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MtAtWSf a®TlO St WSMIffR HUB IWPWIi©;,
ever remembered in the |
The tine Bridge lately erected is
ft injured, and great apprehensions
tit will "o awav entirely; but such
®f U . \e of the water that it is impossible |
eVtbe state f than within a mile o( it ,
JeaP!’ ruat , nlll i we are at this moment in ;
em o. a,, or
Wr. :.!„■ Keeper, Were taken oil m a
nMh- ' .nYloek this morning, and serious
Entertained for the safety of Mr.
K r -' a,c ; nve if who was left near Ins house.
■° ?CrS nunil er of Negroes belonging to
i* "L. nia,iv of them sick, arc il
J| w uKis u plantation is entirely under
the amount of damages to the ri-
hear that Mr. Ro
is k', and the Negroes rescued.
■ Pj:.n ulkton, S. C. Aug til.
B oflast week were unparalleled at 1
■ Tkr ni-ihovear. The creeks in tins
astonishingly high, and many
■ " and mill dams have been swept off.
■i"l hi nn* has been done to the crops on
even oo small water eour*.
n the cllect ot Seneca river near tins
Las been dreadful. The cotton crops
■PSmost totally destroyed and it is to be
rod that the crops ot corn have not fared
’BSrlibetter. The full damage has not yet
n ascertained hut from all we can learn,
“■Lmo'n.t on seven or eight plantations on
' river cannot average less than one thou-
Kml dollars each exclusive of the injury to
Me land, which in some cases has been very
Monsiderable. It is also to >e apprehended
‘M'nt t'r decav of vegetable matter consequent
mi'thc liiuiulatioa, may produce in its inline-
Miatovieinitv, a scourge to which wc are, m
Bisection,'almost strangers, billious fever.
X would lain hope, that this evil may be
Inverted.
■ Mobile, Ala. Sept. 2.
B tt.ovs. Wo learn from the gentlemen
ul UK. counties on the Alabama, that with-
last 1,1011! 1 1 , the Southern section o( the
!H lt( . i s considered to have suffered more
m the rains than in any period since 1819.
M: cotton and corn crops will inevitably ■
much injury. Patriot. j
B [From our Correspondent.]
ERIE, 29th Aug. 1831.
y 0 i| must excuse me for not sooner wvi
to von. 1 could have communicated
interesting, but what you have seen
public paper-',— and the state of the crops
j^B s bian,and is now too precarious, to give
warrant lur the expression of an opinion
lative to the future. Two weeks ago the
|Hros;':o! wv; llattering in the highest degree
M-aho.it that tit,ic w-t weather set in and has
ilßoannr.' and ever since, and at this moment it is
Munng, and a prospect of its continuance for
days. The Marrior, at this place, is
lu. abouttwe-ntv feet above low water mark,
is rising rapully ; and there are certainly
causes for apprehending an inundation
low grounds on this river,—an event,
would destroy thousands of acres of corn
M t'Antyn , and which is almost inevitabb . if as
m,, !' rail, lias fallen in the vicinity of the
s of the river as there has in this lioigli-
H,rhood. The consequences of the unusual
Met weather at this season arc, the destrue-
of u great quantity of fodder, and a pos-
M,.. i.it ii- of cotton piekin g|to nn unusually
period; and it appears that tliere must
n viTV great destruction of cotton by the
Bru;, t’.miV.h 1 have nut yet heard much com-
j ol it.
The weather for about twenty days past ha?
cloudy ; and rain fell every day more or
Dunn if this time we <lo not recollect
H „ one clear day—the Warrior and
have risen to moderate height. 'Flic
■crop, ill this county have commenced
■m.,,*. and is thought bv many that should
weather continue in such an unfavorable
that the cotton crops will fall short; in
B 1 commencement of tlio season the pros-
Hi, dof the cotton was excellent. The loss
■of fodder will Tie verv great.
B Eric {Ala.)(Jaz. Sept. 1.
