Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-12-16
SOU! H-CAROLINA.


| Gender 3, 1873.
Tho Election Of Electors Of President and Vice
President took place this morning, when William
Pope, David Sloan. Wade Hampton, Arthur p.
Hayne, John McComb, G r. Cosvin, William
Johnson, Sanders Glover, John Stewart, David X
Evans, and Henry l. Pinckney were elected.
They will meet to-lnorrow for the purpose Of bal
iotiny coniorinaby to the Constitution. They will
all vote. OF course. for Jackson end Calhoun.
| The Finance Committee Of the Senate. of which
John L. Wilson, Esq. Is Chairman, has reported
that Il IL inexpedient to reduce the Taxes az this
time. They recommend tax upon the income OF
corporsted by this State and that the Governor be
directed to require our Senators in Congress to
| urge upon the General Government a prompt and
fair settlement Of the demands of this State The
imposition OF a tau upon the income Of citizens of
this State, owning stock in any institution not in.
corporsted by this State, Is also recommen ended by
the Comptroller General. 1t is impossible to pre-
dict wha, effect may be produced by the recon.
incubation Of the Comptroller, and tho Report of
che Finance Committee Of the Senate. II is a
| popular subject. however, and will probably pre-
vail. The Committee Of Ways and Means has not
yet reported upon il.
Extract Of another letter, same date.
|. That portion Of the Governors Message relat-
ing 70 the Tariff, having been made the special or
Of the day for this day, the House accordingly
resolved itself into Committee of the Whole upon
that subject, Mr.. Elliott in the Chair As might
have been expected, variety of propositions was
submitted. In order to enable the Committee to
understand them properly, motion was made and
carried, that the Committee rise and report pro-
gress, and recommend to the House, that the reso.
| buttons should be printed--whch was agreed TO by
the House, and the printing ordered accordingly.
THE gentlemen by whom resolutions were OF.
fered, were Mr.. Preston, Mr.. Legare, Mr.. Nixon,
Mr.. Smith, Mr. Thompson, and gentleman whose
| name 90 not know, md Of whose propositions,
| Generally sound and correctly shall not under.
take to give an account, for fear OF committing
error.
Mr.. Prcs.on's resolutions were 10 The following
effect.
Resofped, That all duties imposed BY Congress.
on imposts. not for revenue but to control the in.
| dustry OF the country, are unconstitutional.
Resofued, That the acts commonly called the
Tariff laws, passed in 1924 aud 1928, for the en-
courageRent OF manufactures, are deliberate, pal
Pable and dangerous infractons OF the Cons,itu-
| ton.
| Resolped, That those laws are partial and oo
prefsive in their operation upon the Southern
States, and more particularly upon this State; and
in their consequences calculated to produce the
ruiz OF one section OF the counry-to corrupt the
public morals OF another and to destroy the liberty
| of ALL
| Resofred, That the States when their reserved
rights are paipably, deliberately and dangerously
violated by the General Government, have, under
The Constitution, the right, acting in their high So
patton.
RESOLVED, That it il the deliberate opinion of
this Legislature, that, to defend and protect the
CONSTITUTION oil the United States in its true mean
ing 70 preserve unimpared, the reserved rights Of
this State, and to protect its citizens from impend
ing ruin, such interpostion is now necessary.
Resofued, That Committee of -be raised
10 devise and report such measures as may be best
calculated to carry into effect the foregoing reso
Iutons.
| MI. Legare's propositions were substantially as
| foliows:-They assumed the unconstitutionality of
all protecting duties, and declared the Tariff of
1873 unjust and oppressive; but, that the people of
this State were not prepared to come into omen
and violent collision with their fellow citizens. be.
lore time was given for further argument upon
! the subject, and every effort to obtain redress
through the instrumen,ality Of Congress had fail.
ed: solemn protest to be made against the
principles OF the Tariff and recorded in the Jour
| nails OF Congress by our Senators-the resolutions
| 70 De transmitted to the governors of the other
o'ates, with an earnest request TO them, that they
con sder their opinions upon the subject, and to
sucn OF .hem as agree with Us, to join in the re-
monstrance and pro.est-that convention ough,
70 De caiied-fhat no acts be passed to ssnullif,"
the laws in South Carolina, nor any excise law b.,
passed. or any thing else done interrupt the in
.ercourse oil the people of these States. Finally,
mat the thanks Of the people be returned to our
Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Mr. Smiths resolutions were as follows:
hesotred, That all duties laid on imports for the
projection or encouragement of domestic industry
or domesllc manufactures, by the Congress OF the
w. States, are violations OF the Constitution Of the
u States, and direct aggressions on the rights and
| sovereignty of the States.
But inasmuch as we value the peace and harmo
ny OIL TINS Union, and will view as the heaviest
national calamity, the necessity of any measures
that may Jeopardize its existence:
heso!ped, That copy Of the foreg going resoiu-
tion DE transmitted by the Governor of this State.
70 each OF our Senators and Representatives in the
congress OF me " States, with the request to lay
once more this deliberate expression Of our onin
IONS before the respective bodies of which the
are members, and to their joint CO operation to
OBTAIN speedy and final determine alton on the i'm
| portant interests il involves
hesoired, That ii is the request of this LeeisIa
uIe 10 the governor OF the State, that soon as
inc Congress OF the United States has determined
on the aforesaid resolution, without recedine from
the principles il involves, that this Legislature be
convened. "
Resotucd, That Committee be appointed to
P.epare an address to the people Of the United
States' on the existing differences between the
State and the General Government relative In the
Tariff Laws. ~ VIC
The following were submitted by Mr.. Waidv
Thompson:
HesoLred, Fhatin cases of danger ous attractions
OF the Constitution, by the assumption of the Gene
raj Government, Of the reserved rights and pow
ers OF the States, that tho only means of presery
ing and defending those rights, which is at The
same time efileacious, and becoming the dignity OF
state defending Its violated sovereignty, is for
w o s..es 10 nterpose their sovereign and
ed powers to arrest the progress of the usurpation
hesotued, That the late Tariff law Is a danger
Gus iniraeton Of the Constitution. and intoIerabIv
oppressive; and, that 1t constitutes case in which
Inc interPoson Of the States in the manner vim
oicaed Is not only jusiihabe; but, that 1t is called
LOT; nevertheless, that there are high considera
IONS which induce us to submit longer IN our
grievous expressions, and to trust vet little Inn
ger 10 The hope Of returning sense of Justice in
our rulers
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