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XA«61I «£«S«IA T E (. E f« H A P II
POLITICAL,.
From the Standard «J Union
■ THE
FREE NE-
JUDGE WHITE AND
GROES
it is well kouwn, that ia Tennessee. free per
sons nf color were entitled to vo.e without any
property qualification or restriction for about
twcuiy-ei&bt years previous to 1834, nnd that
Judge White took qo measure to exclude them.
fie was iu the habit of going to the polls with
them, aud upon oue occasion, did actually walk
to the Ballot Rax, AU.U AND ARM WITH A
FREE NEGRO.
This spcctaclo occurred in the year EIGH
TEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE,
in a warmly coutcsledelection at KNOXVILLE,
in which Judge White took a very active interest
for his brother iu-law, Col. Williams, who was
then u candidate.
Wc make ibis statement advisedly, aud chal
lenge itsdeuml. We can PROVE IT, and shew,
by the evidence of a citizeu of Georgia, of the
list respectability, that upon iheccrasiou referred
to JUDGE WHITE did LOCK A RIM 2$ with a
FREE NEGRO, AND WALK WITH HIM
TO THE POLLS.
If this was uot a full recognition of the most
perfect EQUALITY between WHITE aud
BLACK, and a total leveling of all distinctions,
we are t»t a loss io know what would be so cou-
ftidered.
What would he the effect of such a scene iu
(JJeurgiH ?
Now we ask, what is the difference between
Mr. VAN ISURFN aud JUDGE WHITE ?
Wo uuswer—Mr. VAN BUREN. drove the free
negroes from :he polls by a property qualification
which effectually excluded uiucty-uiue out of ev
ery hundred, while JUDGE While, was drag
fling them to the pulls, aud encouraging them
j.o vote without the least restriction.
SIR. VAN BUREN AND JUDGE WHITE.
Free Negro Suffrage.
Iu alludiug, a few weeks siuce, to the charge,
{ hat Mr- Van Buren had voted iu the New York
lonvcutiou in 1821, forihe unqualified tight of
free uegro suffrage, we prououuced it false, aud
syne repeat the asseriiou.
Before the year 1821, the free blacks of that
state enjoyed the right of suffrage, without, qual
ification or restriction. Shortly after the organ
ization of the Couveuliou of J82I, committees
ihe niation between such purchaser and prisoner
shall he that oj master and servant until the time
of Service erpirts, and for injuries done by cither
remedy shall be had in the same manner as is or
may be provided by laic in ike case of master and
apprentice. But nothing licreiu contained shall
he construed to prevent persons being discharged
from imprisonment according to th© provisions
of the thirty-seventh section of tho act to which
this is .supplementary, if it shall be considered
expedient togrnni such discharge. Provided that
tho court, iu pronouncing sentouce upon any
pcrso'i or persons coovirted under this act or the
act to which this is supplementary, may direct
such person or persons to be detained in prison
uutil tha fine be paid, or the persons otherwise
disposed of agreeably to the previous of this
act."
It is staled that iho motion was decided in the
a(fiimativc—yeasSO, nays 12—and that General
Harrison cave #is vote in the NEGA-
t i y e .
So General llnrrison is the advucato for sur
rendering the unfortunate debtor, ns a slave, to a
purchaser, because he has the misfortune to be
unable to pay a debt which ho had contracted
or a fine imposed upon him.
At a time when the voice o the nation calls
loudly for the abolishment of imprisonment for
| debt, an individual is before the nation as a can
didate for the Presidency, who has voted to sell
every honest uufortuno individual into seavert
who cauuot liquidate a debt- What a picture
is here exhibited to freemen, aud those who
advocate aud labor iu tbo cause of human
ity! !
Mark tho cousistoucy of the whigs their candi
date for the Presidency voting to sell white men
as slaves ; aud their candidate for the Vice Presi
dency ready to sever the Union to abolish the
slavery of tho blacks.
We ask the people of both the slave and non
slareholding States to look at these facts.
wero appointed to prepare reports upon, the var
ious matters unJer consideration. The one to
which was refeired the right of suffrage, reported
uinougst other things, "that uo man of color,
unless he shall have beeu for three years a citizeu
of the state, and for oue year next preceding
nnv election, been seized and possessed of a
FREEHOLD ESTATE of the value of §230
00 over and above all debts and incumbrances
charged thereon, shall bo entitled to vote iu the
election of any officer of the goverraeut."
Pending! the discussion, a motion was made
to strike out the proviso containing the property
qualification, iu which, Mr. Van Huron distinctly
staled, that he was "iu favor of the plan proposed
by the select committee, and opposed to the am
endment-" See Journal New York Conveutiou
page 364.
At page 370 of the same Journal, the yeas and
rmys are recorded, upon the orgiuai proviso, cou-
lainiug the property qualification ; which was
carried by tbe foil wing vote.
Ayes.—Messrs Barlow, Beckwith, Bowman,
Briggs, Biukerhoff, Burroughs, Carpenter, Car
ver, Caso, D. Clark, Collins, Dodge. Dudois,
Hickman,Ed wards,Fairlie, Feutou, Ferris Frost,
llailock, House,Humphrey,lluut, Hunting, Hurd,
l.nnsiug, Lawrence, Leflerts. A. Liviugstuu,
M’Call, Moore, Nelson, Park. Pike, Porter, Pre
sident. Price, Puuipclly, Radcliff, Richards, Ros
cbilrgh, Ross, Russel, Sage, R- Sanford,Scheuck,
Scainau, Scelv, Sharpe, Sheldou, J. Smith,
R. Smith, Stngg, Starkweather, Steele. D.
Southarland, Swift, Talmadge. Taylor, Town
send, Tripp, Tuttle, VAN BUREN, Van Fleet,
Vnu Ilorrcl, Ward, E. Webster, Woudover,
Wheeler, Woods. Woodard, Young—72.
