Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-08-25
Mr.. Charles James Fasslkner---EAis
Speeches i'm 1889 and 1852.

One of the documents most extensively circula-
ted at the South, and reliedupon by the Democrat
ic party to shake the faith of the Southern people
in the soundness of Gen. ScoTT's opinions on the
subject of Slavery; is the speech of Mr.. CHARLES
JAMES FAULKNER, delivered in the House Of Rep
resentatves, August 2, 1852. Does the party to
whose bosom this gentleman has been welcomed,
know any thing of his political antecedents ?''-
Do these gentlemen who place Mr.. CHARLES
JAMES FAULKNER in the witness-box to testify a
gainst WINFIELD ScoTT know that his evidence
is not worth button? Are those deluded Demo
Gratis who set at the corners of the street in their
counting rooms, and read Mr.. CHARLES JAMES
FAULKNER's manifesto of his own desertion aware
of the fact, that they are goating over the produc
ton of an infamous Freesoiler, and caspng in fra
ternal embrace one of the vest aboitionsts in the
land? These propositions may be startling and
appear monstrous, but they are nevertheless strict
ly true, according to good Democratic logic, as we
shall proceed to show.
1t will be recollected that the subject of Slave
emancipation was agitated in the Virginia Legis-
lature in the year 1892 The Democratic party
have not forgotten the dire denunciations heaped
upon GEORGE w. SUMMERS for the position he
| took upon that question. Although he did not go
half the length that many Of the most prominent
men in their own party went, all over Virginia,
North and South East and West, he was branded
as an Abolitionist" of the blacklist hue. 1t is re-
quested that this fact be borne in mind.
Now we have in our possession musty old doc
ument, covered all over with the accumulated dust
of twenty years repose in wood-celar. 1t is an
interesting paper just now, attesting the profound
wisdom of the proverb-''put not your trust in po-
liticians" and adding increased weight oftestimony
to the fact that murder will out" We shall
turn over the pages of this old "Datch Almanac
of document, and make few selections, merely
to give the reader some idea of its character:
''Sir, if the proposition was now submitted to
this body to prohibit the introduction Of Slaves West
of the Bh,e Ridge, think you the proposition would
meet the concurrence of the gentleman from Meek
lenburg and those who act with him? am sure
it would not sir. And why2 Because you thus
deprive the East of the only market now open to
them for the disposition of their surplus slaves
An era of commercial intercourse is thus fondly
anticipated between the East and the West HUI
man flesh is to be the staple of that trade, human
blood the cement of that connection. And in re-
turn for the rich products of our vaes, are we to
receive the nicely graduated limbs of our species
Sir, sagacious politician remarked to Newly
do you gentlemen of the West suffer yourselves to
be famed into such tempest. ofpassion, when the
subject of Slavery is introduced in the house =
The time will come, and that before long, when
we shall all equally represent saveholdng in
teres' SIR IL is to avert Gny such consequence u
ma country that l. one of the humbles, but not the
least determined of the Western delegation, have
raised ny ooice for emancipation. Sir, tax our
lands-vilify OUR country-carry the sword OF eX-
termination through cur now defenceless villages
but spare as, implore you spare us, the curse q
slauefy-that batsrest drop from the chalice Of The
destroying angel"
That was speaking, and pretty energetic speak
inc too! 1t may be found on pages and 10, OF
Mr.. CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER's ''Speech in the
House ofDelegates of Virginia, on the policy ofthe
State with respect to her slave population-deliv-
cred January goth, 1882" How does it read be-
side the speech of the same gentleman, delivered
in the House of Representatives, August I'd, 1852
1t strikes us that there are some pretty strong free
soil doctrines advanced in the above extract. He
was dead shot against the introduction of slaves
into Western Virginia, and prated about "trading
in human flesh" as Indignantly as GiDDINGs; or
HALE, or SEWARD himself has ever done!
But that is not a 1.-THE of the bitterness, which
MI. CHARLES JAMES Faulkner poured out upon
slavery from the "vials of his wrath" He went
in for emancipation sat all hazards and to the last
extremity'-whether the owners were compensa-
ted or not:
"Sir," Che exclaims) "we can accomplish Moth
inc by scholastic disputations about right. The
Gordian knot must be untied-1ais By The S'oord.
.Qsia must be vanqaished-the country must be
sared."
After t+us declaring war against slavery, even
to the sword, Mr. CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER
draws picture of barrenneSs and desolation, and
asks:
"To what, Sir, is all this ascribable? TO the
whitening and blasting effects of slavery. TO
that uice in the organization of society, by which
one-half of its inhabitants are arrayed in interest
and feeling against the other half to
that condition of things III which half million OF
your population can feel no attachment to gou-
cr7pment. al ,chose hands they receiue nothing but
Injustice"
'Sir am gratifed to perceive that no gentle
man has vet risen in this hall the avowed advocate
of slavery. The day has gone by when such
voice could be listened to with patience, or even
with forbearance even regret, sir, that we should
find those amongst us, who enter the lists OF dis
cussion as its apologists, except alone upon the
ground of uncomfortable necessity"
These extracts will suffice to show what Mr..
CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER thought of slavery in
1882. Now we ask you, We honest Democrats,
who swore that George w. SUMMERS was an
Abolitonist, ''dyed in the WOOL" what is MIR.
CHARLES j. FAULKNER? Come, now, stand up
to the mark and admit that he is an Abolitionist
and Free-soier of little darker shade, who would
suit the Rev. Mr.. Foss to a fraction Compare his
denunciations of slavery, and his whining sentl-
mentalities about trading in flesh and blood, with
the remarks of WIN. Fl. SEWARD Incorporated in
Mr.. FAuLKNER's speech which you are now cir
culating against Gen. SCOTT, strike the difference;
and see which of the two has uttered the most OBJ
noxious sentiments! Away then with your free
soil abolition evidence. The oath of an Abolition
list will not be believed against Gen. PIERCE; how
can you ask people to attach any Importance to the
argument of an abolitionist against Gen. ScoTr2
Alas! for Mr.. CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER no
body will believe that he has that tender regard
for ..tbe peculiar institution" of the South which
he processes Common sense people will rather