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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AIftCSTA.
I'riduy Morning, August 17.
STATE RIGHTS TICKET
POtt CONGRESS.
VVM. O. DAWSON,
R. W. HABERSHAM.
.! C ALFORD,
W. T. COLQUITT,
E. A. NISBET,
MARK A. COOPER,
THOMAS BUTLER KING,
EDWARD J- BLACK,
JjOTT warren.
Qj- In the second paragraph of the editorial
announcement in yesterday’s paper, of the con
templated “Resumption of Specie Payments,
we ought to have said, we are authorised to state
that the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com
pany's Branch at Augusta, would resume the
■payment of its notes in specie on the Ist of Sep
f tember, or sooner, if a majority of the Banks in
-this city should do so.
Steamboat Herald Burnt.
The Cincinnati Gaiclte of the Bth says ; “ The
Cincinnati and Warsaw packet, Herald, on her
downward passage, look fire at half past two
o’clock, yesterday,eight miles below the city, and
burnt to the water’s edge. She was run ashore
■at South Bend, and passengers and crew, num
bering sixty, escaped without serious injury.—
The boat was new, and we believe was built and
owned by Col. James, of Rising Sun.”
Post Offices in Georgia.
A Post Office has been established at Echocou
ria, Crawford county
The following Post Masters have been ap
pointed:
J. G. Colbert, Echocouna, Crawford county.
Bushrod W. Sanford, Batonton, Putnam co.
Robert Higdon, Swainsboro, Emanuel county.
W. D. Sbcrard, Vernon, Troup county.
Exploring Expedition.
The Norfolk Beacon of the Blh, says :—“ It is
thought the Exploring Expedition squadron may
get to sea in the early part of the coming week.
The Vincennes and the Peacock, which dropped
down to the bite of Cranay Island on Wednesday,
got under way yesterday and made further pro
gress. The Relief store ship dropped down yes
terday afternoon, and the Porpois, Lieut. Com.
Ringgold, arrived in Hampton Roads, from New
York, on Thursday.”
The Frederick (Md.) Herald of the 1 Uh states
that a severe thunder storm passed over that
place on the D.b. The St John’s Literary Insti.
lute was struck by the lightning but not much
damaged. The barn of Mr Jacob Donh, was
struck, and consumed with its contents—the loss
estimated at $3OOO.
The Detroit Advertiser stales that the Chippc.
was and Sioux Indians recently had a fight,
in which some of each party were killed. One
of the Chtppewas was roasted and eaten hy the
Sioux. _
The corn crop m the lower counties of the
Western Shore of Maryland is said lo he prom'
icing, the rains there hi ’e been quite abundant -
The Columbia, Penn. Courant says ibat death
are almost daily occurring among the laborers ot
the Susquehanna canal, from imprudently dtitik
ing too freely of cold water when they ate healed
Words of truth and soberness are these
which follow. The American people would
do well to ponder them. They are taken from
the aphorisms of Lacon —a foreign writer
Who lias been dead bo many years, and who
could scarcely have been “bribed by Biddle
and the Banks” to utter these sayings:—
Liberty will not descend to a people, a peo
ple must raise themselves lo Liberty; it is a
blessing that must bo earned—before it can
be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free
where reform is a, common hack, that is dis
missed with a kick the moment it lias brought
the rider to his place. That notion cannot
he free where parlies are hut different roads,
leading to one common destination, plunder.
That nation cannot Lie free where the rulers
will not feel for the people, until th y areoblL
ged to feel with the people, and then it is too
late. That nation cannot be free that is
bought by its own consent, and sold aga inst ii;
where the rogue I hat is in rags, is kept in
countenance by the rogue that is in iiifllus,
and where from high lo low, from the Lord to
the laggard, there is nothing radical but cor
ruption, nothing contemptible hut poverty;
where both patriot and place man, perceiving
that money can do every tiling, me prepared
to do every thing for money. That nation
cannot be free where religion is, with the
higher orders, a matter ot indifference; with
the middle, of acquiescence, and with the low
er, of fanaticism.
That nation cannot be free, where the lep
rosy of selfishness sticks to it as close as the
curse of iShslia to Ids servant Gehnzi; where
the rulers ask not what recommends a man , but
who; and where those who want a rogue, have
no occasion to make, but to choose, 1 hope
there is no nation like this under Heaven;
hut if there were, these arc the things, that
however great she might be, would keen such
a nation from liberty and liberty from her.
These arc things that would (orce upon such
a nation, first, a government of EXPERI
MENTS; secondly, of DIFFICULTIES;
and lastly, of DANGERS.— Such a nation
could begin to feel, only by fearing all she de
served; and finish, by sujj'ering all she feared.
