Speech of Hon. T. L. Anderson, of Missouri, on the Principles and Policy of the Black Republican Party and the Duty of Whigs and Americans in the Approaching State and Presidential Elections

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. T. L. Anderson, of Missouri, on the Principles and Policy of the Black Republican Party and the Duty of Whigs and Americans in the Approaching State and Presidential Elections: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 16, 1860 Sir, at that eventful period when the Constitution was adopted by the fathers of the Republic, and accepted by the sovereign States of the Union, Slavery negro slavery - was an existing institution in twelve of the thirteen States of the Confederacy. A large majority of the members that composed the convention and originated and formed that federative compact, were the absolute owners of slaves. It was a domestic institution that had been introduced and established by the Puritan fathers, and perpetuated and fostered by their descendants. It was regarded, at the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as one of the institutions of the country, to be preserved and protected by that sacred instrument. From that day to this, it has received the sanction, and protection of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the Federal Govern ment. It was an institution in regard to which, all of the States, possessed the power, in the exercise of their individual sovereignty, to dispose of whenever the people, in their wisdom, might deem it proper and expedient so to do. We know that the climate and productions of the North rendered slave labor nu profitable, and that it was the instinctive principle of gain, the philanthropy of dollars and cents, by which they were impelled to rid themselves of what they now, with pretentious piety, call the sin of slavery, the sum of all villainies. They effected it underthe disguise of what they falsely termed gradual emanei patiou the true definition of which was the grant of sufficient time to enable most of them to sell their slaves to the planters of the southern States. That being accomplished, many of them now, in a spirit of pharisaical zeal and wild fanaticism, insist that slavery shall be abolished in all the States of the Union 3 that it is an inhuman and infamous institution, a relic of barbarism, alike offensive to civilization and Christianity. These men of the North, whose fathers were originally responsible for the introduction of slavery who clamored for and carried on the African slave trade up to 1808, the last day of its constitutional limitation, who invested the proceeds of human beings sold into perpetual bondage, in land, houses and stocks, whose wealth, power and in¿uence have been principally augmented by slave labor, and who would literally starve without the commercial intercourse of the slave States, are now demanding, that we shall surrender our slave pro perty, to satisfy their ideas of humanity and freedom. Is not such demand pre sumptuously unreasonable, and insolently unjust? They declare, however, that it is not their purpose to interfere with the relation of master and slave in the States. Now, I propose to test their sincerity by their conduct and acts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.