The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-04-25

Slavery, or q Shareholder, has to 60 with saves
into the common Territories of the United States.
You talk about the equality of the States, and
grant it. The citizens OF Slave State have all
the rights in the Territories that citizen OF a
Free State has You have the right, concede, |
to 20 into the common Territories and live there
with any kind of property We can take, but you
have not the right to take slaves. This Is the
distinction make. At a liberal estimate there
are not more than two millions of people in the
United States interested in slave labor. There
are only four hundred thousand shareholders.
There are thirty millions Of people in this coun-
try. There are twenty-eight millions interested
in the system of free labor, and two millions IN
that of slave labor. The free system accoInmo-
dates some aigh, ,,niinnr IN ~ Si-. states oe|
ter than the slave system. Here is the point.
If Slavery goes into the Territories, free labor
cannot 90 there The presence of slavery with
out any local law for the purpose, is the exciu-
sion of free labor. II YOU take Slavery there,
cannot 60 there with THE n. 7. TRIBUNE, The
Erening Post, The Independent, or any similar
paper religious or secular. ! cannot go with the
minister 1 desire to hear preach the gospel
Free schools cannot 90 there. You say, indeed,
we can 20. Yes; so all may 20 to public
house. 1t is common to all who choose TO make
il their temporary abode. All are invited TO the
table dhote. The landlord opens the doors of
the dining hall, and says, walk in, gentlemen"
but il man sitting there Is leprous, dripping
with a contagious disease, no one will 60 IN. Ii
is really as much an exclusion as if the doors
we're closed and barred against his entrance. SO
if Slavery goes, Freedom cannot go. | favor
the right of every citizen of Slave State TO go
into the Territories but deny that he has the
right to practice slavehoding there, for it is not
an institution was never instituted never
established by law-but apractice like polygafny.
| say that they have not right to 20 there and
practice this high crime, injurious TO man, and
| 50 offensive TO God. And this is the question
whether these twenty-eight million people shall
| be accommodated, or two million people shall be
| accommodated; for, | repeat, the presence OF
Slavery is the utter exclusion of free labor and
| the institutions of Freedom. deny no one their
rights. The Slave States are equal to the Free
States. 1t is a poor, p,iful, and patry patriot
ism that cannot take IN the entire extern. Of coUn'
| try: but do deny that Slavery has the same
| right as Freedom In this country. Freedom is
the Isaac; Freedom is the hoir Of promise.
Slavery is the iiagar and lshmael, and they must
go into the wilderness, and Freedom shall have
the entire inheritance. God and the fathers gave
it to freedom and free institutions. IL belongs
to frcedom--rot to me; not to the citizens of
the Free States, but to freedom, to the utter ex-
clusion of slaveholding. Now, gentlemen,
know you are in mood to take little advice.
| laughter | tell you love you all. Psnew-
ed laughter.
| Mr.. McQueen.-I utterly repudisse your love.
| Mr. Lovejoy.-Sinners did that Of Christ; but
hs loved them still. Laughter.
Mr.. McQueen.-I do not think he loves YOU
| much
Mr.. Loyejoy-l am afraid that am not much
| ike him. He went, however, and preached to
a.. 4 - L
prormated so nearly to him as in this regard,
while making proclamation of the holy evangel
| of God to sinners in this House. / tell you of
| the slave States that you must emsncipate your
slaves II belongs to you and not to Us. You
must transform them from slaves into seris, and
/ give them homes, and protect and guard the
| sanctity Of the family We shall not push you.
| II you say that you want quarter of a century,
you can have il; if you want half century, you
can have il. Bat insist that this system must
ultimately be extinguished. There is no gues.
ton about it. You who advocate the perpetuity
of slavery are like a set Of mad-caps, who should
place themselves on the top of An iceberg which
had disengaged itself from the frozen regions of
| the north, and begun to float downward, and
downward, through the warm climates. The
sun shines and melts il; the soft winds blown on
and melt it; the rains descend and melt it.; the
these wild Missionaries, who iancied they could
sail an iceberg through the tropics, start up, and
blaspheme sunshine and rain and zephyr; and,
mounting the heavens, tell Jehovah that unless
he stops the shining of the sun, and the blowing
Of the winds, and the falling of the rains, they
will crumble his universe "from turret to fOun-
datiOn stone" Great laughter. Do you not
think God would feel bad; and would not the
archangels tremblc at the chiyalry? Renewed
laughter. You may call this extravagant; but
you can no more pcrpetuate slavery, and will no
more dissolve the Union, in order to perpetuate
it, than you can stop the shining of the sun, or
the ripple of the sea, the descent of rain, the
blowing of the wind; ny, no more than you can
subdue the ocean, when it lashes itself into fury
and dashes its crested mountain pillows against
the rocks. 1t is as preposterOus to think of
taking slavery down through the civilization of
the ages as it is to think of floating an iceberg
through the tropics. 1t is the order of things.
| am willing to cOncede that you can do anything
that any equal number of men can achieve.
did mean to taunt you about Harper's Ferry, but
believe / viii not. | am willing to concede
that you arc as brave as other men, although
do not think you show it by this abusive Ian
guage; because brave men are always calm and
selfpossessed. God feels 10 anger, for he knows
no fear | say, you can do anything that other
men do. You can preserve and perpetuate this
system, if any equal number OF men could do il
but the stars in their courses are fighting against
you; God, in his providence, is fighting against
you The universe was established upon the
great priuciple of justice and truth. 1t may be
jostled out of its place for little while, but it
will, sooner or later, fall back to it's grooves.
You must sacrifice slavery for the good of your
country. Do this, and you viii have the sympa-
thy, the prayers, and the cooperation OF the en-
tire nation. Refuse or neglect this; refuse TO
proclaim liberty through all the land, to all the
mia bitants thereof, and the exodus of the slave
viii be through the Red Sea. 1t is well-known
physiological as well as psychological fact, that
ancestral characteristics reappear after a long
interval of years, and even of generations, as
streams disappear and gush out at distant point
1t is also well known that the Saxon blood is be.
ing infltrated into the blood of the enslaved. |
By and by some Marion viii be found calling his |
guerrilla troops from the swaps and everglades |
of South Carolina; and Patrick Henry will reap |
pear in the Old Dominion, shouting, as of old, |
Give Us liberty, or give Us death!' Then will |
transpire those scenes which troubled the pro- |
phetic vision of Jefferson and made him tremble |
for his country, when be remembered that God |
was just and that his justice would not sleep for
ever, and that every divine attribute would be /
arrayed upon the side Of the struggling bondmen.
And be justified the uprising, by saying the little
finger of American slavery was thicker than the |
lions OF British despotism. Sir, Virginia cannot
afford, the country cannot afford, 10 continue
practice faughs with so much of peril. 1t is
better to remove the magazine, than to be kept
evermore in dread of lighted match. The
future glory and usefulness of this nation cannot
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