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LNSENATEr^^
Mo.no.w, 2Gth Nov.
Committees to prepare bills were ap
pointed in pursuance of yesterday’s no
ticcs.
BILLS REPORTED.
To authorise Kenneth McKenzie to
establish a terry across the Chattahoochic
river, on his own land.
To authorise the purchase of an addi
tional number of mate slaves, to be placed
on the public road ifoin Augusta to Pctcrs
burgh.
To x-epeal so much of the tax laws of
this State, as requires all practitioners of
law and physic to pay the sum of four
dollars.
BILLS PASSED.
To repeal so much of the Ist sec. of the
appropriation act of 1775, as requires fees
to be paid to the Secretaries in the Ex
ecutive Office on Head Right Grants.
To provide for the appointment of a
Trustee of the poor school fund of Emanu
el county.
To add a part of the county of Cherokee
to the county of Campbell.
ACT ENROLLED AND SIGNED.
To appropriate money to meet the
various expenses of the land and gold
lotteries, and to pay the arrearages for
surveying the land and gold region, &c.
The bill to repeal the 2d sec. of an act
to appoint eleven additional Trustees oi
the University of Georgia, &c., was order
ed to lie upon the table the balance of the
session.
Notices for Committees to Report bills. /
By Mr. Graham—to repeal the Ist
sec. of an act, passed Nov. 1831; to ex
tend the time for fortunate drawers in the
land lotteries of 1818 and ’ll), to take out
their grants.
Mr. Towns- -to reduce the present
number of justices of the Inferior court,
and to define more particularly the juris
diction of said court.
Mr. Muncricf-—to make valid all sales
heretofore made by tax collectors of land,
not granted at the time of sale. Ad
journed.
Tuesday, Nov. 21th, 1832.
Committees were appointed in pursu
ance of notices of yesterday.
BILLS REPORTED.
To legalize and make valid all sales of
land heretofore made by tax collectors of
this State, without grants to said land be
ing issued.
BILLS PASSED.
To repeal the 7th, Bth and 9th sections
of an act to prevent the exercise of assu
med and arbitrary power, bv all persons
under pretext of authority from Cherokee
Indians and their laws.
To sell lots No. 10 and 100, in the sev
eral districts in Lowndes county, reserved
for academical purposes.
To exempt all persons who have been
engaged in a duel, either directly or indi
rectly, from the pains and penalties and
disabilities thereby incurred.
To repeal an act to abolish Penitentia
ry imprisonment in this State, &c. (This
bill having passed both Houses, only re
quires the signature of the Governor to be
come a law.)
Notices to appoint committees.
By Mr. Baxter—to require the sheriffs
of the respective counties in the Cherokee
Circuit, to advertise all their sales of land
for the next three years, in one of the pa
pers of Mil ledge vilie -
Mr. Beall to add an additionalnumber
of Trustees to the Carroll County Aca
demy.
Mr. Wofford—to incorporate a mining
company in the county of Habersham.
Mr. Lucas- -to establish a Mayor’s
court in the town of Columbus.
Adjourned.
, , Wednesday , Nor. 28.
Committees were appointed to prepare and
report bills in pursuance of yesterday’s no
tices.
Notices to appoint committees to report bills:
By Mr. Baxter—rto incorporate the Darien
Baptist Church in the county of Hancock.
Mr. Smith—to repeal an act to alter and a
tnend the act incorporating the Savannah, O
gechee and Altamaha Canal company :
To repeal an act of Dec. 1830, giving the
principal superintendant of public hands the
power of working on such roads as he may
think most conducive to the public interest.
Mr. Wofford—to lay out and form anew
division from the counties of Walton, Gwin
nett, Newton, DcKalb, Cobb, Paulding, Cass,
Floyd, and Murray, and to add the counties
of Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, and
Cherokee to the 7th division Georgia Militia.
Mr. Echols of Walton—to incorporate the
Social Circle in Walton county.
REPORTS:
The joint committee on the state of the Re
public to whom were referred sundry resolu
tions from the Legislature of the State ofTen
lessce, beg leave to submit the following Re
port :
The first resolution which presents itself for
lie consideration of your committee, lms for
ts object the sale “of all the vacant lands
>wncd or claimed by the United States, in any
of the States or Territories, as soon as it can
be reasonably done at a graduated price.”
