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CimOMOLE AM) SENTINEL. a i <; rs t a • _ 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®