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♦tea, oat of TO in the 6t*M pissed the Resolutions of
A fuIl*represenlation ofths people ol Georgia, taking
the lloaao of Representitives aa the standard would
contain 169 Delegate*. Al the time of the peaong ol
the Revolution# of the pretended Convention, there
were only 70 peraona in that assembly, elam in# to be
Pi'lecatea, including Ihe preaiding officer, and of (beat,
only 63 voted for the Resolutions.
South-Carol ina.
Extract from the concluding part of Governor
Hamilton's Message to the South Carolina
Legislature.
Fellow Citizens,—"The dto has been at
Inal casf, mid South Carolina has a! length ap
pealed to her ulterior sovereignty as n member
ol'this Cemedentry, and planted herself upon
her rer-rved rights:—The rightful exercise of
this power is not a question which we will any
longer argue—it is sufficient that she has will
ed it; and that the act is done: nor is its strict
compatibility with our constitutional obliga
tions to all lawn passed by the General Gov
ernment within Ihe authorized grants of power
to be drawn in question when this interposition
is excited in a case in which the compact has
been palpably, deliberately and dangerously
violated- That it brings up a conjunction of
deco and momentous interest, is neither to be
concealed nor denied.
The crisis first presents a class of duties
which is referable to yourselves. You have
been commanded by Ihe people, in their high
est sovereignly, to take care that within the
limits of this State their will be obeyed.—
They have armed you with tho requisite au
thority, and on tho wisdom, firmness anil fore
cast with which you discharge these duties,
will depend tho tranquility, peace, liberty and
happiness of our beloved Stale. Obedience to
necessary laws flowing from a legitimate source
of public Right, is the best security to social
order and civil freedom. To leave this obe
dience to the voluntary suggestion of public
duly or private conscience, or to feeble or de
fective enactments, in the end leads to cilrcmit
rigour, or it brings all just authority into duri-
sun and contempt. The meastiro of legisla
tion which you have to employ at this crisis,
is the precise amount of such enactments as
be necessary to render it utterly impossible to
collect within our limits, the duties imposed
by protective Tariffs thus nullified. That
you will resort to such civil and ponal prnvis.
tons as will accomplish this purpose, without
unnecessary rigor on the one hand, or a weak
and mistaken leniency on the other, I feel so
well assured, that I shall refrain from entering
into a detail of suggestions on a subject on
which you are so much belter advised than
myself. That you should arm every citizen
with a civil process, by which lie may claim,
if ho chooses, a restitution uf his goods, sui
ted under the existing impost, on his giving
security to abide the issue of a suit at Inw, and
tho same lime defiun what shall constitute
Treuson against the Slate, and by a bill of
paint and penulties compel obedience, and
punish disobedience of ynnr own laws, are
points loo obvious to requiro any discussion,
lu one word,you must survey the whole ground.
You must look tu and provido for all possible
conlingences. In your own limits your own
Courts of judicature, must not only he su
preme, but you must look to (lie ultimate re
sult of any conflicts of jurisdiction nnd power,
between them aad the Courts of tho Uuitud
Slates.
There ia ono contingency in particular, for
which you ought to provido, and that is, in
cuse Ihe Collectors of the Customs in any of
tho ports of the Stalo, under tho instructions
of the General Government; should refuse
cloatances to vessels nutwurd bound, that no
injury should accrue to our Irado, or to those
w ho may be currying on friendly commercial
intercourse with us, the Governor should, un
der such circumstances, be authorized to grant
instantly cerliiiculuu of clearance, under tho
soul of tho Slate.
An enlightened forecast, will not howover,
permit you to stop hero—Remember that ours
is emphatically a country puying an habitual
revtrenco to the law. As little must be left
to the direction of the Executive as possible.
Every conjuncture must bo anticipated by yuur
own enactments.
From these Legislative provisions, let me
now pass to Ihe consideration of consequen
ces, I trust of a remote and improbable occur
rence.
TV* claim that our remedy it essentially of
a pacific character. When wo set up this
claim, all we mean to say is, that of right it
ought to be, and as far as wo are concerned,
it shall bo so. To the peaceful redress affi.r-
dod by our Courts, in tho restitution which
they decree, and to the ultimate arbitrament of
our sister Stales, in a geueral Convention as
sembled on the disputed powers, wo look
with confidence to an adjustment of this pstn-
ful controversy. Rut the final issue may be
adverso to this hope.
