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STATE RIGHTS and UNITED STATES RIGHTS.
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TAr friends of the Union are our friends,and its enemies, our enemies.”
TUESDAY nOKMIXC., MAlini t»7.
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THESOUTHERNRECORDER.
When we commenced, some weeks since, n series of remarks
Upon the present position of the Whig party towards the ad
ministration, and more particularly, in relation to the co’trse
the Abolitionists, and the part they are acting and will act,
in the next Presidential contest, we did not expect so soon, to
•hate excited the sensibility of our neighbor, the Southern Re
corder*
Our main object, in the course we have marked out for our
selves, upon this question, is to awaken the people of the South
to a proper sense of their situation, and to warn them in due
season, of the vital importance, of standing in a solid column
ogainst the insurrectionary spirit, which moves and instigates
tile northern fanatics in their diabolical plots, against not only
■our rights of property, but against our peace and security, and
all that is rendered sacred by the constitution of our coun
try.
To every man, at all conversant with the present state of
political parties, it is evident that the Abolitionists are identifi
ed with the Whigs, in the whole scope of their opposition to
the measures of the present administration ; and it is equally
manifest, that the same unity of feeling and action exists be
tween the Whigs and Abolitionists, in their exertions to break
down Mr. Van Buren and his policy, and to overturn the
principles which he has avowed. Will the Recorder deny I
this ?
It is equally well known to the country and the Recorder,'
that a candidate will be gotten up to run against Mr. Van Bu
ren at the next Presidential election, and that the choice will, in
all probability, be made from three illustrious AV higs, of no 1
less celebrity than Daniel W’ebster, William Henry Harrison,
and Henry Clay— the first and second, renowned for their ad- i
herance to Federalism, as promulgated in 1795, and for their:
more recent adoption of the “ damnable heresy” of Abolition
ism ; and the third, for his support of the unjust and unconsti
tutional tariff, which carried away the Recorder a few years
since, into the wildfire doctrine of nullification—an advocate
of a United States Bank, Internal Improvements by the Fede
i al Government, and all those schemes of consolidation, which
have marked the course of Federalism, from its origin in our
•country.
W ill the Recorder deny, that this is the position which Mr.
Clay occupies as an American statesman ?
But further.—The course which Mr. Clay has taken upon
the subject of Abolition petitions, has, if we are not greatlv
mistaken, been reprehended,even by the Recorder, in unmoa
•ured terms; and we appeal to its candor for the answer.
let further.—Mr. Clay is becoming a favorite with the Ab
olitionists ; and we boldly assert the fact, that if he is chosen
in preference to W’ebster and Harrison, they will give him
Xi cir undivided and energetic support. Does the Recorder
doubt it ? We put it, then, to the conscience of the Recorder,
»» say whether it is consistent with Southern interests, for
Southern men to support any man for the Presidency, who is
nominated and supported by the Abolitionists ? These ques
tions must be answered—the country will require it, and they
cannot be evaded.
The Editorial of the Recorder, to which we allude, com
mences as follows :
*• The leading article of the last Standard, is a most singular medlev
«l truth and error. The Abolition question is presented in all its impor
tance to the vttal interests of the South-the danger of our position is
fully set forth, and a call for unity of sentiment and action is made upon
the whole southern people. 1
This is the first sentence of the Recorder’s article, and ifwe
were so disposed, we might well charge upon the Recorder, that
it contains “ a singular medley" of contradiction ; for, after
making the broad charge, that our article contains “a most
singular medley of truth and error,” it goes on to pay us a
very flattering compliment, in declaring that we have presen
ted the Abolition question, »• in all its importance, to the vital
interests of the South,” and that “ the danger of our position
is fully set forth ? and “ a call for unity of sentiment and ac
tion is made upon the whole Southern people.” Thus speaks
the Recorder, of the manner in which the Standard has dis
charged one of its highest and most sacred duties to its
country ; and if it speak the truth, who could do more?
Now for the error of the Standard, as charged by the Re
corder. And what is it? The reader shall hear. In our re
maiks upon the probable choice which the Whigs will make, in
selecting a candidate to run against Mr. Van Buren, we assu
med, that it would result in the choice of an open and avowed
Abolitionist, or of one very satisfactory to them; and propoun
ded the question to the Southern people, whether in that event
they would prefer the candidate of the Abolitionists, to a man
solemnly pledged to the whole nation, to thwart their views and
disappoint their expectations, by all the means which the peo
ple and the constitution have placed in his hands ? And we
now propound this distinct question to the Recorder. IfClay,
Webster, or Harrison, should oppose Martin Van Buren at the
next election, will you support either, against him ? Ifyou do
not answer it now, the time is at band when the public voice
will imperiously demand it.
The Recorder has vamped up the stale charges so often re
iterated agniust Mr. Van Buren jn the late Presidential contest,
—such as Missouri reactionist, with all the appendages
and et cetera’s, in the hope of once more play ing upon the cre
dulity of the people, as the Whig press so successfully
did, in 1830, in exciting a distrust of his opinions upon
the Abolition question ; and that, too, in the face of the solemn
pledge contained in his Inaugural address, never to give his
sanction to a Bill for the Abolition of Slavery, under any cir
cumstances ; and with a full knowledge that the Abolitionists
had, through their public Journals, and in their conventions,
denounced him, as bitterly hostile to their infamous movements,
and as fully identified with the Southern people ! Can the Re
corder produce as good evidence in favor of Clay, Webster, or
Harrison, upon this point? or can it shew, that the Abolition
ists have even complained of their conduct ?
