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SALEM, N. C, SATURDAY rWARY 22, 1853.
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DEFERRED ARTICLES.
TnE J First of January. Over J
twent y-five hundred years
Fouipilius, the. second
appointed the first day
grand festival. He also
day to Janus" one of the heathen deities,
1 m . -
in whose honor the month itself had
been named, and who was supposed to
preside over the destinies of the whole
year.
In the ecclesiastical calendar, the day
is celebrated as the Feast of the Circuni-
, cision, to" commemorate the ceremony
under the Jewish law to which Christ
submitted on the eighth day after Lis
birth, r By the primitive Christians it
' was called the Octave of Christmas, and
kept as a solemn feast, in opposition to
the custom of the pagans. -We -do not
find any mention of it as a solemn festi
val until near the close of the fifth centu
ry. Charleston Courier.
SPEECH OF JOHN A. GILI3ER,
0 the Bill making General Appropri
ationsor Works of Internal Improve
ment. Delivered in the Senate, De
cember, 1852.
concluded.
Take, for instance, Orange, Alamance,
Guilford,, Stokes, Forsyth, Randolph,
Davidson, Surry, Yadkin, Ashe, Wa
tauga, Davie, Rowan, Cabarrus, Iredell,
Alexander, Cleveland, Caldwell, Wilkes,
Burke, McDowell, Rutherford, Bun
combe, Yancey, Haywood, Macon, Hen
derson, Cherokee, Madison, and Jack
son, and suppose they could export an
average of $300,000, (and the little
county of Pasquotank does this,) it would
make over 89,000,000. If uch is the
ago, Numa present amount of their exports, they I 80nie
KW of Tiomo i Pay tor it 52, 'JiXhOOO, ol which, bv m - me.
of January for a road, they would save at least 82,100,-, thinca th
nVdiontMl thn 000; and if they do uot-now extxirt Dul such
over-crowded with business; and their
income would pay. back the cost of con
struction while they would be adding so
prodigiously to the taxable pioperty of
the country. Our Treasury, therefore,
would overflow ; and then, sir, we could
add new and large sums to our Literary
Fund, and make arrangements for the
education of every" child In the State.
All judicious improvements are ancil
lary to each other; and all combine to
develop thit chief growth cf earth, man,
to stimulate hit powers, to ennoble his
faculties, and to minister to Lis happi
ness. '
All these improvements tend also to
multiply employments; ana tins is a
fact which universal experience oppose
theory. It was once thought,
people, lesen their jt
the pleasure of living,
this is not all nor half
got this far we will bi
population, trebled out J
ed the Stat with facte
our. works will pay sr.
selves, and they will ba
se ports, and turned all c
all our fabrka in that dir
tis happens when our
mineral, and inauufacfur.
are but half developed "by
of improvements, .they wii
State a great Stale, make
pro veraenla profitable, an i
increase in population our at i
Tiicn, air, when all this hap
is feasible and easily accompli
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North Carolina if we couVl pas such
a bill as this, and start North Carolina
on a bright carter of prosperity, glory
and happiness, then, indeed, wonld I
moat cheerfully surrender all toy hopes
of preferment, if thst swrrraier would
purchase tho result, and proudly die ia
triumph !
Patent self-raising flour is an article
entering into very general consumption,
one thousand barrels being now manu
factured at the Croton mils per month.
'Its peculiar properties are imparted by
incorporating with the flour, during its
manufacture, super-carbonate of soda
. and tartaric acid, in suitable proportions.
No less than one hundred ; thousand
'pounds of the former and seventy thous
and pounds of the latter have been im
ported daring the last six months, to be
used in the preparation of the self-raising
Sour. By the n jw process, the usual
way of raising bread by the partial de
composition of the dough (which is said
to cause a deterioration of the valuable
qualities of the flour, and a loss equal to
sixteen per cent, in weight, compared
- with bresd raised without yeast)"" is
ji voided. The proprietors of the Croton
r mills are preparing to give a collation
half of this amount, it is all for the want
of means of getting to market.
'Nor will it da to say that a railroad
would destroy the vocation and the pro
fits of wagoners. It is a singular fact
that, though the producer pays, one
fourth of the value of his article to get
it to market, the carrier makes nothing.
A railroad would actually increase the
business of these their number would
be multiplied, and hauling shorter dis
tances, with more to do, and sure, cer
tain business,, their profits would be en
hanced. Sir, when the producer is ma
king, all those whg earry and trade in
his articles -can make; when he can
make nothing," the carrier cannot make.
Now, they share the losses and labors
between them ; with a better state of
things thtfy Would share the profits.
Aud, Mr. Speaker, let me tell you a
secret a secret worth knowing, and one
which, if generally known, would change
the scntimeuts of many gentlemen on
this floor in regard to the proposed bill.
