OSS DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : Thursday Morning, March 29. 1862. ©rigiual [For the Reporter ] .. c„. G...T. -i'j• - K, ST, ment o! the ira Y' l \ ,/rA*< 6ratw Vn on so ditrt omi buned <A , 1 • . Octobtr la*t. Impressive re tchoftU upon thaifii> ..; and a monument of re mark* prtcedl vim hunur, ight ... bet inhuman 1 . 3 N - Ame i e 3s strewn white on the Shroud the bones of the Name.e" t P * n ' , , w we the conflict has past, From the deep g'aveo dAj.wa.rew While the red tide of battle has past on.e a r *i . ind the £,b of war speed, the recreant host. Smtelo**. <J* nameless, each white corse shall slumber ; JUdtheglebeshaiJ be 0 -ree:. when the spring tide , high; Alone, all alone 1 the death song shall number, Iu wsil for the Nameless—alone there to die! Alas 1 shall P*"' l fpr tfccir fi! ° e &nd ,beif * tory ' Deeds writ in light. Hod's record to find? Hark •' bow the loud cling of war and the glory 1 Of victory sounds on the wings of the wiDdl p ; the tarf fram the fellow : _a chant and a prayer— U r r ;aem deep "neath the blood-drunken sod— j , rJ forafsr now the trumpet's hoarse blare Souses to irms !—leave the dead—alone and with Gor! .Van:* 13. ISC2- H. IP o lit it it 1. 1 iBOIUIOX OF SMYERY IX TIIE DISTRICT OF COLI'MBU. SPEECH OF IIONUiEO. LANDOX. IX THE STATU SENATE, UAECH 6, IStikt. Mr LANDOX Tiie celebrated Dr. Bar- j ro once delivered a discourse, and sane one , Mi his auditor-, complniientiitif the discourse af terwar s.said to Robert Hall, " did you not trunk t.iul e doctor exhausted b s su-j *ct ' " Vis,' 1 was the reply, " I think he did, aud h.s audience also" Now, M \ Speak r. I trust that iu the few remarks I intend to make u|>ori this > l'-ject 1 shall t • : do tl e i..tt< r, and I t.av no exp ctution of do -g the former. 1 eau.iot txaaurt the snl-jeot 1 hope not turxh .u t the . audience But.s.r, I propose for a f< w moments to t.p-"uk ira.ukij, to speak fully ; as the tld lirev.sui sii i> cipOse to put ft window be toT'? n.v t. art and let any man who uesiressee w:' -l heart in raferei.Co to certain f: -tfs i should be happy if my ideas were p.'ea-n,'to those around uic 1 shall not lor- Itar t ie ntteraiice of those sentiments wheth er tiicy please or displease. Tnal is irai.k. I have a..vais beeu treated by the members of 11- jriime w in even more courtesy tiiau I have u.-ked, aud i shaii try to reciprocate it and do it now ; aud one of the evidences of courtesy in a legis.a'ive body is for ea.-h uian to le frauk in h.* utterances. I prt cetd, then, s r, to li e remarks 1 intend to make. I sbal. not uk anybody to p iy altention to iue ; I snail adiircsß you, sir, and betwt-eu ~s wc sha.i cauvi-.s this su -j-ot for a i ttle l.iue If we do not get a heari'ii; upon this matter, we are cot to be alarm, d, not to be discon certed. Do you no', know, > r, it is u fact that in tli s wjrlo ot ours, up to this dav, train has had to fiuht i f s way ? Are you not aw .ire that Fa ton, wtitn he discovered the hid i u power of steam und had tuanag-d to construct ma c. ry by wnich he thought io employ his power and make it Serviceable to t .e woi.d's w-, I > y.iu not r member thai he went to \Y ;. gton and asked the American Co igress ! r the use of their hall that be might detuon and iildsiraie his tiieoiy, a.ad they re- j •-> . a ? .Now, alter the troth ol hi< theo ry r.s been fully denionstratei and app.r pri atcii *o ; numerable ißcchanical ano oeuehriul ; :r. '-.s, those very moi that refused the ha.l s ' sneered at b:m as a t-mutic, w:!t be among t .. £ to do reverence to his memory and w: ;e eulogiums opou his name. 6 >, sir. there ar- s. ; cts today that may gain on y a dull and I <liess hearing in the pubhc ear ; bet if th= su j'.'Cls be true let tneir advoca'es quail j ret but proclaim the truth, defend the truth •] wait for the future to endorse it ami re advocates. Mr. Speaker, the rcsolu t.-?a before us is a a.mall cue ; it conGnes as to tec mdes square of territory. I propose to * ieu the circie, somewhat., of my remaiks, bat I promise you in the end to bring up w.tk *3 Lig ICQ UiUCS. Ihe careful student of history has learned *' >n. that every natioD aud every gov er&UKbt vooner r later has its crisis, its or - &ti I may say its test hour. It iseaiied . i-5 through its political struts where ro is proved or it? weakness develop f: ■* 's dignity l- illustrated, or its folly e3 ■* e;e begin its rise ai,d progress pr ii aeanifaii. Eogiaad had her ordeal *-: ra j of Charles I. was brought to " • b; i a; d Cromwell, a common plough Es ". vd-g :th the jwople and with right, 1 it „.s crown and Lis throne. France baa or lev, lieruaany has had hers ; a- d we ' •'* a G jveriiment, are having ours. I'hese ' * taost come. They do no harm, they 15 r * l -.er IciicGcial; provided the people of : --.V a-eadtquaie to the tmerg.ucy there- I P r ted tb-ir priocipleu, their wisdom and ' 5-ureccmmei surate with the great ' f fi.e 'vcasson. Ttiis struggle of ours •* c ar country no barm if we are but true - : *eivt N true to our history, true to the - 5 o* ph lanthropy and patriotism.