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BY CAMAK & IIAWLANI), STATK <& 1:. STATUS l'lUKTKRS.
3IILLHOGEVIELE, TilUKSDA Y, SEPTEMBER 22, 1831.
THU UKOI{(il A JOI in \ I.
li publtalittl twice .1 w eek dm iiir tin- >i*»- »ii ■ • Hir •.• • ^i> 1 i«i»r«■.
«ml weekly fortli-'roiiahi.lt-i dm. .. . ,nt u.«* < . m r ol \N .iym-
Hint Hancock MreiM*. m I'll It h K linl.L \ I!** pc. .mini id, in i.i-
vance,or KUllll IJOLLARa ,ii tin i»i. l . ii.« >cnr.
The Paper will not In* tu vuy i mil tin* Mate, until
the sufMorifHion money is paid in ,.u> .mcc, or sniblaclury rctcr-
ence given.
Advertisements Inserted at tlte ttsyol rates.
N. K. Sales of I.\NI>, l».v \ Imiui'ti itnrs, Executors, or
<iu.trdians.nre required, liy law, tube field <
in the month, between the
iu the alternnon, at theco*...*i-
prnperty IS situni —Notire
public gateite s| \ |*V DAYS
Sale- ul‘ NKOROtiS must
Tuesday.*f the uimilh le-nvet
place of public sales in tli
tary,«l Adininisiration»n
first giving SIXTY DAYS
gazettes of this Stale, and
such sales are to be held.
Notice for the sale of Pei
manner, FOR TV daj
*. ot ten in the noon nod tin
i* county "• here the !•■
mil Property must I
must be pub-
Notice that appii at nio will lie made to llieC u. t of (Irdinary
forleaveto sell LAND, must be published lor I'«> I' It MUN Ill's.
Notice for leave to sell NKUlli'K', must be published l r
POPR MON HIS, hefore uuy order absolute mail be made
thereon by the Court.
Persons interested in those Advertisements which are publish -
ed Monthly,will find them in the iir.st nod fourth pugeol tl.elirsl
paper in every month.
... ■—■-— * * *• 'oive prompt mention
A DMIXISTK AT< M!S, I:\ 1 :< I
TORS and SII K It IK KS DKKDS, together with
a general assortment ol III.ANK
UNA I.
me i
W ALTER S. JKNK.INS Is onodulntt
fur Receiver of Tax Returns for Baldwin run.'tv, nt
the election in January next.
J AMES A. HILL 18 rt cmniulfttelor She-
ritT of Ruldwin county,at the ensuing election,
tehruary 34
W E are authorised to announce \V. (’.
POWKLL, Esq. h candidate for Receive, of Tax Hu-
terns for Baldwin coutity, at the electiou in .!.*:»«,oy next.
July »8
J OHN It. WO OT A \ respect fully tetT-
ders himself to the Citizens ol !$.«' lain e mntv, ns’a cn.uiid
ate fur the clerkship of t’.ie »«uperlouP Court,nt the et
lion, iu January next.
August * —ft
W li aro nutlinriseil to uiiouiini
II. SMITH, ... .. l.i.-.O.'i
Court,of H-ildw III county, at the next el. ctim:.
■ff EWIS J. W. KRAATZ, I
A CAMP-M I.I.TING
ILL commence near Covington, on
on Wednesday eveu'ip* tin- olh <>"t * ‘* , r. ei >-inc • • n
morning lie - realtor. All Pren
gethcr with all friendly to the cans.
airly Invited to attend. This imllce should iv '" ‘• 1 *
ly attended to by our lleformini; llrelhren throng >i n .
try, a« the .time line been changed, bill is now recall'd, nmltlie
meeting stands over for the first nppuo
K WSO.M
Ol tie* l.o
w
CHARM?’
i Pn
In behalf of the Me
M. eting t o.
N. B. Editors of Other pT"'t s ll.rou-.li
give this notice a lew iusertmns, that <>u
thren may aitemK
A O A.MP-M EEXING wi
Madison on Wednesday eveniiu.
inf oil Monday morning t lierealu r. I . '
ers arc alV**rlion.itelv inviied to attend,
altered from the '.’-Sd Septentle v. in <*o
meetinglu Clark county being at tin* >ui
N. B. It is expected that the Sun 1 \
• gainst the inclemency of the weather.
out the State w ill p!
POimiHMIPt! I
HI TCIIINS & HOLT,
y w ^L continue Lite practice of Law in
V V "•parttiei -hip inail the i ittutiesuTthe (>hattnliuorliee
amt n estern Circuits, w liiclt they have heretofore attended.
X A I II \N I.. Ill TCIIINS,
_*”» 18 1IINKS IUIJ.T,
TUP. SUBSCRIBER
K II AS, lor the belter uerointuodatinn of his
t. r3. i‘u«ioiners, token the Store a (joining hit < Id Stand, and
fitin't r nml more
effusive Stock
v hoods 'uiui’iir ro
» will as formerly I
the okoiuu \ hot ei
y my tM hi
MAlUTU'l*' l HOLLAND."
(.’OLD LANDS.
r r \K I*, this method to inform th(»!
ing land ui the O .i ! Region not well tested, ll
•d try I
A M! LLLIt WANTED.
MAN of sternly Imhits and moral clia
Ib.ck Mills. J!.,
Mill, i
■all u
ml lie w ill meet w it ii inline
> a first rail* H'.irk - litl*..
