Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-14

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/ Will he divided his property between his wife
and children. His friends, think his brothers,
hearing OF his death, came forward and demand
ed the property The widow and children were
! indignant at the demand. They, too, We're seized,
and the validity of that marriage and will was
| tried before Judge Sharkey, OF that State, who
4 decided that the whole matter fraud upon
the law of Slavery; that the property belonged
TO the collateral heirs His widow was sold by
the surviving brothers, the children We're bid
| off at public auction, and both mother and
children now toll in chains or sleep in servie
| graves.
Gentlemen of the free States Are you pre-
pared to give your voice in favor OF permitting
such outrages upon humanity in Nebraska
| Let those Northern members who sustain this
proposition stand forth before the world, and
avow their infdelity to freedom. Let them say
boldly that they are willing to assume the in
fanny Of consenting to the preparation OF such
iniquitics.
These cases are merely specimens of what con-
| tinually occurs in slaveholding communities.
But they show that Slavery is the Equalization of
every crime known in the catalogue Of offences.
Yet no language can convey correct idea Of its
atrocity. That is beyond description. II arose
| in barbarous age, aud has come down to us at
| tended with the crimes of a darker period Of the
world.
As already Observed it is excluded by the act
|
/ there without the consent, without the votes Of
Northern Representatives. No argument, no soph-
istry, no evasion, can avoid this obvious fact. To
| vote for the repeal Of the Missouri compromise,
/ is to vote for the abolition of Freedom, and in
/ favor OF permitting these crimes in Nebraska. II
will involve those who vote for it in all the guilt
attending that institution. II will be in vain for
| gentlemen to say they leave the people of Ne
braska to commit the crime if they choose! II
you, gentlemen, stand by, and consent that your
fellow man may, it he choose, commit murder,
you will be hanged with him. You will deserve
| the same fate he receives. If you consent that
| slave markets shall be opened up in that Terri
| tory; that men shall there be bought and sold,
robbed of their toll their intellects brutazed shot
! down and murdered; if you vote to repeal this
Missouri prohibition for the very purpose of en-
ablng others to commit these offences, will you
/ be less guilty before Heaven than those by whose
/ hands these murders and other crimes are com
mtted? Will not the blood of these victims stain
| your garments
1t is true that, for conserving to such iniquties,
for enacting laws to authorize others to commit
them, we do not incur the liability Of being
hanged, for the reason that human laws do not
/ reach US, on account of the impertection of hui
man institutions. But are we less guilty in the
view of good men, in the view of Him who sees
and judges the hearth
We are religious people-a religious nation
When our fathers, at the very font of our national
| baptism, declared their objects and designs in
separating from the mother country they appeal
| ed I" to the SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD" for
the rectitude Of their intentions. Under our Con-
stitution, we each, at yonder altar before enter
ing upon the work of Legislation, make solemn
appeal to the "SEARcHER OF ALL HEARTS that
we viii faithfully discharge duties. We
| all profess to believe ourselves responsible to a
| Higher Power for our conduct.
L Gin Law hopJ
and appeal to the " .SuproneJudge Of The acorld /"
for the rectitude Of our intentions, when we vote
| for the repeal of this prohibition of crime in Ne
braska? Tell me not that the people have no
right to judge us that we are responsible to God
alone. BY our fruits they must and will know us.
Their judgment constitutes the only earthly tri-
bunal to which we are subjected for crimes COM
mtted in our official capacity
| The gentleman from New Hampshire, [Mr.
HIBBARD, Thought, spoke feelingy of the people
1 for having hanged in ehigy the Northern men,
| bers of Congress who consented to spread the
| curse of human bondage Missouri, and also
of those who now hang in efigy members of the
Senate who labor to spread these God-defying
crimes over that Territory. Now, sir, am will
ing that the people shall act as their judgments
dictate in such matters. OF the propriety of
such symbolical executions they are the proper
judges. If member here does that which
the people think compares in moral guilt with
legal murder, let them pass sentence, and if they
please typify the execution by hanging the man
in efiigy provided they do not violate the public
peace. Why, sir | would sooner see myself
hanged in efiigy ten thousand times, aye, would
rather close my earthly career on the scaffold,
than battle my soul in thegult of legalizing those
crimes in that Territory.
| The gentleman from New Hampshire Mr.. HIB- |
BARD] spoke of the clergy in terms of strong con-
demnation, for their labors to prevent the con-
summation of this great iniquty shall not
stop here to defend those clergymen. The blow |
was aimed at the doctrine of holding us respon-
sible for our official conduct 1t was aimed at
religion, at Gods higher law, often denied
in the other end of the Capitol and in this Hall |
so often sneered at and ridicued by gentlemen
who vote to legalze crimes revolving to ma
lures. Had the clergy of New England and other
portions OF the country omitted TO do all in their |
power to prevent the consummation of this in |
iquitous bill, they would have shown themselves
unworthy of their profession. We should have
regarded them moral c0Wdrds,' apostates from
that gospel whose Divine Author offered up his |
life for the PRONUNCIATION of truth For one, re-
pudiate the preacher who hesitates to raise his
voice and exert his influence against niquites
and crimes, whether committed in the high places
of our nation, or elsewhere. | will hear no such |
protested minister preach indeed, would re-
pudiate any such religion, which permitted us TO
Cypress, torture, and rob our fellow man; to shut
up his intellect, mpoverish his soul, blot out his
hope of more glorious existence hereafter.
| We are told here, and in the other end of the
Capitol that the clergy should attend to their
Aocks; that they should not interfere in politics
that religion and politics separate matters
The argument is worthy of the occasion ii is
perfectly natural that should endeavor 10
shield themselves from exposure. But ask: Is il
possible that, in this age enlightened statesmen
can suppose themselves shielded from moral aud
religious responsibility while acting here2 Do
they iatter themselves that their actions hid
den from the Sedrcher Of all hearts Do they re-
gard themselves less guilty in the sight of Heaven,
when they vote TO permit the people Of Nebraska
to sell men and women, than they would be, were
| they to go there themselves aud deal in human
flesh? If they vote to permit men in Nebraska TO
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