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[Concladt t,j
At yo r la->t session I cuiied the attention
of Congr- 8 to the destruction of the public
building occupied by the Treasury Depart
ment. As the public interest requires that
another building should be erected, with as
little delay as possible, it is hoped the means
will be seasonably provided, that they will be
amploennugh to authorize such an enlarge
ment and improvement in the plan of the Hadd
ing ns will more effectually accommodate the
public officers, and secure the public docu
ments deposited in it from the casualties of
lire.
1 have not been able to satisfy myself, that
the bih entitled “ an Act to improve the navi
gation of the Wabash river,” which was sent
io me at the close of your last session, ought
to pass, and I have therefore withheld trom it
my approval, and now return it to the Senate,
the body in which it originated.
Thciecan be no question connected with
the administration of public affairs, more ini- i
pot tant or more d'ffvolt to he satisfactorily j
dealt with than that which relates to th right- ;
fill authority and proper action of the Feder il '
Government upon the subject of Internal Im |
provements. To inherent embarrassments
have been added others resulting from the
course of our legislation concerning it.
I have heretofore communicated freely with
Congress upon this subject, and in adverting
io it again, 1 cannot retrain trom expressing
my increased conviction o' its extreme i n
portance, as well in regard to ns bearing upon
ihe maintenance of the Constitution and the
prudent management of the public revenue,
as on occount of its disturbing effect upon the
harmony of the Union.
We are in no danger from violations ol the
Constitution by which encroachments are
made upon the personal rights of the citizen.
The sentence of condemnation long since pro
nounced by the American People upon acts of!
that character, will I doubt not, con inuo to
prove as salutary in its effects as it is irrever
anble in its nature. But against the dangers
of unconstitutional acts which, instead of me
nacing the vengeance of offended authority,
proffer local advantages, and bring in their ;
train the patronage of the Government, we
are, I fear, nos so safe. To -appose that be- ,j
cause our Government has be hi instituted for;
the benefit of the People, it must therefore !
have (he power to do whatever may seem to i
conduce lo the public good, is an error into
whicb even honest minds are too apt to fall.'
In yielding themselves to this fallacy, they
overlook the great considerations tn which
the Federal Constitution was Io mded. Tney .
forgot that in consequence of the coo eeded
diversities m tho interest and audition »i the I
different states, it was foreseen, at the petiod
of its adoption, that although a particular men-1
sure of the Government niiglr be hemliml
and proper in one state, it might be ibe re-■
reverse in another —that it was f.> this reason
the States would not consent to make a grant ;
to the Federal Government of the gen raland
usual powers of Government, but of such only i
as were specifically enumerated, and the pro-1
table effects of which (hey could, as they I
thought, safely anticipate; and thev f'urgm
also the paramount onligation rpon all to.
abide by the compact, then so solemnly and,
tis it was hoped, so firmly est iblished. In <d
dition to the dangers to the Constt ution !
springing from the sources I have stated, there :
has been one which was perhaus greater than
nil. 1 allude to the materials which this nub
joct has afforded for sinister appeals to elfish
feelings, and the opinion heretofore so exten
sively entertained of its adaptation to the pur
pose* of personal ambition. With such sura
nlents it is not surprising that the acts and
pretensions of (he Federal Government in this I
behalf should sometimes have been carried to j
an alarming extent. The questions which |
have arisen upon this subject have related i
Ist. The power of making internal improve
ments within the limits of a State, with the
right of territorial jurisdiction, sufficient at
least for their presetvation and use.
2d. To the right of appropriating money in
aid of such works when carried on by a stale
or by n company in virtue of State authority,
surrendering the claim of j insdiction; and
3d. To the propriety of appropriation for
improvements of a paiticulrr class, viz. for
lighthouses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and
for i •• removal of sand bars, sawvers, and
other temporary and partial impedimenta in
out navigable rivers and harbors.
