at the same time define what shall constitute
treason against the State, and by a bill of pains and penalties
compel obedience and punish disobedience to your own laws, are
points too obvious to require any discussion. In one word, you must
survey the whole ground. You must look to and provide for all
possible contingencies. In your own limits your own courts of
judicature must not only be supreme, but you must look to the
ultimate issue of any conflict of jurisdiction and power between
them and the courts of the United States.

The governor also asks for power to grant clearances, in violation of
the laws of the Union; and to prepare for the alternative which must
happen unless the United States shall passively surrender their
authority, and the Executive, disregarding his oath, refrain from
executing the laws of the Union, he recommends a thorough revision of
the militia system, and that the governor "be authorized to accept for
the defense of Charleston and its dependencies the services of 2,000
volunteers, either by companies or files," and that they be formed into
a legionary brigade consisting of infantry, riflemen, cavalry, field and
heavy artillery, and that they be "armed and equipped from the public
arsenals completely for the field, and that appropriations be made for
supplying all deficiencies in our munitions of war." In addition to
these volunteer drafts, he recommends that the governor be authorized
"to accept the services of 10,000 volunteers from the other divisions of
the State, to be organized and arranged in regiments and brigades, the
officers to be selected by the commander in chief, and that this whole
force be called _the State guard_."

A request has been regularly made of the secretary of state of South
Carolina for authentic copies of the acts which have been passed for the
purpose of enforcing the ordinance, but up to the date of the latest
advices that request had not been complied with, and on the present
occasion, therefore, reference can only be made to those acts as
published in the newspapers of the State.

The acts to which it is deemed proper to invite the particular attention
of Congress are:

First. "An act to carry into effect, in part, an ordinance to nullify
certain acts of the Congress of the United States purporting to be laws
laying duties on the importation of foreign commodities," passed in
convention of this State, at Columbia, on the 24t