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name and seal, slicing and being sued,
«fcc.) shall not extend beyond the period
of 14 years, though they are renewable.
APPROPRIATIONS.
For the Governorand other officers of
tho State, the salaries fixed by law;
members and olficers of the General As
sembly, the compensation we have al
ready published ; Contingent fund, $ 15,-
ttt*t) tor arrearages, and $20,000 for each
of the years 1844 and 1815; Printing
fund. SIB,OOO for 1844. and $5,000 for
1815: Military fund, $6,000 for arrear
ages and for 1811, and $3,000 for 1815 ;
For the Penitentiary, $50,000, viz : $32,-
Oootwo years; Ludatic Asylum, $4,000
for two years; to James L. Daniel, for
Indian spoliations at Roanoke, about
$1,600; with sundry oilier appropria
tions for attorneys’ fees, &c. An appro
priation of IS3S in bonds to the State
Hoad, suspended by tho act of 1841, is
revived by the repeal of said net—the
unexpenffixl balance of which is about
$276,000.
TAXES.
The tax act of 1812 is continued in
force for the next two years. A separate
act imposes a tax of $26 on every billiard
table kept for public use. The act of
T 512 amendatory of the act of 1840, im
posing additional duties on tax collec
tors and the comptroller General, relative
t > lands returned by individuals in other
counties than that of their residence, is
r ‘pealed.
FINANCE.
All payments from the treasury, are
directed to be made in specie or its equi
valent ; for which purpose the Governor
is authorized to borrow $150,000, at 7
per cent, interest payable semi-annually
in New York. Am equal amount of
Ce itral Rank bills to be withdrawn from
-the treasury and burned.
The Treasurer is directed to submit to
•each session of the General Assembly,
detailed estimates of the probable receipts
•and expenditures, the probable sources
of revenue, Ac., and to suggest new items
oi taxation in caseol aprubabledeficicncy.
lie is to report also tho amount of public
debt, with its interest, paid and unpaid ;
-and also quarterly reports to the Govern
or, of all receipts into the treasury.—
-Committees are to le appointed by the
Governor, in the years in which the le
gislature does not sit, to examine the
Mate of the treasury, the public debt, Ac.
The Comptroller General is to audit
quarterly the accounts of the Engineer of
the State Road, and report to tire Gov
ernor. All unexpended balances of
general appropriations are to revert and
l>e imerged in the treasury, after the ex
piration of six months from the end of
the political year lor which they are
made. Ail the stocks belonging to the
treasury are set apart lor the payment of
the public debt, to !>c disposed of by the
•Governor as the interest of the State may
require. Coupons lor interest may be
endorsed by the Treasurer, mid thereaf
ter paid without the exhibition of the
iMiids to which they belong; and the
Governor may order the payment of
•Coupons thus endorsed to be made in
Savannah or Augusta, for convenience
of public enditors, when it can lx June
without detriment to the public interests.
Public Debt. —The Govemot is au
thorized to fund the delit to Iteni, Irving
Ri Cos., and provision is made fiv its reg
ular annual reduction. He is also au
tlioriz -d to substitMe bonds payable in
the State for 6 per ceoL funds elsewhere
payable, upon such terms us he may
deem advisable. Provision is made for
renewing mutilated bends and coupons,
r»ud establishing copies -of such as may
be lost.
REVERTED 3. \N»S.
Tin acl of 1312 is repealed, the time
for taking out grants extended to Ist Oc
tober, IS 11, and provision made for the
disposition of suck lands as revert to the
Stale—for which see the act itself iu this
{paper.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. ROAD.
Tile net of ISO, suspending opera
tions Ac. is repealed, which revives the
vinexpeaded balance of lormer nppropri
*ions P»r the work, (about $270,(KK).)
The work is to progress gradually and
economically, first t.» the point where
the Rome Ixnuch is to unite. When
•either of the branch roads, the Monroe or
IJcorgi,-e shall reach the South Eastern
terminus, the road is to be equiped with
ears dec. to the extent that its business
and the public interest may require. In
The mean time, the road is to be offered
lor sale, at a sum not less than $1,000,-
000, with the addition of whatever surn
may he expended on it from this time to
the sale i and whenever this sum can
be obtained, fill further expenditures on
the part ot the State are to cease, and the
Governor to make the sale on such terms
«s he may deem advantageous as to the
State, lie is authorized, in the farther
progress of the Penitentiary employ such
of the convicts as can be so emyloyed
ra conformity to their sentences.
