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THE ' V " vnonr. VOEiUllB 2—NO. 8® MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. THURSDAY, SI PTEMBER 1, 1831. WHOLE NUMBER GO. edited by pOLT-II'l 1 <& J• A* CUTHBERT. ■ mil li.-hol every Tliursflv.y at THREE DOLLARS THE < -TOr' isp ^ - or if not paid before the end of the J. G. POLITICAL® COL. JOHNSON TO MR. BERRIEN. course to me. Such a course could hive been in jurious to none, and less troublesome to aH. But, sofarasl am concerned, I feel perfectly willing .o take the course adopted by yourself of plating The following copy of a Letter from Col. John- our views before the public. I do not, however, son to Mr. Bep.risn has been forwarded to us for • think that it will be much benefited by our labours: publication by Col. Johnson: and I am further induced to believe that the pub- Oakland, [Ky.] July 20th, 183!. be will place a less value upon the controversy Dear Sir: Your favor of the 17th inst. has been j than you do. In denying the confidential charac- received. I find that you understood me to say, | ter of our conversations, you urge as one consid- that the President would at least expect the invita- j eration, that the intimation to invite Maj. Eaton tion of Mrs. Eaton when you gave large and gen- i an d his family to your large parties was offensive, eral parties. The President never did directly or j although you are kind enough to believe that I did indirectly express or intimate such an expectation, i n °t so intend it. If the nature of the suggestion He informed me that he had been induced to be- changed in your mind the character ol the conver- lieve that a part of his cabinet had entered into a sation, and the relation of that perfect friendship combination to drive Mai. Eaton from it, by ex- whlch bad so long existed, would it not have been Sj«> mSist'beiiu^ at Urt'court^wuse^doo/bctwT^ruhe^oiirs «f io eluding him and his family from society; that l ie | magnanimous and generous in youto have advised in the morning and 4 in the afternoon. No sale fiom day to day is j ^ ac j j) een a | so informed that the successive Darties i me *1* 1 now come to the material point m con troversy—whether Gen. Jackson, through me re- ou to invite Major Eaton and hi3 fam- pe, ;uiny»», J^T-'oa'v.'aync Street, opposite McCombs’ Tavern. . ..vrnvt-i-' VEXTS published at tire ’nual rates. Citation by the Oftto efthe Courts of Ordinary that pimi.piie-i HU • * a0< i AdniinlPtraVn® for Debtors and rredi- er inti*ir accounts, must be published SIX WEEKS. t0 ^i»cnf Ne»me.- *><• Executors and Adir.inistrators must ue ad- usrticnU x'TV DAYS hefore the day of sale. &Ucs of i^rsou il property (except uegrees) of testate and intes- tate e-fatai by Executors and Administrators, must be advertised 1 Applications by Executors, Administrators and Guardians to the Coui r of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be published F’OL'il ^ Applications by Executors and Administrators for LettersDismis- £0rv, must be published SIX MONTHS. Applications for Foreclosure of Mortices on real estate must be advertised once a month for SIX MONTHS. Sales of real estate by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, -IXTV DAYS before the day of sale. These , had been also informed that the successive parties i valid, unless so expresses in tlie advertisement. » • i n i i- » • .- • - 1 Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied wl’h a copy of the ! to which you allude was a link in t bond, or agreement) to make titles to land, must be advertised 1 tempts had been made even upon ^sherlff^s^aies^under executions regularly jrranted by the courts, 1 ters to exclude Maj. Eaton and his family from i! .V to your large parties. This suggestion was \ S'MvwWBif^["openy rd r eflnie% CU court;' their parties; that such a state of tilings ga*ve him i u P° n mv own responsibility, with an anxious niust be advertised, generally, ten dayh before the day of sale, great distress: that he was determined at all haz-! desire more effectually to reconcile the then exist- Ah'^ners^rerted^^ds^iffice^rTiufEditors 1 nius^bepost-1 ards to have harmony in his cabinet. He then ; difficulties. But General Jackson never did J t>ai*d, to entitle uiem to attention. j read a DaDer containin'? the nrinciDles upon which i ma “ e suc “ a requisition, in any manner whatever, J ! = j he intended to act. Inmy conversation with you, directly or indirectly; nor did I ever intimate to J OHN It. WOOTASf respectfully tenders himself | j referred to this paper. No doubt it is now in ex- y°4 " e “ aa made such a demand. 1 h® com- to the citizens of Baldwin county as a candidate for • existence. It disclaimed all intentions, on the part | P^mt made by General Jackson against this part H the Clerkship of die Superior Court at the ensuing elec-; ofthe p resid ent lat in manner what- i « fhis cabinet was specific, that he had been in- w tmnit. January next. Auff4_ , the ivate Qr g^j intercourse of the mem- formed, and was induced to believe, that they were - using their influence to have Major Eaton and his W E are authorized to announce .