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yv no. a VOLp 221 V alll pitociiAWATiox; COVEEXOtt 0 SWTH CAAOLIS A, . the President ol the hath Iksued Ms PcocU- ' .:..- ;nnrrninir in Ordinance of Ike f topic of South Carolina, to nullify t certaia cu ol : tne juuu5i it.u-j cv.t.c lavinsr - dtflies nd imposts for the protection of domestic . And-'wHi, 'the Legislature of Seath Caroline now in'sessiont taking int consideration; the matters cob. (tained in the said Proclamation of the President,' have adopted V Preamble and Resolution to the following effect,' . YVataiis, the President of the United States ht Mtaed hi ProoUmalioa denouncing the pro eeedmgs at this Bute, calling upoa the clinens thereof leeenouocn their primary allegnee, aoI threatening them with military j coercion, uowar ranted be tbe constitution, and1 utterly ioeotasnt smt wita the existence of free Bute, be K ihare lare. . 'r ' f - , tWrfrTht hiaEzeelleiiey tl Governor be reqaetted, forthwith, W isU bis Proelamfr. tion warn thegood people of j the ittemiof thPriidete? the United I MM to-seduce mm from their eiliaerborwiig then to disregard hie vain men, d to be pre pared to w.uHi the dignity, P""eV trtyettbe State, against tbeerbilrtry measures rwonoscd bf the President. , Kow I, Robht YrriaTKE, Govern or of South' Carolina, ii obedience to the tid4 ReBoIutton, Jo heeDy issue tluamv Proclamation solemn! y warn ing the good people of tbi State against thi raaageTTOtn:dp1raiba-"4iti rsrthlgate44B,0' of the President, as calculated to mis jed'e character of the covernment under which-they JiveV andithe p aramount obligation wnicn tney owe to ure oiate, and manifestly intended to seduce rwin- them te the support oi uie violent Iwd unlawful measures con templated by the President, tojuToive them in the guilt of Rebklliov. I would earnesUT admonish them to be- "wirgf $he specious feut lalsc doctrines fav which it ia now attempted to be shewn that the, several States have not retained-their .entire sovereignty, that " the allegiance of their citizens was transferred in the first instance to the government of the United States," that " i State cannot be said tot sover eign and independent whose citizens -owe ooeoience to w bwi. kmuc wj its' that "even under the royal go- veratnent we h&d ne separate charac ter," that the Constitution hae created 'a national gevernment" wnicu is notM a compact between Sovereign states"- that a state has mo right to scede" in a word, that ours is a wATiovax. dovEaKEirrifiwhich the people of all the States are represen ted, and by which we are constituted ohe rsppwi" nd that nr repre entativei in Congress are all repre sentatives of the Uuited Sutes and not f the particular States from which they come' doctrines which uproot the very foundation oi our pouuucai vstem annihilate the rights ef the States ind utterly destroy the liber ties of leciuxen. -It reanirea n; reasoning to ' anew what the Tare statement "of these pro . positions demonstrate, that such a Go vernment as is here described, has not a single feature of a confederated re public. It 1 19 in truth, an accurate delineation, drawn with a bold hand, of a sreat consolidated empire," one And iooUvinble.jnidexjrMt.STI.f. snecious form its powers may be masked. It is in fact the Worst of all despotisms, injwhich the spirit of an .rbitrai-v roverftment is suffered to 4 pervaae insnojuoT9 proiessiog ,1,0 oe t. tree ; buca vias not the government, for hi cu our fathers fousht and bled, and ofi'ered up their lives and fortunes Am a wulinsr saennce. Such feas not the government, which the great, and patriotic men who called the Union in to being in the plenitude of their wis fAlix8med. zLSuch was not ibe ov-: ? viiiVtrtt which the father of the re- lu'oiu an iaiui. iu, w ut vhc iuuiie M. Amaiican Libertyi prumule&ted and i eeiifull T maintained in -1798 and rffilihjtVy produced th great po f Arlvolution effected at that aus- iow era. To & government based i mV princTpies, '5outtt Carol ina has mdtl:4 a voluntary party, and to such a go ament she will never give Jierj asset K "Tc records duTBisiory, o'lh dee, ai ora tne prototype of these sen- mtnfkiWhicbJia to'be-foundM-the uqnrde I opinions of those, who, when put ititution was fraraeJ, wert' in ot I Minn National bovernment,' thif i. the . SUtes should sUhd In f ti s Relation to the Union, that to' lies did towards the mother J' The journals of the corien 4' the leeret history of the de- 19 ch. C9 Si. It ti" rill shew that this party! did to secure to the Federal Gov p an absolute supreinacy , iyer i-ks, by giving them A negative pon their laws, but the same history j-also teaches 'us that all these propyl itions were reiected. and a-Tederal GoverWnt was finally established. recogiiixm the-tovereignty of the SUtes, and leaving the constitutional comPt on the footing of all other Compacts