Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-04-09

men on great OCCASIONS, Tor long time
pasta deity in whose expected pres
ence both the people and the politicians
have sometimes stood agast-" when he"
in prospect only, " from his horrid hair
shook pestilence and war;" This sulphur
rous god is Disunion. This Capital Hill
has been veritable Mount Carmel for
the last quarter of century, upon which
experiments have been tried with this
bogus deity. One day Mount Carmel
was suffered to determine the destiny of
Baal and his prophets. But here, we
the most patient people in the world,
witness these invocations year after year,
with exemplary endurance, expecting
that the great Is-to-be will some time
come. And you and I, Mr.. Chairman,
even during the present session of Con-
gress, have witnessed attempts to kindle
here the fires upon the altar of Southern
rights. But the sacrifice, the akar, and
the spectators were as cold as alabaster.
The prophets only were warm, not from
the presence of the god, but from his abb
sence.
Well, sir, shall we have this deity of
disunion invoked forever? Who is to
blame? If the North has given cause
what have we done? What cause of
disunion has ever proceeded from us p
Have you not had every thing your own
way? Have we not let you have the
Democratic party to use as you please
! (Laughter.) Have you not had the gov
ernment for a long time? And have we
not let you use it just as you had mind
to? We, sir, were busy about our COM
merce, extending If around the world F.;
about our railroads; our internal i'm
provements our colleges, and all those
things which interest our people. We
knew that you had taste for governing.
and that by the indulgence you might be
gratifed without serious injury to u.s.
For many years you have had your own
way, and now you come here and cry out
= disunion." Why, what more can we
do?
| NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EFFORTS
FOR THE HEATHEN. -,vp
Y We 4 frff ffa1ff16h 1f16h Of heather in our land
and we are told by the same authority thai
we have an institution for their regenera
ton. 1 have seen placed in parellel col
umns, in Northern journals, the contribu
. tions of the free States and the contribu
tions of the slave States, and there wert
mighty words of exultation, unbecomins
Chistian journal or Christian people a
any time, when it was shown that ou
contribution for foreign missions were
hundred fold more than yours. 1t is tru
we make more contributions. The cit
of Boston gives, for foreign missions, pei
haps more than all the slave States an
, the city of New York perhaps more tha
- Boston. But what of that? We Civ
a few cents apiece, and only few cent
:" for foreign missions each year, whic
amounts to a great sum, because We al
y great people. We send men to heatf
~ en- nations far over the water, to tell the
about their future destiny. We are car
'' full not to send our best men; we kee
80 our Motifs and Waylands, and our Beec
" ers and Cheevers at home but som
times a Judson escapes from US before v
know what he is. This is about the e
tent we submit to self-sacrifce for t
y sake of the heather.
Is there any cause for exultation
this, when we see what our Southe
brethren have done and are doing +?
When have we ever taken the heath
:, to our hearth-stones and to our bosom
-. When have we ever admitted the hea
en- to social communion with oursel1
and our children? When have we
', ken the heather to our large cities
show them the works of art, or to
- watering places to show them fashiona
society and beautiful scenery? Did J
ever see a Yankee at the White Sulpl
' Springs shedding benign influence o
am a little congregation of heather comp
'e'e ions? Laughter We have pi
INC women in the Northern States VIII
eA example has made attractive the pa
iOfe of virtue and religion. Conspicu
'0H among them, in every good work, are
ons wives of our ministers and deacons
Do not one of these, within the range of
oy acquaintance, would consider her
'n9 qualified, either by nature or by g
P00 to be chambermaid, dry nurse, and s
''- itual adviser, to ten or twenty heatl
in her own family. But, sir, had Il
worthy danes been noble danes;
fault they come down to US from the bloc
the Norman Kings, through the boun