The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. G, MAY II, 1865.

"Of l42 Northern members who voted for
that measure, only fifteen will ever darken the
doors OF the House of Representatives again.
Lamartine told the corrupt dynasty of Louis
Ph1lippe that there would be the revolution OF
pnphc conscience and the revolution of public
contempt. Both revolutions came, the last one
hurting 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 1885, had ever given a 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
john T. Hale would be in the Senate, to watch
the. closing eye of the Administration. [Ap.
planse. So, too, with Connecticut. In Massa.
chusetts, IN 1888, remonstrances were made re-
speeding the proposed action of the Legislature
restricting the freedom of debate. This remon.
STRANGE was received with scorn and contempt.
snow, there is in session the most thorough
ly Anti-Slavery Legislature that ever met in a
State on this Western Continents Legislature
which has just, with only two dissenting votes,
passed resolve declaring the Fugitive Slave
Law OF 1850 unconstitutional, and demanding
its immediate repeal-a Legislature which, by
large majority, has sanctioned the removal
from the bench of a 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
John Wheeler, who had faithfully and bravely
voted against the Nebraska perfdy, 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
IN Washington, some nineteen years ago, in
full blast He had seen men, women, and chill
dren, put mp for sale. A few months ago, he
had stood again by that pen, but negro men,
women, and children, were not there for sale.
and instead of them were flowers and bou-
quets."
The following programme was then laid
down by Senator Wilson for the party with
which he will act in the coming Presidential
campaign:
The time has come for the Anti-Slaverv
men OF all parties to have it distinctly under
stood that they cannot take any part in organi-
Zing party, to carry the country in 1856, that
ignores the question of Human Slavery. The
time has come to declare it to the whole coun-
try, that we are in favor of the immediate aboli-
ton of Slavery wherever we have the constitu-
tional power to abolish it.
Let it be distinctly understood that our OBJ
Ject is the emancipation of the bondsmen in
America. We do not propose to interfere with
Slavery in the slave States In those States
tk,ey have the power, and are responsible for the
existence Of Slavery. But in the District OF
Columbia, and in the Territories, Slavery exists
there by our authority; and we have the con,
stifutional power to abolish it, and we intend to
abolish it. Loud applause.
We intend to repeal the act of 1907, under
Which the domestic slave traffic is now carried
on under the protection of the national flag
we intend to repeal Internationally the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850; and we mean that Kansas
shall never come into this Union as a slave
State. Never"
The remarks of the Massachusetts Senator
were listened to with manifest approval, and
the emphatic tone of his Anti-Slavery enunca
tions, coupled with their recent endorsement
by the Know Nothing Councils of New Hamp
shire and his own State, give them peculiar
political ignifcance.-N. Y EUening Post.