wherever called by the interest and honor of and enslaved if she act upon them, honor By Lieu. G. Monteith: The 8th of August, our next anniversary; may we, by our vigilance, show the Submission party that we are ready for nullification. By Z. C. Hutchison: Our Representatives in Congress, McDuffi- and Hayne: their elegant speeches before aristocratic Forthern mon po. ly they are as casting pearls before swine, fo By Ensign O. Hochstrasser: The cholera be trampled under foot. Nullification is the and the tariff, alike in their baneful effects, one true remedy for the south. nullifies the body, the other the purse; of these By Thos. H. Wade: South Carolina and two evils we will choose the former. Georgia. Our Troup and Hamilton will not be found wanting, when nullification becomes practical: the cup is now full, nullify we must, or retreat shamefully. By W.. F. Desausure: Taxes, taxes, taxes, The north demands them; the south depreeates them; who pays them? We have paid them; but let it be inscribed on our doors, "no more laxes paid here.” » By William Courson: The riflemen are ever ready to spill their dearest blood in defence of their rights and liberties. By a member of the company The memory of Gen. Sumter. His achievements of '76 should never be forgotten. By Alester Gardner: The southern States. Let the solemn truth flash upon them, that the defeat of South Carolina in the mighty struggle for the great principle of State sovereignty is the defeat of all, and let them raise the uni [Sent by the wife of a Rifleman | May we, versal shout to Heaven, "to your tents, oh being a part of the people of one of the most Israel!" happy arranged governments now known, neBy Jos. A. Black: Hezekiah Niles, mock-ver refuse to contribute to its necessities; but ing at nullification Pistol mocking the Welsh may we always refuse to be so truly unjust to "The rascally, scald, beggarly, lousy, brag- ourselves, as to act the dishonorable part of subging knave, Pistol, which you, and yourself, mission to laws which are calculated to destroy and all the world kno to be no better than a the peace and prosperity of this our common fellow, look you now of no merits." Country If you can, Mr. Hezekiah, "mock a leek, you can (and shall) eat a leck." [The following toast was sent to the Rifle Corps by several ladies assembled in the neigh. By M. R. Smith: John C. Calhoun: One oborhood. South Carolina's. noblest sons; we look upon The Whigs of '76, and nullifiers of '32, him as the leader of our doctrine and the guar-worthy sons of worthy sires. Go on gentledian of our liberties, and will support him men and prosper in your struggle for "Liber". through all sorts of difficulties from the pointy, the Constitution, Union:" our prayers are of a needle, to the mouth of a cannon. with you. By A. W. Roach: South Carolina. She has The anniversary of our country's indepen said much, may she say less until she acts. dence was very spiritedly celebrated at Captain May this be the last 4th she may ever cele-R. Bevil''s a uster ground, in this district. brate, under the present oppression. REGULAR TOASTS. By A. North: The approaching crisis. If 1. The day we celebrate: It túru - our_eyes the State says nullify, we say South Carolina to the mild beams of the orient States of our forover, right or wrong. independence and inspires us with the wish, that the time of its occident may never come. By M.-H. Oliver: The day we celebrate. We have already tried what virtue there is in words; before the return of the same, may we try what virtue there is in action. By J. H. Heise: South Carolina. If she can't roll her wheels on equality with northern peo ple, nullification is the only remedy. By R. McMillan South Carolina. May the different parties which now distract the State, be speedily and firmly united. By B. Harrison, jr.: Principles, not men Nullification it is based on the rock of ages; the floods of consolidation cannot prevail against it. 2. The Revolution of '76. Produced by iniquitous taxation. It is a cheering beacon to the oppressed south, which will be bailed by generation upon generation. 3 The Declaration of Independence and the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. The first." our proclamation of independence of friga domination; he last that the States are free and independent of federal usurpation Whose 4. The memory of Washington. 5. The Union of the States. Give us liberty, By E F. Branthwaite South Carolina. "She has done by words all that words can do" it is now her purpose to resist; and those of her sons who have not proved traitor to support it. ous recreants to the spirit of liberty, are ready! 6. The Constitution. It must be raised from to peril their all in her defence; for it is their the dust, or South Carolina will become one unalterable determination to bear no longer the stupendous slaughter ground oppressive exactions of the Government. 7. Thomas Jefferson. Though he sleeps By B. J. Harrison: South Carolina. Hitherto on Carter's mountain, his voice is abroad in the she has professed higli and sover ign princi- land, and sounds like sweet music in the ears ples; if she abandon them, she is degraded of all who call themselves republicans. 8. Th Vice President of the U. States. The hones sa esman, the enlightened freeman. 9 South Carolina. She asks for constitutional liberty, she was planted the banner of "Free Trade and State Rights," and her sons will die to defend it. 6th. John C. Calhoun: His exposition, shows that he seeks not office, but the preservation of the constitutional liberties of his country. 