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Fellow citizens, I have ifated to you, sfiid I re- j
peat the remark, that experience is t: e >#l test of
truth. That 1 terns we have trie;l tni hare
witneS'Cd their failure with our out eyes, we
should have no confidence in. I witnessed the
practical operation of the celebrated specie circular
as it was called; which was an order from the
Treasure D< partment un !cr the dnecitkn of the
President of the Unit d State; that njifffng tut
gp« ie thouid he rec< ive 1 in payment ol* the poWie
lan s. To my certain know i<-dge it dill :• 1 hrin;
one specie dollai hlocin ilatim amongf-h*;*
The lands were paid for in speci-*, in thy reasury
offi<c, an Iu» the rcceir er?, an 1 the ■th * ■
taken b>i< k into the Ban 1 s in ua<l ot goijig into t
circulation, and tfce public creditors wl; had the
Treasurer’s drafts upon the p*nta, tools the notes
of l c I! in!.- in i n ference (0 specie, L'Cp n. ; c they
were more conv®aient. Anj one ot t.aem could
11 il V c 1 1 « V ■lt''■ *» I*' K*. it **f *JI •(1 (I;o>*n t)*l ■ ' f.‘ 1 V C* 11 j
but he preferred the notes. ,
'PI,,. ,| 2 i- that were given upon the recciveis in
the West, were negotiated with the Hanks, and
tne Bank notes were taken, ami the spt*;.;c in the
j ia nds of the receivers went into the Batfis instead
0 f into the circulation. 1 disbursed j when at
Washington-, about 300 millions of the public mo
ney before the Banks suspended specie { p,aymcnts.
Arid nearly the whole of that su n was paid in
Bank notes, when the public creditor had his op
tion to take specie or the note-’. Why d d the pub
lic creditor, who had my drafts upon fie Hanks,
take the notes in preference to specie when they 1
could have Ind the specie if they had jdemanied
it? No other answer can be given than that they'
prcfeircd the notes, because they were more con
venient.
Here then, is a fact which is conclusive that
Bank paper will be the circulation of this country
until it is substituted by Government paper. The
organs of the Administration have disclaimed all
idea of a Government paper system. J: is now
admitted on all hands that the desti >y .of this Re
public is sealed forever, when the circulating me*' 1
dium consists entirely of paper issued .under the
authority of the General Government. [Cinder such
a system, we need no lunger talk about f late sove
reignties or the liberties of the people. [They will
all be at the feet of the General Goverhii ent, and
it mu*t become a simple consolidate 1 despotism.—-
It wou'd soon hoard up in its vaults all the specie
of the nation as is the case now in Russia, and the
people would have the Government paper as its re
presentative. The stream of specie wodld be con *
stantly running from the people in payment of thei/
taxes, under the Sub-Treasury sy-sten , into th *
vaults of the Government, whilst the Governmcn
paper would flow out as the circulating median ,
until the whole country would be drained of speci
ant! Hooded with Government paper, Every ma->
then in the nation would be more or lc?:: 3. credi'.o'
of the Government, who held any of this Covein
ment paper in his pocket, and of course lintereste
in sustaining it in all its usurpations and!despotism
Under such a system, would it not be pc. feet mock
cry, to talk about liberty? In this view of th
subject, how can the Sub-Treasury-system give
specie circulation? The Government creditor wouh
do precisely as he did before the eslab is lament 0
the Sub-Treasury system, when he hat hi? optic
to take the notes of Banks or specie, and alway
preferred the former.
If each man hoards up specie to pay l;is taxes
that don't put it in circulation. It has exact yth
contrary tendency. The circulating medium, i
that money which the people generally eciev
when they sell any tiling, and pay out w hen they
buy any thing. Specie hoaxied up to pay taxe
would be u«ea in neither buy ing or selling. J
wou'd be laid by to meet the demands of the Go
vernment When paid up to the Government, '
would go off to the Sub-Treasury vault—fron
thence, it would be paid out to the Gc ernrnen
claimants, who would sell it to a broke r, if it wa
worth more than Bank paper, and take notes in ex
change, or he would exchange it at Ba< k for it
paper, if it was worth no more than the paper.—
Hu.v 1 sen are the people to be benefit!?-! by thi
system, which is to drain our country bf specie
which will require tlrm to hoard up the lattle spe
tie they may have, to be ready for Uu Sheriff,
when 1m round, or to have theit property
sacrificed fur half its value, if they shorn i be una
ble to obtain it. The system, instead ox giving us
a specie currency, will drain the cour.ti. of it and
b j: completely tom circulation
If ti:e «y?tem is to be confined tithe General
G , mnei;t, it car Le of no conceivable benefit to
the people. To say nothing of the great losses
that wji] be sustained by defalcations,. by placing
the pT lie money ir the han « of individuals, it
will inciease the pressures in the mom-y market —
: . tij ly'the suspension* of specie paymjents —pro-
long t icir continuance, and instead of-yiving the
people a specie circulation, will rivet upon them
completely- a depreciated currency-.
