will be found raising a parracidal arm against our common mother And even should she stand ALONE in this great struggle for constitutional liberty, encompassed by her enemies, that there will not be found, in the wide limits of the state, one recreant son who will not fly to the rescue, and be ready to lay down his life in her defense.

"South Carolina cannot be drawn down from the proud eminence on which she has now placed herself, except by the hands of her own children. Give her but a fair field, and she asks no more. Should she succeed, hers will be glory enough to have led the way in the noble work of REFORM. And if, after making these efforts due to her own honor, and the greatness of the cause, she is destined utterly to fail, the bitter fruits of that failure, not to herself alone, but to the entire South, nay to the whole Union, will attest her virtue. The speedy establishment on the ruins of the rights of the states, and the liberties of the people, of a GREAT CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT, 'riding and ruling over the plundered plowmen and beggared yeomanry' of our once happy land-our glorious confederacy broken into scattered and dishonored fragments-the light of liberty extinguished, never, perhaps, to be reloomed-these-these will be the melancholy memorials of that wisdom which saw the danger while yet at a distance, and of patriotism which struggled gloriously to avert it; memorials over which repentant though unavailing tears will assuredly be shed by those who will discover, when too late, that they have suffered the last occasion to pass away when the liberties of the country might have been redeemed and the Union established upon a foundation as enduring as the everlasting rocks.

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"We may not live to witness these things. may not be allotted to survive the republic. true to our duty, our example will, in that dark hour, be a rich legacy to our children—and which of us would desire a higher reward than to have it inscribed upon his tomb-' Here lies the man who sacrificed himself in a noble effort to rescue the Constitution from violation, and to restore the liberties of his country!'

"Fellowcitizens, this is our 'OUR OWN, OUR NATIVE LAND;' it is the soil of CAROLINA, which has been enriched by the precious blood of our ancestors, shed in defense of those rights and liberties, which we are bound by every tie, divine and human, to transmit unimpaired to our posterity. It is here that we have been cherished in youth and sustained in manhood by the generous confidence of our fellow citizens; here repose the honored bones of our fathers; here the eyes of our children first beheld the light; and here, when our earthly pilgrimage is over, we hope to sink to rest on the bosom of our common mother. Bound to our country by such sacred and endearing ties, let others desert her if they can; let them revile her if they will; let them give aid and countenance to her enemies if they may; but for us, we will STAND OR FALL WITH CAROLINA.

"God grant that the wisdom of your counsels, sustained by the courage and patriotism of our people, may crown our efforts for the preservation of our liberities with triumphant success. But if, in the inscrutible purposes of an allwise Providence, it should be otherwise decreed, let us be prepared to DO OUR DUTY in every emergency.

"If assailed by violence from abroad, and deserted by those to whom she has a right to look for support, our beloved state is to be humbled in dust and ashes' before the footstool of the op-pressor, we shall not rejoice in her humiliation, nor join in the exultation of her enemies, but, in adversity as in prosperity, in weal and in woe, 'through good report and evil report,' GO FOR CAROLINA.

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"And now, fellow citizens, offering up most fervent prayers to Him in whose hands are the destinies of nations, that he will prosper all your measures, and have our WHOLE COUNTRY in his holy keeping,' I am ready, in the solemn form prescribed by the Constitution, to dedicate myself to the service of the state. "Robert Y. Hayne, Governor.

December 13, 1832.

But this brief address was the personal view of the Governor and the full weight and strength of South Carolina as a sovereign state must be given to the world in a document as dignified and representative as Jackson's Proclamation; so the Governor issued his Proclamation which may be accepted as strong and convincing a presentation of the Nullifiers' side of the great and fundamental question involved in Nullification, as was ever presented.

GOVERNOR HAYNE'S PROCLAMATOIN.

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"Whereas the President of the United States hath issued his proclamation concerning an ordinance of the people of South Carolina to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States,' laying duties and imposts for the protection of domestic manufacturers:'

"And whereas the Legislature of South Carolina, now in session, taking into consideration the matters contained in the said proclamation of the President, have adopted a preamble and resolution to the following effect, viz:

"Whereas, the President of the United States has issued his proclamation, denouncing the proceedings of this state, calling upon the citizens thereof to renounce their primary allegiance, and threatening them with military coercion, unwarranted by the Constitution, and utterly inconsistent with the existence of a free state: Be it, therefore,

WATER SCENE AT FOOT OF COLD SPRING MOUNTAIN, UPPER EAST TENNESSEE. Taken by Wm. Heiskell Brown, Amateur photographer of Greenville, Tenn.

"Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested, forthwith, to issue his proclamation, warning the good people of this state against the attempt of the President of the United States to seduce them from their allegiance, exorting them to disregard his vain menaces, and to be prepared to sustain the dignity, and protect the liberty of the state against the arbitrary measures proposed by the President.'

"Now, I, Robert Y. Hayne, Governor of South Carolina, in obedience to the said resolution, do hereby issue this my proclamation, solemnly warning the good people of this state against the dangerous and pernicious doctrine promulgated in the said proclamation of the President, as calculated to mislead their judgments as to the true character of the Government under which they live, and the paramount obligation which they owe to the state, and manifestly intended to seduce them from their allegiance, and, by drawing them to the support of the violent and unlawful measures contemplated by the President, to involve them in the guilt of REBELLION. I would earnestly admonish them to beware of the specious, but false doctrines, by which it is now attempted to be shown that the several states have not retained their entire sovereignty; that the allegiance of their citizens was transferred, in the first instance, to the Government of the United States;' that a state cannot be said to be sovereign and independent, whose citizens owe obedience to laws not made by it;' that, even under the royal Government, we had no separate character;' that the Constitution has created a National Government,' which is not a compact between sovereign states;' 'that a state has NO RIGHT TO SECEDE:' in a word, that ours is a NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, in which the people of all the states are represented, and by which we are constituted 'ONE PEOPLE;' and that our representatives in Congress are all representatives of the United States, and none of the particular states from which they come'-doctrines which uproot the very foundation of our political system; annihilate the rights of the states, and utterly destroy the liberties of the citizen.

"It requires no reasoning to show what the bare statement of these propositions demonstrate, that such a Government as is here described has not a single feature of a confederated republic. It is, in truth, an accurate delineation, drawn with a bold hand, of a great consolidated empire one and undivisible;' and, under whatever specious form its powers may be masked, it is, in fact, the worst of all despotisms, in which the spirit of an arbitrary government is suffered to pervade institutions professing to be free. Such was not the Government for which our fathers fought and bled, and offered up their lives and fortunes as a willing sacrifice. Such was not the Government which the great and patriotic men who called the Union into being, in the plenitude of their wisdoms, framed. Such was not the Government which the fathers of republican fate, led on by the apostle of American lib