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THE PEA€E*:<IAKIi\G
A bill to modify the act of the 1\ th July, 1832, and all
other acts imposing duties o;i imports.
1. Be it enacted. Ae. That, from and alter Ilia 30thi!av
of September, 1833, in all cases where duties arc impos
ed on foreign imports by the act of the I-lth day of July,
1833. entitled “An act to alter and amend the several
acts imposing duties on imports,” or by any other act,
shall exceed twenty percent, on the value t u roof, one
tenth part of such excess shall 1> a- ducted ; from and
after the 30th day of September, I'd.), another tenth
part shall Ikj deducted; from ami alter the 30tli day of
September, 1837, another tenth part thereof shall he
deducted ; from and after the 30th day ol Sr pteinhcr,
1 833, another tenth part tiler if shall he and j lucted ; and
from and after the 30th day of September, 1811, oric
lialf of the residue ofsucli excess shall be deducted ; an I
from and after the 3i)th day of September, 1813, ..ic
other half thereof shall lie deducted.
2. And he it further enacted, That so much of the se
cond section ol the act of the Tltli of July aforesaid, as
fixes the rate of duty on all nulled and fulled cloth, known
by the name of plains, Kerseys; or kcud.il cottons, ol which
wool is the only material, the value whereof does not ex
ceed thirty-five cents a square yard, at rive per cent, ad
valorcm, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. And
the said articles shall be subjected to the same duty of
fifty per cent, as is provided by the said second section
for other manufactures of wool, which duty shall be liable
to the same deduction as arc prescribed by the first sec
tion of this act. .
3. And licit further enacted, That until the 30!h day
of September, 1842, the duties imposed by existng laws,
as modified by this act, shall remain mid continue to be,
collected. And from and after ihe day last aforesaid,
all duties upon imports shall he collected in ready money,
and laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may
be necessary to an economical administration ol the gov
ernment ; and for that purpose shall he equal upon all
articles according to their value, which are not by this
act declared to bo entitled to entry subsequent to the
•aid 30th day of September, 1813, free if duty. And,
until otherwise directed by law, from and after the said
30th day of September, I 812, such duties shall he at the
rate of 30 per cent, ad valorem. And from arid alter that
day all credits now. allowed by law in the payment of
duties, shall be, and hereby arc, übolised : Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent
the passage of any law, in the event of war with any
foreign Power, for imposing such duties as may be
deemed by Congress necessary to the prosecution of
such war.
4. And be. itfurther enacted, That, in addition to the
articles now exempted by lli • existing laws from the
payment of duties, the following articles, imported from
and after the 30th day of September, 1833, and until
the 30th day of September, 1842, shall also be admitted
to entry free from duty, to wit: Bleached an! unbleach
ed linens, manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall he
the component material of chief value, coming from this
side of the Cape of Good Hope, and worsted stall' goods,
shawls, anil other manufactures of silk and worsted.
5. And be it further enacted, That, on arid after the
30th day of September, 1843, the following articles shall
be admitted to entry free of duty, to wit : unmanufactur
ed cotton, indigo, quicksilver, opium, tin in plates and
sheets, gum arabic.gum Senegal, lac dye, madder, mad
der root, nuts and berries used in dyeing, saffron, tume
ric, woad or pastel, aloes, ambergris, Burgundy pitch,
cochineal, camomile flowers, coriander seed, eatsii|>,
chalk, eocillus indices, horn [dates for lanterns, or hums,
other horns and tips, India rubber, unmanufactured ivo
ry, juniper berries, musk, nuts of all kinds, oil of junipt r,
manufactured rattans and reed, tortoise shell, tin-foil,
shellac, vegetables used principally in dyeing anil com
posing dyes, weld and all articles c uployed chiefly for
dyeing, except prussiato of potash, chromate of potash ;
aquafortis and tartaric acids, and all other dyeing drugs,
and materials for composing dyes.
G. And be it further enacted. That so much of the act
oftlic 14th July, 1833, or of any other act, as is inconsis
tent with this act shall he, and the same is hereby re
pealed.- Provided, That nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to prevent the passage, prior or sub
sequent to the said 30th day of September, 1843, of any
act or acts from time to time, that may bo necessary to
detect, prevent, or punish, evasions of the duties on im
ports, imposed by law.
CO.\ « ItKSSION A I
HOUSE OF REPRESENTA FIVES.
Thursday, Feb. 21, 1833.
The special order ofthe day, which was the bill to re
duce and otherwise alter the duties on imports having
been called for, and pending the debate—
Mr. DICKSON then moved to postpone the special
order, for the purpose of disposing of the bill from the
Senate, and a/fked the ayes anil nocs upon it.
