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FOREIGN.
We have been favored with a tile of the :
Chronica Constitutional dc Porto, tho govern- \
meet paper of Don Pe Jro, down to a recent i
date. There is no symptom in the columns
of this journal, of any failure of spirits or con
fidence on the part of the constitutional party.
It complains bitterly of the falsehoods inven
ted “ by the olficious corresspondents of the
Holy Alliance, and inserting in the Gazette of
Madrid, the Tory papers of England, and the
Cartist journals of France, representing the
prospects of Don l’edro as at a low ebb, and
falsifying the result of the actions in w Inch
his troops have been engaged.” The same
journal accounts for certain representations
which appeared in tho London Times, giving
a gloomy picture of the affairs of Don Pedro,
in the following manner :
“ 'i'he want of news from Oporto for more
than a month proceeds from the storms which
prevented the packets coming from Lisbon or
fiom England from touching at this port, en
couraged the agents of the Usurper who op
presses Portugal, toconterfcit ietters from this
city which they said came by the packets that
sailed from Lisbon, concealing the fact that
they had not been able to touch at Oporto.
These letters were read in the Money Market,
taken to the offices of the newspapers and
published. This is the truth of the lact which
has occasioned so much noise, without any
other profit than the momentary rejoicing cf
the servile party, and the lucre of the specu
lators in the funds.”
The allowing report contained in the Opor
to papers and followed, on the 3d of April,
by a decree carrying its provisions into effect,
is dictated by a humane and liberal spirit.
REPORT.
Sire —Your Imperial Majesty's parental so
licitude for the welfare of the citizens who
are faithful to their oaths, to the legitimate
Queen, and the liberal institutions w hich your
Imperial Majesty generously granted to the
nation, has already extended a protecting
hand to the families of the brave defenders of
the constitutional throne, who have perished
and who may perish, victims of their loyalty,
during the present struggle between usurpa
tion and right; should these generous victims
belong either to the regular army or to the
national guards. But others there are, Sire
for whom it is also necessary to extend your
Imperial Majesty’s protection, and these are
the faithful subjects who may have waged war
by sea for the restitution of the throne to the
Queen, and to the nation her liberties : those
who have lost their lives at the hands of the
nation, who, seized with a blind frenzy, con
tinually throwing destructive projectiles into
the city, have murdered unarmed citizens,
who have left widows, orphans and relatives,
totally destitute, and others unable to contin
ue in the exercise of their profession or indus
try, finding themselves therefore compelled to
drag in poverty and misery a life saved with
difficulty and mutilated limbs, incapable of
any kind of labor, and what is worst, to wit
ness the misfortune of their families, and to
be deprived of the means to educate and es
tablish their children.
Honorable and meritorious citizens have
met the same fate in the service of the bat
teries and fortifications which defend the lic-j
roie city of Oporto from the slaughter and ]
pilliage promised by the chiefs of the rebels
to the soldiers and to the other instruments of]
their crimes. Many sea-faring men have also ;
suffered both in the river and on the high sea.
IVor should those who on the scaffold have at
tuned for the crime of being faithful to your
Imperial Majesty, to the Queen, and to their!
country, be forgotten ; nor such as have lin-j
gcred and died in prisons and in banishment
in distant and deadly climates.
The families of all those martyrs of right
cannot but merit from your Imperial Majesty
as much compassion ami as great a care, as
the former already provided for. And as we
are convinced how much your Imperial Majes
ty lias at heart to soften the cruel condition of
me aoi.i „,„i „„t a, «i».
of useful citizens, whose fathers have, be
queathed to them the noble example cf the
most heroic patriotism, we have the honor to
propose to your Imperial Majesty the follow
ing decree.—Oporto, 28th March, 1833.
Candido Jose Xavier—Marquis de Louie—
Jose de Silva Carvalho—Agostinho Jose
Freire, —Joaquim Antonio de Maghalhaes.
DECREE. /
Taking into consideration the report of the
Minister and Secretary of State of the Trea
sury Department, we decree, in the name of
the Queen, the following :
Art. I.—The entry of national and foreign
wines is permitted in this city, iin|*ortetl un
der any flag, the former paying a duty of five
and the latter twenty per cent, ad valorem.
