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of living undera “government without limita
tion of powers.” But you may say that you do
not agree with the Slate Rights party entire
ly, and therefore you cannot support them.—
Examine the subject closely, and you will find
that the difference is not so great us you sup
pose. -Many ot them go against nullification;
hut they all contend for the right of Slate In
terposition—they all go for secession. But
admit that you do not agree with them, with
which party do you coincide on most points!
With the State Rights party most assuredly,
unless you have changed your principles.—
The Chirk party by changing their name, have
not changed their prie. iplcs —you fin.ftliom
contending for the sumo doctrines, supporting
the same men, and opposing the same mea
sures. Their principles v. ni l now compel
them to act as they did in 1“2">. In their
ranks you find almost all of the old Clark men,
and those who have lvlt them acknowledge
that they have changed their principles. S\>
the difference between you and them. TJie
Clark turn who are now acting with the SUth
Rights irty, admit that they were wron.r,
and ack : .ledge tint they have changed—
but you act with the Chirk or Union purl'/,
and still say you lave not change!, your opin
ions are as they always wore. If this is si
one thing is certain, the Clark party have with
their name, changed their principles —which
their Editor's deny—which their head men de
ny—which their whole course contradicts.—
Either you or they have changed, because you
once disagreed on almost every subject, and
now you agree with them, act with them and
support them. How is this! 1 his the// i
pnrd changed Ids spots, or the Fthiopian his
color! But how was it last year! Who went
for Ratification,and who opposed it! Who
supported it, because it would put down forever
tbc Troup parly, and give the Clark party all
the power! And who opposed it, because it
would have destroyed your rights, and made
our representation more unequal! Who in the
last session of the Legislature proposed that the
poor school fund should he distributed accord
ing to the ratio of the white population, there
by making you pay the taxes and raise the
funds, and they enjoy them! It was those
same Jtntijiers, t!i<■ / ■ same Clark men, these
same Union men. When this measure was
proposed and supported, the Union Democratic
party was formed, and hence you see under
tiieir new nam e they commenced their old
nets. Who holds all of the offices in your
County! How many ‘Troup Union men an
there! Is there one! Do you believe there
ever will ho one, unless it is necessary that
one should run, to save four or five of their
own men. They go for themselves, and you
will find it so. What course will you pursue!
Will you support me 1 whom you have ever
opposed, and must ever oppose if you are true
to yourselves, or will you support your old
friends, many of whom exit-th/ agree with
you, and others only differ on one p dot. Now
ici lne u.vhoit you to st. !. to your principles,
stick to your party, an 1 on the first .Monday in
October next, go to the polls with Troup,
Crawford, and all your old frien Is, an 1 support
inen who have ever supported you and your
opinions.
A STATE RIGHTS MAN.
To CH.'Nerd W*smfC
If I possessed such a degree of vanity as
yourself, aud such a thirst to see my name,and
show oft'niy smartness in the columns of the
News, I might consent to come out in answer
to you, under my own proper name; but pos
sessing, as J do, an implacable hatred to such
ostentation, I shall continue to write under the
significant name oi'Anti-Suhinissioriist; know
ing that the signature of a piece has nothing
to do with the truth of its statements, or the
correctness of its arguments—and that you
■ could answer, if you felt disposed, my interro
gatories, without knowing iny name. When
you tell me who writes your pieces and con
trols your movements, you can with some
propriety ask for my name. This I take as
ominous of a disposition to holt., and shall not,
consequently, bo surprised, if n;y preference
to write over a fictitious signature,should firm
a track along which you will feel at liberty to
bolt. Rut, Mr. WVidniT, h.-t me admonish
you not to do that, for which y i can fin I, in
the example of a fri nd, so ready n preen/. at.
You talk about my fictitious name, and my
anonymous piece, just as tliou . h your Dictiona
ry made fictitious and anonymous—syuoni
mous.
It would seem, that my fictitious name an
swers purposes with you, according to interest.
It will do, to propound questions ; blit vvillan
swer no sort of purpose in answ. ring them.
