Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-12-12

n' .s,nld nov be considered as mere league
ph'oA :. dissolved az pleasure! 1t 10 from
mai 49, terms. Compact is used as synony-
% aD, league, although the true term Is not
NOUS .J because 1t would at once show the fall
epPoi Nh. reasoning. 1t would not do to say
&c, ~, Constitution was only league. but it
u, ,''s"rsd 10 prove il a compact, (which IN one
;,,is.l aud then to argue, that, as league
sen .onaact, every compact between nations
%, Of course be q league, and that, from such
n'' ssng,yemeut, every sovereign power has a
20 rscede. But il has been shown, that In
- ssnse the States are not sovereign, and that
u" e ,hsy were, and the natiUna! Constitution
-" I NON formed by compact, there would be no
als AZ, in auy one State to exonerate itself from
a, Obligations. ,.,,.,.
g. oSyious are the reasons which forbid this Sc
-, haiti is necessary only TO alude to them.
~. ITnon was formed for the benefit Of all. Ii
I ..s ,roduced BY mutual sacrifices Of interests
vi p,iooos. Can those sacrifices be recalled!
az. the States, who nagnaninously surrendered
S n,e TO the Territories of the West, recall
sn as" Will the inhabitants of the inland
80. ,oree TO paw the duties that may be impos-
n without their assent by those on the Atlantic
,hs C;nlf. for their own benei,s Shall there
'.o,bs,p No one believes that any Tight exists
:, ,lure State Ia involve all the others m these
Nd countless other evils contrary to engage
-.,,. ,Oemnly made. Every one tnust see that
-. other States, in selfdefence, mus, oppose it
II al hazards.
\, The Convention: A repeal at all the acts tor
I'm, revenue, leaving the Government without
.Ls mans Of support. or an acquescence IN the
'E,sn,n,;ou Of our Upiun by the secession OF one
s. i. m.mbers. Waen the first VAS proposed,
ax,s known that it could not be listened to for
moopnt twas known if force was applied
:, n,nose the execution Of the laws that il must
mo sensled by force-that Congress could not,
,hoa, involving itself in disgrace, and the
,,sn,ry IN ruin, accede to the proposition: and
wifi this ia MT done in a given day. or 1t any
,u,mpt Il made TO execute the laws, the State IS.
he m. ordinance, declared to be cut OF the Uni.
an. The maturity Of a Convention assembled
Sr the purpose, have dictated these terms, or ra-
.b,r this rejection Of all terms. in the name Of the
,,oole of South Carolina. Ii is true that the Co.
vernon Of the State speaks OF the SUBMISSION of
,heir grievances to convention of all the States;
which he saws they sincerely and aaxiously
ulioual mode Of obtaining the sense OF the
other States on the construction of the federal
compact. aud amending it, if necessary, has ne
yer been attempted by those who have urged the
State Oh to this destructive measure. The State
might have proposed the call for general conVen-
ton to the other States; and Congress, If asufh-
Gent number Of them concurred, must have cal
led But the first Magistrate Of South Carroll
na, when he expressed hope that "on review
BY Congress and the functionaries OF the Gener-
al Govern neut Of the merits OF the cOntrover-
,"such Convention will be accorded to them,
must have known that neither Congress nor any
iuuctonary Of the General Government has au-
ihOrity to call such Convention, unless It be de-
manded By t"o-thrds Of the States.
This suggestion then, is another instance OF
the reckless inattentian TO The provisions ut the
Constitution with which this crisis has been
madly hurried on; or Of the attempt to persuade
the people that q constitutional remedy had
been sought aud refused. if the legislature Of
South Carolina "anxIously desire" General
Convention, to consider their complaints, why
hase they not made application for it IN the wa v
he Constitution points out. The assertion that
they E" earnestly seek"it, is completely NEGATIVE
ed by the emission
This, then, Is the position in which we stand.
small majority of the citizens Of one State in
the union have elected delegates toa State Con.
senhOn: that Convention has ordained that all
the revenue laws Of the United States must be
repealed, or that they are no longer member
OF the Union. The Governor ot that State has
recommended TO the legislature the raising OF an
army to carry the secession into effect, and that
he may be empowered to give clearaDces to ves-
sells IN the name OF the State. No act Ut violent
opposition to the laws has yet been committed.
Aa! such state Of things is hourly apprehended,
and II is the intent Of this instrument to PRO,
LAIN not only that the duty imposed on me BY
Inc Constitution "to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed" shall be performed to the
extent OF the powers already vested in me by
aw, ot Of such others as the wisdom of Conyres.
saail devise and entrust to me for that purpose,
out 10 warn the citizens Of South Carolina, who
awe been deluded into an opposition to the laws,
The danger they will incur by obedience 10
NE illegal and disorsanizing Ordinance of the
Non'enlon,-to exhort those who have refused
0snPport it to persevere in their determination
Uphold the Constitution and laws Of their
coantry,-and to point out to all, the pcrilous
situation into which the good people Of that
State have been d,-and that the course they
aeur9ed TO pursue is one Of ruin and disgrace
Nthe very State whose rights they affect to sup