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Predisposing causes of Spasmodic Cholrrn.
Mr. Euuuh. j,
.Sir, — Whilr o'lirrs an* (
Speculating on 'll' - contusion*, lllfec'ioos, (
spd no i-contagious nature *f the ASIA
nc KIM 1)1.MIC WARSAW CHOLERA
.MORBUS, it shall be our guileful task
*n forewarn strangers ami friends, to (
(ouch not, handle not, and taste not i lie ,
predisposing centers which provoke and ag- .
giavaius i’s attack. Among diese fmem ,
perance with all its concomitant vies of (
debauchery, midnight revels and sic |d« «s
hours, stands pie eminent in tlie list. Ihe (
physical effect id ardent spiri s is first, *o
e*t iUrute and elevate the vital powers of j
the constitution, then to enervate ami sink
them below the standard of health.; pro- J
ducing trembling of the Iraine, del 1 1 i• v, (
congestions and organic lesions in all (ho
noble viscera of the body, ft generates p
such « slate of nervous insensibility that n
. umtnon attack* cf the ague of our own cli
mate cause instant death. Ni'ure oyer- (
come by the shock of disease and previous f
dissipation is unable to struggle, in the con- (
test and all our remedial efforts to estub- (
lish reaction in the prostrate energies of the (
liver end of the heart itself prove fruitless
and unavailing. Gateshead, a village in (
England’crowded with drunken vagabonds, f
is a"" glaiing instance of this fact, while the (
watchful police and good sober citizen* of (
New Castle, its opposite neighbour upon (
Tyne, escaped so mucli unhurt, as almost (
to defy its power., ,
Grief is also ranked among the depress- (
ing passions from the essential sympathy
which exists between the mind and the
whole animal eoccnomy. Hence to indulge
in excessive grief is not only unmanly bin
highly injurious to' the consTitution. But
of all the exci'ing causes which operate 10
render an attack of this disease or any oth
er most tatal, ft is the inglorious passion ot
fear. Hence the very great mortality a
snong the Turk# and Mahometans, who,
pale and gh.nt'y, with quivering pulse and
tuning eye-bills, look upon this modern
plague as a frightful judgment sent ft
'Heaven to scourge them from the earth.
!t must be also conceded that the body ol
an individual dying ol fear and another ol
spasmodic Cholera Morbu* w mid upon post
mortem examination exmbit neatly the
same (ealurea of morbid anatomy —a con
gestion of venous grumous blood in all the
veins of the whole system. As in both ca
eea the immediate cause of death is ac
knowledged to be the stoppage of the blood
in die deep seated capillary vessels. James
Johnson, on Tropical climates, says ihm
the spatms which generally take place in
all tevere cases of Cholera “ (he might have
added, as well as primary or continued
vomiting) can only be accounted for by the
pressure which some nans of the nervous
ays' m experience from,the unequal distri
bution of blood i for it has been proved to
a detnonslra iOn that the origin of those
nerves leading to spasmed muscles have in
variably the veins of their JVeurilima in a
congested slate.” The idea that mgesta is
an efficient cause is now exploded, as the
abstemious ami the luxurious the moralist
and the inti lei, the virtuous ami the vile,
the infant and die adult, of all ages and
aexes are alike victims to (his fell den rover i
It stands confessed then, that as all Ihi
atmospherical phenomena coming under the
head tA occasional causes have existed with
out interruption from Mme immemorial with
out generating spasmodic Cholera Morbus ;
conseqoendy the supei addition of a neu
tame must be inferred,
SYMPTOMS,
The most important consider, tion which
involves this subject is a clear and com
prehensive nan a ion of he Symptoms
which usher in this disease toge’her wi.h
the best method of treating it. An accu
rate detail of the former is derived from A i
glo-Asiatic Reports from which we .shall
make the following extract : " 'The in ist
numerous cases exhibit an almost total sus
pension of the vital functions, accompanied
with a low thready pulse, laborious respira
tion, dc*p drawn sighs, immediately follow
ed hv severe spasmodic affections of the
muscle* and coldness of the extremities
without vomiting or purging J Again the
attacks come on with a shiver, white crust
ing of the longue, soon followed by frequent
purging and griping, the stVds consisting of
mucous and slime ; nausec and retching
sum ecd. nothing being ejected bu* phlegm
anil the contents ot the stomach, occasion
ally pure bile ; viiuud taste, the pulse
mnaj.l, quick and contracted, the skin dry
but not hot, spasms supervene in different
parte of the body which soon attack tiie ab
dominal muscles and occasion great pain.
