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VfCI HfcNING, AUGUST 12.
FOB PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible St Herman—the inflexible Republican—
he patriotic Fanner of Muo.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
J 011 N 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.
VOR 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 ORANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
Foil CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. j
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.
Amos Kendall Again.
The subjoined correspondence betwen Amos
Kendall and Dr. Thomas Foster, of Walker
county, in this State, is presented to the serious
attention of the candid of all parties. It is ol a
similar nature to others upon the same
heretofore published, between the same late high
Executive functionary and other Post Masters in
the country; but it presents the subject in a new
light, and is therefore given to the public.
This appeal on the part of Mr. Kendall, can
not be misunderstood. Its language is plain and
its object is clear. It is a direct call upon the
Post Masters of the country, as Executive de.
pendants, to enlist under the banner ol party
strife, and to abuse their office for the promotion
of him who wields the patronage of the govern
ment. By the true and real republicans, who
prize integrity of principle, and independence of
thought, as ihe most essential requisites for faith
ful public officers, this will be viewed as not one
of the least alarming indications of the corrup
tions of the times, and one which calls loudly for
the indignation of a free people. That it was
made by the authority of Mr. Van Buren, no one
can doubt who knows the relations which subsist
between the late Post Master General and the
President, and is certainly one of the most direct,
open and daring attempts ever before made by an
American Chief Magistrate, to control the elec
tions of the country by the influence of patro
nage, But to aggravate its enormity, if possible,
in addition to the principle which it recognizes*
being in utter outrage of every republican feel
inv. it appears to have been done in open viola
tion of the laws and the regulations of the Post
Office Department. This will be seen from the
correspondence, which is us follows:
Washington, May 28, 1840.
My Dear Sir —l take the liberty to enclose
you an Address and Prospectus for the Extra
Globe, hoping that it may be compatible with
your inclination and sense of duty, to use them
for the purpose of procuring and returning sub
scribers. If in that hope I should be disappoint
ed, I solicit of you ttie personal favor to hand it
over to some friend of the administration, who
may bo disposed to use it for that purpose.
With great respect.
Your friend,
AMOS KENDALL.
Pka Vink P. 0., Walker Co., Ga., f
July 9, 1840. 3
Dear Sir —On the third of this month, I had
the honor to receive yours of the 28th ult., ad
dressed to me as *>P. M.,” enclosing an Address
and Prospectus for the Extra Globe,”and where
in >ou “hope that it may be compatible with my
inclination and sense of duty to use them for the
purpose of procuring and returning subscribers.”
How much soever I might be inclined to oblige
you, I nevertheless tind it ’“incompatible with my
sense of duty” to do so, in the present instance.
It would be useless to say my “sense of duty.” as
Post Master, points to the public interest, and not
that of a party. But you will permit me to re
mind you, that you have onmted paying the post
age on your communication, which renders it
necessary for me to return it to you. And for
vour information allow me to call your attention
to the following extract of the Post Office laws,
sent to me last winter by the Department;
“It is the practice of many to address their
handbills to Post Masters, by which means they
give them an extensive circulation, free ot post
age. This is an abuse which must be corrected.
In every instance where vou receive a communi
cation. addressed to you as Post Msster, which is
of ajprivate character, and designed to promote
private interest, with an evident intention of giv- 1
ing circulation to it without paying postage, vou
will return the same to the person who sent it,
under a new envelope, with the charge of letter
postage endorsed.”
Very respectfully, sir,
Your most oh’t. serv’t.
T. FOSTER, P. M.
Axos Ke.nelaul.
