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CHRONICLE AND SKNTINKL.
AUGUST A.
.. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 27.
The Constitutionalist of Saturday, takes the
Southern Recorder severely to task for saying
that the plan of reduction adopted by the Con
vention, will give to the Union party an undue
and improper ascendancy in the Legislature.—
The Recorder stated that the Senatorial District
plan ns adopted by the Convention, would leave
the State Rights’ parly in a minority of 8 or In
in that body. The Constitutionalist expresses
its surprise and says—
“We will lake the lowest number eight. To
have a majority of 8 out of 46 Senators, the
Union party must have 27 and the State Rights’
party 19. Union Senators must be elected from
27 Senatorial Districts. We should like the edi
tors of the Recorder to point out to us the 27
districts which will elect Union Senators. We
have compared the arrangement of the counties
into districts, and we can ascertain only 22 for
the Union party, and 22 for the State’Rights’
party, leaving two doubtful. Every citizen, who
takes the trouble to examine for himself, con' ...
• < WW I A llil 1I IV I'M li I 111 ijL Ilf VI
,«'jf ■“'"mmfeio.,,
■ VVi: must in return express our utter amaze
■ent at tire assertions of the Constitutionalist
iß Jpmtainnd in tire above paragraph. The plan
Miloptnl by the Convention was introduced into
■lint body by its author, Mr. Stringer, for the
■ avowed purpose of giving his party a fixed ma
■ jnrily in the Senate, and he so declared it public
s' Jv to the Convention ! He said his party were
W entitled to a majority of six at least in that body
■ when reduced to 40, because they hud majorities
■|in counties enough to give them a majority of
P'l2 as the Senate is at present organized! We
the notes of that speech and intend to pub
lish it to the world. The Constitutionalist bases
Its calculations upon its fears ot what may by
fcossibility he the result of a progressive growth
in the strength of our party, and a continued de
cline of its own, rather than upon it's knowledge
of the state of parties as they exist at present.
I We shall be most happy to sec the calculation of
the Constitutionalist—we want to see the “22 dis
tricts in wmen me ouuc uignuj panj “
majority” and the “two doubtful districts” of
which it speaks, and also the process of reason
ing or calculation hy which it arrives at that con
clusion. We shall look for it with some anxiety
as it will be one of the curiosities of the times.
In order to help the Constitutionalist in its calcu
lations wc submit the following table. It is ba
sed upon the actual strength of parties as tested
by the two last elections, to witt for Governor in
1837 and Congress in 1838. We have given the
districts by numbers and opposite each number,
the majority cast for each party in the District.
The following districts gave majorities for
Union party in 1837. ’
Ist District 132 28th District 263
6th “ 707 30th “ 264
7th “ 545 31st “ 412
B th 358 32d “ 470
q,h “ 303 33d “ 308
,7,h » 131 34th “ 145
18th .. 45 *36lh “ 49
19 h “ 187 37th “ 384
20. h 90 39th “ 294
21st « 27 41st “ m
-23d « 257 44th “ 355
24th “ 172 45th ‘ 8
26th “ H 5 ‘ I,K
27th “ 293
* This District is composed of Houston and
Macon, the latter of which has been created since
1837. We give the majority only in Houston.
Last year the two counties gave about ■ Oil ma
jority for the Union Congressional District.
| This District is formed of Walker, Chattooga
and Dade, both of,the two latter counties having
been formed since the election in 1831. W e
give only the majority in Walker, which was
very much increased in 1838.
It will he scon by the above that in 1837, the
Union party Jiad majorities in 27 districts, as or
ganized by the late Convention. In twenty
three of those districts their yi ijority was over
ONE hundred !! Now let us see the State
Rights’ districts.
2d District, 436 16th District, 76
0.1 .. 521 32d “ 287
4, h “ 35 25th “ 117
SP! .< 787 29th “ 483
j, ih <• 664 35th “ 87
.. 1085 38th “ 351
12th “ 457 4.ith “ 158
13 l h « 196 42d “ 325
,4* « 352 43d “ 1006
15th “ 63
Thus it will be seen that the Stale Rights’
party had majorities in but nineteen districts, and
in only fifteen of those did their majority exceed
one hundred.
In the Congressional election lust year (1838),
the same districts whi h had given Union ma
jorities in 1837, again cave average majorities
to that party, with one single exception (viz )
District No. 20, composed of Lowndes and
W’arc, which gave a small majority, say fifteen
or twenty, for the State Rights’ party. To offset
this, District No. 36, (Jasper and Jones) which
had in 1837, given 116 majority to the Slate
Rights’ candidate for Governor, in 183 b. gave
the Union Congressional ticket a majority of
twenty-five or thirty ! Taking either election
then, on u last, »wl tllu L ’“ ion l ,art > r i:l lho Con ‘
vention have appropriated to themselves 27 Dis
tr,cts > and magnanimously left for their opponents,
who by the same tests, had a majority of votes in
the State, but 19 districts! And we are us gravely
'old that there is perfect fairness in this, as if we
!• had not the brains to make calculations as well as
r our adversaries and sensibility to feel indignant at
t ,lle gross ’ H! *y b a»e injustice that has been done j
us I Wo had the majority in the Senate last |
yee.r, and we should like to know what justice I
there is in gerrymandering the counties so as to I
give our adversaries a majority of 8 in a reduced j
Senate, equal to a majority of 16 in the present !
