Southern planter., 1832-11-24
Fellou- Citizens Of The Senate,
and House of Representatives..

five under beliefthat after our general elections,
Won could not too soon be brought together. TO de-
iibcrate On the best means Of promoting the interests
of those. whose rights, whose liberties, and whose
public honor are confded 10 Jour care.
shouldiudeed have convokcd your pI5aeces'
sors Immediately after the adjournment OF the last
Session fCongTess, If bad not deemed II IN every
respect desirable that our people, ia the exercise
OF one ofihe highest functions ofther sovereignty,
exersed in the choice Of their Representatives,
should. in the fst instance have an opportunity Of
passino judgement on tho fnal results Of the pro-
ceodines oflhat Session, which claims TO have fix
ed on permanent bssis as far as i can he elect
ed BY Federal legislation, the settled policy ofihe
country Az. the canvass, which precaded our re-
cent election, was conducted in almost exclusive
and absorbing reference 10 the ultimate result ofhs
legislation by Congress, your selection may be Ia
ken as the expononts Of this judgement Icordlal
" congratulate you, and our State at large, not
only on the auspicious and elevated decision which
our people, BY infallible tokens, have thus made,
but also on the cheering indications Of our having
already reached unanimty OF sentiment, nearly
as greatas the inevitable diversity Of human opin-
ions will permit, on a subject vitality affecting
dearest right sand liberties. Thus convened under
circumstances ofprolound public anxiety, iniernul
public interest you will am sure, come to the dis
charge Of the trust which has devolved upon you,
with an inhexible determination 10 perform It's du
ties IN enlightened spirit Of frmness and modera-
ton, worthy ofthe bccasion e. ofthoge nestmablo
principles of constitutional liberty whichit will ho
neofihe moul impressive ofour obligations to pre-
serve and forever defend
Itis known 10 you, FellowC Citizens, that the
most ANXIOUS hopes oftbe good people Of tho State
were directed 10 proceedings ofthe last Congress
Of the United States flesnecessiy Of providing
for large reduction Of Federal Taxation, conse-
4ueni on the proximuie sxtnRuishment Of large
public debt, the strong and well founded complaints
Of respectable and patriotic portion Of the States
10 this confedency, 1.-The solid ground on which,
matter Of constitutional right. these complaints rest
ed as veil as oufiu claims TO a reform not only in
the abuses ofthe EXERCISE OF tbe powerof taxation on
tbenarof the General Government, but in the abuses
ofhe appropriation the public treasure afler il is
levied, inspired even those prone 10 despond, in spite
ofinauspcous omens, with some faint expectation,
thar these great and alarming questions Of political
power would be settled in spirit ofimpartiai Justice
and with considerate regard 70 that amty and
mutual concession, essential to The preservation
cfa coniedency composed Of co-equal and co-og-
dnaie sovereigus.
II is scarcely necessary that should inform you
in detail what has been the final result OF these do
lusivcly cherished expectations for you are in pos
session Of an authority fhis subject, infinitely
more valuable. than my own. Two thirds Of your
Representatives and both Of your Senators, aferef
forts the floor Of Congress Of signal ability and
disinleresled patriotism, in which every species Of
consultation was exerted, that Iusl and wise mod
GRAFTON could dictate short Of surTendering prn-
ciPlo essential to your constitutional liberty have
solemnly declared 10 the people Of South Carolina
IN the fnCeof the world, ''That whatever hopesmny
have been INDUCED at the commencement Of the
session, that returning sense Of justice on the part
Of the majority would remove or materially mitipate
the grievous load Of oppression under which YOU
have 80 long abored and which you have 50 Justly
complained, they are reluctantly constrained to de-
clare that these ha.ierng hopes, too long deferred,
and too fondy cherished, have finally aud forever
vanished." II proof ofthis disastrous consunima-
ton, they could not better have relied on any testi-
monYthan that on which they did rely, the Tanff act
Of ie32, which, by perveraion Of every principle
o. common sense and common Justice, has been
called compromise between the conflicting inter
ess Of The manufacturing and plantation States. on
principles Of equivalent benefit to both. Il sun
noossuafy. gentlemen, that should inform YOU who
are we'll instructed upon the true grounds ofthe
controversy, that this imputed compromise is des-
h,use OF every feature Of that Justice and equality
that ought 10 characteTze measure bearing such
an appellalion. We might we'll in advance have
dslrusied the compact for this adjustment, in which
Il vas found expediout not TO consult at any pedi.
Cd ofthe negotiation, our Senators and two thirds
of our Representative, and which bore upon lis
face the signs Of ils being in some respect subtle
conlumnce, 70 bend the pecuniary interests and
constitutional liberties Of people, to q struggle
for the exective power Of the country But apart
from these exiTinsic' ections, the adjustment is
intfnsicaIly not a mutual, but an exclusive CON-
promise Of all the JOS, claims and interests Of the
South. The TarfAct Of 1889 is, in point Of fact
Law BY which the consumption Of The manuiac-
turing States Is nearly relieved Of all sort ofburden
on those articles which they consume and do not
produce, and under the provisions Of which,they
are secured bounty on an average Of more than
fifty per cent the productions Of their industry
wh'lutil taxes our consumption TO an equivalent a.
mount,and the exchangeable value Of our products
IN much more aggravated ratio. The law bears
tho impress of the legislation ofan independent SOW
eregniy % feeble and distant colony, and estab
fishes the revolving discrimination that the labonr
ofthe South Is less entitled to the paterna regard
OF this Government, than that Of q more favored
section Of the Union. The provisions Of the Act
@e, moreover, at war with every Acknowledged
prncpleof wise and benehcent laxation, which has
ever existed umong any people on tho face Of the
earth, having the sbodow Of claim to civilization
or aiuss knowedledge Of faance. Articles eflox.
ury are selected The objects Of comparative ex.