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unlawful proceedings. If only. one man out of eve
ry hundred should be thief and the other ninety
nine should not restrain them by legislation or 9th
erwise, this minority of thieves would be able to
steal all the property in the community. If socie-
ties formed in Massachusetts to steal property
in Connecticut or New York, the Legislature and
people of the State would doubtless take steps to
restrain them. This is done even with reference to
foreign countries, to prevent war between them.--
American citizens are punished for going into Cana
da to disturb that British community.
If societies were formed in Canada for similar
purpose, and were in fact to steal equal amount
Of property from New England, New York, Ohio,
and other northern States, to what is carried away
by the Abotionists from the South, we should be
involved in a war with Great Britain in less than
six months What would be the feeling of those
border States if Canadian orators should boast that
their societies had robbed them of $45, ,OO0, 900
worth of their property, just they now say they
Eold that value of southern runaway slaves? But
men who combine to plunder the people Of the
southern States, far from being punished, are, in
many of the free States encouraged by the legisla
ton there
Daring the last session, the Senator from New
York Mr.. Seward introduced proposition for ad-
ditional legislation to prevent the foreign or African
slave trade to the United States. In 1905 Congress
passed laws to prohibit that trade, and since that
tnc period of more than fifty years, as far as |
know or have reason to believe, the law has been
violated but in a single instance. What other law
on your statute book has been so we'll kept! re-
peat what law has Congress ever passed which
there was temptation to violate, that has been so
we'll observed? That it was not broken often is
not owing to any want of opportunity Northern,
as we'll as foreign ships have been engaged in the
trade, and the extent of the southern coast affords
much greater facilities for the introduction of slaves
than does the Island of Cuba into which large num-
bers are annually carried This law has not been
broken simply because the people of the South cere
not niNiag to rioIate it. Now, sir, let me state a
case for the consideration of the Senate Suppose,
instead Of what has actually occurred, the State OF
Georgia, where some negroes were landed, and a
nuuiber of other southern States, had passed the
strongest laws which could be devised to defeat the
act of Congress forbdding the African slave trade,
and encouraging that traffic by all the means in
their power; suppose, further, that southern Sena-
tors and other prominent pubic men, had, in their
speeches, earnestly recommended the violation OF
the law of Congress, and that all through the South
money subscribed and associations formed to
defeat the law and provide facilities by railroad OF
otherwise for the introduction of Africans, and mobs
gotten up to Orcrpower the United States marshals
could not hundred negroes have been imported
for every one that the Aboliton,sts have stolen .
Yes with Shorc-line of more than ten Thousand
miles, millions might have been imported. This pro-
ceeding would have been violation of the laws OF
the United States just like that which has occurred
with reference to the fugitive slave law. In the
case supposed, however, the southern men would
have had greatly the advantage the score both Of
political economy and morality. They might have
said with truth, that the negroes imported from Af
RIGA added to the production and wealth of the Uni
ted States while those carried North by the Aboi
tionists generally converted INTO idle vagrantS
1t might also have been said that African savages
were by being broughtto the United States partially
civilized, and not only made more intelligent and
moral, but also chrstianZed in large numbers
while the negroes carried to the North become SO
worthless and so vicious, that many of the States
there were seeking to exclude them by legislation,
communities do the plague and other contagious
disorders And the Senator from New York, who
has declared that it is religious duty Of the people
Of the North to violate the fugitive slave law and
urged them, instead Of delivering up the runaway
negroes, to protect and defend them us they do the
paterna gods, stands up in the face of the American
Senate and complains of violation of the laws against
the African slave trade! Was there ever such ar
exhibition: | repeat, was the like ever seen sine,
the creation of the world? may use strong Ian
guage, but truth demands it. That Senator, too
has fully indorsed the incendary and revolutionary
doctrines of the Helper book as large majority o
the members of his party in the House have done
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