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■ -snsssssr rtjBMiRsna or Tint iAti or the vnion. DAILY MBA* S I J COtWTMT MMY, : IM* tilt KISHT DOM-AM. FIT* MlAM. Lctti'n of (he 16th quote uplends, at 8d to ltd! ortho lltb site Hi* A (Met quantity of Cotton had arrived at Liverpool in the week ending the lltb nit. ae during that period tweu|y veeeeli entered that port ftom New-York alone, nndlkomtho U..8tntaa, fcrty-Bve. 1 0 f Virginia oh the 9th inaian’t, ot tdio*»’c^. Letters recotved at N. York from London > >' J AComeimay heeedn ihcleptwn ig*» little aouth of the pleiodea or aeven tare ita tail pointing about W.8. W. lap peon however very feist. . The frigate Brandywine, with the luMt [of the Nation on board, pawedthe lapse low to mot hut 1 told you, alio, that| considered aatiifaetory. f nequieaced in I waa uot present when the argument of I thia opinion, and, ultimately, in the further the Attorney Genera) waa delivered ; that (suggestion that it woe unnecessary then to he Supreme Court did not euatain tlieec I publish thia correspondence, from the reflec- loctrmee ; and I aapreaaed to you no opiu j lion that the poaeeaaion of it Airmailed the ion that the Government of the U. Statea " “ “—* had an; I eoul \X-\i THURSDAY MORNING, 8KPT ti. BOARD OF HEALTH. 8avantun, Ssft. St, 1»S5. Tha Board of Health boa the aatiafaclion of announcing to ita fellow-cithena, that although a alight inereaae of fever of a mild type,’ and the subjects generally reaiding in the auburba of the city, huoccnrred during the poet week, Savaonoh continuee to en joy an nnueual ahare of health, for the preventeeaaon. By order of the Board, I. K. TEFFT, Sec’ry. Report of Deaths in Bet Citu of Savannah during the.veek enstinftQthSepUn>b*r,init. Pied of Inflamation of the Brain and Dye entery, I, aged 48 yearn*. Sudden, Biliouv Fever, DebiHty, .. . — Total * At the hoeidtal. I, t, 1. e» 30 31 We give thie day the correapondence be tween Mr* Baaaian and Governor Thouf. It will be perceived that it eubataotiall; sup- porta the Governor, and that the opimona of Mr. B- are the eame, aa to the queetion of elavery. Indeed the queetion of inter ference with our alavc population in any ehape, ie one upon which we do not know how any difibrence of opinion cotild have existed. Tan Crof-—The following letter, which hae been handed to ua given some informa tion ae to the Cotton crop, which will be found of an interacting character at the prevent moment ■ Camdiiv Codhtv, Sept. If, 1825. Pear Sir—Having intimated a wish to have my opinion about the probable quan tity of 8ea Inland Cotton made tbie year in thin part of Georgia, I have deferred an an- awer until the middle of September, when a fair eelimate can alwaya be made. In the Brat place, I would mention that perhapa aioce the drat settlement of Georgia, never . .did the planters, in general, make greater efforts to realise greet cotton crops, then . . they did this sear, ahd perhaps, never was hurricane we did not aspect again this year, nor did we ever dream of a catterpiller.— These cotton ravagers first made their ap pearance in July last, and by the first of September, there were few if any consider able planters without them. Although they come from an almost invisible egg, placed at the bottom of a cotton leaf, yet they will obtaio foil growth in a week, and will pros trate the glory of a cotton field in a fort- night—their stench is almost intolerable, and by this means the fact of their being in your field can be ascertained a few days previous to any visible knowledge. I con speak positively.wben I aay that very nearly the whole of the ootton crops of East Flori da, Camden and Glynn Counties, are, or will be destroyed. I have no positive knowledge of their having done so much damage farther north. Many planters who lost a considerable part of their crops last year by the hurricane, and all their crops this year by the caterpillar, will be greatly embarrassed. I remain, Ac. ■ ■ mention the fact, that a vary on tensive house had commenced the purchase of a targe quantity of Cotton, and that there were strong hopes for believing that no Airther .reduction would take place in'; the article. There had been a great deal of alarm and agitation on the Exchange at Paris in consequeuc of the failure of several specu lators. On the-Slh the 5 per cents closed at I02f. 40c. The news from Madrid ir as melencholy as ever. The people in a state ready for insurrection, the officers of government completely disorganised,and money supplied to the royal treasury by the sale of trading with a fine breexe from the north. i -j An Agent from Holland, it is said, hae arrived, fully authorised to take tyo-thirds o* the Chesapeake and Ohio Cand Stock, if the remainder is ensured to be a inscribed There are at the present time, diirty-oue Colombian vessels cruising fot Spanish property in the Mediterranean. GOV TROUP AND MR. BERRIEN. To the Editors of the National Journal. Bulloch Counts. (Geo.) 24th August, 1825. Sin: The circumstances which require the publication of the following eorrespon 5.