We know very well, and the people of Georgia know, that
Mr. Van Buren lost the vote of Georgia upon a false clamour
about Abolitionism, but his Inaugural has removed their doubts
upon that subject, and that hoax cannot be play ed off upon them
again.
We come now, to that portion of the Rccordei’s article,
which has reference to that poor, hoodwinked, and bamboozled
citizen, Judge White ; who, yielding to the suggestions of ex
cessive vanity, brought himself to believe that those by whose
agency he was brought into the field, cither believed or inten
ded, that he could or should be elected ; and if the Recorder
“ truly his friend, it could not render the Judge a more accep
table service, than to suffer the part which lie acted in that cam
paign, to pass down to the shades of oblivion.
We deem it useless to revive the slumbering ashes of Judge
U bite’s Presidential memory ; and injustice to a well mean
>ng, ill-advised, mortified, and used up political instrument,
we assign him over to the shades of Lethe and the Tartarian
flood.
No—we have nothing to do with Judge White. Those who
used him to his own ruin, despise him now. Our business is
to advise the South upon matters connected with their highest
interests ; to keep them apprized of the movements of the Ab
olitionists, and to warn them toplace no confidence in men who
act with them.
M e rejoice that the Abolitionists support neither the men
nor the measures which we support. They are AGAINST
the present administration—we SUPPORT it; they are in
FAVOR of ti eU. S. Bank—we OPPOSE it ; they are
FEDERALISTS, in the broadest sense of the word, and
deadly hostile to State Rights ; we arc REPUBLICANS,
and support the Rights of the States ; they are in league with
( lay, Webster and Harrison—our opposition to them is as in
domitable as that of Hannibal to the Roman name.
And last and least—the Recorder attempts to fasten the
charge of Abolition upon Mr. Van Buren, because he is sup
ported by the New York Evening Post, whose opinions are in
favor of Abolitionism ; when the Recorder well knows, and
so we charge the fact to be, that out of the large number of
Abolition papers which are printed and circulated in the United
States, EVERY ONE is deadly hostile to Mr. Van Buren,
except the Poit ; and it is as well known, that upon a motion
in the Pennsylvania Convention, to disqualify free negroes
from voting, every Democrat, but ONE, voted for the measure,
and EV ERY WHIG voted against it.
The next Presidential election will bring the Southern peo
ple to their right position.—There will be no scrub nags and
whippers in that race—no picked up or broken down horses,
will be entered, for the amusement of the spectators.
In the attack of the Recorder upon the Standard of Union,
there lies at the bottom, one leading motive, and that is hatred
and hostility to Mr. Van Buren. But while that print is so
liberal in its denunciations of his principles and policy', the
, people will expect it to go farther, and tell them what opinion it
' entertains of the three men, one of whom, will in all probabili
ty, be run against him ; and in their behalf, we ask the Re
cot dcr, il its columns, will support for the next Presidency, un
der any circumstances’ either Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, or
William Henry Harrison? We desire your opinion of the three,
as statesmen, from the expression of which, as an impartial
J Journal, you cannot shrink.
The article to which we refer, avoids all mention of their
names, although it professes to be written in answer to one of
I our own, in whidh we handled them without gloves. Come
I neighbor, speak out, and tell the people what you think of
I them.
MR. GRUNDY’S ADDRESS.
The Address of Mr. Senator Grundy, to the Legislature of
Tennessee, upon the subject of the instructions given him, to
vote against the Sub-Treasury Bill, which we publish to-day,
is a powerful document, in which will be found, the principles of
Democracy laid down and vindicated in their primitive pu
rity.
Superadded to thb political force of the Address, the ma
jority who managed the wires in the Tennessee Legislature,
are done up iu a style of eloquent sarcasm, rarely equalled.
Mr. Grundy has not bruised and mangled them with tomahawks
and scalping knives, but with the skill of a practised anato
i mist, he has dissected them with a Damascus blade.
GEN. JESUP AND THE SEMINOLES.
“Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in Askelon.”
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s Gene, al Jesup, after two most disastrous campaigns in Flo
rida, has requested the General Government to permit him to
, surrender to the Seminoles; and advises the authorities to
leave them in quiet possession of the territory which thev
claim.
I or such a blot upon the national honor, we are at a loss to
conceive an adequate punishment.
We received his letter too late for insertion in this day’s pa
-1 per.
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UNION CONVENTION.
' Every day brings us the welcome intelligence from some quar
ter of the State, that our friends are alive to the importance of a
r full representation.
t 1
It is all important in the present crisis, that every county
should send delegates, that the entire voice of the Union party
I may be spoken.
The time has come, when the South must rally to the rescue
—to the support of her principles and her interests.—when
shewnust present to the northern fanatics, a broad and deter
mined front, and we are proud to feel and to know, that the
Union party will be found at their posts.
We have always entertained the most unwavering confidence
in our principles, which if possible, arc now more deeply rivet
ted, from the fact, that the abolitionists hate us with superlative
bitterness, and that they denounce the men and measures which
1 we support. As a party, we should be proud that they are op
posed to us in every thing. We desire no association or con
-1 cert of action with them, because “evil communications corrupt
• good manners,” and good principles.
, UNION MEETING.
