Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-03-19

bill, but to criticism of certain uttcran ces
of Wendell Phillips and Theodore Titon,
and the reading of copious extracts from an
anonymous pamphlet recently published by
Dexter, Hamilton, e CO., Nassau street New
York, entitled "Miscegenation."
l am little disappointed, Mr.. Speaker,
that this bin should receive such treatment
at the hands of gentleman on the other side
of the House. They profess TO sympathizc
with the people of the South. They profess
to wish for peace and to restore them to the
blessings of society. Sir, do they not know
that this bill relates to four million people
of the South, half million, certainly more
than four hundred thousand, of whom are
the near relatives of their former associates
upon this floor and their partisans in the
South, men to whom they and their delutled
partisans contided the administration of our
Government for more than thirty years
None know better than these gentlemen that
one-half million of those slaves are the near
relatives, the unclcs, aunts, and cousins,
brothers, sisters, and children of the Demo
cracy of the South that in the veins of that
number of coored people tingles the blood
of what the gentleman have been pleased to
consider the master race eff this country
The gentleman intimated that, by reasons of
the utterances to which he referred, he was
satisfied that that the Republicans and
A6olitionists of the North would fall into
the practice of amagamaton. Sir, he knows
very well that the complaint of the alleged
illegal and unconstitutional arrest of that
specimen of Southern chivalry, that repre-
sentative of Virginia manners and morals
that leader of the New York Democracy
Captain J. L. Andrews, is not their real
grievance in the premises. He knows very
well that their real grievance, and that out
of which they expected to make most capi-
tai while they hoped to restore slavery to
its old political power, is that when the
officers tore that husband OF white woman
ruthlessly from the sweltering embrace of
his African inamordta they violated Demo-
cratic usages. Yes, sir, this is their real
cause Of complaint in the premises.
1t is not the men of the North who have
been enamored by that complexion which is
described as the "shadowed livery of the
burning SUM-" 1t is not the men of the
North who have laid their "snowy hands"
in ''palms of russell" "hung Europe's price
less pearl that shames the Orient on Africs
swarthy neck or realized experimenta!ly
the truth of the poets aphorism, that
I'm joining contrasts lcth Loves delight"
These exquisite and delicate sources ofcn-
joyment have been in the exclusive posses
sion of the. Southern Democracy, the CO.
laborers in politics of the gentleman who
charges them so wantonly upon the people
Of his own section. He has never seen the
white Northern man choose his companion
| from that race. | have by me picture of
band of slaves sent North by Gen. Banks,
four Of whom are as white as we who hold
this discussion. They come from the color
ed schools recently established in New
Orleans. They arc children of Southern
Democrats, born in Virginia and Louisiana ;
they were owned or sold by their fathers as
negro slaves.
| l look sir, upon that picture of Wash
ington's companion in the Revolution
| (pointing to the picture of Lafayette) and
| his fit associate in this Hall, and remem-
| Der that when on his tour through this
country in 1924 he visited the Southern
States, he very publicly expressed his sur
prise at finding the complexion of the negro
population in their cities so largely changed
from what it had been at the close of the
revolutionary war, and expressed the hope
that in finding the two races thus blending
their blood he might discover the solution
of the slavery question.
But few weeks ago, in conversation with
a distinguished son of Kentucky, himself u
STAKEHOLDER, upon the question now under
discussion, he said to me that in 1S40 he
was at school at Danvil!e, Kentucky that
there were there ON an average three hun
dred young men, and that though the colored
population of the town numbered six hun
dred, there were but six of pure African
blood. The students at that school were
not Northern Aboltionists or Republicans.
They were the wealthy and educated young
gentlemen Of the Democratic South.
But, sir, let this question not rest upon
isolated instances of narrow localities. Let
us look ut the census of 1860. | find by it
that more than half million Of the colored
people OF that section are, us have already
i intiu,ato1 sha inlr.l of tina white Euee of