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Mr. Howards Resolutions.
Ho use of Representatives of the General Is
semhlyof the State of Gem gin. Aor. 14, 1838.
Whereas the question of dispensing with
banks ns the agents of the Government in the
collection and disbursement of the Public Reven
ue, and the accompanying question ol the Cur
rency most proper to be employed in the fiscal
operations of the Government, are both of agi
tating and exciting character, ns well as of great
importance in their consequences, it becomes the
right (and under the circumstances of excite
ment) the duty of the General Assembly to ex
press freely their opinions in relation to both
branches of this important subject. The Inde
pendent Treasury, or Sub-Treasury system, com
monly so called, involves two questions, each of
great importance, but wholly independent. '1 he
second seeks to determine and establish the kind
and character of the currency most safe and con
venient for the Government and least oppressive
to the people. In regard to the first, wo, the re
presentatives of the people of Georgia, influenced
by a sc'lled conviction of the unconslitulionalily
of n United States Bank, and of its inexpediency
also, should deem it extremely impolitic to enter
tain any longer the idea of such an insitution ever
becoming the fiscal agent of the Government.
We are equally opposed to the introduction of the
local Banks as agents or depositories of the pub
lic funds, as well to avoid the influence of that ex
traordinary patronage, resulting to the appointing
power from such connection, whether that power
be suffered to rest with the Executive or taken
into the hands of Congress, as to prevent the
unavoidable tendency of such u system from
swelling the revenue to an unnecessary and dan
gerous extent, producing fluctuations in trade
and prices, not only by the increase of the reve
nue, but from the changes frequently made of
those corporations as depositories and agents of
the public money. Properly rejecting both of
these agents for various other good reasons not
to be set forth, it necessarily results that the Gov
ernment must conduct her fiscal transactions
through the agency of her officers appointed for
that especial purpose. In regard to the currency
most proper to be employed ; while wc are fully
sensible that gold and silver must forever remain
the basis and regulator of the value of property,
and that wc would not favor any system which
would endanger the reasonable certainty that the
paper based thereon, should not at all times be
immediately convertablc, or in other words, re
duced to gold and silver at the will of the hold
er; yet do wc not see the necessity of conduct
ing the operations of the Government exclusively
in the precious metals; as it appears that the
trouble of conveying the specie from Bank to
Custom House and from the Custom House to
to the Bank, would he productive of some incon
venience, and if that inconvenience can he reme
died hy devising a system of combining all the
facilities which paper ail'ords as a medium, with
all the certainty of value which the circulation
of the precious metals secure, it would seem that
wc would attain as near perfection in our circu
lation as the nature of the thing is susceptible of.
There arc but few systems which can lay claim
to perfection, and as imperfect as the Sub-Trea
sury system may be, yet under proper guards,
with its details perfected, we believe it the best
system which has yet been devised for the gene
ral good. In devising and discussing the plans
best calculated to secure safety to the revenue
and convenience to the Government and its peo
ple ; it should not he overlooked that in this
widely extended confederacy a circulation is de
manded and very much needed that w ill maintain
equal value throughout the Union. The biils>of
a Bunk of the United Stales would satisfy fully
all expectations of convenience from such cur
rency, but as it is the opinion id' this Legislature
that even hud < Congress the power to charter such
an institution, the (inexpediency of the measure
should forbid its 'incorporation ; they propose a
system which, while it lias none of the character
tnUeu ot’ i» Jiurik. vvonM • ..« ••onvoniuit* u.«vd
sale medium of remittance, without any violation of
the powers of the government or rights of the peo
ple. The government is compelled to raise sulli
cicnl revenue to bear the current expenses of
year, upon this fend ito'dhjeidJon ‘to thcTgov
eminent s issuing Treasury notes limited bylaw
to the amount in the Treasury, redeemable on
demand, at as many points of redumption as the
commerce of the country may require. The
quantity payable or redeemable at each point to
bo graduated by the amount of revenue received
at those points. These Treasury notes issued
upon kinds actually in the Treasury, would form
a safe and wholesome medium of circulation and
remittance, us the means of payment would at
all times bo at hand. Therefore,
1. Resolved, That the revenue should be com
mensurate with the wants only of the government.
2. Ruolved, That the establishment of a Na
tional Bank in any form is unconstitutional.
3. Resolved, That had Congress the power to
charter a Bank of the United States, the exercise
of such power would be highly inexpedient, im
politic and dangerous, ns its great capital and con
sequent credit could not fail to give it a control
ling influence over all other monied institutions,
by which it w mid control the commerce us well
as the politics of the country, thereby destroying
both the freedom of trade and freedom of opinion,
4. Renal ed. That the lessons of experience has
taught us the utter inexpediency of permitting the
public funds to be controlled by the local institu
tions ; that the system of depositing in them either
upon gotV'ral or special deposite, is in ellbct the
same, and contrary to sound policy, us well on
account of the partiality and favonteism in grant
ing the use of the government money to these
corporations, as from the political influence which
suchdepositos nccosmrily have over all connect!d
with them, and to prevent a recurrence of these
c fleets and other great evils it is indispens.blc that
an cn re disconnection or load divorce of the
Gove, inn nt from all Banks should be the estab
lish si and permanent policy of the American
people.
