Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-03-27

and Inticting ba-barous punishment withuu
judicial Judgment and sentence. Some men q
South Carolina arrested free white lahorer
mobed him Ia the streets of their city. subject
ed him 10 stripes a, the hands of a slave; all II
violation Of the laws of the State. You ma,
boast of your clivalrv. but such men are das
| taFdA, whom II would be base hat,ery To cal
towards The slave trader lands cargo O
human merchandise from Africa, and your in
ries refuse Ia punish the pirate A few mont b.
ago, woman with a sick c:aId was driven froit
| village of Georgia. because she had written {,
her friends al the North her impressions atnu
slavery. A whole community. the Bereans
| were exiled from the soIl of Kentucky for N,
crime; they were only obnoxious in entertain
ing the opinions proclnimedhy Wash ngton and
Jefferson. Are such tile men sou propose arm.
ing Ia seize the Capitol and archives? Rest as.
sured hraver men than they fled from the Brit
i.h in 1914.
Crawford of Georgia. aud Burnett of Kentucky '
tried 10 interrupt him, but he went on with his
1 remarks:
I'm the history of the country you provoke
and melted a controversy III which you met
northern bravery face face the plains OF
| Kansas. and you qualed before it and fled Ask
Your border-ruffian bandittl what they think OF
northern courage? After the fight at Ossawa-
tonne, where Brown received his cognomen.
your men covered at the very Thought of meet
! ing the stern trcemen OF the North, sustained
| hy right IN battle array. and they made pre-
Clpiiate HIEHt. not waiting Tor the morning
dawn. III spite of just such vaunls and boasts as
you daily make on the floor OF this House. Talk
no more of Northern courage. You have felt
their steel and seen their metal. Your knOwl-
edge of history will teach you that the bravery
Comes from the cold clmates and rough regions
OF northern codnterIes. Again | ask. why do
gentlemen thus talk? Mark the first and sec
ond wars with England
10 the charge that the North did not per
t'rfn its share IN achieving the independence of
the Colonies he made reply:
Massachusetts has able sons to defend her
reputation: bat do know she first Ia light
the flames of the revolution; aud believe she
viii be the last to desert the watchtires of the
Union The eloquent gentleman from Virginia
MI Boetirr) Ia his endeavor 10 fss'en
KIND ImpulalIon on the North. IN my lIdge-
mrn' mi>cnuceIved history when he said Eir-
ginia. Il 10, sent succur Ia massachusetts. There
was no narrow sectinnalsm VI those ,Iays -
When the militia cf bis native country marched
~ Massachusetts, il WAS to fight the battles oi
Virginia; II was L. viRdcate the rights. and
strike down the ene'pies of Virginia The bat
tie tor your rights. gentlemen. fought on
Northern soil; your homes for long while
were untouched hy the foreign invader; for
many years your buildings were leit free from
the torch IF the HeSslau lncendIarir.; vour wo-
men from lndlgnlties. and your helpless chill
dren from cruel death. The impulse uf free
dom was equally strong in Virginia and MasSa-
chuset's: II WAS the IF the United Colonies;
but massachusetts then. ;ts now for hatred of
tyrauy. WAS specially deSianated As the victim.
end led the freedom army. You boast
thar H"u gave Us Washington; and like Moses
OF old, he led our armies 20 the promised land;
but hl- ,Jos.iu;4s aud Aarons lie gathered from
the North.
When the North ,hought you wanted help it
sent y"n Lincoln. then Cats. a Camden You
had -r,tIicIeucy Of troops. Tour arms number
ed fonr Thousand, AMI the enemy TWO thousand;
yet you were overborne l woUld -corn to
charge II To a lack of courage. Then IL sent the
old Qpaker Of Rhode Island. General Greene.
and BE saved the men nf Carolina and drove the
British fro;n YOU borders.
In 1891. wneu Cornwallis appeared in Vir-
gInia although Clinton had large fleet IN the
bay. and large army in the city Of New
York. with brave Impetuosltv he marched his
Northern army. and. with their tents, rhey ZEN
canret pn Southern SOIL and the evening of
the 18th day OF October l7Sl, drew is mantle
over the manyled aud hieie~> northern soldier on
the lie d 81 Yorktown Vtrginia's .oisit had been
returned, and the evidence, we're the bones left
whitening on your sunny plains"
Several vi the fire eaters had IN their speech
Is cast aspcrsInn~ upon the patriotism OF the
North from the days of the Revolution ta the
present time Van Nyck returned the compli-
ment after this style:
After the attack on Charleston In i776, ynu
were free from foreign foe until I779. Then
South. because he expected sympathy and sue
or from the CarolinaS and Georgia. account
of the great number OF tories III those States;
and he did receive 1t. At the battle Of Kings
Mountain, IN the enemy > rank of fifteen humid
red. probably thirteen hundred were Carolina
and Georgia torres; hence the opening of n new
seat OF war IN the south | speak not Ia Your
IuJury- No country ever produced truer, hraveF
patriots, than the Carolnas and Georgia. They
had stern conflict. They had to fight the Eng
lish on the coast and their tory countrymen al
the hearthstone
The creates; crupllies and spni,ations You
suffered was at the bands of your native Tories,
and from threats "f rebellion and violence con-
ciude their dsscsadIrts numerous on that soil
With their blood seem 10 have descended their
principles.
One more extract and I'll not press further on
your splce. 1t Is III reply 10 the threat MAJ
by dISunionlst that the South could mus
ter half million of men, seize on the Capitol.
then march North and curq.er md subjugaie
the Free Sta,e>! To this plantation gasconaie
he answered.:
The honorable member from South Carolina
Nr. a Ashm more, IN his sp ech on Thursday last, /
IN All eloquent and glowing description Of the
South. presented to our iuayIua,lous army
OF greater proper ions than the grand army Ma
poleon led 10 Moscow. They will probably /
take counsel Of prudence and remain at home;
they might find a Russian winter IN Their path. +
Does the gentleman. candid and frank as | know +
htrn to be- tor yet that portion OF history which
assures hi n that many good men in the South
drea ied rebellion against England iu consr-
auence Of the insecurity that .Gld follow :"
slave property7 that tiiS system of bondage
prevented his people from hes'owIng the tall
measure ot their abtlIrtes To The causr at In'-e-
prnieuce? that Two of the serious defeats sou
su ff,reti m the South were IN consequence oi
vour chatrIes suddenly congeriinE themselves
into seutieut beings. and leading the enemy up
an vour armies? Are not the obstacles which
votir fathers encountered increasing every year.
,,u .,uI 3 frl, the ..ii!rIa of usIsu "r> hHt the
ws,tch vnu say ynu are Impian'Ing
-, thelr minds? Will the slave quietly stay ~
bnn,t and xok. while the kind-hearIed PatrI-
,-cis are engaged IN the easy task Of c astisiug
the Northern heathen
Sir desire not; | will not. suffer myself 10
institute a Comparison between The North and
S,nrh bi,, when gen lemeu talk of armies Of
one hundred thou >and ~ control opinion IN the
North II must be. they are "a KING IN ainu-e our
fancy. they certainly are n"t Weak enough TO
Su,1ns. they can excite oCr fs,rrs- If book of
,vn hundred pages convulScs your empire and
=. a, ,feaIIy a spark IN your dangerous maga-
zin4. # John Br',vn and twenty f,,Ilowers could
frsh,er your brave men. aud make your
me-, nervous sS one ri your VIrg1aIa iswyers
SAID IN the late State trials IN that State, do
,,ot deceive yourselves by anv deluSion that you
"a. serihilass eighteen millioa frseueu.