Senate ? We have not been disposed to make j
tins a party question, but when our adversaries '
attempt to persuade us against our positive know
edge that that is fair and just which is so unjust I
and unfair, we can scarcely repress our resentment !
From the Richmond Compiler of the 24th.
The Election.
The following is the slate of the polls at their '
c ose last evening in this city, and at the Court I 1
House of Henrico county. It rained very heavilv j 1
during the morning, and the polls are conse- ! ,
quently kept open to-day in the city and at the I (
Court House. t
RieHMorvn Cirr.
FOB COVORKS3.
John M. Bolts, (Whig) -? 0 c I v
William Scldcn, (Adm.) |' 3 g in
“ k
165 ~
FOB THE BF.NATE,
James Lyons (Whig,) no opposition, 242 j* (
vr yn.ibam Rnt'orlsDi l (
J Up "oils will be opened again this mornin
aml continue open till sundown.
Henhico, fat the Court-houseJ
ion coxohess.
Bolts. 281
Selden, IPs
113
FOTi THE SENATE.
Lyons, (no opposition.) 27h
. HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Sherwm Mcßae (Whig) o M
Win. .V Whiting, (Adm.) 174
135
From the Louisianian, of the 21 it, \
1 Mexico. ——
Wfi have received, through the kindness of „
mercantile house, the following extract of a letter
oated Sacnlicios, May T, which arrived here bv’
the schooner Waterwitch. y
“ Yesterday an express arrived with news of
the complete route of the army of Mexia and
Lrrea. The first was shot hy order of Santa
Ana. Urrca and Escalnda have both lied. The
Puebla. They were defeated by General Valen
lia. The federal parly has embarrassed our po i
tical condition for a long lime past, and w 3 rejoice
at this defeat.”
There is nothing impossible in this story. But
it seems to us to he a ruse employed by the gov
ernment generals to discourage the partizans of
Mexia. Until we obtain farther confirmation, wc
regard it as doubtful.
We arc confirmed in our conjectures respecting
the foregoing news, by a letter from Vera Cruz,
dated April 30, which states, that general Mexia
was not far from Perote on his way to Puebla,
that the number of his troops was reduced to 700 ;
with whom he was not likely to reach Puebla.
The garrison of Vera Cruz was reinforced by
400 men from Campeachy.and they were actively
in repairing the foitificalions.
From the Columbia Telescope.
We announced in our last the death of Dr
Cooper, and must now say something in regard
to him. His name lias been before the public,
attracting a good deal of attention, for sixty years,
during which time there is scarcely any depart
ment of intellectual exertion with which it has
not been conncncted.
For the extent and nr ultifariousness of his know
ledge he was indeed a very extraordinary man.—
Ho published works on Law, Medicine, Medical
Jurisp udencc, Political Economy, and was an
habitual writer upon current politics. He trans
lated Justinian and liroussais. He received an
honorary diploma of doc tor of medicine from the
University of Pennsylvania, and was a Judge ol
the court of Common Law of that State. He was
at one time Professor of Chemistry in the Col
lege of Carlisle —was ottered the same chair in
the University of Virginia by his friend Mr. Jeffer
son, and subsequently filled it in the College ol
South Carol na. Oi the last he became President,
upon the death of Dr. Moxcy, and by order ol the
trustees lecturtdon Chemistry, Geology, and Po
litical economy. To these encyclopedia acquire
ments and occupations he added a large acquain
tance with elegant literature.
At the age of eighteen he came from the Uni
versity of Oxford, with its scholarship and its
censures. He at om e associated himself (with
the natural ardor of his temper and of his lime ot
life) with that party in England which hailed with
rapturous enthusiasm the commencement of the
French revolution. How few of his associates
have, like him, lived to see, after the gloomy
eclipse of their hopes for so many years hy the
turbulent and bloody events of that struggle, their
final realization in the regeneration of Europe !
Hls hopefulness had never failed. From 18 to
80, the love of liberty never forsook him—nor a
cheerful confidence in its triumph—no: a willing
labor in its service. Associating h mselt with
the most excited of the Anglo-Gallican party, he
signal zed at once his zeal anl courage in the
effort of his pen.— He entered the lists with Mr.
liurke. whose prophetic spirit had penetrated in
to a 1 the horrors ol the storm, but could not see
through its darkness the results tor which a be
nign providence permitted a season of desolation.
