Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-07-20

by the public curiosity which has been lately awakened
concerning it, in consequence OF some attacks mste up
I'm the public prints, tits due TO the enreates of
some OF my friends, aud not TO any convicti)n, in my
mind Of its necessity, to satisfy their curiosity
Before you declared your Independence, ! was born
s'.d within the present limits OF the United States My
father. who was amongst the first coonisis Of East
Florida, after its cessicn Great Britain, remoy with
his fsnil from that Province (Dy birth plac~) into
Charleston during the Revolution. lie was friendly
I to the American cause, and his removal wa, at the
instance of tbs most distinguished patriots Of this city
with whom he lived in close and lasting friendship
The preliminary articles, well az the defntpe Trea
ty of Peace, found mo here in Charleston child and
OF course recognized me as citizen OF the United
States IL is now fifty years since first appeared
monSst you. From that time til the present have
been domciled here. No o'her "home, sweet home"
have 1 ever had but this same city. My first act in
manhood was my oath to support the Constitution, fr.
OF this State, and nert of the United States The su
pren,dey OF my allegiance tony FIRST parent. came
yer forget. IL ere 10 forget thee" Carolina, "mw
my right hand forget her cunning II do not
Der thee, may my tongue cleave 70 the roof Of my
mouth"
| But .corn. Gentlemen, to mako the statements I
have just given, any part of my defence. To the
charge oil being an adopted 70 eigner, am willing TO
plead guilty. aud justify, and throw myself upon
/ God and my country which counry yon are. Say that
| was born, not merely uLd-- Tue British Kings al
iegiancc IA Cc.oni, but within the sound Of Boto
''SH Am on that account TO be less appreciated in
country which ptoes.e. TO hold out an asylum for the
oppressed of all nations; which throws wide open the
doors OF hospitality TO all foreigners kindly Inviting them
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reire.hnents of equal sufag' federation and liSery'
Think We, that II Providence, instead of burning me
with Southern Sun, hid associated in birth with
Locke ard Milton Cha ham and Fox, AMI the long line
OF English philosophers divnes, poets and state
with whom ancestors sws city drank ot The
waters OF knowledge. liberty, and eternal life. Think
ye, repeat, that would shrink from the honor Of
such an association Would you, my feow-ci,zcn,
he disposed TO denounce me- il like my honored father
had drawn my fret breath amongst that people, who
in the Of Trajan and the Antonines when the Ro-
san Moaarchy was a, il, meridian splenour, and when
every other part of the present British Empire had been
subj sced to the Imperial Generals could boast of the
unvioa'ed Independence Of their native lands who have
since nobly struggled and died for Scoand's law.
and Scotands liberties, and who in these days
are making eagles flight over every region of
know ledge, with eye that ,cinks. ami ring
that never tres!" Shall the honest ndustrious bravo
and hardy emigrants oil Germany, the country Of DE-
Kalb, whose fidelity 10 your cause was sealed with
his blood and who's, bones lie buried your own South
ern SOFIA country surrounded by many imptrh,-
BILE monuments, TO record 10 the latest ages, its phi
lo'ophy, its learning its arts aud its ingenuity. Shall
the children Of that fair France, who in your utmost
need, and Z" in the times that tried mems souls " gave
you her heart her hand and her purse, in pch close
lance and whose brave sojiers, tog' Their tn the
great aud the good Lafayette, present at the con.
summation, in fdct Of the greatest revolution whic~
the world has ever SEEM Shall the sons of the Sham
rock and the " Emerald Islc," who gave you their
Montgomery 10 lead on, il were, your fororn hope
and the braves of the brave to fill up the thin and
scattering ranks Of your aIme'-who so long have
sat down and wept" by the tcmbs of their nar,yr'd
pairots-Cap,ives and strangers in th,ir native land
their harps unsrung and I" hanging upon the willow,
in the midst thereof in their heviness looking TO an
abiding place in this land Of eedom, az return from
their captivity where they might no longer he vast
ed but sing again aud in their land, the trumpha ant
song OF their delverance and Of their Joys Shall
thousands and tens OF thousands of emigran who an
nualiy come 10 your shores and upon your own invita-
iinn too, bringing with them their oral WORTH their
ncwiedge their arts and their industry, sealing with
their oAths theiS devotion to freedom and their alegi
ance 10 this the country Of their adoption. Shall thew
gentlemen, in this pending controversy between the
lA Uiy haot
warmest sympathies Shall they all our e cling
be elevated with your hopes and be cast down with your
ears partaking with you of the same oppression with
which you are oppressed s. yet be told that there still
DISTINCTION betweenthe native and adopted czenss |
trust not, my ow-citiZens. / trust that Won will
irown down with your honest and your utmost ndicna
toh distinction odiou and that your verdict will
this night be recorded that had chance placed the birth
place of Brutus, not in Rome, but in the Hebrdes and
YET mat having 81 long resided here in Rome, and pre-
serving as he hopes, the good name inherited by him
from his Sre and ready to transmit his sons as I'M
impaired as it was bequeahed to him; having all his
property invested in States that he must sink or
swim with the periiOus ship of the South with his ma
rents, wife, children and relations all sleeping their
original dust within hearing distance of the voice that
nightly cries the hour, from that watch tower; with no
earthly tie TO bind him to any other spot earth than
this same Carolina. He, BRUTUs who has never asked
from the tribunes or the people, office honour
and who would receive none, excepting such your ap
piauses so distinctly and repeatedly expressed this
evening" have conferred on him. has an undoubtcd right
IN law and In reason TO give his opinion and to be heard
M
one OF You, who was DO within the sound of St Mi
chaePs bell. If this be not your verdict then indeed
"Brutus had better he riUager
Than to repute himself o Rome,
Under such HARD conditions, $ THIS TIME
Is likely TO lay on hm'
Fellow Townsmen:-This is the proudest dav of my
HE: we can say without fear OF contradictions that
there 's assembled in this spac Gus and crowded Hall
the intelligence the patriotism, the virtue and the CHI
vary OF Charleston Characters there are here from
one OF whom, at least, pointing TO Major Hamonl
we may expect all that patriotism and irnness can a.
chevo in counc and from Others looking the guestsl
all that honor and bravery accomplish i'm the field
Good men and true they and their distinguished asso-
crates, have come at the first bidding, TO festival
which, in Thought word and decd is their countrys
FESTIVAL III is Cardinals festival, and if amongst those
who have so absentcd themselves from the pleasures
oil this day, there any who canno feel and think
with south Carolina, on the principles promulgated by
me LcgiSf6tire which the only test required for
seat at the table, let hope that tho as honest mon
ana good ciizeDs, they differ from us vet, that
sooner or later they will oil kindly fall the ranks of
their counrymen, and enter into those feelings which
every son oil the South ought 10 cherish honor and re-
we're as the best and the cheapest defence which we can
make at this criis against the expressions which would
make slaves of us ALL
Neither the time my own inclination will permit
me TO enter into the fruitful topics of your rights and
your wrongs. These have been already noticed with
an eloquencc aud force such has seldom been pav
ed any where Never you forget tho spirit stirring
sentiments OF the gentlemen who have preceded me-
and the transcendcn power of their appeals upon this
assembly. The old well as the voting YEA tbe very
dSniaries oil the land have been rising from their
seats In eNstacy to priake of enthusiasm which beg
gars all descriptions which love of order in YOUR.
selves and no authority OF your officers, has been suf
icient TO restrain Not sentiment has been here nj
cred will li.l. ,a.