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1 To the People of the State of South Carolina 1832

handle is hein.beal/ttepeotest0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TO THE PEOPLE TlE ST&JTE 01F 50tiTlE'CAJIWLL7V CHARLESTON, 1st DECEMBER, 183:. FELLOW CITIZENS: THE ORDINANCE passed by your Convention at Columbia, a few days since, as the supreme law of the land, is the grave, not the bri- dal chamber of Liberty. However the power and the triumph of party, may dignify it, in the hour of its birth, with titles of glory and praise, no spirit of prolphecy is needfil to know, that when the revels of that unholy spirit shall have passed away, it will be regar- ded, even in the 'South-Carolina of future years, with grief and mor- tification. In the sacred name of Liberty, they have struck her down to the earth, with the iron mace of the despot. In the name of Liberty, they have forged for their fellow-citizens the chains of Slavery. In the pure and holy name of Liberty, they have pollu- ted her shrine, they have laid on her altar the offerings of idolatry, they have trodden their fellow-worshipers uider their feet. When I look at the Age, in which I live.; at the history of my Country; and at her actual state of political improvement: when I consider the wisdom and forbearance, that have distinguished Ameri- can counsels; and the magnanimity, which has always been one of the noblest elements of Carolina character, I am filled with aston- ishinent and grief at a measure, which must be repented of, in the sackcloth and ashes of shame and sorrow. God grant it may not be our lot to repent of it, in tears and blood, amid the ravages of fire and sword! Whatever may be the feeling respecting this Ordinance, among the majority in Carolina, it is impossible not to know, that it must be regarded with mournful indignation by all the friends of freedom throughout the world, In the rest of our Union, it can on- ly be viewed, as a reproach to the memory of the illustrious dead of 1776 and 1789: and as an act of ingratitude to their sacrifices and services. Among the Whigs of England, what other opinion could be held, than that you have forfeited all title to the glorious attributes even of British freedom. They will tell you, that in an age of light, and in a country of laws and of regulated freedom, you have sought for your instruments of power, in the armory of bygone ages, amid the darkness and violence of dethroned Tyrants and balled Oppres- sors. They will tell you, that at this day in Great Britain, not even A Whig Administration, with a Whig Parliament, could venture-thus

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