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federal UNION.
poverty, and slavery: and under the dominion of plus money, in the possession of the people, can be
•exasperated passions, to instigate them to a hasty
and violent rupture of the Union—to a catastro
phe replete with woes unutterable.
Yet these sentiments of Troup are.advocated by
more usefully expended by them, in improving the
lands, and otherwise adding to the riches of the
country, than if draionfrom them to be placed into
the Treasury.’ This seems to be a reasonable
the Georgia Journal!—Because the Editors can- j proposition. And in perusing what follows, we
not meet us by lair argument, they make a dastard- i should expect some reasoning to support it. In
ly attack upon our religious profession—as it reli- j stead ot the reasoning, however, we encounter, at
.rion and the good of our country were at-variance ' every successive sentence, a string of positions at
—as if religion would require us to sit silently by, J variance with each other, and with common under-
aml see oursacred institutions undermined and ties- standing—till, towards the close of the paragraph,
troved those institutions* whico secure tous liber- we are met by his second proposition, at swords’
ty of speech—liberty of conscience—and religious • points-with the foregoing—in which second one, he
freedom. • We doubt not but. the Editors of the says, “Mines are like the accumulation of tlie peo-
Journal would rejoice at that charity, which would pie’s money in the public Treasury—The govern-
suller the weeds of disunion to grow up rank and ment should manage them lor general and not for
luxuriant around ue—we doubt not but they would> individual advantage.” What a strange contra-
rcjoice at that criminal forbearance which would' diction tor the Governor of Georgia! Let us strip
silently suffer the poisonous doctrines of Troup and these two propositions of their trappings—strike
his leading advocates, to blast the Tair heritage of out whatintervenes between them—and place them
our country. But the time has come when the side by side—and how will they read ? First, The
friends of the constitution, of the union, of liberty, “surp.us money,” in the people’s hands can be more
political and religious, should awake. When the usefully employed by them; and therefore ought not
sentiment is openly avowed, that the South ought, to be placed in the Treasury. Second. The
to withdraw trom the union, as has been done in 1 “surplus money” in the mines ought to be pla-
Georgia and South Carolina, it is time to speak out.! ced in the Treasury to be managed by the
Should the opinions of Thomas Cooper become thej government, and not to be distributed among the
the sentiments of the people—then will the public people, though it can lie more usefully employed by
worship of God he abandoned—the Bible brought tliem.—We disapprove of verbal criticism ofpub-
into derision and contempt—and “the value of the he documents. But such absurd propositions, and
union be calculated.” j fundamental contradictions, as these, are legiti-
■ mate subjects for animadversion.
We have again to admonish the Recorder to be I The foregoing is not the oniy inconsistency in
sure of his facts. In his last paper he states that the paragraph. His Excellency seems to have a
Doctor Fort at the late meeting held to appoint wonderful attachment to maxims. He endeav-
delegatcs to the Eatonton convention, opposed the ours to entrench himself behind them on all occa-
Tesolutions offered by M. J. Ketfcm Esq. This is ■ sions. Like a small warrior of old, he seems to feel
not true. Dr. Fort at the request, of a Troup man ! sa ^ behind the shield which he cannot handle.—
moved for an adjournment. He observed, that for: Hut in this instance, we behold the mighty shield
his own part he should not have attended a politic- we see the little Teucer behind it. But.in vain
al meeting, had it been announced as such. He 1 ‘1° we l°°k for the immortal Ajax, with his giant
tame to do what had been done, and now desired h' am e, and brawny arm, to wie’d it. After re-
to adjourn. He added, the company who met us • marking that the surplus money ought to remain in
here had nearly abandoned the house, and that the j the hands of the people, his Excellency say, “It has
persons present, far from representin.^tlie county, I always been more difficult to restrain improper ex-
did not represent the company who bad been here \penditures, arising from a full treasury, than to
hut an hour since. He therefore called for a divis- i obtain, through the powers which belong to the
ion on the question of adjournment, and there ap- ; government, the meanes which may be really re
peared eight for adjournment—and seven against | quired for public purposes.” In reading this ex-
-it. A large number of citizens remaining without
the bar and declining to lie considered as voting.
As to the approval of the nomination? at Athens,
Se it not known that they have been made in con
tempt of the Clark party, bv selecting exclusively
fVnni their opponents ? IfDoctoi Fort and those
he is connected with in politics, are to be degraded,
3ft will not be by the authority of his name.
CAUTION—Sericus Cavticn!—We lenrn that an Jn~
avndiary Publication, designed to excite “rebellion in the
South” has been openly circulated among the free blacks
-o.t Washington—and that pedlers are to be sent to dis
tribute them among our domestics. The publication is
railed the Liberator, and snkl to be published by a white
4nan in Boston or Philadelphia. There has been a recent
insurrection in North Carolina.