Mr. BOULDI.N said, as ho understood the motion, it
was to postpone the special order of the day, in order to
take up a particular bill, now named in the motion for
postponement. Heretofore, the discussion has turned
on amotion to postpone generally, for no assigned cause,
and thciefore, nothing could be said against that motion;
but that which claimed a preference to action on the
taiilf bill, above ail other business which could he done
by this body, at this time, and he deemed it no hard mat
ter to show that this preference should be given, from
day, to day, until it is finished. This motion, Mr.
Speaker, brings up the general character ofthe two bills,
so as to be contrasted, the one with the other.
The SPEAKER said that the qualities of the two bills
could not he discussed.
Mr. BOULDIN said, he designed not to dismiss the
merits of either bill, nor hail he given evidence of such
a purpose. He intended so far to state the general char
acter of each, as to be able to take choice between them,
and to argue, if need be, in favor of that choice. This
much had at least been done, by every speaker who bail
preceded him.
He proceeded: Mr. Sneaker, this hill was reported by
the Committee of Ways and Moans, responsive to the
Executive message, at the opening of the session. Its
design was, and effect would be, to pour oil on the
wounds of the country. Inflated by your past legisla
tion, this message and bill was received, Mr. Speaker,
by the agitated, injured, and troubled southern country,
with confidence and affection. Wo have progressed
with it for weeks, and at one tune, not many days since,
something like hope, that some plan might be adopted
to quiet the disturbed minds of the southern people, and
at the same time to approximate to justice to them. That
hope has fled. After the message, which was the basis
of the bill rciHirted by the Committee of Ways and
Means, bail been so joyfully received by us, another
came. We were enfiladed in flank, Mr, Speaker, bv
opening on us a masked battery; and that battery was
opened by the friend ill whom we trusted. Mr. Speak
er, wo arc called on to postpone the effort to adjust the
tariff, and give peace to the country, secure obedience
toils laws, by confidence in their justice, and by the af
lections of the people; the only mode by which, in our
Government, obedience can or ought tube obtained, to
further the passage of another bill. Wliat is that other
bill’ It is, l own, an echo ofthe second message. Uis
a hill providing for the execution of the laws which the
first hill, founded on the first message, w.is intended to
ameliorate ami make just. It provides force to obtain
that obedience which the first lull designs to secure by
confidence ami affection. It provides that the wounds
which the first hill designed to heal, shall lie opcmtcl
wide, ami made incurable. Vet Sir, this lull has now
the preference hero. How is it s Not many days since,
I thought nivsrlf a fellow worker here, with mani who
seemed w ith mo to think, that the adjustment oftliis tar-1
ill was the one thing needful. Have they lost hope? or
what is the mattei? lam pained to see some of them
pushing forward this force bill. Mi. Speaker, is peace
and quietness, in this couslry of supposed freedom, to
be obtained only at the point of the bayonet or the can
non’s mouth?
The SPEAKER said Mr. Bculdin was out of order.
Mr. Boru> in said, lie had given an outline of the two
bills, and called for the ayes and noes. that the people
may know who choose the one, and who the other.
Mr. THOMPSON, of Georgia, followed, and after
some remarks, in icply to Mr. Ellsworth, urged the ex
pediency of rejecting the motion to postpone. He en
tered at some length into the grievaces ofthe south, and
of the necessity of an adjustment of the tariff. He invo
ked gentlemen of that House before their country and
their God, to pause —they were on the verge of an abyss
of destruction—and lie would, if lie could, on liia bend
ed knees, he would humiliate himself to the very dust,
lie said, if he could avert the impending peril. The
w hole south would lie united if thev were beyond the
pnl at which human endurance must fail. He implor
ed the gentleman from New-York to withdraw the mo
tion and permit the consideration of the tariff question
to he proceeded in, in order to arrive at some decision
upon it.
Mr. DICKSON regretted, he could not withdraw the
motion. If delay should take place, lie was riot
able with it. The responsibility should rest where it
w as justly due.
