Speech of Hon. Langdon Cheves, in the Southern Convention
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Langdon Cheves, in the Southern Convention: At Nashville, Tennessee, November 14, 1850 We meet on a melancholy occasion. It is to devise the means of defending the Southern States against a great and alarming danger, a danger with which we are not threatened by a foreign foe or a common enemy, but by our fellow-citizens, whom fraternal feelings and fidelity to plighted faith; whom gratitude for great benefits which, more than all other causes, have made them great, wealthy and powerful; should have made our hearty friends, and our devoted allies in all adversity. Instead of which, we find them our most unjust oppressors, our bitter and most unappeasable enemies. Having deprived us, practically, of all power under the common government which bound us together, they are aiming at the subversion of our dearest rights, the destruction of our most valuable property, and the desolation of our country. Our inquiry will, of course, be of Southern rights. Southern wrongs, and Southern dangers. The general rights of the Southern States are those of equal, independent, unabridged sovereignties. Our independent sovereignty was asserted from the beginning of the government, and maintained triumphantly, within a few years after the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The old federal doctrines, of strong government and constructive powers, were put down. In the South and West, there was but one voice on the subject. Such was the devotion to State independence; such the generous spirit of the people of the South and West, as expressed in the resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky, in 1798 ;that, had not the dangers then contemplated, though not amounting to a tithe of those by which we are now threatened, been averted at the polls, they would have been met by force. The base idea, of taking "the best we could get," entered into no mind. The only questions were, what were our rights, our whole and unabridged rights, and how should they be maintained. The universal public scorn would have scathed, with the power of the vivid lightning, the dastard who would consent to accept compromises, or talk of taking a fragment of those rights, as "the best we could get." Who would then have dared to propose submission to our equals? Who would then have been mean enough even to deliberate on such degradation? But the noble spirit of that day seems to be extinguished; and, unless it can be roused, you are destined to become "the basest, meanest of mankind." You will suffer the most conspicuous infamy that ever characterized a people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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