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TERMS : po ''"o dividing local from federal anlhor-   than  Dayton.    As  slated  in tho oase of   ATtl-SLAVERY mkn ofrnr. I.abtcentuuy. | me guard a little ngainst being inisundel-- i wrong yonr socliuh for fho benefit of onr*,
in advance, i©l,50   i'y. "O^ anything elso, properly forbade tlio   Mississippi, il is probable they both voted       Among that sixteen were several of the   stood. j «r for any olhor objoct, then ouriirinciplc,
-¦      ¦•   if not paldin advancp,     SJ,00 I Federal Government lo control  as  lo aia- > fpr it.    They would not havo allowod il lo ' most notod anti-slavery men of thoso times   modkun doctbisk famk and dkceptive. ' aud we with it, are sectional, and aro idit-
m*e mTid'"" " '"       '   arrearagea ^ ygry in Federal Territory. ' pass without recording their opposition to   —aa  l>r.   Frnnklin,   (ohoors'), Alexander       I d^ oot mean to  say wo  arc buuttd lo ' ly opposed and denounced as such.    Meet
A ftililre to notify n discnntinnanoo at lho ' TUE ORDIMANCB OK 1787. , It, if, in their  understanding,   it violated   Hamilton, and Gouvenncur Morris—whilo ' follow implicitly in   whatever  our fathers fus, then, on the question of whether  our
eipiration  of tbo term suhscribed for will bo '      '¦f'''* ''I" the prohibition booamenlnw, ; either the line properly dividing loonl from [ thero was not one now known to havebeen ! did.   .Te do ao would bo to discard nll tho . principlo, put in    practice,   would   wrobK
considered a new engagement. I being a part of whnt is now well knoWD as i federal authority or nny  provision of the ' otherwise, unlo.<i8 it may be ,Iohn Rullcdgo , lights 0/ current cxpcrinndo—to rejeot nil | your section ; and so meet it ns if It   wefo
Terms of Advertliiinir: | the Ordinance of 1787.    Tho question ofj Coustitution.    Many voles woro taken, by ' of Soulh Cnrolina. (Arplnuse.') Tho sum   prosrcss—.ill   improvement.    Whnt I  do   possible th.it something inny bc said on onr
"" supplant the opin-! side.     (Laughter. J Do  you   nccept   the
ithors, in any case,   chnllcngo 'I No. Then  yoii really  believe
ovidenoe so Oonclu-i that the prinoipio which   our futhcp wbd
S 00 j g'iial Constitution ; nud hence it is net re-1 —Ruf-js  KitJg  and   Charles Pinckney— ' wholo—ccr'tninly understood thai' no pro- j sive, and argument so clcar, that even their , framed the governtnent under whieh wo live
12 mo. \ oorded that the "thirty-nine,"   or any ofj were membera of that Congress. Mr. King ' por division of local from fcdcrnl authori-   grcntiiuthority fairly considered nnd weigh- j thought so clenrly right as to adnpt it, and
*° ""   ''    -> ••-   -        '       ..... ... ,-     . , .. . . .   .     cunstilutiou, for-I cd, eunnot stnnd i and most surely nnt in ; endorso it agnin nnd again, npon th6lr of-
overnmetit  to  oontrol I a a'V!o whereof wo ourselves deolare they ' ficinl   oaths, is. In fnct, so   clearly  wrong Territories, while ' understood  the queslion  better than wo.   ns to demand your condemnation   withoat 30 60  sat nnder tho Constitution, an act waa pas-t hibition, and   agninst  oil compromises.—   nllthe rest, probably,   hnd   tho   snmo un-j (Laughter.) If nny innn, at this duy, sin-   a moment's con.sideration. (Applauso.) 60 00   sed to enforce the  ordinanco of 1787 in-, (Cheers.) By this Mr. King showed that, ' derstanding.    Such,   unquestionably, was j cerely boilovos thnt a proper division of lo-'     Some of you   delight  to  flaatit iu Onr
