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Chan. Why, sir, lam sorry his reading is so
limited. Who marched deliberately, treading
to the beat of the drum down the great street
of the city of New York? Was it not one of
the regiments of your brave soldiers? . And, as
they went, they sang that same terrible song
"John Brown, though his body is in the dust,
his soul is marching on;" and the people by
the thousand and ten thousand along the
street and from the balconies and windows with
tearful eyes and tremulous voices joined in the
chorus. " Fanaticism" is becoming quite gene
ral, affecting your regiments of soldiers, as well
as the common people, even in the city of New
York. The fanatics have gone thus far, they
have dared to think and talk and write upon sla
very—they have even sung a song—and this is
=tun! On the other hand, what have your
slaveholders done? Whu has rifled the northern
mail bags and pronounced northern prints incen
diary documents? Who has impeded travel and
subjected the country to an oppressive system
of espionage. There stands a Senator, (Mr.
LOWEY,) (and every man to look at him would
know that he was half heart and a good part of
the balance brains—he would not hurt any
body,) a gentleman, as he is, who, upon going
down into Virginia, was seized, and forty men
appointed to guard him. Ido not wonder at
the fact that John Brown, with sixteen men,
two negroes and a cow, held the Commonwealth
of Virginia for eight and forty hours! Who
was it that maltreated and stripped chris
time: ministers and sent them afloat down
the Mississippi river on a slab ? Who is
it that has held northern men in confine
ment for their unexpressed principle and
suspected ideas? Oh I sir, it is only thi . se
genteel Southern breturen whose offences never
rime higher than trickery. I tell these Senators
frankly end plainly, tuey are the direct advo
cates of slavery and the indirect apologists of
rebels, the principles they have proclaimed here
are better suited to the traiturCongress in Rich
mond than to the Senate of Penneylvfmia, and if
uttered in the former place would call down the
applause of the House. The Senator from Berke
affirms that he who lifts his hand against the
government, has no right to protection in per
son, property or life. Good ! true 1 I agree
with him there. But if these seceded States,
that have lifted both bands against the Govern
ment, have no right to protection as regards
property or life, how do you get along with
this next declaration that these same men are
to be allowed to come into the Government
and plead the immunities of the Consti
tution. The Senator says they have no right
to protection either in person. life or property ;
yet he claims that in the winding up every one
of them shall be permitted to come into a na
tional cuurt, and take position behind the Con
stitution, and plead all its privileges in their
favor. I leave him to harmonize lc, and it is
but one of many contradictions that I com
mend to his second sober thought. The Sena
tor from Berke puts this question to us very
earnestly. Said he: " Would it not be terri
ble to strip these innoceut people in the District
of Columbia of their -property—they have got
their property, their hard earnings, invested
there in their slaves, and would it not be terri
ble to strip them of this their property ?" Mr.
Speaker, this State must pay its sixteen mil
lion of dollars per annum to save the country.
Is it not terrible If we all have to make
sacrifices to save the country, ought not slave
holders to be willing to bear their part in the
sacrifice? It is terrible for each one of us to
have - our dollars decimated ; but if it is neces
sary, in order to save the country, very well ;
and we say to those slave owners: " You, gen
tlemen, must bear your part. We will not ask
ygn to bear more, but you must contribute your
quota in some form, manner or shape, to save
tlie country." You observe, sir, Ido not en
large ripen these points—only touch them—for
I desire to be very brief. Both of those Sena
tors agree in declaring that the democratic par
ty is the' conservator of the country and Consti
tgtion. Now, no man must find fault with me
fiti alluding to partyiem here in the Senate. I
did not introduce the subject, but rather the
Senators on the opposite side ; and / am ready
to follow them in all their windings upon this
querition. They affirmed that the great demo
cratic party is the conservator of the Constitu
tion and of the country, and, as usual, they
put you and myself, and our associates, upon
the defensive. That is the custom, here and
elsewhere. We, miserable fanatics, are the
ones who have done all the mischief, and, like
Milton's sin, we are the ones who have brought
au the evils upon the country. Before the peo
ple, in the papers, and everywhere, we must
stand upon the defensive. Now, let us reverse
that. While we may be accountable for some
things, I tell you there is a heavy account that
they must square up.
The modern, degenerated Democratic pary is
the great conservator of the country, is it?
The impersonation of patriotism 1 The embodi
ment of political wisdom the very hyperbole
of party purity!! What party has for years
cooperated with the slaveholdere in this coun
try, worked with them, coalesced with them,
and faithfully done their bidding? The Demo
cratic party, Mr. Speaker. I do not wish to
ridicule any great association of men ; but I
remember to have seen (and you have seen the
same,) in the streets of this city a small man
with a crust of bread in his fingers. He holds
up the crust, whistles, and forth steps the dog
—a long-haired, devil eyed mongrel hybrid.
