Vm, Lowndes Yancey. BIOGRAPHY. "Win. DoVndes Yancey was born in the State of Georgia?Shoals of Ogeechee? on tho 10th clay of August, 1814, and is consequently now in' his 45th year. He was bora at tho home of Coll Bird, his grand-father. - His parents resided at the time in Abbeville, S. C. His father, Be nj. C. Yancey, was a lawyer of tho first order of talents and the highest integrity, rank? ing justly as a compeer of the late John C. Calhoun, whose friend and supporter he was in the memorable and decisive conflicts which linked his name honorable with the war of 1812. Tho elder Mr. Yancey died in the year 1817, leaving but two children, the subject of this sketch a?d B. C. Yancey, United States Minister to the Argentine Confederation, South America. TTm. L. Yancey received his earlier ed? ucation while between eight and nineteen years of age, in "Now York and New Eng? land?which, perhaps, imparted to his manners.an apparent reserve, and stamp? ed him a puritan in his morals, without a taint of superstition or phariseeism. He is an earnest Christitin, aspiring after un? ostentatious spiritual graces, and so walk? ing with Jittlo of profession as an exem? plary and devout member of the Presby? terian Church. "While yet a child, Iiis mother-, a woman of exalted sensibilities, uncommon talents, tireless energy, and indomitable will? would assign him a particular position on tho floor, and while she employed hcrqplf with!her knitting, require him to^dcclaim ?tlm grand old hymn of Stennett. beginh .. ? -?"?/*. in?: ? * ''Oil Jordan's stormy banks I stand." Whether the world is-moro greatly in? debted to the maternal jpride and jirophet lo pains-taking which prompted and gave color and informing pofcver to these early exercises, than to the more elaborate train? ing of Dr. Griffin, the President of "Wil? liams College, a finished rhetorician, to whose care he was subsequently commit? ted, for the graco, strength, and splendor of Mr. Yancey's mighty appeals to his countrymen of the South, which for search? ing pow^r, senatorial. dignity, and impe? rial grandeur of genius are not surpassed .in tho annals of eloquence, ancient or modorn, neither he nor the world will ever know. He read lavf in tho office of Nathan Sayre, Esq., in Sparta, Ga., and?completed his studies in Greonvillo, S. C, under the direction of B. R. Peny, Esq. Having attained his majority, Tie mar? ried Sarah Caroline Earle, an estimable j^and accomplished lady, who is -?he third^ iter of Gco?.y_;l,r.QHh)t Esq., of Green? ville, S. In 1837, he Removed to Cababa, Ahl., and until 1840, divided his time between ~the cares of a small planting interest and the editorial conduct of tho Cahaba Demo? crat: ? ? In 1840* he removed to "Wetumpka, and in conjunction with his brother, the-Hon. B. C. Yancey, he purchased and odited ? the Argus: Jn that year he took an active part in tho great Presidential campaign; and it is doubtful whether, he has ever, since sur? passed the powerful popular speeches he then made in debate with some* of tho ablest .men who ever graced tho platform j in the State. $ During the late Southern "Commercial Convention, one of its mem? bers expressed to Johnson J. Hooper, 'Esj]., well known as a brilliant author, .and,who was neither a.political or person? al friend''bf Mii.. Yaticey, his surprise at . tho reach, depth, and power of one of Mr. Yancey's rejoinders in that body?saying .that " he had como to the convention to hear him; but that the half had not been told him." Mr..Hooper's reply wtis that u tho effort bad never been equalled, un? less, indeed, by Mr. "Yancey himself, in ? 1840." In 1841, Mr. Yancey was elected to represent tho county of Coosa in the Legislature Ho declined a re-election, and in 1843, ho was olected to the Senate of the State. In"1844, the Hon. Dixon H. Lewis was transferred from tho House of Represen? tatives in Congress to a 6cat in the Senate; and MivvpTanccy was unanimously nomin? ated by tkc Democratic Distinct Conven? tion to fill his scat, and was re-elected without opposition in 1845. In Congress he made his delnit on the question of the annexation of Toacas. Tho speech made* a marked impression upon all who heard it. The voncrable editor of the Eichmond Enquirer said of it?" "We are not at alTsurprised by the impression he produced, and the reputation he has acquired It is one of the ablest and most eloquent speeches we have seen, upon this or upon any other subject. His introductory strictures upon "Whig repre? sentatives from l{orth Carolina are very dignified in manner, but tremendous in their effect. It strikes like the li^Ktning from ^heaven, and withers the sapling upon which it falls. Mr. Yancey is a new member, and a young man, and if ho be not'paralyzcd by tho admiration he has already excited, nor his head become turned