Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-02

fixing upon distant day-or between the first Monday
in December when Congress would convene and the LIST
OF February, period OF two months would eapse within
which, that body, if disposed to relieve her burhens
and do justice to the South, would have ample time to mo-
dy the Tatii acts. The attitude sir, she has assumed, is
considered by gentlemen in this House. whose pat
Glorious, and worthy OF the past fame OF that renowned
Commonwealth The South Caroliniaus, Mr. Speaker,
brave and generous, highspied and chivalrous
peopleproud of The glory oil their fathers, and idoa-
trousy attached TO the of freedom No people ever
were endowed with kecncr sense OF injury-u people
ever had hearts more prompt To resent, hands will
ing and ready averge IL. No fear curdes the
lie blood that warmly and freely flows through the veins
of the descendants their aut enses and Pnckneys and
Sump'erS. They may be rGnqShed, utthey can neveI
he subdued. FREEMEN THEY WE'RE BORN, AND
FREEMEN THEY ARE RESOLVED TO DIE.
Sir, while deplore the causes which have produced
the present appalling crisis-while deeply deploe the
wrongs amd injuries inflicted on my Southern Lethren b,
the Unsuitable Tapacy OF part OF this Conedcracy, nay
conscience will permit say, that lament tie
Stern, undeuinS determination TO resist The position
they occupy, is the position ireemen should Away
take when tyranny becomes indispensable, and every e.
fcent, pacific remedy to which they could resort, has
proved waiting; and sir, as view the coming conc
to he a struggle between DEsrorIsM and FREEDoAr;-
between ruthless OPPRESSION and LIBERTY |, so fai
depends my vote, will, with the treasure AM
blood of Virginia, sustain aud uphold her sister S. Carroll
whether in this controversy she be ''ght or wrong
Should South Carolina fa Mr. Speaker, then viii
he eNtnguishcd forever the ast hope" of human liberty
The Government of the United States will acquire I
rengih from victory, which will revolutionise its charac
ter, aud convert IT into military despotism Large
standing armies will no employed in time of profoun1
peace to crush even the slightest slightest symptom o.
In albordinaton i'm the refractory S,aosthese standing
armies will mpoversh, Cypress and grind The people
dust and ashes corrupt and unprnciped majority in
Congress, will sway without check limitation restraint
the desniss of the nation and the death kne of free
dom will be sounded throughout the Union. Besides sir
the fate OF South Carolina to-day, will be that of Yirgi
MIA to fO'TOc-ihe sword which ells the cless the
EARTH will shortly after be unsheathed for the estrc
OF the other Under these circumstances, as Virpini;
and South Carolina both agricultural exporting anC
saveh holding States-as completely identified in
manners and habits-ieelngs and pejudces--princple
and interests trust that the cause of South Caroln,
will be our causetha shall have a common ,riumpl
or common grave. trust that when the battle cry i.
heard, tho Banner of the Old Dominion" with the Ge
MUS oil Liberty ranpng the PROSTATE ryrant under foot
VIII again proudly oat upon the breeze planted side b\
side, with the standard of S Carolina. trust that the
Palmetto OF that State, now dropping under the deadl,
and whitening influence OF Federal usurpaon will AGAR
aud hourhing as in the brightest laws of her glory
and that the little Star of her destiny now STRUGGLING
through the dark lowering and stormy clouds which
threaten TO eushroud and obscure il forever will once
more break upon the eye in all its former briancy and
usre. Aud, sir, have strong and abiding conviction
that in the darkest hour of her peril and adversity she
will rally around her phalanx Of brave and eares,
spirits who will enable her triNmph all her foes
But sir should be the decree of Heaven that $ Carolina
shall perish in the bloody and unequal conflict then do
ondly trust, that she will gloiousy perish like leonla.
and his gallant little band in the camp of the Perans
amidst THOUSANDS and THRICE TEN THOUSAND or
THE SLAUGHTERED NfYRMIDoNs OF FEDERAL DEs
PoTIsM.
+1he emblem trce