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From the Mobile Register.
We are indebted to the agent of the Mar-
shall of this district for the following letter of
instructions from the Secretary of War, and
the opinion of tho Attorney General of the
United States, on tho questions growing out
of the conduct of intruders upon the Creek
Indian Lands in this State. We hasten to
lay them before our readers.
Department of War, Aug* 20, 1833. _
- Sir—=1 have received iroin Mr. Austill,
reports of his proceedings in carrying into
effect the instructions of this drpartment, for
removing intruders from tho tract of country
ceded to the United States by the Creek : In
dians, March 24th 1832. I regret to per.
coive the difficulties he has had to contend
with, in the execution of his duty. It is sur
prising that actual claims should be set up to
take possession of the land, and that the induw
gonce wjjrtch the Government has granted to
the settlors, should be considered as confer
ring upon them positive rights.
That the Indians have been seriously in
jured, there can be no doubt, and as little that
it is the duty of the United States, faithfully
to carry into eft'ect the treaty which has been
formed. I cannot but hope that every citi
zen of Alabama, will appreciate the obliga
tions which have been. incurred, and will re
frain from any act tending to violate the treaty.
It is evident from the report of Mr. Aus
tin, that the indulgence which has been gran
ted to actual settlers, has been very injurious
to the Indians.
Individuals are fovoured by some of the
Creeks, and are obnoxious to others, and it
appears that the Chiefs have made great ob
jections to any arrangement allowing settlers
to remain upon the land. Under these cir
cumstances, the President directs that so far
as persons nowin the ceded Territory, have
conducted in conformity with the views taken
in my letter to Messrs. McCoy, Clay and
Mardis, enclosed to you December 10th, 1832,
and have been permitted by the Duputy Mar
shall to remain until this time, that they are
allowed to continue unmolested, still refrain
ing from injuring the Indians, until their crops
are gathered, and after that period, you will
require them without delay to move beyond
the ceded Territory. It is utterly inexpedi-
ent with the experience which has been had
on this subject, and the evils that are threa
tened, longer to continue the indulgence here-,
• tofore granted. All other white persons liv
ing upon those lands and not coming Within
the above description, will be removed with
out distinction and without delay.
In consequence of the suggestion of Mr.
Austill, I have asked and obtained i:.c opin
ion of the Attorney General on this subject
generally, and I transmit a copy of it, that
you may give it general publicity in order
that all persons interested may see how un
founded is any claim to hold possession of this
land, or legally to resist the instructions of
the Government for the removal of the in-
truders. You arc authorized to pulish this
opinion, together with such portion of your in
structions as you may think necessary in
such Newspapers in Alabama, as you may
think best calculated to give general iul'or-
matron.
While the Government have a solemn duty
to perform towards the Indians, which they
cannot and will not neglect,'they are still
anxious that it should be performed with as
little injury to our citizens as possible. You
will take care therefore that the subject is ful
ly explained and understood and will use as
much forbearance os is consistent with the
execution of your duty before a resort is had
to actual force, and when force is applied, it
will be limited to the actual removal of intru
ders from the ceded territory.
You wiil transmit without delay to the Dis-
trict Attorney of the Southern district of Ala.
bama, the names of all persons who hereaf
ter intrude upon, or who now live upon the
ceded land, and refbso to remove agreeably
to your requisition, together with the names
of the witnesses who con prove the necessary
facts, and the District Attorney has been in-
slructed to commence an immediate prosecu-
tion against all such persons. This meas-
ure is considered so important to the accom
plishment of the subject, that you will not
neglect it under any circumstances or in any
case.
Mr. Austill has requested that instructions
may be given to prevent the sale of Whiskey
upon the Creek lands, stating that practice
prevails to a great extent, to the utter ruin of
the Indians. However useful such a mens-
ure might be, it is not considered competent
. for the executive to direct it. The only pow
er vested in the President is to remove the
intruders from the public lands. The State
of Alabama has jurisdiction over that district
•f country, and, her Legislature can only pro
vide a remedy for this evil, and her codes of
justice enforce it.
