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the co.wnmfovvlist. " by* arinv *v bm wieT U TERMS —t or tlw actni-wcekly published •vary Tuesday and Friday morning-, Sss per annum and for the weekly £3, all p-y -blc in advance. gT ADVERTISEMENT.-; are inse rt, <i weekly f.-r G i |4i cents per square ; semi-weekly W 1-2 cent* *-jr die first, and 43 31 rent* for !i sub-fcquer.r insertion, Wkd monthly for £ I, 00 per square for each insertion. For yearly advertisements private arrangements arc to be made. A deduction is made on the advertuc monts of public officer*. IT Postage must be paid on U tter* o' bus.ness. PUBLIC .wi:lti.\gs. MUSCOGEE COUNTY. Resolutions adopted ul u meeting hcM in C o luinhus on the llouuid, Chairman, Adolphus S. Rutherford, Secretary. Ist. Resolved , “That this meeting doth ex plicitly declare that it views the powers of the 1 Federal Government, as resulting from the com pact to which the Stales are pur tits, ns limited by the plain sense and indention <d the instru ment constituting the compact; and, ns no fur ther valid than they are authorized by the grants •nmneratod in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exer cise of other powers not granted hy said com pact, the States, who are the parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to in’er poso for arresting the progress of the evil, or for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.” 2d. Resolved, “ That when resort can he had to no tribunal, superior in authority to the parties, the parties themselves must he the right ful judges in the last resort, whether the bargain has been pursued or violated ; that the States ; arc the parties to the constitutional compact in their sovereign capacity, and of necessi y, that there can be no tribunal above th-ir authority ; and consequently, that as the panics to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to ; justify their interposition.” 3d. Resolved , That in our estimation, the i doctrine of Mr. Jefferson, is the true republican j doctrine; “that when powers are assumed j which have not been delegated, a Tsullifcatton of the acts is the rightful remedy ; that every ‘ State luxs a natural right, in cases not within the | compact, to nullify of their own authority till assumptions o( power by others within their , respective limits; —that without this right, they would be under the dominion of whomsoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.” 4lh. Resolved, That the existing 'Pariff in 1 lie estimation of this meeting, is a deliberate, pul- j pable and dangerous violation of the obvious •pirit and intention of the Federal Constitution, and that each State has the right, and is in duty hound, to arrest the evil. sth. Resolved, That it is, and ought to he, the policy of every government, to refrain from the passage of all laws, and the adoption of all measures, calculated in their nature or opera tion, to impair the confidence of a large portion* of its people in its justice, or to alienate their as-j factions from its institutions. 6th. Resolved, That any protective tariff is calculated in its nature and operation, to impair, the confidence of a large and respectable por-; tion of the American people, in the justice of the Federal Government, and is well calculated to alienate their affections from its institutions. 7th. Resolved, That the tariff of 1832, is more unequal, and therefore, not loss objection, •hie than that of 1828 ; that it is an important Step toward the establishment of a system by which domestic manufactures arc to be perma nently protected to the extent of the annual ex penditures of the Federal Government. Bth. Resolved, That the act of 1832 is delu sive and deceitful, because it professes to reduce the duties upon coarse cottons and coarse wool lens, when in fact, the duties upon such cottons •mount to a prohibition, and that very few (if any) woollen goods, can or will be imported un der the five per cent. duty. 9th. Resolved , That the Act of 1832 ought not to bo accepted by the Southern States as a compromise, and that it contains nothing which i ought to silence their present or future coin-! plaints against the protective system. 10th. Resolved, That we as citizens of Goor- j gia, will not cease our opposition to this system of legislation, which is arbitrary, unequal, im-j constitutional and therefore unjust. That we! approve of the plan recommended by many of. our fcllow-citizens : That the several counties of Georgia, should elect delegates to a State j Convention to assemble in Milledgeville, on the; second Monday m November next —and to in- | vest them with full power, in behalf of the good 1 j people of Georgia, to maintain, preserve and defend the rights and privileges of the free citi-jl sens of this State — and that their acts shall he submitted to the people for their ratification. I Resolved, That we have unshaken confidence j in the patriotism of our present Chief Magis trate, and believing that in his veto upon re turning the Rill to rc-cliartcr the Bank of the United States, he has given to the American if people additional evidence of his independence and devotion to the Constitution, and that this meeting will use every proper and legal exer tion to insure the re-election of Gea. Andrew \ Jackson, President of the United States, EFFINGHAM COUNTY. Resolutions adopted at a meeting held in Springfield, on the 17th ult. David Gugic, chair man, John M. Hines, Secretary. Resolved, That we consider the doctrine of J Nullification, as sophistical—not