New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-12


| Republic ard establish the seat OF Government &c
| permanently that it msy lever be removed. Ihel
these marble paieoos now teeh!ing with life and lux
| and clearance, instead of eehonE to The scenes
Of ninth and melody will become the ba6i-
atiCns of the bats and the owls. Bun to 60 back.
tell you the question is settled in relation 20 tbs
great movement. Nothing can stay the hand OF the
Southern people cool the patriotism which il burn
ing in the Southern heart. When the arbitrary Gov
ernmcnt Of Louis Philippe, in 1913, bad raised the
people Of Paris to sense Of danger and rebellion ana
the barbados Of Paris ard the masses of that great
city were upheaving, Louis Philippe saw the danger,
and attempted TO avert 1t by changing his Ministry,
but the words Too late, "Too late went through
the streets of Paris. Tie next day he abdicated
the throne in favor of his grandson. The
same words, "Too late" rang through the streets,
ringing out in sepulchra tones like the trump of the
Archangel summoning the dead to Judgment And so,
now, you may tinker the Constitution, you may
propose concessions, You may suggest legislation,
YOU may present additional constitutional guaran-
tees, you may attempt, by all these means,
TO stay the storm that now RACES, and to pre-,
vent the people from marching on to delverance and
liberty. But. Sir, the words "Too later' " Too
laen will ring ont here to-day, will be reiterated
from mountain to valley Of all the South to the North,
sounding the deah-kne of the Confederacy.
Mr.. PUGH said-Do you hope to continue the Union
from the extraordinary speech just heardl When the
people Of any State organization or Territory or com
munty do not desire to have the institution of Slavery
my right shall fall from its socket before Will
Mr.. IVERSON sad-I refer you to my speech Of
Feb. 90 last year. when was in the chair. You did
not say yes them | referred to the Eurns Fugitive
Slave case.
Mr.. PUGH-That is only one case.
Mr.. IVERSON read from The Congressional Globe
to prove that Mr. Pugh did not adhere to what he
had stated previous to this session.
Mr.. PUGH-Let me read the rest ll4aughter.l |
contradict that tie Fugitive Slaye-law was tramped
under foot.
Mr.. IVERSON-Twenty years ago an elaborate
port made by order OF the Virginia Legislature
proving that one hundred thousand dollars worth OF
slaves lost annually from its limits bytheirbeing
fueitiyes.
MIR. PUGH-I do not believe that all the Slave
States have lost hundred thousand dollars by their
fugitiyes.
Mr.. DOUGLAS Dem., H. did not propose toenter
into this discussion al the present time, further than TO
remark iii response TO the charge made against my see
ton of the country in the nonexecuon ofthe
Fugitive Slave Law. That law, like many others, Is
not always enforced in all cases. Isuppose thereneyer
was a statute law that not sometime violated with
impunity, not enforced with much fidelity as 1t
ought to be. suppose the Fugitive Slave Law is en-
forced with much fidelity as that in regard to the
African slave-trade But, Sir confess it ia not
forced as faithfully as l wish 1t was, or
as it ought to be. While / make this
declaration, l compelled to say that nne-tenths
of the complaints on that subject unfOunded.
Where there is sectional strife and excitement there
seems be pTOneness Oh the part OF the newspaper
press in both sections, to collect and give every fact
which would iniame the passions and preudlces OF one
section against the other In that way, partial and
unfair statements of facts are given which make each
section act under apprehension OF the other Now
Sir far Illinois is concerned am prepared to say
that in nineteen out of twenty where fugitive
slave enters Illinois he is arrested and returned with
out any judicial process whatever Those portions OF
the State which border on the Kentucky and Mis-
souri, lines in harmony with their neighbors
the other side, and fugitive slave Is re-
turned as regularly as stolen horse. So
in nineteen cases out of twenty where the fugitive
is returned the newspapers do not notice the fact and
even the records Of the court have notice Of It, In
where there s an arrest, as matter OF course
lie is returned if he turns out TO he fugitive, and
there is no excitement. But, perhaps In the twentieth
case the country where the public sentiment Is more
excited and once in while rescue is made, then the
newspapers are filled with the horrors OF that rescue
And the one case Of the is paraded by the news
paper press Of the whole country and although an ex-
cepora case, II is represented az evidence OF the
general character l reeolect one instance OF that
kind occurred in my State, and that instance L
have Noticed in more than twenty Southern news
papeis within the last two months paraded as evidence
Of our infdelity in the enforcement of the law.
And the newspapers tell of the rescue by the Abo
htionies but there the tale stops. And then the COM
ments are made 10 how they can live together with
such treatment. The tale 50 far, is true: But i is
not all told they had wished to tell fairly, they
should have recorded the further fact that the Uned
States Marshal appeared at Ottawa and arrested the
rescuers and took them to Chicago, where, IN default
of ball. they remanded to prison until the LIST OF
October when they tried, found guilty. and sem
tened bv a Republican Judge Of the United States
Court to the penalties of the law. That IL the balance
Of the tale. If il had been told II could never have
been used fuel for this sectional excitement These
cases have occurred frequently in our North estern
country, and il is seldom that rescue is made where
the penalties of the law not inflicted upon the rescu-
es. And then civil suits are brought to pay for the slave
and not only the damage, but smart money granted
think Therefore there is little ground Of complaint,
so far as the section Of the country in which live IL
concerned; and yet / know that the Southern people
are induced to believe that if slave gets INTO the
North he is gone forever. They are made to think so
because the cases of actual returns published
and ONLY the excepiona cases Of rescue come to the
knowledge of the people. / wish we could have q
list Of the fugitive slaves that returned and OF the
number rescued, and venture me assertion, tnal
Southern gentlemen would he amazed at the fidelity
with which that law has been executed. L believe II
we could have a record Of the cases. they wonld be
ashamed to bring up that subject as one OF the causes
TO Justify the dissolution of the Union. l have
no apology to make for the Personal Liberty bills
think them all violation of the sIiri OF the Cons'i-
tuition and think they ought to be repealed at once
and think our Northern people ought to repeal them s
a duty to themselves-nOt upon any demand OF me
Soutfern reople but 10 put ourselves in the right The
State have the honor to represent never passed any
such law. i wish there was no cause OF compliant OF
any other State While we hear Of Personal Liberty
bills preented as cause Of dsunlOn We are told ana,
so far "a know the statement IL true, that in no one
case lave these bills been the cause of depriy-
ing a master Of the return OF Ills slave. Ihese
bills generally exist in that part OF the country
where fugitives never come yet II so happens that
there is the greatest excitement on this question. just
in propoit lion rs YOU recede from the line which d.
vdes ihe Free from the Slave States those OF Gs VINO
live upon the borders live in peace with each other
There never was time wien my friend from Missouri
CMr. Green and myself could not have settled tins
auction by referring il TO two justices Of the peace on
each eide Of the river with power TO choose third,
and we agree TO abide by the award But when you
90 North TO Vermont where they scarcely ever saw
flavc, and would not know how one looked,