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Their organ of yesterday contains two hide their contemplated treason in the clamor If they do this, what articles so very contradictory, that their per- of their new-born zeal. plexity is manifest. It is known that Georgia will be the feeling of that honest portion who is the seat of Mr. Van Buren's southern influ- act from the higher impulse, founded in their ence; that Mr. Forsyth is his prime agent; and "hatred of oppression, and disinterested love that he, until otherwise provided for, dures not of liberty?"

break with Judge Clayton, and that portion of The following extract from the Western Cathe Crawford party who have taken a decided stand against the bill, and in favor of nullifica rolinian, will show our readers that a healthy tion. Hence, in one article, the opponents of state of public feeling exists in North Carolina. The reference to the first page in the Carolithe bill are spoken of as "high-minded men,' whose opposition is founded on hatred of op-nian relates to meetings held in nine counties of pression, and disinterested love of liberty. Do that State, by the friends of State Rights, in we hear one of our readers ask, is it possible which the people express their determined opthat the Globe has spoken thus of nullificators' position both to the tariff and to Mr. Van BuYes it is even so; and this not all: for, in ren: "The people are moving in North Carolina.another article, although we are told that none were perfectly satisfied with the bill, the Globe By a reference to the first page of our paper, it expresses a hope that it will pass the Senate will be seeu that the friends of State Rights are They have borne their without amendment! Can the reader imagine moving in this State. why this hope! The Globe says, "for there burdens long enough in silence, and we are If is now no time to amend;” and adds, "we glad that they have at length spoken out. trust it will be permitted to go to the people, the people of other counties will follow up the to receive from their judgment, enlightened by course of the people of Martin and Orange, it the experience of its practical operation, a final will have a happy effect. It will convince the and judicious adjustment." As if it was not tariff majority that we are really oppressed by the business of legislation to adjust this great the tariff, and that we are determined to have question; and as if it did not involve conside- it modified upon just and equitable principles. rations, the equitable adjustment of which The people of this State have been so silent would justify an extension of the session for that our taskmasters have taken up the idea weeks yet to come. It was unnecessary for that we are satisfied with their system of robbethe Globe to have expressed its desire that ry, and that, however far they may carry it, we this distracting question should lie festering in are such dolts as to bear it without one murBut it is time that they the public mind, until it could be brought into mur of complaint.

the next Presidential election. Mr. Van Bu-were convinced that this is not the fact, and ren's policy has been, while he votes for the we know of no better way than for the people tariff, and sustains its most obnoxious features, to speak in their primary meetings."

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The following is the final vote on the passage

to hold himself up as the mediator between the parties; and if he can postpone an adjustment until he shall have made his arrangements with of the Tariff Bill, June 28, 1832: YEAS-John Q. Adams, Chilton Allan, John bis southern adherents, in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, by the aid of their influ- Anderson, Nathan Appleton, William S. Arence in the south, he will again throw himself cher, William Armstrong, Thomas D. Arnold, before the country as a mediator. But, unfor- William H. Ashley, William Babcock, Daniel tunately for his project, it is now apparent, L. Barringer, Gamaliel H. Barstow, James by a reference to the ayes and noes upon this Bates, John Beil, Laughlin Bethune, James bill, that if the partisans of Mr. Van Buren had Blair, John Blair, Ratlid Boon, Joseph Bouck, been sincere in their disposition to adjust the John Brodhead, John C. Brodhead, John C. tariff, they could have done so; and it will be Bucher, C. C. Cambreleng, John Carr, Thomas found that, instead of prevailng upon the south Chandler, Joseph W. Chinn, Nathaniel H. to wait to be further enlightened" by its ex-Claiborne, Clement C. Clay, John A. Collier, perience of its practical operation, there will Slias Condit, Henry W. Connor, Eleutheros be but one common principle in that section; Cooke, Bates Cooke, Thomas Corwin, Richard and that will be immediate and active resis. Coulter, Robert Craig, Joseph H. Crane, Wm. tance. That it will be impossible for the com- Creighton, jr. Charles Dayan, H. A. S. Dearbined influence of those who are so base as born, Lewis Dewart, Philip Doddridge, U. F. tamely to wear Mr. Van Buren's collar, longer Doubleday, William Drayton, Joseph Duncan, to impose upon the forbearance of that enlight-George Evans, Joshua Evans, James Findlay, ened and patriotic section. For the Steven William Fitzgerald, James Ford, Nathan Gai sons, the Archers, the Speights, and the For-ther, John Gilmore, Thomas H. Hall, William syths, there is but one of two alternatives. Hall, Joseph Hammons, Joseph M. Harper, AlThey will be compelled to become the loudest bert G. Hawes, M. T. Hawkins, Wm. Heister, in their denunciations of the tariff, and of the Michael Hoffman, William Hogan, Cornelius policy of which their leader is emphatically the Holland, Henry Horn, Benjamin C. Howard, chief; or else they will be driven from public Peter Ihrie, jr. Ralph I. Ingersoll, William W. life. Knowing them as well as we do, we do Irvin, Jacob C. Isacks, Daniel Jenifer, Freenot hesitate to say, that having failed in their born G. Jewett, Richard M. Johnson, Cave efforts to betray the south, they will labor to Johnson, Edward Kavanagh, William Kennon,

