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AMERICAiVJ DETVIOCRAT. Jhe most perfect (.overnment would be that which, emulating directly from tbe People, Governs k^t— Posts least—Dispenses Justice to all. and confers Privileges on None.—CENTEAM. VOL. I.( DR. WM. GREES-EDITOR. An-;Rito DE.fioc it\r PUBLISHED weekly, IN THE REAR OF J. BARNES' BOOKSTORE. j COTTON AVENfI - , MACON, OA. AT TWO SOI.S.Ati'3 TER ANNT7K. KJ- I\ ADVANCE. _CU Kates of Advertising, Ac« One square,*»tf TOO word*. nr lees, in small type, 75 &nts f.r the first isMrtfdt.‘, anJ£o eents fcr each subsequent inser tion. .T >W <> I All Advertisements containihg irmre tlmn 190 and )fes than 200 words, will he charged as two squares. To Yearly Advertisers, a literal <Wducti<»n will he iv.nle. TfU"’ N. II .Sales of LAND v bjr Administrators, Exccuior-s. *>r Guardians, are required, by Taw, to be bold on tbe fifct Tuesday in tlifc month, between tl;e hours' of VO in the fore noon, nod 3 in the afternoon; rft the Court-House in tin; Coun ty in which the property is sitMireJ. Nutioc oftheiw ttius f be yieen in a public Gazette, SIXTY HAYS, previous to the day of sal* n ' Sale3,of W'.HSONA,!. Pdpl'ftitTY, must be adveuisud in che same at uia-r, KOlirf HA YKtprevious to the ilay of _ Notice to Hsbtors ao 1 CieJhqrs of mi Estate, must ,be pub*, Notice that a/tjfkicadnn' ttfll be made (o the Court nfWrdi rnrvi, i»r>rtve tV self LAM), must be [Aiblishcd l OCR \mm ns. Sales «>i NLG HOLS, must be nft&le al public auction, on the first Tuesbty «*i immtli, titxweup the lejjal Iwm* <* „ale, at the place of ptfhfic sale* in ilu* county where the led ters testamentary, of A I minimi rat ion or shall h ive been, gr u.ted, SIXTY |)A VS notice beiug previously given in oac of iMpunpy Uiis Suite, an J at fnedOor of ill*- < Vuiidfu ('. Micro *IA UIM rn t6lt held. Notice Kn Miveto sell NKORtfFCte, mtisf be pubMbhed f«>f FOUR MON If IK, b'feforu any orJtr ahfeulutw fcli;«dl be made 1 thjfoon by the <>l*l. i l ' Ail business of ihis h isuro, will ffcciyo prompt attention. at (Mi ’■; yftiie \ .VEi^CAN EUROCRAT. ( , III M U.. f-“ A INi'trr.uster may en ciasp m mey in a letter tq the publisher of a newispupeth to pay the or a third f>cr*oo. fi'nuk tbp letter, if written by him*H f.'*— A him C3)l.U(iNUJlTl«i.\d'Ai] tb the Editor tfosr F.ud. Georgia Lcgi btiire. From Uie I’eiliral U,iio|i, : A M»t Os such ArU ■ of the legislature of Georgia., ffs had received the sanction of the Governor and Steal of S/dte, vp to December 20///. J. An act to pardon Nathaniel Green of Lmnpkjn county. J. An act to alter .and change Hie 3d and Till sections of the first article of the (ajlistitutipil. 3. All act to repeal an net to a mot id j the sever.*] Judiciary pets now in force m j this Stull', so. lar .vs relates to Justices j Courts, approved December till/ 1811,; so far as to change the lime of holding j justice’s Courts in the Djstrjqts in tho j scvotu! counties.in this State, from once a mouth to once in every tour months j in each year, assented, to 271 h December j IS 12. 4. An act to alter and fix the time of holding the Superior (.'unit of the county | of Muscogee. . 3. An act to repeal nn act to require ] the Sheriff* and Clerks of the comity otb Coweta, to insert their advertisements in | the } üblic Gazette of the town of New- 1 nan, so long ns the p; per shall be con-! tinned in tlm Circuit, assented to on the | 2Sih day of December, 1842. (3. An act to provide for the, compen sation of the Grand Jurors of Lumpkin j county. 7. Ail apt to alter and fix the time of j holding the Inferior Cpuit of the county , of i and ! j ■!i. 5. An act to alter the 3*l section of the j 4th article of the CouStitutnui. of this J State, so far (is. to authorise the Ppopje to | elect tho gepvral Militia officere of this j State. 9. An act to chnngp the names pf, certain persons, and to change the names j and legitimatize qlhgr persons therein 1 named. LAn act to repeal an act to compen sate the Grand and petit Jurors pf the, county of Dooly, asseuted to 22d Dec., I ISKJ. 11. An act to autinSrise the Sheriff; Clerks and Coroner of Fayette comity to advertise all sales oF said comity in any .j one of the Public Gazettes' of friis State. , 12. An apt to authorise Henry 11. , Waters to erect a mill dam on his own lands, across the lftowa, or Hightower river. 