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Tuesday, 3K, 18I!*2. !
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*lMonroe Redress •Jlceling.
lii conformity w ith the resolution of a pre-
Lminary meeting’, the citizens of Alonroe
County, assembled at Forsyth, on Friday last,
to decide upon the election of Delegates to a
State Convention, to be held at Alifietlgeville
in November nest, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the best means of redress
ingthe oppressions imposed upon the South,
by the existing Protective Tariff.
Upon motion, Dr. Wm. B. Stephens was
called to the Chair, and Wat. P. Henry, Esq.
appointed Secretary.
The meeting being organized, George W.
Gordon, Esq. rose and said, lie held in his
hand a preamble ami resolutions, but before
offering them, lie begged to be indulged in a
tew introductory remarks. He then expatia
ted in a masterly manner upon the necessity
•of the meeting, and the right of the people to
call such meetings.
After which he read the Preamble and Re
eolutioEs.
Dcmagoguestcll us, continued Mr. Gordon,
that meetings of the people tend to disorgan
ization. He thought otherwise. Instead of
producing disorganization such meetings
were,in his opinion, calculated more strongly
to cement the different parts of the Union.
Upon-the subject of constitutional grievances,
he asked to what other tribunal could we ap
peal. lie knew of none. In the people rest
ed the only legitimate authority to which we
■could resort in such exigent eases—and lie
who denied the authority could only be view
ed as, an enemy to the people. He went into
a brief review ol the Tariff 1 , pronounced it
Unwise, impolitic and unjust, and consequent
ly, inexpedient and unconstitutional. The
eervile influence of manufactures upon the
moral and physical condition of man, he
happily exemplified, and concluded by say
ing, that the people were the best and only
judges of the Constitution, and that we should
not be afraid, as some gentlemen are, of en
trust.'.git to their hands.
At this period of the debate the house was
crowded to an overflow, by a constant influx
of (he people from the interior of the county ;
this induced Gen. E. Beall to propose that
t.ie preamble and resolutions should again be
th at all might hear, and distinctly under
stand them. They were accordingly once
more read, when
F* Harris, Esq. addressed the faceting.
Lie ami resolutions as far as they went—"but
lie did ndt think they went far enough He
bad prepared a preamble and resolutions,
which he read, and proposed them as an ac
companiment to those already before the
meeting.
A. H/’Chappei,, Esq. then took the floor.
He viewed the question before the people
os a simple, but solemn one. No attempt
should be made to embarrass it by extraneous
propositions. He thought Mr. IPs resolutions
calculated to divert the people from the in
trinsic merits of the subject, and as such he
considered them odious and would oppose
them. He advocated the .necessity of a State
Convention which should be authorised to
propose some active and efficient measure of
redtess—discussed the constitutionality of
the i ariff, and said, that the unreasonableness
and absurdity of a people begging a govern
ment to impose taxes upon them, was soap,
parent, that, if if was not with a vie v of ex
posing the fraud to those unaoquainted with
the act, any other notice of such a shameful
solocism in government, would be idle, use
less, and ridiculous. If it were not to benefit
the manufacturers exclusively, would the
manufacturers ask for a tax upon the people ?
Certainly n °L Would it be contended that
t he manufacturers paid a part of the tax, and
taut tncy only patriotically imposed it upon
themselves as a revenue measure for the
benefit of government ? The fatuity of such
reasoning was too palpable to need contradic
tion. Mr. C. took an able analytical view of
the constitution as it was intended to operate
upon the general interests, and showed that
Congress had by a series of acts usurped and
violated the principles •and intendments of
Ina. charter. Against such violence and
usurpation there was a remedy—and, it uifc to
bt lounjl, he said, in that Convention which
the people hail met here to sanction. The
right of the people to meet in Convention by
their representatives, was a reserved right,
and they would maintain and defend it as a
reserved right. As reason and justice have
been found ineffectual, wo have now no other
alternative left us, than that of appealing to
the Fears cf the Manufacturers—not their
fcrgoncl, but their self.sh fears. To prove
lli:s position, he, in a striking manner com
pared the political condition and history of
ihe colonics with that of the North ami South
*t present; and clearly demonstrated his
assertion, thattho3e measures of policy which
emancipated us from colonial bondage, were
. the only ones wo could successfully 0 pursue
to emancipate us from the bondage of the
.Vinufynirera. and eqjr '.fy* •> fy.
