The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-04-27

Ancien, and Modern Doushfaces.

Ancient and Modern Doushfaces. l
Senator Wade, in his great speech on
the l4tb, made some capital hits, and
none better than the following, tracking
the similarity between a singular iace of
beings t hat lived in ancient times, and
the fossil remains of similar race Of peo-
pie which we discover in the United
States, in this age of the world. Every
ons will agree with the Senator, however,
that like the Indian tribes, they are fast
disappearing from the face Of tho Garth.
Says Mr.. Wade:
allow have you done it2 You have
done it because you had general bond
Of interest uniting you, tying you togeth.
er rs il animated by one soul. What was
the interest TO me was tie interest Of an
other. You are forced all on the same
platform, all acting to one end. You
found the Democracy of the North divided
in various pursuits, laboring in their
various avocations, with very little
time to study this problem Of politics,
and you have always been able to seduce
enough of US over 10 you, to carry your
government along. know that gentle
men smile at this; but | am compelled by
Truth to state facts hire that / wish /
could hide from the world. 1t is rotten
ness at the North that you 10 not have.
1t is disreputable to us, but l am com
pelled to admit it. Your allies, doughfa.
ces of the North, in my judgement, are
the most dcspictable of men. The mod
ern doughfaces has not character pecu-
liar to the age in which we live, but you
find traces of him at every period Of the
worlds history. He is void Of pride, he
IS void of self-respect; actuated by
mean, groveling selfshness that would
sell his Maker for price. Why, sir,
when old Moses, under the immediate
inspiration Of God Almighty, enticcd
Whole nation of slaves, and run away,
not to Canada but to old Canaan, sup.
pose that Pbaroah and all the chivalry Of
old Egypt, denounced him as most fu-
rious abolitiorist. {Laughter.) do not
know but they blasphemed their God,
who bad assisted the fugitives from la
Dor to escape. have no doubt ut all
that when some southern gentlemen Of the
ospcl come up 10 preach to the North,
they will say that the Almighty acted
very fanatical part in the busircss. ! am
afraid that they will say SO; for He was
aiding and abetting in the escape. But
amidst the elores Of that great deliver
ance, even feeding upon miracles of the
Almighty as they went along, there were
not wanting those who loved Egypt bet
ter than they loved liberty; whose souls
longed for the fesh-pots of Egypt, and
who could turn from the visible gloiies
Of the Almighty God TO worship an
Egyptian calf These were the dough.
iaces of that day. They were national
men. Uaughter.) They were not ex-
actly Northern men with Southern prin-
ciplcs-but they were IsraeitGs with
Egyptian principles. (Laughetr.)
Again, when the Savior of the world
went forth on his great mission to pro.
claim glad tidings of Joy to all the peo-
pie of the earth, to break every yoke,
to the captive, He met with the same
class Of men IN the persons of Judas Iscari
OF and the chief priests. In the days of
our own Revolution, when Washington
when his noble associates were carving
on the struggle to establish Justice and to
secure the blessings of liberty to themsel.
yes and their posterity, they met with the
same class of men in the admirers of
George III. and Lcrd North.
They are all Of the same class-false to
the education of their fail ers--fa,se on
the great principles which have been in
stilled into them by their mothers from
their blrth-wiiling to do anything that
will minister TO the cupidity of their mas
tiers let the consequences be what they
may. 1t is this class Of men aided by
close aiistocrasy at the South, that he has
enabled the minority to rule with the
iron hand, the majority since the organ
ization of this Government. / have en-
deavored to caguerreotype these men for
the benefit Of future ages; for | believe
that, like the Indian tribes, they are dis
appearing. They have put them to very
hard service, sir. They die faster than
the northern negroes in your rice-swamps
politically, i mean. You put them
to servire that they cannot stand. When
you ask them to vote for fugitive slave
bill, they may do it once, but political
death stares them in the face. When
you ask them to go with you for the repeal
Of the Missouri restriction, You find the same
state of things. And now, worst of all,
when you ask them TO fastcn on their
fellow men, in Territory of the United
States, a constitution which the people
abhor, tell YOU every northern repre-
sentative who participates in this act, is
not only politically dead, but he may
thank bis God if he escapes with that"