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lOLIIUAI.
I'nim Cvndj Hag'it's Lxi r.incr.
There ere more. Neliijlrrsth in p pV are
aware of. — IVd.ui ~:r. J, .io:.:: u:. ' ti
’* are all Uileran.'i.,, »u ura ail ivpiifi.i.
Caas,” i!i*- phrase v.Ts i.-os i i;,.o:i .. . many
as a hull! singular, anl lie i .ol v...seven
tloui Ytl by those i.< i ovc! that in.my <>!
llle fctlrralnc* entertained inouarrhii .1 | ;c
ii .u now !o that
the pi epic of ill s United ir:.:!;- nr> air iiulli
tiers, it v.cuiii no Vh..iii,t io;,. uJciiil as
I OC’! fariher !;oi:; tin: Until t . .:i r.... Mr.
"•K ftWt iis ch.iatio. ; ;:•:■! vet \ c w iii on
cirtsko io prow; taut tin: fact ;r n-t so.
lly a ni:!l:!:i r, n o t; an me i o l tlkves
if : ..a .
null and woe, ami not hue, ai.J t 0..; r;
exists and «-uj>l:t to i x ft a j.otv. r rout, u lt( re,
to d<clare it to he to, and to rentier it inope
rative' But there are three distinct ci. -
of nullilieis, an tunme■ration of \i hirti will
enable the n atlt rto discover io ni. h he he
longs, and at the saute time In judge tvluch
class entertains the views mod fawdukie to
liberty.
The first class is compet ed if those v. bo
believetbai ti.e whole power ot indlificition
is lodged with the in; nine loud of the
United Stairs, and that the decision of Jo in
Marshall, Gabriel Duval, Jest; li Morv, \\ il
limn Johnson, Sunt!i Tlioiupso.i, Henry Bald
win, and John McLean, or any four of tirem,
is sufficient to render mill and void an act ol
Congress which shall have received the sanc
tion of the Senate consisting of 48 ineml.i r.-,
of the House of Representatives consisting
of 240 members, and of the President, act
ing, perilous, under the advice of his cabinet.
Tile second class unbraces those who be
lieve, that the Supreme Court possesses the
power of nullification in casts cl.wrlr w ithin
its jurisdiction. They, however, believe
with Chief Justice Murshall, as expressed by
him in 17E>0, in his speech in Congress in tin
case of Jonathan F. tibins, that “ by cxt< ad
ing the judicial power to all cases in law and
equity, the Constitution had never hern un
derstood to confer on the departin' nt any po
litical power w hatever. To conic within this
description, a question must ssurue a legal
form for forensic litigation and judicial deci
sion. There must he parlies to come into
court wlio can be re..died by its process, am!
hound by its power; whose rights admit ol
ultiniatedecision by a tribunal to which they
are bound to submit.’' in cases, therefore,
involving disputed powers between the blnte
and Federal Governments, they held, with
Mr. Jefferson, that in all “ cases ol compact
among parties having no common judge, cuch
parly has an equal right to judge fur itselj\
as well of infractions, as of the mode and
measure of redress and they consequent
ly believe, w ith the \ irginia Resolutions el
’tlß, “that in case of a deliberate, palpable,
and dangerous exercise Os other powers not
granted by. the said compile:, the States who
are parlies thereto, have the rigid, and are
in duty bound, to interpose lor arresting the
progress of the evil, and for maintaining
within their respective limits the authorities,
rights, and liberties appertaining to them.”
This tight of State interposition, whether it
be called htate veto, btate check, Nullifica
tion, or any other name implying that the
nullified act shall not bo put into execution
within the limits of the (Mate, the second
class we arc describing, maintain can he law
fully exercised by a Slate L< gisifllurc, a •
held by Pennsylvania in 18'Jt), and by Geor
gia in several of her recent acts. But in
this thev diti’cr from
The third class, who, whilst they agree
with the second class in all the othi r posi
tions assumed by them, assort, that the plop, r
mode of interposition is by the people of a
State in Convention assembled, chosen spa
cificaily for the purpose, and not by a Stale
Legislature. They maintain, that tins rigid
of interposition would never be exercised
but for very sufficient cause ; that it is no
easy matter to arouse a m.ij >rili of the people
of a whole Slate to the extent of interposing
their sovereign power; and that tu <vil to
the institutions of lfiu country can he appic*
iiciided, Mulcts Congress shijll lor years resist
all appeals made to their s use of justice and
to their love of harmony, and persevere n
a course deemed by that majority to be “ de
liberate, palpable, am! dangerous'’ violations
of the federal compact.
VVe know there are many persons who are
horror-stricken at the enormity of the Geor
gia and South Carolina Nullification, and yet
there are cases ti.al might be presented in
which they would themselves, peril ips be
com# iiuliitiers. Suppose, for instance, Con
gress, under tile power to lay excises, widen,
although required to be uniform thiouglioui
the United tilati s, may be laid upon any com
modity, should impose one of live dollars a
ton upon all anthniciie. coal dug fiem tie
piis : this article noing found in ;:o parted'
tile country but Ponnsiivanii, the txc.s
would fall almost wholly upon that Slate, Ihu
principal part being consumed wdhm tier
limits; ami as the law would In constitution
al, the Supreme Court wool tihvo to pio
nounce it to be so. Would not the citizens
of Philadelphia, however, ant! others who an
warmed by anthracite coal, if tin y were sat.
isiied that the object of dm act was not to
t use a revenue, as expressed in iis title, but
solely to prev id. anthracite coal from com
ing into competition m the maiki t w ith Vir
ginia bituminous coal ; would they not be
nulliflers too? Or suppose Congress were
to Jay a lev upon all tolls collect J upon ca
nals that are three bundled mii s lung and
upwards ; would not the .New Yorkers be
come r.uil fiers if they were convinced that
the sole object of the law was to drive the
commerce of the Lilies from the city u!
