The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, 1850-05-29
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A late number Of the Richmond Republican makes
the following eloquent reply 70 portion Of the Hon.
Horace Mann's recent Circular, aimed at the Uaon
Of the States and at Daniel Webster Mr.. Mann rep
resens the John Q. Adams Districts is an educated
and able man, and 5ut shade better than Garrison
and Douglas in his Abolition sentiments.
i The Republican, it is but just to state, is Wing
paper Is there North Carsina Wing paper, with
the exception of the Star and Hornets Nest which
could be induced to speak out as the Republican has
done? The Republican scorehes and roasts the Hon.
Horace just So: t..-st.E.
''The concluding paragraph of the last extract from
MI Mann, is pretty piece Of fancy, and, Addressed
to men who like Mr.. Mann's constituents, know moth
ing of slavery really exists and who are cloaked
to the ears in an impervious mantle Of selfcompla
cency, must appear very fine and heroic. But the
stubborn facts with which it comes IN collision isub
away all the varnsh poetry from this carefully pre-
pared oration. Hear him The idea that Massa-
chusetts should contribute, consent, 70 the exten.
sion of Human Slavery lis it not enough. not mere.
" to arouse the living from their topor but the dead
from their graves :" Oh, Beautiful Rhetoric, but I'm
measurable Impudence! Does this man, who likens
that it did not blaze with conscious guilt when he ul
tered such sentence! He pretend to be struck
with horror the bare idea of Massachusetts, contrib
u,ing consenng to the extension Of Human Slave
ry! He, who knows that It was the people OF Mass0-
chusets and New Engand-thati it was the fathers and
grandfatIers of the very men he addressing, who
established slavery this continent. BY stealing the
negroes from Africa and selling them the Southern
States-and who never thought or dreamed of aboli-
ton until the South forced New England to elinqush
the profitable traffic in human flesh - which it was
driving with characteristic energy upon the coast Of
Afiica. Let Us tell the Hon. Horace Mann that, if.
slavery be the unspeakble which he represents.
whether he plead for it against it, he may see
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not from the future,' but from the PAST; myriads
of black faces wreathed with horror, when the5
looked their last upon their native shores, screamed
with horrd thirst from the suffocang holds Of slave
ships; and myriads of white faces, looking up from
the bottomess pit and hurting at the son who
could thus reckessly expose his fathers nakedness.
The closes with another flourish Of rhetoric
In Massachusetts,, the great drama Of the Revouton
begun. Some of its heroes yet survive among US. At
Lexington, at Concord lat Bunker Hill the grass still
grows greener where the soil fattened with the
blood Of our fathers. Yes. The drama of the Ret-
olution begun in Massachusetts. And who was its
chief actor! Who was the man, bat for whose wis
dom, patriotism and vaor Massachusetts would still
be contemplate British colony? He was GEORGE
WASHINGTON, the VIRGINlAN and the SLAvEHoLDER!
Where was your horror for Slavery then? You knoao
that in the language of your own Otis, Massachusetts,
hailed the shareholders in the Revolution as If they
were angels just dropped down from Heaven" Their
eoquence inspired your councils; their soldiers led
your armies; their blood, mingling with your own,
crimsoned alike the Northern and the Southern
sands. Massachusetts may have been, indeed, the
cradle of Liberty; but Liberty would have died in
that CRADLE if Southern Shareholders had not stood
beside it's pillow, watching it with eyes that never
slept, and guarding with hearts that never feared
and arms that were never weared. The infant has
now become man, and you would invoke the first
exercise OF its matured stlength to crush the cham
pions who protected its infancy Such base ingrati.
tude is more infamous than the tyranny Of King
George and rather than submit to it, we would thou
sand times prefer form of government which, If It
deprives men of freedom. does not mock them with
the empty name of Republican Institutions.
"At Lexington, at Concord, at Bunker Hill, the
grass still grows greener where the soil fatteed
with the blood Of our fathers" Permit US to sug-
gest this Massachusetts, orator. that the soil and
bodies of Massachusetts have been " fatened - by
stimulating fertilizer than the blood of dead men,
Your grass grows green palaces rse your citiet
enlarge, your purses fill, by the fatening manure Of
Stare labor. You cannot deny it. From their toll
comes the material for the enormous amount Of
cotton fabrics which manufactured in Massachu.
sets. Horace Mann need not exert his imagnatlDn,
to see swat African turning every factory wheel n
his Slavery-hating Commonwealth. He need pef
turn many pages Ct statistics to dscovtr That
her hundred millions of exports would vanish into
thin air but for the products of slave labor and thai
it is the profits arising from negro toll which goes In,
to Massachusetts hands in exchange for her fabrrs
Of wool, iron, wood, and the other muliifarious re-
suits of her industry. Aye, sir, it is not the blood
slaves which have ttened the carcase Of your State.
and filled to bloating that nsaate leech, which. not
satisfied with suckiag the red current Of Southern
veins now seeks to drain the fe-blood Of Southern
hearts. -
Mr.. Mann talks strongly of his ardent emotions Of
fiery tide boiling in his veins of feelings like hb
ethereal agent that through elegaphic wires We
can tell him that other men also have feelings, and
that those feelings beginning to be arousednot
like the electricity Of the telegraph, which. like anti
slavery enthusiasm, can be manufactured, directed,
and made to speak any language BY an expert opera
tor-but like that genuine lighting which obeys only
the impulses of Nature, and which, though sumber-
| ing through long and weary day in a storm-vexed
cloud, comes down al last in angry thunderbolts to
purify and to avenge! The continued aggressions
upon the peace, safety, happiness, honor and rights
of the Southern people, rousing the deepest feel
ings of every Southern heart Men who'll m these
Southern States who ko,c the mild and patriar-
chafcharacter of Southern slavery who every
day the we-fed, well-clothed we'll treated crowds of
Southern negroes men who feel every hour that,
there be wrong, if there be Inconvenience, If there be
vexations in slave Institutions it is the master and
ence the most burning and profound indignation at
the cold booded, ceaseiess, malignant effort 70 deprive
them of property, Of life of honor; roll swelling
flood of barbarism their fertile fields to poilute
their hallowed homes to overthrow their sacred al
to make their cities desoate and to render their
very graves places where wolves will make their
haunt, and birds of prey, tapping their dismal wipgs
above, hide the light Of Heaven from the wretched
+ ness of Earth. a s'' =, -'zi3 s,5tis 9
t Let us assure the Hon. Horace Mann, that the
South can feelas much for reality as New Eng
land for abstraction, and that the hearty, the UNITED
the energetic language Of every Southern lip is this
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