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From the Constitutionalist.
Gov. Crawford and Economy t
WHIGERY AOAIUST WIlIGERf !
“5. Resolved, Thai the public debt of
Georgia should annually be reduced, and
paid off finally,.at the earliest practicable
period.”
The above is one of of the whig resolves
oassed at their recent Convention in Mil-
ledgeviilc. How docs whig practice tally
with this sentiment? I call Gov. Crawford’s
Finance Committee, of December, 1844,
to the Bar of the public, and here is their
statement:
JS44—Public debt, under Crawford, $1,725,134 73
1313— “ “ “ McDonald, $1,614,138 98
ALBANY PATRIOT.
WBWOII. wA:
Democratic Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR.
m. hall McAllister.
For Senator in Ike District composed of Early and
Baker,
JOHN COLLET.
For Repnsentathe in Better,
JOHN HENTZ. .
1841—Increase under Crawford, $110,999, 75
And who arc the Finance Committee t-
Why, no less persons than Geo. D. Phillips,
James. A. Meriwether and .5. 11. Kenan.—
The two last gentlemen arc known to be
prominent whigs.
And yet, it would seem, to hear the fiscal
nblitics of Gov. Crawford spoken of, that
our state is now, under the whig manage*
ment, almost out of debt. The whigs seem
to think, that because Central Hank money
is at par value, that every thing else is
right.
But, I ask again, how docs whig prac
tice correspond with their sentiments 1 Is
not the State of Georgia more in debt now
than she was before Gov. Crawford was c-
lectod T If any whig denies this, I refer him
to the whig 'Finance Report. Will they
dispute the statements of James A. Meri
wether and A. II. Kenan 1 Then, it those
genllmcn arc not to be believed, I must
leave the question of truth to be settled a-
mong themselves.
It is right that I should state that Fj
nance Committee says this §110,999 75 is
the apparent incrcasc'of the public debt—
but in another portion of the Report they
state : The actual increase of debt is only
§13,078,—only !
Again:
•* JlCJUtlCtf, Thai •*.. P.nh*M«*.A.y >h*..V4
be a source of revenue instead of expense to
the State.”
This i3 the tenth resolution of the Whig
Convention. Well let iis exanmine how
this will accord with the practice or man
agement of the Penitentiary under tlicjires
onl whig government. And, again, 1 cull
upon Gov. Crawford’s Finance Committee,
to give evidence before the public. Hear
them 1
“The operations of the entire ycar(1844)
show a loss to the State, beyond*!lie annual
appropriation, of §16,79 85”
Annual appropriation, 0,' :0«i DO
For Senator in the District composed of Pulaski and
Dooly,
COL. WM. 8. WHITFIELD.
For Representative in Decatur,
D. J. BRUTON. ‘
Another Great Fire to New York 1 Declaration of Independence, where we contend a* a
The fire broke odt at half past 3 o’clock on the fundamental political principle, that all men are crp-
morning of the 18th inst., in New street about three ated free and equal -, and will not tor an instant al-
doora from the comer of Exchange Place, in a knr it any force, when objects of immediate desire,
Sperm oil store, ’it soon communicated with a boil- either through bigotry, self-interest or momentary
ding in which ares a large quantity, of salt petre.— excitement are brought to bear against it. He bold-
Thii mo* Mew up with a tremendous explosion, ]y adduces in defence of these strong positions the
carrying six or seven buildings with it, and shaking history of our own people for the last three or four
the whole city like an earthquake. The concussion years; and shows already that the strong arm of
was so great as to break more than half a [pillion power is being organised to correct abuses which
panes of glass in the neighborhood. Immediately this abstraction lias given rise to: the municipal
after the explosion, fire was discovered at lour dif- guards of Philadelphia—the incessant cnU upon the
Cerent points, showing that the entire block rathe military in New York, &c. He next meets the
rear was in a complete blaze. It is supposed that \ question of property with equal boldness. Demands
many lives were lost , by this tcrriblo explosion.— what constitutes tho foundation of this right—asks
More than two hundred of the most valuable stores Mr. Clarkson, tho Englishman to whom bo directs
in the city are destroyed; and the loss estimated at his correspondence, whether he obtained his estates
For Senator in the District composed rf Loicnds and
Ware.
