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VOL- 2.
jjtet” s ‘lsm®*
For the Georgia Citizen.
Rosalie Lee.
BY T. H. CHIVERS, W. D.
(i Anges ne sont plus pures que le cceur d’ uu
eune homine qui aime en verite.” Madame Dude
t tnt.
On the banks of the yellow lilies,
Where the cool wave wanders by,
All bedemasked with Daffodillies,
And the bee-beset Crowtie ;
More mild than the Paphian Luna
Toiler nude Nymphs on the sea,
There dwelt with her milk white Una,
My beautiful Rosalie Lee —
My highborn Rosalie Lee —
My childlike RoMßte Lee—
M- beautiful, dutiful Rosalie Lee.
Many mellow Cydonian packets,
Sweet apples, anthosmial, divine,
From the Rubv-rimmed Berylline buckets,
Star-gemmed, lily-bhaped, hyaline—
Like that sweet golden goblet found growing
On the wild emerald Cucumber-tree—
Rich, brilliant, like Crysoprnz blowing—.
I then brought to my Rosalie Lee —
To my lamb-like Rosalie Lee —
To my dove-like Rosalie Lee—
To iny beautilul, dutiful Rosalie Lee.
Warbling her woodnotes wild, she wended
Her way with the turtle doves,
And the wood-nymphs weird that attended
Her steps through the flowing groves.
In the light of her eyes of azure,
My soul seemed on earth to see
All that Heaven could give me of pleasure,
With my beautiful Rosalie Lee —
With my lleaven-born Rosalie Lee —
With my Christ-like Rosalie Leb —
With my beautiful, dutiful Rosalie Lee.
Rut my darling Ulpsyehe sighing
Her soul out to give me delight,
Went away with the Great Undying
To the Courts of the Heavenly Light.
Through an arc made in the azure
Os God's azimuth, Heaven to see,
Where dwell with Angels in pleasure—
Went my beautiful Rosalie Lee—
Went my fair-browed Rosalie Lee —
Went my beautiful, dutiful Rosalie Lee.
Through the Valley of Avalon lonely,
By the light of the argentine Moon,
From the presence that lived for her only
On the banks of the rivers ot Rune—
Through the Star-Islands studding the Ether,
With the Angel that took her from me,
Though my soul in its sorrow went with her—
Soared my beautiful Rosalie Lee —
Soared my Christ-like Rosalie Lee
Soared my Gou-loved Rosalie Lee.
Oak Grotty Ga. Jan. 20, 1845.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Lines to Mrs. JI. E. Stokes,
BY MISS MARY E. RIOI’.DEN.
’Tisnot the love that interest knouts ;
That I most highly prize
Nor yet, is it, the tear, that flows,
At will, from practiced eyes:
But, ’tis the love that prompts the tear,
For innocence that grieves;
And brings the lit art of pity near,
When worldly friendship leaves.
My heart more fgndly turns to theo
Mid changing scenes of day,
And feels assured, you think of mo
Though I am far away—-
And should the world in envious peals,
jDonspire to blast thy fame—
There is one friend for thee still feels
Unchangeably the same.
When evening shades around me lower,
And hushed is busy strife,
And at the hour, when thoughts should soar ;
Beyond this transient life ;
How sweet, my friend, to think of thee ;
And still to call thee mine,
Tor there has been no change in me,
Since days of Auid Lang Sene.
Who is this friend the world may say
That can life’s ill beguile ?
! Tis the who cheers you on your way,
With a benignant smile,
Not she who coldly turns aside,
When aid k he should impart
Or fails to soothe when griefs betide
And droopk the stricken heart.
There is a friendship, false indeed,
Which changes on the morrow,
FollowingwCero brightest prospects lead,
But neveimnear, in sorrow ;
While the bk* friendship, which I crave,
If such cawhere be given—
Is that whiclweaves, but, at the grave!
To be renvved, in Heaven !
Dooly County , iScpt. 5, 184!).
JfUikLdlyjJjp
(For the Georgia Citizen.
From the Portfolio of an Ex-Editor.
FEODORA.
Jh Opera in one Act: front the German of Kotzebue.
FOUNDED UPON FACT.
Dramatis Person*.
Lmpbkor or Russia.
Major Willicro rr — A rich land-holdefv^
Marie—His sister.
Ivar Peterovitsch—Their uncle. X
Fsodora. V.
Tho Scunc is laid ia an aportment of the Major's yilU\sitntU
*'*cn the road between .Moscow and St. Pctersbvrgh.
[concluded.]
SCENE V
FEODORA THE MAJOR.
Major. —Feodora, you weep !
beodora. —I sang a song, which I ofteu hoard, when
•child. Old, simple songs are always touching.
M*jor. lias my sister spoken to you ?
beodora. (confusedly.) She was satisfied with my
work.
Major. Ido not refer to that. Has she spoken of
me?
Feodora. Os you 7
Major. To you.
a eodora. O yes! That occurs daily. Your good
f ”' f r s peaks freely of her beloved brother, and the
gratefu] orphan listens gladly.
