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- 389 264’ Henry -- - 852 856 853 855 854 852 853 856 855 779 785 781 782 783 788 788 784 784 j39 1407 835 649 Houston - - 670 673 667 671 671 669 6G7 667 666 618 619 620 617 619 618 621 619 620 655 449 Irwin --- - 257 14 Jackson - - - 549 548 547 547 547 546 544 545 547 562 564 956 569 572 563 563 562 563 520 506 Jasper - - - 506 514 511 507 511 507 510 512 509 510 512 511 509 512 512 513 513 512 507 449 Jefferson - - 436 439 436 453 439 437 438 440 438 95 95 99 96 93 94 94 94 94) 90 231 108 456 Jones - - - - 500 500 487 502 499 498 497 503 499 456 461 458 456 461 449 460 461 457i 503 447 Laurens - - 443 443 441 443 442 443 442 443 443 5 2 7 4 1 2 2 2 2 5 389 Lee - - - - - 215 233 Liberty-- - 152 153 149 154 154 155 151 153 153 121 115 116 121 118 118 119 118 118| 87 139 Lincoln - - 295 294 295 294 294 294 294 294 294 152 146 152 152 149 151 150 150 147 44 140 195 2 44 Lowndes - - I 224 349 Lumpkin - - 293 316 294 291 295 292 294 291 292 740 755 745 748 756 756 761 757 756| 16 523 651 249 Macon - - - 359 359 356 359 358 357 357 358 358 307 312 312 312 311 308 3-11 310 308 337 243 Madison -- - 326 325 324 324 326 325 324 326 325 298 297 296 297 297 297 297 297 291 8 386 309 379 Marion - - - 359 359 356 357 358 357 357 358 358 307 312 312 312 311 308 3TI 310 308 224 332 Mclntosh - - 100 102 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 146 145 146 145 145 143 145 145 146 40. 130 128 119 Meriwether- 735 741 741 730 732 733 736 742 731 787 777 788 790 778 774 779 776 775 766 671 Monroe - - - 814 822 822 820 822 819 818 825 818 730 736 730 633 732 732 734 730 733)1 802 671 Montgomery 202 202 202 202 202 202 202 202 202 75776 666 © 10 242 Morgan -- - 483 494 481 479 482 480 481 487 480 323 318 322 330 320 320 320 320 321 52 33 32 2 460 Murray -- - 234 242 234 235 235 236 234 236 233 482 483 482 481 453 484 491 474 477 572 89 Muscogee. - 963 971 967 965 969 976 959 967 964 837 831 831 846 825 852 822 828 825 850 861 Newton - - - 966 971 963 963 962 966 959 972 966 395 390 398 398 390 386 388 388 388 467 850 Oglethorpe - 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464 467 463 465 469 *464 465 469 466 50S 503 503 500 504 504 509 505 506 490 391 MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIRE. [The first name in each county is Senator; those in Italic are Harrison men.] Baldwin— Williams; Ham mond and McCombs. Baker—Holmes ; Keaton. Bibb— Bulloch; Brou n, Chap pel, and Howard. Bryan— Smith ; lander. Bukke— Harris; Ecans,Cas well, and Mulkey. Butts—Lindsey ; Lawson, and Saunders. Bulloch —Peter Cone ; a tic. Camtbell —Camp; Beavers, and Carlton. Camden —Hopkins ; Dufour and Atkinson. Carroll—Boggere ; Espy and Rogers. Cass—Hamilton ; Hudgins and Pitts. Cobb—Guess; Mays and Morris. Cherokee—M‘Conr.el!;Hun ter and Ford. Chatham—Gordon; Miilen, Stone,Stiles, and Anderson. Clark— Vincent; Moore, Richardson, and Stroud. Columbia— Dawson; Jones, Robertson, and Burt. Coweta—(Tie;) Bell, Cook, Lee. Crawford —Walker; Tur ner and Cruchfield. Gilmer—Chastain ; Price. Decatur— O'Seal; Chester, and Hines. Dooly—Graham; Potter,and Fame 11. DeKalb—Diamond; Palmer, Murphv, and Collier, Early—Speigh; Wilson,and Sheffield. Effinghan— Waldhour; Me- Gahagan. Elbert —Christian ; Craft,. Warren, and Parks. Fayette—Hiflin ; Brown, and Nixon. Lloyd—Waters ; Diddle and Shropshire. Franklin—Morris ; Ander son, Mitchell, and Jones. Furs yth—Hammond; Green and Irvin. Greene — Stocks; Rea, Da niel, and Criddle. Gwinnett —Loveless; Read, Pittman,-end Marlin. Habersham—Kimzy; Barc lay, Sandford, and Wales. Hancock — Gonder; Thomas, Hudson, and Hitchcock. Hall—Dunagnn; Hardage, Thompson, and Roberts. Harris— Kenrwn; Junes,Oi borri, and Williams. Henry— Cox; Dads, Dod son, and Bentley. Houston — Holmes; Hamp ton, Bryan, and Brown. Jackson —Mays; McMullin, Chandler, and Webb. Jasper— (llocer; White,Pres, ton, and Robinson. Jefferson —Stapleton ; Big ham and Cavenah. Jones —Goddard ; Hardman, Lowe, and Franks. Laurens — Wright: Robin son, and Ashley. Lee —Janes ; Foard. Liberty —Spencer ; Max well, and Harrenglon. Lincoln —Moore ; Hagaman and Hardy. Lumpkin—M'Aflee ; Gath right and Hibberts. Macon —Bryan ; IF higluim and Green. Madison—Culbertson; Whit worth, and a tie. Mclntosh— McDonald ; Ste wart and Lefiles. Monroe— Reid; Black, Gor don, Jones, and O'Brien. Morg-aN— Floyd; Foster, Martin, and Mann. Muscogee —Calhoun ; Ale xander, Flmcnwy, Sapp, and Chipley. Montgomery —Creech ; Mc- Crimmon. Marion —Minter : Whighrm and Hall. Murray—Bishop ; Morris, and Holcombe. Meriwether—ReevesjTow les, Dark, and Reeves. Newton — Williamson; Loy alUllardman, and Reynolds. Oglethorpe— Thomas; Da venport, Crawford, andHub bard. Paulding —Jones ; Pryor. I’ike —Adams ; Neal, White, and Green. Putnam— Griggs; Shaw, Harrison, and Linch. Pulaski —Bostwich; Whit field, and Boothe. Richmond — Miller; Jenkins, Crawford, and Rhodes. Rabun —Henly ; Cannon. Randolph —Graves ; Harri son, and Hendry. Scriven —Conner; Moultrie and Hotchkiss. Stewart — Bryan; West, DeLaunay, West,znAßoyn ton. Telfair — Frier; McCall. Taliaferro — Harris; Ste phens and Chapman. Talbot —Smead ; Dixon, Williams, and Emanuel. Troup — Beasley; Burden, Caughlright, Taylor, and Johnson. Twiggs —Smith; Fitzpatrick and Tarver. Union —Jameson; Welborne. Upson — Goode; Trayler, Meadows, and Walker. Walton —Echols ; Stroud, Harrison, and Moon. Waiif.en —Harris ; Ander son, May, and Durden. Washington — Warthen;Be tha, Flournoy, and Long. Wayne —Wiggens; Bryan. Wilkinson —Beall; Murphy and Hatcher. Wilkes—W. Q. Anderson; R. A. Toombs, J. N. Wingfield, and J. T. Woot ten. Congressional Ticket • AGGREGATE VOTE IN SEVENTY-SIX COUNTIES. Alford, 35,535 Black, 31,824 Dawson, 35,847 Campbell, 31,725 Foster, 35,530 Colquitt, 31,927 Gamble, 35,510 Cooper, 31,933 Habersham, 35,659 Ilillyer, 31,725 King, 35,515 Iverson, 31,703 Meriwether, 35,414 Lumpkin, 31,771 Nesbit, 35,716 Patterson, 31,684 Warren, 35,531 Pooler, 31,717 In the counties to be heard from, the “ De mocratic” ticket, last year, had a majority of 1,255. “ CHINOTIN.” This is the Indian name given to General Harrison after the battles of Tippecanoe and Fort Meigs. Its sig nification is “ BIG WIND” or “ Whirlwind.” Loco focos, look to the omen. INCREASE OF POPULATION IN MISSOURI. The late vote in Missouri shows the extraordinary in crease of population in that State within a few years. In 1832, the candidates for Governor received only 17,350 votes ; in 1836, the vote was 27,372 ; and in the present year the vote cast for Reynolds and Clark is nearly 53,000 —showing an increase of about 34,500 in the last eight years. If the census should make apparent a cor responding increase of the population, Missouri will be en titled to seven or eight Congressional Representatives—at present she has but two. COMMimCATIOim No. V. The last of the enumerated positions in my second number, upon which are based the unjust and untenable charge of the op ponents of Gen. Harrison, that he is a fed eralist, is, that he would give his official sanction to the chartering of a United States Bank, I shall not undertake in this number to show the constitutionality of such an in stitution, nor will I detail its advantages in affording a sound uniform and general currency for the wants both of foreign and domestic commerce—in facilitating and cheapening exchanges—in checking the undue expansions and over issues of the State banks by the salutary control it would exercise over them—in collecting and dis bursing the revenues of the government and safely keeping the public funds. It is my purpose, to present a brief historical view of the action ofour General Govern ment in reference to the establishment of a Bank, to show that it has met with coun tenance and favor from all the great politi cal parties of the country from the origin of the government under the old articles of confederation, down to the destruction of the late bank by the fatal popularity and shortsighted wreckless hostility of General Jackson. If I succeed in showing this, it must be admitted on all sides that neither the support of a National Bank, nor oppo sition to one,will be sufficient to characterize any man or any party as federalistic in his or its principles—that one may go for a bank and still be a federalist or republican, or may oppose it and still be a federalist or republican. The first Bank was establish ed in 1781 with the name of the Bank of North America, and that too, under the Articles of confederation when the grant of powers was infinitely more circumscrib ed titan under our present constitu tion. In the vote taken upon chartering this first Bank, nine States were for, and one against it, and every one of the nine (Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia being among the number) vo ted unanimously in its favor but Pennsylva nia, from which State there was one oppo sition vote. The second bank was char tered in 1791 by an overwhelming vote of the Senate and by a vote of two to one in the House of Representatives. Some of the republicans of both houses or rather those who afterwards belonged to what was ter med the republican party, voted in favor of it, but it undoubtedly received its prin cipal support from those who afterwards were members of the federal party. I use the word afterwards in reference to the re publicans and federalists, because, at the time of the passage of the bill chartering the second Bank, the distinctive appella tives of republican and federal were not applied to parties, for Mr. Jefferson and the elder Adams who were subsequently their respective heads and leaders Were then members of General Washington’s Cabi net. The bill to charter this second Bank was presented to Gen. Washington, the President, on the 14th of February, and on the 25th he signed it officially, having in the mean time consulted his Cabinet on the subject, and given to it the most mature and diligent deliberation and reflection.