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POETRY* ____
From the Philadelphia Aral.
death of this flowers
Ike melancholy *ly are come, the suddest
of (tie year,
Ol Wailing winds, and iiakeil woods, and
meadows blown and sere;
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the
slimmer leaves lie dead—
i They rustle to the eddying-wind, and to the
raid>il’s tread:
• Ihe robin and die w ren are Sown ; and
fro in the shrutis the Jay,
And from the wood-top rails the ciow,
. through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers, the bright young
flower*, that smiled beneath the tort,
• Os hues so pa'sing Ueautitul, and breath so
passing sw int ?
’ Alas ! they all are in 11-o’.r graves—lhe love
ly race, ot flowers, , .
• Are lying in their lonely beds, with the fair
and good of ours.
The ram is tailing on their graves ; but the
chill November rain
Cells not, Irom out the silent earth, the love- .
ly ones agaiu.
The w ild flower and the violet, they perish’
ed long ago, . ~
Aud Ihe Briar-rose and orchis died amid
the bummer’s glow ; -
Bui on the hilt the gulden rod, and the as.
tor in the wood,
And the yellow Sun flower by the brook,
, in Autumn beauty stood—
Till tell the host from the clear cold Hea
ven, as falls the plague on men,
And the blossom never smiled again by up.
land glade or glen.
And now, when comes the calm, mild day,
as still such days must come,
To call the squirrel ami the bee, from out
then winter borne ;
’ When the sound of dropping nuts is heard,
tbo’ all .(lie leaves are still,
And wrinkle in the stnoky light (he waters
of the rill:
Then the south wind searches for the flowers
whose fragrance late he hop-,
And sighs to 2nd them in the Acid, and by
the stream no more.
And then I think of onepwbo in his youth
ful beauty died—
The fair meek blossom that grew up, aud
faded, by my side—
In tbt* cold, rnoisl earth, we laid hfr, when
the tempest cast the ieai—
And we wept,hat one solovely should have
a life so brief :
Yet nut unmeet it was that one, like that
young triend of ours —
So buoyant and so beautiful, should perish
like the flowers
Bryant.
DOMESTIC.
[The folkwing memorial vms prepared
for last week, but omitted for want of
TUVItl.]
MEMORIAL
To the Honorable the Legislature of
Georgia :—The Memorial of the Com
missioners for the establishment of ike
Brunswick Canal Company.
Your memorialists would respectfully
shew, that in their opinion the present
depressed state of the Commercial and
Agricultural prosperity of Georgia may
lie remedied, in an eminent degree, bv
the success of their enterprise, as the
best object of internal improvement, eal
* a I— to ii pit on safe, cheap
ner extensive autf productive region ot
the interior.
Experience, and the great leaduig ob
jects of internal improvement, now in
agitation, under the guidance of the en
terprising and inomed resources of Char
leston, to be connected with the trade -of
tlie North and East sideof Georgia ; and
the Florida Canal by the strong and
consolidated power and means of the
General Government, are objects, in
the opinion of your memorialists, which
sound policy and the two vast regions
which their respective localities are cal
culated to promote in the Southern and
Western States, warrant their ultimate
completion and usefulness.
The effect of these objects upon the
commerce and agriculture oft he North
eastern and Sotiiwestern parts ,m’ Geor
gia must bo obvious to your honorable
tody.
Tlie great question, then, which ar-
Tests the attention of your memorialists,
is, will the Charleston Rail-way and the
Florida Canal, reciprocate their vast
benefits with the general welfare? of
Georgia 1 Your memorialists conceive
it impossible for the Rail-way to pro
mote the interests of Charleston and
-South-Carolina, without producing a
corresponding result to Augusta and all
the Northern parts of Georgia;—lf so,
the same result, except in a ten fold ra
tio, must follow tiie completion of the
Florida canal, to the Southern and
Western parts of the Slate;—Your me
morialists, therefore, cannot perceive
wherein and its citizens in gen
eral, are to become die losers.
If the great objects are marked outby
nature for the enterprise of the South
Carolinians, on the one hand, and the
General Government on the other, ii
.epeins to your memorialists, that such
feeing the inherent spirit of improvement j
in the American people, though yet in
in its infancy, that it will be impossible
r.i check or retard their progress:—
jleucc it is the ardent desire of your me
lnnihilists to pursue the Brunswick Ca
nal, as the most prov ident corresponding
policy w ith these great leading objects of
the surrounding country, in order that
rhe best and most permanent interest of
Georgia may be brought to participate
in the general welfare of tire rir.mth and
AVest.
