his power annihilated. If we were entitled to our Representatives, that all hope of relief of a vote, we would use our influence against the grievances of the State, through any action him; but situated as the country is, we are by of our oppressors, is irrecoverably gone. The no means sure that his election (if we are to manufacturers have so steadily advanced in have Jackson for another four years) will not their exactions, and increased in the majorities be a most fortunate event. It would be the by which they enforce them, that to wait lonsignal for discarding all minor considerations, ger for their returning sense of justice, is like and the formation of one great party, resolved waiting for the waters of the majestic river to to rescue the Government from the corrupt roll back to their fountain. Those whom we men in whose hands it is now placed. We have deputed to watch over our interests in the would suffer our right hand to be severed from councils of the General Government, solemnly our body, before it should deposite a ballot in testify to their constituents, exhibiting, too, his favor; but much as we are opposed to him, the facts upon which their information is foundwe are so much opposed to the position which ed, that our burdens will be perpetual, if ConBarbour has assumed, that we cannot con-gress can make them so; and they refer us, to he counted among his advocates. the people, the gravest question that can ever We be deemed impertinent, and many engage our attention: shall the right we have of our present friends will consider us indis- inherited from noble ancestors be surrendered creet. Be it so. We are editors, and act up-without a struggle, or be maintained by the on the high responsibility which we owe our interposition of the sovereign power of the country. When we entered the lists as a par- State? Much as the spirit of the people has tisan of Gen. Jackson, we took his character been subdued by long submission to tyranny, upon trust. We contributed, in no small de-there still abides enough of the love of liberty, gree, to build up for him that popularity which to place beyond debate which of the two they We believe as firmly as we do in he is now taught (to believe "can stand any will choose." thing;" and we must be excused if we require any future event depending for its accomplishthat, before a candidate receives our support, ment upon human agency, that the Legislature he shall have his banner boldly and fully un-of South Carolina, at its next session, will take folded, and that his conduct shall be such that measures for the nullification of the protecting there is no misgiving as to the future. In the system. This step, too, will be taken in full present contest, we are comparatively indiffer- view of all the perils which may follow. The There is no candidate before the public determination to resist at all hazards, is far who commands our confidence, and none whose more decided and extensive among our popu pretentions we support. Of those who are belation, than at any former period, although fore the people, our preference is decidedly there may have been heretofore greater ebulifor Mr. Wirt. We are aware that these re-tions of excitement. The time for furious words marks are not calculated to advance our pri- has passed away, and that for manly resolve, vate interest; but we disdain concealment; we and dignified action, has arrived. We have seek no end which is to be obtained by indi- counted the cost, and find every thing more The peo rect means. We entertain no opinions which tolerable than voluntary servitude. we fear to avow. If we have not heretofore been equally explicit, it was because no occa sion demanded us to be so. It is now due to ourselves and to our press that our course should be distinctly understood, and our motives placed beyond misconception. ent. ple of this State believe nullification to be a peaceful remedy for usurpation, resulting directly from the frame of the Government; but they will not be deterred from its exercise by any apprehension of its being opposed by the strong arm of our rulers. They are too intelligent and firm to be drawn into submission to their present wrongs, by any threat of addition The Edgefield Carolinian introduces the ad. dress to the people of that State, by her Sena-al wrong. tors and six of her Representatives, by the following remarks : " SIR WALTER SCOTT. "The following address, from the Senators We are sorry to find, by the English papers, and six of the Representatives of South Caroli-that Sir W. S. has returned from his tour, in a na in Congress, commends itself to the solemn worse state of health than he was in when he attention of the people who are addressed. It quitted his native shore. A second fit of patreats of matters of the highest political inter- ralysis, it appears, attacked him, when proceed. est, with temper, spirit, and ability germane ing in his boat down the Rhine; and which, it to the theme. It is a grave and dignified ex-is believed, would have proved fatal had it not position of the past and present state of our con- been for the presence of mind of his servant, troversy with the General Government, with who immediately bled him. It is, indeed, a none of that "theoretical flourish,” inflamma- painful subject of reflection, that he who was tory declamation, or sophistical logic, which so lately the first of intellectual beings, has now would have been employed by those who were sunk into a state of mental and bodily