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The Committee to whom was confided the
trust of preparing a Pfeumble and Constitution,
to be submitted to this meeting, preparatory to
fne formation of a State Rights’ Association in
the County of Gwinnett, submit the following,
a’s the result of their deliberations :
The meeting, which is called in conformity
with the request of the State Rights’ Meeting
held in Milledgeville, in November last, is
deemed by your Committee, of the utmost im
portance, in producing unanimity of action, in
support oftho.se great conservative principles of
State Rrights, hitherto so efficacious in pros
trating the encroaching spirit of consolidation.
The triumph of these principles, so much to be
desired, will essentially depend upon the for
mation of County and Local Associations, and
upon the dissemination of those great political
truths maintained by the illustrious Jeff rson,
affirmed by the Virginia and Kentucky Resolu
tions, and sanctioned by the approbation of the
present patriots of our country. The state of
political parties in Georgia, and throughout the
Union, culls loudly for this concert of action, to
preserve all that is dear to freemen. There
seems to be a spirit abroad in the land, that is
likely to be fatal to constitutional liberty anti
subversive of the republican doctrines of '9B
end ’99, and in is sought to be es
tablished, doctrines, calculated to change our
political institutions, and destroy our civil rights.
If these doctrines should prevail, then farewell
to freedom and State Sovereignty -then will the
altar of our political faith be destroyed, and its
glories extinguished—our political opponents
seizing upon a deceptive name, that of Union
Democratic Republican, have lately formed a
new party, formed of a coalition of the Federal
ists of the old school and consolidationists of
the present day the expectants of office and
parasites of power, and arc endeavoring to
inculcate doctrines contrary to the vital princi
ples of the Constitution, and destructive of their
own State Sovereignty : pretending to accord
with the political views of the illustrious Jeffer
son, and adopting as the rule of their faith, the
Virginia and resolutions ; but surely
they must have forgotten tiiat these far-famed
resolutions declare that there being “no com
mon judges, that each State has a right to judge
for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode
and measure of redress.” Now this is the
doctrine we profess to believe. This, then,
would have been the Nullification doctrine of
the self styled Union party, if they had gone no
farth< r; but in a subsequent !! n \ v
declare, that in case Congress should pass an
unconstitutional law, that no State has a right
to judge any thing about it, because one State I
might judge one way, and another the other ■
way. How this last sentiment can be made to
agree with the Virginia and Kentucky Resolu- I
tions, we will leave our political opponents to •
determine. It is plainly deducible from the,
whole tenor of their proceedings, that the ultra
federal doctrines of the Proclamation of the
10th Dec’i. 1832, arc approved and cherished, i
the tyranical and despotic provisions of’the Force I
Bill sanctioned, its author and supporters ap- I
plauded, and the Sovereignty of their own State
denied. If these doctrines should eventually
prove successful, it must result in the final
overthrow of constitutional liberty and tn the
establishment of a consolidated despotism, upon
(he rums of State Sovereignty.
M bile our political opponents arc thus busily
ond zealously engaged in disseminating and
circulating those federal, and as we believe,
dangerous doctrines, they spare no pains to
cast odium snd reproach upon those of us, who
ere friends of State Rights ami State Sovereign
ty. The terms, Disunionist, Traitor and other
opprobious epithets, arc frequently applied to
those who would t xert their influence to arrest
the General Government in its progress to
absolute power and despotim. We, as a por'ion
of the State Rights party of Georgia, would
indignantly wst back these epithets, and say,
let posterity judge who are the true friends of
libertv, the < (institution and the Union, when
(he transactions of the pres< nt day shall become
matters of history.
