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Monday, March \2, 1821.
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STONE 4’ COIT
'HAVE just received, from Boston and
New York, and are now opening,
W A LARGE ASSORMENT
OF
SEASONABLE GOODS,
~Z 0 SG WHICH, ARB THE FOLLOWING:
» „ Broadcloths and Cassimerea
K idsck and mixed Satinetts
Blue! miied and white Plains
tfle SdwXrt Blankets A
Sed and white Flannels
naidand camblet Cloaks
Brown and bleached Shirtings
» mod wort we"" 01 Calicoes and Bombazets
A ^"fehecked, Jaconet and book Muslins
and sprigged Muslins
Coarse and line Cambrics •
.Brown and colored Cambrics
irritation and buff Cravats
ftlk and cotton Handkerchiefs
Fflnev *rc«n Sciirts and Shawls
rroi de Naples and pink green Handkerchiefs
■Block Sarsnet, and Levantine tiilks
White and green Florence Silks
fasdoere and worsted Shawls
Striped Batiste, and Angola Tippets
Canton and Italian Crapes
figured and Nankin Crapes
Rus<ian and Scotch Diaper ^
.ladies’kid Gloves
■Ladies’ black liorscskini Gloves
■Gentlemen’s beaver and horseskm Gloves
lleeborn and straw Bonnets
It otton and worsted Hosiery
■Tuck and flounce Robes
English Ginghams, Ribbands
-Ready-made Vests,
■Shell and horn Combs , _
Il asliipnable beaver Hats ...
Irashionable roram Hats
miack and drnb wool Hats
■Gentlemen's common and fine Shoes
adies’ Morocco and prunellc Shoes
-Joys, misses and children's Shoes
■Nails. Salt, Castings, and cotton Bagging
■Cutlery, Crockery, and Glass Ware
1 Thev will also receive, by the first Boats, a large
Lsorunent of GROCERIES—all of which will be
Isold (or cash only.
J WANTED
|Five hundred bales of COTTON, for which cash
will be paid. nov 7
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
THE subscribers having formed a
connexion in the COMMISSION
LINE, will attend , to all business
addressed to either of them, hereaf
ter, under the firm of Hill & Stone.
PARIS HILL.
J. & 8. STONE.
Savannah, October 30, 1826 2
FACTORAGE.
THE subscribers continue to trans
act FACTORAGE and COMMI8-
SION BUSINESS in SAVANNAH.
All produce consigned to them, will be
insured against fire, after it goes into
store, without any charge to the owner. Storage on
Cotton will be eight and a half cents per bale for the
first week, and six cents for each succeeding week;
but if it remains a month; twenty-five cents only will
be charged for the month, and twelve and a half cents
for each succeeding month.
T. BUTLER & CO.
november 1-- - cotf ——-1
MACON CLOTHING STORE.
L. FITCH Sf CO.
MERCHANT TAILORS,
K EEP constantly for sale, at their store on Mul
berry street,
A General Assortment
DRY GOODS
AND
READY MADE CLOTHING;
which will be sold as low as can be bought in Savan
nah or Augusta; and they solicit the patronage of their
former friends and customers and the public at large.
TAILORING
carried on os usual.. Having the latest New York
Fashions and Workmen, Customers may depend on
having their work done in the best manner and most
fashonable style, with neatness and despatch.
We return our thanks for past favors, and solicit the
patronage of the public for the future. '
N. B. On hand, 200 pieces of PAPER HANGINGS
of different patterns, which will be sold low.
KF Old debit must be paid.December 5
GARDEN SEED.
THIRTY-FIVE BOXES
OF
SHAKERS' GARDEN SEED,
JUST RECEIVED BT
ELUS, SHOTWELL & CO.
C0NTAIN1NO
M'KINNE 4* CO.
HAVING recommenced the FAC
STORAGE and COMMISSION BU|
J SINESS in the City of Augusta, re-
[ spectfully tender their services to the
• public as
General Commission Merchants.
