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run on nil Electoral Ticket.—And whereas, it
is desirable that the vacancies created should
lie so tilled that every portion of the people of
Georgia, friendly to the Administration should
be represented—
Resolved, That Senliorn Jones, of Musco
gee, Edward Harden, of Clark, and James An
derson, of Burke, be nominated to till the va
cancies created by the declension of Col. Ten*
nille, Gen. Walker, and Gen. Anderson.
On motion of General Glascock, it was
Unanimously Resolved, That a public din-
tier lio given to onr Senators, Messrs. Lump-
kill and Cuthbert, and our Representatives,
Messrs. Cooper, Colquitt, and Black, at the In
dian Springs, in Butts County, on the first
Wednesday in September, as a testimonial of
our regard for the able and faithful discharge
of their duties, and their maintenance of prin
ciples in which the South feel so great an inte
rest, and that a general invitation be extended
to our fellow citizens throughout the State,
without distinction of parties, and that our
candidates for electors and the balance of our
representative ticket for Congress, be especially
invited to participate.
Resolved further, That a Committee of 21
be appointed by the Chairman at his leisure to
carry ihe foregoing resolution into effect.
The Committee consists of the following
gentlemen :
Gen. Thomas Glascock, of Richmond.
Chairman.
Gen, John W. Burney, Col. Fleming Jor
dan, John C. Waters, John Robinson, and
Richard Flemislie, of the county of Jasper.
Daivid J. Bailey, Gen. Gusta'vus Hendrick,
Col. James H. Stark. Col. llenry Dillon, John
Sanders, Abel I*. Robinson, ami Parham Lind
sey’, of ilie county of Butts.
Elijah Philips, Col. W. C. Redding, John
Pitman, E.q., Dr. Sylvauus Burney’, and
James Turner, of the county of Monroe.
Thomas Wright, Hcndlcy Varner, and
Robert O. Usher, of the county of Newton.
On motion of*Co!. H. G. Lamar, of Bibb.
Resolved, That the Secretaries of this Con
vention call on M. Ilall McAllister, Esq. for
the very able and patriotic address delivered
this day before the Democratic Republican
party of Georgia, and that five thousand copies
of tiie same, be printed in pamphlet form lor
distribution.
Resolved, That the thanks of this Conven
tion be tendered to the Hon. Thomas Spald
ing. for the able and dignified manner that he
has presided over the deliberations of tins body.
lllltt mm tYjvy tnr irtw
rics for the prompt and faithful manner they
have discharged their duties.
The Convention then adjourned.
THOMAS SPALDING, Prcs't.
Joseph Sturgis, )
Frederick II. Sanford, > Secretaries.
WiliiamA. Hotchkiss. \
the memorable contest of 1S01. The friends
of your administration, would, therefore, leel a
peculiar gratification, if it should prove agree
able to you, to lie present with them on this in
teresting occasion.
WM. A. TEN NILLE, Chairman.
TOMLINSON FORT, C. E. RYAN,
W5I. SANFORD,
FAltl.SH CARTER,
WM. 1). JARRATT,
C. 1). HAMMOND,
1$. S. JORDAN,
ISAAC NEWELL,
GEO. LEEVES,
E. BRANTLEY,
R. ROWELL,
A. M. HORTON.
Letters in Reply to invitations to at
tend tlie late Celebration.
MILLEDGEVILl.E, 5th June, 1810.
To Gen. Andrew Jackson,
Sin:—The undersigned committee, appoint
ed by the citizens of Baldwin County, who are
opposed to the election of Win. Henry Harri
son, to the Presidency of the United States
have the honor hereby to solicit your presence
at n celebration of the approaching Anniver
sary of American Independence in this place.
Believing that the contest now going on be
tween the friends and opponents of Mr. Vail
Huron's administration, involves all the great
•questions which have so long divided the Fe
deral and Democratic parties of the United
States, and that the crisis in which this strug
glfc is to be maintained, gives io Federalism
aud its associates a formidable array of mix
Ipary power, we venture the belief that you
will unite with us in the opinion that the oc
casion'calls for the united and determined ef
forts of the patriotism of the people of the Uui-
led States, and especially of the people of the
fiomlu
Should it be found agreeable to your views
to honor us with your*presence on this inte
resting occasion, you will confer n favor by
apprising us of your intention at the earliest
day. With great respect,
Your obedient servants.
MM. A. TENNJLLE, Chairman.
TOMLINSON FORT, WM. SANFORD,
WASHINGTON, June 17tli, 1810.
