New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-14


no blood was shed. except by the panicstreken null
tude till Stevens was fired upon while waving nag
of truce. The only murder was that OF fhomp 'on,
who was snatched from the heroic profession Of a
woman, and riddled with balls at the railroad bridge.
Despoiism has seldom sacrificed three nobler vi,tims
than Brown Stevens, and Hazlitt. AS ] remarked,
Mr.. Chairman, this brings as to confront Slavery,
ard ask what right this Caiban has upon
earth | cay no right. NY honest a.n eGnvS,
need take ofense they need not unless they choose
my honest conviction is that all these slaveholdiug
laws have the same moral power and force thst rules
among pirates have for the distribution OF their booty
that regulations among robbers have for the division
Of their spols; and although do not believe gentle
men have behaved very handsomely to me, am going
to add, notwithstanding, that l do not mean TO say
that gentlemen who are Shareholders would be CAVITY
Of these particu thngsthat is not the point am
the court of right and wrong aud insist that any
laws for enslavng men have just the same moral force
as the arrangement among robbers and pirates Tor
distributing their spoils. 1 want to know by what
right you can come and make me savel want 10
know by what right you can cay that my child shall
be your slsve / want to know by what right you
cay that the mother shall not have her child given to
her from God through the martyrdom OF maternity
Hear that soft exquisite MARBLE of a mothers love:
ERE last years sun had left the ,ky,
birding sought my Indian nest,
Its tiny wing. upon my breast"
and take that uerDg and painting birding from tbs
bosom of its mother and say 1t ia mine; will sell
it like calf will cell it like pigp What right
had that mother to her babe Was it because che
cause she was the wife Of venerable and veneratsd
missionary No. it was because she was its MOTHER;
and every slave mother has just good title to her
babe as Fanny Forester" had to hers No laws can
make II right to rob her. cay, in Gods name, my
child mine and yet have no rghtto mine that slave
father hos mi In hia child MT a Darticla The
argument that proves my rig BIT TO mypersons liberty
proves the right Of every human being 70 his. The
argument that proves my right to my children gives
the title, the sacred claim 10 every father
They as l. get it from their God, and human enact
ment can annul the claim. No, Sir, neverl There
FORE every slave has right to his freedom In spite OF
your Slave laws. Every slave has rghtto run away,
in spite of your Slave laws. tell you Mr.. Chairman
and tell you all, that if were slave and had the
power and were 1t necessary TO achieve my freedom
l would not hesitate to fill up and bridge over the
chasm that yawns between the hell of Slavery and the
heaven of Freedom with the carcasses of the slain.
Give me my freedom Hands off Unthrottle that
man Give him his liberty He is entitled to it from
his God. With these views, DO not think Of course,
it is any harm 10 help away slave. told you that
year ago. need not repeat it.
A MEMBER-" You steal them"
Who steals, when a man comes and takes my child
from my hearthstonel Who steals, when he comes
and takes the babe Hssh of my flesh, and bone of my
bonel Who steals2 tell you that have no more
neeltdilOn nelplDR 1uRlbiV0 bihVe HhFo IN
snachipg lamb from the jaws of wolf, or dsengag
ing infant from the taons of an eagle. Not bit.
Lopg enough has the nation croUched and covered in
the presence OF this stependous wrong Here and now
break the spell, and disenchant tbs Republic from
the incarnation of this accursed 1t is simply
question whether it will pay to 60 do wn into the den
where the wolf is Laughter. If You would only
20 into your lair and crunch the bones and tear the
fesh of yonr victims might let you alone, but you
will not You claim the right to go with this flesh in
your teeth all over our Territories We deny it.
My time is pessngj must go on. wanted to say
considerable more about John Brown.
Mr.. ADRAIS-I propose that we give the gentleman
more time.
Mr.. LoyEJoY-I viii answer all questions II the
House will give me more time. Cries OF "No! noP
Give him time" &c
tine. but not such mean, dssPcabs wretch at that
Mr.. LOyEJor. When the Jews could not do anything
else they spit upon Christ snd said he possessed Of
devil. Llaughter.l One Of the earliest settlements
of Virginia was made by fugitive slave John Smith
was captured in war and sold to hightoned chival-
rous Turk and put at the task Of threshng. The mas
ter rode up to the barn.door enc day. and said Jack,
you rascal why don't you thresh fasterl" Jack-hor-
resco yeferrens!-ew st his master killed him with
his fail, (oh for Harpers Ferry Committee sprang
into the vacant saddle an escaped, and came and set
tied Jamestown. Oh for South eide preacher to adj
monh John to stay and serve his master, whose money
be was like good I" Christian dogW A moment, SIR.
Let Us look at this question aside from its moral
poets. And want to know what right Slavery, or
STAKEHOLDER, has to 60 with slaves into the common
Territories of the United States. You talk about the
equality of the States and grant it, The citizens of
Slave State have all the rights in the Territories that
a citizen Of Free State has. You have the right,
cOncede, TO 90 into the common Territories and live
there with any kind Of property we can take but You
have not the right 10 take slaves This is the distinction
make. At liberal estimate there not more than two
millions of people In the United States interested in
slave labor. There are OILY four hundred thousand
shareholders. There thirty millions Of people in
this country. There are twenty-eight millions in
erested in the system of free labor and two millions
in that of slave labor. The free system accommodates
eight millions in the Slave States better than the
slave system. Here is the point. If Slavery goes
into the Territories, free labor cannot go there The
of Slavery without any local law for the pur-
pose is the exclusion of free labor. II you take
Slavery there, 1 cannot 90 there with The n. Y.
TRIBUNE, The Erening Post, The Independent, or
any similar paper, religious or secular. cannot go
with the minister desire TO hear preach the gospel.
Free schools cannot 60 there. You say, indeed, we
can 60. Yes; so all may 60 10 public house. 1t is
common to ali who choose to make it their temporary
abode. All are invited TO the table dhOte. The land
lord opens TIE doors Of the dining hall, and says
" Walk in gentlemen" buff man sitting there is
leprous dripping with contae ious disease, one will
90 in. II lie really as much an exclusion as if the doors
closed and barred sganst his entrance. Soft Sav
cry goes Freedom cannot 60 favor the equality of the
States favor the right Of every citizen of Slave
State to 60 into the Territories bu. deny that he has
the right practice slavehOdpg there for ii is not an
was never instituted; never established
by lswbut practice like polygamy. say that they
have not right to go there and practice this high
crime, go injurious to man. and offensive TO God.
And this ia the question: whether these twenty eight
million people shall be accommodated or two million
people shall be accommodated for, l repeat the
presence Of Slavery is the utter exclusion Of free labor
and the institutions Of Freedom. deny no one their
rights. The Slave States equal to the Free States.
1t ia poor pitful and pary patriotism that cannot
take in the entire extent of its couDtry but do deny
that Slavery has the same right as Freedom in this
country Freedom is the Isaac; Freedom Is the heir
Of promise. Slavery IL the Hagar and Ishmsel, and
they must go into the wilderness, and Freedom shall
have the entire inheritance God and the fathers gave
Il to freedom and free institutions. II belongs to free