Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1832-12-14
PROCLAMATION
By AndretO Jackson, Presideat Of he United
States.

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| W HEREAS, convention assembled in the
" State Of South Carolina, have passed an Ord
nance by which they declare, " That the sever
al acts and parts Of acts of the Congress of the u
States purporting to be laws for the imposing Of
duties end iisp5sts on me importation Of foreign
commodities, and now having actual operation and
enect within the United States, and more especial.
W, two acts for the same purposes passed on the
s9tlI OF May, 1928, and on the 18th of JULY 1882
are unauthorized by the Constitution of the U.
States, and violate the true meaning and intent
| thereof, and are null and void, and no law" nor
binding on the citizens Of that State or its officers
and by the said Ordinance, it is further declared 10
be unlawful for any OF the constituted authorities
of the State or Of the United States to enforce the
payment of the duties imposed by the said acts
within the same State, and that 1t is the duty of
the Legislature to pass such laws as may be me-
cessary to give full effect to the said Ordinance.
] AND WHEREAS, by the said Ordinance it is fur.
Their ordained, that in case of law or equity
decided in the Courts Of said State, wherein shall
be drawn in question tie validity Of the said Ordi-
nance, OF Ct the acts of The Legislature that may
be passed give il effect, of the said laws of the
United States, no appeal shall be allowed to the
Supreme Court of the United States, nor shall any
copy of the record be permitted or allowed for
that purpose, and that any person attempting to
take such appeal shall be punished as for con-
tempt of Court;
And, finally, the said Ordinance declares that
the people of South Carolina will maintain the
said Ordinance at every hazard and that they
will consider the passage of any act by Congress
abOshing closing the ports Of the said State, or
otherwise obstructing the free ingress or egress
of vessels TO and from the said ports, any other
act of the Federal Government TO coerce tina
State, shut up her ports destroy or harrass her
commerce, or to enforce the said acts otherwise
than through the civil tribunals Of the country,
inconsistent with the longer continuance Of South
Carolina in the Union; and that the people of the
said State will theHcefoIth bold themselSes ahsclK
ed from all further obligation 10 maintain or pres
erVe their political connection with the people of
the other States, and will forthwith proceed to or
ganize separate Government, and do all other
acts and things which sovereign and independent
States may Of right do;
AND WHEREAS, the said Ordinance prescribes
to the people of South Carolina course of con.
DUCT in direct violation of their duty as citizens Of
the United States, contrary to the laws of their
country, snbversive of its constitution, and having
for its object the destruction of the Unlon-that
Union, which, coeval with our political existence,
led our fathers, without any other ties 10 unite
them than those of patriotism and common cause,
through sangunary struggle TO glorious indie
pendence-that sacred Union, hitherto inviOlate,
which, perfected by our happy Constitution, has
brought us by the favor Of Heaven to a state of
prosperity at home, and high consideration abroad,
rarely, if ever, equaled in the history of nations.
10 preserve this bond Of our political existence
from destruction, TO maintain invioate this state
of national honor and prosperity, and to Justify
the confidence my fellow-citzens have reposed in
me, ANDREW JACKSON, President of the United
States, have thought proper 10 issue this my PRO-
ICLAMATlON, stating my views Of the Constitu-
tiOn and laws applicable TO the measures adopted
by the Convention of South Carolina and to tho
fhav hnVo T,1ttf Earth 10 in han, Ja
Glazing the course which duty will require me to
pursue, and appealing 10 the understanding and
patriotism of the people, warn them of the conse-
quences that must inevitably result from an OBJ
servance Of the dictates of the Convention.
Strict duty would require of me nothing more
than the exercise of those powers with which am
now, or may hereafter beinvested, for preserving
the peace of the Union and for the execution of
The laws. But the imposing aspect which oppos-
tion has assumed in this case, by clothing itself
with State authority and the deep interest which
the people of the United States must all feel in
preventing resort TO stronger measures, while
there is hope that any thing will be yielded to
reasoning and remonstrance, perhaps demand
and will certainly justify full exposition to South
Carolina and the nation Of the views entertain of
this important question, as well as distinct en-.
uncation ofthe course which my sense of duty will
A require me to pursue.
The Ordinance is founded, not on the indefeasi.
BILE right of resisting acts which are plainly un-
constitutional and too oppressive to be endured !;
but the strange position that any one State may
not only declare an Act of Congress void, but
prohibit it's executon--that they may do this con-
sistenty with the Cunsttution--that the true con.
struction Of that instrument permits State to lie.
tain its place in the Union, and yet be bound by
no other of it's laws than those it may choose to
consider as constitutional. 1t is true, they add,
that to Justify this abrogation of law, it must be
palpably contrary to the Constitution but il is eyi.
dent, that to give the right of resisting laws of
that description, coupled with the uncontrolled
right to decide what laws deserve that character,
is to give the power of resisting all laws-For, as
by the theory, there is no appeal, the reasons al
lleRcd BY The STATE, eco9 o. hoa, ies prevail, Il