The Report, Ordinance, and Addresses of the Convention of the People of South Carolina

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1832 Excerpt: ... REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The committee to whom was referred Hie t to provide for the calling of n Convention of the people of this Slate, with instructions to consider and report thereon, and especially as to the measures proper to be adopted by the Convention in reference to the violations of the Constitution of the United States in the enactment by Congress on divers occasions of laws laying duties and imposts for the purpose of encouraging and protecting domestic manufactures and for other unwarrantable purposes, beg leave respectfully to submit the following REPORT. The committee deeply impressed with the importance of the questions submitted to them, and the weight of responsibility involved in their de cision, have given to the subject their most deliberate and anxious consideration. In stating the conclusions to which they have arrived, they feel that it is doc to themselves, to this Convention, and to the Public at large, briefly to review the history of the Protecting system in this country, to show its origin, to trace its progress--to examine its character, point out its evils, and suggest the appropriate remedy. They propose to execute this task with all possible brevity and simplicity, sensible that the subject istoo well understood in all its bearings to require at this lime a very elaborate investigation. In the natural course of human affairs, the period would have been very remote when the people of the United States would have engaged in manufactures, but for the restrictions upon our commerce which grew out of the war between Great Britain and France, and which led to the non-intercourse act, the embargo, and finally our own war of 1812. Cut off by these events from a free commercial intercourse with the rest of the world, the people ...