The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-06-06

partisan schemes. Such, | repeat are the alter
natives to which our slaveholding brethren have
invited our attention For one, / am ready to
choose between them. will enter into no "cov-
enAnt with death" | will agree to no truce with
Shareholders so long az they insist upon their un-
holy exactions. | will form no alliance with men
who foreOrdain my submission to their will as the
tenure Of their friendship. And the party in
my judgment, that shall now seek to maintain its
unity by yielding to these demands Of slavery
will dig for itself political grave from which
there will be no resurrection. It may survive for
a time; IL may achieve a temporary triumph over
its adversary but it will array itself in hostility
to the rights of man, sacrifice its integrity and
moral influence, and thus perish by its own sui
cidal hand; Sir, can acknowledge no allegiance
TO any such party. Its conventions and caucus
arrangements have no power over my action.
Not servility 10 the South, but uncomprOmsing
resistance to her further encroachments, must
determine my party associations This, | have
already said, is the paramount question, upon
which all the parties Of the North should band
themselves together as one man. Most Of the
questions which have heretofore divided the
A-9~-i~"' nAoIln have boon settled Is there
Bank? Experience has shown that ms nation
can prosper without such an institution. 1t is
not demanded by the voice of the people nor the
exigences of the Government. Years ago, it
was declared by the highest Wing authority to
be an obsolete idean Is there any issue as to
distributing the proceeds of the public lands
IL has been swept away by the tide Of political
events, and the beuefoent doctrine of land reform
is destined, | trust, at some time not far in the
future, TO receive the sanction Of Congress Is
there any real question at present respecting a
protective tariff Some faint efforts being
made to galvanize this question into life, and
drag it from the grave into which it is sinking
but these efforts will be fruitless | have no be-
lief that this Government will return to the old
fashioned Wing policy of high protective duties
The spirit Of the age and the policy Of the lead
ing nations Of the EARTH are tending more and
more in the direction of free trade whilst the
restrictive systems of the past perishing from
the same causes that have originated and are car
rying forward other reforms. The philanthropy
which is eleVating the condition of the toiling
million, mitigating the rigors of penal law, and
>EaaAing the chains Of the s3s7yS ~ NJ stbe saHe
time removing the shackles from the commerce of
tAeUurH. K IS not projection ,to -AaeStsss Sac
protection to mans rights protection to the hand
that labOrs, that should invoke the action of the
Government. 1t is not protection to American
manufactures but protection to American men,
that would now advocate and like the found
ers OF the Government, | would make it the
starting point in politics, the great central truth
in my political creed, TO which questions of mere
policy should be subordinate
Us the dollar only rea Cod TRUTH and right
Weighed against your lying egsrs must manhood kick
the beam4"
Must we blink humanity itself out of sight, in our
loyalty to Irregular nominations" or our devotion
or opposition to measures of policy that are dead
and buried2 The Northern States have declared
that Congress should prevent the introduction of
slavery into the Territories of the Government
The Southern States declare that this shall not be
done. ID is contest between the two sections of
the Union as to whether slavery or freedom shall
establish her affairs in those Territories. 1t is
contest between liberty and despotism. 1t is not
quarrel about goats wool" or a mere galaciaiO
but struggle in which great interests and great
principles are at stake; a struggle, the issue of
which is to determine the veal woe Of millions,
and addresses itself not TO the judgments only but
TO the cOnsciences Of Northern men The Free
Soil men in Congress desire the application of the
Ordinance of JeffersOn, come what may. In order
to maintain their faithfulness to this principle
they have sundered their party allegiance, and for
this cause they are denounced az fanatics The
vocabulary of our language is ransacked for words
strong enough to express their baseness and infa-
my as party, and their depravity and reckless
ness as man. The gentleman from Tennessee,
MIR. SAVAGE, who addressed the Committee on
yesterday, has already consigned them to their
fate among the outcasts and olfscouring of the
TTrr is SO or T S41 MhYkasnl f Mr. ms
that he styles them "a pestilent set of yipers that
ought in Gods name to be destroyed Sir, il
might be we'll for the honorable gentleman to try
that experiment. | have yet TO learn that Free
Soil men have not the same rights in this country
and on this floor as slave soil men. have yet tC
learn that the doctrine of slavery restriction, which
was q virtue in our fathers in 1887 is crime il
their descendants, which should doom them to de
OF have vet n GA NJ fha
in the free States not in favor of that doctrine
and will not stand by it and its advocates to tn,
last hour.
Mr.. Chairman, it was my fortune last year, il
the congressional district have the honor to rep
resent, to witness an effort to annihilate thes,
"vipers,o 80 heartily detested by the gentleman
from Maryland | would say to him, too, thai
the project was not set ON foot by Democrats
but by Taylor Wing managers. What was tn,
result of this experiment. Sir, the Democrats
made common cause with the Free Soil party
adopted the Ordinance Of Jefferson as a part Of
their platform, and thus achieved a triumph over
their foe. And judging from such indications a.
| have seen of their present opinions and pur
poses, these Democrats have not receded, and ar,
not likely to recede from the principles which
they endorsed year ago ia their county con
ventions, and by their political action whilst
the organs Of the Wing party in that same dis
trict are now discoursing sweet music to the
tune of nOH-merUentiOa In lS4S, these Whip
leaders were for the Proviso against the world
IL was their undohbted thunder which the Free
Soil men we're feloniously endeavoring TO pur-
loin from them. They declared the Wings to
be the only true Anti-Savery party They de-
nOunced General Cass as a heartless and unmit-
gated doughface for writing his non-intervention
Nicholson letter Mullitudes voted for General
Taylor, without pretending that he was in favor of
Free Soil, but merely to crush the non-interventiou
heresy, and to beat Cass,N who now seems after
all in n fair way to be canOniZed as political
saint by these same ant-slavery Wing leaders
Sir, instead of annihilating the Free Soil party.
they have been unconsoiousy playing their own
game upon themselves. The rank and file Of their
party trust will not follow them into the mire of
non-intervention by non action with slavery in
the Territories. trust that the great body of the
people Of all parties in that district will stand
firmly upon the platform of freedom, swerving
neither to the right nor the left, favorng no fur
Their concessions to slavery, and frowning upon
the Northern recreant who shall be found doing
battle for shareholders against his own section OF
the Union.
But however this may be, my own course is
clear. | shall take no backward step. | have
thrown my fortunes into the scale of freedom and
! Nm willing to abide the issue Holding the
views have honestly embraced, reared as have
been in free State, and representing as | do a
constituency Of freemen, trust there is no earthly
temptation that could seduce me from the cause |
have espoused. And that cause whatever may
for the time betide il or its votaries will NJ GER
tanly triumph AZ that truth is omuipotent, or
that God governs the world
RELATIONS WITH CUBA.
We understand that dispatches have been re-
ceived by our Government from our Consul (Mr