The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-01-22


they have any effect in that latitude.
The Senator from Texas Mr.. Rusk] told us
| the other day that we cared for the negro, and
he cared for the white man. The Senator from
| Pennsylvania Mr. BIGLER1 has expressed the
same idea We claim the Territories of the Uni
ted States for the free laboring men of the coun-
| try North and South. The extension of Slavery
into Kansas, into the other Territories, is the
exclusion of the free laboring men of the country
from those Territories. The Senator from Mis-
| sissippi Mr. ADAMs] referred to the census to
show that some seven hundred thousand North
| ern men had gone into the slave States. If the
Senator from Mississippi had read through the
| very page from which he made the quotation, he
would have discovered that the statement is not
correct. BY that very page he would have dis
| covered that, in 1850, less than two hundred
| thousand Northern-born men were in all the
| slave States. In 1850, more than two millions
| of the natives of the free States had removed
from their own States into other States-ess than
two hundred thousand of that number had gone
| into the slave States. More than two millions
| of immigrants from abroad were in the United
States in 1850. One million eight hundred thou
| sand of them were in the free States three hun
| dred and seventy-eight thousand in the slave
States. Ninety per cent. of all the emigration
| from the free States goes to other free States
| eighty-hye per cent. of all the foreign immigra-
| ton goes to the free States While only two
| hundred thousand free-State men had passed in
to the slavehOlding States in 1850, more than six
hundred thousand natives of slave STATES had
| removed into free States. In 1850, FIVE hundred
| and ffty-six thousand men, born in the South,
! were residents of the five States Of the North
| west saved TO Freedom by the Ordinance of 1871.
Virginia has sent sixty thousand more emigrants
| into the free States of the Nprtliwest--States
covered by the Ordinance of 1787-than all the
| free States have sent into the slaveholding por-
tons of the Louisiana purchase, Florida, and
Texas / would remind the Senator from Penn
sylvania, Mr.. BIGLER, that his own State has
sent more than three hundred thousand of her
sons into the free West-only fifteen thousand to
these slave Territories. The labOring men of the
South, whose battles we are fighting, seek homes
| in the free States and let me remind Senators
that to this class of men in southern Indiana and
Illinois they are indebted for the votes of those
States. I'll
Sir the free laboring men of the North never
did go into the slaveholding States and they new
er will. Establish Slavery in Kansas and you ex-
clude the entire population of the free States from
that Territory, with the exception of few teach
ers, professional men, and merchants. The farm
ers the mechanics, the laboring men of the North,
| never put themselves on a degrading equality
| with slaves In 1850, while five hundred and
| fifty-six thousand Southern men had passed into
| the five Northwestern States less than ninety
thousand Northern men Of all the free States had
passed into Florida, Texas, and the whole Lou
isana purchase, which was dedicated TO Slavery.
tell the Senator from Texas, that the great rca-
son why we maintain the doctrine of the prohi-
biton of Slavery in all the Territories of the Uni
ted States is, that want to preserve those Ter
rtories to the free laboring men.
! commend to the consideration Of Senators
who would open the Territories to Slavery
| these words of the Hon. G. j. FAULKNER Of
Virginia, concerning the effects of Slavery upon
the condition of the farmer, mechanic, and labor
| ing man:
alt banishes free white labor-it exterminates
the mechanic, the artisan the manufacturer. 1t
| deprivcs them Of occupation 1t deprives them
of bread. 1t converts the energy of q commune
| ty into indoIence-its power into irnbecility-
its efficiency into weakness" p Must
| the country languish droop, die, that the
| STAKEHOLDER may flourish? Shall all interests
be subservient to one? all rights subordinate
to those of the stakeholder? Has not the me-
chanc, have not the middle classes, their
rghts-rights incompatible with the existence
of Slavery2" EN-
Sir, the Senator from Texas spoke sneeringly
of bleeding Kansas" Throughout the canvass
our efforts in favor of making Kansas free State,
and protecting the legal rights of the people, were
sneered at, as :" shrieks for Freedom" and for
I" bleeding Kansas | remember that on the
evening when the news came to New York. that
Pennsy lvania was carried, in October, the En-.
pire Club came out with cannon, banners and
transparencies. The Five Points where the
waves Of Abolition fanaticism have verreachcd,
the inhabitants of that locality like the people of
the lower Egypt Of the West, stood fifty TO one
by the Democracy; the Five Points and the 9th
ward were out--and upon transparency, horne
through the streets of the great commercial CAPT
tai Of the western world the picture of three
scourged black men and on that transparency
| were the words, " Bleeding Kansas ? thought
then that it was degradation which had reached
| the proioundest depths Of humiliation; but even
that degradation has been surpassed here in the
national capital In that procession which passed
along these avenues but a few evenings before we
came here-a procession formed under the immc-
date eyes of the chiefs of the Executive Depart
ments of the Government, and filled with their
retainers, ledby Government oflcials-was borne
upon transparency the words, "Sumner and
kansaS--let them bleed u II
The Senator from Texas may sheer, and others
may sheer, at " Bleeding Kansas y but tell him
one thing-that the next day at ten clock after
the Presidential election, there was an aSsembage
OF men, continuing through two DAYS, in the city
OF Boston, from several States, and from g Bleed
ing Kansas men, some of whom you guarded
through the summer months for treason-assem-
bled together to take measures to save Kansas;
and ] assure that Senator, and Others who may
election, that more money has been contributed
since that election than during any three months
of the whole controversy. Thousands of garments
have been sent to protect that suffering peopie.
We have resolved-and we mean to keep that
resolutOn-that if by any lawful effort, any per-
sonal sacrifice, Kansas can be saved to Freedom,
It shall be saved in spite of your present Admin
istratiOn, or anything that your incoming Admin
istratiOn can do. II TEL
| listened the other day with surprise and pain
| to the allusion made by the venerable Senator
from Michigan Mr. CASs TO my colleague, ms.
SUMNER, whose forced absence from this body
for the last seven months must have touched the
sensbilities of every honorable man in America
Sir, he is not here to speak for himself If he
were here, his physical condition is such that he
| could not speak for himself with safety but he
will come here again, if God in his providence
| shall restore him to health, by the almost unan-
imOus voice of his native State, to whose cher
| ished sentiments and opinions he has been true
He may not come until the seat which now knows
| the venerable Senator from Michigan shall know
him no more. The venerable Senator retires from
| this body by the memorable decree of the people
| of his adopted State. know my colleague well
enough, however, to know that he is too mag
unanimous to hurl shaft at the absent.
But the Senator takes objection to this figure of
| speech "The rape of virgin Territory, compel
| ling it to the hateful embrace of Slavery" The
| Senator calls this an "unpatriotc metaphor, ,"
showing "prurient imagination" would
remind the Senator, that to the pure all things are
pure. If this metaphor was not fit to he made,
surely it was unfit TO be repeated, and subjected to
that Senator's criticism. Butts not the figure true
Was not Kansas a virgin Territory Was it not
free2 Aud has it not been polluted by Slavery ?
Were not the sacred words, Slavery shall be,
and is, forever prohibited" written upon every
foot of its green sods2 Every breeze that swept
over it bore to the world the words, " Liberty for