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Observed all tiu pre-requisites of the Lav
in that respect.” H 're then it is seen,
that unless the President is lesolved to
disregard all constitutional obligations,
find to trample the laws of his c/>tintry
under his feet, ho has no authority what
ever to use forco against the State of S.
Carolina, and should Ire attempt to do so,
the patriotic citizens of this State, know
too well their mvn rights,arid have too sa
cred a regaid to their duties, to hesitate
one moment, in repelling invasion, Como
from what quarter it may. Could they
be deterred by tire tiirp.its of lawless vio
lence, or any apprehension of consequen
ces, from ilia faithful performance of their
duty, they would feel that they were the
siuworty desendauts of the “ Pinckneys,
1 Sonnets, and Ifutledges, and a thousand
other names which adorn the pages of our
!Revolutionary History,” some of whom
have just gotift from among u*, and been
gathered to their fathers, leaving as a leg.
;ncy their solemn injunction that we should
Ynever abandon (bis contest until we shall
'have obtained “ a fresh understanding of
Mhe bargain .” and restored the liberties
for which they fought and bled. Others
I still linger among is, animating us by
their example, and exhorting us to main
tain that “solemn Ordinance and Decla
ration,” which they have subscribed with
their own names, and in support of which
. they have “pledged their lives, their for
tunes, and their sacred honor.”
The annals which record the struggles of frec
; dom, show us that Rulers in every age and eve
' rv country, jealous of their power, have leeurt
, ed to the veiy same means to eztinguisii in tha
bosom of man that noble instinct of Liberty
y which pr mpts him to resist oppression The
■system by which Tyrants in every age have at
tempted to obliterate this sentiment and.to crush
the spirit of the people, consists in the skilful
employment of promises and threats, in alter
nate courts to encourage tlipir hopes and excite
their fears-*-to sh »w that existing evils are exag
gerated, the danger of resistance great—ami the
' difficulties in the way of suocess insuperable;
t and finally to sow dissenfinns among the people
M creatine jealousies and exciting a distrust of |
those whose counsels and example may he sup
posed to iiave an important bearing on the Suc
cess of their cause.
These, with animated appeals to (he loyalty of
the people, and an imposing arriy of military
i'foi ce, constitute the means I<y which the people
* have' in eVery age been reduced to slavery.—
When ive turn to the p age* of our own history,
we‘frill that such were the measures resorted to
at the commencement of our own glorious revo
l imroit, toKeep onr fathers in subjection to Great
Br itain’ ; and such are the means now used to in
, tl.ice jhe people of Carolina to ‘'retrace their
and to remain forever degraded colon
* hts, governed not in reference to their own in
terests hut the interests of others. Our Fathers
?’ were told, as we now are, that their grievances:
were in a great measure imaginary. They were
; promised, ns we have lierhi that those'griwvaii
«,«* should lie redressed. They were toll, as we
t i’vow are, that the people were misled liy a few
designing men, whose object was n dissolution
of the Union, and their own s-df nggian dse
men*,—They were told, ns we now are, of the
Danger that would tie inclined by disobedience
to the Laws.—The power and resources of the
Mother Country were then, ns now, ostentatious
ly displayed in insulting contrast with the scat
tercil population and feeble resources on which
sve could alone rely. And the pu'iisjmient due
\ i Treason and Rebellion were held out as the
certain fate of all who should disregard thg pa
1, tern il efforts of their Royal Master f> luiog
Lack his erring children to tire arms of their in
♦lulgent Mother They were commanded, as
we hove been, to “retrace (heir steps.” But
though divided anion.g' themselves to a greater
extent than'we are now, without an organiz 'd.
Government, and destitute of arm? and resour
ces of every description, they bhl defiance to the
tyrant's power, and refused obedience to his
'commands They incurred the legal guilt of
Rebellion, and braved the-dangers, b itli of the
scaffold and the field, in opposition to tire colov
sal power of their acknowledged sovereign, ra
ther than submit to the imposition of taxes light
end inconsiderable in themselves-, but imposed
sifithnnl their content Jo: the benefit of o'hers
And what is our present condition? \Ve have, an
organized Government and a population three
times as great as that which existed 1 in '76. We
are maintaining not only the rights and liberties
of the people, buV the Sovereignly of our own
State, against whose authority rebellion may he
committed.'but in obedience to whose comm unis
no man can commit treason. We are struggling
Bgainst*unconstitutional and oppressive taxation
imposed upon us, noi only without our consent,
but in defiance of our repeated remonstrances
and solemn protests. In such a quarrel our dti
ty to our country, ourselves, and our posterity,
is too plain to he mistaken. We will stand up
on the soil of Carolina and maintain the snver
igu authority of the Slate, or be buried beneath
iis ruins. As unhappy Poland fell before the
power of the Autocrat, so may Carolina be
crushed by the power of her enemies,—but Po
land was not suirounded by free and Indepen
dent States, interested, like herself, in prevent
ing the establishment of the very tyranny which
■fhey are culled upon to impose upon a sister
State. If in sjdte of our common kindred, and
common interests, the glorious recollections of
the past, and the proud hopes of the future
South Carolina should be coldly abandoned to
her fate, and reduced to subjection, by an unho
ly combination among Irer sister States—which
is believed to lie utterly impossible—and'the
doctrines prnmulg ited by the President, are to
become toe found nfons of anew system ceoleu-
Tod by the blood of our oUz :ii.<, it m nters not
what may lie our loi Under such a govern
meuf, as there could be no liberty, so there
could be no security either Ibr our persons or
nur property
But there it one consolation, of wli ch in the
providence of God no people can be deprived
vyi,(limit ilicii ow i consent Toe proud con
sciousness of having done their duty, l-'f our
Country mint be enslaved let her not be dishon
ored by her mvn sons ! Let them riot -‘Jo'gb
the chains themselots by ichicli their liberties are
be. manacled.”