IJ.IOmi.E, \\ G. :i 1 .—The Weather.— For J
pjree weeks p;>t, it has rained almost inces-j
ivuitly. Oi Monday night last we had ano
jl!ter g.le from the South and East, and yes-1
i' r<lay morning the waters of the Hay were as |
ingli within tliree inches as tliey were on tlic >
37in; hut we arc happy to say that no matcri- j
pd damage was experienced in tltis harbor.
Me learn from tlie country that the Cotton
[crops, particularly on the rivers, havesuffered
materially, and that the rot has already shown
it-s*df io an injurious extent The Alabama
Hirer at Montgomery, had risen 12ieet at j
our latest advices. ’ !
The Mail frorvN. Orleans due on Monday i
Jtr.orr.ing has not yet arrived. The country!
between this and Pascagoula is completely j
inundated. —*—
The Weather. —At this season of the year.!
tre are usually parched up with drought and
heat; but in the last month (August,) there J
have been inccssent rains—we have had rain
"pon rain,Apiil showers alternated witli win
ftertorrents —wo verily believe the sun has
(not shown five consecutive hours for the last
month.—the Alabama has risen 20 feet, and j
* s still vising, Cl rent damage* has been done
‘o ladder—the corn is sprouting where ripe,
°n the ears, and cotton rotting, Should this
'venthcr continue pinch longer, the cotton
'‘top will he cut short more than one hall.
Pur country is ytill tolerably healthy, but
'*l dry, hot weather succeeds we apprehend
vim country yyill (suffer from endemic fc.
V( tts. Selma Ale, Oour,
Froni the Mississippi Advocate
Tmfr Floods. — We learn from several pa
that a greater quantity ol rain tell about
oth of July last, in several parts of the
‘uuntry, than has happened in the same
1 n gth of time, with,in the recollection ot tlit*
'bleat inhabitants. The Editor of one paper
’ale.', that it fell not in dropH, or in streams,
,:,t in one vast sheet of water, threatning dc
‘■’f'lciiun in its course. The citizens of Ncw
e-' V. Delaware, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
U! sustained irnmei|ac hisses in the de
motion of t|u ir crops and buildings. A
'■* v stone house, at Hluirsville, Penn
; ’ hi Mr. John Mills, tv. ir.h
had been erected near the margin of a canal
and creek, was carried away by the violence
ot the water, and Mr. Mills, his wife and two
children lost their lives in the awful catastro
phe.
In our section of the country also, a vcfv
considerable quantity of rain has fallen, dur
ine' the present season, and it is thought the
crops have been materially damaged. 0
Extract of a letter dated
BATON ROUGE, (LA.) Aug. 30.
“Ram began falling here on Saturday
night- continued, with a few hours intermis
sion, during Sunday and the follow ing night":
yesterday morning the rain began falling in
torrents, accompanied by some wind: at
about 2 o’clock I*. M. the wind rose to a hur
ricane, and continued during a great part of
last night, levelling fences, and upturning
trees by wholesale. The cotton crops wore
considerably injured by the storm of the 16th
and 17th et seq, but now they must he nearly
destroyed. Tell such of your friends as ex
pect much from the crop in this neighborhood,
not to be too sanguine.
Yours, truly, &c.” —La Adv.
WHEAT CROP.
( On the sid ject of tbc present year’s Wheat
Crop, in the western sections of the State of
New York, the Commercial Advertiser has
tlie following paragraph:
It has been stated, and the fact substantial
ly contradicted, that the western wheat crop
will this year, tall far short of the ordinary
yield. \Ye have direct information upon the
subject, which renders the intelligence hut
too true. An extensive agriculturist from
Cayuga County, states to us this morning,
that in a wide section of the country, em
bracing Cayuga and the adjoining counties,
the crop will not equal one ball ot the ordina
ry product. The quality is generally good,
in Cayuga, when well got in. But such was
grown, in consequence of the wetness of the
season.
Lidupi,)!}
A TROt’P MAN, A GILMER MAN, NULLIFIER, <$6C.
