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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of o Liberties, and if it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." F. DIRISOE & SON, Proprietors. EDGEFIEL . C. JULY 30, 1856. -OL -- SPEECH ON HON, L. NL EEITT, - OF SOUTH CAROLINA. On resigning his seat; delivered in the House of Representatives, July 16, 1856. Mr. KEITT said : llr. CHAIRMAN: I shall proceed to-day to dis charge a task which has been hanging over me much longer than I wished. Had I replied to the attacks upon the revolutionary history of South Carolina immediately after they were made, I should have repelled them with more violence than I shall use now. I feel, sir, that I approach a grave discussion, and that it is my duty not to discolor historical facts with violence, or prejudice the verdict of posterity through ex travagance. To-day I speak for South Caroli na-for her dead and her living; for her dead, because their patriotism and sacrifices have been questioned; for her living, because their revolu tionary titles have been denied. Sir, if, in the course of the vindication of my State I shall be compelled to strip the fig leaved garments of pharisaical righteousness and hypo critical sanctity from the shoulders of another State, the fault, if fault there be, is with others. 'T'he sages and patriots of the revolution reared, through their common strug'gles and common sacrifices, an august and splendid tem ple, into which each of the confederated States entered, and hung up along its walls her batter ed shields, inscribed with menori:ils of valor and a blazonry of fame. In the early d.ys of the republic no one approacled this sanctuary but with reverent feelings and holy tread; but recently the magic circle of sanctity. whic, gratitude and reverence had drawn around it, has been rudely broken, and licentious utteran ces have echoed along its walls. Within its very '-holy of holies" we have seen American legislators, dressed up in the cast-off garments of Fred Douglass, distribute among dupes and victims broken victuals from the feasts of Abbv Fo'sum and Vm. Lloyd G.rriss'n. Sir, froma one portion of the walls of this temple I shall to-day er deavor to efface the stains of these lepers of history. I shall now proceed to array the charges which have been made against the course of South Carolina in the revolution, and then summon an impartial history to refute them. As they have been drawn from the anthority of at Mr. Lorenzo Sabine, the historian of American Loyalists, 1 shall at once go up to him. lie says: " South Caroiina did not-she could not-defend herself against her own tories." Sir, I admit that there were turie, large bands of tories, in South Carolina throughout our revolutionary war. During that struvgle she had, at the same time, to contend ag tinst a pow erful foreign enemy and a vindictive domestic fac:ion, while even the horrors of such a conflict were intensified by the merciless cruelty of the savage, subaidised to his feliest warfare. Sir, the most awful of all calamiies are those of civil var, and the phi:ils of these were ini the revolution unsealed and poured upon the devo ted head of my native State. There is not within her limits a rivulet which was not crim soned with patriotic blood-not a spot + hicl stone which has not its story to tell. - Her pa triots, soldiers, and sages-these her gratd old men, now housed in the Pantheon of history before any court on earth will prou'e her title to revolutionary peerage. WTas it unnatural that there should be tnries in South Carolina during the revolutin ? What does Mr. Sabine say? He says: "The population of South Carolina, compos ed as it was of emigrants from Switzerland, Germany, France, Ireland and the Northern colonies of America, and their descendants, wa, of course deficient in the necessaIy degree of homogeneity, or sameness of nature. to insure any considerable unanimity of po.litical serti ment. It is true, however, that indi-idual men took an early, a noble, and a decided stand against the oppressive measures of the BritishI Ministry. It is equally true that South Caroiina was the first State of the thirteen to form an independent constitution, and that she overpaid her proportion of the expenditures of the war in sum of $1,205,978." The revolution in South Carolina was eon eeived and orgamnised by the native pop)ulation. The Germans knew that the King of England was a Prince of Hanover ; the Scotch. always loyal, turned to the Crown ; the commercial population, mostly Scotch and Englishl, were opposed to the patriots. The symbol of inde pendetnce was raised aloft by the native iitizens of Carolina, and by- them it was triumphantly carried through the war. Nor was her diverse population the otnly cle ment or distraction. The very caiuses of the revolution created division within her limits. How does Mr. Sabine sum tip these causes? Lie says of the legislatiuonv nhiih produced thmem: " They forbade the use of water-fadlls, the erecting of maichinery, of looms and spindlIe, and the~ working of wood and iroti; the.y set thme King's arrow upon trees that rcotted in the forest ; titey shut out mairkets for boards and fish, and seized sugar atnd molasses, and the vessels ini which these articles were carried; and they defined the limiless inceant as but a ntarrow pathway to such of the latnds that it etmbosoms as wvore the British flag." South Carolina suffered no grievance from this legislation-she etmployedl tn machinery she sent ont no, rivail ships-she lost no vessels by captlure : Great Brtin bought. at her w'hiarves all Iher sta:iples, aind p:;id remuneatimg prices. WVhen pirates inifested her coa:its. Biriti-l fIkets h-wept them aiway ; whlen Spantiard or sa:v age a-sailed hier peace, Briti~h tioops repelled! them. She was thte fatvored colony of Great Brit:'in, and into her lap were poured the corn copia ofI materir.I plenty and prosperity. I Ier sons sumffered ii!one from dis:.biti. ies imnpored upon na.tive intellect. Great Britain, fron tim memorial uisage, gnverned henr colonies in Par liamient. This shut oat native iuitelleet in Carn linmi (I mean both the Carolinas) from those offices and honors to wvhich it aispired, and ti, whlich it was capable. TIhe sons of the wealthy families in thiosi colonies were edtiented in~ the Uiversities ofi Greait Britain, and were eminently qualified for civil and political trusts. From thiese theyv were exch-Iided, and they threw