tate for any act
done under the laws of the United States he should be authorized to
remove the said cause by petition into the circuit court of the United
States without any copy of the record, and that the court should proceed
to hear and determine the same as if it had been originally instituted
therein; and that in all cases of injuries to the persons or property of
individuals for disobedience to the ordinance and laws of South Carolina
in pursuance thereof redress may be sought in the courts of the United
States. It may be expedient also, by modifying the resolution of the 3d
March, 1791, to authorize the marshals to make the necessary provision
for the safe-keeping of prisoners committed under the authority of the
United States.

Provisions less than these, consisting as they do for the most part
rather of a revival of the policy of former acts called for by the
existing emergency than of the introduction of any unusual or rigorous
enactments, would not cause the laws of the Union to be properly
respected or enforced. It is believed these would prove adequate unless
the military forces of the State of South Carolina authorized by the
late act of the legislature should be actually embodied and called out
in aid of their proceedings and of the provisions of the ordinance
generally. Even in that case, however, it is believed that no more will
be necessary than a few modifications of its terms to adapt the act of
1795 to the present emergency, as by that act the provisions of the law
of 1792 were accommodated to the crisis then existing, and by conferring
authority upon the President to give it operation during the session of
Congress, and without the ceremony of a proclamation, whenever it shall
be officially made known to him by the authority of any State, or by the
courts of the United States, that within the limits of such State the
laws of the United States will be openly opposed and their execution
obstructed by the actual employment of military force, or by any
unlawful means whatsoever too great to be otherwise overcome.

In closing this communication, I should do injustice to my own feelings
not to express my confident reliance upon the disposition of each
department of the Government to perform its duty and to cooperate in all
measures necessary in the present emergency.

The crisis undoubtedly invokes the fidelity of the patriot and the
sagacity of the statesman, not more in removing such portion of the