Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-06

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protect the freedom Of American cltzens IN
foreign lands but now even makes common
cause with those who favor the criminal exf m
sion Of Slavery, and with the roDDerS ol 'ho
rights Of the free North"
These resolutions, during the reading, were
received with frequent bursts of applause, and
the final one with shout which made the hall
ring A voice in the crowd moved that
translation be made Of them, and that copy
properly attcsted DO sent TO Washington, Tor the
benefit Of tho Senator'S and Representatives
there assembled. [Applauso The Chairman
then introduced the fret speaker upon the res
0lutionH
Mr.. Foersch who said, in substance: My
German fellow-citizens many time have
had occasion to explain and recommend demo-
cratic principles to you, but must confess that
at no time have spoken more cheerfplly than
Tonight not only because this.is the old head
quarters Of the German Democracy, but be-
cause sec that You stand here in solid columns,
hundreds upon hundreds, ready to 60 whore
Germans belong, to the side Of liberty and
right NV opinions and feelings in regard to
the Nebraska bill are known to you. Night
before last treated it from social point Of
view; tonight will dwell upon the political
side Of the question. First If we allow the
Nebraska bill to pass, we commit fraud upon
the Indians. You all know that it was the
policy Of Andrew jackson not to annihilate
the aborigines, hut to conquer them for civil
zation. You all know, and this Mr. Newman
also knows, that we then supported Andrew
jackson, by word and pen, for saying, /" Give
to the Indians free territory they are men,
capable Of civilization, and we may win them
for our country And the so-called Missouri
Territory was given to them--the Same that
thew now want to organize as Nebraska and
Kansas--and a law was made by which the
settlement of the Territory was prohibited,
German emigrants excluded from it under the
belief that the time would come when the In
dams Of this Territory might be won to civil
cation. But now, 10! here comes the Little
Giant from Illinois, with his accompliccs, and
thev saw. What DO we care for the Indians
They are a savage people, unfit for civliza-
tion-a people destined to be crowded from
the face Of the earthD With shameful effront-
ery they say, 1--WE will stand no longer by
those old treaties we care not for Monroe,
nor for Madison, nor for Andrew Jackson the
Territoryis ours Just as the Emperor Mich
olas saws, Turkey is mine." ask you, my
brethren. il this honest What will become
Of these United States If the most sacred trea-
ties are trampled under foot? Where shall be
our hold on what ground shall we stand ii
eyery Congress is at liberty to destroy contracts
made and concluded in good faith? Remem-
Der that lust as they treat the Indian they will
by and by treat as Why, they have already
asked openly, "What do we care for the Ger
man?u And let me ask you, what do they
want us for? They want us to do cheap work
for them, cheaper than they can get it from
others. Of what use else is immigration
Oh, cav they, they are no better than the In
dams! And as they treat the Indians, so do
they the black men.
Night before last | showed how, by slave
breeding in the South, the laborer ut the North
is also enslaved-how the land monopoly in
the West tends likewise to the enslaving of the
white laborer in the East. All these things
tend to destroy the liberty Of the poor emigrant
laborer. That speech Of mine has been pub
lished in tho New York Abendzeifssng, 30
need not repeat it. For the present shall but
treat of the so-called sovereignty of the Terri
tories. Here the Democrats come, sayings We
must not interfere with the domestic affairs Of
States and Territories. Once that was gDem-
ocrstic principle, but it is not 80 now. The
Constitution of the United States declares that
taxes as well as representation shall be divided
according to population; and afterward il was
granted to the slave States that the master
should have vote besides his own for q GER
tain number of slaves; that was an agreement
between the South and North. Again, it is
said that neither the District OF Columbia nor
Territories shall have any representation in
Congress. Further, the Constitution says that
Congress shall have power TO make all neces-
sary rules and institutions for the Territories
of tho Tinted States. Here you see what the
sovereignty Of Territories ia. They want 10
have Nebraska free, they say that is they
want to pass tho Nebraska BILL no that the
Of the South may purchase thou
sands and thousands Of acres there, and carry
their slaves with them afterward every white
man voter. with those additional votes which
he has in behalf Of the enslavcd black men, to
keep them enslaved for all future time Do
YOU think that the black men will be asked if
they consent to such an arrangement? Not ut
ALL They say the Dutchman is stupid, 30 IL
the negro but zoe are smart. A hundred stu
pid men make Just one smart Shareholder. That
is their calculation. Cheers.
Now, ! ask every sensiblc man, is not the
door in this way thrown wide open to Slavery
And here comes miserable, dirty sheet, the
New York Stats Zeitung, with the impudent
question, aWell, il the majority want Slavery,
why should it not be introduccd!n Look here
my friends. Suppose there are in this city
about two hundred and fifty men from Hano
YER, and perhaps ~ many in Jeraey. III the
idea should suddenly strike them, let us fetch
the Elector of Hesse over here to rule us
Why notg Laughter. Well, think this is
nearly the same thing as giving to few hun
dred white men the power to enslavc thousands
and thousands Of their fellow men. You may
see by this that the consequences of such doc
trines lead 80 results utterly ridiculous And
mark, that there are now no voters in the Ter
ritory; the fact ia, the men of the South want
to settle there expressly to vote Slavery in. At
last they bring forward tho Homestead bill
We have been agitating this measure for many
years and have seen how they mutilated and
perverted it to destroy its object and even its
name. Formerly it was called the Land Re
form measure; now they have cut it down TO
a simple g Homestead billn The active polti-
clans have allied themselves with tho land mo-
nopolist as their king Perhaps it is better
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