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A THRILLING PASSAGE—THE DEATH OF J
C H ASTEL/kR. 1 ]
An hour had scarcely elapsed, before the ,
[Hits were extinguished throughout the vaulted ]
halls of Holyrood : the guards were posted for ,
the night, the officers had gone their rounds, ■.
the ladies of the royal circle were dismissed, ,
and all was darkness and silence. In Mary’s ,
chamber a single lamp was burning in a small ,
recess, before a beautifully executed painting
of the Virgin, but the light was not sufficient to j
penetrate the obscurity which reigned in the ~
many angles and alcoves ot that irregular a- , ’
partmsnt, although the moonbeams were admit- .
ted through the open casement. i
Her -’arb of ceremony laid aside, her lovely j
shape scantily veiled bv a single robe of spot- |
!es« linen, her auburn tresses flowing in unres- ,
trained Insurance, almost to her feet; if she
'had been a creature of perfect human beauty
when viewed in all the pomp of royal pageant
ry, she now appeared a being of supernatural
loveliness. Iler small white feet, unsan Idled,
glided over the rich carpet with a grace, which
a slight degree of fancy might have deemed the
motion peculiar to the inhabitants of another
world. For an instant, ere she turned to her
repose, she leaned against the carved mullions
of the window, and gazed pensively, and, it
might be, sadly, upon the garden, where she
bad so lately parted Iroin the unhappy y 'l’m
whose life was thus cnibitteied by that veiy feel
inn which, above ail others should have been its
consolation* Withdrawing her eyes from the
moonlight scene, she knelt before the lamp and
the shrine which it illuminated, and her whis
pered orisons prose, pure as the source from
which they flowed—the prayers of a weak and
humble mortal, penitent for every trivia! error,
breathing all < onfidence to Him who can alone
protect and pardon : the prayers of a Queen
for r numerous children, and, last and holiest
of ail, a woman’s prayers lor her unfortunate
admirer. Yes, she prayed for Chastelar, that
strength might be given to him from on high to
bear The crosses of a miserable life, and that by
divine mercy, the hopeless love might be up
rooted from his breast. The words burst pas
eionately from her lips, her whole form quiver
ed with the excess of her emotion ; and the big
tears fell like rain from her uplifted eyes.—
While she was yet in the very flood of passion,
q sigh was breathed, so clearly audible, that
the conviction flashed like lightning on her soul,
that this most secret prayer was listened to by
other ears than those of heavenly ministers.—
Terror, acute terror, took possession of her
mind, banishing by its superior violence ever
less engrossing idea. She snatched the lamp
from its niche—waved it slowly around the
chamber —and there, in the most hallowed spot
of her widowed chamber, a spy upon her un
guarded moments, stood a dark figure. Even
in that moment of astonishment and fear, as if
by instinct, the beautiful instinct of purely fe
male modesty, she snatched a velvet mantle
from the seat on which it had been cast aside,
and veiled her person even before she sp> kc—
“Oh God! it is De Chastelar.”
“ Sweet Queen,” —replied the intruder—
“bright, beautiful, ruler of my destinies, par
don—” . !
“Want, bn!”—she screamed id notes of
dread intensity—“a nioi a moi mes Francois.
My guards!—Scyton—Carmichael Flo i.’ng
—will ye leave your Queen alone ! alone with
treacherv and black dishonor ! Villain ! Slave I” 1
fche cried, turning her flashing eyes upon him.
her whole form swelling as it were with all iho
furv of injured innocence —“didst thou dare to
think that Mary—Mary, the wife of Francis;
the anointed Queen of Scotland, would brook
thine infamous addresses.... Nay, kneel n0t,....
or I spurn thee.. -M hat ho! will no one aid in
f.in extremity... ”
“ Eear nought from me..'.” faltered the
wretched Chastelar ; but with a voice like that
of -nine inspired Pvthoness, she broke i .. .
“ Fear ! tbink’st thou that I could tear a thing,
an abject coward thing, like thee ?....a wretch
that would eyult m the infamy ot one whom he
pre-ends lirynri’T Ffiti titer....by heavens,
it I could have fl ared, uuntciiq r im»-« tunrrtn*'
bidd n it.”
“ Nay....Man....hear me! hear me but one
word, if that w >rd cost iny hfl ~..”