EDUCATION OF THE POOR,
A beneficieut system for this laudable
object i3 provided by an act, in another
•column, to which wc refer the reander
ior details.
CONGRKS3IOXAI. DISTRICTS.
Elections for members of Congress are
hereafter to be made by districts (the ar
rangement of which, we have already
published.] Should the members elec
I'd by general ticket to tire present Con
gress, be declared by that body not to be
entitled to their seats, anew election is to
be ordered under, the district system.—
Voting out of the district in which an
individual resides, is declared a misde
meanor, punishable by fine not less than
$1(10, nor more thau SSOO, at the discre
tion of the Courts.
ELECTIONS OF GENERALS.
By. the amended constitution, these
officers are made elective by the people.
I'pou ills occurrence of a vacancy, the
Commander-in-Chief shall issue orders
to Commanders of Regiment, for an elec
tions to be made by the persons liable to
do militia duty. Elections to be held at
the several precincts, and returns made
to the Governor, who shall make procla
mation of tho officer elected, and issne
his commission.
ELECTOKS OF PRESIDENT AND
VICE PRESIDENT.
To accommodate this election to the
system of biennial sessions,it is provided
that a majority of the Electors shall have
authority to fill vacancies in their own
boJv, whether created by failure of the
people to elect the lull number by a ma
jority of their votes, or by the absence of
one or more of those so selected. In the
event of the people not electing by a ma
jority ol their votes, a majority of the
number to which the State is entitled, or
i» the event of a majority not attending
at the seat ot Government, at the n;>-
pointed lime, the Governor is directed to
convene the Genera! Assembly in extra
session, to fill vacancies.
CLOSING OF POLLS.
The time of closing the polls in elec
tions at the several precincts in this State
is changed from 6 o’clock, P. M. to 5
o’clock, P. M.
CENSUS.
Provision is made for taking the Cen
sus ot the State, in compliance with the
requirements of the Constitution, in the
year 1843. As the details are of little in
terest to the render, and the time yet far
in prospective, we omit the particulars.
SMALL POX.
All laws requiring the expenses incur
red in cases of small pox and other pes
tilential diseases, to he paid by the State,
are repealed. The Governor is directed
to procure at public expense, supplies of
vaccine matter forgratnitous use.
STATE HOUSE OFFICERS.
Certain specificduties of the Treasurer
and Comptroller have been alluded to in
the item of “ Finance.” Bonds are to
lie required of the several olficers in the
following amounts: Treasurer, S2OO
- Comptroller, $20,000; Secretary
of State and Surveyor, General. SIO,OOO
each.
PENITENTIARY.
The System is continued, and the
present location retained. The appro
priation for its benefit, the change ot sen
tences, and the disposition of certain con
victs on the Stale Hoad, have been men
tioned. Its police is amended, and the
law forbidding job-work, repealed.
BANKS.
Central Ilcuik.-~ The Governor is
authorized to reduce the number of of
ficers, and to lix the salary of those re
tained.
The Charter of the Marine & Fire In
surance Rank, Savannah, is extended 20
years. The Rank of Augusta is author
ized to reduce its stock to not less than
$600,000; the Georgia Railroad &
Ranking Company to purchase its own
stock anr’i thus reduce its capital not be
low $2,000,000; the Georgia Insurance
cfc Trust Company, to reduce its capital
to not less than $300,800 ; the name of
the Rr.n'v of Hawkinsvilta is changed to
1 h»5 Merchants’ Rank of Macon.”
Certain Ranks in Augusta are relieved
fro'n Executions nJfoint them for taxes
paid to a former treasurer of the State,
and not placed to their credit. Certain
assignments made by Ranksin Columbus
are confirmed. The several Ranks ot
the State are required to publish their
semi annual reports at their own ex
pense.
EXPENSE OF THE STATE.
