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confidence, I am ready, if it be necessary, to
sacrifice my present standing upon the altar of
mv country’s good, by sustaining the demo
eratic principles upon which 1 have acted
throughout (he whole of my public life.
When thetoundationsofour republic are in
danger, pefs«Mi«l and irelfimicalculations must
lie excluded. I shall (no*e for ward in the path
ofduty, regardless of consequences to myself.
I shall shrink from the performance of no
duty, however painful, and no responsibility,
however severe. I shell look to tile welfare
of the whole state, and not consider myself
the advocate of any local or partial interest.
1 shall constantly hear in mind, that we arc ail
Citizens of Georgia as well as citizens of the
United States ; that we owe allegiance to
both governments; that both governments
are ours, and are indispensable to our equally
happiness, prosperity and liberty; that each
should be kept strictly within their respective
constitutional spheres, and, finally, that be,
■who would destroy State Soverr ignty by eon
solidntion, or the federal system by nullifica
tion, is a tractor to liberty, and deserves the
universal cxacralion of mankind.
Saturday, Nov. 9.
Commiticcs were appointed to prepare and
report bills, in conformity with notices of
yesterday.
Mr. Rogers moved to reconsider the Jour
nal of yesterday, so far as regards the layiug
on the table, the original resolution disappro
ving the Inaugural Address of the Governor,
and the substitute offered for the same, the
balance of the session ; whereupon the yeas
and nays were required, and are, yeas 79
nays 93.
The President and members of Senate
convened in the Representative Hall,and pro
ceeded with tli- House, by joint ballot, to the
election General, for the Eastern
circuit, when Win. 11. Siiles was duly elec
ted.
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, Sov. 13, 1522.
XT’ Tire Friends at «I Advocate* of
State Itigiit**, from all parts of the stnic, are
requested to meet at Milledgevillc, in the Rep
resentative Hall of the State House This Evening
at 7 o’clock.
We learn that the following gentlemen have
been elected Directors of the Cliattahoochie
Rank.
LEROY NAPIER, President.
Alfred Iverson, William Switzer,
G. W. Dillingham, Thomas 0. Evans.
Election of State House; Officers.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE.
Ist ballot, ‘id ballot.
Wm. Y. Hansell, 118 113
W. Tennille, III) 140*
.lames Sellers, 31 7
Tiros. . Gibson, 10 6
Kenan, 1 0
FOR TREASURER.
Ist ballot, id ballot. 3d ballot.
John Williams. 124 53 8
Koht. W. Alston, 13 70 118
Thos. Haynes, 114 133 138*
Wm. Searcy, • 6 1 withdrawn
Sam’l. Buffington, 9 6
Welborn, 0 1
Meriwether, 0 0 1
COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
Ist. 2d. 3d.
David K. Both well, 45 7 withd’n.
Arthur Foster, 50 58 43
Wm. C. Powell, 64 53 18
M. F. Boisclair, 6 0 0
A. 11. Kenan, 23 29 15
J. M. Kelly, 28 27 20
W. W. Carnes, 48 91 166*
Hatcher, 0 0 1
Uethone, 10 0
Major Jack Downing 0 10
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
Ist- 2d.
John Bethune, 132 134*
H. B, Gaither, 41 26
Carlton Wellborn, 89 103
Kenan, 1 (1
Cox. 1 0
•Elected.
The Goveiixor’s Mfssage.— The Message of
their Governor is before the people of Georgia.
We cannot avoid the requisition upon us, as
public journalists, to express our views upon it
and us recommendations. As to the sugges
tions it contain, in regard to Internal Improve
ment, His Excellency knew that he was speak
ing the declared will of his constituents, and we
are not surprised, that he should have urged it in
unequivocal terms upon the Lesgislature. His
recommendation that the capital of the Cer.tral
Lank should be increased, we are not prepared
*o say is a good one. He has advanced no judi
cious rdason for such a procedure. The capital
of the Bauk is already sufficiently large for
Uanbmg purposes. The Institution, we under
stood, was established for the accommodation of
tbe people of the State; and its funds could have
,>eetl rendered available for that purpose had
'bey not been abstracted by Executive Warrants
°n the Treasury, which wc believe were paid by
*helsank. Instead therefore, of increasing the
.Capital of the Bank, it wo.uld be much more to
the nsnefit of the people at large, to provide by
Legislation, that the money of tbe Bank should
be luajiu'l to tbe people, and not to the Stale. The
Bank ii now sufficiently powerful to be wielded
a’ a political agent, an J we kn,,w of no neceboi, J'
‘bat calls for any additional e.: er fe7 to be granted
toil, on that score. At all events, j* <™ u!J be
"ell, not to place the power in it* hai. ds i ’ l
tmght be injuriously applied.
