Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1859 — Political. [ARTICLE]

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I Fa uiia..m of ii;o iL.ics3njcr.iilt I’i« v; y. Speech cf Ken. Owen Lcyejoy, ioF ;• i IN TIIE V.y. nor. L OF RKS'REfTNTAT! V2sl Fymu:*by I, 1859. Within tin- hoi. We lustrums, a .strange ; fanaticism-has made it . appearance in this ; country-—a- fanaticism at once monstrous and m ilignr.i t. Twenty-live years ago, by ; the universal sentiment of the country, Sla- ! very whs d-eouied a moral, social, and p*o!iti- ; cal evil; a wrong to tlie slave, an injury to | the owner, a blight on the soil, a detriment . to all the best interests of the communities nr States where it was found, and, in its re- ; flex influence, a reproach and damage to the whole country. By many, it may be, this evil was c nsideretl but still an j evil. But within the period indicated, a difj lerent sentiment Ins sprung up. This fanaticism deems Slavery not an evil, but a blessing. Formerly bv all, and still by all right ; thinking men, Si very was regarded 'as a hag, ugly, d lorhn.fi,' wrinkled, and covered with the ■ uub am! paint of harlotry ; but now j , 1 . ■ " we are told it is ail angel of beauty, a Virgin decked in bridal attire, to be gazed on With complacency and love! Candidates who inspire to gubernatorial honors ;;re made to rei nounce opinions held a quarter m a ;t utn y ago, and give in their adhesion to this new dogma, to wit: that Slavery is a bless.ng. - It is not any longeruhe question how a cancer can be cu ed— whether by knife or caustic, or other remedial agencies—but to have | a cancer is now proclaimed to be a sound i and normal condition of the human system, the highest type of health, and, if on the face, an ornament and beauty spot. Every ; one, to enjoy perfect health, must have this | form of disease gnawing at his vitals. The i spirit of this fanaticism has taken possession 'ofthe Democratic party, and worked therein 'a wonderful and almost incredible transj form tion; for, s.uee the Ages drew up the j reins and stared on their journey, I do not l suppose They have witnessed such a stuped- ! ous Lie as the Dern 'cratic party now is. 1 speak ol th organization, without any reference to the individuals that 'compose the j party, “From the 1 ; sole of the foot even un- ! to the h ud, there is no soundness in it; hut wounds, and bruises.j and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither moiitied with ointment”—unmeefi.ca’ed and unbandaged, it drips with its fetid putrescence. s Look at tji.e President's message, now under discussion. It is instinct with simulation and deceit. Professedly he deprecates discussion and agitation of the Slav -wy question, and yet the whole of the message is engrossed with if. Not a le ding topic f that stat • paper Ghat has not a direct or remote bearing on it. What do we want of another slice from Mexico? Is on- population pressing against our boundaries ! Letthe vast r g'ions within our present limits yet unoccupied, and vv’.'ch will not be < cn - | | pied for the next half century, an wer the’ | question. Why, then', does the Executive; urge the question of more of tiie Mexican ! domain? It is that Slavery and Disunion,

twin-horn of Darkness, may haye a rail car in which to ride. This is openly avowed, in the other end of the Capitol. What is that part oj the message relating to Kansas, but the querulous last word of an old man, whose Pro-Slavery p> 1 iev had b?en con'emned by the country! What occasion :s there for the doleful tone of the message in r gird to the future decadence of the Republic, which has given rise in Europe to so many ipropheci.es of ill omen in regard to on- future! How eagerly the advocates of d ■ ,)otic government catch up this Democr flc islander, and foretell the downfall of our frbe institutions. But what is the trouble? Is there any disioyulity to the Union among the Republicans, or among any-class in the Gee States! No. Anv disaffection toward our princi-; pies of Government! None. What then has excited the fears of this urbane and hospitable old gentleman!- Did the Chief indite the message under the influence of too deep potions from the distillations of Rve! No one believes this. The SI 'very-extending policy of tiie Administration has received a terrible blow front the people. Th' v h :d repudiated the President’s S inch > Panz i, the.autocrat. of the dinner table; and the poo-* man. shocked and bewildered, and tearing i:i> locks like King L nr, thouglitf the Government yas failing to nieces, because Slavery Propagandist)) bad been reprobated by the popular vote. Be comforted venerable t ,‘hief! It is not the '.roe institutions of our country, but the Pro-SI very Democracy that is falling asunder,dike a piece of limestone when water is .poured upon it. So also in regard to Cuba. The real object o! its purchase is not th eavo D'.ik me. It is :t vv 'mod hv i nice . T that do n>t Speak our j.m : a> rge—who re unused ]to seilf-guvernment—A.lio h ve, and ca if annextal as S ates wiii continue to h ,v ■, an cstuhiisiH.