Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-05-15
HENRY WINTER DAVIS SPEECH.


We know Of no aber OF drawer man Of the
middle States than Henry Winter Davis, Of
Maryland Reared and resident in slave
State, be is nevertheless thoroughly an
emancipationist-and this not on merely phil
anthropic principles, but as q matter of prac-
teal and necessary craftsmanship A YER
monter could not speak palmer than this son
Of a slave State. We quote from recent
speech by Mr.. Davis;
They were amused in Maryland az the anxiety Of the
Yankees about the eiect " emancipation They don't
know the negro. 1hefeis only thing that will make
him run and that s the CONSEQUENCES that his master
il behind him. In Pennsy lvama they hadaws against
the enisraon OF blacks but when did the good people
Of that state hear of free negro Of Maryland going
hher il is on the slave that flies from the South.
Do away with slavery, and the negr will keep the
sunny side of the Union abolish slavery in the South,
and You abolish the possibility Of the negro coming
North BY the Of The South the fugitive slave law
dead letter Nh1 will now dare to cross the frontier
10 catch fugitive, II slavery continues, you
more keep the negroes out II the free states than
Pharaoh could keep frogs Of the kneadng oughs
~ Egypt They will lie on every STREET. BUT protect
them ia the south by law Of Congress, make them
what the PRECEDENT has proclaimed legal fact, that the
Government must them sud will them and hay
ing proclaimed freedom throughout the land, aud will
allow 1t to be violated, and the terrors OF your sensitive
fellow citizens will melt away You viii nave rccumiu-
atons long the institution exists IL might oc ask
ed why this had not been said at the South had been
forty years ago Mr.. Clay was borne down il were,
by the current Of the Mississippi Northern sworc
on the negro as the Biole. There coalition be-
tween the slavehodcrs OF the South and the politicians
" the North but the principles Of Mr. Clay have not
died out 1t is question Of methods and not whether
emancipation is tgut II question whether slavery
hau not so diseased the body polite endangcr the
government in its removal But the rebellion has chang
ed the relation Of the people slavery and ought
he thankful that the rebellion has placed in such
position that have the opportunity Of placing
the institutions Of this land upon basis Of permanent
freedom. his is not the crazy theory Of ahoonists
To abolish slavery is the natural course Of things
the current is that wayt is harder not TO abolish IT.
The policy OF the Presidents proclamation is policy
to be oarpod at and criticized, but to be executed And
the who says he is for the Union, but sup
port the President because Of the proclamation. not
fit to represent any district Of the United States u
gres The speakers quarrel with the President
this Not that he has done too much, but that he h's
done too little He ought to have 100000 armed
negro soldiers in the middle Of South Carolina and
that of persons who refuse fight by the side Of
negroes because afraid Of being equal with them do
deserve the OF freemen for they refuse iht by
the side Of such men Washington led AT the battle
of Badensburg, he assured by eyewitness now
living, that half Of the troops that to the relief NJ
our forces which had been dsgracefy rcpulscd, were
negroes, and they CALAMITY sustained themselves in the
'hickest Of the tight"