Scao'tci to Jpolitirs, literature, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitu, emir encral intelligence. A) V'OL 18. STE.OUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH 24, 1359. NO. 13 jFllbiisIlCd by' Theodore ScIlOChi TERjis.-TWodoUaPcrnnnun in advance-Two tioturs and a quarter, half yearly and if ninpaid.be- lore me end oiinc year, i wo uoi ars ana a nau. ... iu sinners diMjontinueu until all arrearages ate paid, 'except at the option of tlic Editoi 1C7 Advertisements of one square (ten line?) or less ,onc or three insertions, &I00. Each additional inscr lion, 25 cents. Longer ones m proportion. , JOI5 E'fliNTKNG. "Having h general assortment of large, plain and or tfnmenlnl Type, we are prepared to execute every de senption of ,Cails, Circulars, Kill Heads. Notes. Blank Receipts, Justices. I.rgal and other Blanks, Pamphlets- io.. prin telf 'itli neatness and despatch, on roasun.ihle terms st this office. "''SPEECH OF HOE". OWEN" LOVE JOT, - oMUinois -Delivered in the House of Representa tives, February.21, 1859. ; Within the la:t five lustrum.", a strange fanaticism has made its appcaraucc in this ..country a fanaticism at ouce monstrous . and malign. Twenty-five 3 ears ago, by the universal sentiment of the country,' Slaver' was deemed a moral, hocial, aud Doiitical evil: a wrouir to the slave, an iu- iurv to the owner, a bli lit mi ttiP vni! r, a. v w a w w a detriment to all the be t interests of the .communities or States where it was fouud, and. in its reflex iufluenco, a reproach .and damacc to tho whole countrv. By xnauy, it may be this evil was consider- "ed incurable, but still an evil. But with-, " in the period indicated, a different penti nient has sprung up. J his laiiatici m deems Slniry not an ei!,but a blessing. Formerly by all, aud still by all right thinking tuea, $laery was regarded us a faliag, uly, deformed, wiinkled, and cov fcred with the daub and paint of harlotry; but now we are told it is ;iu angol of heau- tv. a vii-'in dctKed in !riuai ature 10 ne razeu on Willi eoatpiaeeuey auu iou . Pi.. un ,.im t o . r M ;. m r; 1 , 1 - .1 1 1 honors are made to rcuounce opiuions . held a quarter of a ceutury ago, aud , - , . , . ,givc in tueir aniiesion to tnis new coma. to. wit tl. Q .f.rr i i n.r It is 1 .. not airy" longer the question how a cancer " can be curtd whether by knife or caus tic, or other remedial agencies but to - have a cauccr is now proclaimed to be a sound and norn.:il couditi'on of the human 'system, the highest t vpe of health, aud, if trcme as most on this subject, aud yet.no on the face, c.u'oruament and beauty ?pot. : 0I,e ha ver aid Qj0 baJ anything a Every one, to oi.joy perfect health, must : -gainst the South. It is only agaiust Sla havc this form of 'disease gnawing at hi 1 very that I have spoken, and I propose vitals, fbe spim of this fanaticism has, ail that only in those modes juli- TW.nr..iM.'. r,-ir. and woiked tbureiu a wonderful and I lmr,.f InornKlo trMn.fnrrrstinm fn r hince the Aes drew up the reins and , of a system which is under tao ban of ttarted on their jourm-v, 1 do not J-uppose ' the civilized world, they are charged with tbey have witnessed such a stupendous ,' being sectional. In Illinois, we have sup Lie as the Democratic party now is. 1 Pcd Sul1 of this horror. And what i. the .peak of the organization without anj proof? IjtfJ, we have no delegates from reference to the individuals who comuose , avc States to attend our Natiol Nomiua- tiio.T.f.rVt. "i?,nm th... cnl nf flm fnr.f n.'tinir Conventions. Why. have we none ron untn f'ir. ,,,! iliprp nn snu ni? tiPSs ?n ?t. ,nt irnm.rlc nl lirnUn. nnJ nu t rp. ' I V u v 4 - v A-A wu w . fyiug sores; they , neither bound up have not been cen closed, ; neither mollified with ointment' uu medicated and uubaud-' 1 aged, it drips with its fetii putrescence. 1 li!Jllg Jou, a thus Uecp tticm at home, Book at the President's message, now;aud then reproach them with being a sco uuder discussion. It is instinct with sim-1 tioual party, Lecause only the slave States ;ulatiou and deceit. Professedly hede-' prccates the discuisiou and agitation 0f ; the Slavery question, ind yet the of the message is eugro-sed wi :h it. a leading has not a What do topic of that State paper 1 - t - that direct or remote tiearin on ilt we want of another slice from , Slesico ? .iaiuat our Ii our rionulatiou ttrecsin a boundaries? L'.