Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-31

ihlhgS are drawing to crisis IN South Carolina
and as the leaders in that State seem determined
to try their strength in Drawing the Union and nut,
ting its laws at defiance, and appear to have the
Legislature and majority of the People with them
however much we deplore their infatuation, the
sooner the thing comes to head the better We
feel well assured that it will result as all other cyi
ses have through which country has passed
In giving renewed strength to our insttu
tions, and in endearing them moro warmly in the
affections of the People, and in raising our country
and ITS institutions higher in the estimation of
other nations.
The two S. Carolina Senators and six of hsr Re-
representatives. in Congress have recently issued a
Manifesto, addressed ''To the People of S. Carroll
ma" in which they give review of the history and
progress OF the protective system, and represent
the new Tariff Act concentrating the Injustice
@of that SYSTEM and riveng it's expressions on the
South. They suggest remedy for this state of
things, but after expressing their conviction that
the protective system must now be regarded as the
settled policy of the country, and that all hone of
relief from Congress is irrecoverably gone leave it
to the people, in their sovereign capacity to decide
ohether they aoW surrender their rights and hber
ties wiuout a struggle, or transmit them undimin
ished to posterity.
SO we learn from the Courier and Gazette The
Post in which the Manifesto is published we do
not take, and therefore have not seen it yet
Messrs. Drayton, Blair and Mitchell, are the Re-
personalities who did not unite in issuing this
Manifesto.
The following article, which we find in the Char
lesion Courier, is the first we have heard of an at
tempt 10 expel American citizens born in other
States from S. Carolina. Verify the NulIifyers
determined to go the whole hog Surely they
should first have had the discretion to declare S.
Carolina out of the pale Of the Union before thew
attempted to treat Yankees as foreigners How
ever it may be useful lesson to our Northern bre.
thren-and induce them to take measures to guard
themselves against the pains and penalties of high
tieason which no doubt will be attempted to be in
flicted ON them when South Carolina shall set up
for herself. Their friends and partners at the North
can very easily order few Of their East Indiamen
Soutt-Sea Whalemen to call by Charleston, on
their outward bound voyages, which will afford
them ample protection.
ave take pleasure in advising our readers of Ike
termination in a manner highly honorable to both
parties, of a controversy which was calculat ed
to lead to the most fatal consequences. 1t arose
out of certain publications containing threat of
expulsion against large and respectable portion of
American citizens, born in other quarters of the
Union such threats are IN their nature Indefen-
sble, and had already caused two citizens to pre-
pare for mortal conflict. There is nothing in the
political controversies of the day to justify
these denuncations. The questions which agi-
tate us have advocates from all quarters of
the Union-and single fact will justify
the idea, that those who have chosen this
portion of their own country their home not
in every respect faithful to local and peculiar
interests-and when know that among The most
enlightened and vrtuous of our native citizens
those, who constitute the great body Of both par
ties it is equally unwisc and unjust to indulge in
such improper antipathies. The history Of Carroll
ma furnishes Tot instance Of any opposition TO
her interests, any hostile action against her, by
our Northern fellow citizens, but, the contrary,
1t is full of instances Of hearty cooperation in the
most cventful struggles, in which their blood has
! been mingled with our own-aDd as citizens, every
public improvement in city bears witness that
they identity their interest with ours, and contr
butte the fruits Of their labor in adding to the per-
manent advancement OF oui proPerty-in fact they
never can feel that they strangers and intro
ders.
"Ihcse remarks are suggested by pcruss Of
the terms, on which the controversy, which has so
painfully agtated this community, was adjusted.
"The improperly Of all denunciationS of one
class OF American citizens, on account Of thoir