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[From the Washington Chronicle.]
NATIONALISM AND ABOLITIONISM.
We alluded in nnr last to a letter received
from a highly intelligent and respectable gentle
man in Philadelphia, giving some account of
the movements of the Abolition Whigs in that
city. We cony the following extracts :
PniLADELi’IIIA, Al/G. 1, 1833,
R. K. Cralle, Esq.
** Dear Sir: —l write now to apprize yon of
tho fact, that the Abolitionists are again agita
ting the country by rejoicings at the liberation
of the negroes in Jamaica on this day, and have I
posted up notices on every corner proclaiming
this event in notes of triumph.
“Mr. Biddle’s organ, the United States Ga
zette, of this city—has a long article, which
shows but too plainly the traitor’s feelings on
this subject, and which should receive due no.
tice in your paper, for the information of our
Southern friends. If they will still run after
these Abolitionists, Whigs, Biddle, Clay & Co.
let them suffer the ignominy of doing it know- ]
ingly and willingly.
“ I enclose you another Abolition fraud and
falsehood in the form of an address, wherein
they pretend that the Pennsylvania Hall was
burned by Southern ruffians and amalgamation,
ists. They know they lie.'"
The article in the Gazelle to which our cor
respondent refers has escaped us, or we should
certainly lay it before our readers. It excites
in our bosom no surprise nor anxiety that the
Gazette —a leading Whig paper, should follow
in the footsteps of its brethren of the same school.
We arc rather pleased than otherwise—for all |
that we want is to know our enemies. The
game which the Federal or Whig party has
Been playing for some time past has been an
insidious one—and we are gratified that circum
stances are forcing them to show their bands.
The events of each day—of each hour— are
bringing in demonstrations incontestible of a
complete and perfect union between the Na
tionals and Abolitionists, not only in Pennsylva
nia, but throughout the non-slaveholding States.
Tills we were persuaded, long since, would be
the final result, for the identity of their consti
tutional doctrines and designs admitted of no
other.
Some other facts have recently occurred of
which it is proper the Southern people should
be informed. Simultaneously with these re
joicings of the Abolitionists in Philadelphia,
New York and Boston, a correspondence ap
pears in the Whig newspapers between their
candidate for Governor in Pennsylvania (Rilner,)
and a nest of Abolitionists in Pittsburgh,—
wherein the candidate openly avows himself a
disciple of the school—and a soldier in the cru
sade. His election, (should he be elected,) will
doubtless be bailed by the new converts in the
South as a “GREAT WHIG VICTORY!”—
The Governor being a Clay-man is sufficient
for them. He is “ a good Whig enough for us, n
«aith the Virginia organ of the grand coalition.
About the same time too, another distinguish
ed Whig appears on the arena, in the person of
the Hon. John Q. Adams. Two letters are
published from him, the one to Lewis Tappan,
President of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
in answer to an invitation to participate in the
doings of that infamous cabal; and the other in
reply to a similar invitation on the part of the
Massachusetts A. S. Society, addressed to Ed
mund Quincy, another distinguished Whig.—
We give below extracts from both.
Extract from the Letter to Lewis Tappan.
“ I entertain a sincere respect for their inten
tions, (almost the identical words used by Mr.
day, in hia letter published some time since,)
and welcome in the purposes of their association
the most efficient means prepared by Provi
dence for the preservation of the freedom of our
country from the contamination of slavery.
♦ **»»*
“ It will not, therefore, be in my power to at
tend the meeting of the American Anti-Slavery
Society upon their anniversary, hut my best
wishes will be with them, that their institution
may be blessed with the smile and approbation
of Heaven, for the promotion of the general
cause of human liberty, and for the extermina
tion from the face of the earth of the doctrine
fit to have issued from the head of Caligula, or
the heart of Nero, that bondage is the appro
priate corner stone to the temple of freedom.''’
I am, very respectfully, &c.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.”
Extract from the letter to Edward Quincy.
“ Quincy, 28th July, 1833.
Edmund Quincy, Esq., Boston :
“ Dear Sir :—I have received your kind in
vitation in behalf of the Committee of Arrange
ments of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery So
ciety, to attend their celebration of the Anniver
sary of the day upon which slavery was abolish
ed in the colonial possessions of Great Britain.
“ I rejoice that the defence of the cause of
human freedom is falling into younger and more
vigorous hands. Tiiat in three score years from
the day of the Declaration of Independence, its
self-evident truths should be yet struggling for
existence against the degeneracy' of an age pam
pered with prosperity and languishing into ser
vitude, is a melancholy truth from which I
should in vain attempt to shut my eyes.
“But the summons has gone forth. The youth
ful champions of the rights of human nature
have buckled and arc buckling on their armor;
and the scourging overseer, and the lynching
lawyer, and the servile sophist, and th c faithless
scribe, and the priestly parasite, will vanish be
fore them like Satan touched with the spear of
Ithuricl. I live in the faith and hope of the
progressive advancement of Christian liberty,
and expect to abide by the same in death. You
have a glorious and arduous career before you,
and it is among the consolations of my last days,
that I am able to cheer you in the pursuit and
exhort you to be steadfast and unmoveable in it.