NMI.I.I AM ‘ IllVtittS Sr.
i*»r w ill insert the ah re a imuttl
.viird the account in Hock Mill* for pay
>\ M. MIIVLU>, Sr.
JACK A: JENNF/r FOR SALE.
St IIEM VKK AliLY lar^c and tine J A( 'K.
Ni .iml J I NM:i f. r X.d -I. 1. .« t having a very fine
>.i. i. I" ■■ - old w im !; i .is large MKuuy .Mule (' .It « f its age,
I i , y.-ung 111(1 o-t in their prime, and would be sold a
. ■. t• s o.-ci i/.e, at Augusta, t^i.''
• 12 ; 2 ”■ Mb ROMKR \I.L.
HI SC0GE1S LANDS.
I OFFER my settlement coniainin»r four
I. I .ot s „t oak iml hickory I .and, N,. .27, 2U, 37 and M. in the
■ ' i -
I'ltnol. In
abseil, emy broth.-r w»| *Im W tluj^.remises, and state I hr
'n.'.y ;.;-ti ’ ' ' M *’ JOHN SNMN vF.V.
roil SALE,
ACHES of first mid second qtm-
to mu'i j
"i.""' ' r 1 " Jll ‘ I 1jI " ‘ JoiTn iiiisi:'i'*r!'
500
STATE BIGHTS.
*1 ANON 1C IfALL.
PREMIUM nf Our l fund nil Ihdlnr.
I plan fora M \SON!C HAL
jLSL will be paid I'u
to be erected in the t<
lire-proof—three Mm
n u| .Mille.lgeville.
i. Iiigll—the ha.-emeii
• I brick—to be P 1
V. S. Brick can be purchased t
thou.ami, and stone for J.l dl u >
O'The New York Cntnier
Milled Seville.
R. A. «i H V FNK.
T
PU.VO FimTS^N.
WO PIANO FORTES, inlaid
is-sorlmciit of Ml Sit’ 'for tin
brace—j'Ht reeciv-*
Also it goot
abuye.
COTTON B^G&IN
too Ficecs Hemp R»i train if, • - inches
id.*, just r
WILLY L BAXTER.
Aug.
20 Dollars Howard.
B JANA WAY from Iditonlon, uhnut the
MAl' lir-t Ol August, a III lcf:t mulatto boy by the name nf
Af.i: 'C WIlKIt Ri.ID
j Adut’r
• g a. I\ U ov
150 Dollars Reward.
Slop the Thu f uml llnruuaiy !! •'
^ BOOT the first, of duly, n man Uy the
null, I
•It I) • lie'll
id Du.llie-
ted to the United States by the Cofistitution, nor
prohibited it to. the Stntes, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to die ooople;** tliure-
forc, nNo, the sunn* act of Congress, passed on
the 11th day of July, 17! entitled “ Ail act in ad
dition to the act entitled an act, for the punishment
of certain Crimea n^ftinst the U. States:” ns also
the net passed by them cm the ‘-?th day of June,
17!!r\ entitled “ An act, to punish frauds coinmit-
tcil on the liankofthe United Stales,” (and all oth
er ot their acta which assume to create, deline, or
punish crimes other than those enumerated in the
Constitution,) are altogether void and of no force,
and that the power to create, define, and punish,
such other crimes, is reserved, and or rij^lit apper
tains solely and < xcltisively to the respecti\ e Stales,
each within its own territory.
.’J. U<Ao/red, That it is true as a ffoneral princi
ple, and it also e.\preu-ly dee.lurod bv one of the
aiip’iidments l.o the Constitution, tint “ihe jiowers
not delegated to the I mted States hy the Consti
tution, nor prohibited hy it t-. the States, are re-
si.rved to the Stall. respretlu iy, »r the People
and that no power over tin* tVeedoin of religion,
fr< ejoui of speech, or freedom of th • press, being
delegated to the United States hy the (.a»nMitutioii,
nor prohibited bv it to the States, all lawlul pow
ers respeeting the same did of right remain, and
won; reserved to the States, or to the People:
That thus was manifested their determination to
retain to t h**in.-*l\ < - the right of judging how far
the licont iousnes.' ot speocli uud of tin: press may
be abridged without lossening their useful freedom,
and botv fartluu- e abuses wlii» h cannot be sel ,:,r a-
t*‘d from their use should he tolerated, rather than
the use hejdostroyod—and thus,also,they |rutinted
against all ubrnJ "‘ineut, hy the United States, of
the freedom ofr. ligioiis opinions and exercises, and
retained t<. themselves the light of protectin'' the
same, us this State, by a law passed on the general
demand uf its citi/eus, had already protected them
from all human restraints or interference: And,
that, in addition to this general principle and
press declaration, another & more special provision
lias been mude by one of the amendments to the
(’> institution, expres.ly declares that “(.’on gross shall
inuke no law respecting an establishment of reli
gion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or
abridging tiie uvedom ofspocdi or of the pn
thereby guarding, in the same sentence, and under
tin* same words, the freedom of religion, of speech,
and of the press—insomuch, t hat, whatever violates
either, throws t!o\v n the sanctuary which covers the
others, and that libels, falsehood, and defamation,
equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld
from tiie cognizance of Federal tribunals: That,
therefore, the ad of the Congress of the United
States, passed on the 1 ltli day ef July, 17‘JS, enti
tled “ Au act in addition to the act for the punish
ment of certain crimes against the United States,”
which docs abridge the freedom of the press, is not
law, but is altogether void and of no of feet.
•4. AV.?o/i7i/, That alien friends are under the ju
risdiction and protection of the laws of the State
Judicial powers to those of Executive, subverts j wherein they aro : that nu puvvcr over them lias
the general principles of a free government, as well | been delegated iu the United States, nor prohibit-
as the particular organization and positive provw-1 ed to the individual States, distinct from theirpow-
ions of tin? Federal Constitution ; and the other of or over citizens ; and, it being true as a general
which acts exercises, in like manner, a power hot principle, undone of the amendments to the Con-
delegated hy the Constitution, hut on the contrary, j stitmion having also declared that “The powers
expressly and positively forbidden hy one of the nut delegated to the United States, by the Consti
RESOLUTIONS OF VIIIUINIA.
Resolutions offered by (\>J. John Taylor, of Car
oline, in the House of Delegates, and adopted hy
the General Assembly, on the J st of December,
171)8.
1. /fe.Wm/, That the General Assembly of Vir
ginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution
to maintain and defend the Constitution of tho Uni
ted StutG0; and the Constitution of this State,
against every aggression, either foreign or domes
tic; and that they will support the Government of
the United States in all muisurcs irarrur.ful by Hu
former,
'2. llesolveil, That the General Assembly most
solemnly deefaros n warm uttaeiimcnt to the Union
of the States, to maintuin which it pledges all its
powers; and that, for this oml, it is their duty to
watch over and oppose every infraction of the. «•
principles which constitute the only basis of that
Uni< >u, because a faithful oh sen ana of them cun nl6m
secure iL c.rislcurc atul the public hajtviiu ss.
M. llesolveil, That this Assembly doth explicitly
and peremptorily declare, that it views Ihc pow
ers of the Federal Government as resulting from
the compact, to which ttie Statesure parties, as lim
ited by the plain sense ami intuition of the instru
ment constituting that compact, as no further valid
than they ure authorised by the grants jenumeraled
in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate,
palpable, and dangerous, exercise of other powers,
not granted by the said compact, the States who
are parties thereto hare the right, and are in duty
bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress oft In*
evil, and for maintaining, icil/un their respective
limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties apper
taining to them.
1. llesolveil, That the General Assembly doth
also express its deep regrot that a spirit has in sun
dry instances, been manifested, by the Federal
Government, to enlarge its powers, bp forced con
struction of the Constitutional Charter which defines
them ; and that indications have appeared of a de
sign to expound certain general phrases (which,
having been copied from the very limited grant
powers in the former Articles of Confederat:
were tho less liable to be misconstrued,) so as to
destroy the meaning and clfcct oftfic particular en
umeration which necessarily explains ami limits the
general phrases, and so as to consolidate the
States by degrees, into one Sovereignty—tho ob
vious tendency and inevitable result of which
would be to transfornvtlie present Republican Sys
tem of the United States into an absolute, or, at best,
a mixed Mvaarchy.
5. Ilcsnlved, That the General Assembly doth
particularly protest, against, the palpable and alarm
ing infractions of the Constitution in the two late
oases of the “ Alien and Sedition Acts;” passed at
the last session of Congress ; the first of which ex
ercises a power no whore delegated to the Feder
al Government, and which by uniting Legislative
and Ju
Commonwealth hr, and he is hereby, authorized
and requested to communicate tin* preceding res
olutions to the Legislatures «>f the several States,
to assure thorn that this Commonwealth considers
Union, for specified National purposes, and partic
ularly fir tho-o spe< ilied in their late Federal
Compact, to be friendly to the pence, happiness,
and prosperity, of all the Staten: That, faithful *
VOLUMEOXXIL-SO. *7.
kiit lnmoiit, that, in tiie diBciission of tlio»* mtw-'
(•vliiip subjoctn, by sundry of (he l.i ginletnroe of
uiir si.-!, r SinifH, unfiiundiid siifrgri»lii>n», nnd ub-
nandiil insinuations, derogatory In the (rue charac-
lor and principles of .hr good people nf this Coni-
momvonUh, hnvo been substituted in place of fair
reasoning, and sound argument. Our opinions of
these nlarmintr measures of tho General Goveru-
tlint compact, according to the plain intent nnd niont, together with our rensono for those opinions,
\ . II. Win. Il.i.l
Mll.l.KDUI A IEEE
Mineral Water Eelahli. hnirni,
Under Dr. Green s Drug mi 1 Hook Store.
rWT I( L public are respectfully informci! ilia!
JL the l.tll.iu'ini p ilietil.l.. amt ■ lui.u v ,1 ;i . wi
nlzlieil tl.riiugl. Hit* - 1 '■
•i.*r iImm.i w i..ii.*M.m*' i •» '
.1* Water, Li<|tii<! M.tu’ -Id, Car'-M.
<la W.tterol heitlliU. I..-II.*. Cd. ll.
lyueate.BaralocR «.. ; l ■ . i •. >r.- ..gi.
y*>S!ietisii.|; lln* \ »#* u«* - • I • ■ r • ^'i' 1 : *'" '• -' • ' 'fm
is m.til.* IV •..i i ..•• I* i. • • i ■ . •*
lillth** viru.es -il Id * t■ i'l :l ' 1 1 lie i..I .1 1 "•"I Die
most t*ir.(ti»ci.*us pi'I Ilit-1 ul Oil* !»l.iou au.l K. nrr.il n.\m. ..t
present kima 11.
milledueyillE
Drug & Book &, Statioimrv Store,
One door JVurth of Ihc Slate llank.
I ^OR SALE, as above, an extensive as
sortment of
DRUGS, MEDICAL PREPARATIONS, PAMI-
I.V .v PATENT Mi'.DlUINES,
SPICKS, PKRFl'MI'.l! T, P.II.YTV .l.YD P. ll.YT
nnv.iiiKs, oils, dyestcits,
WINDOW GLASS, GOLD \ND SILVER Ll. AF,
BRONZES, BLOCK TIN, SPLI.TKL, «e.
Embracing nil theurtirlesusually kept in **q« , li
Msoulnrge collect "mi "t
STANDARD WORKS,
On Law, Mqilicine, itiA riieoloBi Fmully & Porket Bi
nutl rarioii*. <'01i1m.Mit.1i % mi tin* Scriptures.--1 »«-■ Utosl
veil Latin,Fnwli nml Kmrli-I»
SCHOOL BOOlxS,
Cooper's, Irrinfs and the whole of the
PELHAM NOVELS,
!• lets,or single copies—Ami n supply ot i.eitrly ;i!l the new
popular NOVKLS an.l ROM VNCI*>-TKe t m.-..»l H.u
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ns publisheti—Am«*i iciuoiml Lomloii Aim.'.' } ' V''
pi*.im Ameri. h'j.i.mi I’Mpoiiir Do ti>»M 11 > ol 1.. u. 1 'I Know ,1 . t,
4T0lumei received Pli ' v 1 1 1 V
Journal ul' Medical Science—Tlo* \oe • "
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t*«l,aiit|fwr«.ir.|e<J to any p.nt • I v ’ |*
Order*, a.lilres^e.11 > I IIOS. K. (< I*. I. r. *
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ft i.——Having attaclieil
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, or c• j11liut*i• i• • ni in Mi.ue ».ilt> iuil.
HEN BY WR1DHT.
T.-tllalmsseo, pioriiin,
i‘)i llv by M. SMITH, n in wwork,
the lost virgin of the south,
ii, l ull . ..iic i i *\ iti. tin* lii'loiv ol lilt* l.tilillll W
■ . , , wars 1 U'J, IJ, 11, and I V—and General Jnc
v iv. -. i.'.n'ot lit.- I nite.i States, by DON I'LDRO CA-
),NDITION8. j. TW jw
Italy ;
I dollar L’i .‘fill-, liandaniiiely
• with morocco backs and inar-
i.ise bound i» moron o - I tlil’-
ded lor llm Ladies, will be J
!,is prospectus is sent, will be
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Ui-a’i Vl liny W'imwil'lKa lid’ll!.'
tliejii looiliers, nlier they Hie
be pi ice tor the publisher,shall
mount.
.* workw ill .be ready for deli-
v s, regularly
r\Y*d OR6
lln
R
EClilVKtJ in the Milledgoville Book
’ Store, h few copies of
2d vol.of ArnoU'a Element* of Physics,
Irving’s new* work *'TUe Voyage* «ud Discoveries ol the «
panimisof Coluinhut,
({rattan's History of Belgium,
Fourth Series ,d Tales of a Grandfather, being the imtoryol
France, by Sir Walter Scott.
Also sets of the Knur aeries, rosnplf
Coles’ Surgical \n ilmny.
Abercramb.e mDiv i'i suf i’»#» Ural
Martinet’* M«nuilol I'.iihology. I <
Gallatin’s Consi '••fati ms on the Cu
(pinof the United states.
14th No. ol the VmPric in Journal <
rd.
ipentiiled to a hamlsoine bound Copy ol (he work.
July 21 3
pi BOltGlA, Greone (’minty.—
W » ourt, siiiiu ; for onlii'.iry purposes, May Ti
amenilmonts thereto: a power which, more than
any other, ought to produce universal alarm ; be
cause it is levelled against that right of freely ex
amining public characters &• measures offree com
munication among the people thereon, which has
ever been justly deemed the only eflbctual guardi-*
nil ot every otiier right.
(j. Resolved, That this State, having, by its Con
vention which ratified tho Federal Constitution, ex
pressly declared, that, among other essential rights,
“ the liberty of conscience^ and of the press, cannot
be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified, by
any authority of the United States f’ and, from its
xtremc anxiety to guard these rights from every
possible attack of sophi&try and ambition, having,
with other Suites, recommended an amendment, fi r
that purpose, which amendment was m due time,
annexed to the Constitution ; it. would mark a re
proachful inconsistency, uud criminal degeneracy,
ifan indillerencc wore now shown to the most pal
pable violation of one of the rights thus declared
and secured, and to the establishment of u precedent
which may be fatal to the other.
7. Resolved, Tlmt the good people of this Com
monwealth, having ever lelt, and continuing tu
feel the most sincere affection fur their brethren of
the other States—the truest anxiety for establish
ing and perpetuating the Union of all—and tiie
most scrupulous fidelity lo that Constitution which
is the pledge of mutual friendship, and the instru
ment of mutual happiness—the General Assembly
doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the
other States, in eontidenco that they will concur
with this Commonwealth in declaring, as it does
hereby declare, that the nets aforesaid are uncon
stitutional; and that tho necessary and proper
measures will taken hy each fur co-opernting
with this State in maintaining unimpaired the au
thorities, rights, and libert ies, reserved to tiie States
respectively, or to tin: People.
8. Resolved, That ’lie Governor be desired to
transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to tiie
Executive Authority of each of tho other States,
with a request that the same may be communica
ted to tin.* Legislature thereof; and that a <:«-py be
furnished to each ol the Senators and Itepresi nta-
tives representing this Slate in the Congress of the
United States,
RESOLUTIONS OF KENTUCKY.
Ilousr. or Rkfiiksentativks, )
JVuvanber 10. 1708. $
tution,nor prohibited by it to the States, arc re
served to the States respectively, or to the People,”
the act of ihc* (’ucgiv.-’S of the United States, passed
on the 'JJ.l day of June, 1708, entitled “ An act con
cerning Aliens,” which assumes power over alien
triends, nut delegated by the Constitution, is nut law
but is altogether void ami of nu force.
Resolved, Tint, in addition lo the gent:
that
-Inferior
■ i.
principle, as well as the express declaration,
powers not delegated ure reserved, uuotliv and
mure special provision, inserted iu the Constitution
from abundant, caution, has declar 'd “ that the mi-
gr-ition or importation ofaucli persons ns any of ll:
States now existing shall think proper to admit
shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the
year 1808 Thai this Cemnionwonllli does admit
the migration of alien friends, described as the s ub
ject of tho said act concerning aliens: That a provis
ion against prohibiting their migration is a provis
ion against all acts equivalent thereto, or it would
be nugatory- -titat. to remove them, u lion migrated,
is equivalent ! >u prohibition of tJieirmigration, uud
is therefore contrary to the said provision of the
Constitution, and \ jJ.
ti. Resolved, That the impri - mnent of a per
son, under the protection of the laws of this Com
monwealth, on Lis* failure io obey tl»** simple order
of the President to depart out oftlio United States,
us is undertaken by the said act, entitled “ An act
concerning Aliens,” is contrary to the ('institu
tion ; one amendment to winch has provided that
“ no person shall he deprived of liberty without tflie
process of law,” and that another having provided
“ that, iu all cViinimd prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy thmrmht to a public trial, by un impar
tial jury, to be^iufortned of the nature and cause
of the accusation, t.» bo confronted with the wit-
m s i s ugoinst him, to have compulsory process fur
obtaining witnesses iu his favor, and to have the
u - 'istanceof counsel fur ins defence.” 'I’iie same
act, undertaking to authuriz ■ th** President to re
move a person out of the United States, who is
under the protection of the law, <»n Ins own suspi
cious without accusation, without jury, without pub
lic trial, w ithout confrontation of the witnesses
against him, without having witnesses in his favor,
without defence, without counsel, is contrary t‘<
these provisions, also, of the (’.institution; is,
therefore, not law, but utterly v. id ami of no force.
That, transferrin g tiie power ol judging any person,
| who is under tin* protection of the laws, from the
meaning in which it was understood nnd acceded
to by the several parties, il i-i sincerely anxious fir
its preservation: That it does also believe, that, to
take from th** States all the powers of self-govern
ment, and transfer them to a general and consoli
dated Government, without regard to the specie!
delegations and reservations .solemnly agreed to in
that compact, is not for the peace, Imppmess, or
prosperity, of these States!: And that, therefore,
this Commonw erJth is determined, ns it doubts not
its Co-Sti’les are. tamely to submit to undelcgated,
and consemientlv, unlimited powers, in no man or
body of mon on earth : 'flint, if the nets before
specified should slnnd, these conclusions would
flow from Ihem—tlmt the Genera) Government
may place any net they think proper on the list of
crimes, and punish it tliemselves, win thor enumer
ated or not enumerated by the Constitution, as re
cognizable by them; that they may transfer its
cognizance to the President, or any other person,
who. may himself he the accuser, counsel, judge,
and jury, whose suspicions may be the evidence,
his order the sentence, his officer the executioner,
nml his breast the sole record of the transaction :
That a very’ numerous and valuable description of
tiie inhabitants of these States being by tliis pre
cedent, reduced as out-laws to tho absolute domin
ion of one man, and the barrier of’ the Constitution
thus swept away from us all, no rampart now re
mains against the passions nnd the power of a
majority of Congress, to protect from alike expor
tation, or other more grievous punishment, the
minority of the same body, the Legislatures, Judg
es, Governors and Counsellors of the States, nor
their other peaceful inhabitants, who mav venture
to reclaim the constitutional rights uud liberties of
the States and People, or who, fur other causes,
good or bud, may bo obnoxious to the views, oi
marked by the suspicions, of the President, <)»• lx
thought dangerous to his or their (‘lection, or <»th-
r interests, public or personal: 'Phut tho friend
loss alien lias indeed been selected as the safest
subject of a first experiment, but the citizen will
soon follow, or rather lias ulready followed; for, id-
ready has a Sedition Act marked him as its prey:
That tliese, and successive nets of the same char
acter, unless arrested on the threshold, may tend
to drive these Suites into revolution and blood, and
will furnisn new calumnies against Republican
Governments, and new pretexts for those who
wish it to he believed that man cannot be govern
ed but by a rod of iron: That it would be a dan
gerous delusion, were u confidence in tiie men uf
our choice to silence our fears fur the safety of our
rights—tlmt confidence is eycry where the parent
of despotism—free Government is founded iu
jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy
and not confidence, wlpyli prescribes limited
Constitutions to bind down thuse whom we arc
ibligcd to trust with power; that our Consti
tution has accordingly fixed the limits to which,
nnd no further, our confidence may go ; and let
the honest advocate of confidence rend the Alien
and Sedition Acts, nnd say if the Constitution lias
not been wise in fixing limits to the Government
it created, and whether wo should be wise in des
troying those limits ? Let him say what the Gov
ernment is, if il be not a tyranny, which the men
ol our choice have conferred on the President, and
the President of our choice has assented to and
accepted over the friendly strangers to whom the
mild spirit of our country and its laws had pledg
ed hospitality and protection; that the men of our
choice have more respected the Imre .suspicions pi
the President, than tlx* solid rights of inn •<vuct.\|
the claims of justification, the sacred force of
truth, and tho forms and sul>>tunce of law end jus
tice. in questions of power, then, lot im more be
heard of confidence in man, but bind him down
trom mischief by the chains of the Constituti- n.—
That this Commonwealth does, therefore, call on
its Co-States for un expression of t.lieir sentiment .
on the acts concerning aliens, nnd !’»r the punish
ment of certain crimes heroin-before specified,
plainly declaring whether the e nets are or ure not
authorized by the Federal Compact. And it
doubts not that their sense will be so unuonneed
as to prove their attachment unaltered to iuuited
Government, whether general or particular, and
that the rights and liberties of their Co-States wiii
be exposed to no dangers hy remaining embarked
on a common bottom with their tjwn : That they
will concur with this Commonwealth in consider
ing the said acts as so palpably against tie Consti
tution, as to amount to uii undisguised declaration
that the compact is not meant to he the measure
of the powers of the General GuivrnmcjjL but
that it will proceed in the exercise, over these
States, of all powers whatsoever : That they will
view this as seizing the rights of tin* States, and
consolidating them in the hands of the. (Inurul
(iuvcrnmnit, with a power assumed to bind tiie
States, not merely in cases made Federal, but in
nil cases whatsoever, by laws made, not with their
consent, but hy others ugainst their consent: That
were detailed with decency,and with temper, and
submitted to the discussion and judgment of our
fellow-e.ilizens throughout the Union. Whether
the like decency nml temper have been observed
in the anmvers of most of those States who bar®
denied or Attempted to obviate the great truth*
contained iu those resolution*, we hare now only
to submit to a candid world. Faithful to the truo „
principles of the Federal Union, unconsciou* of
any designs to disturb tho harmony of that Union,
and anxious only to escape the fangs of despotism,
the good people of this Commonwealth an: regard
less of censure or calumniation, fjeast, however,
tlm silence of this Commonwealth should be con
strued into on acquiescence in the doctrines and
principles advanced and attempted to be maintain
ed by the said answers, or least those of our fol
low-citizens throughout the Union, who 90 widely
dill or from us on those important subjects, should
he deluded hy the expectation, that we shall bo
deteried from what w e conceive our duty, or shrink
from tin* principles contained in those resolutions
—therefore,
Resolved, That this Commonwealth consider*
the Federal Union, upon the terms nnd fur the pur
poses specified in the late compact, ns conducive
to the liberty and happiness of the several States:
That it does now unequivocally declare its attach
ment to the Union, nnd to that compact, agreeably
to its obvious nnd real intention, and will be a-
mong the last to seek its dissolution : That, if thos®
who administer the General Government, be per
mitted to transgress the limits fixed by that coni-
pucf, by « total disregard to the social delegation*
of power therein contained, an annihilation of the
jStnt»‘ Governments, and the erection upon their ru
ins of a general consolidated Government, wdl be
the inevitable consequence: That the principle
uud construction contended for by sundry of tho
State Legislatures, that the General Government
is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers
delegated to it, stop nothing shoit of despotism—
since the discretion of those who administer th*
Government, and not the Constitution, would he
the measure of their powers: That the several
Slates who formed that instrument, beiug sove
reign and independent, have the unquestionable
right to judge of its infraction, andtkui <i nullifica
tion by those sovereignties, q/’ all unauthorized acts
done under color of that instrument, u the nghfid
remedy: That tins Commonwealth, does, upon the
most deliberate i(.'-consideration, declare, that th®
said Alien and Sedition Laws are, in tbeir opinion,
pulpuble violations of the said Constitution; and,
how ever cheerfully it may be disposed to surrender
its opinion to u majority of its sister States, in
mutters of ordinary ur doubtful policy, vet, iu mo*
nientous regulations like the present, which so vi
tally wound the bust rights oi the citizen, it would
consider a silent acquiescence as highly criminal:
Tliut although this Commonwealth, us a party to
the Federal Compact, will bow t^u the laws of tho
Union, yet it does, at the name time, declare, that
it will not now, nor ever hereafter, cease to opoae,
in a constitutional inuuner, every attempt, from
what quarter soever otic rod, to violate that eom-
puct. And finally, in order that no pretexts or ar
guments may bo drawn from u supposed ucquio*-
cence on the part of this Cnuuaouweaith -n the
constitutionality of those law.-, uud he thereby
used us precedents fi>r similar future violations of
tin* Fcdorul ( Vuipuct—this Commonwealth doe*
ii'»,v enter against them its SOLEMN IMtOTEST.
^Au.st^ 1 ’ THOMAS TOD I), C\ II. IL
I n Senate, November £2. 1799—Read and con-
urrud in.
Attest. B. THURSTON, C. S.
From the Columbus timpdre.r.
The l i csent is a criais of much interest iu Un;
political iii.-tory of <»ur Btttte. Ill tiie relation w«
sustain tu the General <ioverunient, Htibj. cts of
deep and vital importance are involved. The np-
prceliing contest of our elections before the peo-
ol< nnd ui xt Legislature!, are matters oftawakcuing
interest and oiicitude to the country. Three aapi-
i ants fi»r Governor are pressing their clninia for tho
suffrage of the people ; two of whom have been,
prominent men in our State for u aeries of year*—
have been chosen from time to time, lathe highest
offices iu th* g’ft ft tie people. In eanvwsing tli®
clams of the respective candidates w • indulge no
invidious or personal hostility to either; but iu th®
exercise of <ur prerogative wo shall bo controlled
by our ivtimatV of the taln.u, disinterested patriot
ism and public worth of the candidate. The con-
trait m this regard, must force itself with peculiar
conviction upon the undersUmlinfi’ of a discerning
community. We believe the uble and efficient
public services of Governor Gilmer, in the different
departments of tho government to which he lius
hoc ii cjled, entitle him to our warmest support in
the present contest, ns a highly gifted and taJented
this would be to surrender tho form of R ovenii»e U t stut.;sn.an. 1" our prolWf.ce of the result ip-
we Imve chosen, and to live ""dor one Jlurivin K its ••umbunt and our duo,ded conviction ol bis snptri-
powors from its own will, nnd not from our imtiior- or ment ,ln<1 c '! llinrt "P" 11
ity: And, that the t'o-Stiites, rr-curring In tlnir \ w
natural right in cues nut made Federal, will am-
Mtlcl l.ontl; n
tl.r ruimty ;ifoi
i V\ illiai.it- ... I
-Hhl lot "I III.
ASIM’R Inferior Court, sitting forordin-
A.til 17th V.. of tin* Vi...
All tli.*
NU VI.S, just rece
Also sjm*<mi»»*o %
which Mil.icriptio
rrency Dint II.inking Sys-
M«*(lical Sr’uMice.
Sjil-HiiiJ LONDON .N-
l*s of the Athenaeum; for
, Courts to the President of the United St
House, according to the standing order of j js undertaken by the same act, concerning aliens,
the day, resolved itself into a Committed ot' the is against the {article of the Constitution widen
Whole on tho state of the Commonwealth-—Mr. provides that •• the Judicial power of tho United
Caldwell in theJChnir—nml after .-Dine time spent j States shall he vested in (•ourt*, tho Judges of
therein, the Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. I which shall hold their offices during good behav-
Caldvvell reported, that the Uommittee had accord-1 iour,” nnd that the said act is void for that reason
ing to order Imd under consideration the Govonor’s ! nlso; and it is further to be noticed, that this trans-
address, and had come to the following resolutions . for of judiciary power is to that Magistrate of the
thereupon, which lie delivered in at the Clerk's tn- General Government, who already possesses all the
ble, where they were twice read, and agreed tu by j Executive, and a qualified negative iu all the Le
the House. 1 gUIntive powers.
]. Risolved, 9 \'\nil the several Slates composing 7. Result 'd, That the construction applied by
the United States of America, are not united on the the General Government, (as is evinced by sundry
.> .-.I t hi- principle of unlimited snlmiisioti to tie* (•. ueral Gov- j of their proceeding--,) to those parts of the Consti
T ‘ eminent; hut that by compact under the style and tution of tin? United States which delegate to Con
title of a Constitution for the United States, and ol. gross a power to lay and collect taxes, duties, im
nmondments thereto, they constituted u General posts, nnd excises, to pay the debts, and provide
Government for special purposes, delegated to that j for tin: common defence and general welfare of j
Government certain definite powers, reserving
each State to itself, the residuary muss ot rigid to j
their own self government? and that whensoever i tion the powers vested, by tin* Constitution, in the
the General Government assumes undelegated !(Jovcrnment of the I 'nited States, <»r any depnrt-
pownrs, its nets are unauthoritativc, void, and ofj ment. thereof, goes to tho destruction of nil the
no force ; that to tliis compact each State acceded i limits prescribed to their power by the Constitu-
as a Slate, and as an integral party, its 0»-Statos timr. That words, meant by that instrument to b
forming, as to itself, the other party; that the Gov
ernment created bv tliis compact was not made the
xclusive or final judge of the extent of the pow-
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Attest,
THOMAS TODD, C. II. II.
In SENATE, November Elth 1798,—
Unanimously concurred in.
Attest,
11. THURSTON, C. S.
Approved: November K»th, 1798.
JAMES GARRARD,
Ciovtrnor of Kentucky.
By the Governor:
HARRY TOULMIN, ScFnjof Stale.
House of Rkcrrseetatives -Thursday,
November 14th, 1799.
Tlic House, according to the standing orde
people <d’ Georgia,
juid hi)t dirtpurage whatever of tiie qualifica
tions or just claims ot otJier candidates that may bo
brought to hear in the oppronclnng contest for
Governor. The political inconsistency and dupli
cate churactcr of Mr. Lumpkin, however, place*
him before the people in a very unenviable astHMit.
As a member of (Congress lie enjoyed a large share
of the confidence and putronage of botli the political
parties of the State ; not as a man ofldgh qualifica
tion!! or imposing talents, but as a practical, busi
ness member of that body. The course he pursu
ed in our relations with the General Government,
and the discussions of important interests apper
taining to Georgia, has been justly appreciated by
a liberal and enlightened patronage. But what ha*
been the equivocal and doubtful bearing ot tliis gen
tleman in his own State r Aware of a moderate
confidence and support of both parties, he modest
ly declines n cull to be put in nomination agaiuat
Mr. Gilmer, for the reasons that operate now, with
precisely the same force and effect, as at t)»e tune
of ids refusing to become u candidate. We are
totally unaware of the motive that could have in
fluenced him in abandoning, what to us appeared
1 at one time, a fixed and settled determination.
jit to be dissatisfied ?
1 KKKiM’l Inferior ('ourt, silting for or-
U u .
i Rol.rri VV fidil i
1 Ifo.MAS W. GTUMF.S
j the United Stnt j., nml to in.-iki! oil laws which shall l ' in 'by. resotved itself into u Committee of the Have the people not a rijrlit to be
| be nr.-esj.arv mnl proper for carrvim. into exccu- Wliolo llouso, on the statu of the-Cummob- Will they not demand of Mr. Lumpkin why is it,
wealth, Mr. Desha in the Chair; and, alter some he Hub abused and dishonored the confidence ra-
time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the Chair,] p OK ed in him, in thus betraying a total disregard of
and Mr. Desha reported that the Committee hud the honor already confided; that though they have
token under consideration sundry resolutions pas-| elected him to congress, a high and dignified ap
se! hy several State Legislatures, on the subject' poinlment, he is even disposed to practice upon
of the Alien and sedition: Laws, nnd hud come: their partiality and trifle with their confidence in
to a resolution thereupon, which he di livered iu at the grut'ficntion of his ambitious scheme*? Th©
the Clerk’s table, where it was read, and unanim- 1 ‘" j a 1
or*u.v agreed to by the House, as follows:
The representatives of the good people of this
Commonwealth, it* General Assembly convened,
having maturely considered t he answers of sundry
States in the Union, to their resolutions pa*sed nt
subs
power:
to t*iv<
•liary
to tho execution of the limited
ht not to be .so coiiHtrued as themselves
nnlimited powers, nor, apart, so to be ta
rs delegated to itself; since that would have made i ken as to destroy the whole residue of the instru-
its disen tion, and not the < Jonstitutioh, tho meat - i ment. That the proceedings of th® General Gov-
ure of its powers; but that :i '; in all other ca ics of: ernmont, undor color of thuso article*, will bo a fit
compact among parties having no common judge, | and nec.- eiry subject for rovisal and correction at
each party has an equal right to judge f or itself, ns I a time of greater tranquillity : while those speci-
wcll of infractions, as of the inode and measure of tied in the preceding resolutions cull for imuiedi-
rodre?
2. R.exolved, 'I'hat tho Constitution of the l nited
States having delegated to Congress n p 'wer to
punish treason, counterfeiting the securities nnd
currant coin of the United States, piracies and fel
onies committed on the high seas, and offences
against the laws of nations, and no other crimes
whatever, and it being true as a general principle,* of the
nml one of the amendments to he (Jonstitution acts,
having also declared,that “The i> wer*not dolvga-1 9. R r solved, lastly, That tiie Gov
ute red re
8. Jit solved, That the preceding resolutions he
traiHunUed t > tho Senntors nnd Representatives
in (’ongre ,; < from this Commonwealth, who are
hereby etij 'im'd to present tin: same to their res-
I pcctive House i, and to use their best endeavors to
ure, at. the next session of Congress, a repeal
aid unconstitutional and obnoxious
-nerr of tlus
last session, respecting certain unconstitutional j n c
people have a right to demand of Mr. Lumpkin •
continuation of his •••rvices in congress till th®
time for which he has been elected shall expire,
mid that gentleman may attempt in vain to justify,
himself before his constituent* upon the ground o£
( ,f bis having bemi repeatedly solicited to become
andidate. By whom has he been called to op-
laws of Congress, commonly rail 'd the Alien and
Sedition Laws, would be faithless, indeed, to
themselves, and to those they represent, were they
silently to acquiesce in the principles nnd doctrines
attempted to bo maintained in nil those answers,
that of Virgin* only excepted. To a .train enter
the field of argument, and attempt more Killy or
forcibly to expose the uneonstitutionality of tho.se
obnoxious laws, would, it is apprehended, be as
uonocosunry as unavailing. We exmnet, however,
pose Mr. Gilmer?—a restless and ambition* ffevr,
who arrogated to themselves the right of dictating
to the people of Georgia.
The spirit of discord that influenced the opposi
tion, cannot he countenanced tor a moment with
the least forbearance, in our estimate of the talent*
mid virtues of the two candidate*. The people
would have been satisfied with Mr. Lumpkin in
congress; but when he attempts to monopolizo
otfm® tor self uggraadiif»*nt or th* graUi«aU®a
