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. ®CHRONI'SLE AND SENTINEL.
' A IJGUSTA.
* MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3.
* FOB. PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
.for vice-president,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9S—
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee."
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The Committee appointed to make arrangements
to carry into effect the object of the meeting held
to appoint Delegates to the Macon Convention, re
quest tke Delegates appointed in each district in the
county, and those appointed for the city, to make
arrangements so as to meet at Fenn’s Bridge, on
the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of
August next.
The Delegates appointed from the county of
Burke,to the Convention to be held in Macon, on
the second Thursday in August next, are requested
to meet in Waynesboro’ on the first Tuesday in
August, to make arrangements preparatory to their
journey.
Burke county. July 27, IS4O.
We call the attention of our friends to the arti
cle below, taken from the Macon Messenger. We
1 would urge upon the Delegates, and all other citi
zens ■who can possibly attend, to do so. Let no
minor or trivial circumstance prevent your atten
dance, for it will be one of Georgia’s proudest
day's —a day that will strike Van Burenism with
terror throughout the State. We say again, turn
out, turn out, the accommodations will be ample,
and it will indeed be a “feast of reason and a flow
of soul.”
Room—Room—Room.
We again take occasion to say to our friends
abroad we have ample room for the accommoda
tion of all who are disposed to attend our conven
tion. The house of every Harrison man in the
city will have the string of the latch of the door
on the outside and a hearty welcome to greet ail
comers.
Ample provisions are also made for stabling
horses. Let no one be detained from coming,
from any apprehension of the want of accommo”
dation.
44 The cry is, still they Come !”
Every paper brings us the gratifying intelli
gence of Delegates appointed to the Macon Con
vention. They count by hundreds, and our
friends must make sacrifices of private conven
iences, if necessary, and give us their attendance.
When once here, our citizens will take good care
of them. We will cater for them a “ feast of
reason and flow of soul,” from which not one
will depart dissatisfied. We are requested to say
that ample arrangements will be made by the
Committee for the accommodation of Ladies,
who are earnestly invited to attend. —Macon
Messenger.
The celebration of the 4th ult., at Knoxville,
Tenn., was a brilliant affair. B,oUO Whigs were
at the Harrison dinner—and 450 Democrats at the
\an Eruen dinner. Tennessee is wide awake and
will do her duty.
The cry is, still they come.
“THE LAST LINK IS BROKER.”
The Belvidere (N. J.) Apollo, stales that the
Hons James Parker, of Middlesex, and Dr.
Scuenck, of Somerset, both formerly administra
tion members of Congress from New Jersey, and
supporters of Mr. Van Burenin 1836, attended
the Whig meeting at New Brunswick—and at
tended as Whigs and warm supporters of Harri
son. It is one of the hardest things in the world
for a man who is honest and intelligent , to re
main the friend of the administralion now.—
Many more who have but recently renounced
Locolbcoism were in attendance at the meeting.
Still Another—The Hon. Levi Beardsley.
The New York Times of the 27th says:—“ln
passing down Broadway we called at the How
ard House, where was assembled a tremendous
meeting of the Democratic Republican Tippeca
noe Club of the Eighth Ward. We entered the
room just in time to hear Mr. Beardsley close a
speech which was received with six hearty cheers
by the friends of Harrison and Reform.
Mr. Beardsley was in the Senate of our State
from 1831 to 1839, and was the acknowledged
leader of the Democratic partyin the Legislature.
The treachery of Mr. Van Buren has broken
up the old Democratic party. The elements,
however, remain, and the principles by which
the party was first embodied under Jefferson,
will finally re-assemble all the honest and faith
ful, under the broad banner of HARRISON and
REFORM.
From the National Inttligencer,
The Letter of Dr. Davis, which has been com
municated to us for publication, and will be found
in our columns to-day, cannot fall, as well from
its contents as from ttie position of the writer,
to attract the attention of our readers. Dr. Da
vis was a member of the Baltimore Convention
of May last; has been well known as one of the
Union party of South Carolina ; has for ten years
in succession represented one of the most popu
lous and intelligent districts of South Carolina
in its Legislature ; and was the political and con
fidential friend of Gen. Jackson during the polis
ical contests of his day, and since. It is certain
ly no ordinary case of secession from a great par
ty when an individual thus situated feels himself
bound to break off from them. We commend
to our Southern readers especially the general
diffusion of the letter which explains his reasons
for so doing.
To the Voters of the Thirteenth Congressional
District of Tennessee.
Having been sent by a portion of you as a
Delegate to the National Democratic Convention,
held in the city of Baltimore on the sth of May,
I conceive it my duly, however painful to com
municate to you the state of things here.
After the adjournment of the Convention, I
came to this city to await the publication of the
address of the Convention, in orlerlhat I might
be enabled to send you copies.
