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CHKONICLK AN IJ SEN FIN EL. augusta. TUESDAY MORMXG, AUGUST 2;>. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio ; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican the patriotic Fairoer of Ohio. for vice-president, JOHN TYLER, 0/ Virginia; A State Rights Republican of the school of 98 one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and patriot statesmen. FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.' JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass. WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb. C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. FOR CONGRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham. JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. EUGENICS 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. Death by Lightning. Our notice of the death of Robertson 1 arver of this county by lightning in yesterdays daily paper was incorrect, —it should have been Robert Tarver of Burke County. The error was cor rected in the Tri-Weekly paper. Macon Convention. We la}' before our readers to-day the proceedings of this Convention; for which we are indebted to the last Messenger, to which we invite attention | The Elections. The failure of the mail yesterday beyond Char leston prevents our furnishing any further news of the late Elections. By the Highland Messenger, published at Ash ville N.C., we have the returns of Macon and Cherokee Counties, which increase Morehead’s majority 390 votes. Murder. The body of an unknown man, was round in the river about three miles be/ow the city, yesterday, who had evidently been murdered within a few days, as the body was not offensive. He was a small sized man, and had on the apparel of a labor er. Pine Top, Burke Co., August 14, IS4O. To the Voters of Burke County. Fellow Citizens; —M}' name has been used as a candidate to represent you in the ensuing Legisla ture. It is currently reported that I am a candi date I have been very frequently solicited by leading men, of both parties, in my to be a candidate. I have always positively refus ed. About ten days since, at the special request the district, 1 visited a Harrison barbecue. 1 was here again urged and re-urged for the use of my name for the ensuing canvass. I partiaPy consent ed, with the proviso, that if there was a sufficien cy of candidates, I would be allowed to withdraw ray name. In the last Chronicle and Sentinel, I observe the names of Messrs. Harris, Evans, Mul key and Carswell, as candidates to represent the county. Having every confidence in the talent j?md capability of the gentlemen to discharge the duties of Legislators, 1 hope ray friends will unite their influence on this ticket. I must decline the use of my name. lam not desiious to bask in the sunshine of political fame, and never less so than at present. I am, very respectfully, T. A. PARSONS, The Two North Carolina Senators. Messrs. Brown and Strange, U. S. Senators, have the credit of resigning their seat' previous to the North Carolina election, when the fact is not so. The N. V, Express says, a gentleman informs us, who had it from the lips of the Governor of the HTate, that the letter cf these two Senators, re signing their seats, was sent to him, when the law and the constitution of the Sta'e, in all cases re quires the resignation to be made to the Legislature. The Governor, therefore, returned the letter of re signation to them, with his reasons for not receiving it.-—and it theretore now remains with these two gentlemen to resign or not. As the State has prob ably gone \\ big, it is inferred they will retain then seats in the Senate ol the United States. Certain it is, they did retain them all last Session in defi ;mcc ot the Resolutions solemnly adopted oy both Houses ot the Legislature, disapproving of their conduct. Another “Grand Charge.”-—The Ne v Haven Palladium states that the Marshal jf his State hes “ charged ” the Government $1,540 for seventeen weeks board for thirty-five Amistad negioes, and gi® ss*4 for two hundred and ninety-two day’s ci-s --tody of the blacks at $2 per day. Kendall’s order was for a “ grand charge along the whole demo cratic line,” and the order has been obeyed from the swamps of Florida to the green hills of New The Hard Money Government. —A draft for $1,250 from the Postmaster Gencial, duly counter signed by the accounting officer of the Department, and dated 30th of July, 1840, in lavor ot Johnson & Strader, and drawn on the postma'tcr at Mai s viHe, Ky., was protested on the 12th hist. The Proiest was made, as stated in the Cincinnati Re publican, on the pretext that there was an errer ot a letter, in spelling the name of the postmaster fiP drawn upon; but the said postmaster acknow ledged to the holders of the dratt, that he did not owe the Department so much money. This is an ctiier pretty item, to enter into the'history of this credit hating, hard money Government! .The Albany Microscope has d’seovered that Job was a printer, and that his comforters were non paying subscribers. For the Chronicle Sentinel. The Great Barbecue !! ! or two hundred and fifty of the Democracy. Saturday last was no ordinary era, in the history of the Locofocoism of Georgia. About eleven o’clock, a goodly portion of the Democracy rigged onto la mode in their best “ bib and tucker,” began to make some display of their all-important dignity on the Lafayette Course, and ere Sol had reached his meridian splendor, the Track afforded the passer-by a Co j d'oeil much more easily imagin ed than described. If there was no mixture of “ Black spirits and White,” there was a mingling of “jolly” spirits, who seemed however, tobe con sonant and congenial with some of the part). En tering the circle consecrated to jockcyism, &c., the first thing that particularly strikes your attention, is the roasting offering of twenty innocent swine, sacrificed to appease tiie opicurian divinity. Pass ing on but a short distance, your olfactory is erect ed with a soothing flavor varying in some de gree from “ hard cider ,” and delaying for an instant before this altar, you may hear twenty Democrats affirm, that the Kinderhook poney, must win the race. Pursuing the even tenor of your way, you may learn on this spot that“ Kentucky is certain,” t3n yards farther, that “ North Carolina and Indi ana, will give a majority in November,” and the next political knot you meet with, will swear cer tainly for Louisiana. Thus, although their protem pore barbecue orators may differ upon the points-, yet they all unite upon the principle that the Al bany Reg ncy must and will be victorious. But stop! wl at thunder is that, that reverbe rates in the distance ? What burst of poetry and passion is that, which resounds from the centre to the circumference of the consecrated spot ? Turn your eyes for a moment to yonder gathering, and behold one hundred and ninety pounds of Demo cratic mortality —five feet nine inches in height. — He is just mounting the rostrum —“ that,” said a bystander, “is Tom Glascock.” Ay, the same Tom Glascock who voted foi the Whipping Law, in preference to an appropriation of SBO,OOO for re pairing a Penitentiary, because he'Thought if poor men and women were to suffer a penalty for crime, it bad better be taken out cf their hides than their pockets. Well, let us approach this modern Gi ant's Causeway, abandon worldly thoughts, and lis ten to the Augustan oracle —Demosthenes, poetry, the classics, sublimity, virtue, truth, power, all are thrown into the shade by this political deity. He "Hands exaited upon a ladder, to the lowest round of which the genius of Christendom dare not aspire. He soars above the intellect of man, and the only thing intelligible to the Chiis tian pare of his auditory is, “ Go to the death for Van Buien,” to which they gave three dry and hungry cheers for the immortal Tom, amidst which applause, after gratifying his internals, from the cool offering of aUmpid spring, (it was water , aye, water, fellow-citizens.) he fell blushing into the arms of his constituency. But this part of the 6 aow is now over; the voice history, of passion, nd literature has again become thirsty, and Tom, followed by some kindred beings, retires to pay his devotions at the spirit~w\\ counter. Loud above the din of “ What will you take ?” “ Give me the Brandy!” “Give me the Rum !” “Pass the Gin this way !” is heard the roaring of the po litical lion, poetically exclaiming, “ Come Mat, Tom, and Bill, let’s take a long pull and a strong pull together.” The reply was a modest negative; but he knew them of oil, to be of the fallen angel species, and therefore ju J ged that their virtue was not inaccessible ; he had but a second of reflection, before the worthy trio had twice repeated, “ Tom, here’s youi health.” But this General aforesaid, besides being sober upon the occasion, was also man-of-all-work. He, like the black Angel of Death, was here, theie, and every where; now flourishing a decanter of Holland’s, then at the Bar, bawling with all his stentorian power, “ Fire and fall back, boys !” And again, passing a’ong with peculiar agility, ali the compounds necessary to pacify the thirsting pala es of his associates. The tumblers are emp tied, and the decanters no longer overflow with “Dutch courage.” They are regarded in solemn and silent respect by “ the party,” as having ence contaii ed the good “ things that were.” They hear now the burst and words of on to dinner, on ! and after courageously leaping over benches, up setting chairs, treading upon corns, the heteroge neous mass are assembled in the lower story of one of the stands. Here was a pdeture for the never failing pencil of a Hogarth —the despair of some, the resolution o f others, the patriotism of all, gave a zest and life to the scene, which we cannot rea dily forget. The manly independence of the many in seizing the bones of the departed and innocent swine, amidst the threats and desperation of those who opposed them, displayed a cool intrepidity, which would have done honor to Roman fortitulc. Yes, Messrs. Editors, in this batt’c of contending interests, we could point you to some, who, in “days long since vanished,” would have been at least entitled to a laurel wreath, if not a civic crown. The tables are now e’eared, and the Bar becue is over. A trumpeter aanounces that Ed ward J. Black, one of the three, will lecture the crowd. After hard struggling and pulling, kicking and cuffing, Two Hundred and Fifty Democrats were brought up to the Judgement Stand. The clapping and noise being suppressed, a thir ty eight year o’d in appearance, with well edged nasal, sharp phisiognomy, and all the sickly hue of political malady, is led forward to run his race.