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BANK REPORTS.
BANK OF AUGUSTA.
April 22d. 1610.
To liis Excellency the Govcrnoi of Georgia.
hhr: 1 hand you herewith a minute statement of the
condition of this bank, prepared from its books, on
Monday the 6h inst. together with.a list of stockhold
ers, and have the honor to remain, respectfully,
1 our very obedient servant,
JOHN MOOKE,President.
A Statement of the condition of the Bank of Augusta,
as taken from its Books, on Monday morning, 6th
April. tbiU
To capnul slock, 12,000 shares, §IOO
each paid in 1,200,000 00
Notes cf ;ins bank issued 1,726 175 89
Unhand 1,351,700
In irculation 371,475 89
Balance due toother banks, payable in
cun mu noTs 57,55‘J 94
Amount due individual depori ors,pa_\ a
o.o uc ii rein note.-. ■*. 172,552 85
Amount din- n ‘ividual de, ositor- , paya
ble in c.isli 1,700 S8
Am .not due stockholders of this bank
tor divide. uls ami Distribution of snr
p'u ; p oll's, t>ayab.-’ in current notes 4,336 68
Amount due the Bank of Chatles on,
jia. able in Ghat lesion 10,320 65
C.t;.-,;! is profits 62,702 55
§1 ,860,709 64
*. biiis sa I ii >tes discounted runn'ng to
uia iirity at Augusta 564,207 S2
i io New York, Charleeion and
Si anti th 111 380 34
Uo do a other places 11,! 76 49
i til amount of assets not matured 706 824 65
Hill- or u .tesMiscounted lying
over not not protested, nor
i .ml in- j idgineiit* 10,384 EG
t'lota ied, but not in suit or
judgmeui 42,93-1 44
Protested & iu suit or judg’t 213,067 61
* 265,406 91
Total atnoun of discounted paper 973,231 56
lit al i ‘late including banking
house 4 1 575
Sinks, viz: Goo It R & B’gCo. 214 360
Sav ln.>. & I’rnst Company 6 030
G Ins. ft Trust do Augusta 5,0(0
>aie of Geo. sterling bonds 302,600
Augusta city bonds 10 000
(5 jo. i’ Rst B’k’g Coloan onint 25,000
Notes bank of Darien, on interest 13 632
Total amount of infest monts 1,584,368 56
Protest account 210 50
Amount duo by individuals in open account 2,665 40
d> banksui New York,Phil
adelphia, Peursburg, Ya Charleston
and Savannah 12,327 58
D-ie b r other banks & agents 81.886 52
Pp cie belonging to this bank
m vault 70,213 33
Specie ordered from N. Y ork
ad shipped for Savannah 5,C00
Tie tsury draft on collector of
cue o ns. Charleston 270
Notes of banks in rids State in good ere- .
dit, and city corporation bills redeem
ed from circulation 110,241 50
279,938 S3
Nates of Bank of Darien and branches
on special deposit .>,036
Incidental'expenses 10,470 25
§1,660,709 64
Extra t from the report o f the Committee on the charac
ter c.f'thc du’ ‘.at tod paper belonging to this Bank.
The cotnniiiiee appointed on Thursday last, to ex
amine In quality and character of the discounted pa
per belonging to this bank, having performed ‘be duty
assigned 11 them, report as follows :
O! the discounted paper running, they find—
S reha>isguod 745.340 61
Saul) as is bad 176 04
Os the disc unted paper lying over the? find—
Such as i g >ad 25",9.-3 22
Such as is bad 14,323 59
*1,011,923 56
Signed ASAPH WATERMAN,)
SAMUEL CLARKE, > Committee.
’ JAMES HARPER, )
*in{ H amount is included—
Loan to Ga. R. il. & Hk*g Cos. 25,0C0
Notes of the Hank of Darien
on interest ho 692
Os the amount of discounted paper lying
over—
There is by consent, under mortgages,
judgment, and other special securities I?*’ 3-0 69
ousidared ioi>d, but not bv consent 123 762 53
Amount considered bad * U >
266,106 91
Hank cf Augusta. 6th April, IS4O. •
EDWARD HSNKKLL. Hook Keeper.
ffttxte of iitorgi i. Richmond cou~i\ '/ —Per.ionauv
a rji Ai c i oef ■ e me, Samuel C. T\ i:son, a Notary
Public, John Moore, president, onJ Robert !• . Poe,
cashier who, b ung severally sworn, say, that they
believe the vvi’hin return exhibits a tri e statement trom
the books <.f the Bank of Augus’a.cr. Monday morn
ing the 6tir day of April, 1840 : and that the character
given therein to the discounted paper was prepared
from the report of Messrs. Asaph Waterman, Sam
uel Clarke, and James Harper, a committee appointed
f-r that purpose, which report was subsequently con
sidered and approved by the Board of Directors ; and
they further say, since the first ultimo no exchange
has been sold for account of the Bank of Augusta,
either directly or indite, tlv. at a premium over two:
per cent. JOHN MOORE, President.
ROBERT F, POE, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 22d ilav cf
April. !610. SAMUEL C. WILSON, N. P.
A Ln of Stockholders of the Bank of Augusta, 6th’
, „ April 1840.
