The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-26

" o'lo oiuo' Oh CHo ground CnaC ne was
infinitely superior, aud that they were
an inferior race.
Mr.. Gartrell lin his sea0-The man
Is crazy.
Mr.. l!oye,ioy.- The second ground
upon which it is attempted to Justify
slavery, or slaveholding, is, that it is a
mode OF imnarting Christianity and civ
ilization to the slaves. Mr.. Chairman
would like to know how slaveholding
communities can impart that of which
they are not in the possession. The
truth Is that the practice Of slaveholding
has powerful tendency to drag com.
munnities back to barbarism. It is ac.
tually having that effect upon the slave
States ct the Union and were it not
for christian women that have goneIfrom
Free States and intermaried 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 slave.
holding, the slave States to day would
be as far back in barbarism as the state
of Mexico.
Sir, if you step into the Smithsonian
Institution, or into the Patent office,
you will find implements of husbandry
imported from Japan and China, show.
ing Just about the same development
IN civilization as the implements that
you lind on the plantations. Now, sir,
the truth is, that the practice of slave.
holding drags slaveholding communi.
ties further below the plane of the chris.
tan civilization of the age, than the civ.
ilization which the slave receives, ele.
Yates him above the plane of heather.
ism by being held in these christian com
mHnltieS. Sir, how do they impart
civilization and christianity .? 1t is a
strange mode of outstanding a race to
turn them over into brutism without any
legal marriage. Among the four mill
ION slaves in this country, there is not
single husband or wife. There is not
legally single father or child. There
is not single home or hearthstone
among these four million. And YOU
propos 10 ciyilize and christianize a
people without giving them homes, with
out giving them homes, without allow
ing them the conjugal and parental re-
latlons, and without having those rela-
tons sanctioned and protected by law.
Mir. Chairman, no community can make
one step OF pr ogress in civilizing race
till you give them homes; till you pro-
tect the sanctity of the home as we held
1t should be protected in regard to these
Mormons on the plains of Utah. Chris.
tan them, sir Outstanding them by
new process. The slave states have
a right to an exclusive patent for it
taking them out in sight of the church
as one was taken out not long ago in the
State o Tennessee, by a Presbyterian
elder, and laid down on his face on the
ground, his hands and feet extended to
their utmost tension, and tied to pick,
cts, and the gospel whipped into him
with the broadside of hand saw, dis
colored whelks of sanctifcation being
raised between the teeth every time the
gospel agency fell upon the naked and
quivering Aesh Of the tortured convert.
Laughter.
A Democratic Member-Did he get
the gospel in ? Laughter.
Mr.. Lovejoy- Christianized as a
young girl was christianized in this city
since the session of Congress, by being
whipped and sent to the garnet, and
found dead in the morning, with blood
oozing from nose and ears,
A Democratic Member-W Where does
that authority come from :?
Mr.. Lovejoy--I do not know wheth-
er religious rites were had or not. Il
suppose some pro-slavery priest was
invited IN to utter impious prayers be-
fore God that the last flagellation might
have whipped in christianity enough to
save her precious and never dying soul.
Laughter, And now, alarmed, good
black walnut coffin is made and deco
rated with white ribbons, and placed
In the hearse, followed by hack con-
tanning presume, the murderers; and
my attention is called to the cortege
''See, Mr.. Lovejoy, there is slave
funeral Is that treating them like
brutes +? Look into the coffin Look
into the carriage % You say this is hor-
rid l know it is horrid. / know it is
horrid to hold men in slavery. / know
1T is horrid to doom four million human
beings to the condition of chattels, to
be held pro 'aullis, pro naortuis, pro-
qu0d'uped1S, taken for no persons, for
dead persons, for four.footed beasts
men as much entitled to freedom as you
and |. Sir, the testimony of all relig-
lous societies in the slave States is that
the slaves are still heather, and it is an
utter lmpossibility to christianize them
and civilize them by this process The
third point that is relied on to Justify
slaveholding is, that it is constitutional
that it is guaranteed by the Constitu-
ton of the United States. Now, Mr.
Chairman, ] have heard it declared
over and over again that the Constitu-
ton guarantees Slavery. deny it.
In no article, in no section, in no line,
In no word, 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 al
ways recognizes human beings as per-
sons, and never as property. 1t does
not use the word "alave'' or slavery"
hg1 Sli when GAME up 10 Jake the
oath to support the Constitution, a whis-
pered buzz, half in earnest and half Joe
ular, passed around elbow can Love
Joy swear to support the constitution
'How can he take the oath 90 | could |
take the oath to support the sonstitu-
ton, because believe in the constitu-
ton, because hold to it, because my
heart is loyal to it. Every part and
parcel and portion of it l believe in i
but | do not believe in the construction
put upon it by those who claim its rec
ignition aud sanction of the practice of