7 lie diffusion of knowledge lias also attracted
bis Excellency’s attention. As to the particular
banner in which instruction is imparted, we are
not disposed to cavil : let the elements of
'knowledge be placed within every man’s reach,
■ instruction be rife around every man’s domes
1<- hearth, for in enlightening the people there
be no danger to Republican institutions. —
E.c poor sellout system may have its defects, and
‘be plan ot manual lubor, may be of greater util t-
Be that as it may, we will not quarrel with
" s Excellency on that point. We are appre
"rnsive however, that mere manual labor will
' ' Intel all distinctions, of wealth . Let the in
beetbe improved, and every man will find Iris
I r ‘ per grade in the Empire of mind.
1 here is one portion of the Message, on which
f**l it to be our duty to eomroent in plain
- pinje. \v t regtet the necessity 'that It pel*
GEORGIA TIMES, AND STATE RIGHTS’ ADVOCATE.
us to use the terms we feel constrained to apply
toil. The paragraph in which his Excellency
assumes to scan the motives, and read the hearts
of his political opponents. Who invested him
with power to draw aside the curtain that
shrouds the mind, to penetrate the inmost caverns
of the heart, and drag forth its secret thoughts to
light. The manner in which the Governor of
Georgia has performed a task that belongs only
to the Ruler of the Universe, can elicit no appro
bation, save from his political friends. They
may applaud, we must coudomn. We cannot
but smile, however, at the petty vindictiveness
with which lie snarls at nullification ; we cannot
but pity the want of candor he exhibits,in charac
terising his adversaries, as actuated by a “ trea
tonable ambition:' Treasonable !!! iv. re bis
Excellency other than be is, we might ask him
to furnish to his follow citizens, the evidence of
that treason he prates about so flippantly. But
we have looked sufficiently long upon the politi
cal arena, (albeit we may not often Have match
ed ourself with its gladiators) to estimate at their
proper value the high sounding words so cur
rent within its circle. Traitor and demagogue,
are words oflofty import, but fortunately when
falling from his Excellency’s lips, can affix no
stigma to the character of his politic-.! opponents.
The advocate of the Tariff in 1816, its open
enemy though its secret friend in 1828, the slip
pery politician oQB3I and the inflexible states
men of 1832, the Nullifier of 1833 and the Rati
fter of the present day, may well assume to him
self the province of measuring the integrity of
those who are too honest to pin their faith on
Wilson Lumpkin’s sleeve. The unmeasured
abuse heaped upon those w hose misfortune it is
to differ with his Excellency, now, on questions
of constitutional right, is a stain upon this state
paper, unworthy the pen of the most illiberal
scribbler in the country. As citizens of Georgia
we regret that her chief magistrate should have
descended from a station which once was an
elevated one, to vituperate and slander, in this
formal manner, many of lit r most distinguished
sons. As for the idle and oft repeated coinage of
some dotard s brain, Uni .he Xuiiifler3 would
rend asunder the Union of these sovereign
States, we take the liberty of placing a mark up
on it, and sending it back like a base coin to its
uttercr. But that the opponents of the State
Right’s party would “ destroy- the sovereignty of
the Stales, by consolidation,” (to use bis Excel
lency's own words,) cannot he so readily denied
or so easily refuted.
Removal of the c f.at of Government. —Among
the notices of Bills to be presented to the Lcgisla
ture, we observe one for the removal o the seat of
government from \ illedgeville to the Indian Springs.
We forbear expressing in our columns the views of
the citizens ot Baldwin in regard to a measure so
injurious to their interests, hoping that our Senator
and Representatives will not suffer the occasion to
pass without tully expressing the sentiments of their
constituents on thejsubject. That it is expocted by
their constituents we have no doubt, and we hope
they will not disappoint their expectation .
The Inauguration. —This ceremony took
place in the Representative chamber on Wednes
day last. Before taking the oath of office Wil
son Lumpkin delivered an address prepared for
the occasion, which as altered will be found in
oi i columns to day,
7 lie solemnities of an occasion which were
originally designed as a splendid exhibition of a
sovereign people imposing upon their Chief Mag
istrate tho obligation of an oath, not to betray the
trust confided to him; Wilson Lumpkin has con
verted into a gladitorial exhibition of party tri
umph and prostituted to a display of acrimonious
denunciations against his political adversaries,
scarcely lobe tolerated in >1 tvai lOOifl pafllzaif,
and deeply humiliating and degrading to the
character of a Chief Magistrate of a State.
