Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-02-07
SPEECH OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

of Congress during the present session was de-
livered in the House Of Representatives on
Thursday of last week, by Charles Francis
Adams of Massachusetts. 1t was temperate,
logical. statesmanlke effort and its dress was
as beautiful as its logic was unanswerable. Mr..
Adams is evidently "chp of the old block"
and his speech would do credit to either of his
illustrious ancestors who have filed the Presi-
dental chair
In his speech Mr.. Adams classed the griev-
ances complained of by the South under three
heads
First. The passage of laws in some of the
Free States operating to discourage the re-
covery of fugitive slaves.
Second: The denial of equal rights in the
Territories.
Third: The apprehension of such an in
crease of political power in the Free States as
to tempt TO an invasion, under new forms of
the Constitution, of the rights of the Slave
States to manage their domestic affairs
In relation to the Personal Liberty Bills of
the Northern States he considered them entire
ly imperative so far as preventing the return
of fugitives from service.
Upon the second and third grounds of com
plant he spoke as follows:
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