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gratitude?) (lie Constituiioo was at length zens
adopted in each and every one of the States.
Wuat a Moral Revolution then ensued!—
Order emerged from chaos, Light sprang out oi
Darkness, National Dishonor gave way to Na
tional Fame, and misery and poverty were suc
ceeded by active enterprize, successiul indus
try, and goueral prosperity. Forty-two years
Itava since passed by in the most troublous a
of modern times. The civi ized world has
been conversed, kingdoms and republics have
tottered to their fall, and many of the fairest
regions of the Earth have been drenched with
blood, impiously poured forth in civil strife;
while our favored country has njoyed one un
intcruptcd tranquility, offering an Asylum to
the persecuted and afflicted of every land, ad
vancing with steady step in the arts', literature
improvement, wealth nndp pulation,.exhibiting
a glorious proof of the capacity of man for self-
government, aud presenting to the eye ol the
philanthropist,a spectacle on which it coulddwell
witli ever new delight. True it is, tiiat our in
ternal peace was onco threatened by insur
rectionary movements in some of the Western
counties in Pennsylvania; but the wisdom of
the National Executive, and the prompt patri
otism of our citizen soldiers, put down the In-
sturrcction—and put it dowm without the shed
ding of one drop ol blood. True it is, tiiat tlie
struggles of contending parties on questions of
In ternal and external Policy have been not on
ly animated aud ardent, but even violent and
excessive yet the spirit of our free Institutions
has been preserved inviolate; the will ot tho
majority expressed under the sanctions and in
the lornis of the Constitutions, settled all con
troversies; the bands of fraternal affection re
mained unsevored; and these very conflicts,
like the storms wetcli pass harmlessly over our
heads, have purified and invigorated our polit
ical atmosphere. Public credit, once so de
pressed tiiat it could not command a dollar to
meet the most urgent demands of justice, has
arisen to au eminence and attained a stability,
which leaves literally nothing to be wished fon
Tho entire Revolutionary Debt, and the debt
incurred in the course of the short and only
war we have since had, are paid off, or on tho
very eve of extinction, and before another
year passes by wo shall exhibit a spectacle;
almost unknown among civilized governments
at this day, of a People who owe nothing.—
Our commerce is spread over every sea—no
foreign standard usurps authority in our land—
and not only command the free navigation of
the Mississippi, but nre the undisputed propri
etors of tho immense regions through which
that flood rolls its waters to tho Ocean. Once
so low there was none to do us reverence, and
now there is no Potentate, no Prince nor Peo
ple which docs uot respect our rights or is in
different to our friendship. The American
name is now a passport of honor in every land,
and the American Flag—the s^nie old stripes
which our veteran soldiers followed through
many a long day of doubt'and danger—is now
the proud emblem of American glory, and in
sures security and protection to all over whom
it waves its folds.' . . .
And we are invited to forego these blessings,
and to joopard this Constitution for soiuo un
known, some hypothetical state of greater per
fection. My friends, the man who can talk
calmly of the secession of one of the States oi
this Confederacy, and of a dismemberment of
this Union, has a stouter heart and firmer
nerves than I lay claim to. It is impossible to
contemplate iho possibility ofonr being biokcn
up into petty sovereignties^ and the shameful
and detestable consequences which would prob
ably follow, without horror. All former sym-
pathics forgotten “of joint counsels and joint
efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and suc
cesses”—no further interests or property in
tho contest of Bunker’s Il ill or King’s Moun
tain, of Trenton, Guilford, or Eutaw, in the
triumphs of Saratoga' and York Town, and in
the victories on the Bro id Blue Water, of
Truxton, Preble, Hull, Decatur and Blakely
—annoying each other with vexations regula
tions of trade by sea and land, or desolating
each other with border wars, tlie result of jeal
ous rivalries, exasperated by foroigli in'rigues
—keeping up expansive and oppressive milita
ry establishments; and, like the miserable re
publics ofSoutb America, too imbecile to ob
tain respect abroad or enf rcc obedience at
home, the alternate sport and plunder of rapa
cious chieftains—a mork, a mark, and a scorn
for tho foes of freedom throughout tho world,
falling at length a prey to despots and oligarchs
within our borders, or sinking into the state of
humble allies to foreign protectors, and submis
sive slaves to foreign masters! When the
children of Israel had acquired possession of
the land long promised to their Fathers, and
Fnl rested from their wanderings, and from
tho wars round about them, their venerable
leader assembled the tribes at Shechem, and
addresses them thus:—“If it seems evil to you
to servo tho Lord, choose yo this day whom
yc will serve—whether the Gods which your
lathers served that were on the other side of the
flood, or tho Gods ol the Aineritcs in whose
land ye dwell.” Fellow citizens, a similar
question, for less important indeed, but still a
similar and a momentous question, is put to us.
Our answer, 1 trust is ready. We will not
serve tlie dominion which our fathers served
beyond the ocean, for we have long since tried
nn 1 renounced it. Neither will wc serve tho
new political idols of nullificati >n, secession
end disunion—they command not onr rever
ence, and attract not our affections. Each and
even- of us like the Patriarch of old is ready
to exclaim—For me and my house, wo will
cleave to our glorious Union, to our time-tried
Constitution, to our country and its institutions
as they arc.