Mr. SUTHERLAND said, the gentleman from Geor
gia, (Mr. Thompson,) seemed to think that the greatest
evils would follow from the postponement of the special
order. .It was on part of his (Sir. Sutherland’s) ob.
ject, in voting for the postponement, to go fiitlier than
to fix a day for the consideration of the bill from the
Senate, and then to return to the special order, if the
House should think p.ropcr. Why then should it be said
that the country was to be plunged into civil war; or
that, to use the expression of a friend, the rivets of the
Constitution were about to he started? Proceed with
the tarill after dispensing with this bill; and sit, if you
please, said Mr. S., till the lamps will no longer yield us
light. He, for his own part, was content to sit upon the
subject day in and day out. Put oil the Senate bill till
Mpnday—it is called a bill of vast importance and it
was so—it was one that agitated the nation, arid it called
for all the talents, all the eloquence, all the patriotism of
that House. In order to dispose of both subjects during
the short residue ofthe session, ho would even extend
the time for Ihe tariff, and fix the day for consideration
of the other hill on Tuesday; hut there fix the limitation,
arid let the House bting the tariff to a conclusion by
that time, lie asked only that justice should he done
to both bills—he asked only that gentlemen would go
with him lor five minutes—dispose of that bill from the
Senate,ami lie pledged liimselt to mote a
tion ofthe vote, if necessary, with a view of resuming
the consideration of the tarilT bill.
Mr. ARCHER said, gentlemen who arc friendly to
the enforcing bill ought, if only for one reason, to con
sent that the final action ofthe House should first be ta
ken on the tariff. There were many gentlemen in the
House friendly to the former, but before they could or
would vote for it, the House must decide for or against
a modification of the present system. Some action must
he had upon the tariff bill, or the friends of the enforc
ing bill would cut themselves off from a large support
which would otherwise, perhaps, he given, to them
Mr. CLAYTON rose, and addressed the House as
fellows:
Mr. Speaker, 1 have not troubled the House often, du
ring the present session, but I now consider we have ar
rived at a point of time, when silence on the part of south
ern members can no longer be excused, and tame acqui
escence in the course indicated becomes criminal. 1
must, therefore, precious as time is, raise my voice against
the iiiun.stroiio otop oUut to Ua tatiin. I know the nature
of my feelings, and doubt not they have often given an
noyance, but on the present occasion, it shall be my earn*
est endeavor to restrain them, though the subject is ex
tremely exciting. Between me and my constituents, 1
am ready to incur the responsibility suggested by a gen
tleman, of consuming the “ precious time” of the House.
What is the proposition ? I lave gentlemen suffered their
minds to run through the whole aspect of the question ?
Mark the character of the case. It is not to postpone the
tariff bill until Saturday, but virtually altogether, for the
purpose of taking up the enforcing bill, sent to this body
from the Senate. It is sard, this last bill is very impor
tant ! In the name of every thing, can it he more impor
tant than the tarill' bill ? Was there ever before, and can
there ever be so much depending upon the issue of any
measure as that which now hangs upon the fate of the
tariff bill ? Mr. Speaker, this bill was introduced on the
27tli day of December last, and from that day down have
we been anxiously engaged, to the exclusion of almost
all other business in the effort, honest and sincere on
our part, to bring this troubled question to such a deter
mination, as would give "epose to the alarming agitations
of the country ; and now, when wo have but six days
ieft, Lchold! an insidious attempt is made to give it the
go-by, and to take up and pass a bill designed to rivet
upon us the very system it was intended to modify. Sir,
l know we are not believed, when we speak of the high
excitement of our people. I know we are dcspireil
when we tell of the sufferings of our country. 1 know
we are laughed at, when we mention the determination
of the South no longct to bear the unequal legislation of
Congress. 1 have just witnessed the contempt and ridi
cule manifested in the actions of some gentlemen, at the
eloquent anil just description of the southern discontents
by my colleague. It is all treated with perfect indiffer
ence, and marked by the most ineffable scorn. This I
would not regard ; but our own people, animated by a
generous love of country, and actuated by a charity wor
thy of a bettercause, will not believe they are thus illibe
rally treated. They yet confide in men who detest them.
They yet trust in statesmen who have no other rule of
action but a sense of interest. They yet believe in the
honesty of those who have never yet shown the first evi
dence ofthat virtue; anil all we can say and do, there
arc many of our own people who close their eyes to these
glaring instances of insult, injustice, and oppression. It
is upon tliis incredulity that great reliance is placed by
those who turn an tinlistening car and an unbelieving
heart to ou? complaints, our remonstrances, and onr re
solves to be free. How often, in and out of this house,
have we been twitted with the remark, that a divided
people were unable to effect any thing. No community
ever yctcarricd a purpose, who quarrelled among them
selves about the best method of accomplishing it. Yes,
Sir, these are the calculations that are hurrying gentle
men into the fatal and inconsiderate determination to
put by tlie tariff, and so put us to the sword. They may
yet be mistaken.
