The North-Carolina standard., 1849-12-26
TRUTH. STRONGLY EXPRESSED.

In the debate in the Senate on Thursday last on
the Resolution to permit Fathew Mathew to have a
seat within the bar of that body token of respect
for his services in the Temperance cause Mr.. Glenn
ems, of Alabama, gave Mr.. Seward, of New York,
and his Abolition brethren such an excoriation as
they will not soon forget. Mr.. Clemens said:
The facts are precisely as I understood them
and whatever respect may have for Father Mathew
as temperance advocate, cannot and will not for
get that he is also abolition agitator and such
entitled to nothing at my hands unqualified
demnation.
The senator from New York has spoken of his in
reference with the subject of slavery recommen-
dation and the senator from New Hampshire adds
that Father Mathew is not enough of an abolitionist
for him. Both senators claim that this ofcious in
termeddng with the property and the rights of 9TH
ers is very praiseworthy exhibition of Christian
charity, and sympathy for the wrongs of the slave
never doubted, sir, that such the opinions OF
those gentlemen. Their acts for years past have
been too unequiVocal to admit of misconstruction
know that the crueles of the Shareholder, and the
suerings of the down-trodden African, have formed
the chief staple of all their dscourses. Let tell
them that it would be well to look little at home.
There at your doors objects charity enough
without hunting for slaves upon whom to bestow It.
There are at this very moment, IN all your great
cities, thousand of homeless wretches destitute OF
food raiment, and without thought or an instinct
that is not colored by crime. There are hordes OF
miserable pittance, which only adds to the horror OF
starvation by protractng the agonies of the sufferer.
There bands of little children to whom beggary
has descended Inheritance, and for whom a
State prison is welcome asylum. Misery in all its
formspovery in allits rags-sickness and starvation
around you; and yet, with miserable hypocrisy
you must travel away to the South, and waste your
sympathies upon population who are better clothed,
better fed, who work less and live more happily,
than four-6ths of yourselves. Y ou compel poor
factory girl to perform amount of labor which is
exacted from healthy and robust men by the plan
ters of the Souh-seParate her from her friends and
relations-allow to visit her without lOrftten
pass from an overseer, and all the while thank God
that you are free from the curse of African slavery.
Nay, more; you assume to be of better and purer
race. You unblushingly assert, on all occasions,
that while the pistol and the Bowie knife give law
to the South, you In the constant observance OF
moral and religious precepts.
Sir, admit with regret that there are occasional
scenes of violence among US, and that sometimes we
forget the value of human life but offences have
always touch of manliness in them. There are no
petty larcenies-no outrages upon unprotected te-
maes-no midnight assassnations for money. When
stoop initiate the brute creation, we take the
lion, not the hyena for our model But, whllel make
the admission that we are not altogether tree from
crime, let me ask how stands the case with you !!
The city of New York alone furnishes more State
prison convicts than the whole fifteen southern States
together. You tear down churches; burn up con-
vents, inhabited by few helpless nuns; get up pro-
cessions in honor of brutal prize-ighter; and raise
riots at the bidding of worthless player, in which
scores of lives are sacrificed without dreaming that
there is anything in all this unbecoming the descend
ants of the pilgrim fathers. Look at home, say !;
your iniquities, relieve your own suffer-
ers and then but not till then you may prae of the
crime and misery which slavery engenders.
regret, Mr. President that this debate has sprung
up. regret still more the course it has taken; not
however, from prudential considerations be-
cause, as the senator from Kentucky has intimated,
it is imprudent to discuss matters in relation to
slavery-but because this question must soon be met
in another form, and willing to let it slumber
till then. But may as well say that the time
for prudential action is past The disease is des-
perate one, and requires desperate remedies. For
one, sir, yield inch of ground-no, not one hairs
breadth. Whenever this antisavery sentiment shows
itself, whatever form it may assume, am ready to
do battle against it.. The time for half measures has
gone by. You must let alone, or take the conse-
ouences"