Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-04-25

! from rec OtateS, ana tnat Jne OnIls1ldh
women of Slave States-who have not the
poor privilege that Sarah of old had of SEN
ding the Hagars and Ishmaels to the will
derness-maintained their purity and their
Christian character, and their testimony
against the system, that they were preven-
ted from that retrocession toward barbar-
ism.
Several Members That is what he said
before
Mr. Lovejoy-Sir, if you step into the
Smithsonian Institute, or into the Patent
Office, you will find implements of husband
ry imported from Japan and China, show
ing Just about the same depelopment in CIV
ilization as the implements you find on the
plantations. Now, Sir, the truth is, that
the practice of slayeholding drags slave
holding communities further below the
the plane of the Christian civilization of
the age, than the civilization which the
Slave receives elevates him above the plane
of heathenism by being held in these Chris
tan communities. Sir, how do they i'm
part civilization aud Christianity? 1t is a
strange mode of Christianizing race to
turn them over into brutism without any
legal marriage.
Among the four million slaves in this
country, there is not single husband or
wife. There is not legally single father
or child. There is not single home Or
hearthstone among these four million
And you propose to civilize and Christian
ize a people without giving them homes,
without allowing them the conjugal and
parental relations, and without having those
relations sanctioned and protected by law.
Mr.. Chairman, no community can make
one step of progress in civilizing race till
you give them homes; till you protect the
sanctity of the home as we held it should
be protected in regard to these MOrmons
on the plains of Utah. Christianizing
them, Sir Christianizi2g them by new
process. The Slave States nave a right to
an exclusive patent for it. Taking them
out in the sight of the church, as one was
taken out not long ago in the State of Ten
nessee, by a Presbyterian elder, and laid
down on his face on the ground, his hands
and feet extented to their utmost tension,
and tied to pickets. and the Gospel whip
ped into him with the broad-side of hand
saw, discolored whelks of sanctifcation be-
ing raised between the teeth every time the
Gospel agency fell upon the naked and
duiYering flesh of the tortured convict.
Laughter
A DEMOCRATIC MEMBER-Didh he get the
Gospel in? Laughter.
Mr. Observation-Disclosures as young
girl was Christianized in this city since the
session of Congress, by being whipped and
sent to the garrct, aud found dead in the
morning with blood oozing from nose and
ears.
A DEMOCRATIC MEMBER-Where does
that authority come from?
Mr.. LovEJoY-I do not know whether
religious rites were had or not. 1 suppose
some Pro-Slavery priest was invited in to
utter impious prayers before God that the
last hagellation might have whipped in
Christianity enough to save her precious
and never dying soul Laughter And
now, alarmed, good black walnut coffin is
made and decorated with white ribbons, and
placed in the hearse, followed by hack
containing. persume, the murderess: and
my attention is called to the cortege: "See,
Mr.. Lovejoy, there is a slave funerall Is
that treating them like brutes? Look into
the coffin! Look into the carriagel" You
say this is horrid know it is horrid.-
l know it is horrid to hold men in Slave
ry. 1 know it is horrid tosdoom four mil
lion human beings to the condition of chat
tells, to be held pro mills, pro mort,as, pro
quadrUpediS, taken for no persons, for dead
persons, for four footed beasts-men as
much entitled to freedom as you and L
Sir, the testimony of all religious societies
in the Slave States is that the slaves are
still heather, and it is an utter impossibili-
ty to Christianize them and civilize them
by this process. The third point which is
relied on to justify slaveholding is, that it
is constitutional-that it is guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States.-
Now, Mr.. Chairman, have heard over and
over again that the Constitution guarantees
Slavery. l deny it In no article, in no
syllable, can there be any recognition of
human slavery found in the Constitution
of the United States 1t is not there. 1t
always recognizes human beings as persons.
and never as property. 1t does not use the
word slave or slavery Why, Sir,
when l came up to take the oath to sup
port the Constitution, whispered buzz,
half in earnest and half jocular, passed
around: "HOw can LOvejoy swear to sup
port the Constitution? How can he take
the oath?'' 1 could take the oath to sup
port the Constitution, because l believe in
the Con: titutiOn, because l hold to it, be-
cause my heart is loyal to it. Every part
and parcel and portion of it I believe in /;
but l do not believe in the construction put |
upon it by those who claim its recognition
and sanction of the practice of slayehold-
ing.
Mr.. BARKsDALE-Dem., Miss. NO,
Sir; you stand there to-day an infamous,
peUured villain. Calls to order.
Mr.. AsHMoRE-Dem., S. C.)-Yes, he
is a perjured villain; and he perjures him.
self every hour he occupies a seat on this
floor. Renewed calls to order.
Mr.. SINGLEToN-Oem., Miss s)-And
negro thief into the bargain.
Mr.. LOvEOY-I swore to support the
Constitution, because believe in it. do
not believe in their construction of it. 1t
is as well known as any historical fact can
be known, that the trainers of the Consti-
tuition so worded it as that it should never
recognize the idea of slave property, from
the beginning to the ending of it. But the
advocates of slavery have affirmed strange
doctrine in regard to the Constitutions
They think that because swore to support
the Constitution, swore to support the
practice of slaveholding Sir, slaveholding
in Virginia is no more under the control
and guarantee of the Constitution, than
Slavery in Cuba or Brazil, or any other
part of the world, is under the control or
guarantee of the COnstitution-no one par
ticle. 4,
Mr.. MCCLEBNAND-(Dem Ill. IL wish
to ask the gentlemen whether he has al
ways held that the Constitution deserved