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I‘OI.ITICAL INTIll.i'.I! A.NCK AVI) i’KRSEC'U
tion i:\KMn.u ieu.
In Striate of the I'idled Slalrt. July 1.
Mi. Gnldslormigh inside (he followii>K Urporl:
The ( iunniiilcc on Continetcc, in w limn was
rcleirrd the iiicincri.il ul I).mil Melvill, ol Ne
part Itluiilf* Island, upon :
Hand Meliill etnii 11 1 ai n s ilinl, lately holding
the office ol weigher anti gauger ‘he custom
house ul Newport, l>< w as removed from the Mime
liy 1 lio collector. William Littlefied, -without
cause, by wliieh he has suffered wrong and op
pression ; end In: sets fonh the degraded and ser
vile situation in which a portion of the citizens of
the United Slates are placed, and the persenti
timis which they sorter by the exercise ol mi irre
sponsible and despotic power on the pail of cer- j
r ii n officers of the Government.
Meliill aslis nothing for hinuell, hut prays that
a law may he passed to correct such abuses in of
fice, and in secure citizens in the full exercise of
their -sights.
The memoiialists prefaces Ids statement with
the following declaration, taken from the inau
gural addifss ol President Jefferson, whiuli lie
adops at textmiry, viz. “ Having banished from
our land rclijimis intolerance, under which wi.hi
kind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gain
ed little, if e countenance a political intolerance
; s despotic as wicked, and capable of as biller
and bloodv persecutions.” He then states that
sundry laiYuiul Hiid.capaUc officers of G"*ern-
incnt itave'been atnopily discharged from the
custom-house at New pm l, for no other <*nse
than their disagreemem in politics from the pres
ent Administration, or because they were net
qualified as voters by the laws of the Stato of
Khode Island, wlieie they resided, and could not,
of course, aid III* political views of the existing
Administration and its friends; whilst others had
been appointed in their stead, who, having the
teqaisite qualifications ol vote s, agieed, as then
price of otfice, to support the men and measures
of the Administration party, although contrary to
their own opinions.
These appear to he the distinct allegations
made by the ntemorialils ; and the facts lie ad
duces me found in tlic folloaving detail :
“Your memorialist was oppointed weigher
nild gaug'd’ of the customs lor the port of New
port, district of Newport, State ol Rhode Island,
by the late collector. Christopher Elleiy, in llie
year IS2 f; which office tie lurid for ten years to
the per led satisfaction of the collector, as well as
o that ol his successor, and with a sincere con- t
sciousness of having unifoimily executed the du- i
Vies of his station with correctness and fidelity, I
olid of having honestly supported the Constitu- j
tion and laws of the United States. That upon’
Hie appointment of the present collector, William j
Littlefield, tliß subordinate officers of the cus- ]
toms were assured by him that be bail inquired of
(lie late collector,Tillery, into the character and
fitness of those employed in the customs, and’
that lie was satisfied they were aU honest, capa
ble, and faithful officers, and none need tear be
ing removed while they continued to perform
their duties as they had done.
“Not long after Mr. L.tllefield became collco- !
lor, lie was called on by those who recommended
him to know why lie had not made the removals I
from and appointments to office, which lie had
promised, in case be obtained the appointment j
of collector. Ile was accused of keeping in em- i
plovment those who had uniformly opfmsod the I
Administration, to ihc exclusion of us suppor
ters; and lie was threatened wirh tkeir displeas
ure if he did not speedily comply with his en
gagements, made previous to his appointment
A meeting of partisans was soon after held, sty
ling themselves ‘ a committee of the Administra
tion party,’ where a list was made out of the of- j
ficers of the customs required to be removed, and I
o| those w bo were selected to be appointed in their 1
places ; which was sent to the collector. Little- i
field, with a request that lie would immediately
make those removals and appointments; which
list of proscribed ofi cers, and of those who were
to take theiv places, was sent by the collector as
till own list to the Secretary ul the Treasury for
his approval ; and it was approved cf by tlie Sec
retary of tire. Treasury.
“Ofthe officers attached lo llic customs at ]
Newport, who held office when Mr. l.itlletield ,
r.iHie in as collector, three were retained and five
removed ; ol the three retained, one hail not re- i
cently opuosed the Administiaticn, and gave as
surances that he would not in .future ; the other
Iwo had uniformly voted with the Administra
tion party. Os the five removed, one had smite
times voted with the Administration pattly, hut
declined voting when members of the General
Assembly were to ho chosen, who wpre to elect a
Senator to Congiess, his father-in-law being the
whig candidate; two of them were not ficehnld
ers, of course had no vote; and two others, by
their votes, had uniformity opposed the Admistia
tion party.
“ Among the removed were your memorialist,
(not a freeholder.) and his colleagtre, D iVId M.
Ooggeshall, (a freeholder,) vho had always op
posed the Administration. Your inrinoralitt and
Coggeshall wore the weiglrcis and gaugers of the
port, l’eleg Clarke was appointed in the place
of your memorialist, and Elisha Atkius in that of
Coggeshall.
“As soon as this was told lo ynur nienioralist,
lie called on the collector to know the truth of it.
lie inquired of the collector fur what reason lie j
had been removed, and whether any complaints 1
had been made against him. The collector said I
that I’dcg Clarke had been appointed in the place
ofyouf memorialist, but tbit Mr. Claike, when
informed of his appointment, declared that lie
was not a candidate for any office, that he bad
been appointed without his knowledge and con
sent, and would not accept the appointment.
