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COLUMBUS,-AUGUST I‘2, 1841.
’ FUR GOVERNOR,
Charles j. McDonald.
Report or Deaths in the City of Colum
bus, for the week ending the 9th inst.
One. Consumption—Woman.
WILLIAM S. CHrPLEY,
p r ,.sj lent of the Board of Health.
We publish to-day, a? many persons have
expressed an anxiety to see it in print, the
suldress to the Voters of Muscogee, in Sep
-tomber last, by the members elect to the last
Legislature. It is taken from the Columbus
Enquirer, of September 20, IS4O.
Health of Columbus.— This City is in
the enjoyment of uninterrupted health. The
Reports of the President of the Board ol
Health published weekly in the JourraJs of
this City, show an exemption from disease
h >•■<! y enjoyed by any other City of the same
population in the whole country.
Alabama Elections. —The returns are 60
imperfect as yet, that we cannot calculate
the result in Alabama, so far as majorities are
concerned, There is little, or no doubt,
of the election of a Democratic Governor, and
a majority in both Branches of the Legislature
of the same political complexion. We will
endeavor to give particulars in our next paper.
Meriwether Warm Springs. —We learn
by persons direct from the Springs, that the
collection of visitors is very large, and daily in
creasing. There are at this delightful spot, in
addition to the families living separately, about
100 boarders at the public house.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, under date of August 5,
says that the amendment to the Bank Bill,
made by the Senate, which amendment has
reference to the Branching power, is vigor
ously opposed in the House by some of the
most strenuous Bank men—Messrs. Marshall
and Underwood, of Kentucky, Mr. Adams,
Mr. Wise and others—as conceding too much
to the States. Mr. Proflit, (a Whig) in the
course of the debate, stated that it was idle to
say that the last Presidential election turned
upon the Bank question, or any other ques
tion, save the single one to overthrow* a cor
rupt administration; and that if the Executive
chose to veto a Bank, he would compromise
no principle of the Whig party, nor would
such action on his part disturb the friendly
relations of that party.
The same writer also observes that the
Madisonian, a whig press at Washington, has
a studied editorial vindicating the perfect right
of Mr. Tyler to veto the Bank bill, if, in his
opinion, it conflicts with the Constitution.—
This is rather ominous of the fate of the bill
What will the Columbus Enquirer say to
the declaration of Mr. Proffit, one of its polit
ical friendsl
Tiie Enquirer is going to inflict terrible
vengeance upon us for the sins it alleges to
have been perpetrated by the Editor of the
Sentinel and Herald, during the last cam
paign. It says we “ shall not be exempted
from a due proportion of the things which are
his” In what school did the Enquirer study
Theology 1 Whence derive its code of hon
or; its maxims of morality and justice ? The
Enquirer ought to be cautious how it inter
feres with the concerns of other men. A re
currence to past scenes, to its indiscriminate
condemnation of men and measures, should
impose silence upon such subjects. Is it al
together certain that, in its efforts to at
tain consequence, and mount to dignity at
the expense of others, the Enquirer may not
encounter someone, who will be able to elevate
its portrait by its side, however high its fan
cied exaltation. Ought it not, therefore, to
restrain the puerile ebullitions of its vanity,
and rely on other considerations for public
favor. While threatening to whip “hardy of
fenders into the path of honor,” may it not
tremble under the rod which it holds suspen
ded over others*
wr. were asked by a correspondent to pub
lish the proceeding's of the Legislature res
pecting the application to admit certain Indi
ans to the rights of citizenship. We have
done so in our paper of to-day.
The Enquirer of yesterday says it was not
a party measure, that a Van Buren member
of the Legislature introduced the Bill. Admit
it, and does it prove the measure to be correct!
We are not so drilled i.i party tactics as to
rul pt, by wholesale and without examination,
whatever party proposes.
tJAs the Enquirer read a communication
published in the Southern Recorder of last
week, inching the Western and Atlantic
Rail Road, and by whom it was projected and
has been earned on ? That communication
properly rebukes the far-fetched attempts of
he Me iher to fix upon Governor Lumpkin
<•” J Governor McDonald the odium, (whatever
ty be ) >ud the xpenseattending thecon
” her of that road. It shows pretty clearly
and ’. ra of itsetvn party have had some
tod; .a tho matter, and if the Enquirer
Vui examine the Journals of the Legislature
tor a few years pas-, it will, in all probability
ueteot the linger of some of its own politica
t'-ier. is most conspicuous in the matter. Look
yeu leap.
j he Washington News and Southern
—There journals, in reply to some
nuie-r.ts made by this paper recently, inre
:• ice to public opinion in Georgia respeet
!n o “ -Wuonal Bank, prior to the last October
fret ion, correct the misapprehension into
h we ,iad fallen as to their course on tliat
- ■ ‘jdet during the last political campaign.
a- we hau not their files before us, we spoke
Hum recollection of the manner in which the
mutest was conducted, and the leading argu
ments employed to effect a change of adminis
tration.
Without questioning in the slightest degree
tfeft correctness of the etatementj made by
there papers—or attributing to them the fft.
consistency of the Columbus Enquirer, which,
without saying one word in favor of a Na
tional Bank during the whole campaign, now
endorses the statement embraced m the pre
amble, introduced into the last Legislature,
by the lion. Senator from Talbot, that the
issue was Bank or no Bank—we would like
to see the strongest editorial article published
by either, or both of them, prior to the Octo
ber election on the subject of a National
Bank. We have a curiosity (idle though it
mav be.) to see the peculiar phraseology em
ployed in trpnfinga subject elsewhere, which*
here, was handled with the greatest tenderness.
The Columbus Enquirer of yesterday omits
♦o make the “curious developements” in rela
tion to the tax law, which, it said on the 28th
of last month, “we intend to (not “might”')
speak of hereafter.”