Thy life hadst thou ten thousand lives they
would be but a feather in the scale against tin
monstrous villainy.—“M hat ho !—” again she ;
cried stamping wit i impotent anger at the d-lav ■
of her attendants—“ Treason! Mv guards—
Treason!" At length the passage.? rang with '
the hurried fl>o steps t the startled inmat s of
the palace—with torch, and spear and brandish
ed blades, they rushed into the apartm nt —
[ age, sentinel, and chamber! tin, ladies, with
dishevelled hair, and fa res blanched with terror.
The Qu en stood erect tn the centre of the
room, pointing w ith one whit' 1 arm bare to the
shoulder, towurls the wretch d culprit: whoi
with folded arms and head erect awaited his I
doom in unresisting silence. His naked ra
pier, with which alone ho night have foiled the i
united efforts of his enemies, lav at his feet—
ilis brow was white as sculptured marble, ami •
no less rigid, but his eyes glared wildly, ami
his lips quivered as though he would have spoken.
The Queen still furious at the w rong w hich he
Lad don? her fame, marked the expression.l
“Silence !" she cried—“lkgrided!—would'st
thou meanly beg tin fm life—YYert tha t
iny father, thou should’st die to morrow !
Hence with the Milam! Bid Maitland exe
cute the wana t —Outsell will sign it—away!
Uhostei.tr dies at dav break ”
“ ' Vis well—” replied he calmly—“it is well
—tiie lips [ love the !•< -‘ pr-mouncc mv doom;
and I die happy stive Id: for .Marr ! YY ould’st
thou but pity the offender, while thou dost
doom the offence, De Chastelar would net
exchange hi* shot.cued span of life, and violent
death, for the bright'<t crown of Christendom.
My limbs mnv die—my love wTI live forever
Lead on, minions—l am more glad to die, than H
ye to s’.iy ! Mary—beautiful Marv—think!
think hereafter upon Cinstelar ! ' ’
Ihe guard- prised onwards; last of the :
mb. nui< tter< i .mi um.im. d, De Chastelar
>'•-<? nf- th • O .e. «?so-vyd 1 ! ,
neath the low browed portal he paused, placed |
both hands on his heart bowed lowly, and then
pointed upwards, as he chaunted once again the
words Pensez a moi—Noble Dame—Pensez a
met. As he vanished from her presence, she
waived her hand impatiently to be left alone;
and all night long she traversed and retraversed
the floor of her chamber in paroxysms of the
fiercest despair. The warrant was bro’t to her;
silently, sternly, she traced her signature be
neath it; —not a sign of sympathy was on her
pallid features, not a tremor shook her frame;
she was pass; nlvss, majestic, and unmoved.
The Secretary left the chamber on his fatal
errand; and Marv was again a woman. Pros
trate upon her couch she lav, sobbing & weep
ing as though her v ry s ul was bursting from
her bosom, defying all consolation, spurning
every offer at r. med . “‘Tis done !—I have
preserved my fame, and murdered mine only
friend.”
Th morning dawned slowlv -and the heavy
bells of all the churches clanged the death p al
of Chastelar. The tr imp of th cavalry defi
ling from the pala- e gate - struck on her heart
us tfiough each ho f dashed on h r bos m. An
hour passed aw iy; t.ie minute b .is still tolling ;
rhe roar ot a culverin swept heavily downwards
from the cast! and dl w.«s over ’.....He had ,
lied, as he had lived, undaunted ; as he had
low .1, devoted ! “M >v, hvine Mary,” were
is latest words, “i love in death, as I have
loved in life; thee and the only ” T e axe
dr.mk ■io d, and the Queen of Scotland had
not a tiut-rs rvant left behind, than he, whom lor
a moment’s it< nzv she compelled to slay;
y< t was his last wi-h satisfied, tor though the
Queen might not reh nt, the woman id forgive,
and, m many a mournful hour did Maty think
n < bast< lai.
st Xt i 1a
FROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT.
POLITE \L CHANGES.
We rejoice to witness th indications, affor
ded by the result -f some of the recent elcctio-. ,
of a disposition on the part of tm people,!
break the shackels of party discipline when the.
can wear them no long' r without being fidsi I ■
the intcre'-ts <>f their country. In a community
like ours, the exa (ions ol party are never light;
in iividual interests must be largely surrendered,
anb the pride of individual opinion not nfre
qucntly laid aside: but when, in addition to
! these sacrifices, we are called upon to give up
principles al-o, t■ <i Ivan i the sor-h purposes
of those who have no principle to lose, men of
sense &, honest intentions begin to retrace their
j steps, and to spurn this ignominious thraldom.
