Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-12-28
rom RIO Co'ambia Telescope Extra, Dec, z
PROCEtANaATsON,
Ry rur GOVERNOR or soUTm CAROLINA

w States hath issu, d his Proclamation con-
corning mn "ORpINANSE OF THE PEoPLE OF |
SoUTu CAROLINA, To nuIiIiy ce'taIu acts of the |
Coz gre : of he dated States" laying 'duties
and imposts for tho protection Of domestic ma |
Du 'acturps."
And WHEREAS, the Legislature Of South
Carolina now i'll session, taking into consider
alton. the matters contained in tho said Procla-
NATION of tho President, have adopted "a Pre-
nmbe aud Resolution to tne following effect
w:
WHEREAS the President ofihe United States
has issued his Proclamation denounciug the
proceedings of this State, calling upon the citi
Zens thercof,o renOuucc their primary allegi-
hnco, and threatening them with military cocr-
cion, unwarranted by the Constitution, and ut
teriy inconsistent with the existence Of free
State, be it therefore,
RESOLVED, That hi; Exccency the Governor
be requested, forthwith, to issue his Proclama-
too warning the good people OF this State n
sanst tho attempt of the President Of The u.
States 10 scduce them from their allegiance, ex-
hot,ing them to disregard his vain menaces, 81
to he prepared to sustain The dignity, and pro-
iect the liberty of The State against tho arbi,ra-
ry measures proposed by the President"
Now |, Robert Y llayne, Governor Of South
Carolina, in obedience TO the said Resolution,
do hereby issue this, my Proclamation. solemn
" waning the good people of this State against
the dangerous md perncious doctrine promul-
gated in tho said Proclamation of the President
ns calculated 20 misl'ad their Judgments 20
the tue character Of the Government urder
winch they live, and the paramount obligation
w ich they owe to the State, and manit,stly in
tended 10 sednce them fEom their allegiance,
md by drawing them 10 the support, OF the vi :
oleut and Unlawful measures contemplated hy
the President, to involve them in tho guilt OF
REBELLION. would earnestly admonish them
10 beware Of the specioug bat false dociriaes
10y which Ii is now attempted 10 he shewn that
the several States have rstniDCI bpi
tire sovereignty that "he allegiance of theIy
citizens was transferred IN The first instance to
the Government of the United States" tina,
ga State comet be said To he sovereign and in-
dependent whose citizens owe obedience to
laws not mndeby it, that seven under the row
al government" we had no separate character .
ihat the Constitution has created "a national
government which is not 8 n compact between
Sovereign Staies'-"that State has NO RIGHT
TS sECEDE'-iH a word, that ours is a NATION.
AL GovERNMENT in which the people Of all Inc
states are represented. and by which We are
constituted ZONE PEOPLE and ''that oSr repre.
sentatlves in Congress are all representatives OF
the United States, and not of tho particular
States from which they cure"-doctrines
winch uproot the very foundation of our polit-
cal system--auniill!ate The rights of the States
and utterly destroy The liberties Of the citizen
1t requires no reasoning to show what the
bare statement or these propositions demon
strate, that such Government as is here dcs-
oribed, has nct single feature of a confedCrated
republic. Il is III truth an accurate delineation
drawn wi;h bold hand, of great consolidated
em?ir5-"one and jndivi.ihle," aud under what.
eve. srecious form, its powers may b. masked
n IS III fact the worst of ali despotisms ia which
Jh1 Snr't "i an arbitrary government is suffered
10 pcryade Institutions protesting to be free
Such was not the Government, for W hch our
fathers fought and bled. and Offered up their
lives and fortunes as WI ling sacrifice. Such
was not the Government. which the great and
patriotic men who called Tie Union into being
in the penIude Of their VISIONS framed. Such
was not the Government winch The fathers Of
the republican faith, led on by the Apostle OF
American Liberty, promulgated and success,
fully maintained IN 1898, ani by which the,
produced the great political revolution effected
At that suspicious era. To Government ba-
SEQ IN such principles, South Carolina has no,
been voluntary party, and to such Govern
inent she never viii give her assent.
The records OF our history do, indeed afford
Ac prototype CT these sentiments, which is to
ne found in the recorded opinion of those who,
wien tic Constitution was framed were in ia
vor of a firm National Government" in which
the States should stand in the Same relation to
Inc UnI0n, that the colonies did towards the
mother counry. The Journals Of tho Conven-
lion and the secret history Of the deba es, will
sheW that this party did propose to secure to
the Federal Government an absolute supremacy
over the States, by giving them negative
upon their laws, bot the same history also
caches us that all these propositions were re- .
jected, end a Federal Government was finally
established, recognizing The sovereignty of the
States, and lowing Tie constitutional compact
om tie footing OF all other cdmpHcts between
''porties having no common superior"
1t is tho natural and necessary consequence
of The principles thus authoriliyely announced
by the President, as constituting the very ba-
sis Of cur political system, that The Federal
Government is unlimited aud SUPREME beiup