We will now give our views of some of the
leading political subjects, which seem to be the
divisional line between the two political parties
in Georgia. We believe the doctrines of the
Proclamation of the 10th of December, 1832,
tire* radically wrong, and will have a tendency,
if persevered in, to change the original principles
ot our Government. It rc-asserts the doctrines
of Federalits of former days, that the States of
(his confederacy never had a separate existence
—that a State his no right to decide upon the
constitutionality of an act of Congress, not to
nirest its progress in its own limits. It denies
(ho right of secession, even under the most
oppressive laws-; maintaining that the States
have net retained their entire sovereigntv, and
(hat the allegiance of our citizens is due to the
United States in the first place, and threatening
the employment es the sword and the bayonet j
(<» coerce a sovereign State into submission. I
Although these were treated and considered as
idle threats, it shows what the present party in
power would do, provided they daro execute I
their unholy purposes. But w • have reason to
rejoice, that tho spii.t . f l.’«-*rtv glows too
warmly in the bosoms of the tree men of this
country, ever to light against their own countiv
c:en, who arc stnigling to resist the usurpations
ci'iedeial authority an 1 m I t irv despotism.
The passage nf the a< t. (for w • cannot call
it a law.' common!) called the Force Bdl, was
n high-handed measure, unauthorized bv the
Constitution. nn<i contrary to the spirit ct our
Republican form of Gov ru n nt. i’hc Presi
don’, overlooking bis termer piinei: les. demands
i'l a submissive Congress th« ir sanction of
this' extraordinary powers and doctrines. and
the m-an- of (-turning them into • fleet. On no
former occasion has tho hand of power been
cxcit 1 ever the Constitution of i free country,
with more daring assumption. It has. under
the pretence of collecting the r. teiyj at on ■
jell swoop, abolished lie State Governments,
confcrvd upon the President unlimited powers,
t” I nbe'v I nt bi? d'-’v's ,1 • e nr—v, |.e nav.
and the militia of tho United States, not only to
be used at his own caprice, but even authorizes
him to confer this power upon a deputy marshal,
or whoever he may think proper. It also au
thorizes him to make a custom house on a ship
of war, and place it at the entrance of any harbor
he may think proper, there to exact at the
mouth of a cannon, in the name of duties, the
honest earnings of a laboring man, and bestow’
the money as a bounty upon the lordly manu
facturer. Further, it authorizes the taking
away beyond the limits of the State, and incar
cerating in i military fortress or prison ship,
the citizen who may be guilty of obeying tho
laws of his own State, made by his own repre
sentatives. The provisions of this act arc a dis
grace to the Congress that passed it, and should
i be torn from the statutes of our Republic, and
consigned to the flames that extinguished the
Yazoo speculation. Yet, strange as it may
appear, in our own State, formerly so much
admired for her tenacity to Stat ? Rights and
Republican principles, advocates of those mea
sures, are numerous, who affirm, with a perti
nacity armed against all conviction, their entire
devotion to those doctrines which 1 avo to them
and their children, the miserable alternative of
i dying as rebels or living as slaves. For these
' doctrines fall nothing short of denying every
right, except the right of revolution—a right
which belongs to the subjects of the most des
potic government upon earth. If further evi
dence was wanting, that out government is
last approaching to a military despotism, we
would recur to circumstances of recent occur
rence, in, and on the borders of our own State—
a regular army marching from different direc
tions, and stati-med in the midst of a peaceable
population. The enquiry is made amongst the
people, why all this military parade? The
answer is, I cannot tell. The Governor of
Alabama demands information fioin the confi
dential agent of the Executive—his answer is,
I cannot tell. It may be, that we shall soon hear
again, that the thirst of another deputy marshal
or military officer has been satiated with the
blood of another Owens, or some peaceable
citizen, and ’hat the murderer has fled from
justice. It is time then, that the people of
Georgia arise in the majesty <>f their power, and
say to the Government and to the World, we
know our rights and will maintain them.
Your committee cannot but hope, there is yet
a redeeming spirit amongst the people of this
government, to check the rapid strides of Exe
cutive power, which is threatening our political
institutions with a change from a Republic to
a Despotism. In order that so desirable an
object may be promoted, we, the friends of
State night! and State Remedies, of the County
of Gwinnett, think it of the utmost importance
to organize an Association, to act in concert
with other associations of a similar kind through,
out the State—
Therefore Resolved, That it is expediant to
form a State Rights Association, based upon the
doctrines of the Virginia and Kentucky Reso.
lutions of’9B and ’99, as put forth and conten.
ded for by Mr. Jefferson ami other Republicans
of that day.
