The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-10-16


The Wy. American says 'We alluded yester-
day to a speech delivered by Mr. Legare, of South
Carolina, before the Conservative Convention at
Syracuse-and TO an extract reported for the Albany
Evening Journal, which seems to justify the eulogs
tic terms in which that speech is spoken Of. MIR.
Lesare had been abiding TO the use made, by the
partisans OF power Of the caichwords Of Democra-
Cyl" and "Democrat"--of which he thus eloquenlly
reproves and exposes their holow-h eartedness:
"Some Of these demagogaes Sc, up for exclusive
rends OF the poor man and what did they do TO pro-
mote this welfare Did they teach him to trust in
Providence, to conclae the sympathy and esteem Of
his ielowmen, put his shoulder the wheel!
Did they dwell for his encouragement upon the I'M
speakabe blessings with which he surrounded in
this country-emphatically the country of the poor
man! Did they poiut to the glorious results with which
IL covered oil over--of industry stimulated by
poverty, and relying, under heaven oniy on an honest
heart and good right arm DID they lel him that this
mighty State. OF whose beauty and grandeur he (Mr
Legare) had, until few days past, but very made.
quate conception. was vast monument Of what Po-
verify and Labor, with good morals, could achieve in a
few generations! Did they speak to him of the Asors
and Girsrds, who, beginning IN condition as humble
ss his, had risen to be more than the princes Of the
earth! No! No! The language they held to him
was In far different strain-it the language which
1.-THE tempter ere destroyer, Of mankind" addressed
despair They did, Indeed. unlock him the strong
boxes OF the rich, but not with view awake in HIM
the generous and comfortable emulation which their
example was SO well fitted inspire. They did speak
to him Of the Astors and Grardsbut they did not tell
him that these colossal fortunes the natural fruit
and the appropriate reward of long years Of patient. in
deaigable industry Of sagacous enterprise, Of sober
seii'denia OF nights OF watching and OF anxious days.
Of perseverance and encouragement. Of courage and
constancy under misfortune and dlfficulty--they did
not tell him this, and then say Ego and do thou like
wise for thou canst" They taught him to ST, down
aud ioid his aims repinng queelous isessness and
indolence-to hate all business but politics. aud to look
upon the commonwealth as his spoito revolt against
his destiny without making one effort better his
ditionto blaspheme the God who had cast his lot in
TINS most blessed of all lands-to curse his BROTHER
whose Chine was ha, he had in him example Of
cessiui ndustryto fod fault, and virtually to rebel
against the institutions Of his country, which had po-
teceo him in every right, and offered him inducements
70 me exercise Of every taen, and capacity Instead
OF putting into his hands the plough the spade, the
axe and the plane instead Of pointing him to tho ship
or the counting house, they armed him with the torch
OF the ncendary, aud If not with the dagger of the
sassin ye, with the far unsparing sword of revo
iutionary vengeance--and when they had thus CON-
pletely corrupted and debauched hm-perverled his
understanding with the sophis,ry of hell. filed his
heart with the gall Of bitterness darkeued and per-
condition Of society-when they had driven him to
phrenzy and desperation aud made him fit only for tho
cell of the maniac or the leon they capped the climax
OF their offences against society by still greater crime
by that nexpllcable crime Of which the Jacobns Of
France had been said to be guity--the crime Of rem
derlng liberty itself odious. They blasphemed ard
prostituied the very name-the sacred nameof popu-
lar government and they called the desperate, the
dope and the victim of Their wickedness-'a DEMo-
Graf "