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THE TARIFF.
Two of our morning journals are anticipat- j
ing the business of Congress and discussing the j
expediency of a revision of the tariff. Une con
tends that the question is settled : the other
that it is not. We do not see how this question
can be considered as settled until the revenue
■hah be so adjusted ns to approach the actual
expenditures of the government. There seems
•to be but one opinion, at least among the friends
•of the present administration, as to the utter in
expediency of providing an annual surplus of
revenue to be scrambled fur by those who re
present different sections of our country. That
the tariff of the last sr-ssion did not contein
plate a sufficient reduction, was admitted on ail
hands. On this ground atone it cannot be con
sidered a settled question. But there is ano.
ther view to be taken of it. The exist.ng tariff,
though voted for by half of the Representatives
of the Southern and South-Western States, was |
not accepted by them as a final compromise of
the question. Had that been the c; s.‘ it would
not have obtained a single vote Irom the Potom
ac to Louisiana. To satisfy the nullifiers we
know' is out of the question ; but to sustain the
friends of the Union —the decided opponents of
nullificatian —throughout tire whole feoulhern
and South-Western region of our country, should
be an object of deep solicitude with every friend
of the present administration from Maine to
Louisiana. Besides all this, the present tariff
i« intrinsically had: the minimum system should
be entirely abandoned —the duties on at least
some raw materials ought to be reduced it not
abolished, and all duties of a prohibitory char
acter should he brought down to the revenue
standard. Interest ought not to be charged on
duties on merchandize in bond, and casli duties
should not have anticipated the establishment of
public warehouses. These are but a few of the
many defects in tin; present tariff M hether
it will be postponed to the next Congress is ano.
ther question, but that it must undergo revision
is manifest. — N. York Evening Post .
Georgia Convention.
ADDRESS
Os a Committee of the Delegates who seceded
from Ihe Convention recently assembled at Mil
ledgevillc.
t'ellow-citizens of Georgia .* Wo have been ap
pointed to make an exposition of the motives and
views of those Delegates, who separated them
selves from the recent meeting at Millodgeville,
styled a Convention. Circumstances prevent
the complete performance* of that duty, at the
present moment. But, for ihe purpose of conn
teracting misrepresentations that already begin
to pervade the community, it is deemed advisa
ble .immediately to present a summary statement,
which may hereafter, if necessary, be more fully
developed. The general grounds on which we
acted, have been concisely exhibited in our Pro
test. The Convention invited by the Resolutions
at Athens, was a Convention of Delegates of the
people of Georgia. In sucli an assembly alone,
we were authorised to act for our constituents.
We most firmly believe, that all the Delegates to.
gelher convened at Milledgeville, wore far from
representing a majority of the People of Geor
gia.* We demanded that the authority of those
who presented themselves as Delegates, should
be regularly scrutinized. Our wishes were re
sisted, and we necessarily retired from a body
which refused to investigate its title, to the char
acter under which it was convoked. Any other
course would have seemed to ns, an arrogant
assumption of powers with which we were not
entrusted. He who speaks in the name of the
whole, or any part of the people, without proper
authority, infringes their most sacred preroga
tive —he counterfeits their sovereignty. These
considerations alone are an ample vindication.
But while simple ju lice itself commanded cur
secession, there were attendant circumstances
which rendered the obligation doubly impera
tive. Twenty counties devoted to the cause of
Union, had refused even to he represented in the
Convention —and on the other hand, all those
who were inclined to the unhappy doctrine of
nullification, whether under its own or any other
uame, had eagerly pressed to have Delegates in
that body. The originators of the project, who
were present as members of the Convention, ex
ercised, as it appeared to us, a great, if not de
eisive influence with the majority. Utterly dis
approving their past movements in relation to
the subject, and justly apprehensive of their pur
poses for the future —under such* auspices and in
a body so constituted, we should have held it both
criminal and absurd, gratuitously to sanction by
our co-operation, counsels which we could not
but believe must prove pernicious in their ten
dency. The result has not disappointed our ex
pectation. The resolutions adopted by the
remnant of the Convention —both of those which
relate to their doctrines and their projects, re
ceive our decided condemnation, 'i he constitu
tional principles which they announce, are sta
ted in a manner which however designed, is at
least fitted to seduce the unwary into the doc
trine of nullification. Whether this be not the
fact, we shall for the present content ourselves j
with submitting to the unsophisticated intclli- ■
ffencc of the public. The plan of a Southern I
Convention, as exhibited in their Resolutions, ap
pears to us, the very worst that could have been I
passibly devised. There is no prevision that i
any certain number of States shall concur before ;
it is held. The election of Delegates for Geor- !
gia to take place on the 4th Monday in March
next, without waiting for the assent of anv in
vited State. The Delegates ofthc States which
adopt this project, whether few or many, are to
arrange among themselves the time and place of
• W hen the Resolutions of the pretended Convention j
■ Wees adopted, only 37 counties were in any manner re- !
pttMMd in it: there being 43 counties entirely unrepre. i
' state i. Os these 37 counties, there were only 34. which i
Cut' vole for the Resolutions; and five Delegates !
faarsf these 34 counties, were equally divided, tor >
and against the Resolutions, thus balancing each other,
featfasi admitting the elections and appointments ot Dele
•.4P*p* t® have been tree from exception, (which is far from
bang true.) snly 36 counties cut of SO in the state passed
the Resolutions of that body.