That secret, sir, is this: that the more
you tax a Slate, up to a certain point,
for works of internal improvement, the
lighter you make the taxes in proportion
to the means of the people. This, sir,
is not a paradox ; and let mc proceed at
once, and with a very few facts, to dem
onstrate its truth.
I hold in my hands a memorandum,
which I will read :
The report ou the la3t census shows
that The Farm Latrds of the United
States are set down as amouuting ' to
118,457,G22 acres of improved, and
1S4,G21,348 of uuimproved ; total 303,
to theory.' ; It was once thought, and
reasoning a priori still contend, all this happens, we will LaVct-i , r . j
invention of labor savin? ma- "ur great career. We wiU 'cnt eaU
i . j , . T . l . t I
rows people oui oi employment; , nave acnicvcu our independence, . cre
has never yet proved to be the broken loose from' bondage, but we" will
fact. Takes State without improve- J he ourselves on the I road highway, to
ments: there are but one or tw call-j empire! " ' V
ings, aud these are laborious aud pay' We will have tho best porf on the
bad! j, while a vast portion of the popu-1 Southern Atlantic it will be ihe near
lation are driven off or lift iu.idle pv. i est to Liverpool, the half-way port, the
,,THE CUBAN aUESTIO.
We embrace the earliest opportunity
we have been able to find to place be
fore eur readers the following totervst-
dicako, by a"Carlina journal,
y ... , f t question' it cecfie lion
of the United Suut
' Island cf CaU. .
at their establishment durinir the next I V'WU crc8 worth 10 tne verage 810
-week fm-thr bcnciJe t7rtioa5c-ri f t r-a"fi- Ito --vtirago value of the
whieli thov nronose to We un bread artn. of. "Maasachusens. lthodo
Woit Jfrnm th arf.nri-in flonr fchmd ConnccUcut, New York,
erty. Take any Sute on earth with
many improvements, and we find n
opening. for. cvtrybody. We all know
that mankind are created with an infi
uite varictyof tatcs, aptitudes and ne
cessities, mental, moral and physical;
and unless improvements opcu a wide
field for diversified tahnts the major
part of the people are li ft to pine with
intolerable latitude, are driwu off, or
rust away in ignorauce and dissipation.
In States without improvements a
universal languor seems to emasculate
the public mind there is no excitement
but in politics, or iu vice, and life is
robbed of more than half its charms.
In a "well governed State with iniprove
m -uts all is life an 1 bustle, energy and
hope; every eye isbcamiug with exp?c
tation, every step is fjuick aud clastic,'
every face is ruddy with the glow of
health, produced by virluc-iuiprmiug
labor.
The mechanic, the agriculturist, the
;rthitcct, the inventive genius, the ma
thematical : genius, the engineer, the
gardeucr, the nomologist, the man of
ealcnUt ioui, tha tradesman, the mariner,
the scholar, poet, historian, school-master
aud philosopher, the adventurous
and the timid, thetrong and the wrak,
the coarse and the refiucd all find em-
pioymcnts suited to their several tastes
and capacities, all flud their right level,
and all fall into and carry out the law
of their nature, .aud thns arc happy.
Thus, sir, our fetlinirs of pride for
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j ir foi-ii to our sense oi uuit a?
o(onA 3av nni) til t AtitTVI tw ilrtw tiinii
...rf imn.nnn9lW aboi hundred P cre. W .are rather surprised tp
thousand bushels of wheat,, besides oats ttte Farm lands of North tarolma,
and com in large quantities. In pre- .nt! . Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
paring the varies articles manufactur- Mississippi and Tennessee, valued m the
Zd, flour, farinv&c, for, market, four average below $o per acre Sh.nuld.the
hundred and . sixty thousand yards of rage be wade m North Carolina alone,
f t - i - j 1 fear it would fall ou the aversce as low
and fifteen hundred reams of Daner. 35 f- Fr acre
The machinery is driven by an oscillat-
our better judgments, and lifting us
ing engine, the .motive power, being
furnished by two of 31ontgomery s pa
tent tubular boilers; and from the ex
hausted steam all parts of the establish
ment are 'bundautly heated. It is be
lieved that the quantity of flour annual
ly manufactured, amounting to one
hundred thousand barrels,' exceeds the
In connection with this statement ' I
may remark that three hundred millions
of dollars would be a liberal estimate of
the present value of all the property of
the State, real, personal and mixed ; and
that to make this amount, the land will
have to be' valued at an average of at
least two dollars par acre
Now I will not contend I might con-
nroduct of anv other flomW mill in the . Dul 1 will not, mat A UDerai sya-
. I tM a 1 m f atv4 1 a nrt nmvamAnfa wnniil
country.