Your committee do not deem it necessary
to enter into detail upon the various projects
which have originated from different quarters
and been advocated with much zeal and inge
nuity, to change the mode of disposing of the
public lands. The fundamental rules which
ought to govern in tiicsc sales, arc well set
tled and thoroughly understood. A gradua
tion of price, so that it shall be in proportion to
the value of the soil, instead of being as it
now is, invariable, is one of the objects pro
posed in the resolution under consideration.
Your committee are not prepared to admit
that such a measure would be wise, were itj
practicable. Some slight alteration may be
desirable, but (bey are decidedly of opinion
that any change, the object of which shall be
to throw into market a larger quantity than is
required to meet the increase of population,
would be unwise in policy and injurious in its
effects.
The public lands were ceded by the States
or subsequently acquired by the U. States, for
the common benefit, and after the sale of the
Bank Stock, will be the only source from
which the general government can devise a
revenue iieteueudciit of taxation. It Would
therefore seem to be sound policy to continue
to guard it with the most scrupulous care.
Another resolution emanating from the same
source, proposes a distribution of the proceeds
of ul! the public lands to the States and Ter
ritories for the purposes of education.
Your committee are unable to discover up
on what grounds this power should be claim
ded for the general government, when that to
appropriate money for internal improvements,
is expressly denied; and they are of opinion
that they are alike unconstitutional, lfafter
paying the national debt, and relieving the
country from duties and tmpos’s upon its com
merce, the general government shall at any
time find itself in the possession of a surplus
revenue from the sales of the public lands, it
will then, and not till then, he time to decide
how it shall be disposed of.
The “peculiar scope which it has been said
tiie powers of the general government have
over this part of the public property, extends
no farther in the opinion of your committee,
than to place the proceeds in the Treasury,
and to apply them, as all other branches of
the public revenue should be applied, only to
the just wants of the government. With these
views your committee recommend the adop
tion of tiie following resolutions:
Resolved, that tiie General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, docs not concur with the
General Assembly of the State of Tennessee,
in recommending a change in the mode of dis
posing of the public lands.
Resolved, tiiat the General government has
no power under the constitution to distribute
any part of tiie public revenue to the States
and Territories, for the purposes of education.
Resolved, that his excellency the Governor
bd requested to fovvnrd to our Delegation m
Congress a copy of this report and these reso
lutions, and that copies be fowarded to the
Governors of the several States.
A commendatory report on the reports of
Franklin College, was made by the joint stan
ding Committee on public education, and
agreed to
An act, to repeal an act abolishing peni
tentiary imprisonment, &c. from the House
was presented and signed by the President,
and sent to the Governor for his assent.
Bills reported-
To establish election precincts in the comi
ties of Union and %nnpkin.
To define the line between the counties of
Marion and Sumpter.
For the relief of Roger M. Carthy.
To repeal an act to extend the time for for
tunate drawers in the Land Lotteries of 1818,
’ll), and’2l, to take out their grants
To alter the 9th sec. of the 3d art. of the
Constitution respecting divorces.
To add to the number of Trustees to the
Carroll county Academy. Adjourned.
Thursday, Nov. 29.
Committees were appointed agreeably to
notices of yesterday, to prepare and repeat
bills.
BILLS REBOP.TED.
Ta prevent any teacher from receiving
any payment out of the poor school fund of
Lowndes county, unless such teacher shall
have been examined and found qualified.
To amend and consolidate the several acts
passed for the incorporation of Macon.
To incorporate the Darien Baptist Church
in the county of Hancock.
To organise a mayors court in the town of
Columbus.
Notice to appoint a Committee to prepare
a bill.
By Mr. Wood ’of Heard —to place a part
of the public hands on the road leading from
LaGrange in Troup county, to Franklin in
Heard County, thence to Carrollton in Car
roll county.
Several bills and resolutions passed by the
House were received for concurrence. Ad
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday, November 24
Committees were appointed upon the
notices of yesterday.
The following message was received
from his Excellency the Governor.
Executive Department, Ga. i
Milledgcville, Nov. 23,1832.
