Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-25
seuth Carolina in 1saa.

The following extracts indica
how General Jackson's PROF.
In 1882, was receive "a C -on
lima: SCUM Nafo-
me Charleston Mercury, Dee Il, -
The Declaration of war nsade bv
Andrew jackson against the State of
South Carolina, occupies to-day the
larger portion of our columns. It
will be read with the feelings which
so extraordinary a document is calcu-
lated to excite. This unhappy old
man has been suffered by his advisers
To- arrogate the power to coerce a
State of the Confederacy. He has
Issued the edict of a Dietator-an
edict which time will prove whether
he dares or can enforce. He has at
sempted in this proclamation to in
timidate the Wings of South Caroil-
ma BY threats, and to encourage and
foment instruction and violence on
the part of the internal enemies OF
klle State. This document was re-
eoived here yesterday, and greeted
with Indignation and contempt which
It merits. In every freeman, worthy
of the name, it has excited no other
feelings but those of defiance and
scorn- Recreants will hail it as a
brave blow in the case of treason.
From the Charleston Mercury, Dec. II, 1882
~. The crisis for which every intelli-
nt and resolute Carolinian Wing
has long been prepared is come. The
efficacy of our remedy has been dem
enstrated. We were told it would
be inefficient it has proved so po-
tent that an infuriated administration
Ras been compelled to despair of 9TH
erwise. defeating US, to resort to brute
force. We have always said that our
nemedy was of right peaccful-we
never said that it would necessarily
be peaceful-it is always in the pow
or of q bad man to outrage right by
violence, if. unrestrained by principle
or a fear of consequences personal to
himself. General jackson has not fur
nished the first example. There has
been a Caesar, a Cromwell, and a Bo-
naparte-men of towering genius who
have stopped to play the usurper.-
Why may not an inferior spirit with
out as much heart as either, and with
none of their genius, aspire to initiate
them in those actions of their lives
which alone he can initiate, because
they are criminal.
In the Legislature, Mr.. Pickens de
clared she believed the contest would
end in blood. The document Of the
President was none less than the edict
Of a tyrant !; and if they were for war
he was ready. and it behooved all the
citizens of the State to meet the
storm with becoming manliness. He
for one, would never submit-if driv.
en- from the seaboard, he al for car
rying on the war in the interior if
driven from the interior, he was for
guerilla warfare in the mountains
and if at last compelled 10 yield, he
would die. ~contending to the last
drop of blood he had, to sustain the
ordinance, and the authority thereof,
He adverted to the doctrines contain.
ed in the proclamation, relative to the
rights of the State, and was astonish.
ed that the President should attempt
to seduce the citizens of the State
from their proper allegiance, and in
no measured terms denounced the
whole procedure. He concluded by
saying that before South Carolina
should recede, he was for war up to
the very knife, and he was for risk
ing all at every hazard on the die
that was cast"