The principles, which were originally avowed
by the present administration as those by which
its policy was to be guided, were undoubtedly
popular and specious.
Public <dli' ers were not to bo permitted to in
terfere in elections; every attempt to do so was
to be punished by the loss of office. The pub
lic expenditure was to be retrenced ; the virtu
ous heart <>f the Executive burned with indig
nation at all needless appropriations of the peo
ple’s money. The reign of aristocracy wis to
c ase upon the earth, and that ol the people to
begin. Every tiling was to be purified and
i exalted: there was to be no su h thing as sel
fishness ; lofty and disinterested virtrn was
gmversally to prevail, and all was to be purity
' and peace.
\nd hoiV have thes ■ promises been fulfiled ?
What noon has followed the of this dav
star ! The question will be asked, and the time
has come, when it can be fairly answered.—
i-.very one can answer it tor himself: no man,
1 if he would can possibly be blind to those cir-
I cumstances, which furnish the str.’n and une
quiv " d i ply: do«-s not < verv individual
kn w, that when ever a party battle is to <e
t'oiig'il, lhe whole array ol office holders is blaz
ing in t ie van ; that the fitness < f an applicant
for this warfare is the verv qualification for his
post ! Have we not seen, in more than one
m-tancc, what to any other President would
have been an unpardmiai'le insult, that individuals
• navi-bcm recommend'<l to (General Ja< ks >n
j for appointment, nr t for < apa< itv, not for hon
esty, but <m account of their personal devotion
io nim- If, md the z» al with which ihev have
toi'ow d in his track ? I< any at this day ignor
ant th.J these professions of retrenchment and
; refer have I'i'en followed bv systematic and
i yearly m< reasjig extravagance—that the ex
‘ penditures under tfle last idmimstration, repro
bated as these w re, uave been exceeded by
those of the present, untn th ‘V have become far
greater, man th v were ever I’o'iwn to be be
fore! It inn bethat the domii.n o! aristocra
v, if it ever existed has ceased : hut how has
its plac been supplied! By the open, re ckless,
and most perilous attempt to substitut for lhe
control of the universal w ill, the unquestioned,
absolute control of the will ot one.
Let us now turn to the moial principle of the
presen’ administration, as it is indi aied by the
o| its leading support! rs. Some
foretaste ot what it was to be, was afforded by
' the asseveration ot a distinguished member of'
the Jackson par’y, that the last admim -trati n !
was accordingly put down, ind what followed? I
\ J • kson Senator, who now fills the important
office of Governor of New York, deefared in
his pla- e in the Congress of the United States, i
that office was t e spoil of victory. \ member
of th* House of Kepre>entatives, from the same
Staff , made the following 'eclaration, “ I am
a whole hog man : and I would sooner commit
the unpardonable .-in. and throw mvself on the
clemency of the Almighty, than return tn mv
constituents, afler having vote 1 to restore the
’eposites. or reehartcr the Bank.” Perish
commerce perish credit! cried another member,
from the s ime Empire State, rather than res
tore the dt posites, or ren w the charter of the
bank. Mr. Isaac Me Kim, a Jackson repre
sentative ot one of the most important cities of
the Union admitted, that the removal of the
deposit ” was a • rong and injurious measure :
but that the act was done, and he would vote,
at all hazards, y* ith the Government; that he
w is elected to support General Jackson and
’■' ould «c. th? ’ird of his hfe and for—•
j tune : and that no friend of the administration
could differ with General Jackson, and preserve
his influence. And what doctrines are in the
mean time issuing from the secret chambers of
the administration itself? If all the trading
community fail, says the Secretary of the Treas
ury, the policy of the Government will not be
changed. All who are doing business on
borrowed capital, reiterates the President of the
United States, ought to break? Neither per
suasion nor coercion, nor the voice ofthe people,
can change the fixed determination of Andrew
Jackson !
Is it wonderful, that with these facts befoie
them, men of sense and principle, yvho have no
personal ends in view’, should hesitate to oppose
the principle and practice ofthe present admin
istration? On the contr iry, they have relied
upon its profession, and have found them hollow
and delusive. They w ill no longer yield them
selves to a system of deception, which if con
tinued, can terminate only in the ruin ot our
civil institutions.