Mra Sarah Adams 50 5,C00
Augusta Free School 75 7,500
William JC Allen 2VJ 85,000
Jacob Abrahanu 5 500
Wrifia* Jiduae* 45 4,560
Jchn Uoßiia 50 5,100
Joint Bones, guardian 200 20,C00
Mrs Sarah liogg 100 10,000
Isaac Bryan J 140 14,000
Joseph Bryan 14 1,400
H C Bryson, administrator 100 10,000
William Bones, Charleston 75 7,500
Thomas Barren 20 2,000
Mrs MAD Barnes 15 1,500
Peter F Basclair 10 1,000
Kaird & Rowland 33 3 SOO
John Gumming, Savannah 600 60,000
John Carmichael 60 6,000
O E Carmichael 2 SCiO
William Cumnung 5a 5,000
Henry H Gumming 93 9,300
Ann E Cumming 5o 5,000
Sarah W Cumming 65 6 600
Mrs Ann Gumming 165 16,500
R E Cunningham 86 8,600
A P Cunningham 2o 2 000
Mrs Fr Calhoun, administratrix 15 1,5 jo
Samuel Clark, trustee 14 1,400
Central Bank of G ecu gla 914 91,400
Robert Clarke “ 20 2,000
Robert Campbell 294 29,400
James Campbell 200
William Campbell 100 10,000
Johu Coskeiy 35 3,500
Eliza Clayton 10 1,000
Nicholas Dclaigle 150 15,000
James 1C Daniel 67 6,700
James W Davis 50 5,000
Mrs V Dugas 26 2,000
L A Dugas 44 4,400
Joseph Davis 25 2 500
Thomas Davis 25 2 500
Wiiiiam S Dewar 100 10,000
John Edgar 26 2 600
Estate oi Jhn Fox 289 £8 900
James Fraser 198 19,800
Hi nry Fosbrook 4 4ou
Mrs C Frzsimmons 15 1,5:>0
Paul Fitzsimmons 137 13,7c0
Guardian of B tsey Keating 2 o 20,000
James Gardner 160 16,000
James Gardner guardian 4o 4 000
linger 1. Gamble 175 17.500
Georgia Insurance and Trust Cos. Jfoo 50,000
Artemis Gould 100 10.000
Janies & William Harper 5 600
Isaac llenry cashier 5 61*0
James limn on C 61.0
Mrs Mary Hill 61 6,100
Thomas N Hamilton .125 12,500
Francis Harnill 5 500
James II Hammond 5o 5,000
Mrs Sarah G Haig lo 1,000
Goir.c Jones, Savannah luo lo'ooo
iVlrs Liu-v Isaac 9 900
Miss S S K Jones 15 1,500
Gabriel Jon* s lo 1.000
John Kirkpatrick 6o 6,000
Henry U Kmeland lo “ 1.000
James C I.ongstrcet 11 1 100
John Lamar 61 6,100
Joseph 11 Lumpkin 3 300
William McL'aw 67 C 700
lames McDowal 60 6 000
Mrs Ann McKanno 7 700
Thomas Metcalf ‘ 100 10,000
George H Metcalf 1 >0 10.000
Mrs C S McLean 25 2,500
John Moore 2 ;o 20,000
Mrs F Moore 100 10.000
Angus Martin 44 4,400
Alexander Martin 15 1,500
M St N Murray 2o £,OOO
Thomas McGran, guardian 5 500
Jesse Mercer 100 10, 00
Joel Martin 21 2,700
William B McLean 34 S,4k>
Robert McDonald 5 500
Owen Maher 13 1,800
Thomas Neshit 25 2 500
Robert Nesbit 19 1 900
Mrs Alary Ann Nesbit 25 2 500
Estate of Mrs K 1. Nesbit 219 21 900 1
M A Nesbit, Beach island lo 1,000
J A Nesbit lo 1 000
George M Newton 15 . 1,500
f*l J O’Callaglian, administrator 5 5o 1
Louis E Olive 1 100
TNPouUaml ‘ 2 200
Thomas I’arnii ii o 4o 4 ,000
Anthony Pvrter 5o 5,000
Jehti Potter 600 60.000
William Poe 37 3,7i>0 j
Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank
Charleston,. Si uih Carolina 159 15 9n© j
F M Ruberison 6 600 j
Mis El.zabeih Reid 100 lot 00
Robert A Reid 4o 4 ,000
R A Reid guardian M A RGd 4o 4,000
’ Do do 1? O Reid 27 2.7^0
Joseph Rivers 26 2 600
James Shackle ford 15 1 500
Trustee of the family of Wm Camp
bell 145 14,500
do the Meson Academy 25 2,500
do Burke County Academy 2o 2,000
do the Medical College 161 16,100
and li A Jackson 00 5,000
do John II Cumining 95 9 500
do HII Gumming 69 C,9oe
do Ann E Cumming 105 lo sto
do SU Gumming 81 8,100
do Thomas C Davis 35 8,500
do Mrs M C Davis 100 10.000
do UE&WJohnston 15 1,500
do CR&S SR It Jcnki s 35 3,500
do Mrs M McKinne 25 2,500
do J J R R Jenkins 5o 5,000
do Mrs Fr E Witherspoon 17 1,700
Telfair 2o 2,000
William II Turpin 171 17,i00
E H Thomas 22 2 200
Miss C M Thomas 100 10.000
Edward Thomas 3o 5 000
Mrs Emily Tubman 600 60,000
Isaac S Turtle 170 17,000
James Wardiaw 152 15,200
David Wardlxw lo l,ooi
Asaph Waterman 160 16.000
Robert Walton, Trustee 4o 4,000
Wardens & Vestry of St. Paul’s
Church 130 13,000
R T Whitaker 11 1.100
George O Iv White 11 o 11 ,000
Samuel Wigfall 7 700
Geo C Wat ins 5o 5,000
William White 15 1,500
John W Wilde, cashier lo 1.000
#
12,000 $1,20a,c00
Os the above, 1,067 shares are under hypothecation
to the Bank for §lO6 660.
ROBERT F. POE, Cashier.
OCMULGEE BANK OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA.
Macon,2-lth April, 1640.
To his Excellency Charles J. McDonald.
Sir : l have the honor herewith lo furnish the semi
annual statement of die condition of this bak, made
up to the morning of the 6th instant; also a list of stock
holders. Yourob’t scr’t,
H. G. LAMAR, President.
Condition of the Ormtdgee Bank o f the Stat* of Geor
gia, on IMonday morning , 6 th April, 1840.
DR.
To capital stock 500,000
Paid in 335,100
Bank note account 230,000
Less oi hand 14 070
Circulation. , 215 930
Amount due o'her banks 32,950 28
Depositors 41,277 79
Net profits 17,323 01
$642,531 OS
CR.
