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WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE £4.
* roil PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Oh io ; |
The invincible Hero of Tippccanoi? —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TY LEII ,
Os Virginia ;
A Stale Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—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 Btwke.
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 Groove.
E. A. NISBET, es Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
T. B. KING, of Glymn.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter.
R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. .
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
Gen. Harrison’s Speech.
In this day’s paper will be found a sketch of
the speech delivered by General Harrison at Co
lumbus, Ohio, some account of which has al
ready appeared in our paper. We shall proba
bly find room for a sketch of his speech at the
celebration cf Fort Meigs, which is represented as
a masterly effort. : |
Cnn*p Meetings.—An gust a District.
Blount MoriaL, Jefferson county, July 15.
Wheats, Lincoln “ ** 22.
Independence, Wilkes M “ 30.
Richmond, Richmond August 5,
Fontaine, Warren “ u 12.
White Oak, Columbia “ “ 19,
Wanenton, Warren “ Sept. 3.
All the above meetings will commence on Wed-’
nesday, and continue four flays, except Wanenton.
Believing that the writer of the following com
munication, had a right to be heard by that party
with which he has been so leng a zealous co
worker, and as he was refused a place in the
Constitutionalist, a paper which boasts of its fair
ness and readiness to present both sides of a ques
tion, we have consented to give him an opportu
nity to address his party through our columns.
To the Uuiotf. Party.
Being denied the privilege of speaking to my
party through its own organ in this city, I am
obliged to submit to the humiliation of receiving
from the liberality of our political enemies, what I
thought my relation to the party entitled me to de
mand of our friends. I have yet to learn that
free discussion has not, on all subjects, resulted in
the advancement of truth.
Though your future course is pretty strongly in
dicated, it is yet not determined, and therefore I
shall address you less at length, than I may, after
the 4th of July, and principally byway of hints
and caution. lam sure you would accord to me
the common privilege of every mere her, to give
his opinions on the course and policy of his party 5
yet I feel that I have a stronger right than many
others, to feel solicitous for the party's integrity,
having breasted the storm with it in its hours of
doubt and darkness,and rushed amidst its foremost
to victory and triumph. Though it is the voice of an
old friend that now sounds the note of alarm and
danger, I wish no further heed to -the signal, than
is its just flue from the reasonableness and truth of
the warning given,
Ist. I insist on yeur adherence tp your own
ticket for Congress, which has now Teen before
you for half a vein There never was but one
oojection to that ticket, its want of conformity, in
its nomination, to the regular usage of the party’
our members of the Legislature being sent to Mil
ledgeville for other purposes than the selection of a
Congressional ticket; but inasmuch as a setter
ticket, combining more reputation, talent, and po
litical influence, could not have been selected bv
any body of men of the party, I was perfectly sat
isfied with it, and so, I believe, was the, party uni
versally. Every provision was made for non-ac
ceptance and other vacancies, and the- whole ar
ranged with a general view to any emergencies,
which the future might disclose. All have accept
ed, and it would now be treason to the party’s
interests, for any one on that ticket for slight cau
ses to decline. Then, why will you break up its
settled, delibera'ely-determined course, and throw
all into possible confusion by new a {id doubtful
arrangements, uncalled for bj- party difficulty, di -
content or danger ? Support your c| ,;T a ticket,
your own men, and, so doing, your owrf principles.
2d. The course indicated by the meeting of last
week, is to give us another compromise ticket, a
terra as hateful to ray ears, as it has been disgrace
ful to Richmond County, and disastrous in its con
sequences to the union, confidence, ajnd uniform
triumph of the party. Richmond, w-hej stiuck the
first blow, and roused all others to the icscue—the
first to recede, the first to make terms with the foe,
and meanly barter her right, when the numbers
f and spirit of the party insured her signal and tri
umphant success! And what is the proposed al
teration in our Congre-sional ticket, but a similar
manoeuvre, equally regardless of principle and self
respect ? Is the Union party unably to carry its
own ticket, regularly before it, governed by the
same principles and animated by the same sympa
thy ? What principle in common with you have
Messrs. Colquitt, Cooperand Black, to entitle them
to your adoption, much less to make them leaders
in ymr line of march ? You say, they prefer Mr.
Van Buren to his opponent, or as they say, a small
er evil to a great one ! This you call principle,
adherence to a man’s name! In the same breath
that they announce this preference, do they breathe
denunciation against your characteristic and cher
ished principles. On what were the distnetions
of the two parties in Georgia mainly founded ?
On President Jackson’s Proclamation, and the
F< rce Bill, as your opponents call it, re-enacted bj -
Congress in tiie very words of the old laws ap
proved by Washington and Jefferson. New, what
were the objects of these two measures, which
carried joy through your ranks, and thrilled
every patriotic nerve in the Union ? To put
down what we regarded the faction of Nullifi
cation and all future distuibers of the public peace.