FROM THE PORTLAND EVENING ADVERTISER.
li'iishino ton April, 3, 1834.
Mr. McDuffie, w de I am writing this, kite
in th ■ afternoon, is making a splendid speech
, in the House on the ueposite question; and the
House, which is usually as tuiindent as lak<
Erie in a storm is now as quiet as the gentle Cfii
. rent of the gentle Jnio on a summers day. Air.
' McDuffie is almost the only man in the House
who can command undivided attend >n, ’ ut he
commands it—forces it— extorts it—thunders
all noise dow n—and men must listen, whether
th -v like speeches or not. If you whisper
when he :s talking, your whisper is heard every
where, and you pause from the attention it
draws. If you are sleepy, his lorn* and lofty
, pitches of voice will arouse y>i>, and then his
musing tone will increase the interest. The
iruihis, he has a very remarkable maimer, a
b d manner, but a manner so peculiarly his own
that it is as effective as if it v. n the besl man
ner in the world; and w th this manner, in what
he says, t? re is a vein of goog sense, exten
sive reading, and heart-felt ppeal which ever
«ms a victory let who will ht ar it. 1 think we
Yciikef s must have had something to do in his
education, though h- was born in that fiery
<s outh Carolina, for h* has our rational ideas,
but the warmth and impetuosity of his own
clime. But if he was not educated among us,
jhe educated iumself—a naan of his ow n making
, >- 3 poi«' boy m a mercantile house at
i Augusta, he learnt the good common
i sense whi h they could not afterwards spoil in
their colleges.
Mr. M Dtiffie began to day but the exordi
um of his speech His friend Mi. Archer, re
! quested an adjournment at 4 o’clock, and suc
i ceeded in < a rying it. though the leaders of the
dominant party immediately rallied against the
motion, Cambreleng struck up the tune pipe of
“no”—Vanderpoel rullu <1 his legions—Maine
i and New Hampshire were in arms: hut all in
vain. The object unquestionably was to bring
the debate to a < lose tc-day—to carry the pre
vious question; anil if carrn <i, to sepd the news
to New York so as to operate upon the chait' ’
> election, crying, that the question i- settled in
• Congre-- »«w| you are working for naught.—
I Settled! V, hat an idea! Slum an idea there
is—though let that pass, as I am in Mr. Mc
i Duffle’s spre h.
' Mr. MrJmffie considered the assassination
letters in the Globe, as intended to operate up-
• on public opinion, as Pisistratus attempte tc
r operate upon it win n lie w< unded himself anc
> rushed before the public, averring that his one
- mies had done that. The object was the same
, here, hi said—togain more power for the man
■ who already has too much power, Next Mr.
- Bearilslev of .New York, came in lor a toasting.
I It s< ems tl>at Mt. Beardsley in iiis speech, con
> ten 'd (hat as tins Government wa- iliviJi d in-
. to three parts, executive, judicial and legisla
t five, all parts wnich were not legislative, and
i judicial were executive —that is, all xecutive
» power is in the President, under that artii le in
I the constitution which says that the executive
i pow er shall be vested in the President. All ex
i eeutive power! This idea Mr. N< Duffie an
- died in a variety of forcible forms, now ndicul
i ling the New Yorker, now assailing his patent
• <lo< trine with a torrent of sarcasm; and after
sailing t. at Mr. B. left the Preside! t to judge
I of what executive pow er was, bore dow n up >n
I lam with the .ollowing burst, as near as I can
reinemb- r
“YU executive pow er in one man! he the
judge ot the heighth, the breadth, the extent ol
that power! Forty thousand office holders not
acting as tney think, but as he thinks! Forty
thousand wills rm rg-d in oi,e will! 'I he exe
. rutive power not only in otic man, but m forty
thousand men—not only at the White House,
but here, there, every w here—in a < ollector, in
a Minister Plenipotentiary, in a two penny Post
: master,--blest with the power of übiquity and
with omnipresence! AN hat an apotheosis, ido
laters, ye h&'e made of your god ! Sir, there
is no such government on earth. I care not
where you look fur it. There is no such gov
't ernment on this side of the ocean, n< r on the
I other ; no gov< rnmeut where the executive
I power is all vested in one man. The most
ruthlcs despotism leaves its under officers to ex
ercise discretion. Sir. there never was such a
| government. Greek and Roman theology ne
v- r gave any one god so much power. There
