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BIOHBIOND. JAN. 3. "
THE TARIFF QUESTION*.
W c yield to no man breathing in |>rofonn<l re«pect
for Mr. Madison; as an accomplished Politician &
a virtuous man. Who has pasted through the tiery
ordeal of power, with more purity than this illus
trious man? \\ ho lias raised a more noble uiotiii
xnent to bis own lame, than James Madison has
done by the composition of his Report? It deserves
to live as long as the Constitution itself.
With what deep regret, therefore, we venture
to differ with Mr. Madison on any great question
it is unnecessary for us to repeat. We feel the
vast disparity wlrcli i xt,U between us; but the day
oi prophets ami oracles has passed; and tho’ we
humbly feel our inferiority, yet we are free ci i
yens of a free country.and must think lor ourselves.
>>e listen to every thing he says, on constitution
al questions, with the greatest consideration_we
weigh all his arguments as well as we can—hut
when tve arc not convinced, we led bound toex—
press our dissent in the most respectful terms.—
Precisely in this predicament, are w« placed by
his late Letters on the Tariir Question.
We are not of the number of those who object
to Mr. Madison’s mingling in the great discussions
ot the day. \\ e should have been bnppy (o have
seen hi in more frequently out upon such questions.
V e should have been glad to have had Ins opinions
tipon the Cohens’ case; upon the decision of the
Supreme Court in the case of the Rank; and up
on the doctrines of Mr. Adams’ Message. On more
than one of these occasions, we are satisfied that
bis opinions have been misrepresented and mis
quoted.—We should, indeed, have been proud to
have beard his voice more frequently supporting
the great principles of his admirable Report, and
slaying the encroachments of the general govern
ment upon the reserved rights of tlie States. Hut,we
shall be the last to complain of him, either when
lie speaks or w hen lie chooses to be silent._H e
might, at this time, haveprrfetycil to hear him up
on some other question than this one—to have
known, for instance, in what way the encroach
ments of the U. S. arc to be stayed; how the vari
ous debateable questions, which are now afloat,
can be best adjusted; how harmony is to be best
teslorcd to our public councils and to the different
Sta'es; whether by legislative amendments to the
Constitution, or by the call of "a Convention, or bv
lining me cnances oi experience and time. But,
it is for Mr. Madison hiin«e!l to select hi* own time
and manner of exercising his privileges, lie is
bound to consult no other wishes than his own.
We regrot, it is true, that Mr. Madison has cho
sen to come out at the present time upon this tariff
—because it was not necessary to dissipate the
angry clouds which had collected to the South.
They have blown over, of themselves, without
(lie intervention of his warning voice. But while
Lis letters can do little good in that way, they may
do some mischief in others. Not having entered
his protest against the present extravagant tariff'
laws; having waived such a discussion, and posi
tively declared, that "in the exercise of the power,
they are responsible to their constituents, whose
right and duty it is, in that, as in all other cases,
to bring their measures (o the test of truth and of
the general good”—it is impossible to overlook the
consequences of his exposilion. It will be urged
«* an argument in favor of the present abominable
laws. It has already been so triumphantly em
ployed—andtothing can now satisly the public,
that Mr. Madison does not consider any excess
of tariff to be without the limits of the Constitu
tion."
He says, that Congress have the power “to
regulate trade”—&. it is under this clause, he infers
the power to encourage manufactures—pot even
protesting against the extravagant excesses to
which the present tariff proceeds. Hoes Mr. M.
believe, that the Southern States would have a
greed to this clause of the Constitution, if they
could have foreseen the extent to which it has
been abused? Can he believe that the present
law falls within the power to “regulate com
merce?”
To regulate commerce is one thing—to counter
vail the commercial impositions of foreign states_
to obtain for our own vessels and our own products
the best terms for tlrcir reception into other ports—is
one thing—It is a broad, substantive object, which
was understood at the time of adop“'ng the Con
stitution, and avowed in the writings of the Fcil
eralist.—But, to deduce from that power another
power which is equally independent St substantive
with itself—the power of encouraging manufac
tures,not for the 6ake of countervailing the regula
tions of other nations, and of advancing our com
merce,but of promoting manufactures on their own
account, appears to us neither correct in itself, nor
consistent with that strict mode of construing the
Constitution, which Mr. M. supported in his speech
on the Bank Bill, his celebrated ltepoit, or his me
morable protest in March 1H17 against the bill for
Internal Improvements. To deduce one substan
tive power Iroin another, would be fatal to the the
ory of a federal constitution will) specified powers.
—Nor does the Federalist recommend the encou
ragement of manufactures by “ regulating com
merce.” There is no such thing (o be found
in all its disquisitions upon this clause—and yet,
it is the avowed object ot the prcs« nt Tariff Sys
tem.
No one lias ever more strongly supported tlie
propriety of countervailing regulations than Mr.
Jefferson—and he has gone so far, in one of his
early reports, as to liint at the incidental benefit
which they might produce in raising up certain
branches ot manufacture; hut he treat-it as an in
cidental effect, not as a substantive power to lie ex
ercised on its own account. In fact, Mr. J. u
nouuced the tariff law ot 1825, as a gross abuse of
power. What docs he say in his letter to Mr. Giles
of 26th Dec. 1825?
•• Take together the decisions of the Federal
Court, the doclriocs of the President, and the mis
constructions of the constitutional compact acted
on by the legislature of the federal branch; and it
is but too evident that the three ruling branches
of that department, are in combination, to strip
their colleagues, the state authorities, of the powers
reserved by them, and to exercise themselves, all
functions foreign and domestic. Under the pow
er “to regulate commerce,“they assume indefinite
ly, that also over agriculture and manufactures;
and call it regulation ton, to take the earnings o!
one of tlic.-e branchesof industry, and that too,
the most depressed, and put them into the pock
ets of the other, the most flourishing of all.”
And this was in 1825—What would he have said,
if be had had the present law before him? Would
} e have considered that law as flowing from the
right “ to regulate commerce?”—In 1825, the du
ty on woollens ranged only from 25 to 33 1-3.—
Jly the prescm law, it is stated by a N. \ ork wri
ter, “the duties have been raised Iroin 33 13, to
rates of 40 f«200 per cent, averegmg, perhaps,
00 per cent!”
