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Speech of Mr. Ward itt the House of Representatives, November 30th, in reply to Mr.
Neal on his motion to reconsider the preamble and Resolutions of Mr. Ryan, proposing
a State and Southern Convention.
Ms. Speaker :
It was not my intention to have taken any part in the discussion of the important ques
tion now under consideration, nor would I have done so, had it not been for the strange re
marks, which have fallen from the Gentleman from Newton. The extraordinary manner
in which that Gentleman has addressed this House seems to require of ine, a reply; in
deed sir, as one of the Secedcrs, from the late convention adjourned in this place, it appears
indispensible for me to do so, and to offer to this House some justification in regard to my
withdrawing from that Convention. However, such a justification is more properly due my
constituents, to whom alone,lam responsible.
The Gentleman in school boy harangue (for in my opinion his speech is entitled to no
other, or higher appellation) has been pleased to say, that “the Convention met, but a cer
tain portion (alluding of course to the Soceders) of these delegates, came with a determina
tion to oppose every thing, that amounted to any thing like resistance to the Tariff,” and
now in advocating the Resolutions on your table, are governed by sinister, by impure mo
tives, by any other, than true, genuine and disinterested motives.” Mr. Speaker, I ask this
House, if such a grave charge is fair, is hoppralde ; it is not, but on the contrary, it is un
generous, illiberal and uncourt, ous. Sir. I indignantly deny the charge that I came
with a predetermination to its immediate dissolution, I entered it with the purest motives,
and with a fix and and determined resolve lo go into such measures Us would in inv bumble
opinion, tend to relieve us (if such a Convention could, which I very much doubted, be
cause of the manner in which it was got up) from the odious, ruinous and mischievous sys
tem which is practiced on us by our Brethren of the North. Rut sir. it was necessary as
an incipient measure, to enquire, how, by what, and whose authority the Convention was
got up.
It did then, and does now, appear to have been indispensibly necessary that such an in
vestigation should have taken place, in order to ascertain whether we were authorised to
speak in the name of the whole people, or only a part; whether we represented the wishes
of the majority or the minority of the sovereign people of Georgia.
in order sir, to effect that object the Resolutions of Mr. Forsyth, were introduced, and !
have no doubt with the purest design and the best of motives, and they did then, and do
n6w, in my opinion,contain nothing exceptional, and when they were first read, the spon
taneous and honest conviction of my mind, was, that they would have been unanimously
adopted. Judge then sir, my smprisc, when I saw them meet with such decided opposi
tion, and when finally rejected, I conceived it a paramount duty, which I owed myself, my
country, and my constituents to withdraw from a Convention, which had refused to investi
gate the manner in which its delegates had assembled, and by what authority they held
their seats, and for that act, sir, i am alone responsible to my conscience, and iny constitu
ents. The latter, I know will justify me; as warmly as does the first.
But Sir, in the honest discharge of an imperious duty—in obedience to the dictates of my
sound judgment, l withdrew—am I to he told that I came with a pre-determination to do so,
and to dissolve the Convention? Am lto be called a submissions! ?—A Tariffite, leagued
in with the enemies ol the South, to assist in rivetting more close and firm, tfie chains on
my fellow-citizens? Ain Ito bo told I hold midnight meetings and assemblages, to consult
with men to undermine the liberties of my country, to bring on them the most “disastrous
consequences” — Am l to be told all this, in opposition to facts, Ac to remain silent, under
such aspersions? And pray sir, who is the gentleman, that makes such grave charges, and
single specifications against me and the gentlemen with whom I act on this occasion ? Is
he a tried patriot and friend to his country? Has he given us any evidence that he is?
Has he shown he is more devoted to the best interests of his country, than either of us who
seceded from the Convention, or that supported the resolutions on your table? He has not.
Those resolutions, Mr. Speaker, passed yesterday by a vote of 97 to 58, and yet the gen
tleman arrogates to himself, the right to condemn the majority ; yes, Mr. Speaker, to im
pugn the motives of 97 honorable members on this floor?