Gentlemen :—I have had the honor to re
ceive your polite invitation to attend a celebra
tion of the approaching anniversary of Amer
ican Independence, at Milledgsville. It would,
I beg you to be assured, afford me the greatest
pleasure to meet my friends in Georgia, on the
interesting occasion referred to; but I ant com
pelled by* the obligations of official duty, to
deny myself that gratification.
You have, gentlemen, neither overrated the
influence with which 1 have had to coutctid
in the administration of the Government, nor,
in my judgment, the relative importance of the
crisis which has arisen in the general politics
of the country. It will undoubtedly require
the fullest exercise of the patriotism of the peo
ple, and an unshaken fidelity on the part of
their oliicial agents, to meet it successfully and
honorably. Determined to perform my whole
duty in the matter—trusting that my associ
ates will do likewise—and having seen noth
ing in recent events to shake my habitual con
fidence in the intelligence, integrity and firm
ness of our countrymen, 1 do not allow myself
to doubt that nil the obstacles, which have been
thrown in the way of tlie public service, will
he speed I y and sucessfully overcome.
Begging you the favor to return my unfeign
ed thanksto those ol my fellow citizens of Bald
win County, whom you represent, for this
gratifying mark of their respect, and to accept
my warmest acknowledgments for the spirit in
winch you have communicated their wishes.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your friend and obedient servant.
M. VAN BUREN.
To Wm. A.TennillCjT. Fort, Wm.Sanford,
Farish Carter, Wm. D. Jarratt, C. 1). Ham
mond. B. S. Jordan, C. E. Ryan, Isaac Newel,
G. Lcevcs, E. Brantley, R. Rowell, and A. M.
Horton, Esqrs.
MILLEDGEVILLE 5ili JUNE, ISM.
To the Honor arm: John Forsyth :
Sm :—The undersigned Committee, appoin-
TtU tiy TTltr ClllrA'lTifUcrtOimr xwnit jr, ttVhtme
opposed to the election of Win. Henry Harri
son to the Presidency of the United States, have
the honor to solicit your presence, at a celebra
tion of the approaching Anniversary of Ameri
can Independence in Ibis place.
Believing that a formidable attack is made
on Democratic principles, in all parts of the
United States, and that your position to the
State of Georgia, should give to our efforts a
peculiar interest: wc trust that it will lie found
agreeable to your views, to unite with ns, in
giving to the principles wc advocate, that com
manding preponderance, which the people of
this State, have so often accorded to the place
vou have occupied.
WM. A. TEN NILLE. Chairman.
THOML1NSON FORT,
WM. .SANFORl).
FAIHSH CARTER,
WM. 1). JARRATT,
C.D. HAMMOND,
B. S. JORDAN,
C. E. RYAN,
I. NEWELL.
GEO. LEEVES,
E. BRANTLEY,
R. ROWELL,
A. M. HORTON.
WASHINGTON CITY, JUNE 23th, 1810.
Gentlemen:—Such is the present posture
of the business of the Department of State, that
at this moment, and for some time to come, 1
cannot leave my post. It is not, therefore, ne
cessary for me to decide whether or not, the
importance of the political contest in Georgia,
would justify, under ordinnry circumstances,
an absence from the Seat of Government, to
meet our political friends, in accordance with
your invitation.
Ready to unite with you, most cordially, in
any measure calculated to maintain those prin
ciples to which the State of Georgia has repeat
edly and most solemnly devoted herself. I can
not think with you, that the attack made on
democratic principles, so far at least as the pco-
pleol our State are concerned, is '■■formidable:' j barrets, with which the advocates of this rc-
FARISJI CARTER,
c I) HVMMOMI.
c. E. RYAN,
GEORGE LEEVES,
It. ROWE!.,
WM. I). JARRATT,
HEVI S. JnUllDA.Y,
ISAAC NEWEL,
E. BRANTLEY,
A. il. HORTON.
HERMITAGE, JUNK 22.1, ISM.
Gentlemen:—1 have received your favor
of the 5th instant, inviting me to unite with
the citizens of Baldwin county, in the cele
bration of the next anniversary of our nation
al IndcpandcLcc, and regret sincerely, that it
will not lie it) my power to comply with it.
I agree with yon in the views you express,
of the contest now going on between the Re
publican and Federal parties- the former, run
ning Mr. Van Buren, and the latter Gen. Har
rison, ns n candidate for the Presidency; and
that the occasion calls for the patriotic and de
termined efforts of the people, to preserve the
ascendancy of those great principles in our
system of Government, winch it was the object
of the revolution, and of the reform in ISO!), to
establish and preserve. If the doctrines of the
Federal party, arc not now resisted, Mr. Jeffer
son will have warned us in vain against the
dangers of consolidation, and the people may
lose, uefore they arc aware ol it, the blessings
of free government. Grant to the Federalists,
the principle of constmctivo powers, and the
constitution is no longer a guarantee for the
rights and sovetcigntyof the Suites. The dis
cretion of Congress he substituted for the
checks and balances of a limited Government,
and all the powers of Legislation, will lie at
once absorbed by that body. Against such
doctrines, it is our duty to contend as the fath
ers of the Republican church have done be
fore us, relying ii|>on the justice of our cause,
and never doubting the power of truth.