It is waiting, it says yesterday, for our “do
velopements*” Have vve not made them, at
least until there is some show of reason for
the imposition of a most exorbitant tax ]
We said that a most oppressive tax was im
posed by the majority in the last Legislature
—that majority elected with professions of re
trenchment and economy on their lips—and
an especial desire to relieve the people from
“burdensome taxation.” We showed also
that this odious law was rejected at one time
by a large majority, and that it was finally
hurried through,on the same day it was recon
sidered—and without the yeas and nays being
recorded. What further developements does
the Enquirer wish before it makes its “curious
developements!” If we may be permitted
to hazard a conjecture, may we not ask if it
has not been found on reflection that the “cu
rious developements” alluded toby the Enqui
rer, have nothing to do with the question of
the necessity of the passage of the tax law,
and that, therefore, their publication will in
no-wise exculpate the majority in the Legisla
ture.
THE REVENUE BILL.
If this act is passed in its present shape,
imposing a duty on coffee of 20 per cent., we
make this prediction, that while that duty ex
ists the average price of the article in this coun
try will he no higher than it has been for the
last ten years , when ii has been free.
Our people have been accustomed to think
the consumer pays all the duty, and that has
made them too sensitive at the cry of “ TariJ .”
We select Coffee as an article of common
consumption, and upon which the facts can
be more readily ascertained than most others,
but are willing to take any other item. If
our prediction proves true, we shall then have
thrown down the greatest strong hold that
theorists have, against “ protective duties.’ 4
The above extraordinary statement is taken
from the Savannah Republican of the sth of
August. We can imagine no other motive
for an assertion so preposterous, than an ap
prehension of increased hostility to the ma
jority in Congress, who are about to fasten an
improper and oppressive Revenue Bill on the
country, and a desire to protract, for the pres
ent, an expression of disapprobation which
must inevitably attend the operation of this
law.
“Our people” will now be shown, says the
Republican, that the consumer does not pay
all the duty. It was but the other day that a
member of Congress observed that it. was now
universally conceded that the consumer did
pay all the duty.
But coflee will not rise in price, in conse
quence of the imposition of 20 per cent, duty!
Would it rise if 50 or 100 per cent, duty
were levied 1 And if the imposition of so en
ormous a tax would increase its value (as we
presume the Republican will not den}*) why
will not the exaction of a less duty raise the
price proportionally 1 Or does the Republi
can mean to say that you may impose to a cer
tain amount, and no alteration in cost will oc
cur ; but transcend this limit and the price
increases 1 If so, what is. the maximum to
which duties may go, and not affect the value
of the article taxed f Or, is this the idea of
the Republican, that the production will be
so increased , or, from other causes, it will he
sold so much lower in the Foreign market,
that it can be re-sold here at its present price ?
Ifthis be the supposition, why then, if it were
duty free as it is at present, it would be affor
ded at a lower rate than it is now comman
ding, and of course the consumer would be
correspond ingly benefi Re and.
We ask the Republican if the duty laid on
coifee is not somewhere or somehow incorpo
rated into the price of the article, and who
pays for it 1
TaL© the article of iron, the manufacture
of which is regular, and not. controlled by
climate or seasons, and which, besides, is of
absolute, indispensable necessity, will the
imposition of 20 per cent, duty affect no change
in the price of that article 1
The Republican certainly cannot be seri
ous in its assertion that the price of articles
are not in the slightest affected by the imposi
tion of duties upon them. ’ The Republican
must have designed to quiet for the present
public disapprobation, which is as sure to fol
low the passage of this bill as that the sun
shines.
Besides, it appears that the articles hereto
fore duty free, (and many of which are of es
sential importance to the South) will, if the
1 importation be the same, raise under the new
i law about three millions of revenue, the a
! mount yearly derived from the public lands.
! Now what does tho Republican think of the
action of its party to give away a proper and
legitimate income, if not in order to levy a ta
riff; vvjiieh necessarily forces its imposition ?
It does certainly to a plain, common sense
man appear tq be most extraordinary legisla
tion—unless the real object vv re to subject
the country to a protective tariff.
“THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT. 1 ’
It seems that the Enquirer, on reflection,
has declined to engage in the war of argu
ment. For more than a year past, with a few
exceptions, vve have observed that that print
instead of arguing political questions, and gb
ving manly and satisfactory reasons for the
adoption or denunciation cf particular men
and measures, has dealt in generalities —in
mere vague assertions—and when questioned
as to their correctness,has replied by some pert
saying, cr some contemptible fling. Rarely
have vve known it to meet an opponent on the
independent ground of argument; or to view
any interference with, or allusion to the opin
ions it advances, or the censures it inflicts—
in any other light than as a direct personal!
attack on its most important self. Indulging
in th? moqj TJftUgitod & jig qisfitjyaglpu
‘of men and roe-Murea, and loOhtg no opperrtu- .
nity io speak contemptuously of political op
ponents, it never fails to characterise the
slightest reference to its opinions, or the man
ner of their expression, as “billingsgate” arid
“virulence,” and a most unwarrantable inva- j
sion of professional courtesy. And vet with !
all this mawkish sensibility—all this protend- j
ed reverence for exalted and manly conduct,
rarely will you meet with an article in la ;
columns, of a political e.V.ra-. in which •re I
not most liberally eniplm ed the most di--par g- ’
ing epithets, and the most iiu'uituvr language.