Religious Intelligence.—There has been an extensive
■Revival of religion in Crawfordville: by the last authentic
occounts94 had united themselves to the Baptist Church,
and the work was still progressing.
In Milledgeville, there was a three day’s meeting ap
pointed, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, which
commenced on Thursday night last. Considerable ex
citement was manifested early in the meeting; and such
a general concern was apparent on Sunday night, that
the Presiding Eider said, if 50 persons would signify
their desire for the continuance of the meeting, he would
remain during Monday—a large number rose, and it was
■concluded to continue the meeting. There were large
and deeply affected congregations on Monday and Mon
day night. Large numbers, of various ages and of both
sexes, thronged the altar to receive the prayers of the
Church. We learn from their worthy, active, and pious
Pastor, that 21 white and 13 black persons have united
themselves to the Society. The Presiding Elder, Rev.
John Hoicard—-the Pastor, Rev. jMr. Sinclair—Rtv.
'Messrs. Pope, Hill, Green, Malone, and Snead were pre
sent. The Presbyterian and Baptist denominations
cheerfully united in the worship.
We have been particularly requested- to re-pul I s’i
the following article, which appeared under our edito
rial head on the 21st July last. "We do so to oblige one
of our subscribers.
MR. GILMER'S MESSAGE.—It is to the
public documents of the State, studied with diligence
and drawn out at leisure—to the maxims they in
culcate—the counsels they enjoin, and the direc-
tioa they give to public opinion, and the more im
portant actions # of the Government—that we look
lor those evidences *>f matured wisdom, and that
knowledge of political economy, which determine
*he true character of the state&nan. If he fail in
jthese, we may look in vain for the development of
mind in the active operations of the Government.—
Taking these therefore, as the standard by which
Mr. Gilmer’s mind is to be measured, let us look in-
tract, one should suppose, that his Excellency had
fallen suddenly and desperately in love with pover
ty—that he considered a lean Treasury to a State,
in the same light that he seems to regard a small
property, or poverty itself, to a poor man—a sort of
redemption from “prodigality”—a salvation from
that “corruption” of “morals,” which attends “rich
es suddenly obtained”-—that a comparatively small
sum is sufficient to answer the demands upon the
government funds—that the surplus ought to be
distributed among the people to lie “more usefully
expended by them,” in improving and enriching
the country—that this is necessary to prevent
prodigality in the disbursements of the public treas
ures, and that corruption growing out of them.—
In a that a full Treasury was a public curse.
He wo uWs u ppo.se that it was his Excellency’s opin
ion, that there is no evil in riches suddenly and ea
sily acquired by valuable landed estates. 'But how
is the reader surprised, when, towards the conclu
sion of the paragraph, he finds that his Excellen
cy’s love for profound maxims, had driven him to
advance another proposition directly in conflict
with the foregoing, viz: “mines are like the accu
mulation of the people’s money in the public Treas
ury. The Government. should manage them for
general and not for individual advantageMost
profound proposition, most wonderful, brand-new
discovery!! His Excellency had, but a few sen
tences before, found it '■‘•difficult to restrain im
proper expenditures arising from ajull J 'reasury: !
—But before rhe ink was fairly dry, which record
ed it, lie maintains that the government ought to
bring whole mines of gold into a Treasury already
(according to his argument) too “full.” to be man
aged for that people, who, he had just said, ought
to manage their money for themselves—and who
could expend it more usefully, than it it was
“drawn from them, to be placed in the Treasury,”
Are not these profound statistics?
Let us take another view of this profound para
graph. Mr. Gilmer opposes the lotterying of the
mines, because, he says, “the community would be
come highly excited, by the hope of acquiring great
wealth, Without labour.” The morals of the coun
try would be corrupted—regular industry and econ
omy would cease, &.c.—These statements must ap
ply to the poor classes of people. For surely the
Governor would not say that rich men would be
come prodigal, and dissolute, and corrupt, by “rich
es suddenly obtained.” It is the poor people, that
are to be corrupted by drawing gold mines—by
“riches suddenly obtained.” In the very next sen
tence, he informs us, that, “in most instances, even
the successful owners of the rich prizes would not
be really benefitted.” Why? Because rich specula
tors would cheat them out of them.—The ideas of
been made, to enquire into the expediency of re
porting td this House such measures as they may
deem necessary to arrest such permanent loca
tion.”
Report, That they have satisfactorily ascertain
ed that the Cherokee Indians have organized an
independent system of Government, with a view
to * permanent location in the States wherein they
now reside-. The Committee have seen their con
stitution in a printed form, and if that instrument
is to be relied on as embracing the views of the
Cherokee Indians, no doubt can be entertained of
their determination to locate permanently in their
present abode. They declare, among other things,
that their present boundaries shall forever remain
unalterably the same, and that the sovereignty and
jurisdiction of their Government shall extend over
the country which they occupy at this time.