Noes.—Messrs. Bacon. Birdseye. Brooks, Bu
ck Child. It. Clarke, Clide, Duer, Eastwood,
Fish, llees, Huntington. Jay.Joues. Kent, Kiug,
Mnarn, Paulding, Pitcher, Platt, Rhineland, Soot,
N. Sanford, Spencer, Van Ness, J. 11. Van
Rcusselear, S, Van Reusslcar, Wheaton. E.
Williams.—31.
In the face of all these facts, who will assert
that Mr. Van Buren voted in favor of extending
to the free black* the unqualified right of suf-
rage ?
That New York should have gone so far iu
excluding thorn from the polls, as craly{ns 1821,
i< a little remarknble, when wo consider that the
free negroes of North Carolina and Tennessee
continued lo enjoy the most 'unqualified right of
suffrage until 1831 nnd 1835; and that during all
this long period, it had never entered into the head
of Judgo White and his new born whigs, to con
sider it an evil, or to take moasures to prevent it
Nor is it less wonderful, that from Dec. 1824, to
Dec 1832. not one word was uttered against Mr.
YanBureu. thro’ tho columns of the Recorder, uor
was the slightest allusion mado ill that print
one solitary act of Mr. Von Boren’s life, which it
ow brings up in judgment againt him.
If Mr. Vau Huron's vote iu the Now York
Convention in 1821, was a misdemeanor of such
crirpondnus magnitude, how slid it happeu that in
in 1332. was passed over in silence by the Recor
ds? Why was the alarm not sounded at ihst-
ri'ne, when Mr. Van Huron was before the peo
ple for tho second office in their gift?
The eulig’hteued F.ditore of the Recorder can
not plead ignorance of the fact. They were iu
timatoly acquainted with the political history of
Mr. Van Buren, and yet they not only w ithheld
objections to him, hut placed his name at tho
head of their paper, and supported him with zeal
and ability.
Let these things be explained. Let tho people
kuow aud understand, why and wherefore they
were lod blindfold-to tho support of Mr. Van
Buren in 1832, if hi* precious aits, rendered him
so utterly unworthy of the pubfii confidence.—
Where were then these sentinels upon the watch
tower of liberty ? Where WM tbe public press,
nod whore slumbered the Editors of titc llecor
tlor?
By the support which they gave him itr 1832.
they virtually waved ull objection to his previous
nets. If he had done well, it was a full and
ample recognition of the propriety of his course,
approbated nnd scaled by their votes at the Bal
lot Bog. If he had committed errors, it was not
onlv an net of amnesty, but of oblivion for the
■past. The people will inquire, why this reimr-
rcrtioo from the dead? Why this indictment
against Mr. Van Buren io 1836, far crimes which
Nsore so studiously concealed in 1832?—ib.
JUDGE WHITE AND {JOHN ROSS.
Judge White first allied himself politically with
Johu Ross in 1824. At that time he put Ross
upon his plau of asserting a national existence for
the Cbcrckees, wholly independent of the Slate
goveriuent within the limits of which they re
sided. This idea, which has produced all tbe dif
ficulties iu that section end prevented tbe emigra
tion of the Cherekees, nnd tho population of that
Section of Georgia with industrious cultivators,
bad its origiu in an elaborate paper, drawn by
Judgo White, supporting the right of Ross, aud
others acting with biin as Chiefs and Legisla
tors, to make laws for the Cherokees as an iude-
pendout nation, and, a6 a consequence, tax tra
ders licenced by the United States. This was tbe
poiut contested by the Executive Department of
tbe General Government, aud from which Russ
appealed to Cougress upon a written opinion
drawn up by Judge \\ hito. In that opinion Judge
White assumed the following fundamental points:
1. "2 he Cherokees are to be considered a Na
tion ; a community, having a country distinctly
marked out and set apart for thtir use.
2. That “ their interest is as permaneut and fix
ed in it as the pledge and faith of the United
States can make it."
3. That " in sur revolutionary war they had ta
ken part in the war with Great Britain, and were
viewed as having been conquered when out Indepen-
dcnco was declared."
4. That they were held . -ed In-
diau tribes, until “the treaty between them and the
United States," wheu " the Constitution of the
United States had been adopted," in which treaty
they are spoken of as “ a nation"—the country
** as one owned BY the Indians"—"the desire
manifested to reclaim them to the grade of herds
men and cultivators of the soil,”—"and what is of
still greater importance, they are made sure of a
permanent home."
5. Upou these data, tbo Judge insisted—"They
have acquired the property : ‘*elf. There must be
laws to protect those who otcn J. By tchat com
munity ought these Laws to be enacted? Laws
there must continue to be, emanating from some
power capable of enacting them. If here is that
power ? It must be t;i Congress or the Cherokees.
Congress has never exercised it—the Cherokees al
ways have."
The .'state within which the Cherokees resided
were then, by Judge White, excluded from all
jurisdiction over them—and all sovereignty over
the territory they held. He made them absolute
ly sovereign within tbo limits occupied by them
with the Federal Government- Upon this poiut,
the Judge was most emphatic, aud summed up
his wholo doctriue io the following absolute tone:
" These people are now to be received as a na
lion, possessing all the powers of Independent na
lions which are not expressly, or by necessary in
plications, surrendered up by the treaty."