between' nrtiea ha vino- no common superior." ,J- It Is the natural and necessary con sequence of the principles thus au thoritatively announced by the Presi-J aent, as constituting uie very ubis uii our political system, that the Federal Government is unlimited and supreme; being the exclusive judge of the extent of its own powers? theaws Of Congress sanctioned by the executive and the Judiciary, whether passed in direct violaUon otliie wonsutuuoiijana xigaw of 'the Statesj or not, aro.., Mtbe su- prem&Uw of the land.": Hence it is that tlie President obviously considers the words inade in pursuance of the Constitution" as mere surplusage 5 and therefgire when he professes to r cite the provisions oi the Constitution on the subject, he states that our "so cial compact in express terms declares that the law of the United Slates, its Constitution, and the Treaties made under it ure the supreme law: of ,the lauJ.and speaks throughout of "the explicit sunremacv given to the laws. of the Union over those of the States" as if a law of Congress was of itself supreme, while it was necessary to the validity ojf'eftlytbar"U should be made in pursuance of the Constitution. Such, however, is riot tlie provision of the Constitution.- lliat' instrument expressly.rprovides that "the Constitu tion, and laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance there; of, shall 'ne tiie"Bopreme"-Uw of the land, any thing inthe Constitution' or laws ot anj State to the contrary not Here' it will be seen, that a law of ConcresKlis such; can have no viltdi' ty unless made "in pursuance of the Constitution. "An unconstitutional act is therefore null and void, and the only point that can arise in tikis case is, whether, to the Federal Government, or any. department thereof, has beep exclusively reserved the right to dede authoritatively Jor lhej$tatem ques tion .of CpristrtutiojiaiLty-lf this be so, towhichof the depflMments, . it maj beasked Is this right of final judgment eivenr If it be to Congress, then is Congress not only elevated above the other departments of the Federal Gov ernment, but it is put above tlie Consti tution itself. .! his, however, the presi dent himself has publicly and solemnly denied, claiming and exercising, as is known toaTl the world the right to refuse to execute acts of Congress and solemn treaties, even after they had received the sanction of every depart ment of the Federal Government. ' That the Executive possesses this right of deciding finally.and exclusive ly as to the validity of acts of Con gress, will hardly be pretended and that it belongs to the Judiciary, except so far as may be necessary to the de cisions of questions, which may inci dentally eoine beliwe tliemf 4tt-case of law and equity,77 has been denied by none more strongly than tlie Presi dent himself, who 011 a memorable o-. casion refused to acknowledge the bin ding authority of the Federal Court, and claimed tor himself and has exer cised the right of enforcing the laws, not according to their judgment, but 'his own understanding ofthem.' And yet when it serves the purpose uf 1 T .j: a u r 1: f .'his jiative State,' the President has no hesitation in'regarding the attempt of a State to release herself from tlie -control of the Federal Judiciary, in a matter affecting her sovereign rights, aa a violation f the Constitution.,.,.. It is unnecessary to enter into an elaborate examination of the subject It surely cannot admit of a doubt, that by the Declaration, of Independence, the "several - Colonies became "free. sovereign and Independent-States,' and our political history will abun dantly shew tliat at every subsequent change in their condition up to the for mation of our ' present Constitution, the States preserved their sovereignty. The discovery of this new feature in ourrytemji-that.tlie-State5tit oftly as members of the Union that before the Declaration of Independence, "we were- known -only- as - United ,Colo nies" and that even under the- arti cles of confederation, the SUtes were considered as forming collectively one HATioN7' without any refusing to submit to "any decision of Uongress!!was reserved to the 1'resi- deht and his immediate predecessor, to the latter "belongs-the invention. and upon the former, will qnlortuuate ly fall the evils of reducing it to prac South Carolina holds' the principles now promulgated oy uie rresiuent (as they must always be held by all whe claim to be supporters bf the rights of the, sutes 'as contraaiciea..Dy tne letter of the constitution-unauthoris ed by its spirit inconsistent with eve tf principle M vhich H.WasTounded destructive ol,-aij the oojects lor Which it was framed" utterly incompatible with the very existence of the SUtes absolutely fatal to the rights &. liber :s of the people. South Carolina has a . ' 1 ft- ft ties so -solemnly and repeatedly expressed