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ATHENS, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 30, 1833.
a cheerful obedience to the Federal authorities
when acting within their constitutional sphere:
And whereas, they are also firmly devoted
to the reserved rights of the States, and re
gard the faithful observance of the ccnstitu-
tional boundary between those reserved rights
and the delegated powers of the General Gov-
States of this Union have not conferred on the
General Government, or any department
thereof, the right of determining as against the
several States questions of disputed power ari
sing between the General Government and
any State or States: nor have they by said
compact appointed any common arbiter be-
VOL. II.
The Southern Banner?
19 PUBLISHED IN THE TOWN OP ATHENS, GEORGIA,
EVERV SATURDAY,
BY ALBOX CHASE.
TERMS.—Three dollars per ytar, payable in ad.
vanco, or Four dollars if delayed to the end of the
year. The latter amount will be rigidly exacted of
nil who fail to meet their payments in advance.
No subscription received for less than one year, un
less the money is paid in advance; and no paper will
lie discontinued until all arrearages ore paid, except
nt the option of the publislier. A failure on the part
of subscribers to notify us of their intention of re
linquishment, accompanied with the amount duo, will
be considered as equivalent to a new engagement, and
papers sent accordingly.
Advertisements will be inserted at the usual rates.
IT All l/tt ers to the Editors on matters connected
with the establishment, must be post paid in order ti^
secure attention.
O'Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad.
ministrators, Executors, or Guardians, must be pub
lished sixty days previous to the day of sale.
The sale of Personal Property, in like manner,
must be pulilishcd/orty days previous to the day of sale.
N otice to debtors and creditors of an estate, must be
published forty days.
Notice that Application will bo made to the Court
of Ordinary, for Leave to sell Land or Negroes, roust
bo published four months.
Notice that Application will be made for Lettersof
Administration, must be published thirty days, and
for Letters of Dismission, six months.
C. W. CALLIER,
NFORMS the public that he has opened a House
of Entertainment in Athens, the possessions late
ly owned by Doctor Tinsley. The proprietor will
endeavor to keep such a House, as to instore liberal
patronage. The great and usual promises of good
Tables, Bars, and OstlerS, is so common that it is
useless to mention them. It will at all times be the
endeavor of the proprietor to render his customers
good accommodations; such as will prove satisfac-
tory to them and gratifying to the proprietor. The
house is now prepared for the reception of Travellers
and Boarders.
Nov. 23—3G—6t.
Athens Female
ACADEMY,
T HIS Institution will bo opened on the FIRST
MONDAY IN JANUARY NEXT, under the
joint direction of the Subscribers. A sufficient num
ber of competent assistants will at all times be pro
vided.
Rales of Tuition. (payable in advance.)
For Scholars instructed in Spelling, Reading, Wri
ting and Arithmetic, as far as Vulgar Fractions,
(Smith's system,) $4 00 per qr,
Same—with English Grammar and
Geography, * §7 00 *•'
Rhetoric, History, Use of Globes, Nat
ural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astro
nomy, Latin and Greek Languages,
and tlie Mathematics, §8 00 “
Instruction will be given in tho French Language.
The Music Room, as heretofore, will be occupied
by MRS. WALTHALL, whose knowledge of tho
science, and experience in teaching, need no com
mendation.
Drawing and Painting will be taught in the Aca.
demy.
The School will be provided with Apparatus for
illustration in the different sciences.
There will be monthly examinations without any
previous preparation.
Scholastic Year—Ten Months.
O’ Boarders will be received in tho family of the
Senior Principal, residing on the premises. ,
Si. H. HUNT? 11, \ Associate f"™!***
Nov. 9 34tf.
Uoetru.
A CHAPTER ON MISSES.
The dear little Misses we meet with In life.
What hopes and what fears they awaken;
And when a man’s taking a Miss for his wife,
He is Miss-led as well as Miss-taken.
