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qoT BROWN’S VETO MEM4S.
fc EXECUTIVE DEPAHTMENT,
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TV TMl.n"‘’ “ - A” 4sj2’
vide arainst tt forfeiture of the several
charter* in this state, on account of non
specie payment, for * given time,and For otti
erpurposos therein named,” without my
siinciion*
Our banking institutions liaye exclusive
privilege* conferred on them by law, which
are very valuable, and which the laboring
maaaea are prohibited, under a heavy penal
ly, from exercising, upon the same teV&s up
on which the banks exercise them. The
banks ate permitted by law, without bond
or security, to loan their credit, or, in other
word*, their notes ns money, and to charge
interest upon them. The laboring man,
whatever may be his occupation, la denied
thia privilege, and is subject to’ indictment
and punishment as a criminal If he attempts
to exercise it. He can receive interest Inly
upon the capital wlvicli is the income of his
labor; and upon this he is permitted to
charge only legal interest, or seven per cent
per annnm- The laboring masses produce
the capital. Indeed, ail capital is- the result
of labor; and that system of legislation
wdlkb establishes a favored class, and con
fei* upon them privileges denied to others,by
which they are enabled to enrich themselves
by taking from the laboring masses the in
come of their labor, is not only unjust, but
contrary to the genius and spirit of our gov
ernment.
1 think it will not be denied by any, that
our present system gives to a favored class
immense advantages over the great body of
the people. As an illustration of this princi
ple, two men’ work with their hands, the pri
mary mode of inaknig capital,
makes a dollar in gold or silver. One loans
his at. interest. The law of our State per
mits him to receive only seven cents for the
use of it one year; and if he charges more,
the law declares the excess to be usurious
and void.
The other applies to the legislature, and
obtains a charter, conferring upon him bank
ing privileges. By this charter, it is made
lawful for him to pay his dollar as capital
stock into the bank,and to issue upon it tflree
paper dollars. The bank is permitted to loan
these three paper dollars at interest, ana to
charge seven per cent upon each of them.—
If he were to loan them for one year at le
gal intercst/he would receive for them twen
ty-one cents. These three paper dollars are
baaed upon the one dollar in gold or silver,
and the banker in fact receives the twenty
one cents interest upon his one dollar in spe
cie, while the person without banking privi
leges receives oply seven eenta.jnterest upon
bis dollar. But the banker is not couteut
with twenty-one per cent a year, or three
times the amount received by his neighbor,
who is without banking privileges. He will
not therefore loau iiis three paper tftillurs (his
own notes) a year at seven per cent; but lie
will loan them at thirty-days, firs.t deducting
interest out of the sum loaned, if the borrow
er will also pay one half, one, two or three
per cent a month usury, under the name of
exeliange. And even this privilege, since
the Imnks have suspcm.cd, as a generi 1 rule,
is allowed only to cotton buyers or specula
tom, and is denied to the merchant,farmer.or
mechanic. He cannot get the accommoda
tion, it matters not how good a note he can
make. This debt to the banker must he
paid promptly, or renewsd at the'end of the !
thirty days. If permitted to he renewed, ;
the interest must be again discounted and
compounded and the usury added, ..twelve
times during the year, or every’ thirty days.
I apeak of the usuAl number of days allowed
ia bank. It may be but sixty days, while it
is sometimes ninety. This increases the in
terest received on the banker’s three paper
dollars, or one silver dollar, to twenty-five,
thirty or thirty-five per cent dependent on
the amonnt of exchange or usury added each
time the note or bill is renewed. But the
banker ia still not satisfied wi.h this per cent
upon his dollar. The law of his charter, as
bank charters exist in Georgia, authorizes the
bank to issue three paper dollars, or incur
three dollars of liability for every one dollar
of capital stock actually paid into the bank.
