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The Receipts during the year 1833, i. em. ated at $24,000,000, and the expenditure for be same period for all objects other than the ublic debt, at 17,638 577 35, to which must be ded the amount of the Danish Indemnity $694,000,) which will be payable within the m”. The annual Revenue for some years to one, under the Revenue law of the last ses. ion, is estimated at $21,090,000 and the annual spenditure at $15,000,000, leaving an estima- annual surplus in the Treasury, says the port, of $6,000,000, to which amount the re. action of the Revenue is strongly recommen. either by the diminution of duties on im- rts, or “partly by a‘relinquishment of the blic Lands as a source of Revenue, as suggeg. din the last annual report-

Soulh Carolina.-The following are the out nes ofa Bill introduced into the Ligislature South Carolina by the Committee on Fede- lltelations, entitled “ a bill to provide for the curity and protection of the people of South

Sec. 1. In case the Government or the United tel shall attempt by naval or military force, coerce the Stateof South Carolina into sub- 'ssion to the actsof the 19th May, 1828, and edith of July, 1832, the Governor of South rolina is authorised to resist and to order toservice the whole military force of the la.

2. In case of any over-act of coercion or y intention on the part of the Government theUnited’Btates to commit such an act.

dmilitary force in or near the State of nth Carolina,- the Governor shall issue his lamation calling for volunteers.

.Directs the militia to be divided into 4 see which are to be called into service suc- ively as occasion may require.

. Limits the term ofservice, which for militia for six months and for volunteers twelve.

y 6, 7. 8,9,10, and H. Provide for the or- nization of the militia and volunteers.

1’. Authorizes the Governor to purchase the use of the ,Slate l0,000 stand of arms, the requisite quantity of ammunition. tsppears by the last papers from Charles- , that the above bill with amendments, ed the House of Representatives and was tie the Senate on the 8th.

he valedictory Message of Gov. Hamilton, he Legislature ofSouth Carolina, was de- red on the 10th inst. He speaks of the uresof that State inopposition to the go- ment of the Union,—-some of which have n adopted while others are yet in progress, efollowing terms;-—Borlon Gazelle.

hat our motives should be misrepresented, our objects misconceived, ought not to be bject of surprise or astonishment, when eflect that the State of South Carolina counter to, and will check some of the

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most powerful interests in the Confederacy. It is not from such quarters alone that we must expect disparagement and rebuke. The first efi'ect ofall great measures of resistance is to produce a temporary shock even among those whose fate and whose fortunes are iden- tical. But this Ipfl'ect is transient. It yields to the unfailing conviction of the justice of that cause which makes resistance ne, cessary. No efforts, however systematic, of a disciplined corps of politicians, who look to the General Government as the foun- tain of honour and wealth, can leng prevent the great mass of the people of the Southern States,from recognizing the'validity ofthe prin- ciples involved in our remedy, the obvious policy ofits application, or the sentiments of public honour which have compelled us to its enforcement. When they reflect that our cause is their cause—that the very head and front of our offending is the attempt to stay the torrent of corruption—to bring this Go. vernment back to the fundamental prnciples of Justice and Right; in one word, when it is seen and felt that all we are contending for is constitutional taxation and honest expendi- tures, and the sole end of all our efforts is to give permanency to the Free Institutions of our country, and an enduring prosperity to its best interests, who can doubt that in the end, with sympathy the most generous, and a re- solution the most heroic, they will be found by our side.

(The Ex-Govefnor then urges the Legisla- lature to recommend the calling of a general Convention of the States.)

I would earnestly recommend you to apply specially and specifically in the manner pre- scribed by the Constitution, for a General Convention of the States, as the most certain, prompt, and effectual, if not the only praCii- cable mode of terminating the conflict, and restoring harmony and confidence to the country.

If the other States of the Confederacy be ac- tuated by the same feelings which govern us, if their desire to maintain the Constitution, to preserve the Union, and to transmit to posteri- ty the blessings of Liberty, be as strong as ours, this most august of all assemblies, provi- ded by the Constitution to meet this and similar emergencies, as a great moral substitute for revolution or force, may be convened in a few months, when the present and every other con - stitutional question endangering the peace and harmony of the Union, may be satisfactorily adjusted.

After making this appeal, you will have done your last act of duty to the Union, and may then, with a conscience devoid of reproach, leave the consequence to Him who know best what destiny to allow to nations and to men.

However earnestlyI make this recommend. ation, do not, however, understand me as sug- gesting in the smallest degree, a relaxation a f those measures of security which l ventured, with great deference, to bring to your view at

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Insulated as we are, standing alone in this mighty controversy, be assured the spirit ofour people will not fail you. During my term of office. I have visited ever district in the State. and with an anxious an throbbing bosom, I have surveyed its public sentiment, and I speak advisedly when I say that a large majority of our people would rather have every house on the surface of our territory rased to the ground and every blade of grass burnt, than surrender to the despotism and injustice of that system of Government against which we have unaltera- bly taken our stand.

the following remarks in relation to the Proclamation of the President :

We have shared with the whole com- mun'ty the satisfaction arising from a pe-

dress, at the same time that we cannot but dread its effects upon the misguided beings to whom it is directed. It is feared that it

The very strength of its arguments, its caustic attack upon the leaders, and its tone of commisseration to the dupes of nul- lification, will only tend to foil and exaspe - rate the mad faction who are its subjects. This effect, however, would have followed

of the executive determination to “execute the laws of the union.”

For a time, the people will appear to be unanimous in sustaining this determinatiOn of the executive. But when the matter arrives to the extremity to which it is man- ifestly tonding,——when force is called in to execute the law of the union-fwhen force is supplied by South Carolina to reist its

shed by each other,—--then a violent spirit of resistance to the union may be expected to arise in those States contiguous to the seat of war. If the contest should be set- tled by a coup de main, this result might he escaped

be easily conquered. They cans, and, right or wrong, will figh the indomitable spirit that belongs to. their country. Ports may be lilockutled, de- tached posts taken, towns occupied,- forti-

will not be subjugated till the lullifyiag majority is exterminated. And South Ca.- rolina will not stand alone in this conflict. All the slave States are united by the

fear and distrust of the free States. The first shot fired, will raise a spirit among them, which will lead them to. make common cause with South Carolina.

upon the name of .dmers'cans. Their ambir tion has always been, to agrandize their respective States, at the expense of the union. “ . \ The invasion of South Carolina cannet.

fail to be followed by disturbances in some:

The Editor of the Salem Gazette has ‘

rusa of this appropriate and well timed ad- '

will prove the knellof our departed union. '

with equal violence, the mere enunciation ?

execution—and the blood of brethern is ‘

But the peeple of agreat . State, with arms in their hands, are notto ,- are Ameri- ‘ t with -

fled places sacked: but South Carolina ‘

strong cord of a common interest, and by . jealousy,

They have never entertained an ardent _ love of the union. nor prided themselves .

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