It lias been the great care of southern members to keep
the cause in the right, and their enemies in the wrong—
thus far, before heaven, we have succeeded. When we
caine here, knowing how short the session, and conse
quently how precious the time, we have sealed, with but
a few exceptions, our lips in the pur;>osely protracted
discussions which have taken place on this all engrossing
subject. We saw a fixed resolution to evade the bill by
talking out tile session, anil every species of indignity
has been ofl'ercil to southern meinborß and the country
they represent, with a view to draw them out in aid of
this unworthy object. We have suffered all tilings for
the sake of peace. Wo have hern charged with a wish
not to settle this question. Our leading men at the south
have been accused with the traitorous design of making
this contest contribute to the dismemberment of t ho Un
ion, in subserviency to the purposes of an unholy ambi
lion. (The Speaker reminded Mr. Clayton that subject
wa* not in debate.) Mr. C. replied he knew it was not
in il< bate, hut hoped the Speaker would discriminate be-'
tween the premises of an argument tnd the argument it
self; he was about to lay the founihiion of an argument
which a few moments patience would convince him, was
perfectly relevant. Os all this we have been accused,
and now, Sir, who is it that wishesto postpone the Ta
riff? Who are the friends of the Union? Who is it
that wishes to dismember the Uniat ? He who sits here
day by day, voting against adjoiirnnent, his mouth clos
ed, as if in death, for fear of losiig the golden opportu
nity of restoring peace to his counry by unnecessary de
lay; who submits to insult rather than jeopard the con
ciliation, and harmony, and good feeling necessary to the
adjustment of a most disturbing question ; who interpo
ses no obstacle to the hill reported by the Committee of
Ways and Means, who is willing to take that or any
thing near it as a peace offering, or, he who cavils at eve
ry thing, flings in difficulty ufon difficulty; talks day in
and day out upon nothing, in-'rely to waste away the op
portunity for reconciliation ; now abusing the south, and
then insulting its member*; now threatening us with
the indignation of the Ta-iff men, and then holding up
the menaces of the Government; and lastly, to fill the
measure of outrage, an* to cap the Climax of intolerable
injustice, the tariff question, the absorbing solicitude of
years, and now the lad hone of a distracted and long a
bused people, is tole thrust aside,and for what? To pass
a law that is to let loose the fiercest passions of revenge,
avarice, and ambition, upon a people whose only crime
is one unbroken erv for justice, and whose only object is
the preservation of their rights, in the siill higher preser
vation of their liberty.
Sir, all eyes are turned to this spot with an eagerness
and anxiety which beggars all description. 1 hold in tnv
hands letters from the south, which I will not read, be
cause t know they will be despised, in which the hopes
and the feelings of that portion of country in relation to
the crisis, are treated in a language that in any other
assembly, not lost to the ties of affection, not indifferent
to the touching influence of sympathy, and not deaf to
the still stronger demands of justice, would exert an agen
cy greatly condusive to the restoration of harmony. But
there is a recklessness of thought, an inconsideratencss
of action, and a definance of consequences, which are
urging a once happy and united people into calamities,
too painful for reflection, and which humanity, in all fu
ture time, must deeply deplore. Under considerations
like these, 1 could not consent to remain silent; indeed,
no sputhern man should longer restrain the voice of
rebuke, of resolute and determined hostility to move
ments so full of meaning, and so fraught with mischief.
We could not justify ourselves to our coustituents. Well
may they say, we were satisfied with your silence so
long as it sought the repose of your country, and the
safety ot your Government; hut when you saw the long
cherished hope of peace and quiet attempted to be dashed
from your presence by a rude and unsparing insolence,
why did you not cry aloud, and present for the last time
tllU C 0.., ...(uonooe u-ltu.il »U>ulJ frr.r, .„~1, nr t
of wanton injustice and superadded injury? Sir 1 will
do it at the hazzard of every thing dear to violated' rights
and at the risk of every thing dangerous to freedom!