stituted a coniparision between the relative
dependence of the North and South, and in
contestibly proved that the unrivalled wealth
and commerce of the former owed their ex
istence and preservation to the valuable and
iridisponsablecrtaplc commodities of the latter.
He said unjust as it was, if the Tariff of 181 G
had not been augmented the south would
have bore it, because she is not used to make
a great clamor about little matters—but the
exorbitant advances on subsequent Tariffs,
had aroused her to a keen sepse of her op
pressed condition, and of her degraded and
degrading subserviency to the system- * She
had looked to the Taiiffof 1832 with patriotic
solicitude, not doubting but that the burthens
under which she labored would be removed.
But she was wofully disappointed—for that
Tariff was equally, if not more oppressive
than the old one. He alluded to the Treasu
ry statement “shewing the amount and rates
of duties according to the existing rates, and
as modified by the act of July 1832, calcula
ted upon the importations of the year ending
Doth September, 1830.” lie doubted the
official character of this statement, as it had
not yet been promulgcd as such; and said it
contained an important error. Tlii3 he es
tablished by going into an examination of the
amount of duties according to rates,
and the amount of duties as modified by the
act of 1832, in which he 4etccted a mistake
of 81,300,000. After dwelling upon this
part of his subject, lie turned to the expedien
cy of the Tariff. He did not think the time
could ever arrive when the manufacturers of
the North could be enabled to furnish the
country with their fabrics upon terni3 as
cheap as the English manufacturers. This
was evidenced by the superior facilities which
are enjoyed by the latter, not only in ma
chinery but in the rates- of labor, accumula
tion of capital, Redundancy of population, & %
But, admitting that the U. S. could compete
with her great rival, the adoption of the poli
cy would only tend to make the poor poorer,
the rich richer, and more firmly entail the
oppression of the system upon us. lie then
asked, what should the people do ? Let them
call a State Convention, and in a moderate,
yet energetic and determined manner de
clare, that they will not submit to the pro
tective system. lie, as one of the people,
would vote for sue!, a Convention.
Col. Mirabcau B. Lamar, got up. lie allu
ded in a pertinent and forcible manner to the
interesting object of the meeting—went back
to first principles, from which he said the
general government hsd departed—noticed
the various infractions of the Constitution
* . . - - —ocumua laws
up to the present period, and said never were
our liberties in greater jeopardy than now.—
He invoked the patriotism and good sense of
the people to stop the downward tendencies
of their rights, and to arrest the inarch of
usurpation which was rushing against their
liberty. He denied that flier® was any bad
feeling towards the North, existing in the
South, and in confirmation of what he said re
ferred to the last war, and the Tariff of 1816.
The former was a war into which the South
entered heart and hand foi the preservation
of northern interests, and gallantly assisted in
bringing the contest to a glorious issue.—
I lie latter, the Tand of 1916, was a tax which
she voluntarily imposed upon herself for the
temporary projection of the same interests,
until they could be resuscitated by the*fructi
fying influences of a renewed and invigorat
ing commerce. But when, he asked, was
ever Southern liberality, or Southern chivalry
ever appealed to in vain ? Never. And
what has she received in return for all this?
