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fWlo» ; i > m ul III i nwiuti** d'angrroi,. <i» lilt ur their elect limn, .. iblie or personal; ol'< n ii« "*■'» selected fust ehpteriment; bill the ciiilM - ur rmher lias ilreuly follow*; f<* # falrftftavW a scUituin act marked Sm® »n*l ihene Mini iiKceuivi *£*• of ^ ■am® character, unit;st ifrbsftrf-'til "^1* fliwItW, QB%y tend drive llinto 4ta«* into revolattoe a»d blood, auU will furnifiLOeW.ff! 0 ®^ against republican govern menu, boa Resulted, Tli« ili'r* cuuimuuweatth •on.idert- the FMpl 'Duioo, Oftoi >»rtot *oJ for the purpose*specified la i*t«icaqptett u evmducive to the 111 and 'bqppMtcsa of lb* Several Slate* t it dee* now BWWju'vdtt'.Iy ^clare its at uebroent to Ibo vnion, »nd to tbdt com pact, agreeably tb its obvious and real iuteulion, and will be among the last to seek its dissolution: That if those who administer the General Governnient be *al# etteciual guardian «l every oilier inM* Stat^'faeving by hi lioe, Udri«h4aiifiM (be Federal lieu, biptessly declared, that arnefe other essential rights, “ the liberty of coesCieBce and the preti cannot be caoceUed,.a!vidg> ed, restrained or modified by wy au thority of the Uoited States,'"’and from its extreme anxiety to guard these rights from every -poaasible attack of sophistry and new pretexts for those who wish it to l»b believed that man cannot be gov erned h\it by a rod of iron; thht it would be a dangerous delusion, were a confidence in , the men of our choice to silence our (mis for tin safety of obr rights; this* confidence eVery where the parent of despotism; free governmeu' is founded io jealousy and nOl in confidentre; it is jealousy aiid not confidence which prescribes limited Constiiotions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; liiat our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits t# which nod no farther our confidence uiuy go; and let tbo honest advocate of confidence read the alien and sedition acts, and say if the Con stitution has not been wise in filing limits to the government it created, and whether we should be wi*o in destroying tlioae limitst Let him »«y what the government is, if it be nol a tyranny, Which the men of our choice have conferred on the President, apd the I'resjdent of oar ehoico hat assented to and accepted over the friendly slrabgera, to sHiom fto* mild spirit of our country and its laws had pledged liosplialiiy and protec tion; that the men of our choice have more res pected the bate suspicions of the President than the solid right* of'noocence, the claims of justi fication, the sacred force of truth, and the forms and substance of law and justice. In questions of power, (hen, let ne more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by 11,0 chain* of the Coosiimtion. That this Commonwealth does therefore call on its co llates for tin expression of their sentiments on the acts Concerning aliens, nnd for the punish ment of certain crimes herein before specified, plgiply declaring whether these acts are or are not aoihorixed by the federal compact. And it double not that their seoqo will bn so announced ns fo prove, their atigcltmeni to limiierl govern ment, whether general or particular, arid that tire tights and liberties of their co-sfiites will be ex posed to no dangers by remaining embarked nn a common bottom with their own: But they will concur with this commonwealth in consid ering the said Ada as to palpably against the Constitution at to amount to an undisguised declaration, that else compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers of the General Gov ernment,-but that it will proceed in the exercise over these nates of all powers whatsoever. That they will View this as seizing the rights of tlw (tales and consolidating them in tho hands of the General Government, with a power assumed to hind the stales (not merely in cases made fed eral) but ht all cases whatsoever, by law* made not with their consent; that this would be tn sur render the.form of government we have chosen and live, under one deriving its power's from its of n will, and. not from our authority; and that the co-states referring to their natural rights in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these void and of no force, and will each unite with this commonwealth in requesting thoir ro peal at the next lessipu of Congress. EDMOND .BULLOCH, 8. If. R. JOHN CAMPBELL, S. S. P. T. Passed the House of tlepreseniAtivos, Nov. 10, 1798. Audit: THOS. TODD. C. II. R. In SENATE, Nov. 13 1798-TCimnimoosly concurred in. Attest: 6. THURSTON, C. S. Approved November I9tb 1798. . ‘ JAMES