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An Essay on War, and on its Lawfulness under the Christian Dispensation by Joseph John Gurney American Advocate of Peace (1834-1836), Vol. 1, No. 1 (JUNE, 1834), p. 52 Published by: World Affairs Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27886767 . Accessed: 04/10/2013 02:15
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War, and on itsLaicfulness under the Christian Essay on Dispensation. By Joseph John Gumey. Providence, 1834.
pp. 24.

" This tractwas published at London by the Society for thePro motion of Permanent and Universal Peace," as the 12th of their series. It is re-printedin this country for the trusteesof the fund established by the late Obadiah Brown, of Rhode Island, forthe It contains a pretty full exami purpose of publishing such works.
nation

theOld andNew Testament.

of

the Scriptural

argument

concerning

war,

as

drawn

from

en 6. ?Argument of Thos. S. Grimke' in thecase of theStale, rela vs. 1834. Charleston, S. C. tione^McCrady Hunt, April,
J. S. Barges, pp. 28.

The violent proceedings in South Carolina, growing out of the Tariff law of Congress, are probably fresh in the recollectionof our
been been

shed, entertainedby many persons. Happily

realized : we to establish

readers,

as well

as

the serious

apprehensions

of civil war

these fears have not

and

blood

Grimke's

the foundationsof theUnion. The followingstatementof the case will put the reader in possession of the occasion and scope cfMr.
argument. COURT OF APPEALS. Monday, JOHNSON March 31, 1834. JUSTICES & HARPER. IN THE

stitution,

of recent events has that the influence believe more the Con firmly the true doctrine concerning and to the General the relation of the States Government,

PRESENT,

The Stato, Ex Relatione Edward M'Crady, ) vs. V Col. B. F. Hunt, Commanding lGth Rcg't So. Ca. Militia. ) who were elected on the 5th o? Octc*. The members of the Legislature, ber, 1832, at an extra session, on the 26th day of October, passed in Act to provide for the calling of a Convention of the people of this Stats ; the preamble and first clause are as follows : the Congress of the United States hath, on divers occisions, Whereas, laws laying duties and imposts for the purpose of encouraging and enacted and for other unwarranta protecting domestic or American manufactures, ble purposes ;which laws, in the opinion of the good people of thisStste, and the Legislature thereof, are unauthorized by the Constitution of theUnited States, and are an infringement of the rights reserved to the States respect injury and oppression of the citizens of ively, and operate to the grievous to the State assembled in Conventi or, it be And whereas, South Carolina. longs to determine the character of such acts, as well as the nature and extent of the evil, and the mode and measure of redress : Be it therefore enacted, by the Senate and House of the of Representativa noio met and sitting in General State of South Carolina, Assembly, aid it i> a Convention of the People hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That of the said State, shall be assembled at Columbia, on the 3d Mondayin No vember next, then and there to take into consideration the several Act? of the of the United States, imposing duties or; foreign imposts for the Congress and for other unauthorized protection of domestic manufactures, objects ; to

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