I We give below, the proceedings of a Union meeting lately
. held in the new county of Macon, for the purpose of selecting
, delegates to the May Convention, with the letter of a friend,
which accompanies it.
. For the very flattering manner in which he is pleased to no
, tice our humble exertions in bringing to the view of our fellow
, citizens, a question involving their highest interests, we tender
to him, and to those in behalf of whom he speaks, our sincere
■ acknowledgments, with the promise on our part, that we shall
, not sleep upon our post, but “cry aloud and spare not.”
; Macon County, March 19, 1838.
• 3 i?„ e , nr i Si t r:-On . the °PP? sit I e I P. a « e > y’« " ill find a copy of resolutions
adopted at a meeting of the Union party of this county, on the 17th
inst. In compliance with the request of the Secretary of that meeting
, I send you a copy of the proceedings for publication, as you will perceive
1 published Of th ° rcs,,lut, °“ s ’ “ 1S tho wish of the P art y ‘hat they should be
1 In 1% is and in all the adjoining counties, our cause is daily and ranidlv
increasing in strength. The people are every where becoming convinced
that. Van Buren is decidedly a true friend to the South and of Georgia
; and that his most violent and prominent opponents, are opposed to South
ern rights and Southern institutions.
Every number of your paper lately, effectually operates in enforcing
, a true statement of facts upon the attention of tho community and if a
word, from those who are personally strangers to you, will add anv
thing to your untiringenergy in thecause of Union and of Van Buren
thepeoplc in this section earnestly aud heartily say “Go Ahead.” ’
Respectfully, &c.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE CONVENTION
At a numerous meeting of the Union party of Macon county, Caleb
S±’ C,n r a ' ,O the Cl,a ' I r ’ a " d S ’ "• I,wi « ht beil >K appointed
adopted y ’ hC f0110W,,,g were offered and unanimously
Resolved That the Union party of this county heartily and cordially
approve of the leading measures of the Administration of President
Van Buren, who has fully redeemed by his official course, his pled-cs
and promises to maintain and protect tho rights of the Southern people.
Resolved I hat Joshua Newsom and .William Louden be appointed as
delegates from tins county, to attend the Convention in May next to
nominate a Congressional Ticket; and that these delegates be instructed
to support the nomination of such individuals as will ably and faithfully
sustain the measures and principles of the present Administration 3
Resolved, That James Calhoun, Caleb Lindsey, Robert Peacock and
Jacob P udgc nct as a committee to appointother delegates in case those
first selected, should be unable to attend to the discharge of tho duty con
fided to them. 3
Resolved That a copy of tho proceedings of this meeting be transmit
ted by the Secretary to the Standard of Union with a request to publish
%:rbw l GHT,s„., J . CALEB LINDSE¥ '
March 17, 1838.
Friday is the day designated for a meeting of the members
of the Union Parly of Richmond County, for tho purpose of appoint
ing delegates to tho convention which is to bo assembled nt Milledge
ville in May next. We are gratified to find that the members of the
party throughout tho State are alive to the importance of tho conven
tion, and of the selection of a proper ticket to be supported at the Oc
tober elections. Such feelings augur well, with regard to tho proceed
ings of tho convention; wo have every reason to believo that the ticket
proposed to tho voters of Georgia, will be one which will receive the
unanimous support of the party. The Union men of Richmond county
can greistly contribute to a satisfactory termination of the proceedings
of the convention, by sending to it as delegates men who will fearlessly
ami independently discharge their duty, and faithfully represent the
wishes of their constituents. Ami ifwe presume to say what those
wishes are, we will affirm, that tho Union men of Richmond County feel
the impoitanceof nominating a ticket as strong in point of talents, dem
ocratic principles, ami popular reputation, as can be made from among
those who are known to entertain those doctrines and that policy which
are opposed by what is called tho Whig party. For, be it well under
stood, that any ticket, upon which men of doubtful political principles,
or mon w ho may lean tow ards those Whig principles which are so much
atvariauco with the prosperity mid best interests of the South, cannot
receive the general support of the Union party. A ticket to he unani
mously supported must have upon it tho names of uren who will be
pledged in honor to vote together on those great questions which agitate
the country, though on minor questions, some honest difference of opin
ion may exist without danger to the ascendency of paramount political
doctrines.
For our own pait, we have already stated the course we intend to
pursue, with regard to the candidates for Congress at the elections in
Oct her next. We aro detci mined to follow that course, be the conse
quences what they may. The nine members of Congress, to which
our State is entitled, tire elected by general ticket; the voters of Geor
gia, in consequence, have it iu their power to elect nine citizens who,
in Congress, will act in concert, and vote together w henever one of the
great questions of the day is to be decided. The general ticket system
adopted in Georgia, can insure unanimity. Why, then, should a ma
jority of tho voters vote for men who may divide oh any important
question? It is to avoid division among the delegation of our State,
that we will recommend to the voters to vote for nine citizens who will
think alike, vote together, and truly represent the majority by whom they
were elected. At no time, since the adoption of the p-esent federal
constitution, has it been of so much importance to the peace aud union
of the States, and especially to the welfare and prosperity o! the Southern
section of the Union, that the Southern States should send a delegation to
Congress who will act and vote together. Our duty then, as conduct
ors of a public press, will be to urge on the voters of Georgia the ne
cessity and sound policy, of requiting from the candidates that may bo
chosen by the Convention of May next, pledges which will be satisfac
tory that they will act and vote together, whenever the bank question,
the abolition question, the currency question, tho question of collecting
and disbursing of the public money, or the tariff question, may be
broughtbefore Congress for action and decision—Augusta Constitution
alist.
