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But it U MR so much i;i_ rcicreii 'e to the strange
neSi.and inconsistency oF doctrine? such as these
coming front Andrew Jack son, as on account of the
pernicious ascendancy which the authority of his
nasie is calculated to give them, that we deem the
document in which t!i y are put forth worthy of the
most solemn animadversion. Throughout the North*-
frn< .Middle and Western States, the party engaged
in the support of Genera! Jackson was heretofore
the only-conservatory of republican ••riiieiplcs.—
Ti at party having now, according to all the indica
tions that have transpires, fallen almost unar.imou:--
,i ; . into the doctrines of the Proclamation, those re
‘ions may be said to present, at this time, one vast,
unvariegated waste of Federalism. Nor is it sur
prising that the people of those portions of the Union
should have thus readily sanctioned the President’s
new creed ; for they form the great interested sec
tional niajori y in whose controlling hands the 1 lon
era! Government is an obedient machine, dexterously
used to work out all their sele ii ends of local ad
vantage and aggrandizement. Aud natur.-l enough
itis, that they should be disposed to see the great
check of State interposition n moved from this nia
chine,—a machine from vvhi -’i tliey can have r.ot!;-
iagto soar, and a cheek on which i. in reality but an
other name for restraint on their will.
But to the people of the South—the great sec
tional minority —to us wao must always remain, to
an important extent, a peculiar people, with peculiar
and strongly marked interests, habits and pursuits—
to us who are doomed, by the necessity of tilings,
to constitute the feebler division in this wide exten
ded and still enlarging confederacy,—-the principle
of State interposition is the very life-guard of our
liberties! an indispensable to car salvation.—
Should We suffer U tube wrested from us and de
molished, the day willjass: irodl v coma, sooner or later,
when the more numerous millions ofthe North wil 1
tyranize systematically over tlic fewer millions of
the South, and the General (lovermhcnt be conver
ted into a mere engine for the enrichment of a sec
tional majority at the expense and to the heavy op
pression of the sectional minority.
Os what avail then is it, in the long result of things
—to what does it amount in reforrcnco lithe last
in" support of our vital interests aud great consti
tutional rights, that General Jackson has, through
all his previous administration, sought to arrest the
tide,of Federal encroachments, if now he is permit
ted to succeed in tearing from our grasp what would
be our only' shield of defence against a future ad
ministration that might be di.-pused to oppress us.’
Little shall we gain by his e ill (its t > still iff- mis
named American System, however successful they
irjay prove for the present, if the same hand that has
hjen nerved to liberate in fro ;i its oppress!* ms. shall
aliocast us, disarmed and pinioned,through all com
ing time, on the teuder mercies of those passions
and interests in which that system originated, and
by which it will eventually be re-established* unless
t shall be kept down by the conviction that tire
States to bo oppressed by it would resort to their
high right of interposition and self-protection. Ves!
the settled conviction that this high right would he
sorted on the occurrence of a proper case for its
■xcrcisc,would tend naturally and powerfully to
preveut the occurrence of such a case; as a sword
n the scabbard defends the w e arer by causing him
not to be attacked.
We will not castaway our sword of defence at
the bidding of Andrew Ju'*ks< >n, nor will wc permit
our shield of protection to bo broken in pieces by the
rod of his power. Distant, far distant be the day,
when we shall be necessitated to draw that sword
)r uplift that shield in self-dofodee. J’ut we know
ull well, that.to surrender either-would not hasten
hepe iod when wc should stand in bitter want of
hr one and the other.
South Carolina, however, has thrown herself ful
v in the breach ; and if Justice, Right,aiul thcCon
aitution, are not merely empty sounds, she is des
tined to prevail. Her triumph, if she docs succeed,
will redound to our benefit; her discomfiture,, if she
is doomed to fail, will afflict us with all the calami
ties of which she herself will be the victim. Whe
ther we have diiiurcd and still diflerfrom her or not,
in some positions of her theory of constitutional
rights, is now of little consequence in relation to the
noiiieutuous contest in which she is involv ed. For
'etit be remembered, that it is not against the pecu
liarities, of her doctrine, but against the great prin
ciple of State Interposition, under any circumstan
ces that the thunders of the l’roclamation arc hurl
ed. That principle is right ; to us it is the copser
native principle of all our reserved rights and con
ititutional liberties; and wc must maintain it, or
yield ourselves up to be ground to dust at the wi.l
us a great central Government, without limitation
of powers.
