Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-01-03

doctrine Of notification and secession. A
doctrine we conceive to be dangerous to the
Union and independence Of this country, and
IL tolerated or countenanced, will forever
destroy the Constitution. We DO not be
iievc any State has right to nulIily law,
or to secede from tie Union al pleasure. We
20 against that false doctrine-we 90 Tor the
Union now and forever. one and inseparable.'
We annex paragraph from an editorial
article in late number or the Charleston
Mercury II breathes the genuine spirit Of
Notification, and is as "mad as a March
hare" Speaking OF the Union party. the
writer ssys:-
"They tell u. that the Federal Govern.
rnent will enforce their usurpatlons: and we
have never protested to believe the Federal
Government at all scrupulous as 10 right and
wrong Threats come 10 us from their nor
tbern allies; And something like the pbaptom
of the "frigate blockade" an apparI,ioh Of
revenue cutters, is sent into our waters.
Whether these martial demonstrations are
straws, showing the direction of the wind,
or not, certain il is that the manufacturers
are declaring that they never will abandon
the principle OF protection, and as certain 10
it that the principle cannot be enforced ia
South Carolina, but by the bayonet And
did any one expect that the people of the
State would be dragooned into sIhjecion?
Did those who now denounce our remedy as
deceptive, think that the people would ever
have shruns from rle apprehension that an
1;it;a,c force might come against them. Do
they think so meanly Of them as to suppose
that the naked Illuminating appeal to far
would have paralysed their resolution, and
that they would have skuked from The asser-
ton of their right, because il might incense
The trespasser 10 fnther outrag'? Ii is the
right and duty Of the people to set al naught
the tariff laws-and so doing, they are exer-
cisng peaceful right. Shall threat dive
them from il? VIII the farmer not go to his
plough because iawless neighhor enters his
field with gun to interrupt his peaceful in
dustry. or will he not rather 90 forth armed,
and DEFY the wrongdocr, instead Of shutting
himself up in the house like a cravenp 1t is
vile insult to the people TO say that the APP
prehension Of armed coercion would have
deferred them from Nullifcaton--and that
the precauton now deemed expedient of
aiming themselves against possible outrage,
is a proof that they have been deceived Ii
is an appeal that might move recreants. but
is not calculated for the meridian OF South
Carolina, and those who make it have no
sympathy with our people, as the people
have already told Them"
THE SOUTH-Wegive to day. says the
Baltimore American, at length, the Address
of General Hayne on his Inauguration as
Governor of South Carolina. 1t is charac-
terized by the sternest determination, the
warmest enthusiasm and most indisputable
sincerity. No man can doubt however he
NAV lament the mental delusion under which
50 chivalrous spirit labors in a crisis so mo-
mentous, tina, he believes himself to be con
tending for sacred principle. Strangely IN
deed are we constituted when such mind
can receive for truths TO be maintained at
desperate hazards, what a vast majority OF
men equally honest, is manitesty the merest
error of moon Most sincere and earnest
must be the regret experienced byevery well
wisher to the perpetuity of our country's free
Institutions, in contemplating so striking
perversion Of talent and courage to the wild
and unholy end 10 which the course Of the
leaders of the multiplying party of 5. Carolina
inevitably leads.
The Office oath administered 10 Governor
Hayne calls on him to preserve, protec j.
defend the Constitution of the State and OF
Tue ONltCu iuituNi, 49,
truly to obey, execute and enforce the Or
dinance of NulliScation. II is noted IN the
Union papers as one of the anomalies oil the
new .doctrine,' that the State Constitution
which he sweaTs 70 uphold, provides that
Judges shall hold their Offices during good
bebayior,-and that they and other officers
shall only be removable by impeachment'-
and that''the trial by jury as heretofore used
10 the State shall be forever involably pre-
served While on the hand, the Ordinance
which he also swears to execute, vacates
arbitrarily The office of Judge, removes OH
GERS without impeachment or trail, and
makes essential changes in the substance OF
jury trials. lie swears to support the FEEDER
al Constitution, which declares 'Congtess
shall have power to lay and collect faxes and
imports and the Ordinance whieh torb.ds
duties and imports to be collected IN South
Carolina. If these conflicting Obligations
can he reconciled, notification can indeed
work wonders
We have accounts from the Union Coficsn
ton at Columbia, OF the 18th Ga the pre-
ceding day resolutions were offered and re
lerTsd to the general committee providing
ior The appointment of committees 10 organ
'ze plan OF civil and military regulations.
and 10 prepare addresses to the President
a7d to the people of the United States in re.
renee to the ordinance Of Modification.
HE General COMMITTEE were in session The