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fon rimeat whioh 1 to be treed schools, ‘the ean chee tad baase teflon ‘Gouia Ee peues de now snbmitted tothe ent. = Comins of Cnter North for thetr decision, It would be rejected by an over- been “the abolition jueed. which would hive excin‘ed all the fat t fe the greatest of desire in | the iblie—even Wishingtos, Jefferaon, aod Freakin Bi there pcm hs it was unhappily introduced ia | Yes, sir; startling it may be, but indieputadie Could state! u their infant state.” And t! egal, im tae Declaration | these ilustrions men descend from thelr’ realms ebovs, oD eat, tad moma Relate area, ven prii of Indesendence he em! sentiments which, when | and revisit the land which they had nobly dedicated to | ciples blow constitute the individuslity of the Nort: fos freedom > every slave | freedom, they could not, with their well known aud re | en eharacter—wnieh render It staunch, strong, and sea- roughout the ‘We hold these traths to be self- | corded opinions sgainst alavery, receive a somiastion for worthy—which bind it together a¢ with iroa—-are drawn ovident,”" @ys our coustry, speaking by the velce of Jef | tbe Presideney from either of the eld political parties. | out, one by one, like the bolts of the ll fated vessel, aad forsom, “that all men are created Ga Nor could Joba Jey, our first Chiet Justice and great ex- | fiom th miserable fragments is formed that endowed with certain inalienable rights; that am: empler of judicial virtue—who hated slavery as he loved | baman anowaly—a Northern man with Soatherp prin- ‘these are Hiberty, amd the purselt of he >pinus.” ix Mimitted to resume those cuties with which | ciples. the ‘the Confederation, he Fame on earth 1s indissolubly aseciated, To ruch | Mr. President, this bill ts p wrazt, ga ously 04 T84, @ resolution to exclude extent has our government departed from the anciest | peace. In this way (you vainly thiak to withdrew the by | wave. subject of slavery from national polities, This is a mise the States of the federal government, inelading the whole ‘These facts prepare us to comprehend the true charac- | take. Peace depend: rman never territory mow covered by Tennessee, Missisti ppl and Als. | tr of the change with regard to the Territories. In 1787, | rest secure on brok, m faith aa infentions “and, at, pe all the Bational domain vas promptly and unani: | mis me to say, {rambly, sincerely, sod earnestly, thatthe Lost at Grst by & sivgie vote only, this measure was | movaly Gedicated to freedom, without opposition or oriti- | subjeet ot slavery can never oo withdrawn from the wal Temewed at « subseq day by © soa of | clam. The intercict of slavery then covered every inch | national politics until we return once more to the eonfiraed im the | of soil belonging to the national government. Louis! , | bal policy of our fathers, at the frst rg ordinapes of North Western tercitory, Saaee ‘Sacharaees Tse yt es abd eee hrm original rement, under Washington, wien the national om dung was js soqui endin after a vehe- re on the natios we dlaoern the set-larery chars of the founders ot | ment ‘struggle which. ahsok the whole land, discom ved mers 3 if the was opposed by Mr. Rhea, of At this stage, | e on the 24 of March, the Committee o H iF i ery, who svowed ali joe made their report, whick once sito by Mc. Ople, of Pons upon the Houre by Mr. Lowndes, the diating, d Repre. pre- ior y ae i ‘8 determination in the do by others, among as decision of ei ayer to day ‘which be hed House was fully prepared for.” the question ted to the expedieney of es- | then came on striki reatris discrimination ? bat pro | bill. The report in tne National’ "Ineluipoorr hy a Mr. Lownpas spoke briefly in support of the coe) and not the southern | recommended by the sratemend edt be Oomlihen tf Contcnan 280 aod our repubilc, determ! om to place the ma- | freedom was com) by # dividing line, to a partition raise ere Sichiest | ovavyasaray ne prey ahs atc cus | Garesteay phen ioe pctenenemee ore | vem am engi +, “aaron maa But this ides to Jed "y, oa tl freedom. x! ly SP) a lecular ‘soqair- wrma tho | Loe, was thus cnehy connie ad ake rasgented by tap, eryviadem, ane vit » ofmoderation, | The federal cematitution was adopted in 1768. and | od from Frazos, has been accepted as final down to the the | debate, by an eminent charsowr, Mr. Loule M-Lane, of soreceinn ond shout helt an ‘hous: when Delaware, who has since held high office in the oountry, 6 compelled by indisposi lom $0 resume his seat, commos measure of public confidence. edt eatermity with this report, thie distarbing ques- wes at once put at rest. Maine Missouri were slope are yet spared. On this occassion he said:— | each admitted into the Union as independent States. line on the west. of the Mississippl, morth of | The restriction of slavery ia Missourl was abandoned by a + be tolorat: Raa Simeys " Mody vote in the House of 90 yeas to 87 mays; and the . ee sa waiett eon lata Dit‘om of slavery im ali Te:ritories morth of 86 The pr attempt he regarded as min , exclusive of Miseourt, was substituted by a vote of ree we discern the samespirit. The emphatic words of pote of Congress; but