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Tsl<* price of liiberty is eternal vigilance*
b'yr the Macon Advertiser.
Ilcctiiitf in Ipson.
Agreeable to a public notice given, the Ci
tizens of Upson County w ith several gentle
men from other counties who were in attetul-
Tiiice on the Superior Court then in session as
sembled at the Court House on Wednesday
tlflth of August, 1832, to express their views
on the oppressions of the Tariff, Are.
The meeting was organized by calling Ma
jor William A. Cobb to the Chair, and ap
pointing William P. Yonge, Secretary, when
Joseph Sturges, Esq. introduced a resolution
to prohibit every person not a citizen of the
County from taking any part in the debates,
and supported the same by a lengthy speech,
Major Lewis of Jones county replied to him
as did Col. Reuben J. Crews, G. W. Gordon,
lAq. Several other gentlemen took part in the
discussion viz : Col. Bailey, Messrs. Mc
lyeen, Gibson, Bmvdreand Wheat. Washing
ton Poe, Esq. made a few remarks express
ing a wish that Mr Sturges, resolutions should
not be opposed, giving as a reason that such
opposition might defeat the object of the mee
ting; on the question being taken, the Chair
decided 'hat the resolution was lost; a divis
ion was called for which Created considerable
confusion, and after much altercation itwas
determined to withdraw the resolution.
D. B. Grant, Esq. then introduced a pre
amble Ac a set of resolutions expressive of the
feelings of the Community in relation to the
intolerable oppressions upon the Southern
States by the “American System” preceded
by a few pertinent remarks. After they were
read, .1. Sturges, Esq. offered as a substitute a
preamble, Ao a set of resolutions such as were
adopted by the “Augusta meeting,” and sup
ported the same with a very length) speech.
Col. Crews opposed the resolutions, and sup
ported warmly the adoption of the original—
George Cary, Esq. by the call of a large num
ber of persons was requested to address the
meeting winch lie did in support, of the ori
ginal resolutions—a motion was then made
and adopted, that a committee of four be ap
pointed by the Chair to lake both sets of res
olutions for the purpose of drawing up new
resolutions to be submitted to the meeting,
whereupon the chair appointed George Cary,
F>. B. Grant, Reuben J. Crews, and J.Stur
gis, Esqrs.; and the meeting adjourned for
half an hour. Half an hour having expired,
the citizens re-assembled. Mr.Cary from the
committee reported—when Mr. Sturgjs com
menced a speech, which was interrupted by
a loud call made for the resolutions to be read
—whereupon Mr. Sturges offered a substi
tute which was rejected by a deafening call
for the report and resolutions, which were
read and adopted as follows.
Whereas, it behoves free people to
exercise a sleepless vigilance and an uncom
promising guardianship over their rights anil
liberties and to maintain thorn at every haz
ard and with becoming patriotic spirit against
ail encroachments whether proceeding from
the administrators of the government estab
lished by themselves, or from any otherquar
ter whatsoever. And as we bold it to be the
peculiar and most polomn duty of a people
who have adopted a written form of govern
ment for the direction and limitation ol their
government agents and authorities to vindi- 1
vnte ami maintain that "Ivan charter against
the abuses and usurpations of such agents or
authorities, —we hold further, that, upon
the faithful, timely and fearless performance
of tin.-; duty by the people depend the purity
an l perpetuation of written constitutions.
The Federal Government having now for a
ceries of years in utter disregard of the ear
nest and reUeva' -'l remonstrances of the peo
ple of the South tiept up a system of Tariff
laws enacted for the avowed purpose of pro
tecting certain branches of industry, particu
larly what are called homo manufactures at
the expense of the agricultural and maritime
interests of the country,and to the intolerable
oppression of those of the Southern States, as
we consider the Tariff act of the late session
iff Congress, notwithstanding the stern contest
nnd devoted resistance of the representatives
of that section clearly to evince that the pe
riod of the final discharge of the public debt
instead of being the welcome messenger to
the people of the South of their just liberation
from the exactions and grievances of the sys
tem, is rather to present appearances to be
regarded as the sad extinguishment of their
last hope of ever being free from those o[>-
pressions; wo therefore consider that the
time has come which imperatively calls upon
us to use every manly, just and unflinching
effort to settle the question whether we and
our posterity shall ever be released from those
burdens, or shall continue to submit to their
galling |iressure forever. We acutely vi
brate to, and heartily participate in the sacred
sensation which seems to be abroad among
our fellow-citizens of the state, would hail it
is asaii augury of better days to come, and
tire cheering pledge of final redress.
