CuARLEsroN, Dec. l, IS32.
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CHARLESTON, l3ec. |, I6esG.

 ssfe!losr Citiscns The Ordinance pas sed hy your Convention at Coiunbi;,, :. few days since, as the supreme law ot the land, is the grave, not the bridal chamber of Liberty. However the power and the triumph Of party may i dignity il, in the hour Of ifs birth, with the titles of glory and praise, no spirit of prophecy is ncedfia to know, that when the rcsels of that unholy spirit should have passed away, ii will be re- gardcd, even in t'ae SSootii Carolina of future years, with grief and morlifiea- ton. In the sacred name of Liberty, they have struck her down to the earth. with the iron mace of the despot. In the name o( Liberty, they have forged for their fellow citizens the chains oi Slavery. In the pure and holy name Of Llberty, they have polluted her shrine, they have laid on her altar the offerings of idoiatry, they have trodden their fel- ow-worshippers under their feet.

 "N hen look al the age in which live, al the history of my country, and al her actual state of political improve ment, when consider ihe wisdom and forbearance that have distinguished A- merlcan counscis, and the magnanmty whichhas always been one of the nobIest elements of Carolina character, am filled with astonishment and grief at a measure, which must he repented of, in the sackeloth and ashes of shame and sorrow. God grant it may not be our lot 10 repent of it, in tears and bIo, d, amid the ravages of fire and sword!- Whatever may be the feeling respecting tins Ordinance, among the majority il South Carolina, il is impossible not 10 know, that 1t must be regarded with mourhiul indignation by all the friends ot freedom throughout the world. ln the rest of our Union, il can only be viewed as reproach to the memory of the illnstrions dead of TIC and I7S9; as an act of ingratitudc 10 their sacri

 ilces and services. Among the Whigs of England, what other opinion could he held, than that you have forfeited all ti-