AfeU representation of the people of Georgia, taking
tho House of Represeniat.vcs as the standard, would con
tain l<B Delegates. At tko time of the passing of the
Resolutions of the pretended Convention, there were only
70 persons in that assembly, claiming to be Delegates,
including the presiding ofE.-er, r.nd of rip*.', ofilv grt
fated fcr the E?tobt»ut.
k
meeting. From the adjournment of the Con
volition to the Ist of July next, it seems to be con
templated that the whole process will be com
pleted by that thme, although every man of ob
servation must be satisfied, that no sufficient num
be rof Stales can be induced to act within so
short a period. In such a scheme, we can per
ceive only the convenient means of drawing
Georgia into a league with the nullifiers of S.
Carolina. It was understood that they would
agree to unite with us in holding a Convention,
ifit w ere called speedily. The mode in which a
minority, consisting of sixty-four Delegates, pro
poses to submit their acts for ratification to the
; whole people, seems to us the very quintessence
iof usurpation. If they are to try so vital a ques
i lion in their own form, by their own agents, and
I * “ 1
i to be themselves the final judges of the decision,
! what is there which a minority may not assume?
j The people must be wary of exercising their
own sovereignty, if they can permit such an ap
propriation ofit by individuals.
The seceding Delegates express but one sen
timent concerning the Tariff—that it is unwise,
unjust, and micons’riutionnl. Several of them
entertained the private opinion, that it was not
advisable at this moment, to take any extraordi
nary s‘eps in relation to llie subject; hut the
whole -.ere disposed to lay fairly before the
People, the project of a Southern Convention,
embracing all or six of the Southern States
which are opposed to the Tariff. In such an
association, if duly sanctioned, we saw the best
guarantee of salutary counsels, and of strength
to render them respectable. The plan contained
in the Resolutions submitted to the House of Re
pros nta’ives on the 20th inst. issuhstantially that
1 which we would have recommended. From the
disposition at present manifested by the members
of the General Assembly, we trust that these Re
solutions will be adopted, and that the people
rallying around their “unquestionable rfpre
sentatives,” will promptly and decidedly reject
the scheme proposed by the remnant of the Con
vention—a scheme which, if acted on, would in
volvethe State in immediate discord, and expose
it to ulterior <»vils of incalculable magnitude.
WM. GUMMING, q
T. HAYNES,
J. P. KING,
I). A. REESE, S'
N. B. POWELL, I
A. CUTHBERT,
M. BROWN,
GIBSON CLARK,
THEOPHILUS J. HILL. J
Milledgeville, Nov. 22, 1832.
AWWSa'iU
FRIDAY, XOVE.IIBFR 30, 1533.
GEORGIA CONVENTION.
The Columbia Times, ane of the organs of the nulli
fication party in South-Carolina, speaks of the resolu
tion* adopted by the Georgia Convention, in the follow,
iug strain ;
“ Nullification is not avowed by name in the report,
hut it is therein resolved that in the last resort, the States,
and not the General Government, have the right to
judge of infractions of the Constitution, and to choose
the mode of redress. This is the most important priu.
ciplc of the Nullifiers of South-Carolins, and the one on
which their whole plan of resistance is founded.’’
We, like the editors of that paper, consider the doc
trine of nullification as firmly and unequivocally main
tained, in the resolutions in question, as if it had been
“ avowed by name." And yet, will the editois of the
Times believe us, when we tell them, that the authors
of the resolutions have declared that they were not nul
lifiers? But so it is; and it appears that in South-Caro
lina, where proof positive perhaps exists of the nullifica
tion principles of those Georgia citizens, they understand
better the policy which lead men to deny the name, but
adopt the substance of nullification. A denial suits tho
latitude of Georgia, while in South-Carolina, the citizens,
less credulous than we are, or knowing better the men
they have to deal with, are contented with the substance.
The Charleston Mercury is not so explicit, though it
states that the principles of the Georgia resolutions are
genuine. This paper holds this language: “We pub
lish to-dav the resolutions of the Georgia Convention.
They set out well, with the enunciation of genuine prin
ciples. but we could have wished tiiat they had conclu
ded with resolutions less vague, as to the action neces
sary to maintain those principles.” Will the editor of
the Mercury inform us, whether promises were made,
by certain members of the Georgia Convention, to use
all their influence in order to have a manifesto adopted,
similar to the one lately promulgated by the South.
Carolina Convention ?
FINANCES OF GEORGIA.