The Canal of your memorialists which
v ill produce this corresponding happy
effect, requires but twelve and a half
miles excavation through a level clay
roil, from Clark’s bluO'on the Alataina
fu to Turtle river, with only two locks;
and, as the estimate of the Engineer ts
vttleulateil at fifteen eents per cubic yard
for the excavation, and thou double the
.amount to cover tlie cost of bridges,
locks embankments mid grubbing the
line; which swells his estimate of the
•whole cost to tw o hundred thousand nine
hundred and sixty six dollars 85 cents
for a Sham U :t Canal, yet your me
morialists cannot hut conceive, that as
jrs there will be b’lt'two locks and two
bridges required, and also but a innde
-rate proportion of embankments and ex
pense of grubbing the line, the cost of
•be locks, bridges, embankments and
grubbing, will fall far short-of the cost
ufaxetvu! ;on at 15 cents per cubic yard
jj-uliealaiv the scarcity of ino
ney in the present times, will produce a
corresponding opposite efleet of a sur
plus of la hour.
The Engineer reports an estimate,
upon the abeve data, ot four dilierent
size Canals, front which the third is se
lected us follows: —
“3d Canal of 40 feet waterline.
S;i do bottom.
4-4 depth, interior slopes.
4-1 to tl-6. projection
Locks, Bricks, g 200,U06 86 cents.”
Is it not easier to cut a canal twelve
and a half miles through level clay
ground, which will produce more gene
ral good, th'in to cut one eighty miles ?
The advantages of the above contem
plated Stenm-buat Canul, to the highest
interests ol the great mass of the people
and agricultural permanent prosperity of
Georgia, have been abundantly dissem
inated through the country; it has been
shewn that its fcompletimi two years ago
would have resulted at this time, in an
actual saving and increase ol wealth to
the Western counties and the State, from
the same industry and labour, of one
aud a quarter to one and a hall million
of dollars; besides the increase of real
estate in Milledgeville, Macon, Hartford
Dublin, and in the vicinity of the Oco
nee, Octmdgee, the Alatamaha and
Brunsw iek.
An object so great and desirable for
Ihe general welfare cannot he aban
doned by your memorialists, while they
feel influenced by such a lively hope
that the great interest of the people will
insure the approbation and encourage
ment of the Legislature to an extetprise
so laudable and important to the Statu.
Although it is at present headed by
individuals, your memorialists cannot
perceive why that circumstance should
render their object less important; on
the other hand they feel this to be a dou
ble inducement to ask for encourage
ment : —They, therefore, pray your ho
norable body to pass an act, or a joint
resolution authorising His Excellency
the Governor to subscribe, in the name
of the State, for fifty thousand dollars
of the Brunswick Canal Stock; the
State to be entitled to appoint two Direc
tors, with a view of enabling your me
morialists to surmount the present dilli
culties which hang over t!b* parting of
their enterprise, and to place the same
in that routine of harmony and unison
of public spirit, which it seems to them
that so great an object requiring so small
an amount of money, in proportion to
its great usefulness, should be crow ned
with.’
Your memorialists ask for thi- en
couragenientofyour honorable body up
on grounds whereby the state can lose
nothing; that is to say, if tlie state will
obligate herself to take fifty thousand
dollars of the Stock, and by so doing it
should turn out to harmonize the exer
tions of the present nominal Commis
sioners, and the voice of public senti
ment in the procurement of subscrip
tions for the balance required to cut the
aforesaid Steamboat Canal —say one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, then
in that case the state will continence the
payment of her ratio of the instalments
as may be necessary, from time to time,
to carry the work into efi’ect; but not
otherwise.
IlimidttJij incy'HM* , U
state the ground w hich actuates them to
pray lor the above encouragement.
Ist. Brunswick is admitted by the
most enlightened and impartial men of
the country, to be the best bar, harbour,
and healthy site for a commercial city,
south of the Capes of Virginia—lt is si
tuated on the centre of the sea-ho;rrd of
this State, and remote from the rival,
ship and clashing of mercantile interests
with Charleston, the effects of which
in general, leads to bankmpey on both
sides:—lts situation and susceptibilities
bid fair lor theriocation of a Navy Yard
there! Its contiguousuess to the east
ern termination of the Florida Canal
w ill entitle it to a reasonable share of the
Western trade.—lt is calculated by na
ture for one of the strong holds of n e
South in time of W ar, and it is now en
tirely defenceless ! —lt is aNo calculated
to become an important sea-port of the
State, of which it verily seems to your
memorialists, that Georgia should feel
proud to boast, and be thankful that a
kind Providence had been so beneficent
in proflding such a prominent port up
on the centre of her seabord ! —for, what
ever misfortune may befall her other
sea-ports,‘Bucks wick, with a little en
couragement, is calculated by nature to
stand pre-eminent.
‘■ld. The Treasure/ and internal resour
ces of Georgia have ever been rendered
tributary through Baxes —the Steam
boat Coinpnnv, and immense expendi
tures with a view to internal improve- |
ment to the amount of milions of dollars,
for the encouragement ofSavannah and
Darien; while Brunswick and St. Ma
ry’s— seaports entitled to equal marine
grade and magnitude to the state, have
received in comparison, rot one rent.
Your memorialists conceive them all
as die commercial children of the State,
(ifthey maybe permitted to 1 use the
term) and know of no cause why the two
latter should be disinherited the fostering
care and paternal protection of your ho
norable, body.