But it may well be asked, have not our
brethren of South Carolina, have not the Peo
ple of this State, grave and well founded caus
es of complaint against th.- tariff system of tlie
General Government—tiiat system of extrav
agant encouragement to Manufactures, to tho
detriment of the other purstiits of industry ?—
And are not these of a kind to justify vigorous
efforts at redress? Be it so. What is the pro-
civi? extent and pressure of these mischiefs, I
stop not to inquire. They have unquestiona
bly l.ecn grosslyand ridiculously’ exaggerated
—out still I admit them to be mischiefs—if
y ou plea*", serious mischiefs. Such certainly
L (lie general sentiment of the Southern sec
tion of tne U. States, and such the deliberate
every section of tlie Union. But! unpretending as they always are, and indispos
what then ? M ast itny remedy which is prapos- ed to obtrude themselves upon public notice
ed he adopted,uowevi r empirical or desperate 11 have, under a strong sense of duty, so general
May not the proffered cure be worse than the
disease 1 Do you expect a condition exempt
from every inconvenience, and are we to re
sort to revolution whenever this extravagant
expectation is disappointed, and we cannot
have all things as we wish, and as we believe
they ought to be. If, as individuals, wc are
conscious of frequodt departures in our own
conduct the course which our best interests
demand, can we hope that, as a conirtiumly,
wc shall never blunder ? Do ire exnect that
there are to be errors in legislation, no devia-
ations from true policy ?—Wc have erred be
fore, often and seriously erred. What were
then our remedies ? What wo then ascer
tained to bo eflicatious, time, fair discussion,
and enlightened public opinion, may be now
safely trusted in, in tho confidence that the}’
will accomplisu for us the same results.
There is a redeeming spirit in a well-informed,
ly come forward to declare their unshaken ad
ho «ion to the integrity of our great confederated
Republic. They may .disapprove the Tariff
much, but they love the Union more. -They
differ—and it is the privelege of freemen
differ, and their duty firmly and constsitutiori-
ally to declare this difference—on several ques
lions ef great National importance, They
may not concur in the selection of those to
whom they would confide the management of
teir national concerns. But when that “unity
of government which’constitutes Americans one
People” is endangered—when peril menaces
“that main Pillar in the edifice oflndependence
the support of tranquility atJiome, of Peace a-
broad, of Safety, Prosperity and Liberty,” then
all differences are laid aside aud forgotten
Then.they come forward as.one man. Then
they have but one voice, (and from the bottom
of my heart, and in tho sincerity of my soul,
well-meaning and free people; kept together join with) and that voice is, the Country the
lit/ nn ortiriAnt c.n’i.'tl t.rjiilli/flliiin. whirl). 1111- i Wllrtln riniintpv mirl n.itliinir huf fli*» Pnnntrvv
less you exasperate their passions to the des
truction of their judgment, is safe—not indeed
to save them from error—but to rescue them
from the consequences of errors before they
become^ fatal. If we can shew this system to
be; as wc ullege, unequal, unjust and impol
itic; arid a taxation of-the many for the ad
vantage of the few; an oppressive impost oil
Gl-old lottery
Frizes, drawn up to Apnl 15.
Bibb—E Griffin 546 2 3; W II Gregory 703" i
3; S Lodifer. &53 12 1; John Parks 1162 14 1
U L \. light 4077 2 4; G 11 Taylor 31“ 22; Win
A Kitputnck 430.17 3; KobtJ Carter 619.19 2,
Titos J lVJ’CJeskey 26ii 17 2; W 11 Cay 8i9-4 1;
any thing like this case, it were a a libel on Csm.odOlo X; Wui Wilder &1 5 HA Brady
the American People, aud a tfedsori against 295 3 3; Duuou Inviu J212173; John Davis 545
WipubBcari principles, to doubt the result.
Wc must riot be surprised that our arguments
have not operated instantaneous conviction
for not only may they h ive been less concltt
sive than partial estimate represents them but
they may have been urged with an appearance
of arrogance and dogmatism, with an assump
tioa of superior intelligence, which renders
plain people indisposed to allow them due
weight; Of liaVe been accompanied with avow
ed distrust of the honesty of their purpose, which
must render a just and self-respecting people in
dignam pad un wiling to be convinced. Some of
oar most admired efforts may nave been’oo can
ed forcommon apprehension, andleadingto such
practical results; as to awaken a suspicion that
there must be some fallacy in the elaborate lo
gic: and above all, too many of the attempts
to operate conviction, have been rendered
worse than ineffectual by a tone of invective
and of menace, never to be used towards free
men. Time too, must be allowed for the cor
rection of erroneous notions of public policy
that have been long and extensively entertain
ed, and it is especially incumbent or. us—the
Southern section of the United States—-to al
low time for the correction of those errors on
the subject of Protecting Duties, which bu* for
our most distinguished politicians, probably
never would have influenced the action of the
Government. Nor is this reliance on our old
and accustomed remedies, and this hope of re
lief from them, warranted solely by past expe
rience. They are justified by the demonstra
tions of the day. Already have Important and
beneficial alterations been made in the system
of which we complain, not onty affording im
mediate relief, but indicative of a favorable
change in public sentiment. At this moment,
and with these prospects, to' rash from iricon
vcniericc into Revolution; to tty from tempo
rary ill to l isting ruin; would seenr to mo not
guilt only, but maduess,
Resolved then, as we are to abide by our
Union, whatever desperate and regretted
course may bo taken by others, and prepared
to announce that determination to tlie other
States of the Confederacy. I trust tha't we
shall forbear from even intimating an opinion
of tlie measures proper to be adopted in this
emergency by those who are appointed to take
care that the republic shall sustain no detriment.
