Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-21

The Union appears to have lost much of it
value for Northern men, and what remains is de
creasing daily. No Northern man is secure il
his person in any Southern State. He can scarce
ly by any possibility so conduct himself as to be
safe from the mob. 1t is even dangerous fol
him to speak freely in his confidential letters tc
his family and friends. Brady found it so i1
Lexington, although that place boasts itself as
one of the most enlightened and cultivated towns
in Kentucky. Last winter gentleman from
New York was driven out of Florida, although
he had carefully avoided all discussion of the
merits of slavery, and had never joined in them
save with the members of his own church. They
Notwithstanding his reluctance, drew from him
sentiments of opposition to slavery, communica-
ted the fact to the mob, and, no doubt, aided it
in driving him away The number of such cases
is so great that it may be set down as an estab-
lished fact that no man from the North can visit
a Southern State without exposing himself to ILL
treatment and personal violence, no matter how
carefully he may endeavor to- avoid offending
the prejudices of its inhabitants. The constitu-
ton provides that 'the citizens of each State
shall have the privileges and immunities of citi-
zens in thes several States, but this provision is
in effect abrogated so far as the free States are
concerned when their citizens visit the slave
States. M 4a s 1;f@ s.ga s. 2a.s
The last case of this kind occurred in Virginia
in Loudon county. We re-published some weeks
ago, a sketch of debate which arose in a meet
ing in that county, where sentiments hostile to
slavery were uttered by some of the speakers
1t appears that the remarks were made by mem
bers of debating society in the course of dis
cussion on this resolution: a ~
stResolved, That we endorse the nomination
of Millard Fillmore by the American party
Mr., Ray, of Columbia county New York, at
that time teacher in the Academy Of the place
where the debate occurred, and Mr.. Brown,
were assigned places on the negative side of the
question. They spoke in support of that side,
and uttered some pretty Strong anti-slavery SEN
timents. Mr.. Ray thus reports his own and Mr..
Browns remarks 7sas4 s2F
"When my time to speak arrived, expressed
sentiments strongly opposed to Willard Fillmore
upon the ground that he was an avowed support
er ofSouthern measures the signer of the odious
and unconditional Fugitive Slave law, &c.; and
also opposed the further extension Of slavery
over territory which by the united voice Of both
North and South, had been consecrated forever
to freedom, measure to which it was admitted
he was favorable, by those upon the opposite
side of the question. / said explicitly that
would not NEEDLE with the institution Of slavery
where it already exists, but leave it to die out
upon tine land that bred it. ~ = u
With Washington and jefferson, and Frank
lin and Jay, looked upon slavery as sectional
rather thana national institution, and consider
ed its further extension inimical and dangerous
to the freedom ofthe people of the United States
and the progress of free Institutions. j. 81 Brown
expressed similar sentiments, and concluded BY
The expression of the hope that the fertile plains
and green valleys Of Kansas and Nebraska might |
not, in the language of the Senator from Alaba- |
ma, OR. Clay, )exhibit the painful signs of ster,
lity and decay apparent in Virginia and the
Carolinas.r
The utterance Of these sentiments created 4 |
great deal Of excitement in consequence of |
which Mr.. Ray was compelled to give up his
school and leave the State; the people of vir. |
gnia prefsrring to- go without schools rather |
han tolerate free speech. But it has not been
80 always IN the days of Washington and JEFF /
ferson men spoke their minds fully, and de-
nounced slavery as the source OF innumerable I
owls, and cancer upon the political body Of |
Virginia. The treatment received By Mr.. Ray |
shows how deeply that cancer has eaten.
Cincinnati Gazette.