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CHROMCLfci AND SENTINEL.
••AU«U s T A .
FRIDAY MORIiJING, AUGUST 7.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican —
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOB, VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
for ELECTORS OI PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
* ?OEL 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 Buike.
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 Jetferson.
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 the Delegates appointed in each district in the
county, and those appointed for the city, to make
arrangements so as to meet at I emus Biidge, on
the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of
August next.
The National Intelligencer of the 3d says : Ob
serving in the Georgia Journal of the 2Sth ultimo a
statement copied from this paper ol the 21st ult.
that Mr. Habersham, the respected Representative
from Georgia, who had been iil, was recovering, .
we regret to be obliged now to say that Mr. Haber
sham is at this moment quite ill, in this city. He
was reported better when we published the para
graph in question ; but his disorder tooii an unla
vorable turn afterwards. We now- hope that he
may survive his present severe illness, but bis
friends have been serieusly apprehensive for the
event of it.
Extract of a letter from Sumter county, to a
friend in this city, dated
Americus, July 22, 1840.
I assure you the cry of “ Harrison and Retorm ’
is now the watchword in South-western Geoigia^
I have recently travelled through the counties of
Stewart, Randolph, Early, and Sumter, and found
the people every where prepared to battle with
thgg,spoilsmen ; the truth is, they have had enough
of t'ue unparalleled faithlessness, and unmitigated
c irruption of the present Administration and the
list, both the “ illustrious predecessor,” and the
* follower in the footsteps.” they have witniss
ed promises made and unscrupulously broken,
pledges made long since, which have never been
redeemed. They have seen and felt the wide
spread ruin, which every where meets the eye,and
they have sufficient sagacity to discover who are,
(in part at least.) the authors of it. They have
seen an Administration attempting to perpetuate
its power, by practising on the odious and detesta
ble maxim of a corrupt English statesman, that
“ evary man has his price ;” and be assuied that
they will rise in the majesty of their strength on
the first Monday in November next, and “ expel
the Vandals from Rome.”
We had a meeting here at Americus a few days
ago, and selected one hundred and ten delegates to
attend the Macon meeting, and it was soon ascer
tained that so many wished to go, that it w r as re
solved that the whole County should go «en
masse,” or as many as wished to go. In Stewart,
and other counties around, the people have resolv
ed to go to Macon in a body.
It is slated that Capt. Talcott, of the U. S. En
gineers, Prof. Ronwick, of Columbia College, and
Prof. Cleveland, of Ohio, have been appointed by
the President commissioners for exploration and
survey of tho North Eastern Boundary, under the
late act of Congress appointed appropriating $25,-
000 for the purpose.
Augusta, August 5, IS4O.
The Tippecanoe Association of Ward No. 2, met
at the Eagle and Phenix Hotel. M. M. Dye, Pre
sident, in the Chair, J. G. Dunlap, Secretary pro.
tem. The object of the meeting being stated, it
was moved that a committee of live be appointed,
to select a conmittee to meet with the committee
of the other Associations and Captains districts, for
the purpose of selecting cadidates fer the Legisla
ture. *
The following gentlemen were appointed the
committee of five: W. T. Gould, W. L. Owens,
John Campbell, C. J. Cook, and A. L. Patterson.
Who retired, and in a few minutes reported the
names of the following gentlemen, as delegates
from this Association, to the meeting to be held
for the selection of candidates for tho Legislature :
Jesse Kent, B. H. Warren, and James M. Dye,
which was adopted by the meeting. It was then
Resolved, That all members of this Association,
who can attend the approaching Convention at
Macon, be considered as delegates from this Asso
ciation, and authorized to represent us accordingly,
Mr. T. W. Miller being called for, rose and ad
dressed the meeting.
Col. Berrien, of Jefferson, who was present, was
invited to tike part in the meeting, and gave som*
very interesting fads, relative to the cause of Re
form in the counties of Burke and Jefferson.
Col. Gould was called for, and responded in a
short address. Adjourned.
M. M. DYE, President.
J. G. Dunlap, Secretary pro to*.
Augusta, August 1,1840.
At a meeting of the Third Ward Tippecanoe
Club, held at Lamback’s long room on Friday eve
ning, the Ist inst , Dr. F. M Robertson in the
Chair, when the following resolution was offered
by I. A. Hibler, unanimously adopted.
Resolved , That acommittee be appointed to select
three delegates to unite with the delegates from
the other Clubs and Associations, for the purpose
of selecting suitable candidates for the Legislature.
In pursuance with the above resolution the com
mittee appointed by the Chair for selection of dele
gates, appointed Messrs. W. M. D’Antignac, F. M.
Robertson, and Louis Cress, Esq.
When the following resolution was offered and
received by toe Secretary and unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That those members of the Third
Ward Tippecanoe Club who have not been appoint
ed on the general delegation to the Macon Conven
tion, be and are appointed delegates to represent
this Club in said Convention.
Thomas W. Miller, Esq., and Dr. F. M. Robert
son, addressed the meeting, after which, on motion
the meeting adjourned.
F. M. ROBERTSON, Vice Pres’t.
John S. Hutchison, Secretary.
