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LIBERTY. ...THE CONSTITUTION. ...UNION. v voi XVII, XEWBERN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1833. J 852. PUBLISHED jjy THOMAS -WATSON. TERMS, Three dollars per annum, payable in advance. SOUTH CAROLINA. AT SLAB TOWN, respectable assemblage, of about 1500 persons, including ladies, met at an earl v hour. The CELEBRATION rprv large and vcra companies of militia, were drilled by thcir officers, and a number of evolutions gone hrouijh. At one o'clock, all present partook of a barbacue prepared for the occasion. A separate table, neatly arranged, was set for the ladies, in the grove, near to that on which the ricats, &c. were placed for the men. General Tohn B. Earle presided at the table, assisted by Francis Burt, Sen, Col. Davie K. Hamilton, and Dr. O. R. Brovles as Vice Presidents. TOASTS. The memory of Thomas Jefferson, the apos tle of liberty. He has left us a lesson on re cord which we mean to practise. Thp Congress of 17 5. The first conven tion held in North America for the purpose of nullifving usurpation. The State of South Carolina. She has ar rive! at the age of discretion, she needs no of ficious Yankee guardian to direct the applica tion of her labor or capital; she is capable of managing her own business, and chooses to do it in her own way. 'i Nullification. It is asked what we have rained by it. Let the answer be found in the fact, that the same Congress which, before its enactment, refused, contemptuously, to. admi that no duty should exceed 100 per cent., con sented afterwards that all dutieXshould be re duced to 20 per cent. The memory of Robt. J. Turnbull. While the rights of man have advocates, the Carolina Brutus will be remembered. Bv the Committee of Arrangements. Wrar rcn'R. Davis' Our distinguished member of Congress -he neglects his own business to at temf to ours, and that he does with a master's han.l his district will not be ungrateful. Here Mr. Davis rose and delivered an ad dress to the meeting. After Mr. Davis had concluded, he was railed upo!Tb4 the President of the day for a sentiment. Hp again rose, and after some re marks on the re ciprocal dutiesof protection on the part of a good government, and allegiance on the part of a good citizen, alluded in strong terms to the course of the federal administra tion in its removals and appointments to office exclusively on party principles, down to the pettiest postmaster, with the double object, doubtless, of patronage and espionage, and de clared his opinion, that the State should coun teract these effects to corrupt the patriotism and impair the obligation of the allegiance of our citizens to their own government and State, bv adopting and enforcing the oath proposed in the Convention. He said he made no whin ing complaint for the party to which he be longed, on account of their exclusion from of fice by the rule adopted by the administration. Ear from it. He only claimed the right, on the part of the State, to meet them in the same way use the same weapons and to give back, as the isailors say, "gun for gun." He then cave The proposed oath of, allegiance to South Carolina. Those who inter d to be faithful, will take it; those who do not, need not. VOLUNTEERS By Dr. O. R. Broyles. The entire sove reignty of the States whenever the south yields this sacred principle, their act will have surpassed the baseness of the oriental in his adulation and obsequiousness to power, and the i ,1 .1 -W! 1 1 1 1 , example oi ine. unwormv n.sau wno soia nis birth-right for a mess of pottage. By J. L. McCann. The Hon. John C. Cal houn. The bright luminary of the world; the combination of tyrants and intriguers will never quench the flame of liberty so ably and un answerably Sustained by him. By Major Burt. The slave question. We of the south feed, clothe, and pay the doc tor for attending our slaves. Let the north do as much for their white slaves as we do for our black ones, and thev will be well employed. By William M'Murry. Calhoun, Havne, Hamilton, Davis, and charge the duties of President, as he has hereto fore been to please Martin Van Buren. Ly Captain Bryant. The comet and the Proclamation, Fell enemies of our system : But with Crockett and nullification, Thank the Lord, we can resist them. By Saxon Anderson. John C. Calhoun: The able advocate of the Jeffersonian doctrines of '98, and foremost to oppose the unconstitu tional usurpation of the monopolists and the American system. By Wilson Vermillion. May the rights and liberties of the south be quickly obtained, by the strength of her people, and the justice of her cause By D. Russel. The State of South Carolina : The bright and morning star; the front in war, the front in peace ; may she be front and rear in dicing a grave, and burying the coloniza- Hon