From the ambiguity of several acts of
the Legislature, in relation to the distribu
tion of the funds set. apart for Academies
and Poor Schools, doubts and difficulties
have arisen, and will again arise, which I
consider it my duty to present to the con
sideration of the Legislature, with the re
quest that an explanatory act may he
passed which will remove the embarrass
ment complained of.
Under the provisions of the act of the
General Assembly, passed on the 6th De
cember, 1832, entitled “ An act to distri
bute certain funds among the several coun
ties in this State, for the use of Academics,
and to provide a method of obtaining fur
ther information concerning endowments
heretofore granted.” Amongst other
things, it is provided “ that each county
shall have an equal part of the sum to be
distributed until each shall have received
S2OOO, including the amount already re
ceived in cash or confiscated property at
one eighth of the amount given for the
same ; after which each couuty shall have
a distributive share of the fund's arising, in
proportion to the resjicetivc population of
each county.”
Now it is obvious, that from flic annual
creation of new counties, the day is yet
far distant when all the counties of this
State, will have received S2OOO, for the
MACON ADVEEI'S’ISEE.
endowment of their respective Academies,
if the new counties only draw an equal
dividend of the annual disbursements
which is provided lor county tftademics,
consequently under tiie provisions of the
existing acts, every county iq the State
regardless of population, has anfl will con
tinue to receive an equal proportion of the
Academic fund, until the Legislature shall
provide by law for the equalize (jua of the
distribution according to population.
I will also call the attention of the Le.
gislature to the act pasood 22d Dec. 1823,
entitled an act “ to alter and amend an
act passed 13th Dec. 1822, to distribute
the Bank Dividends, and other nett pro
ceeds of the Boor School fund among the
different counties of this State,” wiich
said act declares, “ that the sum of $20,-
( KK), out of the proceeds of the poor school
lund, shall be annually distributed among
the counties of this State.” And yet ex
perience has demonstrated that the pro
ceeds of the poor school do not every year
amount to the said sum of 820,000, never
theless, tire Governor is required to make
annual distribution. My object in present
ing these discrepancies in our laws, i/pon
a subject of much interest to the commu
nity, is not only to relieve the Executive
from embarrassment in the execution of
laws, which appear to conflict in their pro
visions, hut to suggest the propriety of
clear and distinct legislation upon the
several subjects submitted. 11' it he in
tended by the Legislature, that every new
county, which has been, or mat be crea
ted, shall receive the sum of tf-000, for
the endowment of Academies tiie fund
from which the money shall ke drawn,
should be pointed out. If it he intended
by the Legislature that each county in
the State shall receive an equal distribu
tive share ot the academic fund, regard
less of population, the law should be ex
plicit and plain on the subject.
It it be intended to make an annual dis
tribution oi tiie proceeds of the poor school
l und, whatever may be the amount of said
proceeds, let it be defined so as to leave
no doubt upon the subject.
WILSON LUMPKIN.
The bill to amend the Habeas Corpus
law ot this State, was taken up read a
third time, and rejected by the House.
Air. Liddell had leave to introduce in
stanter, a bill to levy and collect a tax for
the political year 1833.
On motion of Air. Young of Oglethorpe,
the Joint Committee on Banks, were in
structed to enquire into the propriety and
expediency of requiring the President of
the several Banks in this State, to make
monthly, instead of annual reports.
Monday, November 26.
Bills reported and read Ist time.
Air. Calhoun—to add a part of the coun
ty of Hancock to the county of Baldwin.
Air. Rogers—to make penal and feloni
ous, all trespasses upon lands in this State
and to define the punishment of the same.
Notices for Committees to prepare and
report bills.
Air. Davis—to repeal the sth section of
act passed sth December, 1801, and to
provide for the trial of cases in which the
Judges of the Superior Courts of this State
may be interested.
The bill to alter and amend the caption
of an act to regulate the licensing of Physi
cians to practice in this State, was read
the 3d time and passed.
On motion of Air. Turner, it was
Resolved, That Joseph Sturges be ap
pointed clerk, pro. tern, in the absence of
the Cleark of this House.
Tuesday, November 27.
Committees were appointed upon the
notices of yesterday.
Air. Davies from the Committees ap
pointed to report a bill to repeal the sth
section of the act passed sth Dec. 1801,
and to provide for the trial of cases in
which the Judges of the Superior Courts
of this State may be interested^—which
was read the Ist time.
