The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY II, 1866

| "Of l42 Northern members who voted for
Z at measure, only fifteen will ever darken the
d tors OF the House of Representatives again.
Lamartine told the corrupt dynasty of Louis
allippe that there would be the revolution OF
pibllc conscience and the revolution of public
contempt. Both revolutions came, the last one
harilng him from his throne into exile. The
revolution OF conscience and the revolution of
pubic contempt have come in America, and
before them the administration of Franklin
Pierce is going down. New Hampshire, in
which the outrage in Canaan had been commit.
ted.in 1855, had ever given large majority in
support OF Anti-Slavery members to Congress
TO vote to return John p. Hale to the Senate ;
and the lecturer ventured the prediction that
Jt>hn r: Hale would be in the Senate to watch
TIE closing eye of the Administration. [Ap.
p ause.l So, too, with Connecticut. In Massa-
| cSusetts, in 1885, remonstrances were made re-
81 Getting the proposed action of the Legislature
re iricting the freedom of debate. This remon-
| 81 ance was received with scorn and CONTEMPT.
NOW, there is in session the most thorough
IL Anti-Slavery Legislature that ever met in a
s ate on this Western Continents Legislature
witch has just, with only two dissenting votes.
pi ssed a resolve declaring the Fugitive Slave
l. wv OF 1850 unconstitutional, and demanding
it, immediate repeal-a Legislature which, by
large majority, has sanctioned the removal
from the bench of man who had given a ne
gro to Virginia negro-hunter. And to come
to New York; Where are the New York men
who voted for the passage of the Kansas and
| Nebraska bill2 They have had leave to remain
at home with their wives and little ones. And
Johh Wheeler, who had faithfully and bravely
voted against the Nebraska perfidy, was sent
back to Congress to support the cause of Free
dom, and he-the lecturer-was very sure he
would be true to it. He had seen the slave pen
ID Washington, some nineteen years ago, in
flu blast. He had seen men, women, and chill
d en-, put sp for sale. A few months ago, he
h d stood again by that pen, but negro men,
W men, and children, were not there for sale.
al instead Of them were flowers and bou.
q-ets."
The following programme was then laid
d. wn by Senator Wilson for the party with
watch he will act in the coming Presidential
CT mpaign:
:" The time has come for the AntiSlavery
n en- OF all parties to have it distinctly under
stood that they cannot take any part in organi-
| zjag party, to carry the country in 1856. that
ignores the question of Human Slavery The
| ii ne has come to declare it to the whole coun-
t1y, that we are in favor of the immediate aboli-
| tlln OF Slavery wherever we have the consttu-
| tisnal power to abolish it.
;" Let it be distinctly understood that our OBJ
jet is the emancipation of the bondsmen in
America. We do not propose to interfere with
S avery in the slave States. In those States
II ey. have the power, and are responsible for the
e: istence of Slavery. But in the District of
c Ilumbia, and in the Territories, Slavery exists
Il ere by our authority; and we have the con-
stytutional power to abolish it, and we intend to
olish it. Loud applause.
4" We intend to repeal the act of 1907, under
v lich the domestic slave traffic is now carried
OF under the protection of the national flag /;
v intend to repeal Internationally the Fugitive
{, ave Act of 1850; and we mean that Kansas
s all never come into this Union as a slave
S ate. Never"
The remarks of the Massachusetts Senator
Tsre listened to with manifest approval, and
t e emphatic tone of his Anti-Slavery enuncia-
t ms, coupled with their recent endorsement
the Know Nothing Councils of New Hamp-
sire and his own State, give them peculiar
p''itical signi6cance.-N. Y. EUening Post.