Look through.its two last numbers, see
how conspicuously in every article, may he
seen the words—“False”—“Low
fessional”—“ Infamous Falsehood* - ‘iP-rk- ’
ing”—“Silly Blubbering” —and yet the En
quirer is reading lec + ures on propriety —hon- [
orable bearing—and professional courtesy. It;
exemplifies most viv Jiy the truth of our re
mark, a week or two since, “the r ow
luquy is the last and shameful refuge of de
feated argument”
If, however, the Columbus Enquirer thinks
to prevent us from expressing our opinions in j
our own way, or from at! ml ing to matter j
which has appeared, or may appear in its col- :
umns—by impotent threats—cr by unmanly :
insinuations—why, all we have to say is that j
the Enquirer is mistaken. We shall continue !
to deal with its facts and its arguments when- i
ever, in our opinion, they are vulnerable, or
touch upon what, we believe, to be correct
principles of Government. And if, in so doing,
the Enquirer chooses to degrade itself, and to
acknowledge its inability to handle the weap
ons of honorable warfare—by the manufac
ture of articles of the kind and description
dotted all over its number of yesterday—if,
indeed, it prefer to direct public attention to
the Times itself, rather than toassf.il the mat
ter it contains —why be it so—we shall pro
bably regret it as little as the Enquirer. If
it wage a contest of that sort, it may possibly
be reminded in the progress of it that
“Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps. 1
If the Enquirer be not actuated by improper
views, or influenced by motives hostile to the
public good, why shrink from examination
and argument 1 If it do not dread the justice
and the scrutiny of the people; if, in no in
stance, it has abandoned their true interests—
nor seeks to arrest the expression of disap
probation which will surely come, why at
tempt to impugn the integrity of a Press
which is disposed to hold it to a just and proper
account I If it has not pursued a system of
favoritism and persecution —if it be insensible
of the dissensions and coniusion it has pro
duced; if desirous to stand forth the open and
manly advocate of tried principles, and to rely
on the virtue of the people for support, why
seek by unmeaning inuendoes, and snappish
cuts, to misdirect public attention, and allay
public inquiry ?
These and other matters we propose to dis
cuss with the Enquirer in future numbers of
our paper; and we are constrained to believe
that, under the powerful influence of the ‘sober
second thought,” the Enquirer, in declining
argument with us, is fully convinced of the
truth and reasonableness of the saying that
“discretion is th e better part of valor.”
THE LAS'! LEGISLATURE.
Indians admitted to tiie rights of citi
zenship.—Agreeably to the request of our
Stewart correspondent, we subjoin the pro
ceedings of the last legislature respecting the
admission of certain Cherokee Indians to all
the rights of citizenship.
On the 4th December, “the hon so took up, amen
ded an.l a >reed to the Report on the Bill to grant the
rights and privileges of citizenship to certain persons
and their descendants, of the Cherokee tribe ol Indi
ans, therein named, and-to remove all legal disabilities
heretofore imposed on aaid tribe of Indians, so (ar as
respects said persons. The bill was read the third
time, and on the question, “shall this hi l now pass ?”
it was determined in the affirmative. Whereupon the
yeas and nays were required to bs recorded, and are
Y eas 111. Nays 72.
Those who voted in the affirmative, are Messrs,
Alexasd*r, Anderson, of Chatham, Anderson,
of Fraunlin, Ashley, Barclay, Beavers, Bell, Bethea,
13iham, Biack, Brown, of Layette, Biown, of Hous
ton, Burt, Carlton, Cannon, Carroll, Carswell, Ca
venah, Chapman, Chappell, ChjpliY,Collier ,Oo< Its,
Craft, Crawford, of Richmond, Ciedillo, Outright,
Davenport, Dawson, Delauney, Ellis, Erwin,
Espy, Evans, Fasnai l, Flournoy, of Muscogee,
Gathright, Green, of Forsyth, Hammond, Hardman,
Hardy, Harrison, of Putnam, Hendry, Hitchcock,
Hotchkiss, Howard, Hubbard, Hudgins, Hudson,
Johnson, of Appling, Johnson, of Heard, Johnson,of
Troup, Jones, of Columbia, Jones, of Franklin. Jor
dan, Lawson, Lee, Letils, Liddle, Lynch, Martin, of
Morgan, Martin, of Gwinnett, Maxwell, Mays, of
Cobb, McCall, McComh, McCriinmon, McMillen,
of Jackson, McMii.ian, of Thomas, Milien, Mitchell,
Moore, Morris, of Cobb, Morris, of Murray, Moul
trie, Mulkey, Murphey, of DeKalb, Nash, Osborne,
Parks, Pitman, Fitts, Preston,Price, Read, Reynolds,
Rhodes, Richardson, Robertson, cf Columbia, Robin
s,,n. of Laurens, Rodgers, Sanders, Sermons, Shaw,
Slici.i rid, Shropshire, Stuart, of Ware, Sliles, St.ofie,
Taylor, Thomas, TtoSibs, Travler, Wales, JVaiker,
Warren, Webb, VYlst, YVi.l'hcid, Wiiitworlh, Wil
son.
Those who voted in the nogStiye, are Messrs.
Anderson, of Warren. Atkinson, Bends Boothei
Boynton, Bryan, of Wayne, Chandler, (Jravvibid)
of Oglethorpe, Crawford, of SumU r, Crutchfield.
Daniel, ofGreene, Daniel, of Thomas, Darden, of
Troup, Darden, of Warren, Dark, Davis, Dodson,
Dr,four, Emanuel, Fiizpatrick, Flournoy, of Wash
ington, Ford, oi Cherokee, Ford, of Lee, Franks,
Green, of Pike, Hagerman, Hall, Hardage, Harde
man, Harris, Hatcher, Hibbert, Hines,Hunter, Jones,
of Harris, Keaton, Long, Lowe, Loyal!, Mann, oi
Morgan, Mann, of Tattnall, May, of Warren, Mc-
Duffie, McGah gan, Me. Math, Moon, Murphey, of
Wilkinson, Palmer, Pktiee, Pryor, Rea, Reeves.
Roberts, Robinson, of Jasper, Sanford, Sai’P. Smith,
Stephens, Stewart, of Mclntosh, Stroud, of Clark,
Stroud, of Walton, Sumner, Tanner, Tai ver, Thomp
son, Towles, Waldhour. White, of Jasper, While,
of Pike, Williams, of Harris, Williams, of Tal
bot. Wingfield.”
This Bill having passed the House, and
been sent to the Senate, was taken up in that
body on the I9th December, and on the ques
tion, “shall the Bill pass? the yeas and nays
! were required to bo recorded, and are yeas
31, nays 36.”