I am, with sentiments of groat respect,
Your obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
Messrs. Wm. A. Tennitic, chairman, and
T. Fort, Wm. Sanford, and others, committee
MILLEDGEVILLLE, 5th June, 1840.
To nis Excellency M, Van Ruken.
Sir; The undersigned, committee appoint
ed by the citizeus of Baldwin County, have
the honpr hereby to solicit your preseuce at a
celebration of the approaching anniversary of
American Independence, in this place..
The formidable array of influences brought
to bear against your administration ; the un
tiring zeal of Federalism, and the new ele
ments of power now brought in to aid these al
ways powerful .agents, constitutes the present
a crisis, not less important and dangerous, than
My official duties will compel me to forego the
pleasure of mingling with yon on that day, in
commemorating'an event which created an era
iu the history of mail.
I am more anxious to be with you In your
approaching celebration, because the State of
Georgia is now passing a crisis, out of which
she must come for weal or for woe; and upon
such occasions it behooves every man, howe
ver humble or elevated, to contribute his mite
to defend and perpetuate the principles on
which our national existence was achieved.
As all my interests arc identified with those of
the great mass of mv constituents, I naturally
feel that solicitude which every one must ex
perience who believes that the people of whom
lie is a component part, hate every thing to
lose and nothing to gain, by departing from
(he maxim which teaches us that “eternal vi
gilance is the price of liberty ”
A great contest, in which those principles
are at stake, is at hand; and he who in the
conflict is prepared to surrender himself and
his country to the guidance of a leader who
seeks to recommend himself only to your “gen
erous confidence,' forgets that lesson of cau
tious and practical wisdom which has hereto
fore preserved our civil and political liberties.
Blind credulity is ever the offspring of impli
cit “confidence,” and passive obedience, with
all its consequences of arbitrary power, are
the bitter fruits wc must inevitably reap, when
we yield up our right to investigate and judge.
The people of Georgia arc called on to select
the Harrisburg nominee, logo to the top of the
column, and advance the “flag” under which
they arc to array themselves in the pending
conflict, and when in the exercise of their right
to investigate and judge, they naturally ask,
what arc the views, the opinions, the principles,
of the mau they are required to follow, they
arc answered by an appeal to their sympathies,
and their “ generous confidence." Has it come
to this that you, who habitually investigate
with a scrutiny bordering on suspicion, the
principles and conduct of your own immediate
servants, can be brought to forego tlmt inval
uable privilege, when a candidate for the high
est office in your gift, and known to you, upon
his own confession,ns a frank and zealous sup
porter of the black cockade administration of
the elder Adams, is urged upon your accept
ance. by a convention, in which you were not
only not represented, but in which federal and
abolition influence held a decided and prevail
ing iufluctice? C.ui you be brought to repose
yourselves with “generous confidence' on a
man whose silence, “more eloquent ’ tlinii
words,” lias produced the necessity of an ap
peal so insulting to your patriotism and intel
ligence. 1 And who, although mute himself, as
to his present opinions and future course, per
mitted his advocates to march through the
streets of one of your principal cities, under a
fiit", on which was written the crafty, super
cilious, and aristocratical motto, “ We stooi
to conquer.” Can wc, consistently with our
former professions as southern State Rights
men, confer the highest office in our gift on a
man whose only claim to Jeffersonian repub
licanism rcstsupon thetestimony of John Bur
net, an ■ancient, professed, undeviating federal
ist, and who, reeking, as lie is, with federalism,
is now the frank and zealous admirer and
supporter of this certificate republican f If
yon would reject the testimony of an atheist
in a court of justice, you are bound to reject
the ex parte certificate of this political atheist,
wlio iwl only condemns iwr wlvilo imwci). jus
the antithesis of his orthodoxy, but whose
evidence is contradicted by history and fact.
You have asked for 11 more light,” for facts,
principles, rational argument and legitimate
deductions, before yon could support a can
didate for the presidency whose previous life
lias been marked by opposition to your best
interests, and whose premeditated silence, as
to bis present principles and future course,
leaves you to anticipate the worst consequen
ces from bis election. How have your rea
sonable demands been met! How have your
questions been answered? Why, instead of
talking to yon as if you were the free, iutclli
gent voters of Georgia, your patriotism lias
been insulted, and your intelligence derided
by the “ dumb show” of log cabins and cider
Although our opponents succeeded at the last
{.'residential election in throwing away the
power of the State., upon Judge White, to
whom we owed m.-iuy obligations for his firm
and undeviating support in our Indian diffi
culties, it would be treason to the integrity
and intelligence of the people, to suppose that
they can ever be induced to cast their weight
into the scale of one whom the most daring of
our politicians had not the hardihood to present,
for their consideration, at the last Presidential
canvass.