debility, anxious to impose a false tale upon betrayed from which there is no hope he will recovor; constituents. All who will attend to the sim-that his works remain, with all the radiance of ple narration of the course of legislation in his former genius, before us, whilst the mind Congress concerning the domestic industry of which gave them birth, lies prostrate and half the nation, must acquiesce in the conclusion of extinct. Extract from the inau- Circular from the Com- DINNER TO P. P. BARBOUR, Esq. "The recent demon-the second number of The citizens of Amherst Court house and its stration of public sen-the "Extra Globe." It vicinity, hearing that Judge Philip P. Barbour timent inscribes on the is only one dollar for was on a visit to his son-in-law, John J. Ambler, list of Executive duties, thirty numbers. As it Esq. appointed a committee to wait on Judge in characters too legi-is of the GREATEST IM-B. and request him to partake of a public dinble to be overlooked,PORTANCE in the ap-ner with them. the task of reform; proaching contest for The following is a copy of the letter of inviwhich will require par- the Presidency, that tation addressed to Judge Barbour by the Comticularly, the correction this paper should be of those abuses that circulated and read in have brought the pat-every neighborhood in ronage of the Federal Ohio, can you procure Government into con-five or ten subscribers flict with the freedom to it in your vicinity? If LETTER FIRST. mittee: AMHERST COURT HOUSE, July 11, 1832. To the Hon. Philip P. Barbour: "SIR: On behalf of a number of your friends and fellow citizens of the county of Am herst, we request that you will honor them with your company at a Dinner, to be given at Dr. James Powell's Hotel, on the 17th of this month, or on any other day that may suit your convenience to attend. Your long tried patriotism and pure republican principles, your unwavering devotion to the doctrines of '98, from your earliest youth, justly entitle you to stand high in the affections of every lover of liberty. Gratitude for your many and important services, and for the labors of a long life devoted to the interests of your native State, and of that of the nation, prompts them to this manifestation of their profond respect Be pleased to accept the assurances of our individual respect and esteem. Your friends and fellow citizens. LETTER SECOND. March 24, 1829. Washington, The interest of the April 23, 1832. country demands that Dear Sir: I take the the (Fourth Auditor's) liberty to enclose you office shall be filled with certain proposals, which men of business, and not speak for themselves. with babbling politi. The people need only cians. Partisan feet-correct information, and ings shall not enter here, the proposed paper will if I can keep them out. give it on THE CHEAPEST To others belong the TERMS. It is infended whole business of electo reach EVERY NEIGHtioneering; to me and BORHOOD IN THE UNION; my clerks, other du-and it is peculiarly deties are assigned. Them sirable that it should be I shall endeavor to dis-eirculated THROUGH ALL charge in the spirit of KENTUCKY. It will RENreform which has made DER ESSENTIAL SERVICE General Jackson Presi. IN ALL YOUR ELECTIONS. To which the Judge replied as follows: dent. "Vain"I may be, Will you take the trou "GREEN AMBLER, July 11th, 1832. proud I am, that the ble, for the sake of our Gentlemen: I have received your letter of President has given me good cause, to raise a this day's date, inviting me on behalf of a numan opportunity to aid subscription in your ber of my friends and fellow citizens of Amhim in proving that re-quarter, and make a herst, to partake of a dinner, to be given at form is not an empty speedy return of names Dr. James Powell's Hotel, on the 17th inst. sound, and is not to ap-and MONEY. ply merely to change of THE TIME FOR ACTION CHAMP CARTER, I accept the invitation, and will do myself the pleasure of meeting my fellow citizens on that occasion. I should not do justice to my feelings if I did not acknowledge the obligation which I feel at this unexpected act of kindness. The very marked and decided approbation, which you are pleased to express of my public course, awakens all the sensibilities of my heart; then, am I to ascribe it, that, under these cirand clearly proves that nothing is wanting in a cumstances, should I receive such a decisive public man, but integrity and political fidelity, manifestation of confidence and good opinion, to ensure him the most desirable of all rewards, as would almost have exceeded my most santhe good opinion and confidence of his country-guine expectations, even if it had come from those whom I number amongst my neighbors, men. 1 P. P. BARBOUR. With sentiments of esteem for yourselves, my acquaintances, my friends? Gentlemen, it is individually, I remain your obedient servant, a tribute not so much to any merit of mine, as to those principles which you profess, in common To Messrs. Champ Carter, Arthur B. Da-with me. It is not the man, but the doctrines, vies, &c. &c. to which you pay respect. It is, in part, the On the appointed day, a large and respecta- fruit of a spirit of liberal justice, which disposes ble number of gentlemen sat down to an ele- you to award to faithful exertion in the public gant and sumptuous repast, prepared by Dr. service, that approbation, which belongs, of right, only to successful action. It is the out James Powell. The utmost harmony and good feeling pre- pouring of the goodness of your