uYe? York Journal of Commerce.
bring up our lands to an average equal
to that of Pennsylvania - and 2eir J er
-TW t,t ii a n. oi Uey ; bul I will insist and , challenge a
Coinage and Deposit at the 'knLX" f thf . ProP;itiOT that .uld
TTiii 1 Tinnnrit rt tmA '.w.i&J .i treble the present valuation,
Mini iBee the 1st of the nresent month bringing up the lands to an - average of
i,;.Twi rt .IK. 0Ttpnt nf iLi Ran nnn "x dollars per acre. I will also boldly
Th amount of ld Coined during the MSer th' tho T1"? of Personal proper-
..,.vu T-o k 77ft 7fts ? My would be trebled I ought to assert
ru -i, J V U AaluA ani maintain that it would be increased
at the Mint during the yW ending to- foId in n :ke B,nle
W bn SiSl.490.2flG. facti.the coal on Deep n1Ttr aj be
'ri ia ArZ ft,-estimated atone hundred and fifty mil
5ft n ,u hons f tons a very low estimate. This
of three cent pieces 'coined during the J Valued ,at.; ODe. .fif
itrfl, of Deeembpr haa been 2.503 900. V Uou of dollars; nd to - develop
The number coined during the year has th uire " Ttn t m boat
. i - - I hiinaa hnn coo ahnna fiPtiriM anil
oeen io.ooo.ouu. I . . j .,.
' ' I .ill. rmiim 9 nnik hnniiMMl mntm nfl million.
1 ITI il. 1 . .L.
-vev : U I more. . ioui me imurovcaieui vi iuc
England, the great centre of tlj T lace Mon of the Capo Fe would alone
J u ..r... I add as much to the valuo of the State as
ing a most beautiful fabric -of lace for " " " " !
windnw enrtn.. hoA enrtJ.?n Am nf below the mark toassert that an appro-
irn wW Iron hcmek: iron ,Ba Ption of five mdlions of dolUrs would
now iron capes
' 'fWH.Tit tTiA Horhtnincr. nnA shan't
mkoi 9 miuions ot dollars, mas is
uuob wuuiu yieia seven ouuareu iuu-
i: l.i i i i .ii i
BaLTIMOBJ! . AND OHIO. The first "v."a uuuurovi ui.iiiuu,
freight on the completed rail road from Tinr P"'
the Ohio river to Baltimore passed over ' H !' "1 mi nI? Wrth "
itlast week. It consisted of 400 lbs. of 2?-?" au11 Pf
pork from Louisvflle, Kentucky, a de- mcttts-t tLou ggregte
Liption of freight which haslw.ys JSSS
heretofore gone to New Orleans. . . t. 4 14 u
I uiaiu , jiuu tung tM.jkc nuum us uvl Ivv. W
ed from a people more happy and con
tented, and a population- rapidly inereas-
Cm. wit k tn TklAfiaiiro . rt TlatiAa
a t j.. . I r - -...v.v.v.
i tw u c u r WT""-"' multiplied ten fold,
at Wethersfield for forging pension cer-1 . n
tififAtPs in tnia Rjof- W ,innWt.nTi1 But this IS not all.
3. - Iron houses iron ships, and Pr!aMon 01 T V - r t c ,
i capes for the ladies ! Won't b,nnS ?P e of tne S fron
three hundred millions to one thousand
millions of dollars. That is five mil-
Bad Business. A-young lawyer
'named Lawson, of New York, has been
In such a state
that " the hounds" are on
others. Are Haven Register.
The Petersburg Itail Road company
has declared a semi-annual dividend of 3
per cent. ,- .
the track of of things the taxes would be more cqnaf-
l lv diffused over the State :'. and our rich
. i u-.i' : i
eastern menus wouia uu n. ihic
sad luxury of complaining t it they pay
all the taxes. v
Nor is this all yet ; M if 309
millions , should be increased., te 1000
y. - Artesian - Well. The t boring for millions, ou? improvements would bo
water in Charleston has reached a depth come capital investments, and more than
of 030 feet and is still Drosressimr. ... nav for themselves. They woald.be
above the smoke and dust oi party, above
the mire and filth of demagogues, above
the paltry considerations of place and
office, place us on that statesmanlike
levation whence we can view a magni-
fieeut panorama, needing but our voices
to become a glorious reality. The means
are easily raised they will fall lightly
on those looking to the general good,
and seeking to restore new life to the
energies of our invalid commonwealth,
the depriTaUou small and momeutarv.
and the end certain, near at hand, and
worth a thousand times more -of exer
tion. risk and expenditure, than these
that ire asked at our hand.