off the ltyrantiy upon intellect. Miassachusetts enibarked in the revo lu tion for wvaterfalls, spindles, and mnerchaint craft; South Carolina engaged in; it for the roy alty of mind. Sir, is it surprising that, with a diverse popu lation, an~d an iarpeal only to ntilve mind and ambition. and that, too, against pecuniary and commercial interest. thero shoull have been, civision in South Cairolira? Division thtere was; Lint the constituted authorities of the State committed her, fr'.m the first. to the revo lutidiiVy movement, and she neither wavered or faltered throughout its progress. Arc the claims of a State to be a(djudged by its settled policy, or by oppousnion to that porli ey? Catn a State be known o.k-rwise tha~n tbrougha its constituted athioritie-s? Can hii-. tory chwim jtmrisdiction over othier than its or ganized action? [mnw, then, can a vindictive domestic faction within her limits gnailily the claim of South Catrolina to re.tohiionary nobili ty ? The imputationi upon her because of this faction is grossly unjust. *mi, t I. f..si...ble i., M.....a...se.tst..ai the whole credit of beginning the revolutionary struggle. It is fashionable in Massachusetts to regard the battle of Bunker Hill as the whole revolutionary war. Obliging historians and a self-gratulatory parish have mutually cumpli mented each other. into this conviction. The only difficulty is to drug Truth, so that she shall slumber forover. Let us appeal to facts. In Charleston, Nov.-15, 1773.a public meeting resolved to seize the tea in Charleston harbor; and they did seize it and prevent its sale. The citizens of Boston threw the ten over board into Boston harbor af erwards; but they disguised themselves as Indians, and did the act in the darkness of night. The citizens of Char leston had already dune a similar act in daytight, and m the eye of the sun. Were their difi-rent modes of action in this matter indicative of a difference in the character of the two people? Since then, a secret party, organised in mystery, and plotting under "cavernous archwavs," has ruled Massachusetts-but in South Carolina it found no resting spot. In 1765 Colonel John Ashe and Col. Vaddel, of Non It Carolina, whit a hand of brave com patriots, seized a British sloop.of-war with stamp paper on board. and carried the stamp paper in triumph to Wilmington. They publicly burnt it; then forced the royal governor to yield up the stamp master fir that colony to them, andl compelled him to take an oath not to excecuie his ollice. Here was an act of heroism and magnanimity greater than that of the Boston tea party or the battle of Bunker Hill. At C. arlotte on the 2U0h May, 1775, the Mecklenburg declaration of independence was made. This was the prototvpe of the Ueelara tion of Independence of 1776. The first victory in the revolution was won at M1uore's Creek, North Carolina, on the 27th February, 1776. Well may the Od North State, her head piilow ed upon her laurels, sleep soundly. boundly she has slept-so soundly that 3Massachusetts has filched front her the honor of her earliest achieve rtents. Into Jame.: river, too, did the ga!lant sons of Virginia thro.v 3itikh stamp piper. These acts itve been ee!ebrated in no orations, and em bal:ned in nc poem; but the tea party of iDos ton is Pealed and chimed on every tongue of fame. Those who perfoumed most of the -tchiev ments of the revolution have not written its ii tory. Now, sir, I will proceed with the charges against South Carolina. Mr. Sabine says: "'The whole number of regulars enlisted for the cuontinental service from the beginning to the close of the strug.le was :.31.90; of these, I have otce remarked, 67,907 were from 31:ts sactusetts; and I tnty now add that e(vet State south of Penn.ylvania provided but 59. 493-8414 less than this jingle State ; yet did 66Gk) whig soldiers exhaust her re.sources of men ? Could she furniish only 752 more thut R~hode lsland. the tiialle.t tate i the cotfed eracy: only one-fifth of the nunber of Co::nec it i ; only one-half as many as New ilanp -,hire, then an almost unbroken wiid.:rness? athc hidrr; he e 1 u--ot*ind-h tier owti tortes; and it is hardly an t x.iggera tion to add that. tmore whigs of New Ensgil:a1 were sent to her aid, atnd inew lie buried in her .oil. that .,be sent frmiut it to every .scei:e of sirite from Lexiigion to Yorktown." I allirmi that there was not a single New Eng. land cotimpaty in South Carolina throughot the revolin ioiarv war. I :diirm that there was not a single su!dier from Mas achusetts in South Caronitta throughout the whole progress of th.ti coiti:e. Let us appeal to history. When Char'et was first as-ailed, in Jane.i 1776, though Ch:arles Lee was sent to take cot tiand of her defiteces, he bro ugh t no tro.i; 5 The baU le of Fort Moultrie was fought n:.d won by Cci. Mt tiie and Co I. Thonpson, wit!t unly the n:tive tiiia of S ,uth Caru!i.a. Friomi behind a slender breastwork, ha-iily cotstrue. ted, General Moultrie siattered a Uritii: 11:e;. and with live or six hundred miii:ia Col. Tt.ap son drove boek two tthotsand Briish reenthirs. WVtont Liincolni was setit to to take commma:t~l. what was tile order given to himi by Congrres? It was " to take cotmmaind of all tiheir foce I the southward." (Ratmsay.) What constituted the regrulair armty of~ Gen. Gates when lie moved to C:oadein? Fourteen hiunidred continenital troopts, consistintg of the Delavare and Mlarylanid lines. (Jolmtsoni's Gre tne.) With these were militia front \ irgintia aind North Carolinia. TIhe remnaitns of this army constituted the nucleus of that of Geit. Grene, for which lie received no reintforcemtents of regulars, except the legiotn of Col. Lee, most of wich were Virgitnia aindt .Mayvlanid recruits, andu a tegiontry corps, also, fromn Virgintia, commantuded by Genteral Lawsoni. Sir, thte.e are allh thle continental troops which were ini South Carolina throughiout the re-volu tiotnary war. 