Concerning the manner in which this precious
morreau of Executive wisdom, was delivered
we have only to observe we thought his Excel
lency was particularly unhappy. The manner
would have di-gr; c and a school boy performance.
We were more than once during its delivery forci
bly reminded of the unlucky urchin, who .Lad
badly conned, what was written by another and
had left the copy at home. But to the matter. —
After confessing with becoming humility, the
frugality w th which heaven had bestowed her
intellectual gifts upon him ; which by the bye
was an honest confession, be proceeds to say that
“he is ready if it be necessary to sacrifice his
present standing upon the altar of his country’s
good, by sustaining the democratic principles
upon which (he tells us) be has acted through
out his whole life.” Thus plainly intimating
that the “ sacrifice” of his “ present stand
ing,” may be the consequence of his sustaining
tlie principles of the f oidisant “ union democrat
ic republican parly !” This is an admission for
which the coalition leaders of his party, will
scarcely thank him. He next tells u», that we
owe a double allegiance, one to the Gov’nt. of the
State and one to that of the U. States, and his
reasons are—“ that both governments are ours” —
and “are equally indispensable to our happiness,
prosperity and liberty.” We were not before
apprised that our allegiance was the result of
these reasons—or that it was due at all, to the
government of the U. S. i. e. to the President and
Congress, and the Supreme court, although we
had learned that such was the creed of the proc
lamation and force bill party We had supposed
that allegiance was due only to sovereignty and
not to the creature of the sovereign—but we pre
sume those are some of the leading articles of
political faith, to which the “ collar” gentry
have subscribed, and in sustaining which IdsEx
eelleriey is ready to “sacrifice” his “present
standing.” Well be it so. But if this be not
the quintessence of consolidation, there is no
kernel in the olive.
The last paragraph demands unmeasured rep
reh nsion. Aye, the sternest rei.uke ! Even his
friends in the Legislature were ashamed to hack
him, and gave the matter the go bye the
other day—yes they abandoned him, by vo
ting to lay upon the table for the balance of the
session Mr. Bates’ substitute to Maj. Cooper’s
Resolution. When our own Troup was inaugu
rated after a canvass as warm perhaps as ever
characterized a Governor's election ; what was
■ lau-uage 7 We contrast the last paragraphs
of Ilia pud Wilson Lumpkin’s addresses —mark
the magnanimity. an<l patriotism of tlie °"e, a “ d
the vituperating..mligmty of the other.
Gov. Troup says. , ]Wi: *»’ Loui-kin says,
“Let our party strifes “He \v..<o would des
eease, let our divisions troy State Sovereignty
have an end, let our by consolidation or ttir,
motto be Hod and ourj Union by Nullification is
Country." (Here breath l a traitor to his country
cd the ardent soul of a] and deserves the uui
nalriot.) I versa i execration of
|,mankind.
Buthehas said lie won’t ape Troup—and in
this instcr.ee he lias most faithfully adhered to
his declaration. Tnat this concluding sentiment
of Lumpkin’s was intended to charge those who
believe in the doctrines of State rights and Slate
remedies, with a design to destroy the Union,
and intended as a sweeping denunciai.on of his
polities! adrersstist'i non* ten doubt. But wo
as humble advocates of State interposition against
federal usurpation indignantly cast back the
have imputation to the teeth of the calumnia
tor. In the language of as pure a patriot as ever
lived we say, those are the advocates es disunion
u ho are the advocates of usurpation and submission.
The oath to defend 'the constitution from infrac
tion is of equal obligation with the correlative
duly loprotect it.”
What a signal instance of moral firmness is
exhibited by Wilson Lumpkin, in thus insulting
the feeling and impugning the motive of a large
minority of bis adversaries, vvli' se public duties
reyuhed their presence at his inauguration,
when no opportunity of reply was afforded.
The craven hearted and narrow minded would
have done no more. 'The brave and magnani
mous, would have scorned the act. But whit
are we not to expect from the principals when
we are thus insult, dby their subalterns. As Vir
gil Inis it, “ {u'ddoni.ui facient, audent cam talia
funs."
The following is from the N. A. Gazette, the
information contained in the paragraph the Edi
tors of that print derive from tlieir correspondent.
