The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-24

70 the tariff laws, was not, If it rsmemhoPed
rightly, until after tho great debate in the SEN
ate upon MI. FooTE's resolutions concerning the
public lands. in which Mr.. WEBSTER so tn
umphantly sustained the Constitution" &C.
4" The occasion on which il WINS introduced, was
the celebration in this city on the lsth April,
1880, Of JEfFERsoS's birth day." at which Gen
eral JACKSON, then in the zenith of his power y
was present And all that the hslelligencer can
find, Is a passage in Mr.. HAYNES speech on that
occasion, Us follows +" The South il striving 10
resist this system by all the means in her pow.
err" This. We are told, took General JACKSON
much by surprise" who thereupon being soon
after called upon for sentiment, gave the fol
lowing italicized in the copy furnished by him
as follows:
"Our Federal Union: II must be preserved"
Now General JACKSON was not Mt tho dinner
at all, and sent the toast referred to. So he was
not taken by surprise. Besides, Mr.. HAYnE dis
tinctly announced the policy of notification in
the debate with Mr.. WEBSTER, and Mr.. WEB
sTER attempted to answer it. So that it was
not after that debate that notification was
/" broached."
The object Of the Lteligencer in giving the
advent of notification at later date than the true
one is to convict Mr.. CALHous Of instigating it
in revenge for the Illustration of his Presidential
prospects by the quarrel with Gen. JACKSON.
| We will now expose this imposture. Mr..
CALHOUN was Vice President in 1928, when the
tariff of that year, the bill of abomination'
passed. He was candidate for reelection to the
same office in the canvass then pending, and on
the ticket with General JACKSON When that
bill came before the Senate it was supposed that
the vote would be equally divided aud that Mr..
CALHOUN us presiding officer Of that body,
would give the casting vote. This was some
months in advance of the Presidential election.
We had it from Mr.. CALHoUN's own mouth that
he was approached by some of tho friends Of
General JACKSON with the suggestion that rs
the election was soon to come on, it would be
well for him (Mr. CALHoUD to be absent from
the chair when the vote occurred, lest If he gave
the casting vote and defeated the BILL it would
injure the ticket in Pennsylvania and other
States where the bill was popular Mr.. Calhoun
repelled the suggestion-said he would shrink
from no responsibility that belonged to him,
and would certainly be in the chair if able, and de-
feat the measure if possible. But, Mr.. CALHOUN
told General JAcKsor's friends that he was will
ing to retire from the ticket 40 as not to em-
barrass them. When however, the vote came
on the bill was carried by majority of the
senator's
That measure created the greatest discomfort
in the South-for in its operation, il reduced the
imports to about seventy-fve millions of col
lars, and yet collected from that sum the enor
nous amount of thirty-two million of duties
nearly one-half
The quarrel between Mr.. CALHOUN and Gen.
eral JACKSON, became public in February, 1891
land the Intelligencer tells us "its consequence
undoubtedly was an entire alienation of Mr..
CALHOUN and his friends, and his state from
General JACKSON. This event undoubtedly gave
a new and decisive impulse to notification
The new and decisive impulse to nulfca-
ton, was much greater than that It was also
much more immediate. To allay the opposition
of the South, il had been declared that. when
the public debt was paid of, the duties would
be reduced. The South therefore, waited for
that event. which was to occur in 1882. But
when the period arrived, the tariff was modified
by the act of that year, 80 ms to be more protec.
tive than ever, and this was declared to be the
permanent policy Of the Government by the Ad
ministration. Then South Carolina saw there
was no hope from the Federal Government
and nullified. The tariff of 1892, was passed
at the session of 1872, and South Carolina
nulli6ed in the oath Of November 1892
Here was great plain, adequate, and pntri-
otto public cause for the course of South Caro-
lima. Yet the Inteligencer undertakes to con-
Wet that State of silly and wicked devotion To
Mr.. CALHoUr's ambition, and attempts to stig.
matize the memory of man than whom history
has known no greater nor purer, with the infa-
nous scheme Of melting his own State to the
horrors Of civil war without cause, for the pitt
full motive of disappointed Presidential ambi-
ton.
| The lnfeL'gencer is not satisfied with this, but
attempts to create the impression that South
CAROLINA meanly evaded the issue she had made,
and shrunk like a coward from the position she
had assumed. Just listen to the Laielligencer :
Congress having been in session pending this
state Of things, and haring passed a general
law in which some of The duties mere modified,
and having at the same time passed IAN act
further to provide for the collection Of duties
calculated to meet and defeat the process Of
nullifcation"-the South Carolina Convention
rsroled her ordinance.
Would any body believe from this statement
that the act which Congress thus passed, was
complete abandonment of the previous policy {!
Yet such was the fact 1t reduced the duties
from an average Of forty four to twenty per
cent It reduced the revenue from forty four