Let every patriot ponuer well these maxims.
Baltimouk, August 13.
Violent Tornado and loss of Life.
The thunder storm which passed over this
cily on Saturday aflcrnoon, between five and
six o’clock, was accompanied by a copious shower
of rain, and also by a violent gust or tornado,,
which occasioned the loss of several lives, besides
doing injury in various places. The prin
cipal damage was sustained on Donell’s wharf,
at the lower end of Thames street. At this wharf
was lying the Bremen ship Sophie, just arrived
with a large number of German emigrants. A
number of these were making active preparations
for their departure for the West, and when 'be, I
rain come on, about forty or fifty took shc!'c r j n
an adjacent large unfinished The
house not being yet under roof, th«j violence of
the rain caused all but nine pe- <!ion to seek refuge
in the adjoining houses, They had scarcely
quilted the warehouse when lire wind blew with
larious viQlor*cc, and in u moment proßtraicd the
building io the ground, burying eight persons
u.Uiier the ruins. Os the latter number, live im
mediately succeeded in extricating themselves,
though not without being considerably injured.—
Two others, a man,and a young woman about lb
years of age, weic soon after dug out, dreadfully
bruised and quite dead. A colored man, a carter,
was standing in the building, but seeing his horse
grow restive at the sound of the thunder, ho ran
towards him, hut was caught by the falling wall
and had both his legs badly broken, and his face
and head severely cut.
The ninth person in the house was Mr Joseph
Holt, a bricklayer, who had been engaged on the
building. Ho was in the third story, and when
the house fell he was thrown headforemost into
a large heap of mortar. Although to this cir
cumstance may he attributed the preservation of
his life, we regret to say it is feared his eyesight
is irretrievably ruined by the lime.
The warehouse was owned by Messrs. Donell
& Lurman, It was 100 feet long by 40 wide,
and three stories high. The workmen commenc
ed the roof on Saturday, and had laid but three
rows of slate. Its destruction was complete; the
tornado scarcely leaving one brick upon another.
Some of the lumber was carried to the distance
of three hundred feet.
We learn that two small bay vessels were cap
sized at the same time near Fort McHenry.—
The hands on board of one escaped, but a small
boy was crushed lo death between some lumber.
In the cabin of the other vessel were a man and
two boys, who were taken out uninjured, shortly
after the squall, by culling a hole in the bottom
of the vessel.
A part of the roof the Philadelphia Rail Road
bridge at Canton, was blown off, and also the rool
of the steam saw mill at Harris’ Creek. At the
depot at Canton, the walls of the car house,which
was burnt a few weeks ago, were blown down,
and some other trifling damage sustained.
Several sheds were unroofed at the ship yard
of Messrs. Cooper & Abrahams.
A part of the roof of a warehouse on Ramsey’s
wharf was blown off.
The ship General Smith, lying at Corner’s
wharf, broke from her moorings and was blown
so violently against the wharf that she stove in a
portion of her bow and carried away a part of her
bulwarks.
Mr Shaw, the keeper of the Lazaretto, who
was returning home at the lime of the squall,
was together with his horse and carryall, blown
over a lence and bruised considerably.
A part of the wall and roof of tbo large fish
storing bouses on the South side of the basin was
blown off— American.
Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Greenville
Mountaineer, dated
LAtrtiEsa Dist. S. C. July 30.
“UxFOtiTUSATn a\i) I'atal Accident. —On
the Ist inst. Mr. Lemarcus Deale of Laurens dist.
aged, about 42, when on his way borne from Lau
rens C. H. in company with two of his daughters
his horse took fright near the Burnt Mill Crock,
one and a half miles from the Court House, ran
a few steps, when the carriage was upset and
throw him nut. His daughters received but little
injury ; but sad to relate, he was taken up sense
less, and carried back to the village, lingered un
til 11 o’clock at night, and expired. Mitch to the
credit of the usual hospitality of the citiz> its ol
Laurensville, every assistance was rendered and
the united aid ol the Medical gentlemen of the
place freely volunteered. Such attentions miti
gated in some degree the agonizing distress of his
poor widow. She is left with ten children ,tc
mourn their irreparable loss. His death has shed
a gloom over his native district. He was one ol
those rare instances, in whose character wore uni
led all the social, benevolent, and honorable qual
ities of man. It might truly he said that he hai
no enemies, and was an honest nun, in the stria
est tense of that term.” _
is Most Distkessino (latahtiioime—Nine
in TI;EN Pkuboms Diiowkkii. — It is our painl'ui
duty to record one of iho most distressing events
which it is presumed over happened in our im
' mediate vicinity. This morning as a boat con
tabling 24 or 25 persons was passing through the
little tails, it struck upon Hunt’s rock, and inline
u j diately filled, and melancholy to relate, nineteen
11 persons including children were drowned,
f I The following are the names of the sufferers—
-0 ! a ll °t whom resided in Portland or at York, viz:
e Mrs. Maniton, wife ot Sampson Maniton, and
four children; Mrs. Kichard Haydfe and four
. children; Mrs. Trinimnn, wife of Capt. Robert
1 1 riniman, and two daughters; Miss Maria Halo,
i sister to Mrs.Trinimun nud Mrs. Maniton, Mias
c j Adams, daughter of the late Mr. Josiidf Ad
, | ams; .Mrs. Osborne, widow and son; Miss King
I 1 !1 " ng«tl woman, a native ofEngland ; and Thoms
I I us Stevenson. Miss King was brought to the
i, ; Hioro alive, but was so exhausted that she
expired.