Without offence to my long acquaintance
with General Harrison, and our kiud personal
intercourse of many years: without calling in
question his ability, or his dispositions to pro
mote tlie honor and prosperity of his couutry,
according to the principles and opinions that
have governed his political life ; without in
justice to him or to his supporters,—I may
assert that he was .-is worthy of confidence in
1830, as he is now. No changes of opinion
or principle have occurred since that period;
no new services have been performed, to enti
tle him to public trust, or to awaken public
gratitude. After performing the impossible
task of proving that, on Southern questions and
somliern principles—In the high qualities of
a statesman, and in the. experience and knowl
edge necessary to conduct the affairs of a great
empire,—General Harrison should lie preferred
to his competitor, it will lie necessary for the
motfoy association whose leaders press the Gen
eral’s pretensions, to achieve another impossi
bility—to explain satisfactorily to the people of
Georgia, the process by which the wonderful
conviction of his merit's, lias been at this late
day forced upon their minds! Until these im
possibilities are conquered, it is not possible that
they can succeed in their strange design.
That I cannot in person, express to my as
sembled fellow citizens at Millcdgeville, the
perfect confidence I feel that neither the peo
ple of Georgia, nor of the United States, are to
be deluded by false statements and hollow pre
tences, or influenced by scusclcss and precon
certed clamors iu deciding upon the choice
of their Chief Magistrate, is a subject of great
regret lo,
Your friend and fellow citizen,
JOHN FORSYTH.
Washington, June 21,1840.
For Wm. A. Teuuille, Chairman, Tomlinson
Fort, and others, Committee of Invitations.
Gentlemen; Yoor note of the 3d instnnt
conveying to me an invitation from the citizens
of Baldwin county, who arc opposed to the elec
tion of Win. H. Harmon to the Presidency, to
join them in celebrating the next anniversary
of our Independence, lips been duly received.
cent hero have sought to satisfy your doubts.
Heretofore when parties have marshalled them
selves ill the State of Georgia, men have sought
to make proselytes 1»y a declaration-of. their
political faith; in order that the people, the
principles, on cither side being spread out be
fore them, might exercise "their intelligence
and judgment in the choice: but it is reserved
for the “Anti-Van Buren party” in mockery
of your rights, to prefer their claims to popular
favor, by a resort to the devices of inanimate
signs and the trickery of pantomime.
But, fellow citizens, the indignant shouts of
our insulted people have already reached the
ears of this political candidate, and the Com
mittee who keep him. lie has been driven
from bis silence to bis pen; but true to bis
original purpose he “palters with you in a
double sense,” and gives an answer as ambigu
ous and delusive as the constructive responses
of the Delphic oracle. He now acknowledges
in his letter to Mr. Joseph Williams of Ten
nessee, that he “ requested Mnj. Gwinne, the
Chairman of the Committee, to give the. infor
mation sought for in some of the numerous let
ters he received in relation to his political opin
ions and the events of bis past lifeJ’ This he
says “was to be done by sending to the wri
ters of these letters, the documents which con
tained the information they desired.” Gwinne
“was also authorized” lie says, to state in
cases where farther opinions were asked for
his (Harrison’s) determination to give no other
pledges of what he would or would not do if
lie should be elected to the Presidency.” Thus
the action of this committee is acknowledged
and sanctioned hy Gen. Harrison, and he him
self tells you that he will give you no further
pledges as to his future course. In his late let
ter to Mr. Lyon, of Virginia, he says that “ no
thing but his (Lyon's) high standing in socie
ty, and his intimacy and connection with his
family could have induced him to answer the
political part of his letter at all” Will the
democratic republican voters of Georgia, who
have-been accustomed to simplicity and equal
ity, be satisfied when they are told that Gen.
