Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-12-22

MT HUBBARD offered the House of Representatives the following Memorial as substitute for those offered by Mir DELFT and Mir BAKER, the subject of the Tariff, which read and ordered 10 be printed.
 Your memorialists again call the attention of your honorable body to the expressing sub jects of the Tariff and Internal Improvement That system by which the Government of the United States, (under power given to raise revenue for one purpose) claims the right to tax one part of her citizens to enrich another portion.
 Those acts of Congress so well calculated to produce an unhappy state offeeling, has been the constant subject of ofrcmonstrance and com plaint with the Southern States, upon whose citizens the burthen of those laws arc belev ed to be most oppressive. And Alabama, al though one of the younger members of this confcderacy, has taken her stand, and raised her voice against the operation of those laws. Feeling the obligation to protect inviolate, the rights and freedom of her people, she has, also, frequently complained and remonstrat- ed against the system, as one of outrage and oppression. Congress has returned no an swer, but has increased our burthens by an increase of taxes. This course of proceed ing on the part of Congress, has produced an excitement among the people of some of the States, alarming to all ;-all unite in charging this state of feeling to have been created by the Government, in passing, and in refusing on application to modify or repeal those laws. The difference among our people, is not whe- ther the system is just and equitable, for all oppose it as most oppressive, but they differ as to the propermode ofobtaining redress. Should Congress still refuse to give it, refusal by the States in their sovereign character, to submit and f an appeal to the Con ts nsf of the % tinted States, are the different modes of redress pro- posed for consideration.
 In this state of trouble and disquiet produc- ed by the very Govt rnment instituted to pro- mote our common happiness, the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened ,doth here in behalf of her oppressed and injured people, enter her most solemn protest against this system j and doth, also, declare to the Governmental the United States, and to the several Stat$, that her citizens are unwilling to be taxed fbr the support of the system.
 They will most cheerfully pay the Nation al Debt, cretted in the purchase and defence of their freedom, and all the expenses of the several departments of fGovernments and they are willing tSbe taxed for that purpose; but they are unwilling that Congress should con- tract to payinllions in the construction of roads and caals, or to enrich stock jobbers in those extHvagant schemes; and they are equally unwilling to be taxed to enrich the wealthy manIfacturers.
 The peopl|are daily growing more unhap- py under, an dissatisfied with, the burthens imposed upd tEem by the Tariff. And the Governmenbf the United States should not hope or exptt, that either threats or persua- sion will ind9e them to bear those burthens quietly; and they are not removed, no one can predict tb consequences.
 This Gendal Assembly does not believe that the Suptm Court of the United States is a tribunal hpable of defining the political powers of til States, or of the General Go vernment; othat it was department of Go vernment clhted for that purpose. Your memorialistsbelieve that any law which Congress mht pass, for the purpose of rais- ing revenue duties and imposts, would be sanctioned bI that Court, and that it never