Their charges are governed by the present low
-prices of Cotton. Instead pf 25 cents for the first
■Month's storage, they will ask 12 1-2 cents, and for
iKiliog 25 cents per bale, being one half of the present
|prices charged at the other Warehouses in this place.
I All Cotton they may receive, will be fully insured
■against losses by fire, without the owners of it being
I charged anything for such insurance. By this ur-
I nngemmt, should every hale of Cotton they may
Ituve in their possession, be destroyed by fire, it will
Ik promptly paid for at the current price of the day
I the accident should happen.
Jujtula, August 2!) ‘ 3m—-1
White Onion
Yellow Onion
Red Onion
Blood Beet
Early Turnip Beet
Carrot
Parsnip
Long Cucumber
Early Cucumber
Watermelon
Muskmclon
Dutch summer Squash
Red Cabbage
Early Yorkshire Cabbage
Flat Turnip
Rutabaga
Sage
Squash Pepper
Double Peppergrass
Curled Endive
Turkey Khcubarb
Solid Celery
Curled Parsley
Asparagus £
CrooknecksummerSquashNasturtion
Crookneck winter Squash Early June Peas
White Head Lettuce Early Golden Hotspur -
P"-“r *•«*«*« White Marrowfat
Speckled Lettuce breenutvans«~nm.»
Imperial Lettuce fat Peas )
Frankfort Lettuce Strawberry Dwarf
Leek Lettuce Early Six Week Dwarf )
Salmon Radish Beans J
Scarlet Radish ’ Mustard
do. Early Turnip Radish Vegetable Oyster
Drumhead Cabbage Round Spinnage
Savoy Cabbage Early Prickly Spinnage.
Which will be sold in small boxes suitable for fami
lies,- or by the single paper—warranted fresh.
,> b 14—1C --
CONGRESS.
The following Report and Bill wero present*
in the House of Representatives, on Satur
day 3d ultimo, by Mr. Mercer* from tho Com
mittee on Roads and Canals: j
The Committee on Roads and Cinals, who were in
structed “to inquire into the expediency of making
an appropriation for opening aqd improving the in
land navigation from. St Mary'; river to the Tortu-
gas, and from the Apnalacliictf.a river through St.
Andrew’s Bay, to Cboctawhmhie, sufficient for
steam boat navigation, in the Territory of Florida,”
report, in part: 1
That, among the objects oDnternal improve
ment submitted to the investigation of the Com
mittee, no one has been regarded as more in
teresting to the safety of the inland navigation
of the United States, or more easy of the exe
cution, than the extension, where necessary,
along the Atlantic seaboard, of such short canais,
across tho peninsula which now intercept that
long contemplated navigation, as shall render
' continuous and uniform throughout; so as to
for vessels of suitable draft, secure in war
from the depredations of a maritime foe, and in
pece from tho dangers of the sea, along a haz
ardous coast. i
In furtherance of this sentiment, the Com
mittee had designed to comprehend, in a gen
eral report, embracing many objects referred
to them,' a recommendation of a survey, with a
view to the future removal of tho obstructions
of so much of this line as borders the Florida
coast, and especially at that inconsiderable bitr
between Amelia Island and the adjacent conti
nent, which intercepts the inland approach
from the Bay of St. Mary’s to tho River Sk
John’s. It is one of the shortest .linksin tbti
chain of inland navigation/ which leading
from Barnstable across the first northern ob-
stuction, in the above line, to Buzzard’s Bay,
maybe conducted to the borders of tho Mexi
can province ofTexas.
Tlie river St. John’s, the committee are as
sured, affords, at present, from its mouth to tho
southern ‘extremity of Amelia Island, eight
feet water as high, as Lake George, or for a
distance of one hundred miles,and in six feet wa
ter thence for —— miles to LAo Monroe,near
the centre of Cape Florida.
