Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-03-14
sTRoUDsBURG COUNTY, Pa THURSDAY MARCH A. 1850

millions of our fellow men /; tear their wives and
children from them; separate them; sell them and
doom them to perpetual eternal bondage. Are we
not then despots-despotS such as history will
brand and God abhors
But we are told that that is none of our business.
That southern slavery is matter between the
shareholders and their own consclences. l trust
1t may be SO decided by impartial history and the
unerrlng Judge, that we may not be branded with
that great stigma, and that grievous burden may
not lay upon our souls. But could we hope for
that justification, now, when we have the power
to prevent it, we should permit this evil to spread
over thousands OF square leagues now free, and
settle upon unborn millions Sir, for myself
should look upon any northern man, enlightened
by northern education, who would directly or
indirectly, by omission or commission, by baSely
voting or cowardly skulking, permit it to spread
over one rood of Gods free earth, as traitor to
liberty and rec1eant to his God
Slavery tends 10 render the people among
whom II is planted, arrogant, insolent, in,oler-
ant aud iyrannlcal towards The freemen Of 9TH
er parts Of this Union. The honorable member
from Virginia, from whom have already quo
ted, Mr.. Meade, says, speaking of slavery.
q" Our past history tesfes TO the fact that it
elesates the character Of the white man
Though 1Ce haze been an numerical minority an
the Union for fifty gears get during the greater
part Of that period tce hare managed to control the
deStinaeS Of The Union. Whether on the battle
field or in the council, the sons of the South
have taken the lead !; aud the records of the
nation afford ample testimony of their superior
energy and geniouS ~ Sir do no, complain
of this statement. The former part of il is both
candid and true. But ! canno, listen to the re-
cilal without feeling the burning blush on my
coun,enance, that the North, with her over
shadowing millions of (reemen, has for half a
century, been tame and servile enough 10 sub
mil TO this arrogant rule.
The Soulh imprsons northern freemen when
found within her borders, if they happen to be
guilty Of dark skn and carry it "be,ween the
wind and their nobility" And when sover-
egn State sends learned and venerable agent
to test the legality Of such Imprisonment before
their own tribunals, he is driven with violence
and indignily from their shores Massachu-
seus has suffered, and, trust, remembers the
insult
How often have these walls been profaned
and The North insulted by the insolenl threat,
il should be disregarded, resisted TO extremity,
and The Union destroyed. During the present
session we have been more than once told,
amidst raving excitement, that if we dared TO
legislale in certain way The South would teach
The North lessen That their minds were
made up 10 extreme resistance Is this the
place to use threats instead of arguments T.
Are The Representatives OF freemen TO be thus
treated True, you are not wholly without
justification in the belief that it will be ef1eclu-
al. You have too often inundated Congress.
You have more than once frightened the tame
North from its propriely, and found dough ia
ces" enough 10 be your tools And when you
lacked given number, take no pride in saying,
you were sure 10 find them in old Pennsylva-
MIA, Who, in former years, has ranked portion
of her delegation among your mos, submissive
slaves. But hope. with some fears, tha, the
race of dough faces is extinct. | do not see
how il could we'll be otherwise They were
an unmanly, an unvirie race, incapable, ac
cordlng TO the laws of nature of reproduction.
hope they have left no descendants. The
old ones are deep in political graves For them
am sure there is no resurrection, for they
were soulless. Now, when the whole civlll
zed world uniles in denouncing slavery
curse, shame and crime, | trust that when
The grea, battle between liberty and slavery
comes TO be fought on this floor, there will be
none found hiding among the stuff, no fraudu
lent concealments, not one accuIsed Achan in
this whole camp Of the Representatives Of free
men
The eloquent gentleman from Virginia, Mr..
Seldom, the other day, in his beautiful person
aied The grea, States of Virginia, Kentucky,
aud Louisiana, and in their name aposlGophlzed
The good, and | will add, the great man who
occupies the executive chair and in their
name besoughl him as he loved The place OF his
birth, The place Of his nurture, and the place OF
his residence, not TO forsake his southern breih-
ern in this emergency, but 10 stand by them IN
defence Of human bondage. How much more
effective, enduring. and hallowed would eo-
quence have been. had the orators lips been
touched with a coal from The Altar OF Freedom.
Then could he have gone with friendly anxiety
TO ha, noble, benevolent, and heroic man, and
admoni>hed him, that although he had gathered
all the earthly laureIs that can be reaped by ,he
sic kle of death, yel if he would have his name
descend 10 prosperity with increasing lusre,
he must, by one great, just and patriotic exam
rIe, wipe oui the only spot hat obscures the sun
of his glory. He might with propriety have Ia
ken wnh him The learned gentleman from Ala
hama [Mr. HIlllard and together have pointed
him TO that solemn hour, which 10 him. and to
all of us who are treadlng he downhilI Of life,
must soon arrive, when The visions Of ambition
and Of earthly wealth shall have passed from
before his ewes, and left him nothing but gap