Our people seem generally to understand the
law of Our bank charters to be that the bank
must at all times have in its vaults one dol
lar in specie for every three dollars of its lia
bilities. This is a great error. The law of
the charters does require that liabilities of
the bank shall not exceed three dollars for
every one of capital stock paid in specie,
and the banker may issue three paper dollars
upon every silver dollar so paid in, and the
next week he may take rat Ae silver dollar
so paid in, and may use it in shaving notes
or in other speculations ; and while he is ma
king twenty-five, thirty or thirty-five per
cent upon the three paper dollars, based up
on the oue silver dollar, supposed by the
people to be in the vanlts of the bank all the
time for the redemption of the bills, he has
probably made ten or . fifteen per cent upon
the silver dollar taken out of the vaults, and
used in speculation; making the whole prof
its, which, without a violation of the letter of
bis charter,the banker may have received for
the ns* of his dollar one year from thirty to
fifty cents, while the laboring man, without
banking privileges, ia permitted by law to re
ceive only seven per cent for the use of his
dollar fora tdiAifor length of time. Is this
justice 1 Is it right 1 I deny that it is right
to give to a bank, or to any other corpora
tion, such unreasonable and almost unlimited
privileges. It may be said tlfat the banks
do not issue three for one, and that they do
not all make the profits above described;—
Thia may be true. I speak of their privile-
Ks, and Wlilß under their charteis.they may
, and what, it is believed, is often approx i
mated if not exceeded in practice. He who
will read their charters and observe their
practical operations, wifi I doubt not, admit
that the above is no exaggerated statement
of the workings of that legalized system of
speculation, oppression and wrong, dignified
b 7 ® ur l*” with the name of ban king.
The question arises here, what considera
tioo have the banks given, or promised to
givo the people, for these valuable, exclusive
privileges T The answer is, they have pledg
ed themselves to fwiiish -a paper’ currency,
•? ell times sound and convertible into spe
cie on demand, without regard to the price
the specie may cost them when needed, or
the sacrifice they may have to maka to pro
¥*ro ft. TUs privilege of loaning tbair own
notes a* money s par, and -of receiving -
—tompound interest - —and even usury,
nnobr the name of exchange upon them, of ”
ten enables riiem in tunes of prosperity to
these advantages, is it not their imperative
duty, in times of “adversity, to abide by their
part of the contract, and to pfttenre specie
to redeem their bills ana thereby lif
ford* relief to the people, no matter w hat it
may cost; them T After having enjoy*! theto
advantages, is it right that they be permit
ted, when the pressure comes, to suspend.
close their doors, retire into tlieir splendid
mansions,lock up their specie in their vanlts,
let their own bills depreciate, bny them np
through tlieir brokers at a heavy discount. |
causing distress and actual suffering to many
a poor debtor’s family t aud when the storm
is past, step forth in the sunshine of their
own prosperity, with enlarged wealth, while,
they coolly survey the ruin which, by their
speculations and tlieir bad faith, they have
scattered all around. I deny that this {aright.
Specie is no# worth a small premium in
the Northern market. By paying this, onr
tranks can purchase enough with which to re
deem all their bills, and can resume spocie
payment immediately. This would restore
public confidence,stop the decline in the price
ofcotton, which has already fallen from seven
teen cents down to ten ..or eleven cents per
pound, since the banks have snspended, and
which will continue to fall, unless they re
sume, and would also restore contentment,
prosperity and happiness au ong our people.
The banks refuse to do this, because it would
cost them some sacrifice, and rather than
this, they prefer to let their bills depreciate
in the market. This causes our people, who
live remote from banks and cities, and who
are occasionally forced to obtain specie, to
pay as high as ten per cent discount upon
the bank bills to get the coin but if the
banks are forced to resume,-this sacrifice on
the part of the people will n,ot be longer
necessary. Why do the banks refuse to re
sume 1 The answer is, simply because it is
their interest to keep up the panic, drive
down the price of cotton and every kind of
property to the lowest price, then grasp it
into their own hands, and thus grow richer
upon the misfortunes of others, produced by
them for the purpose of speculation.
