Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-18

the sufferers. Subscriptions are in progress to ob- tain assistance in every direction.
 That itinerant humanity which has gone abroad in search of the Hottentot the Hndoo and the barba- rous tribes of Africa, is called on to lend n helping hand to our own suffering countrymen. May the appeal from Fayetteville not be made in vain to citizens of this State Would it not be advisable for the town authorities to call meeting of its c- to consult the best method for alfordng re- lief to the houseless famesl
 We beg pardon of our North Western acquaint- ances for mistaking their number, which, instead of nineteen we had supposed to be none other than solitary bachelor, who had arrived at the peevish age of fGy and was not altogether satisfied with the climate of Franklin county. As desired, we have published their expose, rcrbatim ct itcratim and they improve upon acquaintance we will now attri- butc their anger to less malicious cause trusting to their own free choice for that mercy which hides multitude of sins, the worst of which to be the sin of opinion. These gentlemen consider them,- selves entitled to all the relief which Congress has various times extended to her land debtors in this State without rehectng that Congress and the Trus tees have both lost their authority over lands pur- chased by them of the University. That although the general government may rightfuy extend relief to her own customers, without injury to any indvid ual, yet such is not the with the purchasers of those lands, any than if it relate to the sale of any planters real estate in Franklin county to his neighbor A just contract will affect both parties alike; but would the purchasers admit for moment that the Trustees had any authority to charge them eighteen doiiars per acre for the land purchased at screntecn doiars although it may actually be worth more than twice that money2 No man in his senses will acknowledge that any such condition was at ached to the sales or that any thing else was un- dersood or intended by the Legislature, the Execu-
 tive, the Trustees the purchasers themselves than that the sales should be final and binding nor sub ject to any change of conditions at any subsequent time. But it is conended that our object in opposing the contemplated relief, was to favor some aspiring demagogue, who was attempting to ride into notice as the protector of property in which the whole country feels common interest, and which is at this time, very convenient hobby. We repcl not only these charges, but that any material facts nected with the subject have been withheld by us from the public, that any section of the State has attempted to sustain the claims of the University debtors, save their own immediate neighborhood.-
 
 or attributed to them worse motives than desire to speculate upon University property. Such is plain ly inferred from their arguments, and the effect of the ordinance which proposes to relieve them.
 We have opposed their right to relieffrom sense of public duty, without computing what candidates prospects were to be advanced by doing so, and were ignorant of the number of debtors benefited by the ordinance as are of those who signed Mir Dilahuntys resolutions and the counter petition call cd the Florence memorial by which certain states men have contrived to invite branch bank of the United States into the Tennessee Valley against the common sense the country.
 Should it be in the power Of our North Western acquaintances to designate the members who advo- cated both measures, as well those who rendered lots in the town of Tuscaloosa to aid the government to erect public buildings will publish the desir- ed information matter of curiosity to the country and strike balance with accusers, for contrbut ing much to the common cause, forgetting what may have been said of us individually.
 The industry with which the United States Bank Agents continue to circulate their tracts is truly sur prising Almost every week furnishes some labour- ed prOductl0n rom tne pen or ulelr cnamplon Walsh. The Eastern mail of Monday brought a large extra sheet to each of the publishers of this pa per- and one to the office, making four in all, from the office of the National Gazette, besides great number to the citizens in town and elsewhere. In defence oft cause we conclude that all such docu ments must be paid for by the bank itself, and as Mir Walsh has found it more profitable to write for its charter than for he American Quarterly, his pa triotism is to be computed in dollars and cents.- Change but the manner they devise for opposing any measure and Walsh is more like Cobbett than any other popular writer who has obtained any celebrity in the Union. That he is capable of being bought up is generally believed by those who recollec his skill in vibrating from Calhoun to Adams, and from Ad- ans to Jackson, and the flashing he received from the Richmond Whg for doing so. The last ten years has found his Gazette arrayed in defence of slavery and against slavery for the tariff and against the tariff as well for a northern and southern con structon of the Constitution. When our country men shall have recalled to mind what this writer has said on the subject of admitting Missouri into the Union and compared his arguments then, with his present defence of the Mammoth Bank they will turn with disgust from the apostate, and no longer trust to his artful arguments.
 Ii has been said that the price of liberty is eter-