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The Western Herald.
By HOLT & JONES.
VOIa.I.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
Terms.—Tiirec dollars per annum, payable within six
months after the receipt of the lirst number, or four dol
lars if not paid within the year. Subscribers living out of
the state, will be expected in ail cases, to pay in advance.
No subscription received for less than one year, unless
Iho money is [laid in advance; and no paper will be dis
continued until all arrearages arc paid, except at the op
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tlement of their accounts.
Advertisements will bo inserted at the usual rates;
when the number of insertions is not specified, they will
be continued until ordered out.
tAll Letters to the Editor or Proprietor, on mat
ters connected with the establishment, must be pos t paid
inorder to secure attention.
•Cj 2 ’ Notice of the sale of Land and Negroes, bv Ad
ini fistrators, Executors, or Guardians, must be published
bstTf days previous to the day of sale.
The sale of personal Property, in like manner, must be
published forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must be
published FORTY DATS.
Notice that Application will be made to the Court of
(Ordinary for Leave to sell Land or Negroes,must be pub
lished FOUR MONTHS.
Notice that Application will be made for Letters cf Ad
ministration, must bo published thirty days and for
Letters of Di un'ssion. six months.
Wli LIAM E. J()5E\
Attorney at Law.
HAS removed to Dahlohnega, the county Site of
Lumpkin county, and will attend the Superior
' < 'ourls in this and the neighboring counties.
Jan. 31.—41—ts
TOWN LOTS FOR SALE
"WM7 ILL be sold at Pahl bnega Luinpk'n County, on
$ v Vidm sday and 'I Lursdav, the 19th and 20lb of
February next, all the unsold Lot- in said Town, on Lot
No. 951, 12th District Ist Section. These Lots comprise
.. number of be. iness Lots, and elevated situations sui
t'd to private residences. Persons desiring topureha.se
li>r cither purpose will do well to attend, as the sale will
be without reserve and the last chance to obtain such pro
perty m decidedly the most flourishing Village in the up
country ofGeorgi i. Terms liberal and made known on
the day cf sale.
I’. R. M’CRARY.
Proprietor,
Jan. 31.—10—tds
ATTENTION MECHANICS.
SEALED proposals will be received until Wednes
day the 19lli day of February next, for the building
ofa Court-house at Dahlohnega, Lumpkin County, upon
11*C plan of the Coiirt-houoce in she Counties of Troun
< ,'nwetn < ’ampbell and the one now building at liaim s
villc, in Hall county, ■ xccpt that the foundation must be
•>f stone, al least nine inches above the ground. Each
proposal to be accompanied with the names of the securi
ties who will be offered —the time in which the work will
be completed, and the terms of payment that will be re
quired.
E. P. HALE, j. i. c.
JAMES BRYAN, i. i. c.
A. N. BAIRD, j. i. c.
Jan. 31.—40—3 t.
The Southern Recorder, and Southern Banner, will
• i. h give the above one insertion and forward their ac
,ounls to this office £>r payment.
ADMINISTR ATOR’S SALE.
MW7 7I Lbo sold at public outcry, at the Court I leu c
Vt in Lumpkin county, on the first I’uesday in
Apnl next, in pursuance of an ordered the I lonorable the
<'ourt of Ordinary of Burke county, Lot No. 10.35, 12th
District, Ist Section, now Lumpkin county, as the Kcal
I .state of Thomas 11. Attaway deed, for the benett ofthe
Dura and creditors. Terms of sale cash.
JOHN ROGERS. ( AJ .
JOHN OWENS, S AUlur “
Burke Co. Jan. 31. —41 tds
GEORGIA, LUMPKIN COt NTV.
WHEREAS Harnson W. Riley applies to me
for letters of Administration on the I.stale of
.Morgan 11. Snow, late of said county, deceased :
These are ther fon’to cite and admonish all and sin
«»nlar, the kindred and creditors «>t <aid deceased, to be
mid aniwar at my office wiliim the tun - prescribed by
Hw, to shew cause il any they have, why said letters
fdiould not be granted.
