New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-04

vast Wholesale and interstate character 'oWhch II
ha. since attained; for Franklin and his associates
memorialized Congress TO step TO the very verge
"oi the power vested in them for dscouraglng
srtry sptei,s cftraEe 10 our ytcllo,c-men."
Asking for so much more sud coming from 40
high quarter. the reading of this memorial
not very soothing introduction TO the debste on
The motion for committing the Quaksr petition by
| which il was Immediately followed. Against that
motion two South Carolina Representatives vehe
| mently protested, not without hints Of what has
now become 40 familiar as 70 have passed from
bugbear into laughing stock Of dissolution Of
the Union, if any restriction OF any sort upon
slavery We're attempted. To those threats, Scott.
the Representative Of the then infant but now
adui, Northwest thus calmly and coolly
replied:
81 canno, doub; that the memorial is strictly agree
able 10 the Constitution. Ii respects part of the duty
particularly assigned 10 u by that instrument We
can AZ present buy our hands on small tax OF ten
dollars. would take that ard If that ia all we can
do We must be content. | sorry that the trainers
Of the Constitution did Dot 90 further anu enable u
10 nterdict the slayetrade altogether Tor look upon
il 10 be one Of the most sbomlnable things on earth
and If there were neither God nor devil should OPP
pose on principles of humanity and the law OF ma
lure For nv part cannot conceive how any pe7son
can be said TO acquire property IN ah0ther Inc
petitioners view the subject ~ religious light Out
stand not in need Of religious motives TO induce me 10
repEsbac the traffic Of human flesh Perhaps IN our
legislative capacity can 90 no further IMAM 10 M
lose duty uf ten dollars but do lot know how far
| might 20 If Was OF the Judges of the nited
States and these people were ID come before me ana
claim their emancipation. | am sure would 20 as
far ~ | could
Such was the significant and emphatic declara-
ton OF the man. who represented IN that First
Congress the very District of Pennsy lyania which
now endures the burning disgrace Of furnishing
the bench of The Supreme Court of the
United States Judge Ike Grier, bent with
bis confederate. Kane, Buchanan and the rest
of the dOughface politicians OF Pennsylva-
MIA, upon making that state thoroughtare for The
domestic slsve-trade
In spits OF the opposition Of the saretradng
members, the Quaker memorial was referred 10
q Committee aud that Committee brought IN an
elaborate report in which tn powers OF Congress
upon the subject Of Slavery were stated in seven
resolutions, three o: negative and four OF posi-
tive character Against the adoption OF this report
of which the seventh and concluding resolution ex-
pressed an intention on the part OF Congress 20
exercise their authority TO It's fullest extent 70 pro-
mote the humane object of curtalng the foreign
slayetrade which formed the subject matter Of the
Ouahermemoria the slave. trading members exerted
themselves to the utmost; and it is curious to OBJ
serve how the arguments they employed were almost
precisely the same with those now put forth from
the same quarter in favor Of extending Slavery into
Kansas. One OF the arguments, however, then
urged By Smith. the able and accomplished Repre-
sentative of the Charleston District. who had en-
loved the advantage of having been educated abroad,
would hardly bear repetition now: q Ii was said
also that Slavery yitiates and debases the mind of
the stakeholder, bur where is the proof Do the
citizens of the South exhibit more ferocit. IN their
"manners more barbarIty in their dispositions
" than those Of The other States ~ Since the muir
derous attempt in the Senate Chamber, BY Bully
Brooks upon the person of Senator Sumner, and
the hCnors everywhere shOwered throughout the
South especially by the women, upon that cow
.rdly assassin; since the shooting of The Irish
wsiter at Washington by anothern SOutheru-born
sud Southern.bred Congressional bully; since the
assault committed by third Southern men,
Der OF the present Congress upon the ed
'or Of a public Journal since the robberies
and murders perpetrated in Missouri and
Kansas upon the persons of Free-State travel
ers and emieran.s t woud hardly be safe TO
peat that aue- .ou-at least with the expectation
Of drawing from !: any support to the extension Of
Slavery. To these euogles upon that accursed IN
,ttution and especially to the pretense set up
then by the Southern members of some secret, i'm
piled obligation ia the Constitution not in any way
20 touch the subject of Slavery scott answered in
,hese terms-nOt ess applicable to the controversy
now pending than they were when first uttered:
Most of the Arguments advanced had gone against
the emancipation of such a. were slaves already But
that question was not before the committee The
report under consideration inv Olives such idea Ii
was granted oil hands that Congress have su-
thorty to intemeidle in that business. believe that
he seve al States with whom the authority wholly
rests viii from time 70 time make such adv 8nCes .
the premises and we may ask here. BY way Of pa
renthe sis IL il not almost time for some OF them to
begin -" justice 10 the master and slave the die
taes of humanity and sound policy, and the state of
society will require admit and here rest content
AN advocate for Slavery in is fullest latitude at
b, age of the world and the floor Of the American
CoDgre-, too seems to me phenomenon in politics.
Ye; such advocate have appeared and many argu-
menatiye statements have been urged 81 which will
only answer BY EALING those who heard them TO be-
eve them if they can! With me they defy, yea,
mock all belief
L chnno. think il satisfactory 20 BE told that there
understanding on this subject between the
Northern and Southern members Of the Federa Con-
vention. | trust there was no trstickng in the
Convention When considering constitutional
po~ We must Judge Of them BY the face of the in
strumG ut under which sit and not by the certain
Understandings which the trainers of that instrument
may be supposed to have had with each other, but
which never embodied in the instrument. At any
rate the Constitution wa not obligatory until ratified
hy Cel.an number Of State COM ention. which can.