Mark the drill that follows: Speak! The dog
yelps. Lie down 1 He obeys. Roll over He
hemtates not for dirt. Go lie in the corner
He goes, looking as a subdued, complacent dog
Only can look. Slavery has for the 'past
'twenty-five years Cleated the Democratic party
precisely in this manner. Holding the Presi
denoy or some other office in its thumb and
finger, it has whistled, and that party has said,
" here am L" It held up the crust and that
party laid down ; it said " roll over in the
dirt," and the; party rolled over ; aad
when it had made sufficient use of the
party, it said, "go lie down in the ow
ner." I do not ridicule anybody ; but I say
that 'lave' y leaders have made tue pal ty speak
and lie down as they desired. Gentlemen have
come here and talked about compromise. Good
heavens! Why did they not compromise with
their brethren at Charleston when the old craft
ran aground and when they run it iuto the dry
docks of Baltimore for repair? Why did they
not compromise then and not reprove me for
refusing to compromse now? What did one of
their leaders say years ago? Said he: "we,
through the influence of slavery at the south l i
sad the Democratio party at the north can hold
the government; and when the time shall come
that we cannot hold it we will separate ano
destroy it. " That is what Calhoun said
Who plundered the treasury? A Democratic
agent. Who stole your national arm,? A
Democratic officer. Who preached treason
in Cooper's until the national countenance
turned pale? Democratic Senators. And, sir,
they ought to have hung higher than Haman
'lnstead of being allowed to depart, as they
were. Who sat in the Presidential chair, tied
hand and foot, I admit, and under bond and
mortgage—who sat there looking feebly on
while the nation, with throbbing heart and
qUivering energies, appealed to him to nerve
himself up and put his foot, like Jackson,
upon the treason, but who sat there like
the mummied fungus of an overshadowing
power and did nothing—who was it? A Dem
watt° President. Who abrogated the Missouri
Compromise and alarmed the fears of the mil
lions of the North? The Democratic party.—
Who turned the fields of -Kansas into a sea of
lloodf The same party. Who throng our
national prisons, put in durance vile for social
(*Maim with open traitors, members of the
like party? Who eonatitute the rebel, army?
lirktpotw *Ohm, whom the Senator from
proposes to ;atom to. full oommrinion
and fellowship. And yet, sir, even here, (ion
tinning the same old ditty, that party claims
superior excellence. It resembles the hand of
she corrupt, dying monarch, who had become
to accustomed to signing lies and death war
rants, that when smitten with the chills of
the grave, his fingers still continued the motions.
They begin with the glories of democracy and
wind up with the sacredness of slavery, remind
ing one, (and I shall draw an illustration ger
mane to my subject,)—reminding one of the
poor slaveholder who was not able to own a
whole negro, and whose daily prayer was, " Oh
Lord bless me, my wife, and my half of Cuff."
So sir, with the democratic party ; they wind
up eternally with " their half of cuff." Now,
I want the gentlemen if they see fit, here or
elsewhere to defend these things, I desire them
to reconcile their party claims with their party
conduct. When this rebellion first broke out,
the cry was "change the Constitution, compro
mise, do anything." they were ready to amend
the Constitution ; they were ready to neutral
ize it, expngate it, turn it inside out or upside
down, any way at all, in order to accommodate
the provisions of that Constitution to the wishes
of their southern masters. Now we see the hopes
of the slaveholder rent upon the Constitution
remaining as it is, and he being • permitted—
if unable to destroy that Constitution—to come
into court and pleads its immunities and protec-.
tion. The Senators from Clarion and Berks are
most eloquent in claiming that the Constitu
tion shall remain as it is, and the Democratic
party will protect it intact and save the Union
without a mar. Yon see the point, sir. When
it was necessary in older to answer thepurpores
of slavery, the Constitution could be changed ;
when no change will best subserve the interests
of slavery, then they are opposed to any change.
I believe they are both good lawyers. Now, I
would like to ask them if that is the way they treat
unsuccessful thieves, burglars and incendiaries.
When those gentlemen (Y) try to fire houses and
are caught in the act and brought into court,
do these Senators who are their counsel, plead
before the court thus : "these gentlemen did
try to succeed in breaking in to a house for
such and such purposes, but they failed, they
did not succeed and are brought before you ;
we claim that they shall have the same privi
leges as are guaranteed to innocent men."
is that the way they plead? Yet these slave
holders are moving heaven and earth to destroy
the Government, and these Senators claim that
if they cannot succeed, they shall at least be
allowed to come in and enjoy its protection.
Mr. Speaker, there was a law in Athens that theft
waa honorable if the thief was not detected. If the
man was caught he was disgraced—not because
of the theft but that he was so imprudent as to
be discovered. Accordingly, sir, it is recorded.
in history theta man once stole a fox. He clasped
it in his arms, wrapped his mantle around it
and started with it. As you would suppose,
from the nature of the animal, it was not very
quiet ; but being pursued, and fearing detec
tion, the man held on and clasped him to his
bosom while the fox tore away into his very vi
tals. Now, air, while for years and years, as a
country, we have been hugging this one insti
tution to our bosom, it has been gnawing and
gnawing into our vitals, and now it has got at
the very heart strings of the country, and is
rearing out its soul, rioting upon its dearest in
terests, and pressing its complete dismember
ment. Yet gentlemen predicate that indite.
tine upon the law of the great God, and say it
shall remain intact. They demand that it
shall dig away at the palpitating heart of the
nation, and when the nation is virtually dead
it shall still be allowed, like an insatiate hyena
to crouch upon its bones. When we talk of
saving the country, of killing the vampyre by
emancipating the bondman, they are thrown
into political spasms and party hysterics. They
denounced it as a fanatical novelty.
