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.... — — - —i:—j ldiiared-^^ia'.ftnv f^gahuort in onrfawsYiss cvtyr
mont ol tho Commissioners is made also the j bean adopted unfavorable to the interests of any for
proof of the fact, (hat the Southern branch is l,n “ h — ...ira.ur,
i\ different stream from the St. Marys, men
tioned in the Treaty of 1705, and that it was
railed or Known by a different tame. What
is particularly curious in their Report ts, that
jyntating the wise caution of Col. White, the
* ommittoe give no name to this stream which
unites with tho Northern branch of the St. - n , r -— , e
Alarvs and which U eonfeMrillv of rrmlrr wnM t lrcu ti' * with Great Hritnin anil Spain had been i This new element of prosperity to that part of our
r . * . h (‘(Tectcri, md those with l'rusHia und Frarice renewed, ngnridtortl industry which is occupiod in prorinoin*;
t, n nmi fnrnmncs the larger portion in this [ n h \\ thee©, Home roner.sainn* to tho liberal principles I the tirrtt nrticln of human subsistence, is of tho must
of intercourse proposed by tho United Stales had cheering chnrnctcr to the feelings of patriotism D ‘“
cign nation, Una boon essentially defensive and coun
teracting to similar regulations of their’s operating
ogninst us
Immodiatily after tho clofo of tho war of Indepen
dence, Commissioners wero appointed by the Coe-
gtosa of tho Confederation, buthonzed to conclude
trontios with evnry nation of Europe disposed to ad
opt them. Heforo the wnrs of tho Frencli revolution,
accidoDiui aud tuit^powy. It may continue only for
a single year. It may be, as has been often experi
enced in tho revolutions of time, but the fust of
several scanty harvests in succession. We may con
sider it certain that, for tho approaching year, it h's
added an item of large amount to the value of our
exports, and that it will produce a corresponding in
crease of importations. It may therefore,contideni-
|y ha foreseen that tho revenue of 18 29 will equal,
and probably exceed, that of 1523, and will afford the
such treaties had been consummated with tho United moans of extinguishing ten millions moro ol the
Netherlands. Sweden, and Prussia During those | principal of tho public debt
with il,o Indian uibes. At thu establishment ol' the I prose*# toward# a dnrable cinMt.hmen* The ex-
Federal Government, under the present Constitution aininattnns and inquirioH to • - moil 1 !»• ! ‘"tic-i.
of the United Stales, the principle) was adopted of itv nnd expedienry of a M trine II -.ilwav
_j :...i 1—• - 1 cola, though not yet ncrou.phshed. I.hvc .*# er. -
p».ned, but to he tho morn effoeliitillv tnndo 1
considering them ns foreign and independent powers
nnd also as proprietors <d land* They were, more"
ver, considered as savages, whom it was our policy
and oiir duty to use our influence ill converting to
Christianity, and ;u bringing Watlun thr pate of civili
zation.
Navy Yards of the United States have been examin
ed, and plans for their itnpiovement, and the preser
vation of the public property therein, at Portamou'h,
Charlestown. Pinladelphi j. Wnshin*!»on nnd Gosport
As independent powers
U T.-in of waters,
T trust gentlemen, you will not find it dif
ficult to satisfy Congress that the claim of the |
Sute to a territory described in our Oonstitu-
n°n, is not to lm disregarded on tho infer
ence of one of iu Committees of the cxi^-
t* tiee of a fact without proof, and that found
ed upon nnothcr fact also inferred, not only
v ithout, hut contrary to nil the* cvidcure he-
h :«* them.
The House of Re presentatives of the l in
i' 1 States will scarcely lie induced to decide,
that the Southern branch of the St. Marys
luid another because RUicot did not se
lect it as the main branch of that stream.—
It* lhey do not so decide, tho opinion of their
i ’ommittoe t vust he condemned. 1 send yon
also an extract from the letter of the Nccro-
taiy of War to Governor Rabun, in answer
mono of the letters which the Committee
have thought proper to publish withlheir Re
port.
1 am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) .1011?,’ FORSYTH.
been obtained ; but a«. in all tho Yioguciotions, they j cnediog from a muse which humanity will view with
came ocessionily in collision with previous internal} concern, tho sufferings of scarcity in distant lands, it
regulations, or exclusive and excluding compacts of yields a consolatory reflection, that this scarcity is in
monopoly, with which the nfhot parties had boon j no respect attributable to us That it cornea from tho
l’REHIDENT’8 MKHMAtiK.
Tho I* reside tv
tills day, to both Houses
Message .-
Washington, December 2
f tl'.o United States transmitted,
wisdom and
goodness, and who permits evil itself only ns an in
strument of good. That, far from contributing to this
scarcity, our agency will ho applied only to tho alle
viation of its severity ; and that in pouring forth, from
the abundance of our own garners, tho supplies which
will partially restore plenty to those who are in need,
we snail ourselves reduce (Mir Mores, and add to th»
pr.re of our own bread, so ns in some degree to par
tieipate in the wants which it will he tho good foitune
of our country to relieve
Tho great interests of an agricultural, commercial,
and hidoufactuling nation, uruso linked in union to-
»eiher, that no permanent cause of prosperity !*» one
trammelled, the advances niftdn in them towards ilie | dispensation nf Him who ordains all
f.erdoia of‘trade were partinl and imperfect. Colo
nial establishments, < bartered companies nnd ship
building influence, pervnded nnd encomhered tho In
tfisInlioTi of all the g*oot commercial Staten : nnd tho
United States in offering free trndo nnd equal privi
lege to all, were compelled to nr quiesce io many ex
ception* with each of the parties to their treaties, rc-
roininodiitcd to thoir existing laws nnd anterior en
gagements.
The colonial system,, by which this whole Iiemis
phere was honnrf, lias fallen into ruins. Totally abol
ished by revolutions, converting ndonieo into inde
pendent nation*, throughout the two American Can-
tinenls, excepting q portion of territory chiefly nt the j of them can operate without extending its inlluei
northern extremity of our own, nnd confined to the i to the other**. All these interests me alike unilor the
r°rnnanta of d.uninion retained by Groat Ilrltain over i protecting powar of the legislative authority; mid
the insular Archipelago, gcogranhically the appenda-1 the duties of the representative bodies are to con* ill
ges of our part of the globe. With all the rest \vo j ato thorn in harmony together. So far as the object
hove free tiade — even with tho insofar colonies of -«!l of taxation is to raise n revenue for discharging tie*
tho European nations, oxcept (ire.it Rrituin. Ih r dobis, and defraying tho expenses of tho community,
Government also had manifested approaches to the its operation should ho nd’iptoti ns much ns possible
adoption of a freo and liberal intercourse between her | (o suit the burden with equal band upon all. in pro
colonic* and other nations, though, by a sudden and ] portion with their ability of hearing it without
setreely explained revulsion, the spirit of_ exclusion I opp,ersiun. Hut the legislation < f one nation is
lint boun rovivud fur nperrttithi upon the United States j Harnotimns intentionally made to hear heavily
upon the interests of another. That legislation,
Iasi Treaty of Peace with adapted, as it is meant lobe, to the special inter
afterwards followed bv n a <uq of i
f.f Cungress the followiu
To the. Scnal< and Hou r of Rip,
Vnitcd State*.