How, Sir, did he arrive at the conclusion, that we were insincere in advocating those reso
lutions, and that I came witli a pre-determination to break up the Convention, and to resist
any tiling that amounted to resistance to the tariff? Surely the gentleman must be govern
ed by some strange infatuation, some private spleen. He ought at least have shown that
if we were wrong, he was right—that he possessed the Roman virtue, the sterling integrity,
of which we were deficient: lie ought to have shown, by other than such idle harrangue
and school boy declamation, and personal denunciation, that he had the good of his country
at heart, that he and he alone was competent to instruct the majority in the proper course
they should pursue.
Sir, he has not convinced me that his course is dictated by the purest motive, that he is
in reality when he says the adoption of the resolutions on your table will be attended with
the most disastrous consequence. 1 must be permitted to doubt his sincerity, when he
made that declaration. Has he pointed out one single, one isolated consequence, which
will result from their adoption; he has not; but after reconnoiteringclosely the fortress, and
finding it perfectly impregnable, satisfies himself with denouncing them en mass ; con
demning the manner in which they were got up; abusing the gentlemen who advocated
them, talks about midnight assemblages, insincerity of intention, men coming from Harris
county to advocate them in the private meeting in the long room, and then, by way of let
ting oft'his spleen, proposes certain interrogatories to honorable gentlemen, and catechises
them about who wrote them, wants the people to know all about them, how they were got
up, &c. Sir,this is a strange way of arguing an important subject. Why has not the gentle
man shown some good, souud, solid reason, that those resolutions ought not to be adopted ?
For my own part, 1 care not who drafted them, where they were concocted, who advocated
them before they came into this house, nor bow they found their way here, or in whose
handwriting they are; the only question to which my mind is directed, is, do they meet my
views, if they do, 1 adopt them as my own ; they do meet my views, I do advocate the
principles they contain unqualifiedly, and do not anticipate any of the disastrous conse
quences which has frighted the gentleman from Newton. 1 believe much practical good
will result to the country from their adoption. Why is the Gentleman so afraid to ask the
people the simple question —to propose to them the single propostion, do they wish a South
ern Convention? Are they not competent to judge, whether it is necessary or not? If they
determine such a course is inexpedient, there the matter rests. A few years ago it was
thought necessary to ascertain the peoples wishes in relation to Reduction, that question
was submitted to them, they responded, but now forsooth because xve think it a duty we
owe the public to draw their attention to a subject of vital importance, to their present
and future welfare and happ.ness; because what we recommend to them, as a constitutional
means to rid themselves of the oppressive Tariff; the Gentleman objects Ac says it is extra-of
ficial. You must not ask the people any such questions—Ah, if you do, the most disas
trous consequences will result from it; and without telling us what are those consequences,
or how they will operate, denounces the men, and the measures, at one sweeping clause.
The gentleman says, 1 aru a suhinissionist—-Sir, I yield to no man in this Honse, to none
in Georgia, in my hatred to the odious Tariff of which we have such abundant cause of com
plaint. I believe it to be unconstitutional, injurious in all its consequences, partial and
oppressive in its operation on the south, and will go as far. as any man, to get clear of it,
constitutionally, and when all the constitutional means fail, I will then be willing to act on
those reserved rights, those inherent principles, implanted in us, by the wise disposer of
human events. lam no advocate for the ill-omened, revolutionary and 'unconstitutional j
doctrine of nullification. I believe it to be as false in theory, as it is dangerous in practice,*
and if carried into effect, will end in civil war, and the dissolution of this happy, this glori- j
ous union, which the blood of our venerated fore-fathers, was shed copiously to establish, j
Believing as I do, I should be a traitor to my conscience, my country and constituents to!
support or give it any aid, either directly or indirectly. I will wage an endless warfare
against i*. 1 will use every honorable means within the limits of rnv control to put it down,!
and 1 believe the course we have pursued in withdrawing from the convention is calculated i
to nip it in its bud. j
Mr. Speaker, for one, I do not believe the time has yet arrived, that we should endanger!
the union, that we should throw ourselves upon those reserved and inherent rights: how
ever oppressive the grievances are, I believe they can yet be borne a little time longer,
1 believe they are yet tolerable, and believing so, 1 shall act accordingly. lam willing to
wait at least until the adjournment of the first session of the 23d Congress. In the mean
time, what harm can it .lo to ask the people if they think it advisable to have a southern and !
state convention, in order to tell them at the north in favor of the American System, in
a language they cannot misunderstand, that beyond that period we will no longer submit.
