The Wabash Courier, Volume 1, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 January 1833 — Page 2

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N-:f c. CALHOO!f, now Vice-President of --j the United States, has been elected & Senator in Congress from Sooth-Carolina, titt

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rinrrrl^ resolution into the lower House or CoiHgiL inquiring into the expediency of po jP^jng the Constitution of the United

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holding appointments from the President doling the time to? which they may he elected to represi&t thf People. This principle

much taJkedofaiuYing the Administration of Mr. Ada*sJ% fapjpto *at gentleman, for purposes toot prt»|to hint It now, but has been, since that peki&^i totally forgotten. The friends of Gen. JACKSON in Congress, were, in 1826-7 and 8, not only the friends of that particular measure, hut also advocated a restriction of the Presidential service to four years. The amendments, by whomsoever advocated, are necessary to insure the purity of the Government, and the fidelity of our public agents. The profligacy of many who manage to obtain seats in Congress, lead them to abandon the interests of thsir constituents, and to support Executive measures, however odious, with l^e bofi of sharing Executive favor. The' gildei pill of office, in the shape

of a seat in the Cabinet, an embassy abroad, a collectorship, or land office, is alway8 desirable to a certain class of politicians, q£ allpartiet. Bargain and sale," now the' order of the day in our State and National Assemblies, must ]e frowned down by public opinion, or tb6 People will be bat instruments to serve thf dishonest in their pursuit after private gaid As tyalpole would have it, "Every man j*fll have his price," lfhile the k^teiests of the countty will be bartered for a great man's smile," or exchanged for more substantial favor. Let the People look to their own affairi, or they will be merged in the individual interttU of those who pro fess to be their nrvantt,

R. Y. HATNS h^S been elected Governor of South 'Carotina*!* He is a nullifier in principle, and wiUdoubtjbss be one in pra&4 tioe, if necessaryT*

ACCIDENT.—Dufin* the fetUvities at leudjrijg the celebration of the New Year, at Cliuton, in tho neighboring county of Vir million, an accident occurred which had well nigh proved fatal to many present. A piece of orduance. loaded tyjOxcess, with an unusual qna^|^fMWf powder, gravel,itonct, in the presence of some twenty or thirty individuals, and, as might have been expected, burst into a doien or more pieces, throwing the fragments to considerable distance. Strange as & may seem, but one individual w^^ritoreq. Mr. /ty/to Brovn, a respeotahlec^bsen of Clin ton, had one of Ml injured by the gravel thrown the piece, but is (bit recovering. Thlf^Mtth unnumbered si milar instancei, shpdMmaution the aareless against trilling witfr^^ives of their friends and neighbors.

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We learn firoa ifashtngton that club lav is again in Oreen, Editor barbarously beaten by Mr. Blair, a member of Congresi from South-Carolina, who astailed him with a huge olub, knocked him down, broke his arm, and otherwise injured him. The provocation to this barbarity consisted in Gen. Green's having applied the farm iory to tho Ubion-men of South-Caro-lina»to which party Blair is attached. An assault of apolr a charaoter is in perfect .keeping with the biwtering renown heretofore acquired by the assailant. It is indeed disgraceful.

BANK ROBBERY l^e Bank of Sooth Carolina has been robbed (lately) of 156,000 dollars, in aetee. A reward of 5,000 offored for the reeotery of the laoaej, and an additional thonurbd for the apprehension of the thief.

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O^rWe are glad to say that the saudtyttx has entire^ disappeared ilroa our town.

Dr. Osaprr, President of the South Caroli na College, has been acquitted by the Lefitlatureof that Sttts, of the charge of instilltug opinione aafttvonUe to the Christian religtoa into th*arind»ef the stadrato.