-t the vasti regions within our present limits yet uu- A for the next half century, answer that question. Why, then, doc the Execu - fti:i nron tin nnniiMlinn nf mnrP nf t ,n ; nore oi tue j lat Slavery! f Darkness, Mexican "domain ? It is th i and Disunion, twin-born of imay have a rail car in which to tide. This is opcnlv avowed, in the other end1 of the Capitol. What i that part of the:do Dot circulate down here," boasts the message relating to Kansas, but the quer- Slavery propagandist. Sacred history ! ulous las: wora ot an ola man, whose Pro-Slavery policy had been condemned 1 . by the country I What occasion is there for the doleful'tone of the message in re-, gai ird to the future decadence of the Be- public, which has given rise iu Europe to isO-many prophecies of ill omen in regard, - r t . i . -"Jto'our luturci now eagerly the advo cates of despotic goverment catch up this , Democraticslauder. and foretell the down- . . fall of'our free institutions. (Gabriel, aud your celestials generally, you But what is the trouble ? Is there any j are a sectioual party up there; your prin dieloyalty to ihc Union among the Re- ciplcs do not circulate down here." And jmblicaus, or indeed among any class in wby does not Heaven's truth circulate the free States? No. Any disaffection dovvn tbere ? Because the inmates are .toward our principles of Government ? (60 wicked that they will not tolerate the jNone. What theu has excited the fears presence of any agcl preacher. This nfnu of this urbane aud hospitable old gentle- must have been a good, sound, natioual imau! Did the Chief indite the meSHage : Democrat. And so, I suppose, was that uudcr the iufluonce of too dcen potations illustrious personoge whom Milton has -from the distillations of Eye ? No one believes this. The Slavery-extending policy of the Admiuistratiou had receiv-,bis ea a ternuiu luimuu irom me people. lt,- ,A rnr.tirli.ifnrl PmM.lV THnv had repudiated the President's Sancho Panza, the autocrat of the dinner table; and the poor man shocked and be- Democratic party, led on by this insane : . wildcred, and tearing his locks, like King fanaticism, which holds Slavery to bo' . Lear, thought the Government was fall- morally right, under the guidance of a po- ; vibg.io pieces-, because Slavery Propagan- litical harlequin and trickster,, has pro- .dism had been reprobated by the popular claimed the constitutional' right of Slave vote. Bine lactirymaeX Be comforted, ry to go into the Territories without let -venerable Chief ! It is not the free in- or hinderanco. Plighted national faith fctitutioos of pur country, but thePro-Sla- yjery' Democracy, that is falling asunder, like a piece of limestone when water is poured upon it So also in regard to Cu- ba. The real .object or its purchase is and recklessly trampled under foot. Wo or theft in the legal sense. Wo are talk not the avowed one. It is governed by a had an angel of Liberty stationed at the ing about the moral, not the legal, char race who do not speak bur lauguage portals of bur Territories. For thirty facter of Slavery. The title to cveryisTavo who are uuu?cd to self-go rem meat who years, fhis sentinel had kept watch and originated -in violence and robbery, and .have, and if annexed asStateswillcontinue ' " have, an established form of ro'ligioo, or Church and State united: but, in spite of , , , ',. , n, wu arc uskcu io purcuusc mis isiuuu, and to place thirty millions in the hands of the Executive, to begin the negotia-1 way this angel, aud broke down tho walls , of a, slave, docs that justify my being re tions that is, to buy up the officials ! that enclosed that empire, consecrated to duced to tho same condition of brutism ? 