By Georgia Female College 25.000 _
Discounted notes iui ning to maturity 297.527 £4
Exchange on Savannah and Charleston 140,969 02
do New York 15,000
do m suit 11,950
do under protest 55.777 45
do lying over I,CSO 19
Netes in suit 4,780
do under protest 2,385 32
do lying over 3,000
Protest account 104
Banking house and lot 5,600 23
Bonds lying over 10,362 29
Amount due from other banks 9,715 63
Unadjusted chum 4,459 46
Cash basnet —
Hold and silver in vault 47 818 69
Specie certificate 643
Total specie 43,666 69
Promiscuous funds 22.420 69
Check on bank 252 51
Certificate of deposit 500
$642,581 C 8
j Georgia, Bibb county.— Personally appeared Henry
I G. Lamar, president, and Joseph A. \S hite, cashier,
) of the Ocmulgee bank ot the State of Georgia, who,
i bemg. duly sworn, saith, that the above presents a
■ WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE BURN EQUAL.’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MORNING, JUNE 13, 1840.
\ true statement of the condition of said bank, as ap
pears from the books of the same, on the day therein
stated. They further depose and say, that they have
not directly or indirectly viola’ ed any of the provisions
of an act entitled an act to prevent the several banks
of thiM)ate from selling or disposing-of exchange at a
of per cent, than therein expressed, assent
ed to on ihe 23d day of December, 1839—and that no
other officer of said bank has done so, within their
knowledge, for the benefit of said bank.
H. G. LAMAR, President.
J. A. VYHITE, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 24ih day of
April, 1840. J. L. SAULSBUR Y, Notary Public.
List of Stockholders of the Ocmulgee Bank of the State
of Georgia.
Shares. Value. Paid.
South Western R R Bank 2525 252 500 176,750
J Hamilton, trnstee 600 50,000 20,000
R Collins 250 25 COO 17,500
Charles Collins 150 15,000 10 500
Henry G. Lamar 110 11.000 7,700
John J Bannett 50 5 000 S.SCO
William B Johnston 50 5,000 3.500
John D Winn 50 5,000 3,500
David Flanders 60 6.000 4,200
George Jewett 235 23,500 16,450
James Threweatt 59 6 000 3,500
William Searcy 100 10 000 7,000
Wi liam G Little 25 2 500 1,750
James Wakeman 50 5,000 3,500
Joseph A White 21 2,100 1,470
Eliza Lamar 100 10 000 7,000
Estate B B Lamar 150 15,000 10,600
M C Mordeica 25 2 SCO 1,750
JCKer 25 2 500 1,750
C A Maywood 25 2 500 1,750
W Patton 25 2 500 1,750
J I.egaro 25 2,500 1,750
L Trat man 25 2 500 1,750
A Black 25 2 500 1,750
Wm Gregg 25 2,500 1,750
J E Homes 25 2 600 1,750
HGit J B Lamar, trustees 129 12 900 9 030
Victoria Lamar 10 1.000 700
Mo ton N Burch 100 10,000 7,000
G Davis 50 5,C00 3,500
J D Stiles 10 1,000 800
5000 600,0(0 335,100
The nr.dersigncd, a committee of the Directors of
the Ocmuigee Bank of the State of Georgia, have ex
amined the exchange and other papers belonging to
the bank, and report as follows :
Thirty-six hundred and eighty dollars as bad.
Nineteen thousand (our hundred and forty-one dol
lars doub.ful; the remainder as being all good.
WM. B. JOHNSTON,
JOHN D. WINN,
JOHN J. BENNETT.
MECHANICS’ BANK,
Augusta, April 11, 1840.
To His Excellency Charles J. McDonald:
Sir—l herein enclose a statement of the condi
tion of this insiiiution on Monday, 6ih inst.
Y'our obedient servant,
A. SIBLEY*, President.
Statement of the Funds of the Mechanics’ Bank, Au
gusta, on Monday. April 6th, 1840.
OK.
Capital Slock §1.000,000
Notes in circulation 23,849
Reserved Fund 85 361 24
Unclaimed Dividends 1,656
Amount due other Banks and individuals
for collections 162 618 62
do do Depositors 73,547 04
Ccrtilica'es of Deposit e 14.034 34
g1,361/6 24
CR.
Specie in vault, §27,035
Notes of Banks in this city & Savannah 155,930
do do other Banks 99, 15
Notes discounted payable in Augusta 631,525 97
Exchange running to maturity 78,373 44
Bills and Notes under protest 126,568 61
Os which is considered good 114 273 84
do do doubtful 12 6 4 77
Bills & Notes lying over (not under protest) 10,752 27
Os which is considered good S 993 77
do do doub.ful 6.758 50
Bills and Notes in suit 21,102 91
Os which is considered good 18,002 91
do do doubtful 3,100
Merchandize taken in payment of debts
due the B&i k 8,797 65
City of Augusta Scrip 6 016 15
Iron Steamboat Company Stock 4 314 75
Loan on Slock 1,635 80
Amount due by other Banks for co lei lior.s
and in hands of A gents 156,565 96
Protest account 49 60
Real Estate in Augusta S2,’9J 33
§1,361,066 24
List of Stockholders of the Mechanics’ Bank of Au
gusta, April 6th, 1840.