capable of be ing acted upon, without endangering our liber ties and jeopardizing our Union, and conducive of civil war and all its disastrous consequences. Revolved, That we deem it incompatible with the letter and spirit of our institutions, and that it could not have been contemplated hy the statesmen and survivors of the Revolution, with WASHINGTON to direct them, who advoca ted this palladium of our liberties, with the zeal, utility and patriotism of men devoted to the wel fare of posterity, and who consecrated it as an inheritance to their remotest descendants. Resolved, That we emphatically refuse our suffrages to any candidate for office, (whether in a limited or extended sphere) whose principles respond to the incendiary doctrines of Nullifica tion, and wo hope that our lellow-citizens throughout the Stale will co-operate with us. Resolved, That we regard the Tariff uncon stitutional, iu ns much as it protects one branch of industry, and is thereby unequal and oppres sive in its operation. U jk>u this ground we shall oppose it by every constitutional measure, until the principle is abandoned, which hv its prac.|| tical effects, secures to the citizens of one portion of the country wealth and prosperity, at the cost of the other. Resolved, That as a spirit of concession has been manifested by a majority, in the modifica tion of the onerous Tariff of 1828, we regard it as the h a r hinger of Vetter times, and as an car neet of fusibility ot our just claims: hut I bhould they refuse to reduce imports to the basis] of exclusive revenue, wc shall be justified ml adopting every constitutional measure to relievo, ourselves from the oppression. ‘ .Resolved, That we disapprove the recom nda’don to appoint d> -legates to a Slate Con vention. ns altogether inefficient to redress our grievances —Lut we are decidedly of the op-in ion that a Convention should he held, composed of d< legal--s from each of the Southern Stales, to deliberate on all questions involving the vital interests of the Sou h. Such a (’(invention con ducted with moderation, ability A: energy can not fail to have a happy influence upon the des tinies of the South. Reached, That we highly approve of the vote 1 Mr. Forsyth of the Senate, and Mr. Wayne of the House of Representatives, on the Tariff question ; and we believe that the clamor which has !k cn excited against their independent and patriotic course, whilst it exposes the machina tions of th*ir enemies, cannot but produce re-ac lion highly beneficial to them. Resolved, That we deem the re-election of President Jackson, as essential to the interest of. this State and of the Union; and we trust that: ... ! the intelligence and discrimination of the pro pie of tins Slate will secure to him an undivided vote. | CAMDEN COUNTY. Resolutions adopted at a meeting In! 1 in Sa 1 Mary’s, on the 17th .‘-foptemh -r, Tliom s Si. Miller, Chairman, if. R. Ward, Secretary. Resolved, That the preamble and res nations [adopted hy our fellow-citizens of Richmond, c • jtlie subject of the Tariff, and the expression of idisapprobation of the meeting at Athens to ap point Delegates to a State Couveii ion, to b ■ ves - ,ed“ with full power to pr s rve, maintain and defend the rights of’.lie free people of Georgia,’ o ii n » meet with our entire concur -ence, and we re- Ispond the sentiment, tlia' a D. Ugad m of pow er, so broad and mires r.iued, would at any time he indiscreet, but more particularly so, at, this time, when the prejudices and passions arc so highly excited and inflamed by alarming doc-1 trines entertained and propagated through thej having for their object resistance to laws [passed by the constituted authorities. Re soloed, Holding as we do the doctrine of I Nullification (as explained by its advocates) to 1 |be false in theory, and if practically sustained,, [ that it would inevitably lead not only to the dis- j solution of the Union of the States but over-j {whelm them, in the horrors of civil exterminat-i ing war.—We mutually pledge ourselves, to u-i ; nite in opposing the election of any Candidate for; Congress or the State Legislature who may ad-! vocate the same. Resolved, That we hold the Constitution as, the great Palladium of our personal and politi-| cal rights—the Union hallowed and awful, and will denounce and hold as enemy that man, who either by timidity or violence, will utter one! breath that would, or could tend to weaken or| dissolve the tie which binds together our com-i men country. Resolved, That wc approve the independent, and, ns we conceive, the correct course of our Sen ator Forsyth, and Representative Wayne, fur voting in favor of the modified Tariff of 1832, to that of 1828—30, by which a reduction of du ties to the amount of several millions will be saved to the United States. Resolved, That we believe the Union and So vereignty ol the States, depend primarily upon the re-election of ANDREW JACKSON, and! that we will use every honorable means to gain' so desirable an event. Resolved, That a Committee of three be ap ' anted to ascertain the sentiments of the Can-! didates to represent tin's county in the next Lc- 1 gislature with regard to Nullification, on or he-! fore the day of Election, and publish the same! at three of the most public places iu ihc county,! for the information of their constituents ; and,! Doctor Henry Bacon, and Messrs. Lewis Bu-i chclott and Samuel Clark, be that Committee. HEARD COUNTY. Resolutions adopted at a meeting held on the 4th September, in Franklin, Rone Fitzpatrick,! Sen’r. Chairman, W. B. W. Dent, Secretary, i Be it therefore resolved, That we as freeciti-l : zens of Georgia, will not longer submit to the j 'system of Legislation which is arbitrary, uno-' j qua!, unconstitutional and therefore unjust.’ 