The claims of power f« r (he General Go
vernment upon each of these points, certainly
present matter of the deepest interest. The
first, is, however, of much tie? greatest nnpor
lance, inasmuch as, in addition to the dangers
of unequal and improvident expend.lures ol
public moneys, common to all, there is super
added to that the conflicting jurisdiction of
the respective governments. Federal juris
diction, nt least to the extent I h ive staled,has
been justly regarded by its adtocates ns ne
cessarily appurtenant io the power tn question
if that exists by the coustitution. in it the
most mj inous conflicts would unavoidably
arise between the respective jurisdictions of
the Suite and Federal G ivernments, in the
nbs’.ice of a consiiiuitou al provision miikrij
out tiiKir respective bo indanes, cannot !>'•
doubled. T’io local advunt il! sto be obtain
ed would induce the Stites to overln >k m the
beginning, the dangers and difli • ilties to
xymrh ih*y mgut ultimately b' exposed. I le
.»-<•« exercised by the Federal Government
•. <•» »n >•* regard -d wll je t o i-v by me
: ior i id irigi m 114 o they must
. n ; •< a >».i >r a*su u 010.1, 1 w >uld tie
.1. ,s uie >»■> iht to then w.aii .<1 si:-
1.-tunnies and ’empi ,t to the
lu7 .< ver intumpt ib e w • S- >•
,■ niei/ . . ■ i.d »e mere ised, <ud those
;», lie; >h en rests the tendency of our sys
tem towards consoliJ iiiuo greatly weakened.
Tb.e ul&.ors and ajems us ;iie Gerten! Guv-
I eminent ffiight not always have the discretion
j to abstain fr«>m ini wueddling with stale eon-
Icerns and if they did, they would not always
; escape the suspicion of having done so. Col
! lisions. and consequent irritations would spring
u p—{hat harmony which should ever exist be
i tweet) the General Government and each
' member of the Confederacy, would be fre
j quenily interrupted—a spirit of contention
i would be engendered—and the dangers of di
j vision greatly multiplied.
j Yet we all know, th it notwithstanding these
l grave objections, this d iiigeroiis doctrine was
‘at one time apparently proceeding to i's final
! establishment with fearful rapidity. The de
sire to embark the Federal Government tn
works of internal improvement, prevailed in
the highest degree, during the first session oi
the first Congress that 1 had the honor to meei
in tny present situation. When the bill au
thorising a subscription on the part ot the U.
Stales, for stock in ihe Mavsvdle an I Lexing
ton Turnpike Companies, passed the two
Houses, there had been reported by the Com
mittees of Internal Improvements, bills con
taining app opriations for such objects, exclu
sive of those for the Cumberland road, ami tor
harbors and light-houses, to the amount of
about one hundred and six millions ot dollars.
In this amount was included authority to the
Secret iry of the Treasu.y to subscribe tor he
slock of diffeient companies to a great extent,
ami tilt* residue was principally for the direct
construction of coatis by this Government. Io
addition to these projects, which had been pre
scuted to the two Houses, under the sanction
and recommendation of their respective Com
minees on !<•:, rnal Improvements, there were j
then stil* pending uejore ihe committees, and |
io memorials o Com iess pr< emed, but no I
referred different pr jec • t r vd.'ks <»' a oun
larcharacter, the exmmsr .i w hcii cannot be,
es imated wth , eriam.y, but nust nave .x- j
ceetled one hundred millions of dollars.
Regarding the oiii authorising t subscrip
t on to the stock of tne Maysville and L xmg
ton 1' irnpike Company as the entering wedge
of a system, which however weak at first,
might soon become strong enough to f ive the
bands of the Union asunder, and believing that
if its passage was acquiesced in by the Exec
utive or any of the People, there would no lon
ger be any limitation upon the authority ot the
General Government in respect »o the ippro
priation of money for such objects, 1 dee n
ed it an imperitive duty to withhold from it he
Execu ive approval klthougn from the ob
viously local chat tctei "I that work, 1 might
a ell have contented myseii with a refusal to
appr <ve me odl upon that ground, yet, sensi
ble ot ths vital importance of the subject, and
anxious that my v.uws and opinions in regar 1
to i tie whole matter, should tie t dly under- (
stood by Congress, <ud us mv constituents, I
felt it my duty to go turlher. 1 therefore em
braced mat eai<» ■ <-as. »n to apprize Con
gress, hai, m mv opinion, the Constiiuti >n
did not confer upon u the power to authorize
the construction of ordinary roads ,md auals
witmn lue nmits ot a State, and to say re
specttully, thai n » bill admi mg such a power
could receive my offi« lai sanction. I did so
in the confident expectation that the speedy
setilemeai of the public mind upon the whole
subject would be grea’ly facilitated by the dif
te eu e between me •*'.» ti mses md myself,
an i hai the hartnom »us action of die several
dep <i i tn» ni3 of tne Fed-ral Government in
regard io it, would be ultimately secured.
