Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-01-03

credit Of the State are already aens;blv aiEec-
ted and win soon he FRUSTRATED and its peace-
able and industrious citizens are driven from
their homes to seek tranquility in some other
state.
The Union Party in South Carolina, 10
ConventiOn assembled. do further demonstrate
and solemnIy protest against the project of a
Standing Army, proposed by the party 10
power, as dangerous to the liberties Of the
people. They would respectfully ask their
fellow citizens. whether such an army must
not be c0nfessedly Inadequate to protect the
notification party, against the people of the
United States, should they resolve to coerce
them. What other object, therefore, can
such force accomplish than to serve as an
instrument Of tyranny over their fellow-citi.
zens
This convention doth further protest against
any effort, by system Of cOnscription, TO
force the citizens Of the state from their fire.
sides and their homes, TO take up arms, and
incur the pains and penalties of treason, in
support of doctrine which the people were
assured was pacific. in its nature, and utterly
inconsistent with any idea of danger TO the
Constitution Of the Union.
Solemnly demonstrating. as they hereby do,
against the abo-e mentioned grievances, the
Union party would further express their firm
determination to maintain the principles which
have ever been the rule of their conduct; and
while ON the one hand, they will continue
their nnfaltering opposition to the protective
tariffs, s0 on the other they will not be driven
from the enjoyment Of those inalienable rights
which by inheritance belong to every AmeTi-
can citizen. Disclaiming therefore all inten-
ton of lawless or insurrectionary violence,
they hereby proclaim their determination to
protect their rights by all legal and constitu-
.tional means, and that in dining SO they will
continue to maintain the character of peacea-
BILE citizens, unless compelled to throw it
aside by intolerable oppression.
THOMAS TAYLOR, President.
From the correspondent of a Charleston paper at
-~ Columbia.
"Tn the House of Representatives yester-
day, Mr.. Pres ton moved to suspend the or
ders Of the day, 10 order that he might place
before them most important and extraOrdi-
nary document, that had been transmitted to
him by our Senator in Congress. The or
dcrs were accordingly suspended.
Mr.. Preston then proceeded to say, that, in
the midst Of the grave deliberations Of this
House-in the face Of the decision of the great
sovereign power of the State, rendered thro'
a Convention Of her PeOple--in utter despite
of the appeal by them made, from the tyran-
ny Of the General Government, to the high.
inherent principles of the Constitution. and
to the rights and liberties reserved to the State
against great and alarming usurpati0ns by the
Federal power a single branch of that gov
ernment, to the whole of which we deny the
power in question, has assumed singly to de-
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and legislative, as well as executive cogni-
zance Of the matter, and to cut the Gordian
knot Of these Constitutional difficulties with
the sword.
The principles thus avowed, as those on
which the future liberties Of this country were
compulsiveiy to rest, were not less new and
startling, than was the mode of announcing
them. Who, and whom are we? Are we
Russian serfs, or slaves of a Divan! Are we
on the banks of the Bosphorus. or the Nerva,
or is 1t on our own free streams that these
things are proclaimed? Was our high and
well considered appeal to Congress aHd the
States in this manner to be met by the blind
fury and 'ndscency o.. ora man VINO mus lays up
sonal animosities?
We should, he insisted, hnrl back instant
scorn and defiance, for this impotent missile
Of despicable maIignity. Ofanswer to its pal |
Try sophisms and disgraceful invectives, it |
was utterly unworthy. But the country and
he world should know how perfectly we de-
'pise and defy him! and they should be told
hat. before they plant such principles as his
lpon our free soil, the bones Of many an enc
ny shall whiten our shores--the carcass of
many caitiff and traitor blacken oar air.
He offered, therefore, the following resolu-
ions
Whereas, the President the United States
las issued his proclamation, denouncng the
proceedings ofthis State, calling upon the cit
zens to renounce their primary Allegiance, and
threatening them with military coercion, I'M
warranted by the Constitution, and utterly
with the existsnce of free state.
Be il therefore M
RESOLVED, That his Excellency the Govern
Or be requested forthwith to issue his procla-
nation, warning the good people Of this
State against the attempt of the President OF
The United States, to seduce them from their
allegiance; exhorting them to disregard his
vain menaces, and to be prepared to sustain |
The liberty and protect the dignity OF the
State against the arbitrary measures proPOs-
ed by the President.
!: A gentleman then asking the reading Of the
Mr.. w. p. Finley rose and
went through it. The House listened to il
with an exceedingly marked indignation. Az
the passage. however, where the Presidenki
calls US 's his children, and talks TO the State L