Threats of coercion we know, were once in
relation to the probable measures of this Slate,
officially promulgcd, and public rumor, to
which it ia not safe fur those in charge of the
public authorities to be absolutely deaf, haa
not diminished the conviction that these dispo
sitions may probably bo yet enlortaimd—
Nor ought wo, in a struggle like this, to rely
entirely on the confidence that power will not
be used, becauso right may be violated.
We must be prepared fur this alternative.
I would, therefore, recommend that our Mili-
*’m System, and its laws, undergo thorough
revision. That the Executive bo authorized
to accept for the defence of Charleston and ila
dependencies, the aurvices of two thousand
volunteers, either by Companies or Files, es
they may volunteer, and that they bo formed
into four Battalions of infantry, with one Flank
Company of Riflemen attached to each Bat
talion; one Squadron of Cavalry, and two
battalions, one of Field, and the other of Hea
vy Artillery; (hat these Corps be organized
in a Legionary Brigade, and that the Execu-
tive from the precincts in which theso Volun
teers are organized, select the Officers of the
npproprinto rank for the several commands.
I suggest the expediency of this Brigade bo-
mg armed and equipped from the Public Ar
senals completely for the field, and that appro
priations may be made for supplying all defi
ciencies in our munitions of war.
In addition to these volunteer drafts, I
deem it safe to recommend that the exocutivo
he authorized also to accept of tho services
often thousand Volunteers from Ihe other di
visions of tho state, to be organized nnd ar
ranged in regiments and brigades, officers tu
he selected by the Commander-in-Chinf, and
that this whole force be railed the Stale Guard.
That portion of our rlnims upon tho Gener
al Government, which was payable in arms,
amounting in value to forty-one thousand, six
hundred and twenty five dollars nnd eighty
cents, I have received in arms of various des-
criptiona, hut still some appropriations will ho
necessary to augment our supplies.
And provision should likewise bn made for
mounting some of our heavy pieces of Ord
with the consent of the Grand Juries of their
respective counties.
The Bill from the Houso of Representa
tives to appropriate money to meet tho vari
ous expenses of the La\d and Gold Loller-
rios, Sic. was read tho third lime and passed.
Monday, Nov. 20.
Committees were appointed in conformity
to notice »f yesterday.
Notices.
Mr- Graham—To repeal tho 1st section of
an act passod 19th Nov. 1831, to extend the
timu for fortunate drawers in the Land Lottcr-
rins of 1819 nnd 1819, to lake out their grants.
Mr. Towns—To roduce me present num
ber of the Justices of Ihe Inferior Courts, to
define inure particularly the jurisdiction of
suid court nnd other purposes.
Mr. Muncrtcf—l'o make valid all sales
heretofore made by Tax Collectors, of Lands
not granted at the lime ofsnlo.
The Bill to repeal the 2d flection of an act
to Hppoint eleven additional Trustees ol the
lli''Ut|l|tl^ OWIIIU wt wu» V* » J l»ivvx-r fT _ |. . f
nance, and a fixed and annual appropriation University, Sic. was on motion o Mr. Mitch.
made for the Artillery in Charleston, and in
oilier pans of the Slute, according to their re
lative expense. I have ordered the Quartor
Master General, whose report will be presen
ted to you, and the Arsenal Keeper nl Charles-
Ion, the latter an experienced Officer of Artil
lery, to repair to this place, to attend in con
sultation, such Committees of your respec
tive bodies, in reference to the condition of
their sovpral departments.
I would moreover recommend that tho Pre
sident he requested to direct tho removal of
U. States troops now in garrison in the State
citadel in Charleston, which they now occupy
at the conjoint instance and request of the
Statu and City authorities, us the accommoda
tions of that post are much wanted fur our
arms and aniuniliontt. I would also suggest
that uftur the citadel is thus returned tu the
Slate, and the public stores belonging Ic tho
State are deposited there, the Magazine guard
he removed from tho Neck to garrison this
post, and that a daily guard ho detuched from
it to the Magn/ion: that Ihe guard be aug
mented to sixty men, and that the appointment
ol its officers, and geueral disposition, and or
ganization, bo mode under tho orders and au
thority of the comtnHndur in chief.
I should consider t.ivsnlf, Gentlemen, as
recreant to my trust, if 1 did not recommend
in vou these provisions, or the adoption of
those of much wiser import which may suggest
themselves to you, and which may be neces
sary to the public safety, and public honor,
however improbable tho contingency of their
ever being required.
It is not enough that a people may bo right
tit their struggle fur their privileges und liber
ties, but they must have the means of securing
their safety by ample resources for repelling
force by force.