now, sir, here in 1854, of the is suddenly summoned to surreader even her | ational polities, “ within the field which excites auy real interes ioh have ¢ivided the minds of One by ove they round to be osee- question grander far. the banks, sub-trea- ury, the distribution of the public Isnds, are each and all obsolete issues ven the tariff is not a question om which oppesite political partios are unite! in takiug oppo aides, Ard pow, instead of these superseded ques 194 yeas to 42 mays. Among the distinguished Southern ten w tt hich were connected for the most part wi shaneed into Roltoalle Ate, toate ima the line the restriation om Missourt he eonalnges | Bates in he aflrmative are Louis Malane, of Dela var, odor of the Colles, the sountsy ir dhestly tammaned te 4 . Mo- , of Marylaad, wade jo ccnaider f fe hi ene ed © foe. Mo- iscihi ta iestee Ws to | Carolina, and Chatles Fantom Marcer, of Virgiols. The {hota divine iassehitans etih all thas tel pate Kementet meres in $s tore Tera of 8 treaty, that ‘the very seasssoncemsent of I jon of hibition by bil ee Rene {sw orale, with el) that is traly practical and constitution- nome ‘perish from the mal men; * prob! adding the words, a! im polities. Unlike the other questions, it is not tem. * only mere fne-Doy.ot Tunis has adieu iat mach | slavery in certain Territories.” The bills thea ; or loesl in its character. It belooge to all times noble act, by which, In honor of God, to distlogaish ane sree monies of poll: pct hosie igre division; agg. on the mora’ peg all countries. ~Bhcegh bog kept wobbeiey it mow, man from the brute creation” —I quote hisows words—ne 1y, aml which enabled ody March, 1820, the National Is 08 y your strcdustion, confronts the people, demanding te Georeed its total sbolltion throughout hie dowinions, Let aN fo ele oe ee ce oe a es diplate W prsctasiiy spelica toons a ey Saye cone Leyes gions (availa of be heard. To every en in this land it says. with clear, Christian America be willl . ished timore, immediately ry freedom lation of the country, f cit f mples, God forbid that oe ropabllse hel: of alt the afier ita pamage, indloatea it ag a perpetanl compact | All sithin tbe spuere of ie lniuance,” It wes speatgeaiy | acoption cf the oventtation down: to tne eneneéen | Cuecuating vlee, "Are you for freedom, or are you far which could not be disturbed. The langues {s #0 clear of time’”’—should ad: and strong that I will read it, alti h it has been al- Ceclared that ‘no person shall be deprived of life, | This power was assertad beforethe constitution. It was | "*.f\?,'” And every men iu the land must enewor this Mberty, or property, without dae procens of law;” that is, | net denied or proibitd by she oowatitution iteell, question whem he votes, i By SF by gentlemen mri ithout due Iprote lactetones ae Ba * | "Pass this bill, and it will befn vain that you say the ‘As the effort pow maki: in character, oy will art: ready quoted by my friend from Ohi > (Mr. Caase): wi present it, it, Or other judicial | has been exercised from the first existence of the govern- i fy Reo Se Se RE ot sae mrreeuznzaustoer | Litem Sener epoat Ws teen trick | hike genset ine mcei ae ee s| ranma aM, Nong cnn til ah ae I trath of 1 y which enaat rat : where i neot—: ive, the legulati-e, an: ‘ proalped fa ont Declaration of Tndepentonse, has been ate sive this inw vithte the natdonal jurisdiction, J the judicial Preee-enta of every kind are thick in 1t8 | 0 ite heart so ras ede eurerand all the holy sem stalled; and this great charter of eur ceuntry discredit. ed. a and I Will soon pass away, bat thet wilicon jpeachment or qaestion. Tas De- claration of Independence was a declaration of vident from the debat os }. r4 Atom, that slavery, ike _ On the national consti'u- | support. Indeed, the very bill sow before us temporary, and it seems ve been posed thint they wovld both dis ear together. Noe ke words employed in our ¢ay ance it with am ind; Wo de wot anything’ b: existe in ite observance 04 parties have ¢ to conciliation. Wo wish te see 9! feit! ‘we trust that a ki: smumes & imests o* the heart, repudiate any such false seewing settlement, @ trade, was regarded as | control of the territory clearly inconsistent with those yond a ve Noms, inane the cleat line of our duty. And t w th «l yy | principles of sovereignty which are said to be violated by | seat fag ed an somehital- ste oc 7 i demo- ® Congressional protubition of slavery, crate, who espouse that dem coracy which is transfigared : ' rights, end ‘the language employed, though gen- tion more burnng than those ching a ¢ Provistens Cotermining the main features in | ip the Deelaration cf Independence and the {ojanctions of eral 4 ter, glowed on the lips of | the government—the distribution of - | C] within the design and sphere ot orrionsly be restrained | Tho soggestions of compromise wore at this time vain; | "The dlatingulahed leaders in thls nettement gore ati | 0 Fathers, Katly in the ‘eouvantiog Gosvoraece ior | tive ihe lenient eosin of powers in theextox | Christianity, The tutimony whioh we beat aguiast sar rit, of Pennsylvania, broke forth in the language of an rin which they shail be reapectivel an | YOTy, as og aiaat oll other wreng, is ia different ways, ae aboittionist:—“He never would concur ia ‘usholiing do. | securing tothe President, with the connect cree wee cordirg to our position, |The slavery which exists uader meatio slavery, It wasa nefarious institution I: was | the appointment of the goversor, the neo: > st er eine Uni , os rf ad ae On Pd in other the curse of Heaven.” In another mood, and with mild, | judges, and to the people the election 0° t! ‘aten Oi oy! tor Be ‘i fe tor colina, we cam Ordstaing the qualisoarions of volern the oppose only through the influence of mora’s and religion, bila officers, and the cally alarisa of the | without in avy way invuking the politieal power. Nor is re of the legisiature. surely, it Oungress may estanitas | Proposed to act otherwise. But slavery, whery we are these provisions, without apy interference with parties to it—where we are responsible for it—most be ‘et | ing voice of its representatives, claimed all for freedom; | McLane, of Delaware, had a A Seeten Sy teoheaatne: trom Todtven (ME: Futtly ) abe i the Seuth, by ita potential command of the Senate,clatm: tome conn pack siding mpon all eee Legislatures. mea r slavery, was rought forward and upheld ‘Sonat Fe A ee ia mental aa > P Pag = be ae: a0 ve boon career —— bare rr hea By, Willow m Pischney, of arlan, tnd, oe pn thes dealt . These ft . story m, after an aatma' 1 herm Sena oenwe ieee ay. a egnaly FY stroge , hand to hand, had been kept in check by slave- two, again ierreas or a ‘Nortnece ao n-s these a pers ety aan po equal ia his sig F opeerense policy of our rathersia the restriction | cep) four. The Commit'ee of Conference, Phen oa Or ere of & dacleration of rights, 4 Involving mo such absurdity os was citrated co feecagt | oueh party was Cotermined. The North, by the prevail: | from the South. As early as february, 1810, Louis property letters written near this — which oom Gesaribs the sims of an abolitionist— e rights | opposed, mot only by all the influence of morals ca eed. gad this qlaat wrong threnten:’| “Sitoh nay anne + avowed “that it was among his first wishes to ste some | of territzrial eovereigoty, it may also probibit slavery. ama Seal ts aaa ae Sata aat Or tlave, #0 are alt | ed to stalk into allthe broad national domaim, Mea at | part of the Beasts, with” infesibie Partisans of | Pismadopted IZ, ruins slavery may be abolished bylaw,” | |, Bat there iain the very bill en express prohibition on ee er, tates. Beatas Ie? ta rustaiaed of oman gras ony —— ieee - i | the North were humbled and amazed The imperious de. | the South, such as might fitly represent the | *8¢ that to this end ‘his suffrage ahonid aot be wanting.” | tbe Tersi-ory, borrowed irom the ordinance of 1787. and by local » end although we may be at cf iverty the pugtisel orSasatal | MADds of slavery seemed ineredible, Meanwhile, | sentiments of its Presicent pro em., Joan Gaillard, a Sane In this split was the national constitution adopted. repeated in every adt organizing a Territory, cr even & pew State, down to the present ticre, wherein it ts ex- preesly declared that ‘no tax should be imposed upon com- pelied to share the shame whioh itv presence infilcte upon the fats fame cof the country, yet itreasives wo direct eane- th it . 4 tho property of the United States.” Now, here isa olear | wrocg is nota our own particulne done Oat tle ard unquestionable restraint upon the sovereignty of i Torritorien snd Beater, The public lanis of the Uaited | Sverzwrere vithts the ereheote sete ato Ta this spirit the paticnal roment was first organised ueder Washington. And here there in a fact of peculiar significance, well worthy of perpetual remembrance. At the time that this great chief took his frst oath to sup sort the eon:titution of the United Stater, the mational ieegeat Which men are characterised, or the uahap- ate ‘lon the ee s¢jvurnmed from on: | ator from South Carolina; on ti towbich bys violation of acommon broth. | E°"Sanita mectings’ an carmen eri they are doomed To deny the Declaration of Tate, AP pee y ng the admission of Missouri part of the House, it was nominated by Henry Clay, the Speaker, aud Rope tuted, Sraving iw double fe from the oath, ous saat ‘ated, drawing ivs dou! fe from South, restriction of slivery. Jadges left the beach and | mouse in Tavorot the comprom'se. A private Totter from sh on the bosses of the shield of the anty, which in all respects the present measure isdiction ~* +00 Be. clergymen the it to swell tne indignant pro! , Sane ensign nowhere withia the nitional territory covered | States, airuated within an organized Territory or State, cada braille rg CP bag babe? wbich afore foe gee mon, without distinetion of party. | aaticnsnney Magraphes, io the tae eearyed by his | jingle slave, On the gee am exccrable piracy, the trade | cannot be regarded as the iostrumenta and Geaus nese? eet avon partieley denny Hed existe there in ot this bition the number of slaves will not bs ia- | 4. 