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Extract from Mr. Adam's address to
the People of Massachusetts.
The struggle between the common
rights of the people, and the exclusive
privileges of an oath-bound associa
tion, organized for extensive, secret, con
certed action, has been long protracted,
and there is no present prospect of its
termination.
***•♦•
I saw a code of masonic legislation,
adapted to prostrate every principle of
equal justice, and to corrupt every senti
■ rnent of virtuous feeling in the soul ofhhn
who bound his allegianceto it. I saw the
practice ofcommon honesty, the kindness
of Christian benevolence, even the absti
nence from atrocious crimes, limited ex
clusively by lawless oaths and barbarous
penalties, te the social relations between
the drotherhood ofthe craft. I saw slan
der organized into a secret, wide-spread
and affiliated agency, fixing its invisible,
fangs into the harts of its victims, shelter
ed by the darkness of the lodge room, and
armedwith the never-ceasing penalties of
death. I saw self-invoked imprecations
of throats cut from ear to ear, of hearts
and vitals torn out and cast forth to the
wolves and vultures, of skulls smitten off
and hung on spires. I saw wine drank
from a human skull with solemn invoca
tion of all the sins ofits owner upon the
head of him who drank from it. And 1
saw a wretched mortal man dooming him
self to eternal punishment (when the last
trump shall sound) as a guarantee for idle
and ridulous promises.—Such are the
laws of masonry, such their indelible
character, and with that character per
fectly corresponded the history of the
abduction and murder of Morgan, and
the history of masonic lodges, chapters
and encampments, from that day to the
present.
• • • • • •
I should have been insensible to all my
duties, had I closed my eyes to facts, or
turned my ear from argument, and smoth
ered the sense of justice in my soul, for
the privilege of blinking the public ques
tion,Which was convulsing the neighbor
hood in which I lived, by professing to
know nothing about it.
.•** * • * .
Since the execution of the law of ma
sonry upon Morgan by the. co-operation,
amon others, of the Bench, the institution
has been and continues to be, a church
militant; and if in the prosecution of that
warefare it has lost some of its efficiency,
to whom and to what is this diminution
of its power attributable? —To antimason
ry—to political antimasonry alone.—All
the measures taken to bring the murder
ers of Morgan and the incendiaries of
Miller’s house to justice, were taken by
political autimasons. The disclosure of
the masonic oaths, obligations and penal
ties was made by political antimasons.
Political antimasonry and that alone has
prostrated the power of masonry through
out the whole of that region ofthe State of
New York, Yvhere the most atrocious of
her crimes has been committed.
# * * * # *
When the murder of Morgan was first
perpetrated, the instances were frequent
ofits being openly justified by members
ofthe institution, as being but the execu
tion of a penalty, to which he himself had
assented—as it certainly Yvas.
* * * * * *
Freemasonry exercised an absolute
control over all the public, journals edited
by members of the institution, and over
many others by terror and intimidation.
Months and years elasped before the
murder itself was fully proved—nor has
it been judicially proved to this day. The
names indeed of the men who took him
from his dungeon on the 19th of Septem
ber, 1826, and closed atortue of nine days
duration by sinking him in the middle of
Niagara river, are perfectly well known.
It is known that one of them, was, accor
ding to masonic law, upon avowal of his
crime under the seal of the fiftieth liba- ■
tion, and under hot pursuit by the officers '■
ofjustice, furnished by an encampment of
knight-templars inthecity of New York,
with the means of escaping from this
country. But the witnesses to all these
transactions are freemasons—and as ac
cessaries to the crimes of which they are
cognizant, refuse or evade giving judicial
testimony, on the express ground that
they might thereby criminate themselves.
***** *
Masonic juries have been packed by
masonic, sheriffs, for the express purpose
not only of screening the guility from
• punishment, but of falsifying the facts by
presentments and verdicts known to them
selves to be untrue. Masonic witnesses
have refused to testify, and suffered im
prisonment rather than disclose the facts
known to them, even when they did not
criminate themselves. Nor is this all.
When conscience, bursting the band of
masonry, has constrained masonic wit
nesses to testify to crimes in which they
themselves shared, and the secrets ofthe
craft, solitary masonic jurorshave refused 1
their assent to verdicts, upon whteh all
their fellows were agreed, on the avowed
resolution that they would not believe any
testimony ofa seceding mason.
THE MEETING OF CONGRESS.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.
Washington, Nov. 30, 1834.