Now who can mistake the object of Mr. Ken
dall, or be so ignorant as not to understand the
purport of his circular, which was doubtless sent
to every Post Master in the United States’ He
i» now the accredited official organ and mouth
piece of Mr. Van Buren, and there are about
12 060 Post Masters who are dependent upon
him for office. Then what means this appeal “/o
their sense of duty?" Does it not betray a
something which should arouse the honest indig
nation of every freeman to whom it was address
ed? Have the public officers of this country be
come so degraded as to be called on, “from a
sense of duty" to exert themselves in l>ehalf of
their “liege lord?” But when Mr. Kendall ad
dressed these circulars to the various Post Mas
teis, he did it with a full knowledge of its being
in direct violation of the rules of the department,
which they, as sworn officers, were in duty bound
(o support. For he had just retired Irom the
head of that department, and had himself for
warded to the Post Masters, the very law that he
was so shamefully violating. What, then, could
have been hio opinion of these mc«i, but that
they would, from a sense of duty to Martin Van
Buren, for fear of removal, (as has been the case
lately in Macon, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn.,)
compromit taeir integrity, their honor, and the
obligation of their oaths, by rendering themselves
pliant tools and active menial servants of the man
who controls their appointments! Verily man
sometimes, “clothed with a little brief authority,’
attempts most daring deeds! This is truly an
alarming crisis in the history of our affairs. It is
a strife between the people and the President —
between the success of popular rights and the
encroachments of royal prerogative. It is a con
test which no man has or could better describe
than Mr. Van Buren himself. In 1826, when
in the Senate of the United States, he was ap
pointed upon a committee to enquire into and re
port upon the extent and abuse of Executive
patronage. The following is part of the report
of that committee:
“The power of patronage, unless checked by
the vigorous interposition cf Congress, must go
on increasing, until federal influence will predo
minate in elections, as completely as British influ
ence predominates in the elections of Scotland
and Ireland, in rotten borough towns, and in the
great naval stations of Portsmouth and Ply
mouth.”
Speaking of the number of officers appointed
by the President, the report exclaims,
“A formidable list indeed! Formidable in num
bers, and still more so from the vast amount of
money in their hands. The action of such a
body of men, supposing them to be animated by
one spirit, must be tremendous in an election!
And that they will be so animated, is a proposi
tion too plain to need demonstration. Power
over a man's support, has always been held and
admitted to be power over his will. The Presi
dent has power over the support of all these of
fice holders, and they again have power over the
support of debtor merchants, to the amount of
ten millions of dollars per annum. The King
of England.” says the same report, “is the foun
tain of honor—the President of the United States
is the source of patronage. He preside* over
the entire system of federal appointments, jobs
and contracts. He has power over the individu
als who administer the system. He makes and
unmakes them. His spirit will animate their
actions in all elections to State and Federal offi
ces, There may be some exceptions,” fas for
the honor of the country many of the Post Mas
ters have lately proven themselves to he,J “but
the truth of the rule is proven by the exception!
The intended check and control of the Senate,
without new constitutional or statutory provi
sions, will cease to operate. Patronage will pen
etrate this body, subdue its capacity of resistance,
chain it to the car of power, and enable the Pre
sident to rule as easily and much more securely
with, than without, the nominal check of the
Senate. VVe must look forward to the time when
the nomination of the President can carry any
man through the Senate, and his recommendation
through the Houses of Congress. When the
principle of public action will be public and
avowed —the President wants my vote and I
want his patronage; 1 will vote as he wishes , and
he will give me the office I wish fur. What
will this be but the government of one man? —
And what is the government of one man but a
monarchy?"
This was the language of Mr. Van Buren in
1826. How different is his practice from his
precept, by which he gained the confidence of
republicans, and in the betrayal of the principles
ot his then professions. Was scriptural prophe
cy ever more truly fulfilled than his predictions
have been, by his own acts? Have we not al
most arrived at the sequel of the crisis he so aptly
delineated? Hus not the Senate long since yield
ed “its capacity of resistance?” Does not the
nomation of the President carry any man, even
a Svvartwout ami a Price through that body?—
And does not his bare recommendation carry
any measure, even one twice rejected by the
people, through both Houses of Congress? What
has effected this but the patronage of the Presi
dent? The principle which has lately been
“openly avowed” and acted out. “The President
wants my vote and I want his patronage; I will
vote for the measure he wants, and he will give
me the office I wish for.” Has not the “formi
dable list of office holders” been greatly increas
ed, and all the millions of the Treasury lately
been put under their control] And what is this
late attempt, on the part of Mr. Kendall, but a
covet order to rally this “formidable list,” and to
make “their action as tremendous,” in the ap
proaching election, as possible? Can the people
be deceived? will republicans be longer misled by
professions? Did the King of England, with all
his “fountain of honor,” ever use such dictation,
or assume such ground with his royal preroga
tive, in endeavoring to control the elections,
“even in the rotten borough towns” of that coun
try, as this late move on the part of Mr. Van Bu
ren?
In the C hronicle & Sentinel cf yesterday, ap
: peared the following, from the Fayetteville Ob
server.—But tare was taken not to publish the
Postscript from the same paper.— Constitutionalist
of yesterday.
The above extract precedes the returns from
North Carolina, published in yesterday’s Constitu
tionalist. Now, lor the especial benefit of our
“ wise and worthy” neighbor, we assure him there
was no Postscript contained in the Fayetteville
Observer of the sth inst, from which those returns
were copied. In publishing election returns, our
object, somewhat unlike that of the Corporal’s, is
to publish ail that we receive, whether favorable
or unfavorable to the cause we advocate.