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Tbe cxcitetneat in Soath Carolina continues unabated* Tbe President's Proclamation, we regret to saj, has not tended to allaj it, or to calm the turbulent spirit of the nullifying leaders. The editors of the Union parf

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Wiaurra, of Kentucky, has intro-

loud in its praise, while the Nulli ers denounce it in the most unmeasured terms. The Governor immediately called into service six thousand men, and, it was supposed, that number wonld be much increased. Every thing portends a storm, such as our country has not witnessed since our revolutionary struggle. JEven in sorne of the other Southern States (Virginia and Georgia, for instance) the Proclamation is not so well received as we h^d hoped it would be. Virginia, it certain, will not favor the employment of force to coerce tbe refractory member, and Georgia will probably incline the same way. In evidence of this fact, it may be well to lemark, that a committee of the House of De legates of Virginia ha* reported against the employment of force, and condemns many of the doctrines put forth by the President. One of the resolutions (the 8th) submitted by this committee, says the Richmond Enquirer, Disapproves and protests against certain principles contained in the

President's Proclamation, as violating the true spirit oft the Constitu-

tion, and contrary to the doctrines "which the State has repeatedly as serted." The 9th resolution opposes the use of force by either party, and entreats South Carolina to suspend the operation of her nullifying ordinance till the expiration of the next session of Congress. Iu the North Carolina Legislature, a motion was made to print 2,000 copies of the President's Proclamation, but the motion was not agreed ti! These matters shew how Virginia and North Carolina feel on this subject, and how widely the prejudices of their citizens are spreading in favor of South Carolina. We subjoin an extract or two from South Carolina papers, to show the temper of the opposing parties there. The Gazette (Union party) says of the Proclampiion— "The Efoolamatioltof the President, whicti we^pjbhih to-day, to the exclusion 'of almost every thing else, will be read with intense interest throughout all the borders of our great Republic. We have no room for any comments, and if we had, the document does not require them. It is able to abide the "test of human scrutiny, of talents, and of time,1', as an ever-enduring monument to the fame of him who has sworn "that this Union shall be'prctttteW*'

And the,Mercury (the oflgan of the Nullification Party) greets it in the fol

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R. BOON.—-This gentleman is amunn^ •~m the public again, by a display of the quali-

titias of his mind. Fearing his constituents BUght forget that inch a man existed, he has undertaken to laah Governor NOSLK for some efrpussiaas in hi,M|iBBM^ andt thereby, thrast himself out of the dark obscurity into which bo is fast hastening. Gov. Noble having inadvertantly stated that Gen. Tipton voted for Mr. Clay's Land Bill, is pounced upon by this letter-writing hero, andj oused of having made the statement a view of influencing the then pending natorial election* Snch a charge (and it is the only one made) needs no other refutation than that it come* from a disappointed saitor after Senatorial dignity, which, if it had been eonfemd, would hat make him asore otownish and impotent than ha-has yet shown himself to be a mere party dradge in practice, a cypher in intellect, and a pigmy in a community of giants

Jackson's Proclamation.—ftie DE-

or WAX, made by ANDREW JACK-

against the State of South Carolina occupies to day the larger portion of our columns. It will be read with the feelings which so extrordnary a documents calculated to excite. Hfeis unttappy old man has been differed by his advisers to arrogate the power?to coerce a State nf the Confederacy. He has issued the edict of a dictator, an edict which time will prove whether he dares or can enforce. He has attempted in this proclamation to intimidate the whigs of South Carolina by threats, and to encourage and foment insurrection and violence on the part of the internal enemies of the State.

tempt which it merits. In every fretoman worthy of the name, it has excited no other feelings but those of definance and scorn. Recreants will hail is as a brave blow in the cause of treason and its receipt would perhaps have cncouraged the Federal conclave at Columbia, to a more guilty pitch of insane insolence, had it arrived before their adjournment. Our Legislature is in session and will meet it with the spirit and energy which becomes them."

