The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-09-09


more than three millions of human beings in
ruthless bondage; that the spirit which governs
the country has lately annexed slaveholdng
Texas, because it was slayeholdng that it has
dcspoiled Mexico of her richest provinces in
the hope of making them slaveholding also;
that it has attempted to rob Spain Of Cuba
and still means to do it that two millions of
our white children are growing up without
schools that intemperance is a common vice
among the people and not an uncommon one
among rulers and that in our cities, the rich
and the strong live upon the poor and the
weak. almost as much as in the waters on
which they are situated, the great fishes eat up
the little ones When some one asked John
Jacob Aston how so many men found business
in the city of New York, his reply was They
cheats one another and they calls that bust
ness The wealthy have more houses than
thew can live in tho coStlieSt furniture. ward
robes, equipages, libraries and all that art or
nature can produce: while thousands of the
children of the same Heavenly Father, around
them. are houseless and shelterless naked and
hungry. Such is the type of the civilization
which our example proffers TO Africa.
And how do our lower law apologists for
slavery dispose Of the American coastwise
/
argument! In 1920 Virginia had Slave
population 425.l53 According to the ratio of
/ increase in the whole slave population of the
. United States her slaves in 1850 should have
amounted to 100000 But the actual number
was only 47252S that is more than 100000
less than the proportionate natural increase
/ This number or at least most Of them, must
/ have been sent 10 the South for sale
/ In 1S22 proGassnr nau- Of William and
/ Mary College said that Virginia exported her
own native population at the rate of 5000 for
which she received 81 100000, annually.
80 in 1920, the slave population Of Maryland
was 7.39S Making all due Attachments for
manumissons and escapes, this number should
have increased in thirty years, to nearly
100000 But in 1850 it was only 80, 1868. The
difference has gone TO the remorseleSs South.
And doubtless in most of these cases. members
OF families have been torn aSunder-man from
woman, parents from children
The same slave trade is carried on from
North Carolina. The slaves are borne from
the less rigorous bondage of the Northern
slave States, to more unrelenting prison.
house Is Tins also IN furtherGnce of COTS
gracious purpose IF SPrcading Christianity and
ctrdeGt1oH oUer At0ca
OuT OnTl1IldHlly SECURES tne lrIil ny jury.
and the Great Writ of Freedom. 10 ourSeiues
but DISTINGUISHES and outlaws, and puts beyond
the pale OF human sympathy, an entire race of
a different color. But when have we sent to
Africa colony of Americans to teach them
the arts When Las Casas to teach them
Christianity The missionaries we have sent
them have been rum and firearms The arts
we have taught them have been those of
trnapbnr an1 Sfnalinr In hot VIC tnnl-
and in what we gave, we inflicted upon them
II double curse. And yet Doctors of Divinity
and political aspirants dare tell us that God
looked down through the vista Of the ages, and,
seeing this frightful form of civilization afar
oil, with all its attendant ministers of ven
gcance, and woe, and death, babe the CORY
demon advance.
Mr. POLK, (nterrupting) | ask the gentle
man from Massachusetts to paint me the con-
dition Of the black race in the non slaveholding
States
Mr.. MANN At the proper time will at
tend to that subject 1t does not belong to my
present course Of argument
Mr. POLK insist upon it now. sir.
Loud cries Of Order" Order
Mr. MANN If the gentleman will show
me what right he has to insist upon it, | will
Mr. POLK, ! consider the attack which
the gentleman is making upon the South as
unworthy of IA member upon this floor
Renewed cries of Order ~
Mr. MANN The gentleman from Tonnes
see must not, in the first place, forbid our dis
cussing the subject of slavcry-
Mr.. POLK. | forbid nothing but ISLANDERS
upon the institutions Of the South
Shouts of "Order
MIR. MANN. And then. when we get IL
chance to discuss it, undertake to determine
upon what topics discussion shall be had
Mr.. POLK. | say that gentleman upon
this floor has no right to pcrpetrate such vile
ISLANDERS upon the South when he does not hold
himself personally responsible
Loud shouts Of " Order!"
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from
Tennessee is out of order, and must take his
seat
MIR HARRIS, Of Alabama rise to qucs-
ton of order, and wish to have the question
decided The gentleman from Massac husctts
has now been, for the last three quarters of an
hour, assailing the established institutions of
one half of this Misunderstanding institutions
existing under the Constitution of the United
States | ask if that be in order! | call him
to order upon the ground that it is not in order
and want the question decided by the Chair
The CHAIRMAN The Chair will state that
the latitude of debate upon these bills is very
great, and it is very difficult indeed
Mr.. POLK, (intcrrupting) | would ask the
Chair one other question. Is it right that the
gentleman from Massachusetts should assal
IN institution of the South, with which we are
all connected in n manner that is insulting in
its character, when he does not hold himself
responsible for his insults?
Mr. FOWLER. rise to another question
OF order. My question of order is this that
when the gentleman from Massachusetts is
using his privilege he shall be allowed to go
ON, and that this House shall sustain the Chair
IN allowing him to go forward with his re-
marks
The CHAIRMAN The gentleman from
Massachusetts, MIR MANN will proceed
Ny. POLK. He has no right to state false
hoods about onc-half of the nation
Shouts of "Order!n
Mr.. MEADE call for the reading of the
3lst rule
Mr.. JOHN w. HOWE | call for the read
ing of the two platforms Great Laughter.
The CHAIRMAN The Chair has decided
that the gentleman from Massachusetts, is in
order and he will proceed
MIR. MEADE. The 3lst rule prohibits all
discussion of this question in this House, except
upon proposition to which it is germane. !
ask for the reading of that rule
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has already
decided that the gentleman from Massachu-
sets is not ont of order, in pursuing this course
OF remark II that decision is not satisfactory
the Chair trusts some gentleman will appeal
from it,
Mr. HARRIS, of Alabama. appeal from
| that decision
Mr. CAMPBELL. of Ohio Very well Let
us try 1t ON the question of order presented by
those who have been in the habit of dragging
every possible question into debate here. We