2d.—Cbampaigne wine, cordials, and all
spirituous liquors, with the exception of bran
dy, which was not heretofore admissible, shall
also and in the same manner be admitted for
consumption on paying a duty of thirty per
cent, ad valoruin.
3d-—Whenever it shall be deemed proper
to suspend or to alter the present decree, it
shall be made known one month in advance.
4th.—Every law and order contrary to the
present decree is repealed. The Minister
and Secretary of State of the Treasury will
so understand, and have it executed, l’alacc
of the City of Oporto, 3d April, 1833.— D0n
Pebbo dl - Br.vgaxza —Jose da Silva Carval
ho.
From Pxvbttt.al.—The brig Quito, which
left Lisbon on the 17th of .May, arrived at
New Bedford on Wednesday. The New Bed
ford Gazette give the following intelligence
obtained from Captain Maxfield of the Quito.
Don Miguel’s fleet was lying at Lisbon at
the time, inactive lor want of men. On the
12th the Government commenced pressing
every Portuguese tint could he found on board
the shipping in port, as well as on shore, surd
foal! the shipwrights and caulkere, forbidding
their working oo any merchant vessel, until
one o! the Governvcnt’s old rhips, which had
been condemned, was repaired,and requiring
them to work on board every day not except
ing Sundays.
.Nothing ofron-rquence had transpired, it
would have been a.., a to obun
correct information, as all the avenues for
impartial accounts had been closed by the
Gevernment.
Don Pedro it was thought would be receiv
ed with open arms by all classes. The cause
of Don Miguel was very unpopular among
the jieoplc, but they of course did not dare
to express their opirion openly. Desertions
were frequent, and to a considerable extent,
both from the army and navy, mostly in con
sequence of not recehing their pay. It was
stated that Don Miguel had not paid his men
in sixteen months, although he has, from time
i to time, promised it to them in two mouths,
which is the case at the present time.
The Cholera has been raging at Lisbon to
a considerable extent, but had in a great meas
ure subsided when the Quito sailed. No
case had however appeared on board the
shipping.
Brig Tim, of Boston, sailed May 12th for
Oporto—had been detained seventeen days
by the government, in consequence of having
flour on board, which is contraband at Lis
bon.
Tito llritbl) West Indies.
! It was a thing not to be expected, (says the Na
tional Intelligencer) that the people of the Bri
tish W'est India Islands would passively receive
the news of the measure* agitated in the British
Parliament, lookiug to the abolition of slavery.
The adoption of them would be, we fear, not on
ly the signal <funiversal ruin to the fortunes of
the planters, butof utter annihilation to the peace
of the Archipelago. On this subject the New-
York papers furnish the follow ing extracts from
late West India papers :
From the Jamaica Courant.
Os Mr. Stanly, we wish to speak with every
respect, as we believe his intentions are honest;
but we hope he will calmly and seriously tveigli
the awful responsibility which he will incur by
any hasty or ill-advised measures. The slaves
I are now nappy, and as contented as we could ex
■ pect them to be, under the feelings which now ne
| mate their Auli.Colomai friends in this city, as
I well as the mother country ; and it affords us ve
ry sincere pleasure to declare that on many estates
where the nature of the contemplated change has
] been explained, that they spurn the “ boon”
which their friends intend for them, observing,
that they arc now satisfied with massas! And
we have no hesitation in stating that, when the
ties which still unite master and slave are sever
j eJ, however much the former may suffer, misery,
and nothing but misery, will be forever entailed
upon the latter: and of this the influential portion
oi them are so well satisfied that they dread the
result of the measures proposed, as it is said foi
their benefit, by their friends in England.
The following is a copy' of a memorial
of the delegates of the planters of Jamaica,
addressed to ministers:
MEMORIAL.
“ We claim from the general government se
curity from future interference with our slaves,
either by ordeis in council, or by any other mode
not recognized by our laws.
We claim that Sectarian Missionaries shall b(
left to theoperation of those laws which govern
the other subjects of his Majesty : and if those
laws are insufficient to protect us from renewed
insurrections, excited through their machinations,
we be permitted to amend them.
We ask for such alterations in the revenue acts
as shall revive our prosperity, by restoring to the
colonics some part of the income of their estates,
which is now, and has long been, altogether swal
lowed up by the exactions of the mother country.
