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># * ' ' >' **••• ifc iht ' - % * * ' ~ i ' by riamii-ton c jones salisbury tf c sattrdifl ly uf arch 9 1833 vol 1-no 33 terms the carolina watchman is published every week at tliree dollar per year in advance where the subscribe live counties more than on hundred miles distant from salisbury and in all cases where the auoaant is over one year stan ding the price will be 4 so suw-nption will he taken for less than one vear advertising will be done a the usual rates no subscription wall be withdrawn until arreara ges are paid unless o editor chooses six subscribers paving the whole sum in ad vance can have the wat thman at 2,30 lor one year an if advanced regularly will he continu ed at the awns rates afterwards all letters to the editor must be postpaid or they will not he attended to persons addreening the editor on the business of tbe office will address him as editor of the caroline watchman those that write on oth er nasi aess can direct to h c jones insurmountable he thought that it would be i difficult to ascertain the legal value of cotton — j he took a view ofthe different values attached to cotton and of the professional constructions to which the clause concerning cotton would be subjected in relation to iron also he thought that the difficulties in ascertaining the value would be such as to render the provision con cerning that article inoperative the duties on iron having hitherto been specific no principle of valuation had been laid down he oomrdered that there was no legislative provision by which the valne on iron could be assessed the same remarks were applicable to sugar and he stated a case to show the difficulty which exist in reaching a proper and fixed value as a basis for duty he supposed the answer would be that if difficulties arise the secretary must get throngh them as well as he can ar.d if he can not he must come to congress as a measure of finance he had no idea that the bill would be an efficient measure he had ting in articles free of duty he might have d 1 ded a 5th mote by regulating sales by auction an important object which the manufacturers had solicited congress to accomplish but whidrhad not yet been done he expressed his willingness to have the ef fect of his bill to be decided by the opinions of tiie manufacturers themselves a large number of whom are now assembled in washington and whose almost unanimous voice would be in fa vor of his bill he referred to correspondence to prove that the bill before the house would be ruinous to their interests while the bill before the senate would remove all fear of ruin in re ference to iron he reminded the senator from massachusetts that by a n-w process called cooking iron would soon be manufactured in this countrv at aslowa rate as in england his whole objection to tbe argument of the senator was that he bounded forward to 1842 and un dertook to prophesy what would be the state of ingsat that period he would as soon rely on irecast of t he senator fromalaam^baneaaaaeej clay would bave voted for the revenue col lection bill it was true he would have voted for it but he felt no new burn zeal prompting jam to make speeches on the subject he thought of the dministration as he al ways had thought and he had determined to leave it to the friends of the executive to bear themselves out in defence of the bill he would have voted for it but it would have been with reluctance because of the consequences which may result from the measure he stated that with some exceptions a3 to the high-toned doc trines which were tube found io the document he ipproved ofthe general tone of the procla mation of the president and of his message to 1 the senate on the subject of south carolina the opponents of this bill rely on force ; its friends cry ont force and affection one side cries out — power ptwer power the other side cries out powerf but desires to see it restrain ed and tempeied bv discretion and mercy and not to create a conflagration from one end of the uni»n to the other he believed the gentlemen wbo opposed the bill did not wish for civil war but tiie defeat of the bill would lead to conse quences to be deplored and he would not wish to6ee sacked cities desolated fields and streams of american blood shed by american citizens he had been accused of ambition in introdu cing this measnre he despised the grovelling spirits from which the charge came and dis missed the accusation to the winds if con gress would pass this bill he would willingly retire to bis home to the grove of ashland where he could find a fidelity and an affection which he had not always found in public life people of one of these states as to determine them to resist it at every hazard it is evidence of tho justice of their complaints which should not be disregarde-5 ; and it is the bounden doty ofthe legislator , instead of devising rigorous means to enforce it to modify the obnoxious law such ia now the case with south caroli na ; and in addition to the unanimous testimony of her own people and of a very large portion of the people of the southern states as to the injus tice and oppression of the tariff laws she is sus tained by a great number of our feuow citizens throughont the union the president too in his message at the commencement of the pre sent session earnestly impressed on congress the justice and importance of altering and modi fying the laws in qaestion and your committee have no doubt that if tbe recommendations of the chief magistrate are carried out by ihe pas sage of the bill repirted by the committee of ways and means it will tend more effectually to allay the excited feeling of the south to a vert the crises wuh which we are threatened and to restore harmony to our once happy union than any provisions which can be adopted for the removal of custom-houses clothing tlte courts with additional powers or invasion by fleets and armies but should congress still refuse to yield to the complaints and remonstran ces of the south ; should that feeling of kind ness and conciliation so indispensible to the pre servation of this great eonfedracy c*cse to ex ert its influence and should the laws now in force together with the provisions contained in the bill here.wth repirted be evaded or success fully resisted hy ihe state of south carolina then and not till then in thc opinion of your committee will it he time f.r the representa tives ofthe american people to consider and decide that m.ist delicate and deeply interesting question — the right of tho federal government to reducpone of the sovereign members of this union to obediencp to its laws by military force — a p.wer let it be remembered that was sever al times proposed to be in the formation of the federal constitution but never conferred the committee have made no provision forth removal of custom-houses and exaction of ash duties as suggested by the president such regulations especially the latter they conceive would be in violation of those clause f the constitution which declare that all duties im posts and excises shall be uniform throughout the united states and that no prefisonco shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another to require the duties on goods brought into thepirts of one stato to be paid ia cash and to allow a credit upon those imported in in the others would be entirely at variance with that uniformity thus required by the consti tution and must give a decided advantage to those pirts where thecreditsystem prevails over those where cash payments are enforced it would do more it would be virtually denying to citizens of one state privileges which aro en joyed by those of another the merchant at charleston must pay the custom house duties on receiving his goods while the merchant at sa vannah is allowed a credit of from three to twelve months is this uniformity do these merchants enjoy equal privileges ? this objection is attempted to be obviated by allowing a deduction of the interest when the duties are required to be paid in cash hut where is the merchant who would be willing to such an arrangement where is the man engaged in trade who is content with a profit of six percent on his capital if there lie indeed no difference between the present system of credits fcnd cash payments with a deduction of six per cent why does not congress at once abolish t her former and avoid not only the expensw and trouble and litigation occasioned by the non-payment of cus tom house bonds bat secure the government against thc immense hisses annually almost daily occurring hy the failures of importing merchants and sureties tho committee douht whether the importing merchants would consent to pay cash duties if they were offered a deduc tion of double the legal interest indeed thero can be very little doubt ihat.rnany of the mer chants even of charleston would land their goods at savannah and incur the ex|«cnse in convenience and additional hazard of reshipping them rather than be subjected to the payment of the duties in cash assuredly the merchants tf the interior would not hesitate as to which of these ports they would under these circumstan ces ordei their goods is it not perfectly obvious then that by this regulation of revenue con gress would present str.ng inducements for the landing of goods at savannah in preference to ' charleston and thus give a decided advantage i to the one port over the other 0 and can any | one believe that if such a regulation were es | tablished and long maintained it would not as i effectually ruin the trade of charleston as though '. that port were blockaded and the entrance of j merchant vessels entirely prohibited but it may be said that these regulations are genpral that no particular state is named that if they applv to £. carolina it is in consequence of her own act and that they will be equally ap plicable to any other state which shall assume the same attitude the plain answer to thus ar gument is that the constitution has not give to congress the power to make such didinctiona under such circumstances or under any circumr stances the provisions of tho constitution aro broad general and unqualified admiiting however for a moment the power in question to exist the committee are of opin ion that the exercise of it in the manner propo sed w.hild operate with peculiar injustice there are it is well understood a numboi of merchants uf charleston who notwithstanding the ordinance of south carolina will continue to import their goods into that port give their binds and pay them as heretofore . now would it not lie contrary to the very spirit and genius of our government that on account of tbe actoj ot the stale authorities or even of the great body of the state individuals should be depnved of privileges secured to the citizens of tho other states these considerations are with yoar cemrart tee conclusive against the proposition fur the exaction of cash duties and as the temoval of the custom booses seems tohave been chiefly in tended to render that measure the more effectual , the committee consider it entirely unnecessary to provide for such removals the committee have no deemed it necessary to enter into many of tiie important questions presented by the documents which have been referred to them they have confined'.them selves more parthmlarly to the sanations ol the president as to tho alterations and modifica tions necrswaty for more effectually securing 0 collection of the reverie and they have con sidered it due to themselves and to ine house •»« well as to the high source from which thew ause gcarion proceed to state +*«-*"*£& which they^tave bee govorued m rep -.»..»* «-« bill which is herewith submitted the watchman salisbury saturday march 9 1833 lzontxvcm of ttie m states in senate n b all the subscriptions taken before the commencement of this paper it will be remem bered become due on the publication of the first numbor i^^^^^^^ka^^^monday fehrnarytol^h of vic tariff bill to m dify the act of the 14th day nf july lb.ij,and all other acts imposing duties on imparts was read a third time and the question being on its passage the yeas and nays were ordered on this ques tion on the call of mr king mr webster then rose and gave his senti ments in opposition to the bill he paid in the commencement a tribute to the purity zeal and ability of the senator from kentucky fir whom he had so lon<r entertained a high respect and to elevate whom to a situation wiiere his lalents might be still more beneficial to his country he had zealously laliored he.aiso complimented the talents and services of the senator from south carolina with whom he had so often acted and for whom he had always felt a sincere regard i he briefly reviewed ha own coarse when the former bills on the subjeetof thc tariff were under i consideration and thc conviction which was fur iced on the east and other portions of the country i that ihe protective system was to be settled policy i of the government new england had resisted lin the first instance the establishment of a high protective policy but when hat w^s determined on the eastern states turned all their natural trroa t a a t l b i 2 ittytt&ymt advantages and their cawtal of wealth and in oeezalth loxla ul wuir da*try,,nto the new channel thus marked out afi^l 7 v i sul "' ril ; r rf ; y i , '" t ;\ f ! 