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SEPTEMBE^Ifib
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY IIARRISOX,
0/ Ohio; |
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe the ’incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. j
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, |
JOil N T If L UK,
Os Virginia; |
A State Rights Republican of the school o> - ’9S—
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
t«ne of America’s most sagacious, virtuoiU and
patriot statesmen. |
FOR FIECTOES OF PRESIDENT AND VIC E-PREJ; DENT,
GEwRGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpff
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden, j
JOHN \V. CAMPBELL, of MuscogeeF
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. j
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. I
SEATON GRAN FLAND, of Baldwin}
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass. ;
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKMb. t
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS, |
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, cf Greene |
R. W. HABERSHAM, cf Habersham!
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. 3
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb. I
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter. J
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Gljail
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jcllerson. 4
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Put pm.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee!
FOR SENATOR, I
ANDREW J. MILLER. J
FOR F.EPF.ES NTATIVEB, j
CHARLES J. JENKINS, ;
e GEORGE W. CRAWFORD, *
WILLIAM J. RHODES.
-Hr. Forsyth’s Letter.
In this morning’s paper will be found the letter
of Mr. Secretary Forsyth, to which we infite the
careful investigation of our readers, and f.ve are
tee more desirous fur their scrutiny, as we ;hail in
a few days piesent to their consideration a review
of this document, and unless we arc gieitiy de
ceived in the good sense of the people of Georgia,
wo will turn this dibit of the “place man ” to some
good account. While on the subject of this letter,
we cannot forego the opportunity to ask c; Corporal
Mura,” why he withheld the letter of Lye Pope
which was appended to this circular, by tl | Sccn
tary, and which he desired should be regarded as
a part of his communication ? Was it be Jr use he
feared to insult the Catholics of this country, by
the effort of Mr. Forsyth,to drag into the yU.itical
contests of this country the head of the r*ancient
church ? ;
Reaction In Georgia. ;
It will co doubt astonish the good citizens of
Georgia to learn that a tremendous reaction is go
ing on among them, in faverof the LocofoUo party.
Strange as this may be, the Locofoco lettel writers
£
arc busily engaged in communicating this import
ant intelligence to the Northern Locofocur, for the
purpose of effecting the elections there, j
The friends of Reform at the North a: d Fast,
need not be alarmed at this intelligence! there is
about as ranch truth in it. as there was in*;he moon
hoax. We in Georgia car not find out in {‘ hat sec
tion this reaction is going on ; we aie,|however,
advised of continued accessions to thej People’s
candidate, and we arc a- caiTident of oorgia as
w« are of Kentucky. |
Troup County i’rect. I
f e have j '-;t heard tiiat at a incest eltrtion tor a
Justice of the Infeiior C ourt, in old Republican
Troup, the contest was made a test question, and
the Harrison candidite received 1000 votes and
the Loco-foco 200. iicre is a specimen of Loco
foco calculation. They have again fad again
taunted us with the great changes in Troup, and
this result shows a change, but it is a change from
Loco-fucoism however. j
The American Journal ct the j.tfedical
Sciences. {
Mr. Thomas Richards of our cit\>h srlaid on our
table the 52d No. of this trulv valuablf* Journal,
iu which its publishers purpose to comtnduce a new
*eries, the first number of which will by published
January Ist, IS4I. The long standing, and well
known ability with which this Journal has been
conducted, by its present able, and ii.iefatigable
editor, is too well known to the Medical Profes
sion of this country, to need anythingiioin us to
recommend it to their favorable consideration ; and
we will only add, that a favorable opportunity is
now oliered to those who have not heretofore been
subscribers, to commence with the now series—tac
subscription price es which is five dollars a year,
always payable’in advance. ?
While on this subject, we cannot refrain from
expressing our regret, that there is inji a similar
woik in our own city. We arc not in
i 0
either the talents or industry, noccssa p to sustain
a Journal, that would be an oruamentito the pro
fession, and worthy a place in everyfPl ysician’s
Library. It is a humiliating fact for® sto know,
that those members of the Profession E-ho are de
sirous of laying the results of their investigations
before the i’roiossion, are compelled 'i),st?nd their
communications to the North, in order p give them
publicity. (>u. of the tr n original conlmunicalious
in the number f the Journal before 4, there is no
less than four from Southern PhysieiSuis, and two
of them from this State, i his ought t| ttol e . Wc
say tl:!.' in no invidfi.es or unkind fc',ding towards
Northern Journals, n 3 thing is fai iheiifirom our n
lent; : , ■ : ‘y siro " ; i* -e»
a Journal e. • "■•> n -j
ihologv and ti< >t:a nt of liiu»c dLealis peculiar to
our climate. It will also be the of raisin
he standard of the Profession in |he Souther
country, and will In iu> small degree. advance Lie
interest of our Medical College. We would there
fore respectful! v call the attention ot the Members
of the Profession in this city, to the subject, and
particularly the Faculty 01 Lie Meal cal college.
horn the New Y'ork Times of the V'th.
Two Jays later fron England.
The transient ship A lex antler, Captain Copie.
arrived this morning, from Liverpool, banging
Liverpool papers to tiie Gth August-
The intelligence from London is !wc Jars later.
In the interim the Overland Mail had arrived tr®in
India with advices from Bombay to the 23d of
; June. The Russian* had not obtained possession
| of Khiva, and the British envoy in that country
: had left for St. Petersburg on a mediatory miss
ion. Tiie state ot affairs in Afghanistan was
I rather unsalisfa; tory, Schah Sooja was closely
pressed, and it was feared coula not tnaiatain
i himselfon the throne of Cubul without British
j assistance.
j The Lord William Bcnttck, from London, and
I the Lord Castlereagh, from Karrack, both with
trooos on board, wetc wrecked off Bombay llar
j bor, on the 17ih June. 28 of the and officers of
j the former, 7 passengers out ol 11 , and 65 soldiers
j were lost, and only 70 of the 200 persons were
on board the Lord Casllereagh had been saved.