to Congress and the World the princi ples which she believes to. constitute the very pillars, ot the Constitution, that it is deemed unnecessary- to do more at this4ime, than barely to pre sent a. snminarr of those PTeat funds . : t . . . p mental truths, which, the believes can never be subverted withouiihe- inevU - table destruction of the liberties of tlie'0'" COLOUtt OF THAT INSTRUMENT, people and or the Union itfr-SoutlUiV-6. tKb "tMuif " vcricu itt xieetueui, y.vie Tigni oi.n "reo;alin? at nleasure: all itikretenuii law of the Union,." much les tne right of "repealing the Constitution itWlf. and laws passed to give it effcctvhich' have nettrbeen alleged to bennconstU lutionaL,l.)t cljinu only the right to juugj vt iniriicuoiis 01 me uonsuiu lioual compact, in violation of lhe re served rights of the State, and cfarres-H ting the progress of usurpation within her own limits, and when, as in the Tariff of 1823, and 1832, revenue and nri)tir(i(in rnnstitntionni and tin. constitutional objects have 'been so mixed up together, ItTat it is found im possible to draw the lineiof dihcrimina-tion-7-she. has no alternative, but to consider' the whole as a system uncon stitutional in its character and to leave it to those who have "wqvenihe web; to unravel th threads." South Coruli- ha insists, and she appeals to the whole political histoiy of our country, in sup port of her position "that the Constitu tion ot the United States is a compact between sovereign States that it cre ates a confederated republic, not hav ing a single feature of nationality in its foundation that the people of the several States as distinct-political communities ratified the Constitution, each State acting for itself, and bind ing its wwif citiz,ensi and not those of ny)ther1tat('rthe'act 'of tatificatioh declaring it to be binding on the States so" ratiTviiig the Slate ate itKauthors, their nower created it their voice clothed iwith authority the govern ment whic it formed, is composed of their agentlk and the Union of which it is the hondjs a Union o States and not of indiyiduh-tliat as Regards the foundation and" extent of its powers, the irovernment of the United Staies is stfidtly wliat its ninie implies, a Fede ral Government teat the Statesi are as fverag'n6aetiiey'' were ' prior to enterna; into the cdipact-r-thath Federal constitution i a confedera tioiun the nature of a .treat v or alliance bi .whichrso-nvajiy Sovereign States aa ed to exercisa their sdve- pow :rs conjointly uon cermin :xtcnial concer in which objects of they are ei lually interested A such as WAR. PEACE, "COMMERCES' f oreign St gotiation, and Indian Triade; nd ap on all othel-iubjects of jcivihVem ment, they were to exercise thpir aoverefgniy afpnry. i For the convenient conjoint exefClie ovcieignty of the Stale, there must of hades- itr be aoiue common agency tor functionary Thii agency in the federal Government. It repreaenia the confederated blatei, an ee. cute their joint will, as expreised ip jive compact" Hie powers of this government wholly derinaiwe. It Dossessea no imira inherent sovereignty, than art fneorpoVsted town, for cny.uther great corporate bolyit i a polmcsl corporation, ana like all iorpo rations, it look for its powers to an eaieiior source. That source is the State. j 1 Sjouth Ca-eilna claims that by the Declara tioo of Independence, she became-and ha ever since continued a Tree, sovereign,; and Independent Bute. , ' 1' That as a sovereign State, she has: the iAer power, to do all those Seta, Which by the Jaw of nation, any frineeor Poten tate may 01 right 00. That iikc au indepen dent States, ahe neither has. aor ought! e to suffer an v other restraint UDon her abe reicn will and pleasure, than those high moral obligations, under which all Princes and State are bound before God and nan, to perform their solemn pledge The inev itable conclusion from what has. beea said therefore W that aa iit all aaca tif orBpaot between independent sovereigns, where froqi the very future of tilings, tlire an be 119 common jidge or ump1 ire,' ' each'' aovereljgr) ba $t right o- judge as ' weU! so itvfisc- tions, as the mode and measiir of rrdresv' an in tht present contwewyi between South Carolina and the Federal Guvernoient, it- belongs solely to her, by Iter delegate in. solemn convention assembled, to decide, hfther ' lhi federal com n set be vioUtvd. and wlikt remedy the State, ought to piirtu. Swth Carolina :. therefore cannot, and will! . ..:- ! , . . .. . i . 