-d so, :n of religion, or Churcli and State united; 0., in spite of all, wi are | asked to pure bar? this i-lalid. ;;:)ii to piece: | thirty milliotis in the hand.-, of tiie Execu- ; tive, to begin the negotiations—-hc.t is, to | buy up the olflci.ijs! Dm s any ot;e believe i that it is for the benefit of comniere:-, or the j safety of navigation, that we are asked to jdo iii! this! If so, why not seek to pur- ; chase the British West Indies! H ive we ! not as much to fie,:r from England as from Spain! And where is Canada and the other British possessions, that stretch all a lung our Northern frontier, Irani the Atlantic to the Pacific? No; it is not for the benefit of commerce, nor to guard against invasion, that we are asked to purchase Cuba; but it is fur the benefit of slave-breeders and hu-man-flesh mange*s. And yet these D m - ' crats profess that they want to got Slaverv | out o! national politics. Would to God they were sincere! Would to Heaven this beast jof prey would take the carcass of the slain i into its lair! It might gnaw the flesh and i crush the bones with nit. molestation' from | me! But in stead of tii.it, it a-ks me to hold | its victim hi le it sucks the blood. But this, | God help me, I never will do. Take your | pound of flesh, if ii is so nominated in th ■ | h md, hut.do fifet ask for the blood as well. 1 Read over the whole message, .and you v .1 find i's entire texture to he Slavery. Every topic is discussed with refierencc to its hearings on the subject of Slavery. ‘ And v 'lie Democrats,'with an impudence that t i ilenges our admiration for its sublimity, turn to us, an say, “Do not a-gitate this subject.” Do not keep up this sectional strile! To agitate, to legislate, to make treaties, to annex territory, to purchase empires, for Slavery, is all right, hut to d - anything against Slavery is wrong and sectional. And here is aiio'her phase of this fanatical sp : rit., wliic.li his taken up its dwelling place in the Democratic party. It identifies Slavery with the nation, and especially with the South. Now, I am reckoned as ul ra and extreme as most mi this subject, and v t, no one I: .s ever heard me sav anything against the South. It is only against Slaverv that I have spoken, and 1 propose'to' assail that only in those modes justified by the (Vunstitu ion; yet I fun section.l, and Republicans are sectional. When they onT seek to prevent the exteiitioii of a system which is under the ban of the civilized world, they are charged with being sectimial. In Illinois, we have supped full of this horror. And what is the proof ! O, we have no delegates from slave States to attend our National Nominating Conventions. Why have vve none! Mark: beca use if delegates a!;, ml these Convent intis they are mobbed and driven into exile. Wi it if vve, in the free States,.should say t. » the Democrats. “If. you attend the Charleston Convention, vve will hang you,” , ui tints keep them all at. home, and then reproach tbeuiv illi being a sectional party, hecait-e only tiie slave States were represented! “ Well, you have ,

no votes in the slave States: your principles do not circulate at all; you dare not even p-oclaim your doctrines among us.” And why do not our principles circulate in the slave States? They used, for they are the principles of Washington, and Franklin, and other founders of the Republic. The reason why our principles do not circulate in the slave States is, that this despotism lias, like another Napoleon, crushed out the freedom of speech and of the press. Allow us free access to the minds of the non-slaveholders of the South, and in one year vve would have more Republican votes in proportion, in the slave States, than there is Democratic votes in the free States, “Your principles do r.ot ci culate down here,” boasts the Slavery propagandist. Sacred history tells us of a certain rich man who died, and who was very unfortunate in the selection of a flit lire home; but, though an impassible) gulf proud itself between him and a better world, it seems he could-converse with those more liapiiy situated. Supposing, n nv, this man should ii‘t up his voice, and send it booming across the chasm th >t yawns between heaven and hell, and say, “Ho, Abraham, Isaac, Gabriel, and vmi celestielsg.n'.-: :!!v, v~u are a sectional p irty up there; your principles do riot circulate down here.” Ai.'i ■» hy d-->es not Heaven's irntli circulate down there! Bec.u-- ’ the inmates are wicked ih.it they will :i I. tolerate the presence of an - ai:< ei preacher. Tics man must have been ago d, sound, national Democrat. And .-••• j vup.v swas tin’ illustrious personage w •o. 51.t0n has described ■ ulging tiie chasm sd. spread between earth ac-> die place o;d; s exile, and who claimed the ri fist of carrying the local in.-tituti ns of his realm into Paradise. _ A:id this reminds,me to s y that the Democratic party, led on by this insane fanaticism, w hi h h lils Miavciy to 1 e morally right under the guidance of a pqji ictl iierlequin and arid trickster, has pruclaiee-d due Constitutional light di llhive."y t ; -a, into i hj-- Territories without let or hindrance. ] in.' t,! national faith is broken and.dislioiurei!! Principles once declaired sacred by chi* very leader, and said t > bu cuiiomz,ed in the hearts of the AmeiicHii people, are ruthlessly and recklessly trampled under loot. We had an angel of Liberty stationed at the portals ol our Tei ritories. For thirty years, this .