I affirm that our batiks which have suspen
ded snd so continue, .are guilty of a nigh
commercial, moral and legal crime, of a com
mercial crime, because they have brought
the present crisis upon the people, for selfish
purposes, when there was no great necessity,
and when by spending a -few thousand dol
lars of their immense profits in the purchase
of specie, the suspension could easily have
been avoided. By refusing to do this, they
have destroyed public confidence, deranged
commerce, caused our great staple to fall
several cents in the pound, by which our
planters*have sustaiued a loss of several mill
ions of dollars, and the value of property
throughout the State has greatly depreciat
ed. The credit of the State abroad has
been injured, wmle general distrust and de
pression has been tlib result. They have
been guilty of a moral crime, by violating
theif contract with the people in refusing to
meet tlieir contract with the people in refus
ing to meet tlieir solemn promises,when they
acknowledge—nay, even boast of their abil
j ity to do so, thereby doing the grossest injus
tice to tiie laboring masses w.lio have confi
ded in them an.l lieen deceived by them.—
They have been guilty of a legal crime, by
wilfully and knowingly violating and setting
at open defiance a positive statute of the
State, making the price of our property,
the price of labor, the happiness and welfare
of the people and the law of the State all
bend to tlieir interest. They are governed
solely liy tlieir iuterest and it is tlieir interest
in times of prosperity to expand and extend
tlieir circulation, raise the price of property,
stimulate a spirit of speculation, and involve
the country in tlieir debt ns much as possible.
In times of adversity when every man not h
banker is obliged to redeem his promises, no
matter how much sacrifice it may cost him,
the banks refuse to meet their obligations be
cause specie is wortli a premium in the mar
ket, and they are not willing to make a sac
rifice of some of their large profits to get it
to redeem their bills. They therefore tut
pend, till the pressure is over. They de
mand Gobi and Silver or its equivalent from
those indebted to them, and sell their proper
ty no matter at how great a sacrifice, they will
iucrease tlieir speculation by appointing air
agent to buy it for them. In the meantime
if the billliolder, who is their creditor pre
sents their depreciated hills at the counter
and demands specie,stating that he has la
bored for the bills and has received them* at
par as money: that he purchased property
when property was high owing to the bank
expansions, and in this way involved himself
in debt. That owing now to the bank con
tractions property has .fallen till it takes
twice as much to pay his debtß, as it ’idid a
lew uiqpths ago. That bis property is about
to be sacrificed and that he cannot pay in
bank bills without a sacrifice of five, ten, or
twenty per cent’ discount upon them, the
bauker refnsesuto redeem the bills,Jimd turn
ing away calmly replies, tee hurt suspended.
” The cousequence is, the billholdcr has to
make the sacrifice which the hanker had
promised to make, and ought’ to make, but
will not make and pay five, ten or twenty
per cent discount on the bills of the bank to
get the specie If any one proposes to com
pel the banker tn comply with his contract
and redeem the bills or forfeit his .charter, it
is at once said that this course will ruin
the country, as the hauker will be offended
and will refuse to lot out any more, of bis
depreciated hills it forced to keep his prom
ise to redeem those now in circulation.