Let us maie the experiment—in my humble opinion, no evil or bad consequence will re
sult ftoin this simple proposition lo t!i* people—it may do an important & essential service,
for I believe it is conceded on all hands, that if a southern convention could be got up, and
act in unison and concert, it would present such a formidable and solid phalanx as must and
would command respect, and be obeyed. Surely six states protesting at one and the same
time, against the longer continuance of the policy would be more weighty than one.
The gentleman has not shown, or attempted to show the unconstitutionally of such a
convention ; indeed sir, he could not have done so.
The gentleman says, he goes for principle regardless of names, that he will go hand in
hand with any man, who will go for correct principles and to none other will he give the hand
of fellowship. Now Mr. Speaker, I confess l would have been much gratified if the gentle
man had informed us what are his principles; in the absence of such information, the gen
tleman will excuse me, for forming my opinion of them, and in doing so, we' have some
data to go by. The gentleman advocates the measures recommended by the late ccoven
<ion adjourned in this pi pee, which I believe is conceded consisted of a minority of the
good people of Georgia, and opposes the one which the w hole people would have a voice
through their Representatives. I should infer from this, that hi3 principles are that the
minority shall rule the majority—if sr, such an inference is correct, which Ido believe, 1
for one do not want his hand of fellowship extended to me, nor do I envy him his principles.
I hope sir, the friends of the resolution on your table will hot reconsider them, but let them
go as they are to the people of Georgia? If they appiove them, if the states to which we have
invited a concurrence sanction them, we use a southern and state convention in which all
will be fairly represented, and will speuk i trust in a voice of unanimity that will convince
our brethren of the north, that we arc determined not to submit to her tyranny and oppres
sion. I hope the motion to reconsider will not prevail.
LcKidature of Georgia.
SENATE.
Friday, dec. 7th.
BILLS REPORTED.
To incorporate the Bedford Manufactoring
Company.
To relieve William and Thomas White.
To authorise the Sheriff of Jefferson county
to sell a runaway slave, <Ac.
To authorise the Governor and S cretary
of State to correct errors that may have taken
place, or may hereafter take place, in issuing
any grant or grants in any of the land lotteries
of tiiis State.
BILLS PASSED.
The Senate resumed the consideration of
the Report of the Committee of the whole, on
the bill of the House of Representatives, “to
place the fractional parts of surveys in the
Territory at present in the occupancy of the
Cherokee Indians in the Land and Gold Lot
tery wheels respectively,—and on the ques
tion cf the passage of the bill the yeas and
nays were called for, and were, yeas 50,nays
22. So the bill was passed.
AN ACT
For the relief of the orphans of Wm. Bond,
was duly enrolled, signed, and sent to the
Governor for his assent
A PETITION.
Mr. Gresham presented a petition from
Sundry Citizens of Wilkes county, asking "to
be added to the county of Taliaferro. Re
ferred to a select Committee, consisting of
Messrs. Gresham, Willis, and Collier.
LOTTERIES.
A message from the House was received,
agreeing to a resolution, requesting his Ex
cellency the Governor to deliver the keys of
the gold and land lotteries into the hands of
those Commission! rs who have complied
with the conditions of the late law, requiring
them to give bond security, so that persons
apply for grants to lots which have been
drawn may obtain certificates to enable them
to obtain grants.