I have transmitted to Mr. Austill a copy of
this letter. •
Instructions have been given to add anoth
er Company to the force now employed in
this duty.
. Very respectfully, I am sir,
* Your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
Robert L. Crawford, Esq.
- Marshal of the S. Dist. of Ala. Mobile.
served to ninety of the principal chiefs and
heads of families. The survey is mot yet
completed, and. consequently nu selections
have been made. The fifth article of that
treaty provides « That all intruders upon the
country thereby ceded shall be removed there
from, in the same manner as intruders may
be removed bj r law from other public lands,
until tho country is'surveyed and the selec
tions made.”
no more than provide the means necessary
to defend the possesion of the,public property
and authorise the President Jo use'ihem—
The fact that 1 these intruders are now on
the lands and have been for some timo can
not alter the question. The United States
have never abandoned their possession—--and
the intruders have never acquired a, lawful
possession against them—they were mere
tresspassers from the beginning and continue
ihe white men who have entered upon I so to the present time, and have t»o better
this land ere unquestionably intruders, withi.. I ir^lit now, than they had at the moment they
the meaning of this law. The lands belong I first entered. The lawful possession is still
to the United States, and the chiefs of the m the United States, and may in my qpinion
Creek nation could not. give permission to be defended a*gainst such tresspassos accor.
any white men to settle on them, without the dingto the directions of the act of1807 by the
consent of the United Stales. But the chiefs, | removal of the intruders by military force.
it appears, have given to them no such per
mission, and desire their removal; and the
only excuse allcdged for these instructions is 1
the license of individual Indians, in opposi
tion to the wishes of the chiefs. It can
scarcely be contended that a permission from
such persons can give a color of justification.
As the title now stands, any permission from
the Indian Chiefs, or from individual Indians
The papers are herewith returned—
I am Fir, &c,
(Signed) R. B. TANEY.
To the Hon., the Secret try of War.
We copy from tho Augusta Chronicle the follow
ing extract of a letter addressed to the Editor of the
Augusta Courier by “ Richmond." It completely
demolishes the attempt of the Ratificrs to indentify
to white men to settle on the land of the U.'l “i principle, Mr. Hull’s proposition with the wretch-
Statcs, must he utterly nugatory and void.— I ed “abortion" ofthe majority, now before tho poople
And the men who have eutcrcd and taken | for their adoption or rejection.—Ed,
possession under pretence of such permis
sions, are intruders on the lands ofthe Unites
States.
The question is, can the United States use
the military force to remove them ? The
language of tho act of march 3, 1807, is too
plain to he mistaken. It gives the President,
by express words, the power «to cmplo
such military force as he may judge necessa
ry and proper,” to remove persons who ,mw
intrude upon “any lands ceded or secured to
tho United States by any treaty made with
a foreign nation, and by a cession from any
state to the United States.”
Tiie reason lor confining the act of Con
gress to cessions of this description, is suffi
ciently obvious. All of the large and unset
tled tracts of country which belong to the U.
States were acquired either by treaty with
foreign nations; or by cession from one of the
states. And it was only on lands of that
“ Wherein consisted the duplicity of Rich
mond? You say, in opposing the plan of re
duction, when ho and his friends supported
a worse one. “ Mr. Hulls substitute was
h:ir [the minority’s] best plan;” and you
id your correspondent, both treat this as the
chosen plan of the ; minority. He expressly
..lls it so.
Now, in the first place, Mr. Hull’s plan was
better than the one now submitted to the peo
ple, in several particulars.
1. It teas a much larger reduction.
We had to choose between that, and the
one finally adopted. If we were compelled
to have inequality, for the sake of reduction,
we went for reducing to some purpose. And
you, who have declaimed all summer about
the saving of expense, had better be cautious
how you deny, the force of this argument.