Again this city has become the theatre
of interest, again the eyes of a nation, that
stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Bay of Fundy, from Madawaska on the
north-eastern frontier to the deep dark wil
derness ofthe far far west, upon its rulers.
The man from the cold rocky north, and
he who comes from the sunny south—
from the land ofthe oliveand orange now
welcome each other and every mail route,
pointing wherever it may has brought or
is bringing.hither thcßepresentatives of a
great people. I ever witness this specta
cle with delight and enthusiasm, and I
cannot but give an utterance to the feeling.
What a territory is this that our flag floats
over!—a continuous territory too, not of
colonies where armies are needed to keep
them in awe, and when themoving drum
and the red coat remained the subject that
a Government now of his creation is felt
and has dominion there. What a territo
ry, indeed, and whose heart does not ex
ult at the spectacle ofits assembled Rcpre
sentatives—as they come in from the Mis
souri, the Mississippi, the Red River, from
from the pine barren, the rich alluvial
formations, from under the moss-groYvn
trees of the south—the rich and wide ex
tended prairies ofthe west —the inagnifi
cient lakes of the north —from the thick
busy humming population of New Eng
land —that universal yankee nation, pres
ent every where, in quest of every thing,
ambitious for all purposes,and faltering at
nothing. What a variety of interest and
occupations too these men must represent!
Here, from southern Louisiana, comes the
representatives from the land of sugar—
and there, from the eastermost district of
Maine, is the representatives from the land
of logs and lumber, and the fisheries,
and though he may not boast of the ruddy
orange, yet he can boast of the excellent
potatoe.
Here is the representative of cotton, rice
and tobacco, and then comes the man from
the music of the spinning jennies, and
the roar of the waterfall. Here is the man
from the land of corn and wheat—and
there is a man from the land of his purcha
sers—the producers of nations—from
them who live by their wit and ingenuity.
Here is the guardian of a mighty commer
cial interest, that braves the deep, and
spreads the national flag on every sea—•
and there is the son ofthe hardy yeoman
ry, the men of nerve and sinew—with iron
muscles —and adventurous spirit. Al
most all the multiplied productions of the
earth are ours,so broad is our line of long
itude, so varied our latitude—and here are
their Representatives assembling in one
acknowledging one government, and
epeaking one common language! Twen
ty-four States already make up our Con
federacy—and yet there is ample territo
ry for almost as many more. The Old
Thirteen will more than see its number
i doubted before another census. Michig
an is already knocking at our doors, clai
ming as a right what we have refused as
a boon. Arkansas has already come.
Florida is coming. And there is the
Northwest Territory, already teeming
with population. And then fhere is the
vast Missouri, to’which imagination can
hardly fix a bound. What a public do
main we have! How vast, how magniffi
cently vast! What resources, that out
run even vivid calculation; and astonish
and mock at prudence! What rivers, that
make the European at his little rills! 1
do indeed exult as an American when I
witness the re-assembling of Congress—
and I bless the destiny that madejmean A
merican. And if the people be kept intelli
gent —if education continue to win its vo
taries —if free schools but conquer preju
dices, interest, and ignorance—and, more
than all, if the Union be preserved by
moderation in the general Government,
and the laws be administered for the ben
efit of the whole and not of a part, then
indeed a destiny awaits us, more exalted,
more instructing, more sublime, than even
that which aggrandized, and which now
throws such a lustrous cloud over Rome,
the moi her of Empires.
Executive Department Ga. ?
Milledgeville, Dec. 6, 1834, $
1 herewith transmit to the House of
Representatives, an extract from a letter
recently received nt this department, from
Major Benjamin F. Curry, Enrolling
Agent es the United States, and stationed
in the Cherokee County for the purpose of
superintending that service. Upon exam
ination* this communication will be found
to sustain the views which 1 submitted
to the General Assembly at the commence
ment ofthe present session, in regard to
the perilous situation of our Indian popu
lation, who are friendly to the emigra
ting policy, as well as the hazardous con
dition ofthe agents of the government i
engaged in that service; and indeed it 1
clearly exhibits the exposed situation of
our entire population tn that section of the
state.
Major Curry is an intelligent and high
ly responsible agent of the United States
government, who from the nature of his
public duties, and from the fact of having
spent most of his time for several years
past in the Cherokee Country, is there
fore, of all others, best qualified to form a
correct opinion in regard to the true state
of things, now existing in that section of
the state.