And yet some of you propose to hoist to your head :
three avowed and avowing nullifiers, who at the
very moment of offering jou their feeble, man
service adhesion, blaspheme all you hold sacred in
the political principles and government of your
country. Look at their publications, tending
rather to curry favor with their own part}’ than
with you.
3fl. This course it is said, is mattter of policy to
strengthen our cause ! If they were such men as
Calhoun, or Clay or Webster or Troup, bringing
to the party, what such men alone could bring it }
reputation, talent and influence, it might be tolera
ted ; but who are these men ? I mean to speak just
ly and truly, at the same time that I give all the
respect they deserve and even mere than I feel.
They are the cast-'ff of our opponents— the leav
ings of a party, whom you yourselves branded with
low minded meanness, when tfeey picked up Ncw
nan, whom you once indignantly ejected for here
sy from your ranks. Suck renegades, such trai
tors to their own party, you. would take to your
bosom as leaders! Where is your pride and self re
spect? When thesedead traitors are resuscitated oy
your galvanic favor, how long will they, even in
appearance, remain gratefully attached to your in
terest ? Will these llth-kour converts remain
faithful longer than they are enabled to breathe
again ? Suppose the two parties start each a can
didate for Governor ; Whom will Colquitt, Cooper
and Black support ? Did not all of them decry Mr.
Van Buren, in less than IS months, as something
very like an abolitionist, an 1 two cf them denounce
your Sub-Treasury as fraught with direful evils
to the country ? Now they are all supp irtiag the
abolitionist Van Buren and are prime Suh Treas
ury men ! How long can you calculate on the
adhesion of such weathercocks ? Another tariff
is bruited in political circles —do you intend these
new favorites shall sport nullification again, and
bring their “ rightful remedy” to bear on any other
general measure they may chance for the time to
condemn ? lam sorry 1 cannot do Mr. Cooper the
justice he deserves in my general remarks —he is.
consistent and I think honest. But he is in bad
company and must bear the peppering to which his
position exposes him. It is policy to take»suc. 7 i men
to our confidence 1 They will give strength to our
ticket! and we must support the administration •
That is, introduce lighted matches into our maga
zine, and give the administration new and doubtful
men, instead of old and tried friends ! You do not
pretend that they will support the principles of the
Union party. That would bo too stupid even to
suppose. We must rescue them from the fate de
creed by their own party, because, unlike many of
that party, they will not “ take the D —l before
Mr. Van Buren!” I might inquire, what have they
to do with Mr. Van Buren, that is dependent on
the result of our next election ? They can have
no agency in electing toe President es U. Stales,
more than they already possess. The present del
egation, not the next, may be called on in the H. of
Representatives, to choose the President. Before
confirming the seats of these three new favorites
for two years longer, it might be well to look to the
security you have, that these same three newly
converted Van Burenites will not, before that
choice shall be finally made the next session, “re
turn with the dog to his vomit, and the sow that
was washed to her ’wallowing in the mire ?” They
may again find out that Mr. Van Buren is an aboli
tionist and the sub-treasury as full ol danger and
ruin as ever ! This is the way you intend to in
sure the success of your principles at home and at
the seat of the General Government, instead of
sending your own men to Washington—no convicts
of yesterday, but men grown old in the party’s
service, identified with its cherished principles,
still zealous in its cause aaad giving the administra
tion the support which alone honest men can value,
that bottomed on principle and the belief, not only
of their ability, but of their honest intention to
consult the best interest of the country.—ls such
a course of policy is not already made too absurd
and ridiculous for a sensible, honorable and inde
pendent party to approve, I confess myself at a loss,
how 'o make the impression stronger.
4th. I have said an independent party. I wish
to belong to such. I have never belonged to
any other. If my political friends have not the
spirit and independence to stand on their own foun
dation, they may stand where they will; I will
stand by my principles. Those who act different-
I3’ will soon have bo foundation to stand on ; adopt
ing every sort of expedient {orpolicy's sake, such
policy must eventuate in incorsistency, weakness
and contempt. My political party mutt stand on
its conviction of the truth and republican purity
of its principles, —not on disgraceful and self-de
stroying expedients —it must confidently rely on
their winning their way to public favor by their
own intrinsic worth, net by manoeuvres involving
honor and sclf-rcspcct —it must be strengthened
and cheered by the exhilirating belief, that, how
ever they may be obscured by temporary storms,
they will eventually emerge from the cloud and
shine in unborrowed lustre on all beholders—it
must be buoyed up by such confidence in all its
difficulties and trials, an I scorn to have recourse
to its enemies for support —and especially to those
eleventh hour conversions, those death bed prom
ises of repentance and amendment, which arc
generally as grace‘ess in polities as they are in reli
gion. Good Heaven ! Does my party require such
appeals to its good sense, Us self-respect, its inde
pendence and honor, to save it from disgrace and
suicide.
sih. If the personal friends of Messrs. Colquitt,
Cooper and Black wish to give their testimony in
favor of th? preference these gentlemen profess
for Mr. Van Buren, let them sustain the ticket.
thus identified, which has been regularly offered to
them and whose support would not sully even the
• white ermine of State Rights purity. Why should
a whole party depart from itt course, hesitate in its
i bright career and jeopard its triumph,in deference to
the wishes and dictation of a few personal friends
of such men as Colquitt, Cooper and Black? If
they' are so anxious to sacrifice to principle, let
them do it, on the altar already built. The priests
of the temple are ready—are chosen from the
right trihe and carry nothing like hypocrisy or
doubtful sincerity within its sacred precincts.