In reference to the concluding part of the reso
lution, the Committee are of opinion that the Go
vernment of the United States has no right to in
terfere with the form of Government adopted by
the Cherokee Indians, so far as it relates to the go
vernment of their own people. Nevertheless, the
Committee are of opinion, that good faith and justice
require this government promptly to discounte
nance the formation of such government, so far as
it may in any degree assume a permanent jurisdic
tion over the soil, or in any Way attempt to alter
the tenure by which they have heretofore held
their lands. Because an idea of this kind must
prove fallacious and injurious to the best interests
of the Indians themselves; and the sooner they are
assured that this cannot be permitted, the better it
will be for them, and they will the more readily
come into the views of the government, and join
their brethren in the West.
The only expedient mode which has occurred to
the Committee to arrest the permanent location of
j these Indians, is to be found in the exercise of a li
beral and candid policy on the part of the United
j States toward them.
j To arrest the idea of a permanent location of the
Cherokee Indians within the limits of the State of
Georgia, the motive is peculiarly strong arising
fron the compact with that State; whereby the
. United States are liound to extinguish the Indian
, title to the lands within it, whenever it can be done
on reasonable and peaceable terms. With a view
to the fulfilment of this contract, and to the pecu
liar circumstances which have grown out of the
; case, your committee would earnestly recommend
that a generous and liberal provision be made to
' accomplish that object, as the best course which can
! be pursued by the United States, to prevent con
flicts which may disturb the harmony of our own
, citizens, and prevent the degradation and ruin of
the Indians.
of a character and temper wholly at variance with those
it was our wish to entertain on the occasion. Influenc
ed by these considerations^ the writer ol this article, was
wholly opposed even to the reading of the resolutions—
and in accordance with this opinion, their adoption was
opposed by several gentlemen of the Clark party. It is
also worthy of remark, that several politiciu friends of
Mr. Kenan, actuated by the true spint that had brought
us together, coincided in the views above expressed, ob
jected to the resolutions as ill-timed, a.id one of them
moved an adjournment to prevent the debate evidently
about to grow out of them.
Notwidistahding all tius, the editorial remarks of the -
Recorder throws the blame entirely upon the members
of the “Clark party.** The editor asks “will any can
did man tell us why these resolutions were not, and would
not be, agreed to?” If Mr. Grantland had been present at
the meeting, or taken the trouble to inform himself cor
rectly of die occurrences he pretends to criticise, and pos
sessed the candour he claims from others, he would at
least have stated the objections to agreeing to the resolu
tions that w ere urged by die gentlemen whosd names lie
introduces so cavalierly. These objections were sustain
ed by a majority of die citizens present; and diough as it
appears, they were not satisfactory to Mr. Grantland,
they might prove so to the public, who having no per
sonal grudges to gratify, seek for truth alone. I will
state these reasons concisely, leaving the advocates of the
resolution to point out any error they may discover in
the explanation.
The first and most obvious objection, was that already
stated. The meeting was got up for another purpose, to
execute a proposition about the propriety of which dicre
existed no division of sentiment. The invitation of the
Journal contained no notice that a political subject would
be proposed for discussion. On the contrary, it induced
the belief that both parties would abstain from it. Hr.d
intimation of a contrary intention been given, it is more
than probable that numbers would have attended, who
did not feel sufficiently interested in the subject announc
ed, to. do so. The sentiments of the people of the county
would not therefore have been fully and fairly represent
ed by any vote on the subject taken at that time. It was
.convening the people expressly for one Object, and caus
ing diem to act hastily, and without reflection, upon an
other. But the principal, and as I humbly contend, the
conclusive objec tion, was directed against the second res
olution, which called upon the citizens present to “concur
in the several nominations recently made at. Athens and
Savannah, of individuals to represent the State of Geor
gia” in a convention to be held at Philadelphia. The
objection urged to this resolution is founded upon that
fundamental principle of all Republican institutions, that
the people shall choose their representatives. It was
shown conclusively by Messrs. Rockwell, Polhill,
and Hepburn, that the people had no agency in selecting
the individuals nominated at Athens and Savannah; a few
men assembled voluntarily at those places and made the
ippointments sought to be confirmed by the resolutions,
lad they ahv authority from the people of Georgia to
and which the gold mines Would increase
“owners ot- the rich
speculators, who
rrectea i ~ - -j .
