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Bare parties ■ i it in clear- , re that this ve the In- | T'Ued by us, j ion of the and sacred by rt if, shall i fleet, fur [rt tiie exer lt*ed ta all mot; wealth, irs it uane tdentinn of y to the va kness, ant! i the consti- j !cs; against irgicia ace Rji in the recollection of us all. pK,our Petitior?er begs leave to KSpur attention to a practice, wmi the extent to wiih h it been carried, bids fui;*, to destroy very goverrnitnl ,\9 have to HHHBgi:;si(!ia n s of the Liher i? i* J unra*? fbsary it', stippr 11 *■ f d::ty e! the Peoub: f-i'cl -f tots ‘) Yi<‘c P*'CridcMi r iu their own It Staciij ou Itleta to the “J e*ri mmmm pro* cedi* ?.*•; of the B*'h formed the Con* 1 lilted States, pub* r, 18H*, confcrma -3* ot Congress of i, IS 8, it will be Thu* oa BHHHK joiy idiu, i?<s7, Eoved and seconded to ic several clause* of lotion, übh h respects nt, and eligibility of V 1 ex<- n'iic—v;hi< h pas ■a the affirmative. uiuVtd u> Mr. Ellsworth I seconded, tougrec to the luifow I proposition, namely J. To be chosen by electors sp irited for tha? pu r, p se. by the Cos Bthe States, in the toi tinn:— let,lion to agree to the ise, namely, io&en by electors ap if purpose.” in the affirmative.” testion to agree to tine so: l.egijjjgturcs of (he in the affirmative,” to page 200 of Sit will be seen, 24fh. 1787, i.d seconded, to “words out i *f the ng the Supreme By electors ap urpose, by the States.” iu the affirma tion of thftr Mni and establishes, !11. Each stale manner, as the may direct, a equal to the mil>rs a.-.d lie fl‘o s ‘ Hi C U f-gres*'. ■ *'' n: i? i v ’' * ‘ r ■ ls; s ? * ; * * h ' vu ' rr V’v’.*y?.V-'.-j; :tAi • - il VP n ' n ’ c!rctors ■■Kd VivQ President, I he Federal Convention, at (given to the Legislatures Its: 2d. After mature de ■wns finally taken fr*m ■lures nf the States; and V clause of the Coustitu k rued States, just quo- Bj,ert to the “States.” exist, ihat the ■e, in this ease, mean? In their highest sovereign [that doubt will be com phitl, when it is reecl- , in that sense of the itaicf,” the constitution, bled to the “Stafcs;” in * the *♦ States” ratified it, \ “seefthe “term “States,” ;onsequently parties to the L from which they derive ■f to appoint electors of Vice Presidect. §gfc>ose, the term “state” understood by Vir- appear by re- IF'; - >: tof the Geo- .■ Virginia ou the] L~WO, January i -1 20th, 1800,” and to thepraetiee of appointing electors pursued by this, as also by a lirge na j trily of our | sister states, ever sl ; *e the adop* j j t ioi) of the constitution of the Unit ed Slates. Having shewn from facts which will not be questioned, the right and duty of the People to appoint ICfeators of President and V. Presi dent; as citizens of the U. States we have aright to require ol the People of the different states that they shall perform their obligations to each other, according to the sti pulations of the constitution of the United States, and that it i.s our duty to protest against the appointment of electors of President and V. Pre sident, by any person or body of men, other than the people them selves—Otherwise, where wiil the evil end ? The practice of I he State Legsstatures to make this election for the peuple hr.s of !a*e been car ried to such an cxtcrit, ass excite well founded alarms in rbe public mind; and in the opinion of many renders an interposition necessary, to arrest r.rt evd, which bkK fa?r to * provrate the rights of the stales— 'Phis practice submitted to, the day is not far distant, wfien wo may ex pect an interference of foreign po tentates in the election of our chief magistrate. llVherelc*re, yonr petitioner, a? m duty bound, re so eel 1 ill! v l-aves lo call che atfeotion of your honorable body’ to an iuve’nigHtinn of ihe rights of the people, sr. ured to them in the ejection of resident and Vice President of ihe Uoiled Stnlet: til.:; J submits to your superi or judgments the. expediency of ex eivuicg sttch of your powers, on this occasion, as may best lead ro preserve the rights us the slates, a;id wheiher an amcodmeut is the coast it utio.j of the United Sutes, i giving tu the people themselve*, for the future, the right to vote for the President and Vi*e President of the (Jidled States, without the Uter. vent ion of ElcoUrs, would not hast tviui to preserve the Liberties of the People. Whatever may be the determina tion of the General Asemby these subjects so interesting so the people at targe, with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, Your pcfi houer devoutly prays that Virginia, true to iljc Principles uniformly maintained by .