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From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE TIMES.
The limes have been, and'still arc, hard—
but is there any doubt, that the policy of the
Bank, the arts of the agitators, and the fears
of the sufferers, have represented them to be
worse than they really ure ? The great ob
ject is to restore the Deposites—to give the
Bank an advantage over the Administration—
and with many of the politicians, to renew
the charter of this .tremendous Institution.
But some gentlemen have ventured to turn
prophets upon the occasion. They declare
that-in all this month of January the Banks,
will be compelled to resort to Specie pay
ments—and that this Deposite question is
dedtined to sever the Union. Political hal.
lucinatioo could scarcely have gone further.
The pressure has been .severe enough; but
wo look forward to more cheering times.
When things get to their worst, \vc arc told
that they begin to mend. According to the
following statements of the lastN. York and
Philadelphia prints, a reaction is about to
commence. The moment that reaction be
gins, more confidence will be felt—new funds
will be poured into the market; the panic
will abate, and the pressure be relieved. We
place much fuith in these statements. The
“Pennsylvanian” utters its checriug notes at
the very doors of the Mammoth Bank. And
the “ N. Y. Journal of Commerce” is a paper
very far from being devoted to the measures
of the Administration. We spread them be-
fore our readers with great pleasure:
(From the Pennsylvanian of Monday last.)
“ The Pressure-—The re-action is begin
ning. A panic cannot last forever. The
want of confidence which made each man an
Ishmaelite, having reached ils maximum, is
abating. .The money market in New .York
is considerably relieved. Stocks are rising.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
advanced on Thursday 12 per cent. Xoila
1e commencement dc la fn!
« The imaginary and greater part of the
pressure is just about losing its effect. The
mercantile community who hud heavy pay
ments to meet, have generally met them,
or made arrangements to defer them until an
easier time. Somehow or other, they have
scrambled and arc scrambling through the
danger, and the cry of “Wolf! Wolf!”
is gradually, as we foretold, beginning to lose
its potency.
“ We have been falsely told that there is a
scarcity of specie, and that probably the
Banks might suspend specie payments. This
intimation, and the putting on the screws,
caused a hoarding of the article,when in real
ity there was no scarcity at all of hard money.
There was in fact no demand for it. As a
necessary consequence, specie will soon be
pouring into the pretended vacuum. The
large amount lately received at New Orleans
from Mexico is finding its way here. A mil
lion dollars in silver has been shipped at
New Orleans for New York. The Europe
an market is well supplied, and no exporta
tion thither has taken place. On the con
trary, if this artificial state of things lasts, the
transatlantic feuperflyx will soon be on our
shores. How long then can this -bug-bear
hope to continue ? Less thau sixty days will
see its death.and burial.
“ The cunning ones know it. The stock
speculations, the selling on time, have suc
ceeded, except in one or two instances, to
admiration, and it is time to try the other tack.
Instead of selling on time, mid running down,
the policy is now to buy on time and run np.
-'The jobbers have used the panic threadbare.
So bare indeed, that in the instances alluded
-to, they depiessed the market so much that
they burnt their fingers by the destruction of
their debtors. . They will not now run about
with looks and words of apprehension. The
tables are turned. Confidence will bethecry.
“And after all, what so far has been the
consequence of this direful pressure ? Tie
Banks and other monied institutions are os
firm as rocks. Two or three failures have
taken place here, and about as many in New
York. Here is the sum total. Several of
these houses have only stopped payment with
a fair prospect of satisfying to the full the de
mands of their creditors, and the others will,
it is said, in almost every case, make a hand.
6ome dividend.
“If our predictions are fully verified as to
tho change, the incipient movements of
which are evident, we shall see the United
States Bank throwing herself, as the Herald
says, into the breach, and claiming all the
credit on the score of hor magnanimity. She
opened her heart! She took pity oil her sub.
jeets! She could not continue to defend her.
self at the. expense of her friends! when sho
had no moro agency in the matter than the
man in the moon. The course of time reg
ulntcs every thing.”
(.From the same.)
“■Why doqp not the United States Bank de-
man . an investigation by Congress, throw
open its doors, and lay every thing before the
world? Such is the course of innocence.
Memorials and manifestoes are nothing. The
mere negative of an accused is nothing. La-
bored defences ace nothing. They must
overturn asserted facts by facts.”