'I hirty bloody battles were funght up-n ter soil, but they were all fought by south erii meni. Sir, in the darkest hiou rs of thle Revo lutioni, wttent the cloud of defeat hung fromt all die arches of our sky, her patrhisatn leaiders, in swvamp hastinesses aund ott mounitaitn top, kept the tires of idependenice brightly burntotg. In the wildest stormi of that struggle, the Pnhineio ship of State was held, with unconquterable lirit itess, to its path of revolutioni, beaicotted right onward by the eternale stars of resistance an~d liberty. While British fleets daurkeiied lier coasts, and Ut iti-ha armies ravaged lien soil; while ina ra udoiig tories anid indian ban~ds wrap tped lien ini dtiites ..n itd trei.enued lier iin blood, thteie spr ug tip a:I aver lhen that ibrilliatit race of parui..:m wL.r iar, whio hiave ne-- en beeni surpassed ini thle liil try 1 of~ humian wvarfre. From lien native iliti atusne spr.ing upi Mlariin and Sumter. hPikens :inui Lacy anid Clevelan~d and Mair,anid Da.vie amtd Haimptont atnd 31Iyem anti ztd Tiutomas, :tntd Brattin anid Roebuck, antd a hio't of othlens, whoase dleeds rivu event the lmeends of Spa rtan diaring andii Rom:mt prowess. Sir, for foutr yecars Sonth~ t.'atrolinia wats thle theatre ohf conti et for bothatthe A tiet ieaa anid lOritishl a ries, antd from her wasted soil, andti through the labor of lien slave poputlationt, was sit- tenancle provided for Iothi the cocntenduing~ pa r:ie-. I repeat the de elaratiit, hint notL a sin~gle private sold ier from .las.sachutset ts was ini South'tCarolina through; ''Lt the whotlle Revolutioniary wair. The thtirty battles w ithtin her limtits were fought by Sout~h ern men. Mr. Sabine also says: "Soth Carolina, with a northern army to assist iter, could not, or woulid not, preserve lien own caipital." Sir, I have already said that the're was not a New Eniglaind comipanty in Sou th Carolitna at anty period of the war, arid I pronunce the abaove shatemtent to be au fraud itnd falsehourod. What are the facts of tI e cae Threue times d1urig the wan wats Chiarlestont assiailed. What w'as thte condt~uct of lie Carolittianis during the first ass:itl 7 Rattnsay says: "lit South Carolina, pairticuharly, every' exer tion laid been mtade to put the ptrovincee, antd es Teein:tlyv its captital, in a respectable posture of diefentce." When it was first attacked, r~larm guns were fired,.n;td Rmiistay says: " The militia oif the counitry very generalhly oeyed thei summronls (of President Rutledyge, aund repaired in great numbers to Charleston." The carital was defended. and the Ritish were beaien off, wholly by the South Carolinian in one of the most sanguimary battles of t1 war. This was one defence of the capital. "Another occasion f.dlowed when Gen. Lii coin, withdrawing all the regular troops awa into Georgia, left its (South Carolina) whol seaboard open, and its capital city liabh to coup de main of Gen. Prevost. What then w: the cour-e of the Carolinians? We find Mou trie ru-hing to the rescue, with twelve hundre militia from one quarter, and Governor Rutledg with another body of native militia pressin down for the sain' object from another quarto of the interior; while Lincoln, with sinih speed, was marching from a third direction. (Simms.) A second time were the British baffled in the attempts. A third attack was made, and it succeeded but under what eircumst:ntces? General Aah with the Georgia continentals, and fifteen hur dred North Carolina militia, had been defeate and dispersed by General Prevost ; and thi disastrous event had been followed by the sti more disastrous assault upon S:ivanntt;h, i which the" coibined forces of D'Etaing an Lincoln were defeated with great loss-a los falling heavily upon the Carolina troops, wit alone succeeded in planting their stand, rd up~ the enemy's works-a barren but an hmi.orabl achievement. (Simms.) In addition to thi enfeeblement of onr forces, the stall-pox rage in Charleston. Science had not yet disarm-a this enetfv of our race of its terrors, and the it smote more consternation into the hearts o men than now. The Indians, too, in the uppe portions of the State, were uneasy and re-tle"i :tad showed signs of an approaching ont bre:. The monntaineer, who left his home for the de fence of' the enpita!, felt that the war.crv o' tin savage, and the shrieks of his butehered famniti mig-ht cotmpaniut him on his soldier pilgriuaet But even then the:r was no :ick of patrie:i-t J or courage in the defence of Ch:trleston. In February. 1780. Charleston wt a thir tine approached. The force with whiehi th city wa' invested consi-ted ifa bout ttwelve than sand di'eiplined troops and a fleet of about fift s:iil of' vessels of till classes, ranogiig from th sloop.of-war to the ship.of-the-line. McItto. says: "On the 13th cf April all the general omeer were called by General Lincoln to his gn::rte r. where he gave us the first idea of the st-te i tile Lrarrion-the tnit, provisions, stores, artiile ry, &e.. in it; tite little hopes he had of stec of any consequence; and the opinioni of1 ih. enigineers respecting our furification-that thei were only iieldaworks of lines, and cond hoh out hnt a few days more. Wiit every infor:n aito: he conl d. ohtain of tlie numbers. st:engtI of thi enermy, &c, he was coim t'elled to take up the ide: of evaet:ntinig the ci!y," &c. The sante writer says: "On the 19th of April the council adjourne; in th.e evening to General Lincoln's q tar; ers when Colo'nel L:irney. representing the insulii. eiency of our fortificati.ns, (ii they were wvor av of b ~g, eaj ed ,seu tie jmsrbhtiy e in' out inany 7iys longer, and the i:mprae ticability of taking our retreat good as the e. mly were now situated, carriei it fur Terii:; terms of hinorable e:jiil:min fir-t. The Lien. tenant Governor, wit four of his connteti (.lesses. Fergsorn. IIinti on. Cat tie. :m::d 1 )r 1amnsay.) coiting in a little tiller, used the cone cif very rudely: the Lieutetant Governor dr. ilaring he would protest :gaist ('ur proeed. ings; that the miliia were wtiling to live uputi rice alone. rather th:in give up the town npon an: tmas; atn;d that evet the old wiummnt were si aceusto tied to the enemy's shut now that. thiet travelled the streets without fear or dir' nu." Gem. Mo it rie was thie only general ofiicei wio o'jee:d to a capi.tubltion. lie was in ith "erv i Southi Ca rot iii:'. Gervatis says tha the ruinor of a cai;l.:ion " occaionted gre.:: dliscotent at, well an::.,~ the re_"ul:tr. a. mn.liti t w wish to cldeteind thIie Ilace to lie l..at xr wlly, :re in Ihigh spirits, atid so re sulve. as :n ''ier to receLive only ht.ilf rationis a1 dar it' ieces sary." Geni. Mlot rile oni te 2sh s. ys : ''A, sootn as Gett. ]Dupierail (ac Fre:.eh otiieer) e:imnv into the' gitnieni andi 10 .in- at the enemyv am. ait our wor~ks, lie dechtred that thiey were noi tenab~Le, anid tha~t the British tmigh: htate taken: the town'i ten d.: vs ar'!'