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THE HICKORY'S XT T
AND UPSON VIGIL.
THOM ASTON, OED.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1834.
The communication relative to the formation
of a-State Rights Association lor L pson, is rea
dily published; and we take the passing op
portunity to remark that we have been com id-
Cruble surprised that the leading and prominent
tp publicaus of the county, have-not beloic now
conic to an organization to appear with the oth
er counties in noble array for the principles of
1793.
The extract from the “ Standard of Union,
upon the subject of the next Presidency, is gi\en
with the sole view of imparting to our readers,
the first explicit declaration for a particular can
didate which hits been yet been made, as we
opine, upon this sided bavanuah Givci. ihe
editors of the Standard, surely uescite credit
for their early, unequivocal array of
themselves in the cause of their special favorite.
■\Ve knotv where tluy arc, and where they may
be expected to he found hi “ the great-and bit
ter struggle” which they anticipate. With their
premises and speculations on them; with the
postulates and the deductions contained in the
aforesaid article, we have, t present, and pci
haps at no future time shall have any very di
rect concern. It is sufficient that they prefer
Mr. Van Buren for the Presidency and Mr.
Forsyth for the Vice Presidency. They had a
clear right to settle down upon whom they pleas
ed, and as clear a, right to publish their predi
lections. The choice of the time too for the
announcement was totally discretionary. For
ourselves, however, we can see no unchangea
ble necessity why the the contest should ulti
mately settle down between Mr. Van Buren and
Mr. Ciav. We are by no means disposed to
receive tlmt a3 the final limitation of the ap
proaching contest. Without saying a word
wah respect to Mr. Calhoun’s claims or fitness,
we venture to speculate opinion against opin
ion, with the Standard, and now indite it as oui
sober judgment, that Mr. Calhoun cannot be
Arranged out of the course at the starting poli,
nor crippled down so as to prevent his visibility
at least at the judging poll. Beyond the un
authantic rumors and current on ditsof the day
(which for the convenience of our unfrenchijicd
readers, we translate the say sues,) we pretend
to know nothing special about this weighty mat
ter. Wc are also ignorant why there should
necessarily be “ bitterness in the coming strug
gle.. Where will that bitterness be concocted
and by whom will it be ejected? “ There lies
tlie rub.” Whether shall it be must reasonably
expected to proceed from the ranks of invete
rate federalism, prone to make a jest of popular
intelligence, and a reproachful by-word of State
Sovereignty, or from the simple disciples of
simple and unstrained doctrines, who see no
mystery in the policy that honestly contem
plates public good and individual justice as the
sum and end of government; and who recog
nize no excellence in the system that lays the
mass of the people, or any part of them, m the
dust, as the foundation of ambitious grandeur
or national splendor ? ‘ But in the common
phrase of the newspaper paragraphs, we shall
see. Upon which of the distinguished citizens
spoken of for the office, the vote of Georgia
will be finally bestowed, we certainly will not
pretend at this early day to predict. The peo
ple of this State are fully awake and duly im
pressed upon this subject, and when the time
comes for them to speak through their electoral
colleges, we feel confident that they will so
speak as to contribute as much as in them lie’s
to the government of the country, the purest
and ablest patriot in the republic at large, who
shall cherish the most justice and impartiality
to Southern interests.
From the article which we have collected
from the Standard, it seems that the editor ap
prehends that n storm is brewing in the cairn
serene of the Judicial department and that Judge-
Hooper has trodet) upon forbidden and danger
ous ground, ft strikes us that no censure should
lie predicted against the judge trom I.V‘ a bare
fact of his having sanctioned a bill for injunc
tion. The award of injunctions is frequently
nearly ex dibilo justiiia , as the solicitors say ;
and as the grounds are to be fully argued upon
the merits, on a motion for dissolution, the sanc
tion of the process in the first instance is merely
preliminiary and introductive of the thorough
contestation of right, by whatsoever name and
in whatsoever behalf the party may elect to pro
ceed. The revival of Cherokee Sovereignty,
therefore, by the Adairs in the phrasology of
their bill, should not disturb us. It can neither
be ratified, embalmed or perpetuated in that
way. It is the essential nature of Courts of
justice, that they stand wide open for suitors,
complaining of real or supposed violations of
rights. All may enter; hut none will be sus
tained and redressed but such as repose op
justice, law and evidence. We hope, for the
avoidance of occasional inconvenience, the edi
tor would not have those old attributes, of ju
dicial tribunals obliterated; and the open doors
of our courts, invincibly barricadocd by deaf
fbrejudgemonta. Should the principles of the
complainants be finally sustained upon solemn
argument, which our neighbors of tlie Standard
can scarcely anticipate, it would be high time
then to open the batteries of an indignant press.