. The President has ir.tiinated in hh Pi'oclani.t
fip.ii* that a “ standing army” is about to be rais
•ed to carry secession ipto effect. South Caroli
lia tlesire* tltat.her true position shall be clearly
understood lyoth at home, and abroad. Her ob
ject is not “i-Usunipn”—she has raised no “ stand
jog army.” and if driyen to repel invasion or re
sist aggression, she will bo su by the strong arms
aiulstout hearts of ber citiz-ns. South Carolina
has solemnly proclaimed her purpose; that pur
pose is the vindication of her rights. She has
professed a sincere attachment to the Union; and
that.to the utmost nf her power she will endeavor
to preserve it, “but believes that for tnis end, it
is Iter duty to watch over and oppose any inl’r.tc
(too of ihose, principle* which constitute the o-iiy
basis oftbat jiWiun, because a faithful observance
of them can.a'one secure its existence; that she
venerates the constitution and will protect and
defend it “ against every aggression either for
eign or domestic,” but above all, that slie'esii
mates as beyond all price her i.tB«RTr. which
she is unalterably determined never to surrender
while she has thejiower to maintain it.”
The President denies in the most positive
terms the right ofa Stat under any circumstan
ces to secede from the Uniou, au-l puts this de
nial on the ground “that from the lime the State
parted with so many phwers as to constitute
jointly with the ntlibr States a single nati >n.
they cannot from tIM period possess any right
foseoede ” What then remains of those “rigid*
of the States’’ for which the Picsidcnt professes
so ‘'high a reverence.*’— in what do they con
sist ? And hy & hat tenure are they hfeld ? The
nnContioiled will of the federal gov<rument
Like any other petty corporation, the States
may ex> i t such pow rs anti Such only as may
lie permitted hy theft superiors. When they
s'tep beyond these limits, even a federal officer
will set at nought their decrees, repeal their
solemn ordiances, — proclaim their citizens to be
Traitors, and tetluce them to subjection by mil
itary force, and if driven to. desperation, they
sltould seek a refuge in secession they are to be
told that they have hound themselves to those
who have perpetiated or permitted these enor
mities, in the iron bonds of a" perpetual Un
ion,”
if these principles could lie established, then
indeed would the days of our liberty be number
ed, anti t lie Republic would have found a Mas
TKtt. If South Carol pm had nett already taken
her stand against the usurpation of the federal
government, here would liave been an occasion,
when she must have felt hetself impelled by eve
ry impitj ve of patriotism and every sentiment of
duty, to stand forth, in open defiance to the arbi
trary decrees of the Executive, when a sovereign
Slate is denounced, her authority derided, the at
legiafice of her citizens denied, and she is tin eat
eued with military power tn reduce her to obedi
ence to the will of one of the functionaries of the
federal government, hy whom she is commanded,
to ‘ tear from her archives” her most solemn
decrees—surely the time lias come when it must
tie seen whether the people of the several States
have indeed lost the spirit of the revolution, and
whether they are to become the willing instru
ments of an unhallowed despotism In such a
sacred cause South Carolina wilt feel that she is
Striking not for her own, hut for the libcrtMß of
the Union, and the rights of man, and she confi
dently trusts that the issue of this contest will he
an example to freemen, and a lesson to tulers
through >ut the wot Id.
FelloyLCitizens —ln the name and behalf of
the State of South Carolina, I do once more so
lemnly warn yon against all attempts to seduce
you from your primary allegiance to the State —
I charge you to be faithful to-your duty as citi
zens of South Carolina, find earnestly exhort
you to disregard those “ vain menaces” of mili
tary force, which, if the President, in violation
of all his constitutional obligations, and of your
most sacred right*, should be tempted to employ,
it would become your solemn duty, at all haz
ards, to resist. I require you to he fully prepar
ed, to sustain the dignity ami protect the liberties
of the State, if need bfc, tvith your “ lives and
fortunes.” And may that great and good Being,
who, ns a “ father careth for his Children.” in
spire us with that holy zeal is a good cause.
which is the best safeguard of our Rights and
Liberties.
‘ln testimony whereof, t have caused the Seal
of the State to be hereunto affixed, and
have signed the same with my ham!.
■fL S■)^ onp ’ at Columbia;' this twentieth day of
■ ' ■ -*December, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty twe,
and in the Independence of the United
States the fifty-seventh
Rouestt y, iuyne.
By the Governor ;
Samuel Hammond,
Secretary of Slate.
.Proceeding-!* of the Union Convention at
Columbia.
THE REPORT of the -Committee of the U
iiion and State Rights Convention now as
sembled at Columbia,- Ur whom was referred
the Ordinance of Nullification, and certain
Resolutions of the Union Party in relation
thereto'.
The documents which have been referred to.
your Committee, disclose the character of Nul
lification, and the Spirit and sentiments of the.
Union pfcrty; And your Chmrttittee have no
hesitation in saying, that the “progress of* Nulli
fication has amply justified the friends of the
Union in denouncing it as revolutionary, and
destructive of liberty.
The Ordinance of the State Convention has
presented the doctrine to the world in all its de
formity ; stripped of the- thin veil of sophistry
which formerly covered its revolting features.