Wc publish below the fiscal operations of the state, for
the year ending October 31, 1832. It appears by this
statement that there is a balance remaining in the trea
sury of 15,896 21; but from this balance must be de
ducted ,810,000 iu stock ot the Bank of the State of Geor
gia, which were received from the commissioners of the
Oconee River. Besides, wc must recollect, that in the
statement of the Central Bank, which we published in our
paperofthe 20>h instant, executive warrants, to the a
mount of $32,880 20, were paid by that Bank, the trea
sury of the state being empty. V\ hen there will be funds
in the treasury to redeem this large sum advanced by the
Central Bank, to pay the expenses of the legislature now
in session, which will amount to nearly $70,000, to meet
the appropriations which will be made by the present
legislature, and all the current expenses of the state, it
is hard to tell. We hope the legislature will take the
subject into serious consideration, in order to relieve our
fiscal concerns from tho embarrassments under which
thev now labour.
STATEMENT
Os the receipts and payments at the Treason/, from
24M November, 1831, to 31si October, 1832, both days
inclusive.
DR.
For amount received on the following accounts, viz :
General tax of 1829, 725 72
1830, 40,924 66
1831, 650 00
State stock, 113,814 44
V’endue tax, ..... 2,852 15
1 Dividend on Bank stock. ... 69,850 00
I Fund for fees on grants for fractions, Ac. 821 75
I Do land drawn lor in 1820, ’2l, ’27 &.’32, 14,398 00
i Do. Lots fraudulently drawn, - . 104 03
Do. No. 10 and 100 12 00
Do. undrics, .... 5,674 504
i Tax on Pedlars, ..... 1,177 00
I Funds raised on Bank Stock. - - 5,862 66*
$256,866 89
240,970 674
Balance, $15,806 214
CR.
By amount of Governor’s and President’s and Speaker’s
warrant, charged to the following accounts, viz:
j Appropriation for county Academies 17,443 52
protection of gold mines, 7.547 65
legislature of 1831. 55,098 60
Penitentiary of 1832, 1'.,000 00
improvement of rail road creek, 9.970 00
j Poor school fund, .... J 9.147 35
Military fund of 1827, .... 2,474 97
Contingent fund, 1830, sl7 68 ; '3l, 903 IT;
1832, 7,486 99, g. 407 84
Printing fund. 1831, 9 4 99; ’32. 9.279 81. 9,374 80
Civil establishment, 1831, 1,162 50 ; 1832,
23,518 75, 24,681 25
Special appropriation of 1822, 500 ; 1828,
34 50 ; 1832, 17.477 86J 18,012 384
Roads and river fund, 1832 . . 19.633 95
Land fund - 43,178 36
*240.970 67 J
THE GEORGIA COXVEMTIOX.-XO. I.
To establish the correctness of our remarks upon the
proceedings of the Georgia Convention, and to place
the whole matter beyond the possibility of misconstrue*
tion, it is necessary to revert to the circumstances
which led to the meeting of such a body of men in Mil
ledgeviile, and to the agency the people had in the se.
lection of those individuals who represented themselves
as their delegates. It is necessary, because if we can
prove that a large majority of the people of Georgia
were opposed to such a convention, as ill-timed and
highlv dangerous to the peace and safety of the coun
try, and as the principles, which it was understood were
to direct its proceedings, could not faii to be productive
of the most disastrous c • .'sequences to the union ot th tse
confederated states, we wiii have accomplished one of the
main objects we have in view, which is to show, that
the members ot the Oonvention, even it the secession
of fifty-three members had not taken place, could not
be—were not considered by a majority of the citizens
of Gecrfia, a? their agents, authorized to act in their
names and for.themselves, as a sovereign and independ
ent people.
The meeting of this convention originated in Athens,
where several individuals of the state, who were in
that town to witness the examination 01 the students ot
Franklin College, met; and in resolutions adopted by
them, recommended to the citizens of the several coun
ties of the state, to elect delegates to a convention
which would assemble at Milledgevillc. This recoin
rm ndation was communicated to the several counties of
the state, and the people ot many counties thought pro
per to take that recommendation into consideration.
Meetings for that purpose were held in a number of
counties, ar which the citizens of those counties gave a
public expression of their sentiments in the torm ot re
solutions. To ascertain, therefore, what those senti
ments were, with regard to the proposed convention,
and to the object for which it was to assemble, and whe
ther a majority of the people coincided in the recoin
mendatiou of the Athens meeting, we have only to ex
amine the resolutions adopted by the counties in which
meetings were held, and the complexion of those reso
lutions, establish the representative population ot each
county, and place under separate heads, those counties
which expressed a disapprobation ot the principles
which prompted the citizens who took the lead at the
Athens meeting, to recommend a convention, together
with those counties, which though opposed to the prin
ciples in question, yet were willing to try tlic experi
ment of a convention, in order to obtain relief lor the
many grievances under which the Southern States now
labour; and those counties which concurred with the
Athens meeting, in the convocation of a convention,
with unlimited powers, “ to maintain, preserve, and de
fend, the rights and privileges of the tree citizens of
this stats.” Fly making this simple and natural dis.
tinctiou, v. c can ascertain whether there were a majori
ty of the people in favour of a convention, with “ full
power, ■’ according to the plan proposed by the Athens
meeting, and of the principles which the leaders of that
meeting had publicly manifested. It w.r can show that
there were a majority at the people decidedly against
such a convention, and such principles, it naturally fol
lows, that the members of the convention, when as
sembled, could not have been, as they were not, the au
thorized agents of a majority of the people, delegated
f.i the convention in conformity to the recommendation
of the Athens meeting, and could not adapt, while act
ing as a convention, resolutions which w jre at variance
with the feelings and principles publicly expressed in
county meetings by a majority of the people.