[From the Washington Globe.]
FEDERALISM—UNITED STATES BANKISM—ABOLI
TIONISM.
“In despite of all the machinations of interested politicians, Ken
tucky has virtually withdrawn from the confederacy of oppressors.
The struggle may yet be severe. Slavery will die game, but it must
die. Kentucky is now our battle ground."
We have been endeavoring for some months to wake up the seri
ous attention of the friqnds of the Union to the political consequen
ces of the confederacy which has taken place between Federalism,
United States Bankism, and Abolitionism; and for that purpose,
have occasionally given extracts from Abolition newspapers, and
from Federal bank speeches, to show that these three partiesnow
make one party, and that they are perfectly united in their political
objects. With the same view we give the extract above, and those
which will follow, and have to inform our readers that these extracts
from the Emancipator of March Bth instant, and that they are only
a sample taken from six columns in that paper, devoted exclusively
to the question of Abolition in the State of Kentucky! From these
six columns it is well seen how duh' the Abolitionists have consider
ed their plan of campaign, when they say, KENTUCKY IS NOW
OUR BATTLE GROUND! and we add, she isalso the battle ground
of FEDERALISM and UNITED STATES BANKISM. There
resides Mr. Clay, the champion of all these combined, and their fu
rious candidate for the Presidency. Kentucky is his ground; so that
the battle ground will be the home of the generalissemo of the com
bined parties. From this time forth, let no man be silly enough to
ask who is to be the Opposition candidate for the Presidency? Clay'
is the man! He is the darling, and the champion, of Federalism,
United States Bankism, and Abolitionism. He has the qualities
which the representation of these combined parties require, and they
are not going to waste their time and money in a struggle for Harri
son, or Webster, neitherof whom have the qualities which the dri
ving forward of their schemes will require. Clay is their man! Ken
tucky their battle ground! and, “with religion in their mouths, hell
in their hearts, and daggers in their hands,” they march to the onset!
The following additional patagraphs taken from the same six col
umns, all relate to thp great contest of which Kentucky will be the
battle ground, and of which every election will form an nction, un
til the grand decisive day of the Presidential election of 1840.
“By the census of Kentucky in 1830, the slaves constitute one
fourth of the whole population of Kentucky.” * * *
“It is in vain to expect‘a cooling time’ will ever arrive for the
slaveholders. For seven years that the duty of immediate emanci
pation has been pressed upon them, they have been looking for a re
laxation of the pressure. And what do they now see? We cannot pre
tend to foresee how the present question of a convention'will be dispos
ed of. Should it issue in a re-enactment of slavery, however, it will
only hasten the downfall of the system. And the facts with which
we are quite familiar forbid us to feel the least dread at the prospect,
that when the people of Kentucky once summon courage to look
the monster in the face who has so long travelled rough-shod over
thdir rights and interests, ‘there will be a SUDDEN DISRUPTION
of the relation of master and slave,’ and a ‘creation’ of 165,000,
not lazzaroni, but free citizens, in a day. How high would he the
honor ot Kentucky, should she give the lead in this noble work!”
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“Slavery is the greatest evil, and its abolition the greatest ques
tion, that is before the citizens of Kentucky. Why should it not
awaken the gieatest interest; The people of the North have been
told, through the ill-judged efforts of the Abolitionists, Kentucky
was turned back and sealed. And the press of Kentucky has been
quite silent. But now Judge N. assures us that‘public sentiment is
not settled’there.” **•#**•
“Were Kentucky in a world by herself, or were her 165,000 slaves
all the people of African descent to be found on the continent, it
might do to talk to them of ‘ultimate extermination’ as the price of
their liberty. But when we consider Kentucky as a part of the
American Union, and her slaves as a small portion of three or four
millions of people of the same race, situated in the same region, and
bound together by a common suffering of wrongs unparalleled in the
history of nations, methinks the whites should be cautious about ma
king thoughts of‘extermination’too familiar.” • • *
“Who now says we can do nothing at tho North to affect the
South; when, without a paper or an organized society, and with bard-,
ly a stated reader of our publications in the whole State, we have
gained such a hold upon the mind in Kentucky, that they no longer
dare to talk of banishing their laborers to the graveyards of Liberia.
Yeti have our leave, gentlemen, to take off the yoke from our op
pressed countrymen as soon as you please. It is not the Abolition
ists that stand in your way. It is the consciousness of that all-seeing
Eye upon you, which constrains you to feel that the impracticability
of banishment is notan apology for continuing slavery'.”
“Why'is it so necessary to convince the slave holders, who are
but a bare seventh part of the freemen of the State? Here is an in
stance of the habitual deference with which the American people
are accustomed to bow to the majesty of slaveholding. This waiting
sot great men, too, is another prevailing error. Great men have
great plans of personal and political aggrandizement, which they
will not Oiten put at hazard by originating a reform for the people’s
good. The people, the seven-eighths in Kentucky, can take this
matter up, and settle it for the good of the State. Why should a
small aiistocratic minority be suffered for their personal gratification
to retain a burden upon tho whole State, under which, it is'confessedly
and surely sinking?”