In addition to this, I transmitted to you such
documents and speeches as I supposed would pro
mote the Democratic cause in Tennessee. Things
appeared to go on very well until the 14th of
June, when Mr. Botts, of Virginia, presented to
Congress the memorial of Lieut. Hooe, of the
Navy, protesting against the testimony of two
negroes, who had been introduced as evidence
against him on his trial before a court martial
recently held at Pensacola. After I had examin
ed the case most carefully, in which it seems the
Secretary of the Navy, the Attorney General,
and the President of the United States all con
curred in opinion, it struck me that the President
had, perhaps been misrepresented. This decis
ion involves at once the great principle for
which the South is contending, and on which
the Peresident’s popularity is founded. I, there
fore determined to call on him, and after a few
remarks in relation to the trial of Lieut. Hooe, I
inquired of him whether he knew at the time he
approved the sentence of the court that two ne
groes had given testimony in the easel To
which he replied in the affirmative. I observed
to the President that, without some explanation
other than that which I had seen, it would have
a bad effect on the South. He then observed
that a full explanation would be published by the
House of Representatives to-day. I went to the
Capitol, and on entering the Representative Hall
I tound the House engaged in the discussion of
the question, which resulted in the postponement
of the printing of the documents. The day fol
lowing, however,the Globe gave what the Presi
dent deems a “ full explanation” of the matter.
After reading the explanation of the Globe, I
could not find satisfactory explanation ; but, on
the contrary, it appeared to me that the President
had assumed the ground of justification by con
tending that it had been the usage of the Navy
to admit negro evidence on court martials.
lam aware ihat under the common law there
is no distinction known as to persons, yet I do
content! that the President, in approving the pro
ceedings of the court martial, ought to have ex
pressed his disapprobation of the negro evidence.
With this qualification his political friends at
least would have been satisfied.
It will not do to tell us that the President had
no control of the mutter—that it would not have
been proper for him to have interfered. The
case is within the recollection of many of us
where, after the court martail had decided, the
General in command reversed the decision, and
ordered a new trial.
Now, if it be competent that a subaltern can
reverse the decision of a Court, I presume that
no one will deny that the Commander-in-chief has
the authority.
This is a question of vital importance to every
man in the United Slates—and it will not do for
the President to look with indifference, not to say
with approbation, upon it.
t have watched this question through all its mu
tations. The opposition will no doubt, avail
themselves of this false step of the President to
promote their own political views.
This is a strange indifference, a total absence
on the part of the President, of that watchful and
ardent solitciude which the very nature of the sub
ject is calculated to inspire, ami what it was his
province to guard and defend. It is now said by
members of Congress that they will pass a law
to prohibit in future the introduction of negro
testimony agaiust a white man. It is too late;
the poison has been infused; all the law’s on
earth cannot heal the deadly influence.
Tell me not of your fanatics and abolitionists,
when the highest officer known to your laws and
your Constitution admits the fact that a negro
is a competent witness against a white man. Is
this your Northern man with Southern feelings 1
And is this the man we are to rely upon when the
day of peril and of danger may come?
But it is contended that Lieut. Hooe was con
victed without the negro testimony. Then why
introduce it? Was it to jeer and taunt the feel
ings of the South? We are not now trying
Lieut. Hooe, but testing an all-important princi
ple—one intimately connected with our political
and social relations.
The principle of the admission of negro testi
mony at all is the question ; not what they did or
did not prove. And if it be a fact, as stated, that
the respondent was convicted without the negro
evidence, then it is a gratuitous assault upon the
policy and institutions of the South.
This case presents to the mind the most sii gu
lar and extraordinary anomaly in reference to that
portion of the Union supposed to have Northern
feelings and Northern prejudices on the subject of
slavery. In Pennsylvania, with her quakcr pop
ulation always opposed to slavery in the abstract
she has declared that a negro, within the view of
the Constitution, is not entitled to all the privi
leges and immunities of a whiteman. In Con
necticut Chief Justice Dagget, in the Tappan ne
gro school case, decided that a negro was not a
free man or citizen within the meaning of the
Constitution of the United States.
By the laws of South Carolina, and, perhaps
of all the Southern Slates, the admission of ne
gro testimony is prohibited in the trial of a white
man. Yet, in the face of these facts, and within
a Southern Territory, negroes are permitted to
give testimony, and the proceedings of the court
approved by the President of the United States !
The charge of abolitionist comes illy from that
quarter now, since the President has officially de
clared that he saw nothing wrong in the proceed
ings of a court in which two negroes had given
evidence against a white man.
If we arc to have a President holding opinions
adverse to the interest, of the South, give us one
born South of the Potomac river—one whose
early associations, habits* and education would
make him act with caution, if not with propriety ,
however much he might in the abstract be op
posed to slavery. E. S. DAVIS.
Washington, July, 1840. 1
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The New York Courier states, upon good au- ]
thority, that the “Riggers, Carpenters, Caulkers, ]
&c. at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, have not, tor (
the past sir weeks, received a cent of pay for their
services.” Shame, shame on a government that
will not pay the hard earnings of the industrious
mechanic.
C« rrespondence of the North American
New York, 3 P. M. July 28, 1840.
