Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-23


here that drew my FIRST breath--her. that
have been kindly fostered in youth, and sustain.
ed in marhood, by the generous confidence of
my fellow -ci,izuns. II is in the soil of Cnroli-
ma th.t tho eyes ofmy children first beheld the
right Bound to you, gentlemen, and to MY
county, by so many and such endcnring ties,
let others deserker. if thcyran /; let them reriie
her IT they ,oW-I shall stand or ihl, with Cor
ohna. God grant that wisdom and virtue, firm
ness and patriotism, may preside in her councils
and direct her measures /; but should she err,
shall not BIO the recreant son To join in the exulta.
tion of her enemies. | shall cast no rcproaches
in to her teeth-but in adversely as in prospect.
ty--s in veal and in woe"-ihrough good re.
port and through evil repoit--I co FOR MY CouS.
TRY"
Langdon Cheues: In returning to South Ca
rolina, he brings hack with him heart which
is true to her rights and which feels for her
Wrongs
After the cheering had subsidized, Mr.. Cheves
rose anu addressed the company as foll"ws--
Gontlemen:--You have done more than
justice in surprising that have returned IL my
native state with the feelings you have utiibu
ted to me. But it is M merit in me /, have
To feel otherwise. 1t is nevertheless gratifying
to me TO learn that my fellow citizens believe
that feel as ought To do and that ''my heart
is il. its right place have frequently, on Ie-
cent occasions poured forth my thanks and my
gratitude for your kindness and shall not there.
fore repeat them at this time.
1t is impossible that any loyal citizen Of south
Carolina, whether native or adopted, can look
the decay and prostra!ion of his country without
grief and Indignation, yet there is a JOY personal
to myself, mingled with these painful sympa-
thies, which indulge in returning among you.
1t ia, that I come to share common fate
with you in yam u'isfortunes and snftc:ings as
shared formerly with you in your joys and pros
perty. left you exuliing and hourishng in
the common glory and conmon greatness of n
common and united country. return In you
when YOU bowed down AND humbled, before
portion of that country, TO colonial suffering,
dependence and degradation.
Yes, Gcntlrinen, what is the condition of this
state and of all tho Southern States, but one of
colonial suffering, dependence and disgrace
There arc no less than seven Sovereign States
whose principal Agricultural Staple, require Il
foreign market tn bc of any value. Their pur-
suits n, the same time, are exclusively Agrcu
tural and these the only articles which give
value to the cultivation nf the suil. The actual
legislation by which these interests are bound
and contributed, instead of cherishng them, by
facilitating the enjoyment of foreign market,
denies the profitable possession of that market
and destroys the value of all the great products
OF your soil. Ii this u foster any other in
terests of the region of country there
would at least be mitigating pretext for egis-
lation apparently So extraordinary. But the mo-
tive of 1t is avowedy to encourage the industry
and promote the distinct and separate interests
of another cline and another people BY whom
ale these laws enacted Have you participated
Nc From whose legislative will do they derive
their efficiency From yours not in the small
est degree Not one vote of all the Representa-
tives i'm both Houses Of Congress- from at least
six Sovereign States, in immediate junction and
conuexion, was given in support of the passage
of these laws and their Legislative voice was on
ly heard in protests against their injustice and
uncons,tu,ionnly. They enacted by IA
legislative will (n every just political and moral
sense affecting the subject of Foreign People
In every such sense, people as Il distinct aud
separate fiom you (and Geographically too as
far from you) those of Canada,
If the buriens imposed by these laws, when
collected in the shape of revenue, we're returned
in the expenditures of government, to the people
who bear them, they would have some sem
bance of the legislation Of people self governed
but the vast revenue eyacted by them fIGm the
suffering States, is expended in the States by
whose power and whose pleasure It is imposed
This is of all the effects of bad legislation, the
most nfilictir> and destroying. As we'll might
the blazing orb of day, when sent to VAIN us
drink up. as it does, the moisture ofihe soil, and
the provdential dews of night not to return IT
and yet the qualification of the earth and the
gathering of its fruits be hoped for, 10 expec,
a country to thrive where large revenue is col
lcced and spent abroad
Now, how would you define Colonial cond
ton would say il presented, a people (n'
matie- under what forms of governmenD whc
were controlled in their greatest interests by
the legislative will of people geographically
and politically distinct from them.
How, again, would you define unjust anc
oppressive colonial government would say
that government which made laws destroying
the interests of the dependent State was such {
government. III wished to define worse 90
yernment, would say, that, where such law.
were nade with view to promote cxclusivel,
the interests Of the governing people, the
character abundantly made out; and
if wished 10 go further and to describe ont
under which country must wither ant
perish, ! would only add, that vast reve
nue. should be collected in the country in ques
ton and spent abroad
have made the analysis and put tho facts