— ' > r, when the storm cotne? sweeping Gowo Bjvoo the sew swelliug the sails ot the ves > liitter hew wildly the winds may roar *" J'ily '.he teuipest may bellow, provided the ? i •• el, built aud well maued, ber timbers a:,; banded togetuer, her keel under- < *. * h great r.bs of iron, her captain in | ■ e ac-.-, the ere* true men, the compass all -"'•i ; then. sir. the tempest only develop the -"A of the vessel and hurries it on in its • 3 "<t caking it more like & thing of iife as i ra[ from wave to wive Soil i* with ' i 'urroctions, revolutions and *• spring up io human governments. If thev 11 :a the rtgb'. way, ?be result is the in I creased strength, glorv, power aud honor of the government. Mr. Speaker, in readiug over the pvges of history, every uun will learn this fict, that all the goverumen 1 al contests that have arisen siuce the creation of the world, have arisen between the few on tho one side claiming arrogaul powers, and tne many on the other side agaiust whom these arrogant powers were claimed 1 appeal to the pages of history, sir, in vindication of that position. The revolutions of this world have sprung from that principle—arrogant assumptions on the part of the few on the oue band, agaiust the everlastiug rights of the many on the other.— It was so in Eaglaud, it was so in Rome, it was so among the Celestials ic China ; it is so iu 1862 in North America. The contest is between the few ou the one baud who arro gate to themselves unwarranted claims and powers ugainst the everlasting rights of the masses. The conCicl of ours was inevitable. ! The people need not open their eyes, or stand agast ar.d wonder that we are involved in the present difficulty as we are. Why, wheu the sua hides himself buhi id the cloads of winter, : aud the breath of heaven is chilled with the fioat, and the very bosom of the earth is bound in an icy sheet, do you not wonder that flowers do not leap up from the bosom ot the earth.— Bat wncii the air is balm, when tne suu draws near, and the eaith is warm, we may expect their coming, and their non-appearance would be a miracle. Every sequence has its autece ! dent, and eau-es ever will and must produce their results. The circumstauce9 of this coun try for tic past fifty years, have led legiti mately to the present outbreak There is a law in nature and law in philosophy, a law iu lies ven and a law on earth, that contra rites cuunot pcac-ab'y co-exist. Fire and water, ; lucifer matches and gunpowder, cannot be thrown t-jg--tuer au.l jaiue ltd and jostled about without hirdugs and exp'o.-ious. Physical health an i circa,namhi; ut, malarious c'nus phere cannot long be joined tenants of rhe to dy Either the atmo>plieB niUNt be purified or health must fail and death close the scene. The present Secretary of S ate never ut'-ered a trier sentiment—and I know not but he was unconsciously in-p'red at t! -• time —tha i when he affirm i :n r f'ereuce to the two great anta gonistic system existing iri this couutry, that bet ween lucir. threw as an " irrtpresno t con jlictr l do not know that he iu'.euded to ut ter so great a truth ; but he never will utter a gre.*.-.r o \ Ai i the man w!. > stands at the beim *• dy and guides the s'.iip of state, never uttered a pratoiinder truth than when he averred that wiiere the bail of a c■■unlry was slave on the one side, and the other half was free, tue ci untry could not prosper per petually under that r'gim?n ; either the slave part must overrun the free part, or the free part absorb the slave part. 1 say he uttered a truth to which 1 subscribe. Wi.y, sir, if one side of a minis paralyzed, his muscles contracted, the cireulatio i of the blood imped ed. an 1 the other side is seemingly liealthv, eidirr the paralyzed pirt will, by degrees, send its ereq ug paralysis over the well part, destroying i', or tue well part will set.U the current >f vitality through the diseased [>or tion. it I say, sir, in a country where the one portion is free a: d the other slave, there is a uu_:g e as to which inu-t v.rtualiy predouioiate. These arc general principles, for 1 am df-u .iig hi principles. In ail gener al em• rgtmcies trie part o' wisdom, of patriot isoi, of lu roism, of manhood—tlie part ot rrne psrtyisiu is to meet the emergencies fr inkiy, piainiy, ui.fultcringly. Now, sir, there is a great emergency in this country 1 care not to