The Circassians had obtained another victory
over the Russian troops. The French embassy
had left Ispahan on its way back to France having
failed in the principal object of its mission—
namely, the establishment of consuls in different
parts of Persia, and ihe conclusion ct & com
mercial treaty. The insurrection in Syria was
at an end. A despatch from the Governor of
Beyroot, dated the 12th ult. informed ‘.be viceroy
of this fortunate event. The Druses and other
insurgents had sent hostages to Damascus in
return to propositions made by Mehemet All,
granting them important concessions. Ihe
Egyptian fleet had left Beyroot. and the Pasha’s
forces were expected soon to return to Alexandria.
| The King of Naples had published a decree,
| announcing the conclusion of ail difficulties with
England, in relation to the sulphur question.
France.— Tne London Times of the 6th ot
August says:
“The latest information which has reached us
■ from the most trustworthy quarters in Pans, is
| of a nature to strengthen our hope* of an arnica
, hie arrangement of the affairs of the cast. The
1 orders which ha'C been transmitted to the French
fleet, are understood to be by no means of an
; aggressive character. The army though consi
i durable increased, will not be put on the full war
establishment, and the government seem thor
: oughly disposed to show as much discretion as
j energy.
Tne solution of of the question lies no longer
in Paris or Loudon; and the parties on cither
j side must be content to wait, though certainly
\ not without great anxiety, the arrival of intelii- 1
| geuce from Alexandria. The nature of M.de j
i Walewski’s mission to the Pacha hud not trans
j pired, but the selection of that individual for *0 .
j important a service has, excited the more atten
tion from his natural hostility to and in j
choosing a Polish agent, however illustrious hie
origin in other respects, M. Thiers is thought to
have given an additional proof of his anti Rus
sian determinations. The decision of the Pacha
will of course be influenced if not determined, by
the hopes he may entertain of having France on
: his side. But, whatever may be the policy 7 of
■ Fiance in the event of a settlement of the ques
| lion by force, we may presume that she will not i
j support or encourage the claims of the vassal,
! which she has herself proposed to circumscribe
and control, against the rights of the Porte, which
1 she has pledged herself to maintain.”
■ It is pretty obvious that the strong Iceiing ’
| which suddenly pervaded the French communi
| ty, impelling with equal vehemence the populace
; the pacific middle classes, and the highest ranks,
| forced upon the king and the government the
j adoption of a hold attitude towards England,
j *So far compliance with the hasty impulse of the
( people was perhaps essentia! to the security of
' the throne, but it is no less essential to France and
to every other country, that weapons of such
weight and edge should be handled with very
great caution.
While the affair thus remains in abeyance, how
ever, France appears to be vigorously preparing
j for war. The London Times of the sth contains
the following:
The papers before us, and cur private letters
j acquaint us, in audition, and as necessary accom
{ paniments, camp furniture and hospital maga
j zines on a most extensive scale, had been order
■ ed. The Minister of War announced, on Satur- j
■ day, to the Committee of Artillery, that a sum
j of 6.000,000 f. (240,000/) was employed in the
purchase of horses and materia! for that depart
ment. “ Already in the course of the dav,” says
La Presse, saddlery to the amount of 1,700,0001.
(£68,000) was ordered.
General (not the Marshal) Gudinot is mention
ed as destined to have an important command,
j arising out of existing circumstances. In the
' navy, very extensive promotions and nominations
and, it is aiso added, superunuatiens are irnmedi
dlately to take place.
All the offensive statements of the most ran
-1 corous portion of the French props (we mean I
1 the legilimatist journals) arc copied into the min
isterial and Justc-miheu papers. They recapit-
J ulate the naval force of France already at sea in
the Medeierranean (13 sail of the line, of which
' 3 are first rates, and may bo forthwith increased
! to 25 sail of the line.) and contend that by divi
j ding the superbly disciplined crews of that fleet,
“which the English themselves confess are the
finest in the world,” with the new levies, they
will form a perfectly efficient and adequate body
j of seamen.
j The rancor and animosity of the Paris press
| are, however, benevolence and amity when com
! pared with the feelings expressed by the provin- j
cial papers. Those of Bordeaux are in an espe- >
i cia! manner distinguished by this course.
The utmost possible anxielv prevailed in Paris ,
for the arrivals from London, Berlin, Vienna, and j
i St. Pelersburgh with intelligence of the manner |
■ in which the new attitude of France should have
been received in those capitals respectively. This
j feeling added to the carrying out of the hostile
preparatory system of M Thiers above referred
to, produced at Torliui’s, on Sunday, a new fall
in the funds. The three per cents opened at 8 If.
60c. fell to SOf. 80c. when our correspondent clo
sed his letter.
A private letter, dated Vienna, July 22J, in the
•• Universal Gazette de Leipsic," states that it was
j believed in the best informed circles that a se
: crct treaty existed between Mehemet Ah and
France. “ The fact likewise of an understanding
I between Marshal Marmont and M. Thiers is con
firmed.” says that paper, and it is understood that
j the marshal is to be appointed governor of Alge
| ria.”
| From the Albany (N. Y.J Advertiser of Saturday
i A TOUCH OF THUNDER FROM OUR
OWN STATE I —The charter election in Bing
-1 hampton, (Broome Co.) took place on Tuesday
' last, and resulted in ihe triumphant success of
| the Wft’g ticket in even/ tvut'd ! The aggregate
Whig majority \s fortp-Jive —last year ch vent
Loco-Focoism isonits last legs in the Empire
i State as well as eierv where tdse.
i
The Nation 1 Gazette states that notwithstand
ing the reverses many have met with* who were
engaged in the Muiticaulis speculations, the cul
ture 01 si,k still occupies, steadily, tiie attention of
a very large and Intel Kent class of citizens, who
are fully confident that it will yield a fair reward
for the labor »mi capital employe ! in producing it.
AiSti-.ttssi to liie People ul
Fredericksburg, Va. Aug.*29, IS4F.
On my tv ay to the Ind’an Spring't> meetsuch
o; my fei.ow citizens a* might comply tv Ah the
j invitation to to present at a dinner to be given to
our Senators ar.d thiec *ff our Representatives in
I Congress. on the 2d of September, 1 am detained
■ here ty-a painful disorder. Incompatible with the
1 pro-ernti nos my journey. In my own judgment,
: the detention is of no importance except so myself,
a- I cannot presume that my presence or absence
will in the slightest degree affect the opinions and
actions of any Oi the person* who may compose
t iat assem'dage. I regretit,nevertheless, as lam
i deprived of an opportunity to meet valued friends
and am unable to do that whuh others for whom
j I enter ain a strong affection, and whose pru
dence ar.d good sense gi .e weight to their recorn
j meodations, have thought would be useful in the
present agitated state of our country.
I have seen nothing to shake mi confidence in
j the power of truth: nothing to make me doub' the
j ful.lity of all attempts to delude the people fcy
ingenius equivocations, artful exaggerations, blas
j teriug t refer sions, or open falsehood'*. W ilf n
the spirit of enquiry is awakened, the people a.e
not to be turned from the pursuit oi tacts by pro
cessions and parades, by travelling orators and bal
lad singers, by fiddlings and revelries! A easeful j
■ investigation of those facts, and calm reflection
upon thorr. : t homo, give to the humblest citizen
i the power to decide wisely in whose hands the
Chief Magistracy of the nation can be sulcly eu- j
trusted for the preservation of external peace, and ■
a perpetuation of those domestic institutions with j
’ which are inseparably connected the harmony ot I
the Union, and piosperitv,national and individual.
! These will be used, and being used, the result
| will be right. If it were necessary or proper, I
could bear my humble testimony to the fidelity
with which the declared opinions of the present j
incumbent have been acted upon. Necessary it
is not. Trice the chief ground of objection to bi n i
is. th it he has performed I*is engagements, and
“followed in the footsteps of his predecessor.”—
j Proper it will not be considered, as I have been in
timately asso.ustcd with his administration, and
identified in feeling and judgment h ifn the great
measures of Us fiscal and foreign p iicy, and would
be looked upon as a vo uniter and interested wit
ness- Instead,therefore, of speaking what Iki ow
i and believe to be just of Mr. Van Buren and of Gen.
; Harrison, I will the right of every member ot j
; the community, to refer to things of common noto
riety, which will aid my fellow-citizens in Geor- j
gia in discovering to which of these persons they
■ may safely confide tin? Executive power, a? it may
! influence or control the groat questions—
Os a protective tariff;
Os internal improvements;
Os appropriation and expenditure ;
Os the mode of keeping and disbursing tbe
• public funds : _
Os slavery, as it exists fiom the northern con
! fines of Maryland to tire Sabine and Red Rivers.
| (Questions of foreign jolicy are omitted, for,
strange to say, they are not topics in the Prtsiden
' tial canvass, and on that subject the advoca es wf
; universal Reform intend to make no change.)
On these questions the opinions of Mr. Van Bo
ren and General Harrison have been in various
forms and at different periods asked for. What
their answers we:e, at what time and in what
i manner gi\en, are well known facts. Aly feliow
j citizens can readily d cide with the>e facts in
j view, whi: h of these gentlemen agrees a ith them
:on the*e important and vita! su jects. By com
, paring the explicit, frank, prompt, public, and uni
; form communications of Mr. \ an Buren. given with
; like readiness to friend or f >e, with the- reluctant,
| equivocal, and not inmcquent y contradictory giv
ings out ol Gen. HairUon —sometimes by rcT'er
' ence to former declarations, sometimes by letters
; from friends and friendly committees ; again by
I speeches at arranged meetings,and then by private
letters for use but not publication —they can, w ith
: out difficulty, determine which of them deserves
their confidence. Should any doubt remain, alter
this comparison, there aie two other facts not un
worthy to be remembered in forming a correct j
. judgment: Mr. Van 13uren has imputed to him by j
| his advocates every where, the same opinions and
1 same principles ; the opinions and principles im
puted to Gen. Harrison by his friends and suppor
i ters aie variant and contrasted —ch.imtlioii-like,
they lake their hues from tuc objects upon which
j they rest w hile you are called upon to examine
j them, and show a color to suit the region where
■ they are presented to view.
Should the belief be entertained that the dcclar
| aliens of the parties themselves, or those of friends
anxious to promote then success, are not safe guides
the motive to concealment, equivocation, or »le- t
ception being so powerful, try the parties by the |
experiment am cruris
In various stations each has been before the pub
lic for inoie taan thirty \ ears. Compare then pro
fessions with their acts, and then the results of
each comparison. If still nut salisned, there are
other broad fact* that cannot fail to bring convic
tion to the honestly inquiring mina. A belter
judgement of the probable conduct of an adminis -
tration in this country is to be formed by looking
at the parties by whom its chief is brought for
ward, and by whom he will be supported if they
succeed, than by a scrutiny into the particular
opine ns and political course of the person who
is proposed for that station. Mr. Van Buren is the
candidate of that party in a li. the States, who,
under the lead of Gen. Jackson,arrested the gigan
tic and mad scheme ol universal internal improve
ment —who wrested the public money from the
hands of irresponsible and doubtful corporations,
and broke their power —who seek to reduce duties
and taxes to the wants of the Government—and
who believe that these warns admit of diminutions
of the public expenditure ; of a party every wheie
arrayed against Abolition, arid ready, at ail hazards
and at all times, to see (hat the constitutional
guaranty of Southern property is fairly and faith
fully maintained. He is equally acccptah.e to that
party in the Southern, Western, Eastern, and Mid
die States —lias been f reed upon neither by com
binations or irrigucs.
