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I -,nof Inmi sin v 'rWiH-c fo llw c'ii1l! so f.ir. f6r"(t what ; JO Uivir own !,:, , nc,.rs ;is o tJ0Ji.c M Jh SL jj 1C1 n 3ch InrtT...' i i.'.i '. . ... .. fl I Ui? .sotillifr Jt f.?i iir.fl 1 icnu ,afor i s.averr where it rxhts is tnrbVlv fJse.and -lntr-nned !o deceive, i This g-i'mo h-u bp Jpyed .somo success heretotor.-;! nndil -hcildtcon Ka-rinysc livery eulpabh k did liofhotj'cf pose lt 'ri'C.wc still Ii:ivo;fiecjhraLfonorx-.4atorW' ';rt to thirjur; oses, but- is it asking iolinucli ol r creduJity toe.iect us to brlievc stiihLstatc- in: U Ftt) 11.. 1 I - i iny ;.ru accomk;uiif uy tic inrro iiietcn of riit.!uri.;ris din-r:iivicoidraJici.r iJ tbiir rr M'U.-?. hj li.-sc; rr.siiIiiMniis: nnl tt tmnt th? l;oi" the senator f.iui Ohio Mi -CJiask' .M...j,,.n f ,i that insru:n r.f. . .ViK?,.accorLTn5 to the. .-Jrii.fvh. ie r.vowei!; tis "jas the power to ;'!!. h slavery iifAhbanv,; fr in an'oh.4 S'wfc Xtdii.rtcd s,r.cc. t!ieru!.:.'i..n f.fil.o onn;f. :!..,. An. Vi hvr n.Ia br,!d. t s!e; hr,s teen take l iin'ihc ' na roll o ;ifrrr:on n,.-).U . 'egression; Another niask-hawbfcn re. ."fv1 -iun .niui iier ufionii Ity revealed. I in ready . . MIro "K-sCj resolutions frnter unouncecu; u e a not intend to stand tSfCTJ-file .senlimpnts Hcontaiued. i He; .....,.; r rrn-o:i. i v.i. :u sLo.v? hiv ;:itu-lawjuirm ur i nrca-s cu', auc tlie butcfter chooses.'! democrat, and. av'crS: that- a mat tlc dw.arttu.n.so o.c-n and s t-irdestly j tdthp'-us. under, tlio operation i with j. honeyed' portionof the c'rccd ' Sir, the . t wi-n- iiie A rtli does not mteiuf to o:rfere wQita. , loll can tlecetvo --us no Fan'r hv t ha f ahd i: ' l l:ir ff-r.t,.l f 1... rrr......'T' I. I !.... 'VI ' II :-r( ij,.,t iiHsf.-raII.-d rM.,K,M(ics of tliC con. mi,i. restrict inti-rfm-ncf i iih. slaver ml N. la" of is in wh-t-ti i! m'iU' ;nfV.r!.rt i 'bcren.re.to.ve.iur priii!i'ugof any ' nimbcr o" f t: , '''so m'i.a)-; n.f. the p;u j.bs.; of "d s)rT;u:ing I,tcni X I''ple of-il,.jM,,n:h.- Itis time w i:i)ucrsK!; th ? ques'iou m-t. resist. I f. . ' 3 : JiaII Ik .rn i Knew -aat wo caile.l ti; far as ijv) action rresthat know h dgc hall nof! be wirhluIiU ' rMe have never asked leyond a stnet ad hi renco in tho o niKt init ' an- irtldrlr n t;! hnnA n-.ve .-r. t 4. . .t.t r ir'ouscu n nv ii.ii"-i,'rfnfi n tiii vnur oyanrs'ic a latu n li.tn- ik.i fin,,f.,ln 1 . . - . - ,7 . :dl a ccn- sorh.p ove r your in iraJs;" We have askc i'frm vou no iioon, f.nd dl'stnt nothing hut non-ii tcl en'.ion "ii iiie rinlits secured to m r.- rim t:.dfrthe mainrenarici-of w iilch votir . . .... 1,, ,,, iuii 1 m titution iers sou 'lr.nlv ami deliberate ly ledgr;t thcirfa (It Sure. l- t) 'eon-vision" nicst de'ermined -ppini el 11. term hut the most ro'ckless di-r iard o f Jons nur-'-s. fr ifio mist nrotound cont nipt tor .ui m- xve .hr f iven -could in. liiee rfic fior:? prti people i u to persist jn the m id ; career tliey . hav. been run i ine for tin? last fiilocV yoars ; Vben the future historian" records the events f.fthe pe iotl, in no attcr hoijv Iru:h.rul,.an 1 siinplcj l.mgu; "jeAyill iitv Ulicve tlic story"? ;V.l!l: those wbo a pos- riV tKllC'VC lire rti: uiuau .lit; iu i-. n, aleil us b ;!i-eit f pessible that ; whole pco- ,iC from a I-.!-ro sj nii i angrrssioi niinoui a " incj?:vc.apart. from the pleasurcj whicl life) tyrant nlwnvs feels in the infliction of a wroi4 hveinnd ly torn- to iee cs the; mast .rious fabric fcver Erected " bv Iiur.nn hin 1? Tlie; mis ralJe pica I tW.t actuated by a le$ire to rnprove the i r;At'r:fitliC Southr.ndtbe rcually' 1 lisiratte af- fecta:ion of special devotiou to the can e of human it v 'will soon be furgOiren or ; rr-mcml rd only tis nn--rvMencc'o'fihcdetip hvpocriy of v UiIi human .4" T t ' "1 t t :-. nature i? 3 metunes cap:. uie. 1 1 o.ir .as aiid your motives nit list IwV.h be reviewed by a tr buhal which ? cannot ia -- - - . - I jjj inseiuv Vhen the fornin I rsf bubbled ; .? ,v"its w aters were supplied by till V. but the. U'-rnni has' gat herd in f hypoc- 'lis end wickedness that we .arc cci detest what at first wc only dJspiscd. lsfrained'to TIl- value of slave property, in the soitliern States -eecds nine la'duU'tl -millions of dulrf. No peo-t- . . . .11, ? 11 ' nlc'cver existed, or ever wouia cxis wno- vouia fl .- . t . 1. .I.vi i-nirtn rift! 11 vn) -Ji)t 1 it-JtVr.- Ion ami uesperaie iruggu-; n , . .. . . I can it be -v'. :!.!- that voihd ream ofaflccting ; $ Ji i raccfid nicans, wi.m you have te a "race constitutionally brave, even to rai destruction deal with rashness and t resentm. ni as -.ne -sfui to uy up- . I ?. I ns pron Will Of-do you inuuit; iiiuk. t ut uiiiusn'ii rU s v . ti' t wr 1 tt Is in vour power 10 cotmxu siemissionf ...11 'tcr of these fancies have taken po .session of the rnbern inin J. take my advice, tin bo In some 1 l5tC tO CXjXtl It. A HO Iliusi uaiyu m, IpiS-JU- ti( ih Jvcr "urft! n wanderer b; night into a d'adlv quagmire isiliarmlcss when ejnjparcd. with such Suppose we nau xu " ijbi auumwu TV. -. ' 1 . t . Art ttdUiU tn, 1 1 - 1 - 1 if the picture were reversed -"ie one inoiiii-iii .., . Vjiit. v. n. y-rrnniC iii:.iMitt-i. , wait most i"Ai'V' . . ; ..1 .... ivi.. ,j i t . ..