The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-04-25

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is' that tie practice Of slayeholding drag
sla7eholciig communities further below tn
! plane Of the Christian civilization of III
: age than the civilization which tic olar
receives olevates him above the plane @
!, hea,henism by being he'd in these Chris
tan communities. Sir, how DO thew impair
civilization and Christianity? It strang,
mode Of Christianizing race to turn then
over into brutism without any legal mar
rlage- Among the four million slaves il
this country, there is no; single husband
or wife. There is no, legally a single faith
er or child. There is not single home oI
hoarth,sone among these four million. AnC
YOU propose to civilize and Christianize :
people without giving them homes, without
allowing them the conjugal and parental
relations, and without having those relation:
sanctioned and protected by law Mr.
Chairman, 10 community can make one
step Of progress in ciyilizing race till you
give them homes; till you protect the sane.
tlty of the home, as We hold it should be
protected in regard TO these Mormons on
the plains Of Utah. Christianizing them
Sir, Chrisiianizlng them by a new process
The Slave States have right to an exclu.
sive patent for it. Taking them out in the
sight of the church, as one was taken ou.
not long ago in the State of Tennessee, by
a Presbyterian elder, and laid down on his
face on the ground, bis hands and feet ex-
tended to their utmost tension, and tied to
pickets, and the Gospel whipped into him
with the broad side of hand-saw, discol-
ored whelks of sanctiication being raised
between the teeth every time this Gospel
agency fell upon the naked and quivering
flesh of the tortured convert. Laughter |
A Democratic Member he get the
Gospel in? Langhter
MIR. Lovejoy-Christianized as a young
girl was Christianized in this city since the
session of Congress, by being whipped and
sent to the garret, and found dead in the
morning, with blood oozing from nose and
ears.
A Democratic Member - Where does
'h.t ."thn-,ty fror,,
Mr.. Lovejoy-I do not know whethor
religious rites were heard or not. | SUP.
pose some Pro-Slavery priest was invited
IN to utter impious prayers before God
that the last fagellation 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 ribon, and
placed in the hearse, followed by hack
containing, presume, the murderess and
nay attention is called to the cortege See,
Dir. Lovejoy, there is slave funeral, Is
that treating thom like brutes Look in
to the coffin. Look into the carriage ?"
You say this il horrid. | know i. is hor
rid. know it is horrid to hold men in
Slavery. L know it is horrid to doom four
million human beings to the condition of
chattels, to be held pro nullis, pro NOR
tu's. pro quadrupedis, taken for no per-
sons, for dead persons. for four footed beasts
men as much entitled to freedom as you
and |. Sir, the testimony of all religious
societies in the Slave States is that the
slaves arc still kea.hen, and it is an utter
impossibility to Christianize them and civ
ilizc them by this process The third poin,
that is relied on to justify slaveholding is,
that it is cOns:itutional-that is guar
anteed BY the Constitution of the nited
Staetes. Now, Mr.. Chairman, | have
heard it declared over and over again that
the Constitution guarantees Slavery. /
deny 1t. In no article, in no section, in no
line, In no word, in no syllable, can there
be any recognition or sanction 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 came up to take the oath to sup
port the Constitution, a whispered buzz,
half in earnes. and half jocular, passed
around: {" How can Loyejoy swear to sup
port the Constitution a., How can he
" take the oath - l could take the cath
to support the Constitution, because | be-
lieve in the Constitution. because hold to
it, because NY heart is loyal to it. Every
part and parcel and portion of it | believe
in: but do not believe in the construction
put upon it by those who claim its recogni.
tion and sanction of the practice of slave
holding.
Mr. Barksdsle No, Sir; you stand
there to-day an Infamous, perjured villain.
Calls to order.
Mr.. Ashmore-Yes, he is a perjured
william; and he perjures himself every
hour he occupies seat on this floor Re.
newed calls 70 order.
Mr.. Singleton-And a negrothief into
the bargain.
Mr.. Lovejoy-I swOre to support the
Constitution, because | believe in il. | do
not believe in their construction of it l.
is as well known as any historical fac. can
be known, that the trainers Of the Consti-
tuition so worded it as that it never should
recognize the idea Of slave property, from
the beginning to the ending Of il; But the
advocates Of Slavery have affirmed strange
doctrine in regard to the Constitution
They think that because / swore to support
the Constitution, sHore to support the
practice of ofslaveholding. Sir. slsveholding
in Virginia is 10 more under the control or
guarantee Of the Constitution, than Slavery
in Cuba, Or Brazil or any ether Par, Of the
world, is under the control or guarantee Of
the Cons:isution-nos one particle.
Mr.. McClsrnand-I wi.h to ask the
gentleman uhe.he- ba b,a .lrsr. ba1I