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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 system for the protection of American manufactures, yet as citizens 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. In this alarming crisis of our national affairs, we cannot but rejoice that the Executive Department of the General Government, sustained as it is by a vast majority of the American people, has announced its determination to support and carry into effect the Constitution and laws of the United States. On the prudence and moderation, as well as on the energy and decision of our patriotic Chief Magistrate, aided by the united wisdom of the national councils our Country can confidently rely for the settlement of this unhappy controversy, peaceably if it be possible, or for the adoption of those measures which may be necessary to preserve at all events the integrity of the Union. It would have afforded me much satisfaction to have been enabled to inform you that the question respecting our North Eastern Boundary had been satis-