11 v feg f r lle "' l ** "> w »' l«26 was to carry out the fa ' t0 rm promises made by the bill f 18 1 he disliked i'a r0mkrs and lne 1>,li,!l " ?''» eral y 1823 yet he had voted tor it on ac lw a ' ■■' '■■nl - ii:os ;; ' ,: i > tha j f 0lult ut " t feature in it which gave the wool large andspaqtotjs btjtxilj lens tiie protection which the government had ins northeast corner op pledged itselftogiveby the law of 13 m that iy^tn^^l^i^^p^^r l - 1,d ifl hicyoftliecountr^unlei t h thf inir hs \ it n , m wa f twbeke p l *« a slate of perpetual fluctuation vr till i ili^hih where he will at all and uncertainty uncs be happy to receive company after pausing thc law of last i«»i,.n n u his table and bab are as goad as the containin «■some si ,!«' , 5 xurl i v,r,tv hi rooms * n a kplinivp lld ' mi o ne teatnrea of concession and cun markei affords hwboomh and bedding promise when theeonntry was not prepared for inferior to none h stables large and any change the present bill prctesswto be a ohivenient well eanphed w.th provender and b.l of peace of arrangemeni ind of comoromise every attention paid to horses newspapers ; s brought forward by the distinguished senator from different parts of the luted states are ta iron kentucky who professes to have renoun fcen at this estanuanwerrt f.,r the use ofthe eed none of his former opinions as to the con pubhe and no exertions w j be spared by the sututiunality and expediency of protection the wslt rl v ° comfi wl is als,supp r , e d by such opposte f.eli it inc 4 the stages will find at fciaffousrf «< l unikssn ' jrl acc °' h nt ft ff n0t «*« **• sf^i *- aaanaaaentocbanrea j vv.jr mal redncuons made by the bill up to 1841 but *— - — _| e objected to the clauses which did in effect lxxffoozl3£n t q3ti > ! i,r " i:n * l,,e u l nl l action of any subsequent rmaivii/nmrvj a i p 00 p thisbill antil 1842 he also ob #■£• bbaffnvfj it iijjj bt 1 . j jected to the proviso in tbe fifth section which t 1n . " , **•* restriction on the power of congress he ul trustees respectfully announce to the put it to the senator from tennessee i'mr grun publie,that they hsrve^succeeded in renew j dy who had introduced the clause to say if he ing t!i r engagement with miss amelia lhonip i dii not intend that it should show that congress 8 n to take charge of tins institution the was to be considered as bound by the bill so&raa fcdiool will goinu operation again on the lath tins congress could bind the future legislation of october j country ° th branches taught in this academy are the ' the protected articles may by this bill be rudiments of english arithmetic geography reduced below i!0 per cent ad valorem hat can history chronology philosophy moral and ! not he raised above 2t per cent fanma^n u i : l ' rs ni n p n " v w the bill because it imposed a re fainuas music and the french language etrtcuon on the future legislation of cangreaa • mellee id also opposed it because it seemed to yield the laaav j ,"' : kv n ™ cunsi ' lu i'owerof protection various argu laaav ?' b £ iks altnt ' !!""!' mek udvancc « by him to show that the j kaws.)l r soutiiern pduicians would if this bill were pas aaaw !,' '. k ' ) v d toll every one of their constituents that aaaw i ' , s , 1 s^?s » t i ffulluid some concession to the opinions approved uie :■■'-. suw eof the south laa^kh^^^ld^b not heard the assertion that the bill would at all reduce the revenue he denied that the re duction of duties on boots and shoes ana efothing would reduce thousands of mechanics to ruin and by this operation would increase the revenue in this point the bill aims a deadly blow on the poor the young the enterprizing on the labour and the ingenuity of the country by the intro duction of foreign alcohol at a reduced rate of duty the revenue would be increased but he thought gentlemen should pause before they sanctioned this change 1 he entirn breaking up of the printing establishments for printing cali coes wi uld be one ofthe consequences of the pas sage of the bill and in proof he read some ex tracts from a memorial of the lowell mauufac , tures these institutions migh survive the three first reductions but tiie fourth would be fatal to them on the spinning and weaving the effect if not so disastrous would scarcely be less objectionable the large capitalists in that branch would be able to make money by breaking down all young and enterprising es tablishments in relereuce to woollens with a duty of 20 per cent on woollens and 20 per cent on wool it is impossible that the first conse ,' quence and the depreciation ot credit the next 1 and by tl.c surrender of their interests long be j fore this beneficieni home valuation can come to their relief their eyes will be sealed in death as to iron english iron or wales costs 26 dol lars a ton and the supply is inexhaustible iron in russia and sweeden costs 40 dollars a ton english iron has been taxed 3d dollars and bal tic iron 18 dollars a ton the change from spe cific to ad valorem duty will work an injurious change he believed that this surrender once made we could never return to the present state of things without such a struggle as would shake tne country much more than any thing has yet shaken it he might be wrong there might be no pledge no constitutional objection ; but if so why tiiis bill ? the people will nut expect the passage of this hill teens was no expectation at toe c minenceinent of this short sessiou that such a b ii would be passed the enate had nut hau tune to know the plea sure of then masters no opportunity had been oltered for obtaining a now ledge uf either the course of public opinion or the effect of this measure on the puoiic interests it was said the next congress would pass this bill it it was not passed now he did not lear the next con gress but if that bouy should cnoose to undo what was now done it would have the power to do so if it was true as the