The Arkansas advocate., 1833-02-20

made part of the fundamental law of South Csfolina, are absolute, indefinite, and without limitation. They neither prescribe the period when they sinai cease, nor indicate any conditions upon (which those who have thus undertaken 10 arrest the operation of the laws, are
 10 retraee their steps, and to resclnd
 their measures. They offer 10 the Uni ted States no alternative but uncoadi- ,;;,,,,,, submission. If the scope of the Ordinance IS 10 he received as the scale ofconcession, their demands can be st is6ed only b5 areqeal of the whole sys. tenn of revenue laws, and by abstainiDg from the collection of any duties and iInposts whatsoever.
 Ii is true, that in tlie address to the people of the United States, by the Con vention of Soath Carolina, after amour sing the fixed and linal determination of tue State, ia relation to the protecting system, they say, that sit remains for us to submit plan of taxation in which we would De wiling to aeqaiesce, ill a liberal spiritof concession, provided we are met in due time and in d becoming spirit by the States interested in nanu- factures.' la the opinion of tbe Con vention,ar equitable plan would e,that "the whole list of protected articles should be imported free of duty, and that the revenue deriyedirom import du- ties should be iaisedexclnsiyely iromthe unprotected articles; or, that whenuy- CT a9iaty is imposed upon the protected articles imported, an excise duty of the same fate snail be imposed upon all sim liar articles manufactured in the United States. The address proceeds to state. however, they they .'afe willing 10 make d large offering to preserve the Uaion, and with distinct declaration that, as concession on our part, we will conscnt that the same rate of duty may be i'm posed upon the protected articles that shall be imposed upon the unprotected, provided that no more revenue be raised than Is necessary to meet the demands of Govefnmea for constitutional pnr poses; and provided also, that duty substantially uniform be imposed upon all foreign imports.
 Il IS also true, that in his Message 10 the Legislature, when urging the ne. ksslty oi proyiIi9!s ".nealis of securing their safety by ample resources for re- psiliag force by fofee,n the Governor of South Carolina observed, that he .cannot but taink, that on a calm and dlspassloaate review by Congress anl the fnaetionaries of the General Gogernmeni,a of the true merits of this controversy, the arbitration by call of d Convention oI all the States. which we sincerely and anxiousIy seek and de, sire, will be accorded to us."
 From the diversity of the terms indi cated in these two important documents. taken in eonnectioa with the progress of recent events il thar qaarter, there is too much reason to apprchend, wisIl- ont ln any manner doabting tue iateia- tioas of those public fanctionaries, that neither the terms proposed in the ad dress of the Convention, nor those al l ilded to n tlle message Of the Govern. o',@9uid appaase the excitement whc,, has lea b tho present excesses. IL is obvious, however, that should the latter be .ns.slea on, they present an al:erna- 'ye @aiea the General Government, of iisa,i, can y iio possibility grant; since, s7 aa express provisional the Constitu- Ion, Congress can call q Convention. Tor the purpose Of proposing amend menis, only on the application of the Legislatures oftwo- -thirdsof the States y
 And is not perceived that the terms presented in the address arc more prac- licab!e than those referred to in the message.
 It will not escape attention that tic conditions on which, it is said, in the address cf sise Contention, they would De wlllingto acqaiesce,' form no part
 oi the Ordinance. While this Ordl- nance bears all the solemnity of fun
 damental law, is 10 be authoritative apon all within the limits of South Car
 oilna, and is absolute and unconditon- alinlts terms, the address conveys on- y the sentiments of the Convention in no binding or practical form. One is
 he act of the State, the other only the expression of the opinions of the mem ners oi the Convention. To limit the elect of that solemn act by any terms or conditions whatever, they should
 nave been embodied it, and made of