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*.*{■ General* Elections.
’ CANDIDATES.
‘ FOR CONGRESS.
George Carey, of Columbia
Alfred Cu'Wbert, of Chatham.
John Forsyth, of Richmond
.Charles E. Haynes, of Hancock.
Augustus G. Longsije#*, of Greene.
James Meriwether, of Clark
Edward F Tattnall, of Chatham
Wiley ‘Thompson, of Elbert
FOR THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
WILKES COUNTY.
SENATE.
Bolling Anthony. Thomas Wootteiu
HOUSE
John W. Cooper, Dennis L Dent.
John T. Graves Felix G Hay.
William C. Lyman. John II Pope
James Uembert James Render.
7 We aro requested to announce BEN
JAMIN WOOTTEN, Esq, as a candidate at
the next election, for Tax Collector
4-fl We are requested ‘o announce DRURY
CUNNINGHAM, Esq. asacandidate a* tho. j
next election, for Receiver of Tax Returns
i
Off We are authorized to announce SAMU
EL BROOKS, Esq as a candidate at the en
suing election, tor Receiver of Tax Returns. ‘
Robert Malone , & r o
riLENDER to their friendf. in the
JJL up country their thank* for the
liberal support they deceived the past
season ; and beg leave to renew Ao
them and the public, a-tender of Their
Services in the
Commission Business.
They are now making their W ARE
HOUSE much larger and morf con
venient which will be completed by
the Ist of September tT\ey will
make liberal advances on cotton-’ sto
red with them for sale, and their for
mer low commission of 50 cent per
bale will only be charged, bn ail !
sale* of cotton made by them; for
all other transactions the usual com-..
mission that are charged by others
They pledge their faithful attention
to the interest of those who may fa
vor them with their business.
Augusta, August 17, lSlli. 34 7t
Holcombe & Brother ,
rpAKE this method of returning
JL thank* to their friends and the
public, for the liberal entourage
Went heretofore received, and of in
forming them that they continue to
transact the
Ware-House
Avb
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
at their old stand, tipper end S nth
aide Broad Street, where iheir un
divided attention will be paid to all
business intrusted to their care.
Augusta, Aug. 9,184*. S3—6t
Fr the Columbia Telescope.
Messrs. Edit ors.—'The course of
conduct you have pursued on the
subject of llie Presidential Question,
lias been characterized by a liberal
and impartial spirit, seldom exer
cised on the like occasion, by any
of the public prints in the Union.
You have permitted, through the
medium of your press, a fair and
free canvas of the pretensions of
eaoh candidate; and, in doing so,
I feel convinced, that you have fre
quently done violence to your own
opinions. But, this is a sacrifice
which your duty to the people, and
to the interests of the country loud
!y demanded you to make ;ad in
fr.akine if. you tro entitled to the
thanks end eouh(fen<e of the com
munity. find you, gentlemen, on
the contrary, by an arrogant as
sumption of dictatorial power, sti
fled public se itinicnt, by giving
tuch partial and garbled expressions
hf st as suited the clandestine views
The Washington News.
WASHINGTON\ &*qrgia) S ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1324.
of a solitary party, you would [jave
| called down upon your heads e
maledi .'lions of the while, and have
justly .incurred the severest repre-
I bensyons of ths’ people.
Tile line of |Micy whioh “J JVa* !
tive Caroliniattf and several other
pragmatical advisers, would mark
out for s alike fll\sive to
common senstf, and repugnant to e- j
very republiea’i feeling and prinei- ,
pie. They would coerce you into
an unqualified and servile approba
tion of every measure of their par
ty, no matter hw mbohievous in
its eonsequenoes.— They would tie 5
you down to the aar of their politi
cal Ju ggeruaut, and if you refused
to shout hnsAunah’s in his train, io
the eiemeooy of their nature, they
would ru9li you beneath its wheels.
Gentlemen, it was a domineering
aristocracy like this, which intro
duced info our government the ad ■
ministration of John Adams—an j
administration which ha* been em- !
phaticallyfc truly al|pdthe“ reign ‘
of terror”—ao administration which !
corrupted the primordial purity of
our oonstituli >o, br.*ke down the ,
sacred’mounds whi'-ii it set up to j
guard the people.against the tyrant •
meal encroachments of the i- xe u*
tire and Representative servants! 1
Have the people forgot the tumul- j
tuary and extravagant misrule of j
that tim.? If they Ijave, I would ■
tell lhem Ji*, it was Hieo v*onsid ,
ered moral treason to question the .