Major. You avoid an answer: you will not under
*hd me .
beodora. I pray you, for God’s sako spare me!
Major. Spare ! That an honorable man should t
ac ® a * the purest of sentiments, this do yen cal! to
Feodora. Do not be offended. Treat me as a pa
tient, whom no one should surprise—even with that
which is acceptable, until the physician permits it.
Major. Where shall I find this physician ? Tell me,
so that I may question him.
Feodora. Ah I wait for him with the longing of a
child !
Major. And when he comes ?
Feodora. Then, I trust in God, that he will help
me. Then my future will smile.
Major. And mine?
Feodora. Your happiness will be mv praver.
Maj or. Maiden of enigmas ! Have I not deserv
ed your confidence?
Feodora. Can we always give it to the deserving?
MAJOR.
When shall thy sweet voice’s sound
Over pass its secret bound ?
FLODORa. ‘ , /
When to me on solid grotind,
Shall hope’s anchorage be found ?
BOTH.
- Misapprehended heart!
Close thyself against thy will :
Bleeding, and yet silent still;
Nourishing thy smart.
MAJOR.
But when it through grief is breaking,
God forgive thy power !
FEODORA.
May my holy undertaking
Nerve me in this hour!
BOTH.
When with virtue, love combines,
Grand is its appearance *.
And to gain sublime designs,
Naught like perseverance.
Marie, (opening the door.) Uncle has come.
Major, (aside.) Ha! may he have proved suc
sessful!
SCENE VI.
IVAN TETROVITSCH, FEODORA, THE MAJOR.
Major, (meeting him.) Welcome dear uncle.
Ivan Pelrovitsch. Here am I —here am I. I
would have been as wise had I remained at home. Ilow
are you, my dear nephew ? The infernal wooden
bridges have broken all my bones to pieces. It served
me right. What butiness had lat Moscow ? (He
looks ashamed at Feodora.) How are you Feodora ?
Feodora. (Bows respectfully.)
I. P. (aside.) The hypocrite! Who would have
suspected her ? May the devil take me, but she looks
like an angel—like a saint, who has just rested in Abra
ham’s bosom.
Major. lam very anxious, dear “.nek, \o hear an
account of your adventures.
I. P. They are not many.
From mountain to mountain I sped in my race,
Over stock and stone at a rattling pace.
Here dust in a cloud, and here sparks in a shower ;
And here the clock-song from the old church tower.
Here breaking of reins; then the axle-trees shiver ;
And then a cold bath in the mud of the river.
Here run the dogs, with their yelpin/** “ting me;
Here men succeed in adroitly chr r^H S 8 °f
Every where striving to meet* at 20,000, and let I
J > :'g, or I run, or I trust to pathjr.OOßß, C HAP- J,
Till finally, shattered in all my powers,
My eyes see the city of golden towers.
Major, (takes him aside.) Did you meet with tru
ces of her in Moscow ?
IP I believe so.
Major. O tell me quickly !
I. P. Mine arc not agreeable news. The mask
of innocence lias deceived us.
Major. Impossible!
I. P. When 1 see her so, it seems to mo impos
sible. But Ino longer look upon her : —the deceiver !
Mj ior. I stand on coals: —tell me
(During this conversation, Feodora stands at a mod
est distance and occupies herself in a becoming way.)
I. P. Well then. You know that the head of the
police is an old friend of mine. To him I went first.
1 related to him our adventure. I told him that you
were in love, and that I was half-way,—that not one
word could we get from her, and that yet we were
anxious to know who she was, to whom we felt our
selves to be truly attached. ‘Why !’ said he, ‘have you
not asked for her passport?’ ‘To be sure,’was iny an
swer, ‘but she has lost lier passport.’ He imagined
that sounded suspicious. ‘But she came from Moscow,’
said I; and then I described her long and broad, and
got myself a little into the fire thereby. Then my old
friend laughed, and suggested, that a lover could issue
the best catch-warrant. He immediately set one of his
shrewdest followers on the track, who succeeded in a
few days in tracing her out.
Major. Who is she ?
I. P. Not that, but whence she came.
Major. Well!
I. P. Front Siberia.
Maj. (shuddering.) From Siberia ?
I. P. Yes. She shewed herself timidly ut the
gates. The same story of a lost passport, caj filed a good
natured policeman; and when he insisted upon know
ing whence she came, she answered him faulteringly,
‘From Tobolsk.’ lie now naturally wished to investigate
the matter more thoroughly, carried her in the mean
while very politely to his house, from her noble, gentle
beating suspected nothing—would perform in a hurry
a little matter of business ; but when he returned after
an hour’s absence, slio was off!
Maj. Hum ! Strange and mysterious!
I. P. Mysterious! Not at all. Melhinks a maid
en, who comes from Siberia—so entirely alone—so dis
tressed—without a passport—a young beautiful pil
grim, dexterously outwitting the police—-is as like to a
wanton, as one drop of the Neva to another.
Maj. Do not condemn her too rashly, dear uncle.
I. P. Rashly ! The deuce ! I have been sifting for
four weeks to arrive at the truth.