The Senate then, upon a notice from the
House, assembled in that body for the pur
pose of proceeding to the elections set apart
for this day, when both branches of the
General Assembly gave in their ballots, and
it appeared that
John W. Hooper, Esq. was duly elected
. Judge of the Cherokee Circuit—that
Wm. Ezzard, Esq. was duly elected Soli
citor General of said Circuit—that
Henry 11. Lowe was duly elected Briga
dier General of .he 2d Brigade, 10th Division
Georgio Militia—that
Col. Daniel McDougald was duly elected
Major General of the 10th Division, Georgia
Militia—and that
Dol. John Bates was duly elected M ajor
General of the 7th Division, Georgia Militia,
in place of Maj. Gen. Miller, resigned. Ad
journed.
Saturday, Dec. Bth.
PUBLIC PRINTING.
Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Printing
Committee, made the following report in part:
which was agreed
That they have had under their considera
tion, “a resolution directing them to take in
to consideration the economy as well as the
utility of appointing a Printer with an annu
al salary to do all public printing, and they be
authorised to present their views at large by
way of report, or by bill for that purpose”—
and, after having given to the subject matter
committed to their consideration, the atten
tion the importance seems to demand, they
have to state they deem it improper, and not
calculated to ensure the best economy to ap
point a Puulic Printer with an annual sda
ry—therefore beg leave to be discharged
from the further consideration of tjie subject
matter, referred to them by the resolutions as
above stated.
Mr. Hudson, Chairman, also made the
following report, which was agreed to:
The Joint Committee on Printing beg
leave to report, that agreeable to a resolu
tion efthe Senate, directing that the report
of the Printing committee be recommitted,
and that they be requested to give notice to
all the applicants for the public printing that
they make sealed proposals for all the public
printing by a specific time—that they state
the lowest prices for which’they will do the
printing, and that such proposals when made,
be reported to the Senate.
The late period of the session at which the
above reference was made, induced your com
mittee to issue proposals the same evening |
the reference was made to all the Printers in
this place, with a request that proposals should
be made this morning by 9 o’clock; and that j
sealed proposals have been received this
morning from
Messrs. Prince Ac Ragland, Messrs. Grieve
As Orine, Messrs. Polhill &Cuthbert, and M.
D. J. Slade, all of which arc herewith sub
mitted to the Senate sealed.
The Joint Committee on Printing beg leave
to be discharged from further duties on the
subject of public pi inting, during the balance
of the session.
The sealed proposals mentioned in the
foregoing report, were then opened and read ;
when
Mr. Hudson submitted the following reso
lution :
Resolved, that the proposals of Messrs
Prince & Ragland, to print the Laws and
Journals of the present session of the Legis
lature, and also the Job Printing, being the
lowest proposals to do the same, that they
have the same upon the terms proposed;
which are herewith submitted, and is as fol
lows •
“ For each copy sheet of the laws and jour
nals as they were printed last year, (the laws
in small pica, and the jouanals in long primer,)
at six mills—the laws to be delivered in 40
days after they are delivered to be printed
the journals in 80 days after they are deli vot
ed to be printed.
“The Job Printing to be done on the fol.
lowing terms t
“ For each copy sheet of 8 octavo pages,
five cents, (one lor each member of the Le
gislature)—and for all jobs exceeding 8 oc
tavo pages, 3 cents per sheet, after the first
sheet—all jobs less than 8 pages to bo calcu
lated as one sheet.
MACON ADVERTISER.
“ Rule amt Figure work double these pri
ces, in all cases as above proposed.”
NOTICES FOR A COMMITTEE.
By Mr. Greene—to explain an act authorising
the Inferior Courts of the several counties in
ttiis State to grant settlement roads to private
individuals. Adjcurned.
Monday, Dec. 10.
BILLS REPORTED.
To authorise the Governor, and Presi
dent and Directors of'the Central Bank, to
appoint another Clerk in said Bank.
To prohibit any of the chartered Banks
in this State from establishing an agency
or agencies for discounting or exchanging
of paper, Ac.
To authorise the Inferior Courts of the
several counties of this State, on applica
tion, to grant road or settlement cart-ways
to private individuals,
To add a part of the county of Wilkes
to the countv of Taliaferro.
BILL PASSED.
To more effectually secure the solven
cy of all the Banking institutions in this
State.