<'(ntatici s of ihi
D tho enjoyment i i profile!
Trovideacu forms a suitable *
t)f lliu bounties of
uibjecl of imitu.il grata*
Union end grateful nclcnou ledgemcnt, we nru ndmon
lshed at this return of the snuson, when the represen
tatives of tliu Nation are asietuhled to deliber.ite up
on theii enneeiiifl, to offer up the trihuto of fervent
and grateful hearts, for the never-failing mercies of
Him Wlm ndeth over all Hu has again favorej us
with healthful seasons and nbundam harvests If.-
hassiistuiue 1 us in peace with foreign countries, and
in tranquility within our Lord rs. lie has preserved
us imho quiet and m,disturbed possessions of civil
and religious liberty. lie has crowned the year wit.,
his goodness, imposing on us no other rondit'iottx than
of itnpri.vlng for our own huppimuiA the Ulest-iuga he
•towed by his c-wn hands ; md in the fruition of oil
his favour*’, of doveling tho fictillies with which we
have boon endowed hy him, to bin glory and th our
own temporal and eternal welfare.
In the relations "f our Federal Union w iih our broth*
rcu of the human race, the changes w hich Irivo oc
curred §inco tho close of your lasUcKrion, hu\o "(moral
ly tended to the prcaorvatioii of peace, and to tho cul
tivation of luirmonv. Rofiuo your last separation, ii
war Ind unhappily been kindled hot.voeu tho thnpiro
of Russia, one of lltnio with winch our intercourse
has been no other than a constant exchange of good
office**, and that of thn Oiti in.iu lhntc, a nation liom
wliirligoogrnpnic.il diitunce, religious opinions, nnd
m.ixiins of government on tliuir part, little suited to
tho formation of those bonds of mutual benevolence
which result from the bunclits of coiumcrco, had kepi
\.s in a stale, perhaps too much prolonged, af cold
ness and alienation The extensive, fertile, nnd pop-
nlftOa dominions of tho Sultan, belong rather to tho
Asiatic than tho Uuropeau divixiao ol thu human
family. They «»»t r hut partially into tho system of
I! r it • . n »r have tht if Wars with Rutifa and Au^im,
iho F.uropemt States upon which they holder, for
norc tlmi a century p iM. dixturht*! tfju pacific relit-
i.*.t;s i.f t|io**n Stutcs with the other go i.t Uc»\v« is of
Uuropu. Noilhor Franre nor Persia, nor Great Brit-
aiu, bat (Htuv taken part iu them; Oor i«% it to bo n».
P f, c»oU iltnt vhoy w'dl el ihi» utf.o T(ia fletijirotiojj,
Mf war byPiusi i has teuuivctl th«) approbation wf sicv
nuioscojic.M of her ulllr#, and Wo may indulge the
hope that ii piogross and tnrinin.tliou will ho signal-
in d hy tho m.ulflration and fiirhe.ir.inr o, no less than
hv the energy of tlm Vhoporor Nioholns, an I that it
will afford tlm oppurtumty for such c*»Iluterul ngenuy
The com lotion of our
Great Britain wax shortly
Commercial Convention, placing tho direct inter
eourao hotwecu the. two countries upon u footing ol
more equal toriprocity than had ever before boon ad
mitted. The snrno ptinciplo has since been much
farther extended, by Treaties with Franco, Sweden,
Denmark, the Hanseatic Cities, Prussia in Luropo,
and w th tho Tlermhlicnns of Columbia, and of Cen
tral America, in thi* hemutphcrc. Tho mutual uhol-
ition of discriminating duties uud charges, upon tlm
navigation nnd commercial intercourse between the
parlies, is the general max ini which cliarnctorij’.es
them all. There is reason to expect that it will, at no
distant period, ho adoptod hy other nati »ns, both of
Uurope nnd America, and t*» hope that, by its univer
sal prevalence one of the fruitful sources of wars of
commercial competition w ill ho extinguished.
Among the Nations upon whose Governments mo-
r.v of our fellow riti/.ens have had long pending
r Ini ms of indemnity, fir depredations upon their pro
perty during a period when the rights of neutral com-
d | rnorcc were disrcgaided, was tJiat of Denmark They
wero, goon after tho events occurred, the subject of a
special mission from tho United Stutcs, nt the close of
xvInch the nssurunro xvns given, by his D.nmh Majes
ty, that,at a period of morn tranquility, end of l-n»j
distress, they would bo considered, examined, nnd de
cided upon, in a spirit of determined purpose for tho
dn-pensiiinn of ju*>tieo I have much pleasure in in-
firming CnngtPiA that the fulfilment of this hciiorn-
hie promise is now in progi ess ; that a small portion
of tho claims hui ultoady beim settled, to the satisfac
tion of tlm claimants ; and that wo have reason to
hope that tlm icmaindcr tfill shortly bo placed in u
train of equitable adjustment. This result has al
ways been confidently expected, from the character
of personal integrity and of benevolent* which tho
Sovereign of tlm Danish Domini, ns has, through eve
ry virisnitmJeof foitune, maintained.
The gem rnl aspect of the affairs of our neighbor
iog American nations of the South, has been rather of
approaching than of settled tranquility. Internal
disturbances have been more frequont among them
than thoir common friends would have desired. Oni
intercourse with nil has continued to he that of friend
ship, and of mutual good will. Trontle* of Com
merce nnd of Boundaries with tho Unite*! Mexican
States have been negotiated, hut, from various sue
cossivu obstacle*, not yet brought to u final concln
sinn f rim civil war which untortnnatoly still prevails
in tho Ki*ptihlic of Central America, has been unpro
pltious to too ouluvatior) of our cotiunerrial indationx
with them i and tho and ccv'wtutxouary
c.hTiqscx in tho Republic of OeinmWa rind of Fern,
have (juno ♦•run wkb*‘*>r(h8l rc^roi try up, xv^o would
gladly contribute to tho happioaxsot* ho:!), h is with
great eatisfiction, howover, that wo httvo witntaiwd
tho recent com lurion of a peace between thn Go
vernment of It ienirs Ayres and Brazil j and it is
qu illy gratif) iog to observe that indemnity has been
.» behalf ol tlm snO.-nug Gtccks, as will secure lo l otitaiucU for somuuf tho injuries which our follow
h >m uliiuiately tho triumph of hua.unity und offree-; citizens had suMniucJ m the latter of those countries.
| Tho rest nr*5 in a train of nogoclation, which wo hope
rcl.itmtls widi France , inny terr.iinato to mufu.al satisfaction, and that it may
do m
Tho Rtl|
rtf our pvttctil i
h »’• •carculy varied in the oonrs) of the present year. I he succcoib’d by a Treaty of Commorro and Navig^
The commercial intercourse) between cbo two conn-1 tion upon liberal principles, propieioos to a great nnd
tries lias continued lo inercaso for tlm mutual lonclii | growing commerce, already impoittiut to the interests
nfbith Tho claims bf indemnity to numbers of our of our m untrv.
ft fow citii'.ms for depredations upon thoir property, r iTic condition arid prospects of llm Uevduuo aro
prospects
more favorablo than out most sanguine expectations
The balance in tho Treasury, on
tho tint of January Inst, exclusive of tho monoys re
ceived under the Convention of 10th November,
with Givat Uritnin, was live millions eight hundred
nnd sixty one thousai d nine hundred and seventy two
dollaM, und oighty-thrun coats. Tho receipts into
the Treasury from the first of January to tho 30th of
prnperf
licmlnforocommitted, during the If volurionrry G
xerninani^, still rnmuio unndjustiM, und still .urni tho | hud anticipated
subj'-t t of « truest ropfi i«*nt.ili' n and reiuonstrunro *t.« *.r !.»•«.
