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THE TIMES,
and states right advocate.
JANUARY 15, 1533.
To tlic Palroiis of file .Tarou Advertiser.
FAREWELL !
With feelings of regret, we close the connection which
b«» long bound us to the community of Macon, as the
publisher of a paper ; and in taking our leave of them
assuch, it becomes us with grateful recollections of the
past, to tender to them a respectful and endearing fare
well ! and painful indeed is the separation from those
whose acquaintance and friendship we have 90 long en
joyed. It has, however, been deemed necessary, and
more than all beneficial to 113 to withdraw from the
scenes of youthful associations and endearments—from
those with whom, in the sunshine of prosperity we have
mingled in all the luxuriant hopes of balmy hours and
prosperous expectations.
yt. B>. J. SLADE.
SALUTATORY.
With feelings of piide and gratification tve present
to the public to-day our Paper in another drcs3.
Though we have'donned anew garb, and wear anew
title on our front, our course will he characterized by
the same devotion to the principles that have so often
triumphed in our State, and to which we have hitherto
•clung as the only conservative o. State Sovereignty.
Os the measures that in former times rebuked the ar-
rogant assumptions of Federal Power, and placed the
State of Georgia among the most ardent and energetic
supporters of the doctrines fought for, and transmitted
to us by our fathers, we have hitherto been feeble, but
firm advocates; and now, when the political horizon
is clouded, and the gathering darkness announces the
approaching tempest of more than ordinary fearfulness,
we shall not shrink from lighting up our beacon fire.
Principles that have been repudiated for years, that
caused the elder Adams to be hurled from the Execu
tive chair of the Union, by the indignant voice of a free
people—Principles that have-slumbered in the tomb
of the Capulets since 1801, have been raked from their
charnel house and ushered forth to the American People
under the high sanction of Executive authority. Revolv
ing calendars have brought back to our times the days
of Federalism and Republicanism : Again we must fight
over the battles that have once been won—again we
must rally under the banner reared by our fathers, and
signal success wc hope, will again crown, our exertions.
In the contest now about to be waged between the
Federalist on the one hand, and the Republican on the
other, with a consolidated government, an absolute
monarchy, and a splendid aristocracy, consequent on
the triumph of the former, and the sovereignty of the
States, constitutional Ihnitation of the General Govern
ment and Republican simplicity, awaitiugthc victory, of
the latter, we can have no hesitation in adopting our
course. Republicans we have been, Republicans we
are still, and Republicans we will continue to he. We
are not willing to see the great cause of the Democracy
of Georgia trampled under foot by Federal legislation or
.Executive misconstruction. Still less are we prepared
\o have the doctrines of the President forced down our
Yoats at the point of the Bayonet. Anxious as we
1 lave been in common with our fellow-citizens for the re.
election of our present Chief Magistrate, our joy at his
success has been deeply clouded by the pubiicaii'w of
the high toned federal doctrines contained in his proc
lamation. Doctrines that might have been looked for
front an Adams, an Otis, or a Webster, but which we
never dreamed would again come from the lips of an
American President: Much less did we expect from
Andrew Jackson the menace of an armed force to com
pel South Carolina to bend before unconstitutional pow.
er. Neither could we have believed, that his hand
would have dealt to State sovereignty this fatal blow.
Such opinions cannot obtain in Georgia save with those
on whom the Federal stamp is yet uneffaced. Threats
of military coercion will weigh as little now with the ad
vocates of State Rights, as they did with the advocates
of the same doctrines when Troup proclaimed that “when
the argument was exhausted we would stand by our
arms” in defence of our rights.
ft ill becomes us to thtow obstacles in the path of of
South Carolina, whose succt»s is an advantage to our
cause, whose defeat, death to our hopes. And be
sides, if the President is sincere in the demonstrations
of his purpose to execute the laws of the Union accor
ding to the views of the constitution as published in his
proclamation, he is bound by every moral and political
obligation to command Georgia—make ample expia
tion to the m incs of the murdered Tassels—
surrender the lands drawn by her citizens to the
Indian iords of the soil, and finally acknowledge
•bo independent and sovereign nation of the Che.