5. Resolved, That the principles of the inde
pendent Treasury or Sub-Treasury system, is in
strict conformity with the requisitions of the Con
stitution and the practice of the government for
many Vcars.
li. R solved. That the government can collect,
keep, and disburse its revenue in no way so per
fectly free from partiality, fuvoritcisai. or oppres
sion, as through the agency of its own officers ap
pointed for the purpose.
7. R solvedfarther. For the convenience of the
good people of the United States, that n is proper
fertile government to issue treasury notes or
clicks limited by law to the extent of the revenue
on hand, redeemable on demand at all the conve
nient points of the Union in proportion to the
revenues received at such places.
8. Resolved Insth/, That n is the opinion of this
Legislature that the bills of the specie paying
Banks at par where the revenue is collected, should
be receivable in the nuhlie treasury, the Banks
issuing the same to be subject to such settlement
as mix be ordered by the law that organizes the
i ndependent Treasury system.
3Jr. Alexander’s Resolutions.
hereas, the people of Georgia are deeply in
terested in the subject of the monetary concerns
ol the National Government, and more especially
in the mode of collecting, keeping, and disbursing
the public revenues of that government; it be
comes the representatives of the people to gixe
■urban cxpreis.on of opinion on the subject, as
may be best calculated to promote the interests of
those whom they represent.
And whereas, the government of the United
States, is one of limited and enumerated powers,
-. I,n ° tap P nv ' r t 0 incorporate a national bank, is
not one of those which are enumerated in the
constitution; and ai>art from the constitutional
incompetently of Congress to charter such an in- p
slitution, experience has demonstrated that it is
not of paramount importance or necessity, m
supplying the fiscal wants of the government, a
and that in its tendencies and influence, it is c
dangerous to the rights of the States and the lib- „
cities of the people. .
And whpreas, the system of making the Slate,
hanks depositories of the public revenue, Has sig- t
unity failed, and in its failure has produced incal- j,
culablc mischief, both to the government and the
people, ami cannot be again resorted to, without
disregarding the most impressive admonitions of
experience, and placing in jeopardy the most im
portant interests of the country. i.
And whereas, the only constitutional and safe f|
mode of conducting the fiscal operations of the
government, is to dispense with the intermediate
agencies of banks, and to diminish tbc control t
which the executive head exercises over the pub- t
lie treasury. t
And whereas, the government does not possess
the power of converting its exchequer into a "
bank, or of exercising any of the junctions per- 1
taining alone to banking; <
He il revolver! by I he. Senate anil House of Rep
resenlcUives of the Stale of Georgia,in General
Assembly met, and it Is hereby resulted by /he au
thority nf Ike same, That a bank of the United
■States is unconstitutional, inexpedient, subversive
of the rights of the States, and dangerous to the t
interests of the South, and that our Senators in
Congress be instructed, and our Representatives
be requested to oppose, by all proper means, the 1
incorporation of such an institution. s
JSe it further resolved by the authority afore- u
sail, That the system of making the State banks
general depositories of the public revenue,adopted 1
by the lust, and abandoned by the present admin- I
islration of the general government, tends to in- ,|
crease executive patronage, anil is calculated, by
stimulating an injudicious expansion of bank is
sues, and thereby filling the channels ol circula- 0
lion with an unsound currency, to bring hank- r
rupley and commercial ruin upon the country.
lie il farther resolved, That a plan of collect
ing, keeping, and disbursing the public revenue, .
which has for its object the gradual, but entire
and ultimate disuse of Banks ns fiscal agents of l J
the Government, is a measure calculated to diniin- \
ish the monied influence of the Federal Govern
ment, and promote the commercial interest of fho
South.
He it further resolved. That the General Gov
ernment has no constitutional power to create a J
paper currency, based merely upon the credit ol I 1
the Government ; and that the policy adopted by a
Congress, and sanctioned by the present udminiu
(ration, of issuing Treasury notes, based on no
actual deposites, losupply a deficit in the revenues, l u
is unconstitutional, inexpedient, repugnant to the il
spirit of our government, and dangerous to the | t
liberties of the people.
He iffart her resolved, That the executive pow
ers of the Government should he so re-adjusted
and portioned ns to separate the purse from the "
sword, or the money from the military power ol
the Government, by making the Secretary of the
Treasury dependent for his appointment and re- j,
tiiovul upon the Senate, instead of the President 1
of the United States. 1
Hr it further resolved •S l r., That a copy of the
foregoing preamble and resolutions be forwarded
by the Governor of ibis State to each of our Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress.
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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. i
A II G II S T A. !
TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27. ‘
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We publish in to-day’s paper two sets of roso- i
lotions introduced into the Legislature of Geor
gia, one Ity Cut, John It. Howard, a represeutu- .
tive from Muscogee countv, mid the other bv
~ . , . i „ . r - ...ci iwether
Mr. Alexander, the Sep"'
* .icue resolutions would have been 1
published earlier, hut for the absence of the Edito l ' j
from the city during the past week, as it was |
deemed probable that he would desire to accom- i
pauy them with some remarks. Col. Howard,
and Mr. Alexander, arc both prominent members (
of the Stale Rights party. I
The resolutions of Col. Howard, maintain sub- '
stantially the following positions:
Ist. That there ought to be a total disconnec.
tion of Government from all banks.
2d. That a National Bank in every shape is '
unconstitutional, inexpedient and dangerous.
Bd. That Treasury notes should be issued as ■
the permanent policy of the country, and for the
purposeful' collecting and disbursing the public
revenues, and to create a National currency.
4th. That the notes of specie paying banks
ought to be received in payment for Government
dues—thus eschewing the specie feature of the
Sub-Treasury. ,
The resolutions of Mr. Alexander, maintain
iu almost the same language, the two first positions
ol'Col. Howard's. They say nothing in relation to
the description of currency in which the revenues
of the Government should be collected. They'
condemn the issue of Treasury notes us ‘‘un
constitutional, inexpedient mid repugnant to the
spirit of our Government. They also recom
mend that the power to appoint and remove the
Secretary of the Treasury, should be taken from
lie President and vested in the Senate.
Having thus briefly stated the main positions
cf tlic.e resolutions, we shall to-morrow, com
ment upon them at length.
V
Mississippi 11. S. Senator.
It appears from the Mississippi papers, that
Thomas H. W illiams, has been appointed by 1
Governor McNut, Senator in Congress, to fill the 1
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Jiimo&j'
F. political principles of Mr. M il- |
1 Hams are not t iled, hut as the Governor is known ■
to he Loco Foeo, the probability is that the po- i
; lilies of the new Senator are of the : ame cast.
j There are no tidings of the Liverpool steamer. !
The report we published yesterday appears he in
correct. The steamer seen off Xu Bucket was the j
Great Western.
The number of deaths in New-Vork, during
i the week ending on the 17th were 129, Os I
the number there were 5G children under five years 1
of nge.
It was rumored iu New-Vork on the 21st,
that Mr. Henry Ogden, Cashier of the Custom
House, had been, or was to be removed, in con- I
sequence of hi* connexion with tiic affairs of the
late collector, Mr. Swartwout. Mr. Ogden had i
held the office of Cashier ever since Mr. Swart- i
wont was appointed, and must have had a better
j knowledge of the condition of the money mat- j
ters than am oilier person.
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Com in the We«l.
The Nashville Whig of the 14th hmt. states
lliat the superabundance of the late Corn crop in
Missouri and Illinois, has just been illustrated by
a Government contractor who purchased in the
counties of Saline, Lafayette, and Clay (Mo.)
30,000 bushels to be delivered on the bank of the
Missouri at 15 cents per bushel. 1' urthcr down
the river the same contractor was offered 7,000
bushels at cents.
Squatters*
The Cleveland Herald says that the squatters
in Washington, go on the principle that might
makes right. They arc combining their exertions
to put down interlopers at the land sales where
their claims will be offered, and the Milwaukie
Sentinel recommends a general organization ol
the settlers throughout the several counties. A
general meeting of squatters was to have been
held at Milwaukie on the 10th of November, for
purpose of devising ways and means ol securing
their rights at the sales this l ull.
Army and Navy Intelligence.
The Washington Globe of yesterday says:—
A rumor is in circulation, and has been copied
in many of tin; public papers, that Commodore
Kidgciy is to have command of the Wcst India
squadron, Commodore Chaunceyto take his place
at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Commodore Bar
ron to succeed him as Picsidcnt ol the Navy
Board, Commodore Morris to retire, and Commo
dore Elliott to occupy his scat at the board. We
arc authorised to sta'c that this rumor is with
out the least foundation, and that no such ar
rangements are, or have been contemplated.
Wc observe that Col. Conpcr, aid-de-camp to
the Earl of Durham, and Captain Marryat, went
passengers in the packet ship President from New
York, for London.
, Canada War.
-U' the British version of the
finale of the Prescott lt seems that the
Patriots surrendered and were taken prisoners,
md were not butchered as was supposed by those
who witnessed the battle from the American side
jf the river. jThe statement of Col. Dundnsthat
the loyalists lost but one man, is hardly credita
ble.
Prescott, Nov, 10, 1838.
Sir.—l have the honor to acquaint you, for the
information of his Excellency the,Commander of
the Forces, that I came down here yesterday from
Kingston, with 4 companies of the 83d Regiment,
two 18 pounders and a howitzer, and made up
from the town to a position about 400 yards from
the windmills, and adjoining houses occupied by
the brigands.
They did not move or roino out of the houses
to oppose my advance. The ISjwunders opened
with good effect upon the stone building near the
mill. Cupt. Sundon with two gun boats, in which
he carried two 18 pounders, took up a position
below the windmill, which he commanded, but
not with much effect. After cannonading these
buildings for an hour or rather more, and observ
ing the brigands to be quitting them and endeav
oring to escape, I ordered the troops to advance;
very little resistance was ollercd by the party oc
cupying the windmill, but a small lire was opposed
to us from the adjoiniim stone I mild bur- .
