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For the Telescope At a meeting ofthe Young Men's Temper -Tice Society of Columbia, thefbfTowing Pre wuble and Resolutions were adopted : vVhereas the Laurens Temperance Society has suggested to the varioua Temperance Societies, of the State of Sooth Carolina, the propriety of a general Temperance Conven tion, bv Delegates, to be held at the town of Coltfiaifcw^oo the 3rTday"of July next, wlitch suggestion has jrae* responded to by other District Soc ieties^ Be jt therefore resolved by tfio ExSSIUveUommittee of the Young Men's TemperanceSociety of Colombia, 1. Ttgt^^igtiy approver the suggestion of tSe-^ahrens Temperance Society, and will rejoice to see it carried into e&ct. That Prof. Howe, Prof. Jones, Rev. J. , fj. Rjvoolds, Messrs. John Bryce, G. T. $?wdet>> A. Wallace, W. W.,Wells, and T. - ?,. Sfet^ryde, be appointed Delegates to re present this Society in said Convention. 3. That a suitable place for the meeting of sa d Convention be procured and held in #ead? iuessby the Executive Committee of this Socie^r. v w ^ i /That these proceedings be published in the Colombia Times, and Telescope, Che raV Herald, Charleston Observer, and Chris tian Advocate. That Messrs. Donnelly, Bryce and Mc Bryde* be a committee to carry these Reso lutions into effect. ' ^ % ! STEPHEN ELLIOT, Pres. ~SaSuel:Do3XXVI.t, *S?c'y. K. B. The Committee appointed under the fast resolution give notice that they have procured the use of the Baptist Lecture Room for the. accommodation of the Con tention. * t* . w.,*. ? * . [COMMUNICATED.] BARBACUE MEETING. At a large and respectable meeting of the members of the Whig and States Right Troop Of Cavalry, at David 5L Cannon's, in Newberry District, on Saturday, the 2d day of June,, on motion of Lieut. F.G.Lake, Gen. H. H. Kinard was called to the chair, and on motion of Capt. John P . Kinard, Capt- A. Shimmer was appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting having been, briefly explained by the chairman, it was, on motion of Capt. John P. Kmard, . -1st, Resolved, That the citizens and the members -of' the Whig and States Right Troop Of Cavalry furnish a barbacue on the <fth of July proximo, at David M. Cannon's, "forthe purpose of celebrating the day. ;i 2di Resolved, That said barbacue shall be free, and no precedence given to any person Or persons, except the ladies and aged gen tlemen. ^ - 1 :3d. Resolved; That the ladies are hereby very respectfully, and particularly invited to j partake of said barb'acue. ith. Resolved, That we extend a friendly invhation to every person in this and the ad joining districts to partake of said barbacue. 5th, Resolved, That the Cavalry of Lieut. Cel. Griffiin's squadron are very respectfully 1 Invited to partake of said barbacue. 6th, Resolved, That the States Right Troop meet on said day in full uniform, for drift and exercise, at 10 o'clock A. M. *" ? 7th, Resolved, That Gen. H. H. Kinard be Appointed reader of the Declaration, aud that Capt. Adam Summer be appointed ora tor of the 3ayr ... ^ . a 8tht Resolved, That Capt. John P. Ki nard appoint a committee of eleven persons to tfarry the above resolutions into effect. fJapt. John P. Kinard proceeded to appoint the foHowhig gentlemen, as required by the 8th resolution, viz : Lieut. F . G. Lake, Lieut. Wm. R. Lane, and Cornet W. F. Lake; also, Messrs. T.. V. Cannon, Wm. Epting, Henry Mitts, J. Adam Fulmer, Adam Ep ting, John JKinnick, Frank R.: Lane, aud Cfcri. H. It. K&iril. lOthi Resulted, That the Secretary have the proceedingSi of this meeting, published in the Telescope, and Times & Gazette. H. H. KINARD, Chairman. A. Summe*, Sec'y. Senate, Tuesday, Mat 22. Messrs. Gales & Seato* : A friend has this moment called my attention to the fol lowing paragraph in the Washington Choot cle of JSateroay last : "Mr. P&EST05 opposed the reference in a speech of some length. He animadverted on the conrse pursured by some of the Adminis tration. members, who contended that all con nexion between the Government and banks was dissolved by the suspension of specie payments, and voted against all banks as fraudulent aud corrupt institutions, unworthy of public eonfiefcnee, and now came forward and ? lauded these same institutions as great j aad glorious, and doing eTCJ7 thing for the good of. the country. Mr. P. admitted that another explosion was not at all improbable, ff they went on in the same wild way in rela tion to the deposits system. The great ob ject of Government should be to limit these moneyed' corporations, and to regulate them ifu means of u United Slates Bunk . He thought it infinitely better to regulate the system be law than to leave it to Executive us'tirgjgtion.'