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g\ w *;•*> f £\*,T. IXYT-T* Vi? r? r* A V*f -'Wt ML* s ?*' /Mi' r ?*\ v r* AJ* *'? .TVi'S %\i tJLE F . i ANOTHER FIR'S KINS'. Wi? arivi.-•* Mans. Cnaubert, if lig lias any tegar ’; >r iiis iHofession.il reputation* t*> avoid aim mug the lawyers to hi* exhibition. Be itiif • stringer among us, ho may not bn a-, wan; ti it the.' r.r co.isi Icrcil u match lor hi ~ On Thursday ox niug, after heating- a j shnvel red !i >!. bt’ requ st< and any ol liie s;>cc- ] tat >rs that \V:< i .11.> put out th. r tongues, and j h • would -riil ’ i'. .1. If. Patten, Esq. walk-' cd up to th** - , :.n 1 Mons. id. deliberately rubbed the h tied m talowr his tongn - two or firm ti n s, which Mr. P. bon; with the | forum'; of a martyr. Ho thon allowed Mans. 0. to piss the shavi 1 over Lis I'ice, eyes, and hair. Moos. C. tiion promedod to heat a vessel ofo' 1 , and vhen it wis heated to 4 vl, put his tin.irs nto it; and Mr. Patten, lawyer-like put Ms lingers in tort.—Mon*. C. then took a ■ spoo ifal of th 1 oil; Mr. P. also requ sted his j dos 1 of it, which was gi ven lii:n. A v ;ss. lofr <1 hot!; i-l was then pro Inner!. | Mo is. C. aft. r tiding a portion of it in his I finders, and then pvtuingitin his mouth, pre- j sent, vl tbs* v-‘ss,*l to Me P. whuff 1 the sail . Mr. P th * i aft. i to take the 1‘ K) liior. | or Prussic Acid. if \S > : C. would I- t him ; but !i lie*lined, for l u* he would disco: r ins t Antidote. j Mo.is. C. then r tired to prepare himselfh for in • o ■i, .ml returned, rm -r -1 with; clod; Ai! i in. Is. After preparing tin; steak j be placed it at tin* door of the overt, which I was i,n nodiut !y opened, an 1 th* lurid and : glaring appearance of its atmosphere threat., enc 1 just i it doath to any living thing that e:to i! 1 dare to oucount* r it. .Mr. i\ however stop >ed M >u4. an i requested So !> - allowed j to itcouipany him. Mous. 0. il din I, but told hi .i lie might walk in if k- ple na!. Mr. P. eonlly walked in, and seat and himself' o.i th iro i chair in tho back part of the nv- j in ; but as he had not prepared himself with vrr e rs, lie staid but about one minute. T ■ ior was shut, ami the tir-rmometcr stoo I it 530. II ■ describes the s ms-ition as that of a L iming heat upon the face for the first moment ; after tii.it, the p-rspiration started,and it was comparatively comfortable* 'file moral from all this is, that the feats ol M > 13. C. are real. They are practical iliiis tntions ofsoni' of tho most beautiful theories in client ‘rv ; a science in which Mr. P. is an a loot, both th or ticallv and practic-lly. Bit enough for tho presnt. P. r'ta;>s tve shall litiv" s < n ini . ; mar- to suy o;i another occa sion.—[_Y. i . Jj ir. of Cxmt-.rce. f.'IY EKavi’-ST.] Wo copy i'lo following from pcpor.— j Th- mode of iatro-Suction is rather a novo! i o:i '. i CoxvEEr-rox &:•’ a Puctsswist Noui.r::.i\x. | To the J Editor of the Freeman'* Jour ini', j Si;:—Though not having t!ie honor of be ing pci son ally aequui a ted with you. I trust I know y >;i sl;i • i ~:i !y as a public journalist, to calculate o:i an immediate insertion of the i following interesting fact, in your liberal and ; widely circulating Paper : Lord Stuart, son lo j Earl CastL.stuart accompanied by the I* :v. ] Mr. Whit-.;, Prostosant Curate of Arvoc, c .li ed on Dr. O’Neil, Catholic Rector of said pa rish, on Thursday, 22dd ul: imo—a ft. ran in terchange of the usual urbanities, the Rev. Air. White introduced his Lordship, as one of D-'*** — 11 a,; ’‘ > : t.-rsns, tiiat bis Lord-hip had been for j •miio time back, dih renily ■ roployod in search , of the true faith, and that the result of exten-j sire read in;;, and calm and deliberate inquiry j was a conviction on Ins Lordship’s mind,that the true fdth * ns q ily to he found in the Cath-j die Church,- Lor.! ■' turt then address -<1 Dr. j O m all, in his own peculiarly dignified mm-] nor—‘*Faf’ier O’Neill, I in future wish to j h ar miss in your chapel on Sundays and ho-! iydays, and request to be indulg 'd with a seat on the epistle side of the altar.’’ Doctor O Neill with that suavity and politeness fur which ho is distinguished, said lie would feel pariieuhir p! asure in affording every accom modation and attention in bis power, and thinking that ins lordship was not acquainted j with too number of holy days, uitimat and that i ii • would furnish him wish a in nor mduin of j tnose kept in Ireland. His Imr.shsp thanked iiim noli! ly, sayingtli.it he had theta marked cd in ins own directory. 