I On the many points of inferior importance on
which the Proclamation is open to exception, wc
will not dilate, but will proceed simply to set forth
our dissent to such of them as occur to us most in
teresting.
Resolved, Therefore, that we dissent from all
those views in the President’s Proclamation, which
proceed on a denial of the rights of a State to arrest
through her constituted authorities, the operation
within her territory, of ail unconstitutional law of
Congress.
Resolved, That wc dissent from ail those parts
ofthe Proclamation which assert the Consitutmnal
itv of the Tariff acts of 1 Bcß and 1532; and espe
cially we protest yu list t' e doctrine that Congress
can, by a fraudulent omission to set forth, onthe
face of the law, the ofijact for which it was passed,
place the question of the constitutionality of such
law beyond the reach of the State sovereignties.
Resolved, That wc dissent from the Presidents
views in relation to the origin ofthe Constitution
and Government ofthe United States. W e believe
they Were created by the People of the States in
their Character of separate political societies, and
not by the People of all the States, acting as one
collective mass of population.
Resolved, That foe constitution ot tin." 1 niled
States, being a compact among the States, as p diti
i cal sovereigns, those sovereigns have each the rignt
°f secession therefrom, in case ot breaches ot the
compact by the other parties; —and that this right
tests on the same principles, (subject to such rnodili
flUions as result from the peculiar structures of our
federative system) as apply to all cases of a league
0r compact between Sovereign Slates.
Resolved. That wc regard with special disap
probation the doctrine, that a citizen can he guilty
°( i’reason, whilst acting in obedience t<> the sover
eign authority of his own Stale.
Resolved, That we deprecate a resort tomiiita
!ryor naval force, for the settlement ot the prevail
ing controversy, between South Carolina and th ,;
General government; ami we invoke the interposi
tion of Congress, by a repeal of thr protective s
tvm.aithe most pro|>cr and direct way of removing
present difficultiesaiul dangers; and as the wrong
commenced bv the action *»f (Vipgn s- in establish*
■ ing this unconstitutional and oppressive policy, it is
: the boonden duty of Congress to administer a Veme
■ dy by retracing its steps and returning to the prin
; ciples ot Justice and the Constitution. And in case
of the pertinacious refu. al of Congress to adopt this
salutary course, it will be the duty of the States to
have recourse to the last and highest remedy provi
ded by the Constitution itself, in the power of mak
ngam *;i knents thereto.
A. M. lb King, Esq. offered the following pre
amldc and resolutions as a substitute lor Mr. Chap
peli’s:
\\ hereas a meeting of the citizens of Monroe County
has been called to express their opinion in relation to
the lute Proclamation of the President of the United
States, and wc, a portion ofihe citizens of said County,
in exercising the right of expressing our opinions in r- -
lation totiie above mentioned Proclamation, deem it due
die occasion to say, that that instrument receives our
cordial approbation, as one embracing the print iples up
»n tile perpetuation of which our form of government
most essentially depends. We deem it not disrespect
ful to iinonisli our f 'luw-ciliz ns that the right of the
( nite and mates to secure their unn political existence is
essentially interwoven with the principles assumed, and
in b tin *. able and atfoelionuto manner vindicated by its
i . :i« raid • iu.d triotu; author. V* c indulge a hope that
the-day is yet di.-tant, far eis ant, when the doctrine
••nt!l b. rici-iVid a- true, by die people of our common
country, that the dominant faction i:i any one Cilate have l
the hioht of placing their own construction on tin laws
and constitution ofthe whole Union, and of enforcing
that construction against the opinions and interests, pos
sibly, ot fifty times their own number of free citizens of
a common government. We view this doctrine us es
sentially the same with ti t lately assumed by u por
tion ofthe people of our sister {State of Soulh-C'urolina,
a doctrine which, if carried into effect, will prove the
overthrow of all that is politically worth enjoying both
to dnunselves ii.id tous," —a doctrine which vve believe
to be anti-rcpubl.can,and tending to anarchy and the
subversion of all social security and the perpetuation of
the civil rights ofthe people of these United .Slates: still
less can vve admit the i : lit of any Slate to withdraw
from the Union ivncii a majority o that State may think
right to do si: vve hold dnt k the beginning of the slrug
vie which led to our national iiu'epi ndcnce, the feelings
of our forefathers were common—that it was a united
struggle in the same common . uuse, and for the gener
al benefit of the whole country ; and vve would respect
fully e h, can vve believe that those who thus devotedly
risked their ail in the noble cause, ever for a moment
believed themselves to be contending for the establish
ment of iiiirtcen separate governments, which should
not only stand independent of and unaccountable to the
rest of the World, but absolutely and perfectly so to one
another! Vve cannot so believe nor for ouo moment ad
mit.