s -Vonc of the bodies had been found when we
, obtained out information, except that one of Mr.
, Haynes’s children.— St Johns N Ji Gazette.
M’e have ascertained satisfactorily, that our
correspondent, “A JVullifier,” of last week,
is mistaken in the number of Sub-Treasury
’ men on our Congressional 'i'icket. It was
our opinion, when we inserted Ids communi
cation, that he was in error, but having no po ■
; si'ive information on the subject we were mi
■ prepared to controvert his statement. W e
can now say, that five of the gentlemen, at
least, composing the State Eights Ticket, art
■ not Sub.Trcasnry men, and for the satisfaction
of our correspondent we insert their names,
Alford, Dawson, Nisbet, King and Warren.
Col. Dawson’s opposition to the Sub-Treas
ury is well known; Col. Alford and Mr. Nisbet
have expressed their opinions through the
public journals; we have conversed with Col.
King and Judge Warren and know that they
are not the advocates of that measure.
We now repeat what wc have before said,
that Maj. Coo per is the only name on our tick
et, so fur as wc know, that is in favor of the
Sub 1 reasuty, and beholds a right, in com
mon with every American citizen, to express
(rankly and freely his views in regard to men
and measures. It lias been our glory and
boast of the parly to which we have the honor
to belong, that it did not drive its members in
leading strings—elevate them to places of ho
nor and profit, or in any other way make them
conspicuous for die purpose of lacerating their
feelings.
It is utterly impossible for any man to know
ot even conjecture what may be Ills own future
views and opinions, or those of Ids political
friends on points of minor importance; but
(here is one thing he may know, which is this:
Dial he will never violate tbs fundamental
principles of the parly—euided by those
principles he cannot he; radically wrong.
We differfrorfi Maj. Cooper on the Sub-
I rcasury Hues'.,on, hut shall wc therefore dis
card hint r.'.ti be accessory to the elevaiion of
a Union man, who is also, a Sub-Treasury
rT ' ; '-'<i, and any and every kind of Sub that Van
Suren would wish him to be ? No ? Never I
We must have good and undoubted evidence
that the Major lias sacrificed his Slate High's
principles, of which we now have no fear, be
fore we can consent to strike him from the list
of our friends.— Georgia Mirror.
Our neighbors of the Sentinel and Herald
throw up their hala and snap their fingers ot
the bare idea of our having another uomina,.
lion for Congress. Keep cool, gentlemen,
1 and attend well to your own nogs. They arc
not of clean limb and strong muscle no how,
and unless you administer to them pretty free
ly of Kenton Mint drops, mb them down with
Van Kurort shinplustcr oil, and ride jockey,
I bey’ll be beaten.— lb.
From the Richmond Whig.
The Prospect.
A general resumption of specie payments
by the flanks is expected to take place on the
Idth instant. The reign of shin plasters will
then cease, and the people will once more en
joy a sound and redeemable paper currency,
and that, 100, without any thunks to “Govern
ment.” The signs of reviving commercial
prosperity arc already visible upon the hori
zon, and it the ruthless hand of power can be
stayed effectually, these signs will not falsify
Die promises they hold forth.
In contemplating our late and present con
dition—the pressure and embarrassment every
whore prevailing a short lime since, and the
present, cheering prospect, the great truth is
forcibly impressed upon the mind, that the
country is indebted lor the happy change to
the defeat of the Administration—to its ina
bility to perfect its schemes of ruin. The
Heavens wore a dark and lowering aspect—
panic and pressure and a general stagnation
of trade pervaded the country, so long us there
was a probability that the mischievous pro
jects of our rulers would receive the sanction
ol the representatives of the people. But. as
soon us that probability was removed by the
unctjuivucal and decided expression of npi
-1 nion by the House, gayer visages were every
' where to bo seen—a weight seemed to be re-
I moved from the hopes of the people, who
bnee mure breathed freely, and again felt that
s they could exert their industry and enterprise
without imminent risk of ruin. This confi.
