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[From the Trenton (.V. J.) E nporiu n, Nov. 2.]
PROTEST
Os the Minority of the Privy Council of the
State of Neic Jersey.
"The undersigned, members of the Privy I
Council of the Slate of New Jersey, do hereby
protest against the act and determination of the j
Governor and Privy Council summoned for the
purpose of casting up the whole number of votes !
from tbe several counties for cacb candidate as j
Representative of this State in tbe Twenty
Sixth Congress of the United States, and de- ;
terming that John 13. Aycrigg, William Hoi
sted, John P. B. Maxwell, Charles C. Stratton,
Joseph F. Randolph, and Thomas Jones Yorkc,
were of the six persons who had the greatest
. number of voles from the whole State for Re
prcbcntativcs in the twenty-sixth Congress of
the United States, from this Stale, this day
made, for the following reasons:
Ist. Because, it is apparent upon the face of
the certified lists of the voles given for tbe said
Representatives in the several counties of Mid
dlesex and Cumberland, that the said lisis are
not general lists of the whole votes of the said
Counties respectively—but, oa the contrary, that
the Clerk of Middlesex hath altogether omitted
the voles of the township of Sou.h Amboy, in
the said county; and the Clerk of Cumberland
hath altogether omitted tbe volesoflhe township
of Millville, in the said county, without either of
them assigning the reason therefor; and by the
plain provisions of the laws in such case made
and provided, it is the duty of the Governor to
procure full and perfect returns, oflhe said votes
from the said Clerks before proceeding to lay the
same before the Privy Council; and until such
duty is performed by the Governor, and complete
returns of the whole votes fiom the several
counties in the whole Slate are procured, the
Governor and Council have no lawful right to
act.
2d. Because, it is manifest upon the face of
the said lists returned by the clerks of the coun
ties of Middles and Cumberland, at.d upon the
casting up and determination of the Governor
and Pi ivy Council, aforesaid, that the voles of
the voters of the township of South Amboy, in
the county of Middlesex, and the votes of lire
voters of the township of Millville, in the coun
ty of Cumberland, are omitted, suppressed, or
excluded, without any reason or cause being as.
signed therefor —and thus a part ol the lawful
voteisof the whole Stale have been disfranchi
sed hy the acts of commission of the clerks of
tire counties of Middlesex and Cumberland,
and the acts of omission of the Governor of the
Sut-.
3.1. Because, tlie said acts of the Clerks of
the counties of Middlesex anti Cumberland, arc
gross usurpations of the right of suffrage, of
most alarming and dangerous tendency, and
destructive of the most inestimable rights oflhe
people; and inasmuch as the Governor and
Privy Council are vested by law with the
power only to east up the whole number of votes
(not a part) from the several counties, and there
upon to determine the candidates who have the
greatest number of votes from the whole State,
(no a part oflhe State) they necessarily have the
power to hear, try, ami determine, whether the
returns before them do contain the whole number
of such voles, and procure them to be perfected;
suclr has been the uniform construction and rule
of action of tins bony; and now wtien the acts
of those clerks stand without any excuse, palli
ation, or j isiificaiton, it would involve this ho y
io their crime, to withhold the lawful exercise of
a power committed to them to prevent such out
r .ges upon the rights of the free people of New
Jersey.
4th. Because, if the said County Clerks have
any authority to judge of the legali y of the acts
ot the officers of Township Elections, the mo le
of conducting the same, or (lie regularity oflhe
returns mane hy returning officers, a fortiori this
bony possess ttie power to review the ..els of such
cletk-, and are hound to correct their errors, mis
takes or frauds, in their lists returned, and to
procure the same to be perfected.
sth. Because, it is charged before us by the
petition of one of the citizens and lawful voters
ot the Stale, that the said Clerks oflhe counties
of Cumberland and Middlesex, have, by mistake,
ignorance or fraud, suppressed the lawful certi
ficates of election made by the township election
officers of the said townships of Millville and
•South Amboy—and that this body ought to hear
the same, and if the facts are proved, ought to
determine that such returns of lists arc not such
returns as required by law, and thereupon it will
become the duty of the Governor to procure true
lists pf the whole votes from the said counties
respectively.
6lh. Because, it appears before us that the
lists of the votes of the voters of the townships of
Millville and South Amboy aforesaid, were sign
ed, certified, sealed up and delivered or transmit,
ted by the judge, inspectors, and clerks of elec,
tion iu said townships respect ivety, to the clerks
severally of the counties in which they are situ
ate, and that the same were received by the said
cleiks respectively, before five o’clock of the af
ternoon of Saturday, the thirteenth instant—and
filed hy them—and that the said clerks were
hound by law to include them in the General
Lists which is now before us, and that we have
no authority to cast up a part of the votes—hut
we ought to require the whole to he returned to
us, inasmuch as the said clerks have no authori
ty by law, to reject such votes returned to them.
