The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-04-03
Speech Of Edward Stanly,
or MORT; CAROLINA,
Exposing The causn Of iht Slavery Agitation

Exposing Inc CaustS OIL The slayrry Agitation.
Delivered in the House Of Representatives,
March 6, 1850.
This hour rule, Mr. Chairman, compels
us 10 econolnize time very closely. and
consolidate ideas As much as possible
viii Try aud do so. that | NAV not write
out any thing muie lhan | shall say.
/ wish 10 say few plain things in
plain way. wish 10 say ii,tle for
Brncombe-sot oily the western but the
eastern Bnncombe. which ! represent;
and, if honorable gentlemen are mol desi>
icus to hear this. | advise them 10 take
themselves, on this rainy day, TO more
comfortable place than lhis. | intend
most of what | say for my constituents.
| have not spoken before, because
lhought when matters Of snch vast msgni-
suds were involved. We ought 10 wal, ana
hear what the people ni home have 10 say
Of them. Nuw, | feel prepared moi mere
! " 10 express my spinions, but lhosc also
Of my honest constituents. hope 10 say
nothing ollensivs 10 any gentleman. Ger
lainIy, have no such desire. shall
most carefully avoid TO strike the first
blow. If | am assailed, | must iaks care
Of myself in the bssl way may. And
now 10 come right al It.
have heard great deal said here, and
read much recently, Of" sncroachmeni on
the Souih--aggression on the South :"
and. though | know we have cause in
somo respects 10 complain of the conducI
Of our northern people, ! cannot include
the whole North in the just ceEsure due
TO the conduct Of the aggessors. have
aitenhvely watched the debate here and
in the Senate. ! have looked at The par
iy newspapers Of the day, and have been
brought 70 settled belief, yea conviction,
that much of the hue and cry is caused
by malignant wish 10 embarTsss the Ad-
minislration, and 10 build up the party
whom the people hurled from power ia
November, 1913. Msny Of the speeches
here, relative 10 The admission Of CaIifor>
MIA, are marked by unkind allusion 10 .he
President, and sometimes improper and
furious, though feeble, aspsrsions as 10 his
motives.
Il seemed 10 me that if gentlemen. from
The South especially. believed our pecu>
liar institutions were in danger, they would
desire to produce harmony Of feeling. 10
speak calmly ss 10 brethren in the midst
OF common danger; that they would try
and produce united action. But instead
of manifesting such disposition, the Ad-
minis,raiion is rnthlessly assailed, and the
Whig party 6ercely denounced. For ex-
amples of these party speeches, refer TO
that Of ths gentleman from Mississippi,
(Mr. Brown,) and Of the gentleman from
Maryland, (Mr. McLase,) who on this
matter made a party speech, and tried.
as he did before the House was organized,
10 blow his boaiswain's whistle and pipe
all hands on his side 10 duty. There
were other speeches Of like character.
want 10 show this agitation, this attempt
10 excite alarm, is now, as il was last
summer in the southern States, for party
purposes. believe can sho~ il.
! In 1897, when Mr.. Van Burea was
President, an abolition petition, presented
+, by gentleman from Vermont, ! think,
produced great tumul, here. A south
ern meeting was held in commiitee-room
down stairs. pallon's resolution, which
rejected abolition petitions, was the lrui,
OF that meeting. Presenting this petition
was one of Mr.. Calhonn's encroach-
menis.' Mr.. Van Buren's friends found
j, necessary 10 sustain him, as "norih-
ern man with southern principles. and
then he made this abolition excitement the
platform for his election to the Pfesiden-
cy. In vain did the Wings at thai time
warn the southern country he would be a
traitor; that his past life had shown lie
was unsound upon the question OF slave
RI. Nc matter what should be the con-
sequence to the South, his game was 10
be played. In 1898, when MIR. Wood.
bury was in Mr.. Van Buren's cabinet, and
was engaged in that interesting corsss-
I pondence 10 his sub-reasurers, Mr.. Alher-
ion, OF New Hampshire. who was called
the prince Of hambugs. introduced his
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