-entitl'd kept watch ami ward, am! guarded that magniiieant domain as the heiitage of Freedom, and with the flaming sword of the ordinance of the patriots of the olden time, kept ; out Slavery from-this Eden. Who chased away this angel, and broke down the walls that enclosed th it empire, consecrated to the sons ai d daughters of Freed >m as a dwelling place and home, as long is tiny sun and moon should endure! Who did this ruthless, reckless, damnable work! The Democratic party, under the leadi rship of the individegil I have ind rated. Under what plea Was Slavery thus allowed to enter in and ravage the heritige of Freed mi! (L the same ground that the madman ’opens the pest house to let leprosy, plague, and cholera, ru.-li forth, as did th ■ winds irom the fabulous cave, to walk at a rid waste at min; -day. A man witli u contagious disease must not stay in his own house, nor be confined in the hospital, but must be allowed to roam abroad to spread disease and deat.li.among his fellow men! What is this but the veriest madness that ever raved in Bedlam! I knew it is said that there are two wings to the Democratic party. I am aware of that, and I know, also, that both wings belong to tab same vulture, oil'd, although one lias been slightly out of joint, it has now got hack to its pi me, and ,'l>oth will flip in unison, t > Lear the carrion bird back to gorge ari l fatten eintiie carcass where it has gorged and fattened so long. But the strangest and most impious.phase of this l.inati’cisiii is, that it claims tire sanction ol the Bible for American Slavery. I neither time mr disposition to enter into a phi; dogma! argument on this question. I shall -rot rans.uk Greek lexicons and musty manuscript ; <o 'ascertain the precise etymological fore < f the Gr.ei k words translated set rant in th. Bible. And as for the grand old Hebrew, i i v\bh:‘i the ancie.nf Scriptures Were writ! r, it lias no word which describes 'or recognizes a human being as a piece of property. ‘llefore quoting 'chapter-or verse, I desire to - a few; words having a general bearing on iliis subject. The 'rheocri.n 'liaracter gran ft dj to the Jews was exelu-pv ~nd cons!it., aci tl e-rn a kind of close corporal ion, vv th peculiar privileges as a corniitonwealth. -But all those unuse I rancliis-es were'host owed upon them on the exj ress condition ihat they should comply with a prescribed nlual. God ex-j pliv itiy declared that lie vv mid slay every j native-born Jew that did ■<>; comply with j the provisions o* their cbaiter. Now, I desire to inquire of those who cl i 1 •• right to hold slaves under this old chartergt-von to ;

the Jevvs. Have you complied with the requisitions of that charter? Do you abstain from Virginia ham and other swine's flesh? Do you observe the new moons, the sabbaths, 1 circumcision, and the appointed feasts? If not, you are no Jew, and are not entitled to the franchises of a Jew; but on the other hand you belong to the Gentile race, who, according to your theory, wereof right made slaves. If the advocates of Slavery choose to go back and place themselves under a code of laws given to a rate of nu?n evidently* yet in a state ol barbarism, let them take the whole code, and ; hide by it. and obey it. Another statement. Ii the Bible sanctions Slavery at all, it is the enslavement of vvh ; te uien. No one pretends that the servants spoken of in the Bible were blacks. The ; Roman slave was irot a black man. The . Hebrew servant was not a black man. The question is, whether the laboring man, white or black, may rightfully be enslaved. I may as well notice here, that worn-out j ({notation 'erroneously placed .on Ham. ?£.>- j • all planted a v ineyard, raised- some grapes, j m ;de some wine and got drunk. When lie waked up. still fuddled with the fumes ol die wine, :,.tto ro.ee, so coii u-'-d lie did not , know his son ffco'nj his grand s m, he uttered ■the in . ledicti.on, “cursed be (L.n aan,"’ not : Ham. who had been guilty of the wrong. ; And now, in the blaze of th ■ nineteenth j century, wit ' th’ radiance of Christianity 1 shining around, Depmcntis go mousing back five th usand years to learn the ba.-is of hu- ! uiati rights from the lips of a man still half , d.rhnk. “ Cuised ■be Caiman” is evermore | the rc rain of Democratic minstrel y. A.tid now to the Bible, Twill not detain j t he v 'otnmiUee hug, for I lu.ve no patience j vvi!ii tiie ioipdety tluit attempts to throw the j sanction ;ol this holy !••• ok ~rou: d the dia'ooli icul system of American Slavery. Whit I says this inspired volume! “Thou sli.ilt not j steal!” Brie!', comprehensive, and to the , point. This must be taken from the Bibie, : before it can be made to sanction Slavery. Does this forbid my taking rny neighbor’s tarsi', bur allow me to reduce the man to a j slave, arid then claim them both! How ( miich better is a man than a sheep! If I am told ilia Slavery is not theft, because the felonious intent is not there, I -reply, as the gentler.