SENATE. - j ty to be controlled or coerced by the General
Wednesday Nov. 13. Government, or any or all of the Departments
Mf. Chappell laid on the table, the follow- thereof; and that as free States, they owe it
| ing Preamble and Resolutions on the doctrines to themselves, to the cause of liberty and of
I of the Rights of the States, and the principles I mankind, not to succumb to the, exercise of
| of the Proclamation and Force Bill-1, I undelegated powers within their respective
“ Whereas the People of Georgia are firm- limits,
ly devoted to the Constitution of the Unitedi 2. And it is further declared and resolved :
When I courted Miss Kidd, and obtained the kiss,
. Mi». | of the State, which | That by their said compact called tho.Con-
But-'twas only a Miss-caUcu-la-tion.
MEW LOTTERY
AND
Exchange Offi ce,
AUGUST A, «a.
G EORGE ROBERTSON has opened an office,
for the transaction of the Lotteiy and Ex
change Business, in connexion with that of his broth
er, (Wm. Robertson, Savannah) at No. 261, Broad-
street, opposite the Masonic Hall, Augusta, where he
respectfully solicits the patronage of his friends and
tho public. Tickets or shares, in all the Lotteries of
Messrs. Yates & M’Inlyre, may always'be obtained,
and he will be thankful for favors in that or any oth
er department of his business. The drawings of
throe Lotteries are received weekly, and during the
present month schemes will be determined in which
the capitals are, respectively, $30,000, $25,000,
$20,000, $15,000, $12,500, $12,000, ang $10,600.
Tickets, from $3 to $10 each—shares in propor
tion.
Orders enclosing <he cash or prize tickets (postage
paid) 'will be immediately attended to, and every in
formation given as to Lotteries to be drawn, the fate
of Tickets, Ac. by return of mail.
Uncummt Bills of solvent Banks, taken at par.—
Drafts collected and Bank Notes exchanged on the
most favorable terms.
ET U. S. Bank Notes for sale.
Augusta, Nor. 1—34—3t.
For so many Misses, surrounded Miss Kidd,
With me and my love interfering: .
But a jealous Miss-trust put into her head,
That she ought not to give me a hearing.
There’s a certain Miss-chance that I met with one day,
Almost sent my hopes to destruction,
And she felt a suspicion of all I might say—
And all owing to one Miss-construction, ,
Deceived by a Miss-information, I wrote,
Tho cause of her anger demanding;
Miss-direction prevented her getting the vote.
And introduced Miss-understanding.
When to make her my wife I exultingly swore,
Missbelief made her doubt my intention,
And I nearly i ot wed to Miss-fortune before
1 could wean her from Miss-apprehension.
But when she no longer would yield to Miss-doubt,
Nor be led to Miss.representation,
She had with MissJike a most Berious fall out,
And to wed felt no more hesitation.
But when at the church to be married we met,
Miss-take made the parson to linger.
And I got so annoyed by an awkward Miss-fit,
I could not get the ring on her finger.
Having been so Miss-used I now kept a strict watch.
Though I still liv’d in fear of Miss-carriage,
EXTENSIVE SALE OF
CITY LOTS IN AUGUSTA.
T HE Subscriber will offer for sale at the lower
Market House, in the city of Augusta, on the
1st Tuesday in December next, a large number of
1X)TS, from Broad.strect to Bay-street, and between
Campbell-strcet and the subscriber’s western Boun
dary, near the upper market—the Warehouse occu
pied by Mr. Rees, and the one recently occupied by
Messrs. Slaughter & Labuzan, together with the
Lots occupied by Messrs. Moise, Finn, and Messrs
Kendrick & Walker, and other Lots on Broad-street,
inclusive. Terms made known on the day of sale.
Any portion of the above property would bo dis
posed of at private sale. A plan of tho Lots will be
left at the Plan tore' Hotel for inspection.
E. F. CAMPBELL.
Nov. 2—33—tds.
| eminent as essential to the successful wor.
king of oar Federal system, and to the realiza-
tion of the blessings contemplated by our Fed-
eral Union :—
tween the General Government and the States,
for the purpose of determining such questions.
