Year: 1861

The Express speaking ofMr. Kings lee
ture on Washington, says: #


There was nothing for him to say about
violation of the Constitution on the part OF
Northern States; but all the vials Of his wrath
were poured out upon the South"


Surely, the editor of the Express could not
have heard that portion of the lecture when
was devoted to a review of the events con-
nected with the Whiskey Rebellion of the
North, in the time of Washington. Did the
lecturer Justify any violation of the Constitu-
ton that has ever occurred in the North III
be did, we did not hear it. He wac severe
upon those States which have seeded, and
he was right in being severe upon them. II
Southern Senator, (Andrew johnson, OF
Tennessee,) could denounce them for their
action in his place in the Senate it can hard
ly be called Black Republcanism for those
not Southerners to do the same.


The cat of Secession was rubbed backw ard.
and the fire flew, not to say the fur A sneer-
ing allusion or two to cotton might perhaps
have been better left out, but there was, on
the other hand, much kindness of expression
towards the South, and strong Union senti
ment breathed throughout the discourse.
The speaker was for the Union, based upon
the Constitution, as interpretedJy the Supreme
Court of tie United States! What abolition
ism was there about that? If every man in
the Nation We're for the Union, based on the
Constitution, as thus interpreted, it would be
land of patriots and a land of peace. Aboli-
tionists are opposed to the Constitution of the
United States, opposed to the Supreme Court,
and desire separation from the slaveholding
States which shall be eternal.


The allusion to Washington's views on
Emancipation was not made by way cf en-
dorsing an antislavery sentiment, but for the
purpose ofillustrating proposition which the
speaker had laid down. He had said that the
Substance of Washingtons mind and charac-
ter was calculated to bring him into sympa-
thy with varied classes of men. He had a
hold upon foreigners, by his warm recogni-
ton of the talents of such men as Stueben and
Pulaski, and the readiness with which his
feelings assimlated with theirs. He had a
hold upon the Native Americans in q differ
ent way. lie had hold upon the heart of
the wild Indian even, for his stalwart foi tt
tude and courage won the admiration of those
bronzed children of the wilderness, and there
was the step of the Indian Sachem in his gait.
Though Southerner, and the owner of
slaves, he won to him the sentiment of the
non slaveholding class, by his views in favor
of the gradual abolition of slavery. And thus
was the allusion to Washington anti slavery
sentiments brought in; clearly, as we have
said, for the purpose of illustration.


But, admitting that all that is charged by
the Express is true, Mr.. King cannot be
blamed for delivering his sentiments His
purpose was to lecture on Books and Read.
ing. But, 10y especial request he substituted
his lecture on Washington. A notice of thi
production had been generally made in til,
San Francisco and interior press, and thos
who were instrumental in procuring thi
change or who consented to it, must hav
known the character of the discourse an
whether it was suitable to the occasion O
not. If it was lecture proper to be hisseC
why did those for whose benefit, to- wit: tn
| Odd Fellows Association, it was delivered
consent to the substitution of it for the let
| ture on Books and Reading2