\lr. LEW IS J. W. KRAATZ a candidate lor Clerk of the Inferior Asa mutual friend I called up- Court of Baldwin county. Aug 4 W E are authorized to announce Mr. RANSOM U. SMITH a candidate for Clerk of the Inferi or Court of Baldwin county, at the next election. Aug 4 W E are requested to announce the name of WIL LIAM D. SCOGG1N, Esq. as a candidate for Sheriff of Baldwin county, at the next election for coun ty officers. Nov 6 W E are authorized to announce CapL WILLIAM F. SCOTT a candidate for Sheriff of Baldwin joountv. at the ensuintr election. July 5—mte i - - — ■ — i - — — - ■■■ — ■ " jl bt IT E are authorised to announce BARRADLLL i w V ▼ STUBBS, Esq. as a candidate for Tax Collec- ' tor nr Baldwin cwnnty, at the next election. June 23 W E are authorized to announce JAMES CONE* Esq. as a candidate for Tax Collector of Bald win county, at the election in January next. August 25 7 W E are authorized to announce GEORGE G MILLER, E q. as a candidate for Receii’er of Tax Returns for Baldwin county, at the ensuing elec tion J,;) y 7 on you, and, as a peace maker, my object was to make the above communication in the most delicate Without adverting to any farther inacuracies of. The people were still clamorous, something must your letter and statement, I have the honor to be, very respectfully your ob’t serv’t, R’H. M. JOHNSON. Hon. Samuel D. Ingham. GOV® GILMER® [From the Georgia Journal.] A brief Review of the Administration of Gov. Gil mer—By a Troup man. The conduct of public men being at all times a legitimate subject of full and free investigation, un der ail governments founded upon the principles of constitutional liberty, the writer avails himself of 1 that privilege to scrutinize the acts of the present executive administration of Georgia. In the out set, he feels it due to his excellency, to the public and himself, to premise, that in the remarks which he may make upon the course of this administra tion, there is nothing of personal hostility enter tained towards Mr. Gilmer. The object of this essay is nut to vituperate his reputation as a private citizen, but to shew from the policy which he has adopted and pursued as a public agent, that he has on some very important questions, wholly mistaken, not only the opinions, but the interests of his con stituents—and that whatever talents he may pos sess for the public service in another department, himself fit his friends have greatly mistaken his qualifications for the office which he now holds. That the public may arrive at just conclusions upon W E are authorize* ! to announce W.C. Pi >W ELL, in 1'aMw Esq. a enunidate for Receiver of Tax Return.-- rin, at tlie *n in January next. July 28 NOTICE. P ERSONS having accounts against the MiUcdgevillt Masonic Halt Lottery, will please present them for payment, within ten days fi iintlns date. 1 By order, R. A. GREENE, Secretary to Comm;: uoners. Milledgeville, August 4,1831. 4— Cotton Bagging. PlilULS heavy hemp, jum received, and for tale !>y 100 WILEY h BAXTER. $3 per qr. 5 6 4 6 12 2 ailUS. FLOURNOY, (Il idorc of H ni. H. Flournoy,) H AS taken a SCHOOL ROOM at Airs. Vickers nearly opposite Mr. Humphries, where she wi! L.uch a select number, not exceeding fifteen, die follow- inf branches ol Female Ltiucaiion, ut the annexed pii- l m . _ Reading, Writing, English Grammar, and Plain Work, - - “ “ Geography, History, Astronomy,Natural Philosophy, Belles Let;res and Orna mental Work, - * Drawing and Painting, • “ Embroidery, French Language, (five lessons per week,) Music, (five lessons per week,) Use of the Piano for Practicing, - As the most devoted attention will be paid to the con duct, neatness, &c., as well as mental impiovement of those pupils confided to her, parents and guardians are requested to visit tlie School twice a month and judge oi their implement. Milledgeville, August. 1st, 1831. 4—tf CUTHBERT A POLHILIi H VVE opened their L.1 H tyFLlCE. at the Com missioner’s Hall in the market-house, Miiledge- vihe, Georgia. One of diem is always to be found there ready to attend to professional calls. They will practice in tlie following Counties and Cu- f BALDWIN, J JONES, Ocmxugee Virauu...~ v p(jq’NAM { WILKINSON, f BIBB, lit \ MONROE, (HENRY. Chataf'joochie Circuit TALBOT. (TWIGGS, Southern Curcud j TELFAIR, &c. MidtUe Circuit WASHINGTON. Milledeeville, June 23, 1831 LIW® H ARGROVE & WALTH ALL are practicing Law in connection. They will attend the Courts in tire Ad joining counties. 55. B. HARGROVE, J TURMAN WALTHALL. Covinsrton, Newton co. June 23, 1831. 