— The third, which was the late Bank of the United States, was chartered in 1816. It received the support of more than tioo-thirds of the republican party and the official sane tion of Mr. Madison the republican Presi dent. It passed the Senate by 22 yeas to 12 nays, the house by 80 yeas to 71 nays. It received a majority of the votes of every Southern State but Virginia, the vote of that State being 8 for and 11 against it.— The vote of Georgia was 5 for and 1 against the charter. 33 out of 49 Southern votes were for it, among whom I will mention the names of Messrs. Calhoun and Huger of South Carolina, Cuthbert, Lumpkin, For syth, Wilde, and Telfair of Georgia, Na thaniel Macon of North Carolina, Tucker and Pleasants of Virginia and Robertson of Louisiana. Mr. Calhoun was the Chair man of the committee (a majority of whom were republicans) that reported the bill, and I believe it is conceded on all hands that he was its author. Look now at the present position of this statesman ! Look at that of Messrs. Cuthbert and Lumpkin our present Senators. Had they changed their opinions merely on the question of the constitutionality and expediency of a Bank and were now conscientiously against it, (and they may be) no one would object to their honest firm and manly opposition to it; but to denounce others as federalists, aris tocrats and enemies to the liberties of the people (as they do) because of their advo cacy of such an institution,- is unmanly, il liberal and unstatesman-like, and their charges are ridiculously absurd, shallow, inconsistent and untrue. When they vo ted for the Bank in 1816 they had the same constitution they now have. Then the Bank was constitutional and expedient, now it is palpably the contrary. If it is so clearly the case now, they should have seen it then, and if it was not manifestly so at that time, it cannot be so at this. I do not object to their change of opinion, but I detest the false hue and cry which they have attempted to get up against others for entertaining the identical opinions now that they did in 1810 and the littleness of the spirit that seeks to deceive the people with professions of democracy and false charges against othersof treachery to the liberties & prosperity of the country, for advocating measures about which there can be, and no doubt is, an honest difference of opinion. Slaving briefly stated the origin of the three Banks which have been chartered by the General Government, and the sources of their support, I will offer a few extracts from a speech delivered in the Senate of the United States on February the 11th 1811 in favorof a bill to recharter the se cond United States Bank, by the late dis tinguished Georgian and statesman Wm. H. Crawford: “ After the most minute examination of the Constitution, the majority of the Com mittee were decidedly of the opinion, that the Congress of the United States were clearly invested with power to pass such a bill.” “ The right to erect light houses is exer cised because the commerce of the nation,. or the collection of duties is greatly facili tated by that means : and sir, the right to create a bank is exercised, because the collection of your revenue, and the safe keeping, and speedy, and easy transmission/ <fec. of your public money, is not simply facilitated, but, because, these important ob jects are more perfectly secured by the erec tion of a bank, than they can be by any other 1 means in the power of human imagination to> devise. We say, therefore in the words: of the constitution, that a bank is necessa ry and proper to enable the Government to* carry into complete effect, the right to lay and collect taxes, imposts, duties and ex cises. “ How long shall we frighten ourselves with empty phantoms and imaginary evils? How long shall we indulge ourselves in the pursuit of some imaginary theoretical good which like the Will-o’-the-Wisp, con tinually eludes our grasp ? Sir, we have the experience of 20 years for our guide. During that lapse of years your finances, have been through the agency of this Bank, skilfully and successfully managed. Du ring this period the improvement of the country, and the prosperity of the nation have been rapidly progressing. Whythen should we at this