-0 li ivo alrvaii v miumhucu it i nai wouro what -we- . ; ..- n-U- -J ... . n 1 Hniir cpnduc., n, f.t ...vt :j,an , nwu- s nail with petitions to burn own yourfac fi. irivi:if a iter vcar. wo iris Itetl vou with tioiisi passed bv the tatelcatJrcs de, 1 - flvi the svstem of w iiitc slaev which un f fjyv(jists in your manulacti ric's and dse f'e is'oliensivc to.-the moral seisepftheSouth, F ?fwTfronrwliich-it becama Chstiin people to divorce themselves, uppusw v iii iiutu juu t Vino pauperism amTcriiiw in your. r fat cities; t ihe ban of juvenile vagrants pil jrrg wheneve ( opportimity olTera and bcg$mg . wVthey cannt livorce Jh(?insel ves. t r?upptw . tuniucu uu ui nencver cannot ronts driving ihrirrr ,w fiirTtl'fbn soriV toicommit felonies and the daughters to prost. iutiL. " All these things we might urge with far wort. justice than belongs to any ot your complami ' AinstuiJ Hut would you lcar-u? U ould you tol- ' ' f t , W If did' you would belie thecharac iTSLwrldh The senior from Ohio saj that he is not. to be -Lc-rrcTSy menaces of dnion.fr07;PU;Sn"" rTmento fait, -re Uken W the - RJ W;.r-New York conMiuncmg "ilM.. . us llicir ca?rl, fancies Invtv lcnanrtoJ. t tnalro f . do; menace?. lut I fn$bt thut flie senators from Ver lrtnt obcy-iho insirucfions-oriht ir lefrisLalurc ! introduce the bilhs thcr arc thor, rcntn'rcil to intro j dvcrr. I lx)fnv tha hii'rit'i.'rr of a mr-mKor in iUr piUi ah j tell , tl-rn to " comn jupnnd fnee themusir. ;!ia !,ot aitenPtaogct rs,f,n,, lT" n,,c w-prs ? tJ'TA l-..fV :...!. .iwnor dougc, tba qucststvn. ri'i jOI it iv indirection,' but ......... ..j., -....i.iv. m i'i.j..iii.uii.a Ji irtx.'IIlL-ll Ollijiii J-.!.. 1 I. -I. ... .1. . r I t . , Lc(,icvc yourselves so, persero4 'if j pu are vrong T 7 . v j .... v"iiuiiu i ii. 1 1. ii i lju ill! wipunity, keep on jVo; l ivo a lesson in torc for,y?j .w Inch may be severe, but will Va useful. - 1 ' ; ' certainly ;Tho.Sou:hMr. IV4mf,' dil4:ns Ith- Ian- catchwords conciliation -anJ hnrrnorrv;'! 'Kor can cjur' voices-be stilled by the Icar.ofincul-ringtho re preach of tmpnulcnce. lid the; other nuiI' i repeat now, mat mo LT or. prudential action has gone hy It is litis Jncc, of which we have heard so much that In LLw'-'Kiii.us to mo situation in which wc now r nVlt is al w hie l to believe t this constant.tajking abou pnnlcnt.iat ch hnsinducctl the poo pic of iiie North" mat we do ? not 'intend to resist.- - - ,' - - 't.V ...-'''. There is a ixjiytjat wliieli prud..nccrxliangc3 from a -virtue to a vi'ccTand U oden happens that it usod ouly as another nairiofor cowardcel It i ,to t.Kj wondered at ii our good bre:hern of the orth have mistaken the one for the other, and havcj thus found courage to pi-rsist iu a. crusado which promised to lc unattended with danger. I know noj if thoy will thank mo for undeceiving them, but it is my habit to deal plainly) with hO men, and I now proclaim that you have reached the, utmost limit to which you.can go. ' There is a line bej ond which you. must not pass. You have marched up to it, and now cross it If vouj dare. I do riot sr I will have ' with: the sav mis to intimidate. I dJ not believe it .e that effect, , On. the. contrary, I believe i wim tac senator Ti-om South Coroima Mr. C.ix : lprx that this movement nill run its cour.tr - arid j clid,l as all similar things hr.vo ended, in blocd and tears. The demagogues of the North' have ratsed : tempest tl thev cannot control..- It is imncllin!? f th.-ni onward with an irresistible force -thev can - , f nei.her recede, nor iand s:ill ; and, however iVar- . r 1 1 .1 ui nia dc me p.im Ae.re tliem, it is one. they 77.'.s7 tread, ror'a -miserable pariisin purpose, they hr.ve excited and kept alive bitter Isectional j.a'pusics, Mid burri-ng ha'reds. w hich ia re now Khringing forth deadly. fruits.. ''They have ;sown the wind, and must) reap the whirlwind.' In the of n.itious there arc- frequently poaods ' on ? tu bu!cnt tide To an unknown port, j Ay cur- ' I . , - . . . . . . . ... nn ...... ... .1. ... . . . II... -It . "ia nun-3i ,3.1.11.11 j j i.ui.s in jK-iicu aio. jjiiii mat period is past '.with. us". Fi-ld after fold of the-cur-tain has been rolled away, mid the view beyond is'neithcr dim noViridistinct. IIeH ho cannot now trace out, step by step, each successive .'event of the future has learned Lut little Aom'thc past, his tory of mankind, and rs ill fitted to be !the law giver of a nation. The (North will not save-tlic Union, and the South; cannot; unless In.h-cd w:c submit to indignities nnd .wrongs of so tic-grading a cliaractcr rs would ,'dmosi make our fathers biirst the cerements of. the ; tomb,'' and cpme among us once more tottenauncc and disown the degenerate descendants who had disgrace tl a. glo rious ancestry. Wc know well what wc' have Jo expect. Northern demands ha-c assume a form which it is impossible for; us to misunderstand, First