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■lifK' An " ma ke uf the lessors taugbi
■ . taej
Ktf>’ thc poor have nothing to cat,”
■ “'H*"Lusscau, “they feed upon th
u . tuuii tit them to live upon u&,
Bey ß ' 4 ' .. j..; r t 0 live upon one’o friends.’’
■lF eace Tj wtuns taught her citizens',
■ T!,! V!ld tt.e.n for attending the public
Bill'll = llC 1 (j'kjj. the. populace ol Home
■s.'® bl " s ;, , Veustomed to their daily do-.
Earned, 'vm ( shovvSi
B>' |Ve0 ‘ i r . tendecy oi ail Govcrments
■ <,IS Vr‘ v u the people with their own
B ;, ’“ 1 whose demagogues buy povvet tn
B u “ e ' , ° r „!,* ianof dm population to tin.
B criatUl f,°tl 1 c rest.
fefiroved method of doing this, m
■ ;lJ is hv lav. s cramping and later
n, under the plea of protecting it
tS.-:. competition. Surely and silent
voroceed, making the rich richer, and
■ joorer, until at last comes anarchy,
Kit plausible pretext of restoring uaiu
■f" \,tv Agrarian laws, and dreams o!
K<i ,- UH' thousand tyrants ; and the lasi
Sehcr of a single despot.
*Jir Ih e epitome of modern history is writ
„ Ip the titles <4 modern statistics: irar,
'Lion, debt, pension, sinecures restnc :
“ manufactures, corn hues, banks, paper
’ vF er~traditig, insolvency, pauper,sin,
J'revolution. What, in effect, is the
lYiosition of the gentleman lrom Massachu
j j gay t t without olfence to anv one :
f' S nol tiw t, ilie manufacturing population
paupers, who cannot support them-
Ivts by their labor at its natural market
* nce the deficiency, must he made up by
ur legislative provisions; and, if we destroy
his additional supply, poverty and suffering
DUS t he the consequence 1
S ir 1 cannot yield my assent to either ot
the conclusions’that result from the argument
bftiie gentleman from Massachusetts, (.Hr.
pans.)" If I did I should despair of the l
hion. ; But it is precisely because l do not
Believe there is an irreconcileable hostility
behvcc'i the interests of the North and .South;
it is because Ido not nclieve, tiic manufactur
ing laborers are dependent upon the pari h
tefid which our legislation may afford; that
1 entertain hopes of ultimately adjusting this
pernicious controversy, with the aid of time'
uidmutu I forbearance. I <lo not think that
keeping tip tne uiaue price ol labor, by an
artificial system oi ristnctions and prohibi
tions, is of any real be tie lit to the labor, r.—
You nominally raise his wages, to be sure,
but ns every thing lie eats, drinks, and \vt urs,
rises also, he is no better off. On the other
hand, if you repeat all duties not intended
for r.vcuue, the money wages of manufac
turing may, for a short tune, undergo some
depression ; hut as all the articles ol con
sumption wiS: lail to a like extent, the laborer
will b enabled to command just as many
necessaries and comforts as before.
There is no irreconcileable hostility, there
fore, hi the ime rests of tiie two great divi
sions and this country. Properly understood,
they are alike. Tne most odious feature of
lies system is its inequality. Bad laws may
ideed he passed,’ by mistaking the interest
if a few for that of the whole. But will gen
tlemen take my word for tiie consequences of
p rsishtu in tin m ? or, if not inme,Ciceto’s?
K Qui autein parti civiutn conu!unt. partem
negligent, rein ptriiictoissiinan in civitatem'
iuducunt, sedittonem atque discor ltarn.”
Sir, 1 iiave attempted a free, but fair, ex
amination of the principal grounds upon
which restriction, under the name of protec
tion, is supported. 1 have endeavored to
show that it did not contribute to the national
v.ealtb; that it docs not aid the national de
fence; that there has been no pledge of the
public faith to the system now sought to be
established.