f ellow citizens, lam no Bank partisan. I ne
ver borrowed a dollar, or accepted a favor from one
of any kind. Holding a highly delicate and impor
tmtt ust, during a long period of public, life, in re
lation to the public rnohey, 1 found it necessary to
ke.-p my elf clear of all pecuniary entanglements
with I) ,tfi Hanks an 1 individual. 1 aim no advo
< ol tte excesses of banking, or of a deprecia
t'd paper currency’. I simply deny that the Sub
® Ire usury system will cure these evils, ?o far as
they cliff t th'- people. On the contrary, 1 say-, it
will aggravate them greatly, and make 1 them more
into'erable. j
So mu h for this Sub-Treasury sy: tem, which
has been recommended by the President four |
times to the Americas Congress. Witn all my in- 1
superable objections to it. 1 consider i; a more in
nocent measure, and even less consolidating and
despotic in its character, than othei" I measures,
which he has pressed upon Congress, abii upon all
ol which, J will take the liberty- of submitting my
views in due time.
Before closing this address, I must leg leave
again to call your cairn and serious attenti n to the
jecommen iation of this most extraordinary meas
ure, —of a standing army, which appears in the
President's last message, and which, if* a does not
startle into amazement, and open the ayes of the
people of tills country, as to his real char acter as a
statesman and a patriot, then, I unhesita: ingly say-,
that such is the state of party feeling upon the
public mind, that tire President can recommend any
thing he pleases, however destructive jo the liber
ties of the people, and it will meet wiTi-its advo
cates and friends!!! i
But, with the most profound re?pcct "or you, fel
low citizens, and with all rny best wishes for your 1
welfare and happiness, 1 am sure when you come
t) examine this measure, an 1 see it? iittrocious
that there is not a man among:} on, who
basin him the noble spirit of his revdutioiiary
sire, who will not be roused into indignation by it,
and will spurn the party ties and discipline which ;
calls upon them to give to it Iris snn-lic: j
A measure which requires one hundred? t housand
of the militia of this country in a state oil profound
i eace —the sons of our farmers and mecpanics to
be made regular soldiers of, for 8 years, contrary to
their consent!! Bonaparte, in the plenitude of
his power, could have scarcely- proposed; a furore des
potic measure! It is his conscript sysb-.i, plainly
and directly!!!! '• j
And for what purpose, I again ask, rjs ibis army
of 200,000 men to be raised —composed of Hie
young tanners of our country, who are t<j be /< re
ed into the rank*, and compelled to ser v j b years
as regular soldiers!! •
The real object cannot be mistaken, Jvvhalever
efforts may be made to conceal it. ;
They are intended to be used as ins rument? to
spill the blood of their own < ountrymeh, iwho may- j
hereafter become a little restive under, the de?po
tisrn which is now in preparation to ens;j -e them. 1
What other object can he have for such .|i army, in 1
a stite of profound peace with the whel.lcivilized
world?
Fellow* citizens, far be it from me, to have any
wish to deceive you. Here is the plan e!! the army
a? given by- t ie Secretary- of War, whijeh the Pre
sident tolls Congress “he cannot too highly recom
mend.”
“It is proposed to divide the United!Suites into
eight military district?, and to organize tiie militia
in each district, so as to have a body of 11|,;>00 men
in each district in active service, and another of
equal number as a reserve.
“This would give an armed militia force of 200,-
000 men, so drilled and stationed as to N ready to
take the r pla es in the ranks in defencic of the
country whenever cal ed upon to oppose Te enemy
or repel the invader. The age of the ieiTuitto be
from 20 to 37—the whole term of service to Le
eight years; four years in the first elate;, and four
in the reserve: one-fourth part, 20,0H0| men, to
leav’c tiie service every- year,passing at tlje conclu
sion of the first term into the reserve, and exempt
ed from ordinary militia duty altogether at the
end of Ihe second. In this manner, S'LOOO men
will be discharged from military duty Mery year,
and 25.000 freih recruits lie received im i- the ser
vice. It will be sufficient for all useful purposes
i : k
t that the remainder of the militia under certain re
gulations,provided for their government, be enroll—
' ed and Le mustered at long an 1 stated intervals;
fur in due process of time, neariy the whole mass
of the miltiia will pass through the first and sec
ond classes, end be either members of the active
corps or of the reserve, or counted among the ex
empts, who will Le liable to be called upon only in
periods of invasion or imminent peril. The man
-11 r of enrolment —the number of day? of service,
and the rate of compensation, ought to Le fixed by
i law; lut the details had t eller be left subject to
regulation—a plan of which I am prepared to sub
! mit to you.”
MEASURES NOT MEN,
and J?alousy of I’xccutivc Power,
was the first lesson I was taught as a Republican
in early- life by a father and four uncles, who strug
gled from the beginning to the end of the Ameri
can Revolution for the liberties of their country.