*1 he collector further informed your memoralist
that, as Mr. Clarke had declined the appoint
ment, your memorialist should remain in the same
situation as it no one had been nominated against
him ; and that lie might rest assured that he (the
colleetm) would use his best endeavors to retain
him in office-; that it was never his (the collector’s)
wish to remove your memorialist ; that no com
plaints had heel) made against him of any kind
whatever, but that he had perl mined ihe duties ol
his office to his perfect satisfaction. Kill against
Mr. Coggeshall, the other weigher and guader,
the collector said there were well-authenticated
complaints, which could not he overlooked; that
Ae was removed from office, and Elisha Atkins
appointed in his place, which appointment Atkins
had accepted. Your memorialist inquired what
complaints had been made against Coggeshall,
who have been considered lemurkably correct in
his official duties. lie was informed by the col
lector that Mi. Coggeshall and his eldest son,
who was a voter i t right of his father, uniformly
opposed and voted against the Administration
aud its suftpoiters and on that ground Ctiggi
shall had hern removed. This took place early j
m the month of March, 1335. Thai on the IGlIi
or I “lit day of the same mouth. Elisha Atkins
• old your memorialist that when he was appoin
ted in the place of Coggeshall, lie had been
commissioned as weigher and gauger, hut that
the collector had that day called upon him and
requested to see his commission, w hen he took a
pen and dashed out (he word gauger, and hand
ed it back to him, saving, You are weigher only,’
and Coggeshall is gauger only ; and Mr. Atkins
umlerstmail lire collector that your memorialist i
Hill stood as weigher and gauger. What seemed .
lo corroborate this impression was, that on the
20th of March your memmialist was directed by I
the coll actor to gauger a cargo of molasses, and ;
weigh a. quantity of sugar, for the unlading of!
winch a permit had been granted; and which
duties your memorialist performed, and made re
turn of the same on the 25. About the 23.1: or 1
2ttth following, your memorialist was verbally in !
formed, by message front Hie collector, that Eli
s'ir Atkius was appointed sole weigher, and l)a*
*H J 1. ‘“So- “ ’-of.; gauger of this port, and
1 mm mart dist were no Inn
per i*cuu• ffHi.
’ ‘Jt*' l ” ‘ ! I ‘'pi of this mcssae
o
■ your memorialist repaired to the custom-house to
seo file collector, when he staled to him the ver
bal message he bad received, and asked him tor
what reason lie had been superseded in office, and
il there had Ireen any complaints against him
since Mr. Clarke refused to lie appointed in his
place, and since the assurances lie had received
from tlift collector oil that occasion. Again yout
memorialist was assured by the collector that no
complaints hail b<en made against him, but that
your memorialist bail pet foi mod his duties most
correctly anil faithfully, and said it was nut his
wish that your memorialist should lie removed ;
that he should be pleased to see him reinstated,
which lie thought might be effected liy a proper
representation to llio Secretary of the Tte.isuiy,
“ Your memorialist addressed a letter to the
•Secretary at length oil the subject, stating all the
. (acts lie knew ; and u correspondence ensued,
I which is herewith submitted.
“ Your memmialill further states that an hon
orable member of the House of Repieseutatives
in Congress from the State of Rhode Island was
then in I'orfsmooth, who was consulted and ad
vised with by the Administration party, particu
larly in regard to removals and appointments,
and nln, your memorialist was informed, was at
the meeting of the proscribed committee. Your
memorialist having, as lung as he had a freehold
supported this member of Congress, applied to
him for an explanation of the cause of the remo
val of your memorialist from office, against whom
the collector had stated that there was no com
plaint, and also into the cause of reinstating I).
M. Coggcshaii, wim had so recently been re
moved for causes which tlio collector deemed in
surmountable, and could not be overlooked. This
member of Congress replied that it was staled bv
one of the committee who made the nominations,
• that five or six years ago, when Cov. Fenuer
was a candidate lor Governor, although voor me
morialist f-nted for him, yet ho voted (or the
whole opposition Senate;’ hut the strongest rea
son for the removal of your memorialist was,
‘ thnl he. inis not notv possessed of a freehold estate
and could be of no use to the pally. even if he was
favorable to thi ir measures,’ {as without a free
hold, he had no vote,) and ‘ it was incumbent on
the party to husband all their resources;’ but
further said. ‘ if your memorialist would possess
himself of a fieehttld estate, and support the Ail
ministration, lie should be appointed to a better
office when the new customhouse act should
pass.’
“ As to D. M. Coggcshall, this same member
of Congress said ‘-lie had no partiality for him,
as lie has always voted against him, and shame
fully abused both himself and the party, but that
| Mr. Coggexhall had been before the committee,
and, with tears and supplications fur mercy, had
offered to prostrate liitns-lI” at the feet of tfie par
ly,and to support I heir views, if he could be rein-
I slated in office—and that Cogsreshall had been
reinstated ujion the express condition that he and
! his son should m Jutuit vote on the side of the Ad
! mihistiation.
CHTY OF NEW YORK.
Correspondence of Jlit Portland Advertiser .
• TO:tv York, June, 185 C.
’This city is daily approximating to a state of
anarchy and municipal disorganization. The
mob. and that a foreign one, rule hero, in glori
ous despotism. The streets, the theatres, the
courts oj justice, the Sabbath and Us institutions,
all led their influence. Judges are to be Jnti
midatad and bullied by thousands of ragamuf
fians collected about the com ts, their lives threat
ened and I lie'll persons burned or hung in effigy,
if they have spirits and honesty to give upright
judgements. Sober citizens are disturbed in
their daily occupations, because they refuse to
prico labor beyond its value. This morning,
some thousands, the majority of whose visages,
las I mingled with then', were foreign, assembled
lin the l’ai k. The police made a charge seized
some of lire ringleaders, and the rest retired.—
• The placard calling this inob was surrounded by
: a broad black border ill tlie shape of a r.offiin !
I an emblem of the buried liberties of the people,
I which they were called upon to preserve.