—,, ' . - • t t u , Governor we tax the ' the disposition of the lands by lottery is calculated
SSS?by SteXS tocxX” ana which .he goJmir- —» —
,wph before .hero. It »that winch relate, to the -^^Te iowe/'rf rich
gold mines, and reads thus— M 1
“The * ract of land from which the Cherokces have been
order of the President, is supposed to con-
ftemrved by
tain 464,64G tyrres, and is now subject to be disposed of
in such manner as you may think expedient. The great
object to be effected by the State, in the appropriation of
its lands, is the increase of its population, and the excite
ment of its people td industry and the accumulation of
wealth. The Lottery System which has been hitherto
adopted, is believed to have been better calculated to at
tain these ends, than the disposition by public sale. In
an unimproved country, where capital is scarce, interest
high, and every trade and employment demand labor
and wealth, the SurpluA money in the possession of the
people can be expended more usefully by them in improv
ing the lands, and otherwise adding to the riches ot the
country, than if drawn from them to be placed in the
public Treasury. It has always been found more difficult
to restrain improper expenditures arising from a full
Treasury, than to obtain through the powers which be
long to the Government, the means which may be real
ly returned for public purposes. It is reported that there
are valuable gold mines in the lands to be disposed of.
The public interest-requires that the lots of land which
contain gold should be exempted from distribution by
Lottery. The spirit *f speculation which the disposi
tion of the lands by lottery is calculated to excite, has al
ways been the greatest objection to that system. The
knowledge that the lands contained valuable mines of
gold, would increase that sipirit to the most injurious ex
tent. The community would become highly excited by
the hope of acquiring great wealth without labor. The
morals of the country would be in danger of corruption
from the temptation which would be held out by law to
the commission of innumerable frauds.—Regular indus
try ami economy would, for a time, be suspended by rest
less idleness, and imaginary as well as real and unneces
sary expenditures. In most instances even the success,
fill owners of the rich prizes would not be really benefit-
ed —Prodigality is the usual result of riches suddenly
and easily obtained. Mines are like the accumulation of
the people’s money in the public treasury; the Goyern-
apent should manage them for general, and not for mdi-
yidu&l advantage.”
The attentive reader will observe that, in this
short extract, his Excellency has stated several
propositions in political economy, directly at vari
ance with each other. We cite our readers to
them in their proper order. After stating the
quantity of land in the Cherokee Territory, and the
object to be effected" by its distribution, lie lays
foroaihisiira* That “thesfo-
prizes" into tne pow
would defraud them—those who are already rich
would become richer, and the poor drawers of pri
zes would remain poor, llow then, we ask, is the
poor man to become thus “corrupted, by “riches
suddenly obtained,” when his Excellency says, they
“would not be really benefitted’-thatis,they would
not be made “suddenly” rich?—The thing is utter
ly beyond our comprehension.
So much for Mr. Gilmer’s hnbits of close think-
ing, and his lucid arrangement of political apo-
thems 11 If his friends are willing to measure the
length, and breadth, and depth ot his mind, by this
message, his opponents certainly have no objec
tion to their doing so. But one tiling we must
protest against, namely—-this attempt to withhold
the benefits of our public lands from poor men, who
constitute the great mass of the people—who bear
their full share of the burdens of the Government.
We protest against all this gold being thrown into
the Central Bank to be loaned out to rich men. If
the poor man’s name goes into the lottery wheel, it
is as apt to come our to a gold mine, as the nch
man’s. If the same poor man and his rich neigh
bour go to the Bank with their notes, certificates
must De examined, and tax books rummaged the
poor man’s note be thrown aside, and his nch
neighbor get the cash. If these gold mines are
reserved, the gold goes into the Central Bank-
then we may stare at Governor Gilmer’s “improp
er expenditures arising from a full Treasury ?”•
then we may see the march of “corruption,” from
the head quarters of monied influence!—We say,
give every man the same privileges—and let the
poor man have a “while man’s chance.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Congress, Jan. 14, 1829.
Mr. Lumpkin, from the Committee on Indian
Affairs, made the following report, which was laid
on the table.