VV ith due deference and respect to the
Gem i-.il Assembly, 1 trust that my soli
citude, so repeatedly expressed, for appro
priate legislation-to meet the present state
of the country, will not be considered ob
trusive. It is clear and obvious, that the
leaders ofthe Cherokees, who are suppos
ed to the policy ofthe government; atded
and countenanced, as they are, by a
small portion of our own population; will
never yield obedience and respect to the
laws of our State, until they are compelled
to do so by appropriate laws, faithfully ex
ecuted.
Where the question ofthe Sovereignty
and jurisdiction of the State over its en
tire soil and population is involved, no
I faction should be permitted to thwart the
’ policy of the State jifth impunity- What
ever diversity of opinion may div.de our
constituents on minofTftib}ects, I feel assur
ed that in regard to our Iqng settleclndian
policy, no deceptive arts of-the pen or the
press, can ever induce the |eople of Geor
gia to abandon their rights, and retro
gadefrom the ground which they have
taken in regard to this subject.
WILSON LUMPKIN.
Head of Coosa, Nov. 18, 1834.
To his Excellency Wilson Lumpkin
Sir.—l am now at John Ridge’s where
a council is to be held on the 27th instant
•; in order to organize a party favorably dis
posed to Cherokee removal. An election
ofchiefs, in favour of transplanting the
tribe, will beheld at this meeting; and a
delegation is to be appointed to go to the
city of Washington, to memorialize Con.
gross and do every thing else in their pow
er to ensure the ratification of A. Ross’
Treaty, and defeat John Ross’ plan of
citizenizing the remnant tribe, by which
the poor ignorant Indians would be left,
after spending their substance, vagabonds
in the land, John Ross has runners out
at a pay of two dollaas per day, procuring
names, from the infant babe up to old
age.—The question put is, "do you love
youi landV' Ifthey answer in the affirm
ative, their names are put to a long mem
orial protesting against A. Ross’ Treaty.
By these agents we expect douhle the
number returned against said treaty that
reside (of that tribe) east of the Mississip
pi-
The efforts to bring about a revoluion
in the minds of the Indians, some mem
bers of the treaty party have already been
slain, while the lives of others are every
day threatened. Last spring whilst Maj.
Ridge and his friends were on their way
to Washington City, an ambuscade was
formed by a party of Indians, whose pur
pose was to stop them; they were armed
with all the implements of war; but the
Major and his friends, having taken a
road different from that anticipated by the
opposite party, passed in safety, Sleep
ing Rabbit headed this party in ambush.
One of the party being a member of the
church, was called to answer before that
body ; whereupon he declared they acted
under instructions from New-Tow, where
Lewis Ross and the brother-inlaw of
John were, at the time the instructions
must have been. Every day’s experience
confirms me in the opinion these are not
by any means the result of idle conversa
tion; there is danger, and those who
threaten most danger to Ross plans, are
in the greatest peril; for the Indians, by
long custom and usage, have acted upon
the suggestions of their principal chief,
as implicitly as if ihey were direct reve
lations from Heaven. Not long since, a
traveller passing near Dirt Town, in
Floyd County, was murdered. His bones
and the bones of his horse, hare baep
fonnd. Indian rumour says upwardwf
a thousand dollars was taken fr«m him
at the time of the murder. Smith, a
Cherokee, was arrested, but discharged
for the want of proof, as, though Indian
talk had given all the details of transac
tions before, when called to swear, their
repugnance at the idea ot swearing, before
a white man against one of their own
people, was so great, that none vould
swear to the facts, and all pleaded igno
rance. A few days ago the dead tody of
another traveller was found on the road
through the Alabama part of the nation,
on Racoon mountain. A tew days ago a
Cherokee killed his fellow traveler, and
on being arrested and carried befcre the
Council,was dismissed; he was acquitted
because there was no proof of nalice.
This murder is said to have occu-red in
Georgia. This same Council had also
, two men arrested and brought befoic it on
i a charge of having murdered Baker, a
white man, and McPhearson, and altho’
this honorable body insinuates, the cffence
was committed by the Indians, arested by
their own order, they were dismiss’d for
want of evidence. Hog Smith, a Cherokee
is now under sentence of death by the cir
cuit court of Walker County, Georgia for
the same outrage, where it is preiumcd
! the most ample yroof tvas adduced of his
guilt, When t e leavos again put out,
Inbian rumour says there is to be more
killing. In this state of things the inter
position of the legislature, in affording
protection to a party yet in its infancy, con
tending against jjthat supremacy which
; custom has given their nominal leader,
John Ross, over the minds of the inulti
; tude, seems to be called for; where reser
j vees and descendents are in the opinion of
f the commander of the guards heartily en
, gaged in furthering the cause of this pat
| riotic band, headedby John Ridge, would
I it not be well to give them tim to persuade
their friends, as well as to settle up their
affairs before they are rejected?