.'' Geni. 3onul rieao say.s tliat wh'len the Bri:is!t -:ctw the niiti!e~r oh our menm they were :aston ished, anrd --aid we luuili mtadet a gallant defenice." Col. Rochfort m.i. -Sitr, you have itiade a gallant defettce."' C!:ar. le'stoni was defetided hty live thiousandl troots, anti of these more tan Iifticen lhuntd red we-re Catroliinics. Th'le suppilies of provi- ions :'~ ammuiinitoni were inauttliceint; thii wats owving. to Gent. Lintcol n's tieglei't. Thie ciity fell mn through starvatlion thtan assault. TIhte Britisht aipproe:.e'd it thle 9th of Februmary ; it cap'i Iui. ted the 11t 31 ay. T1rne, it itight live beent defenided 'oetter. butt we will see whether .'i-sa-. ehusetts has a right to reprontehi Somi~b Catroltina. 3Mr. Sabitie admits that SoothI Carolina ov~er. paid her' propoto of mthelii ' xpenidiiinres of' the watr ini thte sumt of $ 1,205,978. Let us see ite cotinibut iotns of melcn. Souith Camrolin h-tId 93. 000 inhmabitanmts ; l:mssachuset ts haid :352.000. Seybtert's taible, whicb ' as laid before Congr.iess the 5ih Deccembier't, 1811 shows tiat Sut It Caro-. linta tfurni,hed 35.503 mien d uring theii revolutiiion, ar.d thua 3:issacusetts lurnikhed 88 183. Tak. ing t heir respect ice hppulat ionss a: balis, Soii Carnolina shotubl have f'mrmnishe'd otly' 23.29C mniu instead of' 35,503,. or .31iassaetet-st~ shotuldI hav~e funrnished 13-4 374;, intatead of' 8S.183. Siontht Carol ina mayi c'hi:i I engt~e'ompatrisonu with 31assachiusettis ott the nmuster-r dl: on the pentsiont lis. shte yields to her :-upn-mn icy'. Thel citizenis of' tte it te', w'hi mever their neldjave ment s maty have beeni on the h~attle.field, havii' alwatys IhidIct witit alari ty ittto Iliol low sqnale: before the treasury, andi have beent more fori. daible to it, than an " 'rmy with hainnecrs." Now, .sir, let us see sotmethiung of' then gallatntry Elf aassachusetts in thle war tt' ithtle revolutiim which lhas been so noisily vautnted here. Thu following corre'spondenctite oeccutrred whilie titi Bri tisht were ini possessioni of' B3oston, anud t Ame'ricant forces unjter Genieral Wa-hlingtor wvere beleagcuei'ng it. Ge tn. WVa'hintgi i'n, in: lettecr to his birot her, Jiohni Anign stine War biinog toto, dated " Camp at Camibridge, J uly 27, 1775;' says: -I found a miixed mu1 ltide of people here uusier very little discipline, order, or governm Ini a letter to thte Pres'identt of' the Council o .\asschusetts Bay, dated Aumuist 7. l7'y5-. monith Itfiter he arrived there-Ge n. WVasinmgtor says. "By the general return made to me for las weeck, I fund there are great ntumnbers of soldier: antd nont.coniinc'ted ofiice'rs whmo aibsen themmselves frmomt dnmiy, thme greater Dart of' whom I hamve reas~on tio believe, aire at their respmetive homes, in diifl''renit pairts of the coiuntry ; sons empl1loye'd by t heir ciflicers on their farms, anm others dlrawinmg paty from the public, while thej aire working~til on their own plantations oirf hire. My titmnist exertionms haive tnt been abb4 to prevent this base anu.1 peniiciltns cotiduet." Jin a lettecr to time Precsident of Congress, date< September 21. 1275, lie says: "The necessities of the troops having requiren pay, I directed that those of Massachunetti .hon1A receive for nn month, upon their beini s I mustered and returma a proper roll; but e claim was immediatel .made for pay by lung months, and several r iments have decline taking up their warran on this account." in a letter to the P dent of Congreso, da ted November 11, 177 en. Washington says e "The trouble I hav in the arrangement o a the army is really ine civable. M:ny of thl oflicers sent in their ni es to serve. in exoect: d tion of promotion; of rs stood aloof, to se what advantage they co.d make for themselves whilst a number, who addeelined, have again sent in their names to se e. o great has bee r the confusion, arisingfm these and many othe perplexing cireumstancu 4that I fotund it absolit ely impossible to fix this ecv interesting business exactly on the plan reso ed on in the conference r though I have kept up' the spirit of it as nea as the nature and leu aity of the case wouk admit. The difficulty 'ith the soldiers is m grenst, indeed, more so, possible, that' with th< oflicers. They will no eunlist until they knots their colonel, lieutenan olonel, major and cap tain, so that it was :e. .sury to fix the ollicer: the first thing, which i. t last, in some maone I done ; and I have give - out enlisting orders." In a letter to the ('re ent of Congress, date November 28, 1775- ten the year for whiel ' the meen had enlisted 'ns near its close-ht 1 says: "The number enlist since my last is twc tiusand live hundred :d forty men; and I an1 I sorry to be necessitate -t menion to you tht egregious want of p ic spirit which reig"nI here. 1I.tead of press g to be engagel in thi I cause of their counitry vhi!i I v:;inly flattered inyst-tf would be the e, I find we are likl) - to be de-erted in a m. t critical time. TIho-e h it have enlisted mius me :a fnrlough, wlil I have been obliged to gr.mnt to fifty at a time roni each regiln.nt.' In a letter to JosLe'ih eed, of date Noveinber :8, 1775, he .:ys: - -" S ugh ia d.-arth of ublic spirit, and sele want of virtue, snch ik jobbing, and fertility in all the low arts to main advantages of ton ' kind or another, in this rent change of military arrangement, I never,' w before, and I prat God's mercy that I neve'r hie witness to at ain. What wil be t end of tihee mniio uvre is beyond ily scan. emble at the prospect We have been till this e enlisting about three thonna:nd live hundred en. To engage those I have been obliged to low furohsl. as fir a iity men to a regime and the ollicers, I an -prsu:tled, imiulge as ny mit ire. Sueh a mer. r enary spirit pervade. te who!e, that I shond - nt at all ie surprised anv dia:tster that nlv 'appen. In short, aft' the last of this mont.i. ~ter lines will be so iv kened, that the minute Imen ,Ind iiitin must called in for their de fence: and t hese, bein der no kind of goverli. inent themelves, will slroy the little subor. dinat ion I have bee . oring to esta'otish, atud run me into one evil t 'st I an endeavoring t :ii'mdd anoitier; butt ';less must be ebo.-en. Culd I have f..ree n' t I have experienced. no consideration up rlth slouId have in dceed me to accept t1 and. Aregimet or any subordulat' eni, would have bileu accofint. nue t ~ , sntiftetilm. .in-i ".eriaips the 'Iono." This wts wvhult the enemy lad pnsses.ion tl Iteir ca::pitil.::lt'.d large nitiuibor t-:CmltpiIled in; In ul view if the A !mericatn armv'. In a It r ito Gein. Schule:. dated December 5. 