So shall you not fail, whatever may betide, to
reap a rich reward, in the blessing of him that
is ready to perish upon your soul,”
I am, dear sir, faithfully.
Your friend and servant,
J. Q. ADAMS.
And this is the man who was lately toasted
with so much eclat at the Webster dinner by the
whole conventicle of Federalists in Boston, from
Mr. Webster, the high priest, clown to the two
youthful “prodigies,” Messrs. Prentiss, of Mis
sissippi, and Menefec, of Kentucky, (Clay’s
missionary to the “ Mecca of Whigistn .”) This
is the MAN whom Mr. Clay himself, in a late
speech in the Senate, declared he was proud of
having elevated to the Presidency—and whom
he would now vote for again under like circum
stances. This is the MAN with whom recreant
Southern editors and politicians are uniting to
elevate Mr. Clay and the party into power !!
Needs there a word of comment from us? Are
the Southern people so besotted by prejudice or
ignorance, as to place their destinies in the hands
ox such men as these?
} are some further facts which it is
known. We have received in
ftl . le proceedings ofthe late anniversary
»f U» AaMman Am,-Slavcrv Sacietv, anj
,* wt-
glanced through them. They are of the char
acter which marts ait that comes from this par
nicious crew. In strict duty we ought to repub*
lisa the whole—hut the volume extends to near
200 pages—and we have neither room nor pa
tience for the task. If is enough for the SoOth
ern people to know that the whole concern has,
as we expected, determined toentcr into the po
litical arena and “sink or sicim,” with their
friends the WHIGS. True, they say that they
will vote “ irrespective of parties’ * —hut the res
olutions adopted as a rule to exclude en masse,
every Republican —every man who regards the
limitations of the Constitution. They declare
they' will not vote for any man who refuses to
receive, consider, refer, and report on abolition
petitions, or who voted for Patton’s resolutions.
This excludes all the Republican members of
Congress, and Jets in flic Whigs,—for we have
shown from the Journals at the last session, how
the two parties voted on these questions.
The public will now be at no loss to under,
stand the policy of Mr. Clay in adhering so per*
tenaciously to life grounds assumed by him that
Congress ought to receive, consider, refer and re
i port on tiie Abolition petitions and memorials.
He knew, he WELL KNEW, what, effect this
treacherous policy would produce. lie KNEW
that, it would bring over the whole Abolition
phalanx to his support. He KNEW it would
throw their whole forces against the Republi
cans. Hence he persisted so pertinaciously in
thwarting the efforts of the Southern delegation.
Hence he refused to attend their meetings or
participate in their deliberations. Hence his
whole course of action at the last session. And i
can the Southern people remain blind to his in- |
sidious and treacherous policy? Will they lole- |
rate longer the more than traitorous delinquen
cy of certain Southern editors and politi
cians who are striving, night and day, to put this
man into power? To them we nut the question
—and on them rests the responsibility.
Further. As a consequence of the rules and
regulations adopted by the Anti. Slavery Socie
ty above, the auxiliaries in Maine have come
out in a political manifesto against the lion.
John Fairfield, the Republican candidate for
Governor in that Slate, because he voted for
Patton’s Resolution ! This is the beginning;
and the movement, will he followed up in every
non-slaveholding State in the Union. The Whig
candidates to a man, declare the opposition to
Patton’s Resolution—and thus the two parties
are brought together in harmony and sweet con
verse. The Whigs will get every Abolit ion vote
which may be given at the polls, and thus obtain
the ascendancy in the respective Slates and
bring the whole weight of their respective gov
ernments to bear on Congress, and on the people.
This is the end aimed at—and these the means
by which Mr. Clay is to reach the Presidency'.
Hear how these fanatic traitors vaunt their
increasing strength in the State of New York;
and to-what causes they attribute the late success
of their compeers, the Whigs ! In the Annual
Report to which we referred, page 55—we are
favored with the following intelligence :
“A fact or two will suffice to show the effica
cy of a judicious use of the right of suffrage.
“la January', 1636, Gov. Marcy, of New
York, in his annual message to the Legislature,
inveighed against the Abolitionists with great
vehemence and asserted the power of the Lcgis.
lature to enact penal laws against them. And
subsequently a committee of the Legislature in
reporting some resolutions responsive to those of
the Southern Slates, ventured to say :
“But in justice to themselves, and to the oc
. casion, the committee must express their accor
dance with the opinion of his Excellency the
Governor, ‘that. THE LEGISLATURE HAS
POWER to pass such PENAL LAWS as will
have the effect o f preventing the citizens of this
State, and residents within it, from availing
themselves with impunity' of the protection of
its sovereignty and laws, while they are actively'
employed in exciting insurrection and sedition
in a sister State, or inlerprises intended to be
executed therein.’
