Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-04-27

Mr.. loveloy, there is n slave funeral Is
that treating them like brutes? I.onk into
the coffin ! Look int' the carriage II" You
say this is horrid. know it is horriJ.
know it is horrid to hold men in slavery.
| know it is horrid TO doom four millions
human beings TO the condition of chattels,
TO be held pro nuliis, pro mortus pro quad
rupedis, taken for no persons, for dead per,
sons, for four-footed leasiS-men ms much
entitled To freedom AS you and t. Sir. the
testimony of all religious socirtirs in the
slave States is that the slaves are still
heathen, and it is an utter impossibility Ia
christianize them and civilize them BY this
process.
The third point that is relied upon to
justify slaveholling i, that il is constitu-
tional-that ii is guaranteed by the Consti.
tuition of the United States. Now, Mr.
Chairman, have heard it declared over
and over again that the Constitution guar
antics slavery. | deny it. In no article
in no section, in no line, in no syllable, can
there be any recognition or sanction of hu-
man slavery found in the Constitution oi
the United States. 1t is not there. 1t al
ways recognizes human beings as persons
and never as property. II does not use the
word slave" or slavery" Why, sir
when | came up TO take the oath to support
the Constitution, whispered buzz, half in
earnest and half jocular, passed around
How can Loveioy swear TO support the
Constitution How can he take the oath p
| could take the oath to support the Con-
stilution, because believed in the Consli-
tuition, because | hold to it, because my
heart is loyal to it. Every part and parcel
and portion of il believe in but do not
believe in the construction put upon it by
those who claim is recognition and sanction
of the practice Of slaveho.ding.
Mr.. Bdrksdaie--No, sir; you stand there
to-day an infamous, perjured villain. Calls
TO order.
Mr. Ashmore-Yes, he is perjured vii.
lain; and he perjures himself every hour
he occupies seat on this floor. (Renewed
calls 10 order.)
Mr.. .Singleton-And a negro thief into
the bargain.
Mr.. Loe9oy-I swore to support the Con-
stitution because believe in it. do moi
believe in their construction of it. 1t is as
well known as any historical fact can be
known, that the trainers of the Constitu.
ton so worded it that it never should recog-
nize the idea of slave property, from the
beginning TO the ending of it. But the adj.
vocates of slavery have affirmed strange
doctrine in regard to the Constitution
They think that because | swore TO sup
port the Constitution, swore to support
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holding 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 world, is under the control ol
guarantee of the Constitution--not one par
ticle.
| Mr.. Ne C2e,uana-I wish 10 ask the gen.
tleman whether he has always held that
the Constitution deserved to be sustained
and cepted-whether, at any time in his
life, he held that the Constitution ought to
be trodden under foot?
Mr.. Locejoy-Never, sir; never. | al
ways defended it, and always will, whether
it be against the Democrats who pervert
it, or the disunionists who trample on it.
Mr.. Nc Clernond-1f the gentleman says
he never said so, / am not prepared to con.
tradict him, for | know nothing. personally
about it but | had understood that the gen.
tleman once uttered this language that
+" the Constitution was a piece of rotten
parchment that ought to be trodden under
foot"
Mr.. Lorejog-Yes; that was thrown in
my face once before here, and denied it.
1t never had the least foundation in truth.
| always defended the Constitution because
it was for liberty. 1t was ordained by the
people of the United States, not by su-
perannuated old mummy of a judge-and
Jesuit at that-but by the people of the
United States, to establish justice, secure
the blessings of liberty for themselves and
their poserity, and to secure the natural
rights of every human being within is ex-
elusive Jurisdiction. Therefore love it.
These men can perceive nothing in the
Constitution but slavery. A young man
leads blushing bride TO the altar, and takes
the marital vow before God and attendant
witnesses to love, cherish and protect her.
There she stands the divinest thing that
God has fashioned and placed upon earth
radiant in the beauty ofyouth; her cheek
glowing with the color of the rose, which
expands and fades away into that of the
lily her eyes sparkling like the stars from
the depths of blue, and her tresses falling
around her neck like the locks of the morn
ing. Is the mole on that fair round neck,
or the wart on that plump, soft hand, THE
WOMAN whom the bridegroom swore TO love
and cherish? Say. sir, is it So there is
the Observation-Disclosures with freedom. ra-
diant with the principles of universal lib
erty. seizing the inspired utterance of our
Magma Charta. and reducing them to prac-
tical and organic realization. Now, sir. !
insist that if the clauses that are deemed to
refer TO the subject of slavery mean all
that the widest enthusiast claims them to
mean, they bear no other relation or pro-
portion to the Constitution which | swear
to support. than the excresences On the hand
or the neck does TO the woman whom the
bridegroom vowed to love and cherish. lie
loves her not for these things, but in spite
Of them.
So love the Constitution, not in conse-
quence of these things which are alleged to
be in it. but in spite of them. But you will
say, the woman had right to sport an ex-
crrsence on her hand if she chose. con-
cede it (: and as Federal law-maker, con-
cede that the States have a right TO sport
this fungus of slavery, because il is beyond
NO ranch Rut time rolls away This