The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-11

qualities both Of the head and the heart, | enter.
tain the most sincere respect and esteem. AND
gentlemen, if in the progress of events, ne shall
find as one of your distinguished statesmen did,
that the views Of his early life were mistaken,
he would have the courage and manliness to
avow and retract his error. mean not to
attack individuals, but systems, and what
believe to be erroneous principles. hoping that J
endeaver to be an humble seareher after truth.
Hear Now, gentlemen, | most firmly believe,
and think item be demonstrated, that protec
ton, as it iscaled, whether it be in England or
America, is essenti lily agrarian. Hear
What was done by your corn laws! Why It
is said they increased one-third, the price of
British corn. New, if that be the case, looking
at the time that they have been in operation, in
increased price, they took from the British peo-
pie, for the benefit of small fraction Of the
nation, an amount of money double thai. OF The
entire debt Of Great Britain. What, then, gen.
tlemen, was the operation? That few individu-
ais interposed, by law, to take from the rest of
the community portion Of their property, their
profits, and their labor, in order to enrich them.
selves. Hear According to my notion, this
is agrarian. Now, what is French agarianism !?
French agraranisn into rferes with property. too,
in some hat different way-it proposes TO take
many The other proposes to take from the
many for the benefit of the few. This was
worse than the agrarianism of ancient Rome,
that took corn, by armed spolation, from the
vanquished, and distributed il amongst the peo
Pile; this takes corn from the many, by raising
the prices and checking its importation. The
one fed, the other starved the people. So, too,
with our American protection. American, like
English protection, interferes, by statue, to take
the capital and profits, and labor, of one man.
to enhance the profits Of another. 1t processes,
t is true, to benefit labor and raise its wages !;
but when seven. eighths of our labor is engaged
in agriculture, commerce, navigation, and manu-
facturies, requiring no protection, how is il pos
sible, by deprving seven eghths of the people
Of their profits for the benefit of one eighth, to
raise the wages of the people? The reverse Is
true, az proved by enhanced wages under the
reduced tariff Of 1886 Hear 1t is needless
to remark (for it is known TO all the world)
that England stands among the foremost in the
rank Of nations. Now, what is one Of the chief
causes OF this? 1t is. gentlemen, in the variety
of sources from which you sprang 1t is that
the English blood is fusion of the blood Of ma
tions
There il, gentlemen, the ancient Brton,
whom Caesar failed TO conquer; there is the
Celt, indomitable In courage, overlooking in
genius and generosity ; there are the Scots and
Picts, majestic even in semi barbarism there
are the Danes, the noblest offspring of the great
Scandinavian tribe, brave. adventurous energet-
c; there is, too, The industrious, orderly, per-
severing, courageous, law and liberty'loying
Saxon and then last, but foremost of them all
the chvalrous, the heroic, the conquering the
god Like Norman, infusing another element OF
courage, intellect and power into the blood
of England. IL is from this fusion OF the blood
of these great races spreng the power and glory
of England. II gave us Shakespeare and Mil.
! ton, Bacon Newton, and Franklin. II gave Us
Hanpden, Sidney, and Russell-glorious mar
tyrs Of free .om. II gave us Fox and Chatham,
the early, eloquent and courageous friends OF
my country. IL gave US Peel and Wellington,
and, greatest Of all, by the verdict Of mankind,
for he sprang from the race-it gave us Wash.
ington. Loud aud .ng-coninued cheering !
lie would allude briefly 10 one other topic, out
If which some apprehended difficulties between
England and America. Ia the message Of the
President of the French republic of the 4th Of
this month, will be found the following passage
=" We have eagerly seized the opportunity 10
furnish Spain with proof of the sincerity Of
our relations by joining Er gland in offering the
cabinet of Madrid the assistance OF our naval
forces, 10 regul.e the late audacious attack
against Cuba" Now, without having any au.
thoity 10 speak for any British official, ] will
state my own derided conviction, that this
statement Of the French President is founded
in mistake and misappichension. Look at the
treaty establishing the boundary between Maine
and Cinada. At the time that treaty was rati.
fed, was q Senator of the Uaiied States, and
voted for IL, chiefly with the view Of disposing
for ever of the igit of search. Connected
with That treaty was a correspondence between
your own worthy and excellent minister, Lord
A ,hbur;on. and our own eminent Secretary OF
State, Daniel Webster, in which the right of
search was nnequivocaly abandoned No one
can suppose that England il disposed 10 nullify
that treaty. or withdraw that pledge. Now, the
placing OF fleets, on or near our coasts 10 watch
over and wit vessels sailing from them, would
be either a gratuiious and insulting menace, or
it would involve the principle Of the right Of
search. What could be the hj,ct Of 81 b
fleets. unless TO watch. visit, search, and seize
our vessels! And where were those hostile
fleets 20 be stationed
ln The very outlet &C our Americ IN lake. the
Gulf Il Mexico, through which passes. annual.
ly, our commerce TO the amount or hundreds OF
millions Of dollars with the valley Of the Mssis-
supp, hhu also W great extent WIN the lstn-
mus and California. Such proceeding would
vex our commerce, and cause an immediate rise
in the rates Of insurance. This menace proceed
ed, not from England, but from the President Of
the French Republic. (Hear, bcar) 1t would
have been well for him 10 have remembered that
he had himself but recently set the example in
two unsuccessful Lopez expeditions, conducted
BY him against the government Of his own
country. The first was from Strausburg; the
second, headed by Louis Napoleon, proceeded
from London, in British registered vessel, and
assaulted Boulogne, with the syowed object Of
overthrowing the then existing government Of
France The expedition was unsuccessful, not
to say iRnominous; and now, this Gallo Lopez
makes this unprovoked assault, and Eliminates
this insulting menace against my country. | re.
peat the expression Of my decided conviction,
that England has entered into no such coalition.
II cannot be, that the present fFee-trade minis
try Of England would render Intellectual their
own benefcent measures, by substituting block
AIDES and embargoes for commercial freedom. II
cannot be, that they would exclude the mann