Kooeiit a J\ if*ns from the Minister of the United States
nt Faria mumiirago tho rxpoctntion rfint tho appeal to
the justice of tlm Fipiji h Govi rnmcni w.'l etc long
roeiuvu a favorablo eousidnruli.m
The last friendly expedient lias toon icsui lod to for (
the doeisinn ol tlm coirt.ovcny with Gry.it Uritnin, | September last.h«i fur as they have been ascertained
relating to luo N Mthttnatcin hmiudary of tlm United 1 to I’nuj the basis of an estimate, amount to eighteen
States, fly an ngteuinont with tho British Govern-
snout, carrying into effort th«i provision* of tho fifth
article of the IVoaty "I Ghent, and the Convention ol
^optomber, 1^7, his Miijcsiy tho King oi
the Netherlands has by common consent been select
< d .is the umpire between the parties. Tho proposal
tu him to accept the desigtuitiuii for the porformanco
«»• this friendly offi.*o \viil bo tnudu at mi early (fay.
Ilians mx Iiundred and thirty-tlireo thousand five
hundred nnd eighty dollars nnd twenty seven cents
which, with the receipts of the present quarter, es
timated at live millions lour hundred and aixty-onu
thousand, two hundred nnd eighty-ilirco dolluiN
and forty cents, form no nggregato of receipts dur
ing the year of twenty-loin- millions usd ninety
.... four thousand eight hundred and sixty three dollars
•'iud tho United Kt.iint, ridjing upon the justice oft uud sixtvaovvn cents. The oxpeoditnrua of thoyoai
iheir caum, will checiluliv commit tho nriiiliumeOt Cli.iv ptabahly amount
tho ir.de-j
rpiduity to I
uOount io twen’yllvu millions six hun
died nod thirty-seven thoURimd one hundred and el
evon dollars and tixty-thrno cents; und leave in the
iluxiblo poisonal | Treasury, on tliu first of January next, the sum of
; iivo miilmns ono huiidred and twenty-five thouxauJ
I six hundred and thirty-eight duilais, fouiloen cents
The reci ipta of tho picseul year have amounted to
near two millions inoro th in was anticipated nt tho
commencement of the la>taasaiou of Congress
Thn amount of dmius secured on importation« from
»f it to a Princo equally distinguished f»
paudoncc id* his spirit, Ins nidi liuigiible
•|m duties of hii rutiuu, and I
pr.xbity
Ourconnneiei.il iclations with Great Britain Will j
dfcserve the serious consideration of Consrois, and j
tlic a.x**reive of a conciliatory and foriuuiring npirit in ,
fliep .cyot both (•‘..vernmems Tho Mat-* ftf lUetfi j
ha* been mat* rinlly changed by tho net of Congress I
nu * *d at their l ist Session, in (.Iteration of tho j tliu first of J.ini.urv to the -lOlli Soptctulx r was about
npoits, nnd by nets twenty two miihons nine hundred nnd ninety
soverol a* ts imposing duti* » on impoits, nnd hy nets j
< f niorttrocontdnlo of tuu Briit-.ii Pail .imout. Tin*
rff rt of tlm interd:. li-m of direct tudu, cmuini.iieod
h> Great lhitain, uud rCciiirni„l, d by |j i0 Un'.ietl
St'i'.i
has been, q* uns i » bo fin
ty seven
thousand, und that of tho estimated accruing revenue
is five millions ; firming an aggregate for tliu year of
twenty r igid millions. This i; cr.e million more
Minna different channels for an excimngoor eouunod
itics iudispcnsil.ln to the cnlouies, end protitabb- lor
numerous el us »*f our follow citizens Tlm exports
fy to sub- J than tho estimate
ast December for tho i
eiiuuof the present year, which with u!JftW;i
o^ts of its own people, will often press most unequally
upon the several component interests of its neighbors.
Thus, the legislation of Great Britain, when, as has
recently been avowed, adapted to thn depression of a
rival nation, will naturally abound with regulations of
interdict upon tho productions of the soil or industry
of tho other which cornu in competition with its otvn;
nnd will present encouragement, perhaps, even boun
ty, to tlm raw material of tlm other State, which it
cunnof produce itself, and which is ossuntial for the
use of Its manufactures, competitors in tho markets of
the World wilfi thus : of its commercial rival. Such
is the state of tho commercial legislation of Great
Britain ns it hears upon our interests It excludes,
with interdicting duties, all importation (except in
time of approaching famine) of tho great staple pro
dilutions of (Mir Middlo and Western States ; it pro
scribes, with equal rigor, the bulkier lumber nud live
stock of tho same portion, and also of the Northern
and r.astem part of our Union. It refuses even tin*
rice of tho South, unless aggravated with a charge of
duty upon tii* Northern carrier wh* brings it to them
But the cotton, indispensable for their loom?, they will
receive almost duty free, to weave it into a fabric for
our own wear, to the destruction of our own maim
faetures, which they are enabled thus to undcisell.—
Is tho self-protecting energy of this nation so helpless
that there cxiots, in the political institutions of our
country, no power to counteract tho bias of thin fo
reign legislation’ that the growers of grain must sub
mil to this exclusion from the foreign markets of theii
produce ; that the shipper* must dismantle thc.hr ships,
the trade of the North Magnum nt the wharves, and
tho manufacturers starve at their looms, while the
whole people shall pay trihuto to fi reign industry, to
he clad in a foreign garb; that the Congress of tho
Union tiro impotent to restore tho balance in favor of
native industry destroyed by tho statutes of nnothcr
realm? More just and more generous sentiments,
will, I trust, prevail. If the (arid'adopted at tho last
session of Congress shall he found by experience to
hear oppressively upon thn interests of any one sec
tion of tho Union, it ought to ho, und I cannot doubt
will be, so modified us to alleviate its burden. To tho
voice of jus! complaint front any portiou oftheii con-
Mhi)on 13, the Representatives of tho Stairs And Peo
ple will never turn away choir earn. But bo long ns
the duty nf tho foreign shall operate only as a bounty
upon tho domestic article—while tho planter, nnd tho
merchant, and the shepherd, nnd the husbandman,
shall ho found thriving in thoir occupations under the
duties imposed for the protection of domestic manu-
£huliras, tju»y will «k.j repine nt the prosperity shared
with tfrftiA.sMtf<m by thoir fellow citizens of other pro
fitful Amt, uor denounco, os violations of tbo Constitu
tion, the deliberate acts of Congress to shield from
the wrongs of foreign laws, tho native industry of
tho Union. Whilo tho tariff of the last session of
Gongless wn« a subject of legislative dolibnrntiou, it
was foretold by some of its oppoecis, thnt one of its
necessary consequences would he to impuir the reve
nue. It is yet too soon to pronounce, with confi
dence, that this prediction was erroneous. Tho ob
fllruction of one avenue of trade, not nnfrcquontly
opens an issue t » another. The consequence of the
tariff will bo to increase tho exportation, end to di
minish tho importation of some spouifio artidus.—
But, hy the general law of trade, the inercaso of ex
portation of one aiticln »ill be followed by an in-
cronsod importation of others, the duties upon which
will rupply tho d* fi.-icncig*, which the diminished
importation would otbcnvisd ofttnaiVn Tho effort
of taxation upon "ovrtmo can seldom ho foresOvn \\i?h
certainly. It uum abaJn tho test of experience. As
)*jt no symptoms of diminution are perceptible in
tho receipts of tho treasury. As vet, little addition
of cost has oven been experienced npnn the nrticlos
hurthoned with heavier duties by tho Ia.it tariff Thn
domestic manufacturer supplies the* same or u kindred
article at « diminished price, and tho consumer pu\s
thn same tribute to thu labor of bis- own countryman,
which he inust o.licrvviso have paid to foreign indus
try nud toil.