1775, Gen. Wa;tsltintn says: - I know that your co:mtplai'uis are 111o well t.'tnldei ; but I would willingiy lope that noih inir will intdnee you to quit te ~ervie;t atd that, in ilme, ordsr a:nd subo'rdination w'il take the place of ctnfuiou, aid comtlmand be ren dered more agreeable." Gen. Sebuyler, in the letter to which this was a r at!v, -.Iid: -- tthittg call 501p:ss the iD;imatien'e of the ' rloops frmu the New E:lgla:d Colites to ,et to iltir ma:. t Near thret hna:dred of tttm -rivt few day, :t;t un:ble to d:t ::my dtty: hi;;t. : : i:):s l: 'dulilli"teredt tlytt ,rralbl -j vil -a dii-certe -!hey it-tautly :ttired hea!:!: a. rilhter thait It tlet:,it i few .tys It eIr s jke (ettrge. 1 lt-:. utndtt.tk a lia' i fr'oml ltt'rt C, en'er :sIisi:l!!!til Fays, Ini a letter to Gttv. --: te i woi last wee'ks we ha~ve enliisted but1 abbti tt tho:tanal tuent, wihteeas 1 wais coi dtly l ledl to belitve bty atll tile itl:!eel5 I cionver' -t'd wiih it hat we sho uld by I tis Iim hnlavte had tile re'gimeits lnarly compl~ieed. Ou;r ttal tnumlberi amounlits tto tell thoutsan~d live hutdredt: but ::s a latgei portiln of iteml are rt~fetre iit jined~', I lneVer expaectted to Wee I thm)a :1 atrder h:tst oncet beten itsued, antheur is intw ttoaini' fatr:hi petrem:ily retqnirin~t :ll afiieur. netn in oftl beingt enui'ihieed, and rteerti;.s if bein.r treited ats deserb-irs, tin ja ill t hir ra';;iments hy mny real ilength, de. ''c. 'A monu~th hat er, whten the dan ier hl:-d i ncreased. and with it thte satlicituode of Washintonii, whlen every. applih:i:cet lie was mn:stter of hiad been ex-~ hausted to aingumlent thle atrmyv, he says. -Sti far f'rtom my havintg an armty itf 20.G00 1men1, wvell armed, &.e., I have bm'enu here withI ed, : d (tn coimi:tatl; anid these nleither' ::rmed nor clothled as itey' shonld be. lIn short, 1my3 ,.itlalitn hias beent uit'h that I hlave been ibli:.aed to ulSe atrts to conceal it frtoia my own(IIcfjet'.. ie ebaurges thteiu with even carryintg oft'the arms of thle conitiiri'. ie iays: 'Sti mnay hla' beent ciried oly partly it stealthi, bitt chtiely as Condi'iene, that we have.'t nott at thi timia ttne hundred fennts ini the stores, of all that, ttave lbeen taken in theC pize.ship and fromi the siditiery'.not itihstandlinig t'.e regimenlts are not halIf colmp'eted." I ighfI lt, uily? iimnihtr extracts, butt I do not cetie ti press this ubhject further. I atm eon tenot t hat hlisior O sh lall adjudge thle chiils of Soth11 Cauremiia an d Ma ;ssaebulseuts. Ot blo.od aid aif treasilre my,. St ate f unist. . 11cr sha1re'. Atelr 1777, at no timec were there more tthani 6.000OO British trotps in Newv Enla~nd. WVhy' Iwere they nlot swepjt away I WVhy did niot tihe 88.000 valiant, hieroes of Mauachutisetts ulone .-eat ier 11hem1 with their dairing ctmuralge ? Sit', where w.~ere these vaoi'Jmt men ? If you1 13:n id out whlere the~y wvert', 3 .. Speaker, you can do more than the Uritii'h ever did. I pass now, sit', to another poinlt. We hlav.e wtietd two wars with Great Brtitain dutriing our brief' existenlce as onem oh' the pow.ers of thle earthl. Let us invoke history to show the ctorse oft M:ssachusetts in the last wvar-the war' oif 1812. Ini alludintg to the aggressions oIf Great Britaitn agauinst us, tile mttmoilh of the Boston merchlants 'to Co'tngre.-s says: "Ule~ss the present disposiition of the British ndmiirahiy courts and navy oflicers enn be Cenun-l ternected aind retmoved, a widlely dispersed and tiiprotected emnmmler'ce, e'xterding to every re. gion of the glmibe, ill only serve to invite the' predlntionl to bankrupt imurselves and enrich othlers, unitil suchl commlfler'ce be swept from the face of' ihe oeean." They~,. f'uriher slate that "A 'ticit snblmi.:ssiitn to pretensions thus lofty woOuld he an abaindonme'nt of riights openly re eitgnised, and a derehictin of te most i mpor antilt cennitrc ial interests of our counltry." And they add Reason anld the most powerful considera. tions oh equity enjoin it as a duty on the Uniited Rtate. to onpoae theme pretensions." S And that t "'these pretensions are " unsound in point of principle, o)Teniive in pr:ietice, and nugatory in effect."-Juneo 20. 18G. The Salemn meno;rial to Congress says: It would, in their opinion, if established, 1 create grater ecvils than it professes to redress, by perpetrat ing s: rife, destroying the emoln - ments of trade. embarrassing commercial inter course, and u- letting loose the pa:Lions to prey on the miseries :an1d plunder the property of the innocent. It would subject neutrals to hazard nearly as perilous as those of actual r hostilities; and, independent of its infinenee in stimulating to revenge and retalislion, ? it would transfer the benefits of peace to my vie ' torinus usurper of the ocean. Your memorialist wish to take no part in the contests which now convulse the world, but acting with impartiality towards all nations, to rean the i'ruits of a just neutrality. If. however, coneiliation cannot efieet the purpose of justice, and ' an appeal to arms be the last and ne cessary pro!ection of honor, they feel no dispo sition to decline the common danger, or shrink from the common contribution. "Relying en the wi-dorn and firmness of the General Government in thi behalf, they feel no hesitation to piedge their lives and properties in tsupport of the measures which may be adopted to vindicate the public rights and redress the public wrongs."-January 20, 1806. The memorial of the merchants of Newbury port. December, 1805, says: In many ca-es our vessels and cargoes have been captured. Iried, nod condemned ii courts of law, Jr under unusual arid alarming pre u'nces. which. if pernitted to continue, threaten the ruin ot (Ur co immercial interests. Iiaving sustained these losses and injuries " in the prosecution of our hwful commerce aid in the exercise of our just rights, we rely wii b contidence on : the wisdom, firmness, :md justice of our Government, to obtain for us that. compen-at inn, and to grant to us that protec nion:. which a reg:ard to the honor of our country, no legs than the rights of our citizens, must die tatle and rcqutire. The aggressiols of' Great grit::in enntinued. and her Imoile legi.ltioin was adlitiinally en. venom'd. Our cornmerce was confiscated, and +'ur se:non were impres-ed. * * * * * * * The Congress of the United States adopted the follo ting resolutions, all looking to war, -iil only de+fensiblet as wir mt:ensures. Mr. Quiney.