question so deep, mat i anK.ee interest never can grapple it out. By William -Erskine. The bloody bill, or force bill. I hope the time is not far distant, when it will take one of Sam Patch's jumps, and land in oblivion. Fort Hill 16 June, 1833. Gentlemen :-I have been honored with your note of the 1st instant, inviting me in the name of a large .lumber of citizens in the vicinity of Slab Town, to partake of a barbacue at thai place on the 4th of July next. 1 regret that my probable absence from the dis trict at that time, compels me to decline the in vitation: For the kind terms in which you have com municated the invitation, you will please ac cept, individually, my sincere acknowledg ments. Of all earthly blessings, I place liberty in the first rank, and, of course, consider the obliga tion to defend and preserve it, as the most sa cred of our civil and social duties. In the pursuit of the course which has met with your approbation, I but acted in obedience to the dictates of this sacred duty. 1 believe the pub lic liberty to be in imminent danger, The pro clamation and message of President Jackson, and the passage of the Force Bill at the last session, have laid the axe at the root of liberty. The principles on which they rest are utterly inconsistent with the principles of the Consti tution ; and under their action, unless the peo ple should rouse from their lethargy and put them down, our government will soon become as despotic as any on earth. Whether, then, we are to be a free people, must depend on the fact, whether these glaring and dangerous acts of usurpation on the part of the Federal Gov ernment, are acquiesced in or not. If experience should prove that the people and the States have not sufficient intelligence to see their dangerous character, or seeing it, not sufficient spirit to resist, our case will be hopeless. . As to myself, believing all that we hold most dear to be at stake, I have willingly sur rendered all personal considerations to oppose the approach of corruption and despotism. 1 know not that it will be of any avail. It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals, to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves ; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism. May that kind Providence, which has so long protected our country, watch over us in this great and dangerous crisis, and so enlighten the people, and inspire their hearts with the love of their liberty and country, that they may cleaily see the danger, and put down effectually and for ever, the present and all future attempts on their men and better trustees of that freedom which in her defence in invincible armor, brandishing has been confided to our care. his burnished lance in the light of heaven, and But if, on the other hand, we set up false reflecting high in its bright concave the beams idols and worship in a stupid spirit of bigotry, . that glistened on its polished shaft. It was thus wie inert; cmgy lor me divinity itselt, if, under accoutred that he Dublicklv stood forth before Union, the substantial essence of the wnrM thp ehnmninn of the liberties of hi . 1 the name of iiuuny is 10 oe iusi sigm 01, ana tne very term itself is to be employed, not only as a cloak for fraud, violence, and injustice, but for the bas est servility and man worship, we shall have learnt as little from our fathers as from the au gust moral which the day itself teaches, and country. It will be the more pleasing, if less useful province of the faithful biographer likewise to bring us in closer communication with the thou sand virtues which endeared him to those who, 1 - Knowing him best, invariably loved him most. find that we have approached not much nearer To reveal to us his gushing sensibility, his in in our auorauon 01 tne real objects ot the Uni- bred tenderness of heart, his romantic devo on, than the Egyptian did his God, in worship-. tion to the duties and ffices of friendship, his ping a crockodile. j parental kindness to his slaves and dependants, Since our last anniversary, our State has whom he seemed from the very humbleness of passed through a severe trial." I thank God she their allotment, to regard as his children and uiu not iauer. 