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

as an American citizen, of writing nv
4 name and recommending the circuIa.
/ ton Of any and every book without
/ being held amenable to gentlemen up.
on this floor, or anywhere else, That is
my answer in regard to it. I have more
than that to say. say nothing about
some points in the book. I have nc
doubt there is considerable bOmbasl
and fustian and violence Of language
IN 1t because the author was educated
in a Slave State, and the rhetoric which
| comes from that quarter is apt to have
] these characteristics. lLaughter.7 But
the ph1lOsOphy-the gist of the book
is what? 1t is the address of a citizen
of Slave State to his felIOw-citizens in
regard to the subject of Slavery, recon-
mendIng in substance the organization
of Republican party in North Caro-
lima and in all other Slave States.
hope to see that done; and expect to
see it done before very long. You may
4 kill Cassius NJ. Clay, as you threaten
to do; but ''the blood of the martyrs is
! the seed Of the church, You mayshed
his blood, as you shed the blood Of my
! brother on the banks Of the Mississippi
/ twenty years ago and what then d?
/ am here TODAY thank God to Vindicate
/ the principles baptized in his blood.
/ You may shed his blood and what
/ then A Republican party viii spring
! up in kentucky and in all the Slave
| States ere long and these unionists
/ and gentlemen whom you see so violent
! now viii be displaced by more moder-
/ ate, and-if may say so without being
/ Ohensive-mOre sensible men. I be-
/ lleve in that doctrine. I do not indOrse
| every expression in the Helper book
/ for have not studied every expression;
/ but the philosophy of the book, the
/ idea of organizing party in the Slave
States as against Slavery, am in favor
/ of, and expect to see it accom- plished.
| What is the objection to the book The
/ objection is that a citizen of the United
States, an American citizen, addressed
himself to his fellOw-citizens, in
( peaceful way, through the press. and
for this you find fault with and say that
he must be hanged, and that any man
who signed a recommendation for the
circulation of his book is q "blighting,
| blasting, burning, whitening curse,
and must not occupy that chair. I
want to know if it has come to this?
Has not an American citizen a right to
speak to an American citizen2 I want
/ the right of uttering what I say here in
Richmond. I claim the right to say
what say here IN Charleston.
Mr.. Bonham-You had better try it.
Mr.. LOveiOy-Y es, Sir. am going to
| invoke the aid of the General Govern
ment to protect me, as an American
citizen, in my rights as an American
citizen. I can 60 to England to-day,
and IN London, or anywhere else, dis
L can discuss the question of a mon
archical government as compared with
a republican form of Government.
can do this any where in England, but
I can not go into a Slave State and
open my lips in regard to the question
of Slavery
Mr. Martin (Va.)-NO; we would
hang you higher than Haman-
Mr.. LOVejoy-I cannot go to a Slave
State and utter my sentiments to free
citizens like myself
Mr.. NIiles-Can you go to England
and incite the labOring classes to muir
der the aristocracy, or to assassinate
the Queen?
Mr.. LoveiOy-I have no desire to, nor
have / any desire to incite such things
anywhere else; but I do claim the
right of discussing this question of
Slavery anywhere, on any square foot of
American soil over which the stars and
stripes float. and to which the privileges
and immunities of the Constitution ex-
tend. Under that Constitution, which
guarantees to me free speech, I claim
it, and I demand it.
Mr.. BOnham-I ask the gentleman
why he does not attempt to assert his
right?
MIR. Lovejoy-Yes, Sir. The gentle
man comes from a Slave State, in which
they are in the habit of speaking of the
laboring classes in the Free States as
''smalI-dsted farmers" f" and they jeer at
US as more degraded than Slaves. This
( Insulting language can be, and is, used
in the Free States without mOlestation
or injury. Yet, they say, ''if you come
Hhere and utter the. sentiments which
(which you sincerely believe, we will
| Chang you" If a mechanic from
Free State goes there and utter the SEN
| timent that he thinks-if they had more
white laborers and fewer black ones,
that labor in the South would be more
/ respectable-what do YOU do with him?
/ Denude him, scOurge him, and, to in
! tensify the indignity, you drive the
knOtted thong, by the hand of slave,
deep in his quivering flesh then tar
and feather him and then put him on
/ the cars, still naked, to be sent a long
distance, and threaten with violence
/ the man who has the compassion to
/ give him cup of coffee. And, finally,
| after being ieered at every station along
! the route, this victim of your cruelty,
/ a free citizen, crawls into a stable and
| begs, sUealthily begs, the cast-Of clothes
| of an hostler to hide his nakedness.
/ You drive away young ladies that go to
/ teach school imprisOn or exile preach
ers Of the Gospel; and pay your debts
/ by raising the mad-dOg cry of AbOli-
/ tiOn against the agents OF your creditors.
Mr.. Barksdale-The meanest slave in
/ the South IS your superior LCries OF
! "Order - from the Republican side.]
Mr.. Martin (Va.-I hope gentlemen
| from the South will let him talk as he
! pleases; but go away and not listen to
him.
A Member on the Republican side
/ Well 20. "Stand not on the order of
! your going, but go at once"
Mr.. Lovejoy---Mr. Chairman, I say
claim the privilege of going anywheree
and everywhere within the limits ol
! this American Republic, as a free citi-
zen, unmOlested, and of utteriug, in an
orderly and legal way, any sentiment
that / choose to utter and vet are we
| allowed to do it? Are we, for that, in
these United States, to be subjected to
| violence, outrage, tar and feathers,
| bnrDing, imprisonment, and the gal
/ lows? Answer that question. 1 know
gentlemen say that self preservation is
the first law of nature but if you can
not keep Slavery and allow free dis
cussiOn then say, in Gods name, be-
fore free discussion and all the rights Oi
free citizens are to be sacrificed to that
MOlOch of Slavery, that Moloch must
be inundated at the shrine of liberty,
free speech, free discussion, and all
those rights that cluster around an
American citizen. Why, Mr.. Chairman,
a citizen of Rome, when the sCOurge
was already appraised, and about to fall
upon him, if he uttered the cry, 81 am
a Roman "citiZen,' it arrested that
scOurge. Well, Sir, is it not more of 8
charm, is it not a prOuder position to be
an American than to be a Roman citi-
zen. And are we in the nineteenth cen,
ury, living under this Constitution
with our free institutions---ar our per,
sons and our rights to be less sacred
than they were under the old Roman
J administration eighteen centuries age
= and more? That is my response to the
> question why I recommended the circu
[ lation of the Helper book. Now, wha
, about John Brown. [CTies of Lets
have il I'1 This affair of John Brown
, brings us to the reality of things, This
I raid confronts us with Slavery, anC
l makes US ask is slavehOlding right
f and if so, what right has it? WheI
= the curtain rose and startled the NatioI
e with this tragedy, John Brown lay
/. there like a wounded lion with his heaC
- upon his paws, a saber cut on his brow
I bayonet gashes in his side, the blooC
oozing out, and life itself apparently
r. ebbing fast; around were certain litth
q specimens of the canine species, snuff
leo ing and smelling, and finally one o
Q them yelped out: ''Nfr. Lion, was the OLE
j, "war-h horse that pastures on the West