New York to Philadelphia ? We leave to
reader to answci tiiaso questions; and if he
replies in the aliirniaiive, we wdl conclude
by asking him, win. tin r a political principle,
sound under any conceivable circumstance-,
is to be denounced as treason m> r- !y hi a
hi. application h.*pp> ns to be made ol it to a
ca.-e which, in Ins is.invhiou, v. .is not ol the
sort t«ot touched a:s im ne.lute interests ?
V.noii ( Olivtiteuvy.
To atsisl our Union Ii i -r.T; in returning to
that souse of allegiance to tl ir own State,
which they haw been t'.i tit t si tof n ii in
the Union, over to lorgH or disavow, we in- .
vita their itl a'loutsi i to t , ■ follow ii;> 1
nliebt.— Ii will * rn to s r.v mcut that be
tits I*4*7 wers blinded by party raw, t;.ry !
notarial ned ami prauiuit,: t the v< ry v w <h !
**er relilive ibilc • to tie JJtate arni Ih dt.ili
f lon rn.iicrit that v.e i, a * ..ri.aad . r ,n i‘.
*•!».hn . . qut'' #a cfob.tf. ii'< i->-
. ia: miaiu!: , one ol ex, r diene y , not of vile
guinea- Titcse were me words of a Union
man, and s&clioned I y a large majority of
i m votes in the Legislature. —They hint
better seriously consul i then:’, for tin y can
not i j ire their consistency by turning again
t-; w bat they wile ;
I'Ve in the Coli.n.’oid 'leletcope,
Tlie Uiiuin p .rty ntf, < lto hr ijeve that this
State owes allig'ninceto the G« ueral Govern
im.ut ; that it has entered into such an in
"cgemci.t rs pr.-i ii-its it f.Pin sidling up its
(iWii iitirrprctiiMtui -ft •<: contract, in opposi
t.on to that oi the Fi di rai po»v< r.
On this .-Ci r- , e brg leave to oil* r these
.ci.tbmin it iociiiiienl: tlie d< ciaratio’i el
tin ;iTievi lea iers, in that very session cf tin'
f.ecisluime, in which the hmt attempt w-is
.nil pc, to bring iii-out Nuioiktation —6late in-’
t. r; on: < :i.
Tin:', very Ito:i'"‘ cf Representatives, it
which Col. I’rvston’s Resuhitions had t iunb
r.i.li . , or gw i-uj ;‘crt r.(, p:.»-c : by ticclc-ina
ticn, without the siiglilist opposition or a
single negative voice, the l-.diowug Hcsolu
lii>ns:
In die House of it prisaidatives, Decem
ber 20, 1828.
“ 1 Resolved, That t!i>' opinion of this Le
gislature, on the subject cf the assumed
light of Congress, to regulate duties on im
port-, for tiie purpose ot cm our iging domes
;ic indiij rv, it* lien tofnrn rxpicsst-d in the
various Resolutions adopted iii the years l*-2o
id Iw.'f, is iinchtingnd; and, after the I ir
tiu r aggression by the passage of the Tarifi
Act of 1828, this Legislature is restrained
from the assertion cf the Kov t ttK.r.N Rights
of tuk State, i»y the hope, that the magna
nimity and justice ot the good ptople «t the
Union v. ill the abandonment of a system, par
tial in its nature, unjust in its operation, and
not within the j rowers doing tied to Con
gress.
2. Resolved, That the measures to ire pur
sued, consequent on the pers. vcrancc in this
system are purely questions of expediency,
and mot or Allegiance, u;-d that, for the
purpose of ascertaining the opinion and in
i iting the co-op*ration of other Siati s, n coj’V
and liiese and the Resolutions heretofore ad
opted bv tins Legislature, bo transiniltcil to
t ie Governors of tlie several Statt s, with a
request that they he laid before the several
L gislatures, to determine on siieh ulterior
measures as they may think tlie occasion
demands. Ordered to the Senate for concur
rence. - R. ANDERSON, C. H. U.
In the Senate, Dee. 00, 1828.
Resolved, That the Senate toucur.
JOB JOHNSTON,
Clerk of the Sen itt
Vi e liny die Union gentlemen to ri mem
ber that this was no declaration of a nullify,
ing legislature. It was that of one, in which
unionism was in complete ascendency. This,
in short was u U.: in —not a -Nullification—
confession ol Faith. Arid tvliat docs it hold
forth, as its creed ? Tnis :
That the Constitution is a compact be
tween separate, independent Sovctcignties.
