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ginia coal was discharged into the mill at 50 cents per ton freight, and at the lowest selling price in New York. Many houses have been built, and the place is hereafter to be called "Urie." Before the end of 1828 it will proba

North Carolina and James Pleasants of Virginia; Aaron | inhabitants.The eastern states will shew an unexOgden of New Jersey, is secretary to the board.- pected increase of inhabitants at the next census-emiAccording to a census recently taken, it appears that grations having much declined in consequence of new Tuscumbia, Ala. contains 1,320 inhabitants, of which 403 employments at home.- -The establishments on Esoare black. There are also 212 dwelling houses.- -The pus creek, which empties into the Hudson about 100 steam boat Constellation arrived at New York on miles from New York, are expected to rival any in the Monday, last week from Albany with four hundred and United States. There is water power enough for one fifty passengers-the largest number ever brought hundred factories, the fall being 50 feet, and the buildin a single boat before.. Illinois lands. About ings to be located on tide water, alongside of which large nine thousand tracts are advertised to be sold for taxes sloops may lie. Already a great paper mill and furon the 1st Monday in January next, unless the taxes nace have been erected the last will roll 200 tons weekshall be previously paid. Among them are a large por-ly, or more, if the work is pushed. A sloop load of Virtion of the military bounty lands. Two years after the sale are allowed for redemption, by the payment of double the amount of the tax, with cost and interest. $886 51 was the amount of money received in tolls at the Charlestown river bridge, leading into Boston, dur-bly be a large town. ing the week ending Oct. 29th. The number of foot passengers alone in that time was 28,293.-In the senate of New York an amendment was adopted to the Cheraw, (S. C.) Nov. 10. law relative to cases of dispute arising in any church in The court of common pleas held its fall term at Marl-* the elections of its officers, by providing that such dis-borough last week; his honor judge Waties, presiding. pute may be settled by arbitration, the arbitrators to be ap- The trial of B. Wiggins, et. al. vs. the executors of pointed on petition to the circuit court or first judge; the Mason Lee, which commenced on Tuesday and closed avowal or decision of said arbitrators to be final.A at 2 o'clock P. M. on Saturday, was more than ordinariperson in England who had his leg broke, instituted a suit ly interesting, as well from the nature of the case, as against his physician for negligence, and recovered £50 from the great legal ability called forth in the managedamages. The same law has operation in the Unitedment of it; and tedious as a protracted trial of this deStates and should be held up in terrorem to all un-scription usually is, there was a peculiarity of aspect in skilful and inattentive practitioners.- A violent gale this case, which rendered it deeply interesting throughwas experienced on the 13th inst. it did considerable out. The testimony adduced on both sides was unusualdamage in Boston, New York and Philadelphia-a ship ly lengthy and multifarious; presented very extraordiwas lost off Sandy Hook, and several vessels wrecked on nary features, and disclosed a scene of human eccentrithe coast. In a late gale on Lake Erie, a vessel was cap-city very rarely equalled.

LAW CASE.

could have got hold of it early enough, he would have thrown by his Leather stocking and his Trapper, as charac ters quite too common place for fiction.

