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VI TrumbuII having replied 70 W. D'es'as' ne
responded ~ follows:
coiIeag,,e, and rst On o. gssz1ss' wbe:heT ii'h"ts
xss saaye Territory ftetS astd ThsosT Ne eH
"a t.e,v 10 tbe State dislike tecitrfca, denial
corxsvfoe IN IDEA rcn>Iry 10 the tset Ny c"eagns
we'll kn5ks, and - do !, that practically we fA>a
.t.4 ttsre stSte Territory, and after We became
So. haye .eea hin dance 20 The music 81
,,cyro siasc N Illinois many t'1Ie, and have
,I,nI.yi 10 The SANE rsaSic myself DAngtsteT.J
We have both had the ZANE negro servants 70 black
t,r boots and wait Dp0n ns. aid ihey we're ne'i a.
NjsYex We know, therefore, that slavery d,a ehtst
a. ire State III act and slavery did exist 10 the Ter
fi,ory IN Gct and his denial relates excusiTsy TO
tI,c Question whether slavery ras legal WbetheT
lo1s or not Il existed IN fact The master exercised
his dominion over the slave, and those negroes were
led az slaves until Is47, when we established the
new constitution. There gentlemen around me
here who know III: tact-gentletHen who were
nursed v SLAVES IN Illinois No familiar TIN
The history Of IiI.nsis will deny the ict- Inc
audible h that the territorial Iazs aGihorzng INC
introduction Of slaves we're VOID Jecause The orGi
mace Of 1881 said slavery was pr"inlat9i
Notwithstanding that ordinance. te "'i french
inhabitants who had slaVcs before the ordinance,
paid no atteatf.n TO IT, and held Slaves .t'L Slaves
S,r held there aft the time that Illinois waS Ter
ritory =: and after IL became State they were held
tiIl thew all died out and their children became
etnapcipatcd under the constitution. IL - iact;
we all know it. That gentleman has seen many oi
those old French slaves who were held IN defiance
Of the ordinance Whether they were lawfully held
or not the territorial authorities sustained the rights
Of the master Net only slaves held by the
French before the ordinance, but the Territorial
Legislature passci Law IN substance TO this effect;
any citizen might go to Kentucky, or any other
State or Territory, where slaves held, and
into Terriiury nj IlinnE take them
20 a county court and in open court enter into an
in9cstdrc by which the slave and his po-tcrty we're
To him for ninety nine years and IN The event
that the slave refused to enter into the ndcnure,
The master should have certain time to take HIM
out Of the Territory and sell him. The Senator now
nays that law not valid. Valid or not, IT was
executed; slaves were introduced, and they were
held they were used they were worked and they
died slaves That is the fact. ] havo had handel
TO me n book showing the number Of slaves III ILL.,
nois at the taking Of the various ccnsusc by which
II appears that when the GENIUS Of 1910 was taken
there were in Illinois lGs slaves; IN 1920, 317; in
1889, TAT; and in ls4O 33l. In 1850 there were
nonc for the that in 1917, We adopted
new corstitut on that prohibited slavery entirely,
and by that time they had nearly all died. The
census shows that at time there were as many
as nine hundred slaves and at all tunes the COMM
inon Of the master was maintained.
The fact is, that the people Of the Territory Of IL
linois, when it Territory, were almost all
from the southern States. particularly from Hen
lucky and Tennessee. The southern end Of the
State was the only part at first settled-that part
called Egypt-because it is the land Of letters and
Of plenty. Civilization and learning all originated
in Egypt. The northern part Of the State, where
the political friends of my colleague now prcponder
ate, was then in the possession Of the Indians, and
so were northern Indiana and northern Ohio; and
Yankee could not get to Illinois at all, unless he
passed down through Virginia and over into Tenn
essee and through Kentucky The consequence was,
that nnety-nne out of a hundred of the settlers
were from the slave States. They carried the old
family servants with them, and kept them. They
were told "Here is ordinance of Congress passed
against your holding them" They said, . What
has Congress to do with our domestic institutions
Congress had better mind its own business, and let
MS alone; we know what We want better than Con-
greSs " and hence they passed this law to bring
them in and make them indentured Under that,
they established slavery and held slaves as long
they wanted them. When they assembled to make
the constitution of Illinois, in 1918, for admission
into the Union, nearly every delegate to the
vention brought his negro along with him to black
his boots play the fiddle, wait upon him. and take
care of his room. They had a jolly time there; they
were dancing people, frocsome people, people who
enjoyed life; they had the old French habits. Slaves
were just as thick there as blackberrles.
But they said Experience proves that it is not
going TO be profitable in this climate" There were
IIO dOOul IT, Livery one Oh lIletn WdS NUTS
ed by it. His mother and his father held slaves
They had no scruples about its being right but
they said, We cannot make any money by it, and
our State way Oft north up to those eternal
SHOWS, perhaps we shall gain population faster if
We stop slavery and invite in the northern popula-
ton; and matter Of political policy, State
policy, they prohibited slavery themselves. How
did they prohibit it: Not by emancipatng setting
at liberty the slaves then in the State for believe
that has never been done by an legislative body in
America, and doubt whether any one will arrogate
to itself the right to dveSt property already there
but they provided that all slaves then in the State
should remain slaves for life; that all inlentured
persons should fulfill the terms of their indentures
Nnety-nne years was about long enough, | reckon,
tor grown persons at least.
All persons Of slave parents, after certain time
were to be free at certain age and all born after
certain other period, to be free their birth
1t was gradual system Of emancipation Hence
now repeat, that so long the ordinance of 1877,
passed by Congress, said Illinois should not have
slavery, she did have it and the very first day that
our people arrived at that condition that they could
do as they pleased to wit when they became
State, they adopted system of gradual emancipa-
ton; but still slavery continued in the State as the
census of 1920 the census of 1880, and the census
OF 1910, show, until the constitution of lS4T
when nearly all those old slaves had died out and
probably there were not half dozen alive That
was the way slavery was introduced and expired in
Illinois Whatever bubbles there NAV be about
legal construction, legal right these are the facts
Look into the territorial legislation, and you will
ind as rigorous code for the protection of slave
property as IN any State-a code prescribing the
contIoi OF the MASTER providing that if negro Slave
should leave his masters farm without leave or in
the night tiIneshe should be punished by so many
stripes, and if he committed such an offence he
should receive many stripes and so on as rigorous
code as existed in any southern State of this
Union Not only that, but after the State came in
to the Union, the State of Illinois reenacted that
code, and continued it up to the time that slavery
died out under the operation of the State constit1
ton.
dislike, sir, to have a controversy with nv col
league about historical facts. suppose the Senat,
Of the United States has DO particular interest il
the early history of Illinois, but it has become OBJ