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ter. The only material j
is the remarks in relation suc |, (>0
enorter livea at n I t ...j ,
is haste to forward the solidation?
Si.i-
i.s. 1 i is easy tor in •
[Hirsii;*, measures cak a.'.i-
f ikon, to r.iiv the cry ot
l repel it. ! iim no cuii-
■iiat it. T iv,mi to ]'ies rve
hi constitution, without
ion of one jot or tittle,
l it I v. mid not add, I would not
rims • v.lto iiave placed me i:i a po
non, placed mo tli.'re, not *o alter the
otion, but to administer it. It a chan
iesired, our masters must make that chai
>t alterations arc reij ired, you, and tin
•f your fellow citizens, must make tlic ciiauge.
Hie (Constitution is our power of attorney—
I ottt letter of credit—our credentials—we arc
» act accordingly, without ini rpolitico or ak.
oration, honestly and truly. Tiio peujfl
le United States—they, and they a* j' nt .
Cn
he
rest
Dead capital is in but few bands; and ti:
stem does not promote the interests of i
capitalist one tithe pari that it does those of >
Inb irer, tiio industrious man wlio oversees,
labors upon, the capital of another. Is it n
ibis f re at stimulus which now applies itself
•Mir whole society, and sets so many wheels
motion? Is it not the compensating prices
labor—is it not tli.it labor is high and tin: mean
■t living low? I want no other proof tli
■o I has blessed us with a happy cogjury u ,
jon ration.
Suppose wo compare nurse 1 , ves with otln.
:oun tries—I see many whom I know to b
'migrants from other countries. Why is th
r/ among you? Wliy 1ms b
l'be Emerald Isl
ivers aud hills ar
»rel;;
jntive of
■‘b th- , land of bis fathers?
> as iiear to him as these r
Qt
to you. Was it not taxation on one
the low price of labor on the other,
. . , , can diired him to come to a country of free laws,
id ii under toot, but their set v 'm:s have no and of boundless extent, where industry lias
ented, was | commended by ti
I.
. .- I its reward—where tiio means of livii
... . .■ . ] j- 0P ,j ( * crt - 'Con-! and tin* price of labor adeouir *
l mnmt**, ■ - * 1 -
•in that the measures re-1 not these remarks apply to the emigrants from J inward—to
relit operations that its duties should sect
oe considered as reli rrible so exclusively
:rs with other nations. Certainly, in a <k
Christianity, in a day of tight and know
_e, ot benevolent feeling and action, it shonl
the business of government to turn its a
ation inward ; to remember that the objer
its. supervision are rational, immortal beings
id fo seek to promote all treat interests, so f .
s may be within its constitutional power; an.
irely, within tint rants, are objects tar mor
• ortliy of zeal and assiduity, than such as loo!
» our external relations—to war or victory.
r triumph.
V\ hat in our day, lias been done by volunta-
/ associaiions ! Our whole government is ;
• limitary- association : Why should it no
irect its attention to those things which look
■ >r peace? Upon this subject, I will observe,
that when I came to Congress, on taking a
view of the country and its interests and con-
■erns, at the close of the late war, I thought
are low,! it to be my duly to say, that a suitable time
And. do j had come for government to turn its attention
to the law ; but they can ; in rigue of political tcols and aspirai
per
baud
that
- Pcesideut and adopted by [ every part of Europe ? Is it not, that indus-
rsonal character can do moral for
any other part of tile world.
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rountr.v*.
memorv
SPEFCH OF MR. WEBSTER..
Delivered at Pittsburgh, July 8 % 1833.
Ja. M ifabA-N’O C;:\ti.kme.v— .
I rise, fallow citizens, Villi unaffected sen
sibility, to giva you my thanks for the hospita-
blo m inner i.t waveh you havo been kind c-
n-T! ..i to receive me, on this, my first visit to
Ui tshurgh; and t> make all duo acknowledg
ments to your worthy mayor, for the sentiments
which he has now seen fit to express;
Although, gentlemen, it has been my for
tune to be personally acquainted with very
few of you, I feel at this moment, that we are
ticularly this vast Western country—do take a
comprehensive view of the whole, and to pro
mote the interests of the whole*, by the con-
ment is the breath of the peo- I struction of roads-, canals; and other meads ol
they make it;.and they appoint j internal improvement, in whatsoever unites man
Tiio people are the j to man ; in whatsoever opens a better market,
. ty, from Courts and juries who were previous- j source of the power of our government; and I by clearing the way between the produ
uot strangers. Wc are fellow countrymen, fel
low citizens; bound together by a thousand
ties of interest, of sympathy, of duty; united,
1 hop.* I m::y add, bv bends of mutual regard.
ly sworn to decide against them?