T:n o who voted in tho affirmative, are Messrs.
Beall, Blackshear, Bryan, of Macon, Buttock.
Camp, Damron, Carter, Cbaslmn.-Chnstian Cox !
Daw.-'n. Diamond. O'mar an. Fryer. Hammond liar-!
ri of Tatiaterro, Heflin. JcniesJn, J<m. s , Kenx x ;
Knight. Lovcb ss, Man h, McAfee, McConnell, Mil
ler. M inter, Morris, Reeves. Bmeao, Strickland of
Ware, Thomas, Warthen, Watters.
These who voted in the nega'ive, are Messrs. j
Beasley, Bishop, Bryan of Su wart, Calhoun.
Cone, Creach, Floyd, Glover, Godard, Goode, Gor- I
don, Graham, Griggs, Guess. Harris of Burhe, Har
ris of Warren, Hoimes of Baker, Janes, Kimzcy, !
Mays, McDonald, Moore, Neal, Rainey. Reid. H ob- >
ertsen, Smith of Twiggs, Spender. Stapleton, Strick- I
land of I’atn’ll Tomlinson, Vincent, Williams, W'il-:
liani-, Williamson, Young.
Emory College.— The commencemenl i
exercises of this instituton were held on the!
11 th inst. The graduating class were but
three in number, viz: Adam C. Porter,,
Newton Cos., Gpo., Hen-y A. Bass, Charles- :
ton, S. C., and A. R. Holcombe, Newton C 0. ,:
Geo.—Who, on receiving the degree of A. 8., i
were thus approvingly addressed by the Pres- !
idem :
“ You have passed through a protracted
College term, without having ever prpoved j
even a disapproving look from any of your!
preceptors. And, when it is remembered
that the duties of Emory College are ex
tremely arduous, involving manuel as well as
mental labour, a higher compliant could nt
lie upop yoUs” i
Loitkix, August ft, 1041. j
At a nmmrous meeting of the citizens of
Stewart equity, at the court house, Stephen ;
Weston, Erq. was called to the Chair, and
Junius Jordan appointed Secretary.
Col. 11. W. Jern gaa being called on, arose i
and explained in a happy style, the pur;? me
c f the assembly, aver which the atteiff -n ol
the audience uas iouuandedbv tkriling re
marks from C 01... ues JNi M The LI. Col. J.
-). IVts, J a iiq Du - ■, Ned Robinson. Esq.
Mr. Basket, Mr. W. rail a-J Maj. Morgan
motion, Tit- ■ hair then appointed the
fob winggenUei;; .•, ■:,>: 11. W. Jet mg .n, J.
U. : tt :, 1m 6. Dupree, N. Chiton, Junius
.JoTctan. j. *7.\ 3V r \ rnoi* Pester .“Scott*
M M - v Neil Robinson* L. G M-.rgaii
Win, 11. Shining, a coin .uU.ec r
j reso 1 itions fur the consideration* of far -gzet
who, after retiring a short tin. *. •*!< and
’ the annexed, which were unfuimGuffy ad -
ud.
We the committee appointed to draft reso
lutions relative to the deranged state oc the
currency, the suffering condition of the couu-
Tr;, and the late orders given the St wins’ ol
tins county by “plaintiffs m execution,” to ; :
ceive nothing but gold and silver, beg leave to
report Ike following :
1. Resolved, That we approve the estab
lishment of a sound paper currency, when re
quired to he kept of specie value.
2. Resolved,” That we a nd; -approve the late
demands made upon’ the Sheriffs to collect
from defendants their liabilities in gold and
silver.
ft. Resolved. That this meeting give it as i
their opinion that such instructions should be j
disregarded, unless it was an express under- j
standing when the transaction was made, in j
which event we cannot interfere an expres- i
sion of opinion.
4. Resolved, That we will not bid for any •
citizens property when sold for gold or silver. j
5. Resolved further, That we will protect
the Sheriits against any attachment issued
for refusing to collect in gold and silver, pro
vided he or they - ball make a tender of bills
on solvent Banks, or such as are passing
without discount.
G. Resolved, That wo regret that execu
tion and judicial action was so long delayed
against the Banks for want of protest, and the
debtor part of the community left unprotected,
j and while vve thus resolve to protect the Sher-
S ids for refusing to collect in gold cr silver,
yet we hold it to be their duty to collect in the
sound paper currency of the country, and a
refusal of that duty will incur our disapproba
tion.
7. Resolved, That these proceedings be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and
copies sent to the Columbus Times, Columbus
Enquirer and Lumpkin Telegraph for publi
cation. Sxefhen Weston, Chair.
Junius Jordan, Sec’y.
For the Times.
Mr. Editor.—The people of Stewart county
have heard that a Bill was offered to the Le
gislature last fall, to make some Indians citi
zens. It has been rumored in this county that
some of our reform members voted for this
law*. As we did not understand before the
last election that this was one of the reforms
promised, we desire to know all the facts.—
Our knowledge of the Indian character is so
good in this section, we have had so much to
do with them, aud have always been the lo
sers by the connection, that vve are anxious to
know who was in favor of putting these follows
on a level with us, after all the mischief they
have done us. An Indian fighter.
Stewart Cos. August 1, 1811.
TO THE VOTERS OF MUSCOGEE.
The names ol the undersigned have been
presented, bv a convention of delegates from
the friends ol Harrison and Tyler in the sev
eral districts ot the county, for your suffrage
at the approaching election, lor your Repre
sentatives in the two branches of the next
State Legislature. The nomination, it is fair
to presume 1 was made with reference to the
suitableness of the nominees in point ol’ politi
cal sentiment, to represent that portion of the
constituency of Muscogee, of winch that con
vention was the organ; and its acceptance
on our part, commits us in good faith to the
support of thf-0 measures of “Reform”
which the friends of constitutional liberty
throughout the republic have united to a
chieve, Any more explicit annunciation ot
our opinions, therefore, upon questions grow
ing out oi the policy of the present adminis
tration ot the General Government, might
nave been considered gratuitous, as it was
certainly uncalled for by out own friends. —
But, for avoiding all cavil or misapprehension
by others, equally interested in the issue of
ibis canvass; upon such topics as are connect
ed with subjects of merely local and State
policy, we submit the following summary cf
our views:—
We hold the election of Gen. William tl.
