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pies upon which the original Jackson party 1
was urgauized. See wtiat the Van Buren
jirisiou of the "party" now hold to, and.let
the upright members of it answer to their
conscieuces aud their seltrespect, whether
the)' eai> longer endure tlie contamination
oi' such associates, with such principles and
such purposes We tiud llic luliuwinj,’
among a series of resolutions recently adop
ted by a portion of tue Van Buremtes at a
pjblic meeting in the city oi Baliiiu ire :
Jiesoiveil, That cuttiinou justice as well as
sound policy, dicta.es the removal hum
office of ALlo political opponents.
Resolved , Tnal rotation 1.1 office is the
true Democratic dociri.ie, and that all per
sons wtio have Held oifice for tight cousicu
ii»e years should be removed.
He olved, That iu tue exercise of the
loregoiug resolution, we would except rev
olutionary soldiers, and such as have been
wounded iu the I ite war. • 1
lit Si lived, i’ll it oar delegates be and they
ire Hereby instructed to tarry out the above
resolutions to me best of their ability.
lit solved. I’lv.it we approve ol me con
duct ol our deteg ties iiithefieuer.il Con
tention, in reference to their recommenda
tion, lor the removal from ojfi-.t all oar op
ponents, aud,
Resolved, fit at wa CM D.2 'I N the con
duct of Hie Collector of tue Port oj Haiti
uort, in his refusal m comply wnh tin*
euSonable re pieslol the Convention, in re
. oni.ujudiiig me removal ol our opponents
.u tue Custom House. Signed.
CEO. rU>DKNMA> Lit, Chairman.
Jkxkmiaii Sroe.M, Secretary.
'I ,ie people tviil supply me commentary.
In ;lio letter, we have the J leksoiiisui tvntcii
was promised in 18:6. in the practice ol
the a.tuiiuiillation, anil in the Baltimore re
solves, we have Ute Van iitnenism which
lias in <de tin; land turn pale and the head
ol Hie nation picniai ureiy grey—yet knaves
and loots alike assert tue identity be
tween tue parties oi tins day and that!
We know not which, most to despise the
c nie or pilif and forgive the oilier,
Fran l.ie Columbia Observer.
Til 12 UnlJ LAND MARK—SHALL
VV t. FOiiGK 1’ i tic.Al !
Win) came into pow *r the avowed o.tamp
ions of e--o.io.uj iu the Government .* ine
Jaeksou party ;
Dj tue pie.ient party in power cherish
tus severed old pwuc.pie J No party since
ilie foundation oi lua Government lias so
iiiinously expeuded the puolic Treasure.
A wnolo year oi A lain, legltiiiide expeu
•tnures would not cover me embezzlements
of tue del,lulling suo treasures oi modern
Deniocracy .
Who came into power the advocates of a
strict a.;euu.liability on me part of the pub
lic officers to die Representatives ol tnc
people l fine J.uivson party !
Dj the present uynasiy practice upon
this good republican uociiiue ! No party
has oci sn bol.ny and fearfully resisted it.
.No party ever before looked upon it as a
••Spanisii inquisition.”
»i no came n.to power the friends of frce
do n ol clii u n—opposed to Executive iu
tunereune ! The Jackson pally ?
Wiint :s new the position ol the present
dynasty ! Look at Sir. Waifs Report ?
W no c.mje into power opposed lo all in
crease o. f. iecutive patronage ! 'ineJack
so.i puny J
now n no the \ an Buren patty practised
upon this vrini principle ' 1 ney have
Mjugiii, a.,d aic now seeking, to place me
pa...e, .i • wen us tnc sword, iu the aauds oi
me Executive.
W'uo came into power opposed to a stan
ding Army ! 'i ue Jackson party !
W nature the Van Burenpuny now duffig ?
"hie standing Army has an I‘j ally neeu
Uolibied wumti the last f’vo vc- lS<
Wuoctdtc into po*.vur ferreting out de
fijlurs; Will), nivjr a long seaea I nmd poor
J 'b:as ’.i ..iliins, a .solitary defaulter under
Ad.oils’ aJaiiinsir.iiion, and had him incar
cerated in prison .or more than three years /
x tie Jackson puny !
And does tue \ an Borer, party maintain
th s patriotic vigilance .' Lou:, at me long
hsi "i piiciic- dclault, is—count Ike wagon
loads o niJuey smleu—and then point your
huger to .i single defaulter that i.as neeu
ppiusiied.