If these reasonable demands are rejected, we
call upon government to give us, without further
, hesitation or delay, an equitable compensation
for these interests, which it had thought.it expe
dient to sacrifice for the supposed good of the em
pire.
Should compensation also be refused, we final
ly and humbly require that the Island of Jamaica
be separated from the parent country, and that
beingabsolved from her allegiance to the British
Crown, she he free either to assume independence,
or to unite herself to some state by whom she
will he cherished and protected.”
Shipwreck. —YY'e have received Bermuda j
papers to the 25th June. The brig Enter-i
prize, Flitner, from Boston,* fell in on the
11 th, lat 33 30, long 71 45, with the wreck
of the brig Douglass, I‘rudden, master, of
Bermuda, bound to Alexandria, D. C. nearly
on her beam ends, full of water, and all her
set.
On boarding Iter, their attention was imme
diately attracted by some person in a weak
voice—and which was supposed to be that of
a female—calling from below the deck, is the
after part of the vessel: on finding the sky
light off, the master put his hand down, and
directed the person to take hold of it; the
hand was grasped with avidity by a boy, who!
was immediately placed on deck; on being]
questioned as to the crew of the brig, &e. lie.
gave the Captain’s name, where from and
bound—that she was capsized on the Sunday
night previous—that the Captain and remain
der of the crew were taken off by the schoon- j
er, Jane, Capt. Davis, which vessel happened
to be in company at the tunc of the accident
—and that there was a box of money on board,
which he hoard rat.lc to the bottom of the
cabin, as the vessel went over. Capt. F.
finding the larboard main riggingand the lore
topmast gone, the main-mast unstej pod, cut
away the main stay from the foremast head,
when she righted several feet, being relieved
of the weight of the mainmast; he continued
by her four hours, anil had all his crew by
.turns on hoard of her, endeavoring to find
the money, but not succ. edinp, and the wind
being fair, he was obliged to leave her, hav
ing taken from the wreck a chest and a barrel
of bread, the latter, wet, both found lashed
outside the weather for shrouds, and a few
pieces of rigging and canvas.
The Douglass was about eight months old,
owned by Messrs, J. Block A Cos. her com
mander an active and experienced seamen,
was in ballast when she sailed hence, and had
upwards of $ 100(1 in silver, on board, 8 3008 j
of which belonged to the owners. The hoy !
saved his named Richard Prudden, a native ]
of Bermuda, a re!ati»c*of the captain's and
about nine years of age. He says that him- i
self and another bov were asleep in the star-1
hoard berth, at the time of the accident, and j
us she fell over, thp other hoy succeeded in !
scrambling ut> the companion way ; and as ;
the water rushed into the cabin lie reached a
trunk, which huoved him tip to the larboard
hearth, into which he got, that he heard Cap
tain Prudden hail the schooner Jane, and
Captain Davis realying; that he heard Capt.
P. and the crew get out the long boat and
laeve the vessel.— -V. V. lire. P. it.
DOMESTIC.
STEPHEN GIKIKW.
In the course of our limited observation up-1.
on human nature, we have met with no pro- j ;
blem more curious than the character of Stk- j
•■hex Girard, the Benefactor of tho City of
Philodelphia, and, it may be hoped, of genera- 1 ,
tions of People yet to come.
If, in the traditionary accounts of this ex- 1
traordinary mm, and the anecdotes of him j
which are generally circulated, we had found j
: much ta? urprize us and much tos|»eculateup-'
I on,we are indebted to the discourse es Mr. Biu
, die, for teaching us to respect his memory. YYc ,
; have pleasure in being enabled to regard him
1 in the light of a con-istent, thoughtful far- ]
■ seeing philanthropist, instead of a humotist
: and a misanthrope, which characters ire had
j been almost induced to believe were united in
| him, to the prejudice of the finer and nicer
i feelings.
( The Address of Mr. Biodi.e, in this view,
j has higher merit than literary or rhetorical
: excellence. It abounds with practical wis
dom. He searches in the probable benefi
j cent consequences of the request of Girard
1 for the motives of it, and we see, beyond doubt,
that that extraordinary man was aiming to ac
complish, by tho means which Providence
| had placed tinder liiscontroljMegrea/csf po».