6th. I have another hit t for your reflection. —
Where is the old Clarke part}’ ? —the nucleus of
the Union party—the source, as we believe, of po
litical purity and disinterestedness, round which,
like the planets round their glorious centre, instant
ly gathered all that was patriotic in the State ?
Where is the glorious “original pannel” ? Where
is it represented ? In what hall is its voice heard,
calling back its adherents to purity of political
principle and practice ? There are too few of its
members on our present ticket. The “compromis
ing” rage has already shorn it of nearly all its hon
ors ; jet we are called on for further sacrifices.
Suppose the rumored resignations take place, to
make room for Colquitt, Cooper and Black —how
' many old Clarke men will be there, enjoying, as it
were, their inheiitance and birth-right ? Not one.
They are all Troup Union men. Now, understand
me. I do not complain of the presence of the
Troup Union men on our ticket —they are men of
talent and character, and what is more, they at
once Joined the right standard, and opened their
colors to the breeze ; —they avowed their principles
early —are old laborers in the good cause —have
stood the heat and brunt of its battles—joining it
when their moaves could not be questioned, not
when they were in the agonies of a political death
—have shown the saving character of their faith
by long adherence to its principles, which they r
have maintained with the zeal of young converts
tempered with the wisdom and prudence of old
campaigners,—not tendering a suspicious homage
at the eleventh hour, rendered doubly suspicious
by the undisguised denunciation of your politi
cal principles, and attachment (o those you abhor
7th. The meeting at Milledgcville on the 4th’
was proposed from this County, and was intended
to be a very different meeting from the one now
endeavoring to be got up. r J he original meeting
was intended to be of our party alone, and of such
only as could “conveniently” attend at the time,
to celebrate the 4th of July, and consult on the
best means of strengthening our Congressional
ticket. Now there is an invitation to every body
who says he is in favor of Mr. Van Buren ; and
the meeting here, on Thursday last, virtually ex
tended it t© the “friends of Coquilt, Cooper, and
Black,” of whatever creed. The meeting is now
dignified with the name of a Convention,got up on
no regular principles, without authority, with un
specified objects, and with unlimited numbers from
each county, town, and even political club. As it
is also to be composed of the friends of these
cast-offs of their own party, and as minorities are
always zealous and active, I should not be sur
prised to find them controlling the action of a
meeting originally intended as a kind of family
party, to brighten the rusted chain of private
friendship, bo ve-kindle fading zeal in the family
circle, to cheer its hopes, and strengthen its ener
| goes, and at the same time lay the pure oflferingsof
j our devoted patriotism on that holy shrine, round
| which gather the great and good of our country on
the anniversary of our independence. What ticket
was it whose success we were to promote ? The
ticket of the Union party, our own ticket, pure
and unalloyed, nominated last December, which
every honest map. in the party has long since de
termined to sustain with all the energies of his
nature. Now, this unauthorized, irresponsible,
mixed meeting is to throw every thing into con
fusion, pull down and put up, reverse the party’s
| concerted arrangements, dethrone the respectable
committee appointed to receive resignations and
| fill vacancies, and for aught I can tell, give the
: Union party a full Nullification ticket to represent
them at Washington city! The fact is, many of
your leaders have lost the spirit that once lighten
ed in your frond. They have not the confidence
and courage to march straight to their object; but
more like sneaking traitors, sheer to the right and
left; and trimming their boat to every little dirty
current that may chance to sweep by, attempt to
accomplish by policy —by little, low , compromising
expedients—what men alive to the interest, self
respect and dignity of the party, would blazon on
the house-tops. Are you ashamed of your princi
ples ? Let them, then, flash like the lightning,
rear like the thunder, and sweep like the tempest,
shaking political corruptions to their rotten centres,
and restoring, what they have lost, sound, healthy
action to the glorious institutions of our country.