50—tf er inquiry, whether you could not, at those large and promiscuous parties, invite Maj. Eaton and his family. From the total social non-intercourse of the members of the cabinet, the want of harmony was inferred, more than from any other circum stance; and my desire was to remedy that evil by the suggestion or inquiry which I made. It would have Treen an absolute, unqualified, and total mis representation of his views, if I had represented the President as making any such demand. You will therefore perceive that you have fallen into the mistake of supposing that I attributed to him what was the spontaneous, sole, and independent sug gestion of my own mind. I have had no agency in bringing any part of our conversation before the public. I am happy in the recollection that my vol untary exertions to restore harmony to ancient friendship, for the time bein<v, was not unavailing, by conversations and mutual explanations, between some of the parties, and that I have had no agen cy in producing the recent separation. Having now corrected your misapprehension of what I did say in my endeavors to prevent the disunion of my bosom friends, I feel as if I had performed another sacred duty. I have done it promptly, and in the same spirit of peace and friendship. I have con fined my remarks to an explanation of what I said myself. This is done to avoid any unpleasant col lision which too frequently arises among the best of friends and most honorable men when efforts are made to detail private conversation. I am, dear sir, yours, respectfully, R. M. JOHNSON. Hon. J. Maepherson Berrien. family excluded from all respectable circles, for the purpose of degrading him, and thus drive him in! all the important matters connected with his ad maimer possible. During our conversation, in the ,Vom <>lbce: andlhat Uie attempt had been made ] ministration, it is proper to go back beyond its anxiety of my heart to ?erve mv friend and my even upon the foreign ministers, and in one, case , commencement, and look for a moment into the country, it was I alone, upon my'ovvn responsibili- P™Jueed -the dewed eflect. He proposed no causes which brought Mr. Gilmer into office. lai ty, who made the suggest!™ or proposition, or rath- m 1 ode ol accommodation or satislaction, but declar- hide to the unprovoked attack made by Mr. Gil- ‘ 1 - ed expressly that if such was the fact he would dis- mer on Mr. horsy th m the spring of 1829.— I hat miss them from office. He then read to me a paper controversy was sought by Mr. Gilmer, and what containing tlie principles upon which lie intended are the facts connected with it? They are these— to act, winch disclaimed the right to interfere with In the fall of 1829, Mr. Gilmer was elected to Con- the social relations of his cabmet. Acting in the gress. Upon a return of tlie votes, at the expira- capacity of a mutual friend, and obeying tlie im- 1 tion of twenty days from the election, Governor pulse ol’my own mind, can it be supjiosed that I Forsyth, in obedience to a law of the State, issued would have misrepresented any of the parties, and bis proclamation, requiring the members elect to thus defeat the object I had in view? I should signify their acceptance or refusal, to serve the have considered it a gross violation of the ties of State in Congress, that they might be commission- that friendship which then existed between us to e d in terms of the act aforesaid. Mr. Gilmer from have carried to you such a message, as that you ! some unavoidable or wilful cause, failed to comply should invite Major Eaton and his family, or any l with the terms of the act, and did not signify his other persons, to your large or small parties, under i acceptancewitliin the time specified by the act.— a menace of dismissal from office. When the Flint Circuit., NOTICE. B ROUGHT 'l < > JAIL, on the 15th instant, by William Saddler, a black man by tlie name of IrJ riEit, who says he belongs to Alexander C. Morri son of Putnam county. The owner is desired to come forward, in compliance with die law, and pay all charges and take him out. A. MAULDIN, Deputy Sheriff Habersham county. Aug 25 7- 3t Colonel Johnson’s Reply to Mr. Ingham. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. Blue Spring, 2d August, 1831. Messrs. Gales 8p Seaton: After having finish ed the within letter, I discovered in your paper of the 23d nil. that Mr. Ingham had published his letter to me, as well as his statement. You will please, therefore, to publish this letter as my reply, and oblige your ob’t servant, R’H. M. JOHNSON. Blue Spring, July 31, 1831. Dear Sir: Yours of the 16th instant was this day received, accompanied bv a statement, which it seems you have prepared for the public, purport ing to contain separate conversations, with the President and myself relative to an allegation made in the public journals, that General Jackson had authorized a member of Congress to require of Messrs. Berrien, Branch and yourself, and your families, to associate with * Major Ea ton, and his family, under the penalty of being dis missed from office. You refer to two articles in the Globe to justify your appeal to the public, pre viously to receiving my answer, in which it ap peared that I had denied the above allegation, if it had any allusion to me. After the publication of this accusation against General Jackson, I received a letter from a friend, intimating tiiat I was the member of Congress to whom allusion was made, and requested to know if I had ever made such a communication. In my answer, I confind myself to tfie specific accusation thus publicly made a- gdinst tlie