So fir ai least as it regerds this branch of
the subject, mv best hopes have been realized.
Nearly lour years tiave elapsed, and several
sessions of Congress have intervened, and no
attempt, wiihui rnv recollection, has been
to induce Congrses to exercise this power.
The applications for ihe construction of roads
and canals, winch were formerly multiplied
upon your files, are no longer presented and
we have good reason io infer that the current
of public sentiment has become s> decided
, against the pretention as effectually to dis
' courage its reasse non. So thinking 1 derive
; the grtAest s msiaction from tne conviction,
I that thus much a least his been secured upon
i this important and embarrassing subject.
From aitc-mpis to appropriate the national
| funds to objects winch are confessedly of a
local character, we cannot, I rus". have any
thing further to apprehend. Mv views in re
gard to (he expediency ol making appiopna
tious tor works which are claimed to be of a
national character, and prosecuted under state
authority , assuming that Congress ha ve aright
to do so, were staled m tny annual message
to Cougrcss in 1830, and also in that con
taining my objections to the Maysville Road
Bill.
So thoroughly convinced am I, that no
such appropriations ought to be made by Con
gress, until 1 suitable constitution.il provision
is made upon the subject, and so essential do I
regard the point t® the highest interest of our
comi ry, that I could not consider myself as
discharging mv duty to my constituents in giv
ing the Executive sanction to any bill contaiu
; ing such an appropriation. It the people of
me United States desire that tie public Trea
sure shall be resorted to for the means te pro
secute such works, they will concur in an
amendment cd the constitution, prescribing a
rule bv which me nation *1 character of me
works is to be te-ted, and wmeh i!»e greatest
piacttcable ecpiil.’y of benefits may be secur
ed to each member of the confederacy. Ine
! c;‘s ‘cis ul such a regulation would be most *.*-
luiai v in preventing unproti:able < xppnditures,
in securing our !■ gisi.imm from the moat per
.liCiu.is consequences of a scr.tmole lor fav.»rs
of Goveimum , and m repressing the spirit <■!
discontent wim a m ist inevitably .ri-c Irmn an
uneq iul }d<s nbuuo i of the treasures which
•.. long aim to ail.
There is anoth-r cl -s of appr »p lations tor
• . <t mv be ct' -d, vr tioul 1 npropne >, m
) lernal imprnve.ni nis, winch have sjways been
I regarded as standing upon citletcni grounds
from those to winch I have referred, i a'lude
iuch .fs hijtve fur their obje-t the irsproie-
j rtient of our harbors, the removal of partial and
I temporary obstrvcticms in our navigable river
for the facility and security of our foreign
commerce. Thegrounds upon which I dis
tinguish apnropinations of this character from
others, have already been stated to Congress.
I will n<>w only add that at the first session of
Congress under the new Constitution, it was
provided by law, that all expenses which
shou'd accrue ' from and after the 15th day
of August, 1789, in the nececsary sup
port and maintenance and repairs of all light
houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers er
ected, placed or sunk before the passage of the
act. within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of
the United S ales, for rendering the naviga
tion thereof easy and safe, should be defrayed
out of the Treasury of the United "states, and
further tha’ it should be the duty <ff the Secre
tary of the Treasury to provide by contracts,
with the approbation of the President, for re
building when necessary and keeping in re
pair the light houses, beacons, buoys, and
public pier-, m the several Slates, and lor fur
nishing them with supplies. Appropriations
for similar objects have been continued from 1
lhai ume io the present without inteiruption or
dispute. As a natural consequence of the in
crease and extension of our foreign commerce,
pons oi entry and delivery have been multi
plied and established, not only on our sea
boa; d, but in the interior of our country, up ui
our lakes and rivers. Ihe conven
ience and safety ofiWis commerce have led to
the grade d extension of these expenditures,
to the erection of light houses, the placing,
planting and sinking of buoys, beacons, and
piers, and to the removal of partial and tem
porary obstructions in our navigable rivers,
and in the harbors upon our great lakes, as
v.- lis on the sea boatd. Although I have
to -ugr-ss my apprehension that
nese e.i j-' :• - been ex-
iravag.> ■ diSu - < . > tnw -idvan-
tages io oe dei t. ii an u< m, < tiavr am fei<
it to be my duty to iefuse my assent to bills
containing them, and lave* contented myseii
to follow in tins respect in the footsteps of ad
my predecessers. Sensible, however, from
experience and observation, of the great ab
es to which me imrestricu d exercise of ih's
authority hv Congress was exposed, I have
prescribe a limitation for the government of
my own conduct, by which expenditures of
Uns co iracter are confined to pl n-es below the
ports of entry or delivery established bv law. 1
am very sensible that this restriction is not as
satisfactory as could be desired, and that much
embarrassment may oe caused to tne Execu
tive Department in its execution, by appropri
at ons lor remote, and not well understood ob
jects. 3n as neither my own reflections, nor
the iig’H which 11 may properly derive from
o het sour es, have supplied me with a better,
I shall continue lo apply tny best exertions to
a saiths ul application of the rule upon which it
is founded. I sincerely regret that I could
no; give my assent to the bill entitled “ An
act io improve the navigation of the Wabash
river,” but 1 could not have done so without
receding from the ground which I have, upon
the fullest considrraiion, taken upon this sub
ject, and of which Congress has been hereto
fore apprized, and without throwing the sub
ject again open to abuses which no good citi
z *n, eiiteriaintng mv opinions, c*>uld deMire.