Harrison will not answer the political part of
a letter at all, unless the writer is a “ man of
high standing in society,” and who has been
so fortunate as to be intimate with Gen. H’s.
family ? However you may find grades,dis
tinctions, and castes in society in many parts
of the world where men are civilly and politi
cally degraded and debased, I apprehend you
will hardly contribute to the establishment of
such an order of things in Georgia, by advo
cating the man who refers tohis friend’s “high
standing in society” as the reason why he an
swers his letter at all. Gut how does heat)-
• .fon=>.-K -u-JiU
swerit? Does he contradict his letter to Jo
seph W. W illiams, just quoted, and let you
into the secret of what he will, or will not do
if elected President—and on what principles
the Government will be administered? No,
not one word of it. The whole letter is taken
up iri egotistical references to his past personal
history. He keeps his pledge lo Williams, and
fails to disclose his future course. These
facts need only to be stated—any commentary
on them in a letter to the people of Georgia
would be words tlirown away, foryou will hard
ly want “ light” now as to the fitness of this
man to rule over you.
But, fellow citizens! if wc arc left in the
dark as to Gen. Harrison’s future coarse, is
there any thing in “his political opinions, or
the events of his past life” which authorizes us
to believe that he will, if elected to the Presi
dency, be with us on any of the great questions
likely to arise in the future administration of
the General Government? Surely wc have
nothing to hope from his speech in Congress
against the resolution introduced by Mr. Nich
olas to reduce the standing army of John
Adams, which was maintained for the avowed
purpose of keeping Mr. Jefferson’s friends,
(then denominated by the federalists, the
French faction) in awe and subjection. Sure
ly he does not echo your sentiments when he
avows in that speech tlmt the militia ought not
to be entrusted with the defence of the country.
He certainly did not represent your feelings
when he suffered himself to be restrained, by
prudential motives, from avowing Ins oppo
sition to tbc Alien and Sedition laws, or when
he determined to “ take no part in the contest”
between Jefferson and Adams.*
You cannot find any thing to elicit vwtr
“generousconfidence” in the Resolutions lie in
troduced into the Ohio Legislature, instructing
the delegation from that State in Congress to
oppose the admission of slavery into the United
States territory west of the Mississippi; and
also to oppose the appropriation of the surplus
revenue to the payment of the national debt, in
order that it might be applied to the protection
of the great manufacturing establishments of
the country, or when he instructed them to ad
vocate a system of Internal Improvements by
the federal government, and a protective dis
criminating TnritF—or when he proposed to
exempt the persons of manufacturers from road
and militia duty, and their property from tax
ation. And last, though not least, he does not
faithfully represent yon, when he says he will
yield his constitutional scruples against a Bank
of the United States,-to facile suggestions ‘ of
expediency. No candid and intelligent man
CJintleny that the above is a faithful synopsis
of a few of “the events of his past life nor
w : ll it be contended that the course he pursued
upon tho various and VITAL questions in
volved in the above propositions was suclt
an one as should characterize a Representative
of Georgia. Upon wlmt important question
then., lias he been with us ? It is true, he voted
with usou the Missouri question, but bis anti
slavery resolutions, above referred to, and
adopted by the Ohio Legislature, a short time
after his vole in Congress, clearly proves that
he repented of that vote, and lost no time lo re
cant and repeal it.
These are a few of the political events of the
pastlifeofGen. Harrison, and upon the strength
of them, we are called on to receive his nomin
ation to the Presidency, “with something akin
to generous confidence!”
For refusing thus to lax my credulity at the
expense of my principles, or your interest—for
daring to withhold my confidence from a mail
whose whole life has been spent in warring
against the South, I have been proscribed, re
jected and condemned by a Convention, consti
tuted, in part, of men who by procuring their
own nomination to the office conferred on me
by the people, and which they seem so much
to covet, has cast a suspicion around their eon-
duct, and which will prompt thousands and
tens of thousands to ask “why has this been
done ?” Let the answer be found iu tbc no
torious facl that Three members of the Con-
‘ j renlion which proscribed Judge Colquitt, Mnj.
Cooper, and myself, were nominated by that
Convention, to the very office from which their
disinterested judgment would expel us.
From this proscriptive and partial decision
o( the 'Whig Convention at Millcdgeville, 1
appeal to the people of Georgia—nothing
doubting that their verdict at the polls in Oc
tober next, will triumphantly sustain my injur
ed colleagues and myself, ns the bumble but
faithful representatives of the rights, the inter
ests and the democracy of our State.
Deeply impressed with these feelings I offer,
through you to the citizens whom you repre
sent, the following sentiment:
The. voice ok the People—The only des
potism which should be tolerated in a free
Government.
Respectfully and faithfully,
Your obedient servant,
EDWARD J. BLACK.
my actings here, so strongly, as to declare in
a signal manner that we cannot represent
them.
If this proceeds from a difference of opinion
on any great political doctrine or leading re
publican measure, they have douc right. If
not, then they have doubtless acted on a belief
tbut we should be superseded by others who
arc more nble and more trustworthy.