Given under my band 31st January, 1833.
M. P. GUILLAIN, c. c. o.
Jun. 31. IL—3AI.
SM* EL .1. BEE BEE,
Bullion ami Exdiaasc Office,
31 WALL STREET,
NEW-YORK.
PURCI I ASI'S (.old in Bar or Dusk, at the highest
hrenuum. Gold can be as cerrvc’Jy stayed in
tin-citv. as at the .Mint. Canncster- sent to the above
< tfice, will meet With the grvate-lde; ;>:iti h, and the pro
<, els [Mid by draft at sight. LI per ecnl Commission.
Nov. 14.—32 —wfim
FOR SALE.
US NEGROES, &c.
Office Superintendtinl ej Rcad.<, <\c.
Easton District, January 11, 1834.
Bn olxjdicnce to an Wtofthe legislature of lhe State
<U Georeia,ai>i'roved by hts Excellency thcl.oiei
not on lhe 2Ut day of December, l?->*. 1 will sell, at pul>-
hcouten- tn the highes bidder, at the coiul-lmus. mine
VOUNA Y ofELBER l\
On ALndoy Ilk t'fi day o’ .*f ..-c’i next. Jue fo.ioviing
named Nl-.GROES belonging to the state , t Georgia,
and attached to the lancoTii station, together with lhe
Mule*. Carts Tool*. Ke. connected ttiervto:
llaaha, (Mills.) Nv.h, (Zcliars,) Abram. (F. ( u.‘ >.)
Lawson. (Watkins.) Ann«t> ud, (Gia. -.) Tor.;. (D s.)
Moaca, (Sim* ) Richm.'nd,(Bark%] v « al'-ec, [C-,nr tn]
Isaac, (ua»*n,) i e;u, (llowL.,] a...l J..i’ • t . i
and
(>,s Afenday the 2l’h a g, a/ .M rrr«
In manner, at the court h>us- m th” Col'NT Y <»t
MORGAN, the follow ng nam IN , I’d)! (, > .
i:'j to the Stale snd aUadwJ to tha G and
Msdison station, tnplher with Hie Mules, c..c Horse,
Cant*, Ti»K &c. connected ih- .cm -
|xrvlon. Renjarnitg {Rostan.] \\ a.us, {t’n - v.’ Ab.-a
--1 am. (Mealing] IWy.lKennon.] Axum. [Car- < | i'om
iXVGs-.] Ned. (Ramwy.} George. |!w a . 'a.' I', t- r
(e'»rple.| DaA. (OnQ H<-nry, Jo'hua
Jcerr. (Runndla.] I-arkin, (Porter,) Abralaam
fk'olhniei Naftiaoid. (Retry,] J<xpb. |! ope,) Joseph
(Ganera! Pope,) George. (.Vinter.) Joe. (Rowland.
(London, (RnsnO C’lr' ’.] f-”’*
AUgAiOA, LU.UPKIW COIIWy, GEOKiJIA FEBiIUASiI 7, IS3I
1° ’ L'r’ - ’ ar ) • a, ‘ ian ’ (L’ollins,) Berry, (Thompson)
| Jerry, (Lumpkm,) Harry, (Porter,) Eihck. and Mark,
i (Burton) and
x r :•> Tridaij,ti':e 28th day of March next,
7?J lke m!lnner » at the Court-house in the COUNT Yof
DEKALB, the following named MEGROES, belonging
to the State and attached to the Cherokee station, togeth
er with ther.lules, Carts, Tools, &c. connected thereto:
s John, (Baptist,) Adam, Zach. Jesse, Tonev, Hamp- I
- ton, Harry, Tom, (Drummer.) Tom, (Jackson,) Walker,
Jim, (Rutherford,) Aloses, (Akins,) Jacob, (Blount,)
- Guy, York, Ben Isaac, Miles, Ransom, Peter, Jim, Bca-
- ver, and Bob; and
On Tuesday, the Ist day of ,'lpril next,
. | fn like manner, at the Court house in the COUNTY of
[ HALL, the following NEGROES, belonging to the
State, and attached to the Gainesville station, together
with the Mules, Carts, Tools, &c. connected thereto :
,i T . ete L (Bell,) Lewis, (Lee,) Hardy, Jerry, (Eidson.)