Bills, Ac. passed in the House.
A message was received communica
ting to the Senate, that the House had
passed the following bills and resolutions:
To prescribe in part the fees of the
Sheriffs, and to make them subject to rule
in favor of defendants, &c : and
To appoint from the county of Talbot
three additional Commissioners of Flint ri
ver: and that the House had agreed to
Resolution authorising the Governor to
I appoint a Lottery Commissioner in the
i place of S. Bogan.
Tuesday, Due. 11.
PENITENTIARY.
Mr. Tennille, Chairman, made the follow
ing report, which was agreed to:
The joint committee on the Penitentiary,
to whom-was referred “A bill, to be entitled
an a?t to repeal an act entitled an act to abol
ish Penitentiary imprisonment in this State,
except in cert .in cases—to change the mode
of punishment for crimes and misdemeanors
and .or other purposes,” under a resolution
of Senate requiring your Committee to pre
pare a system of Penitentiary punishment,
beg leave to report:
That a Bill, similar in its provisions to that
which has been referred to your Committee,
has already passed the General Assembly; and
that a resolution is now on the table of the
Senate, for the appointment of competent per
sons to perform the duties assigned your com
mittee under the above resolution, who are
by the resolution referred to, required to r. -
port to the next Legislature a System of Pen
itentiary punishment, based ami matured up
on the most enlightened principles. And
your Committee beg leave to remark, that to
digest and perfect the Penal Code, would re
quire more time and labor than can be allot
ted to it during the session. They therefore
respectfully recommend, that the plan pro
posed in the resolution on the table of the
Senate, he adopted as the best and surest
means of attaining the object which the Le
jgislature has in view. Y'our Committet
i therefore, ask to be discharged from the fur
j therconsideration of the subject.
LAWS OF GEORGIA.
The Governor transmitted to the Senate a
| copy of tlie Laws pass, and at the lust session o(
j the Legislature : and a communication ac
cepting the proposals of Messrs. Prince &
Ragland, for printing the laws and journals
!of the present session of the General Assem
bly, as passed in the Senate and Mouse.
bills reported.
To give to Inferior Courts the power to
1 grant orders of incorporation to Academies
I and Churches, with tne consent of the Grand
Juries.
To authorize Felix G. Gibson, of Stewart
county, to establish a Ferry across the Chat
tahoochie river, on his own land.
To incorporate the Auchumaw Academy in
Upson county.
The Senate then took up the resolutions on
the subject of a State and Southern Conven
tion, as passed by the House and presented
by Mr. Ryan of that body.
Wednesdays Dec. j 2.
The discussion upon the Convention reso
lutions from the House was resumed, and on
the question of agreeing to Mr. Chappeil’s
substitute for the resolutions generally, and
upon Mr. Harlow’s substitute in lieu of the
last resolutions, condemnatory of the cousre
of S. Carolina, the votes of the Senate was ta
ken respectively upon each,and areas follow :
Ayes—Avery, Baker, Bryan, Chappell,
Collier, Eckley, Graham, Harlow, Hudson,
Kell urn, King, Knight, Lucas, Mcßae,
Mitchell, Neel, Neshit, Newman, Oliver,
Ragan, Scudder, Sheffield, Smith of Early,
Stapleton, Surrency, Waldhour, West, Will
iams—2B.
Nays —Barnard, Baxter, Bell, Blaekstone,
Boykin, Brown, Burch, Cargile, Clayton,
Cleveland, Cobb, Cochran, Cone, Dunogan,
Echols of Coweta, Echols of Walton, Faris,
Freeman, Fulwood, Graham, Green, Groves,
Hall, Henderson, llenly, Hines, Howard,
McDougald, Mealing, Muncrief. Posey, Pry
or, Rogers, Sellers, Sherrod, Shorter, Single
ton, Smith of Sumpter, Smith ofTwiggs, Starr,
Temples, Tennille, Towns, Wilcox, Wood of
Heard, Wood of Mclntosh, Wofford—4B.
So the original resolutions were adopted.
