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.'dec, Politics, iVr.—'Wo extract the follow
ing paragraphs from a long communication to
tini Editor of the Now Vork Enquirer, tinted
at 'A u.-hinglon, Doe. 26tli, believing it will af
ford some instruction arid amusement to our
readers :—• The present Congress will be
one of the most practical which we have had
forvoai
led, some say, by the general of an army in a
famine, to keep the soldiers from mutiny ; hut
ifit proceeds from over much study, in such a
case it mav do more harm than good. It is a
game too troublesome for some men’s brains ;
too full of anxiety ; all but as bad as study
besides, it is a testv, choleric game, and vet
offensive to him that lo.seth the mate. \\ tlliatn
1 with a view of expelling this its necessary aids to carry on tiic war against! more determined resistance than this Tanfl
country—individual cUbrts Great Britain and the Indians, in which he | not a resistance by resolutions of Town met
calls Governor Troup a “cracked brained! tings, but by such acts and measures ol th
Demagogue,” and asks, *• has decency and i local Legislatures, as shall cause the usurps
common sense forsaken the Georgians 5” One at Washington to tremble at what they are dr.
mg, and to pause, ere tlioy plunge this people
Mi. McDuffie is the chairman ol j tlir* Conqueror, plnving at chess with the King
the \\ ays and Means, and a more active, efli- Lf France, (Daupluny was not annexed to tli
cut and patriotic chairman could not hi
i i in selected. We have a mistaken concep
turn of McDuffie in the North. I know very | tho cause of much
well that opinions unfavorable to him have -
been spread by the Adams men, but it has not.
on all occasions, been sufficiently contradicted
by the Jacksoninns, The influence of talent,
energy arid patriotism will always be great in
such an assemblage as the Douse of Kepre
.-.'■utative.i. This is the influence which Mac
I*, possesses. Low in stature, he is yet tow.
o mg in intellect, and warm in public spirit.
T .Jackson majorities on all the committees
ure determined to devote themselves to bu-i-
lifss, .. ,,,| desp.tch it to the satisfaction of the
people. You have been advi-ed for a few days
of the decision on the sale of Itank Stock. It
ms i e n signally rejected, and many think it
' dl give additional confidence to the holders
i.f stin k in the. National Hank. The United
States’ Hank may he useful to the country if
it be well managed, hit! it should he narrowly
watched. The attempt of the Adams party to
make ii appear that there was collusion be
tween Mr. Harbour anil Mr. McDuffie, i“ one
• f the most foolish and contemptible I have Vniunefth-Statu
seen. Mr. II. is a man of great talent, purity .ift-:i is apt>h-J t .
of character, and above all such imputations. If thei
Mclliiffio is open in all his actions. There- Mto- a bon I •
plv which McDuffie made to these jmputatiuns
was admirable. lie had been rep!\ mg to Mr.
]!. in conversational manner, ami with no par
ticular oratorical effort. U in n lie ciille to j the opinion of a slate
tba* part of his speet h wli'-re lie sav- lie felt a to the suKect, or wit
* sacred obligation,” icc. tie uviki s some re- j by tins aspect nf the
marks on the imputation cast upon him l.v lh" argument, and «.<•.•.« i
Adams party, be alien'd ins tone, his manner, actuate-. am the *:
ami tiis very personal dimensions, as I inia-1'ht’ius ,.i the
g.ncd. Kvcry word came out full, slow, and | » -| th apov-c m;!.: i
explicit. Mis action was graceful and com- ] f rime* that tunc »■..
manding. He seemed tori-' several inches in i '.ties crested by the Jn
-taturo. Jle felt himself rescuing the spotless I haJ allayed.—l pen n.
rc|oilHtioo <»f h patriotic pnitv, from ti ■: slatt-1 ''"'i' ’"'S' 1
der and defamation of a combination of office | touching the c - :-v
seekers. lie made s considerable impression ' rlrr misfortune, not her
on the house, and "at down with the silent ap- | n<;r • mtsa*' lf 1 ,!l
probation of the great majority. Mr. Gorham, I
of Boston, followed him. He is very parha-|
mentary, tn ins language and manner: Imt has
a ‘.ad voice, and rapid utterance. When Mr
Randolph rose to sneak, it was wonderful
what a sensation be cn on d in the bouse. A
great por’tnri of t!..- members left their seats
and < rowded to tr.e centre, wltere old I’.oanokc
• its. Let the Adams men say wlr.it they please
of Randolph. there is no one in the house,
whose nstig cri ales such a visible sensation.