It being dark l.cfor the troops got mound these
liullillngs, amt Hie nriganils m ll “' W, »' J null hav
ing displayed o tl>'7 were summoned
. ,„..{-n>ier themselves unconditionally, which
they did. Eighty six prisoners were immediate
ly secured, and 10 others, who were wounded,
were removed from the mill us soon as conven
ience could he found —a large supply of arms, 20
kegs of powder and three pieces of ordnance fell
into our hands.
Some of the brigands effected their escape from
the buildings when darkness came on, and hid
themselves in the brush wood on the bank under
the mill. I directed the militia to scout this
hank, and several prisoners were secured, among
others a Pole calling himself Gen. Van Sault,
who, it is understood, was the principal leader.
All buildings adjoining the mill we destroyed, but
the latter 1 directed to be occupied by a company
of Militia, and propose that it should continue to
be so, or entirely demolished.
I am happy to say the service was performed
with the loss of one man only of the 83d Keg't.
I have the honour to remain, sir,
Y our most obedient servant,
11. UUNDAS,
Lieut. Col. S3d Keg’t. Commandant.
Capt. Goldie, A. D. C., Montreal.
The Court Martial, for the purpose of trying
the rebels and brigands, commence its sittings this
day. It consists of seven field officers, and seven
captains, all of the line, with Major General Cli
thcrow us President. Captain Muller, of the
Royal Regiment has been appointed Judge Advo
cate, with Mr. Solicitor General Stuart as his legal
adviser. It is not expected that any thing will be
done to-day, except formally constituting the
Court, but the real business will probably com
mence to-morrow.
One of the New York papers mentions that
he British Consul has formally demanded of
Mr. Hoyt, the collector, the dismissal from office
of three or lour officers, who have been engaged
in the lute Canada movements.
The Star states tliauhe officers referred to have
not been removed, but that the Collector has
written a very proper letter to them indicating
that such interference was incompatible with
their public duties, and they must resign if they
are determined to proceed in affording counte
nance to the attacks on the British authorities of
Canada.— Bull. Amer.
Loss OF THE Stf.vviku CitiEtcoTHK. This*
tjue boat struck a snag on the 12th instant, about
miles above New Madrid,stove a hole in her
bottom, ami was run on a sand bar, where she
sunk in eight toot water. She was bound to this
port, with a cargo offlour. bagging, bale rope. Ac.
; the principal part ofwiiich will be saved in a dam
aged stale, together with her engine and furniture.
—A. U. Bulletin.
Lxctirn.uiixn.'— Phe steamer Richmond arri
'*' •" ,lu ' Levee I ist evening, with a cargo offlour,
direct from Cincinnati. She left Louisville on
j l u'jji th hist, and reports a slight rise from the falls
I to the mouth, “bringing out” two and a half feet
| water.— lb.
i oo coon to be lost. —During the choice of
i representatives in Roxbury on Wednesday, the
lamp-lighter ol the town was observed to be ac
■ lively engaged in aiding the election of A. H. Ev
i crett. As he was known to be a staunch Whig,
his proceedings occasioned no little sin prise.—
But on his friends enquiring the cause of this ex
traordinary conduct, he explained it in a very sat
isfactory manner. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I
know what lam about. For this Everett is so
anxious for an office, that nothing is too low for
him, and if I don’t succeed in getting him in as
! representative, he will next be trying to get uiv
office of town lump-lighter away from me ,■ and
! so 1 am helping him now all 1 can in self-defence.”
—Boston Allas.
Communicated. '
Certain visionary schemers are engaged in at
tempting by alternate cringing and frowning to in.
duccthc Banks of this city to lend their aid to the
managers of the Geo K. R. and Banking Compa
ny at Athens hy the purchase of a million ot dollars
of their new stock. Is it possible that the Banks
of this city will second their movements, or listen
with patience to these quack logic venders they
promise rich harvests in an increased prosperity
to Augusta—are the holders of real estate in this
city so intimately united in interest with the ov. n_
ers of Bank stuck ! It is in some sort true that
the prosperity of the Banks is dependent upon
that of our citizens —but certainly not exclusively
to the holders of real estate, are the Banks indebt
ed for their success. If the price of real estate is en
hanced by extending the Rail Road still further in
to the interior will it not be accompanied by an hr
crease of Rents and taxes—not upon that class
whose pecuniary condition as the monopolisers o'
Real Estate exempts them from the toils of com
merce, but upon the enterprising merchant whose
interests arc not in the soil, but in the monied in
stitutions of the State where he lias invested the
well earned reward of his industry.
Let me not be understood as refusing to
give a helping hand to this laudable project, in
which the whole country is so much interested,
but let the reins which have been dropt by the
palsied hand of age be intrusted to a younger and
and abler one. Let the silver cup and rattle suf
fice until another humbug can be “concocted.”