1 .is is but a small portion us the cata
logue ol old Jackson doctrines and posi
tions, kicked lo tl-.c dogs by \ an id .icu; and
)ei h claims to he Ihe legitimate repre
sentative ol me pimciples upon which, m
J ig), we were all Jackson men; —and ins
oniceiioidc s (uuu give a part of their
salaries to support elections) aud his editors
(who usually write for leaders who own
inem.) liave the effrontery to call Ueuto
ci iii-jtdeiaUsts" who me so unfortunate
a, to rtinnmiiier, and so independent as to
adhere to, in.dr old cardinal ductfiucs of
Republicanism.
It is much to be regretted that the Pre
sident, by his nidi.erect conduct at New
i orb, so unbecoming the ollic.e id Chief
Magistrate of me bifinii should have fur
nisitc i colorable ground, at least, if not
lull apology lor me pointed proceedings
detailed i). low ; on the part, too, el a c.ty
in tue President’s native county.
J' ro-n Ike Columbia Count j Republican,
ijuDNCN COMMON COUNCIL,
•Special Sjassioi?— Saturday, JAy Id.
The Board being called to nine *, his
Honor the Mayor intnnuc.d the Council that
he had been waited on by a committee pur
porting to come Irom a public mecling of
citizens desiring him tu convene the Conn
ed for officially inviitng tlic President <d
the United States to visit this city, and to
extend tl> hint the hospitalities ot the city.
Assistant Alderman Coox, offered tue
fallowing preamble and resolution;
\Vacre is a commute, purporting to come
•trout a meeting ol tile citizens ol tuts city,
.having announced o the in *yor, aud througu
linn to the Common Council of the c|iy oi
JKdsou, that the President of die United
States, being on a to *r titrough the
State of New Turk. imenJs shortly to
visit his native county, aud this “tne city ol
his adoption,” and that they desire the
Common Council to tender, officially, the
hospitalities ot the city to the Cud ..lott
istrate; and
Whereas we feel bound, in our official
capacity, lo pay all proper regard and res
pect to t e wishes of the People w hen
clearly expressed ; but
Wuereas no such expressions have been
made, we cannot caiiseiu to depart from just
au 1 democratic principles by expending tne
People’s money tar the glorification of par
ty measures, uor ca > ,ve consent to lend
tne iullnenee of ouralticial stations for such
purposes.
Tint such would be the case we con
scientiously believe, and respectfully oiler
the following undeniable fact: in evidence:
When it was officially announced lint
the President of the United States was
about to visit his native State, the p.ipuiai
da in lustrations were in favor ot receiving
him with the proper maniie-tations of res
pect due to the Chief Magistrate of tho
Nation. But before Mr. Van B uren had
left the seat of Government, he denmustra
ted his w ish to be Healed as the chief ot bis
party, and not of the nation, as the follow
ing extract ol his letter iu answer to the
•Democratic Committee’ of Hanisburg
will show :
[Here follow the politcal lette rs in Penn
sylvania, and from the President, about
'•Democratic men and Democratic meas
ures," and also llie speeches at Castle Gul
den, showing the manner m *.«Licit Mr. \ au
Bureii iusuiteu the higs ot New 1 oik,
uy making parly speeches the moment he
landed iu tue city.)
It is therefore plain, beyond the pow
er of argument to make it plaiuer, that vi r .
Vau lluten’s tour is one of a political and
partisan character. 'I bi'fflwt, be it
Resolved, (by the Mayor aud Common
ality of the city ol Hudson, in Conmiou
Council assembled,) That we do not feel
bound, by any considerations of justice
prudence or hospitaldy, to expend the Peo
ple's money or descend from tliedigmiy ol
nurotficia stations, fur the purpose of aiding
wohtKul pai tisans in their endeavor to carry
out their favorite schemes.
Alderman Patterson, after a few remarks
m opposition, ottered an amendment, pro
posing to invite the President aud tender
liim the hospitalities of the city.
After an animated debate, the question
was taken, and lost.
The question was then taken on the pas
sage ot tne original preamble aud resolution.
The yaes aud uoes being ordered, were as
follows :
Ayes—Cook, Crisey, Macy, Paul, Me
sicks, and the Mayor—6.
Noes---Barnard, Patterson, Mitchell, and
Peck—4.
From the National Intelligencer.
MR. VAN BUREN LEAVING NEW
YORK.
New-York, July 9.