Tho shoal between Amelia Island and tho
continent, one mile and a half in length, is re-
lorted to be covered with four feet water at
)igh tide, and to be. exposed at the ebb, so as
to be four feet above tho adjacent navigable wa
ter; and, conquently, so elevated as to bo im
passable at any time by a vessel drawing more
than four feet witter. To deopen or cut around
this shoal, a six feet channel would admit, from
St. Mary’s.to the hood.ofthorivec St.John’s,
I Miners and Mantua Making,
A’txt floor oAoi e Mr. Corbett's on. Mulberry Street,
near the Court house.
MRS. E. LEVINGSTON,
(I'HOM GHENT,)
R ESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies of Macon,
and its vicinity, that she has arrivedherc, imme*
I diateiy from New York, and intends carrying on tho a-
Kbnve business in its various branches, with all oTthe latest
I fashions. She flatten henelf that her work will be
1 titrated in the b«st order and most approved manner,
I «j she has made arrangements in New York to be sup*
I rad with the newest and most seasonable fashions.
I hhe has brought with her the fashions for the' Spring
I Mil Summer, for Hats, Bonnets and Headdresses, and
I will in lays have on hand ready made Bonnets and
1 Headdresses.
K B. LEGHORN HATS cleaned, cut and trim-
I tned equal to new. Orders from the country prompt-
1IJ attended to at the shortest notice.
Mscon Feb. 27, 1827 tf 19
DR. BUCHANAN
H AS located himself in Macon; where he may
be found as a PRACTITIONER of MEDI
CINE. Jan 31 14
SULPHATE OF QUININE.
J UST received and for sale by , .
FLUKER & COLLINS,
dec. 12. ,
*\ew Clothing Stove,
AND
.hat warehouse
p JUDSON & CO. on Mulberry street, near J.
I ~ • B. tfick tf Co. have just received and will keep
I “xdtndy on hand, a general assortment of
I Fine and euuie ClrOTHDCC,
I - . European and Domestic DRY GOODS,
I ^niistin* of Blue, Black, Olive, Claret and Drab
I BROADCLOTH8, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS,
l«dsJl other articles usually kept by MerchanfTai-
... , TAILORING. V
M orders in the Tailoring line will he thankfully
l .j n<1 punctually attended to. Having receiv-
I Workmen from Nfcw-York, with the latest fash-
will he enabled to do their work with neat-
I T“» n<i despatch, and hopeby strict'attention to bu-
I'[?.!! t0 ..®*rit a share of public patronage. N- B.
I receive^ quarterly the latest New-York
HATS. Jj*
They have also on band, a general
> assortment of Imitation Beaver, Fine
and Common Roram and Wool IlATS,
and expect shortly a quantity of Fine
i Brnrcr Hats, Having experienced the
I , , Jinconveniences of having Hats brought
tl.i. *• ® n ''h'd state, they will advisedly have their
I wari5' nael P»lly finished in this place. As this branch
V„!. ,, coni *ucled by • professed finisher from New-
I imuki Fhe enabled to offer their Rats in a fash-
*nd saleable condition, Wholesale and Retail,
•SrV “ty can be bought In Savannahor Augusta.
in «f«nb"m * nd ol * lcri **• invited to call and exam-
I cmav hwt5 having Hats on hand in en unsaleable
Ljihon, can if they wish have them blockcd-and
Ol n "I/, condition to be saleable.
A ini, , dressed over on the shortest notice.
Cloth;?,!? i >fice "Bowed on second hand Uati and
0U,m *' n exchange for new.
50 . SHELL COMBS. -
nl,il Icn wperior Brazilian SHELL COMBS, for
^clow is above. 13 jan24
JUST RECEIVED,
xx By boat Rising States,
Otf Barrels Irish Potatoes
25 do Sugar
20 do superfine Flour
5 hogsheads Whiskey
6 tons Iron
20 dozen-Hoes
40 barrels best Rye Gin
Powder, Shot and Lead—For Sale low for Cash, by
STONE & COIT.
All persons indebted to the firm of Slone .V Coil, el
ther by Noto or Account, arts requested to settle the
same without delay. Jan 24
BLANKS
for SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
GARDEN SEEDS.
FRESH assortment of GARDEN SEEDS,
Si just received and for sale by
j;,n 16 FLUKER COLLINS.