The same eoutage which impelled Dr. Cooper in
to the controversy with Mr. I'.urke, prompted him
to the more hazardous adventure of denouncing
Robespicre from the tribunal of the Jacobins,
whither he hud been sent as a delegate from a
Mancnestcr association. The versatility of his
talents was <y ispieuous at this early period.
Within a very short space of time he was a polit
ical missionary—-a member of a committee of
chemists to report upon the intensity of certain
dyestuffs—and stood with Mr. Erskine at the
Assizes as junior council for Mr. Walker and
other gentlemen of Manchester charged with trea
son. When the eloquence of Burke, the power
of Pitt, ami the unspeakable atroeilies of the
French revolution, had crushed the Gailician par
ty in England young CMoper, in 1793, follow'd
’ I !> r ,T r, rl>- this C . ountr - V ’ wlmherthe advocates 1
’ 1m? ' Ulrni ' l ' theu ' right from tlie
> 1 r r' pec,s r ° i,c -I°°’hn 1 °°’ hn
I l “ ll , tl ' e P urBUlts !" «icnce and literature with
! an “‘ t*™ participation in political allairs. He
,W C ; 'I , r ' Pripstl > i!1 llis philosophical
I ? V | CBtl f t . ,onB aml u P on his death published an
| tljl, °rate biography of him in two vols.
| In the contest between the federal and Rcpnb
" an patties ho ol course took sides with the lat
ter, and signalized his adherence to it l.y the free
exercise of his ready pen. For a spirited ani-
I mad version upon the principle and tendency of the
| of the elder Adams, he tneurred
| the penalties of the sedition law by fine and im
, pnsonraent. Ihe pecuniary nutlet has not been
restored to him l.y the tardy justice of Congress.
t he opinions which he adopted forty years
since in regard to the relative rights and powers
of the State and General governments, were main
tained by him with perfect consistency through
out his hie He efficiently sustained the admin
istrations of Jefferson. Madison and Mon.oe—ad
vocated the election of the great and persecuted
raw lord and oppo-ed J. U. Adams. When
Jackson abandoned his principles, Dr. Coo
per abandoned him; and seeing no reason to ap
prove in his successor what he had condemned in
that extraordinary man. he continued until his
death in opposition to Mr. Van Buron.
In the controversy of South Carolina with the
General Government, he vindicated the policy of
the State witli signal zeal and ability, and contri
buted. with “Brutus and the rest’ to arouse and
inform public opinion. Amidst the high names
which illustrated that bold and patriotic move
ment, his was conspicuous. His facility of com
position, his readiness to work, his ‘abundant
inowledge. and the point and terseness of his
“y e. gave him great influence on public opinion
nnl properly entitle him to be classed among the
carters in that e nlcrprizc.
| . Nor Ji< l his active participation in those slir
the pursuits ofsci
plary
sn I Professor. No one eve- performed' thosT
duties with more exact punctuality. His nrc
fien.ee mi he J er,ule room was as regular as the
arnva nt the hour; and when there, those who
heard him could scarcely have believed that he
had ever occupied his mind hut with the business
appropriate to that scene. He shewed great mas
tery of his subject—a perfect acquaintance with
every addition made to it from any quarter of
the globe—and brought illustrations from the
whole circle of science ami the whole field of lit
emturc. His lectures were not only instructive,
but beautiful, and delivered with a perspicacity
and simplicity that at once adapted them to the
comprehension of learners, and recommended
them to the taste of the leariieil.
That his abundant knowledge, and uncommon
aptitude to communicate it, joined to great in
dustry and activity, failed to confer upon the Col
fegc that degree of prosperity which might have
been expected from such a combination of quoli
l.es m the Pres.dent, perhaps arose from his avow
al of peculiar opinions on theological subjects—
opinions which, it appears to us, he would have
,. ep " W 'f, r T 1 to have entertained, and morepru-
College, the Legislature confided to him, with a
liberal salary, the collection and digesting of the
Statutes of the State, in the performance of which
duty he died, having completed four volumes.
The predominant qualities of Dr. Cooper’s in
tellectual character were intrepidity ami activity.
His mind coursed the whole field of learning with
untiring rapidity. It incessantly sought for
knowledge; not with any apparent drudgery or
toil, but. up to the last moments of his life, with
that youthful and fresh alacrity which belongs to
the pursuit of pleasure. He did not hesitate to
follow his reasoning wherever it led, and what he
thought lie said. Authority had hut little weight
with him. He always endeavored to aop'y the
Youch-stonc of reason to every proposition, and
/to judge of it by that test alone.