It. will do very well in canvassing such por
tions of the subject as your directors thought,
proper under it. But these questions which
have been propounded under it, could not be
solved, but required a fur more responsible
name to justify you in undertaking such a for
lorn task. Had you answered them as you
ought to have done, and had you given the
public a plain strait-forward tale, which you
have been once and again requested to do, you
might have cast the reprehension when it was
pi ‘pally due. But it would scorn your di
iv-ujrs have so completely succeeded in mak
ing you their willing tool, that you are dis
posed, doubly to criminate yourself, in order
the more certainly to work out their exculpa
tion. They make you, in the first instance, as
the Judge said to the lawyer, “bark up the
wrong tree.” They make you propound to
me, a number of interrogatories, to all of which
1 give a most unqualified denial. You are
made to ask me isl did not come to your house,
and take off of your desk a private written pa
per, &c. In reply, I say to you, sir, that I
have not had the honor ot being in your palace,
since long before your apostacy from the re
publican ranks. The written paper I never
saw, and presume, from what F have heard,
that if you had one, it was intended for publi
cation in the News.
Mr. Woodruff, do quit such poor, pitiful inu
endoes; for they seem about ns well calcula
ted to sustain you, ns a straw would a drown
ing man. The rest of your interrogatories are
of a perfect sameness with the following, if
1 were to have the effrontery to propound them
to you. Did you not, on a certain night, ap
proach your neighbor’s house, and then anil
there commit the offence of Burglary, or I ar
cony!—and so on, from had to worse, through
all the catalogue of crime, from the least and
simplest, to the most malignant of which you
can conceive! Now l’>e same disposition tli it
rankled in your breast, would impel mo to such
an act, (i. c.) by propounding- tit. m to impress
the public mind with the belief, of your actu
ally having committed them. Von are m i !e,
by your coadjutors, equally the sycophant, in
permitting them to make you snv what you
did, in reference to Joshua Agee.-” certificate.
Rea l the following affidavit, anil you will at
once he enabled to sec the nook into which
they have jauih’d you, by reason of your fawn
ing sycophancy. Wore 1 precipitated into
such a situation, or a predicament out of which
l could not come, without a manifest collision
with the principles of truth, l am sure I should
(among other tilings) lot once suffice to have
boon obsequious to such men.
“STATEOFGi*I( )R(11 A, \ Personally’ came
Wilke mnnly. ihi -f >re in ‘, Fran. -
Murphcy, wuo, being duly sworn, ito'poscth
and snyeth, that Joshua Agee was approached
early in the night, (uml not, as intimated by
Mr. Woodruff, in the'dead hour of the if fit’)
tor the purpose of obtaining t!ie certificate lie
low; because he was sought in the day time
once mid again, without, being s-’-m — And, fur
ther, that the certificate was written after we
got there, according to the wish of Air. A'g.ve,
and not as .Mr. Woodruff’ say.-, was carried
previously written—that there was not any
sort if effort made to influence Mr. A gee to
sign said certificate; but so far from that, lie
was admonished once and again to he certain
that what he was going to certify was substan
tially correct; and tliat. he was not told that
neither William Ross nor John Shank had giv
en certificates—And, further, that when “the
certificate was written, and distinctly read to
him, ho signed it without any reluctance what
ever. his
FRANCIS MUItPIIiIY.
mark.
Sworn U awl subscribed before me, this Moth
August, H3l.
GIDEON COOPER, .r. i\”
But again, you say: “ You siy, sir, that I
have come out at the head of a parcel of men,
some of whose names, to my recantation, are
fiirgcd.” “Now, sir, you have be.m grossly’
imposed upon, or more grossly perverted the
truth.”
Now, Mr. Woodruff', again I would admon
ish you, that in any future remarks, which may
lie made through you, do lot truth and consis
tency be a little more conspicuous. Please
read the following certificates, and sec it mv
charge of forgery he not substantiate:!, and
your tact, at perversion glowingly exposed :
“GEORGIA, ) Ido hereby certifv that,
Wilkes county. ( when Richerson Booker
came to my house to get me to sign a recanta
tion, or to take my name off"the Stale Rights
t uiisliliuion, that ho, R. Booker; tohl that
they’, the State Rights Party, would compel
me to vote for whom they pleased, and that
my oath would not he allowed in a Court of
Justice—And, further, tliat 1 do not recollect
telling him, or giving him leave to take my
name offthe State Rights Constitution, nor To
assign fny name to the recantation.
HENRY SIIANK.
July 14th,1831.
Test, Z.uiocii Jackson.
(COI’Y OP OBICIINAt,.)
Wilkes county. \ when Uichcsoii Booker came
to my house, to get me to sign a. recantation, or
take iny name off'the State Rights Constitu
tion: Tnat he, R. Booker, told me that they
(the State Rights Party) would compel me to
vote for whom they pleased, and that my oath
would not he allowed in a Court of Justice ;
and, further, that I do not recollect tolling him,
or giving him leave to take my name oll'tlio
State Rights Constitution, nor to assign my
name to the recantation.
his
(Signed,) JOSIIUA >-! AGEE.
mark.