sized, by which six or seven persons lost their lives.- It was an appeal from the court of ordinary of MarlPrince Metternich, the celebrated European diplomatist, borough district, to reverse the decision of that court, is about leading an opera dancer's daughter to the altar-establishing the will of the deceased. The appellants, The Austrian aristocracy are in great dudgeon in conse- were heirs at law of Mason Lee, who died six years since, quence.Chesnuts from the south of France are cul- leaving an estate of about sixty thousand dollars to the tivated in the garden attached to St. Mary's college, Bal-states of South Carolina and Tennessee. timore, ten of which weighed 8 oz. 14 gr'ns; ten Ameri- The ground taken by the appellants for avoiding this can chesnuts weigh but 14 oz.-Thanks have been instrument, was the insanity of the testator; or in the more voted by the trustees of Dickinson college, Pa. to capt. solemn technicality of the law, the heirs contended that Jesse D. Elliot, of the U. S. navy, for the presentation he was of non 'disposing mind, memory and understandof a variety of articles, illustrative, not only of the cus-ing;' and though they failed to convince a very intellitoms and manners of the natives on the coast of Brazil, gent jury of this fact, they exhibited as complete a histobut of mineralogy and geognosy.The evacuation of ry of mental singularities, and bodily privation on the New York by the British on the 25th of November 1783, part of Lee, as ever fell short of actual hallucination. A was celebrated in that city on Monday last by a great full report of the evidence in this case would afford first military display.-Capt. Stephen C. Parsons of New-rate materials for a modern romance, and if Cooper buryport, Mass. has received from the British consul fifty pounds sterling, as an acknowledgment for his services in rescuing three British seamen who had been wrecked upon the Double-headed shot Keys.—Mr. A. Lee was originally from North Carolina, settled afterWillard, Jr. of Boston, has made a clock for a large wards in Georgia, from which state he was forced to flee, church in Mexico, and it is the first one ever made in this in consequence of having killed one of his female slaves, country which strikes the hours and quarters. -The and seated himself finally upon a plantation on the Pee Boston Centinel states that the first Boston Directory Dee. It was to this portion of his life, that the testimony was published in 1789, by John Norman, and contained was principally confined, and never was a more miserthe names of 1,456 persons, being the mechanics, traders,ly one exhibited, trom Eĺwes down to himself, including merchants, attorneys, &c. then living and doing business every possible variety of human oddity and human whim. in Boston; as also the names of the public offices, and He lived in a habitation abundantly worse than any of the one bank. The Directory of 1826, contained 10,761 those occupied by his negroes, eat his scanty meals of names. That of the present year 11,104.--Lieut. hoe-cake and bacon upon a box, which served it seems Morton has prepared a "spelling book," to initiate the the double purpose of holding the pot to cook it in, and Chippewa Indians into the principles of written language. table from which to eat; his table furniture was in about The Worcester, (Mass.), Mutual insurance com- the same style of magnificence consisting of one spoon, pany was organized, and commenced issuing policies in one fork, (a crotched stick), and one knife, which latter May, 1824, three and a half years since. It has insured utensil also did duty in his pocket, as tobacco cutter, &c. to the amount of about seven hundred thousand dollars, the spoon was well enough in its way but had its handle on buildings and property in all parts of the county, and cut in two in the middle, and rivetted with iron, in oryet it has never sustained the loss of a single dollar byder as Lee sagaciously observed, to keep off witches. fire.A composition has been invented in England His room and every thing about him was filthy in the which has all the properties of gold, except its weight.extreme, nor would he suffer it to be otherwise; a line The materials of which it is composed are said to be was draw n across a portion of it beyond which no human abundant and cheap. The inventor made the discovery being was suffered to pass. His wardrobe was in exact in consequence of the literal interpretation of the bibli-keeping with his other sublunary comforts; consisting of cal passage where a "metal more precious than gold"" is the very coarsest materials, cut and made by himself in a mentioned, which he interpreted literally.- -Thursday fashion that set all resemblance to any thing on earth, or the 22d ult. was recommended by gov. Cass of Michigan in the waters under it, at absolute defiance. His hat crown as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.--The popu- was perforated with holes on every side, in order as he lation of Worcester, Massachusetts, amounts to up-expressed it, that if the devil should enter his head on the wards of 3,600, having an increase, in five years, of 700 one side he might have a passage out at the other. His