“ The fact that six out of the fifteen Banks
in tho City and County of Philadelphia refu.
sed to sign the memorial to Congress for the* *
restoration of the deposites, is carefully kept
from the knowledge of the Philadelphia pub.
lie. They are, the Girard Bank, the Phila
delphia Bank, the Western Bank, the South
wark Bank, the Kensington -Bank, and tho
Bank of the Northern Liberties. This firmness
was not expected. It was thought that not
more than two or three,at most,would have been
bold enough to fucethestorm. Their officers de
serve nil honor for their refusal to go into'liar,
ness.”
(Fro>n the j\cw York Journal of Commerce.)
“ Country Mohey—The brokers advanced
the rate of discount on Country Bank notes
yesterday to one per cent, on Eastern and
Jersey Banks, and two per cent, oh Banks
in the Western part of New York. With
some tlie rate was higher than this. The
Brokers tell us, there is no probability that
those rates will continue more than two or
three days. ' The Branch, the Pets and. all
the Banks, discounted liberally yesterday,
and'the general appearance of money affairs
was easier. It is expected that after the. re
turns are made on the first of January, the
Banks will be able to supply at least all pres
sing wants. We have for ourselves no doubt
that within sixty days the money market will
be quite easy, andthatwithin six months it will
be more abudantly supplied than ever before.
Itmustbeso. There never was before more mo
ney, nor so much wealth as now. Specie is
coming in from all quarters.. The engage-
roents of Merchants are greatly reduced.
Every thing will conspire to create a small
demand, and an abundant supply. The pros
pects for business were never better than for
the ensuing spring. The attempi which has
been made by the politicians and party news
papers within the last week, to get up an agi-
tation and panic for the purpose of breaking
down credit, is oae of the most flagitious at
tacks which was ever made on any mercan
tile community^- But it has spent its force
and failed of producing the damage which
was designed.”
“ Specie.-—Such is the abundance of spe
cie, that within a few days, large quantities
of Spanish pillar dollars have been carried to
the Batiks and exchanged for paper money.
These Dollars were four months ago at a pre
mium of four and five per cent. American
.gold, which is usually four or five per cent,
above par at the brokers, is now worth no
premium at alk A gentleman of. our ac-
qunintance who was returnihg from Canada
a few days ago with three thousand dollars- ia
American halves, was glad to give them and
a premium for country Bank notes, and could
not get rid of the whole until he arrived -ia
New York and carried them to the Bank.
Good bills on England were sold yesterday
at 84 56 the pound sterling, a lower price
than has been paid since the Bank of Eng
land resumed specie payments. In fact, the
country was never so rich before in money
and cash funds as at this moment. And as
to a general suspension of specie payment, it
is just as impossible as it would be to persuade
the waters of the Hudson to turn back in their
channel. In fact, nobody can be procured
to carry specie out of Wall street. Every
body brings it ia. The scarcity is not of spe
cic, but of bank notes; it is the notes only
which are wanted. The cry that a suspension
of specie payments was at hand, is effectu
ally silenced. The agitation newspapers dare
no more to repeat it.” .
Bank
The speech of Mr. Bioncy, the
member from Philadelphia, in favor, of the U.
States Bunk, is a more temperate and lucent
one than Gen. M’Duffiic’s., which was too much
filled with low personalties ; the spleen of the
discomfited Nullifier continually appeared iu
it; but yet it has been seized on and «ap.
lauded to the echo,” because it came from a
min who “stands up for State Rights in
mass, yet yields them ia detail,” one, who in
one breath advocates the entire sovereignty
of the States, and in the next prostrates them
at the foot of a dangerous monied monopoly';
who, in the words of the- N. Y. Standard-
“ strains at a gnat and swallows a camel;
who goes through the eye of a needle with-
out touching, and sticks in a barn door; the
casuist who splits hairs with a butcher's clea
ver, and severs the gnarled oak with a wood
en beetle; he who launches the hrulum fuhnen,
the thunder without the lightning, and dis
charges his quiver of leaden arrows into the
innocent air.”
It is amusing to sec Tiew the inconsist en
cy of the leader has tempted on some of his
humble followers. Because M’Duffie is for
the Bank, they change their cuckoo note,
and cry now as lustily for the Bank as they
formerly did against if!—Georgian.
Extract of a letter from Washington, dated
Wednesday night, Bth inst
« The question is now between the Bank
and the people. The deposites arc only the
cloak to cover ulterior designs. Let them tri
umph against the President, and the Bank
succeeds against the world. There is a de
cided majority in the House of Represents-
fives against the restoration of the Deposites.