July 15th, IVM.
Test, Zadock Jackson.”
But, in one of your slanderous inuendoes,
you hold forth that those certiiicatos were not
fairly obtained. Will you bo so good as to of
fer us sonic evidence of that assertion, or insin
uation! When it is produced, I am prepared
to prove, boyond doubt, that they were fairly
obtained. But to be brief, “what do I discover
further on in your dogmatisms 7 Why, to be
sure, a challenge—a challenge to write too, I
suppose—to “ come out under my real name,
mnd you will meet ine in a plain, open, and
manly way.” “ Wei* nov, this beats all in
tur”—to bo challenged, and by whom? By a
man of profound erudition—a linguist—an in
dividual ofevnry literary and legal attainment!
No! but by Clifford Woodruff
Now, .Mr. Woodruff, I will make you a pro
position, which, if acceded to, I will accept
your challenge. Do you prove to me, satis
factorily, that you are the author of your piece,
or the recantation, Or if you prefer, satisfy the
public, that you are not prompted to your pre
sent course by your R iders, for political effect,
and to screen from indignation a certain man ;
and I hereby pledge myself, under my real
name, to bo your antagonist in argument. —
And in conclusion, I would admonish you, not
to suffer my name to influence you to
ao.t, for lain nnv.oiislbr the community to
he placed in the possession of the enjoyment
of the truth. Answer my previous interroga
tories, ns heretofore requested, c vise to make
insinuations and unjust reflections, and lot u.s
have no more of your quibbling.—And,as here
tofore, lam ANTI-SUB.MDrbSIOX IST.
[Frim the Augusta Sentinel .]
No. r.
“ Bob,” said Tom Ding to me t’other day,
“can you toll mUNvby the D- hoc ratio, Unio-i,
Jeffersonian, J.ncksnnjjjui, Move-dep .-itonian
Republicans, never wm invito Sutre Rights
rnou to their moisting , nor accept irivitu’ vt
to State Rights meetings!”
“ Why, bless your soul, its the pTiine it thin?
in the world. Now you think t ; y ar> afraid
to discuss tiieir principles before tne people;
but la! youknownotliingabbut.it. They are
too rosined and genteel to associate with such
a vulgar herd ns Troup, Berrien, Gilmer, *.Y
&c, &o. Besides they do not approve of pub
lic meetings.”
“In all conscience they have enough of
them—”
Now Tom stop —you're going to insinuate*
that they act inconsistently ; and I will no
stand such an insinuation us that. Say any ■
tiling e’-e of them ; hut you most not char,
them With inconsistency. Bob Shout.
1 1’root the York Livening Star.]
Gisi. Jackson's Atliniiaislratiois.
In out’ political discussions, allusion ire
frequently made to the many changes that
have been made in tire cabinet, iVe., since
tho 4th of March, 1829, when “tho ohl
Human” came into power. The rhanges
are so numerous, that it is difficult to re
collect them all. Please, therefore, to put
m print the following, and such others us 1
have omitted, ;i
* Whig or lr-3 1.
ticerrturi >s of State. Attorn-q II a rat ■
Ainitin \an Buren. J. iM'lMiersoii Ilci rii'n.
Edward Livingston, Roger B. Taney,
Louis MM ann, Benjamin F. Butler.
John Forsyth. Tostiivrster (icncrnl.
Secret cries rs War. William T. Barry, j
John 11. Eaton, Minister to iinglii/. if.
Lewis Cass. Louis IM’Lane,
SecrcCrksof ‘/YfrtVy.Martin Van Buren, \
•Jiimicl D. lnghiun, And: ,v Stei ... i. . w.i
Louis MM .ane. Minister to France:.
William J. Duane,* William ('. Rives,
Hotter B. Taney,f Edward Livingston.
Levi Woodbury, .Minister to littssiri.
Secretaries if XtivyJohn Randolph.
John Branch, James Bnclmnan,
Levi Woodbury, iMahlon Dickerson,
Malilon Dickerson. William Wilkins.
* Appointed, and turned out of office durinsr
the recess of the Senate, by Gen. Jackson, tor
refusing to violate the laws.
f Appointed during the recess of Congress,
by General Jur.kson, to aid him in getting pos
sesion of the public moneys, and rejected l>y
the Senate for his compliance to do a tyre.nt’s
bidding.
