Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-11

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia..
Against it: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Della
ware and Virginia. (See Madison Papers
Supplement to Elliott's Debates, vol. 5, p. 47S.)
Not single New England vote recorded against
this provision. What Mr.. Jefferson thought of
the agitation of this question of slavery in Con-
gress is not left to conjecture. In speaking of
the Missouri controversy, Mr.. Jefferson said:
This momentous question, like rebtn in the night,
awakened and filled with terror considered il at
once as the knel of the Union II hushed indeed
the present, but that is only reprieve final sem
tence A geogr aphical line, coincding with marked
principle, moral and political, ono concurred in, and
held up the passions Of will never be oberatcd,
every irritation will mark deeper and deeper
until il will kindle such mutual and mortal hatred
render separation preferable eternal discard regret
that now to die in the belief that useless
ice of themselves by the generation of iT75 to acquire
self government and happiness for their country is to be
thrown away by the unwSe and unworthy passions OF
their and that my only consolation is to be that
live not to weep over it.
Massachusetts, voted for the Continuance of
this African slave trade for twenty years after
the formation of the Government. She, there
fore, could not have desired, nor did she look
upon the institution as perishing or temporary
thing but on the contrary her citizens had been
engaged in the trade will appear from the ad-
vertsement | read you taken from the Boston
Gazette:
Just imported from Africa and sold board the
brig journey, VIM. Fery commander, now lying at New
Boston, number Of likely negro boys an girls, from II
IA years of age. Inquire of said Eery board said
brig, where constant attendance is given
NoTE.-The above slaves have all had the small pox.
Treasurer's notes and New England will be taken
as pay.
When the slave trade was abolished and Mas
sachusetts briggs could no longer engage in the
business of exporting New England rum and
trading it for captured Africans-when an honest
penny could no longer be made by importing
negro boys and girls all of whom had had the
small pOx, Massachusetts became suddenly piouS
and commenced reading the Declaration of indie
pendence, and then it was Massachusetts, for the
first time discovered that all men, small poxed
negroes and all, 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 do? In their hatred for the South they
would destroy themselves. Nothing is 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 speech made by him in the
Smithsonian Institute and almost within the
shadow of Mount Vernon. Mr.. Phillips concu-
ded with glowing eulogy upon Toussant
L'Ouverture. He would call him a Cromwell,
but he was greater statesman than Cromwell;
he would call him Napoleon, but he did not
make his way over broken oaihs like Napoleon;
he would cali him Washington, but the great
Virginian 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 safe 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 it has formed, with all the
countless blessings it has conferred upon us-al
are as dust in the eyes of these men. When you
remind them of the Constitution and intimate
that it forbids their interference with the nstitu
ton of slavery in the States, they at once say
that you put slavery above the Union. Not so,
my friends. 1t is not slavery but it is the right
established by the Constitution and secured to us
by the founders of our Government of each State
to determine for itself its own domestic in
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 a slave 1t is the
right of each State for itself, to establish, con-
tinue, abolish or prohibit slavery. If you sur
render this right to-day to the Federal Govern
ment, how long will it be before you will be call
ed upon for the surrender of others2 If 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 from the jury
box or the witness stand? Our only safety is in
exactiDg rigid adherence to the Constitution.
We are rapidly concentrating power at Washing
ton, and unless checked, the rights of the States
will be absOrbedby the central Government. These
States can only exist united under the Constitu
ton. 1t is the interest of each and all to main
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 receiv-
ed for the products of his farm remunerative
reward. His daily toll brought to his home the
comforts and the luxuries of life. To-day you
have the same Northern markets you have al
ways had, and yet your grain is rOtting in your
barns, and you 90 about the streets with your
heads bowed down in sorrow. You are cut 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
war;
Traitors and rebels must be put down. The
constitutional Union must be restored Free
negroes do not make a market, nor is cotton
produced by voluntary labor. Ii is 20 your in
terest that there shall be no competition in the
Southern States with YOU. 1t is more profitable
to the Southern planter to employ his slave labor
in the growth of cotton than of corn; be, there
fore, purchases from you his breadslufs and pro-
visions. Cotton is only produced by compulsory
labor; strike it down, and your market remains
what 1t is to-day. The statesman is governed in
lis legislation by the interests of his country.
No section OF our country has contributed so
much To the wealth, and consequently the power
and Importance of the nation as the South 1t
has grown the worlds great staple; and expert
ence has shown that no labor can compete with
negro labor in its production. Cotton can only
be grown by compulsory labor, and where negro
labor has been dispensed with, Coolies have been
substituted, which has brought into being a trade
far more Infamous than was the African slave
trade The following is from a letter to Mr.
Seward from tie United States Consul at Peru:
The labor of the country formerly performed chiefly
by slaves In 1855 African slavery abolished and up
wards of twenty-five thousand blacks set free
turned loose upon society," thus only suddenly
pvDg agriculture but every other branch of industry of
its accustomed labor, and the time affecting the
country with bsggars thieves robber and every variety
outlaw until became unsafe occupy country
dences unless surrounded by inconvenent train Of
faithful attendants and dangerous walk in unre
ed in the outskirts of the popuous cities
after nghtfa is perhaps fortunate for country
however, that this class Of population fast disappear
ing through their dissipation RIGHTEOUSNESS and crime
and the penalties attached distant period
ated nesru> Of Peru-wiH be remembered for the
they have committed regretted for the de-
morazing influence their acts have produced upon
ciety.
70 compensate to some extent for this loss to the pro-
ductve labor of the country the government has from
time TO tme granted special privileges TO ndi uals to
introduce Asiac aborer. bound compulsory service
for term OF years for nominal consideration and dur
ing its last session, Congress enacted law, copy of
which have translated and hereto annexed marked Al
making the trade in Asatcs free of all nations
Many have already avaed themselves OF the provisions
Painters ship-owners, and adventurers and ALL have
proed by the speculation under It, and the places va
Gated by the man9med negroes are now being occupied