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FOR THE TAKBORO PRESS.
A NATIONAL SERMON,
Or, a few thoughts on Nullification,
By an American Farmer.
Written in 1S33, but in consequence of
the Compromise, not published
until now.
First hook of Kings, xii. chapter, verse
4: Thv father made our yoke grievous:
now therefore make thou the grievous ser
vice of thy father, and his heavy yoke
which he put upon us. lighter, and we will
serve thee. Verse 10: My little finger
shall be thicker than my father's loins.
Verse 11: And now wheicas my father
did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add
toyouryokei my father hath chastised you
with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions. (continued.)
And now we come ag&in to compare
the complaints of the ten tribes, with our
brethren's complaints of the South. The
tax of labor levied by Solomon on the ten
Hoes, mostly benefitted the two tribes.
For thirteen years this was their grief, this
was the gall; but they endured until they
s-iw it was time to speak out. Now 1
would ak, who or which of the States
does the Lax of tariff, duties benefit, a few
or the whole of th State"? Did not the
States of Judahand Benjimin cleave to the
vounc kinc and his mrri'urcs? Yes, and
why? Because these two States g;t all thej,iu,jr
UanoAt r r thn I'llvir nf t f rtt-ifr tori rwl r I
SO .
well they might be ready to arm and fiht
their brethren, to bring them back to sub
jection, and for what? that they might still
be aggrandized from their labor And
they would have done so, had not God in
terposed for the distressed ten tribes, and
nrevented the war. And here vnu can see
also, on which side God will be in America,
and you know on whose side he was in the
Revolution. And you can also se that
those Stales benefitted by tariff tax, will
support tariff measures and fight their
brethren.it is to he feared, to keep taiitl
labor pouring in to increase their wealth
and aggrandize themselves anil States, as
would Judah and Benjamin. For man is
now about what he always was. he is noth
ing bettered by the age of time.
1 ask the question again, which of the
States are benefitted by the tariff duties?
Is it the Southern States, Northern, West
ern, or Eastern? or, are all of thm equally
alike benefitted? or is it like it was in Is
rael, the Southern planters have worked
for the Northern States these thirteen
year9, like Israel of old? Yes. sir, the
case of the Southern States and that of the
ten tribes is parallel; therefore, you hear
their complaints in the same manner. And
I am afraid the effects will be worse than
that of Israel, and that God will not inter
pose until much precious blood is shed;
unless Congress should he wise enough to
take the counsel of Solomon's old minis
ters, and speak good words unto them, and
serve them by taking off the tariff, and so
makepeace. Then will they be their ser
vants for ever, if not, you will see if there
is not a Jeroboam set up to the sorrow of
this nation for ever.
What isthedifference between Solomon's
levying three months labor at a time on Is
rael, and Congress levying a tariff tax on
the Southern planters? the difference is on
ly in the article, for labor has to pay the
tax in both cases. Judah and Benjamin
could weil bear the tax and not complain,
because they were benefitted by such a tax
of bhor on Israel. So could the North
well bear the tariff without complaint, be
cause they are, like Judah and Benjamin,
benefitted by the labor of the South. For
the North, like Judah and Benjamin, get
their own labor and that of their brethren
in the South in the bargain.
Is not the tariffa protecting system to
Northern manufacturers? you won't deny
Uys I ask whit right has Congress, from
the cons itution, from justice between man
ana mm, irom equity or reason, to tax a
South Carolina, planter to suoport a
Northi r manufacturing man? Has not
Congrs the same right to rivers-; it, and
to tax a Northern manufacturing man to
support the Southern planter? The p nve
i hat can do the one can do the other. Why
r
then not do so, and thus turn the scale of
complaint of grievances? 1 think there
are much better reasons for taxing manu
facturers than farmers, for you all know
that the farmers are the life bl od and sin
ews of all governments. Why then be n
then down by protecting system-? For
the king himself is served by the field
Then I say, if Congress does make a
protecting system, the fanners are first en
titled to it, and not manufacturers. But 1
tell you in plain words, that a protecting
system is brothe r to the system of internal
improvement; they are both the accursed
principles of tyranny and oppression A
mong tyrants they both bgun, and it is
tyranny that wan'sto hold them on in the
world. There is no justice between man
and man in neither of the systems no more
than there was for the ten Slates of Israel
to work for th" two States, and thus be
kept from their own farms for the profit of
others. The South Carolinian employs
his capital in farming, the Northern man
in manufacturing; say, don't these two men
possess by the constitution of the United
States the same rights? Then what right
has Congress to tax the one more than the
other, much less to tax the one to support
the other? For it is in effect taking the
money out of a Southern planter's pocket,
and cramming it in the Northern manufac
turing man's pocket. It is law thievery,
there is neither Constitution, jus ice, equi
ty, nor good reason for so doing. Saysone,
the manufacturers must beproteded, lhe
can't getalong without. Then let him fol
low some other trade. Has not the plant
ers good and better reason to say, you
must protect me also? IIgw then will
you do it? No they mny live if they can,
for you.