For the purpore of showing in what different
lights tnis tariff power has been considered—and
to give the reader a better chance of seeing both
sides of the question, we lay he lore him the fol
lowing quotations: The first i«, trorn the Charles
ton “ Southern Review,” a work of great merit
and celebrity—and the last, j« from the solemn
Protest, adopted but the other day by the Legis
lature of Georgia.— Both of these discuss the same
two clause*,winch Mr. Madison brings forward in
his late letters :
Extract Jrom the Southern ItrrieW on the Con
stitution of the U. S.
frsrcofrsTiTtfTioNa i.rrr or thk TAturr,
“Whilst a tariff wa* solicited as a moderate and
liberal boon to domestic manufacturer, the people
• How far Mr. Madison w as willing to go, in
point of expediency, appears from a former letter
of his to Thomas Cooper, in which he advocates
the opinion only “that the encouragement of these
tnantifanlures «»f prime necessity and useful in
time of war, by a moderate duty in tbeir favor.
»o ijive them a start, ought not to be objected to.”
t
ol the Southern States opposed no serious obstacle
however they may have hqcn displeased w ith Uni
continued application lor new imposition*. Hut
when the question is made te bear the shape it unw
assume*—when duties ore no longer imposed for
the purpose* of revenue, but avowedly a* bounties
on ni.tnufsctuius—when, in the language of one
of the leaders of the llurrisburgh Contention, l*e
hon must be heaped on l)?sa, and as many manu
facturing i • crests as possible combined togtther,
to bear dow n all opposition in Congress, we must
appeal to tho cliarteg of our Government, mi l de
mand by what autlioi ity this power i* claimed, un
der what provision of that clut ter it can cunstilu.
Uunulhf, he exercised.
“We mean not now to consider this a* a question
of political economy. There may be other ont.or
tunittcs to discuss it on that giound, and to show
it* impolicy in relation to our foreign commerce*
lnexpcuicnce, even with regard to those Slates
that have most wurinly e*|>ou*cd the system, and
its injustice lo all ol tiie consuming State*. At
present, vve shall coniine ourselves to the Consti
tutional discussion; and.cn this point, the question
lias not only been profoundly examined in the num
ber* ol the/- Crisis,” but has been treated with
much original]1, and appears almost lo lie ex
nausted. We c*u only make a few extract-':_
* We do not liii'l in the proceeding* of tho Con
vention the word “ manufacture*," or any motion
relative to the eucouragumeut of them until the
ISth of August. The Convention having, at that
time, disposed of most of the clauses in the lepoil
e.l Constitution, as far as the end of the enumera
ted powers, many additional powers were, on that
day, proposed to be vested in Congress. Amongst
them, was a power “to establish public institution*,
rewards ami immunities tor the promotion ot agri
culture, commerce, trade s, and manufacture*.
“Another pio|io* tion was made on the JJOth Au
gust lor a Council! of State. The duty of the se
cretary ot domestic affairs, was “to attend to_
tiie state of agriculture and manufacture*-and
to recommend such measures and establishments
as might tend to promote such object.” Both of
the above propositions having failed,we might rea
sonably conclude that tiie Convention refused to
give to Congress the power to promote domestic
manufacture* a* well a* internal improvement*.
Hut it is not from Hie mere failure to have the^o
clauses inserted in the Constitution that we would
infer a clear and unequivocal intention, that to (be
Mates alone was to be left, the regulation of the dif
ferent branches of internal industry.
“The above propositions were referred to the
committee of detail, together with sundry others,
——Alter many partial repor's which did net aU'ect
I this subject, on tiie St lx September, the committee
. reported further and finally” recommending al
I (orations and additions in live instances. Tiie last
is to insert this clause. “ To, promote the pro
gress of .Science and the useiul arts, by se
curing, lor limited time*, to authors and inventors,
the exclusive right to their respective writings and
discoveries. —-Tiie above clause to promote the
progress of science and the useful srts tva* as I
conceive, a report of tiie grand committee agaiust
manufactures.
Vjnot conscious that in any exposition of
the Constitution, this clause has been relied on a*
restraining tlie power of Cougrcss on tlie subject
of manufactures* In my view, it is very impor
tant. • It is important, if considered in tlie abstract
but when taken in connexion with the above pro
ceedings ol the CouAcntion, I do regard it as con
clusive.
• “„An~ firs!* ,<*.t us consider the clause as it stands
in the Constitution. What does it amount to? It
is a power to promote science and the useful ar*«
What are the useful arts? They are those arts
or occupations which are carried on with a view
to profit in contradistinction to such as are pursued
for pleasure, which are called the liberal or po
lite arts. Are manufactures to be cla-sed amount
tbe useful arts? Throughout the civilized world,
agriculture and manufactures stand at the head of
the uselul arts. All men must assent to this. Here
then is a clear pow er vested in Congress by Hie
Constitution, to promote agriculture and manulac
tures. but, is it a genet a! or limited power? It
is a limited power. How is it limited? It is lim
ited inasmuch as the mode by which these arts
are to be enco.t.aged, is not left to construction,!
but is expressed in words which have a clear and
definite meaning. They shall promote the useful
arts, “by securing to ingenious men, patents lor j
their inventions.” Now, if a power to promote a \
specihc objec*, by a prescribed inode, does not ex- '
elude the power to promote it by a different or o
ther mode, there is no truth in the law maxim
“expressioumus est exclusio alterius.”
“The grant of power in question is, what law
yers would term an affirmative pregnant, that is,
an affirmance of one thing, and a denial of another
an affirmance of the power ot Congress to promote
the progress 01 science and the arts by patents and
copy rights, and a negation of thc-ir authority to
encourage them in any other way.”
“Three clear propositions result from what has '
been said. 1st. That there was an attempt made !
in t.ie Convention to give Congress power to pro- i
mote science, agriculture and manufacture-. 21y. ;
1 hat a Committee reported a specific power for that i
purpose, to be added to those already enumerated 1
—which report was not agreed to. And, Sly.
That an express provision was made, to protect
these objects, but only to a limited extent.”
“There is still another view of (his question
which tlie same writer presents with great power.
“It appears by tlie acts ol the Convention, that
though it was deemed iinadvi-able to entrust
Congress with a power to promote nnv great local
interest of particular States, yet, that it was con
Piucred, that there would bo a manifest impropric
ty in depriving any one State which might choo-c
to encourage Us own manufactures of tho nican
of doing »u. The usual mode hy which domestic
manufactures are eucouraged, tve all know, i«hy
premiums, pecuniary bounties, and prohibitory
duties; but all other modes are inexpedient and
inefficient when compared with prohibition. If
Congress could not lay prohibitory duties except
for the general purposes of the (•overnmont, and
the States could not impose them lo protect manu
factures, one great motive to the Union would have
been defeated, which was, that the States should
not, as regarded their iutcrnsl relations or their
power to regulate their own industry, be in a
worse situation than before. Hence, it became
nccessaty (hat the States should not he deprived
of *he power of laying prohibitory duties lor the
convenience of their imports or exports, or for the
j purpose ol protecting their own manufactures.
