The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-04-10
sss.e OTTUMWA IOWA, THURSDAY APRIL 3lols62

/ single free negro is allowed to work in tn
ship-yards. There is feeling against then
as interfering with their exclusive privileg
to do work of that sort themselves. eI b
Mr.. Harlan. And in that see an expla
nation Of the suggestion I made. OF cours'
the Senator's knowledge of facts existing II
his own State, is better than mine. vii
not dispute the truth Of his statement bu'
he winds It up by saying that even now h.
does not know that free negro is permit
ted to work in the yards Of that city and
why Because the owners of the slave.
cultivate this prejudice for the purpose o
driving out the free negroes who come in
competition with their own slave hands, sc
frequently hired out for wsges to be placed
in their owners pockets. Z
Mr.. Kennedy. The slave interest Of the
State Of Maryland, I nay be allowed to say,
is very small one-seventeen thousand al.
together. That interest does not prevail
anywhere in Maryland except in the tide.
water souRties. The Senator is entirely
mistaken in supposing that it prevails in
Maryland. It is in minority.
Mr.. Harlan. As to the fact, OF course the
Senator's knowledge is more perfect than
mine could be. have in my hand, however,
statement furnished me by the Senator
from Massachusetts,, which gives the mum.
Der Of slaves in Maryland as eighty-seven
thousand one hundred and eighty eight.
Mr.. Kennedy. Yes, sir.
Mr.. Harlan. I know the institution is
going down in Maryland; tits sinking under
the quiet influence of emigration from the
free States and enlightened public opinion /;
but even in Maryland the slaveholding por-
ton of the community controls its legisla-
ton, controls public opinion, and stimulates
and sustains the savage doctrines which
we have heard advanced on this floor
from their Senators-I use the word with
respect; but l illustrate it with the ex-
ample | have just cited. Az 1 have said, /,
among the savages on our western plains
wars Of determination are going on day
by day; these tribes are melting away by
this vindictive and savage strife, which
they keep up between belligerent tribes
Now, is it possible that Senator'S will teach
the Senate and the country and the Chris
tian world that the people of Maryland are
not elevated in civilization above the condi-
ton Of the Chippewas and Sioux; that there,
too, we have hundreds of thousands Of sav,
ages with white skins who will Immediately
commence war Of determination Ion
whom? On men with whom they have
lived their lives through, men who were
born with them on the same soil, men who
were brought up with them under the sane
roof who played with them in childhood on
the same grounds; who did rot accompany
them to the same schools for they have been
excluded from the means of mental culture,
who did not accompany them to the same
church for they have been excluded also
from high order Of religious culture.
Mr.. Kennedy. Does the honorable Scna
tor mean to apply that remark to MarylanaG ?
Mr.. Harlan ! am applying to Maryland
the doctrines the Senator hss advanced to-
day. He says that in Maryland, il the slaves
be set free. the white population will arise
and massacre the entire colorcd population.
If the people Of Maryland do this savage act
they are not TO- day elevated above the con-
dition Of the Chippewas and Sioux, no, they
are below the civilization Of these savages,
because they murder their enemies, not their
friends, their servants, and the people of
their own households. ~
Mr.. Kennedy. trust the honorable Sen
ator win allow me to make statement.
Mr.. Harlan. Certainly. -
Mr.. Kennedy. think the Scnate. en-.
tirely misapprehends the scope Of my re-.
marks, and desire to say here, now, that
we have some Of the best regulated and best
established churches and schools for negroes
in the city Of BaltWore!that are to be found
in the United States. We have, further
than that, highly educated men who were
slaves who are preaching to tbs free colored
people of Baltimore. have this day in my
family manumitted slave who has tho priv
ilege Of teaching school. A manumitted
slave Of my own family is with me now, and
10 . teacher of school. There Is no res
friction whstsyey in Maryland and upon ed
ucation Of any sort in regard to the colored
population. ha
Mr.. Harlan. would ing lire at the heel Of
that remark Of The Senator if he has any dis
position to murder them?
/ Mr.. Kennedy. None whatever; but there
ID natural opposition that exists between
two antagonist races Of people; and the col
ored race has been protected by tho well or.
dered and well regulated people ofmy State.
men, like myself and other gentlemen who
represent the State. who are struggling eve
rywhere to prevent the dominance Of rule
that might be exercised by an antagonistic
class. 'f" 'osg
Mr.. Harlan. And If the Senator does not
feel savage disposition to murder his freed
man, does he say that the mass Of the slave
holders ofhis State are less civilized than
himself? #sg
/ Mr.. Kennedy. Not one particle more than
the people Of the gentleman's own country
seem disposed to murder the white people of
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