Money stocks are a bit steadier to-day, though
only small sales have been made.—There is also
a rather better business in cotton. The sales of
the morning are 500 or 600 bales.
Flour remains quiet, and although $5 is de
manded for all Gennessee, 6d less has been taken
in some instances. The demand is light.
Corn and rye arc so so.
Domestic Exchanges. — Philadelphia 3| a
Baltimore ; Richmond Charleston a
3; Augusta 9 a9J; Macon 10J; Savannah 7£
a8; Mobile 8£ aßs ; New Orleans a 7
?
St Louis 8 ; Louisville 7£ ; Cincinnati 7; Nash
ville 12L
Bills on London, 6 J a 7 ; bills on Paris, 5.27^
i
a 5,30.
The Alexandria Gazette says:—We rejoice, in
the firm conviction, that the people of his country
are now thoroughly aroused to a sense of the
true condition of affairs. This has never before
been effected ; but we think the CRISIS is now
acknowledged. The opponents of the Adminis
tration have now, what they always wanted, per
fect union, organization, and enthusiasm. The
PEOPLE are up/ There can be no mistake.
With a good cause, and a candidate, the popu
lar fervor has been excited, and the prospect
ahead is, GEN. HARRISON for President, and
BETTER TIMES for the Country.
The Rev. Mr. Spear, of Charleston has been
chosen Rector of the'nevv Protestant Episcopal
Church of St. Luke’s in Philadelphia, and has
accepted the appointment.
The St. Louis Bulletin of the 18th instant
says;—“Twelve Mackinaw boats belonging to the
American Fur Company, arrived yesterday from
the Rocky Mountains, loaded with robes and skins
to the value of about $7 0,000.
Reasons for C hange.
The following are the plain-spoken reasons
given by Wat. H. Guay, Esq. editor of the States
man, published at Vevay,in Indiana, for having
abandoned his former association with the Van
Buren parly, to lend his aid to the cause of Hai ris
en and Reform :
TO THE PUBLIC.
As we have been somewhat associated with
the Van Buren party for some years past, it may
occasion some little surprise, affected or real, in
certain quarters, on seeing our name at the head
of this paper. A proper deference, therefore, to
our former associates, compels'u« to frankly state
that we have abandoned the support of the pres
ent Administration, not because we are tired of
true Democratic principles, or ot the great mass
of honest men with whom we have heretofore
acted, but because we are tired, disgusted, and
even alarmed at the anti-democratic and danger
ous practices of those who enjov the confidence
of that party : because we can no longer support
an Administration of corruption, whose practices
notoriously at war with its professions, and
whose pernicious influence, like the poisonous
breath of the sirocco, is now sweeping over the
length and breadth of this land, carrying moral
death and destruction in its onward course!-—an
Administration which, in the outset, laid down
economy and the integi iiy of the public function
aries as its leading principles, but whose prac
tices have been so little in accordance with these
principles that the public expenditures have been
almost trebled; and instead of integrity among
public functionaries,the modern Democratic prin
ciple that to the “victors belong the spoils,” and
the scrupulous exactness with which Mr. Van
Buren carries it rut, has rendered the tens of
thousands of offices within the gift of the Presi
dent as merely so many means wherewith to
reward partisan services ; thus openly encour
aging political and moral depravity, ana proclaim
ing to the world that, in this enlightened and
Christian republic, venality and parly subservien
cy are quo ed at a premium by its Executive !
Fellow-citizens, this may seem very strong
language, but we sincerely regret that the facts
justify it. Our faith in the honesty and purity
of purpose of the present Administration was long
since shaken ; but parly spirit , that incubus
infests the land, pride of opinion, and other cau
ses conjoined, induce us to overlook many of its
shameful practices, in the vain hope that they
were the result of temporary parly excitement;
but developments are daily making which satisfy
us, at least, that such is not the case, but, on the
contrary, that they are the inevitable results ofa
settled course of policy, which, if longer persisted
in, will change the character, if not cause the
entire annihilation of our institutions. It is a
well-known fact that nine- tenths, if indeed not
all, the appointments made by Mr. Van Buren
■ have been, as rewards for past, or as bribes for
future pattisan services, without the slightest
regard to the honesty or capacity of the individ
uals thus appointed, and many of whom are no
toriously known as the most servile, unprincipled
scoundrels, morally and politically, that this or
any other country could possibly afford.
Loss of the Ship Republican of this
Pout.—The ship Republican, McKenzie, 14
days hence for New Orleans, struck on Elbow
Key, on the night of the 6th inst., and before
morning filled with water. A letter from the
Captain says that a portion of the most valuable
part of her cargo will be saved.
Capt. Gaggcm, of the schr. Wellington, arri
[ ved at Boston, reports that the crew remained by
her three days, and saved part of her cargo, sails,
: rigging, &c. Alter they left, she look fire, (sup
posed set on fire by the wreckers,) and was con
sumed to the water’s edge. Three of the crew,
have arrived in the Wellington.