Why, nothing but injury and insult? Shall
we continue forever to their infliction? He
hoped not. We all, or nearly all, admitted
that redress was necessary. But the mode
of that redress appeared to be made a ques
tion. I his was not the proper place to settle
it. He would quarrel with no man about the
mode. If the great object was obtained, he
cared not by what means it was effected
But the mode is to be left with the Repre
sentatives of the people in the State Conven
tion, upon which this meeting was primarily
called to decide. He would vote for that
Convention. We are told, lie said, that we
w ill not be permitted to seek redress by op
posing an unjust and unconstitutional law
that the purse and bayonet would prevent us.
If any thing could urge him to draw the sword,
it would be the attempt to exercise such a
threat or even the establishment of a right to
exercise such an unhallowed and tyrannical
stretch of power. Col. L. descanted at large
upon the subject, a most eloquent and ar
gumentative manner.
Mr> Harris again rose. He was opposed
to the I aril!—but did not go for redress, as
he thought it would have a dclitcrious iu/lu
once upon the re-election of the present Chief
Magistrate, and probably dissolve the Union.
He reprobated the course of South Carolina,
thought it was our duty publicly to censure
her ns a refractory and dangerous member of
the Confederacy. He again read his reso.
lutions, went at sUhic length into an advoca
cy of them, and said he was not yet prepared
for resistance. Gentlemen calh.-l his resold-
atf&aast
lions odious—he invited them to the proof of
their being so. He spoke of the Whiskey In
surrection in Pennsylvania, compared it with
the course pursuing by the South,& said if she
carried her opposition against the Protective
System, the President would use means to
put her down similar to those used in putting I
down that insurrection. lie said the ha-1
mgn s in the late Georgia meetings were on
ly intended to support the treasonable conduct |
of S- Carolina; & intimated that hefor one, if j
ordered to take uparmsagaiii3t her, would do
so. Read extracts from Washington’s fare
well address, upon which he commented at
large. Air. 11. was neither for secession nor
nullification. Air. G’s. resolutions he thought
leant towards nullification. If he were to
propose a mode of redress, it would be a re
sort to the establishment of manufactures a
inong ourselves, as the safest and most effec
tual opposition to the Tariff. He deprecated
the excitement of the times as leading to dis
union, and very ingeniously endeavored to
lead the assembly from the main object of the
meeting, by alluding to local politics.
J. W. A. Pettit, Esq- of Henry took the
floor. He would, at Mr. IPs invitation, point
j
out wherein he considered that gentlemans
resolutions odious. But before doing so, he
advocated Air. Gordon’s rcsolulions, and freed
them from the charge of disunion attempted
to be attached to them, and fixed th* epithet,
ifit was to rest any where, upon the resolu
tions o: Mr. 11. He shewed that that gen
tleman by bis own admission was more ready
to take up arms against South Carolina, than
he was to oppose the manufacturers—exposed
the fallacy of every position occupied bj Air.
11., and amid loud and frequent plaudits vin
dicated the South against the imputation, that
the course she was pursuing was a viruial a
bandonment of Andrew Jackson. Mr. P.
went into a consideration of the constitution
ality of the Tariff—declared it unconstitution
al and said, that the only way to preserve the
constitution was by a successful opposition
and resistance to any law which Congress
might pass violative of its provisions, if this
was nullification, then nullification was pre
servative of that sacred charter, and the best
method to secure, not destroy our liberties.
The ultimate object of the meeting, he said,
was to resist a tax which tiie protectionists
had imposed upon us for their own exclusive
benefit, and to make that resistance effectual,
he declared for the Convention. Little, ob
served Mr. P., did the fathers of the revolu
tion contemplate, when fighting the battles
which gave us our liberty by securing us a
fpiinst the nnerntipn of an unjust tax—little
did they contemplate, ho ..
the year 1832, the Congress of the U. States
would impose upon their posterity a tax more
galling and oppressive than the one, for the
prostration of which, they spilled their blood
and sacrificed their treasure. (Here an highly
interesting incident occurcd. A revolution
ary soldier, whose silver locks were scattered
over a fine and venerable head, which would
have served as a model for Canova, exclaimed
with patriotic indignation, “ IVo, no—they
never contemplated it. 1 know they did not—
for I was one of the Men of Seventy-Six, who
fought for Liberty and against. TAXES.”)
