The Arkansas advocate., 1833-01-23

fill these galleries and crowd this hall, ] 4hank Alm ghty God that may stIl ad- dress t!.em as citizens of the United States. The same Almighty Power on ly knows, whether, when we meet again. it will not be as citizens Of Massachu- setts oaiy. The present isa momentiull of interest. Events are on the wing, and are already near as, which must produce lne mnst important effects. one way or the ottfer, oil tho perTna lefcy ei the Constitution of the United States. l regard the issuing olthis Prociamailon by the President as d highly important occurrence. The actual condition ef the country, in my oPlnion-an opinion heretofore expressed-called loudly or the President to make public his deter minatlon to rebuke the spirit of disailee- ton, to maintain the peace oi the coan- try, and the integrity oi the Union, and to call onall patriotic citizens to diseouh- tenanee all such proceedings as threat. ened to destroy the one, or disturb the other.
 Mir. Chairman: The general princi- ples of the Proclamation are such as entirely approve. l esteem them to be the true principles of the Constitution. ii must now be apparent to every man, .tiist this doctrine Of nulliheation means resistance to the laws, bs force. H IS bla another name for cipit zcar. I'ilesau- 4hors of the South Carolina ordinance cannot regard it as a peaeeable mea- sure; they act as if they understood 1t as being, what it really is, measure lending to hostiliiies. They knew it must bring on acontest, and, according ly, they have endeavored to prepare for that contest, by putting in a state of readiness the whole military power of the State. Every man must see, that they rely, not on any constitutional or legal effect of the ordinance itself, 6M son the military power which they may be able to bring to maintain then, i, their resistance to the laws.
 Mr. Chairman: l hope may stand acquitted before my country of any ne- gligence, inlailing 10 give the true cha Tacter of this doctrine of nullihcatiot, wien it was first advanced, in an impo- sing form, in the Halls of Congress- What it then appeared to me 10 be, in its very nature, it now proves itself, II this, the first attempt to put it in prac- tice. II is resistance flo law, by force; st IS eivl 1oar.
 The President has declared, that, in of 4iis criSia |. Is his determination to execute the Iaue, to preserve the Union, by all eonstitu- liopal means; to arrest, npossible, by moderate. but firm measures, the ne- cessity of recourse 10 force; and so to conduct, that the curse impending on the shedding of fraternai blood shall pot becalled down, by any offensive act, on the. part of the United States. h all this most cordially concur. To exc cute the laws, by lawful means, to up hold the Constitution by the joint exer- else of the powers conferred by itself; to be moderate, iorbearing, slow tore eur to ultimate measures; to admonish such as are mislead, to return to their duty; to keep the Government always in the right, and 10 place those who op- pose it clearly in the wrong; and to hold out, with unshaken frmness, in maintaining the Union, and causing the laws to be duly executed these, sir, in my opinion, comprise the substance of the duty aich the occasion devo!ses upon the Chief Magistrate of the na- ton.
 Mr, Chairman, l think can say mo- thlag more satisfactory to this meeting, or 10 the people of this Commonwealth, thr' tiaai, tn this way of meeting the crisis, ] shall give the President my en- siss: nd ss.ssa:s support. srs. truly in d crisis of the utmost magnitude, and the most imminent peril. The Union ofthe States is in danger. lt-is threatened by the immediate appliea- ton of miltar, force. Let us not, sir, deceive ourselves by the imagination that the Union may subsst, though one State secede from it. No, sir. If the Government, on this first trial, shall be found not able 10 keep all the States iii their proper places, from that moment the whole Union is virtually dissolved. Whatever link be struck from this gold zen chain, breaks the whole. Our only alternative is. to preserve fhe Union, one and entire, as il now Is, or else to break up, and to return to the condi, -tion of separate States; with the un- promising chances of forming, hereaf ter, new, partial, sectional. rival, per