COUNTY AND TOWN LYCEUMS.
“ These polished arts have humanized mankind.
Softened the rude and calm and the boisterous mind.
Every particle of rust which is stricken off,
and every £peck of polish which is communica
ted to society, is in some sort an accession to
the public weal. TheHtraction of the mind to
intellectual pleasures, is a divorcement of it from
the chains of sensuality,; and the process suffi
ciently nnd judiciously carried out, will ultimate
lv result in a glorious emancipation. The cit
izens of ancient Greece, from the common mar
ket woman to the admired philosopher, were
refined and accomplished in their language,
and delicate and highly susceptible in their taste.
Tho intellectual light, shone over their land
with the commonness and diffusion of their se
rene and genial sun. Their gifted philoso
phers walked about among # the people, famil
iarizing to the crowd, the sublimities of wis
dom, and dropping every Where, unceremoni
ously, the manna of their immortal eloquence.
Their porches, porticoes and Jyceurns were
thronged by an inquisitive and curious people,
thirsting for knowledge. The very market pla
ces were constant theatres of keen discussion,
and dispensitarics of imperishable truth. We
congratulate the community upon the rapid
spread of lyccutns in the State of Georgia. Na
ture has constituted our population no less, in
tellectual and improvable than the Greeks. To
a people so mercurial and active, it is immense
ly important to have the means of mental im
provement and delectation multiplied ami ac
cessible, From such quiet springs how nu
merous arid lo\v fertilizing may be the streams.
NVe of Upson having been among tbc first, if
not the very first, in the early part of the past
summer to establish a lycctmi in the State, we
feel the livelier pleasure at the establishment of
them, at the seat of government and the other
towns, under auspices of happiest promise: and.
although we luvve already to announce the pre
mature obituary of our own enterprise; most
sincerely do we invoke prosperity to those nas
cent successors.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 26th Feb
ruary, who honored us by quoting a small scrap
of our brain-web, has ludicrously enough, to |
U3e $ word made for the occasion, typography I
ized us out of the name of our town, which is
Thomaiton, both by statute and usage, and
transported us, for what offence we know not,
and for what period we know not, to some un
known city or village of Georgia, with the sweet
liquid aboriginal name of Tuscaloosa. Good
Mr. Editor, pray give us back our domicil a
gam.
10R TICE HICKORV iruT. !
Mr. Editor :—Having arived to years of dis
cretion yet being young and in a sfeite df’poli
tical infancy, 1 feel a diffidence in advising for
our county ; but at the same time being govern
ec by the same laws and living under the same
government as my countrymen, I feci equally
interested, 1 sec there have been and are now
forming in different counties in this State, State
Eights’ Associations, auxiliary to the Central
Association,'advocating tlse Virginia and Ken
tucky Resolutions of’-93. I now ask, if so en
lightened and so independent a county as ours,
will remain indifferent to so important a subject,
which has been so earnestly recommended by
the Central Association. 1 hope, sincerely, to
see the enlightened citizens of Upson county
called through the medium of your paper to
meet in Thomaston soon upon tins all import
ant subject.
■ A Citizen or Upson.
From Iho Southern Recorder.