The R. was owned by Messrs. Johnson and
J Louden, and valued at about $40,000, which,
; together with $3,500 on the freight, was insured
here. The cargo consisted chiefly of dry goods,
> liquors, and about 300 bundles of hay, all of which
- may be estimated to be worth about; $ 100,000, a
; good portion of which is insured at the South.—
i Jonr. of Com.
> .
t Irwinton (Ala.) July 25.
! Lr. Cullen Battle has laid upon our table a
t large boll of cotton, fully matured, and displaying
- its snowy “lint” in a truly beautiful style. It has
- been presented to a young friend, who is about
i to leave the sunny south forever, and we doubt
not but the first cotton of the season will open
s the eyes of the Northerners.
3 The Corn and Cotton crops throughout the
3 Country are beautiful—so those say who know.—
1 Champion.
From the New Orleans Bee.
Result in Louisiana-Popular Vote,
The fruits of the contest in Louisana may be
briefly stated to be two out of the three members
of Congress, a majority of not less than three, and J
perhaps five on joint ballot—an overwhelming ma- 1
jority of the popular vote, and the assurance, a
mountjng to absolute certainty, that the State will
cast her electoral vote for Harrison in November
next.
With regard to the popular vote, it is readily ar
rived at. In the first Congressional District, E. D.
White, (Whig,) is elected over Gilbert Leonard,
(Locofoco,) by 2,045 veles. In the second Dis
trict, John B. Dawson, (Locofo?o,) is elected oyer
T. G. Morgan, (Whig,) by 13 votes. In the third
District, John Moore, (Whig,) is elected over Rich
ard Winn, (Locofoco,) by —say 50 votes. Sub
tract 13—Dawson’s majority—fiom 2095, the ag
gregate majority of White and Moore, and we have
2082 as the majority of the popula«vofe.
Out of sixteen thousand votes, this might be
deemed an all-sufficient nnjority; but we shall do
belter in the fall. There will be then no local
considerations to distract the two part es. 'I he
third District will do her duty, and will give Har
rison from six hundred to eight hundred majority.
In the first we shall, at the very worst, hold our
own, and we shall strive to add a few hundred to
our present majority. The second will give a wiiig
majority, for General Dawson’s election is no test
of party strength in that district. He is omnipo
tent in that section of the His election by
13 votes, proves that the Whigs of the second dis
trict are clearly in the ascendant. V\e are sin
cerely of opinion that the majority for Harrison in
Louisiana, cannot fall below 2,500, and will very
likely exceed 3,000.
The trial of Monday, a slave, before the Inferior
Court of Chatham county, on the 29th ult., resulted
in a verdict of guilty. He is to be executed on
the 21st inst.
Among: the items of London news received by
the late arrivals, we find the following:
“An Attack on Robert Owen. —This notori
ous man was about to lecture at Barslam, Stafford
shire, on Socialism, when the populace rose, at
tacked him and his friends, and nearly killed seve
ral of them.”
We believe this same Mr. Chven was a locofoco
candidate for Congress in Indiana, at the last Con
gressional election in that State.
From the New York Star.
We commend to the attention of Mr. Benton and
his associates, the following notice of the “ better
currency” circulating in the “far South.” What
more perfect commentary upon the “sj ecic hum
bug” can be exhibited? Here is a specimen of the
glittering aspect of the silken purses!
6$ CENTS. CENTS.
Good to the bearer for 6| cents at the
Post Office in Tallahassee, payable in postage
or current Bank Notes.
Tallahassee, Flor. W. Hilliard.
From the Petersburgh Intelligencer.
u Why do the Heathen rage ? —Gen McDuf
fie’s letter has fallen like a bomb-shell i.ito the
midst of the log cabin—and slaved the cider bar
rels to fritters. The National Gazette, the Rich
mond Whig, and all the “common cry,” have
raised a simultaneous howl, as if melted brimstone
had been poured upon the mange of a legion of
curs in one line shower. We thought it would
produce a sensation — Charleston Mercury.
Mr. McDuffie in 1 S3l, was characteristically hot
in his denunciations of the Executive. He com
pared the deceptions of the Administration to those
ol the Veiled Prophet, and the delusions of its fol
lowers proportional to work ship of that ugly
caitiff. The friends of the President in Congress,
were delicately painted by Mr. McDuffie as “rep
tiles which crawled in their own slime up to the
lootstool of power.” The exclusive metallic doc
trines of tire Administration were thus stigmatized
by him,
“ Before that God to whom I am icsponsible for
what I say here, 1 do believe that the annals oi
human idolatry and delusion cannot furnish an ex
ample of more impudent, audacious, and monstrous
imposture, than that which the Administration is
attempting, and 1 tear with too much success, to
palm upon the People of the Failed States, under
t s c flimsy and delusive guise of returning to the
primitive simplicity of a ‘ hard money’ Govern
ment. Nothing that I have read, among all the
world, transcends its monstrous audacity.”
In his annual Message in December, 1836, he
spoke thus; “No .Statesman of Soutii Carolina,
could become associated with that Administration,
without justly incurring the imputation of becom
ing an accomplice in overthrowing the essential
guaranties of her vital interest .”
