Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-04-26

heathenism by being held in these Christian com
munities. Sir, how do they imPart civilization an
Christianity? Ii is strange mode of Christiani
zing race to turn them over to bruitism withou
any lega! marriage. Among the four million
slaves in this COUNTRY there is not sin.le husban
, or wife. There is not legally father or child
There is not single hcarthstone among these iou
millions. And you propose TO civize and Chris
tanize apeople without giving them homes, with
out allowing them the conjugal and parental rela
tons, and without having those relations sanction
} ed and protected by law.
Mr.. Chairman, no community can make one ste,
OF progress in ciyizing race till you give then
homes; till you protect the sanctity of the home
VIC held it should be protected in regard to thes,
! Mormons on the plains OF Utah. Christianizirg
them by n new process. The slave States have !
right to an exclusive patent for it. Taking then
out in the sight of the church, as one was taken ou
not long ago in the State of Tennessee, by Pres
byterian elder, and laid down on his face ON tho
ground, his hands and feet extended to their utmos
tension, and tied to pickcts, and the Gospel whip
ped into him with the broad side of a hand saw dis
coored whclks OF sanctfcation being raised be
tween the teeth every time this Gospel agency fell
upon the naked and quivering flesh of the tortured
convert
A Democratic MEMBER. Did he get the Gospel
inl Laughter.
Mr.. LovEJoY Christanized as a Young cir
was Christanized in this city since the session OF
Congress. by being whipped and sent to the garrct
and found dead in the morning. with blood oozing
| from nose and ears.
| A Democratic MEMBER. Where does that au-
! thority come from?
Mr.. LovEJor. DO not know whether religious
rites were had or not. ] suppose some plo-slavery
priest invited in to utter mpious prayers be-
fore God that the last faggellation mi hit have
whipped in Christianity enough to save her precou.
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. presume,
the murderess, and my attention is called to the
cortege: "See, Mr.. Lovejoy, there is a. slave fa.
ncral. Is that treating them like brutes? Look
into the coffin. Look into the carrage..
You say this is horrid. I know it is horrid.
know it is horriG to hold men in slavery know
it is horrid to doom four million of human beings
to the condition of chattels, to be held pro naIs
pro mortuis, pro quGdrepedis taken for no persons
for dead persons. for four footed beasts-men as
much entitled to freedom as you andI Sir. the
test mony ofal religious socctesi the slave States
is that the slaves still hcahen and is an utter
impossibilty 10 Chrstanize them and ciyilize them
by this process.
The third point that is relied on to Justify slave
holding is, that it is consti,utiona-that t is guar
anteei by the Constitution OF the United States.
Now. Mr.. Chairman, have heard it declared over
and over again that the Constitution guarantees
slavery. denyit. In N article, in no section,
in no line, in word in no syllable, can there be
any recognition or sanction of human slavery found
in the Constitution OF the United States II is not
there II always recognizes human bsings as per-
sons; ana never as proper,y- IL does not use the
up TO take the oath ~ support the Constitution,
whispered buzz hall in earnest half jocuIar. passed
round:"How can Lovcjoy swear to support the Con-
stltIti0nl How can lie take the OATH" could
takafhe oath to support the Constitution, because
bdmevc in the Constitution. because hold to it,
because my heart is loyal to it. Every part aud
parcel and portion oft | believe in; but do not
beleve IN the construction put upon il by those who
claim its recognition and sanction OF the practice of
slavehoIdng.
Mr.. BARKsDALE-No, sir; you stand there to-day
an infamous, peJured villiin. TCllls ito order
Mr.. AsnMoRE-Yes he is a pcrjured villain, and
he peures himself every hour he occupies seat on
this floor Renewed calls to ordcr.l
Mr. SISSL-roS-And a negro thief in the bar
gain
Mr.. LovEJoY-I swore to support the Constitu
tion because believe in it, do not believe in their
construction of it, Ii is well known as any his
torcal Tact can be known, that the trainers of the
Constitution so worded il as that it never should
recognize the idea of slave property from the be-
ginning SO the ending oft. But the advocates of
slavery have affirmed a strange doctrine in regard
" vic OonSssuttpu- ucl tutHh tiitt because
swore to support the Constitution, swore to support
the practice Of slavehoding. Sir, slaveholding in
Virginia Is no more under the control or guarantee
OF the Constitution than slavery in Cuba or Brazil,
or any other part OF the world, is under the control
and guarantee ofthe Constitution mot one particle
Kr. MCCLERyAyD-l wish TO ask the gentleman
whether he has always held that the Constitution
deserved to be sustained and acccpted-whethcr, at
any time in his life, he held that the Constitution
ought to be troddcn under foot2
Mr. LovEJoY-Never. sir; never. / always de-
Tended 1t, and always will, whether against the Dem.
ocrats, who perver it, or the disunonists who tram
pie on IL.
Mr. ucCLERyayp-Ifthc gentleman says he ncv-
er said so, am not prepared to contradict him, for
know nothing, pesonally, about it, but had un-
dcrstood that the gentleman once uttered this Ian
guage: "The Constitution piece OF rotten
parchment that ought to be troiden unIcr FOOT
Mr. LovEJoY--Yes, that was thrown in my f,ce
once before here, and dcniedt. Itnever had the |
least foundation in truth. l always defended the
Constitution, because il was for be:ty It was Or |
lained by the people of the United States. not by |
a superanuaced old mummy OF a judge-and Jes-
nit at that-but BY the people Of the Unitoi States,
70 establish justice, the blessings of liberty
or themselves and their posterty and to secure the
natural rights OF every human being within its ex-
elusive jurisdiction. Therefore | love it,
These men can perceive nothing in the Consti-
49, N .oouio itiau icduS bluSningt
,ride to the altar, and takes the marital vow be-
ore God and attendant witnesses to love, cherish.
md protect hc-. There she stands--the diyincs.
hing that God has fashioned and placed on earth
--radient in the beauty of youth; her check glow
ng with the color of the rose. which expands and
des away into that of the lilly; her eyes sparkling
Ike the stars from the depths blue and her tresscs
lling around her neck like the locks OF the morn
ng. L. the mole on that fair round neck, or the
fart on that plump, soft hand, the WOMAN whom
he bridegroom swore to love and cherish? Saw,
ir IS itl So there is the Constitution instinct
nth freedom, radent with the principles of uniycr-
al liberty, seizng the inspired u.terance of our
Magma Charta, and reducing them to practical and
rganic realization Now, sir, insist that if the
lauses deemed refer to the subject of slavery
mean all the widest enthusiast claims to mean they
ear no other relation or proportion to the Consti
aon which swear to support, than the excres ,nce
n the hand or neck does to the woman whom the J
he bridegroom vowed to love and cherish. Heloycs /
er not for these things. but in spite Of them /;
So love the Constitution, not in consequences :
these little things which are alleged to be in il.
ut in spite ofthem. But you will say, the won m
ad = right to sport cxcrescence on her hand If ,
ne choose. concedc it; and as Federal law >
,akcr, lconcede that the States have the right 10
port this fungus of slavery because il Is beyond :
ny reach. But time rolls away. The youthful :,
air have years of middie-agc upon them Olive =
lants have sprung up around the parent STEM
he woman has gone mad. She gloats over the !,
xcrcsence which has spread and covers her entire
and She exclaims, "Husbanti, this is a dear q
xect, darling, real love Of yart and want to a
graft II on the hands Of all our daughters had !