You hear, resumed 'lr.l\, emphatically ad
dressing the audience, —you hear a voice of
the Revolution! Listen to it, 1 beseech you,
and reyere it.
Mr. P. regretted the abuse which the gen
tlemen heaped upon the Nullifies of South
Carolina. That patriotic State was contend
ing for the same rights for which Georgia was
contending, and if we opposed her, we would
be opposing ourselves. He considered Mr.
IPs resolutions as intended to defeat those of
Mr. Gordon, notwithstanding the gentleman
avowed them to be introduced merely ns an
accompaniment, and not a substitute. Some
of them, taken separately, met his entire ap
piobation ; but when viewed as a whole, they
were as contradictory and ir.coiftistent in
their character, as was the course which the
gentleman had pursued in the debate.
Mr. Chappel rose in the reply to Mr. Har
ris—dissected his resolutions, and exposed
tiicir incongruous and mischievous tenden
cies. If, said Mr. C. the people are to be
prevented by sucti subterfuges from meeting
together to express their feelings and opin
ions in relation to acknowledged grievances,
wc had better at once dissolve this meeting.
Tim gentleman had contended that we were
not slaves—that wc were not absolutely slaves
at present, he would admit. But the question
was not, whether wc are slaves now, but w he
ther there was not a fair chance of our being
slaves hereafter, if wc submitted to the per
petuation of an oppressive and unconstitution
al measure—a measure, which he had no
doubt, would in the end inevitably bring sla
very upon us. Upon this part of the subject
Mr. C. ably and impressively enlarged, and
forcibly asked whether we were prepared for
a voluntary servitude by waiting until the
fetters of our adversaries were rivetted upon
us. He was rcapcatedly interrupted by shouts
of applause. The mode of resistance, he said
would of course be left with the Con
vention to determine—it would therefore be
premature to argue the point here. He could
not, however, refrain from entering his pro
test against the inode proposed by Mr. Harris,
viz. the establishment of manufactures among
ourselves. This, lie said, would only change
the direction of the tribute, without relieving
us ;n the slightest degree from the pernicious
effects ol its operation. He concluded by
observing that he locked upon the invocation
to the revered name cf Washington, as it was j
made, as a mere popular tries.—a political
stratagem—a stroke of dcmagoguical policy.
Air. Harris, in reply addressed the chair.
He was very much agitated. Said he was mis
represented by Alaj. Petit—and again con
tended that his resolutions were not intended
as a substitute to, but an accompaniment of
Mr. Gordon’s resolutions. He declared his
attachment to the South and his lovo for the
Union, and disclaimed the motive which had
been attributed to him in introducing the sa
crcd name of Washington.
Gen. E. Bea H-then rose, and said that this
meeting was not not called for the purpose of
pronouncing upon die course of South-Caro
iing. He ridiculed the idea. Georgia had
nothing to do with the municipal concerns of
that State. Slic was her own guardian, and
so was Georgia—and any attempt on the part
of either, to dictate to the other, was, to say
the least of it,an impertinent interference. He
exposed the illiberulity and want of candor,
whichwasmanifestedbyAlr.il. in attempt
ing indirectly to impress upon the public
mind, a belief that we were opposed to the
re-election of Jackson,by offering a resolution
which doubted the attachment of the State to
his administration. Before, that distinguished
naan came into the Chief Alagistracy, Geor
gia declared,and has still continued to declare
at each succeeding session ofher Legislature,
an unwavering attachment to his administra
tion. Gen. B. moved the previous question,
b) proposing the adoption of Air. Gordon’s
preamble and resolutions. They were then
taken up and carried by an overwhelming
majority, four or five only voting against them.
