The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-12-14
EXTRACTS FROM
GEN'L JACKSON'S PROCLAMATION,
Against The Doctrine Of Secession, as aUOtOed
by South Carolina, in 1882.

against Hle OOcTtne V oeCeSStOni us dU0tOeu
BY South Carolina, in 1882.
There are two appeals from an unconstitui
tonal act passed by Congfess-oie to the judi
ciary, the other to the people and the States.
There is no appeal from the state decision in
lheory, and the practical illustration shows
that the courts are closed against the appica-
ton to review it, both judges and jurors be-
ing sworn to decide in its favor. But reason-
ing IN this subject is superaunus when our so-
ca compact in express terms declares that The
laws Of the United States, its constitutions and
treaties made under it, are the supreme law OF
the land-und for greater caution adds that
the Judges in every State shall be bound
thereby; anything in the constitution or laws
of an, State to the contary notwithstanding"
A nd it may be asserted without fear of reluta>
tion, that no Iederative government could
exist without a similar provision. Look for a
moment to the consequences. II South Caro-
lima considers the revenue laws demonstrations
all, and has a right TO prevent lhtit execution
J in the port OF Charleston, there would be
clear constitutional objection to their colIec-
ton in every other pOrr, and no revenue could
be collected anywhere: for all mpOst must
be equal. II is no answer to repeat, than an
unconstitutional law is no law, SO long as the
question Of lis legality is to be decided by the
State itself; for every law operating injurious
ly upon any local interest will be perhaps
thought, and certainly represented as uncon'
stitutionaI, and, as has been shown, there is no
appeal.
II this doc rine had been established at aO
earlier day, the Union wonll have been Gis.
solved ia its infancy. The excise law IN
Pennsylvania, the embargo and nonNlntefcourse
law in the eastern States, the carriage tax in
Virginia, were all deemed unconstitutional;
and were more unequal ia their operation than
any Of the lws now complained Of; but for
tunaEely none Of those States discovered that
they had the right now claimed by South Caro-
lima. The war into which we were forced, to
Support the dignity OF the nation and the
rights of our citizens, might have ended IN de-
feat and disgrace, instead OF victory and hon
or, il the States who supposed il ruin,us f.
ing the act BY which it was declared, and de-
nying supplies for i's prosecution. Hardly
and unequaly as those measures bore upor
several members oE the Union; 10 the lcglsla
lures of none did this efficient and peaceublC
remedy, as it is calle4, suggest itself. Tn'
discovery Of this important feature ia our con
stitution was reserved for the present day
) To the statesmen Of South Carolina belong
the invention, and upon The citizens of tina
State will unfortunately fall the evil Of reduc
ing it to practice.
= If the doctrine Of a State veto upon ih
laws of the Union carries with it internal evi
!. dence Of its mPracIicable absurdHy, our con
= sttutional history will also afFIrd nbundan
., proof that it would have been repudiated wit
in tignatlon, had il been proposed TO form
feature n our government.
= In our colonial sate; although dependent .
!. another power, we very ea'ly considered Ou'
. solves as connected by common interest wit
each other. esgues were formed for con
,r IRON defence, and before the Declaration of T.
:. dependence we were known in our aggregui
character as the United Colonies Of s4nser1e'
That decisive and important step vas take
a ioinlly. We declared ourselves nation by
- joint, not BY several acts, Of sOlelnn leagu
Of several States by which they agreed, lh'
they would collectively form one nation l'
the purposso Of conducting slme certain dOme
tic concerns and all tOreign relations. Int
!. instrument forming that Union is found an a
- ticle which declares that, "every State sha
?. abide by rhe determination Of Congress on a
questions which BY the conledentionl shoOI
n be submitted to themr
Underthe confedera,iOh'thenYno State chu
~ legally annul decision Of the Congress, OF r
luse 10 submit to its execulionv but no pr
70 vision was made 10 enforce these decision
: !. Congress- made fequisi'iOns, bur they were n