i or?" (k’ojbc-tt,) Frank, (Willis,) Abraham, (Oglethorpe,
; Billy. (Ketchum,) Davy, (Mahoney) Dick, (Gilliaifi.) i
i a n ‘ os > (Mahoney,) Isaac, (Hardeman.) Matt, (Smith,) !
i Arthur, [Drummond,] Doctor, (Longstreet,) Essex,
[Wood,) Toney, (Toombs,) Joe, (Sorrow,) Jacob, (Free- .
man,) Adam, (Larry,) Freeman, (Towns,) Sam, (Parks,)
Jeff, ( alton,) Peter, (Mills,) Jeff, (Mahoney,) Smith, |
Henry, (Mahoney,) Henry, (Booker,) and Daniel,
(Toombs;) and
. Monday, the 7lh day cf .tpril next,
In like manner at the Court-house in the COUNTY of
BALD -VIN, the following named NEGROES, belong
ing to the State and attached to the Milledgeville and
Hawkinsvdle, sfation, together with the Mules, Carts, |
I ools, &c. connected thereto :
Scij.io, Jesse, July, Andrew, Moses, Ellick, August,
Sam, I hilip Sandy, Jim, (Hume,) Spanish, Town, I
Romeo, Gib, Luke, George (Mann,) March, Joe, Anlho
ny, Brutus, Robert, Billy, and Gideon.
lor the information oi those persons who may wish to : ’
purchase, the following sections of the beforb montioned
act Df t.ic Legislature, are herewith published:
“sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the autfurritii aforesaid, |
i hat the said Superintendents and each of them shall,
ana they are hereby authorized, as the agent of the State,
to execute to the purchaser or purchasers of said slaves or
either of them, good and sufficient titles [warranting the ‘
title thereof only] for and to snid slave or slaves, and de- ■'
hver unto him or them, the same, on said purchasers pay- -
ing in cash one. fifth of the purchase money therefor, and 1
the balance in thirty days thereafter, on tendering to the
said Superintendent a certificate from the' Cashier of the
Central Bank of Georgia, that the said purchaser’s note
forthesaid balance had been discounted in said Bank,
which the said Bank is hereby directed anfl authorized to
do, in such manner anti on such terms as arc usual in dis
counting on loans: Provided the same shall not exceed
twenty live hundred dollars.
Bec. 5. Be it further eaacttd by the authority aforesaid,
' on failure of sai! purchaser to pay the said one fifth
of the amount of said purchase money, at the time of said
purchase, the .-aid Superintendent shall proceed forthwith
I to resell saiil slaves, not crying again the bid of such de
faulting purchaser during said sale, and on failure of said
purchaser to pay the balance of paid purchase money, or
lender said certificate as aforesaid, within the space of
thirty days after said sale, said purchaser shall forfeit the
said one fifth so paid, and said Superintendent shall, on
thirty days notice being given thereof, as aforesaid, resell
said slave m the maimer, at the nlace nnd on ibn
mm conmuvus m.icm ueioie pit .-"'Tim d.
WILLIAM C. LYMAN.
Supcrl:d:nd.e'.it, fyc. Eastern Division,
Jan. 25, —40—w2m.
NOTICE.
tF RII’ARN all persons from trading for a Due Bill
for two hundred and Fifty Dollars, (250,) dated 1 Ith
December, 1833, given by me to E.T. L. Spencer, as the
conditions which are expressed in the due Bill have failed
and therefore not payable by me.
’ SAAIUEL RUTHERFORD.