11 our victorvis not as coniDJete wunai 11 tne lambent hpam f tk evening Let us then offer a libation to his spirit. I give VOU- as we would have desired, or as the. justice ot our cause would have justified, we ha ve not, at least ourselves to reproach. It is enough that substantial interests were secured, and, amidst almost unexampled difficulties, the noint of; The memory ofJohn Randolnh of ttr,! J y j - - - 1 - x -iX honor was preserved, by the single and un- j In guarding the ashes of her highly gifted son, assisted efforts ol our party. If we had been j let Virginia remember his propheticwarnings, united at home, and if, after South Carolina and be prepared to stand, where he always had avowed, in the face of the world, her ulti- stood, in the trench of the third parallel, "in matum, all her children had gathered around ! defence of the constitution and the liberty of liberty. The very fair of the SouthA-"wo - man, lovely woman" the bane and antidote to man, have their fancies worked up to the key oi" madness. Casting aside all the shrink ing modesty of the sex, we see theim hurrying to the Fourth of July banquet in droves; ta king their station amidst the corase scenes of revelry; and realizing in this country a sort of parallel to the tournaments of Europe during the dark ages. With such to cheer them and back them, what men would not rush to the field of battle with as much alacrity as thev would to a banquet ! How much more the nulhhers, who are sensitive to the slightest impressions, and catch fire as readily as a box of tinder or cask of gun powder ! 1 From these and other indication r t. - w A KM I,' J IA 1 I I arolina and Virginia, wc arc perfectly satisfi ed that a deep and dangerous lightning can be caught the wit which sparkled concocted to blow this Union to atoms. Ar- m never enaing flashes trom his lips. rangements have been and are making t her in filial obedience and devotion. Lacede v.w--7 mon, at no period of the history of Greece, would have presented a more trumphantly glo rious attitude, than this state would have done, small as she is in population and territorial ex tent. We should have had, not a bill of com promise, but a bill of plenary repeal and pacifi cation. The intestine dissentions which prevented such a consummation are to be deeply lament ed. But do not let us despond. Let us hold fast to the faith that is in us. Let us' pause, gather strength, abstain from any unnecessary agitation of the public mind, keep our lamps burning, and our ranks firm and unbroken. The eternal truths which lie at the foundation of our principles, must go on waxing stronger and stronger, until these plantation states shall exhibit to the world the seemingly extraordi nary paradox which antiquity has before re vealed, that slaveholders themselves are the most vigilant guardians of the civil and political lib erties of their country. Depend upon it, the day is not far distant,; when all our resources must be brought again into action. Our anta gonist " is scotched, not killed." Whilst we thus guard the sanctuary of our principles, let us always remember, with grate ful affection, when the hand -of death comes among us, who have worshipped. at our altars. The iavelin of the destroyer has brought down his country. Iremain, gentlemen, With sincere respect, Your friend and fellow citizen, JAS. HAMILTON, Jr. To George Rankin, Esq. and other members of the committee. rights. With great respect, I am, &e. JOHN C. CALHOUN. To George Rankin, Esq. And other members of the Committee. Pendleton, July 4, 1S32. xjentlemen : i cnerishea tne nope until a late hour this morning, that my health would permit my being with you to-day, and that might, in person return you my sincere thanks tor the very flattering and friendly invitation you have given me to unite with a large and respectable numper of citizens of Anderson, in the celebration of the Anniversary of the Ame rican Independence ; but being compelled to leave this for Charleston in the course of two Or three daS. I rln not rlnnm i rmrtrnf in nnt st.nrs in nnmnli.ilk xx.' 1 , "V ,u,na.C8lcl.tC iu any previous inai oy III Un uL " .pre, men to wnom judicious fatigue or exposure. I am, therefore constrained to express my great regret that I am unabie to accept an invitation thus kindly tendered. It might, under ordinary circum stances, be proper to conclude this communica honor is due. By C. Orr. The application of the force bill to the free people of South Carolina, will line its borders with the bones of thousands of the subservient tools of an ambitious dema gogue. By William Clanahan. The Hon. John C. Calhoun A warm advocate for state rights: is incessant vigilance against usurpation and oppression, bespeaks the sincerity of his heart, and entitles him to the gratitu. e of every re publican. By Samuel Millwce. Wilkins's Bill May the first fiery darts that may be hurled against the sovereignty of the States'rebound on its sup porters. By Wm. Hunter. Gen. Duff Green The able and zealous advocate of the rights of the States; may he expose to full view the evil ma chinations and servitude of of the subservients f his Majesty Andrew I. By Benjamin Barton, Esq. The servility of Andrew Jackson and the intrigue of Martin Yan Buren tends to consolidation or uncondi ''ytial submission ; but what freeman who val 's liberty, that would not rather die the death of the free and the