7lh. Because, although the said clerks of coun
ties are ministerial officers, and have no authori
ty to reject, set aside, or suppress returns —yet,
that when it manifestly appears to the Governor
and Council, that the returns made by the coun
ty clerks do not contain the voles of the whole
cj nly, with nit assigning any reason for supres
smg a part, it is the duty of the Governor and
Council to consider such returns as nullities, and
to procure correct lists of the whole voles, and
that the power to determine what candidates
have the greatest number of votes in the who!?.
State, and to cast up the whole number of voles
from each county, and to procure returns where
the clerks have been guilty of neglect, necessa
rily involves a quasi judicial power, so as to en
able the persons on whom it is conferred to pre
vent fraud and correct mistakes in the returning
officers, who are required by law to make returns
to them.
Bih. Because, tn tire present case to deter
mine, that the Governor and Council, are to be
the blind instruments to carry into effect the ille
gal or fraudulent acts of County Clerks, makes
the Governor and Council particeps criminis, in
what we solemnly consider one ot the most
alarming usurpations upon the rights of a free
people, that Has ever been attempted. That
no Clerk of a County has heretofore attempted
to suppress lire vo.es ofa Township for any other
cause, than that the returns were not made
within the time -prescribed by law —and to
sanction such an attempt would transfer the
rights ofilie people to usurping Clerks, and ren
er the voice ot the ballot box powerless. For
a t cse reasons, we do solemnly protest against
the above ment’oned determination—and pray I
that this protest may be entered on record.
Benjamin Oliphant, John 11. Lambert,
Japhet Ireland. Francis Price,
Richard R. Morris, Jos. Moore,
K- 11. Kennedy.
Council Chamber, Oct. 31st, 1833.
[From the Sentinel of yesterday.]
Our readers will remember how earnestlv some
of the Van Burcn papers in this Stale attempted
just previous to the election, to prove that the
Whigs of tlie North were Abolitionists, and by
attempting to show that the Slate Rights party
j here coincided with the wlffgs there, to saddle
1 upon us tiie sin of co-operating with Aboli
| liouism.
Dr. Duncan, the Van Bnren representative in
i Congress fiom the Cincinnati District in Ohio,
l is a great man in the eyes of our Southern De
i iimcrats. He is their fighting fowl in the House,
| of whom they boasted that he had frightened
1 W.se out of !us senses as well as half the Whigs
I in Congress, and whose undelivered speech in
| reply to .Mr. Betid was extolled as the greatest
i production of the age. In a word he is considered
| by tiie Standard of Union and Constnationalist
i as a perfect model of democracy with whom the
j people of the South should go heart and hand.
■ Just prior to the late election in Ohio, the Doc
j lor finding that lie was about to be beaten, ad- j
j dressed a secret letter to the abolitionists giving
i his views upon slavery. Tiie abolitionists all
| voted for him and he thereby saved his election
jby 176 votes. They were able to command just
j about enough votes to torn the scale in his fa
vor. The letter was kept secret except among
tiie fanatics until after the election, when a copy
of it fell into the hands of some whig who had
it published. The following is an extract from
it, to which we invite the attention of opr rea
ders. We especially ask a perusal of it by the
editors of the two papers above mentioned.
“There is no man living, perhaps, who is
more deadly hostile to slavery than I am. My
feelings—my education—the circumstances that
have surrounded me through life, together with
my principles of what I believe to constitute the
natural and political rights of man—all conspire
to make me abhor it as one of the greatest evils
that exists on the face of tiie earth. Yes, greater
in its moral effects and corrupting tendencies,
than all other human evils put together. It is
not only a moral and political evil within itself,
or intrinsically so of the darkest and most dam
ning character, but in all its bearings and effects
calculated to produce the moat fatal effects on
both the moral and politic J institutions of our
] country. It is an evil that lias, does now’, and
■ j will in all time to come while it exists, involve
■ in it, as well in its present possession as in its
future operations, ciime, fraud, theft, robbery,
1 murder, and death.
1 “For tiie truth of what I say as to its present
: effects upon the ins'itutions of our country, I
■ have only to refer you to a view of the slave
states, in our Union, and a comparison between
tiie relative condition of the improvements of
' them and the free stales. You scethef.ee stales
happy and flourishing, to the admiration and as.
lomshmcnt of all who see them. Public improve
i ments and private prosperity are swift and head
in the race,while on the other hand poverty,lean,
and hungry, slcnli’y, and squalid wretchedness,
r seem to cover the face of the land, in many parts
wiiere slave institutions have a residence. Cioss
f the line that separates the free from the slave
slates, or stand upon it and look across the for
mer, you will see comparatively all life, all hap
piness, all prosperity, both public and private,
but turn your ryes over the latter and survey it;
every thing material, (except a few of the weal
thy proprietors) bearing the impress of poverty
dilapidation; all looks as if pestilence and
famine had been making their sad innovation.
The anger of God and the vengeance of Hea
ven seem to rest upon every thing upon which
you can cast your eyes. Every prospect seems
to be withered and wilted by the frown and dis
approbation of avenging justice and violated hu
manity. In shot I, almost every inst ilulion, eve
ry prosperity, public and private, seenis to be
sickening and dying from the corrupting and cor.
rolling effects of slavery. Bat the curse be on
the head of those who sustain such an institu
tion.”