The hill from the Senate to add a - part
of Habersham and Hall to the county of
Cherokee, and to dividee the same int< "ten
counties, and to provid for the organiza
tion of the same, was taken up read the
third time, amended and passed, and the
Clerk directed to carry it forthwith to the
Senate.
The bill from the Senate to compel the
county Treasurers of this State to receive
of Tax Collectors, hills on the Bank of
Macon, in certain eases, was read the Ist
time.
The bill from the Senate to lay out and
define anew Division of Georgia militia,
was read the 3d time anti passed.
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MACON BANK.
Executive Department Georgia. )
Milletlgcvillo, Sept. 28, 1632. $
Sir— The injury sustained by the com
munity, anti perhaps the state in conse
quence of the failure of the Macon Bank,
renders it exceedingly desirable that a full
anti fair expose of all the facts relating to
this failure, together with the present con
dition and future prospects of the institu
tion, should be laid before the approaching
legislature. And being at a loss, under
the existing state of things, who ft) apply
to for the information desired and bein';'
t o
informed that yo\i are the principal pro
prietor of the stock, and that you have the
hooks of the Bank, in your possession, 1
take the liberty of asking you, whether it
may be expected that a report will be
made to ibis department as usual! and by
whom? with a view of the same being laid
before die legislature.
Respectfully, your ob't sen‘t.
"WILSON LUMPKIN.
To Mr. Thomas M. Elms, Macon Ga.
Macon, October 1, 1832.
Sir- —Believing any expose relative to
the affairs of the Macon Bank, in my pow
er to make, as of’ little value (ter whatever
might be its real character it would be
considered partial and incorrect) I think
it most expedient to submit the whole mat
ter to the investigation of a committee ap
pointed by legislative authority, clothed
with necessary powers. This mode is pre
scribed by the charter of the Bank, and I
presume the next legislature will exercise
this reserved right, at which time I shall
be happy to afford any aid in my power
to accomplish an investigation of all the
affairs of the Bank.
Very respectful!v, vour ob’t serv’t.
THOMAS M. ELLIS.
Ills Ex. Wilson Lumpkin,
Milledgcvile Ga.
Macon, 15th October 1832.
Sm—The continued mystery which
hangs around the alfairs of the Bank of
Macon, subjects every individual to pub
lic suspision, who has at any time had an
agency in administering the allairs of that
institution.
From my former situation as Cashier,
I have to encounter my share of public re
proach. This I have borne patiently, but
with a determination not to bear it longer
than an opportunity was afforded of vin
dicating myself from censure; all access to
the books and papers being denied me in
common with all other persons. It will
readily be perceived that I have no means
of self-vindication. Under such circum
stances, I am driven to the alternative to
wait a devclopement by the public author
ities of the country; but that I may do all
in my power to hasten that devclopement,
which alone can satisfy the public, 1 have
respectfully to request that you will bring
the subject before the legislature at an ear
ly day, and suggest the appointment of a
committee to examine into its affairs, and
report the cause of its failure. In the mean
time, alloA me to btate that an examina
tion of the afiairs of the Bank will estab
lish the following iScts:
First, that Thomas M. Ellis, during the
last winter and spring, purchased from the
different proprietors, all the stock of the
Bank of Macon; that he paid for the same
with the funds of said bank, and that noth
ing was put in the bank to represent the
amount thus withdrawn, so that when he
had purchased all the stock, the entire cap
ital of the bank was gone.
Secondly, that he gave a premium of
forty thousand dollars for said stock, which
was paid in the same way.
Thirdly, that during his administration
his own notes, (or that of his house) was
discounted for a very large sum, (about
fifty thousand dollars) without any indors
er, or security, and having the very unus
ual time of G, 12, 18, 21, and 30 months
to run.
Fourthly, that they created large debts
with other banks, and to secure the pay
ment of which they transferred much lar
ger amounts of their best papers, thereby
operating directly to the injury of the gen
eral bill holders.
Those facts may be relied upon and
will be established whenever an investiga
tion takes place.
Believing, that my motive in making
this communication will be justly appreci
ated, Ideem no further apology necessary.
And remain with consideration, &c.
ROBERT COLLINS.
To His Excellency Wilson Lupkin.