1 hat it ho recommended to our fellow-citizens' in this county, and wo do hcrobv recommend: j the same, to elect two delegates ton state Con-j volition, to assemble at Milledgeville, on the second Monday in November next, and to invcs‘l them with full power, in behalf ofthe good pcoJ i'ple of Heard county, to maintain preserve and! I defend the rights and privileges of the citizens' :| thereof. j Resolved, That W in. IT. Houghton, John T. I | Lcßwich, Wm. B. Barnett, John T. ColquittJ i and James S. Cony, be a Committee to corrcs-i | pond with the General Committee of Corrcs-j pondence, appointed in Athens, in all matters! ; connected with the objects above expressed. | Resolved, That an election for two delegates* jto attend said Convention, lie held at Franklin! and at the different election districts in said coun-t ; ty, on the first Monday in October next, to meet '< at Milledgeville, on the second Monday in No- : vember next. Resolved, That the proceedings of this mcc - ing bo signed by the Chairman "and Secretary, mml n copy of the same be forwarded to the Editors of the Georgia Journal and Federal 1 Union, for publication. G WINNETT COUNTY. Resolutions adopted at a meeting hold r.t Rock-Bridge, on the 15th instant, R. FT. LestcrU :chairman, Thomas Maguire,Secretary. i>e it therefore. Resolved, bv the citizens of Rock-Bridge, and its vicinity, that we deem Uie Banff acts uncons■’tutional, unequal, and unjust in, their operation, and oppressive on the people of tins State, and that they ought to be reduced to the reasonable wants of the Government. ; Resolved, That we recommend to the several counties of tins State, to elect Delegates to meet 1 in Convention, at Miilcdgcviilo, on the second Monday in November next, then and there to deliberate and determine on the best mode of redress, trom the oppressions of the Tariff. Resolved, i hat wc, the citizens of Gwinnett county, will, on the first Monday in October next,! vote for four Delegates to represent the said; county in said Convention. Resolved. That wc recommend to the several counties ol the State, to reserve to themselves the right ot a final vote of ratification on the acts, jof their delegates in said Convention. Resolved, That we retain undiminished confiU deuce in the adniinistraton of our venerable: [Chief Magistrate, General Andrew Jackson, and jthat he deserves, and wc hope will receive, the; 1 unanimous vote of Georgia, at the next Election, j GREENE COUNTY. Preamble and Resolutions adopted at a meet ing held on the 12th of September, in Greenes-' borough, Nicholas Lewis, Chairman, B. T. {Moseley, Secretary. : The people o ~ caa county, are profoundly : impressed with tbife important character of the present crisis, an 1 they have assembled to de liberate and determine what course it becomes them os a portion of tha freed izens ofGcorgin, 0 pursue. We, in common wih our brethren of | the South, have for years looked forward wi.hjl mos ; anxious interest to the extinguishment ot be national debt, as the period at which the un 'jusg mV qua! and oppressive burdens imposed on us bv the Tariff' laws, would bo rcmovqg, pr greatlv modified, and the near approach of tiiis bite renting ev- n‘, had indicated the* late; session of Congress, as the time when a reduction in me du‘ies on imports, so importatifta our interns. 1 wo di bo made. But our just expectations have ||been entirely disappointed. Without express 'd n g any opinion as to the Tariff act recetAly passed, in comparison with tue act of 1"28, Vv e are satisfied that the moo mentions made "id afford very little, if anv.substantial rebel to tue South —and the circumstances under wlnch tue late act was passed, connected with the repeated; I declarations of the Icad.ng men ofthc Tariff paity. leave us bir little hope of any future reduction of those duties in which we arc most deeply in terest d. That wc should quietly suhnnt to tins 1 odi ,'ts svst.-m as “ the settled policy of the conn trv,” v.' iild be a course of conduct which even jh.nr ■ ipK.ss.irs do not expect, and would bo in I din e violation of all our former declarations, jai ! oar n peated and solemn pledges. W c lee! , u.'iid b\ every consideration ot duty and interest, as well as bv that jealous regard for those rights and liberties which tire our pride and boast as. ri ns of the American Republic, to “oppose a j 1 i •rmin ••! and uncompromising resistance,” agues this sys'em of unequal, unjust, unconsti-' 1 1 itioii.'iI and oppressive taxation. An ! w iiercas, it has been proposed tothesev-1 oral conn ies of this s*ate, to elect delegates, to a Btaie Convention, to assemble at Mil-j h dgevili-,; on the second Monday in Novcm hm a \t, for ;he purpose of considering in and ;ietermining on tec course which the people of Georgia should pursue, under existing circum stonces, and belie\ ing that union . and concert i among ourselves are all-important to success. Resolved , That on the first Monday in October next, we will elect three delegates, to attend the | j Convention to be held in Milledgcville, on the! ! 