Since die establishment of our banking
system in Georgia the country has already
passed through two- or three periods of dis
tress of the char Deter abose described.—
These have been periods of speculation by
the banks, and they have a'rassed fortunes,
.while the people, the laboring masses, have
boriie the loss. In each of those periods
the apology has been made for the hanks
that they* were obliged to suspend. This
may have been true -at the time, but the
blame lies behind thisf They were not
obliged to have indulged in those wild specu
lations, which cause them to expand their
ability to redeem their promises, and in this
way to have produced the state of things
which obliged them to suspend whenever
payment to demanded. The merchant by a
course of high living and over trading in
volves himself in debt beyond bis ability to
pay,*and closes doors, or In bank phrase,
suspends. He receives bnt little public sym
pathy. All agree in concerning bis course of
of extravagance and folly. He to blamed
not so much for closing doors, as for course
’of extrvagance which involved bitnia necesi
ffut closing doors. Oar bankaEr fill ossa- ■
were under no such necesity. They suspend
ed nr* speculation. In 1&40 wjspi the peo
ple wei;e paying through on* of those jtonods
of ditties*, aWe alluded to they deSifrortined
to protect themselves if pc*lbf*ibgtn*t sack
a state of things in future. And through
their representatives they passed a -law re
qairing the banks which had suspended to
resume specie payment withip less than two
montira after the passage of tho Act. And
requiring ail the banks of this state in future
to redeem ail tlieih liabilities in specie on de
mand or presentation ; while forfeiture nt
the charter was provided as the penalty
for a violation of the law. The people
relying upon this plain statue as the com
mau law which takes sway)the charter of a
corporation which abuses the trust and pal
pable violates tho contract upon which the
charter was obtained-, supposed they were se
cure agnihst future bank suspensions. On ac
count of die value of their corporate privil
eges, it was believe that motive* of interest
would prompt the banks to make out of their
large gains in sacrifice*if need be sufficient
to enable him to procure the specie snd re
deem their bills to save thsir charters. It
was not Uren believed that the banks would |
have the power to violate the law with im
punity, and to dictate tho terms of tlieir own
pardon.. Since the passage of the act of 18-
40 the number of banks and the amount of
bnnking capital in the stateritpve greatly in
creased. As their number and capital have
increased tlieir power in tin* State and tlieir
influence over the legislation of the country
have iiTcreased. Who has not observed
wiiliin the last few years the increasing in
fluence of our wealthy corporations over
our legislature! When their interest is at
stake outside pressure becomes very strong
up in the law-making power, and to too’ sen
tihiy felt. With this State of things existing
iu Georgia the recent bank suspension occur
ed in New York. This naturally caused a
pressure in Georgia, owing to our commer
cial connections with New York, and made
it necessary for our tranks td suspend, or
make a considerable scarificeto get the spe
cie to meet the run likely tube made upon
(hem. The banks at this time claimed and
still claim to be entirety solvent, with lavgo
amount of gold in their vaults. Several
millions of gold in tlieir vaults. Several
millions at gold have been shipped into the
country during the present suspension which
could have been purchased by our banks for
a few per cent premium.
It is acknowledged that the irprofitafor the
last few years have been large. It became
a question there whether they would make
the scacrifice necessary to enable them to
get tbefgoH and redeem their bills,or whether
they would suspend, let the loss caused by
the depreciation of their bills fall upon the
people, aud rely upon their power to set at
open defiance the fhw forfeiting their charters
and even to compel its repeal tilLsncli time as
may suit tlieir convenience. They chose
the latter alternative and it is said that many
of them have suspended. In this state of
things they appear before the Legislature
not prepared even to grant terms to tbe peo
ple, much less to ask any from them. They
refuse to submit to any restrictions upon
tlieir former chartered privileges or to give
any assurances that the country shall be
protected agaiust the recurrence of such a
state of tilings in future. They demand
an unconditional pardon in the form o's an
Act to legalize their illegal act of suspension,
till such time as it may suit tlieir convenience
to resume. They accompany this demand
with’tlie threat that they h?ive the power and
the will to do the people a great injury if an
attempt should be made to execute the law
which they have knowingly and wilfully
violated. This issne is boldly tendered, and
the question made, shall the banks govern
the people or shall the people govern ‘the
banks! tiliall the law be executed or shall it he
set at open and unconditional defiance f shall
only the poor and the weak be compelled to
obev it while the rich and the powerful are
permitted to disregard it at pleasure! In my
opinion the richest corporation should be
compelled to obey the law, afe>p£inptly and
implicitly as the humblest citizon iu the State.
