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From the S. C. bUle Gazette. 1
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The lamentation of a candidate: piously I
dedicated and addressed to the Lcgisla - |
litre of isouth Carolina. (
Your HonorsI —Am mgst the great (
variety of subjects, which are used
to claim your profound investiga
timi, and rob your noble pillows of J
their power to lull to rest, it has (
been observed that there is one, ,
which above all others, frequently ‘
produces the greatest ingratitude,
and sometimes has the miraculous
tendency to change the obsequious
bow, but a few weeks past, levelled
■at your constituents, into the stilf
backed wheel (or ‘right about
i\rt‘"jsoineUiKes benevolently vouch
safed to a candidate. Some face
tious writer, has this sage apo
thegm, “ the galled jade winces.”
Agreed. I am not one of those
8t jbhorn, hard-bided, mulish beings,
whose harness leather is callous to
the discipline of the spur. No ! the
m ist affectionate touch with the
dullest point, places me precisely
in the predicament of the “galled
jade,” and—l wince. And if 1 did
not, why should 1 lie now travelling
under the load of my giievances,
and struggling, to give utterance to
the most doleful cries, ever heard
sin e the days of my great precur
sor, the soft-hearted Jeremiah?
The truth is, most learned gover
nors, I did not at all relish the civil
treatment, I received last winter in
Columbia, and when 1 have told you
all, I’ll venture all the votes I got,
Against a glass of the best chain
paigite, you will agree I was more
than half right. To come to the
point then, let me rehearse the
story of my sufferings.
It was a little office that 1 sought
that is to say, it was one, which
brings me in (confound me, isl can
yet get rid of the idea, that I am the
incumbent of the office, so sure was
.1 of obtaining it.) 1 should have said,
which would have brought me in but
little money Pdy very devoted
friends, the honorable Mr. A ,
B . and C , had assured me
there was not an earthly doubt of
my success. They had been elect- ,
ed to the legislature, and during the
canvassing, I had, over and over
again, heard it said, they were very
great men, and the} had themselves
told me, of their great influence in
the House, So, having packed up
three tolerably decent cotton shirts,
and a linen one. which 1 had never
before worn except to chu ’ch, I
bade “ Go-I bless ye,” to my wife
wild little ones, and jovial)v trotted
oil at a respectable distance in the ,
rear of my three afbiesaid honor ,
aide friends. On the way, I had |
-frequent occasion to be somewhat |
mortified. At our judging places. ,
we generally fell in with members |
•from other parts of the state, and |
whenever this was the case, itap« |
poured to me, that I was immedi |
ately and instinctively known as a (
candidate. Altliougn 1 gave up a ;
warm seat, at the lire, to live mem i
hors in succession, who had just ,
arrived ; ami very reverently stood |
aloof tram the sideboard, until every
honorable aye and no bad quaffed
the delicious nectar, I did not dis
cover my popolarity in the smallest (
degree advanced. But what, both (
terrified and mortified me in the i
highest degree was, tl at 1 very soon l
discovered, th.it almost every mem- |
her was followed (like a general at i
« militia review) hy an aid de camp, (
just like myself, and (in too many ,
instances for my comfort) aiming at
the same object. My fears and
mortifications were, however, gra
dually removed hy my three very
4evoted friends, who always look
the first opportunity to re assure
me, by telling me what wonders
they had been working in secret.
At last we arrived in sight of the
slate house. At this moment, my
fortitude almost forsook me—my
nerves quivered, my knees smote
each other, and my heart
lime, while I thought the devil was
in me ! Now for the first time, the
magnitude of the building, brought
to my recollection, the vast extent
of the slate, compared with my own
little native district, and the great
number of members, compared with
my three honorable friends ; who
now appeared to me to be less than '
nothing. I, at last, however, re
gained my composure, by the sage
reflection that it was too late tore
treat.