“The men who were thus to be made felons
for the free expression of their conscientious
opinions, immediately applied to the Legislature
for an opportunity to vindicate themselves from
the charges of the Governor, but it was denied!
In 1838, the same men applied to the popular
branch of the same Legislature for the use of
their Hall for an abolition lecture, and it was
granted by a vote of sixty-nine to two! THE j
REASON OF THIS CHANGE WILL BE i
FOUND IN THE HISTORY OF THE j
LAST ELECTION. Mr. Van Boren is far
from having exhausted the CAUSES OF THE
GENERAL DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT when
he lias attributed it to the influence oft.be banks.
Many of the most zealous opposers of monopoly
remembered that, the leader of then - parly HAD
SOLD HIMSELF TO THE SLAVEHOLD
ERS FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR,
and they refused to be included in the bargain.
They were Abolitionists, and they resolved to !
vote only tor men who WOULD PLEDGE 1
THEMSELVES TO BE TRUE TO HUMAN j
RIGHTS. THE OPPOSITE PARTY TOOK
ADVANTAGE OF THIS, AND IN MANY
COUNTIES, STRONG ANTI-BANK MA
JORITIES COULD NOT SAVE THE DIS
CIPLINED CANDIDATES OF MR. VAN
BUREN’S PRO-SLAVERY DEMOCRACY
FROM SIGNAL DEFEAT. The Democratic
politicians of Washington may continue yet
awhile to charge Abolitionism upon their oppo
nents, but those of Albany are beginning to tire
of the game, and Gov. Marcy will be as content
to leave his penal laws in the abstract power of i
the Legislature, as is ‘the gallant Beardsley’ with
the glories won on the 22d of October, 1835, in j
the Blcccker-street Church of Utica.”
We lay these important facts and disclosures
before the Southern people, and ask them to
PAUSE AND PONDER. Their interests—
their most vital interests, are involved. We
solemnly warn them against the evils that are to
come. We call upon the editors of newspapers
who seem disposed, with a blind impetuosity, to
rush into the embraces of Mr. Clay and the
Federal party, to pause but for a moment, and
ask themselves what can be gained by a course
of such folly and madness? Will you bring this
banded horde of Abolitionists and Whigs into
power—with firebrands in their hands, and ven
geance in their hearts, to carry havoc and tie
struction throughout your borders? Will you, J
for the mere gratification of partisan pride—or
the love of power, hazard the keeping of our 1
most vital and important interests in the hands
of these infuriate madmen, and their desperate
and ambitious associates? If you do, j t ou will
incur a responsibility more tremendous in its
consequences than you will be able to answer. |
Permit us to implore you, by all you hold dear, i
to pause but for a brief space, and see for your- j
selves the course and direction which things are !
taking. You cannot remain long blind to facts. :
In six months more there will be no distinction
in names, as there is none now in fact, between
Northern Whigs and Abolitionists. They are
one party in political principles —and will be one
in actions. Wait and see for yourselves before
you madly and precipitately plunge into their
fatal delusions, and become aiders and abetters
in their most unhallowed schemes.
In conclusion, we publish the following ad.
dress alluded to by i ur correspondent, and ask
attention to its temper and tendency. The terra
“RUFFIANS FROM THE SOUTH” are, as
to decency, on a par with the annexed charge
to truth. The reader will sec that the address
is intended to rouse the Abolitionists, and carry
them to the polls to vote for Gov. Ritner, and
the other Whig candidates, as they are the only
‘ friends of free discussion,” according to the
views of these madmen. They go for Mr. Clay’s
policy <f receiving, considering, referring and
reporting on Abolition petitions; and this is
wuat is called ‘‘FREE DISCUSSION!” The
conclusion is obvious.
It proper to state that the Republican parly
throughout the North are rallying with a highly
commendable spirit, against the incendiary co
alition of Whigs and Abolitionists, and in favor
of the Constitution and the Union. They will
fight the battle as men who feel how great are
tho interests involved. We cheer them on to
the contest, with the assurance that their friends
in the South will not he idle spectators of the
scene. The genius of our noble institutions is
with-,them, and the patriotism of the whole coun
try cries aloud “God speed!" Let them, there
fore, do their duty, and this infamous coalision
will be hurled to the earth to rise no more —and
he, in the South, who will give it aid, counte
nance and support, directly or indirectly, will
win for himself the name and the fame of a
TRAITOR.
The following is the Abolition address :
Let the friends of order, of liberty, and of law
-—of the Constitutional right of free discussion
—tlio.se who value security of person and of pro
perty—those who desire liberty for themselves —
for their children—and for all the inhabitants of
f tiic lan I —the citizens and voters of the city of
Philadelphia —read the following
ADDRESS.
“The time for action has arrived. The ques
tion no longer is, whether the rights of tho color,
ed man shall lie restored, tint whether oar own
rights —the rights of free-born Pennsylvanians
I —shall he taken away?