" hen, therefore, that clause in (lie Constitution
came to lie considered, which restricts the States
from laying duties on imports or exports, the sub
ject of manufactures directly came into discussion.”
“After many propositions and efforts to amend U
alter, on the 15th .Sept., the clause was finally a
greed to, as follows:
“No State shall, without the consent of Congress
lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports
except wlrat may be absolutely ncccs-ary for exe
cuting its inspection laws; and the net produce of
all duties and imposts laid by any State, on imports
or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury
of the United States, and all such laws, shall be
subject to the revision and control of the Con
gress.”
“Were an hundred men (continues our author)
to road this clause in the Constitution, f would ven
ture to say, that ninety and nine for a while would
he ignorant of the true design of its introduction.
-Abtraclcdly considered, it if inexplicable, and
to me, and perhaps jo others, would have remained
fo, had not the subject of domestic manufactures
come into discussion. The design of the clause is
now at on* c seen. A satisfactory explanation is
instantly within our reach, ft was inserted, for
the purjio.se of enabling such .States as were desi
rous pi ott. cling their own manufactures, either
by export duties on their raw materials, or by im
ports on foreign fabrics introduced into their limit*,
to do so. with the consent of Congress*. No other
solu'iorr is admissible. If this was not the Intent of
the provision, I defy the Supreme Court or any ex
positor to explain it. In any oilier view, it is an
useless and a stupid clause of the Constitution.
“But let us hear Luther Martin, bitterly com
plaining to hi* own State of the total injudice. in
his view, of this clause. 'By (Mr same section,’
says he,‘every Stato fs also prohibited from laying
any impost or duties on imports and export*, with
out die permission of the general Uovernment. It
was urged hy us. that there might he cares in
which it might be proper, for the purpose of en
couraging tn.mufrcfur**, to lay duties, to prohibit
the exportation of raw material-; and, even in ad
dition to the du ies laid by Confess on imports
, f°r die sake of revenue, to lay a tluiv, to d.-cour
; age the importation of particular ai tides into ;
! State; or to enahlc the manufacturer here, to sup
ply us on at good terms, as they could be ohtaine
I how a foreign market. Hut the most nr could oh
tain, was, that this power might be exercised t»'
the States with, ai.d only with the consent of Con
giess, and su'-ject to its control. And so anxioti
were they, to seize on every shilling of our monei
(or the general government, that they insisted, c
veil the little revenue that might tints arise, shoult
not he appropriated to the use of the respeclivt
States w here it was rollectod, hut should tie paii
into the Treasury of the U. States; aud, according
ly it i< so determined.”
** J bus, we have all our doubU dissipated as It
this otherwise singul.tr provision in the instrument
and thus too, we have a fresh instance of the wit
tlotn ol the Convention. A mode lias been provi
dod, by which at any tim-, the people of an\
one Stale; or number of States may protect theii
manufactures, without charging the cost of sue!
proVetion In the neighboring States.-This
provision ol (lie Convention, to give the Stales an
opportunity ol protecting their own manufactures,
is iu exact accordance with the itmuutahle princi
ples ol justice. '1 o snrter Massurh.iseit4, fur in
stance, to .promote the success of her manui.ictiir
ing establishments hy means of a National Tariff
would be neither more nor less than to give ti
greater advantages, and greater power too
than she could have had, if site hail not diluted
into the Union:- - .
** ^ Massachusetts then, will have manufac
tures, Massachusetts must ho content to have them
upon the usual terms. Her own citizens must
pay the cost, whether It be directly, hy taxes for
premiums or pecuniary bounties, or indirectly, by
a tax upon consumption of the home fabric.”
“ hitch appears to have been the real and gen
uine object of this clause. After providing, in or
der to prevent any disputes between the States,
respecting the manner or the objects in, and fur
which these duties might ho imposed, that the
proceeds should he paid into the national treasury,
|t penni’s each St tte far the purpose of protecting
its own manufactures, to levy, with the consent ol
Congress whatever duties it uny please to im
pose on fateign productions. The States which
I clicic themselves likely to he aggrandised hy
the increased ol manufactures may tax it4 own ci
zens lor their encouragement anti protection; the
people who may lind themselves enriched by the
increase of their towns and villages, and by the
increased value of the productiens of their soil,
will pay, as is most just, the price of these bene
iicient establishments; and the farmer and the wrol
grower, and the speculating adventurer and the
merchant will all rejoice greatly to contribute to
this tide of redundant prosperity. Let then, any
State or States which may choose to kindle’their
watch-fires at this new light which has just arisen
011 world—to adopt this new “American Sys
tem, which has become almo-t superannuated in
Europe, under the practice of a thousand years;
let any State, we repeat, that chooses, adopt this
system for its own people and its own benefit; call
it hy whatever term of endearment or of admira
tion the iinagatiou can suggest, laud it in strains ol
unqualified panegyric, but in Justice, concede to
every other State, the piivilege of eiyoving its own
peculiar views,of perusing its own domestic po
licy.” *
Lz tracts from the Protest of the Gecrgia Le
gislature.
“ 1st. We oppose the Tariff Law, last enacted,
because we believe it to be, both in its object and
its spirit, unconstitutional.
“ U if unconstitutional—1st. Because the pow
er • to lay and collect duties and imposts, to j>ai/
the deb!;*, and provide for the common defence
and general welfare of the United States,” is
abused and perverted to the accomplishment of
objects not within the sphere of direct federal le
gislation.—The power intended to be given by the
constitution, to Congress, is that of raising a reve
nue, for objects specified.
“ The l;‘te tariff destroys the revenue, and is
intended and avowed to have for its object the en
cour igeim lit and protection of Domestic Manu
factures As it destroys, or at least diminishes the
revenue, it is so far inexpedient.
“ operates (hereby, indirectly, as an onerous
I ts upon (he consumers of Southern productions
So far, it is unequal and oppressive—therefore, it
is inexpedient and impolitic as a general law.
It intends to encourage and protect domestic
manufactures, by reversing the accustomed course
ol exchanges in trade, viz: the raw materials for
manufactured commodities. It «l<ercby intindsto
effect an entire alteration in the system of our
commercial intercourse with for ign nations.—
Hitherto, the trade of the United States lias been
comparatively absolutely fioe; subject only to
Regulations, expedient, when considered in rela
tion to the raising of a revenue. The present ta
riff restrains its freedom, and therefore lessens
both its ex'ent ar.d its profitableness.
