Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-09

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view attain heir cherished object One slave State after
another hss been formed and admitted into the Union and
this monsnt the slave States equal 10 number the free
States and with population less than one-thd they have
equal reesentaon in the Senate of the United States
and this is not all Their thirst for political power which
to % Their beseng sin and the great object Of their
ambition a0d pursuit, has been gratfed the fullest extent
They have had the President for fifty years of the sixty
since the 9oyenment organized and of the nineteen
Secretaries State fourteen have been SHAREHOLDERS and the
other Cabipp officers in about the proportion ma
joy OF the Judges Of the Supreme Court has always been
Of the twenty speakers Of this House, the
South Ass Nd twelve and the North only eight The foreign
missions h, also been filled by majority ofSou,hern men,
and todsy efe is much larger number Of official func-
tionaes IN - different bureaus Of the Departments from the
han from the free States Sir lido not mention
these facts " nay Of complaint but repe accusations, and
show how generous the majority has been to the minority
how kindly The North has treated the South 1t matter of
boast BY distinguished member Of this House Mr. MsADE)
that though n minority for the last half century, the South
has managed during the greater part Of that period to con-
troll the desinps Of this nation But like spoiled children
ruined h kDness and indulgence they still grumbe and
They find fault, not 90 much with what has been
may be done hereafter ind opinions are more Offensive 70
them than actions And they declare against the former
in advance Of the effects which they fancy may hereafter flow
from hem Some gentlemen have ventured to talk in this
debate of Northern aggression upon Southern rghs, if it
reality instead Of phantom of the imagna,
ton and, among the prominent offences complained
Of find the differences Of opinion between the North and
the South the question Of slavery This is politically
the objectionable n, and the safety of the institution de-
rnands its rigorous punishment.
But sir pervcrsion of language charge Northern
with committing aggressions upon the South because
they differ from them upon the popey of continuing and
extending human slavery 1t not just ground Of
complaint The free and manly expression Of opinion is
Of offence TO those who may disagree with you, and it
is of hostility any proper Of the word If it
be otherwise, then has the language OF the Magma Chaa,
the Bill of Rights Of the Declaration Of Independence, and
the Constitution Of tie United States. become justly often
sive and instead Of deserving the historical which
the Judgment of mankind has awarded to them, they
nothing more than declaration Of against all the world
who do not subscribe the theory Of human rights which
they and the authors of them, whose have
become famous among the nations OF the earth bitter
than pirates and outlaws. To such extremies Mr. Chair
man. are the advocates Of slavery driven in their unavang
exerons to shield the institution from the inevitable doom
that awaits it. limo correct sense the word has the North
committed any aggessions upon the South The citl
OF tho free States bve not only theoretical but pact
cal liberty and wherever slavery exists they desire it's exnc
ton. But maintain, Mr. Chairman that it is the South
that has committed aggressions and the North and in
committing aggessibns it is obvious 10 remark slavery only
follows it's instincts and obeys the laws Of its nature And for
this opinion have authority, any were needed beyond
the reflections and observations Of every one that Southern
will not repudate attempt deny That slavery also
debauches the minds and deeroraes the morals Of will
appear evident from the authority Colonel Mason, o
Virginia. the constitutional convention, when the subject
of slavery under discussion, said
"slayery dscourases arts and manufactures The poor
despse labor when performed by slaves They prevent the
emigration of Whites who really enrich and strengthen
country They produce the most perncious effects man
ners Every master Of slaves is born petty rant ne5
not be rewarded punished in the next world they must be
in this By inevitable chain OF and effects, Prov
dence Furnishes national by national eaames and JET
erson the great apostle Of Democracy, whose teachings
must be admitted like of those who profess to be his
followers sadly fault with his practice has described
the relation perpetual exercise ohe most boisterous pas
sionsthe unreming despotism the part and
degrading submission on the other"
not surprising that the minds Of living under the
influence of such institution should become perverted with
out being conscious of it. and their moral buned and
rendered incapable of performing its appropriate functions
Why, sir you claim the right to enslave the African race be-
cause Africans heathens. That believe, is the ar
gument advanced in the Mississippi address, if that elaborate
but sted and inflated production susceptible OF any def
mite meaning But legislators understand you to repu-
diste the obligations and refuse to perform the duties which
christian ethics impose you in prescribing rules Of conduct
for your felowmen You claim the rights but refuse to per-
form the duties of christians With the moral bearings of
question: has been said, you have nothing do in your
Legislative capacity and this doub. furnishes the explana
on why find such signal departures from the wholesome
principles Of the and the revealed law in the egsa
ton Of the slave States This doctrine seeks oberste at
once the distinction between right and wrong in human ac-
ons-a distinction which is not dependant upon legislative
enactments, but exists anterior TO them.
Sir we have heard much said in time, in the political
discussions Of the day about moneyed arsocray and bank
influence in national affairs. Southern gentlemen were not
backward 10 sounding the alarm heard the notes, listened
to the discussion with attention. and hope without pro-
fit and the recollection Of has not faded from my memory
am suspicious Of associated wealth. especially when enlist
ed too often is in opposition to popular rights And
hold to be the dictate Of prudence to watch, with sleep
less vigilance and jealous eye the operations Of men WELD
ing large amounts Of capital when in pursuit Of political OBJ
ects They are always scupuous in regard to the
means which they employ accomplish the desired end.
For this jealous of the institution Of Slavery and
OF the schemes and of its friends and advocates
II is now in the field and its influence pervades and must
be allowed say controls to great extent both branches of
Congress and should be gratied to know that the Exc
cuve Department wholly emancipated from its nfu-
ence If it's now, hope the day not distant when
it will be.
Mr. Chairman, the old Bank Of the United States with all
its branches and officers ard Dependents together with the
immense wealth Of the Rothschds. would be adversary
quite insignificant and harmless compared with the which
hundred and y three hundred thousand shareholders
have taken the field, controlling and welding capital which,
il is sad sixteen hundred millions Of dollars in
personal property and probably much in real estate
animated by common spirit, and pursuing common object
and that object political power and influence
Here sir is moneyed aristocracy, possessing fearful
dangerous Influence If exered in the holy Of hu
freedom but when turned to other purposes, and exert
ed is in making upon human rights and to extend
and perpetuate the slavery of the African in this county
becomes instrument whose power to do mischief sim
possible to oveestimae, and contemplate it with
serious alarm and apprehension think sir, II is time
to while have the power. The world has
before witnessed formidable element Of dscod and dis
union in the bosom of any free And the ques
ton whether shall be permitted to strengthen, EXTEND and
fory itself in the midst of us becomes intensely inter
esng to those who have the power Of deciding it.
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