The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-04-05
Apridl 5th, 1860.
gro is doomed by nature to be the bondman
Of the white man


. place in this House in 1854. that it was tn
, design of the Democratic party. or those VII,
} bad control of il. in the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, to extend negro bondage, it wa
, denied. And when again / said, Februar,
"a. 1883. in a speech then made. that il wa
designed to carry slavery into all the Terrific
ries under the protection of the Constitution
and that no power. not even the Congress
nor the people of the Territories, could pre-
vent or remove it, you Indignantly repelled
the charge as false in fact and infeIence.-
How times have changed and more rapidly
still have men changed.
The President. in his late message, laws
down your party creed. Hear what he says
The right has been established of every
citizen to take his property of any kind. in
cluding slaves, into the common Territories
belonging equally to all the States of the Con-
federacy. and to have it protected there un-
der the Federal Constitution. Neither Con
gress nor a Territorial Legislature, nor any
human power, has any authority to annul or
impair this vested right
It is you. then. not we, who have changed
upon this question; and the Republican party
was organized from the necessity Of the case
to preserve the maxims of our early faith
and pledges; the principles upon which our
Government was founded, and upon the main
tainance of which. in my judgment, is per
petuty depends. l need not speak of the
next step In the effort to nationalize slavery
l claim TO be no seer or prophet in respect
TO the purposes of men parties. in this
work Of placing our Government under the
control OF the slave power.
The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Regain.
a few days since. with disng genuous boldness,
indicated one of the advance steps the Dem
ocratic party will soon take; and 1 could,
therefore, claim no credit for the discovery in
this instance. If understood him correctly.
he claimed that not even State authority
right OF property in slaves shor. of revo
lution--that is the right to abolish would be
4 revolutionary right: that its claim for pro
lection under the Federal and State authori
sy rests upon the same right AS all other kinds
OF property. Indeed l do not see why this
is not logical sequence from the premises.
Then it is that slavery may go to New York
to the home of the Pilgrim Fathers. sweep
along the shores of the great lakes, and dark
| en- the broad prairies Of the great West, un-
der the sanctions Of this vested right OF pro.
erty in slaves under the Constitution. And,
Mr.. Chairman, is it not a remarkable and in
structive fact. that while the South claims
these immunities and this protection for their
oieNCS ia tuo duQ ia tu0 states,
they are at this moment driving Northern
men from their midst for real or suspected
sentiments in favor Of the institutions Of the
North, or for . preference for the condition
of the free white laborers over that of the
bondman in chains?
pass, however. from this sad spectacle of
the degradation and tyranny incident to,
may say inseparable from society which in
sists upon the Divine character Of human
servitude. to note the one step further in this |
work to complete its supremacy. The rev- !
val of the African slave trade rather follows
corollary to the doctrine Of extension and |
perpetua,ion; and apprehend the party will
soon aceep. this tenet of faith, now urged by !
large portion Of its members in the South.
If slavery is humane, bencticent and Just
how can the philanthrophy and Christianity
Of our Democratic brethren be at ease while
vast numbers of negroes in Africa de.
prived of the eleva,ing influences OF their
discipline and instruction upon the broad
plantations Of the South? In truth, sir
from the rightfulness Of slavery, advocacy
Of the revival Of the slave trade follows; and
party the democracy will as surely reach /
this point as the waters Of yonder Potomac.
in their course, will reach the Chesapeake |
Bay.
The Republican party will oppose these
ptcScut onu piosPcCtiSc SCuctntS ny W men
the rich freight Of precious interests secured |
by our form of Government may be precip- |
itated in ruin, and it will seek to correct the |
public sentiment of the South in respect to |
its own doctrine, SO wickedy perverted by
those in position and power. 1t will not
only do this, and stay the march Of slavery |
into the common Territories, but i. will un |
dertake TO correct the financial mismanage- /
ment and abuses which have assumed such |
gigantic proportions under your adminis;ra |
ton Of public affairs. We SHALL strive to les |
sen the present enormous and proflig ex-
pendifures, establish fairness 10 the dispense |
ton of patronage. and secure perfect fidelity /
and honesty with all The officers and agents
of the Government
No one can complain Of this, except upon /
the principle that he tho disturbs the peace
shall have iull license to destroy it; that he .
who ravages portion of our inheritance shall
be at liberty to pillage aud lay waste the |
whole; upon the principle that the highway
man who takes your purse, shall be entitled |
TO your raiment An food.
The Democratic party have exercised pow
er corruptly. as the record shows. They have
not only abused the trust which free labor
committed TO them, but they have rio,ed up
on their substance, and wrested from their
fair, equal privilege in the political advan-
tages, honors aud emolumepss under the :
Government.
Let US See if this is not rs have stated.
and may here remark. that am led to the
following investigation with increased desire.
because of the partial statements, or omitted I
tables, in the comparisons drawn by the hon
orable member from Mississippi, Mr.. Barks-
dale. = short time since.
The population OF the South is scarcely 4
more than half that Of the North. Since the !
organization of the Government. there have
been eighteea elections for President, in .
which the candidates chosen were twelve of
them Southerners and Shareholders. and on
ly six Of them Northerners, four Of which six
stood upon . Southern platform; that no Nor
thern man has ever been reelected, while
Eve of the Southern men have; or. in other