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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 3.
The Army Bill.
„ In a former notice of this Bill we showed that
y it was unconstitutional, and therefore, dangerous
to the safely of the Republic and the liberty of
the citizens. We now proceed to show the force
of another objection, viz : that it is onerous and
oppressive upon every citizen who may be sub
ject to do military duty s
The first section ol the. Bill requires every
citizen who is not exempt, between the ages of
twenty and forty-fisc years, to furnish himself,
at his own expense, with a good musket, bayonet
and belt, two spare fl n(s, a knapsack, a cartridge
JT bol to contain twenty-four cartridges, and a snf-
quantity of powder. The second section
" di'.jfi Gill shotvs you what portion of tire citi
zens of Georgia, or any other State are exempted
from performing militaiy duly, unier this Bill.
Now let us address ourselves to the people,
the common working men of this country, and
ask them if they are willing to incur the expen
ses necessary to equip them to lake their places
in this standing army of 100,000 men, which
Mr. Van Buren is endeavoring to fix upon the
country. Will they not incut a debt to procure
arms, which in many instances, will be onerous
and oppressive in the extreme. We do not ask
the rich man these questions, but we ask the
poor man, and we expect him to answer like an
honest frreeman and one who desires to perpet
uate his freedom to his children. But if this
feature of the Bill is oppressive to the poor man,
how much more so are some others which we
shall point out. The 14th section lays off the
Union into districts, and forms the fith district
of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida. The 17th section the Presi
dent to call out the militia of each district at
such times and places as he may think necessary
—not exceeding twice in each year. Now we
ask the people of Georgia who are liable to be
long to this active force of 100,000 men, how
thqy would like to be called from their homes
and their business twice in each year, at the
command of the President. How wiH you be
pleased at the idea of leaving)'out own State, and
marching into Florida, North Carolina, or South
Carolina; for you perceive by this 17th section,
that Mr. Van Buren can order you to assemble
at any place within the district, to perform mili
tary duty under officers not of your own selec
tion, and be then subject to all the odious regula
tions of the regular soldiery of the United Stales 1
Are yoli prepared.for these things'! Are you
prepanm to submit to such an outrage upon your
to be called from your daily business,
the endearments of Loire., 1
anO receive these privations r
the pitiful reward which a regular soldier gets ? I
Thete is no exaggeration in all this. The Bdl '
and all its odioiis provisions are before you, ex
amine it for yourselves, and judge of its odious
features.
But there is yet another feature of this 17th
section, to which we must call your attention.
It also declares that during the period you remain
at, are going to and from the place of rendezvous,
pointed out by the President, you shall be deem
ed in the service of the United States, and the
20th section declares that you shall be subject
to the articles of war, when in that service.*
Now what are the articles of War!—asks the
unsuspecting, honest man. We will show you,
andVe will also show you that these articles
. will not permit you to enjoy that freedom of
speech which you enjoy while roaming at large
■ _ -over your beautiful fields and fine forests in Geor
• • gia. On the contrary, Mr. Van Buren and his
, Secretary desire to put into your mouths A
' GAG—more odious if possible, than the famous
gag law of alien and sedition memory. Gagged !
What, gag an American citizen !! Yes, gagged,
and that too by Mr. Van Buren’s Army Bill.
You will not be permitted to speak in contempt
uous or disrespectful terms of the President .or
Vice President, &c. This is the very essence of
the gag law of ’9B. Read then the sth section
of the Articles of War, under the government
of which the citizen is U be placed, who may
belong to this active force.
“Art. 6. Any^officer or soldier, who shall use
contemptuous or disrespectful words against the
President of the United Siates, against the Vice
President thereof, against the Congress of the
United States, or against the Chief Magistrate
of any of the United Stales in which they may
be quartered ; if a commissioned officer, shall be
cashiered or. otherwise punished, as a court mar
tial shall direct; if a non-commissioned officer or
'' —HbUlier, he shall suffer such punishment as shall
be inflicted on him by the sentence of a cou t
martial.”
What think you of this, you plain, hard-fisted
workingmen of Georgia! are you prepared to
submit to such an outrage upon your liberty of
speech !
But again, we want to call your attention to
another Section of these famous “Articles of
War,” to the government *f which Mr. Van
Buren and his Secretary desire to subject you,
while in this service. The 9th Section of the
Articles of War is in the following words:
Art. 9th. Any officer or soldier who shall
strike his superior officer, or draw or lift up any
weapon, or offer any violence against him, being ■
in the execution of his office, on any pretence
whatever , or shall disobey any awful command
of his superior oj/icer, shall suffer death, or
such punishment as shall, according to the na
ture of his offence, be inflicted upon him, by the
sentence of a court-martial.”
Thus it appears that any soldier who shall
strike his superior officer on any pretence what
ever—no matter what or how great may be the
•provocation—the grossest of insults to bis wife—
the most tyrannical treatment of himself—if he
dare to resent it, and strike a petty sergeant oi a
corporal, h*e SHALL SUFFER DEATH, &c.
And to all this Mr. Van Buren has given his
I sanction, for he said, “ I cannot recommend too
I strongly to your-cuitsiaerutinn the plan for the
\ , organization of the militia of the U. States.''
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General rfarrison was in favor of punishing,-
in certain cases, thieves and other criminals
by whipping them. Mr. Van Buren is now in
favor of punishing with DEATH, thnocenfmen
•—any one of ns it may be—who shall resent sn
outrageous insult.
People of Georgia, if you are prepared to
sanction these things,—if you are willing to
place yourselves and yoor children under the
odious regulations of this Army Bill of Mr. Van
Buren and his Secretary, you will give your
support to Martin Van Buren for President; but
if, on the other band, you are opposed to such
measures, you will certainly manifest your oppo
sition by supporting General Harrison—the pat
riot farmer—the man who knows your rights
and feelings, and who will represent them.
