Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-07-30
VOL. xXI...-NO. 20.

Inc rank ana SenSuOuS aIrlcan 10 Her OOSO[0 |,
thrustng aside thousands of the children of her
loins who can scarcely draw the support of their
existence from an even overtasked industry.
The towers of Massachusetts civilisation, which,
not satisfied with its own sckly results, would,
pragmatir and intrusive, steal into our borders
to force upon US its baleful fruits! Yes, sir, the
towers of Massachusetts civilization, cruelty or
ganising human muscles and bones into living
machines, and remorselessly working away the
impress of Gods image from men and women
of kindred stock and blood doomed to wear
out the energies of life TO keep up the greed of
task-nasters, who, like the daughters of the
horse.eech," have never learned 10 say" enough"
Massachusetts civilization, the mephi!ic air Of
whose workshops eats its way through The lungs
of the victims of avarice; and when they die,
they die with their last wishes turned to the
free winds Of heaven, with their last words
Z" babbling O. green fields
In alluding to an act vindicating the dignity
of State and the honor Of relative from the
aspersions of a traducer, the member, Mr.. Speak.
er, has thought proper to say that my colleague
stole into the Senate and smote Senator as
Cain smote his brother" The words are pretty,
no doubt; they sound to me like an idyl from
port. The chemistry of malice, Dir. Speaker, is
even more ingenious than the chemistry of sci.
cnce and ingenious indeed is that malice of the
member from The Suffolk district which could so
refine ils rancor as 10 doom my colleague to
bear the burden of kinship with his senatorial
friend. Sir. in the name OF my colleague, through
regard for his character, / alb jure the brother
hood! Sir, every consideration of moral wurlh,
every suggestion of genuine manhood, and, since
tile word has been spoken by the member him.
SELF every demand of chivalry, forbids that.
either personally or vicariously, such claim can
be put in with the hope "to have that claim Ill
lowed"
No. sir; such bond cannot hold between the
two. On one side, the nobler spirit mskes it
abhorrent to bare thought; on The other. the
grovelIing instincts mark it for imrossibility:
Duta fata Secutus--each one 10 his allotment of
existence. There are pathways on which, sla-
wing the ordinance of Heaven, men Of high tone
love to companion through life but there are
sewers also fitly teeming with the fecuence Of
filth for things of an opposite character. On
The former my colleague will pursue his course,
far unapproachably far, from the latter, in which
the baser natures may walIow in sordid delight.
But, sir, The feals of the member are not con-
fined TO such literary jucundities as "planting
spangles" in the shape Of school-houses, or
quaiutIy filling up the waste places Of the hea-
vens with shining towers" In paying what he
seemed to intend u tribute to the peculiar beau
ties of a certain speech delivered IN another
place, had he, instead Of protesting admiration
for the author, proclaimed bimsef his enemy,I
would have thought, Mr.. Speaker, that he was
spirit of malice in respect Of one
whom no lovingly calls his friend and his guide.
There is u species Of mephistophelian waggery
fun made lurid by fendishness, which Goethe
himself would not disclaim-in condemning
such friend-in subjecting such n guide to
stand in an attitude of torture, launching"
speech through the distendiug mouth.
Yes, sir, the rhetoric Of the member, Alilesian
or otherwise, launches speech ship-a severe
speech ship at tyranny-through The lips of his
friend. and keeps him convulsvely straining aud
heaving under The launch for the greater por-
ton of two days" Two days lnsaliate joker,
could not one suffice
Mr.. Speaker, the function which society in its
upon guilt assigns to the executioner,
il that he shall launch The criminal into eternity.
The member from Massachusetts, sir, has proved
to be no mean volunteer execulioner in this in.
stance, and he has launched" the felon ship of
his friend. Where, Mr. Speaker? Why, Into
that murh-abused dead sea" which hid kindly
for him and which he has un6tly nc
kuowledged. Launched it, sir, where it has has
sunk so that
Demersus, non rursum summa built in unda."
Sunk beyond the redemption of the pummet
ire, and borne down 10 the lowest depths by its
'raughlage Of obscenity, of slander, and of in.
amy.
But something too much of this perchance,
Mr.. Speaker Not unmindful of the precept
which requires that ,riaes be given TO the winds,
have abstrained from committing the literary
.ccenlrcites of the member to their keeping,
rom the fact that as he is the direct representa-.
i've Of the spot which claims to be The very ac-
,deme of the Union, he might be regarded as
entitled 10 some more special notice than the
: rascal cursi;ors of the camp" running at his
lcels. With every Difference, however, Dir.
Speaker would warn him, could ] waste so
much time upon him, when next he comes to
1issrct the dcton Of others upon this floor, so
% frame his own language that the character and
.epule of the learned body which he claims as
constituents shall not suffer at his hands. That
language, sir, may have met the standard Of
some of his inclining, arid solicited the peculiar
augh,er wh hich abounds in the mou hs Of those
who are other than wise; but apprehend. sir,
hat the academic senate of Cambridge will not
forget their dignity, and endorse the antics of
heir representative in this House.
A word or two more upon The speech of the
member from Massachusetts, (Mr Burlingame,)
md have done.
The member has debaucfed history. He has
made her, with wanton tongue, babbIe dispar-
,gemen! of sovereignty, which, on the scorc
Of devotion or soldirry, of patriotism or states.
everything which marks States for
greatness, or renown-may we'll
Massachusetts, with the assurance that
the assay wi leave no blur on its escutcheon,
Or work M abatement of its fame Why, sir,
even the unfortunate route of BIadensburg could
not escape the zeal with which he disparages
matters connected with the South He has gone,
like the jackaIl, to The few humblc-it may be
which dot its field. He hus
no, sir, am wrons-for the re-
ward of an empty laugh, he has arraigned tho
memory of their tenants before his tribunal. Ho
did this, too, after his declaration concealed un-
der pointess jeer. and IeYeled against the chief
Magistrate of the Union, that, bul for his know
he might apply the old Latin words,
" de rnortuis nil nisi bonum"--Speak nothing
but good of the dcad--to one who, "'from his
pride of place" so justly and so nobly held, is
righ,fully entitled TO pour down manly scorn
upon the poor, ptiIul traducers of a well.earned
fame.
| say, Mr.. Speaker, that the member has told
YOU that, were he not so good know-nothing,