*ll. It might be deemed an unreason
able complaint, were your memorials.’>
to enter into a inimrtia of the vast sums
of money which have been given anil
expended—besides Banks, Ac. with a
view of encouraging Savannah and Da
rien, to the entire negh- 1 of Brunswick
and St. Mary’s; and did the latter not
feel their legitimacy to he founded in
as pure relationship to the people anti
your honorable body, as their sisters—
Savannah and Darien—Your memori
als.'. on the part of Brunswick, would
not fed so great a right to expect a pa
ternal heating of this, their most respect
fulrpetition in her behalf; whereby they
only ask for an encouicement to try ail
experiment in such a manner, that in
any event the state can lose nothing.
Forty thousand dollars have been ■iib
errtily given to the Steam boat Compa
ny—fifty thousand to tlie Savannah and
Ogeechee canal company—ten thous
and expended on Briar Creek—several
thousand (Hat recollected) for tlie im
provement of tlie navigation to Darien
| —forty thousand in the last appropria
! do*’ fo* the improvement of Savannah
I river, in addition to the vast sums of
money previously expended on that wa
j ter courseg besides the iaicteaso amounts
of stuck subscribed forty tTie statejn
the Steam-boat Company, and the
Banks of Savannah and Darien. —All
amounting to millions ol dollars, which
have been given and exhausted to render
those two'ports large and Jiemrishing
and commercial cities—w Idle Brunswick
and St. Mary’s have been east oil’ with
out a single blessing.
Your memorialists would humbly ask,
what have those two latter commercial
children of the sea-board done to hedis
inherited the paternal benedictions of
Legislature, and to be condemned for
looking to other sources for help and
succour ?
If Brunswick is chargeable with any
sins, wc pray that site may be heard and
forgiven—that site may be admitted into
iter own native household, with but a
small share ofthe Legislative patronage
and that she may become the pride and
flower of the family; and as in doty
bound your memorialists will ever pray.
WILLIAM B. DAVIS,
for self, and in behalf of
Janus Fort, Stephen ('■ King, Jcmes
Gould, Thrums It. King, Goutm’rs.
Augusta, stalh Nov. 1828.
From the Catskill Recorder.
In our days of experience, which have
been neither very few nor very unprofi
table to ourselves in the knowledge line,
at least so far as knowledge is connec
ted witit blunders and wonders, —with
puffing up and blowing up,—with cant,
“ canticues,” and recantation, —and all
the mighty means used to make a noise
itt the world, —we sav, in our days of ex
perience, we have seen nothing of the
marvellous, for instance robberies, mur
ders, elopements, insurrections and re
surrections, which has been turned to
half so good an account, “ in the way of
trade,” as the anti-masonic excitement
in the western part of the state. We
have heard ot autimasonick almanacks,
autiinasonick newspapers, anti-rnason
iek politicians, parsons, doctors, lawyers
schoolmasters, blacksmiths, ptdlers. bar
bers,and littkones, anti-masonick raree
shows; anti-masonick medicines and
itch-ointment; anti-masonick gin at
two cents a glass; and anti-masonick
goods, wares, and merchandize without
name, —all of w hich found ready market
among the good people of the west.
It is really a pity, for business’ sake,
that the presidential question has left
them so destitute of the means of keep
ing the excitement alive. We will sug
gest a substitute. Wei.now thata great
c.Hnet is rapidly approaching out earth,
and though it may at thistinvs.be a tole
rably peaceable sort of astar, some moon
struck knowing ones have given it a bad
name, and it is not only conceived pos
sible that the comet aforesaid may ren
der our climate pretty uncomfortably
}hot, but the question wookl not unnatu
j rally arise, whether its wandering pro
j pensities will not endanger our repub
| iicau institutions. After the anti-ma-
Isouick lessons we have had, we should
| not let surprised to hear of anti-comet
committees, —friends to astronomical
order, —enemies to run about stars, uu
■ trammelled moonshine, and so on.
W e were led iuto this train of what
| may be called a substitute for thinking,
! by the following contents of a genuine
anti-masonick handbill, which was sent
| goes a little before any tiling we lhiVfe
ever seen of the kind.
Anti Masons Lock at This!! —Tlie
subscriber has just received a large as
sortment of Anti-Masonic Groceries,
consisting ■ Pickles ticb feet long, Flour
Brandy, Ru *, Gin, \\ iue, Tobacco,
&'-c.—Also, a lot of Anti-Musoniek
Watches, Knives, Boots, Shoes, Hats,
Ac,
above arc all warranted to be
genuine Anti-Masonic.
A fresh supply of Pickles expected soon.
ABIJAH SEARS.
received to South
wick’s (AnU-Masonick) National Ob
server. A. S.
Ftica, Movember 11, 1828.
2.A11S ACADEMY.
(Four miles from Macon.)
A NEW term will commence on the
first Monday in January under their
lute Instructor, Mr. Alexander McDon
ald. The Commissioners ran recom
mend him to the public as an excellent
and experienced teacher. The usual
branches are taught at moderate prices.
Also _ood board can be had at low rates
in the neighbourhood.