Tlie crisis is one which eminently demands all
their prudence, moderation and firmness. It
is for them to view the whole ground, to weigh
well the dangers of rashness, on the one hand,
and of pusilanimity on the other; and to unite
conciliation with dignity, forbearance with de
cision, and affection for .the citizen with the su
premacy of the Law. It would be rash in us to
obtrude on them onr crude suggestions. Theirs
is the right to judge and the power to act, and
it were unjust to presume tiiat they will be re
creants to their duty'.
Nor let it be supposed that this declaration
of our sentiments, to which if is hoped that our
resolutions" \v 11 be confined, is without-its use.
Did I think so, no consideration could have
tempted me, retired is I am, and as I hope to
remain, from political strife to join with you in
this meeting, much 1 -ss to accept of the station
to which your partiality has called me. It is
among the innumerable advantages of our fed
eral associatiori;‘that the tribunal of public o-
pinion is extended tlirouehoiit pur land.’ _ Free
communities are unavoidably exposed t5 strong
occasional excitements, and it is fortunate when
th se excitements rage in one State, that those
around, to which the fever has hot yet been
communicated, can, in a tone—not of authority
nor dictation but of the most friendly and fra
ternal affection—intimato error, and warn
gainst mischief. It cannot well be but that
our excited brethren—(for brethren they yet
are, and brethren I pray they tdby long remain)
—even in tho midst of that fever hy which
they are misled, may bo induced to pause. iri
their career, when they perceive that their
neighbors, who think and feel with them on the
subject of their discontents, utterly reject the
course to which they threaten to resort. It may
bring oh reflection, may win them over to more
"enient councils, and may gradually, and al
most imperceptibly influence them to a prefer
ence of more temperate measures They now
regard themselves as 'eading the van in a con
flict fora common cause, confident of the anim
ating cheers of those for whom they have seize I
tlm post of danger, and sure, if there be need, of
being sustained by the more efficient support
of their associates. It is right to undeceive
them and when the delusion is disp died, pas
sion may yicrid to the sway of reason and may
yet be right.
It is due also, to the Councils of the Nation,
placed as they are, in a situations responsible,
that they should accurately know tl.e despotism
of North Carolina at this critical moment.
it* 2, Tiias » Lewis 37 18 2; G Davis 41 i-7 2;
Philip Thomas 233 1 4; Japthu Chumbles 484 J
4: C Butler of Twiggs 1166 2 2; J A Gisint 493
13 4; 3coU Cray 714 4 3; Thus Moseley J80 18
Bulls—S Walker 170 102; Jas O-Pcoplesorp
1927 4 I; J M D iioml 38 164; riamucl B King
iubti lit i; D Siougi'tiiil 69 1 4; Jacob F Mayo
635 1 3; John F tines ! 135 J; 1’ Potter 91220 3;
J Liltwicks orps 758 12 1; Jas Sumuers633132;
l> Jackson 6oU 12 1; S Edwards 583 2 3; ftlar-
tha Stephens w 7c5 5 1; A A Conger637 17 2.
Canipuitl—N a thl fluff 301 17 it; Tandy Hardy
I0a6 2 1; J 11 fiiichamib iOl 152; Aluihias Bates
55 20 3; J llulliugtoii 234 17 2.
CoiDtla—Joliu P Henry 302 13 In; Jas Rey
nolds 472 2 1; S Rowland 548 2 4; Rich Sewell
834 20 3; 1 Harris 962 1J l; Geo Harris 383 17
2; S t'earinun 1238 19 3; T J G Clark 28 3 1;
Francis Pend w 923 162; Wm G Ryan 4G0.15 1;
Thos M’Cieudou 47217 3; S Wyatt 117 152; D
Howard 226 4 3; J English 41(117 2.
Crawford—J Cuiverhorse 186 4 3; Geo Par
mer 2U4 1 4; A Merritt 498 2 3; Jas M Harper
248 2 1; E Folsom 51 15 1; Jas M’Ncsse 1U00
io 2; Jos Floy 1040 17 3; 11 Smith 865 21 3; J
Halcber443h3; David Files 1077 J2 J; Jacob
Futtge827 4 1; Thos lluwdi 888 182; Thomas
Aiu^ou 739 3 2; il Pervis 321 19 2; E Most .
529 16 4; F llaniisou 624 31; Thos W Glover
oo0 i 2; S 6nderwood, w 201 4 I; 43 Coiriuian
Uer 774 6 l, Jas Motion 515 2 4.
