The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-11-27
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
AN OLD COMPLAINT.
The Disuuion Measures Of 1923. 1892 aud
1851.

sentiments. 1t j.. the occasion only for the
expression. The real c,use is false theor
that the Government is compact only, whlc
may be broken at any time; and is theor
will, therefore, be asserted practically when
en- passion, jealousy or interest prevail owe
the Judgment That this is the fact we shal
brihy show by historical references.
The two States which have announced thi
doctrine and been most frequently exciIed
are South Carolina and Georgia. The frs
occasion in which they announced disuniol
sentiments, WAS one involving purely econo
mic interests II WAS not only selfish, but sci
fish on the commonest matter of daily bust
ness. II w,s no question Of rights at all
This was the Tariff of 1928. This Tarif
was passed by the almost unanimous vote o
the Middle and Western States, including
Kentucky and Missouri. TIE South voted n
unanimously the other way. New England
gave majority against tho Tariff, on the
commercial principle, which recently caused
fusion in New York. The Middle and Wes.
tern States gave 81 to votes for the Tariff
The South gave 60 to 8 against it. This,
like the present election of Lincoln, was cali
cd sectional, and denounced rs oppressive. -
Our readers may Cat least some of thcm,) be
surprised to hear-hut il Was a fact-that in
several counties of Georgia an'! South Caro-.
lima, public meeting. were held and resolu
iions passed, refusing TO consume Western
produce, (pork, -four and ~hisky.) because
it camc from Kentucky, Ohio DC, which
had so strongly supported tho Tariff. This
was the idea now put ou. in Georgia aud
Carolina of cutting off or taxing Northern
goods. The political fermentation came to n
head in the cotton district, (South Ca'olina,)
twcnty-eight days after the Tariff act was
! passed, where, on the l2Ih Of June, 1929,
the, issued an address. "advis'ng an attitude
Of opce re istance (, Ge lo'cs OF tie Union. 1"
nothing Wa now haIe ,qaals tnat. The
Coilcton movement was not seconded, and
tto Governor -efu>ci to ,,a, the Legislature
.-.nag, r..akur that . time Of 'groat
public cAc,temeu'" is not the time for "wisc
'ete, nation" 6 ,rro McDufiir, an ahler
r.au tuln they hh,- now in South Carolina,
re r...1r rrdod. at = .ADhc Giru"i IN Colum.
bla, jtst what h. Governor o. Georgia has
nov recommended, oud .iuas' IN In" same
words, that u STATE tor be i1id on Northern
manufactured goo is-qu"ing. (ns Governor
Brown has just done,) ".NNions for defense,
not cent far tribute
The plagiarism Of McDuffi.'s scheme by
Governor Brown does not make it any wiser.
1t is palpable to any man of common sense,
that in u State producing only one staple
such as cotton--a tax on the produce OF other
States must be n tax on the whole consump-
ton of the people-more oppressive than
anything which the National Government can
accomplish. 1t would tax every article, from
the cradle to the grav,.
Other views were entertained by men TO
whom we are sorry to say, Georgia and
South Carolina present, at this day, no equals.
One Of these was William II Crawford, who
presided at the Wilkes County Court, where
the grand jury wisely expressed themselves
thus: "To our fellow countrymen we would
recommend moderation in feeling, temperance
in language, forbearance in all things" The
South Carolina Legislature passed violent res
olutions, but just then appeared two letters
from James Mad son, pronouncng the tariff
acts constitutional, and the excitement passed
Off In May, 1882, the tariff WAS remodeled,
not, however, Increasing the duties. The
excitement was renewed, and it was then that
Calhoun. writing from Fort Hill, 30th July,
1882, declared that notification was peace
tm remedy, and necessary to the preservation
of other powers. Calhoun did Lot look TO
disunion, but simply to veto the laws Of the
Union by the State-the same thing, in fact,
as partner claiming all the profits of the
concern, but refusing to meet its liabilities
The Union party was Immediately formed,
as it will be now, and the conflict began 10
the South. Carolina, however, passed her
Ordinance, called out volunteers, aud Jack
son issued bis celebrated proclamation. Be-
fore the conflict CT me, henry Clay again in
terpo,ed with the compromise Of 1882, which,
by reducing the duties TO very low point,
saved the South from disgrace, but involved
the Union in a vast commercial catastrophe
whose disasters and sutfcrings were greater
than any tariff could possibly inaict upon the
South.
We then see that the slave question was
not the cause OF all these nullifying secession
movements. They began in the naughty
sririt Of State aud sectional aggrandzcnenl
at lhe expense of the Uuion. As the uatiou,
tie UI'on expanded, the power aud sclt.lm
portance Of Southern politicians diminished,
,n.y cUI'l not b ar H.. position TO wh c.,
& car diminished numbers l,ducod them, and /
sought, ID the Doctrine Of State rg'ds, na.i!.
Fat Do and secas,,,U, tLe means Of lucrras
iEg heir pjl cal ..u. - tanc", OF OF founding |
- -en.Aig .rpn'. The tartf Was tho occa
sso,, q, nne t.m" th' >a,, qnestiO. At ano:h
en- TIE spirit of ,ae po,'t'cIans-such as
Isncey N his letter 10 Slaughter, Calhoun
in Ills Ietler from torI lliiI, ard the speeches
OF ToomUs, lvcls,n, WISE, aud others--ls the
sI,int OF treason. But the surety OF the
country is that the people are 'oyn. They
have been mlsled in the South; but the hour
Of reaction lie at hand when the Southern
people, without aid, will reduce these dcma-
gogues into submission.
In 1851, the Compromise easures again
displeased Carolina. A considerable party
arose, advocating -eccsson. Another party
was opposed 10 il OF the last was &. Il.
who was recently an ambas,a lor
from Carolina to Virginia. On the 23d of
September, 1851, in Charleston, Mr.. Mem.
minger made an able speech against the Sc.