The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-01

outside of our own Commpnysalths.
What have YOU dane You accepted the grants of
North Carolina South Carolina, and Georgia, over Ten
aessee Alabama, and Mississippi on eaPdqn that you
should emancipbte The bonasmen which had been
ried into PORTIONS OF those TeVtoes thereby making as
least Of slavery in tboss three great stss Then you To-
Gated the rational capital here the banks OF the Potor
mac. sad continued The laws Of Virginia aud Maryland
which the slave trade and slavery honrished beneath
the protecting folds of the national flag 5ir within sight
of the starry banner of the Union which floats
heads bdudreds of men, for whom Christ died. are
held in perpetual bondage for which OF the North
responsible in the forum CT the nations The permanent
OF the country feqpred the purchase OF Louis
siana You purchased IT, You took with Il forty thou
sand slaves You did make them free You made the
people of Massachusetts, and the North responsible for their
future slavery and the slavery of their posierty Then
you purchased Florida with her slaves You did not
them free You linked with slavery In that Territory
You made us responsbleor its future existence there Then
you annexed the senator's Stale of Texas and the
leading motive why it forced into the Union at that
time at the risk Of with Mexico, treng heu
the cause of slavery Mr.. Calhoun, the masterspirt in
annexation this substantially in his letter to
Mr. King then minister at Paris You annexed Texas
With her slaves and you have made us responsible for
slavery there
In 1907 when you abolished the African slave trade
you passed law protecting the coastwise save trade and
nom 1907 almost fifty years ago the slave trade has been
carried upon the rivers and waters of the United States
under the protection of the national flag You made
responsible for that traffic the trophies Of which, the
expressive language of John Randolph the manacle
the hand-cuG and the bood-stained cowhide"
When established the consttation-when inaugu-
rated the governmenwe rearmed the ordinance Of 1887
every foot of territory stood as nation be-
fore the world not responsible for slavery had not its
guilt its shame upon BY sixty years OF legislation
you have connected and associated with that system
until you have arrived at this point when claim II
your right to carry slavery under the constitution into all
the Territories Of the United States If you can carry
there you carry it into the free States for 1t man
has right hold his slave by the of the federal
constitution, do where State Of this Union gets
the power to abolish It
Mr. Clay declared in $780, that this doctrine of
the extraordinary assumptions and most ndefensibe
positions ever taken by man. He said
"You put your finger the part Of the consttu
ton which conveys the right the power 70 slaves
from Of the States of the Union to any Territory Of the
the constitution possesses authority
tribnted to protect slavery in the Territores
the laws Of the free States Of the Union would yield to
that paramount authority"
Denying this authority he said:
f slaves voluntarily carried into such Jurisdiction,
where slavery does not exist their chains instantly drop
Off and they become free, emancpated liberated from their
bondage"
The senator from Illinois, [Mr.p ouGLAs the author of
the Kansas and Nebraska act In reply this exraordna
Territories that to deny 1t would be the denial of the
equality of the States said ut is violation of southern
rights to prohibit slavery" for neither the North
Sorth such have any rights there at al The dnals
OF the extraordinary assumption the part of savehod
ing politicians by northern senators the democratic side
of the chamber Of little value The democratic party
iron heels that The power Of the democratic party
is in the South Gentlemen Of the democratic party in the
North follow southern lead You have been forced
from position to another. You forced to aban-
don your position in favor of the @Wilmot proviso You
driven to stand upon the shifting sands of popular
sovereignty and you being driven from that
position The Richmond Enquirer tells that squat,er
sovereignty has been repudiaed by the Cincinnati plat
form. "The democrats Of the South, it tells us seek
merely retain slavery where it is but extend it in,o
regions where it is yet unknown Northern democrats
a a al II
is the glory of the northern democracy that it s in and
follows its southern leaders and masters. predict thai
The doctrines maintained this floor by the from
Mississippi Mr.. BRowS will yet be adopted by the north
democracy unless deferred by the newly developed
strength of the awakened and aroused reemen Of the
North.
The senator from Texas spoke of northern fanaticism
Does be suppose the people Of the North so
Ignorant and deluded to be deceived question OF
such transcendant magnitude2
Mr.. RUSK. Will the senator allow me to interrupt
him2
Mr.. WILSON. Certainly.
Mr.. RUSK. do not know that used the term fhuat-
icsm, but have frequently spoken Of the slavery aea-
ton and have frequently expressed the conviction
which is on my mind that all the hue and cry about sa-
mechanics not by the hardfsed farmers but by disap
pointed politicians who desire to get into office on sec
tional issue.
MIR. WILSON / hope the senator from Texas, and
those who with him, viii disabusc their minds right
speedily of that idea Cast your eye the North
take New England with her hundred and fifty
thousand popular majority against your canQluate
take the great state of New York take the Who'll.
line of northern States and when you look at them,
remember that have large plurality in all of them,
cept in portion of them included within about forty
thousand square miles of territory, and that intend to
burn in the four years. allude to and
central Pennsylvania southern Indiana, southern Illinois,
and small portion of New jersey. There mean to
discuss the question: and have 1t well and clearly defined
and understood. The rest OF the North you be-
eve that the people are fanatics or that their leaders de
ceive them remember thing that in 1850 there were in
the United States nearly eight hundred thousand free
above twenty years of age who could not read
write Only nnety-our thousand of this eight hun
dred Thousand happen live in the States which Fremont,
has carried Remember another thing that the State oil
Massachusetts, which you consider utra-a people
easily deluded-prnts within few thousand and crcu-
teen southern States of the Union. Remember they
have voumes in their public libraries than all the
slave States. Remember they give away money to
the Bible and Missionary and other benevolent societies
every year than the entire saveholdiDg Sats and they
have done SO during the last quarter of century.
tell YOU sir that the people ahead OF and that
is what you You say that they deceived by
obu disclaimers because the people will pass beyond the
direction and control of political leaders The people
dersand this question: sir they know their responsible
ties their powers, and their duties.
The senator from South Carolina think, informed
that he did of the Influences of the slave
and there certainly of it in the Senate Why,
cir from the origin of the the present time
troed by that power Do you not know that any nom
ree here for confirmation is suspected OF being
sound the slavery question: his rejection is forezonc
conclusion Governor Everett when he fret entered the
House of Representatives announced his sentiments upon
the slavery question in language which brought upon him
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