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 h the uncertainty then, which exists ais to the duration of the ordinance, and of the enactments for enforcing il, 1t be- comes imperionsly the duty of the Ex7 ecutive of the United States, acting with proper regard to all the great in terests committed to his care, to treat those acts as absolute and unlimited. = They are so, as far as his agency is con- cerned. He cannot either embrace, or lead to the performance of, the condi- tions. He has already discharged the only part in his power, by the secom- mendations in his annual message The rest is with Congress and the peo' pie. And, until they have acted, his du. ty will require him to look to the exist ing state of things, and act under then according to his high obligations.

 By these various proceedings, there fore, the State of South Carolina ha' forced the General Government una voidably to decide the new and danger ous alternative of permitting State tt obstrnct the execution of the laws with ID its limits, or seeing it attempt sss exc cute threat of withdrawing fror. the ynlon, That portion of the people a present exercising the authority of the State, solemniy assert their right to dc either, and as solemnly announce tbeil Setermnation to do one or the other.

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