The provisions of this Ordinance, as respects
the relations between the’State and the United
States, are too revolutionary to be mistaken.—
The laws of the Union are no longerto be en
forced in South Carolina. The cognizance of’
cases in which the United Btatcs are a party,
is withdrawn from the Federal aud given to the
State tribunals. In these tribunals, every judge
and juror is to be sworn to decide against the
United Staes. The 25th section of the Judi
ciary Act is nullified—and haying thus iri ef
fect precluded the Federal Government from
the civil tribunals, the Ordinance further de
clares, that if-Congress or the Federal Execu
tive should proceed in any other way than thro’
those tribunals, the State will secede from the
Union. The firrt blow is struck with a declara
tion that any retaliatory measure shall he fol
lowed by a formal secession. No hardihood of
assertion will be found equal to the task of re
conciling this Ordinance with the professions of
those who have taught the people that Nunifi
cation is a peaceful constitutional remedy. It
is not only revolutionary but essentially bellige
rent. The natural consequences are civil war
and disunion—and the mere possibility that is
left of averting this catastrophe, in no degree
alters the character of the measure. For so
the occupation of territory, or the issuing of
letters of m-irque and reprisal, might end in
submission to the demands of the assailant,
and terror supply the place of arms ; but it is
idle to deny that these are hostile enterprises.
How they will be received and met by the Gen
eral Government, we will not anticipate, but
we cannot regard the threatened destruction of
a mild and rational system of liberty, without
apprehensions of the keqpest anxiety.
If Nullification is revolutionary and hostile"
to the General Government—in- relation to the
Union party, it betrays all the"features of an
odious tyranny, and evinces that • its progress
will be as fatal to. liberty as it is to the Federal.
Constitution. Biit another step of the domi-
nant party is wanting to put the friends of the
Union, so far g.s the. State authorities are con
cerned, entirely out of the protection of the'
law. It was only necessary to declare that the |
test oath should be taken by every individual, |
aud that a refusal to do so, should constitute a i
forfeiture of life at goods, as they have declar- j
cd that it shall be taken by every officer, under (
pain of a forfeiture of office, without trial, aud
upwards of 17,900 voters would have been at
once, exposed to a sweeping outlawry. Nor
j would there be the smallest difference in prin- j
ciple between the two cases, as there is no J
more color of justice or of right in depriving
■any one of an office against the terms on which
it was granted, and without trial, than in depriv
ing him, in the same manner, of his life or of
his estate. The Convention have assumed to
do this, on the ground that they are above the
Constitution and the law, which is a tyrannical
exercise of a despotic power. ‘ The power is
despotic, because it submits to no rule ; and it
i is tyrannical, because the act which it requires
j of the citizen is contrary to his oath of allegi
ance to the United States.
Under the Constitution of the United States,
the liberty of the citizen is doubly guarded.—
Not only. are the Executive, Legislative and
Judicial authorities distributed, as in all free.
Governments, between different departments;
but the civil power itself is still further restrain
! ed by being divided between two Governments
■ State and Federal—to the total exclusion of
j that mad and arrogant domination, which
knows no limits but its own w-ill. But the in
estimable securities of a system thus emphati
cally established to maintain justice—give rise
to corresponding duties ; and when power en
croaches upon power, the same institutions
which serve the cause of liberty, are made to
aggravate the evils which tyranny imposes.—
No one denies the omnipotence of Parliament;
because it is an established principle of the Bri
tish Constitution. But the omnipotence of the
State of South Carolina is announced for the
first time, by the rescript of the Convention, in
language as new as it is imperious. No man
can take the oath which the Convention re
quires, but he that believes the Constitution to
be a rope of sand, and the alternative is be
tween violating his allegiance to the IT. States,
and disobeying the menacing commands of the
State authorities.
Whether we are bound to thei Constitution
of the United States by the tie of allegiance,
depends upon the fact of being citizens of the
United States—and. those who deny any such
allegiance, are driven to the extremity of con
tending, either that the Federal Union is no Go
vernment, or that the Government of the Unit
ed States has no citizens. But to deny, the ex
istence of the Government, Is to reject truth al
together, and a Government without citizens or
subjects, is a solecism in language which ren
ders exposure unnecessary. Atid if there be
any legal tic between the citizens and the Gen
eral Government, a Convention of the people,
of South Carolina can no more dissolve or re
lease it, than the Legislature ; for whatever be
their power over the Constitution of the State,
they cannot alter tb'fe Constitution of the United
States. The proceedings of the Convention
are indeed entirely anomalous. The proper
function of a Convention is to organise govern
ment, and establish institutions for securing the
great principled of liberty and justice ; but they
have in fact trampled on the Constitution .of the
State without altering it. They have not de
vised constitutional rules for the action of the
State Government,- but authorised and com
manded a violation of those rules which have
hitherto been held sacred. And their Ordi
nance resembles more the proclamation of a
monarch ordering and commanding his will to
be done in certain..fnatterd, executive,legisla
tive and judicial, than an act intended to settle
the principles of a free govetnment.
If the Federal Government was at an end,
the provisions of the Ordinance, however un
just and severe, might be lawful, but as long as
the State is a member of the Union, as long as
we are citizens of the United States, an act
like that passed by the Convention, is the as
sumption of power against law and right. The
Ordinance is therefore nothing more than the
declaration of the will and determination of the
ruling powers of South Carolina, to which our
obedience is commanded in the language of
despotism.
Nor cun it be said, that these proceeding are
formally a secession Union, and jus
tifiable as a result to the principle of resistance.
