The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-02-28
Spec ch orHOn. l.. Nj. Keitt OFFS. G.

STEPHENS, MONTGOMERY, ALA, FEB. Z. '61.
GENTLEMEN make you my thanks
for the compliment which you have paid
to my State. To-day, the delegates from
the seeded States framed Provisional
Government and put our banner into the
hands OF men distinguished for their SER
vices and ab lity. At the head is one COW
cred with civic honors and with laurals
won upon the field Of his country's battle,;
and next to him stands another the peer of
the loiticst in worth and intellect Under
benign auspices this new Government
starts forth upon its career of usefulness
and glory, and you have significd your
contd nee by the sail hail. which YOU have
| given it.
In introducing this new Government 10
the world, gentlemen, we have made no
experiment in political science, and we
have adopted no novel theory. We have
taken the institutions of our fathers, and
We have carried to higher development the
principles OF the Revolution The great
men who founded the Republic ofthc Uni
ted >.ates, did not plant mere spcculations
in the fundamental law, nor did they rest
their work upon empirical rules. No ;
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Saxon sense. they embodied in the FEEDER
al Constitution the experience ofthcir race
That instrument only embodied, protected
and fortified the principle of Magma Char
ia and there was nothing new in it OK
ccpt the composition and application of its
forces. Thus we still hold to the lincal
policy of our fathers.
The old Union is dead its boly has
been carried to its last resting place: its
honors and decorations have been laid upon
the coffin, and the staff has been broken
over the grave. In its place has risen UP
new Conicdcracy, which is already more
| powerful than were the thirteen colonies
when they conquered their independence
from Great Britain; In the future. too,
Its resources and power must increase, for
1t contains no element to rc'ard its success.
!ul progress. 1t has nopoli ic4l comsolida.
ton, and yet It's parts are not without po-
htca! cohesion. Its organic l,on and har-
mony OF interests IroviIc against the cx-
ccSSe>, which are the miserable lcgacics
chat tyranny and IanaiicSm leave to socic.
ties whose morals she has sarpcl. and
whose symprthicS she hls bluutcl The
old mon had exhausted its capactic, for
good. 1t had robbed the ,cnIlc of one
section, and hcaprd up huge mass OF
srle"ior and ma.nlicencc as the fruit of
ITS spoil Gnr-cd with prey aud soothcd
BY rrposc. II WI. ready for the dart.
IT Is true ':.a; there comes IT, the history
ot every nation an epoch, when it bc.in, to
ne c'iscsou> thit 1t has done all its great
thing, and when it seeks to rcposc, with
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