( licences, at once ominous,o the revenue, and increasing, if it is possible to do so difficulties which oppose themselves to a return to a better and wiser system. It is said that an expedition composed of two frigates, several corvettes, and some t ransports, will sail from Forrol the 1st Sep tember ahd convey 3900 men to Porto Rico, and 2500 to the Havana. ' The king of France is said to be very melancholy, be has no longer the same amiable manner. This change is attribu ted to his increasing deafuess, and ’ to the embarrassments in which M. do Villele finds himself involved. Parliament has been further proroged from the 25th of August to the 1st of No vember. Ghee* Successes.—The Paris Conrfifu- tionel of the August 4, contains a letter from Leghorn, dated July 24, which men tions a great naval victory obtained by the Greek Admiral Minulis, over the Turkish fleet commandedby Topal Pacha. The lat ter, it soenis, left the port of Soda on the 25th day of June, with the intention, in the first instance, to assist the debarkation of 4,(100 Egyptians, who were proceeding to succour Ibrahim Pacha, and afterwards to goto the mouth oftlie Peloponnessns, whore his presence might facilialc the operations ofthe Pacha of Romelia; According to [he letter in the Constilulionel, however, the Greek fleet frustrated their design by a decisive victory gained over the enemy on the 1st July between Cerigo and Milos.— The action lasted several days. The dis- ipmfitore ortne Touts m iepnsemen SfS».“.'SS..fr„PSb,Tt SS . tssym *** « *™ na publication with some explanatory obser vations. My residence during the present Sonimor is in a retired situation, at the distance of eight or ten miles from the nearest pouf of fice, to which the mail is brought but once in a fortnight. Occurrences, which it is unnecessary to detail here, prevented me from hnving any communication with Sa vannah, for nearly three weeks. I have, consequently, not been aware, until within a very few days, haw much the subject to which this correspondence refers had enga ged the public attention, and that it had been presented in such a view as to render this communication indispensable. No one eouhf have felt more surprise than myself on seeing the communication oftlie Governor of Georgia, Which is referred to in the following letters. I saw it with pain, as well as surprise, but, at the same time, with a full conviction of the purity of the motives in which it had originated, and of the entire misconception which must have produced it. A long and intimate acquain tance had given me the most perfect con fidence in the candor and ingenuousness of thisgentleman. I could not, therefore, hes itate concerning the course which it was proper for me to pursue. I determined to address myself directly to him. to state the error, and to ask its correction. The cor rcepondence which fellows was thus pro duced: Letter from John Marpherson Berrien to (Jot. Troup. Savannah, 25th June. 1825. Mv Dear Sir : 1 have seen in the Geor gia Patriot of the 14th inat. an article pur porting to be a statemnt inode by you to the Legislature of a conversation between you and myself which occurred during my lost visit to Milledgoville, and cannot avoid ex pressing to you the surprise and regret which it has excited. When I saw in your first communication the manner in which you bad noticed the subject of the interfer ence of other States iu our domestic con cerns, 1 .waa struck with the singularity of yawn* kavimr tra tutor red (wntt. Tfwwrqttt, you believed to be) the substance of a pri vate, unofficial document, without consul ting me to know whether your recollection of that conversation was accurate—wheth- er I would consent to bo brought before the One Day Later.