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*ecutornr Guardians, are required by law, to
V urld on the first Tuesday in the nn>n! h, between
me hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three
-ii Lhe afternoon, at the Court-HorisS of IheCoun
*y in widen the property is situated. of
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‘Thvrsdjy MOftyiyn, sept, n, tm.
The Republican calls the Milledg&ville States
man the month-piece of the Clark party Wa
cm tee. no justice ia the appellation Because the
Clark party, for the ia4 two or three years, has
bee# so completely disjointed, that every member
ha* been in the habit of following its own lead
ihe Clark party no longer exists. There is ijo lon
ger a head, a rallying point, and each individual tW
lift to look out for himself. We were in hopes
that the Friends of the Union throughout the
State would have embrace t the present opportu
nity of rallying in support of their opinions ; but it
irons that iatrigno has prevailed over principle ;
* compromise has been effected between Mr. Cl ti
mer aud one or two individuals, formerly promi
nent in the ranks of the Clark party, by which he
hopes to be made Governor, and in consideration
of which, they are to take a share in hi adminis
tration We wash our hands of this transaction
XT’ We are requested to announce that Levi
3. D'Lvon is a candidate to represent this county
in the R preservative branch of the State Legis
lature.
COMMUKICATtO
Mr I3.iHTLF.fT:
You sre requested to announce George Hous
ton, Esq a3 a candidate for the Representative
branch of the Legislature of this State, at the en
ding election.
Mr. Hoc stow is a native Georgian, deeply in
terested in the weUbce of our City and County ;
and if elected will be governed by motives
of public good, and not individual inter
est: it private ambition. He has ever supported
a character of unimpeachable honor, a liberal spi
rit, and possesses promising talents The true
friends of the prosperity of the County aw ear
nestly called on to rail}’ in his support.
[Published by request .]
Mil. I’OWEL’S REMARKS.
The bill, An act to incorporate the trus
ts of the A nerican Suud.iv School Union,
w asunder consideration,in committee of the
*hulr, iVL. Herhort in the chair—
[’dr D liiham having concluded his re-
Harks in support of the bill—]
Mr. Powell addressed the chair. Un
happily | tim constrained (said Mr. P.) to
contend not only against persons whose
motives l cannot condemn but I am coer
ced to oppose my personal fiionds, in a mis
guided effort to promote the cause of reli
giun, import unt alike to ail conditions of
men
It is not ng iinst Sabbath schools, for of
Mom I honestly approve, nor is it against
Me patriotic gentlemen whose names are
.embodied in your hill, that f shall say
“ught which even the cavils of fanaticism
fnn condemn.
It I in seek security for good inten
-1 should find it in their high standing
ns individuals, in iheir good works as mem
u“rs of religious associations, wherein many
°f them have been exalted hy their charity
* ; *d Chiioliatt seal. I tiust, sir, T shaH he
blended from all suspicion of hostility to
“and iy school institutions, of dtsiie to cast.
v * nsure upon tli** parties, who hy
; vo couuten i.Tce, and by
heir iiidticnre m the rtli"‘'>U3 in
'Hr purse ff w d a.d, , , he „, -n-
XiuctioQ of the igtmrarit, fitting ,
dure the 9ad trials of litis world, {
Suing them for the great objext of our be- r
•Vkt'K-happStiets l>i that which is toronte
When 1 arouse their agents of machina
•<>n, ldo it fearlessly. lam prepared to
establish that which 1 utter by their own
inguagr, by tracing a systematic effort
buhMy u assume the despotism es “ dic
utoii t “ daringly avowing their object—ex
clusion burn u tiu> political power of the
-• iUit. v,’ all Mien whose consci have
been warped, whose characters have
t**-'t been formed, whose devotion has not
at secured t>y their system of education,
their rites of “ baptism,’* their modes of
Worship, their notions ol the trinity and ol
promulgated bycertiio
;il! zealots, who would make all men and
um doctuues subservient, to an established
*rtho*lox M creed.
We have had an c! thorite and eloquent
t'rpf'sitHMi of the wishes pf the Sunday
J U ;;i* u s au ingenious attempt to cou
THE ARGUS.
* -f w • ■ . -■ r
fu’e l,y anneipaiinr, „|| wliich i. i, S „ PP , S .