It matters not whether Mr. Van Buren suc
ceeds in getting this law passed ; he has, as we
have already shown, endorsed its provisions, and
recommended it to Congress,—and thereby ad
mits his anxiety to have it passed; and if he is
again elected, he may endeavor to force it upon
the country in the same manner he has the Sub-
Treasury.
From the New York Courier 4- Enquirer.
“Ileave this great People prosperous and
happy.”
These were the memorable words of General
Jackson’s farewell address—this the declaration
to which the friends and supporters of Martin
Van Buren pointed in triumph in the spring of
1837, as evidence of the great National blessings
flowing from the Administration of one, in whose
footsteps their pliant tool had pledged himself to
follow. “ I leave this great people prosperous
and happy” said Gen. Jackson,—and |now after
nearly four years of the -Administration of Mr.
Van Buren, what is our position as a people !
What has it been during nearly the whole period
that the destinies of the country have been under
the control and direction of the present corrupt
Administration!
Let the bankrupt merchant, the impoverished
manufacturer, and the embarrassed tarmer, with
bis large but comparatively worthless crops, an -
swer these questions. Let the friends of the Lo
co Fnco Presidents and of Loco Foco Legislation,
be directed to our ships rotting at our wharves;
to the death like silence which pervades many of
our largest njanufactories, and to others convert
ed into County Poor Houses for the reception of
Paupers created by Tory misrule; and to the
barns and granaries of our farmers slocked with
the produce of the earth, produced by the sweat
of their brows, but absolutely worthless, because
it will not command a price which will pay for
its transportation to market ! We have General
Jackson’s testimony of what tears the situation of
this people in 1837, and of the then existing
prosperity which even his eight years of misrule
had been unable to check or destroy—and we
have now the testimony of every man woman
and child in the United States, to the wide-spread
ruin and disaster which has been produced bv
the profligate and unprincipled administration of
Marlin Van Buren.
The object of all Government is the happiness
of the people; and hence it is, that the right of
revolution is admitted by all to be a natural right
of which man can never be deprived. When
ever a form of government is found lobe oppres
sive or less calculated to render the people hap
py and some other form, it is
their right to
feeling which of Indepen
dence. our glorious
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satisfied j the People ot
Kis model Replete —we, who boast of being the
xtily cation of ITeemen on the face of the Globe,
and who have demonstrated our ability to govern
ourselves —we, who assume to look with pity
upon the enslaved of the old world—we, the en
lightened, free, and educated people of the Uni
ted Slates, are at this very time the most oppres
sed, the most embarrassed, aiid the least prospe
rous people in the civillized portion of the world.
If this lie true, we believe there are none who
will deny it, what is the cause of this universal
distress? Is it to be found in the character of
our Institutions, or has it its origin in the inal ad
ministration of the Gevernmenl! If in the fipr
mcr, et us get rid of them ; but if the true and
only cause of this sudden change from the height
of prosperity to general and universal embarras
ment, is to be traced to want of honesty and
want of talent in our rulers, then are we called
upon by every consideration of patriotism and
of duly, to hurl from power and place the unfaith
ful public servants, who have so administered
their stewardship as to bring widespread ruin
upon a people whom Gen, Jackson in 1837 ‘ left
prosperous and happy,” and disgrace audoppro
brium upon those institutions and that form of
government which was dearly purchased by our
Patriot Sires, and which are alike the subject of
envy and jealousy to the old world.
Let the creatures of the rotten manarchies and
iron despotisms of Europe laugh as they may at
our present distresses, and continue to point to
them as evidence of the baneful consequence of
Free Institutions—the people es the United
States will never faulter in their patriotism, or
for a moment visit upon our form of government
the cosequenccs which are only chargeable upon
the corrupt and unprincipled men who have ob
tained control of our National affairs. But the
simple tact that, the mal-administration of our
public affairs, has given to the enemies of the peo
ple an argument against free governments, de
mands at our hands more than ordinary efforts
to pnt down so vile and dangerous a slander.
We repeat therefore, that patriotism as well as
duty, call upon us to use all the means in our
power to hurl from office our present corrupt and
inefficient rulers.
W e are well aware, that whenever a friend of the
existing administration leaves the ranks of its
supporters and arrays himself on the side of the
people, pointing to the state of the country as
the cause of his change of politics, it is the cus
tom of the creatures of power, to taunt him with
acting from interested motives ! We admit the
charge. We contend that the whole object ol
government is the happiness and prosperity of
the people; and surely we should not desire any
better grounds of opposition to an administration
than that it has failed in the great object for
which alone governments are instituted. What
matters it to the Fanner and Mechanic whether
he lives under a monarchy or a republic, so long
as the measures of bis rulers are calculated to
lessen the value of his labor, destroy his useful
ness, impoverish his family, and keep him forev
er in a state of dependence and poverty ? And
it should always be borne in mind by the people,
. that whenever their rulers so administer the gov
ernment as to deprive them of the great object of
Free Institutions, it becomes their duty—a duty
from which they may not shr.nk—to unite in
producing such a change as will secure to the
country that prosperity and happiness which can
never fail to flow- from our republican form of
government when faithfully, ably and honestly
administered.
