-•••• The news from the United States continues to be
very interest- ing. The South Carolinians appear to be determines. to resist the General Government to the utmost. The following extract from the proceedings of the Legislature of that state, proves that they are ready to resort to arms, if necessary, to defend the perilous 'position which they have assumed.
" The Committee of Federal relations reported on the 5th instant two bills ;- one to carry into effect in part the Ordinance of the Convention, and the other to provide for the security and protection of the people of South Carolina. The provisions of the second are in substance as follows- " Section 1. In case the Government of the United States shall attempt by naval and military force to coerce the State of South Cfiolina into submission to the Acts of the 19th of May 1828 and the 14th of July 1832, the Governor a South Carolina is authorized to resist and to order into service the whole military force of the State. "2. In case of any overt act of coercion, or an intention on the part of the Government of the United States to commit such act, manifested by an unu- sual assemblage of naval and military force in or near the State of South Caro- lina, the Governor shall issue his proclamation calling for volunteers.
"3. Directs the militia to be divided into four classes, which are to be called into service successively as occasion may require. "4. Limits the term of service ; which for the militia is six months, and for volunteers twelve.
"5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. Provide for the organization of the militia and volunteers.
" 12. Authorizes the Governor to purchase for the use of the State 10,000 stand of small-arms, and the requisite quantity of ordnance and ammunition."
In the meanwhile, the President has issued a proclamation, in 'which he endeavours to prove, by a lengthened argument, that there is nothing, strictly speaking, unconstitutional in the Tariff- laws, and that the resistance of South Carolina is treasonable and rebellious. He admits "the great political right" of resistance to intolerable oppression ; but contends, that no such case has hitherto been made out by the people of South Carolina. He endeavours to establish the necessity of obedience on the part of the seVeml States to the General Government; and proves clearly enough, that if each State assumes and acts upon the right to obey only such laws as she happens to like, the Federal Union must fall to pieces. He asserts that the people of South Caro- lina have been led by designing men into rebellion, by means of' exaggerated statementsof their wrongs, and a studied concealment of the perils consequent upon their illegal attempts to remedy them. He is very eloquent and declamatory in the concluding paragraph of his address; and adjures the Carolinians, by a va- riety of patriotic considerations, to retrace their steps, and submit to these ruinous enactments. No specific measures are announced for compelling obedience; but President JACKSON dee.latethat he will certainly use vigorously the powers which he holds, and call for others if necessary, to reduce the citizens of his natWe tate to submission. .
The proclamation is said to be the production of Mr. E. LI- VINGSTON, the Secretary of State. It appears to us to be most injudiciously long, and to contain a great deal of mere sounding verbiage. It may perhaps please the Yankees ; but the style in many parts is quite unsuitable for an important state paper. That the resistance of South Carolina is. rebellious and uncon- stitutional, there can be no doubt. This is not denied in Charles- ton; but the Nullifiers* declare, that the evils which are inflicted 'upon them by the Tariff-bills are intolerable;' and assert their ''great -political right to resist by every means in their power • The ilfullifiers deny the right of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States *09$-errata the desisioneof the State Judicatures and the term is now applied to those who-would render null and void the acts of Congress within the limits of their Particular States-
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measures which are ruinous and oppressive in the last degree._ The crisis approaches; and we shall probably soon see whether Carolina will be crushed, or the Union be virtually dissolved. We have hitherto seen no distinct evidence of the intention of the other Southern States to make common cause with Carolina; though, by the following extract from an American paper, it seems that they would be willing to unite with her in taking more Peaceful and legal steps for the same end.
GEORGIA.—An extra from the office of the Georgia Courier states that the following resolution, offered by Mr. Ryan, passed the House of Representatives on the 29th ult.
"Resolved, That if a Southern convention be desirable, it is expedient for the state of Georgia to invite the states of Virginia, Noi th Carolina, South Ca- rolina, Alabama, Tenessee, and Mississippi, to concur with her in electing dele- gates to a Southern convention, which shall take into consideration the Tariff system of the General Government, and devise and recommend the most effec- tual and proper mode of obtaining relief from the evils of that system." Mr. Bates offered the following additional resolution ; which was tarried by
a vote of 102 to 51. .
"Resolved, That we abhor the doctrine of nullification, as neither a peaceful nor constitutional remedy, but, on the contrary, is tending to civil commotion and disunion ; and while we deplore the rash and revolutionary measures re- cently adopted by a convention of the people of South Carolina, we deem it a paramount duty to warn our fellow-citizens against adopting her mischievous
policy." • • '
Many who voted in the negative on this resolution' declared they were deci- dedly opposed to the whole proceedings of the South Carolina Convention, but thought it impolitic to say any thing in relation to them at this time.
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