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'’n, which every where meets theeye,and
they have sufficient sagacity to discover who are,
(in part at least.) the aut’uors of it They have
sem an Administration attempting to perpetuate
Its power, by practising on the odious and detesta
ble maxim of a corrupt English statesman, that
« every man has his price j” and be aspired that
they will rise in the majesty of their strength on
the first Monday in November next, and “expel
the Vanda's from Rome.”
\Vc had a meeting here at Americas a few days
ago, and selected one hundred and ten delegates to
-sittend the Macon meeting, and it was soon ascer
tained that so m iny wished to go, that it was re
solved that the whole County should go “en
masse,” or as many as wished to go. In Stewart,
and other counties around, the people have resolv
ed to go to Macon in a body.
It is stated that Capt. Talcott, of the U. S. En
gineers, Prof, lien wick, of Columbia College, and
Prof. Cleveland, of Ohio, have been appointed by
the President commissioners for exploration and
survey of the North Eastern Boundary, under the
late act of Congress appointed appropriating $25 -
000 for the purpose.
The population of Upper Canada, which in 1820
was 100,950, is now about 450,000. The popula
tion of Toronto is about 13,000.
From the Adrian (Micu.J Whig ,
Kendall Again.
Let freemen read the following correspondence, j
Let it be copied extensively, so that it may be (
seen who is at the head of the Extra Globe:
Washington, June 28th, 1840.
My Dear Sir, I take the liberty to enclose you
an Address and Prospectus for the Extra Globe,
hoping that it may lie compatible with your inch*
nation and sense of duty to use them ior the
purpose of procuring and returning subscribers.
If in that hope I shall be disappointed, 1 solicit
of you the favor to hand it over to some friend of
the administration who may be inclined louse it i
for the purpose.
All the numbers from the beginning can still ■
-•Wtetiira r«fymimneT having f*eeu printed, al- j
though the present subscription exceeds 3d,000 1
copies. With great respect. \our friend,
AMOS KENDALL.
Raisin , Leuawceco. Michigan.
Sir, I hereby acknowledge the receipt of y our
letter of the 28th ult. enclosing your Address and
Prospectus, and after due consideialion, I return
them, "franked” as they came, although 1 have i
my doubts about its being agreeable to law so to |
do. Vet if contrary to law, I ca., plead your own I
precedi nt as extenuation for my exercise of the j
“franking” privilege, and for my charity in saving
Jifiy cents of the “ hard currency” in which yo.ir
soul so much delights, for yourself and needy
family.
I will give you a few plain reasons why I return
to the source from which they emanated w : thout I
complying with your request. Your language is j
not republican. It is ifbt such as one democrat !
should use to another where democratic equality
is piofessed to be reciprocally ai knowledge*!. i
You speak of "sense of duty” —What do you i
mean by that. Sir] Uoyou mean that because
I have hid a petty offioejitocc dependent on your J
favor, that I am bound to forego all independence ■
of character, and serve, von from a “ sense of
duty?" Talk that language, Sir, to the "serfs” of ]
Russia. Democrats scorn it. They owe no a//c- j
gianee to would-be dictators or upstart dema* j
goguc*.
You pretend to be patriotic and zealous for
your country. Your past conduct belies your pro- '
tiessions. You have acted a prominent part in ihe
councils of those who have brought our country
to the verge of ruin, and our republic to the thres
hold of a monarchy. I think X understand your
motives.
You talk the same language which the Robes
piers. D.nitons, and Caesars have always talked.
While you profess democracy and love for the
dear people you are artfully sapping the very
foundation* of lhai democracy.
Again you are most insultingly hypocritical.
You talk in your Address about members of the
Whig party “ Franking” documents, when you
know that Van Bureniics have ••franked’’ three to
their one, a large proportion o 1 which are bully
Duncan’s blackguardisms, which you are pleased
to say **have a spice of coarseness suited to tnc
We tern people.”
Quite a compliment, indeed, and one for which
they will doubtless thank you and your master
as they should at the ballot box next November.
The charge of ••contempt fur the people,”
you arc pleased to prefer against Harrisonians is,
from the above false issue particularly applicable
to yourself.
You say a '‘sham hero” was presented to the
people in the person of Harrison. And pray, sir,
where was you when the battle of Tippecanoe,
Fort Meigs, and the Thames was fought 1 Where
was you when Harrison the “sham hero,” as you
are pleased to call him, chased a flying foe into
the heart of Canada, and their conquered him 1
Was you teaching school in Kentucky, or like
a poisonous basahsk in the sunshine of Mr. Clay’s
favor, or opposing Mr. Madison and the War,
like your master, Van Buren? Answer these
questions to your own conscience.
Surrounded with court splendors in the gor
geously furnished palace of Mr. Van Buren, you
may imagine that the people will sus ain you and
and him in your aristocratic pride and pomp, be
cause you profess democracy. Deceive not your
self, sir, To show in what estimation the hardy
hack woodsmen and u .og cabin boys ” regard
von, Michigan will give * o\dT\y” two thoas^kj l
majority next fall, in spite ofyoar “Extra Globe.”
Note it down now in a hook, and mark the re
sult. As my sheet is full, I now close with this
remark—ls my office *M considered the price of
obedience to monarchical dictation, it is at the
service of those who gave it.
With correct opinions a* to
your character, I am, sir.
DARIUS C. JACKSON,
P. M. Raisin.
Found between Belleville and Bloomfield, in
this county, on the 9th inst., by a person ploogh
ing in a lot where the timber bad lately been
cleared off, 8 Bank Note Copper Plates , tup*
posed to be counterfeit*, and from their appear-
j Anae to have laid
-
:
MfISoNS OF DOLLARS
authorized the creation of ft*.
mitUtou of Trearory .bin plMUn,jB (MMA
of tM'TVeaaar; I. opw calling for FOUR-MIL
LION 8 MOKE!
2*l. To par this enormous debit *t£e Iffciple,
will hare to tie TAXED, and a "i~Tfnrtt Vss
already been made to lay a DIRECT TAX n^pp
measures and unparalleled extravaganofer of %or
croment, and are unable even to support them
-1 sel'cs. the government is demanding ALL
TAXES to be paiil in GOLD AND SILVER.
4lli. The government of Martin Van Buren
has destroyed credit and confidence, and the Sub-
Trcasuiy law which has just received the appro
val ol the President, has, for one of its objects,
the REDUCTION OF THE WAGES OF
LABOR; so that while the people are to be
TAXED, and these raxes arr to be paid in GOLD
AND SILVER, ihe means of procutiog even
shin plasters are w ithheld from the people.
