The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-08

injuries to those who are made the subjects of them
And shall they 60 unwhpPed Of justice because the
public law is sent2 In the South IL Is universally held
that whatever liberties in speech who will ayouch
what be says with peril his person may take without
liberty permitted TO the who denies and repudiaes
such responsibility Southern me-ay, and southern
women too-hink that he who will another
for an injury done by him has no right to do IT, They
think that is the especial duty Of such man. above all
Others 70 be peculiarly guarded in what he says and to
never utter word Intentionally to wound rritae in
SUIT the feelings OF another and that he does he s
without any excuse and merits any cbsstisement which
the person nsulted may fit TO infict When such
case occurs II the chassed appeals to the courts the
violence TO his person s visited with the penalty the law
awards against bis assailant but public sympathy is
excited in his behalf as martyr to the great principle of
freedom Of speech and he is left to sink to his true level
of the conemners Of all those rules of proprety
and good breeding which have been established for the
lection Of all that is beautiful and valuable in society and
private life. Aam...t#.. ... /.
The member from Ohio [Mr. GIpDmGsl condemns this
condition of socetyhis state OF public feengbecause
he says it often gives rise to sudden aays in which blood
shed 1t is true such ARRAYS do indeed sometimes grow
out OF III though they by means numerous as he
would have you believe But they do lnmy view
however, they cheap price to be paid by any com
muny for the substantial good which 1t enjoys In the
prevalence of universal courtesy ofanguage and Of man
among all classes of society," and in the existence OF an
mpregnabe barrier to the nvasons Of coarseness nso
lence, malignant vituperaton That member favored
with detail of what he says is done in the civilized
North whenever the freedom of speech is abused to the in
jury Of any ctan dare say the member is right in what
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and has obtained for great length Of time in that highly
favored part OF the Union which 1t is his desire to exa
And we see the result Of the practice which he ap-
pauds everywhere there in the reports that daily
eyes in public journals of what is taking place
in the courts of justice and the balls Of legislation
And that may be what the member from Ohio vaunts
"hgh degree of civilization" If it be SO, the South
will not envy the North the possession of it and will
be contented to remain in what the North may call State
of Standardization if she will She prefers to have her
moral atmosphere purified by the quick flashes of hon
orabe highspirited Indignation terrible and destructive
its fires sometimes may be- rather than to allow it to
grow thick with the breath of those who indulge the
unrestraned utterance Of gross offensive and brutal per-
sonalities until every right impulse every elevated prn
cpe action withers and dies In the bosoms of those
minded men-and the name of such in the North know
is legion-become .HH 04a
"Duller than the fat weed
That rots itself in ease on Lethe's wharf,
the vindcaon of the great right inherent in every in
dvidual member of society-the right "tha shall
be stained in his honor good name unless it be by the
virtue equity of express law warrantng the same
and sufficiently published"
And now, Mr. Speaker, will say something another
topic which has been connected with this discussion
necessarily and improperly that in regard TO the diff
degrees of civilization in the opposite extremes Of
the Union-I aude of course the subject of slavery
This sir is subject Slavery existed in nearly all
the States when the national government was founded At
the time the constitution framed the questions involved
in its existence we'll understood and as much
vassed they And yet the various States in
which either did not then exist in which II
tain Ii would be abolished consented to form Union
with those In which il that time permanent nst
tution This Union created necessity for the meeting in
these halls and in all the various departments OF the gov
enment of persons from the sAvehoidng and the non
ssvehoding States for the management of their common
business What the rights and obligations towards
each other of the persons meeting here under the authority
with each other certain extent for the perform
of their official duties and was IT not incumbent on
them all observe all the courteses of life in their inter
course with each other, and in their department and
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was And such uniformly the case with our fathers
when they met here in council.
But unhappily this is SO no longer. Men who come
here from the North, where slavery does not exist do
hesitate indulge in language the subject Of slavery
and savehoding in the presence of those who represent
States in which slavery recognised by law and who
themselves holders OF slaves that In the highest degree
offensive TO the whole southern people Yes sir they not
only oppose slavery political evil but they condemn II
| a moral wrong. "Savery is an outrage say they.
Shareholders stuck together only by confed-
eacy in spoliation they cry out There no yieness
of dishonesty denial OF human rights that is not plainly
involved in the support Of institution which begins by
changing men, created in the image Of God into chatte
they exclaim "a power which Heaven never gave, and
which "cau only be maintained by means which Heaven
can sanctonl" What this language TO be made
use Of to us by brethren whose fathers associated with
fathers In building up this institution and attaching 1t to
SOIL and that too by men who claim TO be guided in
their faith by the oraces Of the Almighty communicated
and made TO by his prophets and his apostles
in the Holy Scriptures contained In the Christian Bibef
What any who looks TO that sacred volume for
day and Of the Christian world that slavery that suoec-
ton Of TO the will Of another in such manner
that bis services due TO him, is sin moral wrong
that il is condemned and abhorred by God
Why sir what is the lesson taught him in that Book Of
books which he PROCESSES to look for that knowledge
which will enable him to walk In the he should CO.
and lead a life bismeless before God and man Does he
not know that that relation between man and man was
authorized by God himsef2ths II was recognised and
permitted by Him, when in the plain OF Mamrc He spake
Abraham and said that "e that born in thy house
and he that bought with thy money embraced in
the of circumcision THAT IL was recognised
when the Almighty descended upon Sinai and spoke in
thunders and in ghtnngs TO His chosen people, and
declared them; !" Thou shalt not cove thy neigh
boris wife, his man-servant nor his maidservant,
his or, his ass anything that his that
IL recognised when In framing the ordinances and
statutes for their civil government He said Both thy
and bond-mads shall be Of the heathen that are
round about you; ; Of them shall ye buy bond-men and
bond maids ~ and when be said If thou buy Hebrew
servant six years shall he serve and 10 the seventh be
shall 20 out for nothing but that III the servant shall
plainly cay, love my master, aud will not 90 out free,
then he shall him forever and that u was recog-
nsed In the teachings of the apostles under the new dis
pensaon when they bade servants to be obedent to their
masers according TO the flesh with fear and trembling
in sngeness heart Christ not with eye service
men-peasers, but the servants Of Christ doing the
win OF God from the heart " and when they bsde servants
that avee under the yoke 10 count their own masters
"worhy Of all honor that the Of God and bis doc
trine b. not blsspbemed7' y
The member from Ohio who first addressed the House
[Mr. BIsoHAn prcaced what my friend from South Caro-
lima Mr.. ORR very happily characterized as parorysm
Of eioquence6 and which must have given great relief
when to his erwrough brain, with calling slavery,
II exists In fifteen States OF this conederacy that crime
of crimes that OF NIL villanies Where does that
member get his authority for such an expression ls y