The present, wo contend, is a crisis which calls
for the prompt actionjof the whole body of the
People. Not only have the measures of the
Administration reduced us from a state of unex
ampled prosperity to one of general bankruptcy,
distress, and ruin ; but it is openly avowed by
the organs of the present Executive, that the
great object of these measures, is to reduce the
price of labor—to lessen Jhe wages of industry—
and ultimately, to produce the same state of
tilings here that now exists in the despotic coun
tries of Europe. Mr. -Van Buren avows,that
,- his object is to bring every thing to a bard money
, -standard ; and in his last annual message points
to the state of things now existing 'ha Openly
-1 three European Governments, as tost which he
> desires to see in this/ree and independent coun
-1 try. Mr. Buchanan tells ns. that never will the
manufacturer accumulate wealth until be can
hire his operatives at seven pence a day, and by
’ means of the Sub-Treasury, compel the Farmer
> to sell his produce at a fourth of what it has
1 heretofore brought in market. In abort, the fol
, lowing declaration of Mr. Tappan, the Loco Foco
_ Abolitionist Senator of the United Stales (root
Ohio, and the especial organ of Mr. Van Rdren,
1 embodies the whole creed of the Administration
1 on this subject, as expounded by Mr. Van Buren
. himself, by Messrs. Buchanan, Benton, Calhoun,
and indeed, all who speak the sentiments of the
Loco Foco party:
1 OC7 - “TAe price of labor is entirely too high.
The laborer in this country can afford to work
for eleven pence a day, and the bard money sys
tem will bring down wages to that sum—wheat
1 will also come down sixteen cents a bushel, and
i every thing else in proportion. This is the best
tariff you can have, and the only one that can
enable the manufacturer to compete with Eng
land. The Sub-Treasury will effect both objects
—it will put down the banks and bring wages
■ and every thing else down. ”£3 »' ,
It would be useless to multiply words on this
subject. These are the avowed principles
administration ; results which
they are pledged to produce if Mr. Van. Buren
should be re-elected; and this the issue upon
•which the Whig and Tory parties go before the
public in the coming contest. If the farmers and
mechanics of the land are desirous of seeing the
price of wages of produce reduce to the European
standard, they will of course give their support
Mr. Van Buren, as it is their duty under such cir
cumstances to do; hut in the mean time it may
he well to call their attention to the following
plain fads from the Wheeling Times, portraying
the difference between what the situation of the
farmer teas when Mr. Van Baren came into pow- j
er, and what it now is. Let the Sub Treasury be- I
come the law of the land and permanently fixed i
upon us by the re election of Mr. Van Bureifeand !
in three years, produce and labor will fall as much
below their present value, as they now are below
their value in 1836. In one woid, the professions
of Tappan, Benton. Calhoun ana Buchanan wil
be realized, and the Farmers and Mechanics of
the United Slates will be placed on the same
footing as those of Italy, France and Cuba.
From the Wheeling Times.
The farmer can raise no more wheat on an acre,
no more wool from a sheep than he could in 18-
36, and he gets only a third as much for what
he does raiseT In 1836, a farmer brought 100
bushels of wheat to market. He got for it $125,
cash. He bought 100 lbs, of coffee at 14cts„
sl4; 10 lbs. tea at 75 cts., $7,50; 10 yards of
cassimere at $1,50, $15,00; 8 yards of calico,
$1,00; one bridle, $2; and 1 lb, of Cavendish
tobacco, 37 j cts. He then hail $85,12) to carry
home. He goes to market in June, 1840, with
his hundred bushels of wheat, sells it and buys
the same articles. What does he have now to
carry home! twelve and a half cents. Is not
that farmer the loser of SBS by the present state
of things?
. The Barbecue.
The late hour at which we write, will not per
mit a detailed notice of the proceedings at the
dinner yesterday. Os the dinner itself, it- will j
be sufficient to remark, that it was sumptuous, I
and one of the best served, in the true’old Vir- ]
ginia style, that wo have ever portaken. There j
were from five ts persons present, ;
the coun| T y> —bone ar »d
, —and an seemed to mingle
with
tude nsembled and in obedience to their call
were most forcibly and eloquently addressed by
Dr. F. M. Robertson, George W, Crawford,
C. J. Jenkins, and A. J. Miller, Esqrs., and
Mr. Lloyd and Major Stark of S. C. an 4 when j
we took leave, our enterprising and zeal:us me- 1
, chanic, John W. Walker, had mounted the ros- j
trurain obedience to repeated and loud c .lls, and
was holding forth to an enraptured and delighted '
auditory. Altogether, it was amongst the
most agreeable, spirit stirring festivals we have
attended.
St. Augustine, June, 26.
Lieut. Ashton, 2d Dragoons, writes from his
camp, near Wahoo Swamp, that an Indian
Squaw, with her child, came in, and leaving the
child, she went out again promising to return.
The next day she brought in two warriors, who
• informed Lieut. Ashton that they would bring in I
30 warriors and their families, on Thursday, I
25th inst.
The steamer Santee, Poinsett, arrived here j
from southern posts. On Tuesday last, five In- j
dians had shown themselves in sight of Indian :
River Bar. On the night of the 18lh inst., an
■ Indian approached within fifty yards of Fort Dal- ■
las, and placed a book in the road, with two I
sticks laid across it, and made several marks a
round. The book had the name of Col. Harney !
written in it—supposed to have been taken at
Coosalatcbie. It ts said the Indian gave a yell
and retreated, after having placed the book.
We are indebted to the same gentleman for
the following additional information :
Col. Harney has brought into Black Creek
the child and mother of Coacoche, together with
a negro, who can read and write, and who says
the Indians are regularly supplied with the St.
Augustine papers and amunition by some per
sons.
The scout is broken up in consequence of
sickness, 120 soldiers being sick at Fort King.
Gen. Armistead is expected at St. Augustine in
a few days.
It is contemplated to remove the principal de
pot located at Garcy’s Ferry to Pilatki.
Gee. Jackson and Gen. HAnmsoN.—We
j have recently heard it hinted, on respectable pri-
I vale authority, that Gen. Jackson, though oppo
sed, of course, to the election of Gen. Hakiiison
i to the Presidency, is far from endorsing the abuse
. and rudeness displayed by a portion of the Ad
t ministration party towards that war-worn patriot.
‘ The foul epithet of “coward” he is said to especi
, ally deprecate, as being wholly unwarranted by
| the conductor Gen. Harrison during the war.
If this be true, the fact is highly creditable to the
magnanimity of the venerable ex-President, and
, should serve as a warning to the enemies of Gen.