is it not clear,'that it is unsafe* to trust the af- | the consumer ; in whatsoever connects
r and
more
Gentlemen, l take occasion to remark’, that fairs of government in the hands of tho peo-j intimately .the various , parts of our country,
after much reduction uppfl the.subject, and af-1 pic unless tlic gfeat majority of the people 1 and binds us closer and closer together,-
ter all that has been said about the encroach-j iiave soiiio interest in the government? Who 1 West, .with which I am no more connected than
nient of our general government upon the] would be.safe in any community when the j witli all my fellow citfzens, is t!ie greater thea-<
power is in the hands of thosu wlio have no- i tr<f for-these internal improvements. The East
thing at stake? It is tho mu policy of our is old—not only old but small. Our rivers can j
rights of the States, I know of no one power
exercised by the general government, which
was hot admitted by the. immediate friends
ami foes of tho constitution to h ive been con
ferred Upon it by the people, when that instru
ment was adopted. 1 know of uo oae power
which every body did not agree, in 1789, was
conferred on the general government. On the
contrary, there are several power*, and those,
government to shield the groat body of the peo- j he measured, yours cannot. We are bounded,
pie—the productive classes. . j vou are boundless. It has appeared to me,
Gentlemen, it appears to me so plain a prop- that the West, the fertile, opening, the solict-
osition, that the industry of this country ought iug West, was a proper object for tlic regal’d-of j p 0 JT t j 0II ,
to be protected, ami must be protected against I government. To clear the rivers, to Improve j ( )i rrrt t
the pauper labor of England and oilier parts of j the harbours upon our lakes, to open roads and ] shnli be organized,
Europe, that argument is suiuriluous. Were canals, to do whatever might unite the people, j ration. nmJ more po!
they arc subject . . , .,
r,„ifted to have no voice m its cimctmc.it.
v slave representation is meant, ih< represei.ia
on of a portion of our citizens, as the owners ol
m il property. Slave owners, ns - it/zcns are eu
itled to an equal representation will) the of it i
reme.l of the State: and, h> the fleet me of our
»pencil ts, ns the memos of dives, they are enti
led to an additional representation. I mis, m
tie regulation of that most valuable right, the
ght of representation in the framing ot laws >v
vliicii tile people art to be Koverned. and m the
hoice of judges by whom those laws arc to be
ilrnioisfcrcd over and among them, our upro
ots endeavor to rnise*tbe rich above ihe b ic.
,fiho poor, by establishing a distinction founded
in wealth alone.
2d Our opponents, at . flier times. dcman< that
representation shall be apportions! totaxntion
Taxes are the indiein of propertv. r ! he mao wbn
is blessed with a largo estate, whether n riti/.en
or a foreigner, pays in proportion, a large tax,
for which he receives from tho rovernment. a
full equivalent in the p'rometioii of bis valuab’e
property; hewhojs liniifed to a small e-tate for
its protection pars a small tax- and he who]
owns no properly, nnvo n is* on los own person
and bis person d lnK»or. To • '■>!>» that repre- '
sein-rtion snail be proportioned to taxation c.
in other Words, to eJniin. thm represeotation shall
be apportioned amon? the citizens, aeeording to
ilielr wealth. Thus, in resruiniing the rri“at right
of representation, without which lihrrtv cannot
exis*. our opponents endcnvoitr to degrade the
poor beneath the level of 'lie ibdi.
■hi- Onr opponents, at other limes, in lantritaee
free from disguise, maintain, that propertv onebt
to be represented in the general assembly. " e
have already slior. n. that in strict propriety of
language, property cannot be represented in ihe
legislatureand rthe meaning of the doetrine is
that there ought to lie a representation founded
on propertv. for the benefit of those to whom it
helortes. The owners’ of property ns rifizrvs.
are entitled to an equal representatatinn with the
other frpemen of the Sfl.afr* : ■•'lid onr opponents
maintain, that ns the rimers ol prrrprrty, they
ought to have an additional representation, pro-
tinned to th<*ir wealth: Tims, in plain, and
rm«. thev deniand. that the government
i seeiir 0 a larger repre«en-
11 power, to the rich than
; . vo » "(re
“ "''ciii.t,
liora* tr r>
•isVe c |
f re
' "v
aiijr
give you any claim lo
you had possessed a proper sense of
ihe result of that act of temerity should
vern helmed you with confusion. W'h,
you now. sir, ihe misorebb- vit t ni uf i„ Ur
misguided p ssions, in which the native'*u
of vour ehtiractf r and low ness ol lirete. ie"
hourly developed in all their nuked dt b, in 'a?
anc! baseness? Be assured, sir. vour ftii'in- ^
produce testimony to sustain your iinpii,| vn . Mo
nersions will place yon npi n tit
rial history, not only as the ini nious
cipleil opposer of living
and ba-e definner of the ib ad. I
GIBSON ( LARK
N. B. Editors who have given pul lit.iuie,,,
Mr. Crawfords letter, wi.ido Justice ‘
iug the abuve.