1 Docs any one believe that it is for tho the sons and daughters of Freedom as a , Does the continuance of wrong tako away benefit of commerce, or the safety of nav- J dwelling place and home, as long as the its guilt 7 I repeat, there can be no doubt igsition, that wo are tfsked to do all this I sun and moon should endure? Who did as to the ownership of any human being. If so, why not seek to purchase the Brit- this ruthless, reckless, damnable work ? Tho title is in himself. To take it from ish West Indie? Havo we not aB much The Democratic party, under tho leader- him is robbery. But we have a. specific to fear from England as from Spain? ship of the individual I havo indicated., statute on this subject. "He that stealeth And where is Canada and the other Brit- Under what plea was Slavery thus allow- ; a man and selleth him, or if he be found 1M1 possessions, that stretch all along our ed to enter in and ravage the heritage of - in his hands," that is, in his possession, Northern frouticr. from the Atlantic to Freedom? On the same ground tbat tho ,'ho shall surely be put to death." This the Papifie.? No ; it is not for the bene- nt or commerce, nor 10 guara against in- Tosy, piague, auu caoiera, rusu lortu, as j me catalogue or ordinary crime, anu vasion, that we are asked to purchase Co- did the winds from the fabulous cave, to 1 brands if mth peculiar reprobation. Oth ba -t but it is for the benefit of slave-bree- J walk at midnight and waste at noonday. er forms of theft could be atoned for by ders and human flesh mongers. And yet A man with a contagious diseaso must ' returning four-fold; this claimed the for theso Democrats profess that thoy want not stay in his own house, nor be confined J feiture of life itself, thus making.it a cap- to get Slavery out of national politics. Would to God they were sincere 1 Would to Heaven this beast of proy would take the carcass of the Main iuto its lair 1 It n:i"lit gnaw tho lies!) and crauncb the i bones without molestation lrom me i iut instead of that, it asks me to hold its.vic- tim while it sucks the blood. But this, ou Helping me, 1 never win qo. lane our pouud or nebh, it it is so nominated in l"c Do"ai uut uo not asli lor the Diooa as well. Bead over the whole message, and j-ou will find its eutirc tcxturo to be Slavery. Every topic is discussed with reference to its bearings on the subject of Slavery. And yet tho Democrat?, with, an impu dence that challenges our its sublimity, turn to us, not agitate this subject." admiration for and say, "Do Do not keep To agitate, to to annex ter- nn 1111s spri'nrini hiriii -r legislate, ta make treaties rtrJ. to purchase empireso Slavery, is but do anything agaiust Slavery w prill cr i ti1 wnitinnfil ""f, auu uere is anoiuer puase 01 ID1S la- uatical spirit, which lias taken up us duelling place in the Democratic party. It identifies Slavery with the nation, and especially with the South. Now, I am reckoned as ultra and ex- ucii t v me LouMiiutiou: vet x am section A ltopubliccua are sectional. beu i ? i . ..i tllC V 0U1 V SCCK 10 prcVCUt lUC CXtCnSIOH 7 Mark: DCCaUFC if dc'eiiates atteud these vJon ve it tious tliey are moDDcci and driven w l- lllto exile, vvnatitwc.ii in the free States, should sav to the Democrats. "If you at- tcna tao uuariestou L-ouventiqn, we will . . werc represented I "Well, you Dave no votes m thesiave ctatos; your principles . .. r .1 1 r. , i whole iQ, not circulate with us at all; ou dare 2rotiut even proclaim your doctrines among 'us - " -nd WDy do not our principles cir- i -..i i i ci . . fii i i cuiate m ine siavc oiaies i j uey useu, fr they are the principles of Washington, and ! rauklm, and other founders of the - Kcpublic The reason why our priuei- 11 " Plcs o not circulate in the slave stales is, that this deootihui has. like another Na- 1 poloou, crushed out the freedom of speech ia,ld of lhti ?s- Alloiv us free access w South, and ii ore llepubli iu uiu minus ui uie uou-sia'.cuoiuers ui tue in one year we would Have it lean votes in proportion, in 6lave States, than there are Democratic votes in the free States. "lour principles lv;,,:' ua Ul " i"-'ia,u ki.au 4iv umu, and wa3 verJ uufortunate in the selection of a future home; but, though animpass- ab, gu,f 'pread itself between him and a eerier worm, it seem nc couia converse with those more happily situated. Sup- posing, now, this man should lilt up his voice, and sending it booming across