by the incense of praise, he is des? tined to- attain a very high distinction in tho public councils." Judge "Bagby, who followed Mr. Yancey in that debate, in his opening remarks pronounced it "J:hc ablest effort ho had ever heard.on the floor, of Congress.." A difficulty grew out of this speech, between Mr. Clingman" and Mr. Yancey, which resulted in a duel. There Wad one j fire, and then an honorable adjustment. It was known to the late Judge Huger, then ,a senator from South Carolina, whom Mr. Yancey consulted as a friend, that he did not attaint the lifo of Mr. Clingman?ho threw away his fire. He was Dot at that time a member of the Christian Church. During his brief Congressi?naf career he also made able ar.d elaborate speeches on the Oregon notice question, and upon the internal improvement issue. His speech upon* the Oregon question was listoned to with profound attention by the members?a large majority of whom differed with the speaker. Mr. Y?ncey opposed the notice to Great Britain as a war measure. The press everywhere received it with delight, it being delivered some time before Mr. Calhoun took ground in tho Senate upon the same side. One of. tho Baltimore correspondents thus described the scene: " "When it was announced that ho had the floor, crowds of fashionable men and women flocked to hear him! During the time he was speak? ing" there was a breathless silence. The enthusiastic admiration of all who heard him amounts almost to adoration." ' The correspondent of the "New York 'Herald commented thus upon the position of the speaker and of the power of Mr. Y.'s effort: " It is gratifying to see a fearless spirit of patriotism in a single man, in the midst of a strong and almost universal opposing current, tending, like the-stream of Ni? agara, to the abyss of war. It is particu? larly gratifying when such an .individual, assuming such a stand in such a crisis, is a young man, 'ardent as a southern sun can make him,' full of patriotism, jealous of Ins personal and his country's honor? jealous to the 'caviling upon of the ninth part of a hair,' upon, that honor's inva? sion, or encroachment?coming out, bold as a mountain stream, in contest with the clamor of war. "Such was the man?such was his posi? tion, aud such the current against which he put forth his strong arm to-day." Tho Gazette (AIa.r) in reviewing the speech, declared that Mi*. Yancey "oc? cupied at this time, a higher stand in pub? lic estimation, than any man of his age; and is destined to wield an influence com? mensurate with that of tho mightiest spirits of tho age." In?August, 1S56, Mr. Yancey resigned his seat in Congress?too poor to keep it or continue in politics. The claims of an increasing family wero heavy upon-him, and ho retired from a position' of power and public admiration such as no man in sition won by his eourago?^liiT'sterling virtues?his reliability?his de^tipn to principle?his laborious and self-sacrificing zeal for the truth, and his matchless elo? quence. He removed to the city of Montgome? ry, where he now resides, and formed a law partnership with Col. John A. Bl moro, and has, since that'time, laborious? ly prosecuted his profession. ? As a lawyer he takes j^unk among the first in that State. Mr. Yaneey's party awarded to him the nj-st^placo in their mules. Twice nomin? ated for Congress, twice ho felt it to be his duty to decline?though once ho was nominated unanimously in convention, af? ter his letter was read absolutely declining the proffered position. His duty to his family, in the opinion, required the devo? tion of his time* to his profession. In 1848, Mr. Yaneey was a member of tbo National Democratic Convention which. nominated .General Case for the Presidency, though be opposed his nom? ination, and afterward refused to support him. , He ucvei'at any timo unitod with the opposition to the Democracy, though sometimes compelled by his sense of duty .and consistency as a Southern Rights man to withhold his active support of tho men and measures of the Democratic party. Indeed, Mr. Yancey is, in no sense, a mere party man. He soars into a higher atmos? phere of patriotism and personal inde? pendence, and henco has been the mark for much unjust and illiberal critic-ism by men whose statesmanship and patriotism know no expansion beyond the " pent-up Utica " of party. In 1856, the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati i/eely adopted the great principle of non-intervention by Congress, and popular sovereignty, which the'National democratic Convention at Baltimore rejected, when proposed "by Mr. Yancey in 18481 The Democracy of Alabama having long previously felt that injustice had been done by them to Mr. Yancey, in 1848, en? tertained for him the highest admiration. They,,had foumt tjtat he was1 a jnan of principle, and had