* ..V | used no such expression as that in italics, i>or any thin* like it. Your obedient servant, '*** "9" ' W.e: PRESTON ? 7 The result of the Session is highly gratify - ingf The State has come to the aid of its com mercial emporium! with a noble and liberal jppt* awJ we will soon Jbehold our city again <Had in beauty, and blessed with prosperity. The only: source* of regret is that an occasion ~?fiM0ecated by such a ooble exhibition of generous feelin&shotfld have been intruded on, by .the spirit of party, seeking the immolation of high minded and distinguished public ser vants, for44 the rightful exercise of their inde pendent judgement," and conscientious dis charge of duty in the Councils of the nation. ?We are truly sorry that such an occurrence shot?! have 'taken place to mar the general gratulation on the accomplishment of the uo&le^SSKf patriotic object, which brought the Lef&atnre together. It is generally beleived that instructions from Washington led to this untimely display of party tactics jtnd political intolerance. ? Ch. Courier of meBSSSSssassssssBBSSBS^s^s^^^ The SUUe of S&mth Carolina. CHESTER DISTRICT, v tPi THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. James S. Meffat, } ( Bearer,) vs. '?* } Declaration in Attachment, loha McKeown, jr- 1 WHEREAS the plaint iff did this day file his ieriaxatioH against the defendant, who is ab ?*nt from and bevowi tbe limits of this State, (as it ? ) aiwthaymg ueither wife nor attorney known, - ?Bwn whom a of declaratioa, and a rule to Jead thetwmay be serv ed? It is therefore order JtHLit the defendant do plead or make hk defence in tl^5 above on or before the twenty-fourth day otherwise final nnd absolute judgment w^'^ ^warded for the plaint^ again* the defendant. ? y R0S10R0UGH, C. C P. OfRce of Common P.eas, ) May 23d, 1833. S SolttraWa ^Telescope. t ... SATURDAY, JWTE 9, 1338. The friends of Eli Kkkiut respectful ly announce bira as a caadidate for SherifFof Richland District, at the next election. JW e have employed much of our time this week in preparing some of the speeches just delivered in the Legislature, in the interest ing debate on the sub-Treasury resolution. We give to-day those of Gen. Hamilton and Col. Adams, and will give others in our next. The speech of Gen. Hamilton was one of the finest specimens we have ever heard, of just reason and beautiful elocution, deliv ered with all the noble and fiery and digni fied demeanor wbjch personally distinguishes that gentleman. That of Col. Adams was done in an exceedingly handsome style, ^een, spirited, vigorous, and manly. We regret that it was not longer. Oar-readers must make, in favor of both speakers, large allowances for the imperfection of our re port. We by no means profess to be able to do them justice. It is not in our power to report all the speeches made in this debate. If gentle men (on either side) will furnish us with their remarks, we will cheerfully publish them. General Hamilton's vote does not appear in the journal on the final question on the resolutions, because he had left the Senate Chamber for Charleston a few minutes be fore it was taken, having sufficiently declared his inflexible opposition to them, and leaving bis protest in the hands of a friend, to be re corded. If the gentleman who seut us a piece sigu ed "Citizen," and afterwards a letter, witt make himself known to us, we will satisfy him that we have sufficient reasons for not publishing the article in question. Our paper this week is so much occupied that we must defer until our next the com-"3 munication of u Southern." 0^* See the vigorous and well reasoned essay of our correspondent-4' A Voter." We began last week to publish Mr. Pres ton's speech on the Treasury note bill, but had to cut it short, in order to make room for the proceedings of the legislature. We now give it entire. The exceedingly able and striking speech of Mr. Thompson, on the same subject, we begin in this paper and will finish in our next. Affairs at Washington . We hear further rumours of changes in the Cabinet, but know not how for they aie to be relied on. It is said to be settled that Mr. Woodbury is soon to leave the Treasury department, and be succeeded by Kendall. Mr. Poinsett to take the Navy and Mr. Andrew Stevenson the the War Department. Mr. Forsyth to go on a foreign mission, and be succeeded by Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Grundy, Gov. Isaac