Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-12-05
From The ". Y. Times.
SPEECH OF MR.. LEGARE.


His most scathng and scorching remarks
on the Administration, were accompanied with
expressions of perfect respect for the mass of
those opposed 10 him in opinion on political
questions. He seriously believed-he had the
most solid conviction-that they were wrong,
but they were honestly wrong. He spoke not
of them, but Of the persons whom they had en-
trusted with power. He spoke of the system
adopted and attempted tC be carried out, by
those persons, tho end Of which, he felt as
sured if it could be effected, would be desruc-
ton and ruin to the prosperity and liberty of
the country. To entrust such powers as the
Sub Treasury coniers, to the men now in office,
would be to place an engine Of desolation and
death in the hands ofmalgnan, spirits "War
and spos' on the motto. They would make
every man an lshmaelire, exciting each to raise
his hand against his brother, By their accursed
distinctions between classes.
Here Mr.. Legare, in burst Of indignant ell
oquence, denounced the odous attempts Of Mr..
Van Buren's official organ-the Gobe-to in
cite the American people 10 Agrarianism, byI
making arbitrary distinctions between our citi
zens, as productive and unproduclive aborers,
and calling onl The alowers of the cabal a
Wash ngton to destroy and utterly extnguish
those whom it designated as unproductve
The utter absurdlty Of the distinction attemp-
ted to be set up, he illustrated very happily,
by reference to the pine barrens OF North
Carolina. His picture Of the iron bound coas'
and the dreary wastes of those portions of the |
old North State, by the way, was wonderfully
striking. The whole scene was brought as
distinctly before the minds eye as if it had
been represented in painting Those logs lay
useless and roting for years--and so would
have continued had not the lar-seeng eye Of the
adventurous and enlerprisng merchant dscov
cred them and his energy and industry deter
mined him to convert them 10 some practical
use. Then, il was that their immense trunks
which had no aue in the eye oithe productive
laborer with his axe on his shoulder, became Of
immense importance in the estimation Of the
"unproductiVe aborer," as the Globe styles the
mel chant.
Those attempts to pu, man against man, and
class against class, became more fearful and
more wicked, whenk disconnected with the!spollS
system, on which the administration now
regularly and habitually acts. There is not,
said Mr.. L., among the most odious acts Of Ma
chavelism,--a sentence 80 repete with cold
booded and accused wickedness-more steep
ed in shameless and sinful proAigacy-morel
utterly inconsistent with the dignity of Govern
ment, or the obligations Of the social state, than
that which has been ascribed to a person who
has held high office in this State, and who
may again hold that station, unless God should
prosper the exertions Of The friends of liberty
and the Constitution, in the good cause. The
infamous declaration he referred to was, "To |
THE VICToRs BELONG THE Soils" In no col |
lection Of the dicta ofsystematlzed malignity |
in no record of the sayings ofthose bold bad
men who have regularly trampled on their lel-
low-citlzens, as if they were their predesina-
ted dupes and slaves, is their q sentence more
infamous than this which represents the pow
ers, and dignltles, and trusts, Of great nation,
as plumber and booty, TO be won as by camp of
bandits, or q crew Of pirates!
Fouche--for it was that remarkable person
age, and not Taleyrand, as has been errone.
ousIy reported -said in reply to some one who
had spoken Of the murder ofthe Due D'Enghien
as great crime. at is worse; 1T is blum
der" Europe stood--or affected to stand,
aghast at the Internal irony--the diaboIica
maignity croLched in such a saying. But,
Mr. Legare maintained, it was innocence tseI
compared 10 the remaak which had been utter
victors belong the spos." Let that once be
adopted and carried out, and who could forelel
the consequences. Murder has no charms to
any man. There are terrors to scare-furies
to agltate. A nation of assassins was an hsto
rical anomaly, until France in her revolution
presented another example Let this odious
doctrine be regularly acted upon, and its spir-
It imbibed by our people, and there may be
another instance TO add to the list,
The Infamous doctrine under consideration
has not been maintained merely by heated pol
iticians out Of doors, Attempts have been
made to give dignity toit, by introducing and
proclalmng it in the SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES! There tho action has not only been
justified, but il was also shameIessIy maintained
that the man tcho got The spills should do some
thing in return for them! This wa, the spirit
which ran through all the speeches Of those
who advocated the right Of government officers
TO interfere in elections, and to disturb and pre-
vent the pure, conscientious, independent use OF
elective franchise.
What honesty ran be expected from men o.
pointed on such principlrl 1t would appear,
from the course ofthe President, and his coun-
sellers, that they 40 more counted on honesty
and integrity, than the public would be likely
to do. For, in their famous Sub-Treasury Bill,
they proposed what the President called more
''severe and sa!utary legislation" 10 punish the
rogues whom they seem TO have made up their
minds would assuredly be appointed to office
They, in fact, proposed to build up a sqt1, where
in TO keep their moneys; and, side by side with
it, to erect penitentiary wherein to KEEP THE
KEEPERs!!
L..