} Continues in office, not withstanding { : i-s
violations of the laws, as unanimously voted ! v
the Senate, and running the department in
debt, on a final settlement of all its account
|802,624.
{ Appointed by General Jackson during t! ire
recess of Congress, and ordered home Ly tire-
Senate, ns that body considered lie had ‘’’cforo.
enough.”
II Rejected by the Senate. He had Gcner.i l
Jackson’s promise, for this embassy so long in
his pocket, as to make the matter look too
much like bargain imd sales of political opin
ions.
General Jackson declared to tho Tennessee
legislature, in his letter of 1825, that the ap
pointment to office of members of ( ongn ‘.ass,
was filling tho land with corruption ; and yet,
since ho has been President, lie has appointed
thy following members, notwithstanding’ his
pledge to practice upon tho maxim ho recom
mended to others.
Senators. —Win. Findley, Marlin Van Bu
rnt, John 11. Eaton, John Branch, John Mc-
Pherson Bm-ricn, Louis Ate I,ane, John Chan
dler; Tho. If. Williams, David J. Bak< r, Iffd
n.ird Livingston, Levi VY o xlbury, A; ihb ui
Dickerson, Powhattan Ellis, William Wil
kins—l I.
Representatives. —John W. Campbell, !■-.
e : : S. tinnre:t, ( L ‘
E. P. Tnlnal], John Findley, t-'aimiel I). Ing-’
ham, G urge W. Owen, Thomas P. Afooro,
VY in. C. J lives, Sdali R. 1 lobbic, JoiMinus
Johnson, John G. Slower, John Randolph,
Philip P. Barbour, James VV. Ripley, John
Diddle, Thomas Irwin, James Buchanan, (J.
G. DoWitt, Hector Craig, Nicholas D. (F>lo
nian, Joseph Hammons, Wiley Thompson, An
drew Stevenson, John Anderson, 11. 11.
vitt—26.
[From the Athens Southern i7/ ig. ]
The Democratic Union Republican pn
perg in Georgia arc assorting week after
week with inexcusable pertinacity that Al r.
Jefferson is not the father of the doctrine
of nullification, which they attribute to Mr.
Calhoun, ibis is akin to their assertions*
upon many other points which although
they are proven to ho (also seventy mul
■seven times, they nevertheless still roiloraN •
and repent to the pe- plo with as much i ■
portant consequence ns if they were un
contrndictcd truths. The Macon T’eir*-
graph not able to get round tho plain lan
guage of the Kentucky Resolutions, ex
presses doubts ia the I’aeo of truth itsei f,
llmt Mr. Jefferson is the author of
resolutions; while the other papers of th.-it
party not willing to risk tho chance of gul
ling the people into that belief, plunge iii?'>
quite as filial nil error, and regardless of
their reputation for sagacity, boldly deny
that those Resolutions inculcate the doc! rino
of State interposition. But the admi ,siou
ol cither one of these facts, even qouplocl
with the denial of the other, proves th.it
Mr. Calhoun is not the author of this doc
trine, and that if Mr. Jcflerson he not its
father some body else is, w hoever it may
bo tlmt drafted the Kentucky Resolute ms.
We shall not enter here into any argument
to prove that Mr. Jefferson was the author
of those Resolutions; the fact lias been
certified to by his Grand-son and executor,
and proclaimed to tlio world as true bv the
Richmond Enquirer, tho oldest and most
responsible Jackson paper in Virgin in.
It is surprising that men who can read the
English Language and who undorstan I or
ought to understand its import, should cv ,t
he led astray by the prejudices of party so
liras to deny that these Resolution-; incul
cate to the fullest extent and by name, the
doctrine of State interposition; and it is
absolutely disgusting to sec men read tho
following extracts from the Kentucky Res
olutions and deny that the doctrines Hi- ruin
prescribed are the same as those advocator!
by the State Rights party in Carolina fuiu
Georgia. The very first Resolution of th£f(
Kentucky Legislature of J7!J9, sots out Gjpl
tho plainest mid mo t comprehensive hi re
gunge the .Sluts’ Rights doctrine of lie
pi'c- at day, as to the formation and p< -•v f -<
ers of the General Government. Lot the
reader peruse it with attention; let him
mark the similarity of the sentiments hero
expressed with the doctrinr sos the Stato
Rights party in Georgia and let him read
in as plain language as can be written that
the doctrines which triumphed in tho elo
v.ation of Mr. Jefferson to the Preside no. y
are the doctrines prostrated by Jackson’.-;
Proclamation and now resuscitated by tho
State Rights party of the .South.