—The Crisis, at New- Legislature in that manner—or, in fact,' York, furnishes London papers of the 10th S iv,n B mo the slightest intimation of your ... .... , , ... „ i inteutioo thus to present me to the public, ult. one day later than by the John Wells, | When, subsequently, a call for ’ ’ most of their vessels would fall iuto the bands ofthe Greeks. but they furnish no intelligence of import. The accounts from Greece, appear to be very contradictory. The packet ship Flor ida, Tinkham, was below at New-York on ny concern in urging thia discussion, ild entertain no auch opinion, aa I had been informed that tbs Attorney Gen eral had. at a previous term, given up the case on the part of the Government, and that it was retained at the inatance of a mem ber of the Colonisation Society. I had not tho most distant conception that any obser vation of mine could have led you to think of intimating to the Legialature that ao ap peal to arms might become necessary. I iiad in view, simply, a decisive, but temper ate. expression by the Legislatures of the Southern States, of their feelings on this subject; and so little did I anticipate such a courae, that when you suggested the in quiry, whether yon oogbt not to communi cate the subject to the LegMlature at their extra session, I told you I thought it was nnnecessary, as the regular session would occur before the meeting of Congress, and the Legislatures of other States wuuld then be convened. With this view ofthe conversation which I bad with with you, and without insisting, as, I think, I might do, that you should nut have drawn me before the public, unless with my own consent I now simply repeat, that I cannot agre« to stand before that P ublic in tho attitude in which 1 am placed, f yon can suggest any mode \* Inch I can with propriety adopt by which I can retire from it, without injnry to you, I shall be gratified. Acquitting you, as I do, unhesi tatingly, of any iut, ntion to misrepresent me, I regret very much that this tniscon. ccption should huve occurred at a moment when the circumstances m.tv, by perver sion, be used to your injury ; but ihe views w liich you have received from tbie converse tion, and have communicated to the Legis lature, are so variant from those which I entertained, and which I have thought, and still think, bestcalculated to rally tbu South ern States around a cause which is com tnnn to them all, that I cannot consent diminish the little prospect which I have of being in any degree useful in the national coa.iciis, by being considered as having originated them. Pray let me heer from you soon, and believe me yours truly. JNO. MACPHERSON BERRIEN Governor Troup, Letterfrom Governor Troup to John Mac• pherson Berrien. Mit.t.p.iiGv.vu.i.E, 2d July, 1825. Mr Dear Sir—I received your letter of the 2llth ult. this morning, and ■ ant sorry that any misconception oftlie conversation in relation to the slave question should have occurred or given you the least inquietude. The purport of tliecnnversatiun on you part, was nothing, as I understood, but a recapi tulation of circumstances which occurred at Washington, of public notoriety there, as they soon would be every where, aud the impression which thoseOircumstaucea made on your mind. I did not suppose you fur ther acquainted with the views of the Gen eral Government than those circumstances disclosed, or the opportunities which your presence there mi. ht afford yon of acquir ing thorn, much' less with any definite T* ,IM * T—jvlilals •Ini* 4h>w• onlVUV might hive in contemplation ; and 1 die tinctly remember you to have said that the decision of the Supreme Court had not sanctioned the doctrines of the Attorney General, i fact very well understood when the message was penned. Indeed, in all these things you are at liberty to consult your own memory as equally good with mine ; but suffer me to say, you have a* dopted a vorry erroneous conclusion in b*- wcceselon; that like frogs in the . Egypt, we hive not hau time to conffii? firet before toother end another hat.*^ presented. Falaohoods have beei?.. 6 "* ed*—falae conatructioua given to bin!?” 1 ' motienam.dei. Co.tgroS: ."'d metni of correcting, at any time, the error* mouena maae ia Gongreet; and tn 'T“‘ in the statement ol which l had complained, ua the Governor hea condescended i, q* and would elio enable me to afford any ex- them the subject! of epecitl communi planetion to -those concerned who should to the Legialature. When exiled u, think proper to tsk it from me. Such ex- those members who were still tncreHnl’ 1 * donations I would heve given with cheer- for further information, he tella tbu i 'uincts, if they had been sought; but 1 have ihfee fabricated stories end false cun i not felt myself called upon—perilsps, not tions, alone, should alarm them if «„v p authorized to intrude them. could.) Indeed, he tnd hia friend, k"* Not having then imputed to the General mistaken the constitution ofthe public Government any agency in producing thia and heve forced poison upon it ia such „ discussion j having expressly stated that I title* that it now begins to recover ht was not present during the argument of sea. And it is full time to pnuie.or th the Attorney-General, and that the decision of our good name will be sacntieecUi ‘ of the Court had not confirmed the princi- shrine of individual ambition. For f pie* contended for, the statement made by are citixens of Georgia; so likewise." ** me to the Governor consists in the exprea- citizens of the United States, andthd* sion of an opinion, that the resolution of Mr. ties of the one are not paramount hi King, the doctrines which I heard, and qua! to the other. ’ “ * those which I understood were expressed It is quite common for factionists I in the case of the Ramirez, with the con- country to justify opposition byadoDti ” ii" versxtion out of deors to which that resolu- doctrine of British politico. *• that „„ "* thus and this discussion gave rise, were cal- tion is necessary to the pte.erv>t. n n W" ;n,„, . a;.—.in.. n nri...... .2 .. *vion or lib- fcay be ia ciliated to mmif. at a disposition improperly erly.” Whatever truth there „ to interfere in our domestic concerns, and the doctrine as it regards GteiTL 1 , In awaIsr ■ snallnoonnoo nmnniv .III. nnli.pinl urK.iaA mn imMM M.... A ! _ . __! , ofthe slave population, small portions, who, at auch times, are to be admitted to freedom, leaving the residue in slavery un til the renewed resources of the Govern ment shnl! enable them again to apply the lot. or other means of s> l ..tion—who be lieve that tho unredeemed nmss. wlio will thus have been tantalized with the hope of a freedom, the more alluring because exist ing only in fancy, will quietly submit to the performance of their servile duties, during this protracted process, such persons wiil differ ftom me in opinion. Those who believe that tho discussion of the lawfulness ofthe slave trade, accompa nied with animated descriptions of its her tors, with a view to prove its legal invalidi- ty, not merely under the lows of Ihe United States more recently enacted, but also witli reference to the law of nations, »liich Ita.- undergone no change since our oiwn slaves were acquired by that very traffic, who ho lieve that such discussions and description- may be safely indulged among a people where slavery exists, and is thus derived, will think timt these apprehensions are vis ionary. Be it so—but such is not the opin inn of those who nrc most deeply interested in the result of these experiments, of the people of the .South. For myself, as one of that people, I feel that I atn called upon to resist such opinions, by all those considera tions which can bind a man to the fulfilment of his most solemn obligations; mil, even in the absence of every other motive, by on unaffected attachment to that union which I have befcn taught to cherish and revere. I am. Sir, your obedieni servant. ■ rm. MwoiuHndKtnBfiAElEN. EUR THE GEORGIAN. theinforma- tion was made on me by the Chairman of a Committee of tho House of Representatives,; lie'ing that an impression may have been 1 was forced to tile conclusion that you had ] dcuVned to be made, that the particular given my liuuie to that CoaiuiiUee.'aud, in 1 P art <*f the message to which you have re my reply, written at the instant, after men-1 furred, and which lias given rise to so many the 12th inst. from Liverpool, whence site I tionin 8 t,lis impression. I proceeded to make 1 aI J‘ l such remarks, was the offspring ... ...... f , ! a briefstatement of wltat I had said. Ifllint! ot y° ur suggestion, or in consequence of sailed on the luth August, live days later letter was shown to you, as, from reference i * n y thing emanating from you. So far from than by the W. * : '- -* a;—* — 1 - 1 - - - — Latest from Liverfool.