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?^ nn i '''*'"' ?'*'''* engaged on that  instrument,   steadily voted for slavery  prohibition and   ty, nor any part of tho
15 00   ^.''P^'^^d any opinioa on that precise ques-1 against all ooraproniiBOS, whilo Mr, Pinck- j bndo the Fedcrnl Oover
23 00   ''"''• In l^i'O, by tho first Congress whioh j ney 08 steadily voted  against slavory pro-   slavery in tho  Fcdcrnl
30 00  sat nnder tho Constitution, an act waa pas-1 hibition, and   agninst  oll compromises.—   nllthe rest, probably,   1
60 00   sed to enforce the  ordinanco of 1787 in-, (Cheers.) By this Mr. King showed that, ' derstanding.    Such,   ui  _ Profcisional Olid Business Cards not oxoccd- j eluding the prohibition of slavory  in the , in hia understanding, no lino dividing lo-! the understanding df our'fathers who fra- | onl from federal authority, or any pnrt of   fnecs the wnrning againet scctionnl partioa '"««r""fb\l'l"fora'dvTtisin""urafter tbo ' ^o^''^''^'"'''' territory.    The bill for this   eal from federal authority, noranythiugin ' mcd tho   original  Constitution ; and   the j tlio Constitution, forbids tbo Federal Gov-   given by Washington in his Farcwcir Ad- llrSimertion.-«i " ''"' '""^   "° "  "^       r act was reported   by   ono of the   "thirty-1 the Constitution, wns violated by Congross   text alhrius thnt thoy understood llic quos-   ernment tn control ns tn slavery in the Fe-^ drcss.  Loss than oight years boftrj Wash-
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SPEECH
Delivered February, iseo.
BEFORE    THE   COOl'F.R    INSTITUTK,    N.
Thomas Fitzsimmons. then a mem-   prohibiting slavery in Federal  Territory; lion better than we. (Lnughtcruiid cheers.) I dcnil Territories, ho is right to sny so, and ington    gnvo   thol  warning,   he hnd,   n
bor of the Ilouse of Represenlatives frora   whilo Mr. Pinckney, by his votea, showed       Hut, so Iar ns I have been  considering : to onioroe hia ptmicimi "uy at! iruitirui o»i- President ofthe United ijlat^,   spprovsd
OF HON    \1^R AM T riVPOT N   I I'<''''"'j''"'"in'    It went through all its sta-, that, in his understanding, thero was some the understanding of tho question  mani- ; denco and fair nrgument which ho can.— ' nud signed nn net of  Congress,  onforoing
_           ¦ •'iji'j'fli'i- IJli'i VjylJiv,   g„g without a word of opposilion,   and fi-   suffieient reason fur opposing such prohi- fosted by the frnmcra of tho originnl uou- ! Hut he has no rightto luislond othor.i, who the prohibition of  slavery  in tho   North-
nally passed both  branches  without yens   bition in that ease. stitution,   in und   by  the original instru-   have less access lo history and loss leisure wcslorn Territory, which act embodied the
and nays. Which is equivnlent to n unani- I             tub fathers on record. mont a mode was provided   for amending   lo aludy it, into tho fnlse belief that "our policy oftho Govcrninent upon that  sub-
,           ^. .               mous pns.inge. (Cheers.) In this Congress       Tho cases I havo mentioned are tho on- it; and a.i I hnve ulre.idy stated, lho pre-, fnthers, who framed tho government under ject, up to nnd at   the   very   moment  he
Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens of   there wcro sixteen   oftho   "thirty-nine"   ly aola of the "thirty-nino," or of nny of sont frame of governmont undor which wo   which we live," were of the aamo opinion penned thnt wnrning; and about ono yoar