Hi.,-speech was short Imt it had ail that lite
ral v pr, i isiori mid point, for which ho is so
celebrated Major Hamilton had a good deal
oi ivit and point, and acquitted himself well.
Tnerc wet- several ladies in the gallery, and a
few travelling dandies, outside tin - loir; Imt
alas 1 wtial interest could the.) find in caleula
lions on slocks, fall nf premium, &c. &c
T ev were fatigued and tired ; old Roanoke,
ro et u tho gentleman from Virginia,” stud
t, c speaker and nil o)es were turned towards
Mr. Handopli. His persona! appearance is
eccentric, in the highest derv'n. Do w ears
small clotlios, white topped boots, a poodle
rowu in those days,) loosing bis mate, knock
ed the chess board about bis pate, which wm
mmitv between them.
that robs aaolh*
“ Custom mak*
i tiint tliet
nipnmin
inn of tla
tc. ill.
Tin-Prospectus of flic “ Columbus r.iiquire
paper airont to be r -1' ilisfi.d at I'oiomhiis, wi
fouuH in our advertising column*. M. It. t.umar
to* tire pioprietor met editor.-- -The fir.,t Number r
Southron,” umhir tile direction ol" Messrs. June;
Crieo, will he is-u-rl on Saturday tin- ISth in-t.
The Prize Addr rss spoken at the opemirg of the
gusta 'Pie atre, wjii be found mi r.ur last jiape.
■Tie
rm 1 Union ’ ha
tween the Sta
•'ling that cm
luatro.rr iravc U*.i
“ mor.it hydra,” tV*
cannot, however philanthropic or benevolent, reverse
the obloquy which awaits those that, acting with true
courage and magnaiun, S ‘laic rebel against a custom
J i in favour of whieli a uinent mid reason would be
j j shamefully perverted, t is justified upon the ground
that tire chances of i' ape are equal—the gambler
pleads the same. Infamy follow s the latter, while the
former is acquitted, lie that steals a purae, though
“trash,” is perser trt d |,y the world’s hate; while lie
of ids Ilfs, iscntith’dtou hcro'sfamc.—
cowards 'f us all ”—and to none does
ere approjeialely belong than to those
ralrie Held of honour, to resist the ini-
: v ei l ai'raiii to bow w itli submission
■i of fusions” Public opinion /‘.Is fieri-
; coward, w|u!e it rendered the brave j
l ast six upnths has numbered with
n tiiusof dpriliug lt:r,c once re specie,]
'Phe tioldnf honour, hut to them the
now eriminned with the I,load of a
l ance, a Conway, and a li/aham. Are their memories
more dear to the woiltl, or their virtues more cherish
ed by the tile, ding symputliies of the living? No, they
have honed, in ihe language of one of them, himself a
victim, to tie: “supremacy of custom”—and where are
they"? The grave responds—“The untimely tenants of
the charm I hntil" of drath—where they, with others of
to j high and low degree, “are huddled out of eight.” What
lie I is now tun opinion of the world to them? Are they
ul ■ so ,thed In its flatt. •, s, consoled by its enmpliments,
j or i herred by its e-m ■.delations ? t hey have honed
u. J •« the “ snprenuey of nisloni," and ceased to live a
jth-y pf'.r.lfy ,-t tlteir fr ly.—So long as public opinio
j edfers a refuge unde-".liieh the duellist ran ah, |te
id j himself from the viol.it •-1 majesty of the law, so ire,
■■*. i will humanity bleed at the fully, and justice mourn tli
A- [outraged sanctity of her commands.
would naturally enquire what has so disturbed
this meek-mouthed Editor! What makes
him foam so I Who has flung him into such a
passion ! Why really it is nothing more than
the plain though blunt spoken Report of the
Georgia Legislature, on tin- subject of the.