President, and which is attributable to yourself and most equivocally denied that General Jackson ever made such a requisition through me, and as positively denied having ever made such a On the contrary, I asserted, rom President mentioned this charge of conspiracy, I vindicated you against it. I gave it as my opinion that lie was misinformed. To prevent rupture, I requested the President to postpone calling upon those members of his cabinet till Saturday, that 1 migfit have the opportunity of two days to con verse with them. When I made my report to the President, I in formed h.m that I was confirmed in my opinion previously expressed, that he had been misinform ed as to the combination and conspiracy. I inform ed him of your unequivocal and positive denial of the fact, and communicated every thing which tran spired between us calculated to satisfy his mind on the subject. It was this report of mine that gave him satisfaction, and changed his feelings and determination—not his ground as you have suppos ed ; with me he had no ground to change. He had assumed none except that which 1 have stated; nor did I ever make use of such an expression to you that he had changed his ground. It is true that I informed you tiiat the President was very much excited, but I do not now recollect the pre cise language used to convey my idea of that ex citement. I presume that you had the advantage of your private memoranda, when you say I com pared him to a roaring lion. You attribute to me another declaration which I never made—that on our way to Mr. Berrien’s I stated that the President had informed me tiiat he would invite Mr. Branch, Mr. Berrie , and your self, to meet him on the next Friday, when he would inform you of his determination in the pres ence of Dr. Ely. I never received or communica ted such an idea. The paragraph is substantially correct when that part in reference to Dr. Ely, is expunged. * It is true, in some of our various conversations, the name of Dr. Ely was mentioned, but in con nection with another part of the subject. Tlie President informed me that when the rumors a- gainst Major Eaton and his family had been o- pened to him by Dr. Ely, he had invited the accu sers to make good their charges, and that they had failed—this is the substance of that part of our con versation in which Dr. Ely’s name was mentioned. Again, you say I called at your house about 6 o’clock, when we walked to Mr. Berrien’s. The fact is that you called for me at my lodgings about that time, by a previous appointment. This is a mis take in a matter of fact of no great importance, ex cept to show how easily we forget. If we thus dif fer in matters of fact, how much more liable to dif fer as to words; and still more as to the time, manner, and circumstances in which these words have been introduced, and still more as to the pre cise meaning tlie speaker wishes to convey to the hearer! Having thought it important to memorandum our conversation, would it not have given addi- statement to you and now repeat, I did inform you, in each and ev- , tional proof of your friendship and confidence, and ery interview, that the President disclaimed any i would it not have been an act of justice to me, to right or intention to interfere in any manner ! have furnished me with it, (so far as I was concern- whatever with tlie regulation of your private or I ed,) that I might have corrected, if necessary, any social intercourse. " i erroneous impressions which my conversations Thus, in a matter in which I was engaged to j may have made upon you ? The witness in court serve you and other friends, in a matter of a deli- > is often misunderstood by lawyers and jury, and as L I N OUR months after date application will be made to / ihe honorable Inferior Court of Twiggs county, w.ien sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell tlie Nejrrocs belonging to tlie estate of Olivia Philips, dec’d. MARK FAULK, Adm’r. May 12,1831 OUll months afterdate application will be made to Inferior Court of Henry county, F the honorable when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell the real estate of John Joiner, laic of said county, deceased. lytha joiner, J Adm)n , WOODWARD JOINER, June 23, 1831. 1 7IOUR months after date application will be made to tlie honorable the Court of Ordinary ofMeriw&th- Cr county, for leave to sell the land whereon the late Rich- nrd Bray of Warren county resided, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors. THOMAS N. DUNCAN, June 23, IS31. Guardian. F uun monins alter date appj the honorable the Inferior Court of Franklin coun- ,• when sitting for ordinary purposes, for leave to sell e negroes belonging to the estate of Levi Stokes, de- crased. JAMES MORRIS, Adm’r. June 23* 1831. 