.During these parox/ms, a cold, clammy
»w-at it .occasionally fore d out, especially
on the face and breast. The extremities
now become cold* the features shrunk, »nd
the sanr.acli rejects every thing off-red ei
ther in the shape of medicine or drink.
I’.io abdomen and epigastrium are distend
ed and tons-', with incessant watery purg
.ng and painful tenesmus. The pulse cAj
now be scarcely felt, the breathing is op
• pressed and dilli ;ulf, the eyes sunk and the
whole counted nice singularly expressive of,
internal agony and distress; the extivmi I
'vs are now cold, shrivelled and covered
with clammy e-vests. I'iic violence of (he
paroxisms b*gii nuv *o subside aid in a- 1
■not seven nr twenty hours from the attack
.iea'ff terminates lie p men’s f. ightful suf
ferings, ’■ fcome cases again tb an Rest a per
feet state i t nervous Insensibility and tor-ji
rninate so speedily a* to be emitely beyond
th* roach of medicine.
The common Cholera with us which owe* t
its origin to the morbid agency ol miasma-/
ta and accelerated by relative vicissitudes I
of moisture and temperature, exhibit many *
of (he foregoing symptoms with intense,'
pain in the kidney?, strangury and dysury, s
i ccasi naily with », sense of sleepiness y
or dmdntss of the upper and lower ex-/
iremiites and even of the nose, the upper u
lip anil f.t the whole face progressively./
Many soldi cases have recovered perfectly <
under our prc .iicc ut.der 'he agency of s
medicines peculiar to ourselves. Ihe Diag *
nnsis god Bn gnu-is of spasmodic Cholera /'
picsettt therefore a most formidable and aw- a
lul spectacle to th * bystander and to the,'
physician. VVliile th■■ diseaSV, evcti undei /
11 « in ild -r (or ms demand s the a I most prom p-, f
tifode of action and calls into requisi'ion '
all the resources of our art. Ihe recoided t
experience ct medical men and the lists of t
mortality (tom abroad funiish hut feeble, i
lights in guiile our investigations, & a mine t
meiane'ooly picture of the vanity of all hu-jy
man efforts to stay i's pr-gress or to dimin-d
ish its fatalify. Ot all who have been al- •
laek d with this malady at least our third t
or even more, have fallen victims to it-/
These solemn facts however, should not dis- '
courage us. but add new vigjur to bur re ■/
searches into its nature and its cure, that/
we may the better contmul atid subdue its/
onward march. And though death should I
often stare u*. in the (ace and our skill b 1
ofien exerted in behalf of afllictcd hurnani- ■
ly, wihout remuneration, and even with- '
out thanks (nr out devotedness, still the 1
want ot success should not cool out ardor, *
while, the thought that i good action carries ’
with it its own reward, should v • •ole i" 1
in the huui of trim. In suen a cAuse who '
does not deplore he errois of judgment (o ;
which we are liable while such .in ain izing;
. weight of responsible y tests upon our ef
for's, Even his shouol not suppress ou>
energies, because infabbili y is the attribute',
! -d Him alone “ who 'ules ttm whirlwind &,
directs the siorm.” v
, PATHOLOGY! . !
