The Arkansas banner., 1845-02-05

Ing Massachusetts,, Union-loving Massachu. sets, put the continuance of this Union s- She there declared that if Texas should be annexed, the Union ought 10 De and should 6e DISSOLVED. Yet Massachusetts was not prolific in threats of disunion. Oh no o!- There she was,o as had been said by a great man; "there she was; look at her D Andwhat would gentlemen seer They would behold plains rendered fertile by the hand of industry; they would see vast piles of buil- dlngs for manufactures, built up on the boun- ties extorted from the South. They might see ports crowded with shipping. They would see that Bunker Hill which was im- mortallzed Tn history, and which poetry had delivered down to undying fame. But where were the men of Bunker Hill? Alas! the glory was departed. Beneath the sacred sod slept the remains of the patriot fathers. But what had they left to their posterity? Or what remained of that great race but the re- membrance of their characters2 But stat noniniS umbra. They would find that their descendants had forgotten the opinions of theH ancestors. Those in whose veins flowed the blood of the men who formed this Union. now sought unconstitutionally to uproot the Union, and were content to live upon plum. der wrung from the Southern brow. The gentleman had been pleased to speak of the effect Of slavery upon the Southern charac- ter; and the gentleman from Pennsylvania, too, Mr lngersoll,) had stopped to retail the dirty slang about slave-breeding.
 Here MT. Ingersoll, speaking across, cor rected this as mis-statement. He had made no such charge on the South.
 Mr. YANcEY said he was happy in being corrected. The disclaimer was no more than he might have expected from that gentleman. But by others they had been called "slave- breeders;" men who sold "the imaoe of Christ" Pictures had been delneated. hol- dlng up Southern vices to reproduction, and our ancient enemy had been invited to come over and make uS morali Now, though his tory did certainly demonstrate that the men of New England were mxA keen and inde- iatgabe in pursuing thtHucre of gain, in what else could it be pretended that they had a heart which exceeded the sons of the South Let them ransack history, and show from what region the people of this land had of tenest chosen their leaders? Was it from the N orth or the South that Washington hailed? Was it in New England that Madi- son was born, or that Monroe had grown up, or that Jackson had taught lessons of patri- otism and virtue, adapted to form men to great deeds? Let gentlemen name 10 him one man from Massachusetts-nay from the whole region North of Mason and Dixon's line, who had secured to himself such an amount of the love and confidence of his countrymen as had the venerable hero of the Hermitage. In what duty to the Republic had the < slave-breeding States yet failed Letth Phllanthropists of Massachusetts point out one. No. When their country called, to the last man and 10 the last cent would they answer To her call. Her maxim was, and ever should be, to trench on no mans rights
 At this point in MT. Yancey's speech his hour expired and he resumed his seat, leay- ing the argument unconcluded. We have been requested by him to say, that no fair inference could be drawn from the latter DOT ton of 1t without hearing what he had n- tended to add in full and frank acknowledge ment of the merits of the North