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From the t'.*rinout Aurora.
VERMONT.
The lir>t discovery of Vermont,
was made in 1609, by Samuel Cham
plain, " ho, after establishing a colo
ny at Quebec, proceeding up the ri
vers St. Lawrence and Sorel, explor
ed and gave his own name to tin*
Ihke which washes the western part
of the state. This early discovery
of th** interior of North America was
attended with no European settle
ment witd 172-1, when the govern
ment o< Massachusetts erected Fort
Dumrucr, in the town of Brattlebo
rough, on Connecticut river. The
fust settlement in the western part
ot the state was commenced by the
French in 1731, in the town of Addi
son, and at the same time* they erect
ed a fort at Crown Point. The go
vernment of New Hampshire began
to make grants of townships within
the present limits of Vermont in 1745),
at which time the settlement of Ben
nington was commenced, and at the
same time a violent controversy en
sued between the New-Ilampshire
"rants and the province of N. York,
which Continued until 1764, when
the jurisdiction of the former was
declared by the king and council to
extend to the western boundaries of
New-Ilampshire.—Owing to the war
between Great Britain and France
and their In-Jinn allies, the progress
ot the Htate to a settlement and popu
lation was extremely slow ; hut b\
the surrender of Canada to the pow
er of Great Britain in 1760, the set
tlement ot the State progressed rap
idly. One hundred and thirfe-eiglit
towns, winch had been granted ’ey
the Governor of New-H impshire fi r
thirteen yerrs, ending with 1764,
were declared void by the govern
ment of New-Yurk, and the settlers
were called upon to surrender their
charters and purchase new titles.
Fpon this instigation, the controversy
between Nvw-Hamj>shire grants
and New-York was rcnew’cu, which
Continued for twenty-six years. In
1778, several of the towns belonging
to the State oi New-Ilampshire were
desirous of uniting with Venhc*! i! ,
which occasioned a severe contro
versy, and threatened a severance of
these grants Iff;ween New-Hamp*
&!»• re and New-York. 't his difficulty
continued until 1701. Massachu
setts, at this period, laid a claim also
to the southern part of these grants,
hut without any success. The inter
nal affairs of Vermont were still very
fluctuating, without any regularly or
ganized government ; she was con
trolled by the arbitrary measures of
the Council of Safety, and that from
the commencement of the revolu
tionary war until she declared lier-
s«lf a tree and independent State.
This was done by a general conven
tion ot delegates from both sides of
the mountain, holdon at Westminster
in 1777. The first convent.on of the
''fetiii.e met at Dorset in 1776, and
the first constitution was adopted by
a convention assembled at Windsor
in July, 1777, but the organization of
the government did not take place
until March, 1778.
The inhabitants of Vermont have
always manifested an unshaken at
tachment for the cause of freedom
and the rights of man. Their first
warlike enterprise took place under
the command of Col. Ethan Alien,
who surprised and captured a British
Fort at Ttcondcrog i, without the loss
ol a man. On the same day, Crowii
I’oint was captured by the troops
under the command of Col. Seth
Warner. An attack was made upon
Montreal, in which Col. Aden was
taken prisoner and sent to England.
During the same year, 1775, Col.
Warner, with 300 Vermont soldie.s,
attacked and defeated Gen. Carlton,
with 800 regulars and Canadians.
On the 13th of August, 1777, tire
New-Ilainp. hire and Vermont militia
under the command of Gen Stark
defeated the thitish troops under the
command of Col. Bowen.
The difficulties between Vermont
and Ncw-York were amicably set
tled in 1790, and the next year she
was admitted into the confederacy
of the States.
/Altitude it nd )..ongitudc of the Capi
tol of Washington. —-By a report made
to Loth houses of the national legis
lature, in 182.2, by Mr. William, Lam
bert, who had been appointed by
the president for that purpose, it ap
pears that the -atitude of the centre
ol the Capitol, by observation, is 38
deg. 62 min. 46 soc. north ; and its
longitude from Greenwich 75 deg.
