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JOHN G. POLlt^LL, EDITOR.
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ministration, must be published Thirty days at least
Notice by Executors and -\dniiu»8lrators ibr Debtors
aad Credit ors to render in their Accounts must be pubiishr
ed Six weeks.
Sales of nogroc? by Executors and Administrators must
oc adverlisad Sr\ TT i> AYS before the ddy of sale.
S .les of pe;,-8onal property (except negroes) of testate
-j.au intestate estates bj Executors and Administrators,
*'.$} advertised Fortt DATS.
Applications by Executors, Administrators ami Guar
dians to the court of ordinary for leave to sell Land must
tie published Four months. *
Applications by Executors and: Administrators for Let
ters Distaissory, must be published Six months.
Applications lor fort closure 6f Mortgages on real Es-T
•fate must b * advertised once a month for Six months. j
Sales cf real estate by Executors, Administrators anjl-l
Guardians must be published Sixty days before the day i
cfsale. These sales rnlist be made at the court-houst )
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Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy ,
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Sheriff’s sales under executions regularly granted by j
the court?, must be advertised Thirty da*ys. j
Sheriff’s sales under Mortgage, executions must bead- J
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~ LAW NOffiSa.
T rIF, Copartnership in the PltAjCTJCE of the LAW,
heretofore existing between Samuel. I.mother 4* Al
fred Iverson, is this iUy dissolved by mutual consent—
A. Iverson having transferred his interest in said Part-
Bcrs'iip loTofcn L Lewis.
A Copartnership has been this d-iy formed -between
Samuel I.oh-ther &. John L. Lewis, •-ho will attend to
1'iie Practice of the Law in the Ocrnulgee, Flint and South-
ern Circuits. They will generally be found at tbeiroffice
in CliBtcn, when not absent an the Circuit.
A. Iverson will, during the present year, remove to
Columbus, and practice Law in all the counties of the
Cintahoociiie Circuit and in those of the Southern Cir
cuit where Lis services may be required. The service*
of A. Iverson will be rendered in winding un the business
of Loivlher fit Iverson in the Ocmulgec Circuit.
SAMUEL LOWTHER,
ALFRED IVERSON,
JOHN L. LEWIS.
Clinton, ./irjte 19, iS30. QSInidm
MIUiELGEVILLJ^ GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1830.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 14.
POETRY.
LAW KOHOM.
WlIiEf W. EITHER,
AVINur located himself at McDonough, Henry
county, tenders his Professional services to th r
pub ic as Attorney and Counsellor at Law. He will at
tend the Courts of the various counties hi the Flint Cir
cuit. Aug 28 8 St
FROM THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
Fi'+kek Patriotism.—The following cantata, composed
by ihomost popular and celebrated poet ofTrance, Cast
mir JJelavigne, the private Secretary of the Duke of Or
leans, was sung, with thunders of applause, in three of
the. Paris theatres, in the first days of August. Ic Paris,
singing ana fighting go together. : i.
L AP ARIS1ENNE.
Translated for the .Mercantile Advertiser.
Sons of heroes J Frenchmen brave,
See Liberty her arms unfold l
The tyrant cries; Be each A slave!
* We answer: Freedom’s host behold!
See Paris in her glory rise,
Awakened by her battle cries—
Forward: let us rush!
Meet the deadly crush
Of glittering pike and fierce battallioft
Away! to vict ryl
Serry your ranks! be firm and true! ,» -
March on! each son, to Paris dear, : .
Makes grateful to his country, loo,
Each blow that fills the foe with fear L *°
Day dear to fame, ’mid war’s alarms !
Still Paris breathes the cry “To arms!”
Forward! &c„
In’Vain the death shot mows us down;
We spring renew’d from each fierce fire ;
Fresh warriors rise, like flow’rs just blown.
’Neath the dread storm, fill’d with new ire.
Day dear to fame,’mid war’s alarms!
Still Paris breathes the cry “To arms!’'