Then, sir, let us rise to the dignity
of statesmen let ns for a moment for
get our petty cares and strifes, and march
up to the responsibility, making this tne
brightest day m our calendar, and this
assembly the most memorable one in the
annals of our State. Why cot make a
declaration of independence, and follow
ing in the footsteps of those who have
made this wav glorious, pledge our lives.
our fortunes, and our sacred honor to
redeem our declarations? A gallows
stood before them-the worst that we have
to fear is banishment for a time from
tneso balls, which many now effect to
regard as a prison.
Seven years of hard battle, of toil, and
lossand suffering, it took the giants of
To to accomplish their task of independ
ence; half of that time, and a millionth
part of their hardships, will consummate
our independence, and cover North Car
olina with the mantle of gladness will
build tip her seaports," drain off her
swamps and her miasmas together, uitcb
off and hedgo in. her wide eaatera cham
paigns, convert the sedgo on her upland
hills." to-blushioz orchards and golden
harvests, neonle her bloc mountains with
youth and 'beauty, love and pleasure
will awake the silent echoea of the ro
mantic Catawba with the clatter of ma
chinery, and cover the tolitary Yadkin
with fleets of well-freichteti boats, cause
villages and factories, and cities to pnng
un on the shores ol the old Cape I ea:
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multiplr the wealth ana productions oi
the great Itoanokc, ana Dina in oonas oi
inui!i30iuDie imcrcsi, priuc, sou uwnu,
the Albemarle, the Pamlico, the Cape
Fear and the mountains, marrying the
cast to the west, with a rich dowry on
each side, with a rood prospect of a per
petual union of love and interest, and a
glorious offspring of beauty, manliness
and power.
But, air, this is not all nor half: the
plan proposed looks to the . redemption
and independence of North Carolina, and
it will certainly accomplish these desir
able ends. It will bring a market to a!
Our counties; it will deliver us from our
vassalage to V irgima and South Carols
dinner place between Europe .and the
mighty country of tie Amazon; ami the
long arms of this poit will be thrown
out to the exuberant valley cf the Mis
sis;ppi. t'u our const will me great
Southern City hitberward will come
the wide and far south-west, aii.l hither
will be driven even our proud rivals,
South Carolina and Virginia. '
But, sir, 1 forbear; I will ftot-draw
the picture which gleams visibly It for
me in that not diirant future. - I Ileal
in fact and not in yimciVs; an, iir, I
am a matter-of-fact man, and have but
little imagination. Vet so glowing i
the picture that I see so bright and
grand and enchanting, that I fear to
hkvteh it, lc?t some lv?s ardent fritiid cf
the State might ic.inuaU tLat.mach
xcal had made me mad.
It remains only to ak what deters
us from rtaliziog the hopes which we
might justly entertain? MitruL of
the people fear larty spirit and sec
tional prejudice ! these are the curse of
North Carolina. We underrate the in
telligence of tho people; wc gratify our
owu -narrow views in voting down liberal
measures and theu saddle the llaioe on
the people. ,
Sir, the people of North Carolina are
more intelligent than they are n present
ed to be in our legislative halls; and
sir, the popular heart aud instincts, ed
ucated or not, arc ofuer jut and libe
ral than ot!.irwie. For one, I will
common consent and ro home and tnrr
ourselves on the generosity and icrio
inution of the public, ghti-gfr and
upholding each other, wc wuua over
whelm all opposition.
' For one, ir, I would try it: i boast
not of courage, but when consc ious that
I am right I know not what it is to fear.
I am willing to make this experiment:
to sink or swim, live or die pol tically
in one great struggle to redeem North
Carolina.
AnJ, sir, in this I would lapw no
party. I would be willing to lay aide
all nartv fee lines: atroos part in a as I
' I'rtm the Charl vton Jlercary.
iTle. pcrsuUoce' of the New York
MeaaLtp Cvmpany to attcmpfirg to
f-Tce acertaia "Icasra Sxttxu" up-n
fhc hoiialit!cs of. Havana, and I h
reVnt pahlioation of a TolBtu:nnu dip
louiatie dwrej-pondenc between -Fpauo
hyJ the Uuitcd &latca, touching the rj.
sisahiu o( Cwba, terwiiratiog with a
rrpnaitn f.AJr. Poi.Kit Alniintr.
tjon to buy thaitUnl fr $100,0t0.000.
wh!ehr was. PeremMnrilr rcircted be
er nave riven the aCairs or tuba
tnus
with
an
n usual Pmnilntbcc. Uur rrUtiona
Cuba are nt oolv
interralin. but
rriticat. The publication of the diplo
matic com tpond.'oe" ha not tnJeed any
direct connexion with rrcent d.ff.cultle t;
tut, as it bears thetronet evidence to
the determination of the I'nited States
to control tie destinies cf Cut to the
extent of preventing its transfer to any
of tin great maritime lowrrs. and final
ly V secure the poioo of it fr them
selves by an enrmoUs price, it will b
very natural, especially f.r ether tationa
to connect the matter cf this crrcponl
ence wiih the muhifnious attempts by
citiien of the United States to involve
the Government in couSicl with the
authorities of Cuba.