4m 1 cate and liighly confidential nature, and in which I succeeded, unexpectedly I found myself presented to the public journals as a witness impeaching one of those friends, and ascribing to him declarations which he never made and placed in that attitude by you, self-respect, and self-defence, called upon me to correct that erroneous statement. I cannot, therefore agree wiith you, that I did in any degree change my view of the subject in considering it improper in any of the parties to come before the public without the opportunity of comparing our different recollections. But if you feel under any obligations of a personal or political character to ►come before the public previously, you will find me as ready as yourself to meet any responsibility or dif ficulty which such a course may produce. Up to this date I have considered my correspondence with you and Mr. Berrien of a character not to be di vulged to any one, and have therefore confined it to my own bosom. The object of my first letter to you was to declare frankly and candidly, in the spirit of perfect respect and friendship, that I was misunderstood, provided I was the member of Con gress to whom reference was made, that you might have it in your power to correct your misap prehension of my communications. I did not see how it could impeach your charac ter or lessen your reputation to consider and ac knowledge it a mistake, without you»assumption of the ground that you understood me better than I understood myself, and that you could make the public believe so. My standard of confidence and friendship, arising from a personal and political in timacy oftwenty years, would have dictated that often called upon to correct the mistake and to ex plain his meaning; and you have gained little in your desire to be accurate, so far as I am concern ed, by failing to present me with yonr private memoranda: and if now furnished, I dare think that I might put a different construction upon your own notes. Again, you are incorrect in supposing that I in formed you tiiat the President requested me to con ed by Mr. Berrien. IN or <na i ever say families had not returned the call of Mrs. Eaton; and that if they wouid leave the first card, and o- pen a formal intercourse in that way, the President would be satisfied. Such an idea never entered my mind; for I never did know tlie precise nian- ner in which the social non-intercourse existed be tween vour families, whether cards had ever pass ed from either or not; and sure I am, that tlie Pres ident and myself never had any conversation on the subject. “From first to latt my efforts were pu: forth to reconcile the parties concerned; they tvere for the time being successful. I have never chim ed any merit for what I did: I felt happy, howtver that I was in any way instrumental in prolonging the political relations which have since been sev ered, in which I have had no agency, and which I deeply regretted. / Having thus acted, to my great mortification I find mvselfdragged before the pub lic to vindicate myself against sentiments and con versations imputed to me by a part of those friends, without the opportunity of explaining to them their misapprehensions of what I did say. Governor Forsyth, in obedience to its mandatory provisions, ordered a new election, and issued his proclamation accordingly. The virulent manner in which Mr. Forsyth was attacked by Mr. Gilmer, is too fresh in the public recollection to require fur ther notice. Whatever may have been the mo tive of Mr. Gilmer for provoking the controversy with Mr- Forsyth, subsequent events have satisfied ine, and must carry conviction to the public mind, that it was the commencement ot asystem of opera tions intended to bring himself into the executive office. He succeeded, not only in enlisting his own personal and political friends and his “friend’s iriends” in the crusade against Mr. Forsyth and Maj. Crawford, but by some sort of legerdemain, some art of hocus pocus, the great body of the Clark party was rallied to his cause, and Mr. Gil mer came into office, by a higher vote, than any oilier man lias ever received from tlie people of Georgia. Having him now quietly seated in the executive chair, let us proceed to the history of his adminis tration. The first act which demands a passing notice, is his inaugural address, in which he declar ed emphatically that he considered himself “the Chief Magistrate of the State and not of a party. In all the appointments it becomes my duty to make I shall attempt to be governed by no other consid eration than the public service.'* This declara tion was received by the Clark party with emotions of pride and satisfaction—They hailed the period of his administration as a political jubilee, and con fidently expected to be regarded by his excellency, as a portion of the body politic, notliing doubting, that for tlie 18,000 votes cast by them for Mr. Gil mer, they would receive a fair equivalent of his patronage. How that debt has been paid is well known to the public, and the Clark people have rung the changes upon it to his heart’s content. I do not assert that Mr. Gilmer, either in person, or through his friends, or his “friend’s friends,” did holdout promises to the Clark party, but this I do know, that when the Statesman & Patriot, came out for him, among the reasons assigned for its course, it was said, if Mr. Gilmer should be elected, he would act liberally towards