If, by their removal at this time, the present
panic is to prevail and force us into mcas
ures, how is it to be witlistood when the char
ter expires ? Does not every man sqc, that
the effort now is, to secure the final triumph
of the Bank, and with it the downfal of the
party opposed to it ? You can form no idea
of the triumphant bearing of the Nullificrs,
and the opposition clan, on hearing of the late
nfoveraents in Virginia, on Ibis subject. They
consider tho game up—and that Virginia is
going for the Bank«. ! What! Virginia, the
most decided State in the Union against the
Banki is she to be noy taken in to fight its
battles, and insure its final success ? What,
ever the original question might have been, it is
now Bank or no Batik—and the attempt to as
sail and break down the President for an hon
est effort to carry out iris principles, and the
wishes of the People, is the lead of this very
Bank. - What must we think of the scenes
now going on, when such men as Clay, and
Adams, and Webster and Calhoun and Mc
Duffie, and Clayton and Binney and Poin
dexter & Co. are found united in solid column
—men who have assailed and abused each
other, and had no common object of union
until thisnew coalition was formed? Federalists
and Republicans, Nationals and Nullifies, all
anded and welded togethe r, to pull down the
Administration, and build up the Bank ! And
lorsootb, our People are to be gulled by them,
work 0 ” 1C ' r ^ accom Pbsh this most.holy
TYccan.nssure the writer of the above,
that Virginia wi not be gulled in this guise-
and that she will continue lo go, as she has
always gone, heart and hand, against this tre-
mendous Institution. Let her Reprcsenta-
fives take whatever course they please, the
■Mil
Tiie Cases op the Cherokees and
Creeks disting dished.—-There . is such
proneness to misunderstand or misrepresent
the questions, which have led to, the present
difficulties in Alabama, and to confound theiD
with the Cherokee dispute* that we shall for
some days continue to insert this brief abstract
of the matter,, showing conclusively that the
course of the Administration has been per
fectly consistent, and strictly in accordance
with the law. - - .
The right to remove intruders from the In-
<lian country, is an act of jurisdiction, and is
guaranteed by virtue of the act of Congress
of March' 30th, 1802, which provides for the
employment of a military force in the remo
val of those persons, and then adds; “that
nothing of this* act shall be construed, to pre-
vent any trade or * intercourse with Iflffians,
living on lands surrounded by settlements of
citizens of the United States, and tcithin the
ordinary jurisdiction of any of the individual
States. The Cherokee country, east of the
Mississippi, embraces portious of North Car
olina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.
The “ settlements of the citizens of the United
States,” surrounded all these Indians, but
they are not all* withiu the ordinary jurisdic
tion of any of the individual States.”—Geor
gia and Alabama have extended their laws
over them—North Carolina and Tennessee
have not. Consequently, the intcrcousc act,
as it is called, being the act of March 30th,
1802, does not now, by its own limitation, ex
tend over those portions of the Cherokee
country in Georgia and Alabama. . It is not
the Executive, as has been charged, that nul
lifies this act in these States. But it is an
express provision of the act itself, which ter-
minutes its own operation, whenever the two
specified facts occur, that is, the surrounding
of the Indians by white settlements, and the
extension of ordinary jurisdiction over them.
But in Alabama, the intruders upon the
Creek country, do not occupy Indian lands-
These “lands were ceded to the United States,
in March, 1832, by the Creek Indians, and a
right to certain reservations granted to them,
to be located as soon as the country could be
surveyed. These locations ure _ now going
on, and we understand will be completed us
soon as possible. ' The treaty provides, that
intruders shall be removed from these lands
“ in the same manner as intruders may be
removed from other public lands,” dec. And
the act of Congress, to which the treaty
here refers, is entitled “An act relating' to
settlement on the lands of the United States,
and ums passed March 9, 1807. “ An uct to
prevent settlements being made on lands ce
ded to the United States, until authorized by
law,” and was passed March 3d,' 1807. It
proviJes, « that if any person shall take pos
session of or make a settlement on any land,
ceded to tho United States, dec. such persons
shall be liable to fine and imprisonment,” and
** it shall moreover be lawful for the President
of the United States to direct the Marsha!,
dec. and to employ such military force, as he
may judge necessary and proper to remove
from lands, dsc. any person or persons, die.