Resolved therefore , that whilst u c deplore
the continuance and seeming inveteracy of
the spirit in which the Tariff'system origina
ted and by which it has been continued upon
us, we pledge hurselvcsto resist it firmly and
inflexibly by all proper means unlil its cloud
shall be removed from our horizon.
Resolved, that the citizens of Upson coun
ty, bo recommended and advised to elect two
Delegates to meet the general Convention at
Millcdgevillo on the second Monday in No
vember next.
Resolved, that the chairman of this meet
ing appoint a coininitteo of five citizens to
nominate two candidates for delegates to said
Convention and to appoint persons to super
intend the election, anil that the election be
held on the first Monday in November.
Resolved, that our delegates bo instructed
to agree to no act or resolve of the said Con
vention, without there be a provision to re
turn the same to the people for their consid
eration.
The chair appointed as a committee to no
minate delegates the following named gcir
t:emm. I). B. Grant, Jesse Garrett, John
Goode, 11. B. Greene, and Thomas Ma ,rv,
lYS'juires. WM. A. C 01,15, Chairman.
VV, IWoMte. •f s ”* r r"tarr #
For the Macon Advertiser.
Troup meeting.
' In pursuance of previous notice and a
general invitation given throughout the coun
ty, the citizens of Troup, assembled at the
Court-House in La Grange, on Friday the
31st August, to deliberate upon the measures
necessary to be adopted to resist the odious
Tariff act lately passed by the. Congress of
the United States. The meeting was very
numerously attended and was composed ex
clusively of the citizens of the county. —
When on mation of Vlaj. John E. Morgan,
Isaac Mitchell was called to the chair, and
Dr. Thomas Valentine, appointed Secretary.
Dr. Williams offered to the meeting the
preamble and resolutions which follows, and
urged their adoption in a concise forcible
and impressive manner, and was followed by
Col. Julius C. Alford, and Gen. S. Arms
trong Daily, who entered intoaclose, minute
and lucid detail of the origin and progress of
the several Tariff acts, accompanied with
much feeling-anil eloquence.
Whereas, there have been, since the ad
journment of Congress, various meetings of
the citizens of Georgia, to take into consider
ation, the best means of redressing the wrongs
growing out of the present tariff; and, where
as, for the purpose of producing unity of ac
tion and sentiment, a committee of seven in
dividuals has been appointed residing in dif
ferent sections of the State* alike distinguish
ed farther talents and patriotism, for the put
poso of corresponding with the citizens of the
several counties, and, whereas the said Com
mittee has submitted to the considerations of
the people of Georgia, the following preamble
and resolutions viz :
“ Whereas the people of Georgia as w ell
in primary assemblies, of citizens in. their
respective counties, as by their representa
tives in the Legislature thereof, have repeat
edly and solemly declared the several acts
laying duties on imports (in so far as such
acts transcend the purposes of revenue and
was designed for the protection of manufac
tures) to be unjust, oppressive and unconsti
tutional, and solemnly announced their de
termination 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 com
mon interest with them in this matter, have
looked to the period of the payment of the
National Debt as that at which the income
raised by taxation, should be'reduced to the
sum required by the wants of the govern
ment by duties imposed fairlv on all the im
ports of tire Uni toil States, A have expected
from the justice of that Congress which has
just closed its session a repeal of these oh
noxious laws—
And whereas, this resonablc expectation
lias been disapjiointed, and tin, protection of
manufactures is now avowed as a permanent
principle of Federal Legislation,
Be it therefore, rcsolred, That we as free
citizens of (Georgia, will not longer submit to
this system of Legislation, which is arbitrary
unequal, unconstitutional and therefore un
just,—that it.be recommended to our fellow
citizens of the several counties, to elect dele
gates, to a State Convention, to assemble at
Miiledgeville on the second Monday in No
vember next, and to invest them with full
power, i:i behalf of the good people of Geor
gia, to maintain, preserve and defend the
rights and privileges of the free citizens of
this state.”
