The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-12

occasion, Qaughter)-thcre was only the man from
Otsego county who voted for that infamous law,
and since that his constituents have suspended him
between heaven and earth. Q.aughter.) New
party lines are being drawn. Henry Clay has ex-
pressed his views; and Mr.. Cobb has been introdu-
eng new idea, that no man should have his con-
hcence VINO did not adopt that ncv creed-eoni-
prslng one and all the measures of tho compromise.
would not take my stand upon one point. look
~ the claim OF right and justicc and regardt also
Us political matter Of some weight. speak free;
and no man ever gained by touching or making
war with me. CA laugh) / have my own opinion
upon this matter. Who will insist that the
compromise is suited to this state Of things! Go to
your statute book for four years past-not the
newspapers but to your statute book-and there you
VIII ind recorded for four consecutive years. the egs-
lative results OF New York, speaking in a majority
on all questions We had for representatives in the
Senate at that time, two men, Dickinson and Will
liam H. Seward-One of these men stood up and did
all the voting, and stood on the ground where his
party had placed him--where nineteen twenteths
Of the people had placed HMM an approved posi-
ton and when the voting time came, ne voted in
accordance with these resolutions. Cloud cheers.)
Referring to the Compromise measures, Henry
Clay told us the Southern people ought not to COM
plain, for it all for their benefit. ask your at
tention to what the North got-why, don't you know
they got slave trade abolished in the District of Co
lumbia The law that was passed was simply that
you should not buy slaves abrond and ship them off
to another place. California was the Thirty first
State admitted into the Union; was there anything
said about that What kind of Compromise was
that We got another State in after we had got
In seventeen, in addition to the original thrteen
and we ought to be thankful for it, CA laugh). Tell
me the difference between these two last States
(Texas and California; one came in at the beck
Of freedom and the other at the beck of the slave
interest. New governments were erected in New
Mexico and Utah. When the day of trial cam,
only sixty-nine men were found to vote for tn
Wilmot proviso. Fourteen and half free State
had spoken out on this subject. When the day
Of trial came on the question of that Compromise
the North was beat How much did we gain
by that! What is meant by this! If you love the
compromise, You also love the Fugitive Slavelaw
Suppose man hired farm, and another man came
by force and attempted to dspossess him, and being
unable to showa title he showcda certificate sgncdby
himself that he owned half of the others farm.
The jury, Webster and Cass, would say 'Lct us hear
proof; we don't want to know anything about the
title, we want to know what will satisfy one party;
we don't want anything else; and they said,
third. What would you say of such men as that
on jury? Why, you would throw them into the
East river. Q4aughter) That is true Wow Of the
merits of the Texas question. have seen the prac-
gushing effects. The deprivation of trial by jury
or any other security for a fair hearing, and the
rights of habcas corpus denied. Did not the half
drunken men who passed that slave law desire to
TEN of bribery it toleratcs! and tho poor wretch at
the City Hall fully understands it, U.aughter.)
We are told that We must abide by this state Of
things because it is the law! The distinction
between the sentiments of man in public and
private life, and the cry Of g the Union in
danger is the rock on which this country is
going down. In oyster saloons. over their champagne,
they concoct their Infamous legislai min Congress
In 1850 in the town of Salem, girl run away from
slavery, and had married, and when she heard the
pursuers coming, she stood shivering with her child
as if she had been hunted with hounds and all be-
cause her mothers mother was slave. Is there a
man who can justify that +! 1t is piracy and kid
mapping of the highest degree. It is a law that
runs counter to all good feelings. We have our du-
ties to perform, and will maintain them (Cheers)
The honorable gentleman closed his harangue by
asking how the men who were in favor of this cruel
system would stand at the judgment day, before the
tribunal of the Most High; and was loudly chcered
on resuming his seat.
Rev. J. c. RAYMOND n blind colored minister Of n
colored Baptist church in this city, next addressed
the meeting. He felt somewhat ditdent to speak,
after the honorable gentleman who had just ad-
dressed them but us he was coorcd man, he felt
it his duty to say word on such occasion as the
present. The resolutions were of vast Importance to
his colored brethren. He could not read them, and
he had to trust to oblivious memory. There was
thing in the third resolution which he remembered
it was that caste was akin to slavery. They We're,
indeed, kindred-not cousins, but sisters. Caste
was the greatest enemy to the negro race. II began
very early. Moses, while in the land of INDIAN,
leced woman who was not very white, and she was
spoken of conemptuously by the sister OF Moses, be-
cause she was q black woman. God punished this
contempt by affecting the lady with leprosy. She
not cured till after much prayer and entrcaty.
Solomon, the son of David, and very fair gentle
man. married black lady and the Song Of Solo
mon-that bridal ode-was composed for the occa-
sion. She knew that she had given umbrage by COM
ing among the fair Hebrew daughters, for they sent
her to do the outdoor work Her defence was that
the sun had made her features swarthy, and it was
well known that brunettes were highly esteemed by
the whites. daughter Jeremiah the weeping
chaOtcr. n
plcxoned prophet, said he became black with grief.
All knew that affections Of the mind changed the
color Of the body How are we to blame for our
color, given us by accident! We arc all colored
here to-day, thank God. There is sprinkling of
every variety of hue; and the bleaching process is
going so fast that the time seems to be approach
ing when there shall be no color at all. happened
to be born in the State of Virginia. You see my
complexion. ] had no hand in it. When was
boy there was an English doctor, named Holmes,
who practised surgery He was called in to attend
apoor black boy, He put the gold head of his cane
upon the pulse of the patient. Was that the way
to try mans pulse! Uaughter) There was in
that State, once upon time, minister named
Sampson, (not Samson of the Bible,) and there
was Rev. Jesse Lee, white man. Sampson was
n far better preacher than Lee and Sampson, at n
religious meeting, got up, wiping his mouth, to
preach, when Lee said to him " Sit down." -
won't, said Sampson, who continued in such strain
of eoquence as he never heard before. Sampson
was moved by the Holy Ghost. There was another
the colored sisters went down under the icc and
lost. The white minister said, hand us down another
the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away,
blessed be the name Of the Lord This is caste.
He then related another instance Of white minister
who used to address the black brethren always sepa
rately, and only admit them to the Communion-in
fact to the crumbs that fell from the table after the
whites had feasted. He was present one day, when
this minister, addressing the colored population,
said, my black brethren, be obedient to your own
masters And then invited them to come down
stairs and eat the crumbs after the whites had
finished the bread and wine, for, said he, God is
respectGr Of persons. (Roars Of iaughser.) And
you never did see, and they ate the crumbs and
drank tie dregs and were very thankful. (Laugh-
ter) That was caste. There have been various
schemes mooted Of late by philanthropsts, to get
rid Of the colored man, and send him back to IA
therand, but blessed God this is our fatherland IL
is my fatherland-my father was born here
/ am an American we are all Americans.
We all have our kindred in this country, and we
know no other. Much is said about Anglo-Saxon
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