Harrison against the violence of party malig
-1 nity.
j. We are aware that the relation subsisting be
tween Gen. Jackson and Gen. Harrison during
j the war, and particularly while the latter wasact
ing as Governor of Indiana, were of the most
courteous character, and we confess it would have
j sounded strange, after what then transpired, had
the ex-President suffered himself to be made a
1 party to the abuse heaped upon the veteran Hero
of Tippecanoe by the leading friends of the Ad
' ministration In Tennessee. —Nashville Whig.
r Mahch op Intellect.—The editor of the
- Montreal Herald says that a gardener remarked
. to him, “ that this was the most retrograding sea
. son his professional reminiscences for twenty
c five years in Canada permitted him to judge of.”
i We heard of a waiter at a hotel in New York,
- the other day, requesting a gentleman if he need
s ed his professional assistance at any time, “ just
- to agitate the communicator,” in other words to
t ring the bell. —Brooklyn News.
! SATURDAY MORNINGML
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The Army Bill.— Tie
It was not a little ainusiag Me el
forts of the Editor of tbe Caktitotianalist, ii
bis paper of Thursday, to shpw that we bad mi:
represented facts, in saying that Me. Van Bare
had recommended the Army Bill to Congress, an
to any intelligent reader the Editor mist have a{
peared extremely rediculous when hjs testimon
was read. The pi oof given by hint > s all w
want to prove our assertion. It is this, the St
cretary of War, sends his annual report with th
Presidents Message to Congress, report th
Secretary gives to the President an J to Congres
the Skeleton of his Army Qi!l, and in conclusio
remarks: “ but the details lad better be left suf
ject to regulation, a plan of which I am prepca
ed to submit to you." What meajs this expre:
sion “1 am prepared to sumbii" • the detai's <
this plan ? Does it not prove that the detail
were then written out ? Most tsjpredly it doei
Mr.' Van Buren in his litessagßviich goes t
1 Congress with this tepormars.Sjfl cannot n>
COMMEND Too consideratio
the plan submpted by the organ!
zation ot the MtHila df thoTßfc-Slal^-.”
‘ “But, says the editor, with apparent tri
umph, the President’s Message is dated 2d Dt
cember, 1839, and the army; ’njl is dated 20t
March, 1840. “Hew could tat President rt
commend a bill in December l's 39, which ha
existence only in March 1840 V _
We will answer this quest}?.' for the especit
information of the editor, atii. as he professe
: such a high sense of justice, eld such a hoi
1 horror of misrepresentations, ni hope be will i
j turn afford his renders the neccqary infarmatioi
to solve the seeming mystery, lest some one c
them might charge him with i) ; srepresentatioi
But to the answer. At the Isjt session of Cor
gress a resolution was adopted jy the Commute
on the militia, requiring the S cretary of War t
prepare and report to the presell Congress, a pla
for the organization of the L.itia. He accord
ingly did so ; and in his regular annual repor
(which was sent to Congress by Mr. Va;
Buren with his accompany in
document, and considered a part thereof,) h
introduced his skeleton of the Bill, which is a
that is ever done in those reports, and remark;
“I am prepared to submit ” the details. Non
if the Secretary of war is to 1 e believed, does an
man suppose that he did not then have the d<
tails written out, and read;, to submit to Cor
gress? Most assuredly he did. Here the matlt
rested until the 19th March, 1340, when th
House adopted a resolution requiring him I
submit his plan, in the course of that day t
night Mr. Poinsett was infirmed of the passag
of this resolnlion, and lo and behold ! on tl
morning of the 20tli, the v< ry next day, he sent
| to Congress his Army Bill, which no doubt n
1 qutrad whole days to prepare. But, says tl
j editor, Mr. Poinsett say *in his letter ta M
; Ritchie, “ thisj-eyort and bill were not sul
| milled 19 the care not whetbi
Mr. Van Buren own mri
delails.it isjufficicnt Hit tour puipose that 1
endorsed it, and bos it, and if h
friends desire to place bty in the dilemma of r<
commending a measure to Congress, that I
knew nothin* about, they are perfectly welcom
we will then have another Charge to operate u]
I on, and one which we wil! urge with some sm
, cess.
How comes it Mr. Editor, as you seem to infi
1 .that this bill and Mr. Van Buren have been tl
1 subject of misrepresenatiom, that you have nevi
afforded your readers an opportunity of secin
it? It is an administration measure, and we bat
watched carefully your columns to see it sprea
before the country—and asjiet we have not see
the bill, or any thing but apologies for it-you bat
not dared to defend it editorially, nor have yc
. had firmness enough to disapprove of it. Willyc
then as an act of justice Unk/Van Buren ar
f his Secretary, give you! 1 cJHn" a l * epportuoil
j of reading this bill and judging for themselvi
I of its merits or demerits ?
Southern Chronicle.
We hail with much pleasure, the appearsm
; of the first number of this able advocate of R
form, published at Columbia, S. C. It is a pap
of large size, and the number before us man
j Tests much zeal and ability in the good caus
1 We therefore cheerfully recommend it to tl
I friends of Reform in Carolina, and we sincere
1 hope they may receive that patronage whit
they and their cause so justly merit.
Hollands Life of Van Baren.
After some little effort, we have succeeded
obtaining a “ genuine ” copy of this work, at
allbo’ we do not bold ourselves bound to notii
every anonymous scribbler, who can obtain
place in the columns of the Constitutionalist, v
shall, nevertheless, pay our respacts to a verit
ble(?) wight, who igbde his appearance c
Tuesday, under the imposing signature ofL, M
and if we are not very much mistaken, he w
disappear very much after the manner of a certa
“ Van Buren Slate Rights Man," “with a flea
his ear, and a lie” recorded in the Conslitutio
alist. a
i
By (he way, can the Editor inform us what h
.become of their Correspondent, “ A Van Bur
State Rights Man ?" He seems disposed to tre
' his “pretended friends” rather cavalierly, does
call on his “real friends?” Probably the thii
desires to sneak.