3. And be it further resolved, as a neces
sary consequence of tho foregoing, that each
And whereas, the practical observance of State has the right of judging for itself of in
this boundary can no otherwise be ensured or fractions of the Constitution by tho Federal
enforced than by the existence of a right in Government, and of interposing for the pur-
the several States to check, resist and repel I pose of arresting'such infractions within its
acts of the General Government trauscending own. limits : and that such judgment and In-
the limits of its delegated powers :— I terposition of a State is only liable to be over-
And whereas, the right of a State thus to ruled by the decision of three-fourths of all the
interpose its sovereign authority against Feder- States acting wider the provisions for amend,
al usurpations within its limits, has been strong- ing the constitution of the United States,
ly denounced aud denied by the . President of I 4. Resolved also—That the faculty of se-
the United States in his Proclamation of the I cession is inseparably incident to a compact
10th day. of December last: and in the same subsisting between sovereign States ; and the
Proclamation, and also in the Act of the Con-> right of secession in any particular instance
- Dlul „, „ llt w vuijiu c gress cf .the United States passed on the 2d 1 must depend on causes of which the party as-
Andlffoundwhen'too late,^'unlucky U Al/ss-mate/l I da y March Jast, entitled “ an act further to serting the right must judge ftjf itself; amongst
Interfer’d with thejoys of my marriage.
Miss-rvle in my dwelling put every thing wrong,
Miss-management there took her station.
Till my cash like the time I take singing my song,
Was all wasted by Miss-application.
(Georgia ^Legislature.
Treasurer’s Report.
provide for the collection of duties on imports,” which causes flagrant breaches of the compact
| the measures of a State adopted by its consti- by the other party or parties have always
tuted authorities in the exercise of this right I been considered good ; and secession, for any
are confounded, and put on the same footing I cause, can at the roost, expose the seceding
with acts of resistance to the Federal laws by State only to the consequences arising under
mere unauthorized individuals or bodies of in- the laws of war and of nations, and never to
dividuals; and in said Act provision is made to I those of treason and rebellion.
| thwart and defeat a State in her action on this I 5. Resolved further, that the principles
i right, by conferring enormous discretionary j contained in the aforesaid Proclamation of the
powers on the Federal Executive ; by vesting President, and Act of the Congress of the U.
-UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
[ TM1HE next College Session will commence on the
j JL liitii January, 1634. For admission into the
| Freshman Class, a candidate must have a correct
knowledge of Cicero’s Orations, Virgil, John and
Acts in tho Greek Testament, Grieca Minora or Ja
cob's Greek Reader, English Grammar, and Geog<
raphy, and be well acquainted with Arithmetic.
[ Studies of the Freshman Class
1*1. Term, Aug. to Nov.—Livy, Graca Majora,
List vol. commenced, and the French Language.
2d Term, from Jan. to April.—Livy, Graca Ma-
jora, 1st vol. and French continued.
3d Term, April to Aug\—Livy and Graca Ma.
jora, 1st vol. concluded, French continued, and
| Day’s Algebra, through Ratio and Proportion.
Studies of the Sophomore Class.
t. 1st. Term, Avg. to Non.—Horace and Gnoca Ma-
1 jora, 2d yol. commenced, Algebra concluded, and
three books of Geometry, (Playfair’s Euclid-)
2d Term, Jan. to April.—Graca Majora, 2d vol.
continued; Horace and Geometry concluded, and
} Jamieson’s Rhotoric.
3d Term, April to Aug.—Graca Majora, 2d vol.
concluded; Modem Languages, Plain Trigonome-
Itry, Mensuration, Surveying, Botany, and Tyner’s
\ History.
The present Junior Class have studied in addition
to the above, the first hook ofCieero do Oratore, tho
first book of Homer’s Iliad, Blair’s Lectures, and
Olmstead’s Mechanic’s in part.
Though the classes regularly attend to French
during the Freshman and Sophomore years, yet it is
not made an indispensable requisite for admission in.
to any of the classes. Provision is made for those
who enter without a knowledge of French, to study
that language, for which there is no additional charge
of tuition.
