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Change For The Better

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Day
31
Month
October
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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Tlierc has been a great chango in the House ot Representativos; twu ye irs n.o. the subject of norihern righfs couidscarceh' be meiitionc 1 t!i;;re Without ezcüing n broil. Now the subjöét of'slaiy and Inérights of the freo States are spoken oT as any othei suibjscW are, and the mnjority of southern members listen to what finid. On the occusion oí ihese co.umotions which you have hcard of. and which wero caused by those who Rad no inÜuence, I was lis-ened 10 by slaveholders: thcy gathered c!oso round rrte. whilst 1 was speaking. Twoyeirsago.whnt was the consequent: when.an attempt wnsmade to düateupon theencroachmentsof the slnvc power! Even in ihe course of live months. thcre was a great change. When I ofTered my rcsolutions in the Creóle case. wliat an upronr was immedintely produced; and in five montïbs from that time ï was permittpd to go on, Dxplájó and demónstrate far inore than was expressed in those rceohitions. I put forth the challenge in ñsplatn i manner ns I could. for them to refute ïny positio:)s. I pointed to them; I desired them to éxprvsèïheir 'Ssseht'ror dissent, ns I have to you to night. I mention thtB asan evidence oftlie incVèase or tb is prinripie of toleration, r,nl of anti-slavcry sentiment: and 1 coiisider the day not very far distant when ihcso truths wiü be ncknow'edgcd by slavehold■lers. Í could stand liere till to-morrow morn'mx, and cite you to insinncos of the increase of this principie. Slavehokk-rs have ncnowledged to me in privnte, ihat the principies 1 adyöncéd must be mai-nnined. or the government could not stand. I om so fully impressed with a faith in thcir proííicss. that I thtnk two years will not have elapscd lili the freedom of debnte. &c., wlll will not be trammelled. [I. Pierce inquired. does not the nomination of a elavdiolder for President seem Iike a retrograde step?] If every ofTicer of the goveïnmjsnt wcro i slavoholder. it could not retard the revolutioii of public sentiment npon this subject. It would no'. retard it more thon a little black fly upon a bttge waterwhecl [Lnu;diter.] I was speaking of the nvidences we nnd of iavorublc chnnaes wilhin the past year, allhough we have now n slnvehol'.lins: President, and a Blaveholtling Cabinet - nbtwithstafidmg ilie öfforlsof John C. Calhotin, and the p:irt tnken in die matter by Wm. Allen, and a bluster nbwit a war by a lartre portion of tlic preases - what hns becom'e of that case? Why. Lord Ashburton saya he cannnt enter upon it; ifanv thing is done, it must be done. Londopj and ihat the instruction3 to the ofticers nt Nnsflau were to act in n manner becomin gooil neigksarhoild.

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