. It is evidi tii iheref -•• from the forego-
I ing symptom* that the e(B :icn( cause, what
I ever it may tie, generaiing Spasmodic Cho
l lera Morbus, in iis onset, prostrates the ner
vous eneigies of the constiiution and. that,
debility of the vital and organic functions
tof ihr vvtiole animal economy, vascular de
rangements, spasms, and death form secon
■ dary and unavoidable, links in the chain of
I morbid effects. The corollary them follows
! ihut i* is a disease of debility and not of in
■ I flammntion . Because the circulation ol
t'the vascular systen* is slow, torpid, difficult
e aud intermitting, post mortem examination
I presenting the capillaries of the stomach,
p the duodenum, the mucous surfaces of the
I chy lop ueiic viscera as well as the theca ot
- tlie medulla oblongata filled with dark, hv
jed venous blood. But where the ijjflainma
e tory diathesis prevails as in acute dysunte
- ry, pleurisy, Phrenitis and in gastritis, the
a general and local circulation- is rapid, and
s full or sometimes depressed but corded with
* hot shin evincing excessive ftbnle action;
it and the morbid Pleura, the Fia mater of
?, the brain, the villous coats of the bowels
d and stomach, present a bright scarlet colour,
! every fibre and tissue suffused with red ar
te teri I blood, The contrast is palpable t«
e every sense. The former, loudly demand*
>- remedies which rouse up all tlie dormaut
i- energies of the system to sustain the cutas
; irophe, while the latter as imperiously seeks
v those agwils of depletion and redaction such
sc the lancet, cupping, leeching vesication
uul ice, which subdue and controul (he vi
h tal current in its wild career to disorganize
i- those mucous and serou membranes,
s 1 RE.i TME,\ T,
hi Our Pilhology bei.'ig ihus fairly laid
- down, our practice should correspond with
- our principles. We conceive then that the
I first, second, third & final indications of the
it treatment arp to restme vital warmth to me
extremities, to allay nervous irri'abifiiy o!
d the stomach and bnvels, to ex ire natural
- perspiration, quiet -pasmed muscles and
- produce natural equilibrium in the vascu
e lar and general crculation. To fu fill all
s these important object* we would fiisi ap
e ply five to nine laige Sinapisms well sa'u
- rated with spirits >d Hartshorn to the abdo
t men and to (he extremities } to arrest tor-
I mina and teu«smus and stop the vomiting.
i we would administer one, two, or four grains
a of sulphate Morphine per ora ami exhibit
targe repeated anti*pasmodie Enema- of
e Camphor, Opium. Assafaelida rnd Aether,
t " tiaeleris Ptribu*,” these means being ade
quate to their design, healthy perapira ion
-j would ro-nppear~the skin acquire animal
.jheut and the balance ot the circulation be
fully established. We wait on these ap
■ | plications an hour or three quarters at least,
> lili thorough inflammation or an slevntion
1 of- the Cuticle, arises from the local irnta
-/ian of the sinapisms. Then and not till
./ken, we give from one to five and ten grain
■ idoses of Fipperiuc (the essential sdt ot
| Black Pepper) in five to ten and fifteen
i ,drops of K ixir of Vitriol di'uted per hour
•/n order to excite th» pulse powerfully an!
/dri-ve th • blood back to the skin. When
the surface has regained its natural tem-i
(peratore the victory over death is almost!