-anti the leaders of the Massachusetts delhgation, if not the whole delegatlion, voted fur thiee resolutions: [From the Jturna'!] " The question was taken in the following resonnt ion and pased."-Dee. 16. 1811. "That it is expedient to authori-e the Presi dent, under proper ri'gulation , to aecept the Sereice of any number of volunteers, not ex ceeding fift t-ho iand ; to be organised, trair.ed. intd held in readiness to act on such servi e as the exigencies of'governtent may require. " Same day the question was,.taken Son'. the tillowing re eluiion and pasdd : ''hat the President be authorised to order out, from tine to itime, such detactiments of the mil iti::, at:, in his opi::ion, the public service may reguire." SS:nie day the gnestion was taken on the fo!owing resolut ioi a i passed "'j'Th:i al the vesels tint no'w in service be lotngi::g to tt.e tavy, andtt worthy of repair, be imm ieti telV f1ciied up and puat into coinik-ion." " Dee. 19, 1811..---Tie question was taken et the foIlowii resolutiot and pasted: ,.'!Tat it is expedient to permit our merehiant vesseis, ownedt exelItively by resilent ci izens. :d commandied and naviga ted solely by ci:izens. tie arm undie r pri; pr reg:ationi.eS, to be !ere-cribeit by law, in elf-ti-denee ag:i:t4 :l ui!atwfnl pro c'-edin~rs towarts them on the hilh si:ts." ' Feb. 1, IS:' -.-li engru'ssed hill fir au tiiri-inig a luan fr even (II) millions of dollar I w:: real the thihd tin:: and p+a-send, vTh war was dechared, anl what. part did iIassachut1eLus p!av in thi< etenitfuil drama? - Aft ri the dcelar~itioni oft w:r, the lower h~ousce ot hir leithiture dei b: red that ". Toe n-al ca n-c if t he war imust be t rat'ed Lt) t1'hr tt '.ystema!t ch-bind-'ccment if ihe pcolic it W\as.hinogin and 11( tie lrientds :and~ tram ters oit thei conisiitutini iii impiila'cable aimiosiiy aigains tie-e men.:21 od their ucniversail excl usion fromn all conlcern ini the giivetriiient of the e'unttrv : in theL infllu ece o' wortiile-s foreigners over1 thic pn-s acnd the dleiberation~s of1 the giovern-. men'ci in ..ll i:s bracche-; to a jealou.y of the cmciaarnli Staite<,, tear of their piower eontemp if their pcr.,niis, aiid ki;:irane of~ their tru'* characer ;:nd i:npoiirtam-:e ; to the ciipidity'if cer uina S,.aes for the wiidiriiess reserved ifor the mise~r..ble aboigine:; to a violenut pasioni foir c'mietst,"&c. No' to be outdoinet, the Senate of Massatebu ettis thieii resolved th:, *'3J "The war was foun~ided in falsehood. Ef dhcelared without nieces~ity, and 27 its real object wvas extent ot' tcrritory by unjost conquests, anid 3f" to :1id the late ty rant, ol Eiir..pe in his view of :iggrandti.semnit." lPeniding the prepa~rat ions for war, Jolmt Henry wa':s entt frotn C2ana~da on a inissioni to thce East e, states. His inistructioans were to " see how hir lt' maileonnt! s wouLdh exert their icidiece tole bing~ :iboutit a sepiaration firomtit the general Unoions." AlIso, "hlow t~i r, in such an event, t hey wou~i~d look to England for assstancee, or be dis. posed to enter into a conntecion with us," (the peopile of t.~:Ida.) lie says, writing from Bloston, March 7, 1809: "I have :ireaidy given a decided oinion tht a declaractio.1 cf war is riot to tbe expreted ; but. coentIrary to alt reacsona~ble enalculation. should the Congress piossess spir't anid inide penidence enirough to place thieir~P11 poplrity itt je~opardy by so strong at meaisure, the legsitire of :ilasanehcuetts will give thle t one to thle neighbiocing States, will de chr tefprmaniient until a new elect ion of memer. nvite a Congre-s, to be comupised of dlega! es trom the edrlStaites, aderect a sepa r:te governmttent fort their common defence and concuon interest." I will tot tultiply extraCts from the Satue A fter war wats de~clared, 3Massachusetts exer cised aell her energies to cripple tile operations ofa thL~e govenmient, ansd to briing defeatL upon oar cause. Kowing that the war could not be con ducted withomit money, she obstructe~d the got'. ernent heats in every waiy. A combinatiotn was frme.d in Bostoni to deferat it. The nuthor of the Olive Brancch, on p;Ige 297, says: ". Shortly after the declaraction of war, there was a cnbinaLtion formted to prevetnt the sue cess ofr the loans athorisedl by Coengress. I believe that nearly all those whio entered into this isce resided in Itie Eastern States, par ienharly ini lostoni, ut bich was thce grand focus of ihe cnspirniey." H le also says of the scheme: I" The suce'ess in the Easterni States was con sideracble. Few men have thce coeurage to stem the tide of po'pular delusion when it sets in very stiog. Thiere were some, however, who sub eribedl openly, icc deliatnce of denunciactions and threati. Others oef tess firni textutre lonnted their moniey by stealith.nnd.~ as clacndestinely as if it were treatsonnbe."-Olive Blranch, page 300. Money was theni abundant, for John Lowell, in his Radr to Rnin, sno: "Money is such a drug (the surest sign of tnt former prosperity and present insecurity of trado; that men, against their consciences, their honor their duty, their professions and promises, art willing to lend it secretly, to support the very measures which are both intended and calcula ted for their ruin."-See Road to Ruin, by Johr Lowell. * * * * * * So odious did they make the war, that sub. sricptions to the Government loan were madt secretly. The following advertisement is proof Fro'm the Boston Gazette, April 14, 1814. THE LOAN. Subscriptions will bo received through the agency of the subscriber to the 25th instant, in clu-ive. To avoid Ethe inconvenience of personal appearance to subscribe, applications in writing will be received from any part of the State. Each applicant will name the highest rate he will give, and if the loan shall be granted lower than his proposal, he will reap the benefit; but if higher than his offer, he will have no share in it. The amount, rate and g nnme of any ap plicant shall, at his request, be known only to the subscriber. All the business shall be tran. sacted and certificates delivered to the snbscri bers without expense. JESSE PUTNAM. The author of the Olive Branch well and properly remarks that len in the 'moral and religious' town of Boston are g"obliged to lend their money to their own Government by stealth. "But in the face of day. within the knowledge of a whole community. g"they send specie to the common enemy, to support him against their own country! "Can human nature sink lower? They are ('too moral and too religious' to rejoice at the vic'ories of their fellow-citize-is; but they are i.either 'to moral nor too religious' to aid the enemy to victory ! An age in penitence in sickeloth and ashes would not efface this foul blot from the escutcheon of Boston."