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THE UNION.
The crisis is at hand when nverv American
citizen must nsk himself, Shall the Union of
these States be preserved ?
It is impos'ible longer to shu! otir eves lo
It e design of the leading Nollifiers of South
Carolina; It is to dissolve the Union, peacea
bly if they can, forcibly if they must.'’ They
delude some of I etr honest follower, by the
pretence that Nullification is not hostile lo
the Union; hut this mask is only worn until
they ean work up the minds of Iheir partiznns
to fheir own desperate resolves. Nullification
of the Tariff laws is hill the first step towards
setting a* defiance nil the laws of the General
Government and adjuring tho constitution it
self. Every act of tho louders, however dis
guised. tends directly to this result.
Shall the Union be preserved 1 This is a
solemn question which it Iteromes us nil well
to consider. Itis no party question. It is a
question on which all parlies and nil persons
who love their country, under whatever ban
ner they may have fought in the recent elec
tions, may meet and harmonize. It docs not
involve the question whether this man or tliut
shall be President, but whether the United
States slinll ever have another President ? It
ts not a question in relation to the policy w hich
the Government ought to pursue, but it relates
to the existence of the Government itself.
Here then is the basis of n grent patriotic
pnrtv, an UNION PARTY—a party to pre
serve tho Union, adopting ns its motto the
declaration of our venerable Chief Magistrate.
“THE FEDERAL UNION MUST BE
PRESERVED.” Under this motlo, and
with this object, every true patriot, whatever
mav be his opinions of men, or his views of
national policy, may rally. To preservo our
national existence is a thousand times more
important than who shall be our rulers, or what
will bo Iheir policy. Otic set of men will ho
rcplnced liy another, and the policy of one ad
ministration may lie changed by tho next ;
but when the bonds of this glorious confedera
cy shall be broken asunder, it will be dissol
ved forever. The patriotism and disinteres
tedness of the revolution ato gone; the great
men of that day are ehiefly in their graves ;
the Inst signer of tho Declaration of Indepen
dence is no more ; nnd the Inst President of
the revolutionary slock now presides over our
destinies. Annlhnrset of men have sprung
up. distinguish'd for venniity and reckless
ambition—men who reg rd tho Government
sury, money beyond unr wants ? Why is it
that while nil petty States and great national
have difficulty m finding objects of taxation
capable of yielding a revenue equal In their
necessities, we are at n loss what to do with
the superabundant contents of wnr Treasury,
From the Mncnn Advertiser.
Mu. Slade,—By giving a placo in your
columns in the following letter, received by
Inst evcning’H mail, you will not only obligo
me, hut render as I conceive, nn essential ser
vice to tho country. It is a mattor of no small
and are embarrassed, not in selecting objects j gratulation lo me, that, while I am assailed by
of taxation, hot in determining ivhnt shall not j those who are comparatively “ mushroons of
he taxed ? W hat sends forth intelligence from ) modern growth,” 1 am sustained in my course
the centre of our country In its tar extremes by the “ gravo and reverend seigniors” of tho
Imosl with tho rapidity of the sun’s ravs ? | parly. DENNIS L. RYAN.
What secures to us fro a intercourse nnd free
trade between the several Slates ? What has
created new Stnles nnd cleared them of a sav
age population ? What makes us resported
hy civilized nations and protects our commerce
Iroin the depreciations of pirates and barba
rians ? What secures our exports from taxa
tion. erects ligitl-liouscs, imnrovos liarhors,
and builds fortifications ? What preserve* tho
inviolability ofcontruets, and furnishes us with
nil uniform currency in mined gold nnd silver?
Wlml, m lino, guarantees Iho independence of
our States and secures the liberty of onr peo
pie, civil uud religious ?
It is our UNION, onr glorious happy
UNION, which has wrought nil these won
ders nod increased all these blessings !
Whal do (ho Nnllifie.rs proposo to give us
for thm Union nnd its fruits? Whal do they
propose to give you, people of South Cnroli
na ? Their first great gift to von will ho
BLOODY WARS. The .Yation of South
Carolina must have her armies and her navies,
nnd sometimes Iter enemies. For tho smiles
of peneo and plenty which tho Union gives
her, she will sue occasionally a devastated
country and her cities in flames. Invading
armies will traverse her territory, r.ot like
peaceful clouds raining fatness, hut blasting
her fair fields with .showers of blood, l’cr-
chanco a war of the Helots may send ven
geance and murder into Iter bedchambers,
break up the very foundation uf her society,
nod leave Iter little better than n desolated
waste. But suppose that victory always por
ches upon the Palmetto nod glory encircles
the banner of South Carolina, whal then ?