Harrison to the Presidency, for one term, and
of John Tyler to the Vice I’residency, essen
tial to the [Reservation of our government in
the form of republican simplicity and repre
sentative purity, in which our fathers framed
and bequeathed it to their children. I hat
“ bloodless revolution, lending to ihe concen
tration of all power in the handsot One man,”
of which the most sagacious of living states
men long since announced the commence
ment, vve are solemnly impressed, w:il be
consummated by the re-eiection oi’ Marlin
Van Buren. Claiming to be a component
part of the national legislature—vindicating
as a “ desired measure ” the late attempt upon
the liberties of the people —the recommended
plan liir the organization of a military lorce
within, and irresponsible to the jurisdiction
Ml'the Skates, and for subjecting to his com
mand and disposal at ail times Standing
Army of 2be,PdO men, Matt n van Loren
only wants the sanciußt and coidiimotion ol
his schemes and pretensions, which he may
claim to have been given by the peuffc Ul
his re-election to the Presidency—and then |
he need not ask fur the purple —the People
will feel his power in direct taxes, levied iti
gold and silver, to support the royal luxury
of the “White House,” a profligate and cor
rupt Court, and the army of one hundred
thousand office holders and dependants, at
the rate of the daily expenditure ot more
than SIOO,OOO.
But vve are called upon by a more imme
diate and palp bie danger, to resist tiie war
which tiie present dynasty has waged with
ruthless ami successful violence upon ihe
credit and currency of the country. Vie
have already Witnessed the disfranchisement j
of one member of the confederacy by a ser- j
v ie majority in Congress, to secure tiie pas- j
sage ol tiie Sub-Treasury Bill, in defiance oi j
die known and acknowledged will of the pen- j
pie—a measure of revolution which legalizes j
in tiie hands of the President, the possession ;
of the public treasure, originally obtained by j
usurpation and violence. He seeks now to
complete his dominion over tiie whole cur
rency of the States, by [he enactm<tt of a
law of Bankruptcy for subjecting Stale cor
porations to the power and iuquisilion ol fed- 1
eral officers—the creatures o this will. Ail
the same time that vve would advocate and
support such measures as may be deemed j
most efficient to enloree the performance on i
the part of the banking institutions ol'our own !
State of their obligations to the country, vve J
would protest against an assumption of pow
er by the geneiai government so arbitrary
and tyrannical in its operation and design.
V, e consider the credit and barking sys
tems, with all their admitted liability to abuse,
indispensable to the national prosperity and
the advancement of every interest, except
only that of the capitalist and money lender;
and infinitely belter than the wild and im
practicable project of a hard money currency,
with which the party m power have so long!
mocked and sought to delude the people—the!
highest merit us which, iu ihe opinion of our ’
irulera* would be the reduction of v tbe wages
■of labor and prices oI properly to one third
; their ordinary and average rates. The war
of the administration upon the credit system
is the true war of the rich against the poor.
, Cretl t is the capital of the virtuous poor : the
i : i :■ no need of it, and are interested in
* <is>!nv i ‘ , on. 1. is ihe part >t wisdom and
if pa -; i.-ai to reform by a gentle hand the
abuses incident to these, alike with ail the
most \ai ib'e and perfecflCf luunan institu
- : and to that end we would endeavor to
p ace tire ceatioo ufßanks and their exist
ence up in nine uniform and permanent ba
s, win. an eye to advance and protect the
ten ‘! ie whole j>eople o. Georgia, vviffi
o;;i attempting iJe destruction of existing in
siiiutinns, or the unnecessary establishment
of o;la- s. We are in favor ol an immediate
v tunpiion of specie payments by the Banks
l ofGo . i . and if elected, will seek an early
o: i y mto the true condition of the Central
: Bunk, and will advocate such measures as
may enai, c; ibis institution belonging to the
ISoue, to vt an example which the Banka
own-.d ■ individuals will be required to fid
i io \V •
We regard the Sub-Treasury as a Govern
ment Bank, diddling in no respect from a
National Bank, except as to the privilege and
office of discounting the promissory notes of
individuals for accommodation to the com
mercial business of the country; but far more
dangerous and objectionable, because, lor a
directorship in one case responsible to the
Leg'.- ative branch of tlie government, the
President ol the United Slates is substituted
in the other, and virtually invested with all
the power of President, Director and Cash
ier. While, therefore, the question is upon
its choice between a National Bank, subject
to the control of the Representatives ot the
People in Congress, and the Sub-Treasury or
Government Bank in the hands of the Presi
dent, we do not hesitate to avow our prefer
ence for the former, as the fiscal agent of the
government.
We are in favor of a more careful economy
ol the financial resources and credit of our
own Stale, to repair declining confidence at
home and abroad, and to save her from die
curse of public debt, and the people from
burdensome taxation. Her own works of in
ternal improvement should rattier be suspend
ed for the present than urged h rvvai and at such
a cost.
We believe that much of the pecuniary
embarrassment and distress of the country, is
justly chargeable to the blind policy of those
who have had the rule over us, and that much
may be affected for its rel es by a course of
salutary and provident legislation in the State,
as well as general Government.
If, in the limited sphere in which we may
be called to act, aa your Representatives,
should you consider us worthy of that honor,
we can in any proper way stimulate and in
crease the trade and commerce of the City,
we will do so. It we can aid in giving profi
table employment to labor, we will do so. It
we can aid in affecting such a change as will
justify the giving of contracts to mechanics,
we will do so. In a word, if we can in any
way assist in restoring the prosperity and
happiness enjoyed bv the whole people of
Georgia before Mr. Van Boren became the
President of the United States, we pledge
ourselves to the utmost exertions for that pur
pose. We shall not, however, assume the
d.ctatorial bearing of saying that this measure
shall be adopted, or that rejected. It will be
our purpose to discuss the various questions
that may come before us with those wiio may
he associated in the legislature of the State,
and if we fail to demonstrate that our projects
are the very.best, we will unite with others
in securing the passage ot such laws as we
trust will effectually protect and preserve the
honor and promote the happiness and inter
ests of the good people of Georgia.
