Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-12-29

stra,nt upon her sovereign WIZ """ n
those high moral obligations, unaer wn'c" al,
pr,"cas.end states are bound before God and |
man. to Darfcrm their solemn pledges Inc In
svitable conclusion from what has been 'a'u
therefore is that in all cases OF compact pet"ee"
;ndspendent sovereigns, where from the very ma
ture of things, there can be no co'h""' !"u-o "
umpire. each sovereign has r'Sht 40 Jug a.
we'll Of nfractions. as of the mode and measure
of redress" so in the present controversy w
tween Soa;h Carolina and the feoerai o"'ei".
men,. it belongs solely 10 her. by her delegates
=, soIsnn Convention assembled, to decide vine
thor the federal compact be violated aud what
remedy the State ought to pursue. South caro-
lima therefore cannot, and wilt not vieiu 10 any
denarimpnt of the Federal Governments riSht
which enters into the essence OF all sovereignty
and without which, it would become pauo'e
and name.
Such are the doctrines which Snnth Caro,ina
has thr,uoh her Convention suIemnIy promulga'
ted to the world aud bv them she Will s'anu OF
fall. such were the principles promulgated oy
VIRGINIA in ,9s, and which then received the
sanction Of those great men. whose recorded sen.
um.nrs have come down TO u. as light to our feet
and lamp to our path. 1t Is Virginia and not
South Carolina, who speaks when 1t Is SAID that
she views the powers of the Federal Govern.
men,, a. resulting from The compact, TO wh'ch
the States are parties. as limited by the PLAIN
sense and intention of tn" instrument cnns'ifu'
ting that compact--as no further wand thah thev
are authorized by the grants enumerated 10 that
! cumoact: and that IN case of deliberate, pal
pable and dangerous exercise OF other powers,
not granted bv the said compact, the states who
are PARTIES thereto. have the right and are IN du
! Is bound to lnterpose, for arresng the progress
of the evil and for maintaining within their res
pec,iye limits. the authorities, rights AID liber-
ties, appcrtaning to them.
Iii, Kentucky who declared in 80. speaking
in the explicit language Of Thomas Jefferson,
that Sc the pricipes aud construction contended
far h, members Of the Slate. Legislatures, the
very same now maintained by the President
that the General Government is the exclusive
Judge nf the extent Of the powers delegated TO
u. stop nothing short OF de,po,sm-s'nce the
discretion Vt those VIII" administer the Govern
ment. and nut the Constitution. won'i be the
measure Of sIheir~Po"ers lhht the several
States who formed theain.trumcnt being soVer.
eisn and independent, hese the unqne,io"ao'e
,;-h, IN ind,c of the 'fTfractian; and that A
NITJJIFICAT BY THOSE SOvER-
EfG\ TIES, OF ALL UN Az Tho ~ ID
ACTS DONE UNDER COLOUR OF THAT
tINSTRUNENr, Is THE RICH rFUL RE
NEEDY"
II is the great apostle Of American Liberty
h,m..if VINO ha, c"nsccrated these principles,
and left them as a legacy to the neritan PEG.
v.c. recorded py nis nan hand 1t Is BY him
ina, we are inStrn, ted, shat to the Constitution
al orpac, ..each State alceied as Sta e, and
a. an in,curat parry, is co-Statrs turning as to
itself the other party" that "they alone being
par,Ir, IN the compact a'e so'''Y authorl[eu 10
iud9n ~ r. 400, 'a" ,, -. n;erc ssu
the creature of the 'ompacl;' that it d 'cs not be-
cune sovereign State to submi I, undecsatcd,
and consequently nnlmited power, in no man or
BODY of men. upon earth; that "here powers are
assumed which have not been delegated. the
very case now before Us a publication Of the
act is the rieh,iul remedy; that every State has
a natural right, in cases not within the compact,
casus non {irderis to nulify of their own au
thurity all assumption nf power nv others with
in their limits. and that without this right they
would be under the dominion. absolute and I'M
limitcd, of whomsorver might exercise the right
Of Judgment tor them" anil that in case of acts
being passed bv Congress $50 paIpabIy against
the CONSTITUTION a. to amount to an undisguised
declaration. that the compact Is MOI meant tn be
the me ,sure OF the powers of the General Gov
eminent. but that it will proceed to exercise over
the States all powers whatsoever, it would be
Tn. duty Of the States 10 declare the acts void
and Of no force. and that each should take mea-
sWss Of lis o,on fo' pro, idlns that neither such
acts, nor any other of the Gene Government
not PLAINLY and Intentionally authorized by the
Constitution. shall be exercised within their res
peCtIyp territories "
Iii. on these great and essential truths. that
South Carolina has now acted. Judging for her
self as sovereign State, she has pronounced
the protecting 8, stem IN all its branches, to be
"srus,. deliberate, and paipabIe vlolation Of
the Constitutional compact; and having exhaus-
ted every other means of redress, she has, in the
exercise Of her sovereign rights as one OF the
parties to that compact, and in the performance
Of high and sacr ed dnty, nterposed Tor arrest.
ing the evil of usurpa'inn within her own limits,
by .lecarin. these act, TO be 'nuii, VOID, and no
law and taking measures oil her own. that they
shall not be enforced within her limits
South Carolina mas not "assumed" what could
be considered as al ali doubtful, when SHE as
serts ''Iha the acts IN question were IN reality
Intended for the protection OF manufactures"
al fhat finn