Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-08-21

Cherish hearts the slightest seulmen, oil honor
--or the least spark OF gratitude yet lingers there
we shall not be able to lift up our eyes and look
round us when enter these halls without feeling
the smart of that rebuke which we deserve and must
suffer for osr perhdy These memorials of their
hospitality cannot be efaced until shall have d.
apidated these walls, another enemy shall kindly
ihLlct upon US a lesser disgrace
We came to these people with peace offerings, and
they gave us lands. A. We increased in numbers,
we Increased our demands, and began TO press upon
thcul. lhey saw us hemnn them in on every side,
uhu iurrowing down the graves OF their fathers. As
their subsistence was wasting away they remons,ra-
ted against us. We were deaf % their reproaches.
fhey imPlored us TO remember their andnsss 10
US. but @e turned away from them They resisted
at last and flew to their Fierce and bloody
wars followed We felt their power, and If they
had been united, rad fcreseen what we are now
DOING, We should not now b. IN these seats. We
net again friendship, and established our treaties
with them. We pledged our faith, and gave them
our solemn guarantees, that would come no fur
ther hope that We shall feel it duty to ob erye
the M like honest men
But We were asked: Will YOU leave thinus in their
present condition. Will you refuse TO treat viii,
them No. Blu, If am asked when we shall treat
L am ready TO answer: Never, sir never till they are
at perfect liberty, and free from all restraint
s"uid not consider treaty made with them their
present and forsaken condition morally binding on
them will not consent to take advantage of men
IN their situation l um sick-hcart-sick of seeing
them at doors as enter this hall, where they
nave been standing during the whole of this session.
suPplica ing us to stay hand. There one plain
path OF honor AID 1t the path of safety because
Is the path OF duty Retrace Your steps. Acknowl.
edge your treaties. Confess your oblipatons Re-
deem your faith. Execute your laws Let the Pre-
sldent revise his opinions II Is never too late TO be
Just. Let him extend his hand 10 them as brother
as their great Father indeed The power of the
Gcvernnen al his command. Let him set them
&c A5oSe all things, win back their confidence
Convince hem that they must trust you again rs
IEenas IL you VIII do this, and they free act
without any Coercion, am ready to execute any
treat! which they Will make with YOU. But II must
oe done 'pedcsG6ty ill the true spirit Of orr ira
tons to Georgia and IN no other way. | wish hey
were IN Condition to treat with us fairly. | wish II
FOR The saSc OF Geo ga-for them and for ourselv
DH VIII not consent that government shall operate
on Their fears. Il Is unmaHiy and shouor. BILE. |
WI! not agree to ncuicate their minds the slightest
suggestion that they not 10 be protected fully
fear!essiy' G. faithfully They arc now shrinking un
der the terror Of the cGlami!es which they believe
await them when this bill shall have passed They
believe that the laws Of the States re not 10 be ey
tended rthem tor good 1t is immatcrial who;her
they are right or no. IL his belief They believe il
to ne, for evil and anarchy is now there in its worst
forms have too much confidence in Geornia To
believe that she will suffer violence 20 be- commit
ted under her au horty Bu; the eject produced by
heT lays has not LETT these people free anenrs -
These ates have no right To ask us to act under
such circumstances, or IT they do, uught 10 iudrn
OF that for ourselves. and refuse to act If W. think
the honor OF the government forbids it Heal thu
councils II they Will then treat with Won broU !
your treaty here instead Of this law. We shall then
Know what We are doing will then sustain the !
o. MY huno!a vote, in all that he sha!
promise IN our name. lie shall have countless NIL
ions to fulfil our tah The treasures of the nation
hail How Ike water, and the people of this country
VII bear any burden, rather tban suffer the honor OF
':eIr government to be stained with perffdv Bpt
or coercion. or any thing like coercion-moral or
physical direct or indirect, will vote nothnr no,
'n- poor scrupo. will take no responsibility that
nay involve the country in thst tnint upon our rep
alton, nor be accessory to It. No pride Of o,oion
mould influence Us faere are no laures 10 b, won
n this field There victory 10 achieve over a
people IN the If situation There IS no reward before
IS but disgrace and the dctc.tation Of our low men
II this bill passes, they will submit to all tn. injuries
when may be nfc' ed upon the H. It Is no LONGER
n their power 10 resist They will bear it as lonr
rs men can bear oppression but they will sink Under
at last II we were IN their situation We should
rot leave own country Willingly. We who nre
strong and proud, and FESTIVE OF restraint SHOULD y
~ arms for half what they have suffered already -
We have done it, bat we had friends to sustain US
But the Indian must subm!; When we have turned
him away from our door, he has no friends any
where. Shall We, who boast so much of our nst,trj-
tons, and talk lofy of patriotism rcproach him
because he loves his country welI--bcc4usn his
oart IS no' as fhnty as we would make i,-bccaus,
he fingers too long among the graves of his f,thars,
But, If the fat is pronounced here-he Will gc
lie must 90, for he cannot stay here md live The
viii leave the fields which they have reclaimed from
b" forest and laid open to the their comfortable
DWELLINGS, their fncks, their schools their churchss-
aye, sir their christian churches which we have built
here, aud which now stand where the stake Of the
Tictim was once planted. BIZ, they will not leave
he graves OF their father. whole nation in dcs-
pair will pousy gather up their bones and retire TO
your western forests When they shall have reach .
ed its neither skirts they will look back for the last
time from the mountain over this beautiflI land, Of
their fathers, and then retiring the deeper shades
within, will curse your pcrfidy, and teach their chill
dren to eXecrate your name. We could bear re
Proach from he proud and the insocnt but there il !
eioquencc IN the humility with which these peoglc
plead their wrongs. We feel our gull, in the vorv
with which they approach u.s.
[SPeech 10 be concluded
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