—By the arri val ofthe John IVelle. at New-York, Liver pool papen to the 11th of Angust and Lon don to tho 9th, are received. The political intelligence i* not ot importance ; but the commercial advices are ofthe most distress ing character to the whole south. The par ticulars we do not possess, . Letters state under date ofthe 10th of August, that the feilure of an eminent commercial bouse, in consequence of the great fall in the price of Cottoo, and the fear that other houses may fail from the eame cauee, had thrown considerable degree of gloom over the town, - at the perriod of the departure of the John mih. Another uceount says that two houses are mentioned—one of the houses which have stopped payment ia that of Crowther, Clough-dt Co. This city, we understand, nay likely be a sufferer, and letters received from Charleston, state that several hous es there bad Mopped, or were about to •lop, payment, and that the utmost coufu- - piooexixted, iu the mercantile community. Liverpool accounts of the 8th August nay, thu demand for cotton throughout the week, ha* been steady, and the prices paid are about gd per lb. higher than those ob tained at the last public sale*. The trans- actiobs consist of 40 Sea-Islands, at 21d. a 27d, with 190 stained at 84d a 17d : 2920 .Bowed* 8) * 11 jd; 1050 Orleans’, 9jd a 13; 400 Mobile*, 9d a lRfd. Ashe* were rather hciik. The Baltimore Chroicle states that there were eleven denttu in the city of Savannah, during the week ending the 31st ult. This is a material errorthe number of deaths during that week was but one—and the whole number during the month of August, one of the tickhj months, eleven. Much of gratitude aa we have owed for the health of this city tor several years past, the pre sent season has been more healthy than any which haa preceded. No spot in the Union has possessed t greater share of that first of blessings. to some circumstances, it seems, may have i ' l - Ihe disclosures made by you in that con- been tho fact, boliire your statement oftlievernation formed but a small purt of the mat- 6tli of June was made, J have thou to corn-! !u r "P°n which that part of the message plain that you should have persevered j WBS . after malure deliberation, framed.— in that statement after my explanation to; • assure you that 1 would n t. ou any ac- Mr. Lumpkin, anti with the disposition in uonnt, that you should participate, in the relatiun to me which such a measure would j l e “ 8t degree, the responsibility of the adop- manifesk on your part, 1 should of course be' l ' on and promulgation of that sentiment— relieved from thu feeling towards you which ! nnr uhall any body else. I claim both the now embarrass me. I prefer to adopt the '‘* KU *ud the language embodied there, as ' my exclusive property ; and, in the enjoy ment of it. I do not see that there is much likelihood of my suffering interruption— Nuverllieless. it is a sentiment approved by every re-consideration of it. and one which will be sedulously impressed upon my chil dren. That the resolution of Mr. King, and the sentiments you heard expressed connected Measures are taking in New-York for celebrating the completion of the Great Western Canal, in a manner commensurate with the magnitude of the undertaking thus happily concluded. It is suggested in the Albany Patriot, that heavy canuon be plac ed along the whole line of the canal, from Lake Erie to the Hudson, within hearing distance; and that on the appointed day. when the water is let into the canal, and a boat ie about starting for Albany, the Buffa lo Artillery should commence firing, and every cannon, in doe rotation, announce it aloug the line. In this way, the news would be received in Albany from Buffalo, in t o tours. Doctors Hodge, Bache, Meigs, Coatee, and La Roche, of Pbjiadelphia, have issued a prospectus for the publication of ■ quar terly journal, to be called H The North American Medical and Surgical Journal.” The London European Magasine, con tain* an aflide contrasting >• The English labourer and American Slave,” and giving a preference to the condition ofthe letter. Cheaf Living—The Herkimer, N. Y. paper advertises boarding for persona at tending Courts, at the following rate*: For meals and bitten, 3e; lodging Id i and horse keeping l«. per dies)—other boarded 12* per week. contrary conclusion. I am unwilling, per haps unable, at the momont, to shake offthe feelings springing from a friendship of more than twenty years ; and I cannot