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PO LITIC Al*.
Continued from our last.
Why, this Mr. Ingham Was a gen ieman of
£reat standing and indents, was a member from
:he*staie of Pen nsylvawia, u Slate more deep
ly interested in a high protecting tariff, than
unv other in 'ho Union. He was sent io Con
gress especially iusiruc.ed by his constituents, to
ssi lolish if possible a Tariff for protection, for
the benefit of the numerous manufacturers of
his state. Being-specially charged upon the
subject VI in ’h im commniiicaies hisjnews ta,
"Mr, Caln inn; who rises arid examines the sub
set with th’most minute security.
Grateful f> oast favors, after a lapse of
tw lve y ■ars, Pm.u ylvania endeavors to i equite {
the C.vor ; and m Januaty, 1828 speaking
tl.iough her Hmrisburgh Convention, tells Mr.
Calhoun, that she will toward him with hoi twen
ty eight electoral votes fur the Vice Presiden- 1
cyovei M-. Rush, one ot her own sons, an a- i
tniable and talented eentleman, possessing no
small share of experience in public affairs and a
republican of the Jefferson school.
in making this selection for the Vice Presi- [
dent no other reasons ate assigned by the con- j
venlioti at Harrisburg, than—•
“That Mr. Calhoun as a member of Con
gress, had advocated with unrivalled eloquence,
the claims of the American manufacturers to the
protection of the government”
No eulogist of Mr. Calhoun can enable him
to controvert these facts. And here, 1. ask,
can there be a greater outrage committed a
gainst the purity of representation, that sacred
trust of the constituent, over which we should
watch with H f spmian vigilence, that to be told I
by the representative of a free people, when ,
called on 'o account for his support of an un- -
constitutional law, that because his political
friend had twitched him by the coat, he had ris
xan “on the spurof the moment and without pre- |
mediation,” made a solemn appeal to Confess i
to rivet on his constituents, “who had no inter
est but in the cultivation of the soil,” to rivet
upon the nation find upon posterity, a tariff sys- i
tern, the burthens of which he now declares to
be “too oppressive to be any longer endured.”
For this same timely -.ss’st .nee, it is quite
ceiLnu that in the year 1824 Pennsylvania
would have given Mr. C Jhoun her twenty
eighth electrriai votes ioi President, had not
Gen. Jackson been in the way.
This P • rl» -imen’ury traffic, this poll ic;d bar
ter and exchange, must be checked, or the Un
ion wdl be broken up. It is in vain to deny 1
but that the years of its duration are numbered, [
whenever members of Cong ess can parcel ou* |
its powers, its officers, i>- revenues, to subserve i
the soided interests of themselves and their ft- 1
voiites. I have long been saluted ot these frets
«nd that reform is daily becoming more indis* !
’reusable. Only amend 'he Consi'tutmn so is
to render members of Congress intelligible tu
■any office « iMisoevet, for two yeais beyond die
period for which they arc- chosen, ant! not -o be
evaded by resignation, and the evil will be re
moved. TIK-re are about three hundred mem
bers of bath houses of Congress, reptesentinga ;
mass of 13,000.000 of people, from a greater i
mass of intelligence, capacity arid literary at
tainments, th in any other portion of the world
over furnished out of any other thirteen millions I
of inhabitams. From this great mass, selections
could be easily made of one hundred thousand
persons, eminently qual’fiicd to fill the m >st ini- ,
jporiant offices belonging to the government, j
without resorting to Congress, where the chan- ■
ces are more than two to one that some depen
dant poor body is picked up, who has b«-eu i
hackneyed in all the besetting sins of the polit
ical vices of the day—z\. law having for its ob
ject the exclusion of members of Congress from
offices upon terms above stated, would go far
towards annihilating the petty traffic carried on
tit home for seats in Congress.
'Pilis brings me to ih >t part of his changes
where the eulogist of the Vice Piesident asserts
that “two years ago 1 deserted mv principles.”