■t'uyette—Cuas Whaley 146 16 2; Abel Ham
mack Oo3 1 4; Jas L Head 792 21 2; Win Luns
ford 2/7 12; Jos Caveuder 135 4 3: T J Niclioh
3o9 20 3; J ilaufea sr 1140 2 I; Billie Akin 703
3 4; W ui Gilliland sr 097 17 3; S Bland 998 3 1;
if Lritteuden orp 1002 2 4; J KindaU 490 13 1
Jas Kirkley 034 3 2; J Elder 1250 2 2; It Bar
row 186 3 I; Jas Hunter 410 1(32; A W Moulde
44 Id 2.
Henry—E W Lackey 3 3 2; E Smith 771 5 1
E Crawt'ord 50 J 2; li Collins 959 18 2; Wm
IVeever 723 19 3; A Shepherd 615 3 2; James
Airier 204 15 2; B B Buhanou 216 17 2; Win
Pickins459 1 2; Elix Edwards w 432 3; If liud-
umu 375 2 J; E Tatum 855 4 3; II Nichols 684
i8 2; \\ in II VVyau 69D 4' 1; L Morgan 1199 18
3; J Pittman 735 3 4; R Sappington sr 182 2 3;
iv Chance 799 18 2; It W toniitii 702 2 1; Sami
PeCK 9 15 1; Thos N Harris 1132 4 J; John S
Hunt 905 111; Sami Jloore 533.14 1; P Smith
5-321 3; A Farrar J4->21 3; Jesse Johnson 469
tl 1; It Sappulgton’sr It of f 340 2 1; C Stewart
9082 4; J liusiaiu 79315 2; 1 Carter of Butts
loo 21 3; J iiaruett 280 16 4; Jos Inglish 447 J
Thus Fincher 634 5 1; Rabt Long 1106 14 I
Basset Pate 395 1 4; Jas Ozburu 29 i I; Wni
BeckOoa 14 J; J S Mitchell 414 111;.E .M Cal
laway 601 3 3; Johii Connell. 55 131; J It In
gram 02521; 1 P Wyatt 136 4 1: P 12. J;tcks_on
lOou Zl 2; Jieuj Turner 485 15 2; Wm Dodson
275 15.1; E Davis 569 3 4; J T Bcstniu 76 18 2;
i»euj Stegall 758 213; John Morris22 3 2; Robt
Burniveli 33115 2.
H-'.tiilon—lesae Al xon93l 20 3; Daniel Clarks
orps 73921 2; J Murray 375 4 1;. P Thompson
84 1/3; .ii limm 17 3; N Scarborough 425
J Taylor iOo9 5 I; A Simpson 976 15 2;
Tuos Hammock 998 17 2; S Peacock orp333 17
3; Enoch itigoy 752 20 3; S Chanife 972 3 3;
Wright aim!ms 348 4 1; Thomas Allcu 740 2 2.
Junes—E Ormstiy 505 14 1; C Whitman 594
3 2; N Morns 37o 1 3 W Jouuiau 312 16 2j Wm
S Jones «07 2 2; H Bentley 399 14 1; R fMoiv
11 O Neats orps 862 2 4; U Moore 1273 3 3; J F
bridges 8GJ 17 3; G W Gill 1045 11 1; D .isv’an
92 3 1; J Barron w 552 45 2; Mark Cobb 525 19
2; L ivheelus537 5 i; Jas W Alsohrooks 769 16
2; Gitlis Wright 626 51; Beimet Bell 239 2.4;
John James ooU 18 3; Johii M’Brydes oqis 467 , -4
1; Alien M’Acai 968152; Wm T Woodall 675
2 2- li Dui can 1205 3 4; U Mauldin w 944 21
3; L Blanks I0o6421.
Monroe—Wm Harmon 527" 3 1; E Staridlcy.
372 Id 2; W ui M Kenny 787 3 4; E I’eun sr J@34
2 3; T W illiams 530 1 4; S Denis 952 19 2; W
Title 11136 152; Junes Uoss 1076 3 3: Elisha D
Britt 888 4 3; Wm Pairiilge jr26i)32; W S Pago
605 22; W Hilliard 334'3 I; W'm Straffing* 1015
21 3; 11 H Bewles338 1 4; H Greer 693 21 2; 3
J Brewer 2692 2; Kieuder Huntyv 333 1 1; Wal
ker Fitis 495 1 4; J Moigau 442 5 If If Pogul
460 2 4; John Uidle 475 4 3; Wm Stephens 291
16 2; Robt Taylor 1062 2 3; G It Harper 10492
3; Kotit Tucker jr 655 42 1; Durdnn Hill 180'21
3; A Siniui 445 1 4; Solomon Seat 1263 21 3:
Win Stallings 373 I 2; L Buckner 561 J; A Pon
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GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24, 1833:
Yesterday lieiug the Anniversary of tho Macon
Volunteers, ivas celebrated by that fine corps hi
an appropriate maimer The Company parade
and wcut through various evolutions; and au
Address was delivered {>$ Lieut. Se\ mour on .the
occasion. In tlie evening a splendid Ball was
given at tho Central Hotel, ia honor of the day.