I rely upon the intelligence and candor of
of my fellow citizens, in whose liberal indul
gence, I have already so largely participated
for a correct appreciation of my motives in
interposing, as I have done, on this and other
occasions, checks t© a course of legislation
which, without, in the slightest degree, calling
in question the motives of others, 1 consider
as sanctioning improper and unconstitutional
expendituies of public treasure.
1 am not hostile to in ernal improvements,
' and wish to see them extended to every part of
i the country. Bit 1 »m fully persuaded, if
tney are not commenced in a proper manner,
confined to proper objects, and conducted un
der an authority generally conceded to be
rightful, that a successful prosecution of them
cannot be reasonably expected. The attempt
! will meet with leststence where it might other
, wise receive support, and instead of strength
ening the bonds ot our confederacy, it will
only multiply and aggravate the causes of dis
union.
ANDREW JACKSON.
[Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.]
Washington, December, 17.
“Mr. Webster to-day prought forward Ins
Bill to make an appropriation io indemnify
American citizens for spoliations committed
by France previous to the year 1800. Mr.
Webster contented himself with a brief open
, tn ' of the case, in which he lucidly expounded
t;;j principle on which the bill was founded,
ihe spoliations were committed previous to
1800, and by a treaty formed between me
I United .States and France, tn September, IbOO,
! these claims were merged and sunk ho Liras
regards any liability on tiie pari ol France, and
! the citizens of the United States, who < tanned
; indemnity, had no alternative but to apply to
; their own Government, by whose act th< habi
• lily of tne French Government had been de
stroyed. Af.er Mr. Webster had concluded,
and the Bill had been reported io the Sena’e,
j Mi. Tyier expressed hnn->eif very unequivo
cally against ihe claims. lie objected that es
the Government had previously made every
exertion to obtain an allowance of meso claims
on me par. of France, it had requHled Hselfol
everv obligation w.ncn it <>w d to its citizens,
and th* r loulu be no claim upon it, in conse
quern e oi the reluvai of tho French Govern
ment to allow these ciaims Mr. Preston ob
jected to ilie payment of five millions h»r the
exclos.vo benefit of the insurers, asserting
dial if'he United -Slates were called ot to pas
tne los es of the insurers, they had is goo i a
risjht to a snare oi the pioti.s ot these insurers,
and it was well known lit t the insuiers had
mode immense profits during the urne when
•the losses arg taid 10 hive QCC'-rred. Alter
ile had finished, Mr Benton took up the
cudgels also against the Bill, and maintained
that all the arguments in favor of the claims
were drawn from the partial reports which had
been made by Committees, from which even
member of the Senate, hostile to the claims,
had been carefully excluded. He specified
Mr. White of Tennessee, and Tazewell, of
, Virginia, (the last of whom had declared the
'whole of the claims to be rotten,) as having
been omiited in the later selections for a
Committee; and declared that there was no
foundation for the claims in justice. As soon
as he sat down, Mr. Preiton stated that he
was put upon the Committee without his con
sent, and i hat he had entered into an examina
tion of the subject with a strong prejudice
against the claims, but, after wading through
the voluminous testimony which bad been
produced and published, he bad been brought
to the conviction that the claims were irresisti
ble. He spoke at considerable length on the
subject, and with a good deal of effect upon
tne justice of, the claims, concluding that it was
the amount of the appropriation, five millions,
which deterred gentlemen, on the other side,
from vottug in favor <>f the claims. To this,
Mr. Benton made a brief response, repudiat
ing the idea that he should oppose any Bill on
account of the amount of the appropriation;
and as M>. Preston had declarer that he would
go for any just claim, be the expenditure in
blood or treasure what it would, Mr. Benton
talked about the momentum which was given
to an appropriation bill by the magnitude of
the price, a momentum which carried su<*h
m<» isures through, when such small matters as
a compensation for Amy Daidin’s horse, takes
five and twenty years to get it throng Con
gress. Mr. Shepley then, as a member of the
Committee, declared his entire acquiescence
in the justice of the claims, after a very close
and long investigation, and after he had gone
through with his remarks, the Senate adjourn
ed. h aving the debate unfinished I hive no
.hr.i .< hn the bill will pass the Senate by a
considerable majority.”