In short, the tendency of all the measures of
government, is to reduce the people to a state of
V ASSALAGE ; to render them, if not in name
at least indeed the SUBJECTS of a nus-caUed
Republican government; to bleak down the
American spirit, and to quench in the Dreast of
the people that burning spark of Freedom and
Independence which they inherited Irom their
Revolutionary fathers, and to render them Ihe
tools of a President who is endeavoring to be
come “ every inch a KING !”
We call upon t‘>e American people to look at
the “signs of the times!’ 5
The creation of a STANDING ARMY is'
threatened.
The tenure of the officers of the JUDICIARY,
as it exists under the Constitution, is threaten
cd !
The prayers of two-thirds of the people fore
Bankrupt Law have been derided, and a deaf ear
has been turned to their petitions!
NEGROES have been allowed by Mr. Van
j Buren to testify against a gallant and brave offi
| cer of the Navy, and the oath of a coal-blackpot
| slower has sent into retirement a high-minded
I and gallant defender ol hiscounlry.
The Post Office Department has been subsidi
zed, and efforts been made to place its control
more immediately in Ihe hands of the President.
State Right have received a Brutus tike stab,
and the broad seal of me Slate of New Jersey has
been kicked about by the President and his min
ions us an idle toy !
“ CORRUPTION HAS BECOME THE
, ORDER OF THE DAY,”—and offices are be-
I stowed upon those who exhibit the most abject and
j fawning sycophancy to the President.
| The.o is still a chance for the people—the
I Stab of the West, that sheds its mild beams
i over tlie humble Log Cabin bids us hope ! It
cheers use midst the gloom of corruption and des
potism—it bids us ‘.lope for better times and
reminds us of honesty and patriotism.
Lot us up and AC T ! If the people will it,
our eyes will he blest with the dawn of brighter
days than these, after the ides of November. Let
our motto be ‘ HARRISON, TYLER AND
; BET TER TIMES,” and we surely must come
olf victorious.
From the Southern Whig.
Seaborn Jones lialaueed.
Col. Bonner, Sheriff of Muscogee County.and
heretofore a warm Union man, bus published a
: circular, in which he declares bis intention to
support the cause of Harrison and Reform. Our
: limits will only allow us to extract the closing
! paragraph.
Fellow-citizens, I have already detained you
j longer than 1 wished or expected, and in conclu
: sion would exhort you to throw aside all your
prejudice and party lre)ing—-I for
! yolfrselves —cWlfemplale the wide spread ruin
which threatens to desolate our whole coun'ry—
| confidence lost—commerce prostrated—credit ru
ined—the currency deranged—(he prices of labor
: and produce reduced to almost nothing—and in a
i word every interest of society has been most tn
| Juriou-Iy affected by the unnatural war which the
administration has waged against the credit and
institutions of the country. I call upon the U
nion men of Muscogee, the old Jackson party
with whom I have battled time and again in de
fence of our principles, to rally around the Re
{fublican standard of the Hero of Tippecanoe and
put down the corrupt and corrupting rulers by
whose measures the country has been brought
to the Very verge of ruin. Elect General Harri
son and the sun of prosperity may once more
arise with healing on his wings, bunging good
prices so our labor and produce, with their atten
dant blessings. Let the voice of Muscogee be
bearu in even louder tones than in 1836—when
she told a majority ol 4UO against Van Buren.
Your fellow-citizen,
SEYMOUR R. BONNER.
Onr Prospects.
The prospects of the United Opposition to Ihe
General Administration, grow brighter and bright
er from day to day. Our opponents yield the
Empire State, and they yield all when they do
that. The Prainc fires burn high and clear in
he West, whilst every mountain top in the Old
Dominion sends up a beacon light that illumines
the Ivirison. far and wide. The shouts of the
yeomanry of New England, gathering for the
conflict, are echoed back again by the “Hunters
| of Kentucky” and the Back-Woodsmen of Ten
nessee General Harrison has passed through
| the probationary ordeal, and has come out from
the trial without even “the smell of fire upon his
garments.” Jt cannot so soon have been forgot
s ten, with what a yell of fury, hate gnd defiance
the old Patriot was greeted, by the watchdogs of
’ the Administration, when he fiist made hisappear
ance in the field as the antagonist of Mr. Van
Buren! How like blood hounds have they pur
, su ed him since. What opprobious epithet have
j It.cy not hurled at his devoted head—what dis
g-acetul slander has not been engendered to sully
. h |s fair name—what envenomed shaft has not
r been launched hissing with destruction against
I his honorable how ha^mle^^^ive
r ’ the designed
effect! Indeed he has only been endeared the
s more to the people, who burn with impatience
f to avenge the indignities he has received for their
e sakes, at the polls. He has already triumphed.
Scandal and calumny have ceased to rouse con
tempt. Complete success at the ballot boxes,
w II only be a confirmation of the victory already
won. Courage and constancy, friends, and the
day is our own! — West. State Journal,
q Cold Water. —A new set of candidates for med
ical popularity have sprung up in Germany, who
ur.der the guidance of Vincent Piiesnitz, a farmer
n of Graefcnburg, ii Austrian Silesia, profess to cure
” all diseases by the internal and external applica
nt tion of pure and cold Water.
ra ii.in wag
preached by the Rev. Thomas F. Scott, a graduate'
of the institution. Cf th.s effort, as it was not
beard by me, I can only give - you the opinion of
others, “it was very .creditable.” Commencement
seimons, however, or rather the manner of con
ducting the ceremonies, arif like every thing ehe
in this “age of the march of intellect,” giving away
to the fashions of the age, which we are so prone
} to copy from our transatlantic friends, and a plain,
, unsophisticated, pious worshipper would be much
more forcibly reminded of the approach of a cara-
F van or circus, than that be was making his advent
: into the sacred temple.
| On Monday the Board of Trustees met, and,
what is quite remarkable for them, found a quorum
p present.
| On Tuesday, the Junior exhibition came off, and
the young gentlemen acquitted themselves in a
manner, alike creditable to all parties. The fol
lowing is the
ORDER OF THE DAT.
Prayer, by the President.
| • ■ MUStC.—ORATIONS.
Z. L. Nabebs, Laurens district, S. C.—
, “Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again ,
, The etema years of God are her?.”
Jos Gibebt, Abbeville district,S.C.->—lngenium
res adverse nudare solent.” J tor.