The population of Upper Canada, which in 1820
was 105,980, is now about 450,000. The popula
tion of Toronto is about 13,000-
Cold W ater. —A new set of candidates for med
ical popularity have sprung up in Germany, who
under the guidance of Vincent Priesnitz, a farmer
of Graefenburg, in Austrian Silesia, profsss to cure
all diseases by the internal and external applica
tion of pure and cold Watr.
From the Adrian (Mich.) Whig,
Kendall Again.
Let freemen read the following correspondence.
Let it be copied extensively, so that it may be
seen who is at the head of the Extra Globe:
Washington, June 28lh, 1840.
My Dear Sir, I take the liberty to enclose you
an Address and Prospectus for the Extra Globe,
hoping that it may be compatible with your incli
nation and sense of duty to use them for the
purpose of procuring and returning subscribers.
If in that hope I shall be disappointed, I solicit
of you the favor to hand it over to some friend of
the administration who may be inclined to use it
for the purpose.
All the numbers from the beginning can still
be had, a large number having been printed, al
though the present subscription exceeds 30,000
copies. With great respect, \our friend,
AMOS KENDALL.
Raisin, Lenawceco. Michigan.
Sir, I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 28 th ult. enclosing your Address and
Prospectus, and after due consideration, I return
them, “franked” as they came, although I have
my doubts about its being agreeable to law so to
do. Yet if contrary to law, I can plead your own
precedent as extenuation for my exercise of the
“franking” privilege, and for my charity in saving
fifty cents of the “hard currency ” in which your
soul so much delights, for yourself and needy
family.
I will give you a few plain reasons why f return
to the source from which they emanated without
complying with your request. Your language is
not republican. It is not such as one democrat
should use to another where democratic equality
is professed to be reciprocally acknowledged.
You speak of “sense of duty.” —What do you
mean by that, Sir I Do you mean that because
I have had a petty office, once dependent on your
favor, that I am bound to forego all independence
of character, and serve you from a “sense of
duly?” Talk that language, Sir, to the “serfs” of
Russia, Democrats scorn it. They owe no alle
giance to w'ould-be dictators or upstart dema
gogues.
You pretend to be patriotic and zealous for
your country. Your pastconduct belies your pro
fessions. You have acted a prominent part in the
councils of those who have brought our country
to the verge of ruin, and our republic to the thres
hold of a monarchy. I think I understand your
motives.
You talk the same language which the Robes
piers, Dantons, and Cajsars have always talked.
While you profess democracy and love for the
dear people you are artfully sapping the veiy
foundations of that democracy,
Again you are most insultingly hypocritical.
You talk in your Address about members of the
Whig party “ Franking” documents, when you
know that Van liurenites have “franked” three to
their one, a large proportion of which are bully
Duncan’s blackguardisms, which you arc pleased
to say “have a spice of coarseness suited to the
Western people.”
Quite a compliment, indeed, and one for which
they will doubtless thank you and your master
as they should at the ballot box next November.
The charge of “contempt for the people,” which
you are pleased to prefer against Harrisonians is,
from the above false issue particularly applicable
to yourself.
You say a “sham hero ” was presented to the
people in the person oflla . And pray, sir,
wl e was you when the battle of Tippecam .
Fort Meigs, and the Thames was fought I Wheie
was you when Harrison the “sham hero,” as you
are pleased to call him, chased a flying foe into
the heart of Canada, and their conquered him ?
Was you teaching school in Kentucky, or like
a poisonous basalisk in the sunshine of Mr. Clay’s
favor, or oppo- g Mr. Madison and the War,
like your master, Van Burenl Answer these
questions to your own conscience.
Surrounded with court splendors in the gor-
furnished palace of Mr. Van Buren, you
may imagine that the people will sustain you and
and him in your aristocratic pride and pomp, be
cause you profess democracy, Deceive not your
self, sir. To show in what estimation the hardy
back woodsmen and “log cabin boys” regard
you, Michigan will give “Old Tip” two thousand
majority next fall, in spite of your “Extra Globe.”
Note it down now in a book, and mark the re
sult. As my sheet is full, I now close with this
remark—ls my office is considered the price of
obedience to monarchical dictation, it is at the
service of those who gave it.
With correct opinions as to
your character, I am, sir,
DARIUS C. JACKSON,
P. M. Raisin.
Found between Belleville and Bloomfield, in
this county, on the 9th inst., by a person plough
ing in a lot where the timber had lately been
cleared off, 8 Bank .We Copper Plates, sup
posed to be counterfeits, and from their appear
ance to have laid in the ground several years.
They appear to be in good condition. Two ot
, the plates purport to be of tue Planters’ Bank,
Georgia, one of SIOO and one of $50 —two of the
Bank of Augusta, Geo. one ofsloo and one of
S2O: one of the Bank of America, N. Y., ofslo
—two of the United States Bank, one of SSOO
and one of SSO, and one unfinished plate engra
ved on both sides : on one side for SIOO, on the
other SSO : all of which appear to be well exe
cuted.— Newark Advertiser.
A Speech ol Senator Preston.