TO THE PUBLIC.
DTF)HE subscribers having purchased the Store late-
JJ, ly occupied by Mr. A. E. Stratton, together
with his
STOCK of GOODS.
now offer them-oo as liberal terms as.thcy can bo had
at any store in tne County. The former customenuf
Mr. Stratton, and the: public generally, are most res-
peetfully solicited to call, with this assurance, that no
exertions on our part shall be wanting to render them
every satisfaction. • - ...
A good supply of GROCERIES will he kept com
stonily on band. Additions to the present stoi ‘
daily expected. -
Liberal Discounts will always be made on all pur
chases for Cotton or.Cash.
TAYLOR, MURDOCK & CO:
Hillsborough, Jasper County, Jan. 1,1827.
FLUKER & COLLINS
H AVE removed their DRUG STORE to one of
the tenements in McDonald’s building, on Mul
berry street, where they will keep constantly on hand,
A General Assortment of *. .
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS,
Surgeons’ Instruments, Glass Ware, Dye Stufis, Ac.
Ac. All of which will be sold on accommodating
terms. . -. ' 10——Jan 2
STONE &. COIT,
A A Have just received, byBoatNanry,
Barrels best Rye Gin
20. do Apple Brandy
JW do St. Croix Sugar
50 do Canal Flour
'4 tlercsRice '*<
8000 lha. Castings , ‘ '.
2000 do Grindstones—For sale low for cash
Cotton. , Fnlminry 27 19
WTIIIE aubscribcr continues the Practice of Law
ii this place. Iu addition to the Counties in which
he has heretofore practiced, he will attend tho Supe
rior Courts iu the Counties or Lee, Muscogee, Troup
and Coweta. . ..... _
Jan 2—{tf JOHN P. BOOTH
vessel drawing nonnore'than six fops-waso*.
so tnai,hesitu» me short; but essential link
of an extensive chain of inland sex board navi-
j ration, which this short excavation will supply,
t will at the same time perfect, for steam boats
drawing less than six feet water, a secure pas
sage from Charleston, in South Carolina, by
Savannah, in Georgia, and St. Mary’s, ‘j,to
the head of tho river St. John’s and fo-
jens to the purchasers of tho unappropriated
unds on both sides of that river, about to bo of
fered at public sulc, an access to those impor
tant markets for thoir future productions.
From such an improvement, which tho com
mittee aro assured can bo completed for tijn
thousand dollars, an appreciation of those lands-
to an extent very greatly exceeding that sum-
may therefore bo confidently expected.
Involving tho exercise of an unquestionable
sower of the Federal Government, ovoronh'of
ts territories; being presented to tho conside
ration of the committee by a resolution of the
House and a lettor from tho delegate of Flori
da addressed to the chairman df-the committee,
and making part of this report, accompanied
by a map ol a Spanish survey,.a chart founded
on an examination of tho coast of Florida- by
order of the Secretary of the Navy, and an ex
tract front tho letter of a gentleman, reported
to tho conjmitteo to bo u -man r of practical sci
ence—all of which render it .easy to measure
its probable cost; that cost being of inconsider
able amount, and to be incurred only after-tho
previous examination, and favourable repo it of
tho United States’ Board of Engineers; and
the work, if practicable, and successfully exe
cuted, being calculated as well to subservo tho
future interests of the United States in peace
and war, as to enhanco the value of vory ex
tensive tracts of public land about to be. sold;
tho committee roforring to tho accompanying
LETTER OF MR. M’DUFFIE,
Paper accompanying the Report of the Committee on the
application of the Vice President.
To the Hon. John Floyd—
Sir—Tho Committee of Investigation, o-
ver which you preside, having Announced to
me, as tho friend and representative of Air. Cal-
houn, that they havo closed tho examination of
all tho witnesses they deem it necessary or
proper to summon before them: I should be c-
qually insensible to the claims of private friend
ship, and the obligations of public duty, were I
not to enter my solemn protest against tho ex
traordinary course, and nol less extraordinary
conclusion of a proceeding, singularly destitute
of almost every attribute of a legal investigation.
