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Show Representative Malcolm It. Patterson of Tennesses Is another of the Constl-tutlon-lovlng gentleman whose soul revolts re-volts at the Idea of slavery existing among the Moros who acknowledge our sovereignty: he really seems to think that the agreement entered Into by Oen. Bates and the Moro chieftains Is what established slavery In that region, re-gion, and In a recent speech he was very Bevere upon this outrageous violation of th Constitution. The fact thnt slavery sla-very Is there an Immemorial practice, that It Is certain to b gradually put aside under the-Influence of the United States authorities, and that us pei-emplory pei-emplory abolition would Involve us In another bloody war. h Ignores Ills whole speerh Is therefore mere buncombe bun-combe But how does It happen that the Constitution has to be so much more sacredly guarded In the Sulu nr-chlpelago nr-chlpelago thin In the Southern States of this Union' Why should we engage In a war to enforce tho nbolltlon of slavery among the Moros, while State after State In the South Is openly repudiating re-pudiating the Constitution guarantee of suffrage to the black man, nnd refusing re-fusing to b bound by the alternative of losing repiesentatlon on that account. ac-count. It the Constitutional guarantees and tequliements nre good for the Moros, why nre they not good nlso tor the people of the Southern States? |