Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-11


lima by less person than the Duke Of Clarence Of
the royal family of Great Britain In what was called his
maiden speech, May 8, 1892 and preserved In the
Parliamentary Debates, he said:
"The negroes not treated in the manner which had
much agitaed the public mind lie had been an attentive
their ate and had doubt that he could bring
forward proofs convince their ordshp that their state
from being miserabe on the contrary, that when the va
rou ranks of society considered they comparative
ly in state Of humble happiness"
And only the next year this royal prince, in de-
bate in the House Of Lords asserted that the promoters
Of the abolition Of the slave trade we're either fanatics
or hypocrtes" and in of these classes he declared
that he ranked Wberforce. Mark aow the end. After
wears of weary effort the slave trade was finally abolish
ed and at last in 1885, the early indicator Of this
enormity, the mnligner Of name haowed among men,
was brought to give his royal assent William w. King
of Great Britain, to the immortal act Parliament great
er far than any victory Of war, by which slavery
abolished throughout the British doninions Sir, time
and the universal conscience have indicated the labors
of Wiberforce The movement agains American slavery
auspicated by the august names of Washington Franklin
| and Jefferson, can calmly await similar judgment.
But it is suggested that in this movement there is dam
ger to the Union In this soictude cannot share As
lover Of concord and jealous partisan of all things that
make for peace, am always glad to Express my attach
ment to the Union but believe tha this bond will be
most truly preserved and benecnty extended flor
shrink from expansion where freedom leads the way)
by firmly unfolding those principles liberty and jus
tice which made its early cornGstones The true
danger this Union proceeds from any abandonment
of the "pecuar institution Of theSouh but from the
abandonment of the spirit in which he Union form
ed not from any warfare within te limits of the Con-
sttution upon slavery but from warfare like that waged
by this very BILL upon freedom. Tie Union is most pre-
cious but more precious far th general welfare,
domestic tranquility" and those bessngs of liberty
which il was established TO secure; all which now
wantonly endangered Not that love the Union less
but freedom more, do now in pleading this great cause
insist that freedom, at all hazar shall be preserved.
One word more and have dom. The great master
Shakespeare, who, with alseeing Mortal eye observed
mankind, and with immortal pen Depicted the manners
they RISE has presented scene Which may be reat
with advantage by oil who would pluns the South into
empestuous quarrel with the North. Iier to the well
known dialogue between Brutus and CassAs. Reading
this remarkable passage it is difficult not to SEC in Brutu:
our own North and in Cassus the South:
Cas-. Urge me no more, shall forget myself;
! Have mind upon your health tempt me further.
i Bru. Hear me, for will speak.
Must give way and room to your rash choera ,4.
! Cas-. ye gods! ye gods Must endure all this?
B. All this? ay Fret, till your proud heartbreak
1 Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, fix. '&
i And make your bondmen tremble. Must bulge?
/ Must observe you? Must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humor? "
Gas. Do not presume too much upon my love,
| I may do that shall be sorry for. 3. .-..
/ Bra You have done that you should be sorry for.
| There is terror, Cassus, in your threats; "a
For am arm'd SO strong in honesty rs ... rs
That they pass by me as the idle wind, - ....
Which respect not.
4 Gas. friend should bear his friends infrmies,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
| Bru. do not, TILL you PRACTICE THEM on NE.
/ Cas-. You love not.
Bru. I do not like your faults.
[yulius Cesar, act A. scene 3.
And the coloquy proceeding, each finally comes to
derstand the other appreciates his character and att
tude and the impeuous gallant Cassus exolaims sGv
me your hand;' to which Brutus replies, "And my hear
too Afterwards, with hand and heart united, on tn
field of Philippi, they together upheld the liberties
i Rome.
The North and the South sir, fondly trust, amids
all differences of opinion will ever have hand and hear
for each other and believing in the prevalence
Almighty Truth, confidently look forward to the goo
time when both will unite according to the sentiments
the fathers and the true spirit of the Constitution in de
and not freedom shall be sectional Then will be achiev
ed that Union contemplated at the beginning agains
which the storms of faction and the assaults Of foreg
power shall beat in van upon the Rock of Ages ant
| LIBERTY, seeking a firm foothold, HAVE AT Las
1 wHEREoN TO STAND AND MOVE THE WORLD.