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make ?;p a gentleman. And we may ns well conclude at oner, by saying, that with us lie is a GKNThKNI in I urge capitals, who subscribes for •Tills pa PE ii ♦ and pays in advance. CABINET. trJtt Ti¥.VTOA\JSM r 1. 1830. U ■■IBLI ■■.-■.■-■■li"*” -— 1 (ONGKHSS. —The Indian Kmigiation bit!, still occupied the Senate at our last advices—On the 20th, Mr. Adams ol Mis sissippi delivered an eloquent and inter* eating reply to the arguments of Messrs. Frelinghuysen and Spiague. On the 21st Mr. Bobbin 8 of Rhode Island replied to the arguments of Mr. Mekinley as well as those of other gentlemen who advocated t! e light of State Governments to ixtend their laws over the inhabitants within our limit*. When Mr, Robbins had conclu ded. Mr. Forsyth replied to the argu ments < f Messrs Sprague, Robbins, and I relinghuysen. lie showed by docu ment- drawn from the archives of the Government of Massachusetts, that in stead of considering the Indians as sov ereign, that that ancient colony recog nized them, when unfriendly to the whites, only as rebels, and offered large sums for their apprehension and punish ment Mr. F, read an act of the colony of Massachusetts proposing a premium of five shillings on every hound raised in the State, for the purpose of running down ttie Indians wi bin her borders lie illustrated the arguments of gentle men, who bad proved that the contracts between the different Governments which bad come in collision with the Indian nations, wore tkeaties, in the proper sense of the term, by comparing it to a Species of wine imported from France. B cause it was called champaigne by the venver, the vendee, and the drinker, therefore it was verily champaigne; and the fallacy could only be unveiled by a reference to the books of the Custom House Mr. Forsyth, as a commenta ty on the argument of Mr Sprague, who contended that the Indian lands could only he (.blamed through the medium of the gieat treaty making power which remains exclusively with the General Government, rear! a resolution adopted by tin* Legislature of the state of Maine, in I cb w iry, 1C29, authorizing the Gov ernor i I (Rat State to aegocjate with the Penobscot ti ibe of Indian-, for two town ships of laud; -.Go, a resolution of the Legislature of the same State, passed last March, authorizing the same Indians to cell their lands, and the “fir timber there on,’’ to the same State of Maine. Mr. Sprague replied that die United States having made no treaty with the Pen<>b sect Indians the State es Maine, in n< go ciating with them, I ad violated no treaty. Rui Mr. F. carried him back to the or iginal proposition ol Mr. S. and those advocated that side of the question/ that the Indian nations were sovereign; that their I ods < ould only be acquired by treaty; and that the treaty making I'Otvvr having bee'll yielded up bv the Slates to (he Generol Government, the State governments had no power to treat, t irgain, negotiate, or extend their laws ovm the Indians within their respective limit": this was the doctrine contended for by all who opposed the bill; vet in the very fa eof all tiic arguments the - gentleman had adduced in support of this doctrine, it appears that no later than February, 1029, and inarch, 1830, that the legislature of the State of Maine louse If has passed one resolution author izing the Governor to negotiate with the Penobscot Indians, for ,two town-hips of land, and another resolution authorizing the same Indians to sell it to them. Thus openly violating the Constitution! id the United States, if the treaty making power granted to the General Govern ment be the source whence emaratps the exclusive power ol acquiring the Indian j teutoiy within the limits of astute. [ THE JEFFERSON CELEBR VTION. Upwards of ten columns of the United States’ Telegraph of the 17th April are occupied with the account of tins splen did festival, — The venerable John Roane, of Virginia, officiated as President of the j day, assisted by the Hon. George M. Bibb of Kentucky, Hon. Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire, Hon. Felix Grundy of Tennessee, Hon. C. C, Cambreleng of New Yoik, Hon. Wm, F. Gordon, of Virginia and the Hon. Mr. Overton, of Louisiana, s Vice Presidents. ihe toasts and addresses, partook largely of the f pint of the principles of the great deceased, and the whole proceeding ap pears to have been conducted in a ivon rmr altogether worthy of the occasion. Addresses in reply to toasts were made by Geo. M. Bibb, P. P. Barbour, Mr. Benton, Mr. Woodbury, Mr. I Jayne, Judge Wayne, Gov. Rope and others. The Addresses (says the Richmond Ln quirer) are excellent. —We had the Re publican spirit which breaths throughout these proceedings, with the most cordial satisfaction. It is worthy of the old Re publican School—'l'he principles recog nized on the occasion are the principles ol Jefferson, McKean, of Clinton and Lang don. They are the Principles which pro duced the civil Revolution of 1300 and so long as we preserve them, the Consti tution is safe, and our country is free. We extremely regret that our limits w ill but enable us to give the Address of Judge Wayne —which was elicited by the j following (oast, given by Mr. Ilayne of S. C. at the conclusion of his speech. The Slate of Georgia. By