what party a man may belong, if he has anything of patriotism, of vri-Jom or marhood tbMt imu. ii bCcomee him to look the aner genc fai ty and squarely in the face and meet it acc :u---g to the need-, of tile day. L.t hioi be once a partaan, but seven limes a [aliiot Now listen to me for one moment. S/ur-vy in this c \ , :' r u is the i~h le causer,f cur cristi** troubles 1 know <; Has been said that our dif ficulties lure ar.aen from t.he extremists of the tiorib or a •olitiouists. I know it has been said also that our trouoies have been caused by the overwhelm ug and overweening desire of cer ' tain men in the south for power, goaded on by an insatiable and vaulting ambition. Strip it of all dx_'ir<e*. sir. and cail things by their right names and " give the devil his due and :L .s summea up just in the phraseology I have given you, that slavery is the cause of your trouble. Why was that company of men s'andirg in front of the Ex°cutive Chamber this morning ; and why w as the Governor gtv ing the n an encouraging and patriotic address? Becaus? t..ere has been slavery in the country. Why have you six hundred thousand men gath ered from the Lilis and valleys, armed from head to foot, encamped and tented on the bat tle field ? Because there has been slavery ir. the country. Why arc there so mauy of your brothers, and your friends, and jonr sons, lying to-day upon the hill side cold as ths icicle, or in the valley withered I ke eras.-. ' Beeause there is slaviry in the country. Why have we a war debr to-day of seven hundred and fifty millions, with the gloomy prospect r*f its duplication '! Why rocks the Gove-ument ? Why goes there up tiom land aDd sea this wading cry of b. -od 1 bio. d ! 1 biood I ! ! Be cause, s.r. siavcrv has gone to seed aud shelled its bitter fruits upon our head- Let u pau=e and look the foul -y-tem In the face. TV -~ the Southern ?t ites about three fcnudred oi.d fifty thousaud slave own ers. Tacre may be a tew more now. but this in a fair estimate. They jioki about four mi!- li na of human beings as goods and cLatths.— Tiny clai.a the rigut to hold, mortgage, toy, •-e; and speculate upon them. Tney sttit the increase of tbeir captives as an increase of weaith. They breed them as a marketable Commodity for the shambles. When their ie git ioate mcrease is too limited to aaUsiy u.sa t.a: • ti:. : w-.-ar. g -.rc-.-ocy an j taking e ut.sri rily of the hastst passl"m, these pam pered tyraots poor their own b'ood into A f ri can veins, that they mav thereby pat dollars into tbeir eoff-rs and wine upon their dinner table? They oiaim the right to ?roaige.brand, break and crush their victims into an unquali fied submission to all the whims and caprce? PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. of unbridled power. They claim the right to 1 extend their peculiar institution wherever they ! please. 1 was in Alexadria last April, when the distant moan of this present storm was first stealing upon the public ear. I was in the very house where the martyr Ellsworth was • killed, and in conversation with a southern di ! lapidated " gentleman," he made this remark to me : Said he, " these troubles can very I quickly be quieted." I inquired, " how, sir?" I will give you his luuguage : " why," said he, " the north must just mind their own business j and leave the d—d nigger question alone. If we wish to work uiggers, that is all our busi ness. II the north wish to take their horses into the territories, we shall not object ; if we ' wish to take our niggers there, they should not object. If they leave thut question alone ; to us the difficulty will speedily be quieted." . i They claimed the right to carry their slaves wherever they pleased, from sunrise to suu ! down. Not only thai, sir, they claim that Christendom, outside of them, should endorse their c aim. They demand that I should in- j terpret the Btbie so that the Bible should quad rate with their pretensious uud assumptions i They demanded that even tract societies and missiouary organizations should be subordinate j and your very school bo .<ks should be expur- j gated, so as to favor tbeir practices. They j forbade discussion, they commanded silence.