Mr. Harris,with a perseverance which would
; have been highly commendable, if exercised
| in a better cause, again, by the sufferance of
the meeting, took up his resolutions and read
them one by one, proposing that they should
be voted upon separately. They were accor
dingly read and voted upon, when they were
rejected by large majorities. The resolutions
were objected to on the ground of their oppo
sition to the State Convention, and their co
vert hostility to the re-election of President
Jackson. I’his jesuiticnl polity was fully ex
posed b) Gen. 13., whilst the resolutions were
under consideration, which again calWt
-nr. Harris, who made another attempt to dis
turb the harmony of the meeting bv the intro
duction of local politics, and concluded by
charging Gen. B. with inconsistency, in sup
porting in 182.-,—C, Mr. Crawford for the
Presidency, in preference to Gen. Jackson.
Gen. Beall repelled the charge in a trium
phant manner. He acknowledged his prefe
rence of Air. Craw ford, at the time alluded to
by the gentleman, & said that that preference
weuld even operate now under similar cir
cumstances. He preferred Air. Crawford, not
only because he was a Georgian, but because
he was an orthodox disciple of the Jefferso
nian School.. He preferred him, not because
he loved Jackson less, but because he then
loved Crawfird more.
Much feeling was here elicited, and some
severe sparring took place. It was happily
arrested, however, by Mr. Gordon, who sharp
ly rebuked Mr. Harris. He said it was dis
graceful to drag into a meeting so important
as tins—a meeting of such patriotic charac
ter—the petty squabbling and sinister designs
of local politicians.
The very judicious and apropos,'censure
of Mr. Gordon soon tranquilized the meet
ing, when
Gen. Beall rose, and, after a few remarks,
presented the resolutions, condemnatory of
the proscribing resolutions of the Augusta
Meeting- They were read by Mr. Gordon,
and carried, without debate, by acclamation]
The meeting then adjourned, after a sitting
of nearly six hours. •
Between 7 and 800 people attended the
meeting. They were all, with the exception
of seven or eight, citizens of Monroe county
—a county which ranks among the most
populous, intelligent, and patriotic counties
.a out State. Tlie deliberations of the meet
ing, taking them “all in all,” wore the most
decorous and solemn wc ever witnessed.
O’.e sentiment, and one spirit, appeared, a
lone, to actuate the people—and that spirit
and sentiment was a prompt, determined, and
efficient resistance to the protective system
and all its abettors. Tim good work is spell
ing its way through the State with a gratify
ing rapidity—and, wc hope ere Jong, to have
the uroud satisfaction of announcing ta our
readers that seven-eighths of the high minded
and patriotic people of Georgia, have appoint
cd to the State Convention Delegates who
are the uncompromising advocates of p r j nci .
pie and the determined champions of redress.
The following are the Preamble and Rose
lotion? of the Monroe meeting i
TIIE MONROE MEETING.
In pursuance of a resolution passed at a
previous meeting, a large and general assem
blage of the citizens of Monroe county took
place at Forsyth Court House on Friday last,
fortiie purpose of deciding upon the necessi
ty of a State Convention to point out some
mode for the redress of tiie grievances inflict
ed upon them by the Protective System.—
Min. 13. Stephens, Esq. was called to the
I chair, and C-01. Win. P. Henry appointed
Secretary. The meeting being organized,
.the following preamble and rose’* tions, pre
faced by appropriate remarks, were presented
by Geo.jjVV. Gordon, Esq. and passed after
considerable debate by an almost unanimous
vote.
