North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-02

the South Carolina Legislature. 7oprouide tolAe
security and protection Of the people of the State Of
S51tth Cnrolina.' Among other portentous proyf-
sions it contains the following $50 Sd
Be itiherefore enacted, By the Honorable Senate
and House of Representatives, met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That in case the Government of the U. States,
shall by the employment of naval military force,
attempt to coerce the State of S. Carolina into sub
mission TO the acts of Congress aforesaid de-
cared and ordained to be null, void and law, the
Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to
sst the same and in order to render such resistance
eectual, he is hereby authorized and empowered to
order into service the whole military force of the
State much thereof as he may from time TO time
deem proper.
Sec. 2. In of any overt act of coercion, or
intention the part of the Government of the U nj
ted States to commit such an act, manifested Gy
unusual assenJlage Of narai military forces an
the State, the adoption of any measures tndi-
eating determination 10 resort to tie employment g
such force against the State, the Governor shall forth
with issue his Proclamation calling for volunteers
and he is hereby authorized accept the service of
such may at any time offer, and TO call into the
service of this Commonwealth, from time to time,
such portion thereof may be required to meet the
emergency
Besides this the whole Militia of South Carolina
is to be reorganzed and prepared for action-he cit
liens to be classified from sixteen years of age up
wards-the Governor is to purchase 10000 stand of
small arms. with the necessary accoutrements, &C.,
&c. Who say to this frenzied spirit " Thus far,
and no farther 2" Who can say what the next month
or week NAV bring forth Violence on the part of
her citizens, civil war, and blood And can we see
the prospect unmoved Can Virginia forbear to use
all the influence to which she is entited7 Will she
stand aloof? Will she wait till the storm bursts,
and war perhaps sweeps the fields of South
Carolina Can she not throw herself between the
contending parties and contribute whatever of
al force she may exert to the blessed Union
from Notification as we'll as the Rights of the States
from the Tariff!
These reflections have been suggested to by the
news of yesterday, and by letter we have received
from one of the ablest men in the country We ask
his pardon for laying from before the Leg
slature, Keeping has strictly ourselves. The
members of the Legislature will weigh them for
what they worth. From the high character of
their author-from the deep importance of the subject
from the momentous crisis, which approach
ing-we respectfully think them entitled to serious
attention. But the press is open-and without mean
ing in the slightest degree to urge crude sug
gestons upon the public, invite the true and able
of the land to lay their reflections before their
countrymen. NOUS The day, and nous the hour
EXTRACTS.
"1he impending crisis is fearful one. What is
be the result The question is before me- dav and
night. AS you have justly observed, are between
Scylla and Charybdis. If the General Government
succeed is there not to fear that State Rights
will be in danger, and that the Federal may be-
come too strong at some future period On the 9th =
hand, if South Carolina succeed either in the pro-
ject of notification that of secession the Union
is virtually dissolved, and shall follow the fate of
CheckeF6Q
map of history. What then is to be done? If South
Carolina proceed she has begun, the shock must
be met, and ourinsttutions may be demolished in the
conflict. There is scarcely time even were this Con-
gress perfectly well disposed, to settle such ques-
ton between now and the first of February next !;
and if they it is not in human nature that the
whole protective system, it is in its ap
plicaton, should be instantaneousy abandoned. And
this and this alone, would satisfy the South Carolina
politicians Under these circumstances it has
CURED to me that Virginia might interpose most eff
caciously, and add another leaf to the wreath which
adorns her civic chaplet. Suppose the Legislature
eminent citizens, to proceed to South Carolina, and
to enreat her Convention and her Legislature,
call her late steps, and at all events delay her final
action till anc Their trial is made to reduce the Tariff
Possibly the measure would be certain, if Vr-
GINA should call upon North Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama toappont similar committees, to meet hers
at Columbia, and to join in the good work In all
political lamentations, time, if not positive cure, is
almost sure to lead to Suppose Virginia, too.
shonld address Congress in of those forcbe ap
peals she SO we'll knows how to make, and urge an
immediate commencement well as great reduction
OF the Tariff, stating all the great considerations
which require it and should the time address
the State of South Carolina, a sister, suffering
der the same system, and enreat her, out of regard
to Virginia. to the other Southern States the in
tegrity of the Union, and in fact the of free
government throughout the world delay her action
and TO try to procure modification of the Tariff. a
general convention, convention of the Southern
States, and invite as have said the States in
teresed in the subject join her -Un this address,
too, Virginia might discaim and protest against the
whole South Carolina doctrine of Nulfcation-EG- |
TORS would not the result be favorable At any
rate is there not such probability of it, to justify
the attempt! Events are pressing rapidly upon
one another, that we hardly know what the hour
will produce: of course time is to be lost.
g The times portentous and satisfied am, that
if Virgins does not put her shoulder the wheel,
our fate hangs by thread. The President will do
Ill that wisdom, irmness, and integrity can effect
'ut still, without jealous ad from real friends, even
he may not be able to carry through unscathed."
Again, we invite friends, in and out of the Leg
STATURE to aorite 10 speak, ACT this great crisis
If our affairs. The country erpscs every to do
us duty.
AS showing the views of the Enquirer and Virginia
It that PERIOD quote the following remarks of that
'aper on the 24th August 1932-when it said with
Mr.. Jefferson, We will separate from our brethren
My when the sole alternatives left, are the dssolu-
ion of our Union with them, submission to a gov ;
rnment aoithout limitation Of powers:'
In word, do not hesitate to believe, that if
vents sweep so mady to their consequences, as they
ave done South of us, for the last six weeks, Vir
nia will again have an important part to play in the
olitical drama. 1t may become her duty to attempt
9th to save the Constitution and the Union. She
i'd much to save the Union in '9S. She did as much
save the Constitution in '99. The time NAV be q
hand when she will have display the same cool n
ess as well as rnness of spirit. But we are much h
ecelved, il, while she denounces the Tariff she will a
OF equally oppose Modification if she does not dis n
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