I cannot however, but think thnt on a calm
mid dispassionate review by Congress and the
functionaries of rho Genornl Government, of
lh« true marita of this controversy, tiro nrhilr-i-
lion by the call of a convention of all Ihe
Stales, which wo sincerely and unxiously suck
and desire, will ho accorded to us.
To resort to force is at once In prefer a dis
solution of the Union to its preservation.—
South Carolina has declared that she admits
of no arbiter but her cn-Slales assembled with
bur in their sovereign capacity: to deny to
tier this reference, is to admit that our loague
bus no conservative principle short of an appeal
to the sword. To suppose when ono of tho
most prominent of our objections to the protec
tive syatmn is its unconslitutionality, that this
nnd the ntliur vexatious and confliciuigqiieHlions
lions of constitutional power that no'v convulse
the whole country, tiro not susceptible of com
promise or adjustment in an assembly of equi
valent authority lu that which formed the con
stitution, is to affirm that that spirit of amity
and juslico without which the Union would be
a revolting arid compulsory league, is utterly
extinct.
But be this as it mnv, whatever may bo tho
issues of this unhappy controversy, relying on
the intelligence ami spirit of a freo und gnllant
people, on the imperishable truth and sacred
elutruclcr of our right, let ns advance with an
unfultrring heart and steady step to the perfor
mance of our duty to our country.
On yonr deliberations I fervently invoke the
blessings of Almighty God.
JAS. HAMILTON, Jr.
Columbia, Nov. 27, 1832.
©cord* Hfstolatttrr.
IN SENATE.
Saturday, Nov. 24.
Committees were oppomled ngrconbly to
the notices of yesterday.
Mr. Harlow Chairman of the Committco to
whom was referred so much of the Govern
or’s Message as refers to tho relations, of tho
General Government, with tho Cherokee In
dians, made o report, in which the following
resolution was appended und unanimously
agreed to, to-wit:
Resolved, That Ihe measures pursued by the
President of the United Slates, for the purpose
of inducing the Cherokee Indiana, to remove
beyond tho limit* of Georgia, are m a high de
gree acceptable to tho Legislature, and de
serves tho approbation of the people, ia foun
ded on the most liberal, just and generous
policy.
A communication was received from his
Excellency the Governor, on the subject of
“ the distribution of tho funds set upart for Ac
ademies and Poor School*”—complaining
that ‘’doubts and difficulties have arisen,
and will again rise, in reference thereto and
■uggosting the propriety ufaddilional legislation
thereon. Which was referred to the Judicia
ry Committee.
Mr. Ragan gave notice for the appointment
of a Committee to prepare and report a bill
giving to Inferior Courts the power to grant
Corporations to Academies and Churches,
ell, ordered to he upon the tuhlc the balance of
iho xeosion.
’Die section sought to be repealed, is that
which gives an annnnl appropriation of six
thousand dollars to tho University.
Tuesday, Nov. 27,
Committees were npppoinled agreeably to
the notices of yostorduy.
Mr. Bailer gave notice for tho appointment
of a Committee to prepare and report s Bill to
require the Sheriffs of the respective counties
in Cherokeo Circuit to advorlise all their sales
of lands for tho next two years in one of the
papers ofMillcdgeville.
Bills Passed.
A Bill, to repeal “ An act to abolish peni
tentiary Imprisonment in this State.”
A Bill, to repeal tho 7th, 8th, nnd 9lh sec
tions of liie act to prevent exercise of assumed
and nrlulrrry power by all persons under pre
text of authority from tho Cherokee Indians,
and their laws, &c.
A Bill, to exempt all persons w-lto have
boon engaged in a duel, either directly or in
directly, from tho pains, penalties and disabil
ities thereby incurred.
The Senate took tip the Message from the
House of Representatives and concurred in the
several amendments made by that branch of
General Assembly, to a bill to add a part of tho
enunliosnf lluhrr.-dintn and llall to tho county
of Cherokee, and to divide the same into ten
counties, nnd to provido for the organization
of the same—so the bill litis filially passed.
IVcdncsday, Nov. 2S.
The Senate reconsidered so much of the
Journal of yesterday us embraced tho passage
of the Bill, exempting persons who have been
engaged in a duol directly or indirectly from
the pains, penalties and disabilities thereby in
curred.
Committees were appointed agreeably to
Ilia notices of yesterday.