comes our exclusion ,-from the." territories; next, abolition inthe District of Columbia in tlie forts, arsenal 9) dockyards. &c; then the! prohibi tion of the slave trade between. the States; r.ndt finally,: total abolition. These results are just as cqrtain, unless the flfSt stop is firmly resisted, as I that the sun wiil.i:s'e tq morrow, and the night will follow ins going :doj'vnk Heretofore it has been pretended l4i at it was rit thc-fitirposo of any con siderable body atthep North to u'jte'r.'erc with sla very in the States ; "but that is un illusion which these resolutions have come in good time to dis pel..! always knew it was false; but I did not expect to see the cloak so soon thrown aside. But even if it were true I wemH still say I do not choose to place myself at your mercy. Twill not exchange the fortifications which the jConstitu tion has thrown around my rights, for aifrail're Kaneo on; your generosity or your forbearance. Concession never yet satisfied fanaticism, nor has .the march of the wrong-doer ever been stayed by tne supplications 01 the suuerer. Situated as we are, the impulse of manliness is the; dictate of prur deYiee. X)ur duty and our, obvious policy alike demand that we should meet the danger on the threshold, and fall, or conquer there. It is of no cohseque'nee by what name you choosa, jo desig na,te your. aggressions. When a; principle is es tablished wliich most bring not oiily foverty but desolation and death to the South, it is j immafe .rial w hether you call it abolition, free soil, or, Ho vse the phrase 01 the senator irom unio, tree de. numeracy; the end. is the same, and so should be the resistance alsol When the fall of the .out works must bc"fOildwed by the fall of the citidel, hejis a poor-commander who Iiesitatcs to risk evpry thin irr their defence. It is so with us. Wc cannot yield an inch of ihe ground v.e now "oc cupy, without compromising our safety, and, what is worse, incurring the reproach of eternal infamy. None but children can be imposed -upon by the miserable delusion that abolition will pause in the midst of it? successes. One triumph will but pave the way, lo another,- until tho wildest dream of tteism bvvme9 a reautv. J understand me iicy oi tJie"lorm, a uiuf0 u ,uiJM!J the Capitol, is to urge but one measurc'at a time? to j proceed step by siep, and to hide as much asf possible from thepublicj ,eye all future re-, suits. That would indeed be a shrewd game, and j onejwtll worthy of the brain that conceived , it. j But. unfortunately for its success", there"' ire more fingprs than one in the pie? there arc too many demagogaes to control; and the'' sentiment rliey have awakened among the honest but misguided masses is too impatient of restraint to wJait a proi cess so slow and so fatiguing. They have t been taWht to believe that every hour slavery, contin nnvn the continent detracts from their chances oi 'salvation, and its abolition has' lccii specially i. .. rhltrusteJ to them bv GoU bonder sacrifice of lilb;ot property to themselves or bJicrs, it is human nature above all. it is the n.ntiirc off 1 P".1 n ,,v "ca rs since wo -era -'told tliat tlie ripht ofjx-lition vasVi! I; they h signed to secure. Success has added boldness to thir'dema.hd.V.'a'nd eyen those vh claim to be moderafe and conser vative men talk with uplifted h inds of tho horrors of slavery, and expect us to bvcry ratc fuVwJien they promise to; postpone thcTwork tl rvIjUiry'and njurdcf yet a, little lohger; ': vV-1 1uWr f I he scaruor from Ohio, bqfujfe Joking! Ur, sent cabl';','lctteij.f6 AiWvf rcTiiei-ated claims, to be .a bblillon consfiiiites'o senator fioro Ohio IT) vsclf have studied 'it invdifIrrfnrsMifils t think I know'somethrii2r; of the faith whielrf Jeffiir. son taught and Madison la tid' Jackson illuitfaied. I imdc'rstand it to incu!catc-a strict const ruction of the" constitution, arid a" total nlts'tlnnrw Wm-thn exercise of anv doubtful power. This Is the Whole creco. summed un in a sinMc sentence, land it' needs no claboratior. Let lis trv the doctrine of - - free democracy by this. simple test. AYhorh is the constitutional provision which civos to Cfn"-ress the power to tegislatc upon the-'subject of slavery in the territories or clscxvhcrc?. I inaintaif that it isj not to be ; lound lo that instrument, and that there is no granted power from which it ban- be, implied. If foljoysf ;thcri,.that the excrclsj td the. power must be anti-dembcrajfij, and free d jimcrai cy degenerates info the purestilderalism. j Ihit I do not. choose to i base -my : argument upon this ground alone. t" If. Congress possesseirthc jpoweiy its exercise, would be unjust and iniquitousXsTurj-I just as to call.for resistapce "at every In 7.1 rtL and tothe last extremitvl'' Uhe senator must pardon- me for asking, upon what principle of natural 1 equity, aside "Irom. any.! jucstionVof constiju i nal right, the northern btatcit rest then- clairhi tq ex- clpsivo possession treasure purchase o 1 the ter r i t o lies 1 ) td. t hei r purchase me na lonal elomaiii; Whsttiorr blood alone poured out to 'aroniro it ? . Ori tlid it come down as an exclusive inheritance5' to? f hem? appeal to the .history of the counfrv: fnm the earliest dawn of the revolution to the -close?. of- our I 'atjest strugglu, for an answer. The money whieh has been paid for ihe territpriea was raised by"'- duties upon imports, levied no'orioitsjy and fdesign- cdly for the protection of thejNorth, and jl iaid rtl- most entirely by the South. Instead ol a to vou, it. has been a bonus.