The expenses of the late session n
mounted in the aggregate, to $67,954 76
—which is between $16,000 and $17,-
000 less than that of 1842.
Slate Senatorial Districts,
As passed by bulk Houses of the Legislature.
1-5 Putnam and Jones
iti Monroe and Pike
27 Crawford and Upson
28 Meriwether & Coweta
29 Troup and Heard
30 Carroll and Campbell
31 Fayette and Henry
32 Butts and Jasper
33 Newton and Walton
34 Morgan and Greene
35 Wilkes and Lincoln
3G Elbert ami Franklin
3 1 Oglethorpe & Madison
38 Clark and Jackson
39 Gwinnett and DeKalb
10 Paulding and Cass
11 Cobb and Cherokee
12 Forsyth and Hall
13 Habersham and Rabun
11 Lumpkin and Union
15 Gilmer and Alurray
4o Walker and Dade
ti Floyd and Chattooga.
1 Chatham
2 Bryan and Liberty
3 Mclntosh and Glynr*
4 Wayne and Camden
5 Ware and Lowndes
6 A ppling&Montgomcry
i 7 Tatnall ami Bulloch
| 8 Effingham & Scriven
j 9 Burke and Emanuel
I 10 Laurens & Wilkinson
j II Telfair and Irwin
12 Decatur and Thomas
13 Baker and Early
14 Runduljih & Stewart
15 Lee and Sumter
10 Muscogee and Harris
17 Houston and Alaeon
IS Talbot and .Marion
19 Pulaski and Dooly
20 Twiggs and Bibb
21 Washingt’n&Jeflerson
22 Richmond & Columbia
23 Warren & Taliaferro
24 Hancock and Baldwin
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS,
As passed by the Legislature. The fig
ures at ihe bottom of each, shows the pa'r
ty majorities at the last election for Gov
ernor.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Camden Glynn Wayne
Mclntosh Liberty Bryan
Chatham Effingham Bulloch
Montgomery Tatnall Appling
Ware Laurens Emanuel
Lowndes Telfair Thomas
Whig majority, 960.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Houston Decatur Early
Baker Ijee Randolph
Stewart Sumter Dooly
Muscogee Marion Macon
Irwin Pulaski
Dem. majority, 194.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Harris Talbot Crawford
Twiggs Upson Monroe
Bibb Pike
Whig majority, 857.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Troup Meriwether Heard
Coweta Fayette Campbell
Carroll Henry Newtcn
Whig majority, 531.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Dade Walker Chattooga
Floyd Cass Paulding
Murray Gilmer Cherokee
Cobb DeKalb Gwinnett
Forsyth.
Dem. majority, 820.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Union Lumpkin Hab’rsh’m
Rabun Franklin Hall
Jackson Madison Elbert
Clark Walton
Dein. majority, 751.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Morgan Greene Taliaferro
Putnam Jasper Butts
Jones Baldwin Wilkinson
Oglethor|>e
Whig majority. 1,403
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Wilkes Lincoln Columbia
Richmond Burke Scriven
Jefferson Warren Hancock
Washington.
Whig majority, 1.472.
& Di¥:c}sUiß JUL,
Fr>m the Mercury.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.
The Senate did not sit to-day. The
House was engaged during the morning
hour on the subject of the report of the
Select Committee—the question being
the motion of Mr. Black to amend the
proposition of Mr. Dromgoole to re-com
mit the report by adding 44 with instruc
tions to restore the 21st rule.” Mr. Dun
can was entitled to the fioor, and though
he did not go so far as some others who
had preceded him, still he advocated the
re[)ort, and contended with as much zeal
as any one for this “ sacred right es pe
tition.” He avowed himself against
slavery in the abstract, and equally op
l*ised to Abolition, and went into an
argument to prove the inferiority of the
negro race to the white, as an example
their present condition after a lapse of
three centuries, with all the advantages
that were to be derived from association
among tha refined and civilized. Now
all these facts are universally admitted ;
hut they have nothing to do with the
question at issue. The Southern State
entered into the federal compact, with the
express understanding that rights to their
slave representation, and to slave proper
ty, should be recognized. It was one of
the compromises of the Constitution (as
Mr. Rhett forcibly said in his letter to the
Speaker declining to serve on the Select
Committee) 44 without which the Consti
tution never could have existed, and
without which it could not now exist.”
