Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-24

rose, with modesty and said he had not time to
express his sentiments at length but would sim
| ply remark he endorsed, to the fullest extent,
every word and syllable uttered by Mr.. Burin-
game. Do you, Mr.. Oliver asked, endorse
| that?
Mr.. SOLIERS replied that he was a STAKEHOLDER.
All knew the question of Slavery is u delicate
But he regarded it as n curse to any country
Would to God we (Maryland) never had slave
among us. He had never believed that Slavery
was right in the abstract, and no man should ever
force him to avow such opinion. 1t was
pressed Oh us In colonial times, and is protected
under the Constitution. He would maintain his
in tcrcst in Slavery at the dagger's point. No
man should wrest a slave from him, from
his neighbor, without taking his hearts blood.
Il Mr. OLIVER reminded the gentleman his quos.
ton was, do you endorse the sentiments Of the
Senator from Massachusetts.
i Mr. SOLLERS replied, he could not answer for
the antecedens of Mr.. Wilson. lie was not au-
thorized nor competent to answer. But he said
what he heard Senator Wilson utter lately in
the Senatei filed him with inezpressble delight.
Mr.. OLIVER. DO you endorse what the SEN
ator said in Massachusetts, just after he WIS
elected2
Mr.. SOLLERS. am a stakeholder.
Mr.. OLIVER. So am J.
Mr.. SOLLERS | do not endorse his sentiments
further than heard them expressed. l under
stand his remarks recently to be conservative, and
SO far | endorse them.
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question he propounded to Mr. Banks, asking him
whether he would vote TO abolish Slavery in the
District of Columbia, or for the Wilmot proyiso !?
! 1t was known the gentleman belonged to the Free
| Soil party.
! Mr.. Banks. Never
Mr.. KEITT. | ask the gentleman whether
he did not say he would act no further with the
Democratic party, because of its alliance with Sla
very?
| Mr.. BANKS. No, Sir; I separated from the
Administration and the President | assisted to
elect, on the questions pending at that time; and
spoke to the people of my own town.
! Mr.. kElTT. The member is either in favor Of
those measures, OF declines to make the statement.
ask, what is the inevitable inference? He fears
! that declaration would injurc his Order (the
i Known othing) at the South.
Mr.. BANKS. Not at ALL
Mr.. KElTT. There are two horns of the dilem-
ma. lie is either for or against those measures.
Another thng-I speak it regrctrully ly--when l
asked the question of the gentleman from Massa-
clusctts, the gentleman from Maryland advised
him not to answer; and then the last named said
he believed Slavery to be a curse.
i Mr.. SOLLERS. | do That is my private
opinion. A Voice. Publicly expressed" -
Mr.. KEITT. The gentleman from Maryland
says they want to preserve the Uuon. | would
say to him, have rights guaranteed by the
Constitution, and rights anterior to the Constitu-
tion
Mr.. S0LLERS. VIII the gentleman do me the
Justice while he tells the House that | declared
Slavery to be curse, to ado | at the same time
said | would defend it with my life?
Mr. kEIIT. | will do that.
i Mr. OLIVER asked several other questions of
Mr. Solcrs who said, if it had been for the in-
tcrieronce of lAboitionsts Maryland, ere this,
would have been free State. Two thirds of the
! people of that State hostile to Slavery. lie
represented the strongest saveholding interest in
| Maryland.
! Mr.. B0COCK was surprised to hcar-the gentle
man say he listened to Mr.. Wilson with incxpres-
sible delight. lie felt assured if the gentleman
had heard all the Senator said, he would not en-
dorse his sentiments.
Mr.. SOLLERS replied, he heard Mr.. Wilson say
what he had never heard Mr.. Sumner utter, and
Mr.. Sumner was elected ly the Democrats. His
| Mr.. SIS people had sent him here to think for
them; they should never think for him. lie did
not believe Slavery be of divine origin. In fur
ther reply to Mr.. Oliver he said he made use of
the word "eurse' in political sense. lie thought
Frce-Soilism and Secessionsm curse-in other
words, an evil.
After further proceedings, the Committee at
twenty minutes past twelve o'clock, rose, and the
/ House adjourned