Proceedings of the State Rights Celebration, at Charleston, S.C., July 1st, 1830: Containing the Speeches of the Hon. Wm. Drayton & Hon. R.Y. Hayne, Who Were the Invited Guests; Also of Langdon Cheves, James Hamilton, Jr., and Robert J. Turnbull, Esqrs
Proceedings of the State Rights Celebration, at Charleston, S.C., July 1st, 1830: Containing the Speeches of the Hon. Wm. Drayton & Hon. R.Y. Hayne, Who Were the Invited Guests; Also of Langdon Cheves, James Hamilton, Jr., and Robert J. Turnbull, Esqrs.,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... no public question, by which the State may pass upon tbe important inquiry of bow far my opmions may render it safe for her to confide to me tbe privilege of consulting with her legislature, and the responsibility of executing her laws. To avoid all misconstruction, I will begin, Gentlemen, by throwing my ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... no public question, by which the State may pass upon tbe important inquiry of bow far my opmions may render it safe for her to confide to me tbe privilege of consulting with her legislature, and the responsibility of executing her laws. To avoid all misconstruction, I will begin, Gentlemen, by throwing my opinions in the form of a creed, by which I am willing to stand the issue. 3 31 manded on the principle of protection, and not revenue, the South is equally a slave. It may he asked " ought and must resist." How, by disunion and civil war? No, never, without those calamities are inflicted upon us by the sanguinary despotism and obstinate injustice of our oppressors. What then--by what mode and measure of remedy and redress? Let the authorities of the sovereign States that pay this tribute, answer this question on the solemn responsibilities which they are under, to a suffering and indignant people. Let them consult an enlightened forecast, a temperate, firm and sustaining fortitude. Let them look back on the principle, canonized by the blood of innumerable martyrs in our revolution. Let them look into the principle which we supposed was solemnly guaranteed by our compact, and let them took forward to the awful consequences of neglecting to protect, and forever defend these principles, which are unto us more than life, " the duties of life themselves." Do we promise more than she will perform when we say, To this appeal South-Carolina is ready to respond? Gentlemen, a distinguished political philosopher, on the other side of the water, has said, "that the dangers of liberty can never be greater from any cause, than they are from the remissness of a people to whose personal vigour, every constitution as it owed its...
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