Forward! &o.
Tq break their phalanxes profound,
VVbo w ives our bloody ensign there?
The hero of two worlds! 4-that sounds!
’Tis Lafayette that rends the air!
Day dear to fame, ’mid war’3 alarms !
Still Paris breathes the cry “To arms!'’
Forward! &c.
The tri-color .unfurl’d to view—
That rain bow of our liberty—
Bright ’mid Ihe clouds that stoopto WDO,
Rene.'.s to heaven its fealty.
Day dear to fame, ’inid war’s alarms!
StiU Paris breathes the cry “To arms’.”
Forward* &c.
Chief of that banner waving high? ,
Orleans! who gave it to the free!
Thou whose red blood its stripes did dye,
It daws with theirs who bled with thee!
At> in those glorious days gone by,
Again we hear thy cheering cry!
Forward! &c.
Now let the muffled drum give out
Funeral signals, deep and slow ;
Still’d he the trump and battle shout;
Fresh laurels on their dork biers Jhrow.
Oh, temple of the mighty dead!
Now glory on their memory shed.
Onward! bear them* slotv!
Tors of sorrow flow !
Immortal fame is yours, brave warriors,
Martyrs of Victory !
3
AND
eiOx* *lMISSION BUSINESS.
T HE subscribers, grateful for past favors, renew the
tender of their services, lo their friends and the
public, with the.assurance, that they will as heretofore,
devote their time to the interest of tticir employers.
Their WARE-HOUSE will l>c in good order for the re
ception and safe keeping of Country produce and merehan-
?'ize. They deem it due to themselves to state the situa
tion of their 'V ir--House's—thus—They arc bounded on
the North, by Bay-street and the river—on 'he West, hv
an open space oi’ ah i:t ISO feet—on the Sooth, by »»ey-
* old street, about 65 feet wide, end on the Erst by Canijv
bell-street, about fi."> f ct wide. In addition to the secu
rity against fire, which the above location presents, they
iiave about the centre of their Lot, a Hydrant which de
livers water frurn the aqueduct lately completed in this
city.
They will p-ant the usual facilities, by advances of mo
ney or othernise, to such ssniav fivor them w ith custotn.
A. SLAUGHTER ic C. LABUZAN.
August a, Oct 2
13
3t*
JVCD
OQSOOSSIOIT EtJSIlTSSS.
undersign' d gratefully acknowledge the liberal
-3- .patronage with which they Iiave been favored in the
above line, and respectfully inform the public that they
continue its transaction in the Cf*y, and that their failh-
1 fa! and undividid..>tuiiliou will be'devoted to the busi-
I nese of their pal runs..
Liberal Cash advances may be expected on Produce,
Vj-&c. in Store, when de.-ired
, STOVALL £t SIMMONS.
■ Agusta, Aug 7, 1830 5 12t
TOWN LOTS
FOB SALE.
T u ERE wdl bu a s ,1c of the remaining LOTS in the
tc’wn of Carrollton, Can oil comity, 011 the 25th and
Pi’Ctb cf October next. Among which there is some front
t Jots Tcry suitable for merchuntile business—Also a iiimi-
'ber of largic back lots very suitable for fain* and garden
cultivation.
C&£>rollton is situated on a place of beautiful emi
nence, amt to admirable fur her flittering prospects of
rc dtfc — supposed lo be as healthy as any of up couutry
villag-s, end is now budding to bloom in the midst of a
gold rtgion. Terms made known on the day of sale.
AMOS 11 ELTON, Clerk.
Oct 2 13 4t
NOTICE.
A LI. persons are hen by cautioned from trading with
ity wife Patience, who lias left niy bed and board
•with jut any provocation, end therefore I am determined
«iot to pay any of her contracts unless compelled bylaw
—ai d I also forworn any person from harboring or let-
tingAierstay about their Louses, at the e xpense of the law.
K1NON DREW.
