The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-04-18

er be inaugurated in this Capitol. How
) will you prevent it? | Judge from your
: military preparation you mean force -
Where will you get gunpowder? You
make none south Of Delaware. Where
will you get your firearms South of
, Mason and Dixon's line you manufacture
, none in all your borders. Can you retain
it now, by force? If so, you will do inf
nitely better than you did in 1914. The
English then, without any fear, could have
crowned king in your Capitol. They
drove five thousand of your men from Blad.
ensburgh and although you knew the de-
sign of the enemy was to invade and burn,
you retreated, and stopped not to fire gun
in its defence
impugn not your courage, nor reflect
upon your motives; | but hazard the opin.
ion that. had the Capitol stood amid the
rocks of New England or the rough hills
of the North, five thousand Of her yeoman-
manry would have struck, and if necessary
perished, in its defence. Since that time,
some of your people have been very solicit
tous about the archievea. You know Gov
crnor Wise, in 1856, had Fremont been
elected President. was prepared to march
with one hundred thousand men to the
Capitol. and sieze the aTchieves; but some
person very wickedly suggested that it might
be the treasury he was after. Impossible !.
who ever alleged that Southern Demo-
crat was ac,uated by mercenary motives ?
You say you will magnanimously withhold
the blow, if We will consent that the Con-
siitution rccogises property in man, and
the corresponding right to take it into all
the Territories of the Union. That We
never can do, for our fathers never did, but
guarded carfully against any such impli-
cation. Madison said 'he would not con-
sent that the Constitution should recognise
the idea of property in man."
In the Constitution, the word "servi.
tude was stricken out, and the word ser
v;oo'' "non;.-ously inserted; the former
being thought to express the condition of
slaves, and the latter the obligations of free
persons. The term legally was erased,
because it was thought equivocal, and fav-
oring the idea that slavery was legal in a
moral view, and under the laws thereof "
substituted. Why, then, should We admit
what our fathers never conceded! The
Constitution merely recognises the right of
each State, and the obligations of sister
States, to restore her fugitives, whether
from service or Justice; and by this pro.
vision it did not pretend to designate what
might or might not be crimes, leaving that
with each State; any State might make a
new and additional enumeration of crimes,
and have her rights respected under this
provision. So the Constitution did not lc-
galize and sanction existing forms of labor,
any further than protecting each State in
her systems of labor, whatever they might
be: and should new forms of labor be in.
troduced in State. they would hn rrOtec.
ted in the rendition provision. and the Con.
stitution not be chargeable with the folly
or wisdom of existing or new forms of Ia.
bor
The white men of the North are now ex.
cluded from fifteen slave States of the Un-
ion; they are driven from your borders
simply because they exercise the right Of
; thought and speech Such as South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Kentucky, are you sought
to make California, Oregon, and Kansas
! ! While you claim the right to carry into the
common Territories your slaves, and the
> local law which creates them, and the pub
: lie opinion which sustains it, you deny t.
the men of the North the right to take wha
is dearer to them than property-their prin
> ciplcs You deny them the free use of thu
mails; you exercise a censorship of the
; press, and inquisition of individual thought
more revolving than Russian despotism
=. Even here in the calmness of deliberation
. the distinguished gentleman from the NOBLE
State Of Missouri, where the bonds of slave
" ~ are weakening and dissolving. where tn
stsam-engine is putting the dark wave t.
the remote South. MIR. Anderson, said
81 now predict that, unless revolution sha
take place in the public sentiment of the NORTH
of which have now no hope, within the mex
twelve months, no man from that section of tn
Union will be permitted to travel through tn
Southern States, unless he brings with him ev
dences of conservative feelings and sentimen,
Of towards the people of the South and its dome.
\. tic institutions"
n These. sir, are the liberal principles {
~ that party which knows no North, no Soutl
i. no East, no West, and is sell. boasting in tn
in virtues of great nationality, and clamorou
; over the fact that Fremont had no elector.
n votes in the fifteen States where Just sue
:. intolerance as has been thundercd in ou
% ears dominates over all. Remove the de-
=. potism of opinion and anarchy of violcnc
70 from your own people. and an unfettere
lv judgment in your own States would rail-
- thousands around the standard of free labo
10 free schools. and free SOIL See the one
to proud State of Virginia, laying her hant
W on the mails, and authorizing some pref
ID diced justice to sit in Judgment and col
denim to the flames all publications that e.
cite his ire. And this, beyond all thing
shows the outrage and enormity Of the ~
'e tenn, which cannot be sustained, except u
o. on the destruction of all those rights whic
!" should be the boast Of free people.
to A few years ago. half.naturalized HUI
ue garian was seized in Smyrna by Austri
at and claimed as criminal against her law
is This nation was aroused, and Amsrics
Mt, cannon would have echoed along the class
rs, shores Of the Mediterranean, and Americ.
ty blood crimsoned her waters, had hair
ch Martin kaszta's head been injured. NJ
,la Ruobap,p ;S hop0;up fnr tba orp,1 and ns,