Bth. I am certain the Party may confide in its
’ own strength, and those occasional accessions,
which admiration of our political principles, and
political honesty, scarce as it may seem, will con
tinue to make to our numbers, i desire accessions
from no other causes. They would be no honor
to the party. I have confidence in the triumphant
ascendancy of my principles. If they will not
support mo, let me fall. That party will fall,
whoever it is, and deserves to fall, whose princi
ples are of so doubtful a cast —have so little invig
orating and quickening energy —that he doubts to
trust to their action, and hesitates to throw them
en the troubled ocean of human affairs, lest they
should fail to still the agitated waters, and reduce
the elemental strife to the subjection of regular
government and ordec.
I shadl have nothing more to say, till the 4th of
July consultations have eventuated in wisdom or
folly, if then. Aristides.
From the New York Times of Friday last.
Arrival of the Great Western.
The Great Western, Capt. Iloskin, arrived this
morning, at 3 o’clock, in fourteen days and a half
from Bristol. She left that port on the 4th instant,
and notwithstanding the shortness of her passage,
has only had six limns of fair wind since she left
the mouth of the British Channel.
There was no prospect of a repeal, or even a
modification of the Corn Laws. A motion for the
appointment of “ a select committee, to enquire
under what restrictions A might be expedient to
permit flour to be manufactured in bond,” was re
jected in the House of Commons on the 2Slh ulc.,
by a vote of 126 to 04. The Home had, on the
26th, rejected another proposition of a similar
character, by a vote ot 177 to 300.
The London money market continues quite easy,
. and consols had advanced a little.
Ameiican securities, generally, were quite flat,
United States Bank shares £15,16 to 16. Roth
cliild’s loan Bank of the United States, remains
firm at Paris, at 98 ; New York St ile btock, 98 ;
New Y'ork City, 92; Pennsylvania, 76£ ; Ohio 6
percent, 1034; Indiana, 68.
The CoUon market is depressed. Since the
sailing of the Unicorn,prices had fallen 1-4 to 3-Sd
per lb. The sales for the week ending 22d May,
amounted to 23,430 bales, and lor the week ending
29th, 21,050 bales ; Uplands 4f to
leans, 4} to 7d ; Alabama, 5 to6fd; Sea Island,
13 to 20d. The prices range from 44 to
the last three day’s sales amounted to about 9000
bales. No disposition to speculate.
Flour continues to decline. The duty is 10s o]d
per bbl. in oond it is dull at 24s 6d to 24s 9d;
duty paid 34 to 355.
Business generally, throughout the country, was
extremely dull; the want of orders from this
country was severely felt.
Bank of England.— Quarterly average of the
Weekly Liabili’ies and Assets of the Bank of
England, from the 3d of March, 1840 to the 26th of
May, 1840, both inclusive, published pursuant to
the Act 3d and 4th Win. IV.,cap. 98.
Liabilities. Assets.
Circulation, JE16.817.000 I Securities, JE22.555,000
Deposits, 7,226,000 | Bullion, 4,386.000
.£24,043,000 | £26,942,000
Downing street. May 28, 1840.
Two bills amending the Reform bill have been
introduced into the House of C mmons by Lord
John Russell. They are designed to facilitate and
extend the exercise of the elective franchi e.
A special messenger comes out by the (Heat
Western with despatches for our Government in
relation to the N. E. Boundar}’.
The crops of grain in England and Ireland prom
ised well.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had proposed
to increase the import duties and excise, and thus
to supply the deficiency in the revenue.
The King of Prussia is dead.
The French Chamber of Deputies have adopted
the Ministerial projector law for bringing home the
remains of Napo'eon, but rejected the amendments
of the committee, raising the sum from one to two
millions of francs, and proposing that an equestrian
statue in honor of the Emperor should be erected
in a conspicuous situation.
M. Thiers has obtained a vote of the Chamber of
Deputies for the construction of steam vessels to
ply betwe n Havre and New Y'oroc,and other ports
of this Continent.
Courvoisicr, the valet of Lord William Russell,
has had his final examination, and has been commit
ted to Newgate to await his trial for the murder of
that nobleman.
Y'ork Cathedral has been again partially destroy
ed by lire ; wilfully, it is supposed. One hundred
thousand pounds sterling is the estimate of the
damage.
Loid John Russell has brought into Parliament
a bill for the sale of the Clergy Reserves in Upper
Canada. The Canada Government Bill was in
rapid progress through the House, and is doubtless
now a law. During a debate on this bill Mr.
Hume expressed his hope that the Habeas Corpus
Act would no longer be suspended under the Cana
dian Government.
Lord J. Russell said, he could give no positive
answer without consulting the Governor; but
hoped that the passing of this bill would put an
end to all need of further severity.
A bill to prevent bribery and treating at elec
tions was likly to become a law. The bill enacts
that if these offences or either of them be proved
against a successful candidate, he shall vacate his
seat in favor of his defeated opponent.
A meeting of the Society for the Extinction of
the Slave Trade and the Civilization of Africa,
was held at Exeter Hall, London, on tire first inst.
About 5900 persons were present. Prince Albert
presided. His Royal Highness made a very short
and common place speech, which was, of course,
received with “tremendous, renewed, and pro
longed cheering.”