— Scanning with a vigilant eye the closely written stiictures, which he held before him on several sheets of foolscap, he commenced by addressing his “fellow citizens of Richmond county,” asking them not to “believe him for his honor,” (which, by the way, was a waste of words and an unneces sary request, if he had only reflected for a mo ment that many present happened to know him,) “but to be silent that they might hcai.” He wont on to assert, that the Convention at Milledgeville,by which he was governed, had declared lhat Georgia could not support Gen. Harrison or Mr. Van Burcn, and yet, with a consistency peculiar to himself, distinctly avowed that he was a Van Buren man. — He charged the Chrc nicle and Sentinel, and other papers throughout the State, with having wilfully misrepresented and calumniated him, and boldly asserted that Mr. Dawson had used his name as a deserter from his party and principles, but that he would make him personally responsible for that conduct. He admitted having sold his pay at Washington for o and G per cent premium, and urged it as a sub-treasury blessing, that he could only now obtain 2 or 3 per cent. (If he had brought it to Georgia, he might have done a better business.) That he had been mucli abused for I supporting Blair as government printer; but that he knew that the Globe was with us upon every , issue except that of nullification, (which was the only one involving the sectional question;) that he conversed with Blair upon the subject, and ‘‘Elan told him he must be satisfied tnth U'hat he had done;'' and consequently, as a State Eights man, he supported the Globe. O temporal O mo res!! lie charged Gen. Harrison with being a de faulter to tire Government,and promised to produce i the documents to sustain the assertion. He called I Mr. Preston “a rhetorical panorama; that he had i been imported as you would import blood stock; r was a man of etiquette, a gallant, and that was all. i And last, but not least, in replying to Mr. Ogle’s > speech,he asserted that the details were false, and ■ alluding to the President’s dining room,said that it f contained nothiig but old pine tables, between the ; chinks of which he could lay his finger, and no ■ chairs. The above is in substance the points to which ‘ Mr. Black alluded. We deem it unworthy our 5 attention to follow this new-born Democrat thro , all his political gymnastic evolutions. Wc would ’ demean ourselves, did wc answer the many paltry and flimsy excuses offered to an over-indulgent constituency—let them at the ballot-box put in their reply, and we will join issue wit.i him in ' other matters. He positively stated “ that Gen. Harrison was a defaulter to the Go\cinment in a 1 large amount of money —that he had read (he document containing the proof, and could produce ' it.” 5 We unhesitatingly declare before the country, that such is not the fact, and dare, and shall urge ’ Mr. Black to bring forward the testimony, failing > to do which, he deserves the censure of honest ' men, and will be pronounced a base defamer and contemptible calumniator. We have wiitten foi our authority, and when received it shall appeal in 1 the Chronicle & Sentinel. > The attempted slur upon Col. Preston is as > miserable as him who would issue it. If he be a I "panorama,” we thank God, that no such insect as Edward J. Black, crawls upon the back ground. In concluding, wc would say but one word rela tive to the furniture of the dining room of Mr Van , Burcn. The statement that, no furniture other ■ than old pine tables, was in that apartment, was made in contradiction to Mr. Ogle, and for the pui i pose of invalidating his assertions. If Mr. Og'e has misrepresented the case, we have only to say that Mr. Van Burcn, his cabinet, and his clerks, have kept false records, for upon their authority and their vouchers, have those facts been publish ed to the world. We think it, and without fear proclaim it, that it was below the dignity of any Member of Congress, or any gentleman, to use as strong and convincing argument, what in his heart, he knows, cannot be forced into such a construc tion, without mean and paltry quibble. Mr. Black intended to show, by alluding to these Pino Ta bles, that Mr. Van Buren himself was a plain nan, and the statements of Mr. Ogle and others, were volunteer untruths, When it is a matter of historical . record, and known to every visitor at the Capitol, and no doubt to Mr. Black himself, that these vein Vine Tables arc the only relics of the furniture of General Washington in the President’s House. , We now ask the “ Prney Woods men,” to whom he appealed, to take such