Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-03-31
MT. Hunters Speech.


 prevented us from publishing in full u speech delivered by Mr. Hunter, of Vi ginia, in the Senate of the United State on the 30th January, 1860. Calm, coo logical and earnest, 1t is the speech of patriot and statesman. In this respet it is a model. In reading such spec as this, where calm, deep thoughts loc out from every line; where the history the whole question is brought, at once, [ view; where the statements are so clea and the argument so conclusive, we cam help but contrast it with the speech of tl. mere politician, whose broad assertion bullying air, and array of fierce word neither strengthen friend, or conciiate enemy.
 Mr. Hunter takes up the question slavery as right, views 1t in all its rel. tions, and in its effects upon all portions the confederacy. The science of gover, ment; the objects to be attained, and t mutual interests of the governed are a succinctly and clearly set forth. The toI IS elevated, yet earnest; calm, yet dete mined. You feel that master is seat at the instrument, and can control it. TT systems of society, comprised under u terms free labor and slave labor are an lyzed and compared in manner wortl of Calhoun.
 We had intended to make extracts fro his speech, but it is so linked together tn to be fully appreciated it must be read as whole. We give the concluding porti, of it. Therein he speaks the language <, the people of the south-of the democra, of the nation. With no air of bravad with no buster or threatenings, but tirml, as becomes great man, he tells the blac republicans what the southern states a prepared to do. Let us hope with hin, and, if the alternative he fears is presentec let us, in his firm and patriotic spirit, prc pare to establish confederacy whic "shall become and remain great, glorio, and free''
 At the conclusion, Mr. Hunter said:
 ''l say then, sir. unless there be som motive of sectional hate; some bitter hos tiity against us; some belief that there to be an irrepressible conflict between tb two systems of organization; unless som such notion as this is harbored in th northern mind, I cannot, for the life of mt see how, on any calculation of interest they should object to the growth and tn development of our scheme and system society. It is not, by nature, an antago hist to theirs; on the contrary, it make our interests subsidiary to theirs, instea, of being hostile and rival. It does no diminish your power at all; on the contra ry, you have larger share of power whel the increase is by slave States, rather thal when the increase is by free States.
 Why then, sir, is this war kept up?- Why not, for the interest of both section and all classes, lay down your arms an, put an end to this warfare against us?- Suppose it could be done; suppose tn government of this Union could really b administered in the spirit of justice and tn Constitution, who could assign the limit to our future growth? That they exis somewhere, we all must know. Whereve they are, they would be found far, ia away beyond the political horizon whicl bounds our mortal vision Sir, when W, come to see what we might be, and how we might become the master-inhuence the universe, if this Union were properl, administered according to the principles o: justice and the Constitution, the imagina- tion halts at the mighty conception, and the mind, rapt in the contemplation of the giant shadows of our future progress, as they sweep across the perspective, sinks under the effort to realize that glorious pageant of human grandeur as it passes before the view.
 MT. President, are we to be disappointed of such destiny as this, in the mad pur- suit of distractions and universals, con- jured up by moon struck theorists and