The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-04-21

general plan OF government was uIldlll duOpleO
Look Look through the records and discussions
of that body, and so far from finding any attempt
on the part of the north or the south of making
one inferior to the c.her you find general dis
, position peryading that body to grant to each
State all the rights privileges and immuniteS
which might belong to any one Of the Ststes.-
Does any man in his senses really believe that
Connecticut or South Carolina, or any other
State, would have ever ratified that Constitution
had tney really believed that under its proSis-
IONS one of them was to bedenied the privileges
which would be granted to others? Under that
Constitution, thus formed and thus understood
by its founders the democracy Of Connecticut
accord to our brahren Of the south the right tC
control and manage the institution OF slavery in
their own Ststes as shall 10 them seem best
We accord to them the right to an equal partci
patton in the enjoyment and use Of the common
property of the country. We accord to them
d the right to settle in the Territories ofthe Uni
ted States with their property whenever and
wherever they please, so long as they are Ter
ritories.
Il These were some of the great compromises o.
the Constitution which our fathers were willing
to make in order to establish this government
a government which has done more for humanl-
ty and more for religion than any that has exs-
ted since the world began. Such, Mr. Chairman
are the views Of Connecticut democrats in regard
to slavery and the rights ofthe south under the
Constitution. Theymay be wrong; but if they
are they cannot help it. These are the honest
convictions oftheir hearts. Because we are dis
posed to accord these constitutional right TO the
south, we have been ridiculed by republicans and
abolitioniSts as doughfaces, as northern men
4 with southern principles. The charge is false
We are northern men with national principles
We take the Constitution as we find it, and no'
as we wish it was: and if our opponents have
any !ault to find, let them heap their curses up
on their slaveholding ancestors lfthey really
entertain such sentiments as they sometimes
pro eSs let them go to some New England grave
yard, and there, perchance, amid the decayed
and broken tablets which maik the last resting
place of their fathers, they will find one monu-
mcnt more conspicuous than the rest, which
has not felt the witheringt .G,s of time, hut
which stands as bright and beautiful as it did
upon the very day when the legislature Of some
northern state planted it there as feeble token
ofrespect to the memory Oftheir delegate to the
federal convention; and after having read the in
seription which grateful posterity has engravcn
upon its polished side. let them cease the vim
dictive feeling of their phanthropic hearts by
Einscribng beneath it here hes buried man tChc
has eftto his country a heritage Of intamy oaa
shame; cursed be his name forever! If still then
virtuous feelings oppreSs them, let them visit
the consecrated soil OF Mount Vernon, ransack
its halIOwed tomb, gather up the bones OF the
slaveholdng father Of their country, clothe them
with the revolutionary garments which lie pre-
served within the walls OF your MAJ bic bull
dings, and hang them in etfiey upon tie nearest
tree, as gou hung in cfligy those men at the
IL IN MT I'M fnl
1.-THE obligations of a Constitution which such
mcn have imposed upon them. Weak.
| apprchend that these views OF the Connect
cut democracy are satisfactory to coservative men
of the south, and when we stand by them in the
Emaintainance of all their INSTITUTIONAL rights
Ethev cannot ask or expect us to do moie. That
democracy il lehooyeS our southern not to dl-
vide and destroy hut to encourage and stIcrGth-
lem for to such and such alone, can they leok
for the maintenance of their honor and the pre-
servation OF thoir Just and constitutional rights.
Most Of our southern friends feel and appreci-
ate this. Still there are some who, actuatcd ro
Idoubt by pure motives but certainly by misgut
ded zeal and unfortunate judgement, and doing
-more in single day to weaken and parall re our
organization than all the combined forces fab
olitionists could accomplish in year I refer
to that class Of speeches delivered in this hall in
which tie slaves are compared with the free la
boring men of the north; In which slavery is
set forth as a moral and religious institution; in
which the crime and panperiSm existing at the
north is attributed solely to the absence Of the
reforming and enrching qualities of the peculiar
institution. Now, the democracy of Connect
cut is composed, to great extent, of the bone
and s;new of the State-ofhonest, faithful hard
working men, who earn their bread by the
sweat Of their brows; and if any southern gen
tleman thinks they are net as good or as wei
off as bis "negerS." it would he much more
gratifying to u.s. and more satisfactory to them
Iifhe would only think sc,and not incorporate his
thoughts into speech For Just as sure as ohe
If those speeches is made upon this floor, yot
find the republican members Of this House sub
scribing for them bv the hundreds and thousands
and scattering them broadcast among the labor
ling people ofthe north. The republican orators
at the north read extracts from them to the
people, and Sneeringly tell them, these, then
aIe the sentiments of the SOUTH which place you
lower in the scale Of humanity than the African
negro, and such are the men whom the dernoc
racy call upon you to sustain" They are put
rorth as the sentiments Of the south, and | car
assure gentlemen they do more to send republi-
can members to this House than any othel
cause.
Then there is another thing that don't do an,
good, particularly among the moral and religious
( portion of our party (which onsttutes very
large portion;) and that is such an argument 81
was advanced the other day by the gentleman
5 from Georgia (Mr. Carhell,) by which he at
tempted to prove that slavery is an institution
from God, and enjoined upon man by the in
spircd word, and that it is necessary in order t
give an elevated tone to the morals Of a comnu
nity. Now, | have no doubt the gentleman
thinks so; he has right TO think so; but WI
don't. We don't think God has anything par
! ticular to do with ii; and Iapprchend that th'
/, gentleman from Georgia Goes not advocate thu
institution so much cut OF respect for the lie
vtican law, as he does through his zeal to pro
/, mote the interests OF his constituents and oil hi
State. If he does, he must obey the whole a
part of the law. Now, the same Levitcar
Jaw, in chapter IL, verses Z and 8, says: "Ant
the swine, though he divided the hoof and b'
cloven- looted. yet he cheweth not the cud, ht
mclean to you; Of their flesh shall We not eat
| and their carcase shall yet not touch; they ar,
, unclean to you" If the gentleman, when h,
} is candidate for re-electon, should tell hi
constituents that it was contrary to tie divin,
law for them any longer to cat pork or bacon
/ and that he felt 1t to be his religious duty I,
! have that law made the law of the State o
/, Georgia, and that from that time forward they
must abaLdon that luxury; ! far we shoult
never after have the pleasure of seeing him upor
this floor clothed congressional honor
fle would certainly fall a martyr tohis religious
zeal, The democracy Of Connecticut are a God
. fearing, religious people: Their standard o
, morality is high; and II slavery improves NOR,
Il ais, and is commanded Of God, we want to ct
J into il; and ifdvine favor is to bc extehded ii
ms in ,rnpo,tiop Ia ourolBdience to that Levitt