“Certainly, no patriot can look at this with ‘unconcern;’ but our
firm belief is, that there is in the body politic of Kentucky, moral
health enough to go safely through.” * * *
“O, happy day, when the intellectual strength of the nation shall
be fairly grappled in with this mighty question! The ‘infection’of
liberty! She too will‘challenge the right of man to hold his fellow
man in bondage;’ and when she has beard the parties, we trust she
will write her verdict in the skies, to be read by the universe.”
• ••••• ••
“This allusion to the duty of the clergy, coming from a profound
and practised jurist, a judge who is accustomed to form opinions on
settled principles, without regard to the parties they may condemn or
favor, are worthy of the gravest consideration of our divines. The
bending of principle to expediency, which has become the oppro
brium of our modern clergy, here receives a rebuke as dignified and
impressive in form as it is just in fact. We trust the ministers of the
Methodist Episcopal church will not appropriate this deserved tri
bute to their power, without also receiving this professional interpre
tation of their book of discipline. The Presbyterian synoa of Ken
tucky is already pledged to the doctrine that ‘the laws of conscience
WILL NOT allow slavery for a life time,’ because it is A SIN.
Lot them take one step more, the stop which ‘the perfection of rea
son’ pronounces inevitable, and let them do their duty, aud the scale
turns!” * * *
„ “What a picture of the reckless selfishness of the slavchol lers of
Kentucky, who we have been so often told are so anxious to get rid
of slavery, if abolitionists will only propose a ‘plan.’ Wo would
fain hope that Judge N. has done his brother slaveholders injustice,
and that they would not so wantonly throw the whole community in
to confusion. But should they do so, we have still much to hope
from the lot bearancc of the oppressed slaves, and from the influence
which Abolitionists will exert in preserving peace and order. Or, if
all should fail, we arc prepared to say that any issue within the com
pass of human probability, is to be preferred to continued slavery;
for when it is over, Kentucky will be free.” * •
“In despite of all tho machinations of interested politicians, Ken
tucky has virtually withdrawn from the confederacy of oppressors.
Ihe struggle may yet be severe. Slavery will‘die game,’ but it
mustdie. Kentucky is now our battle ground.” * *
“ But time and space fail us to express what we feel on the oc-
casion. The position of tho Anti-Slavery Society now assumes an
importance difficult to be realized, and calls (or great prudence and
firmness, and for that wisdom whichcometh only from ‘the Father of
Lights.’ We see, in the passing events, new evidence that 116 reigns,
and a fresh assurance that, notwithstanding all our delinquencies as a
people, yet, for our fathers’ sakes, and for His name’s sake, He still
remembers His loving-kindness for our nation, and for the chiitch
lie lias planted here.”
We repeat, these Abolitionists, of themselves, and left to them
selves, could have done but little ; but confederated with the United
States Bank and the Federalists, the three together became truly for
midable. Their joint votes have decided many elections in some of
the States ; tlieir votes will bajoined in all elections to come. Hence
forth they will act together. They are one and indivisible. The
following article from the same Emancipator shows that the right
of petition jlagis the onejinder which they wish their political friends
to fight—a flag which was the first to unfurl in the Senate this ses
sion :
— The gladiatorial strife in this body has been tem
porarily laid, by the passage of a icsoljtton, in the lower house at
least, consigning all petitions, memorials, etc. to the t tble, there to lay
without reading, referring, or printing. Psjiaw! how farcical and
short-sighted! Just as well might they attempt to check the throes
of a volcano by covering over its burning, trembling summit with
straw and stubble, as to check the voice of liberty by disregarding
the petitions ofthe people. It is all in vain. Congress wil bear
that voice, until they hearken to it, though they should pass five
hundred resolutions, as strong and as irrevocable as the laws of the
Medes and Persians. Reject the right of petition, indeed, to destroy
a thirst for universal liberty! It will increase it, and contiue to
ncrease it, until it shall prevail from Maine to Louisiana.”
[From the same.]
POLICY OF MR. BIDDLE AND THE FEDERALISTS
IN POSTPONING INDEFINITELY A RESUMP
TION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.-No. 9.
The result of some of the late elections, especially in the
State of New York, has inflated the Federalists with extraordi
nary exultation. They imagine themselves on the threshold
of a great, decisive, final victory over the principles and poli
cy of the Republican party ; at least so their obstreperous re
joicings and imprudent disclosures of old principles would seem
to indicate, although their precipitate, headlong course, where
ever they have been re-instated in their ancient ascendancy,
argues a latent conviction that their reign will be a short, if
not a merry one. Like bad tenants, they anticipate a speedy
ejection, and seem determined to do all the mischief they can
before they leave the premises.
There is no doubt that they ascribe these far distant and tem
porary gleams of success that flashed upon the dark clouds
which have, for some time past lowered over our happiness and
prosperity, to the agency of the bank suspension. They con
sequently dread the clearing up of the sky', from an apprehen
sion that the return of sunshine will dispel the thin mist of de
lusion been able to cast over the minds of a portion
of the people, through the instrumentality of distresses of their
own creating.
But the jest may be carried too far. Imposture and decep
tion are but temporary weapons. They may do for a sudden
emergency, but not for a permanent policy. Federalism has
already derived all the advantages il will ever derive from ike
distraction of the currency and the paralysis of business. There
is already a dawning conviction every hour gaining strength
among not only the productive ciasses, but the merchants aud
stockholders of banks, that their interests have been sacrificed
on the altar of Federal ambition, not on that of Republican
“ experiments.”