Why, then, 1 may be asked, would you
agree to any modification of a principle so
objectionable ! \V by not wage a war of ex
termination against it altogether ? Be'cnttß<
its abolition is not now practicable. Thi
jutblic mind is not prepared for it.. Because,
the next place, 1 believe loss mischief will
lie done by a moderate and gradual, than by
a sudderf and violent change. Many manu
factures may be preserved. It is true, they
lave been a long time learning to go forward
of ttfcmselves. But some of them are now
undoubtedly able to stand alone ; they should
made to do so. The annual increase of
capital, the graduul.diminution of wages, and
progressive improvement of machinery, will
enable others, after a few more years, to stand
me shock of foreign competition. To the
rest, which cannot be preserved except at a
greater cost than they are worth, tfsie,
through the instrumentality of a stock slow
■ depreciating in successive hands, will
give all that it were wise to ask—a happy
uutiuinnsiu.
for these reasons I would not hesitate to
'O'* for any bill, although it imposed soini
‘•'Jties higher than were required for mere
revenue, if it would restore, to any material
extent, equality of taxation, diminish the
and tranqulizc the country. This
J !"> *n my opinion, is not calculated to do
c.hr r, and therefore, unless it is greatly im
prove,' 1 * 1 cannot support it.
JSljift .. . .The House and Lot, whereon
. It. ii„i‘ "ton now lives.... For terms,
rtppKto M. E. INLANDER.
August .7, 1832. ; 1
TV E W FLOMl.—Just recC ivct ' an ! l ., for
m sale, a f, w 1,1,15. of prime m°' v *. ,our
taimf.ictwed at tlio Rock Mills, on Oconcc .' lvcr *
‘6 most reputable merchant mills in this state** -- '
J >Mutuctured expressly for the Macon market.
, G. W. PERSONS & Cos.
_AugUßt7, 1832. 17—2 t •
DUOUGHT TO JAIL, in Bibb county, Gcor
■y 8 1 *, on Hie 2d day of August, (iust.) a negro
J*.uman by the naina of'Elizancth, says sbe be
‘‘'Ugs to William Hrdt, of North t aroirna, and
j 'Ut f ,e bought lier from Drury Smith in Georgia,
•'•(a negro speculators, sbe is a girl about l>i or
•; years old, live feet high, "dark complexion,
y "“k spoken and saucy, five owner is request
t" c.ijiuf; forward, prove property, pay charges
■■'l take her away, or she will be dealt with as
'v;la\ V directs. B. RUE, Jailer,
aw.con, August 2, 18??, tT-.-tf
Postponed Sale
-'LES....WiII ho sold ntthe Ceurt
, , ■louse in the town of Macon, on the first
l iresduy in hiptember the following properly :
four grey horses, one stage, and six pair of
stage harness, levied on as the property of Ed
ward V rner, to satisfy a fi fa issued from the
Interior Court of Baldwin county, vs. said Var
ner and John Mitchell, security.
WM. B. CONK, D. S.
(T'l olton Ba gs.—Ready inade~Cot7on
Bags of 5 and 5;1-2 yarffs each of the
best Inverness Bagging, for sale bv
" REA & COTTON.
July 9 13 "
One relate* to ull thc acts and em.iloj -
ntciits of Via u.
Tuesday, August 7, ! SB2.
! lie Rev and JOHN BAKER is expected to
preach in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday
12th August 1832.
E'liisf Circuit.
Yesterday the autumnal term of the Flint Cir
cuit, for Bibb countv, commenced its sitting in
tiiis place —Judge Strong presiding.
The Superior Court of this county, will have
an ndjouned Term on the 3d Monday in Novem
ber .
'Blic Times-
Our worthy representative, 11. G. I, amah, Esq.
arrived in town yesterday. George W. Owens.
Esq. of Chatham, Thomas W. Harris, Esq. of
Walton, General Thomas Glascock, of Rich
mond, and Col. Clark Terrell, of Franklin, ho
nored us with a visit to-day~(Tues(Jay.)
Before Friday next, our Citizens, we under
stand, will have the pleasured’ saluting the Hon.
Mr. Clayton of Clark, and John M. Berrien,
Esq. of Chatham.
This movement, of some of ottr most distin
guished men, has reference, no doubt, to the pre
sent interesting posture of our political affairs.—
We may iheretore iook, in a few days, to.an im
portant Convention of the people of Bibb County.
Presuming tint such is the fact, we hope,
that our towns-meu and county-men will turn
out to a man—particularly our Planters and
hard working Artizans. Their interest in the af
fairs of government is as important, if not more
important, th*m any other of the business classes
of our community. Let them look to it.
Bat boiir
Yesterday evening the corners of our streets
were paisted with placards, calling upon our ci
tizens to-morrow, (Wednesday,) to nominate
.Mr. Barbour to the Vice Presidency. The mo
tives which have actuated those who have thus
attempted to give an improper bias to public feel
ing, we can fully appreciate. They think they
are doing right —we know they are doing wrong.