The news market continues barren, ex
ceedingly barren. Wall street. Pearl. Pine,
Cedar, .’South, and Water streets, where go
on the great operations of commerce, are
exceedingly dull.
The emigrants are flocking in upon ns
in regiments. Seven hundred arrived yes
terday. The weather is hot, and the sud
den change from tho coul air of the ocean
to tile hot impure air of the city, is not favor
able lo heali h.
The President left us at 1 o’clock, lie
is to go to A Ibauy all the way by land, and to
take the towns off the river on his route.
Preparations are made for him all along, and
the chart o! his route is fully laid out. Os
course lie will lie a longtime on his way
and as.the newspaper chroniclers are few on
the way, 1 shall hardly be able to chronicle
what is done.
liis departure from this city presented an
extraordinary contrast with the arrival.—
Though the Admin stration pacers embla
zoned the programme, and the party exer
ted itself to muster au array so as to belie
theasseverationsofthe Wings, that the Sub-
Treasury speeeli at Castle Garden had driv
en off the citizens from him, yet the signs
attending the departure were a signal con
firmation of this fact. There were riot fifty
horses and carriages to escort him from his
quarter at Washington Hall* '1 he people
though their quarters were in the c.eat
thoroughfare of Broadway, mustered but
few, very few in number, and the efforts to
cheer were such as such efforts usually
bring forth, lifeless, soulless, the workings
of man’s anatomical machinery
I lake no pleasure in Rawing the remarks
l.h i\e 1,1 ** ie uj’.on the reception of the Pre-
s ‘‘.eui , tJ the city of his own State. His
party took possession of him, and, giving
himself up to the honors of a party, he has
had what such honors are usually worth.
But he has had no welcome from the Peo
ple. He lias had no enthusiasm. He lias
own no friends. Never was any predecessor
of his in his illustrious station ever received
with so much frigidity, They who saw the
welcome o'. General Jackson mark well the
extraordinary contrast, and Gen. J. was
not a New-Yorker. We had no State pride
for him. Thousands and thousands here
detested his political measures ; but his tact
his common sense, saved him from disgrac
ing Ins office by allusions to party polities,
when a ciiy was receiving him ; when its
constituted authorities came out; when the
military were his escort. We honored the
office and tlie officer then with a hearty wel
come—-but what a piteous contrast is this
entree ami the departure of New-York's fa
vorite son into the Capital! The President
and the Mayor, in a barouche and four,
I went out of the city to-day. and only the
Custom House was at his heels! The
President and Mayor were at the Bowery
Theatre last night, and Ming again was in
liis bow, and Riell was by his side! The
character of the escor was not the choice of
the respectable Mayor.
Mr. Jefferson long ago predicted that the
“ k’edeialists” the better to deceive the
people and efl'ect their purposes, would
take the name of “Democrats.” The pre
diction lias been fully veirificd. Buchanan
who declared “if he had on*; drop of Re
publican blood in his veins he would let
it put” is now a Jan liuren Democrat.
So also is Jngersoll, who said if “be had
lived during the Revo'utionary War he
would have been a Tory.” lie is now, a
Van Buren Democrat, also. —Halifax Ad
vocate,
From the Ala on Telegraph.
THE EFFECTS OF PARTY SPIRIT.
