The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-12
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY, JAN. I2, 1881.
THE LEGISLATURE.


The winter Session of the General Court
commenced at Boston, this day week A sketch
OF the proceedings will be found in our columns.
OF the various subjects treated of in the able
Message of the Governor, we would particu-
larly call the attention of the reader to that
part which treats of the Massachusetts, Claim.
more gross and wanton neglect of duty, can
hardly be imagined, than is there exhibited, on
the part of tho officers of our National Govern
ment. Is it to be tolerated, that the affairs of
the Nation, especially those of as much conse-
quence as this, should be entirely neglected, in
order to afford our " trarelling cabinet" an on.
portunity to roam about the country, at their
ease, while enjoying their tat salaries from the
public purse But, if matters SO important as
this, are neglected, we may well Judge how j
is with those of less Importance IN themselves.
but which, in the aggregate, go to make up the
vast concerns of this great nation Time will
more fully show the trus character of this ad-
minstration, and the estimation in which it
ought to be held.
We are G lad to see that the Legislature have
a" Committee of Retrenchment" actively at
work. We hope they will look carefully and
faithfully into all the public expenditures, and
reduce such as are unnecessary, and bring all
to Just standard Ito medium, as far remoy-
cd, on the one hand, from wasteful profusion as
it is, on the other, from that Sordid parsimony,
which defeats its own object and is, in the end
the most ezpenstrs economy. The present is
time highly suspicious for such a work. In
the absence Of party heat and violence, it may
be done with reference to the public good alone,
without being Influenced by any of those i'm
proper motives, which will always, more or less
bear sway, in times of high political excitement
GEORGIA AND THE CHERoKErs. A case has
occurred which has become the subject of much
speculation, and, with many, of deep anxiety,
in the fear that the government of the Union
and that of Georgia may be brought into hos
tile collision, in consequence Of the headsrong
and headlong course Ofthe latter.
The State of Georgia, IN the exercise of the
right of jurisdiction, which it claims over the
ed George Tassels, Cherokee Indian, charged
with the murder of another Indian, on their
own territory, and brought him into the State
Court in Hall County, where he was tried and
convicted of tho murder, and sentenced TO be
executed on the Gath ult. After the cenvic-
ton, the friends of Tassos applied to Chief
Justice Marshall for a wri; of error to remove
the case into the Supreme Court of the United
States, in order to try the question of jurisdic-
ton. The writ was granted, as a matter of
course and of right, and was served upon the
Governor of Georgia on the 2lst ult. The
Legislature being in session, Gov Gilmer COM
municated a copy Of the writ, with information
of its service upon him, at the same time de-
claring, that, so far as he was concerned, any
attempt to stay the execution would be ore.
sisted with whatever force the laws have pac.
ed at his command" The Legislature, there
upon, passed series of violent resolutions, in
which it was declared, that, the issuing of the
writ in question, was 9" fragrant violation Of
every other officer of the State were enioned
to disregard every process from the Supreme
Court Of the United States, the object of which
should be, to arrest the execution of any of the
criminal laws of the State, the Governor was
directed, with all the force, placed at his com
mand by the constitution and laws of the State
to resist every invasion upon the criminal laws
of the State, and finally, it was declared, that
the State of Georgia would never so far COM
promit her sovereignty as an Independent
State, as to become a party to the case, sought
to be made before the Supreme Court of the
| United States, by tho writ in question"
Tassels was, unquestionably, executed on the
Gath. When, therefore, the case is called in
court, as there will be no plaintiff, it must of
course be dismissed. 1t being merely writ of
error, to remove tho case into that court, with
ont any penalty annexed for disobodienco, and