For in fact the people have been induced to
give their sanction to Nullification upon the
most solemn assurance of its- being a conserva
tive, not a revolutionary measure. Can any
man pretend to say that the sense of the good
people of this State lias ever been taken upon
the question of secession! And can there be a
' deception more gross than to rend this confed
erate Republic into fragments, and set up the
flag of anarchy, under the pretence of main
taining the Union, and prosecuting a redress of
grievances in a peaceful manner 1 By the same
rule they might have sold the State into foreign
bondage, or delivered us up to the colonial yoke
from which we were freed by the united arms
and counsels of America. And is there no
duty on the part of the citizen to cling to the
defence of the Constitution, when its pillars are
shaken ? Can it be possible that all the defence
of Freedom shall he surrendered with tame in
difference to the first, enemy that surprizes the
garrison J No the defence of the Constitution
.s the defence of Liberty itself; a duty from
which no man can excuse himself, on account
of the arduous nature of the service. The peo
ple have been misled—they have listened to
those who “ prophecy smooth things to
them ;” and now to warn them of their dan
ger, to speak unwelcome truths, and show how
infinitely the dangers of Nullification exceed
the importance of the evils for which it is pro
posed as a remedy, is an arduous duty, but one
to which no real lover of his country can hesitate
to devote himself. Nor can we doubt that the
exasperation of the people will moderate, and
that they will consider the question of secession
with more calmness, seeing, that the great ex
citement which now prevails,- arises principally
from a theoretical dispute. The new thorv of
the South Carolina politicians, that the producer
pays the duty, has had more influence in pro
voking the public mind, than all others causes
put together. It will be a most melancholy
fact, if a plan of ration al constitutional govern
ment, which has’ done so much, and promises so
fair for the happiness of mankind, should fall a
sacrifice to a speculation, and to an erroneous
speculation. That the idea is erroneous, and
that the error is easily detected, will be seldom
denied except by those who have adopted the
doctrine as an article 6f faith.
The argument ihat the Planter is the producer
of the merchandize fol - which his crop is des
tined to be exchanged, and the fallacy of the
opinion consists in considering the merchant as
the agent of the planter. It is just as reasonable
to assume that the planter is the agent of the
merchant. If there were no duties on foreign
manufactures, the planter would sell It's crop as
he now does, and fbr no greator price. The mer
chant would sell his goods for a. profit as he doos
now; but as some goods would come into mar
ket at less —and in this way the planter, in com
mon with every other consumer, would gain; but
he would have no more inducement to turn mer
chant then because goods would be cheap, than
to do so now# because they are high. The pos
session of cotton 1 has no'more tendency to make
one a merchant than the possession of so much
money,or any thing else tiiat may bo sold or ex
changed. If’the protecting duties were abolish
ed the European merchant would bring more
goods to Charleston, and the Northern mer
chant less; but free trade wauld no more con
vert planters into merchants, than the restrictive
system into manufacturers. In the same way, by
assuming that the merchant is the planter* the
conclusion is drawn that a duty on imports is
equal ta a duty on exports. It is true that if a per
son under the protecting system were to pay an
export duty on his c'dtton, and import his goods
duty fire—the result would be the same as if the
duty had been paid on the goods. But this does
not prove that a duty on imports is equivalent
i to a duty on exports; for in the case supposed,
i the cotton, though taxed, is sold as if it was free
—and the goods free as if protecting duty had
been actually levied upon them.
But if the system was changed, and exports
were taxed, and goods admitted duty free; cot
; ton would fall in price to the extent of the duty
; imposed ; and goods would be cheaper in por
' portion to the duty taken off' In the fall of cot
| ton the planter would sustain the whole burthen,
but the gain arising from cheap goods he would
only share with the rest of the community. The
objections to the protecting system are abundant
ly sufficient to justify vigorous and unceasing
opposition—but to regard them as a justiftcaton
of revolution, .amounts to the wildest extrava
gancy of opinion. Should we be called db Ators
of the TarifFbecause vve are unwailling - to over-,
turn the Government 5 With as much reason
may the lawgiver be reproached with the en
couragement of crime, because every offence
is not visited with the last serverity of the law.
Our obedience has been challenged to Nulli
fiication as a duty to the State which protection
imposes. We acknowledge the principle in all
things lawful, and shall not forcibly obstruct, the
constituted authorities ofthe State, as long as we
lire protected by the laws. It is not tine,' how
ever, that we owe all allegiance exclusively to
the State ; or that we are indebted to the State
alone for protection by the U. States- in peace
and hi war.' Nor is the Union less efficient in
the protection ofthe Citizen, though it operates
silently, by preventing thoss scents of proscrip
tion, cofiscatioh ‘ail’d new made treason, of
which till now we have happily been ignorant;
and which indeed we never have heard till the
Union itself was in danger.—We do not believe
that a majority oftlie good people of this State
approved of secession, or meditate violence
against their fellow-citizens of the Union Party.
YVe shall therefore not interfere to prevent the
legislative regulations of hulification from being
executed by such constiutional and peaceable
means as the authorities may be able to employ :
Protesting always against their injustice, and
always in our behalf the reason of our
fellow-citizens and their natural detestation of
tyranny: Nor shall we be driven from the position
of peaceable citizens, by any thing short Os
intolerable oppression.
Your Committee therefore recommend the adop
tion ofthe Protest and Remonstrance herewith
reporter!.
REMONSTRANCE VM> PROTEST
OF THE
UNION AND STATE RIGHTS’ PARTY.
THE UNION and STATE RIGHTS
PARTY of South Carolina, assembled
iu Convention, do REMONSTRATE and
Solemnly protest against the
Ordinance passed by the State Convention,
on the 24th day of November last,
Ist. Because the People of South Caro
lina elected Delegates to the said Conven
tion under the solemn assurance that these
delegates would do no more than devise a
peaceable and constitutional remedy for
the evils of the protective tariff, without
endangering the Union of these States.—
Instead of which, that convention has pass
ed an Ordinance in direct violation of all
these pledges.
2. Because the said Ordinance has in
sidiously assailed one of the inalienable
rights of man, by endeavoring to enslave
all freedom ol’ conscience by that tyranni
cal engine of power —a Test Oath.