A Sign.— lt is said that the Eastern Insurance
° f thC certamt y of the defeat of
the spoilers Refuse t°, nsure the PubH Buildings
at Washington upon any terms -Louis. Journal
North Carolina Elections--For Governor.
Mookemead (W.) Saunders (Adra.)
Washington,. .• -379 96 :
Beaufort, '- S4 ' J 3bJ
Edgecombe, HI 1 29 S
Na ”h 73 782
Franklin, 353 636
Warren, 83 700
Granville, 873
Wayne, 60 512 may
Pitt, 625 019
Halifax, 622 44 ®
A slip from the office of the Halifax Advocate of
the Sth, gives us the return from that county, and
also states that Northampton has given a Whig ma_
jority for Governor. A Whig Senator and two
Commoners are also elected—one of the latter a
whig gain.
In Hyde, two districts not heard from —the whig
ticket ahead, so far.
Alabama Election.
According to the returns published in the Mont
gomery Log Cabin, of the Sth, the Whigs have
sleeted 35 Representatives certain, and a report of
the election of 3 in Pickens, and 2 in Marengo.
Making in all 40 Whig Representatives, we ex
pect to carry in.
Sumter, 3
Monroe, 2
Wilcox, 2
Which will give us 47 members in the House of
Representatives.
The House consists of 100 members. According
to the above statement, we only want four mem
bers to give us the majorily of the House of Rep
resentatives of Alabama. For this four, we have
a chance for I in Washington, 3 in Lawrence, 2 in
Franklin, and perhaps lin Lauderdale. There are
also some other counties to be heard from, in which
we may get one or two members. The Senate
will be very nearly divided. The majority will
be perhaps two or three in favor of the Adminis
tration.
The Alabama Times says: —“As the matter
now stands, the Whigs have gained in the‘House,’
1 member in Lowndes, 1 in Autauga, 1 in Butler,
I in Tuscaloosa, 3 in Pickens, 2 in Bibb, 2 in Mo
bile, 1 in Baldwin, 1 in Shelby, 1 in Perry, 1 in
Pike, 1 in Chambers, and 1 in Barbour. Whig
gain as far as heard from, 17 members. —We have
lost one in Talladega. It is now thought that the
Whigs have carried the Legislature by a decided
majority. If true, it is indeed cheering. We are
almost ready to cry out £ lo triumphe !’ but we
will wait till we get out of the woods.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: “We learn
that the U. S. Bank has already paid a very con
siderable portion of the debt about to become due
from that Institution to the United States.”
From the Alabama Times.
Another ‘‘President Mum.”
Some time since a committee of the citizens of
. Perry Co. in this State, addressed to Mr. Van
Buren a letter, of which the following is a copy :
Marion, Perry Co., Ala., June 20,1840.
To Martin Van Buren,
President of the U. States.
Dear Sir— -From the promptness and candor
with which you have answered certain inquiries
propounded to you by the Democratic Central
Committee of Kentucky, in your letter of reply to
that Committee, dated Washington, April 21,
1840, we are induced respectfully to address you
the following additional questions :
Ist. Do you regard the institution of Slavery as
it exists in the southern States of this Union, as
a moral or political evil ]
2d. Do you admit that Congress have the con
stitutional power to refuse any territory now be
longing to the United States, or which may heie
after belong to them, the right to be leccivodinto
the Union without making the abolition of slavery
a prerequisite to admission ?
These questions are deemed proper for your
consideration, at the present time, when the peace
and safety and the very existence of the South are j
disturbed by that fanatical association, which you
so justly denounced.
Respectfully yours, &c,
Joseph Pickens, D. Long,
James A. Houze. J. R. Webster,
John Oswald , Jno. F. Thompson,
H. C. Lea, Levi Langdon.
Hugh Davis,
Fifty days have clasped and no answer has
been received. The citizens of Amelia Co., Va.,
i addressed a similar letter many months ago to
- Mr. \an Buren, and have never received an an
swer; yet his friends tell us that he never fails
1 to answer the enquiries of the people. The
questions proposed are short and would have re
quired but a slip of the pen for answer—but they
are pregnant with interest to the South, and Mr.
Van Buren’s refusal to answer (judging from his
previous course on the subject) we believe pro
ceeds from his inability to answer them satisfac
torily.
From the Alabama Times.