brave, than submit to :he hands of a tyrant, or the bonds of a slave? oy William Mullikin. The Proclamation of sident Jackson, and the passage of the war dl, proves that our liberties are in imminent anger; therefore, you that would be free atch. J viAy John Brewcr Andrew Jackson; May c3 a3 zealous for the time to ccmc,todis- THE SOUTH NULLIFICATION. We have inserted in another column the pro ceedings of a F&urth of July Celebration which was held at Slab-Town, in South Carolina, near the residence of John C. Calhoun, the ex-Vice President of the United States, and now chief man of the party in the south, who seek to overturn the government and destroy the union of the stales. In a variety of aspects these proceedings are momentous to the free people of this yet hap py country. When Mr. Clay abandoned all his former professions and principles, and found himself compelled to adopt the concilia ting policy of Andrew Jackson in relation to the tariff, he announced his compromise as a peace offering, that would be satisfactory to the discontented spirits of the south, and re- store harmony to a distracted country. Mr. Calhoun and his associates made the same as surances and the like pledges. The bill pas sed. Where now is the realization of all those uiiy iii in ill r; tuaivinr 10 ex tend its ramifications fto the North, and one of the most remarkable; indications was a toast drunk to John C. Calhoun, as the Jefferson of the age, by a Mr. Snyder, at Doylestown, in this State. John C. Calhoun and the nullificrs are again in the field, with more prudent plans, increased experience, and determined hearts fo prostrate the general government to thcir am bition, or prostrate the union of the states should they fail. Let the whole country look to it. Pennsylvanian. a fnni hnnnc: nnrl nnfipiiintinns inrlnlnrrwl nr fhr to the cold chambers of death, within the short iwhnp nnnilint:nn nfihP north an,l wnt ? finnP space of a few weeks two of our strong men. ; tn th tomh of the Cannlets." F.verv nled I1UUJ) a L UJ U11ICII L, V V LllUllI 1 1 U I L spared. Of him, who has found his last resting place within the bosom of his and our own mo ther land, I shall not now speak. ' This proud, yet painful office, will devolve upon me else where and at another time. But of him, whose grave is now turned to the last rays of that set ting sun, " whose broad disk" he is never des tined again to sec, burnishing in its declining bsams, " the blue hills of his own Virginia," I desire, in the fullness of my heart, to say one word. is broken. 1 he very men who were first to make the pledges, have boldly come forward and broken them in a thousand pieces. This, we presume, is another instance of the wisdom, the foresight, the lofty statesman ship of Henry Clay. Be it so. But the proceedings of this celebration arc portentous in another aspect. We desire our readers to peruse carefully the letters of J. C.Calhoun, James Hamilton, and the ac companying toasts. Not a principle, not a pur- nosp. not. n pp intr flint, evor was ent.ertaineil John Randolph has left us at a moment when , by thcse nren dangerous to the integrity of the i union, is given up or even explained away. Having escaped from their own dangerous iso lated position of last year, they now assume he was prepared to have served us most. If God had seen fit to have permitted him to have taken his seat in the next Congress of the U. ri . i. -ii it oiics,auuio nave anoweu nun iu imjuv another ground more menacing to the consti- a temporary respitcfrom his almost unrelenting ltution? aiKi the independence of the middle, disease, no period of his eventful life, (brilliant northcrn, and western States. They want to as it was) could have been contracted with the carry the whole South with them. Feeling splendor of those closing efforts, which I know themselves more securely surrounded, at all it was his design to have made for the regener- points Dv lne aiters ant abettors of disruption ation of the liberties of our country; or, if this and misruks in Virginia and elsewhere, it in failed, of rousing his own Virginia from her creases their audacity, violence, and cool de slumber, atid rekindling the long extinguished termination t0 carry their points at all hazards, fires on her watch towers. Existing, as there Thc temperi aso? nf the toasts, sentiments, was, between us, almost an hereditary friend- and feeiings? js the worst that can possibly be ship, during the whole progress of our struggle, j imagined. Violent, indeed, ungcntlemanly, I was in constant correspondence with this I they are onjv fil to characterise Spanish ban highly gifted and most extraordinary man. j dlUu or itaijan coudottieri. Here we see thc Whatever errors he may sometimes have sup- j venerable President of the United States, and pi'beu we nau