GARRARD, Governor el-Kouteckv. HARRY toulmin, Secretary '"I State. SnSaoTahraescsmivw. Thursday, Nutt. 141A lr'99. The House, according to tho standing order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the Whole House, on the State of the Common wealth, Mr. Desha in the Chub; and uftor sumo tinie spent therein, the Speaker resumed the Chair, hnd Mi. Desha reported, that the Com mittee had taken under consideration sundry resolutions passed by several State Legislatures, ou the subject of the Alien aud Sedition Laws and had come to a resolution thereupon, which he delivered iu at the Clerk’s table, where h wss reud and' unanimously agreed to by the House, as follows: - • The representative* Qf the £ood people of tins Common* t:nUh, in General Assembly con* permitted to transgress she limit* fixed by I ambition, having with other States recom- :nat compact, by a lota) disregard to the] mended an amendment for that purpose, special delegation* of power therein con-1 which amendment we*, io doe time, annex- tamed, an annihilation of the Stato Go-| ed to the constitution, h would mark a re- veromenta, and the creation upon their proachful inconsistency, and criniinai de- ruins of a General Consolidated Govern-1 generacy, if an indifference were now went, will lie the inevitable consequence:! shown to the roost palpable violatiou of ono That the principle and construction dm-' of the right* thus declared sacred and to tended fir by sundry of the State Lc- ihe establishment which may be fatal to the | That the good people of this Common poteen delegated to~ it,"stop nothing short wealth having ever felt, nnd (continuing to r * feel the most sincere affection for their of DESPOTISM—since the discretion of those who administer the Government, and not the CONSTITUTION, would he the measure of their powers: Tliut the several States who formed that in strument, 'being sovereign and indepen dent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, that a Nullifi- cation by those Sovereignties, of all Hu- authorised acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy : That this Commonwealth does, under tho most deliberate reconsideration, declare that the said Alteo and Sedition Law* ere, in their opinion, palpable violation* of the ■aid Coniiitution; and, however cheerfully it tniy be disposed to surrender its opin ion to a majority of ita sister States, in matters of ordinary or doubtful policy, yet, in momentuoue regulations like the present, which so vitally wound the best rights of the citizen, it would considor a silent acquiescence us high ly criminal : Thai although this Com mon wealth, as ti patty to tho Federal compact, will bow to the laws of the Union,., yet it docs at the same time declare, that it will not now, or ever hereafter, cease 4o oppose in a const! IuIioiihI manner, every attempt, whnt quarter softver offered, to violate 'that compact. And, finally, in order thill no pretext Or arguments may bo drawn from a supposed acquiescence, on the part of this Commonwealth, in the constitutionality of those laws, and be. thereby used as prece dents for similar future violations of the Federal compact, this Commonwealth does now enter against them its SOLEMN PROTEST. Extract, dec. Attest, THO’S TOOD, C. H. R. In Senate; Nov. 22, 1799—Read and concurred in. Attest. B. THURSTON, C. S. VIRGINIA RESOIVIONS OF 1798. Pronouncing the Alton and Sedition laws to bo unconstitutional, aud defining the rights of the States. DRAWN BY MR. MADISON. Virginia, House of Delegates, 1 FniD.iv, Doc. 21, 1793. f Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and' defend the Constitution of tho United States, and the Constitution of this Stato, against every aggression either foreign nr domestic; and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by tho former. Thai this assembly most solemnly do- brethren of the other States, the truest anxiety for establishing and penetrating tlie union of all-, and the most scrupulous fidel ity to tho Federal Constitution, which is the pledge of mutual friendship and the in strument of mutual happiness, the General Assembly.doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the other States, in confi dence that they will concur, with this Commonwealth iu declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acu aforesaid are unconstitutional; nnd that the necessary and proper measure will be taken by each for co-operniing with this stale in maintaining unimpaired tho authorities, tights, and lib erties reserved to the Stales respectively, or to the people. . That the Governor be desired to trans mit n copy of tho foregoing resolutions to the Executive authority of each of the oth er Slates, with a request that tho same may be communicated to the Legislatuio there of; should turn round end reproach, or m any, way emtelivdr |o disparage u't toreureasy faith, is net only the uukindeaX, bat ®« strangest cot of all. Az to thpJSnvetnor, he hsia no benefit from publications “ by au- tboriiy.’