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Resolutions relative to the Ordinance of Nullification of South Carolina, etc. 1832 [422] (1832)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0154 and id is 1 raw text is: No 33, * r'.,,a, 77. 26 Resolutions relative to the Ordinance of Nullifica tiomn of South Carolina, &e... IThe joint committee to whom was referred the ordinance and other documents, transmitted us by the governor of South Carolina, and that part of our late governor's mac- sage relating thereto, have given the subject that attention which its serious import demands; and report the follow- ing:- 1st. Resolved by the General OssCmbly of .laryland, That in expressing our opinion upon the ordinance ot'Nullifica- tion, andibe recent proceedings of outh Carolina, it is our duty to declare our opinions firmly on the principles assailed, and to expostulate mildly and afectionately with her. 2d. Resolved, That we hold these principles to be in- controvertable; that the government of the United States, was adopted by the people of the diffbrent states, and es- tablished in order to Form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the. com- mon defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves, and our posterity, that it possesses all the powers necessary fbr the purposes for which it was instituted, that it is irreconcilable with the ob. jects and purposes for which th constitution was adopted, to suppose that it contains in itself the principles of its own destruction, or has failed to endue the government created by it, with the essential power of self preservation. That it is not in the power of any one state to annul an act of the general government, as void or unconstitutional. That the power of deciding controversics among the dif- ferent states, or between the general government and a state, is reposed in the federal judiciary, and that it is anl act of usurpation for any state to arrogate to herself juris- diction in such cases. That the Supreme court is the only tribunal havi;a con- elusive jurisdiction in cases involving the constitutionality of the acts of the General Government. That whenever a state is aggrieved lby the constitution- al acts of the general government, the' fifth article of the constitution prescribes the remedy, declaring that the con- gress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution, or on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention fbr proposing amend-

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