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this!” Tho sails were nire'iv trimmed, and'
the zall.ru snip upon a bo .line bent to the
brn ze and da-hod the spray from her *»<>■'s.
Bl ip itoh's uore s.ill burnt occa-ionaliy, the
lantern : were show n abaft, and in half an hour
the ship was hove in stays, and soon was reach
ing awav on the starboard tack. In another
half-hour (for the captain timed it with his
vvatci.) the mainsail was hauled up, and the
after-yards worn ill the act of being squared,
when the officer at the weather rat-head ex
claimed, “A boat to windward —board on the.
wea’her-!><> Ever eyew'S ms'anlly d
j-pcmd ’O ’, tds the spot, and there was v .-,1 >.
amidst the gloom a stnsil dark spe- k: out •
the same :i was heard the sound of ma
ny voices s in'ih ineo.is’v -hmj'tng, and war
congratulations we-e exchanged among all
classes on the deck, as there now con d be no
doubt that it was the missing party. The mam
and rnizt n topsails 're thrown to ihe mas-;
the small cotter was lowered from the qu.ir » r
and sent an av to t w the long neat dong side,
and iti another : a.t-h• >i»r seventy-six individu
als, who, in alt pr.suability, would have other
wise parish'd wre safe upon our decks. —
Leaves front my Lo* Book.
BUR. BETTTOK’S SPEECH.
We have no report of Mr. Benton’s speech
at M’ Arans’s Garden on the 4th. but under
take to give some of the topics whi- h he
touched, without pretending to bo able to fol
low the course of the speech, much less th«
language of the speaker. The topics, how
ever, and the mode of treating them, will be
corractlv given.
Mr. Benton commenced with a compliment
to the democr icv of Philadelphia, of which
he had read and heard much. He was old
enough, be said, tn have been a suh-cribor “»
the old Aurora, and f ruinate enough to have
been intimate with Jefferson, Macon, and
Randolph, from all nf whom he had learnt the
history of those times characterised by the
black cockade tnd tlv- reign of terror; and he
repeated a conversation which he had had with
Mr. Jefferson shortly before his death, in which
that pr< a apostle of hb rty made the demo
cracy o’ Philadelphia, and (heir cheering sup
port of himse ’ and his friends, when < ongress
sat in Phiiadelii'ui :, the subject of a warm
and affectionate eulogy. Mr. Benton said
the present democracy were worthy of the
eulogitttn pronounced by Jeff rson npo . their
sires, that they stood in the mouth of the
furnace, and lived in the fires nf persecu
tion, but di-damed to bow to the oppres
sions, or to str render to the sedu-uions of
a monied despotism. He said it was in
politics as in religion—the persecutors of
the faith were the spreaders of the faith
tho blood of the martyrs was the seed of
the church; and the remor<ele-s persecu
tion which the dem -cracy ol Ph ladelphia had
undergone—-a per-ecnti<»n which icac’ud eve
ry man’s office, every ci tzen's trade, and eve
ry laboring man’s bread, who would not tall
down and wot ship th Bank w ,mid revive
and reanimate the cause <4 democrat y, not
Oulv in Phil idelohin, but ibro’ifih mt the tour
and twenty Suites of this extended conledr>
Mr. B. spoke nf the strange and eventful
session at Cooltp'o, through which 'hey had
just paased; and commented u on the
tious defl iratton witu winch (he D< posite de
bate, in the Christmas holidays, was opened
in the Senate; by the leading panic orator,
f.Wr. Clay.} “H e arc in the midst of a revolu
lion, hitherto bloodless” — ■< declaration as un
founded in fact as r would have been redirtj
lous in 'ho issue, had it not been for the puw
er of the United S'ate.s Bank and the U Hied
States Senate, almost to create vh.it w«s»hti
piedicted. From toal moment, said Mr. B
the Bank and (be S«n-\'c uo.a <’» Woiß lo > 'e
nte the r.-voht •*»’» whedt li id been p, l( | t ini d;
and l<-r tour months; thesiiew ied press
onerattons of the Bank, and ihe toesi: speech
es ■ f the Semite d.irmed, agimted and con
vul-ed the Ameii' m people. I o derange lie
Currency Sink the plice of all property
to break all me local b nks—to deprive all la
borer* of riuplovtiie.it — to desfinv all confi
dence between man ai d man we-e ihe ob
jects of th' < ombmed p 'Wei-; and it these . >l>
p>. is had been a. •<•olllldish* d the revidii’t'oi
which had been proclaimed wind have com
inenced; and the emphatic imp l rci 'ii can
rained m the pl.ri.se—“lll ! HER I O blood
less'' — and w hich too well imph< d the hope
and expectation of speedy bloodshed, would
have be* n realised. ( lie firmness ol on«
man, and the interposition of Providence, Mr.
B. said, had frustrated these dire rosulis, and
saved this America from the calamit’* -1 which
Were prep r d for lo r.
Th' firmness of me President in refusing tn
yield to the (••mbin’‘d attacks of h' B nk nd
the Senate, md all their deluded f01i0... -
and the foriunnte arrival of near twenty rr.l
Jimis of specie from lore gn countries, h id s v
ad the nation. !n pouri tying the firmness •»!
rhe Pte-ident in him* mg the s'brm that was
raised Hieund him and resisting t‘ • columns ~f
attack which were da.ly and nightly n arched
upon him, & his invincible determinate n nev
er to yield with the tiro elevation ol bis spirt’,
which never s o k w tide so in nv armmd Inin
gave W 'V —in |»«hjilraving these scene.-, Mr.
B described them tn »t e Ide. such is he h d
Feet. them md dr»o ti 'Un ti'seniL ed thnusand
the tributes of applause to he moral h-rmsm
of the man wl.nm dang- rs cnimoi i inn date
lior gold corrupt In ulni-ion i<> tn- 1-irtm a''-
arrivals of specie, which had cved lh« >e.u
banks, cad thriebv deie > ed the great plan for
breaking tho-e l.niks, Mr B. quoted h -roti
ment ot pieiv and pa r tisiu w inch tie borrow
ed from the Fr-ncb: "Hifit protege la France"
-—God protocis Fraire! And God, rxclaim
ed Mr. 8., protect* America! V\ bit el-e hut
an io erjmsition of Providence, an emanation
pt sttpciintending gm-tjuess. could have sent
faeuty millions ot specie to save the country
the verv m«»y»eni tin a gigantic tnstruimn,
rested to furntph currency and to r-culate
currency, turning traitor to every object of it
creation, s.a itself to work with all its vas
me ms, and tribes of orators, to derange th.
currency and to destroy the currency, and
found annually tn the American Senate to for
ward and promote its impious, infernal, an<
diabolical design.
Mr. B said the crisis was passed, but th
daugv r wis not over; the battle was not ye
fought out. file Bank was whip! out of tin
field, but it was not exterminated: and as lon
’is there was life in its body,—as long as 1-
's • iffbldmg and skeleton coni I ue left stand
mg n the St it os, m the shap« of nranche- - (
■ meismurploS d ' » ..g’ u-t. the ■■ ■; ‘
i would continue, and a war of the ambush and
j surprise nt sa ■> >g atvi miumg would be car
) ried on. The people had condemned th'*
! Bank at the presidential election of 1832, and
(in the Congress elections which had since tak
n place; but the Bank was not a ihm®’ to die
f r • sun >le killing, or even for many killing,
it was not a thing to give up to the people,
ft was a sprig of the legitimacy <f Europe.
The kmg never dies! L? roi le.'+itime, the le
gitimate king,—-lives forever w nle a vagrant
scion of toe stock wanders over the land to
live upon charity, and to claim as his propertv
the sovereign people who have expelled him
from’heir soil. So of the batik. Rejected by 1
Hie people, rejected by the people’s 1 epi esen
tatives in Congress, no long r a chance for a
recharter from an open contest, it refuses to
give up, it r< tuses to die, and looks to the
floor oftne fl mse of Representatives, to the I
election of the President there, where one '
may gve or tin n me vote of a State, to carry ■
the ele-tion of a President in the person of I
its attorneys, or debtors; and then to obtain ;
from th j combin' d patronage of’me Blue Book i
and the B >nl< Ledger, that renewal ol ch trier
which it can never obtain by an open contest
with the people.
Mr B. amplified this topic, and dwelt upon
the fact that his amendment tn the Constim- '
tion of the United States, to carry the ele.’ttott |
of President directly to the people, and to
Keep it out of the House of Representatives,
was not allowed a decision in the late Senate
of the United States, m a seven month’s ses
sion, allh >ngh introduced by him on the first
day of the session; and then most e nphattc il
ly warned, and call’d upon the D.-morrtey‘
not of Phtlladelphia alone, but if all \mertca, '
to remember, that the ensuing election sot I
members o’ (’ongre-s, was tn ail pr tbabtli y
,e re-ele< tion of electors *>f President of the
United States.---that it was th" design ofthe
■ Bmk party to distract the canvass, to dev d • t
I md be wider the people with a multitude of j
candidates, and to bring the election into the;
H mse of Representatives, ivli-re the com- i
bined pa ronage of the Blue Book and Bank!
Ledger would almost ensue the election of
ti.e Bank candhate.
Mr. B. spike of the Senators’ committee,
sent oti to examine the Bank. H> said the
true design of sending tha committee, was to
help out the Book. to loluvo a hide
into it, to enable it to bear its infirmities till
the fall elections. He said there was a law
yer’s in the selection <>fthis cotnmi' tee,
for it was one of the old standing committee
'of the Senate, appointed at the comni”ri<e
mem of the Senate, nm 10 examine the B mk,
; but l» d » the busi.iogs of the Senate; when the
! committee to insrect me bunks ant < x itn’oe
• the proceedings of the bank, must tie a >m
; rnii’er appointed for Ih tt purpose. M< B.
• said the Commuter of ihe House of Reprt smi
( lativcs was a committee appointed according
Ito the words of the char er; this commi'tee
i was not so appointed: if it found any viol 1-
I non of charter, the Judges would nonsuit the
people on a scirc facias, for the illegallilv of
thtj committe. appointed. Bui he apprrhened
'fv r.‘ was no great dan er of having violations
of chaffer repmtvd bv rtii* Co«rrrntttee. lie
I apprehend’d trn-y would not put any h ird
; questions to the b tik; they would not puzzle
• the Bank, as the Q reii of Sh<’b 1 did King
J Sob mon, with fi-od questions; and lie appre
-1 bended it would inquire no Solomon to an
-1 swer any interrogatory w hich this committee
• would nut. Their hardest word, he presnm-
1 cd, would he, in going thro gh a course of
/sumptuous dtnners, ,<nd wluit kind of report
I men would m ke with B tt>k meat m their bel
| |i» s, Bank wine in ,| lf t <h”>'ats, and bmd fl
! t’-rtes in iheir ears—[ u toy voices hero mul
■ mt, ‘ and many bank money in their
—lm would h ave uto others to say. Km
httn-elf he wo Id only repeat what was once
slid «»t th’’ report of the committee of the Brit
ish House of Commons, constituted about as
aroperlv ns this committee was, and which was
'to this effect; —“That the repott of the com
' miltee was entitled to about ns much weight tn
•deeidirg the case upon which they reported.
! as it w udd Ire if ih< v had brought in .1 chapter
from ihe history ol Robinson Crusoe’s adven
tu < s.”
