Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-04-25

| counted her tears as they fell amain.
Saying Compromises" again and again
thought of babe at cabin door,
Where mothers shadow shall fall no more---
thought OF the wisdom of this great land
Assembled together.--a "a mighty band,
With armies and navies at its command
lih numbering cannon and cleaning swords
AND praying chapains, and learned boards,
WIN their pompous words about Freedoms
charms,
As they tore the babe from its mothers arms
The tears might have moved them. They were
but men,
But what of the Compromises then
| looked on her pallid cheek again.
On her sunkeh eyes with their scaldinp rain
And thought of the husband far away
She should meet no more at the close of day
OF the hearts all torn and the hearth laid waste;
And, like David OF old, +" 1 said in mine haste, -"
Some things that fain would repeat below
But the Compromises say plainly, " No.
Forgive my rhyming, Mr. GREELEY. did not
mean TO do it but the case of this poor woman
affects me much and sadness seeks rhyme for ex-
preston. Itwas looking on this poor mother weep-
ing for her children that determined me to come TO
Washington. | wanted TO see what the descend
ants of our Revolutionary fathers looked like
when in Congress assembled to devise ways and
means for extending the area of such deeds of
Chvalry go now into their great marble won
der, and wander through its magnificent rotundas
and halls, its labyrnhs Of stairs and passages
gaze on its wonders of art and before me at every
turn fits up the shadowy apparton of that sor-
stricken face. | see the humble form of that
servant-woman skulking hither and thther as
though she would escape to her children. At ev
cry turn an impediment prevents Here there is
a dead, cold wall. There, in the open passage
stands group of sentnels strange looking senti-
nels, too-children and pitying men, and beauti
ful, kind-hearted women There are many of
them who would scarcely kill worm who would
weep that poor bird should be taken from her
nesilings but they will all form themselves in
TO phalanxes, with bristling bayonets and naked
swords, TO prevent the stricken mother flying to
hel child Why is it SOL Why is the voice of
Nature and OF God suppressed within US, and bid
den 10 be silent? 1t is that we may hear what
the comprOmlsers say and how honorable gen.
tlemen talk about few more compromises. You, |
with the rest, Mr.. GREELEY, indulge "a generous |
spirit of compromise" 1t is considered very |
praiseworty to do so and no doubt YOU are |
very clever man; but in this matter YOUR oener- |
oSlfy does no; cost you much. 1t is very easy for
you, or any other Northern gentleman, to make |
bow to Southern gentleman, and in the spirit Of |
The most generous compromise" agree that he |
may tear mother from her babes and set her up |
on an auction-block 10 get money to buy race
horse or gold chain, and Danish her, forever from
ali she has known or loved. You are nothing the |
poorer when the deed is done. 1t is the mother
and her children who are called upon'to foot the
bill; and II not untreguently costs one of them the
last remnant OF life your former generosity had |
made scene Of suffering and toll
| am little thick in the skull, and never could
nice distinctions in etiquette or ethics
When Mr.. HARRIs Of Tenn rose the other day. and
with all his powers of oratory--a burning cleo
quence that required three glasses of water to ple
vent lis bursting out into fiame-pleaded for ''lhe
rights of the South" il just sounded to me as if he
had been saying, "Gentleman, we have right-a
natural and ina!ienabe rig ght, 10 whip women and
sell babies. Our Revolutionary fathers died on
the battle field to establish the glorious principle
of women whipping and baby y-sehng. Our i'm
mortal Constitution was founded 10 secure 10 Us the
exercise of these inestImable privileges and l.
Sir, | Mr.. HARRIs of Tenn. do now proclaim nv
self the vaorouS champion of American woman
1t is our privilege, Sir. We of the
South, here, on the floor of this House, claim the
right to sell our children with our sheep and oxen
We, Sir it is, who and do, and ,o.ili sell our
daughters to infamy and traffic in the bodies and
souls OF our brethern-Yea, of our brethern, Sir
OF those for whom a common Savior has shed
lis blood OF those who, with u.s. are Joint heirs
)f immortality. We, Sir, will carry them TO
he shambles, remembering that, inasmuch as We
10 il unto the least OF these His brethren, we do
unto Him. We will there barter for gold the
cry Son Of God himself! We it is, Sir who sell ;
pon the auction block the image of God for
'andsful Of silver coin !! We are the fearless S
champions who will dissolve this Union-all un- /
on between ourselves and the spirit Of Freedom 4
broad in the earh-the favor Of Heaven and the
pproyal OF all good men, for this privilege of
elIing men and whipping women.' :
] could make nothing else oft, Mr.. GREELEY :
now these are the rights for which the South con-
ends. | know it is quite as common and respect
bic for Southern gentleman 10 horsewhip his
Vasherwoman as to smoke cigar. | know this
Or have lived there and all the eloquence and
Astounding about Southern rights and Constitu- O
onal compromises resolve themselves to this one S
oint-the right TO horsewhip woman and sell n
er baby. Every concession you make about h
uaranties is just that much OF yielding 10 this \
lamor But the mail will soon leave !; ! have so G
luch 10 tell and am so often interrupted / can u
VI get time to tell it.
JANE c.. SWISSHELM. 8
fny Holm Frank