There was on Tuesday, 7th July, an immense
gathering of the friends of General Harrison at Eliz
abethtown, New Jersey, who were addressed by
Senator Talimadge, Mr. Ketchum, of New York,
and Senator Preston, of South Carolina. Mr. Pres
ton succeeded Mr. Ketehum, and his appearance
was the signal for a round of cheers that made the
welkin rn g again, as we learn from the New York
American. When silence was restored, Mr. P'
3 thus began, as reported by the American ;
Fellow-Citizens —Gentlemen of New Jf.r
, set : I appear before you under so many disadvan
tages, some of which are obvious, and others I
I shall mention, that I should, under any ordinary
circumstances, content myself with acknowledg
t ing, in brief, but grateful terms, ray deep sense of
the kindness and cordiality with which I have
1 been welcomed by you. But there is something
; in my heart that I would fain speak out, and which
forbids my leaving the soil of New Jersey without
relieving my breast of the burden which oppresses
' it. I come from a recent rapid tour, not unaccom
panied by labor. I have been up the noble Hud
son, and, in the spirit of the people at Poughkeep
sie, on its shores, and in its wide and deep current,
I have seen emblems of the progiess, of the sure
I and irresistible progre s, of the principles for
which we are contending. Last night, too, in New
York, I addressed an assembly, only smaller than
1 this because inclemency of the weather circum
- scribed it within walls. Hence I appear before you
. worn down; and this is one of the disadvantages
to which 1 referred. lam a stranger to —(General
1 exclamations of “ No, no, you are no stranger.”)
I take back the word, exclaimed Mr. P., with
. energy; I am not a stranger to New Jersey. I
have read you in your history. I have heard from
1 the lips of my own ancestors, who stood shoulder
to shoulder with yours on your own soil, of the he
roism and sufferings of New Jersey ; and from the
days of my boyhood, I have longed to tread the
fields consecrated by so much gallantry and en
deared by so many associations. I am, too, a citi—
i zen of tiie United States, and therefore no stran
ger ; a Whig, and therefore your brother.'' But un
der what circumstances do we meet ? How shall
I recur to the gallant deeds of your ancestors, and
reconcile your present position with the fact that
■ scarce a field but has been trodden by the foot of
, Washington—that not a spear of grass but was
wet with the blood of your fathers—that
Every sod beneath our feet
Has been a soldier’s sepulchre ?
How is it that the spirit of those days has not
roused you to unanimous opposition to the outra
ges you have been made to suffer ? What did your
ancestors fight for ? Read the enumeration of the
evils and wrongs they rose to avenge, and then ask
yourselv es if those now inflicted on you are fewer
in amount, or Jess exasperating in character; aid
yet you are tame. \ou are expel ed from the Un
ion, and yet you endure. Fellow-citizens, did I
say. lam not your fellow-citizen. You are not
citizens of the United States; you are not mem
bers of the great Union. You have been turned
out of it; and a manufactory of representatives
has been set up at Washington, which turns out
subjects as the machine turns out tenpenny nails.
1 am aware that, in general, much allowance is
to be made for what is done at Washington, and
that judgements are not hastily to be formed of
measures there adopted; but the case with you is
so flagrant; you have been so contemptuously, and
for base party purpose, driven out of Hie Union,
that even 1 can ill suppicss the indignation I feel,
or accurately define the proper limit of opposition.
But had it been my State instead of yours, had it
been South Carolina instead of New Jersey, I
should have been at no loss, and, even now, 1 am
disposed to apply the language of Lord Chatham,
in reference to the American Colonies, and say,
were I a Jersey-man, as 1 am a South Carolinian,
while my rights as a member of this Union are vio
lated, I would never lay down ray arms, never,
never, never. I speak not of the arms of violence
and blood, but the arms of the law and the ballot
! box ; an 1 these arms you will not, I trust, lay
j down till you have reconquered yo ir position, ga
thered up the fragments of your broken seal, and
knit them again together in beauty and unity ; till
you have rescued your draggled flag from beneath
the feet of the mercenaries who have trampled ou
it, and borne it onward in triumph even to the
dome of the Capitol.
The sympathies and heart of the na’ion are with
you, and the very wrongs you suffer have advanced
the Whig cause. Nowhere have I addressed any
public meeting where an allusion to the outrage
upon your Stale did not bring forth the response,
“We will aid New Jersey.” On, then, Whigs of
New Jersey, on, 1 say, but ou whom ? j>everal
voices from the crowd exclaimed “ the Tories.”]
Ay, ay, the Tories ! the Tories ! Now, as in the
days of ’76, the opposi'e of Whig is Tory, and it is
the Tories you are to overthrow, as your fathers
did. Be earnest, then, in the contest. You have
gallant leaders and brother soldiers. There is
Harry of the West, [the annunciation of this name
was rapturously cheered.) the gallant, magnani
mous Harry, of (he West, baring his booom to ev
ery shaft intercepting Horn his party every poison
ed arrow, scarred all over with wounds received in
defence of his friends, and of his and their princi
ples. With laurelled brow, if not wi h the victor’s
chaplet, there is he, without envy, without re
pining, yielding precedence to another, and spread
ing out to William Henry Harrison the flag of the
Union, bids him give it to the breeze, and claims
o ily the honor of serving as a soldier under him.
Where shall we find greater disinterestedness, more
glorious magnanimity ?