He must allude to mv address to the people of
Sou.h Carolina in November 1830—i short
lime only after 'nullification began t » 11 mush,
and while their minds weie yet calm ami un
clouded. in this address, it will be remem
beivd, I recommended to the then harpy peo
ple, to exercise a little patience, and tlia< public
opinion,' that great arbitei in human affairs,
would coirec die evil. Piitt it was impossi
ble tor nullification to effect it—hat any serious
attempt to enforce it must produce civil war, in
which Sumn Carol n.i must subnii’ to the hu
miliating ahei native of retracting lie. ste< s <s it
Was prepostetous »o suppose that the general
government could submit to the dictation of a
single Slate. These friendly admonitions which
contained no irritating language, were immedi
ately denounced and distorted into a “deseni m
of my principles,” whds’ it w is upbraided with
the epiiiie:s— Federalist—Sunmissiunist—z\
tory—and finally, i Traitoi to mv country.
Many hmie«t, generous sons of Smith Caro
lina who embraced that urifn. .mate faith, will
dis'iiictlv recollect this friendly counsel, and ihe
unkind returns it received. I have but little
do<ib that many wdl remember with bitter re
gre', dial this advice was tot.dlv disregarded.
But says the eulogist ol tin Vice Prisedeni
“J idge Smith is about to deseri his countiy and
Mr. Calhoun will not.” There is something
repulsive in the expression, that 1 have desert
ed South ( arolin >——and it is hi the worst sense
that the expression is here used.
In doing honor to the depravity of him whose
ingenuity could invent such a change it is piop
er forme here lo mention, that had I lilted the
torch ol discord, it would have been reproach
ful in me to have left it for others to extinguish.
Bit 1 bore no put in producing the present as
-11. ling s'ate oflhingS ill South Carolina. 1 left
no debts unpaid in that Stale—no morl obl ga
tion unca’icelled—no political functions unfin
ished—but on the day <>f the election i remain
ed it the pulls until the last vote was cum- d
and gave my own vote in the election
which was to decide, her fate. 1 remained at
the polls until ihe las; man voted, who was a
criminal brought fiom the public jail by t ie
sheriff, who was himself a nullifying candidate-
t saw that criminal vote for tho nullifying tick
et, and beheld the slier iff conduct him in safety
back to his sceiL Upon this I asked myself
can the boasted cause of Freedom, of Union
. and the constitution need such aid as this ti> sus- .
tain her? I asked myself is the fate of £outh
Carolina, once the host and pride of her sons
to be decided by the suffering of out arid
vagabonds dragged from the|publie dungeons to
tire polls there to compete wiih freemen 1 ? 1
asked myself, where had that chivalrous spirt
. fled, which once gave her so proud a rank in
this great republic ?
These were the, gloomy reflections
cruised my mind, and tinder which I lef. South
Carolina—There 1 left my early, my fondest
recollections ; and in stead of deserting her soil,
Lke some reckless and bankrupt adventurer,|
’> regardless of her fate, -1 left her with a bosom
glowing wiih gratitude, the last tribute to a gen
erous people, who having cherished me with
■ heir kindness, who had given me more than I
j asked, and more than I wanted. And now
when 1 look back upon her former days of peace
and pi asperity, in which 1 long participated
with undiminished delight, my heert sickens at i
the thought that she is about to become the tlie
' atre ol anarchy, and fall a prey to the iretizy of
i mobs.
To my puli’ical'friends and associates in the
cause ot' Union, and the legitimate rights of ihe i
States. ' ' *
Permit me to say, that when 1 left South-
Carolina the political functions with which the
people of that Stale had honoied me, had all
expired. 1 owed the state nothing but mv grat
itude and love. Although I was aware that -.lie
nullifying leaders would go to any length to
augment their numbers and to enhance their
powei, still 1 did bo doubt the great body of,
[ the people. 1 did not distrust the fidelity of
the people towards ‘he government of their I
choice, which had blessed us with tratiquility a*. |
home, with oe.rce and respect abroid.
Believing nai the elections which had just
closed, had giv* n them a majority, and that con- j
sequendy all the offices in die State would be!
lat their disposal, 1 concluded that nullification
I would rest there under this belief 1 in.ended to '
retire to my agricultural pursui’s, where my I
voice would not have been heard beyond the '
circle of my private friends. So long as 1 te
mained with you. and until 1 believed the con- !
test w is ended, 1 spared no pains, no Libor, that
was honest, open and authorized, to prostrate
that|hidious phantom these
circumstances 1 left South Carolina.
