American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-12-03
Extract from the Message IF the Governor .


Ertrnct from the Message Of The Governor 81
| Georgia to the Legislature, .Sor. Q, 824.
"a resolution Of the legislature OF Ohio is sub
mtted recommending the abolition of slavery
Whilst 1t affords evidence hat our sister has not in
terests oil her own TO occupy her, and that she
liesls very tender concern tor ours we cannot for
bear saying that our property will be safe in ou
own keeping for the present. 1t is Notifying thai
our rights OF private property should in violation OF
every sentimen, OF decacy, and proptety, be can
vassed and passed upon by strangers Of every de,
lcripton, and in every possible form of combination
and conspiracy. We must arrest this nuisance or
throw 1t back upon the aegressors. That sell, CT.
ated societies, prompted by false concris Of philan
lthropy and benevolence, should Off cially informed
die IN matter which It is impossible Tor them TO
comprehend, because o! the dense atmosphere Of
lpreIudice which surrounds them, would be unpar
donable II IL were not known that upon certain sub
Jects and in the enlightened communities there
are TO be found the greatest enthusiasts and fanatics
But that the enlightened state of Ohio should as
sumo the prerogatiye Of debating to Georgia wha
disposition she shall make OF her own domestic pro-
perry is passing strange. Georgia has never al
tempted TO interfere directly or indirectly with the
internal polty, local institutions or rights Of proper
ly OF any of the states, and it was hoped that the
same dellcacy and forbearance would have dis,in-
gulshed the conduct of other states in relation to
herself The respectable state Of Ohio ought to
remem that there may be some things connected
with her own institutions and manners not very a
greeable to the people Of Georgia, and that the work
OF retaliation is always easy one. She must learn
too that the question which she has taken the liberty
10 present to the legislature is which Georgia will
never permit herself receive at the hands of stran
lgers-that she will make it for herself whenev: il
may be proper 10 make it at all, and exactly al the
time and after the manner she shall deem best and
repulsng all foreign interference as obtrusive, will
take TO herself exclusively the good and the merit
as she will certainly be obliged to take the evil which
may come OF 1t. Our sister OF Ohio will undcrsta ID
Tor The future that this is subject su generis which
only ourselves can comprehend, that the efforts of
others to better The condition of the negro have in.
variabiy made it worse, and that the negro has ney
CT yet found sincere friend, but in his MASTER"
The Kentucky Argus, 10 its account Of the late
confagration OF the State House at Frankfort in
that state, gives the following additional particulars
OF the loss occasioned by tina. catastrophe
In addition to the building, the value of public
property consumed is very great. Besides most of
the furniture and books belonging to the General
Assembly, all the papers relative to the business of
former sessions, which filled several large presses
and were deposited in one of the Committee rooms.
we're consumed. Nearly 1000 stand of arms de-
posted IN one OF the rooms on the lower floor.
were destroyed only small number having been
saved. About 500 sets OF the Digest of the Stat
ote Laws, nearly all the volumes oil the Decisions
OF me Court OF Appeals belonging TO the state,
including the three last volumes of Littell's Re.
ports, which have not yet been distributed. were
a he f,rn IL A..