The public characters and republican principles
of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren are so
intimately associated, that the separation of the
one from the other, would like the-tearing asun
der of the Siamese Twins, be an outrage upon the
common nature of the South.
We know that Martin Van Buren has been
charged as a Protectionist —but he is no more a
'Protectionist than the whole of the South. The
South advocated protection in 1810, as an act of:
fraternal and munificent liberality 7 to the Mann-!
facturers—so did Martin Van Buren. The South
in 1832, iiow finding that her benefactions are to
he made the means of her subjection to an unhal
lowed American System, bottomed upon her own
voluntary resources, says, she will no longer sub
mit to it.— Such too, by a parity of reasoning will
be the language of Martin Van Buren —that is, if
we allow him the same charitable opinion which ;
we extend to ourselves.
Let it be recollected, that Mr. Barbour was not
in the regular nomination fertile Vice Presidency 7 .
His enthusiastic friends, although advocates of
the Caucus System, seem, however, to have
forgotten their orthodoxy, and upon the impulse
of the moment, and indirect opposition to the
principles of our and their party, are attempting
to bring him out by flourishing in his eyes the
glittering seals of office. To this temptation he
has nu yet bowed. A courteous answer to their
request is all which he has made; and this too,
was worded in such manner, that those familiar
with partial and private nominations, would have
construed-it in a reluctant piece of political eti
quette, which the mode required him to pursue,
but which his own good sense and patriotism in
directly condemned.
YVe again repeat, that we consider our consti
tutional rights so intimately blended with the re
election of Andrew Jackson as President, and the
election of Martin Van Buren as V. P,, that the
existence of the one depends upon an insfeparable
connection with the other.
With these impressions, we hope the friends
of Jackson and Van Buren, will be mindful of
their duty, as they will observe, that they are not
invited to the meeting. And to be found among
them co-operating in the schism, which is design
ed to be produced, would at once be sustaining
the true interests of Clay and Sergeant.
Mi*. Wilde’s Sjiecclt.
We present to day such an extract from Mr.
Wilde’s Speech on the Tariff, as will give our
readers a general idea of its merits. It traces
with a masterly band the serpentine sinuosities
l of the Protecting Tariff-men. But, let us not
v j , tj ]i is enough for us to Know that we
, f , ->urluring a viper - in our bosom, which
have been if ‘ ,
will if wo perm,- & Btrlke ns ,0 death * as Bi, ‘ jn
-as it is warmed into a vigorous vitality.
Mr. Wilde, very felicitously takes up the
subject, at the momentous year ISltl, and with
a classic and graph** elegance, pourtrays the
groat men who acted on that memorable occa
sion. 1b describing them, bis colours and char
acters are admirably mixed and finely disposed.
Like our own West, he makes the prominent
features start before us in rough, but natural m>
SUSP 1
V
agery —yet, with the delicate touches of a Ti
tian, he throws a mellow lustre over the tout
ensemble, which graduates and relieves to its
just dimensions, the noble groupe he has paint
ed. But we are becoming too encomiastic.—
We therefore refer our reader, to the extract;
not to win them, however, by the beauty of -Mr.
W *s style, but to convince them by the force of
his facts, and the justness of his deductions.
The* Test.
The meetings in Athens and Lexington, are
but the response to the heretofore silent senti
ments ot Georgia. These meetings, let it be re
membered, were not got up in a suite of feverish
and unrereflecting excitement. They are the cool
and philosophic results of a sixteen pears mature
deliberation. We give the following substance
ol the proceedings so lar at? they have reached us :
Oil 1 uesday, the 31st August, a printed pla
card was put up at the different libels in
Athens, inviting all persons'favourable to the
re-election ol General Andrew Jackson; also
those opposed to the protective system, and ad
verse to a redress ol our grievances by the remedy
of Nullification, to meet at the New Chapel on
Wednesday evening, at 4 oclock. Very soon
thereafter, another placard was put up at the same
peaces, inviting all persons whomsoever, who
were opposed to the protective system, to attend
at the same time and place, mentioned in tire first
notice.
On \\ eiincsday evening at about the hour of 4
o clock, a considerable number (perhaps not less
than 1500,) assembled at the New Chapel. The
meeting consisted of men from all parts of the
State, and was composed of nearly wn equal num
ber from the Troup and Clark parties.
