The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05

tied chiefly by SlaVe-oWners, ana us own
voice was for slavery. The North urged
that Congress had the right to nibit
slavery in any state it admitted into the
union: the South contended that each state
should determine its own domestic affairs,
and that Missouri should be given the PRIV
ilege of deciding whether il should be
slave or free state. There was long de-
bate some times taking an angry tone
Through The influence and eloquence OF
Henry Clay. Missouri was admitted as a
slave state with the understanding that
any state afterward formed out of the
Louisiana purchase should be admitted as
a free state, provided it was north of the
southern boundary of Missouri.
Although all sections of the country
nracticed slavery in the begin
ming. there were few men
who thought it an evil. Some of our
greatest Northern and Southern statesmen
condemned it.
BENJAMIN Lundy, a Quaker of New Jer-
sey. was the first to give his life for It,
He published a paper, THE Genius OF Uni
versal Emancipation" in different parts of
the country. At Boston he made con
vert of William Lloyd Garrison, who in
1891. began printing in that city an aboll-
tion paDer of his own, called The Liberia
tor" He condemned slavery in such a
violent way that it excited much bitter ieel
ing. He would not consent to the pur-
chase
emancipation, claiming that slavery was
a crime and a Shareholder a criminal
The constitution recognized slavery aru-
Gle 4. section 2. In 1903, Congress abolished
the slave trade, but New England engaged
in it to the very last. In 1888, when BEN
iamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, headed
a petition to Congress urging the authori-
ties to adopt measures looking TO the mat
abolition of African slavery throughout
the Union, Congress passed resolution
declaring that it had no authority 10 IN
terfere in the emancipation OF slaves. me
North released the slaves where they
brought no benefit to it, but the South
was benefited and refused to free them
Under Garrison every possible means
of agitation was used, speeches were made
articles written for newspapers, candI-
dates of abolition tendencies were put for
ward. Congress was petitioned and Incendl-
ary circulars sent through the mails 10
all parts of the South The slaves began
To feel the influence of the agitation. In
Virginia, in 1881, there was negro up
rising which resulted in the massacre or
sixty whites. Other uprisings were threat
ened. and in many quarters slaves De-
came excited and rebellious. The South
was now very sensitive on TINS SUBJECT.
They wanted to take extreme measures
for the suppression of the abolition aglta-
ton. Garrison while editing The Cen
ms" in Baltimore, was arrested, fined al d
n,1t in iaiI. Georgia offered 5000 reward
for the arrest of any party found clrcuia-
ting the "IAberator." Packages OF neWspa-
rers referring to the abolition OF slavery
were taken from the mails ana
nnh]iclv burned. Most of the peo-
ple were for preserving the Union,
and for suppressing all disorganl-
z,ne violence whether North or South In
iS36 the House dec AIRED a Congress had no
constitutional authority 10 interfere with
the institution of slavery in any state.
~ Congress ought not interfere with slaY-
erv in the District of Columbia; and by
a vote of more than two-thirds or the
members. passed resolution that II would
NOT consider in any way peutlon, me
mortal resolution, or proposition IN re-
card to slavery. 1t was apparent thdt
most of the people were opposed 10 the ag-
itation and the strife IL engineered EliJah
T.oveioy. editor of an emancipation paper
ar Alton Ill while defending his press
from destruction, was killed by the MOB.
The aholitionists used the incident for po-'
Utieal purposes. Congress again refused
10 receive the numerous emancipation petl-
lions that poured an. The South became
more and more restless under the con-
tinued and violent agitation OF the ques-
ton by the abolitionists. When a North
ern member of Congress made bitter alb
clifton speech in the House, the SOUTH
ern members arose in body to leave the
hall When California and New Mexico
were made parts of The United States,
there was another contest over whether
they should be free or slave states. Both
the North and the South urged the same
old arguments. Henry Gay Drought
forth the compromise. % The speedy ad-
mission of California as a free state; (2)
territorial government in New Mexico and
Utah without any restriction upon slaV
cry; (8) the payment TO Texas Of 200
for her claim TO a part of the territory
OF New Mexico; (D slavery was not 70
be abolished in the District Of Columbia
without the consent of Maryland but the
slave trade therein was prohibited; 90 a
more effective fugitive slave law 90 de-