INTERNAL IMPR(>VEMENT.
The following Communication was made
to the Senate by the Governor:
Executive Department. Ga. >
MiUedseville, Dec. 12, 1832. \
Under the provisions of a joint and concur
red resolution of the last Legislature, the sum
often thousand dollars, appropriated for the
the purchase of public hands to he placed up
on Rail Road Creek, has been disbursed in the
manner contemplated by said resolution.
Twenty valuable male slaves, between the
age of 18 and 25 years, were purchased and
delivered to the Superintendent of the East
ern Division, about the first of April last;
which together with the expences incurred
in making the purchase, nearly exhausted the
appropriation.
The Superintendent reports to mo that it
has been utterly out of his power to perform 1
the other duties required of him by law, and
pay the requisite personal attention to this
new branch of internal improvement. The
expences attending the operations of this new
company of hands will be seen by the Re
ports of the Superintendent, have been dis
charged by him, and have already amounted
to more than his thousand dollars.
Mv object in bringing this subject to the
distinct consideration of the Legislature, is to
show the necessity of legislative direction in
regard to the superintendence of that portion
of the State hands herein referred to. For
further information on this subject, I herewith
transmit a copy of a letter of this day from Col.
Win. C. Lyman, the Superintendent of the
Eastern Division.
WILSON LUMPKIN.
The Senate adjourned until 3 o’clock,
P. M.
EVENING SESSION:
The Senate met according to adjournment.
BILLS REPORTED.
Tocompel Superintendents of public hands
to work certain roads.
To amend the several laws now in force in
this State, regulating the pilotage of vessels,
to and from the ports and harbors of this
State, Ac.
To alter and amend an act to prevent ob
structions to the free passage of fish in the
Ocmulgee river.
To remove the undisbursed funds of Smith
ville Academy to Fort Gaines in Early coun
c-
il ILLS PASSED.
To exempt all persons who have been en
gaged in a duel, either directly, or indirectly,
from the pains and penalties thereby incurred
j To incorporate the Volunteer company in
the town of Forsyth, known as the Monroe
Musketeers
To change the time of holding the Superior
Courts of tlie Southern Circuit so far as re
lates to the county of Twiggs.
To incorporate Warren Spring Academy,
in Merriwether county.
To appoint Commissioners to select a site
for the public buildings of Irwin county.
Thursday, Dec* 13.
BILL REPORTED.
To appoint three additional Commitsion
ers of Broad River, from the junction of the
North and South Forks to P. t rsburgh.
BILLS PASSED.
To incorporate Auci.uimban Academy in
the count) of Upson.
To amend and repeal an act to make uni
form the practice of fishing for shad in the
Ocmulgee river.
To exempt the Macon Volunteers of Bibb
county, from the performance of ci rtaiu du
ties.
Adjourned until 7 o’clock, P. M.
EVENING SESSION.
BILLS PASSED.
To alter and change the times of holding
the Superior Courts in the* counties of Stew
art, Randolph, Lee, Sumpter and Marion.
To alter and amend an act io incorporate
the town of Thomasville, in Thomas county.
To incorporate Meriwether Warm Spring.
To regulate slav t sand free persons of col
or in the town of Richmond.
To remit a forfeiture incurred by Thomas
arid William White.
To and efine the line between the eou ti sol
Marion an ! Sumpter.
To add an additional number of Trustees
to the Carroll county Academv.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTA^'IVES.
Saturday, Lee. 8.
Committees were appointed upon the
notices of yesterday.
Resolved , Hunt the joint standing Commit ee,
on the Penitentiary, be instructed and required to
enquire into the reasons why, and policy of gran
ting the Convicts the privilege of working for
themselves, and tratiicing and trading with the
citizens who visit that Institution—the reasons
why some Convicts are dressed in citizen’s
clothes, wearing watches in their pockets—and
whether the Keepers have been, or are now in the
habit of hiring ihe Convicts, privately, to work
for them, and thereby keeping the State from
the profits of their labor, and thereby inducing
the Convicts to embezzle the Slate’s materials^
Resolved further, That the Committee have full
power to cal! upon the principal & deputy Keep
ers, and inspectors, rr any other officer connect-
ed with the Institution, for information touching
any, and every matter conneeied with the internal
police, and regulations of the Penitentiary.
