The North-Carolina standard., 1848-08-16
> REMARKS or. MR. .HAT5,ETFs

delivered In the democratic NduoHal ,COnYentlOn,
baltimore, May "a. f1848. - s.,ts..,5..,
Mr.. HALLETT,, of Massachusetts, said that the
whole heart, as well all the votes, of the Demo-
eracy of the Bay State, would be given to Lewis
Cass. ,sf., -a.-- 3. ,.-..s.8 ..,i,sl.
If New England had deferred one of her most dis
tngnshed sons, she had but substituted another by
the nomination of the gallant pioneer she had lent to
the great west in his boyhood, to build up States
there from theie widerness--States that now come
hither, by their delegates, ontnumberng the repre-
sentatives of all New England, to mite with her, with
the south, and with the whole Union, in eevatng the
matured statesman to the. highest Office in the gift Of
this great people, Here was the bond of union that
was to unite this progressive and increasing confed-
Grafton OF in the common brotherhoed OF DEM
ocracy. a.,.tr.ag{f frss.-e.,l .ezl 20 Ft.a Isl.
And, that there may not be eftin this Convention,
so far as New England is concerned, one thought Of
unkindness misapprehension, have word to say
to my friend from Indiana. Mr.. ,Hannegan,l who
asked me yesterday if Massachusetts could do what
he promised South Carolina would do--giye her vote
to the Democratic nominee? said to him then, as
say now, that whatever South Carolina or Indiana
may doIand even they have sometimes forgotten the
true faith-the Democracy of MASSACHUSETTS will do,
as they always have done since they gave her cleo
toral vote to Thomas Jefferson in 1804--TRY! ~.
My friend entirely misapprehended me as accusing
him OF borrowing from Massachusetts the political
principles of that State.'' No, sir. If it comes to
that, should be right glad to suoap with the gentle
EMBELLISHMENTS old federalism for the young
Democracy of Indiana !? What replied to the ques-
tion-that seemed little like taunt, though, am
sure not SO intended-was, that the Democracy OF
Massachusetts, hemmed in in the very citadel of fed
eralism, though almost always beaten, Were never
conquered; that they will stand there as they ever
have stood, ,body-guard of the Democracy OF the
whole Union, resisting consolidation or disunion IN
all their forms, and detecting and exposing the de-
signs of the enemy, to restrict the rights of the peo-
pie of the Saes and to pervert evade the sound
republican construction of the constitution. And
if the collection of facts and argum entS and by
enemy, supply powder and ball for the marks
of the west and the south to bring down the foe,
am that it will be, dishonor to the gentle
man from Indiana to do again what said he had Of
ten so efectually done-make some of his best shots
with the ammunition furnished by the Democracy of
Massachusetts,. And now, sir, let there be no strife
between Indiana and Massachusetts except thls that
numerically the Massachusetts Democracy, though
outnumbsred, have heretofore ranked theseventh State
in the Union and that Indiana, In giving her vote,
know she will, to Lewis Cass, will have all she
can do to footup longer column. In numbers, than
will the Democracy of the Bay State. Give no
more w higs to contend with than have the Democra-
cy of more than twenty States, and Massachusetts
would join the column that is to elect Lewis Cass.
Mr.. President, in connexien with this alluSion to
Massachusetts, permit me to say word or two in
the hearing of the sagacious and distinguished
of the southouchng that element of disunion which
Will be thrown into this Presidential canvass with
the deliberate but concealed purpose of dividing,
and thereby defeating the Democratic party--the
lead to the formation of those two great geographic
cal and sectional parties which Washington warn
ed his counymen against as the grave of the Union
Sir, l speak of aboitionism, which, in the phase
it exhibits, is but another name for disunion.*-
In this form it had its origin in the Hartford Conven
ton in 1914. Aside from that political paternity, to
which it has returned, it began inphilanthropy.
1t went on for time as merely moral element in
the of liberty and religion. 1t entered into de-
bate, if at all, question of political economy
pectng the forms of labor and servitude. Then the
south and the north frankly and kindly discussed 1t
together, fathers did when they founded this
republic ofindependent States, it could only have
been founded, upon the compromise of the constitu-
ton. In these forms it unquestionably had the con-
ostatesmen of the south and the sympathies
of the free States, their only rghtul reasonable
nterpositon. 1t went on, and, in the hands of men
seeking bad eminence, became what it is-the
embodied spirit of disunion. Up to this point very
many went with its supposed free impulses, until
they saw the one it aimed at and they shrink
from it, in its political aspect, moral treason, lack
ing only power to become legal treason by the over
throw of the constitution and the Union. '-' RE
Sir we hear much of the 'Speculiar institution -
of the south; and that is to be thrown into this
vention and this canvass by our opponents trust
not by any -four friends-as the element of discord
among us, upon the workings of which the wings a.
lone hope for defeat and their success. We sir,
you have your peculiar institution at the south,
which gives you some trouble; and we OF the north
have ours, which gives much-in fact, very
peculiar institution mean political aboltionism-
There is an account to be settled between and to
this wish to call the attention of southern of
all parties in the presidential canvass. You
plain of the irritating and pernicious interference of
our peculiar institution with your peculiar institution;
and admit that interference has been evil, and only
evil continually. 1t has served only to consolidate
slavery, and, far as ii could, weaken the bonds of
the Union. What was once the progressive opinion
of the statesmen of the south towards emancpation
now by the force of this external pressure, and the
of the anacism that engenders it, chan
ged, inevitably, and necessarily, to senti-
the right of non-nterference with the domestic rela
tions of the States, sovereign and intact within that
sphere of our political system. So -" A.-f- sft
ID, WE'LL ST, Il adnt--and if the south Were true to
iself, all but the fanatics and dyspeptcs, who make
u *y4boKtioniisD, is disttnion-On the 31st of Nav
last Ave DAYS after the nomination of General Cass
the New England anti-savery c6n9enton passed the
resolution, reported by their business com
rnittees: p" ''-'t-,', -. - '-l,It'r
Resolued, That We nd it to be an imperative and
immediate duty raise funds, call conventions, send
principles, o'd fine, by all possible means to agiae
The land Wih hitherto unparalleled energy, FOR THE
IMMEDIATE AND UTTER Dissolution OF THE UNION.
1t was further resolved to hold series of one hun
dred conventions urge dissolution of the Union.
This convention formed a congress of delegates
from the abolition societies of the northern States
Edward Quincy, son Of ex-presdent Josiah Quincy,
of Harvard College, and brother Of the mayor of
Boston. Two of the prominent leaders in the con-
ventioh, Messrs. Garrison and Buffum, expressed
heir sy mpatny with the barnburners, and a strong
hope and belief that they would be able to defeat
York. t'fl ~ :..s ~. - :. az :. - -
In striking sympathy, the Boston Of May,
SAYS that the course pursued by the barn6uners of
New York " fills the heart of every true Whig with