the sagacity to see it, far in advance of the masses, and the firmness to bear injustice and persecution with dignity and moderation. The State Convention, without his seeking, "made* him an elector for the State at large. A distinguished Alabaraann, who ha? filled a high judicial station, has remarked that he-did more for Buchanan in Ala? bama, than any other hundred men in it. Mr. Yancey took a leading part in the late Southern Convention?was, indeed, tho most prominent and imj?sing figure in it. "We have no space to introduce his views, even, much less to vindicate them. If they are somewhat in advance of the public opinion, it is none the less probable that they will ultimately triumph. Hia speeches were full of zeal, argument, and eloquence, and not surpassed on the floor of that Assembly. At this moment TTm. L. Yancey stands up before tho people of the United States a great tribune of 'the people?an unsur? passed orator?a far-seeing statesman, and a true-hearted Southern Eights leader. He has no aspiration for federal honors, and the newspapers in the South which have run up his name for.tH Presidency in 1860, have done so simply in compli? ment to his ability, independence and patriotism. His friends are not pressing his. claims for that distinction. TV. F. S. -?-? Effects of Prosperity.?How unavail? ing worldly prosperity is, since in tho midst of it, a single disappointment is sufficient to embitter all its pleasures. "We might at first imagine, that the natu? ral effect of prosperity would be, to diffuse ovor the mind a prevailing satisfaction, which the lesser'evils of life could not ruffle or disturb. "We might oxpect, that as one in the full glow of health, despises the inclemency of weather; so one in pos? session of all the advantages of high pow? er and stafion, should disregard slight in? juries; andj at perfect ease with himself, should view, in the most favorable light, tho behavior of others around. Such effects would indeed follow, if worldly prosperity contained in itself tho true principles of human felicity. But as it posscses them not, the very reverse of those consequences generally obtains. Prosperity debilitates* instead of strength? ening the mind. Its most common effect is, to create an extreme sensibility to the I slightest wound. It foments impatient desires; and raises expectations which no succsss can satisfy. It fosters a false, del? icacy, which sickens in the midst of indul? gence. By repeated gratification, it blunts the feelings of men to what is pleas? ing; and leaves them unhappily acute to whatever is uneasy. Hence, the gale which another would scarcely feel, is, to the prosperous, a rude tempest. Hence, the rose leaf doubled below, them on tho couch, as it is told of the effeminate Sy? barite, breaks their rest. Hence, tho dis? respect shown by Mordeeai, praj-od with sjich violence on the heart of Haman. Upon no priciplo of reason can we assign: a sufficient cause for all the distress which this incident occasioned him. The* cause lay not in tho external incident. It lay within himself; it arose from a mind dis? tempered by prosperity. - How to Go it.?Go it strong in your praise of the absent. Some of it will be SiircJto get around. * Go it strung when you make love to a pretty widow. More people hav* erred by too little than too much in this partic? ular. Go it strong when taking up contribu? tions for a charitable purpose. It will pay Go it strong when you make a public speech. Nine people put of ten neve^ take any allusion unless it cuts like a short-handled whip or a rhinoceros*' cow? hide. " . > Go it strong when you advertise. Bus. iness is like architecture?its best suport ers are full columns. Go it strong and pay the printer. Nev? er grudge him his price. Eecollect it is he who brings customers to your very door, who otherwise would never discover your whereabouts. % -+l One Friend.?IIow*pleasant a thing it is to have one friend to whom wo can go and unbosom our feelings, when the world is harsh with us. and darkness has settled on the fair face of nature. At such a time, a friendly heart to counsel and advise with us?that will manifest feeling and sympa? thy?is above all price. The outgushings of love and tenderness revive arid cheer us?drive away tho sadness from the bo? som, and brighten tho heavens again. He who has one to whom he can go in the hour of adversity, can never be wholly cast down, can never be driven to despair. The world, dark as it ma}* sometimes be, will always contain one bright spot? beautiful spot?it will grow brighter and brighter, till the stricken heart partakes of the fulness of joy, and is cast down no more for ever. -+ '-Now, dearest Fred," she softly said, '?you must abandon smoking; it spoils your looks?it spoils your breath?indeed, it's most provoking. Did God decree that man should be a chimney flue regarded ? Then, darling Fred, let it be said, tobacco" youv'e discarded." "How well, my dear," said Fred, "I fear that will no/ be so easy; but, liko a man, I'll try a plan, and do the best to please ye. Did God intend that woman's mind such wondrous things should brew, love, as* Bustles, Bloomers, Crinolines, or Hoops de-dooden-do, love, ?"and mind you, I'm not joking, if you'll abandon Crinoline, by Jove!?I'll give up smoking." . " -* . Do not always refuse to weep with -those who weep, because their cause for tears does not appear to you. to be pre ! cisely adequate to the effect. -!?'