Those who desire’it will have opportunity of
studying Hebrew, Spanish, German, and Itidian
without any additional charges.
The rates of tuition are $38 per annum, payable
(half yearly in advanoe.
Board can be obtained in respectable families at
| from to $10 per month.
By order of the Faculty,
WM. L. MITCHELL, Sec’ry.
November 16,1833—35—9t.
VALUABLE PROPERTY
For Sale*
W ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in January
next, at the Court House in Clark county,
that valuable tract of land, whereon John C. Pope
formerly lived, known as the HIGH SHOAL
TRACT, containing four hundred and sixty.five acres,
more or less, lying in the County of Clark, on the
Appalachie river, adjoining lands of Nicholas Sheets
and others. This tract of land embraces the High
Shoals of tho Appalachie river, and possesses as val.
uable water power as any place in the State. Sold
as the property of John C. Pope, deceased, for the
benefit of tho heirs and creditors of said deceased.
Terms made known on the day of sale.
JAMES HULING, adm’r.
Nov. 23—36—m2m. r
§159
433 03
710 37
51,574 97
2,082 98
181,905 10
2,572 58
52,275
S TRAYED or stolen from the sub-
scriber’s lot in Athens, about ten
days since, a small roan hi&rse, with a
large blaze in his face—and one, or
two, or three, white feet. He is ex.
ceedingjy well broken and easily caught. It is sup
posed that he will endeavor to get to the ferry at Pe.
tersbnrgh, from the vicinity of which he lately came.
Any person delivering him to Mr. M. Dobbins, W.
R. Cunningham, or myself in Athens, shall be hand,
somely rewarded. W. W. WADDEL.
Nov. 23—36—tf.
PROSPECTUS
OF A
T HE subscriber tenders his thanks to his custo ,
mere, fol the liberal patronage he has hitherto
received. Besides continuing the business at his old
stand, known as the
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
He has purchased the establishment at present occu
pied as a Tavern by Dr. TINSLEY, where he will
bn prepared for the accommodation of Families.—
The . stand is well known as being every way eligible.
No exertions win be spared to merit a continuance
«l’that liberal patronage, by which he bas been on-
■ceuraged thus to extend his business.
JOHN JACKSON.
March iC—53—t£
fcy* W# are authorized to an
nounce COLONS W, PETAJOHN, Esq.
as a Candidate for Coroner of Jackson coun-
<y at the Electiontin January next. ‘ .
Nov. 16—35—71;.
Congressional Globe*
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weekly during the session of Go*,
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of the proceedings of the Senate L$I per session,
and House of Representatives in
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with brief reports of the discus
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Daily Globs, . . - - $10 per annum
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DR. CASH.
For amounts paid into the Treasury between I the Federal Judiciary with original jurisdiction I States, go directly, iu their practical tenden
the 1st of November 1832, and the 31st ofcases not contemplated by the constitution os eyas well as in abstract theory, to consoli-
Oct. 1833, inclusive, and placed to the I of Federal cognizance; by seizingon suits insti- date the States of this Union into one sover-
credit of the aforementioned accouhts.viz: J tuted in the State Courts and transferring the ul-1 eignty, of which the plain consequence would
timate determinationthereoftothe Federal Tri- be a great Central Government freed from all
bunals;and finally, by placing the whole military checkexercisable by the States in their sepa.