rokees. But will Andrew Jackson pursue this
course. We know not. When South Carolina is re
__ doced into subjection, which will only he when li r free
citizens shall slumber beneath her soil crimsoned by the
blood of her own sons, when the ccarinents of the grave
shall palsy the arm that has stricken its 1 1st avenging
blow for freedom—Georgia may be looked upon as
'he next victim for immolation at the altar ofeonsoiida*
hon. The Federal presses of the North are already
tinging fortli their pcans of joy, that obedience to the un
limited power of the National government is to ho con
strained by the drawn swords of the United States ar
m), and insisting, that the same measure of justice
(Heaven bless the mark !) shall be meted out to refrac
tory Georgia. The contingency may happen. Itbe
hotes us therefore to he prepared, to organize our ranks
and set ourtorccs in battle array, that the onset of the
foe may neither be unexpected or unwelcomcd. We
arc not disposed to draw down upon our heads the fate
of Cassandra, or we might predict that a lew revolving
'Una would place us, too, m an attitude of resistance to
'he far-reaching arm of the National government. E-
Cl it» already unfold themselves with so much rapidity
f 'h* l poll tic tans stand aghast. Ji is impottant then that
wc alwuld be vigilant sentinels on the watch-tower.
Whilst turmoil A confusion wait upon tnc acts of those
around us, Goorgia should stand like Atlas amid the
tliunder clouds, majestic and immoveable,ready alike to
shelter her citizens from the storm or ward off its fury.
Remedies against Federal oppression have been propo
sed for our adoption, A in a government like ours, sway
ed by the opinions of an intelligent people, of how great
moment is it that each political theory should be scru
tinized with a jealous attention. That our people should
not be subjected to a partizan influence and repudiate
principles instead of men. The doctrines of State Rights
has ever been a theme of stirring nature to every citi.
zen of Georgia. In its defence her most talented sons
have exerted their energies,and weeannot believe—we
will not b lieve, that the great body of the people, the
yeomanry of the States will now desert its standard.
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' NEW PAPERS.
I 1 sending forth our own, as anew paper, we, at the
same tunc make known, the recent publication of the
“Standard ok Unio>', and Free Tkade Advocate,”
printed at Sparta hv I’. L. Robinson, Lsq. and edited by
Thomas Haynes, Esq. We have not read its politi
cal tenets, hut it has out good wishes.
yiR TOWN’S SPEECH.
It must not lie cons tiered that every sentiment which
appears in our columns when written by others, is con
siquently approved hy us. Thus, whilst we cheerfully
give place to Mr. Towns’speech, and respect him ns a
gentlemen, wc Cannot second the false theories, and he
resies which are contained in the Speech. Differing as
we do, with .Mr. Towns in politics, and especially, in
some of those sentiments which are to be found in his
remarks, so devoid of the spirit of liberality—and so
strongly spiced with acrimony, with censure and denun
ciation of those, who have the mis- (we mean fortune)
fortune! to have variant views to Ins—we say, so differ
ing, we cannot fill our position to the public, without
warning them not to fall into his misguided, and wc
think, dangerous sentiments.
(Ky The following gentlemen have been elected Dr
rectors of/he Branch Bank ofDarieri, in this place*
SAMUEL ROCKWELL, PARISH CARTER,
JAS. BOZEMAN, W.M. H. TORRANCE,
G. A. BROWN, JOHN' WILLIAMS,
♦NATHAN McGEHEE, *JOS. B. GREEN.
* New Directors.
OUR I.ATE LEGISLATURE.
The actings and doings of the Legislature that has
recently closed its session, have placed Georgia in no
very enviable position in regard to the difficulties be
tween her and the Federal Government. The resolu
tions adopted, calling a Southern Convention, with the
amendment of Mr. Bates would doubtless astonish their
wise projectors, if they should have the effect of estrang
ing from our sid • those who have heretofore made com
mon cause with us. The impotent and puerile vitupera
tion hurled against a sist< r State, who is, as it were,
strugling “ in the last ditch” for CONSTITUTIONAL
principles, was unworthy the exalted character which
our beloved State has hitherto maintained.
