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ttjost amply. But the course which lie
pursued, with the general temper oi my
enemies, denied me every privilege hut
that of setting them at defiance, ilcncc
our contest, ‘i he (’rawlord men, 1 ; re
sume, as such, ielt an interest in my late.
If there were any who gave me their good
wishes, believing that 1 i-ad advocated
opinions wiiiirh in fact : nevi i entertained,
it was no fault of mine; for I had not
consciously ibis any thing to occasion |
the mistake.
In describing the circumstances under
which.your •• paragrajdis” v.cre written,
you re h rto an editorial article in the Con
stitutionalist, and the communication ot
•• A Troup- Union .Man.” S' iih lire form
er i have no concern. 'The latter I avow,
not because I consider myself caliod or.
to do so", but because 1 wish to be entirely
open with you. After making •11 due al
lowance for our di He re nee in age and
temperament, I cannot conceive how it
should excite personal resentment, espe
cially in one who is necessarily iamiliar
with the broad sty le of censure every
where employed towards political masses.
You might ten thousand times have called
the Union men “dupe--” instruments,"’
and “ subaltern imitate without stir
ring in me one angry emotion. Have
they not, in fact, ten thousand times, been
called by much harder names ? Indeed,
if political parties cannot tolerate such
expres ions as these, w hat imet be their
suffering under others, which they
frequently endure? Permit me, without
the slightest disrespect, in elucidation o:
this point, to cite your own journal, with
regard to a topic upon which we coincide
—I mean Ratification. Do you not real
ly consider your articles under that head
far more acrimonious than “ A Troup
Union Man”? Yet lam sure you never
intended to provoke personal hostility or
personal retaliation from the thousands of
iiati/iers in the State, or from any portion
of them ; and believe me, not iu the least
did I expect to kindle the personal resent
ment of those to whom I was opposed.
You observe that “ ridicule, without a
violation of truth, is a legitimate weapon
of political warfare.” This is not the oc
casion to urge what might be considered
the requisite qualifications of so general a
proposition : sufficient for the day is the
evil thereof. W itli reference to our imme
diate subject, the discussion would, 1
think, be superfluous. V. hatcvci inqui
ries you might institute, in relation to the
affair between Mr. McDuffie and myself,
it is improbable that the reports obtained
would be admitted ns true by the parties
The greater portion of those which 1 have
seen published, or understood to be in cir
culation, are grossly false, either in abso
lute fact or in coloring. This naturally
leads me to a view of the subject which,
I must hope, would alone be conclusive,
both to your judgment and your feelings.
For more than ten years, Mr. McD. and
myself have been at peace ; and though
on many political matters most decidedly
opposed, I have observed towards him
personal decorum. lie has not been
wanting in it to me—on the contrary,
circumstances have come to my know
ledge, ill which lie manifested a freedom
from personal prejudice, that claims my
respect. To be constrained in any man
ner to revive the old quarrel, I should es
teem a cruel necessity. The reports in
jurious to myself, wore derived from re
proaches published by my antagonist, in
the heat of our controversy, and the refu
tation would of course involve a renewed
denial of them. You see what must be
the tendency of all this. Ought third
persons to provoke or tempt a rupture
between former enemies who have long
been at peace and desire to remain so !
Is there not a snared morality, springing
from the very religion of honor,that should
forbid such a policy ?
Your declaration that “no person.l
disrespect was intended,” and your disa
vowal of “ every imputation offensive to
the feelings or injurious to the charactei
of a private gentleman,” have induced me
to write thus fully and freely. In refer
ence to the possible future, something 1
would have said concerning the difference
between those who seek and hold office,
and those who do not —concerning the
clear recognition of that difference by
public opinion, which expects the one pa
tiently to bear, what it forbids the other
to endure. But a glance back 'at the
pages, which already exceed the usual
epistolary limits, admonishes me to con
clude.
Your obedient servant.
WM. GUMMING.
Gen. R. A. Bevel.
Macon, Oct. 23,1833.
Sir—That the explanations in my last
letter, and the spirit which dictated them,
are acceptable to you, is certainly gratify
ing to me ; for 1 nan say, in the purity of
a good conscience, that 1 never inflicted
premeditated and intentional injury upon
the feelings or character of a human be
ing, or hesitated, as an honest man, to
make proper amends for an* wrong com
mitted througlf mistake, passion, or other
infirmity of our common nature. Still
governed by the same spirit which dicta
ted my former communication, an 1 under
the feelings and convictions produced bv
this mutually respectful and explanatory
correspondence, especially your letter to
which I am now replying, I cheerfully
obey the plain dictates of honor and duty,
and frankly confess, that the treachery of
iny boyhood recollections, has led me" in
to an error which 1 regret.*
On one or two points, it scents, I have
not been clearly understood. When I as
serted that “ Ridicule, without a.violation
of truth, was a legitimate weapon of po
• This wm written under Airline* product',],
principally, by iho expression* in a paragraph in
001. O'* teller, which for good reasons, and by
H.y consent, has been omitted in the publication,
t deem the thing just, however, ns the mallei
*•*«<.«, aud tUviiga «t Überty, wall tvsl suppress
it.