*, in from Georgia replied, who has in former years on this floor attempted to j <stifv Slavery >.'ti the authority of the Scriptures. He declared that the act. of I'auiding in arresting the marauder, Walker, was an act of robbery. Some one replied that it could I not t.ii) robbery, lor there was no felonious intent. Tiie gentleman Iraqi Go >rgi:i rejoined, “I robbery; I did not say legal 'robbery.” So I say theft; Ido not say legal ! theft, or theitun the legal sense. We tire talking about the moral, not.the legal, character of Slavery. The title to every'slave i originated itiVx iidcnce and r.djbcry, and its continuance has no other moral character. , There can be no mistake about the rightful ; ownership of a human being. lie belongs jto himself... Because my father or ' mother vYere reduced to the condition ol a slave, does that justl y my being reduced to the l same condition of brutism ! Docs the con timiance of wrung take away its guilt! I repeat, there can lie no doubt as to the on iership of any human, being. The title is in himself. To take it Irom him is robbery. But vve have a specific statute on this subject. “He that stealeth a man and sellctli him, or if he be found in lvis h .nds,” tliat is, in his possession,“lie shall surely be put to death.'’ Tins enactment tak -s this tr.msac- j tion out of the catalogue of ordinary crim •, : and brands it with pucubar reprobation. Other forms of’ theft could he,alt.•net! for hv returning four fold; this claimed the forfeitwire of life Use! ', thus lin king it. a capital >•!'- j Sense. N> s purming or sophistiy can g ” round this. 'l'liere it stand-, the estimate ] of the Jewish Scrip*ures o 't!ie crime of traf-Ik-iiig in hit nan lle.s'-i. S > once t.li-ujglit the Presbyterian Ghtirqh, when t!i v declared ' shivehoh’fi. .; to be a vioi.ation of the eighth j comm nutrient. So. tliotight Prey'd tit, E*l- ■ wards, when lie • declared the slaveholder | guilty o£ man-stealing every d >v. Tin’s was the Constitution i! law of the Jewish Comi monwealth. No other statute could contra- ' I vene it. any more than a State or Territorial law c.oul 1 annul a provision of the Gottsti- | tut ion o! the United States. All the instan- ! ces of-buying and selling relied upon hy the j advocates o: Slavery are confine.! to the per- j son bought an I-she person sold. A person ; •'falling into decay,'' sold himself, not ns a I chattel or slave, but as a servant for a term of years; ml when ihej'd lee came round. | liberty was preel nmed throughout till the, | land, to all the inhabitants tlier of. When i tlmre was a tailme on the part of the people to proclaim this liberty, promised mhl secured by law,tlifii God proclaimed a liberty to them ! io tl»o sword, aud the pestilence, aad ,

those other judgments that fell swift and terrific from the hand of an incensed God. I war, this providential retribution which made Jefferson tremble for his country, when he rembered that God was just, and that his justice would not sleep forever. In the uprising of these oppressed millions, he averred that no attribute of Jehovah could take aides with the oppressor. Honor thy father and thy mother Is the req i ment of the Bible. Slavery utterly annuls this command. The owner claims i honor and obedience, to the utteT disregard of parental authority and parental claims. Whoever thinks of a slave child obeying his parent in preference to his master! The very suggestion is Doea the Bible sanction a system that abrogates its own injunctions? There stands that slave mother, pressing with a mother’s love her own child to her heart! To whom does it belong! Is it net hers against the universe? Is there any being, this side the throne of God, that has the right to take it irom her! Has the master the right to come and tear it away from her embrace, and claim it as his property! And is this robbery sanctioned by the that Bible, the word of God! I know the people are taught th s by a ministry that I dislike .to characterize as I think they deserve. “Wealth, lust and fashion I iJ them still to bleed, And holy men quote Scripture for the deed.” But th°se men do not truly interpret the Bible. They teach for doctrines the commandments of men, and make the word-of .Godot none cf!e;t through their traditions. ll*> a (h re those men nmke the Bible lend ! its sanction to a system that abrogates pa- ; rental authorty and filial duty! So, also, with the conjugal relation. The i Bibb"' everywhere represents this as the most j sacred, inviolate, and indissoluble of all hui man relations. Father and mother are to be forsaken, in obeJiance to this still higher and holier relation. Now' what does Slavery do with this domestic institution? Leave 'God and th parties perfectly free to regui late it in their own way? No; with impious | -nd brazen front, it steps in and utterly annihilates the marriage relation, so far as its .victim's are concerned. There is no more ; any legal marriage among the three or four millions of slaves in the United States, than , there is among so many cattle. Slaves in . the eye o! the law are cattle, and their union us lat of 1 rules. They are declared