Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-10-25
A Few Republican Texts.

/ For was hungry and you gave me no meat /;
! thirsty and ye gave me drink; naked and
We clothed me not; sick and in prison and We
visited not Inasmuch as We have no, done
| these things to the least one of these We have
not done it unto me.-Nc1o Testament
/ He that stealeih man and selleth him, or if
he be found in his possession, he shall surely be
put 10 death Did TESTAMENT
] hope it will not be conceived from those
observations that it IL my wish TO hold the un
happy pc ople who are the subject of this letter
IN Slavery. can only say, that there is not n
man living who wishes more sincerely than
do, to some plan adopted for the abolition of
1t; bat there IS only one proper and elfectual
method by which it be accomplished and
that is by legislative authority and this as far
my Suffrage acH 60, shall not be lca1itjng- Wash
iHgton to Robert Norris.
The whole commerce between master and
slave is perpetual exercise of the most bois-
ferrous passions, the most unremitting despot-
Isms on the one part. and degrading submission
on the other | tremhle for my country. when
l reflect that God is iust-that his Justice can
not sleep fogever.-zhon,as Jefferson.
1t is wrong 10 admit into the Constitution the
idea that there can be property In man.-Janacs
Madison.
The sentiments breathed through the whole
do honor both TO the head and the heart of the
writer Mine, the subject OF the slavery of
negroes, have long since been IN possession of
the public aud time has only served to gire them
stronger root The love of Justice and the love
OF country plead equally the cause of these peo-
pie, and II is a moral reproach 70 ,ts that they
should have pleaded SO long IN vain. Nursod
and educated in the daily habit of seeing the
degraded condition of those unfortunate beings
bit not rejecting that that degra9ation aoas ysry
much the cork OF themselves and their fathers few
minds have vet doubted but that they were as
legitimate subject of property as their horses or
cattle
had always hoped that the younger generation
recetrfng their early impressions after the lame ot
liberty had been kindle2 in esery breast, and had
become, as II were, the ,tak spirH of eucry Amer
team, would have sympathized with oppression
Wherever found. aud proved their love of iber-
t. beyond their oacn share Of It. Your solitary
but welcome voice is the first which has brought
the sound to my ear; get the hour Of enaa7cip1-
taon Is adednciag IN the march Of time. The en-
terprise IS Tor the yoang--tor those who can
follow 1t up and bear 1t through Its consumma-
ton. 1t Sa al hare my prayers; and these are
me only weapons of an old maR.-JeTerSon to
Edodrd Coles. Esq
We have found that this evil has proved mp
on the very vitals Of the Union, aud has been
preIudIclal TO all the states IN which it has ex-
lsted.-Janlss Honros
So long God allows the vital current to
flow through my veins. I will never, never.
never, by word or thought, by mind or will aid
In admitting rood OF free territory to the
everlasting curse of human boniage.-Hsnry
Clay.
L have made Up nv MAD for one. that nnder
no circumstances viii consen; to the extension
OF the area OF slavery in the United States or
70 the further increase of slave representation
IL the House ii personalities Websisr, l6iS.
Sir envy neither the heart nor the head Of
that man from the North who rises here 10 de-
fend slavery on principle John Randolph of
Virginia.
My opposition 10 fhe extension of slavery
dates further back than lS4i-foriy years fur
ther back.-Taom4s II Bs,lLo'l
American slavery is the vilest that ever saw
the sun II constitutes the of all -illainies-
-yohz Wesseg. e-fg@