GEORGIA TIMES AJfD STATE RIGHTS’ ADVOCATE.
liliea! warfare,” 1 bog you to believe that
1 was not unmindful of tiie proper qualifi
cations of so general a proposition. 1
confided in tiie intelligence and candor of
ti.e g< rifleman I was addressing, to give
men fair interpretation, without tbene
cessitvoft'niploying a multiplicity oi words
in conveying my meaning; so, in declaring
m 1 determination to continue tiie use oi that
weapon,in my future warfare against you,!
certainly cid not expect if was necessary for
me to suv that I should be regulated by a
proper discretion in the selection of the
so! ire's and occasions for its employment.
A word more.—'l hut any thing I have
written could possibly l ave bad the ten
dency to revive the old quarrel between
yourself and Mr. McDuffie, or in the
<1: blest degree interrupt tiie present har
monious relations subsisting between you,
never once entered my thoughts. VV hen
I conceive such a project, then shall I be
the villain which 1 know lam not. With
Mr. McDuffie I have never exchanged a
word in any shape; with you my acquain
tance is not a twelvemonth old,but strang
er ns 1 am to both, and unconnected wit!
either by nnv other than the common tie
which binds man to his fellow, your near
est and dearest friend would not do less
to rupture, or ir.ore to preserve, the peace
ful relations which now happily exist be
tween you.
To “ correct any misconstruction of
the original article,” I know no more eli
gible aiode than the publication of ffiis
correspondence,—for which purpose the
columns of the Messenger are open.
Your obedient si rvant,
ROBT. AUG. BEALL.
Col. CcMMiXG.
3-:031G IA LUG 3SLATBJRE.
IN SENATE,
Monday, Nov. 4.
By Mr. Echols of Walton . To alter and
amend an act, entitled an act, * . regulate the
general Elections of this State, and to ap
point the time of the meeting of the Legis
lature, so far as to hive b iennial, instead of
annual sessions, and to repeal the 3d section
of said net.
By Mr. Cone: To reduce the price of
Grants, bosh for the Gold and Land Lots.
Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Tiie President made the following appoint*
incuts of the several standing committees of
the Senate.
On Privileges and Elec!ions. —Messrs.
Towns, Chappell, Saffuld, Gordon of Put
nam, and Wellborn.
On Petitions. Messrs. Groves, //olio
wav-, Clayton, Surrcncy and McConnell.
On Enrollment. —. Messrs. Brown of Cam
den, Hall, Cone, Waldhour of Effingham and
Spann.
On Engrossed Journals. — Messrs. Cargill,
Prior, Kelhnn, Moseley and Stapleton.
Notices for committees to report hills :
By Mr. Echols of Walton : To alter and
amend the act to regulate the general elec
tions rs this State, and to appoint the time of
the meeting of the General Assembly, passed
on the 11 tli Feb. 1799,50 far as to have trien
nial, instead of anual Sessions, and to re
peal the 3d section of said act.
Mr. Cone : To reduce the fees on giants in
the several counties of originally Cherokee.
Mr. Cooper of Gilmer : to define the di
rections for a road to he worked on by the
public hands, now near Gainesvill, in the
direction to East Tennessee.
Mr. Waldhour: To report a bill to incor
porate the Waldhourvillc institute.
Mr. Smith of Sumpter: To report a bill
to alter the time of holding the Inferior
Court in the county of Sumpter.
Mr. Echols of Coweta ; To authorize the
superititendanlofihc public hands alColtnb’s
to open and repair the market road from New
nan in Coweta to Tareutines Ferry on Flint
rivet in Mcrri wither county.
Mr. Baxter : To report a hill to authorize
the Executive, upon the receipt of informa
tion, that any of the Banks of this State have
tailed to appoint two receivers to take into
tlicir possession all tlie papers and assetts ot
the Bank, collect the same and pay them over
to the lioldeis of Bills of said Bink, and to
riquire the Directors of ail the Banks iu
their report, preceding the meeting of the
Legislature in each year, to give in said re
port the names of their debtors, and the a
mounts respectively due from each, and the
names of ttieir endorsers.