'J’ns, Sir, is a minute and circumstantial ac count of his lordship’s introduction and int r view with Doctor O’Neill. On Sunday the 25th ult. bis Lordship in puisuauro to the previous agreement made on Thur- lay, arriv ed at DoclnrO’N ill’s place, where be beard mass with all the glowing piety and eiiif, ing attention of one deeply impressed with tlieavv-l fu! mej sly of the cugu-j. and tremendous eu churbe.e s icniioe. Tin-reason, why lie did not attend in the chapel was, that th report of bis lordship’s ship’s visit caused an unusual conflux of pen-’ pie of every denomination—this coupled with The circiuflsiance of tiro chapel being too email, and in rather a dikpidated state, (but about-to bo rebuilt on an enlarged and im-i prov and plan—gave rise lo well founded ap prehensions tiiat same unpleasant accide:P : might occur; it was therefore thought prudent i that Ins lordship should hear mass in Doctor! OW ill’s room, till the unusual excitement j should subside, and better arrangements be j inode for his reception in the chapel. In a lengthened con versa! ion I had with ' bis lordship lie informed me that ho bail turn ed l;is mind to divinity exclusively for the ] 4 G years—that after.reading Dr. Milner’s end of controversy t'. re was no choice left him. lie was initiated into the Roman Oa-1 limbo church in Southampton, and confirmed L’v the vicar apostle of, 1 believe the western district. I had the pleasure of celebrating in-.se for his lordship in Dr. O’Neill’s room on yesterday. Tie is ft young nobleman of dc-ep research and tran&ceiulant talents. LLTNARD weany. .51AV YOU DIE AJtOXO YOUR KIKDRED. Ily Greenwood. It i# a sad thing to feel that we must die ■away from our home- Tell not the invalid W o is yearning after his distant country, th i. too ntniospherr around him is soft : that th i r i s ir.- fillo l w ith Kalin, and the flowers nr pr-f'rmff from the green earth, he If noire 4' ‘ *'• - .Jo si . r hvari would be tV ttr wine.l liffigs over ins nati C i ,' 1 5 t. I*l "more grate fu! tliLn all the gai s of th • smith, would breathe tho low wins? r.a of ajaxiu.M .ff feet ion ; that the wry icicles ch<tgtuo to bus own eiives, an 1 tue snow boating against his own windows, would be far more |>l s ... to his eyes, than the bloom and v rdure wiacti n ily more forcibly reami I him hew far he i. from that one spot iviiicli is dearer to hun than all the wori beside. If; mar, indeed, find entimabie friends, wiio will t-o all in their power to promote his comfort and assuage his pains ; but they cannot supply flic (dace of t ie lon i known and long loved, they, can not read us in a book, the met * language ol hi-- face ; tii -y have not leurncd to wait upon Ilia Indiits, and anticipate Ins wants, and he has not learned to communicate, without h - !si bit ion, r.FI !iis wish, s, impressions, and th.>;t .hit.-, to them. He fee Is that h. is a strung r; an 1 a more desolate feeling than that cn tld not \ isit his soul liow in.icli is cx •r> ss and by that form of oriental benediction. U-.'j you die i.'OTj.’g ;/') /• kindred. HF. U'TII’T 7 !, KXI'itACT. It cannot b" th.-.t curt , is uu i’d cdy abi ling place. It cannot be that o r life is a aihbie, cast up by the ocean of . t-rrc.ty, to I final a moment upon Us waves, and sink into nothingness. Mi\, ,y y it, the higli and | glorious aspirations, which leap aug. !s from the temple of out hearts, arc for v. r vander ing about unsatisfied ? W!iy is it ifi .t tile j rainbow and th • cloud come or- r us with a j beauty tn.it is not of earth, and then pass oT I and 1 -ave uj to niuso upon their*faded lovli j nr.<d? \Vay i.: • t tint tho stars vviii.;!i “tiold lair f'stfval arou.ti the midnight throne,” | nr.; sot above th ; grasp of our li.n"• 1;M fa :u!- jti 3.; forever mocking us with tn.-ir mi i:>- |)ro:ic!n!>!o glory ! And finally, w:iy is it that bright forms of human beauty arc present* <J ito our view and t.i u 11!: Sr mi us ; ! >in | the tliouaa: 1 stream • of onr a'f .-cfiotis to flow i back in Alpine torrr.:,:it •o.i our nearis! We • are born for a higher and day than that of | f ~rih. Ter ii a realm wh re tho rainbow* , never fad s —where, the stars will b • spread out before ms !:k t.uc island : that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful beings v. hi .* i li co p-i vs in fore U3 like siiadows, will shly in our. r no fore. r. j Siehnte on the t'onvcutlttni Olil. Frmn the Bcargia Journal. In tlie House * f R -presentetives, tho bill to submit the propriety of calling a conven tion to reduce the numb r of numbers in the Legislature to tho voice of the people, being under consideration, iu committee of the wholt— Mr. Joxus, of Jackson, said, on this great question, tn which the interests of the who! people of ti: ■ State are so deeply concerned ; and in tile final result of which Ins own im mediate C'instiUh tits ( ntertained so much fruling, he imp and In* shotil I not Do consider ed by tho committee in calling its attention for a few minutes, as either troubl.