Adam King, John Leeds Kerr, Garret Y. Lan-against the patriotic friends" of the Presi sing, Humphrey H. Leavitt, Joseph Lecompte, dent. We were exultingly told that the friends James Lent, Robert P. Letcher, Chittenden of Mr. Van Buren could control the tariff, and Lyon, Joel K. Mann, Samuel W. Mardis, John this being the case, who could doubt as to the Y. Mason, Thomas A. Marshall, Lewis Max-control which would be exercised over it? To well, Jonathan McCarty, Rufus McIntire, Chas. us it appeared plain what was the object of all F. Mercer, Thomas R. Mitchell, H. A. Mub this parade about "compromise," and concilialenberg, Thomas Newton, Job Pierson, Frank.ting the south. We knew it was all hollow, lin E. Plummer, James K Polk, James F. Ran- heartless, and deceptive; and that the object dolph, John Reed, Edward C. Reed, John Jwas to get the party, particularly in the south, Roane, Erastus Root, William Russel, Bend. I. committed in relation to the Vice President. Semmes, William B. Shepard, Augustus Hship. When that was done,' they could raise Shepperd, Samuel A. Smith, Nathan Soule, the veil by degrees, and, under the protection Isaac Southard, Jesse Speight, John S. Spence, of the Executive, stand, as they could, the William Stanbery, James Standefer, Philander shock produced by the discovery of their dupliStephens, John W. Taylor, Francis Thomas, pity and treachery.

Philemon Thomas, John Thomson, Christo- Well, here we have the bill!-here we have pher Tompkins, Phineas L. Tracy, G. C. Ver the "judicious" tariff, as modified under the planck, Samuel F. Vinton, Aaron Ward, Danie "control of Mr. Van Buren's friends!!" And Wardwell, George C. Washington, J.M. Wayne, what is there in it that can meet the approbaJohn W. Weeks, Samuel J. Wilkin, Grattan tion of any southern man who either opposes H. Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, Frederick the protective system upon principle, as unWhittlesey, Campbell P. White, J. T. H. Wor-constitutional, or who regards it as partial and thington, Ebenezer Young-132. oppressive. Taking into consideration the difNAYS-John Adair, Mark Alexander, Ro- ference in the situation of the country arising bert Allen, Heman Allen, Robert Allison, John from the payment of the public debt, the present Banks, John S. Barbour, Robert W, Barnwell, bill is more oppressive than the last. The taxIsaac C. Bates, Thos. T. Bouldin, John Branch, es collected under the old bill were actually George N. Briggs, Henry A. Bullard, George Burd, Tristam Burges, Samuel P. Carson, Rufus Choate, Angustin S. Clayton, Richard Coke, jr., Lewis Condict, Richard M. Cooper, Thos H. Crawford, H.Daniel, T.Davenport, J. Davis, Warren R. Davis, Harmar Denny, William W. Ellsworth, Edward Everett, Horace Everett, John M. Felder, Thomas F. Foster, William F. Gordon, George Grennell, jr., John K. Griffin, James L. Hodges, Thomas H. Hughes, J. W. Huntington, Leonard Jarvis, Joseph G. Kendall, Henry King, Henry G. Lamar, Dixon H. Lewis, Robert McCoy, George McDuffie, James McKay, T. M. C. McKennan, John J. Milligan, Daniel Newnan, William T. Nuckolls, John M. Patton, Dutee J. Pearce, Edmund H. Pendleton, Nathaniel Pitcher, David Potts, jr. Abram Rencher, William Slade, Andrew Stew art, William L. Storrs, Joel B. Sutherland Wiley Thompson, John G. Watmough, Edward White, Charles A. Wickliffe, Richard H. Wilde -65.

THE TARIFF BILL.

wanted for the payment of the debt, or for the ordinary expenses of the government; but under the present bill there must inevitably be a surplus beyond the wants of the government, and it will require all the ingenuity of the tariffites to find objects of expenditure that will satisfy the people. And in addition to this the selection of the articles on which the reduction is to be made operates to increase instead of diminishing not only the inequality that exists in its operation between the north and the south, but that inequality in its operation be tween the rich and the poor. The luxuries of the rich are freed from taxation, which is laid upon the necessaries of the poor.

For this bill, we have to thank the friends of Mr. Van Buren. The President approves of it; and such is the earnest desire of the Globe to get it passed, that he deprecates any attempt being made to amend it. This, then, we must consider as the full extent of the gracious condescension of those who control the tariff. The south now know what they have to expect in future from those who have so long been An examination of the yeas and nays on the breathing into their ears the honeyed accents of final passage of the bill, will show to our read-"compromise," "conciliation," "Union!" It ers how correct have been the predictions we is evident that the Globe considers it as the have made relative to it. We told our brethren best that can be got, or it would not be so sen. of the south that they need not calculate upon sitive upon the subject of attempts to amend. any modifications that would even approximate Two things are equally certain. That the to being satisfactory to them-that they had no. President is either impotent or insincere în his thing to hope from those who were, par excel-wishes and exertions to relieve the south; and lence, the friends of the President-and that that the friends of Mr. Van Buren have the the friends of Mr. Van Buren, with all their power, but not the will. professions about compromise, would make that compromise in complete subserviency to the protective principle. For this, we were de nounced by the Globe, Enquirer, and their affiliated presses, as intending to mislead the people, and, without cause, create an excitement

To what are we to attribute this feverish desire, on the part of the Globe, that the Senate should not attempt to amend the bill. We think the good sense of the people of the United States will require a better reason than the frivolous one assigned-that they have not time!

