Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-06-17

pom their fellow-man. If the Senator wish
es to see fanatics, let him look round among
his own associates; let him look at himself.
But have not done with the Senator
There is another matter regarded by him Of
such consequence, that he interpolated it
into the speech Of the Senator from New
Hampshire Mr.. Hale, and also announced
that he had prepared himself with it, to
take in his pocket all the way to Boston,
when he expected t0saddress the people 81
that community. On this account, and for
the sake Of truth, ] stop for one moment,
and tread it to the earth. The North, ac-
cording to the Senator, was engaged in the
slave trade, and helped to introduce slaves
into the Southern States; and this undeni-
able fact he proposed to establish Ly statis-
tics, in stating which his errors surpassed
his sentences in number. But let these
pass for the present, that may deal with
his argument. Pray, sir, is the acknowl-
edged turpitude Of departed generation to
become an example to us2 And yet the
suggesiionof the Senator, if entitled to any
consideration in this discussion, must have
this extent. 1 JOIN my friend from New
Hampshire in thanking the Senator from
South Carolina for adducing this instance;
for it gives me an opportunity to say, that
the Northern merchants, with homes in
Boston, Bristol, Newport, New York, and
Philadelphia, who catered for Slavery du-
ring the years Of the slave trade, are tho
lineal progenitors of the Northern men,
with homes in these places, who lend them
selves to Slavery in our day; and especially
that all, whether North or South, who take
part, directly or indirectly, in the conspira-
cy against Kansas, do but continue the
work Of the slave.traders, which you con-
denim. Iii true, too true, alas! that our
fathers were engaged in this traffic; but that
is no apology forit, And in repelling the
authority of this example. repel also the
tfite argument founded on the earlier ex-
ample Of fEngland. tits true that our moth
er country, at the peace of Utrecht, extort-
ed from Spain the Assiento Contract, secu-
ring the monopoly of the slave trade with
the Spanish Colonies, as the whole price Of
all the blood ofgreat victories; that she hig-
gled at Aix-lasC sChapelle for another lease
Of this exclusive traffic; and again, at the
treaty Of Madrid, clung to the wretched pi-
lacy, tits true, that in this spirit the pow
er of the mother country was prostituted to
the same base ends in her American Colo
MES, against indignant protests from our
fathers. All these things now rise ,ip in
'in3enfnt, aaa;nRt. har.s.I .cr rs not folIaw
||ol iIt1 South ['1| 1''f6I1 q I..1
very es1iI to-day. which ID another genera
ton we condemn,
AS the Senator from South Carolina is
the Don Quixote, the Senator from Illinois
[ Mr.. Douglas is the squire of Slavery, its
very Sancho Panza, ready to do all the hu.
initiating Offices. This Senator, in his la
bored address, vindicating his labored re-
port-piling one mass of elaborate error up
on another mass-constrained himself, as
you will remember, to unfamiliar decencies
of speech. Of that address / have nothing
to say at this moment, though before sit
down shall show something ofits fallacies.
But l go back now to an earlier occasion,
when, true to his native impulses, he threw
into this discussion, "for charm of power
full trouble" personalities most discreditable
to this body. I will not stop to repel the
imputations which he cast upon myself; but
l mention them to remind you of the "swel-
tered venom sleeping got" which, with 9TH
er poisoned ingredients, he cast into the
cauldron Of this debate. OfOther things I
speak. Standing on this floor, the Senator
issued his rescript, requiring submission to
the Usurped Power Of Kansas; and this was
accompanied by manner---all his own
such as BELTS the tyrannical threat. Very
well. Let the Senator try. I tell him now
that he cannot enforce any such submission.
The Senator, with the Slave Power at his
back, is strong; but he is not strong enough
for this purpose. He is bold. He shrinks
from nothing. Like Danton, he may cry,
"raudacsl l'audacsi towoars paudacel" but
even his audacity cannot compass this work.
The Senator copies the British officer, who.
with boastful swagger, said that with the
hiltofhis sword he would cram the "stamps"
down the throats Of the American people,
and he will meet similar failure. He may
convulse this country with civil feud. Like
the ancient madman, he may set FIRE to this
Temple of Constitutional Liberty, grander
than Ephesian dome; but he cannot enforce
obedience to that tyrannical Usurpation.
The Senator dreams that he can subdue
the North. He disclaims the open threat,
but his conduct still implies It, How little
that Senator knows himself, or the strengths
of the cause which he persecutesl He is
but mortalman; against him is an immor-
tai principle. With finite power he wrestles
with the infinite, and he must fall. Against
him are stronger battalions than any mar
shalled by mortal arm---the inborn, ineradi.
cable, invincible sentiments Of the human
heart; against him is nature in all her sub
tie forces; against him is God. Let him try
to subdue these.
But I pass from these things, which,
though belonging to the very heart OF the
discussion, are yet preliminary in character,
and press at once to the main question.
/. 1t belongs to me now, in the first place. to
expose the CRIME AGAINST KANSAS, in its origin
and extent. Logically. this is the beginning of
the argument / say Urine, and deliberately
adopt this strongest term, as better than any
other denoting the consummate transgression.
would go further, If language could further 60.
II is the CRIME or CRiMEs SURPRISING far the old
cRiIEN MAJEsrATIs, pursued with vengeance by
the laws OF Rome, and containing all other
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