-somo or obstrusivo. Feeling the great delicacy of: the situation i:i which lie was placed as a now m tuber, quite unacquainted with the routine of 1 -gislulion, and surrounded by so many members witose ages, experience an:i abilities for public speaking, so much more j entitle them to the attention of the com.nit tec than bin..-' If, be had intended to remain .. sitm spectator oi tins debate, and nothing should have induced him to abandon that determination, but the extraordinary course which has been adopted in relation to this important question, ar: I the expression of ex traordinary opinions involving, cm he humbly couceiv- and, tin: character oi' the people whom lie represented, and questioning the justice of the great cause which they support. The main question involved in the bill on your table, continued Mr. J. lias been pre sent: and to tbo consideration of the former Legislatures in a-variety of shapes and at a variety of times. The object of effecting a reduction of the number of members which constitutes the General Assembly of this State, has been a subject of the deepest anx iety and of the most unfeigned solicitude among a large portion of our citizens for the last ten year?. The growing magnitude of ■ the evil and the manifest indifference ami neglect with which t. s great question has been treated by former Legislatures, and most especially by the last, have increased that so licitude and aroused that anxiety, in sonic 'sectionsof the country, to a pitch ten-fold higher than has ever been felt before, and nas awakened and enkindled all the ritrhtc.ous In dignation of a disappointed people. Why, sir, did the Legislature in 1829, pass resolu tions calling on the people to express tlieir wishes in regard to a reduction of tiie num ber of members i:i the General Assembly?] Why were the purple called on to speak from fife ballot box and declare forth th-:ir will ? Was it really the intention of the Legislature in calling for an expression of the people’s: will on this subject, to regard an ! obey that will? Rid ft really intend to abide by the decision of the majority, which it had sought? From the manner in which this question was treat <1 by the last legislature, the inference isstrongly dcvlttciblc, that it was only the in tention of the Legislature in calling for the ! people’s will, 10-slisht, disobey and disregard ! tiiat vviil, and to si tow to the people that they 1 as their servants bad “ set themselves above ] tin ir masters Mint they as tlieir representa- 1 lives felt not bound by the will of the ma jority. Kir, when offices are bought from the gift : of the people din ctly, what hosannas do we 1 hoar chaunted to the pet pie’s will! The: tights of the people, the virtu s of the people, aye sir, even the majesty and sovereignty of; the people are lauded ami sung in strains of] the moil infinite praise! Rut when this] great subject is introduce-! ; the most impor tant subject which lias agitated the Legisla tive hails lor the last ten years; almost the! only one in w hich the poo; le rn musse feel n : deep and lively interest; and the only one on i which their wishes arc definitely known- and j expressed; Sir. 1 say when this great ques-1 tion is introduced, hosannas lo the people’s! will and sor.as of praise to the prepie’s sov- * in-igiitv, languish and faint am! fail and die.! 'l’he voice oi tin: people on all other oce,-j. i sioiis, so warmly courted and at all other! t: tt.r-3 apparently so powerful and command- j mg, is permitted to pass by like the In edless, listless wind, an. none cares “whence it com th or whether it goetii!” Sir. I ai.nj these remarks at no manor set of men or par-f ricolar sections of tin: country, bull cannot help remarking as 1 feel, that it is strange, I passing strange indeed, that this is the only subject on which the known and expressed j will of the people docs not give tone to the j action of the i.eg slatnre. The necessity of some reduction scorns to] be admitted o*i all hands. The length of the \ session,of the Legislature, the unimportant charter of the business transacted, the profli goie. ( xt'etiditnre of the public funds atten dant upon such long sessions, the loose and in ilicient manner in winch tha business of the country us done ; and upon the whole a| g acral want of benefits correspondent to tire; ; magnitude of the evils incurred, arc* to my '; mind he most powerful ami irresistible con-] :si derations in favor of a reduction of th* ; ] number of mt inkers constipating the general ] a ss. inlfly. Reduce tiic number one half and] ' you s'.orten the sessions one third ; you ex* I . etc the public business; you give strength ; [ and energy un.l vigour to the action of the : . wiiyio m-tciiiiiery of government, and create; a g fur il coiilidene.c among the people in; * h lovvd institutions of their country. —' Lou ; sessions of tho Legislature are public [ grievances suid private ills. They ar pub-; i c grievanct 5 because t!i y bring lie: Legis-: hiivc department of the gyver:mv.