Virginia and Maryland slaves are sold at New Orleans yearly, and yet
he tells us that slavery is not a national question! Eighth--How did
they admit Missouri into the Union with slaves? Were they Southern
votes which admitted it? No! But they were the votes of recreant New
Englanders--false to the principles of freedom, who sold the honor of
their country, and with it the liberty of thousands of human beings in
Missouri--or at least consented to their bondage. And yet it is not a
national question! He (Mr. T.) would last refer to the remarks of a
constitutional lawyer, who was able, eloquent, sincere, and high
minded. Mr. T. then read the following extract:--
Such thoughts (referring to the judgments to be expected)
habitually crowd upon me when I contemplate those great
personal and NATIONAL evils, from which the system of
operations (vis., the movements of the Colonization Society)
which I stand here to advocate, seems to offer us some
prospect of deliverance.
From that day (1698) till the present, there have flourished
in our country, men of large and just views, who have not
ceased to pour over this subject a stream of clear and noble
truth, and to importune their country, by every motive of
duty and advantage, to wipe from her escutcheon, the stain of
human tears.
It is generally known, that the original members of the
American Colonization Society anticipated, that, at some
future period, the General Government, and some, if not all
the State Governments, would co-operate in their exertions
for the removal of an evil which was obviously NATIONAL in
all its aspects.
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