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, we may be
permitted, to deprecate the unworthy means
to which some of our opponents resort to
prejudice your minds against the supporters
of Gen. Harrison. Upon his good name and
a life of long and laborious public service,
calumny and misrepresentation have done
the r worst. But by the lights of that history
of which his own Corn s one of the brightest
pages, the country will judge him; and his
i: binds in confidence await a triumphant issue.
J;i vindication of the patriotism of thousands
of your fellow-citizens, we ask your reproba
tion of the charge upon the late Harrison
Convention at Macon, of “ the unholy and
treasonable act of burying the Constitution!”
I’he sense of justice and magnanimity of those
who persist in the propagation of the foul and
shameless libel, has been addressed in vain.
Holding fast the doctrine that “conoption
wins not more than honesty,” and relying
upon their intelligence and love of truth, we
submit our cause to the Voters of Muscogee.
James S. Calhoun,
Samuel YV. Flournoy,
William S. Chtplev,
E >Br,RT B. Alexander,
Henry Council Sait.
September 16, 1810.
r i HE COMPROMISE.
What the Boston Courier, Air. Webster’s
organ, and “ by authority.” official for Mas
sachii.v Its, thinks of Ihe compromise tendered
by Mr. Clay to the Piesident in the Bank bill,
will lie - ea in the following article, his from
the last received Courier:
Axe vriKs Compromise.—lt will be seen by
the ieiler ol our Washington correspondent,
that the Bank bill lias passed the Senate by a
majority ol ONE! and that tins immense ma
jority was obtained by an amendment, which
Mr. Clay and our correspondent caiis a “com
promise.” With the amendment itself, nor
with the bill establishing a National Bank, is it
our purpose now to find limit. But to call
that a “compromise ” which provides lor an
arbitrary euercise of power by Cangres in
opposition to the will of the people ot a State,
and authorizes ihe establishing ol a branch ol
the bank in any Stale, although the Legisla
ture thereof may expressly prohibit it,seems to
us One of those philological absurdities, for
which the present age is likely lo secure lor it
self a crown of immortality, ‘ihe following
is the exact lenguage of the clause in the bill
of which our correspondent has given an
abstract:
| And the said directors may also establish
{oneor more competent officesol discount and
‘deposit es in any territory or disirict of tlie
United States, “and in any Slate, with the
assent of such Slate; and when eatable ii -1 the
said offices s. nil not be removed or wiiiniraivu
by thesa:d directors priar to the expiration ol
I the charter, vvitSicaL the previous a sent ol
j Congress; Provided, in respect to any S'ate
j which shell not, at tire first session ol the Le
gislature thereof held after the passage ol tins
j act, by resolution or other u*ual leg-slative
proceeding, unconditionally as- ent or dr.-sent
to the establish meat of such office or offices
| within it, the assent ol the sain btate shall
: thereafter be presumed ; and provided, never
theless, that when it shall become necessary
ami proper for. c irrving into execution any
of the powers granted in the Constitution, to
establish an office or offices in any ot the
States whatever, &. the establishment whereof
shall be directed by law, it shall be the duly
of the said directors to establish such office or
offices accordingly.”
If there be any thing in this, partaking of
the nature of a compromise, in the common
acceptation oi the term, vve hope our Wash
ington correspondent will point it out to us;
for we cannot discover it. We cannot per
ceive in what way it can reconcile the objec
tions which some honestly entertaiu 10 the
establishing of branches in the several States,
without the consent of tire State Legislatures.
We presume that no one, not as wise as Mr.
Simmons of Rhode Island, as conscientious
§3 JTestoij ofSoulb Carolina, end as in
dependent as Messrs* Bates and Choate ol
Massachusetts, is able to make the discovery.
It seems to our poor apprehension that it
would have been quite as honest, and equally
complimentary to the intellect ol those who
doubted the constitutionality of the lira aching
power, to let the bid pass as originally re
ported.
From the Globe, August o.
IT IE HOUSE.
Mr. Sergeant of Pennsylvania moved to go
into Committee of the Y\ hole.
Mr. Adams of Massachusetts rose to a pri
vileged question, He said in the message ol
the 7*resident read yesterday, a letter Iron)
the Secretary ol the Treasury was enclosed,
forwarding a remonstrance from the Minister
j of Fi ance against the passage ol a bill to re
gulate the tariff now pending in Congress.—
Mr. Adams pointed out the great impropriety
of such a proceeding, and offered a resolution
inquiring of the President by what authority
this communication was made by die French
Minister.
Mr. Ingersoll appealed to the venerable
gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. Adams,
as but very little time is left lor the Bank bill,
I to be taken out of committee to-morrow at
I noon, whether he should not defer his resoiu
| tion till at least the day after. Mr. I. reluet
j anlly and respectfully interrupted that honor
iable gentleman, but'at least till they got the
j iacts w and papers his motion must he prema
ture.
Mr. Turney objected to the resolution as
not a privileged question.
The Chair overruled the objection.
Mr. Turney appealed front the decision.
Mr. Arnold of Tennessee demanded the
yeas and nays.
Mr. Uuderw ood agreed with Mr. Turney
that it was no privileged question. He asked
bow the President could tell by what authori
ty the French Minister wrote a letter to the
Secretary o| the Treasury.
Mr. Fillmore said the letter was written on
the 10th of June, 1841, and sent by the Se
cretary of the Treasury to the Committee ot
Ways and Means, and by them returned
with a resolution calling for it in the usual
way. He asked if a compliance with a re
quest of the House was a bieach of privilege.
