Blue hen's chicken. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1848-1854, 1850-03-08


Jous g. CAEHorn's SLAVERY SrErcn IN Tns
U. s. SENATE FOR tbs PRorEcTios, or SLAVE
HoLpERs.-W We have read Mr.. Calhouu's speech
delivered in the Senate on the 4th of March,
inst, and calmly considered il. 1t is a tissue
of the m. 81 glazing sophistres and an,i-rrpub-
lican doctrines such as would have received
The brand I, { the tory and traitor in l77o.
Vixen he speaks Of the South, he means
Shareholders (who number 10 the whole Union.
from one hundred thonsard to three hundred
thousand in alr--he never seems to think Of
the four or Eve millions Of non-slaveholJing
whites In the southern States, who are crush
ed, kept ignorant and vicious by the weight oil
slavery, Ito any nothing Of The three millions
Of colorcd human beings in chains.) lie for
gets that the cause Of southern degeneracy is
sIavery-ihe cause of northern and western
prosperity is feedom. He seems to think
tina, republicanism, that human liberty, that
morality and christianity must be subjected 10
the yoke of the black, grim visaged monster
( slavesy, for the benefit Of three hundred thou
sand Shareholders, or The Union must be dis
solved. He speaks Of the South, and means
only the arstocracy of shareholders this Of
fort OF his is the expiring, dying groan of Ella
very-that curse of man and nations. Pass Q
law that ii shall go no further, and the agia.
ton will be done and tranquility will he res
tored. There is no danger of disunion. The
sl,.a. or a.. So,,,h xp;u ha eoffrtont IN mn
down The idea of disunion. The projection
each State has from the Union, is all tina
keeps the slaves from asserting their freedom
u as did our fathers in l776. AS to the South
eru Convention, it was all bug-bear TO fright
en- northern dough-faccd politicians with;
might, however, serve two purposes: Civ
Gen. Taylor an opportunity to hang a fey
traitors, and give the slaves an opportunity
becowe free in the States, where the Gov
eminent has no right to interfere with it,
= We 60 against any more slave Siaies-again'
' the further extension Of slayery-for abolish
, ing slavery in the District Of Columbia and l
l. favor of every alleged fugitive slave having
4 Jury trial before he is delivered over to hop'
less chains. Let northern and western fret
men, through their Legislatures, public NEE
ings and petitions, come cut constitutional
l. against the further encroachment. Of SLAYER.
l. and in favor of the Union at all hazards Ill
q the freedom loving Cove nor Briggs of Ma
:, sachussetts, in the following extract from u
?. Philadelphia Ledger Of the 5lh inst;
n MASSACHUSETTS AND VIRoisIA.-Govern'
Il Briggs, in his message to the Massachuset
Legislature, transmitting the Virginia resol
y lions on slavery, says:
y The opinion as TO The constituiionaliiy M
Il propriaty Of arresiing The further extension
m slavery, is as nearly unanimous among the PEI
lpe Of the Free States, as that upon any 9TH
Important proposition which can he name
,lThey believe slavery to be morally wronl
ID and that such reslric ion would he no inv
d. sim of the rights of any individual or 81 I
re but that it is necessary TO arrest an aggressi'
Upon, the rights Of the Free States Which hi
been in progress for half century. The p
X, siiion which Massachusetts, has assumed upt
l. this snhjao ~lsa believes 10 be impPegnahl
IT. land that carrying il ani wonld do no wrong
., any other State. Let her thea. while 81
vs. will obey the Constitution Of the United Stat
r. and observe all its guarantees, in her atilui
of opposition to the further extension Of SLAYER
I'd be resoluie and immoyable.