Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-04-26


while intend to speak of slaveholdirsg with as 81
! we're terms of Feprobation as possibly can, d
not intend to offend any individual personally
want TO know of you Christian gentlemen how yo
are going to ehristianize men when yoado not Civ
them homes.
MEMBER--Gve them whatl
r Mr.. LovEyoY--Homes-a legal sanction TO tn
: conjugal and parental relations. How are you 60
: ing to clristianize men whom you turn out to her
together like the bufaloes that roam over the est
crn prairics! Y0u cannot do it. IL may be :ssket
sir, when confess that have no control over tli
matter, why discuss it7 why talk about iti
} Mr.. SINGLETON. want to know If the gentle
Mr. LovEJoY. / must decline to yield to tn,
gentleman.
Mr.. SINGLETON. I want to answer the gentle
mans question by asking him another. / want t
know IL he gives homes to the negroes he carries
from the South to Canada and other places
MEMBER. The negroes he stealsl
Ihe CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Mississip
pi is not in orlcr.
Mr.. BARKsDAiE. hope NV colleague will bolt
no prley with that pcrjured negro thief.
MI. LovEJoY. 1t is asked why discuss this aues
ton! Why talk about il, when il is confessed thai
we have no constitutional power to lcyisate upon
III will tell you, Mr.. Chairman. 1t will be re
collected that Mr.. Webster once said, when speak
ing OF the threatened interpositon of Russia to
v,
the purpose of sacrificing him on the altar of es
potism: Gentlemen there is something on earth
greater. than arbitrary despotic power. The
lightning has its power, and the earthquake has it:
power; but there is something among men more
capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning
whirlwind, or earthquake; and that is the excited
and aroused indignation of the whole civilized
world.''
"Thc Avon TO the Severn runs
/ The Seycrn to the Sea.
And Wickiffcs dust shall spread abroad
Wide as the waters be-"
To continue the quotation with different appli
cation and slight variation of the language saw
gentlemen, if the blood of innocent men is taken
by an absolute, unqualified. unjustifable violation
of natural law, what will it appease, what will il
pacliyl Ii will mngie with the earth: il will mix
with the waters of the ocean; the whole civilized
world will snufit in the air; and il will return with
awful retrbuton on the heads OF those violators OF
natural law and universal Justice | cannot say
when or in what form; but depend upon it, if such
acts take place, then slavery look out for con-
sequences.
Sir. before the puPlic sentiment of the Christian
and civilized world propose to hold up to uniycr-
sal reprobation this practice OF slsvcholding; pro.
pose to hold it up in all its atrocity, in ali its hid
eousness, Just as gentlemen have been holding up
The practice OF poygamy, and reprobating it. and,
sir, that public sentiment of the civilized world will
burn upon this practice OF slavery and ultimately
secure its removal in the only proper way; by the
action OF the slave States themselves. This is why
discuss it.
Mr.. Chairman, nv time is passing away, and I
must hasten 1 come to a few things
that have been under discussion during the incohe-
rent condition of the House, whilst this Hall was
echoing with e5u i,ions thar would have drowned
the iupine chorus of the Alps, of Helper and John
Brown, and lncendarism, the torch of the incendi-
lrv and ff,n1 1-,.,f 60 ~.
from Virginia stood up in his place, and wanted to
Know where there was man who would endorse
the Helper book. lie wanted such man if there
was one here, to stand up. that he might look upon
the traitor. Mr.. Chairman, |, for ene signed the
paper recommending the circulation of the Helper
oook- signed it intellisenty- 1 neither
cnSrossed nor distracted. | did it because want
cd to do it; and now, if the gentleman wants TO
look upon that kind of traitor. me, me- adsun qni
teci, IA me conUertae felum; did it. will sign
recommendation for the circulation of any book
that choose, without asking the permission of the
gentleman from Missouri Mr.. CLARK, or of any
other gentleman in the House or out of the House
VIII sign paper recommending the circulation of
the Bible or the Koran, Young's Night thoughts
or Ton: Moo.e's Anacreon, Jonathan Edwards on
the DEGREES, or Tom Paiuc's Age Of Reason just
as pleas
claim The privilege, as an American citizen, of
writing my name and recommending the circulation
OF any book and every book, without being held
amcndable to any gentleman upon this floor, or
anywhere else. This is my answer in regard to it.
have more than that to say | say nothing about
some points in the book. have no doubt that
here is considerable bombast and fusrian and vio-
ience OF language in It, because the author was
educated IN slave State, and the rhetoric which
comes from that quarter is apt have these char
acferistics. Laughter.l But the philosophy-the
sst OF the books whatl 1t is the address Of the
citizen OF slave State to his fellow citizens in re-
garo to the subject of slavery, recommending in
substance the organization, ofa Republican party
In North Caro- ina ard all the other slave Statcsy
hope to see that done, and expect to sec it done
before long. You MAY kill Cassius NJ. Clay, rs
you threaten to do; but "thc blood of the MARTYRS
is the seed of the church." You may shed his
blood as you shed the blood OF my brother on the
banks OF the Mississippi twenty years ago-and,
what thcn7 1 am here to-day, thank God, to vim
dicate theIprinciples baptised in his blood, You
may shed his blood. and what thenl Republi-
can pArty will spring up in Kentucky and in all the
slave States ere long, and these disunionists and
gentlemen who you see violent now, will be dis
placed by more moderate, and-if l may say SO
without being offensvc-more sensible men.
/ believe in that doctrine. | do not endorse
every expression in the Helper book, for have not
studied every expression; bu. the philosophy Of tn
.ook, the idea OF organizing party in the slave
states, against slavery, am in favor of, and cx
beet TO see 1t accomplished. What is the objection |
o the book? The objection is that a citizen Of
he United States, an American citizen, addressed
himself TO his fellow citizens, in peaceful way,
through the press, and for this you find fault with
lim and say that he must be hanged, and that any
nun who signed a Recommendation for the circu-
uauon OF his book is ''bighting, blasting. burn
ne. withcring CURSE" and must not occupy that
hair. u
1 want to know if it has come to this? Has not
ffl nr-s - <~f.k Il
can citizenl want the right of uttcring what
ny here, in Richmond. claim the right to saw {
THAT say here, in Charleston
MIR. BosHAM--You had better trv il.
Mr.. LoYEJoY-Yes, sir / am going 10 invoke
ne and ofthe General Government, to protect me,
> an American citizen, i'm my rights an Ameri-
an citzen. can so to England to-day, and in {
,ondon, or anywhere else, discuss the question Of
'hurch and State; can discuss the question of a {
'narc III government ~ compared with repub- \
can form OF Government. can do this anywhere q
A England, but canno. go into Slave State and a
pen my lips in regard to the question of slave
e. - i. $3.50
Mr.. MARTIN, Of virginia--No; we would hang a
on higher than Haman. 81
Mr.. LovEJoy-l cannot 60 to slave State aud y
tier my sentiments to free citizens like myself Il
Mr.. MiLEs--Can you go to England and incitc Fl
'e iaborng classes to murder tn. arstocracy or TO ii
ssassinatc the Queenl Il
MIR. .LovEIoY--I have no desire to, nor have I h
ny desire to incite such things any where else, but
do claim the right Of ofdiscussisg this question of b
avery anywhere, on any square foot of American Il
,il over which the stars and stripes float, and to
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