Resolved, That we will act in conceit with
the Central Committe at Milledgeville, and
use our influence to promote the objects of that
institution, and the dissemination ot coriect pa.
litical doctrines.
JOHN F. MARTIN, President.
11. 11. Allen, Secretary.
[The Constitution, being in tie usual form
for such associations is omitted.]
From the American Annals of Education.
YOUTH WITHOUT CHILDHOOD.
( asi’ar Hau-er. *l)i account fan individ
ual kept in a dungeon, separated from all
communication ivith the world, J'rom early
childhood to about the age of seventeen.
Drawn up from legal documents. Bv An
selm Von Fuerback, president of one of the
Bavarian ( ourts of Appeal, &c. 'Translated
From the German. Second edition. Bos
ton: Allen and Tickor. 1833. 18mo. pp.'
168
L< parsing through Germany in the year IS i
29, we heard of an ex’raordinary being who had
“come into the world,” as he subsequently ex
pressed it, at the age of seventeen —a youth m
form, and yet as ignorant of language, and of
tile use of its limbs, and even of the most com
mon external objects, as the infant • f a few
months. He was observ’d on th evening ot
trie 26th of May, 1828, near one of the gates id
Nuremberg m the posture of one intoxicated,
who was equally unable to stand or to move.
A li tter w hich he Ik Id out addressed to the
Captain of a squadion of cavalry, gave no infor
mation except that ho was bom in 1812, and i
had n ver been suffered to li ave th? house, and
that ail inquiries concerning his origin and resi-,
donee would be in vain. In reply to all the!
questions addressed to him by individuals an I
the police, a few unmeaning words and inces
sant moans were all ti nt ho could Utter, and he
pointed with marks ot exhaustion, to his blister
ed feet. Meat, which was offered to restore |
him, he rejocted with visible horror; but eager
ly swallowed some bread a.d water ; and on
being conducted to tire stable, stretched him
self u »<>n the straw and fefl into a sleep so pro
found, that he could scaicclv be awakened.
His feet were as soft as the palms of his hands ;
his gait was that of a child, just beginning to
step ; and it was only with intense suffering
that he could w Ik. His senses seemed to be
locked up in torpor ; and a wooden horse,
brought to him by a soldier, in consequt n c of
his frequent repetitions ot the German word for
horse, ’r<»ss ! ross ! vas the first and only object
wlnch seemed to excite interest. He seated
buns, li by it, ‘with a countenance smiling swee.
t!y through his tears.' and passed hours and
days, in moving, anil feeding, and ornamenting
it, as if it were tho on’y being which called forth
his social feelings
1( will be easily behoved that such an appear,
once would excite intense curiosity. It was
a case w' ich set at definance ad the former
in’erroga ions and arrangements ot a German
government ; and it was diffi ult to decidel
whc’he- he belongs to tho asylum fcr i hocy, or
the aims-ouse or to the police office and the
prison. liter vain efforts to elicit something
from himis to his residence or connections, to
which ho •eplied only in some piteous moans
and uninfi'igible phrases, ho was committed
to a towe over one of the gates,under the care
of a htirane jailor, and appears to have enjoyed
all tho omforts of which his case admitted.
Commor sense soon relaxed the severity of the
law : am he was received into the family of the
jailor as <_deserted child, and under the instruc
tions of his children, began to learn to talk !
He was visited by crowds, who taxed their
ingenuity in examining the poor youth, and
vvoried him almost to torture, by their inquisi-
I torial efforts to discover something. But they
could only ascertain that he was an infantofadult
; age ; —in the expressive language of a London
Reviewer; ar. example of youth without child
hood. He attempted, like, an infant, to seize
every glittering object which he saw, and cried
if he was forbidden ; and even when a lighted
candle was placed before him, he tried to grasp
the beautiful flame. In the miust of this seem>
ing infancy, however his guardians weie aston
ished, on putting a pencil into his hand, that he
could form letters distinctly. He filled with
elementary characters and syllables, and closed
by covering a page with the name— ‘Kaspar
Hauser.’
