Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-17

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iasterl" Jaek-hoTrsseo rstsTTsasl-Aev- AZ bis
master, killed him with his fail foh. for
HaFPefs Ferry Committee y spraDQ into the
vacant saddle and escaped, and came and set-
tlsd Jamestown. Oh FOX South side preacher
10 admonish John 70 stay with hi5 dis;ister.
whose money he was, ike good "Christian
dogp A moment, Sir. Let Us look atsthis
question aside from its moral aspects. And
ask what right slavery, or a slsvshol3er, bas TO
60 with bis slaves into the common tsrritofiea Of
the United Statss. You talk about the eou1litv
Of the States, snd ! grant It. The citizeus Of
q Slave State have al the rights IN the Terrific
ries that citizen Of Free State has. You
have the right, eOneede, to 90 into the common
Territories and live theEs with any kind of prop-
eity we can take, but you have not the riqhe 10
take.slaYes. This is the distinction make. At
a liberal estimaletthere are not more than two
mllllons Of people in the United States intsres-
ted N slave labor. There are only four hun
drsd thousand sIaveh0ldeTs There are thirty
millions Of people IN this country There are
t"shty eight millions interested in the system
o. nee labor, and two millions in that Of slave
l.ooi. 1he Tree system accommodates some
eignt millions In the Slave States better than
ene eIt save system Here is the point. If
Slavery goes into the Territories. free labor can
not 60 there. The presence Of siaverv without
any local law for the purpose is the exclusion
Of Tree labor. # you take slavery there. I can.
not 90 there with the New York Tribuue. the
Evening Post, the Independent, or any similar
paper, religious or secular. I eauBot 20 with
the minister desire to bear preach the gospel.
Free Schools cannot 90 there. You say, indeed
we can 60. Yes; 50 ell may go to public hoasa.
It il common to all who choose to make It their
temporary abode. All are invited to the table
dhOte. The landlord opens the doors Of tae
Dining hall, and says, "Walk in gentlemen
but If q man sitting there is lspTous, dripping
with con agi0us disease, no one will 90 In.
Il is really as much an exclusion as if the doors
were closed and barred against his eutrsnee.-
SO if Slavery goes. Freedom cannot 20. I
favor the equality Of the States. favor the
night Of every citizen Of 3 Slave state to 90
into the Territories; but / deny that be has
the right TO practice slavsholding there, for It
ls not IN instituti0n-it was never instituted;
never established by laW--bnt a rractice like
POlygamy. / say that they have not rightto
60 there and practice this high crime, so iniu-
riOus to man, and 90 offensive to God. And
this IS the question: whether these tWenty~eight
million people shall be accommodated, or two
million people shall be accommodated; for, 1
repeat the presence Of Slavery is the utter ex.
NlshlLuE1Ola
Freedom. l deny no one their rights. The
Slave States are equal to the Free States. Il
is poor, pitiful and paltrY patriotism that can.
not take in the extent Of its country: but I do
deny that Slavery has the same right as Frees
dom in this country. Freedom Is the Isaac;
Freedom is the heir of promise. Slavery is the
Hagar and Ishmael, and they must 90 into the
wilderness, and Freedom shall have the entire
inheritance. God and the fathers yavs it to
freedom and free institutions. 1t belongs to
treedOm-not to me; not to the Free States,
but to freedom, to the utter exclusion Of slave-
holding. Now, gentlemen, know you are in
mood to take little advice. Laughter. l.
| tell you love you all [Renewed Laughs
teri
Mr.. MCQurEN. [Dem., s. OIL utterly Tepuz
date your love.
Mr. LovEJOY--Sinners did that of Christ; but
he loved them still. [Laughierl
Mr.. McQUEEN-I do not think that be loves
you much.
Mr.. LOvEloY-T am afraid that I am not much
like him. he went, however, and preached to
the spirits in prisen; and think / never aps
Proximated so nearly to him as in this regard,
while making proclamation Ofths holy evangelof
God to sinners in this House. tell you Of the
Slave States that you must emancipate your
slaves. It belongs to you and not to Us. You
must transform them from slaves into serfs,
and give them homes, and protect and guard
the sancsity Of the family. We shall not push
you. If you say that you want quarter Of q
century, you can have it; if you want half
century, you can have it. But I insist that
this system must Ultimately be extineuished.
There is no question about It You who ad-
VOcate the perpetuity Of Slavery are like set
Of madeaps, Who should place themselves on
the top Of an iceberg which had dissnFaged
itself from the frozen regions of the north, and
begun to float downward, and downward,
through the warm climates. The sun shines
and melts it; the sOfl winds blow on and melt
it; the rains descend and melt it; the water
nipples round it and melts it; and then these
Wild visiOnaries, who fancisd they could sail
anticeberg through the tropics, start aD, and
blaspheme sunshine and raiu and zephyr; and
mounting the heavens, tell Jehovah that un-
less he stops the shining Of the sun, and
the blowing of the winds, and the falling of the
rain, they will crumble his universe iron tur-
ret to foundation stone" IGreat laughter. I Do
you not think God would feel bad, and would
not the srch-angels trembls at the ehiYslry!
Renewed laughter You may call this sx-
travagant; but you can nc more psTpetuato
Slavery, and will no more dissolve this Union,
in order 10 perpetuate it, than you can stop the
shining OF the sun, or the ripple ofthe sea, the
descent Of rain, or the blowing of the wind; ay.
no more than you can subdue the ocean, when
it lashes itself into fury and dashes its crested
mountain billOWs against the rocks. Il is as
to think Of taking Slavery down
through the civilization Of the sges as it Is to
think Of floating an iceberg through the tropics.
Il is the order Of things. am willing toconcede
that you canldO anything shat any equal num-
Der Of men can achieve. did mean to taunt
you about HsFper's Ferry, but believe will
not am willing to coneede that you are a.
brave as other men; although I do not think
you show itby this abusive language; because
brave men are always calm and self-posasssed.
God feels no anger, for he knows no fear.
say, you can do anything that other men can DO.
You can preserve and perpetuate this system, if
any equal number ofmen could do it; but the
stars IN their courses are fighting against you;
God, in his providence, Is fighting agsinst you.
The universe was established upon the great
principle of justice and truth It may be iost-
led out of its place for little while. but it win,
sooner or later, fail back to its grooves You
must sacrifice Slavery for the good Of your
country. Do this, and you viii have the SYM
pathy, the prayers, and the co operation Of ths
entire nation. Refu or neglect thiS, refuse
to proclaim liberty through al the land, to all
he inhabitants thereof. and the exodus Of the
1lsvs will be through the Red Sea. Il ID q
aell-knoWn Psychological as well as psychologi-
,al fact, that ancestral eharsctaristies reappSsr
slter long interval Of years, and even Of gem
sTstions, IS streams disappear and gush 00t ct
, distant point. Ills also well kneWn thst the
Saxon blood is being infltrated into the blood
If the enslaved. BY and by some Marion will
Y found calling his guerrilla troops from the
iWamps and everglades Of South Carolina; and
Patrick Henry win reappeaf in the Old Dom
nion, shouting, Is Of old, "Giys Us liberty or
yiye us death - Then win tIanspiEe those
Genes which troubled the prophetic vision Of
jefferson, And made him tTemble tor his eOun-
~, when he remembered that God was just