] siblc good. His “ comprehensive benevo-!
j lencc, ” to use the phrase of the Orator, relied I
upon futurity for the fruits of the labors of bis j
! life- His ambition was of no mortal mould, j
It looked beyond the grave for its results.:
j The author of all this prospective good,”!
; found his gratification in the contemplation j
! of the great benefits which he was laying up j
i:i store for unborn generations of the sons ot,
men. Such were the pleasure and recreations ,
of his life,
Wc are no less charmed than instructed by
the delineation of such a character, which
Mr. Biddle lias embodied in his address.
YVe believed it to be the true one, and that
tho memory of Fteiuien Girard deserves j
honor and veneration now and in all time to ,
come.
Princeton College.—The friends of A -'
meilean literature will be gratified to learn
j that this institution is in a flourishing condi
' tion, and that in consequence of the continu
! ed increase of students, the Trustees aro cr
| gaged in erecting another College edifice,!
! llil feet in length, ami 3(> feet in width, four
stories high ; to contain thirty two rooms, with
j a bedroom attached to each. 'l'he annual coni
i menceincnt takes place, on the last \\ ednes
j day in September, on the day preceding which
i Richard S. Coxe, Esq. of Washington, D. C.
j is to deliver an oration before the American
j Whig and Cliosophic Societies ; and on coni
j incncement day at 9 o'clock, A. M. tho Hon.
John Sergeant, of Philadelphia, is expected to
I deliver an oration before an annual meeting
| of the Alumni Association of Nassau Hall.
Prom the Boston Centincl.
Wc have been credibly informed, from dif
j ferent sources, that the Jackson party proper
! in Portsmouth, N. 11. were determined to
I have the exclusive reception of the President
i to themselves: this caused a quarrel between
: them and the other citizens of the place, in
j consequence of which, the President was dis
j gusted with their feuds, and turned his back
I upon them all. It is said that this narrow -
j minded spirit was also manifest in Concord, j
: But wc shall soon hear more authentic ac- •
counts, and will lay them before our readers.
The laic advices from Arkansas bring clis-;
trexsing accounts of a flood in the river of that
! name, the river having riaen three feet higher
I than ever before remembered. The conse
quence is, thnt the plantations ::re deluged ail
' along the river, and not only the entire crops
i swept off, butseveu the lam! itself, in some in-,
! stances, washed away. The roads were flood- j
)ed on all the levels, nnu travelling const-<
j qucntly entirely suspended. Many lives, a!-.
: so, it was feared, had been lost. One or two
i bodies were said to have been discovered in
. the torrent of the river, passing Little Rock.
TICK SKA-SEttPKAT.
If the sea serpent only conducts himself
j with ordinary civility, a large number of the in
j habitants of Boston will soon have an oppor-
I (unity of an interview’ with him. A paper of
! that city mentions that Captain Porter, the
I steamboat Commander who the other day saw
! tiie whole family of sea serpents, had sailed
! with about a hundred passengers, all anxious i
to pay their respects to they* great unknown,”!
j and that oil - Naliant “ the boat fell in withja ,
• monster, which the passengers believed wjis ,
! one of the sea serpents that bad been scfcn
near the same place the day previous. Acer- \
tificate signed by a number of the passen- !
gers, is published in tha papers of Monday f
afternoon; and we have received another cer- j
tificate signed by tiventv other gentlemen,;
confirming the statements of those who were]
in the small boat of the Connecticut, and had i
a pretty good view of the monster.” Another j
journal affirms that an experienced whaler was!
proposing to start with a lighter and two whale j
boats, and a crew properly equipped for the!
purpose of capturing the .Sea Serpent.
Dr. Scuddcr, somewhat notorious, among]
other reasons, as the maker of artificial eyes :
| which he declares to be better that natural 1
! ones, has had his wits stirred up bv there-]
I ported reappearance of the sea serpent!
i and suite on our coast, and lias invented a sort
of harpoon to strike him, which the whaler!
| above alluded to would do well to provide a '
• few of. It consists of a harpoon of the ordin- i
j ary construction attached to a sheet iron C'on- j
I greve rocket, and it is calculated that theim- j
] petus of the latter, on being set ot]', would
carry the harpoon with precision a thousand'
! feet. The rocket is loaded with balls, and!
so contrived that on its explosion these would I
be projected with great force; and thus tun
instrument might at once destroy the sea mon- j
stcr, whatever it is, and fasten him so that he !
might be sccurtd and lowed to land.