won. And it is at this trying jonc'urel
wlien hope it fieri and the universal orgasm
[threatens i nmediate disiolutiun, (It,it Sma-'
pi-m-i, K. ixir Vitriol an I Pipperine have
broke the icy sjiells of death, and enkin lie
anew the dickering lamp of life. Their es
feet in the common ague ami fever of Burke;
county, sggravated by sparodic Cholera was
wondeiful, resloring animation and sensa
tion, correcting every unheahhy aberration,
of the system, tranquilising gastric irrita
bility, unlocking 'lie portal circulation,
quenching thirst and repairing 'he tunc- 1
tional derangements of the skin. Yea,
suppressing cold, colliquative sweats winch '
yi-'lil al once to their diffusive impulse. The
Pip peri ne and Elixir ot Vitriol should be
giv n till thorough reaction takes place as
these, articles appear to impart vitality toi
the heart i'sulf, being much more sale ary;
and permanent in their stimulant opeiaiionl
than atcuhol and wine, these medicines
after premising cataplasms of mustard when 1
all other tonics have failed, have cleaned
the furred tongue, fortified'the stomach, and 1
dispersed the untoward symptoms in a short
period. .Show me a common drunkard at- '
tacked with spasmodic Chelora, or with in
termillenl fever, use the lancet 'Anti purga
tive* with him freely, and he at once be
comes a victim not only to disease but to the|
Medical art. The ' vis medicatrix naturae”,
..f his feeble constitution is gone forever fy noi
future skill on earth can save him. Some;]
of these poor fellows are proof against plyal
ism and even in 'his case we have seen the
operative plan pursued to the death, because '
the prescribing physicians entertained an I
unconquerable prejudice against this Inode t
of practice which we now recommend to t
the public. As for ourselves, we reject no
peculiar method of managing diseases, we i
are wedded to no parliculai school, but a
dopt and embrace all as the symptoms de-'l
niand and judgment dictates, llieirhepa-j
tic viscera are as much exhausted by the]
excessive exercise' of s'rong potations asi
are the limbs of an individual who faints,
under th< fatigue of continual running, Bui
concent rate all the tbove remedies upon
him •* <le novo” and instead of nausea,
vomiting morbid vigiltnce, emaciation-, tlu-,
pour and debility ; ym substitute vigorous
appetites sound sleep, clear intellect, anJj
-increasing lone to every fibre and-muscle of,
his body—which before was the apt coun
terpart of a condemned, worn-it lit merchant
man which cod d not fafcai refitting.. Once
raise his pulse to a high and even feverish
standard, nature yields up (tie reins to your
controul, and as in the dextrous manage
ment of a lofty steed, you can either chafe
' its metal iffto more gallant bearing or cuib
its fiery impetuosity by all the cool and gen
’ tie arts which you are master of in the mo
ment of danger ! '
Sinapisms tianslate nervous excitability,
as well as the mechanical pre'sure of the
blood, from the stomach, the spinal, lum
bar and sacral regions to the skin bv in
flaming its cuticular arterial capilldries
whose nervous papillae are far leso vital
than those of the former organs now labor
ing under venous turgesence. It is there
fore through the nervous system that these
applications ac' primarily and secondarily
' restore the balance of the ciiculation thro’
he medium of the vascular system of the
’ ru i.neo mucous-urfac* - Bile now censes to
form in morbid quantities by the revulsive
1 inflammation ot me li'ypocondriac surfaces,
* adding a tonic impulse to (lie torpid portal
» and mesenteric circles. We repeat emptia
* tically, that pnmising Cataplasms, Ripe
* vine ami Elixir « f Vitriol, excite sooner Sj
* sustain mure firmly than any other combi
' nation of tonics extant, that “ new, gene
* ral and powerful" action of the system j
" whose tendency is i« health, overcomi g
land subduing the disordered action ".of
’ Cholera” whose course is to increased de
* bility and death.” Great and judicious re
1 medies should aiwam be carried to the grea
-1 tea ex cut, that a lasting and sanative es
‘ fee may be produced on the pestilence with
i which we have to contend. . W( .
As valuable.auxiliaries to these we would
recommend small strong draughts of Cay
' eone pepper ea, hot coffee without milk oi
' sugar, salted corn meal gruel, ihe efferves
1 ing draught f Rive ius—salts of Tar ar &
■ vinegar—soda powders and ptisans of bar
" lev Water, turnip tea, chickqn and beef tea,
‘at all of which serve to tranquil.ze the
1 stomach ; besides the hot bath, bottles ot
* hot water to the feet and back, frictions
i with camphorated spirits, spirits Hartshorn,
I linament and a strong alcoholic solution of
gum benzoin, to the spasmed muscles.
