Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-11-12

hers care moth r,s tenderness When age over -
kcs the parent, the son rpNs with kindness, tee O
sindness he has received II tho crutch drops ftom
h techlc grasp OF ms sire he picks mp aud rrsores
. TO his trembling hand. Patr,otisni Is hut iihel 4
ve ,nlarca,s. Whom think OF orr country, We \
lwcl ON .tiS memory of our early wears, on the
tOr.,s ot N So who gave Ueing and watched ~
yer ~ I'm ccilly. When they gone, W. visit
their remains, and from the unconscious urn imhihc
CuCw The inspiration OF their virtues. Does not the
sivaCc cherish these affections: The Tartar wan
iers over tho iiterminablo plans Of Asia, from ch
ma to cln1'r. accompanied by his tncks and herds;
tho Indian CT Anc lea ms through forests. yet more
wild Bu thew -cvist the cmbs Of thci- prOCeni-
tors ?nd recount 10 their cdrcu the story of their
lccls. N
Arc not these natural affections at the f,unda-
ton Of all tho moral rights and duties OF nau,
sympathy, * II not Is natural 20 man Is the
-reEariouS am'm7s whom h. gathers around hln'
Dat OF those e. hugs spring tn elements OF soHicty.
i here no property known to sHvagc lice Even
the bird defends her ncst the lion docs his den;
tho former with less ,igor bn' WIKI PGl;a zeal Tho
hunter dccora'es his cave with the rr oft animals
he has killed.; and stores away IN time of rru,y
he provisions which season of want may require.
II" has has bow AMI arrows for the mountain der,
a"L when hN app-Orc nc water side his and
si"1r fr III tnnv 'rba. In contempt, Of danger
arNn' with rUic instruments he t-avcrscs the land
and h waer under no influence of tho 81 ne fec ngs
which pr Inpt III CIV lied man 60 huid permanent
hHhita'ions, IN I'll the s:i aud - lay the fruits Of
Jtnn for he cesSitrS rfwintcr. How can labor
alA p~oNr-tY Ne separated: Prcnc-;v i; n, once the
fruit AMI thu spring If labor. Inc Tuhor ut the vs.
sav on tho Human Understanding. in his treatise on
] Civil Cove uWcut, tells MS cmphauculIv thai he
Means, By pr"pe-'V 20 denote t!Ic h, FJrr'v and al
. thr pcgsr.si VI man.
/ | own thai was shocked sad Mr. NJ wien in
cponirr 'hc grammar Of tho law first me, the phrosr
Ri -hts ofthrrS.' O Rights Ia thnr, could rcn-
( div conceive. Though things external to man.
and b. detached om hin VT the rirlI: IL them
, - nseHorah!v crn"c"'cd with his natural well as
socIti conti on, ara *, PERSONAL Us his rrht t.
locono IA" cXcrcis' of which 81 .,1scs control
over The objects around, and consc qUenly without
himself
If II he cont nicI that I'll. carly condition of man
- mo- state o: nature bur of society. an content
since i is ono m which h' i 40, bound 10 acAnow-
edge a snp0ri r-at N anoticr,to central his con
T1c cvis'crr, Of The RIGHTS which he ,ni rs 81,
poses corrcsp i7rt obligation on his p7r Il respect
he SIMILAR rights o. Others ana hence the equality Of
right common To nj.
IN insecurity ondinconveucncc a.,ondsqt On such
ss'c Of cvi.tcrcs, would render It Of transient Iu
ration; and nature who hiss given iaculi ios To nlau
which are susceptible ofimpro,emeI' aud made their
"Vorrise c0rucive 10 his happiness, cai.lot be sup
posed 90 have designed his continuance IN n state mn
fft"d far their crlt,vation.
j. 'F condition. howc,cr, in which not Locke on /!
y Int al moral and nearly ali political writer's have
supp 7,d MN :" exist, for tho sake OF establishing
by the light NJ reason. his moral wei his polti-
cal rights and bi-aiions. Upon the same basis rest
the tre1 cs that have been made uron the law ofna-
tu-e and a nations. winch but The Just practical an
pHclIOl ID sovereign STA C., OF those rules which
spp'tan 70 The relations of man OF nature.
Na'tel funds his code of International law 81, he
philosophy % Violin; and dcduccs the cgua.itv
u n!c -ead"n s,0t"> from TIC source from which
Locke inf rre natural freed m ofnlcp,nlent man
/ ,rUs shall be ,tr6"r"d for say inc -. b,y,.
been alarmed well shocked. a. Tie wiz viz,
which The great apostle e English liberty and ij-
Grimes hav- boon treated BE- The greater par, Of
our d,crsares in this debate.
They rcprr'ch us with dcriding tie wisdom of
pa, ages N tn pursuit OF novel Iuctrin.s while they
aim. Tor Themselves to be wiser thon their fatb4-s
who studied with v1ncro Jon 'hc political philosophy
t.ons Of government.
II wrote, II seems, Constitution for Carolina.
and borrowed for Eis '"ular distinctions terms OF
Amer. IN and German origin" Cacicues and Land
gray, s,'-NUnes thon are things; and the queen of
f"we-s Is les sweet If not called the rose Locke
cherished and sEtaned The great principles Of Hberty
by def ndng as Milton, Ugan.t the same foe, the in
famous house of Ste"dr, the liberty Of his country
men, 10 frame what government they pleased. That
his eneme- IN England, as well Scotland, were al
that TIM neither tcW nor impo cnl, manifested
in the succeeding century By icbcons. fl is re
narkabc that ms contemporary a. antagonist, Sir Ro
FIiner. assaed the foundation of all his reasoning
the maxim, that mon by nature and birth eQuuiiy
Free VIII. tGc sane argument IN behalf Of the divno
right 81 kings that We have Just heard uscd.Eu indeed
for the same purpose but IN opposition the same
doctrine Of natural liberty, which infer from the
Bill OF Rights prCiXcd TO State Constitution
The ingenious member from NORTHAMPTON used for
creation OF man hr hs' orcy proved. that our first
parents formed iI- earliest human society of which
there Is any record, and lie asked emphatcaly if the
doctrine of the natural equality of man be- true when
Cain became equal TO Adam, his f1ther? fit was m
ten % at'cD, 30 years Of agc. use the very words
OF the interrogation. In the language OF Locke / re-
ply 10 10; when Cain, having arrived at maturity no
odla depended his father for subsistence and pro-
tecion; and the children, also, Of Abel when they
sustained the wants aud sootIcd Tho infuny Of their
aged grau3si.c.
TIE g.a,le,lln IRON ChoHe-fill. following thc OK
ample Of The gentleman from Northampton, Whose
argument hc applJudcd has cast away Cocker a.
we'll as Locke, and taken up with Robinson CrIsoc
md DE Foe rs bis authorities. Robinson Crusoe %"
ii "s5vcd Friday NE and bound his heart 10
hun, nc "avs Friday bread aud bound, t. hun, his
b1Cy.' have hoard e slavery, arising from the
rights Of conquest, aud Il NY memory does not err.
Grotius ] think, i1or5 is legality from the pow
cr OF the victor 10 sIay his enemy Bat never be-
fore heard this doctrine dcdrccd from the rights of
humanity and tltC obligation Of gratitude.
Robinson Cfu-Oc gdyc Friday OrcaI They lived
alone, bul had Commerce introduced oils and money
on their iJnJ, Friday might Justly have claimed for