They took up arms in common with tneir country
men to oppose a measure of the British Government,
and defied the wrath of a monarch who attempted
to oppress them. They defied their Chief Magis
! trale who usurped over them unconstitutional
power. I shall follow In their footsteps as far as
1 know how. if I did not, I should regard my-?clf
as a poor degenerate and miserable being —the fit
subject of despotism—and would expect to see in
my dicams the indignant frowns of those who as
sis‘ed in giving me liberty of opinion and the rights
of conscience. I will cling to the people, in oppo
sition to the President, when 1 sec him advocating
mear res calculated to destroy their happiness !!
I will look at the measures of men — at their acts
—at their conduct —in judging of their public char
acter. Professions and names and promises arc
m.thif gin my estimation. If 1 am to live under
a Despotism,! would just as soon it should be call
ed a Monarchy as a Republic. The name makes it
neither better nor worse. If Democracy means
that you are to stick to the President in every
thing he recommends, right or wrong, then I am
no Democrat. 1 will, as long as my pulse teats,
and there is one throb of life in my heart, oppose
him and all other Presidents, whenever I see them
pursuing a course of measures calculated to destroy
the prosperity- and happiness of the people. The
degraded vassal, who lias got it into his head that
the test of Democracy is a slavish obedience to the
President’s recommendations right or wrong, and
whom you cannot convince that a man can be con
sistent in his principles, and yet differ with the
President in opinion, is to be pitieu for his obsti
nacy- and weakness.
1 call upon you, fellow citizens, to say if you are
iu favor of the Precedent's plan of a standing army.
Read it over yourselves—judge for yourselves.—
Take it home with you—examine it thoroughly—
permit yourselves not to be deceived. This is a
subject that comes directly home to you all. 1 call
upon you to examine it. If I have misconstrued
the language show me how. If your opinion is
different from mine as to the meaning of the plan,
then I emphatically ask you, are you in favor of
the plan of the Army as you understand it? Put
your ewn meaning upon the President’s language.
Read it, and tell me what it means ! And 1 then
you, are you in favor of the organization of
the militia according to this meaning of the plan ?
If you are not in favor of the Army as proposed,
according to your own construction of the Presi
dent’s meaning of it, I then call upon you, in the
name of your country-, to say if you are still in
favor of the author of the measure ? Can you, in
your conscience, say you are altogether opposed to
such a plan of drilling the militia ; to the Sub-
Treasuiy and other leading measures of the Ad
ministration, and ye', in favor of the President who
Tils you that he intends, if re-elected, to rivet them
upon you ? Oppose the measures, but support the
man who intends to fix them upon them country-!! !
Merciful God, fellow-citizens ! has party spirit
Drought this count:y to such a condition !! Is this
Democracy ! Is this Republicanism !! Is this the
state of morals and patriotism which these free
institutions have brought upon us ! Is this the
fruit of the toils and blood of the revolution ! Is
this the spirit which achieved our independence !
I am sure, fellow citizens, I cannot be mistaken:
you will frown with indignation upon such doc
trines.
The plan of that army-, then,is not a Democratic
measure. It tends most fearfully to concentrate
power in the hands of the Executive.
2d. Is the Sub-Treasury a Democratic measure. ?
After the view I have taken of it, I am sure you
will say it is not.
3d. Are the other financial schemes of the Presi
dent Democratic measures ? Look at them ! !
He proposes that he, or in other words, his Soc-
I retary- of the Treasury, shall have permission to
u?e the Banks and dismiss them at hi? pleasure.—
: This is in plain terms, a recommendation to Con
-1 gress that he should have the power of appointment
and removal over Banks, as he exercises it now
i over the whole army of Executive Officers ! Im
agine to yourselves, fellow citizens, the enormity
jof this proposal ! There are one thousand Banks
jin the United States ! And perhaps millions of
| people interested in them ! Every man in the U.
States interested in a Bank, has here plainly- held
out to him a temptation to become a partizan of Ihe
President! Every Bank in the United Slates
would be thrown at the feet of the President as a
candidate for his favor, 01 a miserable slave of his
power. To be selected by the President as a de
posit Bank, to which was confided the national
revenue, would be a great favor, as it would give
lit unlimited credit; to be arbitrarily dismissed
after it was selected, would insure its destruction,
or at all events shake its credit ny-exciting sus
picions in the community, and produce runs upon it.
Are you in fax or of this measure? Is it a
democratic measure ? Would it not fearfully- tend
to concentrate power in the hands of the Executive?
4th. The third financial recommendation was
simply that his Secretary- of the Treasury- should
have the power of is?uing Treasury Notes at his
discretion. In other words, that the Secretary
should have the moderate power of flooding the
country with paper money! I would not have
believed that such a recommendation had been
made to Congress, and had received tne President’s
approbation, if 1 had not read it w itli my own eyes
forty times over in the Treasury Department!
