New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-23

impracticble in Rhode Island We have no such Thing
Rhode Island ae county organization thai yoa CAD
sue to recover the value of slave. Yon mns, have
somebody TO sue. You must have an Organization. :
have not read them with view to criticize them am
speak1ng OF them generally. Here is an instrsment
founded BY our fathers II has been in operation bree
quarters OF century, and the country has 1oursbej
under SO no other country has ever before done under
heaven: There is in that instrument but ono single
clause rreIealabe, and that il the clause which eies
me State Of Rhode leland as many Senators a. he
State Of Kentucky That you cannot repeal without
unanimous consent and that Ia the only one tba, now
remains There was another about slayes bu. the
lme las gone by, and laws have been passed on the
subject, Now, i put this comparison TO the Senator
from Kentucky: Suppose that he and mysek and
eleven others had concluded to form business psner
sp uiue =, nno o. sgseeneni and We had agreed
pay III u each, for the purpose Of irving 70 s;s
water-rotted hemp in Kentucky; we inserted n onr,
articles OF agreement that body who would M, in
GOO could conc in upon the footing of The original
without vote of three-fourhs Of the partners. That
would be fair. Well we thirteen went and took in
partners and raised hemp, and divided twelve Der
cent That would BIO fair business, not a. pros
porous as this country has been, but it would 30
remunerative business. Suppose we took ia ~
partners until we got in thiriynine beside Ourselves
Then there are thiry.nine new ones, who can make
constitutional majority over the old thir-
teen They conclude among themselves, in a meeting
IN Wall street flor If 1t paid ~ per cent Il would be
from there the partners would come, and net from
farmers, ~ we are and determine by their vote OF
80 against the old l3 to drop hemprasng and 90 into
sayetrading. We should demonstrate. We should
say: "That is an illegal business; it is profitable 10,
be cure but it il illegal, and you have no nigh. to
change this ints illegal one." They would
ray: 1t was legal when you made this bargain you
old fogies have changed il since, but had nothing
10 do with changing this law it was lawful traffic
originally, when The contract was drawn;" and they
peIeist in it, We look the contract, and although
Il ia very different from understanding Of wha, we
have agreed to do yet be and l would be obliged to
submit. We are laws abiding men, we believe in con.
iracts Bnt suppose after getting US into the slave
trade, they should make another provision, tha. his
last speculation never should be altered with
out the unanimous consent Of the whole part
nersbip; that we should continue the slave
rade as long as there was thief or liar in The
concern. What would he think of that We
would not agree to it, know. He would say, "This
is carrying the business too far" That is just the
proposiion now here. We want to aIterths Consitu-
lion from what the fathers made IL. We want 70 alter
the mode Of it's amendment and put In seven new
clauses that can never be repealed, no natteT what
public sentiment may be, without unanimous vote;
so that one single State, have forty, can prevent
the repeal Of any one Of them. ] know, when sd-
dress myself as do, TO the honorable Senator from
Kentucky that be would not vote for that proposition
himself, under any circumstances. He would eontriys
come other method to heal these troubles; and world
20 with him with all my heart; but do not let tear
up this old instrument under which have prospered
which be gOres in us much as do. do not want TO
make a speech about it; but know when 4. 10 . my
country and its Constitution. No man ca.y make me-
believe that do not venerae that instrument TIA,
DO not yeneraie the Union that it formed. Iam endr
10 apprehension whatever that there Is man who
hears that doubts my regard for every one Of these
States in the Union, and their institutions,
| love Kentucky. / love South Carohaa. 1
lived among them more than fifty years
ago l have rartaken of their hospitalifies. have
walked to the same churches with them and kne a.
the same altar; and more hospitable people never
lived But much love them, say their present
conduct is utterly unworthy Of them and the Sra-or
from h ntucky must know that es well as dc. Be-
they want TO cut up carcrs, are we going 10
up that instrument to appease iheml Not We. Let
tfeln lave little biz of frolic fthey want TO- DO
not want 10 wbip them. That il not my notion. do
hot wunt 10 hurt them. love Georgia. I lived with
them fifty years ago. have been there on patrol
In II night 10 watch They were frightened about In.
sureciion. There il always danger, they think. !
never was afraid there IN my life. The only place
where i ever saw any Of this negro equality asst s
called, was in Georgia. a man kept a hotel 10 what
was formerly the seat Of Government. Il was tav.
ern, very large one, kept by Frenchmsn Of the
name of Pseper He invited me enc dry TO 20 up and
see his wife. L was n boy at the time. wen; Up,
and found che was great, burly negroes [LaugbtsrI
had nothing TO say about her. That was the only tine
/ ever saw that, and was dtgusted with Il. Inevcs
saw il in New-Engand in nv iife much "a the tslk Is
about negro equality there. These Georgia people cn
stard their own troubles very we'll bu, when there
are any troubles down in Massachusetts, they GET IN
violent ras.ion. They will have anal gana,ion AID
negro equality ell around them there at the capis9
the Government; but do not want TO say anything
about IT, dislike it. to be sure; but il il beet TO
make noise about IT, The Republican party cannot
insert q portion of the Declaration Of Independence
into its Platform, but it is said that mean the SOCIAL
equality of the negroes. wonder II Jefferson meant
that WHOM be wrote it, These old men that signed !.
did not think any such thing IL is Young America
that has brought their doctrine into disrepu,e Onr
NicePresident, in speech las. year,
ad an old resolution of the Republican party CT 1885,
in which the word equality was not in. II was
left ont for some reason or other II was copied from
that old-fashored Declaration; and he said tina.
careful scrutiny of it would show it meant negro
equality There was not O word about equality in u
do not know where he got II; but l suppose al
that wasrhcre was copied from Jefferson We cannot
make a platform but what di eased imagination car
torture Il into anything, especially In these tines
have been 10 these National Conventions ever since
IAN remember-not always as a delegate. The hrs
ore went 10, Rhode IsLnd had the honor OF voting
for the author OF there resolutions for VieePssideni Of
he United States and if the rest of them had been
sise as we were, we should have had power to this
law in my deliberate judgment taking what providen-
ially happened but we canght Tartar. | have
never voted Tor q President III my Life since wac
;oter, when did not prefer man born In Slave
State 10 ore born in Free State. have voted for
ortv yess or more, and always preferred them not
because they lived there bat because they happenedto
have done Eore for their esunIy, In my opinion, u
he candidates in our end Of the country. NhereYeTl
MAS in Convention, never voted for anybody thai
was not horn IN Slave State and whenever there has
cen nybOdy up for President and there were electors
runripg in my State for man born III a Slave
State. | voted for Lin without caring wh'p ne
was BON. | was for Mr.. Clay agair. Mr.
Adams in ls2i and If there bad been any d'ses
run in my State would have voted for him, shhoagn
Mr.. Adam wac good man. and gave us one o. ne
beet Administrations i ever knew. never had %.
one idol. and l never mean 10 have another ID the
share man. II is almost bad rs TO &c up so'to
for king I mean 10 treat this subject with an tDo
gravity that liz dimensions demand. i know !, is one
OF tire most difficult questions have through, 2. ~
and looked into the fire more than hundred hc1T
since baye been here not saying word, TO tryni
coula see the way out peaeeably; and am lus -