The tariff of the Ia>t session was, in its details, not
acceptable to the great interests of any portion of the
Union, not even to tho interest which it was specially
intondod tosubsorve. Its object was io balance the
burdens upon native industry imposed by the opera-
lion of foieign laws ; hut iv<t to aggravate tho bur
dens id ono section c>T thu Uuion by tho relief afford
cd to nnothcr. To tho great principle* sanctioned by
thit n« r, ono of those upon which tliu Constitution
itself was formed, I hope and trust the authorities of
thu Union will adhere*. Lint if any of the duties im
posed hy the net only relieve the m inufaeiurer by ag
gravating tho burden of tho planter, let :: cureful r«»-
visal c.f its provisions, enlightened hy Bin practical
oxperioncu of its effects, bo directed to rutain those
winch impart protection to native industry, and re
move or supply the pla*’o of thosu whirl) only allevi
ate one great national interest by the depression of
another.
Tbo United Slates of America, and tlm people of
every State «*f which they aro c.imposed, are each of
them Sovereign Towers. Thn legislative .nithoritv of
by treaties ; as proprietors, wo purchased of them nil |
the lands which we could prevail upon ih**m to sell ; |
as brethren ol the human race, rude and ignorant, we i
cnrtiMvnrrd to bring them to tin* knowledge of roli |
gum and of letters. The ultimate design whs to in j
corporate in our own institntions, that portion of ihem
which could be convened to tlm state of civilization.
In the praotic* of F*uropcan Slates, before our R«vo
lilt ion, they lind been e*Misid«!red as children lobe go
vnrneil; ns tenants at discretion, to be dispossessed as
occasion might require ; as hunters, to he indemnified
hy trilling concessions for removal from the grounds
upon w hich their game was extirpated. In ciiuugiut!
the system, it would seem ns il a full contemplation
of tile consequences of the change had not been ta
ken. We have been far inoro successful in the acqui
sition ol their lands, than in imparting to them the
principles, or inspiring them with the spirit of civiliza
tion But in appropriating to oursclvos thoir hunting
grounds, wo have brought upon ourselves tho obliga
tion (»f providing them with suhsistonco ; nnd wln n
wo have had the rare good fortutio of teaching them
ihoarta of civiliz itian, and the doctrines of Christian-
i*v wo have unexpectedly found them firming, tn-
the midst of ourselves, communities claiming t«» he
independent of outs, and rivals of sovereignty w ithin
the territories of tho members of onr Union This
statn tff things requires that u roniedy should he pre
vided. A remedy which, whilo it shall do justice to
those unfoi lunate children of nature, may secure to
tho members of our confederation their lights of s.
ruignty and of soil. As tho ouliirm of a project to that
effect, the views presented in the Report of the Sec
letniy of War, am recommended to tho cumnderatwu
of Congress-
The R-port fr< rn tho Engineer Department pre
Rents a comprehensive view of the progress which
Ins been made, ill tho great systems promotivo ol the
public interest, commenced und organized under the
authority of Congiess. ami tho effects of which have
aheady contributed to tho security, ns they will here
after largely contribute to the honor and dignity ol
the nation.
Tbo first of these gient systems is that <>f fortifica
tions, commenced immediately after tbo <4oae of our
last war, tinder fha salutary experience which the
events of that w ar bad impressed upon our country
men of its necessity. Introduced under .the auspices
of my immodiatn prodocessor, it bn« been continued
•*vith tl.o persevering and liberal encouragement of
the f.egislnturo , nnd combined with corresponding
exertions for the gradual increase and improvement
of tlm Navy, prepares for our extensive country a
condition of del* nee adapted to any critical emergen
cy which the varying course of events m«y bring
forth. Onr advances in those concerted systems have
fur the last ten years been steady and progressive; and
in a few years morn will bn so completed as to leave
no cause for apprehension that our soa coast will ever
again offer a theatre of hostile invasion.
Tho next of these cardinal measures of policy, is
the preliminary to great and lasting'works of puolir
improvement, in the survey of roads, examination
fur the course of canals, and labors for tho tcmnv&l
of tho obstructions of rivers and harbors, first com
menced hy lho Act of Congress of 30th April, 1824
The repoit exhibits in ono table tbo funds appropri
ated at the last and preceding Sessions of Congress,
for nil thnuo fortifications, surveys, ami works of pub
lic improvement ; live manner in winch the*.© funds
have been applied, llio amount expended upon the
several works under construction, and the further
snms which may bo neress.iy to complete them In n
second, thu woik.s projected hy trie B ard of Eii^i
ueers, which have; not been coiumtuccd, and the esli
moto of thoir cost
In a third, flu* report of the nnrm! Board of Visi
tore at tho Military Academy at West I'oint. Fo*
thirteen fortifications erected on various points of our
Atlantic coast from Rhode Island to Louisiana, the
aggregate expenditme of the year bos fallen a little
short of one m.llion of dollars.
For the preparation of !i\e additional report*’ of ic
connoisancos nnd surveys sinro the last session of
Congress, for the civil constructions upon thirty so
ven differont public works commenced, eight others
for which specific appropriations havo been made hy
Acts of Congress, and twenty other incipient surveys
under tho authority given by the Act of 30th April,
1824, about on* million more of dollars ha/u been
drawn from tho Treasury.