“1 ‘lie opponents of the bill can adduce in
support of which they hove ...
sumed. With gr-o, deference for .he so
gdC'iy, with the ut.iK.gt respect for the abil-
L tV the accomplished advocate of the
, un School Union, f venture to assert
that he will not attempt the refutation of
t ; iat which lam about to offer, that which
they have written, that which they h ive
published, that which they have put upon
our desks to enable us io moaojre the ex
* tent of their usefulness, to decide upon tire
tendency of their effort#, the great object
of their plans. He resolutely denies tlmt
* s ntence can be shown, that a single
fact can be brought in support of the posi
; tions which he low assailed. —[Here Mr.
. Powell turned towards Mr. Duncan, saving]
permit me, sir, to ask, will you deny that
this substantial octavo, entitled the Sunday
* School Union M igaiine,” is au'hentic ; that
this collection of Sunday school documents
of Sunday School Union reports, of s, unday
school precepts, oi Sunday School Union
poli'ical disquisitions and plans, is sanc
, tioned by Lie managers whose names are
parided at length in various parts of the
* work ? Can my fr iend deny that it is wor
thy l>' a h- f that it is a compilation of such
fniscellanfo.’* 5 P^ i P er '‘* pathetic ad
dresses, and o! documents as thoy con
sider illustrative of intentions, or con
ductive of theii * ikL ? 1 iVjd in this work,
secoT 41 * report “oflho American Sunday
S. liool l/.iion, 02b"' 93. May, 1826. ’—
“ These insiitoiiftns termioaifi jn an
organized system •'<{ .mutual
between ministers and private tu
so that every church shall be a discipline !
armv, whole every one knows his place,
snd wh.ere every one has a piace and a duty
in the grand onset against sin.’* “In ten
years, <>r certainly io twenty, the politicul
power of our country would be in the hands
of m*-n whose characters have been formed
under the ii Hirnce of Sunday schools. *—
A"d in pt|#eFstb of the same work and the
l.hc civ,l z >d world demonstrates
*uat iij.t> r of the man is built upon
the principles ’nStillcd into the mind es the
child Yuur boTid have fedt desirous,
tirerefore, not only of furnishing their own
schools with suitable books, but of introdu
ciog such books info the schools of (l differ
ent description :, and of rendering (hem so
abundant as to force out of circulation those
wnich tend to mislead the mir.d. They
have not been backward therefore to as
some the high, responsibility of revising ano
altering the books they have published,
whet ever alterations, seem necessary. They,
have chosen to do this, rather than tamely
issue sentimeuts which, iu their conscien
ces, they believato be,false or inconsistent
with tiiq ptij ify of divine truth.” That this
:s nql a v io. boast -they have proved bv
their third report of 1827. On the ficsi,
p igo I find [ tore Mr Powell read nnothn
book which had been laid upon his desk]
that “1,616,796 publications which ad
ded to those issued by the society in the
two proceeding years make a grand total id
3,741,341 °* Not satisfied, sir, with this
vain glorious display in their regular re
ports, re-published and circulated in their
magazines, they have appended a catalogue
to one of their works, whoreiu they have
reiterated in stronger terms, if practicable,
the great object of their association. [Here
Mr. Powell again turning to Mr. Duncan,
said] will the gentleman receive this as a
fact ? Will he con-ider their own state
ments as worthy of regard? Or will he
Contend, that, in the assumption of the pow*
or to alter books, to change the ideas of the
author, they have contrived to make their
advocate consider them possessed of author
ity to alter the vocabulary of the language
▼.bicb we use. If I were to cal! them dic
tators, I should be accused of injustice, yet
they say in their catalogue—“ While the
committee feel the immense responsibility
which they assume in becoming dictators to
the consciences of thousands of immortal
beings on the great and all important su6-
jeet of the welfare of their souls y while they
dread the consequences of uttering forge
ries, or giving their sanction to the misre
presentation of the glorious truths of the
gospel, they are not backward to become
the responsible arbiters iu these high points,
rather than tamely issue which,
in their consciences, they believe to be false
or inconsistent with the purity of divine
truth.” They continue in the same page
Hiaasset, “Iu preparing works for the press
the utmost liberty is used with regard to |
whatever is re-published by them,** and
in changing even the ideas.” They alter
the arrangement, mutilate the work, and
change the ideas, yet retain tbe name of the
.0 ** or, thus making-established names and
iojced constructions of received doctrines,
-übsei vient 10 their dictatorial will.
are told that the managers did not
. the massage predicting that political
“, Q ♦‘•n years is to assume all the
ii tlueuce ,u * „ , .
r . ‘luntfVi a °d n ten years is
power 01 the tv Ul,l v l XMT J ~
w .u.n US alt cal c sea s ’ We ale i o,d
, hst • was w.U.efl by a clergyman. Is,.
