News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844, September 10, 1840, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

NEWS & PLANTERS’ HrAZETTc D.. COTTINtt, Editor, No. 2. —New Series, News and Plilnttii's’ (liaitcflt 1 . TERMS. Three DdtffiAßS per annum. payable at the time of subscribing; of Ttittfeh Dollars and Fifty CenES if ilbt paid within six months. No paper will be diacAitiltued, npless at thb option of the publisher, >vilht)lit ‘hestittlemerll ‘of all arrearages. Advertisements notexcOOdingorib square first insertion, Seventy-five CRAts j and for each sObsequent insertion, Fifty CeAFS. A reduction of 25 per cent, will be made to those who advertise by the year. (yf Our Advertising friendeare requested ito mark on their advertisements the number ‘ofinseHicms they wish us to give them ; other wise they will be published till forbid, and (charged accordingly. ■* % * LeUera on business must come pout tprtid, to i’rtsure attention. The follotoihg gentlemen will forward the flame of ally who may wish to subscribe: dOliN A. SIMMONS, Goshen, Lincoln, Ba. J. T. &. G. H. WOOTEN, Mallorysville, Ga. S. J. BUSH,Hrwinton, Wilkinson, Ga. O. A. LUCKETT, Crawfofdville, Ga. W. DAVENPORT, LeXirtgton, Ga. A. D. STATHAM, DanbUrgh, Ga. WM. B. NELMS, Elbefton, Ga. B. F. TATOM, Lincolnton, Ga. General GRIER, Raytown, Ga. JAMES BELL, Powelton; Ga-. Dr. CAIN, Cambridge, Abbeville Dlhtrict, S. C. THE PEOPLE’S TICKET. For President. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the in corruptible Statesman—the inflexible Re publican —the patriot Farmer oj Ohio. For Vice-President. JOHN TYLER, J State Right's Republican of the School of ’98 —one of Virginia's noblest sons; and emphatically one of America's most sagacious, virtuous, and patriotic Statesmen. For Georgia Legislature. Wilkes Anti-Van Burcn Nomi nation. (ELECTION ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER. For Senate. Dr. WILLIAM Q ANDERSON. (For the Hotfi/e of Representatives. ROBERT A. TOOMBS, Esq. Dr. JAMES N. WINGFIELD. JOHN T. WOOTEN, Esq. For Congress. fELtfrrtd* ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER, 1840.] R. W. HABERSHAM. <f Habersham, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene , JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup, EUGENIUS A. NIS BET, of Bibb, LOTT WARREN, of Sumter, I THOMAS BUTLER KING, of ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson, JAMES A MERRIWETHER, of PtA**<m, THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. For Electors of President and Vide Presi dent. I ELECTION THE FIRST MONDAY tV NOVEMBER 1 1840.] GEORGE R. GILMER, of GfifelUorpe, Gen. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden, Col. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee, Mat. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock, CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark, SEATONGRANTLAND, of Baldwin, Gen. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass, Gen. W. W. EZZARD, of De Kalb, - C. B. STRONG, of Bibb, JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke, Gen. E WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. POL.IT I C A L . Resettled, by the Senate and House oj Representatives of the State of Kentucky, That, in the late campaign against the Indians upon the Wabash, Governor William Henry Harrison has behaved like a hero, a patriot, and a general; and that for his cool, delibe rate, skillful, and gallant conduct in the battle of Tippecanoe, he well deserves the warmest (banks of his country and his nation.”^ Legislature of Kentucky, Jan. 7, 1812. w General Harrison has done more for his country, with less compensation tor it, than *ny man living.” President Madison. I profess to be somewhat acquainted with the history of General Harrison's politioal, military, and private life. lam his neighbor, and live in his county. As to hisj private life, f know of no stain that for a moment sullies hinm’ v Dr. Duncan, of Ohio, Colonel’ Richard M. Johnson, now Vice Pre sident of the United Slates, said, in Congress; “Whu is General Harrison ! The son of one of the signers- of the Declaration of Indepen dence, who*spent the greater part of his large fortune in’ redeeming the pledge lie then gave, of his* fortune; life, and saored honor,’ to se cure the liberties of his country. ’ • Ofthe e&reer of General Harrison, I need not speak ; the history of the West is his his tory. For forty years he has been identified with its interests, its perils, and its hopes. Universally beloved in the walks of peace, and distinguished by his ability in the coun cils of his country, he has been yet more illustriously distinguished in the field. Dur ing the late war, be war longer in’ actual sefVibe tHitn any other General Officer; he was, perhaps, uftener in action than any one of them, and never sustained a defeat.” Colonel R. M. Johnson to General Harrison, July 4, 1813, sayS : “ We did not want to serve under cowards or traitors ; but under one [Harrison] who had proved