Although vve liave much to gratily us,
from the past, yet it becomes us not to dwell
in ltleless security, lor democracy unguard
ed, tend to anarchy ; the dearest hopes may
wither, and prospects the most cheering be
enshrouded in gloom. Have we not great
reason to gather up the mantle of our be
loved Washington, and inscribe upon our
banner the excellent aphorism he left us,
that. “United we stand—divided we fall,”
particularly when we see the political ele
ment convulsed, as it were, by party spirit;
we are led to enquire, is this the effect of
patriotic feeling, or the expressions of a
people animated by the great jeal >usy of
■hetr liberties ? Have we not cause to fear
it is rather the foul spirit of envy, of hate,
of ambition? I speak not of any particular
place or party, for it pervades all places,
mingles with all parties; and although we
might hail with pleasure the gentle zephyr
which moves the waters and keeps them
tiotn stagnation, yet we at the same time
dread the hurricane that levels every thing
witiiin its reach, indiscriminately—all that
is fondly and lovely. It is true, parties
ave always existed in our Republic, since
its formation, but they were originally par
ties found upon distinct and important
principles, and they only continued whilst
those principles were at variance. Far dif
ferent at the present time; the recklessness
of uncontrolled party spirit has triumphed
over the principle ; the bosom in which is
enshrined the patriotic heart that palpitates
or country's glory, forms no protecting
shield, virtue no barrier, to its malignant
darts; the hero, the defender of his couu
try, in the hour of danger, who has gronu
grey in her service, but who, per chance,
lias been in the way of some political as
pirant, must be hunted like the wild beast
of the lurest, even to the verge ol
liis grave. It is this selfish, this rnrestraiii
ed libeily, arising itom that foul demoniac
source, that has disgraced our federal halts
ol legislation, by converting them luto arenas
lor pugilismal efforts; that has infused a
spirit ol mobocracy through our country,
which has tlueateued to rip the pillars oi
our Government Itom tlieir s'rong lounda
lions; and which, if not timely restrained,
will dash the proud tempi : of our liberties
into one dark heap ol mins—yes. we sliouiii
sink down into more than Siberian darkness,
lor, should anarchy take ill*' place of order,
we could not hardly predict Us sad conse
quences—our dwellings would be made des
olate—our fair fields deluged with blood
property would fiud no place but with the
strongest- -our country's honor would be
lost. ISlioulu the melancholy speclacie ever
be presented, as (which we pray God may
avert) of a lawless baud moving towards our
State, or even rising up within its limits;
we would implore the aid of Him who sus
tained us through a seven years' war; we
would invoke the spirit of our fathers; we
would grasp the precious charter of our
rights, to keep it sate from its foul inva
ders.
We would raise our swords on high,
Anil swear for it to live—for i> to die.
And should we finally be overpowered,that
place wtiere constitutional liberty should
hear us, would be our common grave.—.
Such a due result would gladden the hearts
of those who have long proclaimed that men
are unfit to govern themselves; it would
destroy the Hopes of rational freedom
throughout the world ; one dark gloom ol
despotism would enshroud the universe;
then would our Republic be like the happy
llysiuiu which was-- but is not.
ELECTIONS.
We left our columns open lo the last mo
ment, in the hope of giving full returns of
the vote in the several counties, com msing
the districts which h ive already voted for
members of Congress, but have only heard
fruit. Stanly’s district.
For StaSey (Whig.)
Beaufort 535
Washington 325
Hyde 518
Put 65
1443
For Have (Adm.)
Edgecombe 1248
Stanly’s present niaj. 195
Tyrrell Coun'y is yet to vote which will
probably swell Stanly's majority some 500
votes.— Wilmington Advertiser.
An account has been kept by the editor
of the Harrisburg Chronicle, of all the late
Fourth of July accidents which have passed
under his notice in the newspapers, up to
the 17th instant, from which it appears
that no less than forty-one were killed, aud
nineteen wounded and mutilate;* on (nat I
day, by the bungling use of gunpowder an J
artillery. The editor believes this to b« ‘
X.lffiTaln™ T IU "“ U -‘'alUhe accidents
winch happened b „ Tbt9 is a
- waste of human life, the occurrence
of which might be readily prevented by dis
pensing with the practice of firing artillery
alutes on the occasion.
Seldom Indeed have we heard of a mur
der of greater atrocity, lhau one receudy
perpetrated in Scott county on the person of
Mrs Elizabeth Risk, by a negro woman,
her servant. The circumstances are thus
detailed by the Georgetown Banner of Fri
day :
The negro woman had been ordered by-
Mrs. R. from her work in the corn-field, and
told to make a fire. The fire was got ready,
to which was added an unusual quauity of
dry brush, the blaze from which Mrs. R.
was endeavoring to extinguish, when she
was thrown headlong into the fire, by her
servant woman, from which awful dileuui a
she soon extricated herself, but unfortunate
ly, in her retreat, she again came in con
tact with her negro, by whom she was lev
died to the ground with an axe, which pen
etrated her skull to the brain ; notwith
standing, Mrs. R. again lose to her feet,
and was again knocked down, and the ne
gro having procured a sharp pointed knife,
endeavored to cut Mrs. R’s. throat, but
missed her aim. the knife having been
plunged into Mrs. R’s. mouth, severing her
tongue iu two.—The negro, fell bent on
executing her hellish design, continued to
use the knife on Mrs. R's. body, until she
lay motionless on the floor, and was sup
posed hj j| ie vvomau to be dead—who ran
with a.,i possible speed tp the field, and in
formed Mrs. R’s. husband, that her mis
tress had fallen into the fire, and burnt
herself to death. Mrs. R. so tar recovered
as to relate the circumstances to her hus
band and oihers, to all which the negro af
terwaids made acknowledgement. She has
been tried before an examining court, and
sentenced to await her final trial at out Sep
tember ciicuit.
