Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-07-22

" rally around the Palmetto banner and -
swear,
No SOU this standard ever quits
" Until hes fgi,ten'd into 6s -
! The following toast is from one Of the leo5.
Nuilifyers
| BY Col. w. C.. Preston CONSTITUTIONS mr..
paper-oaths are hct breath. The only irdetI
muhtmerfs OF Liberty are inscribed uno, 81,
hearts OF ircemen, and thef, only suarsn,ees,,.#
arms
| Very pretty words these---ahh m paS,o,5 u..
will do the Mules the Justice to saw rt-,, -.
of no set Of men who earnish their sentiments al,
! more beautiful or fhreer words If thev =. VI!
have cap,ivaed or k,ledby such wcapons Thor, ,,.r
tr'nc would scarcely have had an opponen, a, rs
moment Blu, unlucky for them, their braun Il >
pieces Of fros.-woIk fall to pieces when touched \,
the spear ofI,huricl or when threatened with II. =
application of steel in a more tangible shape IT,.
"indefble munnents OF liberty (as this phroqo
IS carleatured n S. Carolina IN other words. IL,
lrlshnans liberty" Of doing what every man
pleases in defiance oflaw,) have been found harm.
iess when opposed to,he overwhelming nun.
mett, of public opinion, directing the operations
OF a well regulated government. =" Constitutions
are but paper--oaths arc but breath says Coz
Preston and truly ii was hardly needtul tia, h..
should have told us this He and his nulhfyin,
friends had 6 wen us too many practical cxcmpl-
iicatons of the fact in their frequent disregard both
of the federal and Of their own state constitution in
the teeth ofthcir oaths to support and defend both
| ~, -.
but useless paper and oatns but idle breath, it.
When they thus trampcd upon aud violated,
then lawless Decorators are allowed to go unscu
thcd by the indignation OF the people Much
ought 10 be pardoned 10 he spirit of Liberty"-but
wncl those who pretend to be her most devout wor
shippers and her chosen ministers guilty OF con-
duct which brings her very name into dsrepute,--
when they east her down from her altar, and cxnlt
III her stead the demon of Lceniousness, v1iled in
her robcs-they deserve the excel ration Of ell who
place proper vnluc upon the i.'estimubc blessings
OF free government administered in just spl4t OF
liberation end equality And, though from the OPP
GRAFTON of well known causes they may escape THAI
eXccrai!on from their cot .m orares tie pages IT
History will hand them down to after times IN tefria
lkt those IN which Il now holds up the H0mdG Ca
taane and ts vonspilatots to the just repro61lon
Of The world
Nv Adttant J n Tre1cwell Tile 4,h of ,ly
Of 1892 aud 80 The 6rn,er he,icd us an aptrcss
cd and cnsavcd people, bound hand and fcots nd
PROSTATE at the mercy of Federal power Tie lu,
Ter bcholds II, sorousy free people, rcgeno.a-
ted and dissent hracd aun the shackits ni tyrl,rtl
! Tyranny and glorying III the triumpAs Of Nuil.i-
, CATION.
t',he gallant Al ttan, Tla]eweltyfeah truly.
If Modification has trlumphc,!, and Tia Pfeplc Of
South Carolina are, he asserts, "a gloroasly
free people regenerated aud disenihrallea f,,tn tho
shack'es off.deral tyranny" why they not Gen.
tent with ,heir victoy2 Why do. they still talk
of resisting federal tyranny and of rraIIynlg
again under the Palmetto banner % But is il. ia
truth, the triumph OF Modification to Inch we alc
indebted for the existing pacific state of hiuEsl
It It 49, surely II is the stransest scat Of triumph
that ever MAN henrd of Ia 1882, thotarihf system
was materially modified, especially in relation to
one OF two articles which entered essentially into
the consumption OF Sonth Caroliaa--,ut she C.
clsred herself still dissatisfied, and proceeded to
had accompanied tho ACT OF notification with sol,
cnn manifesto, declaring that she would never re-
cede from the high ground she had taken until tie
principle OF protection" Was abandoned ard re-
nounccd, what did she do She accepted u law.
which not only expressly recognized The "princi-
pie OF protection but which Is, in our opinion MOI
| as favorable 10 the South as the law of 1882 which
| she refused to accept And this is the triumph of
Notification! Another such victory (said
Pyrrhus,) " and we are ruined
By Corporal VIM Douglass. The Volunteers Of
South Carolina, stonding under the boughs ola
Palmetto tree, with a rattle snake coiedatthe
trunk IN defiance to General Jackson and his hun
dred thousand Yankees
Well done for Corporal Donslas-he honors the
once which he fills The volunteers of South Ca
'ohnt, " standing undera palmetto tree, would be,
Ia all conscience formidable enough bu, then. that
"solled ra'ilesnakc 'as Simon in the plav,says of
the cooked hat, that is enough to friobteo the
D., much less a hundred thousand vankees
Pray, corporal, how many volunteers can stand
under palmetto 1t depends SON. what upon this
whFther the hundred thousand yankees would run
or not, at the formidable array
ny Cap. J. II Means, John C. Calhoun Souh
~ tomas brightest star. In the language of
te'eor0teu writer, such men, like eagles nre sell
uonl ionhd. Solitary and alone amid the rugged
rocks OF science, or basking in the MONDAY blaze
Of fame"
Again we have very pretty words md none
the less so, we imagine, for being borrowed This,
hasn