00 thin account of less foiof ? has ei *
ureeJ tha< it was written by a Connecticut
clergyman Tbe gentleman has r,;.rborne
lo make comment on this point. He ex
timdv exclaimed i-t was only the production
of a Sunday school teacher. Would he
have us infer that it should therefore be re
jected as futile ar.d unworthy of belief ?
No, sir, he will not venture to tell us tins.
He has toid us much which I did not ex
pect to hear. He has introduced au s!>*-
copal bishop with some irrelevant aud harsh
remarks, which I shall pass by as unworthy
of 11 y regard. I urn concerned that my
friend, in his happy vein o{ U **
placed Pr io a lndtcrons ?rght, or
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY MORNINU , SEPTEMBER 17, 1829.
Dr Ely,*’ a# he calls him : Heaven forbid
tl/Ht 1 should dare call him poor, or to com
pare him to “h scare crow,” or to “tbe
! pope.” He has coupled him with Cienefai
Jackson, and attempted to excite the
son feeling in tLis house. I legret that be
, has doue so, although X well know his ap
peal will avail nought. I have never seen,
sir, any instance, in which that feeling ht 4
been excited on this floor, and I am well
assured it never will be excited, except on
fi’ occasions, if such can here arise in rela
tion to the great contest for political sway
i * Cjinnot perceive by what motive be could
( be impelled 10 iutroduce General Jackson’s
i name, unless it be from the connection in his
j own mind with (he views of the agents of
the Sunday School Union, and their deter
mination in “ ten or at most twenty * years
j to establish ecclesiastical domination, and
1 *h e union of church and state. ere Mr.
Powell read fr<m the 3J report of the Sun
day School Union, May, 1827, page 17.]
* he annual report of the board of mana#
gers was then read by the Kev. Dr. Ely, of
l ‘ st ‘ l^'f d Presbyterian church by whom it
was wiiiten.*’ I will ask my colleague is
not poor Mr. Ely, by this passage identified
with the Sunday School Uuion as the ex
pounder of then views, r,§ ihe writer of their
report ? [Here Mr jpovvell read the fol
low extracts from Dr. Ely s sermon 1—
In other words our presidents, secre
taries of the government, senatois and oth
er representatives in Congress, governors
of States, judges, state legislators, justices
01 J.be peace and city magistrates, are just
as much as any other persous in the
United States, UrliP orthodox, in their faith.*
“ Cur nik-rs* !;k.e any Other members of
tho commooity', who are,under Jiiw to God
as ration*.! beings, and under law tu Christ
since they have ill* bfebt of divine revelation
uugi*t to search the scr>pJ u, ’ , * s * assent Vc
truth, profess fuiih in Christ,
bath holy to God, pray in pn/ate * a
the domestic circle, attend on the public |
ministry of tire word be baptised and cele
brate the Lord's Supper ** The eleciuis
i/t these five classes of true Christians unit
ed in the sole requisition of apparent friend
ship to Christianity in every candidate for
office whom ihey will suport, could govern
every public election in our country, with
out 11111 mgTrig in the least upon the charter
of our civil liberties.
“ The Presbyterians alone could bring
half a million of electors in the field.”
“ I propose-, fellow-citizens a now sort of
union, or if you please, a Christian party
in politics, which X am exceedingly desirous
ill good tpen in our country should join.**
“ I am free to avow that other things be
ing equal, I would prefer for my chief ma
gistrate, and |udge and ruler, a sound Pres
byterian. # * It will be objected that my
plan'of a truly Chiistian party in politics
will make hypocrites. We at e not answer
able for ttn ir hypocrisy if it does.”