“Already the freedom of speech has been sup.
pressed in this city; our authorities have quailed
before a in oh; wc can no longer look for protec
tion to the present men in ant hority here. Some
of our Representatives in Council have volun
tarily assumed the unenviable station of an ex
tra judicial inquisition, wrongfully to accuse, un
fairly to try, and unjustly to condemn the friends
of universal liberty.
“Feeling, as we do, that a solemn responsibi
lity is upon us to put forth every legitimate effort
j to overthrow that system which reduces millions
of our fellow-men—of native-born Americans—
to beasts of burden; which deliberately strikes
| down and tramples on the most sacred rights of
! the free, and menaces with destruction every
! tiling that is valuable in this republic, except its
; form; —that system which is striving to reduce
| the laboring man of the North to a level with
the slaves of the South; —which is amalgama
ting the two races by an illicit intercourse, gen
erally disgusting to the colored party, and al
ways degrading to both;—that.system which can
induce RUFFIANS FROM THE SOUTH to
invade our city, and attack the friends of liber
ty by violently disturbing their meetings, and
by destroying that noble edifice, known as the
“Pennsylvania Hall.” And regarding civil
government, as a blessing, and having secured
i to us the Elective Franchise, we cannot be in
nocent, if we neglect to exercise the power it,
confers, in attempting to reinstate the Constitu
tion and laws in their supremacy; we, therefore,
recommend to the friends of free discussion and
of human rights, residing in this city, to vote,
irrespective of party, for those only who will
maintain the right of free discussion, (whether
the subject be Slavery, Intemperance, Southern
Amalgamation, or any other sin,) and who will
• fearlessly advocate the principles of universal
! liberty .”
[From the N. Y. Star.]
AWFUL DISCLOSURE.
The’ Pulaski .—-Once more we arc pained to al
lude to in a circumstance that has transpired,
so shocking to humanity that a barbarian himself
would blush to record it. Capt. Davis, of the
schooner Henry Camerdon, whose noble conduct
in rescuing tiro surviving sufferers from the
wreck will redound to his eternal honor, has ar
rived at Philadelphia from Wilmington, N. C.
! and discloses, as wo learn from the Exchange
i Books, the following shocking details of a trans-
I action that has the turpitude of more than mur
der :
The schr. Merchant, of Elizabeth City, N.
C. bound to Wilmington, N. C. with a cargo of
corn, passed the passengers on the wreck of the
steamboat Pulaski, heard their desperate cries
for aid, saw them struggling with the waves,
when even hope had almost forsaken them, and
notwithstanding he was distinctly hailed by
them refused to offer any assistance, and pro.
eeeded on his cou se. The reason which he af
terwards assigned for this wanton and murder
ous neglect of doty was, that he feared another
vessel, bound to the same port as himself, would
get in before him.
We should loth to believe it possible that any
! American could have a crime like this laid at
his door. ■
[ From the New Orleans Bee.]
I SEDITIOUS MOVEMENTS AT HAVANA
AND PORTO RICO.
Our Havana correspondent transmitted ns a
day or two since the intelligence of-a military
insurrection, the consequence of which might
have compromised the tranquility of the island
of Cuba. Wc would have hastened to lay this
information before our readers, had it been more
precise and explicit. The object, the extent, ilic
causes and the mode of conduct of this conspi
racy were still a mystery, and our correspondent
confined himself to a simple statement of the
facts without entering into any details, the au
thenticity of which might have been questioned.
Now that we are better informed, we are enabled
to satisfy public curiosity without the fear of fu
ture contradiction.
It seems that the intestine commotions which
for so many years have been afflicting the mo
ther country, have extended to its dependencies,
i The island of Cuba while under the inflexible
administration of Tacon, was maintained in
strict, adhesion and fidelity to the queen. The in
trigues of Don Carlos at length reached Havana,
and his subsidized agents succeeded in corrupt
ing the fidelity of several regiments quartered in
the Moro Castle. As frequently happens, the ;
plot was betrayed by one of the conspirators, and |
tlie new Governor Espeleta, who follows in the
footsteps of liis predecessor, immediately took
the most energetic measures for its suppression.
1 he doors of the barracks were closed, and the
residence ot the tumps was at once covertcd in
to their prison. Wc learn that eighty of the
most insubordinate were executed on the spot,
and an equal number await the dicision of the
Governor. As a sharp firing was heard from the
Castle, it is presumed that the Executive did not
accomplish his duty without determined rcsis
. Lance. It is doubtless the struggle of desperate
men, who were aware that if subdued, their de-
I crec would be irreversible.
i Porto Rico was somewhat disturbed by simi
lar seditious movements. A naval force has,
however, been despatched by Espeleta, and j here
is little doubt that the mal-contenls will be trea
ted w itu the same prompt and signal severity by
which Havana has been preserved from the hor
rors of an intense warfare.
SAVANNAH, AUG. 14. The Crops— The
Rice crops in our vicinity promise fairly, and al
though a little rain would be of service'to them,
we cannot complain. We sincerely wish as
much could be said in tavor of the Provision and
Cotton crops—the former has suffered severely,
and we fear has sustained serious and lasting in
jury from the dry weather. As to the Cotton
crop the fine prospects presented to the Planter
a fortnight since arc over clouded, and unless
the weather relents and bursts into tears, in
plain English, unless jt rains, and tiiat at an
early period, there is no telling the extent of
the injury which will be received from the
drought. — Georgian.