were Jupiter, and Mars, and Pluto, and Nep
tune, and Apollo and Minerva, —but Jupiter
dwelt in Olympus; Mars was but the God of
war, Pluto reigned only below. Neptune bad
only power over lhe water’. Apoilo cared on
ly for the arts; and Minerva was but the goddess
of wisdom. But our Jupiter is not satisfied
with his Olympus. He leaps over the battle
ments, and darting with a comet’s blaze from
his empyrean height, seizes the thunderbolt of
war, the trident of Neptune, the consuming fire
of Pluto, tire torches of Ale to. and the snakes
of the furies, and holding in his arms the pano
ply of all the gods--
•Shakes bis ambrosial locks, and gives the nod,
The stamp ot fate, die sanction of a god.’ n
There—l have given you this as well as I i
can remember: !.'•:* if J have rot given ’. on e-l
- • i
nough to assure you it was a very superb piece
ofeFoqucnce, I must add, that it made many
: jump up from their seats. Think ol a first rate
i speaker, in a voice of thunder rolling it out, and
accompanying it with the most forcible
lation. He made the House quake—and here
his friend Archer moving the adjournment, the
New York machinery instantly tumbled to piec
es, and the House adjourned; and the New
Yorkers must take some more of Mr. McDuf
fie’s thunder before they can stop debate. H<
will have a great crow’d to-morrow.
The Senate have been engaged chiefly upon
private business. Mr. Benton presented the
Boston Resolutions, with a short speech. No
other news.
ANNUAL REPORT
Os lhe Executive Committee to the Board of
Trustees of the JWedical College oj Georgia.
This Committee c ould respectfully report,
that since the last annual meeting of the
Board of Trustees of tne Medical College of
Georgia, the following changes have occured
—That to fill tue vacancy occasioned by the
resignation oi Dr. J. Dent, as professor of the
Theory and Practice of Medicine, Dr. Alexan
der Cunningham was elected and has just
concluded his first course of Lectures. And
that Dr. George N wt m s rved as Demonstra
■ tor of Anatomy to thc'class the past winter.—
• : The alteration? of she members of this Board
1 I have been such, that tin tallowing gentlemen
‘ now compose the catalogue, making the num-
> ber 24 as requued by the incorporation act of
the Legis at ire, viz. Messrs. A. B. Longstreet,
' James Harpei, YVm. H. Turpin, Jno. Bones,
Wiley Mason, N. Delaigle, S. K. Talmage, E.
t Sinclair, Olin. Drs. T. Fort, T. Hoxey, A.
’i Cunningham. M. Ant ny, Y. Baber, (4. New
>: ton, Jos. A. Eve, L. D. Ford. L A. Dugas,
! l Paul F. Eve, J. W. McWhorter. Wm. John
I ston, R. ’Ailliums, I. P. Garvin, and J. Dent
II The number of Students attending the Lec
tures this winter was 35; 15 of w hom having
complied with the requisitions of the ( ollege,
are about to be piesente to you as suitable
‘ candidates for the eegree of Doctor of Medicine.
' This number, you will perceive, lacks but one
> of being /cur times as many graduates as there
wen tins time last v ar
> The uxecutive Committee tak- great pleas
i ure in presenting you a brief statement of the
, lib rahty extended tons by our last Legislature,
r , by our City Council, and by the Trustees of
i the Richmond Academy. Our petitions to each
i of these bodies have been successful. It is
i known that an act ofthe Legislature appropriated
$ 10,000 for the purposes of erecting a suitable
- building, procuring apparatus, anatomical mu-
- scum and library; in addition to which, 50 lots
-of the town commons of Augusta were by the
’ same act to become the property of the Medical
a College, with the consent ofthe Cit Council
f and rrustees of the Richmond Academy. As
3 yet we have not reahz i and thing from this
i source; but ofthe SIO,OOO $5,000 were passed
? to our credit in February last, and tiie remaining
- $5,000 will become due b the Ist of next Aug.
s From the City Council, we have received
Scrip at 6 per cent, to the amount of $5,000,
n for a contract entered into by the i ruste s, to
- furnish medii in - and medical services to the
e < fly Hospital for 10 years. This city scrip has
- been taken at par by the contractors of our Col
lege buildings.
n ['he Trustees of the Richmond Ac« ’emy
i- have granted to us 140 feet front and running
o through from street to street, ofthe Western ex
d tremity ofthe lot on which the Acaden y stands,
and in the centre of which the foundation of oui
e College Buildings has already been laid, and is
a now rapidly progressutg.