TllC fi ♦Mowing touching incidents occured m
the 11. of Representatives on the 11th inst.—
Judge Bouldin, the member of Congress from
Virginia, elected to supply the place of the la
mented John Randolph, having the floor from
the previous day, rose and said—
“ Sir, before I proceed to submit a few re
marks, and they shall be but few, on the merits
qf the serious question which is now before the
House. I must advert to the rebuke which f. um
a -m
Hi! 1 , “i|
iv-iunS
primelyMa .
my fl|
the
league, (JH
most
did suggest-®
now, as it hal
tell my colljj
them, my
dolph’s
sir, I cannot tell the reason why the thing so
kindly suggested, was not done, without telling
what l have already told my friends, and more
than one, what I‘should say if 1 done that
Here it becomes our patnful dnty to state, that
Mr. Bouldin, after some moments pause, was
observed . to totter aud lean forward upon the
desk from which he had been addressing the
House; he was seized with an apoplectic fit,
and although medical assistance was promptly
rendered, having beeu carried into the esplan
ade, and bled, the vital spdrk had fled. The
Mouse adjourned on the instant.
We take the following account attending the
death af Judge Bouldin, from the Globe of the
12th:
A most tragic scene occurred in the House ot
Representatives yesterday. The successor of
the late John Randolph, of Roaaoake, Judge
Bouldin rose, and begun his speech, by apolo
gizing for having declined hitherto to ask the
usual tribute to the great orator, who had died a
member of the House, and who, while living,
bad made it illustrious by his eloquence —when,
in the act ot offering his reasons, the Judge tell
and ad in the arms of one of the members near
him.” The sensation produced was extreme,
and excited to the highest, by the appearance
of Mrs. Bouldin in the Halt, who had witnessed
from the gallery, the fall of her husband.
When she approached him, and found that
all attempts to restore life were in vain, the be
reaved and almost distracted lady, pierced the
Hall with her shrieks. She was borne from the
H U H—and her husband’s remains were carried
to the Speaker’s room to await the order of the
House in relation to liisfnneral.
The private worth and public character of the
deceased, will doubtless receive from someone
of his surviving colleagues, proper commemo
ration on the meeting of the House to-day.
In our report of the proceedings of the House,
will be found, as taken down by our Reporter,
the remarks uttered by Judge Bouldin, when his
voice was hushed by the hand of deaths
Tha Members of the two Houses of Congress
assembled yesterday only to unite in paying Hu
last earthly honors to the remains of their 1 e
associate, the Hon. Thomas T. Bouldin, of Va.
The Funeral Ceremonies took place in the Hall
of Representatives. Prayers were read, with
due solemnity, by the Rev. Mr. Match, one ot
the Chaplains to Congress, and a very excellent
discourse, suited to tire occasion, was delivered,
bv the Rev. Mr. Stockton, the other Chaplain ;
after which, the two Houses, in possession, es
corted the corpse to the Eastern burial ground.
The Funeral Ceremonies were attended by the
President of the United States, the Judges of the
Supreme Court, and heads of Departments. On
no similar occasion has the mourning been more
general or mote sincere than on this ; the pecu
liar circumstances of which, indeed could not
fail to make a deep impression on the minds of
all men. — Nat. Inf.
Magnificent plan of Internal Improvement. —
We perceive a bill is before the State Legisla
ture of Louisiana, to incorporate a company with
a capital of $20,000,000, for consty tin a rad
road from N. Orleans to Baton Rogue, St. Frau
cisville and Clinton, and then eastwardly to the
h e dividing Louisiana from the State of Mis
sissippi, so that a road can be continued through
the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, S.
Carolina, N. Carolina, and Virginia, to Wash
ington.”
Dehth of Mr. Wirt. —lt will he seen in our
letters from Washington, that the distinguished
and excellent Mr. Wirt is no more. The cus
tomary honors were paid by the members of the
Supreme Court.— Charleston Mercury.
A shock of an earthquake was distinctly felt
at Lancaster, Columbia (Pa.) and Taneytown
(Md.) on Wednesday night 6th inst. about ten
o’cock. It was attended with a rumbling noise.
At Lancaster, the houses were in some cases
shaken to such a degree, that lamps were‘extin
guished, “ and the people generally were so
alarmed as to rush to the windows, or into the
street.”
At Columbia its effects are thus described:—
Crockery and other articles on shelves were
noticed to shake very considerably. Its dura
tion could not have exceeded twelve seconds.
We have heard it remarked by a number who
were out of doors at the time, that there was a
great change in the atmosphere immediately
before the shaking-—it being so hot and op
pressive, as to render it difficult to breathe.—
1 lie shock was said to be the most violent one
ever experienced in this part of the country.