1-1. An act to establish, abolish, move, j and revive option hi-pcincf* in certain . counties them-.n ntim/wd, and to regulate the sa;,,e. 11. /Vu apt to alter rpid change the times, of holding the. Spring term of die Inferior Court of Clark comity, and the . holding the terms of the Superior Court of Macon’ comity. 15. An Uet Tor the relief of the Sheriffs, ; (loroners. Constables! find other officers of the State ofOporgit). 16. An act to. tegulate the Hcction and ! pay of county Treasure! so! the comities j of Bib!) and and to reader inuhgi , hie any of the Justjces of the Inferior Court of said counties to said appoint ment. 17. An act to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Oonrt of Troup county, to sell nrtd dispose of a lot of land in the tOHnh of Lagrange, containing one half acre, more or'less. I A IS. authorise the Sheriffs of Gwinnett county to advertise their sales in someone of the public newspapers published at Milledgeyille or in Athens. l'.l An act to repeal all laws requiring the State of Georgia to [ ay expenses in BE2tffOCHATIC BANNER TREE TRADE; EOW DUTIES; NO DEBT; SEPARATION PROM BANKS; ECONOMY; RETRENOHMSNT• AND A STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION.— J. C. C.l. tIOI.V, curred on account of Small Pox and I ether pestilential diseases, and to require j the GoAcrnor to procure vaccine matter. 20. An act to add an additional section I to the sixth division of the. Penal Code of this State. 21. An act to authorise the Judges of the Inferior Court of Lowndes county, to employ some fit and proper person to transcribe so much of the Records of the Superior Court of said county, as in their judgment they may deem.necessary. 22. An act. to extend the charter of the Mar nc and Fire Insurance Bunk, of the State of Georgia, and (o continue the rights granted by existing acts to said Bank. 23. An net to repeal nn act, to compen sate Grand and Petit Jurors, assented to 23d December, 1837, so fur as relates to .tliy county y'f filyuu, 2b An ,net to 'authorise tire -plaintiff, in .all cases, of arrest under a enpiqs ad .satisfaciendum todiseharge fiiedefeudant from imprisonment, and for Iris property infill to be found for the debt. 2f>. An apt to amend the road laws of this State,.so jar as relates to the/county o f Etliugham. 2fi. An act to authorise,the President, Directors and copipajiy of the Bank of Augusta, to reduce the enpitai of said | Bank. <j 27. An net to repeal so much of nn act, j assented to on thy 23d December, 1837, so far as. relates to, tlje county of Lee, as regards the payment of Grand and Petit jurors. .28. An act to repeal an act, assented to December, 9, Is4l, and to repeal an act, assented to Dec. 23d 1842, relative to the Road laws, go far as respects the county of Bryan, 20. An act to repeal and amend seve ral acts, re'ntive to education and poor schools in Bryan county. 30. An act to relieve the estate of the late l-jhennzer Rees’, of Mclntosh county, i from double tax, and for other, purposes. 31. An act for the relief of William i Root. 32. An act to repeal the several acts j heretofore passed for thp purpose of con- j solidoting the offices of Receivers and , Collectors, of Taxes in the counties of! 'Prou [>, Effingham, Mclntosh, Telfair, Seriven and Appling. 33. An act to define die office of Clerk of lands Courts, so far, as respects the - county of Bryan. 34. Am act to change the name of fho , Bank of Hawkinsvilie. 35. An act to alter,and fix the time of hplqing file Inferior courts of the county of Decatur, 36. An act to amend the 12th Section of an act, entitled an act to revise and amend tjie Judiciary system of this State, approved, February 16th 1799. 37. An,act to repeal an act, passed 27th dayof December, 1838, consolidating the office of Tax Collector and Receiver of the tax returns of the counties of Forsyth Carroll, Madison, Habersham and Ware, so lhr as relates to the county of Forsyth. 3S. An act to repeal all laws and parts ofilaws compensating Grand, and Petit Jurors for the counties of Franklin,Paul diug and Cobh. 39. An act for the relief of Jesse Har rell. Jesse P. Harrell and. David Harrell, securities) of John . Harrell, on penal bonds. , , . 