Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-12-26

duced by mutual sacrifices of interests and opinions
Can those sacrifices be recalled! Can the States
who magnanimously surrendered their title to the
Territories of the West recall the grant! Will
the inhabitants of the inland States agree to pay the
duties that may be imposed without their assent by
those on the Atlantic the Gulf for their own ben
eht! Shall there be a free port in one State, and
oncrous duties in another? No one believes that any
right exists in single State to involve all the others in
these and countless other evils contrary to the
gagements solemnly made. Every one must see that
the other States in selfdefence, must oppose at all
hazards.
Convention repeal of all the acts for raising
enue, leaving the Government without the means of
support: acquescence in the dissolution of our
Union by the secession of one of its MEMBERS
When the first was proposed, it was known that
it could not be listened to for moment. 1t was
known that if force was applied to oppose the exc
cution of the laws that must be repealed by force
that Congress could not, without involving itselfin
disgrace and the country in ruin, accede to the
and yet, if this is not done in given
day, or if any attempt is made to execute the laws
the State by the Ordinance, declared to be out of
the Union The majority of a Convention assem-
bled Tor the purpose, have dictated these terms,
rather this rejection of all TERMS in the name of the
people of South Carolina. 1t is true that the Gov
ernor of the State speaks of the submission of their
grievances to a Convention of all the States; which
he says they s'sincerely and anxiousy seek and de-
ire."-Yet this obvious and Constitutional mode of
structon of the federal compact, and amending it, if
necessary, has never been attempted by those who
have urged the State to this destructive measure.
The State might have proposed the call for a Gen
eral Convention to the other States and Congress,
If sufficient number of them concurred, might have
calledit. But the first Magistrate of South Carol-
ma, when he expressed hope that, con review by
congress and the tunctonaries of the General Gov
eminent OF the merits of the controversy" such a
convention will be accorded to them, must have ,
Known that neither Congress nor any functonary of
the General Government has authority to call such
convention, unless it be demanded by two-thrds of
the states This saggestion them is another instance
OF the reckless ntention to the provisions of the
Constitution with which this crisis has been hurried
On; or the attempt topersuade the people that con-
'titutonal remedy had been sought and refused. If
the Legislature of South Carolina ssanxously desre
a General Convention to consider their complaints
why have they not made application for it in the way
the Constitution points out?-The assertion that they
earnestly seek' its completely negatiyed by the
omission.
rms then, is the position in which we stand. A
small majority of The citizens of one State in the
mon have elected delegates to the State Conven-
hon: that Convention has ordained that all the re-
venue laws of the Uaited States must be repealed,
Dr. that they are no bnger member of the Union
The Governor of thai State has recommended to the
Legislature the raising of army to carry the Sc
;esslon into effect and that he may be empowered to
give clearances to vessels in the name of the State
act OF violent opposition to the laws has yet been
committed, but such state of things is hourly ap.
and it is tie intent of this instrument 10
PROCLAIM, not only that the duty imposed on me by
The Constitution to take that the laws be faith
uy executed shall De performed to the extent of
The power vested in mi by law or of such Others as
The wisdom Of Congress shall devise and entrnst to
me tor that purpose; but to warn the citizens of
south Carolina, who have been deuded into an on
position to the laws, of the danger they will incur
BY obedience to the illegal and disorganizng Ordi-
nance OF the Conventian-to exhort those who have
ncpd IN ,nrt, g., L
lion to uphold the Constitution and the laws of their
country, and to point ont to all the peous situation
INTO which the good people of that State have been
that the course they urged to pursue is
one of ruin and disgrace to the very State whose
rights they affect to support.
feilow citizens OF my native State-let me not on
y admonsh you as the FIRST Magistrate of our com.
mon country not toincur the penalty of it, laws but
use the influence that Father would over his child
rem whom he saw rushing to certain ruin. In that
paternal language with that paternal feeling, let
me tell you, my countrymen, that you are deluded
BY men who are either deceived them selves, or wish
to deceive YOU.
Mark under what pretences YOU have been led on
10 the brink of Instruction and treason, on which
you stand! First diminution of the value of YOUR
staple commodity, lowered by over production in other
quarters and the consequent dminuton in the value
1t your lands, were the sole effect of the tariff laws
ne eject OF those laws confessedly Injurious but
he evil was greatly exaggerated BY the unfounded
heory you taught to believe, that its burthens
we're IN proportion to your EXPORTS not to your con-
sumption of imported artices.-You pride was rous-
'd by the assertion that submission to those laws
vas state of vassaage and that resistance to them
vas equal, in patriotic merit, to the opposition our
athers ed to the oppressive laws of Great Brit
Nm. You were told that this opposition might be
'eacable; might be constitutionally made that you
night ENJOY all the advantages of the Union, and
Dear none Of its burthens.
Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your State
orde, to your native courage, to your of real
INJURY were used to prepare you for the period when
me mask which concealed the hedous features of dis
lnion should be taken Off 1t fell, and you were made
to look with complacency on objects which, not
ong since, you would have regarded with horror.
Look back at the arts which have brought you this
forward to the consequences to which it
must inevitably lead! Look back to what was first
od you as an inducemen to enter into this danger
'us course. The great political truth repeated
10 you, that you had the revolutionary right of resist
ng all laws that papably unconstitutional and
ntoerably oppressve-it was added that the right 10
nulhya law rested on the principle, but that il
was apeaceahe remedy This character which was
gwen to it, made You receive, with too much conf
ience the assertions that made of the unconst-
nationality of the law, and It's oppressive effects.
Mark, my fellow citizens hatby Che admission of your
leaders, the unconttutionalty must be palpable il
will not justify either resistance or nnliication!
sense in which it is here used !-that is apparent to
every one: that which no man of ordinary inteect
VIII fail to perceive. Is the uneonstitntionaty of
these laws of that description! Let those among
your leaders who once approved and advocated the
principle of protective duties, the question:;
and let them choose whether they will be considered
as incapable, then Of peroeiving that which must
have been apparent to every man of common under
standing, or as imposing upon your confidence, and
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