hunselfto bewise, prudent, and brave.” General Win. H. Harrison says : “ lu all ages, and in dll countries, it has been observed, lliul the cultivators of the soil are those who are the least willing to part with their rights, and submit them to the will of a master.” On the night before the final questiou on the Missouri restriction was taken, General Har risott was warned by one of bis associates, that if he voted against the restriction, lid would ruin his popularity at the North ; he fearlessly replied : “ I have often risked my life in defeno* of my country —1 will now risk my political po pularity in defence of the union.” On the subject of selling white men for debt, General Garrison Says; in a letter to M r. Pleasants; “ So far from being willing id Sell then lot debts*, which they ure unable to discharge; I am, and ever have been, opposed to all impri sonment for debt.” In a letter, on the same subject; to the Editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser, he says: “ Far from advocating the abominable prin ciples attributed to me by your correspondent, i think that imprisonment for debt, under any circumstance but those where fraud is alleged, is at Ural with tllb best principles of our Con stitution; tltid tJUgllt to be abolished.” lit A speech at. Cheviot, Ohio, on the foilrth of July, 1833, General Harrison, speaking of the abolitionists, sßys : “ THe Schemes of the abolitionists are fraught with horrors, Upon which an incarnate devil only could look with approbation.” In a letter to the Hon. Sherrdd Williams’ dated “ North Bend, May 1, 1836,” lie says : “ I have before me a newspaper, in which 1 am designated by its distinguished editor, 1 the bank and federal candidate.’ I think it would puzzle the writer to adduce any act of my life which warrants him in identifying me with the interests of the first, or the politics of the latter.” The Electoral Ticket. JUDGE DOUGHERTY’S REPLY. Athens, 9th July, 1840. Gentlemen :—I have the honor to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter, of the 25th of June, as a committee; informing me of my nomination by the Convention held in Milledgeville, on the first Monday of that month, as one of the Candidates for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, at the approaching Presidential election. Also, that by a re solution of said Convention, II is expressed that myself und the othel 1 gentlemen, whose names are placed with mine on the electoral ticket, were nomirtillbd with a view to the support, of General William ft. Harrison, of Ohio, for the office of President, and John Tyler, of Virginia; for the office of Vice President of the United States. In full view of such object of the Convention, I cheerfully accept the nomi nation. You, gentlemen, have expressed an eh tire assurance in my coincidence With the Convention on the subject of supporting General Hairison and Mr. Tyler fdr the two highest offices known in the Constitu tion of our Country. In this assilrtlhce you are not mistaken. An unhesitating conviction of duty to our common Coun try, prompts me to tender you my heart and hand in the pending contest foi* the Presidency, I shall be pleased to see a President come into office bv the unbought suffrages of the freemen of the Union ; and not by the power and patronage, if not appoint ment of his “ illustrious predecessor:” I shall be gratified to see a President elected on account of his long and merito rious services to the country, and not one whose chief claim rests on his subservlehcy to his predecessor. I desire to see elected a man .who will be President of the Coun try and not of a party. I wish to see elected a President who will consider the offices of the government established for the good of the whole peo ple, and not as spoils wherewith to reward unscrupulous partizans. I am anxious to see elected, the man who will be content to exercise the powers delegated bv the Bonstitution and laws, and then only because they are necessary, and not one who seeks on all occasions, and by all means, to enlarge these powers, and to use them for the purpose of getting or keeping office, I seek to have elected the man who I be lieve will exercise or bestow the patron age incident to his office, on the honest, capable, nnd faithful,and not use it to con trol or influence the suffrages of the peo ple. I shall rejoice to see elected the man who will wage no war against the labor and credit of the country ; who will cease to destroy the energies of the people by a continued experiment on the currency of the country, and who will consider the government instituted for the benefit of the citizen, and feel himself bound to aid and relieve the people in all cases when that can be legally and constitutionally done ; and not the mao, who seeks to redoce the Washington, (Wilkes county, Ga.) September LO* 1840. price of labor; by destroying the credit and trade of the Union, and to urge a po licy of finance calculated to make the poor poorer, and the rich richer ; and