-V. Y. Ere. rest, j
From the Charlotlscille Advocate. |
NEW PLAN OF A RAiL ROAD.
Wc understand that Mr. John Hartman,:
Jr. of Scottsville, a gentleman alike remark.]
able for his public spirits and mechanical in
genuity, lias invented and obtained a patent!
for anew mode of constructing Rail Roads,
which is likely to be of signal benefit to the j
Southern country. Mr. 11. has recently been j
to the North, and ive understand was assured,]
by gentlemen of acknowledged skill and judg
ment in such matters, that his plan is entirely
practicable, and promises very beneficial re
sults.—The rails are to be of wood, instead
of iron, and ns the usual graduation is not a
part of the plan, it is estimated that an excel
lent road, with a double track, may be con
structed upon this system for little more than
a thousand dollars a mile. YY'e trust that the
“bnterprize of our countryman may be i carti
ly seconded by public spirit generally, that
the practicability and utility of his plan may
be fairly and speedily tested. To this end,
ive learn that Mr. 11. actually intends ma
king the experiment on a small portion of the j
Scottsvillc Turnpike, at his own expense.
POLITICAL,.
The publication of a letter by YY’orcester
tad Butler (the Missionaries in thePeniten
aiary of Georgia) seems to us to have made
the official degradation of Gov. Lumpkin com
plete. They represent that they were ininor
tuned, earnestly and repeatedly, to disconti
nue their suit to the Federal Court and take a
release.—The importunity grew’ more urgent
as the Bloody Bill advanced towards maturity ,
and became irtesistibly teazingwhen the full
virtues of that measure in reference to the po
sition of Georgia became manifest, as the law
Os the land, sanctioned by the Proclamation.
This measure seems to have made his Excel
lency, Gov. Lumpkin,exceedingly relenting,
philanthropic and merciful. The result is,
i.iat between him, Forsyth, and the adminis- i
tration, Georgia v as begged out of the scrape i
at the feet of the Missionaries. The disgrace, ]
if any attaches to the proceeding, does not
belong to Georgia, but to her unworthy Gov- ]
ernor. Dow unworthy to occpy the scat of]
George M. Troup! However, if the people
oflieorgiaare content to indorse tiiis conduct
of their Governor before the Nation, so arc
; ive. Camden Hep.
mux the charleston mercury.
•:>\ WHICH »IDE 18 EIBEUTY
MOST SAFE?
The main argument of the Consolidatioriists ;
is,that the same means by which an uncosstitu
t onal act may be resisted, may he used a-'
gtiinst a constitutional act of Congress, and j
: that “* government which cannot execute its
laws ceases to be a government.” Tlrey are 1
so careful of the Federal Government, that
they prefer that it should be unrestricted in
! any violations of the Constitution, rather
1 than, hy recognizing a mode of restricting it,
1 ive subject it to the risk of being at any time
! interrupted in the exercise of its just author
ity. The proposition which they would cs-j
tablish, and to establish which ail their argu-!
ments tend, is in fact that a government, \
which is subjected to no limits whatever is]
no government—that the Federal Govern
ment must never he resisted when acting!
unconstitutionally, for fear of weakening its !
power to enforce its constitutional authority |
—or in other words, that to be a government j
at all it must he omnipotent: for it really]
seems that they cannot conceive of any other j
government than one which is unlimited.
“The act you would resist,” say they, “is |
unconstitutional, —but if you pronounce it so,!
and proceed to Nullify it, you might hereaf-]
! ter take the same course against a constitu
tional act.—Therefore you ought to submit,
and sutler the government to decide on its j
own limits, and judge of its own acts.” We!
reply if the government must cease to exist,'
whenever it is restrained from violating its
charter, that it ought to be annihilated: that
iif it can enforce an unconstitutional act, the
people are not—that if it cannot co-exist
with the power of the States to protect their
rights, it had better be abolished, because we
can be free without a Federal Government,
and a government had better be w ithout pow
er than a people without liberty.
The Consolidationists object to a State be
ing placed over the Federal Government, by
granting to it the right to adjudge its acts:
and we object tothe annihilation of the lim
its of the Constitution and the reserved rights
of the States, hy making the government
the sole judge of the constitutionality of its!
oivn acts, with the power of executing all acts.