General i lari Ron is ihe candidate of ail ti.e par
ties in the I nited States who can be brought to act
against the present Administration by tiie common
; instinct of hatred, tie was forced upon the sjuth
-1 em portion cf these parties by the combination of
Anti-masonry and Abolitionism. Not one Soulh
| era vote was given to him in the Hanisburg Con
vention. Among lus suppoi ters are ranked the high
tariff and internal improvement men, under the
banners of .Mr. Clay ; the high-toned politician of
i the New Eng and states —who ccnstiue the Con
stitution like the common law, which, contracted I
as it may seem, expands indefinitely accoiding to
he supposed exigency of the times—who believe I
there i> no surety or prosperity without the agency '
ol a National bank to manage the fiscal concerns
of the Government, and furnish a currency for the
people —who opposed the late w ar, and established
according to opinions expressed in the Biilish par
liament, a sort of understood neutrality with the
enemy during its continuance —who acknowledge
as their leader and s'andard-bearcr, Mr. Webster,
of boston; the Abolitionist*, ol all color*, under
Slade of Vermont, Sew a. d and B radish. Governor
and Lieut. Governor of New York, under whose
| auspices a deliberate attempt has been made, by
; Stata legislation, to evade that piovision of the
; federal Constitution which was adopted for the
| protection of*Southern rights; the Conservatives,
under the guidance of Mr. Rives, who have aban
doned their former friends because the keys of the
vaults where the public treasure is deposited are
kept in the pockets o officers of Government, and
not by cashiers of State banks; and who predict
ruin and desolation *.o tne country because that
treasure can no longer, under the control of all sorts
ot Stale bank directors, be made the basis of loans
to stimulate every species of corporation folly or
I private speculation; a fragment of the Nullities,
: under Vlr. Preston and Gen. Waddy Thompson,
who have been whirled, like atoms of dust, from
the chariot wheels of South Carolina, a? they
rolled into their ancient tracks ia the ranks of De
mocracy.
i he supporters of the General In Georgia, I need
cot designate. J hey arc known —what they have
been, what they are, and what they w ish to ho. —
Some of them have had, and have lost, popular
. confidence; so.ne yet enj >y it; and they unite in
their endeavors the o:.e to recover, the other to
retain, p polar favor. .' o effect iLeir common ob
ject, they are closely allied to politic; :n- whose
principles they have rolernnly nj-cb.d; whose
conduct they have repeatedly denounced; w . 0.-e
onje ts tncy have_ a : . va y 3 .Messed to abhor. if
u;cic 1- ii _. truth in in maxim oi noscitur a sod is,
R« ‘1 >ot ' e:y AG- ,k t .» de< ide, fiom ti-i*
army or nr - tin nds, what ivlioirte can be placed on
• Gen. Harrison by Georgian;:.
the only Ca.ei Magistrate to whom ihe South
ern Mates Cuii safely uusf themselves, is one who
will use the influence of hi* place wisely to lead
eong'.e. aMiiA iegUluttcn on the s ffijr-cts that must
arise for discussion with! i the coming Presidential
tern; —the app< tiontment of representation, the
system of rewmir, the admission of new States into
the Union; and one who will use his power fear
le.'Sly r.r. 1 fully to control all attempts at legisla
tion on that subject which is exclusively Southern.
On this there tan be no parley for it admits of no
compromise. Those who agitate it. do evil, what
| ever be their pretences or their motives. Those
who a-wociate, combine, and net with those agita
tes, must look to have tV linger of suspicion
pointed at them. No Southern man,who will read
dispassionately the address to the people of the
slaveholding States, and tin accompanying evi
dence, from the Dc-mecialic members cf Congress
from those States, can have any excuse for mistak
ing lus duty when he acts on tins question. To
the imbodied evidence presented of the movements
within the United States of the disturbers of South- ,
era repose, max be usefully a.iff d a refcrrcnce to I
what is going on abroad. The Government of
Great Britain, which lias always permitted the ;
c'anadr.s to Lc the asylum of runaway slaves, has,
within a few years converted all its West India
possession* into places of refuge for them, and has
formally decla:ed that no claim for them will be
availing, although they reach their possessions by
; fraud or violence. The same Government has
j been lately employing irscit as the volunteer cr
' selected agent of the Pope in presenting an apos
i tolic letter on slavery to some of the Spanish j
; American States —a letter which it is not at all
( improbable was piepared under influences procetd
i ing from the British Lies.
j Under its convention with Spain respecting the
j slave trade, it has commissioners in Havana scru
j tiuizing into the oommeicial pursuits of nil nations,
! and marking all vessels, not British, bound to the
i coast of Africa, as suspected of the slave trade,
when loaded with cargoes which are lawful com- :
i me ice in English vessels from Sierra Leone to any '
I rls of the slave coast from whence the slave far- j
; tories arc supplied with them, it has black iegi- i
ments m its service in the Canadas and in tnc 1
West Indies. It is filling up the ranks of its
| army by the enlistment of recaptured Africans. — '
Some of the statesmen and pamphleteers of Eng
land are engaged, since the emancipation in the
\\e-t Indies has diminished the productive value
of their West India islands, in devising schemes
to give a present preference in their markets to
; the productions of free labor, (like that in Bii- j
! tisb India') and gradually to exclude horn ■
i them ihe products of the labor of slaves. Os the j
I temper and intentions of the agitators of the ques- ,
j lion of slavery, and the means to be employed,
abundant evidences are afforded in the proceed- '
j ings of the “ World’s Convention.” which met in I
j Lo; don on the 12th, and confirmed until the 23d
| of last .Tune. Two resolutions w ere unanimously
! adopted, too significant to require much comment.