the chasm that yawns between heaven aud bell, and say, "Ho, Abraham, Isaac, dcfcribcd as bridging the chasm that t spread Detween earth and the place of t exile, and who claimed the right of ; , inf.n PfimfHsfi. into Taradise. And this reminds me to say that, the is broken and dishonored 1 Principles once declared sacred by this very'leader, 1 and said to be canonized in the hearts of the American people, and ruthlessy i f ward, and guarded that magnificent do , main as the heritage of Freedom and, with the flaming sword of the ordinanco , c fc r .u Aunn f :mn i.nf llt 4 iuu pumuw ui iuu uiuvu u. w w ! blavery from this Eden. Who chased a- madman opens the pest house to let lop- in the hospital, but must be allowod to roam abroad, to spread diseaso and death am one his fellow men ! What is this but the veriest madness that ever raved m Bedlam! I know it is said that .there arc two wings to the Democratic party. I am aware of that, and I know, also, that both wings belong to the same vul ture, and, although one has been slightly out of joint, it has now got back to its place, and both will flap in unison, to boar tho carrion bird back to gorge and fatten on the carcass where it has gorged and fattened so long. But the strangest and most impious phaso of this fanaticism is, that it claims the sanction of tho Bible for American Slavery. I havo neither time nor dispo sition to cuter into a philological argu ment on this question. I shall not ran sack Greek lexicons and musty manu scripts to ascertain tho precise etymologi cal force of the Greek words, translated servant in the Bible. And as for the grand old Hebrew, in which the ancient Scriptures were written, it has no word which describes a human being as a piece of property. Beforo quoting chapter or verse, I desire to say a few words having madness that ever raved a general bearing on this subject. The Theocratic charter granted to the Jews was exclusive, and constituted them a kind of olose corporation, with peculiar privileges jis a commonwealth. But all those unusual franchises were bestowed upon them on the express condition that they should comply with a prescribed rit- "tl i i i i i i.i.i uai. uou explicitly declared mat no- nuuiu ciujr j UUlltU-UUlU O VYI IUUI did not comply v, ith the provisions of their charter. Now, I desire to inquire of those who claim the right to hold slaves under this old charter given to the Jews. 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, tho sabbaths, cir cumoision, and the appointed feasts ? If not, you are no Jew, aud arc not entitled to the franchise of a jew; bat ou the oth er hand you belong to the Gentile race, who, according to your theory, were of right made blavcs. If tho advocates of Slavery choose to go back and place j themselves under a code of laws given to ! a race of men evidently yet in a state of j barbarism, let them take the whole code, ! and abide by it, and obey it. Another J statement. If the Bible sanctions Slave- ry at all, it is the enslavement of white men. No one pretends that the servants I spoken of in the iJiblo wero blacks. The 1 . . . - . ... Roman slave was not a black man. The I Hebrew servant was not a black man. MM. . : . I. . 1 ,l. l-l : iuc ijucauuu is, n uviuur iuu lauoring man, white or uiack, may rightlully bo enslaved. I may as well notice, hero, that worn- out quotation erroneously placed ou Ham. Noab planted a vinnyard, raised some i grapes, made some wine, and got drunk. I When he waked up 7 a. i still-fuddled with the ! fumes of the wine, sotto voce, so confused he did not know his sou from his grand- son, he uttered the malediction, "cursed be Canaan,'' not Ham, who had been guilty of the wrong.. And now in tho blaze of the niuetccntb century, with tho radiance of Christianity bbining around, Democrats go mousing back five thousand years to learn the basis of human rights from the lips of a man still half druuk. "Cursed be Canaan" is evermore the re frain of Democratic minstrelsy. And now to the Bible. I will not de- a a-y-fl .. 