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i,:r» i tc it, thus a»pita<i.
; Hit.' of rn'ipp,«»a doctrine, it i
. luliifieauoir uni sccasswon art bo-:
, ami he differ. ue« between them Is simp),
till* : :i'illification pr.iimee* to preserve th* danrti
tuiion, bv annulling every net of (be federal gov
crnmem, which the constitution doe* not author
izn; il proposes 10 preserve the Union, by nnnul-
linp thote usurpations in tome mode which thal
nor withdrew the Slate hom the Uoton, out tin-
burr im me regular action of the government
within the Constitution. Seceition withdraws
the State nut of the reach of the usurped power*,
when all O'her mean* of rodrea* hiive failed.
Nullification, thrrofore, i* the primary lignt and
the primary duty of ihe Stale; secession i* the
ultimate right, when nullification ha* failed.
Thu, air, m nullification, a* I understand n,
and a* it i* undoubtedly cnntninplalod in the res-
olution* of 1798. I thould be glad to know what
objection* you can urge against it. Permit me,
now, to examine it* practical remits, apd to com*
pare them with those of the oposite doctrine, es
contended for by the President.
It i* perfectly tine, at the Pretident contend*,
that if a State may declare one law to be unconsti
tutional, it may declare any and every other law
to be mi; and by the lame rule each State may, in
tho exercise of the same right, select i pedicular
law or laws as unconstitutional, and thus utterly
destroy the uoilbint operation |of the system.
But while this is certainly pouible, it is in no de
gree probable, and cannot possibly occur, except
to such a state of public feeling, in regard tu the
Union, as #ould, at all events, dissolve it by oth
Or moans. If the Stales no longer wis tO remain
in Union, tboy will of coursn separate. But it
they are really desirou* loprucro he Union, their
inm interest afford* a sufficient pledge (Hut they
srIH not endanger it, by throwing themselves up-
on their reserved rights, except in extreme cues,
which require it. If one State, or two State*,
should bn mad enough to do to, it cannot be ima
gined thbt such a number of thorn will do to as to
afford any ground for the President’* fear*, or any
application for tho argument which ho derives
from them. The Qovernment of the United
Slates is tho more agent of the States, foi specified
purposes: and it is inconceivable that the States
who appointed that agent, for their own wo anil
advantage, would, without cause, so embirrais its
action, as to render its agency of no value. In
S ractke, therefore, this argument .of the President
not wntitled to auy consideration. And evon
If it were otherwise, is It more consistent trlth prin
ciple, that the agent should control the aonsiituont,
or that the constituent nhould control tho ageqtl
These flows of tho subject, however, are worth!
nothing. Wo cannot judge of the practical op
eration of the Ooveruhiont, by any audit extreme'
on, Human sagacity cannot foresee, nor hu
man prudanca provide for, all possible cootingen-
-tier, nhr-can human language -define and limit
ovary possible modification of social rights. Al
though Governments are primarily founded in dis
trust, yet there Is, of necessity, some degroo of
confidence in all of them. The wisest Statesmnu
can do no more than repose that confidence in the
eafast hands, while at the same time he surrounds
it with til practical guard! against abuse. If the
Stales may abuse their reserved rights in the man
ner contemplated by the President, the federal
government, on the other hred, may abuse its del
egated rights' There ia danger from both sides,
and aa we tro compelled to confide in the'one or
the other, wo have only to inquire nhieli is moat
trorthy of our confidence. In the first place, ns
I l.avo already remarked, the States cannot hive
any filtered to abuse iheig reserved rights. Be
side*. he right for which they contend is not a
right of action in all, but merely n right to check
unauthorized action in the other party. The a-
base of this tight can be loumt in nothing but tho
Interposition ot the State to check its own agent,
in doing what it expressly author zed its own agent
to do, for iu owu advantage. The right limit is
indispensable to self-government, while th rfbuse
of it is not to be contemplated as sufficiently
probable, to found any argument against the rignt
itself. On the other hand* the federal govern
ment has u direct Interest to enlarge its own
powers, by encroaching on the rights of tho Slates.
The constituent can randy, if ever, have an inter
net In conlractiiig the (lowers of his agent, hot
nrima fat is, tin agent, always had an Interest
In makiug thorn greater. And when we reflect
on the strong love which most'men feel for pet-,
runago and power, the influence of iu interest up^
. on tho mere men who widfcl the federal govern
ment, (and who, at to thi* argument, must bn iden
tified with'it,) affords much cause for distrust and
fear. Il it therefore, much more probable that
the federal government will ahuse its power,'than
that the States.will abuse theirs. And il we »up- (
pose a case of actual abuse on either hand, it will
not be difficult to decide which ia the greater evil.