Resolved therefore, That the citizens of
Troup County, concur in feeling and senti
ment with the foregoing preamble and resolu
tions, and that, for the purpose of co-operating
with the same, they will elect two individuals
as delegates to said Convention.
The above resolutions were adopted unani
mously. Dr. Wilson Williams offered the
following 1 :
Resolved, That Col. Julius C. Alford and
Gen. S. Armstrong Hailey, be nominated as
candidates to the proposed convention, which
was also atrrned to without a dissenting voice.
Gen. Whitfield H. Sledge, then moved
that the proceedings of the meeting be sign
ed by the Chairman and countersigned by the
Secretary and published in the newspapers
throughout the state. The meeting then ad
journed. ISAAC MITCHELL, Char'll.
Thomas Valentine, JScc'ry.
Baldwin Hireling.
Milledgeville, Ist ,Scpt. 1832.
Pursuant to the invitation of many of their
fellow-citizens, a large number of the people
of Baldwin county, assembled this day at the
Court House—The Meeting was organized
by the appointment of Gen. DaVid Bradic
Mitchell, as Chairman, and Iverson L. Harris,
Esq. Secretary.
With a view to accommodate with seats the
concourse assembled, a proposition was made
and carried, to repair to the Methodist Church
—where the Hon. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, sub
mitted the following Preamble and Resolu
tions :
Whereas we, citizens of the county of
Baldwin, regard any interference by the
General Government with the pursuits of
popular industry, as at once inconsistent with
the sound principles of national policy, and
foreign to the purposes for which the Govern
ment was instituted :
And whereas, the exising tariff laws have
been enacted, not as justice and the Consti
tution required, exclusively for the purpose of
raising necessary revenue to pay the debts,
and to meet the wants of the Government;
hut also for the unwarranted purpose of pro
moting manufactures, by a system of indirect
bounties—thereby making all otiier branches
of industry tributary to that which is so un
justly favoured :
, Aiul whereas we, in common with our fel
low-citizens in every part of the State, hold
these laws (so far as they embrace the odious
system of protection and favoritism, to which
we have alluded) to lie unjust, oppressive and
incompatible with the spirit of the Constitu
tion ;
A nd whereas, although candour prompts us
to admit, that the present burthens of the
system will be in some degree mitigated by
the recent modification of the tariffln\yg— vet
neither justice nor self-respect will permit us
to accept that modification as a compromise
of our indisputable rights :
And whereas our fellow-ciliZcns in other
parts of the State, disappointed and justly in
dignant at the late refusal of Congress, to
provide for the abandonment of the protec
tive system at the opportune and anticipated
era of national freedom from debt, have de
termined to hold a State Convention, to de
liberate upon the course of conduct which it
is meant for the people of Georgia to pursue
at this important crisis: .
And whereas, aitho’ we, confiding in the
virtue and good sense of the American peo
ple, do not despair of the ultimate efficacy of
the remedial energies of our free institutions,
to correct the existing vices of Federal legis
lation, and are therefore decidedly opposed,
to the adoption of any unconstitutional , forci
ble or revolutionary measure of redress—yet
we cannot but believe that the voice of rea
son and justice, proceeding from a Conven
tion directly representing the sovereign power
of the State, and in which, wisdom, firmness
and moderation, and a stirred reward for the
Constitution and the Union, shall be gliding
principles, will acquire a Commanding ener
gy of tone w hich it has not hitherto possessed",
and w hich can hardly fail to make a deep,
a solemn, and, we trust, a redeeming impres
sion upon the nationaUegislatute;>, >. • ■
1. Re it therefore resolved, That we, citi
zens of the couuty of .Baldwin, i(o acquiesce
in the general will, that a State Convention
shall be held, having for its object the dispas
sionate consideration of our tariff grievean
ccs, and the most eligible mode of effecting
a removal thereof.
