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HANK REPORTS
MONROE RAIL ROAD AND BANKING
COMPANY.
Macon, April 21, IS 10.
To His Excellency, Charles J. MeDonidd.
Dear Sir—l herewith ha id you tlje semi-annual re
port of this Institution, showing its state and condition
on the first Monday of this instant, at 9 o’clock, A. M.
together with a list of the stockholders.
The extension of our road above F.orsyth, seventy
seven miles, to the terminus of the State woik, is un
der contract for the grading, which will be finished
within this year, the laying down of the superstruc
ture is now going on, and will progress at the rate of
from three to fmr miles per month, uptil the terminus
is reached. This road will be used continuous on
wooden strips, substituted fir iron, tin il iron is pro
cured; a contract for iron is in progress, 10C0 tons to
We delivered this coming winter, the remainder for the
road—l6o3 tons the winter thereafter. We have
every reason to believe this contract will be consum
mated.
1 am respectfully, your obedient servant,
L. L GRIFFIN, President.
Montoe Rail Road and Banking Company, on Mon
day morning, April 6 h, 1640.
DR.
To Bank Capi a!, 50- 495
Kail Road Capital, 562 495
— 1,006,990
Bank Bill* issued, 686,000
Do do on hand, 1t.8.655
Do do in circulation, 4*7,345 j
Interest an i Premium account, 26 604 02 j
Cash received from Steam Mi.i, 1.651 01 j
Time Checks, 7t>587 24
Amount due other Banks, 1,827 98
Unclaimed Dividends, 5 721 39
Rad Road receipts, 12,896 9*t
In itvtJu.il Deputies, 41,519 63
Conditional do 60,1 U 0
Difference in Account with Agency
at Foi sytb. 60 16 j
Do do iio atCassville, 122 32
51.709,055 74 j
OR.
Uv Disbursements on R. R. and Real
Estate, 600,051 67
Notes discounted running
to maturity,good, 256 803 58
Do do lying over, good, 70,044 6?
Do do do doubtful, 2 991 73
Do do under protest, good, 7,766 57
Do do m suit, good, 30 686
llilis of Exchange dis'd.
run’g to nial’y. good, 521 032 93
D > do tying over, good 5 000
Do do under prot. “ 17 ,200
Do do in suit “ 702 52
Repairs account, 13126 8l
Salary 44 3,333 33
Expense “ 466 41
Protest “ 203
Cash “ in
Specie and specie funds, 96,202 61
Do in hands of agent
in Savannah, 18 017 24
Do bills of other hanks, 47,160
Do certificate of de
posite fin West’n. B’k. 775
Do certificate of depo
sit®, 2,685 50
Do amount due fiom the
State of Georgia, 5,519 0?
Do Checks, &c. 9,193 27
$1,709,055 74
GEORGIA, ? Came before me, A hranv B.
Bibb County. $ Adams, a Public Notary, L.L.
Griffin, President, and Jeremiah Leak, Cashier of the
Monroe Rail Road and Banking Company,who being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith that the above is a cor
rect statement of the Monroe Kail Road and Banking
Company on Monday the Gilt ir.st.
L. ‘L. GRIFFIN, President.
JEREMIAH LEAK, Cashier.
Sworn to, and subscribed before me, Macon, April
21st, 1840.
ABRAM B. ADAMS, Notary Public.
I.ist of Stockholders in the Monroe Rail Road and
Banking Company.
Stockholders'Xames. Xi. of sh's. Ain't. *>’d.
Allen Robert 100 10*000
Alexander & Sale 115 11 000
Anthony James 20 2 000
Brooks Alfred . 1000 100.000
Benton Amos 170 17,000
Bedingfield Robert 100 10,000
Bellamy Alexander 60 6,000
BartletrlMvron 25 2,500
Bronson H’ VV 25 . 2,500
Brantley, Beryamin 20 2,000
Boynton Wiliiard 20 2,000
Bone William . 10 1 000
Blunt Marshall 10 1,000
Burney SW 10 1,000
Been William 6 600
Beck & Dobbins 5 500
Charles Y. Caldwell 105 10 500
Childers John S 50 5,000
Cozart Anthony -10 4,000
CoxOW 30 3,000
A H Chappell 20 2,000
Collier Cuthbert 20 2,000
Collier Hardway 10 1,000
Caldwell Matthew T 6 600
Daily John ir 103 10 300
Day Joseph 90 9,000
Duon & Martin 80 8,000
Duncan James E 50 5,000
Durham Hardy 50 5,000
Duncan Robert L 25 2,500
Dyson Thomas 20 2,000
Daily, David 15 1,500
Davis Janies M 10 1 000
Daily SM 10 1.000
Dixon James 6 600
Easton Parker 15 1,500
Evans Rufus K 10 LOOO