Before proceeding further with our tas.k, we will ob
serve, that, as our intention is to place before the people
of Georgia, a correct statement of fact? ; and that as
truth, independence and honesty of pul pose are to he
our guide in the investigation of this question, we shall
abstain from using a language which might offend with
out carrying conviction to the mind, and front all rt flec
tions and remarks which might be construed as having
been dictated by prejudice, personal hostility, ora desire
to mislead those who will take the trouble to read this
review. W e can therefore assure our friends and oppo
nents, that, with calm deliberation, we have undertaken
to investigate the subject under consideration, .and that
we shall not depart from that calmness and deliberation
which should prevail in all attempts of this sort, in or
dcr to create inthc mind, that conviction of ihe correct
ness of the facts stated, which is so essentially necessa
ry to produce the results desired.
Meetings were held in the counties named below, and
resolutions adopted, which, with a very few exceptions,
have been published in this paper. ?deetings may and
have been held in other counties, which were not pub
lished in any of the papers of the state. But should
this be the ease, it would not in ihe leas! change the re
sult of our calculation, even if v. c were to add all those
counties where meetings have not been held, or, if held,
have not come to our knowledge, :a those counties which
responded to the resolutions o; the Athens meeting.
Counties which expressed a decided disapprobation of
the Athens meeting, and of the principles which it man
ifested, together with the counties where resolutions
were adopted, in which opposition to the doctrine of
nullification, or to the convocation of a convention with
unlimitted powers was approved, should a majority of
the people assent to the convocation of such a conven
tion. Wo add the representative population of each
county.
Baldwin, 5,747 Jefferson, 5,723
Bulloch, 2,268 Jones, 10,319
Burke, P. 919 Liberty, 5,036
Camden, 3,299 Lincoln, 4,732
Chatham, 11,866 Mclntosh, 3,433
Crawford, 3,804 Madison, 4.355
DeKalb, 10,140 Meriwether, 4,647
Eirly, 1,8f27 Morgan, 9,002
Effingham, 2,448 Pulaski, 4,063
Franklin, 8,961 Putnam, 9,894
Glynn, 3,039 Rabun, 3,031
Greene, 9,224 Richmond, 9,289
Gwinnett, 12,144 Talbot, 5.448
Habersham, 10.974 Taliaferro, 4,702
Hall, 12.077 Twiggs, 6.860
Hancock, 9,478 Upson, 5,312
Harris, 6 018 Walton, 8,968
Houston, 7,058 M arren, 7,854
Henrv, 9.971 Washington, 8,165
Jackson, 8,507 Wilkes, 10.607
Jasper, 10,253
289,492
Counties in which resolutions were adopted respond*
ing to the principles and feelings of the citizens with
whom originated the Athens meeting, and approvingthe
convocation of a convention with “ full power to main
tain, preserve, and defend, the rights and privileges of
the citizens ■•!' the state.”
Bibb, 6.323 Muscogee, 4.282
Columbia, 8,900 Newton. 9,884
Elbert, 9.819 Oglethorpe, 9,834
Heard, 1,855 Scriven, 3,561
Laurens, 4,410 Thomas, 3,205
Monroe, 14,231 Troup, 6,786 j
83,095
It appears then that of 11 counties, with a represen
tative population of 269.509, some of them expressed
an opposition to the doctrine of nullification, an objec
tion to a Convention, and a disapprobation of the
principles which prevailed in the adoption of the reso
lutions at the Athens meeting ; some others expressed
an opposition to the doctrine of nullification, but express,
ed no objection to a State Convention, with limited pow
ers, whose acts would return to riie paople for ratifica
tion or rejection ; and some others, without expressing
any opinion respecting the doctrine of nullification, ob.
jected to a convention with full powers, and recommend,
ed a convention with limited powers. The representa
tive population of the state, agreeably to th* census of
1831, is 444 000, consequently, a majority of the people
of Georgia, by 67,500, did not sanction the circumstan
ces which led to the meeting at Athens, and, therefore,
,to the call of a State Convention; for we must bear in
mind, that with the Athens meeting originated the call
of a State Convention, and from the proceedings of that
meeting, flic people derived their information of the
propriety «f aaaambiiug a convention, of the objects for
which it was to be convoked, and of the feeling* and
principles which were to form the ground-work of the
proceedings of this convention. At all the meetings
which have been held in the state, the recommendation
in the Athens resolutions were considered as the main
object for which the people had convened, and upon
which they were to deliberate and decide. It follow*,
of course, that when resolutions were adopted by the
counties, which accorded neither in spirit nor in princi
ple with the resolutions adopted in Athens, they must be
taken as being opposed to the Athens resolutions and to
the spirit which suggested them.