Under this act agreeably to the requisitions
of the treaty, the removals are now directed.
And we repeat what we have before said, that
the act of 1802, providing for removals, is an
exercise'of jurisdiction, as the U. States can
not claim the land in the Indian territories.
But the act of 1809 fur the removal of intru-
dors from the public lands, is only the excr.
cisc of a special power, delegated to Congress
by tlie Constitution, “ to make all needful
rules and regulations concerning the territory
and other property. of the U. S.” It is
simply an act of ownership, and not of juris
diction. The Cherokccs in Alabama yet
hold their land. Therefore, this act of 1807,
docs not extend to them, and this explains,
in few words, why the government could not
employ military force, in the removal of in
traders from their lands in that State. If
they should cede it as the Creeks lvavc done,
then this act would apply.—Wash. Globe
The Legislature of South Carolina, has
passed an act of 54 sections fur the military
organization of the State. It vacates the
commissions of all the Major Generals, Brig,
adier Generals, and their respective staffs,
the Adjutant and Inspector' Genoral, and
Deputy Adjutant Generals of the Militia of
the state. The following arc the officers elect
cd to fill their places. ' •
MAJOR GENERALS.
George McDuffie, first Division.
Robert Y. Hayne, second Division.
John Buchanan, third Division. •
R. B. Campbell, fourth Division.
Thomas F. Jones, fifth Division.
BRIGADIER GENERALS.
Waddy Thompson, jr. first Brigade.
Wm. A. Bull, second Brigade.
Henry Arthur, third Brigade.
James Hamilton, jr. fourth Brigade.
• J. Canty,-fifth Brigade.
T. McMeekin, sixth Brigade.
E. R. -Mclvcr, seventh Brigade. -
William Evans, eighth Brigade.
Jos. S. Shelton, ninth Brigade.
J- J* Caldwell, tenth Brigade.
Adjutant and Inspector General. •
J. B. Earle.
The present land sales at Mardisville, and
Montgomery, comprehend all or very nearly
all tlie lands lately owned by the Creeks in
Alabama. The boundary of these lands,
leaves the Chattahoochee, "ti few miles above
Fort Gaines, and runs about North west to
the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Riv
ers ; thence with the Coosa, to a point near
Fort Strother, and thence East, striking the
Georgia line about as high as Paulding coun
ty. The shape of the territory is very irreg
ular, the extreme length 160 miles, and great
est width 76 ; containing about 8,000 square
miles or 5,120,000 acres, including land of
almost every description and quality.
We have just seen a map neatly engraved
and put up for pocket use, by Mr. La Tour-
is compiled from the official surveys ; exhib
iting each county, each section and "fraction
al section, of the whole Creek lands in Ala
bama ; and must be of great use to all who
wish to obtain local information of them.
We understand they can be obtained from
Mr. John Fontain of Columbus, Georgia ; and
these and also similar maps of the Choctaw
lands in that State, from Mr. Wm. Sayre,
Montgomery, and at most of the other towns
in Alabama.—Georgia Journal.
At bon t; liu.se and A. ill. XUhet,J2diton.
ttji da a?) 33j aasa.,
O* We are indebted to our Representatives, Mes
srs. Wayne, Gilmer and Foster, for sundry interest
ing Congressional documents. For tbeir polite at
tention we return them our sincere thanks.
O’ Mr. Tazewell lias been elected Governor of
Virginia. He is a gentleman of commanding talents,
but of unsettled politici] principles. Originally a
Federalist of the Jno. Adams School, be is now
secessionist and tlie apoligist of nullification. lie
was not elected, however, on the strength of those
principles. It scenes the Legislature was divided on
this question into three factions, viz : the Jackson,
the Clay, and tho Nullification. Mr. Daniel was
tho candidate of tho' first, Mr. Watts of the sec
ond, and Mr. Tazewell of tlie last. On the last hal-
lot a portion of the Clay anti-nullifiers went over to
tho nullifiers, and Mr, Tazewell was elected. On
the first ballot Mr. Tazewell received only 67 votes
oat. of 160, which is the true strength of the nullifi
cation fiction in the Virginia Legislature.
Tho Columbus Enquirer of tho 18th inst. says,
that “ tho sales of public lands in Alabama, which
were to have commenced at Montgomery and Mar
disville, on Monday last have been postponed to Mon
day nest, tho 21st inst. on account of the inability of
the Locating Agent to complete lib return by the first
appointed day.
