New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17

hnrssn5s 81 nretsetonists in Pennsylvania New
| Jersey, New York, and in New England, who
| were not Abolitionsts. There were thousands o.
| Abolitionists who were free traders Inc mongers
brought them together upon mutual surrender OF
their principles. The freetrade Abolitonlsts be-
came protectionists the non-abolitlon protection
lists became Aboliticnists The result 81 thlseoali,
| lion was the infamous Morrill, bl-the robber and
the incendiary struck hands, and united IN JOINT
1 raid against the South.
Thus stands the account between the North and
the South. Under its ordinary and most favorable
action, bounties and protection TO every interest
and every pursuit in the North. to the extent OF az
least fifty millions per annum, besides the expena
ture of at least sixty millions out OF every seventy
of the public expenditure among them, thus max
ing the treasuary perpetual fertilizRg stream to
them and their industry, and a suction pump 70
drain away our substance and parch up our lanus
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extra
ordinary, one would have supposed the Norm
would have been content, aud would 1T least nave
respected the security and tranquility of such ODE
| dent and profitable brethren; but such is not
human nature. They despised the patient victims
| Of their avarice, and they very soon began war
| upon our political rights and social institutions,
| marked by every act Of perfdy and treaehery
1 which could add darker hue to such warfare. IN
| 1920, the Northern party, land mean by tnat
term now and wherever else it is used, its equiv
alent, in these remarks, the AntSlayery or Apoll-
| ton party of the North,) endeavored to exclude
the State OF Missouri from admission into the union
| because she choose to protect African slavery IN
| the new State. In the House, where they had
majority, they rejected her application, and a
struggle ensued, when some half dozen OF North.
| ern men gave way, and admitted the state, put
upon condition of the exclusion OF slavery from al
! that country, acquired from France by the treaty
\ Of 1902, lying north Of thirty-sx degrees thirty
minutes north latitude and outside of the state OF
Missouri This act of exclusion violated the express
provisions of the treaty of 1902, to which the "a,
4 tional faith was pledged; violated the well-setteo
| policy of the Government, at least from Adams
administration to that day, and has, since slavery
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4 United States, violated the Constitution itself.
| When we acquired California and New Mexico this
/ party, scorning all compromises and all eences-
A sons demanded that slavery should be forever
4 excluded from them, and all other acquisitions OF
the Republic, either by purchase or conquest for
ever. This position of this Northern party brought
about the troubles of 1850 and the political excite
4 nent of 1854. The South at all times demanded
nothing but equality in the common Territories,
equal enjoyment of them with their property, to
that extended to Northern citizens and their prop
a erty-nothng more.
They said, we pay our part in all The blood and
treasure expended in their acquisition. Give us
equality of enjoyment equal right to expansion
it ID as necessary to our prosperity as yours. N
1870 we had less than eight hundred thousand
slaves. Under our mild and humane admnistra-
ton of the system they have increased above four
II millions. The country has expanded to meet this
growing want, and Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, tennessee
and Missouri, have received this increasing tide OF
African labor; before the end OF this century, at
precisely the same rate Of increase, the Africans
} among us in subordinate condition will amount
to eleven millions of persons. What shall pc done
with them2 We must expand or perish. we are
7 constrained by an nexorable necessity to aecep'
expansion or determination. Those who tell you
that the Territorial question is abstraction thai
you can never colonze another Territory without
the African slave trade are both deaf and blind to
the history of the last sixty years. All Just reason
ing, all past history, condemn the fallaey. Ihe
North understands 1t better-they have told us for
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slavery within ifs present limits surround it with
border of free States and like the scorpion sur
rounded with fire, they will make it sting itself 70
death. One thing at least is certain, that what
ever may be the effect of your exclusion from the
Territories there is no dispute but that the North
n mean it, and adopt it as measure hostile TO
slavery upon this point They all agree, they are
unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the ros-
that slavery shall not go into the Territories. fhey
! took up arms to drive it out of Kansas; and
Sharpes rifles put into the hands of assassns
they MISTAKEN No, they are not The party put
it into their platform at Philadelphia-they have II
in their cornerstone of their Chicago platform
Lincoln is on it-pledged to it.. Hamlin Is on L
and pledged toit every Abalitionst in the Union, IN
or out Of place, is openly pledged to it, in some
manner, to drive US from the common Territories
This conflict, at least, is rrepressibleitis easily
understood-we demand the equal right with the
North to go into the common Territories with all Of
property, slaves included, and to be there pro.
teeted in its peaeeabe enjoyment by the Federal
4 Government, until such Territories may come into
4 the Union as equal States-then we admit them
with or without slavery, as the people themselves
may decide for themselves. Will you surrender
this prnciple2 The day you do this base, I'M
manly deed, you embrace political degradation
and death.
But this is only one of the points of the case; the
North agreed to deliver up fugitives from labor
: In pursuance Of this clause of the Constitution, Con
gress, in 1877, during Washington's administration
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+ was faithfully respected all over the North, but
was not INSTRUCTED by State legislation until within
the last thirty years: but the spirit of hostility K
I. our rights became more active and determined
and in 1850 that act found totally insufficient
to recover and return ugitiyes from labor; there
: fore the act of 1850 was passed. The passage o
that act was sufficient to rouse the demon OF abp
o liti0n all over the North. The pulpit, the press
abolition societies, popular assemblages, belche
l. forth nothing but imprecatons and curses upo
r the South and the honest men OF the North VIII
Il voted to maintain the Constitution. And thirtee
d States of the Union, by the most solemn acts Q
e Legislation, willingly, knowingly and curTupy pei
/ iured themselves and annulled this law within thei
II respective limits ! say willfully, knowingly an
e corruptly. The Constitution is piain-t was cor
r strued in 1913 by Washington and the Second Cor
e gress. In the Senate, the bill for the rendition
y fagitives was unanimously passed, and nearl
q unanimously passed by the House Of Representa-
a tiHes and signed by Washington. All the courts Q
the United States Federal and State, from the ST.
II preme Court Of the United States to the Justie
: Courts Of all the States whose actions have eve
come under my notice, construed this Constitutio
to mean and intend the rendition of fugitive slave
d by law of Congress, which might be aided, NO
n thwarted, by State legislation, until the decisio
/ of the Supreme Court OF Wisconsin held otherwise
/ and that decision was unanimously overruled b
II Northern and Southern judges in the suprem
n Court, and which Court in the same case, unan
6 inously affirmed the constitutionaty of the act
1850. But these acts we're not only annulle
& by the abolition legislatures but annulled unde
y circumstances of atroeity and aggravation III
# known to the legislation Of any civilized peopl
it in the world. Some of them punish us wit
a penitentiary punishment as felons for eve
i, claiming our own slaves within their limits, eve
i by his own consent; others, by ingenious col
n tfivances prevent the possibility of your susainin
your rights in their limits, where they seek to con
pei you to co. and then punish you by fine and il
y famous punishments for asserting your rights an
;, failing to get them.
s This is the fidelity of our brethren Cd to the
If pligbted faih-ther oftrepeated oaths Yet som
s excellent people among us want some more of sue
d securities for our rights our peace and security
Ii God Almighty have mercy on these poor people,
Is they listen to such counsellors. No arm Of files
II can save them. Another one of our guarantees
q the Consultation was that fugitives from justice
10 committing crimes in one State and fleeing to al
d. other, should be delivered up by the State int
y which they might flee TO the authorities of Ii
le State from whence they fed and where the Grim
x was committed This Constitutional principle
ia nothing more than the law Of nations necessary
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