Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-09

and every State. u Incompatible with the exist
ence Of the Union. because 10 carry out the
pleige would defeat the very object Of sii Gov
errments which i 70 project aud not to DESTROY.
Hence. say, party organized upon prsnci-
pie of hostility TO The institutions of fifteen OF The
States OF this Unior aud pledged 10 carry out that
principle in the administration OF the Government
/ Is incompatible with the existence Of the Union
and II il should, when placed la power, carry out
its pledges. 10 or the Government would have 10
20 down. These. my friends. may be unpalata-
/ Die truths, but vet believe them t.uflls IL hes
been said that tie founders OF this Government
looked upon the institution OF slavery. TO use the
language ofs Senator from Massachusetts as
Temporary and perishing thing" Ia a speech
/ Of Senator Wilson of Nassachuscsis. IN the Sen
ate. be said: Washington aud Jefferson looked
I upon slavery IS a iemp,rars aad perishing Liuus"
+ " Washington vas IN the Convention that formed
the Constitution. Jefeis VAS IN France. Wash
{ iHgtOn ADVOCATED is adoption That the Sena
tor = mistaken as WHshin gf0n j. shown by
tie ninth section of the first article of the Con
stitafion, which forbids Congress from prohibit
/ ing the importation OF slaves for a period OF
near twenty years after IT. adoption. AZ is true
/ this provision was inserted against the vote OF
Virginia ia the Convention that framed the Con
/ stitution, but was adopted by the State when she
ratified the Constitution. The vote in Conven-
/ ton was seven States for il TO four against it,
e.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, North
I Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia--7
/ Against it: New jersey, Pennsylvania, Della
ware and Virginia. (See Madison Papers
/ Supplement- to Eiliott's Debates, vol. 5, p. 47e)
/ Not single New EugIa vote recorded against
this provision. What Mr. Jefferson thought of
the agitation Of this question of slavery in Con
! gress is not let 10 conjecture. In speaking of
/ the Missouri controversy. Mr.. Jefferson said:
This momentous question. like firs-b,ll in the night
awakened and hlled me wi'h terror. considered u at
the knel Of the Union IL is hushed indeed for
the present, but that Is only reprieve not final
tenor. geographical line. coincding with a marked
/ principle, moral and potca ono concurrsd In, and
held up the passions Of men, viii never be obterated
ann every new irritation will mark il deeper and deeper
until will knde such mutual and mortal hatred
render separation preferable 10 eternal discord regret
that 20 die in the belief that toe useless sacr-
ice Of themselves by the generation Of 1776 to acquire
self government and happiness Tor their country to be
thrown away by the Gn~se and unworthy passions Of
their and that my only consolation is to be that
/ live not 20 weep over H.
Massachusetts, voted for the continuance of
this African slave trade for twenty wears after
the formation of the Government. She. there
/ fore, could not have desired, nor did she look
upon the institution perishing temporary
thug, but on the contrary her citizens had been
engaged in the trade rs will appear from the ad-
vertisement | read you taken from the Boston
Gazette:
Just imported from Africa AID be sold board the
brig journey, VIM. tlery comm ander. now lying az New
Boston, number OF likely negro boys girls, from u
IA years Inquire of said fllery board said
brig, where constant attendance is given
! NorE-The above slaves have all had the small pox
Treasarer's notes and New England rum will lie taken
as pay.
When the slave trade was abolished aid Mas
sachusetts brigs could no longer engage in the
| business Of exporting New England rum and
trading il for captured Africans-when an honest
l.
/ negro boys and girls all of whom had had the
small p0x, Massachusetts became suddenly pous
and commenced reading the Declaration OF Indie
4 pendence, and then it was Massachusetts, for the
/ first time discovered that all men, small poxed
negroes aud all, were equal, and having sold
these negroes to the South and made all she
/ could out of the slave trade, pious Massachu
sets, not satisfied with the money of the South
received for the negroes now seeks to take the
negroes from their masters.
Fellow citizens, what is it these mad people
will not dol In their hatred for the South they
would destroy themselves. Nothing il sacred in
the eyes OF these men The Father of his Coun-
try. our own Washington, was placed below a
barbarous, brutal and treacherous negro by Wen
dell Phillips in a speech made by him in the
Smithsonian Institute and almost within the
shadow of Mount Vernon. Mr.. Phillips concu-
ded with a glowing eulogy upon Toussant
.
bat he was greater statesman than Cromwell
he would call him Napoleon, but he did not
make his way over broken olihs like Napoleon;
| he would cali him Washington, but the great
| Nirginian held slaves. Above all was the sold
Ter. statesman martyr Toussant L'Ouverture
/ They attack the brightest characters that illus
trate the pages OF our history. No character,
| however estimable, is sale from their attacks.
The patriotic dead alike with the living, receive
their envenomed shafts. The Constitution, the
wonder of the world and the admiration of man
kind-the Union il has formed, With all the
| countless blessings is has conferred upon us-al
| are dust in the eyes of these When you
remind them OF the Constitution and intimate
that IL iorblds their Interference with the nstitu-
ton OF slavery in the States, they at once saw
that you put'slavery above the Union. Not So,
my friends. 1t is not slavery but it is the ri ht
established 10y the Constitution and secured to us
| by the founders of our Government OF each State
To determine for itself its own domestic N
situations, that would not surrender There is
nothing that can compensate freeman for
the surrender of constitutional right, and
he who would yield it at the bidding of any
man. or set Of men, is not only unworthy to be
free. but is already slave. Ii is the
right OF each State for ITSELF 10 establish, con
tinue, abolish or prohibit slavery, Ii YOU SIR
render this right to-day TO the Federal Govern
ment, how long will il be before YOU will be call
ed upon for the surrender of others? Ii YOU con
cede to Congress the right to say you shall not
hold slaves. have they not the same right to say
that you shall not exclude negroes fro m the jury
box or the witness stand? Our only safety is in
exactng rigid adherence to the Constitution
We are rapidly concentrating power Mt Washing
ton, and unless checked. the rights of the States
/ will be absor5edby the central Government. These
! States can only exist united under the Constitu
I ton. IL Is the interest of each ami all to nlau-
+ tain the Constitutional Union. The Ohio bears
upon its bosom to a Southern market the products
OF Indiana and Kentucky. Ohio and Virginia,
and until recently the farmer of Indiana recev-
ed for the products OF his farm remunerative
reward His daily toll brought TO hs home the
comforts and the luxuries of life. oday YOU
+ have the same Northern markets YOU have al
WAYS had, and yet your grain is rotting in your
barns, and you go about the streets with your
heads bowed down in sorrow. You off
! from your Southern market You are resolved
that IT shall be yours again How will you have
it-just as it was before the Inauguration of this
wary
Traitors and rebels must tie put down. The
Constitutional Union must be restored Free
negroes Ito not make market. nor is cotton
produced 10y voluntary labor Ii is 10 Your in
terest that there shall be competition in the
Southern States with you. 1t is mere profitable
to the Southern planter to employ his slave labor
in the growth OF cotton than OF corn; be- there
{ fore purchases from won his hreasst uffs and nro