Thus you put burdens on the South to
benefit the North, by your protecting sys
tern; yet they must not complain, nor be
heard if they do. Will you crush them?
Take heed, God is on their side, they ask
nothing but their rights, founded in the
constitution, justice, equity and reason.
You may lose some of your heads in the
scuffle, for aught you can tell. Don't for
the Lord's and the nation's sake, push mat
ters by such measures to the crisis, to
which Rehoboam did; von mny repent it,
when loo laic. For when a people arc 1
conscious ol their rights, and conscious ol .
wrongs, and wrong is S'ill urgd on :
iknm t..l-r - . i ftnf vM.i
will s'rike a
rock and burst in flinders. 1 hen haul to.Itainly do.
and lower sail; dismiss your protecting sys-1 1 need not cite you to Greece, Israel, and
tern as a species of tyranny, and give peace i Romp; these things, gentlemen, you un
to the South and quietness to the nation, jdersland, that disunion was the ruin of all.
and let the printers go to sh ep, for thev 'This is the first step to the downfall of all
must be tired by this time of the fuss; and ; Republics. This, gentlemen, you know,
for your children, ind children's children's Is it not better then, gentlemen, to lower
sake, save the Union. sail, heave ashore, and bow a little, than
To Senators and Representatives, I am ruin onr glorious country by pride and
not yet done comparing. Rehohoam and i stiffness? You had better give up the
his young ministry no doubt thought, that jhelm to other hands, than be swept off of
these complaints of grievances came from 'deck for not bowing to the trees that may
the head of Jeroboam and a few more fac I be in your way, and thus letting the Amer
tious leaders; and if they could intimidate j 'can ship split to flinders on the rock of
them, and the few that had been poisoned j disunion, perhaps never to be repaired.
with their principles, or at least destroy;
this little factious band of complainers, then
peace would ensue, although the measures
were bad; and all Israel would quietly re
turn to their duty, and still cont'nue to
bear their burdens. For no doubt he
thought this faction was small, or else he
would not have hazarded the Union and
loss of the ten tribes, which were the great
est part of his kingdom. Nor could he
have foreseen the number of his subjects
that were affected with this grievance, or
he would have taken the advice of his fath
er's old ministers, and made their yoke
lighter, and thus have saved the Union.
So may you, Senators and Repn s nta
tives, think that all this complaint of South
Carolinians comes from the head of a Cal
houn, a Hayne, a Smith, or a few factious
fellows; and that at most it is but a little
band of factious Nullifiers, who have been
poisoned by their leaders: and if these were
but off, then the South would return to her
duty. Don't for God's sake, be deceived,
like Rehoboam and his ministry. The
printers may tell you a thousand things
you will never find true, about Union men
and Nullifiers, and make the Nullifitrs but
a unit, and the Union men tens of thous
ands. All that is nothing. Remember,
men have consciences, and their conscien
ces will force them to do what all your
laws, swords, cannon, and bayonets can't
lo; they will, when it comes to the test, be
governed by the dictates of their conscien
ces in this affair. Reason will speak out,
and your bad policy be condemned as un
constitutional and unjust
Little did Rehoboam think, that there
were ten tribes that would espouse this
cause. Liltle did he think, to see this
factious band such a host, when they had
j crept forth from their holes. So let me
forewarn you, that you do not nor cannot
now ascertain any certainty in this matter.