’ The Philadelphia U. S. Gazette states that t
Hon. Samuel McKean, late United States Set
. tor for Pennsylvania, attempted suicide in a fit
I insanity on the 23d ult., at bis residence in M
1 Kean county, by cutting his throat with a raz
Although Gen. McKean was alive when the let
giving this information was written, it is add
that there was not the slightest prospect of I
J surviving many hours.
r Salt.—Capt. Godfrey, of the bark Plato, at
’ ved at New York on Saturday, from Rio de .
, nciro and Bonaire, was informed by the agi
that a very little salt will be made this year, 0
t ing to the heavy rains having injured the t
3 pans, there not being on hand a sufficiency
another cargo.
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Public Meeting in Burke.
At a meeting of ■ portion of the citixens cf
rs BPlb —mn.Vibttowghtg to tjltfllate Right* Par
es ty. Held at the Court House in Waynesboro, on
Tuesday, the 23d June, 1840.
ln On motion, Homer V. Mulkey, Esq. was. callj
is- Al to the Chair, and Edward Garlick requested to
en act as Secretary.
. Alexander J. Lawson, Esq. rose and stated the
n object of the meeting, and read the call of sundry
>p- citizens of Columbus, disapproving the proceed
ny ingsof the late Convention, held at Milledgeville
we the Ist. Monday in June, and moved the appoint
, ment by the Chair, of a committee to nominate
ie ' suitable persons to represent this meeting, at a
he Meeting or Convention to be held at Miliedge
he ville on the 3d July next, of such persons as do
not approve of the proceedings of the late Con
vention. When it was proposed that this be con
°n sidered a preliminary meeting, and that the cili
ib- zens of the county generally be invited to attend
a meeting, to be held at this place on Saturday
I next, which proposition was agreed to.
es " j Satuhiiai, June 27, 1840.
of In pursuance of the invitation as above spcci
,j|s tied, the citizens convened at the Court House
this day, when after being organized, and called
es ’ to order—
to On motion of Wm. Bennett, Esq. J udge Law
ie- son proceeded to read the call of sundry citizens
on of Columbus, to those agreeing with them, and
opposed to the late Convention, to send delegates
Iu * to a proposed * ’nnvpnnan 'to meet at MiUedgc
villeon the 3d July next—when Judge Lawson
r j. introduced a resolution, that the Chairman ap-
I , point a Committee to nominate suitable person to
L represent this meeting to the said Convention, to
'th be held the 3d July at Milledgeville.
re- Which was opposed by Major Marsh, who in
aj traduced a counter resi lution, approving the act
ings and doings of the late Convention held at
Milledgeville, who supported the same by a leng
ial thy and able speech, which was replied to dear
ies 'J an 4 fully by Wm. Bennett, Esq. in an ablead
. dresa, who was followed on the same side by Dr.
y E. L. Antony, in a handsome, pertinent and elo
ln quent manner. Judge Lawson then followed in
on an able and lengthy address, in answer to Major
0 £ Mar-h, and in opposition to the proceedings of
the late Convention at Milledgeville, and advoca
-111 • ting the resolution appointing delegates to the 3d
m- July Convention; be was followed by Judge
ee Jones, who instituted a comparison of the presen:
administration with former ones, by reference lo
reports of expenditures and other public docu
an merits of the various expenditures of different ad
•d- ministrations, with suitable commentaries on the
r , same, to show the necessity of a change of rulers
and in justification of the course of proceedings
an of the late Convention at Milledgeville. When
ng after much desultory and running debate, the
be question was taken on Judge Lawson’s resolu
aH lion, which was carried in the affirmative by a
close vole.
is > The Chairman then appointed a Committee to
w, nominate suitable persons to represent this meet
nv mg in the Convention as aforesaid; who after rc
, ‘ tiring returned and reported to the meeting the
Je " names of Dr. E. L. Antony, Col. Augustus H.
>n* Anderson, William Sapp, Esq. Col. Wm. B.
ter Douglass, Joseph A. Shcwmake, Esq. Win. S.
. C. Morris aud Isaiah Carter, Esqrs. which was
agreed to.
t 0 On motion of Major E. Byne:
or Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
ige be-published in the Chronicle & Sentinel and
, Constitutionalist, Augusta, Geo.
1 0 Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be
ids tendered to the Chairman and Secretary.'
re- The meeting then adjourned sine die.
[he HOMER V. MULKEY, Chairman.
Edward Garlick, Secretary.
dr.
jb- From the N. Y. Commercial.
ier q, q q q
■**" StotroßaLmont t/ud
1 16 When the Appropriation hill was on its pas
his sage through the House of Representatives, va
re. rious Whig members were indoeed to bestow
some pains upon the investigation of Government
“ c expenditures, and.some very curious details wert
ne i brought to light, illustrating most remarkablj
ip- the emptiness of Administration professions tc
ac . the eirreise of a just and prudent economy in dis
posing of the public money, From among the
instances thus brought to light, we select a few
fer which formed the subject of a witty and sarcastit
ihe speech delivered by Mr. Stanly, of N. Carolina
ver on the 29th April.
The appropriation under view was the sum o,
n 8 $12,000, for expenses of the branch mint ri
tve Charlotte, North Carolina; and the motion ofMr
, a( j Stanly was to reduce the salary of the superin
tendent to SISOO, on the ground that he hat
len wasted the public money and abused his authori
se ty.
■on In support of this allegation, Mr. Stanly show
ed, by official documents, that tne expense of the
1 branch mint was $1466 greater in 1837 than lr
ind 1838, although it did not go into operation unit
ity December, 1837. The compensation of officers
rcs in that year was $10,466; in-1838 only $7,000
and the sum charged for wastage of gold and con
tingent expenses in 1837—that is for onernontl
—was $5,500, being SIOO more than in the
whole of 1838.
ice Curious to ascertain by what magical process
J e . this result could have been effected, Mr. Stanle)
betook himself to the vouchers on file in the Tree-
P er sury Depat merit, and among the first that h<
n *' drew forth was the annexed bill of “conlingcn!
ise. expenses.”
