Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-01-03

whole of that day and the next, and were
expected to report on the 18th.
In connection with this subject. and as a
contrast TO the address Of Gen. Hayne-we
subjoin the following extracts from "a letter
TO the people Of South Carolina by THOMAS
). GRIMKE, of the Union party; compost.
ton not less feryid, elosuent and sincere than
that Of Gen. Hayne, and proceeding from a
citizen Of not less chivairous and irreproach.
able character. The tone is that of equal
iirmness OF purpose, and enthusiastic conf
dence in the justice of the Union Cause. We
should be grati6ed to receive the whole Of the
pamphlet.
1.-The Ordinance passed by your Conven-
ton at Columbia, a few days since, as the
supreme law of the land, is the grave, not
the bridal chamber of Liberty. However the
power and the triumph OF party may dignity
it, in the hour ofits birth, with titles oil glory
and praise; no spirit of prophecy is needful
to know that when the revels Of that unhoIy
spirit shall have passed away, it win be re-
garded, in South Carolina of future years
with grief and modification. In the sacred
name Of Liberty they have struck her down
to the earth, with the iron mace OF the des
pot In the name OF Liberty they have forg-
ed for their fellow citizens the Chains of
Slavery In the pure and holy name Of Lii
berry they have polluted her shrine, they
have laid on her altar the Offering Of idola-
try, they have trodden their fellow worship
pers under their feet.
when isook at the aye 10 which we live,
at the history OF my country; and her actual
state Of political improvement; when con
slider the wisdom and forbearance, that have
distinguished American counsels; and the
masnanimity, which has always been one of
the modest elements of Carolina Character,
! am flied with establishment and grief at a
measure which must be iepented Of in the
sackcoth and ashes Of shame and sorrow.
God grant it may not be our lot TO repent of
il 10 tears and blood, amid the ravages OF fire
and sword
The Charleston Courier, Of 9Th inst. gives
the following striking extract, from some OBJ
servations of MIR. Grimke, Of the Union party,
respecting the ''odous test oath, prescribed
by the Ordinance:
"As though in mockery Of the very names
Of Judge, aud Triai aud Jury, as hitherto
understood, they have bound Judge and Ju-
ry to disregard Constitutions, Law, and esi-
idence, aud 10 decide according to fixed
paramount rule. envy not the Judge or
Jur}DidH, WHO Is III 10 DC tneiF ASuuIItHtS
Where 1 Judge or Juryman, before would
polute my soul, and deiiie my lips with such
an oath, this right haod should be struck of
as cockade for the cap OF Dictator, or
sIsnboard 10 point the way to the Gibbet."
Governor Haync holds this language in
his Inaugural Speech:
In the great struggle in which we are en-
gagged, for the preservation OF our rights and
liberties, it rs my fixed determination to as
sert and uphold Ms Sovereign authority Of the
State, and 10 enforce, by all the means that
may be entrusted to my hands, her !Scuereigh
mia. | recognize no allegiance as paramount
TO that which the citizens OF South Carolina
owe to he State OF their birth, or their "a
doption. here publicly declare, and wish
it 20 be distinctly understood, that | shall
hold myself bound by the highest OF all obi
cations, to carry into full effect, not only the
Ordinance OF the Cow eplion, but every Act
Of the Legislature, and every judgment OF
our own courts, the enforcement OF which
may devove on the Executive. ! claim no
right TO revise their acts. IL will be my duty
to execute them; and that duty mean to
the utmost OF my power, faithfully toperiorm.