55 min. 30 sec. west; and from Paris
<9 deg. 15 min 41 sec. west.
Navy and Naval. —lt is understood
that a sufficient force will speedily
be plticed on the coast of South
America, to protect our commerce
in the existing war between his “ im
perial majesty" and Buenos Ayres.
Vi e wish that some of the learned
w tuld point out the pa-t of the con
stintionoi the United States which
authorizes the expenditure of the
public money for this purpose . end
surely, it must be familiar to them,
eUe they would not so plainly sec
that it is forbidden, or, at least, not
authorized, to appropriate money
Air canals and roads, or to protect
the property and encourage the in
dustry of citiz- ns at home. It is
high time that this matter was look
ed info. If the farmer, or owucr ot
a cotton mil*, may not hove a parted
the public money spent for his ben
efit by the making of canals and
roads, we may not expend such money
to defend, at the cannon’s mouth
the persons and property ot our sea
men and merchants. Let the dis
tinction be shewn, and why it is that
there is a privileged class among
u* ;as we must presume that there
is. by the way in which the constitu
tion is interpreted.
While on this subject—let us sup
pose that on account of the excess
of manufacturers in some certain
districts of the Cuited States, and
■their turbulent spirit, it were asked
that a part ol the regular armv
should be stationed there to keep
them in subjection—what would we
say to that ! But the same thing
hath not only been solicited, but ac
tually granted, on another account,
and no one has reprobated it, or
thought it unconsiitutioital. The
government of This country was not
instituted to render partial or local
benefits —nor will the people allow
of the existence ofpriviledged class
es or sections.
The committee on naval affairs have
reported against the expediency oi
establishing any more navu nurds.
Among the strange things that have
appeard on the subject of these yards
is a long article by a correspondent
of the ‘ National Intelligencer” to
prove that the desire of the (icople
o! Baltimore that one might be es
tablished in tins city, was in hostility
to W ashington ! No one here who
signed the petition for that purpose
thought at alt whether there was a
navyyard at Washington or not and
much less calculated on its removal
from that place to this.
The service. We have a state
ment oi the appropriations, and for
the naval service of the year 1825.
The actual sum expended was <(3,-
046, 382 23 ; and the balances oi
appropriations, on hand, December
31, 1826, was £2, 120. 116 26.
Some of the chief items of expendi
ture were as follows:
The crew- of the United States’
ship Peacock have subscribed (1...
sum of live hundred dollars for the
purchase of a sword to be presented
to Lieut Kennon, as a testimony of
their esteem for him while he held
the station of their commander dur
ing the jpust year on the lV.cific O-
C ill.
Within a few days, a man has
brought to Philadelphia from the
west two barrels of muscle shells, to
be manufactured intoornamental but
tons. They were gathered in Ohio
river Parts of the shell arc equal
in beauty to the finest mother of
pearl.— Host. Cour.
It appears by the monthly accounts
of the Bank of the United States,
laid before th House ot Representa
tives on Friday last, that the amount
of notes of the United States’ Bank
issued, is about $ 13,000,000 The
deposits in the Bank, on public
and private account, arc between 11
and 12,000,000.
The coinage effected at the U. S.
Mint within the year past, has a
mounted to $1,736,894, consisting of
6,178,760 pieces of coins, viz. :—of
gold coins, 33,494 pieces; silver,
3,621,166 ; copper, 1,524,100.
A bill is in favourable progress be
fore tho Legislature of N. York to
incorporate a company to make a
railway from Schenectady to Alba
ny.
Public Spirit. —The inhabitants of
V- elfleet, Gape Cod, have subscrib
ed $ 100,000 tor the purpose of erect
ing wharves, stores, Ate. for the in
specting of mackerel. Sixty sail of
mackerel vessels are now owned at
that place.— Patriot.
