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--46 L L -. rc . f DEOE TO SOTHE~RN- tunT, DEMOCRU~ACY NW, LITEIRATUREIwu ~~rI 'WA. V. FRANCIS ProprieUor. MTERVI lL, Ou .Lait JUal 2",18 . VOL. V. SIJMTE1VILLEt So C. JIIY-2998IS ',oo Dollars in advance, Two Dollars and PiFty-cents at the expiration of six months, or Three Dollars at the end of the year. No paper discontinued until all arreara gea are paid, unless at the option of the Proprietor. MrAdvertisements inserted at 75 ets. per square, (12 lines or less,) for the first and half that sum for each subsequent insertion. L-rThe number of insertions to be mark ed on all Advertisements or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. - 7One Dollar per square for a single insertion. Quarterly and Monthly Adver tisements -vill be charged the same as a single nsertion, and seni-monthly the same as new ones. - All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recommending Candidates for public oflices or trust-or puffing Exhibitions, will be charged as Advertise ments. M7Rev. FREDEniCK RusH, is a travelling Agent for this paper, and is authorized to receive subscriptions and receipt for tne same. ORATION, Delivered in Clarendon on the 4th of Jtuly, 1851, by JoHN P. Rrcir ARDSON, JR. Published by requet. BRADUAMMS, July 4th, 1851. John P. Richardson, jr., cnq. Sra: We have been appointed a committee to request of you, for pub lication, a copy of the eloquent Ora tion which you have just delivered. Allow us to express the personal gratification which your compliance would afford us. Yery respectfully, &c., L. F. RuAMrt, 0. R. F. BAKER, Committee. J. MCCAVLLY, 3nADIIAMS, July 4th, 1851. To M1es8rs. llhame, Baker, and McCauley. Gentlemen : RIctant as I was to have utidertaken the duties of an oe casio,to which recent events ,ave added so deep and so important an interest, I yet feel still greater repug nance to obtrude my youthful and unprofitable reflections beyond the limited circle of those whose patriotic entertainment they were alone intend. ed to promote. In complying, therefore, with your request, I beg to assure you, gentle men, that in no sense of my own ap preciation of its merits could I give a higher evidence of a willingness to sacrifice personal considerations to the behests of my fellow-citzens of Clarendon. If it can in any manner, however, serve to evince the patriotic feeling with whipth that class of Carolina youth (to which I belong) are ready to perform their duties to the State, it will, to the utmost of my hopes and wi8he8, have accomplished the object of its mission. Very respectfully, &c., JouN P. Rrcu1rtanSos, JR. Oration. Memory and imagination are, doubtless, the most inseparable of the human faculties. It is difficult to recur to the past without indulging in comparison with the present and speculations on the future. We may not evoke the shade of departed events without contemplating both their actual and prospective inP""n ces, and thae changes which they have wrought anid are still operating on $he human destiny. On no recur -rence of this day, consecrated as it has been to national reminiscenaces, sre reflections of this kind calculated ro assume a deeper interest or a more solemn import. Whether in retros pect or prospective--whether on the threshold of new events or in the in ilt'ative of the future, or only in the wake of preceding causes- whether, in short, it be the past, the pres ant, or the anticipateal-there are materials enough in the topics they suggest for thought and anxiety, as well as for exultation. Little more than half a century has olapsed since the political world hams broken, as it were, its leaden cere ments of despotism. Little more than this short cycle of time lase transpired, when loyalty was the only political virtue, bi otry th e only test of religion, and ri' it accessible alone through treason and rebellion. When the quivering bowels of the slave warmed the feet of his tyrant lor-d, wilan the bastilo was a living tomb for att violated allegiance; and wheon, as now, the law rules the prince as wvell its the subject. protects the governed asi well as empowers the governor, and asserts at majesty as biah above the palace as the cot, it requires cer tainly the utmost stretch of imagina tion to compress incidents of so dis similar a character in the short epoch of seventy-five years, in which they are actually comprised. That all this should exclusively be the work of a few doom-.d and perse cuted men, who, under the denuncia tions of an angry sovereign and a powerful emp.re, had the boldness to assert their own rights and their country's freedom, would have been announced in prophesy as the blind est infatuation. That a light should have gleamed from the councils of these wilderness-reared patriarchs to mantle the christian world with a flood of civil and