Last night about nine o’clock, I was passing
! down Broadway, when a vast multitude, occupy -
I mg the whole breadth of tlie stioet and sidewalk,
I stopped my progress. All weto gazing silently
upwards to the third story of a brick building on
the corner of Fulton street and Broadway. It
I was unoccupied, and many of the panes of glass
were broken. The whole edifice which was a
hands ime four story structure, boro an air of sin
gular desolation. On inquiry of one of the ga
zers, 1 learned that it was the notorious haunted
house, which for the last four weeks has attrac
ted nightly crowds. The-story is, that a baker,
who occupied tire So story murdered his wife
there, aud that her spirit is seen to appear every
night at nine o’clock at the window, where using
it as a miiror, she stands and combs iier lons
hair.
” lias any thing been really seen ?” 1 inquir
ed.
*• I believe not,” said one near me, although
every once in a title the crowd would shout as
if they saw the ghost. At that moment a hun
dred voices exclaimed. “There it is 1 sec it—
There! there !” and the tongues of men, hoys
and women were heard in uproaiious confusion.
This was followed bv the sound of the watch
men’s staves upon the pavement, and all at once
some half a hundred watchmen in their heavy
leather caps light watch coats and clubs came up
tile street, and made a regular charge upon the
multitude, which with shouts and curses gave
way on all sides, like Mexicans before the charge
ol Texiaos. The watchmen,{gaining possession
ol the field, leaned upon their staves in groups.
I inquired of one of these guardians of the night
for the truth of the talc which had kept this por
tion ol Broadway in a ferment for a month past.
“ It’s all ad and humbug,” said he, “ There
j was no murder ever com milted there. It's a story
, got iqi to injure the sale of the property.”
I “ But why did the crowd shout as if they had
i seen something ?”
“Two of the rascals began it for a joke, and
; the rest joined in, as the mob always do. Why
sir, 1 could collect a thousand men, children wo
men, mad dogs and little babies, in three minutes
any w here in New York, by looking up to a church
vane, as if 1 saw something there unusual. 1
toll you what, sir, there is more humbug in Nev
i Yotk than in all t lie United Elutes pm together.”
The facility with which mobs are raised here
exceeds belief. An omnibus is locked for a mo
ment in the wheels of another —and five or six
: hundred persons are gathered round it at once.—
A man slips and lulls into the gutter. One or
i two pick him out—four or five run to see if he is
hurt —twenty more collect losee what is the mat
ter, and a hundred crowd round to see what the
others are doing—and the side walk and street
are at once blockaded, A (Jay or two since, a
little dirty nosed brat ofa boy dropped a penny
| (cents are called pennies here) into the gutter
J where the water was a few inches deep, lie lie- j
gau to paddle for it-with his sleeve draw n to Iris
shoulder. Two or three boys collected around j
him, and also began to search. A ragged begg-.ir j
learning the loss, also poked hit long atm into
the puddle, whether in charity to the boy or him
self, we leave the benevolent reader to determine.
Bassets by attracted, stopped to inquire—others
stopped to see what the last were interested in I
and in less than two minutes after the lossof the
j penny, the sidewalk was completely obstructed
| Irv a curious multitude, all stretching their necks
I to iipioe, and eagerly Inquiring what Was ihe nial
i ter.
Indeed there seems to he an immense popu-
I lation here who have nothing under the sou lo
j do. out to run bore and thete to see what is go-i
logon. Thousands are always wandering idly
! about tire streets, thronging the public walks, j
land on the quivive for every excitement. This’
class of population is more evident to the stranger I
when the bell rings for fire. Then there is a ‘
general msh from every lane, alley, groggi-iv anil
vile sink of filth and infamy, and the pavements
are thronged with crowds of ill dressed men, bois !
■ and females hastening lo the conflagration, and’
for no early object. There are regular firemen,
wlio are alone the allowed combatants with the
daily lire lieie. From one foe tlio mob rushes
toanotlier—always on i lie move— a restless, mis
chievous ami dangerous multitude. And this
class of population is still increasing. Within a
lew days, fifteen hundred homeless and often
penniless emigrants were landed in the city.
I am not rinich given to tlie prophetic vein.—
j Hut if events east their siiadows before, we must
be if we do not see t em. There is
a restless spirit in tlio “ mob population” of New
\ork, daily breaking out ‘from the most trival
I cause. liicli unless checked by severe municipal
regulations, is destined to overwhelm this city. It
jis gathering In every lyne, alley anti low liar room
—il is rapidly gathering to a beat! and will soon
burst when New York will experience tlie most
stupendous mob ever known in this or any other
couutty. This spit it must and will have vent.
J
Some Jackson hard in tlie West i writing
poetrv by tlie yard, in honor of Mr. Vail Huien.
I o one piece, iic represents him as studying gram
mar at night, by tlie light of a pitch nine knot.
Nothing can equal tlio burst of inspiration, but
the saying of Rucker, tlie voluntarily delegate at
the Baltimore Convention. “Gentleman,” said
lie, “ I was futclied up a poor boy, without nopar
ents; and if it had not been for the goodness of
Divine Providence and two or three other influ
ential gentlemen, ‘here is no knowing how I
should have turtles! out!!”— Phil. Gaz.
The gentleman who handed uv tlie subjoined
copy of an advertisement found on board the
steamer Mountaineer, plying on Lake George,
assured us of its accuracy in word and letter, ft
is among tlie rarest original orthographical curi
osities we have ever seen. The writer said lie
had been twenty years endeavoring to spell ac
cording to usage, bill finding it impossible to at
tain any decent proficiency, he had adopted the
plan of spelling by sound, and thought it deci
dedly the easiest and best .—Ball. Oaz.
SICKS RATTILI. SNAIX AM) A MUD TURKI.E
I t It SI TE OR SAVLK.