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storm"!!! And all this is to be done by making they are gravely told, that it was "not neces Martin Van Buren Vice President of the United sary that any man shall consider himself pledg States!! The Union saved and management ed to support him, (Van Buren,) beyond the rebuked" by making Mr. Van Buren Vice Pre-present occasion." Is the Globe so silly as to sident! Really, this is drawing too heavily on expect that any man can be deceived by so the credulity of the American people. And barefaced an artifice? Will not Gen. Jackson they are called upon to vote for Mr. Van Bu- feel as much interest to make Mr. Van Buren ren, not in consideration of his merits, not on President, as he now feels to make him Vice account of his fitness for the office but because President? And if he is allowed to do the latthe President of the Uuited States has so iden-ter, will there not be the force of the precetified himself with Mr. Van Buren, that if he dent to aid him in the attempt? Will it not be be not elected, the President "will feel himself quoted and referred to, by the Globe itself, as dishonored." Is not the disgrace of such a full authority for doing so, because--the meaconcession fully equal to any "dishonor" that sure has been sanctioned and approved by the may be reflected on General Jackson by the party? rejection of Mr. Van Buren? And would that There is, however, one part of the article disgrace be in any way removed, even by the which is very far from possessing the grave, votes of the people, when those votes are so serious, and melancholy aspect of the major humiliatingly solicited upon the avowed grounds portion of it. It borders on the ludicrous. We of saving the feelings of the President? Is not allude to the attempt to beat up for recruits in the "dishonor," whatever it may be, and we the enemy's camp. When his own camp is leave that to be determined by the Globe, al-threatened with "division and dishonor," to ready consummated? expect assistance from desertions from the ene. None of our readers can have forgotten, that my, shows less acquaintance with the princione of the principles upon which Gen. Jackson ples of human nature, than we had expected came into power, was the non-interference of from the conductors of the Globe. But, to the General Government in elections. So much what "faction," since all are "factious," but impressed was he, at that time, of the impor- Mr. Van Buren's friends-to what "faction,' tance of this non-interference, that he took an we say, will the Globe have recourse? Does occasion publicly to deprecate and denounce it calculate on the National Republicans? Or, it. So much for professions. As evidence of on the anti-Masons? The movements in New its sincerity and of consistency, we have the York and Pennsylvania, are surely not very article in the Globe, the notes of which will, consolatory. From the Unionists of the south? no doubt, be echoed by all the "by authori-They have too lately experienced the treachety" presses of the country. We see a press, ry of the friends of Mr. Van Buren, and have the acknowledged organ of the President, not yet forgotten, nor are likely to forget, the calling upon his "friends" to come forward buffets lately inflicted by the Globe. And of and vote for a favorite candidate. And who desertions from the Nullifiers, it must surely can doubt but that the whole power of the despair.

Government is now exerted to procure the It may be that some of our readers may be election of Mr. Van Buren? The identifica-incredulous as to the nature of the article in the tion of the President with him, is no longer Globe, and will think it impossible that the even attempted to be concealed, but is open- friends of the President should have so comproly and unblushingly avowed, in utter contemp: mitted his character as to authorize the remarks both of consistency and principle. This is a we have made. We publish extracts from the subject that deserves the serious consideration article to satisfy them upon this point. When of the American people. we are less occupied than at present, we shall return to this subject.

The Globe says:

There is, however, another and a still more important point of view in which we have to consider this article in the Globe, and the ef- "His re-election to the Presidency will be fects necessarily resulting from carrying its no reparation for the attack upon his honor. If principles into execution. It is setting a pre- the people re-elect him and at the same time cedent-and we all know the force of prece- condemn his acts, he will feel that he re-enters dent-for the President to nominate his suc- upon the arduous duties of chief magistrate discessor. It is in vain to attempt to disguise it. honored He will correctly think that he has as The object of the movement is not only to little reason to calculate on the support of the make Mr. Van Buren Vice President, but to public in time to come as in time past, and will make him President also. Are the American have before him the prospect of another four people prepared for this? Are they prepared years of baffling management and tumultuous to sanction this barefaced attempt to change faction, impugning his purest motives and seekentirely the principles of our Constitution? Toing to defeat all his efforts to serve his country. substitute for an elective Executive, an Execu- The people will not permit this state of things. tive with power to appoint his successor? A The friends of the President, whether they per form, perhaps, worse than any other-even smally like Mr. Van Buren or not, will rally worse than an hereditary monarchy ! around him, and do justice to his motives and

It is true that, to obviate any objections that his acts." the "friends" of Gen. Jackson may, on this "Faction and management will be rebuked ccount have, to submitting to his dictation, into silence. The new Holy Alliance' will be

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dissolved by the rushing of the people to the polls, as was the old by the citizens of Paris in their three glorious days.' We shall have peace during the four coming years."

"Let us then rally around the Baltimore nomination, for the honor of our old chief, and to enable him, with the better heart and more power, to serve his country."

"But if the Executive be now weakened by the division or desertion of the President's friends, his moral power will be lost, faction will be encouraged in its designs, and our glo rious Union may be wrecked in the raging

storm."

"In these considerations the true patriot and friend of the Union, as well as the President's friends, may find reasons why they should sustain Mr. Van Buren. It is not necessary that any man shall consider himself pledged to support him beyond the present occasion."

