Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-03-30

ing by all the various and of diplomacy TO
deach Cuba from its allegiance, TO annex TO the Uni
ted States in order increase the influence of the
slave power, and add strength TO this American
deity.
feated that all Christian Governments may their
against the further extension Of this scourge Of
our race"
Sir in history there have been two aged
men, who have been conspicuous. One, we
are told, sat day after day and year after year
in the Roman Senate; and when called upon
to speak, all that he said was deI7add est Car
hago." That is not the speech which my COM
peer from Ohio INDUCES in. No, no, mol He
is not speaking of a foreign Power. He is
not speaking of the enemies of his country.
1t is not Carthage. hated and feared, which he
would destroy. No. no, no! There was another
venerable man-venerable for his years-the
jabbering, jibing old infidel of Terney, whose
one speech was aimed at the Holy One, under
whom We all hope for salvation-"Crush the
wretcir' "Crush the wretchr' And. sirs, / fear,
l fear-I hope not, will not believe-that
''crush the wretch ~ will ever be the exclama-
ton of any who may ever come to have a
place here. :'Wretchr'-word of baleful omen.
which should include the loved ones whom
You and have left in our far-away homes
What mean these things? l am speaking to
gray hairs. l bow down to age, and do it
reverence. But let me appeal to the gentle
men, in a spirit of kindness, and say to him,
do not, although you bring your own neigh
| bors, your own Black Republican hosts, TO
make war upon us-do not, do not, do not |
beg of you, invoke upon us British power or
| the Spanish inquisitiont'
would be glad to have gone little into
| the history of the slavery agitation, to show
how it sprung up in this country, and to show
| how it had its orig gin in faction in the North;
| then, as now, actuated by hatred to the South,
| and everything southern, from the time when,
| during the revolutionary war. it tried to
| supplant Washington in his high command;
| how it attempted to prevent the formation
and adoption of the American Constitution;
how, in 1903, when we acquired Louisiana, it
stated in this House that it was a cause suffi-
cient to dissolve the allegiance of the State TO
the Federal Government and that while 1t
was the privilege of all, it was the duty of
some. to go out peacebly if they could, forci-
bly If they must; how, when we were engaged
in another war. with the same British power.
they met in conventihn at Hartford in that
odOrous land of the nutmeg and the onion;
and how, worse than that, they hOisted blue
| lights at New London, that this same deadly
enemy might know where to strike us; how,
in 1920, they resisted the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Union, for the simple and sole
reason that they now resist the admission OF
Kansas; how they flooded this floor with petit
ton, after petition for the most absurd and i'm
OnlyOf aggravating and annoying the South;
how they continued this aggressive and annoy
ing system of policy until lS50,wh we belle
we'd that the laws then passed were,in the Ian
guage of a gentleman then representing
southern State, "a finality in their totality."
And then | would like to have reminded our
Democratic friends how, when we had got the
snake scotched but not killed at the COM
mencement of the Thirty-Third Congress,
N IpnartmpUT n
the Government they held the reins in their
hands, welding power deemed irresistible,
they committed what, in politics. is said to
worse than a crme-a blunder-which again
brought up the slavery agitation in form
more fierce and rampant then ever before.
Mr.. Chairman, you know that one of the in
situations, peculiar to the South is the yellow
Jacket Il very irritable little insect, whose nest,
with the boys, is practical noli-me-tdngere.
Sir the boy who would deliberately put his
finger into yellow jackets nest might be add
mired as a model of prudence and sound dis
erection in comparison with the politician who
wonld stir up the abolition element in our pO-
litical affairs.
But. sir. have not time to dwell upon any
of these matters. would like, if | had time,
to follow that same element, this same abolition
fury for it is such, through all its ramifcatiOns
in the Kansas troubles Iwould Ike to follow
it in the form of grave and learned professors,
in the form of reverend clergymen-ay, sir. in
the form of lovely women; sending tc that
troubled land emigrants from public meetings,
armed with the rifle in one hand, and, for
counterpOise a Bible in the other. | would
have liked to have shown, if l had had the
time how those rifle were used for the murder
of some of my own neighbOrs, people who
were not slavehoIders-an there is gentle
man now in my eye, who knows very well to
whom | allude-people who went into Kansas
because they were poor, with the hope of pro-
viding for their children a condition better
than their own. These men, | say, were shot
down, shot down by free-State men, decoy-
ed from their beds at the hour of midnight,
under false and wicked pretexts-not only
were their lives taken, but their bodies multi
ated and mangled, in a manner that would
have disgraced troop of sepoys. And yet,
the Administration is cens1ved and denounced
for sending an army into Kansas to preserve
the peace?
The gentleman from Maine Mr. WAsHBURNl
the other day. if | understood him, took the
ground that the army was sent there i'm viO-
lation of law, and that the people would have
been justified in ievying war upon them and
driving them out by force.
might pass on, aud if had time / would
he glad TO do so. until we come down to the
very latest act in this great drama of fanati-
cism-an act which has Just closed in that
of Massachusetts-and of which the slower
progress of the mails has yet failed, believe,
to bring us the intelligence which has reached
us by shorter mode of transmission. j re-
fer, Sir to the removal from the Office of Judge
of the probate court of the county of Suffolk,
in that State. of Edward Greedy Loring. The
mere removal of the man is matter of little
consequence. We see men go out of office
every day without much, if any, feeling
When at the commencement OF the session the
little page BOYS were sent home 10 their wild
owed mothers under the stress of party dis
cipline, confess that my sympathies were af-
fected tenfold more deeply than by the removal
of this gentleman, who is known to me only
in his public character. But the cause for
which he was removed is matter of higher
consideration, matter which it concerns US TO
notice What is that cause! That he has
been unfaithful in the exercise 81 his office!
That widows and orphans have suffered under
his administration of the affairs of his COURT
Not at all; not at all. But because, some
four, five, or six years ago, he assisted, in the
character of commissioner of the United
States, under the act of Congress known
the fugitive slave law, in restoring TO gem
tleman in Virginia a slave who had escaped
and taken refuge in Massachusetts.
Mr. HALL, of Massachusetts,. VIII the gem
tleman allow me to correct him.
Mr.. MAYNARD. My time is nearly exhaust
ed.
Mr.. HALL. of Massachusetts,. / wish toc0
rect n statement made by the gentleman
Mr.. MAYNARD. My time is nearly out and !
must go ON. | am very sorry indeed to seem
even 10 lie disobliging. | am not 80. wish
had time to hear all the gentleman has to say
Ii the removal of Judge Loring is susceptible
of explanation would be glad that il should
b. explained, but cannot yield for that pur-
pose now.
Mr. u,, of Massachusetts I wish % .or
rect him rs TO point of fact.
Mr.. MAYNARD. ! canned yield.
Mr.. HALL, of Massachusetts. Judge Loring
Mns removed for a violation of a Sfate INV