If a State should nbuse its rights of interposition,
by arresting the operation of a conetitutional law,
the wont that coaid come of it, would be to sus
pend the operation of the law for a time, as to thal
State, while it would have all its effects withm the
Other Steles. This would certainly be unjust, but,
In moat cases, would be attended with very little
practical etril. In some cases, it is true, the con
sequences might be serious; such, for instance, as
might arise in a time of war; bat it is precisely in
ouch case* that the Sluts would have the least
motile lor coming into collision with her sister
States. Besides, according to the doctrine for
which T am coutandiug, this evil would be tempo-
' vary only; it must cease, iu some way or o.har, as
soon as the other Stntes act upon the subject. I
acknowledge, however, that il is at best so evil
inseparable from our system, and one which can
not he avoided except by submitting to a great*i
evil It it perfectly evident that this right must
4xiai in the Sta.et, unless it be incompatible with
the rigiitt of the federal government. Supposing
this incompatibility to exist, there-must boa right
in that government to control tha Stutes in this
respect, and to enforce a law which the Status
may have nrenouaced to bo unconstitutional.
Let ui now suppose an abuse of this right. It
would consist in the attempt, by the federal gov
ernment, to coerce obodieace to an' me***life
tional I .w. This, sir, it seems to roe, is despo
tism in its very essence. If the federal govern
ment may enforce one unconstituiioeal law it
may euforce every unconstitutional law, and
shut all the right* ot the Stales aod the people
may fall, om by one, before tho omnipotence.of
that government. This consequence is too man
ifest to escape even the meal superficial observe
linn. The wont poreble result ot nullifica
tion, even m the opiniou of its bitterest opponents,
’'■to dissolve the Union—aod this result does not
legitimately flow from il while the alternative
which they propose, establishes an absolute dec-
po ism, which not only dissolves the Union, but
nuubiiibM the worst possible form of government
upon its re us. Thus it appears that nullification
is mu-l leu apt la be abused than the aha naive
remedy; aod whan abused, its consequences are
infitiin Iv leasto he doprncatsd. Of the two evils,
J eho tie the least. I prefer the reaaedy which,
, although ip iuoatrone abase it mgr lead 4* dis-
uniou, Busy Ixt peaceful lose teeults, to one
inch necessarily dissolves the Union,and
.0 direct object nnd tendency are to
cnee and Idoodv end sbsmte power,
find stow, sir, yon have a foil view ol
nullification, as 1 understand it. As I
sincerely desire she right in politics, as
well us in morals and religion, I submit
nyself, with all deference, to the cor
rection of yonr greater wisdom. At all
events, you ought to relieve ypur own
principles from the cloud which bow
hangs over them, mid. venders them
somewhat obscure lo the qonearal vis
ion. In my next letter I shall say
something to. you in reference to South
Carolina. 1
at a time. Their heads hole a resent-,
tiiance to the piekerflP* and the crease >.
neir mouth, marking tho division of the
jssre, wail like that of a Common snake
The entitle of the boat tat stopped, an-
for three quarters of an hour we had a con.
and deliberate view *of thorn monsters.
Such ill-looking -object* I never beheld..
tt7* Since the above was received,
we have eonvesed with several people
who came up in the Connecticut yetier.
day, and they all state that they saw, about
10 o'clock yesterday morning, a'little be
low Nithaiit, three or four offho serpeuts,
ono of' which wat certainly 100 font in
length.
The publication ofa latter by Worces
ter and Butlor (the Missionaries in the
Penitentiary of Georgia) teems to ua to
have made the official degradation of G ov.
Lumpkiu complete. They represent that
they were importuned, earnestly and re
peatedly, tu discontinue their suit to the
Federal Court aad take a release.—The
importunity grew more and mere urgent
as ihe Bloody Bill advanced towords ma
turity; and became irresistibly teazing
when the fuH virtues of that measure in
reference to tho position of Georgia be
came manifest, as the law ofthe laud, sanc
tioned by (be Proclamation. This meas
ure seems to have made hie Excellency,
Gov. Lumpkin, exceedingly relenting;
philanthropic aud merciful. The reault is
that between him, Forsyth, and the ad
ministration, Georgia was begged out of
the scrape at the feet of the Missionaries.
The disgrace, if ar,y attaches to die pro
ceeding, does not belong to Georgia, but
to her unworthy Governor. How un
worthy to occupy tho seat of George M.
Troup 1 However, if the people of Geor
gia are content to indorse this conduct of
their Governor before the Nation, so are
we.—Camden Republican.
If the sea serpent only conducts himself
with ordinary civility, a largo number of
the inhabitants *f Boston will soon have
ao opportunity of an interview with him.