' MUSIC.
Jos. Le Conte, Liberty county —Genius and Ap
plication.
i G. A.Mallette, Effingham county—Patriotism.
MUSIC.
J. W. Williams, Henry county—Curiosity.
L. J. Glenn, Henry county—Our Press—its
abuse.
MUSIC.
H. Newton, Athens—Moral Influence of Au 3
thors.
G. R. McCalla, Abbeville district, S. C.—Party
Spirit.
MUSIC.
Samuel Hall, Crawford county—‘lnfluence of
the dead upon the living.
T. R. R. Conn, Athens —The countenance, an
index of the mind.
MUSIC.
Yesterday, Commencement Day, there was quite
a large and fashionable audiei ce to witness the
manner in which the graduates performed their
parts, who were all more or less pleased with the
display of the young gentlemen. The following
is theprogiammc:
ORDER OF THE DAY.
MUSIC.
Prayer, by the President.
A. L. Borders, Harris county, (D. S.) 2d Hon
or—Latin Salutatory —“Moral courage.”
J. W. Greene, Lpson county, (P. K. S.) 3d Hon
or—Gradual encroachments on the Constitution.
William Henry Moseley, Abbeville district,
S. C-, (P. K S.) —Right of expatriation.
MUSIC.
W. J. Perdue, Greene county,(D. S.) Ist Hon
or—“ Mina libertas.”
M. A. GKaham, Talladega county, Ala,, (P. K.
S.)3d Honor —Chivalry.
T. O. P. Vernon, Spartanburg distr.ct, S. C. (P.
K. S.) —Moral corruption.
MUSIC.
J. Hubbard Echols, Oglethorpe county, (D. S.)
—Mental wealth.
W. C. Stevens, Liberty county, (P. K. S.) —
Waste of intellect.
S. W. Raker, Liberty county, (P. K. S.) 4th
Honor —Mental comfort dependent on moral recti
tude,
MUSIC.
W. Wlkliams, Jr., Athens, (D. S.) Ist Honor—
“ What is truth?”
J. W. Quasxteman, Liheity .county,(P. K. S.)
Ist Honor —State of Georgia—Valedictory.
J. Kendall, Cpson county, (P. K. S.) Ist Hon
or—Valedictory.
MUSIC.
Degrees Conferred.
MUSIC.
Address to the Graduates, by the President.
MUSIC.
Prayer.
D. S. and P. K. S. are the initials of the Bemos
thenian and Phi Kappa Societies.
When the declamation of the young gentlemen
had concluded, the degree of Bachelor of Arts was
conferred on the following members of the class,
ogether with the speakers: Baxter, - —
Brownlee, Bonner, L. Goueke, Gray, T.
. Saffold, Pope, and Winn.
After which the President closed the ceremonies
of ihe day, with an address to the graduating class,
which was delivered in his usual forcible and im
pressive style, abounding generally in sound prac
tical views, and, but for bis sweeping denunciation
of the political press of the country, which was as
unjust as illiberal, was a production admirably
adapted to the occasion.
To-day the scene closes with an address, before
'■ the two Societies, by the Rev. Bishop England,
whose high reputation as a ripe scholar has excited
no little interest to hear him. '1 hat it will be all
i his mest sanguine friends anticipate, we have no
i doubt.
I A word on the great and exciting question of the
day, the Presidential question, which, 1 discover,
pervades a!i classes in a mote exciting degree than
was ever known in Georgia. From almost every
section es the State, I have had an oppoitunity to
i obtain information, and the result of my enquiries
fully confirms my former opinions, that Harrison
and Tyler will get the vole of Georgia by a hand
! some majority. The intelligem e has equalled my
most sanguine expectations, and proves, conclu
-1 sively, that the people are deeply impressed with
the necessity of achange of rulers.
| Yours, &c.
From the Troy Daily Whig.
1 More Changes.—ln addition to the gallant
' Capt. Stockton of the U. S. Navy, and Hon
1 Levi Beardsley of this State, we learn from the
Philadelphia Standard that, Major Eaton, Secre
“ tary of War under General Jackson, and late
A riHuacan Minister at the Court of Spain; Wil
p liam J. Duane, son of the veteran editor of the
! Aurora and - Secretary of the Treasury, under
• General Jackson; Cbmmodore Stewart, the con
' queror of the Cyane and Levant, the gallant com
-5 man ier of the Constitution daring the last war,
5 and the candidate for President in 1838, of the
r friends of Governor Porter M. Whitney
• the able political economist and confidental friend
‘ and adviser of General Jackson; Henry Toland
h 0 f Philadelphia, the distinguished Democrat and
f ardent personal and political friend of General
e Jackson, together with a host of ethers, who,
though of less note, have been firm and uniform
adherenteof the Van Buren party, have delermin
l" ed to give their votes for General.. Han son and
0 Reform. Shall we be told by the Federal Loco
• Focos, that there are no changes in favor of Har
nson 1 Rather will they not soon be tempted to
inquire—shall we, in a month from the preeen
I tiflaaOMve
Yoi
Mm* fi* u d, and eve i force, to avkid kjfeiu
HJHBppMa* persons com Icred thej^ate^sug
personal violence aid force.
not ner * phantoms of the iaugina-
our readers with an article from '
fjfißHßa' Globe, and of course, from the pen* of
CTMflpodaH, lately Postmafer Genetal of the
and a.member ot President Van
TlMeSct Cabinet. It is the first and only -article'
ever seen from the Extra Globe, notbnv-
ViAniglenamberof that pub
* ;orsln?**LaE^
for example, the following postage. After having
informed the “ Democrats” that it would not be
come them to celebrate the anniversary of Indepen
dence “ this year with hilarity and mirth,” but
with “ solemnity and fervor,” and moreover de
claring that the danger to liberty is not less now
than it was in 1776, addressing himself to the
“ Democrats,” he makes use of tile following lan
guage:
“ It is not note that they are called upon to de
fend their liberty infields of blood. Through your
own right of sulliage, Democrats of America, tne
enemy attacks you, and in that is your present
defence. Your weapons aie, as yet those of.
peace, and, by a resolute use of them, the occa
sion for a resort to other meatfi of defence may be
forever averted.”
Can any person of the most ordinary discern
ment fail to understand the meaning of this r This
article was published before tbe 4th of July; a
day on which we usually expect to find feelings of
festivity prevalent. If there is any day in the year
in which the vitulence of party animosity might
naturally be supposed likely to be laid aside, it is
the anniversary of independence.