Ho thou puts the Cherokee nation upon a foot
ing with States, with regord to the points over
which they are sovereign within their limits.
The Cherekees, he says, " must have the power
to impose taxes and make other municipal regula
lions for their own government." ** There is no
thing which forbids them to tar merchants, which
tcould not equally prohibit the states from doing
From the Darien Telegraph.
MR. VAN BUREN &, NEGRO SUFFRAGE:
The key with which the enemies of the Vice
President in the South, lunetbeir instrument, is
thocelebrated.conventiou that was held in N.York
in the year 1821, to frame a new constitution for
that State. The burthen of tho soug is, that Mr
VanBiiren voted iu favor of "free ngro suffrage
Let us see what he did:
The firs: Constitution of New York was made
in 1777. The following is the clause which re
gulates the exercise of the Elective Franchise :
" VIII. That every male inhabitant of full age
who shall have personally resided within obo of
the counties nf this Stale, for six months imme
diately preceding tbo day uf tbo election, shall at
such olcctiou, be entitled io vote for representa
tives of the said county iu assembly; if during
the time aforesaid, he shall have been a freehold
er, possessing a freehold of the valuo of twenty
pouuds, within the said county, or have rented a
teuement therein of the yearly value of foity shil
lings, aud been rated aud actually paid taxes to
this State : Provided always, that every person
who is uow a freeman of the city of Albany, or
was mado a freeman of the city of New York,
on or before the fourteenth of October, in, tbe
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred aud
seventy-five, and shall be actually aud usually
resident in the cities respectively shall be enti
tled to vote for representatives in assembly with
in his place of residence."
By this clause it will be seen, that oo distinction
is mads between black and white freemen. Both
were entitled to the same privileges. Ia August,
1821, a conveutiou was called to revise and a-
tnend tbe Constitution. A committee on tbe
" Right of Suffrage” wa3 appointed by tbo as
sembled delegates. Tbo committee consisted of
Messrs. Sanford, Van Reussoiaer, P. R. Livings
ton, Farlie, Young, Cramer and Ross. Mr. Va
Buren was a delegatoat tbe Convention, but was
not on this committee.
Tbis committee made a report in tbo following
September, to tbis effect : 44 Every white male
citizen of the age of 21 years, who shall have re
sided iu this state six months next precceding any
election.” &c. &c. " shall bo entitled to vote at
such election in the town or ward in which ho
shall reside, for Governor, Lieut. Governor, Se
nators, Members assombly,” &c.
This proposition was eutertained by tbe Con
vention iu the same month : Mr. Jay. Gen. Ren-
selaer, and other funatics, were in favor of having
the word " white” stricken out. Mr. Van Buren
was present, but did not speak on the occasion. On
tho vote being taken, however, to strike out the
word " white," it was carried by 63 to 50. Mr.
Vau Bureu voted in the affirmitive. A lengthen
ed discussiou took place on the qualifications to
serve iu tbo militia," and to "work on the high
waymany contrary opinions were expressed
aud ibe previous question of tbe right of suffrage'
w as again brought up. Tho matter was, howe
ver, set at rest by Mr. Edwards, who proposed
to send tho whole subject back to a select com
mittee of 13—will) all the amendments which bad
been made by a committee of tbo wholo— 44 aud
that tbe conimittco also report on tho expediency
of excluding people of color from the right of suf
frage." This motion passed, and a committee
was appointed.
Tbo committee reported on the 5th of October.
They proposed to do away with the equality ot
tho old Constitution—which made the free uegro
as much entitled to vote aB tlie whits man—ex
tended tbe suffrage to tbo whites by requiring no
freehold qualification from that class—but exclu
ded the negro, unless he was siezed of a freehold,
in his own right, to the valuo of 8250 clear of all
incumbrances.
44 Mr. Van Buren was in favor of tho plan pro
posed by the select committee." The first clause
of the report was carried by a majority of ll4 to
Tbe noxt subject discussed, was tbo
never supported an abolitionist for office himself I representative, sudjeettothe siugla condition, that {the road.
—but he has not a single friend in Cougress ting
ed with that heresy. Mr. Slade, of Vcimont,
the apostle of abolition iu the House of Represen
tatives, is a warm advocate of tbe Judge’s claims.
This cauuot he denied.—iib
it’s ca
tibnc;
fice Incendiary Publication Bill, ought, iu all con
science, to have silenced for ever the insinuations
that lie is friendly to the wretched cause of abo
lition : hut it seems that his foes have lost every
sense of generosity and candor, iu their headlong
endoavois to put him down. 'Vo shall see
they will he able to accomplish their cherished
object. Mr Vau Bureu’s vote on the negro ques
tiou ought to be considered as the result of com
promise, which it was well known to beat the
lime. He did his utmost to curtail the uegro suf
frage, instead ef endeavoring to raise it.—ib
Mr. Van Bureu’s 44 splendid English couch”
was made by Brewster, at New Haveu, and is
rather an awkward vehicle; Mr. Vau Bureu’s
splcudid English horses” ore thorough pacod
Knickerbocker's, raised iu Westchester; Mr. Vuu
Bureu’s ‘'English servants iu splendid liveries,
arc au Englishman and an Irishman, who never
wore a livery while iu Mr. Van Bureu’s service,
nor did Mr. Van Buren over have a servant
livery iu bis life. Has Mr. b’eldeu told these sto
ries; would he so far corapromit his character as
to iovent such idle tales, or is tbo report of bis
speech an incorrect oue i—N. Y.Eve. Post.
