The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-12-17
Hon. Caleb Cushing.

OF the Hon. Caleb Cushing before the
Young Mems Democratic Association of
Boston, pending tn. late election. Such
appeals are in the right direction, and mus,
produce conservative effects:
To conclude, then: Merchants of Massa
chusetts, with your supe, b galleons from the
shipyards of East Boston and Newburvpor.
moving over the sea in the pride of their
beauty and their strength. freighted with
the rich agricultural productions o: Carolina
and Louisiana, you have been told here
that your interests are in conflict with those
Of the South! Manufacturers Of Massacbu.
setis! you, with your palatial manufactures
to weave into appa'e! for the worlds wear
the agricultural productions Of Georgia and
Alabama, have been told Eere that you
must surrender yourselves TO the evil spirit
OF Jealousy Of the South. Citizens of Mas.
sachusetts, and especially you Of the indus
trial classes, who wear the cotton, eat the
corn and sugar. and drink the coffee of
slave labor, and who provide objects of art
Tor the use of slave labor, and of those who
own it-you also have been told that slave
labor is the eirreconcileable antagonist of free
labor, and that, therefore, leaving all other
things. you must betake yourselves TO ha.
ting the South, with a sworn hatred like
| that OF Anniba for Rome. Men of Massa-
| chusetts! you are exhor.ed to cultivate ami.
| cable relations with Cuba, slave COLONY
though 1t tbe-to supply it with lumber, food.
and other objects of value, and TO buy and
consume its products, and thus to sustain
l and Siuva lahnr ,b.,o
| slave owners-while you are called upon 10
| sacrifice the peace and honor of the State.
and dedicate Yourself, from reproba,ion of
slave labor. to unceasing hostility agains,
your own countrymen of the Southern
States.
When hear such counsels darkly init
mated, under specous disguses of speech.
10 the State of Massachusetts. it seems 10
me that the First Ternpter, as depicted by
Milton, is before my eyes
CLOSE at the ear OF Eve,
! ASsayng by his devsh art To reach
| ihc organs oi her fancy, and with them forge
| Illusions, ms he list, phanasms and dreams;
Or il, inspiring venom, he might taint
| The animal sp ri,s. that from pure blood arise
Like gentle breaIhs from rivers pure thence raise
~ least dislempered, discontinued thoughts,
VAN hopes, vain aims, 'uordinate desires
Blown up with high concci,s engendering PRIDE"
My friends, to dispel such mischievous in.
spira,ions, it needs but the ligh,es, touch
Of lihureFs spear Of truth
1 say, down, down to the internal Dit.
where they belong, with a,l these derelict iu-
SEPARATIONS OF malice, hatred and unchirata-
bIeness! You, the people of Massachusetts,
do not, in the inner chamber Of your heart,
approve, and will not, on consideration,
adopt, this abominable theory of sectional
spite and hate. You will, in the end, if
not to-day. repe that policy with scorn and
horror. Before that time Of sober iudg.
ment comes, who stand up for the Union
in It's letter and spirit-who will die in the
breach rather than 'et it slide"-I may be
struck down by the tempest Of party pas.
sion, but others, better and more fortunate,
will rise up to fill the gap in the ranks OF
the sacred phalanx of the soldiers OF the
Constitution. Man is feeble, mortal, tran
sien.; but our coantry is powerful, immor.
| tai, eternal. In the long ages Of glory
which lie before US, rolling onward one af,
ter another like the ceaseless rote Of the
surglng waters on the sea shore, wave upon
wave rushing on 10 fill the place of that
which SINKS into the main, generations OF
men will come and go. with their joys and
sorrows, their aspirations and disappoint.
meGts, their conflicts and their reconcilia
tons. Then il will be seen that lie who
was the highest had been but an atom of
the great whole. and he who was humblest
had been rs much. We are alike in the
hands of the Almighty, aud but the ii.stru.
ments Of His will in the doing Of the great
work commenced by our Fathers at James
town aud Plymouth-continued by them
at Saratoga and Yorktown--carried on by
US at Monterey and Mexico--ihe great
work of reducing to cultivation and civil
zatiOn the savannahs and forests OF our
country. Massachusetts, ouce the banner
State Of the Union, will not be found back
ward, ut the hour al need, in performing
her appointed part Of that grea, work of the
Lord God in the New World.
TGE GREAT MoGuL-The aged King o
Delhi, feeble tool IN the hands of the lat,
occupants of Delhi, was captive In ia,
hands Of his English conquerors, at the Ia
test advices. Tie report that his two son,
had been shot appears correct with ,h,
addition that they had fallen in battle, an,
not rs the words mipht seem to imoly N,