An incident occurred in administering the oath
lotlio members of the II wise of Representatives,
w hich in the age of Caesar and Cataline, w ould
have been considered by the Romans as deeply
potientous. But in these days, we can smile,
if such things happen by accident; and, if by
design, w-. ie.ugli ootriglit-
Tnc Hon. C. B. Strong, one of the Judges of
the Superior Court, in administering the oath,
although reading it from the Constitution itself,
entirely omitted lo sw ear the members to support
the Constitution of the United Stales. And as
the honorable Judge is know n to be a Nullifier,
it caused a considerable buz threugheut tbe
House. One of rhe members then reminded the
Judge of the omission, and the oath was properly
and fully administered. It is said hy many that
the Hon. Judge made the omission intentionally,
though 1 have no doubt the omission was entire
ly accidental—but you can conceive that for a
few moments it hud a ludicrous effect.
We can inform the Gazette, that the same
omtesion occurred in administering the oath to
the Senators, by John A. Cuthbert, I’sq. ore of
Justices of the Inferior Court of Baldwin coun
ty. If the correspondent cf the Gazette deems
the omission intentional when eommitted hy a
Nullifier, charity induces us to believe lie w ould
also consider it intentionq! coming from a “ Un
ion" man, (we believe that is the new cogno
men of the Clark party.) If from such facts
the Editor of the N. A. Gazette infers, that the
nullifiers are disposed to disregard the Constitu
tion cf the United States, he cannot avoid the
same inference as to the motives of his own party,
when drawn from premises of-his own elating.
W e would observe, however, that tire support of
tho principles of the proclamation which we be
lieve to be the creed of this neophyte party, car
ries with it far more convincing proof of their
carelessness of the provisions of that instrument,
which the nullifiers seek so zealously to pre
serve.
We can put this matter straight however, there
is no clause in the oath prescribed by the Con
stitution, to the members of the Senate and
House of Representatives which refers to or
mentions the Constitution of tlie United States.
They are sworn only to defend and support the
Constitution of the State of Georgia. We are not
surprised at the ignorance displayed by the Edi
tor of the N. A. Gazette, and his correspondent.
They, as well as the party to which they are at
tached, devote but litile, if any time to the study
of our constitution —they are better acquainted
with its violations than with its principles. The
readiness of the Nullifiers to take the amended
oath, proves that the Union Democratic Republi
can party {whew!) are not the exclusive friends
of the Union. That is if Gov. Lumpkin and his
pan, auula UiU. oath .
Alabama autl the F. State;.
Col. Key, Attorney Genera! for the District of
Columbia, passed through this place on Saturday
evening last, oil his way to Alabama. He has
been appointed, we understand, by the President
of the United States, special Agent to superin
tend tire trial of the soldiers and others, concern
ed in the murder of Owens. The President, it is
said, strongly reprehended the contempt and
opposition exhibited by the Commandant of
Fort Mitchell, as evidenced in his disregard of
the process served upon hint by the Superior
Court of Russel county.
Col. K. it is rumored, is also authorised to
locato the Creeks, in a body, upon some specified
reservatien, apart and distinct from the settlers,
and to adopt other measures of precaution for tbe
future securely of their rights. 'The President
intimated, it is further said, that he had not the
most distant idea the Creek country was so
densely populated by citizens of Alabama ; and
seemed to infer, that had lie been aware of that
fact, there w ould have been no cause for the ex
citement which at present exists. From this
it would appear, that President Jackson has
erected anew standard for measuring principles,
by which he graduates them, not to the rule of
right, but to the power and capa«ity ofliis adver
say’s resistance. The truth is Gen. Jackson
has abandoned, for the present, his hostile atti
tude, and, in every sense of the word, backed out.
We want no stronger proof of this assertion than
the grounds assumed by Ex-Attorney General
Taney, in his correspondence with the Governor
of Alabama. In that correspondence the con
duct of the U. States Marshal, and the soldiers
who killed Owens, are plainly and distinctly ad
vocated, by contending for the usurpation inflict
ed upon the sovereign rights of Alabama—and,
that they were heartily responded to by the
President, there can be no doubt. Ifjhey were
not, the services ot Mr. Taney would not have
been rewarded w ith the glittering seal of the
Treasury > epartrnent. Wo therefore repeat,
that Andrew Jackson has bucked out; not indeed,
from a sense of duty, but from a well grounded
fear of the defeat and disgrace which would have
been heaped upon him by an indignant and out
raged people.
To the Editors of tuciSiuU Itignts'ddcocalc :
Gentlemen—The follow ing was addressed
to the Editors of the Federal Union. Con
siderations sufficiently weighty in their esti
mation have caused them to refuse me the
favor, of an insertion in their paper—hence
I offer it for publication in yours.
Yours, Ac.
MARK A. COOPER.
Mii.Lcdoevillr. 7tli Nov. 1633.