[From the Globe ]
DR. DUNCAN AND ABOLITION.
The Federal newspapers have garbled some
extracts from a letter of Dr. Duncan, in reply to
questions put to him by the Abolitionists to de
feat his election. The reply, in its vehemence
of style, is characteristic of the author, especial
ly in expressing abhorrence of slavery, in the
abstract. Ho declares the conviction that it has
had a blighting influence upon the Stales upon
which it w’as fastened by the sinister policy of
the mother country. But in responding to the
specific interrogatory requiring his opinion as to
the power of Congress to esla dish slavery in the
District of Columbia, Dr. Duncan says:
“ I mean to say that Congress lias the same
power over the District of Columbia, and the
citizens and property thereof, that the Legisla
tures of Virginia and Maryland had over the citi
zens and property of their respective Slates.—
But next, in what consisted that power by which
the free Stales abolished slavery within their li
mits? Was it by a provision or reservation of
power in the original colonial charters, or in
their Slate Constitution? or was the power ex
ercised in conformity with the will, approbation,
or desire of the people, expressed through the
ballot-boxes? This by me must go unanswered,
for I am not in possession of the means of infor
mation. If there existed neither charter nor
constitutional power to authorize the abolition of
slavery and the slave trade in those States where
slavery has been abolished, (and any provision
in a colonial charier must have been recognized
by the Constitution, if there was a Constitution,)
then the power must have emanated directly
from the people. Such being the case, the same
power now exists as applied to the slave Slates
and to the abolition of slavery. The work must
be directed by the people—it must be the work
of the people—for nothing short of a majority of
their voices would warrant the passage of a law
which could const it vtionally affect their property
in their slaves. The Constitution secures, in di
reel terms, to every citizen in the United States,
inviolate, the benefit of his contracts and the
peaceable except that
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derived from the'will of
through “Me ballot-boxes:' TJ>c Smiles that
resigned their authority over this District, could
‘ nly resign what they possessed—power to abo.
lish slavery, with the consent of their constitu
ents; and therefore Dr. Duncan insists, abolition
must be the woik of the people here. In tiffs
conclusion he cuts oft’ the interference of the
people elsewhere with “ the peaceable jtossession
of his property ” by the citizen in the District ot
Columbia.
In regard to the general question of slavery in
the Stales, raised Ly the Abolitionists, Dr. Dun.
can thus expresses himself:
“We found it when we found ourselves in pos
session of our new, our free, and our independent
(free and independent of other powers) Govern
ment. Wc have neither share nor lot in either
the benefits o.- the crimes of slavery. It was tol
erated by our ancestors at the formation of the
Government and the adoption of the Constilu
■
lion, lo secure and perpetuate our independence, 9
which had cost so much hlood, so much treasure,
and so much toil. The tolcra ion ofslaveiy was
one of the condit ions upon which the slave ' t des
agreed to enter in'o the confederation, and to
adopt the Constitution ; and to disturb the ques- e
tion now, contrary to their wish,and in the face of |
t icir approbation,is,in some degree,to violate the
Constitution, upon which the Federal Govern
ment was established. and, if persisted in, may t
greatly endanger our happy Union. I wool lire
arrogance in me, and show a great want of gen- t
erosity and liberality, to hesitate for a moment
lo believe that in the greater number of cases me j
spirit of abolitionism Hows from any other than j
the purest fountains of charity and humanity-—I
believe that hundreds and thousands of those who
are zealo sly supporting the abolition cause, are
governed by no other than a wish for the best in- ]
lercsts of Lite counts/, and the purest principle -
of humanity ; yet I have not been able to concur f
in ahMtionism. I have thought, and do think ,
that it is mistaken philanthropy, and I would t
fear the effects of abolitionism, even if there s
were, no constitutional objections , or vitiations
of personal or state rights in carrying out the
system. I fear the effects would be more fatal
lo the unhappy and unfortunate African than s j
even slavery itself.” _ j 1
He concludes by declaring his policy in rela- |
tion to the subject in the following brief remark: ,
‘ I have ever been in favor of the colonization (
plan of ameliorating the condition of slavery,
and of finally abolishing it within the United (
Slates. The process may be tedious, but it will
be safe.”
In publishing litis letter of Dr. Duncan, the
Cincinnati Advertiser observr s :
“We are of opinion the design was to entrap
him, [Dr. Duncan] and to procure from him
some sentiments that might embroil.hiin with ins . i
own party, for we do not think there is a single i
Hoco Poco Abolitionist who would have voted j
for him if he had declared himself in favor of tin- j
mediate abolition ; nor do we believe that a sin- ;
gie Abolitionist among the Hoco Pocos did vole '
for ellier him or Governor Shannon.”
[From the Baltimore American .]
NEW YORK ELECTION.
Tite Journal oi Commerce says “ihat the elec
tion in that city has resulted in favor of the
; Whigs by a majority of at h ast Fifteen Hun
dred; that rour Whig members of Congn ss are
elected, being a gain of two; that a Whig Sen- 1
ator is domed in the first Senate District, being
also a Whig gain.