Also, for a committee to report a bill pro
viding for the removal of the darn and lock,
erected by the State upon the < tconee River,
at, or near Milledgeville, and to remove a! 1
obstructions in said river calculated to im
pede the free passage of fish.
Mr. Towns: Todivorec Green Fuller and
ins wife—Also a bill to divorce Elizabeth
Johnson and her husband—Also to report a
bill to incorporate the Volunteer Company of
ry in the county of Talbot, known as
the Southern Spies.
Mr. Liddell • To report a bill to dispose of
and distribute by Lottery the fractional parts
of Surveys i:t the several counties of this
State, lying within the late Cherokee T' rri
torv.
Mr. Wellborn : To report a hill to guard
more effectually the interest of the Planter,
who may have produce in store in any of the
market towns of this State.
Mr. Connell: To report a bill to incorpo
rate the town of Etowa in the countv of
Cherokee, and to appoint commissioners for
the same to ascertain the duties and to direct
the inode of their subsequent election.
Also a committee to create election dis
tricts in the county of Cherokee, and to
punish those who may attempt to defeat the
same.
Also, a committee to keep open tlie Etow a
river tor the free passage of fish aim to ap
point commissioners for the same, and to
punish offenders.
Also, a coiumitti e for the relief of the
citiz ns of originally Cherokee. '
Also, for a committee to report a hill to
incorporate the Academy in the town of
Etowa, and to appoint trustees for the same.
Mr. Echols of Cowta: To lay off the
county of Cowsta into five poor school dis
tricts—and to authorize the Trustee of the
poor school in said county to apportion the
pour school fund fur said county —each dis
trict accoiding to tho number of children,
that collies under the provision of the law,
made and provided in such cast a
Mr. Kellum : To incorporate Buck Eve
Academy in Laurens county and appoint
Trusti c* for the Mine.
Mr. Morgan : To report a bill to incorpo
rate Warren Academy in Houston county,
and to appoint trmitees for the same.
-Mr. Hill : To report a bill authorizing
the citizens of this State who may be entitled
to vote for Governor, Electors of President
and Vicc-Picsidcnt, Ac. to vole for such in
any county iu tins State.
Also a Committee to require the several
receivers of tax returns in this fitntr, to ad
vertise f r thirty days the names of all de
faulters who may after that time be subjected
to double tax.
Mr. Newton : To incorporate Shady Dale
Academy in the county of Jasper and to aj>-
point commissioners for the same.
Mr. Cone : To amend the several nets giv
ing to Mr. E. Jenks a toli gate on the New
ington Road.
Mr. Baler : To divide the county of Mur
ray.
Mr. Cochran : To run a straight line be
tween Campbell and Cobb counties.
Mr. Waldhour of Liheity -• To amend an
ct einendatorv of an act passed tile 2U!li day
of Dec. 1830, regulating the duties and fees
of Justices of the peace of Liberty county
and others so far as regards the county of
Liberty.
Mr. Butt: To define what lots the natives
of originally Cherokee county, arc entitled
to under tiie law—ami to ascertain who shall
be considered natives.
Mr. Irwin: To make permanent the pub
lic buildings of Cuss county, at Cassville,and
to incorporate the same, and to appoint cotr
missioners therefor.
Wednesday, Nov. 0.
Committees were appointed on the several
i dices of vesterdav to report bills,
BILLS "REPORTED.
B Mr. Baxter —to pardon John A. John
son of Baldwin county. Read tho first time.
Mr. Daniel —a bill in addition to an act,
entitled an act, to make permanent the water
line for certain wharves in the city of Savan
nah—to lay out a street, between Indian
street and said water line, &e. Read the
first time.
Notices to appoint Committees to report
bills.
Mr. Irwin —to form anew Division of
Georgia Militia, out of the tern counties com
posing the Cherokee Circuit, auil organize
the same.
Mr. Houston —to abolish the Inferior
Courts of this State, and create anew sys
tem.
THE INAUGURATION.
At 12 o’clock, tod-ay the President and
members of the Senate l , r paired to tho Rep- j
rcsenbitivc Chamber, when the Governor
elect was introduced by the joint Committee,
attended by the Sato House officers, Jutlgesof
the Superior Courts, and Solicitor General.
Ylic Governor addressed the 1 Genera! As
sembly, and took the usual oath of office,
RESOLUTION.
On motion of Mr. Baxter,
Resolved, That 300 copies of the testimony
on the trial of John A. Johnson for tnuider,
be printed for the use of the Legislature.
Thursday, Nov. 7.
Committees were appointed on the notices
of yesterday.
Notices for the appointment of Committees
to report Bills.
By Mr. Wellborn —to alter and amend the
act to distribute certain funds among the
several counties of this Slate, for the use of
Academies, and to provide a method for the
more equitable distribution of said funds.