The Committeeon Indian Affairs, to whom was
referred a resolution of the 9th inst. instructing
them “to inquire if anv of the Indian Tribes within
the Territorial jurisdiction of any of the States,
have organized an independent Government With
a view to permanent location within the said States,
and if they find that any attempt of the Ipnd has
fFOR THE FEDERLA UVIOtt.J
Messrs. Editors.—The “Senior” of the “gentle Reeor*
tier” sometime since was very clamorous that Mr. Lump
kin should resign his seat in Congress previous to the
election for Governor. *1 will not stop to ask whether he
intended “for the good of the people” again to offer him
self as candidate to supply the vacancy proposed so to
Imade. The benefit to the interests of the State that
might result from the exercise of his great and command
ing abilities, would no doubt prove sufficient to overcome
the gentleman’s modesty on that particular; and if he
could not make speeches replete with lengthy, sirengthy,
and depthy arguments—if he is found to be “no orator as
Bndus is,” at least “every body would know where to
find” him—he would “stand to his emu”—“every body”
who reads the Recorder must know of wliat these consist
—jaundiced illiberalily and vulgar abuse. Perhaps, how
ever, the worthy “senior” may think of making his de
but upon a subject that seems mueh to have horrified him
of late—towit “the right of the General Govern
ment to sell a state.” He is perhaps hard at, work
jncmnrizinar his speech. of m&kiffi? out bis — *" L -r--
intending the latter. It so, it would be unmanerly
so it would,” to arrest the flight of hri genius on
the wihgto immortality, and condemn him a term long
er to drudge at the desk of the “poor old Recorder.”—
Such grumbling and growling there would be—but let
that pass. I have a word for the Recorder’s candidate
for the Senatorial Branch of the General Assembly-.—
Why does not Dr. resign his Directorship in the
Central Bank? Why does not the “senior” make
ibis requisition of resignation to him? Is it because the
oldgen.leman has no ambition that way ? What a pity
then that his brother of the type could not hold two ap
pointments in the same institution ? I do not desire to
know if Dr. Boykin will resign afler the election in Octo
ber next. If his tenure of office be measured by his suc
cess at that election, he is likely td retain tlic Director
ship other twelve months at least.
The enemies of General Watson for several years
past have endeavoured to injure his election by insinuating
.hat lie has an intention to remove from the county. It
is a weak weapon of his opponents, and highly creditable
to the General, that with till their zeal they are not able
to get up a more plausible pretext to divest him of the
people’s confidence. U]>on supposition they charge liim
with the intention, on some future day, at some indefinite
period, to remove from the county! Such poor squibs
can never injure his election. It is insulting the good
sense of the people of Baldwin county to suppose that
they can be swayed by a pretext so shallow. They all
know General "Watson—and confidently rely upon his
ability and faithfulness—they wiH try him again—the
malice of Ids enemies must recoil upon their own heads.—
His success cannot be doubted. JUSTICE.
[FOR THfc FEDERAL UNIOK.J
Audi alteram partem.
Messrs. Editors.—In die last Recorder I observe a par
cel of strictures appended to'the proceedings at the late
meeting held in our Court-House to appoint delegates to
the Convention proposed to be held at Eatonton on the
subject of a proposed Rail Road through our State. It
is unpleasant that topics of an inflamatory nature, and
upon which a difference of opinion is known to exist,
should have interposed to mar the harmony of feeling,
and unity of sentiment, with which all assembled to co
operate in the ostensible design of that meeting. 4* ail
individual present on that occasion, and interested not on
ly in the subject for which the meeting was called, but
also for the preservation of those kind feelings necessary
to ensure its success, I had cherished the hope that all
points of political difference would have been avoided, as
none were necessarily involved, and the deliberations of
the assembly directed to the main object for which it had
been convoked. But as this reasonable expectation has
been unfortunately disappointed, and the matter has been
made the subject of newspaper discussion, I claim the
privilege of replying to the.strict ures above mentioned.
The history of this meeting is soon told. A notice ap
peared in the Journal calling upon the citizens of Baldwin
county to assemble at the Cout-House in Milledgeville
for the purpose of appointing delegates to meet others
from the different counties of the State, at Eatonton, to*
deliberate upon, and devise means for, carrying into ef
fect the much talked of Rail Road—expressing at the
same time the hope that party feeling would be excluded
from die assembly, and all hands and heads unite for the
S urpose proposed. I do not quote the language of the
ournal, out merely state what seemed to me the mean
ing of the paragraph alluded to. With this view of the
subject, and not anticipating the introduction of cause
for political disputation, which in fact I was determined
to avoid—among many others I attended at the place ap
pointed. The business of selectihg gentlemen to attend
the Eatonton Rail Road convention, was introduced by
Mr. Polhill, who stated what’he conceived to be the ob
ject of the assemblage; and on whose motion Mr. Boze
man was called to the Chair, and Mr. Kenan appointed
Secretary. The selection of delegates having been made
and confirmed, the object of the meeting was accomplish
ed and the Chairman was about to pronounce an ad
journment, when Mr. Kenan offered the Preamble and
resolutions published in the Recorder, to my astonishment
and regret, and no doubt equally to the surprise and re
gret of a majority of the citizens present. They were
offered to our astonishment, because from the language
and spirit of the invitation by which we were attracted
there, we felt an assurance, -that by general consent, all
cause of political controversy would be carefully avoided—
and our regret arose from the conviction, that as the reso
lutions, or rather the hut of the two resolutions, involved
manciples always opposed by the party to which we are
attached, which could notYeceive our assent, and which
we therefore felt bound to opppose, a debate - —
a
do this? Certainly not. How thert can persons so ap
pointed claim to represent the State of Georgia?” If the
matter be so deeply interesting to the citizens of this state
why not Jet them, the people of the whole State, par*
ticipate in selecting their representatives? Did the aris*
tocracy who assumed the right of guardianship in making
these appoint ments, suppose the citizens of Georgia gen
erally to be unqualified to do it themselves?