(he General Assem- ! hiy, may now, ever, heretofore, deprive her adversaries of the “ShibboleHi** of “Virginia influence” a3 a proffer wmd. And us your Petitioner will ever pray. W T, S. BRENT. Jr. [Seal.) Richland , Stafford county , Fa, Eighteenth Congress. 84i.COM> SESSION. house of representatives. Tuesday, Dec. 14,1824. Mr. Foiuytii, of Georgia, offer ed the following, which lies o s e day, of course, by ihe rule of the House: liesfoved# Thai the President be requested to !#y before the House, a eopy *if the instructions under which the ar!i*de3 of a Treaty with the Cherokee Indians were formed by Daniel Smith and 11. J Meigs, act ing as Cemmiscitiers of the United States, at Tellieo, oo (be 24 h of | October, !So>; with copies of ail the eerreepotjdence or other duett meots relative to that instrument, in either of the Executive Depart ments, with a statement of the cau ses which prevented an earlier de cision upon it, and of the motive! for tha ratification of it by the Uni ted States, at the last session of I Congress. ; Mr. McDuffie, of So. Ca. gave i notice that on Monday oest he would move that the Hcute go info com mittee of the whole on the State of the Union, to consider a jnint reso lution to amend the Constitution of the United States., offered by him at the last session; but, oo the ug geslioq of Mr. A. Stevenson, of Va lie deferred the lime of calling for its consideration till the first Monday of January next. Wednesday, Dsc. 15,18-24. The resolution yesterday offered j by Mr. F<>i?syth, calling for iuior- j oration relative to the Treaty of 1804, with the Cherokee Indians, the causes for the delay iu its ratifi cation, Ac- was taken up, and the question being on agreeing thereto, Mr. FoUfcY Tii roie nod said, that, upou a call for iaformstion of this description From the Executive, i: there might he a propriety n slating the grounds of it. It would be foujad, upon examination of the re cords of the government, here re ferred to, that since the and .te of the Treaty of IS*J4, with the Cherokee#, which was ratified at the last session •of Coogrc33, there bad been several Treaties concluded, end ratified with the same Nation of Indians. Mr. F. enumerated those treaties as ftd* iuws: 5 11 1803, tw Treaties were concluded with them, by D. Smi'b and R J. Meig# > Commissioners; in January, 180fi, another was conclu ded wiih them at Washington by 1 Gen. Daarbuo, then Secretary of ! War; is September, 1807, another ; treaty wasconcdttdfd wiili them elu cidating the preceding, by Mr Ro* j heftson and Mr. Meigs, Commis ! sinners; in ISO 9, some of their head j men were in Washington to make j arrange.nens for goi ng to ihe Wcss j a'! h?d much iotercoursc with tlie g >versmen ;in March, 1816. two Treaties were concluded with them, by Mr, George Graham tlien Act ing Secretary of War; io S * plena • her, 18to. \ Freely was concluded with tbcfi* by Messrs. Ja* ksor, Me r*wc?h-*r, ad Commis si uiers; in 1817, a Preaty was eon ! eluded with lhem ai the Cherokee ’ Agency, by General Jaksou; in i February, ISI7, another by Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, at Washington In every one ol these ; eases, Mr. F. said, Cai. R. J. Meigs, I well known to have been for mat y years agent of Idle. Unwed Slates in that nation, was either commission, er or witness ta the treaty. That gentlctsau iked o?i the 28th January i 823, ad during his life, ibis trea ty of 1804 wets not rtuifird. Bui, the winter so. reeding bis death, viz. in MfHy, 1824, the raiili iuion was olaimt 0 *>y lie Cherokees, who eaine here for the purpnse, and it was ratified. The Huu?e was at the last session invited to make an ap pr>pritt*i(m for carrying it into ef j , but at so late a period of the sc<t>3!< , thttv i> was not aeied upon. At ttiey would ho donbiless expected to make an appropriation t redeem the iaiUi the United States, pledged by chi# treaty, a was peep er, before voting away so large a sum es nmuey, the Douse should have information of the causes which had lor twenty years suspen ded the ra fi at son of ibis treaty. Mr. Mallaoy, of Vermont, oti jeeied Cos ine part of the resolution which propose* io inquire into “the motives oi tiie ratification of the treaty at the lasi sesi.m,” and mo ved m amend the resolve by striking out that part of it. y e had oo ob jmnioo to every fact being obtained whi- h bad a bearing on the ease—it was proper they should be called for—but he did not know that ii would bo relevant or perfectly dee* orous Cos ask of the Executive an explanation of ihe motive for* its conduct. Mr. Forsyth, not feeling tena cious of the language of the resoiu tion, consented to receive the a* meodmeat