Litchfield enquirer., 1833-04-18

the protective policy is abandoned? You an- swer No! Are the principles of free trade and equal rights established? No! Is the Con stitution restored to its integrity and our lb- critics protected No for here is the Bill of Blood, by which what little of the Constitu. tiOn that was left, is scattered to the winds, 1 and the sword and the purse of the Confede- macy are placed in the hands of an insolent and brutal Dictator. MT. President, dare we then hand them this report, and tell them to triumph and rejoice Let us beware how we outrage the feelings of freemeH. Add not mockery to modification. If we must de- scend "from our high estate'-if we must take less than our rights, and leave our pledge unredcemed before the world, let us act as the situation requires. Without apology-with- out professions-frmly but reluctantly. let us bend to the necessity, which circumstances have imposed upon us. Mir. Presidcnt-I have one more objection to urge against the Committees Report. It is not an error in p, P,inciple, but in profession. In the first col umn, find the following words: "Ardentlv ottached to the Union of these States, the peo- pie of South Carolina were still more devoted to the rights of the States" Sir, is this pro- fession plainly and simply true? fit is, let it stand. Since your attachment might be sus- pected, accumulate epithets to your profes- siOns. l ask the gentlemen upon this floor, whether they can lay their hands upon their hearts, and say, that they "are ardently at- tached to the Union of these States" Why, have we not for the last seven years, been declaiming against this Union. as inflicting upon us oppression, and poverty, and desoIa- tion? Aud have we not proved it, triumph. antly proved it., and throughout the wide South, made common the high complaint, that these States of this COnfederacy, by a policy as destructive as it was unprincipIed, were practically colonized to the other sec. tiuns of the Union? "Ardently attached to the Union of these States!'' Where then
 is your talk about your Constitution and the rights it guarantees? You have more than once declared that the Constitution was annihilated, and annihilated under the Union of these States. Is it now nothing-and the Union every thing without it? A consolida- ted despotism, by virtue of this Union, is erected upon the ruins of the Constitution over Carolina, yet, we are ardently attach ed to the Union of these States 2" Sir, let others think as they may, and act as they may. Ipretend not to judge of their feelings or opinions; but l cannot palter with con. science or play the hypocrite. Nor can Car olna, consistently with her honor or her truth, dissemble as to her true situation. boldly declare it (and believe that express the feelings of the treemen that represent.) un- der the Government as administered, have no ardent attachment to the Union of these States. "Ardently attached to the Union of these States ]" Sir, if confederacy of the Southern States could now be obtained, should we not deem it a happy termination happy beyond expectation, of our long struggling for our rights against oppression fear, that there is no longer hope or liberty for the South, under Union, by which all self-government is taken away. A people, owning slaves, are mad. or worse than mad, who do not hold their destinies in their own hands,"
 Duelling on large scale.-Tt appears from a letter of o. P. Q. that the conductors of the political journals in Paris, after having expen- ded upon each other their paper store of ann intuition, have resorted tO the more deadly weapons of swords and pistols. A little Car list journal, edited and supported by the dis graced courtiers of the exiled king, had an- bounced it's determination to infct personal chastisement on the conductors of any paper that should dare attack the duchess of Berr, or any other individual of the Bourbon fami. ly. An opportunity of carrying its threats in- to execution was soon offered. A challenge was first sent to the editor of the Corsaire, and promptly accepted. A duel ensued, in which the editor of the patriotic journal was wound ed. The editor of the National was next call ed to give personal satisfaction. He declin- ed, and the gauntlet of defiance was thrown down to the tribune. It was readily taken up, and the defiance thrown back, not as be- tween private individuals, but as republicans against Carlists, as the supporters Of the sovereignty of despots," and the boasting royaIists were stigmatized as towards. The editor of the National, who at first declined
 the contest, then returned to the charge, and
 challenged the original challenger. A duel
 took place. in which Armaud Carrel the ed
 itor of the National, and one of the ablest po-
 Iltical writers in Europe. was severely woun-
 ded. The war thus commenced has exten.
 ded itself to all the journals on both sides of
 the house. The editors of the liberal papers
 nave sent to those of the royalist journals,
 list of the combatants, declaring that unless
 equal lists are produced on their part, and
 they are met in the field, they will attack and | cnast!se them wherever they may be found,
 whether in public or in private. The officers ot the royalst newspapers are protected by
 soldiers. In conclusion, it is stated, that l2
 duels had taken place on the day on which the letter was written.
 Alas. poor :oyalists! Experience teaches
 tnen' no wisdom. They learn nothing from