3. Because it has disfranchised and pro
scribed nearly one half of the Freemen of
South Carolina for an honest difference of
opinion, bv declaring that those whose con
sciences will not permit them to take the
test oath, shall be deprived of every office,
civil and military. y
4. Because it has trampled under foot
the great principles of Liberty secured to
the citizen by the Constitution of this State,
In depriving the freemen of this country of
the right to an impartial trial by Jury,
thereby violating that clause of the consti
tution intended to be perpetual, which de
clares that “The trial by Jury as hereto
fore used in this State, and the liberty of
the Press shall be forever inviolably pre
served.”
sth. Because it has violated the inde
pendence guarantied to the Judiciary, by
enacting that the Judges shall take a revolt
ing test oath, or be arbitrarily removed from
office, thereby depriving them of the privi
lege of trial by impeachment, which by the
cOnstitutior of the State is intended to be
secured to every civil oflicer. '
6th. Because the Ordinance has direct
ly violated the Constitution of the U. S.
which gives authority to Congress, to col
lect. revenue, in 'forbidding the collection
of any revenue within the limits of S- C.
7tli. Because it has violated the same
Constitution, in that provision of it which
declares that no preference shall be given
to one Port over any other in the U. S. by
enacting that goods shall be imported into
the Ports of S. C. without paying any du
ties.
Bth. Because it violates Hie same Con
stitution, and tramples upon the RIGHTS
of the citizen by denying him.the privilege
of appeal in cases in Law and Equity ari
sing under the Constitution arid Laws of
the Union.
9th. Because it has virtually destroyed
the Union, by carefully preventing the
General'Government from’ enforcing their
laws through the civil tribunals of the
cduntry, and then enacting that if that Go
vernment should'pursue atiy other mode to
enforce them, then this 1 State shall ho no
longer a member of the Union.
10th. Because the tyranny and oppres
sion inflicted by this Ordinance, are of a
character so revolting, and the effects anti
cipated from it so ruinous, that the com
merce and Credit of the’Slate- are already"
sensibly affected and will soon be prostra
ted; ana its peaceable and industrious citi
zens are driven from their homes to sec.k
-tranquility in some other State,
The Union Party of S. C. in Conven
tion assembled, do further remonstrate and
solemnly protest against the. project of a
Standing Army, proposed by the party in
power, as dangerous to the liberties of the
people. They would respectfully ask their
fellow citizens, whether such an army must
not be confessedly inadequate to protect the
Nullification Party, against the People of
the rest of the U. S- should they resolve to*
coerce them. What other object there
fore can such a force accomplish than to
serve as an instrument of tyranny, over
their fellow citizens?
This Convention doth further protest,
against any eflbrt, by a system of Con
scription, to force the citizens of the State
from their tire sides and their homes, to
take up arms, and incur the pains aud pe
nalties of Treason, in support of a doc
trine which the people were assured was
pacific in its nature and utterly inconsistent
with any idea of danger to the Constitution
or the Union.
Solemnly remonstrating, as they hereby
do, against the above mentioned grievan
ces, The Union Party would further ex
press their FIRM DETERMINATION, to main*
tain the principles which have ever been
the ruieSof their conduct: and whiU; on the
other It arid, they will continue theio unfai-
tcring opposition to the protective tariffs,
so on the other they will not be driven
from the cnjo.ym.eut of those inalienable
rights which by inheritance belong'fo eve*
ry American Citizen. Disclaiming there
fore all intention of lawless or insurrection
ary violencdj tlfoy• hereby proclaim their
determination to protect their rights by all
legal ami constitutional means, and that in
doing so they will continue Id maintain the
character of peaceable Citizens, Unless
compelled to throw it aside by intolerable
oppression.
THOMAS TAYLOR, President.
HENRY MIDDLETON,")
DAVID JOHNSON," I XT n .. .
RTCfPD I. MANNING, f v ’ Pre6ldon,fa ’
STARLING TUCKER, J
ALFRED M. LOWRY,
H. E. LYNCH,
BENJ. MASSEY,
B. S. MASSEY,
C. G. MRMMINGER,
WM. MORROW ,
ALEX. MOULTRIE,
JAS. MOULTRIE, Jr.
JOSEPH MICIIAL,
ALEX. MILLER,
RICH. T. MORRISON,
R ll MONTGOMERY,
J. MONTGOMERY,
C. MA YIIANT,
JNO. D. A. MURPHY,
NORMAN MLEOD,
JOHN MTV EE, >
THOMAS MLURE,
ADA TN. M'LADEN,
D, M DO WELL,
GORDAN MOORE,
WIL LIA M M I VIL L IE,
JOHN M LEMOHE,
J. E. M CASKILL,
DAVID MYERS,
If A VID M'CALL A,
A. M. MIVEIi,
CHAS. NEELY,
WM. O. NIXON,
JEPTHA NORTON, -
JOS. B. NETTLES';
JOHN B. O'NEALE,
JAMES O'll AN LON,
J. L. PETIGUU,
RENJ. F. PEPOON,
JOHN PHILLIPS,
R. PHILLIPS,
‘JOHN IV. PICKETT
J. R. POINSETT,
R. ALEXANDER,
MATH. ALLEN,
JAMES ALLSTON,
B. G. ALLSTON,
SAM'L BACOTt .
JNO. BARRILLON,
ANDREW BARRY,
J. S. BELLINGER,
THU S BENNETT,
MICAJAM BERRY,
SIMPSON BUBO,
JACQ'S BISHOP,
JOHN BRADLEY,
JAMES BRADLEY,
GEORGE BUST.
