Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1852-01-20
KOssUTH ON STATE RIGHTS.


ave Huncarians are very fond of the prin.
cple Of municipal self-governmcmt' and we
hsve a natural horror against the principle OF
centra.izaton That fond attachment to ma;
nicpal self.government, without which there IS
no provincial freedom possible, is tundamen'
tai feature of our national character. we
brought il with US from far Asia Thousand
wears aro, and we conserved it throughout the
yicissitudes of ten centuries. No nation mas E
perhaps 50 much struggled and suffered from
ttbc>cvi)izcd Christian world us we. Sensation.
We do not complain of this lot 1t may be
Leayy. but it is not inglorious. Where the
cradle of our Savior stood, and where his d.
vine doctrine was founded, there now another
f,itA plos. and the whole Of Enrope's armed
pIori.nage cord not avert this fate from that sal
cred spot, nor stop The rushing waves ol Islam
ism absorbing the christian empire oi Co"s1a"- iu
tine. We stopped those rushing waves. lhe
breast of NV nation proved brcakwater to
them. IBravo! Bravo.] We guarded Cars
tendon, that Luthers and Calvlns might reform
it. TApplause.] 1t was dangerous 'ne'
and the dangers of the time often placed 'ne
confidence of all my nation Int" one man ;
hand, and that confidence gave powerinto MS
hands to become ambitious. But there was
not a single instance in our history where
man honorcd by his peoples confidence, had
deceived his people by becoming ambitious
TApplause.1 The man ont OF whom RUSSIAN
Diplomacy succeeded to make the murderer OF
of his nations confideucc-he never had It,
but was rather regarded always with tlstrnst'
But he gained some victories when victories
were the moments chief necessity. Az the
head of an army, circumstances placed HIM III
the capacity to ruin his country, But ne new
er had the peoples confidence. SO even he Is
no contradiction to the historical truth that no
HUNGARIAN whom his nation honored with Its
confidence was ever seduced by ambition TO
become dangerous to his country's liberty. lap
nlause.1 That is a remarkable fact, and yet 1t
IS not accidental; it is the logical consequence
of the influence institutions upon the natioha'
character Our nation, through all Its history
was educated in the shool of munlclpa! sell
government; aud in such country, ambition
having no field, has also no place IN man
character.
"Tbe truth of this doctrine becomes yet more
illustrated by quite contrary historical TACT III
France. Whatever have been the changes OF 60
vernment in that great country-and many they
have been, to be sure-we have seen Conven'
ton, a Directorate, Consuls, and and one Con-
sui, and an Emperor, and the Restoration, ana
the Citizen King, and the Rupublic; through all
these different experiments centrlllzaton was
the rundamentaltone Of the Institutions ol france
power always centralized; omnlpotence al
WAYS vested somewhere. And remarkable IN
deed, France has never yet raised one single
man to the seat of power who has not sacrlh'
ced his country's freedom to his personal am
biton! Great applAuse.]
at is sorrowfu, but is natural. It's IN the
garden of Capitalization where the venomous
nlarr of ambition thrives dare conhHen'IS
affirm, that in your great country there eH's'S
not a single man through whose brains has ev'
er passed the thought that he woa! Id wish to
ruise the scat of his ambition upon the ruins OF
YOUR country's liberty, if he conN. Such 4
wish is impossible in the United States, Tap
plause.1 Institutions react upon the character
of nations. He who sows wind will reap
storm. History is the revelation OF fr"vl'
dence. The Almighty rules 10y eternal laws
not only the material but the moral world; ana
every law is a principle, and every principle Is
q law. Men as well as nations arc endowed
with free will to choose principle, but that
once chosen the consequences must be ab'ded.
With selfgovernment is freedom, ana with
freedom is Justice and patriotism with cen
tralization is ambition, and with ambition
dwells dcspo:ism. Happy your great country,
sir, for being so warmly addicted to that great
1brinciplc Of selfgovernment. Upon this loun-
dation your fathers raised home to freedom
more glorious than the world has ever seen:
Upon this foundation You have developed it to
:. living wonder of the world. Happy your
great country, sir! that it was selected by the
blessing of the Lord to prove the glorious prac-
tcability of federa,ive union of many sover.
cign States. all conserving their State rights
aud their self:government, and yet united In
one-every star beaming with its own laStre,
bat all together one constellation on manknds
canopy. [Great applause and che ers.
Upon this foundation your free country
has grown to prodigious power i'll surprIs-
ingly brief period, an attractive power in that
your fundamental principle. You have con-
quered by more in seventy-fve years t'ian Rome
by arms in centuries. [Goodl Good!l Your
principles will conquer the world. by the
glorious example Of Jour freedom, welfare,
and security, mankind is about to become con-
scious of its aim. The lessons you give to hu
manity will not be lost The respect for State
rghts in the Federal Government Of America,
,SJ :, ;ts covor,l States will become instruc.