Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-01-09

dependence, to make commercial treaty, on being
presented to George the Third, after cold recep.
ton, he turned his back on our Minister'S Our in
dependence had just been gained hatred followed
its establishment. 1t is another striking incident,
that for the first time in eightyfour years, since
our independence, a British Prince makes general
tour Through tho Northern and Western States just
at the moment when the elements of sectional strife
doing their work of destruction, in overthrow
ing our federal system, and with it. paving the way
TO monarchy. A profusion of smiles and shower
Of noble and royal compliments have suddenly, and
for the f'st time, fallen upon US. The British 60.
vernment and the British nation VIGOROUSLY the
most selfish and heartless on earth. They move
only fur purpose; when they smile on the masses,
it is to betray They were pirates ON the ocean for
five hundred years, violating the flag of every
ton and capturing their vessels until in the war of
1872 we taught them some lessons rs 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 compatriot 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 consummaton. 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. IT teas Nero .fddting
uhite ROme toas burning.
Mr.. Is. would say word or two to the Senator
from Jackson county, he would say, bearing
very good name. The Senator (Mr. Ihomas) has
discovered that those who are opposed to rash &C.
ton are submisSonists-an imported phrase from
some other States where it has been used, for the
want of q 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 resurrection Of them, on this occasion,
the Senator from jackson would receive their loud
est applause for aiding the attempt 20 pull down
the free government which the patriots of the
luton by their valor, and which the Tories SO
hated. The privileged orLers OF Britain would no
doubt join i'll hosannas to those who We're doing the
self-government of man SO much injury, and that oi
crowned heads so much benefit.
The Senator also had rdculed the idea Of delay
in our action. wis. delay WAS oftener right than
wrong Precipitate action was generally both unwise
and wrong. ten. Washington, at many periods Of
the revolution, and especially in his campaigns in
New Jersey, was often repruachcd by Some Of the
hotspurs Of that day with pursuing FaDan policy
sometimes charged with cowart,ce; aai il living
now would probably, by some oi the " ing Amer
cas-, be called an old iosy. Wa>hinslo.a. unsurpass
ed in moral as he in physical courage, spurned
the reproachcs Of military tops, and when they
rId.iy asked him how long he was gong 10 retreat,
replied that he would retreat, if necessary, 10 the
mountains of Virgiia-plant 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
Irentou and made the glorious attacks at Princeton
md Monmouth and eniu1 fhn of the
in BLAZE Of glory at Yorktown. What went with
his accusers, Generals Charles Lee and ilorauo
Gates, both native Engllshmcn, and who had been
trying to supplant HIM Commander in Chief
Why in short time after the conspiracy was FORM
ed, and Washington was accused of humidity and
delay, Lee disgraccd 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
overthrow, and such was his prccip;late tight
with whip and spur, that it is said he rcache Hills.
borough from the field Of his defeat, in day and
night The moral OF this is, that rash precipitation
is often great folly, and prudent delay, generally
great wisdom.
Ii, said Mr. g., the country should unfortunately
become involved in civil brois he hoped the Soma.
tor from jackson would fly to the rescne-place
himself at the head of the red men, who yet hnger
in his region Of country; and, from his gallanuy,
but will lead the front in defending the country.
Mr. t. said if he had not known well, by az
tual personal observation in Congress many years
Since, how and when this slavery agitation received
aid and comfort and irst began to assume any thing
like size and proportion and narrowly watched its
progress since, he might too be Tor immediate
dsunion. The abolition party undoubtedly laid the
foundation of It Their strength, however, did not
III The last one or two years vi General Jackson
aboltionsts proper in the House OF Representatives
and three or four in the Senate The States o
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maine, New
Hampshire, Connecticut and all the North. western
States, including the State Of Uhiu had resolution.
OH their statute books at that time almost StroD:
As respected our constitutional rights regardin:
slavery, as North Carolina or Virginia. Tue de
bates in Congress Of that period will show that tn,
miserable illusions Of such mScrcants as Garrison
then in utter obscury and his paper of very limit
ed circulation at that time, in Massachusetts
were brought into the Houses of Congress, held W
as Northern sentiment by extreme men Of the Souti
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 eXpungcd
and which he had the pleasure Of voting TO expunse
| These extreme men at the same time denounced tn
entire North as abolition while at the very monen
the Northern Democracy and other coilscrvatlv
men were voting with US on all questions of pract
cal importance-on the slavery question, on tn
treaties and appropriations to remove the Indians
to admit slave States, and all others in which tn
South had essential interests These speeches wer
eagerly re-publishsd and circulated by the abol
tionlsts among the people Of the North, with insult
| ing comments on those OF the North who acted wit
the South. At the same time, the contemptibLe e
.fasions of the few abolition members of Congress
would he sent forth among tue people of the Sout
by extreme men Of the South and its newspape
organ at Washington, ats Northern sentiment I'll
newspaper organ at Washington Of the extrem
men Of the South, soon after the tariff question wa
settled by Mr. Clays compromise, declared that
was manifest that the South coutd not be united O
the tariff question, aud that the sh.re question wa
the only one that could unite them. Agitation o
the slave question, with this as the motto and ru
of action, then commenced between the ertren
North md South, thrown like a shuttle back an
forth, by which the monster of abolitonism was fe