“ 2dly. It is unconstitutional—Because, if it be
defended under ilie power to 4 regulate commerce
with fon ign nations,’ while the avowed object is
to encourage and protect domestic manufactures,
it is a palpable abuse of the power given by the
language of the Constitution. For, under a
power of prescribing the rules ot exchanging fo
reign and domestic commodities, the powci is so
perverted as to endanger, not only the prosperity
of our commerce, but almost its very exi.--.ence,
in the anxiety to accomplish an object, altogether
domestic, and even sectional. An objecT, too,
which the Constitution intends to effect, by means
prescribed and altogether different from those used,
tor, under the power to promote, ‘the useful arts,’
an ample and effectual general power, with a pre
scribed mode of use, resides in Congress to en
courage and protect all useful arts. To use ano
ther and a different power, capable, indirectly, of
effecting such objects, concurrently with that ob
viously iutended to effect them, is an unconstitu
tional abuse of the furm'er newer.”
“ Flic greatest stimulant to the improvement ami
extension ol the useful arts, exists in the power
ri'M'lwnt in the Federal Government, to appropriate
to imlividti.il genius and skill the benefit* of its
inventions and discoveries. The Federal Conven
tion, sagaciously foreseeing this natural progres
sion of improvements, wi-ely withheld from
Congress the power to promote them h> additional
protecting laws. Hy this power the same rewards
are held torth to active and inventive genius,
throughout the Union. What further power
could have been necessary? Can Congress incor*
porate a company of manufactories in any one of
the States? It cannot. If a powor of protection,
other than that specified • to promote the useful
arts,’ was intended to he given by the Cotixtitu'ion
to Congress, why wax it not given in some direct,
positive, iiidispulaole form? But an express refusal
to give such a specific power is recorded on the
journals of the Convention! And the power grant
ing patent rights for inventions and discoveries
substituted as more expedient. A power highly
remunerative and incapable of oppressing.
“ A tariff for raising a revenue Is constitutional
and necessary. Further than this, no object was
intended by the power. The legislative power of
the several States is the proper power to promote
manufactures, hy incorporating companies. 8m h
is the common mode of concentrating the wealth
of individuals, and rendering it, when thus united,
competent to do what individual* could not cfleet
Such too, arc voluntary associations, formed with
the hope or the sertafnty of particular advanta
ges, and as such, their etSorts may be considered
as private enterprises. Thus, there exist two
proper depositories of powers capable of produc
ing the same effects, hy two different modes. T he
I’cdemi IV-ycr,.specified in the Constitution, (Ar
ticle '1 l. a ction H.) * to promote the
ar,s.’—And the Stale power of incorporating
companic-, or giving exclusive privileges fir any
specific objects, paomotive of its internal pto<
perity:—for example, manufacturing companies,
when circumstances hold forth to a combination of
individuals, the prospect of prof'‘able exertions.
llic«ft powers-rc, too, in slrirt concurrence. A
judicious and necessary ta-iff may, collaterally
stimulate domestic industry—srouse activity—and
inspirit speculation. Such results may olt-u suc
ceed upon a truly revenue regulation; and the fiet
nt their following, proves the regulation to be ju
dicious Hut what are wo to sav of a tariff which
prostrates commerce? W hich operates so oppre«
sively on the fair and honorable enterprise oi mer
chants, as to produce the same effect as a law
to promote smuggling? WB must condemn it a'
i injudicious--and when wc consider the law (n have
I lo-eii enacted to encourage domestic manufactures
,we must condemn it as uncoti«ti 'jtionai. Furthe’
- it such a power was intended to reside in Cm
i grew,other than that expressly given,why did th
. C onatitu'iou expressly forbid tlio imposition ofdi
,,e* °n exports.' Doe* not this exemption intent
‘ * v .UCf i,ry",ot,! ft absolute freedom of tradt
r i ct (lie present taritf policy intcmls, hy a rovers
. operation, to defeat the effect ol that exemption.
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VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF DELEG 1TPS
I ThnrtUau, Jan. 1, IS2J.—A Communleatioi
was received Irom the Senate, that they had pass
til the hills—* To amend the act entitled an act t.
’; provide lor holding special terms of the Supcrio
, ( Courts of Law in certain eases, and for other pur
, poses —• I o alter the time of holding a separate e
I hscfion at the house of ISenjauiiu \Vright, an the
county of Mason'—'1 Allowing Michael Smith,!
freeman ot colour, to remain in the Common
wealth for a limited time’—arid ‘Allowing certain
free persons to remain in ihe State for a limiter
tirue And that they had passed, with amend
■iients, the lulls—• 1 o authorize the erection o
gate* across the road leading from l\.,kersbuig tu
| Marietta ; ‘exempting old men from certain pub
| lie duties ; and ‘concerning separate clcrtions ii
{ Randolph county And that they had agreed U
: the resolution,with au.anienduient, *ior auexamiua
lon cl S co y t re -k’ All tin se ainendincuis were
concurred in.
1 he order ol the day, tor the election of the 1st
and A! Auditors, llegister and Treasurer, was then
read. Mr. Atkinson of Isle of Wight, moved that
the House proceed to the election of an Au.litor
ofej’ubhc Accounts. Mr. Miller or Powhatan
thought that the House ought not to make the e
lectiou, until ihe committee appointed to examine
the Auditor * Office, See. should have made their
report: that it would be establishing a hail prece
dent to proceed to the re-election of an officer
until the House should be officially informed whe
ther the duties of the office had been pioperly dis
charged. He did not mean to insinuate, that the
present incumbent had not faithfully performed
his duties—on the contrary, under his present im
pression, there was no man in the Commonwealth
for whom he would vote in preference to him, ftc.
Mr. M. moved to poupoue the election till the
Stli instant.
Mr. Craig said the coinmitlee had nearly com
pleted their examination, and had only to make
up their report, which he thought might he done
the next day. It would, lie believed, contain no
thing which could operate against tho re-election
ol tlio present Auditor.
Mr. Nelson said, the Constitution and laws re
quired that these officers,(Auditor and others,)
should he elected annually -and he understood
that the practice had bepn uniform, that they
should Hot he re-elected until a committee of the
House had reported, fcic. He thought the prac
tice was founded Mp« the principles ol our gov
ernment, and sanctioned by utility and justice._
1 He believed this officer had conducted his office
property, fie.
Mr. Carter observed that the Auditor’s terra ol
service would expire that day or the next. He
thought that the a-snratice made to the House by
the chairman of the committee (Mr. Cruie) ou-dit
to be satisfaciory, &c. *
finally, the election of Auditor was postponed
till Friday. *
On motion of Mr. Witcher, the election of
I reasurer was |K*>({Kmeri till (he Dili inst.
The Senate subsequently addressed a message
by Mr. Cabell, announcing their concurrence in
this postponeineo t.