2. It proposed to unite three counties, in
each Senatorial District: which left some lit-
were unquestionably of a superior order.
His letters, his addresses to the American Con
gress, and his farweil oration, when he quit-
ted for the last time, the Presidency of the
United Siates, are models of each species of
compaction. His closing a well spent life,
after a short illness, without having his
strength or faculties impaired by any previ
ous disorder or any uutoward circumstance
having occurred, that .could materially affect
his feelings, or could possibly tarnish his
fame, is an uncommon instance of good for
tune. Tho scene in which he acted also, and
the object which he achieved, are the most
remarkable which hisiory furnishes. For it
was such a man, alone, who % by combining
the force, commanding the confidence of thir
teen separate States, could have dissolved
those ties which subjected America to Europe;
and to whom the ' political separation of the
two worlds is to be attributed. But above
all, what distinguished this celebrated warn
or and statesman, is that to all those military
and public talents, and to those literary en
dowments which are too rarely united in the
same person, he added the practice of every
virtue that could adorn the private individual.
It wold be in vain for me to attempt,adequately,
to express the idea I entertain of a character,
in every respect so peculiarly splendid. The
pen of the immortal Shakspear is alone com
petent to the task, and on the tombstone of
Washing ton let it be engraved,
• “ His tiro was gentle and the elements
v So mix’d in him, that nature might stand up
Aud say to all the world—this was a man,
——taka him for all in all
We shall not look upon his like again.”
poorer regulation of the Tuscaroras should
protect them, if both were independent na
tions. •
We allude to this subject, to show how
quietly this act of oppression on the part of
New York is submitted to, by those who felt
or pretended to feel such indignation towards
the State of Georgia. And why this differ
ence ? Plainly because the one affords no
prospect of an excitement to favor the ad
vancement of political speculatod.—Roches■
ter Republican. '
description, that any evil could arise from I tie chance of some little diminution of the
intrusion and settlements, of sufficient impor- J monstrous inequality, in that bodv.
tunce to thepublic to make it advisable to use
the summary and forcible remedy authorized
by the act of Congress. The lands on which
these intrusions have been made, are certain,
ly embraced both by the words and the spirit
and the object of the law. For it was ceded
to the United States by the State of Georgia,
and is a portion ofthe unsettled county which
the act of 1807 was designed to protect.
The words .of the law being plain, and
clearly embracing in its provisions the lands
in question, what legdl objection can there
be to iis prompt and faithful execution ? Had
not Congress the power to pass such a law ?
3. It retained the federal basis, in the House
of Representatives : the rejection of which, we
insist, was a radical and fatal error.
For the sake of retaining this basis, and of
a further reduction, when we found toe could
do no better, AND NOT BEFORE, was tried
this plan. vVe, ‘Richmond, Baldwin, and
others,” as your correspondent calls us, made
this last cif >rt at conciliation and compromise.
It was offered avowedly, only as a compromise.
My old friend, « One of the People,” could in
bear witness to this: for I called on him, my
self, on the subject, aud he came into the ar
rangement as a compromise. He used his
(COPY.)
Attorney General’s Office, Aug. 22.
Sir—In answer to the enquiry contained in
your letter of August 19,1 have the honor to
flute, that in my opinion the President may
lawfiilly direct the Marshal of the District,
, and employ such military force asi he may
judge necessary.and proper, to remove intru
ders from the lands in Alabama, ceded by thd
Creek Indians-to' the United States, by treaty
of the 24th March, 1832.
The treaty with the Creek Indians provides
that a survey shall be made of tho land ce
ded to the U- States, and after the survey is
•..completed, certain rights of selection are re
It is true that these lands lie ia the State efforts to bring over, from his own party, the
of Alabama and thut State has extended its I small force necessary to turn the scale; but
laws, and the jurisdiction of its tribunals over [finding them less liberal than himself he in
the whole territory included by its limits.— I formed me of his bad success, and give it up.
