Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-02

complement OF her object for in revolutions
walton IL the supreme law. She might then have called
upon her citizens their glance niou
aud 10 have nulied the and all the laws OF
the Union Placed in this situation she either have
settled her differences With the United states peace
ably, by treaty falling Ia bis she must have
10 aims aud abided by the issue OF the In this
struggle, she might have considered oe citzebs no
were not Tor her 10 be against her, tho who
her friends to bs her Toes and her citizens would then
have ben compelled, at their peril. to choose side
which they would maintain.
Before resuning my seat, will Offer you few re-
marks upon subjsc, which has created little excite
men allude the "Act" "hIrther TO provide Tor the
collection OF duties upon Imports for nay in favor of
the passage OF which, the haest ephet censure aud
crimlnaton have bees lavished upon When that act
was passed. the ordinance Of the Convention
by which all protective tariff were declared null md
void and no law and all promises and oblga-
tons made or entered into with purpose the
ties imposed by the said acts, and all judicial proce
which shall be hereafter had in strmance thereof shall
be held utterly null and void"This ordnance
operation from aud alter the LIST day Of February 1883
from which PERIOD nterdcted aFpeals from the State
Courts TO the Supreme Court in any within the
purview OF the ordinance required .a persons holding
or hereafter elected to any offices, civil or military, under
the State, (nenbers OF the Legislature exceped) take
an oath TO execute the ordnance, and orbad jurors be
execute and enforce it," II this ordinance was consti,u
tonal. Congress had right interfere with it, II il
was unconstitutional they bound 10 endcavor de-
lend it, For the reasons which have already submitted
TO you, as well IA for many others which familiar
you Congress entertained doubts to tho uncon-
suionaiy oil the ordinance, they had, therefore, only
10 deliberate upon the expediency Of the which
they should adopt 70 prevent its enforcement Had they
been quiescen they would, implicitly have conceded
that the ordinance CONSTITUTIONAL that the
Government could not project itself that government
would then have been annihlated; for, governmen mt
which cannot execute its laws to be government
Upon the passage or rejection OF the Act OF the 81 March,
1855 depended the nome alternative whe Their the
Federal Constitution should exist he Frustrated at the
ieet OF dominant party in State. Happily for the i'm.
tegnty OF the Union aud the honor salvation of the
country, Congress faithful the which
posed in Them aud in their performance OF it, kept them
selves within the pale Of their legitimate powers. Those
parts Of their Act which authorize the enpo, of mi
iary iorce (Which only be defcnsivcly empoye.0
sanctioned by upon our Statute Books dur
ing The administrations OF Gen. Washington and of
Qho consu,ionay and expedency OF which are admit
ed authorizing the employment of that species Of coer
ron under less guarded restrictions and under circum
stances much less impeous and those parts the Act
Tor which precedents have been furnished the
exgenccs demanding them had previously
were introduced Tor the purpose OF preventing collision be-
our citizens and the shedding of a,erna blood and
to counterfeit the ordinance Of the Convention, which set
the laws at defiance. Had the President who is bound
TO give 10 the Congress information Of state of the
Union, and to stake the laws shall be faithfully
executed not informed the Congress of the desperate e
gislntion OF South Carolina and recommended those
means which were expedent, in order ''ha the laws
might be faithfully executed he would have been guilty
oil the violation OF his official oath. Had Congress- who
by the Constitution, shave power to make all laws which
ha DC necessary ana proper Tor carrying into execution
me powers vested In then and sin the government
United States, or in any department office thereof not
passed an Act without which the laws of Congress could
not have been carried into execution, they would have
been guilty OF violation of their official duty The Act
which passed in pursuance of these high obis
(he true character OF which. upon a candid
will be perceived TO be such have stated to be has
nevertheless, been sgmatzed inconsistent with the
principles oil Freedom as subversivc OF the rights
States as UNCONSTITUTIONAL feocous and bloody
been recommended by the President in the spirit of
fend, that he might execute it with the malignty OF
! demon.
The repeal of the ordinance of Modification of Novem.
ber 1852 must have been produced by measure of
The Federal Government But two were re-
sorted to by the Governments; the passage OF the Tariff
Act OF I'd March, 1885, and oil the Act for the collection
Of duties imports Of the date Ii cannot be pre
sumed, that the repeal was owing TO the first
Act because it enioces Protective Tariff in dame,rca
opposition TO the fixed and unatcrable resolve of the
Convention, that protecting tariff should be longer
enforced within the limits Of South Carona the couci
sioE consequently, is irresistible that the repea is to he
attributed TO the latter Act BY the passage therefore ofthat
Act denounced by the Convention as unauthorized by
the constitution, subversve of that Constitution, and de-
sructve OF public liberty" the monster Notification was
sanged the march OF msrue and anarchy arrested the
supremacy oil the Constitution and the. taneJ
and the cheering assurance afforded those
The constitution and the laws that representatives will
not be found sumberng and sleeping upon their posts
when the citadel OF liberties ed either bv in
terna foes, or by foreign enc mics.
Some oil the observations which have submitted to
you may appear 10 be alien 10 the which we
have met But IL seems TO me- that on the anniversary
OF our n rational Birth Day. ought TO take compre-
hensive view OF the good and evil by which we are sur
rounded Thanks TO the discernmen and patriotism of the
people, and 10 the wisdom and energy our Government
have been delivered from the miseres OF practical Null
hcaton' WIN which we were recently threatened but
the storm which was raised by its agitaons has not vet
subsded the angry passions which they generated have
not yet sunk into repose. We have heard il i,eated and
reeraed-that the battle with the General Government
Is not over, that II has just ed-tat the State
cannot protect herself without being armed for resistance
that no State be sovereign which permits appeals
from her judiciary to the Federal Cous-tat the proec
i've system constitutes but small part of our controversy
with the General Governments and the Convention at
Columbia in March last, ii said by delegate if
contederacy OF the Southern States could now be obtain
ed should we not deem it happy termination OF our long
struggle Tor our rights against Oppression When sem
unents and declarations such these ayowed una
Dated hrmness and vigilance still requisite on the part
oil those who believe that the Federal Constitution ia
calculated 10 effect the great objects for which il was
lorned IN order 10 counteract open MACH.
nations, by which may be deprived OF the nesnabe
may be torn into fragments, and Southern
created from its maDgled members. Vigilance and firm
ness ought 10 be exerted by ALL who would the
success oil revolution OF which nevitable concou.
tants and consequences would be-anarcy nte war
aud military despotism. The members of this Society
which bears the name OF WASH NGTON, are peculiarly
called upon TO be foremost whenever the Union is endan.
gered PROCESSING ourselves 10 be disciples of Washing
ton we should imbibe portion of that spirit aniua
ted MN when aiye like him, in the of times we
should despair OF the Repube like him we sboud
dedicate days and nights our hands and our
TO the preservation Of the honor and the security of our
common country; and like him, should resolve either
TO conquer III the cause Of ndepe liberty and
unon or TO perish in the glorious conflict
| Colonel Drayon concluded with farewell address
he society IN which he spoke in appropriate terms
their merorious exerions the cause which thev
had esPoused, in spite OF the of and
The inseparabe from MAORI
~, which controlled and directed The power and patron.
M al .I..ll.