YVe contend that the Federal Government
had better be weak, than the States defence
less, —that if the States cannot apply the )
check, there is no check —that the charter I
is then a mockery—the creature imlepen-j
det of its creators, the agpntof its principals,!
and the government consolidated, irresponsi-j
bh, and unlimited : and that a government}
which can of right enforce all imaginable
acts of legislation by the sivord, is a pure
despotism. Under such a government the !
States hold their rights, as President Jackson ,
kindly concedes them to hold the right of Sc-1
cession, to be exercised, viz. only Inj per -1
mission of the Federal Government; for he]
tells us that Secession can only be “allowed” j
in cases of great misrule and oppression ! ofl
which lie insists the government committing
the misrule iif the solo judge. The govern.!
ment, according to him, have a right to en. I
force any act by arms, and forcibly to prevent I
; Secession so long as it does not confess it- ]
self guilty of perjury and oppression. When
fit pleads guilty, it will permit Secession.
YY'hat an inestimable right to a State !—And
to the same nonentity are all the reserved
rights of the States reduced, if ivc allow the
Federal Government to be the extent of its I
own powers.
Which is most dangerous to liberty, the i
enforcing power thus claimed for the govern-1.
ment in all cases, or the resisting power
thus claimed for the State against what it i
conceives to be usurpation ? j
The first is exercised bv rulers; by those I
in power, hy those in a majority ofthe Union; i
the other can he exercised only bv the pro -D
pie, of a State, who are of cours.- in a minori
ity of the Union : the first is exercised by the
strong: the second by the weak. The State
has no temptation to cross the legitimate path
of the Federal agents; it is her interest that
they should be strong enough to effect the
legitimate purposes constitution : she
can only act when the mass of her citizens
I are sensible of oppression and injustice ; will
seldom or never act but on the conviction
of urgent necessity ; and can never act with
out inconvenience to herself. On the other
hand, as it is always the tendency of power
to enlarge itself, the temptation to usurp is
ever present with the Federal Government;
being the representative and the dependent
of an aggregate majority of tnc people of the
Union, it is its interest to conciliate the fa
vor of that majority, and to gratify it whenev
er it requires the sacrifice of any minority
action. It is strong in patronege to enlist
supporters and conciliate opposition eveiy
where;and to subsidize auxiliaries in tiie
I oppressed sections. Every extension of its
; powers extends its patronage, and adds to its
own convenience. Is there danger then of
its growing too feeble ? Is there not danger
rather of the people in an oppressed section
being individually seduced from their fideli
ty t» its constitutional rights, by the allure
ments of tlis offices, the emoluments, or the
flatteries of the Union, or being intimidated
from their assertion by the dread of its re
sentment? From which, then, lias liberty
most to sears And from which has Union
most to fear? Once give a majority unlimi
ted scope to speculate on the resources of the
L n o , and must not discontent, anarchy, and
separation, lie inevitable, from the combiria
tions for plunder or power, and the partial
legislation, and the scramble for the spoils
which must necessarily ensue? Is it not
better that the Federal Government should
feel itself weak, rather than strong to do evil?
That the Government should legislate too lit
tle, rather than legislate too much ? That it
{ should, from the apprehension of Nuilifica
] tion, be restrained from the exercise of every
| doubtful power, and even from the exercise
j of constitutioualjpower, in a manner which
] may oppress or merely greatly irritate the
] people of any entire State ? Is it not better
that a wise and constitutional law, should be
annually nullified, than that otir liberties
should be utterly surrendered to an irrespon
sible despotism, by establishing the princi
ple that even if the general Government were
to abolish the republican Government of a
I State, and place a satrap over it, the State
i could not judge of the fraction, but must
I leave the general Government the right to
j decide that the act isjustifiable,and the pow
er it by the sword ? 1* is surely not better
■ that tiie Government should be energetic,thou
j that the States should be free.
