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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does not ex ceed thirty-five cents a square yard, at rive per cent, ad valorcm, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.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