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. We have several long and interesting letters from Indianapolis, giving us a glimpse of what is passing at the Seat of Government. The Congressional Districts are disposed of —arranged—fixed—perhaps to suit the people—may be to meet the "ulterior views" of expectants and political aspirants. Our own county is thtoito into the. sectim^ Congression&l District, and with counties.heretofore associated with us in the same relation, vix: Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrcnce, Owen, Green, Sullivan, Clay, and Putniun. The bill establishing a State Bank, and Branches, was nnder consideration, and with a fair prospect of uniting such a number of friends ^as will ensure its passage. Petitions were Constantly pouring in from various parts of fjte state in its favor, in such numbers as to ^avo no doubt that the feelings of the people are with it. Mr. SWIM, of Knox, has wtrwlttcod another pryjeci for a State Bank, differing frofe the present one in tho important fettare that no private stockholders should be allowed! and that sworn State Agents should manage its operations. We incline to think this frt§e*t, however honestly conceived and ably recmansended, will not (sd fovor with the Legislature or the People. A hill to organize a sew Judicial Circuit, in the Upper Connties, fens passed to a third reading in the HouseW Representatives, hy a very respectable majority. Its fate in tho Senate is «osMn»lt doubtful, though, from the manifestation in its favor in the Lover House, we think it will become a law. Tbe committee to which was referred that part of the Governor's Message relsting to a ohange in the Probate System, reported a bill chsnging the mode of doing Imsiaes*

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ia the Probate Court. The report of the Committee divides the State into six Probate Circuits, the Judges to be appointed by the General Assembly, to hold their offices for the term of seven years, and to receive a salary .each of $700 per annum. This bill was passed to a second reading, but its passage is mora than doubtful. A bill introduced by Mr. HcwnweTon, for continuing the State1 Road from the National Road through Sugar Creek township, in this County,has passed the Lower House. A usury law of some kind will pass before the rising of the Legislature, it is thought.

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This article continues to demand a good price in our market. From $2 50 to$*3 00 has been readily obtained, during the last two weeks.

The following is the Bill dividing the State into Congressional Districts, passed by both Houses of the General Assembly:

AN ACT

To provide for dividing

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SEC. 2. The counties of Knox, Davis, Martin, Lawrcnce, Owen, Green, Sullivan, Vigo, Clay, and Putnam, shall form the second Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 3. The counties of Washington, Floyd, Clark, Scott, Jackson, Jennings, and Jefferson, shall form the third Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Repre sentative iu the Congress of the U. States.

SEC. 4. The counties of Decatur, Franklin, Ripley, Switierlnnd, Doarbron, and Rush, shall form the fourth Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the U. States,

SEC. 5. The counties of Union, Fayette, Wayne, Randolph, Henry, Delaware, Allen, Grant, Huntington, and Legrange, shall form the fifth Congressional District, and shall be entitled to one Representative^ the Congress of the U. States.

SEC. 6. The counties of Bartholomew, Johnson, Shelby, Hancock, Hamilton, Marion. Morgan, Boon, Ilendrioks, Monroe, Madi'son, Cass, Miami, and Wabash, shall form the sirfth Congressional Distriot, and shall be entitled to one Representative in the Congress of the U. States.

SEC. 7.

Tbe

counties of Vermillion, Parke,

Montgomery, Fountain, Warren, Tippecanoe, Clinton, Carroll, St. Joseph, Elkhart, and Laporte, shall form the seventh Congressional Distriot, and shall be entitled to one Representative ia the Congress of the U. States.

Received in each- State and Territdy of the United States for the year ending March 31,

Maine A'. -f3^233 63 New Hampshire 18,845 29 Vermont 20,265 16 Massachusetts 129,712 ^90 Rhode Island Connecticut^. 1 New York New Jersey Pennsylvana's",

Delaware Maryland '•5District of Columbia Virginia North Carolina s,South Carolina' Georgia

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State into seven

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Sac. I. Be it enacted by theGeneral Assembly of the State of Indiana, That the counties of Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Gibson, Pike, and Dubois, fLall form the first Congressional District, and shall be Hhtitled to one Representative in the Congress of the U. States.

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VROX THE UNITED STATES TKLEOEAPH. th,c€»»••.