Amid the painful regrets, wc experienced, in looking
back upon the course of the late Legislature, wc have
one consolation—We believe the people are not the
pliant tools, which the resolutions would make them.
At home, we predict a feeling of indignation, by the
constituents of those representatives who have over
stepped the duty assigned them, and attempted to chain
their constituents to the car of federal oppression.—
Abroad, our course,(pardon usgood people ofGcorgia)—
the course of our Legislature, is by turns, the object of
pity, ridicule, and (we are ashamed to say it) contempt!
A majority, deaf to the voice of patriotism, berren of the
feelings which should characterize noble and generous
freemen, but tremblingly alive to their self-interest, have
blotted our State’s proud escutchion. Tiie hand of eve
ry Georgian should be stretched forth to wipe the Mot
away, Already has primary meetings becu held in
some cour.tiss, true to virtuous principles, and there in
the simplicity, but beauty of our Republican govern
ment (when administered rightly) declared to the I’resi.
dent of the United States, that they have been deeply
pained and disappointed by his professed federal doc
trines as contained in the late proclamation—that they
regret his menace of an armed intervention to adjust
the difficulties between the South and the general gov
ern ment, and that the state of Georgia, cannot, after the
belief of the correctness, and the triumph which has at
tended them, see the doctrines she has so often contend
ed for, decided, and by no means, put down, by the
bayonet—even though attempted, by the man of our
choice, and the renowned hero of Orleans. We repeat,
that the voice of the people should come forth, as in
Troup, in Newton, and othcrcounties, and be heard at
this momentous crisis. Gen. Jackson, like Brentum of
old, may cast his sword into the balance, but it yet re
mamssfor history to tell, if tbo citizens of the United
States are the conquered slaves, or the proud masters
of a government themselves have created.
The following letter pourtravs, in lively colours, the
position in which the wisdom of our rulers has placed
our State. We speak for it the attention of our read
ers :
Extract of a fatter, tlattd
Washington C'iTtr, Dec. 20th, 1532.
‘•You cannot well conceive how unpopular the Presi
dent’s Proclamation is. with the Republican and State
Rights’ party. Indeed it is universally believed, by all
his friends, lie would give anything, it was in his pow
er to recall it. When he perceived that Webster ap
proved of it, and said it contained the very doctrines
he had been contending for. When he saw Otis, that
old broken down Federalist, come forward, under all
theinfirmatives of old age, to give it his hearty 9ii| port
before a large meeting of Manufacturers, in Boston.
When he observed all the Federal and Tariff papers,
bailing it in eve:v part of the North, as the good old
federal doctrines and that now they would whip the
South into obodience and submission to their avaricious
demands, with taxes raised from their own labour, and
fleets and armies which their hard earnings have so long
supported. When he noticed that the fanatics of the
North were seizing its doctrines, to effect a triumph
over Georgia in the Indian and Missionary questions.
And further, when he saw that Virginia, that good old
republican State, denounce its principles and determine
to oppose them with the whole weight of her influence.
