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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 ’