But that circumstance cannot render this act In the’next place, Mr. Hull’s plan was not
of Congress unconstitutional and inoperative the best proposed by the minority. « A Tax
in that State. . For Uie act of Congress pro- I payer” may think it so. 'Ihe minority did
duces no contact of jurisdiction or of sover- IIO t, nor do you. Was the plan of reducing
eignty witu the State ot Alabama. It propo- the house to about 130, and basing a Senate
ses to defend the possession of the United of thirty six on federal numbers, worse ?
States against wrong doers who without any This was the miuorily’s “ chosen plan,
pretence of title, and in open violittion of the Was the plan of Mr. Bowen worse * Was
rights of the United States, intrude upon the the plan, reported hv the Committee of the
public property, and appropriate it to their whole, of basing both houses on free white
own use. And it there is any conflict, it is I population alone, worse ? Recollect your
only with persons of this description aud not I own opinions, often expressed, and if you
with the State ot Alabama or the proper au-1 choose x answer ibis last question in the affir-
thorny of that State. . . motive—and then, “ blush for your duplici
' The power of Congress to pass this law, ty;” if, after sueh an answer, you can blush
has I believe, long been regarded as a settled for anv thing.
point, and the government have acted upon it I Neither your correspondent, nor yourself,
accordingly. - J has even the excuse df ignorance to plead, for
I have now before me two opinions given the insulting declaration that Mr. Hull’s plan
in the year 1821 by one of my predecessors was the choice ofthe minority. The Journals
in this office. One ofthe opinions being in prove that it was not; for they show several
relation to the public lands in the State of 11- other plans, first offered and rejected. The
linois, and the other in Mississippi, and in I files of your own paper prove it; "for you will
both of these cases the right of the United I there sec the detail of proceedings in coin
States to execute the law, is treated os un- mittee of die whole, wiiich are not on the
doubted—and in this very case, the treaty journal, and which exhibit the views of the
with the Creek Indians pledges the United minority. One of your last week’s papers
States to act upon this, law in the removal of I proves it; for, the same story having been
intruders, and the senate by ratifying the trea- told before* by the Federal Union and anoth-
ty have shewn, that in the judgment of that er of your correspondents—whom, by the bye,
body, there was no constitutional objection I here take occasion to thank for his courtesy
to the exercise of the power. Indeed it can to me—I came out, then, and set them both
hardly be supposed by any one, that the Uni- right. Now, with that number under your
ted States have not the same right that an in-1 eye—with our own files to show its truth
dividual possesses to defend their lawful pos- with the journals ofthe Convention to coa-
scssion, by force, against a tresspasser.— I firm it—do you undertake to say, or even to
Must they surrender up the public property insinuate, th.it in that number, I wrote
whenever lawless violence attempts to seize falsehood? If you do not, your Inst article
upon it ? Some of the Forts and Arsenals means nothing. If you do, the effrontery of
and Light-houses, are I understand, upon I the assertion puts even its “ duplicity” and
lands which have been purchased from indi- “ dishonesty” into the shade,
viduals without any cession of jurisdiction RICHMOND,
from the state in which they lie. It cannot
be imagined that the United States ate. bound I Tax Payer* cannot even claim the glory of
to stand idle and see their possessions wrested fir8t dwcovorei■ of'this “ mare’s nett." Ho
from them—and then be pat to their action J -»<T M.«.t~l,<.. -tad, -that d.g, lud .pc*!