1. , 1 1 Government, a 'right which cotersjnlo thel esience- of ; all overeighty, and which, it would becomo a bauble land ' a name.' ) Such r) the doctrines which South Caro Kna. haw thrxnieh: iier: Convention' -mdemnlv -promulgated t the World, m by- them- she will stand or rail: vco were Jtnejiii promulgated by Virginia in '98, and which then received thesanction 'of thosi great men, whoae recorded aeuUmaaMS havi i come down to us as a lig it to our fe4ml, i lamo to wor path. It iVirgiHi mrid tnotj South' Carolina, who apeak when it is said that she "views the power of. the Federal GoV eminent, as resulting from, the compact, to hick tlte Hate are partiei, ur limiled by tbe plain sense and intention of t -iustrumend constituting that compact aa no further valid than they are authorised by the grant enu merated in. lha compact! and that in cane of aJ deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other pbwera, not greeted by ; the said eompact; the state who are ntnles therelii, rhave the right, and ere in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress bf the evil, and for maintaining within their respee five limit, the "authorities, right and liber tteavsppmiiilnf tttlieiii'." --:-It ia Kentucky who declared ia "99, apeak " injj in the ezplicit language of Tbomaa Jef ferson, that the principlca and conau-uCtion contended for by member of tbe State Le ' gialaturea the very aame now maintained by the President that the general) government is-the exclusive Judge of tbe extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing ahort or despotUm since the discretion of those who edmin'teter the government, aod .not the con titution, would be the measure m their pow era; That the) several States who formed the instrument beins; sovereign and independent, have tbe Unquestionable right to judge of the infraction, and, THAT A NULLIF1CA TION BY T11QSE SOVKREIGNTIES, OF lUM authorized ACTS BONE f$ ime r. mm lut conefcrie.r me,"HU i . . 1 . -t. .. , . 7 r . tpicx, snq ieu inem at a legacy 10 we Ame- rtcan people, recorded byw-his-own hand. It m oy nim nisi we are matrucieu- tnr. to tne ConViluiional eompacf, ' each State acceded as abtatevai'.1s in integral artyr its co atatea forming as to itself the oilier party," mat - tney alone oetng parties to the com 1 paot are KJely aiUhoried arf-,n the hit rtturt of the power eiercieed under itj Con gress being not a py, but merely the crea , wre of thr compact;" that" it becomes a So" vtreign Slate, to submit to undelegated, and eonseqitently unltmitea power, tit no man or liody ol men opon fartht that where powers are awimed which have not beendelegateol, the very case how before us a nullification of the act is the rightful" remedy; that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (e'atu non faiUniX to nullify of their own authority all assumption of power by. others within their limits, and that without this right they wbuld be under the dominion absolute-andunlimKed, of whomsoever might exercise tne ngnt'qt judgment Jor them," and that in case of acts heingpassed by Cun greM" so palpably against the Constitution ai lo amount to an undisguised declaration, that, the compact ia not meant to. be the measure of the powers of the -general overjimenf. dui uiai 11 win proceeu 10 esercise over ine States all powers whatsoeverrit"WOUtd "h" the duty of the States lo declare the act void and of no force, and that each ihoudtukc meaiuret f Hi ana.Tur providing that neither such acts, nor any Oilier of the general go verumeni not piainijt anu intentionally autiio rizetl by the Constitution, ha4He; exercise within tbeir respective territories. " It is on these great and eMsni'ial triTflii, that South Carolina liai now. aciesL Juikinir for lieraeJI' ttiiiji te, he Ita pro"" nounceu tne rrotecimg system, in ail us branche, to be a " gross,;deIiberte,,and pal pabte yiQ&iAir:.joilJlhe::Cninrtmunat:-.xa pact;" and having exhausted every other means of redresfc. shxJiaiJiL therexerfciituf her sovereign rights as one of the parties to that compact, and in the performance of a high and sacredsduty, interposed for arrest ine the evil of usurpation, within berown li mils, by declaring these acts To TjeTIiufl;" void, and no lay, and taking measures Of her own, thst they jihali not be enforced witbio her limits" f : ' ,.. : . : South Carolina haa not iimedtr:- what could be considered as at. U dbiibitul. wben sne asserts "that the act in question were in reality intended, for the projection of manufactures;" that their "opctttoi as un equal;" thst "tlie amount received bvs them, is greater than i required by the wants of vnc government nunnny, inaiinp pro ceedi art to be applied to objects unautho ¬ rized by the Constitution " These raaisi are notorious; these' object openly avowed... The rresiuent, without instituting any tnqulsitioa inti motives, ha himself discovered, land publicly denounced them,- and hi ofhf cj of uuiico cveif nuwiucvising messurfsiu tended, as we are to d, to correct the ac knoledged abuse. ".