Maj. I will not endure the burdeu of this suspi
cion. Ilow, if I should suddenly tell her all, before
you ?
I. P. Do what you will. I withdraw my hand
from her.
Maj. Ah ! I cannot withdraw my heart until she
herself confesses. (After a struggle) Feodora.
-a neodora. What do you want?
Maj. Come nearer. Look at me.
Faodora. Why do you observe me so gloomily ?
Mltn. (Locks steadily into her eyes.) You come
from Liberia.
Feodora (Starting; after a pause she says, re
signedly) yes. - f”
Maj. Were botn there ?
Feodora. No.
I. P. Then, sent there ?
Faodoro. Yes.
Maj. Why ?
Feodora. Spare me that question—
I. P. But that is the very {joint.
Maj. Feodora, what shall I think of you ?
Feodora. Nothing base, when you know—
I. P. Yes, when he can. Who the devil can thnk
any good of you ? Honorable maidens are never sent
to Siberia.
Maj , Perhaps some peculiar misfortune perplexes
you.
Feodora. Yes, it is so.
Maj. You may still be innocent?
Feodora. I am.
M'cj. But in tins case you should relate —explain—
“ iu all tljings —Jktlral in notjjing”
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2G, 1851.
Feodora. It is impossible.
Maj. You will trust good men who have received
you so unsuspectingly and affectionately.
Feodora. Ah yes! that they did !
Maj. Who love you—who will keep your secret
trustily.
Feodora. I have no secret.
I■ P■ W hat contumacy !
Feodora. It is my greatest sorrow that I must ap
pear ungrateful.
Maj. (Bitterly.) Appear! You are ungrateful.
Feodora. Ah ’
/. P. The lady will then perceive, that under ex
isting circumstances, she can no longer remain in this
house.
Feodora. I will go.
I. P. You shall not. We will do our duty. You
have no passport: we will deliver you over to the po
’ lice. !
Feodora. Do what you think right.
I. P. (Angrily.) What tranquility !
Maj. No, dear uncle, we will not aggravate her
punishment, however deserved. From my house
she shall freely go. (Lie offered her a full purse.) Take
it, go,
Feodora. (Rejecting it.) There is no need of this
act of beneficence to make your house remembered.
God will hear the grateful prayer of an innocent child,
and reward you.
Maj. (With bitterness.) Only go—go! I will
recover my peace. This very day, will I solicit a fur
lough from the Czar, and travel into foreign lands.
I. P. (With anger.) I'll travel with you! To
solicit a furlough!
Maj. Blessings on the happy casuality, that the
monarch travels past this place to-day!
Feodora. To-day! By this place! (almost be
side herself.)
1. P. Is the lady astounded ? Yes, she must hide
herself betimes: for here will his horses be changed;
and here will he alight to take refreshment.
Feodora. 11a!
I. P. Already the coursers aro hurrying by in my
carriage. The Czar is not far oft’.
Feodora. (Staggers, and catches hold of a chair.)
Maj. (Springs to her.) What’s the matter, Feo
dora ?
Feodora. Nothing. O kind Sir, grant me this
last favor—permit me to remain one hour longer in
your house, that I may enjoy the happiness of seeing
tho monarch!
Maj. Do you not shun his presence ?
Feodora. Lie will appear to me as a gracious deity !
/. P. Then the hangman shall show his dexterity
afterwards.
Maj. (Aside.) It is not possible, that she is crim
inal !
Marie. (Bursting open the door.) Uncle! broths
or! The Czar is coming ! Quickly down to receive
h i in!
[Exit.]
I. P. On, on, nephew 1 This is a day of honor.
The one forgets every thing.
[Exit.]
Maj. Ah, in what a frame of mind, shall I re
tire the beloved guest!
,JW 5 i [Kxit] --
f SCENE lii.C
FEODORA, {solu^)'\^ Ajhs & g ox>
(She easts herself on her kneds, in Vu,
agitation.)
God 1 who from the North-seas frozen marge,
Through forest and liver, and measureless wild,
By angel-guidance, hast led thy charge:
In this dark hour, O strengthen thy child 1
That she may the Potentate's heart-spring reach,
Through the faltering lips, and the stammering speech.
Thou seest the tears of my sorrow flowing;
Dry up those tears in the mourner’s eye ;
And now, by the heavenly gift bestowing,
Be true to thy daughter’s constancy :
The gift, that was pledged by the worlds above,
To the pious heart, and the filial love.
(She springs up.) 1 hear them coming! A moment
and they will be here ! —God! I have none but thee,
God ? I trust in thee !—(She walks staggeringly aside.)
SCENE VIII.
THE CZAR, IVAN PETROVITSCH, THE MAJOR, MARIE.
The last three in chorus —
Happiness broods oe’r the dwelling,
Where a good prince makes his stay :
No armed host with conquest swelling—
Troops of blessings, track his way!
Sacred is the threshold, feet
Os the well beloved have pressed !
Children his friendly entrance greet
With childhood's exultation ;
And a future generation
Marks the house, which he lias West!