Those resolutions denounce the removal of slaves
from the old to the new States as an unrighteous
t.aflic, of which eighty thousand are annually
victims; as exciting detestation. Surprise ar.d
abhorrence are acknowledged, that it should be
protected and cherished by this Government. That
it involves hardness of heart in the traders, and
crnelly to the negroes, is asserted ; and that ef
fectual means shotnd be immediately taken to re
move this stain from the character cf this nation.
Was there ever such a compound of ignorance, fol
ly, and insolence ? The brutal O’Connell was quite
at home in such a convention : and his insults to
the representatives of a foreign government near
his own, his vitupeiation of two of our eminent
public men, were quite in harmony with the occa
sion. The transportation of our property from
Virginia to Louisiana, the i Vernal slave trade,
mark you, is “ unrighteous,” and effectual means!
ought to be taken in the United States forthwith to |
remove the stain from the nation. What are these i
means ? We can gue r s. First, prohibition by Con- I
gross of the transportation of slaves by land or by I
sea from one State to another; next, a prohibition !
of the sale of slaves by one man to another in the •
same State ; and then we shall be ripe for either I
the late Mr. Rufus King’s or Gen. Harrison’s plan j
of gradual emancipation ; the government purchase
i of the blacks by the proceeds of the public lands, or
I by the use of the surplus revenue—taxes and du
ties being pioper’.v increased to make that surplus
large enough to effectuate the object.
The shadows of troubles in store for us, at home
and abroad, are darkening and stealing upon us.— 1
What note cf preparation is heard ? What measures :
of precaution are required ? The gravest thought
and most sp.xLous deliberation arc demanded, to
meet the dangers which will sooner or later come.
What others may persuade themselves should be
done, I cannot tel! ; but no step would >eora to . e
better adapted lo bring them upon us at an ear'y
| day, and when we shall be utterly deslitue of pro- ;
' paialion, than placing the power of the general I
I government in the hands of the heterogeneous coa
lition that now seek to obtain it in the person of 1
one without the requisite qualifications for the Chief j
i .Magistrate of a great republic,and who is accused, •
■ with too much appearance of truth, of having in aj
public address, engaged if elected, not to thwart |
Congress by tbe use of the veto power.
T he veto power .' a portion of the authority giv- ,
eu to the Executive by the wise framers of our go- j
vernment, which the incumbent of the Presidential j
chaii ran neither suirender nor trammel himself '
in the exercise of, without personal dishonor and
treachery to the constitution. The veto power ?
the safeguard of the people against improvident le
gislation, or Congressional encroachment on the
rights of the States and of the co-ordinate branches
oi the government. The veto power ! the ark of
safety for the Southern States; used for them, it is
impossible, while the equality of a senatorial rep
resentation remains, and the present relative pro
portion of the slave Stales is preserved, for the
phrenzy of fanaticism and the recklessness of asso
ciated party profligacy to disturb cur repose, or
assail our fire-sides, under the sanction of Congres
sional enactments.
Mr. Van Buren is pledged to use it for that pur
pose—Gen. Harrison is not.
JOHN FORSYTH.
APPENDIX.
State of the Vote at tjlf. Harrisburg Con
vention. —As there will be natural anxiety to
know precise!} - how the delegations from the vari
ous states voted, we have obtained, in an authentic
shape, the following statement, showing the result
of the first ballot in the Committee cf States.
RESULT of tiie first ballot.
Harrison. Clay. Scott.
Maine 10
I New Hampshire, 7
Massachusetts, i 1
Connecticut, - 8
Rhode Island, - 4
New York , - - 42
New Jersey, - - y
Pennsylvania, .30 -
Delaware, - 3
Maiyland, - 10
Virginia, - 23
North Carolina -1 j
Alabama, -7
Louisiana, - 5
Mississippi, - 4
Kentucky, - 15
Indiana, 9
Ohio, 21
Missouri, - 4
Michigan (divided.)
Vermont, - -7
Illinois, - 5
91 103 57
The vote first given for Gen. Harrison never was
reduted. After several ballotings had occur*!
Connecticut changed her vote from Mr. Clay to
Gen. Scott; and Mi.hig-in (the third delegate hav
ir.g arrived) cast her vote in like manner ; making
Scott’s vote 08, and reducing Mr. Clay sto 95, On
the filial and decisive vote, New York, Michigan
and Vermont changed from Scott, and Illinois from
Clay,and voted for Harrison.— American.
Apostolical Letter cf oar Most Holy Lord, Gregory
XVI, by Divine providence, Pope, against the
tiUjjcc in negroes, fLie negritai\uni cununercio
non exer ccndo.J Rome
From the press of the Rev. Apost. Chamber, 1-39.