To those two millions of dollars are to bo added the
appropriation of 230,000 dollars, to commence the
erection of a Breakwater near the mouth of tho Del
aware River; tho subscriptions to tho Delaware and
Chesapcuko, the Louisville and Portland, the Dismal
Swamp, nnd the Chesapeake and Ohio Canals ; tho
large donations of lands to the States of Ohio, Indi
ana, Illinois, and Alabama, for objects of improve
ments within those Statu**, and tho sums appropriated
for Light Houses, Buoys, nnd tyers, «*n the coust, and
a full view will bo taken of the munificence of the
Nation in the application of its resources to thu ini-
piovcmcnt of its own condition.
Of tlies" groat national umlertaUii'gs, the Academy
nt West Point is among the most, important in itself,
nnd tho most comprehensive in its consequences. In
that institution, a part aftlia Revenue of tho Nation is
applied to defray tho expense of educating a compe
tent portion of licr youth, rbii lly to tbo Knowledge
and duties of m litnry life. It is tho living armory of
tut*Nation. While the other w» rks of improvomant
cnurtim.riC.* iu tho reports now presented tn th** at
tention of Congt***i 0,0 destined to ameliorate the
Iuch of natum; u> usniu.-'ly *lw fucililiaa uf’ cumin uni-
cation between the diffuiCtil J?nrlS Cf lb® Kuion ; to
negotiated with them j and to which two others aro to l>*'
added, have been
(kUoim***]
What is it bnt a map of huty lif^V
Coupor.
3IIULEDGEVILLE, DEc.
prepared, and roceived my sanation ; and no oth
portion of my public duties has been performed with
n more iiitnuato conviction of its importance to the
future wdfuroiind security of the Union.
With the repo t from the Pus! master General, is
exbiu ; t*da comparative view of thn gradual increase
of that es'abhslimeut. fr tin five to five years, since
1702. till tin** time, in tlm number ol Post Offices,
i liu li lias gr<*wn from less than two Iiundred to nearly
ight thousand ; m the revenue yielded by tlo’in,
.rhich. fm:n sixtv seven thousand dollars, lias swollen
lo upwards of a million and a naif, and m the number
of miles of Post Roads, which, from five thousand
six hundred nnd forty-two, havo multiplied to one
hundred and fourteen thousand live hundred nnd
thirty six. While in the same period of lime, the
population of the Union lias about thrice doubled,
the rato of increase of these offices is nearly forty
and of tho revenue, nnd of travelled miles, irotr
twenty to twenty-five fur one The increase of rev
onue, within the last five years, has boon neatly equal
to the whole revenue nf the Department in 181*2-
The expenditures of the Department during tho
tear which ended on tho first of July last, htvo ex
ceeded Bio receipts by a sum of about twenty-five
thousand dollars. The excess has been occasioned
hy ih»; increase of mail conveyances and facilities, to
theextetit of near eight hundred thou*..nil m h * L
has boon supplied hy collections from th * Postman
ters, of tin- arri arnges of preceding years While
the correct principle seems to he, that tlm income In
vied by the Department should defray all its expen
ses, it has not m* been the policy of this Guvernmeni
to tatse from this establishment any revenue to be,
applied to any other purposes The suggestion of
the Postmaster Genoral, that the insurHiicn of the
safe transmission of moneys hy tho mad might be
aJsiniedby the Department, for a moderate and com
petent remuneration, will deserve theVonsideration of
Congress
A report from tho Commissioner ol the Pubi c
Buildings in this City exhibits the expenditures upon
thorn in tho course of tho current yoar It will he
seen that the hnmano uud benevolent intenti jus o*
Congress in providing, hy the Act of fl)ih May, 1826,
for the • rpetion of a Penitentiary in this Di-tru t havo
been accomplished The nutlinritv of further legis
lation is now required for I lie removal to tins tern*-
meut of tho offenders against the laws, sentenced to
mono by porsonal confinement tor their crimes, und
to provide a code for their employment and govern
m«-nt while iIiuh confined.
The Commissioner? up ointed e»mformalily to the
act of 2d March, 1827, to provide fin the adjustment
of claims of persons entitled to inderm ifirntion under
the first Article of the 'Breutv of Gher.t ami lor the
distribution among such claimants of the -um paid by
the (ioverninoni nf Gre-.it Bti'an. undr r the Conven
Iron of the 13 Ii November. 1826, clostd their l-.hor**
on the 13th of August Iasi, hv awarding the ufa-mants
th** sum of one million one hundred and n-not\ -seven
thou* *nd four hundred nnd twenty two dollars and
eighteen rents ; leaving a balance of seven thousand
five hundred and thirty seven dollars ami eight v tvv..
cents, which was distributed rafea' Iv .liinmgst all
claimants to whom awards had hueu made, according
to the direction* of the net
Th e exhibits appended to the report from tbo Com-
mitsioner of the General Laud Offie , present the nc
tual condition of that common pu p-uy of the Um >n
The amount paid into the Treasury from the proceeds
of lands, during llio year lc27 nnd tho first iiaif nf
1828, falls little short of tw»- millions id dollars. The
propriety of further extending tho time fi*r the extin
guishment of toe debt due lo the United State by the
purchasers of the public lands, limited, by the act of
21«t Mar li last, to tho fourth of Julv next, will claim
tho consideration of Congress, to whose vigilant o and
careful attention, the regul r.ion, disposal, und preser
vation, of this g>eat national inheritance ha* by the
People of the United States been entrusted
Among the important subjects to which the alien
tion of tho present Congress has alroady been invited,
and which may occupy their further nnd deliberate
discussion, will he the provision to he made for ta
king the fillh census or enumoiatmn of the inhabi
tants of the Un fed .States. Tho Constitution of tho
United States requites that this enumeration shonln be
made within evory term of ten years, and the date
from which the last enumeration commenced was the
first Monday of August of the year 1820. The laws
under which tho former enumeiutions were taken,
wore enaelod at the Herndon of Congress immediately
preceding tho operation. But considerable tnnunvu-
niencofl wero experienced from the delay of legisla
tion to so late u period The law, liko tluSse of the
preceding enumeration?, directed that the census
should ho talron by the Marshals oftlie several districts
and Territories of thu union, under instructions from
the Secretary of State Tho preparation and transrwis
sion to the Marshals of those instructions* required
To our first pajro, tin; reader
documents on the subject oftlie Florida |"'
dnry. No one eim read these lettcfs
admiring the force, nnd elegance with
they are written.