.? No doubt it'is a great deal pleasanter to die for some bea?tiful women, than to live with them* Culture of Flowers. Tho nature of a\plant, generally, must bo the guide by which we act. "No one would think of flooding a cactus with moisture, nor of planting a lily in. a bed of dry sand j yet it is well to make nu? merous experiments, for by this means alone can any fact be clearly ascertained. All know that vines need trailing; aqua? tic plants, moisture; and bulbous roots, rich earth; follow these first truths of nature, and the minor points will gradu? ally be discovered. In a flower garden the earth should be mellow and rich ; and its chief beauty consists in its arrangement. A well de? signed garden should consist of oval, cir? cular, square, triangular, and other shaped beds, handsomely arranged,' bordered with box or privet, and intersected with gravel walks, and walking grass ^paths. Great .skill is required also in planting tho beds. Many varieties of early and late blooming flowers should be planted in each bed, in order that they may bo a continual succession of bloom. In the transplantation of plants, ^grcat care should be taken not to place a plant in a soil different from that which it is removed. Many are very negligent con? cerning this. They remove a plant from a loose soil and sunny spot, to a place where tho ground is hard and damp, and then wonder why the plant droops and dies. Plants possess* a wonderful power of accommodation, and by proceeding gradually ,\lmost their very nature may be changed; but one should no more ex? pect that a plant transferred from a shel? tered nook to an exposed situation should flourish, than that the animals of Africa should dwell in fiaplaud. Plants should seldom be showered by the^ratcring pot, but their supply should be afforded them by flats and under soil. Drenching is decidedly hurtful,for though if may cool the earth, and apparently re? vive the plant, yet, the rapid evaporation that takes place from the leaves, will, generali}', cause tho plant to languish. Plants, moreover ^.should be watered very regularly, for nothing will sooner destroy them than to soak them one day, and then neglect them for a week. The general oversight of the garden re? quires as much care as skill. Sowing the seeds, transplanting, watering, manuring, training, pruning, und cherishing the plants are pleasant duties; but the toil of the cultivator will be poorly paid, if he have not a strict care tor the appearance of his parterre. All gravel walks should be frequently cleaned and rolled. The borders should be kept free of weeds, and neatly trimmed. Every lawn and grass walk should be often" mowed and rolled, so as to gjvo them a smooth and .carpet like appearance. Decayed plants, stalks, and dead leaves should be frequently and carefully rerifoved. In fine, tho cultiva? tor himscSf, will daily see small matters to which he should attend?vines to be trained; plants to be propped np, and others to be cut down j seeds to be gath? ered, and a hundred things which pru? dence, experience, and good sense will prompt him to perform. -+ . Case of Conscience. Dr. B-. of Franklin count}*. Ver? mont, tells a good story of a case of con? science that occurred in the course of* his practice, several years ago. The wife of [ a Baptist deacon, (whom, tor the pur | pose of the anecdote,* we shall call Mr. I Cushman.) dislocated her arm by a fall, and the doctor was sent for, and came, with all convenient despatch, and put the matter "to rights." Presently, after the I operation was over, the lady, was seized with a faint turn, and beckoned to her husband for assistance. Tho deacon was a man slow of motion, slow of speech,' and rather slow in point of intellect. He was a strict "temperance man," and con? scientious in this and everything else to the hist degree. Being never quite sure that he was ''right," he naturally feared to "go?ahead." In the present omcrgen | cy he went into the room where the doc? tor was sitting, and addressed him in a slow and measured tone, as follows : "Dr. B.j you are doubtless aware of the principles which Mrs. Cushman and my? self proftss in regard to the use of intox? icating