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President Jackson Proclaims the Union Indissoluble
South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification declared void; the Chief Magistrate warns that disunion by armed force is treason.
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WASHINGTON CITY, December 10, 1832. — The President has this day issued a Proclamation to the people of South Carolina, answering the Ordinance by which a Convention of that State lately pronounced the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 null and void within her borders.
'I consider the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union,' declares General Jackson, 'contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit.'
The Vice President, Mr. Calhoun, who is understood to be the author of the doctrine, is expected to resign his office and take a seat in the Senate in defence of his State. At Charleston, militia are said to be drilling, and the revenue cutters of the Federal Government have been ordered to the harbour.
Moderate men of both parties look to Mr. Clay for some compromise upon the tariff by which the honour of the Government and the interests of the South may both be preserved.
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