Messrs. Jlditors : —ln your editorial of the
Gilt, you have been pleased to associate my
name with what yon represent to be a “ clo
ven” footi and animal to wit : “ Nullification.'’
Had thii been tire first tune tho like bad been
done by you, it might j.-trhap: bate startled
i man of weak nerves. But the “ Cloven I
Foot” and the terms “Treason anil Infamy”
have so often been made to qualify the purest j
patriotism and most honest motives, that like
tite roaring of the Fettered Lion, or the too :
frequent repetion of thunder; IFe begin to!
iisten to their sound with too little emotion, j
There is in all this, Gentlemen, hut one |
cause of concern with me. 1 really fear you j
will so often cornu cl these marks, w hich were I
intended alone to identify tho evil one, lo I
Pleasurable objects, as to render eveti the j
author of vice less odious. Knowing gen- :
tietn in, that your great regard for tire virtue I
of public men will induce you to avoid |
such a result, 1 respectfully suggest to you
whether that be not the tendency of your |
course.
Had vou noticed my second motion made
on rhe strne day, you would have shewn the
meaning of the first. Not having done that,
please insert this in your next, mid oblige,
Yours respectfully. Ate.
MARK A. COOPER.
The Editors of the Fodcrul Union.
[Communicated.]
“ What wouM the people of Georgia, fif
teen or twenty years age, have said to the
election of a Yazoo man as President of the
Senate ! “ Oil, the degeneracy of the age.”
Oil, for another Jam as J.VCK.SON, to save us
from coksuption.”
Messrs. Editors—The above remark in
the Macon Messenger, caught my eye, and
excited no little surprise—lor I could scarce
ly believe it possible that the majority of the
Senate would have so far contemned public
opinion, as to elect a man to preside over its
deliberations, who was engaged in the famous
Yazoo Fraud. 1 enquired into the matter,
and judge of my utter astonishment, to find
in the Ist Volume of the Laws of the Unitea
States, a document certified from tlie State of
Georgia, containing a Lst of those Specula
tors, and to fi id among them the name of
Jacob Wood, put down for 28,000 ceres of
the Land. Tlie enduring odium of this base
fraud upon the rights of file people has hand
ed down to the present day the names of the
participators in the deed of infamy, and
placed o pon them a stigma which should for
bid tlieir ever being again placed in situa
tions, where an opportunity could be afford
ed a second time to abuse the public confi
dence. Yet strange —passing strange ! —and
not less strange than true—one of them now
occupies the second office in the Stale. Oh
Tcmpora! Oh Mores.
A SUBSCRIBER.
[For the Times.]
“ Why, look ye—l am scourg’d with rods,
Nettled and stung by pismires,
When I hear of this vile politician,”
Wilson Lumpkin.
Ilia Excellency Governor Lumpkin, in his
late annual Message declares, that the Nub
lifiers are fools and traitors. At least, such
is the meaning of his language when put into
common parlance. Hear him : Nullification,
says be, is supported, on tbe one part, by
“ treasonable ambition ;” and, on the other
part, by deluded followers of the doctrine.
Can any construction be placed upon this ex
'iression, other than the one I have given to
it? No- But, not content with thus stig
matising, in i,’s Annual, the patriotic disci
ples of the sainted Jefferson, —among whom
are classed the most noble a.'ul distinguished
spirits of the South, —his Excellency, two
days after, in his Inaugural, reiterates ib' 5
false,shameless, and infamous assertion.
Is it come tc this, that a Governor of the
State of Georgia has become so forgetful of
iris duty—-so regardless of the Constitution
and his oath of office-'—anil so vulgarly 1 os
tile to tho common courtesies recognised hy
every gentleman and man of Honor, de
nounce as traitors and fools, a numerous, pat
riotic, respectable, and talented party, merely
because that party differ with him in opinion,
on a great and deeply interesting constitulion
al question ? Why, even die Reformers in
England and France, arc treated by William
and Philip —surrounded and supported as
they are, by an armed soldiery and a haughty
Aristocracy,—with more respect and biensc
ancc. Their petitions and remonstrances,
although they may be in some degree disre
garded, are not, at least, insulted and con
temned by an epithet more degrading, ab
horrent, and detestrble than any oflicr known
in the language of civilized or savage socie
ty. No. it was reserved for Wilson Lump
kin, the Governor of a free, sovereign, and
republican State, thus to trample upon the
privileges and feelings of a gallant and un
offending people, because, forsooth, they
have dared to entertain opinions averse from
Iris own—because they have dared to advo
cate State interposition as the “ rightful rem
edy” lor constitutional abuses—and, because
they manfully stand up to protect and [ire
serve from utter annihilation, tho violated
charter of the Union,
Ihe opposition of one poor and obscure
individual, originated in a tnonarchial gov
ernment the law' of Habeas Corpus- This
was a fair test of principle—but, unfortu
nately for humanity, the triumph* of priuci
pie are, “ like angels visits, few and far be
tween,’’and when they do oceur in tic/i gov
ernments, the ;-ilriot views them with aston
ishment, and hails them as indicative of a
political advent. Will not, then, the oppres
sions and contumely heaped u|>on the peo
ple ofGcorgia by the unsparing & unruly hand
of Governor Lumpkin arouse them to a sense
of tlieir perilous condition 1 Wit! they not
prompt them to measures, more efficient titan
any they have yet adopted for the preserva
tion of tlieir social feelings as men ; and for
the security of their great political preroga
tives as citizens of the only pure representa
tive government in the world ? They must
—they it ill.
