The North-Carolina standard., 1848-09-27
RALEIGH NORTH oARonA MORNING


sion and perhaps impurity the breasts at which
they nurSe.'' -fa
The gentleman invades the nursery of every south
family, and charges southern mothers with such
utter disregard to parental duties, that their children
left to tuteage of ignorance, superstitution, vu
garity, passion-perhaps impurity. These, from
distinguished gentleman and accomplished schol-
ar, who presumes to describe manners which he
never saw institutions with which he is unacquaint
ed, and domestic relations which he does not under
stand He sends forth to the world libel on the
South, with all the authority to be derived from his
name and this is meekly be passed by, else my
colleague would denonnce the man who would stern
y contradict the asperser as an agitatlng mischief
maker.
Sir, should have hoped that the gentleman from
Massachusetts, when forming his impressions OF the
South from the gentleman with whom he meets In
this House, has not been compelled to pronounce US
all stepped in ignorance, superstition, vulgarIty, pas
sion, crime, and impurity. And l can assure him,
and all who call his speeches mild and discreet argu-
ment, that they not emnenty successful IN con-
ciating our kind feelings our personal respect.
Suppose, sir, should take the rantings OF Abby
Folsom, or the wild and wicked schemes of Garrl-
should 1, in portraying the manners and char
acteristcs of northern sociey select the absurdles
practiced in, and proclaimed from, anti-sabbah anti
government, societies, with which that region IS rife
the wild excesses of SMillerism, and OF Latter-Day
Saints, and the denominations of Socialism and Four
rierism, with the dark iniquites of Mormonsm, and
Shakerism, and all the numerous fanaticlsms which
spring up and flourish in their free soi and amongst
the Tree lnStltuuOnS IN the Oh
common schools; and having drawn my authority
from some insti gated by the moody malice OF a
priest, some vagrant letter-wrier or compiler OF
travels send forth speech to the word that this is
picture of the wild unprlncipled vulgar race VINO
occupy the free States, and cultivate free soil-the
descendants of the Pilgrims who landed three hum
dred wears ago on his own Plymouth rock-and hold
them up the evidences of degeneracy from the
high position of their ancestors,-would l not be
slanderer9 Could any reasonable man assign anoth-
character to reckless in examining his au-
thorities, and so wanton in the charges which are
founded upon them1 And yet the speech of the gen.
tleman is to 90 forth the world faithful picture
of the social economy of the South. Sir, desire
of that philosophy which my colleague so ad-
mires and applauds; but denounce the whole as
foul abominable libel. regret, sir, that L cannot
pursue the analysis of the genteman's speech, and
subject it more minute investigation. 1t should
be done; and perhaps, if else shall undertake
the task, may myself hereafter, pursue the subject
further.
Sir, this affords but melancholy illustration of the
effects of fanaticsm. 1t is humiliating to gen
tleman of high attainmentS scholar, manleStlng
all the evidences of high breeding, his intercourse
with gentlemen with enlarged views literary sub
jects, conversant with and praccing all the amenl-
ties of life, completely under the influence of mo-
nomania this subject as to forget his connection
WITH sympathy for, the whites, in his zeal to re-
dress the wrongs which he conceives to have been
inflicted the blacks. He is honest in his zeal, and
doubtless supposes that he is doing service to the
cause of truth. am that nothing but this con-
VlCtlOn In his own mlnQ WOulQ lnQuC6 MIN lOl udyS
to devote his talents and requirements to the defence
of acknowledged dnappersthe abductors OF slaves,
caught in the fact. His heart, as we'll his intel
ect absorbed in this chvarous attempt to rev.
olutionze the framework of social Institutions,
that nothing else can engage his attention. Upon
all other subjects he may doubt, but this the de-
monstrations of the line of duty too clear. The
kidnappers and the felon-the whole African race,
whether happy and contented the reverse are sub
jects of his sympathzing efforts; but his own race
and countrymen either forgotten or llbeed Eos
sessed of the overruling conviction that he has high
mission conded to him, he goes forth to right wrongs
without regard the rights of any but the subjects OF
his kindness. Sir, this is deplorable picture-that
a gentleman and scholar, man of irrepruachable
life and character, should give the sanction OF his name
the broad denunciaon of his southern fellow-cl-
zens from their external social relations of life!
would say that this is bowieknie civilization, with
all its nurseries the schools of vulgarty and impu-
rity! We are left to deplore the sad havoc of ia
naticism, its iron rule over human character
"For faith, fanatic faith, once welded fast
To fond falsehood, hugs it to the last
Mr. Speaker, have been greatly amused at the
course of remark in which my colleague MIR. Dom
nel1 ndulged in his reply to my speech of the lst
June He made grave complaint that had an
swered the speech of the honorable Senator Mr.
Badger1 the 1st, when that was delivered on the
I'd or Sd of that month. The reply was to the Sena-
tor, and not to my colleague. reported the Sena-
tor correctly, both he and my colleague admit
The speech delivered by me in the House, June lst,
was for the House; and doing what all do-what L
suppose my colleague VIII 0o-1 "loIe Out MdI
speech eight days after 1t was spoken and pub
lished it for the country.
copy, early in that month, was laid on his table
and the table of the Senator. They neither be
afraid nor unwilling for their real opinions to be placed
before the public and the time makes part OF the
force, value, or weight of their opinion Both gen.
tlemen have since gone much further IN the aVowal
of their faith the right of Congress to iegslate on
the subject of slavery in the territories with no limit
but the will and their of justice and 1t IS upon
this all-absorbing subject that the public mind Will
act unceasngly until placed by some equita-
BILE settlement. l listened with small amusement
to the metaphysical criticism which fell from my col
league in the course of his remarks. He protested
his inability to comprehend the annInclatlon, . that
truth reduced it's elementary principles, affords the
onlv safe guide to investigation, and the only salts
factory conclusions are those which formed from
with what he pleased to call my metaphysics, and
what he professed to be unable understand. see,
in his course this subject, that he did not under
stand proposition which might have saved him from
his present dilemma. regret that he could not ur-
dertand it. Had my colleague troubled himself to re-
duce the great principle, that in Government the
enactment of law is referabe to those elementary
principles he might have arrived at the satisfactory
conclusion that the non-slaveholdng States needed
no aid from him, or from any southern man, to fix
upon us the stamp of inequality of rights, and con-
sequently of degradation upon North Carollna-to
exclude her sons, the brave volunteers, who had
but lust returned from Mexico, and their families,
from land won by their valor and their privatons and
open it to the eigrant and loaer from every quarter
Of the world. Sir, warn my colleagues that Who
ever afims such doctrine in any part OF North Ca
roina will be sure ultimately to meet with sucn
of, iYoin