The dispute of England with the Neapolitan
Government is still in abeyance. It is said that
the king has declined the mediation of Fra'ce,
and has refused to gi re a definite answer ta the
proposition made to him.
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford was to embark
from Malta on the 17th of May, in his flag ship,
the Princess Charlotte, accompanied by the Im
placable and Carysfort, for Naples The object
of Sir Robert Stopford is, as we have already sta
ted, to bring the differences existing between the
British and Sicilling governments to an immediate
issue one way or the other,
Feargas O’Connor, who is in prison in York
Castle for a political libel, has petitioned Parlia
ment to ameliorate the hardships and privations
under which he alleges he is suffering.
The Couit Journal of the 23d May, says, We
have extreme gratification in announcing that
there is every probability of our Most Gracious
Queen gladdening the hearts and best wishes of
the nation by an addition to Her Majesty’s illus
trious house. The announcement ol this import
ant event will, we are sure, be hailed by every
loval subject with the utmost delight.”
The Steamship United States, instead of being
placed in the New Y'ork and Liverpool line, is to
be a regular packet between the latter- port and
Alexandria, in Egypt.
The steamship Brittannia, of 1200 tons and 440
horse power, will leave Liverpool for Halifax on
the Ist July.
The great Derby Stakes were won by Mr. Ro
bertson’s horse, “Little Wonder.”
South wick House, near Portsmouth, the splendid
mansion of Thomas Thistlethwayle, Esq., has been
burned down —loss £20,000.
Correspondence of the Courier ,$• Enquirer.
Liverpool, 3d June, 1840,
With reference to ourlast Circular, of 15th u’t
per Unicorn Steamer, we have now to advise a fur
ther decline in cotton, in this market of } a |d per
lb —chiefly since the 25thult.,on which day the
accounts per Great Western to 9th tilt., from New
4 ork, were received here, shewing a gicat increase
in the supplies into the American ports, and giving
much larger estimates of the extent of the crop
than had before been generally calculated on.
1 his is the main cause of the decline, but the con
tinued dull trade at Manchester for some weeks
past, and particularly the last ten days, have con
tributed to it, goods and yarns have both declined,
and the Manchester market yesterday was ex
tremely flat.
The best informed seemed to be of opinion that
the consumption has increased nearly if not quite,
to the scale of 1838, but the stocks of goods and
yarns have latterly begun to accumulate, and tho’
this is frequently the case at this particular sea
son of the year, it remains to be seen whether the
trade caa go on to an extent at all equivalent to the
probable increased supply and production. Much
will depend on theresu t of the harvest and some
t ling on trie course of the China question, as well
as the demand of goods for the United States —
still near’y suspended- The spinners it is under
stood hold rather large stocks of the raw material
and are likely to do so at present low rates. The
production of cloth is curtailed at this time by a
turn out of weavers at Stockport who are resisting
a reduction of wages.
The sales of cotton for the week ended the 22d
ult., were 23,430 bales ; and ior that ended 29th
u!t, they amounted to 21,050 bales ; of the latter,
5400 were Upland, at 4f a 64d ; 9270 New Or
leans, at 4] a 7d. 3550 Alabama and Mobile, at 5
a 6fd, and 240 Bea Island, at 13 a 20d. per lb. The
business for the three subsequent days, (to last eve
ning) is estimated at about 9000 bales—nearly all
to spinners ; the decline in price not having as yet
produced any speculation worth naming. The
range of prices is from as the lowest for any
thing merchantable, up to which maybe con
sidered about the top price lor Uplands,—and of a
7fd. for prime Orleans ; but very little doing in
any description; above per lb. Fair Uplands
may be quoted 5} ass d. and fair Orleans 5} a 6d.
—The import of the last 16 days amount to about
165.000 bales; and the supply into this pert, since
the Ist of January, amounts to 704,000 bales,
against 422,000, to same period last season ; the
supply from the United States, is 617,000; being
an increase of 279,000; The stock in Liverpool is
estimated at about 356,000 bales, against 339,000
at same time last year; the stock of American is
about 303,000, being an increase of 14,000 bales.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Commercial Adver.
Havre, May 31.
Cotton. —Previous to the receipt of the advices
trom the United States, which reached us on Tues
day last, by the Great Western steamer via South
ampton, our market experienced daily a good de
mand, and a fair amount of business was done at
steady prices. Several large lots of American Cot
ton, in the inferior and middling descriptions, were
taken both for consumption and expoit, say—6s7
bales New Orleans and Upland, ex Louis Philippe,
on the spot, at 7lf. 50, all round; 500 bales New
Orleans, ex France, at 7if. 50, and 571 ditto
(bon ordinaire and ordinaire) ox Charles, 81f 50,
But now that it is ascertained beyond doubt that
the extent of the crop which has hitherto been a
subject of much comment, wilt be at least 2,000,000
bales, and that notwithstanding tho considerable
outgoing-, our stock is likeiy to receive a large
accession by the shipments coining forward, buyers
have in some degree become reluctant to operate,
and several holders liaving evinced a disposition to
realize, a decline of 2f. has taken place on the ordi
nary and inferior grades, with about If. on mid
dling qualities.
