Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-08-24
From the Lynch5urg Trginian.
THE CRISIS.

The dogsta RACES in the South. To
what other influence can be ascrbed the
sudden change in the opinions of Judge Clay
ton of Geo. who, at Amherst Court House,
manifested strong disposition TO "daliy''
with the Tariff question, and more than
'doubted" the eXpediency of resorting to
Modification as remedy who yet, on get
ting into the infected district, eXclaims, as if
he had been suddenly seized with "a VIC
lent distomPer che that dallies is bastard,
and lac that doubts is damned: +" Surely,
Modification is contagious, if Cholera is moi
1t was 10 have been hoped, however, that
as Judge Clayton, when he was in Virginia.
hung out the flag of submission, he would
leave his South Carolina fever where he
found it, and that, by the time he reached
his residence in Georgia, he would hive
been in state fconvaescence. Not so how
ever and we almost begin TO fear that.
when once the virus of notification mingles
with the blood, the Teas on of the poor vic
tim is forever gone, and there is no hope of
his recovery. Look, for example, at South
Carolina, at this moment-preseniin@ 20 the
view one vast field of unclaimed LunatiCS.
warning against their best interests, and
aiming deadly stab at the only truly free
institutions of government on earlh-the
just pride ofthe age, and the last hope of
the world. Look, too, at Georgia, where in
relation TO this question, an equipoise has
been heretofore maintained, between her ha-
tired OF the general government and her alb
horrenCe Of Mr.. Cahoun--the former lead
ing her into acts of practical notification
the latter, into bitter denunciations of the
theory. AT length, however, the NuIif
ers, who have been heretofore quietly sleep
ing in her bosom, dreading the opprobrium Of
fl,o a, + IL
doctrine, are throwing off their disguise, and
are standing forth before the public, in their
true characters, as advocates of dissolution
of the Union, and the erection of a Southern
Confederacy!
Two meetings have recently been held in
Georgia, at which the doctrines of South
Carolina, which have heretofore found no IA
vor in that State, were successfully main
tanned. The first meeting, at which VIM.
ii. Crawford Esq presided, was held at A
thens, at which place large cOncourse of
the most distinguished citizens of the State
had assembled, in the capacity of Trustees
Of Franklin College.-At this meeting the
doctrine Qualification was openly advoca-
ted oy Judge Berrien, Judge Clay ton, Judge
Longstreet and others, and opposed by Gen.
Glascock, VIM. ii. Torrance, Judge Har-
rIs and others. The meeting adjourned af-
ter adopting a resolution that the free citi-
zens Of Georgia will no longer submit to
system oflegislation which is arbitrary, I'M
equal, unconstitutional, and therefore unjust;
and recommending TO the people Of the sew
eral counties in the State to send Delegates
to State COnUeptiOn(the universal remedy
for disorders in the body politic) to assemble
in Milledgeyille on the second Monday in
November next, invested"with full power
TO maintain, preserve, and defend the rights
and privileges Of the free citizens of that
State" A committee Of correspondence TO
confer with the people of other States on
matters connected with the common inter
est, was also ppointed--consisting Of Messrs
A. s. Clayton, John NJ Berrien, VIM. G.
Dawson, Samuel Rockwell, VIM. II. Tor
rance, Joel Crawford and Thomas Glascock
From 800 TO- 1000 persons are said TO have
been present.
The second meeting was held at Lexing-
ton, in Oglethorpe county, on the occasion
ola public dinner given 10 the members Of
Congress from that Stale who voted against
the Tariiflaw Of the last session--excluding