By the farlSre of ouoof the Banks in Augusta,
it wiy be conjectured, tiiat it is not altogether in
the location of a hanking institution oil which its
success or failuredepeuds—but that a loo^e Way
of doing business, at Augusta as well as at other
places, cannot ofteii succeed. What the loss
will be by this failure, cannot wo suppose, be
known. W'e have hc'irg various opinions with
respect lo the amount of the bills out—ilia most
common one is, that it enuuot be less than $' 0“,-
00U! We trust, those planters aud others who
woro induced by misrepresentations to withdraw
their business ffrfai liucon aud go ‘.‘where the
money was good,” will not any longer neglect
the advantages of this market. We have reason
to believe, the Banks at present doing business in
Macon, are in a£ solvent a condition as any in the
State.
“The News.” priuted at Washington iu this
State, comes to us this week considerably enlarg
ed. and ih 5 uew dress. The enterprising editor
deserves the patronage which it is hoped ho will
receive.
THE GEORGIA REMEDY.—W r e call yhe
attention of our readers to the advertisement of
Mess.s. D. R. Perry & Co. iff this paper; Ttie*e
enterprising gentlemen have resorted to the true
Georgia principle, wherewith to coupteract the
Tariff policy. Instead of “biting the fie," with
which the North is endeavoring to rasp us into
toothpicks, they have taken it into their hands,
and are using it to their own advantage. Had
Georgia adopted the remedy sooner, sire would
have now bceu immensely better oil—thousands
and hundreds of thousands of dollars (hat go au
nualiytothe North for nil sorts of notions, would
have beeu retained at home—our farms and plan
latiuns would riot have been worn out for nothing
—our villages instead of being iu a state of decay
aud depopulation, would have been improving-
cotton would be \\ orth making, and laud worth
cultivating.—as produce would fiud a ready mar
ket. But unfortunately fertile country, it suited
the views of Southern politicinus to bile tuc file
rather than to work with it—aud, if they hav,
broken their teeth iu the trial, they have uonc to
thank but themselves.
They may attempt to connect the counties into
districts in such a manner as to increase the
strength of «>ue party.-aud to diminish that of tlie
other, in the legislature. But a party which, ill
arranging the representation, should bo governed
by the ambition io acquire or To preserve au ^ascen
dancy in the state, w ould lie guilty of injustice
toward its opponent; and of a breach ol trust to-
wards-tbe people. If, iu order to reduce the
numbers of the legislature, it shall bo. found tie
cessary to divide the state into district", lo be
composed of two or-inore counties, it is due to
tho people, tiiat this now organization should lie
so made, as lo secure to them the most t onveu-
ieut, fair, and full representation, which shall
becompntibie witli the reduced size ol the gener
al assembly. A different course, wiitcft should
look merely to the advantage .of a particular par
ty, migl't gratify.heated partizaus; but it. would
bo disapproved by the more discreet, and virtu
ous citizens. ..... . *
'There is reason to believe, that the Lnion par
ty will have a Jtihjority iu the • convention ; aud
we think tbrii we may bo peniutlcd to congratu
late tlw country on this fortunate eveut. 'That
party has shown so much public virtjte; it has
been so prompt to discard its most popular mem
bers, when they ceased to act on the principles
which it approves; ithasbean so candid aud lib
eral iu its Support of those of its opponents,
whose public acts it has behoved to be wish and
patriotic; it lias so fearlessly perilled its own in
terests, in its uohle struggle to preserve tlie coun
try from the daggers of disunion ; that we arc
sure it will make a disinterested-and virtuous use
of tao power which it snail wield in the conven
tion. W"c are coutldeiit that it will continue to
act on the same print-jples; and that, regardless
of their own peculiar interests, its members will
enter on the great work of reduction, with ,i strict,
and houqrable impartiality, aud with a swadlast
purpose to render et-en handed justice lo evtJry
portion of the people. .May harmony preside iu
their councils! Anti may their doffberatious be
so directed, as to advance the prosperity of the
State l—Fed. Union.
The Merchants’ & Planters’ Bank of this place
stopped payment on Saturday last. The copse
qneuces of this to the holders of its bills, cannot
now be accurately kUo.wri. Several sums have
since been sold at 50 crints on a dollar; bu' the
affairs of the Bank are not yet sufficiently known
to determine whether the purchaser or the seller
has the best bargain, so far as speculation is con
cerned. Those who kuy.the bills to pay their
own notes in Bank, will.probably make more than
those who sell such as they-liad received iu the
regular eoursc of Uade. The Bank it is thought
will witit,1 up and make a final close of its busi
ness.—Augusta Gazette„
A Post Office is established at Flat Shoals,
Pike couiity, of which Johii Carswell Esq. is Post
Master. - .. -
FOR THE GEORGIA TEIiEGRATH.
Mr. Editor—As the Convention of the State
of Georgia is soon lo meet, public attention is
beginning to be turued towards it aud its antici
pated iriovetntuts. 'The first thing tltoy will have
to do, will be to elect a Tresidc-m; and as this is
a responsible station, and one of great impor
tance to the operations of the Convention,, and
at tho same time one very laborious to till, if is
proper that a man every way qualified should be
selected. Judge Crawford has been spoken of
for this office; but with all the respect which his
great talents and euiiueut public services entitle
him to, 1 would ass if it would riot he requiring
too much of Air. Crawford, at fits advanced age,
to desire him to discharge the laborious duties of
President of tho Convention ? All tho honor
tho otlico could confer, would add uulhiug
to ihe fauic of Judge Crawford—attd the ardu-
oirsness of the duties might seriously impair his
health. Permit me therefore to suggest the name
of Judge Wayne, for ttiat office. No one c.m be
better qualified ilian he, either as respects phy&i-
al or nieulal abilities; aud 1 venture to say, the
election of no one would give more satisfaction
to the people. , TALBOT.