-[Olive Branch, page 313. Not satisfied, however, with crippling the Go. vernment and m-iking the war odions, the patri. 'tie State of Massachusetts aided the enemy with inoney. Pious Boston, patriotic Boston, Puritanical Boston! well may she exclim, "thank God, I am not as others are !" 11er prosperity mainly resting upon the African slave trade, lonas of money to the enemy in time of war, and smug. ;lirg, well may she bedizzen herself with finery. Nor was the pulpit in 1812 in Massachusetts confined to religious duties. It then gave aid snd comfort to the enemy as it now preaches in urrection. I submit a few extracts from some uf the clergymen of Massachusetts. From the Rev. I. S. J. Gardiner,A. M.,Rector f Trinity Church. Boston: " It is a war " unexampled in the history if the world: " wantonly proclaimed on the " most frivolous and groundless pretences. ,icinst a nation from whose friendship we might lerive the most signal advantages, and from ,vNosu hostilitg we have reason to dread the unst tremendous losses." Discourse delivered fuly 23, 1812. "What consequence is it to you if they be vpealid or not, if you are sold to Napoleon. is you have reason to believe, by the slaves who tare abused vour confidence ?"-Idem. "The Union has been long since virtually dis. tlved ; and it is full time that this part of the liunited States should take care of itself." dent. - From the Rev. Blijah Parish, D. D.: "'There is a point-there is an hour-beyond thic:h you will not baar."-Discourse delivered t. Bytield, April 7, 1813. New England, if invaded, would be obliged 0 dceII herself. Do you not, then, owe it to our ebildren and owe it to your God to make reace for yourselves ?"-(dem. how will tihe supporters of " this anti. ;hrist i:n wartare endure their sentence-endure h, ir o.vn reflctions-?endure the fire that orever burns-_ '-the worm which never dies .. hie hosannas of Heven-W~while the smoke *f their toirments ascends forever and ever?" Jsem. * * * * * * I wil close this chapter of the history of Inssne hnsetts with the sumamary of a writer of ht day. "To sum tup the whole, Massachiusetts wvas tergetie, bold, fim, daring, and decisive in a onest with the General Government. She onld nt abatec an inch. She da:red it to con it. Shie seize.d it by the throat, determined to raunglu it ! She was ntamable as a lion, or a ier. uor a pantthier. But she was long suffering, id mild. and patiient, and harmless, and inoflen ice, and gentle, and meek, as a lamb, or a tur I duuo, when she came in contnect with the nemy !"-[Olive Branch. paige 315. Mr. Sper:'ker, this portion of my task has been ischargedl; wvell or ill, it has been discharged. ,Lt it pass. To turn, sir, froum matters of grave import to petty anatomy of wvords, to tihe maximum in zinimzis, to the supremaey in little things, which o tru'y coimmnends itself to the fitter cupneities f the member from the Suffolk district-Mr. lhirigame-it wvotuld seetn that thie phirasing of ty remarks has found, ini him, eithernan Aristar hits or a Zuilus; fur I cannot, tundcr the pre. st of his words, well define the part whlich he 4 please~d to enact. if, howvever, my latngmuge as been tmarked by charncteristies which have :i!ud to secure his aipplause', his, on the contrary, 4 not witho.ut some pelculiarities, wvhich others ny niot entirely approve. Thet lizard an'd the snake, whiebc have exercised he dull lfacetiousness of the member, even the snake with hands"-reptiles of that species, Ir. Speauker, are not altogether impossible in the nomalies of natiril history, and Massaehusetts tmy, perhaps, claim the signal honor of supply-3' ig tuch a specimen to American hierpeology le lizard and the snaike, I say, enmn safely go to le menmber's market and flid no barren ground or a fair exchange. Sir, wvhatcever pairallels the North may instiltiute isparaging to the South, I am glad that the hetorie oif Southt Caroilina suffers little detri ent biy compairison with the rhetoric of Massa hisetts speaking thtronght the nmember's lips. Vith the examiple before him, not in terrorem.it vould seemt-of thte " snake with hands," with m of his townt, he " nlants school htouse" in the ilderness, like so many WVeathiersfield onions na row ; whilst, under the other, the " plant," ike beeh-wood inito autmegs, is convert. d into -spngles"-a real pinch-beek of Blassneha sets minufnuemure, alike creditab~le to the inge tuity of the race and thme rhetoric of one of its -epresen tatives upon this floor. But, sir, thtese licenses of speecht are not con ied to " planting school-houses," whiicht are in ic~ounably turned into "spangles" over the ild of freedom. As the wilderness produces, o must thte concave arch itself bear specimens f his rhectorical sprouts. The earth is too low y a thteatre for the ambitious reaches of his ~pech. Hie affects the "heavens" themselves or the very pretty diversion of " filliing" them with "shining towers of religion and civiliza in." " Shining towers of religion," f1r. Speak. ar The towers of Alassachiusetts religion, top ped uy the predominant weather.cock, potinting to the chantges of her people, veering with each wind of doctrine, and passing, without concern, from arkeleiiousn fanaticism to wild and God. defying blasphemy ! " Shining.towers of cvii. sation," Mr. Speaker! The towers of Masa. chusetts civilization, which hypocritically nestles the rank and sensuous African to her bosom ; thrusting aside thousands of the children of her loins, who can scarcely draw the support of their existence from an even overtasked indu4ry. The towers of Massachusetts civilisation, which, not satisfied with its own sickly results, would, pragmatic and intrusive, steal into our borders to force upon us its baleful fruits! Yes, sir, the towers of Massachusetts civilization, cruelly or ganising human muscles and bones into living machines, and remorselessly working away the impress of God's image from men and women of kindred stock and blood, doomed to wear out the energies of life to keep up the greed of task-masters, who, "like the daughters of the horse-leech," have never learned to say "enough." Massachusetts civilization, the mephtiic air of whose work-shops eats its way through the