It appears also that meetings in 12 counties only,
with a rspresentative population of 83,095, approved
the spirit and principles of the resolutions adopted at
Athens. But if w# were to add to these 12 counties,
those counties among the 41, which expressed no opin
ion in regard to nullification, but which approved in a
more positive manner the call of a convention with lim.
iteci powers, still there would remain a majority of the
people against the call ot a convention, in the spirit
manifested in the Athens resolutions. If therefore we
add to the representative population of the 12 counties,
that of the counties of Greene, Jefferson and Taliafer
ro, 19.6-19, it would increase these 12 counties to 15,
and the representative population to 102,744 and lessen
the 41 counties to 38, and the representative population
to 269,848; but it would still leave a decided majority,
on the side of the 88 counties, of the whole representa
tive population of the state. It is clear also, that it we
were to add to the representative population ol the 15
counties, that of all the other counties inthc state, which
are not included in the above two statements, amount
ing to 71,377, and admitting for the sake of illustration
only, that their citizens coincide in feelings and princi
ples with the citizens of the 15 counties, which wc Know
not to be the fact in several of those counties, it would
not materially change the majority ot the 38 counties,
which possess a representative population ot 269,843,
while the representative population of the 15 counties,
amounting to 102,744, with that of the other 27 coun
ties, amounting to 71,377, would be only 1(4.121, leav
ing a majority in favour of the 38 counties of 95,722.
Under the circumstances above stated, the Conven
tion met in Milledgevillc, on the day designated by tnc
Athens meeting.
FIRE.
In the city of Buffalo, State of New-Aork, more tnan
60 buildings, of all kinds, were destroyed by fire on
Wednesday evening, 14th instant. The stores and
dwelling houses destroyed amounted to about 44, a d
the loss estimated at more than §290,000. The Buffalo
Republican states, that, the fire was undoubtedly the
work of an incendiary.
GEN*. JACKSOX—SOUTH-CAROLINA.
The following article is copied from the Charleston
! Courier of last Monday.
“ The extraordinary language adopted by the
advocates of Nullification towards the venerable
Chief Magistrate of the Union, is worthy of be
ing put on record, as one of the signs of these
distempered times. The Mercury threatens him,
on the event of any attempt on his part to coerce
South-Carolina, with “ consequences persona /
to himself, of which he little dreams.” Does the
Mercury mean by this that the dagger of some
Biiutus will soon reach the heart ot this modern
C.ES.VR, “ and free the State from bondage?”
Are we to understand it as a mere jocular ex
pression ? Again, the Columbia correspondent of
the Mercury speaks of the President as
“ The mildest tempered man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat
calls him “ a sanguinary detard,” and says that
to vote for him would be “ to degrade the State.”
Language thus threatening & abusive, is applied
by Carolinians to a native son of Carolina, whom
the American people have again called by an
overwhelming majority, to the Presidency of this
great Republic. We trust that Gen. Jackson
will know how to appreciate the friendship that
dictates such complimentary expressions.”
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
At a meeting of about one hundred of the citizens of
Pickens District, on the 7th instant, the following pre
amble and resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, The Legislature of the State of
South.Carolina have directed that a Convention
be called, to nullify the Tariff' Laws of Con
gress. And whereas we have been often called
r? # ...
upon to join in the measure which is proclaimed
to be the only efficient, peaceable and cons'itu
tional mode of redress, which at the same time
will preserve the Union of the States and the
liberty of the people. And whereas, we be
lieve that liberty cannot long be preserved
should a separation of these states take place,
and that these states will, if ever disunited,
speedily go the way that all Republics have
gone.
It is therefore Resolved, That we will not
oppose, nor in any way in our power resist the
Convention nor the Legislature, but will yield
obedience and give our cordial support to all
means which may be adopted, so long as they
correspond with the principles expressed, as
being peaceable and constitutional. But should
the Convention or the Legislature, attempt to
Dissolve the Union of the States or enact Laws
inflicting Pains and Penalties or confiscation of
estates , we will resist the same by all legal and
constitutional means in our power.
Resolved , That we do verily believe that we
do owe allegiance of the most sacred character
directly to the United States, and that we feel
bound to discharge our obligations as citizens of
the same, at every and all hazard.
Elijah Alexander jun. then submitted the fol
lowing resolution which was read and adopted
by a large majority of the meeting.
Resolved, That Col. Joseph Grisham, Col.
Jeptha Norton, John Setfon and Joseph G.
Evatts be appointed delegates to represent Pick
ens District in any meeting of the Union Party
of the State, and we recommend that Capt. Sam
uel A. Maverick, Edwin Reese, Doct. William
Anderson and Henry Cobb, Esq. be appointed
delgates for Anderson District in like manner,
the whole representing the Union Party, in
Pendleton District, for one year.
