The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-26
. pa,.,ottc speech.

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admit Of thcir reception AFTER the hour ns"e"
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~ patriotic speech.
ssT w. yaws,imcs hear from Massachusetts seuti-
,,on,. ,,h,cb reoa,d have done honor to her reso-
,o,I.n,r, era, and which present refreshing
ntrAst 10 the sectionalism aud treason of modern
aay. Webster. Everett, Choate aud winthrop. IL
A. true. have been put uaJer the ban Of popular
isi.n,essare for refusing TO give the countenaace
Of their ilinstrous examples to n crusade against
the Consultation aud the Union, aud traitors and
demagogues have been encouraged and rewarded
by the highest official honors. But the spirit OF
true Patriotism Is not yet extinct, and it some
times finds manly and fearless voice among tue
orators and public Journals Of the state. "ien"
has placed in our hands speech OF arthur !"
Austtu Eco, Of West Roxbury, Mass WHICH, IN
Its efoquence asd intrepidiiy, woniH nave "o"e
honor 10 Daniel Webster. We reJ'iee 'ha' so'ps
such men, of patriotism, of souiaud OF conrase'are
) left in Massachusetts,, and thar they are ho' All
w;,aons, Summers and parkers.
Mr. Austin touches upon several points in which
HI, eountrymen have been wilfally deceived by
sectional demagogucs. Referring 20 the stereo-
: ,vped charge Of q disposition the part Of the
s,nth 70 make aggressions upon the North, in de-
hauce o! the Constitution he says: cater careful
examination, |, a citizen Of the United States,
siding in Massachusetts,, standing on Northern
ground. emphatically deny that there is any foun-
dstion for the charge. ] claim simple Justice for
the south, ana assert simple truth when say that
ths South. as a body, has never consented to any
thing derogatory 10 the North; has never inter
sered with the rights Of the North, or in the do
mestic municipal affairs Of the North, either be-
fore or since the adoption Of the Constitution. If
there have been aggressions. they have been made
by the North and the South has either ac1uiesccd,
or acted simply In the defensive" Mr.. Austin
then refers to the noble cession by Virginia, for
ths common benefit Of the Union of all the North
west territory. from which five large States-Wis-
cnnsiu, Michigan, Illinois. Indiana and ohio-have
been already formed. containing in themselves
SHOUT foui times many square miles as there
are in all New England. and in which the sons and
daughters of the North have for more than half
century revealed. Virginia might have retained
this territory, and colonzed II with blacks, bond
free. thus relieving herself Of their support
u crding it, she might have insisted that the
whole territory should be erected into one State.
aud then there would have been but two United
States Senator's instead of ten, at present; but
she put bounds. and aft xed conditions to her
pfiucely munfcence. The government of the
country has received from the lands coded by the
SIcth to the Union. immense sums which have
gone to relieve the people of the North from debt
and FROM burdens. Mr.. Austin contrasts the pc
nurious aud contracted course of Massachusetts
With that of Virginia. He says: massachusetts,
o,rnt1 large tracts in Maine, ,chich she nerer ceded
for The common benefit but ,ohen Maine made
q &dts. she claimed her proport6f and from, II has
moi y6G ceased 10 retizc." The only aggressious
which the South has made upon the North, have
been aggressious Of Kindness and munificent libe-
raiity. Mr. Austin, with noble enthusiasm, ex-
claims: Ever generous. ever disinterested Viz
gina: She has always been ready to make sacri-
fc"s for the public good-for the common benefit
/ have scarcely been within her bOrders-I am but
slightly acquainted with any of her sons. but from
childhood my heart has always expanded, reflect
ing upon her patriotic sacrifices, and her noble
history. Ever glorious Virginia. She has given
10 the world the model of a warrior, statesman
and patriot. She has given to this Union states,
men whose disinterested devotion to the interests
Of our whole country, has never been surpassed
never been equalied in the annals of world
Mr.. Austin then reminds his Massachusetts, au-
dience OF the returns which portion of the North.
with headquarters in New England, have endea-
yored to make for the fraternal and generous con-
duct Of the South. He says: 1T is within my own
knowledge and observation that for more than
quarter OF a century, constant, continual attempts
have been made by portion of the North to carry
the torch Of the incendiary to the dwellings and
the knife Of the assassin to the throats of those
who of our common and common blood
and who are living with us under the same poiti-
cal compact" Mr.. Austin mentions the singular
fact, marking conspicuously the uugrateful
spirit Of portion of the people Of Massachusetts.
that the largest votes given for Black publican
ism came from those localities which have receiy-
h. Fr,.t, A.
and without which those localities would be ne
cessariiy depopulated! Arlington, Lynn, Danvers,
and the towns engaged in the leather trade gene
raliy, illustrate this assertion.
Hr. Austin warns his hearers against the vain
Imagination Of supposng that the Union can be
peaceabiy dissolved. He says: The same mad.
ness that would dissolve the Union would drench
the country in blood. There will be bloody con-
fic, IL which the Union will be more fully estab-
lished by the patriotic, the sagacious and the WISE
OF the whole hopes of man crushed by willing
surrender to despotism. | have no tear of the re-
suit OF such a contest. Is it must come, Great
God. ever bountiful TO me, grant that such con-
test come in my day-before this eye shall be dim
before this shall be nerveless | wish to
leave no such contest legacy to my children -
Provoke not soo far; there is such a thing as re-
acton aud retrihutiun for the ungrateful spirit
that Is ROW rite II Ietrlbution come not until YOU
have excited civil or seryile war, it will then
come in terror aud in storm. The longer delayed.
the more terrific. just Nemesis may overtake
you, and if she come-she shall come-she will
.oms-not only with tho point Of Achilles, but
with the tread and crash Of the Titan"
A refreshing contrast such speech to the whin.
iaS eantug ami cursing Of the frantic herd of all
clifton traitors from that big bull of Basham Sen
atnF
iiowadji Curtis.