that party, or words importing the same meaning. Now, as facts speak louder than words, and as tliis statement was made by the Clark papers and not contradicted by Mr. Gilmer, or his friends, it is a fair presumption that an understanding existed between them, or that himself and his friends acted hypocritically in al lowing the leaders of the Clark party to hold out false lights to their people. Mr. Gilmer and his friends may take either horn of the dilemma and their position will be by no means enviable. This subject is referred to, to show, that Mr. Gilmer did enter into a combination with the Clark party, which he intended to violate, or that he suffered a hoax to be played off upon them for his own bene fit. Is it an article in Mr. Gilmer’s political creed that faith should not be kept with heretics. From the day of his inauguration nothing trans pired to call forth the boasted talents and energy of his excellency until the winter of 1829 anff 30, when the precious metals having been discovered in great abundance upon our Cherokee soil, great numbers of people from Georgia and other States rushed to the Territory in search of its treasures. In a short time several thousand had assembled, and such a scene of plunder, such an outrage upon the rights and the interests of our people has never been committed within the jurisdiction of our State, since its first organization. Here was presented the fairest opportunity for the exercise of execu tive energy—The country looked to him and him alone, to interpose his arm for the protection of her violated rights. Day after day, was the pub lic eye anxiously directed towards the executive, and the public ear in hourly expectanon of a com mand to put down and abate tlie nuisance. When the public voice was clamorous for redress, where was the boasted energy of Governor Gilmer? Did he order out the militia, did he make one man)v ef fort to save the property of the people? No. The outrage was every day increasing, until the public mind became so much excited, that Mr. Gilmer found it necessary to arouse from his slumbers and look into the matter. He forthwith examined the constitution and the law, and although he discov ered in that portion of the law derived from the mother country, that the minerals belong to the King, yet, he not being a king, had no power to protect them. He could find nothing in the Con stitution and laws to authorize the employmenLof force, and what should have been the alternative ? The answer is that he should have convened the legislature—and i? 1 rumour ought to be trusted, that measure would have been adopted if too much regard had not been paid to the preservation of his popularity. But the Legislature was not con vened, and the outrage continued and increased, be done, and something was done which will be re membered by the people of Georgia as the most striking act of imbecility which has ever been com mitted nv a Governor of our Elate. 1 allude to the proclamation against tlie gold diggers issued simultaneously, with that which extended tlie ju risdiction of the State over the Cherokee terriuny, and the train of measures by which it was follow ed. In that proclamation the Governor command ed all the officers of tlie State both civil and milita ry to be aiding and assisting in putting a stop to gold digging, upon our Cherokee Territory, and when the writer saw that proclamation he felt a reviving hope that efficient measures were about to be adopted. But that hope was soon to be disap pointed. For it is a fact, which I record with pain and humiliation, that in obedience to the Governor’s mandate, in compliance with the provisions of that proclamation, a respectable militia officer, residii in a county adjacent to the scene of plunder, die forthwith raise a company and proceed to the spot for the purpose of protecting the rights of his fel low citizens—Did he succeed?—Yes, he succeeded in a short time after his arrival, in finding himself and his men, prisoners to a detachment of the U- nited States army, then stationed in tlie neighbor hood of the gold mines.—Yes fellow-citizens, a force raised by virtue of the Governor’s proclama tion, executing the orders of the Chief Magistrate of the State, upon our own soil, within our own ju risdiction, disarmed and made prisoners by the Fe deral Troops. These things are true and must be spoken, but, I blush lor the honor of ihy State, wfien I speak of them. Here was presented ano ther striking occasion for the exercise of the bold and energelic qualities of which we have heard so much. Were they called into action? Were ihe Federal Troops ordered to leave our soil? Was the arrest and punishment of their officers demand ed bv Governor Gilmer? No. All this indignity, all this violation of personal and sovereign righh, was permitted to pass unheeded and unattoned, and the officers and men who suffered this outrage were obliged to submit without even the hope of redress. The next step which followed this most “lame and impotent conclusion,” was the notable scheme of reading off the intruders, by the Gov ernor’s agent Col. King, and the service of a bill of injunction upon them. This bill of injunction having been served oa some small number among the thousands then tres passing on the territory lived until it was dismiss ed at the September term of Hall Court, to which it was returnable, on the ground, as the writer^hae understood of want of jurisdiction. The exasper ated feelings of the community could not call up the executive energy, and the territory continued, to be inundated by thousands from all quarters. The summer passed away, the autumn came, and the trespass continued.