Welcome Allen estate 20
John M Adams 160
Fosti r Blodget 80
F J Brown estate 4
Hays Bowdre Brest 33
George Collins 63
Amory Chapin 63
Cashier Bank of Augusta “ 36
Scm let Dowse guardian M Whitehead 35
do do R Whitehead 35
Georgia Insurance and Trust Company 5,000
Artemus Gould 100
Jane Holden 4
Martha Hughes 4
Edward P Holcombe 4
Edward G Hyde * 5
Hadley & Owens 8
George Jones jr 2s
Marshall Keith 350
G B Lamar 230
G YV Lamar S5
G W Lamar Cashier 99
James Lamb 25
G B Lamar for Mr3 Anne Sims 40
G B Lamar for Jane Lamar Summers 20
G W Lamar and G B Lamar Trustees for
Mary A Summers 30
W W Montgomery and G YV Crawford trus ■
tees for Anna Gould 25
E Manton estate 112
T S Metcalf 100
Wm B Maclean 31
George H Metcalf 100
Philip McGran 10
Fanny Moore ‘ 6
Lorana D Metcalf ICO
Celia G Metcalf 100
T S & G H Metcalf 370
John Morrison estate 10
James McDovvall CO
VV S C Morris 10
Janies H Maxwell 30
Owen K Metcalf S3
George M Newton 65
John Nesbitt 10
Robert Nesbitt 20
Thomas Nesbitt 30
Mary Ann \V Nesbitt SO
M E Phinizy 5
Thomas J Parmelec 50
John J Palmer President 100
Paddleford, Fay & Cos 212
Planters and Mechanics’Bank S Carolina 245
Moses Rolf jr estate 25
W m P K athbone 195
Wm J Rhodes guardian for Mary E Walker 60
Jostah Sibley 30
Lucy Smith* 100
John Smith 150
Joel Smith 125
Mary Jane Sims 10
Aroory Sibley 319
A Sibley trustee 25
Isaac S Tuttle 280
George Thomas 45
Ann Urquhart estate _ 4
A J Miller and J U Jackson executors es
tate Ann Urquhart 16
A Waterman 33
E B Webster 57
Jas B Walker 90
Rebecca Waiker 30 i
Jas Whitehead 50 j
Robei: Walton Cashier 75 !
SIO,OOO
State of Georgia , City of Augusta. —Personally ap
peared Amory Sibley, Pres dent, and George W- La
mar, Cashier of the Mechanics’ Bank. Augusta, who
I being sworn, say that the within statement was taken
! from the books of the Bank on the 6th of April. a: and is
) correct to the best of their knowledge and belief; —
\ further, that the value of the paper was fixed bv a
i committee and approved by the Board, at a regular
j meeting, on Wednesday, April Bth, 1840.
A. SIBLEY, President.
(jEO. IV, LAMAR, Cashier.
Sworn to before me, this 11th day of April, 1840.
N. HATCH,’ Notary Public,
NOTICE.
I HEREBY £. rewarn all persons from trading for
a promissory note given by Isaac McGrady and
payable to John C. Wa'son far t.f y-four dollars and
eighty cents, ar.J due 25th December, 1839. The
said note b#mg lost or mislaid.
June 6, 1540. 16 3 DAVID CODY. ;
Ink OF ST MARY'S.
&'t. Marys, 9th April, 1840.
Sii—l herevAth enclose a statement of the condition
of this Bank, on Tuesday morning, the 7tb mst.; also,
a list of-its Stockholder-.
Respectfully yourob’t. serv’t.
H. R. SADLER, President pro. tern.
To His Excellency, Charles J. McDonald, Governor.
Milledgeville, Ga.
Statement showing the condition of (he Bank of St.
Marys, on Tuesday Morning. Ith April, 18 :0.
To Capital Stock paid in, §94,235 00
Notes in circulation, 29,819
Individual Dcposites, 24,021 49”
Due to other Banks • 5 463 08
Bills payable, 1,000
T n.e checks, 6,193 34
Profit and Surplus, 3,552 47
Dividends unclaimed, 858 54
Excess in Cash account, 12 51—4.423 82
§165,146 73
CR.
By Cash on hand, viz : in
Gold, silver and Copper coin, §15,697 12
Ct ecks and Dr sis, 3,143 59
No es of other Banks, 630 0C—19,470 71
Due from other Banks, 3,614
Drafts in transitu, 108 06
Banking House an Lot, 7,935 43
Notes running to maturity, 72.517 $9
do over due and not in s i, 47,159 74
Bilis of Exchange, 12.379 58
Over Drafts, 665 32
Expenses, 1,396 60
§165,146 73
Georgia, ) Appeared, H.jR. Sadler Pres-
Cainden county, ) idenipro. Urn., an A. J. Bess nt,
Cashier of the Bank ol at. Marys, who being duly
sworn, depose and say, that the within shows a true
statement of the condition of said BanK, on Tuesday
morning, (at its opening) the 7th inst. to the best of
their knowledge and belu f.
H. R. SADI.ER, Pres’t, pro tem.
A. J. BESSENT, -ashler.
Sworn to before me, this &U April, 3840.
GEO. W, WOOLLEi, Notary Public.
List of Stockholders in the Bank of St. Marys, on
Monday evening, 6th April, 1840.
NAMES. SHAKES. AM’T. P’D.