While I have the responsibility of its exe
cution I am determined to know no man or
association of men and that all shall bow to
the authority of fh'e daw without tegurd to
wealth, power oi influence which they may
posess. None are so high that they shall hie
permitted to place themselves above the
law. And if the proper case is made by
proof so as to authorise me to act, I shall
order proceedings against the wealthiest bank
or other chartered monopoly in .Georgia, as:
soon as I will against the humblest individual
who lias disregarded and violated the law.
It is clnimedby their friends that our banks
are well managed, but that the suspension
was unavoidable after the Northern banks
suspended, and that any other course would
have ruined the people. How is it if this
be true that nine of the South Carolina
banks, most of the Alabama banks, all of
the Kentucky banks, all of the. Louisiana
bank* and tour or five of tbe Georgia banks
have stood the shock, and are still redeeming
their bills in specie? And why are not
tbe people of Lousiaii* or Kentucky mined 7
It to a little remarkable that those banks in
Georgia,which have not snspended have been
persecuted as “ Wild Cats,” by the friends of
the very banks which have suspend* i. It in
to be very unpardonable for any one to doubt
the solvency or good conduct of'any of the
banks of Agusta or Savannah or any of them
numerous agencies., .While they wishing to
monoplizo the business in Georgia, led at
perfect liberty to jnake war upon tbs intirior
or country banks.
There is a clause in the Constitution of
Louisiana denying the Legislature tho power,
directly, or indirCfctly, to pass any law to le
galize a bank suspension. The consequence
has been that none of their banks have suspen
ded. They, preferred to make the sacrifice,
get the gold, redeem their bills, and save
their charters. Had there been -* similar
clause in our Constitution, it to believed that
our solvent banks would have come to a dif
ferent conclusion as to the necessity of the
suspensions. But it was said before tbe
Northern Banks resumed that onr hanks were
obliged t 6 suspend to keep the Merchants
and batiks of the North from drawing aU the
specie out of their vaults. This agreement was
more plausible than real. They have not *-
neugli of our b*Hs to enable them seriously to
injpre us in this way. They can only get our
bills to tbq t extent that opr Southern Mer
chants pay promptly without suit. They do
not all do this. If our hanks continue specie
payment Northern Merchants mutt pay spe
cie or it* equivalent for oar hills, get
ont of employment.
and if the people of the North run upon them
with their bills for specie, they have only to
require specie for the cotton and bring it
back. It is not, therefor*, the interest of the
Northern people to enter into warfare about
specie with Southern banks. Since the
Northern banks have resumed, the tone lias
changed and our banks say that the fact that
the Northern banks have resumed, make* it
more difficult for them to resume. They
were insincere then, or they are insincere now.
It to further alleged that our banks sus
pended in obedience to resolutions passed- by
public meetings held in Augusta and Savan
nah. I will not stop to inquire how many di
rectors or stockholders or how many persons
indebted to the banks and otherwise, under
their influence or control composed those mee
tings, or how difficult it mapr be, or racier
may not be, for those most interested lo get
up meetings of this character, by prodticeing
a panic and calling the meeting in the midst
of the excitement. I might inquire iu how
many counties of this State outside of the im
mediate influence of the banks such meetings
were held.- Again, it to said the ‘suspension
was foAhe benefit of the people. They did
not seem to have a.nticipated the danger, and
have not asked for relief. Before the banks
suspended the people conld pass tlieir bills
at par, since the suspension in many of the
counties most remote from the banks, they
are having to pay ten per cent, to get specie
for their bank bills. This to a relief'that the
people of the agricultural porlions of tbe
State have not asked for by public meetings
dr otherwise.