Evans John P 2 ’2OO
Fort William 25 2.500
Griffin L L 1793 179^300
Griffin Dame! 100 10,090
Greene F 100 10.000
Guerry & Ward 100 10.0G0
Glover Kelly >OO lo’ooo
poulding N A 190 • lOJXK)
Grittin Larkin “* 57 5,700
Groves John J 20 2,000
Gormon Thomas B 25 2,500
Glenn James 20 2 000
Hill John G 1000 100 000
Harris B F 100 10 000
Holt Thaddeus G 50 5,000
Harris Amos 50 5,000
Hamil Clark 10 1,000
Hopkins Benjamin K) 1.000
Hdl Joseph 10 1,000
H:li James A 10 1,000
Hill Sarah 10 1,000
HiliMary 10 I,COO
Hill Susan D 10 1.000
Hill William M 10 1,000
Hill D R 20 2,000
Hansford George \Y 5 500
Jordan Burwclt 100 10,000
Jones E VV U 0 10,000
Johnson William 32 3,200
Johnson John 25 2,500
Johnson G‘Yf 20 2,000
Johnson James 7 700
Johnson Abraham {5 600
Johnson Jesse 5 500
John on David 4 400
Johnson Lcichlin 1 100
Johnson Daniel 1 100
King Angers M D 116 14 600
Land H & J 100 10,000
Leak Jorcmiah Cashier 53 5,300
Leak Jeremiah 50 5,000
Lee Jordan W 50 5,000
Lake Abrabarr. 5$ 5,000
Lanier Sterling 12 1,200
.Mattox Samuel 4 5 4,300
Martin John 33 3,300
MaKay Daniel 31 3,100
Matthews Timothy 30 3,000
Milner John H 25 2,500
McKenney Williaiq * 20 2,000
McLauchtin NR 13 1,300
Maddox Benjamin 3 300
Milner Pitt 8} 10 1,000
Milnar Willis J 10 1,000
Mercer University 2 200
Nash R N 65 6,500
Norris William 32 2,200
Noll N M 25 2,500
Noll W E 10 1.000
Obear B T S5 3,000
Parker William B 110 11,000
Philips T M N 100 10 000
Pritchard William 11 25 2,500
Pinkavd John 25 ?,500
Park & Fires 10 1,000
Redding John f>o 5,000
Ranijie ‘P;itT 5b 5 000
Reeves F H 25 2,500
Rea & Cotton 20 2,000
Rea Rebecca 3 300
Solomon Henry 200 20,000
Solomon James 50 5,000
Solomon William 126 12,600
Sanford F H 61 6 100
Stark James II 47 4,700
Smith Janus 35 3,5C0
Strother John W 25 2 500
Stubbs Thomas 20 2 000
Sanford Daniel 20 2,000
Sinus VV 15 1,500
Shivers Jonas jjJ 1,000
Sweren Edward 6 jSpp
Still Robert M ’ 3 300
Thompson Peter G 300 30,000
Taylor Job 100 10 000
Tinsley James VV 50 5 000
Thompson E B 30 3 000
Talinage Aaron 10 I,OOU
Varner llendly 74 7,400
Willis Win R 50 5,000
Welch George W 100 10,000
Walker Thotntt-; D 25 2,500
VVinship Isaac 25 2',500
Wood fgd. 25 2,000
Wells Eliab W 20 2 000
‘Wrigley& Hart 15 1,500
Whitehead Wm D 25 2,500
Wheatley James I'2 1 200
Wilson mil 1. 15 1,5C0
Weed E H ‘ 4 400
Whitlock Charles 2 200
9 100 $949,000
I A list ol the Stockholders in the Motnoe Rail Ron! &
Banking Ccinoanx- —Extension.
1 Stockholder s’ JYumts. .Vo of .'lt's Ain't p'd.
: Alexander Eiain lo 2 >o
Adams John lo 200
j Atkins Joseph 5 1 >o
Ayees James II 2 4o
Baker Ambrose 100 1 000
Bledsor Morton lo 200
Beck & Dobbins 65 1 3 >o
Burch M N lo 1 io
Bartht M lo 200
Dames Gideon 5 100
Brovin Stophep, J 5 100
Bqifej- D j 5 100
j Brown Luke 5 5 >
! Ban fie ri Wil’iarn 5 • 50
j Brow n Thomas A 3 6o
I Oovingti n Seaborn lo 200
Campbell Charles lo 100
Craft II 1,0 100
Cloud Ezekivl lo 200
Cloud Levj lo 200
Chappel A II lo 200
C aid well R eber t 5 1 oo
Cray Scott 5 100
Church & Strong 5 100
Campbell Daviu C lo 200
j Campbell Jehue 2 2o
, Cook Henry L 2 4o
j ponden Caleb 1 2o
j Compton Pleasant M 1 lo
j Douglass Thomas 5 5o
\ Duncan Henderson 2 4o
Derrick Andrew 2 2o
Davis James M 5 st>
Ellis J H & W S lo 100
Evans R K 5 5j
Evans John P 1 lo
Furlqw Timothy M 15 1.500
Fort Wm lo 100
Foot Hezekiah 3 300
Fitch H 1 2o
Flenimine Allen ] lo
Gorman Thomas B • lo ]sq
Goddard James lo 100
GunnWm 3 3o
Hamilton and Reynolds So 400
Hardeman Thomas lo 100
Hamil George W to 100
Hitchcock Wm and Overton lo 200
Holmes Josiah lo 100
Hobby Wm J 3 3o
Heronton Wm S l 100
I Holmes Isaac 1 lo
Jewett George lo 100
Jones Jcvhn L 3 So
Kimberly (f Ad 3o
Ring Thomas 2 4o
Lavender Win lo 100
Lanier Sterling 3 3o
Mayor and City Council of Macon 000 5,000
5 J liner Pitt W lo 100
Melson W P ‘ !o 100
Malone Stephen 5 5o
McConnel James 5 5o
Murray AS 5 100
Moore Alt lo 100
Matthews F S lo 200