His multifarious studies, and his uncommonly
wide observation of society, had enrich, d Ids me
mory with vast stores of useful and agreeable to
pics; and these, combined with a cheerful temper,
a social spirit ami a most pleasant style of con
versation. rendered him a most delightful compa
nion. He was an admirable talker— terse, epi
gramic, gay and instructive. He was rarely in a
company in which ho did not say the best thing
that was uttered. His conversation was illustra
ted by well turned anecdotes, ornamented by
sparkling classical allusions, and enriched by sen
sible and judicious remarks. His temper was
most agreeable, and his whole manicre d >r< dis
tinguished by a pervading ban homi'iie and kin
dliness of nature. He was benevolent, friendly
and impulsive; prompt to do a good turn, “to
spread friendships and to cover heats.” He was
fond of children, addicted to pets, and kind to
servants. Throughout his whole behavior there
was a winning simplicity and directm ss; always
agreeable, but in one of his age, learning and
abilities, peculiarly captivating. He resided
amongst us for the last twenty years, and we
doubt whether he has ever been known to mani
fest a feeling of personal unkindiioss towards any
individual.
Whether his labors in the cause of Science and
Liberty shall give a lasting memory to his name,
we will not undertake tojudge; but we confident
ly say that he will long be recollected by those
who knew him, with affection and respect. As
he honored us with his friendship, and received
in return our love and adm.raiion.it was grality
mgto ns to see the firmness and equanimity with
which he sustained himself through a tong and
painful sickness,and the resignation with which
he watched the slow and certain approach of
death.
.Hit. HIVES’ 81*EEG tl—Concluded.
So fur from there being the slightest affinity he
lve* n the doctrim s ol his r< portaml those of il e
Virginia report and resolutions ol '9B and ’99. ihe
identity, on the other hand, in principle and aim,
I at least, between it and the Sedition law, is must
striking and instructive. The object of the sedi
tion law, as Mr. Madison tells us in the ever me
morable report of ’99, was to '‘entrench the Go
vernment in penal statutes,” and so to control the
free exercise of “ the electoral lights of the peo
ple.” 'Fhe pervading principle and drift of this
report is to “entrench the Government in official \
influence, and, by that means, to control the free j
exercise of “ the electoral rights of the people.”
The Virginia opposition to the sedition law ol ’9B
and ’99, and the opposition we arc now making
to the fatal doctrines of this report, in like man
ner proceed, step by step), on the same lofty and
impregnable ground. In the report of ’99. Mr.
Madison, il* author, emphatically declared that
the “right of electing the members of the Govern
ment constitutes more particularly the essence of
a free and responsible Government;” and it was
; to shield that “ great remedial right of the People”
; from the terrors of penal legislation that Virginia
! then interposed her solemn remonstrance. It is
j fioiu the sa.iw sacred appreciation of tins “ iiienli-
mablc right,” uml in order to shield it from a still
greater danger, the violation of official interfer
ence, that we are now struggling against the
alarming doctrines of this report. We shall hear
no more, then. I trust, Mr. President, of the sneti-
Jeguma invocation of the Virginia principles of
. atMl 93 > t 0 ttive a sanction to the bold and
nnti-ropuhlican heresieasjf the Senator from New
Jersey, and ot the Judiciary Committee, of which
He is tno organ.
I will now proceed, Mr. President, to say a
word or two. and hut a word or two, on the con
stitutional power of Congress to adopt some
measure with a view to restrain the improper in
terference of Federal officers with elections. 1
am aware of the difficulty of satisfactory legisla
tion on such a subject, and that it would be a
more a, propriate matter for Executive super
vision. If the President would re-issue Mr.
-Idlerson’s Circuiar. prohibiting the interference
m r ederal officers in elections, under pain of
jus mission from office or wonid carry out and en-
Wp the principle of that Circular, 1 for one,
«Mjld tie content. But if he will not do so, if,
on the contrary, sm h practices are tolerated, not
to say encouraged, is it not .competent for Con
****“ to K ,ve Mat pnnelpU the sanction and au
thority 61 law i My views would not extend
I'eyond that. Cannot Congress, whose power in
the creation ol public offices is undoubted, also
declare on what coneiitions those offices shall he
held . (an they not say by law, that if public
officers, whose places arc created by- them, shall,
“contrary to the spire of the Constitution and
thon dut es under it,” (to use the language of
Mr. Jefferson « Circular,) interfere with the free
exercise of the electoral rights of the People they
shall no longer hold their offites. hut that such
conduct shall deemed n forfeiture of them 1
It seems to me, sir, that there would be no stretch
of power in this.
But the Senator from New Jersey, in his re
port. tells os Hint “Congress have no right to in
termeddle, ISy law, in prescribing the i/tiul fica
f elinton that (he Constitution of the
declares that mornliers of the House
chbson
requisite
rous branch, of the State Pegi l dEture7Tun^*
electors of President and Vice-President “sha
he appointed in such manner ns the State J.egii
Injures may direct,” and that the right, therefor,
ot prescribing the nun! ftcali owi aft hcturn “he
longs ex lUsively to .the States, and Ss withhel
from the J'bderal Government.” But what ha
all tins to do with the question ? Has any on.
proposed to prescribe the qualifications of ki.k
Tons, or, in other words, to deprive officeholder,
of the iiH.iir or von no ? On the contrary
it is conceded on all hands, according to tin
terms of Mr. Jirtbrsonfs. Circular, that public
officers are not to lie deprived ol the isiout of
votixij ; but the object is merely to restrain them
from mterf. ring with, or attempting to control oi
influence, the-hike exercise ol the Uiein- or
B-Y OTIIF.ns.