Mr. Ecklcy —to authorise the Governor to
purchase arms for the Bibb county Cavalry.
Mr. Newman —to sell Lots Nos. 10 and
ISO, in tiie county of Thomas, for Academi
cal purposes.
Mr. Beall —to cause the dividend of the
Poor School and Academical fund to be made
agreeably to the white population in the re
spective rmiuiiw.
Mr. Gordon cf Putnam —to amend an act,
entitled an net to create and establish a fund
for the support of Free throughout
the State, psss-il Dee. ISth, 1817—and to
establish an Academy upon the manual sys
tem, and to make provision fur the building,
support, and endowment of the same.
Mr. Houston —for the better government
of free persons of color and slaves, and to
punish such individuals as shall in any man
ner attempt to delude or misguide them, e>r
in any way interfere between master and
slave.
Mr. Irwin- —to alter and change the time
of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts
i.u the Cherokee Circuit.
Mr. Daniel —to call a Convention of tiie
Freemen of Georgia, for the purpose of
equalizing and reducing the number of the
members, in eacli branch oft he General As
sembly.
Mr. Hillhouse —to require Justices of the
Peace, in districts comprehending any village
or town of this State, to exercise their usual
authority relating to roads and patrols in cer
tain cases.
Bills read the second time.
To pardon John A. Johnson of Baldwin
county.
To make permanent the water line for cer
tain wharves in the city of Savannah, &c. ,
Mr. Daniel obtained leave to introduce in
stanter, a Bill to he entitled an act to extend
an act, heretofore secure to John
McKi.mie, and Ilenrv Shultz, their heirs and
assigns, the exclusive right to a bridge 11-
cross Savannah rive.-, at, or near Augusta.
RESOLUTION.
Mr. Liddell ofiere'd tiie following which
was taken up and agreed to :
Resolved, That a committee be appointed
on the part of the Senate, to confer with
sucii committee as may be appointed hv the
House of Representatives on tin: expediency
of dispensing with the custom of appointing
joint standing committees.
Friday, Nov. 8.
Committees were appointed to report hills,
m confi'dniity with the several notices of
yesterday.
Mr. Ecklcy presented a petition for char
tering a Bank in East Macon.
The Senate concurred with the House in a
resolution appointing Charles M. Cooper of
the county of Mclntosh, Commissioner of
Pilotage for the port and city of Darien, Ac.,
in the place of Win. Scarborough removed.
Notices to appoint committees to prepare
and report Bill :
By Mr. Dougherty—to sell the slaves be
longing to the State.
Mr. Morgan —to require the superintend
ent ot the public hands to erect good bridges
overTobesofka and Itchaconna creek, on the
road from Macon to Perry.
Mr. Parks—to incorporate a Caialry com
pany in Lincoln count v,
Mi. Raker —to cause the public hands to
open.a road fiom Clterokec C. 11. to Murray
(j. ll.—iliencc to die Tennessee line, near
McNar’s Ford, on Cnnasogga river.
Mr. Wall —to lay cut anew county from
ihe counties of Marion and Houston.
Mr. Echols —to compensate Justices for
superintending elections, and consolidating
returns in Coweta county.
Saturday, Not. 9.
Committees were appointed on the notices
of yesterday.
Notices for the appointment of committees
to prepare and report bills :
By Mr. Houston, for a uniform and safe
inode of receiving the poor, oil the parish of
each county in this State—also, to allow ap
pellants intetest.and cost paid by them when
entering on appeal, when appellant prevails
on the final issue of the case.
Mr. Echols, of Coweta: to authorize
grants to issue to purchasers of fractions, or
legal holders of certificates without grant
fees, on their paying up the hist instalment.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, Nov. sth, 1833.
The following part of the Journal of yester
day being read, viz : “ At an annual session
of the General Assembly e's tho State of
Georgia, began and holdcn at- the State
House, in the town of Milledgeville, in iue
county of Baldw in,on Monday the 4th day of
Nov. 1333, and of tho sovereignty and inde
pendence ot OiC United States.” &c.
Mr. Cooper moved to strike out the word
“ sovereignty before “ and independence of
tiie United States,” Ac.—and, on agreeing
thereto, the yeas and nays were required to
be recorded, and arc, yeas 67, nays 109.
Those who voted in the affirmative, are
Messrs. Alford, Baker of Liberty, Barr, Bass,
Beck, Bennett, Bivin, Blackshear, Boren,
Cassels, Chaffin, Clayton, Collins, Cone of
Greene, Cooper. Cowles, Culpepper, Curry,
Daniel, Davis of Upson, Ficwcliin, Floyd,
Gibson, Gran berry, Gresham, Groce,Grubbs.