2nd Monday in November next, to represent this i, county. Resolved, That we will cordially unite in i sustaining and carrying into execution any ‘ measures which said convention may recommend; ! provided there is a general attendance of delc -1 gates from the different counties of the State. j ; O • . I nani/nously Resolved, That the citizens o! i Greene county entertain an unshaken confidence j in the administration of Andrew Jackson, and believe his re-election to be of vital importance for the preservation of constitutional liberty and the Union. i Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting j be signed bv the Chairman and Secretary, and j| forwarded to the newspapers in Milledgcville, for p publication. TWIGGS COUNTY, j Resolutions adopted at a meeting held in i Marion, on the 13th September, William Crock- i j er, Chairman, Stephen F. Miller, Secretary. Wherefore be it resolved, That we would con sider a dismemberment of the Union of these States as the greatest evil that could be fid the ! several states. Resolved, That the constitution and conslitu tional laws of tho United States are of binding 1 force on the citizens of the, several States, and as such should be esteemed and respected. Resolved, That we disapprove of a Tariff for ! protection, or to any greater extent than the cxi ■ gency of government absolutely requires.— f Wherefore we recommend to our members to ; _ j ; the next Congress to use all constitutional means; j 1 , , eJ i m their power to have the tariff placed upon j i that footing. Resolved, That we do not consider nu'dlfica | tion or secession by any means a proper remedy Tor the evils of the Tariff; but on the contrary! j fraught with evils consequent on civil discord and j; sanguinary revolution. Resolved, That we do not approve of a Con vention as proposed to be held in Milledgcville pin November next, because it necessarily pre -1 supposes a state of things requiring either nulli i ficatiou or secession. Because there is no means by which the peo i pie can be fairly represented in such Conven tion, and because we believe the Legislature I; fully competent to all that can by us be consti ptutionaliy done on the subject. Be it further Resolved, That wc approve of. the Spartan virtue and patriotism of our chief i Magistrate, exhibited in his Veto of the bill to ! mebarter the United States Bank; thereby show ; ing lus attachment to the constitution and the j , • jj republican principles of’76 ; and that we will i use all just and legal means to promote his re j election to the Presidency. From ike Richmond Enquirer, THE VIRGINIA DOCTRINES, Not Nullification. —[No. ll.] ; Since writing my first number, I have seen an j account ofMr. M‘l)uffie’s speech recently de-: livered at Edgefield, in South Carolina, in which! : that gentleman with a manly frankness avowed; 1 the opinion, that he did not then, nor had he' i ever, considered nullification as a constitutional! remedy, but as calculated to resist the tariff law, I and throw the State on its own resources. To| a can din enquirer, and to a mind of as much per- 1 spicmty as Mr. M‘D’s, I am not at all surprised, : i t:,a it conic not be presented, in any other light. \ Paint the doctrine with what colors you please,! {<> tins complexion it must come at last. It is un-| alloyed, unmitigated Revolution, and nothing! else. It is then brought to this enquiry; Are' the people o! South Carolina prepared for fevo- j ration I Lc 1 this, the true issue, be made up; and i am persuaded, that the people of that State,! ‘when the fervor and ebullition of the moment shall subsides w ill be prepared to decide in the! negative. They knew not the precipice, to the : brink of which they have been hurried. They have been told, that this Nullification* was to cover them with glory, but they did notj know that this glory (if indeed, it is not an ignis fit a us,) was to be achieved, in conflicts with their:! friends, ami to be consummated by the over- 1 throw of the Union, and of the Government of ’ their country. But, whatever may be thede-!: [vision of South Carolina, I feel convinced that* there is no paity in Virginia, who will be the' advocates of Disunion. Differing as thev rnav •. t » » do, in the politics ot the day, I know that there; i are but very few indeed, who avow themselves ; friendly to the heresy of nullification. The idea. I then, that this is a pacifc, or constitutional remc-\ ■iy, irUiS*. bo abandoned; and its advocates must: raise the standard of nullification as a measure' ol resistance, or revolution. —And if it be so 1 raised, we shall see who it is who will prefer idi to the star-spangled banner of the Union. Having endeavored to demonstrate, that nulJ! ulicatjon is nut a peaceful or constitutional reme-5 ny, i proceed to enquire, whether there is any! ' irarrant for the assertion, that there is any iden -I Uty, or even similitude, between this doctrine, and] | that contended for, at anytime, in Virginia. It has 1 been a tarorite theme of declamation, with this 1 ’ I!new sect, that our example first taught the am j Carolinians, [he doctrine of State Rights, andn that ntdlifiralien is only an emanation from tnc ; lessons which we have giv< non tins subject. It ; ■ we,a re the head ot tho Church’, they treat us ratirbr cavalierly, when they deny the authon’v . of our opinions ; indeed when they accuse us ot being apostates from our own principles, 'hit in truth, this doctrine never was maintained in \ ir ,rinia. In vain may the Resolutions or Rep . ■ 'of Mr. Madison, adopted by the Virginia Assem bly, or any ofthc debates which took place at the time, or any contemporary history o! pubic* proceedings be searched, to find any suen uoc trine advocated, or even alluded to. Nor can t be found, in any of the numerous subsequent r solutions, or protests adopted by the Assem bly, in relation to the conflicting powers ot the State and General Governments. '1 he total absence ofthc recognition ol any such doctrine, is strong proof on the subject.