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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