Hammond, Ilardman of Jasper, Hardeman of
Oglethorpe, Heard, Herndon, Holland, Holt,
Hubbard, Hudson, King of Greene, Lamar,
Leonard, Lockhart, McCall, McLennan, Mc-
Intyre, Moore of Talifcrro, Pope, Rea of
Greene, Redding, Robertson of CoUnnbia,
Robson, Russell, Rutherford, Sharp of Tatt
nall, Sims, Sparks, Spivey, Stroud, Thornton,
Torrance, VanLnndingham, Vinson, Walker
of Lumpkin, Warren, Wellborn, White,
Williamson, Wynn, Young of Oglethorpe.
Those who voted in the negative, are,
?.!essrs. Adair, Anderson of DcKalb, Ander
son of Wilkes, Ash, Bacon of Brvnn, Bacon of
Crawford, Baker of Pike, Bates, Blair, Bowen,
Bradford, Brown, Burks of Sumter, Burks of
Talbot, Burnes, Burnett, Chastain, Coffee,
Cone of Camden, Davis of Glynn, Day, Dis
mttkes, Dobbs, Dunham, Easley, Ellis, En
grain, Garrison, Darkness, Harris of Pike,
Harris of Richmond, Harris of Walton, Har
ris of Warren, Harrison, Hawthorn, Hilliard,
Holcombe, Howell, Hall, Jones, Jourdan,
Kelly, Kemp, Kent, King of Crawford, King
of Mclntosh, Landrum, Law-son, Little,
Mays, Mr.Alice, Mcßryde, McElvy, Mcrri
wether, Miller, Mitchell, Moblcv, Moore of
Campbell, Moore of Emanuel, Murray,
Overstreet, Pace,Pearce, Peddv, Penticost,
Pepper, Perdue, Phillips, Pitman of Jackson,
Pitman of Wahon, Ragan, Ray of Henry,
Rhodes, Rivers of Randolph, Rivers of Wil
kinson, Robertson of Washington, Rogers,
Sanford, Save, Sellers, Sharp of Merriwetjier,
Sheets, Shick, Shine, Smith of Coweta,
Smith of Henry, Solomon, Stanford, Slark,
Steelman, Stewart, Strickland, Thomas, Var
ner, Wacasel, Waller, Walker of Carroll,
Ward, Warthen, Wavne. Wei t man. \Viten
Win;-.™—, wii*rin, Vvoou ofCoweta, Wood of
Hall, Wright, Young of Irwin. So the House
refused to strike out.
Mr. Cooper then moved the following a
mendment thereto, viz l After the word
“i States," insert the word “ respectively —
And, on agreeing to insert, the yens and
nays were required to be recorded, and are,
yeas 77, nays 93. Those who voted in the
affirmative, arc, Messrs. Alford, Anderson of
Wilkes, Bacon of Bryan, Baker of Liberty,
Cliff, Prt~r, Reck, Bennett, Bivin, Blackshear,
Buren, Casseis, Chaffin, Clayton, Collins,
Cone of Greene, Cooper, Cowles, Cu!jt?pper,
Curry, Daniel, Davis of Upson, Fiewellin,
Flovd, Gibson, Granberry, Gresham, Groce,
Grubbs, Hammond, Hardman of Jasper,
Hardeman of Ogielliorpc, Harris of Warren,
Heard, Herndon, Holland! Holt, Hubbard,
Hudson, Hall, Jones, King of Greene, La
mar, Leonard, Lockhart, McCall, McLcllan,
Mclntyre, Mcrriwether, Miller, Moore of
Taliaferro, Pope, Rea of Greene, Redding,
Robertson of Coluinbsi, Robson, Russell,
Rutherford, Sanford, Sayre, Sharp of Tattnall,
Sparks, Spivey, S'rpud, Thornton, Torrance,
VanLandingham, Vinson, Walker of Lump,
kin, Warren, Weitman, Wellborn, White,
Williamson, Wright, Wynn, Young of Ogle
thorpe.