“'Pile following is a statement of the majori
ties in the diffract wards. The Congressional
ticket was the one canvassed in every ward ex
cept the 12lh, where the Stale ticket was count
ed instead. The official returns may exhibit
slight variations from this statement, but nothing
material.
Ward,. Whig maj. V. B. maj.
1 1011
2 606
3 615
4 230
5 516
6 13
7 147
8 about a lie*
9 447
10 287
11 741
12 147
13 446
14 96
15 873
16 15
17 128
4011 23J3
2303
Whig maj. in city 1703
* At 3 o’clock litis morning the votes were not
all counted, —the whole number being 3980.
First Senate District.
Tins district comprises Hie Counties of New
York, King’s, and Richmond. Gabriel Furman,
VV iiig, is elected to the Senate by a majority of j
1200 to 1500. He succeeds Coe S. Downing,
V. B.
Members of Congress Elected.
Those in Italic are Whigs.
Ist Disirict.—Thomas B. Jackson,
f Ogden Hoffman.
Edward Curtis.
1 Moses H. Grinnell , Whig gain.
James Monroe , Wtiiggain.
4i.li. Governeur Kemble.
KING’S COUNTY.
The following are complete leturns from King’s
County, for the Assembly ticket, no other tick
et having been canvassed last night. It will be
seen thai Cornelius Bergen, Whig, and Jeremi
ah Lott, Van Bur n, are elected lo the Assembly,
by very small majorities. Last year two Wings,
by an average majority of 187. Showing a Van
Boren gain of about that number of voles, com
pared with the returns a year ago. but compared ’
■with the vole two years ago, a Whig gain ot 453. i
Whig Van Buren. i
Betgen. Stillman. Lott. Greenfield.
1744 1733 1773 1722 .
Bergen’s majoi ity' over Green tie 22.
Lou’s majority over Bergen, 29.
QUEEN’S COUNTY.
Towns King {W.) Hicks {V. B ) ,
Newtown 295 3*4
Flushing 73
Jamaica 63
1
2d5 440 i
205 ,
Hick’s majority thus far. 235
Three towns to be heard from, viz. Hempstead,
which is expected lo give King a majority ot {
about 300; North Hempstead, which will give
about 50 maj. for Hicks; and Oyster Bay, which
will he neaily a tie. In the lasi mentioned town,
591 voles wi re polled. They will be canvassed 1
to-day. From these facts it will be seen that *
the vole is a close one, and the result doubtful. *
Last year King’s maj. 232. In 1836 V. B. maj. i
258. 1
RICHMOND COUNTY. i
In Castletown township, Seward and Bradish. j
for Governor and Lieut. Governor,deceived 200 .
votes; Marc" and Tracy 320. Furman (VV.)
for Senator, 196 Tompkins, V. B. 323. Gurnee
(W.)Vr Congress 404; Montayne, V. B. 318. *
Israel Oakley (VV.) tor 202, Abra- '
ham V. B. 314.
Soul polled 207 voles, and is supposed to *
given aksitiall Whig majority. Westfield •
340 thfield 401). These are ail 1
in The voles in Castle- 1
have yc^^H^Pounted.
It was generally admitted that Oakley the
Whig candidate for Assembly, is re-elected; as
VV esifieid and Northfield would give him consid- | 1
erable majorities. His majority last \’ear was j 1
about 50. / j j
WEST CHESTER COUNTY. | t
Three o’clock, A. M. —Our Express is just in |
trom VV estchcster County, bringing returns from t
12 towns out ol 21 in Hie county, as follows: 1
Seward ' Marcv 1
Majorities, 101 859’ i
ot the towns lo be heard from will give «
Whig majorities, but there will, notwithsland- t
iug be a Van Buren majority in the count* of «
300 to 500. ' i
TALL ASD WtXTUR DRY GOODS, 1
NEW SUPPLIES. i
EDGAR «& CARitIICHAEL i
are now receiving heir sunnlv of I
STAPLE AND FANCY lIKvIoUDS,
comprising a large and general assortment of goods t
in their line, which they feel disposed lo offer aifair
P nces - ts Sept. II r
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AUGUSTA, GA.
TUESDAY AiOKMNG, NOVEUtiEK li, I&JS-
Allen was, on Saturday last, elect
ed Clerk of Council, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Geo. M. Walker, Esq.
The Baltimore Transcript of Thursday last, con
tains the following announcement;
“John Stouey, Esq an eminent and highly es
teemed merchant of Charleston, So. Ca, died, on
Tuesday morning, at the U. S Hotel. Phdadelphia,
at which place he had stopped .on hts way from the
north, where he had been for the restoration of liis
health.”
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA.
The exercises of this institution were resumed
yesterday, on which occasion a very handsome
and appropriate address was delivered by Dr. Jo
seph A. Eve. The class already assembled is more
numerous than it has ever been, and, we are happy
to say, is expected to be still larger when all she |
students have arrived
ELECTION FRAUDS.