Czar. I thank you my friends. lain happy among
you, for I know that you love me.
I. P. O ! if this feeling contributes to the happi
ness of your majesty, then you must be happy every
where ; for where are you not loved !
Feodora. (Falls breathless at tho Czar’s feet.)
Czar. Who is this! what do you wish ?
Marie. Feodora, vvliat arc you doing !
(Ivan Pelrovitsch and the Major exhibit—tho
marks of dismay.)
I. P. We know her not—Go ! what impropriety !
Czar. Let her alone. Every unfortunate has a
claim upon the Czar. Speak iny child.
Feodora. I—l cannot —
Czar. Recover yourself. Take courage. Ima
gine you are speaking to your father.
Feodora. Father!—This word gives me courage.
I am the daughter of General Tshulikoff.
Czar. The exile ?
Feodora. For fourteen years he has languished in
Siberia. He has erred, butTiis atonement has been se
vere—on the bank of the Irtish, he has dug the graves
of his wife and two of his children. Penury and grief
destroyed them. All! I grew up, not to give him
joy, for his great ago led him to antipate a speedy death:
he saw in me only a neglected orphan. The scanty
bread that I received from his hand, wet with tears.—
‘Ah,‘ he often sighed, ‘thou must soon beg even this.’
I could no longer endure my father’s sorrow : —My
spirit was early matured in the school of affliction—the
report of your clemency reached even our frighful soli
tude—a ray of hope glimmered—l determined to risk
all, to procure by my entreaties your clemency for my
father. With anxiety and hope I embrace your knees.
Gracious Czar! pardon for my father !
Czar. Arise, What! Didyo'j come from Siberia,
all alone ?
Feodora. All alone.
Czar. But how ?
Feodora. On foot.
Czar. On foot ?
Maj, Ha!
Czar. What gave you the courage ?
Feodora. Trust in God !
Czar. But the strength t
Feodora. Filial love.
Czar. Had you no protector on such a journey ?
Feodora. My innocence.
Czar. What means had you ?
Feodora. The charity of the pious.
Czar. You begged then ?
Feodora. For my father.
Czar. Noble hearted maiden 1 your father is free ! j
Feodora. (Cries out.) lie is free! (She would
cast herself at the Czar's felt j but sinks helplessly into
the arms of Marie.)
Czar. Every affliotion--every necessity has this
brave maiden borne ; but joy overcomes Iter. I see
you are all deeply moved.
I. P. Yes, God knows !
Czar. Stay with her, mv friends. Follow me not.
I will relinquish the first outbreak of your gratitude;
and instead, despatch a courier to Siberia ; then bring
to me the pious <4 u Id. I will not leave this house, un
til I have acc. e mos (T h er happiness. (He goes.)
(Ivan I\trocars panel the Major would follow him.)
Czar. Remiieei
N [Eiit]
SCENE IX.
The same, without the Czar. /
Maj (Casts himself s>. Feod.Ja’s feet.) My blessed!
I. P 1 could weep ifor vfry shame and regret!
Marie. Feodora, dear Feodora !’
Feodora. (Recovering) What has happened to
me? *
Marie. Your father is free !
Feodora. (In ex Lacy.) He is free through me ! Sud
denly passing over into high devotion) —No, through
thee, (lifting her eyes and hands toward heaven,) and
I have not yet thanked thee.
Marie. Be still. She prays.
Maj, To her must [ pray : Pardon, my lady.
/. P. Let her also grant to this poor, abashed, old
simpleton, grace instead of justice.
t Feodora. Why is this? My benefactor! (Sherais-
Major.)
.. P. We have injured you, by our shocking sus
picions.
Feodora. How could you have felt otherwise ?
I. P. But you must bear your share of the blame.
Why did you not confide in us ?
Feodora. The strict injunctions of my father—the
vow, that I, departing, laid in his trembliug hand, only
to reveal myself to \he Crar —the absence of the mon
arch—
Maj. Ilow, my lady ! Do you condescend to ex
culpate yourself? Does not the purest innocence per
vade your entire being. O! my heart has never
wavered: and now, no power upou earth shall sepa
rate me from you !
Marie. (Weeping.) Sister
Feodora. I have a father—he is free —he will come
—I will obey him.
Maj. May I hasten to meet him ?
Feodora. Conduct him in joy to my arms, be his
guardian Angel upon his long and arduous journey:
and then take for your reward, my thankful heart.
Maj. The Czar sends a courier, I will accompany
him.
I. P. Now I envy you your youth !
Feodora. O that my prayers could lend you wings!
MAJOR.
Strong in joys or pains’ direction,
Move young hearts in their unrest:—
But stronger the affection,
In the pious daughter’s breast.
CHORUS.
As the reed in the liuricanywild,
Waver friends in adversity blast:
But the dutiful love,< J
cases- as may coupe iirulyr tneir obser 1
We have made ap libit to a seen ■]
nances of the liilib county Acade’ - y W
that our researches have be-*"CIV^,
Trustees failing jf c > 8 devotion
But a nobler emotion.
Strews a father’s path with flowers.