Will her people be more blest ? Will she
even gain lhal free trade and no tariff for
which her leaders are preparing to sever her
from the Union? Her nrmtes nnd navies
must be paid. Glory cannol be purchased by
blood alone. It costs money also; it flourish
es in oppression and misery, in groans and
tears ; it makes the palace bright hul the col
lage gloomy. Impoverished farmers, and fa
thers, mothers bent down with grief, widows
in weeds and tears, are the hack grounds of
os Iheir right, und Ihc people ns their prey — L’J”™’ 8 l” c,lir, ‘’ S "\"° ^ nlh, ’ u "i or «'”>•« Me-
U;;- 1 .’!-by ar! ft n d intrigue lo deceive :he peo
ple und acquire dominion over the whole
Union, they sopk to divido il into parts that
they mav prey upon tho broken fragments I
Why nnd when was this Union formed
which toe Nullifiers would now madly de
stroy? Our fathers knew that the Stales could
not separately resist, with success, the usurpa
tions of the British crown. The ideas of re
sistance and of Union, originated together.—
A partial Union was effected before Iho com
mencement of the revolutionary war, which
bernmo more Ultimate in its prog-ess. In
union was the war commenced ; hi union was
independence proclaimed ; in union was li-
liery conquered and peaco re< ein d. W dll
out iiiiion the States would never have resist
ed, or if thpy had, would have been easily con
quered, one by one. To the union therefore
did our fntliers owe their independence and
liberty.
Peace came nnd the Union wns still mam-
luined. A few years’ experience proved that
iho terms of Union which had answered the
end during the pressure of war, were inade
quate to preserve liberty and pence after its
close. .Stales refused lo discharge their fed
eral duties according to the compact ; discon
tent and rebellion were spreading through the
land. Our great men became convinced, that
a more perfect Union” wns essential to pre
serve justice, liberty und peace, and to effect
il, devised our presonl constitution, which was
approved arid adopted by the people of llie se
veral States.
Since the adoption of that instrument, Imw
wonderful has linen our progre-s ! Our terri
tory has been more tlmn doubled. Our Stales
have increased from thirteen to twenty-four.—
Our population lias increased from aboul three
millions to thirteen. Oor wealth has nog-
nettled more than a hundred fold. Our peo-
pie are Jt tinguished for intelligence, enter-
prize, industry, ingenuity, comfort nnd general
morality, beyond any other people. We have
paid off th< debt accumulated in two expen
sive wurs, and are just ready In present our
selves lo the world a disenthralled and happv
people. Within llm three last years the taxes
on many nrtieles of consumption have been
reduced or repealed, nnd other material reduc
tions wdl soon he made. We have become
the envy nnd admiration of tho world, by the
signal success of our groat federal experiment.
Does the Union yield no benefits to our
people now, und promise none hereafter, that
we should throw it away like a child’s bauble ?
What is il that preserves perpetual ponce be
tween twenty-tour rival and sovereign slates?
What is it that makes one little army and one
little Navy udeqnato to the protection of twen
ty-four independent nations? What is it whieli
has enabled uato pay off our war debts hy dit
ties on imports alono, and bring into the Trca-
Duffie, or some Hamilton, may become n
great man, n warrior, a hero’; but will (lint
give South Carolina freo trade? Win re will
come the revenues to support the great man
and the instruments of his greatness f
Why, people of South Carolina, yon will
pay larifl’upon your imports nnd your exports,
taxes upon your negroes, your lands, yoor
houses, your furniture and your carriages ;
excised upon your bread and your drink ;
ground down to the very dust with taxes of all
sorts, forms nnd names, a thousand times
more oppressive lliun yoor orators pain- the
piescnl lanff. You will have custom liosses
upon every road leading into nn adjoining
Stale, with tlieo armies of attendants; your
post office establishment must lie confined to
your own liinita ; letters will ho charged with
many limes their present rates, and correspon
deuce with other Stales obstructed if not cut
off. All these independent establishments,
armies, navies, custom house nfliuirs, excise
men, postmasters, See. &c. must be supported
out of the toil and sweat id' the penplo of
South Carolina, Anil fur whal? To gel rid
of an oppressive tariff? No, for she would
bring »n her-ulf oppressions u thousand times
more heavy. No; it is not to get rid of the
tariff II is to make more great men to feed
on the people. It is lo enable those who can
not teed upon the people of the United Stnten,
to feed on those of South Carolina. We have
not governments enough fur our great men ;
the people are not ground down enough;
enough of llictr substance is not filched from
them to support fiery ambition and princely
Millcdgeville, Dec. 5, 1832.
n'ootl Lawn, 29/A Nov. 1832.