That North-Carolina tr ai«-d them w ith contempt and
refused to publish the proclamation, (for there, as in
Georgia an old Federalist made the attempt to have it
done.) in fine, when his best frinds in Congress, un
der the gibes, and taunts, and sneers of Federalists,
Manufacturers and Tariff men, could not raise their
heads in its support and complained bitterly that the
President had paralized their efforts, you may depend
upon it the whole administration, with the exception of
the Federalist at the bead of the Treasury, who advis
ed and penned it, cursed the day the proclamation ever
issued. Under these circumstances how do you think
our Georgia Legislature must feel in rushing so incon
siderately into the support of its principles, by voting
to disseminate its doctrines among the people, before
they had duly examined the consequences to which it
would lead. Before they saw how the other Southern
States would take it. 1 will venture to say that Geor
gia, if the Legislature speaks the sentiments of the peo
ple, which 1 by no reason believe, for 1 think they are a
more intelligent, consistent and high minded people,
will be the only State from the Potomac to the Missis-
i siDpi who will approve or countenance the doctrines con
tained in that proclamation. Already lias Virginia and
North Carolina rejected them,and Alabama and Missis
sippi will follow their lead, and it will be left for Geor
gia, because some of her leading men do not like the
leading men of South Carolina, to give up the very doc
trines, repudiated by this proclamation which she has
avowed overandover again, which arc to he found thrice
repeated on her legislative records, which she ordered
to he entered on the archives of the Senate of the Uni
ted States, which she contended for under Troup in her
struggles with the General Government about the old
treaty, about the Tariff, about Tassels, about the Indi
ans, and is now hung up about the Missionaries, and
which in a few days will break out in all its accustomed
fury. Georgia too, suffering as3hc does under the Pro
tective System, and next to South Carolina, has said and
done more to evince her'determination to Resist the op
pression of the manufactures, docs it not look strange
beyond any thing which even the most inconsistent peo
ple could do ?- I will not say the people, for 1 do not be
lieve the pedpie pf Georggi will sustain such measures.
If they do I confess I aill'dt,£eived in them. Yes, it is
strange and it is so considered herej yuP_:ne*'. with the
remark at every corner, always connected Witn it Jau£..,~-
that even Georgia reprobates the high-handed measure*
of South Carolina—wonders what Jias got into her!
YVhat! oppose the Gepcral Government! threaten to
resist her! Set at defiance her laws! Stand upon her
own rtghts! Dare to declare a law unconstitutional!
Assert that she is sovereign, that she lias got sovereign
rights! And finally threaten to disregard the SUPREME
COURT! Oh, shame South Carolina! “We abhor”
such doctrines and warn our good people not to give in
to such cut-breaking, and disotgan
iztng conduct—remain ns erer v a meek, quiet, submis
sive, loyal, obedient people—support the laws—regard
the treaties, respeot the decisions cf the Courts, and
subject yourselves to the authorities that he” ! ! ! Now
this is the language of the Georgia Legislature and so
you may hear it from a hundred mouths in this place.—
With-what kind of face do you suppose her members in
Congress can rise to defend her with such a shower of
ridicule as this pouring upon them from every quarter.
The first man that rises in her defiance will be over
whelmed from the North, East, West and South.”
■CONGRESS.
We had hoped, that with this paper, we should be able
to have informed our readers what Congress was a
bout—-but from all our papers, we can learn nothing
that would interest ourselves enough to set the types, or
our readers,(in estimating for then) to read the matter,
were wc to clo so. We hope this will not last.
Tlie Voice oi the People.
The citizens of the county of Monroe are about as
sembling in their strength for the purpose of expressing
their opinions in relation to the doctrines contained in
the President’s Proclamation. Troup County hasalrca.
dy declared an unqualified rejection of that instrument,
the pervading sentiment of her people. She has also
answered in a prompt, energetic, and spirited manner
the address of South Carolina to the People of the Uni"
ted States—The proceedings of that meeting are to he
found in our columns.
THE MISSIONARIES PARDONED!
The long agony is over. The lofty tone assumed by
our State Authorities, in regard to the Missionary Con
victs is now silenced. The prison doors of the Peniten
tiary have been opened by the order of the Governor,
and these “martyrs to Liberty” have come forth with a
full and free pardon. We lay before our readers the ex
traordinary letter which led to this most extraordinary
measure—a measure, which we think will be generally
reprobated. It is known that Gov. Gilmer offered these
men a pardon provided tiicy would comply with the law
of Georgia, and take the oath required hy that law. This
compliance they refused, an ! were consequently incar
cerated as violaters of the Statute law of the State. But
the present Governor, as il infected with some strange
terror of the interposition of the General Government in
their behalf, has cautiously removed any probability of
its occurrence, by prostrating the dignity of the Stale of
Georgia at the feel of Northern fanatics. Have the Mi s
sionaries taken the oath required hy the law’un'dcr which
they were convicted ? We pause for a reply.