This impression is the first efl’ect of reason awakening from
a short paralysis, and recovering to a perception of the truth.
As the policy of the party' becomes more conspicuous, through
the wayward obstinacy of its chosen instrument—the hopeful
“ heir” of the late Bank of the United Stales—an.l above all,
by the late acquisition of the power of carrying that policy in
to operation in some few of the States, the merchants, most es
pecially, begin to perceive its objects, and fear its consequen
ces. The people, also, who unwillingly acquiesced in the sus
pension of specie payments as a measure of absolute necessity,
will endure it no longer when that necessity ceases to exist.
They are now convinced that the excessive expansion of the
credit system, based on bank issues, was the radical cause of
all the evils of the times ; and their common sense teaches
them, that the true way to remedy these evils is, not to increase
that expansion by new’ immunities and ne# temptations, but to
arrest and alleviate them, as far as possible, by a gradual re
moval of the causes by w hich they were produced. They feel
that it is not by repairing and inflating anew the empty and
portentous bubble which has just burs;, and scattered the ranks
of society into confusion, they are to expec. relief. They de
mand, not a perseverance in an old mischievous course, but the
adoption of a system that will lead to its final abandonment,
through a series of temperate measures, enforced with a prudent
and salutary delay. In short, their reason and their principles
are regaining the ascendancy over panic, excitement, and
“ suffering and the short-lived delusions of an imaginary
interest are yielding to the returning influence of their long
cherished attachments to that party to which all their natural
affinities tend to unite them. The late revolution, as it is
called, in the State of New York, was far too sudden to be
the result of a change of principles. It originated in the tem
porary excitement of momentary interests, which are ceasing
to operate, or whose evanescent delusions will speedily yield.to
the returning suggestions of common sense, aided by the les
sons of experience derived from the past and the present.
The further the people of the United States—who are, a
majority of them at least, essentially Democratic Republicans
in principle—fly off from that centre ofattraction to which they
naturally approximate by long habit aud inclination, the more
sudden will be the reaction, the more speedy their return ; just
as the waters retire the fastest and farthest the higher the tide,
and the wave which covers the most ground in its advance,
leaves the greatest surface drv in receding.
A LOOKER-ON.
THE RACES.
Ts uc races over the Milledgeville course, w ill commence on
Tuesday, the 10th of April, and close on Saturday of the same
week.
Fine sport is expected—the track is in first rate order, and
the purses very liberal.
Col. Kenan—Col. Sanford, and Col. Edmondson, are train
ing upon our coutse. Mr. Hammond has engaged stables and
Col. Pittman and Mr. Jeter are expected.
With the turf in fine order—many fine horses—good purses—
and what we may reasonably expect, pleasant weather—the
scene cannot fail to be highly interesting to those, who enjoy
the performances of good runners, and who feel an interest in
improving the breed of that noble animal, the Horse.
THERE WILLBE AMEETING OF THE UNION PARTY
of Hancock County, at the Court House, on the second Saturday in
April next, for the purpose of appointing delegates to represent the
party in the Convention, that will assemble in Milledgevillo in May,
for the purpose of selecting and nominating a suitable delegation for
t he next Congressional election. A VOTER.
UNION PARTY OF HOUSTON COUNTY, arc ?cqucsT
ed to moot in Perry, on Tuesday the 21th April next, (Court week) for
the purpose of selecting delegates to attend tho Union Convention, to be
held in Milledgeville the first Monday in May. to nominate candidates
for Congress; a full attendance is desired. ONE OF THE PARTY.
March 21. 1838.
A MEETING OF THE UNION PARTY’’' OF JONES
COUNTY, is requested, in Clinton, on Tuesday, the seventeenth of
Apiil next, (Court week,) for tho purpose of selecting delegates to rep
resent them in the Convention to bo held in Milledgeville, on tho first
Monday in May next, to nominate a Congressional Ticket.
8-taSO A MEMBER OF THE PARTY.
fCZ’TUE PIKE UNION MEN arc invited to moot at Ze' ~ion,on
ho first Tuesday in April next, for the purpose of nomil* ng candi
dates for our next State Legislature, and also to appoint Delegates to
the May (. onvention, to be held in Milledgeville, for the purpose of no
minating our Congressional Candidates.
PIKE.
K7THE UNION PARTY OF NEWTON COUfiTY are requested to assemble
in the Court House on Tuesday the 28tll March inst, being Court week, for the pur
pose of appointing delegates to tho Convention, to be held in Milledgeville in April
next.
Covinuton Mnrch 20, q
WANTED.— Two Hundred Cords of Bark, for whirl) six dollars
per Curd will be paid on delivery, by the subscribers.
.. , G. ROOT A SON.
. io _;tt.
rjiIIAKEN UP—A dark chestnut colored HORSE, about thirteen
ii . star in hia forehead , his left hind foot is white,
aud liim shoulders chafed by wearing harness. The owner can have him
»y pioving property and paying charges, on application to the subscriber,
throe miles from Milledgeville, ou the road to Augusta.
10 ‘ 3t JAMES MORAN.
MILLEDGEVILLE JOCKEY CLUB RACES.
—TIJE, Spring Races of tho Mil-
—ledgeville Jockey.Cluly will coui
y''' mence on the recbiid Tuesday
KA—(lOth day) of April next;
Ist <lii): Cqlis’ Sweepstake)
fifty <l°ll nrß entrance ; three or
t IV 'tw' more to make a race. A fine
- - Silver Goldetput up bythepro-
prietors. worth S6O.