1° movment was not confined ‘Tho bill for tho admission of Miseour! tr jer the national flag. In the States, asa sectional insti | vation, l:ke fortifications, arsenals and navy yards. They 4 there, will be simply « Doreficent difarion pA agli rl Te ‘that ‘Of slavery, and not its extension, I reply at once, that this | Jerrey, “as followed by oth 1 roester, sxyument, if of aay vatoe-It not mere words and nothing hip. Ormuittons were orgnataed’ Serralle' the country, 4 is by striking out the restr: 15, Se faually Justify aud require the overthrow of | Ths cit'zens of Baltimore, convmed at the Coat House, ~/ be tt slong Beap prohibitia Very {2 the free States, and, tadeod, | with the Maycr in the chatr, resolved that the future | ie névocate of, reauriotion apo the vacant territory nd Sraprbare threarhout the worl All toe dikes which, | scmiteion of slaves into the States hereafter formed west | Representatives, avernnteed ate —— sonatas i bars ropnpenocregen ought to be prohivited by Congress: in oppotition to thelr form roads of this evil, must be re: tutiom, beneath the shelter of the local Jaws, slavery an happily found a home, Bat in the only territories at this time bslongisg to the nation, broad of the Northwest, it bad alrsecy, by the ordinance of freedom, been made impossible, even before the adoption of the comstitution. The District of Columbia, with its fata) <Fatériog upon hi high deden; Washington, i mest pan ‘a ‘upon his at fal imeclf an | Yim.ts of partianss sbolitionist, was surrounded by men who, y their lives iL ctly in the nature of private property ot the na. | ‘ue Peibelplake to say. as is often charged, that wa <= tion! and as such, unless exempted by. ‘he foregoing a ly be within the field of loo sali lands of other pronsintes Wood: 2nd incldenta...Wad judgment, that ia a wi a out restriction as to slave: > ‘That bill was back eels ae with the restriction as to slay: ik for those with whom I “nim te ciated—te interfere, through Congnerspislation of Com the States, or in any way to “itn jurisdiction. Our poll- Fol ren abjeots Bot MP Political duties, are oo-exten- Noam ted¥ politios! respon {bilities ‘North sre responsidie for slavery w! uncer the jurisdiction ef C ngrers, it ie ot to exert every power we possess t a and every land opened ~e ond declared opinjone, were pledge’ to warfare wil os PON ocdbary ond Bf ogatret it, ‘anew to its destructive flood. Itis clear beyond dispute le ? Liberte ted. Thi ; pinjo with yreaed States vs. 1 Woodbury and Minnot p 76. that by the overthrow of this prohibition tet be ro f regard = ‘The some Privat aR ee eh rary fae rape Meany poe Mea A) aires, ait | tavoumme hep, that withoat this prokibition these Bach fs our eause. To men of all parties and opinions, who wish well tothe republic, and woald gocd mame, it appeals, Aliie to the conservative and the reformer, if appeals; for it {ands om the truest coaserva- and t} ues: reform. In seeking the reform of ex- {ating evils, we seek also the conservation of the pies of our fathers. The cause is not sectionsl; for i simply aime to ertab'ish uncer the national government: those great principles of justise and humanity which are broad and apiverrel as man. As well might it de sald ‘has been lana Hable to taxation. Does any one question this? Nobody. The conclusion then follows that by this prohibition you propose to deprive the present ferrivory— 6s you have deprived other Territories—aye, and Ststes— of am essential portion of its sove-signty, The Bopieme Court of the United States hi reat prominence to the sovereign right of taxation tes. Inthe case of Providence Bank vs Pitman, 4 Peters, 614, they declare:— the resolut . | Bonat i esciomceg?as Mopcotirted |", eu tn comp a ot slave law, ur der whish free labor will droop, | pation of Friends, unavimousl nemesis nee Ph pa ee ee a sd the the right and the duty of is to prohibit was urged on the House of Representatives. with t olay wert of the Mississippi, ead solemaly ea. by Mr. Lowndes, of South Carolina, Mr. appe to her sister States “to refuse to o- | Mercer, of Virginis; and here again ia?>~ perauacive volos venant with crime.” New Jt and Deleware fol- | of the Som - When cungtess, it lowed, both also unsnimously, Onio asserted the same | 4, a ss = ssorlegious breach of trust.” Theres Hiamition who, ase member ot the f'n cepa omttot New York, had only recently_yyhie laws of God, are held for those who, “though? the State.” There was, also, in slavery by the. by spotless purity and commandicg in- suother ght Jap, Preddent of tue Abolivioa Society of AvGrYcrk, until by the momfaation of Washingtos he be came Cale Justtae of the United State. Ia, hls sight the of Nel 4 eainna "| before the President, James : ale Pes tion is of small practionl mament. My a: shea ool | Pint Sith: providing for Mab tgtita; onverety eobieared eas Ror he Cal tng pli Bip of Joba | eevieck which cainlooen of the repel should tentity, | “Thad the taxing power Ie of vital importance: that It le Pye pitting en date tat Baek a tad league (luz. Ererett) in his eloquent speseh, ues this of ita Ganatora for his vote t> organise Arkansas without | Gainey Adams, Wiliam H. Crawford, Smith Phom; ‘and which the goveroment should seek in every way to at of sak pones in uae te Eemseumsae? (h FOUR- | soteefere, through . with slavery te tbe ieee 0 prohibit wery. ‘Fesolatioas ew iam jori: ¢ whom \- ia th stitution ; for Uiblion, to laparece its importance in « manner from | werd eirforoed by the ommeatation of De WickGua | Joba, Culmoun and, Willem Wirta mujrte of whom | SDL. ss iaabre,” ne wrste, “would proens ( _ ADd agate, int Commie doners of | {ts not contrary to the cone ttaton, fort rpoogaises we Which I feel constrained hindly, but most strenuowsly, | ton, Territories was constitutional. Thus, yet again, the com- | a bill for the perposs with great care, and I would noves | Erie County, 16 Pet Sent invokes the spisit of ite foanders, Sir. it le moe fo dissent. Sir, the consns shows that it is of vital | '"Asnidst these excltements, Oongress-canse together, ta | Termtories vis comsetu sonal, doe teese mrvine 18 ald a jaw ot cessed fo boa mom: Eovuiete tee. Geir’ of toe comminy; our. ts peopeane Sie moment, with | December, 1819, pornession of thees Halls of 't! nS took ite life from the South, so the | ber. >ill Amerien oo SN la enero only course by which sgitation ona ‘be silsyed and quie® be permanently established. 1t is not i comcapdey leet a bes ryt that ney ere sgainet ery, ere willing wait Take this opporition felt. At a i Q pitol for the first mvoe their desclation by th , ie tl gment of its statesmen at the ti British. On the day after the receipt of the Paecideat’s oie jad my resctionatle’ fasta was tho onmyuer: message two several committees of the House were coa- fing party. Iv g ‘at once ite darling object, the ad- ae SO rs Becta Ce oe eee aed By such men was Washington surrounded. while from bis own Virginia came the voice of Patrick Hoary, amid sonfessions that he was a master of slaves, orying :— I +i I osmuct justify (t. However culpable my property within the jurisdiction of the Now I call upon the Senate to remark that this sacred right, ssid to te essent'alto the vary existence of gov- crpment, fa abridged in the bill now bsfore ue ity time they pberiealcally vinit with condemnation, wit the delay of a Gay | the crashed and humbled North, {t reesived mo-e than | oen¢net Iwill so (ar pay my deveir to virtue as to own the For myrelf, 1do not doubt the power of Congress to roach rf contempt, the earnest souls who for’ yeams. ‘sdmlssion of Missour! was to the ; ; txcellenee tad rectitude of ber precepts, aad lament my | fantom the reatriction upon the Territory, aat atvarwards | TP! » aiilen ercaavaeye tt, en if eae ee On ee ee an cee ttn, | mat cl conformity to them. “pon the State, as has slwaye been done; eat fam ave | bavestriven in this ‘struggle, To auch T would eculd I reach them no ith my volee—if you are if your words are mot immediate diseusal m of the grest | Ang pow the South refuses to perform the part which it eossidera- are entirely wilting leas to seg om whet grounds this can be plicsd, which on the motion of Me. aesumed. With the tion fied in ts poaket It Top will not also support the prohibition of sisvery. The for. Sach wards as thease, Atly comisg from our leaders, be- long t0 the true glories of the eoustzy:— reg ‘the num! any was postponed for bargata which it fore- whi sh preced: bones at hi mer je ap urquestionadle infring>msnt of sovereigsty, as whom it may protecl. Human rit, whetasr ia a Ue obverved, le an pre e2m | od pen the soonty. ‘hs, it, e sip statement Of Kop thy Webricitvene thy Gate, Remo related by our Supreme Court, for mcre than oan be as Ny set aepeantinn, be veer dea solitary individeal or a the manner in which the present discussion Prevent ‘The enaliest aader the constitution adopted | +61 ted of tLe latter disregarding ‘the ancieot forms of party jusstion. Pabtle German has declared that he could fied here ‘or aiken aire N. in the Lord’s Prayer—and I believe that it is only in Tl get Mart om, a as - 8 committee was con: tins of thle boty, ‘the Senator from Virgiais, who sits be- hind ‘Me. Mason,) while condemning it in many at- athwestern Territory, am cpwilling ts admit, str, that the prohibition of aed thus ratified the prohibiticn of slat in all the ex’ wavery ts tbe Tetritorion ts in any just sen: ae infringe- {ating tervitcries of the Union Among who sane- | ment of the oval sovereignty. Slavery is an infraction of tioned thin act were men fresh from the labors of the Jon- | the immutable Jew of nature, and, as such, cannot be veation, and therefore familier with its policy. Batthere | Consicered a natura! incidsut to any soversigaty, by 4 is another volee whieh bears testimony in the same dirso- | ‘ally i» s country «hich bas soletnaly d-clared, in ite Yon. Among the petitions presented to the Grat Cosgress | Declaration of Independence, the inaliena>ie right of all was oe fsom the Abolition Sosiety of Pemasylvanis, | ™2n to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happin signed by Benjemin Fraakiim as President. This veser: | 9#° ot olvilisa able votary of freedom, who threughont @ long life had Swife’’—eeek to carry the principles of fresdom toto the native! government wherever its jariediction is ae- acc wleged anc ifm power oss be f any ‘pter erence with the States, whi are beyond jurtecictiop, may you help to erase the blot of slavery ‘rom our panonal brow. To this and you will most traly promote the which you ac