40. An act to lepeql mi net consolidat ing the offices of Tax Collector and Re ceiver in several counties, so far as re spects the.county of W ilkes, passed Dec. 9, is 39. 41. At) Agt to inqpupornte a, iVcslyan Female Cffiljege, to 1/e located in the city ol'.Waei-ii. Cff f agin. 42. An act to.ametffi an act to provide for the election of a public printer. &c. 43. An act to repeal an act to extend the time for fortunate drawers, to take out grants, &c., and extend the time for grantiugiffie same. . ~ ■ 44. An net to alter an act, assented tq Dec. 19, 4821, to authorise Justices of tbe Inferior courts in the several counties in this State, to levy extraordinary taxes for COiViViy purposes, so far as relates to i’ne county of Crawford, and an act n.- mcnchtory I hereof 4*5. An act to a\Vi9fi(? the 3d and 33d rules of Vtii h6l relative to rhe Govern ment of the Penitentiary, assented to 23d December ,1840, and to repeal all laws prohibiting job work ip the Penitentiary. 46. An act to incorporate a volunteer company of Infantry m the county of Clark, ■'to be called the “ Watkiiisville Independent Blues,” and for other pur poses. 47. An net to authorise further pro-, gross oil the work of flic Western and j Atlantic Rail Road, and for other pur poses therein specified. 48. An act to incorporate the Baptist 'Church ill the county of Randolph, un der the same and style of Benevolence. 49. An adt to amend the several laws now in force in relation to free persons of color, and to exhdnemte and discharge certainftee persons of color fromnll pains penalties and forfeitures heretofore in enrred, and to which they are subject and liable. 50. Au act to incorporate the Entonton Camp Ground of the county of Putnam, an 1 appoint Trustees for the same. JIACON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1844. 51. An act to incorporate the Savan nah Port Society. 52. An act to repeal the first section of an act assented to 24th December, 1830, to authorise Aikins to establish a Ferry across Tugaloo river on his own land. 53. An act to repeal the several acts establishing election precincts in the county of Irwin, so far as relates to elec tions being held at the house of Thomas Gibbs, Reuben Gay, William Tussell, Howell’s store and Munassar Hendersons in said county. 54. An act to guard estates of deceased persons from the liability to pay double taxes. 55. An act to incorporate certain Churches and Camp Grounds therein named, aud to appoint Trustees for tho sumo. i 56. An art to repeal the third section of an act to authorise the Justices of the inferior courts 0f thecounliesof Wilk’u’n * and Floyd to Ipvy an extra lux for coun ty purposes, assented to 19th December. 1840. j 57. An act to authorise the Justices of j the Inferior court of Ware county, to i levy and collect an’ extra fax for th’c ex | press purpose of building a Court house j in said county, &,c. 58, Ail act to change the name of ; Mary Tompkins to that of Mary’Hunt, Ac. j 59- An act to alter and amend nn net to incOrporatethe Congregational Church J at Jonesville, in Mclntosh county, and to appoint Trustees lor the same ; and to incorporate Central Methodist Camp Ground in the county of Habersham, and to appoint Trustees for the same. GO. An act to repeal an act to consoli date the office of the Clerk of the Inferior Cou rt, apd the office of the county Trea surer in the county of Monroe, assented to 25tli Dec., 1837. 61. An act to exempt the Trustees of the Inferior courts from the duty of work ing on Roads, so far as relates to the I county of Troup. 62. An act to point o*ut and define the duties of Commissioners of the Poor School fund, so far as relates to the coun ty of Marion. 63. An act to repeal an act, assented to Bth December 1842, to alter the law in relatiou to drawing, summoning and ■ cnipanueling Petit Jurors, so far as re lates to the county of Montgomery. 64. An act to authorise the Treasurer of the Poor School of the county of Wayne, to pay Frauris Harrison and other teachers, who taught school in the 1 year IS 11, uuler the act of common school/ 65. An net to repeal an act, entitled 1 an act, to repeal all jaws prohibiting the free introduction of slaves in'.o this State, assented to Dec. 27, 1,842. G(j. An act to prohibit certain persons from pleading and practicing law in cer tain ca^es. 67. An act to repeal an act, so com pensate thr* Grand and petit Jurors in the county of Montgomery, assented to Dec. 1 10th, 1841. 