CP The communication of “ A Subscriber,” with
the extract annexed from the Hartford Review, we
have inserted in conformity With our general‘custom
of giving a hearing to ilia advocates of both sides of
a question. Without admitting tlie correctness of all
the statements of “ Veni,” and endorsed by “ A Sub.
scriber,” we are happy to find an opinion which we
have long entertained, so positivoly corroborated by
thcao gentlemen, viz., that the nullifiers, instead of
being the real advocates of constitutional rights, are,
in fact, inimical to the Constitution itself. “ Veai”
assures us, by that sacred instrument, the people have
" tied up tlicir owu hands, and converted the Slates
into mere municipalities,departments of one consolida.
ted government,” and that hence the “Democrats,” as
he calls tlie nullifiers, “ were oppt s d to sundry of the
main features of the Constitution.' 1 Wo think “ A
Subscriber" has been very unfortunate in his selec
tion, if ho Wishes to aid his cause by tho publication
of such articles ; for whatever he may think of it,
the people aro not yot disposed to scout at and con.
damn that instrument, which, under heaven, has been
for so many years, the inimilablo charter of our happy
Union. We would liko to know whether our friends
of the “ State Rights’ Party,” will sanction this his.
tory of tlicir doctrines and their ancestry—or has
“ Veni," divulged the secret without authority ?
If any proof were' wanting of tlie utter amalgama
tion of the nullifiers with the old Hartford Conven
tion Federal party, wo have plenty of it in this Coro.
munication. The article which “A SuSscribcr”cndor.
scs, is, let it be remembered, taken from tho Hart-
ford (Conn.) Roview, a paper which has always been
opposed to the doctrines of State Rights, which has
supported Henry Clay all along, and whoso late edi
tor had such a veneration for that gentleman, as to
travel all the way to Kentucky to wrilo a history of
hb life—a paper, in fine, which was always given to
the Constitution the most latitudinarian construction.
That paper will now advocate the nullificrs because
they hate General Jackson, and they will fold in their
arms the leaders of tho Tariff and Internal Improve,
ment party, for the samo very satisfactory reason.
Truly the lion and the Jamb may lie down together,
when such extremes meet.
If our leburo will admit, wo shall hereafter at
tempt to correct some of the errors in said communi
cation, in relation to tho hbtory of parties, Ac. *.
Franklin College.—Wo mentioned in our last that
the present term of this institution, opened on the
16th inst. under the most flattering circumstances.
Our anticipations aremore than roalued. Rarely, if
ever, have its friends had moro real cause to rejoice
for its prosperity. Under ordinary cbcumstanccs its
present condition would bo a matter of just pride to
them i but when it b considered that attempts j»ve
tion—not by more assertion, but by "argument, and
by adducing historical facts, which have plaqod tho
matter in.a proper light before tho people. Tho peo
ple aro now satisfied.
The following from tho Augusta Constitutionalist,
wo submit to our readers with much pleasure. It
contains facts with regard tortho hbtory of Ure insti
tution, which we know cannot be refuted:
Franklin College—We have been re-
quested by the author of “ The Friends of
Truth,” published in our last paper, to
give the following-explanatory statement,,with
the view of fortifying the ground he assumed,
in regard to the election ot professors, and to
the religious denominations, each belonged,
and with the view likewise of repelling the
charge alleged against the Presbyterians, of
a desire to engross all the offices of the Col
lege.
The author wishes us to state, that from
the time of Dr. Brown’s election to the Presi
dency, the following are the circumstances
relating to the choice of officers.
Officers elected ; Mr. Gouldiug, a Presby
terian;-Mr. Wallace, of the Associate Re
formed Church; Mr. Waddel, of no church ;
Mr. Shannon, Baptist ; Mr. Olin, Methodist,
twice elected ; Mr.- Capers, Methodist; Mr.
Presley of the Associate Reformed Church ;
Mr M G hee Episcopalian : Mr- Camak, of
no church ; Dr. Church, Presbyterian ; Mr.