If the Nullifiers are traitors, ns Governor
Lumpkin declares them to he, it is Ins duty
to impeach them as sucii, notwithstanding, (as
Mr. I’emberten of the Chronicle has indubi
tably proved,) his Excellency, himself, was
once attached to the party. Yes, I repeat,as
tlie Executive officer of the State, and a
good patriot, it is his imperative duty to do
-o. Let him, then, firmly proceed to the dis
charge of his high responsibility—and, eveti
in tho towering exercise of Ins mighty pow
er, let hitn make his Legislatnre establish a
Test Act and an Inquisitorial Court, ( secun
dem artem,) for the purpose of magnanimous
ly torturing the refractory and unyielding
Nullifiers into a sense of their submissive
and serf-liko vassalage. You shall hear a
gain from RANDOLPH.
“ The equivcntion of Mr. Crawford, who j
professed to be opposed to Nullification, w liile
he made pledges privately to the Nullifiers,
effectually secured their v. hole strength, mid
also operated to deprive Gov. Lumpkin of u
considerable portion of the support of the
Union party.”
Tnc preceding is quoted from the Wash
ington Globe of the IJth iost. it refers to
that unwavering disciple of Jefferson, our
high-principled and estimable fallow-citizen
Joel Crawford. We are warranted by an in
timate knowledge ot facts, in pronouncing
the whole statement a most wanton and 11 igi
tious calumny. Had it emanated from any
other source, titan the most recklessly aban
doned [with tin* exception of two or three
Yazoo prints in Georgia,] collar press in the
Union, we should have astonished at the
folly and falsehood by which it i3 character
ized. The truth is, Mr. Crawford, on all pro
per occcasions, avows his convictions, that for
palpable and dangerous violations of the Fed
erative, or national compact, Nullification, if
not indispensable, it is the rightful remedy,&
that, if the General Government transcend
not theit constitutional limits, it must of ne
cessity also be a peaceful one. At the same
time, lie, with every enlightened Democrat
or Nullifies of the globe, ns we do, prefer
the names motioned by the authority of
Thomas Jefferson, understanding and justly
estimating the benefits and blessings of the
Union, would exclaim—the Union must
In* preserved,” at cvsrv sacrifice save that
of Liberty and the Constitution. Thus far
we slate, on the authority of long acquain
tance and Air. Crawford’s publications.
The Globe’s estimate of the causes con
trolling our election, arc equally erroneous,
though not so profligately base, as his charge
of equivocation on Mr. Crawford. Thu fact
is, the re-election of the collar man, who, to
the abiding dishonor of Georgia, is for two
years longer to occupy the gubernatorial
chair, was effected by an unscrupulous resort
to the fabrication and diffusion of similar ca
tumnies to that, of which the editor of the
G.obe has been guilty. Mr. Crawford was
robbed in Ins own county of hundreds of
votes, by men claiming the consideration of
gentlemen, circulating as his, the assertion
“ that no inan owning less thankee negroes
should have any vote, and that slave owners
should have one rote for every fee slaves. —
Judging from our own observation, and re
ports reaching us from different counties, the
double votes given in for .Ratification and
Lumpkin greatly overbalance bis majority.