68. An act to authorise further pro- 1 i gross upon the work of the Western and Atlantic Rail Rond, mid for other pur poses therein specified, aud to provide for a sale of said road, and, for the employ meat of certain convicts thereon. 69. An act to compensate Jame 6 I. Daniel, for property destrpyed by the Indians. Ac. I 76. An act to fund a part of the debt, j and to creatipa sinking fund for the pay ment thereof,; and to provide for the /change and reuewal of certain bonds find | coupons. 73. An act to authorise certain per sons therein, named, to plead and practice law in the several Courts in this State, &c. 72. An act to amend an act, passed in IS3B, incorporating the town of Spring i field, in Effingham county, &c. 73. An act to authorise the trustees of the Masonic Hall, in the city of Millodg ville, or a. majority of them, to borrow | money. 74. An act to change the time of hold ing the Superior Courts of the counties I of Crawford, Upson, Hike, and Monroe, i in the Flint Circuit, and to authorise the drawing of Grand ami Petit Jurors for ‘ kaid counties, and in the counties of ■ Newton and Henry respectively, and to authorise the Justices of the Interior Courts of said counties to draw Jurors hereafter. 1 75. An act to authorise William Mil ! ler, to erect a Bridge ncross Spring Creek on his own land, in the county of iKca -1 tur. s 76. An net amendatory of the net pro viding for tho publication of the Bank Reports. 77. An act to repeal the 2d .section of nn act, to extend the time for the comple tion of the Central Kail Road, between Savannah and Macon, &c., assumed to on rhe 11th Dec., 1841. 78. An act to tux kcepets of Billiard Tables. 7'. An act to amend nn act, to au thorise the Surveyor General, to issue Grants to certain lots of land therein specified, to certain persons therein men tioned. 80. An act to authorise the Governor, to draw his warrant on any funds not otherwise appropriated for the benefit of the poor school fund ofCass county. 81. An net to add the residence of John of Henry county, to the comity of Newton, and to change the residence of certain persons therein named. 82. Art act to amend an act to exempt from levy and sale certainpropcrtvthere in liiehtioped, assented to 11th Decem ber 1841, hud to exempt certain properly from levy under attachment. 83. An net to amend tbe first section of the third article of the Constitution of this State. 84. An act to authorise the Commis sioners of tire Poor School fund of the county of Heard to pay Peyten Lane, for teaching poor children, and for tliq relief of John E. Jones of Morgan coun ty. 85. An act to authorise the Justices of the Inferior court of Richmond county to have the district lines re.surveyed— to fix tho compensation of certain magis trates, and to grant certain privileges to nil Engine company in Augusta. 86. An net to amend ml act to compel tbe &Verfd Banks of this State to redeem their liabilities in specie, &c. mid several amendatory acts thereto. 87. An act to authorise the recovery by latv of open accounts in favor of cer tain classes of persons therein named, npi'll the same proof which is now allow ed by the laws of this- State in favor of ! tradesmen and merchanfs -88. An act to repeal an act so add Levi Phillips of Campbell county to the coun ty of Houston, assented to 10th' Decem ber, 1841, and to change the residence of certain' persons therein named. 89. An act to repcal an act to incorpor ate certain Academics therein named, to appoint trustees and confer certain pow ers on the same. 90. An act to enable phrtics, plaintiffs, to dismiss their suits in any oftltc Courts in this State, in vacation Soc. 91. An act to change theline between Cass and Floyd so as to add lot No. 210, 16th district 3d section, of the county of Cass, to the county of Floyd, and for other purpose?. 92. An act to amend an act, to incor porate file Eljqjay Turnpike Company, and to grant certain privileges to the same, and to .allow the company further time tor the completion of the said work. 93. An act for the relief of Thomas J. Smith, Jesse Loyal and others therein | named. 