"There is no man better fitted to purify the public mind, or, if need be, meet a storm, than Gen. Jackson. By preserving his moral power, we may enable him to maintain domestic peace until our troubles shall be settled."

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quence of an adjournment without a reduction of the tariff." The error of the Globe is in using the terms nullification and disunion as synonymous; and wilfully misrepresents our ar ticle and its tendency, when it asserts that it was calculated to induce the advocates of the tariff to adjourn without making a reduction. We do not believe that the interested manufacturers are to be frightened by apprehensions of a dissolution of the Union. It never was the intention of the Nullification Party, nor did a dissolution of the Union constitute any part of their purpose. Their object was a modification of the tariff, and their remedy was a direct appeal to the interests of their oppressors. Their appeal will be to the Judiciary, to the verdicts of their juries; and the operation of such an appeal is set forth, by the Globe, in the article before us. That print says: "If Charleston is thrown open to free trade, can the custom. houses of Boston, New York, or Baltimore, levy the tax? No. The free port would draw the trade to it, and all the cities on the sea board would be compelled to resign their commerce to Charleston, or become themselves free ports."

EXPEDIENTS OF THE NULLIFIER. Nullification, then, according to the showThe Globe of yesterday, in commenting up-ing of the Globe itself, would be a direct ap on our article, makes a few extracts, with a peal to the "interests" of Boston, New York, view of presenting the latest shape which Mr. Philadelphia, and Baltimore, which would Calhoun has assumed. It is not at all surpris- compel them to modify the tariff, or else part ing that a press which has no political princi- with their commerce, the present source of ples, which does not depend upon the pecuni- their prosperity. And it is the knowledge of ary interests of its conductors, and which con- this fact, that satisfies us that the Union is not fessedly speaks as it is bidden, should suppose in danger. We are well. convinced that, bethat Mr. Calhoun is justly responsible for what-fore the northern States will permit foreign ever may appear in our columns; but the read-merchandise to be imported in the southern er cannot fail to see that an editor who refuses ports, free of duty, they would consent to such to yield up his views and his principles to the a modification of the tariff as will be satisfactory will of General Jackson, when he had it in his to the south. But we are denounced by the power to reward an acquiescence with a golden Globe, and charged with wishing to defeat such harvest of profit, has too much independence a modification, because we do not believe that to surrender them to Mr. Calhoun, who has no it will take place at the present session. It is patronage, and who, if the Globe is to be be- said that our declaration that nullification is not lieved, has nothing but "obscurity to hope disunion, tends to allay the fears of the advofrom the peace and prosperity of the country." cates of the tariff, and to stimulate them to an Mr. Calhoun had no more to do with the article adjournment without a compromise. In reply for which the Globe attempts to make him re-to this we have only to say that we believe that sponsible, than the editor of the Globe himself. the advocates of a high tariff fear nullification The Globe sees treason, foul and false, in our as much as disunion. And that, inasmuch as assertion that we have long since ceased to feel its operation is directly upon its interest, the any aprehension about the division of the apprehension that it will be resorted to will Union; and asserts that no intelligent man who have much more influence in prompting them reads our article of Tuesday, will "fail to see" to a modification of the tariff, than all the idle that the party who speak through the Tele- clamor about disunion. It is now well undergraph are now becoming uneasy, lest a modifi-stood that the latter is a mere electioneering cation at the present session may leave such a device, intended to cloak the love of gain in gradual reduction and change in the tariff as one section and of office in another. will induce their constituents to dispense with But, says the Globe, "what is the nullificatheir violent remedy. That, fearing their cry tion of the revenue laws, but a dissolution of for a dissolution of the Union has produced a the Government." "And if South Carolina rewillingness in the different sections of the coun-sists the revenue laws, must not the General try to concede a portion of their interest in the Government enforce them at the expense of tariff, to preserve our institutions, they are in-civil war, or resign its power, and permit a clined to persuade the representatives of these quiet dissolution of the confederacy." sections that there is no danger to the Union in To this we will reply, as before, that nullifi their doctrines, in the hope thus to induce the cation is not disunion. That a civil war will tariff party to hold out, and risk the conse- not follow nullification. And we cite the case

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