It was also insisted upon, that acquiescence in such
assumptions of tire peoples prerogative, would encour
age similar proceedings in more important concerns. A
body of men hastily assembled at Athens, or Savannah,
perhaps upon a very different pretext, might appoint the
Governor, Officers ef State, Judges, members of the Le
gislature &c- &c. an d then ask, are not these “good men
and true?” What objections can you have to them in
the capacity designated by us? The answer of the peo
ple is plain—wc desirfe to exercise our right to appoint
them ourselves! A caucus has the same right to appoint
the Governor as to select, representatives to the Philadel
phia Convention. These assumptions of pov.eis belong
ing exclusively to the people, were represented as °f dan
gerous tendency, and so many encroachments upon their
right. Hence it appears that as the people of the State
had no agency immediate, or mediate, in appointing the
persons alluded to in the resolution, they could not be re
garded as representatives “of the State of Georgia.’’
These were some of the objections urged against agree
sng 10 me resoiuuon. n was distinctly stated t>y the
gentlemen using them, that to the Preamble they had no
objections, and would agree to it, provided the resolution
was erased. This was objected to by the mover, and
the meeting adjourned without agreeing to the proposed
measure. Previous to the adjournment Col. Rockwell
offered the Following.—
“Resolved, That, while we o'pnrove of the project of a
Convention at Philadelphia for the purposes publicly ex
pressed, we are decidedly opposed to any set of men as
suming to themselves the power to appoint delegates to
represent the people of Georgia in said ^convention, with
out any previous authority from the people themselves.”
Mr. Polhill offered the following amendment as a sub-
tufc for the resolution opposed—
“Resolved, That this mcctirtg now proceed to elect a
number of Delegates to represent us in the Anti Tariff
Convention to be held at Philadelphia, equal to the num
ber of our Senators and Representatives m Congress.”
This was proposed in the spirit oF conciliation, and to
avoid further unprofitable debate upon the propriety of
adopting Mr. Kenan’s resolution. Why were they not
acceded to? Was it because the gentlemen offering them
were of the Clark parti, and was it apprehended that
“men of the Clark party” would have been selected
under them? Will gentlemen acknowledge this to be
the ground of their refusal? Why were not these reso
lutions published in the Recorder-, or even referred td?
No doubt for the reason that the writing editor of that
paper has no intention of doing justice to his opponents,
but practices a systematic course of falsehood and decep
tion upon the honest credulity of his readers. Mr. Grant-
land claims to be one “of the Pioneers of sound dotftrine,”
will he condescend to inform us whether it be “sound re
publican doctrine” that an aristocratic junto should ap
point representatives for the people, rather than that the
people should appoint their own representatives? For
one I have no hesitation in saying, that with two or three
exceptions, the appointments of the Athens Caucus
were not such as I could agree to. I could have suited
myself better. The gentleman offering the resolutions
freely acknowledged that he too, could have been better
suited, if permitted to select for himself. Why then
should these men be forced upon the people, without per
mitting a previous exercise of the right of suffrage?
The acrimonious feeling exhibited in the Recorder is
perfectly in character with its Editor—and unworthy of
notice* My bussiness isjwith his facts. If he had rela
ted them ingenuously no reply would nave been neces
sary. I have endeavoured to supply the omission, and
now leave the people to judge where the blame should
rest. No man opposed the resolutions from unkind feel
ings toward the gentleman offering them. Many regret
they were offered at all; and the notice here taken of the
subject, is the result of a desire fairly to represent the
motives of a part y to which I fepl a pride in being attach
ed, which haveTconceive, been unjustly impugned.
A CITIZEN OF BALDWIN.
[for the federal union.)
FEDERALISM.
A few plain questions for the Republican Presses in Mill
edgeville.
1. Is not the honorable John Forsyth, now Senator in
Congress, claimed by your party as a legitimate member
of their self-styled Democratic family ? Or in other words;
ishe not a leading member of the Troup Party ?
2. Do you not know that this gentleman entertains
principles of the oId FederabSchool, and does not your
party generally believe him to be a genuine Federalist?
3. Were not the Federalists of 99 identified with the
supporters at the first Adams’ administration?