There, too, is the graver and heavy armed array
of the East, led on by Daniel [this name
again brought forth loud cheering,] like the Mace
donian phalanx of old, in serried order, and of over
whelming force. There, too, is the Empire State,
with her gallant and eloquent son, who has this day
addressed you. [Another burst of cheering.] There
is your own fervent and eloquent son, Southard,
[more cheers,] a friend beloved, a statesman wor
thy of all praise, and worthy to lead the Whigs of
New Jersey; and if Ido not now mention that name
under which we all rally, it is only that 1 nay in
troduce it more fitly hereafter. The cause, too, is
a holy and exciting one. Think you that any or
dinary occasion could have brought me from the
sand banks and long leaved pines of South Caro
lina to address a New Jersey audience ? It is a
cause that appeals to us all; that is second to none
but the cause of God. It is the cause of the coun
try, of the Co titution, of liberty.
Time will not allow me to go into an examina
tion of the long, black catalogue of crime which
lies at the door of the Administiation, and which
all their trained bauds are drilled and disciplined
to defend. The battle will be fierve, but it will
be dec' ve. We are, indeed, but militia. We
are not organised nor paid. We fight on our own
hook, not for money nor for bread; but we fight
for our r' fits, for our fire-sides, for the liberty our
ancestors transmitted to us, and for our property ;
and can we "ail ? They have blighted our pros
pects, as though blasted by the curse of Heaven.
They have touched with a paralysis every inter
e t; the very demon of destruction seems to pre
si lo over their councils. Mr. F. here, at some
length, examined the effect of the expciiments of
the Administration upon the industry, manufac
tures, and mechanic arts the country, ami par
ticularly of towns like Newark, which flemished
in proportion to the general prosperity, and of
which the adversity was only a type of the
adversity that had overtaken all classes,both rich
i and pour, the manufacturer of carriages and those
who were wont to buy and ride in them. The
Administration seemed to have reversed the order
of Providence, which blesses the labor of man, and
’ acts as though impelled by the veiy Genius of De •
r elation.
? Is this picture (said Mr. P.) too darkly shaded ?
Who is there among you all that has escaped loss
or suffering ? [None, none, was the cry.] Even
so; not one of you. Are there any manufacturers
here ? [Enough of them, for they have nothing to
do at their factories.] Ay, enough, indeed; and
your democratic friends, who profess so much af
fection for the haid nanded workman, aie deier
-1 mined to give you time enough to get your hands
■ soft. Are there laborers here ? Their turn is
i now come. They have heretofore felt lightly the
evils of misgovernment, and they have fi o long
supported tho-c who, in striking at the employers,
affected to be influenced by regard for the poor
I laborer. But now the principle of the party is,
that ihe wages of labor are too high ; that the la
> borer must be made to work cheaper; and that the
‘ country can only prosper when the rates of labor
f assimilate with those of older nations,
i But where, say we, is the example by which we
i are to be regulated; to what country do you design
to point ns for a model? Why, say my colleague
and Mr. Walker, of Mississippi, to Cuba! Ay, to
1 Cuba, the land of the inquisition and cents a
day for labor! Once liken our condition to that of
Cuba, and the time may soon come when we sha.l
be as productive as that favored island —of blood- 1
hounds. If, however, we decline the example of
Cuba, and Insi. t, with our Anglo-Saxon partiali
ties, that England, the land of our father', of li
berty, of law, and of commerce, affords better mo
dels and examples, they exclaim,“See these British
Whigs! they want to ape British fashions and pre
cedents;” and then, as an alternative, they point
us to China, as a hard money, cheap-labor country
—a fine country, indeed, where wages are 6 cents
a day!
But this is an alternative which America will
not be driven to; and this will be shown next No
vember. No Presidential election has heretofore
been gone into with wheat at 50 cents a bushel
and cotton at 6 cents: and the disasters of the times
will re-act asrainst those whose folly or whose
wickedness has pr jduced them. What a contrast,
indeed, does our position now present with that be
fore the reign of experiments began! Then, all
was smiling, happy, prosperous industry. Now,
care, and suffering, and haggard want. The state
ly palm tree is withering, its branches dying, and
its trunk blasted. We feel that the woim is gnaw
ing at its root, and that it must soon perish. You
must apply the remedy w hile there is yet time —
dig that worm up, and crush it beneath your feet.
What, fellow-citizens, is the contest? It is be
tween the people and the office-holders, led on by
the chief office-holders at Washington—a clothed,
fed, and trained corps of janissaries, with fortres
ses all through the land —on the seaboard in the
shape of cust m houses, in the interior and every
wire re in (he shape of post offices, Irom which the
incumbents issue, stealthily prowling about, seek
ing, like the evil one of old, whom they may se
duce, whom they may devour. Led on by the
Chief Spoiler at Washington, whose doctriaes are
openly proclaimed, they fight lor plunder. They
feel no distress —they experience no solicitous mis
givings about providing for their families.