1 am sure you will not envy my good fortune
in escaping the pains and penalties that aw oied
me. and which it is your loi now’ to contend a
gainst. These laws—the first enacted under
[ the auspices «>f nullification—and which the
people were told breathed nothing but peace •
( upon earth, good will and safety to the Union,
are blemishes upon the fame of Sou h Carolina
and cannot be untarnished by the breath of,
Calhoun, M’Duffie, H..yne and Hamilton
They will go d »wn to posterity covered wuh
more ii.f <my than the hidden decrees of Cali
gula, oi tiie bloody laws of Draco. There is
not a despot, in chis>enJom who would d:>*e to
■ disfranchise every officer of his governmem,
without the form of trial in the same high han
ded manner contemplated by the Ordinance of
; the Convention. J can scarce believe th u the
people .if your state wiil yet sustain such a
frightful despotism. 1 cherish the hope, that
1 civil war is not yet destined to water your
j fields wi'h the blood of its unoffending owners. '
Impressed as 1 fully am, that even should
South Carolina resort to secession or revolution,
the great object of the confederacy might still
be maintained. Associated as it is, with out '
eaijiest and fondest recollections the people
will rally around their inst imions like the band
of Leonidas—as die surest means for preserving
the,palladium of Hierr libe.’.es from ihe torch
. of for* ign innovation-., -ar.d fiom the petty des
| pousm which have sprung up .it home. I have
the coefidei.ee io b- la ve that the mass of peo
ple in Soudi Carolina wdl hasten to retrace
. their steps, whenever they d.s.inctly behold the
daring and impious objects for whicn.those fac
tious spirits have been aiming, whose minedi-
■ ate interests consists in the public - fll.c’iims.
Trusting that the existing troubles of our
afflicted state may now be settled w hout the 1
hazard of shedding one drob of human b<ood, 1
cannot but indulge the behef, that in time to
come, u hen the cause of these commotions 1
shall be belter tmdersu.od they will firnish to us 1
an instructive less<>n of the capacity of our gov- ■
eminent to wi hsland the trials of adverse as
well as piospe ojs circumstances, and how joint
our intc. cp ;s tn expanding and perpetual mg
these bi •ssitigs. Bat from the mutability ofall
human tfl >irs, should these fond anticipations
never be tralized. and i< should be vour fate to]
Piic iutr-r ihe scourge of civil war, let it nor be
ot vour s’-eking: Avoid it by eve-v possible!
means; by every sacrifice not iiirompitable.
with .mtior, or with the precepts of an enlight
ened age. in leaving South Carolitn .I have*
jin no wise voided any thing like responsibility.
To the Union Paily in that stale, with whom
1 have so long labored in the public vineyard,
I 1 may here be permitted to s«y, that should an
unrelenting tyrant drive you to the Lst alterna
tive of an oppressed people, in defence of your
fiie-sides—that yours, being a holy cause, in
defence of the Constitution, of Union, and lib
erty, one and invdiisible, is also my cause.
In time of peril I have gone hand in hand
with you, and South Carolina is still mv coun
try. f have never deserted her, and in ding,;
ing. to those principles which 1 T>ave soTimg
cherished, will never desert you. For should
the hour of trial and tribulation come, my’ inten
tion is to be w th you.
Should war be relied on to’decide vour fate,
duty will place me in the midst of it. ’ 1 would’ .
rather perish in the conflict than survive the
wreck of my country. If possible, let this
bitter cup pass—if not, I will drink it with
! you.
, WILLIAM SMITH.
Buran's B»nd, Alabama River, )
Pfbruaii/ Ist 1833 f
P. S. The press and post offices in South
j Carolina may by this time be put under the
band of the New Gove.rniueut. Wishing this
Address to rbach its dcstiuaiion, I therefore re
quest its insertion in the Alabama State intel
ligencer.
z. w. s.
;;■ ; foreign.
LATEST FROM LIBERIA.
By the brig Monrovia, Captain Hunter, we
have received the Liberia Herald of F bru.iri.
11. We make the following ex r ic.is:
From fraud Cape Mount— We learn iti
intelligence has been received from two F
men of war, which lately touched there, tn
there were two American vessels in the R.o
Pongas, with ail hands on board dead.
Emigrants— On the sixteenth January the
fine barque Hercules, Mongcope, arrived in out \
harbor in 38 days, with 1/5 emigrants, princi
pally from Charleston.
[More Emigrants— On the 20th arrived the
fine ship Lafayotte, Hardie, fiom Baltimore
‘with 150 emigrants. They all arrived in good
healih, and are mostly, we believe from the
E istern shore, Md. and come out well supplied j
with agricultural implements.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Xx •' >< > < v sc ?< yc
Mobile Point, April 10.