head was kept close shaved so as to make his wits glib tion-the last of them were about to be completed-the he said. His bed was in a hollow gum log; and into this Indian irritation had exhausted itself in a few demonstravery primitive lodging would he crawl, and doze away tions of hostility, and when calmness and tranquillity had his time by day, and spend the night in fighting devils succeeded to excitement and clamor and nothing reand hobgoblins, adversaries that were constantly about mained to satisfy the Indian for his imaginary wrongs, him; to meet which upon fair terms, a neighboring black- but a trifling consideration in money, the executive gosmith run up a pretty respectable bill in fabricating swords vernment at Washington, seized the occasion as a fit oue made to different patterns, furnished by Lee himself, to denounce the executive of Georgia as the violator of some of which were unshapely as Lee's imagination. the faith of treaties, and the lawless invader of Indian One in particular was five inches long, and we believe, rights-to forbid the prosecution of the surveys, and to twelve broad, certainly the most unswordly instrument threaten the employment of military force to coerce obewe ever dreamed of. Lee was a devout believer in dience to its commands-a menace which, without being witchcraft, and entertained that every thing about him unprecedented on the part of that government, was yet was goomered, or liable to the visitations of that fearful so ill timed and unexpected, that but one reception and species of the glamour, and seemed constantly upon the one treatment could be given to it. The documents herequi vive, to counteract it. Under the idea that his teeth with transmitted will disclose the manner of that recepwere goomered, (we are not certain that we get the word tion and treatment. The message of the president to right, but we so understood its pronunciation in court), congress, communicating this measure, left no doubt he had twelve sound teeth drawn at one time. The as to its motives and its objects. The councils and the peodevil or the Wigginses, which he seemed to think mem-ple of Georgia were to be subdued at all events into a re-bers of the same family, had got into his grinders, and a cognition of the validity of the instrument called the new dental abstraction was immediately determined on. In treaty-by civil process, if civil process would answershort Mason Lee was the oddest fish, we ever heard or by military force, if it would not-indeed by all means read of since the celebrated Caliban, and he was as civil or military as enjoined by a superadded obligation, Stephano says, a 'most delicate monster' too, and a lover (to use the language of the president), even higher than of the same beverage, getting occasionally 'very particu- that of human authority. It could not be seen why unlarly drunk. We ought to have mentioned, however, der a government of laws the civil remedy might not sutin enumerating his peculiarities, what we consider the fice, being, if not so prompt, at least ample and appropriate worst feature in the zig zags of his character. He en- -or why if resorted to at all, it should not be exclusivetertained the most outrageous aversion to women, and ly depended on? The alternative of a resort to the mili actually hired out a prime female slave at twelve and a tary on failure of the civil remedy, or the resort to both half cents a year, as a proof of his hatred to the sex!- concurrently for the redress of the same wrongs, is not And still Mason Lee was inconsistent even in an old the theory, and has not been hitherto, the practice of this bachelors's wonted acerbity to womanhood. The vine- government-whenever it shall become so, there will be gar of his disposition turned to treacle at least in one in- no longer any difference, in substance between our own stance, for Mason Lee was the reputed father of twin constitution of government and that of the most arbitrary sons, one of whom he acknowledged, but disclaimed all and despotic. It was impossible to doubt therefore, paternity for the other! The son whom he recognised, from the unconstitutional character of the menace, from was in court and testified in the case. He was a respec- its unseasonableness and from the appalling consequentable and rather an interesting young man, and is said ces which must inevitably follow its execution, that the very much to resemble his reputed father, who by the temper which dictated it was hostile to Georgia, and way we forgot to mention was during his younger days bent on her humiliation or destruction. The councils of said to be a respectable man, and in no way different from Georgia could never recede, without the most degrading the other young men of his class and condition. humiliation, from the positions taken in support of the Notwithstanding all these peculiarities of Mason Lee, treaty of the Indian springs-it was the professed object he was proved to be so far as it regards the accumula- of the menace to produce that recession; and it was ob tion of property, and upon all other points saving the viously better for Georgia to run the hazard of being single point of faith in witchcraft and other supernatu- stricken from the roll of states, than, by a passive subral agencies, a shrewd and sensible man, and well capa- mission, to surrender with important interests and essenciated not only to acquire property, but to dispose of it, tial rights, what was infinitely more important and more and the jury (in our opinion most correctly) established essential, character. But other rights and interests the validity of the will. The testator made an injudi- than those of Georgia were concerned. The doctrine cious bequest we have no doubt; for he gave his property, assumed in justification of the menace involved the rights where he will never be thanked for it, and where it will of all the states--it asserts the broad power of the exedo no perceptible good, and in the case of Tennessee in cutive, the general government, in any controversy beparticular there was no assignable motive for the bene-tween a stafe and the United States, to decide the right faction; since he had never resided in the state, had no relatives there, and was so utterly devoid of any acquaintance with its citizens, that, in choosing an executor, he could not individuate, but was obliged to name the "best Baptist minister in the state."

An appeal was taken from the decision of the court and jury, to the constitutional court.

Counsel for the appellants, Blanding, Harper and Ervin-for the appellees, Evans and Preston.

LEGISLATURE OF GEORGIA.

Extracts from gov. Troup's message to the legislature,
Nov. 6, 1827.