to bo j goods, chattels personal, to all intents, con- | struct ions and purposes, whatever. Tiie civil j law which ptevails in some of the States j ikes them pro null is, pro mortuis, pro qua- | drapedihas. Would it not be an interesting spectacle to see one of these clergymen, who teach that tiie Bible sanctions Slaver, called in to attend the wedding of a bureau and chest of draw ers! The chairs, and shovel, and tongs, j are invited as guests. Aftera fervent prayer for the divine blessing, the clergyman says: “By tli-- i)i(f Levifica! laws, I join tin; bureau to the drawers.” Absolutely, there can be no more a legal marriage between two slaves, that between two arlicles of furniture, or between two j brutes. They “take up together;” thev do i not in rfy. No clergyman dare pronot nee two slaves husband and wife till death shall separate them. Tiie will of the master i. ! their fate. The hiblesays: "What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” The skive system s-,\s; Who cares for God! I will separate them when I please. A slave i who is a churcli member is taught by hi* relig-iofts teacher, that it is his. duty, on being sold from one plantation to another, leav--1 iug a so-called wife behind to take another mate: anil the reason assigned by these pious (instructors is, that in this way he can be i most profitable to bis master, which is his ! first a n >' paramount duty. Thus he may. e-i a good Christian, take up with a new woman on every, plantation to which he is a >ld. IThis-has been formally so decided by an ec- : clesiastical council. And yet these blasj pherners seek to make God a partner in th.a | revolt ing practice. The Bible everywhere requires an equi hI lent tu be given for si rv’ces rendered. “Wo junto linn that bi.Mdeth his house bv ■ un- ! righteou-nes-u and his chambers by wrong; | that useth h's neighbor’s service without j wages, and givejth hi.u not for his work.” j "Bi'li dJ. the'biro of the iviorert who have ! reaped down your fields, which by you i« [ kept back by fr.aiid, crb'th ; and the cries of !them that have reaped are entered into the ! ears of the Lord of Suhaoth.” Slaverv never j allows my wages at all to those who gather jin its harvest. To sav that the clothing and 1 the fool that the slave receives are wages, j is to say that the hay, grass and stabling of I the horse, are wages. These constitute the I keeping of the horse and of the slave; wages j they are not. It is frequently said that although individuals may do wrong, yet the system is right. Now, it is against the system that I speaks The truth is, that in lividua's are better than the system. The humanity — and in uy charity, perhaps, I ought to say the Christimity—of the mister, often triumphs, to a great extent, over the system. If every mag--ter exemplified the extreme capability of the system for outrage and diabolism, an indignant world would rise and wipe it out. Suppose, now, tins system, all reeking • ith hist, ii cC'-t, crane, and cruelty, is brought out ldil placed under the blue et

Christianity. ‘-Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unt them; for this is the law and the prophets.’' This is the condensed summary of the whol* Bible. Who has the hardiho d to say that the practice of slave-holding is consistent with this injunction? What, in the New Testament, is the classification of slaveholders? It plices them with murderers o! fathers and murderers of mothers. Everywhere the Bible inculcates a spirit of generous magnanimity. “Ye that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of tinweak, and not to please yourselves.” Slavery, I know, claims this attribute, and talks about its chivalry and magnanimity. And is it magnanimous to cheat a poor, ignorant* degraded man, out of the entire earnings o his whole life—rob him of his wife and children, and then justify it by saying that they are an inferior race? Admit the fact .of inferiority—does it therefore follow that it is right to oppress them ? Every page of the Bible flashes its anathemas against the oppression of the poor and helpless. The chivalry of the Bible is to help the weak, to protect the defenseless, an 1 rescue those in perih This, indeed, is the idea of the olden chivalry. Witness the ihiident in the romance of Ivanhoe. The true knight, enfeebled by sickness, rides into the lists to meet a powerful antagonist—and in whose defense? For one belonging to a race, as de■pisvd and degraded then as that of the Afri- j can now is. This chivalry we recognize as having something manly and noble in it. But, from the chivalry that mothers ol j their children; that applies their courage to helpless women, to secure their labor, or J make them surrender their chastity; which! sells a girl for a harlot and a boy for a ppir! of shoes; which, by superior knowledge,'! combination, and legal enactment, reduces millions of human beings to the condition of brutism, and then by false teaching seeks to delude (their conscience, and cause them to • believe that their enslavement is in accord-! ance with the will of God—from all such chivalry I ask to be delivered. i The Bible sanctions Slavery, and, if the 1 