YY'e are told that an unconstitutional act of
Congress, can only be resisted hy some of the
modes warranted in tiie Constitution, so long
as we acknowledge the Constitution. YY'e
answer that though Nullification is not ex
pressly pointed out, as a lemeily, it is war
i ranted by the Constitution. YVe find its jus
tification there. YY'e know who created the
Constitution-,arid that its creators and not
] tho agents under it, arc its guardians. YY'e
] see what powers aro enumerated, and that all
J others are declared to he reserved, I lint no
j guardian is created for these reserved rights,
j and that the guardianship is necessarily re
; served with them by their possessors—who
! alone when invaded, have a right to defend
j them. To defend them against a;i act of
I Congress is Nullification.—lf this check
] does exist, there is no check upon federal
j misrule, but the right to Secede, which right
: is also denied by our opponents, except as a
j modification of the right to rebel, or the
] right to fight, which is possessed hy the sub
jects of the most arbitrary, consolidated gov
ernments. Time will demonstrate who are
j the advocates of liberty and union, the abso
lutists, or those who, by the restraining pow
er of the States, would prevent a sectional
majority from breaking up the Union by their
oppression.
PARDON OF THE M2SSIOA-
Aisaus.
Our attention is again attracted ! o this deep
ly interesting subject, by the publication of a
errrespondcnce, which took place some lime
since, with certain citizens of the State of
New-York and the Executive of Georgia, on
the propriety of releasing the Missionaries
from further confinement.—The letter of Gov
ernor Lumpkin, so far as it relates to the case
! ofthe convicts, is clear and distinct. It main-
I tains, to the iullcst extent, the authority of
the laws under which the refractory mission
! arics were punished, and indicates the pro
j per and only course for the Executive to pur
i sue, hy which the sovereignty, the interest
] and honor ofthe State could he preserved
j Hasthat course been pursued? We answer
! emphatically, No ! YY'iili the clearest per
| ceptions of what was proper to be done to
! maintain the riglPs and dignity of Georgia.
] that has been done by her Governor, which,
] more than any thing else that could hare ban
\ done, was best calculated to degrade and dis
- grace her.
Had the injury and dishonor this man has
| brought on the State, by his truckling ma
neuvering in this affair, been a contingency,
—were it a result of ignorance on bis pari, or
a misapprehension of the subject and its hear
ings, though he might be censured, though
he might be deriued, for forcing himself, un
der the blinding influence of vanitv, into an
office, to the duties of which lie was incom
petent, yet he would not, then, have been ex
posed to so much contempt and reprobation.
But he is convicted on the evidence of his
own correspondence, of having had a distinct
comprehension of the course which would I
have secured the sovereignty, the interest
and the honor ofthe State, and yet wilfully
eomprornitted them all, Had he followed uv
his own impressions of right in this sericsof
juggling and gasconading, he would not then
be liable to be viewed bv the less candid and
merciiul as having meanly pandered tothe
gratification of infuriated power—or as the
feeble, unstable toed of a profligate faction—
or as having become, at once, the magnani.
mous liberator of the Missionaric'’, th rotten.
table instrument ot degredaton to big „„
State, and the object of mingled
and disgust to every high minded
whatever his party predilections. 6 ‘
But the truth is no man saw more C U
than lie did, tnat Georgia standing o i, I
vereignty—on the inviolability of | lfr
laws, within her own limits, as'respeciL'
convicts from Cherokee, interposed 7
j embarrassing, perhaps under exist lnwc , ®
j stances, an insuperable t C ‘
] 1 residents gratifying Ins personal
I and instincts of defied power, by enact
, our sister State an American Edition 0 ?
1 Iftigedyof Poland, with an interim ~
] ed from the Russian piece of Nicholas j*’
saw, to Jackson m Charleston, to be u C rf
; o-i the spot and embellished with inn
from the Seminole Campaign,— i\ lc m,’
titulary YV.,r,—among othersVgpjj.j'
bet Scene. 1
Whatever oilier points may rcirmm
tun. in the (iisoii'jiion respiting t | le |,b er ,
ot the .Missionaries one at Last is cxtrt ,
.evident.—T.m Governors statement coot
mg the grounds, considerations and rin
stances, under which these persons were |
rated tnnn the Penitentiary, and that of
Missionaries themselves, on’ the same Z
arc in fat and uthr contrndietioi, i 0( , J( . !t
er; and therefore, it is naturally iW,
slicy can both be true. Tins iscwaii.ly
i I'herc is no evading the ctMicfu
that one parly, on the other, has bet,,,
"f :: palpable an I delih. at,
As Georgians, ail « !lr feelings rovoltS
ihc bare supposition, that our chi
• could comptoinit himself and th-iionarnffl
Slate, hy a aberration from t.im hiun^l
■ sincere veracity indispensable,jt 0 siimj
character of a gentlem: ;i. As Christian,
we are shocked at the possibility , that,-'
hood has been deliberately, devised ant
1 mutgated, to tin: world, by two persons
iarl v t rained op, ordained and for several
engaged in the actual ministration o
i Gospel of our Holy Redeemer in a high
speetablc Christian church.