To strike out this 21st rule, then, is only
an entering wedge, and I now see clearly
that it will be done, and then the next
move will be to try and deprive the
South of her slave representation, under
color of other rights, that l have no doubt
will he regarded full as sacred as that of
petition. 1 shali say no miW on this
subject—the decree has gone forth, and
the rule is I consider virtually rescinded,
and all this has been effected by the ally
of the South. It is sheer mockery to tell
the Scuth that the absence of the rule
can have no practical bearing on her in
terests. Are not the rights guaranteed by
the Constitution sacred? Should not
every pat riot—every lover of his country
no matter from what section he may
emanate, rather defend them, than an
abstract right of petition, under which
Southern privileges are daily assailed ?
We are told Northern men do not desire
to interfere with the peculiar institutions
ot the So t i, and that a vote on any bill
striking at slavery, would prove the fact.
That might he so, at the present moment,
but who can answer what a fell spirit of
fanaticism may attempt? 1 have little
patience left, when 1 see such flagrant
omission of duty, such shameful deser
tion of principles, for no other reason
than to further the promotion of a politi
cal aspirant.
from the Charleston Courier.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 8.
In the Senate, to-day, a communica
tion was received from the War Depart
ment, with a survey of a Ship Canal a
round the Falls of Sault de St. Marie.
Mr. Wright presented a memorial from
merchants of New-York city, dealing in
and importers of hardware and iron, rep
resenting that the duties on those articles
were too high, either for revenue or for
the interests protected by these duties;
also a memorial of the New-York Cham
ber of commerce, praying the establish
ment of a Ware-Housing System A
joint resolution was introduced, provi
ding for the termination of the Conven
tion with Great Britain for the joint oc
cupancy of Oregon Territory.
A long debate took place on Mr. Al
len’s resolution, calling for the instruc
tions given to the American Minister re
lative to the title to, and the occupation
of the territory of Oregon. Mr. Archer,
as Chairman of the Committee of For
eign Affairs, was authorised by the Exe
cutive to inform the Senate that no ne
gotiation was now pending on the sub
ject; the instructions hail been issued as
the basis of a negociation; that Great
Britain perferred to treat here, to which
our Government had no objection, and
that a Minister, fully and specially au
thorised to negotiate an adjustment of the
Oregon question was on his way to
Washington,wherethenegotiation would
lie held. This information gave great
satisfaction here, and it was quite new so
fur as the Oregon matter was concerned.
It is to be hoped that it will check the
fever for legislating on the subject of the
Oregon, and forcing an issue with Great
Britain on that subject. Some Sena'ors
now treat the idea of any negotiation
with disdain, and contend that it ought
not to be admitted that Great Britain has
any right to make any claim to the terri
tory, or any part. Rut we have enter
tained oar claims heretofore, and recog
nised them in two Conventions and di
vers negotiations. We have offered to
compromise with her by giving her the
territory north of 49, whereas we claim
to 54 degrees north latitude.
The House has got rid of the bill,
restoring General Jackson’s fine, after a
day’s debate. Mr. Steven’s amendment
protecting the Judiciary from any impu
tation was lost. The bill passed by the
large majority of 158 to 28.
Many members of the Senate and
House, and many citizens and strangers
have an anniversary supper to-night, and
much good cheer, patriotism and fun
were promoted by it.
Mr. Spencer's nomination will, it is
supposed go into the Senate to-morrow,
but it seems that a Secretary of the Trea
sury will not be simultaneously nomina
ted. That betng the case, the Senate
will not confirm Mr. Spencer. They
cannot get an abler man in New" York to
fill Justice Thompson’s place.
From the N. Y. Evening Post Gth inst.
Congress and the Revenue Question.