- IIpw stands burden the ac- coiiii't of personal service? It was a southern ma ii who pointed out the road from ; bondage I i iride-T pendenct;. who led you i triumphantly throii 2h t th fcrs of .a sgCi yen rsMyriJiJi ad sternlv thc diadem with w hich "a grate.'ul "soldicrv Refused t. Would have. crowned him. It was a sotrhern general arid southern soldiers who breas'ed th 1 1 Jr.! ih ba.v ohets at New Orleans, atid .added one of its brieht- esf chapters to the history of the 'repiiliiie. errt blool has 'watered every plain from Sou'.h hc St. ; itv ni: Pal ma before !' walls Lawrt nee to the capital of the Aztecs. Th orable.fields of falo Alto end I'esaca de m - . . we pi. .won by thej cm'us of a southern general. . 1 It wa a.sruthtiri lerder that fh and towers of Monterey crumultil into tlu sf, and two souther;! regiments, strngylincr-side bv Sid-J in a glorious rivalry, snitched from the c mouth the palm of victorv. ! In the jrarrov nuon's gorge of A.iigostum, isoiiihern valor again stemmed the lido of war anj rolled back the murderous ehafjxe of Ukj foe. ...On the sands of Vera Cruz, great 'name w hich Lhe South has given to another . history antl renown added to a fame already imperishable, and wrung from the reluctant natrons of lhe Old World plaudite which they could not .withhold. At Cerro Oordo the story of southern Jachiev ments Xv'as to-written in blood, and amdng the rocks ajtrd voleanocs ofj Contrcras the glorious .old palmetto State vindicated her right to he title of chivalrous, and silenced forever the tongues of her Idctf actors.' Sir, I mean to Indulge injjno dis paragement of the North! She has furnished gal lant) men w ho nave done their duty nobly iipoTi the field. I would not, if l couldi tear a single laurel 4 - J " from her brow. But I claim that th no reco gives to us at least an equality) of the common dangers, the common sufferings, and, the common trijumphs, and I demand an equal participation in the rights they have established. jThe senator from Ohio considers this an enormous' pretension. Why is It enormoqs? If can only be because, in his view, repeated submission has sanctified aggression, and th? successfuljperpetration of one wrong fully jus-: tines another, fair, however enormous it may be,i I can tell the senator it is a pretension wej do not mean to -abandon.. AVe hfiivO yielded time after time' to northern encroachment. , We have suffer ed one violation ofth1; consiitution to follow anoth er, until we began to lose our own self-respect. Ret, thank God, a diffeient spirit is now abroad In the land; and the descendants of those who fought at Eutaw,'at Guilford, at the Cowpens, and st King's Mountain, are beginning to manifest something of the. old revolutionary, blood. Re peated aggressions have forced us to. recall many things we would willingly have . forgotten, and new demands cannot fail,, to remind us 4f what has already been granted.' Perhaps it may not c altogether without its uses to recall some stri king 'events, in the history of the past I Suppose it hasMiot escaped the memory of the iSenator from 'Ohio, tlmt the w hole northwestern territory, now constituing the States of Ohioj Indiana, Illi nois, (Michigan, and Wisconsin, was originally slave territory. It was Ceded to the confederacy by,the magnanimity of Virginia, and you diave manifested 3four gratitude by fostering lipom its bosom a population who ere now ready to sting to L-ouisbna j -arid Of all that vast .region excuKled us, by the Missouri compromise something like four-fifths of the whole, and ap propriated it exclusively to yourselves, j And this, be it 'remembered, was slave territory"; i not' an acre of it came into the con. ederacy free. In 1819,' wc acquired Florida and Oregon ;j and of thn, the south got 5D,O00 square miles, and the Noi-th 311,000; making -In all something like 1000,030 ol square mile3 whieh tlie North has seized more than the South... ! We have submitted to this wholesale robberyj with a'patiencejthat Job irtisht havo envied. Actuated bv an anxious de sire to presene every bond .f the Union unbro- ....... - . ; i . kt n, nnrevervmemorv of thr vrpvnlntion uncm takenl matir- iuot pu chased the exemption it t sSclue i'Yoonow claim, thn wl H' intended to quTred'li the Avar w;th MexicoVariUljiof onlyrthis bi ij the M C of Texas besides? H istoryii has 'but. orjc pr4llel -casea It is tint , of B';erinusf feasting his sword arid belt irito the scalo andfcr pne$ am ready .to reply, in the language? of Cannlhis, V it js Ilip cus torn with us Roma n's" tpra