Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-11-04


B F. Hallett, Esq, Of Boston:
We find in the Boston Post Of October
%, brief report Of speech made by Hon,
B. Hallett. Of Boston, in Lowell, the prin-
cipal manufacturing city Of Now England.
It demonstrates The direct relation Of cause
and effect between the slavery agitators Of
the North, and the attempt Of Capt Brown,
their pupil and hired assassin, to stir up q
'servile, war in Virginia and Maryland.
Mr.. Hallett examined the two heresies Of
the Republican party-enmity' to foreign
labor and hatred to the South. He show
ed what had been gained to the public
wealth and private prosperity, BY the infu-
sion Of the wealth Of labor brought here by
emigration, and that American laborers had
been advanced and elevated by it. He
next demonstrated the folly and wicke3ness
Of party in this Commonwealth where we
lived by spindles, melting the people to ha.
tired against the South, whose form Of slave
labor supplied the great material Of indus
tly, Cotton, without which Lowell would
bavc remained desert. Annihilate cotton
and she would return to a desert. The mef
and women Of Lowell worked up cotton e.
nough every week to make belt round
the earth, and how would they live with
out cotton ? And yet they we're listening
TO and being led by preachers, lecturers
and politicians, who taught them that their
whole duty to, God and man eonsistad in
hatred to the South They concealed from
them the truth which lies at the bottom Of
all this, and makes their teaehings and acts
mountain Of Hypocrisy namely, that Mas
sachusetts builds her mills, ships, houses,
and cities oft of slare cotton; that she
freights :three-fourths of her ,vessels With
SLAVE cotton that she annually sends out
for sale thirty-six millions Of fabrics woven
by her anti-slavery citizens out Of slate cot
ton and that to dc all this she employs and
| is as directly responsible for it as if she
owned them, about three hundred thousand
slaves to raise cotton for her in the South
ern States. And with all this slave cotton
and slave sugar. and slave rice, and slave
tobacco filing her pockets with wealth and
her families with comfort, she stands apart,
Pharisee like, to pray and thank God that
she is not like those public ansand sinners,
the slave holders Of the South
| From this view Mr. Hallett traced the
consequences Of this incubation Of hatred
against the South infused into the laborine
men and women of Massachusetts, anc
showed that as its natural and inevitable
consequence it had led to the attempt o
Capt. Brown and his followers to stir VI
the slaves to servile war at Harper's Ferry
Brown had only acted what the preachers
lecturers and politicians of Massachusetts
had taught. They had created sspubli,
opinion" at the North made up Of hatred K
the South; . s'higher law and an tire
pressible conflict" and Brown and his fol
lowers were simply the armed public opin
ion of Massachusetts The question hat
now come home to the hdhest Republican,
Of Massachusetts to reflect whether an inva
sion of the South and servile war wa
what they, contemplated in giving power t
the Republican Anti-slavery. party, an,
they had got it upon their consciences wheth
er they would longer be accessories to inya
sion, war, treason, murder and massacre
The act Of Brown could not be individual
lied, it was q type Of whole class at th
North inaamed by the teachings of this in
sane hatred to the South. Brown had onl
acted what Mr.. Horace Mani uttered whe
| he said Better disunion, better civil Q
servile vdr, than the extension Of slavery.
It was these utterances at the North tha
make such men as Capt. Brown ali
raised the ten thousand dollars of Nurther
funds to help him put arms and pixies int
the hands of the slaves Of Virginia and Ma
lryland. tturns out. happily, that Brow
mistook the slave sentiment of the South
Instead of twenty thousand ,as he expected
no could not incise single slave to murde
his master. But Brown did not mistak
what is called ssthe anti-slavery sentimen
Of Massachusetts" and which cries out 70
blood and slaughter and servile war, Will
these criers ont stand back in security he
ping that Browns enough may be raised
arm every slave against his master! Tha
SAME Massachusetts sentiment" was no,
at work in our State House passing a la,
to erect statue to Horace Mann, with th
motto s:DisuAioN; serUt1e rar better ttd
sla6ery p and put in front Of the Capitol a
sheer upon the statue Of Webster, whic
stands there, with the MOTTO '.L1BERr
AND UNION, ONE AND INsEtARABLE z
Mr.. Hallett besought men Of sobriety an
, character in the Republican ranks further
reflect upon the Consequences Of this MAST
chusett5 sentiment" arthing fanatics ali
murdetets. If the massacre Of white We
men and children had come to be regarde
as Massachusetts philanthropy, because the
J were shareholders, then, at least, turn you
sympathy to the slaves. If the North Ii
cites and then aids servile Instruction a
the South, it will free the. slaves only b
determination. Ham and Japhcth nevt
had and never would come ii conflict b,
, the negro must bite the dnst; and if NORTH
ern fanatics could arm every slave; the f.,
murder Of white family by an organize
slave Instruction, would be the signal
determination of the blacks.
We have not the space to follow the speal
er further: but his suggestions, which, seen
{ ed to present to the audience a graver ma
, ter than they had thought Of in the scene
: at Harper's Ferry, were listened to wit
Edeep attention. Mr. HI. concluded with o