They- have money enough, fellow citizens, though
you can get none—good money, counted out to
them quarterly—drawn from thu Treasury, where
it is placed after having been first drawn from your
hard earnings. Their pockets are ro nd and full,
while yours are shrunk and lean, and little heed
they, or believe they, therefore, of the distress
which prevails in the laud. If the farmer says to
one of them that the price of his produce hardly
repays the cost of production; that he can only get
half ’price, indeed, for his wheat, the pampered
hireling replies that such things will happen and
must be submitted to, and admonishes him that re
signation is becoming to all mortals. But, if the
farmer continues, and asks bis comforter if his
! salary is reduced, in proportion lo the fall of com
modities, “God forbid,” is his reply; “God forbid
that it should be diminished, it barely supports me
now.” And yet he can get twice as much for his
money as before. It is easy enough, therefore, for
him to bear the afflictions of the community, and
natural enough that he should sustain a policy
which snatches the dry crust from the hungry- lips
of the laborer’s child, that it may feed the children
of your pure democrat with pound cake. Well
indeed may the President, in bis marble palace,
amid luxuiious appliances, with well-paid salary,
exclaim “The people expect too much from Go
vernment.”
We behold that Government and its officers
growing richer, while each of us is growing poorer.
Their riches are derived from the oppression of tire
people. They plunder that they may have the
more to dispense in bribes. While you see your
substance wasting away-, this Administration has
received and squandered some 130 millions of dol
lars. This enormous sum nas been sw eated out of
the blood of the hard hands of the country, to be
lavished upon mercenaries, parasites, panders about
the palace. Thirty-nine millions annually are paid
to those who are waging this wav against us; and
who pays? You and I, and all of us. It is drawn
from a soil already- exhausted, and all for the ben
efit of a part only, and not of the whole. Our con
dition is worse than that of the Israelites in t e
desert, for when it rained manna and quails, all
could equally hold out their platters. But when
the manna of Government falls here, it falls not
into your platters.
Do any of you catch a quail, or a flake of this
manna? Oh! no- Or, if perchance a portion, how
ever small, should fall to one of you, the officer
through whose criminal infidelity such a boon
should be vouchsafed to a Whig, who w-as detected
in allowing one of the proscribed to taste of this
Government manna, would immediately be repoit
edtohis Chief, and handed over for trial for the
crime of dealing with a Whig?
Mr. P. said it was impossible, without a feeling
of burning shame and indignation, to advert to this
condition of things, or to reflect that such a coun
try- as this shou'd be thus dishonored under ihe
government of a popinjay, who had done nothing,
thought nothing, looked nothing, for its benefit or
renown. Something may- be excused to a gallant
old soldier like Jackson; and even oppression then
have had something redeeming; but, to be w-ormed
to death! Pshaw! It was not possible to think with
patience of this great country’s being trodden un
der foot by such men as Van Ilmen, and Kenda-1,
and Blair—a corrupt trio that makes the heart
sick.
The honorable Senator from New York has told
y-ou he w-as once a supporter of this Administra
tion, and that he felt called upon at an early period
to denounce the mischiefs of their course; and
how was he listended lo ? Mr. Van Burcn need
ed not, and resented the warnings of such a coun
sellor as N. P. Talimadge, and, tingling his bell,
forthwith the kitchen counsellor appeared, and he
said to them piteously, “See what Air. Talimadge
has done ;” and Kendall replied, he would mark
him, and Blair said he would turn the w-astepipe of
the kitchen on him, and smother him with filth.
Gentlemen, against all this we must act vigorously
we must act offensively. We have a cause and
a candidate that needs no defence. Abandon,
therefore, the defensive, and assault, assault con
tinually.
Assault them at all times, in all places. Press
onward ; you may gain little, but little by little
you w-ill gain, and what you gain you will hold.
Assault Mr. Van Burcn, assault Kendall, assault
Mr. Buchanan, assault the office-holders. [A voice
from the crowd said, “ and Garret Wall-,”] Ay-,
assautMr. Wall, if I may be permitted to say so
to you. [He is too insignificant, said another
voice,] No, no, gentlemen no one, nothing in
such a cause is too insignificant, it is not the
tempest that destroys the lofty tree, but the insect
gnawing at its root. It is not the flood nor the
earthquake that desolates the w-heat field, but the
mildew and the rust. It is an error to ascribe
great consequences to great causes. A little spark
will kindle a mighty conflagration, and the mean
est things are not therefore the least powerful ;
therefore, again I say, acton the offensive, and as
sault, assault, assault.
And then, gentlemen, as to a comparison be
tween the two candidates, the preference and supe
riority are all on our side. Who will point to any
marked honor done, or benefit centered, or service
rendeied, by- Mr. Vs-n Buren to the ilepub ic ? On
the other hand the history- of Gen. Harrison is that
of a public benefactor. He is, in the first place,
that noblest work of God, an honest mm ; and 1
say, emphatically-, in the beginning of this matter,
let us try an honest man. Would that, in the ma
ny experiments our apponents have proposed, they
had at once thought of this one, of trying an hon
est man.
Wm. H. Harrison was early brought under the
eye of Washington and the intuitive sagacity of
that great man saw in him the qualities that fitted
him for honor, and laying his hand upon the head
of the youth, he blessed him to the service of his
country.
The eider Adams came—an honest, able, and
bo'd man —and I say this the rather, for that I ne
ver belonged to Us party—and he ratified the
judgement of Washington by continuing young
Harrison in the public service.