Tbe Whig says that theVan Bureuitesquail at
the results iu North Carolina—Disappointed tb?y
certainly aro at the lato election but desponding
never. Tho result however, is uot so decisive as
the Whigs had honed.-The Oxfoid Examiner (de
sperate Whig) admits that iu the House of Opm-
rnous, the Van Burenites have a mujorit of two
which at all events ties the Legislature ; and it
has to draw vaguely and coutiugoutly upon the
Senator from Cumberland for a majority. We
w 11 uot givo up even North Carolina. We rely
upon the recuperative energy of tho republican
sons-their principles- their attachment to tho gro
at Right of instruction—their very pride itsellf
for redoubled efforts and ultimate success. Many
ofhor counties voted thin, much slang and rogue
ry were practised upon her. She had to pass
the lattcrshaII resign, if he eanupt coucioutiously
obey. Aud in whatever mode the people of Geor
gia shali express their will touching any public
act to ho performed by tpe as their representati
ve I will obey that will or resign. So much for
tho general doctriue lying at the root of the first
interrogatory, contained in your communicated
ot the Stb instaut, addressed to my colleagues aud
myself as published in tbo Southern Recorder of
yesterday, presuming that you exclude Mr Web
ster nnd General Harrison from the contingency
contemplated iu your first interrogatory, i auswer
that if tne election of President of the U. States
shall devolve od the House of Representatives
aud the candidate voted for by the Electoral
College of Georgia, or a majority of them, shall
be one of the three highest ou tho list, l will give
my vote for him. so long as his name may he run,
unless it i» clearly ascertained that by so doing an
election will ho entirely prevented
To your second interrogatory. I answer, that I
do uot believe Congress possesses any constitu
tional powor to alter or abolish slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, or in any of the Territories of
the United States ; nor power so as to legislate
therein, as to affect the institution of slavery in
any manner whatever.
Very respactfully.
CHARLES E. HAINES.
id °tdie foa .
Ho
!?("? and proceeded south,
nor was he molested.
It is a matter of noTtttle surnrizfl
t ro onr i- . . > riZu that
05 lot).
N
has yet to our certain knowledge
these Indians, prowling between it.:. 0 * 1111 "fftn
gjtsttne. Indiaus no dOuht, fo, so hi
captured negroes, have seen whites , J -S ^
fro on thoso roads. They aro ever £ a ila StoiM
that vicinity, aud have probably ^T^
object m view, till which is aecom.wV®? 0 ^!
savages deem it impolilie to pick ff!? *2
viduals who are hardy enough town hose in
roads winch afford every facility
Milljcdgeville, September the 19th,IS36.
To Messrs Lucas Powell, G.Simmonton, Jam
es McKinnie, David Meriwether, If'illiam A-
Moore. John Hines and C. IF, Wright.
Gentlemen.Acknowledging iu its fullest extent
tho right of the cousiituani to be informed oi the
political opinions of candidates for office, I cher.
fully respoud to the questions propounded in your
communication of tbe 8ib inst.
Iu the event contemplated in your first enquiry
of the election of the uoxt President devolving ou
ihe House of Representatives, I shall consider it
my duty to confn rrn to tho will of the people of
the state as it may he expressed in the choice of
electors iu nove tuber uext aud 1 shall vote for the
candidate who receives tho electoral vote of the
State whether it be Mr. Van Buren pr Judge
White,uot only ou thelst ballot,but so loDg as there
is auy prospect of his olpetiou. This I believe lo
be the iuteution ol all the members of our repre
seututiou, us several of us had u conversation on
Since our last «e hearifoTno uTw'
of the Indians and nothing of i mnft “°' ,e ' nei| !j
transpired on the part of our trorm s P *»
which marched last week for Newnm
not yet been heard from. All seems k, ’«
and will probably coutinue so Up iil ^
moon at which time the Indians JIT
out on new expeditions; hut they havn ,tifl
nearly all they can get at aud
meuis are so well protected that £ r «?*"*■
m uch more damage Herald * C8un «li
The CommissionersJappainted at ik.M
sion of Congress, of Messrs! n? - laj ‘«*-
and Alfred Balch. of Cra *'
ford, ofTenu. ^
their Secretary John Mr" W^Ew ’'JV*
laud have arrived. Their duty, as ma L5* 7 '
by Congress will be to 44 iuvestie-iw'ii, 0!!
rcconl hostilities of the Creeks, f.d 1
egeel have be.e e.„„i,„ d i„“KSt
their land reservations.’’—Tor the pum^r
ven.ence in tbe discharge of said duties, ZZ
missiouers have established their office at 'C,T'
ucar Tuskegee—Columbus Herald.
VERY LATE FROM ENGLAND
Accounts from England to the 9th Auruo ,
received at New York. 6
The
most important among
of those papers, is the
through the first sweat of Abolitionism and tbe j , hi3 EU i,ject befor e we left Washington aud all
pro
which required the uegro lo possess a freehold to
the value of $250. Mr. Bacon said " that he
objected to this mode of excluding the black po
pulation from voting, because, iu tbe first place,
it was an attempt to do a thing indirectly, which
we appeared cither to be ashamed of doiug, or for
como reason chose uot to do directly ; a course
which he thought ever| way unworthy of us.
The freehold qualification is. as it applies to near
ly all the blacks, a practical exclusion, and if this
is right, it ought to be done directly.
Auother friend to ihe blacks, a Mr. Eastwood,
“ said ho was not in favor of letting iu black va-
% abends to voto. hut frit more liberal than tbe se
lect committee • he therefore moved to strike out
3250, and insert 100.