2. Resolved, That we deem it expedient
and proper that the result of the deliberations
of said Convention shall be submitted to the
people of the several counties of this Stat< ,
for their final ratification or rejection; and
that our concurrence in the measure of hold
ing a Convention has been the more readily
induced by the belief, that the reasona
ble course herein suggested will be pui
sucil.
3. Resolved, That we approve tire time
and place designated by our fellow-citizens
at Athens, for holding said Conveiftion', and
that on the first Monday in October next, we
will elect two delegates to represent the citi
zens of this connty therein.
4. Resolved, That we feel increasing con
fidence in the republican principles and
patriotic administration qf Andrew Jackson ;
that we regard him, at this momentous crisis,
as the unflinching patriot, who of all others,!
is best qualified to sustain iiis own noble j
sentiment, “ the Federal Union must be pre-i
served,” and that we will therefore redouble
our exertions to ensure his re-election.
Col. Samuel Rockwell propcsed the follow
ing as a substitute :
Whereas the freemen of Georgia here as
sembled, having met to express their views
concerning the oppressions which .they, in
common with the people of the South, have
borne for a series of years, bv means of the
several acta laying duties on imports, and. to
consider the mode and measures of redress,
view with feelings of deep interest and anxie
ty, the determination of a majority in Con
gress, as manifested by its session*- to con
tinue a system of taxation, oihptrs in its fea
tures, unequal and burthcns-ome in its pro.
visions, uncalled for by the w ants of the gov
ernment, and palpably contrary to the true
spirit of the constitution :
And whereas they, in common with their
fellow-citizens, looked with pride anil plea
sure to the period of the extinguishment of
the public debt, as that at which the import
duties would ho reduced to the amount re
quired by the wants of the govern man t; and
the burthens so long borne by the South,
would he removed. But in this reasonable
expectation they have been grievously dis
appointed, and instead of the relief which
they expected from the justice of Congress,
they find the principle of protection asserted
and avowed as-the settled and permanent
policy of Federal legislation. And the un
welcome conviction ts forced upon their
judgments, that the majority in Congress,
taking an ungenerous advantage of that ar
dent attaahmetit for the union w’hich Georgia
lias always manifested, have irtade this attach
ment subservient to the interests of the manu.
facturers, by heaping upon her citizens op
pressive and lawless taxation. Against this
system of oppression, the citizens of Georgia
have hitherto remonstrated in primary assem
blies in their respective counties, and solemn
ly protested by their Represcntntives in the
Legislature, which repeated remonstrances
and protests have been answered by an in
creas of oppression, now fixed upon them and
their children by an irresponsible majority,
in the exercise of an arbitrary power unknown
to the Constitution :
And whereas the tendency of every infrac
tion of that instrument is well calculated to
produce a speedy consolidation of power in
the general government, precipitate thesove
reignty of the states into imbecility and con
tempt, endanger the stability of the bn ion,
and if not resisted, will be subversive of the
liberty of the citizen : .
And whereas, the surest means to prevent
these evils are, by opposing these infractions,
arresting the progress of Federal usurpation,
and maintaining the rights of the .States as
sovereign parties to the compact, which can
not be done without an efficient resistance,
and a united action :
And whereas, the doctrine of unconditional
submission to oppressive and unconstitutional
acts, is a doctrine unknown to the freemen of
Georgia: it was not the lessop taught them
by their fathers, and its precepts cannot be
inculcated on their children :
lie it therefore resolved, That the concen
tration of public opinion of the good people
of this State on the subject of the tariff, is
highly expedient and proper, not only in re
ference to ulterior action, but also to meet
present exigencis, which it is believed,
can only be done by a convention of the peo
ple.
