The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-04-04

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tropolis of that State, is better than mine
| will not dispute the truth OF his state
mcnt but he winds it up By saying 'ha
even now he does not know that q ssfre
negro" is permitted TO work in tho yard
of that city; and why? Because the own
ers Of the slaves cultivate this prejudice
for the purpose of driving out the fire.
negroes who come in competition Will
their own slave hands. so frequently hlret
out for wages to be placed in their own
er's pockets.
Mr. Kennedy. The slave interest OF the Stat
Of Maryland. may be allowed TO say, is very
small nne--sesenseen thousand altogether. Tit
interest does not prevail anywhere In Maryland OK
ccpt In the Underwater counties. The Senator Ia
entirely mistaken in surprising thai At prevails ~
Maryland IL il III minority.
Mr.. Harlan As 10 the fact, of course the sena-
tor knowledge is more perfect than mine could
be. j have in my hand however, statement fur
nished ME by the Senator from Massachusetts,
which gives the number of slaves in Maryland
as eighty thousand one hundred and eighty
eight.
Mr. Kennedy. Yes, Sir
Dir. Harlan. ! know the ns.itation Is going
do.a ia Maryland; i; is sinking under tho
quiet intaeEce Of emigration from the free States
and enlightened public op;aion; but even in Mary
lana the Siaveholding portion Of the community
controls its legislation controls public opinion and
stimulates and sustains the savage doctrines which
we have heard advocated on this floor from their
Senator ST. use the word with rc.peet but IL
iusirate II with the example l have just cited. 49,
As have said among the savages on our Western
plains, wars OF determination going on day by
day these tribes are melting away by this sindlc-
tive and savage strife which they keep up between
hall = "a. -,
tors will teach The Senate and the country and the
Christian world that the people of Maryland are
not elevated IN civilization above the Chippewas
and sioux that there, too We have hundreds oil
thousands OF sayages with white skins who will
Immediately commence war of determination
ON whom On with whom they have lived
their lives through men who were born with them
on the same soil, men who were brought up with
them under the same roof who played with them
in childhood on the Eame grounds, who did not
accompany them 10 the same schools for they have
been excluded from the means Of mental culture,
who did not accompany them to the church
Tor they have been excluded also from IA high order
of rel gous culture.
Mr.. Kennedy. Does the honorable Senator mean
to apply that remark 20 Maryland
Mr. X an. ! am appl, in, 10 Maryland the doc
trines the Senator has advanced to day, lie says
that In Maryland, ii The slaves be set free, the
white population will arise aud massacre the entire
colered population, If the people of Maryland will
do this savage net, they not TO day elevated
above the condition OF the Chippewas and Sioux ;
no, they below the civilization of these sayages
because they murder their enemies not their
friends, THEIR servants and the people Of their own
household.
Mr.. Kennedy. hope the honorable Senator will
allow me to make statement.
Mr.. Harlan. Certainly.
Mr.. Kennedy. / think the Senator entirely mis-
ebpnH fha sraN IF rtS audi
70 say here now, that have of the best
regulated and best established churches aud schools
for negroes in the city OF Bali more that ARE Ia be
found in the United States. We have further than
that highly educated men who were slaves who
arc preaching 10 the free coored people OF Dalli-
more. | have this day my family manumitted
slave who has the privilege Of teaching sehnu A
nanulnitIed slave ot my own family IL with me
now, aud rs II teacher Of school There il no ra-
strctlon whatever IN Maryland upon education
OF any sort in regard to the eolored population.
Mr.. Harlan / would inquire at the heel Of that
remark Of the Senator it he has any disposition To
murder them
Mr.. Kennedy. None whatever but there is a
natural opposition that exists between two antago-
MIST races Of people and the coored race has been
protected by the well ordered and we'll regulated
people OF my State, men, like myself and 9TH
CT gentlemen who represent the State, who arc
struggling eserywheEe 10 prevent the dominance
OF rule that might be exercised hy an antagops-
tic class.
Mfr. Harlan And il the senator doas not iegl
savage disposition TO murder his freed man. docs
he say that The of the Shareholders his stne
are less civilized than himself,
Mr.. kennedy. Not one particle more than tho
people u the Eentepans own country seem dis
fased ~ murder HE white people ef tay seetien
Mr.. Harlan. Then, II neither be his fellow
Shareholders in Maryland now entertain such n dis
ntssFt eEn3H hat u, .b
low iron the liberation Of slaves that do not live
IN his oWn state but live under ditcren, jurisaie-
ilon. No sir; these Senators have m,srepresented
their own people they are not the sayeees ttey
have portrayed on this door | doubt not they arr
IN pUssessloH u ait the clements uf humanity, 0
humanity that tas heea cultivated highly rntttta.
ted we'll, and that they would DO rs far from muir
dering eoiorcd men. merely because they are free
rs would or the people whom ] represent
Mr. Davis. Wiil the gentleman allow me 10 sa,
a word.
Mr., Harlan, Certainly.
Mr Davis The gentleman certainly niseon
eeiyes or misreriesenis the argument thar made
The pesitiea which assumed aud which en-
-deafored to sustain ~ argument was this Tha
II slaves were liberated IN States where they exis
IN great plumbers, without e0anization il would
give rise TO war of races that would lead to III.
results which the gentleman isnow derrecating =
and maintain that hat is true position
Mr.. Harlan. | think that that might possibl,
be brought abont through the teachings OF suci
gentlemen as those who now represent these State.
on this floor. They declare on the floor Of th,
American Senate ia the face ofa Christian nation
IN the face al two hundred mil!iens of Christia,
now living earth, that If men are TO be ibera,e,
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Than any that has ever existed on The face pi IN,
earth from The commencement of time down 10 thi
moment, their people will rise and murder III,
poor freed men, they say 30 without exIfessin.
20 inuea as regret. They declare it as propho
cy. Thus they inculcate its righ,inlness The,
thus teach their people, that in their opinion ,hi
wholesale mutdef would be right or at least, tn,
result Of weakness 10 be tolerated They TIM
approve and Justify this savage fouling--.if il ex
Isis but, s4r. il aees not exist | will defend tn
people 81 hes.ttfsya Vi Mary land. OF Delaware nm,
OF tins DistYie;, trem any spth slanderous asper
sion. They entertain sueh purpose on tiet
part as the iodlrcFta BATE murder u the eoiorc,
popustien, il they should bncons free. / dt,h
not but that The public sentiment tnat now xists
induced by the shareholders themselves. IN ~
States 10 which have referred Is bitterly opnose,