Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-05-29

was the opinion of some of Nirginia's wise men
10 longer ago than 1892 In an address To- the
Virginia Legislature in 1929, -E"Nernor Ran
dolph said:
We have bcea outstripped by States t"
whom nature has been tar less bnun'Iiul- II ~
painful to Consider what might have been. III
der other circumstances, the amount OF general
wealth in Virginia"
In 1892 Mr.. Randolph. of Albemarle. in the
Legislature of Virginia used the following In"si
graphic aud emphatic lang 4age:
Slavery has the etfcc, of lessening
the free population of = country
/ The geut cmaii has spoken of the increase OF
the female slaves being part of the proh; IL
/ Is admitted; but no great evil can be aNerted
no good attained. without some Inconvenience
! II may be questioned how tar II is desirable 10
! foster and encourage this branch OF proht IL
Is practice, and increasing practice, an parts
/ of Virginia. 10 rear slaves for market. How can
| an honorable mind, patriot. and a lover ot ms
| country bear to see this ancient Dominion. rem
dered IllGstrlous by the noble devotion and pa'-
riotisn of her sons IN the cause of liberty, con-
verted into grand menagerIe, where men
To- be reared for the rkei, IKE oxen nor
the shamblesf l. 1t better, Is II not worse th.'H
the slave trade-that trade which enlisted the
labor of the good and wise OF every creed ana
every cline 10 abolish it? The trader receives
the slave, stranger lE language, aspect anu
manner. from the merchant who has pr"ug.''
him from the interior. The ties oi tather' 'o'h-
er, husband, and child, have ali been reht III
twain; before lie receives him his soul las oe-
come callouS. Bat here, sir. indivIuda whon
he master has known from infancy. whom ne
has seeu sporting IN the Innocent gH'hp"IS "'
childhood. Who have been accustomed 10 HOOK 20
HIM for protection, he tears from The h"'nei
arms, and sell INTO a strange country a"ou6
strange people. subject 10 cruel taskini9teTs'
Will orore the opinions of but one other
man. aud he a man wi hose memory all now De
l,gh; to honor Notwithstanding the Denocra-
cy in his lifetime hunted him with - niaii5nitF
ouly equalled by their present ny poctiSx' W
now set themselves up his original irlrhus
aud warrutst admirers and when engaged li
aay outrage of more than ordinary haseness are
almost certain now that he has gone. 10 invoke
his gr al uarue a sanctioning thelr ct',hes-
need hot say that | allude 10 glorious old marry
CLAY, oe Kent ucky In the Senate of The nit
ed 5 a es in 1880 he made use oi THIS inethos-
able language:
Il am extfeuely Y sorry TO hear the senator lf""'
Mississippi say that he requires first the exten-
sion of the Missouri compromise line 10 t'e
Pacific. and also that he L. not satished win
that. bat requires, if understand hIm correctly
a positive provision for the admission OF slavery
south of that line. And now. sIr. coming H"'n
"A slave State. -, IL. | owe II 10 InyscIl' owe
IL To truth. 1t TO the subject 10 "a? t,A' u'
earthly power could induce me TO vote f"r
specific measure for the introduction OF slavery
where il had not before existed, either snn'h or
north of that line Coming, as | do, fFon
slave State. IT Is my solemn, deliberate ana
we'll maj ured determination, that n" power no
earthly power. shall compel me to vote Tor the
positive introduction of slavery either south OF
north OF that line.
Sir, while you rcProach, and justly too our
BRUSH ancestors for the Introduction I'll th's IN
StitUtion upon the continent OF America, anu
for one unwilling that tine posterlty OF 'he pres
ent inhabitants Of California and ol New Next
co shall reproach Us Tor doing Just what we re-
proach Great Britain for doing 10 Us.
Hear him further. He says:
$50 long as God allows the vital current ."
flow through my veins. Will never never. Ie'-
er, by word or thought. by mind or viii, alo IN
admitting one rood of free territory TO the ever
lasting curse of human bondage.
Bat, Mr.. Chairman. great minds VIII nlIt''
On the one hand We have the opinions "i aai'-
lngtnn JegeI son. Madison, Monroe. Hando'Ph'
Henry and Clay, denounclng slavery as d z ea'
moral wrong; and on the other band We nave
the member fron the third Congressional dis
trict If Wisconsin declaring II 10 be rlg l.
Anxious as might be. unGer ordinary ciFcnih-
stances TO agree with my colleague, | am con-
strained 70 say that shall leel Obliged to con-
tInue tn follow the teachings of these great
lights of American liberty. a0t that his very
luminous speech has not convinced me Oh my
error | must still continue 10 regard siavtry
A. n great social aud poltlcrl evil and labor 20
repress H. 50 far as | lawfully may 90 50.