M’Gehee, of no church; Dr. Hull, Methodist;
Dr. Jackson, of no church ; Dr. Tinsley, of
no church; Mr. Olds, Congrcgatioualist;
Dr. Jackson, a second time elected, of no
church ; Mr. James Jackson, of no church ;
Mr. Lehman, Lutheran"; and Dr. Ward, Uni
tarian. Making in all 20 Professors elected
from the time of Dr. Brown to this day. Of
these only two were Presbyterians, four Meth
odist, one Baptist, two Associate of the Re
formed Church, one Congregationalist, one
Episcopalian, one Lutheran, one Unitarian,
and 7 of no church. By taking the subject in
nuother point of view,it appears,that since the
first Methodist or Baptist candidate has been
offerod to the Board of Trustees,, there have
been the elections of the .following officers, viz:
Mr. Olin, Dr. Capers, Mr. Olin, second time
Mr. Presley,-Dr. Church to . the Presidency
Mr. McGehce, Dr. Hull, Mr. Waddel, Mr,
Shannon, Mr. Lehman, and Dr. W ard ; ma
king II elections since the first Methodist or
Baptist candidate was offered. Of these one
was a Presbyterian, four Methodist, one Bap
(ist, one Lutheran, one Unitarian, two of no
church, and one Associate Reformed church.
South Carolina.—The passage of the Test oath
and Military Force bilb by the late legblature of this
State, has enkindled anew the expiring flames of civ
il commotion throughout her borders. Tlie Union
party in various parts of the Stato, have held meet
ings on the subject, and many others have been call
cd—-their resolutions breathe any thing but tho spirit
of submission.
The Union men of South Carolina have been bran
ded as poor, tame spirited submbsionists, willing to
be tied to the car of a tyrant, and fit only to wear the
chains of slavery. Their. “ chivalrous” oppressors
and unnatural persecutors, if they attempt to “.nforce
the test oath and military force bill against them,
will have these slanderous aspersions cast back into
their teeth by the energy and power of freomen,
“who know tlicir rights, and knowing, dare main
tain thorn!” Tlie noble mountaineers of Carolina,
.will never submit to actual oppression'; however im
aginary ones may pas3 by them rs tho idle wind.
The following is from the “ Greenville Mountain
eer,” and we hope it breathes the true spirit of every
Carolina patriot.
“On Sale-day last, we had an opportunity
of conversing with the people from almost cv-
cry part of this District, op the subject of the
Military Bill aud Test Oath. We have
heard but one opinion . expressed, which is,
that the requisitions of neither of those tyran
nical bills can, or sjiali be enforced in this Dis
trict. They say, if those laws are attempt*
ted to be enforced, and no other alternative,
presents itself, (hey will welcome Revolution
with all its concomitants, and “let slip the
dogs of war”—that they will free- themselves
from the yoke that has been preparing for
them during the last three or four years, or
“ let their bones whiten, and their blood enrich
their hills and dales.” R is useless to dis
guise the fact, that the people arc prepared
for any aqd every contingency that may pre-
sent itself; and we are certain that there is
no power on earth can .compel them to submit
to the requisitions of -these obnoxious Acts.
When the Ordinance of ’32 was passed, the
freemen of the mountain districts were very
much exasp'erated, but the excitement then
was not near so strong nor universal as it is at
present.”
Congress.—Our advices from Congress up to tho
15th inst. present little cither useful or attractive
to the genoral reader. In Loth branches, the princi*
been eo lately mado to bring it into disrepute wiffi f H t0 P? c of discussion still is the removal of tho de-
tho peopla—to destroy its usefulness, and to blast its
future prospects and the hopes of tbo friends of Lit-
oratnro in Geo. forever, it becomes to them a theme
of honest exaltation and triumph. For thoir gratifi.
cation, and for tho especial comfort of tho self consti-
tatod “ friends of Equal Rights,” wo havo tho ploas-
ure to state, that tho number of students now in at
tendance, ia greater than has boen known for years,
if over before, at so csgfy a period of a" term. The
number is 100, and many others, wo understand, ore
expected. The officers are all at their posts, and
have entered upon their duties with new energy and
■zeal, which-, together with their known abilities,
must arid'will placo tho institution, in a short time,
on an eminonco both proud and commanding.