I'his discovery of his naw, usually so im
portant in the records of
ed no clue io~the mystery which enveloped the
singular being. Destitute of the conception,
as well as the names, of the most common ob
jects, aid averse to all common customs and
conveniences and necessaries of life, there see
med no alternative, in the language of his bio
grapher, but to regard him as the inhabitant of
som< distant planet, or as one buried from his
birth, md now just emerged into the world.
Imagirntion wa.i tortured to devise sor.e mode
of accounting for his character and appearance.
Some dreamed of an experiment, of a mind, left
to advance io maturity in utter ignorance of the
world, and thus realizing the fancy picture of a
German story. Others supposed him the heir
of some estate or diadem, of w hich he was un
lawfully deprived. Others still conjectured, that
i his difficult and dangerous plan of burying alive,
had been adopted to conceal the crimes atten
ding his birth.
Such wore the conjectures floating on the
publii mind in reference to this singular being,;
when we left Germany, unable t » vary our route !
so far as to visit Nuremberg. It was not until j
subsequent education had enabled Caspar to -
clothe his own ideas in words, that any light 1
wan I’trolvn upon !I‘S ?“.*■*; fol-
low ing account derived trom the work whose
title is at the head of this article comprises all
his recollection of childhood and youth :
‘He neit er knows who he is, nor where his
home is. It was only at Nuremberg that he
came into the world. Here he first learnt that,
besides himself and the man with whom we had
always been,” there existed other creatures.
As long as he can recollect he has always lived
in a hole, (a small low apartment w Inch he
sometimes calls a cage,) where !v had always
sat upon the ground, with bare feet, and clothed
only with a shiit and a pair ot breeches. In
this apartment he never saw the heavens, nor
did there ever appear a brightening (daylight)
such as fit Nurembiug. He never perceived
any difference between day and night, and
much less did he ever get a sight of the beautr
ful rights in the heavens. Whenever he awoke
from sleep, lie found a loaf of bread and a pitcher
of water by him. Some times this w ater had a
bad taste;* whenever this was the case, he
could no longer keep his open, but was
compi lied to fall asleep; and when lie after,
wards awoke, he found that he had a clean
shirt on, and that bis nails hau been cut. lie
never saw the face of the man who brought him
bis meat aod his drink. In this hole he Ind
two wooden horses, and several ribbons.
With these horses he had always amused
himself as long as he was awake; and his only
occupation was to make them run by his side
and fix or tie the ribbons about them in different
positions. Thus, one cay had passed as the
others; but he had never felt the w mt of any
thing, had never been sick, and —once only ex
cepted—had never felt the sensation of pain.
Upon the whole, he had been mm h happier
than in the world, where he was obliged to sof
ter so much. How long he bad continued to
liv ■ in this situation hi- knew not; tor he had no
knowledge of time. He knew not when or
how he came there. Nor had lie any recollec
tion of ever having been in a different situation,
or in any < ther than in that place. The i: an
with whom he had always been, never did him
any harm. Yet one day, shortly before he
was taken away—when lie had been running
his horse too hard, and had made too much
noise; the man came ami struck him upon his
arm with a Stic.k, or aphce of wood; thiscaused
the woun which he brought with him to Nu.
remberg.
‘Putty m ai'y about the same time, the man
once came into his prison, placed a small table
over his feet, and spread something white upon
it, which he now knowstohave been paper; he
then came behind him, so ns not ’<> be seen by
him, took hulii of his hand, and moved it back
wards and forwards on the paper, with a thing
(a lead pencil) whit h he had stuck between Ins
lingers. He (Hauser) was ignorant of what it
was; but he was mightiy pleased, when he saw
the black figures w hich began to appear upon
the white paper. M hen he felt that bis hand
was free, and the man wag gone f rom him, he
was so much pleased with (his new discovery,
that he coul i nt ver grow tired of drawing these
figures repeatedly upon the paper. This occu.
pation slmost made him neglect his horses, al
though he did not know what those characters
signified. The man repeated his visits m the
same in nner, several times.’
