Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-01-06

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4 of direct and immediate action, land in
speech which certainly does him grea
credit,) and by Mr.. Presley, who advocate,
the adoption Of Mr.. Legare's Resolutions
The debate was further continued thi
morning by Col. Arthur P. Hayne, VIII,
supported at considerable length and witt
/ much earnestness and warmth, the Resotu
tions submitted by himself. In the course
of his observations, he read to the House
several letters from distinguished politicians
in Virginia and North Carolina in relation
to publick sentiment in those States as re-
CARDS the TariF-euldgized General Jack
son in warm and emphatick terms-relies
much upon his influence in efsecting a re.
peal or modification of the system, and pro.
posed that Stephen Elliot and Henry Deas
should be sent, as Commissioners, to Con,
gress, with firm and decided Protest
against the Tariff policy. Col. Haynes
| Speech was, as you may well suppose, per-
vaded by manly sentiment and patriotck
feeling. Mr.Gregg next spoke, and in oppo-
sition both to the passage of an Act by the
Legislature, and the calling Of Convention
as leading eventually to bloodshed and disu-
MON. Mr.. g. repeatedly expressed himself
as thoroughly opposed to the Tariff, and
declared his perfect convictiorof its uncon-
stitutionality and oppressiveness-but was
opposed 10 any proceeding stronger than q
remonstrance, (which he Recommended to
the committee) as tending to calamities far
greater than those from which it was the
object of the advocates of notification to re-
lieye us. Mr.. Preston followed, and occu-
pied the attention of the committee for a
considerable time, in truly eloquent able,
manly, and energetick speech, in which he
again supported his own Resolutions, and
replied to the arguments of several Of his
opponents. Mr.. P. concluded by submitting
Resolution that the Committee rise, and
Recommend to the House that the Govern
ours Message on the Tariff, together with
all the various Resolutions ON that subject,
be committed to Special Committee of
thirteen, for the purpose of matnring and
digesting the most eligible mode OF proceed
ing. Before vote was taken on this pro-
position, Mr.. Legare asked and obtained
leave to reply to some of the positions of
Mr., r, to which he accordingly replied with
his usual strength and energy. The Com
mlttee then rose, at about O'Clock, and
obtained leave to sit again on Monday
When this matter will end, it is impossible
to determine"
Another letter, dated Columbia, Dec.
10, gives the following account Of speech
made BY Mr.. Seabrook. in the Senate,
while the subject was under discussion
there. II will be seen that one of his OBJ
jections to the tariff policy is that it tends
to the emancipation Of their slaves. whom
he deigns to call !" coloured labourers"
"The debate was commenced by Mr..
Seabrook. After abiding to the grave inn
portance of the subject, and the settled con-
vlctlon OF this State as to the gross injustice,
sectional character, and unconstitutionality
OF the prohibitory system, he entered into
a train OF reasoning to shew the dangerous
tendency Of the doctrine Of passive obedi-
ence and non-resistance. In the course Of
his argument, he proved that the constitu-
ton of the United States had been repeat
eddy and wilfully violated by faction. the
operation of whose deeds was marked in the
desolation around us--that the government
was Invested fevery feature of represent
alive democracy, and that the only alterna-
tive left South Carolina was absolute,
unconditional submission, or a firm and I'M
wayering resistance. He contended that
the sovereign authority of a State did pos-
sess the right of multiplying the acts of the
general government in reference to itself
whenever there was palpable, deliberate.
and dangerous breach of the Federal COM
pact. After combating the idea that the
Supreme Court was the tribunal contempla-
ted by the constitution to determine cases
In which the right of sovereignty was inyoly-
ed he glanced at the present deplorable
condition of South Carolina, proved That her
situation was infinitely worse now then it
was when she was the colony Of a foreign
power, and he avowed his solemn conviction
that the Act oflS24 would soon depopulate
the State. Under the pressure of our calan.-
'ttes, he said that zoe icould be Justified be-
Tore God and man an unfilrIing The banner
Of Se.f -preser0atlon--that the matter in issue
was literally question Of life or death to
the citizens Of South Carolina, and that to
adopt any other course than that indicated
oy the manly andvigilant spirit which should
ever characterize freeman, would be but
to hug the chains with which we were man
acled. Mr.. Seabrook then proceeded to
show that the period had arrived when duty,
interest, and the preservation of our domes-
tick affairs, should enduce South Carolina to
ntrench itself in its sovereignty. He was
OF opinion that power when stimulated by
seif-interest, could only be checked by the
exercise of (moral) power. In further elu-
cidation of his arguments, he adyerted tothe
customs regulation of Great Britain The
increasing influence of the manufacturing
interest, the depreciation and insecurity Of
property of every description in this State,
the great loss which South Carolina has ex-
perienced in her black population since 1924.
The emigration, actual and contemplated,
OF many ofour most wealthy and distinguish
ed citizens, and TO the fact, no longer to be
concealed, that the direct and inevitable
tendency Of the Tariff policy, is the eman-
clpatlon of our coloured labourers. After
reiterating his belief that the only mode to
preserve the Constitution in its purity was
to resist every encroachment on it, he con-
cluded with an appeal to the honour mar