. 2. Resolved, That we cordially approve of
the recommendation of the Atlioos resolu
tions, and will elect two delegates on the
first Monday in October next,' to.represent
the people ol this county, in a Convention to 1
he held on the second Monday in November
next.
3. Resolved, That we have undiminished
confidence in Andrew Jackson, whose stern
integrity and Roman firmness was never
more conspicuously displayed, than in his
Veto on the Bill to rechartcr the U. S.
Bank ; and on his re-election the stability of
this Union must must mainly depend.
Michael J. Kenan, Esq. then iutroduccd
the following, in lieu of the whole:
We have witnessed with no ordinary de
gree of sympathy and interest, the recent as
semblies at various times and places, of our
fellow-citizens, to deliberate upon, and reme
dy the oppressions of a selfiah and unqual
tariff. \Ve witnessed these collections with
sympathy, because we feel in common, the
smarts of the system against which they were
directed ; and we witnessed them with inter
est, because their results would, and must
necessarily affect every section of our State,
and every portion of her community ; because
their influence upon the great body of the
people might create a determined course of
action, which we do not think advisable; and.
because, should they succeed in gaining a
majority , We would, although it opposed our
wishes and judgments, feel an imperious
duty, right or wrong, to be with them ! Until
such a crisis shall have arrived, we feel it
iucnmbcnt upon us to offer the them our
views, and to aid them, if possible, to a bet
ter, if not more rightful expedient.
We are decidedly opposed to the act of
Congress of July 14th 1832, (even allowing
it to reduce the rates of duties contained in
that of 1828)for the simple reason that itis an
odious and destructive principle of protection,
and still operates as unjust and oppressive.
We are still the warm and unceasing advo
cates for a more enlarged, impartial and equal
reduction in its provisions, and will not
abate our energies, until a thorough Reform
in this branch of our national policy shall
have been fully and mostcleurly established.
But we are told, sucii will never be conced
ed—that the system ha3 been solomnly en
grafted upon the Constitution,and henceforth
must be viewed as the scttld policy of our
country. This is questionable. Wc distrust
not the power of truth, nor the agency of
mind to make it prevail. We believe in the
virtue and intelligence of a large portion of
our Northern countrymen, and we doubt not
our ability to reach their hearts as well as
their heads. In fine, we ore disposed to
j Unlive, that the act of 1832 is the first of ase
) ries of consessionsjtpbucd with the principh
I of a growing .reform, which time will shortly
hallow with a liberal, generous and magnan
imous conclusion. Under such views of this
all-engrossing topic, we candidly ask, should
we attempt violence at this tittle? Should
we even mediate it, under the ijnposing
sanction of a State Convention ?—The revered
Declaration of our Independence warns us
to suffer as long as evils are sufferable ;
and our love for Union, for our altars and
our firesides, admonishes us, that ere we
take one rash step, wc duly calculate tfie
results. Have we faith in the sincerity of that
of that compromise and concession which
the act of the last sessions is said to con
tain 7 Do we eredit their reality f Contra
dictory opinions have divided our views.
Y(t, nevertheless, we will for a time award
to if, all which it proposes. Time will devel
ope their true character, anti if then we
discover oursdves to have been deluded,
insulted, and imposed upon, the consequences
be not ours, but tlieiis :
1. Wherefore resolved, That we will for
hear for the present, the use or employment
of any measures calculated to aggravate
the already excited feelings of our feijow
citizens of the South, Georgia in particular,
upon the subject of the existing tariff.
2. Resolved, That, wc think it inexpedient
to have a Convention of Delegated ot the
people of tlie State, as recommended by the
meeting at Athens, and that instead there
of, will rely upon that constitutional and
peaceable opposition which we have waged
in the Legislative halls ol our country, and
which has so lucidly characterized' the zeal
and intelligence of our presses.
After much discussion the Chairman pro
ceeded to ascertain the sense of the meeting
upon the several resolutions. Those by
Mr. Kenan were put to vote first, and re
jected by a large majoriety, without a divis
ion.