Mr. B. said th it he <r.n sorrv that a couple
of Southern gentlemen were upon tins coinm’l
| ire; be regret'ed. deeply regretted that they
i had corn* t< Philadelphia tn <» committee so
appointed, <h,d so constituted, lie would I
vi~e them to w sh their hands of the com e> n,
j and to escape from hecitv in ihn «tvlc in which
the Indi n- report the m omnoths to have <■»
• •aped l>"tn Kentucky betoie the whi »• hun’-
ers rime—clearing the - Him, iVis.-ossiopi, and
lake Superior, at thiee jumps; so be would r •
commend to these gentlemen to m tke om
j imp a< r >ss the S• ' ill, the second over
'he P<il«mic. the third ov er J one- River amt
Ro ti -kr; and deny tb it the* had ever been
io Pud <delp’ 1 1 mi s han err at ’ I’hc de
nial. io be sure, In- s i;d, wou M s <% a bit of •
tin; tail a thousand 'imr- br'ier <1 ■ that than (
• t their n ones tn nny report «>»'»•'» such •
committee would ever bring to ’he Senate on
the subj.-ct «>f he B tnk.
Mr. B. s k” of the Gold Bill, and aftbe
doe contradiction which the ester monos the I
gold c r r enr v _>m- t all the me diet ions aboit ’
the ruit.s nfthe currency. He called ’his bdl ,
the B\ X K KI LLGR ! and snd he bad me-J
di’ited r, for six years ffojj day that
"otnmencad hi* forlorn and solitary altacks up
•n the Bank of the United States, and the glo
•ious success ol which attacks he had now the
mppiness to see celebrated in the city of the
lank itself—in view of the Bastile of the mon
"d despotism of America! The military chief
aiu’s administration h’d given to the People
vhat the regular bred statesmen—the civil or
tors —had of; a national \
iOLD currency!— Jackson’s Administration
rid restored gold ! the law passed, but the
>eop|e must execute the law. They must re
fuse small notes, and demand gold ! If they
nsent to take n ites, the banks will shove
es into their hands, un'.’l nothing else ba'
notes will be m circulation, and all the gold
will he carrid "ft and sn’id- The ohje ‘
• ’fit- gold vill will ! >e defeated unless the peo
ple stop the circulation of small notes. Let
them form associations & pledge themselves to
receive no small notes; let them enter in bonds
to vote for no man to the State Legislature
' lio will not be pledged, like Hannibal upon
the alter, to eternal warfare upon small bank
notes. The French have notes under five
hundred frank-; the English have none under
five pounds s erliug. and both have a plenti
ful gold and silver currency. Let the Ameri
can banish all paper under twenty dollars, and
g Id and stiver will be abundant; if such paper
is no» banished, tbelaw which has been p issed
is a vam and empty enactment. Mr. B pur
sued this topic, characterising it as the crown
ing and glorious act of Jai kson’s Administra
tion, and a loly’og to him, with the change of
a word, the encomium of the Roman historians
upon Augustus, he found Rome brick, and l ‘f?
it marble; Jackson found the currency of A
menca paper at>d would leave it gold ! !
M B spoke of the removal of the depos
its, and called it the wisest and most masterly
movement ever m ide in the political theatre
It had drawn the fire of the B i"k —it had ex
tractedfcher fire—it had enabled the people to
whip the giant before it was ready for the
fight. He said the time would come when
the concluding reason assigned by Mr. Ta
ney for the removal, would silence all cav
illers, and command the admiration of all
Statesmen; that reason in which he pointed
out the impossibility of saving the country
from t'te power <>f the Bink, if it had been per
mitted to gn on accumulating the public tno
ney in its v mils; increasing i's debts; extend
ing its circulation; raising b illatices against
Sta’e institutions; m > uipoltz’ug exchange, and
bout ding specie; nil the charter was ready to
exphe, and then bursting upon the people in
one Id ick cloud of ier‘°r, and desolation, call
ing in dl debts, curtailing IH circulation, deny
ing all fiuichasers <>t exchange, calling upon
Io al banks fin their balances, using us specie
to buy up their pipet, Hid run them down;
and all the scene complicated with a Presiden
ti J election! tn such a scene, Mr. I’am-y and
the President foresaw that the bank would tri
umph! that st-d .ftion on tine hand, and oppies
ston «n the other, would enable her both to
renew Jifir <• hart nr 1.0 <• !ec> her Prestden !