senator from kentucky believed that the intention of south corolma was merely to enter into a law suit with the u ted slates then there was no necessity for sa entice of great interests he believed tiiat if this bill s.iould become a law there will be an action on the part of the people at the next ses sion to overthrow it it will not be all requiem and lullably when this bill be nasstd on the contrary he believed there would be discord and discontent he had already expreessed his views as to reductiion in his resolutiens he be lieved there ought to be a reduction to the point of necessary revenue ; and that as soon as that point could be ascertained any congress would be ablo to make a tariff which would suit the countty the estimates ofthe secre tary of the treasury as to the point of revenue vary materially from those of others but if the true point could be ascertained he thought con gress might at once proceeed to an adjustment of uie tariff with a prospect of success ixa he j.a.f c-.-iniii ii.i'i ■•■. i^^^^justicc to pt^ann naaaaaanmaaaamu a 1 ..,,.! on any member of the senate,orof the community ; but he iwld not believe that the senator could see results which would be found to be depen dent on so many contingencies an american statesman will look abroad upon all the interests of tho country and would comprehend in one view all its conditions he was as insensible to fear as any one and therefore the imputation that this measure wa introduced under the in fluence ot a p.nic could not affect him but he c.uld not be insensible to the change which had taken place in the situation of things even since the commencement of the session at that time south carolina stood alone ; but since then virginia had sent a commissioner or a minis ter to south carolina to induce her to delay her operations of hostility if south carolina should acedr 0 her request will not virginia go with her in her ulterior measures in case her grievances should not be repressed ? civil war might be the result he was not willing to ap ply the sword to reduce the south to o bedience not that circumstances might not arise which would render it necessary to resort to force but in reference to a foreign power there was always a reluctance to engage in war until every effort at negociation had faiied : and if there was ibis unwillingness to engage in foreign war how m«.ch more reluctance ought there to be to engage in a war at home in a con test in which he who commands in chief might not be willing to stop until he should have plac ed himself on a throne he did not fear any mis construction ofthe pledge contained in the bill and he hoped that the manufacturers would go on and prosper confident that the abandonment of protection was never intended and looking to more favorable times for a renewal of a more effi cient tariff he saw no difficulty in putting an estimate on the value of cotton congress lays down the principle and it will remain for the secre tary ofthe treasury under the direction of the president to carry the law into effect the rule is presceibed and he could not anticipate any difficulty in acting upon it he went some what at large into statements and arguments to sustain his position in reference 10 cotton in the worst form of construction which could be put on the law by the secretary of the treasury the cotton interest would enjoy a sufficient pro tection until the year 1841 he shewed what would be his own construction which would leave that interest in a still better condition it would be competent however for congress who would again be in session before this law could go into effect to correct any errors which might lie made ln reference to rhe powers of the secretary to cause a proper appraisement to be made be quoted from the act of 1332 but repeated tiiat any difficulty in this matter could be obviated by congress at its next session he referred to the reductions which would be effected by thus lull in tho article of silks and in other items but even if ihe reductions should be down to the revenue point there was a reser vation to augment or diminish the revenue as circumstcnces might require he stated that thc last series of gradations in 1841 would leave the duties on woollens at 38 per cent there were he said two classes ot manufacturers the political and the business manufacturers the political manufacturers were unwilling to give up am thing but there was not a business manufacturer within his knowledge who was not satisfied with the present bill he explained ins bill as going on the broad principle of look ing to the interests of all and embracing the safety and security of all and the conciliation jewelr i work and w*t€ii avd clock repairing john c pai/wer still carries on the above business in its various branches in the house formerly occupied by james ii hampton one door above murphy's store he is confident by his longexpe rience that he has acquired a practical knowl saga of his trade and thinks that his work will be done as well as by any mechanic in the s'ate he has on hand a small assortment of jewelry and silver ware which he will sell cheap he is thankful for past custom and st'l solicits a share a ihe custom of those who have use for his trade lie will wiirant his work to do well f r twelve months if it fails no charge will be made mr smith said this bill did not reduce the revenue one dollar there will be no reduction but the importations would oe restricted after speaking for a few minutes mr smith gave way at half past 4 and mr silsbee moved that tbe senate take a re cess till 6 oclock ayes 17 noes 19 so the motion was negatived mr smith then resumed and went into a review of the various sections of the bill he agreed with the senator from massachusetts that this bill repeals the whole of the gronrd on which our revenue system was bniit mr robink then moved that the senate take a recess till 6 o'clock — ayes 17 noes 17 the chair voting in the affirmative it was ordered that the senate take a recess till six o'clock salisbury feb 1833 98 si united states & south-caro lina february 8 1s33 mr bell from the committee on the judi ciary made the following report the committee on the judiciary to whom was referred the message of the president with the accompanying documents relative to the controversy between the federal government and the state of south carolina have bestowed wn the subject that anxious