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AI'HEiSS AN I’l-TAKIi f WEE i INor.
Athens, August 6 th, 1828.
Avery large number of citizens of
Clark county, and persons from all
parts of this state casually in the vil
lage, met at the College Chapel, pur
suant to notice at 9 o’clock A. M.
Judge Clayton called the meeting
to order, and stated briefly the object
of it, and on his motion the Honorable
WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD was
appointed Chairman.
On motion. Judge CLAYTON and
Mr. JAMES CAM.AK. were appoint
ed Secretaries.
Judge Wayne addressed the meet
ing briefly, and moved that a commit
tee he appointed to draw up a report
and resolutions on the subject of the
late tariff to be submitted to an ad
journed Meeting on tomorrow.
Which motion having been adopted
the following pers ns were appointed
to compose that committee viz:
Judge Wayne, 1 ot’Cliat-
Il )i,. Senator Berrien, J ham.
Hoo. Senator Cobb, of Greene,
lion. Geo. R Gilmer of Oglethorpe.
J idgft Clayton, of Clarke,
I)c. C. Williamson, of Baldwin;
H-n. C. E Haynes, of H mem k.
Judge McDonald, of Bibb.
11-,n WiKon Lumpkin, of Morgan.
G vernor Troup, of Laurens.
On motion the meeting was then ad
j turned till tom Trow 3 o*< lo< k. P. M,
August 7th .
Pursuant to adjournment, about one
thousand persons met at the College
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Judge Wayne, from the committee
app doted yesterday, submitted to the
ni etlag the following report and res
olutions whi. h were unanimously a
d pted, with the exeepti >n of the sth
resolution, and which on division was
ad pi< il by a large majority, not more
than 15 or 20 persons voting against
it.
No act of Congress si> ce the adop
tion of tin* Federal Constitution has
caused more excitement in the South
ern States than the act ‘in alteration
of the several arts, imposing duties
on imports.’ Nor lihs any other act
ever irritated the feelings of so large
a portion of the American people into
discontent with our Union, or created
so much and übt of its prospective bene
fit. A measure which can weaken a
ny part of our nation an attachment
cemented by so many remembrances
of glory and of suffering, and hither
to strengthened by anticipations of
national happiness and greatness, must
be doub ful hi its policy as well as in
its constitutional authority. The prin
ciple assumed by the advocates of the
tariff that Congress can, in the exer
cise of its powers to lay duties upon
imports and to regulate commerce,
use those powers to build up anyone
national interest at the expense of a
not her, was not contemplated by the
framers of. the constitution. It was
n conceived by them that a right to
lay imposts, t raise revenue, to give
stability to commerce, to pay the debts
of the confedera y, and to prepare for
those exigencies which might menace
our honour or existence as a nation,
could ever be used by Congress indi
rectly to produce by its operation up
on commerce, a direct taxation, de
void of th at uniformity which the con
stitution commands.
Spell, however, is the construction
of the constitution by a small maj.ri
ty in Congress; and if the interest
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which ii lusurs shall au v once in the
ratio of its past increase, and he che
rished by the same spirit of protec
tion, it will necessarily produce a to
tal change in the commercial policy
of the nation. Instead of enjoy ing a
free trade with the world, reaping the
advantages which the suitableness of
our products to the wants of Europe
will afford, extending that spirit of
adventure which lias carried the en
terprise of our people over every sea
into every land, we shall be compelled
to an intercourse with our own states
with inadequate capital to buy the pro
ducts of agriculture. To the restric
tions of Europe upon our trade, we
shall have superadded multiplied re
strictions of our own legislation. Will
t,he blow to southern prosperity be
lighter because it is struck by our
brethren? Or will the oppression of
our interests be less lasting or galling
because its fetters have been forged
at home? And is there any differenci
in principle between the coercion of
our trade by England when these
states were colonies, and the recent
legislation of congress, giving to t
few states of the union the markets of
the south without a rival, and in that
way the uncontrolled command of
the prices of its produce. .
