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leged M Van Buren’s popularity is un
bounded, At the election in IS 12, the
majority of the Democratic candidate for
Governor over the \\ hig candidate was
21,934, and over all the elements of op
position, 11,720. At the recent election
t ie aggregate Democratic majorities over
tlic Whig tickets is about 19,000. But
then; are other elements of opposition
not taken into this account —the Native
Americans and Abolitionists. The for
nier polled 8,719 votes in the city of N
York. The Abolitionists in the coun
ties of Madison, Oneida, Monroe, Jet] r
son, and Herkimer, which are all thej-e
--tnrns that have readied us, poll and 4,7 - 8
rotes ; rthd there is little doubt that tin ir
entire vote throughout the Slate is up
ward of 20.000. rhis, united with the
Native American vote, leaves th ' Demo
cracy in a decided minority of b.; popu
lar vote.
Contrast these results in States wh. v. !
(he ill-judged zeal of Mr. \an 15 ;; . s
friends has attempted to fore-i .'1 ; ,
opinion, with those attained by toe De
mocracy of New Jersey and .'dio.rig.m,
where no sucli attempts have b eu mart
* Tlic My&terie* of Tartu.'
We beg leave to caution the public
against this late Novel noticed in our last
oil account of its immoral and Abolition
tendency. We have not yet read it. 1 it
are confirmed in the impression of it im
morality, expressed in our last, by what
we have since heard of it, aiid.se; u of the
comments Oh it; and moreover, a re
spected friend has kindly re fern and us to
“Chapter IV” of “Part 11, p. 01, in
which we find an abominable Abolition
story which eught to exclude il entirely
from the South. This story is lull ot
ridiculous, improbable and impossible
incidents, related as facts, respecting the
outrages and cruelties ol a plant' r m
Florida. As to its impossibility and ut
ter falsity, where is to be found in Flori
da, at a “ residence situated on the border
of the tea, fifteen or twenty leagues from
the nearest city,” such a “dungeon as
that so often mentioned, and winch, from
what is related of it, might well he sup
posed by the people of “Paris,” to 1 e
equal to the worst in their old Bastile. —
False, however, as is this audacious
story, and impossible or improbable the
blasphemous and atrocious circumstances
related, it is well calculated to excite in
the young or inexperienced reader, un
able to detect its falsity, a deep and last
ing horror of our country and its domes
tic institutions. It otight to be excluded
from the South, and we trust those copies
ot the work sent to Columbia and other
Southern cities, will be promptly return
ed, with a caution to the publishers not
to send here again, their Abolition slan
ders. To the Messrs. Harper our feel
ings are most friendly, but tins is not the
first time we have had to complain of
such outrages from them ; and we now
warn them that if they do not desist
from them, we shall feel compelled to
exert ovrselves to the very utmost, to in
duce our people to exclude oil their pub
lications from the South, as the only safe
mode of guarding against such insulting,
and dangerous assaults. They make it
one of she merits of this edition, in Us
competition with others, that it is ‘ it ith
out brigement,' but it would have been
fmt a slight manifestation of gratitue for
what they owe to the South, had they
cut out this infamous portiou of it : wniie
in moral point of view, it would doubt
less have indicated more regard for the
welfare of the country, to have cutout
the whole.
Jmitiens • Telescape.
The New York True Sun gives the
following account ot a I'elcsco; ■ now ::i
course ot construction.
“The Earl of Rosso is a gentleman
greatly addicted to science, and Ins seat
in King’s county, Ireland, about S7 rinfos
from Dublin, is the scene of his active
operations. On the lawn adjacent to the
Castle, there is now standing a retire! »ng
telescope with a speculum <>t three fort
in diameter, and a focal distance of twen
ty seven feet. It was constructed more
than ten years ago, and ever since he has
been attempting one on a larger scale.—-
The first conclusion at which he arrived
was, that the only proper metals for a
speculum are copper and tin, an I lie rxed
the proportions thus ; copper 5c9 to 126
5 tin. Os these lie melted three torn in
three largo cast Iron crucibles, the plans
of his furnaces and the mode ot heating
them were all new. Each crucible was
exposed to an intense heat for niti t; n
hours, when il was lifted from the furn
ace by means of a powerful crane. Al
ter the metal .was cast into tile mould,
which was made of bands oi hoop iron,
edge upwards, it was drawn by a capstan
•into a heated oven and built in, where it
remained for sixteen week?.