My word upon it, when the Planters of the State
of Georgia, in whom is vested, the wealth of the
State arc well assured that the Rail Road project
is no longer under the direction of grown -up
children, but of men of capacity, the time will not
be 1 mg dist mt when you will find this high-mind
ed population pouring in their treasure and la
bour to advance the object of a communi
cation between the Ohio, and the Atlantic—they
know well enough, that it is not the Merchant,
but the Planter, who is benefited by an increase
in the facilities of transportation, of the commo
dities of trade.
If the project is conducted with ability—if the
bantling is not nursed to death by old women’
it must succeed, and the Georgia planter will have
the satisfaction of beholding at his own door—
the productions of Europe and the “far West,’’
then in Augusta will spring up great wholesale
commercial establishments, at which the interior
dealer can obtain the manufactures of Europe,
and supply flic wants of the Planter. Then we
shall require the use of all our bank capital and
much more than is now established in Augusta,
and when the business of the local merchant re
quires money from the batiks, he will not be told
that for the sake of “ patriotism ” wo have locked
up all our funds in Rail Road Bank stork.
GEORGIA.
The Washington Globe of the 22J, contains
the Proclamation from the President, which has
been called forth by this recent renewal of hos
tliiiwo -of Canada.
Bij the President of the United Slates of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, there is too much reason to believe
that citizens of the United States, in disregard of
the solemn warning hereto lore given to them by
the proclamations issued by the Executive of the
General Government, and by some of the Govern
ors of the States, have combined to disturb the
peace of the dominions of a neighboring and friend
ly nation: And whereas information has been
given to me, derived from official and other sour
ces, that ninny citizens in different parts of the
United Stales arc associated, or associating, for
the same purpose: And whereas, disturbances
have actually broken out anew in different parts
of the two Canadas: And whereas, a hostile in
vasion has been made by citizens of the United
Stales, in conjunction which Canadians and oth
ers, who, after forcibly seizing upon the property
of their peaceful neighbor for the purpose of effeet
ingtlicir unlawful designs, arc now in arms against
the authorities of Canada, in perfect disregard of
their own obligations as American citizens, and
of the obligations of the Government of their
country to foreign nations:
Now, therefore, I have thought it necessary
and proper to issue this proclamation, calling up- I
on every citizen of the United Stales neither to J
give countenance nor encouragement of any kind j
to those who have thus forfeited their claim to the ;
protection of theft country; upon those rnisgui- (
ded or deluded persons who arc engaged in them
to abandon projects dangerous to their own coun
try, fatal to those whom they profess a desire to
relieve, impracticable of execution without foreign
aid, which they cannot rationally expect to ob
tain. and giving rise to imputations (however
unfounded) upon the honor and good faith
of their own Government; upon every officer,
civil and military, and upon every citizen—
by the veneration’due by all freemen to the
laws which they have assisted to enact for
their own government—by his regard for the honor
and reputation of his country —by his love of
order and respect for that sacred code of laws by 1
which national intercourse is regulated—to use
every effort in his power to arrest for’ trial and ;
I punishment every offender against the laws pro- |
vidingfor the performance of our obligations to
the other powers of the world. And I hereby
warn all those who have engaged in these crim
inal enterprises, if persisted in. that, whatever
may he the condition to which they may be rc
i duecd, they must not expect the interference of
this Government, in any form, on their behalf;
: but will be left, reproached by every virtuous fcl
j low-citizen, to be dealt with according to the policy
and justice of that Government whose dominions
they have, in defiance of the known wishes and
i efforts of their own Government, and without the
i shadow of justiliaation or excuse, nefariously in
i vaded.
i Given under my hand, at the city of Washington,
the twenty-first day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-eight, and the sixty-third of the Inde
pendence of the United States.
M. VAN BUREN.
j By the President:
1 John Fousvth, Secretary of State.
: Immense .Meeting of the Citizens of New
York in Fnvor'of Canadian Freedom.
Agreeably to public notice, an immense meet
ing was held on Wednesday evening last, at
Vauxhall Garden ; the very spacious saloons,
| long previous to the hour named, were found in
’ adequate to accommodate the vast assemblage.
At 7 o’clock precisely the committee of ar
| rangements ascended the stage prepared for that
! purpose when Colonel Ming called the meeting
to order by proposing for President, Dr. William
•lames Macne van.
On the chairman assuming his scat, the whole
| assembly immediately became uncovered—a mark
of respect and order seldom paid or observed at i
meetings in this country.
The venerable President then nominated lire
following gentlemen, as
VICE PIIESIBEXTS.
L. Bonncfoux, Alex. Ming, jr.
Robert Townsend, Thomas Ewbank,
Joseph Hopkins, Thomas O’Connor,
Edmund J. Porter, William Denman,
John Morrison, Daniel Gorham,
James 1,. Stratton, John M’Keon,
Robert Beatty, Henry Arcularius, jr.
Thus. P. Walworth, Alexander G. Coxe,
Michael Dougherty, John A. Morrill,
Thomas 8. Brady.