94. An act to alter arid fix the time of j holding the Court of ordinary and Land Courts in the several counties in this- State,.from the first to the second Mon days in January. 95. An net to repeal a part of the first section of the act passed on the 12th of December, 1804, so amefid an act to carry into effect, the 6th section of the .til ar ! tide of the constitution, relative to the 1 distribution of intestate estates, Ac., and ' to insert another proviso in lien of the re i pealed. j 96. An act for the- relief of Sntrtuel ' Jackson, late TaxCollecter of the county of Chattooga. 97. Art act to provide for taking the Census of the State of Georgia. 98. An .act to alter and amend the Slst section of ah act, to appropriate money for the support of govern men t for the po litical year 1843. 99. An act to repeal an net, to com - pensate one Justice of the IV/too, for ce.r --! l ying up the returns from the several pfe : 1 eiuct elections in the County of DeKalb, ; assented to 24th December, 183& [ 106. An act to change the names of J certain persons, and to render them legi timate and capable of inheriting. 161. An act to authorise certain citi zens of Crawford county, to keep a Ferry across Flint river. I 162. An act to levy aud collect a tax, | for each of tho political years 1814 and 1813. 163. An act to define ami determine, What stage of a suit at law, shall be re ! garded the commencement of action. 164. An act to amend an act, to pre -1 scril»e ihe mode of choosing the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States,passed December, 18. 4824. 165. An act to authorise Henry IJ. W aters to receive toll nt his Ferry, on the Etowah river, and William A. Cnnr, l to establish a Ferry on the < tcklockuey river, and to establish several other*fer ries therein mentioned. 166. An act to amend an act, to define th 4 liabilities fvi tho several Rail Roads in this State; in relation tostock killed, iStc., assented to 23d December, 1846. 167. An act appropriating mojoey for the Support of government, for the polit ical years 1844 and 1843. 108. Ah act to authorise a grant to is sue to Gabriel Finch of Frawkjin coun ty, and to refuud to B. 8- Jordan of Bald win county, the fees |>njd by hnu for n grant, aud for other purpose?. 109. An act to incorporate the Lowndes founty Hussars, with,exemptions therein mentioned. 110. An act to authorise the Justices of the Inferior court of Glynn, to levy a tax iti the town of Brunswick, to pay debts of the Mayor and Council of said town. 111. An act to incorporate the town of Mnrthasviile, in the county of DeKalb, and for other purposes. 112. An act to incorporate the Meri wether comity vo.'imtecrs, aud Morgan Rifles, and to furnish arms to sundry Volunteer corps. 113. A" act to establish nn additional electiop precinct, at the store-house of Jones, in the comity of Coweta, and to remove another from the house of Allen Summers in Newton county. 114. An act to authorise the justices of the Itiferior Court of DeKalb countv, to levy an extra tax for certain purposes therein mentioned. 115. An act to authorise the several persons therein named, to plead and practice taw in Hie several Courtsdn this State, and to define their liabilities. 116. An act to incorporate certain Academies therein nana and, and appoint Trustees for fiie same. 117. An act. for tlie relief of Wyatt Merideih, of Wilkin.%on county. 118. An act to authorise. Hie Surveyor General to issue a grant to Timothy B. Kingsbury, and the heirs of Mary Ann. 1 19. An act to alter and amend the Penal Code of this State, so thr as .relates to the sentence of persons convicted of often subjecting them to lknitcutinry imprisonment. . 120. All act to lay cut and assign a parade ground, for tire-several Volunteer companies in the city of Macon. 121. /An act for the relief mid l/encfit of the Chief Engineer and Fire Masters of the city of Macuti. 122 An act for the relief of Gideon G. Norman, Tax Collector for the county of Wilkes, . , 123. Ail act to carry into etlect the al ternations, and amendments at this ses sion o( the General Assembly, in and to the 3d and 7th sections ot ihe first article of the constitution of this ,State. 