Hill, and Mr. Mason, of Virginia are talked of for the Post office. Ou the 28, the following resolution was be fore the Senate. u Beit resolved by the Senate and the House ef Re presentatives fyc. That it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to make, or to continue in force, any general order which shall create any dif ference between the different branches of revenue, a* to the money or medkuA of payment in which debts or dues, accruing to the United States, may be paid." And was ordered t? a third reading by the following vote. f YEAS ? Mean. Bayard, Buchanan, Clay, of Ala bama, Clay, of Kentucky, Clayton. Crittenden, Cuth bert, Davis, Grundy, King, Lumpkin, Lyon, Mc Kean, Merrick, Nicholas, Norvtfl, Prentiss, Preston, Rives, Robbing, Robbinson, Haggles, Sevier, Smith, of LiAana, Southard, Speoce, Swift, TaJlmadge, Tipton, Trotter, Webster, White, Williams, Young ? IfAYS ? Messrs. Allen, Benton, , Brown, Calhoun, ifsbbmrd, Linn, Morris, Niles, Smith of Connecticut, 1 Sttange? 10. , Being sent to the House of Representatives it was immediately passed there also. The effect of this resolution is a repeal of die famous Specie Circular. Here, then is an end of at least one of the experitnerds that have done the country so much mischief. During the debate od this question Mr. Cal houn took occasion to rebuke those of the Sub-Treasury party who voted for il, as "acting like children." Mr. Cuthbert replied tartly that they were not to be ruled ; that they would act according to their own reason and opinions. Mr. Cuthbert ought to be instructed better. It is a pity that the Legislature of Georgia is not now in session. In consequence ofhis frequent attacks upon us we have several times taken occasion to castigate Cralle and his Chronicle He upon our first retort com fort &d himself in dignified silence; but the late lashing we gave him has brought him to his voice, and the poor cur has run off yelping from our stripes, and as he ran has as usual snapped at Mr. Preston. He did not come near enough to bite ? not lacking instinct, but perhaps knowing that the owner of a vicious dog is answerable if he bite. From the establishment of the Chronicle Mr. Preston has been the leading object for the attacks of the malignant and venal pen of the editor; sometimes openly; generally in the peculiarly insinuating style of this na tural Jesuit. And now he insinuates that there have been some private passages be tween him and Mr. P. If so, the latter has read De Vercto little purpose, and we advise him to commit to memory these lines, But above all eschew To trust tn parvenu. As to this poor sycophant's course on abol - ition, we predicted last autumn that by the first of January lie would call every anti-sub treasury mau an abolitionist, and he did so. Let this gain us some fai'h in what we now I3V. 1st. That before first of December next lie will deny the existence of abolition any where in the U. States. Hewtfl say that the ques tion is settled, and denounce any one who calls Southern attention to it as a traitor. 2d. He will at first tacitly and then openly advocate the Georgia Union ticket ?gainst the Nullifieis; and he will irommediataly after that election denounce the whole State Rights party of that State, and avow himself an advocate of the Union party there by name. He says he has no interest in the paper. We never said he had. We knew he was a mere hireling, transfered by Duff Green from hand to hand along with the press and types. The Charleston Mercury of last Tuesday contains two articles, one of them from its 41 Columbia correspondent," the other signed * Hermes," written in a strain of scurrility and vulgar arrogance that affords a striking specimen of the mode in which the late dom ings of the sub-treasurers are to be defended before the people. The offspring of party violence, they are to be maintained by abuse and denunciation of those who exercise their equal right of thinking and voting differently. We extract a passage from the first article. u An overwhelming majority of the South Car olina Legislature, are decidpdly opposed to the ihcor poration of a National Bank, as dangerous to liberty, and highly prejudicial to the commercial interests of the South ; and they are of opinion that the Govern ment of the United States, will never be administer-' ed purely, impartially, sately,or vigoroutly, fill whol ly separated in its fiscal operations, from connection' with Banks. Conscientiously of this mind they in nocently thought a simple declaration of these senti