ADDRESS
OT the Minority of the Legisla' lire of South
Carolina, to the People, explaining their
reasons for accepting ihe Rep >rt of the
Joint Committee on Federal Relations, on
the Amendment of the Constitutional Oath
of Offi-e.
TO HE PEOPLE OF S. CAROLINA
We, tiie minority of the Senate and House
of Representatives, feel it a duty we owe to
ourselves, to our constituents and the country
at large, to state the course we have pursued,
during the present session of the Legislature;
tn relation to the all absorbing questions which
have been before it, and the principles on
which we have acted in accepting the terms of
accommodation, which we hope and believe
will restore harmony io our community.
When the Legislature had been m session a
few davs, the bill to amend the Constitution of
the State, which in the last Legislature had
been proposed by a constitutional majority,
was pressed to a hasty reading, with the un
derstanding that two thirds of the whole repre
sentation in both branches would pass it. At
the same lime, a Bill was irihoduced io define
treason, and notice was also given, that leave
would be asked to bring in a Bill io amend the
Judiciary system of the State. 1 hese meas
ures led to the conviction on our minds, that
the majority were determined not only to pass
the amendment of the Constitution, requiring
j an oath of allegiance to the State, out to give
j it a construction, which we regarded as violat
ing the Constitution of the United States; and
to enforce that construction, without leaving
us any oi the ordinary peaceable means of re
sistance. When, therefore, ihe amendment
was finally passed in our .espe. live Imuses,
we gave notice, that we should enter on ihe
journals our solemn protest against it. But
before it became necessary to do so, a report
was made by the jo:nt committee of both
houses on federal relations, on sundry petitions
and memorials of citizens trom vaiious parts
of the State, against the new oath ot office, in
which it was distinctly declared by the said
committee, that “Me allegiance required by
Ihe amendment, is that allegiance, which everij
citizen owes to the Stale consistently with the
Constitution of the United Slates.” When
that report was taken up, it was adopted in
both houses, by large majorities of those, who
supported the amendment of the constitution.
This we regarded as an offer of lec.oncihation,
and a pledge that Ihe bills defining treason
and to amend tiie judiciary were not intended
to be passed: and to shew our confidence, hat
this was the course intended to be pursued by
the majority, we immediately withdrew our no
nce of protest, and waited events. These
have not disappointed our expectations. The
bills to define treason and to alter the judiciary
have not been pressed to a second reading, nor
' passed.
We have, therefore, decided for ourselves,
I and recommend you, to withdraw ail objec-
I turns to the new oath of office, now incorpor
ated in ihe constitution according to the forms
;of <>ur government, i>y which, while we shall
■pledge omselves “to be faithful and (rue alle
giance bear to the State,” we shall also swear,
“/o (he best of our abilities, to preserve,pro
tect, and defend lue Constitution of the ‘Unit
ed .Slates.” ”
Il is, fellow-citizens, under these circumstan
ces. and with tnese views, that we have ac
cepted the terms of accommodation, in the
same spirit of kindness, -md with the same
anxious desire to lestore harmony to our dis
tracted State, with which we believe they have
been tendered. W e ask not of the majority
lo surrender any opinions, which they con
scientiously withhold, nor on our part do w<-
intend to surrender ours. Wo consider ibis
effort al concilia nm, t.us bapptiy successful,
as we believe tiie majority regard it, to be the
understanding between the two gicat pohtica
parties of the state, that the ne'v oath of ally-
giance shall receive that construction, which J
is consistent with the Constitution of /
United States. For ourselves, to accept it, in
the full confidence that it means no more than
that we will lie faithful to the State in perform-’
ing all her constitutional requisition, nnd wilfj
hear her, “true, allegiance” to the full exten|
of all her reserved rights and sovereign
and that this is not inconsistent with the obli
gations we owe, and tho allegiance we bear to
the United States, to the full extent of all the
powers confeired by the federal constitution—
And we do not deem it inconsistent with the
good faith, with which we have accepted thiti
accommodation, and intend to maintain it, t<J*
declare, that while we are swearing to be faith
ful to the State, we intend “to support the
Constitution and laws of the United States,
“made in pursuance thereof as the supreme
law of the land.”