CHR. BREITHAIIPT,
JOHN J. BULOW,
IV’. 11. BURGES ,
D. C. CAMPBELL,
JAS. B. CAMPBELL,
CIIAS. R. CARROLL,
KASHA CANNON,
JOHN CANNON,
WM. CHAPMAN,
M. N. CHAPMAN,
JAMES CHESNI TANARUS, ■
JOHN bIIESNUT,
WILSON COBB ,
THOS. CORBETT, Jr.
M. CLINTON,
JNO. A. CRAWFORD,
JOHN CRAWFORD,
JOHM M. CROOK,
JOS. J. CROSBY,
GEO. IV. CROSS,
HENRY COBB,
DAVID DANTZLER,
JOHN N. DAVIS,
E. S. DA VIS,
ABB. DELEON,
11. A. DESAUSSURE,
JOHN DODD,
LEONARD DOZIER,
MIDDEN DUBOSE,
BENJ. DUNHAM,
JOHN IV. DURANT,
H. FADDY,
THE RON EARLE,
JAMES R. ERVIN,
ROBERT ERVIN,
S. N. EVINS,
JOSEPH G- EVETT,
DAVID EWART,
JAMES EYLAND,
MANLEY FORI),
I>ETE R IV. FR A SER,
TIIOS. FRASER,
E. N. GAITHER.
JABEZ GALT,
JAMES R. GIBSON,
GEORGE GILL, Sen.
JOSEPH GRISHAM,
THOS. F. G A USE,
BENJAMIN CAUSE,
THOS. GARRETT,
11. D. GREEN,
BURR H. HEAD,
WM. HEATH,
ElhV D T.JIERIOT,
Daniel e huger,
JAMES HOPKINS,
rv, C. HIGHBORN,
II AND ELL. HUNT,
J. K. HOOD,
J). Si HADLEE.;
JOHN 11. HARRISON,
WM. HAYNSWORTH
ROBERT JACKSON,
D. D. KANE;
JOS]AH KILGORE,
MITCHELL KING,.
JOHN J. KNOX,
JOSEPH KOG ER. Jr.
U ILHAM LANCE,
THOMAS I.EE, Jr.
DANIEL LEG ARE,
JOHN B. LEG ARE,
CHAPMAN LE VF,
Donn at Columbia, on Friday, the 1 4th day of De
reinbr-r, in the year of oar LoW .dhp thousand tight
hunched and thirty-two, mid in tfu: Fifty-seventh year
of tin Ihdependcnetf of the United States of America.
Attest :
FRANLTN J. MOSES,
JAMES EDWARD HENRY,
, Sfef*r.?tii;-ies qf ConYeiiiidh.
ip *n«**«® .ii»i n'
J AIJGLSTA.^
MONDAY, DISC 34, 1832.
I.t (>-. (ter (lull l:-r iniiwpes of our offi e in iy
have I'.jiVt f rt:< reeUi/t,! . ft uni Ibe (lull iltilie# of
(Iveir trade, we -luiil not i>another piijify be.
I f.e l-'ci lay. to lire lin-g > lime, we teiuler pm
r a.fc'dt anil f i - I «fk the compliments of the Sen
son an’d »vi»j theui a happy Glil istmus.
(j T \Ye regret we r old net <-ive imr f i -nils
tn-.fr. ,t<>.i end linn w« ion: tn-ibiy. In oilier lo
ea!c>- u i tor ild and jirancy inside, we have placed
th - Aitdr/sx nflhe < oinntitite appointed liy those
Dele-sat rs id to s ttd dfr on lhr. title loh vent inn.
on the opisi - Hang out In-line,B on (lie Oilier
wall/ you know-.
The sentence «.i tiuCiAv. tin frm bih-ut Lotieiy
Coiiiiinssiouer, i- ib-privittbu ui Ulli.c and dis
iVapiliisi mini far 20 years’.
Two new Xnt' liyir.ii'oH papers have mailt- their
appearance siinuii.iua.iiw! v, one i.i Mobile the
oilier in fuse lions i. Alabama is to he carried
by siuiiii li may turn out like.the one Clayton
iaEcU hi Inis stain —storm i » ;< tea-pot,
Our oj.i iion nf ilia c' „tneter of t!>e 3-mlli Ca
l' l.na OrJin.-i'M-';, and the laws passed in obedi
ence to it, it. ig Hut necessary to.re-pda!. Ahhoi
•h*: ocnate, urijed by the li'i»ru!itv and eloquence
of onr friend Ini. Buj'leu whs nuainsi I heir, pro
sciiptinn, the madness which ru ed the hour lias
triumphrd; and bills providing for a stufrdji)-
army and increased taxes to suppnit it, nmi
enacting pains and penalties eveu to attain ter,
have passed the Legislature and br r ciiihC lews.
“ The Parly” was most parti.tu.ar in disavowing
any such projects, tilt they had tfecuied their ob
ject—they never dlearned iff such things, and it
was Ml lo be *■> peaceable, that uubody would
know any thi 'g about it-r-ri, would Work itself,
like pert eiual motion—smooth as the unruffled
surface of son e placid lake. Ami because the
rest of fliei’r fel'ow-ciiiz-ns have the spirit, on
the occurrence of the crisis which they foresaw,
to piutesl against this invasion of their lights,
and the denial us common justice, th.-y are to be
stigmatised, as in tin-lasi Carolinian, as ‘ fac
tious tu'jects”—a* “ Tories”—and their ‘ being
pinnitted" to iat*#t and consult oil the best
meat sos preserving the ordtuarv rights of titi
zemhip, represented as an •• extraordinary prooj
of the forbearance " exc-i vised towaids liu-in I
Mr Ward! iw is oiie of the architects of the Or
dinance —why did he not suggcsi to some of his
friends in the Legislature, to incorporate the
following provisions in thejaws, which have just
been.passed to carry t« at Ordinance into effect 7
The Union men might eettainly b. e perm-tied”
to be, at least, on a looting with the slates:
Ist. No Union iiipii, exceeding seven in num
ber, shall travel on the high w-iv, or he found
any where together, unless there is present at
least one Nuliijier with them.