nsom - our cou$fr(npt. with gold, but wuhlcopl tonjyel-ijnU readier pens toQfaoun.ce:al I'." th6sewho 1 dartTlo cqTcuiaffe Its valUei -V ltfiout prsjessi-ng lJ ic fv uuHiurman omer meno-rniwe yct-ciiousiiti i i riu auu pnysicai courage to ueiy. an sucn.sen stdess clamors. ;TIk Union is-AraJulj)lc only Tor the privileges it confers n-ndthd. riglds it . secures. When the government is soaumiriijtfrctl-as toop presstand grind1 down one portion of the con feder-acy,- it ceases to be an object of veneration to iiic, and: I am ready torend asunder its1 firniest.jbonds. If you. desire uis to reiTlain in theUttion, deal!; with us justly and fairly , If you wish to pVeservci com munity of interes.4 ?ac: in such a manner as to w in back hat kindl' confidence you have done so much to forfeit.' 1 Until this Js done, itis Wdrse than idle to talk to me of the glories of the. Union. That glory which, is purchased by. the 'degradation of the few u? h, and enjoyed only; amid irjsultxarid op pression, has no charms for j me. Yet t vqald not have the Senate to understand that lj am Ulscsible to all the advantages which we have dt vivcd, and might still derive, from stcl a Union as our fathers con tcii.plated. Give me that Union,' L Restorc.that constnlition- which has been; so mournfully dis fig. 1 ured,drd I will follow- its banner through every piM-il femanify can lace. But w hat reverence can you -expect a southern man to entertain torn Union which hs known to him chiefly ihroiigh the insults if has sinctioned-and the wrongs it lias legalized? The senator from Ohio asks what grounds :we have of complaint; The -list of grievances is a lotigonc atid . tlji :' patience of the ISena'te Wouldj be cxha usted ir" I Nit fern ptcd to recount thcm'all. I. will, however, remind himvof some of the many claims the people of thof North have established to omf graiitude. They have established club's throughout the North i dissemination of pamphlets and other in- fur iti cendiary publicationsarnon our slaves,i.i WhicHarc . . . I . .. X. it. . . ... . w ; i. tlie foulest libels upon-our citizens .'villi tlie most terrible appeals to all the worst passions of the slave. Murder is bo!d!yadybcatedand Uie burn ing of our cwellihgs and the violation of our wives 'ri a.... . .. . . m, .. anu tiauirnrers neiu up as & venial onence, x nu v . J . ' -" '. . - 1 have formed combinations' to steal fc run dwaj- wit our property, v. 1 hev have hired leclturers-, w nos sole busings it Is to -inflame the-publicjoii ltieOTth,S-rn'nrac tiar.-- Banct rrrerrt-w faTnrnct is crowded into f 3-our . statutc-bopkis,' to ; hinder-, delay aiU defraud iheso'udicrn mt h in the: pros ecution ,pf his cojnstitulional rights. ( Vour courts of jus)eb have-becn converted into the vilest intru moiits of oppression; and w he'n'othr. men ns have fuilcJ jo accomplish robbery, riot and murder have :-Hr.efe. .fr?ely resorted tbJ-.-Even yourj .puhiits have beeiome the sanctuaries, of slander, arid ihrt t.errrjlcs - t- . 1 . . i " 1 5. r .1 . 1 . :i 'I' " 1 t dc caieii 10 mo worsnip 01 1 mo .vfug :uu nave celled and re eehotd-ro yile and base Her unci - tons of our j people and their instiluticm r Will you tell mcfhatlali this is the w ork: of a few nVadbraiued faivities? 1 , . I answer that a Jew fariaticsl could not havo o in ven color to the lecisiation 01 mirieen Stales! arid perverted the: justice olT their courts No sir! no. It is general nay, almost universal ; and. whatever iniagic there may be; in that word Uniii,' it has no balm for wounds like these. The senator from Ohio says thai he only de signs tp prohibit the slave trade betwFeen the States anil abolish slavery in this District land other pla ces where Congress has exclusive powers of leg islitioOi He may well afford to pause at that point, in his labors for allbeyond that wnU follow with oJ; an effort. Your forts, arsenals aijd dockyards, wj)uld at once become cities pf refugej for the slaves aed ihe recovery of a fugitive would be utterly im phctidablo. But the resolutions ndw'tmder Con- I sitferatioB go very far. beyond this; .and there are not wanting other evidences! of mo) re -determined purposes. I nae here a speech delivered not very long since by the senator from New York Mr. SEWARt,Jand I propose to irP'Uble the Sena.tp with some extracts from it. Before doing so how ever let me say that 1 .understand thelsenators from Ohio and New Hampshire have excluded the sen ator from New York from their- political fellow ship anddenv his rinrht fri lie reaatded as a true disciple of the abolition .church. 