Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-07-20

Tor the common defence and general welfare in their
most comprehensive sense.
believe il has no subsidi,figG power TO proeecute q
system oil Internal lnprove whilst The rrohi
coruptons. aud insane cAtravagAnce, hie have mark
ed practically the anl au-e OF ti- 'Acr, would
forbid, every principle OF suuD AIS ard expej
ency, its exercise, even mater II 90 smiGsiy
ces.ary or dire Ct i,,plica'iou.
believe that this system ~ urconsiin oua' taxation.
the hand, aud uri1.; md unequal ex?SLG..."-
the other, makes the condition Of the South
tally Colonial, and hat she is fast ,crging to desoia
ton, which. whilst il covers with snuueIa5e dis
grace, sn,siis upon our po-terily iuevi able ruin.
Believing all these things and that all prospect OF
het from opprsssors hopeless believe, that the
S)uh ought aud must resist.
Genuenen, an comment authority, no revolutionary
inccndiary anarchist, the most gifed opponent the
French Revolution ever had, has said. "That com.
modify will bear duty OF three pence, will bear
penny, when the general feelings Of irrated
abd two millions oil people are resolved not to pay
The feelings OF the Colonies formerly the feelings
OF Great Britain. Theirs formerly the feelings
OF Ar Hampdrn when called upon 10 pay 20 shilling
Would 20 shiliiugs have ruined Mr. Hampden's for
tune? No-but the payment of hall 20 shilliDgs on
the principle il was demanded would have made him
slave" And SO say /, that it matters not whether
your duties he one hundred or twenty hye per cent
when they demanded the principle of protection
and not rerenue, the South is equally slave
IL may be asked, " ought and must resis'" How;
by disunon and civil war; No, never, without these
caames are Inflicted upon US by the sangunary Dies
potism and obstinate Injustice OF our oppressors. What
atbeh-by what mode and measure OF RENE dy and re.
dress Let the authorities of the sovereign States that
pay This tribute, this question the solemn
al
Indignant people. Let them consult enlightened
forecast, temperate, firm, and sustaining fortiiude.
Let them look back the principle, canonized by the
blood of innumerable martyrs in our revolution. Let
them look into the principle which supposed
solemnly guaranteed by compact, ard let them look
forward TO the awful conss qusnces OF neg citing to
protect aud forever defend these principles, which
unto unto than life, " the duties Of lit, them
selves" Do promise than she will pc riorm
when say To this appeal South Carolina Is ready
respond'
the other side of the water, has sAid " that The dan
gers OF liberty can never he greater, from any cause,
than they from the remssnes of people, to whose
pereona vigour, every Constitution, it owed its
adjustment, 20 must continue to owe its preserva
ton"
Tbisrelas atom Of the publ, spirit in some quarters
j. certainly among the farming signs Of the times
But perfect unanimy is not TO be expected ques-
ton Of such infinite Importance the solemn issue
which the tributary States must make up with the
General Government. L say must make up; for you
may take il as "A petition suscepble Of the rigid
historical demonsra alton, that despot in arbitrary
and no despotc majority in government calling itself
free viii voluntarily nler the power of Unlimited
taxation. You must carry appeal from their JUS
tice, TO interests that ultimate in their character
superiority of phy.ical force, should protect tn IN
from the Influence OF fear.
As TO the mole of making up this issue with the
general government, there may be an honest differ
ence 81 opinion among those who nevertheless tho
roughly united in thu conviction that labor under
noierable evils, and that there exists eminent ne
COSTLY that they shoull be efectually Tedressed.
These differences Of opinion bound not onv To
tolerate, but to treat with kindness and Have
We not had presented to this evening, in a manner
the most deeply and imposingly interesting, iut-
raon of this dismilitude Of sentiment in honered
ana distinguished Guests? Our representative Colonel
Drayton) whilst he is scarcely less srong in denounc-
ng the injustice and oppressive character of the pres
ent system of government in its ion the South
differs with our Senator (G-n Hayne) the question
OF remedy. He thinks that evils have not yet "a
mounted to degree OF suffering which would uuthor-
ize US TO put at hazard the jnte gritty d the Unon-
and that some Of the OF redress proposed in
vove this risk. But his text fee from all metAphysi-
and what is not OF ess value, the ght of $ psacea
bly, TO secede from the Union But for one thing gen
ucmeD, ill pledge my life, that what. difference
OF opinion there may be between frisnd and those
who have listened to him with other than feelings
OF the most respectful confederation and ardent attach
men-when South Carolina does act, he will be found
in the van OF the conct-sustaning counsels, by
the OF his fine intellect and character, and
dornng struggles by the devoted vaor of his chv-
alrous spirit Yes my life upon it, when the time does
come if his veins fed by spring as redundant
the fountain of Afethusa, he would pour out his
blood like water TO the last drop in defence of this land
the spot OF his earliest attachments, and The object of
his first and undyiug allcgiance.
1T this unanimiy is not TO be expected among our
friends, little ought we 10 suppose, that in crisis OF PEE
euliar excitement, when great interests presumed
TO be at stake that justice will be done either to
opinions or motives, by those who differ from us, with
the embitered feelings of political Ii
sa' fled that we occupy ground which do not be-
eve to be right, may well afford to tolerate dis
sent from views although that dissent should be
accompanied by calumny and abuse.
Lot. then, those cry disunon aganstthose who
wilLprevent ds-unon Let the cry, il they will, null
LITIGATION agaiutt those who think they find this
docuine expressly maintained by the author Of the
Declaration - Independence, and implicitly sustained
by of the most distinguished OF the architects Of
Constitution. Let them raise this cry, al hough 70
has put this docr forth in any other shape
than matter for free discu which if true would
he sustained, and il false would be abandoned but for
purpose OF party discipline confederation.
Let ihcm insist, if they will, hat there ia party
bent on sunop; the best answer we can make 20 his
Unfounded SANDER, il ty firm, temperate and
pg eots to endeavor to tie union, by saving the
conuion from unhalowed bre lcb and corrupt viola
lion. Let them read to ~, il they will, long homles
OF submission, for the salutary purpose of showing tha
the only way Of securing ,utions from mfr action
ia 10 quietly submit 10 violation OF compact af-
another, under the fear, that if we consulionaly
resist, shall he crushed, and that oppressors
much more likely to be ed by orbesrance
after they gorged with plumber than intimida-
It'd by Tesstauca, whilst yet have the power
resist. To all this let us tell them their work is very
impeTlecty done, nj second hand: that in the nj
discouTses OF certain learned divine, the Rev DR.
Sacheverc1, OF famous memory, in the enlishte ned
gays Of that distinguished civilian Sir Robert Elmer
find their doctrines of "passive obedie and
resistance" drawn through the aem5c Of submission
cated drops OF servy, soothing, sedahve and bal
sanic II at ten drops warranted dose to make any
thap coward and slave.
But will continue this cdious and disgustfui theme
longer, Let me turn to that part of the horizon
which CLEANS with the light tt consoaiion and hope
The morning str breaks from the shadows OF night and
rises with cb eering ure. Public opinion. which does
not long continue in the path Of error gins to JscoV
that Sou'h Caroinia has some pretext for her com