The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-03-29

colonies, are thoroughly imbued with the h.
ciples for which the advocates of nor inferv3c!
tion are to-day contendng. The dntinep 81
Congress of IVA declared, that -
The English colonists are en,itIek% ~ ~
and exclusive power of legis.ation iih Wx H
eral provincial Legs latures, where W
| OF representation ca alone be preserv
cases OF taxation and internal polity.
The same principle seems to have goverf.(
the wise and patriotic men who framed ou
Constitution after the independence of the Re
public was secured
This great charter Of our liberties, in desig
| mating the several hranchea of the Genera
Government, enumerates their powers, an,
restricts each TO their exercise alone As th,
power of legislation over the internal relation,
of the communities Of American citizens VIII,
may settle upon the territory of the Republic
| is withheld from Congress, and as that powe
| exists somewhere, it follows that, as declared
by the Constitution, il remains with the peo
pie; and the people in its exercise, are limited
or checked only by the provisions of that grea
law, and those general laws which Congress
have enacted. or may constitutionally enact
There wauld be no more difficulty or danger in
allowing American citizens thus situated TO en-
joy this right than there is in permitting those
our judicial system extended over the Territory
the former would be subjected TO precisely the
same checks that control the latter. Indeed
the whole objection TO this principle seems te
have originated in a want of confidence in the
capacity of our citizens for self government
fear tha, they would do harm to one another
and not regard the rights which all possess as
citizens of common country. 1t would be q
matter of deep regret to all who admire free
government, if this ftar-this want of conf
dence in the people-sho cause the gentle.
men who compose the present Congress TO with.
hold from the West and the whole nation the
immense benefits of territorial governments for
n ebraska and Kansas solely that they may con
tinue on the statute. book the Missouri restric.
ton law; irritating to the men of the southern
States, and of no practical advantage to those
Of the northern States.
Sir, | cannot refrain from noticing the doe.
trines, the abors, and the spirit of Abolition,
ism and of freesolism. Thanks to the ntelll.
gence Of the people, these doctrines begin to be
pretty well understood.
Changes, Mr.. President, in the material
world are constantly going on, and in the lapse
OF years vast alteration Is seen in many OF lis
parts-where forests once were cities appear;
rivers where dry lai d.; mountains and valleys
where plains; but these changes lall9s1 1fsss I
l.h-rnr.---.hase VI The nc,r in
he world OF same PERIOD oooua
1aye passed since Scarcely seventy y yan
and women, The deso, and Lord-serY',9 ~
fathers, looked upon the,uts of the Pilgrim
were landed at the wharves off, Africans VIZ
dence, and other places i'll New Englahtlo'.-
6 brands snatched from the burning AS pooa'
ignorant, God forsaken outcasis, who had been
by mer ciul Providence, rescued frsm dark
and heaihrn sh land; from the worship OF hthy
reptiles; from cannabalism, and brought to
land of gospel light-one blessed with exhaust
less abundance OF the good things OF this world
and where they could be paftakers of all The
act which tn them see med God service, we OF
these days deeare to be piracy. When the
stern virtues of the men OF those days are con-
sderrd, what conclusion we form but ihis !:
that mysterious Providence darkened their
minds so as not to things ss we perceive
them, and for purpose winch we now begin
TO discover in the small but BRIGHT STAR which
has just began TO emitis rays upon tue coast OF
Africa.
That overruling Providence which produces
all results from seemingly natural laws has, at
the proper period, checked the importation tC
our country of negroes from The shores Of At
RIGA, and by the operation of those laws is now
gradually forming in that hsnighied country d
reservoir of intelligence and civilization, to be
supplied from our Republic, whence whole
some and truclitying streams will flow in all di.
rections through its arid u desoate plains. Thi:
idea, so pleasing in contemplation has occurred
to many. Will it be believed, and yet it is
re remarkable fact, that those who claim to bi
Abohlionists, par excellence, in our Union have
Iabored and are labDring against all the grea
objects of the Colonization Society? They
not only refuse to give any pecunary assistance
r ,.J To ,h,ri
but contend that this is as much their countr.
as it is rat of the Anglo-Saxon race. Reject,
ing the plain truth, that the Almighty has Gre
ated different races of mankind and distlnc
physical and moral characteristics, they proceed
10 counteraCi the DEGREES of God, and rive t.
fix forever the African in the communities an,
domiciles of the Anglo Saxons as a social ant
political equal. To this their doctrines and pro
LESSONS would lead; but few, IL is believed, arr
so much in earnest as to be willing to proy'
their sincerity by giving their sons and daugh-
ters marriage to negroes, or by even admit
ting them to their tables.
Social and political equality between twe
races which were created 50 different is al
abhorent thought, and the result OF vIolatioi
OF the law winch separates them le followed b,
the curse of Heaven upon the mixed offspring
1t must always be, in our Republic, that whe'
| living in the SANG community or family the ne
| gro will be denied, and justly denied, the poll
| teal and social equality and dignity of th
white man; and | m1y add, no negro, having
negroes common sense, ever asked tor or ex.
| pected that position Admit ing, in ILLUSTRATION
| that many Abolitionis's are SINCERE in viewin!
| the institution of negro slavery, as it exists il
| the southern States, as an evd and q sin, il i
| yet quite apparent that the leaders of the fac
Lion, whom the mass follow, are far from pos
i IT, Il o1, ~
| ihc contrary, they omit neither opportunity no
me ans to make his chains heavier and his lt
mote irksome. They do it by mschlevous ma
| ch,natons and plots, intended to narass tn
tears of the planter for the saety of his negroes
| They irrtale hlm by the clrcua ion OF insamou
| and untounded SANDERS, touching his trratmen
| of his servants, and by threats and intination
| Of attempted interference provoke him to res
| trict that freedom and enjoyment which h
would be glad to extend to his slave could h
do so with safety. In fine, political power
| all that is sought by the leaders of the acto
composed of Abolitionists; and any meas
ure, or any policy, however favorable 10 tn
happiness of the negroes held in service, an
which will tend to lessen the camor and feeling
which the yhave succeed IN raising among thei
gnoran, & deluded followers, you'd meet the'
decided opposition. This drtr animation to gain Pc
| lltical power alone accounts Tor the falsehood
| vrulence OF their orators and their Presses-car
| ried to the REASONABLE extreme OF demanding
sacrifice OF the Constitution and dissolution o
the Union Falsely and hypocrltlcally profess
ing to be seeking the goad of The negro, the,
| demand of the people OF the southern State
the emancipation OF their slaves, well KNOWN!
| that even compliance with their demand, wer
il possible, would lead to rapid extinction O
the African race on this continent; an extnc
ton more speedy than that WHICH has swep
| from existence the Indian tribes which once in
habted the eastern States. Ofihe negroes VIII
were gradually emancipated in New Yorl
scarcely single individual, au told, can nov
be found even of their grogeny. When the
become free they almost ased to multiply ; t
care for, and to provide for themselves
occupied their whole minds, their means, an
time. Wholly ignorant Of the real situation :
the people of the slavebolding States, the Abo
litIonsis arroganlly assume to dictate to thos
people in a matter which concerns themseve
only, and respecting which they alone can hav
true and accurate knowledge.
/ Among the reasons advanced by the Free
Sollers aud Abolitionists for The reention upo
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