the City of New York:—Tlio  faots with ; fathers who framed the original Constitu-   them, npon tho direct issuo, which I havo live consists of thnt originnl, and twelve   —thus substituting falsehood and   deocp- after he penned it ho   wroto fo  Lafayctto
which I shnll denl this evening nro mainly   tion.    They wore:—                                   I boen nblo to discover.    To onumorate tho amendatory  articles   framod  and adopted   lion for truthful   evidence  and fair nrga- that ho eonsiilered thnt proSibitioo a wl4«
old and familiar ; nor  ia   there  anylhing;     ,Tohn Langdon, Thos. Fitzsimmons, R. | persons who thus acted, as  being four in since.    Thoso who now insist that fcdoral I niciit. (Applnuso.) If nny man at this dny mcnsure, expresssing in the snmo  conneo-
new in the  gencnil  use I shall   "nko of   Bassoit, N. Gilmnn, Wm. Few, Geo. Road, ! 1784, three in 1787,   seventeen in  1789, control of slnvcry   in  Federal  Territories   sincerely believes "our fothers whn frnined tion bis hope thnt wo   should  some  time
thein.    If thero shnll  be  any novelty, it   Wm. S. .Johnson, Abrm. Baldwin, P. But-; threo in 1798, two in 1804, nnd two in 18-   viohitos tho Constitution, point us  to the ' the government under which wc livo," usod   hnven  eonfodcrot of free   Stales.   (Ap- wiil bo in the mode of presenting tbe facts,   lor, Roger .Shermnn, Rufus King, I). Car-; 19-20—there would bo thirty-one of them,   provisiona whieb tbey supposo it thus vin- \ and   npplicd   prinoiples,   in   olhcr cnses,   pinuse.) Bcnriii({ this in mind, nnd seeing
said:
" Our fathers, when they frn ment under which wo livo, undi tion just ns well, an.l even belter, now ¦¦
SCOTT  CASK. to control ns to slnvcry in tho Fedoriil Tcr-   himself speak, wouid ho cast tho blame of
Tho Supremo Court in tho   Dred Soott   ritories,   bo is  right   to sny so.    But  ho   that ncotionnlism upon us, who suslain hia
ity, nor anything in tbo Conslitution, pro-   waa a Georgian,  too. (Renewed  applnuso
•niiic'i the govern-   pgriy f„f|,„(ig (i|,„jj^gi,j jP j,j,yl,H,;j j,l^^g,.y   and luughter.) The true number of thosc
H'icr°"ihii'n we*"o '" ' - FedeVRl Territnry, olw both their of tha "thirtv-nine" whom I havo shown cnse,plant themselves upon thc fifth amend- should, nt tliosnme timo, bravo the respon- \ policy, or upon you who repudiate it ?¦ ; fidelity to oorrcct principlo, nnd thoir oath to havo aoteif upon tho question, which, ment, which provides that "no porson shall sibiiity of declaring tbnt, in'lis opinion, ' (Applnuso.) Wo respect that Tramlnj of 1 fully endorso ihis, and I ndopt it ns n to support the Constitution, wouldhave by the text, they understood bettor than bo deprived of property without duo pro- hn undcrstnnds their prinoiples belter thnu Wnshington ; nnd wo commend it to yon, text for thia discourse. (Applause.) I so constrained them to oppose the prohibition. 1 we, ia twenty-three, leaving sixteen not to ccf^s of law;" while ,'^onotor Douglasand they did ihoinselvcs—('.rrcnt Iniiglitcr)^ together willi^his example pointt«g to th« adopt it bocuuse it furnishes 11 precise and opinion bf oeohoe wakiiinut(in. | have noted upon it in anyway. Here, his peculinr nilhcrcnta plant thomsclves and especially should ho not shirk that re- right application of it. (Applause.) Bat nn agreed starling point for a discussion ' Agnin, George Washington, anolher of then, we .have twenty-three of our"thirty- i upon lho tenth amendnienl, providing thnt spon.sibility by asserting thnl thoy "under- you say you nrc conservnlive—eminently between tho Ropublioans and that wing of tho "thirty-nino," was thon President of I nino" fathers who framed tho government "the powers not granted by tho Constitu- ' stood the question juat ns well, nnd oven consorvatiTC—whilo wo arc rovolulionarj, tho Democrney headed by Senator Douglas, 'he United Stntcs, and, ns suoh, approved under which we live, who hove, upon thoir tion, aro reserved to tbo .Slates respective- better than we do now." (.