The Joint comniiltoo on the stain of the
Republic, to whom wore roferred sundry reso-
iulions from tno Legislature of Tennessee,
which have for their object the sale “of nil
the vacant lands owned or claimed by the U
States, in any of the Slates or Territories, as
soon as it can reasonably be done a! n gradua
ted price,” and for distributing the proceeds of
said sole to the Stnle and Territories for the
purposes of Education, roado a report to which
tho following Resolutions were uppended, and
adopted, to wit:
Resolved, That the General Assembly of tho
State of Georgia, docs not concur with the
General Assembly of the Slato of Tennessee
in recommending a change in tho mode of dis
posing of the public lands.
The bill from the Senato to add a part of
Habersham and Hall to the county of Chero
kee, and to divide the samo into ten counties,
nnd to provide for tho organization of the
same,was taken up, read the third time, amen
ded and passed, and the Clerk directed to car
ry it forthwith to the Senate.
The bill from the Senate to lay out and de
fine a new Division of Georgia Militia, was
read the 3d time and passed.
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1832.
Notiros for the appointment of Committees
to prepare and report bills.
Mr. Rogers—To amend the Judiciary laws
of this Hate, so as to regulate tho fees of
Clerks of the Superior Courts, in certain cases
Mr. Face—To alter the 3d section of the
4th article of the Constitution, so as to author
ize the election of Brigadier General to be
made by the people of each Brigade.
Mr. Liddell—To provide for the trial of
sci. fu’s, in cases of fraudulent draws, where
the same may happen to fall on Indian Im
provements.
The Bill more effectually to compensate Ju
rors, and explain an act assented to 21st Dec.
1830, to alter the Jurors and Attorney’s fees
in this State, was read the 3d time and passed.
©metal tntrUtarncr.
North Carolina.—On Monday the 19th ult.
the Legislature met at Ihe residence of the
Governor, in Raleigh.nnd both houses were or
ganized. In the senate, William D. Moscly,
was elected Speaker, and Louis D. Henry,
was elected Speaker of the Houso of Com
mons. On the same day, Gov. Stokes trans
mitted the annual message. As relates to his
having been appointed by the President a com
missioner to treat with the indians, 8ic. he
says—“ Having been appointed by the Presi
dent of the U. States, a Commissioner to treat
with tho Indians, nnd for other purposes, I
have thought it my duly to accept the appoint
ment, in ns much as the peaceable settlement
nnd location of tho Indians removing beyond
the Mississippi, isamallor of great importance
to Ihe U. States, and not less so to North-Cnr-
olina; especially, ns regards the removal of
that portion of the Cherokee nation now resi
ding within the limits of this State. It is
known to many of you, that these Indians have
for a long timo been orderly and peaceable,
nnd their conduct has not made it necessary
lor tho Legislature of North-Carolina to ex
tend the Inws of tho State over the Territory
they occupy, or in any manner to interfere with
their concerns, except for tho purposes of pro
tection. They deserve the fostering care of
tho General Government, and I havo no doubt
will receive it.”
Tho New.Jersy Advocate acknowledges
- i—jt its lute political defeat thus good tiaturedily :
Resolved, That the Gonernl Government KOtgfj*-" • IVe hove met the enemy, and they—
no power under the Constitution to distribute aint ours.’ This is a fact which will not he
any part ol the public revenue to tho States
nnd Territories for the purposos of Education,
Resolved, That His Excellency Ihe Govern
or be requested to forward to our delegation
in Congress a copy of this report and these
resolutions, and that copies be forwarded to
the Governors of the several States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday Nov. 24.
Committees were appointed agreeably to
previous notice.
The Bill to amend the Habeas Corpus low
of this State, was taken up read a third timo,
and rejocled by tho House.
Mr. Liddell had leave to introduce in9tan-
ter, a bill tu levy and collect a tax lor tho politi
cal vear 1833.
(5u motion of Mr. Young’ of Oglethorpe, the
Joint Committee on Banks, were instructed to
enquire into the propriety and expediency of re
quiring the President of tho several Bunks in
this State, to multo monthly, instead of aunual
reports.
Monday, November 26.
Bills reported and lead first timo.
.Mr Calhoun—To add a part of ihe county
of Hancock to the county of Baldwin.
Mr. Rogers—To inuke penal und felonious,
all trespasses upon lands iu this State, and to
defino tho punishment of the samo.
Notices for the appointment of Committees
to prepare and report bills.
Mr. Davits—To repeal ibo 5th section of
an act passed 5th December, 1801, and to
provide for the trinl of cases in which the Jud
ges of the superior Courts of this Stale may
be interested.