*^HHnt off his despatches pre vious to th^Tederal Union publication, aed therafore previous to our reprint of iu Heritor sent to the Editu^ffiliat paper Urn ooaju theriaeti copy firM^rhich they printed life copies be sent off; or else he took tbo ^printed copy they lent him With out any i bquiry into it* authority. Had be waited for the correct copy we printed with the larws ; .or if in anticipation of that, he htd required, at he should have done, the certificate of tho proper officer, he would have, avoided an errot, that he placed Georgia, foe a lime, before the Union and- the world rxl a false position in respect to the high ptaicipiessxf her State sovereign- ty. We are informed dint the mistake hAs been correeted.^We suppose this has bfta dune by sesviiugto each Slate true copies of the resolutions. This is well. The Govcrnot has done rightly, and this was all that he now could dc>. We are glad to see that lie has corrected bis error so soon after we pointed it out. Tbo gentlemen of the Federal Union may have the gratification of knowing—they at lean have our testi mony, that they lave defended Jiis Excel lency as well perhaps as he could have been defended, oo the plan they adopted ; though we cannot but think it would have been boster-lHCOcs to have plead guilty and filed exculpatory matter; than to have sought to cast the blame on other people. THE MISSIONARIES AGAIN. The principal reason, it will be remem bered, assigned by the Governor, in his written pardon of the Missionaries, for the exercise of the clemency of the Executive, and that a oo;>v be furnished to each ; was, that they tiad appealed to the mag- nf the Senators and Representatives repre- j nanimity of Georgia, and submittod their seating this stale in the Congress of tho j case to its exercise. That tho lung expo- Uuittfd states. Aitest, JOHN STEWART. 1798, Dec. 24, Agreend to by Senate, R. BROOKE. A true copy from the original-deposited in the office of the General Assembly. JOHN STEWART, Keeper of Rolls. From the Georgia Journal. THE GOVERNOR’S LITTLE MIS TAKE. The substitution of tho false dorumo it for tho truo oiio originated in the Federal Union Offic.; it seems; for so we must un derstand tho apology of that paper of tho last week, when it says the Governor or dered “ copies of the resolutions to bo printed." And whon it says that “ by ono of thoso accidents to wliicli eveu the most vigilant aro liable, these copies wero pre pared from resolutions in their original shape as introduced, by Mr Turner, and not in their modified shape as agreed toby the Legislature." What a pity that paper cannot even yet givo a correct account of these same resoluitions. They were not prepared (or copied) for the Executive from ths resolutions as (bay existed " ill their original shape, as introduced by Mr. Turner." One and perhaps the most im portant of its features, was left out of the Governor’s copy, so that by another of those accidents aforesaid, they were sent to tho other States neither in tho form in troduced by Mr. Turner, nor as finally pas sed. But whn printed this mutilated copy for tho Governor i The discreet reserve ciartis a warm atUchineot to the Union of j of tho Federal l nipn evinces so great a the Siuiw«, to inamtain whicli it pledges its j coyness on this point that we feel some re- pofvers; aitti that for this end, it is their luctance in pressing it. Indeed we do so duty to watch over nml oppose overy itv fraction uf thoso principles which consti tute tho basis of ilia* Union, because a fuillilul observance of them r^n alone sc- euro its existonco and tho public happi ness. That this Asiemf'ly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the Federal Governnient, as ru- stilling from the compact to which tho States tiro parties; as limited by tho plain sonsn and intention or the instrument con stituting that compact: as no farthor valid than they are enumerated in tho compact: and that in case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by tho suid compact, the States, wlto-are parties thereto, hnvo the right, and are in duty bound to interpose, Waned, having maturely considered the answers for arresting tho progress of tho evil, and of itnidfy Stales in the Union, to their rojulu-1 