Happy would I have been if my
disasters had ended here ! But se
verer trials were yet in store for
me. I was conducted to a tavern,
where the landlord (by the same in
stinct of which I have before spo
ken,) instantly recognized me as a
candidate, and put me in one of the
worst rooms in his house, at the
same time, graciously informing me,
1 must take my meals at the coin
moo table. Thus was 1 as com
pletely excluded from the last corn
fort I had (the presence and conso-1
lation ofiny three honorable friends) I
as if 1 hod been put into the ini >
mane custody of our own double
fisted jailor at Home. Being left
alone in my little obscuie, and un
comfortable lodgings, it may well
be imagined, my reflettions were
not of that cheerful kind, which in
dicate a total absence of" the blue
devils.” I (bought of my own com
fortable fireside at home, and from
pure distress of mind, threw a font
on each jamb of the chimney, and
forthwith tumbled into a .profound
slumber. From this sweet solace j
of the distressed, 1 was roused by !
a summons to supper.
The next day “ 1 started out.”
One of my aforesaid friends kindly
permitted me to lock my arm in his,
and away we went t» try my luck.
The first person we engaged, was a
little smart looking man, (a mem
ber from some distant district) to
whom my friend introduced me.—
So very “polite and cautions, was his
behavior, that 1 instantly imagined,
1 had already secured not only Ids
own, hut the influence of all his
friends—but Judge my chngain if
you can, when after a few moments
conversation, my friend observed
to him, that I was a candidate for
the oflice of , I already be
gan to bend my body, into u pos
ture, which I was determined
should he the very sac simile of
thankfulness, when to my utter as
tonishment, lie discharged a most
portentous, umhg! —turned on bis
heel, and walked away. Hv this
unexpected repulse, 1 was almost
prostrated. A few minutes how
ever, served to collect my scatter
ed spirits, when 1 once more be
came tolerably composed by making
a practical application to my own
case of the old adage “ a bad begin
ning makes a good ending.” We
once more Ifroke ground, and had
not advanced more than fifty, paces,
when we were met by ,a jolly look
ing member, who as 1 thought, by
the giant like squeeze which he
gave to my hand, afforded the most
irrefutable evidence that bn was al
ready most kindly prepossessed in
my favour. But gracious heaven !
how was my whole frame convuls
ed, when after a few common-place
compliments, be besought my
friend to vote for another candidate,
for the very same office 1 was in
pursuit of! ! 1 could stand it no
longer—having excused myself on
the pretence of being indisposed,
(and 1 verily believe my head did
ache) 1 disengaged my arm, and
returned to my lodging. It would
be tiresome to record the innu
merable mortifications of this kind,
to which, m tiie course of one
week, 1 was obliged to submit. The
subject is, to my feelings, so ex
cessively disagreeable that I shall
hasten to the overwhelming catas
trophe. The day of election came
on, and with trembling anxiety I
beheld (he members, one hy one
hand in their votes. 1 felt as if the
floor shock linker inn, hut (lie cur
tain soon dropped and ail mv golden
dreams were changed to a hard and
appalling reality, 1 received but
two votes!! What had become of!
my third friend 1 could no more
guess, than 1 r-mld determine the
present state of my grandmother
wiiose light went out some thirty
years ago. Thus have 1 been the
dupe nt pretended friends, and the
object of unmerited scorn to men,
who had they seen me on my com
sortable farm, and heard my charac
ter, from my honest neighbors,
w uhl not have blushed to receive
on equal terms the blunt hut gene
rous friendship, of
Farmer Woodpile.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1822.
Election Returns .
STATE LEGISLATURE.
Il ; iik(s County.
SENATE.
M. Talbot, 738
j Vo opposition.
representatives.
Wooten, 591*
Campbell, 574*
Graves, 574*
Pope, 543* .
Lyman, 529
VVelbon, 490
Jefferson County,
SENATE.
Jackson, 246*
Fleming, 170
M’ Don aid, 128
representatives.
Bothwcll, 254*
Marshall, 228*
Cowart, 221
Stapleton, 217
*Eh clod.
1 Columbia County.
I SENATE.
Peter Crawford.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Archer Avery,
William B. Taukersley,
Arthur Foster.