CHORUS.
The flowers of the earth, with their blushing dyes,
Attract young passion's blazing eyes :
But this soars up the worlds on high,
With the prize of its spotless sanctity.
IVAN PETROVITSCH.
Ilappy the man, who may have found,
On earth, a friend in truth :
But sweeter, holier joys abound.
Where age is propped by filial youth.
CHORUS.
Rare, that poverty’s endeavors
Find a friend, experience saith :
But from loving parents, severs
Loving children, only death.
FEODORA.
Rich are conquerors of nations;
Princes rich in fancy's pride;
Richer yet those generations—
Guardians at their parents’ side.
CHROIIUS.
Life’s way may wear a darkling pall,
But light shall smile the dreary wild ;
And Heaven's peculiar blessings fall,
From parent’s lips upou his child.
E. T. W.
anoaciMMßMwai
Valuble Discovery. —One of our citizens
(Mr. A. R. Jones) has discovered a inode ot
ventilating sinks, which lie thinks will prove
of the greatest utility. By inse.ting a pipe—
say lour inches in diameter-through the wali,
just above the surface of the sink, and exten
ding the pipe into the flue of a chimney in
which a fire is kept up, (for example a kitchen
chimney,) so great a draft is created as to re
move all impure air, and keep the premises
entirely free from disagreeable odors. The
heat of the chimney not only increases the draft
through the pipe, but purifies the air as it as
cends; so that, by the time it reaches the top,
ail the impurity is gone. Mr. Jones assures
us that he has tried the experiment effectually,
and that it works .to perfection. He says that,
iiv this way, the most _ filthy ..sinks maybe ren
dered entirely free from unpleasant odors, whilst
the purity of thesurrounding atmosphere will he
preserved. In densely populated cities this
discovery will prove of great value in the pro
motion of comfort and the preservation of
health.— St. Loiis Intelligencer.
Good. —It is threatened iu an exchange pa
per, that if the ladies introduce the Turkish
fashion of trowsers, that the men will introduce
another Turkish fashion: A multiplicity of
wives!
Hypocrisy in any matter is bad, but in relig
ion it is abominable; there is no such a devil as
he that looks like an angel.
In this country we own no sovereigns ex
cept the ladies—God bless them!—and every
man ought to have one of them!
The AV’ay. to Make an Impression.—
“Sammy, my boy, what are yet! jarying Scil\
‘Bill hove the Bibio at me, and hit me on
the head,’
‘Well, you are the only person in my fam
ily on whom the Bible ever made the least im
pression.’
A certain person, evidently one of tho class,
defines an old maid, to be:
“A lady who has attained the age of twenty
four or five, without having married a fool, a
knave a gambler, a drunkard, or a loafer.’
Good, good,
The Post says, one of tho pilots of Boston
is so remarkably fat. that he is atigmatized a?
I Pauncheous Pilot,
Address,
Delivered by Hiram Warner, at Knoxville,
Crawford county, Ga. July 4, 1832.
Friends and. Fellow-citizens —Fifty and six
times has the sun performed his annual revolu
tion, since the American colonies were declared
to be free and independent—Fifty and six
were the number of those unexampled patriots
who signed that Declaration of Independence,
just read in your hearing, at a crisis, too, which
tried men’s souls, pledged their lives, their for
tunes, and sacred honors, to support it. How
many of them now remain to speak forth their
noble deeds of other days? Alas! but one of
that immortal band is heard on earth to answer
to his name :—and, ere now, his spirit may have
tied to Him who gave it; for this is a day on
which our heavenly Father delights to call those
patriots home.
Time, which no human arm can stay, has
moved onward in its course, until fifty and six
years have rolled away, since the American peo
ple declared themselves emancipated from the
thraldom of British tyranny; and vve are, as
yet, a united, prosperous and happy people. I.c-t
all our hearts be filled with gratitude and
thanksgiving to that God, from whom all bless
ings flow, for his kindness and protection. But,
while we have abundant cause to rejoice that
we are yet preserved as a united, prosperous
and happy people, we have also cause to mourn.
There has been a dark cloud gathering around our
political horizon,for some time past,which threat
ens destruction to our Union,prosperity and hap
piness. That there has been a deliberate plan
formed, by ambitious and desiging politicians,
to dissolve the Union of the States, 1 do most
sincerely believe —That this plan is in the pro
gress of consummation, but little doubt is enter
tained—That regularly organized meetings have
been held in which this subject have been grave
ly discussed, is also believed. Disregarding the
last farewell admonitions of the Father of our
common country, certain leading politicians in
a neighboring State, secretly countenanced by
men high in authority in otfrown State, are, at
this moment, industriously laboring to prepare
the minds of the the people to embrace their
baneful doctrine —a doctrine unknown to the
Constitution, perfectly at war with that instru
meat, and, in its practical effect, entirely de
structive of that Union of the States so essential
to the preservation of American liberty. This
now-fangled and dangerous doctrine is called
Nullification, a name quite significant of itself,
for the purposes intended to be accomplished by
the authors of it. This doctrine of Nullification
(in its general received seuse) is understood to
be the right of a single State to judge, for her
self, and pronounce upon, the constitutionality
of the actsofthe Congress of the United States,
or, in other words, that a single State has the
right, in her sovereign capacity, to judge of, and
pronounce upon.the konstitutionality of a law of
lire Congress of the United States, - 'without any
Reference whatever to the forms precribed by
the constitution for that purpose, and to resist
the operation of that law so far as such State is
concerned.