In a political point of view, each
state is equally essential to the exis
teiice of our confederacy, but in a
commercial aspect we cannot forget
that the southern states, since the or
ginizationof the government, have
produced more than the half of the ex
ports of the whole nation, and have
given life, activity, energy and profit
to its commerce.
From the oppressiveness of the ta
riff', however, we can be relieved by
constitutional opposition; ami it ia our
intention at this meeting to give to
the nations of the world living under
different political systems from our
own and looking with an envious eye,
upon the duration of our great repub
lic, another proof of the peaceable tri
umph of popular suffrage over legis
lative usurpation. Threats and me
naces against the policy of our mis
guided bretnren* or against the confe
deration of the slates, we dis<laiin;
they would be beneath the dignity of
the occasion which has assembled us,
and the deliberate purpose which shall
mark our resolves. We do not for
get tnat in most of the states by whose
legislative votes the tariff has been
passed, that there are respectable mi
norities who suffer from it, and it is
our desire that there shall be a bond
between us to remove the common
source of our distress. We invoke
their union in the spirit of that patri
otism which the father of his country
inculcates in his farewell address: aud
we warn our political adversaries,
that if the sepulchre of our union shall
he prepared before another generation
shall have lived, it will be caused by
those whose sectional partialities ex
ceed their love of country, whose con
stitutional scruples readily yield to
expediency, and who believe that
there cannot be too much of federal
legislation upon the internal concerns
of the states.
Ist. Resolved, That the act of Con
gress, commonly called the tariff, is
unconstitutional in spirit and intent;
being a perversion of th** power grant
ed in the Constitution to lay duties
upon imports, for the purpose of rais
ing revenue; is unworthy of the ho
nest and sincere principles which pro.
duc.ed the Federal Union, and cannot
be pronounced to be unconstitutional,
only because it veils its objects in its
tide and enactments.
2d. Resolved, That the power as
sumed by tue General Government, to
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impose duties on imports, beyond Uie
requisition's of revenue, and for the
purpose of promoting the interests of
one portion of the American people,
by the imposition of burdens on the
residue, is founded on a principle,—
the power of the General Govern
ment, to do whatever the Legislature
of the Union may deem conducive to
the general welfare, —the admission
of which, by the people of the States,
will place all their rights at the entire,
discretion, and subject to the absolute
control of that government.
3d. Resolved, Tii.it as the Union
is dear to the people of the south, it
should not be jeoparded by any inea
sures of an angry or violent charac
ter, and as ours is a government of
laws, founded upon public opinion, a
uy effort to enlighten it should be of
peaceable, and constitutional nature.
Those efforts should he remonstrance
igainst the law of which we now coin
plain, and an earnest request fr its
repeal; an appeal to our fcllow-citi
zeue throughout the Uni m to aid in
this measure, an appeal to our fellow
citizens in this State to express their
• pinion upon this subject, that
Congress may not doubt that the la
riff is destructive to the interests of
‘lie people of Georgia, and, that so
far as a respect for the opinions of a
whole State may have weight or iullu
ence, the occasion lor the t*xer< ise of
that respect by Congress, may uot be
wanting.
4. Resolved, That the people of
this state be earnestly urged, not on
ly by tbe expression of their opinions,
but by acts to evince their disappro
bation of the tariff law, by making
and producing every arti> le of con
sumption within their power, that
they in iy live indcpMidi utl) of the
supplies hitherto turuisued by other
States.
stli. Resolved, That if it should he
necessary to counteract the tariff, by
acts of State Legislation, an excise by
tbe southern slates upon articles in
troduced into tncin, whom they be
come the subjects, of sale, will be con
stitutional and even if su h measures
shall produce additional burdens and
privations to ourselves, we exbort the
patriotism of our people cheerfully to
bear them, rather than t submit to a
policy which will multiply restrictions
upon trade until they are more op
pressive than those by which these
States were trammelled in their colo
nial condition. Tuese privations and
burdens will be temporary, if the
course recommended shall be faith
fully and spiritedly persevered in, and
perseverance will give to us those
habits of economy and of domestic
manufacture, w* ich will supply every
want from our own resources.