—lt is well known, i too. that Mr. Madison, tho an.lsorot tnc Repent, '! has both in public and written declarations, as well as in private conversation, denied that any thing in it, was intended, or could be fairly in : 1 terpreted, to sanction such doctrines as those to ! which it has been attempted to be perverted. 1 Indeed, it has been confidently said, that this ex j cellent and enlightened man, views with great : inquietude and sorrow the j roceedmgs in South Carolina. Can anv man acquainted with the acts ofilie ; Virginia Assembly, allege with any shew of d truth, that it, in any instance, con emplatcd a resort to force or violence, or to revolutionary j ' measures, even in cases in which their resent- I ment was most aroused, or in which the violation j! of the Constitution, was most indefensible ? It is ij well known that Mr. Madison’s Resolutions were ilj produced by the passage of the famous Alien «5c ; I Sedition Laws. These laws wore believed by j (I the Republican party in this Slate to he palpa : ble and flagrant violations of the Constitution. ■!j The Sedition law in particular, was exceeding | !y odious, as it struck directly at the freedom of the press, and was calculated, ifnot intended, to prevent the discussion of public measures, or an j examination of the acts of the then admiuistra | lion, by whose friends it was passed. On the 21st ! of December, 1798, resolutions and a protest | declariilg t!ie two obnoxious acts unconstitution al, passed the House of Delegates ; and in them an appeal was made to the other States, whose ! co-operation to obtain a repeal of these measures was requested. The Legislatures of many of the other States, adopted resolutions, not only re fusing to co-operate with Virginia, butexpress ‘: ing strong censure on her conduct, in under taking to declare the opinion, that those laws j were unconstitutional, and denouncing such de claration ns an unwarrantable interference with ; the r,'g.hts and powers of the General Govern. ; ment, and an usurpation of authority on the part of our Legislature. i At tlie next session, when Mr. Madison was a j member, he presented to the Legislature on be half of a committee of which he was chairman, j his celebrated Report, in which he replied to the I arguments contained in tho resolutions of the | other States, vindicated with great power of j reasoning, the resolutions of the preceding Leg islature, and doinonsTated tho propriety of any i l| State’s passing resolutions declaratory of its opin- | ion, that acts of the General Government were ! contrary to the Constitution, and appealing to ; the other States, to unite in the declaration. This was a constitutional exercise of power in the States, who, as lie properly contended, were original parties to the federal compact, and had | a right to judge, when it was violated. Bhe effort was to operate on public opinion, to appeal to the good sense and love of liberty of the people, and through their means, to effect a repeal of tho objectionable measures. There ■ nas no idea expressed of an intention to resort to j force, or to adopt measures revolutionary in j their character. On the contrary, the whole ot these resolutions, as well as those which pre ceded them, were marked with the most sedulous j endeavors to manifest to the world, that the en lightened and patriotic 'men who passed them, meant to proceed with the most guarded caution; that they were devoted to the union of the States and the preservation of the Constitution, the ba sis of that union. Let it be remembered, that those resolutions were passed, and this Report adopted, at a period of great political excitement, and that the acts which had passed the Congress were levelled at that most sacred Palladium of all our rights, the freedom ofthcPrcss. To mark the sense which the committee had ofthc nature of the crisis, and tho flagrant character of the j ’i violation of the Constitution, I will insert some ■ '! extracts from the Report, as tending to place in a strong light, the caution, the moderation and the wisdom, with which the committee acted, in a matter well calculated to excite the deepest, in terest, and the strongest feelings of resentment in the mind of every lover of freedom and the Constitution. In my quotations from the Re port, I will refer to a copy which was published under the authority of the Legislature at the time, for distribution amongst the people, which I have ever since preserved, as containing the articles of my political faith. | Jn page 87, it is said : “ 'Without scrutinizing j minutely all the provisions of the Sedition Act, j h "'ill bo sufficient to cite so much ofseclion the ! second as follows:'’ “And bo it further enacted, ! I hat it any person shall write, print, utter or | j publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, j a printed, uttered or published, or shall knowing. | , ly & willingly assist and aid in writing, printing, | j uttering or publishing, any false, scandalous and I malicious writing or writings, against tiie gov- J eminent oftlie United Slates, or cither House of I j tho Congress ofthc United States, or the Presi- ) 1 dent ot the United States, with r.n intent to de- ! fame the said government, or either House of j jj the said Congress, or the President, or to bring I jj them, or either of them, into