• It was asserted in a Macon paper, ( the Tel
(■graph] that Mr. Crawford was, m 1828, the
Chairman of a meeting in the town of Athens,
at which he contemplated with pleasure the
sepulchre of tbc Union, and sanctioned with
liis name, the principle, that a state may const i- j
tutionally, by imposing an excise, nullify a j
law passed by Congress.
We showed that if that meeting sanctioned
the principle of Nullification,.Air. Lumpkin
was also a nullifier, for he was present at the
meeting, and was one of the committee that
drew up the resolutions which Mr. Crawford i
sanctioned with his name. j
. On the showing of his own friends, then.
Mr. I.CMFKIN was a NULLIFIER in the
year 1828.
On the 25th of April, 1830, Air. Lumpkin
wrote to a friend in Georgia, a letter, of,
which the following extract was published in
the Athenian.
“Weakness of the breast anil lungs, entirely
prevents Gov. Troup from public speaking.
Every body, however, knows where to find Troup.
He will stand bv his arms. If the hill passes
our House (and I think it will) it plaeesa half
million ot dollars at the disposition of the Presi
dent, for the removal of tjie Indians. Andi
entertqrtain no doubt will be wisely and judicious
ly used by the old hero. —A nil.in concert with
other executive plans, "very soon remove all the
Southern Indians. Indeed the Choctaws, Chick
asaws, and Greeks, are already petitioning to go.
And by prudent measures, the Olierokees will he
forced tb yield.
“The great difference between our former and
late efforts upon the Indian subject, is that we
now make it a subject of general policy, which
involves the interest of many States and Territo
ries; whereas formerly, Georgia~was contending
for her rights sing * handed.”
It follows, therefore, out of his own mouth,
that MR. LUMPKIN" was aTIIOLT MAN
in April, 1830.
In relation to Governor Gilmer, we have
hoard it confidently asserted that Mr. Lump
kin, did, Mast winter, approve of the message
of Governor Gilmer, and particularly that
part which set forth his principles and policy,
with regard to our Cherokee lands."
If Mr. Lumpkin approved of the message
J lie must have approved of the suggestion in
I relation to Indian Testimony in ourcourts.
Mr Lumpkin, approving of the message,
| and being therefore a Gilmer man , he stood
before the pu die, on precisely the same
grounds with Mr. Gilmer on these two points,
as well as others embraced in the message.
And so late as February last ffrLumpkin,
said in a letter, refusing to become a cundi
: date, in opposition to Air. Gilmer,
j “In the present posture in which we find the
I important interests of Georgia, instead of pursa
-1 ing a course which might tend to embitter party
! animosities, and engender new strifes, it is my
most ardent desire to see the whole people of
Georgia united on the great subjects of political
interest, and principle, which are inseparably coii
| nected with Liberty, and the perpetuation of our
i Federal Union.”
Mr. Lumpkin, then, hv his own showing,
was a short time ago, a GILMER MAN.
Where is Air Lumpkin now !—At the head
of the Clark party —Where will he be next
| vca r .’—There you are too hard tor us.
Georgia Journal.
We have been informed, and the ihforma
tion is derived from undoubted authority, that
some of the partiznns of Mr. Lumpkin, in
Baldwin county, and in some of the ad
- joining counlies, have adopted the ino-l des
i pieahle means to electioneer against Gover
: nor Gilmer. And among those means is this:
that (lovernor Gilmer is in favor of a reserva
tion pf the lots of land, after drawing, in
which gi>hl should ho found. 'Flic gentle
man yviio gave us the information, related to
jus this circumstance: ho asked a citizen,
for whom he would vote, the reply was, for
: Mr. Lumpkin. Why? The answer was,
because Mr. Giltner is in favor of declaring
all the lots after being drawn, in which gold
should be found, the property of the State,
1 and not of the persons who should have drawn
i them, and any private enemy of mine tnav go
and sprinkle a little gold dust in n shallow
j branch,mid affirm that, thisgold had been dis
) covered on the lot I may have dtuwn, and
i thereby deprive me of my property. We
hope this notice of this despicable and dirty
electioneering trick, wiH have the desired
effect; instead of producing what their au
thors anticipidated injury to the election of
Governor Gilmer, it will benefit him, ns it
should be. We should not be surprised to
hear ot similar despicable means being resor
ted to, when it. will be found that the one in
question lias failed. Georgia Journal.
