Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-09-04
The v illness Against Slavery.

CEoRGE WASHINGTON, the father Of his coun-
try, in letter to La FArKrrE. written in 1898,
the year before his death, IKE of the institution
of slavery. as follows:
Il agree with you cordially in your views in
regard 10 Negro slavery. have long considered
it most serious evtl. both socially and political
", and | should rejoice IN any feasible scheme to
rid our states OF such burden. The Congress OF
1877 adopted ordinance which forever prohib-
lis the existence OF involuntary srevitude in
north western territory consider it scse meas
IRE and though it was introduced BY a gentle
,nal, from New England, it met with the approval
ard assent of nearly all the members from the
states more Immediately interested in slave labor.
I The prevailing opinion IN Virginia is against the
I spread Of Stdrery into country, and /
trust that shall ultimately have a conedeIacy
OF free states. | would, any time gladly re
/ lnqnish the right Of property IN my own slaves,
| ii inJicIous system OF emancipation could b.
/ devised"
JANIS MADISON in the convention which franz
ed the constitution of the United States, objected
! to the word, slave being used in the clause
I which was inserted for the rendition of fugitives
/ HIS objection was agreed to by the convention,
and the milder term of @persons owning service
or labor" applicable alike to white apprentices
and black slaves, put in our constitution
| Mr. MADISON said on that occasion:
{" object to the word slave p" appearing in a
Constitution which, TRUST is TO De the char OF
/ freedom 10 unborn millions; nor would willingly
/ perpetuate the memory OF the tact thGt stduery
ecer e1istsd tn country Il is great evil aud
under the Providence OF God. | look forward TO
| some scheme of emancipation which shall free us
from it. Do not, therefore; let appear if we
regarded it perpetual, by using in free Consfi-
| tuition an odious word oppressed TO every senti-
ment OF liberty"
DANIEL WEBSTER IN his Marshfeld speech
Sept. Is, 1915, when alluding 10 the men who
then held the same position the question OF
slavery extension which is nor held by Nebraska
democrats, sad:
am afraid, fellow citizens that the genera
ton of "doughiaces." viii be as perpetual as the
generation OF men. For nv part | think that
'dough-iace, IS en- ePithet not sufficiently re-
proachtul think such persons are dough-faces
and Gough-headS and dough-souls, and they are
D adj dough: that the coarsest potter may mould
, them al piesure to vasSels Of honor or dshonor
but most readily to vassels of dishonor."
Henry CLAY in his last great speech in the
United States Senate, said:
"Irepeat it, sir never can, and never will
ana no earthly power make me vote direct
y or indirectly, 10 spread slavery over territory
where it does not exist. Never while reason
holds her seat in my brain-never while mr.
heart sends the vital fluid through my veins
ncra.!'
THoNAs H BksToS said, in the United State
Senate, that the enactment of the Missouri Com
. prinise was
" The highest, the most solemn the most mo
= nentous, the most emphatic assertion of Con
/ rrp IN ,;ci
e has ever made could be conceived 1t no
= only prohibited it where il could legally be car
. ried. but forever prohibited il where it had lon!
/ existed"