Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-23
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TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 23, 1880.
SOuTu CAROLINA

SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Columbia Telescope, the organ Of the ultra
Tariites of South Carolina, in its last number
holds the following language:--
s'The day has at last arrived beyond procrastina-
tion for South Carolina earnestly to look forward to
great crisis before her, and prepare for that
cannot be disguised that the very eve OF
some most interesting md important political strue.
giles 1t may now be set down settled, that all
| hopes founded on the new Congress and ON Gen
Jackson, have been baseless The protecting system
lin other words. the system of plumber and robbery
on great Scale by unconstitutional law is triumph
aniy proclaimed By that MANY Headed Despot' to
wit, the punderng majority, both in and out of Con-
gross, as the permanent law of the land General
jackson ALSO doubtless witt, an eye to his own re
election, has thought it bis best policy to forget
right and Justit e-peace and the general welfare,
and throw the weight of his influence into the hands
he vaguely ntimates the propriet of some reduction
of the tariff articles. but is perspicuously
and in bold relief in favor of the extension of it.
beyond the authority of the constitution"
"The mode Of resistance which will be adopted
may possibly lead disunoii, and perhaps TO blood
shed-Fh's may be So
pair at suggest, that Of all deaths to die
is best Resistance then must and will be made by
our next Legislature; the enormty of the provoca-
ton; perpetuaon and the state of public feeling
all forbid the supposition that it will not and it will
bewise in all men to be prepared for the event. a
Struggle is inevitable; and every sensible knows
That 1t must be So.
We respect this language more than we have been
accustomed to respect the Examinations from the same
quarter, because however infatuated and Mistaken it
is now evidently the language of sincerity, wrung
from those who utter it, by sense Of wrong, real
supposed, and unsuggested by latent views of Pres-
dental electioneering. While in 1928 and 90, S.
Carolina with one hand, pulled down the Administra
ton of Mr. Adams for its Tariff policy, and With the
other dragged Gen. Jackson forward to occppy his
place, it was mpossible-appris,d every intelli-
gent man was that Gen. Jackson not less deeply
committed by opinion, by conduct, by consistency,
and by circumstances, to The maintenance of the
Tariff than Mr.. Adams-to feel any great sympathy
for the alleged suerngs, respect for the sincerity
offs. Carolina We we're deeply impressed with the
conviction, that her grievances were feigned, and
that her outcfies part of the system adopted
to coaesce the whole Southern Country against the
existing Administration, and that the end accom-
plished, her rnurmurs would speedily die away.
Thus we thought and thus we said. IF we cannot
still give faith to those representations which paint
s. Carolina as blasted and desolated by the Tariff
if we cannot comprehend how this may be, when
what she has to buy never cheap, and when
the Tariff does not deprive her of market for her
cotton and reeve yet are prepared to retract the
opinion expressed Of the insincerity of her cor
duct. For having entertained this opinion, offer
apology the plausible circumstances, that her
politicians 1.-THE most prominent of them) were the
bitter and inpacabIe foes of Mr.. Adams, after sup
porting in another, the policy pursued by him.
that Gen. Jackson, whom she earnestly espoused,
was as much welded to the Tariff as Dir. Adams,
whom she repudiated-and our honest incredulity as
to the alleged disastrous operation of the Tariff
Even the Telescope will ADMIT we think that frmeE