The question of so regulating the du
ties on imported goods, as best to supply
a revenue, has again been brought before
Congress, and with the sail e un uc'iy re
sult as before. The resolution offered
by Mr. McDowall, instructed the Com
mittee of Ways and Means to report a
bill so modifying the tariff as to provide
a sufficient revenue, and with such dis
criminations as look to that object and
no other This resolution was rejected
it received hut eighty-four votes to a
hundred and two in the negative. The
Washington Spectator gives a table, by
which it appears that oighly-two of the
votes for the resolution were given by
Democrats and two by Whigs ; and that
of the votes in the negative, forty-two
were given by Democrats, and sixty by
Whigs. The Democratic members who
voted against the resolution are two from
Massachusetts, one from Vermont, two
from Conm cticut, fifteen from New York
two from New Jersey, twelve from Penn
sylvania, one from Virginia, three from
Kentucky, one from Ohio, two from In
diana, and one from Michiaan.
The Globe apologizes for this vote,
saying that 14 many who have full confi
dence tnat the committee will be guided
by the principle couched in the resolu
tion, were not inclined to give a vote
which might be construed to imply a dis
trust which they did not indulge.” We
should be glad to hope that this is the
case, but such is not the construction
which the friends of the tariff put upon
it. They interpret it to mean, that those
who opposed the resolution are enemies
to such a modification of the jariffas will
reduce it to a fair revenue measure.—
There is not one of those prints which
does not express its exultation at seeing
the friends of a revenue tariff defeated in
every movement they have been made
in the House of Representatives, and all
hope of passing a hill to revise the tariff
extinguished, for the present Congress at
least.
For our part, the scruples of the mem
bers who are so cautious of showing any
distrust of the Committee of Ways anil
Means, appear to us wholly unnecessary.
In what school of politics were there gen
tleman bred, that they are too delicate
to give an intimation of their wishes to
the agents to whom they delegate a pua
lic duty? We should as soon think of
declining to give instructions to our at
torney whom we employed to transact
our private business.
Mr. Adam’s Movement.
It is reported at Washington, that the
committee of nine have taken up the
resolutions of Massachusetts. Mr.Khett’s
place had not Iteen filled. The report is,
that Messrs. Adams and Giddings (par
nobile !) have supported the resolutions :
and that Messrs. Gilmer, and Joseph R.
Ingersoll of Pennsylvania, have opposed
them. We are happy to have this oppor
tunity of thanking Mr. Ingersoll, (though
he is a Whig.) His present course is
truly consistent with the manly reply to
some questions put to him, on the eve of
his election, by some of the Abolitionists.
(Will the editor of the Philadelphia Ga
zette be polite enough to send us a copy
of the correspondence, that we may at the
same time pay our respect to the author,
and show upon what irresistible grounds
he supported the provisions of the Con
stitution upon this subject.)
From Mr. Adams, wc have nothing
patriotic to expect on the question. He
is pledged to go for the amendment of
the Constitution ; and his feelings to
wards the South will prompt him to rush
into extremities. It is said, that he is
preparing an elaborate report in favor of
the amendment—and thus, we are to he
indebted to this common disturber of the
peace for another discussion on another
delicate and agitating question.
Could we believe, fora single moment,
that this proposition is likely to receive
any serious and important support from
the Congress of the United States, we
would at once invoke the solemn protest
of every State which values this blessed
Union. For, let this infatuated man be
absurd enough to declare the contrary,
nothing could shake the present Federal
compact so fearfully, as-such an attempt.
The fabric could not survive the concus
sion for a moment.
We may have occasion to go into tho
history of that clause of the Constitution
which secures a certain proportion of
representation to the slave population of
the South. We content ourselves for
the present with stating, that this is the
same amendment which was urged ut a
most critical period of our history, (in
January 1814,) in the midst of a foreign
war, by the celebrated traitors of Hart
ford Convention memory. The first
amendment which they proposed to the
Federal Constitution, ran in the follow
ing words:
“ Ist. Representatives and direct taxes
shall be apportioned among the several
States which may be included within the
Union, according to their respective num
bers of free persons, including those
hound to serve for a term of years; ex
cluding Indians not taxed, and all other
persons.” (Most of those very expres
sions are now embraced in the proposed
resolution of the Legislature of Massa
chusetts.)