\pplnuso.) : destructivo, or soriiething of the sort. It simply leaves the inquiry—What was nnd signed tho bill, thus oompleting its offioial responsibility, nnd their corpornl ly, nnd to tho people." Now, it so hap- what kepijhmcan.s ask and DESiltK. j pomticai. cdNkkrvatism dej-inei). tho understanding those fnthers had of the validity ns a law, and thus showing thnt, ¦ oaths, acted upon tbo very question whioh pons thnt those aiucndmenls wcro framed But enough. Let nil whu believe that ' Whnt ij conservntism ? Is it not adhor- question menlioned '! What is the frame in his underslunding, no lino dividing lo-, tho text affirms they "understood jast as by the first Congress which s.-it under tbo our "futhcrs, who fmnicd the cnvernmont ence to the old and tried, ngainat lbe new of tho govornmont under which wo live'^ enl from fcdcrnl authority, nor nnything in well, and oven bettor than wo do now," , Coustitution—the identical Congrcsswhich under whioh we live, understood this quos-, nnd untried ? Wo stick to, contend for, The answer must be—tho Constitution of ^ the Constitution, forbndo tho Federal Oov- nnd twenty-one of them—a clenr majori- pnssed the net nirendy mentioued, cnforo- lion just as well, and even bctler thnn wo the identicnl old policy on the point in eon- the United Slates. Thnt constitution con- ' ornment to control ns to slavery in Fodor-1 ty pf the wholo "thirty-nino"—so acting ing tho prohibition of slavery in the North- ' do now," spenk ns they spoke, and net ns Jroversy which was ndopled by nnrfathert sista of the originnl, framed-in 1787, (and »1 Territory. (Loud applause.) No great, upon it ns to innko them guilty of gross western Territory. (Applnuso.) NoMMply Ihcy ncled upon jt. This is all Republi- . who fmincd the government under which under which the prosent government first while nfter the adoption of the original ; politicnl impropriety, and wilful perjury, ' wus it tho samo Congress, but they wore cnna nsk—all Republicans desiro in rela- wo livo ; wbilo you with ono accord re- went into operation), and twelve subso-: Constitution, North Carolina ceded to tho , if, in their understanding, nny proper di-' the idontioiil, saino individual men who, at tion to slnvcry. As thoso fnthers marked ject, nnd scout, nnd spit upon lho olclpol- quontly framed nmendments, the first ton . Federal Government thoeountry now con- vision betweon local nnd federal authuriiy the snmo se.ssion, nt the snmo limo within it, so let it bo ngnin mnrkcd, ns au evil iey, nnd insist upon eubstilutftg some¬ of which wero frnnied in 1789.                    : stituting the   Stnto of Tennessee ; and a   or anything in tho Constitution they had the session, hnd under considerntion,  and uot to bo extended, nnd protected only bo-   thing new.    True,   yon   disngrco  nmonir
, few yenrs later, Georgia oeded that whioh   mado themselves,   and  aworn to support, in progress townrds   maturity, these Con- causo of nud «o far as its notual   presence   yourselves ns to whnt Ihnt snbatitute ahall
THE   fathers  of  THE  CONTSITUTION.