The man who, on such an occasion and for such
an object, could use such language and utter such
sentiments as these, is far mo e dangerous than the
miscreant who plunders a house at midnight, and,
to protect himself, sets fire :o .is building and des
troys the family. This is thelauguage, and these
arc the sentiments of the savage butchers of Paris
during the most bloody period of their revolution.
The language and the sentiments are those ol Mu
rat and Robespierre, and their tendencies are to
lead a desperate party to imbrue their hands in the
blood of their opponents. “ Surear on the Fourth
of July,' 1 says the American Rabespierre, “to avert
that catastrophe that is, sulming the
of Van Buren to get possession of the Gorernmlnt,
its Tieasury, and its Army—“ band together, and
prepare to march to the polß, not with arms, or
knives, or clubs, to beat and butcher your fellow
citizens, but with hearts firmer resolved by an
honest and independent exercise of the right of
suffrage, to avcrffAe possible necessity cf march
ing hereafter in battle array to put down usur
pation.”
Let it be remembered that the writer of these
daring, desperate, and sanguinary sentiments was
lately one of President Van Buien’s confidential
counsellors and advisers; that he was taken from a
station at the head of one of the Departments of
the Government, audput intotheoffiee of the Globe,
the confidential paper of the Exepalrvc; that he
« rites what is publisued in an extra sheet, nhd Is
di-ti jbuird by thousands aiiGna^s hw ” w c»* *****
the hands of ‘he most desperatb members of the
community, where it is read in secret, and, to a
great extent, is concealed from the public eye, and
of course, is left to produce its full effects, unex
posed and uncontradicted, upon the minds of those
to whom it is addressed. Hcs it not become neces
sary, indispensably necessary for the opponents of
Van Buren to rouse themselves to new and mate
vigorous exeitions in defence of their rights, privi
leges, and freedom ?
From the third number cf the Extra Globe.
Fourth of July.
“ It becomes Democrats this jjear to go into the
celebration of our great anniveßary, not with hi
lairty and mirth, but with stflhbnity and fervor.
They should go into it with something of the feel
ing whch our fathers did in ITWand 1779, when
British hirelings were attempting to quench the
flame of liberty in the best blood of America. The
danger is now less than it was then. The hire
lings, not of the Biitish Throne, bit of ‘ that power
behind the Throne greater than tae Throne itself,’
the British Bank, are marching and countermarch
ing througn our land, exploring and invading every
nook ai d%co:ner where liheity has pitched her
camp, to mislead, debase, soldiers,
and induce them to desert her glorious standard.
In the Congress of the United States, a body crea
ted by the people of the Males to watch upon the
ramparts the movements of the enemy, she finds
an organized band of adherents resolutely engaged
in seducing the garrison from its allegiance,, and
preparing to throw open the galgs to bis welcome
approach. The power and privileges vested in the
Representatives of the people to facilitate thru
business and make liberty perpetual are, in an or
ganized and resolute effort, now perverted to the
debasement of the people and tbe destruction of
all they were designed to secure.
“ Let Democrats these things as they
go to celebrate the Fourth of July. Let the re -
flection make them serious and thoughtful. Let
them remember the pie .ges of their forefathers to
each other on this sacred day in 1777, ’7B, ’79, ’BO
and ’Bl, when fire and the sword drove around
ilrem, and the penalties of treason were before
them. Let tuis remembrance inspire them with
the resolution of thcii fathers, and induce them to
swear their father’s oath, to live free oh die.
It is not now that they aie called on to defend
their liberty in fields of blood. Through your own
right of suffrage, Democrats of America, the ene
my attacks you, and in that is you present de
fence. Your weapons are, as vet, those of peace,
and by a resolute use of them, the occasion for a
resort to other means of be for ever
averted. But should you, by listftsness and indif
ference, suffer the enemy to get possession of your
Government, of its Treasury, and its Army, you
may not be able hereafter to place in Congress,
in the Executive Chair, or even in your State Le
gislatures tbp representatives of your choice; the
at Harrisburg may be every
where suceessfully consummated, and your free
Government be at once transformed into one of
usur; ation and of arms.
“ Swear on the Fourth of July to avert that catas
trophe. Band together, and prepare to march to
the polls, not with arms, or knives, or clubs, to
beat and butcher your fellow-citizens, but with
hearts firmly resolved, by an honest and indepen
dent exercise of the right of suffrage, to avert the
possible necessity of marching hereafter in battle
array to putdown usurpation.
“ Organize democratic associations every where!
There is no more fitting time for it than the Fourth
of July. Call upon every Democrat who can speak
to discuss our principles, and challenge the adver
sary io the discussion. But discussion is not all
that is necessary. ‘ Work in season and out of
season.’ is tbe motto of the enemy, and by ‘*i ork’
he must be counteracted. By ‘ work ’ light must
be sent among the people. By ‘work’ the firm
must be aroused, the wavering strengthened, and
the honest among the adversaries converted. And,
finally, by ‘work’ every Democrat in every county
and town in the country must be brought to the
polls.
“ Let us organize—organize for ‘ work’ as well
as for talk —organize in such away as to pervade
every neighborhood, and reach every freeman.
Let us make the Fourth of July, 1840, memo
rable in the annals of our country for the rally of
the People to preserve the liberty and independ
ence which were proclaimed in 1776. A decided
rally on that day will stiike terror into the ranks
of our already wavering enemy, make the contest
short, and the victory decisive.
“ Serious and resolute, let every democrat come
out to the celebration of tire glorious day, deter
mined, by devoting himself anew to nis country,
to brighten its glories and make them perpetual.”
It is expected that the Nashville Convention
will be attended by from 30,000 to 40,000 per
sons.
• wq%W» it tnoSr
refiqvsr the antfety of tbqdistant friends of Mr..
r HABERSHAM.'fiy he is Bow so much
better an ttTbe out 8f danger. ’■[
" Mlssocbi.—Two large Whig ifleetings weij
: held is the city of St. Loliis reCe fitly,—T'h'b edi
tor of the* Bulletin says: ** When we took around
ns, and see whole. Slatea rcnouncing V. Buren
tsq, aqd enrolling themselves under the Whig
» hope arises »n our.bosom that Missouri
Qay awaken from bar lethargy, and assist in res
-1 toning tbe country.”
( , ’a :
-• Frontier ’ Contention.—The friends of
■Hsqjison and Tyler have resolved an a Frontier
Convention, to be held at Erie,'Pennsylvania, oa
. the IQtlr September next, to* embrace delegates
front the States of Michigan, Ohio, New York..