I Some cases of our own Cholera, infantum
and spasmodic, begin the attack wiih epilep
tic &. appoplectic convulsions, which are ea
sily known by the steitcrous breathing, in
-1 sensibility to the touch, rolling of the eyeoall
t| transversely &, full slow pulse, blood should
foai once b>‘ d.awu freely from both arms or
* from the jugular vein till animation and sen
oation return perfectly, as the continuance
i of these fatal symptoms would produce in
1 »tant death. Topical blood—letting with
! cups and'leeches would aiso be very irnpor
* taut adjuvants. To prevent a relapse into
. these congestions of the lungs and the brain
i which are too weak to empty themselves
or to repel the shock of venous blood which
1 overloads and compresses them without les
i sening its quantity, the body and extremi
ties should be covered with sinapisms, and
t in ’he course of an hour drachm, doses of
'Peruvian bark with one grain of Pipperine
I soould be administered every hour fill the
ijcure is perfected. Again, Cholera attack*
jt |s subj.-c s without spasms, paralyzing r.er
pom sensation so absolutely that boiling
| w.ica r a- d boi'mg spirits of Turpentine are
j*ot fell by the pitie.nt when poured upon
his amis anti legs, other ex'ernal applica
tions being of no avail; we would here
throw in large and repeated doses of Mer
cury, combined with one to two and four
(grains of Sulphate morphine so as to retain
jit in the stomach and duodenum toproifuce
jtmmediale salivation. This all pervading
mineral either in the form of Calomel, Cor
rosive sublimate, Blue pill and Turpeth
mineral should now be the sheet-anchor of
our hopes. It stimulates 'he engorged ca
pillaries of the liver to new and powerful
reaction, invigorates (he torpid circulation
ot the whole lymphatic system, arrests
..vomiting, corrects vitiated secretions, de
veloped nervous susceptibility to its own im
pression and revolutionises the whole vas
cular system in such masterly style as to
|i fiVct in a short period the moat perfect ba
lance us the circulation General debility,
dyspepsia and nocturnal colliquitive sweats
are often however, the companions and s«-
cjuents of Ptyalism which should be avoid
ed and remedied by the inhibition of 20
drops of diluted Elixir of Vitriol mixed,
20 grains flos. sulphur and pulverized ani
mat charcoal three limes a day.
There are simple'forms of Cholera again
which scarcely require any harsher medi
cines than broken doses of Epsom Salts &
(Virginia snake-root tea, and one to two
(grains morphine—or 60 drops Paregoric re
peated and followed, a teaspbonful of pul
verized Charcoal in lime water, a single dose
of Calomel carried off'by Castor oi! or a Sed-
Ictz powder made active by the addition of
a teaspoonful of cremor taslar, or a mild
enema of salt and water.
These are easily managed by (hegoodand
intelligent nurses of our community without
the aid of a medical friend. The dial should
be light & nourishing, hard boiled eggs & all
lascessanl vegetables being avoided—such as
[radishes, cabbages, &c. as the stomach is
(too sensitive to letuin them and the gasfric
juice too much impaired to dissolve and an
finalize them properly. As it is impossible
to embrace every variety of this disease in
a single sketch, we would enjoin our pro
fessional brethren, never, in any case, whe
ther of this or any other affection, to " give
out"’ h patient while there is breath in his
nostrils! Particularly among infante and
adults —because their situation when at the
lowest ebb of life is .simitar to that of a
: ship's crew, who are borne down to destruc
i t.on by irresistible currents ; when sudden -
• ly the “ young flood” arresis their impend
. ing ruin, converting their despair, horror
» and breathless, expectation into new life &
) hope and joy, while their foundering Baik
. sails gallantly into port upon the tide of
. successful experiment from every danger
b ee. The" union” of body and soul •‘must
, be preserved" at all hazards, and in the lan
. gunge of the valiant Lawrence, " never give
up die ship” while a main brace holda good.
