The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-05-30

upclculating fanaticisn,." Tobosuro, these
charres lack al graoe Of originality, and al
senfiinsut Of truth: but tho advoutuSoos
Scuetor dos not besitats. Has tho unoom-
promising, uublushing rcPresent4tivs on
This floor ofa Aagrant saziosaiism, which
now domineeis over tho republic, and yet,
with ludicrpus ignorancs Of his position =
unable TO sec himsclfas others sce him - or
with an effrontery which even his white head
ought not to protect from rcbuke, he applies
TO those here who resist his secfionahsm, the
yery epithet which designates himself. The
men who strive to bring back the govern.
ment to its original policy, when freedom
and not slavery was national, while slavery
and not freedom was sectional he arnigns
as sectional. This will not do. It involves
too great a peryersion OF terms. tell that
senator that 1t is to himself, and to tho
q organization of which he Is the COM
mitted advocate" that this cpithet belongs.
I now fasten 1t upon them. For myself
care little for names but since the question
has been raised affirm that the Republican
marty of the Union is in no Just sense sec
honai. but, moro than any other party, ma
tioual: and that 1t now goes forth to dis
lodge from the high places Of the government
the tyrannical sectionalism Of which the
Senator from South Carolina is one Of the
maddest zcalots.
With regret, come again upon tho Scna-
tor from South Carolina, Mr. Butler who,
omnipresent in this debate, overAowed with
nge ut the simple suggestion that Kanzas
had applied for admission as state; and,
with incoherent phrases, discharged the loose
expectomtion of his speech, now, upon her
representative, and then upon her people,
There was no extavagance Of the ancient
Parliamentary debate which he did not re-
peat nor was there any possible deviation
from truth which he did not make, with 10
much of passion, l am glad to add, as to save
him from the suspicion Of intentional aber-
ration. But the Senator touches nothing
which he does not disfgure-with error,
sometimes Of principle, sometimes of fact
He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether
in stating the Constitution or In stating the
law, whether in the details Of statisticsor the
diversions Of scholarship. He cannot ope his
mouth, but out there flies blunder, Surely
he ought to be familiar with the life Of Frank
lin, and yet he referred to this household
character, while acting as agent Of our fathers
IN England, as above suspicion; and this was
done that he might give point to false con-
trast with the agent Of Ranzas-not knowing
that, however they may differ in genius and
fame, in this experience they are alike: that
Franklin, when entrusted with the petition
Of Massachusetts, Bay, was assaulted by u
foul-mouthcd speaker, where he could not be
heard in defence, and denounced asa "thief,"
even as the agent Of Kanns has been on this
floor, and denounced as "forger." And
let not the vanity of the Senator DO inspired
by the parallel with the British statesman
Of that day: for 1t Is only in hostility to
freedom that any parallel can be recognized.
But it is against the people Of Kanzas that
the sensibilties Of the Senator are particular
ly aroused. Coming, as no announces, "from
a state, "-ay, sir. from South Carolina, -
he turns with lordly disgust from this newly
formed community, which no will not recOg-
nize as ga body polite" Pray, sir, by what
title does he indulge in this egotism? Has
he read the history of "the statc' which
he represents? He cannot surely have for
gotten its shameful imbecility from slavery,
confessed throughout the Revolution, follow
cd by its more shameful assumptions for
slavery since. lie cannot have forgotten its
wretched persistence in the slave trade as tho
very apple of its eye, and the condition OF
ITS participation in the Union. lie cannot
have forgotten its Constitution, which is re-
publican only in name, confirming power in
the hands Of the few, and founding the quail
ifcations of its legislators on "a settled Tree
hold estate and ten negroes" And yet the
Senator to whom that estate" has in part
committed the guardianship its good name,
instead Of moving, with backward tending
steps, to cover lts nakedness, PUSHES forward,
in the ecstasy of madness, to expose 1t by
provoking comparison with Kanzas. South
Carolina counts by centuries--Kanzas counts
by years. But bcnefcent example may be
born in day, and venture to say that,
agaiust the two centuries of the older estate
may be already set the two years of trial,
evolving corresponding virtue in the young.
or community. In the one is the long wall
of slayery-in the other the hymns of free
dom. And If we glance at special pchieve-
ments, II will be difficult to find anything in
the history of South Carolina which presents
SO much of heroic spirit In an heroic cause as
appears in that repulsc of the Missouri inva-
dcrs by the beleagured town of Lawrence,
where even the women gave their effective
efforts to freedom. The matrons of Rome,
who poured out their Jewels into the trcasu-
~ for the public defcnce-the wives of Prus-
sia, who, with delicate fingers, clothed their
defenders against French invasion-the mo-
theirs of our own Revolution. who sent forth
their sons covered over with prayers and
blessings to combat for human rights, did
nothing of sclf-scrifce truer than did these
woman on this occasion. Were the whole
history of South Carolina blotted out Of ex-
istencc, from it's very beginning down to the
day of the last election OF the Senator to his
present seat on this floor, civilization might
iose-I do not say how little: butsurely less
than II has already gained by the example OF
Kanzas IN its valiant struggle against op.
preston, and In The development Of new
science Of emigration. Already in Lawrence
alone there are newspapers and schools, in.
GLIDING high school, and throughout this
infant territory there Is more mature scholar
ship far, in proportion to its inhabitants,
than in oil South Carolina. All, sir, tell
the Senator that Kanzas, welcomed as q fret
state, will DO u administering ANGEL to the
republic, when South Carolina, in the cloak
Of darkness which she hugs, "lics bowling