hearts, in favor vailed. Every thing was conducted with dig-of one, who, if he have no other claim to your nity and propriety. Though Judge Barbour favorable consideration, can assert that of an was personally known to only two or three of earnest and steady adherence through life, to the company, he met with the most enthusiastic those great principles of constitutional law, and cordial reception. It was the spontaneous which constitute your and his political creed. and free-will offering of a free and enlightened At an early period, I adopted that creed which people to a distinguished public servant. We I have not only professed, but with fidelity enassembled, as members of the republican party, deavored to practice throughout my whole cato do honor not to the man but to our principles. reer, as a public man. For it was not to his abilities, great as they are, Its articles are true and brief; but in my esnor to his unblemished private character, which timation they constitute the true faith. As to not even the violence of party rancor has dared the first, all parties profess to be agreed. Into assail, but to the great and sacred principles deed, it could not be otherwise, for it is written which, through a long and eventful political in the book in language so plain that he who life, he had so firmly, consistently, and elo- runs may read. It is, that powers not granted quently advocated, that our homage was paid. to the Federal Government, are reserved to the It was cheering to our hearts to recognize in States respectively, or to the people. But, genour distinguished guest, in these days of apos-tlemen, the great question which arises is, by tacy and desertion, a man "in whom there is what rule shall it be decided, what powers are no_guile;" one who adheres to the faith once granted? We have adopted as the second cadelivered a genuine republican of the Jeffer non of our creed, that this question shall be resonian school. solved by a restricted construction of the instru After the cloth was removed, Sterling Clai-ment assigning them. borne was appointed President, Champe Carter When I speak of a restricted construction, 1st Vice President, Dr. James Powell 2d Vice let me not be misunderstood. I do not mean, President, and Capt. Henry L. Brown Sereta- like the miser, who grudgingly deals out from ry. When the ninth toast was announced, a his hand, to stint the Federal Government, by highly inspiring scene followed. Cheers and a straight-laced system of constraint, in the use plaudidts, with other ardent manifestations of of the faculties which the Constitution has imapprobation, made the welkin ring, and every parted to it. I do not mean to curtail it of its eye sparkled with pleasure. fair proportions, and to present a mass of imbeAfter the noise had subsided, Judge Barbour clity, where it was intended to infuse into it rose and addressed the company most eloquent-strength and energy. No, gentlemen, this is ly and feelingly, in substance as follows: no part of my purpose. My object is to retain "I should be wanting, gentleman, as much the distribution of power, in the exact propor in candor as in Sensibility, if I did not acknow- tions in which it has been made-to prevent ledge the gratification which I feel at the good the stronger party from taking, by construcopinion which you have just expressed, and the tion, what is not given it by the instrument to very great kindness with which it has been re-pe construed-to restrain both the Federal and ceived. State Governments within their respective From these with whom I have long been ac spheres-so that they shall revolve around their quainted, towards whom I have stood for a se- common centre, in concentric circles, differing ries of years in the most intimate relations, in dimensions, according to their respective might have expected somewhat of the partiality natures and objects; thus avoiding all collision, of personal friendship. But to many of you, 1 and preserving that harmonious action which is am a stranger, alike unknowing and unknown. indispensable to the happiness and prosperity Indeed, it is the second time in my life, that I of our country. As one star differeth from anohave been within the borders of your county; ther in magnitude, so do these political bodies; and on each of these occasions, led by paternal yet, like the stars, each is necessary, in its profeelings to visit the family of a daughter. Upon per place, to complete the great design with you, therefore, I have none of those claims aris. which the whole system was formed. Gentleing from individual intimacy. To what cause, men, this is neither the time nor place for po litical discussion. But in vindication of those tower, to guard that Constitution, is to be hurlprinciples, which you and I profess in common, ed from his post, for disobedience to the high I may be permitted, for a moment, to inquire behests of this monster. No, gentlemen, it what is the cause which has disturbed the har- cannot be; we must be reserved for other and mony of the Union, and produced so much higher destinies than these. painful anxiety in the minds of our people? Is The message sent to the Senate, on this octhere one who hears me, who is at a loss for the casion, at once shows the danger of federal answer? Is not the assumption of disputed pow-encroachment, and gives us reason to hope that ers by the Federal Government confessedly the it may be arrested in its march. We are source from which so many waters of bitterness justly