A paper of tbnt nty mention; that Cap
tain Porter, Ihe steamboat commander
who the other day saw the whole family of
sea serpents, had sailed with about a him
dred passengers, al anxious to pay their
respects lo the" grext unknown,” and that
off Nahant '* the boat fell in with a mon
ster, which the passengers bolt eve was
one ol the sua serpeuts dial had been teen
Chronicle, Courier, and North American
Gazette, of this city, and all the papers ia
hi* State ahd m the Southern States
friendly to the object of <4hs meeting, be
requested to (tubltsh these proceedings.
The business of the meeting having
been concluded, on morion, -adjourned.
SAMUEL M. THOMSON, Chair.
AbteMas J. Burke, Stcretaru.
AN ACT
Toprohibit the employment if slaves nisd
Fret Persons of Color in she Setting of
Types in Printing Offices in this State.
Be it f.nactbd by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the -Stare ef
Georgia, in General Assembly met, That
no Stave or Free Person of Color shall be
employed in the setting types in any print
ing office in this Stale; and that, if any
owner or-proprietor of a Printing press, or
.my person having the charge or coctrool
ofa printing press in this State,snail use
or tmploy a slave or free person of color
in the setting oftypb or shall suffer u slave
or free p'ersou Of color to be so employed,
such owner, proprietor, or person, shall
forfeit the sum of Ten Dollars for every
slave or free person of color who may b>e
employed, oil any day, or pan of a day, to
be sued for and recovered by an action af
purchaser of tho whole. -
But behold, as toon as the news reach
ed Boston, Mr. Huntington appeared In
the public papers, and denied having an>
knowledge of the transmission, or being in
any way, directly or indirectly concerned
in it. Reportsays that the individual
whe bid tbe lands off is irresponsible, hav
ing no property.
Great indignation is expressed by the
people at this 'most magnificent hoax,”
and Mr. Coffin, the Land Agent of Mas
sachusetts who superintended the sale, is
called upon to show whether lie had any
participation in it or not.
near the same place the day previous. A \ debt, in the Justices’ Court ol the district
certificate signed by a number of the pas- j wherein tho offender ntay reside, by, aud
From the Richmond Whig, July 9.
The Richmond Enquirer says—"We
were and are opposed to certain principles
oft lie Proclamation—we were and are op
posed to the most obnoxious part* of the
Force Bill.”
Aye, but wby do you limit your op
position to a simple annunciation ofthe
fact! Wby do you nut examine those
dangerous principles, and point thorn out
to the people? . Why do you not " ring,
tho changes” aa you were wont to do, up
on Hr. Adams' unlucky expressions,
"Palsied by the'will of Constituents" anil
"Light Houses •( tho Skies?" Why do
you support, all Proclamatiouists, end op
pose all ami Proclamatranists? Why d»
you stick so oiose still to" A. Jackson,”
when for more trivial sins tifthc tauten 1 re
you impaled John Quincy Adams ou high?
Md Adams asserted the propositions, th.i:
Congress had power over the Tariff nnd
Improvements, abd that the Representa
live was not bound by the will of his Com
stituents. This was'ihe head and front
of bis offending, no more. Gen. Jackson
—your second Jefferson—has asserted
the same proportion*, aod these besides
—that these States are one nation, without
the power or the right for any cause, to
separate—that all laws passed by Con-
gross, however tyrannical and uncostitu-
tional, are to bo obeyed, and that obedi
ence is to bn Coerced at the point of the tu
one'ffltat, injfidi', the Fodei al Government
is Sovereign, entitled to implicit obedienc,
and the Statos subordinate, whose first du
ty is to obey.
Whore sleeps your State Right Thun
der and Lightning? Invoked to scathe
the weak, why is it suffered to repose in
the caves of Ida, when the mighty storm
the battle o«an of 'State Rig ns? The
" Jove” ol the Press, ought toknow nodis-
linctioQ of Dursont.or.ifhu will imitate mor
tal fallibility, he ought to lueirch thunder
bolts at the giant, andspare the pigmy.
sengers, is published in the papers of mon
day afternoon; and we have recived an
other certificate signed by twenty other
gentlemen, conforming the siatesmenls of
those who werp ia the small boat of the
Connecticut, add had a pretty good view
of the mouster.”- Another journal affirms
that an experienced whaler was proposing
to start with a lighter and two whale boats,
and a crew property equipped for the pur-
peso of capturing-the Sea Serpent
Dr. Scudder, somewhat notorious, a-
mong othef reasons as the maker of artifi-
Cinl eyes whichjbe declares to be bettor than
natural ones, has had his wits stirred up
by the reported reappearance of the sea
serpnot and suit on our coast, and has in
vented a sort of harpoon to strike him,
which the whaler above alluded to would
do woll to provide a ft-w.of. It consists
of a harpoon of ordinary construction
attached 10 a sheet iron Congrieve rocket,
and it is calculate that the impetus of the
latter, on being setoff, would carry the
harpoon with precision u thousand feet.