Jan. 11,—39—tf
M|||L . - ,-hjjj- l MMW—Tm—AM 1
Sheriff’s airs for .-’rbruarj in i
FORSYTH COUNTY. I
Lot. Dis. See. Property of To Satisfy.
882 3 I Toliver Reed, Abram Miles,
309 11 1 II in. F. Roper, Henry Fitzsimmons,
(576 11 1 John 'l. Giles, Thomas Jackson,
2*20 i l 1 John Stuitman, John M. Sims,
1066 2 I Jas. L. Lawless, Robert .Uitehell,
917 11 I .Vitchel Bnlloch, Joel!’. Dickerson. I 1
417 I I PeterTrummel, A. Wellborn,
153 3 I HL. Dunlap, Allen B. < hastain,
197 11 Lion B. Pritchard, Robert L Laue,
j 578 2 I Littleberry Duke, Jas. Austin,
I 330 11 John Dazier, David Cooper,
POSTPONED SALE.
*292 I 1 Closes Duncan, R V ('&. V, Rufiin,
260 3 1 Dennis Shay, Ke? .n R Cannon,
CASS COUNTY.
922 21 2 Aaron Crawford, Joseph G Smith,
i 1023 It 3 Hans’dA MGehi-.Wm. Morgan &.Co.
239 6 3 Jas. H, Russel, Isaac Abrahams,
823 4 3 WalterS Douglas, Samuel Galhher,
172 15 3 John Ingrain, Robert Rowan,
£O9 1 3 Robert McTyre, McDaniel & Goodman,
56 17 3 Joseph Shaw, A. Armstead,
245 22 2 John Conner, V» ilium H. Dorsey,
FLOYD COUNTY.
726 3 4 James Bell, R< • se,
616 4 William Bailey, ! visF. Homs,
! ,312 t 4 Sampson 151 o!•!<" s Hendricks, .
MURRAY COUNTY.
53 8 3 Thas. M. Hoffan, John Cnr«ilc,
116 12 4 JuliusG. Darhv, Samu.l McJunkin,
266 9 4 )
240 9 4 ( Amos Spillers, J »«. L. Cniin nrhjm, •
21)2 9 4 Samuel Ke'ler, <>rt ;■ >< inxxlom,
290 10 3 ) Stephan W ill.t -d, bn K. Fo<h r,
325 12 3 (
239 10 3 Hannah G"'_ UTdinin B,Maic.ne,
201 9 3 Bridcar Hum s, L. Abraham,
31*0 9 4 Anderson .lire, J. L. &A. D. Abram. ,
302 II I Johu i lard:n:.c. Jacob L. Abraiiam,
Jan. 25.—4.1
UXIVFRSSITY OF GF.O.
FWViE next College S<-«:onwfl commence on th •
U 16th January. 1834. For adt:ii.-« :m into th? Fresh-!
• man Class, a candidate mus» have :t . . >r.-vct knowled --'
' »,ft’iccro’s Orations, Vireil, John > ' sm th Greek
i'e-starnent, Grneca Minora or Jacobs tireek Reader,
En ?’ish Grammer, and Geography, and be well acquxnt-
> ed with Aritbmct.c.
Studies of tiie Freshm; n Class.
* Is?. Term, to .Vor..—L.vy. Gr.rca, Mayra, Ist
H vo’. eommenectl, and tiie French
I i 2d Term, from Jan. to riprii.— Livy, Gru'ca
‘ 1 vo'. and French continued.
’! ti Tr-wu .dp ii to.-lag— Uvv a-d Grr-a Ma. ora, Ist
1 ve’. < mclu-i >l, French continued, and Isay’s Algebra,
f t:: ' Ratio and Pnapcruon.
; stadics of the Sophomore Class.
', Ist Term, .to .Mr. — Horace and Grr.va Majorn,
t 2d vol. comment <l. Algebra concluded, and three Looks
i- 1 oftiromem , (Plsvtkir s I-.uckd.)