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO,
Santa Anna superseded in the Mexican I’res
ideniial Chair by Gen. Bravo.
We were put in possession of this unex
pected piece of intelligence yesterday by
Captain Cottrell of the schooner Essex,
from Matitnoras, which port he left oti the
10th inst. That tlie present Mexican rulers
are capable of effecting many strange deeds,
we are always prepared to believe, but that
Bravo, with infinitely less talents and cele
brity, should be elected, er chosen, for a
situation, of which, as it appears, his mas
ter was deemed unworthy, is a matter that
seems to require more ernfirmation. The
Essex’s manifest, shown to us by Capt.
Cottrell, bears au endorsement to the efl’ect.
“On the 7th inst, au express courier arrived
here from Mexico, stating that anta Anna
was driven from the presidential chair, and
General Bravo elected to fill the vacan
cy”
Os the correctness of tliisstatemenf, Capt.
Cottrell entertained no suspicion ; and when
we take into consideration the well known
fact, that the present races of Mexicans
hardly recoguize any principle of action but
the I luniiltuous incentives of unbridled li
centiousness, the news may not wear so
apochryphal a feature.
Generals Lenuis and Canaiizo are nego
tiating about Making peace. The former is
encamped at Monterey, and the latter at
Saltillo. Bustanient is yet in Tampico.
Matamoras, we need not say, is still in
possession of the government; the rumor
of its being captured by the Federalists
turns out to have been without foundation.
The most remote idea is not entertained of
attacking Texas.— N. O Bulletin.
I should like to have two lines if I could
get them.
THE MIRROR
a | :.3 ’ j (ftfi a
Saturday, Ang'iiel 10, I SJIO.
For President,
GEORGE M. TROUP.
For Governor ,
CIIAKIaES OOt «ISCRT Y
FOR TIIE LEGISLATURE.
SENA TE.
LOVERD BRYAN.
ItEPItESENTA Til ES.
WILLIARD BOYNTON,
JOHN WEST,
JOSEPH WOOD.
Tn the many matters that seem at the pre
sent lime to agitate the political world, the
two contending parties, in Georgia, at least,
appear to be losing sight of their original
principles, and man s Testing a disposi'ion to
rim after the mere visionary phantoms tha*
flit before them, regardless of what may be
come of their fundamental doctrines.
The Union party, (as they have tlioueht
proper to call themselves, but more properly
-honld they be styled the Federal anil Con
solodation party,) finding that their watch
word has failed in its potency, and is no lon
ger able to si’stain them with the Federal
doctrines of Gen. Jackson’s celebrated Proc
lamation of ’32 hanging about their necks'
and, desirous that the minds of the honest
and thinking should be diverted from the
main point of difference between them and
the State Rights party, arc seeking after new
doctrines to accomplish tlieir purpose, ob
serving in the meanwhile, the strictest si
lence iu relation to the fundamental princi
ples of their faith. No longer do we hear
the doctrine of Nullification cried down as
treason, and its advocates and lelievcs bran*
ded with the epithet of traitors and disunion
ists. They have ceased to harp upon the
blessings of Union in contradistinction to the
doctrines of State Rights aud State Reme
dies; but, like the Ja-kdaw ip the fable.
wished to strut in borrowed plumage,
they have thrown over their own shoulders,
of late, the mantle of State Rights, in order
to impose themselves upon the credulity ol
the unwary and unthinking. And why do
they thus act? Because, on these subjects
the people have become enlightened—the
yeomanry of the country have learnt that il
the Union is to be sustained it must be done
by su mining tne doctrines of State Rights
and State Remedies, and without these, the
Union* the Constitution and our liberties
are but as empty names, as shadows without
substance. Hence, all this desite on the
part of our Federal opponents to keep si
lence on these tilings—hence their anxiety
to hunt up some ne.v theme upon which to
harp in order to keep themselves in power
and the people in ignorance—for it is a fact
that they can never be sustained only on the
ignorance of the people. No better proof
is wanting of this than the simple fact that
when the doctrines of Jefferson and Madi
son were revived in ’32, they continued in
the majority so long as the people continued
in ignorance of these doctrines ; so long as
tljgj believed that State interposition,or Nul
lification, if you please, was a monster, de
signed on'y to sever the Union, and swallow
up our liberties. But when they came to
reflect dispassionately upon these troths,
and examine into the principles upon which
our Government was created their eyes were
opened, their understandings became en
lightened, and they acknowledged their for
mer errors by coming out in favor of and
supporting those very doctrines they had
been taught to consider as the Upas which
were to sap the very foundntion of our liber
ty and independence. The inevitable con
sequence was, that the doctrines of Gen.