His Excellency proclaims, that her,
ed the Missionaries « because they ivitlj
their suit in the-Supreme Court and]
themselves on the MAGNANIMITY of tM
.state." This statement, framed tol
such impression, that they were uumbub
penitent A: therefore worthy objictsd]
magnanimity and Executive clemency. 1
what says thp Reverend gentleman J
Governor’s statement? YVhy simplv J
that it is essentially, a gross and willfij
j representation of facts. They declaul
so far from any change of opinion harj
keri place in their minds, respectui”til
i duct of Georgia towards the C'iierokeJ
have never ceased to denounce it, as M
,I characterised hy injustice, cruelty ail
pressum—that so far from rejruilinjl
own violating and delyingthe lawsoftJ
ori this subject, as cause of huinilialiool
nitencc, their conscioute hnre them-.M
tustimons to the rectitude of their owol
ami they gloried in it. They rrpdl
degrading < ale.uny, the intimation,thafl
coster and Butler, by any means sorgß
would receive ilieir freedom from the*
(hies or magnanimity of the State or iuH
utive. No, they delarc tiirir rcliasfl
on coercing the State, through the insliH
tality of the Supreme Court. Audi*
tiler appear to prove, that instead™
the .movers or vpplicants in the prvfl
nally terminatin'; in their release, t .fl
IVO-IED, IMPIiIMI NED, almost IMl’Lliafl
rut in instructions from head qinrt.fl
tlmse ofonr politician in v mist, ikiH
irig! on, coinciding, they at lengthiamH
dei), certainly in no suppliant style, tfl
a i’ro-futm A application for then triCifl
Tiicir note, cavalier enough in aliH
once, presents uo indication of rigr-.iH
past, no pledge of discontinued
G< otgia f. r the future—yet it ivie .’-H
with avidity, and tln:v passed tliciiH
gate in triumph. And questionless,
did rniiid, wlntovi r judgments or
it may have formed respecting the |fl
conduct of the Missionaries, they aieH
po nt invi sted ivith a moral dignity, tH
cos them in distinguished and lionoraW
tr s‘ to rrery other individual conctH
the rus of and anthjH
conducting to the issue, H
■
Athens, 27th
To tht Editor ofthe Cherokee
f'r it—— It was not. until my nrr:nlß|
place, that t met with your paper
mst. in which von republished
Benjamin F. (,'urrv, to the
era I Inion, explanatory of one
prci iouslv written from
subject of the ncg'oliatioiis with
delegation. You accompany the
ot this letter with some remarks.
justice to in\ sell, I cannot sutler to
tied. In tin; remaiks alluded to,
t he “breaking up of the arrangeine^H
treaty « if L the r lierokrcs.” you sa.^B
Guriy acquits .Mr. I/in.ar of any
in this foul business; tins gives us
taction: but not so with .Ylr.
Mr. Foster in his denial goes
, h iv, s the impression that .Mr. i
eluded in the imputations cantaiiu^W 1
It ISi let!* r. B; till ell tlirSC t«" p
is an issue formed that is full
i’he people have a right to ku | " l
Know nil the particulars of this
Ready to east censure win river a
nr su*pctul further remarks inita
formation.
Tiiis is the first intimation I
there ivies understood lobe
between Ylr. Curry and inyseif
“ parlicipaney in this foul
will rend thin second letterof Yh'
a candid eve, veil will discover t
gat ion that I had “gone 100 lab
suer ii the opinion expressed b;
colleagues were equally innocent “'^B| )( i
of the imputation contained in y*
—an allegation, Ivy the way,«!»»■;.
w hich lie has ottered no
tend to leave nothing ,p doubt
ficnsion in this matter — and
strurtion ion have [’laced on • ' H