Let me remind gentlemen that emancipation
is no new nor isolated idea, generated in the
whirling brains of modern fanatics. Its records
are old as the pyramids ; its footprints are upon
the sands of the Nile. Modern sophists may
sneer at it, but ages since the "ancient of days"
flung before its redeemed hosts the banner of
fire and cloud, and constrained the waves of the
sea to beat a retreat at their approach. The
history of emancipation constitutes a bright
page in the annals of England. For twenty
long years such men as Wilberforce and Clark
son labored assiduously for the. suppression of
the slave trade and the abolition of slavery it
self. They were dirided and hissed at. Never
faltering, they wearied not, but poured the
truth upon the nation's frozen heart, as fall the
sun's rays upon the glacier, till icy selfishness
and prejudice melted into streams of justice and
mercy, affording a fit illustration of the great
fact that,
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The immortal years of God are hers ;
While error wounded, writhes in pain
And dies amid her worshippers."
Russia is lifting the yoke from the necks of
millions of serfs. Your political fathers taught
it. Every man knows or should know, that
Madison erased from the original draft of the
Constitution the word slave, declaring that in
that sacred document there should not be a'
single word that could possible acknowledge
the right of property in man. Contemplating
the enormities of slavery upon one hand and
divine retribution upon the other, "I tremble
for my country when I remember that God is
just," said Jefferson. Franklin was president
of the first abolition society in Pennsylvania,
while Washington avowed t he removal of tide sys
tem was the great desire of his heart, and for its
accomplishment his vote never should be want
ing." The free states have taught this doctrine
by example, and the preient cotton states, years
since, when the public mind was less polluted
than now, held abolition meetings and passed
anti-slavery resolutions. Here is a history, in
which we find the noblest men advocating a
great principle, and that principle when reduced
to practice, producing the most benign results.
We find too that our country is trembling an
bleeding at every pore from the attacks of sla-
very. We appeal to those redoubtable Demo
cratic statesmen in this emergency, in the name
of sacred history, by the precepts of their fath
ers, by the example of other lands, by the
claims of patriotism and philanthropy to join
with us and help save the country' by striking
to the heart its deadliest foe.
The Senator from Beaks affirmed that there
was no higher governmental law in earth or
heaven than the Constitution ; and he put on
the look of the statesman, not to say the dicta
tor, and added, "he who says there is, is either
a fanatic or a traitor." Ido not know that the
gentleman was conscious of the wide sweep of
that remark. I hardly think he was aware
upon what different subjects, teachings and
principles that circle touched, and which he
would sweep away by the assertion that there is
no higher law in governmental matters than
the Constitution, and who says there is, is a
fanatic or a traitor. Let us look at it. A man
moat look at some things very closely ; and I
will ask you to look at this carefully—l will not
declaim upon it. Truth, justice, equity, right
and virtue are eternal principles. Mr. Speaker,
they do not change with climate nor with place;
truth in Pennsylvania is troth in New York, at
the North Pole or at the Equator. Justice is
ditto. These are everlasting principles. Truth
is the attribute of God, old as eternity, existing
before the foundations of the world were laid,
before the morning stars sang together for joy.
Now, sir, these principles among men spring
from the very relation of things. A thing
is obligatory because of certain relations—
a thing is right because of certain relations—
another thing is wrong because of those rela
tions. For instance there is a father, he holds
a certain relation to his child, and because of
ADM peculiar relation it is the right of the
father to have the protection,the education and
the guidance of that child. And because of
the relation between him and the child, it is
the_daty of the latter to _honor and obey the
hither. Here are corelathe obligation; and
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duties springing up from the relations that
exist between them. So, sir, in the relation of
families there are obligations and duties that
spring from that relation. Suppose you meet
a poor fellow being by the was side unable to
lift himself upon his feet, from the relation that
exists between you and him as members of the
same great human family, you are bound to
administer to his wants even if there was no
law, human or divine, requiring it. Justice,
truth and virtue are everlasting principles that
spring from the relation of thWgs. Human
laws and human constitutions are supposed to
embody these eternal principles; and when they
do embody them and are in harmony with them
then they are legally and morally obligatory,
but when they contravene these prior principles
they are per as null and void. If the law of
God and nature demand a thing and the law of
the land prohibits it, the law of God and nature
is paramount. If the Almighty commands a
thing, and the Constitution forbids it; I say
God's law first—and I am neither a fanatic or a
traitor. Now, mark, sir; 11. elieve the Consti
tution of this country, rightly interpreted, is
I the embodiment of the everlasting principles of
justice and truth, liberty and right; hence
when I swear to maintain it, I swear to main
tain the principles that the great Creator has
ordained of old. But I follow this abstract
principle a little farther. I did not come here
to preach, although probably there are as great
sinners here as anywhere. Now, sir, how does
the Senator's doctrine operate? Let me look
at it? You observe he did not confine himself
to the Constitution merely; he was battling
this "higher law" principle that has been hissed
at and hawked at. How does his position strike
in certain directions? whom does it affect prac
tically? The old Statesman Daniel was pro
hibited by the Constitution of the country from
praying. You recollect the history. He faced
the Constitution of the realm, threw up his
window, prayed to God and took the conse
quences. Was he a fanatic or a traitor? You.
