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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 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. They can appeal to the Supreme Judiciary of the United States which, by the express consent of South Carolina as well as of the other states, is constituted a tribunal for the decision of questions arising under the Constitution; or, if the Constitution is found to be imperfect, and not to promote the objects intended by its adoptions, it contains within itself provisions of amendments, which by means of a Convention of the States, may peaceably remedy the evils complained of; or if neither of these means of redress should afford relief, they might with confidence have relied upon the justice of their country, and the progress of enlightened public sentiments, which will never suffer any portion or individual of this free community to be unduly burthened, or deprived of privileges essential to their happiness and prosperity. It was therefore to have been hoped that patriotism and public duty would have induced those citizens of South Carolina to have sought in a legal manner for the repeal or amendment