1 Tl taiu the committee long, ior l nave no patience with tbo impiety that attempts to throw the sanction of this holy book a round the diabolical system of American Slavery. What says this inspired volume? ; "Thou shalt not steal 1" Brief, corapre . hensivc, and to the point. This must be I taketi from tho Bible, beforo it can be i made to sanction Slavery. Does this for- d my taking of my neighbor's horee, but allow tue to induce tho man to a slave, an(j tuen 0ia;m tt,em botu7 How miidi ueller is a man inan a sheep I it 1 am i.l J L - i CM :., ...l l1..r I .U. lulu mm oiuvuiy is uul biieit, uuuausu tuo felonious intent is not there, I reply, as the gentleman from Georgia replied, who has iu former years on this floor attemp ted to justify Slavery on the. authority of the Scriptures.. He deolarod that the act of Paulding in arresting the marauder, Walker, was an act of robbery. Some one replied, that it could not be robbery, for there was no felonious intent. Tho gentleman from Georgia rejoined, "I said robbery: I did not say legal robberv;"- So 1 say tiieft I do not lay legal theft, its, continuance has no other moral char acter. There can be no mistako about the rightful ownership of a human being. TT k! , u.- ir i r.i7 uciuua uiujocu. iijuauso iuv ioiu er or mother was reduced to the condition ..enactment, takes thiji transaction out ital offence. No squirming of sophistry j can get round this. There it stands, the 1 estimate of the Jewi.-h Scriptures of the 1 crime of trafficking in human flesh". So once thought the Presbyterian church, when they declared slaveholding to be a violation of the eighth commandment. So thought President Edwards, when he declared the slaveholder guilty of man stealing every day. This was the consti tutionalJaw of the Jowish Commonwealth. No other statute could contravene it, any more than a State or Territorial law could annul a provision of the Constitution of the United States. All the instances of buying and selling relied upon by tho ad vocate of Slavery are confined to the per son bought and the person sold. A per- OUU JUlllflg LIllU ULUtt, BU1U UllZIBUU, 11 UU as a chattel or blave, but cs a servant for a term of years; and when tho jubilee came round, liberty was proclaimed throughout all the laud, to all tho inhab itants thereof. When there was a failure on the part of the people to proclaim this liberty, promised and secured by law, then God proclaimed a liberty to them to the sword, and to the pestilence, and those other judgments that fell swift and tcrrific from the hand of an incensed God. ; tem, for outrage and diabolism, an indig It was this providential retrihution which J nant world would rise and wipe it out. made Jcncrson tremble tor his country, when he remembered that God was just, and that his justice would not sleep forev - cr. In the uprising ot theso oppressed millions, ho averred that no attribute of Jehovah could take sides with the oppres - -sor, - . Honor thy father and thy mother, is tho requirement of the Bible. Slavery utterly annuls this command. .The own - er claims honor aud obedience, to the ut- tcr disregard of parental authority and parental claims. Whoever thinks of a slave child obeying his parent in prefer ence to his master ? The very suggestion is preposterous. Does the Bible sanction a system that abrogates its own injunc tions? There stands that slave mother, press- ing with a mother s love her own . . child to her heart! To whom does it belong ? Is it not hers against the universe? Is there any being, this side tho throne of God, that has the right to tako it from her ? Has the master the right to come and tear it away from her embrace, and claim it as his property ? Aud is this robbery sanctioned by tho Bible, and that Bible the word of God ? I know the peo- pie are taught this by a ministry tbat I ... " . . . . dislike to characterize as I think they de- serve. Wealth, lust, and fashion, bid them still to l.i , Dieeu, And holy men quote bcrinture lor thedced. but these men do not truly interpret tho Bible. They teach for doctrinccs the commandments of men, and make tho word of God of none effect through their traditions. How dare those men make tho Bible lend its sanction to a system .that abrogates parental authority and fil- rial duty? bo, also, with the conjugal relation. The