Our readers may have been somewhat startled
at an account of the “Horrid Blasphemy” which
was said to have occurred at a log cabin raising
in New Holland, Ohio, where the sanctity of the
Eucharist was profaned and made a mockery of
by administering it in hard cider and in the name
ot “Old Tip. This report has gone the rounds
of the administration papers, Abhorrent and re
volting as it is to every principle of decency, they
have assumed its truth without the slightest evi
dence but mere rumor, and have published it
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
From the first, we were satisfied that this report
was a vile slander on the Whig party, and we
now give the contradiction from the pen of a Van
Buren man. We annex the correspondence of
Mr. Weaver of Huntsville, of this State, and Mr.
Ferguson of New Holland, Ohio.
Hunts ille, July 20, 1840.
Mr. Editor: When the scandalous repoit that
a Sacrament had been administered by the Whigs
of Ohio, was sc briskly circulated by’some of the
very officious democrats of this place, I had no
faith in it, for I could not concieve of any set of
men so debased as to offer such an insult to Him
who instituted and first administered that holy or
dinance. Convinced that it was utterly untrue,
and wicked tn its inception. I wrote to the Post
master ot New Holland, to obtain from him the
truth. His answer I herewith enclose to vou.
Belonging to the Van Buren party, his testimony
will not, 1 suppose, be objected to by Van Buren
men.
A wish to counteract the effects of a false and
wicked report will constitute my apologv for ad
dressing you this note.
4 cry respectfully yours.
J- H. L. WEAVER.
M. I h I I s,‘ w July 9, 1840.
Mr JH. L. Weaver ehr: V - outs of , he 261 h
June lost is now before me, in which you wish
me to geve yon a full detarlof the Sacrament re
ported to have been administered in this village.
Owing to the hundreds of letters addressed to me
II n ”°V bcin « to answer all,
I w 11 only give you a short skeieh of the report.
On the day the Sacrament was said to be admin
istered there was a log cabin raising in this place.
here being a majority of Whigs in this County,
there was about 1200 persona present, and in that
number about 300 democrats. There was a
good deal of excitement on both .idea, in which
both parties published the proceedings of the day.
The whigs had parched corn and hard rider at
the raising, and there was one of our party, a
strong democrat, said it looked like wonh pping
Gen. Harrison, and that he intended to have it
published in the form of a Sacrament—it will be
a go k! joke on the whigs—and accordingly on
the following week had it published in the Cir
cleville Watchman. It has since been refuted
satisfactorily, and proved not to be so, by both
parties. I would just say that the charge is alto
gether false to ray own certain knowledge. You
may if you choose have it refuted in some of
your public papers. Igo for having the truth told
on both sides. We need not make use of any
unfair means to elect Mr. Van Buren. There is
nothing more certain than his being our next Pres
ident—log cabins and hard cider go lo strength
en our cause. Ohio will not give Gen. Harrison
more than 5000 majority, one of the strongest
whig States in the Union.
Very truly yours,
N. R. FERGUSON.
From the Savannah Georgian.
Fort Holmes, (k. f.) July 31.— The Indians
have apparently gone south, perhaps to plant a
new crop as it is known that the recent operations
of the 2d Infantry under Col. Riley, were of such
an energetic nature as to prevent them from plan
ting. The summer scouts have destroyed im
mense plantations ot corn, peas, beans, &c. all
of which must be truly felt by the enemy, as up
on them he evidently built his hopes of another
winter fight.
The troops in East Florida are now arranged
upon a line commencing at New Smyrna on the
Atlantic, and extending to Fort Fanning, on the
Suwannee. Nearly ail the posts North of this
line have been abandoned. A daring murder was
committed on the 12th inst. at the hammock of
Cow Creek, near Fort White. Sergeant Zeigler
and Corp’l Sweatnam of Company B. 2d Inf.
were returning from Fort While to Fort Brady,
the Sergeant, mounted, and the Corp*l on foot. At
the place before mentioned, they were fired upon
by a party of 21 Indians. The Corporal un
doubtedly was immediately killed, but the ser
geant it would appear, tho’ badly wounded, fought
until knocked down by superior numbers. The
bodies of both soldiers were horribly mutilated,
and in a manner too revolting for publication.