ejectment to regain possession of their Forts, Washington.—At the conclusion of a work
Arsenals and Light-houses, or bound to resort containing a fac simile of several letters from
to a replevin to recover the pjiblic arms and Gen. Washington to sir Jno. Sinclair, Baro-
accutrements, or an action of trover to obtain net, and published in London, soon after the
compensation in damages for their loss—such decease of the General, the following tribute
a proposition would strike every one as utter- is paid to his memory,
ly untenable. Yet it would be quite as.un-1 “Isthere on the whole, any individual, ei
reasonable to require them to suffer without! ther in ancient or modem history,who has proa-
resistance, the most valuable bodies of vacant I der claims to distinction and pre-eminence
land, which they hold in different states, to than the great character whose letter this vol
he overrun and seized on by lawless intru- ume contains? His military talents were
derS, and put tho United States to the neces- early celebrated, first in the service of Great
sity of resortiig to'actions of ejectment or Britain, and afterwards in that of America
other legal proceedings against each separ- tlis powers as a statesman, and as the fouu
ate individual in order to regain the possess- der of a constitution, which promises to se-
ion. The public domain would bo of no val- cure the happiness of ihe great nation if, was
ue, or worse than of no value if such a doc- formed to govern, cannot possibly be qqes
trine could be maintained—It is clear that a tioned. His public virtues, as the incorrupt ed
private individual may defend'the possession magistrate -of a free people, who .reluctantly
•of bis property against a wrongdoer who at- J received superior authdrity when it was judg-
tempts to deprive him of it, and may lawfully! ed necessary for the public good for him to
use any force necessary for that purpose. 1 assume it, 1 and who anxiously wished to re-
There can be no reason why a government j sign it into their hands, when it could be
holding property should be denied the same I done with public safety, can hardly be‘ equal
right—And the act of March 3d 1807, does J ed in history, His literary endowments
than any boat we ever saw on the Hudson.
Thence to the grand cabin, or rather grand
saloon, done off in the same manner, and
from which you communicate with the deck,
laboard or starboard, by winding st air cases—
her heighth to the first deck being 10 feet,
and from first to second the same.
She has two low pressure horizontal en
gines of 100 horse power each, built by War
den and Benny, Pittsburg, and is ship rig
ged, with tops' and standing top gallant yards.
Furnished by Stuuts of this city, and fitted out
by Murry & Co. Cost $75,000. In her steer
age or forward cabin are 40 berths well fur
nished, a bar, a steward and table, and three
different prices of passage are named—cabin,
steerage and deck. Whole number of
berths 166—Journal.
He who would have ventured to dream,
twenty years ago, ffiat “ a floating palace
like that described in the following paragraph
would be exhibited at this day on the waters
of Lake Erie, would have been set down as a
crack-brained visionary. What our country
is destined to become in the next twenty
years, at the same rapid rate of improvement,
it is not an easy matter to predict.—Charles
ton Courier.
Buffaloe Sep. 4—A floating palace came
into our harbor yesterday, bearing the impo
sing title of“ Geo. Washington,” built at Hu
ron Ohio, under the direction of her com
mander, Capt. A. Walker, and owned by the
Huron steamboat Company. She is 186
feet iu length, with breadth of hull 30 feet,
guards aot included-—hold 12 feet, and of
606 tonnage—decks flush, and the promen
ade deck sple j dully arranged., Shelias on
deck six state rooms of two and three births
eacu, admirably arranged tor families,
through the avenue to on elegantly construc
ted staircase and descends to the ladies’ cab-
composed of 23 berths, supporting the
deck by finely turned columns, and furnished
a style more rich aud with better taste
Extraordinary Earthquake.—The Mon.
