Tariff Laws, in such manner as to equalise their burthens, and cause only so much revenue to be collected as will be necessary to pay the expenses of the Government, in its constitutional and economical administration. This Assembly further recommends to the Congress of the United States, as she has already done to her co-States, the call of a Federal Convention, to propose such amendments to our Federal Constitution, as may seem necessary and proper, to restrain the Congress of the United States from exerting the taxing power, for the substantive protection of domestic manufactures. This Assembly further earnestly recommends to the State of South Carolina, to suspend the operation of her late Ordinance, that the unfortunate collision of powers between that State and the Government of the United States, may be amicably adjusted in such manner as not to impair the rights and powers granted to the General Government, or retained and reserved to the States, or the people by the Constitution. This General Assembly further urgently recommends to the State of South Carolina to abstain from the use of military power, in enforcing her Ordinance, or in resisting the execution of the revenue laws of the United States. And this General Assembly, with equal earnestness, recommends to the Government of the United States, to exercise moderation, and to employ only such means as are peaceful and usual to execute the laws of the Union. The General Assembly of this State further recommends to her co-States, to concur with this State in the foregoing recommendations.

Resolved, That the Executive of this State be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing recommendations, to the Executive authorities of each of the United States: to the President of the United States, and to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, with instructions to lay the same before the Congress of the United States.

Approved, January 12, 1833.

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RESOLVES

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LEGISLATURE

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MISSISSIPPI.

REPORT.

The select Committee to which was referred "so much of the Governor's Message as relates to the Resolutions from the States of Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, with the accompanying documents," beg leave to report:

That they have had them under consideration, and would recommend, in regard to the Resolution first named, the adoption of the following Resolutions :

In relation to the Resolutions from the States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, and that portion of the Message which points to their consideration, your Committee would express the belief that the sentiments of a majority of the people of this State, in regard to the subjects to which they relate, are in accordance with those expressed by the General Assembly in the year 1829, declaring the Tariff law of 1828, so far as it contemplated a system of protection, carried beyond the manufacture of such articles as are necessary to the national defence, to be "contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of the United States, impolitic and oppressive in its operation on the southern States, and should be resisted by all constitutional means." But fearful lest false inferences should be drawn from this expression of public opinion-inferences, calculated to induce a belief that this State is prepared to advocate and uphold the disorganizing doctrines, recently promulgated in South Carolina, your Committee deem it their duty to speak plainly, and to undeceive their sister States in this respect. We are opposed to Nullification. We regard it as a heresy, fatal to the existence of the Union. "It is resistance to law by force-it is disunion by force-it is civil war." Your Committee are constrained to express the opinion, that the State of South Carolina has acted