Believing, fellow citizens, that there is an
issue between ninny of my late friends and
myself, in reference to the true policy of the
federal government, and the interests of Geor
gia in regard to the questions involved, two of
my colleagues and myself have felt it our duty
to refer these matters to the people of Georgia.
That issue is this, “ Shall the government,
as the people’s agents, by a system dispensing
with the aid of bank corporations, collect and
pay out the public money in tbc constitutional
currency ? Or shall it resume the use of banks
and bank paper, ns the medium and agents
through whom to receive and pay out its mo
ney.”
To disconnect the government and banks,
is to me the obviously republican policy—
without it. a resort to a bank or banks is indis
pensable. As long as you use banks, you will
have a large surplus revenue, extravagant and
unauthorized expenditures, which lend to
profligacy and corruption. Nothing is more
destructive to the interests of Georgia than ex
cess of revenue. Even it she pa vs no more
than her proportion of it, she is the loser, since
a combination oftarift men, Internal Improve
ment men, and banks north of the Potomac,
secures its disbursement iu their own territory,
or, as General Harrison will have it, may ap
propriate the whole as a bonus for northern foT office ^wl
factories, or in purchase of your slaves.
That tho benefits of a Lank, if there be nnv,
results to ihe north, is shown by one or two
facts, exhibited by (be documents filed in the
archives of this union.
1st. It appears by the annual returns of the
United States Bank, from its organization to
the expiration of its charter, that the public
money and not its capital was the basis, and
governed the amount of its annual average
circulation.
2d. That with a nominal capital of .5:35,000.-
00U, its annual average circulation was only
about £-.8,853.963, whilst the annual average
of deposits of public money during its existence
was $8,043,704.
3d. The history of our commercial affairs
shows that auy interference with those depo
sits was attended by a convulsion and a pres
sure—from which, it is clear that the United
States Bank will afford you no facilities be
yond the means furnished it by the revenue,
collected from the tax paying people—and that
if you take tbc deposites away, or use them,
you may expect to be pressed. It is true then,
that you must be the authors of your own re
lief, even though the Bank is the agent to dis
tribute relief. Had you not as well be your
own agents, to relieve yourselves, by keeping
your money in your own pockets? There is
not such a mystery in this but any farmer may
comprehend it.
Now, as your representative. I have felt it
my duty to inquire, who it is opposes the Sub-
Treasury, and for what? What they are to
gain, and what you must lose? The answers
to these enquiries will be furnished to Congress,
and may reach you through some remarks I
expect to make on this measure—to which I
beg to refer you.
In offering you a sentiment, it is most ap
propriate to give what rests most forcibly on
my mind, and with greatest weight on my feel
ings—to wit:
“A strict construction of the constitution
the truest test of Jeffersonian Republicanism.
It excludes a protective tnrilf, a U. States Bank,
and Internal Improvements, and tbc encroach
ments of Abolitionism. It is the shield of State
Rights, and the rallying point for the South.”
This is tho same I gave iny follow citizens
of Lumpkin, Stewart County.
1 remain, respectfully, your ob’t. serv't.
MARK A. COOPER.
right of petition, security against excessive
bail and unreasonable searches, and to be con
fronted by your accuser. Inestimable privile
ges to ficemen, and formidable to tyrants only
5th. Popular Education; the surest guarani
tec for the perpetuation of our Republic.
6th. The banner of onr Country ; It floats
to every breeze, and is unfurled on every sea
“ Oil tong may it wave.
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.’’
Tth. Our gallant Navy; a bulwark of de
fence in time of war; the protection of our
Commerce in time of peace.
8th. The memorable 8lh of January, 1815
shall be coexistent ill the reminiscences’of pa
triotism with the disemboguement of the waters
of the mighty Mississippi.
9th. '1'he fabric of our Union; supported by
twenty-six sovereignties, ns the stately edifice
is, by granite columns from our eternal hills
“ Esto perpetua !”
10th. Industry and Economy, vigilantly at
tended to ; tbc most effectual way to ^et rid of
hard times. c
11th. A well organized Militia, with a nu
cleus of a standing aruiv, to tench discipline
and subordination ; the proper safeguard of
defence for a Republic.
I2tb. The Free Press ; it mainly directs the
franchises of the people in casting their votes.
Tis the A. B. C. of tbc politician. Then bow
linvo
* Vide hit teller to Mr. Lyon.
Capitol IIill, 21st June, 1S10.
To Wm. A. Tcnnille, Chairman,Tomlinson
Fort, Wm. Sanford, Farish Carter, Wm. I).
Jarratt, O. 1). Hammond, B. S. Jourdau,
C. E. Ryan, Isaac Newell. George Leaves.
E. Brantley, It. Rowell anil A. M. Horton,
Esqrs.