j Matthews Timothy 32 3 200
| Oldershaw John H 5 o >
| Pettet Bushrod 5 100
5 Peck Jonathan 8 8o
Piice Gjeafge W & Cos 1 lo
j Rea & Cotton 2i 200
; Richards Alexander 2o 200
• Rea Rebecca lo 200
! Reid EH 2 4o
i Redding RC 11 1.100
Rose Snnri 2 4)
i Rowland J T 2 4o
liaudo ph R 11 lo 200
! Rowland Win 1? 1 2o
Stokes Jacob 2o 400
; Stark Janies H 3 6o
Scott Isaac 5 5o
j Shotwell Harvey 5 5o
. Sm.s F • 1 lo
| Si Johns C G J lo
Tyris John G * lo 200
■ Turner Charles G lo 100
Tracy ED lo 100
j Thompson A F 4 4o
j Turner Levin 5 100
Turner Samuel S 5 100
: Talmage Aaron 1 100
| Wofford John lo 100
j Winn J D 5 100
Winn & Shannon 5 100
! Whatley Janies lo 200
j VVrigly & Hart 5 100
’ Werms Sr.innel 5 100
Brantley Benjamin 5,600
• HiUSparkes & Cos 5,300
I S & B Childs 5,200
Hunter Winn.& Cos 4,000
i McCraw & Redding 3 400
I Sanford C G S.fjoo
! Cochran A & Cos 2,500
! Roberts A Q.umn 2,000
i Mifeer Turner & Cos l,"oo
i Moore A R & Cos {,400
tliiburn & Pratt |
I Hill& Gathnght 9 <*>
j Donelly Hugh II ®°°
i Martin Levi “ ,0 °
! Brown S J ‘ .
‘WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL.’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1840.
Whatlay James 1,000
Cox & Berks 700
Oliver William B 5 >o
Holmes Josiah
Bart field William 200
Johnson & Davis 2o )
Johnson & Thrasher 1 ,000
1329 §64,990
AUGUSTA INSURANCE AND BANKING
COMPANY.
Augusta, April ISth, 18 < '?.
To His Excellency Charles J. McDonald,
Governor of the State of Georgia.
Sir: Enclosed is a statement of the condition of this
institution on the j(th inst.; also a list of the stock
holders.
The requirements of the acts of the 23d December
last, relal ve to the indsbtedness of the stockholders
and directors to the institution is omitted, because it is
Delievcd a compliance would be a violation of confi
dence, and particularly to those so indebted before the
passage of the act referred to. On this subject, how
ever, it may be proper to observe, that the stockholders
of this institution meet annually, and examine its con-_
dition and make such byelaws for t}ie government of
the Board of Directors as is deemed proper. One of
these byelaws, adopted at their last meeting in No
vember, makes it imperative that in future no individual
or firm’s account shall exceed ten thousand dollars in
local paper. It will thus be perceived that this institu
tion, without exposing the accounts of its customers,
has in some measure conformed to the requirements.
I am, very respectfully,
WILLIAM HARPER, President.
State of the Augusta Insurance and Bunking Com
pany on Monday, April 6, 1840.
DR.
To capital stock $500,000
Deposites 74,844 Sq
Dividends unpaid ‘ 1.182
Surplus and gross profits 1 *9 252 60
i Amount due lo agents 4 039 59
Bills issued “ 738,000
Unhand 71,820
In circulation 666,180
$1 395,498 57
cu.
By notes and bond payable at Augusta $373,135 24
Bills and notes lving over 48,046 56
Do in suit 51,651 33
Do receivable 64,784 74
Mechanics’ Bank Stock 2,000
Insurance do 18,429
Real estate in Augusta and Mobile
Suspended debt iii Augusta and Mobile 1,459 82
Pretest account 195 50
Losses paid and incidental charges 50,092 49
Damaged cotton account 12,589 47
Advanced on cotton 42,713 50
Cotton account 30,025 02
Insurance dues 03,290 91
Due bv other franks and agents 179 210 11
Exchange on Charleston, Sayappah,
New York, &c. 269,374 20
Bills other banks, checks, &c 116,330 13
Gold and silver in vault 81,441 40
$1,395,498 57
Personally appeared before pie, the president and
cashier of the Augusta Insurance and Banking Com
pany, who, being duly sworn, certify that the foregoing
statement, and list of stockholders annexed, are correct,
unsettled accounts and claims excepted ; and that we
have notr dirocilv or indirectly, violated the act ij) re
ference to exchange.
WILLIAM HARPER, President.
ROBERT WALTON, Cashier.
Sworn to bifore me, this 18th Api il, 1840.
GEO. W. SUMMERS, Notary Public.