Let the majority go on in their mad career; the race
is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; there is
a day coming, in which a just reckoning, may, perhaps,
discover, w hen too late, the woful mistake of a bloated
avarice and a blind ambition. I3 not the object fully
perceived ? Does not every one discover that this motion
is the death knell of the tariff ? That it is to sink to rise
no more? Who is it for taking up the “war bill]" Comes
it from the fast friends of peace ? Comes it from the former
friends of the administration ? No Sir ; it is from the
manufacturers! From northern men, whose hopes of
an abiding protection from their fovorite system, is found
ed in a lasting destuction of our rights " It is useless to
disguise this matter; the tariff hill has been fought inch
by inch, and now, within but a few days of the only
prospect of accommodation, behold, it is to give way to
a law, strung with whips, gibbets, and fetters, the black
ensigns of t'-rannv, and the messengers that speed the
edicts of passave obcdiance. Tliis law is to take Its
place, anil we are to be put ofl until the experiment of
sujection shall hereafter test the necessity of ever troub
ling the country again upon this subject. The gentle
man from Pennsylvania has said, “this is an importnat
law! ’ Is it more so than that which it is designed to
supplant ? Can any law possess higer interest than one
which has not only occupied the whole of this session
of Congress, hut six months of the last; nay, more, which
seeks to control a powerthat has driven the very pillarsof
the government, and left it tottering to its fall—torn up
the host affections of the people, and filled the land with
discord, strife, danger, and dismay ? The gentleman
has said, his only object is to fix a day for its considera
tion ; that may be the case with him ; but what security
has he, for a moment, of attaining his single purpose,
when it shall have been delivered into the hands of an
eager majority, bent not only upon its certain passage
unaltered in form, and unmitigated in. force, but equally
determined that it shall serve as the revengeful instru
ment of defeat to the tariff bill, the only law calculated
to save the country ? Sir he connot control the majaritw ?
as well might he attempt to extinguish a building totailv
enveloped in flames, or arrest the progress of one, half
down the falls of Nigara.
I could not sit still under a feeling so desperate and
ferocious, without raising a warning voice; and whatever
may be the result of a course so brutal, 1 could not go
homo without the consolation of having made one effort
to stay its fury.
THE TARIFF EC31.3..
Mr. LETCHER moved to strike out all the bill after
the enacting clause, and to insert another bill in lieu
thereof,
This being objected to,
Mr. LETCHER then moved to recommit the bill to the
Committee ot the Whole, with instructions to report
another bill to the House.
Mr. LETCHER submitted the bill intended fora sub
stitute. It is the bill reported in the Senate by Mr.
Clay.
The bill and instructions having been read,
Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. ARNOLD; and Mr. DAVIS, of
Massachusetts, rose together to ask for the ayes and noes,
which were ordered and taken, when the motion was
agreed to, ayes 96, noes 54.
Mr. \Y ICKLIFFE then moved that the House go into
a Committee ofthe Whole on the state of the Union.
( i lie motion was agreed to, and the House went into
Committee of the Y\ hole, Mr. Wickliffe in the Chair.
Mr. LL7CIIER moved that the instructions of the
Committee he complied with.
The motion was agreed to, the bill was read, and the
Committee rose and reported it to the House.
Mr. FOS PER, ofGeorgia, moved an amendment. He
said he could not prevail upon himself to vote for the
bill without that passage were stricken out, and appealed
to the House whether it was possible, in the nature of
tilings, that the law, as it there stood, could be enforced.
He had taken a solemn oath, on taking his scat in this
House, and when he recollected that, in consequence of
the difficulty which he felt to reconcile that provision
with the Constitution, he felt constrained to vote a
gainst it.
Mr. WICKLIFFE said, the objection of his friend
against the particular clause, was a constitutional one,
arising from the difficulty of ascertaining the duties in
different parts. FOl example, an article might lie pur
chased in Paris, ami another of tho samo description in
Manchester. They would bear different prices where
purchased, hut be ofthe samo value here, and the diffi.
culty would be to ascertain the duties chargeable 011 each
article. His (Mr. Foster’s) object was to make the du
ties equal in every port.
On putting (lie question for engrossing the bill,
Mr. EVERETT of Massachusetts, objected against
carrying the bill through with such precipitation.
Mr. LETCHER said a few words in reply, \\ hen the
question was put and carried ; ayes 105, nocs 71.
“ YEAS Messrs. Alexander, t'. Allen, 11. Allen, An
d-rsori, Angel, Archer, .1. S. Harbour, J. Bales, Bell,
Bergen, Beihune, James Blair, John Blair, Boon, Eonck,
Bouldin, Branch, Bullard, Canibrolcng, Carr.Cliinn.Clai
borne, Clnv, "Clayton, Coke, Conner, Corwin, Coulter,
Craig, Creighton, Daniel,Davenport, AV. R. ! >avis, Dou
hlcday, Draper, Felder, Findlay, Fitzgerald, C• aithe r,
Gilmore, Gordon, T. 11. Hall, W. ITall, Harper, Hawes,
Hawkins, Hoffman, Holland, Horn, Howard, Hubbard,
irvin, Isaacks, Jarvis, Jenifer, R. M. Johnson, C. John
son, J. Johnson, Kavanagh, Kerr, Lamar, Lansing, 1/'-
cornpte, Letcher, Lewis, Lyon, Mardis, Mason, Marshall,
Maxwell, Mclntire, McKay, Newton, Nuckolls, Patton,
Plummer, Polk, Renchcr, Roane. Root, Sowall, Shepard,
Shepperd, Smith, Southard, Speight, Spence, Stanberry,
Standefer, Thomas, VV. Thompson, J. Thomson, Tomp
kins, Travcr, Vance, Verplanck, Wark, \N ashington,
Wayne, Weeks, B wringer,- Whitlescy, \\ rckliffe, Wor
hington.—lo3.