Alter it was perfectly anm-nlcd, tlie j
greatest work of all was to grind its sur
face into the parabolic curve. This
curve is one which lias ! .cn found su
perior to all others for the telescopic sp. e
ulum because it reflects more of the- inci
dent rays in the direction oi the focus
than any other kind. Lord Kosse, by a
very ingenious contrivance and the aid
of a steam engine, succeed and in accom
plishing this also, after an incessant po
lishing for six weeks.
The tube into which this speculum is
to be, fitted is 52 feet long, with a diamc- 1
ter of seven feet. The whole will be so
adjusted that it can be moved easily by
one man. The power of the Instrument
will be such, that an object the size of a
house will# l>e distinctly visible in the
moon. The building in which it is to
be placed is already nearly completed,
and we now look forward forsoine splen
did discoveries in astronomy.
Sffi’io
Tie V Y. Tribune says: “Specie is
f . The shipments South are a' out,
#50.000 to #10» 1,000 per week. Mexican
are worth 1-2 to S-R premium : Spa :i h
ft toTpromntrD: five francs 03 aO3 3-4.'
Corrcjpoq&Dce of t'.c Augusta Constitutionalist,
Nov. ‘2Bth.
Milledoevillf., Nov. 21, 1813.
Yesterday in the Senate a resolution
offered by Mr. Reid, of Monroe, was ta
ken up. By this resolution the commit
tee on Finance is instructed to report a
bill authorizing the sale ol the Western
and Atlantic Kail Road. An animated
debate arose, in which Messrs. Sayre,
Miller, Dougherty, Foster, Cone, lb-id,
Mose'y, Bartow, and others participated.
The resolution was agreed to, by yeas
11, na vs 12. If the President of the
Senate'had voted, the vote woultl have
stood yeas 4 1 nays 43. Four Senators
were absent, .Messrs. Anderson of Jack
son, Caste! low of Houston, Davis of
D >o!y, and Sm-liing of Stewart, and two
vacancies. The yeas and nays arc as
follows :
YK VS.—Ashe of Franklin, Bivins of
Marion, Bowen of Irwin, Brewster of
Paulding, Broddus of Jasper, Brown of
l-’avolte,'Bryant of Wayne, Chambers of
| Carr. !!,’ Clvatt of Lowndes, Colley of
I Baker, Collins of Tattnall, Cone of Bul-
I loch, Culbertson of Madison, Dawson of
IDard, Du four of Camden, Dimagnn ol
Hall, Echols of Walton, Goddard of
Jones, Hall of Meriwether, Harrison of
Randolph, Hendrick of Butts, Hunter of
Scrivui, Iverson of Muscogee, Jameson
of Union, Johnson of Ilarly, Johnson ot
Hlbert, Jones of Warren, KingofGreene,
Ligbtsey of Ware, McArthur of Mont
gomery, McCormick of Pulaski, Mere
dith of Wilkinson, Moseley of Henry,
(tshornc of llairfs, Pryor of Pike, Reid
<t' Monroe, Rogers of Telfair, Sims of
Coweta, Spalding of Mclntosh, Swain of
Mmnnuel, Tarver oi Tv iggs, Thompson
of Cherokee, Walker of Crawford, Watt
of ('ampbel!.
NAYS.—Barksdale of Lincoln, Bar
tow’of Chatham, Bates of Newton, Bish
np-of Murray, t 'alter of \\ ilkes, Chastain
of Gilmer, < 'tiny of Decatur, Darueii of
Taliaferro, Dixon of Tallnit, Farris of
W alker, Foster of Morgan, Harrison of
Putnam, Ilaysiip-of .Sumpter, Hines of
Liberty, Jones of Dekalb, Kenan of
Baldwin, Lnwhon of Lee, Mays of Cobb,
McAfee of Lumpkin, Miller of Rich
mond, Mitchell ol Thomas, Phillips of
Habersham, Pyles of Glynn, Powers of
Bibb, Powers of Efiingham, Pittman of
Gwinnett, Reynolds of Burke, Ridley of
Troup, Robinson of Appling, Sayre of
Hancock, Smith of Floyd, Stapleton of
Jefferson, Story of Chattooga, Strickland
of Forsyth, Tafikersley of Columbia,
Traylor of I'pson, Tucker of Laurens,
Turnlin of Cass, Wart hen of Washing
ton, Wynn of Oglethorpe, Wood of Dade,
Young of Macon.