They did not ask to be relieved of one
tenth ofthe whole value of their property,
and they will be a little hard to convince that
they are benefjttcd by the operation. The
farmer soiii his produce tor one hundred dol
lars in hank bills, which before the banks
suspended were worth to him one hundred
dollars in gold Since the bunks ha Vo sus
pended the bills are only worth ninety dollars
in gold. He has lost ten dollars by the sus
pension. The argument to convince him
that it is foflito benefit may be >ble and in
genious, displaying much learning and elo
quence, to which he will probably reply:
Before the banks suspended I had one hun
dred dollars, I have spent none and since the
banks have suspended I have oriiy ninety
dollars, I understand the figures,but do not
see the benefit. It is again claimed that the
suspension wus necessary to enable the banks
to furnish their bills to the cotton buyer to
phurchase the present crop; that the crop
could not otherwise be sold and that it would
not be possible to get it to market if the
banks were compelled to resume specie pay
ment. This argument will not bear examin
ation. Cotton to wortli in Liverpool 15 to 17
cents per pound in gold; it is therefore worth
in Georgia just as much in gold after deduc
ting the cost transportation and insurance to
Liverpool. The maufacturers need the cotton.
They have the gold to give for it. We
have the cotton and want the gold.
There are ships plenty and their owners
want the freight.- If there were not a bank
in Georgia our cotton would still find- its way
to market. And if we would not take the
depreciated bills of suspended banks for it
we should soon get gold for it. It is true
this would cause some delay, and would be
to some extent injurous, but not injurious to
the planters who are generally but little in
debt, and who are not forced to sell ns it
would be to those speculators, bankers and
brokers, who have so long lived and even
grown nch upon the labors of tho planters,
who, when they say that a certain measure
will ruin the country, usually mean that it
will injure them. The very delay which
speculators say yvopjd ruin the country, usu
ally lay the foundation for direct trade with
Europe, cutting us loose commercial from
a State of dependence opou the North, which
would he worth to the South half a dozen
cotton crops. fcut It is not trim that the ‘
banks would refuse to furnish their bills to
buy cotton with if forced to resume specie
payments iinmedtotly ; They wonld in this
(as they always are in all other cases) be
governed by their own interest. And tlieir
interest to to furnish tlieir hills to buy the
cotton if the planters will-tAke their bills for-
it. They furnish their bills to the cotton
buyers atjegal interest nfld probable one or
two per cent * month exchange (usury,) mak
ing fifteen or twenty per cent interest. The
cotton bUyer the friend and probably the
agent of the banks, deducts this out of the
price of the cetton and the planter looses jt.
The buyer ships the cotton and turds over
the bill of lading to the Bonk of which he
got the bills. The hank controls the cotton
orders it sold, and in thirty or sixty days lias
the gold or sterling exchange as good as
gold in its vanks in plaee of t)ie bills. In
this way the Bank not only makes a large
per ceut upon its bills but replenishes; its
vaults with specie in their place. And if
the Band in redeeming ils bills in specie so
as to deserve public confidence the bills may
not be returned for months by tiie planter to
demand the specie. But the Banks makes
sufficient profit by the transaction to justify
it in paying the neecessnry premium to get
the gold, to redeem them immediately ’ if i
!|<tired. There is therefore no foundation in
act for the alarm that the planter could not
•ell Ids cotton, should the banks be foreed
to redeem -their bills’ in specie, er in other
words be forced like individuals to act in
good fiiith and pay according to their prom
ise. But it may be said that this may cause
a decline in the price of cotton, without
admitting the fact it hr a sufficient reply that
the planter can afford to take a similar nom
inal price if be gets gold or bank - bills con
verlable into gold on demand, .than he can
take in suspended ba#k bills at a heavy dis
count- And he will make money by ; tbe
operation. $sT - % v
When it ia claimed that the banks cannot
let out their bills to by cotton unless they
are permitted to suspend, this if true, is an
admission that they have wet Jbe means at
E resent to redeem the bills now ont in the
and* of the planters and others, nd as they
are not able to pay tbeir debts already con
tracledmflmwdmg to promise, it ia gravely
P ra P ol Htj* remedy to let them centrfct
more dSWI and gef the product! of the cooa
try witb tbeir promtte U> pay aa they bar*
may not have a great an abundance of pro
duced the country, and when we may be
much Jena able to meet it*
to grant still furtlwr trine
tions,as the legislature will be again in seslrta
befiire that time. This h quite prudent in the
banks. It may be said m reply to thb the biU
lo resume ijfftvirit’ !!£
have been ingenious in framing thia proviso.
