The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-12-26

/ eFS IN the NORTH took TINS ground O0ldlY, ana
made it the basis Of faPpeal for votes for their
candidate.
/ The Senator from Massachusetts says that the
members Of the House who voted for AIr.
/ Dunn's bill last session were called pro-sayery
cien in the canvass. I never heard any such
allegation. It is true, that in reply TO the
charge 50 constantly made by the Fremont par
I ty, that the Democrats were seeking 10 extend
slavery, We said thai the only attempt that had
ever been made to increase slavery by act Of
/ Congress was that Of the Republican members
lot the House who voted for Sir. Dunn's bill
1 This we did say and because that bill proposed
10 maintain slavery in Kansas up 10 the year
I 1888 aud provided thai children born Of slave
parents in the Territory, and sold in the mean
+ time 10 a slave State, should be slaves for liie,
and holding as we did that the Increase OF sla-
/ very can only be brought aboot by the increase
Of the nu;nber Of beings in bondage, did
maintain that MIR. Dunn's bill! was virtually 10
increase slavery.
Mr. Trumbull VIII the Senator from Penn
sylyania allow me 10 interrupt bin for mo-
/ ment
/ Mr.. Bisler. No sir. beg The Senator from
I Illinois to excuse me, if he PleasrS. find that
IifI yield 10 further Interruptions my speech
Viii be much longer than nteadrd.
! Mr.. Ttumbuli. wished 10 correct the Sen
ator in regard to that BILL
Mr. Bigler. 1t was The practice Of The FFe-
mont party 10 The canvass to charge the De-
m6cracy with seeking 10 increase slavery, and
we avaiIed ouselves Of the facts have stated 10
retort. So far from looking 10 the increase Of
slavery bv act Of Congress, / know Of no neans
/ by which such WORT couId be accomplished,
except through the recommencement OF the
Save trade, and 30 one would entertain snch
an idea. Bat the Republicans in the House,
/ holding that slavery has no legal existence in
The Territory Of Kansas, voted 10 recognize and
maintain it till 1858, and to provide that the
issue Of slave parents, if sold 10 slave Stale IN
meantime, should be slaves for lip, virtually
attpAp,ea, according TO their own doctriog,
TO Increase tie nuTnber Of slaves By act o! Goa
gress.
Many persons are in the habit Of corfounding
the increase of slavery With its territorial eN
tension and some, doubtless, voted Tie Repub
/ lican ticket, because they believed tha: The In
hi5u.on ofsavery as to Kansas, was TO retaTd
the growth Of the institution. Were ] citi-
zen Of Kansas, with my present impressions,
should vote against the establishment oG sia-
very bat in doing this, would feel that was
! moi doing ANYTHING 70 preyens ihe increase Of
the num5rr OF slaves, oT 10 improve theIr coDdi-
dition. 70 scatter the slaves over great area
VIII 90 them good rather than HARM and to re-
strict the institution 10 is present limits will
not affect tie increase CT the number Of slaves
Tor a century for j! will, in my Judgment, re-
quire all oil that period to ELL up the unoccn-
pied territories in The siaveholdlng States. In
Texas alone, are over ninety millions Of acres
4 Of virgin sol! untouched by the implements Of
thu agricuilurist, rich and easy of cultivation.
favored by genial Climate. The number OF
slaves in that State 10 no. equal one TO every
square mile Of territory. How, af,rr all, then,
do the practical and direct Consequences inyolv-
ed in this angry controversy diminish as we
approach them; and how ike mountains on a
plain do they loom up as we recede from them?
/ And how painful the conviction that there are
those amongst us, found in widely separated
communities, who talk seriously Of brpa&ing up
the Government for causes 50 insufficient.
The honorable Senator from Maine, Mr..
/ Fessendon,1 whilst lameniing and describing
the prejndicial influence Of slavery upon the
physical Improvement Of the States where il
exists, upon their growth in population, com
mrrce, trade, and agriculture, remarked as fol-
/ lows;
81 do not look upon this question as cues
tion Of States. The States, as political corpora
items, have direct interest in the Territories
] do not recognize the State of Virginia, or ihp
State Of Texas, as a State, as having particle
Of interest in them: nor The State Of Maine,
nor the State Of Massachusetts, nor New York,
nor any other free State. 1t is question with
the people oftae United Slates.'
Now. Mr.. President, il the States in their
cO~Doraa nss.Citv oy.. ipfprpSt gh.s rnsc.
ton Of slavery in the Territories, then Why
does the Senator, and those who act With him,
insist that th- States stall control The qees-
tor through tie representatives Of their sovrr-
eighty this floor? agree that the States,
as such, have no direct concern, and that the
/ people Of the United States who 20 to the Ter
ritores are most interested and for that reason
they should be allowed TO determine whether
I they will have the institution or not. The ppo-
pie vino emigrate to the Territories are rot on
! ly the most interested, but they are nosi com
/ petent and have The best right TO decide. The
people of his State and mine exercised tbat
4 right, aud they deny il TO the people Of those
States who NAV 60 to the Territories? The
I Democracy contend for, but the Republicans
drnv this right. They say that Congress shall
/ pTe-judge aGd decide the question that those
who are not in the Territories mpst be permitted
to control the question. The power 70 shape
this domestic institution in Kansas, for instance,
shall be found everywhere Else except in the
Territory The Democracy say that those who
go to Kansas shall make its institutions the Re-
publicans say not 50, but the people who do not
20 to the Territory, through their Representa-
tives in Congress, shall decide whether slavery
shall exist there or not; that those who have no
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