To admit a perfect rigid in one party, in general im
plii a perfect obligation ou the uart of all others to ob
serve that, right, ami to abstain from its infraction. One
part of our constitution declares '-hat ‘Congress shall
hav e power to levy and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excises,” —another part declares that Congress shall
have power to “declare war”—here the words are sim
ple,ami as htoad, perhaps, as the English language will :
riilow. A portion, however, of the people of one State
have aaid that although certain laws are clearly within
the letter, yet they depart from the spirit and intent ot
that instrument, and are therefore unconstitutional, void,
and of no effect, aud that ti cy have the right to be their
own exclusive judgi s in regard to this important matter,
aud in effect say that the people of the United States
and oi'the world are of l ight bound to acquiesce in this
their judgment. And further, wc hold that under the
constitution the rights of all the States in relation to the
power of construing laws-, arid acting on that construc
tion, are perfectly equal; and if tne stand assumed bv
our sister state of South-Caroliua be correct, and there
he in existence no rightful authority to gainsay her acts,
vve arc unable to imagine any right onthe part of the
General Government to enforce a declaration of vv ar on
Louisiana, provided a majority of the people of that State
were to pronounce the war declared lo carry into effect
some system of policy not authorised by the Constitu
tion, and this too after the territory and jurisdiction of
Lousisiana had been actually purchased by the common
treasure of all the States. • For the avoiding of these and
numberless other absurdities, and the shocking conse
quences incident thereto—
Resolved, That under the Constitution of tile L nited
States, and the oath taken hy the President, we hold that
he lias no personal discretion in enforcing the laws pass
ed according to tin? forms aud provisions of that instru
in nt.
Resolved, That so long as the right of suffrage and of
free representation is secured to the people of these U.
States, the object of the first political importance is the
pri nervation of our national Union ; and its dissolution
is to be deprecated as the greatest of political, evils, not
to one part alone but to every portion of our common
country.
Resitted, That our confidence in the patriotism of
our venerable chid magistrate, Andrew Jackson, re
mains tindiminished, and that we hail ifi him not only
"tin-di fender of our country, but the friend ol our Un
iofl, constitution and iavvs.
The adoption of the first preamble anil resolutions
was advocated by Messrs- Chappell, Gorrlan, Beall and
James W. Harris. The substitute, was supported by
Messrs. King, Smyth, anil Benjamin F. Harris.
After a protracted discussion, a division was called
for, when it appeared that .Mr. Chappell's preamble and
(evolutions were adopted by a large majority. It was
then . ,
Resolved, netn. con. that the proceedings of this
meeting he published in all the papers ofthe State.
W.M. I?. STEPHENS, Chairman.
Wat. P. i iexit y, Secretary.
In accordance with the last Resolution above, Edi
tors of papers throughout the State are respectfully re
quested to publish the foregoing proceedings.
THREATS OF cftlL WAR !
