, 1860-03-14

iorth from the days Of the Revolution to the |
oresent time. Van Wyck returned The compl- !
mont after this style:
After the astaek on Charleston, in l17e, you |
we're free from foreign foe until 1779. Then |
he enemy removed part Of his forces 10 tue |
South, because be expected sympathy aud suc- t
cor Irom tue Carol.nas md Georgia. on account /
pf the great Eumbcr OF tories in those States;
mud be id receive it. At the hattie Of Kings
IN the eneny's rank Of fifteen hnnd-
Ted, probably thirteen hundred were Carolina
aud Georgia tories hence The opening Of d new
seat Of war in the south. speak not to your
injury. No country ever produced trner, brayer
patriots. than-ths Cagotinas and Georgia They
had stern conflict. They had to Fl .ht the Eng
tish on the coast, aud their tory countrymen Ut
the hcarthstone..
The greatest cruetties aud spoliation you suf-
fered was at the hands Of your native Tories;
and from threats Of rebellion and violence
conclude their dtseendants ars NUMEROUS on tAdt
soil. With their blood seem to hare descended
their principles.
0nc more extract and III not press further on
your space. 1t ls in reply to the threat made
by disuuioaist that the South could muster
half "a million Of men, seize on the Capitol,
then march North and conquer aud subjugate
tue Free States. To this plantation gasconade
be answered:
The honorable member from South Carolina,
OR. ashnore,) in his speech on Thursday I1s',
in an eloquent and glowing description Of the
Of greater proportions than the grand army M
E''eon led 10 Moscow. They will probaofy take
counsel Of prudence and remain at home; they
might fiud i Russian winter In t1elr patti Does
the gen'1emap, candid and frank as know him
to be, forget that portion Of history which u.s.
suTes hin, that many good men in Ii: South
dreaded rebellion against England in conse-
quence Of the insecurity that would follow to
Stare property. that tits system Of bondage
prevented hi. people from bestoWing the full
measure Of their abilities to the cause Of 1nde-
reudence? that two Of the serious defeats you
suffered in the South were in consequence Of
your cbrttels suddenly converting themselves
into seutient beings, and leading the enemy up
on your armies: Are not the obstacles which
your fathers encountered increasing every year,
not only from the addition Of numbers, but the
intelligence which y0n say you are imp1autiDg
in their mjndsy WIN the slares quietly stay ~
home and WORT, while the k,nd-hear.ed patri-
archs a,c engaged III the easy task Of cGastis-
Ing the Northern hcathen."
Sir, I desire not, will not, suffer myself to
institute comparison between the North and
South, bnt when gentlemen talk Of armies Of
oae hundred thousand 10 control opinipn iu the
North, it must he they are talking 10 amu*e uur
fancy; they certainly are not weak enough 10
suppose they can excite our fears. If . book
OF two hundred pages couyulses your empire,
aud is so deadly spark in your dangerous mag
azine; if John Blown aid twenty followers
could frigbten -FOUR brcre men, and make your
women nervous, as one OF your Virginia law
ycts said in the late State trials in tllat State,
10 not deceive yourselves By any delnsion that
you eau aunihilate eighteen million freemen.
Charge not upon US tue folly Of your weak
more than half tue Union. to tue exclusion Of
Northcrn treemen; With 4 climntc genial, to
nurture the fruits Vi the tropics, aud soil RI
yalipg that Ut the Nile in richness. Saving the
blight of slavery, auong the suiuoth stones Of
tue stream is ihy portion;" while the North
wrcsties with the waterfall, digs into tue monn-
taius, struggles With the quarry, and cutirates,
here and there, fruitful valley. Dc content To
let slavery wear itself out TN -FOUR uwn solt
Insist not upon your expansion theory, nor
plant on that virgin soil serritu1c which will
disgrace them; tur yonr own negrvless whites
! feel more kcenly than we, that
"Tke badge Of the slave IL the ct the free
The speech was finished asnid the ferociou:
scowls Of the Iisunion Dcmacrats. 4 Taste o.
| their own medicine threw Them into patoxysu
of rage. Perhaps it will teacL them to he mort
circuttlspect hereaflerin their assaults upon th,
people Of the North; and they should not forge
tile old adage about how peop:e should bchaya
who iire in glass houses-that throwing stone
is a dangerous amusement in which to indulge
It WIS ruu,orcd about the city yesterday tina
Mr. Van Wyck woall be assai:el By certai,
disunionists wbcnesc. be could be caught alon
| but perhaps wiser councils will prevail. Ger
tain it is that an attempt to commit such a
l III ufn
Tible force. CHICAGO.
The Schooner "IItyondelle,'---A
HnFd Tlme OIL the Lake.
We went aboard this we'll known little cral
yesterday to examine her cargo Of stinyle:
and were surprised ut the icy and frozen appea,
ancc Of everything on board. She left the pos
Of Newark, ut The mouth of The kalamazuo ris
er, Sunday evening, and was nut in the storm
anl squalls Of Sunday night and Monday mor1
Ing. So rough WIS the weather and the Sc,
that. whe:, about half way across, the sea bro6
over her almost at every plunge Some scve1
ty-Gye II. or morc Of shingles from her decl
luad were washed overheard. The crew lashe
should Z sea dash tlIeui o1ccbuart, u rope aruun
them and fast aboard would enable then, tu ha'
| themselves back on deck again. The mate w
washed overheard and carried off i'm or dltsc
feet fran, tl,c vessel. bnt by means Of the ro,
| Tins nrccautionari1y fastened around him. !
drew himself back af,oart. Tic captain ".
thrown down upon his dcck-loal by a sea s,r;1
iuy him, but did not ,,isch him overheard. II
"e"sAs' wa 4AS.e'5 eo'"' A'a $us "e' ~
n!entS, sails, rigging, cArgo, rails, bounlS a.
everything, were glazed with ice. From ei.f
o'clock sun.lny evening till elcrea o'clock Mo,
| lay fprcnpun the contniu was On deck All,