Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-03-20

who. being over twenty years old, cannot
real or 1rri!e:
Bunconbe county, y. Carolina. l 6
North Carolina, l-3
Georgia., 11j
Virginia. lis
South Carolina, 113
Alabama. LA
Mississippi, 1Ij
Ohio. Lac
1t will be observed that North Carolina
stands highest in the scale Of human hap
piness. civilization, and refinement, and
that the good people of Buncombe are
particularly blest! Laughter If their
distinguished representative here is not
satisfied with this exhibition Of his con-
adage, that "those who live in glass hou.
ses should not throw stones." Laughter. |
Mr.. Ashe. Will the gentleman favor
US with a comparison of the statistics of
crime!
Mr.. Campbell Nv time is so nearly
out, tha, cannot. II it will comfort the
gentleman in his present tribulation. will
admit that northern penitentaries show
more convicts than southern ones. The
reason is obvious to everybody, every
where. We punish our rasca/s. yon al
lo'r yours 10 run at /argc' Laughter. !
At least we have seen some recent evi.
dence Of this fact.
Something about crime was said by the
honorable member from South Carolina
Mr.. Burt the other dsv, in explanation.
after the member from Massachusetts I Mr.
Mann had closed. His purpose seemed
to be to relieve southern people from the
inference of cupidity. raised by the asser-
ton that they ould not hang slave for
crime for which white man was pun.
ished with death. He stated that SO far
was the assertion from truth. the fact was
that slave was hung for sundry offences,
which. if peruetrated by a white man.
were not so punished. Now. have been
told. that in manv slave States, where
the slave is SO punished, the law provides
that the master shall be paid for him at
public expense. do not know that this
is true.
Several voices-"It is true
Mr.. Campbell. Then the South is not
relieved from the implication Of mercena-
ry motives by the facts
! Sir. when that honorable gentleman or
any other southern gentleman speaks to
lar attention to this point. Upon what
YOU make this dscrimin alton! You de-
nounce US if zee propose to enlighten the
slave. as "aggressors"-you refuse TO
teach him yourselves-to impress upon
his mind the impress Of morality, and his
duties to his fellow man-vou doom him
TO degradation. and ignorance Of the
right, and ye, hang him for the urone.
whilst the master vino kno,cs and is tangin
what are his duties, is permitted to 90 un-
whipped of justice. Sir. that All jus,
God. who rules the destinies Of US all.
will make no such distinctions in our ia
vor. when in few brief years we shall be
summoned TO answer at the bar Of Heav-
en-!
Mr.. Chairman, gentlemen from the
South insist upon calculating the value OF
this Union. We OF the North will not
| regard it as more profitable to calculate
the value Of the proviso against extending
slavery. Gentlemen talk about their
southern convention. and about dissolv-
ing the Union. | have already shown
that this is the old scheme Of few be-
wildered men, who perhaps are led on,
as Mr.. Benton informs US. by an unhal-
lowed ambition. 1t is a matter Of deep
regret to me that some Of those. with
whom | deeply sympathzed in former
struggles-whose noble efforts in the
cause Of their country have demanded
our admiration. are now disposed 10 unite
with them in the ..dream Of a separate
| independence-a dream to be interrupt,
ed by bloody conflicts with their neigh
bors, and vile dependence On foreign
power. TO join them in renouncing the
glorious flag of our country-in destroy
ing the peace Of mankind and delugins
our fertile fields in blood. As to q disso
luton Of the Union, il cannot occur. We
will not contemplate it. Coolly and firm
ly determined TO carry out the great prin