NAYS—Messrs. Adams, 11. Allen, Allison, Apple
ton, Arnold, Babcock, Banks, N. Barber, harstow, 1.
C. Bates, Beardsley, Briggs, J. Bmdhcad, J. Brod
head, Bucher, Cahoon, Chandler, B. Cooke, Cooper,
Crane, Crawford, J. Davis, Dayan, Dearborn, D any,.
Dewalt, Dickson, Ellsworth, G. Evans, .1. Evans, E. Ev
erett, H. Everett, Grcnnel, 11. llall, Ileistcr, Hughes,
Huntington, Thrie, Ingersoll, Kendall, Kemion, A.
King,Leavitt, Mann, M’Carty, M’Cov, M’Konnan, Mil
ligan. Muhlenberg, Nelson, Pearce, Pendleton, Pierson,
Potts, Randolph, J. Reed, E. C. I> and, Slade, Soule,
Storrs, Sutherland, Taylor, Vinton, Warchvell, Wat
mough, Wbeelei, F. Whittlesey, E. D. White, Young.
11. King.—7L
The House of Representative on th? 25th ult. took up
the following resolution, submitted by -Mr. Davis of
South Carolina:
Resolved, That the President of the United States he
requested to communicate to this House, whatever evi
dence he may have received, that authorized the belief
that the Government and people of South Carolina, or
any portion of them, had at any time mediated or in
tended to seize the forts or property belonging to the
United States.
Mr. DAVIS, of S. Carolina, said he was desirous of
giving a brief explananion of the objest of the resolution,
before the question should he put, upon it. lie had not
introduced it with a view of imputing blame to the Pre
sident, or to the Secretary of War, for the mode and
manner of the publication of the orders. The publica
tion had been made in obedience to a call from the Sen
ate; this fact was borne upon the face of the document,
lie repeated, that no blame was ascribed by him on ac
count of the private orders which had been given, but
inasmuch as they hail been made public, mid us they
convey an imputation on the State of South Carolina,
he held it to be an incumbent duty, as one of her repre
sentatives, to meet the charge with a flat denial. The
documents containing the imputation were now in the
public archives; and it was therefore ft and proper that
the proof should he challenged. He did not know
whether the House recollected the precise language us
ed on the occasion in the orders in question, hut it was
such language, lie could assure them, as should not pass
without a denial from him. It was imputed to the Gov
eminent and people of South Carolina, that a design ex
isted on their part of seizing the arsenal, the arms; the
stores, the munitions, and the otiicr property of the U
nited States, within the limits of that State. The last
order of the series, went even further, and accused them
of intentions still worse. It was charged that they con
templated crossing the boundary line which divides
them from another State—of a design to pass the Savan
nah, river, and plunder the U. S. arsenal in Savannah, of
its arm3 and ainunition.
E).AV iC »■!>• «1 U L« tl xrf tht? Hc*p*
resentatives from South Carolina to be silent under such
allegations? He called for the proof in these cases, and
and he appealed to the justice of the House to sustain
him in the call. The President might or might not give
the information required, or the House might or might
not decide to call for it. lie put it to them, however,
whether it would he proper or just that such charges
should pass unrefuted? and next, whether, when made,
the proof to substantiate them should not be ad
duced? lie denied the truth of the charge, from what
ever source it had emanated—come from the highest
public, nr lowest private station, from what quarter it
might, he would say in reply,
“Highland or Lowland—Prir.ce or Peer,
Lord Angus —thou hast lied."
The resolution was laid on the table, by a vote of 107
to 57.
POLITICAI.
From the Charleston Mercury.
THE ADJUSTMENT.
It will he seen that Mr. Clay’s Bill for the gradual re
duction of the Tariff to the revenue standard has passed
the House of Representatives, and there is no doubt that
it has also passed the Senate and become a law. This
is a resuft which weconfess we did not anticipate. IL u
ry Clay, the Father of the American System, after his
long and zealous advocacy, and after carrying through
the abominable Tariff of 1832, has found it necessary,
even before the time appointed for that Bill to go into
operation, to abandon it, and to introduce a Bill provi
ding for the eventual reduction of duties to the amount
of Revenue "necessary for the economical administra
tion of the Govomment]" This is indeed surprising :
and although the provisions of the Bill full short what
we could have desired, and are not such ns the South
had a right to demand, and in strict justice to insist up
on—yet we cannot but hail with gratification this deci
ded evidence of a disposition on the part of Congress to
do justice, to respect the constitution, and to restore the
sound principles of the government.