Penitentiary, Milledueyille, Jan. 8, 1833.
Charles .1. Jenkins, Esq.
Attorney General of the State of Georgia.
Sin—ln reference to a notice given to you on the
2Eth November last, by our counsel, in our behalf,
of our intention to move the Supreme Court of the
United States, on the 2d day of February next, for
further process in the case between ourselves, indi
vidually, as plaintiffs,jin error, and the Sta'o of Geor
gia, as defendants in error ; we have now to inform
you, that wc have forwarded instructions to our
counsel, to forbear the intended motion, and prose
cute the ease no further.
We arc your's respectfully.
Signed, S. A, WORCESTER,
ELIZUU BUTLER.
THOM THE UAXXER OF TUK COSSTITV«ON ■
THE CAUSE OF STATE RIGHTS.
It may now be considered as set*led beyond the pos
sibility of doubt, that North of the Potomac there is but
one voice in reference to the President’s Proclamation,
and that voice is, to sustain it at .ill hazards. The i 'fl
oral Party behold in that paper an earnest of the resto
ration of liieir lost powei—their recovery from the lata!
blow inflicted upon them by the political revolution o!
’9S, which resulted in the triumph of Mr. Jefferson
and his principles —and they feel all the enthusiasm
which was once displayed by a distinguished leader ot
their party, when he exclaimed inextacy, “’Tis done—
the long is over— the Hourbons are restored .” Urcatly
as -.vc differ from that powerful and influential party, in
their views of the nature of our Government, yet we can
j not but respect their consistency in unanimously receiv
' ing with open arms into their embraces, the professor of
Democracy, who has so effectually accomplished for
them, without on effort on their part, all that they have
been seeking for, during the past four and thirty years.
•They have now the consolidated empire for which Ames
and Morris, and Pickering, and Dayton, contended at
an early period of our history, and for which W ebster so
manfully fought in the Senate chamber, three years ago.
And hence it is, that we see the Otis’s, the Perkins’s,
the Adams's, and the W'cbstcrs, at Boston, the Kings,
and Jays, and Kents, at New-York, assemble in town
meeting, and the National Gazette, the United States
Gazette, the Philadelphia Gazette, and the American
Daily Advertiser, at Philadelphia, unite in applauding
to the skies the doctrines of the man whose name and
principles they execrated but six days before. That
they have cause for gratulation, all must admit, and
whilst we .ainrnt their triumph, we honor their confor
mity to their principles. Ages of argument could not
have effected 'or them what has been accomplished by
Andrew Jacks in, by a single stroke of his pen. lie
has brought ttg< ther into one harmonious bund of af
fection, the most discordant minds, and lias converted
into Federalists of the true Old John Adams’ School,
the whole Democratic Party. If we are not pleased at
this display of the workman’s power, we at least can tes
tify that the work has been effectually done ; for we can
assure our friends at the South, that the man who should
at this day, in this quarter, undertake seriously to ar
gue, that this Government is not a Government possess
ing no constitution hut the will of a majority of Con
gress, would be considered in precisely the same light
as one would be at St. Petersburg, who should insist
that the Autocrat of all the llussias had no right to com
pel the Poles to submit to bis arms.
