, will give you a color that
will pass muster In the most fastidious and pious
slave market in Christendom. Your shape also
will gradually conform to your condition. Your
parched and swollen lips will assume chronic
and permanent thickness Of the most approved
style Your feet unconfned by shoes, and accus-
toned TO marshy soil, will shoot out behind
and sideways until they will assume the most de-
liehtful symmetry Of slavery. Deprived Of all
education cut of from all ambitious aspirations,
your mind would soon lose all foolish and per-
picking desires for freedom and the whole man
would be sunk into q most happy and con-
ented Indifference And oil these faculties, fea-
lures, and color, would descend TO your fortunate
,oster.y for no fact is better established than
md mind are transmissibe, and become heredi-
ary. True, your descendants will be black, stu
id, and ugly. But they would only be 10 many
ncontestable evidences of their natural right and
itness for the enjoyment Of this state Of moral
political, and personal happiness
Among others, numerous clergymen are found
defending this institution, and prasing its COM
forts and advantages. The same spirit which in
iuced them to defend tyranny In the time Of the
and the Jameses; TO maintain the
divine right Of Kings; TO inculcate the duty Of
passive obedience and non-resistance; and TO
atbematize those who resisted the tyranny Of
The Lords anointed prompts them now TO
take the side Of the oppressor against the op-
pressed. They find the same kind Of argument
Ia the Scriptures TO uphold slavery, that they
hen found to justify the despotism Of profigate
Kings. shall not answer their absurd and BIAS
phemous position. That has been effectually
done by the honorable gentleman from Massa-
chusetts, Mr.. FOWLER But viii say that these
reverend parasites do more 10 make infdels than
Nil the writings Of Hume, voltsire, and Paine.
IL II were once shown that the Bible authorized,
sanctioned, and enjoiaed human slavery, no good
man would be Christian. IL contains no such
horrible doctrine But II II did, II would be con-
elusive evidence, 10 my mind, that II ID spurious
imposition, and not the WORD Of the God who In
the Father Of men, and no respecter Of persons.
have before me q work by clergymen who
maintain the above doctrine They descant
largely on the comforts Of slavery. One Of the
heads Of this pious discourse is, Slavery bene-
Geent Dia1mioa!W
know there are many degrees Ia the miseries
of slavery. Some masters treat their servants
with great kindness others more severely others
with mercess cruelty, according to their DISPOSE
tions, for that alone governs their conduct But,
this diversity In suffering, he
must have calous heart who can speak Of the
bens6cenes Of slavery.
Dante, by actual observation, makes hell con-
sist Of nine circles, the panishments Of each In.
creasng In intensity over the preceding Those
doomed TO the first circle are much less afflicted
than those In the ninth, where are tortured Luci-
fer aud Judas Iscariot--and trust, Ia the next
edition, will be added, the Traitors TO Liberty.