That tnc Editor of the Globe should fuel
a lively interest in the success of Air. Lump
kin, is net remarkable, both from political and
persona! affinities. J'bey arc both notorious
for “ sating the thing which is not,” and for
treachery to their patrons. Frances P. Blair,
if tve are not misinformed, was at no remote
period, a stipendiary on the bounty of Henry
Clay, and as is usual with such natuies, lie
stings the hand that fed him. Win. H. Craw
ford had once the misfortune to be the friend
and political patron of Wilson Lumpkin, and
found him for some years a zealous adherent,
but with the instinct, ever possessed, by the
vicar of Bray genus, he ascertained, the Cal
houn star to be decidedly in the ascendent,
deserted his former benefactor, railed over to
Mr. Calhoun, aided that personage in destroy
ing Mr. Crawford’s popularity in Georgia, and
as might be expected, when opportunity pre
sented, raised Ins hoof to kick the sick Lion,
llis connexion with Air. Calnoun so recently
interrupted, was to Lumpkin both pleasant
and profitable—it afforded pabulum to bis
vanity and weight to bis purse; but what
can change the current of man’s nature 1 —
When he found the Hickory of Tennessee
overshadow ing, the Palmetto of Carolina, he
ratted again, of course, rendered his devo
tions acceptable, at the White House, and
was received into full fellowship# as an
understrapper of the Kitchen Cabinet. Os
the mendezean propensities and habits of
these worthies, every number of the Globe
presents ample evidence—if any doubt his
Excellency’s proficiency, let them consult
Veritas, published some years ago in the
Journal. Pemberton ami the Missionaries,
hare it vruler his own hand.
’l'be Globe, in vituperating Maj. Noah,
uses the name, Judas. How strange, he did
not recollect, while that name was escaping
from his pen, Wilson Lumpkin and Francis
I’. Blair, —the thought must have suspended
it there forever.— Geo. Messenger.
Black Hawk's reception at iiomr.
There is perhaps no subject more deeply
interesting or more touchingly sublime, than
the meeting of long absent friends. There
are a thousand conceptions crowding upon the
mind at the moment—the scenes of other
days, when all was calm and sunshine—the
anxious hopes and fears for each other's wel
fare—and finally the pleasing delight of meet
ing once more together.
We have witnessed many such meetings—
we Imre seen the parent and child, after a
long separation, greet each other on their
meeting ; and wc have seen the faithful and
affectionate spouse receive the partner of
her bosom, and welcome him home, in smiles
and tears, in joy and anguish ; but we have
never yet witnessed any meeting of friends
more fraught with melancholy interest than
that of Black Hawk and the Sacs and Foxes.
On Ins arrival.at Rock Island, the Ex-chics
had his tent pitched on the band of the Mis
sissippi near (be agency; and on the next
morning Keo-Kuck and the other Chiefs,
w ith a largo party of their young men arrived
for (he purpose of receiving them. They
encamped immediately in front of Black
Hawk’s, tent on the opposite bank of the riv
er. Preparations were soon made on both
sides for the mci ting. A numbor of canoes
were lashed together to convey the braves
and Warriors to the other shore, u Flag was
hoisted and the inufllcd drum was heard,
which was a signal for their departure. Kco
kuck and the chiefs moved slowly in front—
and, on reaching the shore, formed their young
men into a kind of hollow square. Keokuck
then made a short address to his people. He
said :
“ The great spirit had been kind to them—
He hail listened to their petitions. He hadgran
ted the.ir requcst-vVtlicy ought all to be thank
fill. They lihtl petitioned their great father
to release Black Haw k and the other prison
ers, and lit; has now sedt them home to en
joy their lib< rty. The Great Spirit has
changed the hear of the old Chief, gave him
a good one, and sent him back to bis friends.
Let the past be buried deep in the earth.-
Whilst his heart was w rong ho had done many
very bad thing*: but, ht> hoped, nBA
having travelled through many cf the big
towns, where he had been before him, he
could s* e the follv of his past conduct, and
would know how to govern himself in lu
lure.”
Keokuck than advanced, with folded
urns, sedately to the tent of Black hank,
-hook hands w ith him, and took a scat by bis
right. The other duels followed, shook
hands, and took seals in the tent; after which
the line slotvlv forward, mu! each lock
the Hawk by t’.e hand. Not a word was spo
ken until all had picsented themselves—Keo
kuck then broke Silence, and each commenc
ed congratulating the other.
Tin re were many among them who had
lost Ir,ends and relations during the lase war,
and when they called to mind that this Old
Warrior had lei! them on to the battle field, on
which they hud perished, it harrowed up their
souls, and created within them feelings of
painful remembrance. The tear of sorrow
was seen to steal down their cheeks, and the
ilirobbings of the heart plainly evinced the
painful feelings of the mind. Here were
those who bail lost affectionate relations and
and kind friends who had heard lelatcd the
painful story of their death—and before them
sat the Chief who had led them onward to the
gory scene. For tiieir departed friends tho
tears of sorrow gu«h«d from the eyc-lids, the
palpitating heart with melancholy
sympathy ; but net a word of censure, or n
whisper of reproach was cast upon the old
Chief; for lie, too, had cause to lament both
the loss of friends and the less of power.