Gentlemen:—Yotirs of the 3d of this month,
inviting me to unite in a celebration of the 4th
of July next, with my fellow citizens of the
Slate “who are opposed lo the election of
William Henry Harrison to the Presidency of
the United States,” was received.
The honor thus conferred, is duly appre
ciated, and this mnnilestation of kind feelings
is reciprocated. It is accepted, not without the
understanding, however, that my failure to at
tend, (arising from duties here,) shall be ex
cused by you. It is very certain that Congress
will not adjourn in time to allow me to be with
you.
This respectful attention, connected with
the events of the last six months, leaves me no
room to doubt, that my political course forms
oneofthe prominent reasons for this exhibition
of kindness on your part.
That course, gentlemen, you will please as
sure my fellow citizens, in whose behalf yon
act, is the legitimate, unavoidable result of a
rigid application of the political sentimentsen-
tertained at all times by the republican party,
of which Thomas Jefferson and George M.
Troup, are illustrious personifications. For
it, 1 am entitled to no further commendation
than is due to a free, fnithful, sincere and un
biassed effort to apply , those principles to the
conduct and policy of this government.
It is a fact known 1o you, that many of my
old political friends, with whom I have never
differed before, whose confidence was my great
est comfort, and whose approbation was my
highest reward, have recently dissented from
toil THE SUUTIIEKN BANNER.
Ciclchraliou oS tl»c* Itii of July at
Caruesvillc, Geo.
At II o’clock A.. M., the people were para
ded on the public square, by Col. Noah Looney,
Marshall of tbc day, anil were marched to the
Baptist Church—the banner of our couutry un
furled to the hreoze. nt tho brad of the column,
and accompanied by martial music. The slit ill
clarion notes of the fife : the thunder of the
drum ; the glorious stars and stripes gracefully
undulating to the breeze; the number of hu
man beings present, ready to worship at the
shrine of onr liberties. Indeed tbc occasion in
all its relations was well calculated to create an
assemblage of ideas truly sublime, and to call
forth to tlie mind, the chivalrous days of onr
fathers. ’Tis well to be present on such occa
sions ; for if we act our part ns become patriots,
wc shall generally come off better men. Ar
rived at the Church, the services of tbc day
were introduced by prayer by the Rev. Mat
thew VV. Vnitdevier, after a few remarks
suited the occasion from this gentleman. After
which, the “ Ode on Science,” was sung by
by Mr. John G. York, teacher of vocal music,
assisted by bis scholars. Then tbc Declara
tion of Independence was read by Col. Thomas
Morris, after which, Hail Columbia was sung.
Then followed the reading of Washington’s
Farewell Address, by Snmuc. Hytner, Esq.
Then the Choir chanted an elegy to Washing
ton. beginning with “Our Chief is dead, Ac.”
Alter which, an Oration was delivered by Sam
uel Freeman, Esq., replete with glowing pa
triotism and manly'eloquence. There were
present on the occasion, about three hundred
persons of both sexes, every one of whom bo-
iiavcd with the utmost decorum. After the
Oration, the assembly repaired to a suitable
place, and drunk the following regular and
volunteer toasts, with great glee and unanim
ity ; Dr. 11. Freeman acting as President of the
day, assisted by Col. John tl. Patrick,R. A. R.
Neal, Esq., and Dr. David II. Payne.
On this occasion, we literally feasted upon
the air and quaffed nature's beverage, pure
from thefouiitnin. Our feast was emphatically
a feast of the soul, inspired by patriotism and
the moral sense. Not a drunken man was to
be seen in this large concourse of people.
Regular Toasts.
1st. The day we celebrate; Rich in remin
iscences of the past; may its celebration be
perpetuated to the end of. time !
2nd. The Constitution literally; not latitu-
dinous and by implication.
3d. The signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence; a fearless baud of patriots; they
“ bearded the lion in his deu,” and come off
unscathed by the thraldom of tyranny. Drank
in silence and uncovered—standing.
4th. The right of suffrage, trial by jury,
liberty of the Press, liberty of conscience, tlie
important that its conductors should
sound minds and virtuous hearts !
13th. The American Fair; we succumb to
no arms but theirs !
Volunteer Toasts.
By Dr. Alvar, Dean, of Floyd County:
r ke |£;S ets -‘‘'id we should support those
support us. Mr. Van Buren
supports the South, and the South ought to
support him. else prove derelict lo her best in
terests.
By Dr. Henry Freeman. Gen. Andrew
Jackson ; a beacon fired iu war ; in peace, the
able, stern, uncompromising statesman.
By Col. John II. Patrick. Jolm C. Calhoun;
he is battling manfully by tbc side of the Ad
ministration, and at the sacrifice of no princi
ple lie lias hitherto maintained. The laurel’d
wreath entwines his brow, and the highest
civic honor yet awaits him !