‘ Another time the man came again, lifted
him from the place where he lay, placed him on
his feet, and endeavored to teach huo to stand.’
At his final appearance the man took him
over his shoulders, carried him as he expresses
it, up a bill and brought him to Nuremberg.—
*?r ha! ’v wax: mixed * ;'h
His recollections of his journey arc very indis
tinct, and the fact that he sinks into a death like
sleep when he rides in a wagon, leaves it en
tirely uncertain in what way he was conveyed.
After many ineffectual examinations, often lea
ding to error, nothing remained but to provide
the best means for alleviating his misfortunes,
and supplying, in some degree, the loss of his
years and childhooc. and youth, with the faint
hope, that time might enable him to furnish a
clue to his origin.f
The state of nervous excitement and disease,
produced by the multitude of new objects and
ideas that crowded upon him, emerging thus
suddenly from darkness and solitude, led the
police to exclude all visitors, and place ’ asper
in the family of Professor Daumer of the Nu
remberg gymnasium, to receive such an educa
tion as he needed.
fin recent newspapers, we find the following
paragraphs:
'Caspar Hauser. The mistery which hung
about the origin and ear’y life of this extraordi
nary young man, is said to be in away of ex
planation. It seems according to an account
which we find in an English periodical, that
Caspar Hauser was the fruit of an illicit amour;
that a priest, the reputed father, took charge
of the child trom the moment of its birth, and
finally inclosed it in a subterraneous hole or
vaud w n f*r?rrvmt wh»'rc he was residing, that '
thus imprisoned and shut out ft on; all hmuan
intercourse, the unhappy being passed his exis
tence until within a day or two of his being
found, as related in this history of his life w hich
has been published, when the priest being com
pelled to quit the convent, and having no other
place ofconcealment at hand, released anti left
the boy to his fate. The chain of circumstan
tial evidence, by w hich thus much of the stor .
has been made out, is so well put together, as
to leave little doubt that the true elucidation has
been hit upon. The-above oflt-line has heen
communicated in conversation, by Mr Kluber,
the celebrated writer on Public Law, who first
discovered and is still following the clue.—
When he has thoroughly sifted the matter, it is
expected that he will favor the public with a
memoir on the subject.”
, ... vc.y.S-J-'
T’:E WESTERN HERALD.
DAHLOHNEGA, GEORGIA, APRIL 11, 1834.
I
In reply to the n nieroifs applications for the loan of
Newspapers —we answer once for all—that they can in
no instance be taken from the office. 1 here is for those
who choose to r< ad, always a vacant chair in the office —
in the occupancy of which we should be glad to see
them.
• ;
XVe have been indisposed to make the Judicial Procee
dings of our Circui:, the subject matter of newspaper dis
cussion and comment, at least until after a final decision
in the cause alluded to shall have been made by the
Court. Then perhaps the propriety and correctness of
the decision, might become the subject of comment and
investigation. Acting upon this motive we have careful
ly refrained from saying any thing calculated to increas c
the unnecessary, excitement which pervades some parts
of the Circuit, growing out of the pendency of divers
Injunctions, instituted at the instance of the original oc
cupants of the Cherokee Territory, agatnst the State’s
Indian Agent, and others seeking the pusscssion of the
lands drawn by them in the late Lo'.tei ies The questions
involved in these bills are yi t undetermined, having been
submitted by Judge I looper to the Convention of Judges
to be assembled at Milledgeville, in July next; and wc
b' g leave s*ill to pursue the course marked out for our
selves and leave t’.cm to be di-ciisscd before, and deter
mined by the proper t.ihu I I'or the information
however of tho' e, before v. ' these cases have been
presented in e very light, but correct one wc would
say ’hat the public policy ai’ l rights of the State arc not
involved in any manner in them. They arc questions
purely of private right and individual inten st. Ihe right
of the State to both soil an i juiisdiction arc recognized to
to the fullest extent by the Court.