New Steam Saia-Mill—Nr id Wharf. —lt as- c
fords ua pleasure as the chronicler of passing
events, to take notice of any thing which indi
cates the onwaad movement of our City.— '
Among such indications we notice a large Steam 1
Saw-rmll, about being erected by our enterpri- 1
sing fellow citizens, Mr. Nathaniel Breed and
Mr! Richard A. Bird, This establishment,
which will be one of the largest in our city, or
its vicinity, will work three gangs of saws, with
a high pressure engine of 84 horse power. It
is to be completed and in full operation next fall.
We also notice with pleasure an extensive new
wharf springing up out of the low grounds of
Hutchinson’s Island directly opposite the city,
the property of another of our enterprising citi
zens, Caj>t. John Low.— lb.
AUGUSTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16. 1838.
LAION TICKIir FOU CONGRESS.
J. W. BURNEY, of Jasper.
D. C. CAMPBELL, of Bibb.
BARZILLAI GRAVES, of Newton.
JUNIUS IIILLYER, of Clark.
ALFRED IVERSON, of Muscogee.
J. S. PATTERSON, of Early.
R. W. POOLER, of Chatham.
J. G. McWHORTER, of Richmond.
, C. IL NELSON, of Cherokee.
55* We are authorized to state, that the Bank of
J Augusta, the Branch in this city of the Georgia
Rail Road and Banking Company, and the Augusta
’ Insurance and Banking Company, will resume the
payment of their notes in specie on the Ist of Sep
tember.
55" The article we publish in this day’s paper,
’ taken from the Washington Chronicle, should be
read by every southern man, and ho to him a sub
’ ject of serious consideration and deep reflexion.
3 S 5” The Southern Recorder of last Tuesday
contains the following information:
“ Major Joel Crawford, one of the commissioners
' of the railroad, constructing by the State, has re
1 turned from the north, where, we are happy to
s learn, he has successfully accomplished the object
3 of his visit, which wis to dispose of the Slate bonds,
i Major Crawford has obtained the half million of
dollars authorized by the Legislature, we under
stand at the rate of five percent.—hut by judicious
arrangements, the interest of the first year will pro
bably not exceed four per cent.”
1 The Baltimore American slip of the 1 lili inst.
‘ states, that Corn had advanced in that city fully
twenty cents within the week.
3 X' \
j , understand, that, on Tuesday, the 9th inst., '
twelve of the Cherokee convicts in the Peniten
t liary, ware pardoned by the Governor, and had left
Mtlledgeville, under the care of an agent, with the
view of joining the remainder of that tribe on their
j way to the \\ est We also learn, that, on the night
, previous, an ineffectual attempt was made to fire
1 the Penitentiary, by one of the Convicts from
r i homas county. The plot was discovered in time
t to prevent any damage.
1 /
I Ihe veteran and ga'lant Hull, tired of being on
shore, seeks again the element of his glory, and v\ ill
shortly hoist his broad pendant on board the Ohio 74
—destination unknown.
To some letters that were sent out by the Sirius
’ answers were received by the Great Western.—
Thus in a period of thirty-five days a reciprocal
correspondence was carried over a space of six
thousand miles.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
' Mr. Thomas Richards has received at his Book
Store the new work ofCooper, “Homeward Bound:
or the Chase—a tale of the Sea.” We shall devote
some leisure time in the reading of this novel; the
. aulhorof ihe Pilot could not have written an unin
teresting iale of the sea.
■ Mr. Richards lias also received No. 3 of the Life
i and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, by “Boz.”
POST-OFFICES IN GEORGIA.— X
A p >st-office has been established at Echoconna,
Crawford county. The following post-masters have
been appointed :
J. G. Colbert, Echoconna, Crawford county'.
Bushrod W. Sanford, Eatcnton, Putnam county'.
Robert Higdon, Swainsboro, Emanuel county'.
W. U. Sherard, Vernon, Troup county.
I A
CINCINN AT I MA RK ET.
On the 3d, there were small sales of Flour at
50,50 Whiskey, 33$—none in market. Poiknot
much in demand. Good lard 91 cts. Bacon hams
10 cts—canvassed 11 a 1U cts—sides firm and
scarce at 9 cts—shoulders plenty, at 6*.
CORN CROP IN VIRGINIA,
The Richmond Enquirer, of August 10, give us
a gloomy' statement of various reports respecting
the Corn crop in Virginia and Maryland. That
paper says :
“ Papers in different parts of the country con
tinue to give gloomy descriptions of the Corn
Crop.—The “ Charlottesville Republican” of
Wednesday last states, that they had been late
ly visited by a copious shower in Albemarle, but
adds, “we have had since a second edition of the
hot weather, that preceded the shower. Mon
day last was, we believe, as hot a day as wc
have had this year ; it being court day, wc had
an opportunity of conversing with the Fatmers
from all parts of the county, and the complaint
is general with them that ’there will be but a
small crop of corn made this year in this vici
nity. Several informed us that there had not
been such a drought since the year 1806 ; that
year, like the present, was distinguished for its
intense heat and drought, but one shower of
rain fell in the course ot the whole summer.
