The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-27
The Beauties of LOvejOy.


inst. The telegraphic synopsis did not do
full justice to the violence and insulting
character of the harangue. Here is few
specimens, which, when the reader peruses,
he will please recollect that WASHINGTON,
JEFFERSON, JACKSON, CLAY, CALHOUN, and
two>thirds of the great names which illumine
the pages of American history, were slave
holders, and as Justly amenable to LovEJoY's
crazy denunciations as HAMMOND, or Hun
TER, or TooMBs:
HIS OPINION OF sLAvEHOLDING.
We are told where slavery will pay.
slaveholding will go. Precisely upon the
same principle we might say that where
robbery will pay, robbery will go; where
piracy will pay, piracy will go /; and where
adipose human flesh is cheaper than that of
beeves, cannibalsm will 60, because it will
pay. Sir, than robbery, than piracy, than
polygamy, saveholding is worse-more
sequently more offensive to God. Slave
holding has been justly designated as the
sum of all villainy. Put every crime per-
petrated among men into moral crucible,
and dissolve and combine them all, and the
resultant amalgam is slaveholding. 1t has the
violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of
piracy it has the offensive and brutal lusts
of poygamy, all combined and concentrated
in itself, with aggravations that neither one
of these crimes ever knew or dreamed Of
HIS VIEWS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The principle of ensiaving human beings
because they are inferior is this If man
is cripple, trip him up; if he is old and
weak, and bowed with the weight of years,
strike him, for be cannot strike back if
idiotic, take advantage of him and if
child, deceive him. This, sir, this is the docs
trine of Democrats, and the doctrine of
devils as well, and there is no place in the
universe outside the five points of hell and
the Democratic party where the practice
and prevalence of such doctrines would not
be disgrace.
According to Mr.. LovEJoY, the doctrines
of the Democratic party are entertained
no place in the universe outside the FIVE
points of hell = Oh, most Christian LOVE-
JOY Lamb.like saint !
HE AsPERsEs SOUTHERN woMEN-THE
CHEvALlER LOvEJoY.
The truth is, that the practice of slave
holding has a powerful tendency to drag
communities back to barbarism. 1t is
actually having that effect upon the slave
states of this Union and were it not for
the Christian women that have gone from
free states and intermarried in the slave
states and were it not for those noble
women of the slave states, that preserve
womanly purity and Christianity, in spite
of the unhappy influences of slaveholding,
the slave states to day would be as far back
in barbarism as the State of Mexico.
HOW HE JUsTIFIEs HIS OATH TO SUPPORT THE
CONSTITUTION.
The third point that is relied on to Justify
slaveholding is, that it is constitutional
that it is guaranteed by the Constitution of
the United States. Now, Mr. Chairman,
have heard it declared over and over again
that the constitution guarantees slavery. l
deny it. In no article, in no section, in no
syllable. can there be any recognition or
sanction OF human slavery found in the
constitution OF the United States. 1t is
not there. 1t always recognizes human be-
ings as persons, and never as property. 1t
does not use the word ''slave" or slavery"
Why, sir, when | came up to take the oath
to support the constitution, a whispered
buzz, halt in earnest and half jouarar,
passed around How can LOvejoy swear
to support the constitution"
! always defended the constitution, because
it was for liberty. 1t was ordained by the
people Of the United States, not by super
ANIMATED old mummy OF Judge, and
Jesuit at that
HOMES FOR THE NEGROES.
Now, there are some christian men on the
other side of the House. l want to put it
to them, in all candor (for while intend to
speak Of slaveholding with as severe terms
of reprobation as / possibly can, do not
intend to offend any individual personality,
/ want to know of you, Christian gentlemen,
how you are going to give them homes.
A member--Give them what?
Mr.. Lovejoy-Homes; legal sanction
to the conjugal and parental relations. How
are you going o chrstanize men whom you
turn out to herd together like buffalo that
roam upon the western prairies. You can
not do it.
IL may NC dShtu, SIT, Wucu COulcSS tudC
l have no control over this matter, why
discuss it, why talk about it.
Mr.. Singleton-I want to answer the
gentleman's question by asking him another.
l want to know if be gives homes to the
negroes he carries from the South to Canada
and other places?
A member-The negroes he steals?
WHAT He THINKS OF JOHN BROWN, THE MUIR
DERER.
l believe that his purpose was good one;
that so far as his own motives before God
were concerned, the were honest and truth
full. He was not guilty of murder or trea.
son. He did unqestionably violate the
statute against aiding slaves to escape.
Despotism has seldom sacrificed three nobler
victims than Brown, Stevens. and Hazlitt.
vIRGINIA-WHAT OF HER.
The philosophy, therefore, and the lesson
which the slave States ought to have learn
ed, from John Brown, and from all these
events, are not these expressions of rage
and vengeance. Instead of being stimulated
to revenge, Virginia ought to have learned
the lesson of penitence. Instead of arraying
herself in sleeps gray, she ought to have
put on sackcloth and ashes. Instead of i'm.
billing the distillation of corn, mixed with
the products of the poultry yard, she ought