contempt or disro s putc, or to excite against them, or either or anv , of them, the hatred of the good people of (he | I mted States, &c. Then such person, being ; thereof convicted, before any court of the Uni- ! jj led Slates, having jurisdiction thereof, shall be ; . punisiied by a line, not exceeding two thousand i ;[ dollars, and by imprisonment, not exceeding two ! ;i years.” ‘• ()n tins part of the act the following obscr- ■ i rations pres >nllhemse! ves. ” ° \ :j L “'Phe Constitution supposes that the Pro- ■ asident; the Congress, and each of its Houses, may | ' not discharge their trusts, either from defect of judgment, or other causes. Hence, they arc all \ niade responsible to their constituents at the en suing periods of election; and the President, who is singly invested with great powers, is, as a i ' urt:iei ' guard, subject to an immediate irr.peach -1 ment.” 1 2. “N'lOidd it happen, as the Constitution sup. poses may happen, that either of those branches , ot tlie government may not have duly discharged ;i s irust, it is natural and proper, that accord jj ' IT fS to l hc cause and degree of their faults, thev i| should be brougnt into contempt or disrepute, |j and incur tho hatred ofthc people.” |i 3. “\v bother it has in anv case happened, that ! therpi oceedingsol either, or all of those branen- j i evince such a violation ofdutv as tojustifv a ; disrepute, or a hatred among the : peopio, can op.!v be determined bv a free ex-A r r .• .I* ; .vl a fi-ce communication a- ( animation .i.uu*i,u.u .1 \\ , no n<T the people thereon. j \vpenscover it may hove actualt\ hap n. n J t' 1 at proceedings of this sort are chargea ble on all or either of the branches of the gov cra,«t, it is the duty, ss well ns the right, ofjj and faithful citizens, to discuss and iv'omnl r e them freely, as well to control them by ' the censorship of public opinion, as to promote a nnedv according to the rules of the Cons’itu tion. ‘And it canno; be that those who arc to ape! v the remedy, must led in some de ■trrec. a contempt and hatred against the trims *rressing party. 5. ‘ As the act was passed on July 14th, 1 no, and it is rob? in force until .March oil, 1801, it was of course, that during i s continuance, two elections of an enure House ot Representatives, mi election of a part ol the Senate, and an elec tion ofthe President was to take place. 0. “That, consequently, during ali these e lections intended by the Constitution to preserve the purity, or purge the haul's oi the administra tion, the great remedial rights ofthe people were to be exercised, and the responsibility ot public agents to bo screened, under the penalties oi this act.” _ J 1 “May it not be asked of every intelligent friend ofthe liberties of ids country, whether the pow-j ’cr exercised in such a case as this, ought not to produce great and universal alarm ? W hether the rigid execution of such an act in time past, .would no have repressed that information and ! communication among the people, which is in jdispensable to the just exercise of their electoral | rights? And whether such an act, if made per-! petual, an ! enforced with rigor, would not, time to come, either destroy our tree system oi government, or prepare a convulsion that might; prove equally fatal to it.” | The other act which produced the report ot j ! this, and the resolutions oi the preceding session, j was that, commonly called the “Alien Act. ’ ■ Tins gave a despotic power to the President' | over the persons of aliens, and invested him, with 1 the capricious authority, to remove such as lie I pleased, from the United States. I will insert: the resolution ofthe preceding session, both as regards the Alien and Sedition Acts, as develop ing their s use ofthe nature ofthe proceedings, against which they were protesting and appeal ing to their co-States. This resolution will be found in p. 48, and is as follows : “That the General Assembly doth particular ly protest against the palpable and alarming in fractions ofthe Constitution, in the two lute ca ses of the “Alien and Sedition Acts ’ passed at the last session of Congress; the first ol which, exercises a power no where delegated to the Fe deral Government; and which, by uniting legis-; lative and judicial powers to those of executive, j subverts the genera! principles of free govern ment, as well as the particular organization, and positive provisions of the Federal Constitu tion. And the other of which acts, exorcises in like manner, a power not delegated by the Con stitution, but on the’ contrary expressly and | positively forbidden by some of the amendments i, thereto; a power which, more than any other, i j ought to produce universal alarm, because it is! j levelled against that right of freely examining j ! public characters and measures, and of free I communication among the people thereon, which | has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of all the rest.” 1 have made copious e.Tracts, from this in valuable s ate paper, as showing the true situa tion ofthe times, at which this report of Mr. Madison, as well as the resolutions, were adopt- \ cd. It will he recollected also, that at this period, J tiie Sedition Law was in the course of execution' by the Courts ofthe United States; that convic tions had taken place under it, fines had been im posed, imprisonments inflicted, and the public mind was greatly excited and inflamed in many parts ofthe United States* If the Legislature of Virginia had felt it j) ro per under these circumstances, at a time, too, when