Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-11-12


theirs care, mothers tenderness. When age oVrt-
takes the parent, the repnys with Niutlness the
Kindness nc has received. Ii the cru;ch drops from
the feeble grasp ofhis SIRE he picks zip aud restores
to his trembling hand. PATRIOTISM is b,:t iiial
invc outraged When We think OF our country, we
dwell on the memory oi our early years, an the
forms OF those who gave us our being and watched
over ITS i'm Ccilitv. Wien tney are Gcue VISIT
their rcnIainS, and from the urn imbbe
anew the inspiration of their Virtues. Does not the
savage cherish these affections? The Tartar Wau-
icrs ever tie 'ntcrminab'e plans of Asia, from Gu
mae TO cliGu;c, accompanied by his fuCks and herds;
the Indian OF Amerca through forests yet
wild, But they revisit the ,ombs OF their progcri-
tors and recount to their children the story ot their
deeds.
Arc not these natural aif;o tions at the tlrnda-
ton of ali the moral rights and duties of man:
! sympathy, is it not natural to to the
grcgarlous ANIMALS whom h" gathers around hun:
Out of these feelings epr1rr the cl mctS of society.
Is here no property known 10 savage lc' Even
the bird defends her nest, the lion does his dem
the former with less viuor. but with equal zeal The
hunter dccorates his with The tar uf the animals
ne has khcd and stores away III time of plenty
the provisions which season Of want may require.
He has his bow ami for the uinuntain deer,
aud when he approaches, the water side his and
spear FIR III. GIuy tribe. In cmpt, nj danger
armed with rude runC1lis, he travcrses ii dnd
and III" wafer under the Influence of the feelings
which prompt the civilized to auI permanent
habital ios to till the land, and to lay tip the fruits of
ir the necessities Of winter. How can labor
and property be separated? Property is at once tie
fruit and the spring of labor. iiic author of the Is
say Oh The human Understanding, in his treatise OH
Civil Goyernlnrnt tells us cmphaticalIy that he
tAeans. by Ernpciy, 10 denote tic life. lihcrv and MI
the possessions OF man.
I own that was shocked said Mr. N. Wien IN
opening tic grammar of the law first the phrase
Rights If things. q! Right: IN things could rc-
div conceive. Though things are external 10 man.
and may be detached from HIM vet the right to them
is inseparay c"nnoried ,wi'h his natural we'll
social condition. and Is, rs personal. Isis right to
] lao. ,i,,
over the objects around, and CONSEQUENTLY withcu!
himself
Ii he cnntenFcd that this early coalition of man
IS not state OF nature. bn of society, am content
sl!cC 1t Is one IN Which he Is not bound aclrow-
edge Superior right, III another, to contrib his CON
due.
The ezis'e Of the rights which he ruiovs sup
poses correspondent obligation his Fart respect
the similar rights OF others, ana hence tire equality of
TI9lit common to Ill.
The insecurity and Inconvenience attcnlar OH such
State oil existence, would render it a. transient tIu-
ration; ana nature who has given tacuie; to man
which are susceptible of Improvement. and made heir
exercise conducive to his happiness, caI,uot be sun
posed TO have designed his continuance in state un
fitted for their cultivation.
1t Is condition, however, IN which not Locke on.
~ 5u, ali moral and nearly all political writer's hive
supposed man to exist, for the sake OF ESTABLISHING
oE the light OF reason. his moral well as his polji-
Cal rights and obligations. Upon the basis rest
the tfeaises that have been made upon tie law ma
ture and of nations which Is but tho lust practical an
piicat.on, to sovereign States OF those rules which
appertan to the relations of state OF nature
.attel POUNDS his code of international law on the
philosophy of Wofns and deduces the cuua.ity
of independent states from the same source from which
Locke Inferred natural freedom of ndepaueut man
trust ai4dl he pardoned for saying that haze
been alarmed, well shocked, ile levtv wi !,
winch the great apostle of English liberty and his
doctrines have been treated by the greater part o;
our adversaries in this debate.
They reproach us with dcridinr fl,a ,.i.,lo,,, -,
/ ,I,o
siIn, tor themselves to be wiser than their fathers
VINO studied with veneratiou tie political Dhi,osonj,v
Of Locke, and embodied lis naXius in their copet.
lions of gcrarnment.
He wrote, it seems, Constitution for Carolina.
and borrowed for his tuar distinctions terms Of
American and German origin" Caciqucs and Land
graves, Names then are things; and the queen of
flowers is less sweet If called the rose locke
cherished aud sustained the great PRINCIPLES Of herf
by defending Milton, against tie same foe the in
famous house Of Stewart, the liberty of his country
men, 10 frame what government they pleased. That
his enemies IN England, as well Scotland were at
that time neither few imDoten was manifested
IN the succeeding century by two lebellions II is re
markabe that his contemporary &, antagonist Sir r o.
tlimer assalled the foundation Of all his raasonnr
the maxim, that men are by nature and brtl. egu;,Lv
fTee, with the same argument i'll behalf of tho divine
right OF kings, that we have inst heard used not
Tor tue same purpose but IN opposition tie same
doctrine OF natural liberty, which VIC infer from the
Bill OF Rights prehXed to our State Constitution =
Ihe ingenious member from NorthanIDton used for
tins purpose one OF FIlmers cases. Ascending to the
creation of man he historically proved that our first
parents formed The earliest human society of which
there Is any record, and he asked enpbaicov if tbe
doctrine OF the natural equality of man be true when
Cam became equal to ADAM his father: Jft was Al
ten at fifteen or 80 years Of age. use the very words
OF the interrogation. In the language of Locke re-
ply to 1t; when Cain, having arrived at lnaiurtv no
longer depended his father for subsistence and
lection; and the children, also of Abel, when thew
sustained Tho wants and soothcd the nnity Of their
aged grandsirc.
Tie gentleman from Cheserfi Id. follo,y:ap iI,e ex
ample Of the gcntlemon from Noffhanpfon, whose
argument be appl1uded has cast away Cocker as
wei as Locke, and taken up with Robinson Cruson
ana ne oe' as ms authorizes Robinson Crusoc,"
1t seems saved Fridays life and bound his heart 10
him. " he gave Friday bread and bound to him his
body have heard Of slavery, arising from the
rights OF conquest md if my memory does not err