for maintaining within their respective lint- Rons pulsed the last session, respecting certain jits the authorities, rights, and liberties ap- only front absolute necessity ; for until it is known wltq first put forth lids spurious copy, nothing is known. We must as sume for tho present, whnt ‘is. almost con- fussed, that tho Federal Union press prin ted tho false copies sent by tho Govornor to llm other Slates. Now if this was done front it copy furnished to that press by tjte Executive then tlie'Governor is the author of alt. But if from a paper not furnished by tnnt dopnrtmciit, then the Governor is.no further hlumeahle titan in putting forth us a most important act of the soveicignty ol tbo State, a piper that Kail not even any sition of the motives, which induced the Governor to pardon these men, was made to tho ocople./or the purpose of effecting tho belief in tiro public mind, that the Mis sionaries had voluntarily and unsolidatod receded from the stand against the Stale, which they had so obstinately maintained, is evident beyond tho shadow of} doubt, from the documont itself. How far this is true, mast be judged ol by the people, af ter tho perusal of the following extract, which we make from a letter of tho Mis sionaries, nddresssed to tho Missionary Horald, It would socm to us, wo confess, from this letter, that iitsteud of the exer ciso of magnanimity by the State, it yielding a pardou to tho violators of her laws, and tho contemners of her authority, upon ths abaadmmient of their improper position and throwing thnniselvos* upon tho mercy of thn country that all tbe mag nanimity is on the side of the Mission* rics, and their counsel, in yielding to tho continued aslicitation of tho Governor through his confidential friends, that they should accept s pardon, and withdraw their suit. It is for tire people to say, tinder all tho circumstances of the case, slid the aggra vated contumacy of.lhe Missionaries,how far the Govornor consulted the honor or the dignity of his Stale, iu.thus, instead ol uct-ing as tho executor of her laws, and tho supporter of her authority, humbly soliciting and entreating the violators of tho one, ami the revilers of tho other, to ac cept f ,a pprdon at]his hands, without “ any concession, or condition, or even appli- cation”for such pardon on ibeir part. EXTRACT. Wo had the assurance of an uncondition- ■ ul rideuso provided we should desist from i Ito attempt to obtain that release by force. This iissurancff came, nut from solicitation on our part. We made no solicitation, no overture, no compromise. But wo were often nnd earnestly solicited hty per sons in thn confidence of the Governor, to ilosist from tho prosecution, and assured that if wo did so, we should not long re-, main in prison. So long ago ns lust Au gust wo wero told by Col. Mills, that the Governor had expressed to him his inten tion to release us as soon as the Cherokees should form a treaty of cession, or as the certainty uf .success { Or when we have *^7 it, aajl failed, are we tKweforo to i we tujd not done k it2 . No. II w<- J gained' nothing else, we have el least gained a. very cheerful lexiln'miy of oor consciences, that we ham doge what we could, for the prevention uf injustice, op pression and robbery, and the preserva tion of tbe national faith. 2. If we have not gained, we have o* least not lost th^jprivilege of laboring' among the CheroUks ' gospel. V., , 3. We have g»iner4n behalf of the Cherokee* • decision ol ths Supreme Court, which, although it doe* not avail for tbo protection ol their prexent rights, may nevertheless have a very important bearing on their future prosperity a decis ion worth far more than tho sacrifices we have made to obtain it. We do not repent of what we have done We greatly rejoice io it. And now that we are free, it gives us consolation to reflect that we have not obtained our freedom by any abandonment of principle, or by cea sing to bear our (eatiinony against the in justice of the measures by which the Cher- okees are-deprived of their possessions, We felt it to be due to the cause of justice in announcing to the authorities of the State our determination to prosecute the case no further, to declare our unaltered conviction of the correctness of the principles on which we have acted. Having made the declaration then, we feel a freedom which we should not otherwise feel in making it nqw, We know not but we shall be consider ed as having used language unjustifiably severe, in this communication, respecting the proceedings of the Stare of Georgia ; but our own vindication appears to require that wo speak of things as they are in our own view.