Year: 1859

1t will be remembered that Senator Ham
mond of South Corolila, distinguished lead
er in the modern Democratic party, declared
in his place in Senate, that Northern Mechan-
les and Laboring Men are no better than
Southern Saves-that they are the Mudsills
Of society, and of right should occupy an infe-
rior position. In this allusion to this modern
D emocratic doctrine, Mr.. Corwin, in a speech
at Newark, is reported by the American to
have made the following remarks


Mr.. Corwin, after denying that there was
any arrangement in the Providence of God by
which one man was born to be the slave of
another went on to show that God often and
indeed generally employs :" the weak things of
this world to confound the wise" There is no
doubt, said he, that men who have read much,
and are really learned, have been educated in
the belief that a certain great man who fgur
ed largely in Biblical history, was a white
man. No such thing-Moses vas nieger-
that is slave. He was Hebrew and not an
! Egyptian. As a leader in the armies of Egypt
he was always successful and was in high fa-
4or but God did not make him the leader Of
Israel till he had other experiences. Having
killed an Egyptian and fed to Midan he be
came laboror, keeper of sheep, wanderer
in the mountains


He had to go through a probation of forty
years, before he was deemed qualified for his
great undertaking. His education was not Of
the right sort. He must be made to share the
| common sympathies of the people. But when
so qualified he returned and proved to be one
of the wisest and ablest of the worlds great
men, So of Washington through whose in
strumentality God had given this great land Of
freedom. He was a poor survayor of lord
of Lord Fairfrx Little did he dream while
walking through Spotsylvania with his staff
and compass, that he was to redeem this great
country from the constraint of despotism.


God, in his own way, works out his purpo-
ses, and never uses his peculiar instrument un-
til he is qualified for the task. There was an
other instance which might be required to as
showing the wisdom and design of Providence
III the selection of its agents. There was a
poor man named Gideon, who was the poorest
of the very poor men-not worth as much as
| by the laws of Ohio is exempt from execution
not worth $3.50 He was a modest man
though he couldn't do much work. He was of
the tribe Manasseh, the poorest of the tribes,
and he was the poorest man of the tribe. He
was not a Southern gentleman, who had some
body else to work for him. He knew what
hard work was. He had some idea of what has
been termed " the rugged issue" He belonged
to the class of men who have done service in
! the world.


Well, Gideon was sent on Il very hazardous
and desperate enterprise, and wanted men for
the service that were equal to the OCCASION
How did he select them? Well, as they were
designed for rough work, he was directed to
try them at the brook, and to select them by


the straight forwardness which they manifested
in sIacIsng their thirst. If one Of them should
ask for a cup he wouldn't do but if he went
down on his knees and tapped like dog, he


was to be marked and taken.


Such men as these are not your Southern


gentlemen, who think that.you are all mudsills


They think that it is necessary to take tht


brave and honorable to ight-such did not th'


Supreme Governor select for the army of Gid