treal Gazette of Saturday ..last, contains an ac
count of un earthquake that recently happen-
ed at St. Lco'n, in the District of Throe Ri
vers, which if true, is one of the most remar
kable on record. Its extent is said to have
been limited to about 15 acres. *
It is impossible, says the Minerva, in giving
the details of the occurrence, to describe the
desolation.which that spot now presents. All
is overthrown and fallen to the banks ofthe
river. The house qnd barn of Isaac Lesage
have sunk iu, us also the house and barn of
Augustine Ferron. Isaac Lesage is now
dead, from having been crushed under the
ruius ofhis house. His wife, who had gone
out to miik< the cows, saw the house sinking
in. An old man saved himself with several
children, by getting out by the roof. The bo
dy of Lesage has beeu found dreadfully man
gled. The house has so sunk into the earth,
that nothing but the head of the chimney is
now visible. The barn has entirely disap
peared. The family of Lesage, who have
also lost all their provisions and most of their
property, are in a great state of privatiou.—
it is said that a large cross erected on the
road side, as is customary through the devo
tion of the inhabitants, was conveyed to a
great distance, without falling, and is even
more perpendicular than it was before. The
whole of the accident occured within a shoit
distance of the Church of St. Leon.
From the Columbia Hive.
The late Town Meetings and the
Missionary.—We made allusion in the Hive
preceding the last to a missionary sermon
preached in this place and the consequeni
excitement ; we neither heard the sermon
nor attended the Town Meetings in pursuance
thereof, and are, therefore, incompetent to do
justice to either party by an Editorial com
ment ; but os the affair has awakened a con
siderable degree of public excitement and in -
terest, it may not be unacceptable to our rea
ders to receive a fuller account and in a more
official shape. We therefore extract from
the Augusta Constitutionalist the procedings
published in the papers of this place^ commu
nicated thereto by Mr. Pinney, vkith addition
al remarks of his own ; as well as the re
marks of other Journals ia relation to the
same subject.
So far iis the movers of these procedings
were actuated by motives to preserve the
peace, they were laudable and praisworthy;
but there st ems from their very face to be
an insidious blow aimed at the chris’ian re
ligion—a blow too which is not wielded bv
argument but force—take the first clauses
of the following resolution :
■“ That if the negro is to receive the gifts
that lift his condition towards freedom—the
gifts of intelligence and even of piety—he
must receive them in a manner computable
with our safety and his own.” And in pursu-
ancc of another resolution, it \Vou!d seem a
school has been abolished, which was es
pecially designed for the instruction of slaves
in Biblical and pious knowledge exclusively,
and that by lecture and not by instructing the
pupil to read !
What meaning can such language and
such proceedings have if they be not the
manifest usurpation by a town meeting of the
rights of the church-,—rights equally guaran
tied by the Jaws and constitution of their
country and the sill higher authority of the
code of Heaven ?
The command given by the divine Mas
ter to the Christian missionary was—
*» Go ye into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature.” Mark 16. 15.
And “ He that hath an ear to hear let him
hear; Rev. 2. 7. “ And how shall he hear
without a preacher” Rom. 10. 14.
Suppose the' Columbia sanhedrim, assu-
ming to judge of the propriety of pious as
well as literary instruction, should arrive at
the conclusiontthat it is impossible in any way
to comihuuicate the « gifts” of “ piety,” &c.
or even acknowledge, that a negro has a soul
to save, without a dangerous approach to
equality and “ freedom,” what is the minister
of the cross to do in such a dilemma? Dis
obey the high behest of Heaven or the para
mount mandate of the Columbia meeting ? It
may be regarded as among possible events that
the meeting may come to the conclusion, that
negroes have no souls, and, therefore, as
preaching in any shape may do harm, but can
do no good to a'soulless audience, they
should he shut out from the pale of the church
as well os the Sunday school 1 And why should
not such a conclusion be drawn, since, if we
are not egregiously mistaken, the Gamaliel
ofthe reform party of South Carolina, has al
ready written a book to prove their more gif
ted masters have no souls ? '■
It was probably owing to a train of reason
ing in this wav by the Jacobin clubs of France
and authority derived from the same source
that there closed, on servant and master, the
doors of divine worship, which were render'
ed doubly useless from the important discov
ery that muu had neither a soul to save nor, a
god to worship!
At the last Court of Oyer and Terminer in
Niagara County, a Tuscarora Indian was
tried ipid convicted of larceny and commit
ted within the territory reserved to that tribe.