The Union presses have been for some time bristling
with arms, and are teeming daily with horrible forebo
dings of civil strife arid murder. The kind hearted U
uiomstsofottr City are regularly served w ith a morning
and evening repast out of their old dish of “Rawhead and
Bloodv Bones,” and arc told of the fathers hand being
against the son—and tlie son's against the father—bro
ther warring against brother—and women and children
savaoelv slaughtered. It wonld be amusing were it not
ion melancholy a state of things to justify a smile—to re
flect whence rome these sanguinary threats, and hy whom
they are to be executed. The State Rights party wash
their hands of all this in ugh blood. The objects are
peac ful, as also the incans by which tin y propose lo i f
!'< ct them. Towards their Union iellovv citizens they
have conducted themselves with great forbearance, and
will continue to forbear. If t xro must be war then,
who will be guilty ? Who will lift their parricidal hands
against their fellow citizens ’ W ho, at liic critical mo
ment, declared against the modification of the I arid at
the present session of Cougn ss ! Who arc encouraging
the violence of Gen. Jackson, and hailing with liosan
n.ihs his tyrannical manifestoes? Let these ahliorrers
0 f war and v iolence answer these questions if they can,
and disprove our assertion that it we are to be involved
in a remorseless war—vve shall be indebted for the bles
j„gto the benevolent exertions of the Union party and
press. Let the honest adlii rents of that party look to it.
ere it he too late, mullet them rebuke the rancorous
spirit that is so actively labouring to organize a trmo
rou* armed resistance .’gainst our U hiv.-d Ftjte. •**••
thorn anticipate the impartial judgment of posterity up
on the actions, flhe present critical, and for Sou h Ca
rolina, glorious period. Let them mark the striking co
incidences between our struggle for freedom, and that
of our fathers in ’76: an.l il a Idoodv tragedy is again
o he enacted on our native sod, let them ask it the guilt
and the ignominy can rest on other heads—than theirs,
wlm at a time vv on every son of Carolina, who lias a
heart in his bosom, should rally to her gallant and per
secuted standard, are seen giving aid and comfort to lu r
enemies, enconr ging the insolence, and inviting the
outrages of a tyrant — Charleston Mercery.
“bur oiiiv aniLitlou i . to live under eejual
laws.”
THE "TIMES,"
AND STATE KI«IIT’S ADVOCATE.
MiLLEDCHiYHTE, FEBRUARY H. 1*33.
A voice Ixosa Monroe.
T!;c proceedings of a meeting lately field in Motlroe )
one of the most wealthy, intelligent and populous comi
ties in the State, publish din our paper, to-day wi.l he
read with great interest. Wc commend these proceed
ings to the attentive perusal cf cur readers —’ The Pro
amide and resolutions presented hy our vvortny and tal
ented fellow-citizen, A. IT. Chappell, F.q. contain the
very essence of the Republican doctrines the substi
tute offered by A. M. 1). King, Esq. contain the quint
essence of the old Federal doctrines, such as the I'cdc
ralists of ’9B—’9 advocated when they obtained the pas
sage of lhe Alien and Sedition law. We live in por
tentous tiim..-—and in the language of Troup, “ The in
dications of public sentiment at this moment arc uner
ring, that an overwhelming majority favors a conso’idated
government, aud it may behoove the people in all wis
dom to prepare, not for the improvement of their comb
ion, but lor a Cwsar and the purple." Monroe lias spo
ken the sentiments of her people —vvc»cai! upon the peo
ple ofthe other counties of this State to go and do like
wise—The question is Liberty or Slavery—a consolida
ted despotism, or a government limited by the constitu
tion i.iide for the protection of the minotity against the
encroachn’Ciffs of a majority.
It is now no ti.’uc to carp about parties—principle s are
in danger—yet a .'it.'K huger, when the Bill before Con
gress reported by the Judiciary Committee shall be pas
sed, and the people will t,c prohibited from assembling
to express their sentiments, on the abuses of power-or
be dispersed by the bayonet of n*’ c dictator.
thi: mix to repeal the constitution.
Our readers will find in our paper to-day the bill re
ported by -Mr. Wilkins, Chairman of Mir Judiciary Com
mitfec to the Senate. \Vhoover peruses the |.revisions
of that bill, cannot but tremble for the liberty he en
joys. Should an infatuated congress pass it into a law,
ves they will th.cn sanction by tiieir votes “ the creation
of a dictator!"
