Excerpt from Communication From the Executive of Illinois to the Governor of Maryland
And Whereas, the said Ordinance prescribes to the people of South Carolina a course of conduct in direct violation of their duty as citizens of the United States, contrary to the laws of their country, subversive of its constitution, and having for its object the destruction of the Union - that Union, which, coeval with our political existence, led our fathers, without any other ties to unite them than those of patriotism and a common cause, through a sanguinary struggle, to a glorious independence - that sacred Union, hitherto inviolate, which perfected by our happy constitution has brought us, by the favor of Heaven, to a state of prosperity at home, and high consideration abroad, rarely, if ever, equaled in the history of nations. To preserve this bond of our political existence from destruction, to maintain inviolate this state of national honor and prosperity, and to justify the confidence my fellow citizens have reposed in me. I Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, have thought proper to issue this ray Proclamation, stating my views of the Constitution and laws applicable to the measures adopted by the Convention of South Carolina and the reasons they have put forth to sustain them, declaring the course which duty will require me to pursue, and appealing to the understanding and patriotism of the people, warn them of the consequences that must inevitably result from an observance of the dictates of the Convention.
Strict duty would require of me nothing more than the exercise of those powers with which I now, or may hereafter be invested, for preserving the peace of the Union and for the execution of the laws.
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