•mi-ar-
rth. bin the row;
&c.
i u
iMr
meJiil
(lalhomi n is he
eroflhe C’lil
lias .Mr. ('alhouii loi
considered and cntf.it a
than Mr. Hamilton bin:*
advoeati d the r iifht of
money to any object of p
•luliii ('• Calhoun. M ho
... l.-JC >]» i,.,,a n f llo
lo pass himselfoffas r lu ,ij
Bights I’ ny.-u ,;
otten that he binsrli
more ultra Fedemlm
'If? Mho .(raiiViy
Jl
*o apinopri;
njnre ? . | t ,
iressed
Wo nro bound togethor, for
".ir ;i'eat •' ilitical interests.
rood or for evil, in
I know that Tarn
clamorously denied.
>int I shall detain you with no further
Gentlemen, upon this j tern of laws to protect artisans against the cheap that I would lond aid to all these objects. My c f, oose f nr
ivith no further remarks, j pauper labor of Great Britian. In the town j affections know, no West—no East—no North I whom thev'
i • ‘ *• . t i* • - . • .t n i .... Q I ...M tl.nm oil m I r
fully
mn ni-
rn pt to
permit the prop!
their representative, anv citizen ip
i: r \ merieans, everyone of whehbluj j ft doi’s, however, give me tlie most sincere j in wich I live, it is as notorious as tho Revolu- j—uo South. ^ I would corijprelifend them all in orpnor.^ They then successfully resisted reform:
property punlifi-n-
n-irrows down the
right of the people to a free choice of iheir repre
sentatives, and which creates an tininsf distinc
tion lietiveeti ihe rich, and the poor, and affixes a
• . . - . . , . , i • i i dishonorable stigma on the latter, bv excluding
most prominent *>f which is your canal, winch j th ,. m frn .„ thn TOOS| ; mportBn , ; n lhr <=,
*81
i • , v. P 1 ' 3
i UUcd Males! ’.
Calhoun, n ho was ii that urged i t .
gia nt IIodus Bill of liitci-ual In.; rmiauj V
Calhoun. Who was ii that vindicated the p r "
tective prinepie of the*Tarifi in J81(i? Mr.(.'jj
\\ i:-o w ;;s it that siixiplv rebuked I',
i i n - i.it; tii g io a,'].'
he hud chm-eil h 3
31 r. Calhoiiu.
it ill t still is overleaping the specified pr Mls .
iustiintion—and still stickles fur ihe
establishing a Bank over the
ihe States, and a sy-lem of Iiitcreji
through their sovereign soil!*
fill .Mr. Cafluiini. And yet wo are to ballttiij
man as ihe I):-fe'u‘!?r of our 1'aith, and perhm
the very High l*ru of the Male Itighrs Dcrlrine!
—It will uot be v.-ry aStouisliing, siutc btn*
Bights are now getting so much inio favor, tose
Air. Clay setting h ins- It iq s the mirror ol tiisie
Rights. We know ah w of hfs slavish linrtiz; as
pi .mh g tlii> course—jusiiiyiu \uil.-ficatioo, if-
tcr they have 'reprobated it—and throwing tp
their caps in honor of Mate If ights;'after iLtj
abandoned every [ rincij Its of the hinh.— Lid-
monel linqyircr.
lioun.
W ebster a f ir years :
CJmir” of ihe Senate,
v i. ivs on sur h subjec
that st
ions of the'
implied power of
heads of
Imp
» m, ^ 1 II IJi. - ) limn I l.I i f t* IHC lllw llltlal Old* I It. . |I( ll IV.II * It
tra ? American heart in hi* bosom; and ? j plea in* lo sav, that, m a long visit through tion itself
'•! that 1 have also an American I mart ui my j t j, e 3tate west of yon, and in the great State Soon after peace of’83 there came on a peri- I sider it ipyountryf.-a
'* i n. I address yottj then, gentlemen, vyitli! north of you', as well'as in a tour of some days od of distress over the whole Atlantic coast, far T ~ |‘
fervent good wishes for your nappi- ] duration in the respectable State to whicli you j exceeding any thing that had been felt during
belong, I find bat one sentiment in regard to the war. Importation in Bifish ships was free—
ti
brotherly aflection—uid tlic
. hi ■ f regard and esteem, as if, in-
heing upon the borders of tho Oiiio, I
the Connecticut or the M rrimack.—
■ns, countrymen, :i id n ■’.'iibors, I give
hearty good wi•.•*, a id in ink you o-
lant
ov
1IU,
i u-
:io.v
>n extended with more sincerity of
tolity.
Goutlealen, the mayor Ins bean pleased to
v . in toruis beyond all expect it ion or mer-
ji ofrily own, to my. services in defence of the
glorious constitution under which we live, and
v iiiclt makes you aiid mo all that wa arc, and
all that we desire to he. He has vastly ovor-
ratoj and exaggerated any efforts of mine, but
he lias not overrated tlic importance ol t::e cris
is in which his remarks allude.