Truly has .Mr. McDuffie’s late letter produced a
sensation. Ought it not, in justice to himself ?
From the Petersburg Intellig.ncer.
Thrilling Incident.
The Hon. M r. Nisbitt, of Georgia, in addressing
the citizens of Petersburg, on Friday evening last,
alter pourlraying with a master’s hand, the wide
spread desolation which is sweeping over this once
prosperous and happy land, —reducing an over
flowing Treasury to bankruptcy, and this glo
rious Republic to the very verge of ruin,—con
cluded his powerful and eloquent speech by the
following anecdote :
A youth following the army of Harrison through
the trackless wilderness, is overcome by the diffi
culties and fatigues of a long and wearisome
march and falls exhausted in the ranks. In this
helpless and forlorn condition his catnpanions are
unable to assist him, but compelled to leave him
behind. At length, the Commander in-chics ob
serves him, and prompted by that benevolence of
soul which has always characterized him, he dis
mounts. and, placing the young man on his own
horse, cheerfully marches on foot with his sol
diers. The speaker then turning round and point
ing to Judge Chinn, the representative from
Louisiana, emphatically remarked, “and that is
the young man. ’ The tremendous applause of
the audience may be imagined but not described.
The Credit System.—Mr. PeltigruofS. C.,
in a recent letter, thus speaks of the Credit Sys
tem.
The truth is—our credit system is nothing of
a theory or speculation. It has not only stood
the test of experience, but rendered thecountrv
great and powerful. It is identified with our
prosperity ; and if subject to occasional abuse, is
not for (hut reason to be rejected, any more than
our liberties themselves are to be given up, because
they sometimes run into excess. But the men
in power, unfortunately for their future fame, as
well as their present p-ospects, are the very same
who on a recent occasion perpetrated the greatest
abuse of the credit system. It was by stimula
ting the State banks to enlarge their accommoda
tions after the removal of the deposites, that the
administration, of which the present incumbents
are in every sense the successors, laid the founda
tion for immoderate issues of paper, and all the
excesses that are now charged upon the system
itself.
The Rail Road again Torn up.— We leam
thgt the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, about a
month ago, affirmed the decision of the Court of
Quarter Sessions, in favor of the right of the
Philadelphia and 'Trenton Rail Road Company,
to lay down rails iit Front street. On Thursday
last, therefore, the company proceeded to act un
der the decision. They had progressed to a con
siderable extent, when, on Wednesday night, a
crowd of persons collected together, forced the
workmen from their places, and tore up the rails.
The decision of the Supieme Court, it would
therefore seem, is to pass for nothing.—Philadel
phia Inquirer , 24 th ult .
If Uncle Sarnivel’s Treasury Notes could speak,
what Roman patriot would they name ? Cash-us.
(Cassius.) —Salem Register.
From the Columbus Enquirer, of the 20th ult.
The Democratic, Republican Vau Burea
Colquitt Dinner.
On Monday last, the Hon. W. T. Colquitt ar
rived in this city. The event was announced by
the firing of cannon, and the busy moving oi his
new-fledged Jeffersonian Republican friends, has
tening to meet him and extend the light hand
of fellowship. This day (Tuesday,) was set apait
for the grand celebration of the victory obtained by
the Democrats in gaining so important an acquisi
tion to their tottering cause. While we write,
the thundering roar of the cannon breaks at inter
vals upon our ears. There is evidently great joy
and rejoicing among the Van Burenites on this
eventful occasion. It is the last hope of the party
in Muscogee. With a deep and anxious feeling,
have they anticipated th eeffect ®f their new friends
appeal now making to the assembled crowd offic
titious friends. Ths assembly now convened is
probably as large as was expected by the \anities.
The procession passed our office; and weave ena
bled from our count, there were precisely 552 —
including about 40 half grown boys. After pass
ing our otfice, we learn from a friend stationed at
another corner, they hid increased to 5C4, We
suppose the whole number may have reached 600
by the time the procession arrived at the place *f
dining. Os this number we should estimate at
least 200 to belong to the counties of Stewart,
Sumter, Talbot,Marion, and the neighboring coun
ties of Alabama. To this add the fojty boys
—and they have the number of 360—supposed
to he voters of the ecounty of Muscogee. —
This is full as large a number of our own people
as we expected to attend, and if we deduct the
small item of 50 Harrison men—(it is thought
there were as many in the procession.) we will
then have a fair showing of the \ an Huron forces
that could be rallied in his own counly, to do the
gentleman honor.
From the Richmond Whig.
Van Ilmen in 1812,
Gen. Root of New York, well known through
out the Union, as a distinguished leader of the war
party in that State, in IST2, tuan whom there is
not, nor was, in the Empire State, a more staunch,
consistent and uniform republican, in a letter late
ly written to a gentleman in Virginia in reply to a
question seeking the information, says: “As to the
statements of the‘Spy in Washington,’ (re-pub
lished in the Whig. May 26ih) in relation to Mr.