In every well regulated government, there
must exist a supreme law-making power, com
manding what is l ight, and prohibiting what is
wrong. This power, by the Constitution, is ves
ted in the Congress of the United States. The
grant is expressly made in the constitution by
the delegates of the several States, The com
pact is executed , and each State is a party to it.
It is therefore equally binding on ai! the States,
or it is binding upon none of them. Each
State, on the adoption of the Constitution,
yielded up a portion of her sovereignty to the
General Government, for the common benefit
of the whole. That instrument was the result
of mature reflection and compromise, for the
purposes of forming a more perfect Union, to
establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of lib
erty to those who framed it and their posterity.
We must take the Constitution as it is—not as
some wish it to be. If the people of any State
dislike its provisions—if they are tired of living
under them—they can easily resort to the con
stitutional mode of redress, by proposing the
call of a Convention for the purpose of amend
ing the constitution, or, if they choose to do so,
can throw off all allegiance, and be in an open
state of rebellion , both to the laws and Constitu
tion ; but I do contend, there is no middle
ground between submission to the Constitution
and open rebellion, disguise the mode of oper
ation as you please. According to the doctrine
of Nullification, one State can control the action
of twenty-three, by the interposition of her
power. To admit this doctrine, for a moment,
would be entirely destructive of the main object
had iu view in the formation of the Constitution.
It would also contravene one vital principle in
cident to all republican governments, that a
majority must govern—whereas, according to
the ground assumed by the Nullifiers, a minor
ity would govern—one State control the action
twenty-three. This mongrel doctrine has no
warrant in the constitution for its exercise, and
> alike subversive of the Union of the States, as
it is the offspring of bosoms fermenting w ith
disappointed ambition. If you have a written
Constitution, you must conform to its provisions
—you must be within the pale of the Constitu
tion, or you must be without. You cannot
claim protection under it, when the same suits
your convenience, and disclaim its binding ef
fect, when the same does not exactly suit your
purpose. One State cannot be a member of the
Union to-day, and without it to-morrow ; or,
according to the late discovery, half within, and
half without. She must either be for the Union,
or she must be against \t. That there are some
men who honestly entertain this illegitimate
doctrine, is not to be doubted. Ihe Apostle
Paul thought he was right when he persecuted
the Gentiles, but when his eyes were opened, as
to the consequences of his strange conduct, he
saw his error, and confessed his sins. However
innocent those may be who surrendered their
opinions upon the subject, without air fitvesti
depend upog it, iherhaders in this grand
drama, cannot plead such an excuse. It is their
object to wean the affections of the people from
their constitutional government, under the spe
cious pretext that they alone are the sole cham
pions of their rights. That the Constitution,
framed by Washington, Franklin, Madison, and
others, whose names are dear to the American
people, is not sufficient for that purpose. Great
labor has been exerted to show, that their fa
vorite doctrine of Nullification is perfectly in
nocent in its consequences. This is highly nec
essary to ensure its success, What man or set
of men ever plotted the destruction of any gov
ernment, who did not- pursue a similar course 1 1
First, poison tho public mind by their pretended
innocent measures uutil they have acquired suf
ficent strength ; then to the accomplishment of
their unhallowed object. Could the immortal
Washington and their associates, be permitted
to appear before the people of this mighty re
public this day, with that holy fire of patriotism
burning in their bosoms which so fearlessly
prompted them to action, iu seventy-six; look
ing round upon their descendants, should call
upon them to rally around the standard of their
country’s glory, and receive the blessing award
ed to the faithful—do you think the Arch Nul
lifies and his associates would be permitted to
have a place among them ? No, fellow-citizens:
they would be hurled from their presence, as
the rebel angels were huried,tVoni the court of
Heaver/, and bo eternally consigned to that
\-plOfiu which the sober judgmentoftho American
j people has long since prepared for them. Can .it
be possible, we shall ever become insensible to the
incalculable benefits which we anuualiy derive,
under our happy form of Government l Can
the idea be indulged, for a moment, that we
shall be so lost to a sense of gratitude toward-,
those who oftbred up their all upon the altar of
their country’s good, and more especially to
wards Him, who by his guardian care, led them
safely through the perils of the Revolution, as
to presume to calculate the value of that Union
which has secured to us such signal blessings,
and command the admiration of the world ?
Shall we now, while the lamp of liberty is fair
ly blazing, when the eyes of all nations are upon
us, by our intestine feuds, turmoils and dissen
sions, rend in twain that fabric which cost our
illustrious ancestors so much toil, blood and
treasure to erect ? Better would it be for a
millstone to be hanged around the neck of those
disorganize rs of the government, aud they
thrown into the middle of the ocean, than this
happy country should ever become a “howling
wilderness” to satisfy their insatiate ambition.
