Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-03-21

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sincerity of gentlemen when they get up
and talk about Northern aggresslons, but
it is one of the hardest things | am bound
to believe. Bound as am to believe it
IN their word, have never had the face
to 90 home and tell my constituents so
because they would tell me that, how
ever l might believe it, they know better.
Sir, they have made as much progress as
Mr.. Everett had made on the Nebraska
bill; they not only know it themselves,
but they know that everybody else knows
it; that there is not only no truth in it,
but that the exact reverse is the truth OF
history, the truth of the past, the truth OF
the present and may God grant that 1t
shall not be the truth of the future!
WHAT WRONG HAS THE NORTH BEEN
GUILTY OF?
Ihave now a word or two to say to the
honorable Senator from Tennessee, Mr..
JONES. and I shah speak to him more
kindly than he did to me, but perhaps
not so eloquently. The Senator from
Tennessee represents his State ably, bril-
liantly-I say tin no Pickwiekian sense.
He came here with very high reputa-
ton. I am a much humber man, of more
moderate powers, and vastly less preten-
sions, representing the small State of New
Hampshire. Now, / viii put it to the
honorable Senator from Tennessee, as
between our two States, what harm on
earth have we ever done him? Have we
ever injured the hair of a mans head in
Tennessee Have we of the State of
New Hampshire ever withholden our APP
probation of public man because he
lived in the State of Tennessee? No,
sir; twice in solid column have the unal-
terable Democracy, Of whom | spoke to
1 you, gone up in unbroken phalanx to the
polls and recorded their votes for two
citizens of Tennessee for the highest of
flee in the gift of the Republic. I con.
fess, that with my reading of history,
am at a loss to discover in the history Of
, either or both States a single iota o.
: evidence that could convict New Hamp,
shire, OF one man in it, of injuring, By
: word or deed, or even thought, the State
: of Tennessee, or single citizen Of tina
: State.
i The best way to examine all question:
t is to take them in detail-one from tht
: mass, and examine it. So far as my
+? humble State is concerned, might no
S go through with every State of the Uniol
o and put the same question, and would no
: every man be at a loss to gainsay it
t, Certainly he would. Then, would say
e in the language of Brutus-though an
O not going into the Roman oratory-" I
IS we have offended any man let him speak.
If there is any man who has suffers
q wrong or injustice at our hands, where
d he? do not know it. Why not lool
l. at this matter in the light of the truth @
J. history? Why not lay aside these angr
Y appeals, why not lay aside everythin
5. except the solid, substantial truth of his
r tory, and look it right in the face? Whe
n we do that, am not at all afraid when W
j, are tried before any tribunal in earth c
J. heaven, but that the skirts of our gai
g ments will be found clean of any offenc
in against any Of our sister States.
Mr.. President, read some remark
e, which were made by the honorable Sen;
l. tor from South Carolina, Mr.. BUTLER
in when the Kansas bill was under consiC
it GRAFTON in the Senate two years ago.
n, am not able to give his exact words, b.
h, cause I cannot speak so eloquently {
re that Senator; but / remember that /
he said, speaking in regard to the Sout
of that the South wanted her heart relieve
n more than any practical burden taken o.
~ may not have given his very languag
ad but that, I think is the idea; remen
ne Der it, for | read it last night in the Glob
On Sir, confess that when | read that r
mark, it thrilled my very heart. An a
peal of that sort made to the North vi
10 never be made in vain; but such has n
III been the spirit in which gentlemen e
= tanning the opinions that do have bet
st accustomed to be addressed by gentlemt
w from the South. Let me tell you, sir
h and think / can speak in behalf of n
re own State,--that when an appeal is mat
Ta to them from the South, or the West.
he anywhere else in that spirit, they wou
H. coin their very hearts to buy peace
ke they would pour out their very hear
nd blood like water to wash out the Isa
ed and the last offence.
on WHAT THE NORTH CANNOT YIELD.
go But, sir, I appeal to the truth of hist