YV hen the meeting was complete or nearly so,
Judge Crawford, of Oglethorpe, took the Chair,
upon the motion of Dr. Wingfield of Morgan, and
Mr. Hull of Athens was appointed Secretary.
Mr. Torrance of Baldwin, then moved for the
appointment of a committee to prepare and report
resolutions to meet the object and effect the pur
poses of the •meeting—The question was put and
carried without a dissenting voice. At this stage
of tiie proceedings. Judge Clayton of Clark (wJio
hud that moment came into the house,) moved a
reconsideration of the resolution which lmd just
been adopted, and rested hts motion upon the
ground, that as he had a preamble and resolutions
already prepared, and which he wis: ed received
and read, it would Save time-and labor, and the
business of the meeting would thereby he great
ly facilitated. Upon this motion considerable
debate ensued, and the meeting was addressed
by Juuge Clayton, Judge Berrien, Judge Long
street, Col. Foster, Col. Milton, Col. Cone and'
Gen. Harden in favor of, and, by Gen. Glas
cock, Mr. Torrance, Col. Terrell, of Franklin,
Judge Harris of Walton, and Col. Stewart, of
Glynn against the motion. Theuaotion finally
prevailed by a considerable m joiity and Judge
Clayton introduced a:ul read his preamble and re
solutions.
j The preamble, in substance, recited tiic origin
j and progress of the protective system—the nieet-
I ings hei.l from time to time by the people of
Georgia in their several countries for the purpose
! ot remonstrating against its principles and pr.iy
i i n g Fer its repeal, —the reports and resolutions of
| committee of our State Legislature—tiie gradual
and onward march ol the system from (bit! to the
i p resen t'time—the present state of the system—the
tact .fits being so fixed upon the Amoricaupco
j •- and having become so far the settled policy
! of the country, as to leave the people of the Sou
thern States, no other alternative but resistance or
unconditional submission. The first resolution
then declared the protective system to be unequal,
\ unconstitutional, and therefore unjust; tliat the
persons composing the meeting would not longer
submit to it; and then recommended to thepeo
| pie of the several counties in the state, to appoint
delegates to meet in Miilcdgcville on the second
Monday in November next, and to be clotned by
I tho people with ample authoiity, tl.cn and there
to determine upon and fix the means and plan
|of resi.'Aancc. The second and last resolution
appointed a committee of correspondence consist
ing of five. The preamble was unanimously as
sented to. Gen. Glascock then -moved to amend
the first resolution, by declaring the doctrine of
nullification neither peaceful or constitutional, &
recommending a convention of all States. He ad
dressed the meeting at considerable length in sup
port of his motion, and was replied to by Judges
Berrien and Clayton, and his motion was finally
rejected by a very large majority. Mr. Torrance
then objected to that part of the original resolu
tion declaring that the persons present would not
longer submit to the protective system —insisted
that it was practical nullification, and avowed his
determination not to vote for the resolution, unless,
that declaration should be expunged. He was
replied toby Judge Berrien, who declined expun
ging the expression objected to by Mr. Torrance.
The question was then taken upon the original
resolution and adopted, as is believed, with only
five dissenting voices. So far as it was possible
to form an opinion, from what was done & said by
the persons present, there was a majority, a
mounting almost to unaniminity, in favor of thou
rottgh and effectual resistance, but there was con
siderable diversity of opinion as ty the particular
remedy.
It is understood from several gentlemen who
attended the dinner given to Judge Clayton in
Lexington, on Friday of the same week, that re
solution# were adopted with great unanimity, the
same in substance, with those adopted at Athens,
with an additional one, declaring that Georgia is
bound by the highest and strongest obligations to
stand by and support the State of South Carolina
should the general government attempt, by arbi
trary power, to coerce her into obedience to the
existing Tariff act. .
Here then we see, that in each of those coun
ties heal parties were nearly balanced. In thc
great National Question of Submission, or no
Submission, all other of inferior magnitude were
merged. Such will be fee feeling, and such the
unanimity which will prevail throughout tho
State, \v hen the general voice of the People is
heard. It may now be truly said, “ the argu
ment is exhausted.” Our political adversaries
have too long “ paltered with us in a double
sense.” \\ e have borne their oppressions, and
we have listened to their sophistries, until they
have almost convinced us that the one. is right,
and the other, reason.. But like the strong man
in scripture, we are shaking •ourselves from our
apathy—and, if \vc have a sacrifice to make, we
will make it like Abraham made it. Wo will
put our son Isaac upon the altar—but no consu
ming fire will reach him. The god of Liberty
will descend and say to ottr Abraham, Depart in
triumph and in peace with the prop of your house
holdj for your “faith ahd resolution hath made
Jo'i whofe.”
