, 1865-01-26
TIE FREEDOM AMENDMENT.
Debate In tho Sfnte Senate on the
Amendment Of the Federal Cons1i-
lnllONs


tuHOn.
We intend to publish as much Of the de-
bato In the Legislature on the resolutions
faroii1g the aultEdmcnt VI the Constitution
to prohibit slavery Is We can find room for.
We present in this issue portion of the, re-.
marks Of hlr. Mack, Of Kankakee, and Mr..
Green, Of Alexander. In the State senate on
Friday last After giving history of the
slavery question and the slavery agitation in
this country, finally eliminating In the rebel
lion. Mr. Mack said:
TO maintain national representative form Of
government upon peaceful and pezmanent toun-
dsfion, there must be some com non basis for
political action between it, leading membcrs.
This common baets does not exist between the
IRE and alavsholains States. "The character,
the Northern people, nor theirs bis" The rystem
Of flsve labor which nes At the foundation Of
Southern soeiety !. G..snsalIy limited to South.
passed, Therefore, in the management Of hisplaQ-
faton. md the breeding, buying and selltne of
elaves, ard commerce and manufactures, science,
aed for their pfseiical application. 4 A4ats soelets
thus organised becomes essentially. m oligarchJ.
Tie elements OF political power are ceutreI In lie
wealthy slareho1d,ns class. who are capable Of
Ism of the worst character is the inentabIe RESULT
But In free society the pursuits Of industry are
varied, and various interests therefore take root
and, and become centres Of opposition 70 the undue
The Southern STAKEHOLDER Is a very thrlll1ess.
unsrtcnti1c, notwithstanding more; with no
a1nhlaon TINT 10 mol connected with the pecu1iar
institution. q. Qrnd which are entwfncd his domcs-
nc associations. and through which he can a1oue
hope to emerge frora obscuFity.
The Eoftheru free laborer on the contrary lives
In q society where the paths to eminence arc
various. he II merchant or manufactured, and
FEuNB H:h and respected In community where
honest trade and industry are open avenues to dis
shpe Or locomotives, lays down railroads, and digs
canals, and carries on the commerce OF the world.
He is man Of science who dissrns the lightulngs
feeble coils of wire, that he rnay send them forth
at will with bis messa zes, that outrnn the swift
globe IN its aiurnas revolutions, aud annihiiains
space bring the distant portions Of the earth to-
other ~ the maSicisns eh1mber, Or *tperhaps he
IL aschoul master and philanthroplst engased In
socta1 reform and includes the abolition slavery
Between such men and the stakeholder Of The
South, there Is no common basis for political
action. There are no objects in promoting which
public grounds. Tbcre I,es Before him, thsre-
fore, but one alternative. he must stand BY his
fellows, and become powerful, ~ the assertor and
propagandfst Of slavery, OF failing In this he must
gpbmft to be ofno account in the politics Of the
10 combination Of p.rllss can secure to him the
continuance Of political administration whose
measures are out of harmony with tho average OF
individual desires throughout the nahon; for here
the laws OF social organism viii arrest IN time this
supremacy. CONGRESS or the President ihay, un-
der the control Of pro-alayery minority, dictate
this OF that Thing to be done, and appont officials
to do It. But this artificial process b. which soel
cty becomes manufacture rather than growth,
canrut long supp'ant the natural method by which
laws arc minated, and grow out Of the popular
character. The predomina.1ng element in society
will eventually break through all restralcts and
become the leading principle In the form Of gov
ernment No better illustration Of this important
truth can be found than In the history Of tie slav-
cry struggle in this county. For miny years the
slave party monopolized Ill power, and moulded
the public will 70 such extent that the exissncs
sufficient to lncltc mob The found ltion OF the
s1ave system seemed 10 be firmly laid. But as q
wall Is thrown down By the imperceptfble but