Fellow citizens-In making known to you the events of the passing year, it is equally my duty to communicate those which give pain as those which afford pleasure, so that without concealment or suppression, all may be embodied in the history of the times-our successors will take council from them, and the experience of the past will be equally profitable, whether it furnishes examples of good to be imitated, or of evil to be avoided.

and wroug of that controversy promptly, absolutely and finally, without appeal, and to enforce such decision by the sword-a power most awful, tremendous and unnatural, and not given by the constitution even to the congress. In such a contest, Georgia could make no sacrifices too dear, because she contended in a just and righteous cause, nor for herself alone, but for all the states, whose honor dignity and independence, were alike at stake. Happily for the country, the enforcement of this measure has not been as yet attemptedwhether on consideration it has heen yielded to more deliberate suggestions and more prudent counsels, or decided as wholly indefensible, and therefore impracticable, or reserved for some other and future occasion, is not known to me, and can only be conjectured-it is reasonable, at least charitable to conclude that what in this respect ought to be done; has been done, and wisdom and moderation can find no amends for the calamities of a civil war in the transfer from Georgia to the Indians of a compa ratively worthless fraction of territory, which, but for the principle involved, this government would not deign to make a subject of angry contention with that of the United States.

Before the close of the last session of the legislature, hopes were indulged that the controversy between the government of this state and that of the United States The country of the Creeks falling within the charterwas happily terminating; and so indeed to all appearance ed limits of Georgia being acquired, it remains for you it was the surveys of the recently acquired territory, so to consider of the measures most expedient for the ac long resisted, had proceeded with little or no interrup-quisition of that of the Cherokees within the said limits

It is proper to inform you that the memorial of the last legislature on this subject, addressed to the president, was forwarded in due time, with an accompanying letter, to which no satisfactory answer has been given.