The House then proceeded to the election of
tlie Seccml Auditor.
Mr. Miller of Powhatan, nominated James
Brown,jr. lie said he would not attempt any eu
logy of Mr. B. alter the report of the committee
lie would only say, that he thought him eminent
ly qualified, not only for that office, hut for one of
a much higher grade.
The ballot then took place; and
Mr. Miller, from the committee to examine the
I ballots, reported tbe following as the result: For
Er.wn 163, -catering 1.
j The House then proceeded to the election of a
j Register of the J.and Office.
I Mr. Nelson nominated William Selden, the pre
| sent Register.
| The hallo’s were carried out, and Mr. N. re
j ported the following result ol the vole: For Selden
I 158, scattering 3.
| <J" motion ot Mr. Atkinson of Halifax,
i . . Resolved, 1 hat this House will proceed on
II hursday the 15lh inst, by joint ballot with the
Senate, to the election of a Brigadier General of
: the 11th Brigade, Virginia Militia, to supply the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation o! Jhi'd
dicr General Edward C. Carrington.
On motion of Mr. Parker ol Northampton,
Resolved, That the Committee on the Militia
laws have leave to bring in a hill, so to amend the
; *J"S lela'ing to the militia, as to provide more ef
; factually that the several coin|utnics shall hare the
number of officers now required l.y law; abo, to
provide that whenever the commandant of a Bri
gade, shall attend any Regimental muster within
: his command, it shall be competent for him to
; fake command of such Regiment.
A report from the Committee of Roads and In
ternal Navigation, declaring reasonable the prti
• Hon of the trustees and other inhabitants of the
, town ol Manchester, (who pray that the said trus
tees may be authorized to extend the canal now
opening on the common belonging to said town,
thro’ the abutment of Mayo’s Bridge, &.c.) was ta
ken up on motion of Mr. Mayo, who moved to re
vor ,e the decision of the committee, by substitut
ii g lor the words is reasonable, he rejected. Mr.
Mayo argued at great length in support of the
proposed amendment.
Mr. Burfoot and Mr. Doddridge opposed the a
mcndinent; w hich was disagreed to, and the reso
lution of the committee concurred in.
On motion of Mr. Duncan, the House adjourned
till io-moiiotv 12 o’clock.
' «r*ROAY—A communication from the Sen
ate announced, that they had passed the bills—'To
c.iange the time of holding certain Courts’_‘To
change the place of bolding a separate election in
the county of Preston’—‘ Concerning the town of
Jeffersonville, in Tazewell county’—* Disposing ol
a sum of money in the hands ot the Ex
aminers of Branch Pilots, on the Rappahan
nock River ’—* To amend an act to incor
pirata the New Baltimore Manufacturing Com
pany’—^‘ Releasing to Mary Wagener the’Com
monwealth s right to a certain legacy’—and
‘'Concerning the Poor Children ol the Parish of
Duttengcn, in P. Wm. county.’—That they had
receded from their 2 I amendment (which had been
disagreed to by Uic H. of D.) to tire bill—‘ To au
thorize the inhabitants of Wcllshurg to raise a sum
of money by Lottery’ be.—anil that they bad
passed, with amendments, (he bill • To authorize
Arch. Brown to erect a Poll-Bridge across the
Mattapony River, at Dunkirk.’—On molion of Mr.
Willis, the last bill was laid upon the table
The joint order of the day, for the election of an
Auditor ot Public Accounts, was then read; and
tho House determined to proceed to execute it.—
Mr. Craig nominated Jan. E! Heath— observing
that to attempt a eulogy ol that Gentleman, (well
known as he was,) would be little less than mock
ery.
The vote, was then taken, and Mr. Craig, from
the Committee to examine the ballots, reported the
result to he : for Heath 175, scattering 9.
I lie engrossed bill, “ Concerning Thomas W
White,” was taken up. The bill proposes to al
low a sum of money to Mr. White, as a cn.
'ion lor the loss which he has su-tained, (as it
l» alleged,) in a contract with the Executive, for
printing sundry Journals of the General Assem
bly, kcj—the Executive having ben, unable fully
to comply With the terms of the eontraet, on their
part. Much lime was spent in attempting lo fill
the blanktin the bill tor the sum to be allowed to
tiiin. the blank was finally filled with *500
|On ll..- rpiestion-* shall the bill pass?’—Mr. Wool
hrtk Called for the ayes and noes,aud they were ac
cordnigly ordered The vote stood thus : ayes M
Noes 9H. So til,, hill whs rtijeclrfl.
i Sprakpr h#*for^ the llou’c a coinwuni
i f»tio:i from the Governor, inr!o«ing a letter Irom
1 i*'.B <;"vcrnor of Georgia, relative A. the Map ol
A irginia, which had been presented to that Stale;
| which was laid upon the table.
Gri motion of Air. Oldham, leave was granted to
bring in a hill, to repeal the net, entitled in act
vesting in the Trustees rtf the free school in St.
Paul’s Parish, in the courtv of Xing George, for
• the use of 4he sa;«i school, the sue, tbe churc
e (hereon, and tlie vestry house in tlie said Parish.
On (notion of Mr. Carter, the Committee **.*i
, pointed to enquire into the state ot the B.uiks, ha.
■ leave to sit duiing tlie Session of the Hous *.
;! On motion o» Mr. Murdaugh, the Committer
' f?r ivo.ids 11 ml lntern.il NavigiUon, were instruct
• cd to inquire into the expediency of amending ai
1 art, entitled an act, to revive anJ amend an act
entitled au net (or culling a navigable canal Vrou
| .Nauseinond river to Somerton creek—will* k-avt
! to report by biH or otlierwise.
i J On motion of Mr. May, the Committee for C. o
‘ I •hstice, vveee instructed to inquire into the expo
i j dicncy ot amending the laws concerning Bills o
Exchange, ttc. as to ieduce Ihe damages on lor
eign bills protested, and so as to alter tlie mode ol
pioving notices ol the protest ol all G/JUU xvsl
notes—with leave to report by bill or otherwise.
"*r. Pitts offered the following result:!ion: Re
so.ved, That the Committee on the Militia Laws,
be instructed to inquire into the cxjKnUsmcy ol
culargiug tlie volunteer companies of tliis Cum
monwcalrh; the expediency ol dispensing with
the training ol the otficers according to the present
plan, the expediency* of dispensing with battalion
court* ot enquiry, the regimental, the two battal
ion, and one company muster, and the expediency
ol devising some better mode by which the com
missioned oiticers shall be instructed in flic du
ties that they have undertaken, but are not qualifi
ed tc discharge—Disagreed to.