The Builoing ( ommittee have accepted the
. proposals of Alessts. ( . B. CluskyandA Mar-
- Un, to compl fl tie ollege bulking, lor (he
: sum of $14,567, bv tiie Ist of march next; the
- Lecture rooms, ami necessary preparations, are
J however, by con.ract ami bond, to be in order
i- ami readim-sa for the reception ofthe class, the
a next si ssmii
3, II vin<r thus appropriated nearly all our avai-
- i ble funds tor the ere< turn Os the building, and
not having realized the intentions ofthe Legis-
- l.iture, with respect to the lots on the town com
t mens, the Faculty have raised on their oyvn re
r sponsibilitv the sum oi $6,000, and have alr- a-
dy despatched an <ig< ut, Prof I. A. Dugas, to
11 Europe, to procure with it the nccess ir appi-
> latus, museum and Library. In additi nlo this
another Professoi contemplates leaving here
‘ during the summer forth? north, to increase
f our chemical apparatus, as well as to attend to
t the construction of our Laborator , after
/ the must approved modern plans. This a
- mount, togeflp r with that already appropriated
■ by the Faculty, for the same purpose, out of th<
, funds accruing to the school fr-m the students,
i will, we hope, amply supply us with apparatus
• i and all requisite preparations for a Medical
i, College.
Your Committee cannot conclude this very
‘ flattering repoit—flattering for the success and
I encourjgement which we have received, and
• still more flattering in contemplating the future,
‘ without calling your attention to an early ex-
■ pression of our thank- aim acknowledgements
i for the liberality rxt< nded to us by our last Le
gislature, by our City Council, and by the Trus-
i tees ofthe Richmond Academy. Relying up
on the kind dispensations of ’he Almighty,]
which so fur have been an uninterrupted suc
cession of prosperous events to our Medical I
College, (for never has any enterprize been so
peculiarly favored,) with grateful feelings, we
present it to you, going on from strength to
strength, prospering and to prosper.
PAUL F EYE, .
Al. ANTONY, Executive Cena.
L. A. DUGAS, I
FROM THE ( OLUMBUS ENQUIRER
CVullificatiou IVrit’s of Quoranlo,’ —Ave
ry ludicrous farce, not surpassed even by the
comico-tragic play of Bornbastes Furioso, is
now going on in Murray county. We know
i nothing, personally, of the characters w ho have
1 taken part m ’.his bloody trage
‘ dy, !>ut from the spirit of their prologue, we
I should sunmse the corps was made un of snir-1
i its emulating Fusbus and Artaxammes, and that
’ the leader ofthe dramatis persona, was at least
! as brave and magnanimous a soul as the illus-
I trious General Bornbastes himself. The arti
. cle which has led us into a knowledge of this
; affair,, is contained in the last Western Herald,
■ in the shape of proceedings of a meeting of the
• citizens of Murray County, held “ for the pur
pose of taking into consideration the recent con
duct of the Hon. John W. Hooper, Judge of
the Superior Court ofthe Cherokee Circuit in
his extra Judicial proceeding.-, in regard to the
i issuing the mandates to set aside the Elections
recently held for lhe county officers of this
i county, &c.”
It appears from the preamble-, that his honor
Judge [looper, upon whose head all their bat
tery is about to he exhausted, has had lhe au
c dacity to issue, upon the application of seme of
the citizens of said county, “his writ of Qizoran
to,”* commanding certain county officers, pro
fessing to have been duly elected and coinmis
’ sioned, to appear, before him and answer by
what authority they exercise their several offi
ces— which process they consider extrajudicial
and likely to open away for the introduction a
mong them of the dreadful monster Nullifica
tion—whereupon, they resolve to resist, (not
nullify) to the last extremity, the ope, ation of
the aforesaid dreadful writ of “ Quoranto.” —
Vi ell, as Jack Downing says by the Govern
ment, we cant see lhe eend of this affair, but if
they are in do wnright earnest, as their postscript
asserts, and are determined to take up arms a?