Mr. Bolts s iid this was a tempest in a tea
pot, or some thing of the kind, and moved 10
lay the*resolution and appeal upon the table
together.
Mr. Adams demanded the yeas and nays,
and they were ordered, and were yeas 00,
nays 79.
[ he House then, on motion of Mr. Ser
geant, resolved ilselt into Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union, Mr. Pope
of Kentucky having the floor. Mr. Pope
went at length in favor ol the bill.
Mr. Bidlack followed against the bill, and
showed that Pennsylvania never sanctioned
a National Bank, and therefore the Senators
and Democratic Representatives were not to
be charged with inconsisiency or a neglect
of the wishes of the people clearly expressed
at the ballot box. He charged the whigs,
however, with having gone against all their
principles and made issues here which they
dared not make before the people.
Mr. Marshall of’Kentucyobtained the floor
and sent to the Chair an amendment to be
read, which he intended to offer at the j>rop
er time, which strikes out Mr. Clay’s compro
mise amendment. Mr. Marshall went at
length into the constitutional question, and
showed that the Bank, as amended by the
compromise amendment would bring the U
nited States Government, and the State Gov
ernments into direct collision. Pie denied
that the United Slates Government could
repeal a State law, and put a branch ol the
Bank in a State that by statute had refused
under the boinpromise section of the bill. He
was clear and convincing in bis remarks
against the compromise amendment, and said
that no Bank could be established but a con
stitutional one, and that, in his opinion, was
an old fashioned Bank ol the United Slates.
Mr. Wise of Virginia endorsed every argu
ment of Mr. Mai shall. He never doubled
the power of Congress to establish a full-blood
ed United Slates Bank; but lie would vote
against this bill, as limited by the compromise
amendment ol trie Senate.
Mr. YVise said if this bill passed this body,
it would be a minority bill, for the 16th section
was amended in the Senate by 25 vena and
24 nays, He said the bill was not snatched
from‘the majority; yet it was carried by
dodging the question : two Senators having
willingly absented themselves from the Hall
at the tune of voting.
He pointed the administration members to
the Supreme Court ol the i nited Slates, and
asked them if they saw no lion in their path
Here? He asked who would take stock in
case this minority Bank was passed as recom
mended by an article i:i the official organ
in this city, the doctrine of which lie repudia
ted? He admitted that the Whigs came into
power upon the ground of change only.
Mr. Wise then, in continuation, defended
Mr. Jefferson from the charge of having
changed his mind when he approved the hi!!
to prevent counterfeiting ami the esfablish-
I ,sinned of a branch of the Bank of the Uni
ted States at New Orleans. He only ap
proved of acts to carry cut existing laws.
Mr. YVise gave wav to Air. McClellan of
New York, to withdraw his motion to strike
out the enacting clause.
Mr. Wise then renewed the motion, and:
! claimed the floor, but the Chair c.ordd see no j
more hut a gentleman cn the ob.tr side ol j
j the House. |
Mr. Dean of Ohio now obtained the floor j
and went at length into a condemnation ol ;
the gag-law, and thin opp” sand the Bank in !
all its forms. Mr. Dean read from the de-j
bates in the Convention, &c. quoted Mr. Jes- j
eison; and showed that a Bank would lead
f.o briberv arid corruption.
Air. Th ompson of Indiana followed Mr.
Dean and went in favor of the bill at length |
and claimed that in Indiana at the last elec- j
tion, the all pervading question was a Bank
or Sub Treasury, and asserted tuat a Bam*
triumphed.
Mr. Adams of Massachusetts rose, no! to
\ debate the question of sinking out the enact
ing clause; buthe had a few amendments 1
! which he wished to offer, and give his views j
I upon.
j The Chair said Mr. Adam’s amendments
could be suggested.
j Mr. Adams proposed first to strike out the
words States, so that States coufl nut sub
! scribe for stock in the Bank.
In the sth section lie moved to insert the
w’urHo u mt undtrpar ,” so as to limit the sale
of Treasury notes to their par value.
In the limit of directors he moved to strike
out the words “members of State Legisla
tures;” thus giving them potver to be direc
tors.
Mr. Adams moved io make the President’s
term to five years, and limit him to a single
term. He was afraid the want o! this pro
vision was one of the causes that destroyed
the Bank of the United States. He consid
ered this a great evil in most of the banks of
this country.
He proposed to strike out the clause to pay
die directors of the mother Bank salaries lor
their services.
lie moved to allow the Bank to make loans
on pledges of public stock, which the bill pro
hibits.
He proposed to strike out die provision
declaring that no foreigner should receive a
transferor stock. He said a clause in the
bill already prohibited foreigners from voting
and lie though that sufficient.
He proposed to strike out the provision
which authorized the Treasurer of die Uni
ted States to pay from the Treasury the de
ficiency of dividend,
Ha proposed lo strike out Mr. Ctay’s com
promise amendment,so as to leave the clause
as the Senate committee reported it. He
did this because he thought Congress had,
from the people, full power over the subject*
anti could not transfer it to the States, with
out usurpation of power. He said this
amendment would revolutionize the princi
ples of the Government. He said General
Washington had Mr. Jefferson’s opinion be
fore hitnat the time of the first Bank; and
he, afier deliberating night ard day signed
the bill.
Mr. Adams was still speaking at 6 p. m.
wheu we left the Capitol.
Off. City. —During the month past, our
city has been quite sickly, and the ordinary
billions fever of the country, in some cases of
an extremely malignant character, has swept
off a number of our citizens ; some of them
occupying a deserved high place in public es
timation. We subjoin an accurate list of all
the deaths which have taken place since the
ti lth of June.
June 21. Alexander Crook, Billions fever.
25. John Gillespie, do.
27. John Locke, do.
28. William Smedley, do.
July 4. Airs. McKenny, Drowned.
5. Daniel Sullivan, Billions fever.
0. Airs. E. C. Hawkins, l’uerpurei fe
ver.
