Speech on the Organization of the House Delivered in the House of Representatives Dec. 5 and 6, 1859printed at the Congressional globe office, 1859 - 15 páginas |
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16 Exchange Place Abram Wakeman adjourn till to-morrow American ancestry Anthon avow Benjamin Stanton Buffinton Charles CLARK Clerk common country compend conservative Curtis David Kilgore decide deed Edward Joy Morris equal FARNSWORTH gentleman from Mis gentleman from Missouri gentleman from Ohio Government Henry Waldron House adjourn Illinois Impending Crisis indorse institution secured intercourse James James Buffinton John John Covode KELLOGG KILGORE LOVEJOY lowship motion to adjourn negro North Carolina object offer a resolution organization patriot Philemon Bliss point of order political pray pro-slavery proceed question of order remarks Republican side signed a paper slave slaveholding constituencies slavery souri yield southern Speakership STANTON strike the blow submit subscription Sydenham Moore taken thing tion tleman to-morrow at twelve twelve o'clock undersigned Union VALLANDIGHAM vote Washburn William Curtis Noyes William H William Kellogg William N. H. Smith yeas and nays
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Página 4 - Whereas, certain members of this House, now in nomination for Speaker, did indorse and recommend the book hereinafter mentioned, " Resolved, That the doctrines and sentiments of a certain book called ' The Impending Crisis of the South — How to meet it,' purporting to have been written by one Hinton R.
Página 2 - ... quite confident he had not cleared as much even as one per cent, per annum on the amount of his investment. The real and personal property of this aged Christian consists chiefly in a large tract of land and about thirty negroes, most of whom, according to his own confession, are more expensive than profitable. The proceeds arising from the sale of the tobacco they produce, are all absorbed in the purchase of meat and bread for home consumption, and when the crop is stunted by drought, frost,...
Página 2 - ... the causes which have impeded the progress and prosperity of the South, which have dwindled our commerce, and other similar pursuits, into the most contemptible insignificance ; sunk a large majority of our people in galling poverty and ignorance, rendered a small minority conceited and tyrannical, and driven the rest away from their homes ; entailed upon us a humiliating dependence on the Free States ; disgraced us in the recesses of our own souls, and brought us under reproach in the eyes of...
Página 3 - ... that have established republican forms of government based upon the theories of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Henry, and other eminent statesmen of Virginia. The great revolutionary movement which was set on foot in Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on the 20th day of May, 1775, has not yet been terminated, nor will it be, until every slave in the United States is freed from the tyranny of his master.
Página 2 - It is expected that the stupid and sequacious masses, the white victims of slavery, will believe and, as a general thing, they do believe, whatever the slaveholders tell them; and thus it is that they are cajoled into the notion that they are the freest, happiest, and most intelligent people in the world, and are taught to look with prejudice and disapprobation upon every new principle or progressive movement.
Página 2 - The diabolical institution subsists on its own flesh. At one time children are sold to procure food for the parents, at another, parents are sold to procure food for the children. Within its pestilential atmosphere, nothing succeeds; progress and prosperity are unknown; inanition and slothfulness ensue; everything becomes dull, dismal and unprofitable; wretchedness and desolation...
Página 4 - It,' purporting to have been written by one Hinton R. Helper, are insurrectionary and hostile to the domestic peace and tranquillity of the country, and that no member of this house who has indorsed and recommended it, or the compend from it, is fit to be speaker of this house.
Página 2 - Presbyterian church, and who supports himself and family by raising negroes and tobacco, told us that, for the last eight or ten years, aside from the increase of his human chattels, he felt quite confident he had not cleared as much even as one per cent, per annum on the amount of his investment. The real and personal property of this aged Christian consists chiefly...
Página 2 - Rights, that will utterly confound the friends of despotism, set at defiance the authority of usurpers, and carry consternation to the heart of every slavery-propagandist. To undeceive the people of the South, to bring them to a knowledge of the inferior and disreputable position which they occupy as a component part of the Union, and to give prominence and popularity to those plans which, if adopted, will elevate us to an equality, socially, morally, intellectually, industrially, politically, and...
Página 3 - The difference is simply this : At the North everything is turned to advantage. When a tree is cut down, the main body is sold or used for lumber, railing or paling, the stump for matches and shoepegs, the knees for shipbuilding, and the branches for fuel.