The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-28

tensiFe fortihcatlons Of Cabanas crown th,
heights Of this side Of the harbor which lies Cd
posite to the town and south OF the city,,
! green, fertile valley, in which stand scati.r.t
palm trees, stretches towards the pleasant vii
iage OF Cairo. s
We lay idly In the stream for two hours. IN
the authorities OF the port could find time tc
visit US. They came at last, and without com.
ing on board, subjected the captain 10 a Ions
Questioning, and searched the newspapers bs
brought fer intelligence relating to the health
Of the port from which he sailed At last thew
gave us leave TO land, without undergoing q
quarantine, and withdrew, taking with them
our passports. We went on shore, and AFTER
three hours further delay got our baggage
through The custom house w. e. b.
4
The following eloquent passage forms the con.
clusiOn of speech delivered in Congress, Feb.
&c, by Mr.. Palfrey of Massachusetts:
Three days ago, Mr.. Chairman, we heard
another strain from the Ancient Dominion unlike
to that on which have now been slightly com.
menting. | listened with thedelght which such
graceful eloquence has the power TO give. and
certainly not without my share Of the emotion
which was Stirred IN every nearer. trust that
Il was not mere transient pleasure, but that 1
was warmed with something OF the natriotic
Gll.lE
powerfully e1hoIted US TO cultivate. So far as
that effect was produced, shall be only the bet
ter qualified 10 sustain those views of the public
well being and honor OF which have OCCASION
ally come forward here as the very humble ad-
vocate. Adminng the elevated and generous
tone Of many OF that gentleman's remarks. there
were yet some things could have wished other
vise--independsnt OF his argument on the par.
ticular question now in hand, which OF courSe
did not satisfy me. ] cannot specify them as
would, the speech not having yet appeared in
pnnt, and the immediate excitement Of the
pleasure 1t afforded having been such as 20 pre-
vent careful weIghlng-still more, a clear re-
membrance-of its Teasonings and language.-
One remark in particular fell on my ear as dis
cord IN The general harmony Of its pTaseworthy
tone OF sentiment think the gentleman pre-
senied some antllhe:ls such as this-that The
people To whom belong managed to make a ne
cunisTy capital out OF slavery IN fuHuer tunes.
and naDissie-i e>ls.el sas-s- eit there rffuSe
who could teach the gentleman somewhat 10
qualify his views about uncompromising hostilftx,
TO Slavery being sure way 70 lay up political
capital" And as to the s'pecnniary captap,
supposed 70 have been made by Massachusetts
from slavery hundred years ago, will say no
mons than that, while at that period she was
perhaps not mncf wiser on this subject than her
neghbors, one thing she has always done-sbe
has always held her eyes wide open to the light.
she has always greeted new Truth, and promptly
adopted and acted on it when made known.-
Can Virginia say as much? Willthe gentleman
Affirm il of herl And will he sustain the asser
ton by a comparison OF what she now ia with
what she was when she helped 10 win the indie.
pentence ard establish the Constitution Of these
Statesl
The gentleman thinks that Virginia laid Mas
sachUsetts under an obligation Of gratitude and
affection by her sympathy and aid in the disas.
tIous time OF the Boston Port Bill. think she
did, and that the debt is mutual, at least Does
the gentleman suppose that the distresses incur
red by Massachusetts at the period Of which he
speaks were solely for objects of her own, or that
the exertions made by Virginia and others of her
sister eOlonles-wlletheT regarded as made in
her behalf, or for the common cause, for which |
she was standing the foremost champion-werel
anything more than mitigations OF her woe? |
When James Otis argued in the old State House |
against the Nrits OF Assistance, and ''then and |
there" according TO John Adams, ''the child In |
dependence was bom," for whom was that
biTth-for Massachusetts or for AmericaY When |
from her Faneu Hall and the meetings of her
village democracies the gauntlet was thrown |
down TO the tremendous power Of England, was |
Massachusetts, alone in the prospect of advan- |
tsge from that strife, or only most forward in its
penis? When the vindictive "Polt Bill. :" TO |
which the gentleman referred took effect, was il |
some Virginian city, or was it Boston, the chief
mart of the continent, that saw its prosperity |
made desolation, and the grass springing in its |
streetsl And if Massachusetts did incnr a debt |
for the sympathy and succOrs which, as the gen. |
tleman correctly states, she then received, think
she paid some instruments of it when she bore |
the first furious bmnt of the battle on her own |
she sent nearly one soldier in every
three 20 the armies OF the Revolution, furnishing
more troops than all the six slave States put to-
gether In the proportion of more than eight TO |
seven-and when the excess OF her payments |
into the common Treasury for the prosecution of |
the war, over and above what she drew from it, |
was greater than that oil the aggregate Of her |
twelve sister States.
The gentleman should be better acquainted |
than myself, Mr.. Chairman, with the history Of |
the great State which he represents. And yet, |
cannot entirely acquesce in the distinction he |
has drawn-nOt original with him, / am aware;
between the settlers of Virginia and Of Massa- |
chusetts, as representatives respectively Of the
Cavaliers and Roundheads Of the old country |
| remember thai Captain Smith, the man who |
saved the first company of Virginlan planters |
from sef-destmction, said of them, that ga great
part were unruly sparks, packed of by their |
fnends 10 escape worse destinies at home; many |
were poor gentlemen, broken tradeSmen, rakes |
and libertines, footmen, and such others as were
much filter 10 spoil and ruin Commonwealth, |
than to help TO raise or maintain one" Sir, |
am far from imagining that this is a matter of
the slightest account at the present time. The
founders Of Rome have no very good repute in |
history, and we do not think the less of the he
roes and sages Of the great times OF the sublime |
Republic. because of the equivocal character OF
the original fountains of their generous blood
But if we are summoned persorce TO the school /
Of the historic Muse, il Is meet that we give heed
10 her lessons And on the other hand-a thing |
now of equally little moment--not few of the /
R0undhead Massachusetts founders were Of the
noble and the gentle blood OF England. There
were scholars from her great universities, in
twenty yeans from the frst settlement, there
were as many graduates of Oxford and Cam
bridge in Massachusetts as in old England, in
TO the population. There were cap
tains from the famous fields of Europe, courtiers
rom its capitals, delicate women from the luxury
,f its ancient feudal halls, "coming," as the
chnonicler said, "from paradise
IF plenty and pleasure in the family OF mobiles,
% a wilderness Of wants." This Is matter now
If Just as little Importance as the other; but
when challenged about the past, even the ground
If such conventionaltiesi is not one which We OF