This year rain fell the first week in June, and
we have since had none of any consequence un
til last week. There is every appearance that
the dry and arid weather will continue, and all
of us in this region despair of the corn crop.
A bountiful Providence has supplied us with a
rich and an abundant harvest of wheat, and
other small grain, which will prevent the people
from wanting the necessaries of life.”
The Centrevilie (Md.) Times states, that “our
experience of ten years fanning, gives us no
parallel to the present season, either as regards
its dryness, or great heat. Within the past or
present week, we have conversed with persons
from various parts of the Eastern Shore, from
Delaware, and from Pennsylvania, and it has
been as dry in those places as it has been with
ns. Our papers from Washington, Frederick,
Kent, and Taibot counties, Maryland, complain j
ot the dryness of the weatiier, and the failing of
the corn crop. Worcester and Somerset coun
ties, on the Eastern Shore, and the district along
Magothy, on the Western Shore, are the only .
place in the Stale, it. is probable, that have not
been parched up. We bad some rain on Tues- 1
day night, which will assist the later corn 1
should it continue seasonable —all forward corn t
has been irretrievably injured. But little corn i
will be sold from this shore next year.” r
The Kent Bugle says, that “a very large por.
tion of this crop is past all benefit, let the pre
sent month be as seasonable as it possibly
could be, under the most favorable circum- c
stances.” 1
OUR CHEROKEE AFFAIRS. <
Wc have been waiting most patiently for the ex- |
planalions and developements in regard to the Che
rokee treaty of 1835 and the emigration of the In- i
dlans, which the people of Georgia had the right 1
to expect, and to require from those who have
acted a conspicuous* part, in ashington and in our
own State, in certain transactions and negotiations
connected with the Cherokee Indians. No expla
nations nor developements have as yet been laid
before the public. Will none bo laid? llccau.-e
Gen. Scott has succeeded in carrying into effect
the instructions of the War Department, for the re
moval of the Indians to the other side of the Missis
sippi, the people of Georgia are to be left in the
dark in regard to the conduct of a few of our mem
bers of Congress? If so, upon whom must the
blame and odium of having made proposals to John
Ross for a supplemental treaty fall? The people of
Georgia require explanations, and they must have
them; it matters not from what quarter they come; ;
they must have them, because they want to know 1
who the intriguers are, that they may withdraw i
from them their confidence. It is possible that
very shortly we may be surprised with a full and
satisfactory explanation; in the mean time we place
before our readers an incident connected most deep
ly with our Cherakee affairs, which is calculated j
to throw light on the motives which actuated cer
tain ofottr'public men in meddling with John Ross
and llie treaty of 1835.
It must be fresli in the recollection of our read- ,
ers, that, when the information was received in
Georgia, that the federal government intended to
extend to the Indians the term of their emigration,
the following letter was addressed by GovernorGil
mcr to the Georgia delegation in Congress:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, )
Milledgeville, 3lay 30, 1838. $
Sir: I enclose to you my answer to the letter of
the Secretary of War, upon the subject of his pro- j
posals to John Ross, and lute instructions to General
Scott
All hero concur in the opinion (ha* these proceed
ings of the government are a violation of the rigiits
of the State, and calculated to produce the most |
extensive evils to tile Cherokee country
Permit me to request, that the delegation in Con
gress from this Slate, will unite in ascertaining from 1
the President whether it is his intention to continue '
the preset! delay in removing the Cherokces by tho
troops under Gen. Scott, for the purpose of effect
ing that object by contracts to be made with the
agents of Ross and his friends, or for any other pur
pose? and whether it is his intention to maintain
the Indians by force upon the soil of Georgia, in
opposition to the will ot the State and the rights of
its citizens, to whom the lands have been granted?
And that you communicate to me his determination.
Very respectfully, yours, &c.
GEORGE R. GILMER.
To the Georgia Delegation.
It is no doubt in the recollection of our readers,
that in accordance w ith that letter of Governor Gil
mer, a portion of our delegation applied to the Se
cretary of War for the informal on required by the
Governor of Georgia. The reply of the Secretary
of War to that portion of our delegation, was at the
time published, and proved to be satisfactory to our
interest in the immediate emigration of the Chero
kee Indians. But this reply of the Secretary of
War was addressed only to sc veil, out of eleven
composing the delegation of Georgia in Congress.
seven were Messrs. Cuthbert, Lumpkin,
Haynes, Holsey, Grantland, Dawson,and Jackson.