drinks in any form whatever. Now. doctor, I wish to put it to your con? science as a Christian physician, whether Lit would be in any manner culpable, in case Mrs. Cushman were afflicted with faintness, if I should so far deviate from our habitual rule as to hold a bottle o f cam? phor to Mrs. Cushinan's nose?" . The doctor rushed into tho lady's apartmeut, and found his patient had not waited the issue of the deacon's casuistry, but had fairly "gone off" in a fainting fit. "The devil take your conscience !" said the doctor, half inclined to "go off" him? self into a fit of laughter. " The devil take your doubts, sir?in a case like this, one scruple of camphor is worth twenty scruples of conscience.?Boston Post." -?. Persian poetry is luxurious, dreamy, fragant; sometimes flashing like a scime tar with passion, and sometimes meek eyed as a fawn when it lies down in its lovelineas on a bed of white roses. -:?+-: The conductor of a country paper say? *he hope3 to continue with hispatrbns and friends "a prosperous and uninterrupted .friendly intercourse?till time?and space . shall be no more I" Beautiful Extract. Statld, O man! upon the hill-top?in tho Bti?nossl of the evening hour?and gaze, not with joyous, but with contented eyes, upon the beautiful world around thee! See where the miBts, soft and dim, rise over the green meadows, through which the rivulet steals its way! See where, broadest and stillest, the wave ex? pands to tho full smile of the setting sun, and the willow that trembles on the breeze, and the oak that stands firm in tho nt'jrm, are reflected back, peaceful both, from the clean, glass of the tides. See, where begirt by the gold of the har? vest, and backed by the pomp of a thous? and groves?the roofs of the town, bask, noiseless, in the calm glow of the sky. Not a sound from those abodes float in the discord to thine oar?only from the church tower, soaring high above the rest, perhaps faintly heard through the stillness, swells the note of the holy bell. Along the mead, low skims the swallow? on the wave, the silver circlet, breaking into spray, [shows the sport of the fish. See the earth, how serene, tliough all elo? quent of activity and life! See the heav? ens, how benign, though dark clouds, by yon mountain, blend thc^purple with tho gold! Gaze contented,forgood is around thee?not joyous, for evil is the shadow of good! Let thy soul pierce through the veil of the senses, and thy sighl? plunge deeper than the light which gives delight to thine eye. Below the glass of that river, the pike darts on his prey - the circfe in the wave, the soft place among tho reeds, are but signs of destroyer and victim. In the ivy round the oak by the margin, the owl hungers for the night, which shall give its beak and its talons food for its young; and the spray of tho willow trembles with the wing of the red breast, whose bright eye sees the worm on tho sod. Canst thou count, too, Oman! all the cares?rail the sins?that those noiseless roof-tops conceal? "With every curl of that smoke to the sky a human thought foirs as dark, a hiimm hope melts as briefly. And the bell from the church tower, that to thy car gives 'but music, perhaps knells for .the dead. The swallow but chases the moth, and the cloud that deopens the glory of the heavens, and-the sweet shadows on earth;': nurse but tho thunder that shall repd the; grove, and the ?tonn that shall devastate the harvests. Not with fear, not with, doubtj^reeognize, Omortal, the prescnce of evil in the world. Hush thy heart in the humbleness of awe, that its mirror may reflect as serenely the shadows'as the light;. Vainly, for its moral, dosUthou gazo on the landscape, if thy soul put no check on the dull delight of the senses. [ Two wings only raise thee to the summit of the truth?where the cherub shall com I fort tho Borrow, where tho seraph shall enlighten the jo}\ Bark as ebon, spreads the one wing, white as snow gleams the other?mournful as thy reason when it descends into the deep?exulting as thy faith when it springs to the day-star.? Buhner. - Miserable People.?Young ladies with new bonnets on rainy Sundays, and dress? es playing dip, dip, dip at every step. A'witnoss in a bribery case. A city sportsman at tho finish of one day 's shooting. A printer who publishes a paper for nothing and finds himself. A smoking nephew on a visit to an an? ti-smoking aunt. A young doctor who has just cured his first patient, and has no prospect of anoth? er. A star actress with her name in, small letters on the bills. An editor with nothing but cold pota? toes for his Christmas dinner. - How to CuiiE 'em.?The habit of drink to ing can fee cured, by giving the drinker all the liquors he wants to drink, all the time. . ? We know of two, in our own experience who were cured in three weeks'; pnejump cd out of a four-story window, and ran a curbstone into his head ; the other didn'.t get up one morning, and has a universal curbstone growing out of his head in the graveyard. -+ Bad Examples.?Bad examples cannot hurt one that makes ever so little use of his rcason-j-neithcr the quantity or num? ber of these that gave them, are authen? tic enough to reeommend*them. Grand? eur of place does not take away the infa? my of them, and custom cannot permit what is contrary to reason and justice; so ths.t regularities we ought" to avoid and not laws we ougfit to follow. . ?