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trutes of the Constitution and character cl the
Government. Let as have it now forever set
tled that this Government is not a Confederacy
between Sovereign States, but a single su
preme and absolute government over the peo
ple collectively, according as the will of the
majority shall administer it.” In what docs
this form of Government oilier from a despo
tism! Whether it he despoti on, consolida
tion, or a single supreme govermn at, it i< in
every particular dilferent from the system of a
confederacy of free, independent a.id sever i :ii
States, which was established I y the constitu
tional compact. This comp tel e-t ijli-lied, a
government, federal and special. —One, as re
lates to foreign or external a Tibs ; hut several
as respects the domestic concerns off, ■ Stdcs.
lit the Federal and special character it was in
tended to be confined to “ a few and defined
objects,” which were foreign only ; such as
“ war, peace, negotiation, and Foreign Com
merce : with which last, the power ot taxation
will, for the most part be connected. The
powers reserved lo the sere • a! Stales trill ex
tend to all the objects, which in the ordinary
course of affairs , concern the tires, liberties,
and properties of the people, and the interna ’
order, improvement, and propriety of the Slate.'”
•*) By this exposition it is clear that the fra
mers of the compact regarded the State govern
ment as constituent and essential parts ot the
Federal Government “ whilst the latter is no
wise essential to the operation or organization
of the former.” Without the inaction of the
State Legislature, the Federal Government
could not exist—the President himself could not
be elected ; nor could a Senate meet. And yet
the proclamation asserts that the States are not
patties to the compact, only parts of a single
great A'ation which is under a single and su
preme governn.ant, possessing “the power ot
deciding ultimately and conclusively upon the
extent of its own authority.” In conclusion, 1
repeat that the history of the Constitution, the
contemporaneous exposition embodied in the
••Federalist and the debates of the Convention
of 1787, and thosu of the State Conventions
which adopted it, as well as the plait) intent and
meaning of the instrument itself, contradict the
assumptions of the President, and denounce a
imminently dangerous to republican institutions
the consolidating tendency ot’ his doctrines. —
The same history and republican exposition
show,“that the several States composing the U.
States,” arc free and sovereign; and are not
united on principles of unlimited submission to
their Federal Government; hut by compact un
der the style and title of a constitution tor t c.\
U. States, and of amendments thereto, they con
stituted a Federal Government for special pur
poses, delegated to that governmen certain defi
nite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the
residuary mass of right, to their own self Gov
ernment ; and that, whenever the FedoraJ Gov
ernment assumes undelegated powers, its acts
are unauthoritative, void, and ot no force; that
to this compact each stale acceded san integral
party. And, finally, that this government, cre
ated by compact, was not made the “exclusive
or final judge of the extent of the powers dele
gated to itself, since that would have made its
discretion and not the Constitution the measure
of its powers.”
If our Union be made by construction or cor
ruption, to rest on any otherfoundation, I do not
care how soon it be destroyed.
(♦) See 45 No. of the FcJera'ist
BURIAL IN THE COUNTRY.
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree’s shade,
Where heaves the tnrf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in liis narrow cell for ever laid,
The kind forefathers of the village sleep.
Gray.
Spring hud revisited the earth with sunnv
skies, and nature again appeared in her robe of
roses, scattering flowers in the paths of human
enjoyment. The tuneful birds had again visi
ted the village, and were singing their morning
hymns in the lofty poplars. Every heart seem
ed to partake of the general joy, when suddenly
the voice oflamentation was heard in the village.
The angel cf death had arrived, and an aged fa
ther summoned to leave the happv circle. li,
populous cities such a circumstance excites but
little commotion ; the wheels of industry still
roll on, and the breach is unperceived: but in
the little community of a village it is far other
wise. A gloom overspreads every mind, and
every bosom sympathises with the widowed
heart and fatherless children. I have stood bv
the death-bed of the giddy and the gay; I huvi
beheld the last convulsive struggle of the vounj
and beautiful—but never have I seen anv thatcan
equal the parting of the fond parent. ‘ Human
nature cm bear no more; it is a scene methinks,
that would make an angel weep. There we be
hold woman’s love,hanging, in the last moment,
over the lifeless body, like a fading flower, while
her tender children weep at her side, over a fa
ther’s love and a mother’s wo.—Hard must be
the heart of that child, that can look upon the
lading, dying eye of a father, and not feel as it
were the last dissolving tie of nature. At that
hour remembrance will dwell upon and carry us
back to the blissful days of childhood, when we
prattled at his knee; and the heart sinks, and
the eye gushes, when we cast our glance upon
that dear father in all theagonies of death. But
the picture is too painful.