We have seen several articles lately in the whig
presses of the north, accusing the administration
party, wherever they have been successful, with
the grossest frauds; hut we knew the character of
the>e presses so well that we paid hut little alten- ;
tion to their charges, supposing, as is usual with the ;
vvhigs, that they were pursuing their old course of ,
crying “slop thief,” to divert public aitention from I
their own acts ; and we have not been much mis- |
taken in in our calculations. In another column ;
will be feund a Protest from the minority of the
Privy Council of the Stale of New Jersey, which j
must open the eyes of all, to the desperate efforts
the whigs of the north are making to carry their fa
vorite scheme, the prostration of the present admi
nistration. The decision of the Governor and a
majority oflhe Privy Council of New Jersey, giving
the election to the whig candidates, has caused ex
treme dissati faction and disgust. In Trenton the
people have held a crowded meeting, and denounce
the act of the Governor and Council, as “an alarm
ing fraud upon the elective franchise,” a bold ‘Te
visal of the will of the people of New Jersey, lately
expressed through the ballot box.” No one denies
that a majority rtf the votes of that Sta’e were given
for five of the democratic candidates; still, without
assigning any reason, sufficient democratic votes
are thrown our, and then the whigs are declared
duly elected.
The Clerk of the County of Cumberland in his
returns, suppressed the returns of the township of
Millville, which gave a democratic majority of iOfi
votes. The Clerk of Middlesex County also sup
pressed the votes of the lowushipof South Amboy,
which gave a democratic majority of ‘252 votes
These Clerks give no reason for the suppression.
'l'he Governor and Council were assured of these
facts, yet they declined sending an express, as the
law makes it their duty to do, in order to procure
tiie deficient returns. They only counted the votes
sent them, they acquiesced in the illegal acts of the
Clerks of the Counties, who had no authority to use
any discretion in the matter, and they returned, as
elected, a set of candidates who received a minori
ty of the votes.
The last New York Courier & Enquirer that we
received, is filled with small items, giving the names
and salaries of different individuals in the adminis
tration ranks, and attributing their support to the
pay they receive. This will not do from you Col.
j V\ ebb—you should not measure other people’s c> rn
j by your own bushel.
j We are sorry to see the whig alias stale rights
j presses of the south pursuing the course they are a
j present. Their opposition to the presentadminis
| tralion and its advocates, is so inveterate that they
j are blind to the proceedings of the whigs of the
I north, while with eagle eyes they ate watching
| their onpouems—snatching up with eagerness the
[ smallest item that can be construed into an aboli
tion sentiment. In the Sentinel of yesterday morn
ing we find an article from the pen of its editor, in
which he is endeavoring to make out Mr. Duncan,
of Ohio, an abolhionist. We give in another co
lumn the article alluded to from the Sentinel, and
following it, some further extracts from Mr. Dun
can’s letter, with a few appropriate remarks from
the Globe,on the same subject. Ifthe whig presses
of the south w ish to keep their readers enlightened
on this subject, why do they not publish a few of
the answers addressed to the abolitionists of the
north by their w lug brethren of that region? If this
goes against the grain, and they must look solely to
the administration candidates for sentiments to suit
their purposes —give fair statements gentlemen; do
not pick a small portion here and another there!—
If your object is to enlighten the south, give the let
ters entire; the people of the south are enlightened
and generous—they know their rights, and will
maintain them —while, at the same time, they are
willing to respect the rights of citizens of other
States.
In a few days we will see blazoned forth in the
whig papers of this State—“ Glorious news from
New York—the WIIIGS have earned the city.”—
This will, nt) doubt, be glorious news to these press
es, but will it be so to the southern people? 3lr.
Bradish, the whig candidate for Lieut. Governor, in
his letter to ihe abolitionists comes out with AYE
to all their questions! And what say the whig press
es in that city? The Evening Star, that pink of
purity— the southern champion a short lime since
—says, “Don’t split your tickets on this subject (ab
olitionism'. Wh'gs 1 it is of minor importance to the
question at ’ssue, (the sub-treasury.”) The tone of
the other papers is much the same as the Star.—
Can southern men rejoice at the success of men
who entertain sentiments so different from their
own—merely because they are opposed to the pre
sent administration? If the present administration 1
is overthrown, what have we at the south in ex- j
peel? Are we to throw ourselves on the tender -
mercies of the whigs for protection? Who are the
fiicnds of the south—the whig or administration ;
party of the north? If there are any in the south j
who believe the whigs their friends, let them look I
at the recent election in the city and state of New
York; let them read the following article taken
from the New York Gazette (a whig press—and
another southern champion,) published on the 3d
instant, just before the election, and if they can
then say the whigs are the friends of the south, all
we have to say is, may the Lord deliver us from
such friends.
