Litchfield enquirer., 1832-11-15

The Canvenliun is t0 eOnaist Of l60 mem. hers, which sthe number OfbOth bFaOches ofI the Legislature. to be elected 6y those. enti- tied now In vote, on the ste0nd Monday and Tuesday in November, to meet at Columhia on the the third Monday. The COnvention to continue in office for twelve months unless sooner dissolved by itself Each election dis. trict and parish to send the sailae number now sent to both branches Of the Legislature.- Every free white man, of tine age 0f a years. is qualified to be elected, without regard to prOperty. ga
 < !" The first act of the Convention (says South Carolina correspondent of the Nation al lntelligencer) will he to bHllify the act nf 0Dngress; and the Legislature meeting the
 Monday after, will bs ready 10 provide for
 any exigencies, and will annex such pains
 and penalties tO all attempts at an enforce
 rnent of tho Tariff Laws IS will make the boldest hesitate. The result of the contest in
 which we have embarked, God alDne fore sees"
 In his Message to the Legislature, Governor
 Hamilton denounces the Tariff act 0f the last
 session of Congress as in every respect Op- pressive and iOt0lerablr, and the extinction of all hope for South CarOlina. The follow
 ing paragraphs of the Message form the ma
 terial part
 SGUItgUGHt Ne
 ocal tokens declared in favor of Convention
 of the People of South Carolina, for the pur- pose of considering the character and extent ofthe nsurpaiio0s ofthe General Government.
 In recommending that you promptly take measures tO authorize the messing of such an
 assembly, feel, notwithstanding my cordial
 concurrence in this nieasl're.) that am only responding 10 that sentiment.
 ,ss forbear bringing any other subject to
 your consideratiOn connected with the Ordi-
 nary and current business of the State, as,
 under the Constitution, you must again con
 yene, on the, 4th Monday of the ensuing month. I would respectfully suggest, that
 with the view, # practicable, of procuring an
 assembly of the proposed Convsnfion at this place prior lo that period you likewise ab- stain from the consideration of any other matter than the Important topic, and those necessarily incidental to it, which have brought 10 your view, as deem it, for u va- riety of considerations, on which it is unne- cessary Isho0ld now dHell, ,--in every respect desirable that our issue with the General Gov ernment should be made before the meeting of Congress.
 s" Inurging the expediency of calling a Con- vention of the. People, fpr the purposes ! have indicated, have forhOrne to make a singlc suggestion Of what may, or may not, what ought, ar what ought not to ba the rem. edy this assembly should 0rdain. { To a b0dy 1 SO constituted and so empowered, let the l whole subject of our rights and our grievan- 1 ces he cOnRded, uninfuenced by any bias 1 arising from ihe official expression of our opinions. Representing puhlic sentiment, it 1 cannot tut organize and give force to the | public wall"
 { M siz !. { ~ Sir Wdlter Scott. ---The latest accounts from Europe aifotd hut too strong reason for be- | lleylng, that the approximations which have | been lnng entertainsd, are at length realized, | and that Sir Walter Scott is no longer num- bered among the living. saas N;
 would be presUinptuOns to attempt ani estimate Uf the literary merit of one, t, whos.: the nations have combined to render such | universal homage 10 writer since the titne ! 0f Shakespeare, has exercised more abso- lute dosniHi0n over the heart; he has rushed into the fields of literature with the boldness, and more than the ordinary success of re- former; and the influence which he has yisi- ply exerfed over the literature Uf the present l day. will net probably be lost for ages to come, It Is on his character, especially on ms character as an author, that we can most profiiably dwell; and it is here that his ex- ample IS full Of noble instruction. Our ageI mas been fruitful of men of genius, some of l whom may possibly have attracted a larger snare Of interest and attention than Sir Wal. ter Scott Ithas produced one at least, whose career has been obviously enough compared to the course of meteor. wili and brilliant indeed, hut soon disappearing from The skies; but how much more to be enyied is he, who l may be properly said to resemble d star, shed. ding It's mid aud salutary influence from it's I apppluted place in the heavens, which in. spires no emotions of awe ar fear, but guides the course of wanderers 0f the sea, and is al- ways associaied with our earliest aud most happy rec0llections. The character of Sir Waller Scott attracts his readers towards hiD.sas to familiar friend its one of the dnest examples of the beautiful, hut uniortu. nattly rare alliance of genius and yirtue {: it aOOunds in al those graces which are inc
 prlde and ornament of our moral nature.-d
 Onanected sinplicity. frankness and kindness
 oI heart, are qualities ih general too tender 10
 endure the whitening sunshine of the world,s
 applause. From the failings opposite to
 these. no man was ever nnOre eminently free.
 He had Hs0e of that cold rel,sct ance io D,.r- crlve and acknowledge the rising merit ofl others--none of that jealousy of the public
 estinnatiOO Of his Own--which are foo offen permitted to impair the beauty of intellectual superiority .aas if it were ordained by Pros;- dence that iis highrsE giils sllo.sld De accom. panied by something to remind us of their nn'on with mortality. When host of isni- tators rushed int" the pastical region which