Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-30

such time gravely put in the mouth Of their
sovereign. 1t was appropriately moved and sec
onded by two very young members.
Fox Immediately rose He congratulated the
mover and seConder on the graceful manner in
which they had performed parts that certainly re-
quired the benefit of inexperience and the recon-
mendation of ignorance. Then, with the utmost
vehemence which language and manner were
capable of expressing, he ridiculed the proposed
address; sconfully denounced the whole conduct
of the American war; alluded very significantly
to the scaffold, as the just punishment of those
who had carried il on; accused the Ministers of
treachery, and even called Lord North, the Prime
Minister of France. He proposed an amendment
for total change of system. Lord North replied
to Fox He spoke scOrnfully of the insinuations
against his honesty; but there was a sadness and
seriousness in the Minister'S speech such as he
had never before shown, when only to be pleasapt
was WITH him to be victorious. The war, he said,
might be unfortunate but il not unjust.
"Should - he observed, thereafter mount the
scaffold as / am menace1, in consequence of the
part have taken in its prosecution, shall con
tinue maintain that it was founded in right and
dictated by necessity. The Minister could not,
perhaps, say less; but this an unguarded dec
1aration.
II Immediately summoned up Burke. He was
as Indignantly imperative as Fox; he was even
tsti1 more passionately eloquent. This mainten-
ance of an abstract right against reason, justice,
or policy chad from the first been the object OF
his powerful lcondemnation: he now, at the mo-
ment when all that he had before declared as
likely, had been proved by the results, fired
against his theoretical claim final volley.
Showing, in answer to the Ministers, that the
contest could not be 80 fifty called unfortunate as
disgraeeful and that the address, in reply to the
royal speech, actually pledged the House TO con-
tinue this runOus system, he turned round to the
Chair and exclaimed Indignantly: GOOD God
4 Mr.. Speaker, vet TO be told of the rights
for which we went to war? Oh, excellent rights.
oh, valuable rights Valuable you should be.
:. for we have paid deT at parting with you. Oh
valuable rights that have cost Great Britain thr-
teen provinces, four islands, a hundred thousand
men, and more than seventy millions Sterling
of money! Oh, wonderful rights that have lost
to Great Britain her empire on the ocean; her
boasted grand and substantial superiority, which
made the world bend before her Oh, ineStima-
BILE rights that have taken from us our rank
among nations and our happiness at home; that
have taken from trade, our manufactures,
our wealth; that have reduced US from the most
fourishing empire in the world to be one OF the
most compact unenviable powers on the face OF
the globe Oh, wonderful rights. that are likely
to take from us all that yet remainsY'
In a similar strain he commented on the in
ftuation of ministers thinking of no consequences
J and forfeiting everything for right which was
nothing without the might to enforce it; and he
burst forth with beautiful illustration, which he
had once before, indeel, more cursorily used, OF
shearing the wolf. Oh says silly man, full OF
! his prerogative of dominion over few beasts of
the field, there is excellent wool on the back OF
wolf, and therefore he must be sheired.' What.
shear a wolff yes But will he comply
Have you considered the trouble? Have you cal
}. culated the cost? How will you get this wool?
ooh, have thought of nothing, and will think
of nothing but my right: wolf is an animal that
has wool; all animals that have wool are to be
shon; and therefore will shear the wolf This
is the noble Lords reasoning, and this is the
counsel he has given.
i We abstain from italicising passages in the
above, but commend the whole to the deep rehec
ton of those gentlemen of the Republican press
| and in Congress who are now counseling the
North, by the system of coercion which they call
the enforcement Of the IaTs to shear the aroused
and irritable wolf, the ,chite race Of the South
: Treat him, rather, kindly-treat him affection
ately--treat him Justly, and you will find hin
subsde into the noble mastiff, the good and gal
liant and beloved guardian of the homestead Of
the united family.