A PI.TI AS ANT STAOE-OOACir companion.—
A remarkably tall man travelling inside of
a stage-coach, greatly incommoded the occu
pant of the opposite .seat, by the disposition i
of his feet- For many stages the sufferer
bore his fate with heroic fortitude, and no
word of complaint escaped his lips, until the j
coacli again stopped to change horses, when J
the tall gentleman unfastening the doo.r, ex
claimed,“Well, I shall just go out and stretch
my legs a little.” “Don’t for God’s sake,
iJont!” replied the other, “they’re too loiig al
ready.”
“ Our Book relates to all the acts and eiiqdoy- {
meats of man.” — Juvenal
Friday, Sep!. Hi, l£3l.
fljf The Advertiser will hereafter be issued
on Wednesday mornings and Friday evenings.
E.VTOXTOX CON VENTION.
Delegates to the Convention, in addition to
those heretofore published.
Baldwin —Benjamin ,S. Jordan, John 15. Gor
man, Tomlinson Fort.
Jefferson —Irby Jackson, Patrick B. Connely,
John 11. Newton.
Tw iggs—Dr. Asa E. Dupree, Col. Nimrod W.
Long, Maj. /I. Robertson, Stephen F. Miller.
Warren —Maj. G. A. Chandler, Dr. Henry i
Lockhart, Dr. Leroy Holt, and Robert Lazenby. ■
CHARLESTON election.
The Nullification Ticket, for Inteiulant and
Wardens in Charleston, S. C. has succeeded by j
upwards of 100 votes. H. L. Pinkney is the j
Inieiidant.
'
The Seasooi.
Under this head, in another part of our paper, I
we h ive collected- all the accounts which have |
reached us front different quarters, relating to (lie
late destructive storm. From these statements,
our readers will be enabled to form as correct "an
estimate as ourself, of the injury done to the
crops. That they have suffered severely, there
can be no doubt.
We regret to say that Mjrabeau LaMar, Esq.
one of the delegates to the Philadelphia Free
Trade Convention, from Muscogee county, in
this State, lias been prevented, by a sudden and j
severe indisposition, from attending that highly
interesting and important meeting, lie was at
tacked in Mrlledgeville, while on his way to
Philadelphia, with an autumnal disease which
will preclude the possibility of his attendance.
We lament this unexpected dispensation, nqt
only as it regards the health of M. L. but the
loss which the Convention will sustain in his
services. He is an enlightened Georgian, enthu
siastically devoted to the rights of the States and
the perpetuity of the Union. The j eople of
Muscogee have just time enough to appoint a
successor to Mr. L., and we hope they will
promptly do it.
We learn from the Georgia Journal, of yester
day, that John Wingfield, Esq. of Morgan, in
ctnssqucnce of his domestic arrangements, de
clines the appointment as one of the delegates to
the Convention. He, however, expresses his
hearty concurrence in the design of it.
Foreign.
Our European intelligence to-day is interesting.
We give all the details that have reached us.—
The gallant Poles, it seems, maintain their form
er advantages; and. if reports speak true, they
will receive the formidable aid of France and
Great Britain. Such an event, would speedily
giv once more to the countrymen of fcobiesii,
Pulaski, and Koskiuseo, “a name amongthe Na
tions of the Earth” —a name which their patriot
ism and chivalry have more richly merited and
proudly earned, than all the Revolutions w hich
have so lately shook the Old World to its centre.
In France, all is pacific. The Speech of-the
Citizen King, evinces towards the United States
those friendly feelings which characterized our
ancient Ally, under the fatal reign of the amiable
hut unfortunate Louis. The recent Treaty too,
which we have concluded with that country,
shews the Commanding position we occupy in her
councils. We may no doubt attribute'in a great
degree the favorable estimation in which w e are
held by La Belle France, to the untiring influ
ence oftl.S good I.a Fayette.
