Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-12-26

for their interment--and with fire anC
sword Carolina had been desoIated, anC
not one free spirit had been left living OF
dying to strike for her rights-in hel
fall Liberty would have been avenged
and, like the mighty Nazarite of old
grasping the pillars of the Constitution
the Union would have persisted in her ru
ms.
Sir, this is no Government for force
No free government is government OF
force. Fear is essentially the attribute OF
the slave; and the government which ap.
peals to this principle for support is al
ready despotism. Opinion, free, iutelIi-
gent public opinion can alone perpetuate
our institutions; and when this fails, all
that can maintain them fails The sword
can dissolve, but it cannot cement your
Union together by the blood Of your citi-
2ens; and if it had been drawn against us.
however mournful the consequences, we
we're prepared, fully, firmly prepared to
abide the issue. We knew the mighty
inheritance for which we were to contend
that soil over which for two centuries we
had been the lords; and those affairs at
which our fathers kneIt, and we had re-
ceived our brides We won it by the
sword, and we were prepared to keep il by
the sword; or to perish, as millions Of our
race had done before us, the victims Of
oppression and power combined. Aud il
we had fallen in the field, or on the scat
fold, Gas the gentleman supposes,) would
our fall have been inglorious? Sir, it is
not the manner of the death, but the cause,
which makes death infamous. When Tul-
y thrust his head out of his litter to the
lictors of Anthony, who decapi,ared it, and
his dead hands we're cut off and suspended
in that forum, in which they had so often
pleaded for liberty and justice, was his
death lgnomlnious! Ilaync persisted on
the scafiold was his death ngori0us?
Why, in Abbeyile district there still
stands the tree upon which, in our Reyolu-
ton, twenty Wings were hung at one
time; did these men die ignominousIv?I
The youth Of Carolina, as they approach
such memorials Of their country'S san |
culinary wrongs, tread more lightly upon /
the turf, whilst their hearts swell
with the mighty lesson they inspire, that
to die, and to die 'ignomuiousIyn in de-
fence Of our country, is the duty and the
privilege of the patriot 1t is the cause
which makes death glorions.
But, Mr.. Chairman, shall things come
to this in the administration of the affairs
Of this Union? IN this free and light
ened age, are differences of opinion to be
considered crimes; and the gibbet and the
halter 10 be held forth as the great instru-
ments of establishing truth! If So we
had better separate at once, for the Union
must be dissolved God grant that It may
long endure a blessing to the powerful
people who are growing up beneath its
auspices. But should it be dissolved, his
tory, when all the interests and passions
which peryert the views Of cotemporaries
shall sleep with the departed-impar,ial
history will record that the South was
ever true 10 the faith which bound her to
the rest of the confederacy. Although,
under the mildest and most favorable ope-
ration Of the Constitution, she must bear
an unequal portion Of the burdens Of the
Government, at this she has never muir
INJURED. In prosperity she has upheld, and
in adversely she has never abandoned you
All she requires is, that you adhere 10
your compact with her. Take what is
legitimately needed for constitutional pur-
poses, but in all other things leave her
alone to her own resources and destiny.
And is this an unreasonable request; or is
1t hard TO grant it? Must perpetual agi-
tation be the penalty she must ever pay
for her connection with you?--and shall
the bond of our Union, which was design
ed by our fathers to be bond Of affection
and peace, be sacrilegiously converted into
an instrument of bigotry and oppression?
After cycle of torty-eight years, we have
arrived, apparently, at new era under
our constitution. Let us forget the past,
except the lessons Of forbearance and mo-
deration which its experience affords. For
that noble State, which in part repre-
sent, know can with confidence antici-
pate her course. Too generous.to remem-
Der wrongs-too proud to resent them
she will ever be true to the cause
of Liberty, the Constitution, and the
Union.
The GREAT WALL OF CHINA.-The wall