Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-10

creased means Of instruction may not be accomplished by
different plan, diminished scale OF expense certain
y worthy Of your careful and earnest attention.
Among the Interesting which have occurred since
with relations the federal government is
ing date the lh of June 1884, which the President
United States thought proper address portion the
citizens Of this state; and tho which presented
under the tariff law for adjudication September
of the District Court of the United States.
The first OF these events presented the extraordinary
anomaly OF the President OF the United States taking sides
IN the strife OF the domestic parties in State in violation
pounded and scadiasy adhered TO, by the greatest of
his predecessors, save oneft would have been WELL if
this Notifying circumstance had stopped here; but
cong party the praise, to which their attachmc
TO the union doubtless entitled them he have con-
sdcrcd it duty in dcnouncny the other 10 imnu,o
to them designs unlrendly the Union
these declarations with threat of the military power of The
General Government, against the State of South Caro-
lima.
should little consult your dignity as my own by
going into formal defence OF from these charges
by which they were on this occasion avouched. But
the dorganzcs against whose pan of an
nsurmounabie barrier would be presented, by the per-
Torrance 0f high and sacred duties, which must and will
at all hazards be performed, only BIO the public au
hores OF South Carolina whom she has clothed with her
sovereignty and who would i'm Obedience 10 her
reign wii 1t certainly Is worthy of dspassonate con-
Sierauon, how far sovereign party the compact of
Union, can, whilst acting her sovereignty disputed
question oil delegated power be cocrced into submission
TO the government created by the compact by the appca
ton OF military force the part of the executive the
coteueacy when all the other departments OF tho cde-
raj government could not of right exercise this power
1t is rendering no more than justice TO the good poo
pie OF this State to declare that neither treason
reoehon' prvy conspiracy, nor popular tumult has,
IN ono single instance, for single moment, been
thought oil a, remedy for their grievances. They
have always looked in the last the peaceful,
yet sovereign authority of their State for redress
II would indeed be arguing utter ignorance in Chief
Magistrate of the conederacy that with these events be-
fore him, the imputed ''plan of dsorganizaon should
have aluson any thing else, but the affirmation of our
State OF her sovereign right TO nteposc for the prcscrva
fnn nf hor ,r1,,- AL
pable and dangerous violation OF the compact With this
interpretation in what spirit it bchovcs you this
'hrea and to repe the charge on which it is foundcd in
manner worthy oil the people whom you represent is
question submit TO your consideration, and the SEN
sblity with which, sure you will always cherish
every thing connected with the honor OF State. The
empty menace itself, utterly repugna as to every
just understanding of the true character of conedera
cy and genius of government might have boon nm
deserving of considerations ii did not mark by unern
and portentous tokens the inevitable tendency of CONSOLE
dation to military dcspotism.
The result of the issue made up in the United So,cs
District Court with the view Of trying the constitutional
y oil the tariff law, have long been acquainted
with by public rumor. The hopecssness of obtain
rec from the injustice and unconstuonaly of this
law, through the Courts of the United States has been
suhcicn'y demonstrated, by the absurd mockery which
attended TINS trial There were however, some events
which marked the history and progress of this case that
are especially worthy of your notice. Although Jury
trial was nomnay accorded TO the defendants, (Which
however the Attorney of the United States resoutely re-
9iStcd yet the Judge did permit the facts of the case
go the jury He decided that under the issue
hc only plea by which the trial by jury could be secur
ed it was not competent for the defendants TO show the
consideration for which the bond given so that the
notorious FACT that the bond in question given for du
ties under the tariff of 1928, suffered TO be
made to appear to the jury This decision in conravcn
9n Of inc established law oil South Carolina, in fact depriv
ca inc defendants OF the great and ncsmabc Jury
trial, which is essential public liberty i'm project
ing property from fraudulent violaaons preserving
mo personal freedom OF our citiznes submit you the
Poprety oil passing such decaratoy statute guarded by
appropriate penalties, if necessary, shall guarantee
every citizen in each and every court within the limits of
ph m IF dcbt
on bond, under the plea of the general ISSUE give the
consideration of the bond in evidence before the Jury 1t
neither belongs 10 the especially the times
when we live, that the great right of jury trial. the most
eminent safeguard of our political and civil liberties should
be rendered altogether unavainS by the pcrversion
OF an artificial system Of pleading which the simplicity
less complicated forms ofjudicatuc is cycry where
pudia,ing.
Tho Congress OF the United States as YOU arc aware
adjourned the 9Th of March last without adopting any
modification of the Tariff calculated mitigate that sys-
tenn OF unconstitutional and unequal taxaion of which
have so loudly and justly complained.
Whilst we pause, it becomes to survey the ground
upon which stand.If look at the evil itself total
~ distracted from all considerations connected with the Ii
bcTy OF the country, the melancholy experience of each
revolving affords fresh testimony its overhelm
ing and disastrous character From gradually sinking
der this rghtiu paralysis begin fall with
CELEBRATED velocity The price and demand for our staples
are constantly diminishing the and rewards of
industry are drying up, and many of best citizens,
dlsheartencd and poor, turning their the inn
nensc valley OF the West where they hope find, in the
prolific fertility with which God has blessed that gion
some compensation Tor the cXacons of unkind
just government
To future age, ii will be subject of as much wonder
and scrutiny, how the plantation States this confederacy
could Tor ten years have borne the cxhasng ohe
present system OF taxation, it contemplate
any oil the past memorials of human superstition igno-
rance 10 make this familiar, let look the great sources
oil the production OF the Atlantic section country
source exists in the manufacturing States north of the Po-
omac, the other in the agricultural States south of this
Inc IL has been proved by of reasoning APP
proNmang as near 10 demonstration, the subject will
permit that both sections engaged producing precise
y the same products; that if broadcos coarse cottons
and hardware manufactured by the looms spindes
and ogos of the north the articles arc manufactured
by the plough, the spade and the hoes of the south and
that the only difference exists in mode of elaboration
and production. In word that cotton rice and TO-
oacco return TO our shores after paying valua-
bic tribute TO commercial marine in the shape of the
very articles OF merchandise which have enumerated
1t ~ when the eXchangeable value Of these productions
reaches us, that the inequality of the system begins to act
with paraysng injustice. The products of northern in
dusry, come into market perfectly unburden whilst our
products the results OF labor bundcncd with
an average tax OF 40 per cent which falls
with almost unmitiGaed severity uponus. But because
we consume insungyIod that this is a perfect
equal system But in the character of consumers
TINS proposition is utterly unoundcd We have no manu-
features among ourselves refund us in an augmented
RATIO the taxes we pay consumption are the lam
gushing sources of our industry nvgoated and frucded
by the vast and sustaining disbursements of government
which uniformly set In fortunate and voritc di=cc
ton.
The Legislation Of Congress has in effect placed the mar
ke OF the south under ban essentially colonial by tax
ing almost to the extent of prohibitions our trade with other
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