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

when | e comes and takes the babe, flesh Of
my deeh. and bone of my bonee Who steals?
] tel ycu hat j have 10 more hesitation In
helping q fugitive slave than ave in snatch
ing lamb from The jaws Of a wolf, or dis
engaging an infant from the taions OF ca
gle. Net bit. Lorg en- h has Il e na
ton c O. ched and GOV cred 10 tn fresel c. Of
this tupendo, wrong H.rr and how
break the SPELL. and Z SEM liant he Republic
from the Incarnation OF this aeeursed sorce-
ress. 1t is simply a question whether 1t
will pay TO 90 down into the den where me
wolf Is. Laughter II you would only
20 into your lair, and crunch TIE bores and
tear the flesh Of your victims. We might let
you alone, but you will not. You Claim the
right TO 20 with this flesh in Your teeth all
over our Territories. We deny it.
Ny time is passing; must go on. l wan
ted to cay considerable more sbout John
Brown.
Mr.. Adrain-I propose that We give the
gem eman N re time.
MIR. Lovsjoy-I will answer all questions
If the House will give me more time. Cries
Of No! mol" Give him lime." DC
Mr.. SDgleton-No. Sir; any gentleman
shall have time. bu, not such mean. de-
fpicabl- wretch SIS that.
Mr. Lovejoy--When the Jews could not
CO anything else they spi' upoh Chrls' and
said he was POSSESSED OF devil. Laugh
ter One OF the earliest settlements Of Vir
gina Was made by fugitive slave John
Smith captured in and sold 10 big h.
toned chivalrous TUX. ard put At the fash Of
h e.h ng. The mas or rode up t. the barn
door one day. and said. Jack. you rascal.
why don't you thresh fastei?" Jack--hor
yesco yefeyvtnsl-f flew at his master. Liled
him with bis asil (ob. for Harper's Ferry
Committee!) sprang into the vacant saddle
and escaped. and came and settled James
town. Oh for South side preacher TO adj
monish John to stay and serve his master.
whose money be was. like good "Chis ian
dog!" A moment, Sir. Let US look at his
question aside from its moral aspects. And
l want TO know what right Slavery. a
stakeholder, has to go with slaves into The
common Territories Of the L nited States
You talk about the equality Of the States,
and / grant il. Tie citizens of Slave State
have all The rights in the Territories that
citizen OF Free State has You have tie I
right l concede, to 60 into the common Ter
ritores and live there with any kind of prop
erty we can take, but you have not the right
to take slaves. This is the distinction /
make. At n liberal estimate there not
more han two millions of people i'll the Uni
ted States il terested in slave labor. There
are only four hundred thousand shareholders.
There are thirty millions OF people in this
country. There are twenty weight mil lions in
terested in the system Of free labor, and two
millions in that of slave lator. The free
rystem accommodates some eigh millions IN
the Slave States better than the slave sys-
tenn. Here is the point. If Slavery goes in
to the Territories, free labor cannot 90 there.
The presence Of Slavery without any local
law for the purpose is the exclusion Of free
labor. If you take Slavery there. | cannot
go there with The NEW York TRIBUNE, The
Eveniag Post. The Indtpendent. or any sim
liar paper, religious secular | cannot go
with the minister | desire to hear preach the
gospel Free schools cannot &, thore You
say, indeed, we can 60. Yes; all may go
to public house. 1t on mon to all who
choose 10 make it their temporary abode
All invited To the tale d'hote. The
landlord opens the doors OF the dining hall. +
and says. walk in & nj men, VI if man
sitting there Is ieproas. dripping with con
tsgious disesse, no one will 20 in. 1t is re-
ally mrch exc u in as If the doors
were closed and barred against ms entrance.
So ii Slavery goes. Freedom cannot go. l
favor the equality OF the States. iavor the
right Of everv citizen OF a Slave State to go
into the Terri OIL $; bat l deny that he has
tne TigHt 10 pTACtlte eiaNehOl0lBg mere, Tor
il is not institution--it was never institu-
ted; never established by law--but a prac,
tice like poly2amy. | say that they have
not righ, TO 60 there aud practice this high
crime. SO Injurious TO man, aud so offensive
(" God. Ard this is the question: whether
these twenty eight million people shall be
commodated: for. l repeat the pi.seuc Of
Slavery Is the utter exclusion of Tree labor
Q T.. i ttuiions of FRI edom l deny 10
one their ii hts. TIE S W States are equal
10 the Free States. 1t is a poor. pitliui, and
pa,try patriotism that cannot take in The en-
tire extent of its county; but do deny that
Slavery has the same right Freedom III
this country. Freedom is the Isaac; Free
dom is the heir OF promise. Slavery is the
Hagar and lshmael, and they must go into
the wilderness, and Freedom shall have the
entire inheritance. God aud the fathers gave
it 10 freedom and the free institutions 1t
belongs to frcedom-rot to me; not 10 the
citizens of the Free States. but TO freedom. 10
the inter exclusion OF saveholding Now.
gentlemen, l know you are in mood 10 take |
u little advice. Laughter l tell you l
love YOU all Rem wei laue liter.
Mr.. McQueen--I utterly repudste your
love.
Mr. Lovejoy--Sinners did that of Christ:
but lie loved them still Laughter.
Mr.. McQueeu-I do not think he loves
YOU much.
Mr. Lovejoy--I am afraid that l am not
much like him. He went, however and
preached to the spirits in the prison; and l
think | never approximated 50 nearly to him
as in this regard while making proclamation
of the holy evsngel of God to sinners in ii is
House l tell you of the Slave States that
you must emancipste J our slaves. 1t belongs
to YOU and not to us. You must transform
Them from slaves into seris. and give them
homes, and protect and guard the sanctitv of
the family We shall not push you.. If you
say that you want q quarter OF a century.
YOU can have it; if you want half q century,
YOU can have it. But l insist that this sys-
tenn must ultimately be extingushed There