remember when the Image was reared by legal
authority, and every man commanded to fall
down and worship it, there were three men
who stood erect and said "God first and kings
afterwards." They were thrown into a fiery
furnace, but the form of the fourth was with
them, and there was not so much as the smell
of fire upon their garments. Were they fan
atics or traitors? the Apostles were sent forth
alone and single handed to do battle against
the world. No kingly smiles illumed their
path way ; no royal patronage atiended their
progress; without titles, moneyiens and friend
lees, their rule of duty, their hope and heri
tage' was this: " Go preach. Lo !I am with
you I" The authority of the land forbade them,
under penalty of death, and their calm reply
was,"Judge ye whether it be right to obey
Go or man." They acknowledged a higher
law ; were they fanatics or traitors? How was
it with Reformers—with old Luther, when he
woke up, run against the Greek Testament,
and found that the church and the world were
all astray? He lifted the trumpet to his lips
and blew a blast that shook all Europe ; the
Vatican quivered and the Pope cowered. The
legal authorities commanded him to desist ;
but his reply was, "I shall go to the Diet of
Worms, though there stood in my way as many
devils as there are tiles on the house tops.
And he went. Wu he a fanatic or a traitor
Old Banyan, the eloquent tinker, and author
of, a work that immortalizes him, was forbidden
by the great nation of England to do what was
abstractly and absolutely right—forbidden to
preach the Gospel to the poor. He refused
compliance, went to jail, lay there twelve
years, and during these years wrote a work
that adds more to the glory of England to-day
than the martial conquests of any. king that
ever sat upon her throne. He bowed to the
supremacy of a higher law. Poor old limner
Pilgrim's Progress I Though the good and the
great honor him now—though his native land,
in atonement for the past, rears monuments to
his memory, what avails' it? According to
Berke county Democracy, he was either a trai
tor or fanatic I
What shall we do with the patriot fathers of
'76? They lived under a Constitution, one too
that was perverted to their oppression, and they
were blessed as we are, with sophomore tutors,
who declared that there was no higher law than
the Constitution. Their response was as they
drew the sword and threw away the scabbard—
"resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
Were they fanatics or traitors? Allow me to
say' to Senators, that our Constitution, the
best, I think, the world ever saw, acknowledges
its own possible imperfections by containing
within itself a clause providing for its own
amendment, while the pane!, unchangeable, in
fallible, everlasting code of God and nature con
tains no such provision. Ah l sir, I must tell
the Senator from Barks, that while he may be a
very' good lawyer, he is a most miserable di
vinity scholar; while he may live long enough
to deserve LL. D., he must recant the heretical,
and I will add silly, principles asserted by him
yesterday, or he never can become a D. D.
Mr. Speaker, the simple truth of the whole
question is this : It is the province of consti
tutions and laws to embody and enforce what
is naturally and intrinsically right and just.
When they do this it is the duty of men to re
spect and obey them. When they fail to do
this, it becomes a duty to change, and if needs
be, to resist and overthrow them by force. This
is the higher law doctrine, and it is neither
fanaticism nor treason. Yon must indorse it or
reprehend the patriots and sages, the moral
heroes and reformers of all past time.
There is one other position taken by the
Senator to which I call attention. He chal
lenges us to show that the Bible anywhere pro
hibits slavery, or that the teachings of Christ
require its abolition. That challenge, sir, I ac
cept. In support of his theory he avowed that
the chosen people of God were eminently slave
holders. lie declared that anti-slavery doo
trines led to infidelity, and threw himself into
contortions of anxiety, less I should totally re
lapse from the faith. Let me tell him that the
prostitution of the Bible to the support and
dauction of a system that embodies within it
self all the elements of crime and cruelty, lust
and oppression, does not betray a tendency to
infidelity, but it is infidelity matured—it Is hag
gard, piebald, ribald atheism. Tb cast the Bible
into the flames with scorn and contempt, would
be an offence against high Heaven, but not so
grsot an offence as to pervert its teachings into
the support of rottenness and lies. But let us ex
amine his Illiesitions. He affirms that God's
chosen people held slaves, and his forced infer
ence is that consequently American slavery is
right. His premises and conclusions are about
as logical as this. Moses was the meekest man
and Sampson was the strongest man, therefore
David killed Gollah. Are we to imitate the
"chosen people" in everything, especially in
their individual relapsed and aberrations. If so,
we must occasionally get gloriously drunk, we
must turn polygamists, become Brigham
Youngs, revel and luxuriate upon the joys of a
millenial Utah.
But soberly, air, I admit that the Jews did
hold slaves, and for this and other iniquities
the hand of retribution has wiped them nation
ally from the map of the earth; illustrating the
very position that I have taken in this entire
discmsion, that great systems of injustice and
wrong, sanctioned and perpetuated by any na
tion, will sooner or later undermine and destroy
that nation. Let me explain Jewish slavery:
Under the Mosaic economy one man was al
lowed to buy another—not his brains, heart and
soul—but his time and services for a limited
period. Theo, by specific enactment, every fif
tieth year was to be a jubilee, they were re
quired to "proclaim liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereotandye shall
return every man unto his possession, and every
nuatobisownfil.mily." Itisreplied— lattof the
strangers—they"` were allowed to hold SIM,
fotever.' Itty answer. is this• In immedii►ge
exineatkei with the is the
"Ye shall have one manner al law as well for the
stranger as for one of your own country." That is
all the slavery sanctioned by the Levitical law.
