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r 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: