State rights and democratic union. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??, 1839-09-03

sea y sronsl The hears's best sympathies
tnf ls,,delv outraged; and the leader, the de.
arc 4o, the companion in arms of other
Fp Is betrayed aud assaulted, loa the &C.
,a;n,ance, (shall say of yesterday no, but
The bitteIest enemy of your own and your
ntU, y, creed. Well may the noble patriot
,"ru from the reeking dagger of your vulgar
Csscas, and at each Nulhfyet's stab, like the
Sing Ceser, say, ct tn Brute" Can you, do
rou, dare you, who have so long Indignantly
IeoeIled it, now join in the charge against
HIN, Of reckless ambition and hostility to the
Union Of the States, with the strange and
inconsistent addition also, OF corrupt coalition
for preferment with the party in power? Sill,
tread under my foot this wicked aud foolish
calumny. swear it false, by his purity of
character. by his life of eminent services, by
his present unelevated station, by his warm
and consistent advocacy, since his imputed
change of the principles he had before es.
housed, Look at the earnestness with which
he continued to force his Abolition tests up.
on parties; look at his vnte upon the repeal
Of the Treasury Circular; look At his deter.
mined adherence, twice exhibited, 10 the
specie clause Of the Independent Treasury
since in the Senate Chamber, that he would
support no Administration, whose ordinary
expenditures should exceed fifteen millions
of dollars. blush to have to recount 'hese
facts, as wo4ld to defend 70 forgetful sons,
the character of their deserted and persecu-
ted parent. Sir, pronounce the stand taken
on this occasion by this distinguished patriot,
"aboVe all Greek, above all Roman fame"
Take up, challenge you, your countty's
history, and find me parallel. Pray tell
me what moment he selected or this change
of his political attachments? Was it (when
such movements are usually perforned,) in
disgust at his friends msfortunes, and in
eagerness to partake of the spoils of their en-.
emieS' success? Was it, when like Rives
and Tallmadgs he had reason TO despair that
any longer 'thrift would follow ia ningl"
Rves and Tallmadge, who professed TO be in
aeonles of alarm for invaded liberty under
defeated Administration, though they were
wont to ridicuIe the apprehension under the
powerful government of strong witled and
reslstlessly popular "Military ChIeftainl''
No: call upon you. Union men, to avouch
nv assertion. that it was in the darkest hour
of YOUR tribulation that he joined you; that
"a fierce foe hung on your broken rank in.
sultIng;" that,
a. feqrfnl sign stood in your house oflife;
AN nv, a fend, nrked close behind
he radiance OF your planets"
that it was exultingly proclaimed, that of all
the States which you had once possessed,
little New Hampshire was the only one, that
was undoubtedly true to your cause But
foIbear to speak his eulogy: your country's
monuments will one day tell it; that cOuntry's
history has already recorded it. | leave him
10 that posterity, to whose late but never-fall-
inc Justice he has had the courage to appeal.
Foh!, thou noble spirit the great, the useful,
but the painful destiny, which thy genius and
thy God nave given thee! nor complain that
the fat. of measureless mind is thine, in be.
ing, by the very originality of thy concep.
tons, and the boldness of thy views, in
prea, measure isolated from the sympathy of
thv kind; with whom "the uncommon and
sublime must seem so be, like things of every
dayp Still love to make thy lofty hermitage,
amidst the Kindred sublimities of the shadoWy
Euturei
Another name yet remains to mention;
one, that will occupy no undlstlngulshed pc.
sltion in his country's calendar. Let vulgar
prejudice and unreasoning aDtipathy smile
when repeat it-MartIn Van Buren,! Gen.
tlemen, it is known to many, to most OF you
here, that once and most zealously opposed
the elevation of this individual. had been
taught to believe him a treaeheIOus, nnn-
committal and timid politician. IT'S true,
was pointed to his Congressional speeches,
his Shocco Springs letter, and numerous other
declarations of his opinions, favorable to
Southern and State Rights politics. But
these were, after all, mere words. and did
not trust them.-Yet, when the time came to
redeem these pledges, and | found them. one
and all, to the letter fulfilled, what course, |
pray you, was there left me to pursue! Could
| longer deem him treacherous, whose yearly
messages repeated that hostility to National
Bank. which he had been formerly assured
was only directed against the Pennsylvania
institution, and would in the end give place
to one established at New York; Could |
consider him non commIttal, who so frankly
and early proclaimed himself on the new ana
denounced Sub Treasury?-C Could hold hlm
timd, who though assaulted by more enc.
mics, placed in greater difficulties and SUD.
United to fiercer ordeal than Administration
ever yet encountered, has calmly and hrmly
carried out his policy, and smiled at the vin.
dictiveness Of his foesl Though threatened
with committees of ten thousand armed ene-
mics; though perceiving in the hour OF his
necessities, squadrons of his early friends
wheeling by States from his ranks-he dared
III tLo ~oarcb which both conslStence