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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 connexion with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a 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 extraordinary proceedings. It is also important that those who at present constitute a majority of the people of South Carolina should be correctly informed how far they may calculate in their measures of nullification and 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 country has attained to such unparalleled happiness and prosperity, we cannot but view with the deepest sorrow and regret