The World's Best Orations (Volume 7); From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2441 ROBERT Y. HAYNE (1791-1839) Jobert Y. Hayne, famous as Calhoun's lieutenant in the Nullification controversy, was born in South Carolina, November loth, 1791. He studied law under Langdon Cheves and in 1814 was elected to the South Carolina Legislature, of which, in 1818, he became Speaker. After serving as Attorney-General of the State, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1822. Serving ten years in that body, he retired in 1832, in the midst of his celebrity, to become Governor of South Carolina and to allow his friend and leader, John C. Calhoun, opportunity to succeed him in the Senate. The speech which made Mr. Hayne celebrated was delivered on the Foot Resolution and in reply to Webster. It still retains its historical interest, though supplanted as an exposition of the tt Carolina doctrine" by Calhoun's great speech against the Force Bill. Hayne died at Asheville, North Carolina, September 24th, 1839. ON FOOT'S RESOLUTION (Peroration of His Speech of January 2ist, 1830, Answering Webster) The Senator from Massachusetts, in denouncing what he is pleased to call the Carolina doctrine, has attempted to throw ridicule upon the idea that a State has any constitutional remedy, by the exercise of its sovereign authority, against "a gross, palpable, and deliberate violation of the Constitution." He calls it "an idle" or "ridiculous notion," or something to that effect, and adds that it would make the Union "a mere rope of sand." Now, sir, as the gentleman has not condescended to enter into any examination of the question, and has been satisfied with throwing the weight of his authority into the scale, I do not deem it necessary to do more than to throw into the opposite scale the authority on which South Carolina relies; and there, for the present, I am...