E ven if it should be considered that this Com
mittee was instituted, not for tho exclusive pur
pose of sitting in judgment on tho specific charge
submitted to their examination* but for the ad
ditional purpose of exercising, to a certain ex
tent, the functions of an inquisitorial commis
sion; I cannot conceive that there would be
any thing in tho character of such a commission,
that would authorize it to depart from the fun
damental principles of judicial investigation,
and tho established rules of judicial evidence;
and after wandering at large, through tho per
plexing mazes of suspicion and conjecture, gui
ded only by tho bewildered lights of imeompe-
tent and inadmissable testimony, to select tho
precise point whero suspicion ends and legal
evidence begins, as the conclusion of their in
quiries. But confidently believing that it was
the intention ofthe.Houso that this committee
should assumo the solemn character of a judi
cial tribunal, and that tho facts and opinions
which they may report to tho house, will bo
consequently rcgnrdod by tho public as having
tie stamp of judicial authority, I feel impelled,
by a profound sense of the duty which I owe to
Mr. Calhoun, to the country, and even to tho
committee themselves, to state, briefly and dis
tinctly, my objections to the courso pursued,
before it shall be too lato to correct or paftiato
its injustice. And, in tho very outset of my re
marks, I cannot but advert to.thafoct, as strik
ingly illustrative of the anomalous character of
this proceeding, that, with the exception ofthe
solitary question as to thp fact of Mr. Calhoun’s
>articipation, which every witness has prompt-
r and unequivocally answered in the negative,
there is not one tittlo of all the incumbering mass
of documentary and ora! testimony which has
occupied the inCessaht labors of the jCompilftee . _
for moro than twenty days, that has the ■® n ^ consequently, to inflict a vital stab upon
slightest pretension to tbo charucter of legal e- tho public liberty. Nor is then) any thing in
videnco, whether we regard it as applicable the character or circumstances ofthe prescht
to tho present accusation, or any-other acusa- investigation, that should tibsolvo tho commit-
* 1 -- —- L - ----- —-- -«—!—* 1-teo from tho observance of these rules. On
the contrary, all history .will justify tho remark,
that there are' uo occasions in which their ri-.
I ;id observance is so highly important, as when
egislativo bodies or political commissions ex
ercise judicial powers for the trial of political
offences. On such occasions tho strongest
of human passions almost unavoidably usurp
the seat of judgment; aud, unless restrained by
pre-established forms of proceeding, and pre-
established rules of evidence, the most capri
cious freaks of despotism und vongeanco aro
perpetrated, in the sacred numo of law and jus
tice. Without referring, for. illustration, to
the lawless proceedings, of thoso inquisitorial
tribunals which aro at onco the reproach and
the terror of despotic Governments, or to tho
shocking outrages committed by tho revolu
tionary tribunals of Franco, it would be suffi
cient to advert to tho disgraceful proceedings of
tho Parliament of England, In ciisos of attain
der, not only to sustain the general principles
here presented, but to communicate tho most
vivid impression of their truth and importance;
have considered it expedient to report tho fol
lowing bill: . . i
A bill for improving tho inland navigation be
tween the St. Mary river and the entrance
of tho river St. John’s in Florida.