- The naturo of the proceeding by which the defenceless Indians are de prived of llteir possessions appear to us ve ry plain. We.wish certainly to avoid op- pnlirious language, but wo cannot see why, when wo have felt ourselves called upon to oppose a torrent of iniquity, wo should attempt to gloss over that iniquity by. giv ing it names too smooth to express the truth. And wft fee! unwilliug to retire from the contest into which we have been led, without giving our decided testimony against what it is impossible for us to regard in any other light than INJUSTICE, OP PRESSION AND ROBBERY. To- wards the State of Georgia and her author- ties we a[e conscious of no vindictive feel ings. It is our unceasing prayer that her looked for intelligence ttsi he it no mot* On Saturday Evening he was folio \n the grave by an unusually numerous course of hi* Mlow citizens, membr both political parties uniling with his personal friendx, to pay due honours memory of departed genius and virt During fho proeexaion minute guns w fired by some of ihe citizens who are me bers of the Volunteer Corps, in one o e v ». ,.uv,>., whicli during rtto late threatening crisis, iu tbe work of tte I w«» proud to be enrolled. Mr, Turn p ossessed * vigorous frame, which gave p-o'mise of many years of heakh and useful ness, animated as it was, by a mind of con- sciot/s energy, and anel*aucaodenjhu*ias- tic spi.-it which time could not cbult—but imprudently protracting bis iffidenco on his couutr v teat, he eiposed himself to m* Insidious ex’<"»y. a S?'n»‘ which physical strength is r.o protection, and whieb baa sorrow rsto the bosom oi transgressions end tho transgressions of our countrymen he forgiven, and fliosojadg merits of heaven averted, which thoro is too much reason 1- fear. We are yours with macli esteem and af fection. , , , S. A. WORCESTER, ELIZUR BUTLER. aacosxtiiutionul laws of Congress, commonly called the Alien and Sedition Laws, would bo bilMeNtiidoed, fo thelakelves and to those they represent, were they .silently io acquiesce in tlib principles and doctrine* attempted to bo main- 'aided in .til those answere*. that of Virginia On ly excepted. To again nnter tho field ot argu ment, and attempt more fully or forcibly to expose tho uncooititutionality of thoso obnoxious luwsTwould, it is apprehended, be as unnecessa ry and unavailing. We cannot, however, but Ument, that, in the djscussion ol those interest ing subjects, by sundry of the Legislatures of out sister States, unfounded suggestions, and ««- candid insinuations, derogatory to tbo true char acter and principles of this commonwealth has been substituted in place of fair reasoning and On"' sound argument. Our opinions of these 'alar ming measures of the General Government, together with-our reason* for those opiions, were detailed with decency, and with temper, and submitted to the discussion and judgement of our fellow-citizen* throughout tho Union. Whether the like dcceucy aud tempei have been observod in the answer* of moat ol -those States who havu denied or attempted to obviate the great truth* contained iu thoie resolutions, we have now only to submit to a c«ndid_» arid. Faithful to the true principle* of theTederal Union, unconscious of any designs to disturb the harmony of that Union, and anxious only to es cape ths fangs of Jespotism, the good people of this commonwealth are regardle** of censure or calumniation. I .east, however, the silence of tbit commonwealth should be construed into acquiescence in the doctrine* and principles ad- -viaced and attempted to be maintained by (he xaid'enswers, or least those of out follow citizen* throughout the Union arho so widely differ from us oil those important subjects, should be delu ded by the expectation, that we shall not be dft- t ejed trout whnt we conceive to be our duty, or ^Itriuk from the principles contained in those r e*ol»tioui—therefore, pertaining to them. That tbo Genetul Assembly doth, als express its deop regret that n spirit lias, in sundry instances, been manifested by the Fedoral Government, to onlargo its pow ers by forced cousttuclioits of the constitu tional diameter which defined them; and tha^ indications have appeared of a design to expound certain general phraieso which, having been copied from tho very liberal grant of powers io the form arltclos of con federation, wero the less liable to be mis construed,) so us to destroy the meaning and effect of the particular enumeration, which necessarily ^explains and limits the general phrases, and so as to consolidate the Stales by degrees, in one sovereignly, the