, 1855-05-19

sugar, and cotton. Why, sir, | heard thi,
morning from one pastor only, of two OF
three Of his members thus intcrmarrcd in
the South. May l thus give the mildcsi
rebuke to your inconsistency of conduct
/. Much good natured excitement
Sir, may we know who are the descend,
ants of the New England kidnappers
What is their wealth? Why here yon are,
all around me. You, gentlemen, made the
best Of that bargain. And you have kept
ever dollar of your money from the charity
Of emancipating slaves. IOu have left US,
unaided, to give millions. VIII you now
come to our help? VIII you give dollar
for dallar to cqualize our loss? Here many
voices cried ont, "Ycs, yes, we will IN
Yes, yes! Then pour out your millions.
Good ! / may thank you personally My
own emancipated slaves would to-day be
worth greatly more than twenty thousand
dollars. VIII you give me back ten thou
sand dollars? Good need it now.
recommend you, sirs, to find out your
advocates Of marder-yOur owners Of stock
in underground railroads-your sabbath
breakers for money. ! particularly urge
you to find Legree, who whipped Uncle
Tom to death He is Northern gentle
man, although having somewhat of q
Southern name. Now, sir, you know the
Assembly was embarrassed all yesterday
by the inquiry how the Northern churches
may find their absent members and what
to do with them. Here then, sir, is a
chance for you. Send a committee up Red
river. You may lind Lcgree to be Gar
rison, Phillips, Smith, or runaway husband
from some Abby Kelly. Here Rev. Mr..
Smith protested against Lcgrce being
proved to he q Smith. Great laughter.
l move that you bring him back to lecture
on the euteHeSS there is in leaving North
ern church, going South, changing his name,
buying slaves, and calculate without guess
ing what the profit is Of killing negro
within human labor above the gain Of
treating him with kindness. Il
| have little to say of Spirit Rappers,
Womans rights-C s-ConventioniSts, BloOmcrs,
cruel husbands, or hen-pecked. But, If We
may believe your own serious as well as
caricature writers, you have things up here
of which we down south know very little
indeed Sir we have no young Bloomers,
with hat on one side, cigars in mouth,
and cain tapping the boot, striding up to-
the mincing young gentlemen, with long
curls, attenuated waist, and soft velvet
face, the boy-lady to say, MAY see you
home, sr2" and the lady-boy to reply, 81
thank ye, no; pa will send the carriage"
Sir, we of the South don't understand your
women's rights convention. Women have
their wrongs. The song Of the shirt y
Charlotte Elizabeth-.1anyi many laws tell
her wrongs But your convention ladies
desprise the Bible. Yes, sir, and we Of the
South are afraid of them and Of yoa.-
When women despise the Bible, what neXt2
Pdris-then the City Of the Great Sab Lale
then Sodom, before and after The Dead
Sea. Oh, sir, if slavery tends, in any way,
to give the honOr of chiralry to Southern
young gentlemen towards ladies, and the
exquisite delicncy and heavenly integrity
and love Of Southern maid 'and matron,
it has been a glorious blessing with its
curse.
Sir, yonr inqusitorial committee, and the
North, so far as represented by them, Ia
small fraction if known have, take it,
caught Tartar this time. Boys say with
us, and every where l reckon "You worry
my dog, and I'll worry your cat" Sir, It
is just simply a fTed fact; The South pW not
submit to The requestiOaS No, not for an in
slant. We will not permit you to ap-
proaeh US at all. If we are morbidly SEN
sitive, you have made US so. But you arc
directly and grossly violating the Colstitn-
ton Of the Presbyterian Church. The
book forbids you to put such questions
The book forbids you TO begin discipline. =
! The book forbids your sending this COM
mittee to help common fame bear testimony
against US. The book guards the honor Of
our humblest member, minister, church
presbytery, against all this impertinenty
inquisitorial action Have you prosecu.
tor, with his definite charges and witnesses?
Have you common fame, with her specified
charges and witnesses ? Have yon re-
quest from the South that you send COM
mittee to inquire into ISLANDERS? No. Then
hands off. As gentlemen, you ask us these
questions; we will answer you But eccle-
siaStically you cannot speak in this matter
You have no power to move as you pro
pose.
beg leave to say, just here, that Ten
nessee will be more calm under this move
ment than any other slave region. Ten
nessee has been ever high above the storm,
north and south-especialy we of the
mountains. Tennessee, there she is
look at her"-binding this Union together,
like a great long, broad deep stone-more
splendid than all in the temples of Baalbec
or Solomon. Tennessee there she is, in
her calm valor. l will not lower her by
calling her unconquerable, for she has
never been aseailed-but call her ever
victorious. Kilgs-mountain-her pioneer
battles, Talledega, Emucfau, Horse shoes,
New Orleans, San Jacinto, Monterey, the
valley of Mexico jackson represented her
well, in his chivalry from South Carolina,
his fiery courage from Virginia and Ken
lucky, all tempered by Scotch Irish Presby-