, and Pennsylvania. v * • -»*
• fiimm tvr*—' - »«■&*■'; - % .i,
t * Trouble TaicKxv.NO. —On ooard the eng
! MiuaseiT'arrivetl on the 2d *at .Philadelphia, are" ’
those two lions from Morocco which the Empe
ror insisted on sending to the President of tho
United Slates, and about which the consul at
Tangier had such a contest with ■one of the Em
peror’s three-tailed bashaws. Their reception
is provided for, we believe, in the bill passed by
Congress, else they might furnish material for
another week or two of debate while the business
of the people is neglected.
A Speech ol Senator Preston.
There was on Tuesday* 7th July, an immense
gathering of the friends ofGeneral Harrison atEliz
abethtown, New Jersey, who were addressed by
Senator Tallmadge, Mr. Ketchum, of New York,
and Senator Preston, of South Carolina. Mr. Pres
ton succeeded Mr. Ketchum, and hi»' appearance
was the signal for » round of cheers that made the
' welkin rirg again,as we learn from the New Vork
• American. When silence was restored, Mr. €*•
thus began, as reported by the American :
Fellow-Citizens—Gentlemen of New Jer
sey : I appear before you under so many disadvan
tages, some of which are obvious, and others I
shall mention, that 1 should, under any ordinary
circumstances, content myself with acknowledg
, ing, in brief, but grateful terms, my deep sense of
the kindness and cordiality w-ith which I have
been welcomed by yott" But there is something
i in my heart that f would fain speak out.and which
forbids my leaving tbe soil oMSqwJersey without
. relieving my breast of the butden'Mish oppresses J
i it. I come from a recent rapid tour, not fltiteeatuj J
i panied by labor. I have been up the noble HucP -v
i son, and,in the spirit of the people at Poughkeep
t sie, on its shores, and in its wide and dcepeiltrent,
: 1 have seen emblems of the progtess, of the sure
, and irresistible progre s, of the principles for
I which we are contending. Last night, too, in New
■ York, I addressed an assembly, only smaller than
this because inclemency of the weathei circum
i scribed it within walls. Hence I appear before you
f worn down; and this is one of the disadvantages
to which 1 referred. lam a stranger to—(General
■ ext tarnations of “ No, no, yen fire ofiStranger.”)
I take-back the word, exclaimed RfcP., with
, energy; lom aaf a stranger to New 1
i have read youflrtyhpt history. 1 have heanWlßi
-1 ;Jhq lips of my own ancestors, who stood shoulder'
i to shoulder with jours on your own soil, of the lie
f roiflVt and sufferings of New Jersey ; and from the
, days of my boyhood, I have longed to tread the
• fields esßsefcraied by so much gallantry and cn-
Beared by so many associations. 1 am, too, a citi
r l-rw-NrenreXJ-v—a NixlM, Una there fore no stran
: ger; a Whig, and therefore your brother. Bntun
-1 der what circumstances dq we meet ? How shall
I I recur to the gallant deeds of your ancestors, and
reconcile your present position with the fact that
I scarce a field but has l-pen trodden by the foot of
Washington —that not a spear of grass but was
f wet with the blood of your fathers—that (
; .Every sod beneath our feet
Has been a soldier’s sepulchre ?
How is it that the spirit of those days has not ;
roused you to unanimous opposition to the (Ultra- j
ges you have been made to suffer ? What did your
ancestors fight for ? Read tbe enumeratjoh of the
: evils and wrongs they rose to avesgelßed then ask
. yoprselves if those now inflicted on you are fewer
in amount, or less exasperating in character; ard
yelyou are tame. Vou are expeired from the Un
ion, and yet you endure. Fellow-citize»s, did f
say. lam not your fellow-citizen. You are not
citizens of the United States; you are not mem
bers of the great Union. Yon have been turned
out us it; and a manufactory of RpitaMteH
has been set up at Washington,
subjects as the machine turns but
lam aware that,*in general,
to be made for what is done at Wasßirffoßfand
that judgements are net hastily) ts he VUIIOCdUF'
measures there adopted; but the case witb'you is
so flagrant; you have been so cohtemptuoßsly, and
for base party purpose, driven out of the-Union,
that even X can ill suppress the indignation I feel,
or accurately define the proper limit of opposition.
But had it been my State instead of yours, had it
been South Carolina instead of New Jersey, I
should have been at no loss, and, even now, I am
disposed to apply the language of Lord Chatham,
in reference to the American Colonies, and say,
were I a Jerseyman, as I am a South Carolinian,
' while my rights as a member of this Union are vio
lated, 1 would never lay down my arms, never,
never, never. I speak not of tbe arms of violence
and blood, but the arms of the law and the ballot
box; an I these arms you will not, I trust, lay
down till you have reconquered your position, ga
thered up the fragments of your broken seal, and
knit them again together in beauty and unity ; till
you have rescued your draggled flag from beneath
the feet of the mercenaries who have trampled on
, it, and home it onward in triumph cven to the
dome of the Capitol.
'I he sympathies and heart of tho na’ion are with
you, and the very wrongs you suffer have advanced
. the Whig cause. Nowhere have 1 addressed any
. public meeting where an allusion to tbe outrage
upon your State did not bting forth the response,
; “We will aid New Jersey.” On, then, Whigs of
• New Jersey, on, I say, but on whom ? [several
voices from the crowd exclaimed “ the Tories.”]
■ Ay, ay, the Tories ! the Tories ! Now, as in the
| days of ’76, the opposi’e of Whig is Tory, and it is
the Tories you are to overthrow, as your fathers
’ did. Be earnest, then, in the contest. You have
. gallant leaders and brother soldiers. There is
r Harry of the West, [the annunciation of this name
, was rapturously cheered,] the gallant, magnani
f mous Harry, of the West, baring his bosom to ev
ery shaft intercepting from his parly every poison
ed arrow, scarred all over with wounds received in
i defence of his friends, and of his and their princi
i pies. With laurelled brow, if not wi;h the victor’s
, chaplet, there is he, without envy, without re
pining, yielding precedence to another, and spread
, ing out to William Henry Harrison the flag of the
\ Union, bids him give it loathe breeze, and claims
onlv the honor of serving as a soldier under him.
i Where shall we find greater disinterestedness, more
, glorious magnanimity ?
