, 1855-05-19
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY SATURDAY, MAY 49, 1856

to pay debts owing them from the South
See Uncle Toms Cabin.
A. The numberof Northern church mem
bers who buy cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco
oranges, pine-apples, figs, ginger, cocoa
melons, and thousand other things raised
by slave labor.
3. The number Of Northern church mem.
bers who have intermarried with Slavehold,
ers, and have thus become shareholders
themselves; or enjoy the wealth made by
the blood Of the slaves especially if there
be any Northern ministers Of the Gospel
iu such predicament.
6. The number of Northern church mem.
bers who arc the descendants of the men
who kidnapped negroes in Africa and
brought them to Virginia and New England
in former years.
I. The aggregate and individual wealth
Of the members thus descended, and what
action is best 10 compel them to give dollar
for dollar in equaizng the loss of the Sonth
by emancipation.
s. The number of Northern church mem
bers who own stock in underground rail.
roads, running off fugitive slaves, and in
Sabbath-bregking railroads and canals.
10 That special commission be sent up
Red river to ascertain whether Legrcc, who
whipped Uncle Tom to death, (ond who
was Northern gentlemen, be not still in
connection With some Northern church in
good and regular standing.
IL. The number of Northern church
members who attend meetings Of Spiritual
Rappers, or Bloomers, or Women's Rights
Conventions
/. -. The number of Northern church
members who are cruel husbands.
l3. The number of Northern church
members who are henpecked husbands.
As it is always difficult TO know the
temper of speaker and audience from a
printed report, as is due alike to DR.. r.,
to the whole assembly, and the galleries
to say that he in, reading these resolutions,
throughout his speech, evinced great good
humor and kindness of feeling, which was
equally manifested 10y the assembly and
spectators repeatedly while he was on the
floor
Dr. r. then proceeded: Mr.. Moderator,
| move this amendment in in the best
spirit l desire TO initiate the committee
in their refinement and delicacy of distine-
ton disavow all intention to be imper
tineRtly inquisitorial l intend to be in
quisitoFial, as the committee says they are,
but not iRipertiae,aly 80. No, sir, we Of the
South, who desire the removal of the evil Of
slavery, and belive it will pass away in the
developments Of Providence, are grieved
when we read your graphic, shuddering
pictures Of the middle passage"-the slave
ship filling up her canvass as the shot
pours after her from English and American
guns; see her then hurling hogshead after
hogshead, filled with living slaves, into the
deep, and, thus lightcned, escape. Sir,
what horror to believe that clipper ship
was built by the hands Of Northern, noisy,
abolition church membersl ayes 1 know
some in new York and Boston," said one
Of the crowd Again, sir, when VIC walk
along our Broadtcays and see, as we do,
the soft hands Of your church member
sending of to the South, not any cloth
ing to the slave, but manacles and whips,
manufactured expressly for him-what
must we think Of your consistency Of char
acter? True true And what must we
think Of our self rightcosness when we
know your church members order the sale
OF slaves-yes, slaves such as ST. Clair's,
and under circumstances involving all the
separations and oil the loathsome things
you so mournfully deplorc. Your Mrs.
Stowe says 50, and it is so without her
testimony. l have read that splendid bad
boOk-splendid in its genius, over which 1
have wept, and laughed and got mad
Here some one said, "all at the same
time" Yes all at the same time. Bad in
its theology, bad in its morality, bad in its
temporary evil inAence here in the North,
England and all the continent of Europe;
bad, because her isolated aTuelties will be
taken whether so meant by her or mott as
the general condition Of the southern life;
while her Shelbys, and St. Clairs, and
Evas will be looked upon as angel visitors,
lingering for q moment in that earthly hell.
The impression made By The book is a false
hood. ~. ..
Sir, why do your Northern chupeh MEM
bers and philanthropists by Southern pro-
ducts at all. You know you are purehas-
ing cotton, rice, sugar, sprinkled with
blood, life ally from the lash Of the driver?
Why do you buyH What's the difference
between my flching this blood-Stained
cotton from the outraged negro, and you
standing by taking it from me! What's the
differencel You yourselves say, in your
distractions, there is no difference, and
yet you daily stain your hands in this hor-
rid traffic. You hate the traitor, but you
Hove the treason Your ladies too, o how
they shun the slaYe-owners at a distance in
The abstract. But, alas, when they see him
in the concrete; when they see the slave
owner himaLf, standing before them--not
Fthe brutal driver, but the splendid gentle
man, with his unmistakable grace Of car
riage and ease of manners-why 10, behold,
the lady says. 0 6e on your slavery
what 'oretA you arel But, indeed, sir
love your sugar; and truly sir, loretel as
you are, ! love you too" Your gentlemen
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