W hereas it is a most sacred obligation incum
bent on every free people to take care that their
liberties be maintained in the practice of Govern
ment as in theory of the Constitution. And
whereas there is not, nor in the nature of things
can there be in written constitutions any inherent >
efficiency which of itself wil| suffice to lustraiii
or recall Government from usurpations or oppres
sions to which it may he inclined ; but the spirit
which alone can impart practical effect and
controlling efficacy’ to written Constitutions,
must live and act in the great body of the people,
and through theta must be brought to bear on
government : whence the people are the only
true and efficient guardians and conservators of
the Constitution ; and a permanent acquiescence
on their part under gross Governmental violations
of the Constitution, is a betrayal of the Consti
tution itself, and a virtual abandonment of all
Constitutional liberty ; ot which, whenever any
people can be guilty, they are ripening rapidly
for slavery And whereas we are thoroughly
satisfied that all that series of Congressional^ Le
gislation for years past, which lias had for its ob
ject the encouragement of certain branches of Do
mestic Industry, by the imposition of what are
called Protecting Duties, on foreign imports,
has ever been and is flagrantly violative of the
Constitution of tho United States, and peculiarly
oppressive and ruinous to the interests of the
Southern porti n of the Union. And whereas the
people of Georgia have in every form and way
to which freemen could fi;;y resort, vainly sought
the repeal of this odious system at the hands’of
Congress; And whereas they’ have heretofore
home the burthens of this System in the confi
dence that the period of the e.-.tinction of the Na
tional debt would be tire era yf the commence
ment at least, ol a policy which should look to
the ultimate entire removal of those burthens :
but now they behold every hope of this sort blas
ted by the open avowals and correspondent act
ings of Congress in the passage of tho Tariff act
ot the present year, and it is emphatically decla
red that a system which in its operation on the
South must forever he one of legalized robbery
and oppression is to become the settled and unal
terable policy of the Government—And whereas
we cannot brook tha thought that the stupendous
course and slavish principle of this system should
be perpetually fastened on us and our posterity—
Res Wed therefore, thatwe regard the continued
perseverance of the General Government in the
poiiey of encouraging by burthensome duties on
foreign imports, some branches of domestic in
dustry at the expense of others, and to the oppres
sion in a peculiar manner of the interests of the
Southern States, as.a subject on which the peo
ple of Georgia ought to meet and act decisively
and definitively in Convention.
Resolved, that we concur in the propositlhn
which has been made by our fellow-citizens of
other counties, for the call of a Convention to
meet m miiiedgeviHe on the second Monday in
November next, for the purpose of taking this
whole subject into consideration and determin
ing some “mode and measure” for the relief of
ffie Country from the oppressions of the “ pro
tecting system” and bring back the Government
to the true principles of the Constitution on that
subject. Resolved, that we will proceed on the
first Monday ol November next to the election of
tour Delegates to represent the people ofMouroc
County in said Convention.
After the above preamble and resolutions
u re adopted, the following resolutions w’ere
proposed by Gen. E ias Beall, and also car
ried by a vote equally unanimous:
Resolved, That we view with regret and abbot
rence the prosersptive resolution of the late meet
lnpt Aiigusta, which has clothed a Committee of
I/irce, with the authority of catechising our can
didates for Congress and the .State Legislature
outhe subject of their political faith. To the peo
ple, alone, la their collective capacity, belon<* the
right ot instruction—and they will recognise no
attempt to wrest that right from them, by the dic
tation of a Triumvirate Committee.
Resolved, That we consider the contemplated
Convention at Milledgevilleas not intended to de
nounce this or that candidate—but that we look
upon it as a convocation of the Representatives of
a Sovereign State, who are be called together
to exercise a legitimate privilege in defence of
our dearest rights. As such, every candidate,
nominated by ihe people to tnat Convention should
>tand umntimidated by tbo threats of political
proscription. In a republican government poli
tical pledges, demanded in the spirit of the Aiums
ta resolutions, are but bribes held out to the un
pnncipled--and, as such, they question the in
tegnty and honor of every patriot statesman who
may appear betore the people for their suffrane,
and should consequently be spurned with merited
indignation or cold contempt.
Resolved. That the proceedings of this meet
ing he signed by the Chairman, and countersign
ed by the .Secretary, and that all the papers in the
•State be requested to publish, them.