4. If William B. Crawford the beacon of the Troup
party, was found among the supporters of Adams* ad»
ministration, how can he or his votaries escape the charge
of Federalism?
5. If these distinguished leaders of the Troup party
be exposed to the charge of Federalism, by what sort of
Logic do you deduce the conclusion, that the men who
have always opposed them and their principles are Fed-
WJicn you shall be able to evade the force of the
above questions you may twang your favorite chord of
“ Federal Clark party” subjecting yourselves to the charge
of a most pitiful and contemptible arrogance,
CiU£RISTa
Tuesday, September Oth, 183!.
At a large and respectable meeting ot the citizens of
Washington countv, convened at SandersVille, pursu
ant to previous notice, for the purpose of considering the
propriety of appointing Delegates to attend the Conven
tion to be held in Eatonton, Putnam county, on the fourth
■ moat}*, to enquire into the practo
mutt ensued orday of the present
cahility and advantages of a Rail Ru<ld JinaaL ra uiie*
riorol our bifire, Frederick Cullens; Esq. v et> a fled
to the ChAir, and Sherrod Sessions, JL>q. was; j,, oiiitr
cd Secretary.
After the Chairman liad taken his peat and ;lie mee;.ng
organized* tliere was considerable cliscusMon «.n the in>
porLance of the meeting and its objects, in wrack Messrs,
Saffoldv Schley, Gohder and Cullens took pa*
On motion, it was ordered, That Franklin Kt* berto-H.
Wiley W. Cullens, Joseph Bi Grtider, F.wjrs. anil Maj.
WiUiam Hurst be, and they arc hereby Rppom tti Ltic-,
gates, to represent this county in said Convention
On motion of Dr. William P. Haynes—-Resoivtiik
That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the
MHledgeviile papers.
The meeting then adjourned’
FRED. CULLENS, Chairtnafr.
ShfrroD Sf.ssions, Secretary;
■ i, ,, * - - “ —
DIED—On the Wth Inst. s*t the residence of Mrs. Ellis, in Baled
Win county, JOfSEPH STILE9, younpeSt son Of John A. Cntlibertj
Esq. aged -J3 month*. "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken
away; and blessed be the harne of the Lord.”/ . . .
At the Indian Springs on the 37th ulf. ROBIN JACKSON, only
sou of Col. Joel Baily of that place.
FOUR DAY’S MEETING!
A FOUR Phy’s Meeting will be held in the Metho”
dist Church fn Milledgeville, commencing on Sar
urday, the 15th of October next. Sep»22
REMOVAL.*"
MILS. ISillCt ,
uniiiirfiit, BnusooEViLLii,
H AVING removed he> llIiLLINLKY f>TOI?it
to the house formerly occupied by Ciaymn it
irmiLh, on the corner of Wnyhe fend Hancock streets,
opposite Messrs. Wiley & Baxter’s, is now prepared to
attend to any call in her line of business, where she h< pe.a
her friends and customers will continue to extend to her
their patronage; All orders for work in the above basis
ness thankfully received anH promptly exeemed on rea*
sonable terms. Septemfrttr 2?*-
ilt*
LAND FOR SALE.
T i.iL subscriber being<is ol remov
ing to 'the VV estern country, offers the
place whereon he lives for safe—situated
upon the Flint river, immediately adjoining
tlie Flat Shoals, upon the M'erriwether side
of sam River. To people who are acquainted in *Ji is top
tion, a description of the above place is almost stipcrfiu;
ous: suffice it to say that the quality of the land is very
superior, lying remarkably level, and so far ha* proved
to be very productive. Tl-ere are upwards oi ‘200 acres
cleared upon the above place, all of it fresh and under
extremely good fencing. The Tract of Land contain*
between , .
atvO & 400 AtRLS,
with an opportunity of buying cheap, u \* ante#;, several
tracts of wood land lying contiguous and adjoining. It
is an excellent stand for a public house, blacksmith’s
shop, and store—-situated exactly upon the had way
ground between Greenville and Zebulon. L pen tho
premises are a number of stables, cri bs, cabins, fce. ami
an excellent cotton gin. Terms wilt be liberal to purcha
sers. THOMAS N. DUNCAN. •
Merriwcthcr co. 10th Sept. 1931. 11—tldee
— ; c 1 . .t
T AX COLLECTOR’S SALE.—Will be sold;
before the court-house door in Decatur, DeKaib
county, on the first Tuesday ill NOVEMBER next, one
hundred and forty acres of Land, or so much thereof as
will make the Tax for 1830 of D. D. Baily, tying in Jack-
son county, on the waters of North Oeny, adjoining
Batchalor and others ; property pointed out by William
Dickson as agent for said Baily. Tax 31 cents 6 mills.
