Herald Of The Times

It will be seen, by the Ordinance reported to the South Carolina Convention which we publish to-day, that things begin to assume a serious aspect in that quarter.

The following apposite remarks in relation to the course they are pursuing, we find in the New-York American.

'South Carolina seems resolved to draw the sword, and throw away the scabbard. She must be brought to reason and submission. That State, nor no other state, can be permitted to declare at pleasure what laws of Congress are, and what are not, constitutional—what enactments of the General Government it will obey, and what it will not. Yet this is the claim which, under pretext of the reserved rights of the states, South Carolina now undertakes to establish. The remedy is in the hands of Congress. Whenever, by any overt act, the resistance of the state to a law of the United States, is made manifest; that is whenever, in endeavoring to enforce such law, the officer of the United States finds himself either impeded or not sustained by the citizens, or laws, or tribunals of the State—the case for the peremptory vindication of the supremacy of the General Government will be presented. All ports of entry, or collection districts, in the United States, are made such by acts of Congress; and no vessel, except coasting craft, can enter or trade with any port not designated by Congress as a port of entry, under the penalty of being seized and condemned as smugglers. If the state of South Carolina will not permit the introduction of merchandize into her three collection districts upon the conditions imposed by law, upon the introduction of the like merchandize into every other collection district in the United States, can she reasonably complain, if, in the exercise of the ordinary and unquestioned revenue powers of the general government, Congress should repeal the thirteenth section of the revenue law, and leave her without any ports of entry? That is both a peaceful and a rightful remedy; and that section being once repealed, the whole body of the revenue laws goes to enforce the penalty of smuggling against any vessels attempting to trade with these ports. As, then, no vessels could enter Charleston, there would be no occasion of collision—no opportunity for the display of hot blood; and a few revenue cutters on the look out to preserve the revenue laws from violation, would maintain the just ascendancy of the United States; while South Carolina, deprived of commerce, shut up within herself, with the spectacle before her eyes of the ports of neighboring states, whitened with the shipping that should have enriched her own, would have leisure to calculate, more coolly than she has heretofore seemed to do, 'the value of the Union.''