infallibility of the reigning powei
That ihe word of a President of the j
Unitdti States was looked upon as a ‘
dictum oflaw— aud that the bull of
a Sovereign Pontiff, or the arrest ,
ol an 4sialic Satrap, wore uot
more despotically encouraged.—
That they were not successfully en j
forced, may be itnpu ed to the r© I
deeming spirit of the people. j
Lei L< iroi be thougbr that I am !
e rev ting a scarecrow to frighten*
the squabs of our political Aviary.
j when i say that the same insid'ous
| means are now employed to bring a
bout a slate of things, equally up-’
1 preasive and disgraceful. If. such
;is not the fad, why do we.fee the
members of our Cabinet interfering
in the preparatory business of the
approachiag presidential election,
; like so rnaviy rotten borough mong
ers? Some of them stripping them
selves to (he buff like infuriated gla
; Viators—or, to speak more “ ger
man to the matter,*’ like so many
village Hectors; and madly pluog
irigioto the arena, dare to the com
bat whoever may change o question
their political orthodoxy \ Did uot
Jehu Quinsy Adams do this, when
he declared that ALL, who thought
differently with him n the giea?
constitutional question of Infernal
Improvement, were “ ineffably
stupid*'! Did ho not and * whet*
he wpnd -ew from Gales & Seaton,
he ‘governmental patronage, be
cause they had the temerity io de
ny the royal axiom, that “The Ex
ecutive *a. do no wrong”; and af
terward, when he run a tilt with
them io the public prints in advoca
tion of mis absolute and monstrous
prerogative? And, “last, though
not least,” did not tha same gentle
man, associated with Mr. Calhoun
and others, attempt apparently to
vindicate the uhara(cr f that po
litical regicide, Nnian Edw irds ,
who had been tried by his peers,
and consigned to publia infamy, as
the ostensible conductor of a vile
conspiracy against the Secretary of
tho Treasury ?—ls public opinion to
be outraged io this manner by men
in office with impunity? by men
whose duty it is to respect, n*t defy,
the sentiments of the people? No
it cannot be. A regenerating spi
rit will, in its own good time, cov
er them with confusion a r .d tlis om
fihire; and when its voi.-e goes forth,
WOE to him who would stay it.
Ar.d is it, Messrs. Editors, fur
noticing (to use the mildest epithet
imagi-tablej such political iudis-re
tinas as those to whioh I have allud
ed, that you are arraigned before
the bar of public opinion? and ar
raig el ton, by one who stigmatises
the friends of Mr. Crawford, as
“parasnesand hirelings”! ‘‘eed n >t,
ge. tl-inen, the idle < l i..nr of these
infuriated Hotspurs— the verdict of
the people will be wUh ij w: they
wili ‘O’ desert yu t’*r opening their ,
eyes to the aberrations of their pub- :
lie agents. But. rest assured, tln
he who attempts to hoodwink them,
him will they hurl from their eoa-
Ud^n^e.
For the Presidency, gentlemen,
you well know, that Mr. Crawford
is no nhoice of mine. These re
marks, than, have been elicited by
nO’udividual prepossession. They
are made purely in opposition to
that intolerable system *f proserip- 1
lion, with which haughty aris
tocracy, like a inaUguant Incubus,
would weigh down the energies of
the nation, PUBLIUS.
From the B.diimore American.
William H. Crawford.
; The enemies of Mr. Crawford j
have urged with great zeal, and j
under the authority of imposing
names a ahargo of being a Radical, i
This new fangled. imported epithet, i
is intended by them to eonv y the
idea that Hr,. Crawford is for cat- ;
ting up by the roots til the most va-
Iqthte insHtuno rs ot* .me vouotry, i
Let us see upon w’W foundation this i
•oharge rest’s, and wiic.her if is not
equally as false and ;di uI mjs as
that of having bee-a FViWalist in 1
1798
Io Deocmb r session ol 1819. Hie ;
Secretary oi*i.he Treasury rc i
that the mea is for ks 40 w uld fall
short of the extseoffi: preposetl 1
by the head* ot deoa? mu; ,; h%, in*-|
the sum of fiv* of and !
which mu*, heme. hv i
taxes- '• re reach dents Congreis j
adopted tw of those *iternatives— :
they k >ew the sitiiaHou of the coun
try was in an unparalled degree dis
tressing, and >ha! the peaple muld
i not hear new i&xes. They there
fore preferred a loan of three mil
•lio, jinitreirenchuiefps t* the a
mouut of inure Hiao two miHions.
