Daily national era., 1854-01-07

stitute an obstacle to abolition, requiring all the
wisdom and discretion of Legislature and
people; but the removal of free blacks, or the
purchase and deportation OF slaves, can involve
no danger. If indeed, the whole fabric shall
totter to it's fall, when touched by the gentlest
hand, IL must rest on n precarious foundation
If danger turks under just, benignant legisin-
ton, aiming to relieve both master and slave
to combine justice with hnmanity--will the
period ever come when it will be safe to act
But admitting the subject cannot be ap
preached without danger n0w, the great ques'
tion for us, to determine Is, whether, by delay
it may not become fearfully worse, and in pro-
cess Of time attain a magnitude far transcend
ing our feeble powers. We owe it to our chill
drcn to determine whether we or they shall
incur the hazard Of attempting something,
Gentlemen say, Let things alone; the evil will
correct itself Sir, we may let things alone,
but they will not let us alone. We cannot COR
rect the march Of lime, nor stop the current OF
events We cannot change the course Of ma
ture nor prevent the silent but snre operation
of causes now at work
Extracts from the speech Of Philip A Boiling,
Of Buckingham.
The time will come--and it may be sooner
than many are willing to believe-when this
oppressed and degraded race cannot be held as
they now are--when change will be effected,
by means abhorrent Mr.. Speaker, to you, and
to the feelings OF every good man.
The wounded adder will recoil, and sting
the foot that tramples upon it. The day is fast
approaching, when those who oppose all action
upon this subject, and, instead of aiding in de-
vising some feasible plan for freeing their coun
try from an acknowledged curse, cry impos-
si6ie y to every plan suggested, will curse their
perverseness and lament their folly.
Those gentlemen who hug Slavery to their
bosoms and "roll it as a sweet morsel under
their tongues have been very lavish in their
denunciations of all who are for stirring one
inch on this subject
There is, sir, "still, small voice. which
speaks to the heart of man in q tone too clear
and distinct to be disregarded. 1t tells him
that every system of Slavery is based upon in
Justice and oppression. If gentlemen disregard
it now aud lnll their consciences to sleep, they
NAV be aroused to sense of their danger
when it is too late to repair their errors
However the employment of slave labor
might be defended gentlemen would not, could
not Justify the traffic in human beings. High
minded men should disdain to hold their fell
low-creatures as articles of traffic, disregarding
all the ties of blood and affection, tearing asun-
der all those sympathies dear to men-dividing
husbands and wives, parents and children, as
they would cut asunder piece of cotton CLOTH
| They hayc hearts and feelings, like other men.
| How many a broken heart, how many Rachel,
mourns because her house is left unto her des-
olate! The time has come when these feelings
| could not be suppressed-the day would come
when they could not be resisted Slavery was
and had long been, offensive to the moral feel
ings of large proportion Of the community.
Their lips had been sealed, but their minds had
been unfettered many had thought, and
thought deeply, on the subject This, sir, is a
| Christian community. They read in their
Bibles DO unto all men as you soould haze
! them do unto you ~ and this golden rule and
| Slavery are hard to reconcile. Gentlemen may
perhaps curl the lip Of scorn Mt such consider
Extracts from the speech Of Charles j. Faulkner,
Of Berkley
Mystery in State affairs, have always con-
sidered impolitic and unwise II is unsuited to
the genius of this Government, which is based
upon the rights Of the people to free and full
examination Of whatever concerns their inter-
est and happiness. Sir, they pay you for your
counsel they have right to it, IL there be
danger, let US know it, and prepare for the
worst. If Slavery can be eradicated,
/ y
| let that melancholy fact be distinctly ascer.
tanned and let those who are, we have been
told, now awaiting with painful solicitude the
result Of your determination, pack up their
household goods, and fnd among the forests
and prairies Of the West that security and re-
pose which their native land does not afford.
Wherever the voice Of your people has been
hoard, since the agitation of this question, it
has sustained your determination, and called
| for the present inquiry. have heard of courts,
meetings, county petitions, and county memo
rails | have heard from the north, the east
and the south. They are oil, with one voice,
against the continuance Of Slavery-none for
| il. The press too--that mirror Of public sem
timent-that concentrated will of a whole COM
munity--has been heard from one extremity of
the State to the other. Its power is with us /;
it's moral force is united, efficient and encour-
aging.
Again sir, | ask, what new fact has oc-
curred-what new light has dawned upon the
gentleman from Mecklenburg-that we should
DO called upon TO retrace our course and to
disappoint the hopes which our first manly de.
cision gave Does not the same evil exist Is
il not increasipgi Does not every day give it
permanency and forcei Is il not rising, like
heavy and portentous cloud, above the hori.
xon, extending it's deep and sable volumes
athwart the sky and gathering in its impene
trable folds the active materials Of elemental
war : And yet shall we be requested to close
our eyes TO the danger, and, without an effort
without even an inquiry, TO yield to the i'm.
pulses of dark and whitening despair Sir,
Is this manly legislation Is Il correct? Is it
honest legislation lsit acting with that fdcl-
ity to our constituents which their sacred in
terest requiresf
Sir, If this evil great as it is, was even sta
tionary-if the worthy gentleman from Meek
lenburg and Brunswick Mr.. Gholsonl could
give us any assurance that 1t would not increase
until it reaches point which is too horrible to
contemplate, ] might be induced to acqniesce
in the course which their pathetic appeals sug-
gest. But when they know it is otherwise
whom they know that each successive blow is
detracting from the small space Of ground left