The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-04-18
VOL. 5, NO. ST. WHOLE NO. 26O.

LOU ooast, and you have a right to boast,
that You gave US Washington: and, like
Moses of old, be led our armies to the prom.
ised land but his Joshuas and Aa~ns he
gathered from the North. Because YOU
gave US a Washington. and his bones res,
on Southern soil, We mean to preserve the
Union forever. Mount Vernon and Mon.
ticello shall long be the Mecca and Medina
of the Northern pilgrim.
Washington was clothed with absolute
power over the army When hc thought
You wanted general he sent ycu Lincoln,
then Gates. At Camden, you had a suffi.
cheney of troops Your army numbered
four thousand, and the enemy two thousand;
yet you were overborne l would scorn to
charge it to lack Of courage Ther he sent
the old Quaker Of Rhode Island. General
Greene, and be saved the men Of Caro-
lima.
After the attack on Charleston. in I776.
you were free from foreign foe until 1879.
Then the enemy removed part of his for
ces to the South, because he expected sym
pathy and succor from the Carolinas and
Georgia, on account Of the great number of
tories in those States; and he did receive
it. At the battle of Kings Mountain, in
the enemy ranks of fifteen hundred. proba-
bly, thirteen hundred were Carolina and
Georgia tories, hence the opening of a
now seat of war in the South | speak
not to your injury. No country ever pro.
duced truer. Drawer patriots. that the Caro-
linas and Georgia They had a stern con-
fiict. They had to fight the English on the
coast, and their tory countrymen at the
hoarthstonc.
The greatest cruelty and spoilation you
suffered was at the hands Of your native
tories, and from threats Of rebellion and
violence. | conclude their descendants are
numerous on that soil With their blood,
seem to have descended their principles
Rnt youi brave men and women Of the
Revolution We can never forget. You may
prescribe, imprison, and subject to stripes
our countrymcn; distract and divide this
great Confederacy; divorce yourselves from
us with all the bitter. burning passions Of
brotherly hate; yet tho memory of your
dashing Marion and impetuous Sumpter, the
herolsm OF your women ut Charleston, will
be cherished as long as freedom has shrine
in the hearts of tho American people
Would Washington. the son of Virginia,
see his mother in jeopardy. and not rush to
her relief! In 11Sl. when Cornwalls ap-
peared in Virginia, although Clinton had
a large feet in the bay and largo army
in the city Of New York, with brave impc
tuosity he marched bis Northern army.
composed Of men Of all sections of the In.
ion. and. with their tents. they encamped
on Southern soil - and the evening of the
18th day of October, 17SI, drew its man.
tie over the manglcd and hfeless Northern
soldier Oh the field of Yorktown. Virgin.
las visit had been returned" and the eyi-
donces we're the bones left whitening on
your sunny plains. Will gentlemen talk o.,
Northern courage? Where we're fought
the battles Of 1872, 1913, and lsiI,
Whence came the seamen that humbled
the proud navy Of England, and gave us
distinction on the seas! 1t is true. YOU
had your splendid victory at New Orleans !;
but that did not conquer 4 peace. for the
treaty was signed before that battle was
fought. Still, that did not detract from
the glory Of jackson or the valor of his
troops. In all our wars, the North and the
South conformity achieved the victory, and
are equally entitled to the glory.
Sir, in reading of the men Of the Revo-
luton. | have not been wont to limit their
5 patriotism by State lines, or estimate their
valor by the country where horn. Wheth-
7 er the rough blasts Of the North hardened
their frames. or Southern sun quckened
: their blood, to me, whether from the North
or South. like the men whom Zebah slew
G at Tabor. " each one resembled the child
rem of King"
, notwithstanding he now claims for the
| South all the glory of the past, the same
distinguished gentleman, in his own State,
t in 1856. lamenting that South Carolina
f had no history, said
. "Where il your history 1t j. vet in tradi-
ton. The struggle is coming, the future is
! gloomy and lowering, and cannot tell what j,
= will bring forth. Now ID the time. Every mem
6 orable people, at all times, have had history
, written on their monuments, on their pyramid.
t or in books. South Carolina has none A fe~
= years ago, your greatest man died The nation
;. mourned, and Clay and Webster strewed flower,
upon his tomb. Finally. he came in a ship
D clothed in Grape; the State mourncd, but no
4 monument rises to mark his fame"
), Such was the mournful condition Of Soutl
's Carolina. as faithfully portrayed by ono o.
n her most eloquent and earnest defenders
o Why had South Carolina no history
# Why had Calhoun no monument! Yor
d will find ready answer in the acts ant
e declarations Of your fathers Now, sucl
It as South Carolina is, do you wish to make
e the States hereafter TO be added to tht
II Union DO you wish to entail upon then
C an inheritance which, in after years, vii
9, compel from one Of her sons go mournfu
> culogium
is Gentlemen on this floor here have beer
,e dolorous in their lamentations as 10 tn,
Is heavy burdens they have suffered since tb'
{. adoption of the Constitution, and that the
have now become insupportable; and thel
N have not the philosophy to say they can
G "Rs,her bear those IN. they have
of Than fy to others that they kno~ no. Of
d Aswe have had Democratic Administra
.e tions most of the time Of their oppression
D, now, in order to relieve the miseries rea
E. or imaginary. l know Of no other remed,
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