ments might not be without weight on the councils of the nation, where these matters are to be fina'ly de- j cided ; and to this end, the resolutions alluded to, ! which you have seen were introduced and passed, some fifteen or twenty dissenting. For, this they are charged by this Bank minority, with every thing foolish, tyranical, ami mean ; with tarnishing the honor of the State ; with violating the Constitution i enslaving themselves to masters afWaslungton gul lying the Legislative dignity ; assailing the imperish able and everlasting right of private judgment, and insidiously and malignantly prostituting the power of the people from its sacred purpose of advancing the general interest, to ends of private proscription. All this has been said, and more. vThe Columbia Teles cope, their organ, speaking, of course vot under in struction, from Washington, denounces these Reso lutions, as involving "a violation of Constitutional right, and a want of iiuLividual delicacy and public dignity." We hope when the South Carolina Legis lature presume next to speak their minds on any mat ter of high national moment, they will take the pre Cantion to learn from the public printerthe necessary raiea of*' constitutional, right" and " public dignity. ' We hope that when nine tenths of the People of South Carolina would repeat the teraurity of deliv ering, through their sworn Representatives, a judge ment on the great question of currency, or any other equally involving their most vital interests they will first supplicate permission of the recusant one-tenth ; especially if those, who represent this important min ority, are standing.out.ot the moment in contemptu ous defiance of their known wishes. This would be only reasonable. At least so think the bank party and the Telescope A contrary course would obvi ously only expose their own stupidity ; would hurt the feelings of the " public printer raise the bris tles of xVIr. Waddy Thompson, and, above all, might embarrass the Clay nominee for Vice President." The complexion whiclj is here attempted to be given to the matter is altogether per verted and unwarranted by the facts. No one disputes the right of the Legislature, or aoy portion of it, or any other set -of meu, to express their opinion on the sub-Treasury, or any thing else. The complaint is that they tyrannically assail the independence of others possessing equal rights, aud strive to control their opinions and conduct. As -to the cry of " Bank" and "Clay," it is the stale cant of the Administration party. How does it follow that those who oppose the sub-Treasury are iu favor of the Bank ? that those who go against Vau Buren are devoted to Clay ! As far as our paper is concerned, we are opposed to the sub-Trea sury and to the Bank, to Van Buren and to Clay. We do not believe in saving the coun try by President-making, and have always urged that it becomes this State to keep aloof from that corrupting game. We did not use the words " individual in delicacy" with reference to the Legislature. Let us not be misunderstood. We were speaking.of those members of Congress who are said to have been at the bottom of this movement against their colleagues. As to the Clay nominee, we have already shewn that Mr. Prestou is not accountable for the publication of his name by one or two editors. He is not the nominee on the Clay ticket. Every politician knows that Mr. Talmadge has been fixed on for some time back, as the Vice President of the Clay party. We do not perceive whatour office of pub lic printer has to do with this matter. Our consequence, we are sorry to say, is magni fied ; there are tm public printers. We were so simple as to suppose that we were appoint ! ed because we had the printing done well and punctually. We never understood it to be a pari of the contract thatwe were to be always of the same opinion as the majority of the Legislature. We conduct a public press, and will always freely and openly express our opinion of public measures. Such little detractions are disreputable only to their authors, and we shall not take the trouble in future to notice them. If we may believe what is undisputed, there are passages in the private history of that anomalous progeny of Carolina legisla tion, the Instruction (or instructionoid) Res olutions, that are hardly creditable either to its parents or its sponsors. Simultaneously with the announcemeht of a sub-Treasury caucus for Tuesday night, there was whispered a rumor to this effect: That information was that morning received by members of the House here from