CONGRESS.
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Cobb i
Abbott gggSfj J
Glascock SotoSS 1,
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Carey s'sgSi VtWfr
Thompson J 31: 3J r , *
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Cuthbnrt Sift'S
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I Haynes 2,-SS-e i£
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Golding 235523
For the Chronicle and Advertiser.
The “ certifying apothecary” as
sures the public that Mr. M’Duffie's
notice of him shall not pass without
comment. Professional business (of
which he is not ashamed) has pre
vented his being ready for this day’s
paper, but the well tanned, lutestring
knight, shall not be slighted.
For the Chronicle Advertiser.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
No. I.
r i he question of who shall be the
next Piesideot, is one that many of
the Editors of Newspapers seem to
think should not yet be seriously
taken up far discussion ; notwith
standing howeverthe reiterated ex
pression of this opinion, they, like
men who are too proud of having a
secret to keep to suffer it to he long
a secret, have at Hie very time of de
nouncing the discussion, taken good
care to let their readers understand
: pretty plainly whose pretensions
they intend to support to that high
office.
Not to remark on the unfairness
I of this mode of facilitating the inte
, rest of their favorites, I shall at
once assume the position that, it is
not too soon to enter upon the inves
■ ligation of the qualifications of the
: several distinguished men, from a
rnong whom, in all likelihood, a
i choice will have to he made ; and
1, shall confine myself in tills number
ito assigning my reasons in support
• ! of tliis position.
Ami, first : It is not too soon to
, enter upon the discussion of this
i subject, because the number of
i candidates (as they have vulgarly
i been denominated) for the Presi
, deucy., is greater than at any former
1 period. Heretofore there has gen
-1 erally been a predominating infill-
I ence in favor of a single individual.
which rendered it clear and obvious
, on whom the choice would ultimate
■ ly fall, and did away, in a good de
gree. ali contest and rivalry.
I he public mind however, at the
t present time, is in a very different
situation from what it has been on
1 the like occasions formerly. The
persons who are at present aspiring
to tiie Presidential Chair, till stand
high in public estimation, and their
interest is sufficiently balanced to
excite hopes in all, and call forth
the utmost exertions of their respec
live friends in their behalf. This
'I stale of things foretels much evil to
mir country and its institutions, un
less some change should take place
in the public mind before the elec
tion ensues. It is well known, that
the sage framers of our present
Constitution felt more anxiety about
the consequences resulting from the
election of our Chief Magistrate,
than from the operation of any other
,part of our system. They well
knew that a contest between two
ambitions and popular individuals'
for the Executive Chair, might en-i
kindle passions in the breasts of
their adherents, which in their pro
gress might materially injure, if not
wholly dissolve the fabric of our
grovemncnU i
Hitherto we have suffered but lit
tle injury from tins course, although
we have not escaped entirely un
hurt ; but if ever there was a time
when serious evil was to he decid
ed, it is now. Let discussion then be
timely resorted to, and if the public
feeling cannot be prevented, it may
at least be hastened and much of its
violence thereby prevented.
Another reason why this ques
tion should be early taken up by the
public printSj is, that this is the on
ly certain mode of preventing a re
sort to a caucus nomination, against
which public opinion on a former
occasion, so decidedly and justly
delated. Already have we seen it
stated, at least in one of the leading
papers of the day, that the only mode
of reconciling the contrariety of
opinion respecting the aspirants to
the Executive Chair, was a resort
to this absolute and dangerous mode
of nomination. —dust as if the peo
ple were so grossly ignorant, as to
l>e unable to make a selection of a
man to preside over the destinies of
their country, without the dictat on
ofa body of men unknown to their
laws; or, as if any circumstance,
however urgent, could justify the
introduction of servility into one
branch of our government, and cor
ruption into the other.
Let the people look well to this
subject, and sustain with firmness
their former decision with respect
to caucus nominations. Let them
reflect, that if this mode of nominat
ing to the presidency bus been prac
tised heretofore, and little evil re
suited from it. it was because the
men who were thus nominated, pos
sessed in an eminent degree, the
> confidence of the people, and felt
that they were not advanced to that
dignity in consequence of caucus
nominations, hut by the voice of
their countrymen.