“I. /re solrcd, That the coverd State ;
composing the United Stales of America,
are not itiiied on the principle of unlimited
submission to their General Government;
blit that by compact under the style and
title ofConstitution for the I'uitcd States,
: ‘ 1 amendments thereto, thrv eonstitu
•"*l A . General Government Ibr s|hx ini pur
-• Up'.-Mated to that Government ct r
powers, e l iving ore-h State
’ • • residuary mass i.f ri : ,ht to
dieir own self-government; and, that
v. liciioiiever tin: General Government as
f-umes undelegated pow ers, its acts a re tin
authoritative, void, and of no force; that
to this compact each State acceded as a
S;ale, and is an integral party ; that this
Government, created by this compact, was
not made the exclusive or fund judge of the
extent of the powers delegated to itself;
since that would have made its discretion,
and not the Constitution, the measures of
its powers; but, that as in nil other cases
ot compact, among parties having no com
mon judge, MACH PARTY 11 AS AN
EQUAL RIGHT T<) JUDGE FOR IT.
SELF, AH WELL OF INFRACTIONS
AS OF THE MODE AND MEASURE
OF REDRESS.”
Such were the doctrines put forth bv
Kentucky, having been drafted for her
Legislature by the author ol the Declara
• i'!i: “ , .• which she in-
Vilen the attention oftlie I .egislutim sos the
different Stales and solicited their concur
rence. 1 low were these doctrines met by
the “t!: i’ -"Mates ! Precise Iv as the present
relnlc Rights doctrines of South Carolina
” etv met. I hey wore denounced I>\
Delaware, Connecticut, New York, Ver
mont, New 1 lampshire, Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, ns a very utijquiffnble inter
finance with the powers oFtlie General
CUoiarumcut, tending to a dissolution of
tlic Union, and ot’too dangerous a tench n
ey to iff cuss.
Blit how did Kentucky receive these an
swers ! At the next session oftlie Legis
lature in i?!l!) she declares that she would
“be fait 1 1 lons indeed, silently to acquiesce
in tin principles and doctrines attempted
to be maintained in all those answers save
that of the Virginia.” She then declines
_J_njeojren gn •11 the field of argument, dc
arm attachment to the Union of
the Flutes, and repeating her conviction of
the correctness of her position the previous
year, she declares—
“ I hat the principles un I construction
contended for by sundry of the A,7 ate /,<■-
gid tit arcs, that the general government is
the exclusive judge of the extent of the
pov ers delegated to if, slop nothing short
o/ DLSPO'I ISM—since th.- discrciion
r>/ those who administer i/ii- government,
and not the CONS'FITFTIOX ; would
he the measure of their powers: That
the several Htate.; who formed that inslrn
rnent being: ovcfcign and independent have
the‘unquestionable right to judge oftlie
infraction ; and THAT A \l ELIFI('\.
TION I’.Y TIB >SEoS< > VERISIGN TIES,
OF ILL UN AU/niORIZED ACTS
•ONE UNDER COLOR OF THAT
reVr.'l'v. —’.*VnT f” Ti ii. Rit.ii l i UL
REMEDY.”
■Notv will any man in his proper senses
.say that there is any kind of difference be
tween these doctrines and the doctrines of
the State Rights party ofeurduy and time.
They arc identical. The same ideas
clothed in the same language— and even
ihat “abomination of abominations”—that
“frightful heresy”—that word which seems
to have smitten the good Troup Unionists
“hip and thigh”—aye .Nullification (awful)
yes j-y ulti./i'cat ion (sou I-chit ling)—l lia I
very woid it J\ulJi/leation ’ (phew ! I how
.shall we name it)—wo say that dreadful
plirue “.NULLII K A 1 ION” (give, vs a.