That if the Legislature did riot, in 182?,
act (h iinitivelv against die T-iritl’ Law of that
year, it was from no want of legal nor politi
cal right; hut, simply, that there was hope
of a voluntary return to reason, ot those w !.u
wi re oppressing us.
That the olx diencc or disobedience of the
law ol Congress, wag a question of exfe
DIEXCV not of A LLKGIANCK.
VS’c thank you, gentlemen, far that word.
‘ Ciicdicncp, a question of expediency not o!
Allegiance.” VVhy, Judgre Jolinslon, in
drawing up the Resolutions of the Convr nlion
almost used your very words. Tiic thought,
be hag not in the slightest degree varied.—
We wish you joy of tiic fan s that you will
make, when the question in your own very
form of assertion, shall hr presented to yen
this winter, for bitter denial, for furious tie
i.uuciation.
Dear gentlemen ! You h ;vn, times out of
number, cat'ti your own words: why such
repugiiaficc to sw:il!oiv them now ? Shall aii
' our Fats of that kind be only of a disgrace
fid sort? Have you no stomach for your own
declarations, miles they be servile and false
ones ? Your guipi-d the proclamation, tho’
utterly subversive of ali the doctrines of your
assumed Republicanism, Y'nu did not ev< n
'tr:mi a! the denunciation, as treason, of your
ran theory of Ftcission. You have s -ab
•owed C-mncls. Will this little gnat stick in
tiie h ge clnstxi, that you have for a throat?
*/). Rainvay’s resolutions of 1824 ; re-asseited,
in the resolutions now riled.
[From tho Western Herald.] •
The right of a State, in its sovereign capa
city to resist unconstitutional acts of tin
General Gov. rminTit, when oppressively o ( -
i i.iiing against the in!< r. sis oi that state, w•
believe, is prttty generali.- couu'-dcd by ait
South-.rn politicians, who will dare venture
the assertion, that they know any tiling of ti -
formation ol the Union, or the ohj ‘Cts fer
wliicil our government wits « stahii hed. i ,i< n
e.eincs tlie question ll’(.n which, those who
wisiito hold oiiiais under lim name ol l ::p(-n
men, pretend to stickle upon the subject of
State Rights, (alus) Nullification. V bat
degree of oppression ue.ist a state receive,
and who is to be made the judge i:f the eon
siitutionality of the law complained of, and
fho modus ojxrandi for relief. As to the de
gree of oppression, that the state is to re
ceive at the hands of the general govern
ment before .-lie can even remonstrate lor le
:ii.-f, there is no powe r on earth we presume,
who w ill attempt to contend, that the people
who f-'l the oppression m-i.-t, have not the
in st l ight to complain (•! them. They ac
cordingly petition, r moesCMlc, complain,
beg an I p lition, remonstrate, c unid - in, and
!, in vain, for years and years, till the op
pression become iasulicraMe ; t.ioir petitions
tr. .»t('d with se.iru and ileiision : llieir iv
uioiislraaces v. iili ridicule and cunleinpt, and
their iininb ipal rigiils of .‘.-tide gmi muu lit
leiiied tliein, by tiie po-n rs that he. To
a hoi must they look fur relief; from « hat
'source can they expect ii; must they be told
to w til long* r ; must tin > be told tin y must
h • mute, because they b long to the union.
Wo iiinii r-l Hid that tin very object fur whit h
the Union was formed, was for tiie mutual
benefit and protection *<f all, who reside
i a ifhiii it, and when tkn-i'hj I is destroyed,
! this Union is doUoycd with it, and v.r can
hoist of nothing hut ti-e n .nie, »hie!i ,»
j hardly worth t*ri nerving, at lhe i x,x i;m* sod
t rusir lion ol the rylrt* and lilk iIo * it t lie
j jMirtio>i ifti c Amevican p ojile, for the Io n
j < fit cf I'm oilier. But t* iCtl tbi# l# done,
1 ail! y.. i have yaur st-te iii*ill'«i by l.lliog
vi>v tv fgr a ■eg m. t besn 1 - u ’-t##' to tl *
GEORGIA TB3IESS AMD STATU BIGHTS' ADVOCATE.
wi l < tg f fl l ‘'t bt Mien of that gov rnmeut,
which has (*u tong oppressed \ ou, (w tin an
the Supreme Court,) arc your coiwlitutional,
and your reftutilu a i principles to he taken
from you this way; w.li you aequiescc in a
corrupt dec .-don mad : against you, by a tri
liuuhl, whose seelninwl iidtrest and priv iic
j-rcj-i-i,c, s, you know will ea%tsc thevn to dfe-i
iiaiiiat von ; or will you judge ol the in
,T:i'-t ions if the* corstifution t otiircfv-'.*, an- 5
decide for \i>ur<M.]v'. s, uh n you eo.ee i.
contact with obstacles of oppression and tyr
ranuy, rirnre t Lj ctiomiUc to ihe Ajucri■■,
people than the two pen:'.: duty on the arti
cle id Ti a, tint brought about the ever iw m
r..iiie revolution, amt winch lermi.satctl hi
die csta'lisiiinent t fa govr fninen;, inuri-icd
:o be the p i l -■ and Int st of fn imen. Or
fathers were before that event inh.ibilants el
■he Colouits, as as clns; ly cormrctcd to Bit
• aiiis powers, s w a io ti e L nimt. Ii i
iu , tin y s .nro allegiance so ti,,- Ku-g, bat
■-hat is tiie dill’ reiice, il is only a difiercr.ee
in names; fur if tve liai’e to bo taxed, and
niciii ioiio wliat. xfr one man may thin!,
prop* r to put upon us, and iniidarv force used
igainst us v.li.ii w t-dare ciir.td'iin.