As the only mode of doing away
all pretext for another caucus, let
each of those persons who are as
piring to the Presidency, he ar
raigned in time before the tribunal
of the public, and let their merits
and qualifications he strictly and im
partially examined, and then will
be found a sufficient unanimity of
sentiment among the people to keep
the election out of the hands of the
in embers of the House of Repre
sentatives,
It lias been urged by some, that
an early discussion of this question
argues disrespect to to the present
illustrious incumbent. I however
cannot believe that a man who has
devoted hiswln.de life to the good of
his country, would suffer his feel
ings to he wounded at any thing that
has the least tendency to promote
the future welfare of his country. —
The time is fast approaching when',
according to a custom long establish
ed in our country, he must retire.
The measure of his fame is full, and
his character as a patriot and a sage,
will he hmuled down to the most dis
tant posterity.
Thus situated, it must be a mat
ter of honest pride to him to sec,
that'the people do not rush hastily
into tile choice of a successor ; but
with much care and deliberation,
select one who will perpetuate to
this country that enlightened sys
tem of policy which he has so suc
cessfully commenced.
A REPUBLICAN.
COMMUNICATION.
MRS. WARNE’S SCHOOL.
IT may- ho sees by an advertisement,
that Mrs. Warne will recommence her
School iu Augusta on the 24th instant,
. and it must he the earnest desire of all
those who delight in the reward of me
rit, that she may reap a rich harvest
from the smiles of the public.
Site has been pronounced by persons
well qualified to judge, highly accom
plished in all the useful, as well as the
polite branches of female education ; and
has been found too, by persons, whose
experience enable them to decide, pecu
liarly happy in the rapid progress of her
pupils.
As an instructress of distinguished me
rit, and as a female amiable, intelligent
and accomplished, we venture to antici
pate in her behalf a due proportion of
public patronage. A PARENT.
CHARLESTON,OCTOBER 2.
Four Northern Mails arc due to
day. The Contractor is doing all
tiiai he can to clear away the oh
structious in the roads, but they are
so much blocked up that it is a (ask
of difficulty and time to make them
passable. The letter mail of Mon
day and some newspapers for the
North, were despatched by Mr. Ba
cot yesterday byway of Columbia,
to he expedited to Fayetteville.
No positive account of any fur
ther disasters by the late gale have
been received by us. Reports are
afloat of dreadful damage having
been done on the Saule.es, and they
are most probably very near the
truth. Mr. Hune lots certainly lost
■ three hundred acres of rice besides
i twenty-two negroes. Mr. Elias
Horry has been injured to a vast
amount. Mr. Rutledge also. It is
i said that General Thomas Pinkney
I has suffered severely, thaPthe two
'Messrs. Huggins between the San
l tees, lust every negro except five '
and all their crop.
Mr W. Alston has lost 11 ne
groes. At Murray's ferry nearly ,
all the buildings were blown down.
At Pineville the gale was not heavy. !
The schooner Mark Time was
floated yesterday afternoon from
Sullivan’s island each by the active
exertions of Captain Choate, and
came up to town she is very
leaky.
Extract of a letter from Milledgeville to the
editor dated,
MILLEDGEVILLE, SEPT. 28.
“ It was yesterday ascertained by
the keeper, that Howell the coun
terfeiter (too well known in Savan
nah) had made his escape from the
- penitentiary, some time during that
day. He had been employed in the
forenoon in painting a Mack coffin ;
since which he had not been seen.
The exact time or mode of hi? exit
cannot be confidently stated ; though
: several of the guard recollect of
p seeing a very sleek looking negro,
! pass through the keeper’s door, with
. a slouched hat on his head, and a
grubbing iioe on his shoulder; but
he excited no suspicions at the time.
It is since conjectured that Howell
made his escape in this disguise.”
[Aar. Museum.
SAVANNAH,OCTOBER 5.
