The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-03-07

selves-to fix upon his mind the impress OF mo-
rality. and his duties to his fellow man--you doom
him to degradation, and ignorance of the righ,
and vet hang him for the wrong whilst the master,
who kno,rs and is taught what are his duties, is
permitted to 20 unwhipped Of justice. Sir, that
all just God, who rules the destinies of the wor Id
will make no such distinctions in our favor, when
in a few brief years we shall be summoned TO an
swer at the bar of Heaven!
Mr. Chairman, gentlemen from the South in
sist upon calculating the value of this Union. We
of the North will not. ! regard il as more proht-
able to calculate the value of the Proviso aginst
extending slavery Gentlemen talk about their
Southern Convention and about dissolvng the
u Mon | have already shown that this is the old
scheme of few bcwildered men, who perhaps are
! led on rs MIR BENTON informs US, by an unhal-
/ lowed ambition 1t is matter of deep regret 10
| me that some Of those with whom deeply sympa-
! thized in former struggles whose noble Efforts In
| the cause of their country have commanded our
admiration are now disposed to unite Win 'heW
! in the dream of separate Independence
dream to be interrupted by bloody Conflicts win
their n Ugh bors and vile dependence on foreign
| Powero-to Join them in renouncing the glorious
flag of our country-io destroying the peace OF
mankind and deugng our fertile fields III blood,
As to a dissolution of the Union, II cannot occur
We will not contemplate it, Coolly and firmly
determined to carry out the great principles OF
our fathers-unawed by the storm when may
threaten-we will follow the advice OF the great
and good Washington discountenancing what
ever may suggest even a suspicion that 1t can IN
any event be abandoned, and Indignantly froWn-
ing upon the first dawnng of every attempt 10
ALLEVIATE any portion of country from the rest,
or 10 enfeeble the sacred ties which now INK To-
gether the various plrts.o Sir, the attempt may
be made but the whole North, with thousands IN
the South, will resist it to the last
The gentleman from North Carohha' Mt
CLtNGMAN.l with a coolness by no means credita-
BILE to his patriotism calculates it as matter oil
dollars and CENTS You do not find the Yankee
making such calculations and why ! Because
it won't pay--it won't pay even the expense Oh
slate pencil He has run the matter over IN DIS
head and considers il a scheme when IL Is imPos-
sible to carry out He knows it cannot oe accom-
plished, and he would rs soon think oil calculating
the costs of n railroad 10 the moon! But the
| bonorable gentleman has no doubt, worn out
many slate ppncils in the cause, and has gwen US
the benefit of his figures | have no time to
expose the fallacy of his conclusions, II II were
necessary
few words as to his proposed "northern
/ boundary of the contemplated Southern Con-
! federacyn He bids high for Old hentuck,"
and makes the Ohio river the dividing line The
gentleman forgot, If he ever knew that there
are strong natural ties which unite Ohio and
Kentucky Their citizens never can, they nereT
niH LerO11s foreigners 10 each other! The hardy
sons of Ohio have united their destinies for life
with Kentucky's fair daughters. We are one
people and TtnlnS 1 tnny vlS2ty say that when
the struggle comes, if come it must Ohio and
Kentucky will be found as they were in the last
war with Great Britain in defence of our from
tier, shoulder to shoulder under the flag of the
Union bearing as their mottO,- " one countTy-One
COHStIWion-0He dsSimy!"
The gentleman bids for Kentucky to join in
this unhallowed plot. What is his bid? Ken
lucky being stock -raising State, is to have
monopoly Of the Southern market 7! The old
Northwest-Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Care to be shut out from the immense benefits
of the Southern market | do not suppose the
gentleman regards Kentuckians as fools, because
they have not made many speeches here; but he
undertakes their business faculties very much if
he thinks they would be willing to exchange the
New England market for their products for that
of Charleston They know that the rule would
work both ways And when the Northwest is
driven from the South with her pork, her beef,
and her -four, | suggest for the consideration of
members from Louisiana, that there might be q
falling off in the exports from New Orleans
which are now paraded to show the vast resources
of the S0Whi
should like to be present, Mr.. Chairman, MIR.
LINN BoYD being in the chair, in your District,
when the brave sons of the dark and bloody
ground should be assembled to hear the first
disunion speech. What would be their feelings
on hearing as argument for disunion, that by
shutting out from Mobile the pork raised by their
brothers or their sons in Ohio and Indiana, the
value of Kentucky pigs would be increased ten
asnis a hssdGas Whs. would Your people do with
of the District aud set the dogs on him
The gentleman wants Maryland too. If he can
get Maryland, he will make Baltimore the New
York of the South Well, sir, if Maryland thinks
it best to take this sort of "street paper" without
any endorsement or mortgage security, she had
better suspend her Baltimore and Ohio railroad
we of the great Northwest would be compelled TO
take the Prtsburg route!
Mr. Chairman, will not pursue the absurdi-
| ties of the arguments which have been offered in
favor of disunion. Whenever the proper time
comes, whenever there are any "ovet acts" ar
guments more potent than mine will be furnished
| by the Commander in-Chiefo at the other end
of the Avenue. cold Whitley nips the grass
on the public grounds, and will be in good plight
| have shown some of the reasons why am in
| favor of the Provso of the Ordinance of 1857. |
designed going at large into exhibition of its
practical effects For want of time, will relate
an anecdote which is calculated to impress them
upon the mind.
| have a constituent who has been an eye-wit-
ness to the rapid progress of that Territory to
which our revolutionary fathers first applied it.
| He is a native of the Old Dominion" and at the
age of sixteen fought in the battles of Eutaw and
Guilford Court House The Northwest Territory
was then a vast, unbroken wilderness, uninhabited
save by the savage and the wild beast. No keel
had ruffled the smooth surface Of her magnificent
lakes and rivers Her boundless forests were
touched by the woodman The sod of her vast
prairies was unbroken by the agricuturist In
1887 it was decreed that this soil should never be
polluted by the foot of slavery In $50 he left
his friends and with his rife upon his shoulder
cast his destiny there. In that year he taught, in
n log cabin on the banks of the beautiful Ohio
the second school of The Northwestern IerrHory Sub
sequently he aided to carry up the corner" of
the first log cabin, where stands the great city
of Cincinnati In 1902 he was member Of the
Convention which framed the Constitution of Ohio,
and aided in embodyng in it the clause prohibit
ing slavery. Sir that man still lives to witness its
fruits Four millions of freemen are happy there
with no fears of instructions to trouble them in the
stiffness of the night-the lamentations of no slave
to disturb their repose. Instead of the single hut
surrounded by savageH thousands OF colleges
academies churches and school-houses, adorn the
land and tens of thousands of merry children ac-
ouire in them those impressions which will make
them useful to their country and prepare their
souls for eternity. Sir, relate this auecdote to
challenge gentlemen to point me in the history of
all the world to any country, in any age, where,
in the lifetime of one man, such progress has
been made and for the purpose of pointing to
wisdom, and sagacity of those who formed the
oncI hat snI;