Arr. U. S. transport sclir. Motto, from Key '
Wes’, with the detachment of the 4 h Rog. U. !
S. b f-m iv, under the command of M Gl is j
:S' 11. 1 ti:;dert.t md M* j. G. left Key West on (
I account oi *.he Ciru ’r i having mi le Us an- !
| pe trance at dial place, ihe day <>ef:> e Isis de- !
i parture on the sth ins.. Only a few cases how - ;
ever had occur'-e I—md t'lose nm a nong die!
I troops at Mobile P i’tr, tyl ’j- G. ii ;s understood
! will moce.‘de f ir Pe.;si’<-ola the first Gvorable
wind.— Mobile R
From the Phlialeip'iia Pennsylvanlm.
THE RESTORA ITON OF THE JEWS.:
j To 'tie city ot Jems il-’m, and t > ”ieir long;
lost a J lovely country that “fl >wed with milk i
and honey,it is said, is abiu: becoming a veiv !
seno is pin of cons’daration among the cabin-1
I ets ot Em ope. The complicated state of Tut - ,
ktsh affairs, in 1 the dr” 1 tiio Russia may’ ac-;
! quire a footing m the B isphonis and .As a Mi
trlr, nave lei 'he cabinets of Eurooe to inquire!
into the propriety of es ablisiiing an independ- 1
eat soveroigmy hi Palestine, as they have «•!- J
i ready done in,Greece.
j A new power raised up in Palestine, a Jew- I
l ish kingdom eree'ed 'n Jerusalem, might prove !
a check to (he designs of ihe Pacha of Egypt, I
’as well as the northern Nicholas. It is said in I
private, letters, that tho celebrated capitalist ,
RotliHcnild, and all the leading Israelites in |
> Europe have been consulted on the subject, and
th <1 the project has been favorably received
u / many. The plan is t® send an army and a
tlnet to Palestine, the combined auspi
ces of England and France, and to take posses
sion ol Palestine—’o negotiate with Egypt or
fight that power, but al all even s to lay the
foundations of a new empire in t he East, in
which the Jews of Europe would occupy the
first rank, on condition of their emigrating to
; that country, and furnishing part of ihe funds
necessity to defiry the expenses. Os course
i the utmost liberty of opinion in .religion would
be extended to all classes in ihe new Judea,
for it is a singular fact that the Jews of th..
, present age are the m >st liberal thinkers in all
matters of political and religious belief. The
exclusiveness which p-ev died in the “high and
palmy state” of Jerusalem is completely chatig-
i ed in this age of the wotld.
AVhat a singular spec’acle it would be t.» see
that curious, original, and ancient people ag in
restored to their ciuutry by ilu* C'uishiu cabi
nets of Eurmie!—K. see tli b.nks f K”P.fion,!
the vile of Jeb as,.ohm. heiirei J ><da;i, the
' mounts of Carm> l and of L' bmop ig in peo-
I pled with the descendants of (heir ancient pos
! sessors!
I From the New I >/•& Commercial .1 icertiscr i
LETTER FROM WVCJIINGT »N IRVIMI.
Tiie friends <>f this disiinguisbed writer w.li I
be well pleased to he >r fiom ii'niag fin, .mdstil 1 ;
more to read the following sketch ofii.s recen'
journevings among ihe wild'iib-sbeyond the 1
verge of civilization; and we earnestly hope,
tint it will not be long before we have som •-
! thing more than asketch of this interesting tour;
ihhotigh we believe he has as yet written
nothing upon th< subj-ct for the press. The!
. letter before us, it will be perceived, was writ
ten ton friend in Europe, during Mi. Irving’s
’ recent sojourn in Washington. Il reaches ns
through the medium of the London Athenae
um.
Washington City, December 18, 1833.
I arrived here a few days since, from a tour
of several months, which carried me fir to
the West, beyond the bounds of civilization.
After I wrote to you in August, from, I think,
Niagara, I proceed, with mv agreeable fellow-
“ travellers, Mr. L. and Mr. P.» to Buffilo, and
!we embaiked at Black Rock, on L'ke Erie.