A guard should be forthwith organized,
to keep peace; and aid the civil authorities
in the execution ofthe law; without an en
ergetic commander, but little good be ex
pected to result from thetr appointment.
I have the honor to be, &c.
[Signed,] BENJ F. CURREY.
A Mr. Turner, a lawyer well known
in Vermont for his witty sayings at the
bar, was one day pleading a case before
Chief Justice. Tyler, when he made use
of some keen but painful satire, which ev
idently was aimed at the bench. The
Judge winceda little, and endeavored to
call the speaker to order by saying,
“None of your small shots here Mr.
Turner.”
“Jfay it please your honor,” replied the
advocate, “we always proportion our shot
to the nature of our erame,”
AUGUSTA, j
KIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 183 4.
LATE FROM ENGLAND. j
The New York papers contain advices from I
England to the 11th of November, brought by [
the Sheffield. The only political news of par- 1
ticular interest is the dissolution of the French
Ministry. We extract the following from the
Commercial Advertiser:
The French Ministry has been dissolved, but
a new one had not been formed at the latest ad
vices from Paris. The following names are
mentioned as likely to form part of a new Min
istry. Marshal Soult to be President, and to
have the war department; Count Mole, For
eign Affairs; M. de Montalivet, Minister of the
Interior; Count d’Argout, Finances; M. Cou
sin, Public Instruction; M. Charles Dupin,
Commerce; M. Beranger, Justice; Admiral
Jacob to remain Minister of Marine.
It does not appear why the Ministry has thus
fallen to pieces. The formation of a new min
istry is said to have been confided to Count
Mole ; and it is supposed that he will be able to
bring Messrs. De Rigny, Thiers, and Humann,
back into the cabinet, to resume the direction of
the same departments over which they had pre
viously presided, with the exception of Admiral
De Rigny, who is to go back to the Ministry of
Marine, that of Foreign Affairs having been
intrusted to Count Mole, in addition to the Presi
dency of the Council.
Count Mole is said to be rather more favor
able to the northern powers than to England
The papers announce the death of the only
son of Prince Frederick of Holland. He was
of course heir presumptive to the crown of that
Kingdom.
Lisbon dates were to the 25th of October, to
which time tranquility continued to prevail.
Count Napier had retired from the Portuguese
service, laden with titles and dignities, and a
handsome pension to sustain them.
The contest in Spain retains its previous char
acteristic ferocity and insignificance. The
General of Don Carlos had taken two Generals
of the Queen’s forces prisoners—and on the
other hand, Mina having assumed the command
of the royal army, the pretender found himself
under the necessity of uniting with Zumalecar
reguy for greater security. The King of Naples
is said to have recognized Don Carlos King of
Spain.
England.—The privy council, having inves
tigated the circumstances of the fire at West
minster have come to the conclusion that it was
wholly the result of accident. Mr. Cross, how
ever, to whom the act is attributed, has been
discharged from employment.
Considerable alarm has been excited in ma
ny districts of England, in consequence of mul
tiplied acts of incendiarism.
Ametican Stocks, Nov. 6.—U. States Bank
Shares, 231. a23 5; New York Fives, 105, Sixes,
114 a 115; Pennsylvania Fives, 102 J; Ohio
Sixes, 104 a 1031; Louisiana, Barings, 102;
Missississippi, 103$; do. new, 108.
Turkey.—Serious discord is said to have
broken out in the districts of Naplouse and Je
rusalem, between the inhabitants and the Egypt
ion authorities. Excessive taxation is the al
leged cause.
STILL LATER.
The ship Victorira, Capt. Merrill, arrived at
New York sth inst. brings Liverpool papers of
the 12th, and London of the evening of the 10th
ult.
The following is the only item we find by this
arrival in relation to the Cotton market. The
New York Gazette ofthe 6th inst. says—“We
learn from Capt. Merrill, that on the 14th,
3,000 bags of cotton were sold at Liverpool at
full prices, and on the 12th; a good demand and
large business likely to be done, on account of
the favorable state of Tuesdays Manchester mar
ket for Yarn.”