to banish speciefotever from America ! toes
tablish the paper system as fullv as it was m
Enyl-ind twenty years ago; and ’o rule the tw
Houses of’ Coiigtens wi'ti despotic auihoitiy;
to control ill elections; and 10 h Id tie Presi
dent of the United States for her ,»ensione<
until the people, by a bloody struggle, should
relieve th< tnselves from the disg- icefiil domin
ion of a s’ ltib aristocracy,
Mt. B. went over several other topics, ex
horted »he demyrracy ’<» unanimity, con ert.
and co’tfiden e, and concluded with offe.rin* a
! sentiment of hon»t and admiration for the nian
; ner tn which theyhad stood the fi<es of perse
cution tu the mouth of the torn ace.
Pennsylvanian.
FMO.V MEETING.
1
Front th Hanner.
Public notice having previously been given,
a large a d reap •« tah!<» number of the Union
Dt inucratic Bep '-brans of Jackson roun'y,
■ assembl d al 'he Court h- nse on the 18th Hist,
fu the nurpnse of taking into consideration
I matters of inter*’*' 'o 'he party.
I ()>> motion. WlLttiM D M IRTIN, Esq was
11-<1 m di- C air. ai I KnwtSD ’ dams and
Sylvanos Ripley, Esqrs appointed Secre
i t tries.
Janes Liddell, Esq. then explained the ob
jects ot’ the meeting, winch tie said were 1 i<>
counteract the ed’-rts of the self etvled State
Rights Pariv in this county, who had lately met
i and urgamz-'d a political assoeinliou; ’ and al
! <o, “ to publish tn the world what are our own
political doctrines ” lie then moved the ap
poin'ment of a committee, to mnsist of one
member from each (’apt.tin’s district in the
county, to prepare and report to the meeting a
suitable preamble and re* d'ltions. The mo
tion having been carped, 'he Chair appointed
the following genil'-men to serve on that com
mittee : James L dri»Jl, Edward \dims.
Thomas J. B »wen. Perry Bowen. J icob Braz
••i on, X. C. Jot . J <«nes *{. McLesk'-v,
j Ri--h tr<t Pe-Hec ,-t J >h<t G. P "m io Hid P ter
[}. M Mullen Esq-*, The cunmit-e- retired
. md at er a-hurt ab«euce returned and reported
the t-dl a ng preamble and resolutions:
VS herras, 4 portom of the citizens nt Jack-
I son county has recently organized an assuria
tj»m f>r the purpi se of propagating the modern
; laenry -f -i p • --ights —and it 1* gen
'■ fi illy i»- kn wh dg-’d ilia'the Stale Rights doc
' tr.ne-, -is defined hv the party in this state that
11 is Ist- ly approprl » ed to ilsell the itle of State
r gn's p«rtv, are identically the same that are
~dvn ated by ihe nf South Carolina;
we, a oortion of he citizens of Jackson county,
v telding fe no party, either m er out of 'he state,
in a .superior attachment to the rights of the.
states, a* reserved to ih°m in the compact
.»iii< h formed he constitution of the U.iited '
> .ltrs; but believing tha the ultra s’ate rights ;
doctrines contended t >r by the advocates of the i
v theory, would, if carried into practical ;
operition. tend to the utter subversion of all
good government, and the dissolution of the
union of tbe elates—have ’.bought proper to|
convene and publicly express our opinions and
disapprobation of the course pursued by its ad
vocates. VVe. believe the position assumed
by our opponents, that each state has the con
stitutional right of deciding on the constitution
ality of every act of the General Government,
and upon the use and abuse ol its powers; and
of interposing its authority so as to arrest the |
operation of such act within its own limits, to j
he untrue. That it is not true we think is
proved by the history of the formation of' the ,
constitution, and by contemporaneous and sun
sequent expositions of its principles.