We understand ihpt tho late fresh ip our river
has done more damage oil the plantations below
this place, than was ever done by any previous
fresh ever re.eollec’ed. Our friends iti Beach
island have be Ml great sufferers; some most val
uable lands have beeu so cut up aud covered with
sand, as almost entirely, to ruin thf.m. We are
sorry to say that from the conversations we have
had with some of the planters there, that the in
jury they have sustained has been extensively se
rious aud unparallelled. ib
CHOLERA IN.HAVANA.
New Orleans April 5.
By the arrival yesterday of-the Clement in
seven days from Havana, wc have frightful
accounts of the ravages of thh Cholera. Letters
vary In stating tho extent of the. mortality—
Some rating it at SOIfeand others at 600, TOO,
and 800 per day! These accounts however,
shocking as they are, do not exh.bif a destruc
tion of (V|inian fife in Havana, equal io tho loss
in this qity during the late prevalence of the
cholera here.—We mean, in proportion to the
number of inhabitants; New Orleans, at- the
time alluded to, contained a population of not
more than 40,000, and lost 300 per day 5—Ha
vana contains, (city and suburbs) 180,4100, and
loses 600 or 800 per day—the proportion here
was much greater.
RE TUB NS of the late elections to the r
vention, as far as yet received. °
A/ding—Quinns, Studifmt.
Baldwin—Park, Fort, Jourdau.
Bibb—Cone. Bartlett. Ellis.
Bryan—Bacon, Starr.
Bullock—Cone, Denmark.
Burke Kv:iiis, Byne, Lawson,
Butts—Lindsey, Hendricks. Speak lJU ’
Camden—Clark. Ward. M’lntosh. ’
Cuss—Irwin. Espy.
Campbell—Irwin, McCoy. Thompson.
Carroll—fepnnger, Bowen, Af'air.
Chatham—Wayne, Jackson, Daniel, Chari^
Cheroace—latte. Lumpkin. " ° a ‘
Clarke—Paine, Hull, Ligon. Genrdine
Columbia—Lamar, Crawford, Itanuev M
Craven. ..
Coiwtn—rKenan, Griffin, Thompson.
Crawford—Crowell, Montfort, Garrett.
JDelvulb—Murphy, Mays, Dobbs, Ezzai-d
Decatur-Ray. Sims, Moore.
Dooly—Key, Roberts.
Early— Vilson, Huson.
Effingham—Powers, Waldbanr.
El’wrt—White, Oliver. T--te, Thon.psia.
Emanud—Swain. 1 aniel.
Forsyth—riams, Martin.
Floyd—lames Hemphill. P v \V. -Hemphill
Franlclin—Anderson, Martin, Farmer, Alorr-
Gilmcr—Quillian, Bnmlstr.
Glynn—Stewart, King, Cooper.
Greene—Porter, Lewis, Foster, Dawson.
Gwinnett—Park, Worthy, .Strickland, Williams
Habersham—Wofford, Chastain, Holcombe
.-'Blair.
Hall—-Underwood, Sims’, Garrison, Clnrkt
Wilson, y ,
Hjincoch— Crawford, Sayre, Holsey, Terrel!.
Harris—Barnes, Wellborn, Jones. *
Heard—Wafer, Livingstone.
Henry—Clark, Sellers, Johnson, Bond.
Houston—Wellborn, Felly, Lawson, A!or»an.
Irwin—Slone, \\ aiker.
Jackson—Thomas, Bowen, Singleton, Sion.
Jasper—S. Crane, Freeman, R. Jourdan. £
Y. Hill.
.1 eferson—Holt, Connelly, Wigfcnm.
Junes—Moughon, Gray, Loivtfier, Jourdao.
Laurens—iiisekshear. McCall, Allen.
L.ee—Lewis Hbitai A. Holliday. •
Liberty—Walthour, Flemming, West.
Loicndes—Knight, Smith.
Lumpkin—Ala this, Parker.
Madison—Adair, Groves, Pittman.
Meriwether—Tignor, Hall, Kendall.
McIntosh—Hand, Dunham, Hood.
Monroe—Pope, 1 AVootau, Watson.--3 others tie.
Montgomery— Bryan, McKea.
Morgan—Stokes. \\ ittic-h, Jones, Nisbit.
Muscogee—Watson, Camp, Iverson.
Newton—Buckie, Perry, 'Trammel, Crawford,
Oglethorpe—Crawford, Gdiner, Cox, Youu*.
Paulding—U all! all, McBride.
Pike—Adams, Neal, Mangum.
Fuftia&K—Brace well; Denuard, Taylor.
Putnam—Branham, Hudson, Cooper, Cham
bers. ’
Rc.bun—Faris, Mosely, Coffee.
BandoIplF— II a tn i I to n Henderson.
Richmond—V. W aiker, J. T. King, Carter,
Gould. ••
Scrivtn—'f hos. Green, B- .Gret-n, Jones.
isiewu't—Smith Disrqui-es.