This gentleman's motion was lost, and thepro
viso was agreed to—Mr. Van Buren voted for the
latter measure-
Another member, a Mr. Platt observed :
44 Let us obtain this object of exclusion, by fix
ing such a standard ofqiialification. as would not
only exclude tho great body of freemen of color,
but also a large portion of ignorant and depraved
.while men, who aro as unfit to exercise die power
of voting ns the men of color.” “We know that,
with rare exceptions, they have not the means of
purchasing a freehold, aud it would bo unwoithy
of this grave convention to do, indirectly, an act
of injustice, which we are unwilliug openly to
avow. The real object is to exclude the oppres
sed and degraded sons of Africa,” &c.
" Mr. Van Buren said he had voted against n
total aud unqualified exclusion for he would not
draw a revenue from them, hud yet deny to them
•ho right of suffrage. Bnt this proviso mot his
approbation. They were exempted from taxa
tion until they had qualified themselves to vote.
The right was not deuied. to exclude any portion
of the community who will not exercise the right
of suffrage in its purity. This held out inducements
to industrd, and would receive his support.”
44 Air. Young considered the proviso as the re
sult of compromise. _ ,
Jn the division that took place on the proviso,
we find Van Buren, Young, and Liviugston, vot
ing against the fanatics-- Davis, Jay.Kent, Clarke
mid 8 pen cor, who wished to plaoe tho uegroes
on the same footing as the whites.
iepte
i Wi
HARRISON’S VOTE fob WHITE SLAVES.
In i820 General Harriren was n member of
'tho Ohio .Legislature, where a motion u us in
troduced lu relation to tho law of creditor and
.debtor, which is taken from the journals ns fal-
bWR
"ALLEN TRIMBLE. Speaker.
Upon these principles lie acted, when he re
ported against the first contingent treaty submit
ted to the Senate. It had beeu uegociated by in
dividunls authorised by a portion of the tribe, aud
was to be consummated, when recognised by a
majority of tbo whole people. Bnt Judgo White,
as chairman of the Indian Committee, reported
against il, because, as he says, “ Andrew Ross
and his party (the negotiators) were not Chiefs of
the nation.”
Upou this principle, too. ho acted as a Sena
tor, when (to use his own admission nnd lan
guage,) he says: " I introduced and urged the Se
nate to adopt a resolution, requesting the Presi
dent to negotiate with the State of Georgia for a
portion of her territory for the Cherokees."
His objeet here evidently was to buy out the
sovereign right as claimed by Georgia, and gei
her acquiescence iu bis doctrine, which made
John Ross tho independent Chief of an indepen
dent nation, within the limits of the Stato.
But tho Judge at las', reached ihe crisis of a
Presidential nomination: and after this, iu an
electioneering letter, designed to secure his re
turn to the Senate, and to aid his Presidential
prospects, bo revorsed all this theory and practice
of ten years, and asserted (bat •• Georgia was
completely sovereign and independent within her
acknowledged limits.” That " she had never
granted Ihe power to the Federal Government, by
treaty or oti.encise, to dispose of her territory."
And in this wcv he at once retracted alt lie had
said about the independent nation of Cherokees.
and denied tho vaffi.’iiy of tbe treaty, in virtuo of
which he before had solemnly deelurcd they were
44 a nation possessing ail the powers of other tnde
pendent nations Globe.
ELECTIONS
The prospect still continues to brighten. Even
in Kentucky some of our friends have not despair
ed of the republck njni oxpect a different result
when Old Tccuinseb leads the van. In Nor»b-
Mr. Fiihinn then moved to strike tint the ifith j Carolina, the death-struggle is yet to come, nnd
*
recetion of snid hill, ns follows.
■}l it farther enacted, Thnt wheu tiny person
■ihall he 'imprisoned, either upou execution or
•■otherwise, for tho non-payment of a fine orcosi.-,.
*“i# .«.*i i:7 lc hiu ful fur the sheriff ■</ tin county 1c
■sell out such person as a servant to any persons
rlo.thin this State, who icijl pay the amount due
fir th> : 'ortret p rind cf service, of which rale
public notietshall he/fwen of at least ten days,
no (rtpok curt, cole being effected the sheriff efiall
lo Iht i ;i>eh.uer ji xirtificale thereof. ajd
w* *j* ril jg nr~~ AtiOr; flfm'Wkwkxtme
our friends will take tho field forewarned fore
nrmed. While the spirit of Old Nathnnic! Macou
is wuh them, wc can never despond. When she
goes to tlie'poll? in November next,she will have
before her'Vycs, the thrilling October results of
PensyJViiiiia and Ohio, and indications from N.-
York, N, Jersey and Virginia'sulficicnt to-breath
soul under the verry ribs of death,” Every where
else in (he West, ihe lute elections present i;s wi
th sourcesjof congratulation,nnd ofliope.Louisiao-
ALV/bftm.Misstnnr. Illinois, and Indiana, hc.sen,
Richmond Enqiiim
Free Negro Voto, tho two topics, which dressed,
as they were, ought to have galled her withers.
Until lately the Free Negro had tho same right of
suffrage as the white man under her Couslitu-
tion-whereas in New York it has beeu essentially
dilforeut for many years. And even in N.C, her
distinguished Whig-s (Branch aud Swain)op-
posed any chauge of her Coustitutiou io this res
pect* Mr V.B. might have expected some little
mercy on the score of ,District Abolitionism
on constitutional grounds. Hois as unchangeable
and uncompromisingly opposed to it, as he is as
sincerely opposed to all interference on the subje
ct of Slavery by the Genera) Government and
has expressed himselfasstronglyagamstit.asN.C
herself yej upon the constitutional question,her
resolutions are uot moie decided than his Letter.