Col. Rockwell’s being next in order, it
was moved by himself, to amend the second
resolution by adding “and that the procee
dings of said Convention he submitted to the
iwoplc of Georgia for their final action and
ratif ication" —which was agreed to ; and on
the question being but for their final adoption,
a division was called, which resulted in their
rejection.
Before taking the vote upon those pre
sented by Judge Lamar, he moved to strike
out the 4th resolution appended to his Pre
amble, and adopted in lieu, the 3d er last of
fered by Col. Rockwell, which was agecd to;
and it was, on motion by [. L. Harris Esq.
further agreed to amend the body of the
Preamble, by inserting immediately after
the words “ decidedly opposed to the adop
tion of any unconstitutional, and before the
words “ forcible or revolutionary meas
ures of redress,” the words “ and at this
time any “ —The Preamble arid Resolutions
as amended, were then agreed to.
William 11. Torrance, Esq, then offered
thcfollowing resolutions:
Resolved further, That wc hold it proper
that the officers of the government exercising
high functions, should know the opinions of
the people upon their important public acts.
In pursuance ttfbreof, this assembly declare
it as their opinion, that in Gen. Jackson’s re
fusing to give his assent to a Bill for the re
newal of the charier of the Bank of the Uni
ted States, he acted wisely and independently,
and in conformity to the Constitution of the
Union.
Resolved, That we have undiminished con
fidencc in the wisdom, honesty and integrity
of the President, and that we w ill, by all
proper means in our power, aid and contri
bute to his re-election, which we consider
important to the best interests of the country.
Which were, on a division, rejected.
On motion —The meeting was then ad
journed.
D. B. MITCHELL. Chairman.
Iverson L. Harris, Secretary. *
Burke Mecliug.
Tuesday, S -pt. 4, 1832.
The citizens of Burke county met pursuant
to adjournment at the Court-house, Maj. Gen
eral David Taylor in the Chair.
On motion of Maj. John Whitehead, the
meeting adjourned to the Methodist Church.
After the meeting was opened at the church
Maj. Gen. Taylor in the Chair,
On motion of Martin M. Dye, Esq., Mul
ford Marsh Esq. was appointed assistant Sec
retary.
On motion of A V I. Lawson, Esq., a com
mittee was appointed to wait on those persons
invited and escort them to the meeting. Dr.
Harlow, Dr. Miller, and Benj. F. Palmer,
Esq. were appointed that Committee.
The Chair informed the meeting that he
had received a letter from I)r. J. W. Taylor
of this County, enclosing his sentiments on
the great question before the meeting. The
letter was received and read, and on motion
of A. J. Lawson, Esq. the address accompa
nying the letter, was ordered to be read.
The Committee appointed to conduct invi
ted guests, returned and introduced the Hon.
J. Macjiherson Berrien, who took seat by the
Chairman.
A. J. Lawson, Esq. of the Committee ap
pointed to draft and report a Preamble and
Resolutions for the consideration of this meet
ing, made a report which was received and
read.
Judge Berrien rose, and by an eloquent ad
dress, urged the propriety of a §tate Conven
tion, holding that nullification as proposed in
South Carolina is not the proper mode of ob
taining relief, and that a Southern Conven
tion is repugnant to the constitution of the
United States. lie was listened to with great
attention, and after having spoken upwards
of one hour and a half, he sat down amidst
loud applause.
On motion, the assistant Secretary read the
address of Dr. J. W. Taylor, which .was at
tentively listened to.
Dr. Harlow moved that the report of the
Committee be agreed to : When Mr. William
Wiggins rose, and made a lengthy At spirited
speech against nullification, pointing out its
evils and consequences, and maintained that
secession is the rightful and peaceable reme
dy in the event that our evils are not relieved
out trusted that we should not comedo that.
R. E. Bourke, E-q. rose, and addressed the
meeting, contending that a Southern Conven
tion is constitutional, and opposed the doc*
trine of Nullification. 1
Dr. Harlow ro-e, and advocated the doc
trine of a State Convention.
