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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. Nov. 12, U 33. 44....fii