The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-14

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a. from his pced security and in place Of the friend and
brother whom had first embraced as new element Oh
southern strength he behed maniac rejoicing over We
tories that had struck down best friends al the North
ana In places the banner of the constitution had al
WAYS waved in proud defiance now behold the black
aag Of abolition which in few short months VIII sum
nan 10 the capital OF this Union House of Representa-
yes pledged to course Of legislation that will sweep from
the satue-book all the laws recently passed for the proec
ton Of southern rights. .sas..a. saa.
Yes IN Ohio Is thoroughly abolitionized by "know-
nothing victories faithful Indiana lend no further
aid TO her sisters of the South her neck IS now o
the heels Of aboonss and their "know-nothing aiies
The old Keystone State will eeby speak through hse only
OF her numerous delegation New Jersey lately regenera-
ted falls back again into the slough OF abolition Unhappy
New York has lately done execution every national
patriot she could ever boast OIL these are 'he eonse
qnenees OF know-nothng' victories " know-nothings'
the South these your friends ana allies DO You
still acknowledge the conncxon
Mr. Chairman will undertake to speak for Virginia
There is no such party IN Virginia proper speak or
the country, for the plantations, where you and were
born Yoh may find il here sir You may find IT in other
cities State Their population is made up of people
In the country you may always find the true Virginia
selling and there when the trial comes the hopes OF the
South must rest.
eyed there could be any real peace between the North
and the South until the sentiments the former had under
gone radical change IN respect 10 African slavery here
will be real harmony between the two sections until the
people of the North have learnt and acknowledged the PHI
iosophica truth that the inferior must by law OF
their nature the superior that the African must be
a slave 10 the white man or barbarian. We who believe
this do violence to law, natural moral, or revealed
those who hold the doctrine Of natural equality among
races aud yet confer exclusive rights upon themselves
subject others privaons the sinners who need
repentance Is the African freeman Mt the North Does
eligible office Is he at liberty to go and come as he
peases Can he live where he pleases Are there no
bonds required of him Are the laws OF immigration and
citizenship the same to him and the white mega
tive answer which is the only that be given to
these questions establishes the fact that the African in
state Of slavery at the North well as here and the on
80. tlod anfSl~ in lD-
scaeshs condition is the same in the two places ex
cep in the he has theliberty ofoang and stealing
which in the other is denied him. The laws OF the north
States affirm the inequality of the races They affirm
the that he must obey the white man. and that he
is merely tenant at will of every privilege that is allow
ed him.
The quarrel them between the North and the South is
really that hold the African in bondage but that
here his privileges are fewer.
Mr. Chairman the European white man will make slaves
of only the African, but every other with whom
he in contact He by nature superior to all other
races and he will make all others him. There are
varoas modes Of doing this legal enactmens only
In way another the fact will be accomplished
Wherever the white man constitutes 1.-THE of popu-
laton il will make hewers of wood and drawers OF water
of the rest In other words they will be practically slaves
if by law Humanity dictates the mode to be by law
African He the lowest and most helpless of the
In legal master he has protector. BY him he
is raised from condition to which, unasssed his nature
dooms him. He is civilized he is kept from want ne is
taught look upon himself superior TO the brute which
before he rescmbed That he is capable Of Improvement
the present condition of the southern slave testes
him with his Africa, the pr0genltOr
who brought here and how triumphant becomes the
vindicaton of the institution of slavery Sir the African
must be slave barbarian. In no other relation
he exist; experiments have proved ii. Let the ne
grophoest choose between them Providence IN ordan-
ing inequality among the has but obeyed its own
universal law in every department OF physical nature
Graduation is the rule OF life, whether vegetable or animal
Every created thing has its appropriate place Progress
sion from the lowest to the highest stops not at the hui
race have grades there also the lowest of which
is the African, whose ignorance and brute instincts can
only be relieved by servitude TO his superior
Mr. Chairman, am no apologst for southern nstitu-
ton 1t is either right in itself wrong II wrong get
rid oft No Christian people will ought to continue in
sin. Justification is the only legitimate plea despise
every other He who cannot enter that plea should
He is morally culprt and should be expelled from
the community. Away witsevery speculation about the
future destiny Of the African He must be slave
here a barbarian in Africa. He can be nothing else ;
is TO discharge duty towards him. We
him protection, humane laws, and kind treatment take
from the master the power Of cruelty especially the cruel
~ of emancipation What has become Of the three hun
drcd happy beings whom Randolph freed Would
father turn loose upon the world family of infant chill
dren Should do by family of still more
helpless negroes?
admit Mr. Chairman have gone off from the subject
will return 10 it. One Of the resolutions before is in
tended compliment to the Hon. Henry A. Wise for his
letter on the know -nothngs" have not yet had the
time TO read that letter. but those whom trust tell
it is able | SHALL therefore for the resolution
The few democrats who have joined that party
ainy strangely affected. They have but recently achieved
glorious triumph their adversares the goal for
which they have been long striving they have but
Gently They in the full fruition Of these
principles; their truth has been fully established that
the wings themselves by denying any intention their
part 10 return TO their exploded theories have virtually
confessed their former They have admnisa-
ton of their choice whose chief they know has all his
life been warm devotec Of all the cardinal principles of
the party when body of reluctant men,
ber slow Of progress had be dragged along by their
he will his legitimate power for the protection of the
constitutional rights of the South and the national rights
of the citizens
Their political cup being thus filled to OVERLOOKING what
strange deuson has made them sultify themselves
belle their previous lives by uniting themselves party
whose principles far known the very of
their own The native democrat when eloquent with the
praises Of his country forgot that he home the
oppressed as sounded teneres and sweetest in the
OF suffering humanity, would swell his breast with
Joy and pride of country the exquisite could
share them but his own nativc-born countrymen When
he knet before his God with conscience protected from
outrage his thanksgiving coupled with prayer
that all mankind could share his privilege But how
changed His heart has grown cold his sympathies are
frozen the doors of the asylum closed and inausi
ton has usurped the temple where every conscience
had its altar.
Who the foreigners whom the know-nothingsn Of
Petersburg have condemned and prescribed Where may
their names be recorded
Mr. Chairman, do you wish to them Walk through
the streets OF your city call at the importing houses the
drygood stores at the most aourshng and
mission houses into your tobacco factories your -four
ing mills, and your workshops Do you wish 10 see their
names Cal at your internal improvement, Offices and
when you see sums of 1000 5000 and dollars there
rest and read the names oppose they the Panls the
Mcil~aines the Leses the Domains the--but why emu
meratc themY they fit for nothing else but 10 subscribe
their money and build up your enterprises? MOI Not