their calm and respectful appeal to the I other States, had been treated with coldness, if not with contumely, by some who acted with the then administration, to have indulged in harsh expressions, or to have manifested excited feel ing, the occasion might have afforded some pa!li-j ation for their conduct. But it was their object, | not to estrange, hut to conciliate. They relied ! on the good sense, and love of country and ofthe! people. They felt confident, that time ami re-! flection would remove the evils, of which they ; complained. They resorted to no force, used no menace, of disunion, or resistance to the laws, but in a calm and dignified manner, in the spirit of brethren of the same family, endeavored to j convince the other States ofthe correctness and I constitutionality ofthe course they had pursued [at the preceding session.—To demonstrate the 1 I truth ot these assertions, it will he necessary to | examine other parts ofthe report and resolutions,' and possibly other documents; but this must necessarily he deferred to another occasion. AGRICOLA. From the Globe. THE INDIAN WAR OVER. \ BLACK HAWK AND THE PROPHET lAKEN • Copy of a letter to the Editor, dated U. S. Agency at Prairie du Chien, 3d Sept. 1832. F. P, Bj.mh, Esq, —Dear Sir, —The Indian j War is over. The celebrated leaders ofthe! | hostile Indians, Black Hawk and ihe Prophet, 1 1 were delivered to me at this place on the 27th | I ult. by the Winncb tgocs of my Agency. The ; j day afer Generals Scott and Atkinson left this | place, I s-uit out two parties of Winnchagocs to | bring Black Hawk, the Prophet and Niapope toj j me.—They returned the 27th ult. about 10 or 1 11 o’clock, and delivered the two first. The! same day I turned them over to Col. Taylor,; i commanding Fort Crawford, and expect to ac- : company them with a military escort to the! Lead-Quarters o; Gen. Scott, at Rock-Island, ! in a day or two. I am now waiting tlio return of an express scut, up tne Mississippi, by which I expect to re-! jeeive about 50 or GO more prisoners, taken bv Tic Indians. j here is now 48 in the Fort, dc lliverec! to. me by the Vv'innebagocs of my Agen jcv,and I have previously delivered to General j-itkinson 44 prisoners taken by the W inneba | goes and Menomenecs. | , The moment the hostile Indians entered lhc : j limits of my Agency, !>y crossing the Wiscon-'j iSin, with the aid of the Commanding Officer at j jt-'us for:, I assembled the Indians ofmv Agencvjj i and encamped them before mv door, whore they! remained until tiie battle of the Mississippi, and the rout of the hostile Indians. I herewith cover to you an account ofthe de livery ol Black Hawk and the Prophet to mo. i our most obedient servant. JOS, M. STREET. I i Desert pi-on of the tico distinguished prisoners < ( Black Hand: and the Prophet) at the time they ' < vere delivered to (den. Jon. M. Street, by a < gentleman who was present. * Black Mav. k, n Potawatomy by birth, but c raised by the Saukies, appears to lie about 00 c years old. has a small bunch of grey hair on the t crown of his head, tiie rest is bare, Isas a high I forehead, a Roman nose, a fid! mouth, which ! t generally inclines to be a little open, has a! I sharp elfin, no eye brows, but a very fine eye;l 1 diis head is frequently thrown hack on his sl.ou! dors; he is about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches Ifigli ; present be is thin, and appears much dejecg but now and then he assumes the aspect o|’c 0m man 1. He held in bis left hand a white fl a , in the other the tail, with the back skin, • ■rail beak of the Calumet Eagle; wlih this p! f ‘frequently fans himself. His Indian nnino ; s ?> I uscat a-misb-k a-k aek. The Prophet, a halfSaukic and half Wj-j f nchago, is about 40 years old, nearly six f m high ; is stout and athletic ; has a large liro'iij face, short blunt nose, large full ey. s. bro mouth, thick lips, with a lull suit of hair, fj- | wore a w hite cloth head dress which rose sov (_■ ral inches above the top of his head— t he w h O . man exhibiting a deliberate savageness— u ,-! |B Ithat he would seem to delight in honorable wn.r or fight ; but making him as the Priest of as« s .' I sinafion or secret murder. He had in one hand a white flag, while the other hung carelessly I v Isis side. They were both clothed in y tr ' j i white dressed deerskins, fringed at tiie scan,- ! with short cuttings of the same. His Indian name is Wa-bo-kie-shiek.( —White Cloud.) FROM THEGROIUiIA JOCKNAI.. TALKING ROCK, ; Cherokee Nation, Ga, Nep*. j. ]gg-n • Messrs. Editors, —I ask the privilege throrq, H your press, of informing the Lottery ComiJi. i s ioners, an .1 all concerned, of an extensive fraur that is about to he practised upon the good p Cfl .’ |plc of Georgia, in tiie present contemplated],);, j levy; a majority of the members of the Inferior I iCourt of Cherokee County, has been engagedh 'inducing and protecting Indian countrymen,am 'other disqualified persons, togivein to the amoun* lof 4or 500 hundred chances in the lottery | j with a view of having them returned, such is \ '! may be prizes. They refuse to show tho I> S I j taken in. Report says, they have engaged their lawyers to prosecute, and friends to return, fiv, t 1 make these facts known, that some mea. i sures may be had to defeat this unhnlv snccula. tiou and fraud. Obediently, C. If. NELSON. I -■■■ ■ ~*i rr ~ i I ; I TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, isST FOR PRESIDENT. ATVI>KIiIW JACIKSOX. VICE-PRESIDENT, MARTIN V.VA BIJREN. LASJD LOTTKItV. The Governor, in a notice published in the Milled,. e . villc papers, gives the information that the drawing i the Band and Gold Lotteries, will commence o:i tiie 2“ instant. TE.V XE <*&*!. I Agreeably to the proclamation of Gov. Carr.dl, fir «n extra session of the legislature, Both branches met it gB Nashville on Monday the 3d September. 