Excerpt from Speech of T. N. Crumpler, of Ashe, on Federal Relations: Delivered in the House of Commons, Jan. 10, 1861

But, Mr. Chairman, it must not be supposed that I hold the disunionists, even the disunionists per se, to be the only persons responsible for the evils that are upon us. There is another class - the Abolitionists of the North - who are primarily re sponsible and most guilty in this matter. With hearts full of treason to the Spirit of the Constitution, they have, for years, been digging at the foundation of our Government. Filled themselves with all that is pestilent, they are and have been, the. Leprous Spot upon'our body politic. Enemies of our coun try, they deserve execration. Their mischievous and wicked acts, while benefiting neither themselves or the objects of their hypocritical sympathies, have furnished the disunionists with the materials for their plot against the Union. It remains to be seen whether or not we are to become the victims of this plot. Are the people of North Carolina, whose representatives we are, prepared to carry out, the disunion programme? I am satisfied that they are not. It is true that, at the beginning of the ses sion, we had some manifestations of disunion sentiment from the towns and villages where combustible materials are most easily gathered and excitements most readily manufactured, but I knew that it was as the glare of the meteor which for a mo ment. Lights up the sky and attracts our gaze from the myriads of stars which hold their places and shine with beneficent light upon the earth. I knew that when the masses of the people waked up and spoke, when we heard from the plough-handles and axe-helves, we should hear a different language; and we are beginning to hear/it in their remonstrances against being committed to disunion, which are daily laid before our body.

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