Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-30

at FreuercktOn, IN the BRUSH PROVINCE OF new
Brunswick. There is good reason to believe
that the notes are manufactured in that Province.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A great meeting of the Modification Party was
held in Charleston on the 2lst, at which c. c.
Plncknsy, the Lieutenant Governor Of the State,
presided.
A preamble aud resolutions we're adopted, de-
nouncing the Presidents Proclamation, and the
measures recommended by his late Message; ex-
pressing disposition - sedulously" to avoid all
collision between the State aud Federal auth"ri.
ties, in other words not to enforce - the rghtiul
remedy" pending the measures now before Con-
sress, for benef iai modification Of the Tariff;
providing for the formation OF g. Free Trade
Importing Company" to import foreign mer-
shandiLe free of duty; determining to volunteer
en- masse, and mount the blue cockade," and IT,
na!y instructins the Executive Committee
to organize the whole party in the Parishes OF
St Philip and st. Michael, g to aid pcaceabiy c"D
in their civil capacity. as citizens, the civil au'
thorites Of the State. with all possible prompts
tude, energy and effect" The Committee to
organize the importing company above referred
to, consists of ]. Hamilton, jr. c. ]. Cocock.
ard Ker Boyce.
Gov. Hamilton addressed the meeting in On
animated speech. In the course OF 1t. lie SAID
! .He had, in December last. sent out ship
meut of rice to the Havana, and directed the pro-
ceeds to be returned to this port in sugar, tor tie
EXPRESS pur pose Of making the question under
the Ordinance He should now, IN the crisis
presented by the unexpected course events had
taken in Congress, aud the Legislature ut N,r-
ginia, permit his importation, on ITS arrival. To
90 into the custom house stores, and wait the is
sue Of the measures to which he had REFEREED
! This course, or the alternative of bonding his
goods, was open to every citizen, Nv which all
conflict between the Federal authorities aud our
selves could be avoided until Congress rises
| The recent Message OF the President, by when
all intention of the immediate use Ul force Is DIS
claimed, makes such a decision free from any
difficulty that most fastidious sense OF honor
could suggest We are in fact, in the trenches.
resting on our arms and in position i'll which
moderation and forbrarance will give a vastly
AUGMENTED efficiency to our resistance, when we
are called upon to make it,"
with regard to the Presidents call upon
Congress to give him power to coerce South Ca
| r,lina. Gen H SAID, that. should Congress
yrapt the authority, he should forthwith, as ne
vas empowered By the President. re.assemble
the Convention, and submit to them the question
IF secessiUn-and none could doubt what their
choce would be. II we were denied by the Go
Ivernm mt Il the United States the right Of peace
,bIv seeding, We would then triumph in AS
SERTING 1T, OR DIE IN THE Al
TEMPT!!!'
Mr.. Preston followed; and in most splendid
fort of defamation gave vent to his unbounded
scorn and indignation; first deluging the luckess
head of Gen Jackson, with his most bitter vial
of wrath, then anathematizing. in succession,
lConerpss. the Manufacturers, Virginia, the Sc.
yeral Legislatures who have condemned his par
tvs proceedings, and finally the whole U States,
without The pale Of Modification. He then went
on to say that there were 10000 back-country'
men with arms in their hands, and cockades on
their hats ready to march to Charleston at. mo-
ment's warning; and that the moment Congress
shall pass the laws recommended by the Presi'
dent in relation to that port, he would pour
down torrent Of volunteers God forbid! that
would sweep the myrmidous Of the ,yra"t fro"
the soil Of Carolina ;-and to shew that he did moi
underyalue the effects Of his own labors, he tri
umphantly exclaimed-" Does any man in his
senses believe that the reduction alreadymade o
TWELVE MILLIONS. and the EIGHT millions which
the Secretary says must be made, would have
been effected but for the Whip-sye. the WHII
OF South Carolina"
Warehouses; to NeMt.