Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-08-09
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E II Is a violation or Ele rules TO occupy
= this space in front Of the Speakers ehaf1
D / or any portion Of It? If so, vii
8 cheerfulIy yield if not, I claim the
: right to choose my own position.
t The Chairman-The Chair under
/ stands that the rules require that every
r gentleman shall speak from his seat.
Mr.. CurtIS-Or from the Clerks desk
} Mr.. Burnett-The gentleman has a
= right to do that.
Mr.. McClernand-L.e him speak from
the Clerks desk
Mr.. AsbIey-It has been the habit OF
{ gentlemen to come into the aisle and
/ choose their own position.
ft Mr.. Adrian-It Is a very bad habit,
and we had better change it.
] The Chairman-The Chair is aware
that such has been the custom but If
the rule is insisted on, il is the duty OF
the Chair to enforce it.
J Mr.. Adrain-I hope it wiz be insisted
on.
The Chsirman-The gentleman from
Illinois will speak from his seat.
Mr. LovejOy-I have no seat.
Mr. Ashley-Nor any other member.
Mr.. Lovejoy taking ms place in the
Clerks desk) resumed-Ar. Chairman,
1 was about stating, wien interrupted,
that the principle upon which slave
holding was sought to be justified in
this country would, if carried out in
the affair Of the universe, transform Je-
hOvah, the Supreme, into an infinite
Juggernaut, rolling the huge wheels of
ms onn1pOtence, axle-deep, amid the
crushed and mangled and bleeding bod
les of human beings, on the ground
that he was infinitely superior, and
they were an Inferior race.
Mr. GartreIl (in his seat The man is
crazy.
Mr.. Loveioy-The second ground up
on which it is attempted to justify Sla-
very, or slaYehOlding, is. that it is
1~sea
/ ilizat1On to the slaves. Mr. Chairman,
| I would like to know bow slavehOIding
| communities can Impart that of which
/ the are not in the possession. The
/ truth Is that the practice Of slayehOld-
/ ing has a powerful tendency to drag
/ communities back to barbarism. It is
] actually having that effect upon the
Y Slave States of this Union and were 1t
| not for the Christian women that have
I gone from Free States and intermarried
I in the Slave States and were it not for
] those noble women of the Slave States,
I that preserve wOmanly purity and
/ Christianity, IN spite of the unhappy
/ influences of s1avehOlding, the Slave
/ States to-day would be as far back in
/ Darbarism as the State of Mexico. 1t is
| simply from that infiltration-
] Mr.. Singleton wish to know If the
/ gentleman intends to cast any insinua-
\ tiOn or sIur on the woman of the South.
( 1 want to know that distinctly and en-
| phatically; because If he does, I will
/ hold him personally accountable for It.
/ Several Members-Oh, no. He gives
| all praise to the women of the South.
| He compliments them.
/ Mr.. Singleton repeat, that if he in
/ tended to asperse Southern women, or
1 to compliment the women of the North
| at their expense viii hold him ac-
cOuntable for it.
The Chairman-The gentleman from
! Mississippi is not in order. The gentle
man from Illinois viii proceed.
! Mr.. LOvejOy-It is simply. by this con-
/ tact with free communities it is, as 1
said, from the fact that Christian wO-
/ the Christian women Of Slave States
I who have not the poor privilege that
/ Sarah of old had of sending the Hagars
/ and Ishmaels to the Wilderness-main-
/ tanned their purity and Christian char
! acteT, and their testimony against the
/ system, that they were prevented from
! that retrOcession toward barbarism.
Several befs-That is what he
/ said before.
Mr.. Lovejoy--Sir, if you step into the
! Smithsonian Instit9tion, or into the Pa
/ tent Office, you viii find implements Of
husbandry imported from Japan and
/ China, showing just about the same de-
velopment in civilization as the imple-
l ments that you find on the plantations.
/ Now, Sir, the truth is, that the practice
] of slaVehOldiDg dragS SSlavehoidng COM
munities further below the plane of the
/ Christian civilization of the age, than
/ the civilization which the slave receives
/ elevates him above the plane of heath
/ enism by being held in these Christian
| communities. Sir, how do they lmpart
/ civilization and Christianity 1t is a
! strange mode of ChristianiZing a race to
turn them over into brutism without
any legal marriage. Among the four
million slaves in this country, there is
not legally a single father or child.
/ There is not a single home or hearth
stone among these four million. And
YOU propose to CiVilize and Christianize
a people without giving them homes,
without allowing them the cOnjugal and
parental relations, and without having
those relations sanctioned and protected
by law. Mr.. Chairman, no community
can make one step Of progress in civil
izing a race till you give them homes /;
till you protect the sanctity of the home
as we hold it should be protected in re-
gard to these NOrmOns on the plains OF
/ Utah. ChristianiZing them, Sir Christ
ianizing them by a new process. The
Slave States have right to an exclu-
sive patent for it. Taking them out in
the sight Of the church, as one was ta-
ken out not long ago in the State OF
Tennessee, by a Presbyterian elder, and
laid down on his face on the ground,
his hands and feet extended to their ut
the Gospel whipped into him with the
broad side of a hand saw, discOlOred
wheiks of sanctificauiOn being raised
II between the teeth every time this Cos
pei agency fell upon the naked and
quivering flesh of the tortured convert.
Il [Laughter.l
A Democratic Member--Did he get
the Gospel in q? [Laughter.l
Mr.. -Christianized as ayOung
girl was Christianized in this city since
the session of Congress, by being whip
ned and sent to the garret, and found
dead in the morning, with blood Oozing
from nose and ears.
A Democratic MeInber-W here does
/ that authority come from?
| Mr.. LOveiOy-I do not know whether
, religious rites we're had or not. sup
pose some Pro-Slavery priest was invit-
} ed in to utter impious prayers before
. God that the last hagellauOn might
have whipped in Christianity enough tC
, save her precious and never dying soul
Il TIaughter.7 And now, alarmed, a good
black walnut coffin is made and decor
r ated with white ribbons, and placed II
the hearse, followed by hack contain
ing, I presume, the murdereSs; and my
attention is called to the cOrtege: "See
= Mr.. LOvejoy, there is a slave funeral
9 Is that treating them like DruteSE LOOE
into the coffin! Look into the carriage!
= You say this is hOrrid. IknOw it is nor
2 rid. I know it is hOrrid to hold men II
f Slavery. I know it is horrid to doom
four million human beings to the cOndi
2 ton of chattels, to be held pro 71ULtis
e pro nl0rl2tjs, pro qlCGdTItoedlS, taken TO
no persons, for dead persons, for fou
y footed beasts-men as much entitled t.
freedom as you and 7. Sir, the testimo
l. nv Of all religious societies in the Slav
States is that the Slaves are still heath
b en-, and that it is an utter impOssibilit.
r to Christianize them and civilize then
Y by this process. The third point reliet
+ on to Justify slaveholding is, that it
: Observation-Disclosures it is guaranteed b.
IL the Constitution of the United States
Now, Mr.. Chairman, I have heardit de
d clared over and over again that the Con
stitution guarantees Slavery. I deny i
3 In no article, in no section, in no lint
-e in no word, in no syllable, can there
anv recognition or sanction of huma
" slavery found in the Constitution of tn
Il. United States. 1t is not there. 1t a
70 ways recognizes human beings as PEI
sons, and never as property. 1t doe
N not use the word ''slave' or slavery.
rs VVbv- sir when I came uD to lake tn