Emanuel co. Oct 2
13
31
B ROUGHT TO JAIL in -Marion, Twijre* county, a
negro man, who eayj his name is JACK, and
'tb.ut lie belong3 to George Clifton of Clark count). Jack
»s about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high—has two small scars
tinder the left »yr, and has received an injury in (he
A’flhip which makes tne left leg railwr shorter than the
other. 'The owner will e<>rae forward, prove property,
'ay costs; and take him away,
&AMUEL JORDAN. Til or.
Bapt 18 II 3t
NOTICE.
A l.L. persons having demands against the estate ot
/% 2L^ehariah Philiips, Pate of Aidton county, deceas
ed jr 'e.reque >ted tu p-csent them in terms vf the law dn
Iy T mtic,'ito 'i—-and those indebted to the estate arc
•■Is 1 tenths ted {ff anke immediate paymi-rn to
. - ji0|U&T M. TB6J10LS, Adm'r. ‘
% |j>; 13 ' /U- 6f
THE DIET OF CHILDREN.
Daring I lie early stages of life, all heating
ar,«l stimulating food and drinks should be
Mricflv forbidden, as they teud more certainly
to produce disease, in the readily excited svs
bra. during childnood, than perhaps at any
other period of id .
Vegetables should in fact constitute the
principal diet of children, especially the farina
ceous substances, such as -bread, rice, arrow-
root, potatoes, 4*c. To these may be joined,
milk, soft boiled eggs, and a very moderate
allowance of plain aud simply cooked animal
food. Children have, in general, very excel
lent appetites, and a sufficiency of nourishing
food is absolutely necessary, not merely to re
new the waste of their systems, but, also, to
supply materials for their daily growth.
Three, or perhaps four liyht meals a day
will be found a good allowance during child
hood. At one ol those, the dinner, or mid-day
meal, animal food may be allowed in modera
tion—for the others, bread, or potatoes and
milk, various preparations of rice, or rice and
milk—plain bread pudding, or custard, will
form a proper and wholesome diet. All salt
ed and high-seasoned food should he forbid
den. Some have objected to butter for chil
dren, although experience would appear io
show that a very moderate allowance of fresh
butter is by no means injurious. Of vegeta
bles, potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, and cau
liflowers. will be found the most wholesome—
they should be well boiled, and the potatoes
and turnips eaten without being mashed or
mixed with fat gravy. Children should never
be indulged in pastry of any kind—they may
occasionally take a little of the cooked fruit of
a pie, hot even this should be in moderation.
The drink of children should be simply wa
ter—milk—mill; and water—whey, or very
weak tea, milk and sugar. All stimulating and
fermented liquors, are not only unnecessary,
but positively injurious; by increasing to an
improper extent the circulation of the blood,
they induce fever, indigestion, inflammation,
or convulsions, to say nothing of the danger of
their use during childhood, giving rise to hab
its of intemperance in after life.
The period of the meals should be strictly
regulated—and in such a manner that the in
tervals between them should not be so great
as to permit the children to experience for any
time u sensafion of hunger. Supper should al
ways be taken ffp hour or two before bed time.
Children should get their breakfasts as soon
after they have risen, and have been properly
washed and combed, as possible—their stom
achs are then empty, and the appetite keen.
If food be loo long withheld, the cravings of
the stomach become either too importunate,
or the appctitcYails—cither of which would be
injurious.
As little variety of food as possible should
he set before children., since every extraordi
nary article becomes a new incentive to appe
tite. TheV should never be indulged with a
second course. If they sit down with an ap
petite they will always satisfy it by eating free
ly of the first article presented to them—
hence, all the rest is superfluous, and there
fore injurious. If the appetite be trifling, the
less they eat at the time the better,—as by
taking but little, the appetite will more cer
tainly return at the next meal. But should
tins instinct of nature for an observance of
moderation be neglected, or be attempted to
,be overcome by variety, repletion, with all it?