By the packet ship Savannah ,
Capt. White, we have received
New-York papers of the evening of
the 2oth ult. The fever had not
abated—ten new cases were re
ported on the 22d, nine on the 23d,
seven on the 24th, and eight on the
25th. The packet ship Amity, has
arived from Liverpool at New,-York,
but bur accounts are only to the 16th
of August, not so late by six days as
those received at Charleston, by
the Bayard. [&«u. Rep.
The Disaster at Georgetown.
The Charleston mail due here
I last night, arrived this morning, and
. brings accounts detailing the calami
ties in Georgetown and its vicinity
I from the late gale. They confirm
I the previous statement received,
} and furnish additional particulars,
which we publish to-day. The
family of Doctor Myers, (allofwhom
perished,) consisted, it is said, of six
white persons and nine servants. Mr.
| Jones, the nothern mail contractor,
, writes to the Post Master at Charles
’ ton “that it is impossible to pro
( ceed with the mail, on account of
I the roads being covered with fallen
trees.” He says “ the further he
j goes north, the greater are the dis
, Acuities.” W’e dread to hear the
accounts from the north. The
gale, it seems did not extend more
’ than twenty five miles into the coun
try. —[Ibid
< Latest from England.
The ship Bayard, arrived at
Charleston on Thursday, brings
London dates to the 20th of August.
• Ail was quiet on the Continent—no
prospect remaining of a war be
*■ tween Russia and Turkey. The
- news of (he death of Lord London
* deny reached the King while in
Edinburgh, and would probably
accelerate his return to London.—
The French papers think that the
death of his Lordship is an event
which w ill cause a deep and mourn
tul sensation throughout Europe.—
It was reported on the ICth of
August, that the Duke of Wei
-1 liugton had been assassinated at
Brussels, by the son of Marshal Ney.
1 The report, however, was unsound
■ ed. Mr. Beatty the ci devant
1 “ Young Roscius,” has resumed the
sock and buskin—he appeared in
the character of the Earl of Essex,
. and was received with loud ap
i plause. After an attentive perusal
! of the copious extracts given in the
’ Charleston Courier, we find no
thing of any moment. An article
. from Smyrna, under date of June
! 28th, says—“ The beautiful Atne
’ rican frigate Constitution, arrived
here on the 24th. She is the first
frigate of that nation which has en
tered our ports. She was accom
panied by a galliot and a corvette
belonging to the U. Slates—The
I Ottoman fleet, after the disaster they
have sustained, are in such a state
! of distrust with respect to the
Greeks, that since that day every
i thing alarms them. The American
armed vessels wished to approach
them, through civility, but the fleet
stood out, apparently in fear of
i surprise ” — [lbid.
♦ ■! I
COMMUNICATED.
Died, iu this place, on tho Ist Octo
r her, 1822, Mrs. Jane Wilson, aged
’ j sixty-three, a native of Ireland, but for
the last fifty-three years a worthy and
! respectable resident of this slate. Mrs.
t Wilson has left a numerous circle of re-
I lath es and riends to lament her death.
• COMMUNICATED.
[ Seldom have the hallowed feelings of
! friendship been required to perform a
, more painful duty than to announce the
death of one, who, iu the several rela
* lions, of soldier, citizen, husband, parent
' and friend, had deeply identified himself
with his family and the commun-. , H
which he was attached, yeS H
are those feelings connected with /“V* H
task, we have to submit to all their 1 H
gency, in announcing the death Mr o ,’ ■
JamesMappin, a native of M
ma, but for a number of years . H
habitant of the county o fCol*' 1 11, 1 ' 1 ' E
where he departed this life on E
instant, in the 37th year of his a* e H
ly lamented by all who knew him’ 6 If E
soldier be was brave and dariu». , fl
husband loving and indulgent; as° a ’ dsi ■
ent tender and affectionate,’and I
friend firm and sincere. He has J, * I
disconsolate widow and seven lovely ch i H
dren to moan over this aflliclin* dijaen I
sation of the hand of Providence! \vL I
the cold hand of death was upon him I
when the world and all it contained wue I
fast -vanishing from before him, when I
boundless and never ending eternity W m I
opening to his view ; at this all import- I
ant and momentous crisis, cool and co. I
lected, he turned to the dear partner of I
his bosom, and iu the comprehensive Ire- I
vity of language (for which he was rei I
markable) said “ weep not” “ fear no- I
thing 1 ' and died without a struggle. I
“ It fills my lab’ring breast, I
I feel ray beating heart opprest. I
O hear that lovely widow's wail I
See her dim eye; her aspect pale ;
To heaven she turns in deep despair.
