Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-12

EXCLUSION OF THE SOCTH FROM THE TERRITORIES
Mr.. Garnett, Of Virginia, in q recent speech in the
United States House Of Representatives, made a
bold and vigorous exposition of the rapid progress
of Northern usurpaton. In the course of his speech
he said:
"A few years after, we acquired a vast region
the Paci6c-some four hundred and sixty four
thousand square miles. But were of the South
allowed to enter on Its possession equalsi Gen
tlemen on the other side tell me yes; the Massa-
chusetts man could no more carry slave there than
the Virgnian. Sir, when the man of the North
went there, he took with him all his property, all
his institutions, his whole system of society he
free TO give honor and power 20 his native land
by establishing another New England, kindred and
sympatbizng republics, on the Pacific shore. But
the Sourthernor had no such privileges He must
qualify himself first by selling his property, by
ering the kindly ties and life long affections that
bind master and slave together, and by abandoning
the institutions under whose shelter he was born,
and amid which he was proud to live and hoped to
die. Here vast and almost uninhabited
gion; its secular silence unbroken. save by the
monotonous of the Pacific waves and the sigh.
ing of the wind amid the gigantic trees, which SEEM
ed relics of the elder world-tit shelter for the IT,
taEic races of earlier creation. At last the man
of fate, the Anglo Norman, came, the Aladdin of
more wondrous story than Arabian dreamed.
The forests feil light broke through their primeval
shades. The wilderness blossomed. Streams late
ly dark and turbid, rolled bright DER the golden
barren, now cleaned and glittered with the shining
metal that shot and sparkled through every vein-
But when the Virginian, the man Of the South,
came to the portals of this mighty region, he was
denied admission. He found the gates spread wide.
He saw all the tribes of the earth-the Cet and
the Teuton, the copper-visaged Chinese and swarthy
Hndoo-gatherng like eagles to the banquet He
saw day and night, the restless stream of northern
emigrants pouring through the gates; the men of
New England and New York, bearing with them
their property and their laws, their households and
their household gods their Lares and Penates. All,
all were admitted he only excluded In vain did
he recall that his valor had helped to unbar those
portals in vain did he tell that one Virginian had
driven back the foe in Northern Mexico, while
other made march more wonderful than Cortez's,
from Vera Cruz to the palace Of the Aztecs; in
vain did he recount how the Mississippi rifles stem
med the tide OF battle at Buena VISTA and the Pal.
mettos reaped the harvest of death and of glory
amid the fires Of Churubusco; in vain did he point
to the honorable scars upon his body, won in many
tented fed-still, still he forbidden to pass,
unless he would first despol himself of his proper
ty, abdcate his duties master, desert his house
hold, and forswear his nationality. He might them
indeed degraded, enter but be must never sing the
song of his own country. transplant its laws into
that strange land. And this, we-are told, is equal
ity!"