We h ive seen, continued Mr. Powell,
that a reverend and erudite gentlemau,
whose piety and good works might have ta- I
keu as a guarantee against all danger of
clerical violence or sectai ian proscription,
has boldly exposed the system of tactics,
and designated the modes o( attack in which
evi*n lie, so highly revered, so implicitly
obeyed, would employ the “ disciplined ar
my where eveiy one has a place, where
every one knows his place,” lo exclude from
“ all tho political power of our country’’ all
men whos# characters have not been form
ed by Sunday schools. If this gentleman
jus 'y elevated by talents, so highly embel- 1
Itshed by learning, and so much distinguish
ed bj religious sway, be so zealous as to
consider ecclesiastical domination the dear
object of his career, what may we not sus
pect, what ought wo not to expect Irom ig
norant and bigoted satellites, radiating
light and heat from a grand luminary, a
“ retrospective thoologian,” a Machiuveiian
politician, soaring in regions of visionary
philosophy, calling on half a million of fol
lowers, to rally for the exclusion of all men, !
who are not “ orthodox,” from the polls.
This reverend and meek Christian, we
have seen, is not merely the associate of the
Sunday School Union—he is their organ—
the person selected to compile their report
—to read their report; and, I have their
own authority, to write their report; thus
made the guide of the vast machine, pre
pared to “ force out of circulation” ail works
which they do not approve—to force upon
“ schools of a different description ,*’ books
which they have mutilated, still sanctioned
jby the authority of the original authors
name, although perverted and adapted to
the tastes of those who are to be trained as
implicit believers in that which the Chris
tian pastor happens to deem the orthordox
faith.
That the managers of the Sunday School
Union are full well impressed with the dan
ger of clerical interference, is sufficiently
manifest from the clauses in their constitu
tion, which admits but laymen us members
of their board, and that they apprehend the
force of the arguments which such interfe
rence would iaevitably adduce in opposition
to their prayer for a charter, is evident from
the fact that they have told you, that all
but laymen are excluded from their board.,
But it happens that notwithstanding the re
solution they have evinced, the acumen
they have displayed, the sagacity and de
termination with, which all these movements
1 art . fi aught, they have been seduced from
their purpose by that good feeimg—thai
Christian acquiescence—-that high degree
of truarility which religion imposes, and
I which her pastors can adroitly turn to any
cud which they deem good.
They have assured us that all men and
all children, of all deaomtnations are alike
objects of tbeir lb a erieg cure, aai that uo
religious creed—no sectarian feeling no
j desire but that of dping good, cau operate
; upon their minds, X believe ifigm, they ate
I incapable of falsehood, it is upt possible to
make them designedly do wrong, X repeat
if, if is not of them I fear, nor is it of men
remarkable as the reverend pastor, that X
have dread : for I am assured that he is
stimulated by an honest desire to make all
men Christinas after his own fashion to
make them ali happy iu his own way to
make them ail orthedoi in his faith—he has
told us this, and he has toid us the truth.
Nor have I objection to the denomination
of Christians he would lead. Xam not one
pi (hose who would denounce them as sec
tarians—>who are disposed to deny to them
the full measure of good intentions and
good works, lam satisfied, sir, there are
po Christians whose usefulness here, whose
prospects of eternal bliss hereafter, are
better established than those of tiiat por
ion of the community distinguished by
,air name, t <ir be it frpip me to enter
tain doubt, or tacitly to submit to iusioua
lion which could C4st aspersion upon them.
I have, sir, resisted upon this floor, what I
conceived to be an attack upon the trustees
and professors of a neighboring collegp.
because accidental association, and the un
alterable affinity of juxtaposition, had not
tailed to operate upon the Presbyterians,
as it must do, ever has doue, and always
will do upon all men, whether high church
men, Maiiomedans or Jews.
it is tne casuistical workings of priest*
crafi-r-tbe ceaseless efforts of misguided
men, whose brains infl imed by any pas
sion, would make them humble aod willing
tools, prepared eitheir to act as decorated
page/MS in the gr ind aripy, as it is called,
in a crusade for political power, or to
submit as ejaculating martyrs at the stake,
to satisfy the vengeance of religious bigo
try and mad zeal. This is strong language,
but sir, have we not been told “all thjs po
b*‘cal power in the country within ten or
.twenty years shall be in the hands of perr
sons v.'h° Sß character? haye been formed at
Sunday Snjpols* under the dir
rectiou of those wn’P ca out of circu
lation that of which they .do 00!