-. V It is a rain and idl dispute about word, In uk whether this riirlitnf State inlArii.i thrnj mayibe most pwgflyTTy1ed a T;ojsitir liuiHi, 1 HiTcrcicn, ur rcKmu rigUM a in calljng thj right constitutional, it could e verihave been intended to tlaim it ssa ) rht granted by. or derived from the Coiuiituifon, k.., 1. i-. . . J a. :i its letter and its apiriji it being not only ilis l'mlyundj;rttg raif)i!g theConsiftiition, but ejprt iy pro vi Jeifftjr, in the instrument itself, that t alt sovefflgn rights, hof agreed to be exercised conjcnnlly, should baieried; senaratelr by the sia&i. I Virginia Beclsrtd,; in reference to the riht asserted ipi tne Ketomtion 01 -ya, sbve Iquojed, even after having fully and accurately fc-t-isuiicu miu re co miucrea inrse resuu Jions, "lij. ahe found it to be her indispn iablf dot W adhere to the same, as foumled in triitlt, ft cotuonaut toirt the ConstituliSn. apd m ciisdttciye: to i5 welfarett:iftiIVt" Madison luroaeit, asserted them 10 be par . fectly "cokstitutional and eoncluiive." L j 1 ?" H ti whfllly immaterial, "6owever, by what amo thi right majr be-ealled, fur If tjie Qunalitutio be "a compact to which the Sfalesarel parties," if facta of the Federal Government are jio further valid. than they are authorized by tbe grant enumerated in that Aouipact.'L ( then w- itava 4hatamliorit v Mr. Ndism lumtelt ror tlje. inevitable, inclusion tlwlt it is "a pls'ui principle, illus . ited bv common oractice. and ewential in nature ef compacts, Wmt kbeti reaort ji ha hd to n tribunal bnDerioi) to tlie au. thority of the parties, the-pali'themselvea must be the Hiihtful lU'luro in t lie last resort. 6 in f jwhettter the bargain -mad has teen pursued o violated." ' 'The Conitltutit In, I continues Hr.'Madisnn, was formett nf the tanctioo iif the..Wafai,Vii 6ye4;I its iwqvireign ca pacity: "the Statea then ben)r jparilea to the constitutional-compsct,' 4d inl their aove- r!frnranaAi'lv it Irkllfkura! nf nVifw ..,Kai ty, to.Uecide in tbe last-, resvt,; whether !h Vompiact made by' thinv be olatedj' and, epnsequehtly.lhat aa tiTparitrto'lCthey most ihemwrver deci(e!;in,the tlast teSort, creh tjfiesiton aimayhe'oriuSacient ntegitf stnfa; -V3ft yww JlwlrlhTefposU y n ,f . 4 If ibis right doe aot exist ia tha several States, then it is clear that the; discretion wf Congress, and nm the Constitu ion, would be the measure of their riowers: and this, aava Mtv Jefferaoa,, would atawmj tb.thjfjseiring tbe Dgtit ol tne btatea and! consolidating them in the hand of the generl government, with'i power assumed to bindf the Statea not only in cases mad ledeimt, bijt fn all aascs whatsoever which would be id surrender the torra of government we I have chosen, P hve under one. deriving its power from ita own will. .-.4- We hold It t6 ba ImboJtiblc to naiat lh W goaent,diat the severaSntes as sovereign ir lies l tha- eomtiact, oiusv possess the twwer. In case of "gross, deliberate land put pahte violation of die con solution, te iuHMeaiA for Unit. a well of the iirtractioe as the iioda and oiui.ni e of redress," or Ours is a CoitaoioaaTan Govsair. est " vjtbout hmitatioa. . powers,' mission to which Mr. Jcftei on has solemnly nro- Bounuad t be a greater evil man oisunion iiseii. ii, to barrow the language Madison's report. , dangerous, power nstitittion, could aot palpably withheliliy tlie C justify Aba parties to it, in inl nftotmg evea so br as to arreet theprogremt oflhievil, and thereby to rattKava rut CosTtTVToraTsax, a aell a ia provide lor Ilia sah-ty ol the pcrtict to it, there would be aa end to all relief from awrped pow er, ami a direct suli version bf tbe rights speci fied or recoarniaed ander all the Slate Constitu- tiohs, as well as a plain dehoirbrtbw fnoda mevrtai principle on wbiels dor iodepcadenca naeii was oeciareu. " : t See original draught of tlie Kentucky Re KZ sS i,!7 " JCBtr ion, lately pubDhed ty.hss grewison. - The sly pUunble ohjectiooHltst esn be orsl against th rilit, so iBUisnensahle-lo the salrtr of the Slates, u that k may ba abused. But lliis danger is believed to be altogether imaginary. So long as our Union is felt as m bleating aud tun win do juii wa inng as me icuenu govern ment shall confine hs epei'iilinn within the se knowleilged limrtt ol tbe Cliarta-i-tber will be aotempuuioa (or any Sttrte to inlrfn-e HW the Oarreoiiious operation of the-sj-KTau T here williexist the strongest motiies Jo hufuee lor betiranee, aiid none lo' prompt to aj.