Will the people believe it ? The Report of the
Secretary can bo produced at any time. Will they
read it and believe their own cy-es that such a
proposition w-as made by the Secretary, and sanc
| tioned by the President ? The document shall be
| produced. Is this a Democratic measure ! ! Does*
■ it not tend to concentrate power in the hands of
the President ? —“To increase the Executive pow
er, already too great for a Republic ?”
fith. A fourth financial recommendation of the
I President w-as, that Congress should pass a bank
-1 nipt law, which, of course, he w-as to execute, and
; by which he or his train of subalterns acting under
i his authority, would have it in their powerof crush
| ing all the State Banks, and with tnem the people,
whenever they suspend specie payments.
Would this be a Democrauc measure ? Is it
| consistent with the doctrines of a State Rights Re
; publican, th t the General Government should have
j the powerof destroying the State Institutions ? If
; the Banking system is carried too far in any of the
j States, is not that a matter exclusively of State
j concern ? Where is the authority to be f jund in
j the federal constitution which gives to Congress or
| the President any- power to interfere with State
legislation, when confined within its own acknowl
i edged constitutional limits ?
Could any measure be more consolidating in its
I tendency- than this one ?
The President, too, undertakes to lecture the
1 States for their improvident legislation on the sub-
J ject of their Internal improvements. Where did
| he get this authority ? His last annual message
on this subject lias nearly- destroyed the credit of
| all the Western States. Was he elected to take
caie of them in their local affair.-. ? I suppose they
I consider themselves competent judges about their
own matters.
Let us then, fellow citizens,be no longer deceiv
ed with names —with catch-phrases— with popular
words. Let us look at measures, and conduct, and
acts, in judging of the character of politicians.
“o, liberty- ! what crimes have not been com
mitted in thy name,” were the last dying words of
a celebrated martyr who peri?hed upon the scaffold,
during the French Revolution. They were the
warning words left to mankind by a beautiful
woman of high intellectual attainments and spot
less purity ot character. Her only crime was that
she and her husband, who were both republicans
and enthusiasts for liberty, would not approve of
all the measures of the party in power during that
stormy period. The husband lived and the wife
was captured. She was thrown into a dungeon—
I was afterwards tried and sentenced to be guillo
tined by men who did every thing under the name
jof Democracy. Robespierre, Danton and Marat,
the sanguinary tyrants who could stand by in cold
indifference, and see the blood of a lovely female
flaw from the scaffold, for agreeing with her hus-
Land about the affairs of their Government, were
harranguing the multitude of Paris every day about
their democracy and hue of the people ! The sound
of the axo, cutting off head-, and the sound of
their voices about liberty and democracy, were
beard from morning till night, at the same time. —
Thousands and tens of thousands of the chivalry
of France witnessed the execution of Madams
Poland. They stood by, with cold indifference,
and saw an innocent, and eminently talented laly
taken from a dungco', like a common malefactor,
and borne oil in a cart to the place of execution,
and her head severed from her body, without shed
ding one generous tear over her fate. Her heroic
soul had nerved her for the scene, and turning to
wards a figure, representing the Goddess of Liberty,
stationed on the platform on which she stood, she
bid adieu to the word I in the memorable words I
have stated, “O, liberty ! what crimes have not
been committed in thy name.”
And, fellow’ citizens, 1 close these remarks with
the best wishes for your welfare and happiness;
j and may you never have cause hereafter to ex-
I claim, O, Democracy ! what a galling despotism
in thy name, has been rivited upon our addicted
1 country.
i LJI , ...
! CHROMCLB AND SENTINEL.
I ip
A IT (JUSTA.
TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 23.
FO« PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican —
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Plights Republican of the school of ’OS—
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriotic statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUN JAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
E. A. NISBET, of Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
T. B. KING, of Glynn,
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter.
R, L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
Mr. Campbell’s Speech.
This speech, delivered by a native Virginian
one who has been long the supporter of the pre
sent dominant party, who has been high in their
confidence, and held an important office at Wash
ington, we have had on file for publication for a
considerable time. Mr. Campbell is a good wit
ness, he has seen and Knows what he asserts to be
true, lie sustained the administration until it be
came his duty to choose between a party and his
beloved country, and in that contest he nobly ar
ray’s himself on the side of his country', We invite
our reader-; to read this speech and reflect upon its
contents; it is adapted to the capacity of every
mind, however humble —and while they' read, we
ask them to reflect that Mr. Campbell, is a man of
| the highest character, the most •unimpeachable ve
j racity, a man who throughout a long life, much of
which has been devoted to the service of his coun
try, has, in all the party contests of the day',
however bitter, maintained an unsullied reputation*
a character above suspicion.