This falling off in prices cannot, however, be
attributed to the aspect of affairs in general, as re
gards the state of trade in the interior, the weath
er being still propitious to the Coin crops, and there
being full employment in all the manufacturing
departments The fluctuations which have taken
place this week in our market may therefore be
looked upon as nothing more than an ordinary oc
currence, in fact merely transitory, and as likely
to assume an opposite character immediately on
the resumption of an animated revival in demand.
During the present month the arrivals have amoun
ted to 46,4U0 bales, and the outgoings to 41,400
b les. The total decline in prices within this
period has been only f. 1 a 2 on ordinary sort-:,
other kinds having undergone no alteration.
The sales of the week were 8185 bales, among
which were
3025 bales N.Oileans,duty paid, 70f. a 90f. 00
1683 do Mobile, do 7Sf. a SBf. 50
2577 do Upland, do ... .67f. a9lf. 00
257 do Flori la, do ... .72f. a 76f. 50
The imports of the week were 775 v . The total
stosk is 113,000 bales, of which 106,000 are Amer
ican.
Cen. Harrison's Speech at Columbus.
On his way to attend the celebration at the
site of old Fort Meigs, Gen. Harrison passed
through Columbus, Ohio. He arrived on the
afternoon of one day and left on the morning
the next. Daring this short stay, finding it im_
possible to hold conversation with each one of
the great multitude of his fellow-citizens that
wished to pay their respects to him, Gen. Hari
soa addressed the assemblage, collectively, just
before his departure. The Ohio Confederate’
which gives the report of his speech published be
low, thus narrates the circumstances under which
it was delivered :
General Harrison left Cincinnati on Thurs
day—he arrived here, a distance of 120 miles, at
5 o’clock, P. M. on Friday. He was on his feet,
receiving the calls and congratulations of our
citizens, for hours afier his arrival. In the eve
ning he repaired, by invitation, to the log cabin,
where additional hundreds had congregated to
meet this beloved and venerated patriot.
Here, with the frankness and unreservedness
which have marked his character through life,
did he mingle for two hours with the “ log cabin
boy’s” of the capital. Dong before the sun, an I
before oui youth were astir, the general was on
the morning oflhe morrow, up and out. Having
breakfasted with a friend at a remote part of the
city, he was soon again surrounded by the mul
titude of our people who refuseo to be satisfied
without seeing and communing with him. The
period of his departure was at hand—the crowd
increased —it was impossible that in the brief in
terval cve.y one could be presentee individually
to the genaral. and all were anxious to see and
hear him. At tht instance of a friend, who no
ticed the popular solicitude, the general, from the
platform of the door of the National 1 fotcl, ad
dressed the people for half an hour or more. We
wish that every man in America had heard that
speech. How would tiie detainers of this great
and good man have dwindled in their estimation
into merited insignificance. How would the slan
derers who imputed to him motives which never
actuated him, and opinions which he never held,
and designs which he never entertained, and prin
ciples which he never cherished, and who infa
mously ascribe to him imbecility and decrepitude
and cowardice —how would these slanderers
have been indignantly rebuked by the righteous
judgment of an honest and insulted people!
Hut as they did not and could not hear it, we
will endeavor to possess them of its substance.
We took no notes. Neither General Harrison
nor any other person thought oi his making a pub
lic address two minutes before h i commenced it.
It arose out of the circumstances w hich surroun
ded him at (he moment—and signally illustrated
a quality of his character to which we have be
fore alluded—the ability always to say and do
exactly what is proper to he said and done. The
reader will boar in mind, therefore, that vve pro
fess only to give him the subject matter not the
style and expression of
General Harrison’s Remarks.
General Harrison said he w r as greatly indebted
to his fellow citizens of Columbus and Franklin
County—the most cordial hospital! y had at all
times been accorded to him by them. So long
ago as the time when he was honored with the
command of the ‘‘North Western Army,” and
held his head-quarters at Franklinton, on the oth
er side of the river, it was his fortune to find in
the people of Franklin County not oniy good
citizens, but patriots and soldiers. '1 heir unvary
ing kindness to him had laid him under many
previous obligations, and tfieir generous attentions
on the present occasion he cheerfully acknowl
edged.