told in that valuable paper, that most of flow? Sirs, the unruffled bosom of the ocean, the dangers which impend over our own Union, on a summer's eve, would not be more calm have sprung from the abandonment of the legithan our country would now be, if the Ame-imate objects of Government by our national rican Congress had only acted upon this one legislation. We are told, too, and I rejoice to broad principle on which the Constitution is hear it from that high source, that experience laid: That, to the Federal Government belong should teach us wisdom--that it is time to those powers which concern us as a whole; pause in our career, and review our principles. to the States, those which regard us as Gentlemen, our Government, so fruitful in parts. In relation to the first class, there is a useful lessons of instruction to mankind, in this common interest, and with it a common feel- paper exhibits a trait of character, as valuable ing. There is no danger, then, that collision as it is elsewhere unknown. It is this-In every of interest, or excitement of feeling will arise, other country on earth, the Executive is the from the exercise of these powers. But, when department from which danger of usurpation is the Federal Government attempts to exercise apprehended--and the Legislature is relied those of the second class-when it attempts to upon as the barrier against it. Here, on the legislate upon subjects of a local character, contrary, it is the Legislature of whom the where, by the great diversity of climate, pur-people complain, and the Executive is seen suit, and other causes, a benefit imparted to offering itself as a bulwark against the tide of one portion of the country, is felt to be at the legislative encroachment. expense of another-that collision and that ex- Gentlemen, I congratulate you upon this incitement will come, and unhappily have come, teresting event. I congratulate you upon the to a degree which threatens alarmingly to dis-late vetu. It has been beautifully said that turb our peace and harmony. Need I offer there is a point of depression, as well as of you, gentlemen, any further comment upon elevation, beyond which human affairs seldom this fruitful theme, than merely to refer you to pass, and from which they naturally return in a those great battle grounds of controversy, in- contrary progress. My own experience conternal improvements and the tariff? But for firms the truth of this aphorism. For, in all the questions such as these, should we not now en- conditions in which we have been placed, at joy a profound political calm? Am I not then every stage of our progress, no matter how the justified in saying that our creed leads to peace political horizon may have seemed, for the moand concord, whilst the contrary one is calcu- ment, to have been overcast, something has lated to keep us forever in troubled waters? occurred, which, like the Sun emerging from This question shall be answered, not by me, behind the passing cloud which obscured it, but by one whose response will have much has cast a cheering ray of light over the gloom, more weight than any thing which I can say. and brightened the prospect before us. The Chief Executive Magistrate of the Union, Such, in my estimation, is the late veto.as you will have learnt from the public prints, After that, we may indulge the hope, that the has just rejected the bill renewing the charter doctrines which you and I profess, have of the Bank of the United States. He has had reached their lowest point of depression--that the firmness, in the face of menace and intimi. in the natural order of things, the time is about dation, to do his duty, and to prove that he to come again, when they shall rise from their valued his country more than himself; for his true level, and become the standard of the true adversaries had solemnly and exultingly fore-faith-when, by a political cycle, the Legislawarned him, that such a step would cost him ture shall be brought back to the point from his election. And shall this ill-omened pro- which its declination commenced; and, taking phecy be fulfilled? Have we come to this, in its position in the political firmament, by the little more than half a century from our politi-side of the Federal Executive, shall, with that cal birth, that avarice, and the avarice of a few, body, constitute a constellation, to which, as to too, has become so strong, that the energies of the cynosure, we shall look, to guide our a whole people cannot grapple with it? I had course: when each and every department in our read, that it was insatiate-that it was a flame complex constitutional system, shall move in which burns unceasingly; and that, whether it its respective orbit, and thus each perform its was fed by plenty or starved by want, it was allotted part towards the fulfilment of the great alike unquenchable. But I had not read nor purpose of the creation of all--national strength heard, and I trust I shall never learn, the fatal cemented by national harmony. truth, that it is more potent than the Constitu- When, gentlemen, that time shall have come, tion of my country; and that he who has been then, indeed, will the golden age of this re placed, as a sworn sentinel upon the watch-public have returned among us; and so long as it shall continue, we shall enjoy all that hap-liberate conviction, that there is no principle of piness in fact which our ancestors anticipated reaction in the system itself which will warrant in speculation, when they formed the Constitu- the belief that Congress will ever voluntarily tion under which we live." grant to the planting States a restitution of Judge Barbour sat down amidst enthusiastic those sacred rights, without which property bursts of applause, and concluded by giving the has no value and liberty itself is the mere ollowing toast: mockery of an empty name. On the contrary, The people of Amherst.