7th. Nullification and the ballot box. The former "the rightful remedy" for usurpation -the latter the antidote for the abuse of dele. 10. The Governor of South Carolina. A gated power. ruler whom we are proud to honor, a leader who we would delight to follow. 11 The cause of South Carolina. mighty and will prevail." 12. Nullification. A word hateful to ralists and formidable to Submissionists. 13. The Fair of Carolina. 14. D catur and Perry. 8th. Our Senators in Congress: The one has exposed the avarice of the monopolists-the It is other has detected the cunning of the magician. South Carolina knows their worth and will susFede-tain them. Their achieve ments are living monuments of patriotism. 9th. South Carolina; "When she is asked for her jewels-like the Roman matron-she may point to her children." 10th. "The independence of the American System: Robinson Crusoe in his goat skins." 11th. Taxation without necessity: Its true name, plundering by legislative authority. 12 h. The crisis: It calls for stout hearts and firm souls. 13th. The American fair. "Auld nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, 0: Her 'prentice han' she try'd on man And then she made the lasses, O." A number of volunteer toasts were given, of which the following are a part : A sa By Col. B. F. Griffin: Nullification. By R. G Otts. The constitution and liberty: May they be restored to us and remain un-vor of life unto life, and not death unto death. shake for ever. By Maj. J. Chandler: Hon. Geo. McDuffie. By William Sharp. The farmers of South If éloquence and argument could avail any Carolina: Cramped by the tariff interested po-thing in obtaining relief for the south, his reliticians, may they force their way through ev-cent effort in Congress would not have been in ery obstacle, and become a free people. vain. He has done his duty-South Carolina vill do her's. By Wm. W. Meng. The orator of the day: The eloquent and honest advocate of State Rights. The By W. Jolly. Success to our liberties. By H. B. Rice. Thomas Sumter: gamecock of the revoulution, the nullifier of $32; his example will be handed down from generation to generation, each one receiving it as a sacred deposite, which it is bound to deliver with fresh accessions of glory to that which succeeds it. By By Silas L. Heller, Esq. The people of Newberry district. They have intelligence to understand their rights, and spirit to defend hem. By T. H. Pope, Esq.: Hon. John K. Griffin. His political consistency and a long train of public services, have deservedly secured to im the confidence and the affections of the people. By Capt. H. K. Boyd. The nullifiersof The compromise which has 1832. Their cause is that of liberty and truth. been offered by Congress: a compromise which" Truth is mighty and will prevail." South Carolina will not accept. Let her next By - South Carolina. Circumlegislature do their duty, and her sons will supstances have placed ber in the van in the great port them. contest for southern rights: she will not faulter -her course is onward. A portion of the citizens of Newberry celebrated the 4th at Floyd's. The following were the regular toasts: 1st. The day we celebrate: It made our ancestors freemen, and teaches South Carolina not to submit to unconstitutional axation. 2nd. The memory of Washington, who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 3d. The constitution of the United States, based upon the sovereignty of the States: were it built n any other foundation it would prove a failure. 4th. The President of the United States. CONGRESSIONAL. IN SENATE-THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1832. EVENING SESSION. DEBATE AND FINAL PASSAGE OF THE TARIFF. Mr WILKINS, from the Committee of Conerence, on the dis greeing votes of the two Houses in relation to the Senate's amendments to the tariff bill, reported that the committee had agreed to recommend that the Senate recede from the several amendments, and concur 5th. Political honesty: With it our country in the amendments of the House. would endure to the latest ages; the want of it | Mr. BELL then moved to postpone the is rapidly bringing her to ruin. whole subject indefinitely. It was with ex-of the Senate had been carried in committee. treme reluctance te had been compelled to te did not cast any reflection on the Chair for mske this motion. He had indulged hopes tha constituting the committee as it had done; but a satisfactory adjustment of this all important he could not conceal from himself the fact, that subject would have taken place at this session, the majority of the committee was composed of but looking at the bill as it came from the two gentlemen representing States which were House, and the recommendation of the Senate's especially interested in the iron duty, and one committee to recede from its amendments, gentleman utterly opposed to the protective powhich he was satisfied would produc its in-icy. I desire, (said Mr. C.,) that the country Kent icky tended effects, he no longer hoped for such a should know how the matter rests favorable result. He believed that the bill di-is selected for one of the victims, and Louisiavested of the amendments would is flict thena for another; cotton bagging and sugar were most serious injuries on the greatest interests of given up. The manufacturers of woollens, tothe country; hat it would