The Arkansas advocate., 1833-01-23

gress, thereby subjecting the will of the whole people to be controlled by the will ofa part; nor of deciding Inc question, between the Government of the United States and those who are subject 10 its laws, whether such laiys be constitu- 1 tlenal.
 That the Constitution also declares that the Judicial power of the United States shall extend to all cases arising under the Constitution and acts of Con- gress; and that the Judiciary Act. CO., esal with the Government, has prescribe ed proceeding by which all such Con- stltutional questions are to be finally de- ciaed by that Judiciary; and according to which, stieh questions have becr so fl. nally decided throughout tlie whole ilis- lis tory of the eGovernment. These truths. so essential to the preservation oi the Government, and its just powers, ap- pear 10 us incapable of contradiction.
 Resoived, That the Ordinance passed by the late Convention oi South Carols na, purportng 10 annul the acts of Con gress, on the assumed ground that they are unauthorized by the Constitutio.l of the United States, is ah usurpaiior of power, which is truly described in the Presidents Proclamation, as being ssir- compatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, iheonsstent with every principle on which it was founded. and destructive of the great object for which 1t was fornied.'
 Resolped, That the said Ordinance,ifl declaring that no appeal shall De allows cd from State Court, to the Supreme Court ofthe United States, nor the copy ot any record permitted or allowed for that purpose and that persons claiming such appeal shall be punished, com: mends direct disobedience and resist- anee to anact of Congress Of more than forty years standing and operation, and the eonstitutlonality of which has never been cnlled inquestion.
 Resof0ed, That we are constrained to consider these proceedings ol South Carolina as being dislo}al to the Con- stitution, and decidedly revolutionary: that we have seen with infinite pail, a Iiiajority of the People of so respectable d State led into the adoption of such false opinions aud such unlaw tulcourses.; a State which has always possessed. does now possess, and We hope will long con- tinuc 10 possess, her full share of influ- ence ih the public councils; to whose complaints the National Legislature is always ready to listen, sss to those of otta- CT States; and wllictl we hope and be- iieve will always ind ln the assembled Representatives Of the whole eountrs. a spirit of justice and conclIlatlon; and We would fain cherish the hope, ,-tbat their own sober reflections, the disap- probation ofthc People of other Slaits. and the solemn and atfectionate warning of the President, may yet recal the Feo. pie of that State to sense of duty and patriotism, and thereby pro, ent occur rences which would fill every true Amc- rican bosoin with the deepest mortiiica- ton and grief We trust in gracious Proyidenceyetto save our beloved cohn- try from the disgrace and the horrors of a civil war.
 Reso!cea, That, acting upon the rir,- ciples now by him SO solemnly and for. cibIy declared, we will cordially sup. port the President of the United States
 in every constitutional measure necessa- y for the execution of the laws aud for maintaining the integrity of the Union, that we still fersently pray the Divine Goodness to ateft the necessity of re- sorting to force; but that, in our iudc- ment, 1t is a matter ot absolute duty. on the part of the President oi the United States, # forcibie resistance be made 10 the laws. to see, nevertheless, that the laws be duly executed; that in this great and sacred cansc, laying aside all personal preferences, We will act cheers fully and devotedly under the guidance of the constituted authorities of the Go vernment; that we will go foy the counz try, and suih the country, against dis union, ,disorganization, and notification, and that, whoever is commissioned by the People to bear up the standard of the Union, we shall be ready to rally in the cadse of the Constitution under that banner, which led our fathers through years ef suffering and of blood f0independence and glory, and which has commanded for us, their posterityS the respect of the world.
 MT. DEXTER and Mir. SAMUEL An ANS successively addressed the meess