(X)) 7 Since the above was pi type, we received
by the Athens papers of this morning, the pream
ble and resolutions of Mr. Clayton, noticed above.
They follow: ♦
V\ hereas, the people of Georgia, as well in
primary assemblies of citizens in their respective
counties, as by their Representatives in the Le
gislature thereof, have repeatedly and solemnly
declared the several acts laying duties on im
ports, (in so far as -such acts transcended the
purposes of revenue, and were designed for the
protection ot manufactures,) to be unjust, oppres
sive, and unconstitutional; and have solemnly
announced their determination not to submit to
such unlawful exactions; and their consequent
resolution to resist them, if after a reasonable time
they should not be repealed.
And whereas, the good people of this state and
others, having common interest with them in this'
matter, have looked to the period of the payment
of the Natioal Debt, as that, at which the income
raised by taxation should be reduced to the sum
required by the wants of the Government, by
duties fairly imposed upon all the imports of the
United States and have expected from the
justice of that Congress which has just closed its
session, a repeal of these obnoxious laws.
And whereas, this reasonable expectation has
been disappointed, and the protection of manu
factures is now avowed as a permanent principle j
of Federal legislation.
Be it therefore resolved, That we as'free citi
zens of Georgia, will not longer submit to the
system of legislation which is arbitrary, unequal,
unconstitutional, and therefore unjust, .that it be 1
recommended to our fellow-citizens in the sever
al counties to elect delegates to a State Con
vention, to assemble at Milledgeville on the se
cond Monday in November next, and to invest
them with full powej •>' behalf of -he good peo
ple of Georgia to maintain, preserve, and defend
the rights and privileges of the free citizens of
this stale.
Resolve! that . be a committee of
correspondence to confer with our fellow-citizens
of other States, on all matters connected with
our common interests.
-T3r. Icitchic oi'tSsc Ksnjtiircr.
This old Apostle of Liberty has lost his repub
lican energy la his paper of last Tuesday, in
commenting upen the able and patriotic manifes
to of the Sonth-Cai'uiinn Delegation, he says :
“We shall analyze hereafter this address,
attributed to the pen yf .Mr, McDuffie; unless
we should he anticipated by the critics <sf
South Carolina- 4 ’
Indeed! —There was a time when 'lr. Ritchie,
would not have Waited fi r an analysis of Rights;
or have compreraitted tipm. by staying fur the
'anticipated* cr deisms of S. Carolina Politicians.
Who are tho South Carolina politicians that Mr.
Ritchie alludes to? Not the natives of the
State—the political elite ,f the South—not the
Haynes, the Pinckneys, the Davis's, and the.
McDuffies, &e. who have fearlessly stood up in
our defence!—o, no ! t sese cannot he the men
to whom Mr. R. makes his appeal—the men
whose criticisms he waits for ! No. YY’hat cri
ticisms then does lie wait for 1 The criticisms
of the Union men I —the men who have advoca
ted prsteel ion ever since it lias been granted them?
Yes, these must he the criticisms which the En
quirer wait for! Away with you, Mr. Ritchie,
and try to con over the lessons of political liber
ty which you were.wont to study in tho horn
of Thomas Jefferson. The liberties of the
people require no criticism—they are as plain as
the blessed sun which shines at noon-day. If Mr.
R. is fond of-criticism, let him criticise abstract
theories; but, let him steer clear of criticising,
Natural Rights, at second hand.
r<mmiciiC4*K!t<*ifit.
The late Gommenceinent in Athens, says the
Banner, was attended by an unusual number of
highly respectable viuitors... .the exercises were
interesting, and we believe gave very general
satisfaction. The following yountr gentlemen
wer* admitted to the degree of A. B. ..and re
ceived their diplomas:
A. 11. Stephens, YVilkes county, S. Tbomas,
Athens; John YV. Lumpkin, Athens; John It.
Reid, Augusta; YVrn. Le Conte, Liberty coun
ty; R. M. Gunby, Columbia county; T. F.
Montgomery, DoKalb county ; J. B. L. Mallard,
Liberty county ; H. P. Thomas, Clarke county;
J. YV. Baker, Liberty county; J. J. Hutchinson,
Augusta; J. Johnson, Henry comity g William
li. Crawford, jr. Oglethorpe county.