We shall not specify, at this time, the
feelings which were produced in 1814
and 1815, by the proceedings and resolu
tions of the Hartford Convention. It is
sufficient for us to refer to some of the
transactions which were called forth by
the above amendment, it produced one
tremendous explosion in all the South—
hut it was not confined to the South of
iile Potomac. Mr. Niles, in his Register,
44 entreats the good people of New Eng
land to pause for one moment. W r e have
heard, says he, that our Constitution was
framed in a spirit of compromise, that
there were jarring prejudices to he con
ciliated, and discordant interests to be
harmonized. * * The Hart
ford Convention avail themselves, as
might be expected, of the popular clamor
respecting the representation for slaves.
An amendment ol the Constitution is pro
posed, which alters the representation in
the lower House, so that the number from
each State shall he in proportion to the
freemen. Not a word, however, is said
of the infinitely greater inequality that
results from giving to each State tin
equal value iu the Senate. They are
not centcnted with the certain and solid
advantages New England already pos
sesses over most of the Union. They
must be grasping for more. If the rep
resentation in the lower House is chan
ged, that iu the Senate must and will be
changed with it. I cannot conceive a
more flagrant instance of folly and im
prudence, than the Rhode Island mem
bers of the Convention were guilty of,
when they signed this report. She lias
now an advantage over the rest of the
Union, of one hundred per-cent, in the
National Councils ; for her free popula
tion would, if this amendment were
adopted, entitle her hut to two represen
tatives, and if the principle were carried
to the representation of Senate, she could
never have a single member in that
House. Yet these modest gentlemen,
Mr. Daniel Layman. Mr. Samuel Ward,
Mr. G. Manton, and Mr. R. Hazard, re
commended to the State 44 to persevere in
its efforts till this amendment is effected.’
Let Rhode Island do it, and she puts the
seal to an instrument that will perpetuate
h r own insignificance.”
When these propositions wore submit
ted to the I .egislature of Pennsylvania
and New York, they called forth a strong
opposition from those States. The legis
lature of Pennsylvania adopted a strong
protest, in which they stated, that “ the
framers of IhcConstitution thought wise
ly, that slaves were to be considered
partly as property, end partly as persons;
and that it would he unjust to condemn
their owners to taxation on their account
without some indemnity. They, there
fore, compromised the conflicting opiu
t iotiS. They agreed to consider flic
slaves tts men, hut ns men whose value
the loss of freedom had depreciated ;
and mingling the hopes of power with
the chances of taxation, they decided that
thrcc-fif'tlis only of these unfortunate
beings should enter into the computation
of Representatives,” &c. The ] legisla
ture of New York, in protesting against
the movement, remarks upon the incon
gruity of proposing an amendment, ‘ de
priving certain States of a portion of their
representation, in consideration of hold
ing slaves, upon the ground that it ic un
equal in its operation;” with the fact that
•nothing is suggested in favor of equaliz
ing the representation in the Senate, in
which the States of Connecticut and R.
Island are equally represented with (his
State, which contains four times as many
as the former, and fourteen times as ma
ny as the latter!’
Yet are Messrs. Adams, Giddings, and
Cos. rushing on headlong, " like fools,
where angels fear to tread.” The “ in
fernal genius” of tiie former cannot be
gratified with less than a public and con
tinued agitation of this delicate and ex
citing subject,
One point more ! The Albany Argus
says ; —“ Great stress lias been laid by
tiie Whig presses upon the fact, that the
Massachusetts resolutions, which were
the subject of the latest Abolition flurry
in the House of Representatives, were
passed by the same Legislature which
elected Marcas Morton Governor—as if
their coming from such a source, must
needs stop the mouths of the Democratic
press, in reference to the course of Mr.
Adams, and the Abolition agitators in
Congress, at this and preceding sessions.
But the history of these resolutions, it
seems, is yet to be written ; and, when
all the facts come out, also, that they
were of Whig origin, exclusively ; got
up for political effect, at the heel of the
late session, and spirited through, as such
things sometimes are, to the surprise of
many ot those under whose supposed
sanction they purport to have been pass
ed. One, at least, of the members of tho
Massachusetts Legislature, it appears,
was ignorant of the existence of any such
resolutions until Mr. Adams drew them
out of iris magazine of combustibles, fired
the fuse, aud threw them into the House
of Representatives.