*nt, into dis- ; repute by the meinci. ncy of iis .iction am;; ti: i continued excr-ds'! of its [lowers and pre-; r ig-ui vcs,u(K>nworthless ami unimportantsub j e:s. Tiiev divert it from the high and no-; bie end for iviiicli It vvatf intended, by cou.in iii: an.l applying its op. r ci to th • accom- j plishment of object?, unworiliv of its high vocation. ’l’iiey imp dr the coididencc of the poopl-3 in its purity and virtue, by failing io produce beni i.tsad. rpiate to the evils they su.fe.r i.ulerthccontinual burthens which it throws upon them by its expensive opera-' lions. Long s- s ons are private grievances, 1) -ausc they ditai.i t!io memb rs of tin Legist ;turc anuiiiitCi -sary and painful icngt;. of time from the bosivms of their fuuiiii ~-*., and thereby* interrupt the social relations of domestic life. Then, sir, mbit*a the number of meuflicrs in t!ic general as ; mhiy, and i: m other r-ason.exists, do it to remove the grievance of long s- ssions of tin? Legisla iure, arid to rcston to iliis branch of the gov. eriimcut the lost affect ions of a people whoso love of liberty and veneration for the po'hti c and institutions of their fathers ere surpassed by none in the world. The evil of excessive Legislation too, is tin' offspring of an nvergiown representation, livery mom her on ids arrival here seerns to think that in order to ensure ins return to this House at the next election, lie must in troduce some popular measur**, must put in agitation acme jmpuhr enestinn, ui’i.- t inove | same groat and important bill !o secure th-' | interests, good wis-’m-i and affections of the 1 p-ople at home, until your disk is loaded ! and groans l eu. ath the enormous pressure cd j matter presented frr the consult-mi -n of tiiis ; House. Each member is.anxious in pressing ! forward liis own private, local business, while i busim ss of importance is laid ov. r from j week to Week, from lima to time ; every j thing of a gcn ral and public nature must i give uny to the separation of discontented v i ve- .....i lius’o.iini.-, , tlio i.-mnrnoruUon of ! villages and academics, tin changing of Mm .lames ot persons, the establishing of elec tion districts, ami anon to the payment of some old antiquated claims, long since barred ! hy the statute of limitations and the dictates ot justice,.am! whose age gets back into i time “ whereot th-memory of man runneth not to the contrary Presently the close of j the session approaches and then comes the t tug of war; this important bill is committed | till June ; that is hid on th-.-table for the re ! tnaindcr of the session ; an I another equally ; important is lost for want of some trifling ( •amendments, and in the general scramble, the public business is mangl.-d arid murdered j with worse than Gothic barbarity. Then, j sir, reduce the numbers of the genera! as j seinbly; and if rio other reason exists, do it to r.d the country ot the curse of so much unnecessary, sup rfluoua and excessive Leg ! islation, j B-tl, sir, tlie mormons expense of our pre sent umvieldly Legislature is one of the most powerful and urgent con.-i .-i raiio is that could be adduced in favor of the passage of ; this bill, or any other which will pave the i way for a reduction. Annually we expend the sum of 70,0(10 dollars or thereabouts, to: ' defray the expenses of a session of the Leg-] j islaturc. Now effect a reduction of the hum her to one half what it is at present, and vou : can have too same quantity of business done, i j and better done, in two thirds of p c time] ; now consumed and ut one third of the e.x , jjonso—do gentlemen not consider these im-i ] portant consid-rations ? Do they riot con-/ ;sider it. matter of importance to lighten the! burdens under which the country is groaning,! . to maintain ami sustain our exoc-nsive svs- ■ ] 'em of Legislation ? I will not insult the' judgnicnt and undertaking of the committee, ! by nddii -mg arguments to prove that which i j must strike the mind of any and every ren* ■ onci I • man with such peculiar force. There is however another consideration: which, while 1 cm on this branch of the sub-; ! ject, l will sugge st to the committee as well j ■ worthy of its most serious and profound at-j j trntion. lu all popular governments like] ] ours it is one of the fundamental principles! upon which they are based, that there ought i :!obe a direet and strict accountability of t’i-• t representative to tb.c constituent; and this, 1 sir, is a measure which will bring responsi* i bility directly home to the people. VVlkto! the number of (iubltc servants is great, it is! impossible, that the people can scan and j scrutinize nnd investigate the conduct ofev cry one and pass w ith justice upon the merits J of nil ; and Mins the connecting link between ! the representative