The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-12-26
FLARE UP IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

article copied from the Baltimore Patriot, {
giving the particulars of the proceedings of
the South Carolina Legislature in the case of
Mr.. Samuel Hoar, the agent sent by Massa-
chusetts 10 reside in Charleston.
We learn from the Charleston papers that
Mr.. Hoar Immediately left that city, without
waiting to be ~"expelled" by The Governor
Whittier the matter will rest here, or whittier
Massachusetts will consider itself bound 10
pursue it further, we cannot say. We have
no fear, however, that a civil war will take
place. We may talk about fighting, but we
guess wen think twice before rushing into
it. Ii is true, South Carolina has offered an
! undisguised and atrocious insult and outrage
to Massa chusetts, and the latter State may
have great difficulty in determining what
course, under all the circumstances, it is ex-
pedient for her TO pursue for the vindication
of her dignity and her rights. Prentice
thinks she ought Hpromptly and firmly to
demand, at the hands of the General Gov
| t
eminent, the protection of her peaceable cit
liens within The limits Of South Carolina,
and, ii her deipapd fail to be complied with,
we for one shall be half disposed to justify
her in a determination TO permit no citizen
of the land of Quattlebum to set foot upon
her soil.'
The following article upon the expulsion Of
Mr.. Hoar, is taken from the Cincinnati Her
aid:
"One would have thought that the late act
of South Carolina, in erpelling on pain of
I Lynch law, from her limits, a representative
of the sovereign State of Massachusetts,
commissioned in a constitutional way, before
/ a constitutional tribunal, to test what she be-
lieved to be an unconstitutional law, would
have stirred the blood of every man. 1t was
e the last drop ia the cup of Humiliation which
Massachusetts has been compelled to drink
The American flag proved no protection TO
her citizens in the ports of South Carolina.
They were seized and thrust into PRISON for
no crime. Year after year had she borne
all this. She had seen the same law of
which she complained, attempted to be en-
forced in the case of British colored sailors,
without effect, Judge johnson deciding on
application from the British consul, that it
was unconstitutional. She had seen this
law, thus declared unconstitutional by a u
nited States judge, and altogether inopera-
, tive on British sailors, under the British flag,
put in execution rigidly again and again "a
e gainst her sailors, her citizens, undert the flag
e 4IoTTo.o1 So Va,r - for raa~ che roxoo
strated-but a deaf ear was turned 10 her re
: monstrances-and at last, she too resolves IL
ne try what justice can be had before a United
II. States tribunal. The British consul wa.
treated with respect; the envoy of a sisteI
i' ed under the most ignominious circumstan
ces-expelled under threat of Lynch law!
On 'eThere may be some so blinded by gu
ne complex system of State sovereignty and
supreme federal head, that they cannot SET
: what indighity was offered by South Carolina
Oh The law, they may say, was deemed neces
sary bySouth Carolina 10 her safety; Massa
IFS chusetts in sending her agent to contest it
a constitutionality committed the insult; til,
former State did right in expelling said a
tn gent. She but exercised the rights of
ks sovereign State.
"For the sake of clearing away the optic
he of such persons, let us suppose a case:
"The Federal Constitution, section 2, ART
ne Iii, provides that the judicial power of til,
in Union, 'shall extend TO all cases in law an,
equity. arising under this constitutions r
y y y y y r
"between a State or the citizens thereof, an,
es foreign states, citizens or subjects" France
~ awaiting herself OF this provision, conclude
es to test the constitutionality Of a certain lav
. of Massachusetts, which she deems a griev
: ance TO a certain class of her citizens, an
TO- sends a special agent or minister 10 Boston
10 for this very purpose. The agent conmuni
Gates his mission to the Governor, who tran:
mits information of it to the Legislatu re
which thereu pom resolves that the law
Ps highly necessary 20 the safety of the con
monwealth; that attempts to disturb it are {
nd an unfrlendly character; that this agent
of an emissary for evil, aud that he must be fort
with expelled from the State. She migl
NC plead her sovereignty. and her rights with
he her own territory, till doomsday, but the al
kas swer of France would be given at the moul
of The cannon. A greater outrage could NJ
be committed upon a friendly power.
OF "Now The only point of Inference betwee
is the two cases is this: France has never, Il
entering our ~confederacy parted with he
FL right TO redress her own grievances; BIT
Massachusetts has, relying upon the powe
ofthe Federal Government, and the goo
er- faith Of her confederates, 10 redress an
to wrongs she may suffer at their hands.
DlI- wropo n most UrieyouS one she did Sn.fe