In the cotumcDct rnfut, thc hoitile
enteipria were formed oa the plan f
a I
eva4inr, ly xttttr and the mak of
peaceable adttntute in trad- auJ tra
el, the inlerfereue t.f the FrUral Ctt..
crnmeat to ur prtM them. Tie adven
torero claimed that the CuUn pcp!e
were devoted lle ublican. lurning Ur
ao tf portunity to il rw c(T the birJ
Goreromenl that uUiud by priulii;
the akin, tinewn, and U nes cf iti sub
lets. They affirmed that tl.rir mnc-
aocut was oulv the i?nai f r Erin iLa
ieriunvj cre uiainei ty etcnts i
known to all. The invaJers fnind, n t
only no prty, but no friends io lie
ILind. The panb trx.j were not
more hottile in them than the Cuban
population. Kveu inmates of the rion
which they broke cpen joincJ the Gov
etnmcnt forces against them. They
were as ioUtcd as if they had landed in
South Carolina, en a like enterprise of
reviluTioQ and dctruetHn.
Thetie private invasions icm to have
the ao long cherished cljcct cf the jsv
scf ton of Cuba.
A history so written wouli probably
provoke the indignant comments f a
large party of the prrs of the United
Sutra, such as the pre cf the country
would be after this ttairioed conqent:
vm n wc;u lacvitaiiy i ine history
that would survive la after times, be
cause it would exhibit something l.ke con
sistency io the tourio of our Govern
ment; and, moreover, il w
near the truth that it Is -not
.wMy vTii iiv a tail IMbMP a
reraUtion) of it. - I f
We dejre esrneatly" to exhibit thi ; ; .'. . . 1 . r .
subject of our relations with CwWaia iu nw ,Th rta'i, tl:a, w
true apevt and k-setcva to ws ia j acqa:c;J cf a new territcry,
wuai we nates; rra-iy troojtt fovwsri
hr fcrce. The prrpcslcralicg itrtxtSi
of the United Stairs is ax li slavery, anl
wwJ I at aoy rale xcrt iuelf Ur the
destrucUcv cf that iasUtatioQ ia aay
new arqwlMik. We lave in the
ca. cf California haw oger ia the jwr
suit and hew tncnitC?cs u U lit
meant it would W. trcn if lhtUetc4
States should rvUla fonxialco cfCba
a the mult cf a war, they would Lave
it d "u robed tf iu rithr. tu eoaarrro
roU b so I ana thiU!d, !u biatrial rvJecl wi
liktly aay ted, iu pacfal labor char r-' ittt
mlrrJ bv I !t- a-I - --- "
there are several pinU ofat'.Uhed by
bfSceot evidence that go fr to relieve
.'be qucslUn cf a portion cf iu dlSrcl-
1. Spin has absolutely rtfoxd sell
Cuba. We may there fare be at rate at
to the tlaeger of its bcieg tranf erred to
aoy other nation by a private srrccmeot.
In fact, pata never rnrud with any ci
her territorial poMsima, exccj4 under
the nr-ency cf dire neceity. The
United States will always be a party to
aay dlriiia of the itianl by fwrc.
'2. Tli e people of Cuba have rrovrJ
copc!uivly that they do not, a a body,
desire to eiibmr their recent Govern
meet fir any wLkh their ftiends " ia
the United Sutcs may be anxkus to
confer upon tUm. An! tbey are no
without reason. Cnbta ia a great f or
ubing colony, advancing raridly ia
noerly all the elements cf prvsprriiy.
Where are the ether Spanish Colooka,
thr thai a century ago wtre'far ahead
cf it ia t Uength, eoe&mrce, iodaatry,
and reputation? They bare tried the
experiment of sutttituticg a severe
military goverrtacnl by an aoarchkal
democracy, auJ ft cm the tacc&enl cf the
change tbry have lc inlir- itto
fit lie, icipavrtifhed, and dmpiscd (fD
n.uoitic. We are not to aurpoee that
the f-e p! cf Cuba arc I oca j a tie cf mak
iog thoe ccajjan.ni ltwcta their
own wealth andtnvube rtrity, aid
the degradation and misery cf all the
SUh cdwu'u thai L tid lb ex
triuci.l cf Miaraiio atd let ublo-
:
.a
ii
il eviitrarr, IX we jo
a - -a a
act, ii.ey buc cntUcr
ubjct well, and dtcMcd that wlaievrr
free gottruint-M nay be fr ctLcrv, it ia
p.i.,.i ar.d d(iructi(.n Ur them.