4 dunce lints inspired, with n beneficial influen
, ces, has increased up to the * present time—
j and it will continue to increase as the people
r shall, with greater and greater determination
and unanimity manifest their uncomprotnis
-3 ing hostility to this Administration. Let the
, conviction become general, as it deserves to
i be, that the prosperity of tho country ?.!“j '.ho
continuance in power of the reigning party,
i are incompatible, and a brighter day will spec,
s dily dawn upon us Ilian we have had feryears.
J his fact, that the Administration cannot
B have its way and carry out the measures it
desires, without bringing ruin upon the pco
pie, is one well ealeu ated to make a deep im
„ press;on upon the public mind, ami to furnish
an accurate insight into the true character of
our rulers. Belter far it would bo fur us to
i have no Executive officers at all, than those
| who, from ignorance or corrupt ambition, or
r , both combined, use the high powers with which
d I they are invested to thwart the popular will,
c inyade the public I.burly, and blight the tia
! uona, prosperity,
i- In all sincerity we believe, and public opinion
e secerns rapidly lending to tfie same point, that it
>1 we, for the last five years, had had no Executive
:1 Government whatever, wo should have suffered
e less as a people, and should, at this lime, bo in a
i- more flourishing condition than wc now are.—
s This bef'd declaration is well borne out bv a
o reference to the condition of any or all the
d branches of the public service. Look to the War
d Department—defeat and national disgrace have
i_ attended all its opeialions. Look to the .Navy
which, the olliciat journal but a few days age
d proclaimed to the world to have lost its character
t- and io be a shame and reproach to the Republic
Lock to the Finances—wo see a bankrupt Treasi
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ury, dirty expedients t« supply profligate waste
il and a disordered currency. These things wouU
s nol have liecn worse, and they might have beer
- better il led to chance. Then the progress to
i confusion and ruin would have been slow, auc
e unaided by active agents in the production o
• mischief.
t Hut the end of these things is in sight. If the
people but retain the high stand they have taken
- il they continue arrayed against rulers who have
justly forfeited their confidence, though they will
.1 not he aide to riled much positive good at pres
r ent, they will, hy paralyzing the uplittod arm ol
I their disobedient servants, prevent the cotnmis
, si on ol great evils now, and pave the way for
s prosperous times hereafter. Let them bear in
- mind that it is to their stern and unyielding oppo
j shioii to the mad and profligate measures of their
" Executive ollicers, that the whole country is in
! dehled (or the mitigation of our pecuniary sulfur
) ings, atHl for l lie belter prospects which arc open
ing to us; and lot them remember also, that this
! opposition, to yield all the rich fruits of which it
. is susceptible, must continue steadfast, zealous
and unrelaxod. They have a wary foe, ever up.
on the alert, seeking opportunities to delude and
mislead, and Imitlul in expedients to cover over
their manifold crimes, and blazon forth their pu
ny virtues.
From the Richmond Whig.
To Henry ( lay, JCsq—Letter VIII.
Sir—ln my former letters, I have only in
vited your attention to the subject of the
Hank ut the Untied States. In treating of
• hat, I have carolully avoided till remarks
which might give rise to irrecutictloahlu disa.
grecmonis between us. I have clone this at
the hazard ol lulling into a strain of hackney
ed common place, and yet, I fear, not without
presenting many ideas which you will not. ap
prove. It may be still Aiore difficult lo handle,
inoffensively, other topics of which 1 wish to
speak. And yet I persuade myself, that the
temper of my former letters, will bo thought,
to entitle mo tea candid hearing, even on the
delicate question of the Tariff.
'That you may believe that I do not mean
to abuse the indulgence I ask, 1 begin by as
suring yon, that 1 shall bo careful not to trou
ble you with the oft repeated argument of the
opponents, the unequal operation of the pro
tective system. The “Forty bag Theorem”
I shall leave to its author, having no idea that
he will ever relinqu sli, or that you will ever
adopt it- I shall only use the fact, that il has
been put forth by him, and has been adopted
by thousands, It presents an ingenious theory,
wl'tQli, like the theory of the tides, may or
may not be true. Hull he business of the na
vigator is with the titles u and not with the
M joii. Mine is not with the soundness of I
Mr. McDuffie's theory, but with the fact of its
promulgation and general acceptance in the
South, and with some of the results for which
it proposes to account. 'These arc the same,
whether the theory be true or false.