He said he had no intention to detain his friends
by making a speech, and he did so in obedience
to what he understood to be the desire of those
he addressed. He was not surprised that public
curiosity was aw'akened in reference to some
things which had been lately published concern
ing him, nor was he unwilling to satisfy the fee
lings of his fellow-citizens by such proper expla
nations as became him, in his present position
before the count y. He confessed that he had
suffered deep mortification since he had been pla
ced before the people as a candidate for the high
est office in their gift—nay, the most exalted sta
tion in the world —that any portion of his coun
trymen should think it necessary or expedient to
abuse, slander, or villiTy him. His sorrow arose
not so much from personal —dear as was to him
the humble reputation he had earned—as from
public considerations. He migl.t draw consola
tion, under this species of injury, from the rela
tions of hi.4ory, which showed that the best of
men, w ho had devoted their lives to the publicser
vice, had been the victims of traduction. But
virtue and truth are the foundations of our repub
lican system. When these are disregarded, our
free institutions must fall; he looked, therefore,
at symptoms of demoralization with sincere re
gret, as betokening danger to public liberty.
A part of the political press, supporting theex
isting administration, and certain parlizans of Mr.
Van Buren, also a candidate for that high office,
to which some of those whom he addressed desir
ed to elevate him, had invented and propagated
many calumnies against him, but he proposed on
the pre.-ent occasion to speak of one only ot the
numerous perversions and slanders which filled
the columns of the newspapers and misrepresen
ted his character and conduct. He alluded to the
story of his famous “Confidential Committee,” as
they call it. “The story goes,” said General
Harrison, “that I have not only a committee of
conscience keepers, but that they put me in a
cage, fasten with iron bars, and keep me in that.”
[To one who looked at his bright and spadcling
eye—the light which beamed in its rich express
ion—the smile which played upon his counten
ance, blending the lineaments of benevolence and
firmness—who remembered also that he was hs
tining to the voice of a son of old Gov. Harrison,
one of “the signers,” the pupil of old "Mad An
thony,” the hero of Tippecanoe, the defender o,
Fort Meigs, the conqueror of Proctor—the idea m
Wm. Henry Harrison in a cage ! was irresistibly
ludicrous !]
When the laughter had subsided, the General
proceeded. I have no committee, lellow citizens,
confidential or other. It is true that I employed
my friend, Major Gwynn, to aid me in returning
replies to some of the numcious questions pro
pounded to me by letters. But to such only as
any man could answer as well as another. There
is scarcely a question ot a political nature now
agitating the public mind, on which I have not
long since promulgated mv opi m , n - -
published letters or official acts. A ’,? W'
ot letters addressed to me purported , 't*.
views of Abolition, United States Jj 9
er matters concerning which my v . 8D I
ready in possession of the pubhc^’?„.*** t I
suita!.!e answer to these— and to w ’qi • ile I
persons the most satisfactory— Was L * u,te ntior (f I
the documents in which my opinion^ l7 ® l **-’ I
pressed were to be found.— Such am 3 rea 'l v ‘:. I
tru-ted to my well-tried and faithfuiT'^ 3 1 n I
Gwynn. rien d, M a , I
Letters requiring more particular
swered myself. Every body who
Gwynn knows that he is not one w , n °' Vs Mb .H
employ to write a political letter 'if 0111 * H
made man, a soldier and a gentlen, '* S a B
era politician, or a scholar. I asked* 1 .7* ‘’ Ut ner ß
him, because he was my friend a j Serv 'ceß
in him, and it was plain and sirnr./V * COnS dnß
is to receive, open and read mv % ha! I
Such as may he easily answered v er ' n k v selß
hand to my friend, with an endorsmj a, ‘ 05 ! ler . iB
where the information sought may !( ° n ! n d>cati n ß
thus—“ Refer the writer to speech
—or “the answer is seen in mv IctL, ln . r?n ncs" fl
ny,” &c. But it seems that Gwv, ln I
man of a committee of the Citizen, s rr
ti or of Hamilton County. \Vhca° ■ nr ‘ I
Oswego letter was received, it Was , fa moo s I
usual with such letters, I endorsed im \ a , nd a* I
it to Maj. Gwynn. But, it. seems I
swer was prepared it was signed also i, 0 ” I
leagues of the County or City (V° C] I
all this I knew nothing—nor'in theTr'" 0f I
Committee had they any thimr m a‘ Capacit }' ot I
letters. Yet by a little mistake and I
sion these gentlemen have boon erect I
committee of my conscience-keepers C ' (> 'V nto 1 1
to shut me up in a cage to proven' rueb I
swering interrogatories. ,oni as-1
General Harris n remarked that, had h I
deed, called to his assistance the’ser'w *
friend in conducting his correspondence ° fl
have high authority to justify lfi mi 7;J e
sure. It had been said of Genera! Wai*
that many of the papers which boar hb •
ture were written by others, and he believer iS*
never been contradicted ; and General p ■
ridge, aid to General Jackson in the j T***
had represented himself to be the author**!!
ot General Jackson’s correspondence p
had not done so, to any extent or in ’am- -
sense than as he had now explained i t l- ° %
tmg Major Gwynn lo refer those
qumes to him, to thepulicsou cesoCinform,,; !’
“And he would here say, that in all hi s b .u
lifo, civil and military, there was no let’cr ]
ppeecli or order, bearinj Ids name, whirt’»Tl
wmlen by kiti own hnid—HesniJ.
and answer all the letters received !, v l nn
physically impossible, though he should do Z
thmg else whatever To give his hearers,n idea"
ot the labor U would require, he said, a o* n tlem,
then present was with him the morning he left
Cincinnati when betook from the PostOffire'
letters-there were usually half the nun.beratthe
Post Office near his residence—24 letters r>
day. Could any man, he asked, give require
attention to such a daily correspondence, events
the neglect of every other engagement? True ■
was, that many communications were sent him
which were not entitled to his notice-sent U
persons who had no other object but to draw
from him something which might he used to I*
injury and the injury of the cause withwhicbh*
was indeniified—yet, there were enough of those
which claimed his respectful consideration for
the sources from which they came and the sub
jects to which they referred, to occupy more lime
and labor than any one man could bestow urn
them. 1
Gen. Harrison said he had alluded particular
ly to this matter of the Committee because it bad
so recently been the occasion of so much animad
version by his political adversaries. But it vru
one only of many misrepresentations of him. his
conduct, his principles and his opinions, wiib
which the Party Press was teeming. He saidiO
would occupy him many hours to discuss them,
if it were necessary or proper for him to do so,
He* referred, however, to the Richmond Enquirer
—and expressed his surprise at the manner in
which his name and character had been treated
by that paper. He did so. as it afforded an ex
ample of the prostitution of the press to parlv
purposes. That paper, which formerly did him
more than justice and paid him the highest com
pliments as a soldier and civilian—whose editor
atone time could designate no other man whom
he considered so well qualified for the responsible
place of Secretary of V\ a r—was now lending it
self to the circulation of the most
luinnies against him. and .endeavoring to persuade
his countrymen that he was a coward and a Fed
eralist. He alluded to the evidence upon which
the Enquirer sought to fasten the accusation that
he was a black-cockade-fedtralis! —i. e.—the re
marks of Randolph in the Senate of the Untied
States. He said that the attack of Mr. Randolph
was met at the moment it was made and effectu
ally disproved.
He passed a high encomium upon the genius
of that remarkable man, and said, that those who
knew Mr. Randolph, knew that he never gave up
a point in debate, or receded from his groundar;
when; until convicted of error. The fact thathf
made no reply to his answers to Ihe charged?
proof to any one familiar with his character, that!
he himself was satisfied that he had erred. GerJ
Harrison explained the foundation of Mr.
dolph’s charge, made at a moment of temporarjl
irritation. He said that old Mr. Adams relu-nl
to adopt against France the measures which
party desired, and showed himself in that rcstiect
at least more an American than a Bartizan.
was that course of policy of Mr. Adams which
commanded his approbation and induced hioi f:1
to express himself at the time.—Mr. Randolph
remembered the expression, But probably forgot
the particular subject of it, and thus the very f" 1 J
which proved him to belong to the Republic
party of 1800, long years afterwards, is separatee
from its attendant circumstances and usedtopro vC
him a Federalist. Gen. Harrison expressed biro
self with much earnestness on the injustice whick
was thus attempted to be inflicted on iriscbatac
terin his native State, in which, when truth afi
vtrtue and honor had suffered violence e' er ?
where else, he hud hoped they would survive.
General Harrison alluded to several other
stances of gross misrepresentations or absolute
falsehoods industriously and shamefully prop
ted Ivy a party press. “It seems almost incredib**!
fellow-citizens” said he, “but it is ttue that ft l - 1
a long speech, filling several columns otap-T f
two short sentences have been taken free* ditfv
ent parts of it. —these two sentences, sepjr* lft, (
from their context, are put together, my name 3
Inched to them, and published throughout the
as an authenticated document.” He dcpb )riJ
the state of public sentiment which could udera e
such a system of party action, and trusted lor "
honor of his country and the hopes of Itbc'ff
i that the reformation of such abuses would fo [ s
be wrought out by the force of a pure and heat-.’
public opinion.
“ Why, fellow citizens,” said General f- arrl
son, “I hare recently in that House (pointing
the State house) been charged with Ugh olknf* 5
against rny country, which, if true, ought to c***
me ray life.”—“Yes.” continued he, ‘ accu?ali° f ’
were there laid to my charge which being e?-•
lished, would subject me even now to the
est penalties which military law inflicts— U r ‘
have always heard that an officer may i)’ 11
cape the responsibilities of misconduct ly
ing his commission. These charges were t
made by rny companions in arms, by the eye ''j
nesses of my actions, by the great and good
brave men who fought hv my side or under n ’.
command. They tell a different story, m l *’..
evidence, clear, unequivocal, and distinct *-