3. It i tjuite evIct that the rrvKnt
diEcutti with CuLt J-UA-W
vai.ly atttmp'cd to k.cc iie uasti Ur
ei'Jy. Il U F.Ibttlricn in a tt
uie, but with the c-ld tpitil and tie
old h p. We ay with all solemnity
that wc d not UIkvc there ii a well
iiifciniol mn ia the United Siaue who
i not aurel in his c-wn mind that the
ditputea never wculd have ariien, tot
ffr the desire and hope cf parties io
thi country to drive them to an mue
cf a war wlitcb ahaull esd ia l&C cfcO-
nuel cf Cuba.
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e couMOer, then, tfce acjw;aiic3 cm
ir rv.j .. r I
wen reucHiuianeu, .nu mc v Cuba by faul means as ae real qucsUcn
thtm, via. the duaffcction cf the Cuban uf e
ople and their dt,ire to unite their uu ,1, cf the Uaite-l Sutcs
destinies with curs, have been contra- . .1 ,t: v,t. (V.
iw avwe ' O
cost cf aa tXTx-ciire at J Uar:v .
and the l3a it a v a! tills cxmacrra j
thedestroctim cf its rcw&urrra.
And what sortcf a arqalaiuoo w&wd
it V, ia JrtKtiJcatJy f lbee pmJacii
cf slave lb r, which would peruh ia
the proevMi We showed acoire a tv
aeoa which La been ctd to be kept
in crdcr by a sianKeg arty t"ce as
grtat as tie wb-4e frce -f le Uci'.el
i'uia We sloc!J acoaire a t;
who Lave never asts.itld to any t-at
svcre ejov ret. seal Gcrcr&mc&t, aai
wko wralJ held ia contort aoy tiit
Ica exxcticg, caeriieatd s;!edX
Jlorroeer, we ihccld tcjaire a jcjie
whi have always hrssk frc-ca pitical
amalamatlca with va; wh Lave l.
ce-me cmbitterrJ ly rtCAtt restrain,
aaJ wh w&c!l tvc a rlit to tk ep
co thtir ccoojucrxrs as tic asihfrt cf
the utter ruin cf their ccuctry. Tberw
wccIJ be act tacttlr the intncscHal
haliu cf tie pe-or 'c, let every exoexiv-
.n-i ......hi .
eirenki&e a .jrrj va csa4e II De-
evrry to retain r-n-ira ef the crn
rjucst by fottrc. ia rtard fcr hsv.
log by tai means convert a iacfalt
rkb, and valuable rx'lbte icta a dra
cda!e and hontile r-ciwko, the Ua'.'rd
States would Cud it ncrry to adejt
the demotic ytta cf a atacdle amy,
aad to maiaUia ly vi&'csxe what it Lai
aenwirrd ly wrrog.
TLs UaiKd S!!c, as ccfc3crcT,
ilea, cwht, en avcry rrouj f jUc
fW'cy, to brick frcm the acnwUi wa cf
Cuba by war. It ia cwi certain iLrr
wfc!d pet it. It it ntriy cxttaia, if
ibej LJ, it wcuH be tltcn cf all the
vslse that new make it so attractive.
It is ouite rrula that the tciACMJ(n
nswi be Kaiktalaed by a l&di& array.
Where, then, is the afjumo.1 ta favcr
am, to for t the names of whiz or dem
w an
ocrai; aevoieu wmg as i am . cv. aicted and exposed ty such a mass ci tt,Leni lo treat il aa a pvject
oin - t rTM. n with Til r Krlhrprt cnl J .:t. tk.ttk..... .. 1 j f . .a
the other side of this'chamber, form ejus, comm.xlity that no loo-er ods . V To lte -hofe couctry the sulject as
new party and crote mysclt to it a m.rket But the attempts upon Cuba u- u .lU
party oi .on carounians a party ue- .rcnot thertrore suppressed. Ihe spsr- j- .141, coJocy. even tat an
voted to the interests of our own Sute- it tf Utility ha. never ceased to work. rxtfbiunrecunUrT. clrUc0.-
i m m
The United Sutra can calf acquire II
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io me interests oi cur own pvppie o t xte Uoernmenl has Pcen aaiicd m
tho honor and welfare of our children I ecwunily throogh the press ; most ex
a party opposca to ail names a pany .crerated aUtcmenta of its seventies
to rescue North Care I'm a from dishonor I bare been circulated, with the maotfest
and poverty, and rsgs, and to clothe her I porpose of leading the way to mere
in purpie ana sou raimeni, ana piacn ttbstanUaI hostilUicf ; and every eptr
her high before the world as worthy of tooity eagerly used to drag the United
its respect, and worthy of- the affection utes into a quarrel with Spain,
and veneration of all her people. Now, nolhiug b more certain tha a
Andf Sir. Speaker, I can forget section traavt ihe partica in all these later attempts
in this also sccuonal prejudice, lhat are lu nue, and thtir purpoxa the
most baneful of all the feelings of the same, as in the former. AwarUtwern
human heart, next to fanaticism. And xh United State and Spain, it is taken
like fanaticism it springs from a good fuf grmted. would be immediately fvd
cause it is a perverted virtue, a noble lowed by the invasion and cooqucat of
sentiment run mad. Cuba ; and thus the wry object cf the
Ita ravines have ever disturbed our original FilibuMcri would be as directly
legislative halls it utters iu wild and aimed at, and taucU more certainly
fierce curses on all oar enterprise. achieved, than by aov crude undcrtA
Kir, I love my home, th puce wuerc l ings cttbeir own.