[From the Netv York Gazette, Nov 3 ]
If the aooiiUuuists were a.l acluaied by such
feelings as ate evinced in the following circu
lar, we should feel all proper respect for them
as men and as politicians, however deeply we
might regret their opinions upon a particular
point of public policy and public duty. The
third reason placed before the anti-slavery men
for casting their voles lor Mr. Reward, is per
fectly unanswerable, and there is not a living
abolitionist who can answer it, to his conscience
on bis consistency. VVe protest agatnsi every
thing in the natuieof truckling to inese people,
or asking any thing of them as a favor bu.
there are many amiable and sensible men among
them —sensible we mean on every point but
this —and it is well enough to address such rea
sons to them. It is to reach their understand <
ings, therefore that we publish this cairn am
(almost) sensible circular. Sensible certainly
in lids respect. How is it possible, sure enough (
tor an abolitionist to vote in favor of a Van Bu
ren man, or what is equivalent, withhold his
vote for a W hig, when it is so well known that
Mr. Van Burcn in his very first address to his
constituents declared uncquivocaly, that he
would veto any and every measure that Con
gross might adopt favorable to tire wishes of the
abolitionists? We trust, that the mandate sent
forth from this cry under the authority of the
Tappans, will be disregarded.
circulAk to the anti slavery electors
OF THE STATE OF NEW’ YORK.
We ask the privilege of brethren to set forth
briefly but frankly the reasons which constrain
us to cast our voles for WILLIAM 11. SEW
ARD, for Governor.
Ist. Mr. Seward is the candidate of the parly
which, e-n the floor of Congress, nobiy vindicates
the inestimable right ot petition, and as nobly as
serts the freedom of debate; of the par y also,
that sustains John Quincy Adams ami William
Slade; of a party whose views are liberal and
tolerant.
i ‘2 j. Mr. Seward is the candidate of the party
I which, in our last Legislature, passed resolutions j
against the admission of Texas into the Union ; [
! against Patton’s gag resolutions; in favor of
j Hie right of petition ; and in favor of granting
1 trial by jury to person.* claimed as fugitive slaves.
Instead of the denunciations and revilings with
I which our petitions were treated in years past —
! instead of threatening us with penal enacl
| incuts, the Whigs received ami treated petitions |
: and remonstrances with that respect and c »mi y
; due to their constituents.
31. Mr. Seward is the candidate of the party
| that opposes tlie reclection of a President, who
! s.antis pledged to veto any hill abolishing slavery
j in tiie District of Columbia.
i 4th. Mr. Seward is the candidate opposed to
, G (Vornor Marey, who, in his messages to the
L'-gisla urc, has manifested, in sentiment and
sympathy, the bitterest hostility to our cause;
and who, as the presiding officer of a public
meeting, while he was Governor of the State,
recommended the passage of laws authorizing i
a violation of the mails, ami inflicting pains ami
penalties upon those who were ditsemina ing in
telligence and truth.
sth. The re-election of Governor Marey
would go very far toward the re-election of
Marlin Van Uuren, whose measures and policy
arc so hostile to the cause of human liberty.
And final!}’, because our knowledge ot Mr.
Seward leads us to confi le in the general sound
ness and integrity of his principles. We view
the great question of a Su i-Treasnry, a national
bank, or the currency, of minor importance
compared with the great subject of human lib
erty ; and believing lit at the election ot Mr.
Seward and the defeat of Governor .Marey will
best promote the great cause of universal eman
cipation. we shall vote for him ourselves, and re
commend our abolition friends to do the same.
We are, respectfully.
Your fellow citizens,
JEFFERSON M A YELL.
President Albany Young .Mm’s Ami-Slavery
Sociel v.
CALVIN PEPPER, Jr.
Vice President Albany Aut i-Slaverv Society.
JOHN WILSON,
Corresponding Sec’v Ami-Slavery Society.
11. CARPENTER. Ist'V. P.
WM. GIBSON,
One of the Executive Committee Young Men’s-
Albany Anti-Slavery Society.
NORMAN FRANCIS,
Chairman of Executive Committee of Young
Men’s Albany Anti-Slavery Society.
S. A. IIAtN (INGS,
A. M CLURE,
FORDYCE SYLVESTER,
JAMES E. McCLURE,
S. B. HALL,
CHARLES E. BURTON,
JAMES BURTON,
PETER M. McELROY,
DAVID MARTIN,
S. T. RICE,
S, V. R. WATSON.
A Coroner’s Inquest was held yesterday over the
body of Mrs. Nancy Tiuley, wife of William Tin
ley, of this county, and the following is the verdict
of ihe jury: “ We believe t hat Airs Tinley came to
her death by blows and severe treatment received
from her husband William Tinley.”— Sentinel cf
Saturday.
CA W DEM (S. C.) RACES.
The annual races over this course commenced on
Monday, sth inst., with a sweepstake f.rd years
old, ten subscribers; only three however came up
the post, and the race was decided in favor of Dr
Merritt’s imported eh. f. The Queen, she beating
Mr. P. Mcßae’s b f. by Bertand, Jr., and distancing
Capt. J. J. Harrison’s own sister to Kite, in the se.
cond heat. Time, first heat, 4m 45., 2d 4m. 7s.
