The Balance, and Columbian Repository Volume 4 PDF Download

Author: Ezra Sampson
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230160214
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Languages : en
Pages : 534

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805 edition. Excerpt: ...deprived as they are, of all civil rights, and considered merely as property, it would be as just that the Vermont farmer should be entitled to a representation for his cattle, as the Virginian planter for his negroes. No northern man who has caught a single spark of freedom's flamejrom the altar ot patriotism, but must wish that these things were not so. Such, however, is the constitution oi our country, that sacred instrument, which I hope never to see violated in any of its essential principles; and as it is not to be expected that the people ot the southern states will ever agree to an alteration fraught with ruin to their interests, it is hoped the subject will not again be agitated. We are continually told that there is no dissimilarity ot interests between the peopie ot the northern and those ot the southern states. When we prove that clashing interests do exist, we are lulled to sleep by syren songs and melodious eulogies upon southern magnanimity. We are told that our southern brethren will take better care ot us than we ran take of ourselves. On this subject, the contempt with which northern representatives are treated, the trifling attention paid to any measures which they propose, the attempts to extinguish the state balances, to abolifli the loan offices, and to reject the Georgia claims, the additional duties; upon commerce, the late alteration of the constitution, and the other alterations which are contemplated, speak a language more expressive than all the thunders ot eloquence. As the dernier resort of the alarmists, we are told that the immortal Washington cautioned the people against those who should attempt to create geographical parties. He did so. He had in viewthe great generalinterestof the nation, theconstitution...