The foimition of the constitution and its
proposal to the people of the states for their
atiiication or rejection, excited al the time,
!•,- -• I >almisv Uid dtsti'i It m every part of our
cou itry. ihe discussion of its principles and
their practical effect upon the rights of tho
states and of the peopk; was a subject of deep
interest to every citizen. So groat was the
apprehension entertained of tho eflact of the
adoption of the constitution, that two states re
fused their ratification for some time, and in
many others the parties for and against it ware
nearly equal. And yet in al the discussions
upon the subject, it never was suggested by
any one that each state had the authoritative
power to interpret the cons.iiution and decide
upon the use or abuse of its power by the Gen
eral Government. As this power in each state
would h <ve been the high, st and most controll
ing of all the powers of either tn« state or
General Government, if it had been really con
ferred, it could not have escaped the observa
tion ofthose who gave form and existsnce to
'he constitution itself. There is no evidence
that either a single member of the convention
that formed the constitution of the United
States, or of either of the conventions m the
several states that ratified it or indeed that
any other individual who publicly wrote or
spoke in favour or against its adoption, believ
ed that such a power would belong to th i in
dividual states after it should be adopted. If
the existence of this power was unknown to
those who formed the constitution, and to the
members of the various state conventions who
rittfied. and indeed to all those who took part
in the discussion of its principles, it is impos
sible that such a power does extsi. A'd as
this power would effect more essentially tho
relations created between the General Govern
ment and the states by the constitution, it
would, if it had been reserved by the states,
been clearlv expressed and c| mned by them in
forming and adopting the constitution. So far
from this being 'he cas t, fr »m the form monos
the constitution until within the last three or
four years, not withstanding the manv collisions
'hat have taken place between the General and
tate Governments, such a power has never
been claimed by the states, or as we believe
'•ven imagined to exist by any portion of tne
people <»f 'he Union, except perhaps by the
Hartford convention.
And as we would protnpllv oppose by every
- imstiiutional means, any assumption «f power
bv the General Government, so we would op
pose with equal prompities*, any assumnti >n
of power bv th S ate authorities, Pel evmg tii.it
both the General and S ate Governments
should confine themselves strictly wnhin 'he
letter <>f the ('oustHull »n. The General Go
vernment assuming no po.ver not expressly
deb-gate I to it, and tha State gov-o-nmatits no
powers that wuuid conflict with ih >sa delcgat
-d '<• the United St les We would disappro
u-'e anv m'-tsme of either the Gen«rnl or
Sta <t Governments, founded alone noon impli
cation, or that would be cul ’iilated to draw tu
rn c-dlisi >n their respective powers—
’L'herefove Resolved, That it is the opinion
of this meeting, that tho doctrine of nullifica
tion, as defined bv its present advoca es, and
the pow< rs and rights claim' d by tin m 11s d
rived from, or existing under, the Consntuiion, 1
are unfouiideETTiT taci, tiiuory.
dangerous in praciice; and being leitli r peace
able nor constitutional, should be resorted to
only when palpable violations of the Cansittu
tmn, continued oppression, and abuse of pow
er. sh dl render revohrion necessary.
Resolved, That we adhere to 'he doctrines
contained m th- Vt'-gimaand Kentucky Heso
lutmns oland ’99. as mid -rstood by Mr.
Madison, but do tior cone ir m the imerpr- 11-
tion given to them by the nalidiers ol South
( irohn • and Ge igta.