.1 Philadelphia. Nov. 3, 1838.
U. S. Mint, Charlotte, N. C. per Col. Wheeler,
e, y Bought of D. Landreth & Co
ich 50 Alianthus trees $1 00 SSO 01
50 Horse chesnutdo 1 00 50 0(
5 Magnolia grandiflora 5 ()(
5 do macrophylla.... 150 75(
5 Tulip poplars 1 00 5 0(
I in 5 Silver leaved maples 1 00 5 01
in j 5 English walnuts I 00 5 01
5 Chinese arbor vitae 75 3 7i
lce 5 American do 75 3 7i
a a 5 Balm of Gilead 1 60 7 51
we 10 European lindens 100 10 01
10 Morusmulticaulis 624 6 21
ita- , J
I Chma rose 51
on 1 Tennessee do 5(
M., 1 Macrophylla do 7!
1 Green box tree 5i
1 Variegated do 5i
a | n 100 yards box edging 12 5
ain ] Chacorus Japonica 5
on- 1 Pyrus do 10
12 best doable dahlias 50 6 0
1 Lonicera fluxuosa 3
“ as 1 Monthly honeysuckle.... 2
ren 12 Apple trees assorted 25 3 0
reat 6 Peach do do 25 15
. 3 Plum do do 1 8
’ e 3 Apricot do do 75 2 2
ing 3 p car do do 62 J 18
1 Garden reel 12
1 do line 5
( jj e 1 Scuffle hoe 5
1 Swan neck do. .44 and 31 7
; na " 1 half round do. 50, 56 &69 17
itof 1 p’rfancy flow’rpols.37&s4 87
Me- 1 copy Amer. Orchardist.... 10
1 do do Gardener 10
1 do Florist’s Guide 27
t,er Ido Lindley’s Outline.... 2
!dcd 1 Transplanting trowel 87
bi* Packing 11 bundles & 2 b’x’s with porterage.! 6 5
$2lB 2
Received, Philadelphia, 7lh November, 1831
irti- of John H. Wheeler, Superintendent of U. i
Ja- branch mint at Charlotte. North Carolina, tl
gent above amount of two hundred and eighteen dn
ow- lars and twenty five cents,
salt D. LANDRETH & CO.
for Horse chesnuts, magnolias, tulip poplars, rose
honeysuckles and morus multicaulis! All ve
useful and •indispensable, doubtless,. in coining
if Benfftn ‘mint-drops. Garden-reels, scuflle-boes,
■- swan-necks and flowenpoU I Necessary ynple
a ments in stamping eagles and halfdoUars. 'Two
hundred and eighteen dollars and twenty five
I, cents expended in this vwf, to-illustrate the econ
-0 omy of the Administratieq.
But farther. The branch mint commenced
e operations, as we have said, in December 1837 ;
y the superintendent’s salary commenced in Janu
. ary of that year, that of the coiner in March, and
e that of the clerk in May. Moreover, from Jur —
1837 to January 1838, the superintendent was
B allowed $lO per month for pay of his servant
j for attending the offices, making fires, &c.
. He was also allowed $l5O sot his expenses in
a going to Philadelphia to make purchases of gar
. . den seeds, flower-pots, &c., and stationary; of
. which last here are a few specimens from among
his purchases,
j 2 reams superfine satin post gilt edge pa
s per sl3 00
4 pair office shears ’. 6 00
4 large inkstands 5 00
3 Rodgers’ four-bladed pen-knives 7 50
L . 1 Bennett’s book-keeping 200
j 1 large inkstand. 875
Then come various items of furniture, as fol
lows :
s 1 scroll sofa, boxing,cartage, &c $Bl 50
j 1 mahogany bedstead 25 00
s I hair mattress 22 50
1 case of shelves for superintendent’s office. 90 00
Making and binding 10 00
J 2 floSr'clolhs, $8 16 00
0 2 hearth rugs, $lO 20 00
2 table covers 14 00
j. 5 Venetian blinds, $8 40 00
[. 2 do do $lO 20 00
t G mahogany chairs, $5 50 33 00
Box for the chairs 3 00
!_ 1 chair covered with morocco, for office.... 34 00
j. Box for the chair 150
Pretty well, all this, for an economical Admin
y. istration. Sofas at eighty dollars, bedsteads at
a twenty five, easy chairs at thirty-four, and ink
ir stands at eight dollars seventy-five cents ! No
wonder the “contingent expenses” amounted to
so large a figure,
j But now let us look for a moment at the bull
e ding itself, erected for the purposes of this branch
mint.
0 The principal edifice cost $29,800
For extra work on mint edifice not in
l_ eluded in contract 1,758
e For building fences, summer house, icc
.g house, &c., 5,500
, s Summer-house! ice-house! $5,500 ! Were
j, these things necessary for coirfing ? But these
c were not all. There were also a carriage-house
0 and stables—a bathing-house, moreover, of which
a the following descriptions are given iu the con
tract :
0 “Stable and carriage-house —all the walls lo
[_ be a brick and a half thick; the windows in the
5. upper part of the stable to be in the form of a
e crescent, with green slats fixed or moveable; roof
[ to bo covered with heart shingles; roof, doors and
1 windows to be painted with three coats of paint,”
- &c. &c.
ls “ Carriage-house to have a firm plank floor,
doors to be uniform and batten; door and window
sills to be of stone,” &c.
