The national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-16

I'VE heard of the threatened dissolution o.
linton, and been awed by u. Because OF
!. m re than thirty years I have submitted
that bondage; but felt that the shot tina,
ruck Sumter Knocked of my own letters and
tide mo hen1eforth n freeman, tmost enthu
tStic applause;l and never will / consent to the
"storaion of this Union until am assured that
use chains will never again be thrown around
~ legs or those fetlocks placed on my lips
80 l may not dare to say my soul Ia my own,
eSs endanger the safety and peace of the
ION. Vehement applause.1 This fear has
" happily been removed; they can no longer
,reaten, for the worst that the most timid ap
rirAhended Is upon US; and now that II is upon
4, say that we should no longer crouch and
der tApplause,l insist upon it, there
q, that the interest of this Union and Of this
vernment shall be no longer sacrificed to the
we interest, whether confined to Maryland,
h"itncky, or Missouri, or extended over all
southern States-that they shall no longer
lie slowed to dictate the policy Of the freemen
"i the North. Loud applause.l
We bravely asserted our independence and
our right to have n voice in the affairs Of our
own country in the selection of our last Presi
dent. We then gained partial victory. Not
he Republican party of the North merely, but
| all the loyal people of all the loyal States,
| II that that victory shall be complete. APP.
| plause.l Whether the States that are now out
of the Union are whipped back" TO their
duty, or return of their own free will, will in
| N'NN upon 'litiT HdNlnR eQud Tlkn's WIN Ill
others, but will never consent to give them
| the right Of throwing their slaves into the
| scales. II they insist upon keeping their own
| slaves, let them keep them; but they must no
| logger interfere, directly or indirectly, with
my rights or dignity ~ n man.
| But will you free the negroes and have all
| tn" horrors of San Domingo upon u.s. they
| 'ss. What we're those horrors of San Domin-
go! How did they originate? Did they com
m nee with the slaves, or did they commence
| with the slave masters, The Assembly in
Frtrce-the mother country-passed 4 law do
CIaring the c0lored people or mulattoes free.
The Government of the colony refused to carry
out the DEGREES of the Supreme Assembly. A
commissioner of the mulatIoes went and asked
item to execute the laws which had been
made in their favor. Instead Of having his
petition granted, he WAS taken, his body horri
b y mutated and then covered with flies, laid
| in public place on the sand, there to remain
uHtil he died, without any one being permitted
to give him drop of water to quench his
thirst or in any way to relieve his agony.
o hers were treated in the same way by the
chjcdlric Shareholders of San Domingo, for
none but chivalrc Shareholders ever could
| have performed such horrible deeds rs were
there perpetrated. tApplause.l
By these base and inhuman acts the negroes
| were driven to desperation. The negro is
MAJ for all, and Aay man when driven to des
| p ration becomes tiger in atrUcity. After
| that, when the mulattOes and blacks combined,
| grant there we're horrors, but those horrors
| might have been avoided IL the shareholders
| had ut first been wise ~ Just. II WAS only the
| terrible vengeance wreaked too often upon the
| innocent, that was doomed TO many a guilty
head.
And why is it, after all, that.wo have had no
| sucR Instructions and horrors in our own
| country? You owe il more to the influence of
| the class of people you have been accustomed
| to revile and despise than to any other cause.
The South are indebted more TO the Abol,t,onisiS
Of The North for the peaceful possession Of their
SIdres than 10 any other class Of people. You
e.. B9cAuso those
alive in the heart # the slave the hope one day
Of deliverance-of one day having his chains
broken off and he allowed to 90 tree. Deprive
him of that hope, and you render him despe
rate, and cause him to become tiger. ] am
| we'll aware that il is hardly decorous to speak
OF Abolitionists without reproachfu and con.
temptuTus epithet. We have called them ia
natics, but have we ever asked ourselves
whether they were fanatics in any other sense
than all living men are fanatics to the dead p
Ms all earnest men are fanatics to the luke.
| warm? All dsinterested men are fanatics to
the selfish. firmly belieUe that had zoe needed
her earnings earlier, treated them cth less
conten,pt, aud giuen more respect 10 their coun
sells, zoe could haze been better of 10 day. Loud
and continued applause.
The horrors of San Domingo will come the
moment You extinguish all hope of liberty in
| the slave's breast.
| lam told that the slave has no desire TO be
| free. Twas, however, one day, on a Southern
plantation, convinced of the contrary. Getting
| into conversation with negro who was exer.
cising on my face the functions of a barber,
daughter he became quite complimentary in
some of his phrases. A friend of the negro
standing by remarked
"JOhn like you becase he tink IL you had the
power you would gin all the niggers freedom"
i tAside.] - rather difficult proposition to be
met with on slave plantation ! replied.
" However, love liberty; think that you all
have an easy time here on your plantations,
aud are, after all, better off than are the free
!, negroes"
| Nat ha dad ,l,n
darkey; 81 been told 81, and have no doubt you
be right; but den you know, massa, a man like
, tu feel dat he own himself"
" \ man likes to feel that he owns himself
+ All that's man who uttered those words.
lie proved to me that the hope of liberty and
, that manly sentiments were not extinct in his
q breast. owned him then for brother,
. thing had not done befJre. For ! feared be
fore that the iron had eaten into his very soul
and extinguished the last spark Of his life. But
, 10 pass from this.
1t is asked, ;" But would you let all the negroes
20 treeW would make use, had ] the power
aud were the authority of the Government
II the negroes in prosecuting this war in such
II way as might be done with the greatest ad.
vantage to the national cause. Loud APP
plause.l And when they had served in work
ing out their liberty, would never consent to
have them returned to slavery [Vooiferous
applause. But | know not what ia meant
by letting them loose, AS the expression ID
often used. | do not suppose that any act OF
Congress, or any proclamation OF the Govern
m.nt, would be effective any further than our
, Iorces advanced and AS far rs our forces ad
vance, they advance TO protect and to govern
The people OF the Territories in their lives
, whether they be whites or blacks. ! do not be
D lIeve it would be safe even for white people &c
| 50 ungoverned, and, perhaps, might say, far
> less 81 for black and colored people. do not
believe that human nature has yet arrived tu
, that degree of perfection, that all government
I and laws can be dispensed with. | ask tor II
stringent government everywhere, a constitu
, tonal government by all means. not Il despotio
and arbitrary one, but u strong and energetic
E9vernmsnt, capaDie OF making us way lell
coercing the disobedent whether they be
States or whether they be individuals. Gap
plause.)
} And this power, AS II advances, | suppose
will be able to hold the negro portion of the