The final reduction is too long deferred. Four or five
years would have been a sufficient concession of time to
the manufacturers, before the reduction w as completed,
and 15 and not 20 percent might have been safely as. u-
Tncd as the extent of duty to he ultimately allowed them
and as being a rate sufficient high to raise the amount
necessary for the economical administration of the gov
ernment. Ihe cash duties—and the home valuation
are also objectionable features of the Bill. Still it has
been a compromise, between our just claims, and the
vested interests of the manufacturers, which inunedii.t.
and full justice to the South would have involved in cer
tain ruin—a consummation, which whether merited or
not the South did not desire. In making such a com
promise, some obnoxious provisions were unavoidably
to he permitted. The principle too has been yielded to
us, for which we contended from the first, that revc nue
and not protection should he the object of duties ; and
it has been yeilded under a pledge that guarantees to us,
that protection of manufactures will not he hereafter as-
sumed as the object of legislation. A pledge which even
it it should be violated, will secure us a decided resist
ance against all attempts to return to the American Svs
tern. As therefore, we have never complained merely
of the amount of the exactions levied for the benefit of
he manufacturers—hut contended against the principle
hat being yielded and the definite prospect of full re
hef secured, we have gained the ma,,i point, and mas
tered the citadel of the odious system; and we may , ~b-iii.
iii. to he concession of time for the nianufactmers (~
« ' 1° r ir . ~! e C,,Ii“ I OnS tl,c now arrangement, though
•dl, '!!’ k “ ,n ? r ° tI,!,M reas,,nn ble period lias In en
allowed them, considering how long the South has been
denied even the hope of redress at the hands oft 'nngr. -
«f«!,: Tsim;;' ro m ‘"t 0 u ,
nu.iii.rney, 111 spite of (lie iiiuu-piekftl* j„f] u . |
cnees which have been exerted, and which until
duced us to despair of a peaceable issue of the f 0 * ' £
which has shaken our Union to its foundation .(
never despaired of the ult-inatc triumph of th *
cause. We are of opinion that South Caroling ol
inducement now left her for a further act cf \ n- 110
lion, and that it is probable that when the Cos U
reasat rubles, no new Ordinance of nu 11ifi C ation" °
adopted, that already passed, having row been r I**
inoperative by the abolition of the obnoxious enaT
against which it was framed to operate. Our (' J
tion will not, vvg think, reject a compromise f nr ° n ( ' fl
our own delegation and that of the whole South •
solid phalanx; against which we are glad to see ' Mtlli
ed the votes of all the ultra-Tarifiitcs and
from the South sought to embarrass, but a few ui ! nOl
implements of the kitchen cabinet. Tfiia nacfllt
i » * ms ib OUr
impression, though events may intervene wh h
not anticipate, which may require further action f*'.!
defunct of their rights on the part of the people 0 f sA
Carolina. i ocul
The passage of Clay’s Dili, effectually kills ,k
forcing bill, which, however from the indication. 160
House, will probably pass by a large majority if"
may be considered as nothing more than an phniiv*’
spleen. It will record the spite of the Adniinistmi
against certain men, and shew what enormities it '
perpetrate, were this opportunity afforded. Isut tl"p!
sident will have been effectually precluded from ti
portunitv of chastising our resistance, by the ren J e s
all motive to our resistance, and Ly there cons
being no resistance for him to punish. The uhr.aav
ite will, in revenge, and from principle, combine "to™
the Enforcing Bill. Our Convention will do no m
than declare it null and void ; and it will remain |
upon the Statute Book, ‘ brittlem fulmen ainounml
the corruption of the times—a record of treason!
Constitution and Liberty, which its authors will crTl
wish in vain to have utterly erased from the memo °
the republic. 'Flic passage of this Bill will bears
desired by the Administration, as some compensation"
the heavy blows which have fallen in such quick «?
>ion upon them of late: and they willcl.fti itl
mnph of the principles of the ProcUmation, *.ut i*|
he an empty triumph, as ivortqlessas that ofthebuj
Tyrant of Rome; who, returning from his pompous 1
futile invasion ot Britain, consoled himself bv twll
up, and brought back as trophies, the shells which bel
fathered on the sea-shore. I
From the Columbia Times
DES “J’AI \ 18. ’ j
1 have seen a nation allow itself to he loaded J
taxes as men load ass;s.
