Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-03
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Extract from speech of Mr. Garlic, delivered in the
Virginia State Conueation Marck Z, 1861.
"Oh, but" our friends say, :" if you don't unite
in . Cotton Government they will not buy our
negroes" SAY they cannot get them anywhere
else. have no fear Of their reopening the Afrcan
ever be permitted to do it England will not allow
it France will not allow it. Spain will not allow it.
nor would Northern Confederacy allow it Even
now great and powerful as we are with large por-
ton Of our territory dedicated-as the Black Re-
pablicans call ito freedom; even now, great as
we are, debating upon almost every other subject
cur treaties with other nations upon our own terms,
we are compelled to keep up force, at an expend-
ture of millions of dollars to prevent this African
They could never coerce me into any act which my
judgment dsapproved Of by threatening that they
would not buy my negroes. ~.
Sir, is no. language like this, employed by these
secessionists with the design Of influencing the
minds of the people of Virginia, an Insult to the
honor, and the intelligence and the patriotism of our
peopef But oh, our honor is at stake, our rights
are denied" We are told by some. Pray gentlemen
wherein has your honor suffered or is likely to su
fringing upon Virginias honor has been attempted,
much less executed What right has ever been de-
niedS Haven't you equal rights in the Territories?
Has not this very Government that you are going
to overthrow, declared that you have? Haven't you
equal rights as States in the Federal Government?
Has not the little State of Florida, with its forty
seven thousand white inhabitants, and its twenty
three millions of property, an equal voice in this
Government with the great State of New York, with
its three millions of white inhabitants and its thou
sand millions of property? Has not the State Of
South Carolina with white population not halt as
large rs the single city of Philadelphia, an equal
voice in the control of this Government with the
whole great State of Pennsylvania with her two
million five hundred thousand inhabitants? Then
what has been denied you? Put your finger upon
the right that has been taken away from you. What
right has been denied in this Government? Where
in does this inequality consist? May it not be- gen.
tlemen-and ask it with all kindness-may it not
be that you have mistaken party platforms for the
Constitution of the United States and the action of
individual parties for the action of the Federal Gov
eminent?
Mr.. President with our extended frontier, with
our defenceless sea-coast tell me the amount Of mon
ey that would be required to forty the State, in
case of separation, to afford the slightest protec-
ton not only to our slave property but against those
John Brown forays upon larger scale? And, by
the way, let here call your attention to single
fact namely, that it fourteen of the marines of
this very Federal Government which you want to
destroy, that took John Brown and his men out of
the engine house. 1t was not all this army that you
raised in Richmond and that We sent down from the
border. 1t was fourteen marines belonging to the
Federal Government which took that insurrectonary
party out of the engine house. delivered them over
to your civil authorities, who justly tried and hung
them; and it was the Governor Of our sister State
of Pennsylvania-for, denounce me as submissionst
if you please apply whatever epithets you will,
Pennsylvania is our sister State-and it was the Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania who delivered up to US Has
lett and Cook, and in doing so, he behaved as the
Chief Executive of sister State should behave.
Sir, can any man believe that in of dissolu-
ton of the Union, would enjoy anything like the
freedom, the liberty and equality which we now
enjoy under this General Government of ours p
Could we maintain ourselves without strong mill
tary force kept up at an enormous and exhausting
expense? We are now, under the Constitution and
in the Union, the freest the most independent, and
the happiest people on earth. Dissolve the Union,
and military despotism, the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the
camp anG ragged poverty will be substituted in its
place.
And now, Mr.. President in the name of our own
lustrious dead in the name of all the living in the
of millions yet unborn, protest against this
wicked effort to destroy the farest and reest Gov
eminent on the earth. And denounce all attempts
to involve Virignia-to commit her to selEmurder,
as an insult to all reasonable living humanity. and
a crime against God. With the dissolution of this
Union hesitate rot to say the sun of our liberties
will have set forever"