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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1836
Page
2
Governor McDuffie urges reorganization of the judiciary and militia system, proposes a centralized adjutant general, higher salaries, state arsenals, and a permanent governor’s residence. He warns against abolitionist pressure, federal overreach, and advocates strengthening state sovereignty and security.
Correspondence in the Baltimore Chronicle reports the Frederick Court of Inquiry, with Gen Macomb Atkinson and Brady as tribunal members and Captain Cooper as judge advocate. Witnesses include Col Lindsay, Major Graham, Lieut Alexander, Capt Green, Gen Clinch and Col Baakhead as upcoming. The hearing adjourns to Monday the 12th for more witnesses amid notes of a suspicious Spanish smuggling vessel near Clear Water River and coastal fires, plus a Tallahassee Floridian update and a South Carolina treasurers’ exhibition showing Oct 1 balances. Surgeons Lawson named Surgeon General of the U.S. Army after Joseph Lowell’s death.
Congress on Monday December 12 elected A Dickens secretary replacing L Lowrie who resigned. Chairmen named include Buchanan Foreign Affairs Wright Finance King Commerce Niles Agriculture Page Military Affairs Wall Naval Affairs Rives Public Lands Walker Private Land Claims Linn Indian Affairs White Claims Hubbard Brown Revolutionary Claims Grundy Post Office and Post Roads Robinson. Remaining members await chairman elections. The noted Winchester horse industry figure died recently. value estimated at no less than $20,000.
In Augusta report Col. Pizner M. Burton of Columbia was elected Governor of South Carolina and Col. William Dumesg of Pineville in Charleston District was chosen Lieutenant Governor last Saturday.
A battalion of 200 mounted men from Cherokee county Georgia led by Maj Nelson arrived in Tallahassee yesterday on their way to join the army.
A citizen reports seeing ten or more black residents gambling behind a city grog-shop during race week at late hours. The writer questions police presence, calls for decisive action by the City Council, and laments the proliferation of grog-shops as a threat to public order and humanity.
In a Lord Stormont speech cited by N Wuaxatt, a hidden ambition is warned against. The passage cautions that covert scheming can undermine opposition while facing no open challenge, urging the public to beware of such unavowed power.
A critique of a militia article from the Constitutionalist urges informed discussion rather than rash judgments. It argues defects exist but are overestimated, contending the duty of citizens and volunteers should be voluntary and guided by public spirit, not coercion, with calls for united, careful action to improve the system.
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