obvious tendency and inevitablo result of which would bo to transform the present republican system of the United Stales into an absolute or at best, n mixed utouarchy. j That the Gcueral Assembly doth purtic- l ularly pretest against tho palpable aud a- ulanuing infractions of the constitution, in the late cases of the “ Alien and Sedition Acts.” passed'at the last session of Coqr gross; tho first of which uxercisos a power no where delegated to me Federal Gov ernment, aud which, hy uniting Legislative and Jadicial powers to those of Executive, sq|)ver>s tho principles o( free government, as welt ns the particular organismign aud positive provisions of the Federal Consti tution: and the other of which acts exer cises in like tnauuer, a power nol delega ted by tbe constitution, but on the contra ry, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the ameudmedts thereto; a power which more than any other, ought to pto- due* universal alarm, because it is levelled pretended evidonco of genuineness. This last hypothesis divides the blame between ! State should have taken actual possession the Exacutivo Department and the Federal | of the territory by tho operation of, exist- Union ; in what proportions, we must leave J ing laws, nnd added " You tiiay tell them (Item to settle between themselves, not be- ' so." After we had given notice of our ing dialecticians enough ourselves to do- I intention to movo tho Sttpietne Court for icrminu so nice a point. If however we I further process, Gen. Coffee and Judge might be. pointiitml to put in a word, we Schley, two members elect nf Congress, should say tho Executive seems entitled to ! earnestly solicited uj to recall tho notice, much tho largest dividend. RespoAsibili- j and said that though they wero uot sent to ty bears a direct proportion to; tho credit j ns, and did not givo tho assurance official- assumed by tho vendor. II for instant,! ly, yet they hud conversed with the Gov- the Govornor had puichascd bis copies ernoron I lie subject, and knew bis views; From the Augusta Chronicle. The Grand Juiy to r the county of Rich rnond, for the second week of the Term, availing themselves of the right which be longs to them as a body, to give expression to the opinions which may be formed by its members of tbe acts nnd doings of public men, and public boritos of men witliiu our State; and having had un der consideration tho public acts of tfac Convention lately assembled at Milledge- ville, and the principles on which that body havo proceeded to make and ordain certain fundamon-al laws for the adoption of the good peopio of this State, have come to tho unanimous conclusion, that the principles which hav* influenced the con- vention and tho act* of that body, aro in direct hostility with the spirit of our insti tutions and laws as a State, and contra vene die vetyw principles recognized by that instrument, on which our federal re lations are based. Tho assumption by the Convention ol territory and white population, and the right of taxation without equal representa tion, ns principles tit be for the first time engrafted on the constitution of ear State, demands of this body, as k does of every freeman in the State, an opnn expression of the indignant feelings wliicli have been excited by the - arrogant assumptions and wilful departure of tho Convention front the purity and simplicity of our republican institutions^ Tho open violation of tho principles on which aro based our federal relations and State inslitutiuns, by denying to productive labor, through the medium of human agon- concurrent representation in the agaiust the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free com munication among tho peopio tfaereou, which btl ever been justly deemed tbo from it pedlcr, every one sees haw small n share tho said pedler would come iu for. But llm fact being e.s we ptnsuniv, that he received them from n workman or ap prentice of resident respectable person, such ns our neighbors of the Federal Un ion, his responsibility is corrospondenllv diminished. Having stated the terms of the case, we leavo others to work out the sum whicli of course is to be done by the rule of siuglo fellowship. It is certainly unnessary-to inform tho intelligent student, |liat whatever proportion of the sum total uf censure may be awarded to the Execu tive tbe Editors,of the Federal Union are fairly entitled to the residue. We ndmire the frankness of the Editors of the Fedoral Union in confessing what is apparent ou their files. They confess that (after furnishing the spurious copies to tho Governor, us we presume they did,) they published