In relation to the French Ministry, the Journ
al des Debates of Nov. B,says-“lnnumerable ar
rangements haver been talked of, but no new
Ministry wascomposed at 12 last night.”
Col. Drayton.— The Philadelphia National Ga
zette ofthe 28th ult. contains a communication
nominating Col. Wm. Drayton, for the Presi
dency of the United States. To the warm eco
miums of the writer, the Editors of this Gazette
says:—“Of this gentlemen, we believe every
thing that is said to be true —we mean in relation
to personal merits. He is entitled to universal
respect and confidence.”
The Hon. John M. Clayton, of Delaware,
has given notice that he intends to resign his
seat in the Senate of the United States early in
January next.
We perceive that Governor Tazewell, says
the Petersburg Intellgencr, has been nominated
in several papers, as a candidate for President
of the United States.
We learned by a letter received last night
irom Columbia, says the Charleston Courier,
that the Report of the Joint Committee on Fed
eral Relations, declaring “the allegiance requi
red by the Oath of office in the proposed amend
ment ot the Constitution, is the allegiance
which every citizen owes to the State, consis
tently with the Constitution of the United States,”
was adopted, on Tuesday last by both branches
of the Legislature—in the Senate, Yeas 32,
Nays 4—in the House, Yeas, 90, Nays 28.
Those who voted in the negative, it is believed,
were the most violent of the dominant party.
This fneasnre is understood to have been offer
ed and passed in the spirit of conciliation—and
if our opponents leave the Judiciary untouched,
and reject the Treason Bill, we see before us a
prospect of restored harmony—of quiet and re
pose, in our long distracted community.
Disasterson the European Coast.— The Now.
York Commercial Advertiser of the 4th inst
says—“We mentioned, yesterday that much
damage had been done to the shipping by recent
gales on the European coast. In addition to
the accounts previously published, we have to
day to anouuce the total loss of the ship Hero
ine, Capt. Kneeler, from New York for Rotter
dam, with all her crew. The Heroine had a
cargo of Oil. One account says that two sea- !
men were saved and reached Rotterdam. The
brig Spring, Captain Hornby, from this port,
for Hamburg, has also been lost with ten of her
crew. Letters from Amsterdam of the last Oc
tober, mentioned that many vessel, were repor
ted to be drifting in the North Sea, dismasted.
The same account states that a vessel, laden
with staves, was lost near Fingland, and that
all her crew had perished.
By accounts from Flushing of the 25th of Oc
tober, we learn that the Amelia, Reynegan,
from Newcastle for Philadelphia, was aban
doned by the crew 23d ult., having been struck
on the North Rassen Bank, and it is feared, will
be totally lost. Part of the cargo was washed
on the island of Cadsand.”
The New-Orleans Bulletin of Nov. 26, says,
the season has been favorable for the growth of
the Sugar Cane. At Bishop’s there is exhibi
ted a stalk of twenty feet in length, and about
seven inches in circumference, taken from
among hundreds of the same magnitude, on the
plantation of Maunsel White, Esq.
It is curious to see the attempts of the oppo
sition to bend every circumstance to their own
political ends. The following is among the
most ingenious:
“ The President advises a very grave mea
sure, and asks a highly important discretion,
agdinst France. He possesses already the pow
er of the purse;—what he suggests is equivalent
to the war-power. Put this into his hands, also,
and the country may be thrown into a condi
tion which will render inevitable a virtual, man
ifold despotism. This feud with France is
doubly unfortunate at the present crisis: it tends
to kindle the military spirit so favorable to the
sway of the military chief, and the designs of
those who wield and abuse his personal in
fluence ; it diverts the attention of Congress
and the country from internal malversation
and encroachment—from the strides of usur
pation and corruption at home; —from the res
cue of our constitution and liberties, which is
the first of our interests and duties.”
The following is a list of the Stockholders of
the Merchants and Planters Bank, with the a
mount of stock held by each, viz:
Richard C. Baldwin, 300 shares, Augusta,
N. K. Butler & Co. 10 “ do
E. Carrie, 1 “ do
Philip Crane’s estate, 10 “ do
William Harper, 20 " do
Joseph K. Kilburn, 458 “ do
Sylvester L. Fowler, 234 " Baltimore,
John C. Holcombe, 10 “ Charleston,
Horatio Bent, 20 “ Augusta
William Robinson, 901 " do
Edward Thomas, 418 " do
George H. Paddock, 234 " do
S. J. Thomas, 20 " do
E. L. Thomas, 10 “ do
E. E. Thomas, 10 " do
M. J. Thomas, 10 " do
Thomas Taylor 300 “ Macon
Horace S. Pratt, 32 " St. Marys, Ga.
