Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-09-15
Speech Of Hon. EliThayer, Of Mass.
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/ NEGRO HAS no sOULI [Langh
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Angels and ministers OF grace defend
us!" All these treasures that were sup
posed tQhaye been laid up where neilh-
er moth nor rust doih.corrupt. and where
thieves do net break in and steal, !" have
been invaded by the decision Of the Su
| preme Court, AMI scattered to The four
winds Of heaven. More than two centu-
ries Of prayers aud tears. of heroic self
sacrifice and Christian devotion, of faith
and nope, of temporal aud spiriiual
agony, have come TO Ibis ''lame and i'm
potent conclusion Laughter The
moral dignity of the grandest missionary
enterprise oi this age is anuihilatel.
As Northern man, stand here a
DISTINGUISHED spectator Of theseevents.-
II do TO; Ike The decision of The court,
1 have a higher law. The negro him
self can appeal 10 the court Of heaven;
but vhatrefuge hasth Southern church?
Renewed laughter.l None whatever
This dccis.on is blow, dir.ct and ter
rible, falling with crushing violence up
on our Soulhern brethren. This Su
preme Court, with cruel and relentless
hostility. has prosecuted the Southern
church as the dragon Of The Apocalypse
pursued the women into the wilderness,
seeking to desour her offspring. fMuch
laughter
What motives uld have impelled the
court 10 this act? l have 10 doubt pat
riotic motive. | am not here to impugn
the motives Of any man, or of any set of
men, much less The highest judicial tri-
bunal in this land. No doubt, sir, their
motives were patriotic, for they had wit
messed the devastation of this terrible re-
ligious fanaticism through the South
They had seen The ravages of ibis disas
trous missionary monomania, and they
deter mined that there must be an end OF;
it; and bow could they so efsclually end
it as by anaihilating at once the objec;
OF its aims and aspirations. &c That sir,,-
they have done. s--
Here, then, endeth the moral po,rer OF
the institution Of Slavery.
l come now to the consideration OF The
event which just as surely has doomed
to destruction the politicol po,oer of that,
institu'ion--I mean the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise measure in the pas
sage of the Kansas Nebraska bill. That
act, sir, | will show you-if it ever was
committed by the slave power-to have
been suicidal act What need was
there for repeating tha; Compromise. or
of admitting Slavery into Kansas by law2
Was not the South sure enough Of The
Territory as it was before? | think
and this is my honest convicrion-that
had it not been for that act, Kansas
would have been inevitably slave STATE.
We Of the North had no particular inter-
est in that Territory. 1t was put down
in our Biographies as The great AmeIi-
can desert. We had not considered it of
much Importance; bnt We relied on the
'a'0 to keep Slavery out of it. and to pre-
serve il 10 Freedom. We of the North
have had TOO Ligh an idea Of tLe power
Of the General Government and OF lac,
eiiherJOr Freedom or against Freedem.
Sir, this General Government has but
title power over this question. Itis not
| motive po'eer. 1t is only a registry, an
exponent o! power. Ii is the log book
If the ship of Sale, and not the steam
.ngine that propels the ship, OIL the wind
hat fills the canvas. We would like to
lave the log book KEEP! right, to show
'ur true position; but we do not now
consider The Government, as the motive
'oWer. The motive power of this na-
ion, as of all nations, is The people in
md so is your progress. Ii the people
u their homes in Kansas had been Pro.
n their homes; and as the people in
heir homes are, SO is your character !
slavery, what could the North have op-
osed TO il? 1t was emigration, and en-
grafton only, that could have made ,
Kansas Stale, either slave or free
he great law that governs emigration
) this: that emigration follows the par
llels of latitude westward. Under that
IVY, Kansas would have been settled en- :
rely BY Pro Slavery people, as was t
he southern part of Indiana, and as was .
Ie southern par! of Illinois. We in The =
forth, trusting IN the protection of the
wv, would have had no remedy. Peo- $
> ;, favor of Slavery would have gone 3
ere and ~ aY were compelled at first to 4
lopt free Cons. tuition in order TO t
lape their institutions according TO any t
W concerning the Territory, thes might Il
ave soon reYeysud that position. H. a
Ct, the decision OF tie Supreme Court a
rs now made any such thing unneces- O
.ry. They might have formed just c
lch Constitution as they pleased G.
Tell, then, we would thus. in all proba- ri
lity, have had Kansas slave State "
ithout the Kansas Nebraska bill. But n
Ie passage of that bill, if Slavery had t,
zen certain before, seemed 10 the major s
= of the people in the North to make
almost inevitable. History warranted b
lis fear, Judging from the case of In (
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