Wo did" believe at one time, that tho charges
brought against tho institution by “ Tho friends of
Equal Rights,” .were calculated to. do it a serious in
jury. Our fears are .now quieted. Thoy rnay write
on and slander on—Her destiny is beyond their
reach! Nay, we even ' rejoice that their accusa
tions wero preferred at tho time and in the spirit that
they wero: for thcro has always been a vaguo feeling of
distrust pervading tho bosoms Cf many, that tho
College, in some way or other, was under tho influ
ence of a particular religious sect. “ Tlie friends of
Equal Rights” havo (however unintontionahly on
their part) been tlio means of disabusing the public
mind on tlie subject. Their charges of sectarian in- j
fluencc have been met by tho friends of the institu-
posites. .The final settlement of the question seems
to bo yot far distant. The following extracts from
proceedings in the House of Representatives, relate
to such local matters os will be motft interesting to
our patrons. . - — . J
Mr. Clayton, of Georgia, presented the me
morial of certain pensioners of Georgia, pray
ing the establishment of a Pension Agency in
the town of MilledgeviiJe. .-,
Also, a petition to exempt from duty rail
road iron intended for certain railroads about
to bo established in tho Stato of Georgia ;
wliich' petitions wero appropriately referred.
Mr. Gilmer submitted the following-resolu
tion which, by the rules, lies one day on the
table:
Resolved, That tho Secretory of War be
directed to communicate to this Hoase, all
correspondence which be may.have had, or
other information in his possession, in rela.
tion to the death of Hardrman Owens, u citi
zen of Alabama, who was lately put to death
by a party of regular soldiers ^ whether said
Owens was put to death in pursuance of or
ders from the War Department, or any offi
cer of. the United States ; and that lie also
communicate to this House, any correspon-
deuce which ho- may have had, or other in
formation in his possession, in relation to any
obstruction thrown in the way of the execu
tion of the process of the Courts ol Alabam
sued for the purpose ot bringing to trial
by whom said Owens was killed, an( j
correspondence in relation to the remov^
said prosecutions to the District Court ta '
United Stales. l ’
The Cherokees.—Tbe late law defining ; •
rights, &c. seems likely to cause considerable tro<
The following isa blank form of a petition for
of injunction in their behalf, wliLh it is
will be used in numerous, coses. We presume ii
be interesting to many of our readers.
GEORGIA, COUNTY.
To the Honorable JOHN TV. Jloopf
Jwlge of the Superior Courts for the ChrJ
Circuit of said. State.
Hlimtily complaining, shewed: unto your II
your Orators, ,
That they aro native, 0 {
Cherokee Nation of Indians", east of the river M?
sippi, and reside in the said nation, having
privileges and rights of individual citizens oftho
nation ; that from time immemorial, the Ch w l
nation have composed an independent State; Jf
this character they havo been repeatedly rccoftjj
and still stand recognized by the United
tho various treaties subsisting between their tat'
and the United States. 4
That long before the approach of the whiten--
Europe to tho Western Continent, the Cherokee '
tion, and the ancestors of your orators who eo-,
*sod a port thereof, were tbs occupants and :
the territory on which they then resided,
your orators now reside,* deriving their title front
Groat Spirit, who is the common father of the k
man family, and to whom the earth belongs; th«
this territory they and their ancestors have ever’ *
occupants, and until lately the exclusive occnrte
and as thoy charge aro now of right tlie exclut
owners, ajid should of right be governed by theirc-
laws, usages and customs, and nono other; I®j.'
much as the courts of Georgia assamo jarisdi^
over tho Indians, your orators now by protests
neither admitting nor denying that jurisdiction»
general abstract question, but admitting it for ail j
purposes of this bill, charging that if they arc eki
rightfully or otherwise subjected to such juriudictj, •
they have a right to its protection so long a* the ^
continues to be exercised over their country
them. Your orators have been informed and heljn
that in Jthe year 1732, the then King of Great Brtj
under the name and style of George II, King ofGfc
Britain and Irelind, by a charter to a company ofi
own subjects thcra residing, affected to grant toti*
all tho country on this continent, lying be twees'.
Savannah and Altamalia rivers; that this cot
was at that lime inhabited by several sovereigs:
independent nations of Indians, amongst otben 1
the Cherokee rulion, who were the rightful or.-
thereof, and that the monarch who afiocted to gn
it had no title to it whatever. These complain
are informed and believe, that the only title tovfi
he pretended was derived from the circumstance h
a ship, manned by his subjects, had about t.ro cc
ries and a half before, sailed along the coast oft
•Western hemisphere, firom the fifty.sixth to thetc
ty-eighlh degree of north latitude, and looked op
the face.of that coast without ever landing upotr
part of it.