Slowly along the church-way path I saw them
bear him to the lonely grave. Before went
ag- and inen, whose heads were beginning to blos
som for the tomb, and behind, in sable weeds,
were the mourners, absorbed in grief, thinking
of the breach that never can be filled. It seem
ed like a dream, us the slow and solemn sound
ot the bell fell coldly on my heart, and I wiped
a tear from my cheek, as the thought canto over
my mind, that I too must soon be wrapped in
the cold winding sheet of death, and carried
along the same path, to be deposited in the dcs
solate domain. My eye followed the melan
choly procession until they entered the church,
where the minister of God was to give the last
history, and sing the final dirge over a lifeless
father. Blessed minister, said i, with a -i-.|,
may you stand at my bed side, when lifiTis
about to be extinguished, and whisper peace to
my depattiug soul 1 love a minister ot God;
for there is a charm in his smile, and an inspi
ration in his soothing language, that, methinks,
is more of heaven than of earth, He speaks
like a kind tather to the childn not sorrow, and
points out the path of happiness to poor erring
man. So did he speak on this occasion, and
he endeavored to speak consolation to the hearts
that were torn with anguish.
I saw them bear the lather to the brink of the
await grave. A fond mother’s weeping eye
looked down into the gloomy vault, and a pang
of sorrow sunk deep into her feeling heart She
wept for her bosom friend and her fatherless chil
dren. They were at her side; and she felt that
they were withering like roses that bloom by
the” solitary tomb. There her son too looked
down into the home of his father, and he burst
into tears, when he thought that there his own
best friend must crumble into dust. He wept,
like a fond child, when he reflected that the cold
earth was his pillow, and that the green grass,
waving darkly to the night breeze, would sing
his own lullaby. Youth and beauty stood round
the grave, and they sighed when they remem
bered that some of theft fathers were beneath
their feet, or would, ere long, be borne to the
lonely spot. Many a tear-drop stole from the
dark blue eye of beauty, like the dew-drop from
the violet, when she thought that her lovely forn
must moulder into dust with her fathers; and
the old men, venerable with years, looked upon
their children and sighed. And there stood
many an orphan, and widow too, by the grave,
and their heart withered as they looked upon
the mournful bier, and remembered the good
ness of his heart. lie was the widow’s friend !
His lips were the counsellers of innocence op
pressed, and his hand vvas.the protector of the
injured orphan. It was ho that released the
grasp of avarice, and caused the blush of shame
on the cheek of oppression. Yea, it was he
that wiped the tear from the eye of sorrow, and
relieved the wants of indigence. He was a
friend to justice, and they venerated him: he
was a friend to the widow, and they wept for
him—The widow’s tears have embalmed his
memory, and his name is indelibly written on
the heart of gratitude. Though the escutcheon
< and pomp of heraldry shall not mark the place
where he reposes, and though no funeral fires
shall burn around his shrine,yet a monument of
affection shall be erected to his remembrance,
more durable than Parian marble, and the pyre
shall be lighted in the heart of gratitude an
love. Ido not wish to indulge in hyperbole,
neither do I wish to figure in ficticious pane
gyric ; but the tears of sorrow can speak for me.
The tenderness that glistened in the eye of age
—the affection that glowed upon the cheek of
youth and beauty—and the deep-drawn sigh that
died upon kin Ire- i Ips all speak for me, A
mother’s heart can feel for the Ess of a bosom
friend, and she can speak for me. And the little
bov, whose innocent heart bled over the grave
ot his fallen father, can speak for me, beyond
the power of words. Oh how applicable were
the words of Jeremiah, when the coffin slowly
descended into the grave, and the earth was
ready to close in upon the fond father forever.