and the constituents, is weakened by degrees and’finally dissolved. I ,i nr greater the number o! public servants I the lt/s is the individual responsibility, arul *.:e less the number of oublic servants the | greater the rcspnnsihiJity. Then, sir, if you wish to preserve pure arid unimpaired one of, tin fundamental principles of our happy in stitutions, reduce tin number of members in the LcgbJntuK*, redouble th n resnnnsibilify j of tin representative to the people, and strengthen tha chain by which they are bound In er. lint the point of difference among us all, appears to be the mamu r in which the repre sentation ought io In: apportioned among tire different counties; and permit me here to express it as my deliberate opinion, that the representation should be according to popu lation exclusively. And h* rein 1 diff. r with my friend the honorable gentleman from Ki brrt, who, in the remuiks just submitted to the chair, brings in taxation in aid of his ar guui nt. Sir, I throw taxation entirely out of view; 1 tuink it should have nothing to do with the apportionment of tin. representa tion at all. Neither should tirritoiy be ta ken into consideration, it is our duty to .Legislate for tile people. The inti rest vvnicb idle country has i:i the territory, is in proiior ; lion to tile (lopulation by which it is inhabit- ed, audit is tiier. fore unreasonable that a section of the country which is sparsely in habited and therefor ■ having but f w inter ests, sho’dd be repress, t® I as strongly as those where the int rests are tn'iltiplied by the multiplicity of people. It is assert; and by authority which we all vi no rate, that all men are and ought to lie “ free and equal.” It does not mean that ail men arc equal in point oi abilities and intellectual acquirements or in property, for it is inijmssible that you can fix bounds to the flight* of genius or to the ti* mands of av arice. But, sir, it means that they are equal in the privileges of the coun try iff which we live, and of equal voice ip. the councils of the government. The opu lent citizen of the sea-board shall have t.q more |"iv iloges or povv. r than the yeoman among the mountains of Rabun or tho Tort i 1 • va’lies of the centre, and yet he shall be enti tled to as much. Now, sir, dots our pre sent syst, m of representation operate thus equally ? Do the citizens of every section of the St;* to have the same influence and weight, here in cither brunch of tho genera! assembly 1 They have not. The county of Monroe wi'h a representative population oi 14,200, scuds one Senator to t'ac Legislature, while eleven counties, to wit: the counties of Wayne, Randolph, Ware, Irwin, .Mont gomery, Baker, Appling, ‘flewart, Marion, Early, and Telfair, with an aggregate repre sentative population of only 14,700. send ole ven Si nators ; shewing thereby as conclu sively a;, math, in tie .: demonstration can shew that ou-> citizen in any of these coun ties has as much power and influence in the Penatorial branch of the general • assembly, as eleven citizens in the county of Monroe*-. But to illustrate this ease stronger still if pos sible, th" county of Wayne lias a represen t .live population of 818 souls, and is rep resented as strongly in tho Senate as the county of Monro*, with the population be far< stated, thereby giving to a citizen in tho comity of Wayne seventeen times the weight of a citizen of Monroe in the other branch of the legislature. But, sir, is the matter any i :‘cr i:i this liot.se ! Is the weight of pop ulation felt here ! I regret to say, that in I n.-iflier branch of the Legislature is the weight of the citizen felt. In the Senate it is tcrritoiial representation entirely, and in , this House it partakes more of territory than i population. The county of Wayne sends one member to this bouse and the county oi Monroe sends four (under the new census:) and by a eom;>ar;*o.i of the population of the | two counties, you will find that one citizen (of Wayne leu as much weight here as four citiy .is of Monroe, and that if all the i oiiii j ti-'S in the State, were as highly favoured as the county ot Wayne according to their [ population, the county of Monroe would In* ( entitled to seventeen representatives on this ! floor; and bv the same ratio we should hay* , here instead of the enormous number of ont hundn 4 and forty-two representatives, the , still more enormous and incredible number of ; live hundred and fifty!!! Ilut to illustrate this inequality morn clearly, to place the ; shocking absurdity of our present mode of re j presentation in another point of view, sup. ! pose each one of the four representatives from j Monroe to rt present the same number of the 1 people of that county os the-member from : Wayne represents, and the iour together will ] represent an aggregate of 2,452 souls, leav jmg