Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-06-19

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men to unpaid toll, to separate husband ant
wife, and 10 sell little children at the auc
tion block-then, sir the chivalric Senate
will conduct the State of South Carolin;
out of the Union! Heroic knight! Exaltet
Senator! A second Moses come for a sec
ond exodus.
! But not content with this poor menace
which we have been twice told was .:meas
ured,'' the Senator, in the unrestrainer
chivalry of his nature, has undertaken tt
apply opprobrious words to those who differ
from him on this floor. He calls them '.sec
tional and fan,tical;'' and opposition to the
lusurpation in Kansas, he deLounces as san
uHcalculating fanaticism." To be sure
Hsese charges lack all grace of originality
and all sentiment of truth; but the adven
turous Senator does not hesitate. Hsis the
uncompromising, unblushng representative
on this floor of fagrant sectionaLiSm, which
now domineers over the Republic, and yet
with a ludicrous ignorance of his own posi-.
tion-unabe to see himself as others see
him or with an efrontery which even his
white head ought not to protect from rebuke
he applies to those here who resist his sec.
t,onalism the very epithet which designate<
himself The men who strive to bring back
the Government to its original policy. when
Freedom and not Slavery was national,whi
Slavery and not Freedom was sectional, he
arragns as sectional. This will not do. 1t
involves too great perversion of terms. |
tell that Senator, that it is to himself, and
to the reorganization" OF which he is the
committed advocate" that this epithet be-
longs. | now fasten it upon them. For
myself, care little for names; but since
the question has been raised here, | affirm
that the Republican party of the Union is
in no just sense sectional, bat, more than any
other party, a1tionuL; and that it now goes
forth to dislodge from the high places of the
Government the tyrannical sectionaiism of
which the Senator from South Carolina Is
one of the madest zealots.
To the charge of fanaticism | also reply.
Sir, fanaticsm is found in an enthusiasm or
exaggeration of opinions, particularly on re-
ligious subjects; but there may be fantic-
ism fer evil as well as for goud. Now, ]
will not Seny, that there are persons among
US loving Liberty too well for their personal
good, in selfish generation. Such there
may be, and, for the sake of their example,
would that there were more! In calling
them Z" fanatics you cast contumely upon
the noble army OF martyrs, from the earliest
day down to this hour; upon the great trib-
unes OF human rights, by whom life, liberty
and happiness on earth, have been secured;
upon the long line OF devoted patriots, who,
throughout history, have truly loved their
county; upon all, who, in noble aspirations
for the general good and in forget ulness Of
seE, have stood out before their age, and
gathered into their generous bosoms the
shafts of tyranny and wrong,in order to make
pathway ior Truth. You dscredit Luther,
when alone he nailed his articles to the door
of the church at Wittenbers, ,and them to the
mperial demand that he should retract, firmly
replied. Here stand: cannot do other
wise, So help me God!" You discredit
Hampden, when alone he refused to pay the
few shiilngs of ship-money, and shook the
throne of Charles |; you diScredit Milton,
when, amidst the corruptions Of a heartless
Court, he lived on, The lofty friend of Lib
erty, above question or suspicion; you dis
credit Russell and Sidney, when, for the
sake of their country, they calmly turned
from family and friends, to tread the narrow
steps of the scaffold; you discredit those
early founders Of American institut ions, who
preferred the hardships of wilderness, sur
rounded by a savage foe, TO injustice on beds
of ease; YOU dscredit our later fathers, who
few in numbers and weak in resources, yet
strong in their cause, did not hesitate TO
brave the mighty power of England, already
encircling the globe wi hei morning drum
beats. Yes, sir, of such are the fanatics OF
history, according to the Senator. But I
tell that Senator, that there are characters
badly eminent, of whose fanaticSm there
can be no question. Such we're the ancient
Egyptians, who worshipped dvinities in
british forms; the Druids, who darkened the
forests of oak, in which they lived, by sacri-
fees of blood; the Mexicans, who surrend-
cred countless victims to the Precipitation of
their obscene idols; the SpaniardS, who, un-
der Alva, sought to force the 1nquisition
upon Holland, by tyranny kindred to that
now employed to force Slavery upon Kansas;
and such were the Agerines, when in So
lemn conclave, after listening to speech
not unlike that OF the Senator from South
Carolina, they resolved TO continue the
slav ry Of white Christians, and to extend
it to the countrymen of Washington! Aye.
sir, extend j.! And in this same dreary
catalogue i5ithful history must record all
who now, in an enlightened age ana in a
land of bo .sted Freedom, stand up, in per-
version OF the Constitution and in denial OF
immortal tru h, to fasten new shackle up
on their fellow-man. If the Senator wishes
to see fanatics, let him loJk round among
his own associates, let IN look at himself.
But have not done with the Senator
There is another matter regarded by him OF
such consequence, that he interpoated it in-
to the speech of the Senator from New
Hampshire, Mr.. HALE and also announc-
ed that he had prepared himself with it. to
take in his pocket all the way to Boston
when he expected to address the people oI
that community On this account, ana tor
the sake OF truth, stop for one moment
and tread it to the earth. The North, at
cording to the Senator, was engaged in the
slave trade, and helped to introduce slave:
into the Southern States; and this undenl'
able fact he proposed to es ahlish by Stats
tics, in stating which his errors surpassed
his sentences in number. But | let these
pass for the present, that may deal will
his argument. Pray, sir, is the acknowledg
ed turp.ude of departed generation to be
come an example for us! And yet the :sus
gestion of The S nator, if entitled to any
consideration in this discussion, must have
this extent. / join my friend from New
: Hampshire in thanking the Senator iron
; South Carolina for adducing this instance
) for it gives me an opportunity to say, tha
l the Northern merchants, with homes in b IS
ton, iristol, Newport, New York, and Phil
delphia, who catered for Slavery during tn
ypnrs or tho ,l,yo tr,da arn The ljnpal nrO