WM. JONES.
$10,000,000.
We copy the following particulars of the extent
of the fire from our. exchanges
“News st. both sides, from Exchange place to Bea
ver street. ■
Broad street both sides from near Wall to Beaver st.
Far Senator in the District composed tf Randolph
and Stewart.
COL. W. A. TENNILLE.
C*Wc have on hand a few copies of the Oration
delivered by E. IL Platt, Esq., on the Birth-day of
St. Jons, the Baptist, which we offer for sale at this
office. Price 13] cents.
The Farmer’s Library,
And Monthly Journal of Agriculture, Edited by
Jons S. Siusneb.
We have received the fust number of this valua
ble work, printed by Grecly Sc McElrath, at the
Tribune Office. Mr. Skinner .is one of tho most
distinguished Agricultural Editors in the United
States. The work cannot foil of being interesting.
We intend to publish the prospectus shortly.
Showing a loss of §13,679 85
in the year 1814, in the operations of the
Penitentiary.
And yet whig editors and whiff orators
will endeavor to induce the belief that the
penitenitary is now a great source of reve
nue to the State. If any reasonable doulit
exists in the minds of any us to the truth of
the above statement, I can only turn them
river to the friendly whig compassion of
James A. Meriwether and A. II. Kenan !
These gentlemen arc good authority for the
whigs.
I nave established, then, by whig testi
mony, that tiic public debt of Georgia has
been'increased, and that the Pcnitentinry
has not proved a source of revenue to the
Slate under the administration of Gov.
Crawford. The whigs will not crrtninly
attempt to disjnite or impeach the testimony
of their own witness. e
PINEY WOODS.
P. S. My “ School Master” friend must
excuse inc for a few days.—I will pay ear
ly attention to the other points of his'eom-
rnunication embraced in ihc expenditures
under the Contingent and Miliitary funds.
Our esteemed correspondent, who wrote last from
Clarksville, will accept our most hearty thanks for
his agreeable letters. We hope be will not get
weary in well doing, but will continue to instruct
and ainiise our readers with his graphic remarks on
men and things. Wc have travelled over the same
region, and know how to estimate in some degree,
his pleasures and bis diffiicultics; and wc will say
for his encouragement, that the beauties of the
scenery arc remembered with delight, years after
the biting, stinging and smarting grievances of the
journey ore forgotten, or recalled to mind only as a
small alloy to our pleasures. We hope our corres
pondent will forgive us, when we confess that we
can hardly regret some of his annoyances, when
they odd so much to the pungent spirit of his letters.
“Important |( Tree.”
This is the manner in which the ‘New
York Tribune’ introduces the following par
agraph from the “Philadelphia Gazette” of
Tuscday evening:
“Gentlemen from Washington state with
confidence that lion. James Buchanan has
resigned the Secretaryship of Slate, and
that the President litis selected Andrew
Stevenson, of Virginia, to fill the place,—
Differences of opinions as to the Oregon
negotiation have induced this step on the
part of Mr. Buchanan.”
It is as'oni.-hing how any “gentlemen” can
state with “confidence” n report which is so
utterly destitute of any foundation.. What
can be the motive for such a gratuitous fa
brication?. What other purpose can it uns-
wer, than first to scatter, lor a few days, a
report that is calculated to agitate the pub-
tic mind, and to cast an air of ii.siabiiiiy o-
ver the administration; and.then, when the
report is exposed, to shake the cofidcncc of
the public in every rumor that catenates
from Washington. No such report as the
above has ever circulated in this city of ru-
niors. There is not a shadow of truth in
it. Mr. Buclianan has nor resigned, nor,
has. he talked or thought of resigning; nor
has any member of the. cabinet. .The rea
son assigned, too for his. resignation, is
fabulous as the report itself. There is
difference of opinion in the cabinet on the
Oregon question. There never was a more
harmonious cabinet, and there is as IjiUe
variety of opinion bn all the great questions
which come before the present cabinet, as
in any of its predecessors. We are fully
warranted in making’thi* statement in the
most authentic and authoritative manner.
cs V f r - . n nit Washington Union:
■ Wheat Crop.