who thinks the people expect too much of the Government—and says the government must take care of itself, and the people to take care of themselves. And above all, I shall be happy to see elevated to the Presidential Chair, the man who will rfedutfe the expenditures of the Go vernment to an economical standurd; and cease to draw frtnh the Common mass; to bestow on favorite partizans. These are some of the benefits to the country 1 hope for, and the principles I expect to advance, by the election of Wm. H. Harrison and John Tyler. And there are many principles I desire to rebuke in the rejection nl the present incumbent: I shall expect, in the success of Harri son uud Tyler, to see the country taught once more to look to Congress and not to the Executive lor ail law—-to hope for dis tinction by virtuous, honest, and indepen dent action; and not rely alone on Execu tive favor lor public promotion. That among my fellow-citizens there will he a diversity of opinion, I am ready to admit ; and all i ask Is a concession of honesty ol purpose on my part. I ask no thing bdt What l grant to others. But I sat dolVn simply to signify my ac ceptance ol the nomination which the par tiality of friendship offered; and notto give reasons for my future conduct, ahd hopes Or feats on my part. The interest in volved, however, has produced this train of reflection; and 1 have yielded to its hearty expression: 1 am, gentlemen, respectfully, your fel low-citizen, C. DOUGHERTY'. To Hon. Thaddeus G. Holt; Miller Grieve, Geo. R. Clayton, Williams Ruther ford, M. Gonder, H. C. Culver, Irbv Hudson, jr-, H. Lockhart; and Joshua Hill, Esqrs., Committee: GOV. GILMER’S REPLY. Lexington, 15th July, 1840. Gentlemen: —Absence from the State for the last two months, has prevented my receiving and answering your communica tion, informing me ofthe nominations made by the State Rights Convention lately as sembled in Milledgeville, of candidates for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States. Concurring en terely with the Convention in the prefer ence given by it to Gen. Harrison and Mr. Tyler for the offices of President and Vice President over Mr. Van Buren and the ma ny candidates for the Vice Presidency, the nomination; so far as I am concerned, is accepted. The Constitution ihtrusts great power to the President to provide against the ineffi ciency common to popular .Governments. The abuse of that power; is the danger which most threatens to destroy the bene ficial operation of our free institutions.— Mr. Van Buren and the leaders of the par ty who brought him into office, and who are tioW seeking to re-elect him, have abu sed that power in a manner hitherto unex ampled in this Country, by turning out faithful; independent officers; filling as far as possible all Vacant appointments with servants of the party instead of servants of the Country; giving the publication of the laws arid other profitable employments to newspapers advocating the course of the Administration right or wrong, excit ing the active Seal of all those who prefer living out ofthe public treasury to honest labor, by the certainty with which they have rewarded partizan support with pub lic employment, and by extravagant ap propriations and the slight responsibility imposed upon those intrusted with their ex penditure. It is characteristic of such an administration of Government that the e vils attendant upon it increase in rapid prm gressloh with toleration! The questions involved In the present Contes’ for the Presidency und compared with which indeed all others are Insignifi cant; are Whether Mr. Van Buren and the leaders of his party shall be rewarded by the people with the highest honors and emoluments in their gift for doing the great est possible injury? Whether the people can be so misguided and deceived by the acts and misrepresentations of those in of fice, the agents of the Government and those expecting advantages from its ad ministration as to continue their trust in in those who have most grossly betrayed their confidence? The consequences of the professions and practices of Mr. Van Buren and his party may already be seen in the degradation of the Judiciary aud Legislative Departments-—the declension of public spirit and the regard for the sa cred obligation of law and morals, and the uproar and turmoil which disturb the quiet of society, They have made Con gress the perpetual scenoe of the most dis graceful the Post Master General into the Editor of an Ex tra sheet of the most sourrilous partisan newspaper, and the highest official digni taries into the distributors under their frank of Amos Kendall’s insidious productions, and have brought Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Calhoun into the arms of each other with no common feelings or opinions, and ha ting each other with all the bitterness of mqtual injury and intuit. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. But one measure of public policy owes its adoption to the ascendency ol’ the Van Buren. party. Whether the benefits of the Sub-Treasury will ever compensate the country for all the mischiefs inflicted upon it to secure that ascendency is yet to be de termined- The Sub-Treasury has ulreu | dy been partially in operation for the Irtst two years. Commercial credit and gene- I ral confidence have ceased to exist, and | distress and emberrassment are felt every where. In barbarous times, when tyranny and misrule directed the conduct of Govern ment; it was the practice of kings, when fearful of making further direct exactions of the people, to enlarge the means of ex travagance by mixing cheap metals with gold and silver and compelling the people to receive the base currency at the value of pure coin; Our rulers by the Snb- TreaSUry are compelling the people to pay their taxes and other demands of the Gov ernment in monfey of greater value than what they use in their dealings with each other, in order that the Salaries of public officers and perquisites of all who are in the employment of the Government, may be increased and have their means of ex penditure enlarged. These measures a grefe in this, that each benefits those in power at the expense of the people. The operation of the Sub-Treasury will be bet ter understood when the people pay to their merchants the increased price w hich must bo ebafged upon their goods to compensate for the high rath of exchange upon New York of Charleston. No one doubts but that the fnoriey of the Government can be kept and disbursed inure sal’elv and e conomically by Banks than Sub-Treasur ers. And vet; some patriotic citizens have favored the Sub-Treasury because they are of opinion that the party in power can exercise lesscorrupt influence through the Sub-Treasury than by the employment of Banks. Will such persons remember, that the party who have adopted the Sub- Treasury, understand the efficiency of cor rupt influences far belter than they do, and are unscrupulous beyond all example in this country in the employment of them? The administration of Mr. Van Buren has been extravagant to a degree previous ly unknown to our Government, und is as insufficient as it has been extravagant. — Between thirty and forty millions of pub lic money have been annually spent. How could this be otherwise? An administra tion which employs agents not on account of their honesty aud capacity, but because they bring voters to it, cannot turn out in competent and dishonest agents, because votes would thereby be lost. An agent of the Government employed to examine the land offices, informed thdt Secretary of the Treasury, that a receiver of the public money had pocketed a large sum, but advised him to treat this default er indulgently, that he was a democrat, and had many very influential friends who were democrats*. Did Mr. Woodbury dis miss his agent as a knave lor thus insult ing the head ofthe Treasury Department by the imputation that he preferred secu ring votes for his party to discharging his duty to the country? or did he act kindly and confidingly towards this defaulting democrat with numerous influential demo cratic friends ? A large portion ofthe revenue of the U; States is derived from the duties received upon goods imported into New Y'ork. If, therefore, the administration makes its of ficers responsible at all, gliards the public money with any vigilance, or enforces the revenue laws with any effect it was to have been expected that the collector of New York would have been made to do his du ty. That officer filched from the Govern: ment Upwards of two millions of dollars because the laws wfere not enforced. If the colleetol* of the port of New Y'ork act ing almost immediately under the eye of the President, and over whom the public interest required such strict guard, was held to so slight a responsibility, no ohe can wonder that thirty or forty millions Os dollars should be requisite for their expen ditures by the one hundred thousand agents in jhe employment of the Government: Between twenty and thirty millions of dollars have been expended by the Ad ministration of Mr. Van Buren in the’ at tempt to subdue a small band of Seminole Indians. The late murders in the imme diate vicinity of Tallahassee and St. Au gustine show for how little purpose. These and many unmentioned matters concur in rendering Mr. Van Buren un worthy ol re-election. A majority of the people of Georgia were opposed to him when elected; I was among that• number. Without any prejudices against Mr. Van Buren, I considered the means used to e lect him, highly dangerous to the purity and perpetuity of our Government, and that the leaders of the party organized for his support rendered it certain, that, if e leoted, his Administration would be selfish and corrupt. The result has fully proved the correctness of that opinion. It has been said that the present Admin istration steals und plunders, and that those opposed to it, will when in office, do the same. If those who entertain this opinion mean thereby that those who steal and plunder, ought not to be turned out of of fice, there cannot be a greater mistake.