», , 2i Term', Jan. to .Juril—< t rears May>ra, ‘-d ' , ... i-
r. I t.nued; Horace and Goomctry concluded, undjam- >ogs
s.
I», M T<r—..ipiH tj.duz—Gr*sca ' la-ora, 2,v .. eon
c’.uded; Modern luMiffuages, Plain > nc* 1 o« •Mt n
,] oration. Sont'cmer. F.o-anv, ar»«i I 't.> r > Hsstov*.
( y.< » -.2 i: . ndc L '
Incomes, the Herald of a Golden World.
i!l e k bO r’S the first book of Cicero de Oratore, the first
book of Homer’s Iliad, Blair’s Lectures, and dlmead’sl’
Mechanic's in part,
tb r r° U ? h c!asses regularly attend to French during
tnc I'lcslunan and Sophomore years, yet it is not made an
indispensable requisite for admission into any of the clas
ses. Provision is made for those who enter without a
knowledge of French, to study that language, for which
there is no additional charge oftuition.
7 hose who desire it, will have opportunity of studyin"
Hebiew, Spanish, German, and Italian without any add£
tional charges. J
The rates of tuition are $33 per annum, payable half
yearly m advance.
Board can be obtained in respectable families at from
8 to $lO per month.
By order of the Faculty,
WM. L. MITCHELL, Sec’y.
December I I. —35—ts. J
TO TEACHERS.
rj?|7HE annua! meeting of tKc Teachers’ Society of
.EL Georgia, will be held in Savannah, on Monday the
23d December next, (third Monday.)
We are authorized to state, that the hospitalities of the
city w ill be extended io all Teachers who attend, on ap
plication being made to 'essrs. Williams and Birch,
Principals of the Chatham Academy.
By order of Society.
C. P. BEMAN, President.
R. C. Brown. Secretary.
December 14,-36,
Gold Lots for gale in Cherokee.
.No. 287, 2nd District, Ist Section,
No. 579. 3rd District, 4th Section. Forfurther
infbrmatiou, address A. B.GREENE,
Nov: 9. —31 —ts In Augusta. Georgia
GUARDIANS SALE
A Agreeably to an order of the honorable the Inferior
JA Court of Newton county, when sitting as a court
of ordiniary, will be sold on the lirst Tuesday in Febru
ary next, at the Court House in the town of Covington,
Newton county, a Negro woman by the name of Leah,
and her child Clarinda. Sold as the property ofthe minor
orphans of Joseph Howard, deceased. Terms made
known on the day.
THOMAS J. GRAY Guard.
Nov. 16.—32—tds.
PROPECTUS
OF THE
SEMI- H EEKL Y EXAMINER
Published in Philadelphia.
IN addition to the Semi-monthly Examiner, which will
l»" continued the same as heretofore, there will be
published by the subscriber, commencing on the 3d of
December, 1833, a semi-weekly paper, to be called the
i SEMI-WEEKLY EXAMINER, upon the following
i plan
It will be published every Tuesday and Friday, upon
aa uapci wi ahcct in ii v> 111 iR- luauu in I
the Semi-monthly Examiner; the latest foreign news;
imports as the state of foreign and domestic markets for
American staples; and such other matter as usually con
stitutes the contents of a city newspaper, designed for
distant circulation; studying rather usefid information,
than literary selections, of which, however, it will have a
full share.
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who buy to sell again.
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constitute himself an agent /or others, by availing himself
ofthe discount allowed upon a number of copies.
