Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-30

of suffering which would authorize us to put ut
hazard the integrity Of the Union,--and that
so,ne of the measures of redress proposed in.
volve this risk. But his text, freed from all me.
taphpsical distractions. aiiirms the great riyh, of
resistance, and what is not of less value, the
right ola State peaccably to seccde fro,m the !
Union. But for one thing, gentlemen, l will
pledge my life, that whatever difference of opin.
ion there may be between our friend and those
who have listened 10 him with none other than
feelings of the most respectful consideration
and ardent attachment-that when South Car.
olina does net, he will be found in the van of the
conHict-sustaining our counscls, by the re.
sources OF his fine intellect and character, and
adjoining our struggles by the devoted valor of
his chivalrous spirit. Yes, my life upon it,
when the time does come, ifhis veins were fed
by a spring as redundant as the fountain of Are
thusa, he would pour OFT his blood like water to
the last drop i'll defence of this land, the spot of
his earliest attachments, and the object Of his
irst and undying allegiance.
lfthis unanimitv is not to be expected among
our friends, little oughtwe to suppose, that in n
crisis of peculiar excitement, when great inter
csts are presumed to be at stake, that Justice will
be done either 10 our opinions or motives, by
those who differ from US, with the embittcred
feelings Of political rancor. If we are satisfied
that we occupy no ground which we do not be-
lieve to be right, we may well afford to tolerate
a dissent from our views, although that dissent
should be accompanied by calumny and abuse.
Let then, those cry disunion against those who
mean nothing more, than such a reform in the
constitution as willprevent disuniom. Let them
| cry 10 tboy will n,.Il;E,,t;, ,,,;,,, ill.,. ..I,. |
think they find this doctrine expressly maintain
ed by the author of the Declaration of Indcpen-
dence, and implicitly sustained by enc of the
most distinguished of the architects of our Con-
%stitution. Let tbom raise this cry, although no
man has ever put his doctrine forth, in any other
shape than as a matter Tor free discussion, which
If true would be sustained, and if false would he
abandoned, but for no purpose Of party discipline
or confederation.
Let thom insist, if they will, that there is n
party bent on disunion the best answer we can
make to this nnfoundcd SANDER, is, by firm, tenn
peratc, and unccasin. eiioits to endcavour to
save the union, by saving the constitution from
an unhallowed breach and corrupt violation.
Let them read to US, if they will, long homilies
of submission, for the salutary purpose of show.
ing, that the only way of securing our institu-
tons from iniraction, is to quietly submit to
one violation Of our compact after another, under
the fear, that if We constitutionally resist, we
shall be crushed, and that our oppressors are
much more likely to be coaxed by our forbear-
ance, after they are gorged with our plumber,
than intimidated by our resistance, whilst we
yet have the power to resist, To all this; let us
tell them, their work is very impertec;ly done,
even at second hand that in the pious discour-
ss ofa certain learned divine, the Rev, DIR. Sa-
cheverel, of famous memory, in the enlightened
essays Of that distinguished civilian Sir Robert
Filmer, we find their doctrines of 90 passive ODE
dience and non-resistance," dawn through the
alemblc Of submission, until the crucible yields
nothing but pure, unsophisticated drops OF SER
Wilt y, so soothing, sedative and ~balsamic, that
ten drops are warranted as u dose to make any
man a coward and a slave!
But | will continue this odious and disgustful
theme no longer. Let me turn to that part of
the horizon which CLEANS with the light of con-
ISOLATION and hope-the morning star breaks from
the shadows of night, and rises with cheering
lustre. Public opinion, which does not long con-
tinue in the path oferIor, begins to discover that
South Carolina has some pretext from her COM
plants, some grounds tor her circumstances, and
some reasons for her protests. Cur heroic Chief
Magistrate Of the Union has put his seal of his
honest and fearless reprobation, on a part of the
telonics against which she complained. Nine
tenths of her people are united and firm. With
THESE auspices ihall we give up the contest p
NO! lhey furnish the highest imaginable in
centives to its vigorous and temperate prosecu-
ton.
Ii IN no other form, tleasf in the steady re-
s's'ance OF public opinion, in the undyinr decla-
ration that we will not submit however long for.
bearanco may have postponed or may still post
pone resistance to a violation of the bargain
which binds us together as confederate States.
f~ellow-Citizens, if we are true to ourselves,
we must trlumph-our cause rests on the foun-
da!ions OF immutable truth and inv,ncible ius-
tee and our success will be signalized by our
hXiDg, on a surer basis, the sec uritics and stipu-
latlons OF the Constitution and Union. The
page OF history beams with instructive and con-
solng lessons, Of minorithes obtaining their rights
even in great and arbitrary empires, where thew
have too much intelligence aud too much public
virtue to abandon them. Need | refer TO the tri.
umph of religious freedom, in our own and ON n
recent day, which has flashed upon the world. af.
""s "'S"'"' ""'"h'sS ana Oigotry Need
l refer to that spot, which for the beauty Of its
%vcrdure, poetry has called " the Green Isle oil
the Ocean," which but for this victory, history
would have ~denominated the Island of perpetual
misery and despair, to invigorate our hopes and
sustain our confidence? Has not her triumnb
beena bloodless one? Has not bigotry been o.
verthrown, with no other conclusion to the Bri.
fish Constitution, but TO add fresh securities to
the Union of England, Scotland and ireland ,