■ 'TheBaltimore American of the 19th inst.
*a^_now that the yield and quality of the
present year’s crop have been pretty accu-1 gaging manners.
in England from tho Saxon or Norman conquest)
and if from either, what but the strong arm of power
established his claim.
Ho then completes tho subjoct of doubtful inquiry,
by asking how fiir the mind of man » allowed to go
Exchange Place both sides from near William t 0 | ra working out a great mellimunm for his species,
Broadway.,'. . cither by philanthrophy, enthusiasm or blind roli-
“Thc flames spread with such rapidity, and tho' gj ous bigotry. He, with the most pointed irony,
panic created among all classes by tho explosion was whichj b „ (1,0 bye, his wliolo treatise is distinguish-
ao great that vety little property was raved. And ^ , or> Mr . Clarkson how much time and dls-
in only a few cases were even the books rescued i . _
from the. burning buildings. appointed ambition his efforts in the suppression of
“AH is confusion in the lower part of the city.— | the African slave trade had not cost him, and yet
Merchants who were rich yesterday are poor to day. | w hat had been tho result It was now acknowledg-
Even those insured are probably poor, because the I ^ ^ morc aeplorable condition than even bo-
aggregate loss is so great that we can hardly ex
pect that all the insurance effected will be paid.”
10 minutes before 8.
•The following are the boundaries of the confla
gration utthis moment. It is still raging with un
abated fuiy towards the South Ferry.
“Down Brood street to Stone street, and running
down Stone rtreet to the Fcny.
Down Beaver street to within threo doors of Wil
liam, and with the almost certainty that it must go
down to Wiliam.
On Broadway from the Wareriy House down
Broadway In .\n J, opposite the Bowling Green, and j
going down Whitehall street, which will in all pro
bability bo swept to the Battary.”
“Some Of the fire engines near tho scene [of the
explosion] were shivered to atoms. The three ex
plosions were accompanied by shocks resembling
those of an earthquake, and so powerful as to shat
ter windows within the circuit of a mile. The doors
of tho American Exchange Bank in Wall st. were
bent and twisted in every direction.
The streets or buildings eveiy where in tho vicin
ity bear marks of the explosion.”’
enraumtsprEantfs, a«i*ove|by tho histo
the country, that thoylhawj i» forty out of r
years of our national existence, shown themstij
tho ruling spirit* of the country—filling the higfcj
ofiiccs, and leading in oB the most radical tnca-vJ
of government. He boldly assorts that as long
tho slave States are united totho free, tint tl*.
raer will bo the moans of preventing the latter
having recourcc to strong armed government,
whatsoever name they may please to call it
let them separate, and tins alternative is incviti!^|
Ho takes np-tholitflnenctf on the interests J
Confederacy, and here wittily leaves this to be
pitted by tho calculating free States. He tl^d
that they wilt be loth to, yield the cotton ornJ
crops of the malaria district* of the United StuJ
to the labor of St. Domingo, or the West IndioJ
they wouhlmueh prefer tho white to the blacker;..
seer, as wc say in this country. Here ho is
liarly severe upon tho apprentice system of the &J
lish Government. '
Leaving these two important inquiries, he m?*,
the moral influences of slavery upon cither the sh\
or the slaveholder, in comparison with that ot th:
free systems as they arc called; and he leaves fc-
foul records of the latter in disgust, as exhibited b<
their own statistics. Wc must extract however,
passage from this portion of the first letter, to give
an idea of the style of Gov. Hammond.
“ But your grand cliarge is tint licrntionsnn« u
intercourse between the sexes is a prominent trsitc!
it o rt
rui i
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hull
fore it bad been legislated upon at all, quoting his
own words for it.