“ Tariff and Internal Improvements.” This
modest gentleman, this Adams man, and if
them was any stronger term nf reproach I cer
tainly would use it, for lie 1 certainly, deserves
it, quotes the concluding remarks and resolu-
hitherto so liappv and so united, into*diseor,
and disunion. Disunion did I say ? W hethe
disunion shall approach us, rests not with out
selves but with our Northern brethren. For
bearance and pusillanimity in the South, maj
retard, but cannot tinaily prevent disunion
There is a point beyond which we never ear
endure the oppression of Congress. “ Tbs
veriest worm will turn when trodden on,” and
ooner or later, wo must turn on those wl;
rath, i
tiou of that Report, and then in addition to the j will lay us under perpetual tribute. It infirm-
J above very decent expressions, betraying so j ness alone—the same firmness, with which as
j much good breeding and refinement, declares a colony, wc resisted with such success, the
that “ aside from the unwarrantable and fern- aggressions of Britain, that is to carry us tri-
sonable language of this resolution, there is j iimphantly through nil the perils which assail
something entirely wrong in State Legis- j and surround us; and which, in the end, will,
laturos volunteering to construe the Coiistitn-1 in tny humble view, lead to the regeneration ol'
tion of the United States And is it come to | the liberties and the sovereignties of the states,
this, that the Southern States are to lie stript [as secured by tho Federal Constitution. Let
of their rights, robbed of their property, pluu- j there be but ono mind and one soul in the
•lit dal
Ml Nil ITIOV.
'ivin tlm Federal Consti-
later,ilfo i and Freedom of
old you believe it. there are
di so tench caution, and 1
itli so little sincerity. Men
•e exercise these inestinta-
M c opinion w ith more than
keeps duvn every effort at
••I evil,
III site
vs- agency -t a cupidity that
fti’ici.ul co-operatK.il ynen to its extension by the]
j VlHcan _il.iv- trade, ui the profits of which seme of
i the non slave holding states have been the largest par-
I tieipant#, as all are acquainted, none have cuntiibuletl
mere than they to its perpetuation ; yet none arc loud-
l their complaints against it. What ctiicncy can
there be in sucli remonstrances, while the former agents
of tins evil are selected, tioin choice, oa deserving ot'
the highest honour. There is a state where ttie voire
of prejudice is never soil, m the tongue of censure si
lent, that within a few past years has given tr, one, tin*
lUtion of whose fortune was laid in lilond, u seat
i i that Ttrnplecf Liberty wtiere justice prof.ssi s lo reign.
The name of i/VYjlfis known to many; it has oft re
verberated along the shores of Africa, and tire sons of
tiint ill-fated land have ti ll the tyranny of liis oppres
sion. Is it philanthropliy, is it interest, or is it preju
dice that thus rends tho heavens with complaints
against a system of which, it is not presuming to sny,
they UiK.iv but little? Wo commend the sensitiveness
tba' feels, and the jealousy that burns when the pollu-
I footsteps of an intruder tramples upon the sacred-
,s of lights i-u,riled, and which should be protected
u nation's f nth. The tenure by which they are held
as sat red as a nation’s pledge can make it; amt we
The two k-.vl ri
tutimi n.- •. /ie/igi.i
■lucss suited I iprtrh ; and vet w,
J imperative none cxerci-ed «
- i• t.! had ulmost sard, w
i- -pun !i:.: are netii illy afraid
• a i. The ble privileges. l’i
i conducted a Tyrant's rigour.
o.c ci th '.«<■ ciiintu ipation f r• m lira* thraldom of secret pur-
' the an:■ ; po-o or popplar motive coaslnnllv arising from
'lie-e two suh'cets. The npplieution of these
remarks belongs to the Southern people only
a- to tic last. every body knows where to fix
the other. The South does not complain ofn
stogie measure of the General Government,
but it is directly and most furiously assailed
by the North, and the worst of motives impu
ted to its opin.otis. Our lending and most
distinguished men. are called knaves or mad
men: whole Legislatures are branded with fol
ly : the peaceable assemblage of the people is
called traitorous. Treason ! treason ! is tbeerv
from every hireling print, and moon-struck
Editor, from the Boston Patriot down to Peter
Force's dirty Press.—And who is it that la
vishes this alniso upon the South ? JVould
any ono believe that it comes from that same
people, who refused to march their militia
Iissou.i question
icoot thaw th
be south. It i*
o-ext.'iisive with
tgthened by the
dumber-d. \\ ith
Benjamin, nnd lias his Imir, which is a sori of much fear, that when the union which now binds tin
iron grey, combed back in the neatest style. •’ - 1 —'•—-
}lis>voice is just ns singular as every thing else
be calls his own. The worthy rcprosentn’ive.s
o*' your city, (New York) are quite busy;
Vrrplanck on the Ways and Menus, nnd Mr.