When this reply came to hand, we w ere surpiised
that the names of Messrs. Cleveland, Owens, and
Towns, were not included; General Glascock’s
name could not 6e included, because he was at that
time in Georgia, where business hail called him.— I
The three gentlemen just named were not absent j
from Washington: why thendid they not join their i
colleagues in the application to the Secretary of 1
War? We made the necessary enquiries, and the
result was, that Messrs. Cleveland, Owens, and
Towns, would not join their colleagues, and that
( they thought best to give the reasons fur so acting
in a letter to the Govjrnor of Georgia, as a reply
to the one of the latter to the Georgia Delegation
in Congress. Gen. Glascock, as we state above,
was in Georgia; but we can say, that if he had been
in Washington, he would have acted with Messrs.
Cleveland, Owens, and Towns. The letter of these
three gentlemen we publish below; and vve ven
ture to say that the course pursued by them will
meet the approbation of every Georgian. W hen
every circumstance connected with the Cherokee
treaty, the immediate removal of the Indians, and
certain transactions in Washington, is taken into j
consideration, no high-minded Georgian can blame
Messrs. Cleveland, Owens, and Towns, for the
course they pursued. It is the course we would
have recommended, because it agreed with our j
view of the subject, and because it was tho duty '
of Geo.gia to insist on a faithful execution of tho j
treaty, and to enter into no arrangement which I
might impair its validity, or change any of its sli- :
pulations.
Before wo close these remarks, it is proper to
say that the information given in our last paper, of
John Ross having been charged with the removal
of the Cherokee Indians, is confirmed by a notice
we found in the Athens Banner, signed John Page,
as Principal Disbursing Agent of Cherokee Remo
val. In this notice it is stated that an arrangement
had been made, under which the removal of the
Cherokee people was to be conducted by their
own authorities.
WASHINGTON, 15th June, 1833.
Sir, —We have the honor to acknowledge the
receiptof your letter dated the 30,'7t of May ultimo,
enclosing a copy of your’s to the Secretary at War |
of the iBth of the same month, request ing the Dele- !
gation to call on the President of the United States, !
and ascertain his intentions in relation to the exe
cution oftlie Cherokee Treaty.
Some short time before your letter was received,
we had heard as a report, that a communication,
having reference to the Cherokee Treaty, had
been transmitted by you to one of the Delegation.
What the real character or object of that commu
nication was, we had no means of ascertaining, not I
having had any opportunity of reading or hearing
it read.
When your letter of the 30th of .May was re
ceived, and which reached us two days after that
addressed by you to the Delegate before alluded
to, you may readily suppose it created some sur
prise if not astonishment. If a combined effort of
the Delegation was desirable, it was to have been
presumed the communications would have been
simultaneous. 7 hat the views of the Lxecutiveof
Georgia, upon a most delicate and exciting subject,
should have been made known to one alone of the
Delegation, whilst the others were kept in igno- !
ranee, and to remain so until it suited him who was j
informed to make them known, or await the tardy *
communication afterwards received, was a subject
not only of regret but of mortification. Why your ;
Excellency adopted this mode of procedure, unless 1
in conformity with the practice pursued in relation
to me agent you wished some months back Vo send
into the Cherokee Country, and in reference to
whose appointment you corresponded with the ;
Secretary at War and a few selected individuals of <
the Delegation, leaving the greater portion of the ]
members totally unapprised of the intentions of t
the Executive, in regard to a measure in the opin- 1
ion of the majority, if not all of the Delegation, of I
more than question able expediency. I
These acts, to say the least of them, not very <1
courteous; —this distinction made among members j 3
of the same Delegation, and that on a subject of I B
vital importance to the state, and in which all are ; <S
equally interested, would nevertheless not have
pre\anted us from complying with your request.
L>ut, on the subject of the Cherokee Treaty and
the policy to be pursued, we have never entertain
ed but one opinion; to be quiescent; to do no
thing; to consider the treaty as a settled question;
as the supreme law of the land, that must be exe
cuted according to its spirit and letter.
Uur action, both in our legislative and private
capacity, has squared with this our deliberate opin
ion. We have always moved and generally suc
ceeded in laying on the table, every memorial pre
sented, having lor its object the abrogation or modi
fication of the Treaty; and in all our private Inter
views with the members of the administration, we
have uniformly made known as our deliberate con
viction, that the only true policy to be exercised
towards John Ross and lus friends, in or oat of the
House, was to inform them distinctly and sternly
that now the Executive of the United States had no
j discretion on the subject; that the Treaty must bo
executed; that it was required not only in refer
ence to the welfare and true interestof the Indians
themselv es, but to the people of Georgia, to prevent
delusion on the one side, and to allay the excite
ment of the passions on the other, on a subject
which for mure than 20 years, has been used as a
weapon fur party warfare, regardless both of the
i interest of ihe state and the stability and perma
nency of the union itself.