The results lo which I allude are political—
not commercial, it is only in a political
point ol view that I propose to treat the sub.
ject, and it is lo the lights thrown upon it, by
recent political experience, that I would invite
your attention.
You have not forgotten, Sir, —none will
ever forget, that most brilliant portion of your
life, when you filled the Chair of the House
of Representatives. It must be to you a
sourcetjl’ proud satisfaction to remember, how, 1
during yt r - Moiiroe’ii last (our years, when his |
Lieutenants were embarrassing his Adminis
tration by their indirect scrambles tor the scep
tre, Just about to fall from his infirm hand, all
that there was of energy and spirit and dig.
nity and consistency in the conduct of public
a (lairs, was found in that then independent as
sembly of the Representatives of the People.
In the midst ol these gratifying rominis
censcs, will yon bear llio suggestion, that, per
haps at that very time, in that body, and by
vour hand, were planted the seeds of ilssnb.
sequent humiliation and disgrace? Do you
remember your amazement and dismay, when,
not long alter, you saw the mere animal in
stinct, which draws the rabble of all counties
alter the drum and fife, and makes the blood
banner of the conqueror their cloud and pil
lar of fire, extending itself, as by infection,
through all classes, and perverting the judg
ment of the Vise, and laming the ardor of the
bold and the spirit of the free? And why was
this? lit the late confessions of Mr. Calhoun,
yon have the answer. I need not repeat his
words, Sir. You heard them. You heard him
declare, in substance, that he and his friends
had given tho r support to General Jackson,
in the hope that Ins personal popularity and
arbitrary temper might be to them a refuge
from what they deemed the unjust and oppres
sive legislation of Congress. As long ago as
182 S, you had heard, from the lips of Mr.
Randolph, the startling declaration, “that the
times culled for a man who should carry into
the Presidential Chair the Spirit or Com
mand.” Do you remember 100, Sir, how that
gentleman admonished the House, that it was
nol until the English Parliament had made it
self odious to the people, that the public mind
was prepared to acquiesce in the usurpation ol
Cromwell, and the violent dissolution of that
body? You arc perhaps not aware, that, near
the close of his life, that extraordinary man,
not more remarkable for his eloquence, than
for an intuitive sagacity, which often gave lo
his constitutional rashness an appearance of
inspiration, was asked the practical meaning
of that phrase, “the Ijpirit of Command.”
His answer was, that he meant by it “a some
thing that men hold dangerous; a faculty
I which makes the possessor an object of
( 19 fr-enu ft ml foe: in short, the imposition and
the ability to make power go as far as power
can be made lo go.”
Here yon have a glimpse of the thoughts
i and purposes of two men, as little addicted to
acquiesce in the will of a master, as any that
ever lived. Os the first it may be 100 much
( to say, that ho “would rather reign in hell than
C serve in heaven.” Certain it is, that no sub
j ordinate station has yet been found where iu
, could bo content. lam not sure that the oth.
' er did not scorn mankind too much lo desire
( power lo be exercised over such beings. Tin
poet Who imagined one who “scorned to be i
’ leader,” and whose boa?l il was, that “like tin
Lion, he was alone,” had surely dreamed o
j him. How far the remarkable man, who wa
,• selected for the bold task of breaking down tin
j independence of Congress, was pledged t
1 these gentlemen, wo have now no means c
,j knowing. Whether he wa* expected to jot
. with the latter in proposing to the North, ih
a choice between the repeal of the Tariff an
a (I sumon ; or merely to interpose the vis inei
r liic of ins authority to even the nullification t
o South Carolina, is known only to those wh
r, will not tell the secret. lam persuad d tin
o Mr. Randolph gave no intimation but by m>i
r. tenons silence. Others will doubtless, f
n equally guarded. But, in spite or jll concea
“ meats, you cannot doubt, Su, no man verse
L 'i iii the history of Unit day cun doubt, that to
ll some extent, the duels of the State Rights
n l J arly held his pledge, that Ins authority “and
0 influence, direct or indirect, legal or illegal,
1 ■should be exerted to procure a recognition ot
31 the principles Cor which they contended, a rev
nuncmtion ofthechhn of Federal Supremacy
° and a repeal of the laws of which they com
’’ plained. No one has forgotten Mr. llayne’s
I*l justly celebrated speech in tavor of nulhlkn
tion which the Author of the Proclamation
, t proposed to have printed on satin, framed in
gold, and placed among the muniments ot his
ir estate, to descend ns an heir loom in Ids fani
n ily. No one Ins forgotten the familiar bold
i. ness with which South Carolina put forth her
r linud to touch the J,ion’s beard, nor the pie
i- cipilancy with which she drew it bach, when
. he uttered that appalling roar which shook the
- land as with an Earthquake, and us. which the
s sovereignly of the States and the whole fab
t ric or the Constitution came toppling down.