Utile Cologne ! / /) —is here named and as
the potent remedy tor the snine evils in
1799 which it so effectually cures in IB.TL
V h‘ re was (lalhoun then ! uhi re then
■""” <••*••• m who ,!,!'! ■ L . n char and as the
(".tli'T of this doctrine ? TheUonstitution
alist would doubtless say that these reso
lutions were passed at the “special instance
and request of Calhoun in 1799, to pave
the way tor a dissolution of the Union and
to gratify his ambition when prostrated bv
•Jackson in IVHG. And the Southern Ban
■a r iii a paroxism ol blind rage would
iloublle ii || us that Kentucky was infect,
cd with tho “(.lalhoun mania”—while the
<Georgian would shut its even, distort its
features, huzza for the Virginia and Ken
liu-ky resolutions, and dr.’lure most “man
fully” that the above extract contained the
very essence ol Democratic Union Repub
licanism which they bad consistently sup
ported all their'lives, and that if Gov.
i roup and the party had turned to support
the “Calhoun heresy” they, “thank God,”
Lad more sense, and laid “lived long
***** to know L.■ ■i> :•! I I
But they have quibbled a little about the
expression, “the several States,” as mean
ing that a number of States may nullify
hut that one cannot. But here Mr. Jeffer
son stops them; in his original draff, gs
lho Kentucky Resolutions he says
“J hat in case of an abuse of the dole-
Rd power.,, the members of the General
Goferament being chpst n by the pcdple, a
change by the People would Ire the Con
stitutional Remedy : but where powers are
assumed which have riot been delegated, A
NM LLIFICATION OF THE ACT LS
‘Fill’, RIGHTFUL RIvMEDY : that eve
ry State lias a natural right in eases not
within the compact (rastn non feeder is) to
tyjjhfyof their own authority all assump
tions'of powers by others within their limits:
that without this right they would he tin
ier the'dominion, absolute and unlimited,
e-i whom soever might exorcise thi,; right of
‘“f*’ r them.”
f, * . |,o lay . it down broadly and plain
ly oa language can convyy any idea, that
cork State has this right of Nullification.
V, im these [ilain documents lie fore our
uyes, how can it Ire said that Mr. Calhoun
is the father of Nullification ; either of the
principle or filename. The following is
u’o n the Richmond Enquirer of March
1 3th lrs3J :
to-:stocky hksoi.ijtiovs of ’9B.
“We'were right as to the style of this
paper. I fowever its sentiments may coin
cido w ith those ol Mr. Jefferson, the com
position is not his; with one memorable
exemption, “ nullification is the rightful
remedy” thus appearing as if they had
used nearly all bis draught at one session,
but kept up Ibr a stronger blow, the reme
dy of Nullification, for the subsequent ses
sion. V idi the exception of this phrase,
the preamble and tho rest of the resolutions
are front a different pen. This, however,
is immaterial. The doctrine is his. The
measure, too, to which they resorted, is
apt as distinct and immediate as his
draught puts forth. They throw them
selves upon a “solemn protest" —but lie
was for appointing a Committeo of Con
ference with tbi! other States, to decide
what was to be done.
M e have stated tho existence and the
contents of the IMS. from a respect for the
l rut li. YVe have contributed to the cir
culation of an error, and we seize the first
opportunity we can to correct it. Resides,
it is due to the people, and especially to the
politicians of South Carolina, to send the
facts forth.”
From the state Rights Sentinel.
’B’ito SSigkl of Secere-iioii.
I In l right ol a State, to resist an uncoil
: D'Cionui law of Congo .-.s, lias been of
late very unbllisbingly denied by the Fed
eral Presses ot Georgia. To this point
they come by slow and cautious marches,
to-bmsure; but having reached it, and
louiTO it by no means as dangerous ns they
learcd it would be, (ibr uulbrlunalcly for
Amciieun liberty, the people are too slow
in crushing political heresies, they now
maintain that position boldly.
Encouraged by tho apathy of the peo
ple 1 , the Federalists have now commenced
tiieir attack upon tho last entrenchment of
State sovereignly. The right ol a ,Slate
peaceably to withdraw from the Union,
when it shall deem such a measure neces
sary, is denied. The Federal 1 nion, edi
ted by a lawyer of many years’standing at
the bar, is entitled to the honor of having
taken the lead in litis now and’ daring cru
sade against the dignity’, honor and inde
pendence of his native state. While we
blush to recognize in the hereof such an
unnatural wurlare,a son of our own soil,
we are pleased to find in him a competent
judge of the authority which we cite below
against him. Me invite Ids attention toil,
and we ask him by his regard Ibr truth,
whether, if he were, on tho bench, ho would
not yield to its force 1
•Mr. lin \\l<* is one ot our host wtilers on
constitutional law. I lis treatise appeared
when there was no political excitement
which could bias his judgment; when no
one t hought ol testing the ojiei'Ulioii of se
cession; and when it Vats the interest of
the State to which lie belonged to discoun
tenance the doctrine as much as possible.