Who wero our fathers that ."rnmed the now constitutes tho StnteH of Mississippi forbade tho Federal Government to con- ' stitutional amendments, nnd this not pro- aniong us makes that lolcrntion and pro- . be. You havo considerable variety of no» Constitution':' I suppose the "Ihirly-nino" • nnd Alnbaina. In both deeds of cession, trol as to slavory in tho Federal Terrllo- j hibiling slavery in all the- Territory lho tcction a necessity. (Loud npplause.) Lot propositions ,tnd pinns, bul you are unntn- who signed the original instrument maybe it was made a condition by tho ceding ries. (Cheers.) Thus the twenty-one net- nntion then owned. j all tho gunrnntcea thoso fnthers gave it, bo itnous in rejecting and denouncing thoold fnirly called our fathers who framed thnt Stntes thnt tho Federal Govcrnmentshould od ; and actions speak louder than words, '¦ The constitutionnl amendments woro in- | not grudjsingly, but fully nn J fnirly main- polioy of the fathers. Some of you nro for part of tho present govornmcnt. 41 is al- not prohibit slavery in the ceded country. ' so actions nnder such responsibility spenk troduced before nnd passed after the netof tained. For thia. Republicans oontcnd, reviving tho foreign ^svo trade ; somn for most exactly true to soy tbey framed it, { Underthose circumstances, Congress, on still louder. Two of the twenty-three vo- enforcing the ordinnnoe of '87 ; so thnt nnd with this, so far ns I know or bolicro, a Congrcssionnt slavo code for theTcrrilo- and it is altogether truo to say they fairly ! taking charge of these countries, did not i tod agninst the Congressional prohibition during tbe wholo pendency of tho aot to , they will ho conlent. (.\pplnuso.) ries ; somo for Oongreas forbidding tha represented the opinion and Benliinont of absolutely prohibit slavory withiu them. ' of aiavery in the Federal Territories, iu enforco tho ordinance, the constitutional: And now, if they- would listen—as I Territories to prohibit slavery within their tho whole nntion at thnt time. Thoir nnnics conquess did interfere. , the inatnnocs in whieh they acted upon tho ninendinenta were nlso ponding. That Con-^ suppose llicy will not—1 would address a liinita ; some for maintaining slavery in tha beiug familiar lo nearly all, nnd aocaaiblo But thoy did intorfero with it—tuke con- question. Bnt for what renson tboy sovo- gross, consisting in nil of seventy-six niein- few words to tbo Southern people. (Laugh- Territories through tho .Judiciary ; soma to quito all, need not now bo repeated. I trai of it—even there, to a great oxtont. ' tcd is not known. Thoy may hnvo dono ' bors, iucluding sixtccn of the framers of ter.) I would sny to them : You consider for the "gur-rcal pur-rinciplo"—(laugh- tnko theso "thirtv-nine," for the present. In 1798 Congress organized the Territory ' so becnuse ihey thoupht a proper division the original Constitution, as beforo stated, yimrsclvcs a reasonable nnd n jusl people, tcr)—tbnt "if ono man would enslave an¬ na boing "our fathers who frnnied the gov- of Mis-sisaippi. In tbo net of orgnnirntion of local from Federal authority, or some were pre-eminently our fathers who framed nud I consider that in tho gcncrnl quali- other, no third mnn thould object," fan- niiiuiout uiiuer Wiiiuh WG lire." V.'h.".t is th<>y nrnhihiind tho hrinirinor of slaves inr- i crovision or principle of tbe Constitution , that part of the government under whioh tiea of rooson and juslica you are not in- tnstieally colled "pnpular aovereignly"— the question which, according to the text, to the Territory, from any plnco without stood in the way ; 'or tbey may, wiihout ' wo livo, which is now cinimod as forbid- ' ferior iu nuy otuoi |i<;u|>iu j sii)!, nhuiiyuu 1 (feacTrcd Irjghtcr snd spp\s'j;i)—bat those fathers understood na well and oven the United States, by fino, and giving freo- uOy suoh qnestion, havo voted ngainst tho I ding the Fcdarul Governmont to eoutrol speak of ua Ropublicnna, you do so only never a man aniung you in favor of feder-- betler than we do now ? It is this :— ' dom lo slaves so brought. Tbis aet pas- prohibition, on what appenred to them to ' slavory in the Fcdoral Territories. Ie it to denounce us as reptiles, or, at tho best, nl prohibition of slavery in Federal Terri- "Docs the propor division of local from | sed both branchea of Congress without bo aufficieut grounda of cxpadienoy, ; not a little presumptuous in any one at this | as no better than outlaws. You will grant torics, according to tho praetioo of onr federal authority, or nnything in the Con- | yeaa nnd nays. In that Congress were | tuf. UESPONSiniUTY or the oath to day to affirm tbnt the two things wbioh a hearing to pirates or murderers, but no- fnthers who framed tho governmeot nndar stitution, forbid our Federal   Government   three of the "thirty-nino" who framod the             stJW'ORl THE coifBTirnTlON.           , that Congross delibcr.-itcly frnmed nnd car-   thiug  liko   it  to   "Blnck   Republioans." which wc live.