The Canal Sausage beat. —Mr. A
mos Holbrook, of Jamaica Plains,
Roxlniry, who is celebrated for his
excellent sausages, lately made one,
which he hud ihe curiosity to mea
sure, weigh, bic. It was found to be
ninety-four and a half feet in length,
contained 17 pounds of meat, and
when brought to market was twisted
into two hundred and twenty-five
links. J
From the Boston Recorder
Messrs. Editors. —While read
ing a communication in vour paper,
entitled “ Behaviour of voting fe
males in company,” I was surprised
to see the following remark—“ That
modesty which is so essential to the
sex, will naturally dispose them to
be silent in company.”
1 would ask, is it not generally ad
mitted, at least in this age ami coun
try, that females have souls—that
they arc endued with rational pow
■p t' ia t they are capable of reason
ing, ol making deductions, and form
ing conclusions ?
Why are such efforts made to im
prove and strengthen these powers,
it they are never to be brought into
exercise ? And if exercised, why not
in conversation, and even in the pre
sence of a gentleman ? They are
expected to preside at his table, and
administer to bis entertainment and
comfort in various ways ; then whv
not regale bis mental appetite with
“ the (east of reason and the flow of
soul?”
I know of no object more disgust
ing, than a young female who talks
with flippancy oji subjects of which
GEORGIA STATESMAN.
she understands little or nothing.—
But I wish her to l*c ennoble of tak
ing an audible part in any conversa
tion which gentlemen of delicacy
and taste would introduce it; her pn -
**eiice. Would not the idea that sin
is exp cted to do this, operate as ;•
powerful stimulus to improvement !
A female should unite mode-tv
with dignity, hut should never feel
obliged to be silent upon any subject,
in which by taking a part she mas
benefit herself or others.
Why should females ever mingle
with the intelligent and elevated of
the other sex, if they ar* merely to
be placed before them as silent sta
tutes, fit only to simper and to blush ?
Surely gentlemen of this description
could derive no pleasure from such
a sight. Let them rather be banish
cdforever from society.
Patroxa.
RUSSIA.
It appears now to be put beyongn
doubt, that Constantine lias abdica
ted the throne of Russia. The eth
cial documents relating to the abicn
tion are said to have reached Lon
don. A series of official documents
'rom St. Petersburg, published in the
Berlin Gazette, attest the resigna
tion ot Constantine, and the acces
sion of his brother under the title of
Nicholas I. It was the general im
pression at London, that had Con
stantine remained Emperor of Rus
sia, he would have marched an army
into Turkey. Nicholas will, it is
conjectured pursue the same policy
which the late Emperor did.
for the statesman.
TO WARRENJOURDAN,
ONE OF THE OEOROIA COMMISSIONERS.
A piece bearing your signature
has appeared in the Georgia Journal,
and from its intemperate language,
loose and unfounded statements, no
one I presume will he disposed to
dispute your sole claim to the bant
ling. Though personally vinat quaint
■ ,J * w ith you. F shall take the liberty
briefly to review* this production, to
expose its inaccuracies, and fairly,
and without malice, to scan the mo
tives of its author.
In the first part of vour address
vou state that you were “ urged hy
persons of high character and ac
knowledged respectability and with
the best motives and friendly feel
ings towards. Mr. Smith, to'afford
him an opportunity of explaining sat
isfactorily, certain apparent liscrep
atK-os, in his free will offerings to the
public In addition it was, and is
yet believed, Mr. Smith could have
disclosed facts which, would have re
moved unmerited imputation from
the character of Col Lamar With
these motives, and no others. *he Com
missioners proceeded to Broken Ar
row.” Stop sir—ore vou not too fa t
- J\ o other motives ! Did Governor
! roup authorise the Commissioners
to squander away the people’s money
on a distant expedition, with no other
motives than these? Is Col. La
mar s character of such importance
to the State, that at every buzz of
censure four men must he despatch
ed at public expense to clear away
any imputation that may rest upon
him ?
If the Commissioners sported thus
"'•th the dignity and Treasures of the
State, without instructions. Governor
Troup is acquitted, and Col. Jon--
dain stands before the people of
Georgia, self-accused, and self-con
demned !