Monday. Dec. 10.
Mr. Ector, gave notice for the appointment of a
Committee to prepare and reporta bill to alter
and amend the 3d and 7th sections of the Ist arti
cle of the Constitution, of this State, so that
should this Legislature refuse to pass a bill, pro
viding for a Convention to reduce the Represen
tation, some plan may be devised by mutual com
promise to attain this object.
R. TURNER’ " RESOLUTICN.
Forasmuch as throughout the United States,
there exists many controversies, growing out of
the conflicting interests which have arisen among
the people, since the adoption of the Federal Con
stitution—out ot the cases in which Congress
claims the right to act under constructive or im
plied powers—out of the disposition shewn by
Congress, too frequently, to act under assumed
powers—and out of the rights of jurisdiction ei
ther claimed or exercised hy the Supreme Court
—all of which tend directly to diminish the af
fection of the people for their own government, to
produce discontent, to repress patriotism, to ex
cite jealousies, to engender discord, and finally to
bring about that event of all others most deeply to
be deplored, and most anxiously to be guarded
against; namely, a dissolution of our happy U
nion, and a severance of these States inte hostile
communities, each regarding, and acting towards
the other with the bitterest enmity.
And the experience of the past having clearly
proved that the Constitution of the United States
needs amendments in the following particulars :
1. That the powers delegated to the General
Government, and the rights reserved to the States
or to the people, may be more distinctly defined.
*2. that the power of coercion by the General
Government over the States, and the rights of a
Slates to resist an unconstitutional act of Con
gress may be determined.
3 That the principle involved in a Tariff for the
direct protection of domestic industry mav be
settled. 3
4- That a system of Federcrl taxation may be
established which shall he equal in its operation
upon the whole people, and in all sections of the
country.
5. That the jurisdiction and process of the Su
preme Court may be clearly and unequally sot
tlen*
6. That a tribunal of last resort may be orm
ed, to settle disputes between the
ernment and the States. cl,e ‘ai Got.
7. i hat the power of chartering a Bant , .
granting incorporations may be " d of
to, or witheld from Congress. r given
8. That the practice of apnrom-i
for works of Internal Improvement, m i f
sanctioned by an express delegation oA,* Uher
restrained hy expree inhibition. P ° We G or
9. 1 hat it may be prescribed what
shall be made of the surplus revenup ,^ osu ‘°n
revenue is found to he on hand. ’ len Su ck
10. That the rights to, and the mode of a:
sition of the public Luds of the United v, 8po ’
may be settled . ea States,
11. That the election of President and V:
President may be secured, in all case, , ,
people. es > to the
i- I hat their tenure of office may be limit j
to one term. J ‘‘totted to
13. That the rights of the Indians mav h.j ,
iiitely settled. ” e defi.
14. That provision may he made for the
EXh? a i *“ uli “ r species ° f wv ist;
Re it therefore resolved by the Senate and It
of Representatives of the Slate of Georgia in r
al Assembly met, and acting for*the peoole tlf
That the State ofGeorgia in conformity J,Tf
sth article of the Federal Constitution " , he
makes application to the Congress of the it -7
States for the call of a Convention of the n
to amend the Constitution aforesaid i n t h ° Pe ’
ticulars herein enumerated, and in such Ji! pat '
the people of other States may deemJSn"
amendment. 3 needful of
Resolved further, That his E Welleney fte r,, c
ernur be and he is hereby requested to
copies of this document to the other States
Union, and to our Senators and Represent* *
in Congress. r
To compel the Sheriffs 0 f the Cherak
circuit to advertise all their sales of lan* 2
the next three years in any one of the ° r
of Millcdgeville. * ‘ *****
T° Prevent any teacher from rccem w
pawn, nt out of the poor school funds of
tain counties, unless such tcaclici shall have"
been examined and found qualified. *
To amend and consolidate the several acts
wd.ich have been passed for the incorporation
of the town of Macon, and to extend the m.
ri3<l ictioiial limits on the east side of the Oak"
mulgee riv< r.