Horace S Pratt, 160 4,800
do trustee of H S Pratt, jr 5 160
do do Jane Pratt, 5 15-i
do do LG W Pratt, 50 1,500
do guardian John W Pratt, 50 1,500
do and . Isabel J Pratt, 10 l-'H®
Sarah Drisda'.e, 60 1,50i
Francis Rudolph, 6
do trustee of M C Rudolph, 5 350
do do E F Rudolph, 5 350
do do M M Rudolph, 5 850
do do J J Rudolph, 5 350
do do R L Rudolph, 5 350
do do V M Rudolph, 5 SSO
Estate of J Honiker, by M H Keb
bard, adm’r. 5 200
John Hebbard, 15 4>o
Sarah Clabb, 4 400
John Bachlott, 4 200
do trustee of II M Bachlott, 2 200
do do John L Bachlott, 2 200
do „do Mary M Bachlott, 1 100
do do Richard II Bachlott, I 100
do do C O Bachlott, 1 100
Alfred Doolittle, ‘ 30 900
do trustee of M A, J H, J &>,
M A and M J Doolittle 5 150
Henry Bacon, 20 1,000
do trustee of C A Bacon 2 100
do do H S Bacon, 2 ICO
do do E M Bacon 2 100
AJ Besscnt 32 1,600
do trustee of Eliza Besscnt 10 500
do do William Besscnt 2 200
do do Eliza M Besscnt 2 210
Louis I'ufour 144 12,200
do trustee of Louis Desclaux 30 3 000
Edmond Atkinson 50 1,500
John Bessent 2 60
do trustee of M O Bessent 2 60
do do M A Besscnt 1 30
do guardian of E Williams 5 150
do Adm of the est of C Spriggs 5 250
Joseph Arnow 2 6
do trustee of C Ar ow 2 60
do do Prudenlia Arnow 2 6 *
do do George Arnow 2 60
do do Joseph Arnow,jr 2 60
Willis Lang 19 3(0
do trustee of G Lang 1 SC
do do Mary Lang I 30
Samuel .Claike 69 1,750
do Ethan Clarke 2 60
do do O A Clarke 2 60
do do E M Clarke 2 60
do do H P Clarke . 2 60
do do L C Clarke 2 60
do do M S Clarks 2 60
do do J F Clarke 2 60
do do S Clarke jr 2 60
do do H B Clarke 2 60
David Seaburg 10 200
Sylvester Silva 20 I,OCO
JacqueVocelle 50 2.000
BBai ratio 10 10(0
do trustee of A Barratto 10 1,0(0
Samuel Flood 2 60
do trustee of Rcbtcca Flood 1 30
do do Ann V Flood 1 30
do do Elizabeth Flood 1 £0
Duncan L Clinch 149 3,980
do guard, of JH M Madison 51 1,520
Lemuel Church -'25 7.(0
do guardian ofHarry King 35 1 350
do do Tiller# King 3 150
do do Harry Kingjr 2 100
William Proctor 5 250
do trustee of Margt Proctor 5 250
do do Margt Proctor jr 2 100
do do Virginia Proctor 2 100
do do Wm Proctor jr 2 100
do do Daniel Proctor 2 100
do do Louisa t-roclor 2 100
do do Theodore Proctor 2 100
do do Isabella Proctor 2 100
Henry R Sadler 10 300
do trustee of H R Sadler jr 2 60
do do Eliza M Sadler 2 SO
do do C A Sadler 2 (0
do do H M Sadler 2 (0
do do Mary A Sadler 2 60
do do Nicholas B Sadler 2 60
Edmvn 1 Richardson 2 120
do trustee Elizabeth Richardson 2 120
O M Dorman 10 800
Samuel R Williams l 50
John Warren 20 600
Ross & Merrick 40 1,200
Julia A Morck 15 450
Archibald Clhrke 10 S-0
Ralph King 91 2,750
William King 100 3,000
R & W King 242 7,260
William H Clarke trustee for Wiliam
J, Lucien V, and Sami F Clarke 10 SCO
Stephen McCall 10 300
John Johns 10 300
Jeremiah Join s 5 100
Alexander Kean 5 150
John Bailey 99 2,970
George W Thomas 60 1,500
Janies Moore 5 150
Janus M Smith 10 300
George Lang 5 150
Nancy Lang 10 300
do trustee Isaac Lang 5 150
do do Catharine Lang 5 „ 150
do do Isabe.laLang 5 150
Susan Hopkins 50 1,000
William T Hopkins 108 2,160
do trustee of E H Hopkins 2 40
do do WT Hopkins jr 2 40
do do Susan A Hopkins 2 40
do K H Hopkins 2 40
Christopher Brown 2a 750
Commissions of Camden county Acad
emy 20 2,000
Hannah Cozby 40 1 200
Harriet Ann filbert 20 1,700
Robert Stafford 100 3 000
i Elizabeth P Magill 4 4 0
| Helen Z Magill 4 4*o
Mrs Eliza Mclntosh 11 520
Mrs Alary Sadler 15 525
Mary Ann Floyd 3 230
Benjamin Hopkins 25 700
F J Judson trustee of Isabella Frances
Judson 20 600
FOUR MONTHS after date application •.
made to the honorable the Inferior our! oi i'ai
botcounty, when sitting for ordinary purposes, for
leave to sell ell the land belonging to John and Eliza
beth Black, illegitimate children of Alary Black
JAMES H. BLACK* Guardian.
May 11.1840. 13 4m
~ NOTICE. “
ALL persons having demands against S. & J. L.
Calhoun, (of Russell county, Ala.) are respect
fully requested to present them for payment
May 30.1840. S. & J. L. CALHOUN.
Also, those having claims against John L. Calhoun,
individually, arc in like manner requested to present
t ern ‘ JOHN L. CALHOUN.
> RijsseUeonntv. Als.. May 30, 15 3t
CIRCULAR:
EDWARD J. BLACK TO HIS CONSTITU
ENTS, AND PARTICULARLY TO THE
STATE RIGHTS PARTY OF GEOvGIAv
Entertaining nti opinion I would com cal
front ivy constituents, conscious of having
acted on all occasions in strict conformity
with the political doctrines on which I was
elected, and abiding in the conviction of the
trull) ol the great demon a tic principle which
subjects the Representative to the wi‘l of’ Lis
■ constituent, l feel it a duty imperative upon
me to give some account of my stewardship
here, and to rehearse, as briefly as comports
with the magnitude of the subject, the manner
in which I have discharged the trust you con
fided to my hands. lam admonished of the
propriety of this exposition by the indications
winch have lately reached me of an attempt
to obliterate the invaluable principles which
have heretofore characterized the Stale Rights
party, and by the evident tendency of such
efforis tv) merge the advocacy of measures into
the blind opposition to men.
Not to acknowledge the deep aversion and
anxious solicitude with which I have witnessed
the prosecution of these efforts, would he to
affect an indifference I do not feel, and to as
sume a disingeniousness as censurable as it
is foreign to my character. lam persuaded
the enlightened people whom I represent, if
left to their own convictions of right and
wrong, would not require me to oppose any
man who coincides with them in opinion, or
to advocate another who is their political
antipode. Subserviency to men has never
characterized them, and I have yet to barn
that hev can be induced to abandon and
deny their own will recognised and long
cherished principles by waging war on a
public functionary, who, whatever may have
been his former position, is now with them in
fact, upon almost every prominent question
which divides tiie country. ‘ Principles , and
not men ,’ was once our governing maxim, but,
ii I am not mistaken in the signs o( the times,
there are those among us, who, for whatever
reason, are willing to reverse that cardinal
precept . and for the sake alone ol opposition,
even though the causes which produced it are
removed, are ready to enrol! themselves in
the lists of our ancient and implacable adver-
saries.