When such a man as John Campbell, so long the
supporter of the administration, is forced from an
honest sense of duty' to his country,to oppose those
with whom he has been so long associated, it is
sufficient to arouse the people, the working men of
flic country', from their lethargy, and urge them to
a calm and honest investigation of the merits of
those who conduct our affairs. Let them be awake,
let them seek light upon the important questions
which are now agitating the country, and our word
for it they will be found rallying aronnd the stan
dards of Harrison, Tyler and Reform.
Jons Davis, Senator in Congress from Massa
chusetts, has been nominated for Governor of
that State.
Senator Buchanan.
As this gentleman is now associated with the
Van liuren party, and is one of their ack
nowledged and prominent leaders in the Senate,
we have thought it prudent to bring forth the fol
lowing reminiscence of the past history of his
p ilitical life, for the especial benefit of (hat por
tion who are so ready to charge upon their oppo
nents an association with Federalists.—We ask
our Van Buren friends to read the following ex
tracts from Mr. Buchanans speech deliveied at
Lancaster Pi. on the 4lh of July 1815, and see
what were his opinions of the Republicans at
that day,—Hp is now acting with the Van Buren
party and ha? never that we ever heard published
any recantation of these principles and senti
ments ! We would also ask another class of our
readers, that portion who so much fear an asso
ciation with Clay and Webster, to read these
extracts, and reflect at the same time that Mr.
Wall of the Senate, another prominent Van
Buren man, entertains the same sentiments.
So also does Mr. Kush, and a host of other prom
inent men of the Van Buren ranks. But we
suppose Mr. Van Buren has applied his magic
wand, and the result is that the rankest federalist
is forthwith changed to a good, consistent, demo
cratic republican. Veri’y, republicans are easily
made now a days.
Extracts from Federal Oration,deliver
ed July 4, 1815.
There was a powerful faction in the United
States opposed to the adoption of the Federal
Constitution. The individuals of which it was
composed were called anti-federalists, and were
the founders ofthe democratic party. THEY
(the democrats) GLORIED IN SETTING
THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST OUR
PRESENT ADMIRABLE FORM OF GO
VERNMSNT. The authors of this opposition
were'SIMPLY DEMAGOGUES, who might
have risen to the head of a state faction, but who
felt conscious that their talents would be eclipsed
when the luminaries of the United States should
be collected around the General Government.’’
*******
‘•True to their original principles and their first
love, the DEMOCRATIC PARTY of that day
more the friends of France, as they become more
the ENEMIES OF SOCIAL ORDER. * *
“THEY, (the democratic party of 1800, under
Jefferson,) BEGAN WITH THE DESTRUC
TION OF THE NAVY.”
“ The DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRA
'I ION (of Mr- Jefferson) next declared isar
against commerce. They were not satisfied
with depriving it of the protection of a navy, but
they acted as though they had determined upon
its annihilation.”
* * “Our ships were laid up to
rot as melancholy monuments of the WEAK and
WICKED policy of our Government.”
“Time will not allow me to enumeate
all the other WILD and WICKED PRO
JECTS of the DEMOCRATIC ADMINIS
TRATION. Suffice it to say, that after they
had deprived us ofthe means of defence by destroy
ing our navy and disbanding our army—after they
had taken away fr mi us the power of re-creating
them, by ruining commerce, the great source of
our national and individual wealth; after they
heal, by refusing the Bank of the United Stales
a continuance cf their charter, emhanassed the
financial condition ofthe government, and with
drawn the only universal paper medium for the
country from circulation; after the people had
become unaccustomed to and of course unwilling
to heir taxes, and without money in the treasury,
THEY RASHLY PLUNGED US INTO A
WAR with a nation more able to do us injury
than any other in the world.” * * *
* Thank Heaven that we have obtained a
peace. BAD DISGRACEFUL AS IT IS—other
wise the beautiful structure of the Federal Gov
ernment supported by the same feeble hands,
might have sunk like the capitol into ruins.”
“ W hat is the reason,” said a prominent ad
ministration man in this city the other day, “that
the triends ol General Jackson never had occa
sion, like those ot Gen. Harrison, to publish tes
timonials ol his bravery]” “ Simply because,”
replied a Whig, “ General Jackson’s military
character was never, like General Harrison’s tra
duced by a set ol unprincipled hirelings and slan
derers.”
A better reply could not he made to the same
i query. The opponents ot Gen. Jackson were too
high minded and too patriotic to deny his services
or traduce his military reputation.—While they
questioned his civil qualifications, they always ad
mitted bis courage and military talents, and prais
ed the triumphant results of his military career.
Huw different is the course of the loco focos. For
a paltry political advantage, they not only cover
General Harrison with every kind of slander, but
even seek to falsify their country’s history and rob
it of some of its glorious victories and associations,
by representing the Commander of the late war
as a coward and imbecile, and his brilliant victo
ries as defeats. The fame and achievements of
our great men, in the cabinet or the field, are the
most precious property ofthe Republic, and those,
who seek to sully or deny them,deserve the exe
cration of every lover of his country. —Louisville
Journal.