to oontrol as to slavery in our Federal Ter- ' original Constitution.    Thoy  wero Lang-1     No one who bas  sworn  to support the   tied to maturity nt the same time, nro ab-   the REriiillilOAN party  not HKin'iONAi,.       Not ono ofyonr various plans can show
ritories?" I don, Read, and Baldwin.    'They all, prob-; Constitution can conscientiously  vote for j solutely inconsistent witb each other. In all youroonlentions with one anothor, a precedent or an advoeato in tho oonturr
DOUor.AS AND LINCOLN. nbly, voted for it.    Certainly   they would 1 whnt he understands to bo an  unconstitu-, the ahsurihty of charijino inoonsis-   ench of you deeina an uncoudiliunal   cQn- wiihin which our  government origlnnto/
Upon this. Douglas held tho nffirinative, ' have plnced their oppo.sition to it upon re-I tional measure, however expedient he may ' te.nuv rpoN the fathers. demnation of "Black  Rcpubliunniam"   as Consider, thon, wbclher your claim of con-
and Republicans the negative.    Thc nffir-   cord if, in their  understanding,   any lino | think it; bat one may and ought to vote |     And does not suoh  affirmation  becomo   tho first thing lo bo attended lo.   [Laugh- ecrvatism for yourselves, and your oharf;s
mati vo nnd denial form nn issue ; nnd this . dividing  looal  and  federal uulhority,'or   ngainst a measure which ha deems cousti-1 impudently absurd when coupled wilh tho   lor.] Indeed, suoh   condomnation  of   us of dostmctivoncis againat us, are based on
issue, this question, is precisely whnt  tbo   nnything in the Constitution properly for-   tutional, if, at the same time, ho deems it   other  affirmation   from   the same mouth,   seems to be an indispensibleproroquiaito— tbo most  clenr   and   stable   foundations,
text declares our fathers understood bettor   bado tbo Federal Governmont tu control as j inexpedient.    It, therefore, would bo un-; that thoso who did tho Iwo things nllcged   license, so to spoak—among you lo bo ad- Again, you say wo hava mado the slavery
than wo.    (Cheers.)    Let us now inquire   toslavcry in Federal Territory. (Applause.)   safe to set down even   the two who voted   '0 bo inconsistent understood whether tboy   mitted or permitted to speak nt nil.    Nuw, question more pniminont than it formerly
whether the "thirty-nine," or any of tbem       In 1803  the Federal Governmeat pur-1 against tho prohibition, as having dono so, I really wore inoousistonl better than  we—   can ynn or nok be prevailed hpon to pna.>io was.    Wo deny it.    Wo admit   that it i«
chased the Louisiana oountry.    Our form-1 because in their understanding, tho prop-1 hcltor than ho who  affirms that  Ihcy nrc   nhd to consider whether tbis is quito just to mora prominent, but wodcny that woiuade
cr Territorial acquisition came from cor- cr division uf local from Federal author- lain of our own States, bnt this Louisiana , ity, or nnything in tho Conalitution, for- country waa ncquirad frou a foreign na-; bade tho Federal Govcrninent to control lion.    In 1804 Congress gnya a Territori- j as lo slavery in Federal Territory. (Ijaugh
ever noted upon this question ; nud ifthoy did, how thoy acted upon it—how they ex¬ pressed tbat bolter understanding.   In 17- 84, three yeurs  boforo   thc  Constitution, tho United Statea then owning the North¬ western grcss th T wh
were in that Congress, nnd voted on that | raents, and slavery was exlonsively nnd question. Of tbc'c, Roger Sherman, Thos. thoroughly intermingled with the people. Mifflin and Hugh Williuiiisun voted for Congress did not, in tbo Territ«rial net, the prohibition, thus showini; thnt, in their | prohibit slavery ; but thay did interfero understanding, no lino dividing loeal from I with it—tako control of iU—in a more federal aulhority, nor anything else, pro- \ marked and extensivo wsy than thoy did parly forbode  the Federal Governnient to j in tbe cnso of Mississippi.