... _ „ WM .6 .STEVENS, Chairman.
W 41, P. IlexßTf, Sec*y.
The following are the Preamble and Reso
lutions offered by Mr. Harris, in Monroe :
Whereas great commotion and discord has
arisen from local discriminations, and array
ed some part of the Southern against the Nor
them Slates, and whereas the South is great
ly oppressed by the North in e.onsequencc of
tne protective system, and such duties impo
sed oil foreign importations as to make the
laritf unequal, unjust ami oppresive upon
the Southern States.
Resolved the i first, That flic laws on?' ‘
ed for the purpose of protecting a-’
manufactures, do not operate cm. -, ‘ , C
the whole of the Unite>' ‘'h ■*'7 "P° n
healed—'thereb a " d ought to bare
heieb-v to the whole United
S ’ and equal laws
im wdl , se< ' That the State of Geor
nresent reS ° rt 1 *° ,hc forrc of at the
I resent crisis in the affairs of the U. States
an remonstrate against the existing system
■ ? r PU . - C <lebt of tllc Union is finnllvi
!, L° a,, . d discharged— at which time if
ho * rotative System is not abandoned by
ur n.uhrn, brethen, Georgia willcrv aloud
t immediate relief from the oppression ol
the Tariff, leaving it to tho u’iZ!r
State what course is most prod.-; t,
jesolutions, it is the object and triJ * ' hf '
0f...
the Amu;ican Union, hy preserving - ;
porting the purity of the Constitution r Up
United States. ** °f thi
Resolved fourthly, That we will *
Andrew Jackson for the Preside
United States at the approaching *
we believe that his principle, are
uis news correct, as regards this a !t
taut matter to the Southern States '“P 81
Resolved fifthly, That we will _
Soutn Carolina in the odious doctrine
1 1 Heat ton, but -hat we will support tUn l
dent of the United States
that “ high and sacred duties present
surmountable barrier to their sucl?,"
them be decorated by whatever popular ’ 1
or whatever high feeling may be arrive J
their support.” a . VC( IfJ
JONES COUNTY
REDRESS and SUBMISSION
Pursuant to previous notice, a vefs H
respectable meeting of the citizens off ** 1
ty, convened at the Methodist Church in 'riH
on Saturday the 25th August, 1830 „ C ,H
preliminary movements for ■dowin* ."H
measure of redress amiinst tho m ° des!l
ther lo determine o„ 2.SJ
State Convention, proposed tS be heM '? 1
Monday in November next: e ua
On motion of Thomas 13. Slade Pc , I
Jambs Smith was called to the chair,' 1 j N
motion of Dr. Flewellen, Maj. Thom w'-Tl
itox, was appointed Secretary. G ’ N
1 reamble and Re-solutions prepared h„ J
mit.ee were submitted and and enerswiJm “l
ported hy Col. Lewis, in an abh sJ ? a - Vs l
which, Col. Warren JoSd?n oH 1, Af l
preamble and resolutions as a
ed -a decision thereon without debate - u H
ous to taking the question, Wm it ’ T P 1
Lsq addressed the meeting, and
of Hie grounds contained in the suh.mf °i
particularly commented on the assmw^'i
ffiXorv " f th Wh ° m h-ieSSa
m tticory, &c. and in an argnmentati™. i I
quer.t manner, arrayed such facts as
odiousness the unconstitutionally ai Hj
stveness ot the Tariff. y and c H r i
Col. Jocrdan replied. He imlnt.i j,
justice and unconstitutional ity of thefirJ
was opposed to the proceedings; he dffi l l
object, as he thought it wen; to theoci
of the doctrine of fcollification, andtS "1
cially denouuced its desimiimr author [TI
the preamble and resolutions which he ,SI
ed.aiid which were adopted, will more Si
present Ins views, than can the imperfect s'-el
which we give front-memory. TheCollfJ
a tact, peculiar, ingenious,Ld £££s J
ed the tuelmo S , rather than the sense of his
ence and tally sustained the cunning and all
ness for which he has hern
wrought on their feelings, hy indivSEfiJ
love tor them and their Ithmies-thes ZI
great as to draw him from retirement-*! J
had determined to stay, and never more seel I
smiles norfearthe frowns of the people. It J
after such a manner he addressed his hearers J
with successful effect. nearer!,*
M. 13. Lamar. Esq. then pronounced aml
patriotic pc .-h, i„ which he strong 1
picted our wrongs, and urgea the necew-vl
right to remedy them—that remedy he said I
P ur f u, "S the legitimate will Vhe J
through a Convention. p ■
Col. R. V. H.-rdeman addressed the mefl
in a very m L erpsting speech— contending,ililte!