Jackson’s Proclamation were repudiated by
the freeman of Georgia, and the principles
of’9B and ’99 were largely in the ascendant.
In order that the people may be brought
back to a proper understanding of the main
point of difference between the State Right«
party and those who style themselves the
Union party, we intend to take the doctrines
of each into consideration, and present them
in their true light, so far as our feeble abili
ties will enable us, with the hope that vve
may contribute something towards bringing
the parties back to their original stand, that
the people may know what constitutes the
main differenceofopinion between us. We
are well aware it is considered by many that
this is an old and worn out theme—that the
arguments, ori both sides have long since,
been entirely exhausted, and perhaps some
think it folly to revive the. subject again.—
With such, however, we beg leave to differ,
for we never can conceive the arguments ex
hausted in favor of State Rights and State
Remedies, so long as their exists an oppo
nent to those principles---so long as the
right of a State to her sovereignty and inde'
pendence is denied.
In the first place, then, we wouhl ask
what are the fundamental principles of the
State Rights party ? We answer, in the
language of Mr. Madison, expressed in the
Virginia resolutions of ’9B: “That, as in al
other cases of compact among parties hav
ing no common judge, EACH PARTY
lIAS AN EQUAL RIGHT TO JUDGE
FOR ITSELF, AS WE LLOF INFRAC
TIONS AS OF THE MODE AND MEA
SURE OF REDRESS.” Ami again, in
tue language of Mr. Jefferson, as set fort h
iu the Kentucky Resolutions of '99, iu an
swer to several of the Federal States which
were opposed to the Republican doctrines of
that day: "That llie principle and construc
tion contended for by sundry rs the Stalk Leg
islatures, that the General Government is the
exclusive judge of the extent of the jiouers del
egated to it, stop nothing short of DESPOT
ISM, since the discretion of those who a ,min
ister the Government, aud not the CONSTI
TUTION, would be the measure of their pow
ers : That the several States who formed that
'iistruinen, being sovereign and independent,
h ive the unquestionable right to judge op
the inf. action; and, THAT A NULLIFI
CATION BV THOSE SOVEREIGN.
TIES OF ALL UNAUTHORIZED
ACTS DONE UNDER COLOR OF
THAT INSTRUMENT IS THE RIGHT
FUL REMEDY.”
These constitute, in a few words, the doc
trines of the Slates Rights party, and so long
as we adheie strictly to the principles thus
laiJ down in such strontr and plain langiixge,
the liberties of our country are secure, and
our independence will be maintained,for the
powers of Federalism will never be able to
prevail against them.
B it wliat constitutes the doctrines of the
Union party? We answer, they lielive 'hat
every act passed by Congress is the para
mount law of the land; “that the discretion
of those who administer the Government,
and not the Constitution, is the measure of
[heir powers; they believe that the Presi
dent is bound to enforce the acts of Congress
under any and every circumstance, and that
if a sovereign State should attempt to resist
an unconstitutional and iniquitous law, lie,
has the right, and it is his duty, to call to
his ass stance the armed mercenaries of the
United States, to whip her into submission;
lliey believe that the States have, parted from
their sovereignty and independence, and are
consequently dependent upon Congress and
the will of the President, for their rights and
liberties; they believe that upon the forma
tion of the Constitution, these States became
cousolodated into one great nation, and
strange as it may seem, they attempt to
prove this position from the Constitution, it
self; those, however, who are at all acquain
ted with the history of our government, can
r eadily imagine how futile such au attempt
must always prove.
With these truths and doctrines before
hitw, where is the man of common sense
who can hesitate for one moment to choose ?