perilous and momentous crisis, abandon a well-tried system ; faul ty perhaps in the detail, but sound in its fundamental principles. Does the pride of opinion revolt at the idea of acquiescing in the system of your political opponents ? Come and with me sacrifice your pride and political resentments at the shrine of politi cal good. Let these be made a propitiatory sacrifice for the promotion of the public welfare, the savor of which will-ascend to heaven, and be there recorded as a lasting,, an everlasting evidence, of “your devotion: to the happiness of your country.” The following extracts are from the cel ebrated speech of the honorable John C- Calhoun, delivered in the house of repre sentatives of the United States, Feb. 26th/ 1816, in support of the Bill to charter a 1 National Bank: “ The constitutional question had been already so freely and ably discussed, that all had made up their minds on it. The question whether banks were favorable to pqblic liberty and prosperity—was one purely speculative. The fact of the exis tence of banks, and their incorporation with the commercial concerns and industry of the nation proved that inquiry to come too late. The only question was on this hand, under what modifications were banks most useful, and whether the United States ought or ought not to exercise the power to es tablish a Bank. As to the question, wheth er a national bank would be favorable to the administration of the finances of the Government was one on which there was so little doubt, that gentlemen would excuse him if he did not enter into it.” “The power is given to Congress by the eonsf fution in express terms to regulate the currency of the United States.” “Noone he said who referred to the constitution could doubt that the money of the United States was intended to be placed entirely under the control of Congress. The only object the framers of the constitution could have in view, in giving to Congress the power “to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign commerce,” must have been to give a steadiness and. fixed value to the currency of the United States. The state of things at the time of the adoption of the Constitution afforded Mr. C. an argument in support of his con struction. There then existed, he said, a depreciated currency which could only -fee! regulated and made uniform by giving a power for that purpose to the General Gov ernment. The States could not do it. He argued therefore, taking into view the pro hibition against the States issuing bills of credit —that there was a strong presump tion, this power was intended to be exclusively given to Congress.” “There had, indeed, Mr. C. said, been an extraordinary revolution in the curren cy of the country. By a sort of under cur rent, the power of Congress to regulate the money of the country had caved in, and upon its ruin had sprung up those institu tions which now exercised the right of ma king money for and in the United Statlfe— for Gold and Silver are not the only money, but whatever is the medium of purchase and sale ; in which bank paper alone was now employed, and had therefore become the money of the country.” “A National Bank, he said, paying specie itself, would have a tendency to make specie payments general, as well by its influence, as by its example. It will be the interest ofthe na tional Bank to produce this state of things, because, otherwise, its operations will be greatly circumscribed, as it must pay out specie or National Bank notes, for he pre sumed one of the first rules of such a bank would be, to take the notes of no bank which did not pay in gold and silver. A National Bank of 35,000,000 with the aid of those banks which are at once ready to pay specie would produce a powerful effect all over the Union. “He called upon Congress as the Guardi ans of the public weal, of the health of the body politic, which depended on the public morals to interpose against a stale of things which was inconsistent with either. He appealed to the house too, as the guardian of public and private faith. In what man ner he asked, were public contracts ful filled ? In gold and silver in which the Government had stipulated to pay ? No ; in paper issued by these institutions; in pa per greatly depreciated ; in paper depreci ated from sto 30 per cent, below the cur rency in which the Government had con tracted to pay. He added another argu ment, the inequality of taxation in conse quence ofthe state of the circulating medi um, which notwithstanding the taxes were laid with strict? regard to the constitutional provision for their equality, made the peo ple of one section of the Union pay perhaps one fifth more of the same tax than those in another. The constitution having given to