Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-17
Reported for the Daily Pennsylvania

Reported for the Daily Pennsylvania
A Reply to Burlingame-RemarksO of Mr.. Shep-
Mr. Shepard being called up, said, (alluding to
the Brooks and Sumner affair." so long as licentous
ness-not liberty-of speech, was tolerated by the
presiding officers of the Senate just so long would
the offending parties get their reward-and ought to
get In regard to Mr.. Burlingame, he was then
skulking about in Pennsylvania and Jersey, en-.
deavorng to excite prejudice against the South and
her institutions in the vain hope that the defana-
ton of fifteen slave States would relieve him of the
stigma attached to his character, tickser in af-
fairs CT honor, if not pusillanmous draggart, in
the eyes OF every gentleman. In his hostility to
certain individuals he has endeavored to enlist the
sympathy and cooperation of Pennsylvania against
all southern persons, without regard to sex or
condition; and thus exemplifying the vengeance of
o Round-h head, from whom he bosts his descent. l
can only smile at the shallow Yankee trick-a trick
relieved only by the cool impudence of its author,
when he informed the Germans and Irish, and per-
haps even the Quakers, that they had common in
terest in their Puritan descent and that they should
unite with New England in putting down slavery
and Southern aggression. This Buringame would
never have been heard of in Pennsylvania, but for
the application of gutta parcha to of the digna-
taries of Massachusetts,. But what has Pennsylva-
mia to do with that? Nothing whatever. would,
were a Pennsylvania, say to Mr.. b. if you, in de-
fence of Mr. Sumner and the honor of Massachu-
setts have thought proper to pass by the ground
which Barron and Decatur, Clay and Randolph, and
Graves and Cley fought, and have reaped contempt
and ridicule by your flight, that is your affair,
the people of Pennsylvania have no participation in
in the matter
did not accept (sad Mr. S. the invitation TO ad-
dress Northern audience, to soften opposition to
the South, by propitating the Black Republican, for
l entertain an unmtgated contempt for that party
and its objects. Nor could seek to enlist the SYM
pathy of the gallant old Wing party, SO honorably
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the cooperation of the Democracy in behalf of the
section in which reside. merely invoke all good
men to stand by the Constitution as it has been
handed down by our ilustrious negro drivers"
Washington, Jefferson, Madison Clay, Calhoun, not
to mention Webster and the elder Adams, and to
exert their energies in this moment of peril for the
purpose of eevatng the honored son of the old
keystone State, James Buchanan to the Presidency
In concluding his remarks, Mr.. S. said, that when
ever Massachusetts, gets into fracas of her own
creation whenever her Senators degrade the egsla-
tive halls the Abolitonists of Boston steal ne
gro, and punishment follows, they are sure to hold
up their hands and cry out Bunker Hill! respect
fully submit that Bunker Hill affords paation
for the fangs of Massachusetts, representatives.
Bunker Hill was skirmish, and defeat, and as a
British assaultng its defenders ensconced behind
their breast-works, and defeating them. The battles
at New Jersey, at Saratoga, at Germantown, York
town, Kings Mountain, and Eutaw, fixed the fact of
American proves. And 1 would remind Mr. Bur-
ngame that in the most important of these battles
there were no round headed puritans in the ranks.
But when Massachusetts, was overrun, and her cap
ital in the hands of the enemy, thousands of the
descendants of the cavaliers, led by Washington,
hurried to their rescue. In the last war Hull sur
rended his army. He was a round-head Puritan
q native of New England. The country's honor was
retrieved at New Orleans by the descendants of the
cavaliers, (there not being Yankee in the crowdO
who bore aloft the stars and stripes And it is
the devoted bodies of similar that such heroes
as the Burlingames and Summers, intend, as they
say, to place their Cromweian heels!
Who were the opponents Of the descendants ofthe
cavalier at New Orleans" Not vulgar horde of
nasal tongued, psalm-singing puritans from Yankee
land, with "home made rifles in their hands," and
pitch pipes in their pockets; but the veteran troops
Of gallant old England, were the unfortunate men
knowledged the ability of jackson, and the steady
good conduct of his Southern army; and yet it has
been reserved for the hatred jealousy and low ana7
ticism of New England to sneer before Philadelphia
audience, at the ability of Southern men to defend
their Constitutional rights How was it in Mexico?
We confidently rely on own men for an answer,
Taylor, Scott, Smith, Quitman, Ringgold Ridgsey,
Davis, Harding McClung, Bragg, Bryan, Martin,
Burgwyn and a host of others-rather than trust
some future Peter Farley to tell children that
South Carolinans, Mssissippans and Tennesseeans
ran away from the battle fields of Buena Vista and
Chepultepec, while the stars and stripes were sus-
tanned gloriously by the round heads of Massachu.
sets and their descendants in Indiana and New York.
We very well know that there are good men and
true in New England. The Dexters, the Choates,
and others, but they are crushed by the demonia.
cal fanaticism of their clergy.
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