On the following gentlemen were conferred the
degree of A. M. Graduates of this Institution—
Gray A. Chandler, Paul F. Eve, John Lamar,
YV. H. White, I). S. White, A. Franklin, Jas.
Smyth, T. J. Bryan, YVm. H. Hunt, J. M.
Borders, N. G. Foster, J. 1. Griffin, I. B. Watts,
R. B Houghton, Abraham Hill, A. B. Elliot,
R. I>. 'Moore, James Adams. YV\ S. Rockwell,
11. IT. Hubbard, and YV. P. Rernbetf, of U.
College, N. Y. R. K. Hill, University ofN. C.
Edwin Lawrence, of Middlebury College, Vt.
The degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev.
Mr. McYVhir, ofSuubury, Geo.
YVe understand the Trustees have appropriated
$2,000 for the purpose of building a house for
the reception of the Library and the cabinet of
minerals, and SSOO for the purpose of increasing
the Library for the ensuing yir.
, Doctor Henry Jackson of thiscounty was elect
ed a Trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Dr. James Nisbet, and General J. Y'.
Harris of filbert, in the place of Allred Cutli
bert, Esq.
YVe learn that the late meeting held by the
Cherokee Chiefs in Tennessee (not at New
Echota as erroneously stated by some of our 1
Statu papers) was characterized throughout by
rriticir excitement. The Chiefs in Georgia were
in.favor of a treaty, and were opposed by the
common Indians (who liave become so jealous of
their Chiefs ae to suspect every tiling they ap- (
prove ot intended to injure and oppress them,) (
and hy the Indians in Tennessee ami North i
Carolina— Banner.
State* 1 SSijsist* Meeting.
We learn from tle Charleston Mercury, that
the meeting ot the State Rights party on Monday
evening last, was one of the most numerous and
interesting ever witnessed there. The Hon.
Henry Deas was called to the chair, and T. P.
Lowndes, Esq. appointed Secretary. Judge Col
cock addressed the meeting for nearly an hour,
and concluded by “ moving the appointment
ot a committee to consider and roport on the 'Ad
dress to the f‘eopl“ recently published by both of
our Senators and six of our Delegates in Con
gress, and also the new protective act just passed
by the Tariff majority in Congress.” This \yas
agreed to—-Judge Coieock was the chairman of
that connntM.ee. The committee retired, and up
on their return submitted a preamble and resolu
tions which were received enthusiastically and u
nanimously adopted. Their general tenor can
he judged from the following extract:
“ The truth is immutable, that in every
organized goverr.ncnt there is a remedy for
every wrong, whether inflicted by an indi
vidual, or by the constituted authorities of
the country.
“Thanks to the wisdom and forecast of
our fathers, we have the remedy for this
wrong. The question is distinctly put —
W ILL \OU SUBMIT to the unjust oppres
sion and unconstituional taxation of a reck
less majority in Congress, OR AI’PLY THE
REMEDY provided by the wisdom of your
ancestors ! Who can Hesitate 1 none but the
oppressors, or those who partake of the spoil.
To us the choice is SLAVERY OR FREE
DOM. I)i sguise it as you may, if wo acqui
esce, we shall he reduced to a state of utter
ruin and degradation. The profits of our la
bor will be torn from us in violation of the
most sacred principles of the Constitutionals
well asofeommen right and common justice,
to enrich other more favored interests. If we
submit to such injustice, we shall become
the scoff and by-word, not only of our oppres
sors, but of the world.”
On motion of Major Axson a committee was
appointed to wait on the Don. Mr. Hayne and re
quest his attendance at the meeting. During the
absence of that committee, a resolution to invite
him to a dirutur, to he given when it suited his
convenience, was adopted with enthusiastic ap
probation. On die arrival of that distinguished
individual at the meeting, he was greeted with
immense applause. After it had subsided he ad
dressed the meeting for about two hours.. Th*
Mercury thus characterizes the speech :
“W e have no time to* say more of his
speech than that it was worthy of himself and
well adapted to the occasion—able and argu
mentative, fervent and impassioned—proving
to demonstration that the new Tariff is actual
ly more oppressive than the Inst—that the
protective system, with all its ruinous tenden
cies, is now fixed upon the South—and that
South Carolina lias no hope left hut in the
patriotism and energies of her own sons. Du
ring p.irts of bis address, he was listened to
with the most profound attention, and again
be was interrupted by the most enthusiastic
cheers: and sucli was the power of his re
scuing and eloquence—such his appeals to the
good sense and understanding, and the pride
and patriotism of liis auditors, that wc are
perfi ctly sutified that no man heard him who
was not conclusively convinced that the new
Tariff is a base system of deception.and tvran
nv, ruinous and degrading to the ."Southern
. States, and who was not equally resolved, that
it must and shall be NULIFIED* us soon as
la Convention of the People can be constitu
tionally convened for that purpose.