It is now admitted that the people of the north and middle States have been kept in culpable ignorance of tbe state of public feeling in the south. This has been done by the suppression of all the arguments used by the people of the South. The attitude assumed by South Carolina, and the Proclamation of the President, makes it the imperative«duJtjLtijf evyv citisen to examine for himself that he may make up an earnest opinion. With a view to place the arguments within their reacb^we propose fo publish,

Mr. Calhoun's two letters, The Ordinance of South Carolina, The report of her committal who submitted that Ordinance,

The address to the people of South* Carolina, The addess to the people ff the United States,'

The proclamation of tbe President, And the reply to that proclamation should one be publirited.

An Extra of the United Stttes Telegraph, making a pamphlet of sixtyWbar pages, at the rate of five dollars for #ev«nty-ftve copies.

As it will be pnblisbed^ on ooe of our enlarged sheets the postage win be at the rate charged for an ordinary newspaper or one cent per copy if wilbia l(KhiUee,er 11 oents if for a greater distance.

Will editors of newtpapese with wHhm we exchange, do us the favor to five this notice an insertion When they fake into consideration the expense whtah pre incur to forni«h them the proceedings of Congress, they will not, we trust, cencidertbe request unreasonable. v-

The Steamboat Franklin, of Washington, has been purchased by (the Government, to be employed in some service unknown* near Charleston, Soath Carolina.

WOMAN.

Woman! whose charms Poets have sung in their sweetest numbers, has untold charm* still! Has imagination been called up to aid the enthusiast in his glowing picture, and all ty* gorgeous drapery of heated fancy been thrown around to decorate the same withal? —they were useless nay more—-foists— Her native claims are sufficient without this4 vapid parade. Let it no longer be said that she holds her existence amongst fading sweets and aromatic bowers—No! She claims a higher praise from our lips, a

nobler tribute

from our hearts. Who has seen her in attendance on sickness ?—-who has not felt her kindness! The tale is simple—it should be »o it needs not the foreign aid of ornament to cast an artificial light around it—its own lustre is like the brightness of the living day and her path, is like the canopied track of the milky-way—shining in brilliancy above all around it. Has a mother's tenderness been breathing its comforting influence around your pillow? Has a sister watched yoflr least, your most unimportant want?— and, above the rest, has the friend of your sou), still dearer than all, an affectionate, devoted wife, shed her heavenly radiance around your bed of suffering? Has she in her purity and first love, hung over you, administered all that heart or soul oould give tinfainting, untiring—tbe winged angel of every wish? Then have you felt what I have seen. Nor does fear or apprehension, enter her mind, to secure self-preservation. Although pestilence is exhaled in every breath and from every pore, she hovers near, strong in her love, to catch tbe least murmurings of tbe lightest wish. She forgets herself and na ture's wants, in the object of her solicitude, and every hope and every fear, dwell in the loved one before her. Here human nature is exalted and borrows light from Heaven— here affection is tried and sublimated. Peurile songsters

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Abstract of an official Document.^

AMOUNT or%STAOE

tell of her divinity, flaunt

ing in the jaded fashions of fantastical and unsubstantial refinement—valueless to her self and worthless toothers.

Be it my task to tell of her in simplicity, when all the seraphic excellence of her nature is called into exercise ungraeed by the imposing, but deceitful glitter of pomp and shew. I offet no contrast—may I but find a dwelling place amongst the latter, and ever feel the genial atmosphere of affection and love, wafting its oonsolations around me—to renovate my, life and give strength and calm* ness to my soul

Woman! Sickness! Death! Here is the field in which she puts forth all the angelic qualities that belong to God's fairest work. Who has listened to her thrilling accents of tenderness, and been unmoved 1 Wha has witnessed her attention and wished not to suffer, to win so bright a pledge of regard Who has seen her fast falling tears, and felt not a ftillness of heart? And when'life is fast ebbing, who would not covet that voice to direct the spirit's flight to its Eternal Home? I am free to confess, that in such scene!} has woman commanded an extent of admiration from me, which she never elicited elsewhere, and never can I forget her devotedness, her love, and her undying seal.— Here it is that she shines forth in all her loveliness. Here it is, we witness the developement of ^brighter, more qnduripg charms "than dlT that "the poet has told," and we learn to tnrn our gate to her as our hope and our stay on earth, without Whom all would be dark and dreary. 1^4^ "If heaven would make me suoh another world

Of one entire and perfect chrysolite I would not.change her for it." TI

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COMMERCIAL.

NEW-ORLEANS MARKET.

From Benjamin Levy's JVetr Orleans Price Current, Dee. 15. With trivial exception, the weather has continued pleasant and favorable to outdoor affairs—the oity is perfectly healthy, and business has resumed, generally, tbe appearance which it boars at this period of the year.' & a W be a tbrougfioulme week,* and priceste*(fy sales of about 1200 bales have b£en made'at the prices quoted last weekr—a portion was as follows, viz: 1000 bales at 124, 1100 at 11, 2000 at 11 a 12, 700 at a 114, 1000 at 11 1-16, 700 at 11, 300 at 12i, 120 at 10j, and severe! small lets, at every rate from 10 to 12i cents per lb.

SUGAR.—Tbe demand continues languid and we have no important transaction or change in price to notice: on plantation 5i a 5|: in the city the rate remains without change, 5ft a 6 cents per lb. and not much doing. Very little sugar of the first quality has made its appearance yet, for such as thefe is, the best obtains six cents, and it is said, that for superior lots 6j cents could be obtained.

MOLASSES is in brisk demand at 20ft a 21 eents per gallon, and some we are informed has been sold at 204 cents cash on plantation.

TOBACCO.—Nothing new has taken place since onr last report, there is very litte in market, and business is confined to tbe sale of a few hhds. for city use, and bales pot np for foreign markets—9, 3 and ,4- cents, continues to be the quotation in first hands.

FLOUR we quote at $6 50 a $6 75 asked, and holders firm—buyers, however, appear to hesitate. Tbe late arrivals produced a momentary fluctuation in the minds of dealers, but tbe market soon commenced wearing a steady appearanoe again. Arrived this week, 4358 bblt.

BEEF, pickled, we quote now—Missouri scarce and in demand, Mess £10 50, Prime $7 50 a 8. Arrived this week, 716 barrels, and 9,400 lbs jerked and dried.

PORK has quite a limited demand, and, as far as our information extends, has not varied ia price—Mem $11 75 a 12, Prime 9 50, Cargo 7 50—all inspected. Arrived this week, 234 bbls.

Pork, mess, inspected, bbl. $ 11 79 a 12 dull do prime do. Mil, 9 50—small sales.

BACON, except for canvassed Hams, there is little or no demand—Haass 7 a 8ft cents, Hog round 4ft a 5| eents per lb. No arrival this week. Baoon, hams canvassed, lb. 7 a 8ft cts.: Hog ronad 4ft a 5ft—plenty and dull.

LARD.—No change has taken place, the maifeet is dull as ever, and the article entirely neglected. We quote, nominally, 7 a 7ft oents per lb. Arrived thfts week, 1005 keg*, a part new, and 4 bbls.

WHISKEY is selling at S4 a 35 cents per gallon—it is soaroe this week, 349 hUs.

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HPMnsoToya juaoLimoire. The following preamble and reflations, submitted bf Mr. Huntington* being nnder consideration, viz:

Whereas, aa unusual and foerfnl excitemfBit prevails in tbe southern portion of our Union, and mora especially in South Carolina, on the subject of the Tariff laws, awakened, as we brieve, by a mistaken view of their constitutional end their operation 1 and whereas, daoprout aad heretical doctrines have sprung up under the name of

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tion," in which the constitutional right in a state to render nugatory and resisi the laws of the United States aad to

SXCEDS

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the Union, is boldly assumed and whereas, these doctrines have been openly avowed by individualsfcranfji promulgated ia legislative halls, and by a reoent act of the Legislator® of South Carolina, a convention has assemqled to set at defiance the laws of Congress, wf&ch convention, in a tone of lofty confidence has dared the ^Federal Government to interfere with its proceedings and whereas, we, the Representatives of tbe people of Indiana, regard these doctrines and proceedings its subversive of the principles of our constitution and government and destructive of the liberties of our country, therefore,

Be it Resolved by the Senate and House qf Representatives of the State of Indiana in General Assembly convened, That they regard the present as a fearful crisis in our gorernment, as a period when devotion to party should be lost in devotion to country, and when the only coqjtest among American citizens should be, as to the means best calculated to prevent our boasted Union from crumbling into ruin, and to shield our hallowed institutions from dccay.

