The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-07-31

federation was formed; it was settled egain
in the common danger, and common glory OF
our great Revolution; il was settled again
in the Federal Constitution. ] say nothing
about the unspeakable folly OF arguing as
Statesman, that a Slave State aid Free
State cannot tolerate each other in one con-
federacy, supposing the question to be now
for the first time considered. What | say is,
that it is no longer possible for the men OF
North to open that question, without revolu-
ton, and without disluyalty to erery national
act and movement Of our past history; and
u hat I mean is, that they cannot do this
without so weakening and disgracing them
selves, and SO Strengthening and enoblIng
Us, that God, posterlty, fortune, and the hearts
of the combatants must feel the effect of
the opposite conduct and position of the par
ties. To which add, in the second place, that
this conduct of the men of the North, besides
being a base political after'hought, is de-
lberate breach of faith, cemented by the
blood of our fathers; an ignoble reiractlon
of plighted honor and truth and justice;
calculated sacrifice of those Of their own
race, and lineage, and house, and blood, for
those of a strange kindred and clime-with-
out any new circumstance or additional rea-
son, for so atrocious perfidy against pighted
troth Add again, in the thIrd place, the
atrociiy of that state of heart in which the
North presses this bloody arbrtrament, under
the settled belief that she risks nothing there
by. and that we rick everything; and the
fervOr of that state of soul, in which the
South reused by so much insult, injustice
and danger, really does risk all, with sub
lime purpose, TO The last man, TO win all
And then, an the fourth place, add the sort of
conviction, with which the two parties thus
Il oil fhpurealVoS that deadly
strife; and if you be as wise as you are elo-
quent-you may comprehend, what as yet
} you seem to have wholly overwhelmingly
the settled confidence of the eniIre Slave
States, that they are fully able to make the
men of the North repent that ever they
broke. constitutions, aud forgot ancestral
, ties, and outraged ma ional oligations, III
order to ruin en- millions of the most elevat-
| ed race on the face oil the earth, upon the
hazard-if not the pretext-of benettlng the
third part Of that number, of one of the most
degarded races In the world. You will have
: battle-and that without truce or compro-
} mse-aud that whenever you can reach US
and that until the field is entirely won!-
} For my part, sir, would gladly shun that
i battle; gladly give my blood To arresllt, II It
were begun. For whoever lives TO see that
battle fought, will see one more example
| the annals of mankind, that they who boast
!, themselves when they grid their harness on,
D are not enough to wall when they come to
f put it off
So far then you may perceive, that &C.
cording to the fxed and unaninh rs convic-
g ton of the fifteen Commonw ealths you pro-
y pose to conquer, your whole North, if II
were united as one man, could no more dc
that deed than it coeld make world; ana
!. rionts nB!ess it were utterly lost TO every go
l. IL :---..l4ezl-..Gf the past, and every sa.
II hearts, the North wouId-no'- ,x,.t
making such an attempt upon such pretext,
- as you array,-even it those pretexts were
10 all true and real-than it would think of par
!. rci1e followed by self.murder. But, Sir,
II beg y, u to consider what shall add to show
that those Pretexts are neither true nor real
T. The very foundation of your discourse, az
! you distinctly state, is the grand principle
UNIVERSAL, as you assert, in the law of Slave.
u ry, that man, created in the image of God
y is Invested Of his human character, and de
-" ciared to be mere chattel. Now, Mr. Sum.
7 ner, you cannot fail to be aware that both
:, parts OF this statement are absolutely unit ne
= and by consequence your whole plea for our
!, y CONQUEST ia based ON a double peridious
q quioble. There is not a single Slave State
y in this Union whose laws dvest the slave o.
: his human character. There is not single
. one whose laws declare slave to be neri
= chattel. No DOUBT many OF the rights which
7 | believe with you to be inherent in human
! nature, are wholly Incompatible with any
e state of Slavery. No doubt if Slavery ex.
lists at all, the right of property thus recog
8 nized by the local law, may he made analog.
u Gus to the right one has 10 chattel, Just as
y 1t may be to the right one has to realty Blu
l. you have far too much sense and knowledge
lot to know, that these are widely differen.
truths, from the abominabe untruths I'D Or
" which your whole discourse proceeds. Dc
e you not perfectly understand, that every
e Slave State in this Union shapes its entire
}. Slave code, upon the grand truths that g
o slave is not a mere chattel, and that his hu.
u man character is not Invested! Do YOU no,
% know that by the universal law of Slavery,
|, the slave is held to innu nefable accountable.
1t itesi overriding all claims of his master; nd
e tina: he is protected not as chattel but as q
o man, at the perl and profit even Of his mas
re ter's hfe? And yet, upon precisely opposite
Is allegations, you construct an argument
e whose Logical issue is the subversion of our
ID National Unit d; and upon that argument
= you construct code of morals, whose hinh
re est obligation is civil war Sir, whatever
ii may be my opinion of the fairness of such
er rea oning, easily perceive its dialectic skill
u But tor your sweeping allegations, your ar
d gument had nothing on which TO rest; for il
q the relation of master and slave be once ad
ot united to be generally a relation of power
Il ana su9Jectlon Analogous to those of ruler
E ana SUBJECT, guardian and ward, parent and
E chtld-tHen IT demands far higher powers
ID than yours to show that as a mere relation il
RI has M ola