Bible, then God. What kind of an ideal of D ity has that religionist who holds this doctrine? The ancients divided their vices, and | made one of their gods the divinity of each. ; The advocate Of Bible Slavery takes a system that concentrates in itself all crime, and makes Jehovah its patron Deity. Ido wish that Slavery would leave us an ideal of the Supreme Being that is not polluted with its slimy touch. It is said of Goldsmith, as a writer, that there was nothing lie did not touch, and nothing that he touched that ho did not beautify. And it can truly be said! of Slavery, that there is nothing that it does n at’touch, and nothing it touches that it does not defile. It lias perverted the*Government, violated,the national faith, muzzled the press,: -debauched the church, corrupted Christianity, and seeks to change the glory of the in-; visible God into a Moloch, and transform the; eternal and loving Father into a patron, wf! cruelty, lust and injustice; and then, with! the impudence of the strange woman, wipes its mouth and says. I have committed no sin. •I shouUl.be ashamed of such a God a.-, tilth! It is to me .utterly incomprehensible that any -one can sincerely believe that the Bible i sanctions the system of American Slavery, j nnd.i leave that point. But this fan ticism goes still farther, and! arrogates to itself prerogatives which God himself never cl- im’ed,nnd what, hi- it spoken with reverence, the Supreme Being himself] c*nnot do; and that is, to 'make right and wrong. Before all law* and above ull Iw, human and divine-, is the idea of right and wrongi eternal, indestructible The Omnipotent does not claim the right or power to annihilate this distinction. lie himself bows •to this i.dea, which sits enthroned, absolute and supreme, higher than the Highest. The supreme Legislator never undertook, by mere arbitrary enactment, to obliterate this deetinction, and put darkness for light and light for darkness—bittpr for sweet and •weet for bitter. Ilis own conduct is controlled by Ilis perceptions of what is nght and what is wrong. Human statutes cannot do what Divine legislation never attempted to achieve. Can you, by a Congressional enactment, change the laws that govern the material world! Can you make the Potomac roll back to its sources amid those fur-ofF hills-, or calm .he ocean, when, moved from its depths, it lifts its crested waves on high, and dashes them in broken spray against the beetling crag.? Much less you can annul the eternal distinction between right and wrong. The attempt is, and must forever remain, utterly vain and impotent. The gentleman from Georgia, the other day, called our attention to the sublime spectacle of State after State emerging from o Ta r ritoriul condition, and wheeling into line as sovereign States in this Confederacy. In this process, according to the gentleman, were united the two principles of expansion and popular sovereignty, arid the gentleman wao icminded o' that grand chorus waidi art ancient exile beard when there was poured upon his ear the voice of many waters, and the v oiee of the thunders, and the voice oi the Almighty, and the utterance of ocean, e’,d thunder and of Jehovah was , Ll Vox Populi v x Dei." Sir. I claim that the o truth, and just: and liberty :s the voice of God. When I hear the ywice o th ms.indand thousands, and ten times ten thousand, • .veiling upward, like the voice of many wa-

ters and the voice of mighty thunder and the' voice of the Almighty, it is that other and better sentiment. “Let justice prevail, though -he universe crumbles.” Aye, sir; I, too, heard the voice of the people, and it went surging through the streets of Judea’s proud mat.ropolis. It swept through the porNjls of Pilate’s Judgment Hall and echoed tiling its arches, crying, “Criu-i y him! Crucify him!’’ Was “Fox I’opuh vox Dd" then! Did the gentleman from Georgia hear the voice of the Alm-ghty, responsive to the popular vvi I, demanding the crucifixion of his owe Son! Did their cry of blood have the Divine saiTction, simply because they had voted it, and because they had a law by which the M mo! Nazareth must be put to death! ' What an impious dogma'!

But let us ollovv this ex clusion and voxpopuli doctrine. We already embra e Utah : there the voice ol the people sanctions and demands a multiplicity of wives. Fs it the I voice of God? We aejuire Cuba; there the voice ot the peop e demands the union of i Church and State, and lurlids a prayer to ho I uttered by the open grave ol a friend who; breathed out his soul beyond tlie pule of the! i Papal church; and the voice ol the people is' the voice of God! Expansion! We sweep onward, an i take in M-*xic arid i;i some so questered vale there is a remdant of the old Aztec race, wTth their Teoraili surrounded with human skulls. The voice of the peopl - here leads forth a pampered young man, the fairest and host ol the nati m, decorated with flowers, up to the consecrated hill, laying! him on the sacrificial stone, anil with the I breast raised, the priest seizes the Knife and drags it cruunching through the ribs, an I : tears out the heart, all re* king and qn ive rin«y and this is the voice of God.