Having disposed of those points, he enquires, from
what source then, arc wo to obtain tight) answer
ing, either from tho immediate ordinances of God,
or from those things which these ordinances do not
deny. He is here most singularly happy in his de
monstrations from the Holy Scti|ftures—not only
proving tiiat slavery is permitted, but enjoined. We
cannot do justice to this part of the subject, without
quoting at length his second letter, so for as connec
ted with it. . • s
our social system, and that it neccssarilv arise* fob I
’. This is a favorite theme with the Abolit;*. I
in;
t ml
Iicii
luff
tali
In the election of President, the Whigs have been
great admirers of the one term principle, and we be
lieve have adopted it as an articlo of their creed.
They have contended that if the President was al
lowed to run for a second term, he would be likely
to buy friends by the bestowment of office and pat
ronage on influential but unworthy persons. If these
reasons are good in the election of President, they
should also bo good against tho election of a Gov
ernor for a second term. But this would be fotal to
Mr. Crawford’s prospects, and they arc now oppo
sed to the one term principle altogether, and ask
by elect another Governor, us long as Mr. Craw
ford docs well—why try a new man ) This would
lead to the principle that a Governor must remain
in office during good behaviour. But while he re
mains in office he has it in his power to hide many
of his acts should they bo corrupt, and it is only by
changing tho Executive that the people have it in
their power to probe and examine his administration.
If a Governor is to remain in office until he does
something for which he can be impeached, hi will be
a monarch at once; for he can generally make a
favorable report for himself, whilst he has the sub
ordinate officers of the department under his control.
By tho tone of the Whig press in Georgia, H
would appear that this State had been under tho solo
management and control of George W. Crawford
for the last two years. They do not seem to con
sider the Legislature or tho Judiciary of any impor
tance—Gov. Crawford has done every thing that
has been done.' Even the United States Govern
ment has had nothing to do with Georgia during
Mr. Crawford’s reign. If we migl* tatm the testi
mony of Whig writers for authority, Mr. Grawford
has raised money, paid tho debts of tho State, man
aged tho Central Bank, and the Penitentiary, all
himself. If this is not their meaning, then at least
a part of the merit they claim for him behmgs.to oth
ers. But if bo has done all they say, ho has been as
complete a monarch aa the Emperor of Morocco.—
When could they say till now, tiiat talked ofRomc,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man )”
Our learned neighbor of tho Courier thought it
his duty to criticise Gen Brisbane’s Eulogy on Gen
eral Jackson,. - This, no doubt was a painful duty to
him. Indeed the whole performance shows it was
cxscutcd with much pain and under many embar
rassments. This will no doubt account for a few
mistakes. The learned critic spent much tiino and
throw away a great deal of learning on some passa
ges which were not in the eulogy, but were the pro
duct of his own prolific brain. This is nn error
which our neighbor frequently falls into; when he
attempts to quote a passage—his imagination runs
ahead of his memory, and he substitutes some of his
own productions for those of tho author ho is crit
icising, and of course makes nonsense, lie has al
so erected a standard of taste, and will hereafter let
us know what is good taste and what is bad taste.
For this no doubt he is well qualified. If there is
any thing in practice, his taste must-bo highly culti
vated—indeed, some have gone so far as to assert,
that by tasting of a glass of whiskey, he can tell on
which side of the Monongahela the rye grew, from
which it was distilled. Be this as it may, his tastes
bare become proverbial in town.
He has already tried his talent in Didactic and
Biographic criticism—we will this week give.him a
Bucolic. Wo have translated and arranged it as
well os we could, and we hope ho will do bis beat
utthis: ■*
[From an old Manuscript.]
A STRANGE ANIMAL.
“ A beast is passing, wondrous strange,
With horns of leather and with pate of brass,
Tho’ roaring, goring mad, lie is left to range,
And once a week be brays, just tike an Ass.
“ At the liazard of fatiguing yon by repetition, I
tuie scrip-
important Discovery.