Van Buren’s course in 1812, I can say that the
great and important facts are correct.”
In the same lettei. Gen. R. refers to a speech de
livered by him in the Senate of New York, in
which he says, speaking of the Federal party,“they
made a desperate effort, under the name of the
‘Peace party,’ to defeat his (Mr. Madison’s) re
election, by the support of Mr, Clinton for that of
fice. In this enterprise,Mr. Van Huron was a very'
prominent and distinguished, and not very honora
ble actor. Mr. Madison was re-elected and Mr.
Van Huron fell in with the republican paity in the
support of the prosecution of the War.”
Here, Messrs. Editors, we have proof, strong
and veritable, to sustain the charge that Mr. Van
Buren acted with the Federal party in 1812, in op
posing the war, and the war-candidate for the Pre
sidency.
Gen. R. was a warm friend of Mr- Madison —a
zealous advocate of the war, and an active, effec
tive, leading member of the republican party of
those days. Os course, he knew who acted with
him and who against him. Gen Root is, and al
ways was, a man of hi_ r h character, sterling prin
ciples, and unimpeached integrity —and of conse
quence, is to he believed when hejspeaks, and, note
this: General R; is not a pampered pimp of “ the
powers that aie to he,” and must, therefore, be
considered disinterested and reliable. Under these
circumstances, should he not rather command cre
dence than Mr. Butler, et id omne genus, who
fatten upon the loaves and fishes of Executive
dispensation ?
That Mr. Van Huron acted with the Feds in op
position to the War and Mr. Madison’s re-election,
is matter of history, or at least of well authenti
cated tradition, which is almost as authoritative;
the fact is not denied, except by those who act on
the rule —“ Falsehood, oft repeated or certified to,
is as good as ruth.” DINWIDDIE.
Extracts from the Speech of Mr. Ogle, of
Pennsylvania.
But the Hero of North Bend is not less distin
guished for benevolence, and all the milder virtues
of the heart, than for his eminent military ai d
civil services. In him you behold the “friend of
the poor man ,” and the fast friend of those who
wore his brethren in arms. In evidence of this
amiable trait of character. 1 might refer ties com
mittee to one who now enjoy s the honor of a seat
on this floor, (Judge Chinn of Louisiana.)
He, when a boy, was in Gen. Hanison’s army',
but being young and unused to the hardships of a
soldier’s life, he was unable, without the utmost
difficulty, to keep np with the march of the troops;
he had fallen into the rt ar, and was in danger of
being left by the way, and falling into the hands
of a remorseless and savage foe ; Gen. Harrison
passed him on horseback, and perceiving and pity
ing his jaded condition, he immediately dismount
ed, lifted the boy into (lie saddle,and walkinghim
solf on foot, tnus rescued him from the savage
scalping knife.
At another time, the Rev. Mr Poe, a Methodist
circuit rider, came to the door of Gen. Ifnnison’s
abode, late in the evening, upon a feeble and j; dcd
horse, which he had ridden for hundreds of nines,
in his Master’s service, and sought a night’s lodg
ing. He was welcomed with open-hearted hospi
tality', and when ne was about to depart in the
morning, having protuunccd his benediction on the
household, he turned to lemouut his horse, but
found, to his great surprise, his own sadd e and
saddle-bags on the back, not of his former horse,
for that over-ridden animal had died in the stable,
but on the back of a fresh and far belter steed,
provided by' Gen. Harrison.
1 turn to gentlemen of the Administration, and
ask them to tell me the time when Martin Van
Buren ever did an act like this ? And 1 appeal to
the clerical brethren of that grateful preacher, and
adc thorn Whether, at the coming election, they
will forget the old man who acted the part of the
good Samaritan towards their brother in the Chiis
tian ministry. The priest and the Levile passed
by me unfortunate man, wlra J:iy wounded by' the
wayside, but the good SamaritaF poured oil and
wine into his wounds, and sat him on his own
beast. What act could be more strictly in the
spirit of the Christian religion ?
Nor will the Irishmen soon forget him. A poor
but worthy son of the Emerald Isle, who had lost
a fortune which ho expected to inherit, was repre
sented to Gen. Harrison us desiring a certain clerk
ship within his gift; the same appointment was
al;o desired by several of the sons of his rich
neighbors, but, having inquired into the case, he
passed them all by and gave the clerkship to the
unfortunate stranger. Will the Irish array them
selves against the man who, in this very Hall,
made an eloquent and feeling speech in favor of
granting a tract of land in Illinois to “ Irish emi
grants This memorable effort of Gen. Harri
son, on behalf of the poor, oppressed, and down
trodden children of Ireland, was called forth by a
resolution introduced by JMr. Clagett, ol New
Hampshire, in the following words ;
“ Resolved, That it is expedient to authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury to designate and set a
part -townships, each of six miles square, in
the State of Illinois * * * TO BE SETTLED
BY EMIGRANTS FROM IRELAND, at two dol
lars per acre, to be paid in three instalments, as
follows: one-third part at the end of four years;
one-third part at the end of eight years,-and cne
third pan at the end of twelve years, with interest
on the several sums.”
