The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-12
SPEECH on HON. B. F. HALLETT.


Hallet, of Boston, in the Boston Post Of the 18th
ult. The speech was delivered at Lowell, Mass,
and like everything spoken or written by its
author, it is intensely terse, concise and con-
yineing.
We ask for it an attentive and careful perusal
1t is crushing expose of Black Republican here
sizes:
"Mr. Haleltt examined the two heresies
of the republican party -enmity to foreign
labor and hatred to the South. He showed
what had been gained to the public wealth
and private prosperity by the infusion Of
the wealth of labor brought here by emigra
ton, and that American laborers had been
advanced and elevated by it, be next de-
monstrated the folly and wickedness of a
party in this Commonwealth, where we lived
by spindles, insiting the people to hatred
against the South whose form of slave-labor
supplied the great material Of Industry,
Cotton, without which Lowell would have
remained desert Annihilate cotton and
she would return to the desert. The men
and women of Lowell worked up cotton
enough every week to make a belt around
the world, and how would they live without
cotton2 And yet they were listening to
and being led by preachers, lecturers, and
politicians, who taught them that their
whole duty to God and man consisted in
hatred to the South They concealed from
them the truth which lies at the bottom of
all this, and makes their teachings and acts
mountain of hypoericy-namely, that
Massachusetts, builds her mills, ships, houses
and cities out of stare cotton; that she
freights three foprtHs of her vessels with
stare cotton; that she annually sends out
for sale thirty six millions of fabrics woven
| by her anti slavery citizens oat of Sieec cot
| ton; and that to do all this she employs,
and is as directly responsible for it as if she
ouaed them, about three hundred thousand
slaves to raise cotton for her in the Sopth>
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,
Pharsee like IKE, to pray and thank God
she is not like those pRblicans and sinners,
the Shareholders OF the South
"From this view Mr. Halett traced the
consequences of this incucation of hatred
against the South infused into the laboring
men and women of Massachusetts, and show,
ed that as natural and inevitable conse-
quence it had led to the attempt of Capt.
Brown and his followers to stir up the slaves
to a servile war at Harper's Ferry. Brown
had only acted what the preachers, lecturers
and politicians of Massachusetts had taught.
They had created "public opinion" at the
North made up of hatred to the South, a
"higber law" and an 'irrepressble conflict, "
and Brown and his followers we're simply
the armed public opinion of Massachusetts, !
The question had now come home to the
honest republicans of Massachusetts to re
feet whether an invasion of the South and
ssrvile war was what they contemplated in
giving power to the republican anti-slavery
party, and they had got it upon their con
sciences whether they would longer be ac-
cessories to invasion, war treason. murder
and massacre The act of Brown could not
be individualised it was type of whole
at the North inAamed by the teachings Of
this insane hatred to the South. Brown
had only acted what Horace Mann uttered
when he said: "Better disunion, better a
civil or Servile war than the extension of
slavery" 1t was these utterances at the
North that made such men as Capt Brown
and raised the ten thousand dollars of
Northern funds to help him put arms aud
pixies into the hands of the slaves Of Vir-
ginia and Maryland, 1t turus out, happily,
that Brown mistook the slave sentiment of
the South, Instead of twenty thousand, as
he expected, he could not iBcite single
slave to murder his master. But Brown
did not mistake that which is called " the
anti-slavery sentiment of Massachusetts," "
and which cries out for blood and slaughter
aud servile war, while these criers ont stand
back in security, hoping that Browns enough
may be raised to arm every slave against his
master That same Massachusetts senti
ment' was now at work iu our State-house
passing a law to erect statue to Horace
Mann with the motto " "DisuRion, seryilc
war, better than sIavery!" aud put it in
front of the Capitol as sneer upon the
statue of Webster, which stands there with
the motto" LIBERTY AND UNION, ONE
AND INsEPARABLE."
"Mr. Hallett besought men of sobrioty
and character in the republican ranks fur
ther to reflect upon the consequences of this
Massachusetts sentiment" arming fanatics
and murderers. If the massacre of white
women and children had come to be regard
ed as Massachusetts philanthropy because
they were shareholders, then, at least turn
your sympathy to the slaves. If the North
incites,. and then aids servilo insurrecton
at the South, it will free the slaves only by
erterminatton. Ham and Japeth never had
and never would come in conflict but the
negro must bite the dust; and if Northern
fanatics could arm every slave, the first
murder of white family by an organized
slave insurrection would be the signal of
the determination of the blacks"
We have not space to follow the speaker
further, but his suggestions, which seemed
to the audience graver matter than they
had thought of in the scenes at Harper's