There are seine rnatti rs connected wilh the progress
of the sc cases of which however, we feel authoiized to
speak The last Standard of Lhiion, in an article < f iwo
columns, in de fence of the conduct of the; Getvernor, cal s
upon the adversaries ejf that officer, to point oilt a single
instance in which he has ivelessly squandere 1 th ptibh'
funds. Wc have never made any charges of that kind
ourselves, but would be glad to know by what authority,
law, constitution or act of appropriation, his Excellency
i mployi <1 two attornies, with fees each ofo ie? thousand
dollars, to dtf'en I tlr se injunctions? The State has no .
mrire interest m the final decision of these questains than
it has m the final decision of any other cases arising
under grants ,n any other section of the country. M c
presume,however, a • is the case with allother usurpations
of the present day, his Excellency has done this “upon I
his cwn respont bilihj"!!! But we have been informed
upon the best authority, that Messrs. Cuthbert and Ke
nan, have been retained, each with the above named fee,
to le-pai l ut'of the State Treosnry, and that the Gov.
expects to get an appropriation by the next Legislature
to discharge the «ame. If we are misinformed in this
matter, we sliould be glad to be corrected; but if the
facts, as stated, are true, we should also be gla ) to see
some justilication cf so high handed a measure. The
people would do well to look to the of inions of those
whoin’lhev s' nd to the next Legislature, as we have
no idea th< v m l ever sanction this unceremonious put
tin* of hands into the Treasuiy by his Excellency.
< >ur subsc.ibers at, and in the n< ighborhood, of the
Post Office at Auralia, are again assured that their pa- ,
per# are regularly deposited there every Friday evening,
sent there by etrr own mail. More than this we cannot
do, and as much as we regret that they do not receive j
th, m, the evil is b- yond our remedy.
•ur subscribers in the Cherokee Circuit particularly,
re also assured that wc have exhausted even mem
within our reach, to have the usual mad accommodations
expended thro?’’bon* *he< and as vet C to no n ir- '
! pose. At the General Post Office Department, in an
' swer to the numerous applications and petitions which
have been presented on our behalf we have occasionally
been cheered by promises—but have again and again
been deceived in their performance. This department
has become shamefully and disgracefully faithless—a
reproach and scandal to the administration under which
it is conducted —and we had almost said, a curse upon
the prosperity of the American
There is a default or negligence some where on the
route from Milledgeville to Auraria. Our papers by
that route arc received irregularly, and always several
days after they should come to hand, by due course of
mail. Os these mattersit is our right to complain, tho*
wc confess that the exercise of this privilege is not
likely to bring about the correction of the existing evils.-
A paragraph was perhaps due last week to the Chiv
alrous Knights of the “Southern Banner,” in reply to a
column and over from them, and touching ourselves,
headed with that beatiful and select phrase, “All the de
cency.” We remember that in a former collision with
this print, it was remarked of them, “that they had be
come so very sensitive and fractious that il was almost
dangerous for any one to speak of them;” and our own
experience has taught us that the same vindictive splene
tic disposition still exists in them, as it did when their
conduct called for the quoted remark from our predeces
sor. Our first, and we believe our only offence towards
thc “Banner,” was the re-publication of an article from
the “Savannah Republican;” and here the liberal and
worthy Editors, in tin ir comments upon tins act, took
the high and dignified ground, in defence, that the arti
cle was not well printed, and that it contained some few
typographical errors. In the mechanical part of our
trade wc confess ourselves the inferiors ol the “Banner,”
and cheerfully yield‘o them the Superiority which they
mnst have sought, by allusion to this circumstance, to
establish for themselves. If they desire further quarrel
upon this point, we must turn them over to the operatives
in our office, who have the exclusive charge of the press
and type, and who are altogether competent to discuss
with them, the business of “composing, proof reading,”
■&c. &.C.