In your attack upon my father
you seem to imag ne that bv uniting
bis name with that of Major An
drews, public feeling would be en
listed against him; that the odium
poured upon the special Agent,
would make it an easy task for you
triumph over any one “ found in
his company. But, sir, if report
speakes true—if “ rumour with her
hundred tongues hath not deeply in
jured you—Col. Jourdan is the last
individual to take advantage of the
Agent s infamy ! —Tt Major Andrews
believes that Mr. Fmith is innocent,
and has been treated unkindly, and
my father coincides with him;' that,
m your opinion, amounts to “ an un
hallowed association,” end warrants
from you a 11 severe castigation.”—
I iiis sir, is strange reasoning, and
the. conclusion unfair, as the “ casti
gation has been fechla and illiberal.
But why introduce Maj Andrews,
whether he he the *< invincible heio
of defamation,” or whether you have
1 scroaned a notorious smuggler du
• ing the late war,” are matters en
tirely immaterial to my father. H e
has nothing to do with Kendal Lew
is, '1 imothy P. Andrews, or Warren
Jourdan.—Charges had been pro
{ereii by the Commissioners against
Mr Smith, and the accused in mnk
mg hi- defence necessarily implica
ted the motives of the accusers. It
•he Commissioners are involved jf
the propriety of their conduct is
questioned—this is not the result of
my father’s “ travelling out of the
record;” but arises from the intimate
alliance between the charges and the
defence. But forsooth, Col. Jour
dan must apply every genera! obser
vation specially to himself, and if the
marge ot unkind treatment is brought
against the enemies cf Mr. Smith,
he steps forth and endeavors to cleat
Himself from having “screened a no
oriou3 smuggler during the last
war.” Why sir, so sensitive upon
this subject ?
“ The. flenli will quiver where pincers tear.
The blood will follow w here the knife is
driven.”
The joint charges against my
Other, and his “co-worker” being
disposed of, we now come to the
consideration of the 10th interroga
tory. I shall here be compelled to
make some harsh remarks, though
“ more in sorrow than in anger.”
1 had indeed flattered myself that
whatever might be Col Jourdan’s
reputation, where lie is best known,
that from a decent regard to public
opinion, he was incapable of a bare-!
faced misrepresentation. But my
charitable opinion was based on rot
ten materials. Either his “ credu
lous nature” ha? made him the dupe
ol the designing, or he is guilty of a
fatal and far departure from the pale?
of moral integrity : for th* re is not
only “ quibbling and cunning” in the
mal-position of the intcrogation ; blit
the answer of Mr. Smith is altered :
the conjunction ‘or’ inserted for ‘as,’
thereby varying in a material manner
the sense of the reply.—l ask the
public, is this fair ! Is it honest ?
Below* you see an exact copy of
the interrogation. Why the words
* as accessary’ are written above the
Saw of nations, has been already told.
It was the opinion of Mr. Smith, that
Hawkins was executed ‘ as accessa
ry.’ Whether right or wrong, that
was his honest deliberate opinion ;
and according to the conviction of his
mind he gave his testimony. The
words ‘ as accessary’ belong to the
.answer, not to the interrogatory—
Col. Jourdain knows it—he feels it in
his own heart—Why he conceals it,
and endeavors to spread a wilful and
a malicious error, —we are left to
judge from circumstances.—“ The
writer’s on political (and moral) phi
losophy,” would term this —“a deed
without a name!”
I perceive that yon evasively ad
mit the charge, of stating that you
would net believe the Rov’d. Mr.
Smith on his oath, and afterwards
give an extract, in which the Mis
sionaries observe : “ But as we have
no disinclination to afford you what
ever information may be in our pow
er, we arc willing to answer ques
tions you may propose to us, provi
ded such enquiries are made in wri
ting and our answers may be given
in the same way.” Was not this
written, sir. before Mr. Smith had
any intimation that you, one of the
Commissioners, (and it was not his
duty to seperate your unofficial f<*on>
your official expressions,) had said
in public, that you would not believe
him upon his oath; —and would you
sir, blunted a? may be vour feelings,
have given more explicit, if any an
swer at all ? On this point at least,
when correctly understood, the con
duct of the reverend gentleman will
be approved bv friends and enemies.
