Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-12-08

notification This provision once proscrbes from Office.
ana from courts OF justice, every union the State
~ exPes them from every executive Office from go
vernon TO constable None of them can hold an ofce
IN 'ne mhua from general TO corporal They are for
hidden TO act as ers in Justice They are tbem
Selves suoJeetedo hial by sworn enemies. Not the
privileges OF aliens allowed them Instead of having
Juries to try their rights of property or decide upon
nal accusations made against them consisting one hall of
men who have some kindred feelings not one no. not OF O.
OF their friends and associates is permitted ~ have ~
voice in their trial They reduced almost to the con-
uuon OF ,hs'r own slaves True TO their country,
suution and It's laws, their liberty property are all
submitted TO the power OF traitors Can his Ia
borne Will not the union set their tyrans
at defiance! IL the nullihes persist in such acts ~ h;s
will not the flames Of civil blaze up throuehout ,hs
State South Carolina, without the n,erposon OF the
general government IL there be any thing of the spirt Of
eeen among the union men, such will be the vitabe
result
The concluding section Of the ordinance shows that
is oil ITSELF declaration Of Severance from the Jiiony
The design is yelled itle by preence of making tho
event depend ON effort OF the general government to
execute ITS own laws. III that effort be not made and
TINS government quietly suffer one State 10 abolish a.
tchote system Of us idtcs The Union is dissored bu
common consent. If the attempts sustain its laws be-
made then the nuihers declare that they will consider
II dissolved In either event. therefore, tits declarations
OF severance from the Union The thin disguise
ed iodelude some Of their follow South Carroll
ma, and prepare them for acts OF violence and blood
As to the course of the government my views are nor
changed since yesterday. There now hope that tho
violence OF the act OF notification will produce re action
in South Carolina itself, which will defeat all efforts to,
carry il execution In any event however The ,ol;
cy oil the executive is caution, moderation and fress
If there be violence will either between the
parties in South Carolina by the forcble resistance Of
the nulhhers TO the judicial authorities of the Union
The general government toW not strike the first bloto
but, THE FEDERAL UNION WILL BE PRESERV,
ED"
Even the U. s. Telegraph, that "save of the lamp
oil Mr.. Calhoun, "expresses fear that South Caro-
lima has given her adversares great advantage
and that tins provision of the ordinance may be
Estrued INTO previous determination to secede from
the Union"--We have not the original passaye i'm
the Telegraph before us-but we copy the version of
the an. Y. Evening Post" than which there is no
hrmer foe of the Tariff truer friend to Free
Trade, among the American Journals.
| The last Washington Globe" takes up the suisse
quem proceedings in South Carolina, and comments
upon Governor Hamilton's proposition for raising
1000 volunteers for Charleston and 10000 others
Tor " State Guard" in the following terms =
a." Does this look like peaceful remedy? We have ae
once an army OF 2,CO0 for the defence of Charestonr
o instant service Who has threatened 10 attack Charles
TOM Who has threatened bring against the State any
iUrce whatever TO make the organization of II 900 youn
teers necessary he General Government has not in-
creased its army or lis navy With the exception OF one
company stationed in Charleston request of IL pub.
lie hores and two three companies the forts the
troops OF the United States do the OF South
Carolina nor does their navy hover its In this
state OF ings the Nulifers themselves prepare for war
They not only set at defiance the laws OF the Union, but
are about TO raise armies TO resist their execution
is TO be their peaceful course it behoves the u.
States to prepare also for the peaceful contest So long
as every thing was left 10 the judiciary tribunals the u
States might safely permit Modification take course;
1 EXecu-
i've and Judicial authorities Of the u States by force
OF arms.
Every step of these exposes more fully their rs>
al object 1t is unqualified separation from the Union,
pedeed6ty u they cam Jorcibiy II they mSt-peace-
ably, if the United States will surrender without an eff
fort TO execute their laws Jorcbiy, the officers of the
Union do their duyPedce0bly if the President forget
his oath and suffers the laws be trampled upon with
IMMUNITY, orciJiy if he attempts to perform his duty
maintain the Constitution and preserve the Unon.''
i NULLIFICArIoN AND THE TARIFF.-These ex-
E tracts take the two subjects separately. Let
take them together, they exhibited in the fol-
lowing extracts from the " N. Y. American" which,
though attached to the interests of Mr. Clay has hi
therto been the advocate of the principles of Free
Trade:
eve have read with great ateniion,-and shall en-
deavor TO PUBLISH as document destined fear, to sad
nooreiythe Report OF the Committee South Caro-
lima Convention, setting forth the grounds which that
State VIII proceed, in taking the decisive steps
mended by the Ordinance But nothing ia tn at re
portable and ingenious think ito alter the con-
victions heretofore expressed by u.s. that Qualification ~
practice rs treGsOn and be in the re-
f sort.
"Sd would seek cancellations at anu sacrifice short
9f surrender IF The Constitution Of pi0Laon of
JditOcGrds rested interests We would do so-rot be-
cause think the OF South Carolina entities her
toany special favor kindness (or has from the
commencement intolerant, presumptuous, and dicaora
but because, FIRST the stronger party, can al
lord to be magnanimous: and secondly aud chiefly
e preservation 0f the Union being the first Of our no
tHiedt obligations, tcouid leave reasonable con-
eesson untried to effect that object Hence, our hope
aud expectation, that Congress ioW at after its
meeting enter upon review Of the whole Tariff policy
ioih the purpose Of efectiHg such certain but gradual
reductions in The duties, eventually to bring them oil
doUH to a mere revenue standard. We should do this
not because South Carolina threatens secession if il is
done, but because it would be measure lust and
polite in itself We would do without either renounc-
ing asserting the constitutional right in Congress
OF imposing duties for the protection of manufacturers
because we would not hazard the possible good Of
such by any abstract legislative decara
since such declaration, however emphatic could not
impair constitutional right if il exists mpar il if il
n does not Having done thus much would abide tho
resul and il South Carolina should still persist her pro-
Jects of dsunon, would then invest the Executive
with every power necessary TO bring refractory citizens
under subsection TO the laws This indeed we should do
in any event. for even if believed with South Carroll
ma that the Tariff laws unconstitutional, would still
resist with all the force of the Union the preenson of
any one State any combination of States tho
number requisite TO amend the Constitution, nulify the
laws Of the United States"
We have done with our extracts We had
promised some of them to our readers as soon as
we had laid the Message before them. And indeed
they are in themselves highly interesting They are
not only calculated to show the tone of public sem
tlment elsewhere, but they refer fcts of some pit
and moment, bearing upon this agitating subject
/ And what is the Moral we draw from the whole
> They confirm the two texts with which we have set
out The Union must be preserved and Nuiica-
ton must be nulfed: Bur, the Tariff must be uI-
tItnately cut down to the revenue standard. Does
any one fail TO see, that this maxim is the great polar
star of the Presidents excellent and popular Mes
sage? lie presses it upon Congress to reduce the
Tariff by gradual but curtanents TO the re-
venue standard-to reduce the appropriations to the
lowest scale of eXpcnditure-to beware of all dis
buIsenents for Internal ImDroyemenfs I'VE only foY