Richmond Enquirer.
were of opinion that obedience to the will of our
constituents was in this as in other cases a para
mount duty to which our personal predilections
must yield.
To your second enquiry I repl£ that congress
does not in my opiniou possess the coustitiioual
power to abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumbia oriu auy of the teritories of tbe Uuited
States or in any manner to legislate upou tho
suhjodt.
1 am entlemeu with great respect your obed:„
ut servant, S. GRANTLAND
Maryland Senatorial Election.-Au election
eas recently teken place inJMarylaud forElectors
of the state senate in which the contest was so
close, that at one time both the Whig and Vau
Buren presses announced the complete triumph of
tbe Van Bureu party. Ninteeu counties and two
citios(Baltinaoro and Auuapolis)chose 40 electors
who form an electoral colleJgo for tbo ci; Acs of
15 Senators, to serve for five years the probable
result is as follows Whigs 21. Van Burenites 19
The Baltimore Republican says that the aggre
gate Van Buiea major!tes in the (several couuti-
es indicate the success of the Van Buren party iu
the choice of Presidential electors, who are chosen
by general ticket throughout the State
From the Georgia Journal.
Messrs Owens, G-ascock, Coffee. Cleveland,Jackson
Holsey, Towns. Haynes, ‘Granttand.
GENTLEMEN-In our Republican country, it
itis conceded by all, that the right of the constit
uents to require of the candidate for his suffrage
a distinct avowal of his political opinion is unde
niable. We therefore as a portion of that party
whose votes have made you a member of the pre
sent Congress, respectfully beg of.you to favour
us through one or more of the public prints at as
eaqy a day as possible, with explicit answers
to tbo folio wing questions: 1. Will yon in the
event of the election of President of the U. S. de
volving nppon the House of Representatives in
tbe present contest, vote for the candidate who
shal have received the voto of the electoral college
oftho State .of Georgia or a majority thereof, not
ouly ou tho first ballot but so long ns his name
shall he ruu?
2 Do you believe thnt the Congress of the Uui
ted States possesses^the constitutional power to
abolish slavery m the District of Columbia, or iu
any of tho Territories of the United States, or in
any waywhateverto legislate upop the subject?
We mnko these ouquires in spirit^of capdor and
frankuess with the honest resolve that your ans
wers to them will determine whether wo shall aid
in rc-electiug you to the station you now occupy.
With sentiments of tbe highest esteem, we have
tho honor to be. gentlemen your obedient serv
ants.
LUCAS POWELL.
O. W. C.WRIGHT.
WILLIAM. A. MOORE.
JOHN HINES.
JAMES. McKENNIE.
G. SIM MONTON.
DAVID MERIWETHER.]
Monticollo. Sept. 8.1836.
P. S. Editors generally are requested to in
sert tho above in tu ‘
aetr-papere*
It is not generally known in the South, that the
right of voiiug is cxcrcisod at present by -free tbe
groes in all the.nuu-stavcholding states, with ne
exception cf Connecticut and Now York, in the
same manner us it-is by tbo whites. It was so in
the latter Elate, until Mr. Vau Buren, and bis
colleagues iu the convention, modified the oxci -
ciso of that privilege, so that they nenrly exclud
ed them altogether. This will be admitted when
the fncl is stated that. inl806, undor the old Con
stitution, there were 800 negro votes iu the State
of New York—at present there aro not more than
100 of this class.
In the slaveholding- Slates ofTcnnesseoandN.
Carolina, free negroes were placed on a level
with white men, until very lately. Gov, Branch
in the former State, a deadly opponent of Mr.
Vau Buren, stood out most lustily against dis
franchising tho negroes, nt tho Conveotion.which
was held there last Fall—but he was foiled in
his philanthropic intentions, by tho good sense of
the moinbere.
In Tennessee, where Judge White’s star is in
tin: ascendant, so late as last year—negroes not
only voted, but performed military duty! Why,
did uot the Judge, who is trumpeted forth ns the
champion o f lbe South, stand forward ns the de
fender of this approximation lo abolition ? In
stead of doing this that gentleman is represent
ed to be himself actually a supporter of aboli
tionists, in his own State. I he Judgo has never
yet deuied that he gave his interest to. Thomas
Frazier, the ex-chairman of au abolition meeting
county, Tennessee, when he was icari-
uHiite for the Legislature. So much caneot be
alleged cgnfcst Mr. Vju Jktroq. He"pa( only
THE MONTICELLO INTERROGATORI
ES. We arc requested by General Glascock to
stato his answor to the first of the questions , ro
pounded by mirarulus power.nnd 6 other citizens
ofj Jasper that he has stedfastly aud earnestly
combatted for the doctrines that the people have
the right to instruct the representative and therep-
reseutative is boqud to obey the will of the peo
ple, whon that will is clearly ascertained, or to
resigu if in auy instacc. lie shall believo the act
required of him by the people, is incompatible
with the obligations of conscieuco or of honor.
Ashe regards this as one of tho Ibading principles
of the Union or Democratic party and such is his
own attachment to the principle that he would
not abandon it even for tho advancement ofn
political friend however great his preference
might bo for him. He wiU therefore in tho event
of the election for Prosidou tof the United States
devolving upon tho house of representatives in
tho present ease vote for Judge White if ho shall
receive a'mnjoriryof tho electoral voto of Georgia
& a sufficient number of electoral vote?-, to carry his
name before the House of Rcpresettatives.
