HMR. CLINGMAN AND ABOLITION.
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lTMr. Clingman, we feel panied to say, made
some very absurd, ridiculous, and dangerous re-
marks the other day in the House of Representa-
tives. He said abolition petitions were very
"hGrmzess hings"-avoweda willingness to re-
ceye them, and made quite strong declaration to
the effect that the abolitonists were not altogether
as numerous or as dangerous as some people might
be disposed to think they were. Mr. Clingman


would do well to keep sharp lookout IF he


falls on this question: he will fall like Lucer nev-
er to rise again. He says also, in his speech-a
little speech, about two inches long-that some
paper had denounced him as renegade to the
South, /" for which he did not care" Why should
he2 A member of Congress care for anewspa-
per! We hopeno person will say that Mr. Ciingman
does care for thedenunciations of the public prints
and we only wish the expression of scorn that
played upon his lip when he said those words,


could be dGagereotypcd for the benefit of his con-
s,itucnts. ~


Abolition petitions mag be "harmless things"
and John Quincy Adams may be mononaniac,
and his hackers and abettors may be fools; but
will all that mend the broken chains of the Union,
protect Southern re-sides from the 6got and the
torch 2 JOHN RANDOLPH knew how to talk on
this subject. "What matters it." said he in 1926,
whether the firebrands were scattered by foot


in sport, or by madman, in earnest, ifthe city is
reduced to ashes; or whether the fre-braDds were
scattered by the hand of a Guy Faux, with reli-
gon in his mouth, 6re-brand in his hand, and
hell in his heart? Nothing at all. 1t is impor.
tant to theagen as it regards his guilt in the sight
of God but both of them would be apt to meet their
doom from the hand of man." We repeat, wc
have the fullest confidence in the majority of the
present House of Representatives. We believe
they will do right but in behalf Of what we be-


eve to be the true interests Of the people of North
Carolina, we must be permitted to enter our pro-
test against any measure or movement calculated
to infringe the Constitutional rights Of the South
ern States. They stand where they stood in the
outset asking no avors and yielding not one iot or
title of their rights; and swift will be the DOOM
and short the shrif' of any man who, in an hour
of high constitutional trial. shall break away from
the front ranks OF their army of def ncr


We see no reason to doubt Mr. Clingman's
soundness on the question Of abolition. He is
Southern man, vitally interested in the veal or
woe Of North Carolina; but as Southern Editor
we adnonish him to bewarel He is still young
man, nnskHed, to great extent in affairs ofState,
or in the political jnggIery of the leaders of the
Northern Federal party; and they may lure him.
ere he is aware, into the bottomless depths of
some Scrbonian bog"