From the Nno York Herald.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania have again
adjourned, after passing the Tax Bill, the bill to
pay the interest on the State Loans, and the Im
provement Bill. The Tax Bill provides as fol
lows ;
Synopsis of the Pennsylvania Tax Bill.
On all dividends by banks or corpora
tions of one per cent or over—on
one dollar, a tax of. 1 A mills.
On $1 of all taxable property, occupa
tions &c I “
On Si of all bonds, stocks (except
Slate,) monies at interest, &c., on
which 1 per cent dividend may ac
crue, “
On all household furniture and plate
exceeding s3oo—per one dollar of
value, 5 “
On pleasure carriages 1 percent
On gold watches 1 dollar.
On gold and silver watches, 75 cents.
On other watches, 50 cents.
On all salary office? 1 percent
This, it is estimated, will yield $1,000,000.
This, it is supposed, will be sufficient to obviate
the necessity of resort ing to new loans to pay in
terest on State stocks.
Fire.
We stop the press to announce that just before
three o’clock this morning, our citizens were
aroused by the bell sounding the alarm of fire.
We learn that a lot of about 20 bales of Cotton
lying on Scott & Balfour’s wharf, to be shipped
by Messrs. A. Low &Co. was discovered to be on
fire.
It was more or less consumed, and had it not
been arrested, would have endangered the safety
ofthe vessel near which it lay. A man was seen
prowling about the place one hour previous. All
suspicious characters-should be arrested.—Savan
nah Georgian of ihc 20 Ih.
The Rivers.— Nearly all the upper waters
are still high. At Louisville, on Wednesday last,
the Ohio was slightly rising, and two or three
small boats came over the falls. The Upper Mis
sissippi continues full and the water has not fall
en about Lake Providence. From that point
down to Vicksburg several plantations are inun
dated. ’The river is lull of new drift, showingri
ses above, which are mostly from the Ohio.— N.
O. Picayune.
The Texas Boundary.— By a gentleman
who arrived last evening from Shreveport, we
learn that the Commissioners to run the bounda
ry line between Texas and the United States are
now at or near lat. 32, on the Sabine, and have
cleared eight acres in order to take an observation.
It is thought that a portion of the Parish of Cad
do, which has been surveyed by, and supposed
to belong to, the United States, will he found to
he within thejurisdiction of Texas when the line
is definitely drawn.
Important Discovert.—We need not en
deavor to impress our readers with the importance
of the following communication. It is from a
Lieutenant cf the U.S. Navy.
U. S. Schooner Enterprise,?
Pernambuco, May 6, 1840. 5
Mi Deaji Sir: I have the pleasure to commu
nicate to you. the intelligence of the discovery of
a new Island or Continent, as it is called, in the
Southern Ocean, by the French Exploring ships
Astrolabe and Zelie. This information was
brought here by ihe English barque Calcutta,
from Van Dicmnn’s Land, on board of which
were some specimens of granile rock, and also a
chart oi the coast. The land has been called
Adilie, and is laid down from the longitude 139°
30 east ot Paris to 185° 30' ; and latitude from
65 J to 6/° south. It is reported that the laud is
completely protected by an icy barrier extending
many niiles into the sea. As this will no doubt
be the first information received in the Unied
States, I take much pleasure in conveying it to
you. Your friend and humble servant,
J A. WINSLOW.
En. Evening Signal.
P. S. This is the French Exploiing Expedi
tion which was quietly sent to sea, during all the
noise which was made in the United Slates about
our own.
The Richmond Compiler of the 19th savs,
Wm. 13. Dab.ley has been tried before the May
or, and committed for trial before an Examining
Court. The Mayor did not think his case baila
ble.
A Western editor, gives the following as the
most opproved mode of killing fleas in those parts.
Place the animal on asmooth pine hoard,and hedge
him in with putty : then read him an account
of all the railroad and steamboat accidents which
have happened in the last twelve months. As
soon as he becomes so frightened as not to be able
to stir, draw out his teeth, and he will starve to
death
Georgia , Richmond County .-
We the Grand Jurors, sworn, chosen and se
lected for the first week of June Term, 1840, in
performance of our duties make the following pre
sentments :
Having examined by Committee the Books,
Records and Papers appertaining to the office of
the Clerk of the Superior and Inferor Court, re
port that we find them all carefully and neatly
kept and in good order. We have also examined
by committee, the Books, Records and Papers, in
the office of the Clerk of the Court of Ordinary,
and find them correct and posted up to the last
Court.
We have further, by committee, made an ex
amination of the condition of the Jail, and Report
that we find it kept in good order, and that the
prisoners appear comfortable and generally satis
fied with their treatment.
We have examined the Books of the Tax Col
lector and find him proceeding diligently in the
discharge of his duty, and would recommend that
the insolvent list usually allowed him be defered
to the action of the Grand Jury, for the January
Term of this court.