But we have taken in the continent, from Esquimaux to Patagonian, and still we must expand. We ride forth on the P cifi,-. wave, and annex the Feejee Island, and the voice of the people here is to feast on human flesh and the voice of the people is the voice of God! Is this an insane asylum! Is the Democracy struck with lunacy as well as filled with fanaticism?

The Slavery Democracy prates and chatters about "negro equality,” “black Republicans,” and “bigger stealing,” to.use its classic phrase and improved orthography!; It has, or affects to have, a great horror of gers.” And any one-who advocates' the principles of human Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid down by the F -tiiets ol the Republic, is a “woolly-he- d," .-■mi these same Democrats have learned to speak of them with a peculiar' nasal twist. JVbso con ten mere ad unco. You would suppose- that these gentlemen, whose olfactories are s • sensitive and acute, never saw a nigger, unless in a menagerie. And yet, would von believe it, the very first service rendered bin on earth is performed by a nigger; as tin infant he draws-the milk which makes hts flesh and blood and bones freon the breast, of a nigger; looks up in her face and smiles, and calls her by the endearing name of “mambegs, perhaps, in piteous tones, for the privilege of carrying “mammy” to the Territo-ies; he is undressed and pu* to bed bv ja nigger, and nestles during the slumbers ot in fancy in the bosom of a nigger; he is washed, dressed and taken to the table by a nigger, to eat food prepared by a nigger; tie is led to and from school by a nigger; everyservice that childhood demands is perform 'd by a nigger, except that of chastisement, which, from the absence' of good manners in many cases, it is to by leaied is not performed at all When down appears on his lip, the tonsorial service is performed by a nigger; and wlu-n he reaches manhood, lug invades the nigger quarters, to place himself in he endearing relation of paternity to half niggers. Finally, if lie should be ambitious, it may occur that he will come to Congress to represent a constituency,, three-fifths ol whom are u'iggers, and talk about “Black Repub icuns,” “amalgamation,” “nigger equality,” “nigger stealing,” and the offensive od >r of niggerism. ! I insist upon it, we have enough of this tomfoolery. Let members from the slave States treat us with the cou-tesy tine f-orn one gentleman to another, and they will receive the same in return. But till then, if God pleases, they sh l! have a R hand for an Oliver. I call gentlemen to witness, that during all last session I endured this kind ol abuse. Scurrilous letters were read from the Clerk’s desk, and I held my peace. A ,T ain this session, old Mose is exhumed, and served up in a Democratic rehash. And who is this old Mose, that is to form the pabulum of an interesting chapter; when some Democratic historian shall give us the history o the United States! A poor, old, septgenarian negro, whom I never saw, and of whom I never heard till he came to my door—free bv the admission of the blackguard who had owned him. I gave him a m .1 of victuals; lie remained a few hours till the cars came, when 1 secured the payment of his passage to Chicago, and lie went on his way rejoicing, like the Ethiopian of old. By the way, ought there not to he an et uiiienie.il council of the Democratic church;, to get out an expurgated edition ot the Bible! \\ hat a scandalous thin . ' >! IM.illpbli m!d rule with the Ethiopian! ' '- asked why I did not state this fact before. I answer, I will no hold myself bound to explain every ebullition irf blackguardism, either in >r ou' o. Cotigi ess. Wlu-n a bov, I used to strike back at every dog that barked at me us 1 rode along t.,u

; h ghways; but I have ceased doing so, long since,,and let them bite the iron that encircles the wheel. An ! now, what about this negro equality ot which,we hear so much, in and out of Congress! It is claimed by the Democrats ot to-day, that Jefferson has uttered an untruth in the deelaption of principles which underlie our Government. I still /abide by the Democri cy ol Jefferson, and avow rny ] beliefihat ail men are created oqii.il. Epial ! how! Not in physical strength; n *t in ,-yin- ] me try of form-and proportion; not in gruce- ' tullm-ss of motion, or loveliness of le itur ; not in mental endowment, moral sii-cepti- ! hi 1 ity, and emotional p wer; not socially lequi!; not ot necessity politically equal—- ! not this, but every human being equally en- ' titled to ilis lile, his liberiy, and the fruit of ; his toil. The I)<-moeru.ic party deny this i fundamental doctrine of our Government, and j say that tlieie is a certain class of human beings who have no i ights. I■' von inaliciousl ly kill them, it is tu m.ir.L-r; if y .hi take ' away tlifir liberty, it is n > cum ■; i: y_>u deprive them of their earnings, it is no theft. ; N > rights which another is hound to regard! ' Was there ever so much diabolism compressed into one sentence!