The patriotic Governor of Virginia, in his late iims
sage on this subject, says, “ we are not to he deceived—
for vve cannot misunderstand the et of tnosc war
like recommendations. The doctrines lately promulga
ted, deny any sovereignty to the States; and States
Rights, it would set in in the opinfipn of'd' o President
are held as grants from the federal constitufion. I .>e
difficulties which State Sovereignty and State Tfot-'hN
might interpose, being in this summary method dispose'*
of, the field is open to the array of milib.ry legions, to
crush by force that which is sustained hy justice, patri
otism and the constitution. The power claimed for
that Government, makes it already absolute, should
Congress indulge the President in his desires, they sanc
tum hy their vote the creation of a dictator. ’
And yet the people are as indifferent as if Congress
were engaged in their most ordinary legislation. The
President asks, and Congress is about to give him unli
mited control over our lives and liberty—and Georgia,
patriotic Georgia is silent! Even a warfiing from her most
cherished Troup is incapable of rousing In r from her
slumber, prepare says this vigilant warder upon our
vvatehto.vcr, prepare to“ receiv e a Ctrsar and the pur
ple!" and yet she slumbers on—Oh ! fatal lethargy ! -Peo
ple of Georgia awake, or you cease to be free !
Two vessels, viz: the Br. ship Roger Stewart , from.
Greenock, ami the brig Il unosn, llabaurro from Hava
na, have lie. n brought to and detained hy the U. S. j
Sloop cf War Natchez. By what authority and by what
right this was done, remains to he explained'
The above is taken from the list Charleston Mercury
and seems to indicate tiiat the President, lias isstn and liis
instructions to the commander of the sloop of war Natch
ez, in anticipation of the passage of the Bill reported to
the senate hy Judge Wilkins, Chairman of the Judicia
ry Committee, which tlie Senator front Mississippi railed
a bill to repeal the Constitution. It will he observed
that one of the vessels detained is British. Arc the Pres
ident’s officers above the law and the Constitution ? Can
the one order, or the other legally obey a command,
which strikes at the commerce of any port ofthe United
Slates? Can either thus set at nought the provisions of
the Cos mnercial Treaty with England? These are
questions of gr’vc import and require specific answers.
Would thut they could he answered, as become a free
people, but wc fear the tune is fast approaching, if it has
not already arrived, w hen the just complaints of an op
pressed people arc to be silenced by the bayonet, nr
heard on!j in the dungeon. Spirit of’76! Where haft
thou fled !!.
PRODIOKMS!
i The cm Tito s;.d all accomplished Editor of the Gcor
i g>u Telegraph, with Ins accustomed ability lias concoct
ed an article In .üb.d the “Pardon ol the Missionaries”
and ano'her headed “ Governor Lumpkin” in the last
j number of Ids patristic Journal. His defence of the
{‘mystical’ Governor, is truly worthy, the iilustnms
elmacter cf the “stiperiutendant of a mighty vvork-
I shop!” In the first cf these articles the Doctor seems
! to think that the enemies of his ‘obsolete’ excellency,
have found a p. cions merccav in the pardon of the mis-:
-ionaries. l’n trimming the first part of this article, I
! lie asks with much s.Jf complacency, “ has he been j
guilty of fiivoritismor partiality ?” Ay verily good Doc
tor, I. s he. “ Has he not resisted Federal usurpation !
and maintained the rights and dignity of the State?”
Now by thy own pi il box most worthy Doctor thy mind
(isS'rl’i rciv Shafion would say) is “obnubilated by
some stiangc hallucination.” Ay, to be sure, in words
has fiis ' xei ll.u.ry most lustily hectored about resistance
and lig!, -, fiut iu tie's fie has most servilely bowed to
Gala's cop, in this very pardon of the Missionaries.
In the oilier ar'.li le, the sagacious Editor very wiss.lv
concludt and, the whole burden of attack and defence; in
reference to the exposure in tlie Augusta Chronicle
of ti.o Govin et’s nullification, would devolve upon
liis pugnacity, since his Excellency’* ‘auxiliaries' in
and about Milledgeville were 'few a?td feeble.' This
was particularly kind in the Doctor, and is alike credi
table both to fiis in ad and heart. He lias made a most
! wonderful d,.-. overt', and informs liis rea !crs of it, with
j two or three !!! as much as to say, mark that master
I Brook. Gent! .-reader, what do you think this mighty
i discovery consists in? Herr: it is. “ But mark, in neither
: of the 1. tiers is one word said about nullification or any
: thing that looks like it !” A wonderful discovery, truly!