1 have seen asses so loaded ; hut it was bv those J
feed them ; not those whom they fed. ' 1
I have seen the same asses, when overloaded uJ
their burdens. ’
1 have seen the half-foundered people much dstj
to do the same thing—while certain friends ol t|3
patted their necks, and told them that it wasunevil
unconstitutional to use their heels—that theirgonlJ
tors would presently lighten their burden—tht|
more queitly they bore them the sooner would thtrl
taken off. 'I
I have seen these arguments which certainly J
not have convinced tile ass, convinced great bod]
the people. I
1 have seen Irishmen bawling against Union I
land, and clamoring for Union in this country. I
1 have seen the magnanimous and kindly pmJ
this free country raise a great fund for Grecian 111
and wept over the injuries and enslavement of Poll
I have seen the same unanimous and kindly |>e3
this free country bestow with a general voice, noil
patliv, hut execrations upon a sister common]
struggling to preserve the general welfare. ]
1 have seen a great Stale bidding defiance, at tbnl
time, to Nullification, to the laws of Congress, aid*
ducisiunaof the United States Courts. I
l have seen Virginia smitten with a great amli J
become a Yankee State. I
1 have seen a solemn legislative assembly, in the]
of a grave act (w hich they imagined to he fixing]
them tiie whole universe) denounce actsofasista]
as ‘-precipitate,” which had occupied her just ala]
fifth pari of the whole time in which this wonderfl]
eminent has been in existence. ■
I have seen a Kitchen Cabinet and a regularfabH
and was totally unable to deckle, which were !»]
utter sculiions. I
I have si "i! men clamouring for taxes;and iaffl
with a grave face, that they expected to peytte]
fair proportion of them. I
1 have seen a wise man and an ancient comnioj
coine within an ace of offering a premium to lierfl
for cutting all throats of white men. I
I have se en Republicans set so skilful an ii lei
tion upon State Rights, that Federalists becow]
great advocates.
1 have seen the old and new worlds struck!
mutual imitation—Europe, to assume America I]
America, adorn herself with the cast-off chains n
rors of Europe.
I NiTED STATES’ MINT.
The report of the Director of this establish*
the year just ended, shows the coinage, during tfl
of the sum, of 53,401,055 —consisting of 157,4*
eagles—4,4oo quarter d0.—4,797,000 half del
320,000 quarter do-—522,500 dimes—9os,ooo a
—and 2,352,000 cents. Os the gold coined,
were from Mexico, South America and the Mcstai
528,000 from Africa; 8078,000 from the gold a
in our own country; and about 812,000 from sou*
ascertained. Os the gold produced in the hnitefll
834,000 came from Virginia; 458,600 from NortJ
l ina. 45,000 from South Carolina; 140,000fromf«j
and 1000 from Tennessee. The quantity pro®!
South Carolina was more than doubled within I*
year; in North Carolina neatly doubled; in >irgiuj
creased 39 per cent; in Georgia dimimsiieb2o|i£|
TIIE PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD. I
Y\ e have the gratification of announcing toourisj
(says the Petersburg Intelligencer of sth icst.) M
pi tion of the town section of the Raid Road—Wj
nccling the whole line from the Depot on "-lij
Street to Beificld; a distance of 41 miles. On SJ
Inst, the Locomotive, with her train of coaches afl
laden with passengers and produce, made her
trance into town amid the greetings of a large co*
of citizens, who notwithstanding the inclcmencjj
weather, had assembled to witness an rrentso mj
lotlio future interests of Petersburg. It is irnpos**
convey to those who have not witnessed a similar*
as adequate conception of the pride and pleasure*
beamed from every countenance, when the “ n ? 1 1
first seen descending the plain from North Spring*
i-'.g her way, with svlpli like beauty, into fl
the town; and, like conquerors of old, P rc . u . J
iug in her train, the evidence of the victory 0 • I
tiie obstructions of Nature.
The Locomotive, with a heavy loaded tram ° j
left Bolficld about P 2 o'clock, M.« and , a [J U )e |J
town depota few minutes past 3 o’clock, P- -"*
mg the whole distance, including various stopi l '?!
littlo more than three hours. The town scetmn J
completed only the previous evening, and conse *
had not been tested ; hut such was the M J
accurate execution of the work, that the » ■
moved along at n rapid rate, with perfect case an
and u itliout the slightest accident to tn»r
ol a scene, which will he remembered by tho** I
noised it.
Me under (an,l that (he Iran, orlatio* l off 1 *
produce h . rapidly increas'd w ilkin '* l ' “* l! ‘ I