Macon, 14th October, 1832.
Sir—My great anxiety that yourself and the
public should be placed in possession of eve
ry circumstance which led to the failure of
th# Bank of Macon, is the only apoogyl have
to offer for addressing you at this time. Af
ter all that 1 could do previous to the deatli of
Mr. Ellis, he persisted in his determination
not to allow me the privilege of examining the
books oi the Bank, thereby preventing me
from giving such facts as they may prove. I
have thought proper to give you herewith the
substance of a statement made to me by Dr.
Collins, which, if proven, (and he says ho can
do it,) will show that there is no mystery what
ever in the failure. What Dr. Collins has
told me is this: that Messrs. Patterson A
Magwood, Boyce A Ilenrv, and Henry W.
Conner, A Cos. of Charleston, S. C.; Messrs.
.1. Stone A Cos. of Savannah; John Martin,
Esq. of Jones county; Alexander Shotwell,
Ellis, Shotwell A Cos., James Goddard, George
Jewett, and Melrose A Kidd, of Macon, pur
chased and paid 50 per cent, on fifteen hun
dred shares of the stock of the Bank, which
amounted to 875,000; that himself and Mr.
Robert Coleman, represented 1000 shares of
the stock, 50 per cent, paid amounts to $50.-
000; that Mr. Ellis purchased for himself and
his friends in New-York as he told Dr .Collins,
the 1000 shares Collins A Coleman owned to
gether, with Mr. Martin’s 200 shares, paid
them beck the amount they had paid into the
bank as capital, and 15,000 dollars premium,
which makes the sum of G 5,000 dollars ; that
he afterwards purchased from the gentlemen
above named the remaining 1300 shares, and
paid them back the capital which they had
paid in, amo mting to 865,000. Dr. Collins
further states that the original stock holders,
meaning himself and others, were indebted
to the bank $25,000, w hich sum they paid as
a premium for the charter; that Mr. Ellis as
sumed the payment of this 825,000, and re
lieved the old stockholders. Now, if this
statement is proved, the presumption will be,
that Mr. Ellis instead of putting backtlic cap
ital which he paid out or allowed to be with,
drawn from the bank by tiiose who sold him
their stock, has not even put his note or notes
in the bank to represent it. It is certain the
money was neve r put back, or the bunk would
not ifow be deficient. These several sums of
money, which it is presumed, were taken from
the in can 3 of the hank, amount as you will
perceive to one hundred and sixty-live thou
sand dollars. This is given you as a state-j
merit from Dr. Collins, who says he will be
able to prove it. Mr. Ellis admitted to me
some ten days before Ids death, that he dis
counted his own and Ellis, Shotwell A Co.’s
paper, for between fifty and sixty thousand
dollars, just before the bank failed, to meet
drafts drawn on and failing duo in New-Ycrk.
He told me be believed himself more justifia
ble in doing tins than to allow these drafts to
lie protested and returned here, which, il lie
hud allowed to be done, would have ruined
his endorsers, and brought much distress up
on this community. 1 have thought it due to
myself and the country, to communicate these
things, that you may make such use of them
as you may deem proper.
1 have the honor to be, Ac.
ROBERT W. FORT.
To Ilis Excellency Governor Lumpkin.
South Carolina Convention.
Address
Of a Committee of the Delegates who seceded
from the Convention recently assembled at
Millcdgevillc.
Fellow-Citizens of Georgia: —We have
been appointed to make an exposition of the
motives and views of those Delegates, who
separated themselves from the recent meeting
at Milledgeville, styled a Convention. Cir
cumstances prevent the complete perform
ance of that duty, at the present moment.