I am aware that this vote is not a test
of the sensogof the Senate in regard to
the prosecution of the road; but to me it
is ominous of the difficulty which -will
have to be surmounted by the friends of
internal improvements, before they can
prevail on the Legislature to appropriate
means for the gradual completion of that
road. With little additional expense, as
compared with what has been already
expended on the road, it can be made
profitable to the people of the State—l
say profitable to the whole people ol' the
State, taken in mass. It was argued, by
those Senators who supported the resolu
tion, that the road, when completed and
in full operation, would not boa source
of revenue to the State, and, therefore,
they were for selling it or discontinuing
it. 1 take the broad ground that the road
should not, on any account, he made a
source of revenue to the State, and that
it should be made profitable so far only
as to pay the necessary expense for re-
pairs, the interest on the money borrowed
for its construction, and tiie gradual ex
tiugnishment of the principal ofthe debt.
This is all that legislators and statesmen
■hould aim at. On the other hand, if
the road is not a source of revenue to
the State, it cannot fail to he of incalcu
lable benefit to the people, individually
and coi actively. When the people of
three-toil rths ofthe State will have a sate
and expeditious mode of conveying their
products to a market, and of bringing
back till tiie commodities and produce of
foreign countries; will they not be ben
etlttcd l Will not their land increase in
value, which is now elmost valueless?
\V til not individmfl wealth accumulate
i;i proportion to the accumulation of pro
duce, and the means of forwarding it to a
market ? If individual wealth increases
by these operations, of what consequence
is it that tiie treasury should remain
empty, or lie supplied with just enough
means too meet the necessary expenses of
Government ? 1 will ask the people of
Georgia, this simple question. Which
lis best: that your public treasury should
I be full, and you, yourselves, miserably
; poor, or that you should be wealthy in
i die productions of your lands, and in the
means el'selling them, and your treasury
filled with enough of money to pay tlie
necessary expenses of the Government?
\\ hen a people are rich, industrious, de
riving wealth from successful agriculture
ami interchange of productions with for
eign countries, can the public treasury
be ever in want of means to defray tlie
cost of Government? The Western and
Atlantic Rail Road was never intended
to be made a source of revenue to the
I Slate. The intention was to facilitate
tlie transportation of produce; and this
proposition to me is so clear and
sive, that, should that road be ever com
pleted, and the income derived from it,
' for freight and passengers, be more than
] what may be required to keep it in repair,
to pay the interest on the principal of tlie
cost, and reduce gradually that principal,
1 would certainly recommend a reduc
tion in the charges for transportation of
produce, until the Income is_merely suffi
cient to meet tlie necessary expenses of
the road when in full operation. By ta
king this view of the important subject
under consideration, 1 shall Ire opposed
to the sale ol tlie road, and to placing it
in the hands of private individuals. Be
ing owned by the State, its operations
will-subservfe the interest of the people,
and it will be managed for that exclusive
pmqiose. If owned by private individu
als, the exclusive and first object will lie
to derive as large benefits as possible,
without consulting the interest, conven
ience, an 1 advantage of those who will
ha'c to use the road lor travelling and
the transportation ol produce and foreign
commodities.
* 1 have extended my remarks further
than I intended at first; I must here stop,
though I have a great deal more to say
upon the subject. I shall have to re
sume it when the committee report a bill
m accordance with the resolution. I
hope, however, jhat a motion of recon
sideration will be made in the Senate this
morning and prevail, and that the reso
lution will lx? rejected if again taken up.
Yesterday, in the Senate, also, the res
olution offered by Mr. Bovvers of Effing
ham, were taken up: that the Peniten
tiary system should be abolished, and
that the Judiciary committee be instruct
ed to report a bill accordingly. The res
olutions were made the order for Satur
day. -
A joint select committe has been ap
pointed, to take into consideration, the
subject of the subscription, by the State,
of $200,000 to the stock of the Monroe
Rail Road Company, as mentioned in
Gov. McDonald’s Message at the open
ing of the session.