Since writing the above, this morning’s mail
brings usadvlct . thn . -days 5-.rt<r—they are irom
Liverpool and London, and up to the 2d and 4th
August, inclusive. They bring us no certain in
telligence from the Poles. Several important ru
mors however, were afloat. “One is, that a great
battle had taken place, in which the Russians
were defeated with the lor;, of 11,000 men and BO
•pieces of cannon. Another, that the Russians
were bombarding Warsaw. And a third, (re
j pealing a previous report) that the Emperor Nicli
j olas was dead.”
Our commercial advices by this arrival are to
| the 3d August. In cotton, they say, “there is
little business doing in our market this week with
|no alteration whatever in prices. The sales on
J Monday 1500—yesterday and to-day, the sales
dull. The imports this week are fair.”
Ulr. ISt-Doiinld.
That “ the devil iiiay quote scripture to his
purpose,” was never more successfully illrts
trated in a political point of view, than it has
been by this gentleman, lie takes up de
tached quotations from Washington, JafFor
son, and Jackson, which have no definite
bearing upon the contexts, and attempts, tci?/
he nil he, to impose them upon the people, as
fundamental rules of principle and action.
In our last, we exposed the fallacies, in this
particular, which he attempted to fix upon
the administration of the venerated Washing
ton, and shall now turn our attention to his
misrepresentations of the opinions of Jeffer
son.
Even in the most desperate exigencies of
public affairs, Jefferson reprobated the exten
sion of a protective, influence over, any one
branch of the National Industry to the exclu
sion of another. As an evidence of the fact,
we shall here quote his views, delivered in
an official interview with Gen. Washington,
when he was President of the United States,
and the former Secretary of State, as record
ed in his “ Ana.” He is speaking of a finan
cial project, then proposed by the Treasury
Department, and vehemently supported by
tTio old Federalists. He said to Gen. Wash
ington :
“ That it was a fact, as certainly known as
that he and I were then conversing, that par
ticular members of the Legislature, while
those laws were on the carpet, had feathered
their nests with paper, had then voted for the
laws, and Constantly since lent all the energy
of their talents, and instrumentality of their
offices, to the establishment and enlargement
of this system ; that they had chained it about
our necks for a great length of time, and iri
j order to keep the game in their hands, had
from time to time, aided in making such legis
lative constructions Of the Constitution, as
made it a very different thing from what the
people thought they had submitted to : that
: they had now brought forward a proposition
i far beyond every one yet advanced, and to
[whichthe eyes of many were turned, as the
j decision which was to let us know, whether
I we lire under a limited or an unlimited gov- j
eminent. * He (Gen. Washington,) asked me
to what proposition,! alluded 1 answered,(,o
I that in the report on manufactures, which,
1 under color of giving BOUNTIES for the cn
jcburagement of PARTICULAR RIANU
FACTI RHS, meant to est ablish the doctrine,
that the power given by the Constitution to
collect taxes to provide for the general wel
fare of the United Stales, permitted Congress
to take every thing under their management
( which THEY should deem for the public wel
\ fare, and which is susceptible of the apphea
-1 tion of money."
Iff re then, it w ill he seen, even in the in
! ejpicnt stage of our government, with what
patriotic solicitude Thomas Jefferson viewed
that manufacturing spirit of monopoly, which
i is now raging throughout our country w ith
! fearful strides. What then was hut a sub-
Ijectl'or apprehension, has now heroine a
j fact of startling reality. The untiring, in
! genioue, and insidious labors of the Consoli-
J dationists, have at length fastened the Incu
' bus upon our shoulders, and it will require a
! patriotic struggle to shake (he monster off".—
They have, in the prophetic language of the
Sage of Alonticello, at length succeeded, “in
making such legislative constructions of the
Constitution, as makes it a very different thing
from what the PEOPLE thought they had
j submitted to."