The intimation that unfairness was
intended in the copy of the answer
to the 13th interrogation is stuff
mere stuff.—lt appeared thu? in the
Statesman—“ I was present, but Jbe
interpreter spoke so low I could not
hear all lie said.” You assert, how
ever, that this is a species of “ quib
bling and cunning that an honest
mind i? unaccustomed to,” and then
proceed to give us the true answer
—“ I was present but the interpre
ter spoke so low I did not hear all be
said! !” Poor and pitiless ‘quibble,’
this “cunning” from Col. Jourdan,
the would-be Representative from
Jones—the constituent of Van Bu
ren—the gazer at Congress.—“ Oh
tempera, Oh mores!!”
“ The Bishop twice impressively
repeated, &c.” At this part of-my
father’s communication, “you were
led, it seems to doubt tbe sincerity of
the writer,” and believed it “ a spe
cious attempt to practice deception;
and ask when and where did the
Commissioners prefer charges against
Mr Smith, except in their official re
port ?” The charges wore prefeted
by Col. Jones, who personally sup
ported them before a Committee ap
pointed by the Conference in Mil
iedgeviile. Col. Torrence too, I
believe was “present, aiding, abet
ting, and assisting.” Will this satis
fy you, that “ the Commissioners
have been untiring in their persecu
tions of this godly man.”
In vour interrogatory proposed to
my father he can make answer if he
deems proper, in his own good time.
To the end of your address, an
overweaning vanity attends you.—
You are under an optical delusion,
when you imagine that none but your
selt and brother Commissioners can
be “the bitter enemies of Mr. Smith.”
Every general allusion is not intend
ed for yon ; and permit me to say—
Col. Jourdan does not yet fill such a
space in the world’s eve, that every
thing of good and of evil, should bf
identified w ith his name. His friend
ly suggestion, that in a contest with
“ weak tilings,” like himself, none
couhl gather ‘ glory,’ may have been
kindly meant, but was unnecessary.
M e should sooner expect a green
and a bountiful harvest from the
wastes of Sahara.
To Col. Warren Jourdan, T offer
no apology fur the freedom of my re
marks ; a sufficient justification is te
be found in his wanton attack upon a
grty headed minister, with whom 1
am dearly and closely Conner ted.
Had his communication been written
within the pales of courtesy—had h»
no« “travelled out of the record,” j
-bouhi have been spared the unpleas
ant task of answering him, and troub
ling the public.
But sir, your motives are too plain
to be misconstrued. ‘ Stars and gar
ters and titles,’ flit before your ima
gination, and your restless spirit
points to the Congress Hall. Eager
then ot any and every opportunity to
present your name before the public,
you ‘cunningly’ thought by incorpo
rating in vour address, the" hackney
ed subjects, ‘ Indian Agent,’ ‘ An
drews,’ 1 the Treaty,’ and your hon
ourable self, to impress the people
w ith a splendid idea of your patriot
ism and abilities. But, if lam not
mistaken in the character of the
people of Georgia—and I have lived
among them from my infancy,—this
stale artifice will not take; and if
you really and honestly indulge ‘no
other and higher ambition than to
transmit to your posterity a good
name, it were well that you avoid
any thing like public exposure, and
screen yourselt in the shadow of a
shade.
PETER W. GAUTIER, Jr
Monticello, March 21, 1C26.
* H)th. As Hawkins
neither signed the Treaty as accessary f
as a witness, or chief, what
law did he break which re
quired his death ? The law
of Nations.”
t Wc are requested by one of the Georgia
Commissioners, to state, whnt wc believe to
be a fact, that the words “as accessary*,’>
were written by Mr. Smith.— Ed.