The bill to take the census of the State
in 1845 passed the Senate. lam sorry
that the projected amendments were not
offered, and that the statistical informa
tion so much anticipated by me, and so
desirable, will not be obtained. The pro
visions of the bill arc merely to take an
enumeration of the inhabitants, and the
number of deaf and dumb in the State.
Mr. Spalding laid on the table a pre
amble and resolutions on national poli
tici—a national bank, tariff, &c. On
motion to print them the yeas were 30,
nays 44 : so the Senate refused to print
the resolutions. I shall try to get a copy
of them.
1 send for publication a message from
the Governor, transmitting to the House
of Representatives, the information with
in his reach of the debt contracted for
the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, the
money expended on said road, &.c. The
stateriients accompanying this message
give a pretty accurate view of the public
debt, of the interest thereon, and of the
amount of money expended on the State
Rail Road. According to these state
ments, it appears that the whole debt of
the State, for the road, in bonds issued,
and actually in circulation, amounts to
$1,595,385 77. In the general state
ment of the condition oU the Central
Bank, on the 6th of this month, publish
ed already in the Constitutionalist, it ap
pears that the amount of 8 per cent, bonds
issued to that day, is $520,114 60, and
that the amount of notes of the institu
tion, then in circulation, is $673,522.
All these items constitute, with the ex
ception of some small amounts of scrip,
the whole liabilities of the State of Geor
gia.
In the House of Representatives a bill
was rejected by a large majority, givuig
more time to the debtors of the Central
Bank to pay their debts, under certain
conditions.
House also, a bill was passed
for the pardon of Nathaniel Green, con
victed of murder, in Lumpkin county, in
March last. This Green had killed his
own son. In mitigation of the crime it
was alleged that he was mentally imbe
cile, and subject to fits of insanity.
Mili.kdgevii.le, Nov. 25, 1823.
A motion was made in the Senate yes
terday morning to reconsider the vote in
regard to the resolution authorising the
sale of the Western and Atlantic Rail
Road, which had been adopted the day
before. The motion of reconsideration
prevailed, yeas 47, nays 37. It is prob
able that the resolution will not again be
called up.
It is with pleasure 1 have to record the
passage of the Constitutional Bill for re
ducing the number of members of the
Legislature. It passed the Senate yes
terday by yeas 75, nays 10. As I be
lieve that no attempt will be made in the
Senate this morning to reconsider this
vote, and as it has passed the House, the
provisions of this act are now parts of
the Constitution, and the Legislature of
1815 will be constituted in accordance
with this amendment of our organic law.
The bill passed tlie House by yeas 166,
nays 14, and the Senate by yeas 75, nays
10: lam pleased also to record that no
party feeling had any influence in the
adoption of the measure, though such a
feeling may prevail in carrying it out.
It is with equal pleasure I have to
state, that the Senate, yesterday, passed
a bill to repeal the act of 1842, which re
moved all prohibition to the introduction
of slaves in Georgia from other States.
On the passage of this bill the yeas were
50, nays 30.
The Senate took up the bill of the
House for repealing the law, commonly
called the 4 month law, in regard to jus
tices courts, and passed it. yeas 67, nays
16.
The House has passed a bill in regard
to the election of electors of President
and Vice President of the United States.
The bill is entitled to establish regula
tions for such elections without the pres
ence of the legislature, which may not
be in session in 1844. The most im
portant provision of the hill relates to the
manner of filling up any vacancy that
might occur in the electoral college, oth
erwise than by the Legislature. This
power by the bill, is given to the electors
themselves, and in attendance at tlie seat
of Government.
In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Duna
gnn introduced a bill dividing the State
in Senatorial Districts, and designating
the counties entitled to two representa
tives each, according to the constitution
as recently amended. According to this
biil the counties named and designated
as entitled to two representatives each,
are thirty-seven in number, namely, Bibb,
Burke, Clark, Chatham, Coweta, Colum
bia, DcKalb, Elbert, Franklin, Greene,
Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Harris, Han
cock, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Jasper,
Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Muscogee, Mer
iwether, Newton, Oglethorpe, Pike, Put
nam, Richmond, Stewart, Troup, Tal
bot, Upson, Walton, Warren, Washing
ton, and Wilkes. The other fifty-six
counties are entitled to one member each,
which make, in all, 130 members. The
Senatorial Districts are constituted as
follows:
1. Chatham,
2. Effingham and Bullock,
3. Scriven and Emanuel,
4. Burke and Jefferson,
5. Richmond and Columbia,
6. Wilkes and Lincoln,
7. Ilanc'ock and Warren,
8. Oglethorpe and Elbert,
9. Taliaferro and Greene.
10. Madison and Franklin,
11. Hall and Jackson,
12. Habersham an.d Rabun,
13. Lumpkin and Union,
14. Gilmer and Murray,
15. Walker and Dade,
16. Chattooga and Floyd,
17. Cass and Cherokee,
18. Paulding and Cobb,
19. Forsyth and Gwinnett,
20. Walton and Clark.
21. DcKalb and Henry,
22. Newton and Morgan,
23. Butts and Jasper,
24. Putnam and Baldwin,
25. Monroe and Jones,
26. Bibb and Twiggs,
27. Washington and Wilkinson,
28. Laurens and Montgomery,
29. Tattnall and Appling,
30. Bryan and Liberty,
31. Mclntosh and Glynn,
32. Wayne and.Camden,
33. Ware and Lowndes,
34. Telfair and Irwin,
35. Pulaski and Dooly,
36. Houston and Crawford,
37. Upson and Pike,
38. Campbell and Fayette, -
39. Carroll and Heard,
40. Coweta and Meriwether,
41. Muscogee and Marion,
42. Talbot and Macon,
43. Stewart and Sumpter,
44. I! andolph and Lee,
45. Early and Baker,
46. Decatur and Thomas,
47. Harris and Troup.
Many substitutes to this bill will no
doubt be presented.
The General Assembly proceeded yes
terday afternoon to the election of a state
director tor the Bank of the State of Geor
gia. Mr. Rozer was elected.
In the House yesterday the Judiciary
Committee made a report on the organi
sation of the Supreme Court, accompa
nied with a long bill, which was read
the first time. I have my doubts as to
the organization of such a court at this
session.
The bill of the Senate, extending the
charter of the Marine and Fire Insurance
Bank of Savannah, was taken up in the
House, and a debate arose upon it, which
occupied the House until near 6 o’clock
last, evening, when the bill passed by
108, nays 64. A motion may be made
this morning for a reconsideration. Du
ring the debate the whole banking sys
tem was passed in review ; but whether
new facts and new ideas were elicited
during the discussion, is more than I can
say. The banks were unmercifully a
bused, and unreasonably defended, with
out throwing any light in the path of
those who, like myself, wish to see their
way clear of obstructions.
The following are the preamble and
resolutions introduced in the Senate by
Mr. Spalding of Mclntosh, alluded to iu
my last letter:
Whereas, Under the complex form
of Government which we have adopted
for ourselves, many of the attributes of
sovereignty are delegated to the Federal
Government, while others, not delegated,
are reserved to the States, thereby plac
ing the Federal and Stare Governments
in antagonistic positions, and requiring
from each tlie exercise of the utmost vig
ilance : so that the balance of power may
be maintained : so that we may not lapse
into a consolidated republic, on the one
hand, nor yet break into independent re
publics, on tlie other.
And, Whereas, For the attainment of
this great object, it is proper that each of
the high cohtracting partiesshould make
known its griefs, whenever it’feels itself
aggrieved—should protest in measured,
but yet earnest language, whenever it
feels its prerogative encroached upon—
so that the encroaching party may pause
in its career, and the blessings of this un
ion, inherited from our fathers, may be
enjoyed by us, and transmitted to our
posterity. In vic*w of these considera
tions, be it re,solved by the Senate iyid
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia, in General Assembly met:
1. That the article of the Constitution,
which declares that the pouters not dele
gated to the United States by the Con
stitution, nor prohibited to it by the
Stales, are reserved to the States re
spectively, furnishes the only safe rule
for the interpretation of that instrument.
2. That, inasmuch as the Constitution
vests no power in Congress to pass acts
of incorporation for the whole Union, (on
tho contrary, a motion to that effect was
made and lost in the Convention,) it is
therefore manifest that the incorporation
of the United States would be without
any warrant, and a dangerous encroach
ment upon the reserved rights of the
States.