— As the foolhardy autocrat threw shackles into i ! the Hellespont to chain its waves and its roars, ! • so these yet greater fouls have sought to cast | manacles, into the world's great sea of mind, j i hoping to curb its pnlsations and stay its in qu;r cs. Th y claimed the right to coutrol the ; government and to monopolize its posts of honor and profit, and too generally they have succeeded. They claimed to select the Presi dent, and when or before selected to put him under bond and oath to do their bidding and . obey their behests. Tney require that every ; free ram in the free slate-, whenever they j should command, must turn idoouhound and j hunt down their fngitiv-"*. Toe fou! deed has • been done in sight of thi very capitol ! In a word, they claimed that science and religion, governments and laws, c. -u, angels and Goo . Himself should bo sub r linuteaud tributary to slavery To this -gat" of facts the eyes of the world have been gradually opening till IS6O, when, iu the nan 1 of the American peo- , pie, au injunction was placed upon the siavc ocracy • > the election ot a ilupu dican Presi dent. X >w, sir, what followed ? The intellectual perceptions of tbe wise, the moral convictions 1 of the good being agai .st' them, the sceptre of power being wrested from Ui ir crasp ; nnu tearing they m : g'u not consummate their plaus while upholding the country, th y resolved to establi-h their pro-slavery c!u r m, by destroying | thnt country. Blind as Samson, and thrice as I foolish, they rah madly at the pillars of the Government, resolved that if tuey are not allowed to monopoliZ' its adm i-i.-traiiou, tht-y will upheave its foundations, though they b;:y them-elves beneath its failing ruins. Dead to a!! the nobler impulses of manhood, and only aiive to the acquisition and exercise of tyran ical power, tbeir is the lauguage of M.ilou's Monarch Fiend : "To re i- worth amUlioa though Sa liell. Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." If inert- hi I been no slavery in this coantrv there wou d have been uo war Deuy it—who can ? The interest upon the national debt must be paid annuaay ; aud iu iatsing euougu to pay that interest ou the debt of the Genera! Government, the pro rata part of Pennsylva t.ia will sixteen millions of dollars per annum. Hear it, ye hardy men, from the ceo - tre to the lake shore 1 Sixteen tuuhous of . dollars are tu be wrung troca your earnings as i a tribute necessarily levied upon yoi in main taining the Government and upholding the country against t.e of pros' .verr as • s;iNsins. Bat tor slavery in the country yon wou id have saved tne uation that expenditure. Mr. Speaker, that was ~n unlorlunate occur , rer.ee iu the year 1620, whets ft Du'ch vessel lauded its cargo tf twenty slaves npon the shores of Virginia. The institution was plant ed there, the dragon's teeth were sown there : aud DOW we are reaping a harvest of bayonets The institution was weak then ; it vva- lis • a lion's whelp—a child could fondle it aud a chil J could lead it—bnt that whelp has grown, ud grown ! and grown ! until it has become a monster ; and to-day it is that monster that crouches upon the banks of the Potomac, be leagures tour capital and cualieuges your very nationality. Gentlemen must not try to shift the cause of our difficulties, nor to cover it up ; it is slavery from beginning to end, from the foundation to tne capstone. 1 think I have dwelt upon that point long enough. Tuis is now a contest, Mr. Speaker, of nationalities. About ten months ago, wuea we were a>senibled in this place, there was a screw looe in the Southern State s , something was wrong ; there came op, stealing npon our ears, certain passing and troublesome sounds ; and we called it an insurrection, a little rebel l.oa. 1 remember we thought it was necessary to take some cognizance of the natter acd make some preparation for the defence of the country, aud we introduced a resoiution here to appropriate five hundred thousand dollars for the defence of the State. I remember with < what reluctance some nu-n voted for it : and I r'meiiber toi with what earnestness some men voted against it ; and I remember also that b lore toe flowers of Jane had fuiiy developed ihemseives, the same geutiemea who voted agaiust the appropriation of five huuared thuu sand dollars, were rcas>embled herewud eager ly voted the appropriation of three and h half mil. .on dollars. And I say. hy way of appii cation of toat fact, geutiemea here to day woo vn.. vote against this measure for the abolition of slavery in the D.strict of Colombia, before three years— nay, sir, before one year has passed—will gladly sustain m*asores a? much to advance ot this a* three aud a half millions of dollars were iu advance of half a mdhoo.— The world move s , aud men are compelled to move with it, or be craved by it. This is a contest for rationality—kingdom* against kingdoms, force grappling with force 0 " RESARDLE3S OF DENUNCIATION FROSI ANY QUARTER." " —arms on armor clashing, bray Horrible discord." Our hosts are uumbered by the half million. That little cloud that rose in the heaven 9, no larger lhau a man's hand, has expauded and unfolded until it covers the whole political hor- 1 izon, and poors its crashiug thunders over the ; whole country. It is a question of national!