Year: 1860

the same joys and sorrows, and are actuated
by the same motives that we are. They
may be treated like brutes, their souls may
be ignored, you may whip and tramplc them
down, but as they are human beings they
will rise from the utmost degradation and
stand forth in the image of God, the con-
scious candidates of immortal life. This
gives them the full consciousness of their
manhood, that stands as an eternal proof
that they are not always to be slaves. But
if it is right Why this perturbation and
fear at the South lest their institutions
should fall? Why is it you withhold
knowledge from the slaves? What means
this persecution of Northern men who 90
there?


What is this fear of the Helper book?
If Slavery is the normal condition of the
race, do you fear that the hand work of
God will be overturned by these frivolous
means? Society in the North needs no
such means to sustain itself You may 90
there and talk against our institutions
We will invite you to preach the glories of
Slavery and its normal condition, and our
institutions will and frmer than ever af-
ter the conflict We fear no such things,
though the Senator from Virginia (AIr.
Hunter) may say Slavery is the normal con-
dition and Freedom but an experiment
which is likely to come out second best,
everything shows the security of the North,
and shows which is the normal condition
of man and which not


Look at the great Northwest, with a
population as great as all your slavchold-
ing States. so secure and conscious of her
strength that she forms an empire of her.
self. We hear this cry from the South of
Southern Rights" but we hear nothing
from the secure region of Freedom 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 bad enough where there are four mil
lions Of unpaid laborers in competition with
the laborers of the North. Keep it within
your own boundaries, and conduct it in
your own way.


If it is wrong--and it is wrong-your
new philosophy cannot stand the scrutiny
of the present age. Yes, more, it is found
ed on the selfshness and eupidity of man,
and not on the justice of God. There is
difficulty with your institutions, and the
foundation of your fear. But as to the
vast Territories of this country, if l am
right, and slavery is branded and condemn
ed by the God of nature, then, in Heavens
name, 50 with me to limit it, and not to
propagate this curse. Now, l ask Sena-
tors what they find in this Republican par
ty so rcpulsive to them.


Our principles are only these; we hold
that slavery is wrong, and inconsistent with
the best interests of the people, and we de-
mand that it shall be limited. This limi-
tation will not be hard upon you, because
you have land enough to support popu-
laton as large as that of Europe, and GEN.
turies will roll away before you will occu-
Py what you now have. The next thing
we hold is the principle of the Homestead
bill; and we demand, also, that there shall
be protection to Northern labor against the
pauper labor of Europe. These ar, the
only measures of the Republican party.


Mr.. Wade closed by referring to the free
negroes of the country, who, he said, were
the victims of deep rooted prejudice, so deep
as to make it apparent, the two races could
not inherit the same place Many States
were now trying to drive them out. He
thought this Government owed it to justice
and to themselves to provide some means
whereby this unfortunate class might emf
crate to some congenial climate, where all
their faculties would be developed. There
were such countries in Central America
where climate and soil are alike suited tC
them, and where a place could be obtained
for them.


He would not do them an injustice, ol
in any way compel them to do anything
against tn ir interests, but he hoped this
principle would be engrafted on the Repub
lican plltform. and then We shall hear No
more about negro equality or anything Of
that sort He would have the two race:
separate, and have them both prOsperou:
/ and happy in the climate best suited to theil
nature-cach enjoying that liberty and
I freedom from all oppression which is the
GOd-siven right of every human being
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