The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-12
Erom he NJ Y. Erenins Post.

NOTEs ON LORD MoRPETH's LECTURE On
AMERIcA.--ln Lord Morpeth's lecture on Anne
RIGA, at Leeds, last winter, he made the follow
ing allusion to 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 indicated. The defeat Of Mr.. Webster
alone, ia 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 cham pion of the God Of battles, whose
humble weapons laid that giant low in the pres
ence 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 USED by Miss Mar
tineau and is as emphatically her thunder as the
Wilmot Proviso was Mr.. Websters. The lee
turer would not have used il without the SYM
: bols of credit probably, if il had occurred TO
him that the description had ever been in print
In Maryland he first encountered slavery, and
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 discreetly and plausi-
bly, about the paramount duty of not contraven-
ing. the law but how would you feel, my coun-
trymen, if 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, deep
misery of whole human life is on the other
What you ought to feel is, fervent gratitude to
the power which has averted from your shores
and hearths this fearful trial and let me add, a
heartfelt sympathy with those who arc sustain
ing it."
If his lordship were an American, we fear he
would hardly be es,eeme sound on the I" Union
He says, that willie in Maryland:
81 dued with the daughter of Charles Carroll,
who, when signing the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, was told by bystander that he would
in .ur no darge, as there were so many of the
Ian-sof Carrollton," he ad o t. his a Q
aud think it is the only one upon the docu-
ment which has any nppendage. Being thus
nobly fathered, it is rather curious that this en-
cradle ady should have been the mother Of three
English Peeresses.'
This lady Was Mrs. Cation, and her daughters
referred to, artithe Marchoness of Carmarthen,
the Marchioness of Wellesley and the Duchess
of Leeds.
Lord Afurpeth 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. Cation.
At the dinner referred TO, says the lecturer
IL l. IL
more was one of the company he wore his long
velvet robes, which have never seen done on
similar occasions, either in Ireland or this
country"
This was Archbishop Eccleston, whose funeral
exercises were solemaized at Baltimore last
week.
"Cincinnati,r said the lecturer "seemed to me
the part of the Union where, if obliged to make
the choice should like best to fix my abode"
His last word is about slavery
' have reserved for he last topic of animal
version, the ctowning evil-the capital danger
tho mortal plague spot--siavery. have not
discl lined the original responsibility of my own
country in introducing and rivetting it upon her
dependencies; I do not disguise the portentous
difficulties in the way Of adequate remedy to the
great and growing disease. But what | cannot
shut my eyes on is, that while 1t lasts, it must
still continue, in addition to the actual amount
at suffering ard wrong, which it entails on the
euslaved, to operate with terrible reaction on the
dominant class, to blunt the moral sense, to sap
domestic virtue, to degrade independent indus
tsy. to check the onward march Of enterprise, TO
sow seeds of suspicion, alarm and vengeance,
IN both internal and external intercourse. TO ds-
tract the national councils, to threaten the per-
usnence Of the Union, and 10 leave brand, .
by-woM and jest upon the name Of freedom