Gentium i, it is hut a few -diori months
siqcadark and portentous clouds did Jiang over
our heavens, aud did shutout, as it were, the
sun in iiis glory. A new crisis had arisen in
• the history of this Government. For forty
silt had gone on, meeting j when standing at the confluence of tho tw
one great and connected whole and then cou- j they maintained, in force, the
' lor it my c ountry: ••• j tinn : a qualification which
I seo this place, geniletiion, surrounded with
circumstances strongly enforcing these truths— |
you have, vast internal improvements—the
1 American ships there were none; The cheap — v * ».
jen fit to I er labor of England supplied the inhabitants of connects you with the Atlantic ocean ;
in Con- i the Alatitic coast with ev. ry thing, from the are projected. The Ohio Canal, which
the conduct of the government upon this sub
ject. I know that those who have ser
intrust to me, in part, their interests
gress, approve of the measures recommended ! crown of the head to the sole of the foot... The
by the President. We sec that he has t-ikeu J merchants of Boston appointed a committee;.at
occasion, during the recess of Congress, to ] the head of which was the name ever Venera
w hie to t
re llancoc
of ported, declaring that the inhabitants would
visit that part of tho country; and we know J hie to tho mind of all true Americans, John
has been received. No where have j Hancock, by whom strong resolutions wore ro-
friendship; find for oiit*. gentlemen, T take oc- j not use any articles imported by British ships,
codon, to say, that, having heard of his return j The mechanics of Boston met and recoinmend-
to the ileat of government, with health rather I ed to the inhabitants not to use British articles
debilitated, it is among niv most earnest pray- j at all. [Great applause.] “For” said they, “with
ertj diqt Prdvidenco may spare Iiis life and j regard to you, Mr Hancock, .vliat odds does it
that he may go through with his administration, make, whether our shoes, hoots, hats, handker-
and cotn.* out with as much success and glory chiefs, ot shirts come in British ships, or Atner-
as anj* of his predecessors [great applause.] 1 ican ships—they take away our bread, conic
Your worthy chief magistrate b s been kind in what ships they may.” This State, the State
enough to express sentiments favorable to my- of Massachusetts, and even the State of Vir-
xelf, as a friend of domestic industry. What a iiinia, passed laws to protect their own people
world of remark does that suggestion open— by impost. But it could not be effectualh
years' our govermr.^ - , T .
with occasional resistance, hidden'or iiidi- j s rr*
rected—not concerted. But now,.a limo had
tome, when authority of law was resisted by
the authority of law—when the power of our
General Government was resisted by the arm
of a stats* government, and when militaty force,
under all tlic sanctions of the state constitution
and state law, was threateWing to impede the
operations of the Federal Government! That
was, gentlemen, a crisis. Every one fell it to
bo such. A general anxiety pervaded the
breasts of all who partook of tho glory of their
country r.t hom"—and how was it abroad ?
Why, every intelligent friend of human liberty
throughout the world, looked with amazement
at the spectacle which wc exhibited. In a
day of unquestioned prosperity, after half a
century's happy ex periment—when wc were
tlte won ! -c Oi* all tile liberal men in the world
and the envy of nil t! • illiberal—when we
liad shown o:ir>;dyes to bo fast advancing* to
national nenoirn—what was threatened ? Dis
union! Tli. ro were those among ns, who
wished to break up the government, an 1 scat
ter the four and twenty states, into four and
twenty sections and fragments!
Gentlemen, it was at this moment, that tho
President of tho United States, true to every
done. One State would pass a law—another
-titufe the Ohio, in the midst o'! would hot—there being no general system,
a population distinguished for their domesth j there could be no protection. And it is a histo-
industry, family comforts—the means of edu- ] rical truth, plain beyond doubt, that our great
cation, and the in *ans of providing for their object, along the Atlantic coast, in adopting
families by their industry. What is not com* the Constitution, was, that by publishing a
prised here, in “the means <>f protecting do*! regular and uniform system of imposts, the va-
mestic Industry?” Next to the constitution it* j riousartiznns and hadicrafts might be permitted
self, there caii be no question of more absorb- i foearn their bread.’ There were, at that time
iug interest, than tiio protection* of our ow i j no manufactories in the interior,' for there were
domestic manufactures. I do not mean any j no inhabitants. Here was Fort Pitt—-upon
particular class, but the whole, as c6mprt- Uhomapto.be sure—but not people. Among
bended under that system which provides for j the mechanics—the workers in leather, tin, i-
’ ’ ron, Sac. there wa3 a greater depression and
poverty, than there had been during the war.
i\nd I hope you will pardon me for another
others
liicli does so
much credit to our young sister i»f the West,
and with wliichyour city needa a direct connec
tion—the Ohio and Baltimore ftiiil Road, an
arm or branch of which, extending to your city,
would be particularly beneficial, .and whicli is
as much entitled to aid from the General Gov-t
eminent as the Ohio and Chesapeake Canal;
with respect to those, ap’d many others, it has
always appeared to ute, and I make no merit
of it, that it is the duty f our government to
lend a generous countenance.
Orio word more gentlemen, and I have done.
