Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-06-20

idy we see systematic and artiul attempts TO rouse
.he passions of the People TO measures Of violence,
which are openly justified on the ground OF oPpres-
sion on the South alleged 10 have been inflicted ny
the passage Of the new tariff law Without waiting
Ito ascertain its operation, to discover whether,
Instead of depressing them, it will not furnish them
foreign manufactures both better and cheaper than
Heretofore, and not materially affect their exports,
1.-THE necessity and duty of resistance, I'm other
words, of rebelion) on the part OF the People OF
South Carolina, is seriously nculcated The same
spirit which pervaded the Essex Junto prints during
1.-The late war is now dscernible, clothed IN almost
identical language, IN the organs OF the dominant
. party in the State Of South Carolina. "Oppres'
sion'' is the watch-word and Resistance" the so-
gan A sudden assembly of the Legislature is pro-
posed; which it is hoped the good sense OF the
overnor will interfere TO prevent, that at least
1Ifew weeks NAV be given 10 reflection and reason
: What description OF measures the Legislature would
in the midst of this excitement he expected to enact
t we cannot Judge except from the language OF those
: who most strongly demand the measure. Amongst
these an energetic writers in the Charleston Nler'
: curry Ga thorough going Partzan PRINT says = we
Is see NO alternative that threatens. comparable to
those we must inevitably suffer under the present
state Of things' In other prints even stronger
language is used In reference to the measure OF the
!, Tariff, it is obvious, as is Justly remarked by an
able writer on the other side, in the Charleston
8 City Gazette no legal object ran be in conempla-
Q ton. Remonstrance cannot be intended, because
ID remonsrance has been tried, and has not been Ell
# fectua TO arrest the measure. Legislation, IN re-
ference to the tariff, cannot be intended because the
n subject is beyond the sphere Of Legislation OF the
v State Governments Some other purpose, then, is
h meditaed Upon such views Of the question as
ii this the writer in the Gazette adds with the fee
IT ling of true patriot, what follows :" Knowing that
ys' there are among u.s. rho openly spouse d,s-
&c solution of the Union it behoyes us to be on the
g aert--and with our children on our knees, our
y &c families about US, and country and posterity
&c before US TO ponder well upon the duties required
K on ,uch Crisis, Of virtuous citizen The
ID reader will perceive, in the earnesness OF this wr
lie ter that he at least thinks that dangerous Crisis
Id has arrived. We hope that he regards it in tee
OF gloomy light, and that the number of those who
o, seriously plot ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF the Union, how
n ever bold in their avowals, is but small.
ri In the State of Georgia, we are panied TO per
lceye that there are zeaots who propose, not dis
eS union indeed, (and believe them the more II
" earnest in that they do not 90 so far as their bre
is Ithren in Charleston) but who propose Congress
the States of The South to effect objects which con
stitutional means have failed to effect. Letus hea
them in their own words " Let there be wal
MS raised between them and u.s." (meaning their sis
ct tier States.") "And for this purpose we would re
i'll commend that Congress assemble from all III
\ e. e4ss >ls~.~4 ct,a.p4a,aE in nEh eS ta d
'cs and People, such measures, consistent with tn
is constitution, as may seem best calculated to pro
ne 8 tect them from the operation of the Tariff Bill
ne and to prevent the introd< cton and use of tn
or rs tdrDed articles in their respective States" II
!. his extent does party zeal, rather than any hnl
De OF even State patrosm-fori in our country owin
G to the peculiar structure Of our Government W.
% nave two orders OF patriotism-yes thus hcadlon
does party spirit hurry its blind devotees. They
who have, for the best half of their lives, been il
The habit of using the Hartford Convention as a b,
word and reproach even to the part of the Uniol
n IN which it happened to be head, dc now them
IS selves propose resort to a measure of the SAM
We character. whont any thing like the same pretenc
of ofJustihcaton. For does any pretend that thu
s. present policy of this Government (be it twice
vexaous as 1t is alleged to beg can be half as Cd
presslve and affective to the agriculture of the South
as was the long embargo, followed, as it was, b.
|non-intercourse and war, to the commerce and nav
isation ofthe Eastern States BY the first of thes
measures, the hardy mariners of New ENGLAND
alwere cut of from the ocean, their natural element
~ 1.-THE ships ofthe merchants rotted wherever the EN-
Mt barge caught them; the fortunes of their owner
ne followed the fate OF their chips the bread was Ia
III ken from the mouths of their wives and children
. the JOY of their families was turned into mourning
and their hope into despair but even this they en-
OF dured for years-and when some few voices rebel
at ed against longer submission we'll do were membe
to the force with which one of the Representative
re from Georgia Cher late Go, rnor) exclaming, Oh
IL the floor of Congress, that one stout woman O
ot Massachusetts, would drive half hundred sucl
D. fellows into the ocean, So odious was resistanc
e. OF the Government then considered that it was on
no alter long hesitation that the Hartford Convention
"a was determined upon fora separate copsultatio,
lie upon grievances real or assumed That Conyen
ng ton we abhorred at the time of tive have neye
re since become reconcilcd to it, though subseauen
in information has abated some of our preiudic
TO- against --but we have hesitation in saving tina
nto 1t was quite as wise and patriotic measure a
IA would be Congress of the States to oyerrule
err eyaCe a measure IF tho Goner.l co..