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to the constitutional power of the General Government to make appropriations for internal improvements, - against the renewal of the Charter of the Bank of the United States, and in favor of a modification of the Tariff, so that the national revenue shall not exceed the expenditures of the Government. These resolutions have been duly communicated to our Senators and Representatives in Congress. And it cannot fail to be highly satisfactory to the Legislature and people of this State to know that these general subjects have been recommended by the President to the consideration of Congress in a manner which justifies the hope, that they will there receive such direction, as shall be best calculated to promote the mutual interests and harmony of the States, and be in accordance with the just expectations of the people I have received from the Governor of South Carolina a Copy of the proceedings of a Convention of the people of that State, which agreeably to the request therein expressed, I herewith lay before you for your consideration. By these documents it appears that the Convention, being of opinion that the Tariff laws are unconstitutional and void has declared the determination of the people of South Carolina to resist the execution of those laws, and if the General Government should attempt by force to carry them into effect, the Convention has further declared that the people of that State will henceforth consider themselves absolved from all obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a seperate [separate] Government. I consider it due to the people of South Carolina, to ourselves, and to the nation, that the sentiments of the Legislature and people of this State should be fully expressed in relation to these extraor-