forget, that, under the operation of these, and from a belief that the public interest would be promoted by your success. I omitted no hon ourable exertion to aid your election to the office which you now fill. Under the com bined influence of these considerations, lain! w ' t * 1 ' l ’ ,,K * ,llof!e which you understood were expressed in the case of the Ramirez and the conversa lions out of doors, to which the argument of that case gave rise, a restlessness which awful cun- have made no such assertions as may be j sequences, and ynur considering the doc extremely unwilling to do any thing of which your enemies might avail themselves to your injury. But the situation in which I am placed before the public by ynur comtuu- 1 wore calculated to excite ideation, and subsequent statement, it one! alnon £ oar coloured population, in which I cannot cousent to remain. I might be productive ofthe most aw inferred front that statement. On the'eon trary. you have misunderstood both the teu- or and object of my observations. The African case, in which I am of Counsel with the State, having been the subject of conversation between its, I was naturally led to advert to the disposition to iuterfero with our domestic concerns of that sort, which I thought had been mani fested during tho lost winter at Washing ton. I considered the resolution of Mr. King as strongly evincing such a disposi tion, and I thought that the sentiments which I heard expressed, and those which I undcstood were expressed in the case of the Ramirez, and the conversation* out of doors, to which the argument of that case gave rise, were calculated to excite a rest- leepess among our colored papulation, which might be productive ofthe moat aw ful consequences. I, therefore, saggested to you, os I had done to others, my opini on, that these consequences ought to be met. and would be most effectually averted,- by concurrent resolutions of the Legisla tures of the Southern Statea, declaring this subject to be exclusively within their own particular cognisance, and asking from Congress to abstain from intermeddling with it. I spoke to yon of the purport of the arguments of Counsel, ao fbr as I had heard them,, and of thoee which bed been ascribed to the Counsel, whom I did not h'-ar. I told you that I considered the doc trine* advanced as alarming, and that, with the feeling which, es a Southern man they excited in me, I ihoold have been glad of an opportunity of replying, which the order of the discussion did not ci trines advanced by the Attorney General mid others, as you understood them, alarm ing, were all the facts of any importance, according to my estimate of them. It was well known that they were the views of the General Government only, from which we had any thing to fear; and whether you ex presseil any particular knowledge of those views, or not. we were at liberty to infer them from the facta disclosed. Neither in dictating that pert of the message, therefore, or in devising a remedy for the evil complained of, were you or any body consulted, or more than a due weight given to ytur disclosures. Beference was unhesitatingly made to that conversation, because you were a Senator of thia State in the Congress ofthe United States, and it became your duty to make known to this Government whatever transpired at Washington prejudicial to ita interest*. Having sought an early opportu ■ity, to do so, I thooght you entitled to cre dit i and, accordingly, at the call ofthe La- gialatnre, submitted to it the paper to which yon have allnded. Cordially reciprocating the friendly sen timents you exprem, I remain, very truly, yours, G, M. TROUP, The Hon. J. M. Bsuuxn. P. 8. You are at liberty to use thie let ter aa you please. G. M. T. These letters (which were written, as wilt be seen by their dates, long before those of the Attorney General and the Judges of the 8upreme Court) were shown immediately after the receipt of the last, to some ofthe mutual friends of the Governor and myself; by whom Ihe explanation was to excite a restlessness among our colored whose government is a mixture of ' population, which might be produc’ivR of ch. Aristocracy and Democracy; i 0 the most awful consequences. Such was jealousy and contention may pray,-at th, my opinion then—such is tny opinion now. collusion, of any two for the ilaitruaituiof, I have not desired to intrude it upon ihe third; and thus owe to strife th,: presorva public; but since it is before teem without tion of all; the doctrine is irrelative and tt - any agency of mine. 1 do not hesitate to terly fnlse when applied to a simple dean avow it. and will, whenever the occasion |cratic government like ours. Tite dii- may require it, endeavor to deleud it.