.Joes iliis sapient Edifor suppose that liis Excellency is
so great a do!t as to use the proscribed word even to the
advocate of tlip. doctrine. No no. This “ superinten
dant of a ini.dii y workshop” thought lie could feed the
nullificr vv itli soil corn ; and if the doctrine should be
come popular, why then, he could appeal to the Editor
of the Chronic!.’, that he had early approved of the doc
trine; but if it should become unpopular with his
frit lids, in ■ could say, as lie has doubtless directed the
Editor of tiie Macon Telegraph to say for him, that he
did not use the word nullification at id!!
But the most extraordinary pur! of t' is article is yet
lo be notion. T.io wi.i t s .ys, “ the Governor ow: * '
pied as his time m- •« sariiv is with •• duties of his |
office, neetr read Mr. R.'s ! g!■ tta \ < ceui ruitl .
not reply to his ineiaj.iiysic and tV o; Now i ■ J
obvious either that the vuiter uu-rluuki and • M,r .y t0,.-
expression in liis Exceib ney’s letter ot the 9th June,
namely : “ not liav mg answi red your former interesting
letter, &c.,” or he places but little reliance in the Go
vernor's veracity, since it iSdifficult to understand liovv
the Gov ernor could judge that Mr. I’.’s former letter was
interesting, unless he Had read it. The Doctor in en
deavoring to get nis Excellency out of a scrape, seems
to have got into one himself-—but s icii is apt to be the
late of those, who in their anxiety to defend a friend,
forget that he is indefensible.
“ 4 Daniel come to kulgment.”
Vve are not desAous of tasking the "feebleness” of
the would-be-thought i flick'd, to palliate Hit; late act ol
“Executive clemency” in pardoning the missionaries.
li.it .' ‘ten tiie immaculate editors of that consistent print,
i«por ai»o Mt depravity of heart that makes men hate
ami traduce whatever is virtuous and noble” and of “the
jaundiced vision that can discover, or malevolent hearts
that will acknowledge nothing praiseworthy out of their
own ranks,” we would charitably suggest, t’ha‘they take
the beam out of their own eyes, belore they seek the
mote in tiie eyes of others. Our business is not at pre
sold with tiie many unintentional and thcTefore excusa
ble inisr. presentations, of which they have heretofore
been guilty, hut rather with the lute error into which
they have unconsciously fallen.
“But those, says the Federal Union, w ho condemn the
act of executive clemency, are enable to justify their
censures hv any plausible argument. One “ sage eru
dite,” hi order to slu vv w ind w as the duty of Gov. Lump-.
ju, affirms that < : ov. Gilmer pardoned other persons,
c(Jn v;r*<’d at tin* sum time, and of the same offence,
w ith the i.iissio.-iaries, on their taking the oath presribed
not again to v‘*ol.ite the law.
11. re vve plead guilty totiie charge of ignorance. The
above paragraph is the fust intimation we have had, that
the Law under which the missionaries w ere convicted,
prescribed an oath not to “violate the law /” The “ac
complish! and civilian’'(ue thank thee Jew, for teaching us
the word) who penned this sapient exposition ofthe law,
had doubtless more authentic information “ of the laws
and history of the country” 'ban lias fallen to our hum
ble lot. Truly the quotation .at the head of this article,
fits him to a nicety. For Ins liberality in tints bringing to
our notice vvlmt has heretofore escaped not only our own
observation, hut the observation of loose w ho have some
reputation for legal acuteness, lie lias our unbounded
gratitude. Vo in oor simplicity and ignorance, had al
ways understood, that poisons resident in the Cherokee
territory without a license from the proper authority, or
without having taken the oath of allegiance required by
the act of I’■3o, should on conviction be subjected to
four years Imprisonment in the Penitentiary. These
| missionaries w« re residing in that territory, without the
| license, or without having tak< n the oath as prescribed
! by the law and were consequently apprehended, tried,
convicted and punished. But with due reverence to the
veracity of the Federal Union, he it observed the above
paragraph which vve have copied is not w hat tre raid on
the subject, but a figment, a mere coinage of the writer’s
brain. The following sentence appears to have been
floating somew hat indistinctly in the writer’s memory,
and if lie was unable to grasp its meaning, the fault is
doubtless attributable rather to our perspicuity than to
his comprehension.