the firm ness and energy of her Troiiys, she has achieved one great victory for Stale rights ; the wisdom and eloquence offer sons, will secure her another proud triumph, in the councils of the nation. ! Drank with great applause; after which, Mr. Wayne, of Georgia, r*ose’ and addressed the company as follows: Mr. PmismF.NT: The notice taken cf the State ol Georgia by the gentle man (Mr. llaync) and the Haltering reception of it by this company, de in and’ some acknowledgment from one of her sons:f and delicate situation of him (Gov. Troup) who was comprehended in the r oin pliment to the State, is my apology for the attempt to make this inade quate return for such kindness. And, in doing so, whilst I recur for a mo no nt to the incidents of other times, (he revolutionary character of the one and the connection of the other, with this occasion, will cause them to be listened to with indulgence. Indeed, Sir,it is true, that Georgia has recollections connected with the revolutionary history of oiir country, and with the progress of our govern ment gratify ing to her citizens, and which account for in a great degree*as they are in fact, an index to the char actor of her people, ‘i'he. allusion to ’hem is not intended to advance n claim of superior patriotism to any of our sister States. And as a vindica tion that in whatever attitude we.have at any time stood to the General Gov ernment, or may now bear in relation to an inierVsting subject about to be canvassed in Congress—that it has been assembled only from a disposi tion to sustain what we believe to have hern the principles of our ancestors, ami to preserve the rights committed by them to our custody. At that pe riod of American history, when press ed by taxation and restraints upon her trade, we were degraded from the con dition of her free colonies to the pro vinces. It will be remembered by a)i who will recur to the rare rccurences immediately preceding the revolution, that. Great Britain left nothing untried to divide and seperate the States, which could work upon their fears, 01 act upon their selfishness. But hap pily for us, such lures did not, ‘in a single instance, seduce any more than could her threats daunt the spirit a roused by her tyranny. In some of l"r most oj)j>ressive acts, and i par ticularly, for restraining tho trade of several provinces in America, Geor gia was expected from its operation, with the double view that England might have an easier access to the tribes of Indians within the limits of I lie State, whom she intended to be her allies in the expected rebehen; and that our sistt r State imme.diatly to the j North, already relatively strong and populous, might have upon her bor ders a frontier province to liarrass her people and to subdue those notions of liberty and free government which were no ißooner heflrd from Massa chusetts and Virginia, than they were responded in tones of harmonious boldness by the patriots of South Car- Minn Sir, the ~c rtleffiiia (General Haym ) reaps a more than ordinary gratification from such retrospection; for their blood flows in his veins, and their principles ere his inheritance. When the art cf the British Parlia ! men I, just alluded to, reached Ameri j lea, the sorrow felt for oppression was aroused into indignation at the at tempt l<- seduce. A Continental Con i press hi and been invited to assemble be fore the arrival of the act, and it was | not until afterwards known that Geor gia called a Provincial Congress to I deliberate upon our general grievan ces. Live dt legates were appointed to represent her in (he first—the royal favor w as‘•ptirncd in resolves, said by a contemporary Rritisl analist, *to he /note spirited than those from any >part of America,’ uid she declared her exclusion from the general art of op press ton ‘had been meant to break tlm union of the provinces, and as being grounded on the supposition that the inhabitants of each excepted province can he base enough to turn the op* pression of America to mean advan tape.’ Avd, Sir, by one of those co incidences in the happending of sue cessive events, which are natural causes of gratification, as well of or dinary surprise, and connecting Geor. gia iti the. first art of her Independent political history, with the Anniversa ry of our National Festival, and with the fame and death of him whose birth day we commemorate, that Provincial Congress asscmblt and on the 4 tli of July proceeding (he Declaration of Ameri can Independence, And, Sir, there is another roiucidenre with the present time, somewhat amusing, if not re markable, to which I will only allude, leaving it to be found out by those who will look into the history of the events which immediately ensued. In pro portion to the spirit with which royal favor had been rejected so were we to be made the victims of royal ven geance. And Georgians do not f >rget that, in the hour of peril which follow ed, South Carolina, with a hundred and fifty volunteers from Charleston and three hundred and fifty militia, flew to our relief, dislodged the enemy from the neighborhood’ of Savannah, burning her vessels and defeating vet erans of courage led on by officers of renown. And, I am sure it will be thought excusable in a native of that city to mention it, that, at a town meeting, without a single