In answer to the second enquiry, we aro auth
orised to slate that ho believes the Congress of
tho United States does not possess tho constitu
tional power to abolish slavery in .the District of
Columbia or in any of the teritories of ihe United
Siates^or in any manner to legislate on that sub
ject. llis opinions in relation to tbis matter have
been so fully and publickly expressed, and are
now so well kuown by tbe peoplo of the State that
a further reply ou his part is deemed uuncsscssary.
Sparta, Skptf.,m.bkr.14, 1836
Messrs Lucas Powell, G• Simmonton, James
McKinnie David Meriwether, If'illiam A. Moore
John Hines and C.W.’Wright. \
Gentlemen.-! recognise tp ; .tho fullest extent
lift right of the constmrcpi bpdy tp .instruct tho
ino.yj i t. oitin. i.
From the Jacksonville Courier of the 8tA inst
Latest Intelligence—Army movements, fyc—
Major Pierce with all his effective force from St.
Augustine, left Black Creek on Saturday even
ing, encamped that night at Bull Creek, 5 miles
from Garay's Ferry, ou his way to Newnausville.
Tljo force with him amouuted to a little upwards
of two hundred men. A train of wagous went
on under his escort. We are told that Major P.
is determined to try another battle with the In
dians, aud that loo, speedily. May the God of
battles grant him success.
Capl. Walker, from Nassau county, left this
place on Tuesday morning with sixteen men io
join the remainder of his company at Netvnans
ville.
The two companies of militia (whose time of
service expires iu a few days) and tbe one of Re
gulars at Fort Giililaud.joiued with the meujust
goue ou with Major Pierce, will we hope save
Newuaubvillc from tbe Indians. That place lias
bo«n threatened aud will probably be attacked
or the roads leading lo it so beset, that communi
cation, except uuder 6trong escorts, jvjll bo inter
dicted.
Mr. Charles Dell, who left Netvuansville on
Saturday last, stales that for some time the In
dians have beeu in tbe immediate neighborhood
of the Fort. It seems that they mado their head
quarters at San Felasco (Col. Saucbez’s planta
tion) only four miles from Newnausville, aud
collecting cattle, penned them there for a night
aud then drove them off toward^ Hogtown prai
rie. The Indians on Tuesday night of last week
came within 160 yards ofthe Fort, and stripping
a slip of bark from a tree made some marks,
which were interpreted by those skilled in Semi-
uole hieroglyphics, to siguifv that 150 Indians
wero present ut that place, ft is impossible to suy
what force the iuferuals have, but enough to over
run Florida unless some assistance soon comes.
The women aud children at Newnausville
must suffer incredible hardships—at night shut
iu the Fort, alarmed, needy and sick. The day
s spent iu the tents pitched around tho Fort-
We are told that the number is near three hun
dred.
At Black Creek, tho people from Alachua
whp sought that place for security, and are en
camped op both sides of the creek for sorno dis-
-we along the road, are suffering greatly from
sickness. Such are their exposures to the wea
ther, their want of almost every comfort of life,
that the preservation of their healths is a thing
impossible. The measles and whooping cough
both prevail among them.
These epidemics, in addition to the fevers con
sequent on their exposure, place those unfortu
nate people in “extremis rebus." It is said that
two-thirds of them aro now sick. What must be
their sufferings 1—houseless, homeless, Ij ing up
on tlie ground, exposed to the noon day heat, the
damps and dews of night, aud tho storms of hea-
von, destitute of overy tiling, oven of medical aid,
(except what is rendered by the Surgeon of tbe
Post)sick, dying!
Mr. Pinkston of this place, who returned last
Friday from St. Augustine, on the Kiug's Road,
which has beeu abandoned of Into by travellers
on accouut of the presence of the Indians in it-*
neighborhood, states that ho observed in Twelve
Milo Swamp, Indian signs.
The uneasiness of bis horse, pricking up his
ears, throwing 4tis head and anuffiug. induced
him ta look more particularly at the road than
he otherwise,would liavo done. He dismounted
and upon examination, found thatouo track was
made by the bare foot, ho judged, of a negro.
Near, was auother track made by a moccasin.
They were fresh, and made since a shower of
rain which fell a few hours previous. Not liking
the neighbors which wero likely to be in that .vi
cinity, Mr. P. mounted his burse and proceeding
on, came in unmolested.
On Sunday, Mr. Ferris, of this place, came the
same road from St. Augustine. Ho reports that
n blue camblet cloak, which lie obsorved ,w,hen
lie went on some days previous in company with
several other geutlemeu, hanging not far from the
road, ou tho limb of a treo, just .on tho edge of
Twelve Mile Swamp,had been spread in the road,
at which his horse taking fright threw him, but
with no very serious injury. It is notkuowu how
the cloak came there, uor whoso it is. Wo have
heard that n geutlemeu going from Mandarin to
St. Augustine, via said swamp, has not since
keen heard of, bnt do not giyo much credit to the
report.
Mr. Ferris states, that on tho road between
Twelve Mile Swampaiid Derbin Bridge, ho saw
plenty cf fresh Indian signs. From the appear
ance, he should judge that eight or ten Indians
stopped iu the road for some little time, as there
contents
the British House of Commow, on
5jh of August, ou the subject of an imprf.r. n .
by Great Britaiu between Texas and Meiiro ‘
The private fortuue or Mr. N. M. Rothschild
is stated to have been four uuilions sierlin? lfa
place iu Loudon was to be occupied by lmbrotb-
erCharise, who formerlyresided at Naples a J
more recently at Frankfort The body of « r .
