Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-02-06
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them; and that any person who shall disobey
the process, or remove the goods, and any one
who shall attempt to retake or seize the goods
under Pretence OF securing the duties, or for
non-payment of duties, or under any process
or decree contrary to the intent Of the ordi-
nance, shall be fined and imprisoned, besides
being liable for anv other offence involved in
the act
1t also provides that any person arrested or
imprisoned, on any judgment or decree obtain
ed IN any federal court for duties, shall be enti-
tied to the benefit secured by the habeas corpus
act OF the state in cases of unlawful arrest, and
may maintain an action for damages; and that
II any estate shall be sold under such judg,
ment or decree, the sale shall be held illegal.
II also provides that any jailor who receives
person committed on any process or other
Judicial proceedings to enforce the payment of
duties, and any ore who hires his house as a
jan to receive such person, shall be fined and
imprisoned. And, finally, it provides that per-
sons paying duties may recover them back with
interest.
The next is called San act to provide for the
security and protection of the people of the
state of South Carolina
Inns act provides that if the government Of
,he United States, or any officer thereof, shall,
by the employment of naval and military force,
attempt to coerce the state of South Carolina in
70 submission to the acts Of Cong. decl, red void
by the ordinance, or of the laws passed in
pursuance thereof, or in case of any armed or
forclble resistance thereto, the governor is au.
thorizcd to resist the same, and to order into
service the whole or so much of the military
force of the state as he may deem necessary.
and that IN case Of any overt act of coercion
or intention to commit the same, manifested by
an unusual assembage of naval or military
forces in or near the state, or the occurrence of
any circumstance indicating that armed force
IS about to be employed against the state or in
resistance to its laws, the governor is authorized
to accept the services of such volunteers, and
call into service such portions of the militia
as may be required to meet the emergency.
The act also provides for accepting the ser. ;;
wees OF the volunteers, and organizing the mi
nina, embracing all free white males between
the ages OF Is and 60; and for the purchase Of /
arms, ordnance, and ammunition 1t also de-
clares that the power conferred on the governor
shall be applicable to all cases of instruction
or INVASION or imminent danger thereof, and to
posed and the execution thereof forci6Iy resist
cd by combinations too powerful to be suppress.
sed by the power vested in the sheriffs and
other civil officers; and declares it 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 to suppress such
combinations, and cause the laws of the state
to be executed
90. Is IAN act concerning the oath required
by the ordinance, passed in convention at CO.
lun,bia, the 24th of November, 1892
This act prescribes the form of the OATH
which is to obey and execute the ordinance and
all acts passed by the Legislature in pursuance
thereof: and direete tho time and manner of
taking it by the officers of the state, civil, Judi
ciary and military.
1t is believed that other acts have been pass
cd embracing provisions for enforcing the ordi-
nance, but ! have not yet been able to procure
them.
transmit, however, a copy of gov. Hamil-
tons message to the Legislature of South Caro-
lma-of governor Haynes inaugural address
to the legislature, as also of his proclamation,
and general order of the governor and com
mander in chief, dated the Goth December.
giving public notice that the services of VOL
unteers will be accepted, under the act already
referred to-
1t these measures cannot be defeated and
overcome by the powers conferred by the con>
stitutlon on the federal government, the consti-
tuition must be considered as incompetent to its
own defence, the supremacy Of the laws is at
an end, and the rights and liberties of the
citizens can no longer receive protection from
the government of the Union They not onlv
abrogate the acts of congress commonly called
the tariff acts of 1928 and 1882, bu! thew
PROSTATE and sweep away, at once, and with>
out exception every act and every part of every