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CHROMCLL AM) SENTINEL. a u a v s t \. 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 *-