. On motion of Mr. Witcho**, Resolved, That the
• Governor & Councilor (his Commonwealth he ic
| quested to lay before tlie House, a detailed report,
i shewing the manuerin which the accounts ol the
J reiuurcr ft Auditor have been examined and set
■ tied quarterly by that Department, since the lstof
! , "* stating whether or net tlie money in
the 1 reasury Otlice, was ever ascertained by said
Department, or any Committee cf the same, by an
actual count, and it so, at what time; and speci
fying when they discovered any defalcation ou the
; part of the late Treasurer, and in what iiiannur.aud
at what time, such discovery was made.. *
i On motion of Air. Aliiler, ot Botetourt, the
House adjourned. *
-v FOJi THK EJVQU1RER.
Legislature of Virginia*
Permit an humble individual, xvho has reflected
• much uii the subject, to address a tew words to
: you on the all-important bill which is soon to en
I gage > our attention: 1 mean the hill to organize a
) Convention. Hadical differences ol opinion arc
understood to exist among you, which, it not dif
| passionately considered and discussed, must lead
i to awful and deplorable rc ults. Coins, then, and
let us reason together. The real difference is,
i whether white population,or white population and
J taxation combined, shall constitute the basis of
i representation in the Convention? I maintain tlse
: latter proposition. A« 1 write in the I ope to be
I read, 1 wilt be as brief as possible, l or what,
then, arc governments instituted among men? I
j answer, to seeure the lights of persons and of
property. These are the two great interests that
j ,ie ut foundation of society. Hander either
; insecure, and society is dissolved. A government
j based upon either principle, to the exclusion ol
[ tit® other, could not last a day; or ii it could last,
j il would be a hateful despotism, in fact, whatever
; it might be in name. If persons alone are repre
sented, without regard to property, how is proper
ty to be secured from undue burdens, or even
j from arbitrary seizure and distribution? if proper
; ty aloue, the government would be an odious aiis
; tocracy, treading on the necks of the i»oor and
1 grinding them into dust and ashes—a government,
in short, which no man has the folly or the liardi
t hood to defend for a single moment. Hut that it
| should be utterly excluded from all consideration
m constituting a government, is a proposition total
ly untenable. And why? it is property that,
• through the medium ot taxes, must support the
J government, in peace and in war. It enters so
| constantly and necessarily into all the affairs of
I t»eu, is tiie objec ot such eager pursuit, and con
i sequently, ol such frequent contention, that it
cons.i utes, of necessity, ju one shape or other,
the subject ot nine-tenths of the laws of every na
tion on the globe, it is the most fruitful source
of legislation. Vet, it is to be excluded from l.*:
consideration in the organization of a Convention,
w hich is to determine the character cf the Legis
lature! Look to your code ot laws, t-: vour reports
of ca^s. How large a pot lion ot them is devoted
to regula'ing and deciding the rights of property!
Look to the expensive machinery of your govern
uicii*, iii all its branches, legislative, ex—eiitivc
and judicial, flow arc they' employed? Princi
pally it* redressing wrongs relating to pioperty,
and securing and maintaining its ri 'his? J low
paid? Hy taxes on property. And shall property'
be tin own entirely out ot view, iu apportioning re- !
presentation, whether in a Convention or Legisla- *
lure? Shall taxation be thrown entirely out of !
view, in apportioning lepresentation? siich w;w !
not the opinion of our ancestors who achieved the i
revolution. In their opinion, the ideas ot taxation '
mU representation were inseparable; and in du- ■
feuce ol that principle they lought and bled and
conquered, and transmitted to ns the fair inherit- 1
.nice we now enjoy. Now, 1 ask, and 1 ask inso
| her seriousness, what difference there is, as to ail
; practical results, between no representation at all,
j and a representation inadequate to its orjoct—to
j wit: the security and protection of the represent
j cd? Ponder this question, and moku the applica
i lion. Vou shall heur from me again. A. H.
COMMUJSriCA TE D.
O* The Executive and Auxiliary -Committees I
appointed to make arrangements for the approach- '
: H1g fair, tor the benefit of the Female Humane
I Association of this City, are respectfully requested
| to meet at the residenc-: of Mr. Hailey, at the
| Corner ot E ami 9th Streets, on Monday next at
. 11 o'clock A. M. if fair, if uotthe next lair day.
The Pittsburg Gazette of the 2tith states, that
j Gen. Jackson had left Nashville, on his way fori
[Pittsburg—and calculates that if he met with no j
I extraordinary detentions, he might ariive at Pitts
[ burg by the 2d or 5th of January.—But the Gene j
r.il was to dine with the citizens of Nashville on 1
the 22d ot December.—The following correspon
dence had passed between them on this subject:
IN VITATION TO GEN. JACKSON. j
Nashville, Doc. 4, 1828.
Sin,—Your fiiends and neighbors of this place 1
having felt a lively interest in the recent election
ol Chief Magistrate of the United States, beg
leave to tender to you, through us, their sincere
congratulations, that you have been selected by
the treetnen ol the Union, lor that disliiiguUhed
station.
Having the most unbounded confidence in your
patriotism and zeal, for the good of our common
country, end in your Qualifications tor the dis
charge of the duties of that high and responsible
office, they cannot but rejoice, that the selection
has fallen upon one, who has furnished sa many
proofs ol his devotion to the republic.
“ Indulging in the feelings which the occasion :
has produced, the citizens of Nashville and its vi-!
cinity desire an opportunity ot testifying to you
personally before your departure lor Washington,
fhc'r continued confidence in your character mid
attachment to youisfelf; and tor that p'.ir|>ose have
appointed us a committee to invite you to pritake
of a dinner and hall, to be given in Nashville', at
such time as may best suit your convenience.
“ 1 hat your administration may giealiy promote
the. public good, that it may meet the approbation
of a grateful ami confiding p rylc- that you may
be preserved in health to retm n and spend m-'< *•
happy yeass among your htouts and n ighbara, i
thu sincere wish of Most Respectfully,
Josiah Nichol, Uhtn Tho. Claiborne,
J P. Clark, S H. Marshall,
Solomon Elatk, Goo. Wilson,
W. II. Wharton, If. E. W. Earl,
W. Campbell, Thos. Martin,
It. Armstrong, Win. Carroll,
E. H. Foster, C'h. I. Love,
if. AI. Rutledge.
«' fUcrmber d, 1828.
“ CrffTLEMi.r—The congratulations ol my
f.ieods and m ight ois of Nashville and its vio.'in
ty, on the result ol the Pro side tit ill election, are
received with sufitiinonts ol the warmest A lti
tude.