Then were the gates of affection and feeling
thrown open, and that sorrow which breaks the
heart triumphed on the ruins of hope. The eye
involuntarily sought one more gaze, before the
sound of desolation should strike dolefully on
the ear of grief. The parting was line that
when the soul looks out from the body, and
shudders at the gloom which must surround the
tenement it leaves.—The grave covers all hu
man hopes. Within its gloomy and silent walls,
distinction is at an end, and there the splen
dour of pomp and pride is shrouded in eternal
night. There the peasant sleeps alike with the
gorgeous monarch ; for m the dream of death
the scepter falls from the nerveless grasp. The
sleep of death is the grand pause of nature, the
great sabbath-day of the grave. Through the
gates of the grave the rapid tide of life flows into
the vast ocean of eternity; and it rolls and rolls
on, even to the throne of the great Jehovah.
Life is a state of bondage, which confines the
soul in the body, until death; like a kind philan
thropist, unlocks the door, unbinds the chains,
and sets the prisoner free.—But I digress
I saw them lower the slumbering father into
the deep, damp grave. The sound of the earth,
as it fell upon the coffin, struck chilling upon
the ear, and vibrated to th<- heart. It was a
“Miid that still lingers on my ear. It was a
sound of all others in nature the most touching,
the most tender. It was an awful charm, that
broke in upon the heart in defiance o ■ the forti
tude of nature, and melted down the energies of
the soul—yea, it rolled back again upon the
mind, the memory of years. O yes, it was the
sound of desolation and death; t ut it struck not
on the ear of the fallen father. No, no, he sleeps
in peace, with his brothers and fathers. But it
was a warning note to the living tiiat they too
should follow. It was the clarion of death—
vea, it was the speaking trumpet of the grave.
It calls not to the clanger of battle, but it hails
the children of peace, and the candidate for
eternal tar.c. But ah ! it died on the ear of
sorrow with mournful cadence, and chilled the
heart of sensibility. It was the knell of depart
ed worth.
The lonely grave now rises to view, where
age, and youth, and beauty sleep. No sculp
tured cenotaph marks to grandeur’s eye the spot
where sleeps the generous father and the wid
ow’s friend : but at the evening hour when the
foot shall often tread the path to dwell in tears;
there shall the sod grow green upon his grave,
watered by the homage of the grateful heart,
and there, when urmrier decks the ground with
flowers, shall the gentle zephyr whisper—father,
r- tin peace. The mourners have returned to
the desolate mansion, and the sound of desola
tion has ceased ; but they bend over their sor
rows in silent grief. Nature has lost her charms
to them, and the returning Spring has proved to
them the suit winter ofthe heart.
FORD BARD.
The first Qi> vt uy Conway was the
flower of her fathers family. She was young,
and well do 1 remember that she, was beautiful;
most beautiful. There is no object beneath
the sun, nothing in this wide world, full as it is
lof its allurements, that burns in the heart like
the fresh visions of young angelic loveliness, in
the hey day ofthe feelings. 1 here was some
tiling pure and innocent, and holy, in the mild
lustre of her eje, and something heavenly in the
soft and gentle smile that played upon her
cheek and’lips. 1 look hack through a night ol
years,but I see no object beyond it more distinct
ly than Mty Conway.
Bhe married early in youth, advantageously
and happily: in age and fortune, her partner was
| suitable for her ; their minds too, were similar,
above the ordinary east, finely moulded, full of
sensibility, delicacy and spirit, and the morning
of her matrimonial file wore every prospect of a
long, and delightful, and quiet day of joy; if it
seemed bright to others, it seemed doubly so to
them; and lost in the plenitude of their happiness
’ they forgot, if it had ever entered their minds,
how much care and caution, what watchfulness
and forbearance, what kindness and prudence,
were necessary to secure the peace and tranqui
lity they now enjoyed.—Love does not burn al
ways with the brightness of its first light, but it
often grows deep, sincere and unchanging as
time rolls away. The feelings remain as ten
der and susceptible,after the shield that protect
ed them from every unkind word has been bro
ken.