But the report again tells U s that this oaunci
lie donewithout “abridging the freedom of speech
imdot the press.” What docs this argument
amount it> < That youcan retrain »r. i„ m ,.
ten, may teappen to be the vehicle or instrument
because, in retraining the act, you may incident
ally put some restraint on the medium or instru
ment through which the act is done. For ex
ample, we have just passed a law prohibiting tin
giving of a challenge within this District to sigh
a duel. Now a challenge cun be given only
through the medium of words spoken or written
and may he given through words spoken ns wel
as through words written, it follows, then, w.
have no constitutional power to pass the law vrr
have done for prohibiting challenges within this
District to fight a duel, because, in doing so, we
abridge the freedom of speech ! In like manner,
bribery and corruption are perpetrated through
the medium of words, spoken or written. No
law, then, can he passed prohibiting bribery and
corruption, because, in doing so, you abridge the
freedom of speech ! I will put still another case.
Could not Congress declare that if any officer ol
one of its courts, judges, United Slates attorney
or marshal, should improperly tamper with a
jury to influence their verdict in a cause, civil or
criminal, depending before them, the officer guilty
of such offence should forfeit bis office! And
yet such tampering would be through the me
dium of word's, and it might riereiud that in pro
hibiting Lt you were “abridging this freedom of
speech.” These cases suggest at once, the dis
tinrtion between the sedition law, the "raw head
and bloody bones” of which have been flourished
so dramatically before our eyes, and such legis
lation to restrain the improper interference o
Federal office-holders with the free electoral right!
of the People, as I have supposed might be found
to be within the limits of our constitutional pow
ers. In the case of the sedition law. it was the
“false scandalous, and malicious writing” as de
scribed by the law, the word# themmdvra, which
were the direct and immediate object of legisla
ti«e restraint : but in tire other cases referred to,
it is the act (ite challenging, the bribery, the
tampering, the irmrrnper inteifcrenei) which is
sought to bo restrained, and the words arc bui
the mere ivcibixt or casual accompaniment.
But I will not dwell on these things. I throw
them out only for candid consideration. It is no
part of my purpose to argue the constitutional
question which has been raised. The proposition
which I shall submit leaves that open for futun
and more deliberate investigation. I have a imicl.
higher object in view. I desire to obtain, in sotn:
form or other, a negation, a solemn disavowal, by
an act of the Senate, of the most dangerous and
anti-republican doctrines of this report. A ma
jority of *his body, by ordering a large number of
copies of it to be printed, before it was duly con
sidered. have given (hastily,! would fain believe)
a sort of implied sanction to those fatal doctrines.
In some way or other, I trust, that sanct on may
lie revoked. If the doctrines of pul I cal moralny
inculcated by this report shall once he re cognised
and established in this country, the days of Ameri
can liberty arc numbered. Let il he understood
and proclaimed (as the doctrines of this report, in
efleet, proclaim) that, the pub ic trusts of the na
tion, won in the first instance (if the favorite motto
of the “spoils of victo.y ’ is to previ i ) by B p,irty
servility, arc to be retained by electioneering ac
tivity—that partisan service is the required return
for office, as office is to be the reward of partisan
service, and you lay, at oner, the foundation of (In
most odious and fatal dcs;nitism which the mind
of man can conceive — of a sordid part* iifepo
tism, far worse than a military nxsiuvn su, be
cause, though less fatal to human lifS, ii would
be infinitely more destructive to human morals,
and to every manly and generous sentiment.—
Your office-holders, through all the ranks of ven
ality and degradation, would he 1) Av II v:II too eth
er by one common principle of servility and de
votion to their chief; they would vie with each
other only in the merit and efficiency of their elec
tioneering services; and amid the din and bustle
of the official canvass, of committees, caccis
>B, and co.wsHTio.vs, all organized and directed,
1,1 1 scf r ‘"tly or openly, by the agency of office-holders,
I J the voice ul tlie People would be stilled, or, to use
l( the more expressive language of Mr. JelferHon,
II “a-'tOTiiKiti n by the enormous patronage of the
Government.” You would have your Pw*to
-1 Ri an ii \nns of oOirc-buidcnt at the Va pitoi.,
1 anil your Lkoiunaiit armies of them in the
' mc.es, (for your sovereign States would he*
1 come deppudOnt'iirovinees,) who would dfepose
ol t ie Presidency us absolute as the I'n.Kroni an
5 •"Rtis and I.cmowur armies of Rome did‘of
the Imperial Purple,
' I'lie/nnn.i of your government would still be
preserved; hut ol whut avail arc the norms with
out the sei hit of free government ? A high au
thority. indeed, has told us “that the greatest mas.
