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Morning Star
Limerick, York County, Maine
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Mr. McDuffie's speech in Congress warns of South Carolina's imminent resistance to the protective tariff system, with private letters indicating a settled determination to defy Union laws and open ports to foreign trade after Congress adjourns.
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Shaking of the Union.--This Tariff question is an ugly business to get along with, and may bring us unto trouble yet. Mr. McDuffie has made a two day's speech in favor of a Bill reported by him to equalize the duties on imports.
After setting forth, in the conclusion of his speech, in strong language, the injustice of the protective system in its operation upon the South, he used these words of warning:--(Portland Cour.)--" I testify to this House, in the presence of our common God, that, if this system be not abandoned, South Carolina will not submit to it three months longer!!"
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser adds also that,
The latest accounts from South Carolina, received in private letters, which are probably more to be relied upon than their newspapers, represent the excitement lately prevalent there, to have settled down into a cool and deliberate determination to resist the laws of the Union, and throw open the ports to foreign commerce, soon after the adjournment of Congress.
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South Carolina
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south carolina will not submit to the protective system three months longer; determination to resist union laws and open ports to foreign commerce after congress adjournment
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Mr. McDuffie made a two-day speech in favor of a bill to equalize duties on imports, concluding with strong language on the injustice of the protective system to the South and a warning that South Carolina will not submit if not abandoned. Latest private accounts from South Carolina indicate excitement has settled into deliberate resistance to Union laws.