Speech of Waddy Thompson, of South Carolina
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Excerpt from Speech of Waddy Thompson, of South Carolina: In the House of Representatives of the United States, Being in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union It is not my purpose, sir, to make a speech, but to throw together some "random recollections" of the last and present administrations. It may not be wholly unprofitable, especially, if it shall suggest to some of my former political friends to look well to the new associations which they are about to form. Brief it probably will, desultory it must be. My colleague (Mr. Pickens) has said that any party which acts upon the principles set forth in the report of the Committee of Ways and Means shall have his support. I understand him by this to mean, and only to mean, that he will support the measures which may be proposed for carrying out these principles, and not as pledging himself to support the re-election of those now in power.1 hope that in so understanding my colleague I am not mistaken. I am sure I am not. Thus understood, I entirely agree with him. I have always thus acted whenever the administration has, by accident, staggered on a proper measure. I have voted for it. I shall continue to do so. More than this my colleague could not have intended. He had too often, and too fiercely, denounced those in power. He had uttered too many eloquent and burning anathemas against them as not only ignorant and incompetent, but as corrupt and profligate, to make it possible for him to unite with them without the amplest recantation - if not as aa act of justice to them, as due to himself and the country. Besides, sir, there is another reason much more honorable to him, which would prevent it. He knows those in power - he knows them well - and has known them long; and if accident, or the necessities of their position, have driven them into a wise and proper policy, he well knows that when that necessity no longer exists, they will, by a natural proclivity, relapse into their former courses. Why this joy and exultation - this rapture I may say - at the profession of sound and just principles? Is this profession any new thing? Is there a single one of these principles - state rights, economy, retrenchment, anti-internal improvement, or any other that has not been constantly asserted in the messages and documents from the commencement of the late administration, and in practice as constantly and most flagrantly violated? All this I will prove. Is there any where a more admirable compendium of the doctrines of the States rights party than the messages of Gen. Jackson? the man who has done more to break down all the landmarks of the Constitution, and to consolidate all power in this Federal Government, than every other man who has preceded him. A gentleman of Kentucky, formerly a distinguished member of this body, who said and did so many good things, that I have always regretted that he left Congress before I entered it, once said that Virginia would die some day of an abstraction. Sir, there was a profound philosophy in the remark, and it is true as applied to more states of the South than Virginia - we are destined to die - to be killed by abstractions. Profess our principles, talk of retrenchment, reform, state rights, and especially if you will add a word or two of state remedies and the right of state interposition, and adopt in practice what measures you please - force bills, tariffs, Cumberland roads, harbor bills, or whatever else you choose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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