In process of years they refused to observe the
jubilee, and held on to their hirelings as un
conditional bondmen, and this is the beginning
of real slavery among the Jews, not in accord
ance with, but in direct contravention of the
divine law. Tirol the old prophets thundered
in their ears, commanding them to "break the
yoke and let the oppressed go free." When
any advocate of American slavery seeks to
shelter his bantling ender Mosaic altars, it
proves that his reading is limited, or he is hard
pressed for good arguments. Jewish slavery,
like all other slavery, originated in human coy
etonextess, and not in divine law.
Still farther, lam challenged to show that
Christ or the scriptures condemn slavery or re
quire its abatement. To show this is a very
easy and a very pleasant task.
Let me here remark, however, that the
teachings of the Bible are laid down, not in
treatises but in short comprehensive apothe
ghms. Great systeMs of morality are embod
ied in single short precepts—precepts that are
capable of almost infinite elaboration. This
adapts the Bible, more than any other book, to
all the grades of intellect. The child can read
and oomprehend ; the philosopher can read,
evolve and expand. The ten commandments
could be be engraved upon a ten cent piece,
yet these ten precepts are the grand basis of all
good legislation among the civilised nations of
the earth. Hence you will not find In the Bible
a labored treatise against slavery, but what do
you find ? lon find specific commands, direct
injunctions, enumerated duties, intensified pre
cepts, which obeyed and practiced, would not
only sweep away slavery, but all other systems
of iniquity. Go stand at the foot of Sinai, and
while thunders rock the hills about yon, listen
to that ombipotent voice that speaks from be
hind the curtain of cloud: " Thou shalt not
steal !" There is no equivocation, no qualifica
tion accompanying it. Steal what? Thou
shalt not steal a man's horse, his money, or his
coal. If it forbids you to steal the rags that
cover a man's back, does it allow you to steal
the man himself, his wife and child—his home
and joys—his heart and brains—his intellectual
culture and moral development But hear the
next clap of thunder: "Thou shalt not
kill !" Kill what ? The body, of course
While the Almighty prohibits the killing of the
poor clay body, does he sanction the murder of
the soul—the killing of the manhood—the cru
cifying of the affections T Let Berke county an
swer.
Follow the subject yet farther, " proclaim
liberty to all the inhabitants of the land."
Are you willing to do it? There is your Bible
commanding it. Mr. Speaker, you and myself
went in company, a few days since, to Philadel
phia, and for the first time in my life I was
in the old State House.
I went into that hall and looked around upon
those walls, and saw the portraits of the mighty
ones of the past looking down upon me; their faces
were eloquent and radiant with hallowed names
and recollections; and the very walls seemed to
re echo the sayings of those honored men, and
I confess, sir, a strange impulse went stealing
through my veins as I came around and looked
upon that old bell that stood there—the first
bell that ever rung out the glory of the 4th of
July--the same bell that caught up the notes of
the Declaration of Independence that was read
on those steps in 1776, "that all men are created
equal and endowed with certain inalienable
rights, among which are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness " That bell caught the
notes and rung them out; and they went ringing
out from sea to shore and from shore to sea ;
and over the ocean ; the nations of Europe
caught the sound, and while the poor man-wept
in his sorrow he listened to that western orison,
and in his heart of hearts exclaimed, "there is
hope for man." On that bell is that very pas
sage from God's word, "prealaim liberty i to all.
the inhabitants of the land .P . It 'Mu; put on
years before '76, as thongh ' ln eipectation and
prophetic, of the liberty that was then to be es
tablished— , and then, years "tifteriviras, I believe
on the Fourth of July, when it was doing service
attain it was cracked,seemingly prophetic of the
troubles that have since come upon us. I know
not who rung the bell on that occasion, but I
think it must have been a democrat, for they
have a marvellous propensity for cracking
things. They cracked the Missouri compromise,
then they cracked their own party orgtudzation,
then the country itself, and now' thd Senator
from Berke, proposes to crack the Bible,
and
could he mount high enough he would crack
the throne of thrones, for the sake of his de
moralized party and its demoralizer slavery.—
"Undo the heavy burdens and let the , oppressed
go tree " Nothing in the Bible, says Berke,
against slavery. "He that stealeth a man and
selleth him, or if he be found in his hand he
shall surely be put to death." Yet here
is a system originating in piracy and pro
pogated by man stealing,. all in harmony
with the Bible, says Barks, "Love thy neighbor
as thyself." Who is my neighbor ? He that
has fallen among thieves and is stripped and
robbed, and needs sympathy. That refers to
white men, says Berke : 'Remember those that
are in bonds as bound with them." That
don't refer to slavery, says Barks, it only means
the; bonds of our party. "Whatsoever ye would
that men should do unto you do ye even so
unto them."
Would you have your fellow man guarantee
to you the unmolested enjoyment of those
rights and immunities which you inherit from
Him who crowned you with humanity? By
this precept are you commanded to guarantee
the same rights to every other human being.
If slavery and Christianty are co-relative systems,
we may reasonably expect that to some extent
they will produce the same practical results
Compare them for a moment. Christianity calls
into exercise all the noble attributes of man,
and is followed in its march through the earth
by a brilliant train of arts, sciences and human
embellishments. Slavery inflames all the baser
passions of the heart and marks its pathway
with moral sterility, mental deterioration and
political disruption. The one system refines
and elevates, the other brutalizes and degrades.