FOR THE STATESMAN.
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
(Concluded from our last.)
We must resort finally to some
other test than the letter of a par
ticular sentence, for the interpreta
tion of this law. “He who sticks in
the letter sticks in the bark,” is the
forcible expression of the authorities
on this subject. There is no neces
sity for recourse to extraneous mat
ter, not apparent on the face of the
Act. The subject matter itself,
when properly considered, will mar
shal to order this chaos, and light up
the darkness of this minute research
into the meaning of words. It is the
leader of the band before which it is
placed, or if you please, the sun of
the little world over which i! pre
sides,—it is “to lay ofi the State in
to seven Congressional Districts.”
Now every system has its law, to
speak in the language of ethics, to
which it must conform, or else cease
to exist. Every system has its es
sentia I chant cterestic, or figuratively,
its animating principle, which if you
take from it, it will be no rnor**.—
For instance; roundness from a
globe, breath from an animal, or laws
from a government;—these are their
primordial principles, without which
they cannot be: so with respect to
the electoral laws, the general and
'.lie district plans. It is essential to
the first that the whole number of
Representatives of a State, shall be
chosen by a majority of the whole
number ot voters. Does it not ap
pear equally clear in relation to the
latter, to be essential that some num
ber of Representatives less than the
whole should be chosen hy a majori
ty of some number less than the
whole number of voters; that is, bv
a majority of (he voters in a district.
It is then the essence of the dis
trict plan, that the voters of one
district shall have no choice or elec
tion ot a Representative for another.
It has its bounds marked which it
“ car,not pass Mere it. necessary
to multiply reasons in furtherance of
this view, the Act itself contains a
proviso, “that no person entitled to
vote* for members of the General
Assembly, shall be entitled to vote
♦or Representatives in Congress, in
any other than the Congressional
D.strict in which such person rnav
reside.”
W hence such a provision, but for
the purpose of preventing the voters
ot one district from interfering in the
election oi another ? YY lienee a
similar restriction upon the voter for
members of th * State Legislature,
!»ut to intercept similar mischiefs
arising in the counti- s ? Again ; tho
familiar rule in the expounding of all
remedial statutes cannot be urged in
va ’n —that we should consider the
old law the mischief and the reme
dy, so as to suppress the mischief
and advance the remedy. The old
law need not be repeated—some of
its mischiefs were, management by
a few, encouragi and by the apathy of
the many, arising from a want of im
mediate inrerest, and proper knowl
edge of the candidates, inclination
to aristocracy, and no peculiar tie
consistent with the general obliga
tion, to represent particular parts of
the country—such an one as binds
the members of the State Legisla
ture The remedy is contained in
the Act. Now it is an incontrover
tible rule, even of legal construction,
that all remedial statutes shall be
liberally or beneficially expounded.
It is furthermore advanced, as a rule
equally well established, that the
*We of any instrument shall be
taken for the purpose of explaining
its different parts, and that where
two or more clauses contradict each
•ther, they shall be so construed as
that the instrument may “ rather pi t -
vail than perish.” Take then the
” e< tion of the Act to contradict
the idea of the voter’s choosing,
more than one. Representative "if
-ha!! l e the <!ttfy of the several pre
[March 28,
siding magistrates; throughout this
State, at each and every such elec
tion, to transmit the returns thereof
to his Excellency the Governor, who
shall proceed to declare the person
elected in manner and form now
pointed out by law.” Under the old
law he declared the persons elected
by the returns. But now there can
be but one chosen upon the face of
the respective returns. May we not
from hence conclude, upon every
principle of sound interpretation that
the qualified voters of a district shall
elect one Representative, and not
more than t*ne, in the district where
they may reside —they being consti
tuted by the Act, ns seperate and
distinct political bodies for that very
purpose. This is an important idea,
and if borne in mind, will redeem
even the phraseology of the Act in
the part mostly objected to, from a
construction so foreign to the inten
tion of those who made it. This
latter is so evidently a standard of
interpretation, founded in natural
reason and so universally sanctioned,
that it would seem superfluous for a
Legislative body to insist upon it.
