The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-23

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legged class, highly offended and e1asperated, were
brought accept this compromise their part by
Of the then obsolete fugtvesaye law OF 1893
with the addition OF the revolving features Of attempted
suspension the hQJeas corpus absolute prohibition Of
the trial by jury effective repeal OF vital rules Of proce
dure aad evidence and the substitution Of commissioners
place Of OF justice in derogaton OF the consttu
ton You all remember how laboronsly and ostentaous-
y this compromise associated with the me-honored
forms and soemnities OF the Missouri Compromise how
declared the result of ordinary legislation,
but a contract with mutual equivalents by The privileged
with the unprVieged classes rrepeaabe and even una
mendable without perhdy and even treason against the
constitution and the Union You all remember how not
withstanding your protests and mine it urgently yo-
ehtly, DANGEROUSLY ratified and confirmed full fair
and final and perpetual adjustment by the two great polit
iea conventions OF the country representing the whole
people Of the United States and at Baltimore in $685. and
how the heroic and generous Scott rejected 10 bring
into the presidency who might more safely be trusted
10 defend aud preserve and establish 1t forever
Nevertheless scarcely year had elapsed before the
privileged class, using Of representatives AZ
their instruments broke up not only this Compromise Of
1850 bat the Compromise Of 1920 and the ordinance
of 1884, and obtained the declaration Of Congress that all
these settlements far they adverse to the pyi
legged class unconstitutional usnrpations Of egsa-
tive power
do stop to sgmatize to characterize these
aggressions OF what would it be TO charge peridy
when the losses deplore have resulted from
imbeeity and cowardice2 do dwell, as others
often and justly do, upon tue atrocioua usnrpaton OF
the government Of Kansas lay the Shareholders OF Missouri
nor even the batbarous aud tyranniea code which
they established 10 se freedom in that Territory
yet the fraudulent and nefrious connvance OF
the President with the usurpers Nor viii draw IN this
picture already too darky shaded the personal humila
tons which daily come home to yourselves in the conduct
CT your affairs Yop commanded by uncon-
sutonal law Of Congress TO seze and deliver up 10 the
members OF that privileged class their fugitive slaves
under pain OF Imprisonment and forfeiture Of your
tales You may not interpose between the armed slave
holder and the wounded slave TO prevent his being
murdered without coming under arrest for treason
may you his naked and laceFated limbs except
by stealth You have fought twenty years, and with
but partial success for the constitutional right TO lay
your circumstances the table of Congress You may
tell the freed who reaches your borders that he
free without being seized by atederal court and condemned
without trial or even accusation TO an Imprisonment
without bail manprize and without limitation Of
ence Your representatives In either house of Congress
must speak with baed breath and hunbied in
presenee OF the representatives OF the privileged class lest
justice be denied TO your old soldiers when they claim their
pensions TO your laborers when they claim the perform
of their contracts with the government The Pres
dent OF The United States Is reduced TO the position of
deputy OF the privileged class emptyng the treasury and
marsaling baalions and ships-ofwar TO dragoon you
into the execution of the ugitiveslave law the
hand while he removes and judges at their
mand who attempt to maintain lawful and constitutional
resistance against them in the Territory OF Kansas The
Vice President OF The United States and the Speaker of the
House Of Representatives are safe men whom the privi-
legged class trust in every The of the judi
CARY OF the Territories and Of the foreign relations is
ntrused in either house assured supporters OF that class
Protection denied TO your WOOL while it freely given
to the shareholders sugar Millions Of OF the public
domain freely given TO Alabama FOR railroads and
as gratucs while not dollar be obtained
the rocks of Hell Gate The sands OF the Oveslaugb
the bars IN Lake ST CLAIR, the mouths OF your lake
harbors Canada, lying ell along your northern borders,
must noteven be looked upon lest you may while
millions upon millions relavished in war and diplomacy to
and spread slavery louisiana Florida Texas
Mexico Cuba, and Central America. Your liberty of
speech where is it'll You may not without rehuke,
speak Of desposm in foreign lands lest the slave oyerhear
you the plantations of the privileged class the
foreign despot visit them in realaon for your uDnvail
ing sympathy The national flag the emblem Of universal
liberty, cargoes of slaves only in your
view but haunts defiance them in foreign ports.
Judges OF the United States courts safe under the protec
ton OF the President and the Senate charge grand ures
Ia advance Of any question: that obnoxious and unequal
federal laws constitutional and obligatory they give
counsel to legislative bodies how frame laws which
they win sustain instead of waiting review tiese laws
when enacted They the writ of freedom To
an engine Of slavery and they pervet the Of pun
sng irregularities committed in their presence into the
machinery OF tyranny odious that Of the starcha
ber The privileged class in Virginia imprison your
in their ports in retaliation the independence OF
Your executive authorities and you already in a
doubtful struggle for the right TO exclude the traffic in
slaves from your own borders.
will only ask, in concluding this humiiiaing rehearsal
whether there is not in this privileged country privileged
class whether il does not stand enduring found-
on whether 1t is not growing stronger and stronger
while the unpriveged class grows weaker and weaker
whether its further grow and would be
merely detrimental but dangerous and whether there is
any hope to arrest that growth and extension hereafter if
the attempt shall not be made nowA
The change that has become at last necessary is as
easy 10 ne made as II IS necessary The whole number OF
Shareholders Is only three hundred and fifty thousand
hundedth part Of the entire population of the country
If you add their parents children immediate relatives and
dependents, they two mionsone-iiteenth part of
the American people Slavery is not, and be,
perpetual 1t VIII be overthrown either peacefully and
lawfully under this institution or it will work the sub
version Of the constitution, together with its
throw Then the Shareholders would perish in the strug
gle. The change be made without violence and
by the agency of the balotbox The temper Of the ma
ton is just liberal, orbearing. 1t win contribute any
money and endure any sacrifices TO effect this great and
important change; indeed it is half made already. The
House Of Representatives is already yours it always
must be when you choose to have it. The Senate of the
United States is equally within your power if you only
will persistenty endeavor for two years. to have it. Not
wthsandng ell The wrong that has been done not another
slave State can come into the Union Make only one
years CONSTANT decisive effort and you determine what
States shall be admitted.
The viii exists because the evil has become intolerable
and the necessity OF remedy is universally acknowledged
What, them is wanted Organization Organization
Nothing but organization.
Shall we organize2 Why not2 Can we maintain the
revolution anspcously begun without organization
Certainly not Are you apprehensive Of failure because
the revolution is everywhere and at all times equally
successful Was there revolution that equally
successful at all times and everywhere Certainly
DO you say that you cannot abolish slavery in the priv
legged States We have need, purpose, cOnsttu
onal power, duty to do Providence has deyolved
that duty others and the organic law leaves it wisely
TO them We have power avert the extension OF slavery
in the Territories of the Union and that is enough Do
you doubt that power2 Did not the of lTsT
municipal power in the unorganzed Territories in the
Union Who it2 Ii is not any foreign States is not
OF the American States it ID the people in the Ter
rtores II the Congress of the whole United States and