What is meant by a general resumption of
specie , nay meats by tlic banks out of Geor
gia? All the banks of the United States, of
England, France and the world except the
georgia banks,arc banks outof Georgia. Sup
pose the newspapers and merchants say they
have generally resumed ! Hew long will it
take the Governor to get wp the legal proof
of tMs? Probably as tong a funb as tlfe
banks want. The Ne*’*ork bank* and a
number of.otlier northern banks have already
resumed specie payment. If the banks in
tend to deal faiiiy'wkh the people, why set
15th November next as the time for them to
resumein Georgia 1 The bill further provides
praotto is attached, that this shall have no
refereuce to exchange. This then
clui* 1 tm r-., 1 “J di “’
profits, atid they would point to this act *as
their so doing. The act
cent. or g more. Under this act no
could get a note discounted. But he could
f? £££ i S
Savannah or Macon. Tlds not bnly legal
ises the most exorbitant uairy; under the
pretext of protecting the people against
bank usury, but the bill givea tho banks
right to charge about as much awry aa tboy
please. The bill authorizes the suspended
bank to declare seven per cent dividend
while in a state of suspension, while a pro
position that tho banka pay seven per cant
interest on their bills in circulation during the
suspension was promptly voted down. This
would have been competing tho banks to do
justice to the people. This they would riot
endure. One other provision of the act is
held out a# a boon to the people. That is
that the banks failing to redeeem its bills
on Jemnnit%a]\ pay seven per cent iiitiirest
and teu per cent damages it sued to judge
fiseritv Thirls theta* now ami the banks
have made no concession in this; and it is
worth nothing in practice. The whole bill
is artfully drawn and well caculatcd to de
ceive.
• [TO be Concluded next week ]
From the State Press i
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Public Edifices—Bemsrkabls Charactnt, (m
Messrs. Editors :—I take, the liberty
of addressing you a few lines for the purpose
of informing yon that I have nothing to com
municate. .
Milledgeville is situated on the fTebesofkee
Eivcr Murray county. about 4 forty-nioe miles
above its source and has about three hundred
thousand inhabitants; composed mostly of
Penitentiary convicts, Irish potatoes and La
ger Beer..
Congres ia now insessionin the Barltoom.
where the members are seated ao close to
gether that a small mouse in endeavoring to
creep through them bruised itself to death.
-■ This body is distinguished for weak heads
and strong stomachs. Squire Ward of the
State of Dooly, is the Speaker of the Sen
ate. He is a gentleman of large family,
about twenty three years old, gray haired,
and uses tobacco.
Mr. l’erbune of Ware, is the Scribe of
the Senate. He is perfectly bald, but re
fuses to wears wig; alleging this very just
and sage reason—that as nature took his
his hair off, nature may put it back again ;
and that if dame nature does n’t pm. it on
again, she is not the lady he took her fhr.
lie calls himself the “ Big Brave of the
Gherokeea,” but history informs ns that it is
“ Big Ugly ”
Gen Veter Cone is and young man of fair
complexion, tvho has been representing the
County of Bulloch for the last niitty-aine
years, a diseas# of the lungs prevents him
from speaking above a whisper. Tbia is
to be regretted very much.
pieut Underwood is Preaident of the
House. He is a mighty curious little man
and eats scarcely anything. 4
Mr. ‘Speer, the Secretary, is a near rela
tive of his nncle, the celebrated Wm. Shake
Speer; ‘he is a fat old man and wears green
spectacles. He prides himself upon hitUMip
erabuodance of raven locks and asserts that
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