Those who voted in the negative, are,
Messrs. Adair, Anderson of DeKalh, Ash,
Bacon of Crawford, Baker of I’lke, Bates,
Bliir, Bowen, Bradford, Brown, Burks of
Sumter, Burks of Talbot, Burnes, Burnett,
Chastain, Codec, Cone of Camden, Day, Dis
unikes, Dobbs, Dunham, Easley, Ellis, En
gram, Garrison, Darkness, Harris of Pike,
Harris of Richmond, Harris of Walton, Har
rison, Haw thorn, Hilliard, Holcomb, Dowell,
Jordan, Kelly, Kemp, Kent, King of Craw
ford, King of Mclntosh, Landrum, Lawson,
Little, Mays, McAfFee, Mcßryde, McElvy,
Mitchell, Mobley, .Moore of Campbell, Moore
of Emanuel, Murray, Overstreet, Puce,
Pearce, Peddy, I’enticosf, Pepper, Perdue,
Phillips, Pitman of Jackson, Pitman of Wal
ton, Ragan, Ray of If nry, Rhodes, Rivers ol
Randolph, Rivers of Wilkinson, Robertson of
Washington, Rogers, Sellers, Sharp of Mer
rill ether, Sheets, Shiek, Shine, Sims, Smith
of Coweta, Smith of Henry, Solomon, Stan
ford, Stark, Streetman, Stewart, Strickland,
Thomas, Varner, Wacasel, Waller, Walker of
Carroll, Ward, Wartl.en, Wayne, Wilcox,
Williams, Wilson, Wood of Coweta, Wood o!
Hall, Young of Irwin. So the House refused
to insert.
Notices to appoint Committees to report.
Bills.
Mr. Mays, to alter and amend, the I2tli
section of the Ist article of the Constitution
of the State of Georgia, so far as to have
lirennial instead of annual sessions of the
General Assembly.
Mr. Williamson, to add a part of the coun
ty of I Pal ton, to the county of Newton.
Mr. Holcombe, to disgiosc of by lolte ry, all
the fractional parts of surveys, in the coun
ties com [losing tlm Cherokee territory.
Mr. Hibson, to sell the public bauds he.
longing to the State.
.Mr. Stecltrunn, to ripeal too act of 1332, i
restraining the circulation of small hills.
Mr. IV kite, to place a part of the public
hands on a road, to commence on the tuanpike j
road, near Mrs. Walt son’s, Columbia coun. i
tv, and to pass by wav of Kaysville to Wash
ington, Wilkes county, fur the improvement;
of the same.
Mr. Pitman, cf Jackson, to alter the Ist!
section of the 3d article of the Constitution, I
foi the purpose of giving the election of Jud- \
ges of the Superior Courts, to the people of;
the several judicial circuits.
Mr. Davis, of Glynn, to aid the complc-j
tion of the Brunswick Rail Road, and, also, j
to remove the rail road crock hands, (when j
that work is completed,) to cut out a Stale i
road from the big bend of the Ocmulgee, op- j
positc Jacksonville, Telfair county, through j
Appling, and a cornar of Wayne cannties to j
to the Alatarnaha river, opposite Port Barring- j
ton, and [from thence, 14£ miles to Da-j
rien.
Mr. J/prnWJtr, to remove itie dam a- J
cross the Oconee river, at Milledgavillc, I
fcown as the Lock Dam.
Mr. liitins, to form anew county out of
the counties of Marion and Houston.
Mr. Stark, to remove tire seat of Govern
ment, from ivlillcdgeviilc to the Indian
S ?'.mgs.
Mr. W illiamson, to-alter and amend the
Ist section of an act, to establish election
districts, in the counties of New ton and Mon
roe, &c.
Mr. Cone, of Camden, to define the duties
of receivers of Tax returns, in the several
counties in this State.
Mr. Stark, to reduce tlie fees on plots and
grants, for lands in the Cherokee country.
Mr. Alford, to authorize the Slate of
Georgia, to construct and complete a Roil j
Road, from the city of Savannah, to that of
Macon, in said State ; and to appropriate the
Central Bank to the accomplishment of that
object.
Mr. Rodgers, to limit theChcroke Indians,
to their improvements,&c.
Mr. Ward, to cause the public hands, now
working on the Bull Town Road, to he trans
ferred to, and placed o;i the road from Co
lumbus to St. Mary’s, &c.
Mr. IVacuseZ, to divide the county of
Murray.
Mr.Simms, to establish Public Schools,
for the education of the poor.
Wednesday. Nov. C.
Committees were appointed on the several
notices of yesterday.
Notices to aopoiiit committcs.- to report
' bills.
By Mr. Robinson, to authorize the Justices
of the Inferior court of Washington county,
i to levy and raise an extra tax for the purpose
of building a court house.
Mr. Lamar, to erect an Asylum, for the
invalid poor of Bibb county.
Mr. Grubbs, to repeal an act, azthorizing
i the Inferior court of Burke county, to levy
, an extra tax, to repair tue public roads.
Mr. Hull, to incorporate the Gergia Rail
Road company.
Mr. Collins, to relieve Tax collectors
who have received the lulls of the Merchants
and.Planters Bank of Augusta, in payment of
taxes.