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who ma v subscribe for the semi-weekly paper, and wish
the former tobe discontinued, may do so, in which case, he
will be entitled to receive, after the expiration ot his year’s
ftib-cription to the semi-wetkly, us many numbers ofthe
'.in as he would have been entitled to receive ot the
weekly, had he notonlcred its discontinuance. Thus,
if he should subscribe on the 3d of December to the semi
weekly | aper, at which time nine Nos. of the twenty six,
<>f which the year of the scini-montlily consists, will have
L on published, lie will roecivs 17 Nos. of the semi-week-
Iv paper, after the 3d of Dec«a>bcr, 1834. This arrange-
which will give a large sheet for a smnll one, is
a j • ’.ed as the <m’. v conceivable mode of adjusting a mat
ter involving fractions of a dollar, and it is hoped will meet
with general approbation. No semi-monthly paper, will,
however, l>e discontinued without express directions.
Ail communications tobe addressed to the subscriber,
CON DY RAGUET.
Jan. 25.—40,
PROSPECTS
OF TUtt
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER,
NEW SERIES.
Tl i Jil. B. Lamtir, and fl • 7J. Tinslev.
IN R(»M the commencement ofthe > <a ;> tnc
( oiVMFt -s Esutisr.RwiU be Published by Mira
h mi B. Lamar and W illuun «• !“ of
pr.HCipli- of the ‘ State Rtfhts party of l.enrgM, as an
...... i . . Pre u hie and Resolutions ofthe State
n MJedgevule, November 13. 1833
w 7 'i are :>ln a~V before the publicjtscolumns howeverw 11
~ . ,'ev >'<d i\clu*> vc ’ ,v to pvolitics; but such attention
I ‘ I V r,.gn News. C_nd Gen. Intelhgence
C T-r cnt,re! - V n 7 r ' n V
tenuis -nd on the pip-- r u*<i« thjß ,for such
r : -r '?XT'; . c r cl ’.itore and the c.vrtrmplated improve
, I--.-r have beer, made the occasion ot issuing
using Its patronage and exTcn-img
“•! u'atwn Toese fnendlv to the cause w h(ch u will
j or Four DcJLam w-thm the y« r -
PROSPECTUS,
For publishing a new weekly Newspaper at
’ Auraria Georgia, to be entitled
a THE MINERS RECO DER,
? SPY IN THE WEST.
IN the publication of this Paper, the Editor will from
tune to time, furnish the public with all the informa
t i tion he may be enabled to procure, in relation to the pro
gress of the Mines. In addition to wliich, he will shortly
1 be furnished with a series of Essays, written bv Literary
Gentlemen, who have taken a Geological view of this
country, in which will be shewn the complete arrange
ment of the different Strata of earths and rocks, forming
this interesting section of country, and in what kind Gold
is most usually found. The Editor will endeavor at all
times to procure from Mineralogists, literary men, and
P practical observers, such information, as will keep up a
> constant investigation of the various minerals found in
' this country.
, In the way of Miscellaneous matter he will make the
. best selections in liis power both cf a domestic and for
eign nature.
As regards the political course of this paper, the Editor
i will endeavor to pursue a liberal course keeping at all
I times his columns opeji to the discussion of political sub
jects, wliich are or may be of interest to the country.
In relation to his own political opinions, he considers
( them to be such as have been maintained in the Southern
States, from the adoption of the Federal Constitution
down to the present time. He believes that Federal en
croachmeilt?, should be guarded against with vigilance
■ 1 and repelled wit!* promptness. Yet however in contend
ing for the Rights of the States, he cannot go to the ex
. traordinary and dangerous extent of some of the politi
cians in a sister State; because he believes it would ulti
mately end in the destruction of the Government and all
its Rights.
His opinions however, he considers as nothing more
than the opinions of any other individual, he will there
fore endeavor to aet the part of a faithful Journalist with
out being subservient to the views of any party, leaving
his paper open to the investigation of truth, and all inter
est ing subjects by all.
l‘he fisst number of this paper will appear in a few
weeks.
Terms —Three Dollars per annum payable in ad
vance or Three Dollars and fifty cents at the end of die
‘ year.
Advertising at the usual rates.
Editors of other papers are requested tojgive the above
a few insertions.
MILTON H.GATHRIGIIT.
Jan. 31.-40
LETTE FROM GOV. TROUP.