stuff as that, for what it [ is worth —and wc call upon them to express their . opinions, decidedly and firmly through that organ, ; to which all public aspirants, must submit their ac . tions. Veritas. For the Chronicle and Sentinel. ' We say to the friends of the cause of Harrison ’ Tyler and Reform, push the war with vigor, earn it into the enemy’s camp, and stop not until you 5 banner waves in triumph over the land. See thi ’ we are certain of ’ Vermont 7 Massachusetts 14 r Connecticut 8 > Rhode Island 4 ’ New Jersey 8 Delaware 3 Maryland 10 Virginia 23 North Carolina 15 Georgia II Kentucky 15 Ohio 21 1 Indiana 9 Louisiana 5 Tennessee 15 i 168 This makes his election certain by 20 votes. ! We then have a certain prospect of carrying New York 42 , Pennsylvania 30 Michigan 3 75 168 243 It is said that South Carolina will be neutral, 1' and Van Buren will only get the following, an that is b}-no means certain, viz: Maine 10 New Hampshire 7 Alabama 7 Mississsppi 4 Illinois 5 Missouri 4 Arkansas 3 40 But, Mr. Kendall says, he objects to the suppor ters of Harrison, because the party is not composed of the people. Verily, take away the office-hold ers and expectants, and how many of tire people would remain in his party? Not enough to escort Mr. Van Burcn to Kinderhook!! o. p. h. Boys, do you hear this! “There is a fact, in the history of General WIL LIAM HENRY HARRISON, that of itself should oc sufficient to win our gratitude and respect.— Most of us are familiar with the history of tire bloody revolution of 1790. Hundreds of our coun trymen fled to the United States, as an asylum, from e ruthless persecutions which were then in flicted upon them. In the city of New York, the number became so large, that it was found neces ’ sary to form a society for their relief. It was call , ed the “New York Irish Emigrant Society.” At the session of Congress, in 1816-17, tire society petitioned Congress for a grant of lard io their countrymen, who wore ihcn destitute, having lost all their property in the rebellion. The question was debated in Congress, and the petition was re- L jected by a majority of twelve voles. Among those who advocated the measure, and whose name : is recorded among the yeas, stands tne name of William Henry Harrison, now a candidate for | President. In the remarks that he made on that occasion, he repudiated the idea that is often enter tained, that the influx of foreign emigration would be dangerous to the liberties of the country. He was willing to extend to them a helping hand —to relieve the destitute —and to contribute our public domain to those who had suffered as martyrs in thecause of liberty. This one act of Ges. Ham son —performed at a time when the sincerity of his motives cannot be impeached—should commend him to the favorable regard of every United Irish man. At the coming election, let us prove “that Irishmen never desert an old friend in time OF NEED.” f The following are the proceedings of tl»« Harrison Convention. Macon, Thursday, June 13, 1840. In pursuance of the resolution adopted by the Anti-Van Buren Convention, assembled in Mil ledgevillc, in June last, responsive to the call made by the Tippecanoe Club ©f Macon, a con vention of the people opposed to the re-election of Martin Van Buren to the Presidency, assem bled in this city on Thursday, the 13th instant. The several delegations having been assembled, the assembly was called to order by Gen. L Beall, President of the Bibb County Tippecanoe Club. After prayer, by the Rev, George F. Pierce, invoking the special guidance ot Divine Wisdom in the harmonious and conceded action of the Convention; upon motion ot Col. William B. Parker, the Hon. John McPherson Berrien was unanimously chosen President of the Con vention ; the surviving patriots of the Revolution then present, were elected Vice Presidents, and John H. SUcle, Thomas N. Beall, John J. Gres ham, Samuel M. Strong, and Samuel R. Blake, Esqs,, were appointed Secretaries. The President, in assuming the duties assign ed him, tendered his acknowledgements to the Convention, and after adverting to the Resolu tion of the June Convention, and detail: :.g the evil and corrupt action ot lire present Adminis tration, introduced to the attention of the Con vention the Hon. William C. Pr on, of South Carolina. Mr. Preston rose amid the acclama tion of the Convention, and tendon d his acknow ledgements for the notice which had been taken of him, and made a review ol the leading corrupt measures of the Administration. The Marshals then reported to the Secretaries the several delegations. After which the Con vert! ion adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow. Friday mornino, ? August 14—10 o clock. 