M. 11. GATHttICUT, Editor.
AURAMA,GA. 3 1835.
We have been induced to change our day o
publication to Saturday, in consequence of the
change in ihe arr val and departure of the
Mails at tins place, under the new contrac I
which has just gone into operation.
Eongress.
The most important business before Con
gress, up to our latest dates, are the Bills,
ported by Mi. Polk, Chairman of the Com
mittee of Wavs and M-ans, regulating the
Deposites in ihe local Banks of ihe Stales—
To provide for the sale of the
stock in the Bank of the United States—And
to repeal so much of an act as requires the
Bank of (be Untied S,tales to perform the du
ties of Commissioner of loans, for the several
States.
Pigeon Roost Mining Coinpiiny.
We call the attention of our readeis to an
advertisement in this day’s paper, by the Di
rectors of the Pigeon Roosi Mining Company,
proposing to sell Stock in the same, at va
rious place- in tho State.
We have examined ihe Charter and Consti4
tution of the Company, and are of opinion,
that Slock taken in it, will be fur more
than m any institution in the United Stales.—
Capital vested in this institution, will not bav B u
to lie idle a moment, as the Charter is located
upon the celebrated Pigeon Roost Vein Mine,
together with various other lots in that neijlr
borhood, an I as there are attached to it Mills
and o her machinery, necessary for operating
upon the vein mines, which have been in suc-j.
cessful operation for the year past, nnd will
continue under the Directors of the Company,
which will enable them to declare a dividend
the first six months The Constitution for the
government of the Company, is drawn up with
such restrictions and guards, that the Compa
ny will, we doubt not, he enabled to prove the
intrinsic value of the gold mines of Georgia-
The amount of Stock offered is four
thousand dollars, but if is in the power of the
Corporation to increase the Capital, by the
unanimous consent of the Stockholders, who
of course, will act as they ’think will best con*
dure to their inteiest. The Directors are re-Jr
q-uired to vest a considerable portion of the
funds in slave property, for the purpose of per
forming the labor, and to procure all necessary
machinery; and also, by unanimous consent of
a full Board of Diroctors, they may purchase
additional mining lands, if thought to he expe
dient, but are not empowered to sell any por
tion rs tl e Mines, unless hereafter empower
ed by ihe Stockholders.
From the known enterprize of some, who
will take a deep interest in the prosperity ot
this institution, in connexion with the unques*
tionable richness of the Mines, wo feel assor
ed, that our section of the State, will, erelong
display to the world much of its hidden treas
ure. It is, therefore, hoped that the good citi-"f
zens of our State, will freely encourage this
institution, as there will be no risk beyond tho
capital vested.
We understand that the Directors appointed
to carry this charter into operation, arc: B. C.
Dimmick and Allen Matthews, Esquires,
Lumpkin county; David Witt and Sylvanos
Ripley, Esquires, of Jackson county, and Ste
vens Thomas, Esquire, of Athens, Clark
county.
While upon this subject, we take occasion
loremark, that the expectations of m "*;rs in *
this country, during the year past, have been
fully realized, and, we doubt not, hut the
quantity of gold taken the past ye.fr, will ex
ceed in amount, that of the previous.
Correspondence of the Georgia Constitution’
alist of Dec. 18.
“The bill establishing .. Court of Errors and
Appeals, which was lost on yesterday in the
11 ou-e, r, is, tins morning, been reconsidered, "
and, on gi-ting throng leading of the journals,
was called up and passed by ihe constitutional
.majority. Ibis looks well for Georgia; and
| irum the present feeling evinced by gentlemen
ifrom all sections of the state, 1 have but little
/doubt it will be sanctioned by the requisite
‘majority in the next L< giuialure.” I