Sec. L Be it enacted by the Smate and
House of Representatives of the United States
appropriated out of any money in the Trcasu
ry not otherwise appropriated, to bo employed
under tho direction of the President of ihe.Uni-
ted States, for deepening the channel of' inland
navigation leading from the St. Mary’s rivor
between Amolia'Island and tho .Continent, to
tho St. John’s river,in tho Territory of Flo ri
de. " , . *. .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,. That
this act shall not go into effect until the United
States’Board of Engineers shall examino the
shoal betweon' tho Island aforesaid, and the
main l-'in.l, and have made a report in writing
to tho Secretary of War, that in their opinion
the saM sbottl ,caU be permanently dampened
for the sum aforesaid, so ns to open an inland
steam-boat navigation between ihe aforesaid
rivers of-Florida. >v a -"
. Accounts from France of Jsnuary 1, state that the
projet of a law far regulating the prejs had created
-gnatsensation in Paris. '** v . ’
mass of the evidence that has so long engaged
the attention of tho committed, consists of tho
the privute letters of Major Vandeventer to 'E>
lijah Mix, with the explanations .tor which
they have given rise* It is hardly necessary
that I should enter into a course of argument,
before a committee, of which six out of seven
are lawyers by profession, to show that these
letters ought to have been promptly rejected,
as incompetent and improper -testimony. E-
ven if it be granted that Mr. Calhoun is now
on his trial for every act of his life, official or
private, and not merely upon the specific
charge referred to the committee, it is perfect
ly clear, that, according to those great princi
ples of evidence which have been devised by
tho wisdom, and consecrated by the experi
ence of ages, the letters or declarations of an
other person cannot be given in evidence a-
gainst hint. Nor is this one of those techni
cal principles which sometimes mar the sym
metry of the law and have no foundation in
reason. There are no principles of our law
more deeply founded in wisdom, than those
which regulate tho admission of evidences.—
And I will take this occasion to remark, that,
next to such an organization of the Government
as. will secure tho effective responsibility ofpo*
litical agents, civil liberty derives its principal
security from tho establishment und sacred ob
servance of fixed rules of judicial proceeding
and of judicial evidence. The opinion enter- .
tained by the enlightened sense^of modern
times, of the inseparable connection between
the rules of criminal evidence, and civil liber
ty, may be clearly inferred from the opposite
judgments which posterity has pronounced up
on the character of Sidney nnd of Jeffrie*—*
For, whilo tlto namo of Siducy is inscribed oil
the imperishable rolls of fame, as a patriot and
a martyr, that of Jeffries, has, by universal^* S
consent, been consigned to everlasting infamy,
os a judicial monster. And yet, tho cafattropho
of tho victim has excited the sympathy, aud the
tyranny of lliejudgo the abhorrence of mankind;
irincipolly because tho sa.crifico was effected
jy violating those rules of evidence, in which
every member of the community had a common
interest, ns tho only means of securing bis life
and character against the combined machina
tions of prostitute informers and profligate ru-'
lers. To unsettlo and subvert these rules,
therefore under whatover plausiblo pretext it
may be attempted, is -to destroy tho only sub
stantial security for overy thing sacrod in life,
tjdh against ; the private integrity’’ w .official
. In in flqnaou-
strate this proposition, I bog leavo -to present
for the reconsideration of tho committee, a de-
scriptivo aud analytical view of the recorded tes
timony. • v V*
It will be roc'ollected that the first three or
four days of this inquiry wore dpy otod to the ex
amination of witnesses, professbdly produced
for the purpose of exculpating tho present Se
cretary of War from the imputation of having a-
ny agency, either in bringing forward the chargo
of peculation agajnst Mr. Calbotin, or in the
infamous publication of ihe equally infamous
letter of tho yet moro infamous instrument of
this dark nnd nefarious conspiracy. It is not
my purpose to complain ofthe courso pursued
by tho committee, in this respect, although it
might seem to indicate a more anxious desire
to exonerate one against whom no imputation
had been made, than to administer speedy jus
tice to the. second officer of the Government,
when actually on his trial upon a charge of offi
cial delinquency, calculated, if true, to stamp
his reputation with indelible infamy. But, as
tho Committco havo thought proper to make
tho conduct of Mr. Barbour, in this transaction,
a distinct subjoct of inquiry, I feel constrained
to remark, that, although I readily exonerate
him from any intentional participation in this
roost insidious attempt at moral and political as
sassination, yot it is a circumstance* much to
be regrettod, that, in the editorial commentaries
by which tho publication of tho letter of Elijah
Mix, in the Phoenix Gazotto was accompanied,
tho namo, office, aud official decision of the
Secretary of War, wero so artfully associated
with tho chargo against Mr. Calhoun, as to
give it additional solemnity and importance;
and that no measures were taken to have this
injurious association disclaimed,, through the
same channel. It is a fact, equally to be re-
ovidenco, and the advantages which the’con- -gn>uiH],-tliat the secretary shu’uld iiaveTCtain-
tcmplatcd improvement promises to realize, cd in his possession, officially for throb days
•_ »j_'—J t * L '‘ flirt lnftnv I'nnfrtinm.r tlin fliarOtt HPainst Mr
tho lqttor containing; tho chargo against Mr.