('(.mbrcliit",at the head of the Committee oi
Commerce, The latter gentleman w ill, pro
bably, soon report something for the benefit of
that great nntional interest. Mr. Tmjlor the
great X oftho Adams party, is closely watch
ing speaker Stevenson. Ho is determined to
pick as many flaws with him, nq possible. In
a out n venr or so, tho X will get a whole
brunch of the X's from tho executive dc-
pnrtmcnt, to keep him company. Mr. Stovrs
does not exactly know, yet, wlmt he shall do,
but he will probably determine soon. Mr.
Ererctt is looking after the Library of Con-
p rcl ,H—so ho should. He hns been a great
traveller, nnd has a tnste in good hooks. He
went to F.uropn ono dny—touched oft’ his
Greek at the University of Gottingen, ad
mired tho galleries of Rome and Floronco,
and drank coffee cross-legged, with Ali Pncha,
before he was bow-strung. He is not yet what
we call a debater. He is stiff ar.d pulpitised,
but hopes are entertained, that old Uoanokc
will brush him up. Clay, I run told, is a de
lightful follow, and is tho only one oftho cabi
net. that keeps up his spirits. Ho will make
a charming piece of political mins, anno domi-
ui, 192!', when old Hickory is planted at the
wustend. Adams soon expects to retreat to
Quincy, to write Ins father’s life, lie began
life n lecturer, and will end it a biographer.
The pcopl” ofthe United States, are generous;
ffiey would never think of refusing him an
opportunity of exorcising bis filial lovo in his
father’s biography. This is tho only hope re
maining, that his literary taste will lie correct
ed in his lifetime. JacktOH, I have no doubt,
w It subscribe for hall's dozen copies of his
oook, just by way of encouragement. Clay
will head the opposition to Ilicitory’s admi
nistration. Ho will ho much wanted ; for real
ly the intellectual force of the Adams party,
in the House, is so weak, that the talent ofthe
Jackson men, had they not all the public bu
siness cast npou them, would, I fear, get rusty
for want of use.
Chrai—Chess-play ia a good and witty ex
ercise of the mind and fit for such as arc s.’-le,
.Hid having extravagant impertinent thoughts,
nr troubled with cues,nothing better to divert
fjkVt'to the nmsU'r shall be destroyed, unless tho disso
lution of this I mill is cflcctcd by time or choice, that the
autiio'Tv whieli now recofn:Z"a this connection, (until
of hile ii'iqiiesti innlile,) will polish with it. Tho la
bours of | oh.icii,us, in their tendeney, serin!* to widen
ach of i_"wd tooling, by fanning the animosities
existing between tho ninth amt south. If there is a
Magnanimity in langnngc as well as notion, that be-
apeaks a nobleness of soul, it should now. if ever, he
supported,—tf i ho Union hits become a question of lo
cal power, or local interest, let it be determined. A
renssRuiption of that power which the States have con
ditionally transferred, hut which, from it violation of
iheoo conditions can he resumed at pleasure, will end
the strife. If the principles of the constitution are not
administered w ith equal justice, the motive nnd the ob
ject of tho connection must cease with the outrage
committed upon the rights of one to establish the as-
oendnney of the other. Wo believe with “ Lucius,”
that it is time for the South to speak, nnd to command
ail adherence to the first principles ofthe Constitution,
if, in her opinion, the violation ofthese principles threaten
her liberties or her rights. Iter warning voice, if not
heard, should lie tho mandate of death to a connexion
which it would be folly lo continue, when the object
of tho compact ceases to he respected.—None
desire a eriaia so much to be deplored. The temple of
agani-t the enemies of the very Union they
now ko much nfleet to honor? Would any one
believe tiint the stnte, where one Governor
Stroll”, Tcrrapin-likc. demerit himself up with
in bis own shell to keep from aiding this very
Union in a righteous struggle for Us indepen
dence, would now taunt other states with Trea
son ? M ould any oneheliovc that nxtate where a
Crittenden Imd openly withheld the succours
called for by the Union in her greatest time
of need, would now dare to upbraid the South
with the crime of dismemberment ? But above
all, would any one believe, that a whole
country which once seriously and avowedly
meditated a separation of the Union, and did
actually assemble at Hartford to finish the un
hallowed work, should now insolently reproach
the very country that . lived the Union, and all
that is dear to its existence, with an intention to
rend the ligaments that bind it together ?
