The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-22
THE UNION.


public sentiment against slavery in that State they We're
unable 10 Pgash he man who had pepeIaled tina, foul
' murder While ! was governor of the State Of Mary
land servant deliberately attempted the lille OF his mas
by shooting him while sitting in hsparlor surrounded
by his family and escaped into the State OF Pennsyva
MA That servant was indicted for the crime. issued
requsuon upon the governor OF Pennsy wanna lie
was arrested During the long trial that followed the
question was discussed whether governors warrant
ing judge determined that he ought 10 be delivered up,
and so directed After he delivered up 10 the agent
OF The Stale OF Maryland they were Obliged, on account
OF the mob TO put him is the custody OF the she OF the
county While in Jail, writ OF habeas corpus was rs,
sued by another Judge He was brought out examined
on IT. and discharged, and that was The last lhal we
IRON the prison where he had been placed Tor he pur
pose of safekeepng. and set large TO escape from JUS
Cured, think. during the short period of three years
while was the governor OF my own State. Senators,
therefore, cannot be surprised that the people OF one large
section OF this country get excited when such things oc
cur before their eyes slave attempts murder, and
pursued and demanded in accordance with an act OF
Congress authorizing his delivery The case Is exam
iaed and the delivered up when the mob inter
lees topreveni it, He has TO be remanded to la and
taken thence by another tribunals the law pronounced
tobe unconstitutional and the man is discharged Why is
all tins II on account OF The sympathy oil those peo
| pie towards these servants or slaves.
was sorry, sir, hear the senator from Massachu
sets Mr. WINTHRopl say yesterday in his place that
no law in this country can be executed unless the
people in the place where it is TO be executed are IN favor
OF it. Where, them with reference TO this large amount
OF propeTy-$l ,bOO,O0O worm OF Wopefy-dIe we 10
look for protection We according 10 This doctrine,
without any remedy, no matter what laws you may pass
Place what law you please upon the statute book you
cannot make il distinct than the constitution. You
can pass no law that will impose obligations more dl
rectly or rgidly than the act OF 1893 Place any law
you please upon the statute book and the people OF the
free States will not, while their sympathles are excited
IN favor OF the slaves, execute ihe or allow them 10 De
executed. What protection is there then, for this
600 100000 Of property Can you pass any sfed% h
honor 10 proposes What other law will be efficient I
The bill under consideration imposes upon certain
officers the duty of arrestng and delivering up your fug
live slaves; but the law OF 1893 did the same. Ii has
mol been executed not because IT'S provisions were not
Adequate but because II against the will OF the peo-
pie that they should be executed Now, ask senators
10 point out to any reason whatever why the grovs
ions of this law will not be rendered entirely Intellectual
precisely the same way as The provisions OF me law OF
| 1893 have been. ask again. therefore, what other
remedy you have than 10 impose upon the federal
government (Which government under The decision OF
the Supreme Court is the only authority authorized con-
siuonaly TO discharge tins duty) the obligation To pay,
! il they do not discharge IL?
Now, Mr. Presden permit me TO ask my friends upon
the other side OF the chamber this question The Amerl-
people practical people. never shall believe
that they are willing TO risk the destruction OF this gov.
eminent upon mere abstraction The question IS hls
senator from Massachasels-iei me ask any OF those
gentlemen whose States if not themselves, entertain
different views and opinions upon this subject OF
slavery, from those entertained by you and by me
what do their people propose. unless il Is to produce the
abolition of slavery There is nothing practical that
grow out Of all this agitation OF the subject short OF
abo'unn l. me then, put another question to them.
nd their r@ consent 10 abolish slavery, I'm view
Consequences 1t every southern State would agree
give them The power to do so Here 81 600 900 900
is admitted by all the senators upon this floor even by
the senator from New York, MIR. SEWARD that were
the government, to abolish slavery, the obligation is i'm
posed upon NECESSARILY TO pay Tor the slaves Here are
81 600, 100000 OF property ask senators, would the
people they represent would any respectable portion OF
the people oany State consent to abolish slavery If every
southern State and every southern man would consent
that the from Massachusetts himself should
be empowered to do II would impose upon the federal
government, il the federal government were to pay II,
obligation pay sixteen hundred millions OF dollars.
The interest upon alone is ninety SIX millions OF dollars
per annum-more than double the entire income OF
the government Would the people OF this country,
North or South, consent that the general government
should obligation of 81 500 900 900, SOS
100000 more than double the present Income OF
the whole country for carrying out this miserable policy
of fanalicsm' II ii is 10 be paid by individual States,
it imposes upon the State OF New York the obligation
10 pay. Sl,i92,ooo,00o; upon my State S32 10000;
upon Massachusetts, S6I 900 ,0o0 &c. Let me ask
ators il any OF them believe that the people OF any
portion OF the United States would that either
the federal the Stale governments should assume such
debit Well, then, they concede that they would not
abolish slavery il the southern States would consent
to it. They would not abolish twthout paying they
could not abolish II by Paying Tor neither the federal
government the States have the power ability 10
assume amount OF debt such that which would
impose upon them Now, practical, sensible people
let any senator representing State upon this floor, tell
whether his constituents will insist upon abstrsc-
ton which they would not carry out il they could and
which they have not the power 10 carry out If they
would; If they will collision and the risk of de-
siruction OF this great country, upon question upon
which, give them the power they would not exercise IT,
and il they would exercise it, they have not the power
to do so, because they have not the ability pay their
due proportion OF 81 900, 100000, which they admit
ii would be equitable they should pay they exercised
the power Besides this, II would be incumbent upon
the federal government as consequence OF the exercise
OF such power TO remove the people so liberated from
the Countryside pIeponderahng number OF that de-
scrpton OF persons in many parts OF The South render
ing IL impossible, consistently with the elbeng OF
either class that they should remain there without being
slaves IL would be entirely useless and hopeless to at
tempt reconcile the two races; and II would be more
cruel to the black TO involve them IN the conse
quences OF mere emancipation than would be their
tire destruction at any one single moment OF time II
their lives taken from them, than that they should FRS
endure the accumulated misery OF years. when the
suit would be sure TO be the same.
i ] do not see, MIR. President-and | sure | have
thought of the subject Sufficiently do not that there
be any wellfounded, constitutional objection TO the
proposition have submitted. read this morning. sir
in the Union, extract OF speech delivered by
nc slaveholdng State OF this Union which shows the
kind Of influence which exces the feelings OF the peo-
pie upon this subject Permit read two extracts from
this speech and ask the attention OF those senators who
at one time disposed to protect the individual oil
whom speak from the censure which his remarks made
in this body had imposed upon him
Its written la the constitution of the United States tina
five slaves shall count equal to three freemcn basis q
representation; and II written ALSO IN violation Of III
Dfpine tau that shall Surrender the fugitive slave who
takes refuge at our esides from his relentless pursuer
| Then his advice is, reform your own code" Thi,
is his advice, given TO meeting of the people oil
OhIo-a people who have fomented much excemeD