The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-04-26


: gle home or hearths,one among these four
r million. And you propose TO civilize and
Christianize a people without giving them
2 homes. without allowing them The conjugal
and parental relatious and without having
r those relations sanctioned and protected by
law. Mr. Chairman, no community can make
one step of progress in civilizing a race till
you give them homes; liil you protect the
sanclity of the home, we held 1t should be
protected in regard to these Normons on the
plains OF Utah Christianizing them, Sir
Christianz them BY a new process. The
Slave States have the right to exclusive
patent for it, Taking them out in the sig ght of
the church as one was taken rot long
ago in the State of Tennessee, by Presby.
terrain elder, and laid down on his face on
the ground. his hands and feet extended to
their utmost tension. and tied to ,ickets, aud
the Gospel whipped into him with the broad
side of hand saw, discolored whelks
OF sanctifcation being raised between the
teeth every time this Gospel agency fell upon
the naked and quiverng flesh of the tortured
convert. Laughter.
A Democratic Member-Did he get the
Gospel in! Laughter
I Mr. Lovcjoy--C -Christianzed young girl
was Chrstianized in this city since the ses-
sion OF Congress, by being whipped and sent
to the garret and found dead in the morning.
with blood oozing from nose and ears.
A Democratic Member Where does that
authority come from?
Mr. Lovejoy--I do not know whether reli-
gious rites were had or not | suppose some
Pro Slavery priest invited in to utter i'm
! pious prayers before God that the last flagel
lation might have whipped in Christianity
enough to save her precious and never-dylng
soul. Taught And now, alarmed,
good black walnut coffin is made and decora-
ted with white ribbons, and placed in the
hearse, followed by hack containing. l sup
pose, the nurderers; and my attention is
called to the cortege: "See. Mr.. Loveioy!
there is a slave funera!'' Is that treating
them like brutes? Look into that coffin.-
Look into that carriage!" You say this is
hor'id! know it is horrid, l know it is
horrid to hold men in slavery. l know ii is
horrid to doom four million human beings to
be held as chattles. to be held pro nultis, pro
| na0rta1s, pro q4adeupedis, taken for no per-
sons, for dead persons, for four footed beasts
men as much entitled to freedom you
| |. Sir, the testimony Of all the religious
cieties in the Slave States is that the slaves
are sill heather. and that it is an utter I'M
possibility to civilize and Chris,ianize them
by this process. The third point that is re-
lied on to Justify slsveholding is, that it is
constitutional--tha it is guaranteed by the
Constitution of the United States. Now,
Mr.. Chairman, | have heard it declared over
and over again that the Constitution justified
Slavery. | deny it. In no article, in no
section, IN no line. in no word, III no syllable
can there be any recognition sanction of
human slavery found in the Constitution of
the United States. 1t is net there. 1t al
ways recognizes human beings as persons.
and not as property. 1t does not use the
word ''sla,e'' OF slavery" Why. Sir,
when | came up to take the oath to support
the Constitution, whispered buzz, half in
earnest. half jocular. passed around: How
"can Lovejoy swear to support the Constitu-
s'ton? How can he take the oath?" / could
!, take the oath TO support the Constitution be
cause l believe in the Constitution be-
ause | hold TO it, because my heart is 10y
al to it. Every part and parcel and por: ion
% it | believe in; but do not believe in the
! construction put upon it BY those who claim
+ its recognition and sanction of the Practice
Of slaveholdng,
: Mr.. Barkesdae-No, Sir; you stand there
, to day an infamous, peuured villain. Calls
to order
: Mr.. Ashmore--Yes, he is perjured villain;
5 and he PICTURES himself every hour be occu
5 pies set on this hooor Renewed calls to
t order
:; Mr.. Singleton--And negro thief into the
e bargain.
Mr.. Lovejoy--I swore to support the Con-
stituiion because | believe in il. do not be-
$. lieve in their construction. 1t is as well
! known as any historical fact can be known,
that the trainers of the Constitution worded
u it that 1t never should recognize the idea
of slave property from the beginning 10 the
ending of it But the advocates of Slavery
/ have affirmed q strange doctrine in regard to
II the Constitution. They think that because l
y swore to support the Constitution. swore to
II support the practice Of slavehoding. Sir,
L slaveholding in Virginia is no more under the
;, control or guarantee of the Constitution, than
Il Slavery in Cuba. or Brazil. or any other por
/ ton of the world is under the control oil
guarantee of the Constituiion-not one par
i ticle.
Mr.. Nc Clernand 4 wish to ask the gentle
man whether he has always held that The
Constitution deserved to be sustained and ac
; cepted whether at any time in his life h,
ID held that the Constitution ought TO be troddei
under foote
CT Mr.. Lovejoy--Never. Sir: never Away
M defended it. and always will. whether ii b,
ee against the Democrats who pervert it, or th
We Disunionists who trample on it.
a. NJ. IcClernand---If the gentleman saws h
- never said so. am not prepared to contradic
:. him. tor | know nothing, personally, about II
- - but had un ierstood that the gentleman ono
uttered this language: that .'the Constitutio
= was a piece of rotten parchment that ough
ito be trodden under foot"
Mr. Lovejey--Yes: that was thrown int
my fsce once before here and denied it,
he never had the least foundation in truth a
mi way defended it because it was for Liberty
'd- l. ~as ordained by the people Of the Unite
ns States, not by slpersnusted old mummy
Ia a Judue ard a Jespi, q. ,b,. ~, br -
he people of the United StataS 10 ...ahTsh -,
he tice. secure the blessings of Liberty for then
ng selves and their posteritv ard n secu,a n
the natural rights If every human being With
the its jurisdiction; therefore l love it The.
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