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dinary proceedings. It is also important that those who at present constitute a majority of the people of South Caroline should be correctly informed, how for they may calculate in their measures of nullification & disunion, upon the sympathy and support of the other sections of the Union.

Attached, as the people of this State are, to the Constitution and Union of the States, which were formed by the exertions and patriotism of our fathers, and under which this favored county has attained to such unparalled [?] happiness & prosperity we cannot but view with the deepest sorrow and regret any approach towards a violation of that Constitution, or a dissolution of the bonds which have hitherto so happily connected the different members of our extensive republic. Should the citizens of South Carolina feel aggrieved by the operation of laws, which they believe to be unconstitutional and oppressive, there are many modes of redress to which legally, and without a violation of the Constitution, they may have recourse.