After the murder, the Indians blazed a tree, where
they painted figure of an Indian, under
which they made twenty one marks indicative of
their number. Against the tree they placed an
iron pointed arrow dipped in the blood of their
victims. The next day they were pursued by a
party of 25 men under Capt. J. R. Smith, but to
no purpose. On the 16thinsf.a party of 5 dra
goons returning from Pilatka to Fort King, were
fired upon by a large party of Indians concealed
in a hammock four miles beyond this post; two
men were wounded, one of them dropped from
his horse, and for the credit of his companions,
be it mentioned, they stopped (although the In
dians were hot on the pursuit, and manifesting
their desire for blood by loud yelling,) and re
placed their comrade in the saddle. The whole
party succeeded in getting off. The officer, who
pursued this party, says they were evidently the
same persons who killed Scrg. Zeigler, as he
found their trail leading from Cow Creek.
Meeting lu Gwinnett County.
According to previous notice given, a large
portion of the citizens of Gwinnett County,
friendly to the election of William H. Harrison
for the Presidency, assembled at the Court House
in Lawrenceville, on the 4th inst.
The meeting was organized by calling Dr.
Thomas W. Alexander to the Chair, and ajJ
pointing David W, Spencer Secretary.
The committee appointed at a previus meeting
to prepare a Preamble and Resolutions for the
consideration of the meeting, was called upon to
report, in obedience to which call John W. Alex
ander, Esq., chairman of the committee, submit
ted the following Preamble and Resolutions:
Whereas, In the approaching Presidential con
test it is the duty of every individual to express
freely and publicly his opinions, and to lend his
influence in every honorable and high-minded
way in putting down and checking at as early a
day as possible, the ruinous and federal meas
ures imposed upon the people of the United
/States, by the present Chief Magistrate of the
nation: and whereas, the people in the United
States for themselves, and without the interven
tion of politicians, have selected Gen. Harrison
as the individual to whom they will give their
votes for President, and John Tyler as the indi
vidual to whom they will give their votes for
Vice President, in the approaching contest, your
committee deem it proper to state some of the
reasons which Induce them to prefer General
Harrison to Mr. Van Buren, and why all the
friends of Reform should unite as one man, and
come to the rescue in behalf of the people and
the country, in opposition to the party now in
power.
The first objection to Mr. Van Buren we urge
is, that fie voted in the New York Legislature to
instruct Rufus King (then Senator in Congress)
to oppose the admission of Missouri into the
Union, unless she would so alter her constitu
tion as to prohibit slavery, the eflect of which
would have been, to give Congress the power to
establish in each Stale, such domestic institu
tions as it thought proper, regardless of the opin
ions, wants or wishes of the people in the State;
and to have prescribed for each State a constitu
tion which they would have been compelled to
accept and adopt as their own, or be deprived of
the inestimable right of an admission into the
Union.
The second objection to Mr. Van Buren we
urge, is that he permitted an American officer to
be convicted of an offence against the Army and
Navy regulations, by free negro testimony, and
refused to grant the officer a new trial upon ap
plication, and replied “that he saw nothing in the
proceedings which required his interference,”
thereby using his power and authority in legal
izing the use of such testimony in courts against
white men, and consequently subjecting every
man s rights and the tenure of his office, to the
whims and caprices of negroes, a right which
the most ultra abolitionist would be ashamed to
contend for.
The third objection to Mr, Van Buren we
urge, is that he voted for the bill giving to free
negroes the right to vote in New York, and that
he said with the lights before him, he could not
say but that Congress had the right to abolish
slavery in the District of Columbia, from which
vote and opinion, the natural inference is, that
ae concedes to Congress the constitutional right
to abolish slavery in any of the States, and there
by virtually says, that if Congress were to pass
such a law, he would not veto it upon broad
constitutional principles, but would take into
consideration only the expediency of such a mea
sure, thereby placing the rightsof the South upon
the important question of slavery in the hands of
one man, and that man too, who believes such a
law would be constitutional.
The fourth objection lo Mr. Van Buren we
11 ge, is that he has been prodigal in the expen
diture of the people's money ; his administration
having been by far the most expensive one ever
yet known to the American people. When call
whThiV Pe ,'’ Ple ’ 9 re P resen,a lives. to know
what ha* been done with the large amount of
weT ■" H? T —J »hen he
went into office, no satisfactory answer has been
given, the reply has been “ the people expect mo
meet. h penses incident to that war to
■ J hC u fift u ob j ection to Mr. Van Buren we unre
is that he has imposed the Sub-Treasury systfra
upon the people, when he had a majorhv of his
own partisans in Congress, wbu-h system the
people of the United States had three times most
solemnly rejected by their representatives in Con
gress. This system makes (alter a given tim )
all the Government dues payable in specie, and
to a very large extent, increases the Executive
patronage, a measure which we believe to c anu
Republican, and in its tendency destructive of the
old and established Republican maxim, “ equal
laws and equal rights.”