And at another meeting in the same district, on the
the 13th instant, the following preamble and resolutions
were also unanimously adopted:—
Whereas, \\ T c are rapidly approaching a
crisis, in our political affairs, and it is a duty we
owe to ourselves, to the Union Party, and to our
country, to state explicitly & candidly, our opin
ions as members of the American Republic.
W c most solemnly protest against the doctrine
of nullification by a State. We now declare our
decided opinion that the convention, as called, in
our state for that purpose, docs not represent its
sovereignly. That if it was constitutionally or
ganized, still it cannot constitutionally nullify an
act of Congress. Nullification cannot be con
stitutional, or it would be found in that instru
ment. It cannot be one of the reserved rights ;
the states never having such right until the ad
option of the Constitution. It cannot be peace
able, otherwise it will be inefficient.
W e view it as a dangerous heresy, ingenious
ly imposed on a credulous and confiding people.
But should our anticipations he found erroneous,
we shall be gaatified to find the dangers we ap
prehend averted from our once happy, but now
distracted country.
W e have no: voted for the members of the
Legislature who have ordered the Convention, nor
have we voted for the members of the Conven
tion : but we are willing to let the party proceed
with their measures ; so long as they shall be
peaceable and respect the Liberties, and proper
ty of the citizens, we shall respect our rulers
and obey their laws.
It is therefore Resolved, as the deliberate sense
of the meeting:
Ist. That the Constitution of the United States
is the only guarantee we have for civil Liberty.
It was formed by the people o. the biases, loi
the government of all the people, and ot all toe
States. . .
2d. That we owe allegiance to the Lnitcd
States, which is sacredly binding on ail the cit
izens.
3d. That wc will resist all unconstitutional
acts of the Convention, or the Legislature, should
such be passed, oppressive on the people, and an
attempt be made to enforce them.
4th. That we will not submit to Disunion nor
to any act of our Legislature, which may be pass
ed inflicting pains and penalties, or confiscation
of estates to enforce nullification; and should
such laws be passed, we pledge ourselves to join
in, and support any means of resistance recoin
mended or adopted by the Union Party in oui
State, for the protection of the Cons itution, and
the Liberty and property of the people.
sth. That we recommend that the following
persons be appointed delegates to represent Pen
dleton DisTict, in any meeting of the Union Par
ty of our State, for one year, viz : Joseph Grish
am, Col. Jeptha Norton, John Setton, Samuel
A. Maverick, Joseph G. Evatts, Edwin Reese,
Doct. William Anderson, and Henry Cobb, Esq.
A LAB VM A.
The Legislature, in accordance with the proclamation
of the Governor, met at Tuscaloosa, on the sth instant,
»nd both houses proceeded to their organization. Levin
Powell was elected President of the Senate, and 'amuel
W. Oliver Speaker of the House ofßeprescntatives. The
next day Gov. Gayle transmitted his message to both
houses. ’»Ve have room only for a few extracts from this
able state paper. As regards the Creek Indians, he
says:—
“The act of the last session, extending our laws
over the Indians has, in conformity with its di
rections, been distributed among such portions
of the several tribes as reside within the limits
ofthe State. Prudent and discreet agents were
selected to execute this trust, who were special,
ly instructed to observe in their intercourse with
these people, a conciliatory course of conduct,
and to do nothing which might tend to produce
irritation, or to increase the discontent which
v.as known already to exist. They met witu no
opposition, but were generally received with
kindness and entertained with hospitality.”
“ On the 22d of March of the present year, a
treaty was concluded by the Secretary of W nr,
with the Creek Indians, by which they ceded to
the United States all their lands east ofthe .Mis- j
sissippi river. The territory acquired by this ;
treaty lies within the limits of Alabama, and her ;
right of jurisdiction over the inhabitants will •
henceforth be relieved of nil doubt or embar- I
rassment which was supposed to grow out ofthe j
relations between the general government and |
the Indian tribes. The duty will devolve on you |
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at the present session, to lay it oft into suitable
and convenient counties, and to establish a sys
tem of county organization, so that the protec.
tion, as well as the wholesome restraints of our
law's may be speedily introduced.”
Respecting the boundary line between Georgia end
Alabama, be informs the legislature, that
“ The line which separates this State from
Georgia has not as yet been established. The at
tempt heretofore made to effect this desirable
object, was unsuccessful, and the views of the
parties are so materially variant that it is pre
sumed any similar effort would he equally una
vailing. A considerable portion of the lands,
involved in this controversy, arc valuable ; but
this consideration is of little consequence when
compared with those which should form the prin
. cipal inducement to its speedy and amicable ad
justment. The whole of the Indian title being
extinguished, perplexing and embarrassing ques
tions of jurisdiction may be expected to arise,
which would tend to hinder the administration
of justice, bring the citizens of each State into
frequent and unpleasant collisions, and possibly
interrupt the harmony and good understanding
which it is the desire as well as the interest of
both to cherish and cultivate. The whole dif
ficulty arises from the doubtful constructV>n of
the articles of agreement and cession entered
into between the United States and the S ate of
Georgia in April, 1802 • leaving it uncertain
from what point on the Chatahoochee river the
line should be run to Nickvjack, on ; be Ten
nessee river. A personal examination ofthe
country is not necessary to a solution of this
question, and 1 respectfully suggest whether it
would not be advisable to submit a proposition
to Georgia to refer it to the umpirage of distin
guished individuals not citizens of either State.”