consideration which its importance so imperiously demands and now report a bill as the result of their best reflec tions in preparing this bill no provision has been made for clothing the executive with any pow er in addition to that which it already has for the purpose of executing the laws in no view which the committee have been able to take of the subject can they reconcile it to themselvos i to provide for the emploj ment of military force i they are aware that in suggesting the propri | ety of providing these extraordinary means the j president did not contemplate a resort to them only when the laws are obstructed by unlaw ful combinations rendering the collection of du ties impracticable or when their execution is opposed by the actual employment of military force by the authority of a state yet it is res pectfully considered that the existence of this combination and its unlawfulness as well as the inadequacy of the means provided hy the existing laws to oveicome it should be first as certained and established by the action of our court as to the employment of military f irce by south carolina the most positive assurances are given that nothing of this kind is intended un less in repelling an attack from the federal government by delaying then any mea sures which could indicate such an intention we avoid all provocation and furnish no pretext to south caeohna to prepare for such an exie gency are folly sens.i.le that the aji october tf 1 2 ii co-partnership heretofore existing be hftt'tfti the subscribers in the townofmor barks county in the mercantile busi by mutual consent — all claims li said firm are transferred to llobert c cawon with whom it is desirable that the be liquiiiated and settled either by note as practicable john caldwell i i i i i i i . tne^„r en.iay to z->u vf n thr ,, , i rv^^^^^^s 11 lllt -' 1^^^!!k™^ntn^!^t^^^^>v n ihe beuai-.i carolina nuiy^ffiw come when the onahtto rnlt tl , be aske at equal justice might be dune to bhn massachusetts was not willing that interests i y einbarrass tue operations of this government masters ut the frame and tn'cvkno w it h m the opposition which he was compelled to should unite for the pnrpaas of^hnnging about yettnev mamtain thatlf in a controversy be coinuicnded their policy but he unhh tl , j make to a measure which had been ushered in har nony and good feeling fhe south had ; tween [ ue q enera i government and one the eee that he understood it in ai n fi i with so much profession of peace and harmony given up h.r constitutional objections and bad 1 state8 a re80 rffto the military ana naval power duties and substiiutin.r ad ivwn tl ? 5fk i he would do as much to satisfy south carolina also yieldeo the home valuation and it could not of the un j on ever j ust fi e d that resort abandoned the policy of all uw « 1 „, ? ( asauy num he would take tin iariliand cut be said therefore that there had been no sacn | sll0u id only be made in the last extremily and and the policy of our own govern m c t * . d i ll dtnvn tj lnu : uut ne aia not wish to rush fice of her interests i here had been therefore | after every othor moa „ of adjustment has failed policy always advocated bv the vnator fr r iluu lu " ned systems he believed that his con iw abandonment of principle but all parts of this j w|lile we can nevt!r f or2et that the constitution kentucky he viewed the hill l nlrlir f stitueiiis would excuse him tor surrendering their great lamily had come together prepared to make , m f oun ded on the free and voluntary consent all the interests of the smaller capitalists ind a ' inwesti ' but lhe would dut forgive bun for a mutual concessions for the purpose of restoring of lhe peop i e of lhe several states and that it concession in favor of overgrown mon molies he viulatl ' in ot lhe constitution harmony . was the result of compromise we are equally pointed out the effects of this surrender on our mr clay repliei to the senator from massa lit beinj near 4 o'clock a motion was made j conscious that it can only be preserved by a spirit own condition and the handle which it would shusetts he paid a high tribute to the patriot by mr wilkius and vr ewng in succession ; 0 f conciliation and forbearance v hat wouiu oe give tosatinsts and foreign writers and the no m an . pnnty of that gentleninn and said that to take a recess for two home but on some oppo j the consequences of employing torce tor ">* p"r itskureateufall the monarchies sronetm he felt a deep and lasting regret that he had now sition made by mr calhoun and others mr pose of terminating the present unhappy eon ro turu our institutions and our pretensions into n «« differ with him he was happy however to chy sa.d he was willing to hobble on and the , versy it is impossible to foresee sj*-ts dicule if this principle were carried into our find himself connected with his friend from motion was withdrawn in the que sti io n from w bich it h ™ ™#£™ £ navigation he stated that it would be imm dia'e maine with whom he had acted in the final ad mr clay then resumed and stated that the not limited to a single state but extena to an ly countervailed by great britain by limiting justment ofthe missouri question he sugges manufacturers of iron would more readily be sa entire section of the eottntrj , , ana among ,« our countervailing power and leaving the com ted that if the senator from massachusetts could tisfied by this bill than any other propnition unhappy tervailingj lower of europe free we put in her not make some appeal to a future congress lor which had been offered there were some who , is reason to fear that from a 4tlvtii hands weapons to destroy us and cast our weap forbearance he must be opposed to all compromise had said let the tariff go down if the next i the general government and a single o»™»j sea af defence at her feet under a colonial sys he repudiated any share m bringing the existing congress chooses there will be a reaction after i would extend to a conflict ™™™ u ,\ n \ j tern our manufactures would not be more evils on thecuuntry and declared that when he wards but he thought that these gentlemen ; great sections of the country ana mi ni wrnn completcly shackled than they will be by this saw the torch applied to a favorite system he took counsel of passions above which it wss the aate in the j**v tza^zlm wi ' ■would rush to save it and to restore security duty of statesmen to elevate themselves