coimumeu, iium iuu muo ajs() tne y ice-i'resident, treated with the con- D AN I EL WEBSTER. We ask pardon of the New Hampshire Pat riot, for the great wickedness we have this day committed, in publishing extracts from speech made by Mr Webster near the coal pit 1 1 r t i T' . . a anu smoKing lounancs ot riltsDurg. We have sinned; but it is so enchanting occasionally to commit sin for the pleasure of recefving abso lution, that we could not resist it. Lovers af ter a quarrel arc ten times more, loving than be fore "tis the same in democracy as in the ten der passion. ' j ' .' Seriously, however, Mr. Webster's speech is -rather curious. He is evidently disposed t support thc administi ation but how can he do it? He is so equivocally circumstanced in New England, that his position is surrounded with difficulties of no common magnitude. He says he opposes consolidation." So far so well. Will he turn democrat and support the Jackson party in Congress as well as in New England ? The democracy of New England wont. let hjm. They ate decidedly opposed to him. But how can "they prevent Mr. Webster from voting with the administration in thc Senate? This is the knotty point. If Mr. Webster is fully resolved to go the whole for the administration in thc Senate, how can we out and outers gef rid of him? Will you vote against thc Bank. Mr. Webster? "Ay." Against the Lam! Bill? 44 Ay.' Against Clay and Calhoun ' Ay, ay." Such a position such a determi nation, is awful to the democracy of New Eng land. It would give them the cholera at leas:-. It would be worse than the LL. D. lb EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH 01 MR. WEBSTER, ILIVERED AT PITTSBURG, JUL YN, ISjo. Mr Mayor and Gentlemeti di: tion with this apology, but the occasion itself, the deeply interesting crisis through which our state has just passed, and the relation I have borne to the latter, will, I am in hopes, excuse me tew remarks with which 1 propose to trou ble you. You will find in the sequel, that my purpose is not to indulge in a fruitless me taphysical discussion, but to discharge, a more grateful, though mournful and affectfonate office. The celebration of the anniversary of the In dependence, declared bytheol . thirteen free, sovereign, and independent States, before even their confederation in 1778, cannot fail to pro duce a salutary mbral influence, if regarded with a just estimate 0f the lesson, this great event inculcates, jl for example, it invigorates . i.ucny useu, a ust sensibility to every thing that looks like tyranny and eppres-' fohe crisis, possessed and exercised such oiu, auu iiuurisncs also an nltnrhmpnt to thp Speil-llKe innuence uvci 'uuul sovereignty of these States, under an abiding conviction, that as the great struggle for inde pendence was waged and consummated by each ot them, m its sovereign capacity, however cu .juuiuv iey may nave acted, furnishing in a good cause, he never laltered lor one mo ment, in the strong and affectionate interest he took in our fate, and in the success of our cause, or in the deep indignation which he expressed at the atrocious despotism of the Proclamation, or the time serving profligacy of some of its supporters. In one of his letters, he remarked to me, 44 if I cannot be booted and mounted for the combat in your approaching conflict, I will at least be borne, like Muley Moluch, in a litter to the field of battle, and die in your ranks." I had designed to have rent you a letter ; which he wrote me a few hours after thc Presi dent's proclamation had reached him, when he was stretched on what was almost his last bed of sickness ; but, on more mature reflection, I have deemed it advisable to consult a mutual friend both of the deceased and myself, in Vir ginia, as to such parts of our correspondence, as it might be proper to make public, before any of his letters appear. The letter, how ever, to which 1 allude, shall see the light. When it does, I promise you, that Andrew Jackson, Esq., will not have skin enough upon his back to determine the colour of his epider mis. To have lostat this exigent momentone who, with snrh rare and p.x traordinarv endowments a his i . i i. own state, is a calamity mat can oniy oe con templated with composure, when we reflect that death came at last, to release this bright emanation of the etherial spirit from a broken tempt and contumely they would a slave, or a pickpocket. When talented, and once courte ous men, fling away the decencies of life the ordinary traits of civilization those feelings and language which characterise a gentleman in an educated age, can it be supposed that love of country or patriotism will remain long be hind ? -What grievances has South Carolina to complain of? Where are the ills she re ceives from the rest of thc States in Congress assembled? Has not the