The occupation in which they engaged was a
profitable one; and Henry was a man of busi
ness, industrious, attentive, intelligent. Every
one who spoke of them, prophesied that they
would speedily realize a splendid independence.
They were the pride of the village; but how
small a matter sometimes gives an unexpected
direction to the fortunes of kingdoms, cities and
individuals. It happened one afternoon, seve
ral months after her marriage, that Mary had a
little tea-party, at which several maidens of the
village were present, and as is often the case, a
long and learned dissertation on the manner of
managing husbands, had been given by one and
another; husbands and prudent wives know
what such talks amount to, and how much value
they are to young house keepers. Unfortunate
ly, Henry returned home fatigued and weary, in
both body and mind, with the labors of the day,
and took his seat at the table; his favorite dish
was not there. He inquired for it in a style that
savored not a little of reproach; it was uninten
tional.—Mary was in the presence of her self
constituted preceptors ; she was ashamed to ap
pear too submissive before them,and besides her
feelings were wounded by her husband’s man
ner; she replied as she thought, spirited, but it I
was really harsh. Henry cast a glance across
the table, pushed back the plate, and rising left
the room. It was the first error. They were
both sensible of it in a moment. But who
should make the first confession, when both were
plainly in the wrong?
As Henry walked down the street engaged
in unpleasant meditations, and enveloping him
self in the gloom, a bright light in the upper—
window of the village inn attracted his notice,
he slept over; a party of gay young men were
about sitting down to supper; they urged him to
join the club; the temptation under the circum
stances of the case was powerful. Supper over,
he delayed a little longer, and a little longer ta
king his leave ; liquor was introduced, and he
drank : music came next, and cards followed ;
though he did not partake in the last, he looked
on the game without abhorrence; the dread of
evil he had been brought up in, had been bro
ken.
Returning late at night, his spirits heated
with wine, and the recollection of his wife’s
behaviour before him, he found her retired, and
passed the night in another room. The mor
ning brought a cool meeting; the formal inter
change of a few words, and a parting without
any explanation or complaint.—The seeds of
discontent were sown; it boro the fruit that
might be expected. Ilis home was no lon
ger the centre of attraction to Henry. His tav
ern companies were gay, good humored, and
attractive, and he left the fireside of his own
house, which no longer wooed him as zealous
ly and powerfully as the alehouse club, of which
he was very soon the centre and life. The se
cond error was committed
Though unseen t>v (heir friends, a dark cloud
was boding over the fortunes of our young cou
ple. It gathered darkness until perceptible to
every eye; and when it burst, curried ruin and
desolation with it. Driven to the dangerous
company of dissipated fashionable men, Henry
contracted their habits; he became a drunkard
and a gambler. The domestic circle was de
serted, and its obligations. Mary met her hus
band’s harshness and faithlessness, with re
proaches and bitterness. They both began
in error and continued so. These occasioned
loud, and long, and violent collisions : a fearful
example was set before their children, who grew
up disobedient, violent and passionate. And
though for many years the impending bolt of ru
in was stayed just above their heads, at las’ it
sped.
Henry died a lingering and awful death. His
estate was found to be insolvent: his children
grew up to ruin, and Mary, the once beautnul
and happy, ended her life in poverty and obscu
rity. Thus fatal in its direct and natural conse
quences, was an erroi, a single error ; the off
spring rather of accident than intention *
I leave the moral for others to trace out and
app!y.
Story from the Mishna of the Rabbins.—Du
ring the absence of Rabbi Meir from his house,
his two sons died; both of them ot uncommon
beauty, and enlightened by the law. His wife
bore them to her chamber, laid them upon the,
bed and spread a white covering over their bo
dies. ‘A lien Rabbi Meir returned, his first en
quiry was for his sons—his wife reached to him
a goblet; he praised the Lord at the going out
ofthe Sabbath, drank and again asked “Where
are my sons, that they too may drink ofthe cup
of blessing ?”