R solved, That we have increasing confi
deuce in the aitaclimem of the Execu'tve of
hie United Slates to 'he righ's d hto States,
which he has so dearly manifested by his oo
position to the mtioml system oflmernal Im
provements, and to the recharter of the United
Stales Bank.
Resolved. That tho Delegate# tn C->ngre S s
from h s State, who alibrded t h* Pr -s d
tneir 11(1 m thus protecing ther'.'his ol die
States, qe-erv the di 1 iks of thi- Hireling.
Resolved, f’ >it we d n muee ttie pr muc
ot req or ng h iii.-mh. rs of pwl tic d as*o< ia
u,,ns 1./subs ribe, 10 a cert .in ere-d, is itemg
amt-rep • die.m ind deceptive—c Ic-.lafed lo
entrap the unwary, and not affording on oppor
tunity f»r review and reflection.
' ine Preamble and Resolutrnm* wer •, by the
I req'f -t >1 the chairman of th»- comrni' ee, r»-ad
bv Mr. J N. Pendergmss, who advocated dteir
id ipiion hi a few remarks. !!•• was follow'd
' by VV. L. Mitchell, Esq. who in a rp-a', « ha> '■
i tufl elegant tnamei, de nonstra ed Ute anfi
republ char u l»r and 'he dangerous fen
; d'‘ii<-v of political associations Junius Hill
i ver, E*q. 'hen addressed the meting, and by
1 historical refereiires conclusively proved that
the dectr.no oTSt .te interposition was explo
ded at the time of ;h* adoption of n-e Fedeial
Constituti .11; th d the power to arms' the oper
ation 01 ihe laws of Congress, u’id belong to
the individual Mates under'he At tir les of Con
federation, and tbit «he ex sienee of such a
power, and ns exerei-e by some of the States,
were the tn >«t m nerial objections to tn it sys
tem, Hnd that it was principally to remedy this
evil that thn Convention was called which
framed the present Constitution. To say that •
the addruss of Mr- HJtyer woa truly eloquent,)
is doing him very imperfect justice. Judge
Schley also addressed the meeting at consider
able length, and amused,‘.instructed and delight
ed by turns, all who heard him- The ques
tion was then taken on the adoption of the Pre
amble and Resolutions, which were unanim
ously adopted.
On motion it was further resolved, that the
proceedings of the meeting be signed by the
Chiirman and Secretaries, and published.
On motion, the thanks of the meeting were
tendered to <he Chairman and Secretaries—•
and the meeting 'djourned.
WM. D. MARTIN, Chairman*
Edward 'dams ) o .
o o > Secretaries.
Sylvanus Ripley, j
RECORDER AND SPY
M. jfl. 6XTHUIGIIT. Editor.
C GA. S2f7 _ 3,1834.
Union Congressional Ticket.
JOHiN COFFEE, of Telfair County.
SE ATON GRANTL\ND, of Baldwin.
CHARES E. HAYNES, of Hancock,
GEORGE VV. OWENS, of Chatham.
WILLIAM SCHLEY, of Richmond.
IOHN W. A. S INFORD, of Baldwin,
TIMES C. TERRELL, of Franklin.
GEORGE B. TOWNS, of Talbot,
JAMES M. WAYNE, of Chatham.
L'noin and Slate ‘Tigtits “one and indivis
ible, now and forever.”
UNION CANDIDATES.
For Senate.
William
De FieldSo
House of Representatives.
Ileimry Be Slmw,
James Cantrell*
BoSiJKrt Obaro
Co be continued until complete.
44 T2ae war of*the New Allies.”
We perceive from copious extracts from the Charles,
ton Mercury and other papers, copied into the Rich
mond Enquirer, of tlv'22d tilt, that 'he Nullifiers of S
Carolina have declared a war, in their usual bold and
daring language, against Air, Calhoun’s new allies of
the North and West
A writer in the Mercury, who signs himself' 1 Algeron
Sidnev,” and whom Mr. Ritchie recognises to be James
Hamilton, Esq. uses the following emphatic language
towards Messrs. Clay, Vlebster and the National Re
publicans.