“ Ice-house to be 16 feet deep, at least, with a
j well and roof as per plan No. 4; the roof to be
shingled with heart shingles; the well to he 14
le feel square at the top, walled with skid pine poles,
good strong batten door, with lock, and a floor
above.” „
“ Wood-house to be 35 feet long by 24 feet
wide, and 15 feet high, to have two doors on the
end and one in the centre: to be underpinned
with stone, to be weatherboarded and shingled,
and to be painted with three good coats of paint.'’
“ Bathing-house to be eight feeU square, at
tached to one end of the kitchen, as per plan No.
s _ 2, eight feet hign, covered with a
L . string ed; one window in the rear, of the same
i v size, and finished in the same manner as the kit
chen windows, plastered and whitewashed as the
rfi kitchen, with a fixture for a shower bath; panel
■ door, with a transom light; tin pipes, lo run from
well and engine to kitchen and bath, and a drain
g _ from hath to lead off water to culvert.”
[What snug arrangements for coining money!
—What glorious specimens of Democratic econ
jc omy !!]
“ Summer house, [for a branch mint!] to be
‘ ’ octagonal, and plain, about twelve feet across, to
. stand upon eight posts, with a shingle rtmf, lo be
painted, to have seats of plank, marked W in
“ plan A.”
’ “ The whole of the buildings, &c., herein de
l(j scribed to be finished with good and suitable
knob and stock locks and hinges, and all the
walls to be of the thickness of a brick and a hal/,
and all to be rough castj’except tha wood-house,
and all the wood work to have three good coats
of paint, except where otherwise specified.”
( l All very comfortable, no doubt, for the super
intendent, but not quite so economical as might
bo”
J; • - < .
From the Richmond Whig.
,h
le Negro Testimony.
Case of Lieut. Hooe.—The principle es-.
;s tahlished in the case of Lieut. Hooe, and appro
•y ved by the Secretary of the Navy and the Presi
r- dent, of admitting negroes lo testify against offi
re cera of the Navy, has excited much feeling in this
irt Stale. It is one of those questions on whit h the
people feel more than they reason, and it is one
which wai rants the strongest indignation which
can inflame the bosoms of a free people. I lis a
o. measure, more deeply imbued with the spirit of
10 abolitionism, than any which has come to our
10 knowledge, and in its practical effects, it goes
10 farther to put the negro upon a footing of equality
)0 with the white man—the great object of the Ab
-10 olitionists—than any thing ever achieved by Tap
-10 pan or Garrison. The social equality between
10 the white and black races, preached and practiced
r 5 by a few fanatic women, such as Miss Grimke,
Jo Miss Abby Kelley, &c., and a few designing hy
-50 pocrilical men, has produced, aud can produce no
)0 bad effects. Examples set by such characters,
15 cany no weight and influence; they only serve
>0 lo bring their authors into odium and contempt.
50 But the allair assumes a very different aspect,
75 when the first officer of the Government, and the
:0 Minister of the Marine, sanction a principle,
50 which reduces every gentleman in the American
50 Navy to a quasi level with free blacks. Here
50 the elevated stations of those who set the exam
-00 pie, and the high authority with which they are
OO invested, conspire to attach importance to their
37 precepts and practices. No man in the public
25 service can disregard the one or dispute the oth
-00 er, with impunity. Their ipse dixit is law to the
50 Army and the Navy, and whatever regulations
88 they may adopt, arc imperative upon all connect
-25 ed with either of those important branches of the
87 public service.
25 It is in this light, in which we regard the prin
-50 cipie established in the case of Lieut. Hooe, and
50 which invests that decision with a pervading and
75 enduring importance. It is a direct insult offered
75 by the President and his Naval Minister, to the
7) feelings of a large portion of the American people
00 and in subjecting the conduct of Naval officers
00 to the surveillance of the black servants ol tin
7j commander reduces them to a stale of degrada
-23 tion to which neither Northern nor Southern gen
7J tlemen can submit. This cannot fail to exert (
50 most baneful influence upon that favourite arm o
the national defence. Gentlemen of honour ant
25 sensibility will, by degrees, be banished from th<
38, service, and they will be succeeded by a mean
S. spirited generation, willing and fit instruments ti
the do the kidding of a master.
10l- But there is another consequence resulting
from tho principle hero established, of not lesi
. consequence. If negro testimony is admissible it
ics, the Navy, is it not also admissible in the Army
ery and even in the Federal courts! We canno
conceive of a reason for a .i is \yr.
sume there is none. An
.be cashiered upon of
my, since a Lieut, fa the Navv
manded and dismrei-d upon the t(“>ttomriyeTOHHP9n|
servants of Capt. Uriah P. Levy ! And in the
Federal Court, -any individual, it this principle be
recognized, may be prosecuted by (he Govern
ment for a breach of the Revenue or any other
laws, and by the testimony of his ov.o servant,be
amerced. Suppose, for example, thuGovermncnt
should arraign a citizen of Richmond upon the
charge of smuggling English cheese, or any other
article paying duty.—The case comes before
Judge Peter V. Daniel.—Suppose the accused to
be an incorrigible Whig; his servant or that of
some other man is summoned to give testimony
—conviction ensues, as a matter of course, —end
his Honor, the Judge, has the suptemc felicity of
passing sentence upon the political reprobate.
This is not an impossibility—it is the legiti
mate sequence of the principle established in the
case of Lieut. Hooe—i. e. that negroes arc compe
ten^,witnesses in cases in which the UnitedStatc-s'
or any of its officers are interested.
Since the facts in this extraordinary ease were
brought to light, several efforts have been made
by the understrappers of the Party to relieve the
Administration of the odium. The Globe Mias
put forth sundry articles, distinguished much
more for their violence than respect fur truth.