- j ties that is to be decided. We must not un- j derrate the strength of the enemy who is , against us ; we must not consider that the ; difficulty is near a terminus either, sir. The j euemy is strong in numbers, haviug almost as . many meu iu the field as we have, with others i ready to come. They are strong iu that pecu- j liar element of strength—will—re oiution— j j determination. They adopt the language of the archangel, fallen Belzcbub, when he was ; floundering iu the sea of burning marl, who, j according to Milton, (and I do not know but that there is a blood relationship between our enemies and that rebellious spirit)—when he found himself hurled from the heights of heaven and his vengeful cohorts w ere repulsed and dismayed, addressed his burning hosts— " what though the field be lot, all is not lost while there remains the firm resolve aud un conquerable will." So, s.r, when the enemy have retired from a place at which they have been defeated, they say to the people of the country around about, " buru your houses, de stroy your property, leave a wasted country for ou" iuvaders to live upoa." You recollect, sir, that address which Howell Cobb and other rebels issued to the people of Georgia , Do you remember how much of vengeance was iu it I It reminded a man of Moscow when the Russians determined to destroy that beau tit til c.ty, to buru it dowru iu order to defeat. Napoleon, that " thunderbolt of war.'' Aad it is this determination to rival, if thej can, all • that is told in history ; it is th. ir determina tion to conquer or perish ; either to be victors or corp-es, that makes tliera strike, though ; they are defeated. Furthermore, this very iu stilUvion we are d'scuihng to day lias always | been their btreugth—tneir pi itieal strength— , ecclesiastical strength-—and t.uw it is their martial strength, i'aa youug gentlemen go • to the battle field to win epaulets and the slaves dig the trenches and facni>h NUpplit-s 1 You leave the institution of slavery u itouciieJ, and it is an element of strength to the enemy; and so long as you leave it undisturbed it is a. ( pregnant source of power against you. Tin moment you d.s urb it, however, it becomes at element oi weakness and danger to the foe.— ' The question is oi.e of nation dity, not a ques lion as to the mere extent vf the war. Tut question is thi*, and the Contest is based upon it : In this country and on thin co'.tiuent, J which shall triumph—freedom or slavery 1 — . Strip it of ail d semises, it ctraes to that naked j question : wnicb snali triumph on the battle field, control t.he pulpit and guide the country freedom of slavery ? That is whut we are fighting about Now, sir, I say lraukly that . whatever lies in the way of saving our country. ! upoolding our government, suppressing entir -! iy and forever the rebellion : whatever stands j in the way should be swept aside. When a j fire breaks out in the city, when the breath of j the burning element threatens destruction to : every inflamable material within its rang", and there is no other way to head it off, the cus- j torn is to go in a lvar.ee of the fire and blow np the buildings, uo matter how rich, costly and antiquated they may be. As slavery kiu died-this fire of rebellion and uow adds fuel to its fart, let it be biown oat of existence that the conflagration may be stayed and our cita de l saved. I affirm w.th al! caudor and coo!- ; ne.-s that sooner than see this government overthrown by these rebels, and this country with all its wide spread interest* made sabject to slave domination. I Would, had I the power, uncap the magazines of perdition and sprinkie every square rod of rebel soil with i.e.l fire and brimstone. I would not hesitate at aii to do thus to save the country. S.r. it s'naii be saved; there is no doubt about it. And whatever man or whatever institution, wnatever interest, what ever association or whatever pians stood in the | way of the complete and perpetai salvation of thsdconntry and government, I would sweep ' al; away a* the whirlwind sweeps the gossamer. Am I to go hiding around the pillars of your capitol, whining about slaveholders' constitu tional rights, when those very pillars are tremb ling to their fall, under the ruthless attacks of these meu ? Constitutional rights of slave holding traitors—traitors who are stabbing to the heart that very documeut which has hith erto shielded them in its mighty embrace ! ! S.r, they have no constitutional rights save the right to die for their crimes. This question of slavery meets us at every turn, it can neither be dodged nor evaded. No Senator upon this floor, belong to what party he may, can evade it. It meets the j President