Year: 1860

| Constitution, and the moment we do stpssKi


from this we endanger the haFmeny of ourv


action. But waving the Constitutional law,


L will suppose that You have a right to take,


your slaves into the Territories and hold tberlI-


there Still, sir, is it expslient, fight aud,


proper to do it And that brings me to eou.,


slider a question that has been incidentally


brought up. The fathers of the RepWbiic &


believe without dissenting voice. agreed that,


savehobding was against the common right OF


man, and was wrong in itself, snd shonId MT


be cherished. But find they did not un-s


derstand it. And now the slaveholding Statrs7


have found out Slavery is the normal condition.
( of the black race and a blessing to soeiety,s


and therefore ought to be extended. Tbatsis,


the only issue ] wish to make becanse Ii1now,


your determination to extend Slavery arising,
! from this new philosophy, that Slavery is thei
t normal condition of man, and that il is right.g
2 just, and proper, if not necessary to the hap
: piness of allconcerned.. IF you are right in
! that will go with you. Let us ektendit aud


let us employ missionaries to preach. the glory
of slavery, and induce the whole world ia,


turn Shareholders or slaves | am glad at last,


to see this great question placed sn a solid,


foundation, for every man knows that no palit-,


ical principle can be placed on anything Short


of eternal justice and right. Tue Senator
from Georgia may tell US that slavery is. The


basis on which society has been founded for
thirty centuries. Sir, it is discovered that if
is a sandy foundation, which is fast wash.
ing away with the advance % Of nam
kind and civilization and knowledge. Ii is O.
principle that is deemed barbaroust aud,
which is passing away. On that issue let rs
stand. If slavery is right let us extepd it. IL
it is wrong let it die the death. j hardly knew


how to meet this issue, for ] have been in tho


habit of believing with the fathers, that libr-
! ty was the gift of God to every being aud


had supposed that this was selEevideDt n
| there is any one here who will not for hinz II
respect the old sentiment-"Give me Libcr
| or give Inc death !f-let him speak Vile
would not rather follow a friend or relation TO
the grave than into the shambles of etcrliaI
slavery? l know il is said the African is an
inferior race and cannot defend its own rights.
But my ethics tell me that so far from this
giving the right to enslave him, it should teach
! men to be more scrupulous of his rights. !


know he is still a human being they are stifl


men and women and there are thousands now


in bondage who are much more white thaa


black. But whether white or black, they have


the same joys and sorrows, and are actuattd
by the same motives as we are. They may ba


treated like brutes, their souls may be ignored


you may whip and trample them down. but as
they are human beings they will rise from the
utmost degradation, and stand forth in the iuI-
age of God, the conscious candidates OF Inn
mortal life. This gives them full consciotis-
ness Of their manhood, that stands as an etcr-
nal proof that they are not always to be slaves
But if it s right, why this perturbation and
fear at the South lest their institutions shoh!i
fail Why is it you withhold knowledge from
the slaves? What means this persecution IT
Northern men who go there? What is tits
fear Of the Helper book? If slavery is the
normal condition of the race, do you fear that
the handwork of God will be overturned ~
these frivolous means? Society in the North
needs no such means to sustain itself Yoh
may go there and talk against our institutions.
We will invite you to preach the gIorics II
slavery and its normal condition, ard our ID
sttutions will stand frmer than ever after tic
conflict. We fear no such things, though tie
Senator from Virginia (Mr Hunter) may say
slavery is the normal condition and freedom
but experiment which is likely to come out
second best; everything shows the security ct
the North, and shows which is the normal cond-
ton of man and which is not. Look at the great
Northwest, with population as great as all
your savehOlding States, so secure and ccil-
scious of her strength that she forms an en-
pire of herself We hear this cry from tie
South of "SOutliern Rights" but we hear
nothing from the Secure region OF Freed m
and Free Labor. All this goes to show that
slavery is not the normal condition Of man,
but it is an institution that has outgrown the
times in which it formerly lived, and now only
lives on The suffrage Of mankind. l will say
nothing about it in the States. 1t IS bsi
enough where there are four millions of Hnpaid
laborers in competition with the laborprs IF
the North Keep it within your own bouil-
dares and conduct it in your own way. HI:
is wrong-and it is wrong-your new philus-
ply cannot stand the scrutiny Of the present
age. Yea, more; it is founded on the selfish
ness and cupidity Of man, and not on the JUS
tice of God. There is the difficulty with yo,ir
institutions, and the foundation of our fear.--
But as to the vast territories of this country,
if am right, and Slavery is branded and corr
demned by the God of nature, then in Heavens
name, go with me to limit it, and not TO prop
agate this curse. Now, l ask Senators
what they find in this Republican party, Ao
Fepulsiye to them. Our principles are only
these: we hold that slavery is wrong, and ii-
consistent with the best interest of the peo.
pie, and we demand that it shall be limited =,
This limitation will not be hard upon you, be
cause You have land enough TO support pop
ulation as large as that of Europe and ccntr-
ries will roll away before you will occupy
what you have. The next thing VIC holl
is the principle of the Homestead bill; ard
We demand, also that there shall be protection
to \ orthern labor against the pauper labor,f
Europe. These are the only measures Of tbs
Republican party.


Mr.. Wade closed by referring to the free
negroes of the country, who, he said, were tle
victims of deep rooted prejudice, so deep asto
make it apparent the two races could not in
habit the same place. Many states were now
Government owed it to justice and To them
selves to provide some means whereby this un-
fortunate class might emigrate to some con.
genial climate, where & II their faculties would
be developed. There were such countries in
Central America where climate and sell ari
alike suited to them, and where place could
be obtained for them. He would not dO them
an injustice or in any way compel them to do
anything against their interests, but be hoped
this principle would be engrafted on thty RE-
publican platform, and then we shall hcar'rO
more about negro equality or anything Of that
sort. He would have the two races separate.
and have them both prosperous and happy in
he climates best suited to their nature--raoh
enjoying that liberty and freedom fromall OPP