dered of their slaves, and that their Legisla
tures shall not presume to sny that this is c.in-
j South, nnd we shall have more perfect union,
| and with our Northern brethren, better friend-
trary to the instrument by which the parties j ship and better feelings. There is no Con-
ure bound ? That these Potash nnd Onion press that has yet been convened, or that will
scribblers, these strum-loom and “ thanks giv- sit in our day. that will dare to trifle with free
ing” gentry shall give their opinions, at lar/re, | men who know their rights.and know toohowto
on th
in al
onstitntion of the U. S., shall
butt of their own states, and
Congress what is necessary, for tho
hflf
.mrC
edible 1 maintain them ; who have within themselves,
I date to | the resources for empire—the same resources
1 protec-1 which give to this Union its extended mtn-
tion” of their money-making projects : but lho|mcrce, und which is constantly aggrandizing
moment a sovereign state, exercises precisely i t| le Northern slates, whilst it impoveri-hes
the same privilege, nnd respectfully submits ourselves : whose half a million of cotton bags
its reasons for differing in opinion from these j are a circulating medium,or as so many bank of
lilanket weavers, that then its Governor is a i England notes in the marts of Europe, when tho
cracked brained Demagogue” nnd its Le;
laturo a hand of traitors !! such insolence has
its parallel no where out of Now England, and
can he matched only bv a people raised upon
bad rum and worse molasses, and whose chief
Irafic is in Cod-Fish and Coffins. I well know
that this is harsh language, and applied In n
decent man or an honest community, would
he unbecoming ; but who believes it improper
when addressed to a people that deal in no
other style, and fight with no other weapons?
Will a man uttucki-d with acrotv-har stand and
parry it with a slender sword-cane t Will a
man assailed by a ruffian, resort to the laws
l'earland the Potashes and Flour of tho North,
arc dull and heavy merchandize. Let Congress
then he told distinctly, that though the “ cur
rent of the Public Treasury has always run as
steadily and unceasingly to tho North and
East, as the Gulf Stream, and with os little
prospect of its over changing its course, " yet
that, when by some great political convulsion,
it shall change its course,” all those regions of
the North, hitherto improved by the commerce
created bv our products, and by tho rich con
tents of our Custom Houses, borno year after
voar, on the bosom of the fertilizing stream,
ill become comparatively barren and unprn.
of honor, tako distance and gently run him! ductivu: whilst South Carolina, like a Phamix.
through with a polished steel blade rather than
knock out his brains with the first bludgeon
lie may seize ? Instead of using such abusive
and ungcntlornar.ly terms towards onr chief
Magistrates, our Legislatures, our people, and
our conduct, why do they not fairly answer our
objections ? Why do they not refute our rea
soning ? This very Report contains the argu
ment upon which the resolution quoted is foun
ded : why not point out its fallacy, shew its
absurdity, detect its sophistry? Is this the me
thod of treating the objections of a sovereign
state, urged at least with respect, if not with
reason ! Is madness ! Treason ! baseness !
the only answer that the mighty knowing ones
ofthe North can give to a plain statement
tnndo in n land of liberty, and under a Consti
tution Hint guarantees the “ libcitv of speech ?”
If -o, and they have no regard for their know
ledge,it would seem they should respect, if they
linve any, their sense of honesty, and never
reproach a people w th deeds committed no
will rise from tho ashes in which she ishumblcd.
Lot Congress hetvare how it approaches ns
with any extension of the Tariff, or it may tread
upon the RATTLESNAKE of the South.
“ It is SLOWin its resistance, GENEROUS
in its warning, but may be DEADLY in its
BLOW.” ’ LUCIUS.
IN SENATE, Jan. 23, 1829.
Tho following written Message was recei
ved yesterday from the President of tho I T .
States, directed to tho Senate and II. of Re
presentatives :
Washington, 22d Jan. 1828.
