Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-08-09
The Barbarism of Slavery.

There still turks in the Constitution
of our noble State a relic of Southern
Slavery, placed there by its Northern
in behalf of its Southern friends, in or
der to nationalize and perpetuate the
physical, social and political degrada-
ton of a race. The late war destroyed
slavery, and it is-now proposed to wipe
out all traces OF it from the Statute
books of our State. In view of this pro-
posed change it is well to refresh our
memories in reference to the monstrOus
iniquity which dictated the Legislation
it is now proposed to abolish, and which
in return for Northern subserviency
inaugurated a war to destroy our I'm
ion. We know of nothing more avail
able to this end than the following re-
markabIe speech delivered in the House
Loveioy, of Illinois, on the 5th Of April
1860, and which now reads like a ro-
mances7
The House being in the Committee Ol
the Whole on the State Ofthe Union
Mr.. LOvEJOY said: Mr.. Chairman
The House has been occupied for sever
al days in the discussion of the subject
of POIygamy. The Republican party
of which am a member, stands pIedg-
ed since 1856 to the determination, SC
far as the Federal Government has the
power, of the twin relics OF barbar1sn
Slavery and POlygamy. We haVe
! this power in the Territories Of the Uni
| ted States.
Now, SIR, as we anticipate a death
/ blow has been given one of these twins
| I propose to pay my respects to the
/ other. I want to see them both stran
/ gled and go down together, as they bOtt
| richly deserve.
MI. Cobb rise to a question of or
| der.
/ The Chairman-The gentleman viii
| state his question of order
Mr.. Cobb was going to raise a ques
/ ton of order upon the right of the gen
tTemen to discuss the question of s'twiI
relics,' under the new rule we haS'
adopted. However, / Will not interfere
the gentleman may go on with III
! speech.
floor I do not yield to the gentleman
and I will proceed with my remark
| within my hour, with the gentleman
permission, or without 1T.
/ The Chairman-The Chair suppose
that general debate is in order upol
this bill, the House now being IN tn
/ Committee of the Whole on the state o
.I !
ding
Mr.. Loveioy-I was about to say
when interrupted, that am aware tina
the practical question presented to thl
House and to the country, Is, Whethe
slavery shall be extended beyond II
present limits; as that is the only ques
tiOn over which they have eXcIus1V
Jurisdiction. And if Slavery were cor
tented to remain restricted, and ind II
, future where it now is, We might pei
haps fOTbear this discussion. But Whe
it is proposed to extend what is terme
an institution-but which is not an in
stitution which is simply practice
the question naturally arises, what
the nature, what are the influences, an
what are the elements of this practice
$ and what viii they prove to be If ALLOW
ed expansion? / am aware 1t has bee
D stated upon this floor that the morale
}. Slavery is settled: that its ethics are
e longer to be discussed; ; that they we
I | settled ages ago by the Stagyr1te
: Greece, and have been reafhrmed al
- reestablished by the chauticleer Sole
= of Ohio CAIr. Coxl, in rhetoric gorgeOl
as sunsets glow. We are told tn
: where Slavery viii pay SlaVehOldlI
a will 90. Precisely upon the same pri
d cipIe " might say that where robbie.
VIII pay, robbery will go; where pir
q cy will pay, piracy will go and whe
n adipOse human flesh is cheaper th'
so that OF DeeVoSg Cduulbd1ls4A WILL kOJ l
cause it will pay. Sir, than robbeT
is than piracy, than polygamy, slavehol
le ing is worse-more criminal, more j
Il furious to man, and consequently me
ID offensive to God. Slaveholding b
been justly designated as the sum
A. villainy. Put every crime perpetrat
in among men into a moral crucible, a
g dissolve and combine themkall, and
6e resultant amalgam is slaYeholding.
o has the violence of robbery.
A Member-You are joking.
Mr.. Lovejoy-NO, Sir; I am speak,
in dead earnest, before God, Gods o.
- truth. It has the violence of robbie
the blood and cruelty of piracy, a
the offensive and brutal lusts of POI
2 gamy, all combined and concentrat
in itself, with aggravations that neiti
one of these crimes ever dreamed of.
'ns Mr.. Chairman, the justification
At Slavery is placed so far as 1 knc
51 on mainly upon these grounds: the infe
: ority of the enslaved race the
bel that enslaving men imparts CHI
be tianity and civilization to them; a
yle thirdly, the guarantees of the COnsti
~, ton. These are the three main arr
ments presented to justify Slavery, q
/. consequently to justify its expansi