. More teirihl? titan the tempest and more
( treacherous than the attack of the raid
s night assassin, it is destined we fear tr
course the Universe in its flight, invading
. all s. x;‘», all conditions of men, dominions
e powers, principalities and republics, wi 1
(,> indie-riminate and wide spread desolation,
’ Even at this distant point we cannot son
e template its existence or its approach touui
0 own happy shores without emotions of awe
e'Letitcomel ffe at least will not ealeu
1 Jute the value of personal costs or exhibi
ijany puffitanimous terror on the occasion
. but endeavour to be cool, dispassionate am
. decisive in order to encounter its onset witl
and judgment and fight it out n
the last like our Warsaw volunteer, deter
. wined to conquer or die in the cause o
. suffering humanity,
f *Nl«eiiug at
Pursuant to previous notice, a large anc
■ respectable portion of the citizens of Mon
roe county, and, a number of gentlemen from
other counties, in attendance on the Superi
h or.CJpurt of the county, convened jo the Cour
House on the 15th insl. to express their Ten
d (aments in relation to the recent decision o
- the Supreme Court of the United States dc
" nying the constitutionality of the law o
1 Georgia, extending her jurisdiction over tha
k portion of her Territory in the possession o
■ the Cherokee tribe of Indians.
'. On motion, Gen. Benjamin 11. Ruther
e ford was called to the Chair, jmd Elbridg
I (J. Cabaniss, appointed Secretary.
• The object of the meeting having been an
'• nounced by the Chair, and a* few remark
• made by A. if. Chappell Esq. the folfowini
preamble and resolutions were submitted b
n General E. Beall.
Among the dearest and highest righlp o
-■freemen, is the attribute of judging and dc
- termining upon these claims of sovereignty
I That a nation-or people, claiming to be fre
d and independent, should permit their privi
r leges, rights and immunities (o be ailjudica
ted away by a tribunal usurping authority
e is inconsistent with national honor, nation's
- right, and national dignity.—The people o
h Georgia claim to he, and will maintain, (ha
- she is a free, sovereign ami indepciulen
0 State—that she entered into the feelers
n league as such—that in forming a link in th
s chain of .ho Union of the States, she did nc
h divest herself of her sovereign character
• her sovereignty she retained—that she cjii
• sented to grant to (he States as a feeler;
d union for national purposes, certain light
1 which were acknowledged to be hers, flies
e, are found in the federal compact called th
e Constitution of the United States.—All e>
8 cept those there specially delegated, she n
served to herself. Among these, of her foi
g mer and sovereign rights, and which she ha
e never ceded or granted to any power or got
n eminent, is the right of absolute soil ami j>
• rUdiction, over the territory within her tha
e lerej limits. ,\ certain portion of that tei
- 1 ritory amounting to millions of acres,
r claimed by a part of the tribe of Indiat
i known ns the Chciokes tribe*-(tins oat 10 ."-
i|if there be one, is beyond the Mississippi
\ Bandits, outlaws, demagogues, mercen* r y
-jmissionaries and trai'ors have sought a ho inu
i and a refuge 'here in violation of the pub* 11,
flaws of the Stale. Some of them liavebs ll^
■ arres'ed (firs 1 having been kimiiy notified ’ ‘
1 our laws and advised to leave the territory •
i to avoid the legal consequences ct an illeg ul
s residence there ) —They have been tried,
-(convicted and are now undergoing ihe pun
■ ishment prescribed by law. They have ap»
- pealed to a tribunal for redress, which we
i disclaim lias any light of jurisdiction of their
- Crimea, or over our tertiury in matters cf
, that kind. A small majority of the Supreme
i.Court of the United Stales, has assumed to
-jthemselves the right to pronounce upon the
- constitutionality of our laws, and have de
) creed them unconstitutional, and their man*.
. date is directed to be execu'ed in spite erf
imr laws, our rights and our liberties—atflf
I this deervp too, from the very same bench
i which has hitherto said in relation to the
■ same Subject matter, that Georgia lit sail tin*
r, rights’attached to her sovereignty, vvithit
>,her limits, and which are secured to her by
-jlhe 2d Section of the 4lh article of the Con-.
stiluiion of the United States, and which the
» United States could not cede either by their
■ power over the territory, or their treaties
( with the Cherokt-ea, and by (he treaties or
1 compacts, the United States, never contend
ed for the right of jurisdiction over that ter
ritory—that right has long since been ad-
I raitted to have passed to Georgia—The de-’
1 cree of that Court seeks now by judicial con
-1 struction to arouse Indian sovereignty from
fits long slumber, and bring it into iramedi
i ate action against the States, by an extra ju
: dicial fiat. To this Georgia never will con
• sent—Before she does, ‘dnay it be recorded
i that Georgia mas.”