\t e do not earn hv what urine y-ui rail lltc
eppri ssor ; call biiu King, or call him l’r< si
te!,l if i»n please, it is all the seme to ns, and
disiqu.i ly immaterial v.h( tlicr ins name i.-
Gcorge or Andrew, we are not in favor o!
submission to any such principles, ns arc con-
Utided or by a eeriain order of politicians
now endeavoring to rise in our country, who
think and sav that Union and consoliii.ilkui
-tre synoiiimous ti.rins; that tlie states hart
no i ignts. except such ns tho general govcri -
no nt w ill allow tin in, and that tlie general
gov rmuciit lias the lighl to judge, and that
ill peop'c are bound to stiind to the decree,
ou matter how oppressi ve.
Prom the Providence Journal.
ETjiioel States -Senator.
The high handed prot ec limg c,f our Go.-.-
ral A.-si tr.hly, in under! iking to v: rate the
scat ol the lion. A*hrr Rol.biiic, and to foist
therein tiie Hon. E. 11. Deter, is given in
our preceding columns. It will he seen on
r< ferrmg to the journai cf the Assembly and
the protests ot t,i,■ minority, that ir* vrr were ;
ilie projects ol a desperate party mere effec
tu *t Ily unveiled bv tun means thev adopted
to effected their objects, than in the present
instance. Instead o! leaving to the Senate of
the l nil' ll Slid s their undoubted right of
judging ol ihe qualifications of t kir own
nt miters ns tho CimsliMitinti lias prortth tl,
they Irate taken upon tin arts, 1,, j.-,- a lorceti
o.ii uiiiicard id ex n is. nl legislative p»wt r,
to vacate a eat in untfher /legislature, auu
at the saint lime, by an act ot tne iwo Houses
ot AsstliiliL, to abrogate the pnict-ecimgs,
not oi « precious Assembly, but ot a previous
id-rand Vvmmiuee ot an At-scmbiy not in li, -
mg. ihe act, or resolution, or whatever
yon may call it, by winch Hus is attempted
to he (Ib.cled, is in itsi.lt a curiosity which is
worth while considering, li recites, and pro
teases to olier, as a reason for passing it, that
the Assembly, which elected Air. Kolduns,
did nol comply w ith the provisions of me act,
commonly called the •• peiigetuaUnu aci,’
(meaning that no furiiicr erection ol Govern
or ami Senate was ordered by that Assembly,
sulisi (juent to January lust,) and tnereiore
(hat said election was null and void, an the
seat vacant. Fills cu;ion s act not only ad
-1 titled the validity us the law, widen li-.s been
ao iiiiic.'i coiitiourlcil, but olltrs as a reason
tor jjassing tin; act, winch vacates the s»at
of All. Robbins, that at tnc tune of the elec
no;: oi Senator, winch necessarily must have
tieeti (ffected with full authority (if tho law
wt re a good one) so.ne othe r’ucl was done, or
omitted tube done, which the law cf “pi r
petiiaiiou” Jiad imposed upon tlie Asscu:-
( ly !
’ll/- —c- - in. ii io pc revive Fiat our friends
in the L gishrture pjTsuevl an open, straig.it
toward course in tins business. They op
posed, by irresist Id argtttjj mts, the jassago
ol the “vacating act,” and when overpower
ed by numbers l.e. y recorded their names in
tippor-iiion to tac measure ou tnc Jotti:.t:l of
ho irons •, and olf red their IVolest. \\ tun
lue tnolioii was in uric to j .in in tir.nd Com
iiiitlee tin v opposed that also, and entered
heir I’rotest. 'i my declared, at the same
ttini , and with the satin-solemnity, that they
would not cote in that Committee, ulruuij i;
ho conveui. and for such a purpose, and i nn.rcd
incur names on the journal hi opposition io
•he proceeding. Wti’ci. ;;,c Grand Gcunu.ttcc
did finally rue t, limy pmsued the same stca
•iy ami consistent course—ofitrirqr i eur pro*
lest sg.iiiiii! to meeting and its proceedings,
and resolutely refusing to vote, oi be con
cerned tu any such election'
Tiie Governor’*
The Ai-ss ige of tile Governor will be found
a our ciibiuis, ami will be read atten
tively by all who tid an iMUTi-st, eitu-ci
in our federal ri lations, or our state, polu.-y.
it seems t -.at Ills Excel! ncy, bus at last
made up h:s mind, to o;q>ose tie: rightscftlie
States, and by ttmir denunciation to ermour
-gc the usurpations cf executive power, and
:o countenance the unaulhori/. -.1 vioiations
<>f our Constitution. We congratulate him
iq.oii t .e decision In: has at last made, and
rust :h.it he will find occasion, era the ter
mination (ii Ins pi.lit.ca! course, again to a
musc us, by ins tergivgrsatlpns. In onr con
eeption, tin' Message admits of but little be
ing said, culler by wav of couint. ud.itinn or
Censure, tx.'e-pting of Course’, ill ;t part of it,
'•'hi h was into ilcd as an exposition of its
author's opinion:, on the most important
quest on, ll: it is now dividing and distracting
our people,*! "I testing tir-- nature ot our gov
rrntoent, and the rights of tlie Stntes. We
look in vain; for thus' rna-,1.- vindications i !
