Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-04-26
WHOLE NO. lS1

barn door day, and said 81 yo, r,sc.I ,.I~
don't you thresh fasterT' Jack horresco refeynsE
few at hrs master, killed him with his faiI Toll for
aharper I erry commltteeD sprang into the VA
can't saddle and escaped, and came and settled
jamestown. Oh for South side preacbc, lo adj.
monish John to stay and serve his master. Who's.
money he was, like good "Christiau dori 10
n moment, sir. Let us look at this oucstion
ASIDE from its moral aspects. And want to Know,
mhat right slavery, or stakeholder has to go witt,
saves INTO the common Territories of the United
States' You talk about the eaualty of the State<
and grant it. The citizens of a slave State have
All the rights IN the Territories that citizen of
iree state has. fou have the right concede 4,
go into the common Territories and live there with
any KIND OF property we can take, but you l,ave
not the rShtto take slaves. This is tho distinction
/ make. '''''
AT a liberal estimate there are not moro than
TWO millions OF people in the United States inter
ested in slave labor There are o,ly fonr HUNDRED
thousand shareholders. There are thirty millions
OF people III this country. There arc twenty eioht
millions interested in the system of free-Iabor and
TWO millions in that of slave labor. The free sys-
tenn accommodates some eight millions in the slave
states better than the slave system. Here is the
point III slavery goes into the the Territories free
labor cannot go there.
4 Inc presence of slavery without any local law
Tor the purpose is the exclusion of free Labor Ir
you take slavery there, I cannot 90 there
with the New York Tribune, the Ereninc Posf.
the Independent, any similar paper RELIGIONS ar
secular lcannot 90 with the minister I desire tn
near preach the gospel. Free schools cannot go
rnere. ou say. indeed, we can go. Yes: so all
may go TO public house. It is common to all vino
choose to make it their abode. All are invited to
the table dhote. The landlord opens the doors Of
the dining hall and says, walk in gctlemen but
II a man sitting there is leprous, deiing with CON
lagl1us disease no one will go in. 1t is really as
much an exclusion as if the doors were closed and
barred against his entrance. So if slavcry coes
freedom cannot go. | favor the equality of the
states. favor the right of every citizen of slave
otae TO go into the Territories; bnt deny that he
mas lhe rignt 10 practice siavehodng there for IL
Is not an instituton-it was never instituted ncver
gsIioiished 1y iaw-but practice like poIygamy.
say lhai they have not right to 20 there and
practIce this high crime, injurious to man and
SO offensive to God. And this is the question;
"hetner these twentyeight million people shall be
accommodated, or two million shall be accommo.
dateu Tor, repeat, the presence of slavery is the
''er exclusion of free labor and the institutions of
lreeuom. deny no one their rights The slave
are equal to the free States. 1t is poor,
pi'ul, and paltry patriotism that cannot take tho
entire extent Of its country but do denv that slar.
~ mas the same right as freedom in this country
rreedom is The Isaac; freedom is the heir of prom
lse. slavery is the Hagar and IshmaeI, and they
must go INTO the Wilderness and freedom shall have
=. 'h"eriIIlce U0d and the fathers gave il
TO freedom and free institutions. II bcrooos to
reedoin-not to me; not the citizens of the free
states put To freedom, to the utter excu ion of
slaveholdns. W
NOW. gentlemen, I know you are in a mood tn
aAe ltte advice. Laughter | tell you love
youall GRenewed iaughicr.l
ar- mc@@uEEN-I utterly repudiatc your love
Mr. Mr.LovEJoY-Sinners did that OF Christ: but ba
loved them still. [Laughter.l
NJ
ir' Mce9uEES--I do not think he loves you much
Mr.. LovEJoY-l am afraid that | am not much
spirits in prison; and think never approximated
so nearly TO him as in this regard, while making
proclamation Of the holy evangel of God 10 sinners
in this House. tell you of the Slave States that
you must emancipate. ItbelOngs to you, and not
to US You must transform them from slaves into
seris, ana give them homes, and protect and guard
the sanctity of the family. We shall not push
you. lfyou say that you want quarter of cen
tury you can have IL; if you want half ofa century
you can have it. But insist that this system must
ultimately be extinguished. There is no question
about 1t You who advocate the perpetuity of
slavery are like set of madcaps, who should place
themselves on the top of an iceberg which had dis
engaged 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 soft winds blow on it and melt it, the
rains descend and melt it, the water ripples around
1t and mcts it and then these wild Missionaries who
hncied they could sail an iceberg through the
tropics start up, and blaspheme sunshsine and
rain, and zephyr; and, mOuthng the heavens. tell
Jehovah that unless he stops the shining ofthe sun,
and the blowing of the Winds and the falling of the
rain, they will crumble His universe 'sfrom turret
to foundation stone." [Grcat laughter.]
Do you not think God would feel bad and would
not the archangles trcmblc at the chivary7 IRE.
newed laushtcrJ You call call this extravagant;
but you can no more perpetuate slavery, and will
no more disolve this Union in order to pcrpetuate
it, than you stop the shining of the sun, or the
ripple oil the sea, the descent Of rain the blowing
OF the wind; ay, no more than you can subdue the
ocean, hen it lashes itself into fury and dashes its
crested mountain bil!ows against the rocks It's
as preposteTous to think of taking slavery down
through the civilization of the ages as il is ts think
of floating an iceberg through the tropics. Itis
not in the order of things. l am willing to con
cede that you can do anything that any equal num-
ber OF men can achieve did mean to tauut You
about Harper's Ferry, but believe will not.
am willing to concede that you brave as other
men. although do not think you show it by this
abusive language; because brave men arc always
calm and selfpossessed. God feels no anger, for
he knows no fear,
say you can do ANYTHING that other mon c,n do
\ ou can preserve and perpetuate this system, if
my equal number OF men can do III but the stars
n their courses are fighting against you; God. in
us providence, Is lighting against you. The
Universe was established upon the great principle of
ustce and TRUTH it may be ostled out of its course
or little while, but it will, sooner or later fall
Jack to its grooves. You must sacrifice slavery for
he good of your country. Do this, and YOU will
ave the sympathy, prayers and the C, operation of
he entire nation. Refuse, or neglect this; refuse
o proclaim liberty through all the land. to all the
Inhabitants thereof, and the exodus of the slave
Fill be through the Red Sea. 1t is a well known
physiological, well as psychological fact, that an
estral characteristics reappcar after long inter-
al of years, and even of generations, as streams
isappcar and gush out at distant point II ia
lso well known that the Saxon blood is being in
itr ated into the veins of the enslaved By and bv
'ms Marion will be found, calling his guerilla
oops from the swsmps and everglades of South
arolina: and Patrick Henry will reappcar in tho
Id Dominion. shouting, of old, "Give us liberty
give usdeath" Then will transp;rc those scenes
I'D made him trembie for his country, when he re-
embered that God was just, and this justice would
1t sleep forever, and that every divine attribute
ould be arraycd upon the side of the struggling
'ndmen. And he justified the uprising by saying
e little finger OF American slavery was thicker
an the loins of British dcspotism. -t--e
Sir, Virginia cannot afford, the country cannot
ford, to continue practice fraught with so much
peril 1t is better to remove the magazine than
be kept evermore in dread Of a lightel match.
The future glory, and usefulness of this nation
mot be sacrificed to this system of crime. Tho
tons OF the earth are to be taught by our exam