To show vvliat a harmonious consistency
prevailed in the opinions of this great man,
during his eventful and illustrious life, we a
■ gain refer o him as late as the year 1825, hut
; a short period previous to theplosc of his ir.or
jUl career. Speaking on the same subject,
1 in a letter to a distinguished individual, he
J says:
“ I see, as you do, and with the deepest af
■ ffietion, the rapid strides with which the l'e
i derul branch of our government is advancing
j towards the USURPATION OF ALL THE
; RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE STATES,
iand the consolidation in itself of all powers,
I foreign and domestic ; and that too, by con
; Htniclions, which, if legitimate, have no h
' mils to their power. Take together the deci
sion of the Federal Court, the doctrines of
the President (J. Q. Adams,) and the mis
constructions of the constitutional compact,
; acted on by the legislature of the federal
brtmch, and it is hut too evident, that the
three ruling branches of that department arc
in combination to strip their colleagues, the
, State authorities, of tl * powers reserved by
: them, and to exercise themselves, all fune-
I tions, foreign and domestic !— Under the pow
er to regulate commerce, they assume indef
nitrfy, that also over agriculture amt mam•
j furfures, and call it regulation to take the
earnings of one of these brunches of industry,
and that too the most depressed, and put them
l into the pockets of the other, (the mnnufactu
rers,) the most Jfotrishing of all. Under the
authority to establish post rqads, they claim
that of cutting down mountains for the con
struction of roads, of digging canals, and aid
ed by a little sophistry on the words ‘ general
welfare,’ a right to do not only the act3 to ef
fect that w hich are specifically enumerated !
and permitted, but whatsoever they shall j
think or pretend will he for the general wel-;
fare. And what is our resource for the pro- !
serration of the Constitution ? Reason and
argument? You miehtas well reason and nr
gue with the marble columns encircling them.
The representatives chosen by ourselves ?
They tire joined in the combination ; 6ome
from incorrect views of government, some
from corrupt ones, sufficient, voting together,
to outnumber the sound parts ; and with mu- j
joritics only of one, two, or three, bold enough j
to go forward in defiance.”
In this critical juncture of affairs, what J
course did the pat.fotism of Thomas .filler- j
son recommend ? An immediate appeal to 1
the dernier resort ? No. He recommended
a course which we have endeavored, in our
bumble capacity, to impress upon the uiinda
of Mr, McDonald and the party of which In
is a deluded follower. After deprecating all
movements, instanter, to such a measure, Mr. j
Jefferson thus concludes his .wholesome ad- j
vice :
“But in the meantime, the State should be
watchful to note every material usurpation on
their rights ; to denounce them as they occur ;
in the most peremptory terms', to protest
against them as wrongs to which our present
submission shall be considered not as acknowl
edgements or precedents of right, but as a tem
porary yielding to the lesser ceil, until their
accumulation shall OVER WEIGH THAT
OF SEPARATION.”
Is this the policy which is pointed toby tbc
purblind nnd destructive doctrines of Mr.
.McDonald? Far from it. Light and dark-)
ness arc not in a more striking contrast to
each other, than are his opaque views ami the I
illuminating opinions ofAlr. Jefferson. Air. j
McDonald has, by his opposition to’Mr. La-)
mar’s resolutions, emphatically said to us
“As far as my vote can go, 1 will deprive the j
people of the South of the privilege of meet- i
ing together in Convention, for the purpose!
ot petitioning for a redress of their grievan-!
ces,” However ingeniously the gentleman
may quibble, or how ever ably he may sophis
ticate the question “to this conclusion he must
come at. last.”
*
As we are apprehensive of overleaping the
limits of this paper, we must here arrest our
remarks until the. next number. We will
then shew that there is as great discrepancies
between Mr. McDonald’s opinions and those
of General Jackson, as we have here proved
to exist between Air. Jefferson’s arid thellori.
Ex-Judge’s.