ror there are no doubt tens of thousand
yea hundreds of thousands of Nullifiers 1
fear in all the States sleeping in their dens; j honor of Republic principles, and the
that have not, like Israel, showed them j honor of my country that gve me birth,
selves, who will if you urge bad measures; Are not the tvrants of the earth in league,
show themselves to the nation, a formida-land united to hi nd thpir fpirprs nn mankind
j hie host to her cost of blood and treasure.
ly or heaven's sake don't risk it, like madjty? And shall we, the sonof liberty, be
Rehohoam, in not granting the South a re-j disunited? Oh, ye printers, tell it not in
dress of complaints. If you do, bad will ; England, lest they rejoice, publish it not in
be the times; for these Nullifiers, whose ! France, lest Lafavette. the fiiend. the fath
consciences tell them they are oppressed,
and whose reason dictates to them their
rights, and whose hearts respond and say,
we have sued for our right and can't be
heard by the General Government,' will
come forth from their holes like fiery drag
ons, and bears and tigers robbed of their
whelps; the smell of gun powder, nor the
thundering of cannon, nor glittering of
steel will not make such men afraid, be
cause they have got a clear conscience.
Such men as these can fight father, brother,
uncle, or fellow citizen, and feel no sting,
hut that of you have forced me to kill you,
in defence of the rights God has given me;
I am sorry truly, that you would pursue
such a mad course as to compel me to kill
you, my right is my right, and 1 will have
it or die in the attempt. Such men as
these were the bleeding patriots of the
Revolution. Don't scorn sueh men as
these, though a handful; for ten thousand
of such men can whip thirty that have had
consciences and a bad cause; or that fight
for honor or treasure, for rights is the dear
est jewel of man.
Gentlemen, I am not done yet with my
comparing. No doubt Rehoboam and his
young ministry thought, that a few of the
troops that had been well disciplined, and
kept on hand in Solomon's peace establish
ment, would be sufficient to put an end to
all thi clamor about rights and grievances.
And shall I, the king of all this realm, and
we the ministers of state, bow or bend to
this faction, and grant them their wishes?
No, no, our pride disdains the deed. No,
never let it be said that the king and his
ministry and all Israel, did bend and stoop
so low in humility as to be trampled on.
And what is ivorse than all, and still worse
precedent that we should pass laws and the
people won't obey them. This we can
never submit to, we will force them into o
bedience; for wc will be judges and not
they, of the course this nation shall pursue.
Oh, pride, when will Republican princi
ples humble thee! Are we, gentlemen,
your servants, or you ours? You tell the
pcop!e that you are willing to serve them,
and come lorwaru to do so; and l ask you
how you can serve a people, by bringing
ruin on the nation, as a disunion must
cer-
You may think, like Rehoboam, that a few
cutters, a man oi war or two, and some
thousands of the well disciplined troops of
your peace establishment, will be sufficient
to compel the South into obedience to your
mandates. Don't be mistaken, like Reho
boam. There will be more of them than
you expect, and 1 shall not marvel in this
affair, if you push measures, that it turns
out as it did in Israel, that every State in
the Union leaves the Northern States to
themselves; for the same reasons that the
ten tribes did. And what was that? say
you. Why, recollect, that the ten had
worked for the two, by the acts of Solo
mon's government, as long as they could
bear it. And so has the South for the
North. For 1 feel assured, that when the
test comes, you will see a change that I
now could point out, but shall not. of
thousands and tens of thousands that are
taken for friends.
So, gentlemen, for heaven's sake don't
pursue these harsh measures; but do honor
to yourselves by stooping to the wishes of
the South, and save our country from the
blood of her children. I tell you, gentle
men, I would divest myself of the last
shirt to support the Union; but not those
harsh and unconstitutional and unjust meas
ores, that have been persevered in, in some
degree. For if the Union is broken, the
nation is gone, the Lord knows where; to
anarchy and confusion, and blood; or the
prey of some despot or tyrant, and may
groan in her fetters, and grind in the prison
of tyranny tor ever, bod forbid. I hen,
gentlemen, stop, pause, cool, think, medi
tate. Don't take along time to consider,
not three days, like Rehoboam, nor three
years, nor thirteen; for if blood is shed,
count, 1 say, count the Union gone. Yea,
blood shed, is the dissolution of the Union
' at once
Gentlemen, if 1 had a million of dollars
1 would give it rather than the Union
1 should be broken, if it was! onlv for th.
and make them weir their chain of cruel
er, and hro of seventy-six, become sad and
mourn over his children. Let not Russ:a
and Spain hear the news, nor Poland and
Greece, lest the children of liberty that
have come to the birth, die in the womb.