The rockot is loaded with balls, aud ao
cfrltfrived that on its explosion these
wo.Id be projected with great force; and
thus tho instiunicm might at once destroy
the sea monster, whatever it is, and fasten
him so iliat ho might be secured and tow
ed to laud.
JV. Y. Eve. Post.
From tile Portland Advertiser, July 8.
" Sea-Serpent and the Steam-boat.
The steamer Connecticut arrived this
morning later than uspal, having bncu cm-
S tayed for about mi hour in chaiing a
lion! of Sea Serpents. About six o'clock
last evening, a schooner off Nahant hailed
the Connecticut, and told Capt. Porter
tbnt if ha would look out, he might sea the
Sea Serpeut, for " he bore east of Na
hant,". The Connecticut steered accor
dingly,—and very soon, not one Sea
Serpent alone, but three, some say four,
nppeard in sight. All the passengers saw
these monster* of the deep with their own
eyes, distinctly and clealy.
One of- the passengers who had a good
view says, that ono of Ihe serpent* was -one
buudrod feet in. length—with a head
partly in tha form of a Snake and partly
in the ford of a pickorel. Some ray this
largest aerpont wat yet longer. Another
of the serpents was lodged to be about 90
feet long. One th aw hit body out of
water about fifty foet in a spiral undulatory
morion, which formed at times upon a
calm sea a beautiful dark arch. During n
portion of this time, one of the serpents
wat thought to be distant about 20 rods,
And before and after this near approach,
they could be seen for tome time with a
glass. Tbe serpents seemed to enjoy the
■port, and played around the boat for sorao
limn—perhaps they look it for another
sarpanC in or on the deep—and were
seeking an introduction.
. Of all these facts, we are informed by
many persons, verbally by ono, upuu
whom wo can rely: apd who has hitherto
bean incredulous enough. We do not, we
caneot doubt the testimony of so many
persons, in a steamboat upon .a quiet
sea,—with the power of stopping and fol
lowing die objects of their curiosity wh h
ersover they pleased.
From the Augunla Coimtrtutior.uli.tt.
MEETING OF JOURNEYMEN
PRIN IK Its.
At a meeting of the Journeyman prin
ters ol the City of Augusta, held in the
Reading Room of the Constitutionalist
Office, on Saturday evening, 13th inst.
Mi. Samuel M. Thompson wat called to
the ch lir, and Mr. Artenias J. Burke ap
pointed .Secretary. The chnirmin hav-
iog explained die object of the meeting,
Mr. Vvni. H. Pritchard offered the follow
ing preamble and resolutions, whiflh were
unanimously adopted—
Believing, ns this meeting does, in tho
practicability andexpediency of the’lawpas-
sed by the Legislature of this Slate, on tho
22d da y ot' December, 1829, for tho pur
pose of excluding slaves or free persons
of color from the.seltiagoftypes in print
ing offices nothin (he limits of this State
—and being fully aware of the manifest
injury mat might reault lo tho good peo
ple of these State*, as well ns the exist
ing positive injury iuflicted upon our
profession, from violations.of this act, we
considor it a duty we owe to ourselves,
and to tlie community in which we live,
not to suffer Any such infractions to exist
with impunity. .Therefore,
Resolved, That qj tho deliberate vio
lation of this act cannot be justified by any
pretext or consideration whatever, except
that of b pecuniary character, the Chair
man of tlii* meeting be required to prose-
in the name and to the use of any person
who shall prosecute for the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That when
there are several owners or proprietors of
such press, the suit herein authorized shall
and may be brought against any one or
more ait' the owners or proprietors, who
may bo resident in the county wherein
such -offence may bo committed, or against
the person having the charge and controui
of the printing press in the office, or house
in which the offence may have been com
mitted; and the process shall require the
defendant or defendants to answer in an
action of debt for a-breach of the provis
ions of this act,
,. WARREN JOURDAN.
Speakci ofthe House of Repr esenialivos.
THOMAS STOCK,
Presidnt of the senate.
Assented to,- December 22d, 1829.
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor;
The Blind Fhencu Lady.—A French^
lady, who lost her sight artwo years old,'
was pnssesed of many talents which allu- 1
viated her misfortune. "In wriiing to
her,” it is said, "no ink is used, but tbe let
ters are pricked dowu on the paper ; and
by the delicacy of her touch, feeling each
letter, she follow* them successfully, and
reads every word with her finger’s end.