7. Murpha Alaliany, (18ms. old) Dys
entarv.
7. James Davis, Billious fever.
8. David Leslie, Remittant fever.
12. Richard B. Bull, Paralysis.
K3. Harry White, Billious fever.
17. \v illiam J. Lake, Sun struck.
IS. Horace Moore, Billious fever.
20. Mrs. Munnolland, do.
24. T. Murray, do.
28. Oliver B. Dowd, do.
Recently have we been blessed with fre
quent and copious showers, to the evident irn
provement of the health of the place; and in
truth we hear of no adjacent portion of the
Territory, at present, in the enjoyment of as
great, a degree of health as ApalachacoJa.
The weather thus far has been pleasant,
and the Thermometer lias not overgone 87
degrees, as an average.—Florida Journal.
“If you want timber to last, it should be
cut after the leaves begin to fall, say in Oct.
or November.” So says Mr. Abel*Peck, of
Benton, N. Y.
How* stands thS West?— The Ohio States
man, in some remarks upon the establishment
of a National Bank, says : “The YY'est, saving
and excepting Mr. Clay’s State, are strongly
ojiposed to a Bank of the United States on’
constitutional grounds.”
The Draught.-—'The Croi>s. —lt is with
melancholy feelingp, that we announce to our
and stant friends, that the crops of both com
and cotton in this county will fall far short
of an ordinary yield, this season, owing to tho
disastrous drought now prevailing in this vi
cinity,
T he prospect of the farmer was bright and
cheering, up to the 20th of Alay last, when
the drought set in; since which time we have
had some of the Warmest weather ever
known by the oldest inhabitants. For two or
three days past, the thermometer in the shade
stood at from 94 to 90, and on last Tuesday
as high as 98.—Sandersville Tel: scope 10th’
lust,
A glorious Trio cf Veteran Demo
crats —There are living in Dutchess coun
ty, and within a few miles of each others
three ol the relicitsof the revolutionary times
whose united ages are about 260 years.—
Governor Morgan Lewis, no less disfinguish
ed by his civil acquirements than by h:s ser
vices during our two wars, 87 years of age
General John Armstrong, the celebrated au
thor of tlie Newburgh Letters,” and the his
torian of the war ol 1812, nearly of the same”
age; and John R. Livingstou, only one or two’
years younger. It is singular that the two’
first both married sisters of the last. These’
venerable patrirts are ail Democrats.
(Reported for the Boston Courier 1
SLPKEME JUDICIAL COURT.
Saturday, Jui> 24.
llebeas Corpus Gase. Slavery I’re
ferred. —A colored girl, named Rose, was
today brought before Chief Justice Shaw and
Judge YY iide, on a writ or hebeus corpus sued
out m her behalf by these vigilant enemies
o slavery,the ab< lit ones. Li as G:ay, Lo
ring and S. E. Sewall, Esquires, represented
to the Court that Rose came on from Mobile
as the hired servant ol Airs. Eliza Ticknor —<
that at Alobile she was a slave—that being
under 14, she was not adequate to make her
election between slavery and freedom—arid
that therefore the Court ought not to regard
any choice she might make, but let her free
willy vi'ly, on the ground that one who pre
ferred slavery must be incompetent to settle
the question for herself.
The Judges, however, thought fit to exam
ine the girl as to tire inclination of her mind,
and she stated it to be her desire to remain
with Mrs. Ticknor and return to Mobile
where she could see her brothers and sisters,.
Judge YVjhie. expressing the opinion of the
court, said, that the girl having made her elec
tion, the only question was, whether she was
competnnt lo do so. It did not sf-em clear
that she was under fourteen. Her appear
ance indicated that she must be fifteen or six
teen—and her answers during the examina
tion showed her to be sufficiently infelJi<>ent
to know what she preferred. But even it she
were under fourteen, there was no analogy
between the age fixed by law as that at which
a minor can choose a guardian for himself and
‘he age at which sufficient intelligence may
be exercised upon the point now at issve. It
was not a question of time so much as of ca
pacity. And the girl appearing capable of a.
sound choice, and having exercised it, tho
court saw no reason lor interfering with her
decision. She was thereupon ordered to bo
discharged, and went her ways with Mrs.
Ticknor, much to the disappointment of those
who thought themselves better triends to her ’
than she was to herself, and presenting a spec
tacle of the inurrijih of natural affection over
the deep, instinctive impulses to freedom.
Our Health—-Most of the slight attacks
of genteel fever and ague vouchsafed to our
denizens, have assumed convalescence.—
Several walking chiids have been seen taking
“ iight toddies” without ice, and disease seems
to have said without actually saying it, we
vve can’t wait for frost—we are o l- h. —Port
Gaines, ldtli inst.
I) I PwL C T I M PORT AT IONS.
Cotton Bagging.
ffrjSl Y the Sh'jis Ghieora and Lotus, the subscribers
are in daily expectation of receiving from Liv
erpool, largo* adJiuons to their stock of Cotton Bag--
g; n g, viz :
Russian Hemp 43 inches, weighing 1 j lbs. per yard, •
“ 44 “ “ )j “
44 a “ 1 1 “ “
44 •* • “ ]| “ 11
E.lndiaGunny 44 “ “ If “ “
45 u a 2
Tow 40 “ “ 1 j “ “
Also Scorch Sewing Twine and Bale Rope,
Alt of which will be offered to purchasers at prices;,
warranted xs low as those current in New York, fovr
similar vpialities. ANDREIV LOW & Cos.
Savannah, July 29 [C. Day, Macon.] 25 5t
BROUGHT TO JAIL,
A NEGRO r to calls himself Henry Jack-,,
son, and sa s free ; came herewith John
Benton, front Quincy, Florida, and says that his moth
er lives in Charleston, He is small, weighing about
100 pounds, and about 20 years old : dark complected.
‘4 he owner, il any, is desired to come forward, prove
property, pay expenses and take him away. He says
John Benton ha3 his free papers.
. WILLIAM BROWN Jailor.
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