Letter to the Hon. Langdon Cheves
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Excerpt from Letter to the Hon. Langdon Cheves: To the Editors of the Charleston Mercury, Sept; 11, 1844 But, It is asked, if our fellow-sufferers will not unite with us in resistance, shall we basely submit? We have no right to anticipate that event. In my opinion, if they do not, they will be insensible to honor and to shame, and equally so, to their interests and their danger. But we dare not cast this reproach upon them, merely because they do not think fit to adopt our measures and our time. If we think they are tardy, we must entreat them, with brotherly zeal, to quicken their step. If our measures be not acceptable to them, let us modify them, or adopt theirs if they lead to the same end. Resistance will be a very solemn act. If it be rashly attempted and fail, it will rivet our chains and bring on us new burdens and insults. Success in such great enterprizes is not usually the result of a sudden thought or the fruit of a single day, but of wise and sober deliberations and protracted action. We are speaking of the movement of nations - a successful resistance will probably cost some years. The circumstances in which we are placed, cannot fail to remind us of our first great act of resistance to oppression. Let us then boast less often and less idly of the deeds of our ancestors, and more faithfully imitate them. They did not jump in a single breath to their conclusion, and talk of single handed resistance. They deliberated long, and they wisely united all who were under common suffering and in common danger. Let us do as they did. Let associations be formed in every Southern, and, if possible, in every South-Western State, and let them confer together and interchange views and information; let leading men, through committees and private correspondence, collect, compare and concentrate the views of like men in the respective States, and when ripe for it, and not before, let representatives from these States meet in Convention, and, if circumstances promise success, let them then deliberate on the mode of resistance and the measure of redress. If not, still persevere; let neither delay nor first failures, should they happen, create despair or faint heartedness. Inflexible perseverance rarely fails in a good cause, and ours is one that must never be abandoned. Continue to enlighten the public mind, rouse the public feeling, excite the public shame, for the degradation to which we have been brought; let your exertions be not occasional and desultory, but organized and incessant; avoid especially all blustering, and put in the place of it sound sense and forcible reasoning. Your appeals to your fellow-citizens may, nevertheless, be as impassioned as your sense of injury and shame and danger may inspire, but they ought to be chastened by a regard to the moral sense of an enlightened community. Add to the proper functions of the newspaper press, the circulation of able and well chosen tracts, and let them be found in every hamlet and house in the South and South-West. Carry your exertions into the camp of the enemy. Thus did the colonies in their preparation for resistance to the mother country. During that struggle, we had among our friends the Burkes and the Chathams, and others of the greatest names that ever adorned humanity. There are in every country virtuous men who hate injustice and detest oppression, though they be the acts of their own country and government; and their influence, though they may not be able to carry a vote, has often great moral and political weight. Their approbation will have great effect in sustaining your own resolution. But in this case you may appeal to their interest as well as their justice; for the mass of the people, nowhere, derive any advantage from the oppression you suffer, and have great and honest interests put at hazard by the resistance you may be obliged to make. Manufactures should be the last resort of industry in every country; for when forced, as they are w
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