It cannot fail to excite the deepest concern in
the bosom of every true patriot who has the
welfare of the couutry at heart, to witness the
daily attacks that are made upon the free iasti
tutions of his country, by different classes of
men who have been cheerished and protected by
them —institutions which, by their salutary
influence and example, have caused the
bands ol tyranny to be loosened, and the mon
arch to tremble for his throne.
\Y bile the Chief Magistrate of the nation,
who is the organ of the people, placed on the
watchtower of the government by them, annual
ly proclaims, that our whole country is prosper
ous and happy, yet there are to be found those
who strive to inculcate the idea, that we are,
a miserable, wretched and oppressed people,
the evidence of our own senses, to the contrary
notwithstanding. Cast your eyes over the map
ot the world, aud say where is the nation, on
the face of the earth, with which you would be
williug to exchange your condition ? Compare
your situation with that of any other people,
known to the civilized world, haviug a regular
organised government, and it will be found that
you pay less tax and enjoy a greater share of
human happiness than any other—even the
most favored on this terrestial globe. Tell me,
then, why these things are so? Why is it, in
the latter days, the work of those whose deeds
we have assembled this day to celebrate have
fallen into such disrepute with some of our
countrymen ? It it because they, who abuse
the government at this period, and labor to con
vince the people that they are oppressed, pos
sesses a better knowledge of the provisions of
the Constitution, than those who framed that
instrument and first acted uuder it ? Or is it
because there are so many ambitious politicians
in the country who find it necessary to create
some great political excitement to secure their
elevation to power ? These questions, particu
larly at this time, deserve a serious consid
eration.
The careful observer cannot fail to notice,
that those whose vociferations are loudest
against the government of our common coun
try, and who favor this illegitimate doctrine of
Nullification, may, with propriety, be divided
into three general classes : First, those talent
ed, ambitious, designing, disappointed politi
cians who contributed much to sustain the gov
ernment, so long as there was any prospect of
their elevation to power under it; but whose
hopes of success, being now forever blasted, they
direct all their energies towards the destruction
of that Union over which they have not been
permitted to assume any share in the executive
control. It is the policy of such politicians to
sour the minds of the common people against
their government, and for that purpose grad
ually approach them through their supposed
interests. Indulging the hope, that, by per
suading the people they are grievously oppress
ed, they will he able to work a revolution, which
will produce anarchy and confusion, whereby
they may be enabled to possess themselves of
the supreme power over some of the broken
fragments. Such are the ambitious and de
praved natures of some men, that they would
rather reign in hell than enjoy a happy obe
dience in heaven. There is another class of
politicians whoought to be noticed at this time.
It is those who have but little merit of their
own to recommend them to public notice, al
though gifted with lofty ideas of their own
worth and consequence, who know as little
about the practical operation of th.3 enactments
of the General Government as a Hoteutot, but
who have been extremely active for their party
[on all occasions; consequently, claim to be ele
vated to important stations as the reward of
their supposed services. Such men are always
the most clamorous about the people’s rights,
as if the people did not understand their own
rights themselves. They talk loudly of the op
pressions of the people by the government, as if
the people could not ascertain thar fact, (if it
existed,) without their assistance. Finally
when you come to learn their true character,
they are the mere instruments of those talented
designing politicians, who always select sv*
demagogues to promulgate and trumpet
their treasonable doctrines. “Bv their v
may know them.” The second class r-. —,
who-censuro.and abuse tbs- r J! most
extravagantly, are-thoso village politicians com
prising the pettifogging lawyer, the quack doc
tor, the broken merchant, and the lazy of every
profession, who are to be found lounging about
the streets in ali the villages of the State, with
out any visible means of employment. These
sage personages, “ wiser in their own conceit,
than seven men who can render a reason,” as
sume to themselves the prerogative of acting
! as censors over the conduct of those who ad
minister the government of the nation. The
people, say they, are most shockingly oppress
ed by the unconstitutional enactments of Con
gress. We will not submit to such tyranica!
suurpation of our rights; our vital interests will
be destroyed unless some prompt and decisive
measuies be adopted. And when their torpid
sstyems become excited by copious draughts of
Cognac bandy, they talk of nullification and
about fighting for their rights, and are as radiant,
as Falstaff when he encountered the men in
buckram suits—while in truth, and in fact, they
have no substantial interests to be affected by
any government. One government is as good
as another for them, although, I have no doubt,
a majority of them would prefer a government
without orders and without laws, as justice, ad
ministered according to law, is the only oppres
sion which such men really dread. The third
and last general class of persons who are so
much dissatisfied with the laws of their own gov
ernment, and are continual! 1 * inveighing against
its oppressive enactments, are those who have
been raised in the lap of luxury, without a correct
knowledge of either labor or economy. Their
parents, anxious for the welfare of their sons,
had, by practical industry and economy them
selves, acquired handsome estates, of which
their sons become possessed at their death. As
their parents have taken great pains to raise
their sons gentlemen, I will, therefore, by wav
of distinction, denominate this class of persons
gentlemen farmers. From the hard earnings of
their deceased parents, they are enabled to pur
chase the best land in the neighborhood where
they settle, with a sufficient number of hands tv
work it, as well as every other thing necessary
to carry on their farms with success aud profit.