a population of nearly 12 000 in that i single county totally unrepresented ! These i ;, re •ot mere conjectures of the brain; riot fanciful theories ; tin y ar-: stubborn, incon- I trovertible, undeniable facts, and challenge | even the semblance of contradiction. And I -.vhy arc the citizens of Wayne and the oth- r : smaller counties thus privileged and emj.ou-- j ered, above the citizens of the populous sec tions ct the State? \\ liv are the hardy yro i manry of the -Noriit and IVcst, the bone and ; sinew* ot the country, the main protectors and | defenders of our liberties in time of war, and j the pillars of our country’s glory in lime of: j peace, why are they to be restricted in those | j liberties and debarred from tiu-ir due proper-] 1 tion of power in the government? The bill i upon your tabic is a compromise offered to ; the sitiiilli r counties for it secures to them 1 one representative to this branch of the gene ] ral assembly; and arc the gentlemen who rep resent those counties willing to make no | sacrifices whatever ? Are they satisfied with i j nothing short of the total ami absolute con- ! : iroulof the government ? Do they wish to : subvert the orde r of republican government I j by compelling the majority to submit to the) j minority ? And why should they fc-ar their j | brethren of the middle and populous conn-! lies ! To them they must look for assistance j ilo help them fight their battles! to them ; they must appeal if a foreign foe threatens to I 1 desolate their homes and plunder tlieir pro-1 j perty I mid do the gentlemen not know that we who live in the populous counties arc nl ways ready to respond to such appeals' that wo are always ready to make their cause our cause, and to mr.ch and fight for their homes and families as we w ould for our own ? And why should they then in the midst of prosperi ty spurn us w ho would be their best of friends in adversity ? When this question was nil der consid'-rat on a fc-.v davg since, Mm gen tleman from Mclntosh (Mr. Hopkins,) i„ the ardor and enthusiain of his call upon the op ponents of this hill to rally around him, tit. tered as I humbly conceive insinuations a gainst the character and respectability of the people a portion of 1 have the honor on this floor to represent. \ understood him to say ] that he was unwilling that people who “lived among pine tress ana big rocks and who paid uoiuing but a poll tax and grumbled at that,’ should govern those who lived upon the sea coast and paid thousands oi taxes every year. .Sow, sir, whenever i see a single individual exclaiming against tho majority of the people of the fitate, and holding up to ridicule the great body of the citizens vv ho are their court try's ornament and their county's pride, no matter who he is or what may be h s influence iiere or elsewhere, 1 am always at a loss whether to laugh at the Sollv or permit it to pass along down to the oblivion which it so richly merits, unHulired and vnknoten ! Does the gentleman think that his single arm can roll back the tide of popular opinion l Does lie think that his single voice can stay the current of popular feeling? But why do I rebuke the gentleman ? Tho gallant, the manly, the magnanimous people whom 1 rep resent, would .not rebuke linn if they had heard the expressions themselves, i know they would look upon it as the ciispri.ig of a heated enthusiasm of a youthful fervor, and under the influence of those feelings of liber ality which so peculiarly characterise them, and under Ilia hope and belief, that ex perience and time would impress him with feelings of a manlier cast, forgive him freely as 1 do. But I think lean perceive, Mr. Chairman not only an equality and injustice in our pre sent represent lion, but also a leaning or rather a squinting towards aristocracy. Ai istocracy does not consist as is vainly suppo sed, in wealth and riches: it is defined to be a gov< rnment tho power of which is reduced, into the hands of a few. And sir, when we n li..ct tiiat tlie minority of the p. oplc in this State have more than the balance of power in their hands; when wo see a few citizens in one section of the country wielding teii-folu iii. ro than their due proportion of | ower in this govi rnment, does it not look like an aris toer.iticai feature in our representation? V> hen vv seethe declared nay, the voted will of ti.e great majority of tho free.men of our country s. t at defiance, and absolutely fettered by the minority, does it not look,like a concentra tion of the powers of this government in t ic hands of the few in opposition to the many ? And tlie greati r this inequality is made, and the fewer (he bands into which the govern ing power is place: l , the nearer it will ap proach to an aristocracy. Then sir, i tus re model our representation, restore power into the hands of the people, and let the will of tin* mojority be the governing principle. But sir, there are many gentlemen who declare thorns. Ives in favour of a reduction a are yet opposed to the bill on your table. They seem to startle at many imaginary dan gers of a <'onveiition, tint! exhibit a willing ness to suffer forever the intolerable evils of aur pr sent system, rather than call a conven- tion to lop them off ut once, and thereby ful fil the wishes of the people, and givr to the- Legislative department that which it docs not now possess, to wit, a capacity to transact the business ot the country. Where are the dangers of u convention t In what do they consist? From whence do they spring?