Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-07-25
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The operations OF the General Gosetnmeni,
nv nnlif,ine is laws, must he Unfortunately
..,,l.d-either by ca admission of tho power.
snd a consequent dissolatien OF the Union,
conner or later or else 10y by the more sum
mary process of putting down its Advocates,
=; =, nrnai,. The recent Anniversary 81 A.
usrican Independence furnished the Nulliy-
s,s with an opportunity of expressing their
continents freely anl s~iiholt Disguise md
rom thai expression, We arc no longer nj
liberty 10 doubt their ultimate design. Indeed,
,he Orator Of the party. ri Columbia, avow
Cd when be deliberately said q" be lieve
o,r onpression to be so sectioa4l in lis char
.c,er. so irrer,ediabla in liz nature. So Desc
Ia,ing in It's effects, as to Justify under any GO
vernment the tast nppeal-an appeal 10 The God
oCbanies" And We might quote innunlp-
rabie ioasls going eq ,a.ly as far, aud pointing
~ civil war and disguion the only means
iof 10 South Caroiina 10 free herself from iha
oppression-Gmagin oppressIan q there
fore worse Than real under which they say
she sroans. The parties in TINT State one
nj
onenl, aud decidedly marshalled against each
ohar, and they condlct the controversy in a
shirt OF biuefness, which would manifest it,
s,lfin the mos oiions aud horrd forms that
tie proverblai crheity oi civil l'rls could sus
,es. were words 20 he lai aside and swords
unsheathed--were Arguments 10 be exchanged
for arms.
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of the most eminent Of the many tllen.ed men
of whom South Carolina can boast. Draytnn,
Hueer, Lsgare, Mitchell, BAR, Smith, Pedsru,
Poiusett, Reid, Wilson, Richardson, GrimAe
aod Dessausserr, are names which carry with
them an influence, acquired by lives Of un'"I-
lied houor, hy dcmonsfratipns of ardeat pat
riotism, and by displays of gigantic talent,
which will, W. hope, be able TO c'"sa ,nf "d''
ous haresv oil Nuiihoaiinn without an appeal
10 brute force. Their strenuous eKerons 90
effect this purpose, even should the mad pas
sions Of their opponents render 'hem ineifecn-
al. will n, least en- title thsm 70 the thanks Of
their Contemporaries, 4, II Will cn,nra tn them
the applause Of posierlv. They have made.
and will doubtless couiiunp 10 make, noble
of the thirteen stripes. tina sac ed emblem ct
,he Union of the twanty four States -iboss
glorious stripes which have been to out coan
try, by sea AMI by lind, cloud BY day
and pillar Of hts by n'ght--those sip'
rious siripes, whose political inaiance is
NOW operating on the cabnle,s o, Europe,
lram the Boristhcues TO the Meditefraneall--
mo e sacred stripes which nted oyer the
dead and led bodies Of our FTthers Of 10"
Revolution" SHAH one of them he blottrd
ont, Shall the torn aud di.hgured remnant
Of that proud a x tell the world that man I
Incapable of sef-g 'sernneni-ani be at once
tne record OF our brlghies, glory aud our deep
est shsme7 Shal it bear witness that Liberty
is the inevitable pateni Of Licentiousness aud
Anarchy aud Of the fruitful brood Of meagre
ha1Diss that mini,,er at their altars Snail II
tell the oppressed nations of the globe, 10 rest
conreo,ed in their GAINS 7 Shall ii warn
,hem, that. if they burst the ma0acles th at iet-
Ger their limbs and bind their proud spirits
10 the dungeon door, they are ehnog only
u temporary relief flom Rn inevitable destiny
Shallit proclaim &c. them that slavery IS the
natural state and the irrevocable doom OF man,
and thai he can ouly exist in peace aud safety
when he is alternately la-htd and curbed hy
Jespotic ruler? Shall it admonish them that
,he oppressor's rod is more endurahie than th7
wars of Demagngu.s aud faclious asp'Fan's'
Who, like Lu fer, had " rather reign in Hell.
saan serve 10 Heaven" II the Unioa IS 10 be
dissolved, for ,ae sc light aud trivial caases
which are urged rendering that step
justifable and necessary, then has the
blood of our fathers been shel III waltz
then are the struggles OF the oppressed
people Of Europe. worse than idle, and the"
aspirations tor freedom is wasted breath
then, indeed is man, 10 all in'ents and purpo-
ses a slave, whose solid interests consist in
hugeiug his chains, AMI making the best OF his
condition, rather II in bursting them asun-
der, tina, hcenious demagognes and tu-throat'
may ssiz4 the rens Of power, and, IN The sa-
cred name of Liberty, perpetraie crimes AT IN
mention of which even Despos shudder-tlien,
are all our eulogiums OF Liberty itself n
sculous rant and fusiian, Il the pefpeiuliy Of
our Republican institutions is II mere Utop'an
dream. al IN TO the fabulous conceptions OF spec
ulatiye aud visionary politicians of pas, ages,
rather than that splendid reality which their
trainers had hoped to Establish. But II cannot
be-, that any large portion Of the people oil any
section of Country can be goaded INTO such an
sci of political suicide. by men who know that
the grievances they pathetically describe
and the oppression which they paint in such
dark and gloomy colors exist only on paper
a No. Their common sense will detect the latent
: motive OF these men, before they can cons"m