Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-26
NEX ANDRA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA. ADVERTISERS july 2f 1858

Northern aud Southern Represe
Extract fran an Grafton de'iCered l" Pa'td-
dclphia, on tie Fourth, by Charles j Lnger-
soil w hear in the fret place-let me say
a word alb ut that--li SJutherD imposition,
the tyranny and domination OF the owners
of these slaves, that they have ruled Us ever
since the establishment of the government
and that it is time TO pu. them down. Ger
tlemen, this sort of talk has not the respec
liability Of fanatcsm. Ii Is weak and nom
seusical. | will tell you OF thing they
hav done--they have, however Impertectiy
manned, | say mperieCtly, because so mao7
Of their men are black men othcered them
selves well. They send to Washington good
men-their best men-and when they hnd
they can serve them they keep them 10 the
service, and 10 this they beat Us hollow. In
this way, if you call this imposition, they DO
impose on us previously. They treat poll
tics aud craftsmanship as o business, TO be
studied and prsctised like any other; and
not as we do, as If 1t came by nomination.
and election. They uphold their men, too
A Georgian or EIrginian carries Georgia or
Virginia With him to the Capitol. WHAT be
saws and does they back bin 10. l ak you
whether .l!is is Northern characteristic or
do we, fellow citizens, and our statesmen,
seem TO be without that mutual adheslveness
which ought to 90 to making ID power aud
responsibility Of both! At the last PresI-
dental election, the Democratic candidate
was a Pennsylvania, the favorlte son I'VE
said sol of the State. Certainly he was the
case, however rare, oes man who had serv-
ed US long. Him 1t least we had kept 10 the
harness. But when it came TO the pinch,
the test aud touch-stone OF our political
wit, what was the majoririty cast for the
Democratic candidate In this Democratic
State ? Last fall when they let Us alone, We
elected our Governor hy d majority o! l4,os5
votes. The autumn before, at the great
fight when they pushed at US. when they
came into Pennsylvania with their newspa-
pers, their money from New York and BJs-
ton, and their orators from everywhere, here,
on our owe and his ground, where everybody
knew the battle was TO be decided, and alter
Campaign conducted, | will say for those
who carried 1t on, with sagacity and signal
ability, what did they get our majority down
10: Feiluw-citizens, | will not remind you
perhaps you have not forgotten. Was
Penns ylvania true to herself? Do you thick
thew could have succeeded 10 cOaxing and
thunping down the vote in that way, against
a Southern man in his own State!
Ii any Northern man will look into Mr..
B3ntyn's volumes OF the Debates in Congress
and which is a legacy to his cJuntrymen,
for which if for nothing else be deserves
their gratitude--for there, for the first time,
we have the history of the republic IN mir
ror that cannot deceiyc--if any Of you, |
say, will open yJur eyes and one OF those
books, you will be ashamed to witness the i'm
mense prepouderauce of the South over North
in political Intelligence, aye 10 the whole cir
Gle of fitness for tue noble science of govern.
meut. say ashamed, because in truth and
reality, the intelligence along with the eiu-
cation the advancement aud civilization of
the Union, lie not South but North, here
amOug US, ns--here--iere-onl
it stays at bone, instead OF going 20 Wash
ington. Aud when II gets there, instead Of
belpg allowed TO do its work, It comes
straight back again under some miserable
two term rule, or some such imbecIllty /; u
rule of inieriority, rule to be imposed on,
suppose, by the South; rule that leaves
"the world for them to hustle in," that COM
pels us, while they make the laws and
shape the policy OF the country, to be look
ers on
And see our spouse, the Adriatic, plowed
BY bolder prows."
TIE Northe,A majority 10 the House has
as you know, climbed steadily and swiftly up
from the eleven originally given us, to the
majority at this day OF fiity-two Northern votes
N nth l42, against South 90. a majority
of 81 in a House of 2322! Why, it is too
many! 1t is more than you know what
to do with II is like an army Of 100000
men. And now, fellOw-ctlzens, | appea! to
you of the strong and every day growing
stronger North, to tell me whether to talk
to US Of the tyranny OF the South is not 100
ridiculous / never could, Tor the life Of me,
understand Il. Ii we vote against ourselves,
it is not because we are not free to vote as
we like, but simply because this South. that
we make faces at nas always bad to cope
witt u from the day when Mr.. Madison was
the leader Of tue House Of RepresG .tatiyes
down to the session OF 1867 So better nen
aud harder hitters than wc. And there
could be no more suitable illustration OF the
adSa ltage, OF tle ) Irthern system -and this
is the last | will soy OF it-thsn Mr.. Madi-
son himself; who was without brillIancy OF
parts, but served his State long enough tc be-
come u Statesman Of the first order, and leave
name never 70 be forgotten. Ii that same
James Madison, felloV-cltizans of Phlladel-
phia. had been Pennsy lvauan instead Of
Virginiau, the probability is he would this
day have no place in his country's history"
The Virtues OF BorsI.
The unsherwOmen q! Hollandaui Belyium