.’■kiutkt rn rights and in! re ss, and t!:ose ori
gt:tai views oi State policy, \v iefi .n:<i
••haracti r:z", at this particular conjunct rue,
l ci.i.iiiiunicaimns of our Ciiief Mag ist rates.
» ! tins i..i i rtant crisis, vvlieui power in its
gigantic nirides, is trampling into du*,t m r
!. i:ie.«t rights, ami thri at' inp, in its n ek
lisn carr-ej, tho vribu rsiou ot cur Gcvcrn
m ,f —and our own Stnt-, nw-ik nir.g from
•<- long and paralyzing slomb r, in the reno
vation of it# n ciijur.it iv ■ energii «, it. sirup
'.nig for tint ni'Coiiiphxliairiit of sevinc noble
‘■nii rpiisc of ini- t in.pri veiiu iit, n was
r-a-oo.ibb* to expiet from thi? t’hnf M igis
ir te, « viiH ctitiiiii of South' ri Itiglit* ffum
Goye-n,| enrrc.'HituenM, and' * vtg ..|
roi. ciineof »i»- c ; !,,i nt *tnie j:«!:*-v,iiiar j
mu id iii ,'( our stall ing, and nugnn • ii r
prosperity, TJut instead < f tjn *»S have
Jtk'f f n>» ri p- t'tion ,f ru'm . ,n-( 1
ti.ivc opinions. H:s E.vtelb-ncv evidently
•follows in tlie waive of what is .-opposed to
Ire, public opinion, and on every question of
ih.ubtfiil expediency evades tho rcspcnsibili'
ty cf any r comiuendation. The Message
upou the v. hole, is better written, and Ic.s
oX'-eptionaLio, because less eciitjarliciory,
(ban theprecrdir.g one. With the frwn:!s ot
the Goveinor, it isovery thin. B—with his ene
mies, it is nothing—u ith ;.s, it is just, so so.
[ fi ua/r. A civs.
T'O’c the A T . ) . Coir'er and Enquirer.
Was ;;iNe,ro.\', 12th Nov. 1833.
Sir-—i have suspended my letters for
some time, but the coming session of
Congress and tiie important questions
which must so deeply allectthe public in
terest. will justify their continuance. Last
year the Tariff and South Carolina were
the chief topics. ?vow we have the Sur
plus Revenue—the Public Lands—the
Ran!;—Alabama—and the Presidential
Election. The last not the h ast. 1 may
in a subsequent number mid before I.V
coinmcnccmcnt of the session review my
fotmer letters, and show that they were
not written \viihout so just a knowledge ol
the prest ntas to authorize me to speak ol
tlie future—tnc purpo-c of this t.ote is
more to renew the correspondence and
give von some facts not known, than to
speculate on events past or to come.
The indications of the breaking up of
the Jackson party throughout tiie whole
country, are so marked, that you will not
be surprized when 1 tell you that the time
is nearer at hand than even you suppose.
a one but those who have thy best means
of knowing tba state of tlie public mind
in the hiouth, can believe the rapid falling
off in all the Southern States. But there
are o her indications of a sudden dissolu
tion in the immediate precincts of the
'■place, which will soon be more ful y de
veloped. The purpose of the dissolution
of the first cabinet was to unite the in
fluence of the Executive Government in
support of tiie Executive favorite—but
high minded and honorable men soon be
came restive under th« show of authority
oxsrciscd by others. Tho same corrupt
intluencc which dissolved the first cabinet
remains to disturb the second, ami the
consequence is that their unity was long
since dissolved.
Ymi will recollect that tlie Post and
Standard, as well as the saintly Journal
of Commerce, have joined in assailing the
Post ('thee, while ihe Giobe.gavc them its
silent co-oporation. l)o you suppose that
tins was done without a purpose ! The
object was to remove Mr. Barry to make
way for “Free Tom” Moore!! as he
has sometimes 1 ecn indecorously termed.
1 see you start, and exclaim is this possi
ble? \\ bat, tlie Globe, Blair and Kendall
in a conspiracy against Major Barry ?
Yes, and I’ll give a few facta.
The Rev. O. 11. Brown who is the stea
dy and devoted friend of Col. it. M.
Johnson, was '*hicf clerk of the Post Of
fice Department,and a# such was suppos
ed to favor Col. Johnson's interest, lie
was removed to another desk, and the
control and distribution of the'contracts
and appointments divided bi ivvt on Ciias.
K, Gardner and Sei:t!i R. ilobbie, the
Assistants who have devoted themselves
to Mr. Yan Boren’s interests. Col. John
son anti jl*«* fc ; .'n !-• lli'-nr- ji 'I hc-v
remonstrated with Mr. Barry, and Mr.