and naval force of the country in the hands of I rate capacity, and controllingthe vast and diver-
the Presideutofthe United States, to be by him I sifted interests of the confederacy with absolute
employed for the purpose of suppressing by will and according to its own arbitrary con
the sword and bayonet the proceedings of a I struction of its powers ; whence would result
State to which she has had recourse under the in the first instance the numerous ills and ir-
sanction of her high sovereign authority; thus ritations of misgovemment, and in the final
treating such proceedings not as the acts of a event, the loss of liberty anj the destruction
sovereign State, but as if they were the law. of the Union of the States
less movements of bands of insurgents and The Senate and House of Representatives
outlahrs : And whereas the said Act was in of the State of Georgia, do therefore protest
truth and fact passed for the avowed purpose against the aforesaid Act of Congress, entitled
of being applied and executed against the “ an Act further to provide for the collection
proceedings of a sovereign State, and yet on of dnties on Imports,” and also against the
its face it is aimed only at the lawless doings principles on which it is based, as inconsistent
of unauthorized individuals : whence is clear- with the constitution of the United States, and
ly evinced a fixed and deliberate determina- the rights of the States ; and they do hereby
tion on the part of the General Government demand the repeal of said Act; with a view
not to recognize the States as sovereign when I to which .his Excellency the Governor is re
they come in conflict with the Federal Author- quested to transmit copies .of the foregoing to
ities, but to view and treat them in all such the Representatives of GeoTgiain both bran-
conflicts merely as refractory portions of a con- cites of Congress, to be by them laid before
solidated empire : their respective Houses at the ensuing Session
Wherefore, by the provisions an J principles | of Congress.”
of said act, State Sovereignty is utter-1 Saturday, No16.
ly obliterated as against the Government! Committees wero appointed on notices of
which the States have created, and the State yesterday.
authorities are made subordinate to those of Mr. Liddell Gave notice fora committee
thatGovernm’ntasfarassuchsubordinationcan I to prepare and report a bill to alter and
flow from an unlimited liability of the States to j amend an act regulating tho licencing of Phy-
be controlled and coerced by Federal power, eicians: and
legislative, judicial and executive, backed by Mr. Fuhcood—To extend the time for fortu
all the physical force of the Confederacy nate drawers in the Land Lottery, of 1818 ;
whicn is a subordination as great, if not as de- 1819, and 1820, to take out their grants.
$363,009 13 3-41 grading, as that which marks the relation be-1 Several other notices relating to local mat-
General tax of 1810,
“ 1829,
“ 1830,
« 1831,
“ 1832,
State Stock,
Vendue Tax,
Dividend.on Bank Stock,
Fudll from Fees on fractions
sold in 1822 and ’23, 147 75
. “ 1827, ' 985 50
«< Macon Lots and Reserves, 405 75
“ Reverted Lots B. W. and \V, 65
“ Grants for Land drawn
1820, 1,065
« “ “ « 1821, 635
« “ “ « 1827, 9,992
“ “ « « 1832, 20,556
« « Gold Lots 1832, 25,560
“ “ Fraudulent Lots, 72
“ “ Lots 1st Muscogee, 12
“ “ Columbus Lots, 432
*« “ McIntosh Reserve, 4 50
“ « H. R. & Testimonials, 691 50
“ “ Copy Grants, 134 25
Sale of Lots fraudulently drawn, 2370 11 3-4
“ T.Commons,Millodgeville, 320
“ Relinquished,
** 5th District of Early,
Tax on Bank Stock,
Rent of Indian possessions,
Cherokee,
Funds raised by Escheated
Estates,
150 50
152 80
7223 86
207 67
112 81
For balance in Treasury, 1st
Nov. 1832,
tween any the most absolute Government and I ters were given for committees to be ap.
15,896 21 1-2 ] its dependant provinces. Such is the condi- pointed to report bills.
tion in which the States of this Union stand, Tfig President. announced the joint stand
8378,905 35 1-4 j according to the principles proclaimed by the ing Committees on the part of Senate.
President, incorporated by Congress in the leg. j A number of 'bills were read the 1st and
islation of the country, and which, judging 2d 'time.
from past experience, we may assuredly say, The* bill allowing appellants interest upon
will be sustained by the Federal Judiciary : a I cost when they prevail upon the final issue of
$21 t 060 47
For balance in Treasuiy,
31st October, 1833,
' CR.
By amount of President and Speaker’s War-1 condition every door of escape from which is J the cause, was read the 3<i time and rejected
rants and Governor’s Warrants, drawn and sought to be effectually closed by denying to Monday Nm. 18.
chargeable to the following accounts, ta- the several States not only all right of inter- Committees wetc ap p oint ed in pursuance
ken at the Treasury between the 1st No- ] position and self-protection whilst members of r fees of Saturdav ' ■
verober, 1633. and the 31* October, 1833, j the confederacy, bql also the ftoilty of ccccs. j Mr ' ^ reporte J' a bal to make vaUd al ,
inclusive, viz.