■j gainst the judiciary, we have no doubt they will
achieve many laurels, under the auspicious gui
dan* eof their illustriou Chrononhotonthologus
of war—alias the Supei intendant ofthe mighty
work shop at Milledgeville.
| *Our Devi] wants to know if this is not the
writ that takes a man as well where he amt as
where he arc.
FROM THE run.AD. COM. INTELLIGENCER.
ill COiNS QUENCES.
Thedecision ofthe Houseot Representatives,
on the bank question, has b tii received by the
community, not w ith surprise, lor it was antici
pated, but with feeling akin to despair. The
commimih was not .Juul to tin- icsult- of. the
policy of the Goveinm- nt. lhe consequences
which they tcared, they are now about to real
; ize The madness of the ruler will be visited
with seventy upon the people. Th- re will be
1 no panic; no c-nvulsi n; all will be calm and
1 certain. The operations ofthe blighting poli
' cy oi the Government will b< quieily fatal. It
will creep over the business community, like
the paralysis over the human system, with« ring
’ and blasting all its lit ami vigor. 'The current
of business will be stayed- enterprise will be
' checked, and industry discouraged. New
' contracts will bo avoided, and every one will
! be solicitous, by curtailing his business, to
* prepare for the future. The “droop’d head” of
cmnmerce’w ill “.-ink gradually low;” and a fro-
’ z“n and fatal torpor will spread over the whole
■ business community.
The bank must wind up; an immense capital
’ will be drawn liom the community. The veins
of commerce, now sw< lied w ith a healthy cur
-1 rency, will be drained. The depression will
’ reach all classes. The farmer and the laborer
will suffer with the rest; ai d thousands whose
daily toil gains their daily briad, will be forced
from employment and constrained to repair, at
~ night, to their famishing families pennyless and
desperate. “
M dl the people endure all this?—will they be
1 content to stand by & see the goodly prospects
which Presidence and then own industry spread
, before them, blasted anil made desolate by the
e , evil passions of a bigotted faction? If they
will bear this—if t! ey will drink without a mur
mur, the bitter draught w i< h is commended to
their lips, by their own servants, they are pre
pared to endure any thing, ami the pride ami
, the hope of the patriot, are but empty romance
’ and idle folly.
I No Letter evidence could be given us. of (he
. gfCnt necessity of guarding strictly against tho
_ incorporation of monied monopolies by the go
vernment, than is : fford'-d in (he language of
. our suffering fellow-citizens throughout tho U
, nil n, who are grinning under the effects of the
. recent removal of the ejosites. From ail
( sections and all parties, petiuor.s am] memorials
. ai" eveiy day temumg in upon the National Lc
. gislature, complaining of the most unequalled
distress, and praying the interposition of Con
gress tor their relief. .No doubt th lesson
wnich we have been thus taught, will result in
i much real benefit to the country. Hitherto the
d inger of permitting tlx Guv< rniiient to trail*
scend the bounds defined by the ( onstitutiorr,
has beon felt by compar tic ly but few of our
citizens. I hey have all along been entirely too
, much disposed to countenance the usurpations
of power; the important truth, that “ power is
rapidly stealing from the many to the fe ” has
been acknowledged in theory but denied in
practice too long ; and we thank heaven, that
the distress which is now felt, has come upon
us before our necks arc entirely chained to the
vheels of despotism. Me look upon it as a
“ hair-breadth ’scape;” and if it shall have the
j efli ct to awaken us liom our drcams, we may
Ibe thankful fur the trifling ills we feel. The
government may yet be restored to its proper
| channel. Only let the people awake to the ne
cessity of adhering closely to the letter and
spirit of the Constitution, and w<- shall never be
subjected lo the n x ccs-itv of begging mercy at
•he hands of 'i'yrmts....Columbus Encj.
J\ew Post-Offices. — A Post Office has been
established, under Dr. John Brewster, Post—
i master, at Sutallce, Cherokee county, about se
ven miles south-west from CTierokee Court-
House, and near Downing’s Ferry, on the
Hightower river.—Another of which Mr. G.
M. Smiih is Post-master, has been established,
in the south-west corner of Cherokee county,
under the name of Golden .Mount And’a
third, of which Mr. John P. VVmn is Post-mas
ter, has been stablishcd on the south side of
I Cl; r ro'rec CQi’ntv. cal’ed lb Po r t Office