The President had dealt with the matter in a proclamation, of which the diarist wrote December 12, 1832: "Very much to the surprise of some, and to the satisfaction of all our citizens, we have a long proclamation of President Jackson, which was published in Washington on the 12th.inst., and is in all our papers this day.

It is a document addressed to the nullifiers of South Carolina, occasioned by the late treasonable proceedings of their convention.

The whole subject is discussed in a spirit of conciliation, but with firmness and decision, and a determination to put down the wicked attempt to resist the laws.

On the constitutionality of the laws which the nullifiers object to, and their right to recede from the Union, this able State paper is full and conclusive.

The language of the President is that of a father addressing his wayward children, but determined to punish with the utmost severity the first open act of insubordination.