Which of the two men will the Irish emigrant
recognise as his friend—the man who
• their eloquent advocate, or Martin Van Buren, the
author of a pamphlet under the title of “ CONSID
ERATIONS,” written during the summer of 1819
lor the express purpo-e of recommending for ap
pointment, as a member ol the United States Sen
- ate, Rufus King, of New York—a Hartford Con
vention, black cockade federalist, who, as Minis
ter at the Couit of King George, did his utmost to
prevent the oppressed sons of the “ Emerald Isle ”
from receiving a welcome on these shores, and the
franchise ol freemen in their adopted country ?
v ir, this is too important a portion of Martin
Van Buren s biography to be passed over without
a recurrent c to some historical facts. I have be
fore me a remarkable part of that history, which
can never be obliterated from the memory of every
intelligent and true hearted Irishman, in the form
Thn™ Ctt A a i^ d i reSSed by the late distinguished
Jt E v d ? Emmett to Rufus King, and dated
2 J P u‘ 9th ’ 1837 - The letter is 100
if tn tK I rV h * whcle of 5 1 Will, however, send
roo i Vi eidc 3 that such portions may be
read as I have marked with my pen :
“In the summer of 1798 afi.
the people of Ireland for their aft*.,.
I ten dispersed or surrendered 'M
had taken refuge in the mountai? pt - a W , 14 M
while military tribunals, houseo ur nil VVic C 9
tol lure, aid every kind of devastati 9
ling and overwhelming th ;
some o the State prisoners'ffi 9
entered into a negotiation with Jf,Si9
for effecting a general amnesty . ar V lsn
ment, offered, amongst other thin *
to the exam nation of your conduS’, 0t 9
such country as might he agreed ■
and the Government. S Upvn h
“ The offer was accepted • «■*» ** I F
was stopped for a time, and was no tl °°’ V H f «
after your interference, and after |9
18 try bad resolved openly to
us * s fai tt> m
“In the commencement of our nn . * W
Castlereagh declared, as a reason *
to Government possessing a ne*rativ» „ Urjc «<2 1
that it had no woise place in view f " our tbw 19
Hon than the United States of aJ ° r °’ Jr e %’
made our election to go there and K 1
to have our agreement carried into pv
that difficulty, YOU, sir, OFFm?" I *. k 9
EFFECTUAL ASSISTANCE TO Tun H
LESSNESS OF THE BRITISH 2 F %9*
“On the IGih September, M r V f T - I V
Under Secretary, came to info™ Sde H« *
KING HAD REMONSTRATED ap A
BEING PERMITTED TO FMrrS?i XST, SKI
MKiUCA. This astonished
Nevan very plainly said that he con?. I*H
TRICK BETWEEN Mr.
TLSH GOVERNMENT. This Mr 9
med; and, on being pressed to know?/?"*9
Mr. Kmg had for preventing us who o
republicans, from emigrating to Amerb>9
nihcantly answered, ‘ PERHAPS Bjß
DOKS NOT DESIRE TO HAVE Kppmlis| ?
IN AMERICA.’ Your interference I
made a pretext of detaining us f or w I
custody, by which very extensive I
of settlement within these State ? i
Ihe misfortunes Which you brought J !
jects of your persecution were incalcuhf? K
most all of us wasted the four best v li-1 \
As to me, I should have brought along J? 11
my father and his family, including „ 9
whose name perhaps, you will even notmd Jt' I
emotions of sympathy and respect. MM
connected with me would have become'
my emigration. But all of them had W I
Lom me. I have been prevented FROMmt'v- *9
A BROTHER ; FROM RECEIVING
UNO BLESSINGS OF A FATHER, MOTHn 1
AND SISTER, AND FROM SOOTHING iS - “
LAST AGONIES BY my CARES; AM) M
MB, B V YOUR UN W ARRAN TAB I £ avJv HI
FEELING INTERFERENCE. The step?' I '
was unauthorized by your own Government
Now. sir, for the benefit and information at i M
true Irishmen, I will connect the letter of .V-i
melt with a letter addressed by Martin VmR, ■
in the Autumn of 1819, to one of his friend
which 1 will read an extract:
“ / should sorely regret to find any 1
the subject of Mr. King. If e are committtii
support. It is both wise and honed
MUST HAVE NO FLUTTERING R(S 9
C OLRSE. Mr. King's views towards us artL ffl
orab e and correct. The Missomi questi(*t« Vj
ceals, so far as he is concerned, no plot a E a hB
shall give if a true direction. You "know
the feelings and views of our friends were».* vl '
saw you ; and you know what we then conch
to do. My ‘ considerations; Sec., and the
of the Argus, will show you that we haveeDttfS
on the work in earnest. We cannot, there:*
lookback. Let us not, therefore, have anyn;.
ing. I will put my head on its propriety.”
