The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-24
EIBRING BY THE WHOLESALE

Under this head the Alabama Journal, published at
Montgomery furnishes complete and overwhelming refu
taton Of one of the many Misrepresentation which Wat
son Webb has into letter for the benefit of the
Sumner Aid Society. We commend the article as just
and reliable yndicaton Of southern and southern
society from the dsgraeeful aspersons which it is the
tom Of northern fanatics to heap upon them
We may add that have the very best for be-
eving that there is southern senator who enters
the Senate chamber with a weapon about him. and we
doubt whether the remark might not be made with
rare exceptions in regard to the southern members Of the
House. Whether true not we do not know but 1t is
understood that northern senator carries into the Sem
ate every day loaded rife under the disguise of walk
ing cane We hope this is not true and shall gladly
correct the misunderstanding If find that there is
guilty Of great outrage The article from the
Alabama Journal is as follows:
GFmRxc ny THE WHOLESALE General Webb OF the
New York Courier and Enquirer has recently become to
all inens and purposes as bitter as any reesoiler IN the
land aud a consequence-n all cases Of those who be-
come associated with that immoral factonhas lost all
gard knowledge Of truth In recent article Of his com
menng the Sumner affair, he lets of the following
batch Of shameless, measureless tnlsehoods
Aside from the favored few in the slave States, nine
teen tweneths of their population carry arms-bowie-
knives pistols sword canes Against whom they thus
armed Against common enemy against their slaves
By means but against each other And this solitary fact
and the consequences which naturally flow from e. are
conclusive regards the demorazng tendencies Of the
institution
aNow General Webb does not thus libel through mis-
take without knowledge, for he has travelled much in
the South and knows better On the frontier Of the South
west the frontier of the Northwest the practice OF
carrying weapons may be general for sufficient
but the practice in the South proper of carrying weapons
is not more general than in New FORK city and there
doubt that weapons in the shape OF pistols bowes
slungsho and other assassin weapons can be found
persons within circuit OF half mile of the Courier Office
than be produced anywhere among the SAME number
OF men In Alabama II Is known 10 everybody that men
in this section rarely If ever bear weapons excepting per-
haps In those in which personal difficulty IS
expected boweknife is seldom In this section,
and we doubt If there is not at least four hs OF the pres
ent population Of Alabama who have seen A
sword stick Is not much frequently seen and pistol
borne on the person seldom Even police rarely carry
them We observed instance Of this few months since
in this city a city officer attempted TO arrest felon he
drew Colts revolver and kept of The officer who
armed lie called for assistance and the affair being the
most public street large crowd at collected The des
perado by backing cross street and keeping his
weapon bearing the crowd kept them OF for at least
ten minutes The citizens becoming exasperated inquired
for weapons and 10 that large crowd Of at least two hum
bred persons pistol drkknife sword stick could
be produced The desperate cuprt was finally knocked
down by sudden cast of brickbat and instantly dis
armed and committed northern traveller who witness
sed the circumstance remarked in our hearing IL pos
sble the southern people do not carry weapons
always told So
OF course they are told So and by men who know bet
ter When such men James Watson Webb, who have
had means OF observation resort TO such monstrous and
unprncpled inventions in shows not only the utter dcs
peration Of their which only be supported BY
such fasehoods but also the singular immortality and
want Of principle IN reference matters Of fact and truth
which springs from association with freesoilism AS
well known northern divine remarked, to become
free-soiler soon makes n man a liar
Every observing man in thg country knows that in
stead Of nineteen sns Of the people OF the South proper
hoar TAFT Inv Ia mt rhann
more than one in hundred who In the habit Of wearing
them But Il il waste Of time to argue such point with
men whose whole creed in all It's length and breadth
founded on and sustained only BY falsehoodP