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dam, A % 9 * -j DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY, NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND T . FIANCIS, Proprietor. our Satf2r Jaua." VOL. V. SUMTERVILLE, S. C. JULY2919 is Twa Dollars in advance, Two Dollars and Fifty-cents at the exiration of six months, or Three Dollars at the end of the year.. No paper discontinued until all arreara ges are paid, unless at the option of the Proprietor. IMrAdvertisements inserted at 75 ete. per square, (12 lines or less,) for the first and half that suin for each subsequent insertion. M7The number of insertions to be mark. ed on all Advertisements or they will be published until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. ITOne Dollar per square for a single insertion. Quarterly and Monthly Adver tis;oments will be charged the same as a single neertion, and semi-monthly the same as new ones. - All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recommending Candidates for public offices or trust--or puffing Exhibitions, will be charged as Advertisements. c7Rev. FnEDEmRcK RusH, is a travelling Agent for this paper, and is authorized to receive subscriptions and receipt for tWe same. ORATION, Delivered in Clarendon on the 4th of July, 1851, by JouN P. Rtcii ARDSON, JR. 1blished by request. BRADJIAMS, July 4th, 1851. John P. Richardaon,jfr., esq. Sra: We have been appointed a committee to request of you, for pub lication, a eopy of the eloquent Ora tion which you have just delivered. Allow us to express the personal gratification which your compliance would afford us. Very respectfully, & C., L. F. RUAMLB, C. R. F. BAKER, Committee. J. MCCAuLEY, BRADIA S, July 4th, 1851. To Mhesrs. Rhame, Baker, and Mc Cauley. Gentlemen : Reluctant as I was to havequdertakcen tho duties of an oc easidig.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-citizens of Clarendon. If it can in any manner, however, serve to evinec thie patriotic feeling with which 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 wishes, have accomplished the object of its mission. Very respectfully, &c., Jons P. Rrcumanson, 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 andl speculations on the future. We may not evoke the shade of departed events without contemplating~ both their actual and prospective inf""n ces, and the changes which they have wrought arnd are still operating on fthe human destiny. On no recur -rence of this day, consecrated as it .has been to national reminiscences, .a reflections of this kind calculated to assume a deeper interest or a more ,solemn import. Whether in retros pect or prospectv-whether on the threshold of newv events or in the in ~t'ative of the future, or only in the wake of preceding causes- whether, in short, it be the past, the pres ant, or the anticipated-there are materials enough in the topics they suggest for thought and anxiety, a3 yell as for exultation. Little more than half a century has alapsed since the political world hats broken, as it were, its leaden cere ments of despotism. Little more than this short cycle of time has transpi.'ed, when loyaJhy was the only politicai virtue, bigotry the only test of religion, and right accessible alone through treason and rebellion. When the quivering bowels otf the slave warmeod the tect of his tyrant lord, when the bastilo was a living tomb for aul violated allegiance; and when, as now, the law rules the prince as well iks the subject. protects the governed as well as empowers the governor, and asserta a majesty a high abovc 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 aotually comprised. That all this should exclusively be the work of a few doomed and perse cuted men, who, under the denuncia tions of an angry sovereign and a powerful empire, 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 undimtmed a- the becatombs of martyred and i -yring 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 inoral or historical experience to anticipate. Nor is this all. We have been placed, by the events of this day, as high on a pedestal of moral as of po litical intelligence. Who ever heard previous to its development, of a tol erated and harmonized religion in the midst of evangelical enthusiasm ? fi party strifes to preserve, and not to destroy, the constitution ? Wlo es timates virtuous heroism, military re nown, and an ennobling patriotism, but by the standard of Washington ? Who does not glile throigh the !oni, lapse of ages between Pericles aiad Jefferson, to'luuk for high examples of consuminate statesmanship l - W was gallantry in. tha in Sumter, or a Fa..i izm wis Lon better dlispilayed than ;o \J t - Diviid slow his giant a vcrsary nalm a sling; tihe RI tnan Consiul.s nolde son f, ught and can' uerred the Ce m 's champion inl single combat. But wlienti we search history for amples of pexrso xploits tihey fmt!. into tho, ,.