; Onboard of the steam-boat was Mr. E. one of
the commissioners appointed by government to
superintend the settlement of the emigrant In
dian tribes, to the west of the Mississippi. H
was on his way to the place of rendi zvous, and
on his invitation, we agreed to accompany him
in ins expedition. The offer was too tempting
.to be resisted: i should have an opportunity ofj
seeing die remnants of those great Indian tribes ‘
which are now about to disappear as independ- I
ent nations, or to be amalgamated under some
new form of Government. I should see those
fine countries of the “far west,” wnile still in a
state of pristine wilderness, and behold herds of
buffdoes scouring their native prairies, before
they are driven beyond the reach of a civilized
tourist.
We, accordingly, traversed tho centre of
Ohio, and embaiked in a steam-boat at Cin
.cinnatti, for Louisville, in Kentucky. Thence
we descended the Ohio River in another
sieat.vboat, and ascended the Mississippi to
St. Louis. Our voyage was prolonged by re
peatedly running aground, iu consequence of
ho lowness of the waters, and on the first oc
ision we were nearly wrecked and sent to the;
mom, by encountering another steam boat
• miing with ail the impetus of a high pressure.
• igine, and a rapid current. Fortunately we
had time to shear a little so as to receive the
blow obliquely, Jwhicli cm ried away part of a
viieel, and all (he upper works on one side of
•■ip boat.
From Si. Louis I went to Fort Jefferson,
ibout nine m les distant, to see Black Hawk,
the Indi in warrior, and his fellow prisoners—
a forlorn crew, emaciated and dejected—the
redoubtable chieftain himself a meagre old man
upwards of seventy. He has, however, a fine
head, Roman style of face, and a prepossessing
countenance,
« « *
At St. Louis, we bought horses for our
selves, and a covered waggon for our baggage,
tents, provisions, and travelled by land to
i Independence, a small frontiei hamlet of log
| bouses, situated between two and llnee bund
! red miles up the Missouri, on the uuiiust verge
i of civilization. * *
Frun Independence, we struck across the
Indian countiy, along the line of the Indian
missions, and arrived, on tho 8 h of October
after ten or eleven days tramp, o F■» -t G.bson,
a frontier fort in Artikaiisas. Our juurni-y lay
'almost entirely through v is: p' - u’S. oi open
grassy plains, diversilL d o r.asiouailv by be >u
liful groves, and deeo fertile b iroms along the
streams of w tier, W li' e-i in t uniier ind al
most Indian s.yle, camping out at nidus, ex
cept when wo stopped at the Missionaries,
scattered here and there m this v ist wilderness.
The weather was s.neu •, i we encountered
but one rainy nigre .aari on” ihut><lor storm,
and I found sleeping i.i a tent a very sweet
an.l hedtuy repose. l< was uiw upwards of
three weeks itnce 1 had lofi St. L ’uis and tak
en to travelling on horse!) ick, and it agreed
! w<di me admirably.
Ou arriving at Fort Gibso i. we found that
a in »un’”d body ot Rmgu s, nearly a liun-
■ dre I, had set if two d ivs before iu make a
J wide lour lo the west and south, ihe wild bunt
! ing countries; by wiy -f protecting the f: iendly
Indians, who hid gone to the buffalo hunting,
' and to overawe die P iwnees. who are ihe wan
‘ ering Arabs of ihe West, and c >niiuu.dly on the
j maraud. We determined to proceed on the
I track oi this party, escried bv a dozen or
j fourieei) horsemen, that we might h ive nothing
io apprehend from any srruiglin.” party of
' Pawnees, and with three o; imi Indians as
I gm les tn I m e.prete-s, "jcluduig a capiive
Pawnee worn in. A c >uule of Cr j k Lid-aos
; wer ; despatched by ilie •ommander of the Fort
i to overt ike the pii’iy ot R ingers, and order
them to await our coming up with them. We
were now ,o Havel sull sunnier and rougher
style, taken is little baggage as possible and
depending on our huminir for ; u. plies; but were
to go through a countiy ibou i.f mg with game.
i The finest sport we had hi'heito had, was an
incidental wolf hunt, as we were tiaversing a
prairie; which was very animated and pictures
que. I fell now completely launched in a
| savage life, and extremely excited and interest
ed by this wild country, and the wild scenes
and people by which I was surrounded. Our
rangers were expert hunters, being mostly fiom
Illinois, Tennessee, &c.
