Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1856-07-25

DO your great sca hghts W mere thtu Nuulu
I he the glory of "Od Ironsid,s," whose
scuppcrs ran with Massachusetts, blood ?
Where then would bo the history Of thos,
brave fshermen, who swarmcd from all her
bays and all her ports, sweeping the cncmy's
commerce from the most distant scas2 Ah,
Sir she cannot afford 10 blot out that his.
tory. You, Sir. cannot afford 10 let her do
it-no, not oven the South. Shc sustained
hcrscli m the last war. She paid her own
expenses aud has not yet been paid from the
treasury OF the nation. The enemy hoyercd
on her coast, with his ships as numerous al
most ~ the stars lie looked upon that
warlIkc band, aud the memory OF the oldcn
time came back upon him. lio remembered
how. more than forty years before that, ho
had trod On TINT soIl-hc remembered how
nunt,ngly he invaded IL, aud how speedily
be loft llc turned Bis glasses toward IL
and hslcll its people rushing from The
mountains 81 the s'a, o. defend 10, nul lo
dared not attack IL. IT, capital stood in
salt-sca spray, yet be- could not tkcit. lie
sailed South whore there was another cap
ital, (uot far from where $50 now .nnl,)
forty miles from the s.l; few staggering,
wurn.out sailors and soldiers came here {,
they took Il: how twas defended let the
sons Of the chlyalry Of llalsusbursauswcr' =
T (Laughigr)
Sir. the gentleman from South Carolina
lMr. kcitt) made . speech; aud, Il | may
br allowed 10 coin % word, | will say that
lt had moro oga'Glisr0u'V m il than any
speech ever heard ou this floor. d'cncw-
cd laugator) Il was certainly very eloquent
Zoo some IUr,.0us-yHTy eloquent, indeed, for
th1 gentleman has iudi,puiahly an eloquent
uttrmnc', aud an eloquent temperament.
| 10 not wish 90 crIticlsc it much, but IL
opens 100 the most extraordinary manner
with "wcirl t1rchlsht, " and then be In
irDluc,s dead man, and then hn clluu-
i5rs him, anil puts lin In that char, aud
then lr makes him /" point his cold finger '
around thi, HALL Why. 1t almost fright
ems me g. alludc ~ IL. And then be- turns
into o thrltor. and then hc changes or trans
moruphirs thc gentleman from Indiana,
. (Mr. Cu,Gy,) who has Just spoken, into a
snake, aud makes him "wrigglc up to the
footlighis.' and then hc gives tho snake
haul., and thea " mailed hands. and with
ono Uf thnn hc throws on Cuba, and with
thr other Clutghrs ~ the Cauadls Then
hr has men with "glUziug mouths" and
th,y ar' "siu.iHs psalm, through their
Moses" aul are mIIiug down upon the
South " like an army with banners
Frghtul-is il not? III, talks about rot
ting uu the dead sas ll' calls our party
10 one timr "trrl" and then he calls 10
Lizard q" "aul more, which cen to
rhetoric seems to haso the 81. Nitus's dance.
Ulu.' teri llc minsr- metaphors in such
manner o., would dsllshtihsmostcy cytrau-
CANT M.,-ian.
But IA. from hi- losicand m,rhot1ri,,
aud alsI Over -Imr historical mistakes, much
Iuf thr same nature as tho-' made by The
President which have already pointed
rut aud como O. sentences, m which terrific
questions Aul answers arc exploded. He
answers hItly lul huutu-Iy that thr South
wants none of our ugnbuul philanthropy.
Sir, when the p',tilcucc lluttrr,l IT, yellow
wing, over tho southern States, and when
Masashun,,, poured out her treasures to a
greater extent 90 proportion 70 her Popula-
ti1u tIau any other state, wa, that 'agl-
bond philanthropy? | ask the people ol
Virginia and Louisiana.
but, sir, thr gentleman was most t'ulrr
and most plliutiyc when DE- described the
starved operatives Nhy,sir, the clyQucuc'
was most overwhelming upon some Of my
colleagues. thought ! saw the iron face
OF our speaker ,1lt'u liti'1 when be- lIsten-
cl % DO unexpected sympathy ul thc g.u-
t.rmlu with tho larlshilj OF his early Ute.
Sir, be was an operative from hoyhull o.
manhood, and good one tDJ. Ah, slr, hc
did not appreciate, as be tasted the sweet
bread ot honest toll, his real condition. lie
did not tluuk as hc stool in the music OF
the machinery, which came from his cum
ming hand. how much bgttrr it would have
Ltrn hil ha b,en born slave, (hughtgr,l
and put under th, gentl 0ln from South
Carolina. "a kind master as have no doubt
Iri.) where BE- would have hr,n well irl
and clJth,,l, aul would have known none
Of tic trials which doubtless meet him ON
every hand. How happy hc would have
been if instead OF hein. Massachusetts, OPP
rra,iye Dc had been a slave in Sluth Clroli-
ma, Gi,cniuc, singing and dancing upon thc
banks of some rive, in that state. (bgeat
lauchtEr.)
Sir. ir the gentleman viii - 10 my dis.
trict, and Look upon those operatives AMI
mcrhanics-if ho will look upon some Ul
thu.3 beautiful model, which come from
thri. brains, AMI which FROM time 10 time
lean upon th1 waters Of the atlantic, out
ayin: all other clippers, bringing home
wealth and victory with oil the winds oI
Heaven, be might have reason tJ change his
views.
Tho gentleman hrjk,ou. in an exceeding
~ cxr'usiyc question, something liko this
.' Did uo, tie South, equally with the
North. barc it, forehead {, the God ot Dat
tlcs?n answer pl,inly, no sir, she ab
not. She dl not. sir, Massachusetts, .uT-
ni,hel more mgu IN tie Revolution than
the whole South together, and more by ten
loll tlau Suuth Carolina.
am not including, at course, the clnicc-
turrl militia furnished hy that State. lhcru
is mo- rr11r that they were ever engaged in
amy battle. msln th' regulars, and say
Massachusetts, furnished more than ten times
AS many men as South Carolina. say un
On. authority Ul standard historian, once
a member OF this House, (Mr. Sibincl m
his History Of the lnylli,ts, that moro Ncw
England men now lit buried in the soil oi
south Car,.iny than there were South Caro-
liniaus. who LETT their Stat, to fight the
battles Of the country. | say when the
Massachusetts, General Lincoln was dcicnG-
ing Charleston, hl WIS compelled io give
up ip defense because the people OF that
city would not fight. When Gen. urcan'
that Rhode Island blacksmith, took com
inand Ur the Southern army. South Carolina
had not federal soldier ia the lcld,a 1hc
pe1pIe of that S,at1 would not furnish sup
Mic, 10 bis army, while the British army IN
. the State was furnished with supplies almost
exclusively from the people OF that state
While the American army could no; be r.