The gentleman repeats the assertion that has been repeated a thousand and one times:  that abolitionists are retarding the emancipation of the slave, and have thrown it back fifty or a hundred years; that they have increased the rigors of slavery, and caused the master to treat his slave with more severity.  Slavery, then, is to cease at some period; and because the abolitionists have said to the slaveholder, “Now is the accepted time,” and because he thinks this an improper interference, and not having the abolitionists in his power, he inflicts his vengeance on his unoffending slave!  The moral of this story is, the slaveholder will exercise more cruelty because he is desired to show mercy.  I do not envy the senator the full benefit of his argument.  It is no doubt a true picture of the feelings and principles which slavery engenders in the breast of the master.  It is in perfect keeping with the threat we almost daily hear; that if petitioners do not cease their efforts in the exercise of their constitutional rights, others will dissolve the Union.  These, however, ought to be esteemed idle assertions and idle threats.

The Senator tells us that the consequences arising from the freedom of slaves, would be to reduce the wages of the white laborer.  He has furnished us with neither data nor fact upon which this opinion can rest.  He, however, would draw a line, on one side of which he would place the slave labor, and on the other side free white labor; and looking over the whole, as a general system, both would appear on a perfect equality.  I have observed, for some years past, that the southern slaveholder has insisted that his laborers are, in point of integrity, morality, usefulness, and comfort, equal to the laboring population of the North.  Thus endeavoring to raise the slave in public estimation, to an equality with the free white laborer of the North; while, on the other hand, the northern aristocrat has, in the same manner, viz.:  by comparison, endeavored to reduce his laborers to the moral and political condition of the slaves of the South.  It is for the free white American citizens to determine whether they will permit such degrading comparisons longer to exist.  Already has this spirit broken forth in denunciation of the right of universal suffrage.  Will free white laboring citizens take warning before it is too late?

The last, the great, the crying sin of abolitionists, in the eyes of the Senator, is that they are opposed to colonization, and in favor of amalgamation.  It is not necessary now to enter into any of the benefits and advantages of colonization; the Senator has pronounced it the noblest scheme ever devised by man; he says it is powerful but harmless.  I have no knowledge of any resulting benefits from the scheme to either race.  I have not a doubt as to the real object intended by its founders; it did not arise from principles of humanity and benevolence towards the colored race, but a desire to remove the free of that race beyond the United States, in order to perpetuate and make slavery more secure.