Nothing was said against the loan,
but the retreutuncau-ed th t
hostility of alt the bloodsuckers of I
the nation. The contract or*, those !
employed io the expenditure and j
disbursement A the public money,
joined in the’ out* ry agAtust Mr.
Crawford, because he had >erom
R mended salutary retrenchments , and
thus interfered with their ur-hahow
ed patronage and gaii. But this
great man wa* not to be deterred
from a performance of the duty he
owed to his station as conservator
of the public money by the clamors
of men of ihi* description; aod he
recommended a similar course for
die year 184i. The revenue, from
a variety of cireumstauue, produced
inutti less than was expected,
and the Presi.frst was under the
necessity of informing Congress
that the means for 1841 would fall
short of the estimated expenses in
the sum of seven mil lious of dollars !
Me Crawford again submitted, the
same aiterna'ives of taxes, loans , or
retrenchments —the two last were a
gain adapted by Congress, and a
; loan of live millions granted and
retrenchments made exceeding two
millions. Another and more vio
lent outery of the disbursers of the
people’s money was beard, and Ra
dical f Radical , resounded from all
the presses under their influence
and control. Ruin was predicted ;
and the nation, it was said, would
be destroyed by the injudicious
course of Mr, Crawford and his
friends. My feljow-ritizens, time
has enabled you to test the conse
quences of these measures—what
has been the result? For 1822 no
loan was required; the means were
j adequate to itie expenses. In 1823,
| a full Treasury , and a declaration
i by (he President, in bis message of
December last, that the accounta
bility laws had Tally answered the
I obje *•* oootemplkted— that all our
institutions were in the best condition,
l and that by the good management
| introduced and an increase in our
| commerce, our receipts had ooton
j ly been equal to our expenses, but
we had nine millions of dollars in
the treasury applicable t® the pay
i went of the national debt. That
message has opened the eyes of the
people to the advantages derived
j from the eeooomiial course of Mr.
Crawford and his friends. They
now see how much economy is pre
ferable to a profligate expenditure
of the nublitf money They novy
fled the ft Kioees es the country io *a
mere flourishing condition than a*
any former period.—Public credit,
both at home nod abroad, establish
ed upon the most solid and perma
neof basis —Hie national dubt redu
ced upwards of fifty millions t and,
agreeably to a la'e publication in the
i Patriot ‘a further reduution of
fourteen miltinns to lake plase dur
ing the present year. Up m these
fact* I entreat you, my fellowciti
zens, to pause and refler-t! look
and examine for yourselves, and if
you ue satisfied of their correctness
—♦‘render unto Csesar that which
is Ctesar’s—Give to Mr. Crawford
the credit due to him for the able
management of your tisoal concerns.
You have been shamefully deceived
in regard to his character. Instead
of that (ime-terving, intriguing,
ambitious pcpularity-seeker which
his enemies have been so busy in
representing him, you will find he j
has been assiduously engaged in
promoting die best interests of your
country—-iu diminishing the publio
debt to a dosree uoprordnnlcd In
so short a period; in steadily and
fearlessly stemming the torrent of
waste & ex<ravAganee which tkrea
*jfened *.O overwhelm and to sweep
i away all that was valuable and dear
to us in our beautiful fabrtsk of go-
in restoring the Jeffcrso
nian principle* of economy and.*
strict accountability in every brauuh
4f hi* department. Beset on all.
sides,* assaiied'from all quarters by
bad men and unprincipled politi
cians, be has never for one moment
lost sight of his great abject; he
ha* pursued “the even tenor of his
way” regardless *f and uninjured
by their malevolent shafts; and he
.D(MV stand# hofn**o yu find ®-
reat, wi‘h the testimony of the
g n a id inquest of the nation to the a
bility and ioteglhiy wi .h whiah he
has sonduMted the Treasury Depart
ment— And the further testimony
o ?b*ngdnn Cheves , lath President
of the Bank of jfle United States
who closed one of bis Answers be
fore the Committee of investigation
with the following words— *
“In my opinion, the Sehl’etaryof
the Treasury-displayed mjwh ability ,
GREAT ZEAL AND INDUSTRY, PER
FECT com
manded as much’ success as was
practicable under the circumstan
ces of the times It was, said C. a
crisis of unoxtQnpled difficulty.”
CATO.
..Albert Qaltatin.
Every day develops lauts which
go to show that a party is rising in
this country, and seeking to sway
public seqtimenf, whose princi
ples are averse to Republican
doctrines, and who would make this
government aristooratieal and mo
narchical in practice, retaining the
name only of a Republic. This is
the party which we designate by
the term Ultra, as not knowing
any other term which so distinctly
| describes its propensities and pur
poses. It is thus theparty in France
I is denominated which is for ever
| pressing the Executive of that coun
try to a rigor beyond necessity, and
; to perseeuliens for opinion’s sake.