» No one who remembers the difference between
• the bearing of certain gentlemen before and
m after the Proclamation, can doubt, for a mo
r mont that thny wore completely .liken by
- surprise.
It is superfluous at this day to enquire,
whether the usurper mediated Irom the first,
the treachery he afterwards practiced. That
. he “paltered in a double sense,” with both par
i ties, is certain. That his jargon of a “judicious
f Tariff 1 ,” and of “Internal Improvements of a
i national character,” was adopted with a view
to such interpretation as ho might find most
convenient, cannot be doubled. That he,
even then, (conscious that he must break faith
, with one parly or the other,) foresaw that it
might bo most desirable to betray the weaker,
is quite probable. I, for one, anticipated such
a, result at the lime. There were not wanting
those who tried to convince the lenders of the
State Rights Parly, of the danger of giving
the South to Federalism, hy placing in the
Presidential Choir a man o( {Southern position
and Northern principles and holdings. It may
be a lesson of practical wisdom to the rash
experimenter in politics, to be told, that I\Jr.
Randolph, just before his death, declared, “that
in the retrospect of his whole life, of the lol
lies of youth and the sins of riper years, noth
ing so disturbed his last hours, ns the thought
that that admonition had been lost on him.”
Can we then doubt, sir, that when the phil
osophical historian comes to make up his es
timate ot the cusses of that sudden revolution
which has made the Representatives of the
Peojde the mere instruments oftliu Executive
will, he will fail to trace it to the impatience
of the South under the American System 1 1
know that he will read, in our journals, and
in the speeches of onr orators, thin every (lung
is ttttrihutftblo to the unequalled popularity of
Andrew Jackson. But ho will see that this
too, is hut nn effect which must have had a
cause ; and ho must be a careless reader, if he
does not perceive, that that extraordinary pop
ularity did not reach its highest point uuill aj.
ter the abuses which it was supposed to excuse.
When did he become generally popular ?
We know that he was not at first the choice of
a majority. Wc know that the mind of the
country denied his pretensions with scorn.
Wc know that the morn I sense of the country
rejected him with abhorrence. Out of his
j own State, he was not at first thought of even
lin the Western Country, and his nomination
there received with ruhcuVo and disgust.
But we nrc told, sir, of an honest tierman, in
j Pennsylvania, (if now living, lie is doubtless a
staunch advocate of the Sub-Treasury,) who
| was much addicted to hoar ling. Some time
: in the last century, he had put away some of
the notes of the tiikn Bank of the United
States, which he kept with a miser’s care, un
til the year 1833. At that time, he became
(alarmed at the removal of the dcposilcs and
the outcry against the Bank, and hastening to
Philadelphia with his paper, could not be made
to believe it possible, that the Bank of the
United States which he found there, could be
any other than that whose notes he held. We
must not laugh at this. It is no whit ir.orc ab
surd in its way, than the converse idea, which
has lately given birth to a penal law of the
United Slates. Wfell, sir, this worthy, ami
others his countrymen, who knew nothing of
the public history of the country from the
siege of York to the battle of New Orleans,
look it into their heads, that the victor in the
one, could be nothing less than a resurrection
of the Hero oftlie other. So they called him
“the second Washington,” and dubbed him
“the Hero of two Wars,” and “such a yell
there rose, of Jackson ! Jackson ! !” burst
ing from the thick darkness that ever broods
over the benighted vallies of that Bcerian re
gion, as left no reasonable doubt, that, if
brought forward, lie would receive the vote
of that Stale. You remember well, sir, that
this first turned from you lolnm, the thoughts
of those who before had boasted you as the
champion and glory of the West. But they
wanted a Western President, as they want
Western mints and Western armories, and in
land ports of entry, and national turnpikes,
parallel to navigable rivers. You will not sus
pect me of disparaging your high pretensions,
when 1 say, that even you owed a part of your
popularity to the obvious thought, that, in
you, this wish was most like to he accomplish
’ cd. But, the omen declared in favour of one
t of whom in that day, you scorned to think as
aHvai. Hike Ajax of old, you felt dishonour
ed by your competitor. Dempsit uoxoii:m
; asmulus. But the neigh of a horse gave the
crown to Darius, and the bray of an ass did the
same for Andrew Jackson. But not at once
f All tliis A’as not 6110111*11: nor was it, •, c f
*r.„Ug.i, even when North Carolina, turning
1 to darkness the light dial was in her, joined
r the insensate cry. He was still in a minority.