In the mean time we beg leave to submit
to our readers Ihc following excellent article
from the Banner of the Constitution. It will
convince them—and we are sorry to make,
the assertion—that there is to be found a pa
triotic son of the North, who is better ac
quainted with the rights and interests of our
State, than is one of her own sons, who is now
aspiring to a high judicial station among us.
From the Bonner of the Constitution.
The favourable reception which the propo
sal for a Free Trade. Convention has every
where inet with, must be highly gratifying to
tile friends of lib. ml. commercial principles
throughout the U. States.—Almost ail seem
too look to it as tjie harbinger of a better state
of feeling than lias foi a long time existed;
and, if it he attended with no better effects, it
will, at least, serve to show that the contest
now carried on is not a struggle for sectional
interests, but for principles dear 'to a large
and respectable portion of our citizens in ev
ery State of flic Union.
The number of Delegates already chosen,
which amounts to upwards of one hundred
and thirty, leaves no room to doubt that the
Convention will be largely attended; and, up
on the score of talents and respectability*©!
character, it will not suffer by comparison
with any deliberative body in the land. Can
it be, then, that near two hundred citizens
shall leave their homos, and take a journey or
a voyage of one hundred, five hundred, or a
thousand miles, at a great expense and sacri
fice of comfort, without exciting the impress
ion, far and wide, that the oppressions under
which they labor, or, at least, think they labor,
have struck deep into their sensibilities, the
rather, because indicted by n brother’s hand!
Can it happen, that a numerous body of distin
guished men, from all parts of tin: l nion,can
intermingle with the intelligent society of
this city, and w ith one another, without exci
ting the revival of those ancient sympathies
which carried them along, hand-in-hand, du
ring all former periods of national peril I Can
it he, that a numerous, and dignified assem
bly; acting under tlie sanction of the Consti
tution, which guaranties “tlie right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances,”
can issue a solemn manifesto, declaratory of
their opinion that the Union ism danger,and
that a refusal of one portion of the people to
lend a conciliatory car to the complaints of
another,, must inevitably destroy the harmo
ny which can alone hold the States together
under one common head: can such a mani
festo, we say, he put forth, signed by a large
number of the most able and patriotic citi
zens of which the country can boast, without
inducing the people to pause and reflect! In
tine, can it he, that a plain, practical, arid
honest exposition, of thcrcal effects produced
by the Restrictive System, in retarding tlio
national wealth and prosperity, shall not in
duce thousands to examine the subject, who
have never done it before? To all these qnes-
tions we think the reply will be emphatically,
negative—and we think we are warranted in
saying, that, in this quarter, already there
have appeared indications of a spirit of con
-1 eiliation amongst the opponents of Free Trade,
j which are exhibited in a moderated tone,
I and a respectful notice of the proposed Con
| vention.
Some feeble attempts were made, for a
I while, to excite public odium agninst this tru
' ly national measure, by intimating that the
< ’on vention was designed- to promote the doc
trine of Nullification. Tne malevolence and
falsity of this aspersion were, however, soon
put down, by the respectability and known o
pinions of the gentlemen appointed in our ci
ty, and who were amongst its zealous promo
ters. Their odject was, as w<3 have occasion
to know, to present a common ground, upon
u bieh all could stand who were opposed to the
Restrictive System x whether they regarded it
as unconstitutional, or even merely as inexpe
dient and unwise. No plan, therefore, of ef
fecting a removal of the evil in any other way
than by an appeal to the good sense and lovo
of Union of the people, was in their contem
plation; and it is evident, from the proceed
ings of all the meetings, at the South and else
where, that the same view is there entertain
ed. In fact, this proposal ioc a Con vention o
rigmatod North of the Potomac. It was in
tended to say to our brethren cf the South,
“We think there is yet hope in the good sense
of the people—before you resolve upon -my
measure of a character regarded here, by the
mass of the community, as unconstitutional,
or revolutionary, unite with your friends at
the North, who sympathise in your sufferings,
and who believe, with yon, in the truths of
politi 1 science, in making one strong and
conciliatory appeal to ths Government and to
the Nation.’ This is the spit it in which it
appears to have been received; and it must
be manifest, that, just in proportion as this
spirit is adhered to by all parties, will the
Southern Delegates carry home with them the
esteem, the affection, and the sympathies, of
their Northern brethren—feelings which, at a
crisis like the present, are of great price.