L. G. W. Pratt, 1 “ do
J. W. Pratt, 1 “ do
3000 shares, at $75 each, $225,000.
And the following are the names of the Di
rectors of the same, viz:
Richard C. Baldwin, William Robinson,
N. K. Butler, Edward Thomas,
Joseph K. Kilburn, George H. Paddock,
Horatio Bent, Thomas Taylor,
William Harper,*
JOHN A. BARNES, Cashier.
• Not having yet served.
Frem the Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 8. 1834.
This morning, in the House, Mr. Rogers laid
on the table the following resolution, which was
token up and agreed to, and Messrs. Rogers,
Meriwether, Sims, McFarland, and Traver, ap
pointed a committee to carry into effect the ob
ject of the resolution.
Whereas, his excellency the Governor, in his
message to the legislatnre at the commence
ment of the present session, gave information
that John W. Hooper, Judge of the Cherokee
Circuit, had obstructed the policy of the state
upon the Cherokee subject, and refused to ad
minister the laws passed for the regulation of
the Cheroeees.—
And whereas, many of the citizens of the
Cherokee Circuit complain of grievances arising
from the administration of the said Judge Hoop
er ; and whereas, it is publicly reported, that the
said Judge did, in an extra-judicial manner,meet
John Ross and other Cherokee chiefs, together
with their attorneys, at the house of Blackwall
Adair, an Indian, for the purpose of maturing
resistance to the laws of this state:
De it therefore resolved, That a committee be
forthwith appointed, for the purpose of investi
gating the entire judicial administration of the
said Judge Hooper, and that said committee
have power to send for persons and papers, and
should they deem it expedient, to report by ar
ticles of impeachment, by address, or otherwise.
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated
WASHINGTON, DEC. 3. 1831.
“ We to-day had the President’s Message,
which, if I may judge from the approbation of
friends, and acquiescence of enemies, promises
to be one of the most popular papers of the kind
the President has ever issued. It is indeed a
sensible and patriotic production in the main,
and. I think, will, with few exceptions, be free
from the criticism even of the opposition. They
will doubtless say that the “ding dong ” about
the bank is nothing but the crazy patchwork of
an old story; and perhaps the message would
have lost nothing if this thread-bare subject had
been left out of it. But the old man could not
have been made to believe that the job was
complete, without a pass or two at this falling
corporation. At present, we have every prom
i ise of a quiet and orderly session. The oppo
| sit ion is beaten; they good-naturedly acknotv-
I ledge the fact, and seem to submit to their defeat
i with becoming temper and patriotic submission.
I Ifthey will only give up their schemes of ambi
i tion and join the democricy in reforming the !
I abuses of the government—cut off several mil- i
j lions of useless expenditure, and give us the ad
| vantages of our happy government without its
j abuses, they should be forgiven for all their of
fences, even for the farcical assumption of the
■ name of ‘ Whig.’ ”
FOR THE COURIER.
A writer, in the Courier of the 10th, over the
signature of “ Principle.” has asked, “ a few
plain and simple questions” of “ whom it may
concern,” respecting the Merchants and Plan
ters Bank, in her “ old and new” capacity. I
do not notice that writer’s article, as the apolo
gist of the “old,” or the advocate of the “ new”
dynasty of that institution, but simply to call his
attention to the bad tendency of his remarks at
this particular juncture. The Legislature hav
ing taken cognisance of the matter, they should
be allowed to be tried upon the counts which
have been made up against them, without irri
tating the public mind, which, it will again do,
if the subject is agitated before their case can
be adjudicated before the proper tribunal. I
cannot, for myself, see what benefit can result
to the public, at this late day, from a newspa-
per “ review” of the course which the “ old*
managers of the institution found themselves
necessitated, from the current of peculiar cir
cumstances, to pursue. The “ new” ones offer
fairly, and as they are known to be men of ac
tual wealth, and have notified the bill holders to
forward the “ credits” of the Bank & have them
“ retired,” if “ Principle” has been shaved, he
should pocket the loss with a good grace. The
holders had due notice not to part with their
bills until their “ real value” could be ascertain
ed, —that has been done, and they are found to
be exactly of the value specified in each bill.—
Let those that doubt it satisfy themselves.