The sixth objection to Mr. Y an Buren we ,
urge, is that he has dared, in a time ot peace, to
recommend a standing army ot 200,000 men, a
measure which the Republicans of this countiy
have always considered and pronounced to be,
one fraught with the worst of evils, and opposed
in its nature to the principles of the American
Constitution.
We further object to Mr. Van Buren, that be
supported the Tariffs of 1824 and IS*B the ,
Proclamation—the Force Bill—and that he voted
to restrict the introduction of slaves into Florida
—that he opposed Mr. Madison, the war candi
date in 1812, and voted for Mr. Clinton, the
Federalist candidate —that when he went into
office, every thing that was good was promised
by him and his political advisers and friends, yet
none of his promises have been fulfilled.
The forgoing objections, with many others,
which might with equal propriety be urged
against Mr. Van Buren, we deem sufficient to
make him extremely odious and objectionacle to
the Southern people, and especially so to all
those who are true Republicans, and desirous ot
reform and correction in the management of the
Government.
We would now present a few of the considera
tions which have inclined us to the support ot
General Harrison and John Tyler, in preference
to the present Chief Magistrate.
The first consideration we urge, is that Gen.
Harrison did in the Congress of the United Slates
vote for the admission of Missouri into the Union,
with the right to hola slaves, and at the same
time declared that he would rather sacrifice his
own popularity than violate the Constitution in
the smallest particular, an act and a vote which
well defines the position, which every true heart
ed Southern man, and genuine friend of his
country should occupy, and which of itself, dis
connected wi'.h any other of the noble traits of
his character, makes General Harrison far more
acceptable to the Soulti than his competitor.
The second consideration we urge in favor of
General Harrison is, that he did at Vincennes, in
Ohio, in a speech, tell the abolitionists that their
efforts were weak, presumptuous, injudicious,
and unconstitutional.” And again he said, in
a speech at Cheviot, in Ohio, on the 4th July,
1833, that the “ principles of the abolitionists
tended to a dissolution of the Union, and that,
if there was any principle in the Constitution of
the United States less disputable than another,
it is that the slave population is under the ex
clusive control of the States which possess them,”
an opinion directly opposed to the opinions of
Mr. Van Buren upon the subject of slavery, and
in accordance wiih the doctrines and tenets of
the State Rights party of Georgia.
The third consideration which we urge, is that
General Harrison is a Republican of the Wrash
ing’on and Jeffersonian school, that he has been
in favor with the Republican Administrations of
the Government, and that he has received ap
pointments, civil and military, from Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, the
duties of all which he faithfully and honestly
discharged, and he was an open and avowed ene
my of the alien and sedition laws.
The fourth consideration we urge, is that he
has said in a letter to one of Georgia’s distin
guished sons, that the compromise upon the
Tariff question ought to remain undisturbed,
thereby pledging himself if elected, to resist the
creation ot a new Tariff by the veto power, and
to sustain the South upon this all important
question, a pledge which Mr. Van Buren never
has given to the Southern people and never will.
The fifth consideration we urge in favor of
General Harrison * is, that if elected, he will
serve but one term ; we deem this a paramount
consideration, believing as we do, that great in
jury has and will continue to result, from gthe
fact that the President is a second time eligible
to the office, and that in consequence of this fact,
the first term has been and may continue to be
used tor the purposes of electioneering, rather
r han advancing the country’s interest, by sacri
ficing every thing for that purpose.
The sixth consideration we urge in favor of
General Harrison is, that it is characteristic of the
man, to go wherever and whenever duty calls
him. At an early age he entered the army, un
der the command of Wayne, and was actively
en S a ged in pulling down all British authority in
the United Slates, and consummating the Revo
lutionary war, and thereby rendering solid and
permanent the independence of this country.
And in the late war also, he devoted himself
entirely and unreservedly to the service of his
country, and led the troops of the United States
to several important and decisive victories, against
the combined forces of British and Indians. In
short, the best encomium which can be given for
his splendid military service and achievments, is
that pronounced by his old associate in arms,
Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the U.
States; says he, «of the career of Gen. Harrison
I need not speak, the history of the West is his
history, for forty years he has been identified
with its interests, its perils, and its hopes, uni
versally beloved in the walks of peace, and dis
linguished by his ability in the councils of his
country, he has yet been more illustriously dis
tinguished in the field—during the late war he
was longer in actual service than any other Gen
eral officer, he was perhaps oftener in action
than any of them, and never sustained a defeat.”