The Sriaix that was mined buy the subsidy
hours is now yoimighted intoo ivun carry van, and
may bee sean for tliec youslmall pryce of sicks
punts a syle fur geutelinun and triming; and
cliildring has pryce fur admiltuns. Awl them
snnix was koclil on lung muwnling ami are now
living alive in a hocks with die mud tmkcl with
out nothin ta eit and have gaued vounanymous
applaus tu a man.
Times sed snaix wil lice sould hull-sayle or re
tail tu sen t the company.
I’. S. I’leese tu lett thee hdvurtysemcnt stan
where it tis.
fit is said that llii.r gentleman lias named his “ Sicks
Snnix,” after six Kilo hen utensils of General Jackson—
viz: Dick Johnson, Martin Van Ruren, John Forsyth,
Amos Kindle, Thomas Ritchie, and the other,which being
a very scant pattern of “ snaik,” after ull tlie Georgia
Delegation in Congress—and F. P. Blair, of die Globe,
is the “Mud Turkic.” Some of these “ arlikelt” have
already been sold several times, and are ready to be sold
again whenever money ran be made by it.]
Prom the Boston Atlas, of August 31. - 1
INTERNAL I.MI’RUVEMENTri.
1 f this is not die “ ago of wonders” il is at least
the ora of enterprise and improvement. The
New Y'ork Canal, connecting die Hudson with
the great western Lakes, lias only been completed
ten years or a little more, when tlie growing re
sources of that productive region renders neccjsa-
IV an enlargement of tlie water communication
sufficient for Stear,ihoats, and Ilailroirls are al
ready being executed along the greater part of
the line. That work which was considered ex
travagant and visionary when projected by Clin
ton, is found insufficient for tlie country, before
its gratitude has erectciilo his memory a suitable
monument, as a memorial of his genius and pub
lic services.
\Y e see now an Ohio Canal, frun that noble
river to Lake Erie, and communications propos
ed from Lake Michigan to tlio majestic Mississip
pi. We have now before us reports of conven
tions of States for a Railroad from the Ohio to
tlie Atlantic, commenceing at Cincinnati, and
I ending at Charleston. Surveys are being made
of a Railroad from Nashville to New Orleans
There seems to be no project too stupendous in
its character, magnificent in extent, lor the ge
nins, resources and enterprise of tlie country. —
The history of no country in the world will fin -
uisli such an example of improvement and pros
peiity.
We have recently been made acquainted with
i work, for which without noise, puffing, or flour
ish of trumpets, the capital lies been subscribed in
Boston, and which will assuredly and certainly
be executed, that for magnitude of object and
public utility, isnot surpassed,perhaps not equall
ed, by any one of the great improvements before
mentioned. The work to which we allude, is the
construction of a Railroad trom Brunswick har
bor. on the coast of Georgia, to the Apalachicola
River or Bay, in Florida. Brunswick is ascer
tained iry a recent survey of Col. Baldwin, (who
is admitted to be one of the first Engineers in the
U. Elates) to lie the best hnrboron our Southern
Atlantic sea coast, and is perhaps the healthiest
place in the Eouthern Elates. This important
bay and haibur has been neglected heretofore,
but having fallen into better hands has been
found to justify the Report oltlie British Colonial
Government sixty years ago, recommending it
as a Dock Yard and Naval Depot for the South
Atlantic Colonies. A Canal is lo he construc
ted to divert the trade of tho Altamaha into this
harbor, which opens into a large inland sound,
navigable for Steamboats to Charleston and Sa
vannah on the north, and to Et. Johns in Florida
on the south. A Naval Commission is now on
its way, under the authority ol Congress, to de
termine upon a site for a South Atlantic Navy
Yard, which, looking to the facts disclosed in
Col. Baldwin's Report, most be at Brunswick.—
The object of this company, composed of our
most respectable and responsible capitalists, is to
open this canal, and make a Kailioad lo the Ap
alachicola river in Florida, about 200 miles.—
This Railroad must take nearly the whole travel
from the Northern and Eastern States, as well
as of the South Atlantic, to New Orleans. It
| will produce a revolution in the trade aud inler
; communication of our country—will briug oppo
site extremes together, and insure a nnd
comfortable passage fr*ni Boston to New Or
j leads in seven days. Ettch is the outline of a
! scheme on the eve of execution, with that noise
-1 less, cautious, aud decided character of our pop.
I illation.
The author of this splendid as well as most use
ful project, is Thomas Boiler King, of Geogia,
a gentleman who, by his amiable manners and
peat intelligence, has made a most favorable ini
; pressiou upon all who have the pleasure to know
him, and if hrs valuable services to bis Slate are
appreciated in Georgia, as such ate estimated
here, lie deserves, and will receive its highest
honoft.
[The following article is valuable for one fact, if for no
thing else—it shows that a Kail Ifoad of 80 miles in
length has been bailt and in operation in less than 12
months. Such a job has usually taken three or four
years to complete. It should induce others in the outset
to push their works through with all practicable despatch
instead of making arrangements for a three or five vents
job.J
Extract of a teller to the lluxton Eat riot.
TROY, (N. Y.) August s.
Trov is a truly beautiful and flourishing c,ly.
It is laid nut with great regularity, and the prin
cipal streets are planted with tine rows ol tires
on each side. 1 passed tlnongh this place in
1820. when it contained hut little more than 8,-
000 souls ; now the population is 1 8.000. But
few cities can boast of so large a comparative
growth in so short a period. There is a great deal
of public spirit here, and much attention is paid
to every thing connected with the health, appeal -
’ ance and convenience of the city. Water is ffir
-1 lushed in the most ample quantity and excellent
quality, from a large fountain iilonle.l on one of
,'i neighboring hills 75 feel above the level ol
,i, e | oW ||. Fire engines are rendered nnneeos
ury ; the huso has only In he affixed lo Ihe hy
,'ranis at the corner* “I the sirceis, and any build*
jug in the place may he inundated in a low min
utes. There are several beautiful public and
I rivate fountain*, wlnch at Ibis season o( the year
are trulv charming. All these advantages have
been obtained at the small expense to the city ol
3150,000.
The people of Troy arc wide awake to die im
portance ol Kail Heads. I hev have already
commenced one to connect their city with Sche
nectady. and have also got a charier for a branch
lo connect vt ith ihe Western K-.il Road at West
Slockbridge. By this means, Troy will he di
recllv on the line of the great chain ol inland
communication with the West, and il we may
judge from present appearances, will secure more
of the travel and freight than Albany by far, be
cause, by passing through Troy all the labor and
hindrance of crossing (lie river in boats “ill he
avoided, and also the delay and trouble oflhe two
inclined planes that are louud on the Albany and
Schenectady Road. It seems perfectly appar
ent that the freight sent from Boston to Buffalo
by the Western Rail Road will, for the above
reasons, go through Troy and over the Rail Road
Bridge already completed.
It is truly surprising with what rapidity iheN.
Yorkers build their public works. They abso
lutely complete an enterprise while we ol Massa
chusetts are getting ready to begin. Fast fall
the Kail Road from Schenectady lo Utica, ito
miles in length, was commenced. It is now in
lull operation ! ! From Syracuse to Rochester,
a distance of about 100 miles, the road is already
finished, so that 200 out of 3GO of the route from
Albany to Buffalo is made, and the whole will
be done long, long I fear befoie we have built
our small share of the extensive line.
But the New Yorkers seem to possess one thing
which we do not. and that is, a Jull confidence in
the success of Rail Road projects ; and hence,
they go ahead with all the zeal of individual en
terprise, and roads are constructed as if by magic,
and at much less expense too than tee ever had
been able- to make them.
It is very clear to every person of obseivation
and intelligence, that we of Massachusetts do not
manage these things right; we move with a snail
like pace, and at a most enormous expense.
The consequence will he that other States w ill
far outstrip us in interrfalimprovement*, and keep
usforevjr in the hack ground.
There is a radical fault somewhere, and unless
it he discovered and remedied, and that soon 100,
we must suffer greatly ami permanently.
Our Western Rail Road ought to he finished ,
in all item year,—is there a reasonable prohahili- |
ly that it will he done in less than three years ?
And what a loss, immense loss, must not this oc
casion to the city of Boston and our State gener
ally !
Tlteso reflections and considerations will he
pressed upon the mind of any person wlto travels
tlnoitgh tite State of New.York, and secs what
has been done and what is doing. 1 really wish
we could catch some of the spirit of these people,
people, and learn to do things as rapidly and as
•cheap as they do. They go ttlfcad like a steam
engine : we like an ox team.
The amount of travel in this part of the coun
try is beyond all conception at this season of the
year. Thousands and tens of thousands ate fly
ing in all directions ; to the Springs, to the Can
adas, to the Falls, &e. An intelligent gentle
man assured the waiter that he thought the Utica
and Sehenectady Rail Road would pav for itself
in less than five years! And this anticipation
w ill undoubtedly he realized. Wltal encourage
ment then, not duly to build Rail Roads, hut to
complete them soon. Yours truly,
VAH BUB.£reiSM.
From the lANiisvilte Journal.
VAN BUREN—ABOLITION.
We have repeatedly assured onr readers, that
the ptcvalence of the doctrine ol abolition in the
New England States was the great and almost
the only cause of Mr. Van Boren's growing pop
ularity in that quarter of the Union. Our knowl
edge of that state of public feeling at the North,
lias enabled us ta speak confidently upon this
subject. We know that many if not most of the
northern fanatics support Mr. Van Buren avowed
ly on the ground of itis being an emancipationist.
We can here adduce two prumineiSt instances in
illustration of this general null). One of the
leading abolitionists of Washington county, New
York, Lenard Church Esq., a lawyer of sonic
distinction, who on being recently called on lo
assign his reason for his preference to Mr. Van
Buren, as a Candidate lor the Presidency, wrote
its follows. We find the letter in the Albany
Daily Advertiser.
** Salem, Washington co. N. Y. March 22, 183 C.
Mr. Wells—ln answer to your enquiry why I
support Marlin Van Buren for the Presidency, I
frankly state.
Ist. That 1 believe hint to be a sound republi
can.
Silly. From his previous course, I have as
much and more evidence of Itis opposition to
slavery than 1 have of that of any of the other
candidates for the Presidency. i*
Yours, &c, LENARD CHURCH.”
Now Iqok below. The following is given by
the Cincinnati Evening Post as an extract of a
letter from a gentlemen in Westfield, Massachu
setts, to a friend in Cincinnati. No sensible man
on reading these things can doubt, that Mr. Van
Buren is ;m abolitionist, or. that lie is at least so
regarded by those, who have the best opportuni
ty of knowing his opinions, and who, with a fa
naticism worthy of the dark ages, are ready to
devote their fortunes and their lives, to the pro
pagation of t he monstrous [doctrines, which they
ascribe to him.
“ One word on politics. I have only to say, !
that I made tip my mind to vote for Van Ilmen
for tiie Presidency—you will think strange of 1
this, it is highly probable, for you have always j
been acquainted with my White principles here- i
toforc. I will say there is something more pre
dominant in my breast titan lire mere victory of
Whig or opposition. Will w e cry liberty and re
publicanism is our home, when their are upwards
of 21100,000 of souls now laboring under bondage
and slavery ? I will ask who can you look to lor j
a removal of this great degradation but Mr. Van
Ilmen? 11 as lie not onnifeste I by bis vote, that
be is willing that our colored brethren should
have the same privilege at the ballot box, as any
American citizen ? I will-answer yes, 1 will say
that Mr. Van IJuren shall have my vote in pref- 1
ercnce to any other candidate, unless their should j
someone of the Whig candidates come out open- I
ly and avowedly for the immediate emancipa
tion of the blacks. You will say that the South
will suffer much l>y this. What of that ?—they
have no business to hold them in bondage and
call themselves Republicans. Let me bear from
yon soon on this subject.”