The Mayor has spoken of Education : and
can any man’ doubt, as a social being, as a
being interested in the world that is—as a be
ing vastly more interested in that which is to
be—that Education is the general business of .
man ? I take hot back one jot or tittle of the (*? r ‘ jat enough in tlicrnselv
Education—the formation ot the
our wants—that system whoso essence, ai;d
object, and life it is, to administer compensa
ting rewards to American ni nua! labor.
Gentlemen, those ofjrou, who have taken aneC-Jote whirl. i« bought fotay recollection,
1 any pains to enquire into the history of that [ aiauSachusetts was the nintu oiate to adopt the
2 part of the country to which I belong, know,! Constitution. If she adopted it, it would go
> that in the quarter with which I am more in- into effect; but it was a matter of great doubt
quarter with
mediately connected, the people were not early j whether she would,
to urge upon the government protection by
Tlic mechanics of Boston
met and passed resolutions. They Said it was
y—comprehending on 1 fully understands
case,’ cam forth by his Proclamation of
Kith of December, ia lanquosjo which in-
•ed in in? now hopes of the
ulilic. it was patriotic, an 1 wop
ried through at every hazard. G
high duties. Indeed, candor obliges ma to acr I necessary for than. They elected delegates
knowledge, tha:, when the act 1824 was pns- i to adopt the Constitution. Their proceedings
sed; neither ho who now addresses you, nor wore communicated to Samuel Adams. "
those with whom he acted, were ready or wil
ling to take tho step which that act proposed.
had doubts—he was a friend of liberty, but ho
had honest and sincere doubts about the practi-
They were put prepared to act; they doubted ! cability of a general government. Paul ile-
the expediency! It passed, however, by lac vere, a worker in brass, read to If m the reso-
grent and overwhelming influence of this ecu- j lotions of the mechanics. He was asked how
iral son ion of country/ New York, PensyWa- 1 many mechanics passed these resolutions—
expression,
mind and character, by instruction in knowl
edge and instruction in righteousness, is the
great end of human being<
Gentlemen, it is most gratifying to witness
the attention which lias been aroused, not con
fined to latitude, or longitude, upon this sub
ject. In the progress of so iq five or six weeks
in the State, I iiave marked it with delight.
The western, world—our whole west is full,
beyond all comparison full, of aptitude and
claims to instruction. The country is young,
and settled with parents who have many chil
dren—whose means are not affluent, but «yho
eagerly seek education. The demands are
f?.St increasing, and becoming more and more . doin
urgent and imperative. j Hero
A Long Petition.—The varaciotii Mr.Garrison,
of the Boston Liberator, writes from E i gland
that Mr. Buxton presented, ;it a single sitting uf
the House of Commons, BOO petitions for tlic ab
olition ol slavery in the \\ esi Judies, oueof wbiih
contained Je7,00U tunnies signatures, and re
quited four members to lay it to ihe table. Ihij
story otic would think w:.s big enough m d.uie
the sea-serpent—hut it is far Leluud another ic!J
by the same person in the same letter. lie sajs
that on Tuesday ; receding its date, Lord Suf
liehi presented Sul petition* on the same sol-jeef
in tlic House < i Lords, one of which was sigLtl
by ''eight hundred thousand females!. 1 " 'JM
are about six millions of females in England.. Oi
these two ihlris ere under iigc or superauaitltd.
Another half million n.ny !>c struck i<£ 'U tfce
cnptKiiiy. If anvcom; tv!' by reason of its I «‘’ ,,u “ d . ,b f> «“** U .e to "
>r wealth.. is entitled to an additional rep- . ? h.« lt: »' s «•>»<-• nmlum. of whom it may
i he safely stud that not one third are loans in ire
to the ex- i Euglisli sense of the term—for it is not the casei*
England (though v.c are aware,' it:'is quite o;hr-,
wise ho:o) .that ev. r}' thing; iliat Walks in p>>
coais ft,a lady. I’t. sum;.. K ihat Mr. Gairf-n
has iietM Iour enough ia l.ugbiud. to write th
English language, as the J'n-ii.h understand .
it follows that adniitiing some giaut to ln.ve is:
ried round this said petitiou in Ins pocket it:*
every hole and corner of the kingdom for t‘,t- j
euretueut of .-iguaiures, :t toulu not have cim.j
ns many as Garrison bas asserted, by inure M
hnlf'n million, tjurii a petitiou moreover, di
iug half an imli to each signature, trust Lciuc-
wliat over SIX Mll.ES in length—audit*
ivieght and maguiiudo bear relative prupartids
In the present controversy, our opponents limit
their elaiin of larger representation fnr the rirli. I
to their corporate character, as citizens of n j
county: but the nrineiple, on wh'rh the claim is j
made, if applicable to men in their carpo-ote re- '
l.ttion. is equally applicable to them ill their indi
vidual
superior
resentatioo. r ij,* men of superior weitith in
county, ought t > have, in proportion
tent of their .wealth, the control and benefit of
this extraordinary privilerc.* When tiio
|de of our Opponents shall h;r.-e hcen fully devel
oped, it iv ill ’ claim, iliat tho fuwdqinental lnw-
shalt apportion political power ainoiig the indi
vidual citizens of the State, according to the
measure of their individual property.