-I thank them for experience has conclusively demonstrated that ftheir hospitality-I admire them for their sound the system is essentially progressive, each political principles. successive advance creating additional motives and supplying additional means for future ac TOASTS. 1st. The memory of Washington, the father quisitions. There is no principle of human of his country. Drank standing. action more steady in its operation and more 2d. The memory of Thomas Jefferson, the boundless in its desires, than the thirst for author of the Declaration of Independence, of pecuniary gain, not even excepting ambition. the act for establishing Religious Freedom, and And it would be just as rational to expect that founder of the University of Virginia. Drank a military conqueror would voluntarily arrest standing. 3d. The signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence. Six cheers. his own career of conquest, and retreat before his quailing adversaries, as to hope that the irresponsible majority who control the legisla lation of Congress on this subject, will voluntarily arrest their career of legislative exaction, urged on as they are by the instinct of selfinterest, under the guise of patriotism, and subject to no human restraint but their own will. 4th. The memory of Patrick Henry: "The forest born Demosthenes, Whose thunder shook the Philip of the seas." 5th. The memory of James Monroe 6th. The State interpretation, the rightful remedy against federal usurpation. 7th. The Governor of Virginia. In the history of the protecting system, 8th. American Liberty-The rainbow of there are three distinct eras, each of them unhope to the oppressed of every clime. equivocally marked by the extended combina9th. Our distinguished guest, Philip Pen- tion and increased strength of the manufacdleton Barbour-the able expounder of the turing interests, and not less unequivocally by Federal Constitution-His inflexible devotion the increased protection of those interests. In to Virginia principles, his many and important, 1816, at the close of the war which gave an services to the State and nation, pre-eminently unnatural stimulus to domestic manufactures, entitle him to the gratitude and confidence of the liberality, the gratitude, and the patriotism the American people. 10th. The Union-the beacon to light the triumph of civil liberty throughout the world. 11th. The President of the United States. 12th. The memory of Lowndes-The South has to deplore his untimely end. 13th. The Fair of Virginia. Six cheers. TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. of Congress all conspired to recommend, that in reducing and adjusting the revenue duties of the war to the requirements of a peace establishment, the mannfacturing interest, which had generously sustained the government while other interests had deserted it, should be saved from the shock of a too sudden transition, by making the reduction gradual and progressive. Accordingly the duties upon cotton and woollen manufactures were placed The undersigned, a portion of your Repre- at the ad valorem rate of twenty-five per censentatives in the Congress of the United States, tum, with the provision that no cotton fabric feel it to be their painful, but indispensable should be estimated of less value than twentyduty, in the present extraordinary crisis of your five cents per square yard, that being about the affairs, to submit, for your grave and solemn existing price of the coarse cotton manufactures consideration, the following brief views of your then usually imported. The duty on hampresent condition and future prospects, as they mered bar iron was fixed at the rate of fortyare affected by the unconstitutional legislation five cents per hundred weight, which did not of Congress. Whatever hopes may have been exceed twenty-five per centum on the existing indulged at the commencement of the session, value of that article, and the duty on all manuthat a returning sense of justice on the part of factures of iron was placed at twenty five per the majority would remove or materially miti- centum ad valorem. In fact, it may be stated gate the grievous load of oppression under generally, that the average of the duties imwhich you have so long labored, and of which posed upon the protected class of articles by you have so justly complained, the undersigned the tariff of 1816, was not more than twentyare now reluctantly constrained to declare that five per centum on their value, having referthese flattering hopes, too long deferred, and ence to the then existing prices, of such as too fondly cherished, have finally and for ever were subjected to the minimum or specific vanished. A dispassionate review of the his- duties, while the mere revenue duties upon tory and progress of the protecting duties, and coffee, tea, and wines, averaged at least fifty of those kindred measures which, in their com- per centum. The principle was here directly bination, constitute the "American System," assumed, that the unprotected articles were has brought their minds to the deep and de- the more appropriate subjects of taxation, and |