The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-01-11

/ Quintus Cartfus mounted his steel
/, full armed, and rode slowly and reso
lutely toward the cavern and leaped in
to the gulf, a willing victim to save
his beloved Rome. Should such
chasm open in our midst there is no
one, but ten thousand of Curtii-aye
and hundred times ten thousand-tt
leap into it for the salvation of thi
blessed and glorious Union (Grea
applause.) Who speaks then of dis
solving the Union Dissolve the I'm
ion /? Where are you going to draw
the line
A voice-Mason and Dixon.
DIR. Bethune-Mason and Dixon
There can be no line drawn there
But if there should unhappily ever be
such a separation, / know where /
should go, with that part that clings
to the Constitution and to the Uniou
as it is and as it has been. IF any mar
has right to be proud of his native
place, it is the man who now speaks te
you, for am proud to say | was born
in New York. But, sir, what is New
York +? What is the East-what is
the West-what the North-or what
the South Take away the Union,
and we are nowhere; we would be
worse than nothing reduced into the
chaos of rude, crumbling fragments.
Where, I ask, will you draw tie line
Will you divide the Mississippi in two
CA voice, "Yes.") Then try it. Are
you going to divide the Union by the
assumed rights or quilts of slavery I?
They grow cotton at the South, but
where do they manufacture it? On
one occasion it occurred in Liverpool
that an actor came on the stage too
tipsy to act his part well, and when he
approached the footlights the audience
began to hiss him. Feeling indignant
at being thus treated, he endeavored
to steady himself and said, What !!
you hiss me George Frederick
Cooke, when you have the blood of
slaves between every two bricks of
your house 2" Now, as far as I know,
there were never any slaves in Liver
pool, but the remark of the actor was
not the less opposite, for while they
had no slaves themselves, they profit
ed by slavery, and bought and sold
slaves. The same thing may be well
said in regard to this country. In
some sections of our land, where the
loudest cry is heard on this question,
men have grown rich by the manufac-
ture of cotton grown by slaves. The
sweat of the slave, so to speak, is be.
tween every two bricks of their spa
cious palaces, and yet they are the
loudest to complain. Men may call it
what they please I call it hypocrisy.
Where viii the line be drawn? To do
SO, you must rend assunder and ride
through the dearest affections. We
are one family people The man
who lives in Aristook may at any time.
have brother on the Rio Grande.
The mother in the North has given
her child to the Southern planter, and
the Southern planter bows in thankful
ness to God for the daughter of the
North, whom he has to cheer his home.
Would you dissolve this Union? ]
need not ask that question. You can
not do so. It is far different with you
than it was with the Sabines and the
Romans. You have not violently ta-
ken the women of the South, but the
North and the South have exchanged
with each other in relations of marri-
age and ties of consanguinity. What
God has joined together, therefore, let
no man attempt to put asunder /
have not said all that I would say on
this subject, and must hasten to close.
Voiees-Go on; go on all night if
you like.
DR.. Bethune-This is not time for
dry metaphysics I believe in MAIN
tanning the Inheritance we have re-
ceiyed from our forefathers. Our fa-
theirs made compact of this Union,
and they made a constitution that
might bind it together; and / for one
believe that this government is so well
secured and balanced by these wise
provisions that any alteration what
ever would be for the worse. There
is a remedy within ourselves for every
evil that can af1ict us if our own peo-
Eple viii burt faithfully apply them. =
There is therefore no room in this lanc
for revolution, and if it be said thai
there are some who viii not act, let i
/ be remembered that those who hesitate
may be spoken Of on the principle tina
he thatdoubteth is worth condemnna
tion. Shall we, then, be the inherit
ors Of all the privileges and blessing
Of our ancestors /? Let all our peopl
learn that they are bound by ties whicl
none but qhe dead, speaking by mira
cles, can undo. The memories of thos
who have bequeathed these glofies t
us as one sacred by their patriotism
and we would violate our fathers memo
ries five permit one stone to be pull