-jreoion on either siile, so soon as it sliull eomw to te uni- veruuiy ieu na acanowieogea that tne males U not stand to the Union in the relution' of drgiled anu uepennsni colonies, but Itiat our bond ol ui on is funned by mutUkl vmimtliwt and aoiutx ioterrsis. The true answer to this'oliieeiion has been given by Mr. Matluon when he says. ; "It does not follow, however, that because the States,' as" loverriffn parlies to the eonsthutinnal epmpsct, rwl nhinaMfily.ilt'tMe.Sihedtfir. it Jwi ueeo violated, (list tixt-.h m tlrciunn nu-ht lo lie 10-li-ruosed, either in a husty rnunner, or on doubt ful anil inferior Mcaaions. Even' hi the eaie"bY ordinary ennventions between different nations, it is always laid dowirthm the breach must b bnih wilful and msterial te itisiifran a'nnlicatinn ofllir rule. Utit in the ease of an intimate ami eonsti- tiitinnal union, like that of tbe Uuitcil Staties.itl it evident lliiit tlie iiiteriiMiion of the rties,ia their ovrf ign cpcity can le rtilled lor By occasions oiilyjkejilyjuidletsentailly affecting tbe vital principles of their political system.." .' Ktperivnee demonstrates thst the' danjt-r Is not that State will resort 10 her sovereign-right's too frequently of on ii)jlit and trivial occmions, out mat she may tlirink from 'asserting them, nt purn M niny 5e ni ccmary, It is mshitsined by South Carolina that accord ing to thu true spirit bf the Oinstitiitiou it be comes Congress in all emerpr'tw'm, like the pre- to solicit' of the States the eill nl a Convrnliiiiu and that oh a Ciilure to StitTjn byrth; oonapnt .of miTO-iuuruiscu an uie istmeian aniuniliimiit giv- t. mg we ipauuuni noaer, it mint nf regan ei never Having tfateiiTunve.TlRii T.riueipleshave been distinctly reeoiiied by the v!Tnt '!'.Hf .. .! . hi, message, ta Co- grets-ai me coinmeueeraent ol tne present ses sion, and they seem only to be impracticable ab surdities when assorted by I South Carulina, or mwte 'adieblo:tfr.'lKrsxhtiogemtroveriy with ipe r ecioroi government. P!filaWlB fsmlma re ffrive Wthwir-wouts- be --grda and ptlpaUle violatio.r Ihe President no credit for her sincerity, when Lr,h. ....;. ,vi,..;, r.u 1 . , k r, decl,rl n.r.H.o.i. 1,-, M.;.r m :.,J. ... ,n sovereign au horny of the. State, and she sincerely siiilanxiouitv seeks and desires" . . '1 . die submission of her crievanoes lo a convention iftaW-e States. .Tliedily alternative (says nic rretiucutj wiueii siiTettnrsrlrtlie refmtf bfall Ihi Ml for raiting rtvemiei leaving Ihe government without the means of support, or an acquieseoce in the tliteohition f tut Union." teh tbf Convention eduh tiiiniorme express purpose ot.makmg known I r . ' wins hir wislies, and her .views, be.would have found, tP.eoP' ' ''ot 'hattliey should duperu but tliiitSo. Ca asks no more thaa that the TBi iirl4" f should retutemile in Convention should be redueed 10 tha revenu i(Umh and td repeal the obnoxious Or dinance. ': - hiss distinctly expressed Jier willinpiesslM " f " amcHint of tiuiirsj-siibstsniinlty 'onitorm, shbnldbe levied upon pisoleele.l, as well as protected articles; sulficint to raise the revAnue netcssary to .meet the -dtinaiitli jjf the . goviii ii-. mout, for eohstitutiniia) purposes. ' Ha would hate found in the Exposition,, put - furlh by the CokjveotrpH hsclfv a distinct appeal to oat sitler siiues, lor toe can or unnveutior.i and t he ex preisiou ot. an entire willutgnuss n thejisri el Sooth Carolina, to submit die eaBtmverar id that, truiwual.-Evco at the very iporfient wbra he"! ... .ui.u,8iHg, incMi unj.i a,n injurious iip , pan oi tne taiuot naval, lorce of the United put. lions upon the people of SchuI, Carolina, Slate my be necessary, having firat Ob . t,, throkU both branches of our Legi.l.lmV, de- "Pfct . , "n. tixtn ., ihsljinleM manklingreall of that. very Con. nUhni, tftwhajK" - .a" ' .t. re?oUe1 to Oiaregard all be declares that! she had no desi that an unpen) fonsututmnal obligstions, and lo trample the sliodlil be made r - i " ii tw of hi country tinder hi feet, he ha no . It does not become the dienite of s SovereJ Slat, to ooiicc inlhe oirit hilh iniehl be eon- 1 !!it!?lviesiveiu! rhnnble iiupulaiioiis in which lle TresKlcnl (is inonpiH proper lo inunige, m rjlatmn to bouth conriitutl mnfttiritiov-. He baJnotwcd. ontt to - - KifeMeetinteaabre, that wisemtae slamler which iinm miintnnhi.fiuui tii r i- h... iub. en hi defence of their rights aifl libiatws, 4o factiiU instigated by the effort) ol a tew amlii- tioas IcaileM efco have- got up aii excitement tor tbeiijowa personal aggrandiiieieut. Tbe mo- , lives and characters of those whei have been sub- . .!,.,. I, l....l...l !......:.... i. Vi 40 OHM, rested motives! and noUe iinpulitfs ol pat riot inm and honor by jviiicb tTury are actuated. , Could Uiey have beeb induced lo separate their own Personal interettr from those nf llie ioole uf South Caroling ami have consented ; to almnilon their duty to the State, bo one knows bett. r than the President timself. that ther mk'h't have bevn honored with fye tighc-mri lie regard, audperhais Mislead beiiig Ilia ub icott of vimpcpaiiou, might vert how have bocu baakiag, in -tlje minliie of Kreontivo favor, 1 his topicris alluded 10, merely lor the purpoie ol guarding the people of Our sister Slate, a gainst Shwliita delusion that South Carolina hat assumed her j present position 'inderthe in uaeaeo nf a usatiorary excitement and te warn them thai El bis beea the result o I the slow but steady progrcjs of wblia