Sumter —Houghton, Little. .. .. B
Taliaferro—Janes. Thompson, Johnson.
Tattnall—Smith, Brew;ton.
Talbot—Fleming, Ki!ey r Powell.
Telfair—Rogers. Wilcox.
Thnmds—Bl-u-kshcar, Scarborough, 51‘Iuiire.
Troup—Hambletoii, Fannin, Bailey.
Twiggs—Crocker, Welsh, Fort.
Union—Grier, Chastain.
Upeon -rSlurxes. Cox, Nolan.
Wdltori—(Jrt.-hatn, Park, IIarris;AVeitingham.
IVarren—Lockhart, Dennis,'Hill. Ryan.
Washington Sessions, Brown, Tennille,
...Sctiley.
Wayne—Harris, Robertson.
Wilkes—rWootan. flay, Andrews, Kendrick.
Wilkinson—Hall, Beall, Jones.
opinion ol ipany ol the most intelligent citi-| for one I rejoice that the People of tin's State,
tier 945 2 2; Chas Bassey 1165192; Sami Wil
kin's 621 21 2; J Wootan 5741J i; Nathan Jones
494 4 |; Thos A Pratt 1233 11 l- G M‘Coys
orp3 / 14 33; Geo G Wait 572 2 J; 'E Aliluer w
Pike eo 125 l .J| Joel Norris227 4 1; Geo Turner
113 19 3; Jacktfon FlieJdt 23-1 14 1; Larkin Wil-
son214 1 3; Jits Bentley 882 21 3; J Dmm 843
11 1; H Vaughan 264 3 4; II Begarley 832 1 4;
J Brown Jd37 47 2; Wm A Samuells 8S6 2 2.
Pike—It Beasley 1134 5 I; M Madddx 79 13
u, Kutliy Bums tv 724 .17 2; Jas Thornton 1144
5 I; it Bennett tv 76 21 2; 1> M‘Cfeudeu 9B5 14
1; \V llostei'558 15 2; 11 Williford 703 19 3; J
Harper 779 3; G 11 Crenshaw 446 18 2; Geo
•V Ham in ell 861 2 3; W J Milner 468 1 2; Thos
Thrower 350 17 2; II Lassiter 1100 152; Wilson
Coats 499 12 1; J Petirsou 206 13 I, P M‘Killer
748 2t> 3; J Buffington 201* 16 2.
T AKES ihe least offensive methud in his
power, to inform his friends and the public
;a he is obliged to discontinue giving credit.—
i.io,e in hisd ht are requeued to make ptiytncut.
April 24 30 34 JOHN SMITH.
REDUCTION CONVENTION.—Returns
of tho elections of delegates have been received
from so largo a number of counties, as to give
tho assurance, that the people ol the state will
bo fully represented.iu tlie approaching conven
tion ; and the n’ecplo have rcasou to look with
deep interest to tho result of tfieir. deliberations,
'"we may rely on the indications of -public ojrin-
■un a strong majority of these .representatives
wiff.coucur iu the belief that each branch af the
general assembly, as at present organized, is top
numerous; nut perhaps .here.wilt be some dif
ficulty and disseiitfon'm determining on the plau
of reduction, lit arranging, this delicate subject,
among the virtuous aud ami disinterested, there
is ground for difference < f opinion ; and the per
sonal, local, and party interests connected null
it, will present many temptations to do wrong.—
•Borne member* of tlie Convention ambitious of
public honors, may feelpuclmed to oppose every
plan, which wotdd seem to diminish their chances
of obtuiuipg hereafter a seal iu ihe legislature ;
while others, too partial, perhaps, to tlie wishes
of the counties' which they may represent, too
studious, perhaps, jjf popularity among tlieir im
mediate constituents, may be disposed to resist
every scheme which shall uot leave to their coun
ties a certain, independent representation m each
branch of the legislature. But whatever maybe
tile opinions or inclinations of a portibu of the
members on these points, a.(Majority of the dele-
ales will feel, that individual arid uud local iu
VIRGINIA.
The elections in Virginia havetume'* on the
right of Secession, not as a Constitution'll, but a
Revolutionary right. Tin* Constitutioius assu
med to be a compact by those who thus admit
the right of withdrawing from it to be extra
constitutional ami to justify war on the seceding
Stste, but they couple with this admission the
denial that the penalties of treason are incurred,
if the attempt to secede should fail, by tlie cit
izens of the seceding State. The controversy
which would thence arise, it is taken for grant
ed, to be like* an ordinary w r between iudepen-
destt nations arising out of a bl each of contract.
This modification of the doctrine that a State
libs’ tho constitutional. right to secede, sets out
with fin apparent denial of (hat right, but brings
us back to tlie vetyri principle which includes
all tlio.^iipstanti/il mischiefs, of that doctrine—
to wit: That-the Constitution has no more
binding obligation than an ordinary treaty, and
docs - not establish a government. If then,
the United States should be engaged in a wa'f
with France or England, and in the midst of
such war, South Carolina of any other State
should secede, “adhering to the enemies of
the Union, and giving them aid and comfort,”
this would not be treason, although it is con
ceded that the States have entered into a
compact by which they have agreed to efine '
tf-cason
United
GEORGIA AND TIIE CHEROKEE?.
Prom the Washington t.lobe.