effect the entre rumgether with all who were concerned in the proof the woollen interests; and that no benefits duction of the raw material, were also sacrificed. would result from it commensurate with the He wished to know, and he wished the counevils it was certain to produce. He did not try to know, who had been concerned in a meaintend to enter into a lengthy discussion, espe sure so destructive to the great interests of the When the scheme of the Secretary cially at this stage of the business; he would country. simply content himself with his motion, which the Treasury was produced, it was easy to see was founded on the conviction that the passage that it was intended to sacrifice and destroy the of the bill in its intended shape would be pro- woolens interest, in betait. branches, and that ductive of serious and lasting evils, and that it iron was be spared; the plan was, to divide The cotion interest too Was to would be received with the greatest dissatisfac and conquer. tion throughout the whole country. He was be spared, but the interests of Kentucky and Whatever unwilling to take on himself any part of the re- Louisiana were to be sacficed. sponsibility of this measure, and he there fore might be his vote on the motion for indefinite asked that the question might taken by yes postponement, he wished the country to kow why, how, and by whom, some interests ad ↑ and nays. The yeas and nays were accordingly ordered. been destroyed, and others spared to be sacriMr. DICKERSON said, that he agreed with ficed at some future day. He had been in hopes the senator from New Hampshire (Mr. BELL) that, in resp ct to K ntucky, the Secretary that the woollen, were not adequately protect would have been coit nt, and that Congress tected; that, in fact, it was more neglected than would have been content to strike out one third any of the great interes's which this bill pro- of the price of the agricultural product of KenThat he had made his best tucky. But that, it seemed, had not beea poses to protect. efforts to increase the duties upon woollens, deemed sufficie: t. and would continue to do so, if there was the a Mr. WILKINS said, I concurred in the reslightest pro pect of success. He had proof port of the committee. The gentleman from that admitted of no doubt in his mind that Kentucky is now satisfied. And I am happy in there would not be a majority in the Senate having an opportunity of assisting in qu- hng that would insist and adhere to the amendment the disturbances that have agitated the country. that fixed the duties upon woollens at 57 per I am convinced that the principles on which I assente to the report were correct, and still cent. He had no hope of success but by compromise in the Committee of Conference, adhere to them. Is the gentleman from Kenby which an inte m. diate ra e of duty, between tucky satisfied now? [N! said Mr. CLAY, and 50 and 57 per cent., might be recommended to I shalt never be satisfi d.] Nev.r? said Mr. both houses; this has been found to be impos WILKINS; then I am perfectly content that the sible. There are some other interests, em- gentleman from Kentucky should never sa braced in the Senate amendments, which it tisfied with any political act of mine. If the genwould be very important to support, but have tleman is disappoint d, I apprehend that it is n the last time he will be disappointed. 1apbeen met by the same difficulties that have se cided the action of the Committee of Conter prenend that there are ome results as to which ence on the wooliens. It now remains to de-he indulge expectations, m which he will be cid. whether it would be better to d. feat the equall disappointed. I am responsible to my bill, in consequence of its failure to give the constituents, and to the country, for the voce I nave given in this business. My fri ndentire amount of protection which it should W give, or tc pass it wit. a h pe hereafte to stup for the protective ystem is as fi mand setmake furt er provision for hose interests which tled as that of the gentlemen from Ktucky, the amendments of the Senate were calculated though I hav net spoken so frequently and to provide. After the great labour bestowed loudly in.is suppert, because I ha no over upon this bill, and considering that there is an obje t in view than he good of the country. ue ommitee of the int nse interest felt by the people in every part after it was found t at of the United States, that some tariff bill s ouid House was averse to any co.. promise, great of pass at this session of Congress, he should vote forts were made to cure some of the amend, ments of the Senate. It he was asked what was against the indefince postponement. Mr. CLAY would be glad to know, h said, most deeply agitated in th committe, how this vote for receding from the amendments' would say that it was the auditional duty oi 7 per cent on woollens. For the information of right to see their protocol, to see their negocithe gentleman from Kentucky, he would go on ation in all its stages, as well as its results. The further and state, that he was anxious, for the chairman of the committee had not given this purpose of compromise, to give up articles of information. I rose, said Mr. C, and asked it. minor importance, in order to gain something on How does the gentleman treat the call? The woollens. The amendment adding 7 per cent. gentleman replies that he is actuated by a deto the duty of 50 per cent. on woollens, came sire to promote the public good, and insinuates up in course; I voted against receding from it. that I am actuated by motives other than the But the com pittee of the House, with only one public good. I wish the gentleman to explain dissenting voice, voted to adhere to the disa-whether this is what he meant or not. greement of the House to this amendment.