5 The Convention met pursuant to adjournment. Absalom H. Chappell, Esq., ot Bibb, intro duced the following Preamble and Resolutions: The people of Georgia, opposed to the corrup tions and misrule of the Administration ot Mar tin Van Buren, and friendly to the election of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON to the Pre sidency, and of JOHN T\ LER to the A ice Presidency of the United States, having come together, in Macon, from all quarters of the Slate, in a Convention unprecedented in the vaslness of the assemblage, and the patriotic enthusi aiwilh which it has been characterised, cannot separate for the purpose of returning to their widely dis persed homes without sending forth to their fel low-citizens of their own State, and of the whole Union, their ardent congratulations on the tri umphant prospects which surround them in the great struggle in which they are engaged. They view that struggle as one, the issue of which will he decisive of the destinies of their country. A President of the United States, who is indebted for his elevation to the first office in tlris free and mighty confederacy—not to the high estimation in which his character, qualifica tions, and public services, were he’d by ins coun trymen, but to the sycophantic arts by which lie ingratiated himself with his immediate predeces sor, and led that predecessor to exert the whole power and patronage of the Government for his advancement—seeks a re-election at the hands of tho American people. Without having repented of the deep original sin of Executive dictation, by which he was brought into office, but perti naciously clinging to it, and practising it ; with out having done aught during his administration to make amends for the unworthy manner in which he gained the Presidential chair, but hav ing done every thing that could cause his admin istration to be felt, not less as a curse than his election had been a stain on the country, he comes before the people for the renewal of his grossly abused lease of power—relying on no means of success but the utter and shameless prostitution of that power to his own re-election. If he shall be permitted to triumph in the effort he is thus making, it will have become a settled point in the actual working of our political sys tem. that a President of the United States may control and dictate the choice of his successor, and that such successor, when thus invested with office, will be strong enough to secure his con tinuance there for a second term, in despite of all objections growing out of the most giicvous mis rule and consequent public detriment. When such a principle shall once ho practically estab lished—as it most certainly will be by the re election of Martin Van Burcn—our Government will have lost all of Republicanism but the forms and corruptions, and lack nothing of despotism but the trappings and title. For, if Mr. Van Buren he re-clectcd, will not the power and pa tronage oflhe Government, in his hands, be as effective, for all purposes of dictating the appoint ment of his successor, as they have been found to be in bringing about first, his own election, and then his re-election. And when Mr. Benton, or Mr. Buchanan, or some other such parly fa vorite shall aspire, in his turn, to the Chief Magistracy, what ground of hope can we have that the same engine of Presidential power and influence which have forced such a man as Mar tin Van Buren on the country, will not be po tent enough to elevate a Benton, a Buchanan, or even an Amos Kendall J as his successor? When to this unanswerable ground of objec tion to Mr. Van Burcn’s re-election, we add, the manifest design and tendency of his whole poliev measures and recommendations, to augment the already overgrown power of the Federal Execu tive, by fresh and fearful accessions; when we recollect that his predecessor, in whose footsteps he is pledged to follow, broke down the indepen dence of the Senate of the United States, by and with his concurrence and co-operation—and that he himself has instigated and abetted his party in subjugating the House of Representatives to his will, even though that subjugation had to be effected at the cost of the disfranchisement of a Sovereign State of the Union; when we reflect that his vast band of office-holders is selected with a confolling regard to mere Party devotion and Party efficiency, and arc trained to know no rule of action but subserviency to the Executive will; when, to all these things, we further add the alar ming fact, that he has at last succeeded, after years of systematic struggle, in causing the Purse-strings of the Nation to he placed in his hands, by Congressional enactment, and lhat he n nv reigns supreme in the collection, custody and disbursement of the moneys ; when from these Iris actual measures, we turn to his recommendations and behold him calling on Congress to place the Banking Institutionfi of the Stales at his merev, by a Bankrupt Law of which they may be made the compulsory victims—calling, moreover, for a new and unconstitutional organization of the militia system which would be tantamount to placing a Standing military force of 200,000 men at Ins disposal, it cannot be doubted that our Re bulican Institutions are, at thi? moment, strug gling in every crisis ot their destiny, and lhat if the power which now wars against them, shall triumph in the existing contest for the Presidency it will he rendered by the victors too strong even to be afterwards successfully resisted by the Peo ple. In this pursuit of new acquisitions of power, the Federal Executive has not hesitated to over ride and trample in the dust all the great interests of the country.