NIy Dear Sir,—I perceive from (he News-
papers that you have iulroduced a bill for call
ing a Southern Convention, with a view to
counteract the proceedings of the nullifying
Convention. I thank you for tho effort which
you liavo made, and hope that your further ef
forts will ho crowned with success. Itis dif
ficult to determine who is the must intrepid in
the race of inconsistency ; the Governor or
Col. Berrien. The former after laying down
abstract principles in his message which it is
presumed will satisfy tho wildest nulltfier in
South Curnhna, comes out with an express
denunciation of nullification, because he says
it is a mystery he cannot comprehend. If the
reason for the rejection of nullification ahould
he applied hy the Governor to almost any sub
ject in etlucs, philosophy, or politics, he would
find himself utmost n Pyrrhonist, for there is
scarcely a subject in those ample branches of
liumnii knowledge, In which he might not tio
tilde In make the same objection, viz: thal he
did not romprehend them. The Governor
ought, I think, to be allowed credit for his de
nunciation ; for lie has placed it in such /njttn-
position willi his nullification premises, that ho
seems to have courted the enviable distinction
of being conspicuously inconsistent. The
Col. although he has not manifestly courted
the distinction which tho Governor has sought
with a degree of intrepidity rarely displayed by
a soltlior in storming a hotlcry, is nevertheless
entitled at least, to n wreath of the crown with
which tho Governor has with so much gallant
ry encircled his brow. Tho Col. on the 1st
lay of August last at Athens, declared lus
hostility to nullification; that declaration
has been repeated at various times and under
various circumstances down to tho second
Saturday in November, only two days before
tlto meeting of the Convention, yet in Ilia
course of iho next week, lie presents the Con
vention, with the following resolution, viz;
uib, “ That it isesaen'inl to u confederated
government, the powers of which are express
ly limited by the C institution which created it,
that there should exist somewhere a power
aiitlioriiatively lo interpret that instrument, to
du m the last resort on the use or abuse of
llm authority, which it confers on the common
agent of the confederated Slates ; that sorli
power cannot belong to Iho agent, sinco that
would ho (o substitute bis judgment for the
constitutional limitation, nnd that in the nli-
soneo of n common nr Idler expressly designa
ted by the Constitution for llits purpose, each
Stale ns su< li in virtue of its sovereignly,is ne
cessarily reunited lo tho exercise of that
right.”
If the foregoing resolution dors not recog
nise the right uf nullification as broadly and
explicitly as the most visionary nullificrin S.
Carolina desires it, then I am no judge of Ilia
English language. But ibis is not tho only
inconsistency Ctd. Berrien’s resolutions in
volve him in. The last printed speoch of Itis
which lias boon seen by tne, was delivered in
the county of Burke; in thut speech he oppo
sed a Southern Convention and declared it to
bn unconstitutional, unless il was intended to
be consullntivo nod recommendatory only, in
which enso it might bo harmless from its im
becility. Among the resolutions adopted hy
the Convention (drafted as it is understood hy
Col. Berrien,) n Southern Convention' is ro-
commended without specifying the numhor
of Stnles nceessury lo form such Con
vention, or defining with precision its powers
arid duties. Is this Convention to be consul
tative and recommendatory only? Then in
tho language of the Col. ol Bnrke, it is imbe
cile nod therefore harmless. Is it to assume
indolence. The Union must lie destroyed to n different chancier and act a different part ?
make more government* that the people m ty | Then tho Col. lias declared it to bo unconali-
have more rulers. Those who eutmnl rul.i m \ imiunal. Is it possible Hint the people of
W ashing ton, inay he able lo ndu in Charleston. Georgia who huvo chosen a Convention to
They most destroy our prosperity, llint they deliberate upon the moat eligible plan lo re-
nuy reap gh'ry from the people's misery.— j lieve themselves from the evils they have suf-
Rather than live obscurely in Heaven, they ferred for more than sixteen years, and are
would change it into Hell, that they may he
the rulers of the miserable.
Wlml separation from the Union would he
to South Carolina, it would be, more or less,
to every other Stale. All must have their se
parate establishments, military nnd civil ; nnd
our penplo would lie reduced hy wars, and
taxation, to the condition of British paupers,
while all the profits uf iheir labor beyond a
Imre support, would go In support those who
would ride them “ hooted nod spurred.”
In contemplating these results, who will not
say. with onr patriotic Chief Magistrate, “ The
Federal Union must be preserved /" Who wdl
not resolve to preserve it, if need be, with his
life, his fortune, and his sacred honor l” -
Al a public meeting held at Edinburg on the
12th October, llm stun of 81884 was sobacri-
lied hy twenty-four individuals, for a monument
to Sir Walter Scott.
still suffering, will approve nf a measure which
Us uulhoHias publicly pronounced unconstitu
tional nr tmhccilu ? I trust not. I think I
know the people of Georgia belter thmn the
Colonel. They will not approve of an urieon-
stilutional measure as long na there remains a
constitutional one unexhausted, and they will
approve of an imbecile measure under no cir-
curnslancns. Such a measure can never ho
right, ean never he acceptihle to an enlighten
ed nnd free people. It is not tny intention to
endeavor to discover Col. Berrien’s motives
m the maze of inconsistency into which ho
has fallen, and hua had the misfortune to
draw others. Ilis followers, if Ihey had time
to have reflected,* and lo have collected the ev-
deuce of his inconsistencies, would doubtless
have nhunduned him and his resolutions to tho
public scorn and contempt which in the end
will inevitably overwhelm them. Nothing
hut n desire that the delusion which prevail q
