Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-08-11
MULTIPLICATION IN 1891
Crushed by jackson In ls3a. It Rears
Its Ugly Head Again.

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| Sixty years ago next November general
convention was IL session in South Carolina.
Its members represented the sentiments of
that arro-ant snveh. idtng oligarchy whose
Influence !, few yearsslal-r induced the South
ern States o attempt the dissolution of this
Republic by armed force. They were by
birth, training anu interest opposed to the
elevation OF workingmen and women, and
viewed with alarm he growth OF the army o.,
in eiljgent free labor in he Nor, hern States
under the shelter of til Protective system. So
hey hat F. Oi-ction with an ii .-consumfhg
hate. and had called this convention for he
pmrpOse OF formally serving MOTTO. on The
President and Congress that the Protective
Tariff OF 1928 must be repealed, 80 far az
|South Carolina was concerned, or South Caro-
lima would seced. from the Union. The con-
VT MIN passed an "ordinanre" OF nullifica-
lion, OF which the gist is contained in The toll
lowing extracts:
Whereas. the Congress of the United States. by
various acts. purp"rting to be acts laying duties
aud imposts on foreign imports, but in reality
intended for the projection OF domestic manu-
t1actures. etc.. -. hath exceeded Its
Just powers under the Constitution. !.
We. therefore, the people OF the State OF South
Carolina, in convention assembled. do declare
and ordain, and it Is hereby declared and or
dained, that the several acts and partof acts OF
the Congress OF the United States, purporting to
be laws for the imposing Of duties and inlposts
on the importation OF foreign commodities.
ETC.. are unauthorized by the Constl-
meaning and intent thereof, and are null. void.
and no law.-Ordinance Of Modification passed by
South Carolina through Delegates assembled in General
COnuentoa NoU. 81. 1882
| The answer of that great Democrat Andrew
Jackson, who was then President. was to or
der South Carolina s ,bmit to the T. riff, and
| he dispatched troops and gunboats to s., that
his orders were complied with. Congress,
however, saw fit to modify the Tariff suf1-
icientiy to appease the South Carolina nullifl.
larS thoxy 9G6s fvop hASN M n
lbloodshed WAS postponed till twenty-eight
years later, when the preensions OF South
Carolina were stamped upon by the American
people for good and I'LL at a cost OF halt a mill
lion precious lives and untold sun. FIRING.
They hoped that they had heard the last of
|nullificaiion and the absurd Tariff views of
Calhoun and his felloW-nullifiers. Blu they
were mistaken. just about twenty-eight
years afser the closing sc nes Of the tremend-
Gus struggle, in which it was believed the
principles OF the nullif1ers were buried for
ever, another convention was held, not in
lSouth Carolina this time. but in the nativ
$ ate OF Abraham Lincoln, which has reas-
Iserted he teachings OF Calhoun. Here is its
lpronunciamento:
We denounce Republican Protection as a
fraud q robbery OF the great majority OF the
American people for the benefit OF the few. We
declare it to be a fundamental principle CT the
Democratic party that the Federal Govern ent
has 10 constitutional power to impose AID col
llect Tariff duties, except for tho purpose of
revenue only. and we demand that the collec-
tlon OF such taxes shall be limited to the neces-
stiles OF the Government when honestly and
Economically misunderstanding Democratic
Platform Of 1892.
For the first time since the Civil War q poIi.i-
cal party has dared to incorporate into its
platform the utterances Of the ordinance OF
Modification, and to declare that the Tariff
laws supported and advocated by Washington.
Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Madison, Clay
Webster, Jackson and Lincoln were unconsti-
Itutionai and more legislative robbery Of the
people.
Theirs is no mistaking the meaning OF the
Lit u.