certain of our Representatives at Washington, that a great effort would be made to carry the sub Treasury bill through the House ; that the opposed forces were vibrating in an almost equal balance ; that the weight of two votes in either scale might be decisive; that two of the delegation from this State might be driven over; and that it was very desirable to use the Legislature, so opportunely conve ned at their extra session, to effect this end. It was further said, that under this advice, and by the sole movement of the gentlemen so advised, did the caucus originate. This rumour, as usual, was believed by the oue party, and repudiated by the other ; but there was do difference of sentiment in regard to the character of this sort of pro ceeding, if true. The friends of the sub Treasury evinced their disapprobation in terms more honest than discreet. The charge was denounced among them as an " ungene rous calumny," " a vile slander." After the proceedings in caucus, (the like of which, in bitter personal virulence of spi rit, God forbid we should ever see again in Carolina,) had confirmed the probability of this report, ^t was stated upon the floor of the House as a current belief. A plain avowal or negation would set the matter at rest, and was expected. Again the charge was cast back with disdain : again it was repudiated as an unworthy suspicion, ungenerous and mean. Ground was even talten, if our memory serves us, that gentlemen could not be sincere in laying such discreditable imputations upon men of character, and that the rumour was a mere ruse for temporary effect. Yet it was not denied. It might and ought to have been denied, and was not. When a party in such case declines to plead, common sense reverses the rule of common law, and with less of mercy but with more of truth, says * guilty.' Now, how shall we designate this proceed ing ! By what terra shall we mark the con duct of a member of Congress who operates by private means to work on members here, to deprive his own colleague of the right of independent judgment? May we not with great moderation call it undignified, ungene rous, indelicate ? highly indelicate 1 Coarser terms than we care to use would perhaps bet ter express our opiuion on the subject? oth ers may form their own from the circumstan ces. Of the Resolutions themselves, we will say something more iu our next. The substance of GEN. HAMILTON'S re marks , in the Senate of South Carolina , on the Resolutions of the House of Representa tives respecting the Sub- Treasury ; May 31, 1838. After the reading of the Resolutions, Gen. Hamilton rose and said that he could not but regret the introduction of the topic now pre sented for the consideration of the Senate. They had convened to consider one subject, and that of the deepest and most affecting interest. He had hoped all others would have been avoided; at least such as were in the smallest degree calculated to marthat concord and harmony in which they had consummated the noble benefaction by which South CaroJina had succoured her metropo lis, desolated byr a calamity so signal and overwhelming. This wise and generous of fice discharged, he had likewise hoped that they would have been permitted to return to their homes with none other than those feel ings towards each other which belong to this 1 enlarged benevolence, so munificently per formed. But it seemed this privilege was to be denied them. They were, at the very last moment of the session, to be distracted and divided. They were to return to their fami lies with feelings of alienation and deslrust to wards each other, by the introduction of es sentially a party topic ; and what is worse, in the form of a pious crusade against the con sciences of a highly respectable portion of our members in Congress. Sir, said Gen- H. South Carolina is too small a family in this great community of States, to b^divided ; more especially on a subject of such doubtful policy as the Sub Tresury scheme. The time is coming when from the condition of public opinion else- 1 where oh a topic of deep and irrepressible public interest, we shall not only require a wise and considerate sagacity, invincible for titude, and high moral courage, but, above all, united counsels, the result of not only the best political but the most cordial social re lations. Can we not allow our State one moment of repose ? Must she pass the verge of one agitation, merely to be hurried into another? Can she never breathe for one instant in the temperate zone ? We have just come out of one internal contest which