and his calibe*, the Secretary of War and Lr? counsellors ; it meets ns here and it meets Congress in the halla of natiouai legis lation ; it meets us in our diplomatic relations w.th foreigu powers ; it meets us at home and i ou the stern and bloody battle field ; and I i avow with emphasis, ice must sw.' it. But how? Necessarily io one of three ways. We can submit to it, be ruled and ruined by it. But for this mode of meeting it, uo sane man U prepaYed. The proposition carries its refuta tion with it, for it is but a covert mode of re commending suicide. In the second piace, we ' can contiuue as we have been doing, fight the rebeihon with one hand and boid up s.avery with the other, until both parties are exhaust ed, then sett.e our difficulties by allowing cr by eorn[)e!iing the seceded States to fall back into the Union with slavery, slave representa tion and all its concomitants as aforetime. I have ie&red there were too many men in high- j er places who desire this mode of meeting it. j But this would be a false aud fallacious care i for our existing ills. Let no one delude him self and others by pointing to this as the path way from the wi.derness to the prom.sed land. It never should, it ceTer can. it never will be done. My reasons for so affirming are twe, the general governmeot caanot meet it in tots way, and the people never troutd aiiow it if they could. Lst roe explain. Slavery is the creature of State taws. The general govern ment ts bound to protect each State ia the maintenance of it* local laws and local institu tions, so long as these do uot conflict with the Constitution of the United States, aDd so long as the State herself bows to the supremacy of that instrument. But when au individual State iguores the Constitution, and swears allegiance to an alien and hostile Government, its local laws full to tLe earth, and all the institutions created by theui go down with them. The re sult is, there is not to day a &iogle slave in all the seceded State. There are millions of col ored people, but no slaves. To wLvm do they owe allegiance ? To the rebel confederate government ? If you say yea, you acknowledge that a legitimate and authoritative government. Do they owe allegiance- to their masters ? Traitors whom you are tryiog to kill are inca ble of receiving allegiance Being outlaws, they are entitled to nothiog by law. If you say they owe allegiance to the United States Government, as they certainly do, then I ask, being relieved from all allegiance to the power that made them slaves, and owing allegiance only to the general government, which never made a slave, by what authority, by what con stitutional rule caa that government reduce these millions ol free men and loyal subjects to slavery? Congress never can do it—never will dare allow it to be done. On the contrary, the general authorities must proclaim to them, " free we find you, free we leave you." The people of the free States will never consent to the restoration of slavery to its former status. Political backs, office seeking demagogues miuht allow it. but the people never. The present war is nurturing in the public mind a deep and avenging hatred against this institution. Ttie mother at home lies awake at the dead of uight, tearfully thinking of her first born, of him who once lay upon her bo.-om, euwrappeJ in the gushing sympathies of maternal love, but now far away upon the battle field, baring his manly bear: to the cold steel and the showers of lead. In the agonies of solicitude she inquires, Why is this? Why is he absent ? The silent response steals in up a her convictions, " because of slavery " At th * depot at Elmirn, there is a daily average arrival ot eight coffins, and similar arrivals at .-very point ad over the land. Each rough box brings not only the clay of a dead warrior, but the spirit of a living lesson. Whatever their former fe.lings, your soldiers speedily be came biters of slavery, excepting the very few who have not patriotism enough to preserve them from putrefaction, nor go./J sense enough to pull the trigger of a raseket. The pulpit is awake. After a slumber of years it now arouses itself in majesty. The pulpit, the herald of the Son of God, the ful cruui of moral power, the citadel of light and truth, after wearing for years upon its mouth a pad-lock, they key of which was ia the baud of slavery, now opens its lips and speaks in thflnder tones for justice and judgment.