- Mr. WILKINS said he had no objection to This question was then passed over. The other explain his meaning. I meant to say, that, as to amendments having been receded from, on my myself, I was actuated by a sincere desire to motion, the vote on the amendment adding 7 promote the public good. I believe the gentleper cent. to the duty on woollens was reconsid-man has an object in view which is identified ered. The committee of the House, however, with the course he has taken in regard to the showed a manifest determination not to yield, tariff, and which I have no doubt is, his opinion, and I came to the conclusion that it was better likely to promote the public good. He as to give it up, than incur the risk of losing the convinced that the gentleman had no objects, bill entirely. But, in the hope of compromise, which, in his own opinion, were inconsistent I moved 55 per cent. which was rejected. The with the public good. Senator from New Jersey moved 53 per cent. Mr. CLAY said, that it was not true that he which was also rejected." I then moved 52 per had any other objects than the public good; and cent., and that was rejected. We were then that the gentleman's insinuation to the contrary reduced to the alternative of yielding the 7 per did him great injustice. cent. altogether, or of abandoning the bill. I The PRESIDENT pro tem. interposed and thought, and the Senator from New Jersey a-said, that the Chair understands the Senator greed with me, that the difference of seven per from Pennsylvania to explain that he did not cent. on this duty was too inconsiderable to impeach the motives of the Senator from Kenkeep this country in a state of agitation a single tucky. month or day longer As to the pri ciple of protecting the domestic manufactures of the country, he supported it as firmly as any man. He was aware that this bill did not continue so much protection to manufactures as might, in god policy, be afforded; but it gave that degree of protection with which Congress appears to be satisfied, and with which the country, he believed, would be satisfied. He did not think hat the duty on sugar and on cotton bagging had undergone a disproportionate share of reduc ion. It had not been brought down to aby selfish motives. The gentleman. tells us lower proportionate rate than the duty on iron that, as a member of the Committee of ConferHe would remark, however, that the subject of rence, he held out for compomise. How much the iron duty was not one of those which came did he yield for the sake of compromise. He before the Committee of Conference; and there tells us that he yielded the whole. Mr. CLAY was no opportunity, even if there had been a continued to comment on the course of the wish, for the commit ee to exhibit any partia i-committee; when ty to the iron interest. Mr. CLAY said he did not so understand the Senator from Pennsylvania. If he has so explained his meaning, he, Mr. C., took back the reply. Mr. CLAY continued. He had no objects in his support of the protective policy, other than the public good, and Pennsylvania, whose Senators were instructed by the unanimous voice of her legislature to maintain that policy unimpaired, is the last State in the Union from which the intimation should come that I am actuated Mr. EWING demanded that the words be taken down in writing, and they were so taken down by Mr. 4. Mr MANGUM rose to a question of order. Mr. CLAY replied that it was wtih some re- He desired to know if the gentleman from gret, and no little surprise, that he discovered Kentucky had a right to censure a member of a manifestation of feeling on the part of the be committee for his course taken in com nitgentleman from Pennsylvania, which he had tee. neither expected nor contributed to produce. He had not been accurately informed as to the proceedings of the committes, having been all day otherwise engaged. He was, therefore, taken by surprise with the information that the committee had agreed to recede, not in part, but altogether from the amendmen's of the Sen te. He had asked for information as to the manner in which this answer, so unexpect ed and so mortifying, had been obtained. The Seate, he contended, had a right to this informatio. If we appoint a committee to trea Mr. CLAY then proceeded, and stated the with the other House, to represent our viewground on which he had opp sed any reduc and ishes in a conference, he apprehended, tion which could affect the great interests of that before we ratified their treaty, we had althe country. He reserved to himself the right the PRESIDENT pro tem. said that the remarks from the Senator from Kentucky, were irregular, and would have been out of order, ha. not the Sena or from Pennsylvania in reply given a history of the proceedings in committee. This having been done, it was competent for any Senator to comment on the proceedings of de committee. to vote as he pl ased on the question of post- After the principle amendments shalb gone pouement, and also on the several amendments through with, he should make a motion to reas they should come up for consideration. commit the bill with instructions to