Mr. Jefferson succeeded, after a contest, as you
all know, that overthrew completely the opposing
party —but Jefferson did not niisapp,eherd or un
derrate the merit of Harrison, and, after employ
ing him through his eight y-ears, handed him over’to
Mr. Madison, What that great and good man’s es
timate of him was, you all know. He was selec
ted from among many, to defend the region he had
so long ruled over as Governor; and the North
west then owed its safety- to the military conduct
as it had before owed its prosperity to the civil
virtues, of W m. H. Harrison.
But perhaps, no instance of confidence in the
high qualities of a man can be cited equal to that
manrtested by Kentucky in Gen. Harrison. You all
know Kentucky—her gallant Clay—her Shclbys,
and other such spirits. Well, Kentucky, in the
darkest hour of war, looking around for a’comman
der to whom she could entrust her own defence
and the command of the troops she was about’to
raise after convassing the merits of all, passed by
all others, and devolved that honorable and most
responsible command upon Wm. H. Harrison al
though a citizen of another State. Yet tins is the
man whom party malevolence now
as a dotard, a inward, a pett.cc.at hero ! and whom
they are usiu£ every art, lawful and unlawlul, to
Whv, gentleman, they have even disturbed the
repose of the Hermitage —called forth/, eneral Jack
son to bear v itness, in a letter, just published, a
gainst General Harrison. I think I see in t.iat
letter the hand of Amos Kendall, and the old sol
dier has been made the catspaw of the monkeys of
the palace, who thus degrade one distinguished
man into an instrument of disparaging another dis
tinguished soldier and patriot. But there is no
seiTse of shame, no limit to the recklessness of this
party. Even the glorious annals of our country
are not sacred to them; for, in the addiess of the
Van Buren members of the New \ork Legislature,
which has been copied and commended in all their
prints,! is averred that the Revolutionary contest
itself was u idertaken for base personal purposes,
and that the design was, not to vindicate freedom,
but to establish a mon ivchy at home. This plan,
it is added, was defeated by the democracy of that
day, and Mr. Van Buren is represented as now en
gaged In a like contest with the monarchists of this
dav. Gross and damnable falsehood and injustice!
\Ve are told that Mr. Van Buren is an able and
a great man, and that Gen. Harrison has no quali
ties lo fit him for the Presidency. Now, gentle
men, 1 venture to say that put the two together,
any where, for any purpose that becomes a man.
whether for a toast, speech, or message, and Gen
era' Harrison will beat his competitor out of sight.
We shall, then, as 1 have said before, be ably led.
In your own State you have a gallant and spirited
Governor, who will not fail you, and every where
the Whigs will beat their posts. The fortune,in
deed, of the contending parties is different. We
fight without reward, and if one of us falls, he asks
no more than an honorable grave, and such kind
remembrance among his W hig brethren as his ser
vices may meiit. But if one of theirs falls, he is
forthwith provided for elsewhere; he is taken from
a village to a city post office —always the better
provided for in proportion as his rejection by the
People has been decisive and ignominious ; if left
out of Congress, he is, like Mr. Cambreleng, sent to
Russia; if willing to play the part without having
the commission of a Representative, he is, like
your Mr. Philemon Dickerson, made a District
Judge, for it is reported to-day, that this gentleman
has been nominated by the President for that office.
But we must, nevertheless, continue the contest.
The popular voice is swelling for us—the current
of puohc opinion is running in our favor —our con
dition is like that recorded by Herodotus of the
harvest of Egypt. When the mighty river has re
tired into its narrowest limits, and left a vast waste
of slime and mud, upon which the good seed is
sown, the swine are turned in upon it, and they
tread and root it in, till, in good season, the retur
ning current, rushing back with mighty force, over
spreads the waste, and then gradually subsiding,
discloses, instead of mud and slime and brutes, a
smiling, fertile, and beautiful plain with the boun
teous harvest, and rejoicing the eye and heai I of
man
That tide of public opinion which is now swell
ing over the mire and slime that have defaced our
land will produce like cheering results,for the good
seed is here, and we shall see it maturing to an
abundant and benelicient harvest. Towards ac
complishing such a result, Mr. P. again earnestly
invoked and pressed the untiring efforts of all who
heard him; and then thanking the assembly for the
patience and indulgence with which they had lis
tened. Mr. P. concluded with saying for himself
he was vowed to the contest until it closed, when,
if unsuccessful, such was his position, he would
fall to be no more heard of; if successful, he would
only claim to be among the first and most zealous
to join in the shouts and gratulatlons of victory.
When Mr. Preston took his seat, the air was
rent with cheers, again andagain repeated —which,
rising up, as they did, from the bosom of darkness
—for the only lights, and they were few, were on
the stage, and the vasj; assembly around was but
dimly seen —had a most stiiking and singular ef
fect. The evening was closed by Mr. Gamble, of
Newark, with one of his Harrison songs, admira
bly sung as usual, and then all retired gratified and
resolved on victory.
North Carolina Elections.
The Raleigh Standard, (Adm.) of 3d inst.
contains the following, in reference to the elec
tions, which are just commencing in that State:
“ We congratulate our friends on the auspi
cious manner in which the elections have opened
in this State. We have a Democratic gam of
473 in Granville ; 36 in Warren ; 260 in Edge
comb ; showing a clear Democratic Republican
gain of seven hundred and sixty-nine in three
counties only. At one precinct in Nash, Saun
ders got 127 and Morehead 2 votes; this is the
only return from that county.
go, EUXOH.