But, for the purpose of countt meting misrep
resentations that already begin to pervade the
community, it is deemed advisable immedi
ately to present a summary statement, which
may herereafter, ifnecessary.be more fully
developed. The general grounds on which
we acted, have been concisely exhibited in
our Protest. The Convention invited by the
Resolutions at Athens, was a Convention of
Delegates of the People of Georgia. In such
an assembly alone, we were authorised to act
for our constituents. We most firmly be
lieve, that all the Delegates together conven
ed at Milledgeville, were fur from represent
ing a majority of the People of Georgia.* We
demanded that the authority of those who
presented themselves as Delegates, should be
regularly scrutinized. Our wishes were re
sisted, and we necessarily retired from a body
which refused to investigate its title, to the
character under which it was convoked. Any
other course would have seemed to us, an ar
rogant assumption of powers ,with which we
were not entrusted. He who speaks in the
name of the whole, or any part of the people
without proper authority, infringes thair meat
sacred prerogative—he counterfeits their sov
ereignty. These considerations alone are an
ample vindication. But while simple justice
itself commanded our secession, there were
attendant circumstances which rendered the
obligation doubly imperative. Twenty coun
ties devoted to the cause of Union, had refus
ed even to be represented in the Convention,
and on the other hand, all those who were in
clined to the unhappy doctrine of nullifica
tion, whether under its own or any other
name, had eagerly pressed to have Delegates
in that body. The originators of the project
who were present as members of the Con
vention, exercised, as it appeared to us, a
great, if not decisive influence with the ma
joiity. Utterly disapproving tlieir paot move
ments in relation to the subject, and justly
apprehensive of their purposes for the future
—under such auspices and in a body so consti
tuted, we should have held it both criminal
and absurd, gratuitously to sanction by our
co-opcration, counsels which we could not
but believe must prove pernicious in their
tendency. The result has not disappointed
our expectation. The resolutions adopted by
ihe remnant of the Convention—botli those
which relate to their doctrine, and their pro
jects, receive our decided condemnation. The
Constitutional principles which they an
nounce, arc stated in a manner which howev
er designed, is at least fitted to seduce the
unwary into the doctrine of nullification.
Whether this be not the fact, we shall for the
present content ourselves with submitting to
the unsophisticated intelligence of the pub
lic. The plan of a Southern Convention as
exhibited in these Resolutions appears to us,
the very worst that could have been possibly
devised. There is no provision that any cer
tain number of States shall concur before it
is held. The election of Delegates for Geor
gia is to take place, on the 4th Monday in
March next, without waiting for the assent of
any invited State. The Delegates of the
States which adopt this project,, whether few
or many, are to arrange among themseles the
time and place of meeting, From the ad
journment of the Convention to the Ist of Ju
ly next, it seems to be contemplated that the
whole process will be completed by that time,
although every man of observation must be
satisfied, that no sufficient number of States
can be induced to ryct within so short a period.
In such a scheme, we can perceive only the
convenient means of drawing Georgia into a
league with the nullifters of South Carolina.
It was understood that they would agree to
unite with us in holding a Convention, if it
were called speedily. The mode in which a
minority consisting of G 4 Delegates proposes
to submit their acts for ratification to the
whole people, seems to us the very quintes
scnce of usurpation. If they are to try so vi
tal a question in their own form, by their own
agents, and to be themselves ti o final judges
of the decision, what is there which a minori
ty may not assume ? The people must be
weary o( exercising their own sovereignty, if
they c.in permit such an appropriation of it by
individuals.
’l'lte seceding Delegates express but one
sentiment concerning the Tariff- —that is un
wise, unjust, and unconstitutional- Several
of them entertained the private opinion, that
it was not advisable at this moment, to take
any extraordinary steps in relation to the sub
je t; but the whole were disposed (olay fairly
before the People, the project of a Southern
Convention embracing all or six of the South
ern States which arc opposed to the Tariff. In
such an association if duly sanctioned, wc
saw the best guarantee
arid of strength to render thorn L Scls >
The plan contained in the Resolutio^ 6 *
nutted to the House of Represent-,*;* Ssut >*
20th inst. is substantially that which ! the
have recommended. From V ° u!d
at present manifested by the members'?" ‘J
General Assembly, we trust that tl,e e R
.ut] oris will be adopted, and that the '
rallying around their
sentat.vcs,” will prompted '° d " J
jeotthe scheme proposed by the remmE
.he Conven ton-a scheme, which if ‘ f
would involve the State in immediate JjZj
WM. CUM MING,
T. HAYNES,
J- P. KING,
D. A. REESE,
N. B. POWELL, C(m
A. CUTHBERT ' 71
M. BROWN,
GIBSON CLARK,
TIIEOPHILUS J. HILL.