R. E. Bourke, Esq., offered a Preamble and
Resolutions, which, on motion, were rejected.
Col. J. D. Thomas, offered a resolution in
addition to the original ones, declaring that
we are opposed to nullificatipn; which was
carried.
The original Preamble and Resolutions as
amended were carried with only two dissent,
ing voices, as follows :
Whereas the people of Georgia as well in
primary assemblies of citizens in their res
pective counties, as by their Representatives
in tlie Legislature thereof, have repeatedly
aud solemnly declared the several acts (laying
duties on imports) in so far as such actstrans
cend the purposes of revenue, and were de
signed for the protection of manufactures, to
be unjust, oppressive and unconstitutional :
And whereas the good people of this State,
and others,having common interest with them
having looked to the period of the payment of
National Debt, as that at which the income
raised by taxation should be reduced to the
sum. required for the wants of the Govern
ment, by duties fairly imposed upon all im
ports of the United States, and have expected
from the justice of that Congress which has
just closed its a repeal of these une
qual and oppressive Laws :
And whereas in these retisonablc expecta
tions the people of this State and others bear
ing common interest, have been disappointed
and the principle is now avowed by its sup
porters to a permanent one; and whereas it has
been recommended by meetings of the citi
zens in various parts dC the State, that Dele
gates be elected in the several counties to a
State Convention, to assemble at Milledgville,
on the second Monday in November next,
with full powers in behalf of the good people
of Georgia, to maintain, preserve and defend
their rights and privileges:
Therefore it is Resolved, That it be recom
mended to the people of this county, to elect
three proper persons to represent them in the
contemplated Convention, and that the meas
ures adopted by said Convention be returned
to the people for their sanction.
Resolved, That having the highest confi
dence in the patriotism and firmness of Gen.
Andrew Jackson, we continue to him our
most cordial support, and will u3e all proper
means to promote his re-clection.
Resolved, That we are opposed to nullifica
tion, as the mode of redress for our grievan
ces, for as much as we consider it neither
constitutional nor peaceable, as it must, in
the very nature of things, bring us directly
in cpHision with the General Government,
and end in a state of open war.
On motion,it was resolved that the proceed
ings of this meetig, and the resolutions u(lon
ted, be signed by the Chairman and jeercta
ries, and be published.
The meeting then a(lio\, rnc( i
Mulford Marsh, Secretaries.
SAVANNAH UNION MEETING.
At a meeting of the Citizens of Chatham
oon nt /’ lltld U -* tllc *' X( ffiange on Wednesday,
-Jt.i August, in pursuance of the notice and
call of the 25th instant, Wm. B. Bulloch,
£q, was unanimously called to the Chair, and
The objects of the meeting were explained
by the Chairman in an Address of soni -t
to be, to devise measures to resin h e "S
tion of the Tariff, and to express the r n T‘
and sentiments of this community on th U '
political questions which are now th
of general consideration
State. ° uoul tl
Whereupon it was unanimously
that a Committee of seven be annoimjl
the Chairman to draft Resolutions "t
Chairman then appointed. N ’ J
Judge JOHN C. Mcof,
Col. M. MYERS U ’
Col. JOSEPH W. JACK*n
Col. WILLIAM HArS
JOHN P. WILLIAMS
JOSEPH CUMMING ’
S. B. PARISIAN,
To compose that Committee, who m
—and after a short absence, return*!
offered the following Resolutions ° 1
The citizens of the country of Ghat),
impressed with a sense as well of the on ™
ions to which they, in common with
habitants of the Southern States, are g ‘ ub ° ‘
by tjie lau s imposing duties on impor-'"
of the dangois with which the public see
the stability of onr institutions and the'"
istenceoftho Union are threatened hvS
feelings which those laws have ensemW
do avow their firm resolution to'maiil
and defend the Government of the St t
the most effectual shield of private tl
the most faithful guardian of those print!'