my fathers lived and where they tie nu
ried, endeared as they are by a thousand
tender recollections; and 1 am proud or
my home, and of iu ppU, wad X will
speak for them here and everywhere
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and light for them when they are assailed.
Bat, air, for the very reason that I
ore my homo I love North Carolina ia
bf war. As far as present cOcuHk
are concerned, they can only acquire it
bv a war that would Lave neither jaiii-
tcatioa io the law a of rations, nr the
svaurmihvof aovrxvtkioef the civHied
world. TVy would even sUad suspect
ed, if not convicted,. ef Lav bg tried
every way to atuia a favorite cljcl
more covertly, and cf rtortic to tkv
Knce only when cheaper and qottUrr
mesas faHed. Bat they wouVJ not
merely have the dUaftrcbalioa if the
world. The uTand cf Cuba u Lke a
rait: it alcact erveloM-s the Golf cf
Slcxico. Several aatkms are derly
iaUrcaAd in the freeddcn cf trad a ia
that great sea. The U tiled Stale
tnoro than any other nation, would ao
a aire predominance there by prsloo
We shall not step to discuia whether 0r. Cuba. It would be rcrrdcd as aa
this conquest would be soch a matter cf ggrtswa epea mere batiens than
eoursoaa is asaomed.. Grant that it pn; and would, ia all probability,
would be made and seen red, what then iat olve a war with Europe cn a grand
would be the aspect of the whole affair caI war with aati slavery Karvpe
on the pa gee ef history ? The diplo- fr the acqeitUon c a cobay U
malic , correspondence is nt tw the hcle value to as wowtd eousut ia iu
order of time, though last ia coral eg to pwducts as a slave cvuatry. In what
lieuL It shows that for a scries I I eoodiion wc&ld it ccae out c! saca
TtTTtETiTe
Southern States sislavcbuliieg errata a
citA. It i ada-hlrd that we Lave a
dep i&tcrcsi in the trrxrvsticn cf iu
iciUtuticcs, and the cccj-irrktkn cf
thi Lu pre tally, mce than aoy other
mcmi in lactd many S-oclhern rata to
vtBathiie with the late atutspta at
revolution, and to rvpwce at the t,ropl
of brierir-g Cula u.'u lie Ution. It
would, they urge, secure tie slavebcldcni
of Cuba from LWnpian eriacr'faUac,
and wfJd aJl a tew slave S'-ile to Val
ance C-alif-rtia.
In rtgrl to the nt cf llce ccrsjd
cralicns whatcwr a.lt Lave been true
j ki Tears ago, it Is tw new true ttst
lany Lorcpcaa naira Kiks to deprive
rpua cf tbis excoy. xrgasa ai
Fcax.ee wcull at lL:e tacaxtt Uly
utile with cur Govtr&t&rct ja a treaty
aaacrisg
lien, it
will mai&taja sUvery
Uc as it is fee Lcr iatrrvit lo ds it
The wLcZo value cf the tLmj dcfescls
on slave labor. WilU-al tUt, alHu
eotttacren wonld wiiher sp; the richest
PrTcn cf iu raluvud Uhia wcn:J le
iUol-ttd; it wcll no Ugrr afcri
the revence to auai&:a!a aa army fee iu
trotection; il wcahl se&J no tnlute La
the royal exchequer, anJ iu Ltfg and
valuable traJe with the taochcr cv&atrj
to Sjoaa its fcnJ;t!sibrd fcnr
, is eqailly certaio that Spun
ta tbe nuni ao
hich that home u situated rvortb the Government ef tho United I. . ltut ttlxr to trea that in-
Carolina the sovereign who guards and jsutes took pains to enforce upon Spaiol QO:rT. Whether il would be in the end
protects niy home, and whose honor and llbe eertaiaty that they would interfere tad oglib, French, Spoxiah, or Uoit-
hen. l ii .t. .: . . ... . I, I . . : t v J .r l . J
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shamo are part of my own.