THOS. 1,1 NDY, I
I*. .1. MORGAN, <; „
O. 11. PRINCE, > Lomrs.
HENRY AUDULF, $
Dee .20, 1828. 41-2 w
cc\yii\raxopj acadesvstt.
\ the first Monday in January
next, tire Rev. J. T. Hand will o
pen school in Covington, Newton coun
ty, where lie will prepare Students for
any college in the Union. . Boarding
can be had on stood terms, strict atten
tion will be paid to the morals of the
children. Males and Fetuals will both
be attended to.
December 17. 1828. 41-3>r
GEURt!lA— Crawford Count i/.
BEFORE Jas.Potter, Justiceo r tbe
Peace for said County, personally
appeared, John IV. Evans, who being
duly sworn, deposeth aid saith, that lie
was in possession of a certain BonlLgon
nerally called a title bond, executed by
Thomas Owens, on the 4th day of Dec.
1827, conditioned to make deponent ti
tles for l.ot No. 105, in the 17th (list, of
Lee County, in said State, and that tlie
same bond is lost or so mislaid that the
deponent cannot obtain it.
JOHN W. EVANS.
Dec. 20 1818. 41-3vv
B wora-to, and subscribed before
me this 13th day of December, 1823.
J AMES POTTER, J. P.
ENTERTAINMENT.
JaKspiL THE subscriber will en
tertain Travellers, at his
IIOUBE on the Old Feder
al Road, three miles from
Ichaconna, in Crawford county.
He will sell the above place on
good terms. Tlie Musters end” Courts
for the district are held at his house.
JOHN SOWELL.
Dec. 20. iw
ff-V /yftSsja .Geo. W. Jackson is a
Candidate for Tax Col
lector ol Brbb Countv.
• Dec. Iff, 1828.
Tie Jitlhlcing is lie not!’- of curing Ba
ton In Virginia, fad doion by a gen
tleman of the hi’ o f It ight county,
who has hud mua experience in the
process:
*• To cure good biion, tire pork must
be fat; it may possily be too fat though
that is very raoely tje case in A irgiuia.
Hogs about 1U uioiths old, which are
raised poor, uuJ afttrwards well fatted,
in a short timeon corn, are, I think deci
dedly to be prpfered. Before the pork
is suited up, it should be thoroughly
cold, a circa instance indispensable to its
lasting preservation ; and it is at least!
the safest course, in our uncertain cli
mate, to loose uo time afterwards. To
give bacon the most exquisite flavor,
both molasses or sugar and salt petre
should be used. I usually put a table
spoon or two of molasses on the side of
the ham, a little before it is salted, and
after the molasses is rubbed over it, a
heaping spooufutof finely pulverised salt
petre; the ham supposed to weigh when
j cured, floor li to Ift pounds. I pet
nearly the same quantify on the mid
dlings and shoulders, and proportionate
ly on smaller pieces, believing iluu it
essentially contributes not only towards
improving the flavor and appearance, j
but also to the preservation of bacon anil ,
as a preventative against the worm, bug,
and skipper. In order to insure perfect
ly sound bacon, tire pork must be salted
at least twice. The second salting should
take place about the third day after the
first, at which time, 1 add about a third ;
of the quantity of salt petre applied in I
the first instance. If, however, the pork !
should be frozen when salted in the first!
instance, it should be, resalted as soon as i
practicable after it thaws, without w hich ;
there is great danger of injury. I use ‘
the Liverpool sack salt, and prefer it on !
account of its fineness. A bushel to the !
thousand weight of pork has been sup- j
posed a sufficient quantity. 1 think it j
too little, and would not by any means j
advise that there should be any stint of:
1 salt. Five pounds of saltpetre to the a- j
! bovememioned quantity of pork is per- j
j haps quite enough. Care should beta- i
ken to let the brine drain off from tire
pork, whilst in salt, as its contact with it
tends to injure its flavor. If salted in
casks, there should be a hole in the bot
tom after the second salting, that the
brine may escape. There are different
opinions as to the length of time the
pork should remain in salt. I would re
commend four w-eeks. If saltpetre in
sufficient quantities be used, fit pork
can scarcely be made too salt. I have j
known prime excellent baoou to have re- j
mauled in salt more than three months, j
The last operation in the curing of bacon !
is, the smoking of it. This may be suf- i
ficiently well done perhaps with any kind j
of wood, but strong solid green w ood, as !
hickory or oak, is Ihe best. Contrary
mold opinions, the operation is best car- j
ried on in the closest smoke bouse; a t
considerable degree of hrat, too, is not
only pei haps noi injurious, but promotes 1
and facilitates, I believe, the operation, j
The old idea of the fire tainting meat is
erroneous. The effect so called is or- !
