Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-13

DY express grant llDm tho otoeOf ~ nus ~ eVH-
sfltutional sovereignty in State. Sc, as before
shown.
Thus much sir, for the authorities. Gentlemen
nav talk Of traitors and treason 10 Their hearts
content but ask them to meet the authorities and
overthrow them first
Wien yos talk about coercing fifteen Southern
States or fifteen Northern States of this confed
eracy, you might well talk about daming up
the Mississippi river and turning is waters toward
the Rocky Mountains. The race from which we
sprung never was conquered. For two thousand
years the history of the world records no instance
where the Anglo Saxon race, OF the people from
which they sprung, was ever conquered. When
YOU attemps By Northern power to compel tie
Southern people Of this country to remain sub
servient and become vassals to them, a foreign
power; when that day comes, and IN the name OF
Heaven | trust the time will never come, when
brother has got 20 point the sword at brothers
breast; has cot to spill brothers blood; has ever
got to be called out under the military despotism
and dictatorship which is proposed to be given by
bill of this House, TO the Governor, and it shall
be executed By the slaves of the Executive of
this State, and we compelled to march across
yender rivec to take the blood OF our brothers
upon that soil, l pray that God Almighty may,
in his providence and mercy, send an earthquake
TO sink the whole United States in one common
grave. Ask me and the people of Indiana to
cross that river TO fight our brethren and frendsy
Why, YOU may tell me. as gentlemen have. it
would be the death knell to slavery for them to
resist God forbid that my heart should ever con
tain a sentiment so outrageous to humanity, SO
lost 70 everything virtuous and honorable, as to
ever hope that the negroes Of the South should
rise up in Instruction against the brothers,
mothers, fathers, sisters and daughters Of the
southern States, that we of the North should seek
to coerce them by any such infamous course
of conduct.
Mr.. Frazier linterrupting)-I appeal to the gen
tleman whether / said any such thing said
nothing about negro Instructions
Mr. Hegfrsn--Some gentleman upon the floor
made such reference and if | should take
time To look at my notes could tell who am
ONLY putting in Republican assertions. While the
gentleman has called my attention to this matter
will refer b, another. In his remarks he spoke,
believe. something about Staying thousands of
Southerners with the Jaw bone of an ass. don't
know whether my friend bettered his case by the
smile or not. yet do grant him It struck me as
exceedingly appropriate, when knew that gen
tleinan had Just been eating cheese The gentle
man says he halls from the old Empire State,
where had the honor of being born, though
could not help that matter any better than the
gentlemen from Kosciusko- We are found here
with principles Numerically opposed to each
other. As lie went back and dug up the past
history of the Democratic party, | asked him
what were the principles of the Republican party
in 1897 He laid he would come to that after
awhile: and, bless me. he has never got there yet
Mr. Frasisr Cinterrupting)-The gentleman
must be mistaken about my reply, for the Repub-
hcan party had no existence in le49
Mr. Heffreil--W ould to God it had no existence
now. The gentleman from Porter, Mr.. Cameron,
says he speaks for the poor white man. am
glad among the multitude on tins floor, belong
ing to that party, there is one who can speak for
the white man. For twenty-five years our ears
have been filed with cries of commiseraon for the
black man. Go to the streets of your own lnd-
annapolis, of Chicago, Philadelphia or New York,
in the depth of winter, and see the poor white
children there shivering and starving, yes, and
stealing miserable pttance, that the officers may
lock them up in the tombs of New York, that
they may get a shelter and something to eat. So
it IS that thousands upon thousands in our own
cities pine in want, misery and wretchedness
Sir, 90 to my own town and see there what i
have seen. When in the depths of mid winter
the factories were frozen up or closed and no work
10 do YOU might see the child from eight to four
teen upon the streets begging for work, that he
might earn enough to keep body and soul to-
gether- They white orphan children; the
bones of their parents rested in the bosom OF the
cold earth and there was none to look after them.
Toll on, little white slave, not for you, was
;neffect theanswer of the Republican Pharisee TO
the poor child. Not penny can you get from US;
we care not for your wants, your wrongs; you
are white. we know you not. Away down South,
on Miss;ssppis bottoms or Georgia's sands, is a
long heeled, thick Eped, woody headed black
race; there is where philanthropy extends;
there is where We turn eyes in holy horror and
bewai the fate OF arotl,er race who are not of
Us hope the gentleman from Porter will con
tinue on in this noble work. Raise up the poor
white man; elevate him in the scale Of being
and you will Go well. What matters it to us
what becomes Of the negro, so Indiana's soil is
not cursed by their presence. tell gentlemen,
take of yorr own affairs, let your neighbor's
alone and you viii avoid great trouble.
The gentleman from Henry Mr.. Hendryl says
this minority report is the Breckinridge platform,
with slave code attached i believe the Brock
inridge platform to be nothing more nor less than
the Constitution Of the country. believe, as a
free man, that the territory purchased by the
common blood, or by the common treasure OF
this country, equally belongs to all that /, sir,
or you, who sit in that chair, owning slaves in
another State. have the same right to 20 to Ne
hraska, or Arizonia, or Jefferson, with our prom
esty. as the gentleman from Henry to take bis
horse or cow Slaves are recognized as property
by the Constitution Of the United States: but
when the people of Territory hold conven-
ton 10 form State Constitution, then that SOW
ercignty which is in the people comes into action
and If they say exclude slavery, so it should be
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business, and none Of ours. This / say as
lawyer.
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