Oh, Americans, have we come to this; for
the tyrants and despots of the world to
make a wide mouth and cry, aha, aha, so
we would have it, you see no Republic can
last long: you see mankind has not virtue
enough to be free, nor to enjoy liberty;
you see they need a master, our Govern
ment is best, it is best for men to be slaves
and have a despot, a tyrant, a king, an rm
peror. than be free. Oh, heavens, inter
pose and save my country, save republican
principles for my children. Turn the
hearts of our rulers, to rule in the fear of
the Lord; and exercise pacific measures t ..
maintain the Union; and oh, thai it may be
bound together as with bands of iron Eve
ry citizen in the Union should know no
majesty but the laws of his country, around
this standard all should rally for their sup
port, it is the duty of all; but those laws
should distribute and protect all rights e
qual, from the king to the beggar. For it
cannot he the duty of any citizen to know
or support unjust, unreasonable, oruneqoal
laws, not founded in moral equity and jus
tice. And ifthe laws of the protecting
system is such, the old farmer is a fool in
politics. Both Senators and Reprrsenta
tives, I shall now let you off, hoping you
will take the advice of Solomon's old min
isters, and speak good words to thp South
ern people, and serve them by taking off
the tariff; then will they be your servants
for ever, or so long as you shall distribute
equal justice to all the States, I will vouch
for them. I
Brother South Carolinians, permit an
old gray headed farmer to say a few words
to you, in the heat of your passion. List
en a moment to the language of a friend,
and a man of years. Have you thought
seriously and deliberately upon this all mo
mentous affair of Nullification? If you say
ymi hire, I beg you in the name of God
and all that can be sacred and dear to you,
your wives and children, and fellow citi
zens, to think again; and then take lime to
think again; let your passions cool, and
then think again. For of all the subjects
that ever your mind was set upon, religion
excepted, this is of the greatest importance
to you, your family, State, and fellow citi
zens in general; as well as those glorious
principles of republicanism, and ihe honor
of your country, on the eytsof all the na
tions of the earth. AlHs hero s'nked on
this one act of youts. Oh, for heaven's
sake, let me as a friend tell you, to think
and look well before you leap out of the
fr ing pan into the fire.
Will you put your brethren upon the ne
crssity of crimsoning their sword with
your blood? Oh, never let it be so said,
for what is a nation without union, nothing
but a prey to despots and usurpers of every
ana any ,-ort ot tyrants. 5urely it he -
comes the duty of all to support the Union
of the States, forasmuch as it is for the
good of all, the wealth and protection and
respectability ofall and every citizen that
inhabits her bounds, or that shall sail un
derherfligin any part in the world.
Have you weighed the matter of disunion,
a little handful to yourselves? You see
the United States is now oft in difficulties
with other nations, and her rights as a na
tion can hardly be respected; will not your
commerce bring you into difficulties with
the nations, how then will you protect your
rights, or enforce them? Think for a mo
ment, that you as a single State then must
put up with the insults of 'he nations and
greater grievances than those you now suf
fer. Indeed, you had bett r of two evils
choose the least. For surely you should
blush to ask the United States to protect
you, since jou would wilfully break from
the Union, and leap into the fire. Would
she not do right to let you bum up foryour
madness and folly? Oh, think seriously,
that a disunion is your own ruin, and what
is wor.e the ruinol all perhaps. And will
you in your vexation ruin such a glorious
country, where we live like kings, and not
slaves; and ruin yourselves and family, in
the bargaia.
Besides all this, brethren, only think of
the numerous wars it will bring on this
country, by ) our disunion, as it did on Is
rael. Do you not know, that the two
tribes and the ten weie every now and then
at war, as long as the nation of Israel lasted?