control ns to aiavery in Federal Territory. the Louisiana PROVISO. 1 «-      y           =
Tho othor of the four, .lames McHenry,       The substance of tho provision  tboroin   may haye been manifcstod, by any person, voted againsttho prohibition, sbowingthal I made in relatiou to staves was :— however distinguished,  other   than  the
for some cause he thought it  improper to       First, That no slavo ahoald be imparted 1 thirty-nine fathers who framed  the origi- Tote for it.    In 1787, still before tbe Con-   into tbe Territory from foreign parts. 1 ual Constitation ; and, for  the sama roa-
stitution, but whilo the Convention was in I     Second, That no sluvo ahould be  carri-   son, I have also omated whntever  under- setsion framing it,   and   whilo tho North-   ed into it who had boen imported into tho
States sinoe the first day of May, 1708. Tbird, That no slave should be carried
into it, oxoept by tho owner, and  for bis
own use as a settler; the penally in all the
oaaes being a flno upon tho violator of the
law and freedom to tbe alave.   (Prolonged
oheer*.)
Thia not alio was pafsed without yeaj or
nayi.    In tbe Congress  which  passed it,
there were two of tha  "thirty-nino."—;
Tbey were Abraham  Baldwin add  .Tona-
inconsislent. (Applauso and groat merri-   us, or cvou to yourselves ?   Bring furwnrd it so.    It was not We, bnt  yuu,   who dii
ment.) It is surely snfe to assume that the ' your charges und speciUcntiuns,   and then card.id the old poliey of tho fathers.    We
"thirty-nino" framers of tho original Con-   be patient long enough to hear us dony or resisted, and atiil resist, yonr innovation—
You say  we  are sactioual.    Wo your wnnt of   conaorvattsm ;   and   thenoo
stitution, and the Roventy-six mcmbors of justify rn territory, and no otho'r, the Con-' al organization to that part of it whioh I ter and prolonged applnuso.) The remain-! tho Congress which framed tbe amend- dony it. [lioud applauso.] That innliea an comes the greater prominence of the qnca- , . of the oonfedcralion had befora thotn : now oonHlitutcs tho State of Louisiana.— ! ing sixtecu of the "thirty-nine," so faras | mcnta thereto, takun altogether, do oortain- issue, and the burden of proof in upon yon. tion. Would you bnvc that lUiestion re¬ he questicn of prohibiting slavory in that' Now Orleans, lying witbin that part, was I bavo disoovered, hnvc left no reoord of j ly include those who muy bo fnirly called , (Lnughtor ond npplcuse.) You produce duccd to its formor proportiona f Oo baek L'erritury ; and fuur of tho "thirty-nine" ! an old nnd eomparalively large city. Thero i their understanding upon the direct ques- "our fathers who framod tho government your proof;'nnd whatis it ? Why,thatour to that old policy. What has been willba rho afterwards   framed   the Conslitution I were othor considerable towns nnd  settle-j lion of federal  control  of slnvcry in tho ¦ under which we live."    And so assuming, party hua no existenco  in your  section— ngain, nnder tho anmo conditiona.    If yon
Federal Territories. j I defy any tnan to  ahow that any  onc of gets no votes in your scrtiuu.    Tha fact ii would hava the peaee of the old times, re-
Bul thero is much reason to believe that I thom ever in his whole lifo declared that, subetoiitinlly truo ; hut does   it provo   the adopt thc precepts and policy of tbs  oM
their  understanding  upon   that queation   in hi,! understanding, nny proper  divisinn iasuo? If it does, then, in ease weahnuld, time*. (Applause.)
would not have  appeared   diO'erent  from   of local from fedcrnl nuthorily, or any part without change of principlo, begin   toget'     john MtnWN ami> riAltPlR'B pertiy.
