Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-09-11

nowledsed. The power is one thing: the expe'
diency Of its exercise another. II the Princ'ple
anon which the South Carolina ordinance was
based is wrong. can any rejecting man doubt the
propriety, not to say the necessity, OF arm'ns
the Federal Government with sufficient authority
to main ain its dignity. and overcome armed re-
sistancep How would Virginia have been con-
tent to have paid her portion OF the federal reve'
nue.. while South Carolina was exempt: sne
would not have submitted to the distinction. IL
the Tariff laws were unconstitutional. they were
void every whsre-but the constituted ahthoir
! ties had decided otherwise, and 1t c0uiu not oe
permitted that South Carolina alone should De
exempt from their operation, while every other
State was burthened with them | should like
TO understand upon what principle such state
of things could BE- justified. lean see none:
GERMANICUS.
From The Lynchburg Trginian
We could quote multitude of sentiments. ST.
milar in character. from the arguments OF the Re.
pubIicans and State Rights men of 1909. in 'avor
of Mr. rfftrson's force BILL but it is rendered IN
necessary BY the full and able manner IN which
this branch of the subject is handled by our TREND
:. Germanlcus'' in this mornings paper There
is, however, one authority, to which he has ia,led
TO refer, to which we ask the special attention OF
pumpnt and the undoubted orthodoxy OF its au-
Ibor-udoubed even by the rankest NuIIifyers.
The prrson to whom we refer is no less man
than George NJ. Troup OF Georgia, the first prac-
ticai NulIifyer since the DAYS OF the Hartford
Convention. Hear what he said on the floor Of
Congress in 1909, when 1t was quite republican
| to cass force bills:
Mr. TRouP--' We hear Of insurrection IN the
Eastern section Of the Union. We kear Of what
is called constitutional opposition to the aD'; ct
constitutional and unconstitutional bodIes for the
express purpose Of declaring the unconstltutIon'
atty of the laws. and encouraging violent resist
ance and opposition to them; andyet. SIR, you
determine to repeal your embargo! 1t is not,
therefore, at the foreign hostility with which we
are menaced, nor vet tn disturbance OF d0neSr
tic tranquility with which we are threatened.
that | feel the least uneasiness. | am only seri
ously concerned for fear that this yielding, this
concession. If il be coDjectured to be a conces-
sion,) to domestic faction Of any description,
will end in the destruction Of your Constitution
and the ruin of your Government 1t will be
evident and incOntestbe-and 1t must grleVe
every man to think OF it who values the liberties
of his countrv-that your Constitution is not
strong enough to stand the rude shock of faction.
Gentlemen will not give themselves time to think
| seriously III you are threatened "'tn war d.
home and abroad. the best mode of avoiding both
is vigorous repression of opposition at home,
and direct resistance OF hostility from abroad.
If gentlemen consider this government, in the
nature of it, to be weak government, they are
mistaken. 1t IS the strongest government on
earth. both for peace and war. The great fun.
damental principle on which all political inst'tu
ions are built, is that of obedience to the law. 1t
is the fundamental principle of your government
that the will Of majority shall govern; and that
this will, when expressed, shall be executed,
even at the expense Of all the minority who stand
I'D in opposition to the law, is az fundamental a
principle as any And if the Executive fail in
the execution Of the law, he fails 10 his duty to
his country"