The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-08-11

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son, Garnett, Goode, Hopkins, Jenkins, Letcher,
4 and Smith.
| SoUTH CAROLINA - Messrs. Bonham, Boyce,
| Mcqueen, and Miles.
| NORTH CAROLINA - Messrs. Branch, Rufiu,
| Shaw, and Vance.
TExAs-Mr. Bryan.
KENTUCKY Messrs Burnett, Clay,F Peyton,
| Stevenson, and Talbot.
ALABAMA = Messrs. Cobb, Curry, Dowdell,
| Moore, and Stallworth.
GEoRGIA-Messrs Crawford, Gartrell, Jacksoh,
| Seward Stephens, and Trippe.
| LOUISIANA - Messrs. Davidson, Eustis, and
Sandidge.
FLoRIDA-Mr. Hawkins.
ILLNoIs-Mr. Hodges.
NORTH CARoLINA-Messrs. Rufin, Shaw, an
Vance.
| OF the one hundred and forty-ive votes agains'
Mr.. Crawford's notion only nineteen were from
the slave States, as follows:
MIssoURI-Messrs. Anderson, Caruthers, Craig,
and Phelps.
| MARYLAND-Messrs. Bowie, Davis, Ricaud, ant
| Stewart.
! low.
| ARKANsAs-Mr. Greenwood. ,
| TENNEssEE-Messrs Jones and Smith.
KENrUcKY-Messrs Marshall, Mason, aud I'M
| derwood.
| VIRGINIA-Mr. Mison.
DELAwARE-Mr. Whitley. ?
| GEoRGIA-Mr. Wright.
| Thus, of the sixty-eght slave-State members
| present and voting, forty nine voted for Mr..
| Crswford's motion. OF the absentees, Mr.; Wood
son of Missouri, who came in after the vote was
| declared said he should have voted for thu
| ton if he had arrived in season.
Another motion in respect to this approprR-
ton, had been voted upon in Committee Of the
Whole on the 26th of January. This was made
nv Mr. ofG md ~
jected in Committee of the Whole, there g no
| record to show who supported it, .~
Mr.. Bonham's motion was TO qualify the ap
preparation by the following proviso
" PrOUided That part of this shall be-
used for schooling the children, for instruct
ing the children and adults in the arts Of. cv-s
iized life"
Mr.. Bonham said, among other things
1t is now, for the first time, that we have
instance in appropriation bill for teaching
Africans the arts of civilized life. This il the
point" tt
| Mr.. Bonham could tolerate nothing, which
treated Africans if they were capable of Icing
| civilized, or which implied the idea, that ;Gsvas
desirable to civilize them. He saw too Clearly,
that an idea like that carried out in the practice
! of the Federal Government, a cutting rehuke
| to the institutions of his own State, and o. all
! the Southern States, in which the educatio of
/ the negro is prohibited criminal. According to
the logic and morals of South Carolina, mex oes
are born to be slaves, not to be civilized. )
The opposition in the House to the appropria-
ton for the expenses of the Echo negroes, was
carried to an unusual extreme. The principal
portion of the men concerned in it, having failed
TO strike the appropriation out of the Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, voted AGAINST
the passage of the bill itself, and succeedeSi in
defeating it three times. They did this, although
they were the political friends Of the Admiuis-
the general appropriation bills for carrying on
the Government. This violent course of proce-
dure, proposing to sacrifice entire approplia-
ton bill rather than submit to obnoxious sec
ton, marks the rancOr and desperation Of she
partsans of the African slave trade.
In the Senate, this appropriation for the E no
negroes gave rise TO the same discussions wt.ch
it had excited in the House.
Mr.. Clay of Alabama moved to strike out The
whole appropriation, but, just before the vote
was taken on the 10th of February, he so mo]i-
fed his motion to propose to strike out S75,s00
and insert S45 900, being a motion similalsto
that made in the House by Mr.. Crawford.
Mr.. Clays motion negatived yeas II, nays
40, the following Senators voting for it;
| Messrs Chestnut, Clay, Davis Fitzpatrick,
| Hammond, lverson, Johnson of Tennessee, Ma
| son, Reid, Thompson of Kentucky, Toombs, and
| Ward
OF the forty negative votes, twelve were from
the slave States, (if we reckon Delaware sas
! such,) as follows
Messrs Bates, Bell, Benjamin, Crittenden,
! Green, Hou' ton, Hunter, Mallory, Pearce, Polk,
! Slidell, and Yulee.
Let us now examine what was said in the de-
bates in Congress upon this Echo appropriation.
In the House. on the 25th of January, Mr..
| Dowdell of Alabama said
al will take this occasion to say without dis
cussng the expediency of reopening the slave
trade, matter rhich property belongs to The 500
ereiqn States hose industrial polcy 10 be affected
! by al, that the laws highly offensive in de-
fning that to be piracy upon the high seas
iOhich is not robbery, and in attaching the death
penalty to an act which in itself is not necesSd-
j rily immoral" 81!
| Mr.. Clay of Kentucky said
al am opposed to all these laws on stat
ute book in relation to the slave trade, and
will not vote a dollar for the purpose"
In the House, on the next day, january 26tn,)
Mr.. Crawford of Georgia said:
1" In 1919, the whole South unanimously
against the slave trade. NoU, ii is becoming dsVi-
died. and unless the war upon slavery is stopped,
intern years ariU s0itncss The trade open for The
South, and our then Mexican possessions reach
ing to Guatemala certainly, and probably fur
ther south"
Mr.. Seward of Georgia said:
Z" look upon the law for the suppression of thu
slave trade mschievous and wrong. While
do not pretend to commit myself in reference
to the policy of the slave trade as affecting the
States whose interests would be touched by
1t, am opposed to the whole law, because
think it wrong and a violation of the Constitp-
ton.
" Your navy is to be used as a police to inter
fere with the business of citizens, and to arrest
them for acrime which is said to be piracy. say
that that strikes at the institution of slavery At
the South. | want to have that law repealed
want to leave this matter To be settled by the
States as a domestic question. doubt whether
SD far my State lGeOrgia) is concerned, she
would be benefited by the foreign slave trade
because think she has at present sufficient
supply of labor. But there are other States
| that may differ from in that respect for in
stance, the State of Texas; and want all the
States to have the right, without the interfer-
ence of Congress- to carry on the slave trade, if
! they wish"
Mr.. Clay of Kentucky, by way of explaining
, and modifying what ne bad said on the previous
day, declared that he opposed to the reopen
ing of the slave trade, although he dsliked the
existing laws against it, and especially disliked
the 9Th article of the Ashburton treaty. He said.
al am especially opposed to another law b.
rather treaty stipulation on our statute boob.
and that is the Sth article of the treaty of WASH
: ingtoa. J regard it as entangling alliance
] with Great Britain. | regard it as alliance
so entanging that last year it produced all
those outrages on our nag which occurred in
{ the Gulf, and it is producing every day out
: { RACES upon our flag on the coast of Africa. 1t
) is an entanging alliance which requires us to
{ keep force of eighty guns constantly on the
D coast of Africa"
Mr. Miles of South Carolina said
{ al am not prepared to advocate the reopenng
e OF the slave trade, but am prepared to advo-
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