Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-19
IN SENATE UNITED SrarES.-FeS. 0. 1850
spEECn OF MR BARroN, or NgtssounI..
CONTINUAL


deed. al the ,tlers may be includcd-The Union, and
the Fare,oe address # Wdstingion; and show that
the whole spirit AND scope of his sectional war of civil
discord and the whole plan at hunting popularity nhe
West for years past by feeding the flames of sectional
prcjudccs. lcslouscs, and unmositics, are III open
violation Of their principles and inunciions and that
we have In truth, Convention in the west, IN OPP
position to both, more dangerous tn our constitution
nl liberties, than either the Hartford Convention OF
the North. the projected Conven ion OF the South
and without any of their redeeming features or
objects of local relief, from real or imaginary op-
pressiis TO soften s character, or to apologize for
its existence!
Chief Justice Marshall, IN his Life of Washington,
Vol ., p. esq., speaking o. the Farewell Address,
says, 1T contains precrp to which the American
statesman cannot too frequently recur, and long as
1T is, is thought 100 valuable to be omitted or abrd-
ged.
Uoon the immense Importance of cllcrishing our
Union, permit me To read the following extract from
that paternal address, in page $50:
''But as it is easy to toresee that from different
CAUSES and from different quarters much pains will
be TAKEN many articles employed to weaken IN your
minds the conviction of this truth; This is the point
III your political fortress, against which the batteries
of internal and external enemies will be most -
stauty and actively Though often coveFty aud insi-
diouslv) directed; 1t is of infinite moment, that you
should properly estimate the immense value Of your
National Union, your collective and individual hap
piness; that you should cherish cordial habitual
and mmoveabe attachment to it; accustomirg your
selves to think and speak II of the palladium of
your political safety and prosperity watching for its
preservation with jealous anxiety; misunderstanding
whatever may suggest even suspicion that 1t can,
III any event, be abandoned; aud Indignantly frowr-
lag upon the first dawning of every attempt to alien
ate any portion of our country from the rest, TO
enfee5le the sacred ties which link together the
various parts.
Know then, that we have Convention of inter-
nal enemies-of demagogues and aspirants-in the
Vest.
Its members, like our settlements and our towns,
are scattered over wide surface, 'fcw and far be-
tyccu' ell he
concentration of force and unity of action, which
your Northern your Southern projects might have
done, It so disposed; but they have concentration
enough for effect, and unity enough for mischief.
Its objects personal aggraudzemcns, and the
qualification of inordnate and unhalowed ambition.
Us means cooperation to niame sectional Preiu
does, local anlmosities, and the sumberDg embers
OF CIVIL dscord, IN one portion OF Union against
onother; misrepreseut NO the objects, opinions. and
views of the other; assuming to be the champions 81
devoted friends OF their own deludcd sections and
thus gaining species of illegtmate and matricdal
reuown, and erecting Kind Of monument to their
tune, based upon the ruins Of the Farewell Address
Of the Father OF his countryI
pass other points Of comparison and come
TO what suppose, upon the charitable construction
and the declaration of the parties, 10 have been the
real Interior objects OF both the Northern and South
ern projects; presuming neither to have intended
treason disunIon.
Each had an Interior object, which, pe1' Sc was
both patriotic and laudsble. 1t was merely relief
from what both considered the ruinous influence of
the prevailing policy ard measures of the Federal
GovcFnment, upon their respective countries. The
North considered their country blIghted ny the war
measures Of embargo aud non Intercourse. The
South thought theirs desolated by the prevailing doc
trines of protection to American manufactures, and
internal Improvement.
Their RoduS operaadi seems TO have been, to make
a strong expression and demonstration at home, to
influence the the Union at the AIetropo
lis and thereby produce the resulting relief which
was desired at home.
eXtnut-a0l Confined IN nj pyf hn,,
both had Interior OBJECTS both patriotic and laudabe
in their views of their situation.
But our Western Convention, com posed of the
Ike aspirants and Catalines, against whom Washing
ton warned US most, being most likely to disturb
orr harmony, has redeeming feature of patriotism
about 1t.
It is altogether hideous and deformcd as Lucifcr
hlselfis represented by Milton to have been after his
expulsion from Heaven and his nine days fall from
the presence of GUdl
1t is the mere cmbOdyng Of the Gends of local ami
mostly and hatred.
The mere incarnation of the spirits Of civil dscord
which has already roamed the world for many cen
turies, and despoed union andberty IN the greater
part of Europe, in ASIA in Africa, South America
in the Isles of the Ocean, and among the lingering
remnants of the once powerful tribes of the aborigi
nal race of man on this Continent, aud driven union
and liberty we taught TO believe, to their last
retreat, upon that little Green spot upon the map of
the whole World, these II. States.
And well might the Father Of his couutrv. with
his sage knowledge of the past and his sanacions
ken of the future, have dreaded tins incarnation as
the most insinuatng and dangerous enemy that pos
terity wouid have TO encounter!
Well might he have bequeathed 10 US his Farwel
Address!
Had the Hartford Convention contrary to its suo-
posed design been productive OF war, il might, by
possibility, have been confined to foreign war witt!
civilized nation and the brood eXpunsc of the Allan
tic Ocean between and T." The frontier war with the
expiring remnants Of ha aboriginal race.
Should the project Of Tie South be productive Of
war, 1t cannot q m'IJor form than civil war
followed Amos, of course, By all tie horrors of
Ecrve war
Should our Western Convention Of civil dscord
be productive Of war contrary us supposed design
1t could not be- in less hidcous form than civil war
and probably. following IN lis train, a re-ensctment
throughout the South, Of The horfid scenes of San
Domingo!
II either Of the projects lad bursied beyond It's in
tended bounds. it might have happened that tie
Hartford Convention would have been the most harm
less Of the three.
There is Que objection common 20 tho three. tho