The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-11

There were two classes OF men VINO hdd brought
the country TO her present state: First a band OF
northern fanatics, who, regardless of every prin-
ciple Of justice and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF the
Constitution, and of all the moral ties which should
govern the actions of man towards another-had
pursued the South with relentless efforts 10 degrade
her Secondly, another class which was at the
South for whom he entertained even less respect
timid, hestating, shrinking class, who have al
ways been afraid TO march up to the line and meet
the enemy who invading their rights. Dante
in describing his visit TO the Internal regions, found
some souls wandering about the confines, and his
allusion to them he would apply to the class Of per-
sons just mentioned. The poet described them thus
-''This miserable fate
Suffer the wretched souls of those who lived
Without praise or blame, with that i'll band
Ofangels mix'd, who nor rebellous proved,
Nor yet were true to God, but for themselves
Were only. From his bounds Heaven drove them
forth
Not to impair his lustre; nor the depth
OF hell receives them, lest tn accursed tribe
Should glory thence with exultation vain"
Mr.. HALE was rejoiced TO hear the Senator
from Alabama declare and he hoped every Sena-
tor from the free States had marked the declara-
ton-that concession satisfied fanaticisnl. ["
He was reloiced III some measure to hear another
thing. There were great many timid people at the
Northwho werein adreadful state alarm, and were
daily contemplating the "crush Of matter and the
wreck of worlds which would follow the dissolution
ofthe Union. Those people, doubtless, would be glad
to hear that the calamity had passed over and they
Union is already dissolved. This will be news TO
the country. II reminded him of an incident which
came under his own observation When he was
justice of the peace man and woman came to him
to unite them in matrimony. He agreed to do SO,
and made but short work of it, He asked the man
if he took the woman for his wife. The man
piled that he did, that what he came there for.
lie then asked the woman if she took the man for
her husband; she replied she did. He then bid them
go; they were man and wife. The woman, how
ever, stopped, and looking up into his face, inquired
if that was all He answered it was She then said,
with evident relief, at amt such mighty thing
after ALL" So it was with the dissolution of the
Union; people would say that il wasn't such a
mighty thing after all.
Mr. II. said that he spoke but for small
portion of the North, and only for the people
he represented. He wished to say a few words
about this term /" factory slaves as applied
to the operatives in the northern manufactures.
1t was no new term to him. He had heard it fire.
quently. He had once been seriously told that the
population in the northern States engaged about
the factories were not well provided for in ami
NAL and physical wants, or in good breeding and
politeness the slaves at the South. He lived in
village where of these factory slaves resi-
ded his colleague also resided in a place where
they were. There were engaged in that place
about one thousand females There was a Savings
bank there, in which was deposited about $ 800 0O0
the greater part of which belonged to these very
females. They were the daughters of people living
in different parts of the State. And when disease,
poverty, or any other calamity bcfalls these fami
lies, the young females come down into the villages
where these factories are, and by their industry,
and economy, soon amass sufficient means to soothe
the declining years of aged or disease stricken pa
rents From the Arostook. to the southern boin-
Diary of the Union, wherever it was, there was no
people who excelled these female operatives in
point of high, virtuous, moral character The men
were not less worthy. They were the pride Of New
England. He would not like to see the chivary go
there and tell them they were factory slaves. He
would not compare them with the slaves of the
South Rut would take a N eoilal 1hero ffb he
southern slaves masters, and if the operatives do
not compare favorably with them, then there must
be standard at the South OF higher grade than
any which had ever fallen under his observation.
The Senator from Alabama says there are clubs
at the North formed TO send incendiary documents
To the South--to send documents which teach the
slaves TO murder their masters and violate the
females He had never heard of any thing of the
kind. He had never known the slave TO be told
any thing TO bow with submission to the
power they cannot resist. They are told 10 direct
all their energies TO supplicate him who has avowed
himself the God OF the oppressed.
Mr.. BUTLER had already declared his inten-
ton to vote for the printing Of the resolutions He
had no idea Of indulging in this discussion. But
the Senator from Vermont had used such strong
expressions and the Senator from Ohio had lust
made what evidently prepared effort, he felt
called upon to say something further. The Sena-
tor from Ohio had read homily on harmony and
union, but at the same time threw broadcast the
seeds Of dscord and strife. He had advocated doc
trines tending TO disfranchise the South. He has
declared himself as belonging TO no party save
that party which will carry out the principles of
the Free Soil party. That party was claimed TO
have great strength, and that shortly il would
have the President, take all the honors &C. 10 the
exclusion Of all who do not belong 10 them. They
affect a sublmity of doctrine that scars TO heaven
Mr.. b. was enough Of naturalist to know that the
bird which flies the highest is not the purcst The
Gender scars above the highest peak of the snow
capped Andes, yet IT, is well known feeds upon the
corruption of earth. The gentlemen from the North
held the scissors Of fate in their hands II was
with thcmto say whether II should be closed and the
bonds which now unite ms be dissolved He had no
desire 10 be placed a. an advocate Of dsunion The
South had done nothing looking to disunion No
such wish had been expressed The history of the
country ncgatvcd such a proposition. The history
Of this question for tho last few years contained no
evidence of IL. The South had shown themselves
ready 90 adopt every compromise that had been pre-
scented. When the proposition to extend the Mis-
souri, compromise to the Pacific ocean had been pro-
posedsn the other House by southern man, il was
voted down and rejected with scorn. Then came
Mr.. Caytpn's bill advocated and supported by
southern men, digcsted with great carc-who voted
for III the Soutl-th0sc who now arc charged with
making war upon the Union. Then came the pro-
position Of the gentleman from Wisconsin, Which
merely extended the Constitution and laws of the
country the territories; and that, too, sup
ported by the South The South had gone for every
Compromise had voted for them all and had kept
every compromise; still the South was charged with
disunion. They were told 10 be quiet The incen-
diary, with lighted torch, stood at the door Of his
dwelling, and told him 10 keep quiet The South
had not the power 70 resist. Her ground the
Constitution and ON that she relied She had yield.
cd up the sceptrc when she allowed the regulation
Of commerce 10 be decided by bare majority.
The Senator from Ohio was entitled 10 respect
as a Senator; yet he was one Of those whose sole
means Of keeping himself in high places the
constant agitation d such subjects. Mr.. Il. would
have greater hopes Of convincing the whole people
Of Ohio, they before him, than Of convincing
those who shape thdr course here 10 keep in Office
md enjoy the honors Of place. A letter written
by Mr.. CHASE during the past year, touching the
establishment Of a party 70 be styled the Free De-
mocracy, embracing all who were opposed 20
slavery and 20 devote their energies 10 that end,
was sent 10 the Secretary desk 10 be read, and
then Mr.. u. continued j lie commended that, from
the letter Just read, the Senator from Ohio and his
party were the advocates Of disunion. The gentle
men Of the Free Soil party. who Mortified az
slavery, who talk Of emancipation, and whose hui
manty extends 10 the universal freedom Of the hui
man race what will they do with the free negroes
They will, az they have done in Ohio, deny them
soil enough on which 10 place their feet. Mr.. y.
then entered into the history Of the expulsion from
Ohio Of the slaves liberated by the will Of John
Randolph and cited, another evidence Of this
kind OF humanity, the provisions excluding free
negroes az well as slaves from California. The
free States had effecusly deprived slaveholders Of