Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-02-13
From the Baltimore American.
SOUTH CAROLINA.

We have received in The Charleston papers
copy Of the "Repevin Act" as it final,
passed the Legislature of South Carolina. Thi
being the scheme devised by the Nulifers 70
arresting, under legal forms, the collection O
the duties, 1t may not be uninteresting to on
readers to understand its details as finally a
greed on by the aggregate wisdom of the Null
lifers assembled at Columbia.
. The first and second sections give in genera
terms the right of recovering, as in other Ca
ses Of replevin, according to the existing laws
as modified in the act, all goods, &c, detained
for the payment of duties--the plaintiff giving
bound to pursecutc the suit.
The third section gives the plaintiff in re-
plevin a remedy in the nature of a writ of ca
pids in uitterHam against the personal estate
of the person removing or conccaling the ,u
ported goods, SO that The replevin process can
not be served.
The fourth section continues the right oil
the plaintiff in replevin, to recover back his
goods if retaken from him for duties, totiG
QUOTES, as in the original execution of The
writ.
The fifth section gives the importer Alright
10 recover hack tho duties he shall pay, with
interest, provided suit be brought within one
year. 49,
The sixth section grants the benefit of IA ha.
peas corpus to every person arrested under the
process iron court of the United States, on a
judgment or decree for duties, as in case Of
unlawful arrest or Imprisonment, and gives
him all action for damages.
lAc seventh section annuls all sales, con-
seyances, &c. levied on or sod under such
Judgment for duties.
The eighth section makes it a nisdemaanor.
punishable by fine not less than S 100 nor more
than $1,000, and Imprisonment not less than
one month or more than one wear, for any
scierk, commissioner, master or register, TO fur
,siish or allow the copy of any record of a case
IN law or equity, arising under the Ordinance
The ninth section makes it a misdemeanor
punishable by fine not more than $4,000, nor
less than $1,000, and by imprisonment not
more than two years or less ihan six months.
besides Indictment for any other offences invo-
yea IN The act,-lo disobey, obstruct or resist
the state process against imported goods, or to
secrete them so thatit cannot be served.
The tenth section makes it misdemeanor
punishable by fine not exceeding S 10 900 nor
less than $4,000, and by imprisonment not
more than two years or less Than one year,
besides indictment in the preceding case,-to
re-capture, 'ho impaired goods, after they have
been delivered 10 the plaintiff in reple,in in
execution Of the State process.
The eleventh and twelfth sections make i! Il
misdemoanor. punishable by fine not exceeding
$1,000 nor less than 500, and by imprison
ncnt not less than one month or more ,ban
one year, for any keeper OF public iul to re-
Gel . " n ,t,I
mltted under process of the Federal Courts in
suit tor the collection of duties or for any
person to SITTER any part of his premises to be
.seu Tor that purpose. An action for tresspass
is gwen against the jailor in such cases.
NO indictment under the act is to be trarcr-
SEQ, and The Ordinance and the act may lie
given IN evidence under the general issue.
heact is to go lnto force on The lst Of Feb
ruary.
This is the whole of the Repevn, Act,
BY which the Ordinance of Modification WAS
20 be carried into effect, and the revenue laws.
'arrested within the State; ''-and dangerous.
violent and hostile TO the Constitution and
Courts OF the United States as i, undoubtedly
Is, the reader cannot fail to perceive that the
work is only half done. The revenue laws
are not "arrested" in South Carolina; and the
whole mystery OF the bill is to enable those
who DO not choose to pay their bonds, or to obey
the laws OF the United States, to be backed by
the civil and military power of the States,
There is no penalty attached to the paying OF
duties by the merchant, Or the rccciuing Of
them by the collector, and Notwithstanding the
lofty annunclation by the Sovereignty of the
State at Columbia, that no more duties shall
be paid under the Unconstitutional law,'' CIV
cry man in Charleston may set their 'sove-
reign WHIP at defiance, and acknowledge and
obey the law Of Congress, if he peases. The
high sounding pretensions of the Ordinance
are reduced TO simple license to the trader to
do as he pieases in the matter
From tie Randolph Free Press.
WOMAN'S LOVE.