The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-03-07

NHsiuia OF that Gay sanctioned that poi
icy. If at that day they saw no gooc
r reason for not consenting to the ratifca
e tion Of the Constitution merely because
o slavery was not protected or guaranteed
Z in the Territories Of the United States
+ Why should such guarantee and protcc.
, tion be made condition for the contin
G uance Of the Union now, The ordiu
2 once OF 1887 excluded slavery from the
r Northwest. The new constitution did
not remove the restriction, and nobody
7 then thought that it Should A Cousti.
tuition euarsntying the right to extend
slavery into Territories would then have
been rejected BY men Of all parties.
see no good reason for changing that
policy.
Virginia ceded the Northwest Terrific
ry to the United States. and she had q
special reason for agreeing to the exclu.
sion Of slavery therefrom. We had Just
emerged from that revolutionary struggle
in which she had made great sacrifices -
She had become impoverished by the sac
rifces made to achieve our liberties
Many old Virginia families, with nu.
merous progeny growing up around them,
impoverished with the burdens of the
revolution, locked to the Northwest as
field Of enterprise upon which their of.
spring, reared in refinement, might re-
trieve their broken fortunes. At home,
:" labor was desplscd because performed
by slaves as MIR. Mason expressed it
ana with the ycarning tenderness of
mother, Virginia determined to redeem
'ht territory from the blight of slave la.
Dor, regarding it as a heritage Of her own
children.
1t is such policy aud such an EXAM
pie which the Republican party of to day
propose to emulate and follow
Mr. Hammond said truthfully in an ad-
dress to his constituents, made at Beech
Island, in 1858, that
"All the measures of which the South
complains she herself inaugurated In
"the matter Of slavery, Washington and
jefferson set the evil example-the
North have borrowed it from them"
Now, passing from that period of our
history, and coming down to 1920, there
is another signal instance in which the
power of Congress to exclude this insti-
tuition from the Territories was asserted,
and the people Of the South themselves
acqueisccd in the exercise of that power,
because that was the act of the South.
Then We come down to 1852, when the
t. great parties of the country, in their
national conventions, mutually pledged
themselves to abide and stand by those
compromises as finality. Who, let me
ask, has receded from these compromises
and agreements thus solemnly made?-
Icu, gentlemen, answer, on that side
Of the Hall-the South herself A gen
tlenan from North Carolina, [Mr. Wins
low, the other day, while commenting
upon the alleged wrongs of the South, |
spoke of the action of the North, and
characterized it by the term "punic
faith respectfully submit that like
examples Of punic faith can be found up
on the part Of no people of any section
Of this country, or Of any country, as is
found in the memorable cases to which |
naye alluded
Sir, if this Union is to be broken up,
and this war is to be waged, | can only
say, in the eloquent words of Henry Clay,
whose ashes sleep in the district of the
gentleman from Kentucky, Mr.. Simms1
who addressed the House the other day,
that " it will be war in which you will
have no sympathy, for all mankind will
be against you
But, sir. some gentlemen say that the
cause OF cur present troubles is not so
much the attempt to exclude slavery
from the Territories of the United
States, and the failure to execute the
fugitive slave law, as it is this ever lasting ,
discussion of the slavery question among $
he people OF the North and | call at +
ention to that remarkable declaration to !
De found in the Presidents last annual 8
nessage-a declaration unparalleled by I
my expression, in any American State !
,aper, that have ever secn-that the l.
citation of the slavery question has at o
ength, as he says, "Iroduced it's malign 1
influence on the mind of the slave, in o
piring in his bosom the hope of free >
om." He makes that charge upon the
republican party Now, sir, that charge
5 as old as the Government itself 1t
'as made against the very system inaug- u
rated by the founders of our Govern e
1ent;t that they had avowed heresies in the y y
declaration of Independence calculated G. G.
0 inspire in the hearts of the oppressed i, T.
every nation this hope of freedom l."
uch is the complaint of every despot on -
he face of the earth this day reply, !. !.
D the language of Mcdowell, of Virgin q
4: "This hope of freedom is lamp 6.
t up in the soul of the slave by the hand - -
f Deity; it is allied to his hope of i'm p p
lortaity, and can never be extinguish- y,
d." 1t is q species of atheism to at " "
smPt to extipguish it. ".
Now, Mr.. Speaker, have word or u i
70 to say in conclusion, for l perceive "a
'at my hour has nearly expired. Inmy sh
umble Judgment, all the wrongs of which 40
,e South complains to day can be re-
ressed in the Union. Let them recog-
ize the power and authority of this Gen =,
al Government. Let them resort to W
,e constitutional guarantees that they Z,
ave. They have appealed to the Su- ~ ~
'eme Court to recognize their right to r.
Ike their slaves into their Territories ~
ID, as they construe the decision of that p
'urt, it has already decreed that they '"
I'VE all they ask for under the form Of ~ u"
e present Constitution. The court has 81. q.
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