A writer in the Southern Recorder has discover
ed that it did not cost the State so much for print
ing during the year 1844 tinder Mr. Crawford’s
administration, as it did fat 1843 under Mr. McDon
ald's ; but be forgot to mention that there was a
session of the Legislature in 1843, and none in 1844.
This would make a considerable difference in the
amount of printing, hot the Whig writer dom not see
fit to make this explanation.
Florida Congressional Nominations.
Tho Whigs have nominated Edward Carrington
Cabell, Eaq., as their candidate for Congress. Mr.
J Cabell is said to be a gentleman of talents and on-
will again refer you to tjic ordinances of
tares. Innumerable instances might lie quoted
where God lias given and commanded men to assume
dominion ever their fel'ow-mcn. In the twenty-fifth
chapter of Leviticus you will find Domestic Slavery
—precisely such as is maintained at this <lay in these
St'ttcs—ordained and es'ablisked by Ood, in language
which I defy you to pervert so as to leave a doubt on
any honest mind that this institution was founded by
Him and decreed to be perpetual. I quote the words:
Leviticus 25 ch. 44 v.: “ Bot|i thy Bondmen and
thy Bondmaids, which thou eliolt have, shall be of the
Heathen [Africans] that are ronnd about you: of
them ye shall buy Borulinen and B out mr ids.
45: Moreover of the children of the strangers tiiat
do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of
their families that arc with you, which they begat in
u..ur land [descendants of Africans!] and they shall
be your possession. " . . . . ,
46: “ And yeshall take them as ail inheritance fur
your children after i/ou, to inherit them for a possess
ion.. They shall jib your Bondmen Fokevbb.”
What human Legislature could malic a decree
more full and explicit than this) What Court of
Lmv or Chancery could defeat h title to a slave
couched in terms so clear and complete as these 7—
And this is the Law of (list, whom you pretend to
worship, while you denounce and traduce us for re
specting it.
It seems scarcely creditable, hut the fact is so, that
you deny this law, so plainly written, and in the face
of it, have the hardihood to declare that “ though
slavery is not specifically,yet it is virtually forbidden
in the scriptures, because all the crimes which ne
cessarily arise out of slavery, and which can arise
from no other source, are reprobated there and threa
tened with divine vengeance.” Such an unworthy
subterfuge is scarcely entitled to consideration. But
its gross absurdity may be exposed in a few words.
slavery.
ists, male and female. Folios hare been written cal
it It is a common observation, that there is no I
ject on which ladies of eminent virtue so uuicli. I
tight to dwell, and on which in especial learn d nil
maids, like Miss Martinan, linger with such aa in,:.!
date'relish. They expose it in the Slave States u in I
the most minute ol«ervance and endless itcrati*.!
Miss Martincau, with peculiar gust relates a wrisl
of scandalous stories which would have made Born. I
cio jealous of her pen, but which are so ridicnlood:|
also, as to leave no doubt tiiat some wicked in-1
knowing she would write a book has furnished i,.:|
materials—a game too often played on Tourists -I
this country. The constant recurrence of the fennil
Abolitionists to this topic, and their bitterness in rsl
gardtoit cannot foil to suggest to even the row I
charitable mind, tlat
“ Such rage without lictravs the fires within.”
Nor are their immaculate computers of the other at, I
though perhaps less specific in tueir charges, les* v-1
olent in their denunciations. But recently in yoirl
Island, a clergyman has, at a public meeting, sligiir. |
tized the whole slave region as a “ Brothel.” ft I
these pegple thus cast stones being “ without sia!' I
Or do they only
llai
“Compound for sins they are inclined to,
” ' ' ‘ :v have
By damning those they havo no mind to.”
Alas that David and Solomon should lie allowed 11
repose In peace—tiiat Leo should be almost ccnoa l
" Luther more than sainted—tiiat in ouruwil
zed, and I _ ,
day courtezans should be formally licenced in IV. I
and tenements rented for years to women of the tnw.il
tor the benefit of the Church with the knowledge oil
tiic Bishop—and the poor Slave States of Ameriwl
alone pounced upon and oflbrcd up as a holocaust oil
the Altar of Immaculutenoss to atone for the nbicel
of natural instict by all mankind.; and ifnot actually!
consumed, at least exposed, anathematized and hell I
up to scorn, by those who
“write
Or with a Rival’s or an Eunuch’s spite.”