of those who boldly assert ti3* l^*e y j
force into use that which they have *w* u Lla- |
ted. and have adapted to their own ends—*
of those who daringly declare that they are
dictators to the consciences of thousands of
immortal beings—of those whose organ
utters anathemas from the house of God, 1
calling on hi* followers to form a Christian
party in politics, to he supported by half a
million of (oliowers —to establish ecciesias
tial do mination—-the rites of baptism---the
orthodox faith throughout the land.
Such consequences are not to be appre
hended within our day, but they are to ho
apprehended, if we believe the predictions 1
of the pious gentlemen, and if we regard
the prayer of the petitioners askiog a char
ter, and the bill w'hich they have prepared
for our file, authorizing them “for ever 1
hereafter to hold all and ail manoer of lands,
tenements and heriditumeois**—without <
imitation of lime or capital, but merely ac
quiesce in the limitation of monied income,
not to exceed ten thousand dollars per
year.
We are told that no sectenan feelings
can operate in the board of managers; that
all persons may become contributors; may
>e made voters, and that no mao is disqua
ified by his religious sentiments, from
larticipating in tneir concerns. Let it be
admitted that there is no test at this time
in force. But has not their reporters, the
accomplished and frank expounder of their
views, the reverend gentleman told os, from
the pulpit, in the house of God, that he
would marshal his forces—that he would
call on half a million of followers to pros
cribe, exclude from the highest to the low
est civil offices, those who had not been
“baptized**—who are not orthodox io their
raitli—“those who are not Presbyterians.**
Can it be believed that this gentleman
whose character stands so deservedly high
for steadiness of purpose, would say that
which he did not mean to to be seriously
received, or (hat having said it, he would
not act upon it, or that he acting upon it
would disregard the means which we have
been told would in 10 years give effect to the
great end I Would he not in his pious en
deavors to do that which he conscientiously
thinks right, forbear to apply bis eloquence?
Would he not marshal his forces to exclude
from the list of agonts, if not from the board
of managers, all those whose creeds, whose
objects were not consistent with his own ?
But, sir, how is the fact? A reverend
gentleman has already been employed with
a large salary “to take the field ;** a mis
sionary fund has been established, collected
from the auxiliary schools connected with
the vast machine.
A grand system of proselytism has beou
formed—rules are given for the modes of
attack upon the old and the young—“the
hour of aifiictioo and the moments of des
pair,'* are pointed out as fit occasions to
grasp the victims of sectarian zeal.
X must again absolve the gentlemen at
the head of this instiluion ; and, sir, most
emphatically do I except those whose
names are embodied in your bill with their
consent, and those whose names are so em
bodied without their consent , and those
who have contributed by their money and
their countenance, to the objects of the I
Sunday School Union, from all grounds of I
accusation —from all suspicion of aught un
just or unfair.
I shall be forgiven, l trust, by them, if
in obedience to my oath to defeud the con
stitution, I eppose a deliberate plan to ex
clude in ten or tweuty years, any set of men
whether educated 91 uneducated, whether
orthodox or heterodox, from the nol.ti
tical power of the country ; a pUn avow
edly to operate io destroying the freedom
of the press ; in fact, to establish ecclesiaa
tical domination throughout Hie land.
Mr. Powell remarked that ho should no
tice the effects of the bill, wiiea it
uuder the second reading.
New York, Sept. l.
LrOm Jamaica.—Wq have received a
file of the Kiugt°o, (|*qi.) Chronicle to
the 25th July ioclusiye. The papers are
mostly filled with extracts from Eoglish
Journals, aod contain little or nothing of
local interest. The House of Assembly is
to meet on the Ist of September.
The Chronicle of the 25th cautions peo
ple who are io the habit of sendimj bills of
exchange to the United States to be cauti
ous and avoid crcuitous routes. In Janua
ry last a letter containing a bill for nearly
three thousand dollars wa6 sept to N. Y >tk
via St. Thomas, which was opened previ
ous to i( rcoopiion acid lit* bill porloincd
By the following extract, it appears ti t
apprehensions existed of much distress i*
consequence of the scarcity and high prico
of provisions, and the general stagnation of
business in that once flourishing Colony.