-du iments of comnmenI life, in - .- jiSn with the energetic daring i )ur own Manning-grap pling a British major at heal of his column, and iarehinig with him through the hottest of the action to the American lines. lit to the arts, the sciences, and to lite-ature, have we not given an impulse and an epoch, quite as mem orable as the moral and political phenomena to which we have alluded? Could steam, for instance, have ex panided its distance annihilatimg inmfuu ence under the iron pressure of en slaving lan-s and institutions? Could the fettered mind have exteled its investigations to such vast far-reach ing results ? Could the lightning winged telegraph have sped its noise less and trackless way thrmo2h the thick gloom of ai despotic age? Could thought have been frece to investigate , the miind elated to so.ar, the limbds un shackled to roam or to t'jil, connnere have penetrated its remote recesses, and man himself nerved to deedis of emprise and of daring, ini the hoary age of a feudal imhecility, or under the ponderous tr-appjings of an abso lnte government? No, it was reser v ed to our age to achieve them, to our revolution to inspire and awaken them, andm to the genius anid the vir tue of our ancestors to conceive anid to kindle the lamp of this world-regen crating intelligence. The cost and sacrifices of greamt and heroic actions are, however-, but too apt to bo overlooked in the eon templation of their magnificent r sults. lDazzled by their splendor-, animnated by their glory, men forget the dilliculties, the endurmance', the contunmely, and the privaitions, through which they are acconjplished and feel as if they coubml asir-e to emulate the heroes of their ownad miration. Impedituenits to success, doubtless, constitute the highest mner it in attaining it. The fortitude that regista danger, the firmness that with stands tempmtationm, thme soul-subduing patience that wears away opposition, the self-sacrificing martyrdom to prin ciple, are the elemenuts by which alone the character of all great achievemcnts is truly to be estimated. In this aspect of our revolution, it looms through all time as the noblest triumph of human dlaring and virtue. Deliberating through nmartyrdom, connuering throuIgh defat nnon 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 inin(s-contending with the time rooted loyalty of the age-the long and fondly-cherished allegiance of the -Aunies- the terrors of a mighty throne-the liberal favors of a patri archal government- the ignominy of a traitor's death-divisions A'ithini, and a nation's and a monaT's Yen geance without. In the estimate of the difficulties and of the merit ofthe sacrifice, these things perhaps are too often f::-got Cn. It would be well for us, in iew of the dhties and obligationa -h Tapre-qsion has devolved uoln those L..) (if oit- day anld g-utration, to i call them, both for vxawjl and in hIn ;o insubordinate spirit of provoked the ire of the i IaU:1 Governmuent, its first Measure - retaliation was to abolish its privi ueges as a "port of entry." Public elamor cried aloud against the men and the counsels that had brought this exclusion upon them; and llan 'oek and Adamis had to endure the execration of an enraged commercial conmunity, stimulated by an avidity ror gain, and for a time overshadow ig them with the indignation of a ilismayed and terrified constituencv. 1lad they taken counsel of fear or- i'n terest, where now would have been Lthat dearly-cherished cominerce, that metr-opolitant pr-'s1erity, thIose hi ghi attaimiilents in letters and the arts, which have long since made Boston the Athens of the Western hemis 1here. When, for the purpose of conciliation, a general pardor. and amnestv was i-oclaimed to all who had beeni engaged in the late popu'i at- tumults of the dlay, I lancock and A dams wereC especiahlly excepted, and leclar-ed to be reserved as examples f r-oyal yengceance and retribution. Poputlar- coufid-ece for a time forsook elike timid bir-ds fr-ayedl away by thle stor-m; antd when elected to the Conugress wh iich passed the D~eelara tion oft Independmec, they could min hut two hiundredl of their fellow eitizenis bold enough to vote for them as their representtat ives. Tfheir- after liv-es arec the strongest comnmetary I could offer- you ont the fact. The o'ne became the distingishdPei lent of the fir-st C'on gress, the other the friend an-i successot- of WYashiing ton. So hope-less seemed the etter prse so powet-ful the oppIositionl, so perilous and deterr-itng the prospect, that when Chatrles Carr-oil, otte of lhe weal tiest men of A mer-ica. ap) procached to sign the D)eclaramtion of' Ind epetn lenc-e, all e xclaitmed, in tutter :uinzetment, "here goes a milIliotn,"' cast ttpon ax losing die, and for-feited to the crown. Nay, all that has deterred us frotm the assertion of our i ights undetr sin ilrx circumtstances of oppression, was mt-ged thten with teni titmes the force, anid infinitely mor-e tiruth arid appli cation. It was saidl thtat the pro vitnces wet-e weak, that they were divided, thtat the time had not yet ar rived lor- action, that Uiritishx powver wvould overwhehnm opposition', that the colonies wero not united, that no co operation htad been lpledFCed or prof fered, and that our inuependence, ed in a state of separation from the British crown. In all these we doubtless recognise the familiar and identical objections of our own day, and surely wo can point you to no higher evidence than the past to realize or to contmvert then. 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 the chil ling influence of timid and distracting counsels like these in repelling inju. ries and averting aggressions of ten. Fold the magnitude and outragO of theirs. What, then umst have been the stern virture of those men -contend ing with foes within, a b''st -ithiout, few, persecuted, divided, :i.d pro scribed--against remonstra.e' men aces, rabble fears, and er. un sels, who, for principle, i -in abstrct principle, only to evade n in infi cant tax,) stirred up all e '*lements of national strife, invoked tie storms of war, and stood unseathed, unterri fied, and undismayed amidst its rage and its desolation' Posterily would do but imperfect justice to their mo( tives ,we should render bat a mis erb!e homage to the heiroism of those who achieved our national iidepend. ence--were we to supposo that it was the result of unaniiot co'sis.k of popular deliberation, o- Ii:ony and concert of action. N.; it %%:s the few, the wise and nioble fevw, who were in the Va.1n of tie -> then, like South Carolina In -v. 'fh like our Calhouns, our .\c Dfli . and DtiiEihnores, leading, instead of be ing led by popular entinsiaa9n. NTay, wien the battle of Lexington was fioght. Gcorgia ;%as not there--as she is not here now. Even South Ca;olwi Was then i eposipg i i prabw - peace, a ch.-iV d -n rd a [lostered fa% ie u ti ~ lap of a foid at.l indulgent parent Inuitry. When aroused from het flumbers by the verber:-tions of the battle's roar, it was iot to dclibeate, but to act; it was not to prca'se by ulnidssion a selfish exciusion from the horrors of war, but to rush in the Full tide of her Ame'trican syinpathies to share in the dangers of tile contest. Nor was she, too, w itt her own lomestic diss.'nsionis. While she 6vas battling with a foreign foe at, Fort Moultrie, Eutaw, and Camiden, Indl winninig laurels fromn 'uriope's bravest soldiers, her IEiehardsons, her Sunters and her Wrions were ilike contending for harkd earied Vie tories over the bloodI v ratvalits -f the listriet of 9 and the inIailnitable Itov ilty of the interior. Much may be said to excuse the treasonable o1 gsiii, I: f ! ie 'elt n1o wron., wi. s princile tivolved inl the cinte. knew no Iliegiauice Save that t ity, w ho hadI experieuicedh tihe f. the mil. nores ad bieline - lirFits h 1 Ltronage andI ellicienit I' eetion, a'ii wheoni religion itselfI, as lla re (ji lice and educa:ti';n, had tught 'to love, to revere, and. t. , rtn as a )ccalsion like Us, . ! 1 wihed undler thc ()pp:, die it- o al ave seen andi ac'knowle~ 'i' a'res mlon and the dangt2el V t emst blind have seent, m a. a paien h ave exelanimedl, th n mt.s~t hope ifu:l have d espai retd, andi the tost f'urt bearing have grown r'stless;' wthen his governmlet, ubi 'i re done 1'o mnuch tocL etbish-d~ . a~ n have iaasl beOme~'i~ a (seci ' opl'ism, a hose intiUt utl'ins 'are eve \te 1w t t ering to thI ill, 1:1 we ni Rot e'x. teet f Sothl Cad i,'.h an 111 even of' hie South, a noimity~;ii of coeunsel, in I energy otf act';u, a v*ig 'r otf pire paraitionh, suchI a~ ii IeOple ever' he le-- and no cau;se c~i. oul moe ju stly orsus vailiua - n. :1f- the mio iyes aid in 'I- to defenid rightsi ant In pri the veryv ii tiative of their 1 ; m W, it gci ves its 10 less illhistrii, : inplh s o th hi u e r"ie en ~tluranceL ih which they may be triumphantly maintained. A tentless army; an unarmedi, uneloth ed, unshod, and1 unfedl soldiery; emp tv coffers and an imnpoverishied no-. pie; officers without experience or renown; treason within, traitors with out, and invasion around; the house hold no protection, neutrality no refuge, the farm deserted and devas. tated, and the security of the camp to be purchased only by privation, harassments, wearisome marches, and 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 beaten, but never conquered; in strategy often foiled, but neverthe less victorious. If we assaulted, it was, perhaps, to be repelled; and vet 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 toil, and suffering; but with infinitely more limited means and inadequate preparation either to aelive or encounter it. And would not one tithe of this hold. 