We overtook the exploring party of mount
ed Rangers in the course of three days, on the
banks of the Arkansas, and the whole troop
crossed that river on the loth of O< tuber,
some on rafis, some fording. Our own iniiin’-
diate party had a couple us half breed Indians
as servants, who understood the Indian cus
toms. I hey constructed a kind ot boat or
rah out of a but] do skm, m which Mr. E. and
mj self crossed the river md its branches, at
several fines, on the top al" about a hundred
weigh’ fi ; ggage—an odd mode of crossing a
liver n quaiter of a mile wide.
We now led a true hunting life, sleeping
in ihe open air, and living upon the produce of
the rh ice, for we were three hundred miles be
i yonri >i imm liabitation, and part of the time,
' in t coumry hitherto unexplored.
Wo got to tiie region of buff docs and tvild
hoises; killed soma of ihe former, and caught
■ some d the latter. We were, moreover, on
the hunting grounds of the Pawnees, the terror
of tli. t f. oiiti-H; a race who scour the Praities
on 11 et !io r ses, and are like the tartars or rov
ing Arabs.
We had to set gua’ds round our camp, and
tie up our horses for fear of sutprise; but, though
we had an occasional alann, we passed through
the country without seeing a single Pawnee.—
I brought off, however, the tongue ofa buffilo,
of my own shoo'ing, as a trophy of my hunting,
i and am detei mined to rest my renown as a
i hunter, upon that exploit, and never to descend
to smaller game. We returned to Fori Gibson,
after a campaign ofabout thirty davs, well sea
soned by htmtei’s fare and hunter’s life.
Fiom Fort Gibson, I was about five days
descending ihe Arkansas to the Mississippi, i n
a steam-boat, a distance of several hundred
, miles; I then continued down ihe latter river
to New-Orleans, where I passed some days
very pleasantly. J
New-Orleans is one of the most tnoicly and
amusing places in the United Slates; a mix
ture of America and Eur-pe. The French
part of the city is a counterpart of some French
provincial towns, ami the levee, or esplanade
along the river, presents the most whimsical
, groups of people of all nations castes, and co
lours; French, Spanish, Indian, Half Breeds
Creoles, mulattoes, Kentuckians, &c. I passed
two days with M. on his sugar plantation,
.just at the time when they were making su-
From New-Orleans I set off, on the mail
s’a ? e, through Mobile, and proceeded on,
thiLugh Aabim i, Georgia. Smith and North
Caru.jnu, and A irgiuia, tj Washington, a lona
&■ rather a dreary journey, traveiiTrig frequetl
ly day &, night; and much of ihe road through
pine forest, in the win er season.
At Columbia, the Capital of South Caroli
na, I passed a day most cordially with our
friend P. I dined also wiih G. H.j whom I
had known in New-Yoik, when a young man,
and who is a perfect gentleman, though-some
what a Hotspur in politics. It is really la
mentable -to see so fine a set of fellows, as tho
leading Nullifiers are, so sadly in the wrong.
They have just cause of complaint, and'havo
been hardly dealt wilh,| but they are putting
themselves completed in the wrong, by tho
mode they take to redress themselves.—As a
j Committee of Congress is now occupied in tho
J formation of a bill for the reduction of the Ta
, j riff, 1 hope that such a bill may be devised and
• I carred, as will satisfy the moderate part oftha
• ! Ntdlifiers. But I grieve to see so many ele
-11 mums of national prejudice, hostility, and
■ selfisnness, stiringand fermenting, with activity
; anti acrimony.
1 intended stopping but a few days at Wash*
ingtou, and then proceeding to New-York*
but 1 donbt now whether I shall not linger
, for some time, lam very pleasantly si tuiited;
, I have a snug, cheery, cosey, little apartment
in the immediate neighborhood of M. - and
take my meals- at his house—and, in fact,
make it my home... I have thus the advantage
■ ofa family cucle, and that delightful one, and
the precious comfort of a little-bachelor retreat
and sanfdum sanctorum, where I can be as
! lonely and independent as I please. Wash*
1 ing. on is an interesting place to see public
cn iiaciers, and this is our interesting erisi’s
, Every Lody, too, is so much occupied wiih
' his own or tiie public business that, i)oW
|tn u 1 h ive got through Hie formal visit's 1
i can have the t.ni.- preuy much to myself.
