The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-09-11

that the Punishment of the term {" sIdUe" from
the text of the constitution not the result of
accident, but was done puposely, and with the
intention of excluding the idea, that man can
hold his fellow-man as property, the affirmative
of which, would be implied in the term " slave"
Mr. Chairman, if the trainers of the constitu-
ton cast the word, slave" as a reprobate out of
the constitution, because its definition is " a man
held as property" how dare our bogus democrats
and shareholders interpolate that venerated nstru-
ment with the execrable term2 No, sir; the ar
gument is irresistible that wherever the authority
of the United States, in any of its departments,
whether legislative, executive, or judicial, is in
voked to interfere against "person" held as a
slave by the laws of any state, the United States
must treat such slave as a person; and if such
persons 'life, liberty, property" May be brought
in jeopardy by authority of the United States, that
"person," however humble, however bruised or
trodden under foot by other states or other ma
tions is entitled to I" due process of law" which,
by the common consent of all-whether slave
holders slave democrats, or republicans-is adj
mitted to be trial by jury, according to the
course of the common law" Thus, sir, the thrice
execrable fugitive slave law" with its catchpoe
bevy of slave-hunting commissioners and deputy
marshals, becomes nulity and nuisance-the
villanous connection of slaveholding usurpation
and doughfaced subserviency-and dissolves like
Stubble before the deyour1ng nre.
Now sir, fatter myself that have vindicated
the memory and the fame of our fathers who be-
queathed to us a constitution based on Justice
union knit and held together by the gentle, genial
humanizng spirit of God-given, and God-hOnor-
ing freedom. / have proven by facts and argu-
ments which no sophistry can overthrow, that
the spirit which created the constitution and the
union, was the love of personal liberty underjust
and humane law. The same spirit which created
must preserve the constitution and the union
but the spirit which has taken possession OF the
Shareholders and their base tools, the slave de-
mocracy of the free states, is the unclean spirit
of slavery propagandism and perpetuatlon and
just as sure as animal life perishes in mephitic
gases, so sure is it, that this constitution and
union must perish, when smothered in the foul en-
braces of these allies of human slavery.
Dir. Chairman, would respectfully ask of our
union-saving physicians and craftsmen, whether
in their opinion, the health of the union is i'm
proving under the slavery-extension nostrums
which they have been administering to it now
for some twenty years past whether their last
dose of Nebraska bitters bids fair to improve the
health or prolong the life of their unhappy pa
tient? To me, sir, though am no political doc
tor, and my opinion is therefore, of little value,
confess that the writings and paintings of the
patient, and the agitated and anxious counte-
Of the doctors and nurses, do not look like
a favorable working of the medicines and
would respectfully suggest change of prescrip-
tions. When you took your patient in hand,
some twenty years ago. it was blessed with a ro-
bust constitution, seemingly calculated to outive
all the quacks and grandames who had taken its
cure in hand, and only needed to be wisely let
alone to outlive the years of Methuselah him.
SELF But you could not rest. You pronounced
the union in danger, and again commenced adj
ministering your doses of pro- slavery agitation.
In 1886 you saved the union by |" Pinckney'
resolution" That was by laying anti-slavery
petitions on the table without reading or refer
ence." You pronounced your patient +" cured ~
still, to all but the doctors, it was evidently
made sick by your medicine. You nevertheless
tried the same remedy in 1888, in another reso-
luton of the same character. In 1912 you ad-
ministered another pro-slavery dose, in the at
tempt to expel from the House, the venerable
ex-president Adams, merely for presenting Pc
ttion to congress. The union was thereby again
saved, however; STILL strange to say, it grew more
and more feeble under these repeated salvations
and again in l843, you saved it by expelling from
the House, my venerable friend and colleague
TMr. GIDDINGs,1 for offering resolution in re-
spect to slave trading under the flag of the union
But, like all your past quackery, this also, only
made bad worse. But the union made out 10
keep above ground until 1916, when it was again
saved by the annexation of the slave state OF
Texas and the Mexican war; and in 1848, by the
acquisition of the slave territories of New
Mexico and Utah, and by the exertions of Colo
mel Fremont, the free territory of California,
king of slave territory 724, 900 square miles, and
the free territory of California 1873, 900 square
miles At about the same time, you commenced
depicting your patient by treaty with Great
Britain, and the cession to her Majesty of 80 40'
of latitude and 26o of longitude, equal to TIA O00
square miles of free territory, to which your slave
holding president had declared the title of the
United State be clear and unquestioned.'
Still the unio only grew worse, and in 1852
was again declared by the pro-slavery and slave
holding doctors, to be " as good dead" Sc
you called in both wing and democratic doctors
to consultation over your old patient, the union
The council of doctors were unanimously of the
opinion, not only that the patient was very sick
but, in addition thereto, was badly wounded
having seven bleeding wounds which were to
be stanched at once, or the case was hopeless
As usual on those occasions, more concessions
to slavery were prescribed; California was gra-
ciously permitted to come into the union 6
free state; Texas was consigned to the dissect-
ing ROOM to be cut into only fue slave states and
New Mexico and Utah were to be slave or fret
at their option. With this came Withdrawal
of the Shareholders license to convert the Dis
trict of Columbia into a slave stable. But above
all, this arrangement was declared fnal-was tC
be the pery last dose of patent medicine to be
ADMINISTRATIVE " all healing ointment" for the
| convalescent union.
But did the union recover on taking this dose
of" finality" physc? The doctors told US it was
| cured-that in this new ointment of letting the
| Shareholders have their own way in the terrific.
ries, the union was restored-was good as new.
| But alas Mr.. Chairman, however well it might
| fare with the union the case was different with
the doctors. In curing their patient they killed
themselves-every mothers son of them. But
again. alas for the poor union, and for the infalli
bility of political nostrum vendors in less thar
four years from this perfect this final recovery
| the union was found again in Mysteries. There
was discovered dreadful " tender spot" at the
! junction of the slave state of Missouri and the
| free territory of Kansas The democratic fac.
| ulty of political quacks was hurredly summoned
| What in the world could be the matter with the
| union now? WE'LL it was found by them to bt
| dying of a poison called Missouri compromise,
administered by the doctors in charge of her in
| 1920. This was the unanimous opinion of the
| doctors. The union, with that Missouri com.
promise, had taken an over dose of freedom, anG
it must be extracted from her system as the only
and the infallible remedy Yes, sir; the slave
| democracy have for all the diseases of the union
one and only one remedy; and that is, to bleed
| her of every drop of freedom left in her veins
| This, sir, s the course of surgery prescribed ant
administered by the democratic doctors for
union nursed in the lap, and nurtured at tn.
| bosom of freedom Feed her with more slavery
| more slave states, more slave territory; and
when you cease to have enough of these articles
on hand, why, then, steat more from your neigh
Dor nations after the prescription of the Ostent
conference of democratic doctors, of which Mr.
Buchanan, the nominee of the slave democracy fo
the presidency, was the acknowledged head, an,
Mr.. Soule of Louisiana, the fitting tall Stea
it, sir, with relish. Go at it, sir wolf and laml
fashion. Says the wolf, drinking in the stream
| IN no lamb dripkinp in fho ap,a ctrno,, hoJor