Pope Gregory AT I.—-For future commemoration.
iffa'-ed on the summit of apostolical power, and
-tUough no merffs of our own, Vicegerent of Jesus
j ■ u ist the not; c* Gcc. vho th;cuigh 1 is exceeding
i '-*; c be^ me pao -u.d vouch- TVd t. ,he for tiff
; • denap .on 01 tee w »rl ,we deem that It becomes
, ‘ r 1 1 f* vve ■’ o’j' l se k to turn
It ie fait.uul altogriner from the unfeeling ti:fflk ,n
negroes, or any other human beings. \e, V. when
t .e Ilg.lt ol the Gospel first began to diffuse itself,
those unfortunate m n, who, by occasion of sJ
many wais hau Fallen into cruel servitude, felt
1 *eir conation amotig Christian? very mu?h alle-
Ibi-i lied, indeed, by the 1 nine t-p hi. he
A pasties taught servants to render obedience to
their masters in the flesh, as onto C hrist, and to do
the ill of God with a cheerful mind ; yet they'
commanded also unto masters that they should use
their servants kindly, that they should rcrdei nrt >
them what is just and light.and that they should not
employ threats’, remembering that the Cod c.f both
is in heaven, and that with Him there i- no le-pict
of persons. Since then, true charity toward? all
nun men is every where strongly iilculcatcd by the
evangelical law, and Christ our Lord lias declared,
that whatever kindness or mercy is rendered or de
nied to the weak or indigent, he will consider as
rendered or denied unto himself, it is Hear that not
only should Christians regard their Chris ti.rn ser
vants in the light of brothers, but also that they
should humble themselves bcfcie those who are
worthy to be free; which, indeed, Gregory Nv s
senus indicates to have been customary, at first,
upon the occasion of the solemnities <>f Easter,
i Nor were those wanting, who, animated by a moie
i a; lent charity, delivered themselves into bends that
• they might redeem others; of whom the Apostle
. testifies that he knew many, as also our pre ieccs
j sor Clement I. of m st holy memory. Therefore,
; in the progress of time, when tiie darkness of hea
; thenish superstitions was entirely dissipated, and
; the manners of uncivilized races had been mollified
! by the beneficent influence of that faith which
I worketh through love, for successive ages, no
I slaves existed araong many Christian nations. Yet,
iruiy, we are grieved to say that afterwards, even
among the number of the faithful, there were those
who, shamefully blinded by the lust of sordid lucre,
in scattered and remote lands reduced Indians, ne
groes, and other unfortunate beings, into slavery:
or, the traffic in those vrho had been made captive
by others having been commenced and augmented,
did not hesitate to encouiagc er piofit by such un
worthy actions. Several of the Homan pontiffs,
1 cur predecessor#, did not, indeed, fail to reprehend
severely, by virtue of their office, the course of
tiicse as noxious to their own salvation, and op
probrious to the Christian name ; from which they
beheld a? a consequence the nations of the unfaith
' ful confirmed in their animosity to our true roll
; gion. To which things relate the apasto’ic lettt r
of Paul 111., given on the 29th of May, 1 >37. under
the ring of the Fisherman, to the Caiuinal Arch
bi-hop of Toledo; and another, and ampler, of
Urban VIII., given on the 22d cf Apiil, 1659, to
i the Collector of the Laws of the Apostolic Chamber
; in Portugal ; in which letters they are gravely re
j buked by name, who reduce into slavery Western
I or Southern Indians, who buy, sell, exchange, or
I give them away, separate them from their wives
| and children , despoil them of their good-; or p >s>e<-
I sions, carry or send them to other regions, or tn
any manner deprive them cf their liberty, retain
them, in set vitude , or render counsel, favor , or as
sistance to thus? who are guilty of such acts , under
any pretext or color whatever ; or presume to teach
or preach the same to be lawful , »r in any manner
co-operate therewith
These decrees of Pontiffs to be ever hel! in re
membrance. benedict XIV. subsequently confirmed
and renewed, in a new apostolical letter to the pre
lates of Brazil and cenain other regions, given uu
the 20th December, 1741, in which he stimulated
their vigilant solicitude throughout the hounds of
their ecclesiastical districts. Before this, howev
er, a more ancient of our predecessors, Pius IL,
when, in his day, lire power of the Portuguese
was extended to Guinea, the region of tbs ncgioes,
gave a letter on the 7th October, 14G2.t0 the bish
op about to proceed thi;her, in which he not only
granted to this prelate all the faculties oppoitnue
I for the exercise of the holy m nisliy with greater
I fruit, bat. on the same occasion, gravely rebuked
17 ~
those Christians who carried away converts inio i
j slavery. And also, in our own times, Pius VJL,
| impelled by ti e same spirit of religion and eha.ity i
I which animated liis predecessors, employed his in
. fluencc assiduously with the powerful, that the
| traffic in negroes might, at length, altogether cease,
: among Christians. These decrees and efforts of
I our predecessors did, indeed, avail not a little, by
! tiie grace of God. in protecting the Indians, and
| others referred to, from the cruelty cf invaders, or
the < upidity cf Christian merchant* ; not so much,
however, that this hoi}- see can rejoice in the fu: 1
accomplishment of its desires; since the traffic
in negroes, although diminished in seme parts, is ■
still practiced by many Christians. Wherefore,
: we, desiring to avert so great a reproach from ail
the borders of Chiistianity, and the whole matter,
a council of some of our venerable brethren the
Cardinals being called, having been duly weighed,
walking in the footsteps of our predecessors, by
our apostolical authority, admonish and conjure, \
earnestly in ti e I ord, the faithful of Christ, of eve-
I ry condition, that hereafter they do not unjustly
I mo'est Indians, negroes, or any other race of Men,
j nor spoil them of their goods, nor reduce them into |
. slavery, nor render countenance or assistance to i
1 those guilty of such practices; nor carry on that
! inhuman commerce by which negroes, as though
j they were not men, but mere brutes, held in any
j manner of servitude, without distinction, again t
i the laws of justice ana humanity, arc bought, sold,
j and devoted to cruel and sometimes Intolerable la
i bor ; and, moreover, through the love of gain held
j out to the first possessors of the negroes, uisscn
-1 tions and perpetual wars fomented throughout toe
regions which they inhabit. Verily, all these pra- -
tices, as altogether unworthy of the ChiUtian
name, we reprobate by cur apostolical authority.;
and by the same authority we strictly prohibit and
interdict any ecclesiastic or layman from defending
the traffic in negroes as lawful, under any pretence
whatever, and from presura ng to preach, or in any
wise teat h, in public or private, any thing at va.i
ance with the admonitions contained in tffis apos
tolical letter.