— A convention is the people assembled in tlieir majesty and sovereign power, and if there is danger in a convention, then that danger is in the people. Do gentlemen fear that a convention mil change the fundamental prin ciples oi the Constitution, and overturn the iii.ertit'S of the country ? Public jealousy isa public virtue, but, sir, when tho repre sentatives of the people begin to be afraid of the people, then it is high time for the peo ple to bi gm to distrust them. The conven tion will be composed of men selected by the people, for their age, wisdom, long tried vir tues and eminent public services, and where can be the danger of treating in thyir hands rights which they have guarded so long, liberties which they hare enjoyed from the valour of their fathe rs and our fathers ? It is a slander upon the country, it is a slander up on the patriotism of the people themselves, to say that their own rights and liberties ar- un safe in their own hands. Tim great mass of tiie people are honest, because they have no motive to be other,,isc. Resigning politi cians have deluded Llicm long enough on this subject, and it is time that tho delusion should be dispelled, and the people undeceived.— G< ntlcmen are wiring to support a reduction in the Legislature, because, they know it never can pass in tluit w ay, hut when you proposed to let the people themselves do it in convention, the uny way by which if can be effected, they all at once become exceed ingly jealous of the constitution,and are appa renly shock* and ut the idea of returning tlieir power back again to the people. It is a cold and heartless friendship to the measure of reduction, and downright hypocrisy to the people, to support it in a way in which they know it cannot pass, and oppose it in tiie on ly way in which it can be effected. Tim truth is.sir, then arc too many infcrested in this question, tiicrr- arc too many whose occu pations will bn gone, too many deprived of scats Ik re, too many w hose ambition will be stopped in its vain career, for tins matter i rvrr be cfl. ctcd lv (be legislatere. I’ut j sir, il the bill under consideration, proposed i tocall a convention directly by flit* I.e'gisia. lure, 1 should hesitate inysidf and pause be* lore I gave my vote, but the only object of tne bill is to seek tVi srnse of tlio ]icople on that subject and conform to it according!v. ft only proposes to submit to tho people' the qi.rst.on whether they wiii ca]! a convention or i,u limited purpose of reducing the num ber oftnentoers in the legislature, and for no other object whatever. And are gentlemen u,r .. ,0 Si, b>Mit this or any otlier important q'lt’Siton to the decision of their constituents? Are they afraid of the decision which the people will make ? It is anti-republican, and destructive of the democracy of our institu tions for the representatives of the people to refuse to listen to their voices on subjects of such \ ital importance. In this country, lam proud to say, that the people (of whom lean stitute one) arc the supreme power, the last power, the sovereign power, arid shall we, who as a legislature are but a secondary power, deriving what wo possess from the m o|,lr, refuse to refer the derisions of grqat and important questions t that power to which we are subordinate T I call upon eve-1 ry republican in the home, and every one! professing to be the repr< yrn*nt' ves of rVeub lican people to unite in i-... . . pehne.iii mous ir,’. 1 c .p.. ,-. ; g . k . thrir names or where tie y m,. v c 0 , ’’ ' ' v\ hat the complexion ol their nobo.- * ciples. 1 ' i'*' I call upon tfuntl-men in the of People, this nay, to shew tl;eir (Vv ■ ' republican principles by forv. ■.rdim- a Ui sur ■ imperiously demanded b. p and "' u ' cumstances of the times, and' louitlj* "'a''.' lor hv the voice of the great inaioritV people whose interests v;c have sue-.' I servo. How can the re be arty flap,* ‘"I the people have the doing of the whole'm ness, jroin first to last—they arc to L*! upon the cal! of a convention— if tbtv m tuvorof it, who has any right toT'J’.M then wishes ? If they are opposed t where can be the harm, the in.ttcr <; r and there. But if they decide in favor of a ' of a convention, they will have the elcc*.