voice dis senting. it was agreed, and orders were given to the troops to execute i(; that the city should be destroyed by burning every house in it before if should become a strong hold of the ■enemy. Sir, every State in the Union may recur to instances of devotedness to freedom, and this was the first contri bution of Georgia to our nationel fund of patriotism, on the anniversary of Jefferson’s birth day. What purer sac rifice can be offered to his memory, than a recurrence to such Revolution ary works ! Let this consideration he, in part, my apology for bringing it to your notice. * But, Sir, Georgia lias recollections connected with the progress of our government, of which I remained by the occasion. After the adoption of the Constitution, when it was seen that powers were claimed under it which had not been granted; that neither the authority, or the caution of Washing ton had been sufficient to repress in our foreign relations, at least the ap pearance of partiality for one of the great powers which controlled Europe : —that the people were to be restrained from the free discussion of the merits of men and measures; and, un mindful of our European origin, and of our country having become a sanc tuary for the oppressed of all nations, that government had arrogated tlie power to interrupt the feelings of rela tionship, and the charities of the heart, for our friends from abroad, by exiling the emigrant upon mere suspicion. Our people became alarmed at the ; downward tendency which had been given to our institutions* and natural • t * !y looked Among the patriots of the Revolution f r someone as a leader to maintain them in their purity. In the struggle which ensued, Georgia by her Abram Baldwin and Ja nes J mk^ ! son—names so familiar to your ears-. ■ was rmt an ineffi lent agent in giving the first triumph to American democ racy; and it was from those men that be who maintained it in the States re* cent controversy with the. G neral Government, and whose sensibility i yoUr w arm approbation of his onduct has overcome his ability to tie k vou # dei ived Ms principles—for he was ai* most the adopted son of the our, and the deciple of the other In that polit* ieal revolution, Sir, as you well know* Georgia was not enlisted as a recruit to keep rossession after victory had been woo, nor converted by subse quent c ‘forts, and brought into th® house h id by adoption; but she lay® claim to the distinction of being one of the origr-ial family, and it is to show that lo r • epaesentatives hero to day to honor the memory of its patri arch. But, Bir, with this constant devof* edness to liberty, and the principle* ■>f our government, how much b * Georgia been recently misunderstood.’ Because she took a firm etfidid • in oppnsi i o to the power claimed y (he late administration over <r rights ” she was < barged with h .\i g forgotten her love of country.* ar* Hampden- showed his love of coun try and of liberty* by opposition, and not by concession. Because we spoke v, ith the t vogues of iree nen, and wheiv menaced with n> deary eo eerjon, r spited that the very -firs l bog* tile movement w hich should be made* those by whom it should be done, should be treated as a public enemy* she was tainted with having weaken* ed the confederacy by her own w u| of love of union. Devoted as w® were, and continue to be, to the to io* of th esc States; and determined as w® are to in lintain it, we have the right# secured to its oieiabers -We beiiev* ed that, our position was not .only sus* tained by the spirit of the Go istßu* tion, but that we stood upon- its (oxt;- and, whilst others condemned us for too earnest an assertion of our rights, we thought we were"'contending fofcl principles vital to the salvation of ML True, we had at stake much as a State, hut more as one of the ronfd cracy; and the consideration of Indian lands was forgotten in the noble - ar dor of the State being the champio/ of the Constitution. Our appeal w# heard by our brethren; the State tri umphed, its principles pi;rv®il, it® rights are now fully acknowledged* and the cheering response given to *h© Sentiments of the gentleman from S. Carolina, assures us that Georgia, ia her past relation® with the Ger,er4 Government, stands vindicated and approv ‘d by the representative demo cracy of the Union. Ample- content ment, full satisfaction! Sir*. I havo don*, and again do I th® k the gentle man, in the name of the representative of the people of Georgia, f *r the prom inent attitude in which he placed the State and one of her most gifted citi zens, and I trust nothing has bee# said by me not justified by the occju sion. Among the Volunteer Toasts give#; were the following: - By the President of the United States. Our Federal Union: Tt must be preserved* By Mr. Haynes, Chairman ®f th# Committee of arrangements. Tli® Union of the States, and the Sovereign* ty of the States. By Mr. Troup of Georgia. Th® Government of the United States, wirb more limited powers than the Repub lic of San Marino, it rules an Emptro more extended than the Roman, wills the obsoluteness of Tiberus, with Ms® wisdom than Augustus* and less, jus* tice than Trojan or the Antonines. By Henry G. Lamar. Pensir “A system Which has sent Euro.. * laborers supperless to bed.’—Jeifcr son’s Notes on Virginia* * *