political radiance, to illumine the dungeon and to confla grate the throne, to beam unquenched through the blood of revolutions, to rise undimmed above the becatombs of martyred and martyring victims, to enlighten the intellect, to spread a world wide intelligence. to convulse nations, and yet to leave all purer, brighter, calmer than before, was, in deed, one of those wonderful phenom ena which mankind could have been prepared by no moral or historical experience to anticipate. Nor is this all. We have been placed, by the events of this (lay, as high on a pedestal of moral as of po litical intellignce. Who ever !eard previous to its development, of a tol erated andl harmonized religion in the midst of evangelical enthusiasn ? Of party strifes to preserve, and not to destroy, the constitution ? Who ce timates virtuous heroism, military re nown, and an ennobling patriotism, but by the standard of Washington? Who does not glide through the long lapse of ages between Pericles and Jefferason, to'luok for high examples of consuimate statesmanship ? - Whr was gallantry n - MaheI t..a in Sumter, or a Fa i.m wis lami better <hisplayed than in; \l. - David slew his giait a :ver-ary wit.h a sling; the Rtomian Consul.s noble son fought and c-miluerred the cne. my 's champion in single coambat. But w hen we search history for r anples of personl exiloits they fa, into the diu b letits of commoniI life, inl W. u with the energetic daring -i nur- own Manning--grap phg a British maj)r at head of his column, and marching with limi through the hottest of the action to the American lines. Bit to the arts, the sciences, and to lite-ature, have we not given an impulse and an epo'.-h, (lite as mem orable as the moral and political phenomena to which we have alluded? Could steam, for instance, have ex. panded its distance annihilating influ ence under the iron pressurc of en slaving lawys and institutions? Could the fettered imind have extendted its investigations to such vast far-reach ing results ? Could the ligltning winged telegraph have sped its r.ouse less and trackless way through the thick gloom of a despotic age? Could thought have beenI hree to investigate, the mind elated to soar, the limbs un shackled to roam or to toil, connnere have penetrated its remote recesses, and man himself nerved to deeds of emprise and of daring, ini the hoary age of a feudal hnheeility, or under the pouider-ous trappings of an abso lute gover-nment? No, it was reserv ed to our age to achieve them, to our revolution to inspire and awakena them, and to the genius iad the vir* tue of our ancestors to conceive fland to kindle the lamp of this world-regen crating intelligence. Theli cost anid sacrifices of great and heroic actions are, however, but too apt t') be oveilooked in the cona templzation of their magnificenit rc sults. Dazzled by their splendor, animated by their glory, men forget the diliculties, the endurian ce, the contuniely, and the p'ri vationis, through which they are accomp~jlishied and feel as if they coul asp ire to emulate the heroes of their- own ad miration. Impedimenats to success, doubtless, constitute the highest me it in attaining it. The fortitude that resists danger, thec firmness that with stands temptiation, the soul-subduing patience that wears away opposition, the self sacrificing martyrdom to prin ciple, are the elements by which alono the character otf all great achievements is truly to bec estimated. In this aspect of our revolution, it looms through all time as the noblest triumph of human (daring andl virtue. Deliberating through martyrdom, codouering through defeat ncom aged by privations, emboldened by suffering, and victorious by endur ance-history furnishes no such ex ample of moral sublimity, as that of the gallant patriots by whom it was achieved. The arm of Brutus was nerved by the secret treason of an applauding Senate. The followers of Hampden and Sydney were sus tained by an invading army and an invincible leader. Napoleon con quered for glory and fought for am. bition; but our ancestors, for national peace and personal obscurity. The revolution of France was but a popu lar tumult, the outpourings of an en raged and frantic people, confident of their strength, engorged with blood, and her councillors at once the tools, the victims, and the instruments of a national phrenzy. There was neither terror nor suffering to deter them; naught to overcome or restrain but their own madness. But to the great minds who conceived the inde pendence of our country- how stri king-how overwhelming the con trast. It was not, in its incipiency. the great mass of the popular mind moving onward, and resolutely im pelled to achieve it. It was not the heaving commotions of a mob-the sudden and electric excitement of a whole nation--the loud applauding echoes of a popular sentiment; but the patriotic inspiration of a few great minds-contending with the time rooted loyalty of the age-the long and fendly-cherished allegiance of the colonies- the terrors of a mighty throne-the liberal favors of a patri. archal government- the ignomny of a traitor's (eatI-divisions ,.:Wthin, and a nation's and a monaMNliPs .nW geance without. In the estimate of the difficulties and of the merit ofthe sacrifice, these thingg perhaps are too often ft-got. 