aa a part of bis resolu tion; a*>d, thus mieaded, r l%e resolve was agreed to, nem. con . Friday, December 17. Mr. Conw vr, of Arkansas, offer ed the following : Resolved , i’hal the Committee on Indian Affairs be instructed to io quire into the expediency of organ izing all tiie territory of the United S.fties lying west of the State of Missouri and Territories of Arkan sas and Michigan, into a separate Territory, to be occupied exclusive ly by Indians, a*d of authorising the President of the United States to adept such measures as he may think beat to colonize all the I dians of the present States and Territo ries permanently within the same. Mr. Rankin , of Mississippi, sug gested that, as the entire subject to which ihe resolution refers i* bro’t forward in the President's Message, and already referred to a Committee of this Douse, the resolution was unnecessary. But Mr. ('oniony ex plained, and it was finally adopted. „ The proposition relative to the Indian tribes, suggested as a sub ject of inquiry by line motion of Mr. Conway, yesterday, in tbo House ol Representatives, appears to us t be well worthy of consideration. It is obvious that the time has arriv ed, when some system ought to be arranged, whirl), whilst it provides for tbeir accommodation and com fort, will quiet the frontier settle ments* with whom the present rov ing character of many rf* tho fn.li. r.o tribes brings them i.itj frequent eoliidoa. if nothing shall imme diately grow out of the motion, if is at least calculated to draw public attention more directly to a subject, which must, before Ting, he deris ively acted upon, in one ‘wiy er o;!i -----er. Xa tionnl Inlet tiger* ccr, A new ground of impeachment of a Judge has been discovered by some of our fellow-citizens in Ken tucky. In tiie Mouse of Repre sentatives of that state, a preamble and resolution were introduced, on the 3d instant, for impeaching Silas V>. Bounins of high crimes cv. inis* dtiobdiiors, <xo. “ The charges a gaiost him,” says the Editor of the print now before us, “are of a na tu-c well calculated to excite the public inir.d and create prejuditie a gainst the Judge, and, if true, con sign bi n to merited obscurity and contempt.” We shall :tot go thro* the whole of them, but pass on to the 15th, which seems to be the mos? wriguty* and by which the reader may form some idea of tlie odour in which the Hartford Convention i* io (be State of Kenlu ky. This charge is in the following words : “Charge ib. ‘i hat the said ,1 udge has discovered a traitorous disposi tion lo tiie government of (he Unit ed States of America io this: ‘That, during ihe late war between Great Britain ard the Ur.iteU iiiates, sr*id Judgij Robbins, (ben residing in Winchester, Kentucky, and basely ahandor ing the duties of an Ameri can citizen, and treacherously be traying those principles established and consecrated by the blood of the Revolution, did, then and there, a row die direful necessity and openly advocated the detestable do trines of ihe Hartlord Convention.”— lO* The Book of Revelation Un sealed. After rematni g hidden during many ce furies, the meaning of tue Apocalypse has been revealed, I certify, on honor, that I have discovered the meanming of (he A pocafypse, which (except tliatof some passages in the second and third c.hupi ra,j has never beeu approach* ed by any expositor. ALEX AM HER SMYTH, Ai Essay, explaining this won derfnl b-uk, will be pui to press so soon as a moderate edmoa shall he subs liked for. The laconic paragraph of Mr. A lexaader Smyth, of Wythe, of the H, R. lias, as might be expected, excited much sensation here as well as elsewhere. Curiosity, of course, is the pi edominant feeling. ‘I he subscription paper is rapidly filling; and if Mi . S. does not make con verts, it will riot assuredly he for Ujc want of readers. The unique notification of the Book is, however, better calculated to gain ai tent ion, at first, than to support its future rcpuiation. A more modest announcement might perhaps have suited better. The work murt bo uncommonly able, which can redeem the promises that are given. # Some writers have already ridi culed the pretensions of the writer. The Eastern papers in particular have prejudged him w ith unsparing severity. iiuMbis is rash at all times, and unjust towards Mr. 8. He is an able man, and for twenty years has been devoting his resear ches to the scriptures. That he should make good all his promises —that he should redeem his honour, wdifli he has probably pledged with more zeai than discretion; that he should do that which so many other men have failed to do before him, to break the seals & open thorough ly the mysterious Book of the Apo calypse, we should be wanting in candor to avow. But, that he will write a Book that is worth reading; that it will be marked by originality as well as by ability, we have not only the assurance which his char acter as a man of talents gives us, but the opinion of one gentleman at least who has seen the manuscript. Richmond Enquirer. MISSOURI. The Legislature convened on the 15tb ult.