From the Pennsylvanian.
lank of the united states*
Straws show how the wind blows!!!
Rats rim away from a sinking ship !!!
O.i Friday the 113th July, the President’s
Veto of the Bank bill was. made known at the
Board of Directors of the Bank of the United
States.
On Tiiutsday the 17th July, Win. Mcfl
vaine, Esq. Cashier of the Bank of the Uni
ted States, tendered to the Board his
tion. And
O.i Friday the 20th of July, Thomas Cad
wallader, Esc], one of the President’s Bid
dle’s favorite directors, sailed for England.
Tnese three very important events have
taken place within the last seven days, and
many and various are the conjectures relative
tiiereto.
Mr. Mcllvaine has also voluntarily relin
quished an honorable arid profitable situation,
ami why he has done so, is in the mouth of
every outs. Had he resigned six months ago,
or had he tarried six months longer, the ap
pearanco would have been better certainly
for the Bank ;as it is, at this particular period
the leaving of the institution by an honorable
and capable officer, shows triat “ there art
more things in lleavcn and earth, .Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”—
What is the matter? why is it that at" this
particular period, when the services of faith
ful and honest officers are required to assist
in closing the affairs of this institution, with
the least possible injury to the public, and
for the best interests of the stockholders,
that tins valuable officer lias left tln^institu
tion ? Perhaps lie sees and knows too much,
and not having power over the Directors,
holding no proxies, and no one of them be
ing indebted to him for support, his honest
voice is hushed or altogether disregarded.—
If so, he has behaved nobly, and will meet
the countenance and support of every honest
man, whether friend or foe to the Bank.
But, connected with this is another very
extraordinary circumstance : Mr. Cadwalladcr
has been sent to England !! How can be be
spared ! the second greatest man in the
Board ; the one who always acts as President
i;i the absence of Mr. Biddle, andjic to leave
.the institution too at this time! Wonderful!
most wonderful ! ! Sundry rumours arc afloat,
and many say, that stock hat ing fallen fifteen
per cent, within the last two weeks, there is
much reason to fear it will fall fifteeo per
cent, more within the next two weeks, and
thus be reduced below par’. Now 1 am one
of those who follow the rule wisely laid down
not to belief e more than half what I hear, and
therefore Ido not believe that the stock will
fall within the next two weeks niorq than
from seven and a half to ten per centum , but
*W© prefer SecessLa to Nullification—
alter that I am not quite so clear in
that United Status Bank stock will not be re
duced to, or below par. After the next
monthly statement is made to the Treasury
Department, the situation of the Tank will
be better known, and then, in language of
.Mr. McDufijo, in bis celebrated Minority
Report [Rep. 4GO, page 58] the public will
see whether Upon the whole, then, the lianii
is not only fully able to meet all its engage
ments, but is in a state of the highest pros
perity.” If the fact turns out otherwise, Mr.
.McDuffie and his minority brethren have in
curred an awful and woeful responsibility to
the abused and deceived stockholders. I
have named only Mr. McDuffie, because Mr.
Adams made a report for himself," and al
though ins name as well as Mr. Watmough’s
is appended to it, no one will accuse or sus-
the latter of having written a line, or
even furnished an idea towards it. The ques
tion again recurs, wlr has Mr. Cadwallader
been sent to England 1 Can it be possible
that, in despite ot Mr. McDuffie’s positive
asst rtion of the “ Bank being in a state of *ho
highost prosperity, it is absolutely necessary
to send -Mr. Cadwallader to England to make
arrangements for funds or credit to sustain
the Bank ? If not for this, for vvba*t other
purpose can he have been sent ? In tha
absence of any assigned motive or reason for
his departure, the critical state of the Bank
places to that account this extraordinary
movement on the part of the Bank. In two
months and eleven days from the 20th July,
181 W, the United States will pay off their
three per cent, debt, amounting to upwards
of twelve millions of dollars. On Vie first of
October next the Bank of the United States
will owe the Government, for deposits, ■ up
wards of fourteen millions of dollars'.