As to the Tariff Party, of whom a large portion would
shudder at being called Federalists, they also find in the
Proclamation the great protective principle tor which
they have sighed. They now feel assured, that, even
tho’a reduction of the Tariff might take place the pres
ent session of Congress, popular schemes for appropria
ting funds, beyond the incans of the Treasury, will soon
be devised, which will render an increase cf duties ne
cessary before any great lapse of time. They are also
assured by the President, that no State Remedies exist
for infractions of the Constitution, but the right of rebel
lion ; and they are well persuaded, that no State will
resort to this expedient, after the coercive (lowers of
the Federal arm shall have once been displayed against
South Carolina,
Since the date of our last paper, wo have seen a great
nggiticr of comments on tiro Proclamation, published
at the Non!, arlk 1 'key all coincide in approval of the
political thcorics'bi the President. 1 hey all believe
them to he in full and strt'ci accot\J?ricc with the pro
positions laid down in the Boston Kcsoluik? o ®! .3* the
true old genuine doctrines of tlio Federal party . Deni'
ocrats and Aristocrats, Anti-inasons and Nationals,.Tack
son men and Clay men, all cry out with exultation, that
Jackson has restored the true reading of the Constitu
tion—and amidst this horrid din, not a voice lias been
heard, North of the National Capital, to weep over the
prostrate rights of the States, except that which has
found utterance through the columns of this paper.—
Such unanimity has never before been seen upon any
political occasion, and we again repeat, that as far
as the North is concerned; the great question of State
Rights is irrevocably is settled. If the Southern Staten
should be equally unanimous in reference to the oppo
site side of she question, then have we arrived at that
fearful moment apprehended by Washington, at which
a geographical line hns commenced to divide parties.
Henceforth the North will be arrayed against the South
and the South against the North, entertainining irrecon
cilable opinions as to the very fundamental principles
of the compact by which they have been thus far united;
and no one can failtosee, that in this relation to each
other, their connexion cannot long subsist, without rup
ture which must terminate in tho establishment of h
Southern Confederacy, or, what is far more probable,
when the relative strength of the parties is considered,
in a Southern Submission to a Government of unlimited
powers.
And should this sad catastrophe be the ultimate issue
of the impending crisis, who will the victims have to
blame for the result? Nobody but thernselres. Their
own devotion to man • Worship, will have occasioned their
downfall. Had they put forth their moral strength be
fore it was too late, had they united in a common strug
gle for Stat; Rights, instead of splitting hairs about State
Remedies ; had Virginia not been denouncing the doc
trines of South Carolina, of ’32 whilst she professed ad
herence to her own, ’9B; had N. Carolina been cherish
ing the jealous principles of liberty, which kept her vol
untarily out of the Union fora year after it had been for
med by the co-Statcs,instead of quarrelling about Bar
bour and Van Buren; if Georgia had not been professing
abhorrence of the projected Nullification of laws made
for the protection of manufacturers, whilst she was actu
tually herself nullifying laws and treaties made for the
protection ot Indians; then, wc say, the existing posture
of affairs could not haV<^occurred. It lias been noth
ing but the belief universally entertained at the North,
that South Carolina stood alone tn the pending contest
w ith the Federal Government, having not only the want
of the sympathy of her neighbors to contend with, but
the actual hostility within her own bosom, of two-thirds
ofherown sons, which prepared the public mind for the
favorable reception of the President's Proclamation.
Andean any man in his senses believe, that that Procla
mation would have been issued, but for the suicidal apa
thy, supinenss, and hostility, to which we have above
referred? As faithful and impartial historians of a time
which w ill be referred to with intense interest by pos
terity, when ail the living prominent actors on the polit
ical stage shall have been consigned to infamy or fame,
wc record ourevidence in the negative; and we more
over assert, that to that Proclamation is mainly due,’.he
embodying of public sentiment and giving it a mural
force, by concentration at the Noitb, which it never
could have acquired, had it only existed in the scatter
ed paragraphs of newspapers, liable to all the, modifica
tions and explanations so usually resorted to by igno
rant or unprincipled writers, for selfish or patty purpo
ses, and of w hich an abundance was seen during rhe
memorable six days which intervened between the Mes
sage and tile Proclamation. If people, therefore, desert
principles for men,they mustcxpect to suffer the pcncl
ty of desertion; if they turn idolators, they must uxpcct
to bo punished for their idolatry.
