Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-03-21
POLITICAL.
MIR. WEBsTER's Speech
IN SENATE.
Thursday, March 7. 1852.

Thursday, March 7, 1859.
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Then, SIR h"re are those abolition societies. of whic,
am unwilling 10 speak. hut IN regard to which have
very clear noilons and opinions. do not think them
useful think their operations for the last enty wears
have produced nothing gmd valuable. Al the same
tmc. know thousands nt them honest and good man;
perfectly well meaning They have xeted tornps
thty 'hink they must do somehng ior the OF hbet.
y and IN their sphere of action they do not see WIN,
else they can do, than Ia contribute aboon press
or an abolition society 10 pay abolition lecturer
do not mean 10 impute gross 10 tho lea
ders 0f th,se societies hat am blind the co,se-
qnences cannot but see what mischels their in,eier
ence with the South tas produced. Aud il il not plan
To every man Let any gentleman who doubts Of that
Iecn 10 the debates IN the Virginia House of Delegates In
1882, and he will sea with what reedor proposition
made by Mr. Randolph tr the gradual abolition Of slave
y was discussed ia that body Every spoke of slave
~ as he thought very lgnomnhus aud dsparaene
names and eplthes applied Ia IT, The debates in
the House of Delegates that occason | believe were
all published. They read by evety cnlured man
who could read, and it there were any who could moi
read those de bates were read b, them by white men,
AT that time Virginia was unwilling nor afraid lu dis
cnSs 'h's question: and to let that part of her population
know Ms much Of 1t they could learn. Tint was in
1882 As has been said by the honorable member from
Carolina these abolition commenced their
ot action IN 1880 II Is said don't know how true il
may be-'ha they sent nrendnry publica ions into the
slave States at any event TREY attempted to arouse
and did arouse very strong feeling in other words.
they created goat agitation in the North against Sontl
'rn slavery. We'll. what was The result The bonds
OF he slaves bound more firmly than before their
rivets were more s'rongly fastened Public opinion
which IN Virginia bad begun 10 be exhibited against
slavery, and was opening out for the discussion of The
question, drew blck and shut itself up in It's castle
wish to know whether any body in Virginia can now
talk as Mr. Randolph Gov Mcdowell and others talked
ihere, openly, and sent their remarks tho press. in
/ 1852. We all know the fact. nnd nll know the
cause and every thing that this agltang people have
done has been not II enlarge but 10 restrain. 10
tee but Ia bind faster the slave population OF the Sou
That is my Judgment Sir as have said, know many
of them in my own nelgborhood. very honest nd pc
PIE m'sled, as think by strange enthusiasm but they
wish 10 do soneh hing, and they called
butte, and they do contribute and my firm opinion this
day, that within Tho last twenty years much none,
has been collected and paid the aholion clers ab
lton presses, and abolition lecturers would purcha,,
the fteedom OF every slave man, woman and chll,
IN The State of Maryland aud send them all 10 Liberia
have no doubt Of II. I'ul have yet to learn thai h'
henevoence n these abolition societies has nj any TIM,
taken that particular turn Laughter
Again, sir. The violence Of the press comp,ned Of
he press violent Why SIR the press IS violent every
where. There are outrageous reproaches in the Norli
against the South and there rcpoaches in muci
better Taste in the SUuth against the North Sir, tn
extremists ot both parts Of this country violent they
mistake loud and violent alk for euqnen-e and for
son. They think that he who talks loudesl tn,
best. And this expect, when the press is free
as is here, and trust always will be--fpr, with all III
centl0usaess aud all It's evil, the entire and absoui,
freedom of 'he press essential tn the preservation
government on the basis Of lreo constitution " here
ever exists, there will be foolish paragraphs and vo
len paragraphs in the press. there are sorry
say, foolish speeches and vlent speeches both Houses
of Congress In Short sir must say that, in my opin
ion, the vernacular tongue OF The country has become
greatly vaied, depraved and corrupted by the Style
our congres sonal debates. Laughter And If IL wer.
possible for the debates Congress 10 vta,e the prin
cipes of the people much as they have depaved llie
taste, ! should cry ont, "God save the Republic ~
Well in all this i see no solid grievance, no grievance
produced by the South, within the redress of the Gov
ernment, but the single one to which have referred
and that is. the want Of proper regard TO the innnc
On Of the constitution for the delivery OF fugitive slaves
There are also complaints of the North against The
South | need not go them particularly. The
first and graves that, the North adopted the constlu
0n recognising the existence ot slavery IN the Sates,
and recognising The right 10 certain extent OF represen
taton Of the slaves Congress under state Of senti-
mPnt and expectation which do not now exist and that,
by events by circumstances, by the eagerness Of the
South acquire territory and extend their slave pO5ua-
ton the North finds Itself in regard to the influence uf
the South and the North Of the free States and the slave
States, where it never did expect to find itself when
they entered the compact Of the constitution. They com
plain. therefore, that nse cad of slavery being regarded
as an evil as II was them evil which all hoped would
be extingnished gradually, IT Is now regarded by the
Snuth institution to be cherished ard preserved and
extended institution which the South has extended
To The utmost of her power by the acquisition OF new ter
ritory Well, then. passing from that, every body IN
the North reads and every b'dy reads "hats1ve the
newspapers contain and the wspapes. some of them.
especially those presses which ! have alluded, are
careful spread about among the people every repoac
fu sentiment uttered by any Southern man bearing a,
al against the North everything that is calculated To
exasperate, to aenate and there many such hngs.