The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-15


ADDRESS OF Z. L. ,oLINGAAN TO THE FRERMES
i OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
FElLow-oruEss Many letters have during the present
session of Congress been received BY containing inqu
country and its future prospects Not only in my own
district but elsewhere throughout the South, there IL
doubt and anxiety in The public mind In my Judgment
there good grounds for apprehensions and adopt
this the most appropriate mode OF communicating my
views you and shall speak with that frankness that
accustomed to use when discussing political topics in
That the ultimate destiny our present political system
viii be determined by events soon TO occur 10 nss proba-
stood by the people, they will be avcrtcd and may we'll
hope for long career of prosperity nDdcr our existing
form OF governrosn The danger which the
existence OF the federal Union arises from feelings OF bog
ty entertnsd IN tbs North towards tho southern acc
ton and especially tbe-iaatuton OF negro slavery E
oxsts among To indicate fully the nature Of the evil
that have already bssn brought your notice BY myself
and Others In former discussions So great u the interest
felowciizens pardon familiar topics
When the constitution Of the United States original
adopted twelve Of the States We're ssvehodng one Of
forming the constitution therefore, power given To
the general to interfere With slavery In the
lar territory or ns but each State retained It's former
right to act for itself with reference 10 the subject The
only powers given the federal government plainly bo
ton In such of the States desired 10 retain it. IL
provided should be represented in Congress SO
as TO increase the weight Of the slavehoding States Sec
ondy that all such might away should be restored
to their owners and thirdly that for the period of twenty
years Congress should not prevent the importation OF such
additional slaves the States might desire to add their
existing numbers 1t is thus manifest that while ample
power given the government to defend slavery long
any State might desire TO retain it, there allow
ed to it not the shadow OF authority TO abolish
assail the institution. H# m.~
For thirty years after its adoption the provisions of the
constitution maintained and under their operation
of the northern States having in the time sold
most of their slaves to the southern people, to whom such
property worth than it could be in the North
abolished the system while several States both ree
and saveholdng, had been admitted into the Union The
federal government in the time had properly abstain
ed from all interference with the subject In the year 1920
the State of Missouri offered herself for admission the
Unon with constitution recognising slavery The ap-
pcation met with violent opposition from the North This
owing to the OF certain leaders of the old fed
party In such of the northern States had abolish
ed slavery there feeling againstit As the differ
between white and negroes had not then been
much noticed or understood 1t was not difficult to enlist
the sympathes of the people there in favor of the slaves Of
the South and the leaders, therefore, of party that had
been overthrown and rendered odou by nammatory APP
peals in favor of universal liberty and denunciaon Of the
slave power of the South aroused strong feeling through
the entire North, that body ofrepresentaves
returned from that section hostile TO the application of the
State though her constitution was in respect to
slavery similar TO those of majority of the old States
After excited struggle sn act was passed proposing to
allow Missouri to como into the Unon bat declaring in
of its clauses that in all that portion of the Louisiana
territory that lay north of the parallel Of 36 deg 80 min.
| slavery should never exist. -.
BY he old French ana Spanish laws which had been in
operation the entire territory slavery legally exist
10 every part Of it and this was 10 law, NOT in f an
act of sboidoh Southern howcvsr, from extreme
anxiety procure the admission OF the Sta upwise
and weakly consented TO support the re- and were
willing to purchase for Missouri what she could claim as
right under the constitution The restriction was supposed
by southern men, however to have entitled her to come
into the Union but at the succeeding session of Congress-
when she applied with her REPUBLICAN constitution, the
ntivca stfll
jeced her in accordance with the Instructions of OF
the northern States Hence it became necessary for new
concessions to be made and additional price paid to the
North and Mr. Clay came forward with his compromiss,
requiring Missouri to do certain other buiang things
before abe could get into the Union In this way, with
the aid of elk or seven northern votes only she accept
ed, in the midst of general storm of opposition from tho
North Since the prohibition Of slavery north Of SO deg
80 min originally offered us consideration for her
admission and such not accepted by the free States
but price required il would have been rQh, for the
South to have likewise repudiaed the Of prohibition
Nevertheless npecd by strong desire 10 have peace and
harmony the exclusion was acquiesced in by her while
the North complained and denounced the act The anti
slavery feeling gradually subsidized there and the country
remained quiet until influence brought TO bear
on it.
Great Britain bad acquired by tho fore. Of her arms
and skill in diplomacy immense possessions in Asia Her
East Indian provinces alone contained hun
dred millions of people bed in state Of most shject
slavery and oppressed b. much greater harhps than tho
negroes Of any part Of The Urited States.
To make this appear-and because British writer's are
constantly denouncing the shareholders OF the South for
their immortality, barbary, and cruelty--and becnu
the aboonss In this country In the daily habit Of
praising everything in England and holding up her
duct for us TO imtaet will not be amss for pre-
facts Eighteen months the British Pars-
ment forced by the pressure Of public opinion send
out TO India commission TO inquire into the in
which tho people treated there That commission
after examining hundreds Of witnesses has recently made
Its report and end the substance Of given in the JAM
uary number Of the Edinburgh Review for the present
Ii must be borne in mind that in that country the
government the land and compes the people work
T. exacting much onehaf end II Is said
thirds Of the entire product Of the farms II Is difficult
almost impossible indoedo collect such rens
As means however Of exactng it, torture is habtually
applied present few extracts from the article of this
PERIODICAL publication reliable any in Great
Britain;
The tortures which the commissioners find to hare been
employed Of various kinds and Of different degrees Of
severity Some Of them light totle
than menace Some to not only
pain but permanent injuries muhlatous and
oven, not uufrequepty death Some Of them exhibit an
Of dabolica ingenuity the part Of the torurer
and degree OF moral abatement and degradation in the
victim, OF which minds can hardly form a
conception somo In fine los sthsome and indecent
at The time excrucsting that although they
set down markedly in the report must abstain from any
specific allrsion to their nature.
1.-THE most common forms Of torture appear to be
the hitter lin Teloogoo called ehsernn and the onundol
which, in the same language is called gingert
1.-THE ks corresponds with the thumbscrew OF the Eu-
ropean torturer II Ia wooden instrument somewhat
like inosqaeze between the plates OF which the hands
the thighs lin also the breast the ears and other
sensitive psrs of tho body squeezed to the last
point of endurance often faptng and even TO perma
nent disabemept In many places the kttee has been