tariff been reduced? Arc not the principles of the Government now brought back to those of the days of Jefferson ? Have not our affairs been signally well man aged ? Do not the President, Vice-President, and members of the cabinet, adhere to thc principles of liberty and union ? Is there a single friend of the Union in the North who would inferfere with the peculiar property of the South ? Whence, then, arises the madness, the violence, the oposition of tbe Southern milliners to the General Government the Union and all that ought to be held dear,1 among men ? It is inordinate ambition it is the same pas sion that prompted Cataline to attempt the Roman republic the same purpose which stimulated Burr to his proceedings in the South-West. Governor Hamilton lets out the secret in his letter. The nullifiers sigh for 44 the pomp and circumstance of glorious war. Thev would reduce this happy Union to a Grppfc .nnMorv. terinsr earn otner io pip Gentlemen, it is but a few short months since dark and portentous clouds' did hang over our heavens, and did shut out, as it were, the. sun in his glory. A new crisis had arisen in the history of this government. For forty years our government had gone on, meeting with occasional resistance, incidental, or ill di rected not concerted. But now, a time had come, when authority of law was resisted bv the authority of law when the power of our General Government was resisted by the arm of a state government, and when military force, under all the sanctions of state constitution and state law, was threatening to impede the opera tions of the Federal Government! That was, gentlemen, a crisis. Every one felt it to he such. I, and every goodcitizen of the country, felt it to be such. A general anxiety pervaded the breasts of all whe partook of the glory of their country at home and how was it abroad .' Why, every intelligent friend of human liberty throughout the world, looked with amazement, at the spectacle which we exhibited. In a day of unquestioned prosperity, after a half a cen tury's happy experiment when we were the wonder of ail the liberal men of the world, and thc envy of all thc illiberal when we had shown ourselves to be fast advancing to na tional renown what was threatened ? Dis union ! There were those among ns who wish ed to break up the government, and scatter the four and twenty states, irjto four and twelit sections and fragments ! , Gentlemen, it was at this moment, that the. - . A A Prociont n( the United Elates, true to even duty- the ense. s , . , . . . . 10th Dec i language wnicn inspireu in me new hopes of the duration of .the republic. It was patriotic, and worthy to be carried througli at every hazard. Gentlemen, I speak without reserve upon this subject: I have differed with the President, as all know, who know any thing of so humble an individual as myself, up on many important subjects. In relation to Internal Improvements rechartering thc V. States Bank perhaps in the degree ol domes tic protection, and the disposition of our pub lic lands, I have been not able to see the inter ests of my country in the way which he did But when the crisis arrived in which our Con stitution was in danger, and when he camrr forth like a patriotic Chief Magistrate. L foi- ... o ' ent ot tne uimcu -comprehending and fully understanding ?c came forth by his Proclamation of the tenement, long suttenng, sinking ana decaying , countrymen. They hurn to dkcuu.c ces making war upon each other, and acquir-1 one, taking no council but of patriotism cl Jn, W nnwcr by the blood of their ; ing no impulse but the impulse of dutyfc ? anT Knrn to become the mo- myself bound to vield. not a lame and hesiw- itiniuciii, luii oun..-Bi n - r-N i cniinirvmrn. j iicr - j i-,. it does, a type of their present relatiorl towards from almost the first dawn to the last vestiges j dern Greeks. Having little to occupy their! ing, but a cordial and efficient suppo" each other, exercising again conjointlt a sove- fe. Peace to his manes. The south never glowing imaginations during the beautiful days ! rncasures. , reignty which flows from each, and $y which had, nor never can have, a more glorious, gal- and nights of a southern clime, Calhoun and) Gentlemen, I hope that the fcs" consequen- the agent created by this sovereignty is respon- Iant' and highly gifted champion one who was his associates dwell incessantly upon the ob-j periment may prove salutary in 1nterCgts 0f sible to each and all, it cannot fail in its loftv emphatically an honest man. and cheering ajsociatici?, to make as better-no fear in the cause cf truth, One and who tcoJ ..... i u - v ; o f- forth rKjwer and thc destruction of all union and! the community. J hrc to that thrs sigrial cx- i ,1 0 o G a a V, i ii i
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