“ They will not be far off,” she replied, and
placed food before him that he might eat. lie
was in a gladsome and genial mood ; and when
he had said grace after the meal, she thus ad
dressed him: Rabbi,with thy permission, I would
fain propose to thee one question
“Ask it then, my love,” he replied.
“A few days ago a person entrusted some
jewels to my custody,and now he demands them,
should l give them back to him ■’
“ This is a question,” said Rabbi Meir,which
my wife should not have thought it necessary to
ask. What! wouldst thou hesitate or be reluc
tant to restore to every one his own?”
“No,” she replied, “hut yet I thought it best
not to restoro them without acquainting thee
therewith.” She then led him to their chamber
and stepping to the bed, took the white co
vering from the dead bodies.”
“Ah! my sons!” loudly lamented their lather
“but ye were my teachers in the law.”
The mother turned away and tvept bitterly.
At length she took the husband by the hand and
said; “Rabbi, didst thou not teach me that we
must not be reluctant to restore that which was
entrusted to our keeping ? See, the Lord gave
and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be
the name of the Lord!”
“ Blessed be the name of the Lord !” ech
oed the holy man ; “ and blessed be his glorious
name forever.”
the western herald.
AUK ARIA, GEORGIA, MAY 23, 1833.
We have received the first of a series of numbers,
over the signature of “Luke,” upon the proceedings of
the late Convention. It shall have a place in our next.
—: 20Z2&Z :
W o understand that a Post otfice has been recently
established at Huntsville, Paulding county; Joel D. flicks,
Post Master. Huntsville is some distance from the place
spoken of as the intended county site. We presume an
other office will be established at the Court-house, as soon
as the location is made known to the Post Office Depart
ment.
Scarlet Fever. —We have had a few cases of this prevail
ing disease in our town within the lust ten days. The at
tacks as yet have been slight, and we are induced to be
lieve that our advantage of pure atmosphere, will relieve
us from the fatal results that \v. hear of in other places.
The Cherokee Council. —Agreeably to previous notice,
a large number of the C'herokees assembled at the Red
Hitt, oa the Tennessee side ofthe Georgia, on the 12 th
inst. Theobject of the meeting was to take into consi- !
deration, the propriety of accepting the offer of the General
Government, recently made them for their claim to lands
on this side ofthe Mississippi. The Council was gene-j
a lly attended upon the part of the intelligent por t j on 0 y
their people, and very liberally attended by tire common
Indians. They remained in Council several days, upon
this all important subject, and have at length as we be
lieve, contrary to their own inclinations, and interests,!
permitted themselves to be made the dupes of intrigue, j
kneeled at the shrine of treacherous rulers, and having j
been gulled out of their own opinions, by the enchanting
eloquence of John Ross, they have dispersed without
agreeing to the proposition so liberal upon the part of the
General Government, and which, should have been by
all means so very desirable to them. We understand
that a large proportion of those who took part in discus
sing the reasonableness of the proposition, and the pre
sent and future interests, and welfare of the Cherokecs
as a people, were in favor of acceding to the proposition.
Among the advocates for a speedy sale, and removal, were
Ridge, Coody, Davis, Martin, Boudinot, and others;
men, whose characters for education, good sense, and re
finement, would certainly entitle them to respect, and
give them an influence in this or any other community.
Yet from motives of personal accumulation, self-aggran
dizement, the fear of not receiving a large portion of the
profits himself, and perhaps too, the probability of going
out of office upon their removal; Mr. Ross with his ingenu
ity, took the conclusion in debate, and wo suppose by liis
strong appeals to his countrymen, and high-sounding epi
thets of abuse upon the genera! government, and particu
larly upon Georgia; winding up with the usual call to the
recollection of the solemn reflection ; attending the de
parture of the children, from the “ bones of their fathers,”
and then abusing the country West of the Mississippi,
he solemnly avowed, if the nation did consent to sell, that
they would never again be a united people, that they
would be scattered to the different extremities ofthe globe,
and expressed his own determination in the result of an
acquiescence upon the part of his people to sell, to go
forthwith to Texes,where ne could find an assylum with
out the jurisdictional limits of the United States. By
such like appeals to the sympathies, arousing all the old
buried prejudices that everexisted; and stiring up the worst
feelings upon the part of his audience towards the whites;
that when the vote was taken upon his resolution, disa
vowing any intention to sell, the motion carried with
out a dissenting voice.