. There, too, is the-graver and heavy armed array
. of the East, led on by Daniel Webster, [this name
j again brought forth 1 ud cheering,] like tfie Mace
s donian phalanx of old, in serried order, and of over
. whelming force. There, too, is the Empire State,
t with her gallant and eloquent son. Trim has this day
, addressed you. [Another aurtt^.Dreeriqg.] There
i is 3'our own fervent and sdfi.h'tvathard,
[more cheers,] a friend be'lot’ed, a statesman won
J thy of all praise ,and worthy to toadtheWhigj'iSf,
. New Jersey; and jf
" under which we all rallyjiVispnly that I nay in-s
1 troduce it more fitly hereafter. yThe cause, too, is*
; a holy an J exciting one. Think you that any or
dinary occasion could have brought me from the
sand banks and long leaved pines of SoqUYCaftt ;
<• lina to address a New Jersey audience >c
cause that appeals to us aid; f!iatrls'6eci>i>d’ so node
J but the cause of God. Ifds the tiauc of the coun-*
s try, of the Constitution, of liberty?
t ’Time will not allow me to go into an examina
tion of the long, black catalogue Os crime which
c lies at the door of the Administration, and which
all their trained bands are drilled -and disciplined'
to defend. The battle will be fierce, Iwt it will
,1 be decisive. We are, indeed, but militia. We
are not organised nor paid. We fight on our own
hook, not lor money nor for bread; butwc fight
n for our rights, for our tire-sides, for the liberty our
f* an ces to is transmitted to ns, and for our property ;
and can we fail ’ They have blighted our pio“-
, length, examined the effect of "the experimiflJts jof
Hie Administration upqn the industry, mannfa*-
’tores, and mechanic arts of the country, And poor
i Micularly of towns like Newark, which flourished
in proportion to the general prosperity, arid of
.j ’ which the adversity was oaly a- type ot the
. adversity that had overtaken alt classes, both rich
' and poor, the maaufacturer of carriages and those
who were wont to buy and ride in thefn. 'lhe
Administration seemed to have reversed the older
of Providence, which blesses tile labor es man, aaa
acts as though impelled by. tho very Genius of De
solation.
Is this picture (said Mr. P.) too darkly shaded ?
Who is there among you all that has escaped loss
or suffering ? [None, rone, was the ary.] Even
so ; not one of you. Are there-ony maimlacttirers
here ? • [Enough of t'.«m-,fjr they have nothingto
do at tneir factories,] Ay, enough, indeed; and
yoJj democratic friends, who profess so much af
fection for the .hard handed workman, aie deter
mined to give yea "fine enough to get your bands
soft* Are there Is’jc-ceri fiere ? Their turn is
now come. They lave heretefete felt light lyth#
evils of misgoveintatarl,. and tiety hieer toWteuw
■ supported tboee whoyin striking at the employes,
affected to -be influenced by regard Utqjoqji.
laborer. But now tha principle of tree jmriy is,
nut the wage* or reset’* >R kitfiu: thee rije tor
v ßofer most bemaetto work cheaper; and thgttne
country can only plainer when the rales of labqc
assimilate -with tdesOaOl oidcT nations. '
But where, say-Tvc, is the example by which we
are to le regulat ad; to what country do you design
to point as for a model? Why, say my colleague
and Mr. Walker., of Mississippi, to Cuba! Ay, to
Cuba, the land a*'.the inquisition- and 6$ cents a
day for labor! ('nee liken our condition to that of
Cuba, and the tins.-may soon come when we shall
be as productive-us tliat favored. island—of blood
hounds. if, boraevar, we decline, tire example of-
Cuba, and iusi t, with our Anglo-Saxon partiali
ties, that Knglaad,thc land of our. fathers, of li
berty, of law, axil ef.commerce, affords better mo
dels and exampissytlicy Cxclaimv“Sce these British
Whigs! they wank to ape British fashions and pre
cedents;” and tkeayas an alternative, they point
us to China, as a hard money, cheap-labor country
—a fine country, indeed, where ..wages rare 6 cents
a day!
But this is ax,alternative which America will
not be driven it;,and tills will be shown next. No
vember. No l"r»»idcntial election has heretofore
been gone lute with, wheat- atari cents a bushel
and cotton at 6 cents: and the disasters of the times
will re-act against those whose fbliy or whose
wickedness huLpraduced them. Wliat a-aonfrast,
indeed, docs ouz position now present with that be
fore the rcigci of.experiments began! Then, all.
was smiling, hippy, prosperous industry. Now,
care, and suffering, and haggard waat. The state
ly palm tree 2s withering, i:s branches dying, and
its trunk Massed, : We feel that the worm is gnaw
j ing at its root; and that it must soon perish. You
I must apply the: remedy whiln there is yet time —
Jldig that worm, rap, and ayush.it:beneath your feet..
f ’"What, fellow-citizens, is tho contest? It is be
tween the people, and the office-holders, led oo by
the chief Dilire-lro dors at Washington —a clothed,
fed, and trained-corps of janissaries, with fortres
ses all through-the land —cn the seaboard in the
shape of eras':’..ii houses, in the ia-lerioi and every
where in the chape of post offices, from which the
incumbents asrae, stealthily prowling about, seek
ing, like the-evil one of old, whom they*7nay se
duce, whoinsthey may devour. Led on by the
Chief Spoilesiat Washington, whose dqplriies are
openly' proclaimed, they fightdor plunder. They
'feel no distress—they experience no solicitous mis
givings abovf providing for their families.
■ly enough, follow citizens,though
e-—good money, counted out to
trawn from the Treasury, where
lavingbeenfirst drawn from your
heir pocknts ate ro nd and full-,
hrunk am! lean, and little head
-they, therefore, of the distress
the land. If- lies farmer says to
the price of his produce hardly
production; that he can only get
half price, indeed, for his the pampered
hireling replies-that such things w ill happen and
must he sulvuictcd to, and admonishes him that re
signation is '.a rming to all mortals. But, if the
farmer contteraes, and asks.- Isis comforter if his
salary is redraci-d, in proportion to tile fail of com
modities, “Clodforbid,” is his -reply; “Gcd forbid,
'that it shoo’d be diminished, it barely supports me
now.” AnJyet he can get twice as much for his
money as before,’ It is easy enough, therefore, for
'him to beai the afflictions sf the community, and
natural enough that he should sustain a policy
which snatcbas the dry crast.from the hungry lips
of the laborers child,that ibmay feed the children
of; your pure, democrat with pound cake. Well
indeed may the. President, in his marble palace,
aniid luxuT.mjsi appliances, with wslßpaid salary,
'Mfclaim “Ths-people rexpetc too much from Go-
Jvemmcnt.”’
j|> We bel.*>d that Government aud its officers
ktoying ticSsr, while each of us is growing poorer.