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 tors, even to the tenth degree of their gallant bearing? Are our institutions more worthless than a pound uf tea? Is our State unwor thy of the sa" ifice? Or were we huled, or didN- but perpetrate the 114 erY of a crujett. when we pro I'd o the world the immiinence (it their danger, and the deliberate. ness cf our purpose to defend them 'at all hazard and to every extremni. ty'd Out of the blood, the toil, and the treasure of the States has our indc pendence been achieved, and our Government been erected. Wo took it a puling and new-born babe-it has grown up into a vigorous man hool. We cherished it a rickety child-it has become a chamnpion, a monarel, a master, and a tyrat. We protvcted its infancy through all the storms of war--its cradle was rocked by the dying struggles of pa. Lri.ts--its infancy sustained by the generous blued of sovereign States, until, spurning the lap that nurtured it, it rose like a young iHercules from his swaddling clothes, to strangle its nur.se and1. to perpetrate parricide. We took it a coldl and senseless asp to our bosom, until, animated by its warmith, it has stung--nay, it has poisoned anal corrupted the generous heart that nestled it. 'We planted it a ustard (the least of all') seed, and~ watered it with our* bloodl and our Llaffetions, nntil it ha' grown to a great herb, anid the unclean hirds of' thme air have lodged( and broo-led and nestledi therein.' We established it for our general and political welfare, buit it has usuirpecd a domestic and spiritual dominion, and claims to poes the right, as wvell as feel the ob ligat ionl, oaf exputrgat ing us of the sinm orslavery'. It camue a stranger --poorI, and hungry, and naked, seekinmg our aid arnd hospitality; but when warmied bay our firesidles, cloth L'd by our bounty, and strengthened by our gaoodI cheer, it demidled the ust, monopolized the hearthstone, iniwdour servtants, ad approp!ri dour pr'opertyv. It approached ma with the mock humility of the batchiet in the fiale, which besought af the wo'd a little stick, (but a little a:ick it askedl,) to mnake for itself a elve, as its sharp edlge woumldl other wiise he useless. S, mnodest a me wtanal s., small a favor, the arest thoughmt it would he unreasonia ale not to COmlhy with. IBut nio oaaner was thme hatchet armed with its nuaalle', than' the treos began to fall, le forest disappearedl, the shade was omce'ded by the sdmnshne, the plouglmhhare upiroatedi the bosom of he earth, and the fruits of the soil oaak thie lace of nature's primeval alaniitinig. And thus it is, fellow-citizens, that wve now stand related to this found ing; of State cbarity--this being of mir creation-this unnatural monster four own earo and nursing. We have suppot ted it in three perilous wars with our bl6od and. with our treasure-we have mede it e'lb 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 it 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 fltgacy, corruption and extrAvagance, 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 slavemeist 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, whlile 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 hideous micn, As to k hatedi, nweds but to be seen; nitt seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Is it not well to pauso in this pro cliyity to the. consummation of our ruin? T 's it not well to cousider tho.' peril of submission, or acquiescence in wrongs and exactions like these? Is it not well to reflect (even in its worse aspect) whether we should bear the intolerable ills we have, or rT.lutely rush to end them? How stands the matter between us and this confederacy? What are our relations, what are our rights; what are our duties and what is our re dress? For the purposes 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 they acceded to it then. To guard against constructive power, it specifically stated that all powers not grantted in the Constitution were reserved to the States. The government, therefore, can possess or exercise no power which it has not derived fromi that compact; and is, by the 'reservation of all other powecrs to the States,' as expressly prohibited, as it would seem, from substituting its own construction of the constitution for the constitution its~elf. Uut how comnports its practice with these clear and obvious restric tion~s on its authority? Why, when we claim the interposition of the con stituition algainist the operation of bounty and protective laws, we are constructively pointed to the caption of an act under the acknowledged guise of a revenue