2 id. No Unmn man shall be allowed to wa'k
the streets, nr lie from home after nine o’clock
at nil! hi, or read any’ papers or books except
Nullification Tracts.
3rd. It shaft he lawful for a Nullifier to search
all suspected planes, end houses, and to break
open a«y d«or for that nml seffce all
Union AthtiTSscji, find- Jackson IVorlanr. nicks
•m ; to ilis|i.»rsfr f at his plvksiirn, iriy assemblage
of Union men ; and if any of them should ?>« ®»u*
r iiin ic ions, and loiter in obeying,l <’ommands. '
they iiiiiy be iirresteil, forth* tfb, and carried'l >«•
fare a Magistrate, who.has taken the Test Oath,
to l»e tre'itffl as they please.
The New-,York Comma, cial A.*lr.e>trier of the
14th inst. nays— *• On Wcilcrsdin afternoon tin:
Wardens of (hy. Srctm J Ward seiz ,and fi*ty seven
kegs and 1 case .of‘ml! eaitVdges. wt rich were on
.boaid the hj-ig York, bound t,i Char'e-ton. ! lie
seizure was unide under tin 1 art for the picv*’.,-
, tiiYn of fi'es in tlie ejtv of IV w. Y rk.
Ai the lime Hint every tiling was work s ig with
■hi tinei ri ig eerl ii;i:y ns to she result, tor the
mod (ii ..lion of the Tin fl" aim its redtn (ion to
the Revenue ,stan lard—-the adjni.' islmtem a.id
Congress, ieco amending it ahd.aciii ifly slivering
i ff" nine million, of dunes el mm .time, South
; Ciir diii t gets nil at out e into-the must indomita
ble fit of despei a lion, an i li st she slrmiUi lose
the .opportunity of shew ing how f.t Iter in ad mss
could chi" vTter, breaks down ai! res'vaint, « ven
her allegiance. Mid seems to .hi' trying live pa
tience ol liei sisteis to see if their ..(Vi ctioO for
her weakness «ill allow her insanity to tie a good
/exeii-ef ii e.ve*y thing stie inay do Ini' asuait
jacket inu-f.nove be pul upon her That rp< ta
tiin and the ttm. Va! Ol some of t'.e illusions
i whi It. she fancies, hvr deception, will
J probably hiiijttf tier hark tn her sposis hi fir- the
close of l!h; g2d , E-nogi ess. The remedial pro
cess is already begun, and when the cure is
c-ioip'eted we h ive in doubt, patient amid. c
fors u ill quart el, who did it.
-The PieshfcMit’s fioclninati m continues to re
! ecive tbe app'imse ot all v'ho love tlu.ii country,
With hut few exception' It tends mid I es applaud
its iibiiiiy and (lie >ollll.lues- ol Us general vi• a-:
: For our own part, we feel 110 drip sitimi to find
: tau t with the sp us on the sun.
The packet 'hip Ontario, at iV-w-Y rk, brings
us dates 10-llic. 8 l Nov. li»>i.n l.omlon and nth
from IhnteUionllt. Ue have not rnijjii for del a is.
'1 he reported capture o! Don lYligm I’s Heel is
not coidSii tttfil. They Imve had some ban; fight
ing in Portugal, the Mtguelites beaten. the
einptrt of <heßorte tienYblcS before tlie vicl"ii
oiis Puahim, whn;cliases the. Wri t k of the >1 s
iem aituy trefiireltim like ait I, hied and -er. The
lasi lihpc of the. Ui tltid ,' ult.M.i is placed in 111 •
interveiithUndf some of the liiTtopean Poweis
llnahim in taking p.issessiou of JeiuMtlem r«-
nioveil all taxes Hud inV|ms. lions <d evety kind
on Chi is ians. \'ho vi*tl lliat sacred spot Ihe
pence of Europe is not yet ft 1 Hilly embroil, ,1 bv
the disptirte between Holland nod Belgium; hut
the RtV-sfaft ftiemhers of the Comf'et t its e. have
g I yeti theif < olliHgtieS 'noth e, tlnu the I'.doplidu
oPc eicive (in t:v Flame and Knghmd
against Hhiiau eimipi js .them, in etc I'nvmity
with tiicir ffctrlie",ocs. to withdiaw from the
pncifi inediatioii, id which they weie i i'ited tn
take pan In 1 11 lan I, l,l>. y seeru and, (, ! mined tn
prevent ihe cpi lei Hun ol Tubes, -ui.d.Jinv, iuhT-
Ueie l a p(■oiest.mt Clergyman 80 years .of age,
whose u>!lv <>fuui e was Unit hi, p com.
p iled him Ip cojb-ct 1 is,tithes, in rbinig which he
Wis gniity of i.irf severity It is >.ai 1 ttie ..clergy
will be all cut oft - in >ti cession, if they (Lire U>
collect their tithes.
The; kv<si>;uut of the Cotton M ukcl, it will be
v*en. is out tli» t ed.
It was vHcispe.ied aimtn ((lg.ijttmf ,t,a_V. that in
a certain neighiieurhood, a little li.pdi of .Teio
cions nullifi is were getting tip a Corps of (Ca
valry, to assist their neig ib ittis over th- river
when the time comes, in rai«ihg the blockade of
Charleston They are said to. he in n sta-te of
greaf frp'iViii(tucss. having alie.uly » fqrnight’s
growth of musiachio, on flieir fipp, 1 : De* |»
fellows those iitlli,'S‘. in t„clie> st» well ns politics.
