Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-05

gandlStS. Besides, IN my case, win the eAcep
ton Of some two or three hundred Government
officials whose "preudices on these subjects
are not yincible, but yendibe, have Of male
constituents Of twenty years old and upward
over twenty thousand capable OF reading and
| writing, together with a like number OF women
equally well instructed, intelligent, and il pos
sibie, OF still more unconquerable love of justice
liberty, and Christianity, aud corresponding
adherence of Slavery. All these, Mr.. Chairman,
constitute phaanx of emancipationisis whose
prejudices in favor Of universal liberty under
just and humane laws have neither the incl-
nation nor the audacty to ask them to
conquer No sir, mol confess IT, have no
stomach for such a fight. My choice would be
most decidedly, to lei out the job" 10 the gen
tleman from Georgia. Mr.. Chairman, would
say here to that gentleman, or any other South
ern gentleman, in all good faith, that ii his chv-
airy move him TO the conquest Of the prejudices
OF this formidable army of fanatics in favor of
liberty, will, on their part, guarantee to him a
courteous and cordial reception among them, and
| a patient and candid hearing Of all he may have
TO say upon the whole merits of this great con
troyersy between Liberty and Slavery, or between
those he denounces las " fanatics, serpents, and
adders" and the shareholders.
| will go further will guaranty that the
gentleman will not find among that twenty thou
| sand OF my constituents, five hundred who do
not utterly loathe and execrate domestic Slavery
as gross moral wrong, physical, political, and
social curse but nevertheless, he may advocate
Slavery and denounce Liberty, with all the vehe-
mence OF his most exciting defamation; and yet
he shall be received with hospitality, heard with
candOr, and treated with courtesy and kindness /;
not hair OF his head injured, or threat of per-
sonal violence uttered against him The gentle
man may talk to them Of the " rawlings, howlings,
and hissings OF vipers and adders," with the unc-
ton Of one fresh from dance in the snake apart
ment Of Noahs ark, and yet am sure mycon-
stituents will be moved to merriment only, at
such extravagant language, not to insult or vio-
lence. Yes sir though would hold myself re-
sponsible for all / have undertaken in behalf of
the gentleman's safety, and the decorum OF my
constituents, still would not stand surety, that
the graduates of the numberless schoolhouses the
gentleman would see there, might not oppose to
him, arguments more destructive to his reason
ing, than the brickbats from our Pro-Slayery OPP
ponents were wont to prove, to our limbs and
heads. Finally sir, l. am fully persuaded that
the gentleman would return from his campaign
among my constituents, fully satisfied that they
constitute as moral, intelligent, Industrious and
happy a people, dwelling in the delightful and
happy homes conquered from an unbroken and
repulsive wilderness, and transformed by the re-
sstless energy of free labor, into green pastures
and teemng fields and on the WHOLE exhibiting
ms fair and desirable spectacle Of the physical,
social, and moral blessings of liberty as can be
found on the footstool of the benevolent Creator.
But to return to the gentleman's favorte theme,
the conquest" of what he is pleased to term
" prejudces against Savery-or in other words,
our instructive love of Human Liberty This is
the conquest to which we so feryently invited
To do this, involves the sef-perverson Of human
nature from its loftiest, hottest instincts, to its
lowest, fellest depths of utter, hopeless degradas
ton. This is the SUBLIME SPECTACLE" for the
repetition of which the gentleman entertains such
fervent yearning Sir, one having taste for the
sublimity of that spectacle, where SELF is sacri-
feed to DUTY, cannot appreciate the one so raw
ishing TO the gentleman's perverted vision. There
may he subimity in audacious wickedness, such
as was exhibited when the Prince of He'll solicit
ed alteration from the Prince of Life. One whose
nature is ravished by this kind of sublmity may
well enjoy the sublimity of that scene depicted
by the gentleman from Georgia, with so much
apparent and doubt not, real satisfaction.
But sir, the gentleman's wish is father to the
thought that the people of Boston, on the occa-
sion to which he alludes, oyercame their hatred
of Slavery and the insolence of the slave power.
Sir, | ask, and hope some of Massachusetts
will answer on this floor, whether at the COM
mand of an apostate son of New England, the de-
scendants of the Pilgrims and Puritans, quench-
ed the fires Of liberty lighted by their fathers,
rious old Bay State? Whether they did or not
crush out" and conquer their hate of oppres-
sion their devotion TO the principles for the pres
ervation of which, their fathers blood moistened
the first battle fields of the Revolution? Sir as
one OF the humblest of all the children of the old
Bay State, give the degrading intimation Of the
gentleman from Georgia, an indignant denial
No sir never In moment of weak commits
seration for that archange ruined" the peo-
A. ~ A u.
cred their convictions Of duty To themselves
and country but did not conquer their love of
Liberty, nor obliterate from their hearts their
reverence for the principles and deeds of their
glorious fathers. Sir they did not forget the
Revolution; they did not forget Lexington and
Bunker Hill. Their fault was that in moment
of great excitement and strong temptation, they
declined from the " straight and narrow path of
right by doing the evil of yielding to the de
mands of the slave power, - that the supposed
good of even "A chance that Daniel Webster
might be President OF the United States, might
come Of ii. But sir, ! trust that Massachusetts,,
10y that kind of fnanciering has by this time,
learned that the slave power, like its great pro-
gcnitor leads its followers into trouble, but leaves
them to extrcate themselves rs they best may. But
if the cheat in that Presidential game of poker was
not enough to -dispST the delusion this last foul
play Of the slave power, by the aid of free State
polltlcal poachers, 10 steal from Freedom thls
great Territory, and consign il forever to the
doom and curse of Slavery, has uncapped the
volcano; and these 4" smothered convictions"
not conquered prejudices,' are blazing over
New England and all the free States, with an
intensity, threatening the existence of Slavery
itself. And this, Mr.. Chairman, is but the " be-
ginning of the end This new outbreak Of the
fires of Freedom is but the natural reaction of
mans moral nature, from that state OF collapse
into which il fell, yielding 20 the senseless
and infamous compromise measures - that
finality" Of fools without which, the gentleman
from North Carolina, Mr. CLISGNAS,l gravely
told us, we should have no Government now -
TO which reply, if the Federal Government was
unshipped from the Constitution, and placed on
the frail trap-sticks, called the compromise Of
lS50-that hateful aud wicked conglomerate OF
treason and folly--the sooner we have "no Gov
eminent" the better. Let il perish; for when
this Government shall cease beyond reclamation,