•• To s'!vc* partiality of my fellow eitizcnf* must I
ascrilto the favorable terms in which you are
pleased to’peak of inv character ,.nd '•cr'-ice* in con
ti‘Xioii with the fiiuire prosperity of our rotnmt n
country. Should *he contingency happen to which
your language rlluilu, I nave nothing to off:r,
i
1 Piitiftiiru, but (lie pleOge of my best e^eptouv
•'ud a reliance on providence lor a happy i*e>ue to
lh» measures of my administration.
1 “ 1 accept with pleasuie your kind invitation, au<i
name a*, a convenient time, any day between the
30th and 30th instant, that the committee inav
■ please to select.
i ” I beg you individually, to be assured of mv re
spect, and the deep solicitude 1 feel lor yonr pros
t jH-rity ,«nd happiness, iu common with iny telfetv
CllUt'Iis ol Du* id-on.
“ i am very respectfully,
** k our ino-t obedient servant,
_ “ANDREW JACKSON
“Messrs. J. Nicl.ol,Ch. i It. K. W.Earl,
Th. Claiborne, I W. Campbell,
•L {'• Clarke, | Thus. Marti*',
\ S- Mai shall, t R. Armstrong*,
S. Clarke, Win. Carroll,
*». Wilson, j E. 11. Foster,
W.;H. Wharton. I Ch. 1. Love,
[ II. Al. Rutledge."
-Vr. Clay—The PiovidenceLiterary Cadet.an
nrnmees, that Air. Clay will visit N. England du
ring the next bummer—But another Providence
paper announces another communication on tins
same subject, which controverts the stateinentpind
adds, “1 am strengthened hi my opinion, from the
fact, of having seen a letter ot a very hie d.ito
from Air. Clay to a frirnd ol hi-* residing in M»s
sacimseUi. in which he says, tl.at he shall reman*
in Washington, in the discharge of hi* official du
; lies, until the 4th of next March, wheu he • ill re
turn to hi* farm iu Kentucky.”
M alter Browne, Esq. has been dieted bv trie
Common Council, the Mayor of the City of 'New
York.—The votes were, Browne 23, Philip lion©
1, Peter A. Jay 1, Blanks 3.
Louisiana.—The Electoral College met u' New -.
Orleans on the 3d inst. and gave the vote of Lou
isiana to General Jackson for President, upd J. C.
Calhoun for V ice President. Robert F. Cantiehi,
j was appointed to carry the votes to Washington.
Mr. Latlande,a member of the Legislature from
the parish ol Assumption, was deprived of hiss, at
ou the third in»t. on the gionn l of not having th»
property qualification required by the laws, at tl'.%
time of his election.. [.Y. Y. Cam. .idv
(■en. Cadw.allader of Philadelpiiia, is reeon •
mended by a writer in the National Intelligent-, r.
as a suitable perron tor the Secretaryship ot War,
under Gen. J.ick-en's aduiinistiation.
'1 he National Advocate of Nevy York any a, that
j Lieut. Gey. Pitcher, Gen Root, Gen. Taltnadge,
I Edward P. Livingston, Peter K. I.Lvings'on, Join*
Sudani ami Mr. Hucklin, are spoken ot as randi
dates to succeed Air. Van Huron in the L‘. State*.
•Senate.
PIED,]— on the 18th u*t. at M nut PrnrMtnc*. ~;n* ai d
(Juat i) C« liuty. of bihou* fever, I'aruL Ann Oaiuti. the y< uu»
c?t daughter of the late Henry Uninta, in the 17th .yeai cf
h<r*gr. She possessed rare endowments of mind, I*' th ut
tive and aoqnirtd- devoid of affectation- with *re*t sinctri
| ly of heart, ammhUness of temper, am! simplicity of fuannt r,
i tier life and c< nduct writ cLaniltiacu by uncommon puri'y
I ami innocence. • J
I Altu rally eg she tea-nt the lessen winch few attain hut
I fr.'u, I lie hi'tei experience ofadvamred run- “the vanil, ci
lull sublunary Ihinrv,”— with a s-nsihi’ity singularly acute—
the coii'taut a-t.. iRte. nf refined feeling-, virtue, amt genii i
: •"•had turned witli disgust Item the laalii'inehle anneuniis
and aaetics of life, t.> the solid plea u s b derived from te
| lic'-us exercises—fivrn studs At me
I In gratifying hei taste f»> polite I it- : • j-.- and her fondr.e.,
I for hooks, aliuo-t tvnj subject btrain, acceptable ti, her ir ■
| uiiisitive in.ml; but she devoted much of bet time to the
I dy of Ancient and Modem Iliatniy, in -..bich she bad made
| • ich considerable attainments as displayed prr-etsiilicnl power*
| of meu.ury and judgment.— For year*, it is believed, she had
not railed when -is health, to read evety da, a portion of the
| scripturei Iler sentiments and her conversation w»:a fulled
• P,e'X dr devotion.— H.r bear! was replete with ebristiau charity
. —withtendvi eff ct- n lur her relations and frie.gda— neverthe
I Iftt let Ibcro forbear lo Thty shouiri derive coiidU •
Uoq in (lie grievous lots Xh«*y havr sustained, from the picas*
ing r«flection, that u» her life bad been otaily without error *
Mid her thoughts free from guile,—and as m sicku»ts and m
health, she gave the mr.* satisfactory evidence that her |oiil
bad been iuh*h-iI by the quickening power of Giace—jA«
nut prepared for dmth— and tnai her sainted •pint, havir.*
•liuspwCi! cvei the giave, dvr ells mi (he diviut prestuce in c
ernal peace.
residence in James City County, the 27t'&
ult Mr. Joseph C. i hrutian, in the 33d yr*r bis are.
leaving a wife and three infant childxeu, and numerous cju •
uection?, to lament hit early fate*
lUCUMOJW) I>RICES CURHEJVT.
