The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-22
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But, sir, can stand, we can stand here to-day
and saw as the great New England orator then
said that their accusations and suspicious are
wholly groundless--that no attempt has ever
been made, since Washington took the oath of
Office on the 30th of April, 1889, to this hour,
10 interfere with the legal and constitutional
rights Of the people of the Southern States in
their domestic concerns.
ON the 4th of November last, more than one
million three hundred thousand men, intelligent,
patriotic, liberty-loving, law-abiding citizens of
New England, the great Central States and of
the Northwest, holding with our Republican
fathers that all men created equal, and have
an inalienablc right to liberty; that che Consti-
tuition Of the United States was ordained and es
tablished to secure that inalienable right every
where under its exclusive authority; denying
"the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Leg
islature OF any individual or association of indi
yiduals 10 give legal existence to Slavery in
any Territory Of the United States, while the
present Constitution shall be maintained" pro-
nounced through the ballot-box that /" the Con-
sfitution confers upon Congress sovereign power
over the Territories of the United States, and
that in the exercise Of this power it is both the
right and the duty of Congress TO prohibit in the
Territories those twin relics of barbarism, Polyg
amy aud Slavery Believing, with Franklin
that "a Slavery is atrocous debasement of hu-
man nature with Adams, that consenting to
Jefferson, that " one hour of American Slavery
is fraught with more misery than ages of that
which We rose in rebellion to oppose with
Madison that 1" Slavery is a dreadful calamity"
that imbecility is ever attendant upon II coun-
try filled with slaves with Monroe, that a. Sla-
very has proved upon the vtalS OF the communi-
tv in all the States where il has existed with
Noutesaueu, that " even the very earth, which
teens with profusion under the cuiivaiing hand
of the free-born laborer, shrinks into barrenness
from the communicating sweat OF slave they
pronounced their purpose to be 10 save Kansas,
now in peril, and all the Territories of the Repub
lie for the free laborng men OF the North and
the South, their children, and their childrens
children, forever
Accepting the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United States as
their political charts-avowIng their purposes TO
he 10 maintain the Constitution, the Federal
Union. and the rights OF the States-proclamng
everywhere their purpose not TO make upon
the South. not 70 interfere with the legal and
constitutional rights of the people of any of the
States-they gave their votes with the profound
est conviction that they were discharging the
duties sanctioned 10y humanity, patriotism, and
religion Youth with its high hopes and aspira-
tions-manhood in the vigor and maturity of its
powers-agc with its rich, and ripe experiences
inspired with the spirit of Washington, when ht
announced to Robert Morris that his suffrage
of Slavery in his native Virginia " in the onl,
proper and effectua mode in which il could b,
aecomplished-ta is by legislative authority" -
severed the ties which had bound them to othel
organizations and united 10 prohibit Shaver,
everywhere outside the slave States, where i
exists under the exclusive authority of Congress
This is the offence of these one million three hun
dred thousand sons Of the free North, upon whom
the nnkennelled hounds of the slave propagand
lists have been unleashed.
Sir. the President of the United States, in th
his last will and testament, has arraigned thes
one million three hundred thousand intellgen
and patrio;ic freemen of the country. His &c
cusaiions have gone forth over the land. Steam
and sail, wind and wave, are bearing these &C
cusations all over the Christian and civilize,
world Wherever our country is known, thes
accusations made by the Chief Magistrate of th'
Republic will meet the eye reach the q
men. | indulge the hope, however, that The
Republicans of the Old World who have beer
and now are branded as factionsts, dsorgan
izers. Jewellers enemies of churches and hierarch
les. will remember that the Republicans OF th
New World, who battle for the liberty of maj
AGAINST the dominion of man, are doomed, lik
themselves, 10 share the c0ntumely and reproach
es of power
Assuming, Mr.. President, that his policy ha
been sanctioned by the election, the PresIden
nroceeds to accuse more than one million thre
HUNDRED thousand American citizens OF an at