<:?iW, wdl follow. Instead of a renewed and
healthy appetite following, as would have bfccn
■ n i ,m "it
the case had the instinct beep obeyed, it will
be found diminished, and most prohablj at
tended with l*e?d-ache f , fevei\ oppression'
even,vomiting. *
Children should not be allowed to eat fre
quently of bread, bread and butter, bread arid
molasses, cakes, qr/ruit between meals—for
this wiH either desjroy the regular appetite, or
induce them to eat too much. In the v first
case, the-stomach will be Interrupted in iis re
gular routine of function—consequently, -Ihe
Appetite will become either irhgular or capri
cious—in the second case, all the evils atten
dant upon an o’er distensiori of the' stotnuch
mud follow.
They should, therefore?,: not be suffered to
carry food io their pockets, to eat between
mteils. o.r duringsehool hohrs—as this produ
ces the Injurious habit of requiring foed at im
proper times, by which the digestion of the
previbus meal is interfered with—a fresh
quantity of food being forced'upon the stom
ach before it has properly digested that which
had been before received
Childr-Ht are to be restrained from any vio
lent exercise immediately after dinner: if not
kept in a state of perfect rest, they should, at
least, be prevented from engaging in any past-
time which requires considerable bodily exer
tion. They should also be early taught the
importance of eating slowly, and chewing their
food well—on*this account, alone, the habit of
resting after a meal is of importance, as it pre
vents them from swallowing their meals hasti
ly, in order that they may return more quick
ly to their play.
In regulating the diet of children, .care
should be taken not to force any particular ar
ticle upon them, after it is found by a fair trial
•not to agree with their rdotnachs. The con
trary practice is both cruel and injudicious—
cruel, because the poor child is forced to swal
low what is disagreeable fo it, and injudicious,
because it is liable to perpetuate a disgust,
which, most probably, would have subsided,
had no forcible attempt been made to over
come it. At the same time, however, great
care must be'taken t-hat permanent dislikes
are not formed at this period of life against
certain wholesome articles of food. This
however, is often a matter of very great diffi
culty—a good deal of close observation and
discernment being required in order to distin
guish between h wayward prejudice, and an
actual disgust. The former, if indulged in too
long, may be converted inlo the latter—while
the hitter may often, by judicious and well-
adapted means, be entirely removed
Children should never he suffered to eat
alone, unless the proper amount of food be
meted out to them—otherwise they will al
most always eat too much.
If a child demand more than is judged prop
er for it, its importunities should always be re*
sisted with firmness, or it will too certainly ac
quire habits ot gluttony,
oitions and naval sfcorfcs, to the value of about
4000 piastres- Besides Ibis, 4hese States
gare on the renewal of their treaties evcjry ten
years, presents of 10,000 dollars; and their
Consuls, on entering on their functions, 'made
presents to the Dev.
A Lawyer's Letter.—-The following is said
to be Ihe copy of a letter sent by a member of
the leg ai profession to a person who was in-
debtcdjto one of his clients:—“Sir, I am desire<l
to apply to you for IbQQ due my client, Mr.,
lones: ; If you send me the money by this day
week, you will oblige me; if not, I wiH oblige
voo.”
POLITICAL.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER
MEETING OF THE PATRIOTS OF ’76.
Who can doubt the sincerity er pujpty of the patriotism
cf the time honored co tvals of their, country’s father and
a nations IjirUi? ,
At a meeting of the surviving Officers and
Soldiers of the Reydfution, residing in Ches-t
You style yourself * One of the members of
the Conspiracy”-—but if all the Conspirators
were as candid and disinterested as yon arq,
the Republic would have nothing to fear froth
ttk-m: you have dpenly and Candidly avowed,
that if Virginia Would consent to be a Frontier
State, you Would go off from the Union the
next day. This is at ohc«' appealing to the
good sense and good feelings of the People,
anil in that tribunal I repose anlimited confi
dence. It is only When they are hoodumki-d
by demagogues and-hypocrites that they can
go wrong.