To authorize the Clerks of the Superior
and Inferior courts of Marion county token
their offices any where within ten miles of <
the Court house. j
’Io authorize Felix G. Gibson of Stern j
county, to establish a ferry across the Chain. I
hooch ic. |
Friday, Dec. 14.
BILL REPORTED.
To au,h °rize the Lottery Commissioners
to examine and place any lots not drawn, in
to the lottery whorls.
' RESOLUTIONS
Hie following resolutions wore agreed to:
Po deduct from the notes of Robert Bird
sung and Win. Scott, now running in the
Central Bank for the tax due the State by
them as the securities of Thomas Gardner,
J-ix Collector of Bibb couutv for the year
11-..!),l 1 -..!), all interest that may have been charg
ed and accrued on said notes.
I o authorize arid require the superintend
'nt of the public hands at Flint River t#
build, or cause to be bui’t two good and mf
ciei t flatsfi r the purpose of opening said rir
cr, &e.
Debate oia Ryan’s Resolutions.
IN SENATE.
Mr. Ryan’s Resolutions.
The project ol Air. Ryan, concernin' a
Southern Convention, a State Conventbn,
Ac. was presented by the House to hq
Senate on Tuesday last for its couar-1
rence, after the project was read,
Air. Chappell of Alonroe, rose ami cH
fered the following as a substitute; whictl
ho accompanied with some pertinent re-1
marks: I
Whereas, a great and dangeroirs contestkil
long agitated our country, in relation to the dim
constitutionality and expediency of the protectioß
exended by Congress to certain domestic piodntß
tinns and manufactures by the imposition ofhH
yy duties on articles of like kind imported ftaß
foreign counties : And, whereas, the people®
Georgia are deeply impressed with the con*-l
tion that duties imposed for the purpose of stal
protection, are unwarranted by the ConstituiiJ,®
and at war with the prosperity of the Southuß
'slates: And, whereas, the hostility of feelin®
and interest, which this policy of protection hfl
ai re: dy engendered between the great
cal divisions ofthceoiintry.threatensdangerlotliM
Union itself, and has produced a crisis in iii#B
behold a sovereign member of the Con federal?, ■
deliberately and" decisively arraying herself >■
perilous conflict against the common governraeitH
ot all the States : and, whereas also, the urgent? H
and magnitude of the dangers attendant 011
existing state of things requires a promptitude*l
course to the special mode provided by the Coa-H
stitution, by which this unhappy controversy
be safely and permanently adjusted : H
Be it therefore Resolved, as the sense of the
ate and House of Representatives of the AWef®
Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Co*
gressoftha U. States ought at its present se®
sion to pr< pose \<a the States an amendment of:!®
Constitution, having for its object the lasting*'®
t lenient of the dangerous controversy between4®
different sections of the Union, which has grci®
out of the protective Tariff policy pursued by i:®
Federal Government; and also having for its tit®
liter object the express protection of the people®
the United States against the assumption ®
Congress of the power to pursue such a poli?®
or any policy, rendering the burthens of taxauj®
unequal on the different sections ol the count?®
And be it further Resolved, that his
the Governor, he requested to transmit
this Preamble and these Resolutions to each®
the Senators and Representatives of this State,
the Congress of the United States—and, also,®
the Governors of the several States, for the
pose of being laid before their respective
iatures.”
The question was then proposed to®
taken on the adoption of the substitutf®
when the yeas and navs were called !i> ®
by Air. Hudson, which gave rise to**®
animated debate. Mr. H. prefaced n®
call with some remarks upon to tt®
substitute. J I
Mr. Baxter of Hancock, opr> osc^
substitute. What he said, we could not >®
tinctly hear. H
Air. ( Iliver of Elbert, opposed lit' 1 ri ®
ginal resolutions on the ground that <®
time had passed bv for a (Southern