M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-11-29

) NuIilGiCatiOu ln IS32-HOw Gen
eraI JacksOu'S Proclamation
was Received in South Carroll
na.
The declaration of war, made b,
Andrew Jackson, against the State o
South Carolina, occupies to-day tn
larger portion of our columns.
will be read with the feelings whicl
80 extraordinary a document is ca leu
lated to excite. This unhappy OLE
man has been suffered bv his adviser
to arrogate the power to coerce a Stat,
of the Conlederacy. lie has issueC
tine edict of a dictator-an edict whel
time will prove whether he dares o
can enforce. he has attempted in
this proclamation to intimidate thu
Wings OF South Carolina by threats
and to encourage and toment insur
rection and violence on the part OF the
internal enemies OF the State, Thi.
document was received here yester
day, aud greeted with the iEdigna
ton and contempt which it merits.--
In 6, cry freeman worthy Of the name
it has excited no other feelings but
those Of defiance and scorn. Recre.
ants will hail it as a brave blow in
the cause OF treason.
! from tho Charleston Mercury, Dec. 10, 1891
The crisis for which every intelIi.
gent and resolute Carolinlan Wing
has long been prepared is come. The
efficacy Of our remedy has been dem
onstrated. We were told it would be
inefficient; it has proved so potent that
an inturiated administration has been
compelled, in despair Of otherwise de-
teating us, to resort to brute force
We have always said that our remedy
was of right peaceable- we have uev.
er said that it would necessarily be
Ipeacetul-it is always in the power OF
bad man to outrage right by vic.
lence, if unrestrained by principle or
fear Of consequences personal to
himself. General Jackson has not
furnished the first example. There
has been a Caesar, a Cromwell and a
Bonaparte--men of towering genius,
who have stopped to play the usurper.
Why may not al 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 ca n initiate, becautc
they are criminal. We have all along
said that he might make the suicidal
attempt to coerce us. He is, it seems,
preparing for it.. The Jackson tariff
men will encourage him, and the Clay
tariff men will cheer on US their blood,
hound, the individual whom they ro
jected as public servant, whom they
despise rs a man.
In the Legislature Mr.. Preston
said: "Wh0, aud whom are we! Are
we Russian serls, or slaves OF q dill
van? Are we on the banks Of tho
Rosphorus. or the Narva, or is it on
our own free streams that these things
are proclaimed! Was our high aud
well ll-consdered appeal to Congress
and the States in this manner, to te
net by the blind fury aud ndecenCy
of a man WHO thus vents upon the
liberties Of the country his own per
sonal animositiesi We should, heinf
sisted, hurl back instant scorn and de-
hance for this impotent missile Of des-
picabIe malignity, OF answer to its
paltry Sophisms and disgracetul lnves-
tlyos it was utterly unworthy. Bat
the country and the world should
know how perfectly we despiso aud
DEFY him, and they should be tod
that, before they plant such principles
as his upon our free soil, the bones Of
many an enemy shall whiten oar
Shores--the carcasses of many a cattf'
and traitor blacken our air."
And Mr.. Pickens declared chs
believed the contest would end inl
blood. The document OF the Pres !,
dent was none less than the edict Ola
tyrant; and, if they were for war, he
was ready, and it behooved all the
citizens OF the States to meet the
storm with becoming nanliness. He,
for one, never would submit. If
driven from the seaboard he was for
carrying on the WARM the intanb,t :; it
driven from the interior he was for a
guerrilla warfare in the mountains,
and ii at last compelled to yield he
would die, cOntending to the last drop
of blood be had to sustain the oFdi-
nance and the authority thereof. lie
adyerted to the doctrine contained in
the proclamation relative to the rights
of the State, and was astonised that
the President should attempt to Sc.
duce the citizens of the State from
their proper allegiance, and in no
measured terms denounced the whole
procedure. Ae concluded by saying
that, bet0fe South Carolina should re-
cede, he was for war up to tie very
knife, and he was for risking all, at
every hazard on the die that was cast.i'
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