Milledgeville, November 22d, into
lie a the Resolutions of the pretended CV
ventron were adopted, only 37 counties We?
any manner represented in it: there beinAa' “
ties entirely unrepresented. Of those a
ties, there were only 31, which gave any voteT
the Resolutions; and the Delegates from fnl/ ,
these 34 counties, were equally div d™ °V!
the Resolutions, thus b.fingS
other. So that admitting the elections
pointments of Delegates to have been free fr™
exception, (which is far from beino- truel
30 counties, out of 80 in the -State passed ti e Z!
olutions of that body. J LKes ‘
A full representation of the people of Georm,
laking the House of Representatives as the stand!
ard, would contain IGB Delegates. Atthe time r
the passing of the Resolutions of the JreS e
Convention, there were only 70 persons in that
assembly, claiming to he Delegates, including
presiding officer; and of these, only 03 voted
the resolutions. ‘
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE COY
MENTION.
Convention, Monday, Nov. if).
In pursuance of an act passed at tbc
late extra session of the Legislature, to
provide for the call of a Convention of'the
people of this State, a quorum of the deb
gates elected by virtue of the said act, as
sembled in the Representative Chamber
at 12 o’clock ; when on motion of Gene
ral John B. Earle, Stephen D. Miller, Esq.
took the chair, and A. Burt, was appointed
Secretary.
The members in attendance, having en
rolled their names, on motion of Mr. Har
per, an election was held lor a President,
when on counting out the votes, James
Hamilton, Jr. was duly elected.
Isaac W. Hayne was elected Clerk, and
on motion A. S. Johnson was appointed
printer, C. O. Duke, Messenger, and J. B.
Fulton, Doorkeeper.
Messrs. l’On, Thomas Pinckney, and J
B. Onealc, were appointed a Committee to
prepare rules for the government of the
Convention.
Air. C. J. Colcock submitted a resolu
tion, requesting the President to invite the
clergy of this place to open the proceed
ing of each day with prayer, which was
agreed to.
Mr. C. J. Colcock also submitted the
following resolution :
Resolved, That the act to provide for
the calling of a Convention of the peopb
of this State, he referred to a select com
mittee, consisting of 21 members, to lie
nominated by the President, with instris
tions to report thereon, and especially as
to the measures proper to be adopted by
this Convention, in reference to “ the viola
tion of the Constitution of the U. States,
in the enactment by Congress on divers
occasions of laws laying duties and im
posts, for the purpose of encouraging and
protecting domestic manufactures, and for
other unwarrantable purposes.
And in order to give the President time
to appoint the Committee, the Convention
adjourned till 10 o’clock to-morrow.
Tuesday, Nov. 20.
The Convention met pursuant to ad
journment, and was opened with prayer,
by the Rev. Mr. Rayp.
Henry Middleton, from Greenville, Mi
nor Clinton, from Lancaster, M. Jacobs,
from St. Helena, Joseph L. Stevens, from
St. John’s, Colleton, and Alfred Huger,
from Spartenburg, appeared enrolled their
names, and took their seats.
Mr. I’On from the Committee to pre
pare rules for the government of the Con
vention, reported certain rules, which
were adopted, and two hundred and fifty
to copier ordered to be printed.
The President then announced Messrs.
C. J. Colcock, J. B. Earle, William Har
ser, J. B. Onealc, Robert Y. Hayne, Wm.
C. Pincney, Stephen D. Miller, Job John
son, George McDuffie, Richard Manning.
Henry Middleton, John K. Griffin, Benj.
Rogers, Robert J. Turnbull, Robert VV-
Barnwell, James R. Irvin, J. B. l’On, 1-
D. Singleton, Sen., P. M. Butler, Janies
A. Black, and John Bauskett, a committee
in conformity to, and for the purposes spe
cified in the resolution submitted by Mr.
C. J. Colcock on yesterday. Adjourned
to 1 o’clock to-morrow.
Wednesday, Nov.. 2i-
The Convention met pursuant to ad
journment, and was opened with prayer by
the Rev. Mr. Raye.
Mr. John B. Earle, C. J. Colcock, Chair
man of the Special Committee, to whom
was referred the resolution, in reference to
the act, providing for the calling of a con
vention of the peopie of this State, an
the subjects therewith connected ; report
ed, that the committee had not found i
practicable to prepare a report for to-day
and asked further time—which was grant
ed.