Wbat interest can the State Rights Party have in
any event, tn S' p ortinp Clay, W< lister, or any other
National Republican ? We are not engaged in a miser
able contest for power and office, V\ e profess to go
for the vindication of great principles, which we believe
to be essential to the liberties of this ennntry. We>
make war, not upon the incumbents of office, but upon
despotic and pi ofligate principle of a corrupt and op
pressivc Government. What is the difference in prin-*
cipl , b ’tween the Notional Republicans, and those
wh < nowdisgracn the seats of power? The former
with Clay and Webster as their leaders, have gone as
far as he farthest io usurpati >n "p< nthe rights of this
Confederacy. Tiny put the Tan if and the corrupt
system < f Internal 1 iprovementw upon the country.
They were tie adv. c itt s of the principles of the Pro
clainat on, a id they were the very lite and soul of the
“ Force Bill.” Where is their return to strict construe
tio 1 sunken ofby the “ Whig ?” Where is one solitary
principle of theirs identified with the rights of tha
States? e know not what may be the local policy
of Virginia S’aU Rights men; but base and abandoned,
and profligate indeed must be the State Rights party
here, if . ver it coi.ld lie brought to fight under the
Standard of tho lenders of the “Force Bill.” They
and wanned 1 hem in their perilous struggle for the li
berties of theii country. Again—ho policy can bo
wenk- r m more suicidal, dian for us to engage under
any circumstances, in placing in powerany man or set
of men, with avowed principles, directly opposed to us
upon every point <>f momentous concern. If we act
with such m< n, our Paiiy and its principles must ine
vitably b< alts rbed
The Columbia Times says “we believe that an nmnl
gi-ni tion of ’ ie State Bights with the National Re
publican party is as utterly impossible as it is impoli
tic. The l itter party is well known both to Mr. ,
Pleasants and Gen. Grei n, to b ■ at heart and in pur
pose, Ft d r dials. They compose all the old Federal
party, and are as rad.cully opposed to the doctrine of
State rights, as the Federal party, properly so called,
ever were or could bo ”
Phus i' would s<-< m. that this unh ly alliance, form
ed i corm lion, and or the most corrupt
is. si ic<- it has tail'd to accom phsh the ■ bjects ot its '
uuiitmal form itjon. now about |<, bi-dissolved and
a id re.luce 10 1 s original eleinems by its own act of
iimita i<> 1, that of prostrating the admi-iistratiun and
its fri -nds.
NullificeUion.
This doctrine is not an ordinary error. Tta princi
pal ischief co sists in the subversion of the very na
ture a’ <1 chara' ter ot the government. It cnanges tha
Coiis'i"itio 1 bv which our liberties have been guarded
ami proie< ted, for fifty years, into a mere league, of
fensive ami <l. fensive, ami tuk- s from the General Go
ve ninen', its infl or rice upon the duty of the citizen.
Let Nullification be admitted as pan and parcelot our
imvernmen', it may indeed re. ain for a little while,
but the spirit vhich now animates it, will soon be ex
ti ict, and nodii ig will b. lefi but tho lifeless corpse,
h is a poison w hicli corrupts the social feelings, and de
stroys the moral ligament which binds the citizen to
'heb 'St Government ever devised by tho wisdom of
ma ; it teaches him, that allegiance is alone due ti>
his tale, and obedience only, ’o the General Govern
ment —it polutes tiie very fountain and source of p®' W
triotism. ji.
tn n the Nulllfiers tell us, that all who approve of
the course pursued by Governor Troup in 1825, or tha
course adopted by Georgia in the Tassel case, are
Nu.ldler.-; they give us cause to doubt, either tbeir
want of a knoivlledge of the system, or their respect
for the understanding of the public.