The first pours sunlight upon its votary, cheers
his heart, thrills his nature, and when thejour
ney of life is o'er on golden wings bears him
aloft to the bosom of the Infinite. The other
envelopes its victim in darkness, crushes his
soul, wears him out with insufferable sorrows,
till at last he crawls away into the grave, a
welcome refuge from earth's intolerable woes.
The one system is from above the other from
beneath—the one is the representative of infin
ite goodness, the other the vicegerent of im
measurable evil. Notwithstanding this the
Senator from Berke declared these were kindted
systems, aye worse, be degraded Christianity
to the menial office of serving as a wet nurse to
slavery. This foul system, reeking with guilt
and bursting with loathsome ulcerations he took
in his arms, kissed it lovingly, and then held
it up in the face of insulted heaven, challeng
ing the divine benediction, and there, sir, I
leave him to stand in his own chosen attitude,
simply assuring him that before he hears that
benediction, he will be aroused by the breaking
thunders of the last great day.
From the position he has taken, the judgment
of the wise and the moral sensibilities of all
Christendom recoil with sickening disgust.
ditir. Speaker, party organizations are necessa
ry in a popular goieniment when the people
rule, but a party Mho a bleating to its country
and its age must be predicated upon the rights
of man and the sleet laws of civilization—it
must embody and proclaim the mighty princi
ples of freedom which alone can make a country
glorious and prosperous. The Senator has
based his Democratic party upon human I on
dage ea its chief corner stone. So be it. The
future will verify the prediction that any party,
in this country and this age of theworld, which
mounts the hlack borsa . of slavery hoping thane
rldeintal•coiiel a nd place, will find at bit
that its steed is but the pale horse of death,
and horse and rider together will fall into the
same ignoble, dishonored grave. In, after
years when posterity reads the history of that
party, it will pause, and with slow unerring
finger, partly in pity but more in contempt,
write its epitaph thus: Hie jacet corpus coin:
Here lies the body of an ass.
filettito
AYER'S SARSAPARILLA,
FOB PURIFYING THE BLOOD.
AND for the speedy cure of the sub.
Joined varieties or Diseases :,
orofala and Scrofulous Affection such
as Tumors, Ulcers, Sores, Eruptions,
Pimples, Pastules, Blotches, Boils,
Mains, and all Skin Diseases.
OAKLAXD, Ind, OW June 1259.
J. 0. Amu & Co., Gouts : 1 feel It my duty to acknowl.
edge what your Eartararilla bus done [or me. Ravine
Inherited a Scrofulous n,I have suffered from It
In various ways for y nun. Sometimes it beret out hi
Meets on my bands and arm, ; sometimes hart ed In
ward mad distressed me at the stomach. Two years ago
bro., out co my head and covered my scalp and ears
with Wawa. which was paloftd and loathsome beyond
desaripelou. I trod many um& Ines and several physt
clans. but without muCh•rel , el from anything. In fact,
the disorder grew Wore.. At length I was rejoined to
read in the Gospel Messenger that you bad prepared an
elm-native (Sarsaparilia,) for I knew from your rep
utetion that 'myth lugyou ma.* must be good. I rent
to atm Moan and got it, and use It till it cared me. I
WOK tt, au you advise, la email doses of a teaspoonful
over a mGuth, and used almost three hotUee New and
be eithy akin soon began to form under the scab, watch
after a while fell off, my skin Is now clear, and I trove by
my feelings that the disease has gone from my system.
You can well believe that I feet what I am saying when
I tell you, that I hold you to be oee of the as at of the
age, and remain ever gratefully. 'Tours,
ALBRIM B. TALI t' T.
St. Anthony's Fire, Rose or Erysipelas,
Tatter and Salt Rheum, Scald Head
Ringworm, Sore Ryes, Dropsy.
Dr. liobert It. Preble writes trot° Salem, N. Y., 12th
sep., 1869, that be Ms cured an Inveterate case Of Drop.
sy, which thre.tened to terminate Maly. by the perse
vering me of oar Sarstpar.lia, and ako a dangerous at.
tack of Malignant alsipelav by large doses of the same•
says be cores the common Eruptions by It constastly.
Bronehooele, Ekdtre'or Swelled Neck.
Zebulnn Sloan of Proms:it, Texas, wrltus : "Three bot
tler of your Sarsaparilla cured me front& Gerran—a hid
eous swelling on the neck, width I had suffered from
over two years."
Leacorrhata or Whites, Ovarian Tumor,
Utirine Ilkseration,Feniale Diseases.
?grit. J. B S. Cherishes, of New Ycrk City, writes ;
mast cheerfully comply with the rasps*, of your anent
in saying I have found your bartepnrilia a mo+teseellent
alternative in the numerous complaints for wblo we em
ploy snob a remedy, but especially Is Freseste Dimas of
the Scrofulous diathesis. I b eve cured many Inveterate
mutes of Leueorrbrea by 11, and some where the cosi
plaint man canoed by ulceration of the lietTlO. The 111-
common illtijelf was soon cured. Nothing within my
tnowtedge equals It f , r these female derangements."