She her self in writing makes use ofa pen-
'cil, as she could not know when her pen
was dry ; her guide on the paper is a small
tin ruler, and ofthe breadth of her writ
ing-
- On finishing a tetter, she wets it, so as
lo fix the traces of her pencil that they
may not be obsedred or effaced ; then
proceeds to fold and seal it, and write the
direction, all by her own address, and
without the assistance of any other per
too. Her writing is very straight, well
cut, and the speljirig no less correct.
To reach this singular mechanism, the
indefatigable cures of her effeclionate mo
ther were long employed, who accustom
ing her daughter to feel questions cut in
cards of pasteboard, brought hi? to distin
guish an A from a B, and thus the wholo
alphabet, aud afterwards to spell words ;
then, by tbe remembrance of the shape of
the letters, to delineate litem on paper ;
end lastly to arrange them so as to fotm
words and . sentences. She sews aud
hems perfectly, well, and in nil her work
she threads the, needle for herself, howev
er small.
FIRE.
Oo Wednesday ovening last, about half
past uiuo or ten o'clock, our citizens were
alarmed by tho cry of fire. It orignated
in a blacksmith shop iu Hamburg, on Ihe
opposite side of the river, and through the
exertions ofthe citizens was soon got un
Frnm th* Boston Post of Moaisy.
7» s «* Serpent, in arilf— Extract of »letter to
a (sutlouitn ia this oily
Portland, July 6.
_ Dear Sir—1 arrived in ufety this mor
ning, at 8, having passed aa hour or more
yesterday after noon among a shoal of Sea
Serpents, three of which, me tsureing from
80 or 90 to 120 or 130 feet, I dwtioctlv
saw with tbe naked eye, aod afterwards
carefully vxamined through a glass. They
were lying fell length oe the water, occa
sionally lifting their heads four or five foot
shove the tut face, end shotting twenty Or
thirty hooebet, or taakarfike nadulatmng,
dor without doing any damage further
cute, hereafter, every such violation that j than, destroying tha roof ol tho house in
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comes within his knowledge, or of which
ho may he informed ; and this meeting
respectfully recommend to the fraternity
throughout the State to adopt a similar
resolution.
Resolved, That should it become the
duty of the Chairman to prosecute for
any infraction of the law of the Legisla
ture, iu this city, lie is hereby authorized
and directed lo appropriate the proceeds
of the penalty, affixed to tiie violation of
said law, to the benefit of the Female
Asylum of Augusta or to some other
charitable association of this city.
Resolved, That ns tho community
should be fully advised of the provisions
ofthe law, the ec>, as passed by the
Legislature of IS29, be appouded to our
proceedings.
Resolved, That as -cases have been
known to exist where the ubove act has
been evaded, by oersons employing slaves
tu the distributing, insteud of the collect.
ing together or the setting of types, there
by vtolatiug, as we believe, the truo spirit
of the law, and primary feature in its or
ganization; and inasmuch as every mali
cious or designing slave, so employed in
the distributing of types, soon acquires
a sufficient knowledge of the setting of
types, to be eneblud to do incalcuf blr and
irremediable injury to the community in
general, this meeting earnestly recom
mend to tbe next Legislature,, to incorpo
rate into the above act,'a clause express
ly prohibiting ali slaves or free persons
of tolar, toho are capable of either setting
or distributing types, from being engaged
in any capacity about printing offices
■eitAin the limits of Ihe state.
Resolved. That those proceedings be
transmitted by' the Chairman to the
Charleston (S. C.) Typographical Socie
ty, recommending to that association to
use theii exertions in having a similar Ipw
passed at tbe next annual session of their
Legislature, as ope or more instances
might be adduced where slaves are em
ployed as compositors in printing offices
in thal State; and wo also reeommeud the
same to the particular consideration of
edery slave holding State in the Union.
On moino,
^Rrtnised, Tkattbe Constitutionalist,
which it originated.
Death bed advice.—The fallowing is
said to be the last advice of an aged man
to his children. "My childreu—I am
dying, and have not strength to exhort
you ; follow my example, live honestly,
6erve God, and lake the newspapers."
A most excellent piece of advice. The
editors of the Duylostown Democrat says
if we had been at his elbow as the U. S.
Gazette has it, we would have been
tempted to jog -lie old getntlemen’s mem
ory a bit, to put in a saving clause, very
important to us ofthe quill, viz.—and pay
(or them. The Editors is i -gin so far ts
he goes—pay lor iiieni is ivoll, but pay
for them in advance is batter.
From the llaltimore Gazette.
Bangor Sale of lands.—The public
sule of six townships of land ia the Stale
ot Maine, belonging to Massachusetts,
took place a short time ago at Bangor,
after It viug been advertised for sutue
months in the papers ol the several Stales.