system. W~hen we appecal from this self-constituted dlecision, the army and the navy of the Union are invoked to be the-stern arb.iters andt interpreters of constitua tional law--whsen to every eye and to every understanding the govern ment has abandoned itself and all its great political behests, to the direc tion of a fanatical and freesoil party -when that party has avowed its olh. ligation and its purp:ose to extirpate the national sin of slavery has been excluded, and the slave trade 'has been .tholished, in the common do miain of the North and South, when we have been divested of our territo ries, when our institutions are tht'eat ented to bo swept awvafyby th . irre sistible torrent ofT a universal s irit of emancipation, andt when its view of these wrongs andi petils, and after' having exhausted every other expedi ent, we ask to retire from the' con federacy, (leaving all these aequlsi tions which we -had contribut.d us much as any other, to obtsag~o m. uro to thoe benefit dW'ih Unin) it nay best be proinotid,- r that it chnhot be. -Afe at rin that seceAion We 'revolutz'oh, 'We ir assured the Union inuti.6 r e ed, even by blood, we are' feel that we are too preqidiis a in the federal tiara (not 'for ka ment, but for plundering use) t l * lightly. parted with , Ot is that a prosperous independengeii'o enure to the injury of the confederi. cy, and that the peaceable sedskiot of **ove-eign State is as imyractica ble and as unreasonable as il tary separation of a slavo *oriA - master! If these things, fellow citizens 1 so, 'an you give a stronger definitid of a despotic government, than a tional majority to tax,. to plunde. and oppress-- and a free soil toi - eracy to enforce them? Miost -VIVi have some mitigation, and it-is'o dom that a rule can be establishid (however stern or exacting) thAi does not work some vorrespond'rig urdvantages. In submitting to endot* the oppression of the-government,4 might at least as reasonably hope4 enjoy its protection. . But while itA6 aggressing, it tolerates, nay it, plM. tects, our eastern confederates,,- ho only in their legal and legi* ptite robbery of our property, but in punity against our reprisals. -'Yei let a Southern State enact a kwf retaliation against Vermont anud Obiol and we would readily experience how soon the arm of this goverbni'eht would be extended to avert .it. We have all wondered, pe h p how a spirited people in the. 18th century,-in the'midst of arts,soiehew, and letters, could have enduied th tyranny of an unadjudicated doo ltVA the bastile, or *the unanswerabliefr potism of a "lettre de cat Afi are our political relations t C ion .aeliorated, eitht r in feataie of, extorted acknowledgerent of celebrated Mr.-Burke, in he Bl Parliament, "that he know 6o o0% to draw up a bill of indictment'agins a State or a whole peoploe"-4ht "there were no terms in law- ith which he was acquainted, for asU'iA process."' But American ingenuit it seems, has discovered a moOem mary mode of enforcing, ifnog:o subtle manner to eiade, the fos o criminal jurisprudence. The -J non's mouth, it seems, is to exou the constitution, the sword li to h raign, the fortress is to be th- trib4t nal, and a mercenary soldiery h6 jury to render in the verdiot, fog resistance to federal aggressions'. In this grave aud truthful aspe' o our wrongs and our humtitio what are our duties, our obligationsb and our resources? Shalla we1u6 cumb, ingloriously crouch and -.0t. cumb, without a hope and iithiou,0 a struggle? Shall we think to appqg6 the appetite of a wlf for go tendering it a sop of our abfooi Why3, it will but "grow on the tblhg it feeds on." Do we think to p~' the miser's avarice, or the fanat lust, by compounding riglits ahtd principles for forbearancel Oiur his tory furnishes the most coeiaW . reply. We have borne th6 bxactions of their protective duties&#,igja come in all humility, and in tbeitpe of enjoying our domeatic :ititit mn peace; and now they troh~ demand that we shall renderpta very capital itself, by the tie bf which we have alon~ bedanbW4t pay the duty. H fappily "forus, t1ieog'e'aid{,t which lhas given a world-wideIntieI and' renown to the daya intk have thuis assemblotd to celebraI, is before us to 'imitate~nle. as to commemorate. TFhe pas polate the fhture; and the verg~ietid patriotisin vibtoh we feel iil? Eit. plating tho on~;e ag tlie spiri and the ensergy whth i b'iih a7 re pre pared to participate inthch. No ':o -an exIditin ta doriekof an oj'oth Iilkbhis1ha mhnean2 hlulge in th6. f'or of its atletiorious reeol itiis, anof hips atneatora ,ni obef c u itnphs over oppression, withoute rtiting, like Esauwith ehamet$ ldiE a tion, to his lost inhotit "~ Lout, did-I say? I trust 600 ~ f lt too long -and tod I'ovbesringltiegtectedt had destined soon t* ttied un & Segtraa o ren