In making these remarks we were actuated by no un
kind or uncharitable feelings. What we say, wo utter,
in sorrow, not in anger, and, would to God, no occasion
for repinach had existed. For ourselves, we believe
most conscientiously, that there is no security for the
liberlio of the An ricau !’• nplc, but in the ID served!
rights of the Ktati «, and it in, tlieiefore, with the d< opest
affliction that we hi- • .».tncu.ed the recent blow w hich
has lai I them prostrate. As indr. ideal*, wc have ss lit
Uittfevt lift niftier ** «n* tdhtf h'i'ubit indite
l,orn citizen. We have no political ambition so gratiN
Wc have passed the meridian of life; wc shall leave the
world without descendants, and have, therefore, not et i n
the solicitude for posterity winch most other men expe
rience. But as patriots, as philanthropists, us friends
of the human race, and as lovers of liberty, we cannot
behold with indifference the fairest institutions vouch
safe'l to man* bv a bcnificent Providence, destroyed by
those whose 9 > t 0 tr#n * D,t
them unimpaired to R 2 C ®
TO TIIE PI SILIC.
Wa shall shortly submit to i!.'d public, a i rospec
tus, in which will be embraced our opinions on sortie of
the most prominent subjects of the duy; a.id when oi.sc
lud before them, we fear not, that sucll is the gen
uine character of our sentiments, associated with thn
purest republican principles, and our ardent attachment
to the Constitution as it whs designed to be, tve shall
stand before our lriends, with their approbation.
Express from Washington to Charlector.—
On Sunday morning last, between 5 and 6 o'clock, an
express arrived here from Washington City, bear
ing a packet for Charleston, the contents of which
are totally unknown to any one here; but from this
rapidity with which it travelled, and she procmitiortN
taken by the Post-Master General to forward it
without delay, it is presumed to be of great conse
quence. From I.ouisburg to this place, a distance
of 89 miles, was travelled in six hours, not withstand-'
ing it was night. Conjectures are of course many
as to the cause of this movement, but it is perltajw
most prudent not to give currency to any of tliem,
since a very lew days will remove all doubt. In
the mean time, the heart sickens with the apprehen
sion of some step calculated to ignite the combusti
ble-materials existing in South Carolina. Though
not much given to looking at the dark side of the
picture, we confess that our forebodings are of evil.
Since the above was in type, we learn that the
package was addressed to Mr. Gilchrist, U. S. At
torney for the district of Soutli Carolina, and was
franked by the Secretary of the Treasury. Its com
ing from that Department is calculated in some
measure to diminish the anxiety- previously felt on
the subject.— Fayetteville Observer.
B.T Severs! communications unavoidably postponed.
Wr arc authorised to announce I.EWfS .9. \\ .
K RAATZ, a Candidate for Clerk of the Superior ‘ourito
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation ot \V. J. llavis.
DRAWING POSTPONED.
IMON HOTEL PROPERTY.
THE Drawing has been postponed till the first
Saturday in March-next, when it will positively
be drawn. J. B. BATEMAN, Proprietor.
Tlmmaston, Dec. 23. 1— .
TIN WARE MANUFACTURER.
(Mulberry near Third steet, Macon, Ga.)
VjXllE subscriber continues to manufacture Tin Ware in
-“- every variety, and lias now on hand a general assort
ment, which lie will sell wholesale or retail at the Savannah
or Augusta prices.
Ho Iras also just received an assortment of Japaned Tin
Ware, consisting of Uruns. Sugar Boxes, Waiters, Bread
Pans. Canisters, Sugar Bowls, Milk Cups, Tumblers, Pep
per Boxps, Graters, Toy Cups, Hatties, Candlesticks,
Lamps, Spit Boxes, Sand Boxes, and Pocket Lanterns,
ftc. Ac.
Also, Patent Bakers, Foot Stoves, Block Tin Tea Pots,
Plates, Basins, Tumblers, tfc. tic.
Job Work done at tbc shortest notice.
WILLIAM 8. ELLIS.
Macon, January 2, 1833. 1 ....