! List of Stockholders in the Augusta Insurance and
Banking Company.
i A I* Alexander “ 100
W J Bunco 50
Peter Bennoch 12
John Bonts 25
do trustee fir T A B 13
“do do M O YWSB 13
do do 11 L * 2
K-rßoyce 40
ll Botvdre 25
Estate of John Campbell 50
Robed Campbell 50
James Campbell 140
do trustee 180
Estate of William Bryson 1C
Campbell Alien
Philip Crump JO
Mrs Anne Cumming 35
William Cumming, trustee _ 58
Sarah Cumming 25
ILII Cumming anJ otjieps, trs. Mrs Smi h 33
do trustee, J HO 33
Wm Cumming and others, trustees, H H C 33
R F Poe, trustee, Mrs. Davis 33
tip Cashier 50
Edward Co;* ‘ . 155
C A Crawford 40
T G Casey 25
J C Carmichael 30
John Cookery 85
Joseph Davis 50
WiHiam D’Antignac 35
Estate of John Fox 100
James Fraser 210
William Glehdennbig 25
J & W Harper 77
Executors of John Fox 50
Estate of J Herbert 10
J P King, guardian of E Knight 50
Andrew Kerr 20
Robert. Y*Harris 15
J Harriss, trustee 5
3’ N Hamilton 90
Henry Mealing 25
John Moore 100
Mis Frances Moore 20
S Clarke & J P King, guardians, A W N 50
do do do T N 50
T J Parinelee ‘ 229
John Potter 50
George W |Lamar, cashier 62
Thomas flichards 50
James Shannon 100
William H Turpin 140
VV H & Wm M D A, trustees 112
Mrs Emily H Tubman l5‘J
A G Rose, cashier 435
Ann E White 75
James Wardlaw _ 25
R Walton, cashier, in trust 400
C A Waters, trusted 100
M Keith s'->
H W Heineman 300
P Fitzsimmons 25
T S Metcalf 20
II Webster 25
Pillot & Le Barbiere 27
R Walton, cashier 15i
Number of shares 60OU
At a meeting of the Baard, the following report was
presented and adopted :
The undersigned, committee appointed to exam u
the bills of exchange and notes of the Augusia liisui
ance and Banking Company,have performed tha do .
and are of the opinion that there is ihe sum ’ s v
thousand four hundred and seventy-three 22-100 and ,-
lars in doubtful paper ; and nineteen hundred and no
SS-100 dollars in bad paper.
(Signed) JOSEPH DAVIS,
JOHN COSKERY.
6th April, IS4O. ♦
NOTICE.
THE makers of the notes of which the following
are copies, are forewarned not to pay them to
anv person but mvself. P. H. BRITTAN.
’ (COPIES.)
$44 00.
One dav after date I promise to pay P. H. Brittan,
or bearer, forty-four dollars, r or value received. March
16th, IS4O. ‘ JOHN DEAN.
sl2 75.
One day after date I promise to pay P. H. Brittan,
or bearer, twelve dollars and seventy-five cents, for
value received. March Z6th, 1840.
WM.L. PARR.
sl2 00.
One day afier date I promise to pay P. H. Brittan,
or bearer, twelve dollars, for value received. March
16th, 1840. G. S. BOGGESS.
$45 00.
Due P. H. Brittan, or bearer, forty-five dollars for
value received. [Date not recollected.]
JAMES Y. GARDNER.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
Personally appeartd before me. Michael N. Clark,
a Justice of the Peace m and for said cojantv. P. H.
Britlayi, .who being duly sworn, says that the above
are true copies of natps and due hill rpcenjlv in his
possession, and which have been lost, to""’the best of
his knowledge anJ belief. P. H. BRITTAN.
Sworn to before me. May 27th, 1840.
MICHAEL N. CLARKE, J. P.
FOUR MONTHS after date application will be
made to the honorable the Inferior Court of Tal
bot county, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for
leave to sell ell the land belonging to John and Eliza
beth Black, illegitimate children of Marv Black.
JAMES H. BLACK. Guardian.
May 11,1840. 13 4m
SENTINEL & HERALD.
COLUMBUS, HIKE 6, 1840.
—l-- ■ ;
WHO H/\S CHANGE*) 2
About tlio time of the first great
more for Tip, Tyler and the Tariff
in our city, a heretofore prominent
IVullifier from our sister State, hap
pening to meet one of our fellow
citizens, well known as an ultra
Federalist, accosted him thus :
‘Good morning, doctor; I am
glad to see you, and am truly grati
fied that you have come over and
we have got together at last.’
‘Come over,’ says the doctor,
‘ what, sir, me! I come over to
you ? No, sir. It is you that have I
come oyer to me, and not me to
you ; for I have been a Federalist
all my life, arjd therefore, sir, it is
you that have come over to me.’
The difference was soon adjusted,
and they are both now on the same
side, ant| our townsman still ad
heres to iris Federalism,
WE WANT A CHANGE,
Is the cry of every clamorous
Tip, Tyler and Tariff*man we meet
with. A change of what? we have
frequently asked them. Oh, only
a change, they reply. And it is
only for that reason they say that
they prefer Harrison to Mr. Yau
Boren. We do not know that Gen.
Harrison has any principles what
ever. We do not know whether he
is a bank or anti-bank man, a Tariff
or anti-Tariff man, a Federalist or
Republican, an Abolitionist or not.
We want a change, say they, and
it is alone for a change we go. Our
principles are Harrison and Reform ;
that is, reform by turning Van Bu
ren out and putting Harrison in.
