The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-03-26
"Thc Ab0lislanlcnt OF slavery" in
the District of Columbia.

I VI
lucky, in the course Of his speech on tn
abolition of Slavery in the District of Col
umbia, made the following pointed remarks
As Mr.. Davis was the bosom friend Of Henr,
Clay, old wings should not turn deal ear tt
what he says. Read and reject. Ho says
think am better acquainted with negro
nature than the honorable Senator from Wis.
conSin. He will never And one slave in .
hundred that will consent TO be colonized
when liberated. The liberation of the slaves
in the District, and many State Of the Union
will be Just equivalent to settling them in
the country where they live; and whenever
that policy is naugurated, especially in the
States where there are many slaves, it will
inevitably and Immediately Introduce a war
tof ex erminaton between the two races
|. A negro's idea of freedom is freedom from
work, as general rule. have known OF
hundreds Of slaves in my experience who
have been liberated, which slaves previous to
their Liberalism were industrious, were order.
ly, were we'll behaved and in. | may say
pnety.nine Eases Out oil one hundred, after
they were liberated and acquired their iree-
dom, they became lazy, indooM, thieysh
vagabonds. Men may hug their delusions,
but these. are facts heretofore, and they will
remain facts n'the future. Where you have
but few negroes ina white community, and
the negroes have but small association, and
the examples all around them are the ex.
amples OF diligence, industry and thrift, this
outward influence will force them to a mod
icum OF labor and Thrift, too. But whenever
you settle negroes in large numbers, or liber-
ate them In large numbers, and they became
society to themselves, you will have a thrift
esa, wor hless, indolent. inefficient popula
ton
Mr.. President, whenever any power, con
stiutional or unconstitutional, assumes the
responsibility OF lil,eiatipg slaves where
slaves are numerous, they establish as
inexorable as late confict between the races
that will result in the exile or the extermin.
aticn OF the one race or the other. We have
now about two hundred and twenty five
thousand slaves in Kentucky. Think you, !
SIR, that we should ever subm tot have those
slaves manumitted and left among us? No, I
sir: no. never; nor will any white people in |
the United States Of America where the |
slaves are numerous. lfby unconstitutional |
legislation you should by laws which you
shrink from submitting to the test Of con- |
IN your courts OF fjustice lioerate |
them, without the intervention of the courts, |
The moment you recognize the bite inhab. |
tants of States as States Of the Union, they
would reduce those slaves again to a state OF
slavery, or they would expcl them and drive
hem upon you, or south Of YOU, or they
hna ~, ,ivo
'te them. They would not do this from
,hoice, but they would do it necessity 1t
Kill produce such conflict between the race,
IS will render it inevitable, and there W ill be
10 escape from it.
i shall speak on this suhject at more length
n another occasion. | will only say now
hat when the negroes are liberated in the
often States. 1t is giving the cotton States
o the negro race, and it is expelling, in II
cry short time. by inevitable necessity, the
Vhite population from that country. or it is
Introducing war betweenthe two races that ,
will result in the exiIe or expulsion of one or ,
he other.
know what talk about. Mr.. Pres lent, .
be loyal people Of the slave States are as !
rue to this Union as any man in the Senate
'hamber, or in any of the free States; but
ever, never will they submit by uncons,itu.
ional laws to have their slaves liberated and
0 remain domiciled among them; and the :
olicv that attempts it will estai bsh bloody j
"a Vendee IN the whole Of the slave States,
~ own included. II at the time you oin i
lenced this war, you had announced as the :
a'ional policy that was 10 prevail, the meas II
res and visionary schemes and ideas Of some !
en- iemen on this floor, you would not have y
ad a olitary man from the slave States
, support you. Whenever you seek to car
7 those measures into operation you unite h
he slave States as one man. They will tell
ou that in resisting such schemes they are /,
shting for the Uuioa and the constitution; =
I'd iheywill tell you so truly. They will "A
II you that your sys EN- OF policy is no less
.gressive and destructive upon the Union G
ID the Constitution than that 81 the rebels q
Secessia themselves; and they will tell IL
~ so truly. They will !eel it as incum-
mt on them as men and as freemen to resis: II
'ur unconstitutional policy, by which you e
Ill overturn and trample under your feet +"
o principles o; the constitution, as theyI
III to be their duty to resist the war p
hich the secessionists have made upon the p
nion "f #1t. HtA 0