But the framers of the Act under
discussion, in its 6th section have
declared, “ that all laws and parts of
laws militating against the true in
terest and meaning of this Act, be
and the same are (hereby) repeal
ed. Is not this enough to silence
even sophistry itself, and cause tho
• footsteps of the harpy to retire be
fore the noon-tide of truth, thus so
resplendcntly revealed? And will
the people oi'Georgia militate against
the true interest and meaning of the
Act under the tattered banners of a
law repealed ? Let it he remember
ed that, as on the one hand, tyranny
and corruption should not be permit
ted to mask themselves under the
garb ot Legislation, so on the other
a sacred observance of the laws
alone can prevent the fields of abun
dance and peace, from becoming the
theatre of anarchy and war. This
is the rock of our salvation against
the terrors of faction and the fury of
licentiousness. And when parlies iu
their defeat shall be incited to an
evasion, instead of a regular repeal
of a law imposed by a majority,
what scene? of confusion and even
of terror may not ensue! Can a
distracted commonwealth among us
afford no useful admonition? Her
laws administered by clashing juris
dictions—her citizens arrayed in the
habiliments of private war—some
bleeding under the hand of tl»e as
sassin—and others fleeing a country
so ri-pletc with misery and w oe? May
her tragic story warn ns to avert simi
lar scenes ! indeed so great is the
reverence due to the laws and so
sternly required under the popular
foam, that the friends of Monarchy
have drawn an argument in their fa
vor from the facility with which the
laws may he relaxed without endan
gering the existence of their govern
ment. \\ ith this regard for flic law.s
let us all be inspired.
“Snvli virtue Clclia, Codes, Manlius ronsM;
Such were theFabii, IVcii; so inspir'd
The Scipios battled, and tbe Gracchi spoke :
So rose the Roman State.”
And the wisest observers of her
History will fix the era of her de
cline as a Republic at the period of
the intestine feuds and bloody pro
scriptions with which in the first place
Marius and Sylla, in their struggles
for power disgraced her annals, and
which were subsequently renewed in
♦he fatal wars between Pompey and
Cresar, that finally established cat the
rums ot the commonwealth the!
“ i krone of the Ca sars.”
The* remains seme concluding
general remarks upon this subject, to
wdiich we would invite particular ntj
t ntion They relate to the inter*
pretation of the Act, and are as foil
lows : those who claim a right undej
this law to vote for seven Represent
tatives, must derive it either frora
the letter or the spirit of the Act,—4
that they arc not entitled under tlid
former, will be discovered by tliti
following expose ;—the voters if
each district, shall elect one Rcpni
sentative m each district. These ar
in brief the substantial words of th
Act relating to the present purpost
Now the act of choosing, acccrdin
to the literal import, is to be pc.
termed by the voters in each dtstric
m every one of the districts on tl
same day; that is, on the first Mol
day in October next, A. B. C. ki
residing in the second Congrcssiort
District, shall vote in every one If
the seven districts for one Represd*
tative in Congress. This we rep4*
is all that can be demanded of *
letter oi the law in this partial;
part of it. To say nothing of It
impossibility of exercising sucln
right, the idea is rebutted hyp
subsequent words of the shite
which confine the voter to the ‘fi>-
trict in which he may reside.” fSo
that even the verbage of theinv
taken as a whole, redeems itscllW
refutes the claim contended fun if
th.ey will now fly to the spirit oihe
law for protection, we will galitii
them and rejoice to carry into cini
tion the will of those whom, wif- 1
people have appointed to lepfctc
for us. Then will the qualitiarn
!<'rv in each district, according fth®
■ ir• ♦, and ever, in the “so muckirn*
''red words” cf the statute, Bed
one Represent dive in each IfV
(.ovgresstonai Districts, WHEiu:Jiirf
may rf.sife.
„ AGRICOm