When the State of Georgia extended the
jurisdiction of their laws to the Indians resi
ding within its limits, there was a party which
denounced the act as high-handed tyranny,
as a breach of the public faith, aS a violation
of international law, cl riming for the Chero-
kees the right of an independent notion. In
what do these cases differ? The U. S. have
made the treaties with the one, so have they
with thq other. The right of soil was guar
anteed to the' one, so it was to the other
The one bad an internal government of its
own, so had the other. If these tribes consti
tute independent nations, the imperfection of
their laws is no reason for forcibly confer
ring up an them the the blessings of our own,
against their consent. wThe better govern
ment of the Cherokees could not entitle them
to ap exemption from the authority of the
State in which they reside any more than the
Major Crawford—From all quarters ofthe State
we have received the most gratifying intelligence
•vith regard to the result of tho approaching contest.
Thousands of the honest citizens of Georgia, who
havo heretofore conscientiously and zealously given
their support to the leadeft of what teas tho Clark
Party, having become disgusted with their attempts
in tho late/Convention to bind them hand and foot,
and to yield them aud their property up to tho ten.
ier mercies of the minority—as well as disappointed
with the work done, under tho “ superintendence”
of the present overseer in their “ mighty work-shop"
—will abandon both their recreant leaders and in.
capable overseer, to their deserved fate. As those
leaders loose all hope for the success of their Con.
vention bantling, they hug, with a corresponding te.
n-icity, to their bosoms, tho present “ Superintend,
ant of the mighty work shop”—as they find their hold
of the one growing weak, they hold on to the other
with renewed energy. But it wont all do the
PEOPLE have brought your deeds and the deeds of
the Mighty “ Superintendent,’’ to light—the mystic,
at veil which you have thrown around them, will no
longer avail you—they are revealed to tho light of
day!! and tho people will on Monday weak, con.
vince you of the fact, by the potent and all-powerful
influence of No Ratification and
JOEL CRAWFORD •
And & lesson will thereby be taught to all future
demagogues, who would, from selfish motives, betny
the rights of the people, and scrifice .the dignity and
honor of tho State!
The Election.—This important event which is to
decide the fate of tho Constitution, and the lions:
and dignity of t he State, is rapidly approaching.—
Noxt Monday week tho people of Georgia will be
called upon to say whether they are prepared to be.
come SLAVES or determined to remain FREE.
MEN ! Can they hesitate in a matter of such vial
importance ? Is there a freeman who can pause for
a moment when called upon to yield, or to protec:
inviolate tho privileges he enjoys under our present
Constitution, as a citizen of the State of Georgia ?—
No! wc believe their are few indeed, so infatuated,
so blinded by party influence as to hesitate for a mo.
ment between the alternatives. We coll upon all
then, as the friends of Constitutional rights—as the
lovers of equal privileges and as the guardians of the
honor and respectability of the State, to rally to tlw
rescue, and save while it is in their power, these in.
estimable blessings from impending ruin !
To the polls then, freemen of Georgia, and by en
dorsing on your tickets,
NO RATIFICATION,
you will put to rest forever the machinations of a few
aspiring demagogues who would indude you to sacri
fice whole ages of uberty, that they may enjoy for a
A* A_ Jl_ At.. Jt L A r -/•
few poor years, uninterruptedly, the flesh pots of of
fice,wad fatten on the loaves and fishes of emolument)
wrung from you and your children at the sacrifice of
every privilege dear to freemen !
From the Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth.
An Extraordinary Natural Produc
tion.—We have now,-in 6ur office, (where
our citizens and farmers are requested to call
and see it,) a most singular species of corn.
The history of this rare freak of nature is sub
stantially as follows. About three years ago,
a Mr. Carrico, living in Gallatin county, Ken
tucky, planted some of the common Indian
Com in the neighborhood of a swampy piece
of laud which was grown over with 4 * a thick
strong grass resembling sedge grass. In the
fall of the year when he was gathering his
corn, he was surprised that ears of com were
growing and ripening, upon the . grass, and
that on the blades of the grasR seperate grains
were growing. Struck bv the singularity of
the circumstance, he carefully preserved the
grains and planted them in the next spring.
