The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-12
WHOLE NO. llS.

off tyranny ever so bound its own hands
and placed it beyond its own power to
do mercy and work righteousness In the
future as Mr.. Adams proposed to bind
the hands of the United States and de-
prive our own government for all time Of
the power to emancipate single slave,
SO long as one slave state should object"
Nothing could be more unfair;than this
attack, for the simple reason that nearly
every Republican member OF Congress
voted for the very measures which Mr..
Adams is row denounced so bitterly for
introducing. The amendment to the
constitution referred to, was not intro
duced by Mr.. Adams, but was part of the
report of that committee of thirty ~three;
and Mr.. Adams dissented from it and
made seperate report in which he said:
'sThe general conclusion to which the
subscriber has arrived from close OBJ
servation ofthe actions of the committee
is this. That no form Of adjustment will
be satisfactory to the recusant states q
recognition Of this obligation to extend
and protect slavery. On this condition
and this alone will they consent to with
draw their opposition to the recognition
OF the constitutional election Of the
Chief Magistrate. Viewing the matter
in this light, it seems unadvisable to at
tempt to proceed step farther in the
way OF offering unacceptable proposi>
tions. He can nerer give his consent to
the terms demanded.
Hence he feels it his duty now to dissent
from the actions ofa majority ofhis COL
leagues in introducing any measures
whatever tor the consideration of the
House."
The second proposition submitted by
! the committee embraced the c0nstitu-
tional amendment referred to by Mr..
| Blaine, to wit:
cart. MI. No amendment to this con-
stitulion having for its object any inter-
ference, within the states, with the rela-
tions between their citizens and those de-
scribed in Sec. Art. OF the constitution
rs '.all other persons" shall originate
with any state that dees not recognize
that relation within its own limits, or
shall! be valid without the consent Of ev-
cry one OF the states composing the
Union" See McFhcrson's Political His
tory Of the Rebellion p. 50.]
! Before the vote was taken Mr.. CorWin
submitted substitute as follows:
cart. XII. No amendment shall be
made to the constitution which will au-
thorize or give to Congress the power to
abolish or interfere, within any state, with
the domestici Institutions thereof, includ-
ing that of persons held to service or
labor by the laws of said statc."
This was Worse than the first PROPOSE
ton; because under that slavery might
have been terminated by unanimous con-
sent of all the states, under the latter it
could not be abolished at all.
And yet this proposition, tor which says
Mr.. Blaine, "there is no parallel in his
tory; than which no ukase of Russian
despotism in the darkest days Of Roman
of tyranny ever So bound its hands, RE-
CEIvED THE ASSENT or OUR OWN SENA~
TOR WILLIAM WINDOW, then member
OF the House. And that great leader OF
the Republican party, Schuyler C0lfax
voted for it. So also did Henry Winter
Davis, Dawes, Of Mass. Grants sex-Sec.
retary OF the Interior, Columbus Dslano.
Morrill, Of Vermont, +. Joy Morris Of
Penn, and host OF others including
Mr.. Adams. The amendment was adopt.
ed in that Republican Houce by q vote OF
1873 yeas to 65 nays, and in the Repub.
lican Senate by vote Of "a yeas to II
nays.
/ In the lignt of to-day it was shameful
surrender Of race to eternal slavery;
. viewed in the light Of 1861 it was Inc
effort Of Congress to avoid the terrible
struggle Of the on coming war, whose
end no man could fOresee.
We are no friend Of Mr.. Window, but
we should be sorry TO use such facts as
! these as an argument against him, as
! Blaine has done with Mr.. Adams. We
might 20 farther and show that Mr.. Win :
| dom voted in 1861 for law under which 4
negro might be arrested anywhere in the
) United States Is fugitive slave, and Il
7 he claimed that he was or had always
} been free man, he could have n6i16eF
! the benefit Of trial by jury or the writ
: Of habcGs corpus, he must be taken to the
slave state from which it was claimed
he had escaped to be tried there. This
deliberately handed over every man in
the north, who had drop of negro bloc d
i in his veins, to the mercy ofaDy south
4 erner who chose to claim him rs his cs-
e capped slave, and left his identity and his
: liberty to be settled in community
8 where the oath Of negro would not bc
3 heard as against white man.
e This was horrible and hidcous act ;
+ ten times worse than the one Blaine de-
4 nounces. and while Charles Francis
: Adams refused to vote for it, Window,
= Burlingame. Colfax, Conkling. Corwin,
! CoyOde, and ! host Of other leading Re
] publicans voted for il and It passed yeas
! 50 nays s.. These old records tell ter
0 ribls story.
/ Nothing but the breaking out Of the
!. war pre1eoted these Rspu0licaa lead
> ersfrom gstfing down % their bellies
, md crawling G(i1 further II tho mud b.
III loee - sud-. And now dry ase pa-
I1fuo1 and fkiends u - blaek 1nnn aai
31oG Htansfg Adnms Il = fAi6eg -
1Ivllf1s. Slnne oasach 1s1aSe.1egy.