This result proves to us the influence of office, and the
great disposition upon the part of the governed, to fold
their arms in humble submission to the will of the Gov
ernor, and “come weal or woe,” tamely, gently and quiet
ly, give up rights with which nature has endowed them ;
and which man has not the right to gain say. There
now left but one alternative that we can see, toss and t] j e
views, and meet the interests of our red brett- „ L
wu consider it, a large majority of then* - • 4l ’
be effected by opening the roll fc-. •* “. a rnust
, , , 1 S ‘ ‘emigration, and ox
tending to such as wish it, the <■ ,
tlement beyond the M SCt ’
not only willing to v„ i, ut ‘f’ W 0 Ul,eve ■
ces as to rondo-■, f ’ ‘ ‘educed in circumstan
ce as to rondo,,t almost obligatory. The dire hand ofpo
°Xr ‘ he '“ m man >’ P art * of this country, and
be .one, from our knowledge of Indian character’ (i„ a
s-.vage state,) that the pinch of hunger will soon coun
teract the impression made by those of selfish motives
w ith all then strong appeals to arouse the sympathies,and
engender the prejudices of the tgnorant, against their in-
and their only all. Wc believe that by opening
the roll immediately, that many, very many, of the eom~
mor. Indians may be tnduccd to remove within the next six
men I,s and that from the rapid increaseof w hite pop„,„-
t,o, i lr ‘ thls countr y, the remainder will discover the noce
sity of going, or selling their claim to the country, arid
buying land, and becoming citizens amon - us
—■gg:— ** ‘
Jlurana As the exemption or prevalence of disease in
countries and places newly settled, however healthy the
climate, pure the atmosphere, or devatedthe position,'is not
uiilrcqncntly .nflucnced by the existence oflocal causes;
it is perhaps, not presuming too much, to suppose tint ihc
same causes if permitted to remain, may ultimately
duce the same effect, in the healthy and pure atinoaphe w
hy which we are surrounded. With these impressions
we call the attention of our Citizens to the follow ing n>
solutions, adopted on the 23d inst. with reference to & rc .
inovul of every latent or local cause, supposed to be pro.
ductivc of disease, and which in our opinion, exists at this
time to an extent, demanding the immediate action of th
committee named. The Committee having been inves.
ted with authority to act, and a fund having been in this
ns in other cases, liberally provided forcarrying the inten.
tion of our citizens into effect, wclook to them, with confi.
dencc in their discretion,for the adoption of whatever pr c .
cautionary measures may be deemed necessary. “When
danger is to be apprehended, nothing is lost by an early
and speedy removal of the cause.
PUBLIC MEETING.
At a meeting of the Citizens of the town of
Auraria, Lumpkin county, convened in the Court
House on the 23rd inst., in pursuance of public
notice, Maj. John Powell was called to the
Chair, and George W. Paschal, Esq. appointed
Secretary.
The object ofthe meeting was there explained
by Col. William E. Walker, who also submitted
the following preamble and resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas in anew, flourishing, and rapidly
improving town like this, where there is no re
gularly constituted police, it is a consideration
of the first importance that the necessary, p rc .
cautionary measures should be adopted for the
preservation of the public health; and the more
particularly at the present time, when it is abso
lutely necessary that we should be prepared
against an attack of that most direful scourge of
the human race, the Cholera, which has been
rapidly extending its ravages over different parts
of the habitable Globe; and which is invited here
by so many causes, produced by the immense
quantities of decayed vegetable matter in our
streets, the crowded state of the buildings, to
gether with the density of our population.’
lie it literef oi e Resolved, That tor the purpose
of more effectually accomplishing the objects
contemplated, in the foregoing preamble, that
Maj. John Powell, Maj. Thomas C. Bower,
Dr. John H. Thomas, Dr. I. R. Foster, and
M illiatn Dean, Esq., be appointed a committee,
for the purpose of raising and collecting by sub
scription,a sufficient sum ot money,tor thorough
ly cleansing and keeping in repair the streets of
the town of Auraria.