* ( From the same bench on another osca
- sion we have been told that Great Britaia
•;before our Independence considered tbesm
- (the Cherokee) as her subjects, whenever
she chose to claim their allegiance.’ and their
I country as hers both in soil and aovereign
e ty, and that the forbearance exercised to
» wards them by Bniiaji was vnluntj;-'
- ry, and not from supposed v/abt of right to
[extend her laws over them, did she übstasa
- from doing go. From the. British right to
r soil and jurisdiction the right accrued to ua
c by the treaty of 1783 and that right not th®
« federal government but to Georgia The
I Cherokee* have never been recognized a*
ri holding sovereignty over the territory they
t occupy—the aame’ Supreme Court has said
•(heretofore that European discoverers noto
e riously assented and executed the right of
I. sovereignty as well as of soil where the
e Cherokees inhabi», aD d it is from th&t
- source we derive aur right ad there is not
0 an instance of a cession of land by an In -1
g dian nation in which the right of sovereign
i.ity is mentioned as a part of the matter red
h ed. But ihe people ot Georgia hold that
i. this question is not now debatable—-the
i- matter has been long since settled by th*
ir only competent authority and that upon «'
f. dear right, the decree of the Supreme Court
1 to the contrary notwithstanding. Our rights
it have been repeatedly recognized by the
j, Executive of the United States; these rights
d it is our province as well as our duty and
h interest as a free slate to support and main
to' tain. r
r-j Therefore b? it resolved, That we hold
of the decree of the Sup>crae Court of the Un
rated States as extra judicial—that asgood ’
and faitiiful citizens of Georgia in behalf of
our state rights and state sovereignty, ws
d will to the utmost extent of our means Rev*
j. erally and collectively maintain and support
m ! the state against ihe execution of said de
i.
rt Resolved, That short of paramount physic*
j. force to that of Georgia, oatd decree shall
0 f not he executed,
B J Resolved, That we will hold our personal
pf 1 services and means at the disposal of our
at state Executive at ail times when ha may
0 f call upon us to save the stats from such e
judicial despotism.
r J Resolved, That the territory occupied by
a portion of the Cherokee tribe of Indians
j within the chartered limits of Georgia, be
■j.jiong to Georgia, and (hat she will never
CB surrender the jurisdiction or soil, to any
ig!power on earth unless overcome by force.
,y| Resolved, That we have the fullest con
’ fidence in the President of the United S'ates,
0 f that he will not lend the Executive arm to
E . attempt to enforce said decree.
1 Resolved, That we recommend to our
fellow citizens of (he other counties in the
instate to hold public meetings on this all
s (important subject, and to take a stand firm
v and decided.
" a j The crisis is near at hand—we have to
0 f -submit as slaves or maintain our fieedom
a j, our rights,
D(| Resolved further, That the Secretary of
a l j this l meeting forward a copy of these proceed -
he , i p S” s, g f i ’d by the Chairman, to the Presi
-o (ldent of the United States.
_i A motion was made to erase from the pre
u. (amble (ha word "mercenary'’—upon which
ji;motion c c< osiderabie discussion arose in
'which G. \Y, Gordon, Esq Gen. E BeaSl,
np A. 11. ( Imppeil, E-q. W. H. Torrance,
1,,, Esq and J. Lunar, Esq took part,
x , The motion being put by the chair, was
■ g.liost, the preamble and resolutions were (her.
ir .(adopted without a dissenting voice.
as! Do motion of G. W. Gordon, Esct.
v-| I< was res lived. That’all Editor's of pa-
H jiers in this H'ntc. be requested to publish the
ir .(proceedings of this meeting. The iraetin*
>r- then adjourned, sine die.
is BENJ H.RU I HEItFORD, Chairman
ns Eldkidce G. C.\b\niss, Htcrdary.