From the Alabama Beacon.
ABOLITION AND VAN BUREN—CONTRAST.
“Jefferson’s and Van Ilmen's opinions on the
Missouri Question.
Mr. Jefferson's Opinion.
Question aroused anil filied iue with alarm. The
old schism, federal and republican, threatened
nothing, because it existed in every State and
“oiled them together by the Irnternisni of party.
! have been aiming tiie most sanguine in believ
ing that our Union would be of long duration. I
now doubt it much, and see the event at no great
distance, and the direct consequence of this ques
tion.
“ I bad for a long time ceased to read newspa
pers, or pay any attention to public affairs. Hut
this momentous question like a fire ball in the
night, awakened and filled me with terror. I
considered it at once sis the Union. It is hushed
indeed, fur the moment—but Ibis is a reprieve unit/,
not a final sentence.
“ Our anxieties in this quai Irr nro all concen
trated in the* question. ‘What doe, the Holy
Alliance in and out of Cndgiess mean to do with
us on llio Missouri question.” And this by tin
by is but ti e name of tlto case. Tito real ques
tion, -is seen in the Stales afflicted with litis tin
fortunate population, is, <\re our slaves to be pre
sented w ith freedom and a dagger ? For if Con
“less lias the power to regulate the conditions ol
the inhabitants o( the State it will be but another
exercise of that power lo declare that all shall he
free.
Mr. Van Bunn's Opinions.— 1 ‘I ite Constitu
tion of the United States clearly gives Congress
the right to require of the States, not comprised
within the original boundaries of the United
States, the prohibition of slavery, as a condition
of their admission into the Union ; —Therefore,
‘ Resolved, That our Senators he instructeiljo
oppase the admission as a State into the Union
ol any Territory not comprised as aforesaid, with
out making the prohibition of slavery therein, an
indispensable condition of admission.’
And Van Bitten is pronounced a ‘ Jeffer
sonian Republican!!’
From the National Go irUr.
Mn. VAN LIU REN’S PRETENTIONS.
Popularity is sometimes founded on extraordi
nary abilities, military or civil, when well applied
for the public wellare ; and sometimes on delu
sions of (It# multitude, which like other enthusi
asm is a kind of insanity. General Jackson's
popularity sprang from Itis military renown ; and
all that cannot he referred to that cause, belongs
to an enthusiasm, which lie and Itis associates
have know n bow to generate and keep in vigor,
lie cannot transfer Itis military renown to Itis la
voritc. The civil career of Mr. Van Buren has
disclosed no eminent talent* which entitle him to
jhe called statesman. During the period of that
’ gentleman’s public life, there Itavo been hundreds
of men, eminently his superior in statesmanlike
talents and virtues—as much so as he has been
I superior to most popular deceivers in the arts
of a mere politician. In the last twenty years,
what public measure has been originated by Mr.
Van Buren, or supported by him, which tended
to the honor or welfare of the people of the United
Slates? This question is asked with due con
sideration. lie lias had many and zealous eu
logists. Attempts have been made ill pamphlets,
addresses, and biographical sketches to commend
him to the people. In these, il any where, would
have been seen, the proofs of his tillo to respect
and confidence. Has any one pointed to Itis
speeches? Has any one marked a single act of
Itis, which had for its motive, the promotion of
the great interests ol’ the public? lias he not!
himself publicly avowed that pretentions rest
on the glory of having served under Andrew Jack
son.
There are certain great principles of public I
; policy on which Ihe security and happiness of
this country absolutely depend. These have
been again and attain illustrated by such men as
Webster, Leigh, Clay, Ewing, l’orter and many
others eminent in both Houses. Docs any man (
alive know what are Mr. Van Ruren’s opinions
and intentions on these serious subjects? No
honest man withholds itis opinions in such mat- ,
ters, and reserves himself to come forth It) doit- !
ble-dealing, non-committal style; in short, to
he all things to all men, that he may gain some.
It is true, that some men, wlto think they know
Mr. Van Buren well, say of him, that in private
! life lie is an amiable, gentleman-like person.—
The amount of all which is—that he perseveres
in the non-committal policy in private, as in pub-
lic. But where is the man who truly knows
what Mr. Van Biiren’s real opinions are in any
matter—litoral, social, religions, or political ;
or what policy he would pursue if raised to the
presidency? He has had, if truly reported, ev
ery variety of opinion, on the same men, and on
the same subjects. Sometimes Itis view s are the
very essence of what is called aristocracy ; some
times absmdly democratic, and subversive of all
regular Constitutional Government. The result
of the whole tenor of Itis policy seems to he, to
substitute his own will for the Constitution, and
to make the people think it is their will. His]
street manners, and unchangeable complacency,
: are very seductive. But-tncse ate not qualified
j lions for the presidency. The question is, what
has he done to entitle him to that confidence ?
What would he do, if that confidence were be
stowed ? Certainly it would he a commendation
to the White House, that a man has pleasant man- j
ners, and wears white gloves, and knows what is ]
an elegant equipage, and how to ttse it; and that
every one would leave Itis presence with a feel- !
ing, “that when he smilod upon all, he specially ]
smiled upon him.” But, looking to what this
gentleman has said and done, at home anil abroad
within the last eight years, and what sort of poli- ]
j cy he has approved, one is reminded of what
( Cicero said ol Ctssur, “ I discorveretl in all his 1
enterprises, and in his whole conduct, a plan
; continually pursued, of raising himself to the ty- j
ranny. But when I saw him so soft in his dress,
and manner of living, with effeminate gestures,
1 and his hair i/i such nice order, 1 could not he- I
! lieve that such a ntan was capable of forming.