Our not replying to the effusion of the Banner, in our
last number, was not for want of time to “concoct” a
suitable reply, but arose from a disposition on our part,
not to interrupt these gentlemen so soon in the enjoy
ment of th’, “blushing honors” and unfading laurels
which their imaginations had doubtless conjured up, as
lhe fruits of so elegant and faultless a composition. And
in good truth it is a very pretty thing—we ourselves have
read it over and over again, and are perfectly enraptured
with its figures of speech—the rich verbage ol sentiments
which in point of beauty and ability, would not be dis
creditable to a graduate in the black art. In fact, there
are a few things in this world in which these “worthies'’
are hard to beat; the firstand most important of which,
is, the facility with which they can accommodate them
selves to the popular breeze—they have also a peculiar
aptitude "in plagarizing vulgar sentiments, which we
should have supposed in their polished and refined circle
(if, indeed, they frequent that circle where they live) had
long since become stale and nauseous. There is, per
haps one other reason why it was not proper to have
answered tlfs article of “all the decency and truth” last,
week. These “gentle and simple” personages have
usually taken a fortnight to answer our plain inquiries
and suggestions, and it would lie unmerciful in us to
feed to them faster than their stomachs could digest
dyspepsia might ensue, and then and what then?
(vhy, nothing except “decency” might loose its mouth
piece and billingsgate jts oracle.
These accomplished knights of the illustrious order
. of‘,‘Jim Crow.” these astute professors in the “leaping
and turning art,” after having expended their stock of
i ancient and venerable witticisms upon us—in which a
j great deal more was said and hinted at about their own
' “decency,” than their own experience would justify, have
amused themselves with a “cut and thrust” at our
neighboring town of “Auraria,” and express a modest
intention of domiciliating themselves in our o’lice to
learn “sense,” if, indeed, they should ever desire any.
This suggestion has caused us some alarm; and will tho
inquiring editors for this commodity permit us to in'bnrt
them that “we never underla .e hopeless tasks.” Cid
habits are hard to break oil) and native stupidity with
stands the most eloquent lessons of instruction. Add to
this a certftin confusion or derangement of intellect,
which is consequent upon the profligate desertion of old
friends, and the adoption of new ones, with their princi- •
pics, and we fear the case of the Banner is past the reach
of Hainan skill. And beside* this, wc arc not disposed
to take upon ourselves the induction of these gentlemen
into the circles of “decency” —our own characters might
b ■ brought into disrepute, iffoun Jin such company, and
wc might b. supposed to be fellow disciples of leaping
mast' r-gcneral Jim Crow.
Th ■ favorite hobby of the “Banner,” the “South Car
olina Test Oath,” has, ere the editors found time to
“concoct” a reply to our first essay upon this subject, .be
come hacknicd —worn out. The Union party of South
Coiolina are aiding in carrying the law into effect —in
despite of all the nullification of its privisions, ’w hich the
Banner and the Union pr< sscss of Georgia, have recom
mended to them. It now only remains to be determined
whether the “spirit of enquiry” wi! fix the seal of con
tempt upon that class who recognize their allegiance to
the State S'ovr i< icnties, or upon those who would prefer
owing it, not to a higher, but physicully ; a stronger power.
We would not of ours< Ives attach to the proceedings
of the Murray County meeting, found in to-days paper,
sufficient importance to give them pulicity, if
thereby wc did not expect to reach higher game, and to
t rme the rcb< llious spirit which influenced it, to its proper
origin. It might not however be improper to remark of
the immediate actors in the disgraceful and disgusting
scone, that the Secretary now holds the dignified station
of S n.-tor from the county cf Murray,Bdhat the marter
spirit and prime instigator < f the meeting, is of sufficient
notoriety to be ranked as one “of the few and feeble aids,’.’
(military) of his Exccll'ncy the Governor of Georgia.
•Many of our r aJers will perhaps remember thaf
we had allusion not long since, to an Editorial article
m the “ Standard of Union,” in w hich wc conceived that
an effort had been made ;o excite insubordination, and
resistance to the Judicial proceedings of our Circuit.—
Wherein (he Presiding Judge was told that he might
grant Injunctions, make Decrcss &c. &c. and enforce
them if he could, but that the patriotic Governor would
execute the laws, and that the people would stand by the
Governor.
We then expressed our opinion, that the course and
language of the “Standard,” w as oracular, and was to be
taken as ominous of an attack by his “Lumpkinship”
upon the Judiciary. These resolutions are the first fuita
of :bc FvftciTi. and to wkat it will ultimately lead. ’ , m<’