Now, ought not men, intelligent
men, to feel ashamed, when they
propose to make a great political
change in the administration of the
Qqyernment, and can give no better
reason than 1 they want a changer
Our neighbors of the Enquirer
seems to be in extacies (if one would
believe them,) at the prospects of
‘ Tip, Tyler, and the Tariff*’ in
Georgia, as also throughout the Un
ion ; and by way of giving a summa
ry of the joyous tidings say, that
in Stewart, ‘the reign of Van Bu
renism may be said to have breathed
its last.’ Now we have just hap
pened tojiear a little from Stewart
ourselves, and we will go a bottle
of Hard Cider fi. e. phampagne,)
that the Van Buren Ticket will get
a majority of the votes at the Octo
ber anti November elections. And
we will go them another that the
Van Buren Ticket at the next Oc
tober and November elections in
Upson county will get a larger vote
than at the last. And that their
majority will not be 200, let alone
400. VVe will go a basket on Pike
and Butts giving increased majori
ties over last years result to the
Van Buren Ticket. And we will
go a suit of clothes that Van Buren
will get the vote of the State by a
majority as large as has been given
in the State in the last four vears.
W 1 jat say you, gentlemen, can you
go it ?
THE SUB-TREASURY.
There is no measure of the Ad
ministration so much abused that is
so little understood, as the project
of the Independent Treasury. And
it seems to us that there is no meas
ure connected with the finances of
the country, that should be preferred
to it. The Independent Treasury
plan proposes nothing more than
that the Govennent shall collect its
dues in the constitutional currency
[gold and silver] of the country, and
that it shall pay its debts in the j
same, that the money to be collected
is from the people, and is due to the
people, and to them it belongs ; that
the collectors are the officers of the
people, their agents, and are by
them selected and created for that’
purpose; and that instead of col
lecting the peoples’ money and lend
ing it to a few individuals, in the
character of Stockholders of a Bank,
that they may use it, the Peoples’,
Officers shall keep it, subject to
their use, and that it shall be kept
and applied to the purposes for
which it was collected', and no other
whatever.
It is objected to by some, on ihe
ground that it is an attempt to de
stroy the credit system, and uproot
the paper currency entirely. It is
not so, and can have no such ten
dency; but on the contrary will tend!
more than any other measure to,
make the paper currency sound, to
equalize and regulate the exchan
ges ; to establish a uniform and, in
the language ot the Hon. Lott \\ ar
ren, ‘ Judicious ’ Currency ; to pre-|
vent these great revolutions in trade!
and commerce; to put down ail
gambling in speculations by large;
expansions or contractions, and to
place every* thing on a solid and
permanent basis. If the debts due,
the Government are collected in;
gold*and silver, the banks at alb
points and places where llicsc tines
are paid, mus* be specie-paying
banks, to give circulation to their
bills, for if the importer who pays
the duties cannot at any time con
vert them into specie, he will not
receive them from the jobber, nor
will the jobber receive them of the
retail dealer ; and if none of these
will receive them, their circulation
is at an end. The batiks of the in
terior must be ruled and governed
by the same influences, to enable
them to keep up their credit, and
hence no hank who wished to do
a legitimate banking business would
ever be guilty of making an over
issue. It is objected toon the ground
that the Government, by this pro
cess, would abslratt from circula
tion all of the precious rpefals, and
lock them up in the safes of the sub
treasurers, this is answered at once
by* saying that the Government
would never collect more than was
absolutely necessary to meet its de
mands, and therefore there never
could at any time be a greater sum
than $5,000,000 withheld from cir
culation. As to its effects upon the
exchanges, specie will always sell at
any one point for its value, at any
other point minus the transportation.
For example, if any individual to
day in Columbus wanted funds in
New York, could obtain them there
for the same amount in Columbus
in specie, he paying the cost of
the transportation, and if the Bank
of Columbus were paying specie for
their bills, the banks would furnish
the exchange on these terms tp-day,
hut as they arc not, their bijls have
become under par. Instead of the
high rate of exchanges that is now
complained of, therefore, exchange
can always, when the banks pay
specie, be obtained at par and fre
quently below par, that is, without
the costs of transportation, when
the balance of trade should inclirsp
that way.
Macon, May 17, 1840.
To the Editors of the Georgia Journal.
Gentlemen: —As we are destined to dis
solve the political connection, for a time at
least, which iias heretofore united us, you
will be pleased lo allow me to give a few of the
prominent reasons, out of many, which have
induced me to dissent from the correctness
of the conclusion to which you and a large
portion of die Slate Rights party have ar
rived. IVJy objections to Mr. Van Buren
are of an anterior date to that of most of the
Stale Rights party. When instructed by a
portion ql it, in primary assemblies, to repair
to Baltimore to vote for his nomination for
the Vice Presidency, I could not consistently
with my views of propriety dispharge this
proffered trust, and J refused to do so; and
he could not now command my suffrage, un
less I followed your exampple in making a
virtue of necessity in selecting between a
choice of evils. Forced to that alternative,
I should have no hesitancy in determining in
his favor. My predilections for him, there
fore, have had no influence on my mind ir, ar
riving- at the conclusion that Gen. Harrison
is totally unfit and unvyorfiiy of the Presi
dency ot’ the United States; and tha 4 under
no existing state of facts can I support or ad
vance his claims to that office. He is in favor
of a Protective Tariff, of Internal Improve
ments by the Federal Government, and re
cognizes in that government the power to
incorporate, and with it to establish a Na
tional Bank. So devotedly was he in favor
of the Proclamation and {Torce Bill, as to say
that General Jackson, in issuing the former,
acquired more imperishable fame himself,
and achieved more benefit for the country,
than had been accomplished by the memo
rable and gallant victory at New-Orleans.