Blair was told that if he and Mr. Kendal
dared to do a; y act to the prejudice of
Colonel Johnson, that portion of the par
ty’would take measures to make their
w eight and influence be felt. They were
also told that the West and the South
were natural allies, and ’.hit any attempt
on the part of the President to -appoint
Mr. Van Burcn his successor to the ex
clusion of Col. Johnson, would bo resist
ed. They were told 00, that between Col.
Johnson and Mr. Barry, there hrrtl been a
long and intimate personal friendship, and
warned, that when the time came for the
Post Master Genera! to choose between
Col. Johnson and Mr. Van Burcn, he
would adhere to his old friend and his old
principles. And they were further ad
moni'hcd, that tlie people once forbade the
executive nomination of a successor, and
that the West would do so again. The
consequence of these expostulations was
Ihe limping apology of the Globe for tiie
P. (). Department, and a few complimen
tary notices of Col. Johnson. Do you ask
if Johnson intends to be a candidate ?
He docs—lsis friends and family are rich
—they havfc great fatnilo pride—they
have always been democratic—l le lias al
ways been their darling.and they have re
solved that ho shall be ac; n ii. ae. Be
sides, the most intleeniial members of ihe
family reside in th- >S >ti It—they arc lar e
ly interested as p unters, anil they have
s-nitbern feelings and principles they
will not support Mr. Yan Burcn; and
when the time copies, you will find the
Post Office Department arrayed on the
side of Johnson, indeed the chief has
already taken his stand, and almost nil
those contractors who reiied on Mr. Van
Boren's influence have gone home disap
pointed. Lewis is deeply mortified and
outrageously angry. But v. hat is t i»
decided. Gardner and O. B. Brown have
quarullcd, and Mr. Barry has taken tit.
part of and sustains Brown. Bo much
ior the Post Oilicc.
The Slate Department and War De
partment are openly and decidedly hostile
to the K. Cal in<*t influence. It is kn< wn
(hat Mr. Woodbury the head ofthe.N’avv
Department, is and only and bill* rlv oppos
ed to Isaac Hill, and cool and calculating
as he is, will reader no service. Tin
h aves Mr. Van Burcn with no other aid
than tug Trcti: ury ; at.d if he succeeds in !
•We «',‘eni It I*tan net rs jesticr to tliii ; »n- j
tlen.sM to KKv.rltat vitro we e!.i«w-d him la A
I ' 'll, 1 nit iti- ir add /• , dull, v.r dl 4 hi ft i (jut.
Kuo dl, mu i t,j .j !,<• !i» n-tlin/'. In ,- im
no . ninthly t|«. m ji and rof tfc< <• mrn in all C ew
ui.-dpi** #in i u ".Bit *n. o worthy and th« «
fd- (■• "fid f.- *.# .e-it —I., titof
making the Lank question a lest oi lit ness
for the Presidency, he will build up a rival
rather than a support in Mr. Taney. —
The end of die next Congress will not
ccrr.e without many and extraordinary
changes.
I have made you a much longer letter
than 1 intended. I have many and iiri
portant things to sav, but I will it- serve
them lor a future letter. Tito surplus
revenue is to give the President much
trouble.
“ The Spy at Washington.”
CHEAT STATE RIGHT MEETING.
A meeting of the friends of State Right’
aid State Sovereignty, took place at Alii
ledgeville’, in the iiepr( sentativo Cbainlicr,
on Wednesday evening the. F-th instant, at
-> lircli certain Resolutions we re adopted, ex
pressive of the Creed of the “State Right Par
ty of G< orgia,” with a unanimity unexam
pled :—Tf.iTmeeting vas composed ot about
die hundred persons, from different parts of
the State.
We congratulate our friends upon so aus
picious a result—The proceedings oi this
meeting are to he found in our columns to
doy and we especially commend them to the
attention and perusal of the public. The
principles ret forth iti these proceedings, can.
not fail to command and tkc immediate as
sent of every vitary of Liberty and Consti
tutional Lnion. It will be perceived, that
these principles are drawn from a pure foun
tain : —they are the principles ot tiie great
Apostle of Liberty, Thomas JellV icon, which
were put forth m ’9B and ’99 and prostrated
the Federalist in 1801—Tin y are destined
again to triumph over the minions of Despo
tism and tlie parasites of power. Political
degeneracy political mendacity, and the
corrupting it duci.ee of office, may do much
to obstruct for a season, the advance of these <
principles, but their in irch is onward ! —their
triumph ccrtaiif! ! —Yet a watchful vigilance
is cssi ntial, to this glorious consummation —a
vigilance that never slumbers: for wo arc
opposed by udversurit s, who piote.es the cun
ning of the Serpent; who have sung the
syren song of Limn, yet would scatter its
fragments to the winds of heaven, to obtain
or preserve office. Already have they prov
ed recreant to southern rights; already have
they crouched at the footstool of power, aye,
taught their children the humiliating lesson
of Submission to oppression, pointing tin ir
deluded followers to State interposition, a
gainst unconstitutional encroaciunohis, as to
-i l’cacr.ri light, to mark the course to he
shunned, in futute cases of similar oppres
sion.
Freeman of Georgia ! —We call upon you
to rally around the altar of Stale Rights—let
s -llish and pci.-oual considerations, be acri
Seed upon this holy shrine, the fire of liberty
will then burn with renovat'd lustre, and be
conic., to those who shall come after us, a
din ct ing star wldeli, w lil guide them to tlie
Haven, where the Barque cl Constitutional
Freedom, his been safely anchored by their
l athe rs. —Georgia Messenger.