much desire. You establish trang! ty thrjughout the country Then at last, sir, the question will be eettled. “Banished from its uearped i ry 5 E i i : & H } i . E : I F i $ 1 ef i. Pesterponiny ete ippendiz, First session, Thirtieth Con- HH ! vey! Hi} A) H sudject, which, it was understood, would enter into the postponed debate on the governmeat there: lewdidly served bis at home and abroad—wnose | Bicipal jurisdiction, by 1! . argument. Missouri Ul, This early effort to Laterdict slavery in the squished Senator recognized’ it anne ob- | ‘Ree nivsed to the Drciavation of lodependence gave | of the nies of tie s Uaion, sansot Se env BA sien Seu Gtk Gicinbettng favee tate ine eDeaal I_Andnow, siz, in the nome of that public faith which ee or uae xa iw ter poten a one Mastic Watch be Soalt not, clitar’, And, though dis- | adced importames even to that grest instrament, and thea gus ia Terriers Wi Poentoed alten tattingsoen of i tasking sad uo! pain signed to the Coxstiiution of the Uaitel states filled course Mr. lor declared the local rcvereignty. The asserted right to make a slave ee Seana tac a aharen, cf. wisdom, eT gninat Savarl right, oad one beno just element of sovereignt} But ‘Spolbte arguement fs presved which seems moat fal lacions in itr character. It fe asserted that, foaemoch ss tke Territories were sequired by the common treasure, it, tive act; butas the Act of Settlement in THe presumed there wore no members—he knew of none— | iDPly 0 legichacive tat; tnt oe tis tertion ot the rubjcet h_ doubted the constitutional power of Congress to impore Tach a restricticn on the Territories. ang the rucoeadioa of the crowa, as besome 8 velse, from Virgiats recognised st once the | permanent Part of the Ueitias seats am prectical aad humane. was emboded—who kaew rely the purposes and aepirations of the fouaters— ‘nis veverable statesman, then eighty four years of at the bar of that whose powers he h Teeponatble, and against whteti we eannot justly political power. We shall be relieved from painful and irritating connection with it. The existing am- A generous right and duty of Congress. This was from Onarles Fen- | 0700! Cos sues been better camstanoes & ta passage, alee relfed to define an establish, nd by the Laat politcal | they are the ecmmcn property of the who's Unio; and, | Semone, betmean the Nort and the South will sofuaeds t is worth | ton Meroer, who declared that esconce and the somplete performance of ite wot of his lovg life solemaly eatreated ee ae ee ee stiner na tatitiboabent of foo will be fulfilled, and this great evil be left to the eee saan ee a repentisnn Hie ooenlt seesea | 7 Be party, Part of our fundamental law, | ynai it worl! be pleased to cvuntenance the restoration of | LOCai vighta and privileges which belong te hica ase Ciil- 1y ieflaences of morals and religion, and the grea re proposition. fe sueuld recerd dark lou avy common legislation. As well might | j:veriy to thse wah! on, whe alone fg this land of froo- ote against ing tho dark cloud of inbumenity, en x ] rev of the United States, But it is admitted that the Ee which Saecriiees fom rolling om beyond the | Congress at {Ris moment beyeraerns 4 scape be dom fio te us ary vert fs fee vased Ts fords people ct Aha very Teretory, 7 yn ongsatzed an Slats, he adverse signs. Bat this I eee —_ Jacilipnn s0 msnestivateaal, $04 non,..1 = 0 orsensof our fellow | may exclade ale wi At length, on the 26th Jaousry, 1820, the House re | om this socount, thrust away that itoent hei ouraging evry species el Fight founCed Ge the emmmon property fa the F ag me peneneeres @hance to pos | solved iteclf into Committee of the Whole on the Missoest with 0th 1 ates, Siete, aod Torri ing Oaly « short time after atterieg this prayer, the patriot em if this eon be done by Broad oe 9 | frerything whteb ated man~all sre enoat aide. te ie ean eeateona Gas cumiieas aa ee te die atone a bacn’ wits | cbligations to freedom, vtands at this dey ss lapreguavie | “toaman descended to the cmp; but be seems sull to | eonaiitute the State government, tke whole a gument, | }oisl, the team engin, Peni, entey oe phn 4 1" the proposition bafore yeu involves, wot nel teasers Tn sete hii tons nen gescction, "tan |: 00 the Tanielley Warebene call upon Gongress, in. mem sable words, to step to the | founded on the acquisition of the Territorien by a com’ | LOO, every, buman improvement, every genera. Cond repeal of eu existing law, but the fatraction of aolema ob | Presented tothe Senate, where s conclusion was reached | | I appeal to Senators abc ut me not to disturb it. I ap pe Mh petidhiny Motetatation thr t eos sation aA ue ecg ay ra ea eas ption which | note mere musole, acd nothing else, gives new encour. * srctieeted ane embittered yo et SUitsed ne hened, ta, the, Malas Sal. ta ae etuceu ear beat by damnee faviclate the | polley of the fathers. Net enecaragement, bat discoour: | cannct stand.” {t ssutses tha! slavery fa 8 oational insti. | S€*ment to the warfare with slavery. The discussion will ogemnent of slavery was their rule. } é 3 5 5 5 i Ef i y tution, and the property in slaves ig recognized by the Tre memorial of Fraaklis, with other memorisls of 8 | son