Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-07-20
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GkEAT STATE RIGHTS CIR EnR s;rIoNr

P Seni,s' ne Is worthy OF the highest honors of his
eonuy' put ne would scorn TO purchase ,bcm M tbe
expense OF the interest and principles of South Ca
Aer tho President had given the o,ow i"ee rs
said:-- -'-'| '0Se ana
Gentlemen, when you this lost in print, i, will
&c mu,ked win inverted commas. IL is q Toast quoted
from those given on recent az public dinner
given to our distinguished and estmabe fel,ow-citiz
ycei IL. Fonseu, our late Minister TO Mexico. This
oas. stuck In some bodys throat-he could not swal-
10" IT, Let us see this company go it, Is there
one in this assembly that gainsay this! The glow
ing eXuation OF your counteRances tells me NO Not
onc.'
o. Our Delegation in Congress" Their efforts hare
deserced and tciH dchiere success" RS cheers
= ne Toast was drank with tremendous cheers.
io. Our Senior Senator, Wiiliam ISn,ith-We hon
OF MS steady and able support of the rights Of the States
IL. Stephen ID. M,ilcr-In feeling acuteIy the
wrongs Oh south Carolina he has expressed a sensi-
billity which becomes her Chief Magistrates rs
cheers. l
IL. George .McDu6;e-with the soul and tongue Of
rack Henry he has interpreted the infatuated Bel
shaazar the hand writing on the wall. rs cheers.
IL. The Women Of South Carolina-Among the
pest and airest of their kind.They will have no heart
Tor hIm who has no heart for her. re- cheers
VOLUNTEERS.
by Henry L. Pinckney. President of the Day.-Mr.
T. said that as the toast of our distinguished Represen
tave had been suggested by the decorations of the
rooh' he would beg leave TO borrow another from the
same source. He then gave
Lt6erty-Ihe C0nstitution-Unioa."
wi. cunningham, CHAIRMAN oil the Committee of Ar
rangements submitted TO the meeting, behalf of
the Committee, the following sentiment which was re-
ceived with the utmost enthusiasm.
Ldngdon Cheres: In returning TO South Carolina he
brings back with him ahear which true TO her RIGHTS
and which feels for her wrongs
Alter the cheering had subsidized, Mr.. Chcvcs rose
and addressed the company as follows:
Gentfemen:-You have done me no more than ius-
tice in supposng that have to my native state
win the feelings you have attributed TO me-But
NO merit IN me TO have done 1t would be foul and
tn feel 9TH T..
gratifying to me TO learn that my fellow citizens believe
mat ieel as ought TO do and that ny heart is in is
rlght place have frequently, on recent occasions,
poured fourth my thanks and my gratitude for vour
Kindness and shall not therefore repeat them at this
time.
1t is impossible that any loyal citizen of South Carroll
ma whether native or adopted, look the decay and
prosraon oil his country without grief and indignation;
YET there Is JOY personal TO myself mingled with these
painful sympaties, which indulge in returning among
YOU III Is, that come 10 share a common fate with
you IN your mistortuHes and suerings as shared for
merry with you in your Joys and your prosperity left
you exulting and ourshing in the common glory and
common greatness OF a common and united country.
return to you when you are bowed down and humbed
before portion of that country, colonial suffering de-
pendence and degradation.
Yes, Gentlemen what is the condition of tb;s st,ta
and oil all the Southern States but one of colonial suffer-
ing dependence and disgrace?
There are no less than Sovereign Safes whose
prhcipa Agricultural Staples require foreign market
10 be oil any value. Their pursuits at the same time
are exclusively Agricultural and these the only articles
"cn can give value to the cultivation of the SOIL The
actual Legislation by which these interests are bound
and controued, instead of chershing them by facili
tatlnS me enjoyment of foreign market, denies the
profitable possession of that market, and DESTROYS the
Vae oil all the great products of your soil This were
to foster any other interests of the same region of
Try, there would at least be mitigating pretcx for le-
gIslaon apparently so extraordinary. But the motive
oil avowedly to encourage the industry and promote
the distinct and separate interests of another cline and
smother people. BY whom are these laws enocted2
Have you participated? Ne. From whose legislative
1ariy eir afIic
the smallest degree. Not vote of all the Repre-
sentaves in both Houses of Congress- from at least 81
Sovereign States, in immediate junction and connection
was given in support of the passage of these laws and
their Legislative voice only heard in protests against
their injustice and unconstitutionay They were en-
acted by legislative will lin every just political and
moral sense affecting the subjec0 of Foreign Peopel
In every such sense, people distinct and separate
from you (and Geographically too far from you) as
those of Canada.
II the burthens impo:e ed by these laws, when col.
leced in the shape of revenue, were returned in the
expenditures of government, the people who he ar
them they would have some semblince of the leeis.
la'ion OF people setgoverned but the vast revenue
exacted by them from the suffering States is expended
In the States by whose power and whose pleasure IL IL
iiSposed This is Of all the effects of bad legisation
the moot affective and destroying As we'll MIGHT The
blazing orb o! day. when sent to u.s. drink IN
i does the moisture Of the soil. I'D the proyidentia
dews OF night not return Il. and yet the qualification Of
the EARTH and tho gathering of its fruits be hoped for
as to expect country TO thrive where large
is collected and spent abroad.
Now. how would you define Colonial condition.
would say IT presented people (no matter under what
forms oil governmenD who were controlled in their
great interests by the legislative will of people geo
graphically and politically distinct from them.
How, again. would you define an unjust and oppres
sive colonial government? | would say that a govern
ment which made laws destroying the Interests of the
dependent State was such government. II wished
10 define worse government would say, that where
such laws were made with view to promote exclu-
vely the interests OF The governing people the char
acter was abundanuy made ou'; and il wished TO go
further and TO describe one under which country
must wilhsr and PERISH / would only add, that vss
revenue should be collected in the country in question
and spent abroad
| have made the analysis and put the facts side by
side, that you may run the parallel, and, having Zone
so, cay, whether the condition OF this State and Of all
the SoHhern States, is not one exhibiting all the es.
senia evils OF colonial dspepdencel Are you less colo
NAL than Canada, for example The great interests
that country, IL IL true, controlled by the legisIa
tive will OF Great Britain, which has the right, accord
ing to received notions of national law, to do so. Blu
81 you governed by people equally distinct fro m
you, except you and they, connected by insu.
TONS legal and moral, social and charitable, which
forbid the exercie of such power But their pecu
liar interests fostered-yours oppressed They
receive bounies-you pay penalties. The burthen
the people Of that country hear are light-yours ar.
| enornous The revenue collected from them is spen
among them That which you pay is spent abroad.
Let Va look little into the spirit and manner ir
which the power OF which complain, is exercised
For this purpose one or two examples will suffice.
very di tnguished representative from this State, (Mr
McDuhe.) on whom you havejust bestowed high and
merted euogium standing at the head Of the highest
Committee OF the House Of Representatives, reported
to the House, act Of that Committee, Bill, in
tended for the purpose Of examining and considering
some Of the grea, questions OF which The Southern state
complain. One Of the complaints set forth, il will be
reeoecled, in the Declaration OF Independence, wa
that in your former colonial state, your petitions wer,
disregarded. Let us now see how our present COVER