New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-25

ter Of the American armsL Sne csnoot 20 wrong
the Reyubhc Where then would be your srests
f+s 6gAs Where then would be the gIorv Oh
Old lronsidfs," wboee scupp-rs ran with Massa.
cLusetts blood Where then would be the history oi
those brave 6bermeD, ~ho s~amed from all her esyt
and al be, port sntms commerce anne. a r
to blot out that history. You, Sir, cannot anord 70
let her do it-no, net the South. She sustained
herself in the last War. She paid her own expenses
and has not yet been paid from the Treasury OF Inc
nation. lhe enemy lowered Oh her coast, Win ms
rbips almost as numerous as The tars. He looked uoA
that warlike land, and the memory Of the oden tune
came back upon him. He remembered how, more
than forty years before Il 1T, he had trvd that soil
he remembered how vauntir ely be invaded 1t, ana
how specify he left it. He oed his glasses toward
it b+hed ite people rushing from the mountains 70
the rea to def-bd it, and be dared attack IT, lts
ptal stood in the salt pray, yet be could no.
take il. DE sailed SOUTH where there was another
capital, mot far from wh're We now stand forty miles
from the ga; few stags eriDg, WORKOUT sailors ana
soldiers here; they took it,; bow it vas defended
let The Rods o the chivary Of Bsdensburgb answer
Lauebt-Il SIR, the gentle man fom SJnth C-rolna
mr. KEITH made speech, and If / may be allowed 70
coin word, will say it bsd mole cantaaker0sny IN
it than any speech heard this floor Renewed
laughter. IL was certainly very eloquent in some
portion eloquent ind.ed for the gentleman has
inOispufaby an eloquent utterance and an eloquent
Temperament. l do not wish to cnticse much,
but it opens in the mort extraordinary msn-
ner with "wierd torch light" and then be
Introduces deao man and then he galvsnzes hin AID
putt bin ia that chair and then he makes him point
lis cold finger" a'ouna th. hall. Why, IL almost
fry htens m- to alude tOit Laughter. Aud then Ne
turns il into theaer- then be changes or trans
mogrihss the gentleman fiom Indiana Mr. Colfax)
who bas just spoken, into snake, aud makes hm
"wnggle up to The footights"and then he gives the
sbsk. LaIdr, aid the-e Inai' hands, and with one
of tbeu be throws off Cuba, and with the other
clutches all the Canaoa az. Thin be has men with
"glozpg mouths" and they are "singing psa rs
through their ncs-s," ano they are moving down up IN
the South "lke IN army with banners. Fnght'ui, IL
tnot He calls our party ct one time sh; tGae ana no
mebtiob would be unlawful" Sir, his rhetoric seems
to have the st. vitus' dance lLsnghterI But pass
from his logic and his rhetoric, and also over some his
t1Iical mistakes much Of the same nature AZ those
made by the President, which have already pointed
out and come to some Of biz sentences, I'D "hlcn
terrific questions and answers EXPLODED. , he an
twers holly and tsuDtingy that the south wants
none Of our yagabOnd philanthropy. Sir,
when the peslence Auttered It's yellow wigs
over the Southern States, and when Massachusetts
poured out her treasures to greater extent proper
ton to her population th.n any Other state was tst
vagaboud pbilanthophy! ask the p opie OF Virgnia
and Of Louisiana. But, Sir, the gentleman was most
tender and most plainiiv- when he Described inc
stavtd operatives. Why, Sir, the e'oquehce wa mos
oyerw he Inning upon some OF my coltagues' i,nouSn'
saw the iron face of our Spe akef soften little When
he listened 10 thu unexpt sympathy of the gentle
men with the hardships of his esiy lfe. Sir, he was
an operative from boyhoOd 10 manhood, and gooa
one TOO. Ah Sir, be did not appreciate as ne Iaseo
the sweet bread of honest tO, his r. al cohdltlon'
He did Lot think, as be stood in the music OF the
machinery, which came from hir cunning hand now
much better it would have BEEN bad he been born
tlaye sughterl, and put upder the gentle nan from
south Carolina, Ia kind master, as have no doubt
be ls) whore be wound have been wen leu ana