I nder the operation of these feelings, and enter
taining toe sentiments herein expressed, it was with
no little surprise and regret we heard the late
message of the President of the United States read
in the House of Representatives. No previous
communication or intimation was given to us that
such a document was to be sent. If others were
in the secret, we were not of the number. As soon
as the document was received one of the under
signed called for its reading. It produced great ex
citement in the House, 'i he contents of it were of
| so extraordinary a character, and so well calcula
ted in our opinion to do great mischief, and without
the slightest probability of producing beneficial re
sults, t hat we instantly determined to pursue a bold
and decisive but perhaps unparliamentary course,
and moved to lay the message of the President on
j the table, arid by that means prevent any action
of the House upon it; the result of which motion
your Excellency has no doubt seen in the public
prints.
The undersigned, having had no agency either
in word or deed, by private verbal consultation or
written communication, with the President or
Heads of Department, or John Ross, or any of his
; friends, on the subject of the message, and having
upon all occasions refused to enter upon a subject
S having reference to a modification of the Treaty,
so far as delay in the removal of the Indians was
I involved, though at all limes disposed to give every
facility to such removal—have, since the presen
tation of the message, deemed it the most prudent
and politic course, and one calculated to serve the
best interest of the stale, to abstain from all com
munication with the Executive of the United States,
or the War Department on the subject; looking
with a steady eye to the terms of the treaty, and
I insisting with astern determination on its faithful
: execution. Leaving to those to call for explanations
w ho here or elsewhere, as rumour says, were playing
the part of Diplomatists on tins “untoward” affair,
j To him who, more particularly it is said, made a
I proposition to John Ross to have a supplemental
article incorporated in the treaty, extending the time
.for removal, provided the Indians went beyond the
1 limits of Georgia, thereby leaving the inhabitants
of our border exposed to their predatory incursions
or savage warfare, and at a time when their pas
| sions were mdlt inflamed: Or, to him also, who it
is said was consulted by the Department, and as
sisted in concocting the propositions submitted to
j John Ross, and presented to the house with the
message of tho President of the United States; and
who, if iio did not approve, certainly did not oppose
them or give notice to any of his colleagues that such
a subject of negotiation was going on.
As these gentlemen seem to have been desirous
of claiming all the merit of these Diplomatic arrange
ments .justice requires they should now assume al\
the responsibility, and if tiieir political bed be a
bed of torture, they have made it for themselves,
we shall not interrupt their repose. This Utile in
cident will be of service to them hereafter; ex
perience purchased, pro vided it is not at too high
a price, is said to be most valuable. These gentle
men will now see and feel the force of the Poet's
observation, “that toleloo busy there is some dan-
I gcr-”
In the foregoing reasons, combined with the be
lief that your letter was Uncalled for, the views of
| toe government; since the message as w’ell as before
! having been distinctly stated in their instructions
to the Commanding General, as well as the Pro
clamation of the same officer, that the removal of
the Indians was not to he delayed one hour but with
the assent of the stales interested ; together with the
opinion of every reflecting man, in or out of Con
gress, of the imperious political necessity of the
full and speedy execution of tho treaty, which
opinion has been confirmed by the almost unani
mous action of both Houses of Congress, in the
appropriation bill to carry it into effect ; your Ex
cellency, we are induced to believe, will see not
only a propriety bat justification, in our not joining
in the communication to tlie Secretary at War
according to your request.
We remain, your obedient servant,
(Signed.) GEORGE W. OWENS,
JESSE F. CLEVELAND,
GEORGE W.TOWNS.
His Excellency George R. Gilmer, Governor of
Georgia.
CHARLESTON, AUGUST 14.—We have
been shewn a letter from a ship master of this
port, which states that on the reception of the
news of the loss of the Pulaski, at .Liverpool, the
American shipping generally in that port, hois
ted their colors Half* mast; thus expressing their
sorrow and regret for the great loss of life on
that occasion, and their condolence with the
bereaved families and friends of the departed.
Courier.
Fire in ihe Burnt District. —A circumstance
was related to us yesterday, which, were it not
vouched for by respectable authority, we should
be inclined to doubt. In making arrangements
for the re-building of a house in Society-street,
which was burnt down at the late fire, the work
men discovered that a parcel of coal remaining
in the cellar was on fire, and a piece of fat pine
imbedded in the same was also in a state of ig
nition, having without doubt been in that state
since the morning of the 28th April last, a pe
riod of three and a half months, being protected
from the air by the rubbish which had fallen on
South Carolina Rail Road.
Consignees per Kail Road, August 13.—J P
Seize &. Co. Skinner & Purse, G 11 Jessup, M
Griffith, Stovall, Simmons & Co. N II Whitlaw, T
Richards, E CLborn, Clark, 31’Teir & Co. A Cum
ming, 31 fluff, G f Dor tic, C Hoffman, T J Parme
lee, li Allen, J &, S Hones, Hand & Scranton, S H
Peck, E B Beal), Hadley & Owens, W Catlin,
Rankin, Boggs & Co. J M & W T Adams, Turpin
& D’Antignac, W & J Nelson, B F Kendrick, G
Walker, R Walton, W Philips, Mrs Seignoar, JF
Benson, G Parrott, II L Jeffers & Co, Kernaghan
& Rooney, and R Anderson.