The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-07-01

| and parents from children. Tor the same pur-
pose We can afford TO allow the gentleman
to use such epithets as he pleases, but an en-
! lightened world and his own conscience, II he
have one, are agans him. am ready to sub
nit to any impartial tribunal, to decide who
are the felons and thieves.
And further You are depriying the coun-
try of the services of some of her ablest men.
craftsmanship is profession, like all other
professions. requiring knowledge and expert
ence Men can no more be statesmen without
study and proper training, than they could be
LAWYERS or doctors without proper study and
practice Men may be intelligent on many
subjects, and yet not statesmen. skill IN TINS
department does not come by accident or IN
tuition. Our country has many men eminent
ly qualified to render good service to the States,
and the Democratic party has men OF whom
the nation NAV Justly be proud, There IL the
| distinguished Senator from Michigan. General
! CAss a man of unblemished personal reputa-
ton, of fine natural talents and most extensive
| acauirements-ofa almost half century expert
ence in the service of his country, at home and
abroad In my judgment the Democratic par
| ty or the country has no man better qualified
! than he to guide the helm of affairs. And why
was not he selected think simply because
in an evil hour he listened and leaned to the
South, doing violence to the sentiments cher
| ished in his own section of the country. What
ever his motive, ne unfortunately weakened
himself at the North, in proportion as he serv-
ed the South. And what is the result! The
South of course is highly gratifed, but she
finds there may be demands that General CAss
could not comply with. He has served her in
the past but she doubts his ability, lame as he
is from wounds received in fighting her battles
to do her service in the future A base ingrat
tude dictates her course, and the Senator from
Michigan is deserted, and left to say almost
in the language Of Woolsey:
" Had but served my God with half the zeal
That have saUcry ssyUed he would not in mine age
Have left me naked To mine enemies
How is it with the Senator from Texas,
| General HoUsToNtl He had done more than
any other man to extend the Republic in the
direction whore slavery wanted to be strength
ened He had won Texas for the South
| This should have secured for him the everlast-
| ing gratitude of that section. In many North
crn States he was favorite with the people
they looked with admiration upon his eventtul
history, and on his many noble traits of char
actor, and he would probably have been the
most popular candidate that could have been
named. Unfortunately for his prospects, he
wrote letter, which, like those Of others, was
understood to pledge him to disregard the will
of the people in reference to the Fugitive Slave
bill. The North of course abandoned him. for
that veto pledge is regarded as long step to-
wards absoutism.- IL to-day the President tells
the people what laws they shall not make, to-
morrow he may tell them what laws they shall
make. Then he might as well dispense with
the forms OF Legislation altogether, and publish
his DEGREES like the despotic ape, Louis Napo.
leon. The South forgot what she owed to Gen
eral HOUSTON besides she did not want a man
OF Andrew Jacks0n's spirit; she preferred IA
President OF more plant material. So the
Senator is left to wonder how his hopes could
have been SO sanguine, with 50 little to show
for their foundation.
might mention, also, other Democrats
buchanan Douglas &c, who by aiding the
South, and yielding to her demands, have sac
rlhced their popularity at home Or in portions
OF the free States: When the loss Of home con-
hdence becomes apparent, and the prospect of
election, and therefore of rendering future SER
vice, is injured, the South quietly gives them
the cold shoulder she can afford to run no risk
on the score of gratitude
Let me mention another striking case of the
same kind from the other party-Daniel Web
ster, OF whom every American is proud, whether
agreeing or disagreeing with him on political
subjects. AT time when the South needed
his powerful aid, he gave it, and Southern men
were loud I'm his praise, and in their profess
slons OF gratitude. And well they might be
he had done more for them than any other
man had or could have done. But what is the
final result! He had 80 injured himself at the
North by his course on the Compromises, that
the North would not support him. And what
doas tho South DO, They rorso. hin. OUT, vly
they do not stand by him in the strait they
had placed him in, as he had stood by them in
their hour of need. He is treated like an old
horse, turned out to commons, from whom
nothing further can be got, and towhom, there
fore, nothing is to be given.
regret all this because it deprivcs MS of the
services of the men the country eminenty needs
regret it also from personal respect for some
of the men | have named. mention it only
as word of warning to other politicians at the
North, who might be tempted, by the syrcn
songs of the South to their own destruction. If
Northern men serve the South instead of serv-
ing their whole country, they will find mas
ter never satisfed--one who will expect them
from lowest depths to descend still lower; and
as soon as such politicians have been used so
that therown section deserts them. and they
can no longer secure votes for Southern pur-
poses they may expect to be treated as the Sc
Queer ever treats his victim with neglect and
scorn. But see my hour has expired. will
only add that think it is time some men be-
gan to think of these things