SECitKf AIUES.
Rees U Jones, Richard French,
JohnHecker. Henry E. Riell,
Pascal B. Smith, Thomas Dyer.
Col. Alexander Ming, jr., from a committee ap
pmuted to draft suitable resolutions, then read in
an impressive manner, interrupted only by the
burst of approbatory applause, the following
I’UEAJIBU! AND RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, lire Queen of Great Britain has, by
the abolition of all representative government in
the province of Lower Canada, and by the erec
tion of a military despotism in its stead, and by
other unconstitutional and unwarrantable aggres
sions on popular rights, lost the affections and
confidence of tire inhabitants of that country ;
And whereas, the Canadian people, goaded by
a sense of their unredressed wrongs, and by the
hopelessness of all relief from their oppressois,
appealed to the God of Battles for that justice
hitherto denied them, and in support 01 the sincer
ity of that appeal, have declared their country a
Free and Sovereign Republic ;
And whereas, in making that declaration they
have promulgated principles and rights in harmo
ny with those on which our own free government
is based, and have pledged in support and defence
of the same, their lives, their fortunes, and their sa
cred honor—
Be it therefore resolved,
That freely acknowledging the inherent rights
of all men to change the form of their political in
stitutions according as their condition demands,
and foreseeing with just anxiety that a people so
dead to all principles of liberty as to submit to ha
slaves, may be used as tools to impose slavery on
others, this meeting deeply sympathises with the
pooplc of Lower Canada in the resistance which
they are forced to oppose to tyranny, and hails
with pleasure the birth of another Free and Inde
pendent Nation on this Continent, already honor
ed and renowned as‘‘the Mother of Republics.”
That whilst disclaiming all intention of inter
fering with the domestic arrangements of other
nations, or of infringing the laws passed by our
government to preserve neutrality, we consider it
our solemn duly as Americans to express our ab
horrence of the sanguinary excesses committed by
the British authorities in Canada on Messrs. Lount,
Morrow and Matthews, and of the cruelties inflic
ted on n large number of our countrymen who
have been kept for months confined in dreary dun
geons, or forced to abandon their families and
properties, by the unrelenting persecutions of Bri
tish officials, which excesses and persecutions we
view as a stain on humanity inconsistent wiili the
spirit of the age in which we live, and worthy of the
reprobation of all good men.
That willing to do nothing but what is right,
we arc determined to submit to nothing that is
wrong—and therefore tins meeting publicly pro
tesls againsttlic atrociousand unparalleled aggres
sion knowingly and authoritatively committed
on American soil by the British government in the
month of December last, past, at Schlosser, in this
state, on which occasion our national flag was out
rageously insulted—our territory unjustifiably in
vaded—American property wantonly destroyed,
and American citizens barbarously murdered in
cold blood by British troops despatched for that
purpose by the authorities in Canada; for which
aggressions tills meeting hereby solemnly requires
tlic general government of the United Slates to in
sislon full and complete satisfaction, and the deiiv
, cry of the* guilty tojus.'ico and punishment.
[• That however anxious we may be to preserve
our neutral relations on the frontier, it must be ev
ident to all that so long as a despotism continues in
ourimmediatc neighborhood discontent will justly
prevail, and attempts lie repeatedly made to put
an end to such a state of things ; that the exist
ence of such British despotism will necessitate the
maintainancc by this Republic of a large standing
army in time of profound peace, (a circumstance
which has ever been regarded with alarm by the
friends of human liberty,) and the enactment from
, time to time of laws violating the most, important
principles of American liberty—and that the enor
mous expense caused hereby must be met by the
increased taxation and burthens of the people of
these States, not for the support of good govern
ment within their own territories, nor for national
defence, but tor the purpose of waging war against
. liberty, and assisting Monarchy to crush Democra
cy at our very doors.
That this meeting publicly declares such em
ployment of our national revenues and resources
to be incompatible with the principles of our gov
ernment, and highly derogatory to our characters
as republicans, and therefore entertains a just hope
that neither the general government, nonlic brave
men composing the American army, nor any sec
tion of the people of those States, will be found
at this crisis aiding or abetting British despots in
their war against liberty in Canada.
That inasmuch as the barbarous mode of war
fare already commenced by the British against
the struggling patriots in Canada—the destruc
tion of their property—the burning of their vil
lages, and the driving of families abroad without
shelter, at this pittiless season of the year, will
cause an immense amount of human suffering, to
diminish which is our duty as men and Chris
tians, an Executive Committee be appointed to
collect subscriptions and funds for the purchase
of such necessaries as may mitigate the suffering
of the republicans of Canada, during the ap
proaching inclement winter.
That in promoting the independence of the
i Republic of Canada, we preserve, protect and de
fend our own democratic principles; the inaliena
ble right of every people to alter, or abolish their
! form of government.
That any attempt to force upon any portion of
! the people of this hemisphere a system of colonial
vassalage, ought to lie, and will be, considered by
the people of the United Slates as a manifestation
unfriendly to their own free and popular form of
government.