—The Press groaned, and the people complained, when on a sudden, as if a- roused from his lethargy by some powerful excite ment, his Excellency issued his proclamation con vening the Legislature on the 18th ol October, just two weeks earlier than the day fixed by Jaw, What new discoveries he had made, what better reasons he could find for convening the members at that time, than had existed throughout the whole period, from the preceding April, are questions which would puzzle himself and his friepds to an swer. But, let us enquire what good resulted from thi0 anticipation of tlie regular session of the Legisla ture? If any good has been the result, I have keen unable to make ihe discovery. That some loss was the result, cannot be denied. That the expenses of the extra two weeks session w*ere a dead loss to the State of nearly twenty thousand dollars, will hardly be questioned. The extra session was os tensibly called for the purpose of enacting laws for the protection of the gold mines, but no law on that subject was passed until after the period for commencing the regular annual session. A law was at length passed putting the military force of the country, ami a large sum of money at the dis posal of the Governor for the protection of the sold mines, which law has received his sanction. About one month after its passage, when sufficient time had elapsed for the removal of every gold digger from the country, his Excellency discovered 'that the law was not to his liking, and accordingly made a communication to the Legislature, requesting the passage of another law on the same subject, which was passed towards the close of the session, and under the provisions of which the present guard was organized. But, it should be remembered, that the legisla ture was convened on the 18th day of October, and the Governors guard did not reach the gold region until about the first of February, and tiiat in the mean time great depredations were commit ted upon the rights of the people. For tins the Governor is mainly chargeaiie. for if he had r.o lower 10 enforce his deck:. ;.tioL agar- th d diggers, he should, forthwith, have convened * e Legislative and asked the necessary pov. , at their hands. The sheme of driving off thoi -.a of intruders by a bill of injunction, certainly coi iff not have been thought of seriously by any one, but his Excellency. But he is further chargeable, be® cause, so soon, as the first act received his official assent, it w as his duty to have ordered out a suffi cient volunteer or other militia force to expei in vaders. I here leave the subject of protecting li* gold mines, (tor the present) with the melancholy reflection that by the policy which the Governor has pursued, the people oif Georgia, are several millions of dollars poorer, than they would have been under the administration of an energetic Chief Magistrate. The next question to which I invite the public attention is tlie course pursued by his Excellency* in relation to the surv*4f and occupancy of our Che rokee Territory, and to some other "matters con tained in his message to tlie fast Legislature, wherein, I shall be able to present doctrines not on ly at variance with public opinion and at war with the rights and interests of the people, but also, the most palpable and glaring inconsistencies. In re ference to the gold mires, and the survey, his Ex cellency remarks in his message “The great value of the gold mines renders it proper that vou should not only provide some other means lor securing them from trespass, but aL;o, to render them profit able to the State.” Thus ii appears that tlie Gov ernor is a decided advocate of reserving the <?old mines to tiie State. In a subsequent sentence ot* the message, he says, “That part of the country ie so broken and inaccessible, so near the boundary of the State, and the means of enforcing the laws so difficult to be commanded, that neither of objects can be properly effected without taking possessing of mines. To do this in sjch manner as to have them wrought profitably and safely, apd at the same time to guard the time to guard the Indian right ofoccupancy from violation, it may be neces sary to obtain an accurate survey of the wholw country. By doing this, those tracts which coin? tain gold may be ascertained, and leases made with more certainty of confining the tenants of sreh within their bounds, and of distinguishing between • the rights granted to the tenants of those tract# which ni?y be occupied by the Indians, and those.