*- | of ilie members of tlie convention tLeinfgi' M —will they not select ntrn, in I ecu.tide and who wiil represe nt their ' 1 trdy? In addition to this every ni(ua!, tr ‘' t the convention is compelled to take an o-< to touch no other parts of the CVsiip, I iexcept those relating to the repr.svmVi, ‘I i°J !,t -' i s nut •t>l ed to take his scat £| |if t.ie members of the contention shoulddi" I [regard the. r oaths and transcend their ewer I | there can still be no danger, for ( J| t] k J j works are to be submitted to the decision ij ; th(* people again, for their ratification or J jj* ctiyn, and if the people should ratify t|„'ij j proceedings it will all ho right, whatever tlil j people may do is certainly l ight, for they ;ir l | the supreme and sovereign power and*ol ! right can do what they please. If tlie mi j pie reject the proce< dings of the coimislioJ there w:(! be no injury done to the cor. Mu] I tion or the country. Tor we shall be thd precisely where we arc now. 1 c.*l! uJI (lie members of this house to delay tins Kiel ~urr no longer, but to go forward and 1 | their duty to the country however ranch il I may diminish th ir own private honors aiil ; ]>ovvers,and darken the prospects of their oJ ! p r nal ..mliitiou. 1 -A . X.—x ... J-f v\m~ w y H Snitrdey, Dec. !7. I The bill to remove the lock on the Ocm I River below MMledgcvillo, solar us to ail J I the passage was rejected. j ! The bill to prescsibe and limit tiie tin.-;™ i of office of tiie Secretary of Slide, 'i riasurcß fomptroikrGeneral, and Surveyor ifiJ ; was rejected. 1 BILLS PASSED. I To alter and change the time of hoia-fl the Superior Court in the Flint Circuit. | To rt peal the several acts graining andl tending tile charter of mcoiporatiou to tiiet. gcchcc Navigaiion Company. ’i o add apart of Carroll county to II ;: county. Monday t Dec. IJ. To establish election precincts nr ik- ic in the several counties herein ift.-r iiu/.-i . i addition lo those already cstabiis..-.’ ; th several places therein specified, atititov.is those may attempt lo violate tno p.-oti- -i the same, viz: Twiggs, \\asliingtou, l'.-ii 1 liri, iiuoersitam, Mad.sou, Henry, Ktiw Newton, Early, Jones, Marion, Campm- Randolph, !!• ard, Greene, Clark, l.ii.eu! Taliiot, Alt-rivvetiler, tlai.cock, Decatur, H Kalb, Fayette, Laurens, and Coweta, ai.e repeal i;i part an act to < stablish and r. guii eli-'trict . lectio: s m the county of Tallwi. I provide for the improveim nts of the i oafl and rivers in this State, passed Dec. lNlxfl Fifteen Divorce Bills wire pass and. 9 Twelve bills of the House of lives, were read tiie third tine au-.i /kw-H Ti.esdny. Dt c. The bill of the House of Rej.r. s, i.i.vN-iH alter a.-id amend the act passed last sc.-; audiorizing tin: survey and disposiiii.'.'i vM H territory now in the occupancy of the H kee Indians, was passed with auiim'.iiicii H yeas fib, nays g:j. 9 The bill lo !;jv out the gold regiaa :a t 9 land at pn-s* nf in lue occupancy oi ihc • rukee Indians, into small lot?, and d;-; the sr.me !>y s: j rat loti r : , was [KU-sctl.;!* lu, nays 06. Tim Ist section pro - ..-.a. -H districts i,o. I, 2, I), i, 5, 11, 12, U, M tfi, in Um Ist section; districts no i,2,3.1® H>, 17, IK, IP, and 21, in Mie 2d station trie's no. 1,2, 2,4, 17, 18, If), 20, aid * in the .’ird section ; and districts no. I. 10, and 17, in the 4tii sectioti, shall k 9 divided into lots-of 40 acres, Ac. 'll.. section provides ibr those who shall be -9 tied to draw s in Miis lottery. ■ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, Dec. 14. The Land Bdl being under conside! tion in tlie House of Rcpiesentativcs,3/i:i a oral substitutes propose and, Mr. Hates railed the previous question, when fdr< IhrtfM express; and lus views. Tuesday, December - • BILLS PASSED. For the relief oi ThomasS. W avne,ofLh ham, county, from the operation of the du ling act. To cxt(.ed to the Comity of Bibb* tu • '■cr.e*ils and privilrgi sof the 16th isr>* tlie act amending the several acts roads in this State, so far as respo' 1 ' counties of Prvan, Liberty, Mclntosh* den arid Olynn. To regulate the future elections of® hereof Congress in this State. The bill lo incorpontc “The Georgia** Mining Company,” was rejected. Mr. Calhoun* by leave, report; and ir,sl' a bill to incorporate the trusti es ol the • nic 11..11 in the town of iVlillcdgcvillo. Several bills oi' Seriate were read tlif time and passed, WcdaisJay, Dec-- Elie House was ooeupied during d ,c noon chiefly, in the consideration ol l 0 ( ? oral appropriation bill, in committee vvhelr. Thursday. Do- To appropriate money -or the stij’r government for the year IbUh To impose,colfcot and levy a tax - political year 1^32. To amend the several aclshcretoiow 1 ed in relation to f,''.rr:ihnm'ib