on this subject my opinions have been freely and frankly, Jate and impartial investigation.—They are in a course of and repeatedly communicated-there is no reason to liquidation and settlement. change them-you hold the territory by the same tenure The expenses of the military expedition ordered for as you hold that on which yourselves and your ancestors the defence of the southern frontier against threatened have long fixed your hearts and firesides-the original hostilities of the Indians, have been allowed as a correct charter of the state-this tenure remains unchanged by charge against the general government, and paid:—and the articles of confederation, or by the present constitu- mouies advanced on account of the United States by the tion; and without the consent of the people, is unchangea-executive of Georgia for running and marking the Florible but by the act of God; the right of occupancy following da line have, although that operation was arrested by the the right of soil and jurisdiction, you claim the same right government of Georgia, been promptly returned:-acts of occupancy now as ever unlimited and unrestrained by indeed of just expectation because manifestly right to the confederation or the present constitution; and there-themselves, but affording, at the same time, no little fore, are free in times future as in times past, to enter gratification, because what is manifestly right is not alupon that occupancy, consulting your rights, your conve-ways done. nience, and the dictates of humanity only-your rights Among the various violations of the constitution of the are undoubted-your convenience is resolved by the U. States, the people of the southern states have lately various circumstances to which you may at any time find been made to feel and complain of that prominent one your population and territory, and the wants of your pee-which has taken from the states the general guardianple, as resulting from the relative condition of both; and ship over the labor and industry of the people, which it the obligations of humanity, always paramount to the was supposed exclusively belonging to them, and which claims of interest, are to be sought in the consideration of it is believed they never have voluntarily relinquished. what is due from a civilized to a savage cominunity, and It is in the exercise of this guardianship that the congress of the sum of human happiness, present and future, which proceed from session to session to tax one portion of the is involved in the estimate. Whatever may be the con- community, not interested in a particular branch of introlling motives resulting from other considerations, dustry, to sustain another portion interested in and carthose of humanity oppose no obstacle to the immediate rying on that branch. Disregarding the liberal principles occupation of the country. The Cherokees are only ask-which would leave industry free to seek its own employed to surrender now, and voluntarily, the country which ment, and returning to the benighted policy long prac by the force of moral circumstances they must very soon tised by other nations, but now abandoned and abandonsurrender, even against their will, not without conside-ing by all enlightened ones, it claims an absolute dominration or equivalent, but in exchange for another, and in ion over it, to fetter, to restrain, to encourage, to prohi all respects a better country, with a title in fee, in the bit to cause it to take any or every direction-thus substiplace of a precarious occupancy-with generous soil and tuting, for the natural order of things the artificial syssalubrious climate, presenting a choice to agriculture or tem of the darker ages-the power which, in raising rethe chase-insulated from the whites and protected by venue or regulating commerce, incidentally protects mathe power of the United States-all who oppose them-nufactures or encourages the fabrics which are indispenselves to this movement are enemies of the Cherokees, sable to the national defence, is a very different power ignorant of their true interests, or indifferent to their pre- from that claimed by the federal government to protect sent and future welfare. by any means, directly or indirectly, all or any of then, than which a more distinct substantive and important power could not be given by any government. It is in vain that we ask for the grant of this mighty power to congress. It is in vain that we plead the cruelty of takConnected with other subjects of disagreement with the ing from the small profits of agriculture to increase the government of the United States, is that of the dividing large profits of manufacturers. We are answered from Line between Florida and this state, directed to be run year to year by an amended tariff, augmenting the tribute and marked by several resolutions of the legislature. and multiplying the exactions. Nay more-as if congress The concurrence of the general government being neces- lacked vigor and animation for the work, a combination sary to the perfection of this measure, it was repeatedly of states exclusively interested in perpetuating those invited, and eventually obtained. A highly respectable abuses, resolve themselves into a body unknown to the gentleman, and late governor of Virginia, Thomas M. constitution, and dictate to the government at WashingRandolph, having been appointed the commissioner on ton the kind and amount of tax which the people of other the part of the United States, and Thomas Spalding the states shall pay, so that we may soon have to ask ourcommissioner on the part of Georgia, they proceeded in selves, which is the government of the United States, the a spirit of harmony and concert to the execution of their assembly of states which passes the edict of taxation, or trust, and I am happy to inform you that without bring- the authorities of more regular and constitutional aping their labors to a termination most desirable, they pointment, which receive it as law, and order its registraclosed them with no interruption of that spirit. On the tion. I recommend to you the adoption without delay of contrary, with an improvement of it corresponding to the a firm remonstrance to the congress against this system intelligence, patriotism and liberal sentiments which dis-of usurpation injustice and oppression-you will address tinguish them. yourselves I know to a formidable government, having Here follows a detail of matters relating to the Flori- the power for certain purposes, over the purse and the da line, in which Mr. Troup remarks]-This detail, so sword, and now claiming and exercising the power to di inconsistent with the generalizing character of a message rect the national industry and national improvement with-will find an apology in the extreme reluctance which out limitation-in short the absolute masters of the forfeel to open a new controversy with the United States-tunes of twelve millions of people. But, you can yet the great delicacy of the question, (being one of bounda-speak in the language of-truth, if not in the spirit of freery)—the extent of territory, (more than two thousand men. Your complaints may be unheeded. If they square miles) which may be involved in it, and the obvious should be, I recommend to you to address yourselves to propriety, therefore in stating the question for the first the states having common interest with yourselves, and tire to state it fairly and fully. to suggest the expediency of concurring in a non-conIt gives me great pleasure to inform you that recent acts sumption agreement to be carried into effect by all the of the general government, and of its different depart-means which are constitutionally given to their respecments, bespeak a return of good feeling, and give an ear-tive legislatures. It is painful to contemplate the consenest of future good understanding which it has been the quences which must follow. That government whose sincere desire, as it is the duty of this government to culti-parental duty it is to make us all friends and to keep us vate. Our militia claims so constantly and seduously, but so, is straining its faculties to fasten upon the country a unavailingly urged before that goverment for 20 or 30 ycars, have been recognized, and under circumstances warranting the belief that some grains of prejudice had mingled with the former repeated considerations of them, and that nothing was wanting to a prompt acknowledgement of their justice at all times, but calm, dispassion

system which cannot fail to set one part of it in hostile array against the other. In self defence, we are first dri. ven to a non-consumption, which, in the end must be a nonintercourse, and, as a necessary consequence of that, to the cultivation of more friendly relations with foreigners, who, supplying our indispensable wants, at least so long

