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Excerpt from Remarks of Hon. Bedford Brown, of Caswell: Made in the Senate of North Carolina, on Dec. 19th, 1860, on the Resolutions of Mr. Hall, of New Hanover, on Federal Relations
While, therefore, he would again repeat, that no language could express the contempt for the sectional traitors who had made war on us, no language was too lofty, no eulogy too great, to commemorate the deeds of those who had stood by us in sunshine and in storm, and the million and a half oftrue men who stand 011 the solid rock of the constitution. It they and thei1 services me to be ignei cd - 1t they are to be includ ed 1n the sweeping denunciation against the enti1 0 N01 th this language, striking at friends as well as foes - he would ask, where has good faith among men ?ed? Where is that sentiment of brotherhood which was proclaimed in all the highways a few' months smee? And Where is nationality gone? Is the plighted faith, which binds men together who stand togetherin a common cause - no matter in what lat-i tude - to be violated? Are we, because defeat has perched on our banner, and that brought on by the violent men of our own party, with. Yankee calculation to cut loose from one million and a half of true Northern friends, and cry save himself who can? If this 18 111 the code of Southern honor and Southern gallantry, I confess Ihave now for the firsttime learned it.
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