As relates to the Protective Policy and the Doctrine
of Nullification, he is very explicit. We shall, in our
next, give his views upon the subject.
FOKEIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Late arrivals in New-York bring Liverpool and Lon
don dates to the 15th of October. The tollowing is a
brief summary made from the New-York Courier and
Enquirer :
“ It is admitted on all hands by the London
newspapers, that an English and French fleet
are about to proceed to the Dutch (.'oast, for
the purpose of compelling the King of Holland
to accede to the terms of separation between
his kingdom and Belgium, laid down by the Lon
don Conference. It does not appear distinctly
what is to be the nature of the operations of the
combined fleets; probably, however, a block
ade of all the Dutch ports is intended. This
plan has the advantage over an advance of the
French army into Belgium, in as much as it will
not so directly justify a military movement on
the part of Prussia, or other allies of Holland.”
“ Ireland continues in the same distracted
state. Another sacrifice of human life has been
made at Carrigeen in the county of Kilkenny.
The extortion of tithes was again the cause.
An officer while posting lithe notices was as
saulted by an immense collection of people ; he
directed his men to fire on them, by which 12
were killed and 20 wounded.”
“ The formation of a new French Cabinet is at last
officially announced. Its composition stands thus :
Marshal Soult—President of the Council, and
Minister of War.
Duke de Broglie—Foreign Affairs (in the
place of Sebastiani.)
M. Thiers—Minister of the Interior (in the
place of M. Montali vet.)
M. Humann—Finance (in the place of Baron
Louis.)
M. Guizot—Public Instruction (in the place of
Girod de I’Ain.)
Admiral de Rigny—Marine (remain as be
fore.)
M. Barthe— Seal * and Justice (remain as be
fore.)
Countd’Argout—Commerce and Public Works
(remainas before.)
Os these, M. Humann, M. Thiers, M. Guizot,
and M. Barthe are Members of the CharaUr
Deputies.
Messrs. Louis and Girod de I’Ain are
Peers of Franee.
M. Montalivet, late Minister of the Interior
assumes the intendency ofthe Civil List.
The last Turkey mail brings intelligence ih a(
the army of the Pacha of Egypt was within t
few days’ march of the Turkish capital, and m
troops to opjHise their victorious career. \ | et
ter from Smyrna, dated September 5, s'atesthat
they daily expected to learn ol important event*
having occurred at Constantinople, toward*
which city tlie Egyptians were rapidly advanc.
ing, and must then have been within a few dav*’
march as they passed Koukia twenty days be.
fore, and hail been joined by the people e » frT
where in their progress. The Government a(
Constantinople was in a most critical state.-.
The cholera had made its appearance at Con.
stantinople ; the plague was on the decline.
GOLD AND LAND LOTTERIES.
Drawings of the 24/A and 26 th of November,
Gold Lottery.
BURKE.
Fortunate Drawers. Capts. Dist. No. Dt. See
Henry Smith, Bushes 210 ] j
Jno. A. Dunham, C9t!i 620 21 2
Jeremiah Janran, 74th 1024 2 3
Henry Chance, Petersons ”843
Christian Shults, 75th 516 3 j
Andrew L. Paul, 73d 269 21 3
Wm. H. L. Musgrave, Petersons 980 5 1
James Liptrot, 74th 883 19 3
COLUMBIA.
David Fudge, Adams 258 19 3
Win. Bouroum, Murpheys 113 17 3
David Holliman, Harriss
Jesse W. Morriss. Bells
Martha Marsha!!. Grubbs
Nancy H. Furdiiio, wid. (do.)
James S. Roberts, Cliett,
Jesse Roberts, Huchinsons OH 21 3
Bash lord Robbins, Adams 1227 18 3
JEFFERSON.
Joseph Gardner, Woods 900 2 4
Hannah Pate, wid. C.irnswells 333 3 3
James Stuart, sen. Youngs 589 12 1
RICHMOND.
Daniel Bioxon, 119'h 301 11
Henry H. Cook, 120th 357 1 3
Patrick 11. Smead, 398th 71 17 3
Henry H. Cook, 120 h 782 15 2
Wm. Harper, 600th 1017 18 3
Elmer Delby, 39Sth 72 IT 4
Theodore Brown, 122 th 649 18 2
James Willingham, 398ih 924 17 2
David Vincent, sen. 119th 136 15 J
M alvina A. S. Waugauf, orph. 600th 305 15 1
Mary Wingate, wid. 600th 742 18 3
Virginia P. Renderson, orph. 120th 1290 18 3
Patrick C. Rain, orph. 398th 196 4 3
WARREN.