'on. It would be well fur us, in iew of the dtities and obligatiolog '. .-ppressio'n has devolved4i uuon those L. of our day and genwration, to I cal then, both For tcimple and in. sttrun. Wh..oi tlo insubordinate spirit of !i.''ahal provoked the ire of the lixl itia ernmenit, its first ineasure ,I retaliation was to abolish its privi leges as a "port of entry." Public clamor cried aloud against the men and the counsels that had brought this exclusion upon them; and Ran cock and Adanis had to endure the execration of an enraged commercial community, stimulated by an avidity for gain and for a time overshadow ing them with the indignation of a dismayed anid terrified constituenev. Ihad they taken counsel of fear or in terest, where now would have ben that dearly-cherished commerce, that metropolitan prosperity, tlho.e high attaiminmts in letters and the arts, which have long since male Boston the Athens of the Western hemis [here. When, for the purpose of conciliation, a general pardor. and amnest' was proclaimd to all wlo habeemn engaged in the late popu11 har- tumults of the day, llancock and A dams were especially excepited, and declared to he reserved as examples of r-oyal v-engeancc and retribution. Popular conifideunce for a time forsook them, like timid birdls frayed away by the storm; and when elected to the Conugre'ss which lassed the Dec-larar tion of' Independenace, they could find hut two hitundred of their fellow -:itizens hold enough to vote for themi as their rep resentativ-es. Thelair after lives arue the strongest commrentary I ceould offer you on the fact. TIhe one be'came the dlistinguished P resi dent of the first C'ongress, the other the friend1 and successor of WVashing ton So hope-ss seemned the enter prise, so powecrf ul the opposition, so perilous anid (deterring the prospect, imt when Charles Carroll, one of the weal thie'st men of A merica. ap) proaced~ to sign the D eclaration of' Inudepenilence, all exclaimed, in utter aazemen/t-ucit, '"thlere goes a million,"' east upon01 a losind die, and forfeited to the crown. Nay, all that has deterred us fr-om the assert ion of our m ighuts under sim ilar ci rcumstamnces of oppression, wans ur-ged then with ten times the for ce, and infinitely morec tr-uthr and appli cation. It was said that the pro vinces were weak, that they were dlivided, that the time had not yet ar' rived for- action. that British power would overwhelm opposition', that the colonies wero not united, that no co operation had been piledgedl or prof foredl, and that our independence, even if won,1d o be ainn ed in a state of separation from the British crown. In all these we doubtless recognise the familiar and identical objections of our own lay, and surely we can point you to no higher evidence than the past to realize or to controvert them. Even under the far better auspices the much higher incentives, and the nobler aspirations that their example has presented for our imitation, we feel and we know full well tle chil. ling influence of timid an1d distmeting counsels like these in repelling inju ries and averting aggressions of ten fold the magnitude and outrAge of theirs. What, then must have been the stern virture of those men -contend ing with foes within, a b"ESt 'ithout, few, persecuted, divided, .l pro scribed--against rcmonstr:.s. men aces, rabble fears, and cr.ia;, coun sels, who, for principle, ,n abstract principle, only to evade an iniignf cant tax,) stirred up all -' ( 'inel ts of national strife, invoked the storms of war, and stood unscathed, unterri fled, and lindismaved amidst its rage and its desolation.'' Posteri!y would do but imperfect justice to their tim tives ,we should render bat a mis erb!e homage to the heroisr of those who achieved our national independ ence--were we to suppose3 that it was the result of uianiiiov' cowins.ls of popular deliberation, or ha - :mny and concert of action. N',; it % as the few, the wise and nioble fe''*w, who were in the van of the e :' then like South Carolina . .k. 'lhci-e like our Calhouns, our .