The meetings which l ave recently been held
in Monroe, at Macon, and in Augusta, have
convinced me that a fraction at least of those
with whom I'have heretotore been associated
are determined to iaist the Harrison
and to advance him and his principles, to the
highest office in lire gift of the people. In the
resolutions which ti.ose meetings have adopt
ed I cannot concur; I cannot support Wil
liam H. 11a rrison h r the presidency, and at
the same time preserve my. political consis
tency. The iaitei I will endeavor to do,
although ii may be at the cost of political
martyrdom; lor, however 1 appreciate the
honor ol a seat in Congress, I infinitely pre
fer that ‘‘peace of mind’ which can alone
result from clean hands, and a clear con
science. This conclusion, not hastily attain
ed, and the reasons which induced it, I am
bound candor freely and openly to declare,
in older that no man may Hereafter charge
me with duplicity, or with misrepresenting
the views and feelings of my constituents.
In stating this conclusion and these reasons,
I shall seek to attack no one who may differ
from me, nor shall 1 impugn the motives of
those who may detm it then duty to wheel
upon their position, and take rank in a party
which, since the days of Mr. J.fferson, have
been opposed to the doctrines upon which
that great man came into power. My
object is simply to vindicate mysdf from the
charge of misrepresenting those who elected
me, and to rescue my character from the foul
aspersion of abandoning the principles which
have heretofore marked my polilical career.
Charge me vvi Jh ‘ impracticability,'’ if you
please; denounce me lor differing with a
portioned my partly; abandon me as unfit to
carry out the newly-adopted measures of the
Macon meeting ; but do not censure me, as a
Slate Rights man, for refusing to aid in the
election of General Harrison, uniii it can be
shown that it is lawful to separate the man
from his principles—to support the one, and
reject the other. While I leave it to others
to reconcile their present with their former
position, it is a duty 1 owe not only to myself,
but to those of my friends who are not Har
rison men, to demonstrate, by references clear
and indisputable, nay, bv quoting our own
recorded faith, that, however we may be
chargeable with a want of pliability, we aVe
guiltless of the sin of political apostacy. Up
on this question, to the great mass of the
voters of Georgia, and particularly of my own
party, 1 confidently appeal from the hasty,
unjus , and presumptuous judgment which a
few editors of newspapers in the towns and
cities have thought proper to pass upon me.
For and in tiie name of a whole party they
have dealt out their anathemas by wholesale
upon me and those of my colleagues who
ventured tolook beyond them and theirpresses
to the people. Instead of submitting, in their
vocation, a fair journal of facts to the belter
judgment of their subscribers and patrons,
i bey have presumed to arrogate to themselves
the high and important prerogative ofarraign
ing my motives and condemning my acts. In
pursuing this course, as dictatorial to the
State Rights party as it has been unjust to
myself, they present themselves in strong
contrast to the other editors of the State, who,
whatever their individual opinions may have
been, refrained from denouncing yi advance
those of mv colleagues who differed with them,
and were content to leave the question of
approval to the decision of the people. From
this position, creditable in itself and respectful
to their readers and subscribers, they were at
length driven by the continued and wanton
attacks which were made upon themselves
through the warfare urged on some of their
representatives in Congress; and it was not
until the individuals to whom I fust referred
evinced a settled design to sow discord in our
ranks and to annihilate the party, that our
friends deemed it their duty to mingle in the
contest. This they did, [ have no doubt
reluctantly, by comparing the cour e of Judge
Co'quilt, Major Cooper, and myself, with that
of our colleagues who differed from us. Let
it be remembered then, if harm c >me3 of this
unnatural contest, that the first blow was
stricken at us, and let those that prompted
that blow, after our glorious party shall have
been shattered in a thousand fragments, con
sole themselves, it’ itey cm, ami i the ruins
they have made, with the consciousness that
they have destroyed, with whatever motive,
the purest party which ever existed ia the j
!tit-of ilines.
I kav - aid I cannot support Genera! liar- |
rison for ihe presidency; and, for my justifi- j
canon, let us go back to the loth November, j
1833. At that eventful period the star of]
Federalism culminated. Edward Livingston J
had entrapped the President of ihe United ]
States into an avowal of his own peculiar ;
doctrines; a manifesto of which, in the cele
brated Proclamation, had just then been
sprung upon the country. This great repub
lic was agitated from one extreme to the
other ; peril and danger stared us in the face,
and men were oppressed with a deep sense
lof calamity. The sovereignty of the States
had been invaded—their sepirate existence
denied, and the 4 unity of the nation ’ pro
claimed by ihe highest funetionary of the ;
Federal Government. At this portentous
epoch, when the soldiers of the United States
were ordered to 4 stand by their arms’ for the
purpose of making a practical illustration on
the rdractory of Mr. LivingstonLj political
theory, a small but gallant band, in the face
ol overwhelming majorities, in defiance of
menacing power, and with naught to animate
them but th. pure hope of the patriot, assem
bled at your capitol in Milledgeville, and after
recording their declaration of faith, established
the 4 State Rights Party of Georgia.’
Believing in the doctrines they promulgated ;
actuated by an ardent desire, which knew no
abatement, to contribute*my mile toward
rescuing the Constitution from the grasp of
Federal lyranay ; with the view of saving the
4 rights ol the States, and the Union of the
States,’ I gave my adhesion, at the earliest
opportunity, to the party they had formed.
for the sake of the principles they had published
as their creed. Did you not do likewise ? If
you answer in the affirmative, let us see what
those principles were to which we gave our
adhesion, and then let us see whether General j
Harrison approved or condemned them, and !
that there may he no mistake, I will quote j
from the record. At ihat meeting, upon j
motion of Mr. Gordon, of Putnam, Judge C. ‘
B. Strong was placed in the chair, and’ Mr.
Sayre and Mr. Lony street were appointed
Secretaries. Augustine Smith Clayton moved
for a committee 4 to prepare resolutions ex
pressing the s miments of the State Rights j
party.! That committee; composed of A. S.