The Uu:i?ii party, having sacredly espoused the
democratic principles of liberty and equality
cherish them with ardent devotion. The inci
dental, and inseparable advantages of wealth
) it would not dis
turb; the extraordinary influence, which wealth |
eenres to its possessor beyond the measure
niemt'crs to lay tt on the table, this, most haveo-
quir. (1 -ixteeu eutire fonts, and the fractivu d
another, to place it in a sinwiar position, I-‘-rd
Ssuflivld's scowling daik v>.-.,.e i„u.*t Invc
up, and his premature g re j. | l: ,i r gatitered f'ttl
electrical lii igimic*;'s ham Mie exercise of iiitiig.
their, intrinsic worth, it would not chock; hut it ' * u that prc-'.tllcd by Air. HitMtii, rcqurilgfc
would control the proud and insatiable avidity
of wealth for superior political privileges- Jt
maintains, that all the freemen of the 8iaic, by
nature equal, are entitled to ctfnal political rights.
The lord ot his hundred slaves, the proprietor of
his thousand acres, tinder the protection of the
laws, may enjoy Iiis influence, and the good will
of bis fellow citizen*?; but when he attempts to
warp the constitution of the Suite to Iiis ambitious
designs, he invades the rights of the poor, aud
attempts to destroy that political equality, which
is necessary to liberty. The Union party have
uohly determined to establish an equality of
li.ical rights t etween the rich aud the poor and
with
puitde
Lords
We
v...
Ills
hiiec’i adjuncts mid
"?• :i.dy petition upon
traction, i«l
taMe
refer to this arrow from the Long Bor ■
f. Garrison merely to show how fully it l:
Its
the conviction w e h
point of strong
Under free institutions, literature, Know!- pective characters of tho t*.
edge and morals, might well be expected to
flourish; but we are setting the great example
which all Euiope may look upon with aston
isliun-nt—that, with popular institutions, and
under a system of absolute toleration, tve see
no indifference to the great cause ot Religion.
We have denied a political sanction to any
sect; yet places' of worship are seen to spring
up in every direction find of every denomina
tion. Toleration begets no indifference; but
zeal, rather than indifference. It is connected
with education, witli the intellectual ami moral
contrast, in the res-
o parties. Onr op
ponents are fighting for an odious system of m e
_ tocracy, founded on wealth, hew < ' >a - acquired,
_ j aud however abused; while/iJm ’Union party are
firmly and zealously '
the unfortunate
; mind. In view of it
j tho Lord Chancellor
I with apartments in
1 founded by Simon 1
‘ almost six centuiics
eulertattrirf
condition of th it gcnllctnii^
; wV cannot be surprint ■
should ere h eg prow . 1
the snlutaiy i slain -.:
itzuiary. Sberiil of la
ago.—*\. Y. Com. A<ie.
democracy.—Federal Union.
the*
1;
cause oi
culture of tlie mitjd; and when
ir.ition of the
ly to bo
9’;ieincn,
1 -peak without reserve upon tiiis subject: 1
h ive differed with tin* Pn si lent, as all know,
w h i know any thin? of so hmnblo arl individu
al as nv. 'Clf, upon many important subjects,
in relation to Internal Improvements—rcchart-
. i? t’te U. S. Bank—perhaps in the degree
ot’ dom stir protection, and ihe disposition of, stances whatever,
ir ouhlic lands, I have been not aide to see I y ield it? U ho,.
Vfc
W ill
Oil, yes, overflowing. 1 wish them tie* means of instruction and tl>.
Many. ; means of adequately conducting the great anc
lie?
soever men
ilia, and Ohio. We acdbiesced; VVI -* vitM *d (tlie meeting was held .at Old Green Draggon) meet, to worship t'je God of tlieir fathers, I
to itj’ttdeqi'ted it, and.gaVe to our capital aid,—was the room fa!!'?
labor, such,idirection as would enable us to,—Were there any
conform to the policy of the country,
have become wedded t > it. and indentiiied
it, tili L know of no slwdc ofditr-ri;n’CO.b tweeli
tin.* interests of Pensylvania and M u sa'chus its.
We shall not yield it without t struggle. N i-
titer shall wo viol I the princip! ‘ of protectiea,
without a severe struggle, under any circum-
And wlio would choose to
standing here an 1 ioukiug
interests of mv country in the way which round upon t is com.iuiuity.au I its i
B it wlv. n tlie crisis arrived in which would behold ea tag i to l melt fuc
istirution was in danger, nod when lie much industry an I s > much hapjrtn
the streets ?
II ow many? jM.ire than the stars in th<
ven. [Laughter and applause.]
It was thus’, that llie Constitution of the Uni- j
ted States was carried. Any gentleman desi
rous of pushing the historical enquiry, will find i
that the great and pr. railing interest was
where there were merchants and mechanics.