3'he objects e • the session is, to pass a law for the election of repre. I , sentativea-.according to the late apportionment, ami aw. | ther law for the election of electors of President i 1 ! Vice President of the United States. Governor Carton, I ; in his message, recommends the General Ticket System , in tiie choice of Electors. Doth subjects have been re- { i (erred to joint select committees. Til 12 VICE PRESiDENCV. Among the signs of tho times, is one which tuns i* | proof positive, that the leaders of the milliiiers in the I country, are to a man working for the advancement of ■ ■ Mr. Calhoun, and not for the obje-t they say they late ■ in view—the maintenance of state and reserved rights— -1 . • ° |B that sign is their opposition and their hostility to Mr. Van Buren. As long as ?*lr. Crawford was a candidal? j and competed for the presidency, Mr. Calhoun and liu riends were the enemies of that gentleman and of his friends, and advocated principles diametrically opposite to those which were maintained, under the denomina tion of radical doctrines. And certainly the nullifkn will admit, that no sets of principles could be so dri similar, in their bases, and the effects reasonably to It expected from them, when put in practice. Mr. Clif ford, unfortunately for the country and the republican >; party in the United .States, was not elected President, owing to the intrigue, corruption and machinations prv K ; tisod against him ; and unfortunately disease indurui : j him to retire to private life. But in abandoning P"' !; - 1 ; cal life, Mr. Crawford left with hi? friends, for : ; keeping, his radical principles, which to this day huff E been faithfully guarded by a groat majority of therU- , cals, from change and contamination ; for notwi.'maid ing the subtlety of the poison which nullification <i :s - i semi nates, Georgia radicalism has been found impcr viotts to the attempts repeatedly made to coinniumcatc to it the contagion. On the retirement of Mr. (raw ford, Mr. Calhoun began to breathe more freely, and n look with a greater degree of anxiety and ambition n i-M the Presidency. lie supported Gen. Jackson, under tin firm impression, that after four years, the General woe, i retire, and leave him tho political field to bustk in, “ J|S|| contend, ns the candidate from tho south, with any w * | didate which the other sections of tiie country rni;. I choose. But the principles he and his friends had hither-y to advocated, were in bad odour in all the southern■ slates. Mr. Calhoun and !:*s friends believed thatWa presidency was worth a change of principles, to suit the | taste and views of the south. Hence the ahandonnwt ■ by the friends of Mr. Calhoun of their former principles and the zeal they all appeared at once to manifest t the radical principles of the party, at the head of wk £ ‘ were Nathaniel Macon and William 11. Crawford. H that zeal, which new converts arc very apt to carry h*- yond the bounds of common prudence, made them over-1 s leap the barrier which the radicals had erected bet"'' state rights and the federal constitution, on the one sk' and a dissolution of the Union, with civil wars, on other. In their fanatical zeal, they gave birth to | monstrous doctrine of nullification ; and in the bud, tkf| destroyed the fair prospects they at first had, to inr porafe themselves with the republican party, denoe - afed in Georgia and South-Carolina tho radical P a: and to render Mr. Calhoun the candidate of the ?'>ud General Jackson, to the mortification and ment ot ?vlr. Calhoun and his friends, became as ff l«r n President, as he was a pop ilar and successful I- i oral; a’’ fl 'ho people crdled on him to become a*' l ’ | date for another term. From that mrment, defeats his views of ambition in that quarter. Mr. (ak ■ j changes-iiis batteries, and becomes, if not the opr." cray of General Jackson, at least the concealed of • | nent of his administration snd of his re-elect' 9 '’. countenances the degraded editor of the degraded F | graph, in his abusive and slanderous language to "‘ 5 : Gen, Jackson ; and commissions him as the orp- |d the nullification party for the northern section cl j Union. Notwithstanding the disappointment he h- . experienced, Mr. Calhoun still looks forward; and!' 1 : | in four years to attain the object of his ambition—i. mm ject lor wliich he lias played before the people n) United .States tiie part of a political Proteus. H* 3 | the intrigue used to win Georgia, North T Uaro!ina ; 8 j Virginia, over to ihe cause of nullification; hence, hostility manifested by the nuliifiers to Mr. Van Bun !Mr, v an Buren is the only man now in the way of f alhoan. Iho political principles advocated b) ' b Ciay, and the policy he has recommended the ft'- government to pursue, and which he partially p" r -' 1 when in power, are not popular in the south, thou*- ; once they were warmly supported by the principal| ders ot the nullification party in Soutli-Uarolii" 1 ' that point, Mr. Oalhoun entertains no fears ol Mr- 1 M being ever taken up by the south. Not so with J to Mr. Van Buren. This gentleman begun his Jl life with the republican party ; and to this day he ~ been a firm undeviating adherent to that party* J