shook South Carolina to its centre. Thanks be to God, the crisis was passed without a convulsion or fraternal bloodshed ; and I trust I am not extravagant in the hope that these internal differences are buried in the ocean beneath that wave on which the Halcyon rests her downy bosom in token of tranquility aod peace. Surely we have enough in the opening prospects of our country, to occupy the pub he spirit and enterprize ofouf people. Is not the pathway which we are making to scale the Allegany, and by the seeming annihila tion of space to form our commercial con nexions with the West, sufficient to employ our euergy ? Can we not find a super-abun | dant excitement in the effort we are making j to establish our right of way across the ocean, nud thus to bring back the exchangeable value of the fruit of our own industry ? Must we seek in an untried experiment ? at best of doubtful import, a mere theory in finance ? to couceotrate and consolidate party spirit, and give to its inevitable consequences all the malignity and intollerance which belong to an insaue fanaticism ? I have said thus much (said Gen. H.) to .inculcate the councils of peace. I mean, in conformity with such a feeling, to submit a motion for the postponement of the whole subject to the next session. This is the most ? yea, it is more than I hope to obtain. I know that these resolutions on your table come ex cathedra , from the mintage of a preliminary Caucus. It was perhaps politic that the manacles and thumb-screws for a portion of our delegation in Congress should have been forged in the shop before they were brought into this assembly. Deliberation was fatal to them. In a clear field and with a fair fight they could uot have sustained the bat tery of discussion for one moment; at least before an uutrammeled jury, of such men as ; once served South Carolina. I submit the motion of postponement, be- 4 cause in all probability it is the only one on which, from the late hour of the night and the necessity of my immediate departure from this place, I shall be able to record my dis tinct and inflexible opposition to the whole subject before you. It is, however, time that I should now say a word or two on the Resolutions themselves. The first resolution asserts as a fact what I do not know and do not believe? that the Sub-Treasury scheme has found favour with a majority of the people of this State. I be lieve this to be a mere naked inference. Until Mr. Calhoun consented to become the foster-father of this treasury offspring, there were not ten individuals in the State with whom the unpromising bantling obtained countenance. Even the very papers and pol iticians that now hug the ungainly urchin to their bosoms, spit upon its puling infancy, when it seemed to be hanging in all the un certaintiesofexistenceon the exhausted dugs of its legitimate parents. It is true that Mr. Calhoun was able to work the conversion in November last of about one hundred and twenty five citizeusof this State who happen ed to be respectable members of the Legisla ture ; and that, too, with a miraculous sud denness almost equal to that of the mighty | apostle oniiis jofctrn^y to Damascus. It may be that these hundred and twenty-five gen tlemen have made about enough converts to serve as an echo to their own voice, but that the great body of our people have con- I sidered this subject I do not believe. It is a subject eminently uninviting and distasteful, except to minds familiar with financial details. I admit that among our politicans there is a vast majority in favor of the sub-treasury ; and that strenuous efforts are making to form and consolidate a party on this quest ion. And I fur ther admit that it may be about as convenient a one for proscription as can be designed. Nor do I pretend to say that a majority of the people may not, by the force of party discip line, 4 with proper appliances to boot," be brought to sustain this measure, extraordinary as it may seem. A few clap traps and cant phrases will often accomplish what the pro foundest philosophy cannot effect. 