Kingstqp, J4*. Yuly 25.*
A few iiarreD of flour have been sold 00
the wharf a* £0 7 6 per barrel. Xn tho
market, on Monday, the prices of mutton,
pork, fish, 4pc. was raised in a proportion
ate rat a ip that of beef, which has been
raised from 1?J (to 15 d per pound. Thus ‘
from dullness of business in general, the
great difficulty of mechanics obtaining em
ployment, and the high price of the abso
lute necessaries of life, very great distress
will prevail even among the middling clas
ses of this community, and ibp lower orders
in ,the towns will be nearly reduced Io star
vation, without some relief is speedily af
forded.
Baltimore, Sept. 2:
Prom Porto Cabello —The schr. ga
gle, Cooper, arrived at this port yesterday,
from Porio Cabello, which she left 00 (he
15th August, reports thaj a late order Jiafl
been received from Begot#, prohibiting fo
reign vessels from taking in p#rf of # ,csrc
iu OuQ port of the Republic and proceeding
to another to fill up. Prices at Porto Ca & -
bello for /lour, provisions d&e. were no
minal, as an augmentation of duties #ras
soon to take place. There was no produce
to be obtained A Colombian ship of y&r
of sixty-four guns was soon to be despatched
for Spain, on some mission of the govern
ment. She was to sail iu 10 or J. 5 t}#y *
after tbe Eagle.
Death by Lightning.— During a thunder
storm on tbe 30th July last, a young woman
by the name of Mary Clay too, was unfor
tunately struck with lightning aod killed, at
the house of Mr. John Hay, on the bank of
the Delaware, near Ramsayburg, in thu
county of Warren. N. J. Sb* was engag
ed at the time spilling wool io au upper
room, and had just turned from fixing the
window sash in its place, wheu she receiv*
ed the stroke that laid her a corpse. Her
body was blistered 00 her right side from
head to foot, her hair was mueh sieged and
her clothes torn to stripes where the fluiefi
passed down her body. A child standing
near her was uninjured. From the garret
the lightning descended by a~etairease and
doorpost to the cellar, stunning two women
in its way, but doing no injury to two chil
dren who stood by then Trenton Gat.
The “Great West.*'— ln the neighbor
hood of Galeoa,(Upper Mississippi,) are
found extensive quarries of Soap Stone,
which is thought will be of great service io
the construction of ash furnaces, or any
other requiring a considerable degree of
heat. Beautiful white Clay is also found
ia large veins, which is sought after by tbe
Indians, to use as paint, for the decoration
of their persons, and which it is supposed
will prove valuable hereafter in the manu
facture of porcelain. Copper in its pure
state has also been dug from one of the
mines of that county. Large bodies of that
valuable ore are supposed to exist tfiore j
and it is thought that when the manufacture
of copper shall be properly commenced
and prosecuted, it may become # valuable
article for exportation. Truly the great
west appears to be tho land of promise.
Remarkable Presence of Mind- —Not
long since the daughter o( Mr. Farquhar
son, Baokeud, Sterlingshire, Geo. was
standing near a bee bive. The hive
deoly threw off a swarm, which alighted oq
the young woman's head. It completely
covered her hair, face, breast, and ffioul
dors, so that she could neither see nor speak*
In this situation she remained without mov
ing until her father brought a hive, and the
bees entered ir, without her receiving a
single stiug.
A late St. Sohns, (N. B.) paper says
“General Gaines, Major Townsend, and
Lieutenant Butler, of *the United States
army, on their way to Houlton, 00 a tour
of inspection, arrived a few days ago iu the
steamboat from Castport.
The Rover of Cuba l—lt is understood
1 that a woik purporting lo be the personal
narrative of one of the desperadoes wh o
have distinguished themselves by acts of the
most atrocious cruelty, io recent piracies
on the coast of Cuba, wiH shortly be pub
lished by Richardson & Lord, Qoston. A
friend who read the work in manuscript, a
short time since, in Havana, speaks oX tt as
one of most thrilliog interest;
[No. 18 —Yol. If.