The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-19

may be known 10 many present an they are known 10 me
i Alf RHEFT. My object IN making the inquiry OF
the senator from pengsy yana was that the statement
that he made should not go out to tue country without
the qualifications that he has Just gwen 10 n u Is very
true that these laws not repealed and Is very true
that efforts have been made TO repeal them ana 10 tue
senate OF Pennsylvania those efforts tailed 30 far from
showing what the senator from Pennsylvania has Jus.
asserted that the people OF Pennsyvan are satisfied
with the iugyeslaye law, and prepared 10 enforce
H. should say that the gentleman ought 10 make SUCH
AN assertion with some qualification. There are some
localities in Pennsylvania do not doubt, tha, are N
ayor OF enforcing that law For instance, all The mer
cantle interest is IN favor OF H. and have no doubt thai
the mercantile interest in New York Is IN favor OF en-
iefclng The law But presHpe that y not so IN lhe
interior OF these States and Hmy opinion be correct there
IS very little mltgaled hostility in the interior OF Peansy
yana, well in New York and most OF the northern
States, upon this great question. The time is not yet
come Tor lis full development; but fear that it will not
be long before we will hnd the senator from Pennsy-
wanna and others, who are for referring this petition
10 the Committee the Judiciary going for the modihca
ton, they call it, of this fugitive. slave law, the direct
design OF which is TO nulliy and destroy the legislation
| Mr. HALE. want TO say word in reply To the sen
aor from Maryland. who has undertaken give so1s
Christian admontion Nov, think, without the aecta
ton OF too great sancuiy any peculiar knowledge OF
the Scripture that about well versed III II that
senator is, think he has made gross mistake, and
done injustice 10 individual whom ne terms
agita,or The dev-for we will call things by Their
right names now-when ne went into Paradise, instead
of going in the character OF an agalor went there to en-
force fugitive slave law, and pretended that the nhablt-
ants of Paradise his and under that false
claim he stole the children OF God from the garden IN
which he planted Them and carried them to the slavery
OF hell and there detained them That is the way that
read that chapter of Scripture. Now, the honorable
disposed refer all these things to the devil and
thinks that 1t Is very rreverent to give any other con-
structon TO these teachings.
Sir, read that the Scripture profitable for lnstruc-
ton. read that there has been re!omer, from
the time that God first spoke to his children from the
mouth of their fellow men, OF those who have come with
messages to reproye the ages in which they lived for
the crimes of which they have been guilty, who has not
been charged as being from the devil. When the great
mission OF salvation was first proclaimed upon the plains
OF Gallee, those in whose the message was delivered
said that it Of the devil And when the author OF
tn great system vindcated his right speak by divine
authority by commanding the winds of the sea- and they
obeyed him. and when he did other deeds OF power IN
stead OF producing cuon upon the obdurae hearts
of those to whom he spoke the that he cast out
devils by of Beezebub the prince OF devils II Is
train OF remark that the honorable senator from
Mary land has takenup, He has not even the credit OF
originality, for the idea that he has thrown out is as Old
as the history OF the world There has been a
truth unwelcome to the passions OF depraved human ma
ture in whose has sounded come from whence II
might that the rebellion OF the natural heart has not
torled upon the reformer that he oil the devil and
il confirms, confirmation were wanted. the truth and
recltude OF the position in which stand, and the force
of the truths which compelled to utter, that they
producing the same effect to-day that truth has always
produced from the time II was first promulgated And,
sir as that CRY did have the effect silence and still
the voice OF truth in oIden tne long have place
from which can be heard 1t shall not have that effect
upon me now $500
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are great many people that abhor agitation have no
doubt that all the ars,ocracy OF Europe, seated IN their
palaces OF power wealth, and comfort, and revealing IN
luxures wrung from the sweat and blood OF tolng mil
lions are very well contented with things they
They do not like agation they feel very comfortable
as they But can tell you OF some people that
are now in favor OF agitation with They some
of the overgown monopoiss OF the country that have
found their dividends growing less under the operation OF
the progressive Legislation that we have had making
trade more free and lessenng duties They favor
OF little agitation, provided that you contne TO coal
and iron, and coarse cotton. [laughterl Agitation
thus far they are very much IN favor Of And we have
had printed petitions, printed patch upon detached
sheets, like this abolition petition, come here TO us by
scoes-pe,lons printed in this city, and sent by mail all
over the United States, and after awhile coming back
us exactly in the same shape that this petition is in But
there is agitation in that, as long II is confined to
these particular classes OF cases.
But the odium with which agitation lived IL
neither strange and sorry for the honora
BILE senator from Maryland tor whom J entertain the
highest respect aud OF whom had hoped better things
am sorry that he should have shouted his to-day
to these denuncations against all agitation. But he,
is in favor OF little agta,ionquie,, heavenly -sttrring
Laughter He does not want 10 go very Deep sir he
Just wants stir up few little matters, but not 10 go
to the bottom sir. little heavenly agitation he is IN
favor of. Now, sir, am IN favor OF agitation and II II
is good TO stir little, good TO 20 TO the bottom. The
honorable senator from Pennsy lvania Mr. CooPERSsays
the revolutionary fathers were not aglaiors. IL Is well
that the bones OF Washington do not rest under this
Capitol if they did, they would not rest easy III then
place while such enunciaon as that was made
They not agators 10 to Boston, and tell
them they were not agltators why, SIR, they asI-
tated By and by land, they took cargoes out oil
ships and threw them into Tie ocean, and they made
Boston harbor a great teapot with their agitation
and British merchants cargoes furnished the material
with which they agita,ed They not agtators The
British stamp act passed, and stamps were sent over
to the commissioners OF the Crown. What did these
heavenly stirrers do in that day! [Laughterl Why.
sir, they made such agitation that man safe IN
his house il be had any OF the commissioners stamps He
obliged to burn them before he could sleep quietly IN
his abode No agitation there not at all II is idle TO
deny it idle denounce IT, There is not reform,
the effect OF which rejoice in to-day, that has not
been the effect OF agitation. There has been
who has striven agltae the public mind 10 remedy
great abuse who has not been denounced Just exac YIN
the way the honorable senator from Maryland Mr..
PEARcrl now denounces everybody that proposes any
agitation The honorable senator to coniound
agitato with an enemy He says thai agitation wants
| To produce bloodsbed, and everything that is dire
and terrible Sir, 1t is not Such are not the
eonseq uences of the measures which propose.
Now sir let him read history, and he will find il different
Let him look the existing state OF things today, and
be will find il different Let him look the world and
he will find il different Now, sir, in truth and right,
nothing that has legitimate foundation upon truth and
right fears agitation II is said the rock washed whittier,
but shaken by the shock" so II Is, SIR, with
every institution that founded upon rock II need not
fear though the storms beat and the rains OF heaven de-
scend in torrents upon it, Nothing that is founded upon
truth and Justice shall be shaken friend OF truth,
friend Justice has anythsg to fear II is only he who
rests upon false and sandy foundation that fears any
storms or any that the feeble breath OF
excite They, sir have reason 10 be alarmed, and well
they may be but truth and right stand upon stronger
and irmer Foundation When the agitation is over, and
the storm has ceased and the tempest is calmed nothing
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