Air. Chester it seems, hasjfiuught fit to respoml
to the iiu.mymbus falsehood which has received
countenance from the nullifying press, in Geor
gia, the object of which is to get up a belief tiiat
the Cfierokees will now revive their pretentions,
nmlcr the hope of obtaining a sanction from them
through the powers conferred by the late Collec
tion Bill. The expectation that the Executive
will exert power iu contravention of his own inter
pretation of the Constitution aud his oath to sup
port it, is uot less preposterous, than the reports
are false, which are circulated with regard to th*
coursez>f:lhe Attorney who managed the cases cf
the Missionaries and some others connected with
the Cherokee question. The aim of the Georgia
uullifiers, in conjuring up false alarms on this
subject, is to produce an excitement and obtain
political effect from.it, throwing tho State into
'ho h inds of the agitators, ;is has bceu the case i
South Carolina.
From the 'Cincinnati Daily Gazelle.
Mr: Hammond: A friend has put into my
hands the New York Courier & Enquirer, of the
iUth March, containing a leuer from “The Spy
iu Washington,” in which is this paragraph:—
“As soon as this bid of abominations had be*
come a law, Mr. Chester, the attorney of the
CAcrokt ts, p.fceived that it afforded to his clients
aud his friends, the means of bringing their case
before the Supreme Court. He immediately, ss
stated in my former letter, notified the VVarMiu-
i->ter, that the character of their negociation inuJ
be chanced. Ho said that the holds which she
A letter frdrff Washington City relates the
following anecdote.
Mr. Clay is often sportive and amusing. Tlie
terests ought uot to be preferred to the public wel
fare. 'These errors to *hicli we have referred,
will be the errors of a minority ; aud they may
therefore be overruled. Although they may cause
dissension add embarrassment, they canuot tri
umph.
But there ia h more formidable danger to be
feared. In an assembly convened for the pur
pose of distributing political power, the majority
will be exposed to a strong temptation to grasp
it unjust advantages to themselves. They may
tope, by a dextrous arrangement of the coun
ties, to increase and perpetuate their power.—
Cheroktes claimed, were worth twenty millions ol
dollars; but that they would transfer them for
to bo “adhering to tho enemies of tlie I1|l ffi° lls - ft is understood, that the gover*-
Statcs, giving them attf arid comfort.” ] “ent b^o offered them mortlhnn half this sum
\r si ^ • • • i• • *, -< woicn tooT irave.iefused to accept, preferioz
Verily.these Virginians are in politics the Dun an|)L .„ ho the Su e Court for a decis.oS on
Scotuses of tne age.—Southern Pat, tot. their case. TJie Cherokees have left this city
without concluding a treaty. Previous to lbs
passage of this law, a treaty mfeht have been
formed, and the Indian title to the contested lands
extinguished for a small amount.’*
. , . ,, - Although a matter of little importance to my-
otlier day, during tho debate on the Revenue . self personally 1 am unwilling that my ««*
Collection Bill, Mr. Wilkins, whose hair is gray, ' should be connected with a statement so entirely
and whose person is slender,said ‘he was young groundless. The.only matter in tho above itw
and stout, and deemed now the best time to tation in which the “Spy” seems to have been for
tunate enough to gain correct information is t‘ ie
fact that the “Cherokees had left the city with
out concluding a treaty.” 1 am not, aud hav#
not been, the Attorney of the Cherokees, except
in defending some two or three of ibeir ciliscu. 3 *
who were brought to Lawrenceviiie, Geo. uinlet
tu-rest. I was the attorney of the Missionari**
Messrs. Worcester and Butler, and not of «b»
Cherokee nation—though certainly the rights ft
the Cherokees were involved in tlie issue m 3 ”®
up between the 8;ate pf Georgia and my cliepty
I dt(| not, and cannot now perceive ihat xrbai
the “Spy” calls the “Enforcing Bill,” gives to t! |fl
Cherokees any new means of bringing ihfir cost
before the Supreme t ourt( 1 gave no notice arinfo ,k
nation to “the War Minister,” ',‘that the chsract
ter of their negotiation must be changed, *P !
none was pending or expected, whpn 1 was t#
the city. Wtien the Bill passed, T was on ,
way to my residence in this place. Nor did 1 i
er say or dream, that the lands ofthe CherobeM j
were worth ••twenty millions oi doll irs,” or h® 1 j
that stun, nor do 1 belieye and i have abuoda T |
settle the spirit. of nullification. He did not
wish to leave if to posterity—and was willing to
share his part ol’the clanger.’ Soon after he
attempted to read a part of the South Carolina
Ordinance, but. his’ eve-sight not being very
good lie apologised lor the omission. Mr. Clay
in a low voice, but heard all over the Cham
ber, immediately taking offhis spectacle's, said
with an arch look,, take these my young friend.’
The effect was ludicrous. Every body laugh d,
and Mr. Wilkins enjoyed the joke as well as
the rest of us.”
William Fitzwilliam, Earl Fitzwilliam, one
of the richest men in England, dit-d on the
11th ol I-eh. last, in the eighty-filth year ol
his age. He is succeeded bv his eldest son
Lord Milton, who has been, for several years,
one ol the Whig leaders in the House ot
Commons,
HM