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PAI'EH8 OF )frnAnEAU BuoNAP.-rnn: L.-nr.\r. G3 him rallying under the fiage of freedom- fighting in defence of his o~vn injurNl and insulted country-repelling the invaders- bareing ll!S hreast to the fiercest storms .of war, and nourishing with his lifc- hlood the tree of liberty, under whose delightful shade there are now thousarn]s nwditating a. fatal blow at its roots. But the peace party, averse to strifes, who preached the doctrine of submission, allegiance & treason- where de we fi)J(l them? I will tell you where-just where they ·were to be expected- in the ranks of the invaders- under the banner of the tyrant- fighting shoulder to shoulder, not with the oppressed but with the oppressors. And what was the character of their warfare? It was of the bloodiest kind. They murdered their neighbors at midnight- fired their dwelliHg & ]aid waste to their luxurie11t fields. They spread havoc & destruction in their march and left famine in their footsteps. Such was the conduct of the submission m~n of that rht!J• And now my fellow citizens I wish you to bear in mmd, that what were colonies then, are States now. If any of ihem should be dri, 1 en by insufferable wrongs to assume the same attitude to _Uovt. which they took when colonies, you are left free to imitate which ever of the two old parties may be most consistent with your d~etrins & congenial with your feelings- As for me and mine, we will serve the State; and as history has done justice to the days that have gone by, so I doubt not that posterity will do ample justice, to ~he living generation, by awarding honors where honors are due and mfamy where infamy may be deserved. The parties of the present day, have been frequently designated by the names of Resisting ancl Submission men. Now when I apply this latter term to our political opponents, I by no means intend any re- flection upon their intrepidity and valor. I employ the term sole[lly beC'ause it is characteristic of their political doctrins. If there is any crime in the whole catalogue of guilt at which the soul of the brave and honorable would shrink with abhorrence, it is most certainly that of treason. There is something peculiarly infamous and revolting in a traitor; and as the Uuion party have published to the American people HS their creed that all open opposition on the part of a State to the unconstitutional acts of Go,·ernment is treason; and that who- ever stands by the State in a conflict against such laws are traitors, they are uecessarily compelled by their own doctrins to assume the ppsition of S1tbm·issi-0n to the will of Government; and hence I use the term as being most appropriate to the principles which they profess. I doubt not but if General Jackson had sent an invading army against South Carolina. that the Submi!.:sion men in a contest between the State and the Govt. would have evinced as much inflexible determina- tion as the Nullifiers themselves. The only difference between them woul<l have been this-the Nullifier would ·have fought for his State and the Submission man against it; the one would have fought for the oppressed- the other for the oppressors. And who fig-hts with half the desperation and hellish ferocity as him who draws his sword in the cause of tyranny and ao-ainst the life of his brethren! We see this excmplifiecl in the tories ~f the Revolution- in the Orange mt>n of T re land & in the reneo-nde poles who joined the Russian invaclf'rs of their land. Search the 0 history of every ag<' & nation and you will find that, those who have tnken up arms against their own injured
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