None, wc answer, none. Ilovv important,
therefore, that the friends of State Rights
| should continue on the alert, when Federal
ism and Consolodatinn stalk about, iu open
daylight, sustained ar.d encouraged by those
who should look upon them with disdain anil
contempt. For ourselves, we shall contin
ue to war against them, because we believe
those principles enliicly at variance with
those we advocate, and because we believe
ours paramount to every other consideration
for when they are lost sight of, then will the
rights of the States and the liberties of tho
people be annihilated, an J our freedom scat
tered, as it were, to the winds of heaven.—
We, therefore, do not stop to inquire, whe
ther or no. those we sustain are in favor of,
or opposed 10, a National Bank, the advo
cates or opponents of a Sub-Treasury, for
these are questions upon wfiich the most sin
cere politii al friends may differ—they are
minor subjects which wo do not intend to
separate us from those who believe in the
fundamental principles of our faith. But
the main question with us is, do those with
whom we act, sustain the doctrine of State
interposition and State Remedies ; do they
advocate the Sovereignty of the States, in
short, do ih , ' v adhere to the doctrine of Nul
lification, and square their political course
accordingly? if so, we arc willing to extend
to them our best service, and sustain them to
the best of our abilities.
These feelings have influenced us in ad
vocating for the Presidency that pure patri
ot and practical Nullifier, Georoe Mcln
tosh Troup, in opposition to those who be
lieve and glory in the doctrines of Federal
ism and Consolidation. Influenced by con
siderations of tins kind, have we hoisted the
name of Charles Dougherty, as Governor
of Georgia, who has always sustained the
principles of State interposition ant’ State
sovereignty, in opposition to Charles J. Mc-
Donald, who is an open and avowed Feder
alist and Consolodationist, and who once vo
tod in 'he Senate of this State, that Georgia
should succumb to th? will of the Supreme
Court, in a case where her rights and liber
ties were deeply involved. When therefore,
the people of Georgia take these mattets
properly into consideration, Judge Dough
erty will be sustained by au overwhelming
majority.
We have continued this article to a great
er length than we had at first intended, and
shall therefore come to a conclusion by prom
sing a renewal of the question from time to
time.
A singular accident occurred in France,
during a temnest on Sunday, the 2d July.
A battalion of the 15st regiment, while on
its march from Metiers to Wissemburge,
was struck bv lightning. Two hundred
men were knocked down by it, all of whom
bled profusely from the mouth, eyes and
ears; but it is consolatory to add, two only
were killed.
The Cost of B iaMing a B «elr.---The ex
peuseß of President Van Buren at the Wash
ington Hotel in New York, lor six and a
half days, was Six Hundred and Sevenly-Six-
Dollars, as stated in a morning paper. This
bill was paid by the Corporation out of the
People’s money. Nearly the whole of the
expense of his visit there was paid out of
the City Treasury. This is Democratic
living with a vengeance?
TO TIIE VOTERS OF SUMTER CO.
HAVING K»Ue up my uuim (Httvoka
bty,) to retire Irom public sue, 1 avail
my sell of the earliest opportunity ol giving
yoj tiie information so that you may, in
tune, select some suitable peisou to fill my
place. Your lortner kiuouess in onCe elec
ting me your Representative, and the late
evidence of y our contioued coutidi rice iu
nominating me a second time to that respon
sible station, constiains me, as au apology
for my present course, to state some, ol the
many reasuns, which have induced me to a
dopt it. Tiie confused condition ol my pri
vate affairs, (if no other reason existed,) is
alone, sufficient to govern one, who, like me,
Has so little desire to figure in public. You
will readily believe me candid m this decla
ration, when you recollect the indifference
which I have universally iiiauilcsted for a
nomination. .-No one can lie more gratefully
sensible ot the honor winch you have, and
would still fi rthcr bestow upon me, than I
sin; yet, whilst l am fully conscious of, and
grateful for your kindness, I must be per
mitted to say that tho obligation is uot alto
gether, on the side of the people, between
them and tlieir Representative, as a great
many oi the people seem to believe. Your
representative, iu sacrificing bis time ami
private interest to serve you and serve you
faithfully, places you under some obligation
to him, which few seem willing to appreci
ate. But, if this were all, the patriot might
find a sutficient reward for these sacrifices, in
the consciencious discharge of his duties;
yet there arc some, (and by no means a small
proportion,) who are not content with hav
ing a servant iu their representative, but lie
must become an abject slave—yield up his
private opinions, become the base tool of
their private prejudices, pander to their pas
sions and contribute to their wants, if he
wishes to secure tlieir continued suffrages.