77,r Wcathcr.-Wr have nnothf
remarkable winter. It is uow th.. „
December, nnd we have had very httS
For some time past, the ThermwncL'
stood, withit\ degree or two nf «.
heat, at mid-day. We have a dawn T
atmosphere. The huts arc abroad, of \
mgs and the mus.pietoes, yet, occasional]
ldte V irgil s bees, uwitc to sleep by /i OT «
tie buzzing. We had a slight shock of
Earthquake, the other day; and Euc
comet, the coming of which, lind been
dieted by the Star gazers, is said to b c
visible tii rough an ordinary telescope.
f lie' I.rnhlalurc.—To oauhlc os ^ ^
pose ol the President's Message, at once
are compelled to omit, in this paper, the
tarnation of the debate on the Peniteutia
and lo abbreviate the proceedings of the le
Inture—Indeed we have found it intpossi
with our limited means, to keep up wnbt
proceedings, and give ns full au account
them as we would wish. Several iiaporta
debates arc written out, and are of neccesi
laid aside for the present. They will he t
tended to after the adjournment oftlie Legj
lature, which it is supposed will take place
Saturday.
We cannot omit calling tho nlfention
the render to the report on the subject of th
Cherokee Lands, which will he found in t'
proceedings of the house, of Friday last..
An important matter for Georgia, is hronn
before the people hy that report.
Penitentiary....Several closo votes
had on this subject during the past week in f
House of Representatives, as will be scon
reference to the proceedings: and on p,
liny, it was apprehended, by the friend# ok
the institution, that nothing would be done
» nrds continuing the experiment. The void
ol Saturday, on reconsideration, however i
cited new hope*.
We are opposed to the whole svstem, an!
have so expressed ourselves ; and lutclvi
pointed terms. Hut yet as a majority of’tk<
House of Representatives, decided, hy u fav
expression of its opinion, that the institution
should not be abolished, we would gladly
have seen a vigorous and efficient nttcmptt'i)
ennect the errors which arc acknowledged on
all hands by its friends to exist in the system
here. We yet hope, without abating anr
thing of our opposition to the principle# ef
the system, t* at it may have a further trial
It is due to the friends of the institution, that
this much at least, should in courtesy be co
ceded to them.
I be Tariff.—The following importas 1
paper was laid on the table of the House o:
Representatives, on Thursday Inst, hy Col.
Warren Jourdmi, Chairman oi' the Cotntuii-
tee on llio State of the Republic.
PROTEST
To the Senate of the United States, if tic
State of ijeorgia, against the Tariff
From n puinlul conviction, that a man do
tation ot the public sentiment, in the most im
posing and impressive form, is called for bv
the present agitated state of the Southern sec
tion of the Union :
The General Assembly of the State <rf
mnr.i time than w## then allowed helween il.e p»wog« Georgia have deemed it their duty to adopt
ol tliu law and the day whon tho enumeration was to . ^ A r r
comm* nee. Tho Mm of six months, limited for the novel expedient of addressing, nitlic non*
retains of the Marsha.'*, was also found oven then too | nf the Statu* tl)0 Senate of the Gongresj ol
short; and must ho more so now, when an additional i the United States*
^ . ' > I ""S" » t a l*i‘tl * > « .lUlliririt-
A S lor drawbacks anti cnmin^mt dch- icnoiox was iho whole is exorcised hv CuiiiMt ss uhdor uu’lu.
ADL-utfd Ii) firotViSe an actual ruvonuo of twoai v two
nuo, iho navigation of the United Stall ? liuvol millions tliroo hundred thousand dollars. Hud (Jiusi
ihrsitu) from dire
r i’ho ('olooiei |»;
life, tv hi. h their G
suffered no diminution hy
u re ess t» (ho British Coloiiit
iu >ru dearly for the HoetiWaiou
vt-rrvu! v\ lin: Jens with thu trim
litM„'|it, ir.iurunco and rununis»i*»n, and tl
war exam t?«ios"mov\ hat iir.pidrcd, A mnruinjuiiousi
iru ? 1 *ritf(ifu/iit ono portion «>l* our citizon? to nnolti-
cr Ihorcsu'.q.tain oi tiii.s old anJ ulherwi>»u t xplo-
• d fVMein ol Colonial oxclii'i-m has ii"t seemed to J t
tlit-fhlppi “ ’
only lioon renlizud, tho expeiithtures of tho year
wniikl havo h«cn also proportioimlly reduccj. I .r of
these twenty-fohr millions received, upward.? of nine
fdoulilo voy tjjes, j millions havo been applied to iho extinction of piValio
■ 1 *' l*i ci• bl hearing uu mterust rtf six per cento year, and of
, eourso reducing the harden of iuteivat auuuully pav
hie in future, by tlm amount of moro thno half a mil
Tlm payments on account of m erest (lurin'! case uf a < that lietw
granted them in the common Constitution. The le-
cislative power of each State is exorcised by as.-oin-
olies tlenviiifl their authority from tlm Cuostiiutiou of
the Jjinto Each is Hovurei^n Within its own pro\inco
Tho distribntion of power I" tween them pre suppo-
sos that these nutlmruies will move m harmony with
caeh othor. Tho incurious of the State un i General
Governments tiro u!2 under o::t!i to support both, and
H|]rtjtnnco i? duo to thu one and tu t,.e
assist tho Isbots, incroaso the eon.forfa, PllJ Cho^n^ 0
tho enjoyment nf inf. i duals—the instruction arquii -
cd at West Point onlurgos the dominion, and exp in da
tho capacities of the mind Iis beneficial results aio
alieatly experienced in tho composition oi* the army,
and thoir influence is felt in the intellectual progress
of society Tho institution is susceptible still nf j;re*t
improvement from benefactions proposed by several
stHcessive Boards of Visitors, to whose earnest and
n pcated recommendations I cheerfully add my own.
With the u?unl annua! reports from the Secretoiy of
the Nuvy and tho Board of Commissioners, will be exhi
bited to tho view of Congress tho execution of tho
laws rt latino to that Departmont of the public service
The repression of piracy in thu West Indian, and in
tl.o Grecian Seas, has been effectually inautnined,
wiili scarcely any exception Dnrini* tho wur he
tween the Government.? of Buoikm Ayres aud of Bra
zil, freqncui eollissions balween the belligerent acts of
power and tho rights of neutral commerce occurred
Licentious blockades, irregularly enlisted or impressed
seamen, and thn properify of honest commerce seiz
ed with violence, nnd oven plundeiod, under le-
. jd pretcne.es, are disorders inner sopaiab'e froinjho
conflict of wars upon the ocean. With u puition of
them, the correspondence of our commander* on
tin-Eastern aspect of tho South American Coast, and
ntnoic thti 1*4 unis of Greece, discov er how far wo have
bem involved. In iln-be, thu honor of our country
und tl.o rights of onr citizens have been asseited and
vindicated.* Thu nppoarauce of new squadrons in thu
Mediterranean, and the blockade of tin* Dardunells,
imin ate the danger of other obstacles lo the freedom
id* commerce, and the nerasily of ki*e|Mn^ our naval
i tho
tilt's
nt yoar exceed three millions ofdallais ; pre-1 hcmi siipjmsod ; um has any pn»v
tuu ,u
r.FC «
?t of Groat Britain tl- wjiicfi, I suntinz an a^^re^ato of moro than twelve millions up- it ip oui institutions ; us a V irtnons N a tn
the dlMaot colonies, and .if the Uni-j plied (fnrinR thr> totho discharge of tho puldin] f.;nesc\i.-ti*d more tlnui five ren
debt, tho whole cf which rcuninin# duo on the first! for the pi
of J-itmnry next will amount only to lifiy eight mill
aud which, I ion? thiue liundro *
tu tho u* I rod and thirty-five dollars and seventy t-i^
hat tho revenue of the onsuiuj year will not :
Tin
rrs ha? nc
on made Ii
H»V«»rd. Other
: pointedly bearing up-
• Matt ?, it ts i xpLctcd t
t s Iihv*. Icon i»--elted in. uio
i the «n\i?atiui» of tho l’nii._ ,
less modified bv the cntiMruction gii.