By tho Report of the Sce.retary of War, am*
the documents from that department exhibitor,
to Congress at the commencement of the pro
sent session, they were advised of the mea
snros taken for carrying into execution the ac
of the -1th of May, 1926. to authorise the Pro
sident of the United States to run and mark t
line divid'ng the Territory of Florida from th<
where out oftheiroivncountry. For instance. I State of Georgia, and of their unsuccossfu t
this sapient F.ditor, (I think they call i result. I now transmit to Congress copies o:
him Copeland.) this Cheese-rnnn, indeed, to communications received from the Governo:
sumupallhis meanness,this Adams man. states. | of Georgia, relating (o that subject.
that “ Georgia puts her own construction upon
the Constitution.and will submit to no other I”
Docs he not recollect that this was precisely
the conduct of his ow n famous Governor Crit-
tfiidon ? Did ho not say, the Constitution
would not suffer the militia of a state to he
marched out of its limits, and that his militia
Strange ns it may appear, yet every paper that I should not move one inch to “ save tho Union
comes from that sainted land, benrs the evi
dence of this insult ng fact. Now, when I
complain ofthe watt of Freedom of Speech in
tho South. I mean nothing more nor less than
to sny. that wc do not tell these people their
own, in a style that they can understand. 1
want the Southern Press to wnke up from its
lethargy, and speak riirht out, that n connec
tion with such ungracious associates ts no lon
ger desired, after they have deliberately char
ged upon us every crime with which they are
acquainted either from principle or practice.
Does any man tremble at disunion when he is
told, by a set of manufacturers and Abolition
societies, backed by their states, that the Fe
deral Constitution is now no longer the rule of
right between the States, but that THEIR
INTEREST is alone the law of their co-part
nership ? Does any man in the South crouch
so low as to be afraid, under the freedom of
Diana was sacrificed bv an incendiary emulous of a . - .
name, though it were based on an infamous achieve- ^r^ecuredtohtmhythef onslrtut.on.toMp
incut.—May not some political incendiary, with n like
piih-o of ambition, but w ith a worse than Ephesian
torch, kindle a damn that blood alone can quench ?—
Heaven forbid.
DirWIing.—In the Legislature of New York,
Mr. F. gerton, from a select Committee on the
Governor’s Message relative to the practice of
duelling, made a long report, reprobating the
practice in the strongest terms, and brought
in a bill, declaring the killing ft person in a
duel, murder; sending a challenge, a high
misdemeanor—fourteen years in tho State
that lie cans not for Ihe Union, if ho is not go
verned by eqtml law^J if he is oppressed by unc-
ounl burthens, if his property can be taken
from him nnd given to another without his con
sent, if his taxes shall h.e taken to improve
countries he will never see, roads and rivers
he will never use, and will go into the private
pockets of men who lave never rendered him
a public service—if his produce, the hard earn
ings ofhis labour, nnd often his solo support,
should be depreciated to nothing.—if his la
bourers should be wrested from him. and nfter
nil this, if he should dare to complain to lie
railed villain, cut-throat, madman and Traitor?
Does such a man dwell ir.the South 1 If such
Prison; seconds, aids, nnd surgeons to he
fined S 1,000, find sureties for good behaviour
for fivo years, for ever incapacitated from J th «? re hc > let him come forth to meet the exc-
lioldmg anv office, and, in case they cannot, oration he so richly deserves. —If such n man
pay fine, to’ be imprisoned two y ear’s in the | * h erc be, this side the Potomac, he combines
county jail. The report and bill were ordered within himself all the varieties of meanness,
all the shade and colouring of infamy, from
the petty duplicity of the canting Abolitionist
tin to the still more hardy malignity of an Ad-
ministrnt'on Printer.
I have before me, the remarks of an Adams
Printer who conducts a paper, called the “ Na
tional Standard,” in Vermont, the very state
where the selfsame Governor Crittenden re-
to lio printed.—JVa/. Intel.