N- M. Rothschild arriyed in London ou the 4th
of A ugust.
EMIGRATION.
About thirteen thousand Creek Iudians, hare
within the last fifteou days taken up the lice of
march for Arkansas. This looks like getting
clear of those troublesome neighbors. A fe»
thousand women and children will have to a-
main, uutil the warriors that have volunteernitj
go to Florida, return from that expedition He
wretrhed policy of taking them to Florida, will
we fear, he the means of quartering a portion of
the tribe, for a length of lime, ou ihe settlers ig
Alabama, and tjaay be the occasion of future db-
turbauccs. If so, we wonder if Gen. Jessupatl
Col. Hogau will be able (ojshuffl- the blameapaii
on the people of Georgia? They will be vert
apt to try.—Columbus Enquirer.
A slight shock of au oarthqunke was felt at
New London Cou. on Tuesday 30th ult.at 2 o'cl
ock P.M. The shock was much more sensibly felt
iu the ndjoiuing towu of Waterford. These sho
cks appear lo have beeu experienced about tbe
same time, uot very far from it, in various para
of the country.
Three thousand Men for Texas!—Gen. Dualop
of Tcunessee is about to proceed to Texas at tin
head of the above number of men. Tho whole
corps are now at Memphis. They will uot, il
is said, pass this way. Every man is completely
armed, the corps having been originally wised
for the Florida war. This force, we have is
doubt, will be able to carry every thing before iu
Vicksburg Regirter.
A fortunate Insurance Company.—On toe fat
day of August last, (says the Salem Roister)til
first policies issued by "the Danvers (Mass.) Ik-
lunl Fire Insurance for seven years expired,
it became necessary to batauce the account w
profit and loss for that term. The result was a*
whole premium paid, and twenty three »ud a
lOOths per cent on the ..auie, was refapdfd-iw
company hayiug met with oue loss only, aud®'
by lightning.
A TOWN FOR SALE. .
S INCF. the entire destruction ot Roanoke. uu,«
art county, the undersigned have purchased!*’
autifulsite about three miles above, upon which
propose to establish a TOWN, to be called UKf
pool• This place is very advantageously
pool, t ins place is very advantageously »“*•
upon a high and saudy bluff, which has proved w
healthy from tho first settlement of ihe county, up
the present period. The water is very fine—it* ^
mercial advantages and facilities must he equal:
superior to any intermediate place between * o'"® 1 ,
and the Gulf, ft will command tbe counties ol
on, Suniterand Randolph, in Georgia, snasc®"*)
able portion of Barbour andRnsselh in the*-
Aiuhnma The site consists of three iraciionsiMJ. t
Alabama.
square, amounting to nearly four hundred scret- ■
will be laid ofFin Lots of convenient size, and 'r7
for sale on the 17th October. The Company W
vided the Stock into 100 shares, a portion o' ‘ ^
may be taken at §150 per share, if *PP,“nv I ni\
be made before the sale. IIFNRY W
ASAPH R WML’
JAS K GACHET.
GUSTAV DEUpW'
BENJ A WHITE, j
FRANC V BttAljf
THOMAS B ■SiVBB.
sent 20 4t 65 JOHN
Valuable MILL, Property
% iiuiiiim- iuiuu * /iistwo
T HE undersigned offers for t-afe
MILLS, within three miles of Macon
Mills are now in successful operation. _ Attach-
On tho premises is also a GRIST iaN'D-
ed to the Mills is 1500 acres of finely nmbewi ^
with all the buildings requisite forconduc s , „
ness. Added to these advantages, is a *-P f „ - 0 tl*
water, a healthy situation, and its near i. u et cand'
rapidly growing city of Macon, where a „ onj *iA-
ways be had lor Lumber 11 fair prices- - jpastte
ing* to purchase, are invited to call on ,
premises, or on Roger McCall at ’
sept 21 65 EbcAsau
Fifty Dollars Ke'yard*..^^ „
the above amount for sue .
I will give the above amount lor s ; “*•* '^jciion) <“
mav ennhlo me (even without lega t
may enable me (even without I C S pi^
ascertain the white person, by whom o J (t
eurement my swamp field fence was p
the afternoon of the 20tli instant TRACf-
sop122 65 It EDWARDDJJ^
NOTICE; it** 1
O NE of our firm will hereaft e » jjy to t! 1 *
Muscogee Suprrior Court. R e
next court U on Tuesday nexl ’ ” -/week,*® W
hands during the pr £ -
placedinonr -
in time to be sued to the next court- vjgBFV
sept 22 65 It —
Store IIorrsiTJo^^/'iio^*
ONE or Loth of the ^
ONE or both of the , arg e
joining the «ubscnbe»»* coullJ b^S
general assortment tb y , M j^blest**J
united aud would mak
for business. To“ D * vi || be <
SfC*S"-'v' VEr ^L.
sept 22 65 —-r-r^iifijTg*''
F OUR Month? after date, 3 PP’‘^fCra*ffS
to the honorable Jnfenor CJjprt J.'DJj
ty, for leave trtsell all thwal«»»« lhe fcenrf
man, late of said county, deceas * ifffT,
the heirs. ALEa-»*I^*
sent 5.1836. 65 —j—-^£ce
Wc are autEonioJToaiw
of ABNER HAMMGNP^
pnsuinjt* *
I I * iwu»i .w> «vuiv M “ 4V I • MV ' v j IBV UUUlQUt IX*#*.*--- __|U<r
was ono place very much trodden up with moc- j idateforTax Collector for the en p. j
casin tracks, ne saw distinctly wheye they left*’ Aug 25 61: