New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-14

Chrtapzed in this city snoe the sesslon Of Congress
by telDg whipped and cent to the garrett and found
ctsd Ia the morning, with blood ooziog from nose and
(ars.
A DEMOCRATIC MEMBEn-Where does that author
ity come frcm1
MIR. LoyEJor-I do not know whether religious rites
were had or not. suppose some PfoSlavery priest
invited in TO utter impious prayers before God that
the last fagellation might have whipped in Christi
anty enough 10 save her precious and never-tying
eoul. Laughter. And now, alarmed a good black
walnut coffin is made and decorated with white nib
bons, and placed In the hearse, followed by a hack
containing presume, the murderess and my attention
iB called 20 the cortege See, Mr. L0vejoy there Is
a slave funeral Is that treating them like brutes
Look into the coffin Look into the carriage You
say this Is borrid. know il 10 horrid. know It Is
horrid to hold men in Slavery. know 1t Is horrd to
doom four million human beings to the condition OF
chattels, 10 be held pro nns pro morfus proqn0dru-
pedi taken for persons for dead persons for four
footed beasts-men as much entitled to freedom as you
ard j. Sir, the testimony of all religious societies in
the Slave States Ia that the slaves still heathen and
it is an utter impossibty to Chrstianize them and
civze them by this process The third point that is
relied to justify slavehoding s that it is constitu
opahat it is guaranteed by the Constitution Of the
United Ststes Now, MIR. Chairman, have heard it
declared over and again that the Constitution
guarantees Slavery. deny it. In no article in no
section, III no line in word, in syllable there
be any recognition sanction OF human slavery found
In the Constitution of the United States 1t Is not there.
1t always recognizes human beings as persons, aud
as property. 1t does not use the word " saye
or "slayery." Why, Sir, when came up TO take the
oath to support the Constitution, whispered buzz,
half in and half OCULAR passed around How
" can Loyejoy swear TO support the Constitution
SHOW can he take the osh ?" could take the oath to
support the Constitution, because believe In the Con-
stilutiop, because ] hold TO IT, because my heart Is
loyal to it, Every part and parcel and portion of 1t
believe in but do not believe in the construction put
upon it by those who claim its recognition ana sane-
ton Of the practice Of slsyeholding.
Mr.. BARKsDALE--No, Sir; you stand there to-day an
infamous, pe,jured villain. Calls to order,
Mr.. AsHMoRE-Yee, he is a perjuref villain; and be
peIuIes himself every hour he occupies seat this
floor. Renewed calls TO order.
Mr.. SISGLETon-And negro.thief into the bargain.
Mr.. LovEJoY-I swore to support the Constitution,
because believe in it. do not believe in their con-
struction Of 1t is well known any historical
fact be Known that the trainers of tho Constitution
80 worded it that it never should recognize the idea
Of slave property from the beginning TO the ending of
it. But the advocates Of Slavery have affirmed
strange doctrine in regard TO the Constitution. They
think that because TO support the Constitution
swore to support the practice of slaveholding Sir
slavehoding in Virginia il 10 more under the control
or guarantee of the Constitution, than Slavery in
Cuba, or Brazil, or any other part of the world,
is under the control or guarantee of the Constitution
not particle.
Mr.. MoCLERNAYD-I wish to ask the gentleman
whether be has always held that the Constitution de-
served to be sustained ard acespted-wheher, at any
time in HE life he held that the Constitution ought to
be trodden under fOotl
Mr.. LovEJoY-Never, Sir; never. I always de-
Tended H. and always will, whether it be against the
Democrats who perveIt it, or the Disunonists who
trampe on II.
Mr.. McCLERsASD-Iftb the gentleman says he never
said So am not prepared to contradict him, for
know nothing, personally, about it; but had under
stood that the gentleman uttered this language:
that " the Constitution piece OF rotten parch-
" ment that ought 10 be trodden under foot"
Mr.. LovEJoY-Yes that was thrown in my face
once before here and denied it. 1t never had the
least foundation in truth. always defended the Con-
sttution because il was for Liberty IL was ordained
by the people of the United States, not by superan-
mated old mummy Of a Judge-and a Jesuit at that
but by the people Of the United States, to establish
justice, the blessings Of Liberty for themselves
and their posery and 10 the natural rights of
every human being within its exclusive jurisdiction.
Therefore love it. These men can perceive nothing
in the Constitution but Slavery. A young man leads
blushiDg bride to the altar and takes the marital vow
before God and attendant witnesses to love, cherish
ard protect her. Thsra sha sianda- thA di-i;-ss
thing that God has fashioned and placed upon eartn-
radiant in the beauty Of YOUTH her cheek glowing
away into that Of the lily; her eyes sparkling like the
stars from the depths of blue and her treeses falling
around her neck like the locks Of the morning. Is the
mole on that fair round neck, or the warL on thai
plump soft hand THE WOMAN whom the bridegroom
swore TO love and cherish Say, Sir 1T 80 there ishe
Observation-Disclosures with Freedom, radiant with the
principles Of universal liberty teizng the inspired Ut
teraDces of our Magma Chdrtd end reducing them 10
If the clauses that deemed to refer to the subject OF
Slavery mean all that the widest enthusiast claims
then 10 mean, they bear other relation or proper
ton to the Constitution which swear to support than
the exoreecenee on the hand neck does to the woman
when the bridegroom vowed to love and cherish. He
loves her not for these thr gs but in spite OF them 30
j love the Constitution not in consequence OF these
thiDgs which alleged to be in 1t, but in spite OF
them. But you will say the woman had night 70
sport excreseeDce her hand if she chose. con,
cede IT.; and a Federal law-maker, concede that
the States have the right to sport this fungus OF
Slavery because it is beJ ono my reach. But time rolls
away. This youthful pair have years Of middle age
upon them. Olive plants have sprung up around the
parent stem. The woman has gone mad. She glosts
over the which has spread and covers her
entire hand. She excaims :" Husband, this a
and want to jngrsft it on the hands Of all our
daughters. j had il when was married; you vowed
to protect me, and claim tbs right to transfer it
TO all the children. II you do not. will 60 to
Indiana and get a divorce. l will dissolve the
union between u.s." The husband, calm and firm, re-
plies, My dear, have INDUCED you in this whim
about your hand because took you for better or for
worse, aud thought it one OF your individual nights
which was not at liberty TO disturb. But il you pro-
pose to transfer this deformity to me daughters say
distinctly and decidedly, 1t cannot be done This Is
my IreIOgaive, and must exercise it." SO cay 70
the Slavery PropagaDdists who desire to transplant
Slavery TO the Territories and thus fasten upon the
daughters of the Republic, My deats, it cannot be
dope." say, therefore, Mr.. Chairman, that there Is
10 justification for this practice Of slayeholdng, from
the fact that the ensaved are an Inferior race NO
justification from the pretended fact that it imPars
Christianity aud civilization to them; ana none In lne
guarantees of the Constitution. Now, there are some
Christian men on the other side of the House wahI
N mt II IN them in all candor-for while intend to
speak Of faveholdng with as severe terms Of repro
baton az possibly can do not intend to offend any
individual persopally-I want to know OF you, Gnns,
tan gentlemen, how yon are gong 10 ChrisHanizs
men when you do not give them homes
hEMBER-Give them what
Mr.. LoyEJoY-Homssi a legal sanction to the con-
iuosl and parental relations. How are you going TO
Chrisanize men whom you turn out to herd together