1840. 1836.
Saunders. Morehead. Spaight. Dudley.
Edgecomb,. 1450 70 1191 71
Franklin,.. . . 636. . . .383 564 308
Granville,. ..760. ...873 391 977
Warren, 705 88 673 ,92
In our comparisons we go back to the contest
between Spaight and Dudley, which is the last
time the parties were fairly arrayed on the quos
tion of Governor.
General Assembly, Sec.
Warren. —Senate: Dem., Rep. Weldon N.
Edwards, without opposition.
House of Commons: Dcm. Rep , Eaton, 645;
Hawkins, 603 ; Collins, SO.
Sheriff; Joseph S. Jones, 490 ;T. J. Judkins,
296.
Franklin. —Senate: Dem, Rep., John D.
Hawkins, 299—inaj. 191. Whig, Levin Perry,
108.
House of Commons: Dem. Rep., Young Pat
terson, 689 ; Thomas Howerton, 636, Whigs,
John E. Thomas, 426 ; George Davis, 154.
Sheriff: Dem. Rep., Guston Perry, 723.
Whig, Lemon Williams, 187.
From the Mobile Advertiser.
Harrison and Better Times.
This is now the watch-word throughout the
Union, and why is it! “ Let facts be submitted to
a candid world.”
Ist. The Government of ihe United States is
bankrupt. It is in debt to the amount of SIX
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS already, and al
though Congress authorized the creation of five
millions of Treasury shin plasters, the Secretary
of the Treasury is now calling for FOUR MIL
LIONS MORE!
2d. To pay this enormous debt the people
will have to be TAXED, and a movement has
already been made to lay a DIRECT TAX upon
the people.
3d. Although the people of the United States
are ground down to the dust by the tyrannical
measures and unparalleled extravagance of gov
.iment, and are unable even to support them
selves, the government is demanding ALL
TAXES to be paid in GOLD AND SILVER.
4th. The government of Martin Van Buren
has destroyed credit and confidence, and the Sub-
Treasury law which has just received the appro
val of the President, has, for one of its objects
the REDUCTION OF THE WAGES OF
LABOR; so that while the people are to be
TAXED, and these taxes art to be paid in GOLD
AND SILVER, the means of procuting even
shin plasters are withheld from the people.
In short, the tendency of all the measures of
government, is to reduce the people to a state of
VASSALAGE ; to render them, if not in name
at least indeed the SUBJECTS of a ?n/s-called
Republican government; to break down the
American spirit, and to quench in the breast of
the people that burning spark of Freedom and
Independence which they inherited from their
Revolutionary fathers, and lo render them the
tools of a President who is endeavoring to be
come “ every inch a KING !”
M e call upon the American people to look at
the “signs of the times !”
The creation of a STANDING ARMY is
threatened.
The tenure of the officers of the JUDICIARY
as it exists under the Constitution, is threaten
ed ! ||
The prayers of two-thirds of the n eo[) | .
Bankrupt Law have been derided, and i ur 4
has been turned to their petitions ! * ea,e ar
NEGROES have been allowed by M
Buren to testify against a gallant and 1 r *’ j
cer of the Navy, and the oath of a coal-lT* °®’ j
slower has sent into retirement a
and gallant defender of his country, m I
The Post Office Department has been , u ■
zed, and efforts been made to pl ace j ts ?U is ' ( k I
more immediately in the hands of th o p„ c ° ntr o|
State Right- have received a Brut usd'
and the broad seal of the State of New j e *H
been kicked about by the President I
ions as an idle toy ! ,s fio
“ CORRUPTION HAS BECOME to
ORDER OFTHE DAT.”— and c(5 rr ,. 11,E '
stowed upon those who exhibit the tnosta!
fawning sycophancy to the President.
Theie is still a chance for the peo 1
Star of the West, that sheds its mild|| ?
over the humble Log Cabin bids q s Ho
cheers us amidst the gloom of corruption i 11
polism—it bids us hope for bettkk j, * I 1
reminds us of honesty and patriotism. 8 'l l
Let us up and ACT ! If the people w
our eyes will be blest with the dawn ofb 111,I 11, '
days than these, after the ides of NnvemlJ i II
our motto be “HARRISON, TYLFR y
BETTER TIMES,” and we surely mu., I
off victorious. y 81C0D * I |
Census of New York.—The complete cen,, .
of 4th Ward, New York, gives 15,770 inhabitant
being only a few hundred more than in IS3;, j j
probable population of the whole city is fi Xt .j *
32 J,OOO. *
From the London Forget-Me -Not.
The Modern Ulysses.
