The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-03

OF slavery practically that does not believe II 10 be the nor
NAL condition Of the negro Seen through the inter-
stces Of Uncle Toms Cabin Garrsons Lberator, one
of the senator's speeches is grant you, rghtul out
rage humanity
made by leading statesmen in Virginia. which he assured
less favorable TO his side of this question
Does the senator know why such speeches are not made
now2 Does he know why the ameorang process in the
condition Of the slave then going on has ceased Does
he know why there thousands Of slaves in bondage to-
day who might otherwise have been ree Does he know
why the slaves not educated why their liberty is re-
srced and their bondage made TO sit more heavily upon
them II he does not viii tell him. 1t is because of the
impairment nermedding of himself and his friends with
matters that did not concern them.
The senator told us the other day, on what terms we
could get his sympathy Let me tell him what terms
he can get respect and the gratitude of the slave He
can get both by simply minding his business His
present policy annoying to us and detrimental to the
slave. use those words in their proper sense He may
annoy the MASTER but he lets slavery alone in
the States he says he WILL he will do him no harm he
may damage the slave by vexng the MASTER but II he
leaves the slave in bondage, he will do him no good II
you do TO overthrow saver In the States quit
talking about it, quit exciting the fears of the master with
cause and quit arousng the hopes of the slave with
out purpose That is my advice and charge nothing
for il. 8..4
There one point OF attack against slavery which
be ayorite with all its assaans in the Senate and
out of itand that is its enervang and destroying effect
on the people and States where 1t exists The senator
from Massachusetts, went out OF his the other day TO tell
us that slavery had converted Mount Vernon into Jungle
While these charges made and dwelt with peculiar
junction by the senator from it curious
1
read and ponder the speeches of the senator from New
appealing twenty-five millions of feemen to rise in their
majesty and put down the three hundred and fifty thousand
slavehoding arisocrats who ruling the country sap
ping the foundations OF liberty and establishing an aris
tocracy in midst If slavery bghts as with mildew
everything that it ouches-ift converts cultivated heds
into wild ungles and stately mansions into batroosts
it renders the people imbece in morals and mentally inn
potenis it not little strange that three hundred and
fifty thousand Shareholders should 80 have got the start OF
all the world that twenty-five millions Of heemen are
called into action to curb their growing powerI The
truth felt Mr. President though it is not acknowledged
that slavery has eevatng and ennobAg effect on the
white 1t is not true that the intellectual giants OF
the South who have guided the destiny of the nation
through SO many years are but the feeble Of an
mpoent by the existence Of slavery in the southern States
1t is that three hundred and fifty thousand slave.
holders living in jungles with no activity OF nna, and
| from New York. When we compare our Washingtons,
Jeersons Madisons Henrys, Marshas Jacksons and CAL
houns with your greatest and best no one can say
with truth, that we have cause to blush.
But you tell that your people more progressive
than In the mechanic arts grant that they are
Your workshops numerous and on larger scale
than The workshop is the home of vast numbers Of
your people In its art they excel and rejoice at their
We rejoice because it is for mutual advantage
they succeed We rejoice still more because their sue
part the Inheritance of the whole peo
pie On the other hand, home is in the cotton sugar.
rice and tobacco fields Of the South In our department
who will deny that have succeeded as well as your NO
where the hababe globe has the culture of cotton heen
brought such perfection in the southern States of this
Union fgentlemen would only reflect that proper d.
vision Of labor and the highest degree Of in every
department the best evidence OF national prosperity,
these inatured hngs at the South would cease at once
have time to pursue this train of thought though it
might be done with profit both to the North and the
South Whatever the northern people may say OF us, we
shall never cease to rejoice in their prosperity. e.
| must pass on Mr.. President because find that my
voice failing me- and even physical strength is giving
way. The senator from Maine Mr. FEssENDENl the other
day told that the South constantly making de-
mauds that the South demanded that such such things
ha hv and nm he
pliance threatened dissolution of the Union IT, the
has understood u.s. allow to say to him that
he has understood amss In making that declaration he
did us grevous wrong The South has demanded nothing
she to your doors with petition for favor at
your hands, She asked affirmative legislation from
this the subject Of slavery since it has
| had existence, in the pursuit Of clear and
admitted constitutional right. Her position has been
| one of opposition to your action Not being a petit
4 toner, she has uniformly here to demonstrate
against your action Her whole demand her whole pcy,
might at any moment have been summed up and it now
in these three short words Let us alone As some ev-
dence that right that question beg to read for the
information of the senator from Maine the positions taken
by my State not through her legislature not through
any informal convention not through any primary mass
meeting called by newspaper, but through convention
of her people lawfully called to express her sovereign will
| in reference to this whole matter in controversy So
far she is concerned she demands nothing and be-
eve appeal with perfect confidence to senators from
all the southern States to bear witness that her posi-
ton is substantially the position of their States First
she says there shall be interference by congressional
legislation with the institution Of slavery in the States
She certainly asks nothing that but your orbearance
She then says second the slave trade between the States
shall not be nerfered with by action of Congress. Then
says third there shall be action of Congress the
subject of slavery in the District Of Columbia any
place subject to the jurisdiction Of Congress incompatible
with the safety and domestic tranquility the rights and
honor Of the saveoldng States Then she says fourth
that the refusal of Congress to admit State on the
ground Of her tolerating slavery within her limits would
be subject for complaint and declares fifth that Congress
shall pass law prohibiting slavery In any Of the Terri
tories and SIXTH that the repeal of the fugitvesave
law neglect refusal of the general government to
enforce the constitutional provision the recovery of flu
gitive slaves, would be ground of complaint
These are six positions taken in convention and neither
vernment neither of them demands anything but your
orbearance neither of them demands anything except
what may be summed up in three words-let us alone.
Beyond that undertake to say there not has not
BEEN and in my opinion, will be- any considerable
number Of southern people demanding anything Let US
alone leave where left by the constitution OF
the United States to Interfere us cease to make
and we shall move harmoniousy together faith
II ers did before US. a.. ..Har .r
4 feel Mr. President that ought to say word in refer
| ence to position regards the Territories. There
seems TO me to have been most perseverng attempt
menced and pertinacopsy kept up throughout all the
northern States to msrepresen the position of the south
ern States and people this point What have asked
What do we ask now2 Simply to be treated equals
to be allowed equal rights and equal position in
i property Of all the people of all the States We have
asked that Congress shall treat it. and make insulting
discrimination between the people of Mississippi and the
people of the people of New York
the people of Yrgna but that all alike shall be allowed
go to the Territories and take with them whatever is