Superadded to this, he is an emancipator
in principle, and holds the Federal and iati
tudinous doctrines (fraught with pernicious
effects to the southern interest, and hostility
to the true principles of the State Rights
party) that Congress, by the consent of the
States, can appropriate the public domain
and the surplus revenue to the manumission
of our slaves —thereby, not only compromit
ling our rights, by the employment of our
own means (o the purchase of our own
t property, but making the will of a majority
in Congress and the concurrent consent of
the States, a rule for the interpretation of the
Constitution, instead of appealing to that in
strument for its own meaning. No State
Rights man, except he be one only in shallow
profession and name, will recognize such con
structive powers in the Federal Government,
and there is no statesman of any party so
ineffably stupid, but who will concede the
principle, that if Congress has not the right lo
exercise this appropriating power without the
consent of the States, that their acquiesence,
concurrence, or consent, cannot confer it.
He was nominated by a combination of the
old Federal, Anti-Masonic, and Anti-Slavery
parties, tbe latter infusing so much of its feeF
ings it. to the deliberations of the Convention,
as to defeat the admitted superior claims of
the Hon. Henry Clay. He is now placed un
der the guardian care of a committee, who
deny to him the privilege of answering, and
who refuse to answer for him, such questions
as would give the constituency a knowledge
of his present opinions and principles, that
they might be held and adjudged as a guar
antee or pledge for his future political course.
This Anti-Republican position, I have no
doubt, is assumed from the conviction that the
discordant materials and political combina
tions which have been firmed to promote his
success (if he answered at all) would be dis
solved by the people, as he could not so an
swer as to conciliate the feelings and prevent
the forfeiture pflhe support of many who nom :
mated him, and, at the same time, propitiate 1
and preserve the support of many State Rights
men, who regard principle more than men,
and the love of country more than the love of
office. The Stale Rights party, so far from
participating in his nomination in their Con
vention hejd in Milledgeville in December last,
repudiated it. The State Rights editors, with j
but few exceptions, united with you in sustain
ing this altitude of the party ; and, until a few
weeks past, nothing but withering denuncia
tions of the principles of the nominee were
to he seen and read. The concurrent opin
ions were that his political principles were ob
noxious in theory, and would be not only per
nicious, but fatally destructive to every south
ern interest in practice. But in these few
weeks, ‘through what new scenes and changes
have we passed; the wide, the unbounded
| prospect lies before us, but shadows, clouds
and darkness, rest upon it.’ As to the past,
its reminiscences are of no avail, as th v * black
cockade principles of the administration of the
tltier Adams, and the Panama Mission and
Light-Houses of ihe skies of the son, have
Collapsed, with that ‘period of time where the
memory of man runneth not to the contrary,’
andGene al Harrison is now called by his sup
porters here, a Republican of the Jeffersonian
school—notwithstanding the Hon. E. A. Nes
bit stated in his ad Iress to them, that the high
priest of Federalism, Daniel Webster, would
or could select his place in the cabinet, and
with the knowledge (if Mr. Webster is to be
believed) that Gen. Harrison was selected to
bear the flag around which Mr. Webster and
those who agree with him are !o rally. Thus
we have unmasked, all disguic in the extra
ordinary efforts now making to carry the
State Rights patty into the embraces, and
close fellowship and communion with the old
Federal, and other fragments of parties, with
whom there have heretofore exi te.) no identi
ty of principle, sympathy, or fee ling.
And to arrive at the climax of political in
consistency, such Nuliifiers as Colquitt, Coop
er and Black, and those who agree with them,
are to he proscribed and denounced as apos
tates from the State Rights creed, because
they will noi go for the establishment of a Na
tional Bank , shout hozannahs to the praise of
a superannuated old man, and join in the fu
neral dirge, in order if possible, to consign to
oblivion, the melancholy visitations of the
truth, that the State Rights party once was.
Respectfully, your obedient Servan*.
H. G. LAMAR.
SPEECH OF MR. BLACK,
OF GEORGIA,
In the House of Represen'atives, April 27, in rda'ion
to the reduction of salaries.
Mr. Black said, unless it was an extreme
case, he was generally opposed to'tlie reduc
tion of the salaries of officers. The great
majoritiy of those who were employed in ad
ministering the several departments of this
Government were but poorly paid, if their
remuneration might be estimated by the usu
al emoluments olqfflcial skill and labor at the
South. His constituents, he was persuaded,
were more concerned to procure honest and
efficient service, than to ascertain the very
lowest salary upon which a man who aban
doned all other occupations, might live with
out actual starvation.
But, sir, (said Mr. B.) I cannot refrain from
an expression of surprise at the very extra
ordinary course which this debate has taken.
The Whig parTy on this floor, I speak of
them as a party, have upon almost every oc
casion during this session, loudly complained
of the lavish and improvident expenditure by
this Government of the people’s money.—
They have, day after day, and in almost eve
ry debate, whether relevantly or not, charged
tit's Administtation with fraud and corruption
in the disbursement of the Federal revenue.
