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

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ize nen when you do not give them honest
A MENBER-GivO them what
t.a.AGg. LovEJoYs-Homss, and q lseal sanction
to the conjuRal and parental relations How
are you goingt to Christianize men whom you
turn out 10 herd together ike the buffaloes
that roam upon Tho Western prsiries You
cannot do it. Il may be asked, Sir, when
-CVpfess that fhpve no control over this matter,
Why discUss-itA why talk about it,
Mr.. SINGLETON Dem. Miss, 81 want to know
Il the gentleman giVss homes
Mr.. LovEJoY-I must decline to yield to the
gentleman.
Mr. SnsLEToN-I want to answer the gentle
mans question by asking him another. Iwant
te know Il be gives homes TO the negroes he
carries from the South to Canada and other
places ~ tt -4
A MENBER-The negroes he steals la
The oHAIREAN-Ths gentleman from Miss
issipPi is not in order.
Mr.. BARKsDALE (Dsm Miss ~ hope my
colleague will hold no parley with that per-
iuFed negro thief.
Mr.. LoVEyOY-It is asked, why discuss this
question Why talk about It, when it is con-
isssed that we have no constitutional power to
lsgislats upon iti will tell you, Mr.. Chair
man. Il will be rseollected that Mr. Webster
sAADetgASe
teFpOsition Of Russia TO sn atch Kossuth from
the protection Of Turkey, for the purpose Of
sacrificing him on the altar Of despOtiSm;-
"Gsntlemen, there is something on earth
greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The
Tightening has its power, and the WhiTlWind
"has its power and the earthquake has its
"power: tut there il something among men
"nOre capable of shaking despOtic thrones than
"Eghtning, whirlwind, Or.earthquake; and that
| ais the excited and aroused indignation of the
"Whole civilized world
| 'sFhs Avon to the Severn runs;
The Severn to the ses;
And WieklGs's dust shall spread abroad
Wide a. the waters be-"
To continue the quotation with different
application and a slight variation of the Ian
Euage, say, gentlemen, if the blood of innocent
men is taken by an absolute, unqualified, un-
iustifable violation Of natural law, what will it
appease, what will It pacifyl twill mingle
with the earth; it will mix with the waters of
the ocean; the whole civilized world will snuff
| it in the air, and it will return with awful re-
tribution on the heads of those violstors of
natural law and universal justice. | cannot
say when, or in what form, but depend upon it.
/ if such acts take place, then Slavery must look
cut for the consequences. Sir, before the
public sentiment of the Christian and civilized
world propose TO hold up to universal repro
baton this practice Of slaveholding. propose
to hold II up in all it's strocity, in all its hids-
ousness, Just as gsntlemsn have been holding
uD the practice Of Folygamy, and rePTobating
it; and, Sir that public sentiment Of the eivil-
zed world will burn upon this practice of Sla-
very, and ultimately secure its removal in the
only proper way-by the action Of the Slave
/ States themselves. That is why discuss it
Mr. Chairman, my time is passing away, and
I must hasten on. want to come 10 few
things that have been under discussion during
the inchCa ate condition of the House, while this
Hall was echoing with mutations that would
have drowned the lupine chorus of the Alps,
of HELPER, and John Brown AND incendiarism,
the torch Of the incendiary, and the knife of
the as sassin. One gentleman from Virginia
stood up in his place, and wanted to know
where there was q man who would indOrse the
HELPER Book He wanted such man ifthere
was one here, to stand up, that he might look
upon the traitor. Mr.. Chairman, !, for one
signed the paper recommending the circulation
of the Helper book. l signed it intelligently.
l was neither engrossed nor abstracted. did
it because wanted to do it; and now, if the
gentleman wants to look upon that kind of a
traitor, me- me, adsEn qEi tees, IN me eOnyertite
tsEuB; did it. will sign a rec ,mmendation
1
without asking permission ofthe gentleman from
Missouri Mr. Clark ]. of any other gentleman
in the House or out Of the House. will sign
a paper recommending the circulation of the
Bible or the Koran. YOung's n ght Thoughts, CT
| Tom Moore's AnacreOn, Jonathan Edwsrds on
DEGREES, or Tom Paine's Age of Reason, just
as please. I claim the privilege as an Amer
lean citizen, Of writing my name and recon-
mending the circulation Of any and every book,
i without being held amenable to gentlemenuPon
this floor, or anywhere else, That is my an
swer in regard to it. IhaVe more than that to
say. / say nothing about some points in the
book have no doubt that there is consdera>
BILE bombast and fustian and violence Of Ian
guage in it, because the author was educated
in Slave State, and the rhetoric which comes
| from that quarter is apt to have these charae-
tsristies. [Laughter.l But the philosophy
the gist Of the book-is what 1t is the ad-
dress Of a citizen of Slave State to his fellow
citizena in regard to the subject of Slavery, re-
| commencing in substance the organization of
a Republican party in North Carolina and in all
1 the other Slave States / hope to see that
done; and expect to see it done before very
! long You may kill Csssius NJ. Clay, as you
threaten to do; but SHE blood of the martyrs
! is the seed of the church." You may shed bis
blood, as you shed the blood Of my brother on
the banks of the Mississippi twenty years ago;
and what thenl am here to day, thank God,
to Vindicate the principles baptised in his blood.
| You nav shed his blood; and what then A
Republican party will spring up in Kentucky
and in all the Slave States ere long; and these
Disunionists and gentlemen who you see so
violent now will be displaced by more mod
crate, and-if may say so without being
offensiVe--more sensible men ] believe in that
doctrine. do not in lorss every expression
in the Helper book, for 1 have not studied
every expression; but the philosophy Of the
book, the idea Of organizing party in the
Slave States as against Slavery, am in favor
OF, and expect to see il accomplished. What
is the objection to the book? The objection
is that q citizen Of the United States an Amer
ican citizen, addressed himself 10 his fellow
citizens, in peaceful way, through the press,
and for this you find fault with him and say
that he must be hanged, and that any man who
signed recommendation for the circulation of
his book is a "bIighting, blasting, burning,
whitening curse" and must not Ocenpy that
chair. want to know fit has come to this
Has not an American citizen right to speak
to an American citizen? want the right Of
utteIing what l say here ia Richmond. l
claim the rights to say what say here in
Charleston.
Mr.. BOnHAN, Osm. 8. c.l-YOu had better
try it,
MIR. LoVEJoY-Yes sir. / am going TO in
woke the aid of the General Government to
protect me, as an American citizen, in my rights
as an American citizen. I can 60 to England
to-day, and in London, or anywhere else, dis
cuss the question Of Church and State; can
discuss the question of a monsrchial govern
ment as compared with g Republican form of
Government. can do this anywhere in Eng
land, but cannot go into q Slave State and
open my lips In regard to the question Of
Slavery
Mr.. MARTIN, Dem, vA)-NOi we would