Washington, 10th Feb. 1833.
Mv Dear Sir—Knowing that you wish to
possess my views of the present state of affairs,
tKeVonnctioTj;
that whether they happen to be in accordance
with your own or not, they will receive a kind
and hospitable treatment, more than proportion
ed to their deserts;and if valueless be dismissed
with the generosity and urbanity so congenial to
your nature; otherwise, it may be a little legacy
to your son, my namesake, who, if he inherit
the patriotism of the father, and virtues of the
mother, may find them useful to him. in sustain
ing in many an hour of tiial, as we have done,
the rights of the States, against a very strong
government created by the States, now threat
ening, by a most unnatural action, to cripple, to
humble, and finally to destroy its creator, which
in the natural and healthful action of the system
would be also its preserver.
I am not certain that you arc aware o£»*y
early and uniform disrelish of the doctrine of
Nullification, as maintained by the ruling party
in a sister State. My objections to that doc
trine were unconnected with party oi any kind,
: and were founded on the difficulty of reconcil
ing the peacefulness and constitutionlaity which
it asserted with thit powerful remedial process,
by which the wheels ofthe Federal Government
would be stopped, ns well as that resort to con
struction (lhe old Federal sin,) by which alone
the doctrine could be maintained, which has in
volvcd us in all our troubles, and which is equal
ly good at any time to establish a veto against
the General Government, a power to protect
manufactures, or a power to do any thing a ma
jority in Congrese ph ascs. It was easy to per- :
ceive, that such a remedy might, by possibility
he peaceful, that depending on the other party,
but not certainly peaceful. It was more diffi
cult to see how it could be constitutional, be
cause as no power was given by the Constitu
tion to the Stales to icsist the laws of the Uni
ted States, none such could be derived by im
plication or construction.* The derivation cf
remedies or |>owers by construction being ac
cording to lhe republican doctrine, inadmissible.
Indeed’, no Constitution would authorize resist
ance to the laws, without defining explicitly
how, in what manner, and by whom such resis
tance could be lawfully made. It is assumed :
therefore, that the laws must be executed; and (
at all events, according to the stipulations ofthe ;
Federal Compact. But who, in the last resort,
ar« the judges of these stipulations None are
created bv the compact, other than the Lo ,jrts
of the United States. The junsdictmn ofthe
i! Courts ofthe United States, must be comim-dI
' to judicial cases, to the exclusion of political,
' questions between aoverigns; and so tar the
’ Courts oi the United States have paramount ju
, risdiction. The “controversies between two er
1 more States.” mean only such judical questions
' as are presented by “cases in law oz equity J to
’ which their jurisdiction is limited by ihe Con-
• What arc called the reserved rights " in the j
I r Aiwivcri bv the dcoplc and which have not been giv n
7 mean soverei sn power, then indeed I
” 3 i-1 retained a pc.-
” a foXlf! «h.ch would be -3kine
• e seveu I? n. when it u only
’ both delegated and reserve! pc* -»
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stitution. Political controversies or questions
> between governments, could not have been in
tended, they not admitting the interpretation of
cases in law or equity, much less could politics!
controversies between the States and Federal
’ Government have been intended, they not being
recognized by the Constitution as parties in any
I cases. If therefore, in controversies between
1 those parties no independent tribunal has been
established for their adjustment, we canjiavo
no alternative but the resort to one or both of
the parties—if to one, which one ?—if to both,
1 why? If the parties werejjqual in all respects,
reason would prescribe equtfl participation in the
adjustment, which would be an adjustment by
i negotiation—ls they were not equal, but the one.
I was in power and authority superiorto the other,
the same reason might claim for the superior
; party a participation in the adjustment, propor
tioned to that superiority. Between the govern
ment of a state and the government ofthe Uni
ted States, this equality, as they both represent
sovereigns, must be admitted—No superiority
can be claimed for the government of the Uni
ted States, because ol its representation of more
sovereigns than one, as all their powers in mass,
amount only to the powers of one sovereign.