Time was when he stood high in the coun
cils of the nation —where lie could rail around
him his Braves and Warriors, among whom
lie was chief, and at his nod, lead them on
ward “ to the tented field and battle gore.”
But now, how different his situation ! How
changed his circumstances ! Thrown from
the lofty summit of his greatness, without
rank and without power ! placed under ob
ligations to those chiefs [who.n be could nev
er recognize ns equals] even for his liberty !
and then, the reflection that as many of his
brave warriors who had fought by bis side,
had fell in battle, —and whose bones now lie
bleached on the nqgcd earth, without a
mound, and with nought but the canopy of
Heaven for a covering, must, and did produce
within him, feelings of the deepest mortifica
tion and humiliation. TESTOR.
Rock Island, Aug. 18-'53.
Nnlliticatiou.
When questions of the highest moment,
involving not only the rights of the State,
as a distinct member of the confederacy, but
the rights of every citizen ns freemen—the
cause, in short, of human liberty and civil as
well as constitutional government —arc pre
sented for our consideration, it is - pitiable to
find editors of respectable talents harping on
party names, and attempting to awaken dis
sentioiis among ourselves, uml thus to para
lyze the energies of the community; The
editor of the Huntsville Democrat would have
us believe that the Creek controversy, in
w liicli the State is now involved, lias keen
caused by the Nullifiers, with a view to bring
about “a conflict between the State stmt
Government authorities.” Really they most
be magicians if they have done this. Have
they induced thirty thousand people—almost
a sufficient number to constitute a State—to
remove into the Creek country and make
settlements there? Did they induce the
War D. partment to announce to them that
they might remain until the selections of
Indian reservations were made, when, if they
should he found upon these reservations, they
would be required to remove on the other
lands'! Did they induce the same Depart
ment to revoke thepermit, and authorise its
soldiery to depopulate country by fire and
sword? Did they induce Alaj. Mclntosh to
regard himself and his men as above all law,
and in no respect amenable to our courts of
justice? Diu the Nullifiers bring about all
these events? The editor may tell this to
the marines, for common sailors will not be
lieve him.
The course of the Federal Executive and
llis subordinates in regard to tins Creek con
troversy, cannot be justified upon its own
merits; and therefore, those wdio are deter
mined to adhere to the federal side of the
question, right or wrong, are nnxious to
strengthen tneir hands by representing the
cause of the Suite us the cause of Nullification,
i’iie question, as we have already intimated,
scarcely merits discussion ; “sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof;” we ought not unne
cessarily to embroil a present controversy w ith
one that is past. But if the position he in
sisted on, it is ea'ily refuted. To call in
question the orders of the War Department,
or a measure of the Executive, is not to
make void an act of Congress. To contend
that a soldier of the United Stales’ Army may
commit murder as well asanotlrcr man, is not,
it is believed, identical with the Carolina
doctrine; and to say that our laws ought to
be obey ed& our courts respected, isjnot tho
language of disorganized. In fact the Nul
lification, in tlie worst sense ot the term, is
altogether on the other side. II it be w rong
for a State to nullify the laws of the Union, it
cannot be light for an officer of the Federal
Government to nullify the process of our
courts, to abolish civil ordti, to prostrate tho
Stale authorities, and abrogate that jurisdic
tion which is acknowledged to be rightful and
undoubted.
Wc would be glad, if those who refuse to
interest themselves fo F the protection of our
citizens and tlie honor of the State, in this
controversy, on the ground that all opposi
tion is Nullification, would favor us with their
political creed. Do they hold that the Federal
Government is absolutely supreme in all
things; that the President is the Government}
the Marshal the President: the Alajor tho
.Marshal ; and the soldiers his irresjionsihle
instruments? and that all arid each of them
arc infallible in their judgments, inviolable in
their persons, and not answerable for their
acts? Is this their creed ? and are all those
who doubt it Nullifiers ? When they answer
us these questions, we.shall lie able to under
stand them better than at present.
Ala. Intelligencer.
lAecufor'i Snlc.
tl7lLl.be sold on Tuesday l!>th December
v v next, si the residence of Henry Bosw ell,
late of Ja-per county deceased, all the perishable
proper y let on; ing to said estate, consisting of
Horses, • tows, I logs, Sheep, Goats, Corn, Fod
der and Farming utensils, and various other srti
| ele* too tedious to mention. Terms made known
on the dav. MILL EDGE ROBY. JSx’r.
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