Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-04-07

iorty of all The inhabitants of the Northern States
would give no c0untenance 10 the agiiatibg such
question as the gentleman alluded to. ana was
he to be charged with threatening and bullying:
Who was it thai had referred To the Mihna rMlo'
the last sad argument of States ana hallohs'-
Who was II that had spoken of powder anu cannon
being their orators, and lead steel the arguments
they would use? lie believed 1t was an orator
who did not, at that time, complain OF any i"hu-
enZa. The gentleman was for meeting me ques'
ton with cannon and ball, and with whom was
this terrible contest to be waged! ith the Peo-
pie Of the North.
The people of the North would be quietly at
their homes on their own green hills, or IN their
fertile wales, pursuing the peaceful occuPa' ION OF
agriculture. or plying the task OF domestic INDUS
try If powder and ball were to he employed, II
could not be with them. Employed, indeed,
they might be; for he warned those gentlemen
that controversy might come IN which Uou hau
noattibute that could take si,le with them. Fight
they might. but not with the people OF the North
| They would never fight either to- cut slavery from
the necks of the South, or to bind 1t on. ihey
entertained towards the people OFT the south no feel
ingsnO thoughts, no wishes. but those OF crethren.
The Suuth cruelty misudged them if it thought
otherwise. At the same time, such feelings might
be insulted and abused and alienated. He had
oeen told, and told without the smallest iimita-
| tim. that the Northern factories had been built
with the price of slaves, and that Senator from
Rhode Island had been charged with the cruelty
of throwing living slave overheard, to save the
lives of the rest. The Senator TO whom the gen.
tlman alluded was James D'Wolf
Respecting the truth or falseho"d of that accu-
sa.ion. he had nothing to say. James DIV oft
was an honorable man, and one of the greatest
| 4 al of
tion. As such, it was not Mr. BIS business to
sus; .ort or to defend HIM. He had Iabored hard
against him. in the late political contest, vet. as
man, he would defend him if he could But,
If such charge had been openly made against
HIM in the Senate. and he had not himself resent
ed it. Mr.. B. was under no obligation to inter-
fere. Mr.. D'Wolf was an eminently good Jack
son man. and he left him with the party. As to
the gentleman from South Carolina. when he
spoke of the North, he spoke without anow-
ledge, or. on the other hand, he nisrepresent-
ed the North, and therefore did worse. lie be-
lieved. however, that the gentleman had too
much rectitude to misrepresent. and too little
patience to understand.
Mr. BLAIR here made some explanation,
which The reporter did not distinctly hear
Mr. burgess resumed. aud said, that he ad-
mitted that ames D'Wolf had been engaged in
the slave trade. He believed the gentleman had
made money BY it. while It was legal traffic,
and he did not know but he might have continu-
ed to do so after il ceased to be legal. But the
great bulk of that ger tleman's immense fortune
had been made during the last war;
Before the war commenced, Mr.. D'WOlf had
been great sufferer bv British spoa,ion and he
had openly declared that he owed Great Britain
a tremendous retribution. and when the war had
bruken out. he put his threat fully into execu,
tim. He covered the ocean with his prvateers,
aud it was generally understood and believed
that he had made ovOr million of dollars while
the war continued. Mr.. B did not know what
might be the opinion of others. but he consider
ed such enterprises little better than the slave
trade. The gentleman, however. thought it was
glorious war The gentleman from S. Carroll
ma was mistaken if he supposed tina, the slaves
Of James DWOlf were sold in the Southern
States. They were sold in the HAVANA. and
among all the enormous number OF those whom
the gentleman now controlled. he had not one
which had been brought to the shores OF the South
bv a ship from Rhode Island
Mr. B now said, that as the gentleman from
Virginia wished him to withdraw his motion tor
the reading Of the memorial. he would do so, snd
he withdrew it accordingly.