The Now York Evening Post of Tues
day, says :
“ The history of these resolutions is
singular enough, A member of the
Massachusetts Legislature informs me,
that he was not awaro that any such res
olutions existed, until Mr, Adams sent
them to the chair. He accounts for their
production, by supposing that, at the
close of the lust session of the State Leg
islature, some Whig, full of zeal for the
cause of obtaining the votes of the Abo
lition party lor Mr. Briggs, brought in
these resolutions by way of a cot/p de
main. The opposite party could only
elude the unexpected trick by passively
allowing the resolutions to pass.”
We refrain from touching this morn
ing, the subject of Abolition petitions.—*
The Baltimore American says ; “J n
the Senate of the United States the diffi
culties which, year after year, perplexed
the House of Representatives on this sub
ject, have Laen avoided. The Senate
has never refused to receive Abolition
petitions. It has received them and laid
them on the table—and there was an
end. Mr. Clay’s opinion has been in ac
cordance with this course from the first.”
Will the Abolitionists be content with
this arrangement in the other House?
At all events the South is awake.—
She lias her eyes upon every man, whose
position and whose talents make him an
object of deep attention. We thank our
friend, a Representative from Virginia,
for the hint he has given us. If there be
a member in the North, who has gone to
the House with professions of friendship
upon his lips, which he is ready to violate
by his acts, we shall not be tho last to un
mask the impootor. —Richmond Ewp
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1841.
FOU PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
LEVI WdOBBIKY.
’C/” From a desire to enable our read
ers to form an idea of the character and
| probabilities connected with the present
congress, we have devoted to its proceed
! ings so much of our present number,
we have excluded much interesting mat
ter which shall appear in our next.
Our acknowledgements are ten
dered to the lion. A. 11. Chappell, for
his kind and literal attention iu forward
ing us important documents.
Congress mid Gen. J/IcksotFs Fine.
We rejoice that this shameful business
has at length been creditably closed as
far as the representative branch of Con
gress is concerned, the hill for refunding
to the old hero the money he advanced
so many years ago, passed by an over
whelming majority. There were but
twenty-eight members in the house so
lost to a sense of justice, honour, and
gratitude, as to vote iu the negative.—
What will become of it in the Senate?
Aye, there’s the rub. The pitiful, petti
fogging; partizan course pursued on this
subject by the majority of that body has
inflicted mi indelible disgrace on the
country.
It is worthy of remark that they con
tended strenuously for the unjust, tin
constitutional, mid altogether unwarrant
ed donation of T ANARUS•/ enty-five thousand
and liars ; a donation, equally criminal on
liiOptrt of those vOMng it, and disreputa
ble to the receivers. Had Gen.
son’s family needed assistance, we shotliU
have been the foremost and most earnest
upon its being afforded to'them, hut his
estate was appraised at over two hundred
thousand dollars, and they resided in a
palace, instead of a Log Cabin. We re
commended at tho time, that the mem
bers of both branches, lor the donation
should appropriate a week's pay to mako
it up—how the ‘galled jades would haVO
wirreed !’
In the pettifogging and wrangling con
tinued through three sessions, to deter
mine whether the paltry debt justly due
Gen. Jackson, twenty times tho amount
of the people’s money has been wasted
in the pay of Congress.
Sequel to the Revolutionary AnecJote in
o*ir last,
Theyounger Brutus, the gentle, heroic,
high-souled Brutus, after the defeat ot
the Romau patriots, when about to full
upon his sword at Phil 1 ippi, is said to
have exclaimed, 11 1 have worshipped vir
tue as a divinity, and find it at last but a
delusive dream.’ The two youthful of
ficers who had placed themselves in the
unenviable position of spies on their
commander's proceedings, had pursued a
different course from Brutus and reached
an opposite conclusion. Nurtured on
the lap of opulence, brought up with the
means of every indulgence, immersed itt
what are called the pleasures of society
and for nearly three year's habituated to
the license of camps, they had learned to
view Religion and virtue as dreams, as
wisely devised contrivances to restrain
the multitude, they were now prepared
to acknowledge them entities, solemn re
alities. I 'nder circumstances that admit
ted neither mistake or illusion they had.
soen them recognized and exemplified JO-