That a communication lie opened with the Re
i formers of Great Britain and Ireland, requesting
them to raise their voices and use all their inflm
cnee to prevent Hie British Government from
sending a hired soldiery to this continent, and also
to require their Legislature to acknowledge the
independence of their North American colonics,
and so put an end to misrule and oppression among
their fellow men.
Cheers having been proposed and given for
Messrs. 1 heller. Dodge, Nelson, Mackenzie, and
Canadian Freedom, the meeting, on motion, in
tlie best order adjourned.
WM. JAS. M’NEVAN, President.
I ice-Pres!dents,
L. Bonncfoux, Robert Townsend,
Joseph Hopkins, Edm. J. Porter,
■ John Morrison, James L. Stratton,
Robert Beatty, Thos. P. Walworth,
, Michael Dougherty, Thos. S. Brady,
• Alex. Ming. Jun., Thomas Ewbank,
Thomas O’Connor, William Denman,
Daniel Gorham, John M’Keon,
; H. Arcularius, Jun., Alex. G. Coxe,
Jons A. Mobuill.
Secretaries.
I Rees Rosser Jones, John Hecker,
i Hascal B. Smith, Richard French,
. i Henry E. Riell, Thomas Dyer.
married, f
On the evening 22d inst., by the Rev. Mr. Ford I
Mr. John M. Dow, to Mr,. Marv McKeen.
—WM —• ' -‘lrui, ||<W|
Consignees i:er South Carolina Rail Road
Hamuurg, November 26.
T. Dawson, J. M. k W Adams, J. Purse, Cress k
Turpin, Hand & Scranton, Clarke, Me Peir kCo K
K Mustin, W. ClaggettJ. S. Hutchinson, W h’
Belcher, Gould & Bulk ley, E; B. Beall, A. Cum! I
mm r, t tovall, Simmons it Co., K. D. Cooke, Kerrs
6c Hope, Stovall is. Hamlen, C. Batty, J, Coskeil I
VV. E. & J. U. Jackson, C. A. Greiner, L. G. Sutton’
J. S. Katclitl'e, L. M. Chu.chill, A. B. Mallory'a! ■
Roocits, lia\Band, Jtisley k (.0., Mis. Thompson
N. W. Clarke, Spears Sr, White, King & Hart, Al
drich k Sh.ove, Davis, Grimes k Co., r>. Flemi’n" k
Co., Kerrs k Hope, W. G. Driver, J.
Smith k Co., J. C. Greene, A./. Banta, Baird k I
Rowland, Anderson iV Adams, George Parrott, J. F. I
Parrott, J. P. Benson, 11. L. Jelleis, J, (j. B. lord'
M. H. Smith, J. N. Oliver. ’
COMMERCIAL.
Cotton. —Arrive.l since the Ifiih inst 4730 bales
' I’lnnd and 16 halos S, I Colton, and cleared at
toe same nine 1622 hales Upland Comm; leaving
a stock on hand inclusive of all on shipboard not I
Cleared on iho 2:>d inst. of 16660 bales Upland ami
■rl bal s Sea Island
’I he business dine lids wet kin Upland lias been I
more extensive than last, the desire to sell hem"
general and partially inducing the accepimice ol ra”. ■
nmr low rates. Y osierday, inter ilia receipt of the
(.real H esic n accounts, .hienqniry mcreas d and
sacs were made at lull prices pauicu'aily ~j ,/ e ■
Inglie ipia.ili s; tins morning the demand is v .rv 9
moderate—the ssles consist ol 4i98 bales at from IK
.0 to IJJ eema.
, , 15a?,tivohr, Nov 20.
Flour, — flic market for Howard street floor re*
mains inactive—an 1 uricos have, apparently, a ten- bB
■lency to decline. IVe hear this morn ng oi one or I
two sah s from wagons at 87,.V), and a sale (Vain fl
-tore of neon iderablo loi m 87/6—both a slight K
on former rates. Ho quote from wag ins at
ST/iO lo $7,621; and from siorca at 87,09 to 87211 I
as the current riiim 10-dny. 1
Hales ul Ctiy Mills Flour have been ma le at 87,75 IjH
S g , lno holder* refuse to sell at that price, and ask I
Il'llilMlH.-iIIJUWWimL CUSH UlfLWr.-rjmput-,
MARINE INTELLIGENCE. 9
Savannah, November 21
CVc.amf—Ship Milledgevillc, Porter, New York. ■
hng Sea Island, Hobart, Boston. ’ KB
Arrived Bark Turbo, Beauchamp, Boston j bri»
e.r -V . nt ’ Thomaston, Me.; steambat Hamburg
V\ ood, Augusta. bl
Departed— SCrahoat Oglethorpe, Dillon, Augusta, 1
Charleston, November 2o* I
Arrived on Saturday—Sckr. Fruitful Vine. Nve
New Bedford ; steam packet North Carolina Davis'
Wilmington. ’
Arrived yesterday —Line brig Angola. Tufts
Boston ; Line brig Gen. Marion, Delano, Baltimore’
1 1 the effing —C L brig Ashley, Pike, from New
York, and schr United Matsf.om Geo.ge "' own
Cleared —Line barque King Philip, Humphrey
I’oston ; C L Inig Pimon, Sherwood, New 10 k’
schr Alexander. Lind, Tampa Bay. ‘ ’
Went to sea Saturday —Line brig Almena ro mp
New Orleans; brig Lion, Gilpatrick, Wilmington’
Went to sea yesterday—Be ship Alexander Ton On
Le Jtomniois, Havre ; steam packets Geo gia Rol
lins, Baltimore ; Noith Carolina, Davis, Wilming-
Augusta Benevolent Society! ~
are m,nitteeSfor the
Division No. I.—Mr. James Godbehere John
Knight, Mrs. 0. Smith, Mrs. Waterman’ 1
c “'»
ni)v 20 STUHGES, Sec’y. 1
RiCHMOND ACADEMY. —The
Hus institution will, on the loth day of De
cember next, proceed to the election of a Kertor
and first and second English Teacher ; also, for a
leacher lor the Branch at Summerville. Appli
cants for either of these situafons will please ad
dress the President of tho Board of Trustees
alex. cunningham'
v2O tJ President.