— Thro form of our Government requires that every citizen, however hdrnble, should , sit in judgment upon the conduct of can didates lor the Presidency- He presumes j that he Understands his rights and interests j and will protect them by refusing to give his vote Ibi* Ohe Who has either neglected j or violated them. This is the highest pre rogative which belongs to a citizen of this country ; upon ns proper exercise depends the continued preservation of oiir invalua ble privileges. If the people in turnihg out one administration for stedllhg and plundering, bring into power one equally dishonest; they should turn it out, aud thus, by the certainty with which they bring punishment and disgrace upon utl faithful servants make even knuVes act ho nestly. As the great body ofthe people can haVfe ; but little participation in bringing candi dates for the Presidency belore ‘.hem, it is fortunate that iu the present contest, the selection should have fallen upon General Harrison. He is honest; as is proven By the con curring testimony of rhen of all parties. A long lile devoted to the service of his country, testifies to his patriotism. He has ample experience, having filled many ol the highest civil and military offi ces ol the territorial; Stale, und General Governments. His leetin'gs; habits and interests, are in unison with the great body of the peo ple, being and plain; kind-hearted, working farmer of moderate fortune. He is a worthy son ol’one of tHd signers of the declration of independence, whose fortune was sacrificed in the war of the Revolution. He is thecaudidute of the people, and not of professional politicians, or any or ganized political combination. He has pledged himself that if elected lie will not be a candidate for re-election, and that he will Confine himself to the dis charge of the proper duties of the Execu tive Department, thereby ensuring to the country, as far as possible, that faithful men will be appointed to appointed to office, and members of Congress left free to at tend to the interests of their cofistiuents. Born, educated and reared to manhood in a slave-holding State, with the feelings, attachments, and prejudices Common to Southern men—his relations Virginians and large slave-holders—the Southern peo ple will have in the election of Gen. Har rison a security against the efforts of the Abolitionists which none but a native Jlave holder can give; confirmed by his firm ness in voting with the Southern members ol Congress upon the Missouri slave ques tion: At the same time, his marriage, his long residence, property and citizenship in a hon-slave-holdifig State will secure the non-slave-holding States against any disregard of their interests. Whilst the storm which threatens ohr country, upon the question of slavery, Withholds its fury, it should be a subject of Common gratulu tion that we have yet an honest, patriotic, and eminent citizen Upon whom all sec tions and all parlies mnv unite once more in making a President of the Union. For myself 1 shall consider it a high ho nor, if the people of Georgia shall autffo thorise me to express by my vote ns tin Elector, their decided preference Os GSh. Harrison for Presidehf to Mr. VaH Buren. I regret that circumstances which I could not very well control have delayed an’ an swer to your letter until this time. Please accept the dssiirahce of riiy high respect, &c. GEORGE R. GILMER. To Thaddeus G. Holt, Miller Grieve, Geo. R.. Clayton, William Rutherford, M\ Gohder, II: C. Culver, frby Hudson,, Jr., H. Lockhart, Joshua Hill, Central Coitimittei. GENERAL WIMBERLY’S REPLY. Twiggs County, July 17, 1840. Messrs; Thaddeus G. Holt, and Others : Gentlemen :—Several causes haVe de layed my reply to yodr letter; notifying me of my nomination upon the Harrisdh Electoral Ticket; until the present mo ment. 1 cheerfully acquiesce in the use made of my name by the Convention of our political friends in June last. If public services, both civil and military, of the most distinguished character, entitle an American citizens to the gratitude of his country, in my estimation, to no man liv ing are the people of the United States un der such deep obligations for disinterested and patriotic sufferings and sacrifices, as to General William Henry Harrison. I yield him iny support, the more readily too from the fact that he is a Southern man by birth, and a Southern man in principle, upon the most vital ofali ques tions. If I mistake not the evidence be fore and around us, since the days of Washington, the hearts of the people ne ver palpitated with such fervent enthu siasm for the success of a candidate for j offico, as is now exhibited throughout this land, yet free ; in the gatherings of the good and virtuous and patriotic, in a com mon effort to honor him, who by his pre oepts and practice has ever honored the I “ Father of his Country,” and by whom I he was honored. I have entire confidence in the republicanism of him who bad