The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-03

all huddled like swine together with hardly
rags 10 cover them, TO the number Of thirty and
forty in a room y
And this, sir, is the district represented by the
individual who joins hand in hand with Garrison
and his associates, in ordinations of holy hor-
ror ut the existence Of an institution IN this
country, which was forced upon Us, against the
wishes of the coonsts, and which the States
alone, where slavery exists, can, under the Con-
stitutioD, regulate!
Look at the present condition Of Ireland,
brought to its present state by English legisla-
ton, and British oppression Behold country,
intended by God for the happiness Of the most
yirtuous people upon the globe, brought by
English laws and English neglect, to poverty
(which sleeps poor humanity to its very lips
Look to England behold her, proud and AFRO
gan, iilled with fconceit; her East India pos
sessions and the far distant colony of Australia
bringing to her lap the treasures of their store
while Ireland, who gave to her a general, the
| conqueror Of NapoleGn sits knocking at her
doors, crying for bread, and exhibiting her chill
dren dying and dead from hunger
| Let me read TO the House one or two, among
many scenes from an eyewitness, in the sum-
mer Of l649, in that lit fated isle
s Between Cork and Killarney, there was little
to glad the eye or the heart-ihe country Itself
intended for the home Of industry and thrift, is
now in progress of rapid decay. Miserable bog
huls line the road -side-huts with no windows,
and where the swine aad his owner have an
equal home The people are the most poverty
stricken beings ever looked upon-covered with
rags pale, and emacated, they line the road side,
casting an imporing eye to all who pass by.
Some of the huts were Of turf and mud and
hardly high enough to enable a man to sit up.
right in them"
Again:
"We stopped at the little town of Sardeen,
on the banks Of the Shannon, and we visited
two or three huts, where the inmates were boil.
ing sea need for their dinners; and this, we were
weeksp'
Again
"We had now arrived in the county of Gal
way. Words can give you but faint idea of the
misery which we saw upon every side All
along the road we passed roofess cottages, or
cabins, where the landlord had burnt the roofs
over the heads of his poverty stricken tenants,
n order to force them to leave the land and
near by each ruin we saw the poor tenants occu
plying kennels dug out of the road side--the
poor creatures, as they craw!ed out to beg a
penny of the traveller, had hardly rags enough
to cover them and several boys were in COM
plete state of nudity One woman we met told
us that she had left six children starving in her
cabin, and had then walked ten miles in quest of
something for her and her little ones to eat and
that she had not tasted morse for the last
twenty-four hours
"The most frightful picture in this scene
where all was desoaton, was that of a little
girl of about twelve years. She came to us,
leading little brother, both worn by hunger to
skeletons. They were so weak from starvation
that they could hardly move their limbs These
children had, the week before, lost both father
and mother from hunger, and the little boy and
girl lived in the hut near by. We visited this
hut, and found nothing in it but an iron kettle,
and some rushes which the little ones had gath
cred by the roadside to sleep upon"
Again:
Shear the town of Clfden, we saw poor
boy, Of about fifteen years of age, lying in the
gutter of the road, apparently ia dying state.
We stopped, and asked him what was the mat.
ter! He family replied, Hunger
Passing along the road, we saw smoke ssu,
ing from hole in plank on the side of the
road. We stopped, and out of the hole creeped
child-then another, and then the mother, with
an infant in her arms The woman told us that
her husband had left her two weeks before in
quest Of food
Further on, we passed another of these bur
rows. man lived there with his four children
He approached us with for Gods sake, give us
something to eat. and my little ones are dy-
ing"
Oh, there is enough in all this to sicken the
heart of everything of English Influence in the
affairs of this country
Mr.. Chairman, have thus given, in as concise
form as possible, my views of what believe to
be the feelings of the people of my district
upon the al-absorbing question of slavery in
the States and territories of the Union.
Upon the question Of the compromise, be-
leve the people Of Connecticut to be sound,
and that they will abide by it in good faith, and
with an honest determination to carry out all
the provisions of its several parts. | do not
know that ! can better describe the feelings of
the people of Connecticut in regard to it, and
in opposition to all slavery agitation, than by
reading the following call for public meeting
in New Haven, signed by about one thousand
names, comprising the most worthy citizens of
the place, of all professions and callings, during
the agitation consequent upon the passage of
the compromise measures, in December, a
twelve month since. 1t is as follows
ct undersigned, believing that any altera.
ton of the compromise measures adopted at
tHS i"He SSootoh VI SonSitSo 10 uOt oHly SAptui-
ent, but that it is the duty of every good siti-
zen of this republic to support and vindicate the
same, do therefore recommend that public
meeting of the citizens Of this place, without
distinction of party, be convened, to express
our united determination that the same shall be
executed to their fullest extent, and our united
opposition to any further agitation of the sub.
ject, or the subject of slavery in any form"
And now, sir, thanking the House for its at
tention to these imperfect remarks of mine,
will conclude by quoting the eloquent and patri-
otto language of a venerable speaker at that
meeting--one Of the most learned divines of
New England, and Professor of Divinity in that
old Institution, which educated a Calhoun and
others, of both the North and the South's best
sons. ! refer to the learned Dr. Nathaniel w.
Taylor, Professor of Theology in Yale College,
"Thus far we have passed through the storm
| hope it is over am afraid it is not; am
afraid there are evils yet to come-but think
the prospect brightens. ! do think that we have
reason to believe that though surrounded with
dstracting causes and influences, the people are
coming to right views, and that here we have
Indications that the God of our fathers cares