They were, it had seemed, the rpeu, par ex
cellence, of retrenchment, reduction, and re
form ; they have taken all that matter info
ihetr own hands, and accordingly the gentle
man from Indiana [Mr. Profithad himself
originated a measure in this House by which
the salary of the Commissioner of Pensions
was reduced from $3,000 to $2,500. This
was a Whig measure, originated and intro
duced by a prominent and able man of that
party, and although voted for generally by
both parties, succeeded rr.a'nly by ihe strength
of the opposite vote.
So far, these gentlemen appeared to be
acting, at least in this case, in strict conformi
ty with their professions; and you may well
imagine my surprise at the disposition mani
fested this morning to undo all they had ac
complished in this instance of reduction. Il
seems that a Whig official is to he made the
first victim of this retrenchment; and unwil
ling to supply a martyr from their own ranks,
they are the first to turn on their heels, and
refuse to make a practical illustration of their
own peculiar system of reform.
Sir, how stands ths case? The gentleman
from Indiana [Mr. Profiiit] acknowledges the
paternity of the act of reduction. Belbre the
passage of that act, the salary of the Commis
sioner of the Pension office was $3,000, and
inserted in the appropriation bill now tinder
consideration. The chaitman of Ways and
Means had moved, in accotdance with that
act, to strike out $3,000 and insert $2,500 ;
and, to the astonishment of the House, cer
tain gentlemen of the Opposition, with whom
this very redaction originated, refuse to make
the reduction, although required to do it by
their own law. Mr. B. had understood that
Colonel Edwards, the present Commissioner,
was a Whig. If it be so, does that fact elicit
the present oxtraordinary opposition of cer
tain gentlemen to making this official the first
practical example of retrenchment? And do
they nowcontend lor a virtual repeal of their
own act, by refusing to insen its ‘retrenching
provision into th s civil and diplomat c bill,
beeause it will operaje on one of their own
friends ?
But, independently of political considera
tions, how, asked Mr. 8., can gentlemen con
sistently get round this law, which is of full
force, lately passed, and is now among the
statutes of the United States. That law, 1
understand, is imperative. If this House ever
had any discretion in the matter, they exer
cised it when they passed the act ol reduction;
that having been done, they can no longer
inquire into the expediency of reduction, but
are bound to make the appropriation in
accordance vyith the law, as it was written.
If reform is the object, now is your time; and
in order to convince the people of the United
States of your sincerity and disinterestedness
you now have an opportunity of making a
practical illustration of your own theory of
reforrm upon an officer, however worthy, of
your own political complexion. Mr. 13.,
whatever might be his opinion of salaries, ;
would be compe!led*to vote for the motion of |
the chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means, and to reduce ihe compensation, in \
obedience to the law, from $3,000 to $2,500.
After some debate between Mr. Briggs j
and Air. Black,
Mr. T ‘iiompson of South Carolina spoke |
at some length in defence of hi* position, and j
the part he had taken in the transaction ; and I
in the course of his remarks expressed his ‘
regret (hat the salary of the head of the most ‘
laborious bureau in the Government should :
have been reduced to relieve another office, j
wl ich was almost a sinecure. He ri'sc'aimed
with warmth the charge of Mr. Black, ob
serving that no man would do so who was ;
possessed of any honorable feelings himself, ;
ar.d he asked the gentleman from Georgia to
say explicitly, whether he meant in impure to I
t i n(Mr. TANARUS.) ‘ taking the back track’ tut this I
i em in the bill, because the gentleman who
filled the office of Commissioner was in his i
politics a Whig ?
Air. Black said, l c had been unfortunate
that, in the very few words he had uttered,
he should have run foul of a gentleman so i
sensitive. The gentleman from South Caro ‘
lina knew enough of him to be satisfied, that
f it was his intention to insult him, he should I
do it openly : but if the g* ntlcmon thought to
] draw him from the ;i. ve*lig®Lau of tire ruse
| of any member of that House fy making it a.
: personal matter, he was at a 1 ! times sul j ct
to bis’call.
{Jehad spoken of and alluded to the politi
cal course of a party ; he had made no per
sonal attack upon anv man; but on the con
trary, had directed every word he had said,
as he ventured to believe every other mail in
the House understood him, to the poll Leal
principles and policy of the party to which
the gentleman from South Carolina belonged.
Air. Thompson here attempted to resutno
the floor.
Air. Black called on the Ifousa to permit
him to proceed ; he did not intend patiently
to submit to be put down upon this occasion.
AI v T nojtrsoN claimed the floor when
Air. Black said, if it was intended to cut
him off from any other remarks, why of course
lie had nothing further to say.
Air. W. Thompson asked the gentleman
whether he imputed to him the motive to re
peal the act, because he (Mr. TANARUS.) was influ
enced by considerations that the Commission
j cr was a Whig?
j Air. Black. D ics the gentleman expect to
| confine me to categorical answers? He would
not submit to it here or elsewhere. He
thought he had said enough to reluase the
gentleman from any personal imputation.
Air. Thompson said he had now asked the
gentleman twice, and lie still refused to an
swer.
AIrT Black said he had not refused to answer.
