Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-03-27
Mr. oRfTfENDEN's FAREWELL SPEECH.
The following is the latter portion Of Mr.. Crit
tendens farewell speech delivered on Sunday night.

T.rch al.
Now, in regard to the South and the Border
tates would have them trust to the Union ana
o the people. The North has gwen assurances Of
heir sympathy for them, and justice will be done.
believe it There are assurances given OF kino.
less and patriotism that will be redeemed that
and kindness which exists in the North
md Justice will be raised from one end OF the
country to the other, and the people will crowd
around Il until States shall come and make peace |
offerings to their brethren. That day will come,
and It will be . happy day. believe this, and
would have the South and the Border States believe
it Our Northern fellow citizens have entitled them
selves to confidence by their action upon these very
resolutions thousands ard tens OF thousands have
come here with petitions in their favor States have
pcttioned for them; and in all this I recognize
spirit of kindness which should bind the hearts Of
Southern men. 1 will say, am for the Union;
am not for secession. No, Sir. And as to my
native State Twill say to her, more than to others
desire to see you stand by the Union OF the
country Do not 20 off unless an imperlous neces-
sty forces you. You have given to the world long
continued evidence of your consistency you,
patriotism, and your fidelity to the Union. STAND
by it You have stood there heretofore; why not
now You have literally founded your State upon
a rock Yes Sir, upon rock that State IS ionnoeo,
and YOU have engraven on q rock your testimony TO
the Union. The stone you sent to be portion OF
the monument to Washington bore upon Its Aen'
tuckv marble front these words: kentucky was
the first to enter the Union after the adoption Of the
Constitution she will be the last to leave it. Ihat
sentiment she has engraved upon marble, ana IT now
stands sanctifed still more by forming portion OF
the monument to George Washington. want 10
see her true to that great and noble sentiment !.
swclls the heart within me. There is nothing
seems to me, in all the hope Of triumph-notnlng
of the manly heart-sweng character OF the feelings
which this noble and patriotic sentiment has caleo
FORTH Let her stand there with US; and STAND Dy
those sentiments Let her be the last to leave that
Union which is covered with SO much OF glory: SO
much of triumph, and so much OF blessing, 1his
is the only Government on earth, under which man
can control his action can speak his own tnougn.s
and where no man is imprisoned unlawfully from
one end to the other-from San Francisco to
Portland
What if our Treasury is empty and our money
spent and our government badly administered!
Still with all these faults it is the best government
in the world 1t is here only. in the arms Of this
great and mighty Empire, that Liberty was pre-
sented to the world in all her might, and all her
usefulness In the little Republics, in the Alpine
hills of Europe, whose little territories are too small
to attract the ambition or cupidity of imperial
power there Liberty is kept thing to be looked
at and petted but here she stands in all her majesty
and might, with her arms stretching across con-
tinent Who does not love this great country,
with its mighty benefits to every citizen! The
name Of this county goes before him like host,
and is shield over him. The very name contains
q charm and spell which attaches to him in every
region Of the world; and its greatness and blessing
is magnifed still more every day. l say hope
Kentucky will stand for the Union. Try it and
try it again If one Congress does not judge
rightly and does not act rightly another will it is
a principle of our Government that these frequent
changes will give us justice, and every State IN the
Union should exercise patience and forbearance.-
Let us wait and when, If 1t be our sad fate rebel
lion and revolution shall have passed over the whole
lard, want see old Kentucky standing up. even in
that day of notwithstanding up with undated
strength and with the Flag of our Union in her
understanding upon her unconquered fields like the
last soldier of brave and gallant band; and then,
when the Union is no more and also stand then
the image of a patriotism, honor. heroism and
fidelity to the Union to the last then, and not till
them would have her consider what next is to be
done, for herself My principle is, take care of the
Union. 1t is the Palladium of Government Take
care of it, and it will take care of you.
The most dangerous enemies of the maintenance
of slavery in Virginia are her own Gsunion press
and orators. If they succeed in either coaxing or
bullying the people Of the State into giving up their
liberties enjoyed under the Constitution Of the
United States and in lieu thereof bending their
necks to the yoke of the ogarchys despotism, they
surely bring the Canada line down to Pennsylvania
southern border, so far as future security for Vir
ginia slave property is concerned. They induce
Virginia to relinqush the existing constitutional
guarantee for the return of fugitive slaves releasing
PENNSYLVANIA voluntarily and wholly from its obi.
CATION upon her. They make almost every man in
Pennsylvania the bitter and active enemy o. slavery,
because by the secession of Virginia nominay for
slaverys benefit, they will have increased ten fold
the business difficulties and financial troubles which
Pennsylvania has already incurred through the
secession Of the Gulf States.
Thus, they not only render it certain that every
runaway who manages to reach Pennsylvania will
be lost to his owner, past the possibility Of reclama-
ton, but they raise up in Pennsylvania hundred
active workers in the business of negro stealing,
| where there is one now The consequence cannot
fail to be the successful escape Of fifty Virginia
runaways where one successfully escapes now Who
falls to realize this selfevident facti
From the moment Virginia secedes this trouble
will increase at such rapid rate, as that in single
year those in Virginia who have slaves exposed to
be thus lost will either move further South with
them, abandoning their Virginia estates, or Gf the
latter be worth more to them than their negroes)
they will hurry the latter into the market; selling
them South very generally for what they may be
able to get Tor them under the damaging eftect-tc
prices-of the glut thus brought about. While the
seeded States will reap the advantage of getting
Virginia's negroes either by emigration, or by
purchase at very low prices, Virginia will surely b.
parsized beyond expression for tie time being, by
the immense loss Of productive labor she will 81
suddenly sustain. Her soil, climate and othe
advantages are however, too great to admit the ide'
that northern and foreign labor will not rush in b.
thousands to supply the vacuum. In less thai
three years from the day that Virginia's disuniol
press and orators may carry the State under tn
oligarchy's despotism, the new corners will have 81
strengthened the opposition to that government, a
that they will vote Virginia back into the Union D.
a majority of two, three, or four to one; and will
doubtless, the State then being we'll nigh entre.
clear of slaves) abolish the institution from tn
State, by q change of the Constitution.
This reasoning is so plain that any man OF re
Election will realize that far the effect of seces
sion upon the future of slavery in Virginia is cor
cerned, it is destined to be just as we describe
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