—Mr. Greyer, elected Spea ker of the House of Representa tives—and Mr. Biggs, President pro tem. of the Senate.—Ou the follow ing day, Mr. Reeves the Lieut. Go vernor elect) took the oath premib j ed by (lie constitution, r;.'e? r <l jon the duties of hi* office. O j fbt? ; 17th a rather singular S\‘e:jc rresut ! led itself. Mr. Bates the-Govi-rncp ! elect, having t kew ‘he ft uh pi-esen \ ted bv the ia sUe v ;Ti of I (lie H. of R. wis asked whether ho i hod aui objeetiens to take the du elling oath required by i!ie ae(N— Mr. B i p’lealed to tbo two houses to decide whether the tie* was coa stitutiopal, Ad< pate endued, iu which srioc of the ineniM?rs =?on tended that the oath of oi!Ko was prescribed by the consiiiurion, and that the Legislature had no power to supcradu o*her quanficatio':<:**•■ j Some contended, (hat the two hous es, assembled as they then were, had nothing to’ do with j:—they could not repeal the law—they could not dispense with its provisions—it was a mailer exclusively pui le the Go vernor’s own conscience. One said, (hat no member >f cither home had taken the ca b, (hat the Lieut. Governor had dec lined taking i? Bz that it would be unrcui leous in Ihcai to exact of she Governor wbat they bad them stives refused to do.—ln fine, the question was put, whcth?£ the Governor should be excused, and decided in (he affirmative. Iho Governor then addressed the two Houses—and here (be thing ended —-But there was one asser.'ion made by Mr. Geyer, which it is as well ‘o correct. He said that “the thing railed the duelling art was an at tempt at an impossibility—it origin ated in Virgin:) and was enacted at a time of great excitement* but was obeyed or not, at discretion.” This last assertion at least is nexv to ns ffhid. Fellow*Citizens .-—The .film gh!y has vouchsafed tu pj esrrve the Greek nation, dur:;?g another campaign, from the fa;.g3 of a ruthless and sanguinary foe. Tiie undersigned offer to receive donations from eve ry part of the United states, f r the purchase of the steam ship Fill ton. which vessel will be sen to t e Greeks, as soon as a sufficient sum is collected. All donations will be received by Charles fFitkes, Eq. at t Uc Hank of Ji\iv Fork, in Wall street. WILLIAM BAYARD, CHARLES WILKES, CHARLES KING, JONA. GUO DUE. New York, Dec. 6, 182 fe. (CP Editors throughout the Uni ted states are desired to receive this notice uader their patronage, ELquctle. —The Count D’Avaux was “Allied on the part of France, minister plenipotentiary to the Con gress ol Munster, for the peace of Westphalia, Affairs had begun to take a favorable turn, when a visits received in a manner not quite cor* red, deranged (he whole, and pr luogeiF liiu war six months longer. Mr. CJolhi ins, ambassador from Ve nice, having in *da his official visit to the Count DTivaux, was recon ducted by the ambassador of France only to the staircase, without the Couußs descending one single step. The proud Venetian was so indig nant at this want of respect, that he immediately look post, a?;d set off to lay his complaint before hi* govern ment. Venice, however fallen, was still proud and haughty; aod she declared, that she would not again seud her ambassador to the con gi ess. till it was agreed that ha should receive the honours to whmti ho was entitled. Fraaoe became a t length tired of the war, and a>‘ri* lmg uegoeiatioos, during which man ny men zvere slain, and many villa ges were burned , the French Re gent ordered ihe Count U’Avauxlo satisfy the punctilious vanity of Mr. Contarmi to ‘This minister then returued triumphant, made a visit to the Count, who recoriducted ITfm to thetreshold of the great gate, there remained (ill the Veoetian was seated iu his carriage, and fi nally made him a low bow, after the carriage had turned, and anoth er after Mr. had returned the bow—for all these ieremouies were stipulated iu the ultimatum of Venice. So much for Diplomacy and Etiquette. NINE months after date application wiil be made to the honorable Inferi or Court of Elbert county, while sit ting for ordinary purpo es for leave, to sell the real estate of Joseph Christ ler, deceased for the benefit of ths heirs. JOHN A. HEARD, SINGLETON W ALLEN aidminist ator& July 20, 1824* mg u
