The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-04-26

the altar, and takes the marital VOW he
tore God aud attendant witnesses f.
love, cherish and protect her. Their
she stands-the divinest thing that Go,
mas fashioned and placed upon earth
RADIANT In the beauty of youth he
fcheek glowing with the color Of tn.
rose, which expands and fades ava,
INTO that Of the lily; her eyes sparklin;;
IKE the stars from the depths of blue
1 ana her tresses falling around her necl
ike the locks of the morning. Is th,
mole on that fair round neck. or tn,
wart ON that plump, soft hand, the 400
man whom the bridegroom swore +,
love and cherish? Say, sir. is itp S,
mere is the sonstitution-instinct will
1 freedom, radiant with the principles O
universal liberty, selling the inspired
utterances OF our Magma Charta, an(
reducing them to practical and organi,
realization. Now, sir, | insist that i
the clauses that are deemed to refer t.
tne subject of slavery mean all that the
widest enthusiast claims them to mean
tney bear no other relation or proper
tlon to the constitution which | sWea,
to support, than the exoresoence on the
hand or neck does to the woman whom
the bridegroom vowed to love and che
rlsh. He loves her not for these thing,
but IN spite of them. So | love t6t
constitution, not in consequence O.
these things which are alleged to be II
1t, but in spite Of them. But YOU will
say the woman had right to sport ar
excrescence on her hand if she chose
| concede it.; and as federal law. ma
ker, eoncede that the States have the
right to sport this fungus of slavery
because it is beyond my reach.
But time rolls away. This youthful pair bay,
years of middle age upoa them. Olive plont.
nave sprung up around the parent stem. Tbt
woman has gone mad She goats over the er
crescence which has spread aud covers her an
tre hand. She exclaims Husband, this is ,
GEAR sweet darling, real love of wart, and
want 10 lngraft 1t on the hands of all our daugh
ters. had it when was married You vowef
10 protect me- and claim the right to transfe
u to all the children. If you do not. I will o.,
10 Indiana and get a divorce | will dissolve
the union between u.s." The husband. cain
and firm, replies, "My dear, I have EindulgeC
you IN this him about your hand, because
TOOK you Tor better or worse, and | thoupht !
one OF your individual rights, which / was moi
at liberty to disturb. But if you propose II
transfer this deformity to the daughters, | So,
distinctly and decidedly, it cannot be done
rms is my prerogative, and / must exercise it.
30 say to the slavery props gandists who de
sire 10 transplant slavery to the Territories, anc
thus fasten it upon the daughters of the Rennb
he, my dears, it cannot be done" saw. there
lore, Mr.. Chairman, that there is no justification
for this practice of slaveholding, from the fac
!hat the enslaved. race are az inferior race n,
Justncatlon, from the pretended fact that it i'm
parts christianity and civilization to them and
mono IN the guarantees OF the corrstitu No,
snere are some christian on the othel
siue OF the House want to put it to them !,
all candor-for while l intend to speak of slave
holding with as severe terms Of reprobation as
Possloiy can, do not intend to offend any indi
Vldual personality want to know of Won. chris
nan gentlemen, how you are going to chris tan
lze men when you do not give them homes.
A Member-Give them what?
MI LoveJoy-Homes legal sanction to the
conJueal ana parental relation. How are you
gong 10 cnrlstlanlze men whom you turn out to
herd together like the buffaloes that roam nnon
the western praires : You cannot do If 7,
may be asked, sir, when confess that | have
no control over this matter, why discuss it
why talk about it
1t is asked, why discuss this question? Wbv
talk about it, when it is confessed that we have
no constitutional power to legislate upon it? l
VIII tell you, Mr.. Chairman. 1t will be recol-
lected that Mr.. Webster once SAID when speak
ing OF the threatened interposition of Russia to
snatch Kossuth from the protection of Turkey,
tor the purpose OF sacrificing him on the altar of
despotssm Gentlemen, there is something on
earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power.
Inc lightning has Its power, and the earthquake
has Its power, and the whirlwind has its power;
but there is something among men more capable
OF shaking despotc thrones than lightning ,whirl-
wind, OF earthquake and that is the excited
ana aroused indignation of the whole civilized
world"
1.-The Avon to the Severn runs
The Severn to the sea
And Wickliffe's dnst shall spread abroad
Wide as the waters be-
To continue the quotation with different an
plication and slight variation of the language
say, gentlemen, if the blood of innocent men is
taken by an absolute, unqualified, uniustifable
violation of natural law, what will it appease
what will it pacify? 1t will mingle with the
earth it will mix with the waters OF the ocean :;
the whole civilized world will snuff it in the a ir
and 1t will return with awful retribution on the
beads of those violators of natural law and uni
versal justice. cannot say when, or in what
form but depend upon It'll such acts take place,
then slavery must look out for the consequences
Sir, before the public sentiment of the Christian
and civilized world, propose TO hold up to uni
versal Reproduction this practice of saveholding.
propose to hold it up in all its atrocity, in all
lis hldeousness, just as gentlemen have been
holding up the practice of polygamy, and repro
batting it; and, Sir, that public sentiment of the
u Vlh ryrvl
slavery, and ultimately secure its removal in the
only proper way-by the action of the Slave
States themselves. This is why I discuss it
MI Chairman, my time is passing away, and
must hasten on. / want TO Come to few things
that have been under discussion during the in
choate condition of the House, while this Hall
was echoing with mutations that would have
the lupine chorus of the Alps, of Help
er, and John Brown and incendiarism, the torch
Of the incendiary, and the knife of the assassin.
One gentleman from Virginia, stood up in his
place, and wanted to know where there was a
man who would endorse the Helper book. He
wanted such man, if there was one here, to
stand up that he might look upon the traitor
Mr. chairman, l, fer one, signed the paper rec
ommendlng the circulation of the Helper book
l signed 1t intelligenty. l was neither engros>
sed nor distracted / did it because | wanted
to do 1T and now, if the gentleman wants to
look upon mat KIND OF traitor, me, me, GdSum
guaJ feet, IN me conrerttte tetum; did it. l will
sign recommendation for the circulation of any
book that 1 choose, without asking permission
of the gentleman from Missouri, Mr.. Clark I OF
any other gentleman in the House or out of the
House. will sign paper recommending the
circulation of the Bible, or the Koran, Young's
Night Thoughts, or Tom Moore's Anacreon, JON
athan Edwards on the Deerees or Tom Paine's
Age of Reason, just as l please. 1 claim the
as an American citizen sof writing my
name, and recommending the circulation of any
and every book, without being held amenable to
gentlemen upon this floor, or anywhere else
This is my answer in regard to it. / have more
than that to say. / say nothing about some
points in the book. l have no doubt there is
considerable bombast and fustian and violence of
language in it, because the author was educated