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those citizens of South Carolina to have sought in a legal manner, for the repeal or amendment of the laws to which they object, without having recourse to measures, which if not abandoned, may involve that hitherto happy and patriotic State in all the horrors of a civil war. Though in common with our brethren of South Carolina and the rest of the United States, we are experiencing many of the injurious effects of the systems of a republican government, we hold it to be the first duty of patriotism to submit to the will of the majority constitutionally declared, and it is confidently believed that the citizens of this State without destination will cordially respond to the just and patriotic sentiments of the recent proclamation of the President, and that those measures of resistance which bid defiance to the Constitution and laws, and have for their object a dissolution of the Government and Union of the United States, will receive the most decided disapprobation of every individual, who glories in the name of an American citizen.