Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-12

shirt; he looses all proper self-respect and is dis
qualified for the high duty of protecting and de-
finding his rights and the community becomes IA
miliarized with a state of vassalage. Let every
true republican then, beware of all nyidious dis
tinctons in society; beware of enacting oppress-
i've and tyranncal laws: the evil may recoil upon
our heads Nay, let us rather blot out the bar
barous and disgraceful code we now have Sir,
we are all bound up in the same destiny; all must,
without distinction, be admitted to the same
measure of civil right, or sooner or later all bow
down at the foot stool of despotc power fora lit
tie leyen leyeneth the whole lump not less for evil
than for good. The njunctions of mere posi-
tive law of human enactment may be violated,
and the transgreSsor may frequently escape; but
when you lay violent hands upon the law of nature,
the penalty follows with unerring certainty as a
natural and unavoidable consequence of the fatal
act and there is no escape. And sir, if any State
or nation have the weakness or temerty to weave
into their system of Government principle atVa-
rance with the high injunctions OF this paramount
law, they have sown the seed of their own disso-
luton; they have sown the wind, and shall reap
the whirlwind'
ION AND TNUE GLORY OF THE COUNTRY.
1.-The friends of this bill have argued this ques-
ton on the hypothesis that the leading design of
the trainers of the constitution ofhe United States
was to secure to the South their title to slaves
But Mr.. Speaker, if such be the constructon-if
the vast and concentrated power of the General
Government is thus to be perverted from its de-
sign, and postituted to the detestable purpose OF
extending, fostering and perpetuating this system
of slavery and representation, sir, has it disap-
pointed the hopes of its founders. 1t has failed
TO answer the purpose for qualities for which l
have so long revered it, and my devotion is at an
end. | cannot contemplate its threatened dissolu-
ton by Southern malcontents with indifference,
for mine sir is not the blind devotion of the en-
thusiast. | revere it as the guardian, shield, and
protector of the rights of man. If | am disap-
pointed here, and its powers are to be welded
for the destruction of these rights and it is to be
converted into an engine of oppression, then, sir,
like a diseased limb of the body, however useful
it has been, and great as has been my anxiety to
preserve it, would lop it off an encumbrance,
and cast it away"
1.-The glory of our country was also spoken OF
by the gentleman. Sir love my country to idol
airy, far too well to endeavor to conceal the fact
that this system of slavery is the foulest blot on
national cscutcheon. 1t is degrading us in
the estimation of the whole civilized world de-
stroyng the influence which our otherwise free
and republican institutions are Justly entitled tc
WELD, and otherwise would WELD against the des-
potisms of Europe 1t furnishes the tyrant with
his strongest argument against example,
What, sir, was the glory of the Barbary States
before the French conquest? And how differed
they from us? What say you of the national
character of Algicrs and Tripol Divest your
self of prejudice and answer before God
Mr. Speaker, it because | love and venerate
my country that l wish to wipe away this her
deepest and foulest stain. To be blind to her
faults, would be weakness; to be Indifferent to
them unpatriOtic''