Asa writer, lie is quoted with approbation
by tin’ Supreme Court oftlie United Slates,
by ('hum ellor Kent, Ly Judge Story, mid,
it'd’ eo, by all who have written upon the
t.ject, skici las npncnfi 1
not upon this point 1 grant, for it has ge
net-ally been the policy of writers on con
stitutional law to he silent upon this head;
ami certainly when tho Federal Govern
ment kept within the limits of its legitimate
powers, and when its helm was in the
hands of Republican I’residents, it was so.
Lime, has however, satisfied us, that, it is
no longer prudent to hide from the people
any of tlv ir reserved rights. For ourselves
we are thoroughly convinced (hat there is
infinitely more danger oftlie States losing
their rights, from lx dug kept in ■ignorance
of them, than of abusing them, with the
knowledge of them. We onco believed
that the danger to this Republic lay on the
side of the States. Judging from the Ids
lory of potty cflhfi-doraeies, wo leaped a
restive, turbulent, factious, jealous spirit,
on liie parted the Stales, which would ever
he urging them from each other, ami os
traying them from the Fed.-pal Govern
ment: hut we should he fiiilhh -as to truth
and treacherous to our country, did we not
now frankly acknowledge our error. Ex
perience lias exposed it with the force of
demonstration. <>ur astonishment now is,
that we did not foresee, with the prophetic
eye of Jefferson, Baldwin, Jackson, and a
score of their contemporaries, that tyranny
would certainly begin where power was
tlr; strongest, wealth and patronage the
greatest, ami distinctions the loftiest—that
we did not see, that large States exercisiiiL’
almost all the prerogatives of independent
governments, were not the suitable nurse
ries of dangerous factions—that the people
of these, being absorbed with their own lo
cal concerns, would think hut little of what
was carrying on in a < Jovcrnmont five hun
dred miles off-—that scattered as they are
over an immense territory, with hut limited
means of information, they might he rob
bed of half th; ir rights before they would
ever hear of it—that living and dying for
generation alter generation, without ever
visiting the Uapitol of the Union, to sec with
Iheir own eyes, an I judge from their own
observation, how matters were conducted
there, the chains of slavery might Ire in
dissohibly rivited upon them, before they
suspected that their liberty was imperiled
that nothing is necessary to reconcile such
a people to the most daring re; .urnplioris of
the Chief Magistrate, and the most revolt
ing corruptions of their law-givers, hut a
corrupt press; and that with the wealth of
tho richest country in the world in their
hands, nothing would he more easily com
manded than a corrupt press. All these
things, with many other’s like them, we
did not foresee; but time bus brought them
in sail revision before us. As we have
looked on their progressive (leveloperrients,
our affections have drawn closer to our na
tive land, our fears Cor its safety have be
come more lively, our anxiety to awaken
her people to a sense of her danger, more
intense, our desire to acquaint them with all
their rights, more ardent, and ear solici
tude to inspire them with a watchful jeal
ousy of those rights, more anxious. But
wo are digressing from our purpose.
Wo.submit the subjoined extracts to the
Federal Union, in the hope that they will
silence that paper at least, while a jurist
conducts it, upon tho subject of secession.
In the mean time, let not our readers sup*
pose, that while no arc asserting the rights
and powers’of the State Governments, that
ue desire to put them In practical opera
tion at this time. W o would have them
id wax ■; mill ru >d, alwax s nek now lodged ;
hut never enforced, until there is no u'ltcr
nativi but to urrcnrUr them or to enforce
them :
“Tim secession of a Slate from the
l nion depends on the will oftlie people o
such Slate. The people alone, ns we hnv<
already seen, hold the power to alter thei.
Constitution.
“llu! in any manner by whk-hasccessioi
is to take place, nothingis more certain than
that tin’ act should he deliberate, clear, and
unequivocal. The perspicuity and solem
nity ot the original obligation require cor
respondent qualities in its dissolution. The
powers of the General Government can
not he defeated or impaired by any ambi
guous or implied recession on tho part t.
t lire Slate, although a secession may per
haps he conditional. The people of the
1 ‘lnto may have some reasons to complain
in respect to nets of the Genera! Govern*
ini'til, they may in such cases invest some
.'I their owm officcrri with the power of ne
gotiation, and may declare nil absolute se
'i > i’.ii iii ease of their liiilure. Still, how
ever, tlie secession must in such case be
distinctly and peremtorily declared to take
place on that event, and in such case, ns in
tlio ease of an unconditional secession, the
previous ligament with the Union, would he
legitimately and liiirly destroyed. Butin
either ease, the people is the only moving
power.