The bill to alter nnd amend tho caption of
an act to regulate the licensing of Physicians
to practice in this State, was read the 3d time
and passed.
On motion of Mr. Turner, it was
Resolved, That Joseph Sturges bo appoin
ted Clerk, pro. tem. in the absence of the
Clerk of this House.
Tuesday, Nov. 27.
Committees were appointed in conformity
’o previous notice.
Tho Steam bont Tugalo, Capl. Wra
which left tho wharf on Wednesday morning
last, carried 11 free persons of color from this
city, whose destination is Africa, per the ship
Hercules, Captain Longcope, to sail in a few
days from Savannah.
Tho number of emigrants by this vessel is,
we understand, 157—collected from Georgia,
South-Carolinn and Florida. Thomas Hob
by, Esq. of this city, oinbarks iu the some ves
sel for tho westorn coast of Africa, and has ac
cepted an agency from tho Augusta Cnloniza-
'ion Society. The report which he will be en
abled to make of the Colony of Liberia, from
porsonnl observation, will be a truly interesting
document to his fellow-citizens generally.—
We wish him a prosperous voyage and snfo re
turn to his country and friends.—N. Jl. Ga
zelle.
disputed—nnd one which requires no ghost to
come from the grave to tell us. Wo havo
been swamped in Pennsylvania, rowed up Salt
River by the Yorkers, and are now high and
dry on the overslaugh of Point-no*P Jnt—there
to stick till nnothcr four years, the tide floats us
again un the billowa ocean of politics. But what
of this? the‘victors’have done their prettiest
against the 1 vanquishedand because they
havo eaten the pudding’ it ia no reason that
wo should ent the bag. The fact is, wo have
been wofully licked, but there is no use in' cry.
ing for spilt milk.’ Simon Spatterdash say#
in the piny,——ono good turn deserves annil,
er, as the beef steak said to the gridiron’—so
lot us say the next lime tho Irustlo comes
about. Tho long faces now, will be spunk to
the backbono then, and if wc cannot even for
the next term elect the man of our choice
why, our opponents will theirs,—and that will
amount to the same thing.”
Wholesale Emigration.-YUv Stuttgard Uni
versal Gazolte of Sept. 2d- announces that t
plan is in progress in the South West of Ger
many, to take up a state and ship it over to the
United States, to become a 25th member of
tho confederacy. The following notice of the
project appears in that publication ;—Accor
ding to accounts from the south west of Germ
any, a society of 'iberal men are organizing a
grand plan for emigration to North America.
The emigration has hitherto been precarious,
because it did not rest on any solid foundation,
and because the means were not concentrated.
But now it is different, as the object is to form
New Germany beyond the ocean, which is to
receive all ihoso whose hopes and claims to
liberty and right are disappointed in Old Ger
many. In order to be admitted into the Con
federation of the United .States of America,
the law requires the number of free inhabit
ants, above 25 years of age, to be 60,000,
[40,000 without distinction of age, Eds] and
this number is to assemble before any further
measures can be taken. Many of the Ger
mans established in North America will join
their countrymen, and their plan is so popular
iu Germany that scarcely any doubts are en
tertained of its being successful.
Al lion Chase and A. .71. Risbct.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8,183SL
To the Public.
Tns rapid incresse of population, wealth and i n .
telligencs of Western Georcu, hare prompted
the Editors of the “ Socmens Banks*,” in order to
keep pace with the improvement of the timee—to lay
before their friends and patrons, the following pro-
postils:
They intend about the first of February next to
publish the “ Banner” on a large imperi.il sheet-net
inferior in size or style of execution, to sny now puh.
lislied in the Slate—for the accomplishment ofwhitl,
purpose, they have ordered from New York in entire
new set of materials.
The Editors deem it unnecessary at this late day, to
enter into a minute detail of their political creed—they
would deem it but a work of supererogation. Suffice it
to say, their best efforts will always be directed (by
disseminating correct principles, religious, moral ind
political) to the advancement of the interest, honor
and happiness of the people—particularly that portion
of them comprising the Western, and North Western
section ol the Stale ; and to whom they mainly look
for patronage and support.