3. That the imposition of protective
Or discriminating duties for the benefit
of particular branches of industry, is only
a specious contrivance by which society
is taxed for tlie benefit es tlie favored in
terests ; a contrivance which violates the
spirit of the Constitution, and which, ad
dressinp itself to the most sordid feelings
of our nature, has a tendency to render
the legislation of Congress sectional ra
ther than national, and which, if pre
served in, will weaken and may perhaps
break assunder the bonds which unite us
as a confederated republic.
4. That we view the attempt to destroy
the veto power of the President, as the
boldest advance towards the establish
ment of a consolidated republic, since the
formation of the* Federal Government,
and that we should consider the passage
of such an amendment, as a virtual abro
gation of the Constitution, and as the
certain prelude’to anarthy and civil
war.
'5. That bis Excellency, the Governor,
is hereby requested to forward copies of
the foregoing resolutions, to both Housos
of the Federal Congress.
The wliigs had a meeting on Thurs
day night, and nominated Gen. D. L.
Clinch, of Camden, as their candidate
for Congress, at the election in January
next. Gen. J. W. A. Sanford is the dem
ocratic candidate. So we have two gen
erals in the field, and we shall see what
system of strategy will be more success
ful.
Millf.doevillf., Nov. 25, 1543.
Not much was done to-day in either
branch of the Legislature--both adjourn
ed at about 12 o’clock to Monday.
In the Senate the resolution respecting
the abolition of Penitentiary punishment
was taken up, but after a short debate it
was laid on the table for the present.
The bill to extend the time for taking
grants for drawers in the land and gold
lotteries of 1821, 1827, and 1832, was
taken up, and after much debate, and
many amendments had been offered, the
bill was referred to the special committee.
In the House the motion to reconsider
the vote of the day lie fore, on the passage
of the bill of the Senate to extend the
oharter of the Marine and Fire Insurance
Bank, produced a protracted debate,
which was animated and interesting.
The motion for reconsideration was re
jected, yens 58, nays 106. So the bill
has passed both Houses.
AyHMsasAisr EDsaaoastjysL
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1813.
0
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
LEIVI WbODBIIKY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JOIIA W. A. *ANFORD,
OP BALDWIN.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
We are requested to state that there
will Ik? a Meeting of the Democratic Par
ty of Bibb, at the Court House, in this
city at 2 o’clock, this afternoon, to choose
a Delegate to represent them in the Dem
ocratic Convention, to be held at Mil
ledgeville next Monday. It is hoped that
the meeting will be generally attended
by our party from town and country.
“Come one, come all.”
Tlic Presentments of Ihe Grand ,'ury.
it is to be regretted that the Jury in
their Presentments, forgot to denounce
the master nuisance, namely, the exist
ence of such a bungling contrivance as
tlie Inferior Court, for tlie administration
of law and justice. The appointment
of a respectable member of the bar, not
over burdened with practice, with a sal
ary of a thousand dollars per annum, and
a clerk at a salary, reasonably apportion
ed to the time and labor expended in his
office, with the assistance of an honest
j ury. won id afford at ri biuial more econom
ical, and more competent and abundantly
more subservient to the distribution of
justice atid the true interests of the coun
try, than tlie present cumbrous relic of
judiciary barbarism, which is with com
mendable propriety, called an Inferior
Court. The Judge being paid for his
services, would be strictly responsible
for his proceedings. This, in all such
cases is an essentially important circum
stance, for every day’s experience shews
that when there is no responsibility, there
is generally proportionate negligence.
As their Honors of the Gram! Jury did
not include the abolition of the Inferior
Court system in their recommendations,
we beg leave to suggest that our fellow
citizens of the county, mindful ol their
own important interests, take the earliest
opportunity to convene at the Court-
House, to consider the subject, and me
monilize the General Assembly now in
session, to take the necessary preliminary
steps, for relieving in due time, the dif
ferent counties from the nuisance of In
ferior Courts, and furnishing a substitute
better adapted to ensure more effectually
the ends of justice, and more consistent
with the intelligence and dignity of the
State. There are, we believe, but few
States in the Union but our own, that
retain this clumsy opprobrium on their
jurisprudence.
They manage these matters better in
the comparatively new State of Alabama.
The Old North State.