Kilwato S. Yarrow, of Newbury, Ala., writes, "A deo
prone ovarian tumor on one vf the females in my lankily,
which bad defied all the remedies we could employ, has
at length been completely mud by your fttraot of Sar
no:me,. our physiediut thought nothing but entirpa.
Wm could afford relief, but he advised the trial of year
Sarsaparilla as the fast resort before cutting, and lt
' , Posed effectual_ After brklegyou , remedy sight make
no symptom of lhe disease remains."
Syphilis and itenturial Disease.
kiw 0611XLIM, 25th August, 1969.
Iv. J. C. Avis : air, I cheerfully comply with the re
quest of your agent, sod report to you Dome of the effivue
Piave realised with your Sersaparlds.
I have cored with It, in my pnusUce, moat of the
plaints tbr which It is recommended, and have found Its
effects truly wonderful lo the cure of neared arid. Met
curial Diseases. oue of my patients had Syphilitic ulcers
le We throat, which were mammies his palate end the
top of his mouth. Yohr Sarsaparilla, ales dily taken,
cured him In dee week. Another was attacked by sec
ondary symptoms in his num, and the akar/mon had eat
en away a considerable part of It, no that Nation, the
disorder would soot :ea& his brain and kW Ant. But it
yielded to my adutialetratton of your Sarsaparilla: the
'ken nested. a nd be it well seam, not of coarse without
tome diedguratita to his *ea. A manta who had beau
treat-A for the name disorder by mercury was suffering
from this polsoo In her bones. 'obey had • become So
senstalve to the weather that on a damp day she irulfered
excructating •tie In her joints and bones. She, too, was
cured entirely by your Sarsaparilla tot ' a few weeks. I
know from Its formula. whinh you agent gave me, that
this Preparation from your laboratory mast be a rest
remedy; oonsecueotly, these truly remarkeble results
with it have not surprised me.
Praternally yours,
G. V. LARIMBROLIN.
ORheumatima, Gout, Liver Complaint.
Preoton Co., Va., 6th July, 1869
Da..l C. ATM: Kr, I have been *Mks.** with a pain
ful chronic Rheumatism for a long Iltse, which baffled
the skill of physicians, and stack to me In sfete at all the
remedies I could tin , until I trial your flarsapartUa •—•
, - see bottle oared me in two weeks, and restored my gen
eral beaitb so mach that I am far better than before I
was attacked. I think It a wonderful mencine.
Jules Y. Omaha, of 9t. Lents. writes .1 have been
Minded for yearn with an WWI= of the Liver '
which
4egtroyed my health. I tried every thing, and every
thing tailed to relieve me and I have been a broken
dewy man for some years from norther cause than de.
reatiganst sr the Liver. My beloved pastor, the Re,. fir.
Rimy. advised me to try your Sersaparrilln, became be
ald he knew you, and anything you made was worth
trying. Hy the blessing of God it has oored me. I feel
young spin. The best that can be filid of you Is not
bait good enough."
&shirr" as, Cancer Tumors, Enlargement,
111mM:ion, Caries and exfoliation of
the Bones.
A great variety of .:436.11/1 have ,been reported to as
where mires of these formidable complaints have molt.
form the use of this remedy, but one awe bare win not
admit them. Sow of them may be found to oor Amer
can Almanac, which the agents below named are pleased
to hunted' gratis to all who call for them.
Dyspepsia, Heart Disease, Fits, Epihtp
ay, Melancholy, Necreigia.
Many remarlrable cures of these *realms have been
made by the alternative power of this medicine. itstim
mimes the vital functions into vigorous action, and thus
overcomes disorders which would be supposed beyond
its reach. Such a remedy ban been required by the ne
cessities of the people, and we are confident that thin will
do for them all that medicine can do.
A.yer's Cherry Pectoral
TOR THE RATED CORY OP
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, Hoarseness,
Croup, Bronchitis. Incipient Con
sumption, and for the Relief
of Consumptive Patients
in advanced stages
of the Disease
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- 'This isa remedy so unlvervaliv known to surpass any
other for the cure of throat and lung complaints, that It is
useless here to publish the evidence of its virtue,. Ds
unrivalled excellence for coughs and colds, and its truly
wonderful cures of pulmonary disease, have made it
known throughout the civilised nations of the earth.—
Yew are the communities, or even townies, among them
who have not Dome personal experience of its effects.—
some living trophy la their whist of It, victory over the
subtle and dangerous disorders of the throat and lungs.
aa au know the dreadful fatality of these disorders, and
as they know, too, the effects of this remedy, we used not
do more than to insure them that it has now all the vir
tue' that it did have when making the cures which have
won so strongly upon the omilidence of mankind.
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Lowell. Naas.
