The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-01


that Slavery is in your Territories that ever
inch of ground ou side of the free States is slave
territory pity the weakness of the man WHIT
Yields to Any such ideas as that That cour
has no such trsnscendent power. It could bini
nobody but the suitors in the court. 1t would
be unfortunate if it could.
/ know with what avidity your facile Presi
dent seized upon the idea, and stultifed himsel
BY saying that it was q mystery to him that any
man should ever doubt it. The Senator from
Michigan Mr.. CHANDLERl yesterday disposed
OF him IN that particular. He disposed of hin
forever, and showed a hypocrisy, am com
PEELED to say, disgraceful to man, even in a
private station. BE who had deliberately put
forth the doctrines of the Missouri Compromise
be who had sought, over and over again, in the
ripeness of his judgment, after full delibera-
ton, to procure Its extension and recognition
by Congress, now turns coldly around, and tells
us it is a mystery that any man should ever
have doubted iii Well, sir, if Mr.. Buchanan
Is mystery to himself, he is no mystery to
me.
HEAR THE SLAVE POWER
There is one other consideration that wish
TO bring before the Senate. Why is it, and
how is it, that the Southern States, with one.
third, or less than onethird, of the free popula-
ton of this nation, have been enabled for sixty
years to rule the destinies of the country? II
has been done, in the first place, land that is
one reason why contest every inch of ground, J
because in close oligsrchy you have a power
that democracy of the same numbers can
never have politically. The power of the Gov
eminent seems to be in inverse ratio TO the num-
Der of people that participate in the Gov
eminent. And this is obvious enough. You
have class of not more than three hundred
= L. a. Il Al -. j
States. They have governed this Union ESQ
says the Senator from South Carolina, and he
says truly) for sixty long years not the people
of the South, mind ydn he says the slayehold-
ers have ruled the nation. That is true. First
of all, they placed their feet on the necks of all
those who do not hold slaves. The poor men
of the South he utterly ignores, as having any
political power, and / suppose they have none.
They have votes, no doubt but those votes are
given in accordance with the will of this aris
tocrauy, who are allpowerful; for it has been
observed, and truly observed, that be who has
the power over the subsistence of another has
the power over his will. You, the wealthy
shareholders of the South, WELD absolute do
miniou over your poorer white neighbors I;
therefore it was that the Senator from South
Carolina said the shareholders have ruled the
nation. You three hundred and fifty thousaod
shareholders have ruled your six million whites,
Il go according to the census of 1907 you
have not only ruled your six million, but you
have also ruled the fourteen million free people
of the North.
How have you done it2 You have done it
because you had general bond Of interes,
uniting you, tying you together as if animated
By one soul. What was the interest to me, was
the interest of another. You are forced all on
al m aph Ynr
found the Democracy of the North divided in
various pursuits, laboring in their various svo
cations, with very little time to study this prob
lem of politics; snd you have always been able
to seduce enough of us over to you, to enable
you to carry your Government along. / know
that gentlemen smile kt this but am COM
PEELED by truth to state facts here that / wish l
could hide from the world. 1t is rottenness
a. the North that you do not have. 1t is DIS
reputable to US, but am compelled to admit it.
A DAGUERREoTYPE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PU-
TURE AGES.
Your allies, the doughfaces of the North, in
my judgment, are the most despicable of men.
The modern doughface is not character Pc
culiar to the age in which we live, but you fed
traces of him at every period of the worlds
history. He is void of pride; he is void of self
respect; he is sctusted by mean, grogslling
bctubUucest Iudl NOulQ sell 0lS maker IOr q
price. Why, sir, when old Moses, under the
immediate inspiration of God Almighty, en-.
tioed a whole nation of slaves and ran away,
not 10 Canada, but TO old Canaan, 1 suppose
that Pharaoh and all the chivalry of old Egypt
denounced him as a most furious Abolitionst
Laughter. ] do not know but that they bias
phemed their God, who had assisted the fugi
tiVes from labor TO escape. / have no doubt at
all, that when some Southern gentlemen of the
Gospel come up to preach 10 the North, they
will say that the Almighty acted q very fauati-
cal part in this business. / am afraid they
will say so; for He was aiding and abettiug in
the escape. But smidst the glories Of that
great deliverance, even feeding upon miracles
of the Almighty ss they went along, there were
no. wanting those who loved Egypt better than
they loved liberty; whose souls longed fox the
hesh-polA, of Egypt; and who could turn from
the visible Elories of the Almighty God to wor.
ship an Egyptian calf. These were the dough.
faces of that dag. They were national men.
Laughter. They we're not exactly Northern
men with Southern principles; but they were
lsraelites with Egyptian principles. Laughter.
Again: when the Saviour Of the world went
forth on his great mission to proclaim glad
hdings of Joy to all the people of the earth, to
break every yoke aud to preach deliversnce to
in the persons of Judas Iscariot and the chief
priests. In the days of our own Revolution,
when Washington and his noble associates were
carrying on that struggle 10 establish justice,
and to secure the blessings of liberty to them
selves and their posterity, they met with the
same class of men In the admirers of George
III and Lord North.
They are ali of the same class--fslse to the
education of their fsthers-islse to the great
principles which have been instilled into them
Nv their mothers from their birth-willing to do
any thing that will minister to the cupidty Of
their masters, let the consequences be what
they may. 1t is this class of men, aided by a
close aristoci acy at the South, that has enabled
the minority to rule with iron hand the msiori-
ty, since the organization of this Government.
have endeavored to dSsperreo'ype these men
for the benefit of future SgsS for l believe
that, ike the Indian tribes, they sse disappear
ing. You have put them to very hard sezvtce,
sir. They die faster than the Northern negroes
In your politically, mean. You
put them to service that they cannot stand
When you ask them to vote for fugitive bill,
they Bsy do it once, but political death
stAres them in the face. When you ask them
70 90 with you for the repeal of the Missouri
restriction, you find the same state Of things
And now, worst of all when you ask them "a
fssten upon their fellow men, in Territory Of
the United States, Constitution which that
people Sbhor, tell you every Northern repre-
sentative who participates in this act is not
only politically dead, but be may thank biz
God If he escapes with that.
A LAWYER sDMTTS AWAY HIS OWN CASE.
l find, sir, that l sm OBTAINING the Senate
longer than l wished and get, if l am to 20
over the argument of the subject Immediately
unSer consideration, shall have to detail
them some time longer. [" Go onl"l / shsl
be as brief as possible on this part of the case
desire FRS to notice some things in the arru