JQreir ricltrs.siresferive.i from the oppression of lire
ISSSpid.raflHlra'plunder that, they may have the
todre to dispense in bribes. While you see your
subsSTree wasting away, tnis Administration has
received anaSquandcred some 130 millions of dol
lars. This esioamous sum nas been sweated out of
the blosd of,the hard, hands of the country, tube
lavished upon mercenaries, parasites, panders about
the palace. Thirty-nine millions annually are paid
to these win* are waging liras war against us; and
who pays? You-and Land all of us. It isdrawu
from a soil already exhausted, and all far .the ben
efit of a pai.fMy, and not of the whole. Gur.con
dition is worse than tliat of the Israelites in the
desert, for when it rained manna and quails, all
could equally hold out their platters. But when
the manna es Government falls-here,, it falls nut
into vour piatt ers.
Do any ctVyou catch a nruiil, or a flake of this
manna? Oh’no- Or, if perchance a portion, liow
ever small, should fall to one of you, the officer
through whose criminal infidelity such a boon
should be vouchsafed to,a Whig, who was detected
in allowing one of the proseribed to taste of. this
Governmcitmanna, would immediately Le repott
ed to his Chief, and handed over.for trial for. the
crime of tibr.i-ihg with a Whig!
Mr. P. said it was impossible, without a feeling
of burning’snamc and indignation,to advert to this
condition >1 things, or to reflect that such a coun
try as this-should be thus dishonored under ihe
govcrun ontof a popinjay, who had. done nothing,
thought .-mt!L.i>g, looked nothing, fm its benefit cr.
renown- Something may be excused to a gallant
old soldierlike Jackson; and even oppression then
have had. something redeeming; but,lobe wormed
to death!. Pshaw! It was notpussibJe to think with
patienca-of this gflpat country’s being trodden un- f
der foot by such men as Van Buren, and Kendal,
and Bl'jj—a corrupt trio that makes the heart
sick.
The honorable Senator from New York has told
you he was once a supporter of this Administra
tion.anil that ho felt called upon at an early period
to denesmee the mischiefs of their sdursc; and
how wue-lic lister.dod to ? Mr. Van Buren need
ed not, and resented the warnings of such a coun
sellor an N. F. ’Jallmadge, and, tingling his bell,
forthwith the kitchen counsellor appeared, and he
said to thorn piteously,“See what Mr. Tallmadge
has done and Kenuail replied, he would mark
him, and- Blair-said he would turn the wastepipeof
the kiuden on him,- and smother him with filth.
Gentleinen,.agairast aR this we must act vigorously
We must act offensively- We have a cause and
a candk'SitE that needs no defence. Abandon,
therefore, a e defensive, and assault, assault con
tinually.
Assault them at ail :rapes, in all places. Press
onward ; you may gaifdhttlc, but little by little
you will gain-yind whs.' ywu gain you will hold.
Assault Mr. Van Bnfcra, assault Kendall, assault
Mr. Buchanan, assault the office-holders. [A voice
Tcpto'the crowd said» “ and.Garre t- Wall,”] Ay,
ratseautMc. Wall, if I may l e peKnittsd to say so
■ ,to you. [He is too,.insigniucant, sa-id another
* voice.] No, no, gentlemen no one, nothing in
such a cause is too insignificant. It is not the
JeKipest that destroys the lofty tree, but the insect
■ gnawing at its root. It is-not the flood nos the
- earthquake tha* desolates the wheat field, but the
mildew and the rust. U is an error to ascribe
great consequences-to great causes. A little spark
will kindlea mighty conflagration, and the mean
est things are-not therefore tho least powerful;
therefore, again I say, acton the offensive! and as
sault,'assamt, assault.
And then, genfletnen as to a . romrarisan be
tween the two eandiQates, the preference amt supe
riority are all ore our side. Who will point to any
marked honor done, or benefit centered, or service
rendered, by Mr. Van Buren to the-Repub ic ? On
the other hand the history of Gen. Harrison is that
of a public benefactor. He is, in the first place,
that noblest work of God, aa.hone't man; and 1
I h«.l a( o-v- I;i■:.» ' i i;»i. ie. I.f.s. y
«*t mu». > ■ V*
rlarrisoU was early brought under the/
eye. qf Washington and the intuitive sagacity of
tial great man saw in him the qualities that fitted
him lor hont>?,.an«i laying his hand upon thcSiead
of* the youth, Ire blessed him to the service as h*s
countw.
The elder Adams eam^—an honest, able, and
bold man—and I say this the rather, for that I ne
ver belonged to 1 rs he ratified the
judgement of Washington by continuing yoVBg
Harrison in the public service.
Mrl Jefferson succeeded, after a content,’as you
all knew, that overtlMcw-cortiptetfely the Opposing
party —but Jefferson did not nnsappt ehend or un
derrate the merit of Karri son after employ
ing him through bis eight years,banded him overTo
Mr. Madison. Whdt that gfJIW and good man’s es
timate of him was, you ad-know. He was- sclec--
ted Irom among many, to defend %e had
so long ruled over as Governor; North
west thjßU'owf d its safety to- the nMphy"Conduct
as it bad before owed its prosperity -to the civil
xirtuesjof- Wm. H.-Atenison. ? ; >
perhaps, no instance of confidence in t.te
. high Equalities of & muS'can be eked eft.ua! to that
i n r n a comman- •
der to whom-she eoukl entrui*t her own lb fence,
and the command of the troops she was atfout to
raise, after convassing the merits ot all, passed by
all others, and devolved that honorable and most
responsible command upon Wm. H. Harrison, al-‘
though a citizen of another State Yet this is the
man- whom party malevolence now si'gm lize."
as a dotard, a coward, a petticoat hcro‘l ar.d whom •
they are using every art, lawful and 'uu.iwful, to
beat back.