Inasmuch as we the Grand Jury for the first
week were unable from other duties, to extend
our enquiries to the condition of the Roads and
Bridges of this county, we respectfully request
his Honor Judge Shly, to instruct the next Jury
to be irnpannelcd for* the present term, to direct
their particular attention to this subject.
W 7 e cannot omit noticing the deranged state
of our currency, and respectfully call the atten
tion of the Legislature to the subject, and at the
same time, feel it our duty to express our sur
prise, that our Slate, in its present condition,
should lend its credit to its citizens, for their in
dividual benefit, and with little or no advantage
to the State at large, by is =uing the notes or bills
of the Central Bank, solely with the view of dis
counting notes for the accommodation of indi
vidual citizens—when it is, at the same time, un
able to meet its own obligations. We think it
would be far more preferable, for the state to levy
such equitable taxes on the citizens, as would
enable it to meet its own responsibilities, than to
issue a mass of irredeemable paper. We believe
that instead of the Slate making loans, its situa
tion at this lime requires, that it should by some
means establish its own credit on a better foot
ing, and lor this purpose, we would suggest the
propriety of increasing the revenues of the State,
by some just and equitable mode of taxation, so
as to establish the credit of our State on a surer
and firmer basis—unlil this is done, we cannot
but believe that the State is in the situation to
require loans rather than granting them.
The Grand Jury take pleasure in bearing wit
ness to the faithful and impartial discharge of
his official duties, by lus Honor Judge Shi}’.
They also tender their thanks to the Attorney
General for his prompt and polite attention to
the Jury.
A. CUNNINGHAM, Foreman.
Thomas T. Holt, James H. Park,
I. Henry, Geo. A. Simmons,
Andrew G. Bull, Thos, Richards;
Enoch W. Spofford, P. Carre,
(3. C. Taliaferro, Lewis D. Ford,
W. G. Dearmond, Christopher Low,
S. B. Clarkson, William G. Way,
Thomas B. Smith, Mich. F. Boisclair,
John P. Andrews, Walter Harris.
I object to the decision in the above case of
the Central Bank of Georgia, from a desire that
the character of said Bank should have a fair
chance in sustaining herself with other Banks
in the next Legislature, requiring all Banks to
resume specie payment at an early date.
WILLIAM C. WAY.
As I am not prepared to censure the Govern
ment of the State, I protest against that portion
of the presentments relating to the Central Bank
.ofGeorgia. WALTER HARRIS.
On motion of the Attorney General, the fore
| going presentments are ordered to be published
| as requested by the Jury.
True extract. JAMES McLAWS, Clerk.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, May 1.3
Latest dates from Havre, May 13
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton. —The market, since our last report, has
been quiet, and there is but very little doing at our
last quotations, which are barely supported.
Ordinary to middling. 6 to 7j
Fair, to S§
Good Fair, to Sj
Prime and choice, -.9 to
Groceries. —We have no change to notice. Tha
market is generally well supplied with all the
leading articles, and prices are as low as the de
ranged state of our currency and the exorbitant
rates of exchange will allow.
Freights —To Savannah, 50 cents per bale;
to Charleston, by rail road, 25c per 100 lbs. for
square, and 35c per 100 lbs. for round bales.
Exchange. —On New-York, at sight, all per
cent, for current funds ; Charleston at —a S] per
cent; Savannah 2h per ct.; Philadelphia —a per
ct.; Lexington, Ky, 4 a 4] per ct.; Richmond 7 cent;
specie commands 9 a 10 per cent, premium.
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Ranks, 2 per cent. prem.
Columbus Insurance B’k 6 “ « «
Commercial Bank, Macon, 6 “ “ “
Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 8 “ “ “
Agency Brunswick, “ 8 “ “ “
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2A “ “ dis.
Central Bank, -a 6 “ “ “
Milledgeviile Bank, -a 6 “ “ “
Ccmulgee Bank, 6 “ “
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 9 “ “
Ilawkinsville Bank, 6 “ “
Chattahoochie R. R.& B’k
Company,
Darien Bank, 20 “ “ “
Bank of Rome, 50
All other Banks now doing business, at par.
Specie Paying Banks. — Mechanics’ Bank, Insu
rance Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of Ma
con, and Brunswick Agency in this city.