tiution of the United Staten. Nothing ona be more eon character, was referred to s committee, and mush | fajee, By the jodguent of the Sapreme Court of the cubated In the House, which Aaaily sanctioned the follow: | United Staten, eahns by the principles of the common and directed the same to be entered upoo Jaw, slavery isa local municipal institution, which de. proceed. The devices of it can no longer stave it of The subterfeges of the politician cannot it. The imickn cf the (fice seeker cannot doige it. Whervver am electicn cocurs, there this question willarise, Wherever men come together tospeak of public sates, there udment was moved by Mr, Roberts, ef Pennsylvania, | Charles Fenton Mercer, Lappeal to the Sene'ers from probibiting the farther introdustion of slavery into the | South Cerolina to guard the work of John Gaillard and Sta @, which, afte: = fortoighi’s debate, was defeated by | Willism Lowndes. I appsel to the tors from Mery- twenty-seven maye to sixteen land to uphold the compromise which elicited the con coded by France to neme of Loulsians;” sovord- jon of the admission iato the f t il + e | ae on ae teenie Tap dodete in the Besate wast axusanl see eee aaa einen chocuenee of Pisexeey, t | it# journals, vis = rites ite yupport exeinsively trom local munteipal ls vs Oe ear ee ae a ae Fah lee worth of 30967 tfanvcondent pover fom thet. great lawyer topes tthe Benatar from Dnlawar te alata the | 70a Congres bate ampere ta ara tuamanet; | and beyond ib aera hae ons i seseg oan: a | tacit neva now rf eag ie a rng my fo Fam different sections of the U: William Pinckney. Recently returned from s succession | landmark of freedom in the Territory of Louisiana, early | PMR,’ it remaining with the several Stake to pro cop’ t; Fr teattives 1 labor. Maduon thooght it | 14 ‘and will yet send its into the distant = ikon coe ir ee ng Te pg tom Rh le Res Ee ent tees eine +e Rote wer eary Cape tT ssi meguinton Mersin whieh Lemenity and tree peliey may She sdmit fato the conrtitation the Wow that are ae aoe bw! Sane ae Lae f re be tty in man; and I rejoice we that ro oe i opto! time ‘& compact. ite appeal te the Senators from Al.bama not oft reak the This resolution, declaring the prisciple of non Laterven- be ‘dan ean be tuned tao, uae ‘consthation regards gelled ts peng tea vb on ag BL) 3 very ol Daght sever to have ogreement sanctioned by the earlisat votes ia the Senate, | sion by Congress with slavery in the Biates, was adopted | Slaven aleays as “persone,” with the rights of ‘peraoas’’ | derired. | Now, whieh of their Inte most cherished fellow citizen, Wiliam Rafas | }/\n¢ same Covgtess which had solemaly effirmed the eon performed, —pever aa property When it is said, therefors, that Kio of slavery in all the exieting territory of the cutnth, ars tet Pa SF, Congrom may now vet asidethis obligation, repu | Fision, nnd its om tneae Gouble sete, of the ten orgunl, | S077 teen may nia into the matinal domala v{th Nip by the South, are resisted. tauthoritatively proposed’and develo; diate this plighted faith, ennul ‘as oom pag! sad shee sation of the goverament, amd the recorded sentiments of | P°PT'2; ne iney carry hie alevee as captats, “tus logislation ot Congress ioe sgainat the por fo vem’ sdiseoust > dat it Nea pot ied nn arene ae soadin tet pkorce bdied ; the tousders, thas I take my standend challenge allques | cay only carry teat property which is adnftted to ve tasehiie, the stateimen reoted be etm “Notwithatead | use ti rene. AS ail rush lot me commend o familar Wn sis inna sata delle Sh aatdlice Nan ss ts iyine univerral law of mature, wittven by Gods own fa : pearances _ jet ja an a s phere, Their wince pereaaied mysolt | once aasounced to the aiuenisn Assrably that hs hed < preheat yy i A ‘Again: The relation of master and slave ‘s sometines | Siutinguished friend end colleague, Mr Ererert, The scheme to propose highly beneficial to the Stats, but paris of the Union, ‘tnd bar! com: | chased with the comestic relations. Now, while it is aa. | rurpishes @ controling example by which its trae charac which could not beexpounded to the many. Aristides, | © 5 sentiment of the entire fe. The pro slavery in- | qeestionsble withie tbe power of any State within its own | 16: may be deter Do not ir, that theefiorts surramed the Jue, was appointed to 1esrive the searet Joris diction,to change the existing relation of husbandjand | of Wiliam Wilterfo-0e enecun prec ee objestion, and repertvpon it. His brief and memorahl was, that while nothing could be more advan yas to Athens, nothing could be more usjast; aad the Atheaian mol'itade, responding at once, rejected the propos tira. pears that it was proposed to bara the eombi: een fi which then rested in the seca: of pase ia ard that ‘he cordition of the hidsapped slave was them virdicated, im language not unlike that of the Sesater, from Nerth Carolina, py no less = then the Duke 0 Clarevee, of the Royal family, in what was called bie maiden epeecb, on Mor 1793, and preserved in the Pag> liarcentary debates. 