Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-01
Gen. Wilson's Speech.

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Congress.
Mr. President: Bancroft in the
last volume of his History of the, United
States, has drawn with graphic pen, the
character of George Mason, one of the
noblest of that llustrious band Of patri.
OTIS that carried America through the
fire and blood Of the Revolution, FROM
Colonial dependence to National indie
pendence. He tells us that the Christian
patriot had been truly loyal, on re-
nouncing his King, he could stand justi-
fed to bis own conscience only by the
purest and most unsedsh attachment to
human freedom that his sincerity
made him wise and bold, modest and I'M
changing that he had scorn for every
thing mean, and low and cowardly; and
he always spoke out his convictions
with frank drectness.' The great Com
monwealth of Virginia sent this wise
and bold, modest and unchanging pa.ri-
OF to represent her in that ilIustrious as
sembly of patriotic statesmen, met to
frame the Constitution Of the United
States.
Actuatcd by the purest and most I'M
selfish attachments to human freedom,
scorniug everything, mean and coward
ly, and low, this noble son of Virginia,
speaking out his convictions with frank
directness, admonished his illustrious
coupeers that slavery brought the judge
ment of heaven upon country ! that
by an inevitable chain Of causes and eff
fccts Providence punished national sins
by national caIamiIies., These fearful
words Of admontion and Of warning, ut
tered nearly three-quarters of a century
ago in the ears of patriot statesmen
who were striving to frame a national
government in harmony with the rights
Of human nature and the laws Of the liv-
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upon US. In this hour Of peril, when
this republic IS rent and..0rn by fraternal
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