Speech of Charles Brown, of Pennsylvania, on Abolition and Slavery (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Speech of Charles Brown, of Pennsylvania, on Abolition and Slavery In reply to Mr. Thompson, of Indiana, on Abolition and Slavery. Mr. Brown said: Mr. Chairman: Ever since I have been in active political life, beginning twenty years back, before the people of Pennsylvania, in her halls of legislation, and in the convention that amended her constitution, have I spoken as I speak this day, against this whole abolition agitation, here or in the free States. Since I have had the honor of a seat in this House, I have given silent votes against every proposition that has been brought into it in any way calculated to interfere with the subject of slavery, here or in the slave States, knowing that its agitation could do no good, and was doing much harm. And I would have continued the same quiet course for the brief space of time I have yet to remain here - looking to the future to approve my course, as my constituents have heretofore approved all that I have said and done upon the subject - but for the remarkable speech of the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Thompson] - a speech which struck me, as I think it must have struck this House, with surprise and astonishment. The gentleman told us, that upon this subject he belonged to the great conservative party of the Union - the party opposed to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, or in the States, or its agitation in any place where it might have the tendency to disturb the peace and harmony of the country, or endanger the perpetuity of our Union. He not only asserted his own conservatism, but vouched for the conservatism of the people of the State which he in part represents; and, still further, vouched for and boasted of the conservatism of the late venerable gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. J. Q. Adams,] who, but a few months since, fell among us. Now, I ask, were not these startling assertions. To me they were. I remember well when I met that gentleman [Mr. Thompson] on this floor some seven years ago; he was then truly conservative on this question. I had doubts then as to the propriety of the twenty-first rule, and my colleague [Mr. C. J. Ingersoll] and myself attempted for days to have it modified, that whatever was objectionable in it might be struck out, and all its conservative character retained. After two or three weeks trial, we failed to attain our. end. We could not amend it, and we voted for it; and from that time to this I have sustained that rule, and opposed the introduction of the subject of slavery in any shape. Then the gentleman was with us, in laying upon the table all abolition questions. Then he was a conservative, and rebuked the agitating spirit of abolitionism here. But when I again met him on this floor at the commencement of the present Congress, how stood the matter? There is the record. Upon every question of the introduction of petitions, during the last session of Congress, relative to slavery in the District of Columbia, the gentleman who, in his speech, so sternly rebukes these movements as calculated to dismember the Union, or to disturb its harmony, voted upon the yeas and nays to bring them into this Hall, and against laying them on the table. Nay more. When the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Giddings,] at the last session, introduced resolutions concerning a slave who had been maltreated at some hotel in this city - a subject well calculated to agitate and irritate the feelings of southern members - did not the gentleman from Indiana again vote against laying the resolutions on the table, desiring to have them agitated by the House? How changed was the gentleman last session from the time when he stood beside me, six years ago, voting to censure the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Giddings] for introducing resolutions calculated to excite the country, and to create unhappy feelings. He who then stood with me to censure and expel from th
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