' l, ' rs ol tyranny have judged the form without the
spi rit ol a free government more favorable to
I their schemes of oppressions, than all the authority !
- that absolute monarchy can give.” Rome, under
the debasing despotism of the Cnssars, had still
her Senate, and co-uiitiu. or assemblies of the
People-, public affairs w eng for a long lime, still
conducted in the name ol the I o«mui. the Censor,
the Augur, and the Tribune of the People. The
forms ol popular eteclion were still kept up, and
the bmperor himaelt was an elective magistrate.
Put the spirit of liberty was extinct. The Sena
toi WJ ts sunk in servility, and the servility of the
Senate at length infected (he masn ol the people.
W urned by these examples, it becomes us to
keep alive in our bosoms that watchful jealousy
ol power, and that study spirit of freedom,which
fired the breasts and guided the councils of our
glorious ancestors. J lie doctrines ol political
morality inculcated in this report, I repeal, Mr.
President, are at war with nil the cherished prin
ciples of our republican fathers ; and if they shall
once strike root in our soil, (hey will bn fatal t>
the best hopes of American liberty. You have,
hastily and without due consideration, given them
an apparent sanction at least I y ordering an unu
sually large number of copies ol the report to be
printed for dissemination among the People. I,el
ns now, in some way or other, petba-m a solemn
illustration,” to.oltainap ourselves frein the rroala
initiation of doctrine.* at mwe so hateful ami so
dangerous. W c enu do so in no manner more
appropriate and more t Hernial ihuubv a Solemn \
Jjj^dliniialiiiii »f (hr
in HifTacc o( tins repent. With this view, I have
prepared n resolution, which the Senate will per
ceive, is expressed In the very words of Mr. Jof
-1 ferson h letter to Ooverrwr McK, an, and of his
, m,Mn,,r ? Wc ~rrv l ar of Ihe proudest rnonu
menu. 11l niy opinion, of his principles and fame.)
which columns no one on the constitutional ones
!° n I l '" 1 hi,s '!* rilise 'l- ''HI leaves that open for
he clehherale investigation of a con.n.itteo, anil
the Inlure decision of the Senate. I trust, then,
that all who pralowi themselvoa disciples of the
democratic faith will he happen haring tins op
portmuty nflorded them of satwrihing their ad
hesion to the doetrinns of him whom the Senator
from New Jersey himself has styled “ the great
apostle of democracy.”
tio^ 1 - ,ht '“ «übmittcdthe following resolu-
VV hereas «the constitutional remedy t.y the
elective principle becomes nothing, if it may 1,„
cnee of the State ami Federal Governments, and
of the different branches of thosame Government,
so vitally cherished hy American institutions:”
Unsolved, therefore. That, in the opinion of the
Sonalc, it is highly “ improper 100 officers depend
ing on the Executive ot the. Thiion to attempt to
control or inlluencc the free exercise of the elect
ive right."
Result ed, aho, That measures ought to bo
adopted hy Congress, so for as their constitntional
powers may extend, to restrain by law the inter
ference of Federal officers with elections, other
wise than by giving their own votes; and that the
report of the Judiciary Committee ho committed
to a select committee, with instructions to new
model it according to-the principles declared in
the foregoing preamble and resolutions.
* These resolutions, when subsequently acted on,
were voted against by all those members of the
Senate claiming to lie the thorough friends of the
Administration and were consequently rejected by
a strict party vote.
Lvsrs N* rrns;.— Mr. Thomas Camden, who
occupies the farm of Gen. Johnson, at the W alla
bout, on Friday evening showed us an animal
production which one of his swine gave hirlh to,
among a litter of nine little gninlers. on that day.
j» little them st singular ol any thing of the kind
wo have over seen. It was a pig which.evideoi
iy united in its formation three bodies. From
about mid way, the fore part ot the body was hut
one, and perfect, as also the head, except that it
was uncommonly large, and the mouth contained
three tongues. The rear part of the pig consisted
of two distinct and perfect bodies, each with its
complement of hind iV-gs tail. Ac. The two bo
dies united midway of the animal, and Ihe two
hack bones at that point appeared to he (irmly
united, Between Ilicse two bodies was a portion
of a third ono. The singular production lived
but a few minutes after its birth.—A'. Y. Sun.
Consignees per!South Carolina Kail Hoad.
Hamburg, May 25, 1839.
T. Magruder, S. Kneeland & Son, (1. It Jessup
& Co., Stovall, Simmons k Co , Wright & Gibson,
J. Coskcry, Hungerford, Frisbie k ( 0.. B. W. Force
kCo., W. K. Kitchen, 11. Piquet, J. F. Bunson, G.
Parrott, Sibley A Crapon, Jeffers A B.
COMMERCIAL.
Latent duhs from Liverpool, Ajrrit 19
I.a lest dales from lliivre. April 17
New-Cri.eans, May 22.