And in order that this letter may be more readi
ly Known to all, and that no man may plead ignor- !
ance of it. we decree and order that, as is the
usage, it be published, and copies of it reman affix
ed on the doors of the church of the Prince of the
Apostles, and of the Apostoli ad Chamber, and of
tiie General Court in Monte Cetataiio, kc.,by cue
of our messengers.
Given at Rome, ir. the church of Santa Maria
Maggiore, under the ring of the Fisherman, on the
3d day of December, 1839, of our pontificate the
ninth year.
ALOISIUS CARD, LAMBRUSCHINI.
General Anti-Si very Convention, called by the
committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Sla- j
very Society ; hel I in London on the 12th June,
1840, and continued by adjournment to the 23d
of the same month.
The following resolution was adapted unani
mously :
Resolved That this convention has heard with
deep regret and sorrow of the extent to which
the interna' slave trade is carried on from the ci
der to the more newly settled slave Slater- cf :he
American Union —tj the extent of upwards of
80,000 victims annua ly to this uniighmus traffic.
Rev ived. 'That in express ng their detestation
of this traffic, and in acknowledging that it excites
their deep su pii.o and abhcienre that it should be
protected and rhciished by anation which has abol
ished the A f lean siuvc trade, and declared it to
be piracy ; this convention is impressed with the
conviction that such a systematic trade in man
must be attended with excessive cruelty and wrong
to the objects of it. and involves in its prosecution
a fearful extent of barbarity ard haul css of
heart on the pait of the man-trader ami that ef
fectual means ought to be forthwith taken in the
United States of America to remove this stain fiom
the character of the nation.
j Return or A. J. IjKvis.—The Philadelphia
! Sentinel says that Hosea J. Levis, late cashier of
the Schuylkill Bank, has returned from Europe,
and arrived in this city on Saturday night last
from Baltimore. Intelligence of this important
fact was yesterday morning officially communica
ted to the B ani of Directors of that institution.
He isetiii at largo, but prompt measures for his
arrest have been taken by the proper authorities.
ihe Aiiviv Worm.— V* e inadvertently penned
some remarks a few days since in relation to the
ravages of this destructive insect on the cotton
plantations in our state, which we are convinced
were based on very imperfect information. At
Ihe time, we considered the reports of the injury
done to the cotton crops as highly exaggerated,
and so expressed ours \\ r . i ’
, . 1 . . v1 i .1..’ o si t ,. e
learnc;. !",:n intelligent observers, that the army
worm has c-dieted almost irreparable d.image on
a very large number of plantations. In many
instances hundreds of acres have been cleared in
a single night, and the prospects of the planter
totally blighted. We staled that the price of cot
ton would not be affected by these losses, this
may be: but it is certain that every planter whose
g.ounds have been infested by the army v urri
Aid suffer very seriously. A gentleman who ' IH
himself a sufferer, tells us that persons at a ffi
tame can scarcely conceive the amount of destruc
tion and !o#r, occasioned by the ravagf s of •! ~
myriad ho-ls of these worms.— Nca Orleans fR ’■
i f if: f 11///.
A pack iiaroed Blow.—The Richmond Fr
quirc-r,referring to M r. Clay’s allusion, in his s{ . t . e ,' h
at Nashville, to the charge of cowardice b r , H<r |~
by the LcccLkos against Hah*i«os, says u lt V
idle for Mr. Clay to raise a phantom border*"
dissipate it, fur so mas has it. kounced H •,**/
| SOX A COWARD WHOSE OPINIO IS ENTITLED To Rr
1-rcr.” This is a sweeping esndcmj ation of „
Van Huron press, lor there is scaieely 3n admin-**
t:ation organ that has not either asserted 0r j ns j c
i uoted that Gen, Harri.-on ran away f,r oin
I ish during the lust w ar. —New York Tines
•Uninp.
A letter from New York in the National I-.qi
j ligencer says :—The election in M A i » ,
comes off September 14th, is interesting the }\i
lie much, from an impression that the Wp:
have an equal chance of carrying the Stale, T a
i there have been changes there, and that the go",
j cause is advancing, I have no doubt, hut, w|ih .
good informal! >n as a man can hare, wno is rK)t
1 cool and calm even amid the excitement in {[ „
j State, I see no reason to believe that we can c*
j feat Gov. Fairfield, and it mutt not be txptcUJ
i He has a popularity over mid above that cf l Us '
i party, and will obtain a greater vote than V ;fl
{ Horen can get. If Fairfield has not over 2,5c0
j majority, tne per.-onal popularity of U en. Harm
risen can take the Slate in' November,
; for members of Congress, we ought to def eat
; Albert Smith, and to gam a n ember in Hancock
: and Washington; tut circumstances render the
■ first doubtful, and. in the last, to effect what we
j desire, there must have been considerable chance.
George Evens will he triumphantly re-tlertrd.
j It is probable there will be no choice in the
| iiict Mr. Parris repiesents, if he in-isiii upon hr
! ’ n ? ruri again. Ij things turn out brlt< r t ian 1
, expect, ihure is a stronger coder current in our
; fi~ vor than appears on the surface. Mm h depends
| upon Waldo county, tbs; strongest Van Bnren j
j county in the State, in which there is said t. 1 %
| decided change; and us this county has great is-.-
! teresls »t slake, in lime, the fi.-U nr?, ? j K ;( .