Il is said that a mtalery hangs over the
matter which no oue is able to solve :
and that the excitement at the sale was
us great as that winch look place in
Philadelphia on the sale of the stock of
the Girard Bank. The auctioneer was
stationed in oue of the windows of the
Exchange Coffee House, and the im
mense throng besides crowding every
room, and filling every window, ou Ihe
street side of ihe building, coveted the
entire street for a long distance beyond
each end ofthe house, aod tne large piles
ot lumber along the more of the Kendus-
keag, ou the opposite side ol the street.
Tne minimum price at which the lauds
were to be put up was oue dollar per
acre, and it was supposed that they
would not have brought more. Some
land dealers who attended had made up
their miodsnoi to give more titan saveutv
five ceuts an acre: but when the sale
commenced the bids ian far above the ex
pectation of every oue, and thoy were fi
nally ail struck otl'ai m tie -nan throe dol
lar* an acre, and so • f the townships at
nearly four dollars. Mr. Rsudolpli Hun
ting-on, of Bosiou, was aeoouucud at t|»
in thorn 8tain* tmbng the Repuhlicao ‘r
grinit this gehtleman. Is this fair! Let thJ
the qaestion fllirfy and argue it spon its nA...,-,,
they make Mf. Cilhoons name operate against it
tat them give Mr. J« Herrons in favor ufit. We
know that it has been denied that Mr. Jeflereon
-vaa an ndvocate of tho doctrine—We belicvo'
however that it it admitted upon nil hands that lie
was the author of the Virginia Resolutions—If so t
we cannot see open what ground those who dent *
iknt Infforunn avia* tKfl ■iIvaaMd nf NnlKC...:. * /
Hume's Character of Whitfield.—Hume
the Itistoriao, having heard Mr. Whitfield
preach,at Edinbutg was asked by an inti
mate friend, what he thought of his preach
ing. Hume replied, "He is, sir, the most
ingenious preacher I ever heard. It is
worth while to go twenty miles to hear
him. lie then repeated the following
passage which he heard, towards the close
of the discourse. After a solemn pause,
Mr. Whitfield addressed his numerous au
dience. The at tendant angel is just about
to leave the threshold and ascend to heav
en. And shall he ascend, and not bear
with him tho nows of one sinner, among
all this multitude reclaimed (rom the error
of bis ways?’ To give the greater effort
to this exclamation, he stamped with his
foot, lifted his bands and eyes to heaven,
aod with gushing tears, cried aloud. —
’Stop, Gabriel! Slop, Gabriel! Stop, ere
you enter the sacred portals, and yet not
carry with you the news of one sinner con
verted to God. He tben in the most sim
ple, but energetic language, described
what ho called a Saviour’a dying love to
sinful man; so that almost all tbe assembly
melted into tears. This address was
accompanied with such animated, yet nat
ural action, that it surpassed any thing 1
ever saw o'r heard in any other preacher."
Enquirer.
Saturday, Julif 20.
But strange to tell, we have never seen, ia*
single paper opposed to Nullification, the sligheat
nonce of this “Exposition,” they seem us mark
afraid; of it as they are of Nulhjttatim itself.
Now wo think that some ol the opponents o(
Nullification ought to answer those letters aed
prevent, them from doing the injury which they
mast- do if they remain unanswered. If no per
son attempt* to answer them,' the people will
take it for granted that it is because they cannot
do it, for every mao who reads them will be sat
isfied, that, even if they 'are wrong, they have
character enough, to deserve an tuiswor. It tha
Editors of the Anti-Nullification pnpets feel thnC
they are not able to refute, them, they ought, ax
jhey wish to give the people u fait chance offer
ming correct opinions to publish them; perhaps
the people will bo able to discover tha unsound-
nesa of argument in them, which the Editors can
not.
We havejtliis proposition to make to Ihe Con
stitutionalist. If it will publish those letters, we
will publish any comments with which.be Edi
tor may accompany them; and this proposition
we rauke to any other paper iu the O’tate opposed
to Nullification. T
Republican Candidate
FOR GOVERNOR,-
31A J. JOEL CRAWFORD*
The eustetceof the Sea Set peat aeems now
to be establlslifed beyond controversy. Not {oue.
alonejbat several ba,vel<rtely appeared about Bo^
Ion. ff’e hope that the President will forthwith
order Col. David Crockett to go out and pick up
two or three of them and britig them ic* that all
the people ipay get a sight of them and that Major
Jack Downing go along to give an account ofthe
expedition and to see that the Col* shall not have
to enconoter more thun three ofthe Serpents at a
time.
The Constitutionalist and
Purification.