Col. Preston is undoubtedly a man of supe
rior talents to his predecessor, but is equally
objectionable With respect to his principles.
He is, withal, a very amusing fellow—being
extremely absent minded. We recollect seeing
him once, when he was Inlendant of the town
of Columbia, administering an oath to a witness
on a mistaking it for a JJible, not
observing his mistake till the spectators burst
i nto
UPSON SUPERIOR C OURT, >
February Teem, 1834. )
npHE Grand Jury, selected and sworn sos
■ the County of Upson, at February term,
1834, beg leave to congratulate their fellow
citizens upon the improved condition of their
county as well as physical
ly. Our county is growing in population,
wealth nnd respectability : having in the main
an enterprising, industrious and honest popula
tion, with a good and generous soil, we must
continue to increase in strength, wealth and
character, and hold a high rank among the
most respectable counties in the State. But the
strength and reputation of a county lies mainly
in the virtue, intelligence and morality of the
people. In these qualities, the Grand Jury
feel much pleasure in perceiving their county
is rapidly improving, aud they see jn the pres
ent much to hope for the future. Morality,
temperance, anu industry are gaining the as
cendency over vice, dissipation and idleness.
Many of onr public schools and academies a’e
in a prosperous and flourishing condition, aim.
a.snirit is manifested to cultivate the ar sand
sciences; to educate, the young and rising gen
eration, nnd to train them up to habits ot mo
rality and virtue. Gambling, idleness and
crime are less frequent: For these blessings
and cheering prospects, we should be thankful
to Almighty God ; and bend all our energies to
improve still more the moral condition of our
county ; for the happiness and prosperity of our
country, and the preservation of our liberty, de
pend upon the virtue and intelligence ot the
people. Our posterity to be happy as a nation
must remain free : to be free they must be en
ligtened; to be enlightened, we must take care
to cultivate the moral powers of the rising gen
eration, in order that they may know their
rights as citizens, and possess the moral cour-
age to maintain and defend them.
We also congratulate our fellow-citizens at
th change in the appearance of the political
aspect of our national affairs. The tempest that
lately threatened to overwhelm us, seems to
have wasted its fury; the cloud has passed over
and our Southern horizon begins to wear a
more pleasing appearance. The eyes ot the
people begin to be opened : they are no longer
to be belli by the charm of a name : the spell
that bound them is broken ; the wizzards wand
has become powerless in the hand of the necro
mancer ; and the people begin to see into the
political juggling of time-serving office-hunting
politicians. They haveresolved to lie free and
to judgeJor themselves of the acts of their pub
lic servants ; and they will laugh to scorn !>c
military menace of those in power, whilst they
a c protected by the mantle of the civil author
ities of their own sovereign communities. Th,
lion is bearded in his own den, while the people
begin to speak with the voice of authority. The
chains of the American System have been
broken, and the system is fast giving way and
must soon he totally abolished. The ‘few no
ble and devoted patriois who have stood up in
defence of the people, and the people’s rights
during the trying times of the last two or three
years, are entitled to the people’s gratitude.
They have been crushed many of them., by th
hand of power and trampled m the dust : but’
they vvdl be lifted up by the people to honor and
distinction. The friends of the Constitution are
beginning to rally around and save it from an
nihilation. Let us not despair of the Republic,
but hope that it will be saved from the hand of
power and transmitted to our posterity, as the
legacy bqueatlied to us by ouf fathers.
In respect to the finances of the County, wc
are aware they are notjn as flourishing a con
dition ns could he desired. This, however, is
not owing to the poverty or inability of the com
munity, but to the defect in the law authorizing
the Inferior Court to make assessments suffi
cient to meet the contingent expenses of the
-county to this cause and the number
of public bridges to be kept up, as the Grand
Jury are informed, many of the public bridges,
the. court house and jail are much out of re
pair. We would, therefore, request our sena
tor and representatives in the next Legislature,
to procure ft law to be passed to enable our In
ferior Court to assess a sufficient county tax to
meet the public wants, and the necessary ex
penditures of the county ,* and, in the mean
tune we would recommend our inferior Court
to make such repairs on the court house and
jail as may be necessary to comfort and their
preservation. And vve would here remark that
we disapprove of the practice of permitting
rooms in ’he court house to be occupied by pri
vate individuals. We find this valuable piece
of public property much injured and damaged
from this cause.