We further urge in favor of General Harrison,
that tie is in favor of a strict construct on of the
Constitution of the I nited Stales—that he is
opposed to a prostitution of Executive patronage
to party purposes—that he believes merit should
he the stepping stone to office—that virtue should
he rewarded and not party zeal and lanaticism—
he disbelieves the doctrine advanced by Mr.
\an Buren, “that to the victor belong the spoils ”
—he does not believe in the Sub-Treasury sys
tern, or in the concentration of all power in the
President, but that the power should be where
the Constitution and the framers of the Govern
ment intended it should be, in the hands of the
people. J
. 0r ? *^ ese considerations we think ourselves
justified in coming to the conclusion, that the
acts and opinions of General Harrison are more
compatible with the principles and tenets of the
Repubhcan party, and which have been promul
gated and advocated by them, than those which
have been expressed by Mr. Van Buren, and
w hich have charactenzed his administration, and
consequently entitle him to the support of all
the Reform party, therefore,
Resolved, That General Harrison has proved
himseil to be a sound statesman, an able General
and an honest man and that his nomination for
the Presidency, andfthe nomination'of John Ty
ler for the Vice Presidency by the June Conveii
t;on. meets our warm and hearty approbation
Resolved, That we approve the conduct* of
that portion of our delegation in Congress \vho
toMr^V* 1 m th ‘ s con tcst in their opposition
o Mr. \ an Buren, and who by their votes and
their speeches have shown themselves “ oood
a side from’th a . nd , that the y are not to he turn
or t a heta f ™? the “ —-
aniU-ioht^n-I Tllat we will appoint one hundred
of thtlVo de , leg ? les '° represent the Reform parly
Macon Zif’ "■ ‘ he . to be held m
Macon, on the second Thursday of this month.
rr.d„ m be and Resolutions having been
r<ad, were ably sustained by John R. Alexander
Esq., in an animated address, In which he c ...
. sidered the comparative claims of General |j a
t son and Manin Van Buren, for the President'
and t bowed conclusively she superior claims
General Harrison. After which the prem i
and resolutions were unanimously adopted u
meeting.
The following persons were appointed 1 l
gates to the Macon Convention :
L Minor. H Garmany,
Barttell Thomason, A F Lucker,
i Few Goidon, S F Alexander
George A Gordon, R S Winn,
Thomas Maguire, William Wardiaw
William K Holland, 1) W Spence, '
John C Waits, R S Norton,
David J Mims, William Mattbir
John G Weems, Isaac Adair, ’
Willis Howland, Elbha Winn,
Robert M Gower, John W Mattbir
Smith Jones, James Austin,
Willis C Norris, Oliver P Strickland
Ezekiel Thacker, Sterling T Austin ’
Ezekiel Gunnin, William Austin, *
Washington Nunnally, Thos-W Alexander
Joshua Bradford, James M Orr, ’
John Glower, William Gordon,
Samuel Martin, Vivien Holmes,'
Alfred Williams, James Gordon,
JoelT Thacker, James M Gordon, ..
Hiram R Williams, Matthew Crawfo'id
Thomas W Alexander, jrlsham Williams, ’
Absalom Martin,! James .M Montgomery
John sammcns, William S Winn
James Bracewell, Thomas Allison.jr.
Joseph 'V Baxter, J W Harris, ’
William Knox, B F Berry .J
Henry W Inzer, H G Harris,
M B Montgomery, Simon Berry,
Newton McDill, Abe! Waldrup,
Jas S McDill, Richard Lamir,
Hugh Montgomery, M R Mitchell,
Fielding Hamilton, B J Budges,
George Brogdon, Adam Robinson,
John Stapp, Suel H McLurey,
Wiley E Brogdon, Thos Perry,
Daniel Whoiton, Z B Betts,
Jones Douglass, M C Malone,
Thompson Moore, James Wilson,
A P Philips, John R Alexander,
John R Moore, Evan Howell,
Zachariah Panncll, B E Stiickland,
Harrison Brogdon, "Win B Worsham,
John Carroll, J R Hunnicut,
Joseph II Nesbit, Wiley Bridges,
Thomas Carroll, D A Pittman,
John W Nesbit, Lot Rowdin,
Allen J Veal, Jesse Murphy,
William Crawell, D H Alexander,
Robert Anthony, Thos T Langley,
Adam Pool, John Adam,
J W Camp, B II Lamkin,
William Moore, Thos Johnson,
James Tuggle, John Patterson,
John F. Martin, R B Manin,
On motion of Elisha Winn,
Resolved, That every individual in Gwinnett
county, whether nominated or not, and that u
disposed to attend the Macon Convention, be,
and they are hereby appointed delegates.