There* was a natural hesitation about tlie adop
tion of tlie Constitution j and it was only urged
through by the iiucwests to which 1 have adver-
i? to so i tei
l odor these circumstances, it cannot
his in
c V ’i
quvi.
Os'* (I
ml e-
forth
fiuati’
lilt* non, 1 .i
::>(-!it ills; p
i-s, fo our (/!
tii.'* c riioi mity.
:icession ot pahhc
ti.ii ■ p-.it d )'*vn
i, in iv produce
tli i* the result of that
e s ilu'ary in its consc-
and to the inler-
1 Ii ipt’.ut this sig-
opinion, whico his
ll-e i) -s-,.it'* n of N-iIh'-
a Ruling effect (hro.igb-
ont our whole country. I knuv fu.l tv jll^tliat
p »pul ir i.)j>ics ni.iv ha urged against t.v* L 101 ^
lam iti.i'i.—I kn >w it in iv ho s ii 1, ia r..*?ar -
to ill'* lav of tho list s i5si a*l ot f* 1 ! ' 11
if s.icfi laws an to li ? iniin'an , d, C mrra *-
hi (/ p i -i* witt i'fv.s th *v
t t. 11 it till« ir pin o
1 . of (’ ingress ar • o it
sh irt iat -r
as ir?, bv t
!>•
K >
• sc and
ir? *.*, t : <t i
• i;* its of lh
;, -m i al .vty
p?.) >■<*, whdJ.
i!or
svr-
(m* done, without great public calamity, and
great private distress.
I h ive said, that I am in favor of protect
ing American nfa'nual labor—mid after all
that h*s been said, I have come to .the con
clusion, that, to leave American manual labor
t<> bear a competition with the unpaid and ho if
led labor of Europe, would produce a state o!
filings, to which our country can never submit.
F.iis is the reason why I maintain the policy
of t ie American system. I see in my own
ountry anJ I believe it is the same In this,
i n its stimulus to labor, lias been its offering
i fiir compensation for labor. When I say
nr roinfrv, I mean from 1* no.bsrot to N u
>i.”i os; formine tenths of toe while, belt) i
io tiio industrious, productive, laborious classes.
r ex-
atfilv
are ready to d
otection, it that will
that the power i
do not believe
■ncy to draw mv
pen across that power; fori have no nmn
power to diminish, than I have to add. Ann.
acting in the situation in whicli we are place
—as a portion of the great American family—
having the same interests as these great an
vast central districs—wo shall goon—attachi
to the Union, attached to all tlie great interc'si
of tlie goverain.-nt, ;thd attached to the Con
slitulion.
Your worthy Mayor has alluded to tlie sit!-
i.ict of Internal Improveinont. Gentlemen,
oas alwavs seemed extremely strange to n;
’.hat in the progress of human knowledge a
.mm in virtue—for I believe tlitn human vir:
is making rapid progress—it has alway s see
.1 extremely strange to me, that the objects
government should be limited so much to bei-
jod work
Gentlemen, I have,detained you too long.
My friends, my fellow citizens, my country
men, l must now take t respectful leave <>t you.
[ Iiave spent a period of five or six wet ks
of the Alleghany, for theifirst time in m v !if<*.
It lias been ti series of happy days. - I have
seen much which I shall always remember—
much to inform, as well as jl flight mg. I re
turn you, :i; tin and again, iny unfeigned thanks,
for the frankness, and kin loess, ami neigiibor-
s. with which you have in ide me welcome;
lino:
eitl wherever 1 may go, or w'.<<
I pray you, inv friends, to belie
or lose the recollection of your 1
God blosri vou all.
■eveg 1
( sli
indue*:
111 ay b<‘,
all nev-
. Mat
PARTY CHARACTERISTICS.
Our opponents, bv whatever n irtv (lt-*igoatiou
they may be known, wlicther bearing the :ij>
pifllation of Troup men. of ntillifiei s, or o. re-
(iihlicans, (a much abused word) are making a
lost strenuous effort to established a constitu-
lonal distinction between tin- rich aud the poor:
nd l>v a fundamental law of the State, to build I
q>, and perpetuate an arri-toerali. system, found
1 neither on millitary services nor on civic vir
ies. lint solely on the possession of wealth —
heir ile-jigu appears under three different as
■ets.