1 :. gree of rank iniustico against whicb This, is a de I feel; bound to enter my protest. The senator frbm New York is entitled to a higher place in the synagogues than either of them; for he has avowed opinions and principles from wich they shrink with unaffected repugnance. It, ven vour' merits Mr.vrresiaentr i'lustripus as they confessedVy. are upon this subject roust pale before the brighter glories which : clus ter around his 'brow. You a rjb guilty 6f the criminal weakness of t believing that the constitution which you are sworn to support cannot be violated with out some degree of moral delinquency; and while carrying on a warfare, pitiless and merciless, in deed, against -'our institution you yet acknowledge that there, are barriers Which cannot be broken t)own, and restraitits which" must be respected. The senator fmm New York haSemancipated him self from the thraldom of all such unmanly pre judiceft and finds in the virtue of ifvk people and in tlie Divine comma?idmentsf his apology and his' justification;:-. : - . rr' i - '-. . Here him and jblush for yoUr own feeble and timid advocacy of a cause which has awakened such emotions and called forth such5 'sentiments. the fnoral sense of mankind deeply, universally; u'lunms uurtupuuu ucuanica' uuiiciaai Bouii It is written in 4ho constitution of the United States that five 'slaves shall count equal to three freemen as a basis of representation; and it is written also" in violation of the- Divine law that we shall surrender the fugitive ljave who takes a-'jeiuge at our firesides front his1 jrlentress pur suer. You blush not at . fhf se things, because hey have become as familiar'as liousehold words. ., Wrhat then! you say; ' pan nothing l done for freedom because the public conscienco pl.iihrJride byhQ - South Vim?, appeals W feivor oftbaithion, and there are not wanting ready 1 1 ndLaii wwnnwHfPiLi-vint;Y vti3 m;c uic niu owm, ur.uu t vbu ' hav i 'yr ' 'y- T!mm-T ---'-. "Jl . fcniif ,p fill' V y'V" , Irom oi.aii jnayons. ii prTcrritruiiM-,, tMjjMSi. - - . t- i I t t r ' r- i . .1 jncft.ycs,.n10chca' be done evcryt! bc;done slavervcan be limited to'-; its .nfiwnti Dpunus-it tJatT !jc.rfameliorated1r cah'bc' and it must &3 abolished ypu atdj call alrtf rnUt.flo i;'. 1 here iS noTevasion hciei All. is open, bold ohd one, htu-eafter , w ill ask Lus to believe, that an vtmna short of fotaK abolition ui sansiy normern ngitators." 1 r ......T)..i .... .. r J j 1 !- .1 :i i- uui HCjnuii Wgiu ueeper. anu -lower man m tlio composition and Mconlbinaho of ..factio and "parties whci-eia the sfrerrgth and security oCiiave jy jieou answer that it lies in; the constitution of the United States and the, constiufjons-- and - lavs. of the slavehold ihgyStates No'at alUJ i'Not'&i ftllVA nd yet t hev senator lias eotrie into this chamber and taken ' an feat h to support nH defend that very const fiu tioh" w luch Jic-tind 'bpaiec.fit-"VJ' Sb: iri? yioiati Jn-tir the VU vine law anqi jvi,ich he" bad openly av6wed his It Is in theerroneou3 senlimetof the 1 Amcritia h people. " G01 is t i t Ut ion s a nd la ws danim hKfjb. fise a,bovethg virtues , ofthe pepplcUihan nhetimpid stream 'ca n xlim b al pvc its nali vcf epri n gs. r In e n 1 -cate the love of freedem and tie equal right's iiC man nrider the paternal roof. Se to it that they are taught in the schools and the? churches Re-, form your. own' co'cte. Extern? ii cordial 'icelcome to the fugitive who' lays his tvedry limbs rgl your door, rind defend hiniMS you icofdd your parental tijuiii. iui icll your men r rurs iuu. xLUvet i lias nay constitutional gorant its tchich niay.nxsi nlrascf, tnd ought not id Qe. relinquished i Say to slavery when it shows its bond and demands its pound of flesh if it draws one drop of. blood its life shall pay the Ic.rijt.' .-; ; vj:. ;-' .I "!;: li these were only the opiriions"of Wm.IJ Skwlnn I should not ; have tFtoUght it necesary ; to trouble the Senatpr with: what might tlicn have been rc "arded as a very harmless ' cxhib1 !tiri ol venomous propensity. He has since that pi - . ... 1 U . ...... ; . riod bccii-ciotlud with senatorial robes by the tCmpirc State, lie Ms been, elected to the- office he now hohls 'with ref crencctd this very , ma tie r ,?and we arc bouii'io the people whose therefore'Ihavc, beliqve'he truly.reflects the will oj representative ne is. v itn nim nothing more to do, j i he respon stui 1 ity has passed from his shoulders to that m more potetit en Jorsors . 'And let me ask Vou, sir, in all siricerity, what res pect you can entertain tor. the intellect ot 1 he' South' 1 t "II .1 ' , ' . t . V w nen w iiii an mese evidences at nana you yet think it is possibie to.deceive us. If with spejCjlies 1 1 . . . . . . 1 - . . . line tnese bi-fore us, a msi a knowiQdge oi tin? rewarxis ' hich liav.e followed them we' had not been a- waked to the magbitudeof tho ebminxr tl ifiijer. we should have deserved to bear the'ehairis you have been forging for our arms-' I have np' threafs to makViey aire oilt tF time and place: but 1 tell yo more" inf s sorrow "than in anger,' not only that you ust pause ; but 'fhaf pii 'mpsfc retrace yourstepsj Tfie guaranties I i i i i . i . ...... i .m.t .rj T ses- rieia jjat-rt-u or ni, mwi . ivcuiy . n.itu liuhu uwii in t bV State I in part represent wu!d 'ifcorn you r a Ilia nee a nd "shatter-, your con fed jracyi; Jn deed, I do pot know butwhatitjla now j too late ond that llnV Unifn over w hich you JiaVe preached so much r.nd aboutw hich so many eloqueiitisentences have been fra'rned is already at the enl.: Certainly yon have severed iarty of its Strongest ties and but little more remains besides that formal reoperation v hich enil'ilfercd feeiings must soon renuV'r a ne cessitv. Ve u did enou:b to tliisolire it when ybu t commenced organized robberies pf 'pur 'property w nen you murderea ourciiizens-fw-nen you khhicu every constitu tibniil obligation, ittd ' forgot eyefy tie which bo un d us irogether a s a people. Reserve then voiif denunciations ofdisuniPn fot. yourselves. It is your act and .you crii say i nomitig .of each otner so harsh as "to be-'Vniust. f' i t-:.