124. An act to jay olf and divide the State into eight Congressional Districts, and to point out tire mode of electing members to Congress in each District, and to provide against illegal .voting. A mcrican Democracy. BY- T.oftn BTtOrGHAM. It is impossible to close the page of history which records the foundation of the Grca,t RepiH/lic,'without adverting to j the siip-'i’ar change that seems of late i years to have come over some friends of liberty in this country, inclining them against the popular institutions which j that system consecrates, and upon which j it reposes. Writers of ability, but scan- j lily endowed with candor, observers of] moderate circumspection, men luboring under the prejudices of European sooie- i ty, and viewing the social system of the i New World through the medium of hab- j its and associations peculiar to that of the i Old, have brought back for our informa- 1 tion a number of details, fw-whidi they needed hardly to cross the Atlantic, and i have given up as discoveries a relation j of matters necessarily existing under a | very popular government, arid in a very i new community. As those travellers, had pretty generally failed to make nia- i nv converts among the friends of free in- j stittitinns. either in Fiance or in Eng land, there would have been little harm i done to the cause of truth, and no great i interruption given to the friendly re!a-, turns which the highest interests of both countries require should he maintained : unbroken between them. But unhappi ly some persons of a superior class’ap- pear, from party or from personal feel- • ings, to have, without due reflection* on j the mischief they were doing suffered | iheir minds to he poisoned by ihe same prejudices ; and, a single indiscretion j having suffered their private letters, writ ten under the influence of such prepos- j sessions, to sec the light, it becomes eve- , rv one, whose genera! opinions coincide j with those of the individuals in question, ( to protest against the inference that such , sentiments are shared by Ihe Liberal par ty in England. This becomes the more ; necessary, in consequence of the fenden- f cv which the most reprehensible conduct of some of the States in the Fmonto-j wards their public creditors has to pre pare the wav for the reception of such ■ unsound opinions; opinions which, if! left to themselves, would probably soon \ sink into oblivion, bow respectable soev- 1 er the quarters which they may, without I duo reflection, have been suffered to ! reach. I allude more particularly to! some letters lately published of Lord Sy- ; den ham, written confidentially to his late j colleague.?, while he was acting under; them as Governor General of British .North America —letters, the publication ! of which, lias to me, who knew their 1 writer, and respected his gencrallyyound principles, heap a subject of much regret, which lie appears to have written in a moment of some irritation, hut which would do serious injury to the good un derstanding that happily has been resto red between the two nations, if they were supposed to speak the sense of those among as \yfio are most friendly to Amer ica. j,, . - , * A great deal of vague and general i abuse may be passed over, us that the Americans “ are a calculating people, and fight not for glory but plunder”— “ such a set of brugadocios, that their \ NO. 33. public men must submit to die claims of their extravagant vanity and self-suffi ciency”—that there is among them a “general debasementthat those who aim at place are corrupt and corrupters, arid the masses who bestow preferment are ignorant, prejudiced, dishonest, apd utterly immoral.” I fear me most if not all of .those railing might be retorted up on a certain nation whose wars in China have been warmly eulogized by l.o:d Sydenham in another letter, though he is greatly scandalized that all the g’ory of his friends is not likely to prevent their seats “slipping from under them a nation whose general elections have of late years been found a scene of the most batefu) corruption, although we should be guilty of a most gross and un pardonable exaggeration, wore we on this account to stigmatize the whole peo ple, as “utterly immoral !” in the terms rasfily applied to his neighbors