\e ' 11Je1'('% and ont'tElnores, leading, instead of he ing led by popular Cntiusiasn. Nay, Whteni the battle of Lexington was fought, G'eorgia m as noc there--ns sht is not hero 110w. Even South Cariolinla Was thenl 1ie;.osigg it! I~ paiwuS peace, a .il 91 as! a fCstered fa i it, 'um - in - lap of a fond atad iniulgenit parent country. When aroused from ho slumbers by the reverberrations of the batti's roar, it was not to delibeate, but to act; i' was not to Vurchaise by subiission a selfish exchision froie the horrors of war, but to rush in the full tide of her American syinpathies to share in the daiig-rs of the contest. Nor was she, too, uthoit her own domestic dissensiors. While she was battling with a Foreign Foe at Fort Moultrie, Eutaw, and Caniden, and wiiming i larels from Eiurope's bravest soldiers, her Lich,44sonls, her Suimters and her Mariois were alike contenling for hard earned vie tories over the blorl ra-valiits of the district of 96 and the imidl.-Iitable I lv alty of the interior. Much may be said to ex':nse the treasonable oi: i i ti -1 se n\i,.j felt no wronA, who s. > ri esi le involved inl the conte . knew no allegiance save that t I.dty, it h had experiencel the f , te mill. -es, and benlleenee P, lritish go'vernmtenit-who-- Lt a rew'n p troniage and 1elicien t Ip' L et ion, awli whom religion it selIf, as v ell as pre(u dice and edutcationi, ht tinu'ht to hove, to revere, aml i . -tic as ai mnother. lit whlen'. e m nd occasiont like ti,t iithed under the oppressi. batav seenl andit ackle hi. a :res sion andh the dang.e; . imiost blind have seen, i . . ptienti have cxcla:imed, th n *st hopeful] havc diespai red, an :1 he- mist t~r be'ariing have gro.wn r'stlei-;i lien this ''overnmenit, whI: ..- tre dlont so tonuelm t'. es ta wll i a c inad'e so infiny s :tr Irser'vI, has heecome a1 secti. n *-1:ti::mt, a fanatical tmm-eer, !. ttening cur Irights, hhdundtering z ' -'le tv, mal I t1prootim.liiitll ins-t itul , - ve~ .s, wi hen t liose itustitotmtons atre even~ 1low t4ot teritig to tlheir f~t!l, in:1y we not cx poet of South C<arolini. aiu! even (eI thle Stithi, a ,iniiiity oft counsiieh, antI enmerg..y of action, a mi- ofpr paation), such n:n - petle everi tore ii.altiteV' ii -.I i -re S ) PI t tI ble--and' noi caudsJ coil.i miore js denoitil? lRut if thie I ..hK at age af tives au I ini -a a to dlef-nii rig~hts and p ri a i thie cvery ii tiative of thcii '- nm, it give'ts uts no less ill ustriia ' :a ml Ies of the lie r-oie en-lurance ' dh which they may be triumphandy maintained, A tentless army; an unarmed, unchoth ed, unshod, and unfed! soldiery; emp tv coffers and an imnoverished nen. pie; officers without experience or renown; treason within, traitors with. out, and invasion around; the house hold no protection, neutrality no reruge, the farm deserted and devas tated, and the security of the camp to be purchased only by privation, harassments, wearisome marches, antd bloody sufferings;-he had some. thing more precious than gold who possessed salt for his food; he slept upon a bed of roses when some tem porary success of Sumter or of MA. rion enabled him for a moment to suspend his vigils or his fears of some marauding enemy. In battle always bee.ten, but never conquered; in strategy often foiled, but neverthe less victorious. If we assaulted, it Was, perhaps, to be repelled; and yet seldom without the object to be obtained. If we marched forward, it was but to retreat again with pre. cipitation, perhaps; but without loss or dishonor, and often to occupy (as if by fortune or accident) a still more eligible position. In short, it was the tactics of Fabius, with tenfold the endurance and the difficultie3, without a Canno to accelerate his triumph. Nor less, too, was it the hold energy of a Marcellus, with more blood, and tuil, and suffering; but with infinitely more limited means and inadequate prepa-ation either to aelive or encounter it. And would not one tithe of this :bold. persevering energy be sufficient to rescue and preserve the destinies of South Carolina as a sovereign, free, and independent State? Or are we, fellow-citizens, too degenerate to imitate the example of our ances tora, even to the tenth degree of their gallant bearing? Are our inEtitutions more worthless than a pound of tea? Is our State unwor thy of the sa -iice? Or were we d-hided. or did but perpetrate the ery of a-oruebi-jeft. when. we pro ra 0it the world the imnmnence Of their danger, and the deliberatc ness cf our purpose to defend them 'at all hazard and to every extrepi t v?' Out of the blood, the toil, and the tr-easure of the States has our inde pendence been achieved, and our Government been erected. We took it a puling and new-born babe-it has grown up into a vigorous man hood. We cherished it a rickety child- it has become a champion, a monarch, a master, and a tyrant. WVe protveted its infancy through all the storms of war--its cradle was rocked by the dying struggles of pa riots--its infancy sustained by the generous bloed of sovereign States, un1til, spurning the lap that nurtired it, it rose like a voung Hercules from his swaddling clothes, to strangle its nu4se and to perpetrate parricide. We took it a cold and senseless asp to ourt bosom, until, animated by its wa-miith, it has stung-nay, it has poisoned andI corrupted the generous heart that nestled it. 