Slavery Extension and Protection Its Tendencies and Dangers
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Excerpt from Slavery Extension and Protection Its Tendencies and Dangers: Speech of Hon. Daniel Clark, of New Hampshire, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 20, 1860 That is not my object. I do it for the purpose of calling the attention of the Senate to what I call the modern history of slavery agitation in this country, going back for the last ten years, and for the purpose of correcting what I think is an erroneous impression, that the Northern people, and especially the Republican party, are responsible for the agitation of the slavery question in Congress. I ask the attention of the Senate and of Senators to the position of affairs now, and to the progress of affairs since 1850, the time when the compromise measures were introduced into Congress. At that time Mr. Webster said, in a speech which he made on the 7th of March, 1850, that the question of slavery was settled in every foot of the territory that then belonged to the United States. This is his language: "And I now say, sir, as the proposition upon which I stand this day, and upon the truth and firmness of which I intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not, at this moment, within the United States, or any Territory of the United States, a single foot of land, the character of which, in regard to its being free-soil territory or slave territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of this Government." - Congressional Globe, Thirty-first Congress, first session, part I, vol. 21, p. 479. To this proposition of Mr. Webster, both the Democratic and Whig parties agreed. But if every foot of the territory of the United States was then fixed by an irrepealable law, as regards its being free territory or slave territory, what has been the necessity of any agitation of the question of slavery in Congress, in regard to the Territories, since that time? What did you do, sir, and what has been done? I speak now of the Democratic party. In 1852, in the Convention of the Democratic party, it was resolved that slavery agitation should be kept out of Congress; and yet, in the year 1854, when they came into Congress, the Democratic party commenced agitation, by the repeal of the Missouri compromise, and threw the whole country into commotion on that subject. I may say that the Republican party is the child of slavery agitation in Congress; it was brought into existence by the repeal of the Missouri compromise, and the repeal of the Missouri compromise was carried through, advocated, and perfected, by the action of the Democratic party in Congress. What was next done? In 1856, the same Democratic party, meeting in Convention, by its delegates at Cincinnati, resolved the same thing over again, that there should be no more agitation on the subject of slavery in Congress. Here is the resolution: "That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made." That was in 1856. In 1850, you resolved that you would have no agitation. In 1852, you resolved that you would have no agitation. In 1854, you had agitation, and repealed the Missouri compromise; and in 1856, you resolved again that you would have no agitation; and in 1857, and the first part of 1858, you brought in your Lecompton Constitution, obtained over the people of Kansas by fraud and oppression, and you began to agitate again; in 1858, you brought in your Cuba question, and began to agitate again; and then, in 1859, you brought in your resolution of investigation; now you bring in these resolutions; and so you agitate from year to year, while from year to year you resolve that you will not agitate. The Democratic party put forth in their resolutions that they will not agitate
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