by the Canadian Coventor. But tiic chargeswhich he allows him self to lay, and which his relatives have thought it riglit to publish, are more spe cific. “ Tire Government sedms to mo the worst of tyrannies, that of tbe mob' supported by tlu* most profligate corrup tion. Np rtyiQ who aims at power dare avow an opinion of his own ; he must pander to .the lowest prejudices of the people, and in theirparties (the two great ones which now divide the Union, the I.pco fiocosapd Hie VVhigsj.the only sub ject of the leading men of either is to in- I stil some tv retched ly low sentiment into I the people, and then explode it for their own advantage. There is scarcely a statesman ot either who would not adopt the most violent or the basest doctrine, however, if he thought that lie could work it to advantage with the majority— peculation and jobbing are the only ob jects ; delusion, aud the basest flattery of Iho people, the means.” “ If,” adds this discreet statesman, “they drive us into war, the blacks in the Suith will soon settle all that part of the Union ; and in the North I led sure that we can lick them to their hearts’ content.” ‘A Re public could answer in former times in countries where there was no people, or few; "the bulk of the population Helots and slaves ; but where there is a people, and they have the power, government is only possible by pandering to their worst passions, which makes the country un bearable to a man of any education, and the Central Government itself n byword amongst civilized nations. I hope (he concludes, perhaps consistently enough) that we may live long enough "to see this great bubble hurst ; and I do not believe that we need be very long-lived for that” (31G.) I am sorry to be under the necessity of declaring that one is at a loss whether most to marvel at the total want’of com mon reflection, or the extraordinary want of common information, in this pas sage—the production of n man in high office, addressed to a tniui still higher, and u ho presumes, without any delibera tion, and with no knowledge of the cub ject, to pronounce so sweeping a Censure upon tho whole body of a great nation, nil their statesmen, and all their institu tions. It is fit that tho Americans sh&ukl well understand that these are the errors and this the rashness of the late Govern or General of Canada, and not shared by the Libera! party, or by any but the most ignorant and the ruo-t prejudiced in this country. First of at), Lord Sydctibam is no au thority on the subject of the United States, merely because he was Governor of Canada, and never in the Union at all. Had, ho remained in London lie would have been as..well qualified to judge of those States, as liis living nc/ir them lor two years could make him; nay, a great ileal better; for his residence in Canada, without giving him one title more of in formation, had the manifest tendency to fill his mind with Canadian prejudices; and Hk'pc views seem to gain a still greater ascendant over him by the dis putes of a border Mature, iq which he was involved. 1 should, during the sep nration of England and Scotland, before the seventeenth century,• never have looked fothe Warden of the West March es for a candid account of the people ors the Scotch border when he lived at Car lisle. But, had tho-Warden directed his hostile operations from York or from Lincoln, 1 should have believed him just as ignorant as if he had lived in London, and a very great deal more prejudiced. Next, let us observe bow little the Gov ernor General had studied constitutions when he assumes the office of deciding on their comparative merits. It would not be easy to crowd more manifest er rors'into one sentence than are fonud in the few lines about ancient republics.— M.Viy tilings respecting those systems are obscurely known, and are therefore the sulyect of controversy ; but no one ever effected to doubt of the matters on which this strange sentence errs, and errs dogmatically. Sparta is of course alluded to by the mention of Helots'; but Spdrta Was not a republican ; it was art aristocratic government. Then Athens, which was a republic, so far from pro ving such a government “could answer,” is precisely the example always resorted to in order to prove what Lord Svden>