Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-03-04
pruApKs OF MR.. BRIGHT,

REMARKS OF Mr.. BRIGHT,
Of L.no;, delipered in tie Houss Of Consucns jar.
rarv 1857. on a biz proes4iea for the rsmeoa! Of
free negroes from. tho Statss
Nh SerAxrn: am in fAxof this bill. because
believe II will better con{Seion, add to our SAFE
tv security, put stop to the amalgamation of the
rsces-a slow and imperceptible means OF emancl'
patton The free negroes have been source otcor'
ruption to the slaves and mean class OF white peo
Die, no better than the slaves. They associate to-
eether If We can break up this association scat
ter it to the winds destroy the intimacy-make q
distinction, difference between them-we Will cneck
an evil if suffered to have scope, will eventually De-
come alarming. conceive, sir, It's idle to say that
the free negro does not exert bad influence now
As this is manifest-as it is apparent-that he is an
enemy to the stakeholder; and that there is an enc
nv without that would readily unite against us IN
the same cause, We should first render poweriess
the enemy within. Then, sir, are We able to meet
the enemy without. The passage of this o'll-th's
bill carried into efect-will accomplish more good
oceans interminabe waters, and all else besides
know, sir, it looks hard, cruel and nhuman, 10
send = human being from the home of his youth, the
scenes of his childhood IT'S said we should be
mercful. Mercy is tho predominant trait of every
tender hearted man but mercy like charity, should
begin at home. We should be merciful, first to our
selves-then to our neighbors. Take time by the
self more momentum, until it has encompassed the
length breadth and depth; until it has ovcrgrown;
until it has eat its way into the very core OF our 40
mestic tranquility. Although it is said we should
not look to the uure-"sufficent to the day is the
evil thereof but we have been aggravated by the
past and by the past should take warning In tenn
poral things not only take thought but provide lot
the future. Prepare to withstand the enemy. fana-
icism, danger, cngendered from time to time oy
slavery agitation. The free negroes in our midst,
If not now, will be great source of trouble ana
corruption damnable agents Of the negro fanatic
who will continue to toss the ball of excitement;
cause dssension; mislead the ignorant; to accom-.
plish-to do that which he has not yet been quite
able to do; to undo that which fathers did. We
have been aggravated by the past-borne the odium
Of demasogues pusillanimous and inimical. NO
Union no love of country, sectionaty, one section
eontending against the other for supremacy and po-
litical power; one submissive to the other arrayed
against, the Constitution, the great conflicting
questionable question upon which our hands, our
hearts, our minds were engaged. One party en-
deavorng to silence rude, warlike, idle agitation,
by virtue of the Constitution advocating nationality,
the reserved rights Of the States for present safety
the ultimate preservation of liberties. The 9TH
er party inflated with slavery excitement regard
less Of the memory of ashington; a." the times that
tried mems souls" the oppressed struggling against
oppression; and those immortal men, whose broad
bare bosoms were SCARED by tie tomah ,wk of the
savage; by English bayonets regardless of battles
fought, victories won, and those GOG-ike patriots
who planted the corner stone of liberty, framed the
wisest government, bequeathed to US most beauti-
full fabric, the union OF States the right to worship
God according to the dictates Of conscience, uE-
scathed by despot's frown, untanted by kingy
prerogatve; regardless Of the fame, honor, glory,
OF this fabulous land, where shepherds lambs gam.
Dol and verdant grass lifts up the frigid SHOWS and
the Constitution founded upon, closely in sssmi-
lat!on to the laws delivered by God himself to Moses
upon the sacred mountain This party, sir, in mo-
ment Of mad phrensy, by its ssngunary touch,
would have despoiled rule of government, law
Of God and man, assmilating the Mosaic law, mou!-
ded in the crucble Of Heaven, tempered with the
eonvulsive throes and electric fires of Sinai would
wink at this law for higher lava law to emanci-
pate our slaves. Must this aw-ths bulwark of
our liberty-be given up to appease the base con.
ception of traitors? Must this law, this consitu.
erave and void by blind fanatics and sightless
pirants? Must the lives, the fortunes, the sacred
honor Of the whole be put in jeopardy to crafty the
caprices of whimsical moiety3 Must the wise sys-
tenn OF our government the even tenor of our regu-
latIons, under which our fathers have lived under
which We have lived from infancy up, reaping con-
tent little less than the gods, be disturbed? The
wisdom of our great and honored fathers trampled
in the dust! Must the full floods of prosperity
showered upon by an a'..wise and ben, fc mt
hand, be dashed back by ruthless fana tics mIeded
damned up by madmen, till all is tempered with cor
ruption, carnage, hel-broth? Must that which is
national, majestic, great-must the animate be con-
lined to the inanimate? Mus. we be lenient to
the free negro till the animate is confined to the in
animate! The tears of Chlorinda flowing with
blood from the trunk Of acypress should arrest the
blows of the most savage" The muscular arm Of
wrongs cannot be redressed by the pa!sied arm Of
rights The Union, and hallowed remembrance of
those men who framed the Union, should awaken
the better Judgment of political men; should shut
out ruins wasteful entrance from the Old North
State, and FROM all the other States-from this our
ocean-bound Union. No consideration, no remuner-
alton; not for the emancipation of mankind above
the earth, below the earth; not for a momentlcss
visionary popularity of the mother country; not to
gam the Abundance of superiority or equality to
be eternal as the sea, calm and Interchangeable as
the sky; for If the magic chains of the dragon be
broken-if his captive bonds be loosened he is free
to enslave his iberator. The making an inferior
equal to superior thing; making the OK with the
Morse knowing no distinction, degrees, no differ.
ence. ask, sir, is this liberty? Too much liberty
VAL suocate fret itself into AFFECT slavery activi-
ty to incidence; Incidence to brutality j desire
NOT English liberty. am satisfied with American
known as constitutional hberty-not a universal
liberty, that would make an inferior equal to su.
Penor race; that would upset system, order, and
sneect the intelligent minority 10 the ignorant ma
lorlty. believe in degrees and regulations appca-
DIE TO them in their several order. believe in de-
grees distinctions, differences; and does the Gre
,tor.eIse, why hill and valley? Why night and
dayf Why black and white! Why wool and hair?
As the bill enrches the valley, so does the negro his
master God in his wisdom made them all The
night does not control the day; black is not white,
neither is wool hair If the light, liberty of the
sun be given to night We have an endless day. Our
earth would scorcb, dissolve with heat. 1.-The lib.
erty Of the white man be given to the black or mu-
Iatto man, the condition of each is far from being
smellorated. Ignorance would predominant, run
Wild with corruption, sensuality, and amalgamate
the races Then virtue is dead-a is dead. IRE.
nown and grace is dead; the wine Of life is drawn