! and executing the design of subverting the Com
| tnonwenlth.”
There are persons, it is said, in the Eastern j
States, w ho, if they cannot elect Mr. Webster, |
would prefer Mr. Van Buren to any other candi- I
date. The reasons are said to he, that lie would :
pursue a policy friendly to the inserests of the
Middle and Eastern states. Now, no man knows !
what policy lie would pursue ; not even himself,
1 except only that it would he that which would
! seem to him most likely to strengthen his own !
power. Unless one must discredit the tenor of j
Mr. Van Biiren’s whole life, he would not hesi
| tale to sacrifice all such interests, to the South
j and to the West, to secure his object. What hold
cut arty men think they have on Mr. Van Buren?
j They had better meet an open, manly hostility to ]
their interests (if it must he,) than to have them
] bartered away by a pretended friend.
S(r.CiiUibci't'g opinion oOluriiit Van
Huron, in
THE HAITI MOKE CONVENTION.
“ This assembly of active politicians lias fulfil
led the public expectation ; and by the vote of a
large majority ol their body, lias determined that
Martin Van Buren shall be our candidate for the
Vice Presidency. -With what obligations do they
I pretend that their decisions are clothed ? To
j what extent do tliev and their abettors exact the
submission of the people of the United Slates?
Are patriotic citizens required to resign their own
right of choice?—to forget their objection to an
ARTFUL, INSINCERE, AND SELFISH POLITICIAN ?
—to abandon those patriotic and talented states
’ men, w ho in they believe most worthy of their sup
! port, and bind themselves to (lie car of an UN
\ PRINCIPAL I'll) candidate, echo lias been cho
sen fi.rtltcm, by their guardians at Baltimore.
We have preferences lor other candidate!,
whom we believe more pure, more disinterested,
] more patriotic than Fan iluien—preferences which
we cannot relinquish at Hit dictation of these self
constituted delegates: we have Objections to this
selfish dissemulkr, which they cannot con
strain us to forget.
. When did Martin Van Buren exhibit any pow
erful talent, any patriotic zeal in the cause ol Ins
country? Thoroughly versed in all the cun
ning ARTS or THAT SELFISH AND SORDID POLI
CY, by which men of various and opposing inter
ests. sentiments, and principles, are united in (lie
pursuit of office ; ill the field ol honorable exer
tion, be lises but little above mediocrity. But we
aic told that he is the choice of Jackson, and ought
therefore, to be supported Jor the l ice Presidency.
To use this argument may suit the policy of the
adherents of Van Buren ; but is any admirer of
Jackson, any man who lias loved him lor his pat*
liotic virtue, so ultra in his devotion, so much at
war with himself, us to maintain that the people
ought to resign to the President the power of
choosing his successor ! Such is the extent to
which mis argument would carry us; and such is
the design o! the supporters of Van lluren. The j
re-election of Jackson to the Presidency, ol j
which no doubt can be entertained, will be an ex- i
In cision sufficiently strong of the confidence and
affection of the people; but lo yield tn him the pow
er of designating the man who shall succeed the
hero of Sew Orleans, in the’ most honorable nff, t
!;t the world, is a greater concession than this ven
tratde patriot would tract from his countrymen ; it
is more than he can desire.
And who believes that, in lacl, Van Huron is
the friend of Jackson ? As long as il w.ts pos
siltle to defeat Jackson, Van Buren was leagued
with Itis bitterest enemies. At the eleventh hour
when success was certain, he came over
just in the time to appropriate a large share of thu
spoils of victory. The military services and ai
dant patriotism of Andrew Jackson, failed to w ot
Itis approbation and to command Itis support ; hut
lie became a willing anil /.raloitx proselyte to tin,
successful fortunes of the President. Jackson,
with a generous and confiding friendship, has as
sumed a vast responsibility, in order to defend
and to promote this man ; while he selfishly seeks
his own advancement* at the hazard of the Presi
dent’s popularity. Hr. is a selfish calculatou
A FAW NINO COUItTIF.It A FLAT TKK IMI SYCO
PHANT, UTTERLY UNWORTHY*OF THE NAME of
FRIEND.
As AS A STATESMAN, IIK is DESTITUTE of PRIS--
CIPLE. lie knew, lie acknowledged that the
tariff was unjust and oppressive ; and vel, to gain
popularity in New York, lie supported this odi
ous measure. Shall the South be so infatuated
as to lend its aid in clothing this man with power!
li e can have no safe hold on his affeclio s ; we can
repose no confidence in his integrity / If ulti
mately successful, he may reward with office the
services of a few of his Southern adherents ; hut
the GREAT INTEREST OF THE PEO
PLE OF THE SOUTH WILL BE SAC.*
RIFICED. This Convention shall neither lorco
us into the support of Van Buren, nor elbow us
aside from the support of Jackson.’,
From the Baltimore Chronicle.
Mn. MARTIN VAN IHJRF.N AND NEGRO
SUFFRAGE.
Extract from the proceedings of the Conven
tion for amending the Constitution of the
Stale of New- York—page 202.
After much debate, Mr. Jay, who is nowat tho
head of the abolitionists rn New York, moved to
strike out the word “white,” lit* ell'.ct of which
would be to admit all persons black anil white,
possessed of certain other qualifications, to the
exercise of the right of stiff age. In oppoYoi”
this motion Chief J ustice Spencer said.