44 The emancipation of the South from the commer cial thraldom of the North," and " a direct trade with Europe," from the flexible lips of a cunning demagogue, will work wonders; and many honest and deluded subjects will scarcely give themselves time to ask how locking op gold and silver in huge Cyclopean safes, with a correspondent issue in their stead of irredeemable continental paper mo ney, can .accomplish this purpose. They will take the prophecy on tiust, until defeat has put the humbug to flight, or an explosion lias brought it to the comfortable position at which it now rests ? an Independent Treasu ry perfectly baukrupt. At present the people of South Carolina have regarded the Sub-Treasury scheme with about as much indifference as they have the popular humbugs of Animal Magnetism and Phreuology. I am quite sure they are equal ly prepared to sanction our instructing >our Senators and Representatives to vote for the Exploring Expedition ? a measure of far more innocent responsibility, which cannot involve the beggary of our people and the corruption of our public servants. The category, therefore, in this resolution I cannot vote for without violating my own sense of veracity. LgJ me now say a word on the second res olution ? the most pregnant of all, which, by a cunning device, insinuates an instruction to the refractory members of Congress. At least it enunciates a fearful admonition. The resolution is in these words. " Re solved , that in the opinion or this Legislature the policy indicated in those resolutions [that is, the resolutions approving the sub-treasu ry] is essential to the best interests of the country ; and that any public servant who re fuses to premote the same, pursues ? course injurious to the welfare and prosperity of the State." This resolution, Sir, is certainly very mod est and unpretending;. The Legislature has a clear and incontestible right to express its opinion that the sub-treasury is a measure essential to the best interests of the country, and that all who differ in opinion with them are pursuing a course injurious to its welfare and prosperity. But are not our members of Congress equally entitled to their opinion ? And if it happens to be precisely the converse of this dogma, may they not solace their con sciences with the belief that in point of fact they are pursuing a course best calculated to promote the prosperity and welfare of the country when they oppose the sub-treasury scheme? Is not this opinion precisely as broad as it is long? And it is narrowed down at last into, sir, your opinion, and my opinion, and any body's opinion ; and the declaration sinks into a neutrality about as absurd as it is harmless. I admit it contains a threat ; but in this point of view it is not so potential as to be beyond all human toleration. A scarecrow it unquestionably is, but such an one as old Muzzleton in the cornfield, that respectable personage who has stood for so many years in the same spot, bloated with his straw and dead feathers, whom the very rooks may eye with perfect safety. Sir, those who conceded these resolutions are perfectly aware that South Carolina repu diates the doctrine of instruction. It has never found favour in her eyes. The exam ple which has been cited of the instructions sent to our delegation to oppose the tariff, do not apply. They were intended to strengthen, not to weaken, our delegation ; to give them confidence in their course ; not to violate their consciences; because they were known to concur with the unanimous opinion of nearly our whole people on that topic. The effort before us is certainly the first settled design to instruct, and by indirection to reach the conscience of a refactory member. I do not propose, sir, at this time, to dis cuss the doctrine ofinstruction. I must how ever, assume the privilege of saying that ac cording to my humble view the exercise of this doctrine involves as gross an usurpation and fallacy in political ethics as can wiUJte conceived* r In the first place, the constitution gives us the right to tUct, but gives us no right to de pose, our Senators ? the very end and scope of the exercise of the righttf instruction, if it was designed that we should exercise this formidable power, it ought to have been given by an express grant in the constitution ; otherwise its assumption must be usurpation. It is a fallacy, because it proceeds likewise on the modest assumption that we are better informed on the subject on which the member of the National Congress is to exercise hi* judgement and conscience, than himself? although specially within his constitutions! jurisdiction and competence; and for the eir* ercise of his free and unbiassed suffrage beifc responsible to God and his country. This is not all. The practice itself is caU culated to work an entire change in our sys?. tem of government, by substituting the legifr* lationof our State Legislatures for the legis-v lation of Congress. Does the constitution m^ke our members of Congress our slaves ? No. The venom of faction, disgusting