Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-09-02


| Democratic party, you are one of them; il
you sustain the measures of the Republican
party, you must go with them, and there is
no third party to unite with We wish to
ask you-mcn of all parties-if you are
opposed to the introduction of slavery in
to Illinois. / apprehend that you are
that all this audience will respond. eve
are opposed to it," If that is so you havs
your reasons for it. You think it better fol
the white race that there should be nc
slavery here; entertaining that view you
will exclude it. Now is there father
who would do less in the formation of q
government for his children and posterity
than he will for himself. Is there an hon
est man here who can say, 81 will exclude
slavery from the State and locality where
live because | believe it an evil, but | will
suffer it to go where my children ale to
60" Here is common territory You
are the Congress Of the United States
The Constitution of the United States SAYS
that Congress shall make all necdful rules
and regulations respecting the territories
of the United States. Here is a territory
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to frame government for the people who
are to go there, which is to last so long,
and only so long as the territorial condi-
ton continues. Now what sort of gov
ernment is it your duty to frame? You
will readily admit that it is your duty to
form such government rs will be for the
best interests of the people who are to so
there. Is not that so? Cries of yes, yes,
that's the truth. You believe it to be fol
your best interests to exclude it from Hi
nois, where You live Is it not then for the
best interests of your child and sister, and
brother, and neighbor who are going to the
Territory that slavery should not go with
them? Will you do less for them than fol
yourself? A man is not deserving the
name of man who is so selfish that he vii
protect himself from an evil, yet will not
raise his arm when he has the power to pro
tect his child and his friend from the same
evil. Great cheers
/ Then it is your duty to exclude slavery
from that Territory until there are people
enough there to come to act for themselves
That is exactly what we propose to do and
nothing more. That was what the fathers
/ of the Republic did Is there any thing
wrong in that? think if you will look
at this matter candidly, YOU will see that
it is right, and that is your duty to insist
upon this.
The charge that we want to have any
thing to do with negroes is utterly untrue
1t is false clamor raised to mislead the
public mind. Our policy is to have moth
ing to do with them, and |, myself, am ve-
ry much inclined to favor the project sug-
gcstcd by Mr.. Blair of Missouri, at the last
session of Congress. He suggested plan
for eolonizing our free negroes, who arc
willing to go somewhere in Central Amer
lea, where an arrangement could be made
by which their rights may be secured tc
them. The policy now is such as TO pre-
vent emancipation, and although we do moi
want to interfere with the domestic insttu
tion of slavery in the States, still we wisl
TO intcrpose no obstacle to the people %
those States in getting rid of their slaves
whenever they think fit to do SO. w,
know that many of the free States have
passed laws preventing the immigration o.
negroes into their limits The slave States
have passed laws prohibiting the emanci
patton Of slaves by their masters unless
they are taken out Of the State The re-
suit of this legislation is that emancipa
ton must cease for where are the negroes
to so. Many slaves have been cmancipa-
ted during the last half century. There
arc thousands of free negroes in Virginia
But that policy is now stopped, because il
is impracticable, there being no way o.
disposing of the negro when emancipated
Many masters in the South desire to emap-
cipate their slaves, aud especially is this
the case as they approach death; for, how
ever they may reason while in health, and
thoughtless Of that event which levels all
alike, they are very apt, in making up theil
last account and disposing of their proper
ty, to think of the wrong and injustice they
have done by holding some of their fellow
men in bondage, and they are quite willing
to emancipate them. Thousands would be
emancipated if there was any place to
which / could 60. | for one am very
much disposed to favor the colonization OF
such free negroes as are willing to go, in
Central America Iwant to have nothing
todo. either with the free negro or the slave
negro. We, the Republican party, are the
white mans patty (great applause We
are for free white men, and for making
white labor respectable and honorable,
which it never can be when negro slave la
Dor is brought into competition with it
/ (great applause).
We wish to settle the Territories with
free white men. and We are willing that
this negro race should go-any where it can
to bettcr its condition, wishing them G od
speed wherever they go. We believe it is
betfor for us that they should not be a.
mong iis. believe it will be better for
them to so elsewhere.
a Voice--Where to?
Mr.. Trumbull.--I would say to any
Central American State. that will make an
arrangement by which they can be secure
in their rights, by which we can protect
them in their rights until they arrive at a
time y hen they can protect and take care
Of themselves.
"A Vcice.-Bnt If you can't protect them
here, how can they be protected in Central
America?
Mr.. Trumbull-I would colonize them.
! We colonize Indians on our Western from
tier--why can't we colonizc the negro as