Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-19

cumstancps indicating that armed force ~ aoou!
to be employed against the State, or IN resistance
to its laws; the Governor is authorized to accep'
the services Of such volunteers, and call ihto
service such portions of the militia, as may DC re-
quired 10 meet the emergency.
The act also provides for accepting the service
of the volunteers, and organizing the militia
embracing all free white males between 'ne aeeS
of s,x,eea and >ixty,and for the purchase o d'aS,
ordnance, aud ammunition. IL also oee'a,.' "a'
the power conferred on the Governor shall De APP
nl;cable 70 all cases Of instruction or inVasion'
mr. imminen, danger therenf, and to cases where
the laws of the State shall be opposed, aud the
execution thereof forcib' y resisted, by como'na'
tions too powerful to be suppressed ny the power
vested in the sherifs and other civil officers; and
declare, il to be the duty Of the Governor, IN
every such case. to call forth such portions OF
militia and volunteers as may be necessary
promptly tn suppress such combinations ana
cause the laws Of the State to be executed.
Sd, is ..An Act concerning the oath required
bv the ordinap cp, passed IN convention at Colum
bia, the oath Of November, 1882 This act
prescr ites the form of the 0ath-whch is. to obey
and execute the ordinance. and all acts passed
bv the Legislature in pursuance thereof; aud d.
reefs the time and manner of taking II BY the Of
fcers OF the State civil, Judiciary. and military.
II is believed that other acts have been passeu'
embracing pro, sions for enfor ling the ordinance,
but have not yet been able to procure them.
Transmit, however, a copy OF Governor ha-
milton. message to the Legislature Of South ga.
rol,na. of Governor HAYNES inaugural address
| to ,he same body, as alsn OF his proc'a'na'i'n'
and A ..neral order Of the Governor and com
m,n,Iar I'm. chief. dated the Goth Of December
giving public notice that the ser 81 Oh so'u"'
teer, will be accepted, under the ac' already re-
| feyrd to.
IC these measures cannot be defeated and over
come by the power conferred by the Constitution
ON the Federal Go, eminent, the Constitution
must b. considered as incompetent to its own de.
fence, the supremacy Of the laws is at an end,
and the rights aud be,ties ot the CiuZeus can no
| longer receive protection h"m the Government
Of the Union. They not only aDrugate the laws
| If Congress. commonly called the 'arih acts 0i
1928 anl 1889. but they r,ostrate aud swe eP
away, a, nnCe. ar without exception. every act
and e>cr, pat Of every act imposing any amount
whatcys- :, dats an aiy foreign merchandise,
and, u.t5t .y"ry existing &C, which has ever
been pa,sed ,a.h rim. the cuir ton Of the re-
venue, ,nctad,a. The act of 1916, and, also, the
coleeu non law OF 1899, the cons,l,u'lonality oil
which has never been questioned. II /, not only
those duties which are charg d 10 have been I'M
posed for the protection OF manufacture, mat are
thereby repealed, but all Others. though ''aii i"'
the purpose of revenue merely. and upon ariihes
in no degree suspected ct being objects OF pr"
| lection. The whole revenue system OF me
States in South Carolina is obs'ructed and over
thrown; and the Government is absolutely pro-
hibiled from collecting any part OF the public re-
venue within the hunts OF that State Hence
| forth, not only the citizens of South Carolina
but st,hI nj In
reign States, nay import any description or guam.
tity of mer chandise into the port. of South Ca
rolina, without the payment of any duty what
ever That State is thus relieved from the pay
ment Of any part of The public barthens, and du'
tiss and imposts are not only rendered not uni.
form throughout the United States. but direct
and ruinous preference Is given TO the ports ut
that State over all other States OF the Union, in
manifest violation Of the positive provisions of
thu Constitution.
| In point of duration, Also those assressons
upon the authority of Congress. which. by the
ordinance, are made part Of the fundamental
! law of South Carolina, are absolute. indefinite,
and without limitation. They neither prescribe
the period when they shall cease, nor intimate
any conditions upon which those who have thus
undertaken to arrest the operation of the laws
are to retrace their steps and rrscind their
measures They offer TO the United States no
alternative but unconditional submission. If
| the scope of the ordinance is to be received as
the scale Of concession. their demands can be
satisfied only by repeal Of the whole system of
revenue laws. and by sustaining from the coIec.
ton of any duties and imposts whatsoever.
It's true that in the address to the people Of the
United States by the Convention of South Caro-
Ina, after announcing ''the fixed and final de-
termination of the State in relation to the pro-
tecting SYSTEM" they say, 'that it remains for
US to submit plan Of taxation, in which we
would be willing to acqursce, in liberal spirit
Of concession. provided we are met in due time,
and in becoming spirit. by the States interested
in manufactures" In the opinion of the Con.
ventIon. an equitable plan would be that '"the
whole list Of protected articles should be import
ed free Of all duty, and that the revenue derived
from import duties should be raised exclusively
from the unprotected articles, or that whenever
duty is Imposed upon protected articles i'm.
ported, an excise duty Of the same rate shall be-
imposed upon all similar articles manufactured
in the United States" The address proceeds
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