Judge Wayne moved that a commit
tee be appointed to carry ioto effect
the 3d resolution, s f*r as it contem
plates an appeal to the people ot the
state of Georgia.
Which motion having been adopted,
the following gentlemen were appoint
ed to compos * that committee:
Judge Wayne.
Hon. Senator Berrien.
Judge Clayton.
Gen. W. W. Holt.
Hon. Wilson Lumpkin.
The meeting was then adjourned.
W. 11. CRAW FORD, Chairman.
A. S. Clayton, J Secretaries .
James Cainak, J
FRANKLIN COLLEGE.
Commencement week, at Athens,
was a very interesting occasion:—and
the impression made by the exercises
of the Students on the minds of the
persons present was believed to be de
cidedly more advantageous to the in-
sUtutiou, lium on similar occasions
heretofore.
The Trustees met on monday the
4*h inst. Fifteen out of seventeen
were present. Among their first
proceedings was tha adoption of the
following r‘solutions.
The death of I). G. Campbell , Esq.
a member of this hoard having been
this and w announced, on motion
R •solved unanimously, That, as a
tribute of their respect for his charac
ter*, and for his zeal in the discharge
of his duties ns a Trustee of the Uni
versity of Georgia; the members of
this board will wear crape on the left
arm during the present session.
R‘solved. That the members of the
Faculty and if the class to bead uitted
to th<- degree of B. A. at the present
coin men’enent be requested to pay to
the memory of the deceased a similar
•f
mubte of respect.
Resolved, that the Secretary trans
mit to the widow of the deceased, a
Copy of the above resolutions.
Dr Janies Whitehead of Burke
county, a Graduate of the Colli ge,
was elected to fill the vacancy in ihe
Hmi and occasi med by the death of
Col. 1). G Campbell.
O. IL Prince , Esq. of Bibb county,
was elected to fill the vacancy occa
sioned by the resignation of Dr. Wil
liam Terrell of Hancock.
A resolutionwa adopted, approving
itig f the determination of the s talents
to appear in tln ir public *x r ises
dressed in domestic cloth, and request
ing tip m to persevere in the me isuee.
We will remark here, tint to the
true friends of the country, it afftrdrd
real satisfaction to find that the Fac
ulty of the College, and a large it urn
of the students had carried th* ir Anti-
Tariff resolutions into * ff’e< t. To the
young gentlemen especially much is
due on this occasion. ‘They were a
mong the first in ihe state, to raise the
standard of resistance to this oppres
sion—they were am >ng the first to
give a formal and public expression of
their feelings of abhorance towards
the‘Arneri-an Sv stem,* and they have
been among the first to put their re
solutions into practical operation, thus
doing what is to often not done by old
er men—adding practice to doctrine—
example to precept.
It was also a source of much grati
fication to those who entertain true
feelings ami correct opinions on the
subject of the Tariff, to find that any
allusion however remote, iu the rhe
tori> al exercises of the students, to
the odious character of the Tariff, the
injustice and oppression of our gov
erinent in enacting it, the spirit of our
people iu resisting it—and the sacred
duty of continuing to resist it by all
the constitutional means in our power,
was received by the audience, not on
ly with decided approbation, but also
with a loud applause.
Tbe present number in the College
is as follows.
Senior Class 2 7 members
Junior “ 32
Sophomore e * 17
Freshman ** 25
101 Total.
It is a source of gratification to the
friends of the institution tl;t it sus
tains so high a character in other
states, as is shewn by the numbers
that resort to it from them for the
means of completing their education.
During the last session there were
from states as follows:
From North Carolina 8
South Carolina 7
Alabama 5
Tennessee 1
Connecticut 1—22 in all.
The Senior Class, which had just
No. 13.