This they are informed and believe has been cd
a title by first discovery, which is not true even in pc
of fact, as against the Cherokee nation and other t
clians, for they had discovered and occupied rtlongty
fore. That whatever may be the theory of this titled
discovery, as among tho European sovereigns tie'
eelvesjthesc complainants are informed and believe
was never alleged - by tlie KingofGreat Britain ora;
of his grantees, that the charter gave to then; n;
right to disturb the Indian occupants. That Twin;
treaties have been made between the British fol-n
in Georgia, between tlie State of Georgia, before hr
confederation with tho other Stitcs, afterwordsU
tween the confederated States, .and finally betwe
the United States, under tkeir present conxtiUitia
and the Cherokee n ation ; in ail of which the rigto
of tho Indians to the occupancy of the country,»
the lands on which they reside, have been reeognhs
These complainants pray leave to refer to the folic
ing treaties between the United States and the fiber,
kce nation, as part of this their bill of complaint,^
published with tho laws of tlie United Staten, «|
forming according to the Constitution of tho Uuitf
States, a part of the supreme law of the land, to »i
the treaty concluded at Hopewell, on the 28lh of.V:
vember, 1785, between tlie commissioners of tilt (k-
ted States and the hoad men and warriors of all t*
Cherokccs; tho treaty concluded on the hankie'
the Holston, on the 22nd day of July, 1791, betme
the President of tho United States, by his duly «■
thorized commissioner, - William Blount, and lb
Chiefs and warriors of tlie Cherokee nation of k
dians, together with the additional article tlicrcu
made at Philadelphia, on the 17th of February, 1%
the treaty at Philadelphia on the 23th June, Wi
the treaty of Tcllico, made on the 2nd October, 1%
between the United States and the Cherokee nalir.
the treaty between the same'parties at Tcllico, onb
25th October, 1805*; tho treaty between the na
parties at Teliico, on the 21tli of October, 1601; tif
treaty between the same parties at tho same pi-"
on the 27th. October, 1805; and the treaty betw«
the same parties made at the City- of Washington,:
the 7th day of January, 1806, together with the p
clamation of that Convention by tho President ofti
Unitod States, of tho 11th of September, 1807; i»
treaty at Washington on tlie 22d of March, 18b
the treaty at the Chickasaw Council House, ir»
on tho 14th of September, 1816; the treaty at tk
Qhorokco agency, on the 8th of July, 1817; thcTm
ty at the City of Washington on the 27th of I'do
ary, 1819. All which treaties and conventions W
duly ratified aiid confirmed iiy the Senate of tbe
ted States, and bocome thenceforth and still an 1
part of tho supreme law of the land.
That by these treaties, tho right of the Cbetekw
to the occupancy of their lands within thoir pre** -
bed boundaries, is so clearly recognizod, that tk* a;
complainants cannot conceive a doubt con exist.
These complainants havo understood, that <■& ft .
have.indulged in speculative objections to thoir 0
to the whole lands of .the entire country tlnisti! 1 ^ J
eu by-the Chorokec nation, on tho ground that tbf
are mere savages,* roaming over tho surface of Ik
earth in search of gamo. Even if this lippoi!# 5
wero jtrae,, how such an objection could Hand **
those, solemn treaties by which their boundaries In*
been designated, and their lands within those be®
darics guaranteed to them, they do not comprefce^
nor have they yet been informed how it has been » *
certainod, that this earth was intended only *
purposes of agriculture, and that no title could be
acquired to any portion of it in any other mus*-f
than by digging into its bowels; nor how digg»lB
and ploughing ifito one part of it, can give a title t # _
hundreds and thousands of miles at a distance firo3 •
that part so dug into or ploughed. They are sW
more confounded in attempting to reconcile this u*. t
ory of a title derivable only from the cultivation
detached portions of a country, with the alleged tit.:
by discovery, arising simply from sailing alongto
coast at several miles distance firemthc shore. 7W
are equally perplexed in reconciling this theory, wi
the title which the United States themselves
to tho, untouched millions of acres which lie botwrt* g
their settlements and tho Pacific ocean, over wni’
thci.r people havo never even ch.ised their gaw»>i .
seen them from tho distant mountain tops. _
But whatever foundation thcro may bo for
ory, tlicse complainants charge that thoy aro
savages nor hunters, but agriculturalists ; anu in J
charge further, that they aro the occupants of n «*•
tain portion of land which they and tlicir ancodc.
havo actually enclosed and improved, and that nof®"
itician or jurist has ever heretofore doubted tbo rl f 1 ’
of tho native Indians to tho undisturbed possess#*
of their fields and houses; hut that all tho decw* oB
pamgfliiBl