Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-14

to attach any Importance to such flying reports"
The Petersburg lntelligencer. says
eth. Express which passed through Tow
as we stated. about u A. VI Saturday last, re-
turned on Ue1oesdoy evening. between and
u'cIock from Chnriesion: having travelled 10
and rom) a distance Of $50 mites in about four
day, and five hours We are still in the dark
as TO the nature of his errand: but probably Ii.
Courier was merely the bearer OF some order
from the War Department to General Scott. CON
handing the Southern Military Division.
W,rds Of Tfmh yell spoken. and in The risG
plare In the House Of Delegates Of Virginia
during the debate which is still in progress on Tie
South Carolina question, and the steps proper III
Virginia to take in relation thereto. MIR. Wallace
of Fiuql Ter, introduced these, among other re
marks
Sir, the complaints of South Carolina mig.
have some shadow OF reason. were II not for
single fact in her history. In the first Consre,:
asst mbed under the present Constitution oi Tx .
United States. that of 1889, South Carolina Va,
the first state, who, through her ieSenta,iyr,
asked the imposition of 4 duty upon any article
We find her representatives asking Con! res, 10
lay duty upon the products oi agriculture a.
this, the very first session of the frs, C"n.res.
that ever assembled under the present Crnsti'u.
ton 81 that she herself was the originate: VI
the very plan. for the overthrow OF which she !,
now willing to endanger the safety OF tie Union.
Subsequently, we find her desiring protective
duty upon hemp and rlcej articles raised wrhia
her own limits. In tn year lSl6. an era run
which the present system may be SAID to have
dated ITS existence South Carolina was tie
most prominent supporter OF that system The
elOquence oi her ura'0rs on the huOr OF C"ngreSs,
and the superior strength Of the party with ~hoM
she was associated. carried the measure against
all opposition. The people Of the Northern aaA
Eastern States resisted he passage ot the Law
by which 1t be- ame a part Of our system, IN v,l1
they en,reated, impored, demonstrated; bot.
deaf ear Was turned to their complaints They
represented to Congress the ruin thar must resaIi
from diyerting the immense quantity ut capita
which wa. tnen embraced in commerce from II
present channel. They told them that iur,heg
| restrictions would prove ruinous 10 the Northern
States. They said that most OF their capital va.
embarked IN the shipping interest. which mus!
rec es,arly BE- annihilated by the bill under Cot.
,Ideraton. All these representations were urs
ID IN the strongest and most moving term'by
our brethren Of the North. but 10 vain. The
rartv with which South Carolina was lcagued
proved too strong. and they were force 10
sub nit. |, is a remarkable fact, that out OF the
Whole six New England States, but only one So.
Iitary r SENTATIVE voted for the Tarifin 1916
Well. sir, what was the consequence? The
Northern States. finding It impossible to induce
their Southern brethren to listen to their renOn
,trances. determined, instead Of placing them.
fhaU Irt. 10
the most of their situation. They Withdrew
their capital from the ocean, whittier the very
genius of our Institutions seemed to direct, and IN.
vested, It in manufactures Ii should be recOI.
Iected thar this investment VAS not even volun.
tary on their part. Had they exercised their
uwn will, it would never have taken place;
but the maturity va, asaiDs, them, and they had
no choice bur submission. In the course 81
eight or ten years, however, affairs assumed !
totally different aspect. rne rate of exchange
wa. altered, lab,r sought its true value and cap
i,aI became no longer sagnant upon the hands ct
ITS owners The IGdustr, Of the Northern STATE,
drec ted altogether into this channel, had reared
an immense number Of Furnishing manufactures.
IN those manufactcr were invested a large
portion # that capital, which had formerly been
e gagged IN commerce. IL the mean time South
Cav DINA remains inert-she ianguishes her
commerce declines daily. There Is no activity
III her suns, no life in her business. Her ,s"s
then become changed. She is no longer he
same State, who, leagued with majority. bad
succeeded IN forcing this offensive system upon
the inhabitants If the Northern States. She nov
fancips all her grivances, real and imaginary, to
proceed from one source, and that source The
Tariff Bat the majority is no longer with her.
The sc-ptre has departed from her, and the
hnurIshing condition of her Northern brelhrea
has given them an overwhelming majority
What now is the course of South CarolIna:-
Does she demonstrate with her brethren agaihs,
what she conceives an unwarrantable oppression:
Far from it. She tells them from the first that
her demands must be answered-that she will
not be content ed with gradual reduction u the
obnoxious laws to the standard of revenue-,ha:
she will compound for nothing less than their
absolute, total and immediate Abandonment. -
They compelled the people Of the North to With.
draw their capital from channel in which it had
been for a long time proli'abiy employed. The
arguments, the eloquence Of her orators, and
the strength Of their party induced this state OF
affairs; and now, not content with tins revolution
they still insist or their subscribing 10 their o"n