'We phatted it a mlustardl (the least of all') seed, and watered it with our bloodl and our af1ections, until it has grown to a great her-b, and the unclean birds of the air have lodged and broo-led and nestled thecreini.' We established it for our general and pitclwelfare, SIi ritual dominion, and claims to piwes5 the right, as well as feel the obl.1igat Iion, of exp u rgatingi us of the Sinl o slave'ry. It came a str-anger ---poo~r, and hiungryv, and naked, steekin g our- aid and hospitality; but when warmed by our firesides, cloth ed by our- bounty, anid strengthened byv ouri go od cheer, it deridled the holst, m onopolized the hearthstone, dndedour serv~ants, and appropr al our t proper-ty. It approatchied swit the mock humility of the hai'tche-t in the fab'le, which besought of the wood a little stick, (but a little s:iek it atsked,) to mnak-e for itself a hl e ,as its sha~irp edge wouldl other wis e utse-less. So modest a i-e quest, and s-., smiall a favor, the fo rest thought it would be unreasonta hie nout to comply with. IBut tno sone r was the hatchet armedl with its landa~le, than the trees began to fall, th forest disappeared, the shade was siucce'-ded by the sunsh',ne, the ploughisharie upr-ontedt the bosom of the earth, and the fruits of the soil took the placo of' nature's primeval pilanIttin g. And thus it is, fellow-citizens, that we now stand i-elated to this found ling of State charity-this being of our creation-this unnatural monster of our own care and nnrsin& We have suppot ted it in three perbious wars with our blood and with -our treasure--we have mad it rich and strong by endowments of both land and money; we have given it territo ries vaster (by half) than its origin al limits; and it has not only lavishly distributed them to others, to our ut ter and special exclusion, but con verted them into dens and places of refuge for our plundered property. We have paid more than two-thirds of its enormous debts, incurred not only against our remonstrance and our counsels, but by a system of pro fligacy, corruption and extrvagance, that might well justify the most scrupulous honor in repudiating; we have contributed more than two thirds to its forty millions of revenue; we have defrayed all its lavish ex penditures, even while condemning and reprobating them; we have sub. mitted to taxation, while her very proceeds are even now as once be fore, appropriated to arm myrmidons and prepare- fortresses for our en slavement and destruction; we have borne this onerous and unequal bur den from the profits of our slave labor, and, satiated with taxing, they now threaten to take away, and, like Pharaoh of old, deprive us of the straw, wh1ile they still demand the same tale of brick; and yet we still cling to a union with them. Still we clasp, we feed, we pamper, and nestle in the warm bosoms, and nur ture with the generous blood of these sovereign States, the ingrate, the monster, and the parricide. Yes, still we hug the chain; still we kiss the rod: still we suffer, endure; and yet we cherish, and fondle, and con fide in it. Yes: "Though a monster of such hldeous mici, As to be fated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Is it not well to pausE in this pro clivity to the. consumimation of our ruh0- 'Is'it not well tr. -onusider the, peril of submission, or acquiescence in wrlongs and exactions like these? Is it not well to reflect (even in its worse asp't) whether we should bea.r the intolerable ills we have, or rieslutely rush to end them? How stands the matter between us and this confederacy? What are our relttions, what are our rights; what are our duties and what is our re dress? For the purposea of common de fence and general welfare only we consented to institute this govern ment by a written compact with the other sovereigns of this Union, and by which each of the parties reserved to itself the right of secession hereaf ter, by virtue of the same authority by which thcv acceded to it then. To guard against constructive power, it specifically stated that all powers not granted in the Constitution were reserved to the States. The go vernment, therefore, can possess or exercise no power which it has not derivcd from that compact; and is, by the 'reservation of all other po~wers to the States,' as expressly prohibited, as it would seem, from substituting its own construction of the constitution for the constitution itself. But how comports its practice with theso clear anid obvious restric tions on its authority? Whyr, when we claim the interposition of the con stitutioni against the operation of bounty andi protective laws, we are constructively pointed to the caption of an act under the