We present the bad condition of the road
between Thomas Tliweatt’s and the south end
of Win. Low’s lane.
We present the general neglect of Patroll du
ty throughout the county. At the same time
we are glad the vigilant attention of the citizens
of Thomaston, in this particular, deserve our
highest commendation.
On taking our leave of his Honor Judge
Strong, we tender him our thanks, and appro
bation for the able, impartial and dignified man
ner in which he has ci inducted the business of
Georgia Conference
* Ztianual labor focbool*’
f|Ml£ Subscribe, having been appointed the
B Agent for the above named institution-*-
will forthwith commence his labors, relying
upon the noble generosity of an enlightened
public for the success ot bis mission.
The education of our children, next to then
salvation, claims decidedly our first attention.
But many parents are prevented for want ot
means, from bestowing upon their sons such
cultivation as would render them a blessing to
our common country. It is the great object ot
“ Labor Schools” to meet the exigency, and
to place education within the reach ot the most
indigent, at the same time affording the sons oiL
the opulent an opportunity to educate hotzlP
mind and body together, in doing which, they
are prepared for the practical uses ot human
life, nnd cease to be driven asunder from the
laboring classes of the community, by petty
jealousies and smothered animosities. Heie
they will easily cultivate those corresponding
• mpathics which will enable them to appro cli
each other with looks of kindness, and form a
compact based upon republican equality, and
the interchange of mutual offices of courtesy
and good will. Volumes might be written in
favor of this plan of education which is so rap
idly spreading over the land, but at present I
sfiall suffice it to say, that so soon as I return
from Florida. I will punctually attend as fol
lows, for the purpose of enlarging on this in
teresting subject, and calling upon the liberality
of our citizens in support of. the noble enter
prize.
At Haw’kinsville; March 29th and 30th.
At Forsyth, Monroe co. April 19th and 26th,
At Mount Zion, Monroe eo. April 21 si.
At Mathews’ M. 11. Monroe co. April 22d.
At Macon, Bibb co. April 25th.
At Miiledgeville, May 3d and 4th.
At Eatonton, May 10th and 11th.
At Philadelphia, Putnam co. May 13th.
At Monticello, Jasper co. May 17tband iSth.
At Rock Spring, Putiiamco. May 24th&’5th
At Cl iiton, June Ist ami 2d. *
At Irvvinton, Wilkinson co. June 7th and Stb.
At Mount Zion, Twiggs co. June 14th&15tb.
At Thomaston, Upson co. June 21st aud 22d
At Citllodensville. June 28tb and 29tln
At Talbotton, Talbot co. July 12th and 13th.
>\! Columbus, July 19th and 20th.
At La Grange, July 26th and 27th.
The last nppointim X will reach the season
for the Camp Meetings. I shall therefore de=-
fe making further arrangements-for the pres
ent. JOHN HOWARD.
Macon, Feb. 1834. ‘ 43
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Ad m ini stra tor’s S ale.
AGREEABLE to an order of the Inferior
Court, while sitting for ordinary purposes,
will be sold on the first Tuesday in May next,
at the Court-Court, m the town of Thomaston,
between the usual hours of sail, one NEGRO
WOMAN, by the name of Clary, as the proper
ty of Jeremiah Daniel, dec’d., for the benefit of
the Heirs and creditors of said deceased.
THOS. DANIEL, Adm’r.
March 4th 1834. 46
Strayed or Stolen.
From the subscriber,
IJpaliff while on a visit to Thomaston, on
7f> *- *■ 27th Aug. last, n black Horse,.
with a long tail, affected with spavin in the
right hind leg; upon which there is a lump
nearly as large as a hen egg, upon the joint.
The horse had on at the time an excellent sad
dle, a bridle and blanket. He is botween 7 and
and 8 years old. Any person giving informa
tion where the horse may he had, or restoring
him to tne, living in Uf>son county, about 8
miles from Thomaston, on the Flint, er.carSock
well’s Ferry, sha.Vi bq ‘liberally satisfied.
MABTIN W. MURPhEY.
’ Feb. !>4. t 834. 42.