arro gance, and the conceits of overweening vani ty, may attempt to force them to be so. If these objections hold in the abstract against the right of instruction, what force do they acquire when applied to the present oc casion and to the persons against whom the Resolutions on your table .are levelled. It is knowo that one of our Senators and it is believed that three of our Representatives in Congress are opposed to the Sub-Treasury scheme. It is rumoured that this project is at its last gasp, and that it has been intimated that unless these members can be made to violate their consciences and vote for the measure, it must perish ; for as it is in a min ority of the people of the Union, no hope of its passage can be entertained except the deed be now done, and done quickly. Like good liege subjects we are therefore summoned to the scaffold to witness the in- - diction of the actual cautery or the rack, in case of non compliance on the part of our - public agents. Let me now pause to ask whether this ignoble tyranny is worthy of the ancient re pute ofSouth Carolina ? Where is the chiv alry i hat once graced her renown? Where the magnanimity and confidence with which she has always treated her public servants? ? a confidence which was the nurse of manly sentiment, inflexible independence, and of a public virtue that scorned all temptation, save the inducement to serve her with hones ty, fidelity, and truth. Alas, they are all giving way to a spirit of vulgar Loco Foco ism , in the promotion of which the first essential step is to violate all that belongs to the pride and honor of such servants as South Caroli na once had. It is true, we have had prece dents from other states quoted for our imita tion and instruction. They are no authority, sir, in South Carolina. Let those States, if they will, practice their despotism, but let them keep it to themselves. We willhave none of it. At least I know I speak for those who are beyond the reach of my voice, who when the temporary delusions of this ques tion have passed, will visit with their deepest reprobation this attempt to violate the free dom of opinion and the sacred right of consci ence. I know not, sir,* how that portion of our delegation against whom it is aimed, will re ceive this compulsory process. Whether they will consent to surrender their judge ment to save what they believe to be a perni cious and unwise project, from distraction. I trust they will let the vagrant die, whether he expires from inanition or a violent death ; whether he dies in a ditch, or gives up the ghost sccundemartem after the most approved phlebotomy of the doctors. I hope they will refuse to serve even on the Coroner's inquest ? and maiutain throughout what belongs to the courage of a Southern gentleman, who fears, next to his. God, a violation of his own honour and sense of propriety. Let me tell them, in a voice loud enough' I trust through the press at least to be heard, that public confidence is not to be purchased in South Carolina by subserviency, but by independence; not by timidity, but by fear lessness. Let them- do what they regard to be right. If public duty has any other rule than this, I can only say, sir, that we have read to precious little purpose the memorials which those who have gone before us in the State have bequeathed for our instruction. It is understood that these resolutions are especially levelled at one of our Senators. You Cannot mistake me, sir, I allude to Mr. Preston. Professing, as I do, a great per sonal regard and respect for this gentleman* it is known that my relations with his collea gue are far more intimate. I have ventured to differ with Mr. Calhoun, and to think him wrong on the question which now agitates the country, without affecting in the slightest degree the relations to which I refer, and which it will be both my pride and pleasure to cultivate, in despite of the proscription with which those who claim now to be his exclusive friends may visit my honest differ ence of opinion with one to whom I hare been personally and politically devoted for the last ten years. But these considerations shall not prevent my doing justice to his col league. Why, then, I ask, is he selected for the sacrifice ? Does he not stand pre cisely where he did when be was warring against the overshadowing despotism of Gen. Jackson's administration ? If it was right and consistent to oppose that admjnistratkm? is it the less so to be found in the ranks of opposition to his successor's, whose first claim to public confidence was the anmjncia-r