Cotton. —Pecci red Once I7tli instant 5,284 bales;
exported to J.iverpool 1d,728 do, Havre 2,846 do'
N-w-Vorlf 1,035 do, licstbn 1,323 do, Philadelphia’
14'f'drt. liichmond2 together2o,sB3 bales ; making
a further reduction In u»e stock since our last re
view of 15,299 ba es. and leaving a balance on
l and including all on shipboard of 97,365 bales.
Just at the nutrient at which we closed our re
port of the 1 Slit'ii st.. the cotton market began to
exhibit some symptoms of recovery from the blow
which was given it by the late Fuiopean accounts*
■■lit these favor ale indications soon disappeared,
and have been succeeded by a stale of dullness full
as great as before prevailed the sales since being
only to the extent >f 3,(T0 hales, and at iaies that
fully establish a decline of I a cent on the quota
tions which we gave in onr last. There is a con
siderable quantity of cotton now on the mar
ket, and ho ders, in general, evince more anxiety
to receive others than heretofore, particularly as
there are at present so few persons who show any
desire to purchase, some of the principal operators
having taken their departure from the city. We
notice the sales as follows, viz: 281 Louisiana and
Mississippi at Hjf ; 22, M; 320, 14$ j 210, 14 1 200
13$; 96, I3{ : 199, I lA; <l6O, 14; 90, 13j cents,
and 1049 Nashville 13} cents.
I.m-.tieooL Gi.assihcvnoNs.—Louisiana and
Mississippi, Ordinary 12j a 13; Middling 13} a
14} ; Fair 15} a 15} ; Goad hue 16 a 16} ; Good and
’ ,Lnl-x,Tn'- Ci ,' nef " tc and North Alabama,Or
! dina.v Middling,Patr,Good fair. Good and lino, 12*
, a extremes ; fairerops, 14* a 11^,
mat r, . , STATEMrNT Os COTTOK.
839 mlvq’i 8IOC m°" haD JI t,al¥S 8900
ISJ “, nla) 21, rec’d since 17tli 52H
“ previously 536138 610422
r, 49322
“ “ exports since 17th 206*3
11 previously 431374 451957
Leaving a balance of slock of 97366
A'uydr.-.Louisiana.—Tlierc continues to be a
veiy lair demand for prime sugar, but in oilier des
criptions, transactions aie stif. extremely light,—
1 rime is very scarce, as there is so small a portion
ot the receipts composed of this quality, but the
market is abundant) supplied with inferior and
common—we quote unaltered pikes, inferior and
common 4to 6), lair to prime 6 a ej cents. ( n
plantation, l ine aie very few sales!and Holder*
eume considerable anxiety to realise at rates rang
nif, from ,|» C* cents. I avana Sugars.—'l ho dc
mand is limited lor both white and ! rown, and the
low a ‘ OHn i e bruu K ,,t 3 shade
, ’ Aimed since I <th instant erf La. 0, 6hhdj,
MoUie 4 £. f "7:\ nrl :>,i hlld *» t'»“».ul6li..ria 180;
fllcd.ilc 4, P londa 17, together 237 hhds.
A/o/",v.vcs is ill fail demand in the city at from 35
to3b cents per gallon, and the stock in markctcon
linuts veiy ngi.t. t n plantation it can now only
he obtained in smal. lots, and the last sales weie at
, r C "^', ' Vm „ vod sinc e *'<tli inst. 6l.9bbfs : clear.,
‘■d for Mobile lb hhds, Florida 42 hbls.
n ., , . Savannah May 24.
r,!i° ? n Tc. rr ' V “ d Hinrc the 17,11 >"»t- 1348 bales
I plain! and bl bales S. I. C otton,and cicarsd at the
same lime, 6086 bales 1 plane! and lb bales b I
( otton i leaving a sto . k cn hand, inc mive of all
onslnpboaid'nicdc.iraj on the 24th inst.'of 13657
hales l.piand and 463 bales sea Is and ( otton.
J be demand tins «eck fov l pi„nd has been to a
telde. tn, ;, and V’ 6 ™ lket <•<*'* With an u,.#.rf
L, ; ,l ''' sa,cs arc *266 bales, vizi 23at 144 s
U i » 801 at >■’ I 2 (, 9 at 15* , 218 at I.jjj,
h . 4 at U) < i 24 at lb ( K7 at Hi*. In ,s ta
1, land » c have no sales of any import to r. poit.
fl/cc.—huln,. article there has been but very
ll,Sti thC <CW salcs nmdc have
.Vu///!~ihc- ■ Ji • y
■>'
s,,ou,de,s
a , Ol 200 b,ln ‘i:»'» Eastern,on the wharf
week a~l2 els • S ° oo bu * hc,s Liver P°°l sold this
STATEMENT Os '‘OTTON.
Stock or, famil. Ist. October. S 'Jr
Ueceived this week. 2ds] £
I'o. previously. n 77(!) , fiso
Exported this week, GOSC 321 183543 4733
Uo, previous'’y, 163876 3954 1C99G2 4275
Stock on hand, including all on ship
board not cleared on the 24th May/ 13588 459
Cn.M»I.EBTi!?( May 25.
