The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-06-29
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE %, 1925.
.Mo,e Troubles an Georgia.

bic and affection. These sensitive mortals
seem to think that every thing that is trans
acted is done with some special reference to
themselves, and are ever on the alert to dis
cover some insult, or some actual or intended
| Infringement of their rights. In common life
such men will keep their own, neighborhood in
turmoil, contention, and litigation; but in
higher stations disposition of this kind often
leads to consequences deeply affecting the
repose and happiness of nations. OF this
character is Gov. Troup. of Georgia. While
bis old difficulties with the Cherokees, and his
more recent CUES with the Creeks yet remain
unsettled, other and different troubles rise up
to aflict him.
At the last session of Congress resolution
was introduced INTO the Senate by Rufus
King of New-York, proposing the establish
ment of fund, from which slaves may. under
the regulations Of the several States where
they are owned, be emancipated and coloniz-
ed abroad. Such proposition, it struck us,
was perfectly unobj sctionable, unless by the
free States, whose money would be taken for
the removal of an evil resting on others, and
in which they did moi participate. But Gov.
I'roup judged otherwise, and, deemins it an
unjustifable interference in their internal con-
Germs, made it, in his message TO the Legisla-
ture, the subject Of Incorporate invectve and
viruent remark. More recently the Attor
ney-General of the United States, not in his
ofhcial capacity, but as counsel for an indi-
v'dual, and IN the perform ance Of his duty TO
MS client, has defended principle in relation
10 the property in slaves, which has again
called forth Gov. Iroup, in his late message
to the Legislature in the following STYLE:
Since your last meeting our feelings have
neen AGAIN outraged by oficious and imnerti
nent lhfermeddlings with our domestic con-
Germs. beside the resolution presented for the
consideration of the Senate by Mr.. King of
view YORK, II IS understood that the Attorney
GENERAL OF the United States, who nav he
presumed to represent his Government fifth
lul'y' and to speak as its mouth piece, has re-
cehtIy maintained before the Supreme Court
ooctflnes on this subject, which, if sanctioned
ny 'nat tribunal, will make it quite easy for
the congress, by short decree, to dvest this
eh'ife interest without cost TO themselves of
one dollar, or Of one acre of public land-this
Is me uniform practice Of the government Of
me United States-if il wishes a principje es
eahllshed which it dare not establish for itself
Case is made before the Supreme Court. and
the principle once settled, the act of Congress
| follows OF course. Soon. very soon, therefore.
the United States Government. discsrdinp the
mask, will openly lend itself to combination
OF FANATICS for the destruction of every thing
valuable in the Southern country. One move,
ment oil the Congress unresisted by Won. and
""Ei ost' Iemporize me- longer-make known
your resolution that this subject shall not be
touched by them but at their neriI-hu, for ~
sacred guaranty by the constitution we never
would have become parties to that instruments
at TINS moment you would not make vour-
serves parues to any constitution without it.
| OF course you will not he party to if from
the moment the General Government shall
make that movement
'fthis matter be an evil, it is our own--ifit
be sin we can implore the forgiveness of IL !.
to remove 1t we ask not either their sympathv
or asslstance-it may be our physical weak
ness-it is our moral strength. If like the
Greeks and Romans, the moment we cease TO
be masters we are slaves--we thenceforth min
lister like the modern Italians TO the luxnrv
and pleasures Of our masters-poets, painters
musicians, and ulptors we may he-the NOR
al qualities, however, which would make lis
fair partakers of the grandeur of great em-
pire, would be gone-we would stand stripped
and desolate under a fervid sun and upon a
generous soil, mockery to ourselves. and the
very contrast of what. with little firmness and
foresight, we might have been. entreat YOU.
therefore, most earnestly, now that it is not
too late, to step forth, and, having exhausted
the argument, TO STAND BY YOUR ARMs.n
On receipt ofthis communication it was refer
red, in the House of Representatives. 10 a
select Committee, which has presented the
following report and resolutions
"The Committee TO whom was referred So
much of the Governors Message, as relates 70
the disposition manifested by the different
branches of the General Government TO con-
troll the domestic affairs, and to intermeddIe
with the repose and union of the Southern
States, after celebrating on this subject with
the deepest feelings Of sorrow and regret, have
to proclaim, that the hour is come. or is randi
ly approaching, when the States from Virginia
to Georgia, from Missouri to Louisiana must
confederate, and as one man say to the Union
we will olonger submit our detained rights
to the sniveiling insnuations of bad men on the
floor OF Congress-our constitutional rights TO
the strained constructions of designing men up-
on judicial benches; thatwe protest against the
doctrine and dsclaim the principle Of unlm-
tied submission 10 the General Government"
After an allusion to the motives which in
duced Georgia originally to join the Union, and
a Boosting paragraph about her disinterested
sacrifices for the good of the nation, The report
proceeds as follows:
"These are the feelings we brought into the
Confederacy: with these we shall leave il, if
unprincipled men prosper in the unholy work
demolishing the noble, the august, the splen-
did fabric Of our Union.
"The States of the south viii convey the pro-
ducts IF forfilo coil and gan;aI rl;n,ns - an