The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-19

The suggestion Of the New York Tribune, that
two million copies of Mr.. LovEJoys speech in the
House of Representatives should be printed for dis
tribution during the coming canvass invites at
tention more to the character of that produc-
ton. When thespeech was delivered, we spoke oft
us we thought of it, and of the scenes to which It's
delivery gave rise. We pronounced it altogether
disrepuable and infamous, deriving not the least
shadow of an excuse from the fact referred to by
the speaker, and largely dwelt upon by the Re-
publican papers, that twenty years ago, Mr.
LovEJoY's brother was murdered by 4 mob on ac-
count of his Anti-Slavery opinions. Apart from
the fact that the murder was committed, not by
Shareholders or by Southern men, but by the peo-
pie OF Free State at the town of Alton, in Hi
nois, We hardly suppose that Mr.. LovEJoY was
sent to Congress to avenge either his own or his
brothers wrongs He fills the place of a sworn
legislator, bound to legislate in Il spirit of fair
ness and Justice for the whole country, and espe-
cially bound to an observance of the Constitution
OF the UNITED STATES in letter and in spirit
These obligations Mr.. LOvEJoY has seen fit to dis.
regard and in the exercise Of his privileges as a
Member of the House. he has spoken in the spirit
of man who is seeking only to CRAFTY his private
lust OF vengeance and hate, and settle some long
standing reckoning of blood. Anything more in
temperate, more indecent, more studiousy often
sIve, and wickedly inCendiary than his recent
phlilpmc against Slavery, we do not remember to
have read. Individually, it stamps Mr. LoyEJoy
10 be precisely the that Southern speakers pro
nounced HIM to he, though in language which, in
In NJ
used. When, therefore, such a speech is re-
printed by the most influential Republican Jour-
nails at the North, with words of commendation,
and is proposed to be circulated yet more widely
as an eectionecring document, it acquires sioni-
icance and Importance TO which otherwise il might
not be entitled. Some extracts from it will suf-
flee to give an idea of its tone and character and
of the spirit of the Party which can accept it as
an exposition of its doctrines and purposes Re-
fcrring to the suggestion that ''wherc slavery will
pay, slaveholding will go''-Mr. I4ovEJoY said
"Precsely upon the same principle might say
'that where robbery will pay robbery will go;
fwhere piracy will pay, piracy will go; and
"where adipose human flesh is cheaper than that
''of beeyes, canibalsm will go, because it will
"pay. Sir-than robbery, than piracy than po-
"Iygamy, slaveholding is worse, more criminal
''more injurious to man, and consequently more
offensive to COP. Slaveholding has been Justly
designated as the sum of all viIlainy. Put every
''crime perpetrated among men into n moral cru
edible, and dissolve and combine them all, and
'the resultant amalgam is slaveholding. 1t has
''the violence Of robbery, the blood and cruelty of
''piracy it has the offensive and brutal lust of
''polygamy all combined aud concentrated
in Itself, with aggravations that neither one
''of these crimes ever knew or dreamed of,,
Replying to the argument that the Constitution
projects slavery--Mr. LovEJoY said: az denv if
ain no article, in no section, in no line in No
tword, in no syllable, can there be any recogni
elton or sanction of human slavery found in
"the Constitution of the UNITED STATES II
''is not there. 1t is rs well
'qnown as any historical fact can bo
nknown, that the trainers of the Constitution
$50 worded it as that it never should recoo-
"nize the idea of slave property, from the Begin
Ching to the ending of it. But the advocates of
stslavery have affirmed strange doctrine in re-
t'gard to the Constitution. They think that be-
s'cause swore to support the Constitution, swore
Ito support Inc pracuce vi siafeholdlng- Sir,
"slaveholding IN Virginia is no more under The
'control or guarantee Of the Constitution, than
SLAVERY in Cuba, or Brazil, or any other part Of
'the 'corld, is under the control or guarantee of
''fhe consttution-not one particle.' Hav ing
"scertaned slavery to be morally wrong-to be
in TACT "the sum of all vlaiuy'-the ''resultant
"amalgam OF every crime perpetrated among
'men, and having stripped it of all protection
under the Constitution of the UNITED STATES Mr.
LcvEJoY next proceeds to the consideration Of The