A plimiat.it v of voices had indeed been pro
s cured; but he was still ina minoritx.
0 All this Is known to every body; and they
who then understood what was passing around
h them, also know, that this alone, decided in
n nis favour ihat great parly in (he youth, who
1- had vowed the defeat of the administration, at
0 every hazard, and by any means. They had
1. ho choice but to submit to a second defeat, or
c to unite themselves to that brute multitude,
ie who could not be made to bear reason. It
a may seem strange, how the mind of the conn
lti try should submit to belled by passion, preju
fjC dice and ignorance. But such things happen,
w henever accident supplies the place of con
cento those incapable of concert, and sets du
herd in motion. The consequence is always
such as may be expected from any inversioi
0 of the, order of nature; and such it has been ii
,n | this case. I envy none his feelings, who, u
le this day, remembers that he bore a part in g:
ving the vote of Virginia to a man stained w i
r " every crime, and profoundly ignorant of th
°* j principles of the Government lie undcrloo.
ho to administer. But they, who did this, wer
ta' wise and good men, visited by a sort of “jud
t>- cial blindness from on high.” Do you remi 11
be 1 ber, sir, how, when some one spoke wi;
al-! merited contempt of the abilities of this pre
icd sumptuous aspirant, Mr. Randolph qusinil
• -* " • 11 1 vv«
J said, “tlmt he had the best abilities of any mart
' ,hC C °.T l " , y> ,( ’ r IIC l»«d the XH.LItT to »
d EtECTEII.*’
I Well, mr. lie was dueled; elected by the
d eiioieu of so.hk, *nd the reluctant assent of as
' many more us made a decent majority. But who
y was his competitor T Tori; sir, of any man of
- established ami merited popularity I No] y OM
fl h, " hJ ns : l<l0 - Circumstance, blind god com
- ln,u " le ‘ l 11 > nml *’is competitor was a man never
n popular, who was believed by many to have
it f"" 11 ' 11 olllce l*y means which added nothing to'
8 " s Popularity, and who had done more than alf
i- I'tmlcccasors. (Its father alone, perhaps, ex
-- Ll l' u 'd )to make himself ridiculous, and Lie
■r ul l J nce odious and conlemptib'le.
over I. i evldcnre h , a,e we > inn “ rids, of that
n O'trshadowmg popularity which was to carry
through lnumphantly all the measures of the new
resident, and lo make it safe for him to carry
hilly into action principles which his predecessor
had been fumed out of office for hinting at.
• Jim look a; his majority at a subsequent elec.
Hon, oven when opposed by you ] Wee how hie
popularity had grown by the indulgence of his
• arbitrary temper, on which wo arc « 0 «, mid the
t people looked indulgently because bo was already
popular. Sec how it grew alter his second elee
, lion—how it even became assignable to his very
, loot-boy, (he is no belter,) as soon as he declared
t war ..gainst all conslimioiial and chartered rights'
aim openly proclaimed himself tho Rabble's
i Atncr. Men who looked only to laws,and Cort- •
Kiitunons, stood aghast at his bold, unhesitating
exorcise ol the veto power, while the multitude
threw up their caps,
‘As t hey would hung 1 1mm on the horns of the moon.’
and shouted their devotion lo one who indeed
’’ did bear him like a King,” and in whoso face
they saw that which the herd, insolent and ser
vile, delights to cull “ jmarteu.” They acted
over again that see,,., in life’s drama, which the
world has been witnessing since the world began,
and which encourages princes in the abuse of
power. It is mi old lesson, which we, in our t/lo
piun dreams, had beer, trying to forget. They
,md S( ‘ cn Imn that which has given popularity
lo tyrants from Connnodtw lo Homy VHT. ami'
Bonaparte. They saw in him that single-minded'
selfishness that strength of will which know',
no other law-lhal recklessness of consequence?
—that readiness lo reward friends—ihat eager
ness to destroy enemies, that subdues opinion by’
despising it and wins fame by defying the detes
tation and abhorrence of mankind. Tho place ot
these may be supplied hy commanding talents by
ongaginc virtues, by wisdom, ,nd by uniforrrf
rectitude of purpose. But these are, after all, but’
substitutes for that “spirit of command” which'
suits the natural taste of the vulgar, both gteal
and small—of the low and vile, tho ignorant and
corrumpt, that form (he mass of every people
under the sun. Compare tho fate of the first and
second Edward—of Elizabeth and James—of
Chat lea and Cromwell—of jf.ouie XVI. and
Bonaparte. Who were they, that, while picpaiing
the tragedy that brought their mild monarch lo
the guillotine, were loudest in their clamor, for
liberty and equality ] The very men whose pride
afterwards was to dog the heels of the triumphant
usurper, whose will was law to all, because ho
himself acknowledged no other law.