“ 1 have believed, and do still believe, that we
are called on to extend the right of suffrage as
far as the interests of the community will permit;
hut I do think tve cannot contemplate carrying it
j lo the full extent recommended in the report, with
out knowing that we are not-giving it to those
’ people who will nominally enjoy the right, hut to
those who feed and clothe them. 1 shall vote
against striking out the word • white,’ on ilie
ground that it is necessary for securing our own
; happiness. 1 cannot say I would deprive those
| people, who have acquired propel ty of “the privi
-1 leges of voting; hut ] cannot consent to extend
it to others, in whose hands it will lie as much
j abused as by these colored people. lam willing
to extend the right of suffrage as far as my con
science will admit ; bull never can agree to ex
tend it so far as to deprive the agricultural inter
ests of this State of (Ite rights which they ought
to enjoy. I never can consent to extend this
i right, and make an aristocracy by giving the matt
who has the longest purse the power to control
the most votes.”
Many other gentlemen spoke upon the subject,
and the policy and propriety of permitting ne
groes, tnulatlocs, and Indians to vote, was dis
cussed ably and fully. The following was the
icsult, as will he found on recurrence to page 202
of the volume before us.
“ The question on striking out the word ‘white’
was then taken by ayes and nays, and decided in
the affirmative as follows.
AYES—Messrs. Bacon, Baker, Barlow, Rec
with, Birdseye, Rtinkerlioff, Brooks, Burroughs,
Carver, R. Clarke, Collins,Cramer, Day,Dodge,
Ducr, Eastwood, Edwards. Ferris, Fish, llal
lock, Decs, Hogeboom, Hunting, Huntington,
Jay, Jones, Kay. King, Moore, Monroe, Nelson,
I’ark. Paulding, Pitcher, Platt, Reeve, Rhinelan
der, Richards, Rogers, Uosehrilgh, Sanders, N.
Sanford Seaman, Stecfe, D. Southerland. Swift,
Sylvester, Tallmadge, Tuttle, VAN BUIIEN,
1 Van Ness, J. R. Van Rensselaer, S. Van l!n
----sellaer, Van Vechton, Ward, A. Webster, Wen
dover, Wheaton, E. Williams, Woodward, Woo
| sler, Yaes— G3.
NOES—Messrs. Bowman. Brerso, litiggs.
Carpenter. Base,Child, D. Clark, Clyde, Du
bois, Dyclfman, Fairlie? Fenton, Frost, llowe,
Humphrey, Hunt, 11tt titer, Hurd, Knowles, Lan
j sing, Lawrence, Lefferts. A. Livingston, P. R .
Livingston, McCall, Millikin. Pike, Porter, l’tice
I’umpelly, Radcliff, Rackwell, Root, Rose, Ross,
Russell, Sage] It- Sanford, Scltenck, >Seely,
Sharpe, Sheldon,|l. Smith, Spencer, Starkweath
er, I. Sutherland, Taylor, Ten Eyck, Townley,
Townsend, Tripp, Van Fleet, Van Horn. Ver
bryck, E. Webster, Wheeler, Woods, Young.—
5‘J.”
United States of America,
State of Maryland, to wit :
I, Janies B. Latimer, notary public in ant! for
the city of Baltimore, do hereby certify, that I
| have carefully examined and compared the above
i extract, as printed, with the original on page ?02.
of the volume entitled “ Records, of the proceed
ings and Debates of tlto Convention of 11:21, as
sembled for the purpose of amending the Consti
tution of the State of New Yotk,” and find the
I same to agree with the said original in all panic
ulais.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
| [L. S.] nty hand and affixed my notarial seal,
on this eleventh day of August, 1830.
JAMES B. LATIMER, Sot. Bub.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Slam
Concord, (N. II.) Aug, 2, 183*
11 Last evening the Anti-Slavery Society of this
1 place celebrated the second anniversaiy of e.mat*
I cipation of the slaves in the llrilisli W. I. Islands. ,
Mr. Charles Peckard, formerly a lawyer in prac
i tice in Brunswick, Maine, hut now a divinity
| student at Andover, Mass, delivered an address
| before quite a large society and numerous audi
ence. In the courso of his address lie took oc
casion to name the New-York Courier & en
quirer, the Journal of Commerce, and the Boston
Allas, as being more virti:lent than any oilier pa
■ pers in t heir wholesale denunciation of the Aboli
tionisls and their movement!; and he stout/,/
I claimed Marlin Fan Buren as dicidedly in favor *
of the doctrine that Congress possesses the power
to Abolish slavery in the District of Columbia
and , consequently in the Territories. Thus, wliilo
Mr. Van lluren gives casting votes in such a
manner as lie hopes will secure him the South
the Abolitionists of the North are ready to claim
him as one of them.
The South will soon know anil feel the sad re
ality of what the U. S. Telegiaph lias for months
if not for years, been forewarning them, that Ab
olitinism in the North is formidable and rapidly
Increasing, while the friends of Van Buren hi
hopes to blind and conquer tlie Smith, have false
ly assured the South that the Abolitionists of the
North ate few and powerless. In this State- the
Abolitionists already begin to talk of bringing out
a Congressional Ticket at the nut election pledg
ed on the District of Columbia question
Mr. Kitcliic and a lew other Southern candi
dates far future place and power, will, ni no ve
ry distant period, lament the day when they play
ed second fiddle, on this great question, to the.
Abolition friends of Van lluren here at the North.*
Note—Wc have labored incessantly, atdently
and honestly, for the last two years, to put (lie
South on its guard against voting for nnv man
for President who is supported by the abolitionists
in fact, against voting for any man but a decided
and avowed friend to the slave Slates. That tho
Smith is wide awake to its danger on This point,
we believe ; but that the whole South is alive to
the in my embarrassing questions connected w ith
ibis election, we do not believe. The agents of
Van lluren ill Virginia and Noitli Carolina, have