that of tbeir twenty-throe  compeers, had   of tho Oonstitotion forbade  the  Federal votes in yuur section, wo should ihoroby!     Yon charge that wjs rtlr up Insnrreetion*
it been manifested at all. For the purpose   "  "'' .--1--.--1 :_ .1.-  ., 1 .1—1   ,n.....   ..      .\
of adhering rigidly to the text, I have pur¬ posely  oiuittod  wbotevor   understanding
weateia territory still was the ooly territo¬ ry owned by tho Unitad Stalea—tbe aamo (lueatioo of prohibiting slavery in the tor- rilory agnin eame before the Congress of the Confederation ; and three more ofthe "'tbirty-Dino" who afterwarda signed the Cooslitation were ia that Congrcis and vo¬ ted on tbat question. They wore William Blount, William Few, asd Abrabam Bald¬ win, aod they all TOted for the prohibition, tbaa thowiog that, in their nttaerstandiDg,
standing may have been manifc«t«d by any of the "thirty-nino" even, on anyother phase of the general question of slavery. If we should look iuto their acts and dec¬ laration* on thoio other phases, as the for¬ eign slave trade, and morality and polioy of slavery, geaorally, it would appear to ua, that on tho direct question of federal control of slavery in the Federa] Territo¬ rial, the aixteen, if they had acted at all,
would probably have   acted   juit as tbe ! be able to find the evitjenoe of a'aiogle man tweoty-thrco did. ' agreeing witb them.    Now  and  bere let
tioroby Goverument to control aa lo slavory in tbo ceaso lo bo scolional. (Great merrinicnt.) among yonr slavea. We deny it; and what Federal Territories. (Loud applauso.) - , You oannot escape this conclusion; and . i" y""'pfof ? Harper's Kerry! (Great I go a step farther. 1 defy uny ono to yet, are ynu willing to abide by il? If Inughlor.) .John Brown! (Renewed show that aoy living mnn in the wholo you aro, you will probably sooo find that langhtor.) John Brnwn was no Hepabli- world ovor did, prior to tho boginning of wg have ceased to bc sectional, for wc shall ' can, and yon hsve failed to implicate • the present century, (and 1 might almost ' get votea iu your section (hi* very year. , single llepablican in his Harpers Ferry say prior to tho beginning of fho Insl biiK ' (Loud ohecrs.) Yqu will theu begin todis- enierpriae. (J/mi applanse.) If any of tno preaent centary,) declare that, in ' covor, na the truth plaiulpr is, that your member of onr parly is piilty in thit mat- bis understanding, any propor division of ; proof docs not touch tho isaoe. The fact ' ter, yon know it_ or you do _ not kni^w it.- local from federal authoriiy, or any partof thhi wo get no votes in your aeotion ia a If ynu dn knuw it, ynn aro inczcuaable to tbe Cunstilutiou, forbade tbe Federal Gov- faot of your making and not oura. And if' oot designato the man and prove the faet, ernment to oontrol as to eUvery io the . there ba fault iu that fact, that fault it j If you dn not knuw it, yup aro inexcats- Federal Territories. To thoto who to now primarily yours, and remains uutil you show , bia toaasert it, tnd etpecially to persist ia declare, I give, not.only "our fathers who ' that we repel you by any wrong prinoiple, ^ the tatertlun after you havo tried aod fall- framed thc Oovornmeot undor irbioh wa j tho fault is ours ; but thia brings yoa to ' ed to make the proof. (Qroat apphase.) live," but with them all other living men ; wbere you ooght to have tttrted—to a dia- I You need not be told that pertiitiog In a witbio tho century in wbioh it wa* framed . ciutiuo of the right or wrong of our prtD-1 eharge whioh one doet oot know tn ' be among them to search, aod they (ball not. ciple.    (Loud applause.) 1 true, i* tiinply a malioiout tlaoder.    (Ap-
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If our priooiple, put io practice, would ' tbtt no Repablioan dedgtiedly aided eg