— Throwing aside all shackles, as Sarnsou burst frcm his giant limbs the ereen withe*, the throne of the Prophets now remembers " those that in bonds as bound with them." Men are not ashumed Uow to preach io'favor of freedom and against despotism—neither ashamed nor afraid to do it. Ave, -ir, the people demand it, and the voice of the people is Almighty They Lave become wearied and disgusted with the stale and false trash about a pro-slavery Christianity—pro slavert Bible, and a pro-slav ey God They spam and naueate the<e nos trums cf clerical doctors whose divinity is sick. The press has come to its sensibilities.— Armed with a thousand tongnes and ten thou sand teeth, it sets its types in lighting and speaks its liberty-loving thunders through the land. Ttie public conscience that ha* laid for ngt* I ke the Dead sen, respecting the subject of -iavery—cold, slimy and inactive—full of hid eous monsters in the shape of corrupt theories and mighty lies—is now stirred to it* depths by the breathings of a new life, and swells appeal iag y tj IRaVGn, in behalf of humanity, in behalf of t L e country—ugainst rebellion and against slavery. With all these tremeudons agencies marsh ailed against him, agencies strong now, bc-conj ing stronger every hour, is auy man so fool hardy as to fancy it within the range of po=si bilities to holo up much looger npon its trem bling limbs an institution waging war upon the country and upon every sure and noble princip'e in the universe. It cannot be done. Let no or.e iaj the flattering unctioa to his soul. Tire handwriting is upon the wail. The decree has gone forth. The day of doom cometh. Congress has and always had supreme authority over this and every other subject in the District of Columbia. The Constitution guarantees to them thi control. Let thc-m dispose of this institution ia the Distri't at once, theD let them pass out, take cognizance of it ehewhere and sweep it from the ian \ We snail thus gi?e men the rights which our patriot fatLers declared belonged to them by birth. This is the way the question can and must aud will be net. Do you not know, Mr. Speaker, that revolutions never recede, that the world progresses, that the world iu its progress is like some machines we see in the country that are moved with great levers swinging forward and backward. There might be ail apparent backward movement but it is ooiy to take a new hitch for a mighty onward push. There is arnorat side to thisqnestion. Ido cot propose to give apolitical tirade or deliver a sermon; bat it becomes legislators to look a: the moral aid* of everything. We most not ignore the morality of any ouestior. I might enlarge upoo this print but will oit ; bat I say that progress is thegrea: iaw of hnmanity, the seed of tod y is the uower of to morrow : the acorn 01 this age is the giant Oak of the next ; the child of this year is the man twcn ty years from this. It is the great law that the Almighty has wrapped arooad the physi cal, toorai and iateiiectoal creation. The law of progress adheres to white men and to col ored men. Now,to carry on less development at toe mind. ot the sou! and of the manhood, institutions are inaugarated. If it woaid not provoke a smde. and perhaps it wtrl not,,! woiid say that coe of those iustitntiocs is mar riage ; thoogb there are some gentleman on VOL, XXIT. —NO. 42. ' this floor who know nothing of ita benefit* from experience. The marriage relation uan institution of rbe Almighty, about the oaly relic left ol Paradise. Senators may take up a niap of the world ; they may look over that map carefully, and wherever they find a coun try where that institution is ignored aud its altars crushed to the earth, I will show thtui an ignorant, corrupted und degraded people.— Show me where that one institution is honor ed, as the Almighty meant it should be, aod it s altars stund pare end immaculate, aod I will show you a wise, intelligent, progressive and happy people. Another agency of progresses this: the sanctities, the rights and enjoyments, the privileges aud the associations of the man relation. 1 thiuk it was Barke who made this eloquent remark dilating upon the privileges of the poor in England, lie said that the poor ineu iu England might live in a log hut so open that the storms and winds of heaven might pour iu upon him unbidden, but, said he, " the King cannot come in without permission.'' Well, sir, that poor man when lie sat down in that humble hut of his, with his loved ones about him was permitted to en joy everything that is crowded into that sweet word ''home." Sir, you may go dowu to-day and among your hardy troop* that beautiful song, " home, sweet home,'' and those brave hearts will quiver, and eyes unused to tears will weep. Here is this relation —father, mother, brother, sister, gathered together in the home circle. Tnat association under the great Goo, was designed to be the school of virtue, of manhood, of joy aud of hope. Fur ther, intellectual culture is connected with ha mau greatness and progress. It