The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-11
MULTIPLICATION IN 1892
Crushed by Jackson in 1891, It Rears
Its Ugly Head Again.

Sixty years ago next November a general
convention was In session in South Carolina.
It's members represented the sentiments Of
that arrogant slaveholding oligarchy whose
ern States to attempt the dissolution OF this
Republic by armed force. They were by
birth, training and interest opposed to the
elevation OF workiugmen and women, and
viewed with alarm the growth OF the army OF
int lligent free labor In tho Northern States
under the shelter OF the Protective system. So
I ey hated Protection with an all-consuming
hate. and had called this convention for the
purpose Of formally serving notice on the
President and Congress that tho Protective
Tariff OF 1923 must be repealed, SO far as
South Carolina WIS concerned, or South Caro-
lima would secede from the Union. The con-
" ntion passed an "ordinanee" OF nullifca-
ton, OF which the gist is contained in the toll
lowing extracts:
Whereas. the Con gress OF the United States. by
v rious acts. purporting to be acts laying duties
and imposts on foreign imports, but In reality
II tended for tho protection Of domestic manu-
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 1t Is hereby declared and Or
dained that the several acts and part Of acts Of
the Congress OF the United States, purporting to
be laws for tho imposing Of duties and tmppsts
on the importation Of foreign commodities,
ETC., are unauthorized by the Constl
tuition Of the United States, and violate the true
meaning and intent thereof and are null, void.
and no law.-Ordindnee of RuHifeahoa passed by
South Carolina, through Delegates assembled n General
6onpentioR, Nop. 81, 1882
The answer OF that great Dem ocrat, Andrew
Jackson, who was then President was to Or
der South Carolina to submit to the Tariff, and
he dispatched troops and gunboats to see that
bis orders were complied with. Congress,
saw 1t to modify the Tariff sufi-
GENTLY to appease the South Carolina nullifl-
ers; they receded from their position and
bloedshed was postponed till twenty eight
years later, whom tho prstensions Of South
Carolina were stamped upon by the American
people for good and all at cost of half mil.
lion precious lives and untold suffering.
They hoped that they had heard the last Of
qualification and the absurd Tariff views Of
Calhoun and his fellow-nullfers. But they
were mistaken. just about twenty. eight
years after the closing scenes of tho tremend-
GUS struggle, in which it was believed the
principles Of the nullifisrs were buried for
ever, another convention was held, not In
South Carolina this time, but in the native
State OF Abraham Lincoln, which has rsas-
serted the teachings OF Calhoun. Here is its
We denounce Republican Protection as
fraud, . robbery Of the great majority Of tho
american people for tho benent Of the few. We
1eclare 1t to be a fundamental principle OF the
Democratic party that the Federal Govern nent
naS no constitutional power to impose and col
ect Tariff duties. except for the purpose Of
revenue only. and we demand that the collec-
lion OF such taxes shall be limited to the neces-
lilies OF tho Government when honestly and
administered-From Democratic
Platform Of 1892
For the first time since the Civil War politi-
,al party has dared to incorporate into it's
platform the utteranoes Of the ordinance OF
Notification, and to declare that the Tariff
avs supported and advocated by Washington,
Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Madison, Clay
Webster, Jackson and Lincoln were unconsti-
utional and mere legislative robbery Of the
people.
There Is NO mistaking the meaning Of the
Democratic Tariff plank, and We are glad OF
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