Bible everywhere represents this a9 the most sacred, inviolate, and indissolu ble of all human relations. Father and mother are to be forsaken, in obedience to the claims of this still higher and holi er relation. Now, what does Slavory do with'this domestic institution? Leave God and tho parties perfectly freo to reg- ulate it in their own way ? No; with im- Dious aud brazen front, it steps in and utterly annihilates the marriage relation, so far as its victims are concerned. There is no moro any legal marriage among the three or four millions of slaves in tho U uited States, than there is among so ma ny cattle. Slaves in the cyo of tho law are cattle, and their union is thatot brutes. They are declared to be goods, chattels personal, to alliutcnts: constructions, and purposes, whatover. The civil law which prevails iu eomo of the States takes them pro nuUist pro mortuis, pro quadrupedi bus. Would it not bo an interesting ppecta clo to see one of these clergymen, who teach tbat the Bible sanctions Slavery, called in to attend tho wedding of a bu reau and chest of drawers ! The ohairs, shovel, and tongs, aro invited as guests. After a fervent prayer for tho divine bles sing, theclergyman says : "By the old Leviticnl laws, I join the bureau to the'-drawers." Quid 'Ridehl mulata nomine, dele fabxda narralur. Absol utely, "there can. beno -moro legal marriage between two Blavcs, than bo tweeu two -articles of furuUu'rb, orbetwen two brutes, ' They '"take up' together;" thdy do not marry- No clergyman dare pronounco two slaves husband and wifei It is. to me utterly incomprehensible till death shall separate them. The will ' that any one can sincerely believe that of tho master is their fate. The Bible; the Bible sanctions the system of Ameri aays: "What God hath joined together, ' can blavery, and I leave that point, let no man put assunder.' The slave j But this fanaticism goes still farther, sytitem says: Who cares for God? 1 and arrogatesto itself prerogatives which Till separato them when I please. A . God Himself never claimed, aud what, be slave who is a church member is taught it spoken with reverence, the Supreme by his religious teachers, that it is his Being himself -cannot do; and that is, to ttluty, ou being sold from one plantation 1 make right and wrong. Beforo all law to another, leaving a so-called wife behind j and above all law, human and divine, is to'take another mate; and the reason as- the idea of right and wron" eterDa!?'in- signed by these pious instructors is, that iu ims way ne can Do most profitable to hiVmaster, which is bis first and para - mount duty. Thus he may, as a good A 1 I t U3hristian take lip with a new woman on every plantation- to which ho is soM? n'i.: i i t n. .1 i.i.j i o-ui una ueuu luruiauy bo ueoiueu oy an ecclesiastical council. And vet these i Diasphemcrs seek to make God a partner io this revolting practice. Tho Bible everywhere requires an e - quivalent to bo given for services render - nrl 'rw nnr. Iilm fllnf ,1 ... I, 1. ed. "Wo unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness aud his cham bers by wrong; that useth his neighbor's servico without wages, and giveth him not tor his worn." "Uehold, the hire of tbeUan you make the Potomac roll back to laborers who have reaped down your its souroos Bmid those far-off-hills, or calm fields which by you is kept back by fraud, j tho ocean, when moved from its depths, it crieth; and the cries of them that havo llifts its crested waves on high, and dashes reaped, are ontered into tho ears of the them in broken spray agaiust the beet Lord of Sabaoth." Slavery never allows j ling crags? Much less can you annul tho any wages at at all to those who garner j eternal distinction between right and in its harvests. To say that the clothing wrong. The attempt is and must forev- and tue iood that tho slave receives arc wages, is to say that the hay. grain, and stabling of the B 1 norae, are wages, juese i constitute'tbe keeping of the horse and of the slave; wages they arc not. It is frequently said, that although in dividuals may do wrong, yet the system is right. Now, it is against tho system that I speak. The truth is, the