is the devel opment of the mind tbut develops every thiug else, aud I wili add another element ; and that is Free Labor. A man who labors should have the fruits of his toil. If he sows the fields he should reap the barvea. If the sweat-drops failing from his brow are chaoged into dollars, the dollars should be his. Free labor awakens ambition and stimulates indus try. Free labor exhumes the minerals, wa g- s war against the primeval forests, openiog up the bosoua of the earth to the baptism of heaveu's sunshine aud dew. This it is that builds your ships and spreads their sails on on every sea—that bridges the rivers, tunnels the mountains, stretches your telegraphs, awa kcus the bum of machinery aod robes the globe in wealth and beaaty. It is this that moves the ®crid. It is necessary to man's progress and the greatness of a country. Hob the peo ple of tae privilege of free labor and you damn the country hopelessly. Give them the free wing of their intellectual powers and capaci ties, teil them to enjoy the fruits of their toil and you will start that nation of people upoD a inarch of development of greatness aod grand ure. Here is this institutiou of slavery, for which ever Senators ia f.ee States have apol og.z.-d bat of such apologies they will, ere long become heartily ashamed—this institutioa at cue fell blow strikes down all the progressive agencies and evangelixers of human nature. — It annihilates the marriage relation and com pels its millions of victims to live in shamefal, degraded, prostituted coccubioage. It breaks up the family circle, grinds the tender ties of natural relationship beneath its iron heel, frol ics upon the agonies of broken hearts, and scoffs at the ruins made by its own barbarism it prohibits intellectual culture, and outlaws moral derelopement, for Jefferson uttered a great uutli wpen he affirmed, " to make aa obedient slave, you must first make an iguor snt, degraded man.'' Its whole superstruc ture is based upon the auaihtlaiion of all vol untary, cheerful, ambitious exertion. Him that works is classified a3 a serf, mudsill, beast of burden, it substitutis fear f#r hop<e, igno rance for wisdom, vice for virtue,"retrogression for progress, -qualid poverty for happy thrift, and stimulates human muscles to their daily tasks lj the lash and the branding iron. Furthermore, sir, we live fn au age of Chris tianity ; we are in a land of charches, of bi- L.L- s , cJ private aud public missionary orgao iz-itioas; we are in a land where this Constitu tion is read; " we the people of the United States in order to for a a more perfect Union, to establish juslic, insure domestic tranquility, provi Je for the common defence, promote the general welfare anu secure the blessings of iibtrly to ourselves and oar posterity, do or dain this Constitution." We are in the land of the Declaration of Independence. The fact of the existence of such an instumeut as that is almost glory enough for any land, if it only be followed out. Got* Almighty by his spirit had s•• ept the heart strings of Jeffer son and forth leaped from his lips those im mortal words, " ail men are created free and equal, and endowed with certain inalienable rights : and among them—let it be heard and let cower and quail— * among them life. iiber:r and the pursuits of hap piness Immortal spirit ct Ji ff.-rson, w; thank thee fur those words ; and may the time speedily come when their will be will ing to carry them out ! Now, sir, in a land of bibles, cf churches, cf ciiristauity, of such a declaration as that, with the memory of each men among us, I ak shall we hesitate to say to those WLQ have been captive in the District of Columbia, go, only life liberty and the pursuit of happipe*. There is something said in the resolution about pay to own-tre of slaves in such terms as may be deemed jnst aud equitable. Very well; 1 say Congress w : l! settle the term?, only do the thing I say the D.strict of Columbia is the place to begin to attack this institution ; be cause Congress has and ever had the eetire coo trol of it there. This wiil serve as an entering wedge; it is not to stop there—that is certain L t Congress do th s, the Prudent sigo the bill, and it indicates a policy. That is what the peopie want, what is demanded, what the exigencies of the day have called for. Let this bill be passed and I say let it be pawed at onct ; for be it remembered T'aere is s tKc ia the sx!ts <aee. Which, tVe:i a* ta*-flood. brain on to e>rto-*e ; Gained aii the voyaje* nf then I ' Ji bound ia nhaUowt Uii in nieoss. On saeb a full sea are we now tfi- ; ▲ad. we nojil take tbo current wnen it serves, Or lose oen venture." [Nee feur'h fig*.'
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