The daily union., 1854-02-09


country they are sounding the ocsn OF alarm. and are
getting up remonsanees against passing this
act have heard OF no such circumstances excepting
the lew handed IN by senators upon this floor have
heard oi no great meetings have seen none OF this
excitement; everything is calm around here But II you
would believe what the senator states, you would sup
pose the whole community TO be in stale OF intense
element You would suppose that the South in
tending TO violate sacred compact and to strike down
me very principles OF the constitution Of the United
States tell you that the excitement does and
not exists because the very you say 10 the peo
pie Of any State thai all that have done in this pac
nla was 10 give to the people OF all the States equal
rights and equal privileges in the settlement OF the Ter
rories OF the United States, whatever may have been
the feeling OF opposition before, the excitement after
sach an ayowal, will Instantly yield. and the whole
community will al once resolve il 10 be right,
The senator 10 think ha, slavery great moral
EVIL IN this country that il is against the religion and
against The morals OF the country Ii has the
4 lQr any remedy Tor il Has he any relief 10 afford
What remedy does he propose fof this moral evil which
be says sweeIing through the land, breaking down the
institutions o the country and prostraling the religious
sentiment OF the whole community! II am greatly
mistaken the gen,lemans State has passed law deca
ring that even Tree blacks shall be allowed within The
limits OF that State know that some OF the northern
free States have passed such laws. know that there
such provision in The constitution Of Indiana. 1t de-
cares that free people OF color shall emigrate to
that State. Why is declared 1t is because that
description OF people, when emancpaed degraded.
They not free, in TACT They have but mock free
dom given them. They called tree while they are
deprived OF the great privileges OF freemen in this
try and OF the great incentive not only moral govern
neni but 70 seek exalted stations and thus led
mt depredaions upoa property and upon life, and to vio
late The laws OF the land You refuse them admission
into your States and yet you say that have great
moral evil within the limits of Because have
hree millions OF slaves, we denounced opposed TO
The morals OF the country because do ihese
slaves loose upon the community What would be the
consequences II we were 10 turn them loose If we
turn tuem loose, are you going 10 give them the priv
leges OF freedom! BY turning the siave loose, you will
give him The right OF locomoionyou will give him the
right OF drinking of the pure stream that you
hp uvI " nj Iug
upon the and the broad expanse OF the universe
you look upon them. You give him all these privileges
and yet deny him that which alone make HIM free
Will you give him. or would you deny 10 him. the civil
privileges and the social rights which you po.sessi What
citizen there who would be willing to place them
an equality with his race Would the senator from
Ohio suder free negroes to associate with his own chill
dren in his household! Would he suffer them to sit
down at his own board and enjoy the festivities Of those
such thing. What. then, would he do for them' Will
be give them the right TO vote in the popular elections
Wiii he give them any privileges OF thai sort Will he
give them The right 10 ell in the legislature Will he
give Them the right 10 ST upon the bench, or 10 hold any
responsible Office within the gift OF the people He will
do IT, The negro excluded by his very from
the exercise OF any such privileges And yet you make
hm fee and IN the Of freedom, you make him the
veriest slave ty depving him OF the enjoyment of the
same civil and socia rights aud privileges that you your
self possess You cannot make him free like yourself
You could not II you would, and yoa would II You
could. The thing is utterly impossible Il cannot be
done by man; II can only be done by the working OF
thar mysterious Providence which. in its good time
will break The shackies OF The and him the
position which the gentlemen think he ought to occu
py-to the enjoy yment OF the civil rights which some
think he ought 10 possess, and the social privileges
from which he is now excluded.
Sir must wait Tor that day II is not to be hasten
ed by any act OF You turn him loose his pres
eG condition, and you deny him those rights and prvI
eges, Thereby uaking him the veres beast that lives
You deny hum the benefit OF your laws, and he seorns
them Feeling that be Is not protected by your laws he
amplss your laws beneath his feet, and goes forth TO
murder. TO steal and TO rob lie goes forth with re-
sirani, either moral or divine, prompted alone by his
own lawless passions. TINS is the condition which
he occupies, and which he occupy wherever he Is
emancipated 10 this country. This is The condition IN
which he is found in the slave States where he il ree
az well in the free States and he mus, occupy 50
long his physical organization disquallhes him from
standing on equality with those who are differently
organized from him. This is the inevitable conseq
Bat, sir. the senator would free the slsvefor what
purpose What would be the consequence 10 the North
fhe settlement, o this little territory would be but poor
consideration for the immense loss which the North
would susta n by the emancipation Of the slave Expe
slavery iron the South, and you at once sound the deah
kne 10 you great manufacturing interests of the North
THIS slave institution has been TO you what the tarit
never IL has protected you to extent that could
not have been reached by all the importation laws this
government could have enacted II has given you the
greatest market that has been afforded 10 people
the face OF the earth. You send the stakeholder mil
lions OF dollars worth OF commodities Tor consumption
You furnish him with hI, boots, his shoes, aud bis
blankets, and with all the coarse goods with which he
clothes his slaves. You send him all these abrcs with
no duty imposed upon Them, and with no sort oi re-
snet,on 10 regard 10 the sale The South purchases
these goods from your northern manufacturing establish
mcnts and 10 return sends you the material au o
which you manufacture them his is the result oi the
hated and deesiei system OF slavery which the North,
according 10 the view of The gentleman IRON OHIO, y so
aprto0s 20 eKtrpsie from the face OF toe earth les
sf erpel slavery from The couatry and you sound The
death kneil of your anuisc,uing institutions blight
like the blast ol the slrocco will sweep the whole
land, and your manufacturing Institutions viii wither
beneath "a consuming breath Your people viii wander
about your streets and beg at your doors, who now hnd
In hr iucN Ntfa.
bic consequence and nothing ayett u, II you abolish
slavery. You dependent upon this very savehoding
pop ia,ion. They the very life OF you. Without
lhem, you woold scarcely exist at all With ihem you
are everything 10 commercial and manufacturing point
OF view that you now They have made you what
interests oi all your people 10 break down Instu
ton that has protected AMI loslered you
DO no, intend to elaborate this proposition barely
throw II out TO those who may think proper 70 consider
H. assert that, instead OF slavery being evil 10 the
North is the greatest blessing that has been con
iered upon North. II anybody has right 10 com.
plain oi slavery, il j. we who encountered with IT.
and you who have nothing 10 do with IL exempt from
its evils-f there evils connected with IL You
not responsible for the action of Shareholders. The
Shareholders snbject you 10 sort of Inconvenience
not 10 The least We the people who ate responsible
for the institution, and for conduct to the slave You
have nothing to DO with II, and never ought TO NEEDLE
with IT, Yon inteflered in moment OF excitement
Many OF you have that II most IA
tai error You inienefed nj lime whes. in all
probability, II you had taken moments time to
reflect you would have paused in your mad career and
instead of throwing this restraint around .lavehoding
States in relation TO the settlement OF the Territories you
would have opened the door vide and said 10 ALL 90 forth
and occupy The land which u The right OF all