he \ but independent of fed ca he referred to the four powers bv which the and peace the honorable member had seen no was for encountering no certain danger tor the | ded and even aarnut.n f th sena a from kemuckv had aid that our pro thing whhin the last six m-nihs calculated to purpose of roviding some uncertain good he j lamity referred to might no r » u j »™ ' .:" tectue system could be preserved 1st pruhi shew that the tariff was not in danger had wished to upromise all interests and it was , ployment ot torce m 1 »' b . » j bltton idly the free list sdly mcidential pro that gentleman not witnessed the results of ihe with thispjrae policy that he had proposed ano i would produce through^™£g tect.on-all of which would be found inadequate reeeut elections ? had he not heard tne mes ther great wre which had twice received , try a state of^fee lmg j and the 4th discrimination or specific duties sage which had been received from ihe presi the sanction of a majority of the senate he 1 and a deep and settled j»«™«j j^™™~s was the onlv me which would avail discrirmna dent did he not know that a majority ofthe would not acquiesce in the views of those who ! section of ihe union , wuira every patriot wouia ting and specific duties were the last resource ! friends ofthe adin nistration were opposed to the relied on reaction similar was thc expectation ; deplore and which every star jsnun snouw ear an i if that were to he given up there could be | tariff he wished to put the system on a per at the last session but there had been no bene . iiestly endeavor to prevent . lutiueuceo oy mens no longer anv hope for the protective system in manent foundation for nine or ten years that the ficial result he was for conciliating all ; consideratmns mid aoflous to avuia it poasidie war or in peace he insisted that not beiror ! manufacturer may go to his pillow at night win interests let whomesuever might fril and i even the tarard ot civti ' w "£ j 1 ?' owners of the property but merely agents or a«f i out a tear that tiie system would be overthrown a i whomsoever might succeed he re j committee in die bill whicn they nerewun 0 uo mjnistrators,wehadnoright to fetter a future betore morning if he should have been aole to aretted that the bill in select committee ■nut prop to enlarge^the powers^aml g 1 congress ile r girded tins bill as the last wifi convert a set ef politicians who had heretofore bad been injured by striking out the clause | ditioo^i strength to the pr cess ot the iwa a*i icsta.nentof this congress which would be been steadily ppo>ed to the protective system making cotton free and stated that this was not i states courts in the npp 1 . tbe en g ™» set aside by the people but not en the ground of into high tariff men he should rejoice mat be done by his vote or by that of bis friend from ' the trovemment acting througti us juui he vant uf sanity in those principally engaged in had been sj successful in making proselytes — delaware still it as a measure calculated i senate may prove abundantly compe making it for he never saw gentlemeu more fully he maintained that the a<n of h24 resorted io ' to promote the great object for which it was in . emergency of isws -. and h possession of that sagacky nof on account ot the pdicv of making a tariff without regard to t reduced he was not disposed to throw him | oursis t^ssent.ahy a gavernm any undue influence although he could n-t help j revenue he mt c wished to be clearly self forward to 1912 but he did not think that , their enforcement most m n y asthese hmking that panic had something io do with it understood as to the points which be had relied on there was any cause tor asffeaenssa ea to j 5 e^zis!l!f ml ?* arir^eharaeter jl aand and that f ibe south carolina ordinance and re lor the protection of the industry of the couotry the provisions which look to that period laws are mil dartd jus in n iijfl we nerd pjevhi law had not appeared this bill would never he had named 1st prohibition idly the impo the opponents ofthe bill would send out a i equal and impartial in jj^-ksfian than the uaveappur^d i the senate . sition of high duties without regard to the a flaming sword : the friends of the bill would , no other g-iaran tee lor tneir a when in rcf.rcnce to the practical effect ofthe bill i mujaat of revenue idly a limitation of the rev send out a flaming sword accompanied by the ; virtue and]inu-mgence . i g vernment m ae stated that he saw obstacles to the carrying ; enue affording protection as far as he could and i olive branch the gentleman from massachu | therefore a law is , maoe oy mittm rftha this j iatc effect which appeared to him to be uhly,by encouraging the manufacturers by 1st sells lta-jtlwught proper to that h mr oppressive and dtstrucuve io hubert c pearson thankful for past fa rms his friends and the public that he ntmae to carry on iiie business in mor that he lasjvn received and is reeeiv assortment in every branch of his wo business and by his unremitted attention lj : iness and cheapness uf his goods be ' ore the continuance of a libcr itna i of the patronage of a generous ; ublic rrvri of nokth-carollna hay wood county superior court law october term a d 19j-2 { william green 1 . *»• pctliionfor divorce bkeaiah green j b r i l u having been made appear t the the emit that the defendant ke sides without the limits of this state proc.^of the law can not on , 1 ! tr — ll l > therefore ordered by the he a^de in the .. ca ,- olina m and in the north-carolumsrwcta m tern advertiser for the term of three the defendant be and appeal ■►' ' r °* l*w to he held tor the »: haywood at the cmrrt-1 loose mile on rhe second tuesday after the in march next then and there to ft r or demur to the petiiion of the pe nv -'' judgemejjtjiro confesso will her aad oicrie made accot » is further ordered that the editors of l*pi;rs,bc requested to forward their to tins office during the said three — baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal john b love cl-k
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1833-03-09 |
Month | 03 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 1833 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 33 |
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Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Description | The Saturday, March 9, 1833 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
