The Worthington advance., 1892-08-11
MULTIPLICATION IN 1892
Crushed by jackson In 1891, 1t Rears
lts Ugly Head Again.

Sixty years ago next November a general
convention was IN session in South Carolina.
Its members represented the sentiments OF
that arrogant slaveholding oligarchy whose
influence II few years later induced the South.
ern States TO attempt the dissolution Of this
Republic by armed force. They were by
birth, training and interest opposed to the
elevation OF workingmen and women, and
viewed with alarm the growth OF the army OF
Int elljgent free labor in the Northern States
under the shelter OF the Protective system: So
they hated Profession with an all-consuming
hate. and had called this convention for tho
purpose Of formally serving notice on the
President and Congress that the Protective
Tariff OF 1928 must be repealed, so far as
South Carolina was concerned, or South Caro-
We ention passed an "ordinance" Of nulli0ca-
tion, OF which the gist is contained in the lol-
lowing extracts:
Whereas. the Congress OF the United States. by
various acts. purportng to DO acts laying duties
and imnosts on foreign Imports, but in reality
intended tor tho protection OF domestic manu-
1actures. 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
daned. that the several acts and part OF acts OF
tho Con gress OF tho United States. purporting to
on the importation OF foreign commodities.
Ietc.. arc unauthorized by the Consti-
tuition OF the United States, and violate tho true
meaning and intent thereof. aud are null. void
and no law.-Ordtnancc Of Null!Gcation' passed BY
South Carolina through Delegates assembled General
| Conuention Non. q. 1882
The answer Of that great Democrat, Andrew
Jackson, who was then President. was to or.
der South Carolina to submit to the Tariff, and
he dispatched troops and gunboats to SEQ tina,
his orders were complied with. Congress-
however, saw flt to modify the Tariff suffi
cient!y to appease the South Carolina nuliia-
ers; they receded from their position and
bloodshed Was postponed ill twenty -eigh,
years later, when the pretensions OF South
Carolina were stamped upon by the American
people for good and all at cost OF half a mil
lion precious lives and untold suffering
They hoped that they had heard the last ol
qualification and the absurd Tariff views Of
Calhoun and his iellow-nulliliers. But they
were mistaken. Just about twenty.eigh1
years aftor the closing SCI nos OF the tremend
GUS struggle, in which it was believed the
principles OF the nulliflers were buried fol
ever, another convention was held, not iI
South Carolina this time. but in the nativ
Safe OF Abraham Lincoln, which has reas
serted the teachings OF Calhoun. Here is it,
|pronunciamento:
We denounce Republican Protection As
fraud. robbery OF the great majority Of th'
American people for the benefit OF the feW. W.
declare 1t to be a fundamental principle Of tn.
Democratic party that the Federal Government
has NO constitutional power to impose and col
lect Tarin duties. except for the purpose o
revenue only, and We demand that the colec
tion OF such taxos shall be limited to the neces
stiles OF the Government when honestly ano
economically administered.-Fron Democrats
Platform Of 1892.
| For the FIRST time since the Civil War politi
cal party has dared to incorporate into it!
platform the utterances Of the ordinance o
Nulhflca'ion, and to declare that tho Tariff
laws supported and advocated by Washington
Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Madison, Cla,
Webster, Jackson and Lincoln were unconsti
tutional and mere legislative robbery of tn
people.
There is no mistaking tho meaning Of tn,
Democratic Tariff plank, and We are glad o
lit.