Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-08

presented 10 George the Third, alter cold recep-
ton, he turned his back on our Ministers Our in
dependence had just been gained hatred followed
its establishment 1t is another striking incident,
that for the first time in eighty-four years, since
our independence, British Prince makes general
tour tkrough the Northern and Western States just
at the moment when the elements of sectional STRIFE
were doing their work of destruction, in overthrow
ing our federal system and with it. paving the way
20 monarchy. 4 profuSon of smiles and shower
of noble and royal compliments have suddenly, and
for the fist time, fallen upon us. The British 60
vernment and the British nation are VIGOROUSLY the
most selfish and hcarteSS on earth. They move
only fIr purpose when they smile on the masses,
it is to betray They pirates on the ocean for
five hundred years. violating the flag of every ma
ton and capturing their vessels, until, in the war OF
1872 we taught them some lessons as to the law OF
nations Their history is crimsoned with the blood
of Ireland and the East Indies and other regions Of
the world where the iron hoof of British conquest
has trodden. He honored the Irish Regiment of
New York for refusing to attend at the ceremonies
Of receiving the representatives OF government,
which government was stained with the murder OF
Robert Emmett and his compatrot United Irish
men. The train which she had laid more than sixty
years since for the dissolution of our Union, was
now in a rapid state of conSummatlon. Had her
willy statesmen come at this period of our national
woe to look on under the guise Of Friendship, and
witness its too successful workings He feared the
Greeks bringing presents. III toas Nero .pddt'ng
tohite Rome IodS burning.
Mr. B. would say a word or two to the Senator
from JacksOn-a county, he would say, bearing 4
very good name. The Senator mr.. 1homas) has
discovered that those who are opposed TO rash ac-
ton are SubmiSSioniStS-an imported phrase from
some other States, where it has been used, for the
want of better argument, to enlist the weak and
timid; and that the Tories Of the revolution had
counselled submission to George the Third. The
Tories were of that responding class Of persons,
said Mr.. b., who had hope and doubtless if there
could be a resurrection of them, this occasion,
the Senator from jackson would receive their loud
est applause for aiding IN the attempt 10 pull down
the free government which the patriots of the rcvo-
luton won by their valor, and which the Tories SO
hated. The privileged orders OF Britain would no
doubt join in hosannas to those who were doing the
se-government of man SO much injury, and that Of
crowned heads so much benefit
The Senator also had ridiculed the idea of delay
in our action \ wise delay was o!tener right than
wrong Preci plate action was generally both unwse
and wrong. Gen. Washington, at many periods OF
the revolution, and especially in his campaigns in
New Jersey, often rcprOachcd by some Ut the
hotSpurs ofthat day with pursuing Fabian policy
sometimes charged with cowardIce; and if living
now would probably, by some OF the young AmerI-
CT $ be called an old fosy. Washington, unSurpaSs-
cd in moral as he in physical courage Spurned
the reproaches of military tops, and when they
replied that he would retreat, if necessary, to the
mountains of Nirgina-pant the flag OF the coun-
try there, and rally its brave inhabitants to its de-
fence. What WAS the result? Why Washington,
by little delay, gained the splendid victory of
Trenton, and made the glorious attacks at Princeton
and Monmouth, and ended the wal OF the revolution
in blaze Of glory at Yorktown. What went with
his accuSerS, Generals Charles Lee and HoratIo
Gates, both native EnglIShrnen, and who had been
trying to Supplant HIM Commander int hief?
Why, in short time after the conspiracy was FORM
cd, and Washington accused of timidIty and
delay Lee dSgraced in the battle of Monmouth :;
and Gates having been sent South TO take command
Of the Southern army, in hot haste made an attack
on the British army at Camden, and was signally
overthrOwn, and such his precipitate flight,
with whip and spur, that it is said he reachc Hills
borough, from the field of his defeat, i'll day and
night The moral OF this is, that rash precipitation
is often great folly, and prudent delay, generally
great wisdom.
IT. said Mr.. B., the country should unfortunately
become involved in civil broilS he hoped the Sena-
tor from Jackson would fly to the rcscne-place
himself at the head of the red men, who yet hnger
in his region of country; and, from his CALAMITY,
may expect that hG will not be found III the rear
but will lead the front in defending the country.
Mr. b. said, if he had not known So well, by &c.
tual personal observation in Congress many years
since how and when this slavery agitation received
like size and proportion, and narrowly watched its
progress ever since, he might, too be for immediate
dlsuuiOn The abolition party undoubtedly laid the
foundation of It, Their strength, however, did not
i'll the last one or two years of General jackson 5
administration, consist OF more than eight or ten
abOl:OniSS proper in the House of Representatives
ami three or four IN the Senate. The States of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maine, New
hampshire, Connecticut and all the North western
States, including the State of Ohio, had resolutions
their statute books at that time almost strong
respected our constitutional rights regarding
slavery, rth-CaroIina or Virginia. The de-
bates in Congress of that period will show that the
miserable illusions OF such miScreantS Garrison,
then in utter obscurty and his paper of very limit
ed circulation ut that time, even in Massachusetts,
were brought into the Houses of Congress, held up
as Northern sentiment by extreme men of the South
who were then bitterly opposed to General jackson
and the Democracy, and whose names were after
wards found recorded against him in the resolution
of censure which the Senate afterwards expunged,
and which he had the pleasure of voting eXpunge.
These extreme men at the same time denounced the
entire North as abolition while at the very moment
the Northern Democracy and other conservative
men were voting with us on all questions of practl-
cal imporiance-on the slavery question, on the
treaties and appropriations to remove the Indians,
to admit slave States, and all others in which the
South had essential interests These speeches were
eagerly re-publiShed ard circulated by the aboli.
tionsts among the people of the North with insult,
ing comments those of the North who acted with
the South. At the same time the contemplate Ct:
tisiOns of the few abolition members of Congress
would be sent forth among the people of the South
by extreme men Of the South and its newspaper
organ at Washington, as Northern sentiment The
newspaper organ at Washington of the extreme
men of the South after the tariff question was
settled by Mr.. Clays compromise, declared that il
was manifest that the South could not be united on
the tariff question: and that the SLre question was
the only one that could unite them. Agitation on
the slave question, with this the motto and rule
of action, then commenced between the extreme
North and South, thrown like shuttle back and
forth, by which the monster of abotionism was fed
and its size greatly increased. 1t had been system
of action and reaction, of operation and coopera
ton more or less since, the abotonists OF the
! North abusing the STAKEHOLDER and his sentiments
and his ratings, instead of the speeches of Pierce
4 Buchanan, and such like men, seEt forth in the
fLepu NJ tI,,. obo,o