The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-10

"a an eloSGeat, powerful a,ldress to tlse good sense and correct feeling of tue hOuse--aBd animadvcrtcSl in Caustic style, upon the lan- gslage which had been made use of ai puh- lie meeting in Columbia, by the President of South Carolina College, on which occasion he had intimated that 1t was tune Co c0ica- iate the uaiue of the union '' language which Mir. Butler cOntended. amounted tO rebel lion against that constitution which we all had sworn to support. He too was opposed to the tariff system, and had expressed that Op- position in common with the people of that District he had been sent to represent; but his opposition to it must be evidenced in some other manner than threats tO dissolve the Union Mir Butler read in his place from the Journals, certain resolutions which had been adopted by the legislature OfSOuth Car oIina, in the year 1920, and the language of which he used as his own. Their spirit and temper were he said, in direct opposition to those now presented for our adoption--they breathed the patriotic language of the state, on that day, and were well worth the serious consideration of the House.
 Nlr. Butler and those who acted with him, did not indeed succeed in causing their sound and just views to prevail, for the resolutions were in substance, carrled, of which the fol- Towing may serve as sample.
 Mr. Legare moved an amendment to the second resolution. as follows:
 Resolved, That all the acts of Congress, known by the name e-of the Tariff Laws, the object of which is neither the raising of rev enue or the regulation of foreign commerce, but the promotion of domestic manufactures, are violations of the constitution in its spirit, and ought to be repealed.
 This amendment.after some discussion was adopted.
 Thus Georgia, South Carolina, and Virgin ia, have declared by Legislative votes,that the protection of manufactures is unconstluiion al, and this we suppose. may consequently be the Jackson creed. We should like to see such proposition introduced into the Legis- lature of New Y ork, in order at once to test the extent of party allegiance, and of knowl- ege of the constitution. 1t is satitactOry to| state, that though the s. Carolina House a. dopted the resolutions with some amend ment they would not adopt the preamble.
 The result of these votes may possibly be that the northern. middle, or western States, will in their turn, vote that the protection of manufactures IS, within the constitution al power of the federal Government: and then we shall have on the one hand, some three or four, or half dozen slave states, re- solving what their construction of the con- stitution is, and protesting they will resist, e. ven by arms, any other construction; and on the other, the great mass of the free, enter prising, aborious, and industrious pop ulaton of the United States, declaring, and what is more, adhering to, and emhodying in the laws of lhe country different constrrc- tion.
 The whole practice of State resolations,re- specting federal acts. is founded in wrong. The constitution itself has established tr hunal, by which laws made ny the Congress of the U. s. may be examined and if prov ed to be unconstitutional be set aside.-The Supreme Court of the U. States is this tri- hunaI and until it shall decide that a protcc- ting tariff, is therefore an unconstitutional one they spend their breath but idly. who har- rangue State Legislatures into such juds- EnpnfS