By Thomas F. Strihling. Gen. Harrison,
bis party, and their principles: like paddy's
flea; put your finger upon them and they arc
not there!
Bv Capt. Joseph Mitchell. The Hon.
Thomas Butler King, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Pictures and •Small Matters, will
be discharged and dismissed on the first Mon
day in October next.
^ By Temple F. Cooper, Esq. Reformation;
The surest policy for a permanent reformation,
is to exert onr physical powers in Corn-Mak
ing, instead of our intellectual, iu I'rcsidcnt-
inaking.
By John W. Pruitt, Esq. Win. II. Harri
son ; the unlaurel’d hero of Fort Stephenson;
may lie be wafted down theslrcatn of oblivion,
by the United States.
By Col. John II. Patrick. Our distinguish
ed fellow-citizen, John Forsyth: be is worthy
of any office in the gift of tlie American peo
ple.
By John G. York. Wm. Henry Harrison,
log-cabins, bard cider, coouskins, foxes' tails,
canoes and possum’s tails. ’Tis all lunnlmgcry;
ns well the man and his principles, as all this
pompous parade of his disgusting parapher
nalia !
By Samuel Ilymer, Esq. Dawson. King,
Nisbet, Habersham, Alford and Warren: our
six renegade members ol Congress. It is to be
hoped that their intentions are honest, but it is
evident that they have apostatized from tho
faith of the State Rights party.
By P. R. Jones, Esq. The people of the
South; may they stand to Martin Van Buren
like Capt. James Morris’s men did to each other
in the battle of Pen River.
By John F. Word. The life ol Harrison,
with bis barrel of bard cider iu bis log cabin,
and holding his horse by the bridle: reminds
me more of a knock-knee 1 Savannah negro,
than a President of the United States.
By Capt. M. B. Hooper. I wish all pnrty-
sim to be stink in oblivion, and a friendly
union in the State and United States, Ac.
By S. Knox. Esq. His Excellency, Gov.
McDonald: emphatically the Governor of the
people.
By Reuben Mitchell, Esq. General Harri
son and bis Secret Committee ; seems suitable
to King George tlie Third and his Regency.
Hy Col. Wm. Ash. Col. Thomas II. Ben
ton ami iiis “ Yellow Jackets ;” the princi
ples of the man, and the universal diffusion of
the latter. They ought, one would think,
Sling the Whigs into the support of Mr. Van
Buren, and would, but for the rag Barons !
By Col. Lewis 1). Holscnbake. A separa
tion of the Banks from the Government, and
the Independent Treasury System, are the
bone and sinew of a Republican form of Go
vernment.
By E. M. Burgess, Esq. The opposition,
their motto, “Tip, Tyler and the Tariff;” they
should add Bank Federalism, Abolition, a Cen
tral power at Washington; doff your bats bard
hands, brawncy arm?, and wool-hat gentry,
when vou come iu ot.r presence; in other
words they constitute the aristocracy of the
country. ., „
By James L. Gilles fie, Esq. President Van
Buren , stigmatized by the Northern Federal
ists. Bnnkitcs and Abolitionists, with being “a
Northern man witlf Southern feelings.’' Then
is it not our interest to support him l
By Col. Jolm II. P itrick. Dr. Alvan Dean,
welcome to our County ; which was respond
ed to by the Dr., by a few approptiale remarks,
and was heartily cheered by the people.
By Samuel Knox, Esq. lion. Jnn. Forsyth;
“honor to him to whom honor is due;' 5 oncot
the brightest stars in the political galaxy.
By Albert T. N. V indivere. The heroes ot
Pea Ilfoer: tho’some time has elapsed since
the victory was gained, may they not be for
gotten. May they continue to reap congenial
joys in the fields of blessedness,and in tbc em
braces of their familes, enjoying many long
and happy days!
By Col. Thomas Morris. Our Country, onr
whole Country! Let no suicidal hand, or
Robcspiere, ever mar its progress.
By James W. Payne. Messrs. Cooper, Col
quitt A Black; independent and upright sfoWS'
men ; success to their efforts.
By William Ilollcy. The Hoar. Wm. L\
Dawson,
Who all ihe Fed's know,
’Wonder what lie'll get by jumping Jitti Crow,
Is tie ta he plac'd in the Cabinet rank?
Or will lie be paid out of a IInited States Bank *
By Capt. John Aderhold. May Van Buren
remain in the Presidential chair, and may h|»
ride be delightful on the old canoe, as he sails
the abolition river, and may he not foef UtQ
Epitnd of the log cabin,
:* :f,r ‘ .