Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04
Nr. DooIittIe's speech.

5 Mr. DOOlittle's Speech.
Mr.. Doolittle of Wisconsin, made a can.
f ital good speech in the Senate, on Thurs.
day of last week, from which we make the
following extract:
Suppose we had paid s200000,0O0 for
Cuba, and acquired her with all her fortifi-
cations, she could now 60 out and turn our
} guns against us. What is all our great
boosted nationally? Is it farce and a
deusion? Gentlemen sometimes complain
that the Republican party are disposed to
do injustice to the citizens of the South.
and to their social institutions especially.
But what has been the history of the Gov
eminent since it was formed under the
Constitution !? We have acquired Florida.
Louisiana, Texas, and the territory from
Mexico. We have surrendered part of
Maine and given up our claim to large
part Of Oregon. Florida cost 100000.
1t has been given up 10 the social institu
tions~of the South. We purchased Lous-
ana territory, and two-thirds of the good
land has been given up to the social insitu-
ton of the South, The annexation of
Texas, the war with Mexico, and the ac-
QUESTION of all those territories from Next
co, may be regarded as one transaction.-
Now. ask you. gentlemen, in all fairness
and candor, to say whether we have not
surrendered 10 your social institutions your
full share, comparing the number of per-
sons employed in your system of labor with
the free white citizens of the United States
When you speak of injustice, it is without
foundation. You have had you fnl share,
and more than your share, of the Terrific.
ries we have acquired from the beginning
up to This hour. / am sick and tired of
hearing gentlemen stand up here and COM
plain of the injustice done TO this institu-
ton of the South. There is no foundation
Tor IT in our hstory--none whatever, sir
But you claim not only more than your
slr;Ire, But you claim that the Consultation
gives you right to 60 into the territory
acquired from Mexico and carry your slaves
there. l maintain that the Constitution
does no such Thing, but that the law of
Mexico existing when we acquired that
territory is still the law of that TERRITORY,
and the Constitution of the United States
does not repeal it, and when you claim a
right to take your slaves there, you claim a
right that the Constitution does not give
There is no foundation, either, for the COM
plant that we fad here-that we deny the
equality of the States in the Territories
What do We deny to you that we do not
deny ourselves? What single right have
L In New Mexico that you have not? You
say this law excludes your social institution.
So II excludes our banking institutions and
our manufacturing corporations. Your So
cial institution is kind of close corpora
ton, existing under the laws of your States,
not existing by the common law of the
country. We deny you no right which we
do not deny ourselves. The Senator from
Oregon said, with great deal of feeling.
that the Republican party were denying the
equality of the States in the Territories
purchased with the common blood and
treasure. Now stand here TO say, if the
Constitution gives the STAKEHOLDER the right
TO take his slaves into the territory. it fol-
lows of necessity that he has right to
have his property protected there. / will
not deny the right, and at the same time
deny the remedy. But deny the right
altogether under the Constitution. There
is no such right established by it. / stand
by what ! announced in a letter referred TO 4
by the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Lanel.
that the free territories acquired or to be
acquired should remain free. | maintain
that is but just. If we acquire territory.
you are a1king too much when you ask as
to convert IT TO Slave Territory. lis i'm.
possible that We can have peace upon any
such dotrine as that. You must allow the
Free Territories to remain free, We viii
not interfere with your institution where i;
exists SIR, that Is peace. / repeat, that
non-Interterence BY the General Govern
menf. or by che Free State men. with SIa-
+ very IN the States, and non-inferference bv
u'e General GoSerrmen:, or by the slave
holders against Freedom in Territories. is
peace.