The patronage of the Banner is now respectable, hat
not sufficient to meet the increase of expenditure that
must necessarily occur, in effecting the improvements
contemplated. They are sanguine, however, in the
hope, that a liberal public will yield to their efforts,
that support and encouragement, upon which they
oione must rely, for the successful accomplishment oT
an undertaking so responsible,
—©0©—-
" Guns, PI,tots, and Triggers/”—Walsh’s “ Philadel
phia Gazette,” the organ of the United States’ Bank in
that place, in commenting a short time since on Ihe re-
election of Gen. Jackson to the Presidency, uses the
following mysterious language: “ We add with no less
sincerity, that we anticipate and dread for President
Jackson himself, toms catastrophe not distant,” Ire. Tho
“ Mercury,” the red hot organ of the Nullification party
in Charleston, South Carolina, is a little more explicit
and intelligible on the subject. In commenting on the
probable interference of the President with the views
of the nultifiers of that Stite, it threatens "consequmen
PERSONAL to himself of which he litlls dreams / 7"
The American System.—We have ever believed with
Mr, Jefferson, that there belonged to the free people
of this country a redeeming principle sufficient to prove
in all emergencies a corrective to eny abuses which
might grow out the regular administration of the Go
vernment ; and that the natural characteristic of the
people of the United States—"good sense”—would of
itself in a few years correct Ihe evils of the American
System. A majority of the people may fora short lime
be blinded, hoodwinked, and oppressed by artful and
designing leaders, but Ihe spirit of inquiry abroad in the
land—and the great facilities afforded hy Iho press, for
the full, free, and uncontrolled gratification of that spir
it, forbid the idea that such usurpations and oppression
can ever he borne with or tolerated for any length of
time. It has been to this “good sense of the American
people” we have always looked for deliverance, and to
it we still fondly chug, now that “clouds and shad
ows” alone, seem to lower in the horizon of our coun
try’s prosperity and happiness. Many circumstances
have induced us to believe, that tho free trade doc
trines were rapidly gaining ground at the North and
East.
The overwhelming majority of votes lately receiver!
by our venerable and patriotic Chief Magistrate, Gen.
Jackson—himaelf pledged to a fair arid equitable adjust
ment of the Tariff—is to us “ confirmation strong as
holy writ,” that there exists no insurmountable obsta
cle to the settlement of the question, so far as the peo
ple arc concerned: in addition to which, the altered
tone of Ihe public prints, particularly at the Norh, and
correct private intelligence which we have lately re
ceived, all speak a language on this subject not Is bo
mistaken.
The following is an extract from a letter lately re
ceived in this place, from an intelligent Southern gen
tleman, who hax been travelling at the North tad East
for several months paat. We give it at an evidence of
the justness of our conclusion on this subject,
" Every thing is now comparatively quiet to what it
has been in New York—Ihe great political contest Is
over, and the friends of Jackson, and the friends ofths
South, are well satisfied with the result. In my first
letter to you, I expressed an opinion, which it now
made, would be somewhat modified—it was the opin
ion that wc were virtually a divided people. I have
since then mingled with many, who have left a differ
ent impression on my mind j many who admit the jus
tice of our complaints—many whoso all is identified
with Ihe great interest of the East—that are manfully
contending under the Jackson flag, for a fair and hon
orable adjustment of the very evil of w hich we com
plain. Whatever may be the declarations on the floor
of Congress, of the advocates of the protecting system,
it \» false to contend, that wc have nothing to hope,
from the justice or magnanimity of the greet mats of the
people. Maine, New Hampshire, and New Jersey,
speak a different language—the divided condition of
Rhode Island, and in a less degree of Massachusetts,
with Ihe overwhelming majorities of New York and
Pennsylvania in favur ofths administration—all satiety
us, that we have much to hope, from a course of man
ly, but patriotic firmness in our opposition to the sys
tem. It is better to bear the evils now than fly to those
we know not of, se wc must upon this subject, someday
or other, be prepared to act in concert, Mr. Van Bu-
ren is now in New York, the freedom of the city has
just been given him. I sm not able Vo tell yon whal it
is, for nobody here knows. Gov. Mercy elect, is also
here, and aninmaleoflhe house where lam. Hs has
been Ihe subject of more sport within a lew wsektlhan
all the men in the state—tiov. Mercy’s “ breeches," for
the mending of which, he charged the slate 50 cents,
is a popular jest, especially with the anti-administration
men j the cream of the juke can only be known by k
history of the transaction—which 1 nave not time to
give."
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South Carolina and Ihe General Government.—The
fact oftlie President’s having orderedacompaoyortwo
of artillery and a few revenue cutters, from Baltimore
and Norfolk, to the fort* and harbour of Charleaton,
has been greedily seized upon by bis enemies at Ihe
North and South, a* incontcstiblo evidence of his inten
tion to employ force in coercing ihe refractory spirits of
South Carolina,n»o obedience. The Washington Globe,
