go 95 . 
     
    

    
     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 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     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 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the opening of the present session. 
     
    
   
   
    
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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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