But having been raised gentlemen , they have
no practical knowledge of managing their bus
iness in a husbandlike manner. So the man
agement of their plantations must necessarily b
entrusted to overseers, while they, richlv attired
in British goods, (instead of their own domestic
manufactures) arc riding about the country, in
dulging in every species of extravagance. Two
or three years e-lapse, when they find themselves
largely in debt. Being unwilling to acknowl
edge the true cause of their arrears, but anxious
for some excuse, (as men who neglect their bus
iness always are) they attribute it all to the op
pressive tariff laws of Congress. During the
most busy season of the year, when every In
dustrious practical farmer is entirely engaged iu
his crop, you can always find some of those
gentlemen farmers at a country post office on
mail days, and other public places, clod in su
perfine broadcloth, with a nullification newspa
per in one hand, making violent gesticulations
with the other, and descanting largely upon the
oppressive enactments of the government. Oh!
the accursed tariff! We had much rather live
under British government, than under such
cruel oppression !—Always ready to allege their
misfortunes to any other cause than that of
their own misconduct, suth are the true sources
whence those reiterated complaints of oppression
on the part of the government, originated.
Such are the true sources whence this bastard
doctrine of Nullification took its rise and con
tinues to receive its countenance.
In the State of South Carolina, where the
doctrine was first promulgated, it has flourished
much inure luxuriantly than iu this State. Al
though warmly contested there by some very
able men, the common people appear to fiave
surrendered their owu opinions to a band of
politicians, without a thorough examination of
the subject, and have been led away for a tone
captive. As yet, Nullification has no fixed root
in Georgia, notwithstanding attempts have con
stantly been making to plant the noxious weed
upon her soil. Adverse winds have scattared
the germ amongst us; but I trust the good
sense of our people, their attachment to the
Union, cemented by the pure blood of patriots,
will not suffer it to take.root within our borders.
Georgia, true to herself, in the regulation of her
own internal police, so far as respects all those
rights not delegated to the General Government,
will, I trust, long remain a brighter star in that
constellation, which it is her glory to maintain,
and which proclaims protection to the oppress
ed of every nation under Heaven. With re
gard to the constitutionality of the tariff Uw of
1828, which has afforded such an excellent hob
by horse for a certain class of politicians to ride
into power, and which is the alleged preiexd fig
nullification as well as disunion, I shall say but
little at this time. My own opinion is, that act
was a fraud upon the constitution. Others,
much wiser than myself, think differently: who
is right, it is unnecessary now to discuss. The
only question fur the people to determine, i.s
whether the cjfect produced upon their inter
ests, by the operation of that law, is sufficient
to justify them in open rebellion against the
Government which enacted it, or, to use the
significant substitute, nullify it ? I address my
self to the plain, practical, industrious planter,
and a-k him, how his interests have been afl’eo
ted by the tariff? If your interests have been
seriously affected by it, at what particular tim#
did you first discover its destructive consequen
ces ? Does there exist any necessity for vou to
purchase articles of clothing subject to tariff du
ties ? Can you not manufacture at home do
mestic cloth, decent enough for any man to,
wear? If you manage your affairs prudently,
make enough to live upon, not to let your ex
penditure exceed your income, keep clear of
debt, are you afraid the tariff law will oppress
you ? What constitutes a wealthy, moral, indus
trious and happy community ? Is it where the
land is engrossed by a few wealthy men, divid
ed into large plantations, each plantation stock
ed with two or three hundred negroes for the.
purpose of making cotton 1 Or is it w here the
land is divided into smaller farms, with a few
negroes managed by the several proprietors
themselves, all engaged in improving their land,
improving stock of various kind-, making cot
ton enough for domestic use, and to purchase
necessaries for their respective families, having,
good buildings, good schools, good churches,
good roads, good orchards, and all the means
of subsistence in abundance i If you are o/>~.
pressed , as those mushroon politicians with
rruib. the country is swarming, would mak
L BehMK®* if your vital interests are languish
ticulariv r*v evidence of it. Are the people
- ,uil< uebt ? The'ffockets of the courts in every
county will prove Jo tho contrary. Where
then, I again repeat, is the evidence of that op
pression, which the gooci” people of this State
are called upon to redress by open re billion
against their ‘government, under the disguised
name of nullification? Were you sensible ot
such oppression last year ? Do you expec£\with
good health, good seasons, and the blessings
God to crown your laudable exertions, ;o expe
rience such oppression this year. If you arc
actually oppressed by the enactment of the Gov
ernment, will you net ascertain the fact as soon
as those pert fulminating politicians who figure
so largely in the newspapers and public meet
ings—being the sentiments suggested by those
disafected politicians, whose teeth are yet on
edge by the sourness of the grapes ? 1 tie in.
NO. 17.