them in lb at paper on the 3d of January. We de ou our part also coufess that we copied -those same resolu tions in the same torm into the Jourual of the 10th of January, copying them from the Federal Unioa of the proceding week We furthermore confess, that seeing them there printed “ by authority," ire sup posed they werecorrect, as we were author ised to do, trod therefor e looked no fur ther for authority ; wo odd, that we had not then, or for some time aftewerds, the authentic copy io our possession. Now it is not inxpoasiblo that others may be so ve ry unreasonable at to blame us* for taking any thing from the Federal Union, even whet purported to be an official copy ol an I official doc latum ; but that the Editor* and we might bo assured that if, we should withdraw our suit, we should he dischatg- ed without any concession or condition, 01- even an application to the Governor, be fore many weeks, Mr. Cuilibert, anoth er gentleman in the confidence of the gov ernor, and who had also solicited us to withdraw the sujt, toH us that lie had ro- coived the most unqualified assurance from the Governor, that if we did so, we should be discharged immediately, after the ndjournmout of the Supreme court.— Mr. Forsyth had called oo our counsel, Mr. Wit t, for the purpose of bringing about the same object, and had expressed his full confidence, tituugh Ito said he was not empowered to give any pledge from the Governor to that effect, that we should be discharged immediately oil the Governor’s receiving information that no .motion would be made before the court. We at first believod, and havo since been inform ed, that Mr. Forsyth was authorised by the Governor to give Mr. Wirt such as surances.* Since oOr release'the question has been asked, What have the missionaries gaiued by suffering imprisonment, and appealieg to the Supreme Court! This inquiiy may dexerve a reply. 1. Suppose we have gained nothing. Ought wd therefore to repent of having made the attempt! Are we never to make efforts and sacrifices lor the accomplish ment of an important object, without the *Ws ought, perhaps hem to say,that Mr. Wirt did nut sire at any aavieooa the subject, proftrriiix as b* said to stmtai a to at aimply tho n>tat : on of la- ' gal - lansri. so often brough t « orrewr »w> tne oosom u. our community. .Ferh*,T* he bed hved long enough; and Ka. -1 eoni.Wded hts «*k on earth: for he had ciooe made himself felt: and of the it” uelK0 . ,0 extensive in his life time, Bone ca.'' late thq future diffusion, now that hath set its seal upon the great truths' J* which he wa9 the bold and unanswered an-*' v.ocute. Throughout the limits of the Union, it will be knowu that a distinguished man has fallen, and a bright light brtiu extin guished. In his beloved Carolina it. is deeply felt that a warpt heart has grown cold—that an unblemished citizen has gone from the community which he adorned—thnt a pure Patriot has been lost to tho state—that a dauntless defender of truth, and powerful champion of human liberty, has relinquished the weapons of bis generous warfare against oppression, and laid himself down to the long rest of the grave. Site mourns a dovoted and disin terested Son, whose pride it was to serve her as a private citizen, who never sodgbt nor accepted the honors of office, which her witling gratitude was eager to proffer —who gave to her the riches of an affluent . mind, bound to hei-’s his worldly fortunes, and was ready to pour out his blood in her good cause. She will rembmher the sa gacity whicli early detectod llm dangers which surround her—tfio prompt and powerful voice which was-first raised to awukeu her to a sense of them—the ever vigilant counsel nnd wise direction which he cbntributed during the struggle for her rights, and the cheering inspiration whidi in the darkest hour was derived from his brave example of firmness and'enthusiast!). She knows how ro value what he has dono for she knows tho value of the cause which he so devotedly served. She will treas ure up as precious relies tho vigorousjpro- duciions of his pen, ihrough wliicli ’being dead lie yet speaketh"—and we trust that the time is nol far distant, whon taught by expexienco the value of tbeir sovereignty ami independence other confederate States of the Union shall, while they turn back to the paths that lead to liberty, feel the full value of his lessons as a lamp to. their re pentant steps—and acknowledge their gra titude to llm "Brutus"of Carolina. As a distinguished, and ardent political leader in a time of unprecedented excite ment, Mr. Turnbull of course had violent partisan enemies, to whom