clothed, and would have known none o' the trlais
which doubtless met him on every hann; HOW
happy he would have been II, instead OF oeing a
Mast cLusttts operative, he had been slave ID
South Caroline, fattenng, singing and dancing upon
the banks OF some nvtr that State Great lausht-r
Sir if tn. gentle man will go to my district ana look
upOb the operatives and mechancs-il he will look
uuop some IF these beautiful models which come from
tier brains Hno which from time to time leap upon
the water Of the Alsntc out flying all other cippes
bringing hope wealth aud victory with al! toe wluds
of he aveD, he might have reason to change bis views
The ntltmaD broke out IN an exceedingly explosive
question something like this: DID nor the South,
equally with the North bare s forehead to the God
"of BatitsT answer plainly, No, Sir, she did not
Sb. old not. Sir MsssacLus,t ts furnished more men
in tn. Revolution than the whole South together and
b, tenfold than South Csrein s,, a% not in,
by that STATE. There is proof that they were
sno I saw that Massachusetts, furnished more than
ten times as many men as South Carolins. | say,
on the authority of standard historian to9ce
member of this Houst), Mr.; Sabine, IN his history
of the 10y ahsis that more New England men nov
he buried il The soil Of South Caroioa, than there
were South Carcnians who left their States to fight
the battles of The country. cay, when the Massschu-
eettr GtDtta, Lincoln, WIS uelehilue NC
was compelled to give up its defense because the peo
,Ie of tina, CITY would not fight. When Gen. Green.
that Rhode Island blacksmith, took command of the
southern amy, South Carolina hal not Federal
soldier in the field, anG tee people of that State
would not furnish supplies to his army, while the
British amy, in the State, was furnished with sup
plies almost exclusively from the people of that
State While the Ame'ic-n army could not be re-
cILittd. the ranks of the British army were rapidly
filled Fl, m South Carolina. The Brit sh post 80 was
gar1ironea almost exclusively from South Carolina
Ra~dOns reserve corps was made up almost entire
/, by South CaroInians. OF the 900 prissners who
were taken at the battle of Kings Mountain, Of
which We have heard go much, 700 We're Southern
Tories The MARYLAND men gained the BATH of
Cowpeps; Keninckians, Nrglnlans and North Caro-
bpiais gained the battle of King Mountain. Few
south Carolinans fought in the battles of Euaw or
Guilford. They we're chiefly fought by men out OF
south Carolina, and they would have Won greater
iuue and greater laurei' they had not been chiefly
opposed by the citizens of tue soil. Well might the
british commancer boast that be had reduced South
Carolina into allegiance But Sir, l will ot proceed
fuIf er with this history out OF regard for the fame Of
our couu On country, out Of regard for the prrots
I'll. Sumpters, the Marlons, the Rutledg.s the
Puckpty VI, the Haypet'. Trese were our true pat
rio,s al maintain that they were truer patriots if
possible, than patriots rom aty Other State Dat IF
r., arc for these will not quo'e from letter VI
The natriot Gov Mathew To Gen. Gre. D. IN which he
couuaips Of the seltshness and utter mbecility OF
o., at Ioition of tie people Of South Carolina. But
Mr. Chairman all these assaults upon the State of a..
ssc ms, tis snk into gDifcauce compared with the
one am about 10 mention On the 18th of Nav il
was announced that Mr. Sumner would address the
Stuste upon the Kansas question The floor of the
Sci att. the galleries and AVENUES leading thereto.
were throrged with an sIpectant audience and
many of us left our places 90 this door to
hear tie Massachusetts, orator To ray that
we were pleased-deighted With the 50, cch we
heard, would but family express the deep emotions
of our b, arts asakened by 1t. need not speak of
its Ian gusg- of tue nobility Of is s.ntimentr l.
was heard by many II has been read oy millions.
Th.re has hem no such speech mad in me Ssnats