Resolved, That the sentiment once expressed, "oatr Union, it must be preserved," meets a hearty response from the people of Indiana, bound as they are by honor and interest to that confederacy which they willingly entered, and from which they will nev er willingly be severed.

Resolved, That we hail the Unionists of South Carolina as patriots of the stamp of '76, and bid them hold steadily and firmly on their course that compared to the Union of the States of the Confederacy, tee regard ail else at valueless! that we will cling-to it as the last hope of human liberty and the only bulwark against the storms of civil war and anarthy.

Resolved, That every just measure adopt' ed by the General Government to allay or suppress excitement or violence on this sub ject, will meet the approbation of Indiana. st-j&fjlved, yhat hfooxcellency the Governor, be rso^est^To3|pUismit a copy of those resolutions to tph'ff our Senators and Representatives iifCongress, to be by them submitted to the respective branches of the National Legislature, and a copy to the Governor of each State and Territory in the lJnited States. „Mr. HUNTINGTON said, he rose to join in the request, that the ayes and noes may beordered on the final passage of the resolutions now before the House, and while he was up, to express a hope that there would be but one voice in thi»«faall upon the question about to.be taken.

When I introduced the johit resolution now under consideration, it was not my intention to address to this House a single, remark in their support. I thought ti^en, and still Ihinlt, there can be bg# one opinion in Indiuna on the sub||pt pf nullification. I thought loo, si%| that tbe revolutionary attitude ofsportionof our union, demanded at least tn expression of the feelings and determination of this state upon a subjoct involving the perpetuity of ouf government. With me, 1 confess it has.been a subject of deep and absorbing interest. There was a time when to speak of tbe dissolution of our uoion, was to cast reproach upon th$ memory of our fathers bufctte4o*e hNMome when it has become a topi£r^Kp?some of mere idle and ordinary interest. The times are sadly changed. A portion of our confederacy that we once looked to as a birth place of patriotism and the home of chivalry, has placed itself in an attitude of resistance to the laws of the federal government. South Carolina, one of the fairest and Ipvelie&t of the states of our republic, has raised her voice in rebellion against the general government and cast off her allegiance. She has done all this with a deliberation that leaves no hope that she will recede from the ground she has taken. She has trampled upon the constitution which she once promised to support, and ua4er whose wings she has, for more than forty years, been protected and sheltered. Sir, said Mr. H. she has tranrpled upon tbe fedefal constitution, lor, be apprehended, that beyond her borders, nullification cu a constitutional mode of preventing the execution of the laws of congress, has never been soberly contended for. It is a heresy that can exist only in revolution, and most expire with the madness that gave it birth, else the government which we

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ish is nothing, nay it is worse than nothing. In Indiana, he trusted, its constitutionality orpropriety will never be asserted.

Sir, what has title promulgation of the doctrines of nullification produced Sedition, insurrection, disgrace. It has arrayed a state of this union in open rebellion aeainft the general government. And bow South Carolina, by an act of her fegistetore, chosen and convened for that purpose, has called a convention. She has in that convention declared tbe tariff laws new in force, oppressive, unconstitutional, nufl, and void, thereby taking upon herself the determination of one question, properly determined only by tbe judiciary. 8be has establiahed