(fusioned by the pork not being thor- j
onghly cured. Bacon should be smok
ed until it is of a dark reddish brown co
| lor, and it is best done in clear dry wen
’ tlier. In hanging it up, it is most ad
, |^l'ti > iT.9HA tI TJi. ut L joint** highest, for
have deposited on them. There is
an opinion ■which has long universally
1 prevailed, and which I think tiie expe
rience of file last winter has belied. It
is, that if pork be once thoroughly cold
| before sailing, it may, with proper care
lie saved.—This, inordinary winters, is
i tine. Rut in such a winter ns tlie last
| when tiie thermometer ran in 24 hours,
from between dp and 40 to between till
j and 70, and remains so for 4 or 5 days, I
j do ntit think that fat and large pork can
be saved by any reasonable ..tteution to
it.
Extract from the Message of the Gover
nor of North Carolina.
Before remarking, according to a cus
tom which has ripened into a duty, upon
the prominent subjects of internal poli- j
cy which “ill probably engage your at- I
tcntioii, permit me to advert to a mea- j
sure of the United States” Government,
adopted, since your last session, in which I
not only your immediate interests, but j
your rights as a member of the confede
ration, an involved. It is with greut j
reluctance that I address you on any !
act of the constituted authorities of the :
nathm. Did it embrace a question of j
mere ordinary political expediency, I
should be the last to place it before you !
as a legitimate subject'for your delibera- j
tions. North-Carolina, warmly attach- t
ed to the Union, will never complain of
any measure, however hardly it may
boar upon her individual interest, if it is
necessary for the general welfare, and if
it does not infringe tlie rights reserved
by each State in th Federal Compact.
We have borne, without murmuring, all
(he privations imposed by the embargo ;
we have contributed towards the prose
cution of the late war our share of trea
sure and of blood, of fortitude and eon-
vtanoy; we have annually, for many
years, paid intrrflie national treasury, in
indirect taxes, little less than a million
of dollars. These things we have done,
not bemuse we were insensible of the
burthen, hut because we believed rhe
welfare of the Union required our exer
ions. But now anew question is pre
sented us. Congress has assumed
the principle, that they have power to
i mould and direct the industry es the na
tion to any pursuit which they may
think most advisable and to make all
other branches tributary to that which
they may choose to select. Bv an act
passed at their last session, commonly
c<cled die Tariff Act, imposing duties a
meuntiug to a prohibition upon the im
portation of coarse woollen and cotton
fabrics, and upon some other articles,
they declare, in substance, that the con
sumers at'these manufactures, unhiding
the intss of our community—including
all die agriculturists and all employed
in commerce—in fact, all engaged in
other pursuits than those of manufac
tures, shill pay an enhanced price for
articles of prime necessity. What'is
this but’a tax, whether the enhanced
price is taid into the national treasury
or in fliflt hape of a bounty to the domes
tic manffacturer 1 And whence is de
rived th<pou'er of the general govern
ment to,evy a tax upon one portion of
i the community for the exclusive hen-1
tlit cl iioiher ? Devoutly as the Union 1
was desired, v hove is t'.s State that {
would have surrendered any*pails of its i
sovereignty, if it had believed that the i
regulation of its industry, of the those n i
pursuits of its citizens, the mu,i valoa- |
ble portion ofits internal economy, was
to be included in the cession ? North-
Carolina, lain sure, would never have
listened for a moment to such a conces
sion of her rights. “American Sys
tem,” to all the most approved maxims
of political science, it is no less opposed
to the spirit of our Constitution and to
some of the fundamental principles on
! which tree governments are bated. One
principal object of our union was to che
rish and extend our foreign commerce.
This Tariff system is to destroy it. Our
Union was to protect one State from the
unjust and Illiberal commercial regula
tions of another. Tins' 1 American Sys
tem” gives to the majority in Congress,
without regard ta the rights or interests
of particular States, the power to bestow
| bounties ot> one section of our country,
and to impose corresponding burthens
Upon another. Equality of rights ; an
equal participation of benefits and bur
thens; exemption from taxation except
when the general good Is to be promoted;
: the liberty of adopting, unmolested, any
; pursuit or profession not forbidden for
reasons of public policy—these, we
have been taught to believe, are among
the great blessings secured by a republi
can government. Are not all these, set
at nought bv tire Tariff system ? The
benefits which it confers are confined to
! a few ; the burthens it imposes are home
!by the many. The wealthy manufactu
: rer will reap his profit, because by the
i exclusion of fbreign competition he will
I obtain a higher price for bis manufacture
; The agriculturist, whether rich or poor.
! the owner of large plantations, equally
; w ith the hardy yeoman who contributes
i most to the solid wealth of his country,
j and upon w hose arm that country relies
fur its defence, is compelled at the same
: moment to pay more for what he con
-1 sumes and to receive less fertile product
jof his labor. What, if possible aggra
, vates the influence is sectional. The
States in which, from well known cau
ses, manufactories can be most advanta
geously prosecuted, will he compensated
in some degree, for the loss which one
portion of its citizens sustains by wealth
which another acquires. But in the
southern States, whose interests are es
sentially agricultural, the injury indict-
ed has no lenitive balsam—the oppres
sion is wholly unmitigated.
The limits prescribed to this address
I will not permit me to dwell more in de
tail upon the odious character of this
I law. and the oppressive effects which its
I operation must produce upon the vari
; ous interests of this State. Exciting.