— I source of danger is from dissentinm. Tu t Those who believe tlmt a project, in the figure expresses more truth, when we m execution of which it wilt heeomn nocessa- our government is an arch, whose key stall ry. frnnj time to time, to cull from the great is the constitution. While every por; pr-. es to the centre, it defies pressure from wi;, I out; but if the key be withdrawn tbu wiiu. arch falls into its original component, pare | The prosecution of a first claim again.,; I government, is not, however, to bo call-.d I opposition to government; nor can .-odaro | ger its existence wlnie nrgod with buara ing temper ami caml-mr Hud Guve.-am | Troup restrained himself within lliodccwi I ey which self consideration should itnvopr- I scribed; and if not himself, nt least rogatx I for the stale he represented, absolutely «. I mnndcd of him; every honourable t-sciba I would Ituve gained our applause. Cut sir..* I every unfounded charge and extr-.v,-;; I pretention that can be unde orurgud an 11 ihe government of the U. States arc ft I tended by some, and thought bv ntherr. tg I be so much bad & received by G orgia; Asi I since likewise G >v -rnor Troup lias calloc on the citizens of Georgia to become ju,I-1 es in their own cause ( ontrary to the 1 stitution ofthe U. S. which has gin.-n ll.al p over lo the Supreme Court) ami if that I rights such as they might judge litem to Cr, I wure not yielded to arguments to oblail them by force of arms; it becomes csey I honest citizen before he throws off his ail, I giance to the Union, to investigate the * I claims lor himself; and ij endeavour to m-1 dors: and them with the same clearness tol I certainty that he would hia individual claim I upon * follow-citizen. A su.xioc - . history uf I the origin and prngr >ss of these claims of | til emerged in a cla-m on the General Got-1 eminent may,perhaps, be sutficic t (o pin t I these claims with their attending circum r stances, perspicuously before as. In at-1 rmnntinfr to rr v, evmr. anuno, I shall ta-r I incontestable facta only, for the basis- ( 1 By Letters Patent of G orge the 2^dal-| ed the 9th of Juno. 1732, and by other sub-1 sequent letters, all that country south oftk* I m t .o ti eru btnk of tbe.Stranuah /! ;-1 er and extending south to the St. Marp I River; and up to tho sources of these tit-1 ,-rs; and from thence westerly to the soul! ■ea. was granted to a company in Enplan for the purpose of settling a colony, iuceuu- »d for the benefit of poor persons whuto'ji.1 choose to emigrate thither. Authority wss granted bv those ’e -, porrluue lands from the Indians , . [loses h-fnre mentioned.) I*- is well k 1 . 'hat 43 years alter the grant of tin-.. : letters, Georgia joined ihe other eolome t ;he struggle for Independence; and u.i its acknowledgement claimed the stun;.; tent of territory as that fixed by the Li ters Patent. Matty other states were similarlyslluitted to Georgia ns regards their tenitott-b.— Their charters hud defined their limits "* their sea-li mrd sufficiently cert ia; but were vague as to their exteet back—""t came in collision with others ami nil related to a country in their rear unexplored ill nnknuwn. It had become a question before the clap ofthe revolutionary war.whether the cron rights to lands should devolve to the etrtl in titeir federative character, or to each-t- perate state. And bo long back ns MU the Old Congress recommended to; he staiN claiming the pre-emption to lands unat their charters to cede their claims fit til benefit of the Union. Accordingly Mnso- chusetts, Connecticut.N’- w-York, Virgtaa. and South-Caroliua with a view to aid Got- eminent and prevent direct taxation tor cs support, coded all that country nnw cou.-t- tutiug most of the western states l™ entire north-western territory.