amend it Mr. WEBSTER said he would be false to as to provide for a general system of ad valo every duty which he owed to his constituents, rem duties, arrar ged on just and equitable prinif he did not express his entire dissatisfaction ciples. It would be time enough when all with the proceeding of the committee, from be- these questions shall be disposed of, and the bill ginning to end. He had thought that, in v ting shall be put into the shape which a majority of for a cmittee, he was voting for sending ne-the Senate shall think proper to give it, to make gotiators to to carry the views of the Senate, and a decision for or against it. For his part, howno: giving a power of attorney, signed, seal-cver, he had no hesitation in saying now, that ed, ant! ready to be delivered, giving up every neither in the shape which it had assumed in thing for which the Senate had contended. the Senate, nor in that which it came from the However he might be induced, by a desire to other House, could he give it his support. He tra quilize the country, to vote on this occa- believed tha in either form, it was a worse bill sion, he should have a deep and a long feeling than that of 1828, and when the final question as to the course which had been pursued. He came to be taken upon it, if he could not get it could not but express his entire disapprobation recommitted, and eventually reconsidered, he of the report, and his deep regret that the Se--hould then vote for its indefinite postponenator from New Jersey should have lent it any ment. countenance. Mr. HOLMES said he had always expected Mr DICKERSON said, he owed it to the that New England would be sacrificed. He Senator from Pennsylvania to say, that, although presumed the gentleman from South Caaolina he differed from him as to a number of the had given up nullification. amendments submitted to the committee, he Mr. HAYNE appealed to the Senate whether had assented to the report as made, and there- he had mentioned nullification. But if gentlefore felt himselt responsible for that report as men were disposed to bring that subject formuch so as if he had agreed with his two col-ward, he was ready to go into it. leagues, as the subjects had been brought up Mr HOLMES continued. He regarded the for consideration. The subjects upon which construtionality of the protective system and he f It the most anxiety were the woollens, cot-nullification as the same thing. He referred ton bagging, and sail duck, upon all which to the course of the Committee, and the adroiturged a compromise, but in vain. I regret ex ness with which the Senator from South Carotremely, said Mr. D., that I can be supposed lina had carried every thing as he wished. to have abandoned any of these interests, while The election was pending, and the boundary there was a possibility of preserving them; and question was first given up, the West India the more so, a the motive suggested is, that, trade next, and lastly the protective system. as the iron was provided for, was the more Poor New England was to be given up. The ready to acquiesce in provisions which lef: other people of that devoted section were still to interests without adequate protection. The bewers of wood and drawers of water to the manu acture o sail duck is one of great import-south. But if so, the people of New England ance to New Jersey, and I consider it abandon- would not hew the wood and draw the water ed by the bill. for nothing. The question was then taken and decided YES-Messrs. Bell, Clayton, Foot, Holmes, Senators should recollect that by the bill there was a heavy reducti n upon iron. He as follows: had made no effort to amend the bill of the Hue, by adding to the duty upon this article; had such an amendment been adopted in the Senate, no doubt it would have been disagreed NAYS-Messrs. Benton, Bibb, Brown, to by the House, and would have been one of Buckner, Chambers, Clay, Dallas, Dickerson, the subj cts referred to the Committee of Con- Dudley, Ellis, Ewing, Forsyth, Frelinghuyference, and would have shared the same fate sen, Grundy, Hayne, Hendricks, Hill, Jonas the others; and I should have acquiesced in tson, Kane, King, Mangum, Marcy, Willer, the surrender of such amendment, as I have Moore, Poindexter, Prentiss, R bb.ns, Silsbee, done in the other cases, when nothing els Smith, Sprague, Tazewell, Tipton, Tomlinson, could be done. He had abandoned no interest Troup, Tyler, Webster, White, Wilkı s—38. that could be sustained. He would not make The question then recurred on concurring an eff rt that he knew to be ut erly in vain-with the report of the Committee of Coufer. that he was anxious that the bill should pass in ence. its present form, if it could not be put into a Mr CLAY said, he had vo'ed against the better-and that he would not be made an in- indefinite postponement of the bill, (reserving strument in defeating the bill. to himself the right of voting against receding Mr. HAYNE said, that he considered this mo- from every one of the amendments of the Se tion as premature, and he should, therefore, atate,) because it would contain much god, this time, vote against it. He thought the pro-even without the amendments; it contained a per course was to take up the amendments and clear, distinct and indisputable admission of the dispose of them. Let us at least ascertain the great principle of protection. The principle, sense of the Senate upon these amendments. coeval with the commencement of the Govern 1 |