—The seizure of the money pow- 1 er has been consummated by a series of measures i W . lc * a ' e orought disaster, derangement and rum on the currency, the commerce—the whole pecuniary prosperity of the People They have 1 >een reduce to embarrassment and comparative j po\ert\ »y a policy whose only merits are its ten dency to strengthen the Executive arm. and to enrich monied men and salaried office-holders. Whilst the People have been thus curtailed in their resources of wealth and income, and sub iccted to a progressive but sure impovens inicnt l that same Federal Administration, headed by « Martin Van Buren, from which have cmaniud i so many professions of economy, has signalised itself by the extravagance of its expenditures, and the profligate waste of the public Pressure. It has carried up the annual expenditures of the Government loan average of thirty seven millions of dollars— more than double what was known under the ten preceding Administrations ; and we now behold the anomaly of a Bankrupt Ad ministration sustaining itself by yearly issues of its own notes, and yet vaulting itsell on the establishment of a system which makes money trebly secure and difficult to be obtained. When we look through the long political life of Mr. Van Buren, we find nothing to relieve the dismal prospect which a review ot his Adminis tration spreads out before the eye. In all tie great and characteristic acts of lus puo.ic hie we find him against the .South, and that Re publican Party to which he professes devotion. In the outset of his political career, at the com mencement of the War with Great in 1312, we behold him a member of the New York Legislature voting tor De Witt Clinton,the Federal candidate, for the Presidency, in opposi tion to Mr, Madison, ihe candidate of the Repub lican party, and of the entire as a member of the same Legislature, we find him entering into a political coalition with Rufus Ring, e then head and leader of the Federal party of the Union, by which Mr. King was that year elected to the Senate of the United States, and by which, also, Mr. Van Buren was himself elected as his colleague in the same body, the ensuing year. In 1820, also, he gave his sup port to tl'ic celebrated Missouri restriction, by vo ting instructions to that effect to the Senators and Representatives of New \ ork in Congress. In 1821, as a member of the Convention which framed the present Constitution of New \ ork, he supported the principle of allowing to Negroes the right of suffrage. In 1822, as a Senator in Congress, he voted for the restriction of Slavery in Florida. In 1824. he supported thoroughly the high Protective tariff of that year. . In 1828, he voted for the celebrated Tariff Law, well known throughout the South by the just and emphatic name of the Bill of Aboinations. In 1826, he vo for the erection of Federal Toll gates on the Cumberland Road, and afterwards, during Gen. Jackson’s Administration, he sub scribed to his doctrine that works of Internal Im provement by the General Government were con ■ stitutional, when of National utility ; ami that the President, in the exercise of the Veto power was to determine for himself, over the head of Congress,the question of their nationality. Thus not taking the power out of the hands of the Fed :al Government, hut merely shifting it from Congress to the President. As Secretary of State, under Gen. Jackson, he compromised lire honor of his Country in his negotiations with a great Foreign power, by availing himselfofan ar gument drawn from the party divisions of our own People, and the triumph of the party to which the then President belonged. It is needless to extend further the detail of the grounds of objection which Mr. Van Buren’s political life, and Presidential Administration, so abundantly furnish against him. Enough has been presented to show that in whatever view we contemplate the subject, all things call aloud for a change of the measures and policy of the Gov ernment, and of the man at the head of the Government. That change, so vitally important to the coun try, can only be brought about by the election of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,to the Presi dency of the United tSlaUs. His public life and character, from early youth to the present hour, are familiar to his countrymen, and they give assurance abundant an indubitable that such a change as his elevation to the Chief Magistracy ' would bring, would be in accordance with the most enlightened conviction of public opinion, and promotive of the redemption of the country from the misrule, corruption and distresses under which it now so greviously labors. The confi dence of a Washington, of a Jeffe’son, and a Madison —his able, successful and well-approved conduct in all the great and responsible stations, in Peace and in War, which he filled for more i than thirty years—are vouchers irrefutable of his patriotism, his integrity, and capacity. The People of Georgia, opposed to the present