OBITUARY. J,
Died At the residence of his brother-*
Rev. Alexander Cunningham, in Augusta on \r ’
day, 15th instant. THuMAS D. UvSO\ in °v'
ISth year of his age. The deceased iv« i nat " e
of Jonesborough, Tennessee, and was a son of'l T
V Eason Esq., deceased. It was rem"ft
him, that from his earliest boyhood h» -
erned by a high sense of moral principle ; an s, V '
who knew him gave him their unbounded c nfi
dcnce and highest regard. As a Clerk in the A „
gusta post-office, he appl ed himself industriouJv'
and assiduously ‘o the duties of his p i ace n1
high order of intelligence made him, even at k‘ S
*?-. • «Kf«l valuable assistant in tal! -
responsible and importmt office. Death soi
him on the very threshold of manhoid v/r
greater usefulness—but he is gone, w- e do'ubt ‘not
to a home or joy and everlasting peace. ’
“ Likc a 3'omig tree he falls, with its bcautv a
jound, * d *
While its leaves are yet fresh, and its branches
sound,
That has never been nipt by the cold winter hli<o
verdure and franco r™ata?„S
BANK REPORTS
__ 1
Hank of the State ol Georgia,
Branch at Augusta, }
16th April, 1840. S
To His Excellency, Charles J. McDonald
Governor of Georgia
Dear Sir:—l herewith enclose a statement of
the condition of this Bank on the 6th day of
April, 1840. as required by an act of the Legis
lalurc. With respect, «sec.
JOHN PHINIZY, President.
Statement of the condition of the Bank of the
State of Georgia , Branch at Augusta, on
Monday, the 6!h April, 1840.
DR.
Discounted Notes, run- 1
ning to maturity, 254,806 70
Do in suit, 29,093 01
Bills of Exchange run
ning to maturity at Mill
edgeviile, W ashington,
Macon, Athens, Colum
bus, 6c Hamburg, S. C 5,728 21
Bills of Exch’ge in suit, 8,635 90
Stock of Georgia Ins.
and Trust Company, 13,500
Do of Eagle 6c Phccnix
Hotel, 500
Do C. Council Augusta, 10,0: 0
Protest account 7g
Incidental charges 1,970 25
Salaries, 4,999 92
Banking House and Lot, 12,000
Bills of Exchange run
ning to maturity at Bos
ton, New York, Phila
delphia, Petersburg,Va.,
Charleston, & Savan’h, 136,117 91
Due by Banks in N.York 537 93
do do Philadelphia, 10,414 20
do do Charleston, 14,330 65
do do Columbia, S. C. 189 06
do do Savannah, 58,527 78
do do in the interior
of Georgia 49,876 75
Notes of Augusta Ins. &
Banking Company . ..161,335 1
do othei City Banks, 63,380
do banks in S.Carolina 453
do banks in Savannah, 305
do various interior B*ks
in Georgia,.... 39,382
Gold and Silver coin,.. 89,184 68
970.346 07 .
CR.
Capital Stock of this Branch 450,000
Notes of this Branch in circulation,.33l,l74
Due to various Banks, 78,554 20
Due to Depositors 77,075 58
Dus on Special Dcpositc 3,033 92
Profits since Oct 7,1 S39(gross profits)3o,soß 37
Am’t Notes and Bills of Exchange
running to maturity, 380,280 47
Do Notes and Bills of
Exchange, in suit, 37,728 91
Do Notes & Bills of Ex
change under protest,
and nut in suit, 10,366,35
434,381 73
Os the above am’t is con- ■
sidered doubtful,.... 6,236 06
970.346 07
Augusta, April 6, 1849.
J. MILLIGAN, Book Keeper.
Georgia, 7 John Phinizy, President,
Richmond county. 5 and J. Henry, Cashier, of
the Bank of the Slate of Georgia, Branch at
Augusta, being duly sworn, say that the returns
herewith made, contain to the best of their
knowledge and belief, a true statement of the con
dition of said Branch.
JOHN PHINIZY, President.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the
15th April, 1840.
J. S. Griffin, Notary Public.
Branch of the Bank State of Georgia.
Milledgkville, April 7th, 1840.
His Excellency, C. J. McDonald,
Sir:—lnclosed you have the semi-annual
statement of this Branch, showing its condition
up to Saturday, 4th April, 1840, inclusive.
Very respectfully, your ob’t servant,
C. J. PAINE, President.
State of the Branch of the Bank of the Slate of
Georgia, in Milledgeviile, on Saturday, 4 lh 4
of April, 1840 . inclusive.
DR.
For Capita! Stock, 100,000
Notes of this Branch in circulation, 19.993
Individual Deposiles 3,185 63
I Discount, interest, <scc. received in the
last six months 4,006 08
j To B’nk State of Georgia,
and its other branches, 37,703 28
'To other Banks, 12.344 42
§177,232 41
CR.
By notes of other Banks
on hand, 35,325 C
Do Bank State Georgia
and its br’hes on hand, 3,555
Specie in gold and silver, 14,421 63
53,301 63
Notes discounted, not
due, considered good, 69,558
do lying over, d 0.... 16,135
do in suit, d 0.... 18 307 72
do do doubtful,.. • • 2,885
do do bad, 200
Dills of Exchange, not
due, considered good, 2,650
do in suit, do 1 847 77
do do bad,.. .. 200
Amount due by other Banks, 1.588 93
Banking House, 9,000
Salaries, paid for the last
six months 1,500
Incidental expenses paid
since sth Oct. last,.. 58 36
$177,232 41