Clayton, William 11. Crawford, William C.
Daniel, Col. Jones, Mr. Habersham, Mr.
Hitihouse, Col. Rockwell, Gen. Beall, Col.
Newton, Gen. Warren, and Horn Charles
Dougherty, reported through their chairman
a preamble and resolutions, ihe material parts
of which I will extract for the benefit of those
who may think proper to refer to them. Af
ter noticing the relations which then existed
between the Federal and State Governments,
and the angry contests which agitated the
whole South in consequence of the tarifflaw,
then ol force, they say, in their preamble:—
‘These last measures [the Proclamation
and Force Bill] have aimed a deadly blow at
State Rights, and seem now to require the
united and concentrated energies of the
friends and advocates of those rights to be
directed to this point of attack, deemed so
important by our enemies to be carried,
in vfliich, if suceess should crown their exer
tions, ail that is dear and valuable to freedom
will he wrested from the States.
4 That it may be distinctly understood what
are the principles of this Association, it will
he necessary to show what are the doctrines
of the Proclamation, and these are asserted
in language which admits of no dispute.
4 1st. It maintains that the States of which
this Confederacy is composed, never had a
separate existence; for that, from the moment
they ceased to be dependant on Great Britain,
they formed one nation , and have so contin
ued-
-4 2d. That.a Stale in the exercise of its
legUamate powers, has noi the right to decide
upon the constitutionality of an act of Con
gress, and to protect its citizens from the ope
ration of an unconstitutional act, and to main
tain within her limits the authorities, rights,
and liberties, appertaining to a sovereign
State.
‘3d. That the States have no right to
secede from the Union, under ffny circurn- i
stances whatever; inasmuch as secession
would DESTKCY THE UNITY OF THE NATION.
‘ 4th. That the people of the twenty-four
States constitute cue people.
‘ sth. That the members of Congress ‘ are
all Representatives of the United States; net
Representatives of the particular State from
which they come? and tnat they are not ac
countable to it for any act done in the per
formance of their legislative functions.’
‘6lh. That the States have 1 not retained
their entire sovereignty. 5
‘ 7th. That the allegiance of our citizens is
due to the United Stales ‘in the first in
stance,’ and not to their respective Siaies.
‘ These are the doctrines of the Proclama
tion, and they have, at the special instance of
the President, produced the Force Bill for
their complete execution. This meeting doth
solemnly protest against them,and as solemnly
deny their legitimate deduction from the com
pact which established the federal government;
and that the Association now formed will resist
them in every proper manner.
‘ To this end, they Resolve, That the
present meeting be organized into an associ
ation, to be denominated ‘THE STATE
RIGHTS PARTY OF GEORGIA, 5 and
recommend meetings in all the counties for
the purpose of constituting similar associa
tions, to be connected with that which will he
formed at Milledgevilie, as the Central Asso
ciation.
‘ Resolved, That the doctrines of the Vir
ginia and Kentucky Resolutions, as construed
and understood by Mr. Jefferson, and tri
umphantly acted upon in 1825, ’O, and 7, in
the State of Georgia, constitute the creed of
the State Rights parly of Georgia ; and that,
as all unconstitutional laws are null and void,
we will whenever the proper exigency arises,
resist them in any manner the sovereign
power of the State may order or direct.
‘ Rcs .lved, That we consider the Force
Bill as a glaring infraction of Stale Rights,
and a gross outrage upon the liberties of the
people; and that its continuance upon the
statute book is such an acf of usurpation as
ought not to-be submitted to by free arid in
dependent States; and that we will use our
exertions to counteract the principles of the
Proclamation, and to obtain a repeal of said
bill. 5
These were our principles, and this our
faith, in 1833. At that time you would have
indignantly rejected the claims of any man to
your suffrages who did riot subscribe and
acknowledge every sentence of the faith you
had just promulgated. Ha3 the lapse at
seven short years sapped the foundations ol
our creed, and obliterated the impressions
which were then made on us? ! trust not. 1
yet believe that the few among us who have
permitted their honest opposition to Mr. Van
Buren to drive them temporarily to the sup
port of Gen. Harrison will, when his opinions
and principles are known, take counsel ol
their ‘sober second thoughts, 5 and at least
relire from the advocacy of a man who, or:
j the lath day of July, 1533. recommended this
I sime [ roclamation. and Mr. Webster’s ex
i p isition of it, \vi ich you had denounced, as
j riie most eloquent and satisfactory exposition
|of the principles of our Government. But let
I Gen. Harrison speak for himself, in answer
j to your resolutions adopted at Milledgevilie :
j ‘ I have thus, fellow-citizens,endeavored to
; explain to you the principles which the
; Government of our Union is formed. I re
] commend to you, however, the Proclamation
j of the President o! the United States, issued
on the 10th of December last, and the speech
es of Mr. Webster, delivered in the Senate
of ;he Lmted States,-at the last session ol
Congress, in answer to the arguments of Mr.
Cal.Kum, as containing the most eloquent and
j satisfactory expositionof those principles that
’ have recently been published. F ■ } f * u - ;n .r
tnai Proclamation, I think Genera! Jackson,
has rendered a serv.ce to his country of greut
er magnitude than his splendid victory at
New Orleans.’