As to the part you take in this “Conspira*
cy,” I solemnly declare that 11 I could think as
you do upon the facts. 1 think I should feel as
you do upon the measures. 1 would not live
under ‘a Government of unlimited Powers,”
and if I saw distinctly that nothing but a revo
lutionary movement could impose due restric
tion', 1 would cry out for Revolution. As to
affording the States iome more satisfactory se
curity than the intervention of the Supreme
Court, it is what I have been urging for years.
ter District, on he ll.lt of SepUm, | Re ?' H ’ 5Ure,J <*c ere far froi covolmg
her, A. D. 1830-J'oSEPn Gaston, EsJ'.vas jJ«r. S .l.ct,ur, especially .vhere Males are con-
’ cerned. Heaven save ns Iroin encountering
the irritable feeli.'gs of sovereigns. Bn* t
have always been met by the quest ion. What
can the- States want more than the Senate?—
They are all there equally represented, and
FROM THE RURAL CABINET.
The following scrap of Church History
taken from 'Worcester’s Chart of Historymay
be interesting to many of your readers —
There is a diversity of opinions among histori
ans with regard to the time when several of
the denominations took their rise. It is cer
tain however that the Waldenses, anti Albigcn-
ses were the first who rose up iu opposition
to the then universal Church of Rome. They
are therefore denominated by the author from
whose works this is extracted, the first Protes
tants; although it is well known this name
was not adopted until the reformation by Lu
ther and Calvin. R- F.
The following dates exhibits the origin of
of the den. miriations to which they are prefix
ed.
The Wnldcnses and Albigenses
Wickhffi.es, or Lollards
Hussites
Moravians
Lutherans
Baptists
Church of England (Episcopal)
Calvinist, Presbyterians
Socinians Unitarians
Independents or Congretionalisis
Quakers or Friends
Methodists
Sweedenborgians
1160
13G9
1407
1457
1517
1525
1534
1546
1546
1616
1650
1729
1757
appointed Chairman, and the following Pre;
amble and Resolutions was adopted:
More than fifty years ago the Members of
this Meeting, qnd the Whigs of this part of the
country, were in the habit of assembling to
gether, at stated periods, for mutual consul
tation; to devise mcanfl of annoyance for the
common enemy; to mature plans more effectu
ally to resist the designs of dur internal as well
as external foes; to sympathize with each oth
er in times of distress; to sustain each other ib
times of attack; to rejoice'with each other in
, times of success; and to establish the cause of
American Independence in support of which we
had pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor. In those days the Members of
of this Meeting, and the Whigs of the Caroli-
• nas, fought side by side, with the inhabitants
ofthe Colonies N. E. and South West of us.—
The Colonies were united in their councils, u
nited in the struggle and united in victory;
and the result of their joint labors, and joint
’suffering's; was the establishment ofthe most
perfect government the world ever beheld.
We consider the present time as one of
great danger to our American institutions——
The public press is filled with violence, and
abuse, and matter intended to inflame the
minds of our citizens against the Government
bftheir choice—the free and noble institutions
«*f America, the pride, and admiration of the
world. Public officers send forth circulars a-
mong us, containing statements false in fact,
and calculated to mislead as to the true state
of public affairs. Violent and wicked men are
plotting the dissolution of our Union, the sub
version of our Government, and the destruc
tion of our free Institutions. The friends of
the American Union, of liberty, order, and
good government, are reviled and insulted by
rhe minions of faction, and the foils of those
who are oppposed to the American Govern
ment. At such, time, silence on our part
would he criminal. We consider every thing
near and dear to ns threatened, and feel our
selves solemnly compelled once more, to come
forth against the enemy Having inet togeth
er at the house one of our friends, to consult
for the best, as our custom was in ancient
times, when our country was' in danger, we
have agreed upon the follotring:
Resolved. That in order to be fairly repre
sented in the State Legislature, our Represen
tatives in that body, should hold sentiments in
common with those who bestow upon them
their suffrages
Resolved. That we will use our united and
individual exertions, to oppose Nullification,
Seccssion t Disunion, or a Convention of the
people at this time, in every disguise, or shape:
and that wc will not give our votes, at the
next election, for any candidate who is in
favor of them.
