The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-05-22

mittee of the whole on the state of the Union,
Mr.. NAYLOR, Of Pennsylvania, said it was
with great reluctance that he rose, for the first
time, in this hall. He felt himself obliged to rise.
Yes (said Mr.. ny l am in.peued to speak. can
not remain silent l voted for the introduction
of this bill to our deliberations some days since,
on purpose to afford the honorable gentleman
from South Carolina (Mr Pickens) an opportunl-
ty to express his views in relation to 1t. per-
ceived his anxiety to speak and felt friendly
disposition to crafty him. If j were surprised
when heard him draw into the vortex of discus
sion the excve topics of ahoon, Texas slavery
and loo ofocoisln, topics which have nothing to do
with this subject; what must have been my feel
ings when heard him denounce the institutions
of the North as mercenary and slavish, and ex-
alt those of the South ancient, patriarchal, and
almost perfect; boldly dvow that the aborers of
the North the subjects Of the Northern cap
italists; put the Northern workingmen on foot
ing with the Southern slaves, and threaten to
preach instruction to the laborers olthe NORTH
Yes, preach instruction to the Northern labor
ers
am Northern laborer. Ay, sir, it has been
nv lot to have inherited my only parimony at
the early age of nine years, nothing but naked
orphanage and utter restitution houseless and
homeless, fatherless and pennyless, was obliged
from that day forward, to earn my daily bread by
INV daily labor. And now sir, now sir, when
take my seat in this hall as the free representa-
Northern laborer and degraded into compari-
son With the poor, oppressed and suffering negro
slave? Is such the genius and spirit Of our ins-
tutions? If be, then did our fathers fight, and
bleed, and struggle, and die in vain!
But. sir. the gentleman has misconceved the
shirt and tendency of Northern institutions He
is ignorant of Northern character. He has for
gotten the history of his country. Preach nsur-
rection to the Northern lahorers? Preach nsur-
rection to me? Who the Northern laborers'
The history of your country is their history. The
renown of your country is their renown. The
brightness of their doingS is emblazoned on its
every page. Blot from your annals the deeds
and doings of Northern Laborers, and the history
of YOUR country presents but universal blank.
Sir. who was he that disarmed the Thunderer
wrested from his grasp the bolts of Jove, Gained
the troubled ocean, became the central sun OF the
philosophical system of his age, shedding his
brightness and effulgence on the whole civilized
word-whom the great and mighty of the earth
delighted to honor: who participated in the
achievement of your independence; prominent
" assisted in moulding your free institutions, and
the beneficial effects of whose wisdom will be
feltto the last moment of "recorded time" Who,
sir, ask was he? A Northern aborer,-a yam
kee taow- chambers SONIA printers runaway
boy
And who let me ask the honorable gentleman,
who was he that in the days of our revolution led
forth Northern army, yes, army OF Nothern
laDOrerS, ana al(ieu tie cIlVary OF SOuLn caro-
lima in their defence against British aggression,
drove the spoilers from their firesdes, and
deemed her fair fields from foreign INVADERS
who was he? A Northern laborer, Rhode ISL
and bIacksmith--the gallant General Greene
who left his hammer and his forge and went forth,
conquering and to conquer in the battles for our
independence! And will you preach insurrec
ton to men Ike these2
Sir, our country is full of the glorious achieve
rnents of Northern laborers! Where is Concord,
and Lexington, and Princeton, and Trenton, and
Saratoga, and Bunker HILL but in the North?
And what, sir has shed an imperishable renown
on the never-dying names of those hallowed spots
but the blood and the struggles, the hig h daring
and patriotism, and sublime courage of Northern
laboreIs? The whole North is everlasting
monument of the freedom, virtue, intelligence,
and indomitable independence of Northern labor
ers! Go, sir, go preach instruction to men like
these!
The fortitude Of the men of the North under
intense suffering for liberty's sake, has been al
most God Like History has so recorded it.
Who comprised that gallant army that without
food, without pay, sheterless, shoeless, pennyess,
and almost naked, in that dreadful wnter,-the
midnight of our revolution, whose wanderings
could be traced by their blood-tracks in the snow
whom arts could seduce, appeal lead
astray, no suffering dsaffect but who true their
country and its holy cause, continued to fight the
good fight of liberty, until It finally triumphed.
borers Yes sir, Northern aborers.
Who, sir, were Roger Sherman, and--but it is
idle to ennumerate. To name the Northern la
borers who have distinguished themselves and il
Illustrated the history of their country, would re-
quire days of the time of this house. Nor is
1t necessary. Poserty will do them justice.
Their deeds have been recorded in characters of
fire
And such are the workingmen of the North at
this time. They have not degenerated they are
IN all respects worthy of their intelligent and stur-
dy sires. Whose blood was so profusely she'd
during the last war, on the Canada lnes--but
that OF the Northern laborers? Who achieved
the glorious victories of Perry and McDonoueh
on the Lakes-but the Northern laborers? Yes
they "met the enemy and made them theirs"
Who, sir, have made our ships the models for all
Europe, and sent forth in the late war those gal.
liant vessels that gave our little Navy the first place
in the marine annals of the world and covered
arms on the Ocean m hlaze of ulory h,,.