Mr. Anderson, of De Kalb, to repeal an act
passed December 1931, imposing an addi
tional tax on pedlars, &;•.
Mr. MJJride, more fully to define the du
ties of Indian agents in the Cherokee coun
try, and to make those agents elected by the
people of their respective counties.
Mr. \Viliiatp;on, to aitei aud amend, tiie
2d section of the 4th article, of the constitu
vf I»c fur ua to TO
quire all elections by the General Assembly,
to be made viva voce, &c.
Mr. Wacasel, to repeal tlie act of 1332,
guaranteeing protection to tho Cherokee In
dians.
Mr. Spivey, for an appropriation to cut
ccrt tin shoals in the Chattahoochee river, be.
low Columbus, and also, to charter a Rail
Road Company w ith hanking privileges, for
the purpose of making a Rail Road from Sa
vanah to Columbus, by way of Macon.
Mr. Floyd, to require all elections for
members of the General Assembly, for Rep
resentatives of the State in Congress of the
United Sues, for Governor, and for all coun
ty pificers, to be held at the Court House, or
at the placC of holding the Superior Courts
in the respective counties of this State, and
to repeal all laws creating cloe'ion districts
in any of the counties thereof.
Mr. Strickland, to repeal the 2d section C l '
an act, passed 2lst December, 133d), entitled |
an act to appoint eleven additional Trustees
of the University of Georgia, &c.
Mr. Rutherford, to scli all the fractions in
the counties, composing that part of the State,
formerly known by the name of the Cherokee
territory.
Mr. Wood, of Hall . to remove all In
dians from lands, now lying in the limits of
Georgia, who have had reservations in former
treaties, and to cause grants to issue for tlie
same, and also to prescribe and define the
rights of Indians to unemigrated Indian im
provements.
Thursday, Nov. 7.
Committees were appointed on the several
noilecs presented yesterday.
Notices for the appointment of committees
to prepare and report hills.
Mr. Rodgers, to lay out and define a road,
from Bower’s Ferry on the Chattahoochee, to
Cassvillc, Cass county, and to apportion
public hands to, out the same.
Mr. Banks, of Sumpter : to compel the
Tax Collector of Leo county, fur the year
1830, and ’3l, to pay over to Sumter coun
ty, such proportion of the county tax, of said
county of I.ce, as has been given and paid
oy citizens now resident in Sumpter.
Mr. Lillie, to alter and amend the act of
1832, to prevent tho circulation of small hills,
•md also to place part of the public bands, on
i ic stage road, leading from Milledgcville to
Irwinton, Marion <kc.
Mr. Hilliard, to compel all teachers of
poor children, in Ware county, to undergo an
examination, &c.
Mr. Harris, of Walton : to compensate
t lie owners of slaves, that may bo executed
fur crinir s against the State.
Mr. Solomon, to lay oil'the State in Con
gressional districts.
Mr. Steelman, to cause electors for mem
bers ol tlie Legislature, to bo held in each
Captain’s company in the State.
Mr. Bites, to make it penal foranv Presi
dent, Directors, or other officers of the char
tered Banks of this State, to exceed or violate!
the provision* of their respective charters. I
*c. i
Air. McCall, to alter and~auiend~a^~ ar -1
entitled an act to regulate tlie gcnercl eh*-’
lions in this State, and to appoint the meeti™
of the General Assembly, so far as to charm,
the tune of holding said elections, from the
Ist Monday in October, to the Ist Alomlav
in September. '
Mr. Cooper's Resolution, &c.
Mr. Cooper laid on the table the followi,™
preamble and Resolutions, disapproving of’
portion of Ins Excellency the Governor’s i
augura! Address. We, the Representatives
id the good people ot Georgia, in General
Assembly met, feel impelled by a sense of
duty to outsclves, and those we represent
to express our feelings of mortification and
regret at the unqualified and opprobious dc
mu,nation of his Excellency, the Governor’
in his Address on the occasion of iiis Inaum.’