Resolved. That we earnestly call upon the
son* of the Whigs, and our fellow-citizens, by
a'i that is sacred and solemn, to come forward
and assist the friends ol their fathers, in put
ting down an audacious attempt to dismember
the American Union, and to subvert the Amer
ican Government.
The following article from a London paper
will shew, that notwithstanding the humiliation
which the Algerine government have expe
rienced in modern tiroes, they still levied, trib
ute upon all or most of all the powers ot Eli*
rope. Even Great Britain notwithstanding;^
result of Lord Exmouth's bombardment a few
years since.it seems paid a douceur'to his high
ness upon a change ot consuls. It is roost dis
graceful to the governments of Europe that
t hey Have submitted to be thus taxed by a pow
er, which would at any time have been crush
ed* by a small French army, in the course of a
few days. It is a source of great gratification
that this degraded policy is at an end.—A r * Y.
Daily Jldv. /'
The List ofthe Tributes hitherto paid by dif
ferent Governments to the Dey <f Algiers: Na
ples and Sicily pay an annual tribute of 24,-
000 Spanish Dollars.—Tuscany by treaty of
1823, was exempt of tribute, but made Con
sular presents ol 25,000 ditto. Sardinia is in
debted to the mediation of England for her
freedom from-tribute, but she has paid consid
erable sums at every change of Consuls.—Por
tugal concluded a treaty similar to that of Na
ples. Spain was subject to no tribute, but
made presents at every change of Consuls.—
Austria through the mediation of the Porte,
was exempt from tribute, and presents. Eng
land made a present at every, change of Con
suls. The U. States adopted the same ar
rangement as England. Hanover and Bremen,
under the protection ot England, obtained the
same condition, but their Consuls paid large
isums.chr arriving at-Algiers. Sweden and Deo-
mark p:;id annually a tribute ol -warlike atnoiu-
ANSWER OF JUDGE JOHNSON TO
GENERAL TAYLOR.
Charleston, Sept. 22, 1830.
My Dear Taylor—Your letter dated Rice
Creek, September II, with the Columbia
Post Mark of the 14!h, did not come to band
until the 17th, near three weeks after the date
of mine to which it is an answer, and at a time
when it was out of the question for me to be
at Columbia to,make my speech.- What an
opportunity war'here lost! I certainly should
have addressed myself to aq audience, “whose
minds were in a state for thinking, ,r and might
have enjoyed a triumph, such as’youandl
have felt in common more than once. Where
were the men who now claim to be Radicals
and exclusive- Patriots, when you and I stood
shoulder to shqulder in the stormy days of III
Ira Federalism 1 and more recently in that
universal homage now rendered to the talents
and worth of our friend Crawford by men who
revelled in the most wanton abuse of him.
when you and I stood up for him almost alone.