Uut though these ideas illustrate the character
ol the favor of the late President with the unthink
ing multitude, they do not explain why it was
that his arbitrary acts provokod no indignation iti
the minds of men who had been, (firouih life
distinguished by a zeal for liberty, and a passion.’
ale impatience of lawless domination, jam son
\be Uitul‘ U ~ l “ m ,cn “ ble > ‘oo, that there may
V e Bute apparent connection Ww, eß wha t t have
, J»» l »«*d and the vuX.ject of the TdMt
have already drawn out this letter lo tod great a
- length, and must defer those topics to another time.
A I’ lUKwn or State /{ioiit*.
It is contended my Mr. Calhoun and hi*
friends that the sub Treasury scheme is a
Slate High/* measure. Why; then, is it sus
tained hy the Union party 0 f South Carol,na;
seorgia, &c., the uniform opponents, of the
t>ta,e K'fT'te party, almost en mussel How i«
it that Mr. CulitoOn is now separated frorti
hm old State Rights friends, and,, is banded
with those who sustained the Proclamation
'in,l the Bloody Will We fair ho has got
back to Ins old creed, to wit; that it ‘is the
climax of absurdity toeny that the States Have
liny rights at oil; rind, for (he piirfjoeb of main
laming it, is anxious to concentrate all power
m the hands of the Federal Executive—rthe
very essence of Monarchy.— Li/nMur* Vir
ginian.
■=^'—- V ad -
DIED,
On the 4lh Inst, at his residence in Columbia
county, Georgia, Mr Thomas \V. Olive, in the
.Vdd year of his oge. He had been an acceptable
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for
more than Inn years. Ilig illness was severe and
protracted, but lie manifested through it nil that
patience and resignation which is characteristic
id’ genuine Christianity, and ho died in hope of a
Messed immortality, leaving a wile and an only
son to mourn their irreparable loss—though they
sorrow not aa those who have rut hope.
t JKOI CMT TO AIIOCSTA JAij^lm
fl-* the bib instant, a negro man, call, himself
Matt, says ho belongs to James Pope, Edgefield
District, -S. C., near £*aliidu ; he is twenty year, of
age, six feet high, and light complected. The own
or is retjiiesleti lo come forward, pay expenses and
lake him from jail. Kl,| MORGAN, Jailor,
august?, 183 d. 3t
fT EOUtiiA. LIME WORKS.
’| 'ill', subscribers respectfully inform the pub
lie that they liave commenced the
i T ■ "K- near Jacksoaborough, in
■ Setiven county, Ga. t hey have extensive quar
ries ol I.inestone, which is considered by prufe.-
1 sor J U Coning, Stale Geologist, to whom the
. proprietors are indebted tor tiio information
which induced them to embark in the undertaking,'
to be ul the very purest kind. They have copay
qnenlly erected largo and lubaluniial Kdn* HI
1 the most approved manner, and procured meh
i from the North who aro perfectly acquainted with
, the business A portion of the l.imo is now in
r , market and has been pronounced by iho principal
builders in the neighborhood of Augusta, and
’ others, to ho of excellent quality. Thu sub.cn
rl hers take pleasure “in inviting those who take an
'f interest in the dcvelopement of tho internal reaour
-, ccs of Georgia, to examine it, being convinced that.
H the whole United States cannot produce a iqor#
!_ hcauiiful article.
_ They have now a quantity on hand, which they
will dehvei at the mouth of Brier Creek on the
'* Savannah river, or nr. Augusta. Having extensive
1 preparations in progress, they expect to he able
ic during the next winter and spring to supply or
s derstoa very large amount; and they have every
reason lo believe that they will entitle themselves
hi the favor and patronage of the pubic, by pro
ducing a cheaper and belter art tele at home titan
'! can ho found abroad.
> l ' Urdurs will be received by T) Kirkpatmln#?f^».
It or by Thus L Smith at Aitgusu, oi Jaeksonhoro’.'
ic COUNEUI/si & sOiffil.'
ik may 7 2awdiJ-ntl -
re I months alter date application wid
It- 1 fl- made to the honorable Interior Court of Barks
i ri . I comiiy, when silting for ordinary purposes, lor (save
, to sail all the real cs.aio ot Mark Dctptjiay, late of
’ , said county, for tho pnr.ysj of a lUvtpiOt bo.woet^
the hsirs ot said estate.
VI angiwt 11,1838. GEO, W. EYA.NS, AUtn’r.