ration, against the purity and patriotism of ,'
portion of our fellow citizens, who have
lineally differed with him, f’ 0 '
I he right free!" t 0 express his opinion urn™
•nymxtte:,™ which, the public welfare
" Q concerned, is undeniable. The rich) .|
so, to express his unqualified disapprobation
of every political view, adverse to hi, ulv ' ,
net disputed by any one ; hut, in assumin'
tec office of Censor over the opinions of o th
cis, we conceive he lias transcended the d„'
tics and powers of the Executive. I„ th “j
Address, he was heard to declare, that‘*H»
who would destroy the sovereignty of tlie
States bv Consolidation, or the Union of the
btates by Nullification, is a traitor to his
country and deserves the execration of the
people. ’ I? Inch, being interpreted, must
mean, that he who advocates the doctrine of
Consolidation, intends to destroy the sorer
eig.ity of the States, and is a Traitor; whilst
he who advocates the doctrine of Nullifica
tion, intenUs to destroy the Union, and is
likewise a “Traitor.” By the expression, no
other ideas are intelligible. It i s not a sm,
.pie expression of his Excellency’s opinion
.... these matters, nor is it a mere disclaimer
of those .loetrmes. It is nothing short of a
cov. rt attack upon the purity and patriotism
of all who advocate those principles- Com
mg from an Executive officer, it is calculated
to stir up strife, and embitter party feeling
It increases discord within the State, and*
promotes not tlie Union of the States. It sets
a precedent of evil and pernicious tendency
and ought never to he followed.
Be it therefore Resolved, by the Assembly
aforesaid, That this attack of the Governor,
on the purity and patriotism of a portion of
the people, who politically differ with hirn,
w-is uncalled for, undignified, and improper.
It is calculated to stir up strife, and may en
gender the feelings of angry opposition j and,,
m no application to passing events, or exist
ing controversies, can we deem it to be autho
rized.
A number of bills, before noticed, were
reported, and the House adjourned.
Friday, Nov. 8.
Committees were appointed to prepare and
report hills in conformity with notices of
) esterday.
1 lie Preamble and Resolutions offered by
Mr. Cooper, ami ihe substitute offered by
B ites, were, after discussion, laid on the ta
ble the balance of the session, by a vote of
104 to 60.
Notices for the appointment of committees
to prepare and report bills :
By Mr. Stark, to divide the Chattahoo
chee circuit.
Mr. Botcen, to provide for the payment of
the members of Reduction Convention.
Mr. Bass, to reduce the pay of the mcm.
hers of the Legislature of two dollars.
-Mr. Stuck, to alter and amend the act, for
ordering anil governing slaves, <fcc.
Mr. Sharp, of Merri wether : to amend the
act, to provide for the more equal distribu
tion of the Academic fund.
Mr. Sanford, to require elections to be vi
va voce.
Mr. Burns, offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, authorising a committee of confer
ence to he appointed, to take into considera
tion the reduction and equalization of the
General Assembly of this State, <fcc.
The following is the preamble and resolu
tion, presented by Mr. Bates, as a substitute
for Mr. Coopers :
Yv liereas the Senators and Representatives
of the General Assembly ol the State of
Georgia, did incompliance with the constitu
tion of the State, convene in the Representa
tive chamber, on Tuesday the stii|day of
Nov. 1833, and count out the votes polled on
the Ist Monday in October last, for Governor,
and, whereas Wilson Lutnpkiu received a
I majority of 2276 votes over his opponent,
JoJ Crawford, and, by the President ol the
Senate, ,\n ‘lie presence of the Representa
tives of the go' >, ‘ people of Georgia, was de
clared duly clecteJ Governor of Georgiafor
the ensuing two years — an> - whereas, m com
pliance with an usage coeval wdb * CXIS .,
once of our republican constitution; , 83
Wilson Lumpkin, Governor elect, before ta
king the oath of office, did deliveran Inaugu
ral Address to the Rcpresontatives of
people of Georgia ;
Be it therefore Resolved, by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the
following Inaugural Address, delivered by
Wilson Lumpkin, Governor elect, justly
challenges our admiration for the high soulcd,
enthusiastic devotion to liberty, to state sov
ereignty, to the union of the States under the
federal compact, to the Constitution, and al
its guarantees—and, that he who would des
troy State sovereignty by consolidation, or the
federal system by nullification, is a Traitor
to liberty, and deserves the universal execra
tion of mankind.
lxvuiirn.vT. Address or Gov. Lvxr ßi:v
Fellots-Citizens :
Bv the voice of the people, I am a second
time called to the chief magistracy of tie
State, and now appear before you for j 0
purpose of solemnizing the obligati olls "
lam under, to discharge with fidelity. 1 *
duties of the high trust confided.
cnce has not only taught me to feci too 11
weight of tlie responsibilities which were >
the first instance anticipated, hut I om
voiced, that the most pure and zealous < *
tion to duty, requires the aid and ® U PP®!.
Ihe people, to crown w ith success th® e 0
of any public functionary.
Mv own abilities ran effect but little
unless 1 am supported by my con»W* •
But however, humble my pretension® n, ‘ '
I shall be faithful to tlie laws and con® ’
lions of my county, duly regarding < ,e J
iiiiis of mv fellow-cilixen* with » hose sea
approbation I with ill my veneration lot P
lie opinion, and deep fell gratitude let P* I