The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-05-17

all the facilities of trade, of travel, or
OF intercourse, by barrier as impena.
trablc as the Chinese wall and as diff
cult of access as the heights Of the
llemalaya mountains. A small ap.
preparation oftwo thousand dollars, to
construct Bridges and causcways on
the opposite bank of the River to
Wrights Bluff, would at once, and spec.
Oily remove it, and whilo the State is
erecting for herself, and for you gentle.
men trust q " magnificent CAPITOL u
to display your rhetoric in--at an
expense of more than a million OF
dollars to her citizens, (of which your
constituents are necessarily destined
TO pay their proportion of moro than
fifteen thousand) trust she will not
begrudgc SO small pistance, to the
indispensable, and almost life rs we'll
as thrift sustaining requirements OF
your constituents.
But how do you expect it TO be OBJ
tanned? by simply introducing q pro-
position, and roting for it? Why the
members from Lancaster and KersIlaw
can do rs much for us as that; for
Metr constituents have almost as deep
an interest as yours, in passing this
InsuPcrablc Balkan of the wagon
trade. The most raving demagogue
and radical disorganizer of the upper
country, would be glad to make this
an exception to his otherwise ccrbcrous
Vigilance over the bchcst OF the Treas
ury. Nay, North Carolina, with her
stock, her produce and her manufac.
turos, would be ready to do more.
But none of them can or avilI, or
ought, except on conviction. And
that conviction gentleman it is your
province to produce. 1t is the duty
which you ask to be permitted to per.
form, lfyou are unwilling, do not |
bescech you undertake it. If you are
incompetent then do not presump.
tuously attempt an experiment which
YOU icel yourselves inadequate to coli
duct to successful conclusion. Fail.
ure with whatever good intentions or
arocnt Wishes will not excuse you.-
tou know the task; aud you have con.
templatcd the difllcult,es. 1r yan
cannot perform the one, and surmount
the other, then you will have occupied
places which might, possibly have been
filled more "sJ"ity. The Legislature
it is true is slow of confidence and
oftimes cautious and suspicious in
making sectional appropriations. 1t
has often been deceived, its generosity
grossly abused, and in no case more
conspicuously SO than in its cxtrava-
giant, appropriations to improve as
they intended, (but to destroy as it
happcncd) the road through Vance's
Swamp. But truth, right and Justice,
must and will prevail. and no where
more readily, certainly and trum.
phanty than i'll an assembly like
that, comprised Of the intelligence,
patriotism, and public spirit Of the
State. Make them comprehend the
exigcncy, and | am sure they will re-
spond to it, with libcrality us prompt
and as muniticent as your own. They
want but tho necessary information,
and that you can or cuyAt to be able
TO give them or otherwise, acce pt
not pray you the trust. 1t is infor-
nation which they are not expected to
seek, but which you are bound to oller,
nay even to oJirulc on them. Truth,
to be enforced, of or even to be under
stood, has ottimcs to be reiterated and
explained. ModeSty it is true. is one
Of the most unerring indications OF
merit. But it certainly would neither
be just nor reasonable to expect that
your constituents would be satisfied
with the sacrifice of their interests, to
the ditiidcncc, incxpcricncc, or incapa-
city Of their Public Servants. Nor
can they for an instant presume, that
you would aspire to occupy an office,
as sinecurc of honor without single
compcnsating return of toll, of useful
ness or Of duties, you have already ad.
mittcd, (or you must admit) that the
Legislature is usually composed of a
very fair proportion of the wisdom and
intelligence of one Of the most elich
tened and liberal States in the Union.
You have already acknowledged for
you must acknowledge that the claims
OF your constituents in this instance
are irrefragablo and indisputable. If
therefore before tribunal ofsuch con-
tesscd ability impartiality and enlight-
enment, and with cause of the unoucs.
tIonablc character Of that which YOUR
constituents present, you should not
succeed, whose fault is it, or can it be
save that OF your own, who are its nd.
vocates, and its exponcnts
1t is but a small thing at last, that
your constituents require Of you. They
DO not expect you to reform the Iari6
to abolish the monopoly in the Guano
trade, TO pacificatc the Turkish war. to
settle our difficulties with Spain, or to
allay the agitation of tho free soil par.
ty in the discussions of the Ncbr,.ska
Bill. In short they neither ask nor do.
sire, that you should play the part of
the fly, that rides upon the wheel. Our
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