opinion I or1 tbe last tea year ,i (hat it (s the act of the peop e tiiem selves, ..en i. wfiitfriwnv who iu aiiriu, rcsomuooc repcaicuiy aoopiea io ineir primary atsembltusj and she aoletaS dotttrminatioN of thf Legislature Cbliely auuuonted.isnorw-tluin-'lwo )ears ago, t tbeia aot jso taenlccriva ihrnwUt-a-H-tftis auliieet, as to persevere in a coursej which nrost ni the end tneviubir oroiluec a4sliitHin at'iha Union, uwiler tli main, puUtto Uutt thu givut www me xwin o oouin vcroima; iinl)t so the councils -of the l'iwsiHiiS wtII acltaowsi ' edge their error or retrace tlieirMcpsi and still tern tnai tney wni o Arivea irem th vnllwlioa of their rights, bv the jnlimatajw of the dunirer ol domestic discord, and threat o lawless sktleuce. The brave mea who have thrown tliiasjl vet into the breach, in defence of the rivhtt aud hW CTticsef thciiKceiintryy era not to Wlrivt:n rota their holy pai-posa by soeti ineans. Keo Un merited ohloqnv, and death kdelf, have ho ter rora for him wbo feel and knows that hp Isen gaged in the performance of a saered cluty, 'Th i-copta bf South. Carolina . are well .aware that however passion and prejudice may obtain lur season th -mattery of the puhli'- i.iiD" f, reaaon and jutt ice must sooner.or laxer reassert thtir ero piret-and that1 wliatever may bettie evefit of nils earnest,. tpottenty win ito. justice .to then motives, and to tbe stintless purity, aud devoted ttas.riotittn,TWHh. which they have entered hitq antardnoua and most . Qacqual , corjiet, t lit. uniWitriiig ourge wiih which, by the l)cking of'Heaven,lliey. will maintain Hi,. .. - 1 ; ' , The whole arguments, so far as k is ilesiche1 ai lhia;line40iUM iute i- aw dnvpneeti 4t anil itis necessary to advert to some passages hi ! i" - . 'T"irTC:,'M 'rr-rTV ."rfBames woico aoorn the pasres of oi SUtes. The sasufioesU.ey have made, and SCfl.S f when hafejust.v acultUandtrUbiio.iEh which they ,.,av have P"e;rm tm,ntl. ut ,bJ )'e Rtlf red to, -will liNHeTwritaibttoHhlisiMer- .- a legaey tlleir solemn 1, . , - f' passru wver mat i uiose !gneaees tltould be redressed.- l i in silenee .Ifce. l'resitlent distinctly mtlmatts' They were told, as we new are, that Ihe tieonle ' " that it Is his rieiermination. te exert tha right of were nsisM by a few deserting raeo, whcSte vb. - 1 putting duwa th opposaioa of Seatli Caroliaaljeet -aw sttaaeJatSe- -ef -Ibe -IJaion' and tbeh- , rf athm- Tariff, forertf rmi.AU lnlievesi0w, llf.Bdisenieiil4-They were told, a , . 1 himaelf nt verted wuh power to do this eiwWrjw now are, cif the Zoyef j that-previaioe of tbe Conatitutioa wicb directs by disobedieivae to the Laws Tbe power and ' hirar 'to take ear that the laws iieitkbrally as- resourecaof tha Mother Coantry cr thra, . eeuted." ow If by ibis si was only meant lt'M bow,, ' actentatioosly dbplayed ia instil'. . be asserted that endcr Ihe law of Cangreaa bow contrast with the scattered hoplitatica 6J ,ei,j !. of force, tha President would led himself bound resource eo whioit we aoold alone rely, - And ? to aid the alvd tribuaala, in tbe manner therein the panithntcnt due to Treason and Rebellion ' . prescribed, sopposmg anch law te be aonttuu- were held eat aa tha avrton r.i. -i.u .k .vi.r f " Uooal, ao mrt eueptna could be takea le this assertma of Executive ttetv. But if, as is manU tartly intended, the President sets op theclai la iuoVa lur htrautrW .Kd n...... ll. I... W f ld,rtor tT!f.ta , 1- the ".. to be eBforeed,od feela him-sclf at liberty te tall i forth the milula, and even ihe military and nrl forces of lb Union, against the State of -South, ' ' Carolina, her constituted authorities and eitite'na, then it is clear that' bsauuiuea r powr otv'nU not conferred the Kxecutive by the i ensiitu lian, but which belong to no despot u pones rth exercising Ictt unlimited aothoruy than th ? Autoerat ol all tbe Hnniai: an authority, whk-h. if sobmitierf toy -would at onee reduce th hW - people of these United States to t state of th mo alyeet ami degrSded slaverr. But tbe Pre-i lidunt has no power whtsoever to exeeate ths . - ls- except in the mode and manner prescribed by the lAws1hemsetves.- Oa looK.iug into these' Laws It will bo- seen that he has o shadow or ' semhlaoee ot sutlioritv , to. execute anv nfiho . .' threats which he has thrown Ant against the (rood ; . people oTS'tuth Carolina. Th Act of S Fe& raary, 1795, gives tbe PresiaVottmihorttv to call forih the Militia in case of Invwin by a fo ? reigiKnat ion or Indian -Tl ibe. By the Sad seo- 5 tiou af , Uiat. 4; ja wevided that-whr-i r the Laws of the United ' States shall be or tiwesouiiini.iiiereof obstracied. in any State, f by ebmbinatloHS too, powerful to be suppressed - ?- j ui oniinirr mum wjuiiicmi pmeeeilings, or by th powers vestal In the msrshals by this" Aet. it shall be lawful for the President ol the United States to call forth tha Miliiin nt State, or of any other Stata or States, as may bo i aeceavarr 10 suppresstueli eomhinations, nod lo cauae the Laws to be duty xeeutW."