The southern press., 1851-05-14
From The ~. Y. Evening Post.

NoTEs ON LORD MoRfEfHs LECTURE On
AMERIcA--In Lord Morpeths lecture on Ame-
RIGA, at Leeds, last winter, he made the follow
ing ausiontc Mr.. Sumner. whose recent cleo
ton to the United States Senate gives peculiar
significance to the prophecy which it contains:
The residence here (Boston) was rendered
peculiarly agreeable TO me by a friendship with
one OF it, inh bitants, which had previously
made in England he har lily yet comes within
my rule of exception, but | do not give up the
notion of his becoming one of the historical
men of his countr !"
The sagacity of the English nobleman is al
ready vindcated. The defeat of Mr. Webster
alone, is sufficient to make the name of Charles
Sumner historical The pen of the historian
has ever fingered with most pleasure, not over
the gigantic prowess of Goliath, but over the
STRIPPING champion of the God of battles, whose
humble weapons laid that giant low in the pres
enoe OF Israel and her enemies.
Speaking Of Webster in another part Of his
lecture, Lord Morpeth alludes to his "cavernous
eyes," This phrase was first use by Miss Mar
tineau, and is as emphatically her thunder as the
H Wilmot Proviso was Ar. Webster's The lee
turer would not have used it without the SYM
Dol, of credit, probably, if it had occurred to
him that the description had ever been in print
In Maryland he first encountered slavery, and
in alluslou To that subject, apropos Of the Fug
tive slave bill, which had passed but few
months previous TO the delivery of this lecture,
he makes another remark, to which time and the
course of events have given special significance.
He says:
1t may be easy to speak dscreetly and plaus-
bly, about The paramount duty of not contraven-
Ing the law; but how would you feel, my coun
trymen, ii fugitive was at your feet, and the
man hunter at the door | admit the majesty
| Of the law is on one side, but the long, deeI,
| misery of whole human life is on the other.
What you ought TO feel il, frrvent gratitude TO
the power which has averted from your shores
md hearths this fearful trial and let me add.
heartfelt sympathy with those who are sustain
ing it,"
If lis lords il were an American, we fear he
would hardly be eseeme sound on the Union"
He says, that willie in Maryland:
al dined with the daugh' er of Charles Carroll
who, when signing the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, was told by bystander that he would
in:ur no danger, as there were so many of the
IAN Of Carrollton," he added to his pame
aud think il is the only one upon the docn.
ment which has any appendage. Being thus
nobly fathered it is rather curious that this ven
| erabe adv should have been the mother Of three
English Peeresses."
This lady was Mrs. Cation, and her daughters
|. referred to- are,the Warehouses Of Carmarthen,
the Warehouses of Wellesley and the Duchess
of Leeds.
Lord Morpeth does not mention another noble
alliance formed by this family with the British
| nobility, which is more notorious than either
that he has mentioned His own brother, Geo.
Howard, about three years since, married grand
!. daughter Of Mrs. Ca,on.
AT the dinner referred to, says the lecturer
sThe Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Bati-
g he hav hiolo p
velvet robes, which have never seen done on
similar occasions, either in Ireland or this
country"
This was Archbishop Eccleston, whose funeral
exercises were solemniged OF Baltimore last
week.
Cincinnati" said the lecturer seemed to me
| the part Of the Union where, IL obliged TO make
the choice, should like best to fix my abode"
| His last word Is about slavery;
al have reserved for he last topic Of animad
| yer ion, the browning evil--the capital danger
the mortal plague spot--siavery. have not
discl lined the original responsibility Of my own
country in introducing and rivetting it upon her
dependencies; | do not disguise the portentous
difficulties in the way Of adequate remedy to the
great and growing disease But what cannot
shut nv eyes on Is, that while II lasts, it must
still continue, in addition TO the actual amount
Of suffering and wrong, which il entails on the
euslavcd, to operate with terrible reaction on the
dominant class TO blunt the moral sense, TO zap
domestic virtue, 10 degrade independent indus
try. to check the onward march Of enterprise, to
. sow seeds Of suspicion, alarm and vengeance,
IN both internal and external intgcourse TO dis
tract the national councils, TO Threaten the per
manence Of tho Union. and TO leave brand,
by.word and . jest upon the name Of freedom