The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-29

but one thing which will satisfy our south
ern brethren, and that is the right. to carry
slavery everywhere, to plant it everywhere,
to sustain it everywhere, against the unit
/ ed wishes as it is against the united in
terests Of the North, --.r. al8aa g.-s
Mr. MOORE, Of Alabama. Will the
gentleman permit ne to ask him ques-
| tion aa<l - 3 9'E
| Mr.. HICKMAN ! I interrupt nobody
aud do not wish to be interrupted my
/ self, for | want 10 get iu.o no coutroyer-
Isy.
This determination to extend slavery
Is southern interest. and the Representa-
ttiyes Of the South are con peiied to ask as
much. / do not complain Of them for SO
doing and when our interests are directly
adverse to theirs, and lay in another di-
rectton, why Should we be denounced for
pursuing our interests as they pursue
theirs
More than this The North has griev-
Gus charges to prefer against the South,
and they are charges which they will have
answered. That is my conviction and
If the expression of these sentiments
stamps me with the title of Abolitionists.
50 be it, and | will wear it as we'll as |
can. Yes, sir, they have charges to make
against the SJuth which they will have
answered. They charge them with tie
violation Of covenants, compacts and com
promises. That is whatthey charge them
with, and it is well they should know it.
1t is useless to cry peace, sir, when there
/ is no peace. Why, sir, when the com
promises Of the Constitution were entered
j into BY our fathers, it has been said that
! if the same spirit had existed which ex.
lists now, those compromises never could
have been made | see the truth Of the
remark; feel The truth Of the remark,
sir; for when those compromises were en-
tered into, thew were entered into under
the lemu conviction that the power OF
slavery from that day was not to increase
but to } etrogradc If they had had the
convictions, or if they mad pursued the
policy which our southern friecds are now
intent upon, those compromises never
could have been entered into What did
! they get-what did our southern friends
get by those compromises? 3? They cot Sc
slavery representation. They got the
Foundation for a fugitive slave law. They
got exemption from export duties. They
got three very large advantages. What
did the North Get, or what did the inter
ests Of freedom get? Why, sir, they got
theimplied pledge that after the year 1903
the importation Of Africans, or the for
eign slave trade should cease.
Now, sir, the South boas 5 today that
they are in full possession of all the ben
cnts Of all the compromises Of the Con-
stitution that they have the slavery rep
. resentaGou; and, if understood gen
tleman who spoke few days ago, that
they have here, by force ot the three
dfths representation, twenty members up
on this floor They boast, sir, that they
have the fugitive slave law, and that the
North does not abide by Its provisions.
They are certainly exempt from duty up
on exports aud where is tie North, with
her share Of the compromises OF the Con
stitution Why, sir we bear it boldly
ayowed-not here, but it viii come before
spring, it Will come before the flowers
come-that thcy do not intend that the
foreign slave trade shall be closed. They
intend to oTen the traffic. Yes, sir, they
have opened the traffic; they make bold
to say so, and southern courts refuse to
punish offenders. say, then, the North
charges upon the South that they have
swept away from the North the benefits
Of the compromises Of the Constitution,
when the South are in the full enjoyment
Of theirs.
When you come to tho compromise of
1890; when, in order to get Missouri in
to the Union as a slave State they gave
to us of the North the solemn pledge and
entered into bonds that slavery should
never exist north Of the southern line OF
that State; after having got Missouri in,
and reaped all the advantage which theY
could reap from that compromise, the
South came here-not the North-tho
South came here, almost united South
to say that the benefit which the North
received from the compromise Of 1920
should be swept away; and sir, southern
breath swept it away; and we have, in
consequence, the struggle in Kansas as
10 whether slavery should or should MT
go into territory from which it was pro
hibted.
But, sir, the North charge further that
in the compromise Of l832---the great
compromise Of the great comproniiser-
northern trade was paralyzed and north
ern industry destroyed. And then, sir,
last, and not BY any means least, We have
the compromise of 1850 and iS5 (, which
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