; It is that party which urged the
war against freedom in Spain—
which has proscribed the virtuous
Lafayette, and eliminated him
from the councils of his country—
; which bolds the press in chains,
| aud whioh has lately forbidden the
i circulation of an American Literary
! Magazine, lest it should iutroduee
j the oontagion of free principles.
! We speak of this party, not with re
ference to the politics of France,
with which we disclaim any possible
I concern, but to show what we con
sider the characteristics vs Ultra
ism every where—a subserviency to
power, a disposition to aggrandize
the government at the expense of
popular rights, and a denunciation
of the writings and speeches of all
who manifest a determination to
think ad act with the least parti,
ele of independence. If this party
| dees not go here Cos the whole length
of the doctrines of th i tJlira pa ty
in Frapce, it is, at least, deeply
emhued.’ with their spirit.
Something of the same spirit we
have seen, in days gooe by ; but
the doQtrines of the Federalists of
those days were moderation itself,
nompqrcd with those which the sect
which has reoently sprung up would
propagate among us.
It is with perfect consistence
that these prints have commenced a
serie- of bitter hostilities agaiust
the character of Albert Galla
tin, the sworn foe of aristocratic
notions during a long, useful, and
honorable life—tlie active leader of
the hand who stemmed io “the days
of terror” the enoroaehments then
attempted—the man than whom
none contributed more to the regie*
ration of the administration of this
government to the simplicity which,
becomes a government of the Peo
ple. It is enough that Mr. G&lla*
tin has been nominated, by the first:
men of the country as a candidate
for the Vice-Presidency, without
the consent f the Ultras, to draw
down upon him thor most vindictive
malice. An irreproachable life of
fifty years in the United States, be
gun by fightingin the ranks of the
Militia for Ihe defence of the coun
try, continued by assisting to or
ganize our revered institutions, sus
tained by the most devoted efforts to •
preserve those Institutions from’
corruptions of them, afterward** by
00-operation with the illustrion Jef
ferson, in bis reformation of th
errors and abuses of tho times, ami
more recently by diplematie servi
ees\of the highest importance—all
these avail nothing, ifb© stand! in
the way of a party which', it is now
apparent, will stop at nothing that;
impedes its purpose. It is thus we
find the National Journal applying
the epithet of “ THAiTOR” to tins.
veneratrto patriot, in aonooeiug its
intention to publish a series of es
says, by some patriot no doubt, t<*
derogate from hir valued
name.
It is some consolation, that, un
der the Ultra definition of “
son,” the denunciation of it irons
such a source carries with it mom
of hooor than of reproach. It is
“treason” with that party to hesi
tate about subscribing to the ducU’
rioe of Executive infallibility. Mr.
Gallatin is therefore a traitor, icy
their understanding of the term*
because ho dared, as a citizen, to
question the expediency bf an cx
oise, at the time when a few delu*
ded creatures io (he Western part
of Pennsylvania only entertained
for a day or two the folly of intend
ing to resist the collection of it by*
force, but when the whole Repub.
lioan party condemned the policy oT
the measure. It was soon after that
time, we well remember, for wn
saw and heard him, that Mr. GaU
latin was in Congress, and iu thm
reign of terror, as it used to be nail
ed, raised his voice effectually a
gainst the system of measures up-*
en which the nation has since pass
ed sentence: and no man of charac
ter then dared to brave public sen
timent, or common decency, by
stigmatizing him as a traitor. Hr
was reserved for chese days, ants
for a knot of some half dozen ep! eim
meral presses, to dishonor his grey*
hairs, by imputations as shameful
as they are unfouoded. We shalL
next expect to hear, from thest*
presses, that Jefferson and Madison t
and every name endeared to us by
respect and reverence fer their pn
litioai services, are “traitors.’”
The epithet would be applied with
quite as much reason to them as it
has been done to Albert Gall a-*
tin. It was Jefferson who, kuovv
iog and appreciating his value, .$>
sneifited Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Ma
dison in his administration, and re
posed in both of them, during tb®
whole of it, the most implicit
fidenee. It was Madison, wbf> t
when he became President, invited
Mr. Gallatin Intake obarge of tho
Uepartmentof State , which he decli
ned accepting, hot continued Mr,
Madison’s Ghhlul coadjutor until
his country demanded his services
abroad. Ye; it i Albert Gallatin,
thus identified with the patriarch*.
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[No. 37.