This is at its IkmiM br.—A custom so pregnant with
ev it should he met with a remedy as desperate as the
consequences of its continuance threaten to be alarm-
tog.—Duelling, though an evil hy no means peculiar to
this country, is one that from its prevalence, and from
tho encouragement given to the sentiments which ob
tain upon this point, with every repetition, demands
their mind and alter their meditations ; inven- th- sternest authority of *b» . Anti-dueliuig asso* (tvtsed to.supply ths General Government with
from destruction 1” Again, ho says, “ when
the Legislature of a state addresses such lan
guage to the people of those U. States it is
timeto pause and a.-k ourselves what is to be the
result of such proceeding t Shall the General
Government suffer a single state to threaten
to oppose its operations with impunity ? Shall
she he permitted to force her own construction
upon all the other stales?” Has this Adams
man forgot the language of his own Governor
to the other states, during the last war, the
most moderate exproBsion of which was, that
“ he would rather march hts militia against
Mr. Madison and his government, than against
the British and the Indians !" Is his memory
so short, or is his heart so wicked that he docs
not chooso to remember that this same Go
vernor not only “ threatened to oppose the
operations” cf tho General Government, but
did, in tho most overt manner, accomplish that
very thing ? Will his faithless recollection not
suffer hint to remember that this same Gover
nor and the ever famous Governor Strong.
par nohile fratrum, did “ force their own con
struction upon all the other States,” when
they utterly refused to supply their quota of
militia to resist an enemy in the heart of the
country, who hnd offered us every outrage,
insult and injury which either folly or fraud
could devise ! If ho does not recollect these
tilings they are remembered in the South, and
ought long since to have left nnd fixed upon
our minds the lesson ofthe Bear and the two
friends, “ never to associate with a wretch who
in the hour of danger will desert his friend !”
But l would ask why is Georgia singled out
for the unceasing obloquy of these pt'oti.t and
modest Editors ? Has Virginia said nothing on
the subject ofthe Tariff I Has South Carolina
been dumb on the occasion ? Has hor press
been tock-jaiced during the last year on this
anxious point!—Let me conclude my remarks
by another extract from the same able writer,
a specimen of whoso solid talents concluded
my last number. “Never, (says ho) never
since the colonization of the country, has any
measure been adopted, no, not the od ; ous
stamp act of England, which demands from
the Southern States, a more steady and a
(Sign'd) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Air. Cobb presented resolutions of the Le-
islaturo of Georgia, and other documents on
the subject of the foregoing message, which
were referred to the Committee on the Judi
ciary, nnd ordered to be printed.
Mr. King, from the Committeo on Public
Lands, to which was referred tho memorial of
tho legislature of Alabama on the subject, re
ported u bill granting three sections of Land
for the benefit of tho Lafayette Academy in
Alabama; which was read und ordered to a
second reading.
Mr. Harrison, from the Cominittoe on Mi
litary Affairs, to whom was referred the bill
authorizing the establishment of an arsenal, at
or near Pensacola, in Florida, reported it
with an amendment, which was road.
The hill making tin appropriation for the
continuation of iho Cumberland road from
Bridgeport to Zanesville, in Ohio, and for
continuing and completing the Surveys ofthe
same from thence to the scat of Government,
in Missouri, was taken up as the unfinished
business of yesterdny, and after some discus
sion passed. Yeas 25.—Nays 18.
Mr. .McLean, from the Committee on In-
dian Affairs, who were instructed, on the 17th
inst. to inquire into the expediency of making
an appropriation for the extinguishment of the
Indian title to the lands in the vicinity of the
Lead Mines, and to lands sufficient for a road
to said Mines; ns also to certain Indian Re
servations lying upon the Southeast border of
Lake Michigan, reported a bill to enable the
President oftho United States to hold a treaty
with the Chippavvas, Ottawas, Pottawatnmios,
Winncbagoes, Tox, and Sac Nations of Indi
ans ; which was read twice, nnd committed.
On motion of Mr. Isacl.-s, the Committee on
tho Public Lands was discharged from tho
further consideration of the petition of Amos
Howe, and it was laid on the table : and, also
from the letter of Cadtvalladcr Wallace, pre
ferring charges of malconduet against George
Grahar;, Commissioner of tho General Land
Office : which was also ordered to lie on the
tablet.
The House resumed the considera
tion of the resolutions movod by Mr. Clin
ton, yesterday, which was under consideration
when the House passed to the orders ofthe day.
Thp resolutions are as follows ;
“ L Resolved, That it is expedient to dis
charge the National debt without unavoidable
delay ; to accomplish which desirable object,
a resort to a general system of retrenchment is