If Uncle Sam’s Ciittms dvrn’t keep a I right lo ,U
out. they will tic rod- ’over v,>iigt,--liml some of
these dark nights. Tie name of the, couMyand
er is not yet announced, fI they coth'd only gel
fora mounted Cuoimpdpie, that ' ,affhotse b'lijl'
alliga'fo'r.” Davy Clorkett, lie wnu.id Jbe the
vtry ‘ .vtiroieuf” »o jftiak** a 1 splash” in the this
(tiltphi..i >us campaign. Wlit re is Davy ? Has no
body ofi'-red him a chance, in Ru 'h and beautiful
' rM sot la”.of a row?, Or does he reiitly give
over diviitig, and eonclude that lh >.ic coin* off
“ driest" a lio ketff out of lie wnh r! -- Wonder
if there are not more thao th it iviij .niake
the a time diseov-r.V'fter. a whip?
B.F. PERRY,
JAMES S. POPE,
PHILIP J. PORCHER,
SAME. VOUCHER*
JOHN S. PRES SLY,
ED J. PRINGLE,
THOMAS POOL I'
EDWD. If. PURCELL
ISAAC RANDOLPH,
JOHN RAMSAY,
JOHN RAVEN EL,
J. E. REM BERT,
J. .S’ RICHARDSON,
J. P: RICHARDSON,
EDWIN REESE ,
WM. ROSEi
WM ROBINSON,
JOHM M. RIGHTON,
J. ROSBORO UGH,
J. HARLEST'NREAD
JOHN SUTTON,
JOS. M. SANDERS,
C MAS: J, SHANNON.
VV. GILMORE SI VIMS,
JAMES H. SMITH,
IV. MASON SMITH,
THOS. P. SPIERIN,
DANIEL G. STINSON
BANISTER STONE,
JOHN S TROD EL: J-
J. L. STIWHECKBtk
GEO. STRATFORD,
WM, G. STJ'MLE.
THOS. STANLEY,
SAML S. TA YLOit,
J. W. TOOMFIt,
HY 11. THOMPSON,
A. V. TOOMFR,
JNO. C. YA UGHA:t,
S. VFRDIER,
A. Y. WALTON;
PAUL WESTON:,
S.L.. WESTMORLA ND
J. G. WILKINSON,
JNO. N: WILLIAMS,
J. S. WRIGHT,
JAMES YOUNG.
UICH'D YEAHON, Jr.
DIED.
At T)ai juiry, CnniM-cticul. on Friday the 7 1 1>
, i ist. •>> Consumption, Mr. Chaui.es Phu.t.ips;
I aged 28 years Mi. I'liidip- tvas Ini several
' years a re-blent of ■ i-i - City . Wiswi II known ami
i much respected.by an extensive circle «j liien.d*
anil .u-qoVmtiiiires. - y
q—mot " «r»«gj’»»r-3’--yT—.
PoU-Ojfice, Augusta. 2 tilt Dm. 1832.
rTYO M'tmilOW being C'lnisiinn* day the Os-
I sue will tie closed from 10 M t 0.3 PM.
V\ M c. Mirull V A7.
Dee 24 l! 113
i v uTzns !>urzi:s i \
BLERvS’ OFFICIAL PRIZE LIST
Drawn yum/frif of (lie
Now Yotll Consofidatud Letter} ,
Chss No. 45, fit 1832
49, f>, 60, 55, 65. 61, 33, 24, 5, 23
L >wesil Pi izc sl2.
Cunihinniiou, 5,40, 65, a Pi : zn<d SSOO
. scmii Ip age iileman in Miijedgevillc.
Cimibinriun, 5, 60, 61, sold lo a geil*
tic in ait of this rii v.
aT Ptjget Sold and Cm la dat ‘
liirhnifitr t.olh'.y Ofjiir jVo. 24 I lirojid-eirfU
* # * A dtliess utiltMs; Mr W. P. Bi-.ers.
tier 2A ■, » . ' -
RUisTiticEV^s
WISHING (n make the pi-re of.
her peinjauent residence, respei’tlijlly
tendofs her services to the public as Teacher of
Vocal anti Instrumental Music.
Scholars who wish her services will please to
leave ijieji names at .‘he Book Store of Messrs -
Richacds &. Ua.vahl; where her (emu will be
made known.
Dec 24 ‘ H 6 if
Toys ! Toys !! ..Toys:!! [
\gceat variety o( Toys’ satiable for (Tirislmas
and New Years’presents, fur sale Wholesale
or Retail by.
,10 UUa DANFOUTH,
Bridge Bow.
Dee. 21. 1832 __ ,2' I ls»
A B YUgTvLV.
VPAIR of large Wagon or Dray HORs-ES
will be given for one share nf Eagle ami
Pine ill Hotel ntouk’. Apply at this Office.
December 21 , 1 *5
foi; Salk, ■
A Valuable tract of L ind lyinj. in tire county
iGa’rrol, Lot No. 99, 21 District. loc
tunher uai t.culars, npp'y to -
IS \AO l)’L\ ROCHE.
At Knowltnu’s Stoic.
Dec 24 3t 115 _
'VotlieProprietorsofGoid Mines
fllHE'Sifbsciiber t>eg leave t-> say. that he
would t 'Ue employment Mh'*’ Engineer,
for the yi ur 1813, or longer if *wt3 iem iiu'uce
men tis off red Hts *« qiiaintanco with ai n bine- f
ty and experience at the mines (in G-orpin).
render fit hr adequate to the p-i formance. of roi b •
duties, as the sui vey and exaiuinatinn ol
Assay of ores .constmciion of Engincß i*ml
woikiiglhe mines may require.
• WILLIAM PHILLIPS.
Dec 2< H 6 lui
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