-' . 4-J ; I ho words here used, though they might v:y be supposed to be very comprehensive in1 ' , their Import. " are restrained bv thoae whiclt - follow. By the: neat section it i declared: - -- that "whenever it nu he neeiiaatrv In ih i judgment of the lreside .ttSe lorce nereay ctirentcd to be called lorth, thw. ; Presiilcnt ahII forthwith," by Proclamatioa cw m:ul tuch intwfentf Is tliiperte and refiro : peaceatiyr to their respective abode wnhi a limited time." On heading these no seo tiohs togeltier.inj manifest that tjbey re lata : J ejl irely;4i cm!jiiiaiiuiM -of 4di viduais acting ti r ,i. r.,. .t 1 r author.ty. The cons ituted amlioritiea beting under the. lawji jof aU.itaie; and 4t.ftn-viefcRiH-- obedience to it commahda, csnnot possibly 1" oe convi ierea a a mere moo forming coin - binatioti airint ' the autllorit v and lawi of ' the Uiii6vt bejdtipcrsed hy snJSiecutiva- J an oifeitce punihable"criminally in her own an Ilir.lM n.iniL!ir.MAV.im.n.illi 1. k. Court, whether the lt proclamation of the President jKaaJutehded a a comnlianca with lha pruv'uiunsjj thia act, does not very-- wcmiiri ppcr. mji u ao, it can only t considered a directed arainst the Stale, ainca j the laws uf tlie United -lutes have certainly The power of the President, so far aa this subjecl is embraced, in relation to the Army ' iut-'tnd Nil vy;4 ctly co-extenw've with that I over tne militia, lly tha lat aoctioa of Ac of 3J March Wi t ia- espreasty-provided.--that in all case of 'obstructioo to the law' ' of the U. 3. or of any individual State, wbera .. it ia. lawful for the President to call forth . V,B "lllllt 'Or tne purpose 01 causing the law fa . be duty es'ecuteiL it ahull be lawful f. ' t - him to employ fur the ; same . pii-pese,'' suet, authority whatever lo use force acralinl lh Siate of South Carolina:' and should h . " ' State, kiww too well their owarichlt-i.!! '. have too sacred a regard lo their dhtie. to ' - ""'"7. ."T mm " rrPfl ""S ... hevitte one mo si. a fiv euciiisiTE' lalTSninil. TV " Z i T.Z v. M"1 ney iU th oe ucierrca , ot the threat of lawless vm 'ence ef ny apprehenaipa of consequence. fruio the faithful. pe(priuance of Jhejir duty, they would feel that ih'ey were tbe Unwor thy descendants of thf Pincknevl Sum tera. and lliiiledifrc. mA m ,hn.,..'-l . . .- ..... uict injunction that we should never abandon thia e jiitcm umii wc man nave obtained areth umlerttnndt nv of the bnrrmnJ' and feat ore d the liberties fur which they fought and bled. . n.k... :i . ... ... . . . "'" 'inr.Mtiia; animating x oy their example, and exhorting us to maim am' v that ..." aoltmijiOfdinsoca and . J)ectaramt-i wliich tbey have subscribed with their own' names, ami in ipport of which they have " "ptedgedi their lives, tbeir-fortuoci tml- their aar.red honor." . . -V;-" ; ' j----- . c-.- ' ' - The annals, which record the "trtiggles 4 feedom, ahow.M that Rutera.in every. agw. and efery'etwimryi jraloi voT their power,' ' have reeorted te-the very ' Same hieana to' 1 extinguish 4n the bosom ' of man that noble' instihet raiberf f . resist . pfipreaaitmi '.Thawvstem by! which . Tynna in everage Imve atvempted tV ob ' iMerste lhianvent Sod , crush the pir 1 ' of.the people, consist ia.the kiUutwm euona ic encoutag thetn hopes and excite their fear to show that existing evils are -fBte ?.''eereri'sl8tance great '.M.:ti apcVlJiediSw'rf'ie in the war of auceesetn-"-su'berhje;i'!t pti'Iy to "tow distentions-' W'yiV'i Pef Ple.b.v crea'fng leslgue, tnd exiiynga ditr4ia,t f thoae-, whose cownaela anj example., mty pe.nipposed lo have an V irapona bearing pn the auccest iof: tUeiir r' fsfcise. -ypfMyvjw.f-.i tr;i ? ' 'ci'wFli anfmjUe4; appealsio the' Ioy ' ; altpf the peipe, d an jjoppslog. array otA military-force constitute the nieana by which . the people have in every.age beea reduced . p slavery' Wins) wis tuNi tttjh pages of ! ar own hia'ofy, we find that aoeh were the ' " measures reawted; tdt the eommencement of ow.J,MttvJtrtio;taeepw fathkr in ubjeci'ioii to Great Britaint and anch are the means nOw used to Induce the people of Jiirplins:liQ jrrtrar'eV4'ir fA,1 - . M .to remain iorever' degraded co,louita, . 7 gOvjcmid wot in,: reference to their own inr f tereat but the-Jnlefcst of others, ;"f (, ,'vr - f ' :S -jr.raiiiprswere lour, as we DOW am flial rUisry. Tlii7 were promised, a we have been, v ' disregard tha paternal eflorta f thrir iioyat U Msster te bring back hit erring" tWn to the I I arms of their sodnlMtnt Mother. J liev wevw , AA -- t . . ... . ' ... v- I .BMe4edr a. w. tSwe b.r to "retr... their -LjfSttUh Pujsl. .............. rJ . -s , v , . . . ... ...
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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