others, that the Tariff was unconstitutional !
oppressive. He sustained the principle that J
blicaUon, as understood and taught hv TIJ
Jefferson, (who was its author, and not John!
Calhoun) was a peaceful and rightful re J
1 his fact had been dispute!, as we umlixl
him, by Col. Jourdan, but the Kentucky KeS
ions, the production of the Sage of Mental
himse.f, were read to establish it. I
Alter Col. Hard-man had concluded,
Harron delivered a speech which was repl|
with sound doctrine and patriotic sandmens,*
which w-e hope yet to lay before our readers. ■
,°‘. Jones also addressed the people in ltiX
sual convincing and forcible manner! ’ S
At this time, and at an . Jvanced hour ini
evening, the question wav called for, andlirs|
ken on Col. Jourdan’s substitute, which wa|
dopted by about 10 majority, in preference til
original ones offered by Major Lewis. B
V\ hen this wa determined, Major Barron®
posed the following Resolutions, which we r®
to sap, were voted down hy the same
who supported the substitute; which
regard in any other sense than that
claratory ol submission to the protective
Resolved, That we the citizens of
county w ill elect three delegates on the®
Monday in October next to attend tjieC®
vention to meet in Alilledgeville on the®
cond Alonday in November. t ■
And Resolved further , That we arc
sed to Submission to the Tariff. ■
I lie materiel composing the majority of
meeting, was such as had never before uiiitd
any subject. It was composed of those win
been not only variant all their lives, hut had
strong political, and implacable personal ena
I o see, on so sudden an occasion, such awn
nation, really looked to us like an lmrighn
and unnatural union. Men u;ho had butad
tune since branded each other with every (pi
which implied ignominy and debasement, a
once meeting with a cordial hand and bosumi
come, was enough to do violence to honest (
ings. W e can imagine of no way to account
tuese sudden conversions. To forgive and
get is a divine principle but it is rare tint
"lo? ( rom bis lair pounces upon the Lamb,
ilion forbears to devour him. Yet, wc?%
1 they shall lie down together”—h 1 ’’ ; ts
ment, wo predict,, in this insta- ~,
not bring about a political "Senium.
Preamble a- p T~~. ~ „, r,
YY P - Rteolutiom offered by Col. lA
• t‘U people ol Jones county, havingcon
or tlie purpose of taking into cnnsiderJiin ll
best mode of resistance to the T'ariffi, adop
Preamble ami Resolutions passed at Ad
on Wednesday the Ist August, by’a large)
lug of the free citizens of this state, as fob l
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION'
W hereas, the people of Georgia, as wri
primary assemblies of citizens ill their respe*
counties, as by their Representatives in th*
gislature thereof, have repeatedly and"S°l®
ly declared the several acts laying duties p!|
ports, (in so far as such acts transcended tj |f
pozes ot revenue, and wore designed ! f
protection of manufactures,) to he unjmji
pressive, anil unconstitutional; and have s' If
ly announced their determination not t>> snlun
such unlawful exactions; and their c
resolution to resist them, if a ter a r
time they should uot be lepc lvJ.