ho was offon- sive|.nj|proporiioii to his efficiency,atjd who hated because* they dreaded. Yet of those who, shrinking from him}iit, tho manly encounter of argument, and cower ing beforo Isis eloquent denunciation, or smarting under tho lash of his sarcasm, sought revenge with unworthy and coward weapons, none ever succeeded in cashing the shadow of a stain upon his charncloras a matt; while mere iionomblo opponents, conscientiously hostile to his opinions anil deprecating the stern mastery with -which they wore vindicated, could blit do hom age to his lionost enthusiasm, nnd admire' tho ndvocute though they abherod tbo cause. His services to. that cause earned him the popularity whicli be enjoyed witlt his party; for ho never courted it; but- in his general deportment in society was rather cold and iinliiiereiit- It was the glonouK and almost yoltthfitl romantic r.oal for tho truth which glowed in his writings ami speeches, whiclt*kindlod towards' him the sympathy of the community whoso respect he always commanded. He was not ca pable ol being'moulded into n mere polit-' ical manager. He could not praliee tho arts of weakening and divctling the cur^ rent of opposition by. biddon nnd conning subterraneous sluices. He pressed boldly cy. councils of the Slate, demands of this body i forward and breasted ’lie tot emit inmid to stamp with the seal of reprobation, a j stream. Unwilling to sacrifice, or even doctriue, the advocacy of which by) British j postpone, tho right for the expedient, he. interests aud British power, gave indopen- ■ was sometimes rash and impolitic as a parfv j man,—neglecting to enlist prejudico on ;ho denen to a nation. Tltis Jurv do most earnestly recommend to Iboir fellow citizens, that laying aside all parly considerations, they will, at the proper time, manifest their just interest and claim to tho pure nnd unsullied inheri tance .transmitted to them by their fathers, by refusing to ratify the public acts of the |nto Convention at Milledgeville. From the Charleston Mercury. C it Ant. EpTON, June 17. PUBLIC MEETING. A Meeting of the Stato Rights and Free Trade Patty, will be held at the Circus; at 8 o’clock to morrow-evening, to render the tribute of their respect to tho memory of our distinguished Fellow citizen, the late ROBERT J. TURNBULL, Esq. DEATH OF ROBERT J. TURNBULL. Of this distressful'occurrence n hurried announcement was made in part of our im pression of Saturday, the intelligence hav ing been brought to our office iu jhe morn ing, after the paper had gone to press. Mr. Turnbull died on tho mor ning of the 15th inst. between the hours of one and two o'clock, in the UOtli year of his age, af ter a few days of illness of country.fever.— From the character of the disease, and the unfavorable symptoms whicli his case had exhibited, his friends in the city were led to anticipate the worst, and measurably to prepare for the melancholy evonl—yet the feeling accompanying tbo certainly that he is lost to us is such that we cau deeply sym pathize with those abroad, who left him io the enjoyment of vigorous health, and in the fulluess of his intellectual power, and who 'hall l»e suddenly mocked by tbe nn side of iiuth,—and, as he argued from tho firmness of his own conviction, perhaps too often resenting as the trimq of verseness, what was only the, ; 4u t. Bat ho fought in ,'no ort^o daylightf wear ing no nixsk to holmei: making qo hXeon hlS — rsary ’ buts,rik '"II homo m the consciousness of his strength. Ho was .lOrce and relentless only against wlnt ho knew to bo fraud and ty/anny, and in. dignanlly intolerant only against what ho to power 10 be baS8 and ttcfew&tfvili'ty \Vo must dose these remark* already extended for beyond the limits which we assigned for expressing our muse of thw public loss and leave to others, utoro able the task of his eulogium. They will do justice to the moral excellence which they delighted to witness through all the chm^ ges of a long life, and to the private «ir- tues which so deeply endeared him to tbo social and domestic circlo. A few words more and' we have done. Let us not be discouraged for tho’eewe whose losses we must need* thoso who havo died i a the flX^mU spirits from their urns.** Ufo 2*: recently recorded the dec*** M RANDOLPn, who had risen an ro liberty from the brinkTf follow,og hard upon, we have Trow ro la ment another friend, i, whnm, thm.rh Ls ZVJ’m S’’ famili " r » f*™. «Xow that Death has struck « „ ghirii,,,, .. Let u. trust ,b«t lro« thfir efforts, rich and trmmpiuat retell* mast vet be devel oped -tn (lie mxiomw contest before uL_ u ^ r """L that wlMtpver mil y be .| m
