The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-04-25
VOL. 3, NO. l.-WHOLE NO. 26l.

~ nS'eT uau tne least l0cnCaflou IN truth
| always defended the Constitution, because
1t Was for Liberty. 1t was ordained by the
people of the United States, not ny su.
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the United States, to establish Justice. Sc.
cure the blessings of Liberty for themselves
and their posterity. and to secure the na,u.
raj rights Of every human being within its
exclusive jurisdiction. Therefore love i,
these men can preceiye nothing in the
Constitution but Slavery. A young man
leads blushing bride to the altar. and
takes the marital VOW before God and at.
tencant witnesses, to love, cherish and pro
tect her. There she stands--;he diyinest
thing that God has fashioned aud placed
upon earth-radient in the beauty of youth :;
her cheek glowing with the color Of the
rose, which expands and fades away into
that Of the lily; her eyes sparkling like the
stars from the depths of blue, and hsr tres
ses falling around her neck Ike the
locks OF the morning. Is the mole on that
iair round neck, or the wart ON that plump,
soft hand, THE WOMAN whom the bride
groom swore to love and cherish , Saw,
SIr, is 1t So there is the Constitution
instinct with Freedom, radiant With the
principles OF universal liberty seizins the
inspired utterances Of our Magma Charta.
and reducing them to practical and organ.
lc realization. Now, Sir, insist that if
the clauses that are deemed to refer to the
subject Of Slavery all that the widest en-.
thusiast claims them to mean, they bear no
other relative proportion to the Cons,itu-
ton which swear to support, than the ex-
crescence on the hand or neck does to the
woman whom the bridegroom vowed to
love and cherish he loves her not for
these things, but in spite of them. So
love the Constitution, not in consequence
Of these things which are alleged to be in
it, but in spite of them. But you will say
the woman had right to sport an exeres.
cence on her hand if she chose. concede
it; and as Federal law-maker. concede
that the States have tho right 70 snort this
fungus Of Slavery, because it i. beyond my
reach. But time rolls away This youth
ful pair have years Of middle age upon
them. Olive plants have sprung up around
the parent stem. The woman has gone
mad. She gloats over the excrescence
which hss spread and covers her entire
hand. She e1claims " Husband, this is
dear sweet darling, real love of a wart
and l want to engraft it ON the hands of all
our daughters. had it when | was mar
ried you vowed TO protect me and claim
the right to transfer it to all the children.
If you do not, will go to Indiana and get
divorce. | will dissolve the union be-
tween u.s." The husband. calm and firm,
replies. My dear, have INDUCED you in
this whim about your hand, because l took
you for better or for worse, and | thought
it one of your individual rights which
was not at liberty to disturb. But if you
propose transfer this deformity to the daugh-
ters, say distinctly and decidedly, it can
not be done, this is my perogative, and
must exercise it." So say to the Slave
~ Propagandists who desire to transplant
Slavery to the Territories, and thus fasten
it upon the daughters of the Republic,
" My dears, it cannot be done" / say,
therefore, Mr. Chairman, that there is 70
justification for this practice Of slavehold-
ing, from the fact that the enslaved race
are an inferior race no justification. from
the pretended fact that it imparts Christianity
and civilization to them; and more in the
guarantees of the Constitution Now, there |
are some Christian men on the other side
of the House; l want to put it to them in
all candor-for while intend to speak of
slaveholdipg with as severe terms of repro.
baton as possibly can, do not intend to
offend any individual personally-I want
to know of you, Christian gentlemen, how
you are going to Christianize men when
you DO not give them homes
A Member-Give them what
Mr.. Lovejoy-Homes; legal sanction
to the conjugal and parental relations.
How are you going to Christlanize men
whom you turn out to herd together like
the buffaloes that roam upon the Western
prairies You cannot do it. 1t may be
asked, Sir, when | confess that | have no
control over this matter, why discu,s it
why talk about it?
Mr.. Singleton--l want to know if the
gentleman gives homes
Mr.. Lovejoy-I must decline to yield to
the gentleman.
Mr.. Singlcton--I want to answer the
gentleman 5 question by asking him anO;h-
er. want to know if he gives homes to
the negroes he carries from the South to
Canada and othor places?
\ Member-The negroes he steals 5!
The Chairman-Ths gentleman from
Mississippi is not in order.
Mr.. Barksdale-I hope my colleague
will hold no parley with that perjured ne-
gro-thief.
Mr.. Lovejoy-It is asked, why discuss
this question Why talk about it, when
it Is confessed that we hare no constitution
al power to legislats upon it will tell
you, Mr. Chairman 1t will be recollec-
ted that Mr. Webster once said, when speak
ing of the threatened interposition Of Rus
s:a to snatch Kossuth from the protection
0: Turkey, for the de.potism Gentle
men, there is something on earth greater
than arbitrary or despotic power. The light
ming hes its power, and the whirlwlnd has
its power and the earthquake has its pow
er but there is something among men
more capable of shaking despotic thrones
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