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Date | 1833-03-09 |
Month | 03 |
Day | 09 |
Year | 1833 |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 33 |
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Creator | Hamilton C. Jones |
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Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Saturday, March 9, 1833 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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># * ' ' >' **••• ifc iht ' - % * * ' ~ i ' by riamii-ton c jones salisbury tf c sattrdifl ly uf arch 9 1833 vol 1-no 33 terms the carolina watchman is published every week at tliree dollar per year in advance where the subscribe live counties more than on hundred miles distant from salisbury and in all cases where the auoaant is over one year stan ding the price will be 4 so suw-nption will he taken for less than one vear advertising will be done a the usual rates no subscription wall be withdrawn until arreara ges are paid unless o editor chooses six subscribers paving the whole sum in ad vance can have the wat thman at 2,30 lor one year an if advanced regularly will he continu ed at the awns rates afterwards all letters to the editor must be postpaid or they will not he attended to persons addreening the editor on the business of tbe office will address him as editor of the caroline watchman those that write on oth er nasi aess can direct to h c jones insurmountable he thought that it would be i difficult to ascertain the legal value of cotton — j he took a view ofthe different values attached to cotton and of the professional constructions to which the clause concerning cotton would be subjected in relation to iron also he thought that the difficulties in ascertaining the value would be such as to render the provision con cerning that article inoperative the duties on iron having hitherto been specific no principle of valuation had been laid down he oomrdered that there was no legislative provision by which the valne on iron could be assessed the same remarks were applicable to sugar and he stated a case to show the difficulty which exist in reaching a proper and fixed value as a basis for duty he supposed the answer would be that if difficulties arise the secretary must get throngh them as well as he can ar.d if he can not he must come to congress as a measure of finance he had no idea that the bill would be an efficient measure he had ting in articles free of duty he might have d 1 ded a 5th mote by regulating sales by auction an important object which the manufacturers had solicited congress to accomplish but whidrhad not yet been done he expressed his willingness to have the ef fect of his bill to be decided by the opinions of tiie manufacturers themselves a large number of whom are now assembled in washington and whose almost unanimous voice would be in fa vor of his bill he referred to correspondence to prove that the bill before the house would be ruinous to their interests while the bill before the senate would remove all fear of ruin in re ference to iron he reminded the senator from massachusetts that by a n-w process called cooking iron would soon be manufactured in this countrv at aslowa rate as in england his whole objection to tbe argument of the senator was that he bounded forward to 1842 and un dertook to prophesy what would be the state of ingsat that period he would as soon rely on irecast of t he senator fromalaam^baneaaaaeej clay would bave voted for the revenue col lection bill it was true he would have voted for it but he felt no new burn zeal prompting jam to make speeches on the subject he thought of the dministration as he al ways had thought and he had determined to leave it to the friends of the executive to bear themselves out in defence of the bill he would have voted for it but it would have been with reluctance because of the consequences which may result from the measure he stated that with some exceptions a3 to the high-toned doc trines which were tube found io the document he ipproved ofthe general tone of the procla mation of the president and of his message to 1 the senate on the subject of south carolina the opponents of this bill rely on force ; its friends cry ont force and affection one side cries out — power ptwer power the other side cries out powerf but desires to see it restrain ed and tempeied bv discretion and mercy and not to create a conflagration from one end of the uni»n to the other he believed the gentlemen wbo opposed the bill did not wish for civil war but tiie defeat of the bill would lead to conse quences to be deplored and he would not wish to6ee sacked cities desolated fields and streams of american blood shed by american citizens he had been accused of ambition in introdu cing this measnre he despised the grovelling spirits from which the charge came and dis missed the accusation to the winds if con gress would pass this bill he would willingly retire to bis home to the grove of ashland where he could find a fidelity and an affection which he had not always found in public life people of one of these states as to determine them to resist it at every hazard it is evidence of tho justice of their complaints which should not be disregarde-5 ; and it is the bounden doty ofthe legislator , instead of devising rigorous means to enforce it to modify the obnoxious law such ia now the case with south caroli na ; and in addition to the unanimous testimony of her own people and of a very large portion of the people of the southern states as to the injus tice and oppression of the tariff laws she is sus tained by a great number of our feuow citizens throughont the union the president too in his message at the commencement of the pre sent session earnestly impressed on congress the justice and importance of altering and modi fying the laws in qaestion and your committee have no doubt that if tbe recommendations of the chief magistrate are carried out by ihe pas sage of the bill repirted by the committee of ways and means it will tend more effectually to allay the excited feeling of the south to a vert the crises wuh which we are threatened and to restore harmony to our once happy union than any provisions which can be adopted for the removal of custom-houses clothing tlte courts with additional powers or invasion by fleets and armies but should congress still refuse to yield to the complaints