Administration, have made him the man of their choice; and will spare no efforts, becoming free men and patriots, to advance his election. ’ Resolved, therefore. That it be recomcnded to the citizens of Georgia to lay aside, in the present alarming emergency of the Country, all pre-exis ting Party divisions and to come to the examina tion of the issues involved in the existing contest, with minds unbiassed, unprejudiced, and deter- I mined to consult no end but their Countiy’s good, and its deliverance from the mal-administra lion and misery with which it is now overwhelm ; ed. r Resolved, That the People be recommended to hold meetings in their respective counties, neigh borhoods and districts, for the purpose of diffusing a full and correct knowledge of the true character and merits of the pending contest, and promoting the election of General WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON to the Presidency, and ol JOHN T\ LEK to the Vice-Presidency, of the United, Stales. The question being upon the adoption of the Preamble and Resolutions, Robkkt Toombs, Esq. ot Wilkes, offered the following amendment which was carried by acclamation : Resolved by 1 his Convention, That while we as State Rights Republicans, must ever repudiate and condemn the principles embraced in the Proclamation and Force Bill, yet we feel ourselves called upon as Patriots to foicgo our peculiar opinions of the means to secure the great ends of State Rights, popular liberty, an honest adminis tration of the Government of the people, and give a cordial invitation to our country men of the Union Party to unite with us in the deliverance of our common countiy from the hands of “the spoilers.” In this great struggle, we proclaim to the world that we stand upon the great platform ofPopular Rights, which is wide enough, and loi g enough and strong enough for every friend ol his Country to stand upon, without any sacrifice except Party to Country ! The question then being upon the adoption of the Resolutions, with the amendment, the Hon. C, B. Stuoxg, of Bibb, introduced the following additional amendment, which washy unanimous vole superadded to the main resolution ; Resolved, That this Convention of the People approve of the able and patriotic conduct of the faithful six of our Representatives in Congress, to wit: Alford, Dawson, Habersham, N sbet, King and Warren ; and will support them, with Foster, Gamble and Merriwether, and use all hon orable means to promote their election. The Resolutions, and amendments, were advocated by Andrew J. Miller, Esq. of Rich mond, William Law, Esq. of Chatham, Rob ert Toombs, Esq. of Wilkes, and Henry W. Hilliard, Esq. of Montgomery, Alabama. The question then recurring upon the amen ded Resolutions, it was unanimously adopted. The following resolution was introduced by E. Bird, of DeKalb: Resolved, I hat this Convention approve of the Ticket nomir.ated at Milledgeville, in June last, for Electors of President and Vice President, and will support the same by every honest exer tion in their power. The question being tiken upon the adoption | of ttie resolution, it was adopted nem. con. Mr. Lyman Beecher, of Wetumpka, Alaba ma, was presented, by the President, to the Con vention, as a delegate from the “Tippecanoe Club I* etumpka. Mr. 8., after making his ac nowlcdgements, and tendering to the Conven- tion the assurances of the Clul, whose views 1 represented, of their united and untiring co . * F ration, was conducted to a seat amomr i, °^ e * , o mem bers. S. T. Beecher, Esq., of Baldwin, introduce the following resolution, which was adopted • Resolved, That the proceedings of this C on '. tion be signed by the President and Secret and that Edilois friendly to the great princi ***** of Reform in the Ad.i Lustration of ih,>r . ’ es , • “v Vjrovcrn. merit he requested to give publicity to the sir through the medium of their papers, e ’ On motion of A. J. Miller, Esq.. 0 f p mom!, it was Resolotd, That the thanks of ti " Convention be tendered to the Tippecanoe of Macon for their kindness and attention u/th" members of the Convention, and to the cither ° of Macon generally for the hospitality 0 f uu'' entertainment. On motion of Hon. C. B,Strong, of B ; l s was unanimously Resolved, That the thanks' this Convention are due, and arc noft tenderd to the Hon J. McPherson Brkuien forth dignified ability with which he has presided over its deliberations. On motion of A. H. Chappell, Esq., h!, a Resolution of thanks to the Secretaries f 0 ’ their attention and efficiency in the discharge of their duties was submitted and adopted. * The President then addressed the Comm tion, commending its deliberations, together with the consequent acting of its individual member* to she guidance and supervision of Divine Be mgnity ; after which Prayer was made by the Rev. Jonathan Davis, of Lee, and the Pres dent then adjourned the Convention sine da J. McPHERSONBERRIEN,President. James H. Steele, Thomas N. Beall, John I. Gresham, y Secretaries Samuel M. Strong, Samuel R. Blake, J Virginia Elections. The following is a particular statement of the votes cast by