The second day’s purse,4 mi e heats, was won by
Col. Find’s imported b. f. Lily, heating Col. Rich,
ardson s eh. h. Rienzi, and distancing on the se
cond heat, Capt Harrison’s ch. f. Eliza Garrison.
Time, first heat Bm. 35., 2nd 8m. —won handily.
The third day’s purse, 3 mile heals, was won by
Dr. Guignand’s Clodhopper, beating Col. Richard
s-.n’s Miss Clinker, 3 years old, by Humphrey
Clinker, out of imported Mans,
PUBLIC MEETING
At a meeting of the citizens of Augusta, held on
Saturday last, to take into consideration the pro
priety of increasing the number of delegates from
this county to the Slate Commercial Convention,
his Honor the Mayor, was called to the chair, and
Win. D’Antignac, appointed Secretary, when upon
motion of N. W. Cocke, Esq , the meeting adjourn
ed to meet at 4 o’clock, P. M.
The meeting being organized, N. W. Cocke )
Esq., offered the following resolutions :
Resolved, That the citizens of Augusta, in the
appointment of delegates to the State Commercial
Convention, which is to assemble at Milledge- j
ville, on the 12lh inst. acted upon the conviction |
that the only just and equitable basis of representa
tion in that body, was that upon which the repre
sentation in the Legislature is founded, and they
are si ill satisfied with the correctness of that posi- 1
Hon.
Resolved, Therefore, that they deem it both un
necessary and improper to appoint an additional
number of d legates.
Resolved, That in accordance with this opinion,
the delegates from the city of Augusta, he instruct
ed to insist that, upon all qn< stions on which there
may be a division in the Convention, each county
shall he allowed to vote the same number of votes,
and no more, than such county is allowed in the
Senatorial and Representative branches oi the
State Legislature.
Resolved , Thai a copy of these resolutions he
transmitted to the Delegates from the city of Au
gusta, in said Convention.
The foregoing resolutions being unanimously
adopted, U was moved that the proceedings be
published in the city papers, when on motion the
meeting adjourned.
W. W. D’ANTIGNAC, Secretary.
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL.
Saturday, Nov. 3, 1838.
Present—The Mayor, ami Aldermen Nimmo,
Jackson, Crump, Finland, Parish, Hill, Bishop,
Dye, Dugas, and Hilt.
Read the minutes of the last meeting.
B. L. Nehr, fined ten dollars for keeping a dis
orderly house.
Benton Walton, Henry Litner, and Andrew J.
Rowland, fined five dollars each, for non atten
dance as witnesses.
John Neiffer, fined five dollars, for disorderly
onduct. , 1
The fine imposed on Benton Walton, was re
mitted.
Richley, fined five dollars, for a breach of
'he market ordinance.
Eliza Harris, fined five dollars, for disorderly
conduct.
Marshal Holsenbcck, fined twenty-five dollars,
for keeping a disorderly house.
A petition received from A. McLean, was laid
on the table.
Twenty-five d liars ordered to be given to
Tempo Holland, a poor woman, by the Marshal.
An ordinance was read and passed, repealing the
ordinance imposing a tax on Insurance Offices and
Agencies of Insurance Ofli- es.
A retail license was granted to John Reilly.
The Officers of the City, made their returns for
the month of October last.
Ou motion of Mr. Cutpming, Resolved, That the
Committee on Accounts, report to a called meet
ing of the Council, a statement of the fiscal affairs
I of the city.
The Committee on Accounts, reported that they
I had received from the Collector and Treasurer,
according to the resolution of Council, passed at
October Term, the amount of sixteen hundred
(1600» dollars, which had been borrowed according
I to the said resolution.
Ci)until adjourned until 3 o’clock this evening.
Saturday Evening, 3 o’clock, Nov. 3.
Cmined met pursuant to adjournment.
Present—’l he Mayor, and Aldermen Nimmo,
Parish, Jackson, Dye, Cumming, Hilt, Hill, Dugas,
Crump, Kirtland, and Bishop.
Read ihe minutes of the morning.
George M. Walker, tendered Ins resignation as
Clerk, which was accepted.
A retail It ense granted to Michael Slienhane.
Paid Officer’s salaries, $693 00
“ on account Hospital, 1 92 25
j “ other accounts, 93 75
A McAllister, has leave to transfer his retail li
cense to James Calvin.
Garey F. Parish, was elected Pump Contractor
for three years, salary one thousand dollars per an
num.
On motion of Mr. Cumming, Resolved, That his
Honor the Mayor he authorized to negotiate for
| the loan of Five Thousand Dollars, for Ninety
Days, ala rate of interest not exceeding seven per
cent.
On motion of Mr. Parish, the Jail Committee
was authorized to advertize for propo.-nls for paint
ing and \\ hi.ewashing that bui'ding, and report to
the next meeting of Council.
Resolved, That the Council will proceed to elect
a Clerk of Council at their next meeting, on Satur
day, the 10th November, in place of George M
Walker, reigned, and that the Collector and Trea
surer advertize accordingly.
Ordered that ihe Marshal he authorized to pay
Miss Polly Campbell, ten dollars.
