Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-09
How they Detied Old Jackson. and What
came of Il.


It is interesting and perhaps instructive.
says the S. +. Mirror, to look back and see
who General Jackson's proclamation was re-
ceived in South Carolina by the press .9nd
her legislators. The Charleston Mercury of
Dec 18th, 1882, spoke thus
The declaration of war made by Andrew
jackson against the State of South Carolina,
occupies to-day the larger portion of our col
umns. 1t will be read with feelings which
so extraordinary n document is calculated to
excite. This unhappy old man has been suf-
fered by his advisers to arrogate the power
to ooerce State of the Confederacy. lie
has issued the edct of dctator-an edict
which time will prove whether he dares or
can enforce. lie has attempted in this proc
lamation to intimidate the Wings of South
Carolina by threats and to encourage and
foment insurrection and violence on the part
Of the internal enemies of the State. This
document was received here yesterday, and
greeted with the 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 cause of
| treason.
This certainly was not very complimenta-
ry to the Old Hero of the Hermitage, but
the Charleston Mercury, of December 10,
1882, was even atill more sweeping in its in
vective, and said
The crisis for which every intelligent and
resolute Carolinian Wing has long been pre-
pared has come. The efficacy of our remedy
has been demonstrated. We were told it
would be inefficient it has proved so potent
that an iufuriated administration has been
compelled in despair of otherwise defeating
us, to resort TO brute force We have alrea
dy said that our remedy was of right peace
ful; we have never said it would necessarily
be peaceful; it is always in the power of a
bad man to outrage right, by violence if un-
restrained by principle or fear of consequent
ces personal to himself General jackson
has not furnished the first example. There
has been a Caesar, a Cromwell, Bonaparte; /;
men of towering genius who have stopped
to play the usurper. Why may not an infe-
rior spirit, without as much heart as either
and with none of their genins, aspire to imi
tate them in those actions of their lives
| which alone, he can initiate, because they
are criminal. We have all along said that
he might make the suicidal attempt to CO.
The jackson tariff men will encourage him,
and the Clay tariff men will cheer on us
their bloodhound the individual whom they
rejected as public servant, whom they des-
| pise as a man
In the State Legislature matters looked
equally squally and invective was the great
oratorical staple of the day. Mr.. Preston
J said:
Who and whom are we? Are we Russian
serfs or slaves of a divan Are we on the
banks of the Bosphorus or the Narva, or is it
on our own free streams that these things are
proclaimed2 Was our high and well con-
sidered appeal to Congress and the States in
this matter to be met by the blind fury and
indecency of man who thus vents upon the
| liberties of the country his own personal ami
mositcs? We should, he insisted, hurl back
instant scorn and defiance for this impotent
missile of despicable maignity. OF answer
to its paltry sophisms and disgraceful invec-
tives it was utterly unworthy. But the
country and the world should know how
perfectly we despise and defy him, and they
should be told that, before they plant such
principles as his upon our free soil, the bones
of many an enemy shall whiten our shores
the careasses of many n caitiH and traitor
| blackeD our air.
Mr.. Preston was effectually seconded by
Mr.. Pickens, who, in the course of his speech
declared as follows:
He believed the contee. would ehd IN
blood. The document Of the President was
--4o Iess Inan the edict of tyrant; and if
they were for war, he was ready; and it be-
hooved all the citizens of the States to meet
the storm with becoming manlness lie,
for one, never would submit If driven from
the seaboard, he was for carrying on the war
in the interior if driven from the interior,
he was for guerilla warfare in the mountains.
and if at last con PEELED to yield, he would
die, contending to the last drop of blood he
had to sustain the ordinance and the author
| ity thereof lie adverted to the doctrine con-
tained in the proclamation relative to the
| rights of the State. and was admonished that
the President should attempt TO seduce the
citizens of the State from their proper ale
glance, and in no measured terms denounced
the whole procedure.
Nevertheless, old Jackson carried his point
and he would do it again if he were in that
| seat, or die.