What think you of that? These are if*
deliberate sentiments expressed in u speech he
delivered at Cheviot, in the Slate of Oaio, m
1333. Would you have elected ?je to Con
gress in ISSB, il l had entertained or exposed
such principles as these? And will you tolerate
them in General Harrison, while you would
visit your Representatives with severest cen
sure for doing the same thing? Yes! this
same Proclamation which General Jackson
himself would n; t stand up to, but which he
explained away in a subsequent paper, no far
as his unfortunate position would permit, is
seized upon by General Harrison, in its origi
nal shape and form, without any commentary
save that oi Darnel Webster, as, the most elo
quent and satisfactory exposition of the princi
ples of our G vernment. And yet, with this
fact staring them in the face, our friends in
Monroe, at Macon, and in Augusta, have
avowed their intention to take General Harri
son, (and t cith him, of course, his principles,
and among them, this one which I have just
quoted to you,) as a lit and proper person
to be elevated to the Presidency ? I will not
believe, until I have proof of it at the polls in
October next, that such is the deliberate and
cool determinationoflhe State Rights party.
I will do that party the justice to believe, that
the recent agitations perceptible in their ranks,
have been produced by tire unnatural excite
ment attendant upon a feverish opposition to
J)lr. Van Buren , which will subside when his
present position is better known. ‘Love swells
like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide;’ let
those who have been instrumental in getting
up tins excitement, remember, that a corres”
ponding depression will follow, and that, like
die excesses of the French revolution, their
violent and unlimited opposition may eventual
ly retard, it not entirely defeat the very cause
°! liberty arid reform which they profess lo
advocate. Reformation ought not to be at
tempted by corrupt means ; ‘the touch of pitch
defilelhand the glorious patriots of 1800
may as well have resorted to the elder Adams
as a fit instrument to put down the principles
ol the Alien and Sedition laws, as vve may
take up General Harrison to counteract the
doctrines of the Proclamation.
But, independent of this insuperable ob
jection to General Harrison, I, as a State
Rights man. cannot suriDort him, because I
believe him to be a black cockade Federalisl of
the same stamp with the elder .Mams. If this
be proven to you by his own words and acts,
f know enough of you to believe that you will
at ieast not denounce me as an apostate from
mv principles for refusing to support him for
office. The Aiien and Sedition laws are
known to have been tfie hateful offsprings of
the administration of John Adams; thiy
stamped their character upon that adminis
tration. and distinctly marked the principles
• and policy of the men who supported the par
ty then in power. Those were days of deep
excitement—the Republicans rallying under
| Mr. Jefferson, and the Federalists under Mr.
Adams. In 1708, when tin's conflict was at
its height, and when every man in the coun
try was arrayed on one side or the other,
General Harrison was appointed by Jonrr
Adams, then President of the United* States,
‘Secretary of the territory northwest of the
river Ohio,’ and, subsequently, when he was
a member oflhe House of Representatives, as
a delegate from that territory, he was made
Governor of Indiana by the same individual,
w! o was still at the head of the Government.
Would % these appointments have been made
if General Harrison had been the supporter of
Mr. Jefferson ? Do you not know from the
character of John Adams and the times in
which he lived, that they were the rewards of
partisan service ? Again, the younger Adams,
on the 22d May, IS2S, made him Minister to
Colombia. Would that have been done if Gen.
Harrison bad been a Jeffersonian Republican ?
Although these facts are of themselves suffi
cient to make out a primn facie case of Feder
alism, let us see what Harrison himself says
upon that subject. In 1826, John Randolph
and himself were both members of the United
Slates Senate, and in a debate which took
place between them in that body, Mr. Ran
dolpn said that—
“He was an open, zealous, and frank sup
porter of the sedition-law and black-cockade
administration ; and I was as zealous, frank,
and open opponent of the biaek-cockade and
sedition-law administration. We differ fun
damentally and totally; we never c?n agree
about measures or about men. I do not
jmean to dictate to the gentleman; let us agree
to dilfer as gentlemen ought to do, especially
nat.ves of the same State, who are antipodes
to cacli ojier in politic*.”
What was the reply ol General Harrison ?
‘He could not refrain from making his ac
knowledgement to the gentleman from Vir
ginia (Mr. Randolph,) tor the notice he had
.been pleased to take of him. He bad been
pleased to say that, in the administration of
Mr. Adams, I was a Federalist; and he comes
to that conclusion, from the course pursued by
me in 1899 and 1800. At that session, the
gentleman and myself met for the first time;
tie in the ration of Representative from Vir
ginia, and I in the more humble one of
Delegate from the northwestern Territory.
Having no vote, l did not think it proper to
lake part in the discussion in any of the great
political questions which divided"the two'par
ties. My business was to procure the pas
sage of the bills which 1 had introduced
lor the benefit of the people I represented.
The gentleman had no means of knowing
my political principles, unless he obtained them
from private conversations. As I was on
terms of intimacy with the gentleman, it is
very probable that he might have heard me
express sentiments favorable to the then ad
ministration. I certainly felt them—bo far,
at least, as to the course pursued by it in re
lation to (lie Government ol France. * For Mr.
Adams, I entertained at that time, and have
ever sines entertained, the greatest respect.
I believe bin? to be an honest man and a pure
patriot; and his conduct during that session
proved him to be such. This opinion, 1 know
was entertained by those two able and up
right statesmen John Marshall and James Jl.
Bayard.’
Here, then, is the charge and the answer.
Harrison was charged by John Randolph
with being a supporter of the black-cockade
| and sedition law administration of the elder
Adams. lie an i Ins accuser were in the pres
ence ol each other, and before the country*,
and if he had not been conscious of the truth
ofthe charge he certainly would have denied
it. On the contrary, however, he admits
cve;y thing wh.ch Randolph had said of him,,
and winds up the show by and h e ng an eu
logium on bis early friend and hentfiicfor,
the author of the Alien and Sedition laws..
And vot, we are told that Genera! Harrison
is a Jeffersonian Republican! Will the peo
ple oi Georgia believe i; ? Having no vote,
he abstained from mingling publicly in debate
on the great political questions oi the day, but
he distinctly admitsJhat, in‘private conversa
tions, as lie was intimate with the gentleman,
it is very probable that he (Randolph) might
have heard me (Harrison) t xpres* sentiments
l favorable to die then- •■’din.iii- , .:at;on[oi John
[NO. 17.