Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-02

are her sons" Is there any State in thi
Union who has contributel SO much /,
the honour and welfare d the country
Sir, will yield the Wide question:
will acknowledge the fatal elects of SLAYER,
upon character-if any ons can say that
for noble disinterestedness, ardent love Of
country. exalted virtue, ami a pure and
holy devotion to liberty, The people o.
the Southern States haN ever been
surpassed by any in the void. I know
Sir, that this deUotion to Kbertv has
sometimes been supposed % be at wal
with our institutions. But It is in some
degree the result OF those very institu.
tons. Burke, the most philosophical Of
statesmen, as he was the most accom-
plished of orators, well Understood the
operation Of this principal in elevafing
the sentiments and exaIting he principles
Of the people in slave-holdisq States. |
vii! conclude my remarks on this subject
by reading few passages from his speech
"on moving his resolutions demonstration
with the Colonies" 22d MaFch,tl775. N
+" There is a circumstance attending
the Southern Colonies which makes the
spirit Of liberty still more high and haugh.
ty than in those to the Northward. Ii is
that, in Virginia and the Carolinas, they
have uast multitude of slaves. Where
this is the case, in any part Of the world,
those who are free are by far the most
proud and jealous Of their freedom. Free
dom is to them not only an enjoyment
but a kind Of rank and privilege. MOI
seeing there as in countries where it is
a common blessing. and as broad and gen.
eral as the air, that it may be united with
much abject toll, with great misery, with
all the exteriour Of servitude, liberty looks
among them like something more noble
and liberal. / do not mean Sir, to CON-
mend the superior morality ofthis senti-
mcnt, which has at least as much Of pride
as virtue in it /; bu. l cannot alter the ma
ture of man. The fact is so, and these
people Of the Southern Colonies are much
more strongly. and with a higher and
more stubborn spirit, attached TO liberty
than those to the Northward. Such were
all the ancient Commonwealth such
were our Gothic ancestors. Such, in our
days we're the Poles and such CiE be all
masters Of slapes, Uhe- are not slarS them
selues. In such people, the haushtiness
Of domination combines with the spirit of
freedom, fortiies it, and renders /; inuin-
cible."
In the course of my former nmarks-
Mr.. President, l took occasion u depre-
cate, as one Of the greatest of ellis, the
consolidation Of this Government The
gentleman takes alarm at the sound Con-
sotidation, like the tariff grates upon
his ear. He tells us "we have beard
much Of late about consolidation that il
is the railying word for an who arc ondeav-
curing to ,Oeaken the Union, w adding to
the power Of the States" BIT consolida-
ton (says the gentleman wasthe very OBJ
ject for which the Union was fsrmed and,
in support Of that opinion. he read a pas
sage from the address Of the President of
the Convention to Congress, which he as
sumes to be an authority on his side of the
question. But, sir, the gentleman is mis-
taken. The object Of the trainers Of the
constitution, as disclosed in that address,
was not the consolidation of tie Govern
ment, but " the consolidation of the Uni
on" 1t was not to draw power from the
States in order to transfer it to 4 great Ma
tional Government, but, in the language Of
the Constitution itself, "to fonn more
perfect union" and by what means
BY establishing justice, promoting do
mestick tranquility. and securing the bless
ings of liberty to ourselves and eur poster
ity." This is the true reading II the con.
stitlition. Bot according to tie gentle
mans reading, the object Of the constitu.
iion was to consolidate the Gaernment
and the means would seem to be the pro.
motion Of injustice, causing domestick
diseerd, and depr;ving the States and the
people "of the blessings of liberty" forev'
er. The gentleman boasts Of belonging
to the party of NATIONAL REPUBLICANS
National Republicans LA new name, sir
for very old thing. The national re-
publicans Of the present day we're the
tederatsts Of '9S, who became fe.5kral re
pubGcdns during the war Of 1912. ant
were manu- actured into national rst'ub6
cans somewhere abont the year 1895. A.
a party. lby whatever name distinguished, !,
they have always been animated BY the
same principles, and have kept steadily in
view common object. the consolidation
of the Government. Sir, the party to
which I am proud Of having belonged
from the very commencement Of my po
litical life to the present day, we're the
Democrats of '9S anarchists, Anti Fed
eraists, ReUolutionists, think they wer.
sometimes called.) They assumed tn
name Of Democratic Republicans in 1912
and have retained their name and princi
Piles up TO the present hour. True Il
their political faith. they have always, as
party, been in favour of Limitations of posc
err: they have insisted that all powers nc