the people of Virginia, at the recent election of mombeis of the legislature in that Mate, compared oy Congressional districts and also in Ihe total, with the vote for President in IVhi 1840. * Uhl,'. Adm. Whig. \dm 1 * Banks 873 15’ 3 1426 1731: 2 IHotts 1221 858 1315 550 3 *Biernc’s 1738 1804 2333 1597 ■4 *Cole’s 1302 1738 1540 ]’m 5 * Craig’s 1013 2331 2617 oTsd 6 *Uiomgoole‘s 683 1041 1008 I 3 fi 7 +Gai land's 1060 1008 ISnO pip 8 iGoggin’s 1274 519 1776 ’O9” 9 fHill’s 9.00 1289 1146 1353 10 *Hollcman’s 1043 669 2002 1833 11 *Hopkin’s 400 2873 1434 2703 12 iHunter’s 671 900 1135 13 ’'Johnson’s 1358 1 762 2131 2270 14 624 1105 719 887 15 *Lucas’ 1503 1560 2367 2073 16 fM’Carty’s 1614 793 1779 840 17 *llives’ 6-8 693 899 j 033 18 " Samuels’ 973 2SOO 1146 2209 !9 *■ Steen rod’s 1554 2440 2559 255 s 20 fTaliaferro’s 827 883 1239 ipj 21 * Wise’s 1433 325 1730 435 Total, 23,402 31,134 34,402 31,695 Van Buren’s majority in 1836 7,73-3 Harrison’s majority in 1840 0 797 Nett Harrison gain 10,439 * Van Bur. n members. tHarrison do. I Neutral. His district Harrison. Tnr. Tyrant alarmed.— the President of the United States is alarmed at the manifestations of the people, and is exerting himself an t urging upon his official rctaincis to prevent the immense gatherings of the true sovereigns of the country. It is known that the great Whig Convention of Massachusetts, held at Worcester, in that State, on the 17lh June last, adjourned to meet again at Bunker Hill on the 10th of September. It is said Mr. Van Buren has written a letter to Georg*Ban croft, the Collector at Boston, inquiring of him “ whether some steps could not be taken to pre vent so vast a cotlcc ion of citizens on Bunker Hill, as it is evidently intended to assemb.e there on the 10th September; which from presentap pearances, will be so great as entiiely to discou rage the democratic party of Massachusetts ?” The Collector, in accordance with these wishes of the President, is said to have written to a loco foco Postmaster, who is acting by appointment of Gov. Morton, as Major General of the 2d Division of the Mas-achu.sects Militia, suggos ing to him the expediency of appointing the lOf/i dan °f s e P m tember for the genera: muster of his Division, and that the suggestion will be acted on, if orders have not alieady been given to carry out the wishes of the President. “If these things be true,” remark* a correspond ent of the Boston Atlas, “ lot us. while we expro-s our indignation at the gross inteilercnce of the Presidci t, in the affairs witli which he has no right to meddle, hail this interference as anoiher evi dence ot the LEAR OF AN INSULTED PEOPLE, which has seized upon the Tyrant at Washington.” Gen. Jackson says, that he “never admired Gen, Harrison as a military man.” He once said too, by a vote in Congress, that he never ad mired Gen. Washington as a military man. Ac* verlheless the people admire both the one and the other. George Washington was a Farmer. John Adams was a Lawyer. Thomas Jefferson was a Lawyer. James Madison was a Lawyer. James Monroe was a Lawyer. John Quincy Adams is a Lawyer. Andrew Jackson is a Lawyer. Martin Van Buren is a Lawyer. WILLIAM H. HARRISON IS A FARMER Like causes produce similar effects; under Washington the country was prosperous and happy. Let us have another farmer President and another age of prosperity and plenty. Van Buuknism in Maine.—At a \ an Buren celebration, at Eastport, Me., on the 4lh of Juht the following was one of the regular toasts drank. “The Trading community —A CURSE THE NATION !” Almost an Accident.—We have been told,that while one of the Hudson River steamboats was on her passage up or down a few days since, a 10-o --foco on board proposed to the Captain to call the passengers together and take the vote on the Pres idency. The Captain consented, and requested 31 who were in favor of Harrison to t.ikc one of the boat, and those in favor of Van Buren, to take the other side, and he would count them. When behold the Van Buren man stood alone on his side the boat, all the other passengers taking the Harrison side, and came near capsizing the boat, the solitary loco clinging to the first thing he co'i catch to prevent himself from sliding to the 1 ai rison side be fore ho was counted. — Troy M lag- . The Baltimore Patriot alludes to the rumor ot a quarrel between Mr. Van Buren and Gov, For syth, and slates that Mr. Eaton, whilst minister at Madrid, was in the habit of drawing l° r 1,9 quarter’s salary in advance, as all our f° rt ' ! ? n ministers have always done. Mr. Rothchik* ca- ■ ed his drafts. But our Government in one 0 its eccentric fils of economy, without ad'|' l " Mr. Eaton of its intention, gave notice to h u “ schild, that, if he negotiated any ot the drafts • Mr. Eaton, after the first day es May, 1840, *»* would do it at his own peril, as they would be accepted. Mr. Eaton, justly indignant at toi’ attempt to discredit him whilst representing ’ country abroad, in the capacity of minister, l3 ‘ refused to visit the President; and both ho a j“ his wife, as we understand, do not hesitate tu 1 nounce him in the plainest terms.