...-Vtejc.sterdav took an aCCOIIIMt of H.» .1,1, ~f .
Cotton —A fair business has engaged dealers in
Upland since our report of the 18th inst , and the
operations in all descriptions reach 3712 bales.
The demand, however, was chiefly confined to the
low and middling qua ities, at full prices ;■ bat to
wards the close of the week, holders were asking;.’
and in some instances obtained, 4 cent pec lb. ad
vance on these sorts. There is in fact, a belter
feeling in the market for all descriptions, and InAft
ers are linn at present prices, whlcn we subjoin,
viz: l.iverpool classification —ordinary to inferior,
14 a 14} ; middling to middling fair, I4j a 15.}; fair
to fully fair, 10 a 16} ; good fair, 17 a 17} ; choice,
IK. The sales are, 14 bale at 14 ; 74 at Ilf; 39
at 14} i 199 at I4j ; 975 at 15 ; 337 at 15}; 267
at Ifij ; 731 at 15} ; 132 at ISJ ; 49 at U>{ ; 3G4 at
1G; 292 at 16! ; 2G9 at IG} ;17 at ; 179 at 17 }
70 at 17} ; and 42 bales at Id cents peril). In long
Cottons the transactions have been confined to 102
Sea Islands, at prices ranging from 50 to G 3, with
several small lots Kantees, from 45 to 47 rents per lb.
Hire. —loir liice market has been rather languid
throughout the week —purchasers are not free buy
ers at present ( rices. About G3G tierces have been
•-’ld, at from 4} to 4J per 100.
(/fain. —About 9000 bushels of Virginia and
Noith Carolina Corn have come toliand—the greater ■
portion of which, brought 95 cents ; we quote 95
I (JO cents per bushel. About 2100 bushels of leas
have abo been received, during the week, which
brought $ I per bushel. oay has been selling at 1
and sl} per 100 lbs. No arrival of • ats.
I lnur. —The operations of the week, in this ar
ticle, have been solely to city bakers —who pur
chase generally in small tots for immediate use:
Western continues to command 7a7} ; 170 bbls.
ilaltimoie has been taken at 7}; and a small lot do.
Lr ii lit $8 per bid.
o nuer.es —< ur Grocery market has been at a
stand since our last. The only operations within
our knowledge are about 35 hhds. Muscovado bu.
gar at fiom 6 L to 9} per lb.; and ICO bags Cuba
Codec at I If, with a small lot I'orlo I abello, in
barrels and bags, at 12 :nd 12 5 cents per lb. Os
Molasses there is none in first hands.
Bacon —The sales of the week have been 11 girty,
and confined chiefly to Haltimore and North ( aroli
na Mams at 16 a. i’fi : , ; Baltimore Sides are worth
Hall}; do. Shoulders,9s a9J ; Western Hams,
12 a 12} cents per lb.
Hud. —Baltimore and North Caro’ina l ard, by
the 2(1 and 50 kegs, has been .tiling at 13} a 14
cents per lb.
Holt. — Ihe receipts of the week arc 1626 sacks
Liver; 001, al oat b 0 of which brought 4.3 per sack,
flip Aock in second hands is very light.
MAKI \ E INTELLIGENCE.
Chahi.eston, May 25.
Arrived yesterday. —Brig Exit. .Sisson, I avaa
nab ; schooner Thames, Sawyer, New- cleans..
Cleared. —Brig Cervantes, Kendrik, fcos.u;*
Pavankah, Vry 25.
Arrived yetlerday, —l tcamboat Lamar,Cieswell,
Augusta ; steamboat Cherokee, Norris. Augusta.
Departed. —Steamboat John Randolph, hugga
Augusta.
W. W, HAMUH,
MANI EACTi RES antkdsa’aiCievery variety
of Cumbs, und Importer rs Fancy < 'ullery , such
as lb n and l-oeket Knives, l.nzors, KcissOis, , at le
> ut cry, &c., Buttons, Needles and l ins. I crfuin
ery, c ancy .-oaps, Work boxes and Dressing C uses,
genuine Manor Strops, and a great variety of Karic.w
t.oods, which will be disposed of to dcalets upo*
accommodating terms, at his waie-housc, in rear of
the retail store, 156 Kiug-strtet, sign of the lajge
Ox Morn. *
Orders f,om a distance carefully, attend to with
punctuality.
Charleston, May 18. Iy gt
Vi "TICE.—The subscriber having disposed of
11 bis Grocery and Confectionary to Messrt
SCHMIDT Sc TitHiH, takes pleasure in lecom
mending them to his Blend* and former customers
He also returns his sinceie thanks to his former
patrons lor their liberal encouragement while he
conducted the business. BE TER G( 1 i i
May 14,1.839. , vt
N. U.—All those indebted to him will please,
mah- immediate payment, p_