Calhoun, without giving him the slightest inti
mation of it. And oven tho verbal declaration
made by the Secretary to Col. Johnson, that ho
beliovod tho chargo against Air. Calhoun to be
au atrocious calumuy, was not mado until a day
had elapsed afterthe publication in the Phoenix
of America in Congress Assembled. That Gazette, and vus communicated to Air. Cal-
tho sum of $ 10,00Q ho and the sauio is hereby houn after ho had prepared and sealed his lot-
• ! ■ ' t- m—... tcr t0 t ] 10 Houso of Representatives, and plac
ed it in the hands of a friend. And I must al
so stato, as a fact worthy of notice, that, nei
ther in tho Phoenix Gazette which assumed a
semi-official attitudo in stating the proceedings
of the Secretary of War, in relation to tho let-
tor of Mix, nOr in tho notico taken of tho pub
lication of that Gazetto by the National Intelli-
goncor tlte noxt day, was tho fact stated, that
tho Secretary regarded the chargo against Air.
Calhoun as an atrocious calumny. . ' *> ,■
But to resumo the analysis of the testimony,
with a view to its immediate bearing upon my
opening proposition. Afler submitting tho ob
vious remark, that the evidence produced to
exculpate Air. Barbour, was not only irtelative,
but immaterial to Iho pending issuo, I will pro
ceed to the examination ofthat.partof tho testi
mony which is intended, as I presume, to bear,
dircctlv.’or indirectly, upon’tho official charac
ter and integrity of Mr. Calhoun, The. groat
If theso goncral views evince to tho comraittoo
the necessity of adhering to the established
rules’of evidonco—and if I have shown that
ouo ofthe mostimportantof those rules excludes
the letters or declarations of a third poison un
der any circumstances—how incomparably
stronger docs tho objection to their admission
hecorae, when wo advert to tho singular and
extraordinary circumstances under which tho
letters of Alajor Vandovontor have been pro
duced to the committee. Iu the first place,
they aro obviously tho detached parts of a gar
bled correspondence. In tho socond place,
they aro mutllatediind defaced; so as to render
their meaning unintclljgiblo as to every purposo
connected with tho investigation. But what is
of Infinitely more importance, this correspond
ence was obviously garbled, and tho letters
mutilated and defaced, by one ofthe most art
ful and consummate villians that over figured in
tho annals of human depravity, for tho unques
tionable purpose of exciting doubts, aud suspi
cions-, by means ofthe mutilations and erasures,
which could not have been, produced by tho-
letters in thoir original. and entire state. It is
impossiblo, therefore, to conceive a combina
tion of circumsiancos moro strikingly demon-
stativo of the wisdom ofthoso rules of evidence
from which tho committee have thought pro
per to depart, than that which exists in tho
present instance. For it is obvious to remark,
that this is a political commission, composed of
political men: aud, disguise it as wo may, I
must bo pcimittod to add, without intending to
insinuate any thing in tho slightest degree dis-
.
when it is moreover considered, tliat these gar
bled and mutilated letters havo born produced
by the vilest of all that tribo of info.-mors, who
havo been tho disgrace and tho torror of th -o
countries in which they havo been count: run-
cod by tho wickednoss and profligacy of rulei s,
a self-cdndemnod and self-immolated wretch,
who, in the vory presence of tho committee,,
has literally covered himself with “all tho mul
tiplying villanie* of .nature.” I cannot but be
lieve that the committee will themselves shrink
back with abhorrence from thoso machinations