Do you not know, that the surrounding
nations, sometimes had war with the two
tribes distinctly, and sometimes with the
ten; and sometimes they were forced to u
nite for to protect thems-lv. s against a be
"i-ning enemy? Why then, for heaven's
s ke, break the Union for a few thousand
dollars, when your unity is your strength
and your rotect:on and without this Uni
n, wh:t is your strength against the na
tions of the earth, that may acsail your
righ's? Worse than the tariff. What
hall we do for you? we can't acknowledge
your independence; for this you already
possess; we can't treat with you, for you
belong to our body. What shall we then
do for you? Disir-iss you from our body,
or remove the tariff? I say, remove the
tariff. And if ve dismiss you. you are en
feebled and disgraced, and thereby you
will disgrace us, and our glorious country
and principles of government. Thus for
heaven's sake, think and cool, and be pa-cifi-d
a while, hoping the best Congress
vill in time do all that is right; wait with
more patience, don't rush precipitately on
fate, and hurry ihe ruin of your ownselves,
and enter the presence of Almighty God
in a fit of madness, unprepared to meet
him in peace. Stay on the plains of time
until he shall please to call thee over to
eternity.
Besides, you do not know, nor can you
foresee, what such a civil war may end in.
You can't see what course and direction
such a war mav take, nor what principles
may yet he agitated to give it many direc
tions It may become a social war, or a
w;r of extermination; or end in one or
i wo dep'ti'ns, to enslave you and the rest
of the States. And how then? Yju will
iill be worse off. Think. 1 pru , think;
and cool and reflect on so awful a step as
you are about to take, a step that may ruin
you and your children for ever. Will you
see your fertile fields laid waste, your hou
ses, towns and cities without a man to in
habit them over sixteen and under mty?
Shall your own soil drink vour blood, and
he drenched with the blood of your breth
ren and relatives? Shall your wives be
left to mourn ycur rashness and untimely
fate? W i 1 1 you leave your children father
less, on an unmerciful world, without a
guide and instructor, and die in the anger
of your soul; and your fair virgins without
a bridegroom, to cherish and make haprv
the days or their youth? Shall your la.. 1
become a solitary place, so that he tlw.t
passes through shall say, behold the folly
of man in a fit of resentment
Brethren, stop, cool, pause lower pail
and come ashore, and sit down calmly and
r aon on the subject with the greatest de
liberation; for your rashness may prove
ynur ruin, and that of the unborn millions
after you, that shall rise up and curse your
folly for selling for a trifle their birthright
to liberty, in a fit of your anger. I admit
with my wh-de soul, brethren, that your
claim is well founded, and your petition
for redress of grievances just, and your de
mand for ) our rights such as should be
granted; but, my brethren, I do not nor
cannot approve the rash step of Nullifica
tion, or a disunion. Because I set more
by the United States than what I do by
what little I possess; and more by the wel
fare of all, than I do by my own welfare
and more by the welfare of all the States,
than by my own State besides the regard
for the unborn, who: rights and lib- rty
we hold in trust for them. And I tell you,
if we once hein to war among ourselves,
there is no knowir.-g where it will end, nor
what the issue may be All nations hare
j had
th' ir judgments and times of reckon
and when the balance have been
j ing
stuick, they have sunk to rise no more.
Think, An-ericans, think. This will be
adir.ce 10 our nation and our principles
of government wherever the news shall
come, th d we are at war among ourselves.
God forbid! Strike nol a blow ! Set still,
cool, and then talk and reason it out; and
if you ihen can't agree, summons a Con
vention of all the States in the Union, say
ci.-e man for every ten thousand, and let
them try as a jury of honet citizens, this
cae between the General Government and
South Carolina, before one blow U struck;
or, if there should be a blow struck on
either side, I call for an armistice of twelve
months, for the trial of this cae. And if
on the trial there should be three-fourths
on cither side, the other hall submit to the
decision, and set the nation at rrst and the
printers to sleep; and save the effusion of
the blood of brethren, the honor of our
country, and our principles of government.
For I tell you, disunion is war and war is
death in the pot of liberty.
JOSHUA LAWRENCE.
Duel between two Indians. Two'
Chocktaw, living in the parish of Rapides,
Louisiana, fought a dradly duel a few days
go. The wepons were rifl s; the muz
zles were placed within six inches of eaeh
combatant's breast, and at the firing,
which was simultaneous, both fell dead.
To take grease out nf silk If a lit!e
oowdered magnesia be applied on the
wrong side of the silk as soon as the spot is
discovered, it is a never failing remedy
the itain disappearing ts if by magic.
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