No sooner was the hatchment mounted ove ®
the portico of Bcechwood Hall, announcing tl *
its late pioprietor Sir John Denyers was dead ail <
that his widow had succeded to the splendid man i
sions and broad lands, than it was hailed as <
signal for attack by all the unmarried men within 1
the circumference of twenty miles. They fi CC£
ed to her by scores arrayed in the mourning cloak
of condolence, endeavoring to smuggle in their 1
love under the disguise of sympathy. Her law. <
yer, a hale bachelor of sixty, requested she would I
do him the honor to consider him less in ih e A
light of a professional adviser than a friend zeal- 1
ous for her interests, and would fain have p re . c
sented her to a title of his services in his shrive]. *
led hands; but he had already given her a sun 1
feit of parchment; and the man of law discover-
ed, that although his suit had frequently been *
successful in those courts where the presiding ■
goddess is represented to be blind, it was quite
another thing to plead his cause before a woman I
with her eyes open. In fact, ere she had wots *
the weeds of widowhood for six weeks, her paths '
were beset, and her dwelling besieged ; *
ver certainly had a woman a better chance of men. *
ding her luck, for there was not one of the whale =
forty and five lovers who was not willing to
his life upon the sincerity and disinterestedness i
of his affection. She could not open a winds* *
in her bouse, but a myraid of billets-doux came s
showering into it like a snow-storm. She con'd
not take a walk in the most private grounds,!)#
a lover started from behind every bush aod flung
himself upon his knees in the path before her. -J
Others again, affecting bucolics, would wander ■
forth into the fields, crook in hand and carve kr
name upon every tree, to the great endangerm® |
of her timber. Every domestic in her household
was bribed by one or other of her suitors, and
she was under the consequent necessity of chant
ing her establishment twice a year, from the la- •
dy’s maid to the stable boy. While, however, 1
there exists not a rebel in the citadel of the heart, i
the fortress will hold nut long against external I
assaults; and the widow had got some antedilu
vian notion into her head about “ first love,”-re
spect fur the memory of the dead,” &c., which ]
although no doubl, extremely silly, ha J the el- * J
feet of disinclining her from a second speculation
in the hazardous adventure of matrimony. Ai | :|
the number of her suitors increased, their indi- *
vidual chances of success, of course diminished:
and their audacity being in the extract ratio id |
their despair, her own mansion was no sane- I
tuary against theljintrusion of her unbidden | i
guests. The matchless impudence of oneofher
vts tors, deserves particular record. It happened j
that one day the widow went out, for sev.ral t
hours, to call on a friend at some distance, leav- j
ing only two male domestics, the butller, and the 1
footboy in the house. Towards evening a horse
man rode up to the hall door and applied him- fl|
self with more than ordinary energy to the ?
knocker. He was a tali military looking person- ,
age, with a cast of leatures which might have j
been termed handsome, but fur a certain cynical .
expression, which must detract fiom their pleas- ]
ing effect. I
The stranger flung his reins to the l>oy,desiring i
him to take his horse to the stable and have it |
well fed and littered down for the night, anil *
then stalked into the house, and notwithstanding 1
reiterated announcements from the servants in |
chorus of “ Mistress is not at home, sir” st-toped |j
not until he reached the dining-parlor, when turn- f
ing to the butler, who had followed him hssaii 4
“ Here let that valise be taken up into her ladv- fe|||
ship’s chamber, and let a fire be lit there, for in ■I,
rather cool.” “Very cool, indeed” said the do- “
mestic, applying the epithet to the speaker, and
not the weather, and was meditating some if |
pertinent observations when the stranger, care- 1
lessly, as if it had been his pocket handkercbiei
drew a pistol from each pocket, and placed it 01
the table before him. The butler, who had a mor
tal dread of fire-arms, quitted the apartment ic j
haste, as if to do the stranger’s bidding, but it ||?
reality to communicate to his fellow-domesoft
the females, his suspicions of the character oltf
guest. Their conversation was however, soJ
interrupted by the violent ringing of the bell
and it was some time before Geollry could suf |
mon courage to answer. “Your pleasure su ■
said he, re-entering the dining-parlor,
dinner!” responded the other. The Duller p* 3 - |
ed, but at length said, “ Very sorry, sir, bu!" ! .g,
have not got anything in the house.
look into the poultry-yard,” was the reply: " * |
me have a broiled chicken in half an bou r -
The other stared, but the stranger’s eye happ®
ed to fall upon the pistols, Geoffry seemed te BS .
derstand the appeal, and being anxious W S° 1
first, hurried out to counsel the sacrifice 0
chicken to their common safety. In the cOU
of half an hour, the dish was smoking
guest, who having no notion of glasses beingp
ced on the table for the mere purpose of orn ‘ ilU^
pronounced the monosyllable “ Wine - u
please, sir,” said Geroffry, “ we can’t get at
for mistress has got the key of the wine ■ c ( e
in her pocket.” “ Nonsense!” j
other; “whoever hea’d of a wine-cellar 'Y
only one key I —why, keys in a great mao ® 0 ..
are like pistols, there are always two of t £
tern.” The allusion had effect; Geoffry
ed in an instant, and shortly re-appea f£
Ganymede. In a few minutes afterwar
noise of wheels announced the return o
Denyers, who, on being informed of the
arrival, like a woman of spirit, went straig
tfie dining room to demand an I
the next instant the servants heard a l oU '^ ff|J
from their mistress, and.
conducing ,^atS £)1 -
murdered, they, very dutifully, ran out
house, and set off at fully speed, each m 3
ent direction, for the doctor. (
It seemed that no sooner had the laJy
eyes upon the visiter, than she uttered a
shiiek, and sank upon the carpet. .rfat
man faints away, the approved method o
ment is to kick and cuff him till bere
with a woman the case is somewhat t
The stranger raised her in his arms, tbre"