The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-14

Gentlemen talk sometimes as though they had forgotten
the fact that Massachusetts, New Hampshire Connecticut
Rhode Island New York Pennsylvania and New Jersey
in with the Of the Old Thirteen once to
greater less degree saveholdng States In no one OF
those which have since become free the institution
eradicaed by abolition societies by the interference of
professional phanthropsts from abroad They disposed
of il for themselves 1t has been abandoned because did
not consist with the ideas the climate the soil the indus
trial interests the social habits of the people concerned
In most Of them il has died ont from the operation OF natu
raj causes with legislative prohibition until the institu
ton had virtually disappeared In one or more OF the States
where this change has anspred il is believed there has
to this day been legislation upon the subject Large
numbers of these slaves shipped by their owners IN
northern vessels to southern ports and sold TO southern
planters Men prominent in the abolition crusade are now
living at the North upon fortunes originally derived III
whole or in part from this very traffic It should he re-
membered too that slavery was not instituted b the co
pie Of the South, sefr sonf.ern siicsaors IL Hs
entailed upon them by the mother country against the
united reonsrances OF the colonies at the time IL was
increased by accesons from their neghbors in the manner
already indicated As it established without their
agency-as it constitutes great element of their wealth.
and is interviewer with all their political and social ns-
tuonswe may well believe that 1t will not be abolished
without their assent and cooperation They will not be
concated by the anathemas of selconstucd censors in
other States be convinced by the denuncatons of
newborn enancipatonsts beyond the water In this
sir, they are right know OF nothing which ought more
10 excite the indignation of Americans than this eternal
inenneddlng with domestic policy the part Of the
press heemsarieH and ofGrea
Britain She sir denounces graspng and aggressive
while her own path TO aggrandizement and empire has
been marked around the globe by wrongful seizure
provoked DlOOuSned WHOLESALE piracy she is horr
fed orsooh at the annexation OF Texas to conedera
cy by the peaceful and concurrng action of two ndepend
ent States while she celebrates with re Deas and bon
| fires, the victories whose fruits the slaughter
| in two days, of twenty thousand Sikhs upon the
ensanguined plains of India-he completing of her
dominion over hundred and twenty millions Of
people, against whom she had real of quar-
rel attack Her fleets for centuries the slave
traders and ayecarriers of the universe She forced
upon the unwilling colonies the institution she now
mathematics for possessing She insisted almost to the
last upon the hment Of her celebrated Assento treaty
with reluctant Spain, by which she enjoyed for nearly
thirty years, the enormousyprotabe monopoly Of fur
nishng negro slaves to all the Spanish provinces in the
New World to the exclusion of Spain herself Under
that treaty she transported to America and sold about
hundred and twenty thousand negroes and when she
nqushed the last few years of the infamous contract she
extorted equivalent of hundred thousand pounds
sterling Yet she yauns of her efforts for the sup
preston of the slave trade and sets herself up the grand
censor orm-the slayecmancipating power OF Chrsen-
doml She abounds in sympathy for the wrongs of the
African in Americashe gives gorgeous fttes in ordly
halls vena demers of the free land which gave them
brthbut she has ears for the groans Of the uocang
aborer in her mines and factories bread for the hunger
of the mshing millions of down-trodden Ireland
tbutons for the relief of the countless poor Of her
thronged towns and cities compared with whose squalid
wretchedness the condition of The slaves upon southern
plantations is physical and moral paradise The ship she
sends TO laden at with libels people and
paupers from her poorhouses meets its path the Ame-
can barque fastening her shores with bread despatched
by American bounty for the relief of Irish starvation May
we not properly say to ntermedders from such quarter
Go, free your fettercd slaves at home,
II Then turn and ask the like of us!"
\ There Mr.. Chairman, a few hundred mobiles and few
thousand gentlemen all the land and reap the fruits
of all the unpaid labor Of the kingdom They control the
whole power of that vast empire. They the govern
ment What they for the suferngs the wrongs,
real fanced of oppressed anywhere2 Nothing sir
But they dread the influence upon their eee systems
Of free political institutions They eager 10 dis
tract the energies and cripple the growth Of their most for
midab rival for commercial supremacy and the empire
the Hence they have been ocious in casting apples
Of discordn midst They have originated instgated
IA ,I.r tyfn .r
fectual means Of accomplishing our dsmemberment and
destruction,
But TO return Mr. Chairman to the Compromise Of 1920
Not only il dsrgarded the occasion referred TO- in
respect to the very contingency for which il made
provide but the principle OF II has since in repeated
stances been repudated BY the North When controversy
afterwards in regard 10 the territory acquired
expected TO be acquired from Mexico ii was than
proposed behalf Of the South to extend the line
of 36 deg 30 min to the western limit Of territorial
possessions The proposition often rejected by
northern votes That the fact in s47 in ls4s and
especially during the proceedings which resulted in the
compromise measures Of 1850 Then sir the line Of 80
deg 30 min was again significantly rejected and in its
stead substituted provision TO The effect that the
people Of the Territories shall determine the question Of
slavery for themselves As member Of that Congress
voted against the line Of 80 deg 30 mn and for the pro-
vision thus adopted in its stead
/ The enactment Of 1920 never avorite with the
people Of the North IL opposed by some, because
they deemed unsound the principle which it based
by because they considered its practical effect una-
yorabe TO the supposed interests OF their section 1t
representatives And where sir the present leaders
Of abolition agitation then who are most shocked its
proposed suspension now They secuted il at the time OF
s adoption with cpets Of bitter opprobrium They de
nounoed II capitulaon rather than a compromsean
gnomnous surrender TO the demands of the South They
stigmazed IL with all the terms of obloquy their fruitful
vocabulares could furnish. They hanged and burned
IN egy those northern by the aid Of whose votes IL
was enacted they hang and burn in efigy those
who 60 for its repeal Whenever Il practicable they
hunted them down oucass from public favor through
life Nor did they stop there They sought blacken
their and tradnce their memories beyond the grave
Then too ministers Of the Gospel perverted their sacred
calling TO the uses Of actlous politicians The pulpit
profaned with the language Of the hustng The regret
sincere Christians excited while the moral Of the
country shocked by railing anathemas impiously full
minated in the and by the authority OF Deity him
self This + not the only occasion upon which the drum
eccesastc has beat to Ia the Of partisan
fare II was so during the Of 1872 when class OF
eergymen made IL their especial vocation to decry the
Of their country and advocate that of the enemy
They preached dcsertion sedton and from the
cred desk They invoked the judgments of the Almighty
upon the officers OF the government and prayed for sarva
on and death the meed Of soldiers who went forth amid
peris aud pryations and boodshed fight the battles
their country. SO il a the time of the purchase Of
louisiana the annexation of Texas the war with Mexico
rI and the compromise measures of 1850
More recently sir the pending bill has been selected ne
the peculiar and almost exclusive object Of clerical denun
caton Some three thousand clergymen have come into
the Senate chamber by memorial protesting as they n-
legc in the Of Almighty God and in Ills presenc &C
against this measure breach Of faithn aRreat moral
wrong and denouncing the judgments Of the Almighty
upon It's suPporters Who, sir has ordained this new
union Of Church and State with these iudpes
and arbiters ofpocal alars2 Who gave them their high
oommssion2 Who intrustcd to their hands the judgments