Why, gentlemen, they* hay? even mriuibcd
repose of the Hermitage—cadet! fovlh,G c-ne-d Jack- *
son to bear v itness, in a letter, just onl iished, U
gainst General Harrison. 1 think I see in. that
letter the hand of Amos Kendall, and ti»e old sol
dier has been made the catspaw of the monkeys ol
the palace, who thus degrade one distinguished
man into an instrument of disparaging: another dis--
tinguished soldier and patriot Bui there ij no
sense of shame, no limit to the recklessness ol this
party. Even-tae. glorious annals of. our coviuVy
are not sacred tc them; for, in the address ot the
iVanjßuren members of the New York Legislature,
which ha&been copied and commended in all their
prints,!, is averred that the Ravolutiouary contest
itself was undertaken for base personal pufj»o>e>*,
and that the design was, not to vindicate freedom,
butto.e-tablish a monarchy at home.. This plan,
. it is added, was- defeated by ihc democracy of th:;l
day, and Mr.. Van Buren is represented ns now en
gaged in a like contest.with.t&o ffioriarchists ol this
day. Gross and damnablefalsehood and injustice!
We arc told that Mr. Van Buren is an able.and
a great man, and that Gen. Harrison has no qua li
lies to fit him for the Presidcnc3 r . Now, gent! -
men, I venture to say that put the two logclhrr,
anywhere, for any. purpose that becomes a man.
whether for a toast, speech, or message, and < -
cral Harrison will beat his competitor out of sigh-;.
We shall, then, as I have said before, be ably led.
In your own State youhave a gallant and spi; - • d
Governor, who will not fail you, and cveiy w < ic
the Whigs v/iikbeat their.pests. The fortune, in -
deed, cf tho-contending .pai ties :s different. \\e
figlit without reward, and if one of us falls lie asks
no more than an honorable grave, and sudi kind
remembrance among his WhigXrethren ns iu *=ei
vices may merit. But if one of theirs falls, ho is
forthwith provided for elsewhe®?; he is taken irom
a village to a city post the Letter
provided for. in proportion as his Teje :l.ua by the
People has been decisive and ignominious-; il left
out of Congress, he is, like Mr. Cambielcng, sent to
Russia; if willing tOjplay the part without having
the commission of a Representative, he like
ycrur Mr. Philemon* Dickcraon,- ufadc r. T'i-drict
_ . Jw4gp, ftrit is rcperttd-l-o-^k.y,-that By* fTf..Hoardu
has been nominated by the President for that office.
But we must, nevertheless, continue the contest.
The popular voice is swelling Tor \\: —the current
of puolic opinion is running in our favor —o ir con
dition is like that recorded by HcvoTjtus «l the
harvest of Egypt. When the mighty ir n. *«; re
tired into its narrowest limits, anqilTta r - waste
of slime and mud, upon which lire good wyl is
sown, the swine are turned n upon it, and they
tread and root it in, till, in good season, * : tur
ning current, rushing back with mighty mice. >vcr
spreads the waste, and then gradually sub- d.ug,
discloses, instead of mud and slime and brut.- , a
smiling, fertile, and beautiful rlam, w-tb the boun
teous harvest, and rejoicing Inc eye and hca;l ot
man
That tide of public opinion which is now. sa. -
iugover the mire and slime that!. *.ve tie laced r
land will produce like cheeringresuits,for the good
seed is here, and wc shall see it to an
abundant and bonefieient liarvc-st. Towards ac
complishing such a result, Me. P. again earnestly
invoked and pressed the «#tifing efforts of nil who
heard him; and then thanking.th-; assembly mr Hie
patience and indulgence with which th« A ; hat! lis
tened! Mr. P. concluded-with saying fur himself
he was vowed to the contest uuti. ii closed, wlk-ii,
if unsuccessful, such was his po.daon, ho would
fait to be no more heard cf; if . uctv \voul« ;
Only claim to be among the first and me-1 zealous
to join in the shouts and gralulations cf victory.
When Mr. Preston took las seat, tlie air was
rent wßii cheers, again andaguiu repeated—which,
rising up, as they dl l, from the ! • om of darkness
—for the only light , and they were few, were on
the stage, and the .ast assembly around was but
(fimly seen —had a most striking and sii.guiar ef
fect. The evening was closed by Mr Gamble, of.
Newark, with one of his Harrison songs, admira
bly sung as usual, and then all retired gratified ;md
resolved on. victory.
From the Georgia Journal:
Chief Justice Taney and 31r. Van Bureiu
At the April Tcim, 1840, of the Circuit court
of the United Steles, for the District of ?»I ary land,
a trial took place of an individual from the Island
of Manilla who was culled Lorenzo Dow, and
who had been sent by an American consul to
Baltimore, charged with the crime of murdering
on the high seas, Oapt W. C. Lano-soix, a citi
zen of Boston. No while person was on board
the vessel when the captain was murdered, but
there were three ?iegracv whom the district attor
ney proposed sending to the Grand Jury as wit
nesses against the prisoner Upon the admission
of such testimony r very interesting and learned
arguments took place, both in favor of,by lliepro
; seculiug attorney, and against, the admission, by
the count el for the prisoner. Mu. Chief Jus
tice Taney, an Administration man, and ts
warm friend of Mr. Van Burcn , delivered the
opinion of tlie Court, which was in substance
this: that had the prisoner been a white man, the
testimony of the negroes was inadmissible; but
inasmuch “as-the person did not stand in the
condition of a Christian white perron of the
Eutopean race, the evidence offered by the U.
States was admissible against him.” Now this
is the decision of Mr. Chief Justice Taney. He,
in-the decision oftnis most important tribal quo.- - .
tion, involving in it the same principles conten
ded for by Lieut. Hooe, is decidedly with that
gentleman, and in opposition to Mr. Van Huren.
He, Mr. Chief Justice Taney, could see some
thing to condemn in the introduction of negro
testimony against a white man, and that too, in
a legal point of view ; but Mr. Van Buren, neith
er legaly, nor morally , could see anything which
required his interference. A Southern man, a
Virginian by birth, must have his feelings insul
ted, and his rights trampled upon, and when the
President is appealed to, to do him justice, he is
told by that functionary, with a coolness
displaying to the world how heartless is the man,
that he secs ndlfdng in tl\p proceedings that re
quires his interference ; and yet this man is said
to he a friend of the South and of Southern insti
tutions \ What presumption ! and how insult
ing to the common sense understanding of every
Georgian, is such a rem.iik .when addresred to
them ! A friend of |tha Sohfh. indeed I Whv,
his every act, involving our interests, cither di
rectly or indirectly, proves him to he the very
reverse of such an assumption; and what is more
so far from being duped by such a cry on the
part of his partisans, the people of our Sb-ilfe view *
the effort to palm him upon them as a friend
their institutions, with the most sovereign cup
tempt, which has been •before at tne
polls, and which will be.thftro agpin displayed.