Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-08

.rrri,. have commenced the work OF "retorm."
We understand that they have already provided
With comfortable quarters, at the Work House,
several Migrants and drunkards, white aud black,
who q week or two ago were saunterlnS about
the streets. We hope they may make thorough
work Of it.
SOuth Carolina The Hon. VIM Drayton has
declined the honor Of public dinner which was
rendered to him by the Union party IN Charles
ION. He thinks, that, while that section OF coun-'
;ry is threatened with q pes,ileutial disease.
festival Of the kind contemplated would be I'M
prudent lie will hereafter, through the news
papers, defend his vote in favor Of the late Ia
rif act.
We turn now, from the peaceful proceedings Of
the Union party. to the violent undertakings OF
the Nulli6crs. A great meeting Of this party
was held in Charleston on the 29th ult. Gen.
Hayne Was present and delivered speech, IN
shich, nira6iie diciu he is said to have de.
m0nstrated, "that the new Tariff is actually
more oppressive than the last"
An address was adopted by The meeting de-
nouncing the late Tariff act and concluding with
the following alusion to the ''rightful remedy:
"Uhat, then, remains 10 Js done? Turn from
those misguided rulers, aud rely on yourselves
aud on your God Resort to that principle ct
self-protection which he implanted IN the breast
Of man. and which has been Incorporated into all
the laws and compac,s by which we have con-
sen,ed to be governed"
The resolutions adopted on the occasion. ap-
prove the conduct of the tWo Senators and sar
Representatives. who signed the manifesto from
Washing ton-olier a dinner to Gen. Hayne-re-
commend Convention Of the State TO be called
BY the next Legislature-expess readiness
Ito meet any consequences" in preference to
submission to the Tarif--aBd kindly invite the
Union party to abandon their ground. and join
IN the mad crusade against the institutions OF
their fathers.
Something of the temper Of the times may be
gathered from this We think it but right that
the people every where should be appraised OF the
state of feeling in South Carolina. The Charles
ton Courier speaking of the new doctrine says,
We cannot agree with our friend of the Camden
Journal, that qualification 10 in the agony OF
death" We wouldrejOice indeed could we be-
lieye that the monster was 50 near his last gasp
We are convinced that more vigorous efforts than
ever, are about to be made to delude the pecr'e
into its adop,ion, aud that it has never been more
necessary than now for the friends Of the Union
10 be on the alert, by exposure Of sophistry and
correcting mis- statements, and by stirring appeals
To patriotism, to save the State from 50 caamiious
result.
TIE Cherokses. Monday, the Sd instant,
JULY lhe Cherokee chiefs were to meet at New
EchOta, for the purpose Of taking into considera-
ton, the terms proposed by President, tor an ex-
change Of their lands.
The New York American, noticing the TACT Of
the fredericksburg and Potomac Greek Rail
Road Company having determined for the pre-
sent to make merely good road. and send to
England for locomotive engine to run on 1t,
correctly observes" The spirit OF Improvement
appears to be aroused in Virginia, and we hope 1t
will be iudiciOusly directed BY able and energet-
&c men, who will not suffer it to slumber, until
The "Old Dominion" enjoys the benefit OF inter-
nal Improvement which SO generally pervades
some Of the younger members Of the Confedera-
cy There is no State perhapsin the Union bet
ter, if SO we'll, calculated for manufacturing pur-
poses as Virginia, above tide water; or that would