2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Printed circular, 1p. quarto, August 9, 1832, Macon, Georgia, with integral leaf addressed to Col. McCluny of Huntersville, Alabama, and reads in part: “...A number of our most respectable citizens, resident in different, and some of them in distant parts of the State, assembled in the town of Athens...to take into consideration the present condition of the country. The following resolutions were adopted at that meeting...Whereas, the people of Georgia...have repeatedly and solemnly declared the several acts laying duties on imports...to be unjust, oppressive and unconstitutional; and have solemnly announced their determination not to submit to such unlawful exactions; and their consequent resolution to resist them...Be it therefore resovled, That we as free citiznes of Georgia, will not longer submit to the system of legislation which is arbitrary, unequal, unconstitutional, and therefore unjust...It is our purpose to recommend that meetings be held in the different counties of this State, with a view to obtain a general expression of public opinion, and we would earnestly recommend to you the adoption of a similar measure. It is only by convincing our Northern Brethren of our united determination to resist the PROTECTIVE SYSTEM, that we can hope to avert the evils, which its longer continuance must inevitably and speedily produce...” Repairs, else Good.
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