The Enquirer, always Charley at the hole, has
lent a helping hand. This worthy, in his other
self, os Ttottor of im* a Crial-, lias procured a
letter from Mr. Paulding to exonerate ,’Tr. Van
Bttren from all blame in the premises. The de
sign, as in the case of Mr. Poinsett and the Stan
ding Army, is decidedly good ; but hero as there,
the execution is decidedly bad. The Hon. Secre
tary hits wide of the mark, and does not touch
the true matter in issue. In other wools, he ad
mits the offence charged, and does not eve n oiler
matter in mitigation of damages. He admits that
negroes, and they the servants of Captain Uriah
P. Levy, were introduced as witnesses ogainst
Lieut. Hooe ! This cannot bo palliated by any
combination of circumstances, or be made ] data
ble to tohUe gentlemen, cither north or south.
His apologies for approving proceeding so no
vel revolting, are ; 1. “ The admission of the de
scription of testimony objected toby Mr. Hooe.
- is a universal practice on board of cur ships of
war.” So much the worse, if it be so, and the
greater the necessity for arresting such a ptacliee.
But can another instance of the kind be adduced!
We never heard of one before. ~. •• This decis
ion was no doubt made on the ground, that no
disqualification of a legal nature, which could on
ly exist by a law of Congress, was shown.” This
admits every thing—and claims what we before
stated was a legitimate sequence of the decision,
that negro testimony is admissible in tffe - Aitov
and in the Federal Courts! 3. “The evidence ,
of the negroes may he entirely rtjidtd without
affecting the sentence of the Court.” How does
the Secretary know this J But it is a rule of law
as well as common sense, that irrelevant testimo
ny shall not bo admitted, for there is no calcula
ting what undue bias it may exert on the minds
of the jurors—and if admitted, it is good cause
for an appellate jurisdiction to set aside the i
, cision. But all this has nothing to do with the
main point. Os the merits cf the decision, so
far tut relates to Lieut. Hooe, we kpow nothing
i and they have nothing to do wttff the question
. we arc discussing—i. c. the admissibility of ne
gro testimony against while men. This is the
, great matter —this it is which does violence to
r the feelings of the people, and which the Secreta
, ry of the Navy and the President have approved.*
t The 4th excuse is for the President, mid is full
> of quibbling, a la mode his associate, Poinsett.
I It is as follows :
, “ It is not deemed nccessaiy to go further into
’ this subject than merely to add, that the Preside nt
- had nothing to do with the Court or its procctd
. ings. The judgement of the Court w-as tippro
t -----g, on,-! v Tried O'Cl lii e order c* tins —s
3 Department;—um approval or opinion of i-ity
- higher power was not necessary.”
. No one supposed the Presi lent had any tiling
| to do with tile “ Court or its proceeding,” which
i were held according to the Secretary, '• on board ’
i aU. S. Ship of War in the Bay of Pensacola.”
But he had si mething to do with them afterwards
I at Washington. The facts arc these ; /Lite pro
. ceedings were sent to Washington ; they were
endorsed by the Secretary ;
; “ APPROVED, J. K. Pauldixo.”
i Lieut. Hooe then appealed from the decision of
■ the Court and the approval of the Secretary.Ho
i the President. In his memorial- to lhat high
Functionary, he expressly complained of the il
legallily of negro testimony, and asked the espc
■ ctal attention of the The Presi
dent examined the record anti re
turned the same to the with the
following endorsement
“THE
in the CASE
. OF LIEUT. REQUIRES
: HIS INTERFERENCE. M. V. B.”
This leaves no loop-hole fin escape, 05> of
his own month he Rot •.ve-'WttT
J do the President the justice to say, his conduct
in this particular is Consistent with his past life,
and in perfect keeping with his advocacy of Free
'if Negru Suffrage. He who had maintained the
fitness of the African race to exercise the highest
rights of afieeman, that of electing Legislators
and rulers, could not consistently object to their
‘ competency as witnesses before civil and military
! tribunals.
t Aatiot Butin.—ln the course of Mr. Leigh’s
t argument yesterday, he adverted to Aaron Burr’s
f case. He said that what was Burt’s intention
r he never knew, and he did not suppose it ever
, would be known. Pending his trial in the court
r in this city, he, (Mr. L.) then a young man,
- paid the most incessant and studious attention
- to the evidence and every tiling connected with x
i it; but he could not find out what Burr had do
-1 signed. Years afterwards he made the inquiry
, of the late Mr. Wickham, who was one of Burr’s
- counsel, if he knew what were Burr’s intentions.
) He replied lhat he knew nothing more than any
, one else might have known who paid the same
; attention to the case that he was compelled to
. pay to it. Mr. Wickham gave as his opinion,
:, however, that Burr’s design was to get up an
a expedition against the then Spanish province of
-, Texas, with a view to establish an empire there
a for himself; and that he intended to borrow the
e money to defray the expenses of the expedition
i- from the United States Bank at New Orleans.
3 It this were the case, it displayed the tact and
r clear sightedness of Burr, as time has prowd ;
: for he lived to see, first Mexico freed from Span
- ish dominion, and then Texas sever herself from
o the Mexican Republic and become an independ
s ent State. He was arrested in 1807 —three
l- years ajterwardjs an insurrection broke" out in
e Mexico against the government of the V iceroy,
and in three years more, after several hard-fought
t- battles, —the independence of Mexico was declar
d ed by the Mexican Congress. He only com
d menced preparations a little too soon, if his
d object was such as Mr. Wickham supposed.—
te Richmond Compiler.
Largest Iron - bridge.—The largest Iron
rs bridge in the wotld is in China, near Kingtung,
le where it forms a perfect road from the top of one
l " immense mountain to the other. It is formed of
J * chains, twenty-one in number, and bound togelh
a. cr by other cross chains. This bridge is more
than 150 years old, and yet the Chinese arc con
sidcred fools bv foreign barbarians.'
te
a- Mysterious.—The St. I.outs Bulletin, of
to the 18th ult., -.-tatesthat while the steamer Czar
was passing Cairo, ruthcr way from Pittsburg to
tg St. Louis, some bodies had
33 been found there, floating
in the appearance of the bodies, it is
V, were fl.itboat men, who had met
ot some violent means.
I