as the general government suffers them to be supplied, stay the tempest, and bid the waves be still.-No matwill take the place of our own countrymen in our feelings ter what the perils-no matter what the calamities which and affections, leaving nothing for them but bitternesss beset the country, experience has proven that in all counand heart-burning--we are not unwilling to give to our own tries these disastrous passions seek only a selfish gratificountrymen the same profits, we give to foreigners, pro- cation regardless of the public interest. In our own they vided they are fairly and constitutionally earned. It is the had their ferocious march, and their guilty triumphs.forced consumption of an article unconstitutionally en- Formidable at the beginning and fostered by events, they hanced in price, which like the forced consumption of harassed the progress of this administration under its the tea, we resist. All things being equal, we are will-greatest trials, and embarrassed its councils at every step. ing to consume the fabrics of our own country and so far It is well that little could be claimed from abilities so to encourage the fabricators, but we protest against the moderate under circumstances so adverse. We may be artificial encouragement given at our expense, when we content and thankful, that if nothing has been won, every are made to pay not only the tax for that encouragement, thing has not been lost-that the exasperations of the but to lose the trade in our staple, which affords the only struggle are subsiding, and that in the prospect before us means of paying it. It is not to be expected that foreign there is nothing to discourage or dismay-You have, nations will long continue to receive our raw material if therefore, fellow citizens every motive as men, and obwe refuse to receive their manufactures, and we are not ligation as Christians, to banish discord and to cultivate used to that despotism which would constrain us whe- peace--to discard the passions which become children more than men--to separate yourselves from names, the ther for or against our interest, to manufacture for ourselves against our inclination. cost of which is comparatively worthless, and attach yourselves to principles, which are unchangeable, and which cannot fail you in your utmost need. In fine, to think and act as brethren of the same family, allied by a common interest and a common destiny, of which the Universal Parent will be the guardian and protector. It is the best as it is the last advice I can give, and, returning to private life, 1 invoke the blessing of God upon our country, and G. M. TROUP. bid you farewell.

MR. CLAY'S NOMINATION.

It will be seen by a reference to the last vol. page $75, that Mr. Clay, in his speech at Lexington, stated “that he had requested a senator of the United States, when his nomination should be taken up, to ask of the senate the appointment of a committee of inquiry, unless it should appear to him to be altogether unnecessary."

Conscientiously believing that the government of the United States is not conducted according to the principles of the constitution; that powers are claimed and exercised by it in derogation of those principles, and that in practice, it is virtually a consolidated government, and therefore essentially different from that formed and designed to be formed by the convention of '87, I would recommend to you, at the same time to address a respectful and affectionate memorial to your sister states, requesting them to unite with you in all constitutional and legiti mate measures to bring back the government to the pure principles of Mr Jefferson's administration, which are the true principles of the constitution. It is a subject of sincere congratulation that, notwithstanding your temptations have not been less than others, you remain uncorrupted by the assumed powers of the general government Sometime after this-see the present vol. page 22, Mr. over the internal improvement of the country. states which have surrendered this birth right will find Branch, a member of the senate from North Carolina, no compensation in this promised equivalent, as princi-published a sketch of what he said when the nomination ple has never yet found its value in the weight, or mea- of Mr. Clay was under consideration-not as impeaching the veracity of Mr. Clay, but as if to shew that he, sure of the precious metals. (Mr. B.), thought that his observations might have justified a call for a committee of inquiry, though he offered nothing in the shape of a specific charge against The following letter from gen. the secretary of state. Harrison, extracted from the "Sciota Gazette," shew's the whole ground of this matter.

Other

[The governor then exhorts the legislature to keep pace with the other states in internal improvements, and He says-] speaks well of the advantages of them. No fertility of soil, no generality of climate, can compensate to Georgia, a difference of freight of five to one against her, in a competition with her neighbor states. "North Bend, Nov. 4, 1827. Her industry will be paralyzed and her capital exhausted. "A day or two before the nomination of Mr. Clay to Already the wheat grower of the western part of New York, from which formerly a bushel of wheat was not the office of secretary of state was acted on by the senate, exported, supplants the wheat grower of Georgia in I was requested by that gentleman to move for a comhis own market. And ere long the cotton market, re-mittee of inquiry into his conduct, in relation to the then duced to the lowest price at which the article can be recent election of president, if any thing should occur in raised, Georgia, with such fearful odds against her will my opinion to make it necessary. Mr. Clay repeated the application on the day that the nomination was taken be forced to abandon the cultivation. up by the senate, with great earnestness, and obtained my promise that I would comply with his request. From the position which I occupied in the senate cham

[He then introduces a variety of local matters-the chief engineer, about a court of errors, the penitentiary, finances, literary institutions, and the military system,of the cultivation of the vine, &c. and concludes as fol-ber, being somewhat in the rear of that of Mr. Branch, I lows:

Retiring from office, after four years administration of the public affairs, it would have given me pleasure to congratulate you on the safety of the republic, the flourishing condition of the country, and above all on the union and happines of the people-That the republic is yet safe, and that the country is still prosperous, we are indebted more to Divine Providence than to our own merits. That the strifes and contentions of party have scarcely ceased to distract the public mind, to embitter social intercourse and impair the energies of society, we owe to the weakness and perverseness of human nature. The boisterous passions, the offspring of political dissensions, and in the conflicts of which reason is suspended, are not to be allayed on the instant, but by Him who can

*The following paragraph gives a summary view of the state of the finances-The funds of the state, including bank stock, evidences of debt, and monies in the treasury at the end of the political year, amount to near two million of dollars-the average annual ordinary expenses of government for the political years 1824-5, and 26, amount to $108,000, and the average annual revenue from taxation fo, the same years, to $70,000.

did not distinctly hear the greater part of his speech in
opposition to the appointment. Fearing that I might
have misunderstood him, and not wishing to rely entirely
upon my own judgment, in a matter in which another
was so materially concerned, I applied to Mr Lloyd, of
Mass. who sat near to and directly in front of Mr.
Branch, to know whether, in his opinion, any thing had
been said by Mr. B. which would render it proper to
move for an inquiry. Mr. Lloyd answered, that nothing
had fallen from Mr. B. which would make a motion of
that kind necessary; and the same opinion was expressed
to me by at least one other senator. I therefore gave up
the idea of moving for an investigation. The speech of
Mr. Branch, which was published by himself some time
But I
ago, is, I have no doubt, as correct a statement as he
could make of what he delivered to the senate.
must confess that, even at this time, I can see nothing in it
which would have induced me to have adopted a differ-
It appears to me that I should neither have
ent course.
consulted the public interest, nor the honor of Mr.
Clay, in calling for an inquiry, when the accuser-if ae-
cuser he can be called-declared that he had no proof
to offer, but what each member of the senate, and every
one else, possessed.

"On the day that the nomination was acted on by the senate, or on the succeeding one, I informed Mr. Clay that nothing had passed in the senate which made it necessary to move for the investigation which he had solicited The assertion of the fact by Mr. Branch, is sufficient evidence to me, that several of the senators who voted with him against Mr. Clay's appointment, were governed by the same motives and feelings towards that gentleman which actuated him. Such was not the case, however, in relation to his colleague, for soon after the vote had been taken, Mr. Macon approached me, and observed, that he had not been influenced in opposing Mr. Clay's appointment, by any diminution of his confidence in his integrity, but solely on the ground of the latitude of construction which he had given to the constitution. Believing that it was the intention of Mr. Macon that I should communicate this observation to Mr. Clay, and knowing the pleasure that it would give to the latter to find that he still possessed the esteem of his old friend and associate, I did not fail to mention this also to Mr. Clay.

"W. H. HARRISON.”

MR. KREMER'S SPEECH.

have given three-fourths of their votes in a contest with Adams alone, so grossly was public opinion contemned and disregarded, that the whole five states were thrown into the opposite scale.

the corrupt bargain was made, but the act was yet to be By the 25th of January, I discovered my error, that performed and the compensation rendered. I then wrote my letter to the Columbian Observer, and my ghost seems to haunt Mr. Clay ever since He introduces my name in all his dinner speeches, and talks of the Kremer down." I wrote my letter to the Columbian Observer, conspiracy. "Now mark how a plain tale shall put him from my desk in congress hall, while the house was in session, together with several others, all breathing the ed to be true and right to be known, nor am I certain same spirit. I consulted no man. I wrote what I believany person saw it until it reached the editor of that pabusy writing? I told him I was exposing the daring conper. One of my colleagues did ask me what I was so spiracy and handed him the letter I was then writing. He has since told me he was called away before he read it. My letter to the Columbian Observer was written thing to conceal. I did not care if all the world knew publicly, without any attempt at concealment. I had nowhat I had written. Mr. Clay has shown his skill at

[Resolved to give all matters relative to the political questions in controversy, (as far as our limits will allow), that, from the official situation of persons, might seem to possess something as of a documentary character, we be-evasion, by making the authorship of that letter a matlieve that we have inserted all the papers that we have yet seen of such character, in relation to the presidential election in the house of representatives in Feb. 1825, except the following-a copy of which we just now meet with in a Philadelphia paper.] FROM THE UNION (PA.) TIMES.

