mit that ignominious interitance to our children. We will not, we can not, we dare not, submit to this degradation, and our resolve is fixed and unalterable, that a protecting tariff shall be no longer enforced within the limits of South Carolina. We stand upon the principles of everlasting justice, and no human power shall drive us from our position.

We have not the slightest apprehension that the General Government will attempt to force this system upon us by military power. We have warned our brethren of the consequences of such an attempt. But if, notwithstanding, such a course of madness should be pursued, we here solemnly declare that this system of oppression shall never prevail in South Carolina, until none but slaves are left to submit to it. We would infinitely prefer that the territory of the State should be the cemetery of freemen than the habitation of slaves. Actuated by these principles, and animated by these sentiments, we will cling to the pillars of the temple of our liberties, and if it must fall, we will perish amidst the ruins. J. HAMILTON, JR. President of the Convention.

Attest,

ISAAC W. HAYNE, Clerk.

IN SENATE,

January 1, 1833.

ANNUAL REPORT

Of the Trustees of the State Library.

The Trustees of the State Library, in obedience to section 4, title 8, chapter 9 of the first part of the Revised Statutes,

RESPECTFULLY REPORT:

That the sum remaining in the hands of their Treasurer on the 30th day of September 1831, as will appear from their last report,

was..

$369 48

300 00

There has been paid to their Treasurer by their order, since the close of that account, the annual appropriation from the State Treasury for the year 1832, of. 1,000 00 And the amount appropriated from the Chancery fund, (1 R. S. 216, § 2,) for the year 1831,................. Making a total of the means of the year, of.... The payments by the Treasurer, and for which he has rendered satisfactory vouchers to the Trustees, since the 30th September 1831, and previous to the 18th December 1832, the time to which this report brings the transactions, have been as follows:

For books, maps, charts, bookbinding, and the lettering, labelling, and entering the books upon the catalogue,

For cleaning the Library room, new bookcases, and repairs to the room, windows and book-cases,

...

$1,399 51

$1,669 48

54 35

1,453 86

Leaving in the hands of the Treasurer unexpended, on

the 18th day of December above mentioned, the sum of $215 62 [S. No. 3.]

1

The Trustees have extended this report beyond the limits of the fiscal year, because they had sent an order for the importation of a bill of books to be added to the law part of the library, which had not been heard from on the 30th September last, though their arrival was then soon expected. They arrived, and were examined, and the bill was paid on the 6th of December; and as the books were to be, and have been, added to the catalogue accompanying this report, it was thought best to include their cost also in the expenditures now exhibited. This bill, including charges and duties, amounted to Another bill of books has also been imported since the last report, to be added to the other departments of the library, amounting to And, in addition to these importations, a valuable purchase of miscellaneous books has been made from a well selected private library, amounting to........

...

....

Making in all,..............

$503 99

316 40

172 50

$992 89

And leaving but $406.62 to have been paid for all ordinary and domestic purchases, including the current reports, the subscriptions to periodical works, the casual selections for all the departments of the library, maps, charts, &c.

The Trustees are not aware that bills, to any considerable amount, are outstanding for any description of expenditure, with the exception of a bill for binding not yet presented; and they are sure that a very few dollars will pay all the claims against the money in their hands., with this exception; but as no bill for bookbinding for the library has been presented or paid since the 2d December 1830, and as nearly all the books imported came unbound to save duties, and all the periodical works are delivered in pamphlet, and remain to be bound, this bill will be very considerable. It is believed, however, that the money in hand, and the appropriation from the Chancery fund for the year 1832, not yet drawn, will furnish the means to meet it, and leave a small balance still unexpended.

Their success, during the period covered by this report, in making useful and valuable additions to the Library, has been entirely equal to their expectations; and with the continuance of the same means, they hope in a few years to be able to fill up the collections for all the departments, and especially for that of the law, so as to present

a public library inferior to few, if any, in the country, and one which will do justice to the character of the State, and to the intelligence and liberality of the Legislature.

The whole amount paid out of the Treasury during the fiscal year, commencing 1st October 1831, and ending 30th September 1832, for the contingent expenses of the Library, as appears from the accounts kept in the Comptroller's office, has been $71.35. A law of 1829, respecting the State Library, (see 3 R. S. fol. 174,) limited the expenses to be so paid for stationary and candles to the sum of fifty dollars. The sum above mentioned has been expended as follows:

$71 35

Making the whole sum expended as above,

The Trustees have the satisfaction to be able to continue the assurance that the duties of the Librarian are faithfully performed; the books are kept in as perfect a state of arrangement as the rooms will permit, and in as perfect a state of preservation as any vigilance can secure; and all reasonable attention is paid to the comfort and convenience of those who have occasion to visit the library.

The catalogue annexed is merely changed from that of the last year, by the addition, in their appropriate places, of the books procured and placed in the library since the last report, as no material improvement in the plan or arrangement of the catalogue has suggested itself to the Trustees since that time. The table of American Reports, arranged in the alphabetical order of the States, and with the additions of the year, is also annexed, marked A; and the usual list of the books added to the library since the last report, is annexed, marked B.

The Rules and Regulations for the government of the Library have not been altered, and accompany this report, marked C.

Having for two years now last past delivered their report, with the catalogue and other papers annexed, to the public printer in advance of the meeting of the Legislature, that it might be put into

the hands of the members at their meeting, and having received from the Legislature no expression of disapprobation of that course, it has been continued in the present instance.

All which is respectfully submitted,

SILAS WRIGHT, JR.

GREENE C. BRONSON,
A. C. FLAGG,

Dated Albany, January 1, 1833.

Trustees of the State Library.