Council adjourned to meet on Saturday, 10th
inst. at 7 o’clock, P. M.
x [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
k MILLEDGEVILLE, NOV 9.
Yesterday afternoon the election for Generals re
sulted its follows ;
Major General 2d Division, Burnell J. Winn, of
Hancock.
Major General 9lh Division, Hugh A. Harralson,
of Troup
Brigadier General 2d Brig. 2d Div. John W. Ra
bun, of Hancock.
Brigadier General 2d Brig. 6th Div. Thomas Hil
liard, of V. are.
Brigadier General 2d Brig. Bth Div. Thos. Beall,
of Upson.
Brigadier General 2d Brig. 11th Div. John N. Wil
liamson, of Newton.
Brigadier General Ist Brig. 7ih Div. B. F. Patton,
of Habersham.
The following slan ing committees of the House
were announced this morning from the Speaker.
Stale of ihe Republic. —Messrs. Kelly of Hous
i ton, Dougherty, Robinson, Stephens, Stallings,
| Crawford of Columbia, Burnett, Moseley, Shelton,
Horton, Bateman, Statham, Turner of Monroe,
[ Hubbard, Conner, Boyd, Slocks, Hamilton, Saus
i say, and Grier.
Judiciary —. Messrs. Meriwether, Kelly of Hous
ton, Crawford of Richmond, Drysdale, Jenkins,Tra
cy, Lamar, Shaffer, Toombs, Freeman, Stephens,
Chatfield, Howard, Hardage, Rockwell, Fletcher,
Hi nes, Stroud of Walton, Pryor, and Sandford.
Petitions. —Messrs Cone of Camden, McGuire,
Malone, Smith of Appling, McMillan, Patterson,
Murphy, Richardson, Jones of Gilmer, Young,
Sparks, and Laidler.
To Examine Journals —Messrs. Cone of Greene,
Darden, Dobson, Stanley, Whiting, Stell, and Ro
gers.
Enrolment. —Messrs Fletcher, Preseott, Lowe,
King, Gaulding, Green of Lee, Reynolds, Webb,
Cain, Cr->ss, Harper, and Dart.
Military. — Messrs. Clark, Seward, Drysdale,
Floyd, Hilliard, Meriwether, Delapernere, White
| of Talbot, Rabun, Ball, Lockhart, W’ellborn, Sulli
van, Watters, Wart hen, Ash, Wilkinson, Cone of
Camden, and Moseley.
Banks. —Messrs. Crawford ofßichmond, Brown,
Porter, Lambeth, Vincent, Howard, Lefils, Lamar,
Clark, Collier of Pulaski, Bullock, Fitzpatrick. Whit
field, Clack, and Willingham.
Printing. —Messrs. Bulloch, McArthur. Ander
son, Stapler, Bowen, Maxwell, Cobh, Chester,
I Green of Forsyth, Hurst, Awtr; , Phillips, and Neal
| of Franklin.
Penitentiary —Messrs. Bryant, Pittman of Gwin
nett, While of Campbell, Bacon, Landrum, Chap
man, Carroll, Cunningham, Smith of Tattnall, Ham
mond, Hancock, Hum, Hutchinson, Johnson, Junes
of Elbert, Cannon, McLcskey, Powell of Marion >
Sumner, Franks, and Kawlerson.
Internal Improvement. —Messrs.Tracy, Rockw ell,
I Shaffer, Shaw, Gaar, G< - ilman, Coker, Swift, Mar
tin, Evans of Muscogee, Daniel of Twiggs, Stroud
of Clark, Renfroe. Smead, Sarsnett, Kelly of Rabun,
Lemon, Scarlett, Pitman of Madison, Berrien,Ward,
and Roberts.
F nance. — Messrs. Brown, Gunhy, Neal of Pike,
McDouall, Wyatt, Powell of Monroe, Bryant,
Danielof Madison, Hudson, Evans of DeKalb, Mea
dows, Arnett, Carr, Lessieur, and Collier of DeKalb
Public Education and Free Schools. —Messrs.
Jenkins, Harris, Turner of Wilkes, Camp, Craw
font of Harris, Dyer, Ford, Harralson, Fryer, Hol
lingsworth, Jones of Washington, Street, Rhodes,
Byars, Hall, Watts, Harrison, W bite, and Colley.
■Both houses proceeded at II o’clock to the elec
tions set apart for this day. At half past 2 o'clock,
they had gone through but one election—Judge of
the Superior Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuit.
After 11 hallotings Marshall J. Wellborn, of Musco
gee, was chosen. I shall send you the ballotinga
to-morrow, and the result of the other elections.
If the other elections occupy as much time as the
first, all day to-morrow may be required to despatch
all those elections
NOVEMBER 10.
The numerical strength of both parties in the
Legislature is so nearly equal, that the elections,
so far as they have progressed, have been decided
by the personal feelings entertained by a few of
ihe mem .ers for the candidates, without regard to
the party distinctions of union and state rights.
Phis equality of strength between the union and
state rights parties, would instantly be destroyed,