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benefit political party, our whole poIitica


fabric was made, from capital to baseuen


stone, 10 reel and toter; patriots and phiIan


thropists looked on with trembling horror, ex


pocting TO see topple in ruins the proudest anC
the last temple reared by human wisdom to hu


man liberty. But there were those who look
ed on unterrifed and unconcerned, "purrng
over sinister intrigues and petty stratagems.'
1t would benefit the party. There where none
of those honorable fears, "fears Of the brave
that the highest vhope of man might be extin
guished lorever-no one noble throb of fila
devotion, no trembling concern for the dan
gers of the republic-dDh, no, if the country
should survive the shock it would benefit the
party. He felt unconcerned ior all these, and
played on his miserable game of party politics,
unmoved amidst the throes and bealings of u
convulsed and endangered State.


But, sir, if it is unpleasant to look on this
side of the picture, there is another of a very
different character. There has always been
IN our happy country talents and virtues which
have risen 10 the level OF the great occasion
that demanded them. 1t was so then. There
were men who, cleansing themselves from eve
ry selfish feeling, without which no man ever
performed glorious action, with singleness
and purity Of heart, devoted themselves 10 re-
storing peace and quiet to the country, and sa-
wing its glorious institutions, and they did so.
The petty intriguers, who had commenced the
agitation, slunk away in dismay, as certain
unclean birds do on the rising Of the sun. But
is it not, sir, rather too much that the man
who was amongst the first TO originate that
dangerous agitation should now be proclaimed
as the only anointed saviour Of Southern insti-
tutions, and he, a slave holder himself, who
quieted it, denounced as dangerous agitator!