We are rejoiced with the evidenc.
that meets us on every hand of ft],
Calhoun’s popularity in that noble
Commonwealth, —every Democratic j„
per we receive from that State gives the
most (indubitable proofs that Mr. c ai .
houn is the first choice of the democra
cy of that State. Preliminary meeting
have been recently held in several of the
counties to choose delegatas to the Stat>
Convention which meets at Raleigh c.i
the 14th instant, to nominate a candidate
for Governor, and appoint two delegates
for the State at large to the National
Convention at Baltimore. Below «- 0
subjoin three resolutions adopted by the
counties of Brunswick and Mecklenburg
Brunswick.
“Resolved , That we recognize j n
John C. Calhoun, the uncompromis
ing defender of the Republican Govern
ment, that with him to steer the ship of
state, we have nothing to fear at home or
abroad, liberal and just in all his views,
asking nothing but what is strictly right
aiui submitting to nothing that is wrong;
with him, low duties, no debt, retrench
ment and economy, would receive their
due influence; we cannot too strongly
press his claims on the convention.”
Mocktrnljiirg.
The Democratic Party of Mecklenburg
and Union counties, having heretofore
expressed publicly their choice of a can
didate, for the Presidency, it is only ne
cessary for us now to say, that our opin
ions and preference on this subject have
undergone no change. Time and free
discussion have tendedonlyto strengthen
our attachment to, and admiration of
JOHfNj C. CALHOUN,and confirmonr
expressed opinion that he is emphatically
the man upon whom the democracy
should rally in 18U for the Presidency
“ Jlesolved, That our first choice for
the Vice Presidency of the United States
is the Hon. LEVI WOODBURY, of
New-Hampshire, the unwavering demo
crat, the profound statesman, and upright
patriot. “CALHOUN and WOOD
BURY” is the ticket of our choice ;—yet,
we pledge ourselves to abide the decision
ol a fairly constituted democratic conven
tion.”
“Old Mecklenburg” already famous as
the birth place of the first declaration of
American Independence, the cradle and
nucleus of revolutionary principles in
old North State.—lt was there that the
first glimmerings of that spirit which
casta halo of light and glory around that
era of our history, Hashed upon the
world. The soldier turns to the iron
cradle of Ajacio with a feeling akin to
idolatory. The Christian feels strength
ened in his faith by a visit to the sanctu
aries of his religion—and the scholar
loves to linger among the fallen glories
ofthe Coliseum an 1 Parthenon; and why
may not the American patriot turn to
Mecklenburg with feelings of reverence
and admiration, —she has shown that
the fires kindled in the hearts of her rc
volutionary.siresf yet burns brightly in
the bosoms of her children, ami that her
sons of ’43, are worthy descendants ot
their gallant and patriotic ancestry—
the men of May 20ih, 1775—she has
further evinced her purity and attach
ment to republican principles and free
government, Ly recommending the good
old republican system of sending dele
gates to the National Convention by dis
tricts.—The democracy ofthe old North
State, standing as they do in close prox
imity with the Virginia Junto, and the
venerable Nestor ofthe Richmond En
quirer are yet pure as the springs of their
own native hills, and fixed and unchang
ing as her mountains. They are yet
uncontaminated by the juglery of the
Albany regency—and will not adopt the
hybrid system of Virginia, in choosing
delegates to the National Convention
Dignified and unobtrusive in her bear
ing, firm and unchanging in her attach
ments-to the great principles of civil li
berty and regulated government. The
old North State will be the last to sur
render her own, or infringe upon the
rights of others. She despises all tricke
ry and marches straight forward to her
ends. Will not her children who have
strayed from the land of their nativity,
render obedience to her voice ? Like the
absent Spartans at the command o'
their country.
O’ConiK'll and Abolition.
It is impossible, to contemplate with-'
out deep regret and the most serious ap
prehension, the ferocious fanaticisms,
that extraordinary man is pursuing 011
the subject of abolition in this country-
Does not O’Connel perceive, do not
those who sympathize with his views,
that his agitating, disorganizing and in
cendiary attempts to involve his country
men in the odium and horror with which
abolition is identified, in half the Union,
and is adapted to place them, their cler
gy and their church, in a position #'
larmingly hostile to the residue of the
population.
It is difficult to say whether CH °n
nell’s policy in this particular, should I |C
most reprobated for its meddling wicked
ness, or contemned for its arrogant ab
surdity.
Want of space, precludes for tne p“
sent, further remarks on this veryg w ' c
subject.