: as it has done, a very general and just
indignation in lire minds of our citixens,
t have thought it my duty to submit it
j to you, as the representatives of the peo
ple, as the “ sentinels on the watch
tower,” that you might, it any eonsti-
tutiorwl means presented themselves, in
terpose them between your constituents
! and the threatened mischief. I w ill ran
| didlv confess that no plan ot effectual
■ resistance, on the part of the State Le
j gislature, which 1 have yet heard sug
gested, appears to tne free from insur
mountable objections. A dissolution of
the Union is net to be thought of. If
j ui.uio however, as J do oil the
federal Compact has been violated,
j an<l injustice done to your citizens,
I recommend to you to protest solemn! v
j against the principle thus adopted by
’ those who administer the general gov
j eminent; to represent your sentiments
j to them and to your sister States, in the
j language of mild and friendly remon
strance but with the energy which the
outrage of conscious right inspires, with
1 tlie feeling of deep attachment to tlie
l nion, and awful foreboding as to any
departure from its legitimate and well
I understood purposes, f would appeal,
i too, to the patriotism and State pride of
our fellow citizens, to lend their aid, in
dividually, in averting the immediate
evil’effects of this system. I would sav
to them—Returp to the prudent and
economical habits of your fathers; dis
i card foreign luxuries; be not drpend-
I ant on other States for what you can
: grow or fabricate yourselves ; manufac
j t"re your own clothes by your house
| hold industry; make your own provss
! * ol,s ; A on will suffer many inconveii
j tencics, and your profits w ill not be as
i great as if you had a free trade; but
| you will at least, not feel the humiliation
! °f paying a tax imposed on you for the
’ benefit of the greedy capitalist or the
; speculative politician. The wealthy
| manufacturer will not have you for his
j tributaries an-1 the very avarice which
urged him to tlie enactment of this law,
will drive him to seek lor its repeal. If
the restrictive system is to be fastened
on us, we have this consolation, that
North Carolina is as capable as anv
State in tlie Inion of substring upon
her ow n resources, independent of for
eign commerce, or of commerce with
her sister States. With a soil happily
diversified, with a climate corresponding
with the richness and variety of her soil*
with inexhaustible pastures, with a har-
dy and industrious population ; there is
not an article that necessity demands,
scarcely one that comfort requires, and
few that minister to luxury, which her
fields, her forests, her rivers, or her
mountains cannot produce, or her indus
try fabricate within her ow n limits. But
I cannot yet abandon my reliance upon
the good sense and justice of our fellow
citizens throughout the United States.
I feel a confidence, arising from my be
lief in the intelligence and patriotism of
the people, that this system of restriction
will not long exist. The class of con
sumers, consisting of nine-tenths of the
population, will not long submit to so
grievous an oppression. An nnfortu
irate delusion, created partly bv local
causes and partly by the arts'of design
ing politicians, has been sjrread over a
great part of our country. A little time
a little reflection, on the part of the
great body of the people, w ill prabably
dissipate this delusion, and restore the.
period when each one, unaided by gov
ernment bounties, and unoppressed by
government taxation, may pursue the
avocation to which lie is directed by bis
talents, his interest, or his inclination.
Frmntirism. —A man who culls him
self Christ, and who says he has coins
to judge the world, appeared in Guern
sey county, in the state of Ohio, a few
w eeks ago; and strange as it may seetn
lias collected a Land of J. hided foll i v
trs who worship him as a God. Some ;
of his disciples are said to bo respectable
people, and have neglected their hn.ii
ness to follow after this fanatic.
?B.£SZD£2fITS MHSSABZI
[CONCLUDF.O.]
The Reports from the Secretary of
W ar, and from the various subordinate <
offices of the resort of that. Department,
present an exposition of the public ad
ministration of affairs connected with
them, through the cour.e of the
current year. The present state of the
army, and the distribution ol the force
of vvhich tt is composed, will be seen
from the Report ot the M.’jor General.
Several alterations In the disposal ot
the troops have been found expedient in
the course of the year, and the discipline
of the army, though not entirely lice
from exception, has been generally
good.
Tire attention of Congrpssis particu
larly invited to that part ofthe Report
of the .Secretary of VVar which concerns
tlie existing system of our relations with
the Indian tribes. At the establishment
of the Federal Government, under the
present Constitution of the U. States,
the principle was adopted of consider
ing them as foreign and independent
powers; and also us proprietors of lands.
They were, moreover, considered as sav
ages, whom it was our policy and our
duty to use our influence in converting
to Christianity, and bringing within the
pale of civilization.
