The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1833-01-05

purpose OF making known her wishes, and
nsr views,he would have found that 6outh
Carolina asks no more than that the Tar
IT should be reduced to the recenue stas-
lard; and hns distinctly expressed her
willingness that an amount OF duties sub
stantially uniform should be levied upon
protected, as we'll as unprotected articles,
sufficient to raise The revenue necessary to
meet the demands ofthe government for
constitutional purposes He would have
hound 10 the Exposition, put forth by the
Convention itself, adistiact.. appeal to our
sister States, for the call Of a Conven-
|lion aud the expression of an entire will
llingness on the part Of South Carolina to
submit abe controversy to that tribunal.
H., en- at tho very moment when he was
indulging in these unjust and Injurious
imputations upon the people Of S. Caro-
lima, and their late highly respected CEief
Magistrate, a resolution had actually been
passed through both branches Of our Leg
islature, demanding a call Of that very
Convention, TO which he declares that she
had no desire that no appeal should be
made.
1t does not become the dignity OF a
|sovereign State, 10 notice in the spirit
which might be considered as belonging
TO the occasion, the unwarrantable impu-
tations in which the President has
thought proper TO indulge, in relation to
South Carolina, the proceedings Of her
citizens and constituted authorities. He
has noticed, only to give it countenance
that miserable SANDER which imputes the
noble stand that our people nave taken in
defence of her rights and liberties, to a
faction instigated by the efforts of few
ambitious leaders who have got up an ex-
element for their own personal aggrand-
izement. The motives and characters Of
those who have been subjected to these
unfounded imputations, are beyond the
reach Of the President of the United
States. The sacrifices they have made,
and difficulties through which they NAV
have yot to pass, will leave no doubt as
to the disinterested motives and noble i'm
pulses Of patriotism and honor by which
they are .actuated. Could they have been
induced to separate their own personal in
terests from those ofthe people of South
Carolina, and have consented to abandon
their duty to the State, no one knows bet
ter than the President himself, that they
might have been honored with the high
est manifestations Of public regard, and
perhaps; instead Of being the objects Of
vltupaton, might have even now been
basking in the sunshine of Executive IA
vor. This topic is alluded to, merely for
the purpose ofguarding the people eff four
sister States against the fatal delusion
that South Carolina has assumed her pres
ent position under the influence Of a tenn
porary excitement (; and to warn them
that It has been the result Of the slow but
steady progress Of public opinion for the
last ten years; that It is the act Of the peo
pie themselves, taken in conformity with
the spirit Of resolutions repeatedly adopt
ed in their primary assemblies; and the
solemn determination Of the Legislature,
pubiickly announced more than two years
ago.
Let them not so far deceive themselves
on this subject,as to psrsevere ia a course
which must in the end inovitably produce
a dissolution ofthe Union, under the vain
expectai tho great body of South
y esouuo, tfStCuiuS W tuc COuIfCltS OF tie
President, will acknowledge their error
|or retrace their steps and still less that
they will be driven from the v:ndication
Of their rights, by the intimatioa of the
danger Of domestic discord and threats of
of lawless violence. The brave men who
have thrown themselves into the breach,
in defence Of the rights and Liberties of
their country, are not to be driven from
their holy purpose by such means. Ev-
en- unmerited obloquy and death itself,
have no terrors for him who feels and
knows that he is engaged in the perform
ance of sacred duty. The people. of
South Carolina are well aware, that how
ever passion and prejudice may obtain a
mastery Of the pnblic mind for a season,
reason and justice must sooner or later re-
assert their empire and that whatever
may be the event Of this contest, posieri-
ty will do justice to their motives, and to
the sPotless purity, and devoted patriot
! ism, with which they have entered into an
arduous and most unequal conflict, and
the unfaltering courage with which, by
the blessing OF Heaven, they will main
tain it.
The whole argument, SO far as il il
designed nt this time to enter into it, j,
now disposed of and it is necessary te
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