which constitute the basrs of our Union
~the surest bulwark of our Republican sJ
of Government; and doin like manner '*
that they “cherish a cordial and imrnoval
attachment to the Union of the States’
the source of opr national strength “asi
main pillar ip the edifice of our real in,
pendence and the supprt of our tr ann u j||
and safety at home and our peace abroa,
and to the Constitution of the United St*
os the covenant of that Union, as the ii art
of equal rights among the several States i
as the security of Liberty
While they regard the Tariff Act of J u
1832, as an alleviation of the burthens
which they complain, and as a partialcr
cession made by those interested in man
fnctures, to the just demands arul the rie
of the South, they nevertheless, in thespi
of the sentiments they have avowed.
Do Reso'- e, That they most earnes
and solemnly protest against said Tariff
designed to retain an unjsf, unequal a
oppressive tax upon the capital and indusl
of the Southern States, in violation ofi
spirit of the Constitution, and for a purpi
not sanctioned by that instrument, amlti
they will employ all Aa every means consist
with the Constitution and with their allc
anceto the Government of the State, to
dttce the provisions of the same within
letter anil spirit of the Constitution.
They do further Rcsofre, That tlievt
approve the recommendation of the meel
at Athens, to “the citizens of the sen
counties” to elect Delegates to a State C<
vention, and “to invest them witli full poi
in behali of the good people of Georgu
maintain, preserve and defend the right
privileges of the free citizens of tins Sts
Because, jn the Legislature of the S
resides all power not repugnant to the (
stitution of the State or of the United Stat
to it therefore, belongs the power, ando
is imposed the duty “to maintain, presi
and defend the rights and privileges of
people” and of the States, and the fact ?
which said recomendation is predial
“that the people of Georgia, by their 8
resentatives in the Legislature, have repeat
ly- and solemnly declared the several A
layingdutieson imports, tobeunjust,opp
sive and unconstitutional, and have soiem
announced their determination not to sub
to such unlawful exactions, and tlieircoi
quenf resolution to resist them, if afte
reasonable time they should not be repeal
as it affirms that the Legislature is ready
adequate to the discharge of its duty and
exercise of its power, evinces that a Con
tion for the same purpose is unnecas
Because the investing of said C'onret
with the power proposed would bean i
pation of the powers which appertain a
constituted authorities of the state a
di vesture of the authority which the [d
in the legitimate exercise of their supra
have confided to themwould bestibvcrsi
the deliberate & sovereign will of the pf
as expressed in the Constitution of the i
anti-republican in its tendency, ilcstruf
of the fundamental principle of detw*
government, for “the very idea of the [
and right of the people to establish a get
incut presupposes the duty of every ind:
al to obey the established government,
volutionary in its character, and would!
a direct tendency, by bringing the state
eriinient into disregard and impotent!
prostrate, the chief bulwark of the
the people and of the sovereignty of the it
and to precipitate the states into a coni
ated government' If the individuals
shall compose this convention can thu
at naught the established govcrnjpcnt,
whom will their acts be obligatory or"
authority can pc regarded as exe” olS jjg
Because the power prope c( , , 0 j* wn')
mv.n said ; 3 ' wl tbot fait
restrained by Kstlietieft whether a
cithr' tU ' or -* ° r 0< )aH '- bUt aboVe a ' Ul k
L ‘ T not subject totbe adoption orwy
. die people and to be exercised bj
|tv ho, not returning to them for re-*'*
are not responsible to them, and mighM
the impulse of passion or factious intow*
he employed in the enactment of bilhsof*
der in the deportation or either moregrij
punishment of the generous and cor*
citizens of tho state or for other p" 1
however despotic or iit other modes D?
tyrannical.
Bcausc as the elections of deleft
said convention would not be accord 1
the forms of the constitution nor in o
ence to, nor by the authority of const'
authorities of the State they would
by “the people" —the body politic or<>
ized political society, dof the State 1,1
individual citizens as individual* *"• 1
consequently confer the authority h* fl ’ !
or act for, themselvesojily'and tVa*'