individu als are better than the system. The hu manity and in ray charity, perhaps, I ought to say tho Christianity of the master often triumphs to a great extent ' over the systora. If every master exem- ! plified the extreme capability of the sys- ibuppose, now, this system, all reeking with lust, incest, crime, and cruelty, is ! brought out and placed under the blaze or ijurisiianity. vuaisocver ye wouia that men should do unto you, do ye even ' so unto them ; for this is the law and the i propueis. j.uis is ino conuensea snmma- ' roary of the whole Bible. Who has the hardihood to say that the practice of ! slaveholding is consistent with this injunc- tioni hat, in the iew lestament. is the classification of slaveholders? It pla ces them with murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers. Everywhere the Bible inculcates a spir- it of generous magnanimity 'Ye that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of to please vourselves." Slavery, I know, claims this attribute u l ti Vua . auu uuv and talks about its chivalry and magna nimity. And is it not magnanimous to cheat a poor, iguorant, degraded man, out of the entire earnings of his whole life rob him of his wife and children, aud then justify it by saying that they are an inferior race? Admit the faot of inferiority does it therefore follow that it is right to oppress them? Every page of the Bibleflashes its anathemas against the . onnression of tho poor and helpless. The . ohivalry of the Bible is to help the weak, to protectthe defenceless, aud rescue those in peril. This, indeed, is the idea of the olden chivalry. Witness the incident in romance of Ivanhoo. The true knight, enfeebled by sickness, rides into the lists to meet a powerful antagonist and iu J whose defence? For one belonging to a race as despised and degraded theu as that of the African now is. This chival- ' ry we recognise as having something man- ! ly and noble in it. Uut, lrom the cbiv airy that robs mothers of their children; that applies the scourge to helpless wo men, to secure their labor or make them surrender their chastity; which sells a boy for a harlot and a girl for a pair of ftbocs; which by superior kuowledge, combina tion, and legal enactment, reduces mil lions of human beings to the condition of brutlsin, and then by false teaching seeks to delude their conscience, and cause j them to believe that their enslavement is in accordance with tho will of God from all such chivalry I ask to be delivered. Tho Bible sanctions Slavery, and, if the Bible, then God. What kind of an i- dpal of Deity has that religionist who holds this doctrine? The ancieuts divi- cled their vices, and made one of their goda I the divinity ot each. j Bible Slavery takes a x uc uu v uuaiu ui system tbat con- mr. J centrales in itsclt all crime and makes Jehovah its patron Deity. I do wish , tbograpby. xt has, or anecis to uavc a that Slavery would leave us an ideal of! great horror of "niggers " And anyone tho Supremo lieiu" that is not polluted ! who advocates the pnuciples of human with its slimy touch. It is said of Gold- Freedom, as they wore euunciatedvand smith, as a writer, that there was nothing laid down in enduring forma by' the futh that ho did not touch, and nothing that! era of the Republic, as a "wooly head," ho did not beautify. And it can truly bo and these same Democrats have learn- said of Slavery, that there is nothing that H 4V.Tak. f lLn mtU a pCCU it does not touch, aud nothing that it liarp?Mwist. JSaso contemncre a touches that it does not defile.' It has dipceT 08tewould suppo.