Inder. A. ACT of parliament prescribing an oath of allegiance and supremacy,. ACT of the legislature of S. Carolina: concerning the oath of allegiance of 1777, 66 ABJURATION and Allegiance: acts relating thereto,..... .126 ..135 to carry into effect the nullifying ordinance,. . . .. . . .371 ALLEGIANCE, oath of: see Abjuration and Allegiance. .346 18 Documents, Memoranda, and Acts of the Legislature relating to the Boun- Extract from Gov. Drayton's View of South Carolina in 1802, in relation to .404 Remarks of the Editor thereon...... .405 Extract from Timothy's Southern Gazette, October 21, 1732.. .406 64 being the representation of Geo. Burrington, Governor of North ..406 Counter representation of Governor R. Johnson, of South Carolina, Timothy's ...407 List of papers and documents relating to the boundary line of South Carolina, .......409 .409 AN ORDINANCE for ratifying and confirming a Convention between the States .415 AN ACT FOR RATIFYING and confirming a provisional agreement between the ...416 VOL. I.-56. An Act to declare the assent of this State to a Convention between this State BREVARD, JUDGE. His abridgement of the Laws.. His observations on the legislative history of South Carolina.. .422 IV .425 425 .430 .432 .433 .439 .43 Of South Carolina: first, page 21, second.. CHESTERFIELD, resolutions passed there, and report thereon. COMMUNICATION to the Governor (M'Duffie,) by the editor, on this edition.. CONSTITUTION of John Locke... Of the United States, with the ammendments... .159, 167 ..169 168 .169 .VII .31 226 .I 152 .XII, 42 .171, 181 Resolutions of the 2 houses of So. Ca. 18th Dec. 1829, respecting the same.. 183 CONVENTION of South Carolina: see title Documents relating to the Convention... VI D. DURHAM, a county Palatine... ..16 DOCUMENTS, Legislative, relating to the protecting Tariff, and other questions of federal 226 Federal Judiciary decisions, report thereon, 228: also on internal improvements, .228 Mr. Ramsay of the Senate: report of the Special Committee on the resolutions 230 That the federal Constitution is a creature of the States, in their State capa- ..231 .231 That the right of remonstrance in cases of infraction, belongs to the State le- .233 Distinction between power abused, and power usurped. . ..234 Objections to the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary in controversies between .235 Congress not empowered to protect a parțial and local interest at the expence .235 .236 Congress has no power to construct roads and canals within the limits of a state.237 of general welfare...... A power must be given plainly and directly, not indirectly... ..238 General welfare confined in its exercise to the specifications in our common Congress cannot constitutionally meddle with the colored population of these .239 .....239 South Carolina, in cases of usurped power, must approach Congress, not as an .239 It is the duty of a State legislature to notice and object, in the earliest and .241 Resolutions of the Committee. Protest and instructions of the legislature of South Carolina on the right of .242 Exposition and Protest on the Tariff... .244, 246 The Tariff tax sustains both the American System and the Government......249 250 250 The Tax falls on the consumers; but the consumers of the Northern States 252 .256 ..256 The Tariff monopoly prevents the South from enlarging her production by The home market of the North is no adequate Compensation... .257 A great export trade of cotton goods of home manufacture, illusive.. .257 ..259 The Constitution authorizes the manufacturing States,each for itself, to lay an .259 The tendency of the protecting Tariff is to corrupt the government and destroy .260 The manufacturing States being the majority, are irresponsible and uncontrol- .261 .264 Where resort can be had to no tribunal superior in authority to the parties, .266 The right of the States to interpose in cases of unconstitutional usurpation on .267, 268 The objection to the power of State interposition, that it places the minority The Tariff of protection affords a proper case of State interposition... ..268 ..272 Georgia. Report of the Legislature on the South Carolina Resolutions of 1828.274 ..274 The affirmative grant of powers in the Constitution of 1787 operates an exclu- .275 The term general welfare, requires that the powers used to attain this end, ..275 The Tariff of protection unconstitutional.... ..275 So is the appropriation of money by Congress to improve or benefit a mere ..275 If it may be done at a small, it may at a large expense; so as to make the na- The right of Congress to interfere on the question of domestic slavery, is not Memorial of the State of Georgia on the Tariff.. The protecting Tariff, unconstitutional, and why. ..276 ...276 277 277 .278 .279 .279 .280 .280 .281 The promises of the manufacturing States are ill-founded assumptions.......281 .282 In all Tariff taxation, the consumer pays the tax as if it were part of the price .282 The power claimed of protecting manufactures is not included in that of pro- .282 A revenue Tariff is constitutional, and necessary.. .283 ..284 .287 The power to protect commerce was not meant to operate on the internal con- If protection be granted to one manufacture, every other has a right to de- .288 ...... The exercise of a power not granted, but assumed, is despotism... .. ...289 ..289 This expression. (the general welfare) is not of itself a grant of powers, but The whole prohibitory system is founded in error. Each State ought to be .289 .289 .290 These encroachinents on the national compact put the Union itself at risk.....290 .291 Virginia. Resolutions of, on the powers of the Federal Government.. .292 ..293 Virginia abides by her expose and proceedings in 1798... ... ..293 The proper construction of the Constitution is a limited one-no power in ....294 294 ..295 To provide for the common defence and general welfare, includes no specific power.. The power given to regulate Commerce with foreign nations, involves no To regulate Commerce, means to extend, to protect, to perfect it. The In the formation of this government, all local, interior, domestic concerns that .296 .299 .299 The Federal and State Governments, mutual checks on each other... .300 300 .301 The protecting Tariff, is partial, impolitic and oppressive; and unauthorized .302 South Carolina. Resolutions of, on the Constitution of the United States, and .303 .303 That the States being parties to the national compact, are in duty bound to ....303 .305 .305 It assumes and denounces some plan of disorganization presumed to be in con- .306 It is his duty to lay before the constituted authorities the nature, extent, and .306 Freedom of discussion can neither be prohibited or prevented... 306 The public and Legislative discussions of South Carolina, are not to be, and .307 When the President denounces and threatens "disorganization," he attacks a .307 Even supposing a plan of disunion to be contemplated, the President has no .307 .307 Every State has the right of judging and deciding whether a Law of Congress .308 ..308 .309 DOCUMENTS, relating to the FIRST Session of the Convention with a brief analysis of each. |