Tc-bacco, a I K hue, lh. a a > illides, Sceuith 1.5»|o
Uo com to rridtll'c 3 I V a € Brandy, cog. cal. 1 20 a X ZJ
D>. r filial, S|.£»a |-i jfo. Apple, 32, ST
Fl.itir.rity luiiu I1PW in. .ate iWhuUv, 29 a St
l>o canal 7 3 4.1 Hum West lodtp, 80 a 85
Wheat, hi-shel, liJalftM Uo. New England 36 a Sb
Cu.m, 4 u 45 Wine, Marlene, 2 50 a 3 to
Meal, uo. 05 a Mil Uo.SicilyMsiltna. "J v
3* Uo. Malax., 65.70
I aro„, par .b 7a J, Ten, Imp. 4c Uunp. 120a 141
Umirr, d... It a 14,' U-4 Young liyaou. 90 a 3 s
Ci'lTep, do. 13 <t it. l-2'.Mula«ies, 30 a 34
Cotton, dj. 9 1-2a II Hemp, n-r 100 Its. 6 0o
Indigo, sl-s. >75 a 2 2&!ilar Iruu, d->. 4 50 a 5 00
Naif,cut, do. 7 l-4jl\.;k, per hM. H
llife, do. 4.4 1-4 Shad, per 2.1.1. COO
huger Loaf, lo. 16 a 20;Cul Ilvrrincs 3 a]
Uo. Itr.'wn, 8 50a 1! 50l3.lt, per Stclr. 9 34 a <a
tat. Donut-go Mahogany fiom 15 lo 20 cents per loot *■
do 10 to 12 .1.,
i’KlCEii OK STOCKS,
u. S. ISang, 122
Hank Va. 01 talcs
Fanners’flit:. 90 d0
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
North Cat olina Dank Notes 3 1-2
South Cat olina do 2.2 1-2
3.312
EASTERN DISTRICT OK VIRG IN I\7to~vui /
DE It remembered, that on the eighth day of
1L. ti ; November, in the filly.third year of the Jodepen
d'.nceol tb» U. 8 ul America,'THO’S W. WHIT t
of the said District, hath dsponted m this ulhce ll.«
title of a book, the tight whtieol he clttuis as proprietor. iu
the wo: df follow in *, to wit; f
"Edge-lhll, or, 7'fie Family of the Fitzroya.lt
A JVbvtl. Hy A \ lRtil.MA.7.
“Fierce tVar, and faithful love,
And Truth severe,by fairy Fictiondrcst." G'day
"Jn Two Uo tunics.”
In conformity to tba Act of the Oougtets of the U. Dtatr*
entitled ‘-sin art for lha enccursgriceut of learning hy st
curing the copies of maps, cbatlt, antljho- k-, to the authors
and proni it tots of such vop.e-, during the time therein c.eu
,'<mtd.'f U’D JEFFK1ES,
Clerk of the Eastern Uis'tof Fa.
1,/In answer to lbrvan->as iuquiiie*, vrrl.al and wrillre
•sliichliave hetn made, the rolili-hei announcer, that th«
foiegumg svoik t. tu press, and will appen ,n about four
weeks. As the muul-ei ilc<|i.s se-llbi limited, Uockaeller*
and i-theis who wish tu inssi >s tin in, wi uld do seefl to leava
their names with the Fuhiisher, witli Mr. Jno. 11. Naih.Messta.
Colin s Ac Uo., or W. li. Fitiwhylsonn.
I./ The aulbo- ot the above ssoik n usiFxac n, nowithstar.rN
mgine many ingenious c-ijeciurts sshicl. aie ad,at.
8~_____ 74—w4t
notice! —
rpiIK Urrector. of the Drocke Tumpika Co., have declared
J. n Uiviilend of r> per cl. for lbt Im ?iji Beouths, which will'
be p-ii I to the Stockb dJers ou appluah -i» at the store of (be 1
Biibtcrsber. J. II U8TAUK, Bec’v.
D" »•_ 74- 2!
THOMAo C. ArMOUY, ”
/COMMISSION tit. of iheBuperu.1 Uouit of Chancery for
,.ie District d VVilliernshuig, having . blamed a license U
ptact ce the Law, offers In. services • • tin public as an AttOi
nry at Law. lie mil take bu mew in the 8upe;ior A lufetN
"• Oiouceste , Middlesex, and Msllliews Counties.
— Mis i-snce is kept at Gloucester Uouithuuie, whete he itisv
he found at any time unlew xtlen-lina <he Coutts_Any bm- -
nisi c-mnded lo him will be prstnntly atleudnl to.
-J"’ a~_ 74— w3w
i/i turnover Lountif Court, Svttl. 2l:'i,
'r, AV ID sl'iuh.K, u h. cer, Davto 8 iter »dlT“
L-iyHpit.r, ilir (lire* tail o1 wh«iu are children of
Benjamin Spicer, .1.. M, Olie-I.y ]'i,„ ker ai.-i 1' .lly kit w.lc
foiui’iiy J'llly Spie r, and Wn J lint n and Sf, ante, hi.’
wile loin.nU btaucej 8pc«r, which "id f.t.t ttmlloo...
David and Benjamin Kp.c.r, I» lly Tha ker, c-.d *iaute*
J ohnron, writ cinidiei. ol David S,i;er. dec’d, nui
ftgftilklt v
Nathaniel Dickenioo, tdn.’or de h.jix non r.f lieeid Spicer
de. d, John Daei. and bnraima hu wilr, b.r.ne, ly Snrann*
Spicer, Thoma. W. Spicer, Hen y Hpicer, John 1. Sun. an,.’
K"',l"", Wlf’- > • • o ,>icer, diu /r.
iace.ru *
Tb » day Came (Jit- plaml (ft by (li»jr con-,ref, and the hili
ami iiuw-r ol tbe defendant, Na'liauirl Dirke'iron a.t
in’if de b' 't in i ol D.yid Spirrr der'd, being filed, am
■ he other ilrteniiar.lt, no! having enteied ib-ir appeal anr*
an I give re. only ei < in ding lo In* Act of A.•not y ■ , ,
role, ol Uut font l, an . il appearing the aalirla li-di of tin
1 C Iiirl, that they air I.o ii h wn'anlt ol tin* i .mm i.***;•(,-, or.
the mo-ion of the plaint.ITa il u ordi rt.l, ii.at (he ,ml defen
tiatilr, Joi n Davit and Hurauna hi* wife. S mrnai U’ (Jp,cr(
Menf) 8 Iftei, John I* Sun* and Khatb-tli bti wife, appeat
litie on I lie li.rt day nf iA**ch court near, amt antwar Ihe
plaintiff,’ ml hi, and flial a c *|*y of tint older be forth
I * ,!l •" t-n«f!iif»r, a 0-w.pep.r p. V'-hel n, the
city of iln . nofid, ful IWo n r.nlht «q< i e.,*i rely, ami that an
i.ibe. . op/ be po-ted al the fmni ib or ef the coutlhonae of ihu
gounty. A copy, Te«te,
, . pmur u. WINSTON, r. m. e.
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NOTK K.
U f ILL herald for rath, on ftl uniay the £th nf Jan neit in
It lot of ibe Hell Tavern Hear in the nt* of Itn btnopti
(»n nr fifleeii veiy likely negroea confuting of youa* w,mat
boy* and girlt
WM. ARMlSTKAD, > IVora of
TMOS. II. TERUKI,/., j; fm. Am, tfond rfe
Dec. rr. flUtu