-e that theje perverted tho Government, violated tho gentlemen, whoso olfactories aro bo sen national faith, muzzled the press, de-1 sitivo and acute, never saw a nigger, uu baucbed tho church, corruptod Christian- les in a menageno. A ud yet, tfbuld you ity and seeks to change tho glory of believe it! thevery first senice rendend the' invisible God into a Mbloch, and him on cartels performed by a nigger; transform the eternal and loving Fa, as an infant.'hedttfwwtho milk which l,or' into a 'natron of cruelty, lust, and makes his flesh and blood and bones injustice; aud then, with the impudt'neo of the strange woman, wipes its mouth, and says, 1 b'avo committed no sin, T should be ashamed' of such a God asHbatl destructible. The Omnipotent docs not a claim tho right or power to annihilate 'tbis distinction He himself bows to this idea, which sits" enthroned, absoluto and i supreme, hiffhtfr.than the Highest. Tho 4fiupreme Lwcisla tor-neve undertook bv . t - . .. J (mere riitrury enactment, to obliterate 'this distinction, and nut darkness fnr light, and light for darkness bitter for sweet, and sweet for bittor. His own jcouduct is controlled by His perceptions 1 of what is right and what i wronif. IIu- . J .L-i fl- - man statutes oauuot do what Di vine teg- lslation never attempted to achieve. Can you, by a Congressional enactment, change the laws tbat govern the material world? er remain utterly vain and impotent. The gentloman from Georgia the oth er day called our attention to the sublime spectacle of State after State emerging from a Territorial condition, and wheel ing into line as sovereign States in this Confederacy. In this process, according to the gentleman, wero united tho two principles of expansion and popular sov ereignty, aud the gentleman was remind ed of that grand chorus which an an cient exile heard when there was poured upon his ear the voice of many waters, and the voice of the thunders, and tho voice of the Almighty, and tho utterance of ocean and thunder and of Jehovah was "Fbz Popidi vox JDei." Sir, I claim that the voice of truth, and justice, and liber ty, is tho voice of God. When I hear the voice of thousands and thousands, and ten times ten thousand, swelling upward, like tho voice of many waters and the voice of mighty thunders and the voice of the Almighty, it -is that other-and better sentiment, "Let justice prevail, though the universe crumbles." Aye, sir; I too heard the voice of the people, and it went surging through the, streets of Judea's WW proud metropolis. It swept through the portals of Pilate's judgment Hall, and echoed along its arches, erring, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Was "Vox Topidi vox Dei'1 then? Did the gentleman from Georgia hear the voice of the Almighty, responsive to the popular will, demanding the crucifiction of his own Son? Did their cry ofblood hive the Divine sanc tion, simply because they had voted it, and because they had a law by which the Man of Nazareth must bo .put to death? What an impious dogma! But let us follow this expansion and vox popidi doctrine. Wo already em brace Utah; there the voice of the peo ple sanotiooH aud demands a multiplicity of wives. Is it the voice of God? Wo acquire Cuba: and there the. voice of tho people demands the union of Church and State, and forbids a prayer to Be uttered by the opeu grave of a friend who breath ed out his soul beyond the pale of the Papal church; and the voice of the people is the voice of God! Expansion! We sweep onward, and take in Mexico; and in some sequestered vale there is a rem nant of tho old Aztec race, with their Te- ocalli surrounded with human skulls. The voice of the people hero leads forth a pampered young man, the fairest aud best of tho nation, decorated with flow ers, up to the consecrated hill, laying him on the sacrificial stone, and with breast raised, tHe priest seizes the knife, aud drags it craunebiug through the ribs, and tears out the heart, all reeking and quiv ering; and this is the voice of God! But w.o havetakeri is the contineut, from Esquimaux to Pa'tagouian, and still we must expand We ride forth on tho Pacific wave, and annex the Feejee Is land!, and the voice of the people here is to feast on human flesh, and tho voice of the people is the voice of God! Is this an insane asylum ? Is the Dcmooraoy struck with luuacy as well as filled with fanati cism ? The Slavery Democracy prates and . e- -i - f Republicans," aud "nigor stealing," to i rhntters about "nii.ro enualitv. " "lIack 'U30 its classic phrase and improved or- from the breast of a nigger; looki up ber face andmtlifs, arfti 6al!s bof by iu the endearing 'name ot- "diammy, t :j Thcinr.parveptter: Ctno?hcfifHsiwit!&eHi)
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