As Independent Powers, we negotia
ted with them by treaties; as proprietors
we purchased of them all the lands
w hich we could prevail upon them to
sell—as brethren of the iminan race,
rude and ignorant, we endeavored to
bring them to the knowledge of religion
and of letters. The ultimate design was
to incorporate in our own institutions
that portion of them which could be con
verted to the State of civilization. In
the practice of European States, before
our Revolution, they bad been consider
ed as children to be gov erned ; as ten
ants at discretion, to be dispossessed as
occasion might require; as hunters to
be indemnified by trifling concessions
for removal from the grounds upon
which their game was extirpated. In
changing the system, it would seem as
it’ a full contemplation of the conse
quences of the change had not been ta
ken. We have been far more success
ful in the acquisition of their lands than
in it .parting to them the principles, or
i. . point: them with the spirit of civiliza
tion. But in appropriating to ourselves
their hunting grounds, we have brought
upon ourselves the obligation of provid
ing them with subsistence; and when
we have had the rare good fortune of
teaching them the arts of civilization,
and the doctrinesof Christianity, we have
unexpectedly found them forming, in
the midst of ourselves, communities
claiming to be independent of ours, and
livals of sovereignty within the terri
tories of the members of our Union.—
This state of tilings requires that a rem
edy -should be provided. A remedy
which, while it shall do justice to those
unfortunate children of nature, may
secure to the members of our confed
eration their rights of sovereignty and
of soil. As the outline of a project to
that effect, the views presented in the
commended to the consideration ol
Congress.
The Report from rite Engineer De
partment presents a comprehensive view
ol tlie progress which has been made in
the great system promotive of the pub
lic interest, commenced arid organized
under the authority of Congress, and
! the effects of which have already con
tributed to the security, as they will
hereafter largely contribute to the hon
or and dignity of the nation.
Ihe first of these great systems is
that of fortifications, commenced imme
diately after the close of our last war,
under the salutary experience which the
events ot that war had impressed upon
our countrymen of its necessity. In
troduced under the auspices of my im
mediate predecessor, it has been contin
ued with tlie persevering and liberal en
couragement of the Legislature ; and
combined with corresponding exertions
for tlie gradual increase and improve
ment of the Navy, prepares for our ex
tensive country a condition of defence
adapted to any critical emergency which
the varying course of events may bring
forth. Our advances is these concert
ed systems have for the last ten years
been steady and progressive ; and in a
few years more will be completed as to
leave no cause for apprehension that
our sea coast will ever again offer a
theatre of hostile invasion.
I lie next of these cardinal measures
of policy, is the preliminary to great and
lasting works of public improvement, in
the surveys of roads, examination of the
course of canals, and labors for the re
moval of tlie obstructions of rivers and
liaibouts, first commenced by the Act
of Congress of 30th April, 1824.
The report exhibits in one table the
fiinds appropriated at the last and pie-
ceding Sessions of Congress, for all
these fortifications, surveys, and works
of public improvement; the manner in
which these funds have been applied,
the amount expended upon the several
works under construction, and the fur
ther sums which may be necessary to
complete them. In a second, the works
projected by the Board of Engineers,
which have not been commenced, and
the estimate of their cost.
In a third, the report of the annual
Board of Visiters at the Military Acad
emy at West Point. For thirteen forti
fications erecting on various points of
our Atlantic coast from Rhode Island to
Louisiana, the aggregate expenditure of
the >ear has fallen a little .short of one
million of dollars.
For the preparation of five additional
reports of reconnoissatires and surveys
since the last Session of Congress, for
the cm! constructions upon thirty-seven
diftetent public works commenced, eight
other* for which specific appropriations
have been made by Acts of Congress,
and twenty other incipient surveys un
der the authority given bv the Act of
*otlr April 1324, about one million
more of dollars have been drawn f ro)11
the treasury.
To these two millions of dollars are
to he added the appropriariou of 250,000
dollars, to commence the erection of a
Breakwater (near the mouth of the Del- 1
aware Liver; the subscription? tq ?!.
Delaware <\! CL sap* ike-— the [.i.u'se
ville ami I'mrianti, the Dismal Ewi.ti.p,
, aud Chesapeake and Ohio Can.i >;
I the large donations vt lands to the
Samirs oCUinb, imh.ui.i, lll.nois, and
Alabama, for objects of improvements
within those Elates, aud the sums ap
propriated fur Light Houses, Buoys aud
Biers on the coast; and a full view will
be taken of the munificence of the na
tion in the application of its resources
to the improvement ot its ow n condition.
Os these gn at national undertakings,
the Academy at \\ est I’oint is among
the most important in itself, and the
most comprehensive in its consequences.
In that Institution, a pari of the Reve
nue of the Nation is applied to defray
the expense of educating a competent
portion of her youth, chiefly ro the
knowledge and the duties ol military
life. It is the living armory of the Na
tion. While the other works of improve
ment enumerated in the reports now
presented to the attention ol Congress
.ire destined to ameliorate the fare of
nature; to multiply the facilities of
communication between the ilith mn
parts oft.be Union; to assist the blurs,
increase tii* comforts, and enhance the
enjoyments ot individuals—the instruc
tion acquired at W est Point enlarges th*>
dominion and expands the capacities of
the mind. Its beneficial results are al
ready experienced in the composition
of the army, and their influence is felt
in the intellectual progress of society.