and remonstran ces of the south ; should that feeling of kind ness and conciliation so indispensible to the pre servation of this great eonfedracy c*cse to ex ert its influence and should the laws now in force together with the provisions contained in the bill here.wth repirted be evaded or success fully resisted hy ihe state of south carolina then and not till then in thc opinion of your committee will it he time f.r the representa tives ofthe american people to consider and decide that m.ist delicate and deeply interesting question — the right of tho federal government to reducpone of the sovereign members of this union to obediencp to its laws by military force — a p.wer let it be remembered that was sever al times proposed to be in the formation of the federal constitution but never conferred the committee have made no provision forth removal of custom-houses and exaction of ash duties as suggested by the president such regulations especially the latter they conceive would be in violation of those clause f the constitution which declare that all duties im posts and excises shall be uniform throughout the united states and that no prefisonco shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another to require the duties on goods brought into thepirts of one stato to be paid ia cash and to allow a credit upon those imported in in the others would be entirely at variance with that uniformity thus required by the consti tution and must give a decided advantage to those pirts where thecreditsystem prevails over those where cash payments are enforced it would do more it would be virtually denying to citizens of one state privileges which aro en joyed by those of another the merchant at charleston must pay the custom house duties on receiving his goods while the merchant at sa vannah is allowed a credit of from three to twelve months is this uniformity do these merchants enjoy equal privileges ? this objection is attempted to be obviated by allowing a deduction of the interest when the duties are required to be paid in cash hut where is the merchant who would be willing to such an arrangement where is the man engaged in trade who is content with a profit of six percent on his capital if there lie indeed no difference between the present system of credits fcnd cash payments with a deduction of six per cent why does not congress at once abolish t her former and avoid not only the expensw and trouble and litigation occasioned by the non-payment of cus tom house bonds bat secure the government against thc immense hisses annually almost daily occurring hy the failures of importing merchants and sureties tho committee douht whether the importing merchants would consent to pay cash duties if they were offered a deduc tion of double the legal interest indeed thero can be very little doubt ihat.rnany of the mer chants even of charleston would land their goods at savannah and incur the ex|«cnse in convenience and additional hazard of reshipping them rather than be subjected to the payment of the duties in cash assuredly the merchants tf the interior would not hesitate as to which of these ports they would under these circumstan ces ordei their goods is it not perfectly obvious then that by this regulation of revenue con gress would present str.ng inducements for the landing of goods at savannah in preference to ' charleston and thus give a decided advantage i to the one port over the other 0 and can any | one believe that if such a regulation were es | tablished and long maintained it would not as i effectually ruin the trade of charleston as though '. that port were blockaded and the entrance of j merchant vessels entirely prohibited but it may be said that these regulations are genpral that no particular state is named that if they applv to £. carolina it is in consequence of her own act and that they will be equally ap plicable to any other state which shall assume the same attitude the plain answer to thus ar gument is that the constitution has not give to congress the power to make such didinctiona under such circumstances or under any circumr stances the provisions of tho constitution aro broad general and unqualified admiiting however for a moment the power in question to exist the committee are of opin ion that the exercise of it in the manner propo sed w.hild operate with peculiar injustice there are it is well understood a numboi of merchants uf charleston who notwithstanding the ordinance of south carolina will continue to import their goods into that port give their binds and pay them as heretofore . now would it not lie contrary to the very spirit and genius of our government that on account of tbe actoj ot the stale authorities or even of the great body of the state individuals should be depnved of privileges secured to the citizens of tho other states these considerations are with yoar cemrart tee conclusive against the proposition fur the exaction of cash duties and as the temoval of the custom booses seems tohave been chiefly in tended to render that measure the more effectual , the committee consider it entirely unnecessary to provide for such removals the committee have no deemed it necessary to enter into many of tiie important questions presented by the documents which have been referred to them they have confined'.them selves more parthmlarly to the sanations ol the president as to tho alterations and modifica tions necrswaty for more effectually securing 0 collection of the reverie and they have con sidered it due to themselves and to ine house •»« well as to the high source from which thew ause gcarion proceed to state +*«-*"*£& which they^tave bee govorued m rep -.»..»* «-« bill which is herewith submitted the watchman salisbury saturday march 9 1833 lzontxvcm of ttie m states in senate n b all the subscriptions taken before the commencement of this paper it will be remem bered become due on the publication of the first numbor i^^^^^^^ka^^^monday fehrnarytol^h of vic tariff bill to m dify the act of the 14th day nf july lb.ij,and all other acts imposing duties on imparts was read a third time and the question being on its passage the yeas and nays were ordered on this ques tion on the call of mr king mr webster then rose and gave his senti ments in opposition to the bill he paid in the commencement a tribute to the purity zeal and ability of the senator from kentucky fir whom he had so lon |