For the amount of the three p. r cent,
stocks, upwards of twelve millions of dollars,
the Bank on the first of October must pro
vide; and that amount, in despite of Mr.
McDuffie’s assertion of “ the Bank being in
the highest state of prosperity,” being with
drawn Iroin the Bunk, places it in such a
situation as, without aid from abroad, would
make it totter to its very foundation. Unless
"sthin the next two mouths and eleven days
the circulation is reduced at leusj .cn bullions
ol winch can only be done by the
debtors of the Bank discharging that amount
ot their debts, and the Bank not increasing
the amount due it by new loads,Ao pay off
this, not more than fifteen per centum oftho
amount of debts due, the Bank will have ru
available funds to pay its notes, and circula
tion and deposits. Can the Bank however d©
this ? can it have actually ami bona fide paid
in money (not by new loans) ten millions of
and. liars of the debts due if, and so make tho
item of bills receivable stand at $58,000,000
on the Ist of October ncx[, instead of $66,-
000,000, At which it now stands? Every
business man, every man at all acquainted
with the manner in whicli the Bank of th
United States has managed its concerns, must
lie satisfied ffiat it cannot. • The object oftho
Bank, then, in sending to England must bo
either to obtain a loan, or else to make an
arrangement with th foreign holders of the©
irr centv • • 0 require the amont reim
bursed to i>e tr dateiy drawn out of th©
Bonk. but to let tie- same remain for th©
present sub <ct to a future arrangement;
and thus er. ' I .* ,g iu to approach Congress
arid ask ter irr ew.,l o. its charter* Tiro
Bank has been discounting on government
deposits, without at all adverting to the period
when it would be caded upon to reimburse
them. The Bank, m the language of the Re
port of the majority of the Committee, “ has
incurred a high responsibility.” For this it
is now suffering, and unless it obtains relief
from England through tho agency 0 f Mr.
Cadwallader, it will sutler still more; and
its expiring groans will arouse tho slumber
ing stockholders, but too late to apply uu
effectual remedy for its salvation.
GIRARD.
public are hereby assure! that tie.*
-I- Bank of Macon .will use all possible eflbn.*
to pay Is large a proportion oftheir -mt-standiim
debts as can possibly be realised from its re’
sources. It was the wish of the Bank, by a ten
oral assignment of its effects to Trustees' to giro
to all the bill-holders an equal proportion; But
as this course is deemed impracticable, it only
remains for the managers of the Institution to d'f
the best they can for ail concerned—mid if then,
be advantages obtained by individual creditors,
it shall not be by the connivance of the Institu
tion. L. ATKISChV, Cashier.
August 1, 1330. nt
'I'O IHE PUBLIC.— Upon the suspension <t‘
payment of the Bank of Macon, llio Stock
holders ot the Institution called oil us to receive*
an assignment, ..l the assets ef the Bank, for th •
equal benefit ot all the bill-helde/s and creditors.
But finding that 'here, is no President, or Board
of Directors, mn! convinced that the, managers of
the Bank arc not competent to make a valid as
signment, wc have declined the trust.
E. I). TRACY,
. B. (.'OLE,
A. li. FREEMAN.
August 1, IR3-2. 17—
Trbasury Dsfazitmeivt, i
Milledlgeviile, (Ja. July 3J*/, 1P32.
'VTOTICE is hereby given to Tax Collector:!
-os and other public .fficers, that the Bills ot'
the Bank of Macon, will not be received in tiro
Treasury iii payment of any debts due the pdblie,
or in fulfilment of any contract to which the State
may be a party.
JOHN > ILLIAMS.
(Ej* The Editors of Papers throughout the
State, are requested to give the above notice three
insertions, and forward their accounts for pay
ment.
August 9, 1832. t ir—3t
fAND LOTTERY.— upon enquiry wo
tbo returns oflfie Surveyors
will he completed in about two weeks, and as tho
>Commissioners are now convened at this place,'
making for the drawing! we have’
determined to print a list oft hi* fortunate drawer.,
as heretofore, which will be sent in-sheets week
!y by mail or in any other way directed^suchast
may become subscribers.- As yn dray* mg will
occupy double the space v. ~ hii hasdduo hither
to, the least price to sr.bsciibers Wi.'l be fivt dol
lars in advance! AH letters addressed fcothe K*
corder Office, wifi attended to.
GRIEVE & 011 M-
B July 2C, 1832.