The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-23


.Sen enough to have white baby and black
baby. but all the babies were to be black and
rs mad been done on the wretched pretence
slavery would not be established in that terri
.o-y AS though a neighbor should let down
.bs hairs of your corn-feld and say, in extenua
.;on that he knew his hogs loved corn, but be
admit think they would 60 in and if they did
-ou could keep them out-and this, too. a line
fonce which he had bound himself to keep up
ID nrotect YOU from depredations from his side
+ had been supposed the people would &C.
,u;esce in this case, as they did in the case OF
Ttab and New Mexico and in every other 8 and
h. had perhaps done them wrong in the appeal
hat on the passage of fhe Nebraska act, they
had sent forth to the people. He had penned
hat appeal more as despairing than hoping
nan and he was reioiced to learn that he had
M ground for those gloomy apprehensions.
7, was evident, then, that the Slave Power had
entered upon propagandism, the end of which
nome could foresee, but to which 1t was already
evident the people of the North must become
the vassas.
Cannon had been planted on the north of the
CAPITOL to celebrate the passage OF the bill, and
.-ora booming as they went, sad and few to
,ba;r homes. on that eventful night. But, thank
Cod that cannon, intended to celebrate the
freemen of the North. Applause.
Danger to the Union did not lie in manly
oDpositon to Slavery, but in submission to that
calling yoke which would grow so intolerable
tbat It could not be borne. There was the
danger.
While others were contending about finance
and trade, he had thought chiefly of this ques-
ton. and had regulated his political conduct by
h He had never held any other views on the
subject than those he had here expressed and
if these made him an Abolitionist, then were
Madison and Jefferson, Wythe and Pinckney,
Henry and Washington, Abolitionists. If the
reproach of Aboltionism fell Justly upon these
men. then might so humble an individual as
himself be well content to share it.
This question was so important that it had
shiyered all parties. The old parties had tried
Welding and yielding, until they had yielded
themselves out of existence, and were dead, ex-
cept so far as Executive patronage galvanized
and gave an appearance of life to one of them.
Applause.
The Convention that nominated Pierce STEM
med it, though opposed by Ohio. Their nomi-
nee had succeeded, because the South thought
they could more safely trust Franklin Pierce
than General Scott, and he was quite sure their
confidence had not been misplaced.
party. 1t arrayed itself in the free States on
the side of Freedom-in the South, it could do
nothing but array itself for Slavery. But the
South had not found their Northern brethren
quite as yielding in the Convention at Philadel-
phia as they had found them at Baltimore.
The Northern men did not here say to them,
Am not thine ass, upon which thou hast rid
en-, even unto this day? Was l ever wont to
DO 50 unto thee?" No; but they exhibited
what was sadly wanting in the North-that
was, backbone. They came home and re-erect-
ed their platform at Columbus and that they
now stood upon, and would fight together, uni
ted as brethren. No matter by what name
they were called, they would fight out this issue,
and arrange their little differences afterwards.
Like the two knights who, when about so en-
gage in a mortal combat, heard the cry of dis
tress having gone to the rescue, found it i'm
possible afterwards to renew their feud-so
this union, upon a common object for good,
would erase out Of their hearts all disposition
Tor contention.
He then read, from the platform adopted at
Columbus, the portions relating to reform in
the State and National Governments.
Ten millions had been paid for the Messilla
alley, merely for route for Southern rail-
road and to maintain Santa Anna in his des-
million. President Pierce had sent minister
to Mexico to negotiate that treaty. He then
spoke of the secret session of the Senate to
consider and approve it; he hoped what trans
pred there would some day be made known.
In that secret body there were Know Nothings,
too. Laughter. Not Know Nothings by their
voluntary act, but by decree of Divine Provi-
dence.
at the same time that they were thus taxed
ten millions without the consent of the House,
President Pierce had vetoed the bill for the i'm
Trovemcnt Of rivers and harbors, which might
have given them four or five hundred thousand
dollars.
Tom COrwin had said that the question OF
internal Improvement was not so much one OF
constitutional power as of chemical analysis
that 1t was constitutional to improve salt wa
ter. but not fresh water. He was, however,
mistaken. 1t was constitutional to make i'm
Fovements in black States, but not in white
States 1t was not the chemical analysis, but
the color of the thing that made it constitution
a. Applause
lie then alluded to the bill for the appropria-
ton to the Collins steamers.
gentleman from that district who had op-
posed IT. protested suddenly to have received
new light, and supported it. Applause. |
PAUSE A Southern gentleman, in speaking
o. II, sand the conversion resembled that of the
apostle Paul in suddenness, but in no other
Particular. Tremendous applause.
Ihey also wanted some little ironically re-
iOrm at home. The office-holders in the Ne
lfaSka party had come to think that, if the
government could pillage whole States from
Freedom, they might certainly pillage little
Ron the Treasury.
Just and equal basis Of taxation was also
"anted-a tax upon what man had, and not on
what ne had not A reduction was also neces-
sA] IN taxes. He knew several points in which
could very properly be made.
b1t Democrats said they could not act with
We Wings. He called himself Democrat
according to the Jeffersonian idea of Democra
Va Democrat in the old original sense of the
""q-oi popular Government. His colleague
u me Senate called himself Wing, and yet
lucy mad voted alike on almost every question,
people.
=, In truth, there were but two parties. One
e party OF the people, and the other of the
shareholders, and their advocates and abettors
now and then man left the party of the
people, Ii mattered not-two better men would
''.le 10 NIL his place.
1cceSslons were coming from every quarter
IOS many votes would the Administration get
u me old Northwest that Northwest that
S democratic till Democracy submitted to
alSnhiih Pierce. Applause. The Reserve
p pas marshalling its forces. Applause Old
W II9ss va" as coming out. Applause. East and
est 3 North, South, and Centre Ohio, would
T ;~uu together, mighty phalanx, demanding
'TTuom Retrenchment and Reform.
m ne mad been recently in the Eastern States
= t nad found the people there deeply, intense
y interested in Ohio They had two questions