Resolved, That the said Committee be reques-j
ted to act as a police for, and in behalf of the
town; and that they be invested with authotitv |
to make and adopt such regulations as will 1
best comport with the safety, comfort and health 1
of our citizens.
Resolved, I hat it be earnestly recommended I
to the Citizens of the town, as the surest means \
of avoiding disease, to use their utmost efforts ;
in removing every thing like filth from about;
their houses and yards.
Resolved, I hat for theinformation ofthe pub
lic generally, the proceedings of this meeting be
signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and pub
lished in the Western Herald.
JOHN POWELL, Chairman.
GEORGE IV. PASCHAL, Secretary
Reduction Convention.— How farand to what extent, ifc
expectations ol tne people have been realized and answer
ed, or their wishes consulted by the proceedings of tba
late Convention, is a question for their future consider!
tion. The more we have examined the subjee , the far- :
thcrarc we from arriving at the conclusion, that any on
object proposed to bo effected, has been answered by the I
meeting ofthis convention, not even in the reduction of 1
members, to soy nothing of the still greater .inequality
proposed to be introduced in the amendments which will
be offered for the ratification of the people. The Con
vention embraced a two fold object, reduction and an
equalization of the plan of representation. The Federal
basis lias been abandoned. Territory, and not popula
tion, form the basis of the Senatorial branch. Legisla- ■
tion based upon sucli a principle, is a farce. If nature, her
trees, her swamps or her marshes, form the basis of repre
sentation ofthe lower counties; surely the mountains ami
rivulets, and gold of the up country, should also partie
pate in the spoils, and share in the dignity of legislation.
We shall adduce but one instance; Irwin and Telfair
counties, forming a senatorial distnet, with a representa
tive population q£OGC, arc entitled to one Senator. Hall
and Jackson, forming another, with a representative po
pulation of 20,534, are only entitled to one. In the House
of Representatives, Irwin and Telfair, with a representa
tive population of 966, send one member; Hall and Jack
son, three, with a representative population of 20,5#i
This is an extreme case, it shows however tire inequalif,
of the system. We have facts and inferences c onn ,-td
w.th this subject, which we shall hereof, 0r pre3Co t-<WI
limits at present barely allow us for the foHowitg
winch embrace tl V e opinio,, u( some few of
the state papers upon lb-, i. nporta!it qilcs u on .
Frorr, t! jC q cor „j a j ourua |,
thr. renre ° RC ‘V I** 1 ** see at a glance, that it leaves
• - * ‘ se ‘itation more unequal than before, by
<= -'g <o mere territory which has hitherto bad
i so gneveous an ascendancy in our councils, a
still greater predominance. It stifles the voice
and prostrates the influence of the slave liold
ing, the principal tax paying portion ofthe State,
by adopting the Northern and repudiating the
Southern ptinciple. By the Southern Pritui <
pie, wo mean of course the mixed basis on
which stands the Southern Rights in the Union:
and which having existed during the lives oi
most of us, the people have purchased or reared
l their property with reference to it, and will
which the security and value of that properly
a,e intimately connected; a basis in fine to
which they have been all along accustomed,
against which no general complaint was heard,
and much less any instructions given, to after,
or to touch. This is now proposed *o be torn
suddenly away ; and in its place tobe substituted
just that basis most ardently desired by those
who are plotting the ruin ofthis peculiar inter
est ofthe South. That the people of Georgia,
will deliberately adopt and ratify, such a suici
da| surrender, ofthis key of their political p°‘
sition, this main conservative principle of theit
social rights and interests, there can be but lib
, tie apprehension. But the mere proposal
:[ work an injury that can hardly he estimated-
Garrison the olitor ot'om of til? incendiary f a ’