9 wid wculg conterd one of the St bis property. if you pleme— ‘om all Congressional pro the bounds of that hourglass, it has counted ou ry Pt Mike ri”? sea, and thus confirm the nav. were ted Bow cefile before us, like so many sentinels, to guard the bac tie authoritative proposition of com: it, from the jeane; and it Is preckely the ae Prlvated the epaailemina . peered lax dmark of m mcat powerful sdvozate of the anconditi val adintssion of oome with slavery. e yer of \woke state. and had Mirsourl, was made in tue Senate om the Zist of January. From various indications, it seems to have foun favcr in that body Maine and Missouri ia Sir, 1 dismiss these considerations. The prohibition of he Territory of Nebraska staacs on grounds of by constant precedent and time-honored jow im your power to overturn it; you y landmark, and open the whole vest Comain to elavery. To you is committed this great prerogative Our Tethers, on the eve of the Revolai sot forth in burnirg words, amoag their grievances, was | George III. were exon) tinal comela. eur fal was sey, tnat it {a the only ground on which it can stand in entict And only the next year dete im the House of of the abolition of the slave trade were or bypocrites,’’ and in one of theae classes he de: Ln he renked Wilberforce. Mark mow the end. Afver years: weary effort the lave trade was finally abolished; aad a8 lest, in 1837, the early vindlcator of eves eet 4 a , which now conmstitt the eighth sestion of the pertnapent peace. . An effort ade to ineinde the Arkansa: - | solemn compact, embodied in ancient law that I arraign Kasim this prohibition; bat the Soath ualted ag staat thie bill. Larr {it also a0 a flegrant and extravagant should be bonght and econ ot tavaree of freedom and it was defeated | ceperture from original anti-slavery poliey ef our rapt Arata’ able vig | tbe mal pare dineet A oe nf i ‘%4 pays to 20 yeas. Tbe probibition, as moved by Mr. fathers. pa 5 ny on as ym ” ee Great macgemmcved a clause probibiting any fariher introduc | Thomas” then prevailed, oy 84 yeas %0 only 10 nays, | And , bear with me ia s brief reeital of ad Bir, like the Koglih monarsh, you may now prostitats aia, to the immortal act of Parliament 4 into the proposed seeuring free | smeng those in the affirmative were the Senators | mitted fects. od of the Declaration of Inde gees geen eee Tet you cancel ercape | HMTCrY wes abellsbed throvghoat the British od from eseh of the slave Ng ge perpen peanenes, Weare were hy meer of belt « million The judgment of the wor pm The door of story. aN p—- ay e_ eaiversal i edn pow ser Ts Renatras fvems zach of the slave thelon, Mines. | Phere nant ple were FY p= a ne ag eit cation | sgeinet aavery, ravetioned by toe sugurt names of Was fato the | oof and North Uatelion. Ineludirg ia the honorable list | or were the chiicrea of those au pn pry etnias Tertitoen men tater ington, Frackiin ‘and Jefferson, calmly await o slmilne passed im | the familiar names of William Pinckney, James Brown, | though distiibuted throughout the who! aly ac ministered, sooures eqeal riguis | J” P a ndenr, ben ti aS aoe ae to be found in largest number in the Son! " he fre. fer Rela latinetion of color OF aoe, bill, as thus amended, is the first legislative em: | Bat the spirit of freedom then prevailed slavery mapoeaible, By no Tale of jas eighty: | pert LB Contes leaders in the part, pro- Sonontial conditions of whieh, ath Sao voukeneen of Uaer perrewre stress with the incoaaneney of am a nypeal for subtlety of pegs fd, adopted souri se State without aay restriction of slavery and | their own liberties while holding in eee feliow The inconsistency is too flagrant the prohibition of iu all the rematsing territory | men, “guilty of » «i in not eolored like own.” Tee Spparent on the bare statement, In the same of these important Te | feature Analy Fes the’ Banate ty a west vote of 24 | Decbury, Coms., held om the ith Desoniber, 1778, the Tight Om ith © Lise upon the boow of thot tour Yorrioorp, stones.) fhe yeas to 20 embraced every Southern Sen. | following declaration was made:— pos ‘of | you betray it to wretche¢ness amd sorrow. Well did the yp roy wg been 4 nd ‘roa Rathasiel Manco, A pons and rament, | snolect exclaim, im bitter words, wrasg out by bitter ex in whieh ‘uation of | every Northern Senator exeept the two Seustore ‘rom ©, Liberty, whet ortmes are done in thy same! Wyte “en coe ‘iow Hampebie and this, mr, is re] os ton poke cua by the ‘Srastor fresdems. idee on Maseh 94, ot tea rae 10 | of the est stage in the adoption of thé Mimoart oom | 7 1S a se stmitar stra. Ata mestiog | 7 Kentuchy (Mr. Dixon), "Erva if thie were tras, it LF, h pony oy yk hey FL a a on the | in Derier, Georgia, in 1776, the following important rese- tzolon Bet, priate ar hi il hag 5 Nelacab te snsaton ‘Migsorr! bill was forced on the ‘by an almost unsal- | lution wes pat forth:— im the absenee of any controlling ead then bar- ee es vote, To show the world that we are net ph od ried to vote in advance of the ede vata. os fearfal mae on the had thus culminated im the Semate,pais- | tracted or interonted wy 8 be jeetly send te be the ot ante tints for the ot the stil im the other House om the | for ell mankind, of ane womelee, lar sentiment, Ia this ieepect titers w SSS ease eee Sa ee waren iat Stied [Een Scep ean nace | Riera eas oe ee re