The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-20

Profits of exchange operations 100000
Profits on northern manufactures sold NJ the
South % 25o 600
Profits western produce descending the
Mississippi 100000
Profits on northern capital employed at the
South e,00o00o
Aggregate profits Of the North per ss 436 72s
Take The single item, cotton, and note ts importance:
Bales Hands en- Capital in
sumed in is4a poyed. vested.
Great Britain I8l9422 100000 S3Goyo0oo00
Europe 9s3943 $4,000 ls3oo0Do0
United States $4,000 l60634 l220O00OO
OF this large consumption million eight hundred
thousand bales furnished by The southern States and
its fabrication supported four millions Of whites The pro-
duchon, number OF persons supported by and capital
gagged IN this staple yearly and daily increasing Sir
conynson which should swallow up this single article
of southern production would shake their downfall the
most powerful governments earth. win not press
this inquiry further Fanaticsm unrebuked by reason
sectional ambition unchecked hy solemn compact
here their victory turned ashes and defeat Yes sir
if the South base enough If she enough
10 submit TO the overthrow Of her honor peace and exist
ence the triumph Of the North would be that Of the glada
tor who died in receiving the submission of his foe
We have been told sir that desolaon follows the track
of the slave. atter-day saint Mr. SUMsER] says that
serlity tracks the slave ii tracked Ata horse These
tables the But appeal from the Mosaic whig
OF to-day to the genuine wig Of l7T6 appeal TO old
John Adams reyered st in Boston. He said, in 1T76
That as to this matter the wealth of State it Of
no consequence by what name You called your people
whether by that of freemen of slaves. That in
countries the aboring poor called feeen in Others
they called slaves but that the difference the
State was imaginary only. What matters it whether
landlord employing ten laborers his farm gives them
annually as much money NJ viii buy them the
saries Of life gives them those short hand
The ten laborers add much wealth annually the
State increase its exports much in the the
other. Certainly, five hundred freenen produce
profits greater surplus for the OF taxes than FIVE
hundred slaves Suppose by any extraordinary operation Of
nature OF law one half the laborerS Of State could in
the Of one night he transformed into slaves would
the State he made the poorer the less able pay
That The condition OF the aoring poor in most countrie
that OF the fishermen particularly Of the northern States
as abec az that Of slaves Madison Papers Isl VOL 29th
page
storms and purified by the hunders Of the revolution and
uttered in the very crisis Of the struggle We have been
told too, that the Institution furnishes and degrades both
submit tables drawn from the of the last
three decades sufficient charges of this kind
Sir fanaiicsm must stain records and burn up
archives, before Il plausibly make them We have
been told also that there Is acerbity in the relation be-
tween master and slave That there have been specific
cases Of excess aud harbartv none win DENY but
whoever asserts cruelty to be the rule es fact to utter
base slander When have southern slaves perished Of
famine in the highways Of life and il the crowded Of
the city When have they unsparingy thrust out from
the bosom Of society, Endicaed their knshp with human
y only by scattering around the seeds of pestenee and
death Sir the relation between and slave is
Of kindness and protection and often the part Of the
master Of ennobiing hcroism Go with me sir 70 the
plantation nestled in yonder sunny isle in distant State
On IL there nearly a thousand slaves They
tented and quiet and happy for they unvexed by
uncankercd want eolact, uanhood us
comforts, and youth its sports.
But sir the loneliness Of that spot sckeing haze
IS sealthy creapng Pesflence which smies the laurel
browed Ms well as the lowesi the white man as well as
the black manpclcnoe is folding around il lis wing Of
darkness and death Thick and fast fly the from
the full quiver and, all sides the mournful
als Of their aim and havoc The very elements
fearully breeding death for the dews of night ds pes
thence aud the balm Of the winds is envenomed into
poison. Sir the oholera--tle Eoourge q God yet
crippled by sciencethe cholera is there IL has swept
iron kinQdDrnx
waters and decmated cities, pursued only by funeral
cry and il Isuses and snlleny hovers that de
voted spot striking 10 the right hand and 10 The left hand
and sparing neither age sex, color Tidngs Of
this 20 forth in search of the master An bonored repre-
sentative in the council hall Of mighty people they find
him Surrounded by his occupied with grave inter
and with All the pleasures Of society hs beck they
find him What docs be do7 He throws aside his Legislative
robe from his seat in the council chamber and gec
forth 10 minister, with bis hands 10 his pestileuce
stricken African slave. Sir, have drawn ron fancy
sketch have told yon truthful storyt is the story Of
an honorable colleague, Mr.. AIKEN That plantation is
his and year ago he left these halls minister
with his hands his suffering slaves though such
ministry exposed his life 70 fearful peril and almost certain
death
Tell me now, sir what OF harshncss there n in this
lation
Turn your eyes yonder hand Of desert and srocco and
see ~ Wild and savage inhabitants engaged IN cessees
strife win victims and rvei chains and tell me IL there
be less Of harshncss in their relation OF kinshp Turn
them nearer home among people who had slaves, but
who sold them when they became pratless and then de-
nounccd slavery pracy-among people some Of whom
instgate slaves 70 midnight murder and conhagraon
and when they have sedHced them TO their free bills leave
them there 10 wander 10 stsrro to blaphem and TO die
and tell there he less Of harzhness IN this relation Of
brotherhood
My time Mr. Chairman viii not allow TO discuss the
doctrine Of squatier sovereignty regard IL subvcr
sve Of the constitution and in derogaton Of the rights of
the South The right of sefgoyernment under sys-
tenn Is connected with domcil in State whoever goes
Terriior has only the rights which have been confer
red upon the Territory II the inhabitants Of Territory
are sovereign they may refuse come into the Union
they may establish what form Of government they please
II sovereignty be not In the inhabitants of the Tertiary II
must be In the federal government the States sevealy
We have shown that u Is In the latter and that the former
Is but the agent trustee OF the States Then, sir The
South has right 10 demand equal participation in the
Territores- No get my support whirh does
not secure this right
Sir II is the duty of Congress under the constitution
protect the claims n the citizens Of the South this
property and not turn them to the Judiciary,
the weakest branch Of every government Sferny,
should the South demand that these agessons upon her
rights and peace should Their aim is wrap her
in flames and stain her with blood while property is uni
rcrsally conscated The fapssica element which ~ eav-
ening the North with unrebuked sudacy declares this ter
rble puoa The vindctive leader Of this relentless cru
sade when told that abotonsm would blast the South
dSoubwest would involve the whites In indiscriminae