This. It-llow citizens, 1 am nut prepared to
do. I love my friends as well as auy m-m,
but one who wishes to place me under these
conditions, is no friend of mine. And, I
will add furtherihat no honest man will con
sent to serve you under such condition*, and
hence the coutiuued cry among the people
that there is no honest politician. Honesty
and virtue are driven into retirement, whilst
vice and impudence usurp their place, and
this is because you will it. You may tLink
this is strong language, but let me ask you
candidly, what man *au be elected without
electioneering with you, to ary office, how
ever humble ? You will answer, if you an
swer truly, none. And yet, when your rep
resentative takes his seat in the Legislature,
he 6weais virtually, that he has not done this
thing. Thus he must perjure himself ere
he is qualified lo serve you. How then, can
you expect honest men to serve you? I,
for one, must decline all further honors of
tnis kind. Fully satisfied with what little
experience I have had iu this matter, that it
never was intended for me to he a public,
man, 1 cheerfully resign all my claims iri
that regard, hoping that you will he able to
select an abler and more worthy object upon
whom to coufer your favors. Ido this the
more willingly, as there seems te he so much
dissatisfaction m mgard to your late nomi
nation, if it is to be considered as such, tox,
inde.'d, the lesult has never been properly
made known either to the people or their
nominees, and I know no good cause why
Uiis has not been done, but the one suggest
ed above.
Iu taking leave of you, and dissolving the
ties which have connected us as represen
tative and constituent, permit me. fellow cit
izens, to retuinyou my most grateful thanks
tor the confidence you have heretofore re
posed in me.
With unfeigned prayers for your contin
ued welfare, 1 remain y our
Ob t Ser'vt.
THOMAS C SULLIVAN.
A ugiisf 7,1839.
'ytfC The Columbus Enquirer is request
ed to insert the above.
GEORGIA—Lee County.
IT appearing to the Court that Maliclti O.
Snellgidve, administrator with the will
annexed, of Robert D. Respess, deceased,
has mismanaged the estate ol said deceased,
in this, to wit: That the said MHichi O.
Snellgrjve has removed a part of the ne
t-roes of said estate from the county ol Lee,
aforesaid, and from the plantation of said es
tate ; that the said Alaiichi O. Snellgrove has
neglected to hire out the negroes or rent out
the lands of said estate, which has injuicd
the said estate; and that the said Maliclti
O. Sncllgrovc has otln rwise mismanaged
said estate to the injury of tiie same.
It is therefore, oil motion of Isaac Tison
and Roheit G. Ford, securities of said Ma i
chi O. Snellgrove, ordered aud adjudged by
the Court, that the said Sueilgrove shevv
cause at the next term of tliL Court, to L'S
held on the first Monday in September next
why he should not give other securities, and
the said Isaac Tison and Robert G. Ford
be discharged and relieved from their see.u
rityship as his securities on the said Admin
istration, or the said Sneßgrove be discharg
ed from said Administra'ion aud the same
be revoked.
And it is further ordered, that he be serv
ed with a copy of this Rule twenty days be
fore the said next term of this Court.
GEORGIA, ? I, Samuel C. Wyche
Lee County. $ Clerk of the couil of
Ordinary do certify that the above and fore
going is a true copy taken from the minutes
this I9th day of July 1839.
S'AML. C. WYCHE. c. c. o.
July 19, 1839.
NOTICE.
rrtAKEN up and brought to Jail at this
-1. place a negro man who calls himself
lim, about thirty five years old, who says lie
belongs to Bartly Cox of Jones county and
hat he run away from liis plantation in Ba
ker county. Tlte owner is requested to
come forward and comply with the term
of Law and take him away.
Starksrille, Lee eo. Ga. 18.
A DYSON, Jailer.
NOTICE.
IOST or mislaid, two promissory notes
J on William Winn, payable one day
aft er <h'te, ii: favor of the subscriber, on«
for twenty dollars, and the other for eigh
teen dollars, due the first day of January
1839.
The public are cautioned against trading
for the above notes, as the payment of them
has beeu stopped.
JAMES M. MILNER.
June I 1839. 9 ts
To 2l©l<l«*i*w of Taxable
Property*
THIRTY days from this date, I shall
proceed to collect the taxes due the
corporation as directed by the Ordii at»e *_
to that effect.
M. J. LAURENCE Asstr. k Coh-
July Iff .
TIHK Subscriber will attend to the coUec
fion of all debts due the late firm o(
Gardner A Barrow, Up »o April. 1839.
Persons indebted to said (jrm will please
make payment immediately.
A|trß3o H H, BARROW