AN ACT
TO provide for the call of a Convention to .reduce the num
ber of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and
for othsr purposes therein named.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the first
Monday in April,eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and
the same is hereby designated and set apart as The dny on
which the citizens of Georgia qualified to vote for members
of the Leg. shall at the several places prescribed bylaw for
holding such elections vote for delegates to represent them in
Convention, in number equal to their representation in both
branches of the General Assembly; such elections to be con- ,
ducted, managed and certified under the same laws as are of
force in respect to elections of the Genprul Assembly. •
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That it shall be the du
ty of such managers to transmit to bis Excellency the Go
vernor the result of said elections under the laws now offorco
for conducting, managing and certifying elections for mem
bers of the General Assembly as aforesaid, within thirty days
after such elections —Whereupon it is made tlio duty of Ilia
Excellency the Governor to issue his proclamation declaring
the result ofsaid elections by naming the individuals several
ly-elected to rep resen ttlic good people of Georgia iu Conven
tion as contemplated by thisact.
Sec. .3. And be it further enacted. That every citizen of
tho United States shall be eligible to a seat in said Conven
tion who has-attained the age of twenty-five years, and been
an inhabitant of this State seven years immediately preceding
the day of his election, and who shall have resided one year
in the county for which he shall have been elected.
Sec. -I. And be it further enacted, Tout each member re
turned as duly elected, shall previous to taking Ids seat in said
Convention, take the following oath, or affirmation, viz : 1,
A. B. do solemnly swear, that 1 will not attempt to add to, or
take from the constitution cr attempt to change ar alter any
other section, clause, or article of the constitution of the
State of Georgia, other than those touching tho re-presenta
tion in the General Assembly thereof; and »hnt I have been
a citizen of this state for the laetseven years, so help m* God.
And any person elected to a scat iu said Convention, who
shall rr fuse to take the oath aforesaid, shall net be allowed
to take a seat in said Convention.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, Thatfhe members of
said Convention shall assemble on the first Monday in May
after their election, at Milledgeville, in the Representative
Chamber of the State House, lor the purpose of entering upon
and consummating the great objects of their convention, to- .
wit: a reduction & equalization of the General Assembly; shall
have power to prescribe their own rules and forms of busi
ness, and determiue on tbcqualilicatioirs of ikeir own mem
bers; elect ncces-'aiy i-fficers, and make aB orders which they
may deem co-.ducive to the furtherance of the object for which'
such Convention shall assemble.
Ss". G. And be it furthe; enacted, That it shall be ths dn
ty of His Excellency ‘he Governor to give, pobjjc-ey to tfie
alterations and air.endincnts made in the "Constitution in ref
erence to thv direction [reduction] of the number of the mem
bers composing the General Assembly, and the first Monday
in October next, after the rising ofsaid Convention, he shall
fix on for the ratification, by the people, of sur-h ftmcmtmrnfs,
alterations, ornew articles as they may make for the objects
of reduction and equalization of the General Assembly only :
and if ratified by a majority of the voters who vote on the ques
tion of‘•Ratification” or “No Ratification,” then and in that
event, the alterations so by them made and-ratified, shall bo
binding on the people of tills State and not sthcrwNe.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That it shall be a fun
damental arliole in the formation or amendment of the consti
tution, that each county o' the State now organized or laid
out, or which may hereafter be created by law, thall be enti
tled toat least one representative in the representative branch
of the General Assembly,
Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That so soon as this
act shall have become a law, His Excellency the Governor,
be, and he is hereby required to cause it to be publish#J in
tho Gazelles of (Ins St ile, once n week until tile and, V fixed on
by this act for ihe election of delegates t<, »,n! Convention;
and that all Uw* and parts of laws initialing ajp assist this set,
be, and the same sre hereby repealed,
Asiiuuy HULL,
Speaker of the House of UeproseHtsttvea.
THOMAS STOCK*,
Resident of fits (Senate
Assented to, Oecaißbei 21, I old.
WILNOV LCII'KIN, Gf-wsor.