GEORGE D. ANDERSON,
Tax Collector of DeKaib county.
September . 11 . trls
W ALTON SHERIFF’S SALE. Will be
sold, on the first Tuesday in in NOVEMBER
“next, before the court-house door within the usual hours
' nf uiIa, tfw> CoUewihg jwoporty io-witT
All of John B. Marablc’s interest in tlie home and lot
in the town of Monroe, known l*y the name of the Wal
ton Hotel, now occupied by said Mara hie—als» his in
terest in a negro man by tlie name of Edmond, one brown
bald-face horse, one small wagon and harness, eleven
feather beds and furniture, fend eight bedsteads, five mar-
tresses, ohe hiahogony secretary, otie pair Of targe i<<ok-
ing glasses; three small ditto, four brass candle sticks;
one pair of brass andirons, three do. cast, one lot of croft
ing utensills one pair of sadirons, twelve split br.r yni
chairs, three setts Knives and forks, twenty-four lea-tt.’ -lo
spoons, thirty-six wineglasses, eighteen tumblers, urens-
ty four plates, five dishes, three slake do. three cups
and saucers, four large jars, two long dinner table; , two
large pitchers, three decanters, three bowls, two tiurks,
one folding tabic, two coffee pots, two tea pots, one large
waiter, one large beil, one cutting hnifg* three blades—
all levied on as.the property of John B. Mara' it w rarist
fy a fi. fa. in favor of Jennings &. Cook, and others vs.
said Marable; property pointed out by Crefed M; Jen*
nings. JOHN T. MORRi ’W; D. Sheriff.
N SALE. v : . Jt ; be so/d,
on the first Tuesday in December m-jr. sr.-twe'eA
the usual hours of sale, at Monticelic, Jasper eoitmyi
agreeably to an order of the honorable the Inferior Court
of said county, when sitting for ordinary purpose , the
Land whereon Mast in Rucker formeity .lived at .ne time
of his death. Sold for the benefit ef the heirs and credi*
tors—Terms made known on the day of t ait.
■JAMES NEAL, J . . .
AARON SMITH, \ Mrn orst
September 11 . tds
G UARDIAN’S SALE.—Will lie sold,.>n ttw fir*
Tuesday in December next, in ihe town of Perry,
Houston county, between ihe. usual hours of t-aie, Lot
No. 212, in the 9th district of said county. Sold agree
ably to an order of the honorable the Court of Cn.nr.ttry
of Newton county, for the benefit of the orphans of V- il :
liam Rhodes, deceased. Terms made known on the . r.y
ofsale. JOHN V. CAMPBELL, Gua:ri:u£.
September 22 H .’<■
G UARDIAN’S SALE. Will be on ;he
first Tuesday fn December next, between the ;uv-
a! hours of sale, at Clinton, by order of the Inferior Court
of Jones county, sitting for ordinary purposes, the reel
estate belonging to the minors of Benjamin Milner, ad^
joining lands of Cliarles Wornam and others.
J PENELOPE MILNER,
Guardian for the minors.
September 22,1931 H tds .
UAROIAN’S SALE*—Agreeably to an order
RJI - of the Inferior Court of Walton county, sitting for
ordinary purposes, will bfe sold at the’ court-house door at
Monroe, Walton county, on the first The ad ay in Dee-
ccmber next, all the interest of Mary Ann Knight, minor
and orphan of Robert Khight, deceased, in Lot lumber
one hundred end eighty-nine, in the fourth district of
Walton county^-sfeid interest being fifty teres of said
lot. GEORGE WILLINGHAM, Giffirdiair.
September 22 11 tds
EORGLA, WALTON COUNTY*—'Wherea^
RJf Charles Sorrells applies to me for letters of Admirri
istration on the estate of Elizabeth Sorrells, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish ail anti sim
eular, the kindred and creditors of said dfeeeAsfed - , to be
and appear at my office, within the time prescribed by
law, to shew cause, if any they have, why said letters
should not be granted. Giveir under my hand, this lQtft
September, 1831. , , ,
JESSE MITCHELL, c. fc. o.
Sept 18 II . 5t
TO RENT,
UNTIL tlie first day of January next, th«
llmB HOUSE & LOT, now occupied by the subscrR
1**1 Baber, situated on Wayne-street, at the lower end
of town. N. B. Jim AN.
August 4 4—tf
NOTICE.
A T.T. persons indebted to the estate of John Lnnty t
late of Burke dounty, deceased, are requested t«
make immediate payment; and all those hating rittnaatfo ~
.m present then, ^ .
Sept t *r~§t —. -
W
E are. authorised toannonnre BARRADELL P-.
STUBBS, Esq. as a candidate for Tax Colley
to*, or Baldwin eeimty, at the next elect W