Mew definitinu of .‘Velliffration.
The Grand Jury ol Mail.soil county ha VC
presented Govt r .or Gayle lor a Nuliitier.
i'!i- y have also furnished the public with a
munition of Nuliificatiou. It is “opposition
to llie U< ncral Government, and more tspc*
(• illy te the administration of General Jack*
son.” And that all may understand thesub
j- c the bet or, it is pretty clearly intimated
that the Pres id. nt is the Government and the
•Secretary olTVar, with his .Marshals, Majors
,lTt<l -*-•**•' »*-•«- Lut tiro tillttulof uvo»*«licrr ;
of tin-g eat body poltic; so that epposi
• i i.i to the acts of any of th- sc is J\ellif
entio-i. It is fortunate tliat this political
mystery wn.icli Imd puz/.lcd so many wise
heads has be n defined at last. Ilad Gover
nor Lumpkin poa-i ssiid the advantage of this
luminous exposition, he wow'd not have been
under the necessity of complaining to the
Georgia Legislature that, for the soul of him,
he never could midi rstand this metaphysi
cal subtlety or miiign shadow celled iNulliS
cation. The Grand Jury of Madison Coun
ty make it ail as plain as print.
[.■l/a. Siate Lit.
Great Plate Kights IfSeetiug.
V>e punlisli to day in cxlenso, the procee
dings of the State Rights Meeting held in
Miliedgovilio on tin- 13ti; instant. Our na
ders will now have an opportunity of exami
ning fully the creed of the Slate Rights men
ol t ieorgi —those who have hern denounced
as “A ulhfers," as ‘■'Heretics," and even as
“ Traitors,” to their country, li e are glad
that they have presented their principles to
the public inspection, in such plain andforci
hla terms—even in the very language es two
of the abiest Statesmen and ssundest Repub
licans of which our country boasts. This
looks like rev iving the Democratic doctrines
set forth to the world, ar.d triumphantly
main l meed in ’1)8 and ’1)1), when the Feder
alists of the North had nearly usurped the
reign, and the doctrine of State Ilighta de
clared to he heresy —ls this is Nullification—
be it so.—Under this Banner we are willing
to fight, and to this creed we heartily sub
-a i ie— llo thing'on A< res.
Dlotion in the Georgia Fesidatßre'
From the Federal Union (a Jackson, Van
Boren, Kendall, Anti-State Rights print), w e
extract the following account of a motion
made by Mr. Cooper, in the House of llepre
iaintivi.s of Georgia.
Mr. C. operls motion was ovidentlv foun.
(led hi a in scoiistriiclinri (.fthc phra.--c,“sov
■ rcigoty ot the I idled States,” but the spirit
in which it was made, does not the less de
-erve t ie thanks and the tipprobatiou of Re
publicans. “Sovereignty of tiic U. States.”
s i; id above, does not mean the sovereign
tv of the collective vI4 States, as a unit nation,
a t tlic individual sovereignty of tbc 24
'latcscomuosing ttie Union. Tins is made
inairf st hv tbc use of the term “Iwlepen
di tier,” in th- .nine so Hence, which is always
pplnd to the individual, not th« coiifedt.ru
• y.
We do not re me tuber to have seen any
wh- r. so ur i (pdv,iMi| u denial of the sove
r. ignty of the sovereignty of the Slates, as is
ontiiim and hi the abov-i i ar-.yr p!i from the
> n lJuren, si if culled Shite llight Federal
huoti* It .Mr. Cooper's mot,on vvns put
-w.i by an ot. rwlv lining majority, as staled,
'• must have In iif because rm inln rs tool,
the vn-w (ift!ie •nhji -’t U<: have tak , and
II'I from l ie uvcmlelmira pre|w>ii(ief»nco ol
I tie i ed. tainu, as tlwir candidate for speak -
I f eu( Ilyby a t '"jot if- or 0»f .
C 0 s lu °“ on
.... Cos - Wray ton in I S3*.
i ho gentleman who, iu’32, voted fora '-ill
to repeal the Constitution, and crush a sot
reign Mate ot the Union, held, I, U ( p our
years beßre that, the following language
Aheu the Government is guilty of usurio
linn or abuse of power (for abuse of nower
oi -.y be as intolerable as toe usurpation of i;\
manifesting a system of lawlessness and ty ran
ny, not only r. re we justifiable in cast in,,
ol; > * >llt ' ve *hould be traitors to otirselvr* if
" « ‘>i‘« not.” Again : “ The right of .
-hate to withdraw from the Union, uvnques.
honaldc. l lie people of everv State ara
sovereign; sovereignty is supreme; it Cin
only be limited bv itself. Thu people did
not relinquish it when they granted 'certain
portions ot power, for certain purposes, to the
Government of the United States; they i, rT e t
parted with the sovereign right i* decide in
,v),ut case they might annul an existing, tnd
create another Government— that right w s
unalienable." (IS. Review : Georgia Con
troversy.) V. hut will the politic,d friend, of
toe Colone.— the collar presses—say to thisT
He admits the right to secede, whilst they
deny it. He admits the absolute sovereign
ly e! the States, they contend for a “ qualif'
mi” sovereignly. Yet is net the Col. one rs
their tirades ?