“ I o withdraw from the l nion, is a sol
emn, serious net. Y\ believer it may ap
pear expedient to the people of a Stall?, it
must he manifested in a direct and une
quivocal manner. If it is ever done indi
rectly, the people must refuse to elect re
presentatives, ns well as to suffer their Le
gislature to re-appoint Senators. The Se
nator whose time had not yet expired, must
he forbidden I > continue 111 the exercise of
his functions.” Ilawlo on the Constitu
tion, p. 295, 290, 298.
WARE HOUSE
l ■ f AM* ;
<£omm(ssioii UiiGutrGG.
ISIIiE undersigned.having leased that
” eomniodiou ; l!RI( Tv FI Ulvl’lH )< )|>’
W.'IIT-IRoUM’ in this city, (formerly
occupied by Messrs. Slaughter & Labii
zan,) otiers his service.! to the Planters
and Merchant,s, in a
4'omiiiissioii Businas*
IF: will he prepared at all times to make
liberal H(lYtlJM'C* O’.a 4'4<(OM stored
with him, and Ids b( I exertions used for
the interest el those who may litvor him
..with their bie-incxi,
ROBERT MALONE.
Augusta, Aug. 25, 1834. 8 8t
VYiv SvAe. ox tri Kent
, V /k I will sell or rent, my Hoiweand
■ *Fi Lot, Ne. The hoti**i* is sixty fi et
|| j J A front, with a piazza the entire front,
•BaasSfS. two stories high and 35 feet deep,
and within 75 feet of the court-house. Thu lot
is 165 by (ill feet, on which inn double Ivitchon,
with two fire places, n me it-hou ”,:i Ibwl-lioiise,
a well of ...nod water, subt Untinlly built with
rock, ami a vegetable plat 90 feet square at
tached to the above, is a lot, 21(1 feet deep by
DO feet wide, with Ktahlcs, sheds, &c. theotily
convenient place in the town tor drovers. The
house is cuionluted for two good stores, with
suitable dwellings for small families; or a lint
rate tavern, and is well worth attention. A
part id tho purchase money may remain on
hands for two or more years; or I will take an
active steady partner, with a small capital.—
My reason tor selling is being |,y profession a
watch and clock maker. I find it impossible
to attend to a tavern business, without neir
lectiiigmy watch work, &e. For particulars,
enquire on tlio premises, or by let ter (post paid)
‘to If. STARK, Watch-maker.
Washington, Ga. Aug. 28 8 Ot
U.\.\ A\\ ,\V .
FROM the residence of
the subscriber in Lincoln
/ff, ( '“tinty, on the night of the
Js/wm&K I‘lth he i. Two Negro Wo
'nlhAV ms!n > viz:—BECK, a light
JcmD) complected negro, between
ftf.JfiyjifU ■*•) and 40 y. ars of age, 5
vJKjfe. feet lour or live inches high,
walks parmt-toed, stoop-shouldered and lias
a scar on flic side of her face, dressed in
plain white homespun, also two or three of
her front teeth in flic upper juw missing.—
.She was usually employed us n cook and
weaver. MA 111 All, a mulatto, the daugh
ter <d Beck, about 22 or 23 years of age, 5
feet 1 or 2 inches high, well made, with u
remarkable thick bead of hair. She is a
good seamsti’f ss, and having been from her
iii'miry a house.girl, there is n little more
polish iti her manners than is commonly
met with among negroes—she has on her
neck und shoulders .marks made by tlio
whip. YV lien offended, obstinate and re
vengeful in her disposition. When good
humoured, ingenious, active and well adnp.
ff and to almost every species of house-work.
She was more dressy than usual fora ser
vant, having line articles of clothing of al
■nest every iF icription. In addition to tier
ow n clothing, which were numerous, sJio
carried off five of my daughter’s drosses,
viz : Slmly, black .Silk plain ; figured Swiss
Muslin, richly trimmed with thread luce iu
sirting; two French Muslin; plain rich
Gold Ear-Rings; hair brude; silk Apron
trimmed with velvet.
1 hey may bo aided in tiieir eFopcmcnt
by some white person, if so, it is more than
prounbic that they have a pass. I hey havo
relations in (Jolurnbia and Augusta, and
perhaps will aim to take that course. If
apprehended in this county ami secured so
that. I get them, I will pay SlO foreach
‘font ol'this county, 820 each, and all rea
sonable exp uses paid if brought tu mv
house tit# Gross Roads.
David Murray.
Yugust 20, 1834. q i t