But I do not intend to admit tiiat this charge is jw. j
or true.”
We shall continue the subject next week.
1 do not know what crimes you particularly allude to
But
a* arising from slavery. But you will perhaps ad
mit—not because they are denounced in tiic deca
logue, whicli the Abolitionists respect only so far as
they choose, but because i: is the immediate interest
of most men to admit—that disobedience to parents,
adultery, and stealing, ore crimes. Yet those crimes
“ necessarily arise from” the relations of parent ami
“ Unlike ins. kind, he spurns the valleys green,
But likes to paw in filthy mire and mud;
His beastly instincts all arc truly Kean ;
He doesnot part the hoof, but chews the cud.
“ Bull-baiting pleased the folks in days of yore;
They saw the fnn with many an antic shrtig:
Should moderns wish to act their frolics o’er,
- And bait #1(3.611]/, just bait him with a jug.
“Not jugs of milk, or Jove praised Nectar, are
Such jugs Ins beastly craving maw invite ;
But bald faced tehiskey, tinctured with ambier,
By Oil the-heathen goddesses, he’ll bite.”
Ex-Governor Hammond’s Letters on
Slavery.
We had flattened ourselves that we would have
found space enough in our columna to give the
entire of theae celebrated letters to our readers,
but fearing that fa.wiU he out of our power, we take
child, marriage, and the possession of private prppcr-
Uiey “can arise from no oilier sources.”
? ; at least they •
bei
hen, according to your argument, it is “virtually
forbiildeu” to marry, to beget children, and to, hold
private property t Nay, it is forbidden to live, since
murder can only be per|a-tratcd on living subjects.
You odd tiiat “in the same way the gladiatorial
shows of old, and other barbarous customs, were not
specifiemllv forbidden in the New Testament, and yet
Christianity was the a
s the solo means oi tbcirsup
mprcssion
This is very true. But liicse shows unJ barharbi
customs thus suppressed, were noiauthorisedlni Ood.
‘ ’• God for
They were not ordained and commanded by
the benefit of 11 is chosen people and mankind,** the
purchase and holding of Bondmen and Bondmaids
[correspondence or the patriot.]
" . Clarksville, Ga., July. 14th, 1842.
Messrs. TiJ't 4* Houghton:—In my Icticrl
from the Madison Springs, I sent you a|
dark and gloomy picture of ihc corn crop;!
and now, in rciouciiing it here, 1 ant sorry!
I have to lay on the same colours. It is a:.I
ugly picture to paint, and a sad theme cl
write upon, and ' I shall, therefore, lest il
should gel ihc name of your croaking cc:-[
respondent, dismiss it: remarking only, tlic.fl
I* do not Relieve the crop, which I have
seen from Athens 10 this village, will makcl
an average of five bushels per acre.
In coining here, we passed ihc loot ofl
(he Currahee mountain, where wc spent al
night, intending to make the ascent on ihel
day following. We, however, declined fbcl
labour after a night’s reflection. .Thel
mountain is only about six hundred fcctl
high, and is without interest, excepting the I
wide prospect which may be had from its!
summit; owing to its solitary position.—I
Moreover, whoever will pass a night, as wcl
did, on a plank mnttrnss swarming withl
were. Hrd they been they would never liaie been
“ suppressed by Christianity” any more than slavery |, ... ... -
can by your party. Altliough Christ cauio “ not to hungry, crazy bed bugs, .will find his ar-
destroy hut to fulfil the law,” lie nevertheless did j dour in search of the picturesque, vastly
formally abrogate sonic of tho ordinances premnlga- .... - — 1 -
ted by More*, and all such n» were st war witiihis
mission of “ peace and good will on earth.” lie “spe
cifically” annuls lor instance, one “ barbarous cus
tom” sanctioned fay those ordinances, whore he rays:
" ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an
eye and a tooth for a toot 1; but I say unto you that
you resist not evil, but whoever shall smite you on
ibe right check turn to him the other also.” Ni
the time of Christ, it was usual for masters to put
their slaves to death on the slightest provocation.—
They even killed and cut them upfto feed their fishes.
He was undoubtedly aware of those things, as well
' Commandment I Iiaye quoted, lie
as of the Law and
conldonh
cooled in the morning. We, at lend,I
found it so. Nor is it the first time 1 have I
experienced the efficacy of this remedy.,
Tq all who may be afflicted in this way, l|
can recommend it with os much confidence I
as Urandrefh docs his. pills, and with 3 1
quietness of conscience, which he, (if be I
has one,) knows nothing of.. I
We stopped several hours at thcFailsJ
of.Tuccoa, which were directly in our way, I
and of easy, access- The traveller has on- f
ly to alight where the road crosses the I
stream, and take a little ancient footpath I
MP a thickly wooded, and shady > dell, fa I
two or three hundred yards, where, emerg
ing from behind-it large rock, the seen* I
opens upon him like a. vision of;^pw;x•'^ ,
ratcly' ascertained, we may say that the 1 ^ bavo pcm.whf the Hon.' W. H,
cfojf of Maryland, and of those ports of Pen-1 - „ .
sylvania hfli^Virginia' which are closely I Brockenb *°°* 11 * who ta raid to be a gentleman of
€M*tS£etfc* Witte the Baltimore market, 19 ; first rate talents and of rotted Democratic principles.
qttke-fttfiiU'iihMittft quantity, and general-, Our friends in Florida Cast very confident he will fee
ly’-sjteakingj' of bxcfelhnit quality. ! elected fey a huge majority.
old only lave been restrained from denouncing then
he (lid tho “ lex talioni$y because bo know thtt
the liberty of condensing them, hoping that their in- u, despite of there burboritira the irotitution" stare-
trinsie merit may be .still preserved. ly was at the bottom a sound and whqlesome, ns well
Governor Hmnmond hre rendered M Com* fegK STnot^^to SSe”rf£ wifi" t
cuous as a statesman and executive officer from his your wisdom, hawevrryou make the sacrilegious at-
peculiar characteristics, a firm and,.original mind, tem P t overthrow it.’
and there letters vrillgo fiurto place him hi^i upon ; Having disposed of this part of the subject, he takes , m
our list of ripe scholars; for we find him notincli- up the question of the effects of slavery upon the in- Fifty yards before, him is a perpendicular
ned to be.idl^flflaiugh. retired for thepresent, from stitutions of the country, and most effectually estab- wall of rock, built with almost the regu*
all public responsibility. lishes the grounds upon which Gov.McDuffics ccl(s larity of art, rising to a, groat height.—I
His plan of treating the great subject in question, touted opinion waa founded, “that slavery was the From it vast notch inthif wall of adamant) I
is simple and comprehensive. He begins by stating corner-stone ofour republican Edifice.” And strange worn by the sleepless water*.in the lapse I
thaitbere'are ini abstract grounds' upon'whifh to to say, he proves this by refuting the. very.positions of ages, the laughing streamlet, as it come* I
place the question of shivery—in truth that he does moat relied upon by the opposition, vis: tho infol- dancing and skipping along, tqokfS its gW* I
not know ifit was intended by the Divine, economy lectual degradation brought about by slavery. His dy.leap of one hundred and citrlify six a" 1 !'
that our finite minds should deal at all in abstrac- J grounds' are dear. He represents the Agricnjtunl-' a half feet, into the trembling pool bclo*- ■
tions, when great practicalresults are to be the can-' ists, possessed of slave labor, in thq lighter tbeho- 1 Sl,Owiy ; it|dcsccndafor twenty feet, wb<* I
sequences of theml lie takes exception to onr very, reditary nobility of the most firmly established goy ( sinking a slope of the rock, il is dashed te