-' : 1 ?', !-;"?v Often, siri haWl stPod in a vMley and Watchei the sun as it decended behind the mpuntatris. At morriing and at noon die whole earth was bathed in a flood of iight ; but as the gfeat luminary of day travelled westward on his ioufrtev, shadow after shadoV began to "steal along th j mountain sider As he sunk loweif arid lower, ti e shade gathered deeper and deepeif, riritil the whole valley Was Cov ered with gloopi, and not a solitary beam ; lighted up the thick darkness which settled upon it. Even so has it beeri 'Nvith this republic." Its earlier days were blessed with the glad light '.'of a glorious pros perity ; 'trials and, difficulties, lik 2 summer clouds, rapidly melted away ; hosts of invaders,; ill all the dread panoply of war, landed upon pur shpres, but they were swept off like insects by the swing of the tempest. Eyery thing around tts was bright ness and security After a while the great' arch enerny of man evoked the spirit! of abolition and then slowly but mirely the shadow of the night ue gan to creep oyer the land 1 have watcnea it as I have Watched the shade Pn the mountain . What it has once gained it has neve rj lost. The spot that has once growri dark has remained, dark for ever. Steadily Mid continually (it has ; increased and deepned Until it has spread above- us a pall like thAt vfrhich huncr over Jerusalem when curses I denounced by the profits were about to be fulfilled Arid arii I now to be told that I must neglect all ule warnings written. on the canvass ot the past, ihadly tu rn away from the coniem pi ation of the future, and permit myself to be lulled into a fatal .security by siren songs Iti favdr v of -the Union However, much I 'may have loyetl: that Union, I love the liberties of my 'native land far more, and you have taught me that they might be my antag onists; that the existence ot the .one might be in compatible with the other. The conviction, came but slowly, for it was tirtt withtiut; its bitterness. As a boy 1 looked dpori the Union as a holy thing, and worshipped it. As a mVn I have' gorie through that in its defence which ; would hive shrivelled thousand's of the wretched : silk werms who in neacefid times, earn a cheap reputation for patri otism bv Drofessinir unbounded lpve for the Union. l. is i r:en now l am not unminaiui oi au mr memories that we have in Common ;N I do "not for tatce of gkr)jchicjt Mincapaoie ot, uin.i know that side by side the NoVthr antf the Sotith strnggled ihTough the revolution ; tnai sine oy fiue their bloody foot-prints tracked the sno of Valley-Forge i that side by siefe they crossed the icy billows of the Delaware, and sitateHed from fate the victory of Trenton; . I remember all the Story of 'the times that tried men's souls, aiid feel the full strength of all the bonds it has woven around us. If they have been fearfully weakened, if they are now about to. snap asunder, the sin and lhe folly belong not to us, but to those who have for ctxl.us to choose between chains antV infamy on t I ' ' ."' - :f ? fth cne haiid, qu Uty' apd. independence on i the odwr. , ;in comer. I;re not the ns.siiituits hut r sailed; and it 4md:be;-oi:ie:):inrho main timis a just c; ro:'a!cuUle;1i6'totl!tltn.-V- i i . ... , I i ; . it' ; riteSeiiaK fl ; Un", Vermont Mr. VnvXr ha j ndertakenio y. 'H i t substaiKci that the whov ;, Mr world iooki-r! iiUjs with nbiiorri nce,; itnd that .. iiistitution;' of; ( ivcry, wc havd. ajy.elJmg! .placed on rscli VevevJd.iMjtaI bf-CiVifiation. jWhen the pe jrcse.ntatives I evidences of of hU own State, ami. lnr rep- jf-and clsw here, givuVxlriqi dinary Smmoii fofaUty nd L'hriitiaiiity 'wdieiice to a 'icc'iTO ..Tinij him; indrnf.Vnd "thai to bo tlW C.asC, I ; Hjmriy listen fa lout, us 1 do ni itiiust be pern hil tcuy thid the man who -could 1 l?sfirainst a wholo icripie i not ' litter such tlu Heity; rieckles J 1 m haf. is due to lhe body f w hich ,; he is nmemU VoOVgirW iho i!g.liei,c idencolhat''' ,; -iS".uiterlJ ffit&U of all 1 Courtesies' oTlifcV . ! . nt,il Viatirel5- pioiib? pulut'that civilizatonj or ' whielj l? oi .: " '. ;: .