Air. Thompson said, well, then, I give the
gentleman an opportunity now of’ answering.
Air. Black. Then take vour scat, sir,
Wl.cn the gentleman docs that, I will answer
him.
Mr Thompson accordingly took his sent.
Air. Black then proceeded to ren a k, that
il the gentleman thought of obtaining that bv
the force of a frown or a scowi which he was
unable to obtain by argument from him, he
was mistaken. In the remarks he had been
making, he was alluding, as lie had before
said, to the political movements of a party,
and was not to be deterred by any personal
considerations whatever. What! had it
come to this, that a member could not got up
here to question the course of a party, without
being required to make personal explanations?
If that were submitted to, it would be a speedy
and sure way of shutting up their mouths at
once; of intimidating them into silence, and
of preventing an exposition of party policy
and political manoeuvring. lie would bring
this personal explanation io a close by repeat
ing what he had before said, that lie had no
intention of alTacking any body personally, or
to impugn their honor as me* lie l.pd at
tacked their political course. He had no oth
er explanation to offer.
Air. Thompson accepted the explanations
and, in the pourse of his reinaiks, said fbM
whenever he should go out of his way to tell
people that they could not browLcat him, he,
should think himself a fit subject to be brow
beaten. **
Air. Black. Whenever the gentleman
will say that I have Roasted that I vvt’s not to
he browbeaten, I will make a reply.
Air. Thompson said he was willing to take
the gentleman’s explanation, as disclaiming
any imputation on his motives, and as admit
ting that his conduct had been upright and
proper.
Air. Bl.\ck. Upright, but upl proper.
PUBLIC MEETING* IN SCRIVEN.
I’uL-uant to previous notice a meeting of
the citizens oWScriven County, assembled at
Jackeonboro, on Satuiday, May 15th, 1840,
Isaac Rryan, Esq.'was called to ihe Chair
and E. B. Gross, appointed Secretary.
Benjamin Green, E-q. moved That tiiq
Chair appoint a committee of eleven to pre
pare a preamble and resolutions, expressive
of the sense of’ the meeting upon the propri
cty of the recent recommendation of W. JL
Harrison, by a portion of the people of this
State, for the Presidency: Whereupon the
Chair appointed Curtis Humphreys, l)r. It.
11. Saxon, John F. Lovett, M. N. AlcCalbe,
L. AI. Strickland, William Cox, Jacob Bry
an, Elijah Roberts, William A. Hotchkiss,
Alexander Kemp, and Lewis Conner, tha[
committee. The committee retired, and after
a short absence, returned and made the fol
lowing report, which was unanimously adopt
ed :
REPORT.
The cii'zms of Scriven county, ever alive;
to the preservation of their principles, and
jealous of any movement calculated to trans
fer them from their old faith to the support of
Federalisty and the Rank, have heard with
unfeigned regret of the resolutions recently
adopted in various sections of the State, by
which Wm. H. Ha rrison was recommended
as a suitable person for the Presidency.
The citizens of Scriven county, see in those
rcsolut ons, the first overt act of' a small frac
tion of the people who have never in their
opinion, been imbued with the glorioi s doc
trines of the Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions, or free from the corroding influence of
a United States Bank.
They know that Wm. If. Harrison was an
advocate of the first and second Adams, front
both ol whom lie received office —and of hpth
of whom he expresseJ.liiinself the warm ad
mirer and cordial supporter; consequently
committing himself to the alarming principles
of the alien and sedition laws, which were the
immediate offspring of the old black cockade
federalists; and consequently approving (tie
abortive attempt of John Q. Adams, to drive
the State of Georgia into a dishonorable sub
mission to the General Government, in the
ever memorable contest in which * Troup and
the Vrcyty became the watch-word of every
true hearted Georgian. He is a Bank man
in the worst sense of the word—againsf it ori
constitutional grounds—but for it ‘ if neces
sary which is at once p declaration that ex
pediency ahull override constitutional scruples,
a doctrine which would, if adopted by the
people, speedily obliterate from the pages of
the constitution any and every restriction
upon the powers of Congress. With regard
10 southern slavery he has not even the merit,
11 it he one, of ambiguity. He has declared
he abhors it from his soul, and while he does
not approve of the attempt to abolish it thro’
the agency of Congressional enactment, he is
anxious to appropriate the surplus revenue of
the United States to effect the consummation,
of what he ca'ls. in the cant phrase of aboli
tionists. human liberty. Born in a slave [.old •
ing State, in ‘he land of Washington ’ arid
Jefferson,he ai'an early day expatriated him ■
self, and abandoned his native Stale for a
region where he fondly hoped to find a ma
jority of sentiment more congenial to his
lanatical ideas of Universal Freedom , and
when he left the soil of tile ‘ Old Dominion 1
he ‘ thanked his God he had that day got rid
of Virginia negroes and Virginia politicians.’
He hopes to live to sec the day when the
North American Sun will not look down on a
slave, &. as if to out Herod himself in Ins wild
crusade, lie has voluntarily procured a certifi
cate from Judge Catch, <1 \ irg.nra, to prove
that lie (Harrison) is a member ot an aboli
tion society, and solemnly avers that ail the
obligations he came under when he joined
j sans society, lie lias faithfully pei formed. lie
advocatcs internal improvement by the Gee-
[NO. IC.