Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-21
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 81. 1861.
The Yankees and lne Negroes.

The Yankees and the Negroes.
The Yankee Congress is having an interest
| ing time now discussing the great and all con-
| querihg negro question, and Messrs. Morrill,,
Fessendeh, Wilson, Bo7ejoy, and men of that
school, are enjoying more happiness ttsn they
will ever enjoy again, either in this world or
the one to come: Among the molly crew,
Carlile, of Virginia, is not the least conspicq-
GUS trying to Ape the blackest of then; as will
be seen from the following sentence from
him:
Mr. Carlile, of Virginia, hoped they would
come to a vote so that slavery in the District
may be practically abolished. Time enough
had been spent on the bill, and he wanted
it passel so as to remove one peg on which
to hang sympathetic treatise on the negro
race.
! Having finished hp the negro question for
! the present, the nest thing in order was the
appropriation for sending articles to the great
fair at London. On this question Lovcjoy
got off the following
| Mr.. Loveioy, (Ree.J Of Illinois--1 am very
decidedly opposed to this bill. | think it is
enough for US in all conscience, to have been
humbuggea and dishono-ed and dsgraced by
the British nation, without now appropriating
S35, 900 for the purpose of an American exhi-
| btion there.
Mr. Kellogg, Rep.) of Illinois, enquired if
it had been through the action OF the Brit
ish Government, or Of our own government,
that we have been thus dlshonored and dis
graced?
Mr.. Loveioy-I understand how it was done.
That disgrace was all that the nation could
bear We marched up to it sweating great
drops of blood. We came to it as Christ went
to the cross, saying, "tf it be possible, let this
cup pass from u.s." and yet we required
to say that we did it cheerfully-that we did
it gladly-and that we now appropriate thank
fully thirty thousand dollars to 1T out
commissioners to appear at the Court OF st.
James. Inasmuch as we have submitted to
that disgrace, as we have submitted to be thus
dishonoured by Great Britain, l think the
least We can do is to acknowledge it, and to
STAY at home till the time comes that we can
/ whip that nation. Then l will be willing to
20 and appear at their Worlds Exhibition
Every time | think of that surrender. the
words come instinctiveiy to me which Kneas
used when requested by Queen Dido to reherse
the sutferings which had befallen the Trojans
during the sege and capture of Troy-"Oh,
Queen you require me to rene the intolera-
! bic grief of that siege by re-acting it," Every
time the Trent affair comes up, every time that
an illusion is made to it, every time that
have to think of it, that expression of the tor
tured and agonzed Trojan exile comes to my
! lps-I am made 10 renew the horrors which l
sufferedwhen the news ofthe surrender of Mason
AMI Sldell reached US. I acknowledge it, | lite
erally wept tears Of vexation. hate it, and
hate the British Government. l here now
publicly avow and record that hate, and de-
clare that it shall be unextinguishable. |
mean to cherish it while live, and to bequeath
it to my children when die, and if am alive
when war with England comes, and if can
carry a musket in that war, ! will carry it.
have threee sons, and mean to charge them
and do now chorge them. that, if they shall
! have at that time reached the years OF man
hood and strength, they shall enter into that
war:
T believe there was no need for that sur
render, and believe that the nation wou1c
rather have gone to War with Great Britain
than have suffered the disgrace Of being insul
ted and being thus unavenged. l have no
reached the sublmation of christianity-tha
eaaltatlon of christianity which allows me tc
be insulted, abused and dishonored. l hear
all that as a christian, but to say do it cheer
fully. is more than l can bring myself tc.
trust in God that the time is not far dis
tant when we shall have suppressed the rebel
lion, and be prepared to avenge and wipe ou
this Insult that We have received.
trust in God that that time will come. trus
the appropriation will be voted down. One o
our commissioners und.rtand, is the individ
ual who writes those pleasant letters asking
US to- submit to insult cheerfu1ly-to smile a
this bitter cup, drugged with the bitterest il,
gradients that were ever pressed TO human lips
and not to make face abont it. l don't be
lieve there was any necessity for this surren
der. lam strongly inclined to believe that W
w.uld have been all che stronger fo4 this diff
Guilty with Great Britain. for 1T would hav
made US feel the necessity of moking short W or
J with the rebels.
After further debate, the House passed tn
hill by large majority.