Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-18

President LIScoEn should have the credit Of
having Introduced into common use among Re-
publican sdItols and speakers new. though not
an llesitlmate word. He spoke in his late sps-
clal message Of '',he abollshment," instead Of
the abolition, Of slavery. and the phrase APP
pears to be in a fair way Of becoming natural.
lied In political anti-slAvery literature,
There Is, as our readers are doubtless aware,
a bill pending In tho Senate Of the United
States for "ihe abolishment Of slavery" in the
District Of Columbia. II is entitled bill "fOr
the release of certain persona held to service
or labor in the District Of Columbia"
This bill, on Wednesday, the 18th inst, un-
derwent various notifications and amendments.
As Il now stands, II provides for the immediate
emancipation of the slaves in the District, and
prohibits the existence of slavery therein here
after; II provides for compensation to the loyal
owners Of slaves, to be paid out Of the Treas-
ury Of the United states--the compensation
not to exceed three hundred dollars for any one
slave; three commissioners are to be appointed
by the Senate upon the nomination OF the Pres
iden,, to audit and settle claims for compensa-
tloD, and provision Is made for the punishment
Of kdnrpplOg by imprisonment 10 the penitsn-
tlary. -
Senator DAvI,, Of Kentucky, Oa the 18th in
stant, offered further amendment to the bill,
providing that the persons liberated under II
should be colonized out of the limits Of the
Uuited States, and appropriating one hundred
thousand dollars for that purpose. Senator
DoourrLE, Of Wisconsin, said that as the effect
Of the amendment was to colonize the emanci-
pated slaves, whether they were willing or not,
he could not vote for 1t; but If 1t he'd proposed
to eolonize such only as were willing to be col
onlzed, he would have voted for IL. After a
rsjoinder from Mr.. DAVIS, the Senate adjourned
without taking any action on his amendment.
We extract from Mr.. DAus's reply the follow
ing pointed remarks:
Think am better acquainted with negro
nature than the honorable Senator from Wis-
consin He will never find one slave in a hun
dred that will consent to be colonized, when
liberated. The liberation of the slaves 10 the
District, and In any State of the Union, will be
Just equivalent TO settling them In the country
where they live; and whenever that policy is
iuaugurated, especially In the States where
there are many slaves, il will inevitably and i'm
mediately introduce war of determination be-
tween the two races.
A uegro's idea of freedom Is freedom from
work, as q general rule. have knowa-of bun
dreds Of slaves In my experience who havo been
liberated, which slaves previous to their liberia
tion were industrious, we're orderly, we're well
behaved; and In, may cay, ninety-uine cases
out Of one hundred, after they were liberated
and s:quired their freedom, they became lazy,
thievish vagsbonds. Men may hug
their delusions, but these are facts heretofore,
and they will remain facts 10 the future. Where
you have but few negreps In white commu.
nifty, and the negroes have bat 9 small associs.
ton, and the examples all around them are the
examples of diligence, industry and thrift, this
outward influence will force them to O modlcum
Of labor and Of thrift, TOO. But whenever you
settle negroes In large numbers, or llberate
them in large numbers, and they become a
society to themselves, you will have thrift
less worthless, indolent, inefficient population.
Mr.. President, whenever any power, constltu
tlonal or unconstitutional, assumes .ae responsi.
bility Of lberatiDg slaves where slaves ere nu.
u erous, they establish as inexorably az fate q
conflict between the races that will result in
the exile or the determination of the one race
or the other. We have now about two hundred
and twenty. i've thousand slaves In KentHcky
Think you, sir, that we should ever submit 70
have those slave manumitted aud left among
us7 No, sirj no, neverj nor will any white
people In the United States Of America where
the slaves are numerous. II by uncoustitution.
al legislation you should by laws which you
shrink from submitting to the test Of constitu- |
tionality n your courts OF justice, liberate them,
without the Intervention OF the courts, the mo. |
nent you recognise the white Inhabitants Of |
hose States as States Of the Union, they would |
'educe those elaves again to state Of slavery,
Or they would expel them and drive them upon
you, or south of you, or they would hunt them
Ike beasts and exterminAte them. They
would not do this from choice, but they would
conflict between the races az will render It In.
vitAble, and there will be no escape from It.
shall speak on this subject at moro length
q another occasion. / will only say now that
hen the negroes are liberated In the oottonl
tates, II is giving up the cotton States to the
egro race, and it 10 expelllng, In very short
me, by inevitable necessity, the white populs.
on from that country, or it is introducing war
stween the two races that will result In sheI
Lile or expulsion Of one or the other.
know what / talk about. Mr.. President, !
lie loyal people Of the slave States are as true
this Union as any man in the Senate Cham !
", or in any Of the free States; but never,
'Yer will they submit by unconstitutional laws
have their slaves liberated and 10 remain
miciled among them; and the policy shat at
mpta it will establish bloody La Vendee in
9 whole of the slave states, my own included. q
ct the time you commenced this wal, ,you had \
nounced as the national policy that was to h
eVail, the measures and visionary schemes | o
d ideas Of some gentlemen on this AoOr, you 1
'uld not have had solitary man from the
I'VE States to support you. Whenever you Il
ok 10 carry those measures into operation you d
ite the slave States as one man. They will a
| you that in resisting such schemes they are
hting for the Unien and the Constitution; and O.
~ will tell you 90 truly. They will tell you e
70 yonr eystem of policy is no less aggressive B
destructive upon the Union and the Comet q
ion than that Of the rebels Of Secessia them A
YES; and they will tell you so truly. They
Il feel it as incumbent on them az men and "
freemen to resist your Unconstitutional pol d
!, by which you will overturn and tramEle un- q
your feet the principles of the Constitution, o
they feel it to be their duty to resist the war II
ich the secessionists have made upon the b.
lion. b.