~ ■, 2d dav: Two mile heats—free
I ’" r8e ' <3OO
- ■* qq iree m j] e heats—free.:
for nil. Purse, ..... ' iSOC|-.
4th day. Four mile heats, free for all. PurdU, ... $300.,
sth day. Colts’ stake—two mile heats—B2so cutrancc—for the Young Plate,worth
sl,ooo—l and closed.
A. 11. Kenan's b. c. Wolf, by Gokanna, dam Disowned. ■ " ,
G. Edmondston’s b. c. by imported I.uzborough, dam by Archy.
1. G. Sunford’s Ibarra, by imported If<*<lgeford, dam by Virginian.
Hammond it. J Novell’s s. c. John Gucdron.
T 11. F. YOUNG Co., Proprietors .
January 23,1C3?. I—talO.
NOI ICE.—AII notes and accounts due the undersigned, prior to. the frat;
of Jniuuirv last, will be placed in legal hzinda for collection on the first of AtffU
next H not paid before that day. It ij hoped that PROMPT PAYMENT by those
ini.ebtcd, will prevent a resort to an alternative so unpleasant.
07 I‘QO JUHAN.
..larch 2,, 1,,31h 10—It.
A PROCLAMATION.
GEORGIA :
By George R. GILMER, Governor and Commander-iti-Chief of tber
ii’ l ** m the Miiilja thereof.
information has befcu received at this Department.
•. * that (rcqueiit trespasses are committing upon the occupant,
nguts of the Indians in this State, and that many of them, after enroll
ing lor emigration, are prevented from removing to the country provi
ded lor ihem hi the West, by vexatious arrests :
And whereas such conduct is in violation of the laws, the principles of
justice and bumani’y—highly iujui ious to the prosperity of the State, by.
p. ex eating the speedy departure of tho Indians from its territory, and
may bitng upon the people of the Cherokee counties evils of the great
est magnitude— ”
I have therefore thought proper to issue this my proclamation, requiis
mg the ageuts for the protection of lhe Cherokees, and all civil and mil
itary officers, to use their authority in secuiiog to the Indians the quiet
enjoyment of their houses and fields until the 23d of May next, and
their peaceable and unobstructed removal from the State, so far as may
be permitted by the laws, upon theii enrolling for emigration ; aud call
ing upon all good citizens of the Cherokee country, as they regard their''
own security and the preservation of their property, to aid iu effecting'
these objects.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, aud caused the
Sl. g I great seal of the State to be affixed in tho Capitol, in Mil
’ . > ledgeville, this seventeenth day of March, eighteen hundred
mid thirty-eight, and of the sixty-second year of American Indepen
dence.
GEORGE R. GILMER.
By the (lovcfuot*.
Wm. A. Tennille, Secretary of State.
March 27,1838. io. 3t,
ffy“The Milledgeville papers will publish the above three times.
PRESENTMENTS OF THE GRAND JURY OF COWETA
COUN 1 Y.—boa March Term, 1838.—We the Grand Jurors
sworn, chosen and selected for the Superior Court of Coweta County,’
at the March term 1838, having closed the various duties assigned us,
beg leave to make the following presentments, viz: We regret to find
lhat the various public Roads in our County aro in a bad condition, and
feel it our painful duty to say that those having charge of the adminis
tration of that portion of cur laws, have toau alarming extent failed to'
have the various roads worked on, and placed iu that condition that
would make them even passabldjkand would earnestly recommend to
lhe proper authorities to look into and sea that tho road laws are rigidly
enforced, and have our roads put in good order.
We pteseut as a grieyancerthe great apathy and inatteutioa on the
part of lhe Justices of lhe Peace in the various districts of this County,
in appointing patrols, aud attending to the rigid enforcement of the
patrol law. We look upon their negligence as an evil, which every
good citizen should greatly depiecatc.aud give their united influence in
arresting the evil, and discountenance all officers who should for tho fu
ture fail to attend to the tegular appointment of patrols, aud inflicting,
exemplary fines on those who should fail to discharge promptly and effi
ciently that duty which every good citizen owes to his country, aud
would earnestly urge upon those officers the prompt aud rigid enforce
ment ol the patrol laws iu their respective districts. Wo cannot pass iu
silence that reckless spirit lhat we fiad stalking abroad through the land, '
that ambitious and discontented spirit of rebellion to those laws which
every good citizen is bound and should delight to obey and inspect, and
when we find that in this age of improvement and rapid growth of the arts
and sciences, we who aro bound by the strongest ties of natute and duty to
obey, respect and sustain the purity aud supremacy of our own laws,
forming mobs, uniting in societies and joining companies to take from
the constituted authorities of the country the punishment of offenders
against the laws, aud arrogate to themselves the right after a mock trial
to inflict unauthorized corporael punishment upon any of their fellow
citizens against whom they may preset a charge, we cannot frnd lan
guage too strong to express our dissapprobatioh and sovereign contempt ■
tor such associations, which we believe if not arrested would lead to
anarchy aud bloodshed, and subversive of the principles which every
American citizen who is worthy of that proud name, should cherish
and sustain, and would envoke all good citizens to give their undivided
and united influence in arresting the dire evil, an J sustaining unimpaired
the supremacy of our laws. YVehave examined the Clerks books of the
Superior Court, and find them in order and neatly kept, but ou examina
tion that there are four books wanting in the office, viz: two large record
books, and Execution and Equity documents, and recommend to the
Inferior Court to furnish tho same. We have also examined the Clerks;
books of the Inferior Court and find them kept in a neat and regular man
ner. We find on examination some of the Justices of the Peace of our
County, deficient on their returns on the estrav books. YVehave also
examined the books of the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary and;
find them kept in a neat aud regular manner. We have also ex
amined the Treasurer’s books and find them neatly and regularly kept
and find in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of fifteen hundred and
eighty dollars aud sixty-eight cents.