I perceive by an Editorial remark prefixed
to the’publication of our correspondence, that
the suggestion is thrown out that my letter
was written ^ you with a View to involve you
in a controversy. I am sure you cannot enter
tain such an idea. Nothing was farther from
my mind; but if you court it,. I certainly shaft
not shun it. Yet it would be whispering to
the howling winds to attempt in the oewspa^
pers the defence of my Eight Points,, until tlfo
election is over. Let that be passed, and
something of a calm ensue, and 1 am ready to
meet you: but it roust be in the columns of
the Telescope, for thus, and thus only, can the
antidote be adroinisfoted where it may have
something to operate upon . '
every law which passes (hat fe^Rly involves
a decision on its constitutionality—a decision
made by a body sworn to decide impartially,
and in which the smallest S;ate has as much
weight as the greatest To this I have nev
er been able to find but one answer, and that
is, that as to one class of cases that tribnnal is
not accessible. I mean cases in which the
constitutionality of State Laws is brought in
question. There I would certainly amend the
Constitution as to give an appeal to the Sen
ate; and perhaps require the concurrence of
two-thirds to declare the law pf a State un
constitutional. At present, although we are
emphatically the men of the people, being charg
ed exclusively vvith the production of individ
ual right against unconstitutional laws, yet in
directly we are compelled to pass upon the
delicate question of sovereign right, from
which (hay Heaven deliver us
‘Aon ask me “why I did not come oat with
mv-Eight Points at the late election for luten-
dant of our City.” I answer, because I bad
as little to do with the Meeting at Seyie’s as
you had, and if I had, no body would have lis
tened to me. The majority who voted for
Mr. Pringle, are as decidedly Anti-Tariff as
you are. 1 did not vote, and I doubt if (here
is a man in South Carolina who agrees with
me in at least seven of my Eight Points. But
this I do not doubt of, that the time is not far
distant when they will all agree with me in
every one of them. You knew the course of
my public life. I have more than once before
been in a minority, to all appearances as hope
less as the present, aye, even to the election of
Jackson to the Presidency. 1 only assert that
freedom of opinion winch I readily concede to
all others.
I agree with you entirely that Jadge Lee
and myself ought not to have been invited,
and for the reasons you suggest. You see
that 1 doubted whether it was not a hoax, and
after the lapse of so much time without an an
swer from you, I was nearly confirmed in that
doubt. 1 treated the invitation however,
respectfully, yet so as to leave as little as pos
sible to be gamed by the hoax, if it was one.—
There is one thing 1 must beg you particular
ly to notice. I do not mean to suffer myself
to be drawn into the question of Construction
and Constitutionality of the Tariff Act. I see
that in my first Point I have written Constitu
tion, where I ought to have said Convention:
but the Context will correct the lapsus. 1
will treat the subject historically, and no oth-
wise, and then if I find 1 have even approach
ed the question of Construction, I wilt not sit
Judicially upon a Cause arising under it; As
to the Point which you press with much earn
estness, I mean the Conspiracy, I am as ready
to dispose of it as I probably ever shall be,
and have no objection to do so. I have no
Evidence but what is before the Public, and
probably never shall have. It requires the
power of an Asmodeus to ransack Cabinets,
or rake up the ashes of confidential corres
pondence, but if there has not been enough
published to establish the fact of a fixed pur
pose and zealous co-operation among some of
our Citizens to get rid of the Tariff Act, or gel
rid of the Union, then I can only say, I differ
widely from every one in my inferences, I
think there is evidence to show that seme go
farther, and maintain that a separation from
the Union, whether singly or in Confederation
with .other States, is the true policy of South
Carolina; hot the Evidence on this subject, is
chiefly before the public also, and may safely
be left to consideration without comment It
is of too personal a character to admit of pub*
lie discussion, otherwise than in a Court, of
Justice, and there it never can be discussed
that I know of: I hope never will be, directly
or incidentally. As io the moral imputation
of Conspiracy, it does -not necessarily carry
with it reproach. La, Fayette would Defer
bjush to have it known if the truth be sq, that
he headed a Conspiracy against Charley X.—
If there are any among us #vho maintain that
they are absolved from their allegiance lothe
United States, what offence can they take at
being charged with conspiracy against it. If
there are any who charge the Government ol
the United States with oppressive and intole
rable Tyranny, what reproach is it to them to
te charged with Conspiring? Shall there be
a Caesar and no Brutus, no Cassius, no Casca
found among us? By such I presume it would
be coveted as honorable. The motive only
can characterize the act, r and to Jfcosq only
whose consciences upbraid them with selfish
or dishonorable views can it come with re
proach. I do believe is the existence of what
1 oalt conspiracy? bdi j have impqgued na