The Constitutionalist hue come oat ia n Ion*
article explanatory nf the coarse it bus pursued
with regard to the Governors Election. In this
article, the Editc* charges the division ofthe old
Republican party nf Georgia, to the inflnenca af
the pernicious doctrines of .Nullification, m d ask*
“would it have keen consistent with our princi
ples; with the principles we bud publicly avowed;
with principles which we firmly believed were
sound, if we bad supported men, for offide, mere
ly because they were ot the Troup party, white
suck men had declared themselves ta be Nullifi-
ers. and became the adherents of Mr. Calhoun!’'
Now us think, that it would be perfectly consis-
tent with the principles which he has publicly a-
vowed, for him 1» rapport those men who have
declared themsdnsto tie Nuilifiers; as to those who
have become as he aayB die udhorents of Mr. Cal
houn we shall speak ta another place. ,
Long before we had taken any part in
politics we had been taught to consider this
gentleman one of the firmest as well ns one of
the most able nnd efficient advocate, of State
Rigid, of which the Editorial corps of Georgia
could boast; we regret therefore to see him
abandoning those doctrines at a thno when they
most need support. When we ssy “abandoning'
' * fit
we do not mean that he does not now as formerly
maintain that there are bounds beyond which the
Government cannot go without encroaching upon
the rights of the States; but when notwithstan
ding this the Government dues pass those hounds
ami the states begin to assert those fights and to
maintain them, forthwith he says they are in the
the wronf, He in substance says you have a
right to tliisor that privilege and it is sheer nsur.
iff " '
uation On the part of the Government to invade it,
but * '
t still if they will invnde it you must submit and
it is treason for you lo stand up for your right..—
its and
Now this is what we call taith without worl
it is about as useful to tho cause of State Rights
as it would be to the naked and hungry to ssy
“be warm and filled” without giving them “those
things that arc neefifulto the body."
Now ns to the other part of the charge, that the
Troup Nuilifisis have became adherents of Mr.
Calhoun, we should lie glad to know upon what
authority this chnrgo is made- Is it because Mr.
Calhoun is a Nullifier? If so, we think the charge
unfair and that the Editor in making it betrays a
want of his usual condor. In our opinion it
would bo just as fair, to charge those who believe
in the correctness of the principles contained in
Toni Paine's Rights of man, with advocating his
infidel opinions.
It is true tbst some of the Nuilifiers are great
admirers of Mr. Culhoun and some of them would
probably be willing to support him for any station
to which lie might aspire, hub there are at least
in Georgia, thousands who would not. For our-
selves we ore not und never have been numbered
among the ndmirere of that gentlemen, he balds
some opinions, upon the subject ofthe powers af
th Government which we believe are incompat
ible witli tlie principles of the Constitution, and
unfriendly to tlie rights nod Ubertier of the peo
ple, but that docs not make him wrong in keliev-
mg that there is a inode by which the Government
ntay be checked when it attempts to assume pow
er- which he bidievei do not belong lo it. He -
indeed so far, a belter aud safer politician than
ofthe
those who held that the power of the Government
ii unlimited, orwho professing tobclieve that there
are limits beyond which it cannot go, deny that
there is any mode by which it can be prevented
from exceediog theke limits.
But sdmit the correctness of position that any
particular doctrine shall be judged by the charac-
ncter of its supporters and oppose re we apprehend
thnllhe doctrino of Nullification would suffer no-
thing by this kind of trial. Webster is the grant
Anti-Nullification champion of the Union—the
strong Federalist and Monarchists} in every part
of tlie Union are to be found in hit ranks—we do
not know of one thorough going Federalist who
is an advocate of Nullification. Now just vary
Ihe phraseology of the Constitutionalist, a little
end let us see now it will rend supposing it to pro
ceed from one of those “Tioip Nuilifiers.”
“Would it have been oottutent with oar prin
ly hecanse they wort of the Tieup Party, while
' declared themselves to be Ami Aaf-
such men had
tgfers, and had become tlie mdhcrenU of Ur. Web
ster." Does the constitutionalist think that il
would be fair to charge him with being tne adher
ent of Webster Wilkins aod others of ihe same
character because they tie ali Anti-NBliifiers!
We are itware that great efforts bava been
mnde, particularly id this State and in Virginia to
discredit this doctrine because it has been advoca
ted bv Mi. Calhoun; its opposershave most aedu-
.oualy endeavoured to bring to bear in tha eoatro-
verajr ibe'prsjt>(beenwhisk have formerly existed
thot Jefferson was the advocate ot Nullification, /
- 1 c — rj “ ra -~ " Jnstitu-/!
can stand. Wt; refer tho Editor ofthe Constitu
tionalist to a 'lorries of letters which we havo^ j
been publishing for several weeks, (and one of
which iato be found in oar paper of today) under
the head of “An Exposition of the Virginia Ueso-
Inttataa of 1789;" they were originally published
in the Richmond Whig nnd uddessej to M r .