|| Ge-tpi would, undoubtedly, have done the same * a few years, with a portion of her clan** territory—patriotism, pride end evenJ«sri‘o to the other slates to mike equal J ' tion for the support of national ID f from which she was to derive equal benem, dictated the measure. But while fnc de layed, cotf/panies of epeculaton • “ D were associated to purchase her clem* ,0 * large extent of country. And in they obtainod an act familiarly known •» 1 * Y>2oo act for the sale of l hesc lands to tnc companies and purporting to be tor rets' g means for paying revolutionary *>W' e These men had too much eogacitv tn rfti the lands, and accordingly lost no l |in * selling out to citizens ot other iteto* * l DISCITE JUSTIT1AM MOJtTTI, Hear, and be just. Johnson. The General Government, from the adop tion of Federal Constitution to tile present moment, has tit all its uieaniYreH, whore the interests of a separate state has been con ceroed, rather given,than taken advantage Not a solitary instauce is to be found, not withstanding, the outcry of state demn gogues, where the United States’ Govern nieiit, either Executive, Legislative, or Ju diciary, h.tj exceeded the powers granted by the people. And, indeed, we have not only the past to justify our confidence; but in the locality of feeling which each mem ber of Congress carries with him, a strong guarantee tor the future, that no adminis tration will attempt an encroachment oh the rights reserved to the states; or if it should, that this locality of feeling would interpose an impenetrable shield. On the contrary, the history of the state--- affords abundant evidence of a disposition on their part,not to maintain, only, the rights reserved by tba Constitution; but lo en croach upon thoso solemnly and expressly granted to the General Government. And some of the states huve even gone so far as to avow principles closely allied to decla e l & open rebellion. The state ofVirginia during our difficulties with Fruuce led the way; ami the New-Eugland slates to be revenged on the principal actors of Virginia, followed the example during our last war with Greut Britain. Though these letter states, in their Convention at Hartford,confined them selves to a declaration that they disapprov ed of the war, and would take all legal and Constitutional measures to obtain peace ; yet the design nf the leaders in that con vention was, undoubtedly to alarm govern ment and also to lessen its credit in the mo ney market, by which it might be prevented from effecting the loans necessary to the conducting of her enterprises to a success ful issue. Although revenge is eagerly sought by mankind, and by none more so, than by parties; yet no domestic or foreign example can excuse the want of patriotism and devotion to the public weal, Until the present Governor came into of fice, Georgia had sustained a character for patriotism, at unsullied as the mountsin snow. True,she had not obtained the fame for moderation which wisdom lends her vo taries ; but her patriotism was thought to be like her own son—warm and glowiiig. But since the present incumbent haa presid ed over onr affaire, we have been stunned with declamations against the General Gov ernment. And for what ia thie mighty clamour ? The answer ie at hand, Governor Troup and his party heve their own private interests to promote, and it is believed an excitement against the General Government would pro- selling oat to citizens ot advance. The next succeeding Legislature d*' 1 *'' ed the act telling these lands voided on t» ground that bribery bed been need n> Ff curing it; and .ordered the retard* « proceedings ther on to be burned. I* not, however,- conteeded that the ne”"" of that legislature bed not been dulf ed; nor Set any other act oftbat body not valid and binding a* Lew. The' , sens of other elites, who had been dupf« into the purchase ofthe clainw under t*»> mote their owuinterests, to effect it,pert in-1 act, finding no redree* from Georg 1 e-^.r vectives, violent denunciations and sophistry : plied to Congress, and almost every e*” have taken the place of dignified candour | was filled with their elemour. and manly argument. I say they endeav- After the first exuberance of mfi® our to promote their own interests by ereet- pest, the leading men to thie eute m- & ing an excitement against the General Gov-' tppreheneivefor the result; and tn«u- eminent; because, after the palpable evi- Government being advised thet tne« dence they have given of their deeigne,(her- were euetaineble in law. aod eppr* ^ Ry would be weakness. One cause after if not a ckrU war among “ u ™"*’, r , r e another his been urged why we should op- worst consequence, if these cUtmW pose the General Goverqifeaat.ineueb quick ta interfere in tho affluro oftnom