M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-04-03
Strong and stirring speech
Ofthe Hon. Garrett Oa Wis,
Of Kentucky, against N q
gro EmaneiDaIiOn.


States Senate, upon the abolition OF
sl avery in the District Of Columbia,
the Hon. Garrett Davis said:
Gentlemen who have lived in the
slave States, and vino know what the
free negroes are in the slave States,
who know what the free negroes are
in communities Of cons idera bic mum.
bers of them, know that they are the
most worthless and vicious and eX-
pensive Of our population TO the sOcie.
ty in which they live, 1t isso.
Mr.. President, whenever any pow
or. constitutional or unconstitutional,
assumes the responsibility Of liberat
ing slaves where slaves are numerous,
they established as inoxorably as fave
q conflict between the races that will
result in the exile or tho cxtermina.
ton OF the one race or the other. !
know it. We have how about twe
hundred and twenty-five Thousand
slaves in Kentacky. Think you sir,
that we should ever submit to have
those slaves manumltted and left a.
mong us9 No, sir. no, never; nor will
any white people in the United StateS
oil America where the slaves are rum.
erons. Ifby any unconstitutional leg.
islation yon should bylaws which you
shrink from sub.hitting to the test OF
consti'utionality in your courts ofjuS.
tice, liberate them, without the enter.
vention oi the courts. the moment you
reorganize the white inLabitents OF
those States as States Of the Union,
they would reduce those slaves again
to state Of slavery, or they would
expef them and drive them upon yOp.
or South Of you or they would hunt
them like beasts and exterlninnte them
They would not do this from choice,
but they would do it from necessity.
II will produce such conflict between
the races as will reuder it ineeitAblS,
and there will be 10 escape from it.
| maintain that it is o matter Of
humanity to the negro in the city, and
Of justice to the white population Oi
this city, that when you turn three or
four thousand negroes who are now
in state Of slavery free, you should
relieve them from the curse Of such.a
popultion, from its expence, from ito
burdens upon this community in every
form: you ought to assume the philan-
tLropy and the justice-ths philan.
thropy to the negro race and the jus.
tice to the white race-.o remove thees
people from tho District. You may
refnse to do it. Ifyon DO, q few
years. experience will tell you what a
mistake You. made. IShall SPSgk,
though, on this subject at more length
on another occasion. will only say
now that when the negroes are liber
ated in the cotton States, it is giving
up the cotton States to the negro race,
aud it is expelling, ina very ShorI
time, by inevitable necessity, thC
white population from that country,
or it is introducing war beteer the two
race that will result in the exil5 or ex
pulsion of one or the other.
| know what | talk about. Mr.
President, loyal people Of the slaV
States are as trne to this Union % an
man in the Senate Chamber, or II an,
Of the free States; but never, neve
will they submit by unconst;tutiora
laws to have their slaves liberated AM
to remain domiclled among them; an
the policy that attempts it will eStabliI
a bloody La Vendee in the whole 8
tie slave States, my own Included. =
Ii, at the time you commenced thi
war, yon lad announced as the ma
tional policy that was to prevail tn
measures and visionary schemes All
ideas OF some gentlemen on this foo
you would not have had solitary ma
from the slave States to support you
Whenever you seek to carry tboR
measures into operation, you unit
the slave States as one man. The
will tell you that in resisting cue
schemes they are fighting for tho On
ION and the Constitution, they will ts
you so truly. They will tell you tha
your system Of policy is no less aggre
sive and destructive upon the UBio
and the Constitution than that of tn
rebels of Secession themselves; an
they will tell you so truly. They wi
feel it az incumbent on them as me
and as freemen to resist your pncor
stitutional policy, by which your wi
overturn and trample under your fet
the principles Of the Constitution, 6
they feel 1t to be their duty to resi-;
the war which the Secessionists hsv
made upon the Union.
Mr.. President, did not expect
say word IN relation to this subject
l speak upon the impulse of the mt
ment. speab from what ! know
sneak from what | feel. speak {