lungs of the victims of avarice; and when they die, they die with their last wishes turned to the free winds of heaven, with their last words " babbling o' green fields." En alluding to an act vindicating the dignity of a State and the hdbor of a relative from the aspersions of a traducer, the member, Mr. Speak er, has thought proper to say that my colleague "stole into the Senate and smote a Seqator as Cain smote his brother." The words arc pretty, no doubt; they sound to me like an idyl from Gessner; but they are also of a malignant im port. The chemistry of malice, Mr. Speaker, is even more ingenious than the chemistry of sci enee ; and ingenious indeed is that malice of the member from the Suffolk district which could so refine its rancor as to doom my colleague to bear the burden of kinship with his senatorial friend. Sir. in the name of my colleague, through regard for his character, I abjure the brother hood! Sir, every consideration of moral worth, every suggestion of genuine manhood, and, since the word has been spoken by the member him self, every demand of chivalry, forbids that, either personally or vicariously,such a claim can be put in with the hope "to have that claim al lowed." No, sir; such a bond cannot hold between the two. On one side, the nobler spirit malres it abhorrent to bare thought; on the other, the grovelling instincts mark it for impossibility: Data fata secul us-each one to his allotment of existence. There are pathways on which, sla ving the ordinanceo of Heaven, men of high tone love to companion through life but there are sewers also fitly teeming with the feculeneo of filth for things of an opposite character. On the former my colleague will pursue his course, ttr unapproachably far, from the latter, in which the baser natures may wallow in sordid delight. But, sir, the feats of the member are not con. fined to such literary jucundities as "planting spangles" in the shape of school-houses, or quaintly filling up the waste places of the hea vens with "shining towers." In paying what ie seemed to intend a tribute to the peculiar beau ties of a certain speech delivered in another place, had he, instead of professing admiration for the author, proclaimed himself his enemy,I would Imve thought, Mr. Speaker, thatnhe was. indulging a spirit of malice in respect of one whom he lovingly calls his friend and his guide. There is a species of mephistophelian waggery -fun made lurid by fiendishness, which Goethe himself would not disclaim-in condemning such a friend-in subjecting such a guide to stand in an attitude of torture, "launching" a speech through the distending mouth. Yes, sir, the rhetoric of the member, Milesian or otherwise, launches a speech ship-a severe speech ship at tyranny-through the lips of his friend, and keeps hint convulsively straining and heaving under the launch for" the greater por tion of two days." Two days ! " insatiate joker, could not one suffice." Mr. Speaker, the function which society in its visitations upon guilt assigns to the executioner, is that he shall launch the criminal into eternity. The member from Massachusetts, sir, has proved to be no mean volunteer executioner in this in. stance, and he has" launched" the felon ship of his friend. Where, Mr. Speaker? Why, into that muoch-abused "'deatd sea" which I hid kindly prepared for him and which he has unfitly ae knowledged. Launched it, sir, wvhere it has has sunk ; so that --" Alto Dtemersus, non rursum summa bullit in unda." Sunk beyond the redemption of the plummet line, and borne down to the lowest depths by its fraughtage of obscenity, of slander, and of in. famny. But something too much of this perchance, Mr. Speaker. Not uomindful of the precept which requires that trifles be given to the winds, I have abstratined from committing the literary -ecentricities otf the member to their keeping, from the fact that as he is the direct representa ivo of the spot which claims to be the very ac deme of the Union, he might be regarded as entitl-d to somne more special notice than the raiscal eursitors of the camp" running at his ncels. With every deference, however, Mr. Speaker I would warn him, could 1 waste so onnh time upon him, when next he comes to dissect ths diction of others upon this floor, so to framne his own languatge that the character and repnte of the learned body which lhe claims as :onstituents shall not suffer at his hands. That langutage, sir, may have met the standard of ,ome of his inclining, anid solicited the peculiar laughter a hieb abounds in the mnou ha of those who are other titan wise; but I apprehend, sir, that the academic sernate of Cambridge will not forget their digmtty, and endorse the antics of their representative in this House. A word or two more upon the speech of the member from Massachusetts, (Mr. Burlingame,) and I have done. The member has debauched history. He has made her, with a wanton tongue, babble diapar. agement of a sovereignty, which, on the scoro f devotion or soldiery, of patriotism or statee mansip-in everything which marks States for magnanimity, greatniess, or renown-may well hallenge Massachusetts, with the assurance that the assay will leave no blur on its escutcheo'n, or work no abatement of its fame. Why, sir, even the unfortunate route of Bladensburg could not esenpe the zeal with wvhich he disparages matters connected with the South. He has gone, like the jnekall, to the few humble-it may be unhonored-graves wvhich dot its field. He has uselessly-but no, sir, I am wrong-for the re ward of an empty laugh, lie has arraigned the memory of their tenanits before his tribunal. He did this, too, after his declaration, concealed un der a pointless jeer. and leveled against the chiet Magistrate of the Uttion, that, bttt for his ktnow nothingi.'m he might apply the old Latin words, " de mortuis nil nuisi bonum"-Speak nothing bttt good of the dead--to one who, "Troib-his pride of place," so justly and so nobly~ held, Is rightfully entitled to pour down a manly score upon the poor, pitiful traducers of a well-earned fame. I say, Mr. Speaker, that the member has told you that, were he nt so good a know-nothing, itewoud qotegood old Latin words. Sir, L think that, in claiming the distinctionof a knoiw. nothing, the member flntters himself. To be a " Know-nothing" is to be something; but to come and flout us with a quotaticin, mutilated by some semi-know-nothing like bimselIg is to lay claim to but one-half of the title-.It Is to la