ter of importance. It is a matter of no importance, though it in my card; I avowed it in the house in my place. The the fact is as I have related it to you. I acknowledged important question with the people still remains—are the charges true? Can any one doubt it, who considers that he has performed the act which the letter charges him Address delivered by George Kremer, esq. at the Jack-with intending to do, and now holds the office, which son meeting in the court house in New Berlin, on the was proclaimed as the consideration for the services ren17th September. dered? Mr. C. says, that Mr. Crowninshield told him,

Mr. Chairman-I rejoice to see so many of my fellow citizens on this occasion, as this meeting is intended to have a bearing on the next presidential election. The choice of the people, for the highest office in their gift, has been once defeated by a most foul and audacious combination. It therefore behooves all the citizens of this free country to be on their guard, and not to suffer themselves to be again defrauded of their rights. should not now address this meeting, but that I believe it to be my duty to warn my fellow citizens against the force of intrigue, such as can scarcely be conceived at this distance from the seat of our general government: and to urge upon them the necessity of determining the next election by the popular suffrage. The opinions proclaimed in relation to the last presidential election, remain unchanged. The facts, on which those opinions were founded, were too clear to my mind to admit of doubt, and their force has not been at all diminished by the attempts at explanation, which have been made by the other party. Early in the session of 1824-5, a system of intrigue and management, was introduced, that baffles all description. There was no end to the dinners, evening parties, and levees, and other entertainments for the members of congress, from the president down to the lowest clerks in the offices. Every member, who could be approached, was assailed. Still I had no fears for the republic. The nation had delivered Jackson into the hands of congress, backed by a large majority of their votes. I had no doubt congress would respond to the will of the nation, by electing, for president, the man of

their choice.

Early in January, I was first informed that Mr. Clay and some of his friends, a majority of the representatives of five states, had resolved to go together. Then for the first time, hints were given, that Mr. Clay and his friends were in the market, and would fight for those who would pay best. It then seemed incredible, that any man who had any character to lose would be guilty of so base an act. I then believed that men who in honor and honesty, counted themselves among the foremost, would use their delegated authority according to the will of their constituents.

I did not then feel alarmed. I did not and could not believe, that so many men, accountable to the people for their votes, would dare to oppose the people's will. But I was mistaken in calculating what desperate men dace do. Though the people of these five states would

was not the author of the letter." I never told Mr. told Mr. Brent and Mr. Little, that I never intended Crowninshield, or any other man so. Mr. Clay says, I to charge Mr. Clay with corruption.' Those gentlemen have either misunderstood me, or most grossly misrepresented me. This conversation is said to have taken place on the 5th of February. Mr. Clay was then in the infancy' of his political crime. He had not then "crossed the Rubicon." He was only meditating a pasto Rome. This 9th of February has proved the political sage. On the 9th of February, he crossed and marched Ides of March" to Henry Clay. On that day he gave the seal of truth to my letter, and no time can wash out the stain he thereby gave to his character. himself with infamy, and laid the axe at the foot of the "tree of liberty.

He covered

I have before said, and I again pledge myself, that if Mr. Clay should ever demand an investigation before a proper tribunal, I am ready and willing to substantiate all the charges contained in my letter to the Columbian Observer. But why talk of proof? has he not the thirty pieces of silver? is not his commission on record? and is he not the Judas of the present age?

Johnson, of Ken. an intimate and confidential friend of
From the repeated conversations with Mr. Francis
Mr. Clay, I knew that the members from that state had
left home intending to vote for Jackson, if Mr. Clay
should not be returned to the house. Mr. Johnson told
me more than once,
and once assured me, that "Kentucky would turn out
"that Jackson was his second choice;"
strong for Jackson." After I had heard of this bargain and
sale, I inquired of him, as to the present disposition of
Kentucky? He seemed to hesitate, and observed, "Ken-
tucky is not dead yet. We hold the balance in our hands.
That if Jackson should be elected, it was said Adams
would remain secretary of state; and, in that case, nothing
could be done for Kentucky." "We want to know," said
he "if we aid in electing Jackson, what the friends of Jack-
son will do for Kentucky?" Col. Sandford of Tennessee,
came up at this moment, and heard the concluding re-
mark made by Mr. Johnson.*
This is one among many

with other members, who afterwards voted for Mr.
*Certificates proving this conversation, and similar ones
Adams, are now in possession of the editor, which can be,
ing subject.
seen by any one desirous of further light on this interest-
[Union Times.

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