"t Acn of l'.irliamont, will bu inauifiistly incoin-1
1 nf with the posiirie stipulations id tlm entnmur- *1
umlrod and sixty-two thousand one huud-j history
ly-fivo th.liars and seventy fit hi cents L >r u.oic
* that i
! r wuvcntiou existing between the
n convention, however, nny ho tc
fro month-' notice, at the option i
V tn aiy of Amity, N n
3* ii the United States
"! A istr.a.K ogt.f I!
pared for signniur
he Onion do Letk
f tlio Au-tri.m Gove
ri in the one now expiring, there I tin
More th.,
have
ie Stan
ffjljJ lu ll,;.
s|,n
of uncienl qoehling that
without a law
t*. iiowru’r, in th.
people and tint I
piMgrcs
To tliu suggestions repealed
otary of the Navy, aud tending
rnvemont of tins in?tiiuri*.ii, I
msideratioo of congress.
House of Representatives, ro
of nur small public vessels should be
sent to the Pacific Ocean and South S *a, tn examine
| the counts, island?, harbors, shoals, and reels, in those
j seas, and to ascertain lheir true situation and descrip
force
the report of llio Sot
to the pciinnnent ini
in\ ite the favorable i
A resolution of tin
luloros of one j lion, has been put i
ml the
xcitciiicnt, boon insti ; is tic
i of offucti
two cmtDirics. | are ijoUvurians whivli can scutculy prove deceptive '
imp
i id l
one. i
s of the earth, th.
ted,
of either party
Giioti. and C unmnrcc, he-
l l!i» Majesty the Luipo-ji
!:irv, and Boliomi-i. !;;•> | l
i-v the Secretary of^tatu.
r, intrusted with full pow-
• \. lit 1 mil pci.deuti v ot
whic'i i*«ay bu thus
ni'M c.u'ncnt a*i*l power-
"rttd-h.r, has been taken
t*n.? to [r
Oangr
lkuipl** ofn-»
Lcgi.-latiue ii
unuous
.1 Ti i
>d tl.
f-t pr
.ri.
eiuu»< i I oiiitii.il bencvolen
*1 to ton v.'oiH in the
. ... thu United States
*' ' ^ biuary, 1 • < itI» 1 rttm « . has bei u in
'aualiy tt.i, ,;„ rw l,**d j.i.ljcv of our Ui;:on hi? h>
ticuuo^ul t uu.mMrn aluue lhat it run bo mnfo u Di
1 f ! v 1 t' J »'« * »»> tho esUlU-htkl s\«tem c f all tiv
Will* tl.;* nrir.ciplo our fathers exten
"1 to*.
* f fr;
our
pountry, an ujiiturta experience of forty
has shown that whatever the tariff of duties npuui
lirles imported from abroad has been, liio amoui.t
npotldtnms has always borne au average value near-1 them
v Qpitrnnching to that ofthe exports, ihough occn-f
iuiially ililfoting If) ihu balance, bunictimos being j
ioro, and sometimes leys. It is, indeed, a genorUI
iw of pr^speiuos ootniucieo. that tbo real value of
sports aiiuuld, by a small, and only u small Indaoee,
\t eetl that ot imports, that Iwdance being a purtnan-
heeii taken [ cut addition to the wealth uf tho nation. The fx'oot
s concluded l>v the | tiie prosperous cumrnertc of the nation mu»l bo
prim ipluH of liberal j icg(du«cd by the amount of its exports ; am! an im-
>' vvhieli i in ri win*- | urtint addition to the value of ibesu will draw afu-i
pirn .pies of ii u corresponding increase of importutieus. It has
This happened, in the vicissitudes of the seasons, th.it the
harvests ol nil Uurvpe have, hi the late summer and
autumn, fallen shod uf thoir usual average. A rclnx
alum of the interdict upon the importation of gram
and dour limn abroad lots ensued ;. a propitious inaikct
ha? been npcntni to the granaries of (>ur countrv ; and
n law pru-peU of reward presented to tbo Uborsol
tUo husbandinan, which, for smt-rul years, has boen
lo iicd. 3 ms ucvu-f-.oii to ihu firuSts cl'agricuiture
-v Jr! *4^s!errj p-rfpns cf mt Union is win. !i coitcern* 'U
av..- bcv'i a!h‘gari*ms 11.-it ;bo acts
i'’s*sl**d \vcr« hnnnstitutionaf Tlielti
‘tin State have over delegated to thoir I a
■ power of pniuouneinu an act of Cut)• a
’tiunui; hut ihoy have delegated lu j t
ha
"ivrr-j. bv the exercise of who h the cxecu
nftho laws of (’oiigress within the Sute nny be re-
sUt«‘il. ll ui* suppose tho case of such i outlining fo-
gisi.itum Hu-umvd by the corresponding Executive
am! Jodi* i.ri authorities, Putriutism und Piuianthropy
turn their eyes from tho condition i.n w hie!) tho par
ties would bo placed, uud from that of the people of
both, vvl.u h must bo it? vic'd.i.s
’l 'i't Reports from the Seeaclary of Wur, and from
the various subordinate otliees of the resort <•! that
Department, present an exposition of the public ad
ministration of affairs loutiecied with them, through
the course ofiho current year Tho present state of
tho army, und tin* distribution of the lorn* of winch
it is composed, will be seen from the Report oftlie
Majoi <*ener.ll Several nlterati.*u« in tin* dispel of
the ttoopH Iihvo been louid expi dient in the course of
the y cur, and iho disriplino of ti;.- army, though not
eniirel v free from excoptiuo, has been generally good
I ba attention id Congress is partieuinriy invited to
that part cf the Rupmt of tiio Secretary of \V
cv?:.ng svclc::
a train of execution T.
i»dy to depart; lliu succcs-lul acromphsh-
rig ; incut of the expedition may bn greatly facilitated by
ofi suitu!ill* Legislative provisions; and particnl.»rlv by an
!m I uppiopriation lo defray its necessary expense Th**
idition of a second, and, perhaps a third vosmjI, with
slight aggravation of ihi* cost, wouid coutnbni t much
• the safely of the citizen? embarked mi this mirier-
t iking, the results of vvhi< h inay be of the d> epost in
terest in imr country.