The result was extraordinary, producing a
growth partaking of the qualities both of the
grass and the com, and superior to both as
forming a third article very advantageous to
stock farmers. The stalks in our office pre
sent most remarkable appearances. The
tassel docs not bear any resemblance to the
com tassel, but is more like the heads of coarse
gross—the blades are long •and very slender,^
resembling more the blades of oats than oi
com. Upon the extremities of.these blades
seperate grains of com enclosed in a husk
■ presenting the appearance of hazle nut burs,
are found, and to the bodies of the stalks more
perfect ears of corn are attached., The stalks
themselves are long and slender and not un-
like the wild rye of the country, only strong,
er and more substantial. We believe that
this grain is at least one thing new under the
sun, and unlike most novelties, it promises to
be Useful.
Governor Palmer, the Anti-Masonic can
didate, is rc-electcd in Vermont,
The Savannah Georgian—We are by no means
disposed to get into a controversy with the Editors
of this paper on the subject of internal improvement,
or indeed upon any other subject; yet our duty to
ourselves as well as to our patrons, requires that wo
should notice an article in their paper of the. 14th
inst. In that article the Editors accuse us of bring
ing forward the sentiments of one of their correspond
ents to prove that they are opposed to our internal
improvement projects.
Now it will be recollected that we m&de a charge
ofthe same character not long since, against one of our
contemporaries, which charge was met, and the
“ amende honorable” duly made. And for us to
have made ourselves thus obnoxious to.»like charge
—to have been guilty of an editorial subterfuge, which
wo had so lately and so strongly denounced, would
to say the least of it, havo argued but little indeed,
for our own comistenby, or for the reputation of the
craft to which wo have the honor to belong.
In making this charge against us, the Georgian
says, we are guilty of disiugenuousness by “allud
ing to a communication in the Georgian, as if it verc
EditorialNow, we might accuse the Editors of
that paper of something stronger than disingenuous-
ness, in making ouch a charge, viz : of actual mis
representation, which the facts would warrant us in
doing; but hoping better things of the a«o Editor*
of a paper which we havo been in tho habit of re
specting and admiring in days gone by, we can but
attribute the charge to misapprehension or inadvert
ency.
We did not even allude to tho quotation as editor
ial. Tho Georgian' will find by again referring to
our article, that we simply brought it forward to
most its denial, that the people of Savannah had ev.
er evinced any disposition “ to stay tho career ol rail
roads up the country.” The Editors called for the
proof that any such a feeling had been felt or expres
sed, and wo referred them to their own columns, and
by particularizing the date of the paper and even the
article wherein such proof could l» adduced, we cer
tainly manifested no disposition to fix the charge up
on the Editors, but simply to sustain our original po
sition, that a spirit hostile to our internal improve
ment project did exist in Savannah.
The conclusions of the Georgian drawn from the
following portion of the article which seems to have
touched them so deeply, are entirely gratuitous.—,
“ Must they (the people of the up country) continue'
to pay millions annually of their hard, earnings, not
for the benefit of Savannah but to indulge her citi
zens in their apathy and inactivity V’ . The only le
gitimate inference to be drawn from this queiry, w hen
taken in connexion with the wholo article, is simply
this. The people ofthe, up country are now paying
millions annually for the transportation of their pro
duce, &c. which might be saved by rail road convoy
ances, and must they continue to pay so much ot their
hard earnings, because the people of Savannah are
not prepared to secure to themsetqes a portion of the
trade f-hich they do not receive, but which they
might get by throwing off their leathergy and inac
tivity? Or in Otbor words, must tho people of the
up country continue to pay one dollar a hundred for
the transportation of their produce and merchandize