1st. The
(* Genera
it by the
wd b- r
demand a slave representation if
Assembly. We have already shewn
-sseiitial law of tin ir eondition. sInn
p.tsndeil in ihe legislature of llo
t< . They have no political rights; they can
..gate no political poweis: they euu choose no
L-presentative ; they cau control uo represeuta-
M’D OSOUGH, Ju
JVilliam II. Crawford. J '.aq.
j rfia—It is with extiemc rcluctauce, that I feel
myself constrained to address you. By nature j
tiverso to that kind of controversy which seems •
peculiarly congenial to your taste aud character,
j 1 took no part ill the .angry contest buweeu you |
j and m v Brother in hi* lifetime: much of it pass- i
I'ed'hiring my minority and when arrived at ■
immliood, I was sufficiently assured that ihe in
tegrity of his lire, a ml me energy vt' ii is Uiiod 1'U’I
! cli iractcr, would sustain him against all tho as- !
j s.Hilts of your in dice. N ow that he is gone, 1
j feel that ;i sacred duty has devolved upon me ; I
j cannot permit that Ins memory hr character snail
! he aspersed by falsehood and o> dignity. In ‘
, s ; ( your letter to the Editor of the Csavniimifr Re- i
i publican 3d June', you take occasion to say ‘•that j
rite Clark party should be solicitous to merge I
| their generic political name into one lnore res-|
j portable, is.no matter of surprise to any one tie- '
i qtt tinted witii the Himal and political ell a racier
ol tii.it party.” Aftliotigii 1 cannot conceive :*
higher testimony to the character or principles of
auy m ni, than that Iiis name or principles should
be associated with the preservation ol the l nu n
of these States, yet it i* apparent that you have
intended negatively to cbaige hull \r nil ;i ,v nut ot
respeetam ity. t must mnv call on you, sic, to
project- :*u act of hi. life unworthy the chacacter
of a in in ol honor and a patriot. If the inM.uiee
'•xi.i-, it is beliccd your malignity w ill be grati
fied in poult tug it out. If uiisuilied nrteuritv ol
character in private and public life, united'ui an
irtlcut devotion to the public iiiteiest, cotiid af-
ford protect-foil from tile vitoperali; ii of personal
<ml party rancour, Ids memory would Iiave re
posed in niidistnebed security . But ambition has
oo heart, and malignity neverdics. Justice may
demand by what aulboritv vou prt Mime to tali;
of character, yon whose life is but a historv of
impudent aggiessiou upon the characters ot otit
is, without any positive merit in your ow n. In
what lino of your ancestry shall we look for the
c. hievmeiit which illustrates your name, or has
connected it with the independence of the conn
ry, and the establi-hment of ibis government !
A here is the act in your own person, which as
m-flutes youi name, with nuj thing of public u-e-
lulness and importance to the country? Does
the disgraceful fact, that by the corruption and
T”E NEXT GOVERNOR..
It is uotorious to the people of GtorgU.
Alaj. Joel Cuwhrd, one of the CancE-'-'
tlie next Executive Ghair, has been trotn •
time called upon for nil exjircssiou ol Ins ci
on the subjeet of State Remedies, in rd ">•
a question of leading in pcitaiice to till
It i> also, equally notorious that Alaj- ( •
hereto fore et ailed the cab ; 1 lit with a
propitiate both parties, he privately'^ eie
in., i pinions. I I.t se w ere >o marked witli 1
do .-mil double culcfUtri. that the reader."I:" ,
ed to make any tiling out ol tli. m. niiri 1 * j'
have attempted o translate or reconcile
pons. -- of a,Delphic ortiMe.
i he gentleman, however, lias at last/'*
•‘come i.ut.” as wilt he.seen fr< in tlie I'-
letu r, published ill the r'l ilthero Been;
W eilnes.lay last It is- 'ieW* <•-. more'--
than even Ies private con nth . »» • j
hear the palm from the ceb bratc<l | ;*
Beriiitinx Ai‘8yc«pliaut. who advisee t' -
gi e neVei to write any thing unless it ' ■
“t’.va coustrueticus.”—Augusta i hruKice-
> Locusts—Nullification.—Me arc
■ (savs the Baltimore American.) by a
’just arrived from Arkansas, that ■ ■ ,,m 1,1
idle of Ala\ the locus's appea’ed u> 1,1 "
; in inmieuse numbers. They evicleiiib (
: from the earth iu the form of a kinn , "L. _
I closed ill <1 shell. This grul would :lt " 1
\ at even ny, to l Eo h irk of a tree, and in
'ling fin* locust would be foliUt! I'*'
! shed, having I urs! ihrougli iis c ■ " ’ *""'!.
night. At this time, its wings were •• |l l"”
I developed, but after two nr three
1 diet have obtained their full Lie. ')'• :l '"
away, leaving the shell a tin cited to " 1
iiumlier of the jin ninls w as -o proi-’r " '
their noise iu tilt* n ond w as inccsstatf ■ ll "
deafening. .’\n cMraorditiary circmi »*‘‘‘ _._:
that everv one of these niytiads hm! :,u ■. ■.<
ly marked on each wing- The I ' 1 ',, ‘
eoimtrv iiiterpri ted this to li ' ’ % ,.a'
lion. After making a great nci-t*- t" 1
the locusts lrtve entirely di-«ppe !,re ‘-
themselves in the earth, not to „
a long period. 8m It we hope t' 1 ie •
the cause which the w riting on im‘^
gineil l>y the good people of Arl
ii It the exeepfiou that it will
pearauee ng flu.
ill ajor Jack Downing, it is said.
an expedition for the capture of the *-
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