Her infants wonder at her pray’r,
And, mingling tears they know not why
Lift up their little hands and cry;”
“ 0 Lord ! their moving sorrows” view.
Guard the mother—her infants too,
COMMUNICATED.
On Sunday, the 15th inst. at 25 mi
miles after 5, P. M. after a severe ill)
ness of seven days, Margaret Lucilla
Evans, daughter of Charles Evans, of
Lincoln county, aged 4 years, 2 month*,
and 24 days.
Awake, thou in use! awake, and tell
What Demons in the laud
Devouring what’s most pure and fair,
With an all swe,eping hand.
To land nor sea, to age nor sex,
His rage is not confined;
He lights upon the young and fair,
The sage hit vengeance feels.
E’en Margaret, that lovely child,
The pride of not u re’s works,
Was doomed a sacrifice to all
fieueath the sturdy stroke,
“ Grim monster, death ! ’tis thou that,
rotes
“ Through thickest dark and shade,
“ in quest of prey to glut thy maw,
“ Thy maw’s insatiate lust.
“ Did I not see thine imp of fraud
“In night’s most silent hour,
“ A lurking through the private way
Poor Margaret to detour?
“ The golden beams of morn arose,
“ And thou thy front arrayed;
“Undaunted by the light at which
“ Thieves to their cells repair.
“ As Sol advanced thy hold was made
“ With fang- that dimm’d the morn,
“ And spread a gloom throughout the,
sphere
“ Amidst the blaze of noon.
“ As eve came on thy vengeance grew,
“ On innocence and lovo ;
“ Thy dagger’s thirst could not withhold
“ Its spleen Irom Margaret’s heart.
“ Grim monster, death ! caas’l thou
stand
“ Before the judge supreme,
“ A strii t account to him to give,
“ For all that thou hast done?”
“ A murderer, O! a murderer, sure,
“ in judgment wilt be fouad,
“ And sentenced down beneath the
weight,
“ Os an Almighty’s frown,
“ Hush ! Hush ! thou muse, thy strains
withhold,
From the appointed means,
The Lord hath put in death’s cold band;
Os bringing saints to rest.
“ In Heaven above thy ’biding place,
Thou hast reserved in store
Matter that tunes each angel’s tongue
With sweet redeeming love.
“ Go, Margaret, go, my lovely child,
With thy dear Lord to rest;
I hope to see thy face iu peace,
Where Jove his arm reveals.
Charles Evam.
Dear will please give th#
preceding three insertions in your paper,
and forward your account to Columbia
Court-house for payment.
C- EVANS.
Sept. 17th, 1822. 16 3t
# # * The Members of
the Augusta Royal Arch Chapter No. 2,
are requested to attend an Extra meet
ing this evening at 7 o’clock.
By order of the M. E. 11. P.
October 10.
FOR SALE,
Loic for Cash,
i WELL toned PIANO FORTE,
J\. with the additional keys.—Also a
Horse and Gig.—Enquire of
James Leslie.
October 10 16 3w
D. DONALDSON,
Tailor &iVa\nt Maker
KE TURNS his sincere thanks to hi*
friends and fellow citizen*, for *he
liberal encouragement he ha* received,
and begs leave to inform them that he
has remoi ed front Washington street
to Broad street, next door below the
Globe Tavern, where he will thankfully
receive orders, make up every thing m
his line in the first style, and on the 808
reasonable term*—-for CA*H only-
October 10. 31