Regarding the government ofthe United States,
therefore, apart from the Constitution, in the
light of any other independent government, the
equality between it and a state government es r
tablishos the right of equal participation in the
adjustment of any political controversy which
may arise between them. But, as between th©
government of the United States and the sove
reignty of a state, there can be no such equality,
the same sovereignty having created both go
vernments and standing in relation to each other
of creator and creature—hence the right of q
sovereign s ate to decide for itself, without ap
peal; stilll it is among the most sacred of its
duties, to fulfil strictly, all its engagements, es«-
pecially its constitutional engagements, they
being ofthe highest and most solemn import,
not engagements to the government of the Uni
ted States, but to the other sovereign states.—
There is no sovereignty in what is called tho
United States—The United States is nothing
but a or confederacy, the style of
which is, “the United States;” and Government
according to our doctrine, is not sovereign, but
is agent or servant ofthe
tFe people of the states. It is in virtue of this
sovereignty that the state government is formed;
and it is in virtue of the same sovereignty that
the United States government is formed. This
sovereignty, wherever it exists, is omnipotent;
it is the same in one independent community as
another, and is insusceptible of division, of in
( crease or diminution; it can only be destroyed,
by destroying the community in which it exists*
Constitutions, and governments are emanations
from it, as light from the sun, which parts with
it constantly, without itself being impaired, or
wasted, or weakened. Hence it is, that it makes
and unmakes at pleasure, and knows tfo superi
or but Divinity, and no law but the universal
law ordained by that Divinity, which is the laro
of right and justice. According to ou r thcont
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reign, is to form Constitutions, which prescribe
the rules for the conduct of the agent or servant
called the government. If the sovereign is di.°,
satisfied either with the rule or with the conduct
of the agent, it can abolish or change it at plea,
sure. If it can abolish or change the rule.it
can destroy the agent, because the rule is of
higher power and authority. Admitting there,
fore, that a state may, at any time destroy its
ow n state Constitution, can a state, of its own
plesure, destroy the Constitution of the United
States ? The same power which created tho
one, has created the other—and may it not, for
causes, which shall seem good to itself, change
or destroy the one, as well as the other ? Tho
answer is, No. Because other states equally
sovereign as itself, are equal parties to it. But
although a state may not for this reason alter or
destroy the Constitution, it may throw it off; it
may release itself; it may, by its own volition,
for justifiable causes, cease to be a party to it.
Are there no such good and justifiable causes i
Yes—There an- such as will justify the breach
of a compact Between sovereigns by ono of the
parties to that coinpact; many of which causes
are to be fuunn in that public law which is the
Divine law, which is lhe law of right and justice
and which being the paramount law, is as con
trolling over compacts and Constitutions, as the
sovereign itself. Let it not be said that the gG
[ uernment of the United States, formed by tLo
compact, is paramount,because itis ucompound
of all the sovereignties of all the states. Sove.
1 reignty, it is r< pt ated, admits of no degrees. It
is the same in a small state as in a great one;
1 the same in the state of Delaware or Rhode
Island, a* in the greatest community. Itis
' said, that lhe stales have parted with many of
their sortr* - gn powers, as the power to make
war, tiie power to make treaties, the power to
regulate foreign con.merer, &.c. kc. But this
is a mistake, they have not parted with them;
they have merely authorized lhe common agent
| to exercise them, under prescribed rules Aid ii.
I nutations; the powers themselves residing in
‘ lhe states, and inseparable from them as inde.
pendent communitii s. It is true, the Consti.
tution speaks of powers granted and powers
reserved; but this only means powers of the
States to be cxerci- by the government of
’ the United States; ano powers ofthe states to
i be exerci-ed by the J-t<And with regard
i to the poweis prohibited to the Gcneial Govern
5 ment and to tho stules, it i only a declaration
? ! i,„ -.’her F’a“ - -t il w'-H "rt ex'-r
NO. 42.