Appropriation County Acade-
• mies, , $22,082 95
“ Protection Gold Mines, 13,584 68
“ Penitentiary,
“ Legislature, 1833,
Poor School fund,
Military Fund of 1827,
Contingent fund of 1832,
1833,
Printing « 1832,
1833,
Civil Establishments 831,
“ “ 1832,
“ “ 1833,
Special Appropriation,1832,
“ « 1833,
Road and RiverFund,lS32,
" « r' 1833,
Land Fund, , 1832, 105,402 81
Fund for the Redemp- t '
tion of Public debt,
sion from their compact of Union, however
much that compact may be violated, and abu
sed by the General Government, to the des
truction of their rights and the lasting ruin of
their happiness.
In this state of things, a solemn duty is in
cumbent on those who afe, in a peculiar man
ner, entrusted with the guardianship of State
rights. It behoves them zealously td defend
the barriers .destined to keep oft Federal ag.
gression, to recur to the true principl es of our I some per80n t0 cover the State House,
political system, add to assert and vindicate not l ith some ^ eta , ]ic material, and to appropri-
only the rights of the States, but also the practi- j &t aQ annual sum ^ a reward to a negro
cal means by wpich those rights may be mam. 1 _
tained and preserved. \
The Senate and House of Representatives i , - a ii
of the State pf Georgia in General Assembly w ! 10 ® °“ , ® f ,, . - r
met, do therefore declare and resolve : \ W* *> adyert.se the names of all default-
That the'several States composing the Uni- ers previous ° ® “ 3 *
ted States of America, notwithstanding the - t00 ^ U P . ° ^ *
Compact of Union subsisting between them In committee of the whole on the bill more
and by which a General Government for spe- effectually to guard the interest of planters
cific purposes is established, are free, sover- ^ othe , rs who ma y “ ave produce, in store in
8357,844 88 1-41 eign and independent States; that in virtue of | the n^ket towns. Report taken up m Sen-
7,500
61,479 30
22,380 57
2,$18 46
5,845 69 3-4
15,308 $7 1-2
2,235 99
9,270 63
637 50
10,225
^,099 99
16,127 47.
8,226 60
8,750
19,400
i contracts for land drawn in the late Land and
[ Gold Lotteries by persons over the age of 18
years.
Mr. Fuhcood—A bill to repeal the act ex
tending time for taking out grants, in the lot--
| terms of 1818; 19, and 21, and to fix on the
1st day of October next, as the day on which
such righ. shall expire.
Mr. Dunnagan laid on the table a resolu
tion to authorize the Governor, tp contract
1,568 36
Balance 31st Oct.* 1833, 21,060.47 their sovereignty, they have the right of pfe- ate and the biil ordered to lie on the table. I ■
• 1—— «.«k »>l:- i:_> A message was receiv d from the Execu-
read
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
* Friday, Nov. 15.
Mr. Cooper laid on the table the following
Preamble and Resolutions, relative to the
powers of the Federal Government.
The Senators and'Representatives of the
people of Georgia in General Assembly met,
cannot permit the present crisis in the polit
ical'relations of the Federal and State Bran
ches of the Government to pads, without ta-
king into serious consideration, the alarming
powers claimed for the Federal Government,
and acted on by Congress. The President
of the United States, in a, recent proclama
tion “ stating his views of the Constitution,”
&c. asserts as the true doctrines, in reference
to the powers of that Government and the
rights of the States, the following, to.wit:
That “ the people of the United States
formed the Constitution,”
h That they are one people in the choice
of the President and Vice President.”
That the States respectively << cannot peek
sess any right to secede,” « having expressly
parted with so many powers as to constitute
a single nation”—“ because such secession
does not break a league, but destroys the uni
ty of a nation.”