Walker Reynolds, Parhams 547 10 2
Pearson B. Monk. Perrymans 1189 4 3
James Hall, Camps 598 19 3
James Welch, Perrymans 348 15 1
Geo. W. Thomas, Stewarts 470 3 4
Hannah Perry, wid. Newsoms 91 3 1
Hardey Harris, Symms 1187 19 3
Reese Camp, Johnsons 077 21 2
Joseph Williams, Newson* 354 13 1
Charles Shinley, Camps 1110 12 1
Aaron Jackson, Griers 659 19 3
Vincent, Davis, Downs 785 19 3
Drawings of the 22.7 and 23d of November.
Luted Lottery.
BURKE.
Charles Melton, Bryants 45 6 3
; David L. Broxton, Griffins 203 28 3
Dempsy Murray, Paris 108 18 1
Hugh Vallotten, sol. Polhills 35 11 4
Sarah Dubose, wid. 69th 60 23 2
Thomas Francis, Griffins 119 5 3
John Oats, 72d 212 7 3
Edward Kidd, 69th 206 4 4
Gibson West, Bells 239 5 3
Moses Royal, Griffins 142 20 2
Mary H. Neyland, wid. Roes 74 JI 4
COLUMBIA.
John Tillman, Clictts 50 14 3
Madison Avery, Peeks 123 17 1
David Welsh, Adams 269 11 2
Jesse Watson, do. 122 6 2
Jesse W. Morriss, Bells 277 12 3
JEFFERSON.
Isaac Morrison, Alexander 60 16 1
Wilson Watkins, Christies 304 8 5
John Campbell. Carswells 64 11 7
Wm. Man,son, Flemings 170 8 V
RICHMOND.
John Lamkin, 119th 46 11 3
Abraham Green, 123 d 310 13 4
Maria L. Peter J. &. Geo. M. \V. ) 0 ,_ .
Shannon, orphs. 119: h (j “ 4
WARREN.
James Carter, sen’r sol. Perrymans 309 26 3
Lucy Windham, w. r. s. Downs 263 6 1
Lewi# Griffins orphs. do. 262 6 4
George G. Smith, Newsoms 202 4 4
Jacob W. Miller, Perrymans 322 4 4
Frances ynne, wid. Johnsons 163 6 fi
Parh nn S. HiVtiis orphs. Parham 242 26 2
Solomon Newsom, sr. Newsoms 296 4 2
From official documents presented to the
House of Commons, it appears that the slave
population of the British West Indies is every
year diminishing.—The slave trade ceased, so
far .as regarded these islands, in the year 1808;
the number of slaves was Ten about eight Iron
dred thousand. In 1830, the number was about
six hundred and ninety-five thousand, showing a
decrease of one hundred and five thousand in
tvventv-two years. Those who advocate 'he
emancipation of the colonial slaves, contend that
the British W( st India slavery is remarkably
destructive of human life ; they contrast it with
the increase of the slaves in the United Stales,
during the same term of twenty-two years,from
one million one hundred and thirty thousand, to
two million ten thousand four hundred andthir
tv-six : and, deducting the peculiar destructive
ness of the British system, they demand that
the p irliament shall speedily abolish it.
\Ve know what the British West Indian re
plies to all this. He asserts his right to the pro*
perty in slaves, and demands that the market
price shall be paid him by those who reqmro
their freedom, or the parliament which shah
decree it. But Great Britain is weighed down
with a burthensome debt, and the present minist
ry will scarcely venture to increase it by an ex
penditure like this. Already they discover ilia
the revenue has fallen short, and that the un
certain condition of European affairs has chew
ed the enterprize of the capitalists, and pre ,ent *
ed those liberal individual expenditures, tf oro
which so much of the national income is derive -
—The West Indians, therefore, will scarce)
receive a remuneratory appropriation at present.
—and Lord Grey will never consent to ruin an _
exasperate the planters by a forcible depriva 0
their slaves. The matter will probably be o* k
in suspense for an indefinite term : in the men"
time the slaves will be anunally diminishing 50
that iu the end, perhaps the pbilanthopist n l3 '
cease his exertions on account of the extinct 11 ®
of the race in whose behalf he has been contcn
ing. —English paper.
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FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER OF NOVEMBER*
A joint committee was appointed by the •'*
Houses of Congress at the last session to re'*
j the laws in force within the District ofColurr 1
! and report to Congress a digested Code. DU
members composing the joint committee, •" *
Tyler, of the Senate, and Messrs. DdDDBi DG
A; Wilde,of the House ofßeprescntatives, ha'
been in the city for several days engaged in * u
mitting such portions ofthe work as were con>
mitted to the respective members, and matun
and arranging these into the general rep o ’
The other members of the committee are 031 .
expected. Mr. Thomas was present a fe"'
■>g°. hnt is now absent.
1
258 19
113 17
611 21
1227 18
45 6
203 28
108 18
35 11
60 23
119 5
212 7
206 4
239 5
142 20
74 II
50 14
123 17
269 11
122 6
277 12
60 16
304 8
64 11
170 8