ait a- test for office, an- oath fcr the support of these doctrines of resistance, thereby proscribing those citisem who dare assert the supremacy o£ the laws of the general government. She has closed her courts against the redress of wrongs arising under the revenue laws of the United State?.— She has established a new tode of crimes, upon crime itself. She has* defied the application of the necessary force on the part of the federal govern* ment to carry into execution her laws. And, finally, she has asserted, the right, under certain circumstances, to secede from the union. This has all been done, net merely by American citizens in their individual characters, but solemnly in a convention of the state. A& an evidence of the determination on the part of that state to resist even unto blood the execution of our laws, she has newly organized her militia, and the hot aud fiery Hamilton, her present executive, has been made their military leader. All this has been done, merely because the tariff laws of the United Stales have, as they contend, been oppressive and unconstitutional. Alas! how soon have our institutions fallen into contempt. Shall not we, the representatives of Indiana, pronounce our solemn rebuke upon sucn proceedings? We are impelled to it by every high and holy remembrance, by our Jove of the union, by our love of civil and religious liberty. He had heard it said by some, let Carolina secede from the union." Sir, I deny the right of secession. What would follow such an event? Would not the union be dissolved, and our government be destroyed? Let the chain once be broken that now binds the states of this confederacy together, and the institutions of our country crumble into ruin, and our glory departs forever. If a state has tne power to withdraw from the ifuion whenever s)ie pleases, the tenure by which tho federal govern- 1 ment holds its existence is (00 frail to 4 endure long. If Carolina has aright to 8scede,and cxercises that right, tnat moment is she clothed with the attributes of an independent nation that moment she is to this government whnt

England, France, or Russia are. The idea is too monstrous to be debated. How humble would be stich a spectacle to the world. We have had tears, for Poland, poor, bleeding, oppressed, devoted and dismembered Poland, but her miseries have been light compared tothose'which we should feel upon the dismemberment of our glorious republic. Anarchy, which would inevitably follow surh an event, is scarccly more tolerable than despotism. No.— & Let 11s stand by the union cost what it may. How would the eye of the patriot weep, while wandering over our national ensign that for more than fifty years had been spread out in triumph to the breeze, to find that even one star had been torn from its glittering folds! He would mourn over its loss as the Chaldean would mount over the last star of his worship.

But, Mr. Speaker, while the present condition of a portion of our un- 1 ion admonishes us of the peril of our honored institutions, we are not left without a hope that the dangers of which we have spoken may pass away even without a struggle. There is a... rainbow smiling through the gloom, even at that point where rebellion has raised her head. The unionists of South Carolina, though far in the minority, have stood up in the majesty of! their patriotism,ana solemnly pledged their adherence to the union at whatsoever sacrifice. With the illustrious Drayton at their head, and hearts of jtried and stubborn mould arotfnd him, devoted to-their country and the Union, they give promise that even there a power will he found to quiet every dissention and restore ropo&e to the| state. Added to this, tbe expression of public sentiment in other parts of the union, will tend to allay excitement and suppress rebellion. Vox populi, vox Dei, Public opinion, however expressed, will have its effect, add shall Indiana withhold her voice?— No. If the union must fall, let her be guiltless. Who is there in this hall* who in Indiana, that will aot unite in the sentiment exjpressed by our present federal executive, "our union,it must be preserved"? Who is.there here, that will not join in the sentiment expressed by the orator of New-England, when in tbe depth and fevror of his feeling* he once exclaimed, "when spy eye» shall look for tbe last time upon the sun in heaven, may they not see him shining upon the broken and dishonor* ed fragments of a once glorious union*. Union and liberty, now and forever^ one and inseperable."

Harried,

In this plaee, on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Hammer, JOHN W. HITCHCOCK, M. D. to Miss MARGARET F. BAZIER, late of Philadelphia.

At Middletown, on the 3d ns(. by tbe RevSamuel Hull, Mr. JONAS P. LYKIN8 to. Miss SARAH KELSOydaogbter of Wm. JUL so, Esq. of Sullivan County. ,m

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Io Louisville, Ky. on the morning of

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93d ult. EDWARD 8HIPPEN, Esq, Cashier of tbe Branch Bask of tbe United.States |t that place. :w:,.