VERILY.
Wahsington, Dec. 4, 1834.
IN SENATE
The following message was received
from the President of the United States by
Mr. Donelson his Secretary:
To THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES;
I transmit to Congress a commmunica
tion addressed to me, by Mr. George
Washington Lafayette, accompany
ing a copy ofthe Declaration of Indepen
dence, ingraved on copper, which his il
lustrious father bequeathed to Congress,
to be placed in their library, as a last trib
ute of respect, patriotic love, and affection
for his adopted country.
$ I have a mournful satisfaction in trans
mitting this precious bequest of that great
and good man, who, through a long life,
under many viscissitudes, and in both
hemispheres, sustained the principles of
civil liberty asserted in that memorable
Declaration, and who, from his youth, to
the last moment of his life, cherished for
our beloved country the most generous
attachment.
ANDREW JACKSON.
4th December, 1834.
(The letter enclosed in the above.)
Paris, June 15, 1834.
Sir: A great misfortune has given me
more than one solemn and important duty
to fulfil, and the ardent desire of accom
plishing with fidelity my father’s last will,
emboldens me to claim the patronage of
the President of the United States, and bis
benevolent intervention, when I am obli
gedrespectfully and mounfully to address
the Senate and Representatives of a
whole nation.
Our forever beloved parent possessed a
Copperplate, on which was inscribed the
first engraved copy of the American De
claration of Independence, and his last in
tention, in departing this world, was, that
the precious plate should be presented to
the Congress of the United States, to be
deposited in their Library, as a last tri
bute of respect, patriotic love add affec
tion, for his adopted country.
Will it be permitted to me, a faithful
disciple of that American School, whose
principles are so admirably exposed in
that immortal declaration, to hope that you,
sir, would do me the honor to communi
cate this letter to both Houses of Congress
at the same time that, in the name of his
afflicted family, you would present to
them my venerable father’s gift,
In craving suchan important favor, sir,
the Son of General Lafayette, the adopted
Grand-Son of Washington, knows, and
shall never forget, that he would become
unworthy of it, if he was ever to cease to
be a French and American patriot.
With the utmost respect, I am, Sir,
Your devoted and ob’t servant,
GEORGE W. LAFAYETTE.
Savannah, Dec. G, 1834.
With feelings of deep regret we an
nounce the murder of another individual,
Mr. James Wise, in this city last evening
about 10 o’clock. The wound was in
flicted on the back of the left shoulder
blade, with a knife commonly called a
Jack-knife, about nine and a half inches
in length, and half an inch in width, which
made a cut about an inch and a half in
width, and which penetrated into the ca
vity of the body,passing through the great
artery leading to the heart, which caused
instant death. The deceased was a pea
ceable and industrious young man, a na
tive of Bulloch county, in this Stat®, where
he has left an aged father and mother, and
numerous other relations to deplore his
untimely end. As the individual charg
ed with the offence has been committed to
Jail to a wait his trial, which will take
place at the session ofthe Superior Court
commencing in this city on the first Mon
day in January next, we forbear entering
into more minute particulars at present.
A Coroner’s Inquest was held over the
body this afternoon, and the Jury in their
Verdict state, “that from the evido” a be
fore them, the said wound was i. ed By
one George R Harding, on the nigat ofthe
sth of December, U 34, and that the said
George R. Harding is guilty of wilful
murder and malice afore-thought.”’
An ignorant fellow being about to be
married, resolved to make himself perfect
in the responces of the service; but by
mistake got by heart the office of baptism
for riper years, so when he was asked in
the church, “Will you have this wo
man,” &c. he answered,
I renounce them all.”
The clergyman said, “I think you are
a fool.”
To which ho replied; "All this I stead
fastly belieY r e.”
"Isn't there a large tree standing before
your door?” inquired a wag, of a greea
looking Jonathan, from the country.
“Yes—whv?” was the answer.
“Because,’ said the wag, "I thought
from your appearance you grew in the
shade.
FOUR months after date application will be
made to the Court of Ordinary of Lincoln
County for leave to sell the Land and Negroes
belonging to the estate of Thomas Floranee
late of Lincoln County deceased for tne benefit
of the heirs of said estate.
WILEY G. TATOM, I . , ,
VAN ALLEN COLLORS. $ rs
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