acknowledged guise of a revenue system. When we appeal from this self-constituted dlecision, the army and the navy of the Union are invoked to he tho-stern arbiters and interpreters of constitu tional law--when to every eye and to every understanding the govern ment has abandoned itself and all its great political behests, to the direc tiona of a fanatical antd freesnil party -when thart party has avowed its obi ligation and its purpose to extirpate the national sin of slavery has been excluded, and the stave trade has beeni abolished, in the common do main of the Ntortli and South, when we have been divested of our territo ries, when our institutions are threat ened to be swept away' by th i rre sistibte torrent of a unmversal spirIt of emancipation, anml when ith ie of these wrongs and perits, and after having exhausted every other eipedi ent, we ask to retire 'from the ooen federaoy (leaving all these aocjusil tions which we had contribut as much ase any other, to obtsing fo. ure to the' hanefit d6i' tt Unoioxn nesbWhytheh-iOW hith u it may best be proinoted that it chthot be. AWe afe that seceshion i 'e-olutioh, we assured the .Tz9on Tit be ed, even by blood, we are. * feel that we are too preqiosa in the federal tiara (not f'or oreja' ment, but for plundermg ues) to lightly' parted with. Ka ,"i si that a prosperous independern'woiTe enure to the injury of the 'ifede. cy, and that the peaceable seie of A sovereign State isas imPractiC. ble and as unreasonable as 'ti' *laii tary separation of a slave fo . mastet If these things, fellow citizen, so,'ean you give a stronger defini of a despotic government, than a tional majority to tax, to plidn and oppres- and a free soil ion . eracy to enforce them'? - Most evi have some mitigation, and it i dom that a rule can be establishA4 (however stern or exacting)t,-atA does not work some correspondin advantages. In submitting to endit the oppression of the government,,, might at least as reasonably hope t enjoy its protection. - But while itse aggressing, it tolerates, -nay it ptW tects, our eastern confederates, - io only iii their legal and legilati#* robbery of our property, but inlm punity against our reprisals. Yei let a Southern State enact a li*d retaliation against Vermont and Oik and we would readily experience how* soon the arm of this governib would be extended to avert :it. We have all wondered,- perbp how a spirited people in the 1 century,- in the midst of ortssetete., and letters, could have .endurn'be4 tyranny of an unadjudicated doodif the bastile, or the unanswerab1& e potism of a "lettre de catd ' t are our political relatrns Wia6 i a n.melioratel, eithr i1L, featare o extorted acknowledgeruent. Qf celebrated Mr. Burke, in the Bwiia Parliament, "that he knew noit hi r to draw up a bill of indictment'againis a State. or a whole people"..'tbat "there were no terms in law ith which he was acquainted, for. suc1i process." But Americaningenuity it seems, has discovered a mofagnb. mary mode of enforcing, if -nd*i4 korA subtle manner to evade, the fonas Ot criminal jurisprudence. -The 'ca* non's mouth, it seems, is to oxncm'd the constitution, the sword is a9 raign, the fortress is to be tbhtttibie nal, and a mercenary soldiery th6 jury to render in the verdict; fo resistance to federal aggressions. In this grave aud truthful ase of our wrougs and our humiliio what are our duties, our obligatioo', and our resources? Shall we 'suco cumb, ingloriously crouch and1Mi@ cumnb, without a hope and withod. a struggle? Shall we think to appSt the appetite of a wolf for gos bf tendering it a sop of our :blol? Why, it will but "grow on the thih~g it feeds on." Do we think to ~if the miser's avarice, or the fanatc lust, by compounding rights 'ha principles for forbearance! Oiur his tory furnishes the most conclusiy# reply. We have borne the oxadionsA of their protective duties oji A~io come in all humility, and ine tlohpa of enjoying'our domestic..in5tit lbn5 in peace; and now they oir demand that we shall rendo:. at~ very capital itself, by the t~ bt iwhich we have alone been ~nb~ to pay thosduty. Haippily for u, the g eilt$ehtn which has given a woil-id1vidit~ht and renown to the, day .bihg WM' have thus assembled to elebrate 1S before us to imitater aa we. a* td commemorate. The p La~bte the future; and the iy ltntt patriotism which, -wofer inf NIn plating the one hevald; the lend the energy With ~dhw63re pre pared to participatQ in.9 Ah ry, l~ionanexil.n-wnoriesof an~ epiocb ik'ethis~i piian' tioluig. ' in the. ferr of itsi tilioi reool lectipns, no iiih casnJb t festliies,'Ai 'htn dan ! ~i of' hiasanaore .& QQterutapes over oppression, withoudan5tzthng, like Esaugwith shame an ii~ a tion, to his lost inherj D i .ot~ did-I a? I trustn $6t1t too lohg and too febbrly tiegtpetedl had destined sootntQ tQgiht4d ti df . bi'igliter nb Ih p e