With tbo repoit of the rfoemtarv of the Navy, will
be submitted, in eunloimi y lu the Art of Congr. ss of
third .March, 1827. for tho gradual improvement of
the Navy of the United States, rtat< meets of the ex
pouditures under that J-ct, and of the measures taken
for caryring the same into vllect. Every section of
that statute contains n distinct provision, looking to
the great objoct of tho whole, the gradual iitjunvc-
ment of tlm Navy* Under its salutary sanction,
stores of ship-timber havo boen procured, and are in
process of seasoning and preservation for the futon
uses nf die Navy Arrangements have bc«n made
(ortho picsen utjon of the live oak limber growing on
the !~odw of the United State?, and for its reproduc
tion, in supply, nt futurn nnd distant days, the waste
of that most valuable material |*>r ship building, b
the great consumption of it yearly fur ihe comme
cinl, a« woll as for iho military marine of our co;m-
Tho ronstructinn of dm iw«» Dry Docks at
rfolk, h niakiug satisfactory
population of at least three million.? must bo presented
upon the returns. As they are to be m.idont the short
session of Congress, it would, as well ns from other
considerations, be inure convenient to commence the
rmumeratioii from in earlier period of thu yoar than
tiio first of August The most favorable season would
bo the .Spring On a review of tho former enumera
tions, it will he found that tho plan for taking every
census has contained improvements upon that of its
predecessor. The last is Mill susceptible of much im
provement. The third < onsuswas the firsut which any
account was taken of tho manufactures of the couti
trj’# It w’ q *t repeated nt the last enumeration, but the
returns in bfttn fast* V^re necosMirily very imperfect.
They must always bo so, rating course only on
thu communications voluntarily inane i;V jndivmuafa
interested in Homo of the manufacturing
merits Yet tbfly contained much valuable info:mf)- 1
tion, aud may, by* sumo supplementary provision of
the law, ho rendered in.ire effective The colu
Iii her sovereign character, tho HtQte ot
Georgia protests against the Act of the
session of Congress, entitled un “Act in al
teration of the several Acts imposing duties
on imports,” as deceptive in its title, fraudu
lent in its pretexts, oppressive in its exac*
tions, partial and unjust in its operations,
unconstitutional in its well known object?,
ruinous to commerce and agriculture,—to se
cure a hateful monopoly to a combination ot
i m j ant u n ate M ami ficturers.
Demanding the repeal of an Act, which
has already disturbed the Union, endangered
the public tranquility, weakened the confi
dencc of whoifl 6tutc« in the Federal Gov
eminent, and diminished the affection of larg®
masses of the Ueople ofthe Union itself,••
nn ' *' nd the abandonment of the degrading svs*
confined to a few period?, all under the number of 4o
years. Impoitant knowledge would be obtamod hy ! ‘ **". ----p* <- .
extending those columns, in interval? of ten years, to j tom which considers the people US illCBpO
the utmost boundaries of human life. Tho labor of of wisely directing their own enterprise
taking tli^-ni would be a trifling addition in that alrca
d> presciiberf, nnd the result would exhibit compara
tive tables of longevity highly interesting to the coun
try I deem it my Huty further to observe, that much
of the imperfections in tho returns of the last and per
haps of preceding enumeration? proceeded from the
inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the
Marshals and thoir assistants in taking them.
Iii closing this communication, it only remains for
me to assure l.ie Legislature of my continued earnest
wish fiir the adoption of measures recommended by
me heretofore, and yet to be aclod on by them ; nnd
of tiie cordial concurrence on my part in every con*
sutulinijdl provision, which may receive theirsnut tion
during the fcfassion, tt-nding to the g. n# r- I weltaro
JOHN UULNUV ADAMS.
Washington, December 2, 1828
[otic R to all whom it mav concern.—
I Tht-Bi|i>HTi!irrpurctins?*«l(>la WM. Ml.NTKR, from I!.!.:<•-
, s.c. t\\., ii -.-r.» i.o\',n ji«t-srale<l t,> *ai.t M. r t < i».- s juih!
NOTICE.—Tlit
. ^5 w »'!!»*» o;»**ni-.t t..i i‘,r
Vcudeiuv at -VieDu
■... 1 Mi '
Tao ext- ' ncul 'tV.-ichi.-rs arc
The lie iMIijrdtuai 'll of M.-ni-iio-.i-'Ii.tlie
nn*l i In* vln. meter uliSiehcluK#!, it i> prcuiiii
O N Fridav tin* 2 : J.l <»! January next, w
m ;V ; -ae rc>iilcnce of I nn-» O llu»un. nf Jo-
county, <1- m. ni-iir f . ,vi!|p, i.ii i:„. -i., Uii#- ".o in-, to m
which sots up tho servants of the Pooplo
Congress, us the exclusive judges ot whit
pursuits uru most tulvantngcoUB and 6Ul111 '
ble for those, hy whom they were elected;
tho Stato of Georgia expects, that, in jiorp 1 '
tual testimony thereof, this deliberate utid eo-
leinn expression of her opinions, "ill w-
oiirelully preserved among the Archives ot
tho Senate, and, in justification of hot cha
racter to the present generation oml to Pr
iority ; if, unfortunately, Congrcss,disrcg*ril-
ing this protest, nud continuing to pervert
powers granted for clearly defined arid " c
understood purposes, toeflcetiiHtc objects
ver intended, hy the Great Parties by "bum
the Constitution was framed, to he entrust*
to tho controlling guardianship oftlie rc' 1 *'
i d Government, should render necessuf).
iiieiisun s o f decisive diameter, for the p r * f '
, lection of the People of the State, and j ‘
■ [ vindieation of the Constitution of the *' llltc
(tui | States. „
(j'" j Urs'ilred bi/thr Senate and House oj n
j pr.■sanfettires of the State of Georgia, »' a
eh I I’l rul 1 ssimbly met, Tlmt the foregoingf __
liVi'j-1 test be signed by the President ot th*' e
fhf j nte, hv the Speaker of the House oI 1 ®l'
. I senttitives, mid hv his Exeelloitcv th*
ruor; and alter having the G rent tsen 1 1* 1
State affixed to it, be transmitted b y
Governor, to the Senate of thu Cottgf**-
i the United Stales.
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rop 11 cuttun in -the bale,
t* rented the • .lar.t uion
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[ 1RING.—On Monday tho20rh Decern-
I'tf, bt'nnt.M ill Ih* hirrtlin Ealontnu, lot- the year I
ti 't j bviontiue tu ibc children ol llnlwt Iv>*rsou. Term*
ol. (ticv. fr. ALKREU IVKftSON, (iuarUlau
It is said that Gen. Jackson, to avoid s’,
elling to Washington in midwinter, will '
up Ins residence tit Philadelphia ; am
remain there until the 4t!i Mnrcl), >
while making a visit to the ISevv-l'.' 1 ?
-V-:'.-. | States.
Robert It is further said that Mr. Adams has m
Viot’cmIj, | arrangement* to reside permanently at a ’
iiigton City.
We took occasion, in announcing the
by the Electors on the part ot Georgia. ^
mayk, that two of 'hos’e who lately 5? a '