On motion of Col. James Austin,
Resolved. That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in all the papers of the state, fa
vorable to the election of Harrison and Tvler,
after having been signed by the Chairman aad
Secretaty.
On motion of Samuel Marlin, the meeting
then adjourned.
THOMAS W. ALEXANDEIUCh n.
Dxvin W. SetxcE, Sec’y.
A Picture of Loco Focoism.— ln 1837,
when Locofocoism first sprung up in New York,
the Albany Argus, the leading Van Buren paper
in that State condemned it in the following strong
language;
“No portion of the Republicans of this county
or State, we trust,entertain any feelings in com
mon with the distinctive views of that faction,
originating in the city of New York, KNOWN
AS THE LOCO FOCOS, and ofwhich vvehavo
a small number in this county; that we regard
their doctreins and principles as utterly abhor
rent to all principles q/‘REPUBLIC ANTSMo*
MORALITY and of the good order of Society,
and at war with the safely of our civil and religi
ous institutions; and that any attempts by ANY
PARTY to court their favor or support fur any
purpose whatever, we are satisfied would and
SHOULD produce DEFEAT and DISGRACE.
The Richmond Enquirer, on the sth of Decem
ber IS*>7, in alluding to Locofocoism, also said:
“The Loco Foco destructives constitute, no
part of the Republican party—they are Hit
rabble followers of the camp —tiny belong not to
the main a.my. They are the FLOATING
SCUM, which now adheres to one mass, and
then to another—just as we have seen it in the
city of New Y ork, and it is in vain to appeal to
their movements as indicative of those of the
Regular Troops ! /”
Here we have portraits o( Loco Focoism, drawn
by two master hands—portraits which the Tan
Buren men must admit are faithfully drawn,
emanating as they do Irom their own papers.
'The only difference now is that these -'rubblefol
lowers <>J the camp” have become the “regular
troops,” and both the Aigus and Enquirer, have
abandoned lire Republican party, and like Mr.
Yan Buren, embraced Locofocoism, —and "de
feat' ana “ disgrace ” unquestionably awaits them.
from the Newark Daily Advertiser.
Another Affidavit Maker.
It appears by the Buffalo Commercial Adver
tiser, of Wednesday, that Mr. Robert Price, of
Ohio, made his affidavit claiming “a personal
acquaintance” with Gen. Harrison, and setting
forth that “he has frequently seen him wear
the black cockade badge of Federalism,” at
the lime when “ the Fgderai party wore it as
the badge of distinction,” in that city—Having
asserted the groundless calumny in a speech at
a loco foco meeting, while on his way from Ohio
to this State, the editor of the Van Buren organ
in Buffalo, (the Republican) called on him after
the adjournment to make an affidavit for publica
tion. Ihe affidavit was made and published,
and its absurdities were promptly exposed by
the Advertiser. ’This drew forth a reply hom
the parly organ, in which reply it unfortunately
for its witness, reveals the following history of
the affidavit:
Alter nearing the Judge make a plain farmers
speech at our meeting one Saturday evening.we
accompanied him to the American Hotel, and
asked him if he could make affidavit of what he
had related at the meeting. He replied that he
would do so freely ; and we drew up an affidavit
and went in pursuit of Judge Stephens to admin*
istcr the necessary qualification. We searched
for the Judge without finding him, till Jud?°
Price could wait no longer, for he had put up
about two miles out of town.—We asked him d
he would execute the affidavit in the morning-
He replied that he would if we came eady- Ac
cording in the morning we prevailed with Judge
Stevens to accompany us and went to Judge
Price s lodgings, and he readily did as he prmn*
ised. In drawing up the affidavit, wo had said
that the deponent was intimately acquainted with
Gen. Harrison. This he objected to, saying that
he never had had any intimate acquaintance with
him. We then altered it to “ personally acquain
ted,” he also objected to this, saying that he only
knew him by sight; he himself being a lad ol
15 or 16 years old and Harrison a man. We
explained that if he knew him by sight lie knew
his per. >n, and knowing his person constituted
personal acquaintance. He was satisfied with this
explanation and affirmed to and signed the affi
davit ; dated on Saturday, when we drew it*
We asked Judge Price to name the year, but he
said he could not at that time remember which
year it was, but could find out when he got t°
Newton, Sussex County, N. J.. for it was there
that he saw him ; and that he saw him frequent
ly there, as he was paying his addresses to *
young lady whom he afterward married. VN e
asked him if h© was ever acquainted with tb®