Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-02-22

There will be paper issued from this office to.
morrow morning
az The Free Sellers are making vast efforts in
the North TO excite storm in regard to the Nebraska
bill. Mass meetings are being held in town and
country, and famous orators lay and clerical exert
their powers to raise the steam Atthis distance we
cannot judge with any certainty of the success that
attends their efforts.
Last week, one Of these meetings was held in Fan.
Gull Hall, Boston, and more than ordinary exertions
were made 10 render it imposing Boston is great
cityand its citizens aspire to surpass in all thing.
all the rest of mankind 1t boasts the most pious
and learned Divinesthc profoundest Statesmen, the
shr widest Lawyers, the most skilful Doctors wide
W'bster)-thc most princey Merchants the most
ierocious Fanatics Ina word, everything Bostonian,
is superlaivc Its abolition maSs.mectng was in
keeping with its pretensions. Great men from dis
lance were invited to be prcscnt-no. to add ecat to
the oc>ason-but to share in the SUI erabundancc of
glory, which constitutes tie daily food of Bostonans
One Mr.. Amos Tuck Of New Hampshire, responded
to the invitation and INDUCED in appropriate lamcn-
tations over the hard destiny of New Hampshire in
having given birth Franklin Pierce-and anathe.
matized Vermont in fitting terms for having given
Ige-,IOe
and Stephen Douglas. -the first of whom had intro.
duced slavery into Utah and the last into Illinois Blu,
the grand role was reserved, as matter of course,
Tor Bostonian. The big gun of the occasion was
the Kew. Theodore Parker. \ mighty man i'm Yam.
keedom is the said God-bcstowed Parker Moralist
divine statesman, historian, politician, poet and ora
tor--nanknd axe at loss to determine in which ca.
pacity he is prc-emncnt All subjects and all occa>
sions are alike adapted to his varied genius. One
WHILE he enacts the part of funeral Satyrist and
ranSackS the new-made graves Of the ustrious dead
But the vtin in which he is most natura--lnost at
home is that Of Thersites
Ihis distinguished specimen of the creation of the
Social System Of New England was the hero of the
late Faneul Hall demonstration. As Virginia read
ers may be curious to know something of the train
oil thought and style Of expression which characterize
the modern Athens, give the discourse of the Rev
Theodore at large.
II is worthy OF peruSa, not merely on account If
ITS rant and iuStian but its positions are deserving
serious consideration The Rev. gentleman il will he
seen, comedies that the Constitution of the United
States fully guarantees the institutions of the South
and accords TO equal rights within the pale of the
Union. He does not deny, that the North is bound
by the commonplace ethics, which common honesty
incucacS, TO respect the obligations imposed by that
Constitution; but he would destroy that Consttu
ton-he would tear the hated leaf from the book
Ills Free Soil ancestors bartered away principle
pledged themselves in consideration Of copperS. TO
uphold the tights Of their Southern allies; but he
would be bound by no plighted fath--he would iov-
fully annihlate the work OF their hands, To that
great talk lie addresses himself-and when defeated
as from the cowardiy character of his own New En-
CHAMBERS, as given by himself he expects to be--he
AID his will rc.iit the Mayiower and set sail Fl ON
Plymouth, rock for Africa or the Hyperborean re.
gions! Happy eoyGge!
AS TO the nine victories, which the South has
achieved over the NOrth-;hey exist only in the
Imagination OF the ancilul orator. They were simply
what we were entitled to under the Constitution and
most OF the n were never, for a momeIt contested
by the more respectable people Of tn, North
The account which this naive-born Massachusetts
man gives of the Northern people, will arrest the read
ers attention. We should not venture 10 sneak in
such terms OF any portion Of the people of this In
ion. We know some Northern men OF high princi-
pies and exalted worth. They, however, may be cx-
ceptions. The Rev. Theodore knows his parishion.
ers better than we do-anl must take his state
incnt for the truth According to his showing the
Northern people are the most dastardly and mercon
AIRY earth. There is no principle, no virtue,
they would not barter for gold there is no dcga>
datOn to which they would not submit in consdera.
ton of having col pers put into their pockets This
is the Rev. Theodoe's account of the people among
whom he was born and has lived all his DAYS TAX.
ing it for true does not argue something rotten
in the state of society, which engenders so much
cupIdhy, so much cowardicc, much meanncss?-
An invariabe sequence is not without its cause
Why does not this bold reforner explore the secret
springs Of this overlooking stream of corruption?
Southern society gives birth, by his own account, to
no such mOnStrous vices Here, notwithstanding
the curse Of African slavery, have high honor 10y
atty, dlslntercscdness and chivary-at the North
avarice treachery, timidty, and hypocrisy. Why is
thisdiFcrence? Can any better reason be assigned for
it, than that Jack slavery is conducive to high
state Of morals and to generous and elevated public
virtues, than white slavery? Go then to the root Of
the evil. Set the white slaves Of the North Free
elevate them in the scale Of humanity-and transfer
the degrading abors which now brualise them to the
brawny IF the black savages Of Africa, whom
the God Of nature designed for such vocations