As to me kind oi pledge 1 gave, you are
[coneci in your opinion. It was given in the
[ wjimm and excitement of the moment was
I li win my tips uefoie 1 was aware ot its unquali
ii .’U ex.eni, mid is to be taken cum grano salis.
it is absolutely my intention to make our coun
!■ uy mv home Dr the residue of my days; and
! me mme i see ot ii, the moie I am convinced
Hi t. 1 can live here wim more enjoyment than
■ m Europe; but 1 shall certainly pay mv friends
I in h rance, and relations in England, a visit, in
me cuu<z>e oi u year or two, to p«ss joyously a
! ! season in holid.iy style.
. , You nave uo idea how' agreeably one can
r ■ live in mis country, especially one, like jny
, . sell, who can change place at will, and meet
. ■i.tends ai every lurn. Politics also, which
. . make such a figure in the newspapers, do not
} I enter so mucn as you imagine into private
> . Lie; and 1 dunk there is a much better tone
; > icspecting them, generally, in society, than
f there was iormerly; in fact the mode of liv
s j mg, ihe sources ot quiet enjoyment; and tho
■ sphere of friendly and domestic pleasure,'aro
improved and multiplied to a degree tu.it would
t delightfully surprise you. .
JI *Mr. Latrobe and Count Hortalis. Mr.
Irving had met wish those gentlemen ’at
I Boston, in July, and had travelled together
a to the White Mountains of New Hampshire
. through a country which he describes as beau*
i iiful, with.a fine mixture of lakes and forests,
a and bright pure running streams. ” ’
i .iov. H imilton, no doubt.— Com. Ado.
a jfn saying this, Mr. Irving is in the wrong.
- Tiie Nullifiers had no just cause of Coffiplaiax
s whatever. Com. Adv.
r >.■
a A KENTUCKY SPORTSMAN. .
The following says ihe N. Y. Times, fs an
. | extract from Mr. Paulding’s Westward Ho f
. ! presuming a familiar sketch of a Backwoods-
>{ m in, of the olden time. Bushfield, the herb of
. , the tale, is iepie-ented as nature - among the
. 1 mountains of his native state, free as the air he
; breathed—lie grew up tall an d straight, and
. ' hardy as the trees of the primevial forest where
lie passed most of his time in hunting arid rtlral
| sports, lull ol danger and enterprise. He could
t neither read nor write, yet he was nqt ignorant
| or vulgar'; and Ins feelings, by some sirano e
; |lroak of nature or combination of circumstances'
partook of the character of a gemleuwn .'in
, more ways than one.
j- In person, Bushfield was one of tboso rare
. specimens ol men, the united product of pur”
( aw vvholesom exercise, warlike habits, and per
feet freedom of body and mind. He was up.
I wards of six feet high, perfectly strait and with
out one ounce of superfluous flesh in Ins whoh
, composition. There was a singular ease, one
. might almost rail it gracefulness, in his carriage
. and his dress, winch consisting ofa buckskin
hunting-slnrt, a Raccoonskin cap and legging';,
was Inghly picturesque. There was nothing
, Vulgar or dowdy m his appearance or addresL
j which was that of a man who believed himself c
;qu..l to lus fellow men in any circumstances or
| situation that called for the exercise of manly
j vigor or daring enterprise. ’ .
\V hoop ! exclaimed a voire without, which.
I they all recognized as that of Bushfield.
Come in, come in, saij the colonel ■
I Come in! why aint lin ?” exclaimed lie, as
: he entered in a great flurry, and seated himself.
| What a race Ive had. I’ll | )e g Oy blamed if I
,Ihant bm catch this squirrel—a fair
i chase, and no favor asked. There we were al*
np and tuck, tip one tree and down, another;
Hi led me a dance all the wav from kingdom
come till 1 got p.st by the village here ; and
whin do you think ? I had to shoot the trifling
ere er after all ! He got U p on the highest ties'
prehaps you ever did see ; | let hnn have it.,
jtst lor being so obstinate '■
A., excel!.-... s !„„, Silid Ulo •
nit Mini iii tlif! 1 scc«
Oh no it is’lit, blit I was mad ; no no, il’s a
•'graceful shut-whai 1 call a filfrWkle-borry
below a perstmmon : f ur whei , { W(|at |hß .7
of one of those fellers, I always shoot a let/lo
j beloie the nose, and then the wind of t|ie Indi.
hmtWm ffir'“ ent * cleauawa -V» and
for<| UU IUI,St liaVG ,lU d S ° me P ractice » sa!d K a ' u S*
I il he goy blamed if you wouldn’t think so, if
you only knew me as well Q 5. I know tjjy
rifle - ■