The institution is susceptible still of
great improvenmft from benefactions
proposed by several successive Boards
of Visiters, to whose earnest ami repeat
ed recommendations I cheerfully add
my own.
With the usual annual reports
the Secretary of the Navy and the Board
of Commissioners, w ill be exhibited t<>
the view of Congress the execution of
the laws relating to that Department ot’
the public service. The lepression of
piracy in the West Indian, and in th<>
Grecian Seas,has been effectually main
tained with scatcaly any exception.—■
During the War between the Govern
ments of Buenos Ayres and of Brazil,
frequent collisions between belligt-ici.t
acts of power and the rights or ueutu.l
commerce occurred. Licentious block
ades, iriegularly enlisted or in ptesnd
seamen, and the property ol horn t
commerce seized with violence, and
even plundered under legal pretence.-,
are disorders never separable iiom the
conflicts of war upon the ocean. \>u!t
a portion of them, the CDirtsponder.ca
of our commanders on the Eastern as
pect of the South A met lean coast, awl
among the Islands of Greece, discover
how far wetiave been involved, in these
the honor of our country and the lights
of our citizens have been asserted aud
vindi(;;sd. The appearance ol new
squadrons in the Mediterranean, and the
blockade of the Dardanelles, indicate
the danger of other obstacles to the
freedom of commerce, and the necessi-
ty of keeping our Naval force in those
Seas. To the suggestions repeated is
the report ol the Secretary ot the Na
vy, and tending to the permanent im
provement of this institution, 1 invite
the favorable consideration ol Congress.
A resolution of tire House ol Rt pie- ■
sentatives requesting that one of our
small public vessels should be sect tods
Pacific Ocean and South Fta, to e:>-
ainine the coasts, Islands, Harbors,
HlHSoi ci'i'd
to ascertain their true situation and de
scription, has been put in a train of ex
ecution. ‘lhe vessel is nearly ready la
depart; the successful aecomplishineiit
of the expetlidiiion may be greatly fa- I
eilitated by suitable Legislative piovis- I
ions; and particularly by an appropria- I
(ion to defray its necessary expense.— I
lbe addition o. a second and peihaps* I
thud vessel, with a slight aggravation of I
tne cost, won id contribute much loiii I
safety ot the citizens embarked cm th.* I
undertaking, the results of which WB v I
be of the deepest interest to our touiftn. I
ith the report of the “ ecretan of I
tlie Navy, will be submitted, in con- I
formitv to the Act of Congress, of ~4 I
- laich, 1827, for the gradual improve- ■
ment of the Navy of the t inted Matts I
statements of the expenditures umJ.r I
that act, anil of the measures taken h r I
(■allying tiie same into effect. Lver I
section of that statute contains a Co- I
tinct pioxision, looking to the great a- I
ject of the whole, tlie gradual imprmr- I
ment Ilf the Navy. Under its salutary I
sanctions, stores of ship timber hate I
been procured, and are in process of I
seasoning pnd preservation for rl.e fi - I
tut* uses of tlie Navy. Ai rangei.it ih I
have been mi *de for the preservation if I
the live oak timber grow mg on the hum* I
of the l rtited States, and for its rtpm- I
duction *to supply at (uture and disunt I
days the wahts of that most valuable ma- I
serial for ship building, by the great con- I
sumption of it yearly let the cominm i I I
as well as for the military marine ofow I
country, Tile construction of the t* I
Dry Docks at Charlestown and at N I
folk, is making satisfactory pregiessie- B
wards si durable establishment. Thttv- I
animations and enquiries to ascertain ■
the practicability and txpedienc’ of > j
Marine Railway at Pensacola, thoutu I
not yet accomplished, have been i f ■- I
poned, but to fee more effectually uiaib . I
Tlie Navy Yards of the United friate- K
have been examined, and plans hf ■
their improvement, and (lie preservafiuu I
af the public property therein; at Ports I
mouth, ( iiarlestowii, Philadelj i I
W ashington and Gosport; and to I
two Others are to be added, have been ■
prepared, and received my sanction; I
and no other portion of tnv public du- I *
ties has been performed with a more in- H
timats conviction of its importance M |
the future welfare and security ti if* H
Union. I
W ith the Report from the Postn x •• I
ter General, is exhibited a > onip.ii *"'*
view of tlie gradual ifecrease of that ■ H
tahlishment, from five to five years I |
since I7f*2 till this time, in the nun I
ol Post Offices, which has grown lrn:.i I
less than two htimlred to nearlv ei- ! I
thousand; in tiie revenue yielded ■’/ i|
them, which, from sixty-seven thoosau* I .
dollars, lias swollen to upwards of a ir
ion and a half, and in the number N I |
miles of Post Roads, which, I'roni ft' ’ I *
thousand six hundred and forty t'.*>.
have multiplied tooue hundred and fot'c H;
teen thousand five hundred and tbuy ■j|
ty six. While iu the same period ol
time, the population of the Union h-*
r about Uirice doubled, the rate of um r* ■''’ If
‘of these office's is nearly forty, and of
tut rcyepise, and of tra'.t-ljtd Id