TREASURER'S REPORT.
Dr ' ’ Cash.
ter amount, paid into the Treasury between the
November IB3J, and the 31st October
inclusive, .ml placed to the cruiliiof i| l#
aforementioned nccouuts, viz:
Ctnoral Tax of ISU),
IS2!> , 433 03
; “?•
lH!| > 51,074 07
“ I«3J, 5.082 3d
Btnte Stock, 188905 Vo
Vendue lax, 2.572 58
Dividend on Bank Stack, 52,275
L end from Fees on Fractions
sold in 1522 *:id ’23, 117 75
“ “ “ 1327, 385 50
Macon Lots and Reserves, 405 75
Reverted Lois i(. \Y.& \V. 05
Grants for Land drawn 1820, 1,0C5
“ “ 1821, - 033
“ “ 1827, 9.033
“ “ 1832, 20,550
Geld Lot* 1832, 25,500
Fraudulent Bow, 73
Lots Ist Muscogee, jj
Columbus Luts, <;>2
Mclntosh Reserve, 4 50
Head Rights & Testimonials, C3l 50
Copy Grants, 134 35
Saleof Lots fraudulently drawn, 2370 II)
'l' wnC lemons, Milledgeville, 320
Relinquished, 150 5()
hili Diatiict of Early, [ -) so
Tax on Bank Stock, 7003 gg
Rent of Indian possessions,
Cherukcee, 207 67
Funds raised by Escheated Es
tates, 112 91
_ , f363,009 13J
r or halanr# ig Treasury, Ist
November, 1532, 15,896 21 j
$376,905 35f .
! or balance inTreasury, 31st
October, 1833,' $21,060 47
Cash, Cr.
By amount of President and Speaker's Warrants
and Governor’s Warrants, draw a & chargeable
to the following accumpts, taksn atthe Trea
suiy between the Ist November 1832, and the
31st October 1833, inclusive, viz.
Appropriation County Academies, $22,033 95
“ Protection Gold Mines, 13.534 68
“ PeniteoUary, 7,500
“ Legislature 1633 61,479 30
Poor Sciieol Fund, 22,380 57
.Militaiy Fsiid of 1627, 2,618 46
Contingent Fund of 163-2, 5,845 69J
. “ 1833, 15,308 87f
Printing “ 1832, 9,270 63
“ “ 1833, 2,235 99
Civil Establishmeut, 1631, 637 50
“ “ 1632, 10,225
“ “ 1853, 25,099 99
Special Appropriation, 1632, 16.127 47
“ , 1833, 8,2-6 60
Road and River Fund, 1532, 8,750
“ “ 1633, 1 ?,400
Band Fund, 1832 ■ 105,402 81
Fund for tiie Ri demptioi of
Public Debt, 1,568 36
$357,844 884
Balance 31sl Oetober, 1333, 21,000 47
$378,905 35i
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN WILLIAMS, TrSuunr.
Treasury UJj.cc, Ay f. *ih, 1333.
From the y, 0/ leans Mtr. .Idea. cf Xr.cs.Ur,
Distress! tig,
It is with feelings of the deepest regret,
vve lay before our readers the following d' s '
trussing news, politely furnished us by the
clerk of the steam boat Black llawk, arrived
here this morning about half past sous
o’clock.
Extract from Log Book of Strum Beat
Black Han k, I‘. S. llartcliorne, Master.
October, 28, R M-
At Foot of, fi'3, discovered tiie wreck e-
Steam Boat New Brunswick, came too and
look on board one of in r crew, Iroiu whom
we learnt that she look fire the day before.
•it 4 P. M. and was entirely destroyed no
ives lost, but that none of the cil S 9 * a3
saved.
Another, and mors disstrkssinc,OC-
Game up to the wreck of the Steam Boat Br
!Martin, two miles ahovc-Dmialdsviihv roull
to, and received on board tl.-ose tua* t,tr3
saved. ,
The St. Martin was from Bayou Sarah,an
had about 500 bales of cotton snd 80 "'
wjgar ; site was Gis- overed to be on fire anon
12 o’clock this day, and melancholy 10 ri
late, about 4* persons were LOSi bj
and water. <)f the officers and crew
are the captain, 2d unite, 2d stewart, c. 1
hoy ; c'iaiubi rmaiil, 2 cooks, bar keeper,
sailors and 5 g'remen. Several |
were lost, among the number, ('apt* n »
tack, N. Moss, E.aq. of New Orleans, «i
-■ rvant, Mr. NV biting of Franklin, •
tun and servant, of Opelousas, Md - '
M h. Willis, of Bayou Sarah; a Lady, ' ian p
unknown, and three servant*; *“• •
Miller, of New Orleans, was badly
several pussi ngcrs say that she had oil
• bout $50,000, belonging '<> f ' o,nc 0
banks 111 New (Jrlean*. which is t
JOHN W. GW'LNS,Uicr»-
The steamer Tlk’W** Veal man, “
N.Oth I• 1 ! »■ £ * j.-d
* -MOO#- I
„„d UNI Iv scalded vt r.lulMr I