The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1833-01-26

the United States; and the Governor oil
the State has, in recent proclamation,
openly deied the authority Of the Execu-
tive OF the Union, and invited volunteers
10 sustain the defiance. Thus, says the
Message, South Carolina presents herself
in the attitude of hostile preparation, and
ready even Tor military violence, if need
be, to enforce her laws for preventing the
collection of duties upon imports within
her limits.
The President then proceeds at large
Ito lay before Congress not only the acts
and proceedings OF South Carolina, but
also freely to acquaint them with those
steps which he has already caused to be
taken for the collection of the revenue,
and with his views of the subject general
ly, that the suggestions which the Con-
stitution in his opinion requires him to
make in regard to future Legislation lhere-
upon may be better understood.
The Message goes on to state that IN
Estructions have been some time ago Issu-
led frcm the Treasury to the Revenue
Officers, pointing out their respective du-
ties under tho existing laws, sc. taking
notification on the ground professed by
its advocates, that it was pacific in Its ra-
ture. Since which time, circumstances
had changed, and, reviewing the history
ofthc proceedings in South Carolina, &c.
the President invites the attention Of Con-
gress to certain acts of the State, as pub
lshed in the newspapers ofthe State, OF
which, although requested, the Executive
had not succeeded in obtaining official
copies from the proper authority Of the
State. If these acts, says the President,
cannot be defeated and overcome by the
{exerclse of the powers conferred on the
Federal co. ernment, the Constitution
must be considered as incompetent to its
own defence, the supremacy ofthe laws
is at an end, and the rights and liberties
of the People can no longer receive pro-
lection from the Government Of the I'm
ion. These aggressions on the authority
of Congress, the Message adds, are more
over absolute, indefinite, and without lin
i,ation; they offer to the United States no
alternative but unconditional submission.
It is true, that in their address to other
States, the South Carolina Convention
profess to fix a plan Of taxation which
|they would ogreeto; it is true also that
the Governor Of the State, in his Mes
sage, suggests a call of the Convention OF
the States as an alternative; but it is also
true that the conditions on which they
"would be willing to acquiesce," form
no part of the Ordinance; and, evea il
these terms were offered in the same bind
ing form as the Ordinance, they are so
) underlined, and depend upon so many con-
} tinpencies, and are SO opposed to the
known opinions and interest of the great
body ofthe American People, as to be
almost hopeless Of attainment-and the
, shortness of the time would make them
, impossible, nthey were not otherwise i'm
practicable.
f. BY these various proceedings, the Mes
sage says the State of South Carolina has
forced upon the Gener Government thu
= unavoidable duty Of deciding on the new
! and dangerous alternative of permitting
a the State to obstruct the execution Of th'
laws within its limits, or seeing It attemp
5 to execute the threat of Withdrawing iron
: the Union. Both these measures, say
. the Message, are revolutionary IN thel
character and tendency, and subve rsiv
, of the laws and Of the integrity Of tn
. Union.
, The Message then enters at length ]
D. discussion of the rights Of the Governor
: and ofthe States, &c, and adds that,
!. !. deciding upon the course imposed upon tn
Is authorities ofthe Union, in the presel
a a crisis, it must not be overlooked, th
!" there is no sufficient cause for the acts
South Carolina, or for her placing
~ ~ jeopardy the happiness ofso many mi!lioI
W of people. To establish which the Mes
!" age enters into a recital of the alegt
a. a. grievances, with some examination
"" "s their reality, SC.
Oh The President then adverts to the so
'He' 81 emn duty imposed by the. date Of the E.
az ecutive, to take care that the laws be e.
'a' ecuted; and examines the extent of Il
:" powers already conferred upon him +
'Wo W that purpose. Subsequently to the da
-, of the instructions to collectors, alreat
.: me referred to, and to the passage ofthe O
-. ..S dinance, information is said to haye.reac
ee' ed the Executive, that itSwould be impra
'o ticable for the collector Of Charleston
=. VI preserve the custody Of vessels detain
by him, against any attempt to reno
~: vessels and cargoes from his custod