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ELIXIR PROPTLANIINE,
TRB NRW REMEDY P.P
REEtrMATISR,
A NEW REMEDY, _
A CIRTAIN REKEDy } roa
Boots RR,
RHZEILATISM CHRONIC Riii.tv.•
OE EVEiir Risp 'Lb
HOW SILIBORN ,
No Kansa
PROPYLAMMI
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[nom orrica.u. licartrAt Ruse",
KIT 19, 1880,—fillea let. 28, slrgie , i•
strong. Iwo years ego *be bad an atutek
tiem,troin which she wca confined t•• Ler
and subseqeht.y from a relame far tow II
Well eine* then till billt Saturday, %lb
chewing, she took cold, had pain in Ler t.,„;
Lot bad NO Carideo chili. Two date
gab s,, well,wLkh was follow, d
kites joints and oi int, 0 i,
pain to her *boulders, and br r kLu,l, •
red and paluful ; both hanus are cfle le, r.
moi-t so. This, thee, is a cart .1; ;etre
as it is now fashionably called riteuria.i
well remarked typical case We
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eass,and froM rime to lime udi
oaa symptoms which prerent tbetwei..,
in bringleg her bet, , re you tam, u to ,
remedy which has recently tu-rti re,
treettnent of rimumatam. I m 'an prety -
Awenarius, of ISt Petersburg, rteoratac
highest terms, haring derive,, great 3,,et,
in 260 eases which mime under hip
toenghttory testimonials re-ne.-nar n tar,
our youruate, and I propose the:one t,,,
trial 1 must confess IMD altsay,o, ,
worth of new reit/ode+, whico ,re
bet tide comes to UP fettilUlMetkitd,
are bound to give it a trial.
SAME CASE FOUR DA.] L it. •
Max 23, 1860.-1 will now elteb.: to • I.
Whom I prescribed Propylamiii..
Mg under an attack 01 acute re. em s l r •
Weedily taken it to doses of due , r
(Intermitting it at night.) Toe
found her much more cemforieb:-..
peeled to be ford week or -
attune. (the patient now : -
improvement has steadily pro,re, , •:
fall to notice a marked ebauge :n
joints, which axe now neerly
Thus far our experiment wool.. hare •••erl
; but, gentlemen, we nu-t r, t•
fore we can give a deemed iipfin ,
the result.
Here 19 another patient Who wu
the amine medicine on Sunday
suffering ha= a Gra.la rileuu
that time with an acute attacit
chronic affection. The wr,t , , . .
awoken and teine. She .
Mine In three grain due every re,
pensive that the oorolimg of the;
InheiL
THREE DAYS. LATEh
Ito 26, 1660.—This Is the cm, , I It
treami with propylumlne. the t •
961190 your 111,4eCties M t.O •"., 7 i
osistkretable, and is wow I,lcosjs tho. • .
to Ulla cut . It Ism Oven] , d lo sr
latactory results. The second c
Om was caned at our 1.11 are.
do wet I will now bring beiore c . 71 , s
Clite of acute
. 1r toomnatu.m. .
apry, think ,
good Jury. Len,
our verdict in ftvor of prryy
He WA seaman, Wt. 28, ibc,::c. :•..:.
Bee hid otaitilooal rheLmanc , c.
to keep Ws bed, unul ele.bi
bl his right knee, subeequen , E ~ 3,
later, the wets of the doper e tr ,
are all swollen, tetilt oil. tee ier
hL akin, at p_retent dry, tliou:N ir,r •
sweating. His pulse IS lull a:. ~.. I -
He has now used propylemw. D r
This gentleman W Whet may ryp.ca
ease or acute rheumatism. It. n4rj
and wet, and int,. eXpee,Aire • ' e
adenoma, severe articular , 1. L. 11
dote, in the lOwcryotnta, re, ,
aereatiag, tau generally attleicici a-aa,Lttc
I did eel bring this Faucet bar
IMO Or rog yen a lecture op A L..a•c?
with r amalletn, but to u
new remedy we are Mating, L.
typical ova% al I have ealtad a to,r,
net be a faller Opportunity for ,n_
queetkaa. We are. tb,reforo, et(' ”; t-
ether teedklera, even aucity nes, tl ❑ 'y
=
Tha r ; uto [ Mb ..418 efflOt2l 6
i.e the VW 01 &luta.
FAVORABLE VERLth I
JUNII9, 1860.—Tbe nett of ~r
came 81 spaIAbrbeUICIAISM belOre
Nth, Wilke I then called aI) .
woe remarked was a fair Opporrutliy t • ;,.:..-
WOllll of our new remedy, It
[Lan in three grade te... Wier) luo u,:rr•:
patient has got .tloog Vr.l3 n. 6., •
walk about, as you see. I d 4, , '
WWII newel veep as severe a c.e..” "
soou restored to health a ands 11 , 16
without being prepared to decal,: 4•,.
do of the rillet•ey we hart wed,
that In Ibe ems in which wo ,ve to .11
Propyhtudue, the let,lauu burr r
much 4-writer than under the trest,eet.t Ni
sued. I wish gentlemen, you te •uitt
and report the results.
J. ?IMAM
Poe is tun report 01 which "
extraet, we the Philadelphia Medi‘at in,i
porter. It la the report alter a fa'r tr ar•
ioal authority In thbicOuntrf, anti al
to give aamarona certificates o . om
Nod rejoicing patients.
A SPEEDY CURL
AN kFFECTU• L CURE•
THE SAILS ROULT 1,0-••
WHAT IT OAS DONA,
Bullock it Crenshaw, aLdrm tips , t
nal moo, by whom the Elixir Pro;,),.mi,e tx3 •
trodneed, have sold to us the exeluslre right
tare it according to the original rt cipc, ,
mad? arrangements of such mageaLde
to gelitYtr it broadcast amongst HutTerniz
A WORD TO DOCTOR:,
if Yea prelim to use the same rewety le getier 105
We invite your atteatlOn to the
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lamina.
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