That the Representatives in Congress, are
“ not the Representatives of the particular
State from which they come,” but «are all
Representatives of the United State*,” not
« accountable to the Stat ?” “ for any act done
in the performance of their legislative' func
tions.” 1 , \
That the Federal Government has a sanc
tion « both necessarily implied and expressly
given,” by which it may punish a State for
refusing to obey an act, which may have
been determined by her sovereign people to
be unconstitutional and void.
That “ the States severally have not retakf.
ed their entire sovereignty.”
That the States severally have not a light
each for itself, on questions between itself and
the United States Government to judge of and
determine upon, Unconstitutional enactments
of Congress—But that the Federal Judiciary
is the proper tribunal in such cases and fi
nally, that tie Federal Government, may co
erce a State to submit to all laws which by
its authorities may be deemed constitutional.
These principles if successfully maintained,
it will be perceived, end in degradation of
State sovereignty, the most servile Submis
sion-Consolidation and Tyranny.
To the end therefore that they may be op
posed, and their pernicious tendency resisted
by the good people of this State:
Be it Resolved, That a proclamation by the
President, in cases where there exists no vio
lation of Law, is not made the duty . of the
Executive, tends in practice, to substitute the
opinion aind will of that officer, in lieu of the
majesty of the laws; and when directed
against the solemn acts of a sovereign State,
is unauthorized and unjustifiable.
Resolved, Thai: this assembly doth expli
citly and peremptorily declare, that it views
the ; federal Government as ,a compact, to
which each State acceded as a State and is
an integral party—That its powers, resulting
from the compact, are limited by the plain
sense and intention of the instrument consti
tuting that compact; and no farther valid,
than they are authorized by the grants ehu-
merated in that compact.
Resolved, That the Federal Government,
was not made the exclusive or final Judge of
the extent of the powers delegated .to itself;
since that would have made its' discretion,
and ^not the constitution, the measure of its*
powers; but, that as in all other cases of com-
pact among parties, having no common judge,
each party has an equal right to judge for jt-
self, as well of infractions, as of the mode and
measure of redress.
Resolved,. That in case of a deliberate,'pal-
pable and dangerous exercise of other pow
ers not granted by the said compact, the
States respectively, have the right, and are
in duty bound to interpose for arresting the
progress of the evil, and for maintaining with
in their respective- limits, the authorities,
rights and liberties appertaining to them.
Resolved, That Whensoever in the opinion
of a State, misrule shall have become the only
guide to the exercise of power, oppression
the only result, and revolution, the only hope
of an injured people, the right of that people-to
secede is undeniable; and in so doing, they
are responsible only to themselves and to their
God,
Resolved, That the Representatives of a
State, in Congress, acting for the good of the
Union, are the Representatives of the par-
ticular State; from which they may be sent;
and for any act, done in the performance of
their legislative functions, they are accounta-
ble to the people alone, who sent them.*
Resolved, That sovereignty belongs not to
the Government, nor to its departments, but
to the people of each State; and to our sys
tem there does not exist a sole and aggregate
community, known as the people of the Union.
Resolved, That the sanction or right, claim
ed for the Federal Govertiigent, to punish a
Senate SOVC rei?n people, for refusing obedience, to
what may be deemed by them to be an un-
constitutional act of that Government, \\ un,
founded and exists neither by express grant, ,
nor impliedly by the laws of self defence, no?
can that Government by force coerce a Slate
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venting, each within its own limits, all exerci-
Respectfully submitted,
. JOHN WILLIAMS, Treasurer.
Treasury Office, Nov. 8th, 1833.
,905 35 1-4 ses of power by the General Government not| five, respecting the late fire, which was_ real-
authorized by said compact; that as indepen. I and referred to a select committee consi3tirfg
n 1 dent Slates, their constituted authorities are of Messrs. Echols of Walton, Wofiqrd, aud
wholly exempt from any- constitutional liabili- j Chappell. - -
to submit to such act.
Resolved, That our Senators in Congress
be requested and our Representatives' be in
structed to demand a repeal of the act of last
session, commonly known as the Force Bill;
because the same is improper and unautboT-