We have also examined the Poor School funds and find them fairly
kept, but the Clerk informs us that it is impossible for the laws in the
poor school districts to be strictly complyed with on account of the
teachers and justices not comply ing with their duty iu rendering in their
accounts aud certificates within the time prescribed by law, but as re
gards the duty of the Clerk xve acknowledge ourselves satisfied with
his list on books.-
On examination of the insolvent list presented to us by the Tax Col
lector for the year 1836, we allow him the sum of sixty-five dollars se
venty-eight and three fourths cents. We do request the Justices of the-.
Inferior Court to put in force an act to authorize tho Justices of the In
ferior Court of Coweta County to provide aud establish an Asylum, for
the invalid poor of said County.
In taking leave of his Honor Judge YVaruer, we would tender to him
our undivided approbation for the able, fair aud impartial manner with*
which he has discharged the duties of his office during the present term,
and would say that parties litigant need not fear but each will receive
from his hands his portion in due season.
The Solicitor General, George D. Anderson, has our thanks for his'
prompt attention to business, and our body during this week.
We request that our Presentments be published in the Standard of
Union, and Southern P.ecorder, co far as is of a public nature.
Thotnas Hudson, Foreman, Asbury Duniel,
Anthony North, Hugh W. Houston,
Silas Reynolds, Abraham North,
Thomas W. Bolton, Angus Mclver,
Levi Newton, Robert Atkinson,
Anthony Story, Robert S. Hamrick,
Theopolus Meadows, Joseph Endsly,
John P. Weaver, Elijah Marlin,
William G. Strong, Lewis Harris,
Y\ r His Randle, Sanders W. Lee,
John Murphy.
On motion of George D. Anderson, Solicitor General, it is ordered*
by the Court that the presentments of the Grand Jury bo published ac
cording to their request. •
A true extract from the minutes of the Court, this 14th day of March’
1838.
JBATTY 11. MITCHELL, Clerk.
March 27, IQ—lt.-
TO THE LOVERS OF FINE HORSES.— The imported Horse'
Truffle, will make his last season in Georgia.— TRUFFLE wilf
stand at my Stable at BELFAST, Baldwin county, eight miles above
Milledgeville, ou the Eatonton road, thcensuiug Spring, and will be Jet
to Mares on the following terms : a single visit Twenty Dollars at the
stable door; Thirty-five dollars for the season, which can be discharged
by Thirty Dollars being paid within the season ; Fifty Dollars to insure
a mare in foal; one dollar to the groom.
The season will commence on the fiist day ot* March and end on tie
first day of July.
This distinguished Horse is so well known in the South there is no need
of any description.
Marcs sent to remain with Truffle, will be fed with grain at 50 cents
per day if required ; good pasturage gratis ; all attention will be givers
that can be—but will uot be liable for accidents or escapes.
RICHARD ROWELT..
March 27, 10—8 t
GEORGIA, Cobh County.
WHEREAS, Deborah McCarty applies to me for letters of Guar-'
dianship for the orphans of James F. McCarty, late of Camp
bell, deceased, these are therefore to cite aud admonish all and singular
the kindred of said orphans, to be and appear at my office, within the
time prescribed by law, to show causa if any exists, why said letters
shall not be granted.
Given under my hand at office, iu Marietta, this the 14th day of March*
1838.
THOMAS J. PAYNE, C. C. O.
March 27, 10—5 t.
CENTRAL BANK AGENCY'.—The undersigned officers of this Bank, will at
tend to the renewal of all notes that may bo entrusted to their care, for the
customary fee of one doilar for ■'neb renewal.
Letters enclosing note and money for the renewal of Notes, post paid, directed to*
the officers of the Central Bank, or anv one of them, will bo promptly attended to.
B. I*. STUBBS,
PETER FAIR,
YVALTER 11. MITCHELL.
March 20, 9—Gtu.
IOOK AT THIS.—The subscriber offers for sale his settlement of Lands iff
.4 Monroe county, six miles cast of Forsyth, on the waters of Rum Creek,.con
taining six hundred acres: the plantation in good repair, a good log house dwelling,
a framed smoke house and wheat house, a good framed Gin house that runs by wa
ter, and a large pencil orchard. Itisn beautiful mid healthy situation—-a first rale
stand for a blacksmith shop. Persons wishing to purchase such nsitnation will do
well to call and take a look, for fear u bargain might slip through their hands.
JAMES CLAYTON.
March 20, !)—3m.
B w FORGE it CO.
- VJ YVHOI.ESA.LE SHOE DEALERS,
-aiSssJ Augusta. Georgia.
lOOO—< )no Thousand Packages Boots and Shoos, comprising
every article iu tho line, which can be sold ns low us in die Northern cities—all ar-,
rangeiueuts being with manufactures direct. A full assortment al" all kinds of
Leather.
Augusta,March 20, B. W. FORCE &CO.-