fl Jt Al* 1t,11.—2D reams fine Medium (Tinting Pa
a- per lor sale. 011 consignmenl.ai Taoioi’s prices
Apply nf this office Imm i;t
■\T EW BACON, HAMS AND MIDLINGS.
new Bacon Hams, 110 new Dacon MU
dungs, just received from Baltimore, and for sale by
~ ISAAC MCISE,
nov 17 311 Broad street.
JloitlC MOW GOODS. '
B B. KIR BLAND, kCo ..Merchant Tailors,
. have received a complete assortment of
(~/UDS in their line; Cassimeres in great variety
superior Satin Vestings, &c. &c. b
Fancy Goods.-ol) dozen best Hoskin (black and
colored) Gloves; Buckskin and Beaver do; superior
•u°u a^ d .Y lUte !?llk L ’ o; BerUn do; white and bl’k
siUHalt Hose; cotton do; superior Merino Vests /
and.! ants; Suspenders, of the best quality; Linen,
Cambric and Silk twilled pocket Hdkfs.
Stocks. Opera tie Satin Stocks; plain do; bowed
and plain Bombazine do. oOdozesi round and square
end Collars, kc. kc. oet 13
cha ;; U s to “ 111 snmiice A Trust CompanTy
Capital One Million D, liars—all paid in,
AGENCY, AUGUSTA.
'HIE subscriber is prepared to take Fire and Ma
ll- nno risks at the current rates of premium *
Robert McDonald,
Oft uO 3in Agent C. I. &T. Co. [
sTioii.;i, inns fob
INVENTION.— The subscriber has just
IN received a supply of the PATENT RIBS for
Cotton Gins, which have been spoken so highly of
wherever they have been tried throughout the Cot
ton Growing States. These Ribs are so constructed
™iw, Se - Wlil last twcnt T years or more, and Le
Steeff tyll ‘^f’^ y havingan Pxtra set of Cast
of the u eS ' i 1 e lace ‘l are made to lit on the front
H e Rios where the Saws pass through, and in so
■ r t , c a manner that any person can put them on.
The subscriber will always keep a supply of Gins
on band ol the above description.
WILLIAM JONES,
A few doors above the Upper Market
July 13
\ OTJCE.—The undersigned have this day asso-
mated themselves for the transaction of the
wholesale and retail Grocery business, under the
firm of I. S. BEERS k Co. Having purchased the
interest of N. Smitli & Co., they will continue the
business at their old stand, and hope by choice se- •-
lections and reasonable prices, to merit the patronage -• ok
of Hie public. I. S. BEERS,
UATHBONE & BAKER.
nov ? lmd3mw
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, & c .
rg'UIE subscribers liavc just received a large
B assortment ofsuperfme and middling qualities
CLOTHS and CASSIMERES, viz. blue, black and
I fancy colored cloths, beaver cloths, of extra body,
j suitable for Overcoats, kc.
Ribbed, plain and fancy striped Cassimeres, in
j groat variety.
200 pieces Satinets, some of which are of superior
quality, and composing a great variety of colors,
\ fancy stripes and mixtures.
Silk and other quality Vestings, Buffalo Cloths
I which they offer at very low prices,
i oct 3 EDGAR k CARMICHAEL. j
In accordance with the ostensible views
ol the Southern Convention.
DIB HC T 1 31 FOR TA T lON.
i mHOMAS I. WRAY & SON havejuat received
| by the Governor Troup, and are now opening,
ia large assortment of CHEMICALS and other
DRUGS, from the Laboratory of M.inder, Weaver .$•
| Co. (one of tho first houses in England,) which will
| be sold in a state of the utmost purity. These with
their former supply on hand constituies a large and
very complete assortment, consisting of almost every
article in the Drug line usually kept in this market,
(Kj'Crders will be thankfully received and attend
ed to with despatch, on tiic most accommodating
! terms. ts , oct 17