Excerpt from Speech of Hon. James W. Wall, of N. J., On the Missouri Emancipation Bill: Delivered in the United States Senate, February 7th, 1863 The bill not only provides for the emancipation of the slaves of Missouri, but proposes to put the people of the other States under the grinding barrow of taxation in order to pay for the slaves, a proposition so monstrous and abuor mal that I wonder it does not strike Senators on the other side of the Chamber with alarm at the consequences to flow from such an act. But their sensibilities seem blunted, their minds darkened, and their judgments clouded, whenever a question arises involving the interests of the black race. Are you anxious, Senators, that the epitaph should be writ ten over the tomb of the Republic: Here lies a White na tion, which lost its liberties and its name in endeavoring to give freedom to the black and inferior race? If you are not, your conduct, day after day, is in strong correspondency with a policy that must inevitably bring this Republic to its grave, and write upon its tomb this horrid epitaph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.