- ;j I , ' J I hopffjhl. :sasfied the 'renaf.tr front Obfothal o(irc4mpliHilts. irenpt a I tog. ther causeless'. I havd -: bjit little nit? i n A L' Ther are twro. classes ojf mert who'have brjn( htuls govpj-nmeut to the point at '. upcb wp.rioW itunH--actuated by very dilfercnt -motiyes; 'qml'leifes,' but' jq;iaHv,'ciiIpjirile and land, ;'lhc fi rt t is tifal band of nOrthr rn inriaticS -fvh'oj rcgardJcsf of right, rt4ardU ks of the consti-. . jtuti(.n, tVirgetJJfij'orall past Oidigaf ions, arid of flit rr oral and sot rt tiers, tare Keitd nnd continuea klwild anKM-.kleS Warfare imim'ii an inititutiott pi wmci: i!CM itio notliing,: iind;whwo blessings br c curses shbJllshavc Ixrn alik.viniliir. rent to them ijne scconii iss- is onf lor w'Ti'ni 1 have less re- 5ect, jlnd (U'dionJ.I nlns p'-ak with lcsi.pii' ience. It tia'tid, lu-iMttlng, Vhrinking por ion. In our cf n schiion f th 'tfiiifn".' wIki arn lit i ' ' .: w' I i . ' .. . v I . . jLifr.aiJ to n-i up'fp'the Unf'-tU iii . f the oppress jjf jon thee? .ff lies, Bnd,hiil liiin back tiicycty mo. rtient rhs'tiH t.tcp.iutesss 1". rbiiiit n ground.- A ' gif(at poe'iri he' st(H-v ef h vjr tvtho Infernal region, tin ion-, ki!1? a dt-srmMi'n.nFei r.-m souls, whicn applied ythrih. 11? I utd th im dutside th4 . MA Who fib d tdonf in Havel to G A untra. jlVr waBUn; eurr ith bu fot'to tde. ! . . '" Hmw'i th)i forth, t ,tvanv not to tt.lrt, h4iiM t).' Ptei i.jiefl 00; '! '!'"? . Fioi it-'tti no jj'ory couid the unedoltftia. ; t i . -' .- . ' ' - II - I NS 1,'Jli mS AX1 p)nding caller pT . the AVibn'rigion -."Commercial In a renyiU it Intj'rn: ! Iinjro. ements; in North Cjarolina, I ljf rsl the following (rtvjinent, in whIHi we have ujt trying ior.srm tuue past to , mar"' f$t 'o'tr-! urrence,---,i have jul ways thou ' t hat if thtl ublie ircss in the S ate, with p,?akers Jui wrifeis, voubl ttbnr'more in that fiitlld; an'-fr- ingle Jess TiKout l-'vderal politics nr'I tnvf ' ri'.,MsTf..Pi-H'' '-worU, thrv wpulii djik''re lionir to Themselves and be more cfa tfiirrStiteLnd U lulnUW ! J ;.f Vrr hsforo'fgli Patriot. lias the Jfrfrf? f.WKrt Ptnrtr to P. jj force its' Man i I' V: 'Mate i ti--StafcCwirt)- - ' ' !'. f. The Shp.rfrr 'Co irt of the l,.nitrd F.ites, sent dtiwn to 4lVi(CireuitlSuperioir ('ourtoH Law and Chancer f C : Alexandria; at its lt s.-ssinn.a man te crmf minfTrt dsCr.-eof thWhife Cii-enil Cniirf of the DistfL ilumwa ('frAlexHndria c'ojunty,subject. . ... . . I i : . o - .Ti "- r 1 1 IK c?rtfHi an nr;siai hi rnaijeiry-, ro jne paymenis ts.; Thprdfr plith'v eurt to enter said oteertaifl miandatej vrs r sistei, and after; orffunlent. Was r i. jgo Scotti i IArom this order an -appeal was pra ie ana 'grapted by the Superior Uourt of. Appeal 6 -ifginia, and a w rit or supersedeas sent dwn to II farther nrmiet'dinfrs.' . Thorarfis. 1 wevetAjiitthq strchgm pf the mandate of the Su perior lio.a t, and m disregard ot the writ nj sujxr-, stdens c 'II Court pf Appas, prooeerjod to sell, atjjd did the prppcrty so subjec'teif. i " j The c m involves the questioni i whether f he ped-i etal Cou rl ias the povr to en force' its ma lidats in a jStatoC olahd wilLresult in the settlement w hich the late Ch if Justiee !M i rdial dclnrei was sur- rpundeef w th much d.ifieiiIty44-'Jitwow Rep. ah U. -' A A Hfetn DiveThr fit. JOU Oriran1 nf ihrt 2?d jns&ii tells the lj!owinif t - f A "'friend fells ih .iT ! J.J..J.11. t-:l.! ' .1. .. . " ago on a t amboatl oneof the passengofs tine nigh attractej34Tis ftttt lit)q by exclaiming in Ids ' sl. rl tjenn bea?thadiv? ariyhow!' -f Our relator inV-. mpdiateyj obleed tyardA the manj when lo ! he saw hijm tumlJi head foremost from I i is berth on'o tbd flckr.vThirei said t.heldiver." I touched bottom nv how." flt then cjitned up into his berth wlthoutytkingt agaut -Hi ' A r:Wiw.Wpref n, 1(m,; tri'm'1 ocean. 3 ce ovtaei by a storm; t' yo dism .M tMd 'du4rtJ fjrtjrlnj unmannenl le bulk, ni while its.' fere ffimishing, arid in ntomciiM. danger lotinttenngj wr-re nnotfThip; p., , within hU -but to, refuse all succor and H.-livrrnii - 'should. ',nbt lust y regard that '.did'ns'rii) . f t . .I- . i " ... rtoUs a I cityl ; Hdt what moral dig rrfie.. d.vs if Jr ther .we pass5 by our perrsbing n-i;ii Wie se prionthe dry HrdT'IV. pi, fid iV arfe inhn direr monsters. tlnttl any oceai caves, I .1 I-?? "-1--4 I i i : MIX'HANICS, !" - ',-: On f 0 trf ontempofaries vefy rmr'k joi-rmefs, mechanics a re the ii,.t numerous ItT . d ihe important (class of the romumnitvV Whatevijr ?rotnote$ their interest mptes'tn' rest oC the pTtMic' course, pro 7 hoy, like far- nwrshaT ''feat farihties ntid grt at inducement try beCorfo n. m of.scif nee nnl f opnd knowledn., Efcrf rd'ch ,ic,tnrvbry operation, brings into mn fTerr' 1 f 0,.'-e,rice,md which of course: it n " cbnvenir.,ICt- to understands LEvt iv Jr. A M . , ... . .V. fairer iKw assfdeoos, 'or how igorous his emptoyrnent, if he e'pt nds a' few, mm . " -.imi ruing ana other modes of mprovemenf, rsrertsm to become a man ofloturti MW?n hUityThatapfe,iiicewh,T Sfksmemr as.duoty the interest ff his ermrloyer rimotes rnost. .ftectftalfv his own-; inWstU jP 1 I firmer at,d Mechanic; f. ,J , ttS K-Olo deathf as up announce "tiuoUier ieirt make f bor"oi of per 4 rible, i 1 . ' 4 t:r'v i " . ;,ci . itrhteen-nuiHirtu " . :( 1
Hornets’ Nest and True Southron. (Charlotte, N.C.)
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