the confidence of Washington, Jefferson, anid J. KAPPEL, JPrinier. Volume XXVI. Madisoh. Let calumny do its most—it cannot rob General Harrison of the testi mony of.their approbation. ~. f 1 will again give, with great pleasure, iT an Elector, my hearty support to John Tyler, (another Virginian by birth,) for the Vice Presidency. Y our obedient servant, EZEKIEL WIMBERLY'. GENERAL CALL. Gen. Call, late Governor of Florida, and a special favorite of Gen. Jackson, has United himself to the Whigs. At a re turn pubiic meeting in Philadelphia, he suid: “So soon as Mr. Morris concluded, Gen- Call was called upon and addressed the assembly. He commenced by endeavor ing to impress upon the Whigs the impor tunce of constant, unrelaxed, and vigor ous action. They had numbers upon their side but they hud a well organized, a tho rough disciplined, and an ever vigilant band to contend with, a band well supplied too, with all the munitions of war from the treasury. ‘‘He spoke then of the practice of the Loco Foco party deuouncihg evehy mah as a Federalist, atld an enemy to Andrew Jabkson, who Would not support Martin Van Bur Ch. This charge every man in the room; he said, knew to be false, he himself pronounced \l false. The first breath he ever drew was democratic—the son of a revolutionary sire, he had been nurtur ed in democracy from his infancy—he bad ever been, and was now, n democrat.— To charge him and others like him with federalism, was u libel. He said that e qually false und calumnious was it to say that he was the enemy of Andrew Jackson. An orphan, at the age of eighteen he lefi school and entered the army under Jack son, who had been his patron and friend ; he was now his friend ; he had been with him in every buttle he ever fought save one; he had seen him and been with him under the most trying circumstances, and such was his loVe and devotion to him, thut were his life to be purchased or sav ed by giving his fc'wn, he would unhesita tingly make the sacrifice !—and, said he, indignantly, will they charge me with be ing an enemy to Jackson ! He spurned the charge us false and those who made it ns bait calumniators, who were them selves no friends of General Jackson, but only deJireto turn his deserved popularity with the people to account, and make po litical and pecuniary profit by it.” Gen. Call then went On to show how inconsist ent Were the measures und acts of Mr. Van Burch with the genuine principles of de mocFaby, und that he had taken to his em brace and confidence every ultra federal ist in the United States that could bfe in dttced td become his friend and sijppbffet*, and instaficed every distinguished fedbrilt-. iSt who were opposed to the last *.vur, anfl‘ rejoiced at the victories ol bur enemies, or like Mr. Van Buren, only Supported it, if_ at all; by talk, not hy tailing arms and exposing their person's; Ho asked whbre Mr, Van Buren was'during the War?— He was then a man of influence enough to have obtaihed a edmffiisSion—lie lived where; from his hbuSe top, he could al-’ most see tho eherrly’s Cdmp fires and hear the roar of his artillery—did he take part in it? Did he volunteer? Did heshowa disposition to fight his country’s battles and drive the enemy from otir soil? Oh no, not he—he did not like the smell of* “villainous gunpowder,” and therefore staid at home, took good care or his per son, and, if he supported the war at all, only did it by talk—there was no “fight” in him. But where was the gallant old Tippecanoe all this time? Did he support the war by talk ? No, he was in the field’ fighting lor his country and driving back her foes. Gen. C. said he was too busy himselt at the South tb tuke much noticb, at the time; ofthe movements of (laH-ison* at the Northwest; but he had u brother; now no more; with him at the battle df the Thames, ahd frdm him, as well as trdm the rhouths of others, he had heard of the skill and bravery of Gen. Harrison ! And this is the man, said Gen. C., they denounce ns a federalist and a coward! Blistered be the tonge that can utter such a slander. It was never uttered by a brave man ; no brave man ever slandered a gallant soldier, and if any one should say that Harrison was a coward or lacked skill, ask him if he was present, said Gen. C—ask him if he heard the bullets whis tle, and if he met the enemy?—and if he tells you he did, I say he tells a falsehood.- No man ever fought under or with Har rison, but will testify to his bravery and his skill as “General.” Vawi of Locofoco News.— VVe learn from the Louisville Journal, that a few days ago, Messrs, foster and Johnson, Electoral candidates in Tennessee, had an appointment to speak at Kbsselville in that Stale, but for certain reasons failed to vi-, sit that place at all. A loco correspond ent of the Knoxville Argus, however, not knowing of their failure, and supposing that they had spoken according to their appointment, wrote of their pretend ed speeches, and stated that eight Whigt had been converted to the administra infaith by the discussion.