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


morseless lust of Slavery propagandism, every
other sentiment every other interest, and every
other principle, offered as cheap and fitting
sacrinces. To appease this "never-gorged leyia-
tnAil, ihe whole immense patronage Of the Fed
eral Government Is made 10 minister Before
TINS aeiormed and hateful monster every officer
OF the Executive djndicial departments is made
10 DOW ana swear allegiance, from the President
down, through all that countless swarm num-
bered by hundreds Of thousands, all trained 10
i the lowest and meekest servility Of passive obe-
dience, and distributed and through the
whole land, numerous as frogs in the plaques Cf
| Egypt--each and all Of these civil, military aud
naval dependent on this omnipresent power III
evil The independent man who seeks employ
ment under the Federal Administration, no mat
! ter what his qualifications or htness--no matter
if he were Washington or Franklin, Jay or Adams,
Lafayette or Kosciusko-if he were Ia re-appear
with his old-iashioned devotion 10 human liberty
and ask for petty cerksbip under some braying
ass whom the shareholders and their hunkies had
| wrapped round with the lions skin of authority,
he would be rudely thrust aside, to give place TO
| any worthless puppy, mean enough to fawn at
| the footstool of power for crumbs Of patronage
| Sir, the children of those whose blood soaked the
battle-Geds OF the Revolution, unless degraded
enough TO play the sycophnnt TO this atrocious
| slave power, so lar rs protection or patronage
| under the Government, purchased with their
fathers blood is concerned, are much aliens,
II they had been born and reared cannibals of New
Zealand or the Fejee Islands In their own couD-
try, in the homes Of their fathers and their fathers
fathers, they are aliens and outiaws--made such
| by this guilty combination Of Shareholders and
renegade politicians Of the free States. No sir,
| the Government has ceased to be the Govern
ment OF the people of the United States or for
the people OF the United States Ii is the slave
holders Governments base and vianous oil
garchy, the only intent and purpose of which il,
to multiply offices to be filed by the Government
hangcrs-on, and paupers, generated by the slave
system; to collect the taxes needtnl TO fill the
mouths and pockets of this famished brood OF
cormorants and TO extend, strengthen, and per-
petuate the accused system, SO utterly runons
to the moral, political, and social interests of the
| free laborer. IT is the shareholders Government
| and for one, am for reform separation; am for
justice, and for liberty--without which there can
be no justice; and sir, if this Government will
not secure to of the free States, the Territory
which Is nor free, and has been made and kept free
! by act of Congress- now for more than entire
| generation, then sir it is not the Government in
which the non-slaveholders of the United States
have an interest to the value of the Presidents
salary. For such Government, so administered
have neither respect affection it is fit only
for reform or revolution. On this subject il is
best for MS of the North and South that we UNI
derstand each other. Either the Federal Const-,
tuition does or does not recognise slaves as prop
erty, and guaranty to the MASTER property in his
slaves. If the Constitution does this, then il is
hypocrisy, deluson, "A cheat; but if it does not
then the Government under the joint misrule Of
the slave and dough-face powers has been and
Is, usurpation and a fraud, which will not only
justify, but absolutely demands, either Ad-
| ministraton based on the FREE spirit of the Con-
| stitution or dissolution Of the Union. Sir,
0eak very plainly, and disdain to resort to the
usual cant about devotion TO the Union, and all
that think know my constituents well and am
well known by them. | know that they are will
ing to abide in the Union, under the Constitution
our fathers framed and in that Union, and UNI
der that Constitution, they have borne much and
for the preservation of those in their purity, will
do endure, and dare as much AS may
do, endure, or dare, in any form in which pa
triotism may demand the exercise of those high
qualities; and yet sir feel warranted in saying
to You in their names, and in their behalf: that
whenever the Shareholders and doughfaces shall
have satisfied them that the Federal Constitution
is in reality the bulwark and guaranty of chatte
slavery; and they are called upon TO choose be-
tween Slavery and the Union on the hand
and Liberty and dissolution on the other; with
out an instants delay hesitation, they will
choose Liberty for themselves and their children,
nj any cost and every hazard, But sir, neither !
my constituents entertaia any such view of the
Federal Constitutions We believe its peryersion
To the base use of extending and perpetuating
Slavery, has been a violation of its letter and
spirit aud we are for dethroning the usurpers,
and placing in their stead, those who will SO ex-
ercse the powers Of the Government thereby
TO y" form more perfect Union, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility provide for the com
mon defence, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity.p To these bene6cent ends we be-
lieye the powers Of the Constitution are ample
and that the exercise OF these powers for the ex-
tension or perpetuation of human Slavery. is
usurpation which, if persisted in, will make dis
solution OF the Union not only right, but dufg
To bring the Federal Government actively and
perpetually on the side of Liberty and TO dena-
tionalize Slavery, and confne Il strictly 10 the
States where il exists, the ends we
template, and for these we shall labor, through
sunshine and storm through good report and evil
report--bcaten, shall renew the fght-suc-
cessful, shall push on the yictory--repying TO
all testy gentlemen who oppose "a this resolution
of ours, las so successfully done in 1850
threats TO secede from the Union, what the benev-
client Uncle Toby said TO the fly the world i
wide enough for thee and me" simply reminding
gentlemen that
The fight of Freedom begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire 10 son
Though baiiled oft is ever won"
And that, as il has been heretofore, so il will
be again. Liberty must triumph, and Slavery
perish