Why do the Democrats come to us with their complaints about the negroe ! I, for one, feel no responsibility in the matter. I did not create tin m— was not consulted. Now if there is any one dissatisfied with the fa t, that there is a whole race of hum in beings vvi h the rights of human beings, created wit!) n skin not colored like our own, let him go mouth the heavens, and mutter his blasphemies it life ear of the God that! made us ail. Tell hint that. He hull lit* husi- . ra-ss to mak- human beings with a black ■-kf.n. I repeat, I teel n > resp m-ibility fori this fact. But, inasmuch as it li s pleased | God ta in :ko them human In-'iigs, I iru hound j t.o regard them as such Instead of ch. Bering y< ur gibberish in my ear about ne wo equal,ty, go look the Son <>' God in the face, ami reproach him with layering negro equa ity h-'cnuse lie ppured out his blood for the most abject and .despis *d of the human family. Go settle this matter with the .God who created, and tlrtigOftrist- who redeemed. -'He that d spfjselh the poor, fceproacketh | liis Maker.”

A single word as to this negro stealing, f suppose 1 hare a rigii* to speak on this subject, having hern made the obj ■et ol this allegation Si faros my personal aliuse'is concern-ed, it miy go for whit it..is worth. I: the obj -el is to ascertain whether I assist j fugitive ski.es who come to my d >or and! ask it, the m itter is cusHy disp ised of. I ; march right up to the confession il itnd°say, j I do. I reed licet the case of u young yvomai:, I who came to my house, who hid not a sin- j gie truce-of A ricun descent either in feature ; or cumplexion According to her own story, j >he was be rothed to a man of her own r.<ce, I though not of her ow n color, and was, before ! her marriage, sold to a libertine from the i i South, she being in S'. Louis. Siie escaped, Sfnd, in lier flight from a life of infamy and a ] fate worse than death, she came and implored aid! Was Ito refuse it! Was lto hetriy i the wanderer! Was I t> detain her, and give her up a prey to the incarnate fi n-J who had selected her as a victim to offer up u the altar of sensualism! Who would do it! 1 would not, did not ! No human being, black or white, bund or free, native or foreign, infi lei or Christian, ever came to my door, and asked Ibr food and shelter, in tlie nmu of a c nniii in humanity, or of a pitying Christiiti, who did not receive it. This I have done. Tins I mean to do, us long as Gid lets me live. I ! shall never ‘-bewray him that waudereth.” ; I shall never become a .slave-catcher. Ary one who chooses may transform himself into a blood-,hound —snuff, and scent, and liovvl, along the track of the lug live—loll out his tongue, and lip up the dir'y water tfi.it stands in muddy pools by the w y side—overtak .- the r.lie-scarred ml lash- -xe orbited slave, ( i m ither, may be, with her infant, the Move of w hom has nerved h-*r :or the flight.) thrust his canine teeth into the quivering 11.-sh, brace out bis lore feet, unJ h >ld the captive till the kidnapper ennes, with fetters and handcuffs, to load down ankles and wrists, ami hen receive, as u reward of this brutism, a pat on the head from the slave catcher, and the plan lit, “Good dog, 805..” Sir, I never wiil do tills. I never will degrade my manoubd, and stifle the sympathies of human nature. It is an insult to claim it. I wish I had nothing worse to ] meet at the judgment day than that. I would ■ not h ive the guilt of causing th it wail of man’s despair, or that wild shr ek of woman's agony, as the one o- the other is captured, for till thfe diamonds of all the stars in h -liven. Is it desired to cull attention to this fact. Brood : it then upon th<j house-tops. Write it on every leal that trejmbk's in the forest, make it •: .to fr in the sun at high noon, and shine forth-in tlie milder radiance of-every star that bed eks'tbe femanuntot God. Let it echo through alf the ..relies of heaven, and reverberate and bellow along all the deep gorges ol hell where stive-cutehers will be very iike'y to hear it. p.ven L >vejoy lives at I*rinceton, 1 iiiiuis, three-quarters ol a mile east of thefvilluge, and lie aids every fugitive tli.it com -s to his door and asks j it. Tn. u invisible djeenioti o S averv. dos th u think to ir - ujy liumh e tnris o and turbid me I. give br* ad to the Imug-y ami sheiitn to tn ■ h uso.es-! I id I i YvLJ DEFIANLE IN THE NAME OF MV iGOiM

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