The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-01 00:00:00

"AN ORDINANCE,

"To provide for arresting the Operation of Certain Acts of the
Congress of the United States, purporting to be Laws laying
Duties and Imposts on the Importation of Foreign Commo-
dities.

" Whereas, the Congress of the United States, by various
acts, purporting to be acts laying duties and imposts on foreign
imports, but in reality intended for the protection of domestic
manufactures, and the giving of bounties to classes and indivi-
duals engaged in particular employment, at the expense and to
the injury and oppression of other individuals, and by wholly
exempting from taxation certain foreign commodities, such as
are not produced or manufactured in the United States, to af-
ford a pretext for imposing higher and excessive duties on ar-
ticles similar to those intended to be protected ; hath exceeded
its just powers under the constitution, which confers on it no
authority to afford such protection', and hath violated the true
meaning. and intent of the constitution, which provides for
equality in imposing the burdens of taxation upon the several
States and portions of the Confederacy; and, whereas, the said
Congress, exceeding its just power to impose taxes and collect
revenue for the purpose of effecting and accomplishing the spe-
cific objects and purposes which the Constitution of the United
States authorizes it to effect and accomplish hath raised and col-
lected unnecessary revenue, for objects unauthorized by the
Constitution,
" We, therefore, the people of the state of South Carolina,
in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is
hereby declared and ordained, that the several acts and parts of
acts of the congress of the United States, purporting to be laws
for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of
foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and
effect within the United States, and inure especially an act en-
titled, "An act in alteration of the several acts imposing duties
on imports," approved on the nineteenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and also an act
entitled, "an act to alter and amend the several acts imposing
duties on imports," approved on the 14th day of July; one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-two, are unauthorised by the
constitution of the United States, and violate. the true meaning
and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding
upon this state, its officers or citizens ; and all promises, con-
tracts and obligations, made or entered into, or to be made or
entered into, with purpose to secure the duties imposed by said
acts, and all judicial proceedings which shall hereafter be had
in affirmance thereof, are and shall be held utterly null and
void.

" And it is further ordained, that it shall not be lawful for
any of the constituted authorities, whether of this state or of
the United States, to enforce the payment of duties imposed by
the said acts within the limits of tins state, but that it shall be
the duty of the legislature to adopt such measures, and pass
such acts, as may be necessary to give full effect to this ordi-
nance, and to prevent the enforcement and arrest the operation
of the said acts and parts of acts of the congress of the United
States, within the limits of this state, from and after the first
day of February next, and the duty of all other constituted au-
thorities, and of all persons residing or being within the limits
of this state, and they are hereby required and enjoined to obey
and give effect to this ordinance, and such acts and measures of
the legislature as may be passed or adopted in obedience
thereto

" And ft is further ordained, that in no case of law or equity,
decided in the courts of this state, wherein shall be drawn in
question the authority of this ordinance, or the validity of such
act or acts of the legislature as may be passcd for the purpose
of giving effect thereto, or the validity of the aforesaid acts of
congress, imposing duties, shall any appeal be taken or allowed
to the Supreme Court of the United States, nor shall any copy
of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and if
any such appeal shall be attempted to be taken, the courts of
this state shall proceed to execute and enforce their judgments,
according to the laws and usages of this state, without reference
to such attempted appeals, and the persons attempting to take
such appeal may be dealt with as for a contempt of the court.
"And it is further ordained, That all persons now holding any
office of honour, profit or trust, civil or military, under this
State, shall within such time, and in such manner as the Legis-
lature shall prescribe, take an oath, well and truly to obey, exe-
cute, and enforce this ordinance, and such act-or acts of the
Legislature; as may be passed in pursuance thereof, according
to the true intent and meaning of the same, and on the neglect
or omission of such person or persons so to do, his or their of-
fice or offices, shall be forthwith vacated, and shall be filled up,
as if such person or persons were dead, or had resigned, and no
person hereafter elected to any office of .honour, profit or trust,
civil or military, shall, until the Legislature shall otherwise
provide and direct, enter on the execution of his office or be in
any respect competent to discharge the duties thereof, until he
shill, in like manner, have taken a similar oath; and no juror
shall be impannelled in any of the Courts,of this State, in any
cause in which shall be in question this ordinance, or any act
of the Legislature, passed in pursuance thereof, unless he shall
first, in addition to the usual oath, have taken an oath, that he
will well and truly obey, execute, and enforce this ordinance,
and such act or acts of the Legislature, as may be passed to
carry the same into operation and effect, according to the true
intent and meaning thereof.
"And we, the people of South Carolina, to the end, that i
may be fully understood by the government of the United
States, and the people of the co-States, that we are determined
to maintain at every hazard, do further declare, that we will not
submit to the application of force, on the part of the Federal
Government, to reduce this State to obedience; but that we
will consider the passage, by Congress, of any act, authorising
the employment of a military or naval force against the State
of South Carolina, her constituted authorities or citizens;
or any act, abolishing or closing the ports of this State,
or any of them, or otherwise obstructing the free ingress and
egress of vessels, to and from the said ports; or any other act
on the part of the federal Government to coerce the state, shut
up her ports, destroy or harass her commerce, or to enforce the
acts hereby declared to be null and void, otherwise than through
the civil tribunals of the country, as inconsistent with the longer
continuance of South Carolina in the union; and that the
people of this state will thenceforth hold themselves absolved
from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their politi-
cal connexion with the people of the other states, and will forth-
with proceed to organise .a separate Government, and do all
other acts and things which sovereign and independent states
may of right do."