Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-04-04

come upon the counter. May that puri-
fying spirit, with the same hallowed
hand, which once overthrow their tables,
and scourged out Of the sanctuary d re-
lieion those who had rendered that con
secrated place den Of base traffic may
his spirit forever expel and exclude from
these halls of Legislation, which have
come from our predecessors, to our oc-
cupation, pure and uncontaminated; yes,
sir, exclude those political dealers in men
and measures, who trade in great public
interests and great public Offices, with
the same facility that more humble, per-
haps more honest men, deal in corn and
cattle, lands and merchandise.
Sir, had this measure been thrust into
this House by those proud and angry ad-
whom we have so long been engaged in
fragrant, and, as trust, honest warfare;
had they attempted TO overthrow us by
their overwhelming power, we should
have known how to meet them; and our
victory would have been honorable,
could we have achieved it; nor had our
fall been inglorious, if defeated. Here,
in this controversy, if VIC succeed, we
succeed against our friends; if we fall, we
perish under weapons drmrn against US,
by our oen political associates; men, uni
ted with us in many n hardly contested
and Derilous controversy men, whose
deeds have, by frequent uso, become
our household words "nor less endear-
ed and precious to our feelings than oar
o,rn household Gods"
Il When, hereafter, this measure, by its,
consuming enactments, shall settle down
on all the free States of our country: and
tithe after ti.he, take away the protection
of our labor, and the prosperity of our
people; and, like the lean and hungry WIS.,
ion ofthe Egyptian monarch, swallowing
up, ycar gtler gear, the surplus of our for
mcr plenty and still growing more and
more gaunt and hungry /; then, when |
meet as must meet, with the sons and
daughters Of toll when they, men, 100
men, and children, gather around me,
and, pale with orer work and scanty
food, grasp my hand, and, in the agony
Of their distress, implore Of me, who
have sometimes been to them the mes
senger of good tidings, to tell them how
they, or their fathers have attended hear
en-; or what, or who has brought upon
them and their labors, this ,casting ruin,
this spinning atrophy," this hring death,
This dying life; shall | be silent, and let
the rocks rebukc my apathy ; or shall !
cover over truth, and hide the name and
the face of hideous deeds, by glo1ing
words, or fabricated tales; and earn, by
this, the deep damnation merited by him
who palters in his speech, and cheats
the car Of anxious, and imploring wretch
edness!
Sir, shall, must, I cannot but say
to them, You suffer not for your own or
your fathers delinquency. You have
been put I'm the market, like the involun-
tary labor Of those regions where men
are bought and sold You suffer this
under great political arrangement not
from the irresistible power Of men al
ways adverse to the prosperity Of your
former condition but from one in whom
you had placed your hope Of continual,
unyeldng assistance and defence ; in
whose hands and safe keeping you had
deposited your "most ancient and domes-
tic" rights and interests; your treasurer,
with whom you had garnercd up what 4
ever Of all things earthly you would
make most safe and where, as you be-
lieved, good faith would live on earth
until she left the world. A man whose
friends were our friends; whose advcrsa-
ries were our foes for whom we have
toled, and labored, and Travelled our
Star in the West; our Sun in the storm;
our Jo,c Of promise in the tempests Of our
times. He has been the hero of our
tales; his deeds the argument Of our dis
course; his glory the song of our festivals.
Whose, whose name was ever so Grc-I
quent in our flowing cups! Who, like
him, ever sat with us at the great politi-
cal table! We have together taken salt
from the same stand; bread from the
same basket; he has, with us, dipped the |,
political sop in the same dish; and now
he has lifted mp his heel against us, and
we are delivered into the hands of our
adversaries. These adversaries will new
er relent. Our lovely land must become
a desolation. The labor and wealth of
the East must migrate to purchase and
people the Hest. This is our only hope:
There may be country for us on the
waters Of the Great River Those men,
once our friends, who have left us to the .
ruthless power of our and their adversa-
ries, may then meet US with the hand Of
kindness; and the father of the elder
American System, having parted with
that to the States of the South, may thus
have provided for the birth of younger
son, which those States may never be