New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-18

OF Congress, inoperatf-s. Washington called the
sttensn Of Congress TO The necessity Of law this
subject: and lhw Was passed. putting both classes
of fueiives In the sHros set, and making the same
conditions for the repoton Of each Ana wcs passed
With such general consent that the debates of day
do lot show dissenting remark TIE journal |
shows that few voted against IT, but without reasons
beirg given in debate. II is impossible to know
whether these dissentens voted against it hom pdn-
cire, from objections to s classification CT fugve.
or owing details that did please them Two were
from Slave Ststes. Several States had ects ca this
subject but, indeed, they were hardly needed tx |
there was DOT only or grea; length OF tine no dis
turbance between he States but noae bes ~een indi-
yiduals in the States.
"aKAcE WITH HApKS"
Southern 5aveled thro lgh the Free States with
their families and slaves, with little danger to their
property as when they travelled in the Carolna. or
Virginia.
Col. Bentoa told how he Travelled in 1892. No
steamboats, no railroads-0A Bnlnon called them
s,esn-cars. Each Member o. Congress provided his
own conveyance. When they took their families
which be always did, "for earthly honor could in.
"duce hin to consent TO be separated from his family
THE Republicans thought Of JEssIF, and applauied
heartily and long-they took their slaves along with
them, and were not ntsrfered with. He travelled
thousand miles through Iuinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, never thinking of the laws Of sequesa
tom for public sentiment a-suficient to protect
him. Sometimes, indeed, effort was made TO entice
away slaves, but it done in the night not in the
day; in secret, not publicly; by individuals not by
communities. At last, however, he lost his three
slaves one by one and the three who succeeded them
ore by one. He had Lost more Of this kind Of prop
ertv he believed than am other Member Of Congress
I'D IF h,a.L ".
all this" lAppausel.
BESToSs MEMORY.
PENNSYLVANIA and New. York had sequestration laws
one giving the owner Of slaves the liberty Of remain
inc in the State six months, the other nine MONTHS if
an officer of Government as long as his duties re.
tanned him there. You may have heard said the lee
turer that Benton has good memory Suppre ssed tit
terl. He gave an illustration. Benton, when boy
of ten years, when on visit with his mother to Penn.
syyania, heard friend say that relative of hers
from the Slave States had returned few days ago.
because if she had remained there, her slaves would
have become free by the expiration of the term al
low ed By the sequestraton laws This circumstance
made deep lodgment in bis mind. Before that time
the idea hsd never entered his mind that black man
could be free under any circumstances in this world.
HISTORY OF THE SLAVERY AGITArIos.
Col. Benton then reviewed the httory Of the Sav
cry agitaton-from the date Of Frankns petition to
Congress for the immediate abolition of Slavery by the
National Government down to the present date. He
showed bow it was unanimously left, by the Revolu-
tonary fathers to the States that supported Slavery
and how long and with what happy results it WAS con-
fined within those limits.
He attributed the renewal Of the unhappy contro.
yersy" TO the ambition of Calhoun; showed how he
famed the passion of sectional anmosity by attribu
ing 10 the Northern people the sentiments OF small
clique of speculative Philanthropsts how nulliica-
ton child of the mans ambition, was born and
how grew and prospered; and referred il connection
with this point to chapter and verse in Bentons Thirty
Years View.
This review was characteristic in the highest degree
not so much of BentOn-ahoueh characteristic of him.
o-but Of politicians as class. Truth one would
think from his review like constitutional prnc
ple-noperative until embodied in al act of Congress;
without inherent power to pDpagate Itself or ncaPa
Bile of arousipg mans enthusiastic support without
holding out hopes Of earthly reward. Benton is an hon
ored decentralization has won laures 10 legislative
chsnbers in tented fields and in thelbrary-Benton has
name which history will preserve; but would rather
live and undstipguished die and be forgotten
like the beasts that perish, than gain the same posi-
ton at such cost-than believe that Gods truth is
poweress when opposed by the Vaccinations of amb-
tious politicians almost forgot, as listened to this
portion Of his lecture, the reverence which old age,
distinguished public services and personal virtue is en-
titled to from youth and inclined TO be guilty OF
the wpernerce of plying the great Missouri Senstor
THE CRIMES OF THE ABoLITIoSIsTs.
While he denounced the Nulifep, he did not permit
the Aboli,ionsts to 60 unwhpped Of rhetoric. While
he charged the Southern Secessonsts with reopeninS
the Slavery agitation, he alleged that without getting
fuel from the North that conlagraton could not have
bt en- kept alive in the South. The Nulifers and Abo-
l.ionists had brought about the same resute-causea
both sections 10 hate each other. They had thrown
from each side so many balls Of fire that the two
together were enough to infame the entire South TO
madness. Ard this, said he, has not entirely ceased
TO this day. To allsy this luminosity his mission
what he pnrposed to attempt. What good did they
prot ose to accomplish by this kind of talk The slave
lotr not hear you, and If he did, you utter words
without power to follow il by action. No good can be
done By Il whatever. The evils were manifold.
He enumerated them Stripped Of al verbiage they
ae-according to Col. BentOn-frSt, that Northern
men are invariably suspected instead Of welcomed as
friends in Southern homes; that our young men and
tchoolmaIms can't get employment Low in Southern
schools, colleges and fiinihes; that merchants, artists
&C., are less kindly looked on; that watch Is set
over Them let they should inst into the minds OF the
slaves the "eltteripg generalitiesjoso abhonen to
modem Democracy; ard for an equivocal expression
they are ordered to leave the State. These dire ca
amities as far as could understand constitute the
sum total Of what Abolitouists-"th tho Architects OF
Destruc,iou"-haye brought on "their neighbours.
BY the slave population, he sAid their malignant H.
fuehce had been still more severely felt IA journey
through Virginia, the CarOlinss and Georgia. by the
way win convince any man who viii inquire OF tho
ssyeLode n hemseyes that this position got enaole