with all their means, to prevent the! td Suus rvrasesaion.
therefore, a bill like the present l before I transfer of Cub to aoy great Maritime by the fcctu&ca of war; L
us; when the true and paramount inier-hower; tn4f fioally. that they were acarccly U problemaiical tl
csuof that State are at stake, I know j wjinog to bay the Mand for a great aame ranch more the aei
turn,
betnr
s
na, vastly, multiply the wealth of cur,
no section, no cast or west, but only
North Carolina., one and indivisible.
my sovereign and the hope of my chil
dren. I ward mora than one attempt, bv armed
Tonnite the State and break down I part iea from tha United b'uirs, to ectxe
all prejudieet of section to bring the! upon Cuba with the avowed purpose I
east and west together is one object of I converting it into an independent State,
this bill; and, Mr. Speaker, if only this and annexing tt to thu. Confederacy.
could be acoompliahod, it would he worth These irregular enterprise, though
all our pains, and be the greatest achieve- scarcely interfered with by the. Federal
ment yet witnessed in these halls. Government, entirely failed of their
- Even for this for this alone I wonlJ object, and were followed by a ficces-
be willing to be sacrificed ; yes, air, if I sioa of irritating disputes, for which
could bat see sectional prejudice, that I there was not the smallest' ooexai&o io
hateful tyrant, die, I would be willing I the neceaaity of things, but which Uiag
to lau also, to rise no more as a ponu-1 msgniuca oy loicrtsiea misreprrseou
cisn. ' . I lion, were fosUred iolo a war, throogh
Bat if wt could kill it sod also redeem I which the United States attained at last
wou.a Pe decided
but il weald
that it woold
social and ind us-
This proposiiion to porcLe I rUl of St. Domicra than cf the
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brmly and boalir rejected py prvacni Cuba, before the uiumale sever
pain, there occurreu no ioog iimeaucr-ciiy anonld t settled. -
a. - Mm a r m -
.i proem, .uia u a country c rreai
value to the United Sutea. . ft cvotri-
kutee to swell our eommerct mere than
aay one rarcel of the earth cf the same
magnitude, tod iu neanxes make ih
commerro cheap.' Bat it ' all depends
on the r rod acts cf slave labcr, and this
labor ia a position internally, etta more
than extcmallr. eaVlcct la disorder
and subvtrvioa. Wt shall Coaidr
thaa iatet aal ecndilien cf the lUre Ubew
of Cuba before we have doco wilh the
ubjeet. It is eneegh hero to indicate
it aa aa aliment ot mischief, in rvfr
wru!l perish- There ii no frar that
Spain wUl tAcilLct as much for the sake
ct srieg the sheets rhled and now rricv
ocsiy pwcirhc'l exprrimcaU ia pLliO
ihrty lhat Lave destroy c4 the wetlih
aa J ioda?ry cf so Urje a jart cf the
Weal Indies.
As to the second rcra'drralaon, that
lie acqabitlon ef Cuba wowll rcsUre
the eqaJibriaa r the free ari eUv
States, it raa hxruly be ttvperly answer
ed wUheut rviag ever the wb&!e qcrs
tLn. Will it be a slave State whta aa.
oulrcdT W Lave sa that it casasi
be otUiLed by purchase - tt-at iu acqi
siticn would be at the reel cf war. Ihia
serajjU, then, wonll be Let re the
Uatuu rtates. He aux;:r.ty cf wbem
are antJ-slavcry, a&l Spain, vi:i ex.1
motive for d fend ia g slavery u f ?a&4 ia
the peaceable erjoytaent of IU bcnclu
ia Cuba, aaded, cr at Wait ercxrcrrrd
and adviacd, by KcrUnd aad France,
who would Itr&w tbe;r wetrat on the
cf KaaadnaCon. If we cveU nst
ence to the acquiaiU-n
cf the ialxzd
be preveatrd from taklsg f-faaeweicn cf
the ilnd, iu poex ukn c?cld exally be
made vslatia, and even a rest to ,
by ihe abvlition cf slavery, la esnaaa
ung the pWbilify cf eCccfiog th, e
ut remember that ooe-thud cf tho
black and cxdoevd txpalarUn cf the is
laad U already free, and that tho rjraV
er part cf the slaves are no natives, tut
imported frcm Africa within the Ua
twroty-five years.
Jlocvovrr, the fart cf enth a grrat
part cf the elavw p-jailaiica ef the bUt l
briog Uu Lalf-TfcUiaaed aavsw, wilh
no stroeg local aiuehnrata, iJ m love
for their maaXcrs, Laa given riao to a
ryttens cf severity in their maaafctamt
which fate the wboU cf Uea ia a very
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