Now, sir, stopping but a moment to inquired j
Martin Van Buren, in tire letter just read nieu 1
or intended by the sentence, “ IVe are corn:; fS|
to his support .” Does lie mean that
made a bargain to sustain Mr. King? Iri. flj
desire to know what were ihe terms andcoDdita,. 9
the quid pro quo, of the arrangement upon wa
“we ” wore “ committed .” He says: “ifitjj »
wise and prudent ” to suppoit Mr. King. Wk I
“ both wise
ot the I tor the term of six vei." Jk
black cockade Hartford Convention Federal -IB
\\ as it “ both wise and prudent ! ’ to electtolklH
distinguished station the bitter enemy of Tiui9B
Addis Emmett, and the reviler and foe of» "M
down-trodden Irishmen ? Was it “ both win aiM
pi udent ” to send to the United States Senatel
man whom Emmett charged with naviug
when a lad, the livery of Sir John Tempiti
near relation of Mr. Emmett ? Ihese aieaL®.
per considerations for the patiiotic sons oU-Gb’ JH
Erin,” when Martin Van Buren calls upon:/.
to prefer him by their suffrages before the gsl’il
old soldier of North Bend, the friend of Use
Irish emigrant, and tiie man who has tnabkiv i
fi iendless and pennyless stranger to chaEjLl
“Irish Shamrock” into an c -Americanburkej
But. sir, will the democracy agree with Mr r
Buren tl at it was “both right and prudent" t
Rufus King to the Senate ? Can oiartin Varif- . i
reu not only oppose the election of James Ms* Wt
as President, but also write a Lcok in behah
“blue light,” “bla»k cockade,” Hertford i opsaj
tion Federalist, and stM letain the caste oLiAH
thodox liemocrat ? Can he be on*both sides. .f
creek at the same time ? 'J'o show what 1» : ™
by being on both sides of the democratic stes- .f- .
will tell you a little story.
There was an old Dutchman in our State'
had a most mischievous sow that was forever
kmg boi nds and doi: g damage in his net?
held, and liad i aused h.m more cost aodw ’
than she was worth; the old farmer bore r: f
a good while, but at last, bei oming exaspcra'!i®B
sw ore in his wrat i that if he heard of anyrff I
her capers, he would kill her as sure as she* 1 - f
on four feet. Well, the very next day theoHs®|
committed a new trespass, and, dreading thee®
ing vengeance, ran among the reeds and tall r® «
which covcicd the banks of a sunken creek.
grass was so high that the sow herself tould» : B
seen, but her motions were guessed at by tiifi®
king of the grass. The farmer judged, from "•
appearances, that she was on the other side
creek, and dashing through he made hot f--#
alter lier; but, as soon as he had gotten over.®® 1
sow seemed to be on this side of the creet :; Y
after the enraged man had crossed the creelP |d|
or three times, he all at oucc stood still.and“
to his son, who was aiding him inthechs*'
exclaimed, “ Why, Cliaik, I piieve
hilTlsck' kas*gwi into dat sow, for she’? !
side-- of the creek at the same time.” -Vaitic' ,|
Buren is trying to emulate this old c ovv, s CL J| ,
thinks, like her, he can hide in ihe grass,and 'N
I will not dispute that the devil may have?"
into him, yet 1 iasist that he shall stay on ons
or the other. He cannot send an old Federal' ,
the Senate of the United States for thcpuT' f
excluding the State of Missouri fiom _ the
without slie would consent to the abolition ' 1
very within her borders, and yet (aim s
on the democracy of the country as a
ocrat, and a fast friend of the institution ol sli f.
ry,as he now pretends to be.
Gen. Harrison tells his countrymen on
ciples he will administer the Government." j
ed; and what are they f We have them
language
“ 1. To icnfme his service to a single term.
“11. To disclaim all right of control ev ; .j
public treasure, with the exception of sue I
tas ma; [he appropriated by law to carr v ,jj |
public service, and that to be applied P re Sl''|
the law may cited, and drawn from the |
agreeably to the long-established forms ol
partment. .
“ 111. That he should never attempt j
the elections either by Uie People or the - , f
gislatures, nor suffer the Federal officers u ,^ t .
control to take any o'her part in them t“ aI ’ ||
ing their own votes, when they possesst
voting. ffef ji(
“IV. That in the exercise of the veto
should limit his rejection of bills to,
are [This opinion unconstitutional; flj
tend to encroach on the rights of the 4 . frfS & -
dividuals; 3d. Buch a<, involving deep r
may in his opinion require more mature j|
tion orreference to the will of the Peop e >
ceitained at the succeeding elections. : n q
“ V r . That he should never suffer the . ■
of his office to be used for purposes ei a p
ty character. f thgS e
“ VI. That in removals from office o ~.p o( !'*W
hold their appointments during T he P lea
Executive, the cause ©f such rcm° va
stated, if requested, to the Senate at u
nomination oi a succcessor is made.
“ And last, but not least in important' fllti rs
“VII. That he should not suffer t!,e # ‘
department of the Government to
source oflegislatioa; but leave the * 1 ) 1
ol caakiag laws for the Union to ihe P