-??? "Well, you've been out to America j did you see anything of our old friend Jones, there ?" "Yes?gone deranged." ? 'Gone deranged! Eeally crazy? What does he do ?" "Yes, indeed, lie don't know his neigh bo;-'s hogs from his own." -r us to say to ourselves. -o Demosthenes, the greatest master of el? oquence, never ventured to address an au dionce without.laborious preparation.. Female Education.?Female education is highly important, as connected vrifti domestic life. Ii is at home where man passes the largest portion of his life time' ?where he seeks refuge from the vexa tions and embarrassments of Business, and enchanting repose from his exertions, a relaxation from care by the interch; ago of affections?where some of the .finest sympathies, tastes', moral and disinteres? ted love, such as is seldom found in tlfo walks of a selfish a?4 calculating world. Nothing can be more desirable than to make the domestic abode %e highest ob? ject of his attachment and satisfaction. Neither rank, nor splendid mansions, nor expensively furnished apartments, nor luxurious repasts can accomplish these - actions. They are to be obtained from the riches of elevated principles; from tb? nobility of virtue, from the splendor of a religions and moral beauty, from the ban? quet of refined taste, affectionate deport-' ment and intellectual pleasures. Intelli? gence and piety throw the brightest sun? shine over private life, and these are the result of female education. Joyano Content.?There arcftwo kind-' ly flowers in the garden of human* Ijfir) germinated upon the sweet roscbitslf, fep^' piness, and watered by the near running brook of infinit?? love. Happy he who shall be able to dull them without being wounded by the thorns! These leave their sting behind, ami the beautiful flowers become metamorphosed" in the hand of the gatherer to sorrow and discontent. The thorns differ, and those keenest are jealousy and doubt. These, produce a lurking pang in the breast of the wounded, and change the fresli hue of the flowers of joy and content in the warm color of sorrow and discontent; yes, the wound is most often incurable. Consola? tion, hope and confidence, are the excel? lent herbs from which is prepared Ahe buk sam, that alone is capable of extracting the spreading poison from the serpent sting of the thorns, and give the flowers their former lives. -'?-?? Hospitality.?The newer the country the more hospitable the people. "Where houses are as far a part as countries; a stranger is as welcome as a newspaper; and is commonly used as one. The mo? ment he -arrives he is "put to press," and wKtit is more, kept there till the news that has happened for the six months, is thoroughly squeezed out of him and bot? tled up for future use. A man that tells a good murder, storj* could travel from one end of some some States to the other, without it costing him the first cent One truth is the* seed of other truths. It is sown in us to bear fhiit, not to lie torpid. The power of mind by which truth becomes prolific, is freedom. Our groat duty is to encourage vigorous ac? tion of mind. The greater number of free and vigorous minds brought to bear upon a subject, the more truth is promo? ted. "The ugliest of trades," said Jerrold," have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave digger, or even a hang? man, there are some people I could work for with a groat deal of enjoyment." -?, A Hint.?A widower who wishes to many again must buy-his departed wife a.'beautifhl monument. This succeeds iu varibly, an exchange say*?." Difference between a Persian and a Turk.?One worships the sum and tho other the daughter. PROSPECTUS OP Tue CHARLESTON^ MERCURY, a Political, Commercial and Litorary Journal, PUBLISHED DAILY AND T-RI-WEEKLY. The "Mercury" represents the State right* rc?i timco element of the South. Its political cr\. - consists in tho principles of the Democratic Party as laid down in the Virginia anil Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 nnd 1709?the Sovereignty of the States anil Strict Construction of tho Federal Constitution by thy General Government).,tbo*'Agcrit of the States; Fn.-a' Tradctaud an Economical Adin?istration of the Gen? eral Government. 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