I may be ground l>.r ihe lehtf.
j feivixi: it rr.—it is lurrei.iir reported, that
ihe Hon. Aaron \ xnrleipoei ucknov. iedg?d a > vv
j days since to a clique of his friends in Kiiule - ft
hook, th:it Mr. V on Buren could rut in: rr-circled I
t 'i’his was his pr.'va/e opinion, but «f course a:l
hands were loid to "crowd’—Hudson Repaid
; can.”
Tut. Srn-i KKAAi KT. — i'hr avowed object of
1 the Specie Scheme is to BRiNG 1)0'A A
| PRICES. How will this affect business : Tin
Agriculturist, with a farm worth £3! OU, owir
f iOOO. The products of that Farm are to L>e
reduced fifty percent, by the oncrution nf the Sub
j Treasury. How is !e to support his famiiv ami
pay his debts 1 Cieaiiy in tie other wav lhaiibva
; sale of his Farm upon a Sheriff’s Execution ura
, Mortgage. A Mechanic owns a House and Lot
■ worth $2500, on which h« owes f 1000. 'J'he
i urliries he manufacture* ure to be reduced to the
, pec it Standard. How is be tw p-ay his deot I
This question will he answered hv the Sheriff.
The Lanorer, after Mr. Van Buren has brought
the “wages of labor down to the Eu cncan stand
ard,'' will receive at the most twenty-five cents a
day. This, however low the necessaries of life
j may be. will on’y furnish a bare subsistence.
: The Laborer, on two shillings a day, must deny
his family all the coin orts and luxuries of life,
| and live on without the hope of ever rising to a
j condition of ease or affluence. JSuch are to be
tbc {runs of the Suh-Trea.-ury System. Far
i MtKs! Mechanics! L a rourhs ! is such a svs
i, tem to be esianhshed with your consent! Will
| you forge the chains with which you arc to lo
i enslaved]— Alban,/ Evening Journal.
I _
We copy the following from the Fliiladc!; hia
Sentinel, a Van Buren paper;
Col, Johnson.—Some months ago, we inrui
red tiie sore displeasum ol some t,f cur deciO
cratic brethren, for venturing u> call in question
the truth of the policy of the Iriends of Mr. Van
Buren attempting to denounce Genera! Harrison
as a coward, or as an inefficient officer in the last
war with Great Drtta n. For the purpose of
sustaining the correctness o{ our opinion, by hi- I
disputable authority, and as a pait ut the history
of our tunes, we copy into this morning’s Senli- I
nel, a letter from the gallant Col. Richard M.
Johnson, the democratic candidate lor the Vice ■
Presidency, which has been called forth by a
misrepresentation of a speech ircenlly made hv
him at a meeting of ins political friend* a: Chiii
cothe. It is just such a letter as might have Iweii
. expected from its frank and manly author, and
is worthy of all praise. He has no need of wear
ing another man’s laurels.
Pesjisilvama.—We cut the following ieffir
in reference to the prospect for Harrison in I’ciiti'
sylvania, from the Baltimore Pilot.
Upton, Franklin G'o , Ha. }
September 5, 1840. S
Dear Sir—V. e feel very confident of carrying
! this State for Harrison and Ty hr. We have two
[ sources lo base cur confidence on: one is die i;u*
j merous changes which have and are still taking
| place; and the other, and perhaps the most i/a*
! portnnl in numbers. i„ 4 class e>{ persons very uu
ir.cruus in Pennsylvania, who scarcely once in
ten years go to the polls—l allude to the society
called JDunkarts, a German people, ai d most
worthy citizens. They seldom take any interest
in secular affairs, and are conscientiously . ppcseii
j to bearing arms. Mr. Van Buren’s Standing
! Army Bill has roused themeftectuallv they »ii«
■ unanimously go for Harris* n, and, depend upon
' it, they will tell at the pells.
V ours, A.c.
An Insult to Americans.— The Negro
j Witness champion, in his late message to Con-
I g re sp, gave the American people as strong a proof
| of his reverence for kindly and arislucraiic usagfS
| a:i fits most bitter enemy could desire. Yes, the
; self-constituted mirror of American drroocraiV
: told us, with eviduul glee, that u“‘ of 27 Euro*
| [>ean govern ments. from which hr itic iufornia
tiun had hern received, 22 b.a,. ibrir monies
; committed to the charge of pubh: officers. H* s
: might as well Irave told us that we ought lo have
a king in this country, mslcad cf a Prc.-idciit. he
cause thcr. l were crowned heads in 22 out of 27
countries in Europe, from which autheutichdor j 1
mation had been received.— Raleigh Star,
i A Picture. —A fair young girl is lean mu
pensively on the casement, gazing, with thought"
I ful brow, upon the- scene below. The bloom of
i fifteen summers tint her soft cheek, the sweets * f
; a thousand flower« are gathered upon her round
| full lips, the curls cling to a spotless brow, ai d
i fall upon a neck of perfect grace, the soft swim
| using eyes seem lighted by the tenderest fire cf ■
poetry, and lieauty hovers over her as hei own ‘
most favored child. W hat are her thought--•
Love cannot slir a bes-.ini so voting, sorrow ca*
not yet nave tcached a spirit pure. Inn- cenca
j itself seems to have chosen her for its ov n. A !a '< ;
has disappoint." .< nt touched lS»at yontiuu! .o '• 9
\es it must he sc.; but hist! she s’ • -ts
1 b isuiii fit*., ves—her eye brightens—her bps pat’l-y
she speaks—listen— " Jim, you vasty fool ■! yud .
scratching that pig's hack, or I'll tell tuar Ki
1 R'chmmnf Enquirer. I