“It is known that Gov. Gilmer offered these men a
pardon provided they would comply with the law of Geor
gia, and take the oath required by that law.”
If the Editors of the Federal Union will take the trou
ble lo read over the sentence in connexion with the ba
lance ofthe paragraph they will discover wc referred to
the missionaries themselves and not to those men who
were pardoned by Governor Gilmer.
Although vve are not disposed to prate about jaund' ed
vision, malevolence of heart,tie,we cannot help smiling at
the modest assurance that can unhlusliinglv repose on the
credit gamed l.y another. We are not in the 1 nst sur
prised that the Federal Union would arrogate to G( v.
Lumpkin, the humanity and magnanimity exhibited in
the “late act of Executive eh money,” if rumor be true
his Excellency m this splendid achievement was lint the
pliant tool of the minions of now r—in which our uod m
1 Vicar of Rray, was somewhat conspicuous. With the
IVdcral Union’s characti ristir obliviousncss of ivtrv
thing “praise-woithy out of their own ranks,” they turn
to have forgotten the terms cq>on which a pardon was of-.
fi red these s i ne men by Gov. Gilmer—terms too which
were suggested hy the purest “humanity and gene-osity”
not dictated by a selfish junta of political jugglers at
Washington. We would respectfully propound the fol
low ing mtei rogatories, not to the aspiring officia' ol'Gov.
Lumpkin hut to his Excellency himself. Did faot His
Excellency descend from hii high station to.heg of tb< se
cun', i ts the letter, which would pardon them? Or was it
not done with his privity and sanction or at lee suggea*-
lion ? \\ l lie i »t induced to this course, in eotisptjuenre
of comimiuicatiotisfrom Washington? If these qffi strorw
, ri main iman.-w r ed—his Excellency's uStiHeS wltl be
I ascribi and to a consciousness on ids part, that s'lertee is
i better than aubterf. je ami safer thin the truth.
The following 1 it. r from a distinguished member of
; Congress, to the Editor of this paper, shews liovv the
land lies there as to the Tariff. The manufacture!*! it
seems hold the balance of powr r in the House of Repre
sentatives. Consequently, it is worse tiian idle to sup
pose, that tin r will he any reduction of taxes.
Be assured, that the worst passion* of tile human heart
and the most subtle projects ofthe human uitnil are in
league against ii3. Avarice is tire master passion that
controls the deliberations of Congo ss in this matter—
its gia-ping influence is t!io tie of the manufactures
association and the dread of losing their advantage is
the indissoluble bond of their union. This avarice may
well be termed “ the sepulchre of the other passions as
they successively decay it is sharpened by food, it be
comes rapacious by repletion—it first r.iqqilicaled for a
crumb—its appetite is now ungorg- and alllio’ banqueting
on the w hole substance ofthe South.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Washington Citv, Jan. 23d 1833-
Dear Sir, —l w rite while .Mr. Appleton, a very large
manufacturer, is holding forth on the Tariff Bill and of
course very much opposed to any reduction. At this
very moment two thirds of the members of the House
are standing round him, like bidders around a lit lie jew
Pedlar, view ing and exaining something likei thirty or
forty specimens of clothes and calicoes which he is des
canting upon and which he says if the duties are kept
on he can manufacture this and that nt such and such a
price, hut if they are reduced, of course, it will reduce
his profits in promotion to the reduction. Now wlmt a
Commentary upon thin abominable system—A manufac
turer largely interested pleading Ins own case in 'Con
gr. ss—exhibiting his goods war. s a. and men Imndize in
the American Hall of Congress to u fluouee its legisla
tion—upon n Bill said to he a revenue Bill, and ,his man
is finally to vo'. in his own ease! Can any tiii he so
intoli ifihlv ilisgus! ug. 10.3MMV you, wiiitot.t the fear of
contradiction, tint if nil tim ni.uiufaaturers who are
now members in Congress i.-dr. .Imdlv ihleiv-ted in 'he
question and will voti on the Bii! h. fore us, could lie'
j withdrawn from the He.is.- vviieti .it s ~ nt upon us pas-
Is the inferctict ? it Da .... < spaij./of ifi moa- .