Ancient and Modern Poland.—An
cient Poland was a large country of Europe
lying between Germany, Russia, Turkey,
and Hungary. Including Lithuania, it con
tains 284,000 square miles, and 15,000,000
inhabitants. The partition of Poland be
tween Russia, Austria, and Prussia, took
place at three distinct epochs, 1772, 1793,
and 1795, and tbc result of tiie whole was as
follows
Square Miles. Population.'
To Austria, 64,000 4,700,000
To Prussia, [62.000 3,600,000
To Russia, (158,000 6,700,000
284,000 15,000,000
At the peace of Tilsit (July', 1807.) Bona
parte stripped Prussia of the greatest part of
her Polish possessions. Of these he gave a
small portion to Russia, and erected the rest
into anew state, called the Grand Duchy ot
Warsaw, which he assigned to the King of
Saxony. In 1809, after vanquishing Austria
in the field, he'compelled her to cede part to
his new Grand Duchy. But all the arrange
ments of Bonaparte were overturned by llio
disastrous campaign of 1812; the Russians
re-occupied Poland ; and the Congress of A i
enna, while it decreed to Austria and Prus
sia a partial restitution of their late cession,
confirmed to Russia all the Polish and Lithu-
I aniaa provinces acquired before- 1795, con
| ferring on her, in addition, the sovereignty of
| central provinces, which constitute the pre
j sent kingdom of Poland. Each of the three
! [lowers was enjoined bv the Congress to give
) to its respective portion of Poland as free a
| Constitution as circumstances would permit.-
■ The following table shows how the territory
j and population were divided between the
three potveis at the Congress of Vienna":—
Square Milts. Population.
To Prussia, 29,000 1,800,000
To Austria, 30,000 3.500,000
Kingdom of Poland, 47,000 2,800,000
To Russia, 178,000 6,900,000
284,000 1 5,000,000
The Kingdom of Poland, as constit-.ted at
tike Congress of Vienna, is the seat of the pre
sent revolution. It comprises the chief part
of that which, from 1807 to 1809, formed the
Duchy of Warsaw. It consists of the central
provinces of ancient Poland, bounded all
along its frontier l>y the respective acquisi
tions of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. Area,
47,000 square miles. The population at pre
sent is estimated at 4,000,000. The coun
try, though subject to the Sovereign of Rus
sia, Was governed in every respect as a sepa
■rate monarchy. The regal dignity is vested
iin the Czar, represented by a viceroy, in
i whom, and a cabinet of ministers, the execu
tive government resides. The.religion of
the majority is the Catholic. The Protestants
|of different sects arc also numerous; and
there are many members of the Greek church.
I The J t ws arc computed to forma seventh
part of the whole population.— East Lidia
, Magazine, June.
GREAT HURRICANE—BARBADOS INr
RUINS—IMMENSE LOSS OF LIVES.
We lay before pur readers u letter from the
Consulate of the United States at Martinique,
just received by the Collector of this |>orf, ac
companied by a Gazette extraordinary, issued
from the Barbados Mercury Office, bearing
date August 13, giving an aacount of the rav
ages of one of the most terrible hurricanes of
which we icmembcr to have heard. It pass
ed over the ill fated island of Barbados on
the night of the 10th rust, and in eight hours
left- it desolate, covered with ruins and dead
bodies. A letter to the American Consul at
Martinique, dated August 15th say s—“ This
island, I much f< ar is reined,G it will beimpos
bln for it to recover. ’ —A r . )". /), Post,
DIE D— At bis residence IriTwiggsci'mntv'Ga.
on Friday the ninth inst. Mr. Ar.tVx Dorman,n
"native of North Carolina, but for many years a
' resident of Georgia, in his 7.7d y ar. He "was n
plain honest farmer, and has left" a large number of
relations and friends to regret his death.
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