Ritchie the Editor of the Richmond Enquirer.
Mr. Ritchie has webeheve never attempted to an
swer them; why we cannot tell nnless it was be
cause he (band them unanswerable. They are
written in a decorons and resppetfol style. Ho
conld not therefore object to them on that score. If
the arguments in them arc not sufficiently conclo.
siee to convince Mr. R. they qre certainly ptavei
ble enough to convince thousands of others, and
he ought therefore us one ofthe “sentinels upon
tha witch tower” to have warned the people «.
gainst them, for if the reasoning be dnsonnd, no one
will believe thgtMr. R. is nqt able to detect it, and
there are but few who will believe that if he
thought'it so, he would be willing^ojoeu Ihe oppur a
Unity of vanquishing so powerful an adversary,
particularly when that adversary was ■ Nuu.trt-
ith of July al Franklin Heard f
county.
The anniversary of American Inde
pendence was celebrated at this place
with that ^patriotic glow end grateful
greeting which are peculiac to tbe true
lovers of liberty. The day was us
hered in by the firing of Salutes and
the din of martial music at li o’clock a
procession was formed under the command
of Capt. John M. Blackburn in front of
the court House, from whence it proceed
ed to the Methodist church, where the ex
ercise were introduced by au eloquent and
fervent prayer to the throne of grace by
the Rev. Wm. B. Barnett. John. T-i
Colquitt Esqr. followed by|rending tho
declaration of independence which he in
troduced with pertinent aud appropriate
remarks; after which Col. William H«
Houghton delivered an eloquent und patri
otic oration in which hq very happily in
troduced the present political condition
of tha country. The oration dwelt upon
the prob. bility of this Government falling
in the same vortex of rum thal had engulf
ed the nations of the old world aud very
heppily elucidated the doctrine that pow
er was always tending from tbe many tp
the few, after the close of thenexerciso at
tjie church the company returned iu pro
cession to the hotel o( Mr. Adams and
pnrtook of a dinner prepared in this geup
tlemans best stile, after the cloth was re
moved tho following regular aud vulun-
leer toasts were drank with great enthusi
asm Maj. Lewis Zacbery officiating aa
president and Wm. Stewart Esq., as Vicu.
President.
1 The fifty ninth annivurary of american
independence whose grateful celebration
attests the unrivaled prosperity of a freo
and happy people.
2. The Un ted States, prosperity to theitv
union. The assured source of their hap
piness and infalibie guarrantees of their
safety.
3 The memory of George Washington.
4 Tiie President of the U. S. prosperity
to his administration.
5 Tit* C ogress of >he U, S. wisdom and
virtuous in its counsells and justice to tho
oppressed south.
6. Tito army nnd navy of the U. S. their
patriotism valor aud discipiin justify thp
confidence of the coonrty.
7. The Governor of the State of Geor
gia.
8. The memory of our departed heroes,
and statesmen passing iu proud and grate
ful transmission to the latest posterity.
9. Our Sister Republicks of South
America permanent friendship and pros
perous intercourse between our respective
Governments.
10. Gen. La Fayett, tho friend of Wash-,
ingion the illustrious benafoctor of oiid
country. ,
11. Our Union and our State Govern
ments the ark of public safety iu the cus
tody of tho people^ the first cannot be.im.
paired if tha latter will be faithful to them-
selves.
12. The battle of the 23d, December
betoro New-Orleans, the master stroke of
n rausux genius.
13. The fair of Georgia unrivaled io her- f
Still'il rharnte iia-a.aaa.a I a • * 1
suDal ebarnts unsurpassed iu probity aod
virtue they to whose affectionate and un
ceasing euro the best hopes of Georgia are
confided.
VOLUNTEERS.
By the President. Thos. Jefferson
may tiie majority, ot the citizens of Geor
gia be always possessed of such patriotism
as this illustrious statesman.
By the vice President. The American
people the bravest aod greatest onfhusi.
asts oo earth.
By TbeOratorol theday. Col. Thos,
t. Foster, to whom are concentrated the ,
taleuts and honesty requishe for the peo- I
ples aemce. He merits and wilt receive
‘ « W* rBW » r<1 «fg'eatful Georgians.
r , Tk® reader. The memory of Col.
tdwd. F. Tafrulla bright stag,.in
glorious coustellation is oblitcr*ted;3e
sleeps, but lie'slumbers aor i*‘tlfoigreAfftji
recollection of truo patriofi' r.ni'l
Ru » at l_ l<7'
By R. Mosely. Woiiiau^sho. ifis dn-
tltrooed on tlie breast of iicr,«miitryoWa
Bishops kneel to her, Kings befliherhmilbg
the world adore* ft^ArfjW^^oa^