r sec Hie wind .-i.uUi !u :....u. fluin... ■ :,j filed
with starving w it'ows and orph us ihaii givt up .me c. nt
on their calicoes, iron, or clot I s—observe, suppose the
House purged of the members directly interested in
■nnmifaetim sand then there should be a majority, ns
there certainly uould,di.-pos< and to do justice lo tile South,
lines not every 0.. e perci ive if they are suffered to re
main mid vote in their own ease they turn the scale iu
favor of their system and wc are plunged in all the hor
rors of intestine war?
From the Richmond Jctl'crsoman and Times.
lOSTSf’HIIT!
The last mail brings us the Report of the Judicia
ry Committee of ihejcnate, to whom was refercil the
last Mcssug of A. Jackson. Wo haVc read it at
tentively. It gives, or proposes to give all power
t > the President, to be exercised at his pleasure!
It makes him the sole and uneontroled arbiter of the
lives ami liberties ofthe People ofthe United States,
It constitutes him sole MONARCH ofthe AMER
ICAN EMPIRE ! One step further—let Congress
accord this power- -let them pass this Rill if they
dare—and a hundred thousand swords will leap
from their scabbards. Liberty is not to perish here
without struggle. Such an act on the part of Con
gress, would announce to the world the end ofthe
Rcbublic. It will summon TO ARMS. If-South'
Carolina would, under other circumstances have
rescinded her Ordinance, let her not do it now. Un
der this Bill. Liberty must perish. Stand forth then,
alui if the battle must be strike as did your Fathers,
against the Tyrant. In despite ofthe meetings got
up by the Junta here, Virginia will bring you in
fifty days twenty thousand bayonets, wielded bv
men, whose cry will be,’’LIBERTY OR DEATH,”
Fear not ! The spirit of this ancient Common
wealth is with you.
M’CiEuuio'S official, i’jiice mst.
rgnilE following are the Drawn Numbers ol the Union
ra Canal Lottery class no. 2 for 1833.
7.—13.—30.—61 57.—63.—39. —40.—17'—3.
PLANTER'S FUSE IMtOOF
WARE MOUSES,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
fTMIE UNDERSIGNED having purchased the FIRE
ft. PROOF WARE-HOUSES, lately occupied by .Messrs.
Sims, Williams and Woolsey, respectfully tender their ser
vices to their friends and the public in general, in the Ware-
House, Factorage and Commission Business, under the firm
of HA MIA A K A.IDLE. They will be prepared to
extend the usual facilities to their customers, by making ad
vances on PRODUCE IN STORK.
Connected with the W are-Houses, safe aud very extensive
CLOSE STORAGES,
For the reception of any Goods, which may be consigned to
them for sale or otherwise. The situation of their Ware-
Houses as to convenience, safely and Lbs despatch of busi
ness is unsurpassed hy any in the City. The, undivided at
tention ofthe Subscribers, will be given to the above busi
ness, with a pledge not to engage in any speculation upon
produce. t . •
They bore to merit aud receive a liberal portion of public
patronage. WYLIE W. MASON,
1 JOHN S. RANDLE.
February 2, 1833. B—4
(£/• We take pleasure in recommending tiie above gentle
men to public confidence, believing as no do, in their integ
rity and qualifications for business.
JOHN HOWARD,
W .M- JOHNSTON, for themselves and other late pro
prietors. -
JEFtf'ERSOA IIALi.
rail IE subscriber h ,s t.iki n the largp and coinnu dious house
ft formerly occupied as a Tavern hv
THOMAS U. RUSSELL,
and hopes so *n his experience in hesiui s , to give general
satisfaction to nil who may f.vorhlm with a call. Hi*l
will lie supplied vv h tin eh and -t liqu r-i, U:s Sqdi. ‘ '
hi* snpi r’:a inli*:! : . - ! h and Ia a viced S
the best of pr vender.
i LA.JAN A^UUSrr
Me. Donough Feb. Ith.