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About The Washington news. (Washington, Ga.) 1821-183? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1824)
V JLUM2 XJ PTBT.TSKr.TI WEEKLY, HV PHI LIE C. gttjfjj, KT NEW ARft wgement. A*< experience hks discovered ons the little paid ‘o prm’ d b's, and the fji-eat and .fßr.siPv and expense n collec ?; n such deb's* s 6 9 a few only, can be called liberal m paying j punctually what ihey owe justly, to the printer, v e have, ufimr jjtue consideration, come to this conclusion, Miai we ouojit wor to give credit We are compelled, therefore! to adopt anew plan fn conseqnnce of ‘his determination, our terms shall in future be,lor he paper three dollars per annum, if paid in advance—four dollars, if paid six months—and five dollar* if paid only a’ the end of the year 1 For they ace to be paid in ad- | vancr sheriff tales, excepted, which are to be paidSc lanerly fhr above rules sjjsyll be I n. >nc need apply who | is not ready to comply with them. Terms of Advertising, 75 cents per square for 4he first insertion, and 62 (-2 cents lor • e&ck continuation *.*{■ 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*. ► [No. 37.
