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NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
D.. COTTIXfi, Editor.
No. 7.—NEW SERIES.]
NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.
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THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD THE
NAMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUUSCEIBF. :
J. T. G. H. Woolen, A. D. Ntetliam,Danburg,
Mallorysville, It. F. Tatom, Lincoln-
Fetix G. Edwards, Pe- ton,
tersburg, Elbert, O. A. Luckelt, Crawford-
Gen. Oner, Raytown, ville,
Taliaferro, W. Davenport, I.exing-
James Beil, Powelton, ton,
Hancock, .S'. J. Bush, Jrwington,
Wm. B. Nelms, Elbcr- Wilkinson,
ton, Dr. Cain, Cambridge,
John A. Simmorts , tio- * Abbeville’ District,
slien, Lincoln, South Carolina.
05” We are authorized to announce Mr.
JAMES BENTLEY, a Candidate for RE
CEIVER and tax Collector for
the County of Wilkes,- at the ensuing
election. — July 16. 46 ts
05” We are authorized to announce
Major JAMES B. LANDEItS, a Candi
date for RECEIVER and TAX COL
LECTOR for Wilkes County, at the elec
tion in January next.—Sept. 17. (3) ff.
05” We authorized to announce Mr.
JOSEPH J, POLLARD, as a Candidate at
the ensuing election, for REfEIjLER
and TAX COLLECTOR for the" County
of Wilkes- — Sept. 24. (4) ts.
05” We are authorized to announce Mr.
J. C. WILLIAMSON as a Candidate, at the
election in January next, for RECEIVER
and TAX COLLECTOR for the County of
Wilkes.—Oct. 1. (5) ts.
05” We are authorized to announce Mr.
HARDEN WOODRUFF, as the Harrison
Candidate for CORONER, at the ensuing
election. —Oct. 1. (5)
(tT JYotice This, ~0
ALL persons who have borrowed money from
JANE DANIEL, by CUNNINGHAM
DANIEL deceased, are requested to make set
tlement with SIMEON C. ELLINGTON, in
Washington; or with
ROBERT C. DANIEL ) Administrators
D. W. McJUNKIN, S os C. Daniel.
Oct- 1, 1840. (5) 4t.
TOWN RESIDENCE FOR SALE.
milE Subscriber has it in contemplation to re
turn to his Plantation, and, therefore, offers his
Town Property for sale; consisting of a FOUR
ACRE LOT, with a large and conve- n.._a
nient DWELLING HOUSE, eight
fire-places, the necessary out-houses, JJjJgKi
and a never failing well of excellent
A water.
Ibthe purchaser wishes, he can have Twenty
thrco Acres of wood-land, well set with timber,
six or eight hundred yards from the lot.
Further particulars are not necessary, as the
purchaser will examine for himself.
, FRANCIS McLENDON.
Sept. 24,1840. (4) ts.
For Sale,
A PLANTATION,
THIRTEEN MILES FlfbM
COLUMBUS,
ON THE LAGRANGE ROAD.
THE Subscriber would sell low and upon ac
commodating terms, a PLANTATION, 13
miles from Columbus, on the Lagrange road,
containing TWO HUNDRED ACRES of
LAND ; forty acres of which were cleared last
year. There are nnon the premises a n-A
good Dwelling House, and every ne
cessary outhouse ; and well supplied JJJjHj*
with good water.
For further particulars, apply to
A. R. LYON.
October 8, 1840. (6) s.m.3m.
WAREHOuIPiiwHioMMISSION
BUSINESS.
undersigned have jsso
©Msß ciated themselves in the */) 7*l
;3j£HEWAREHOUSE and
MISSION BUSINESS in the City of Augusta,
under the Firm of
BUSTIN & WALKER.
They have leased the Warehouse lately occu
pied by Captain A. they will be
pleased to attend to any business confided to their
care.
EDWARD BUSTIN.
JAMES B. WALKER.
Augusta, Sept. 17,1840. (4) st.
WASHINGTON, (WILKES’ COUNTY, GA.,) OCTOBER 15. IS 10.
Segars ! !
have appointed Mr. WM JOHNSON,
* * of this place, our agent lor the SALE ol
SEGARS in this section of the State. They are
WARRENTED TO SMOKE FREE,and lobe
of as FINE FLAVOR ns they are represented,
which our customers may rely upon.
The Segars are of approved brands, and are
offered at wholesale or retail.
LASH & BROTHERS,
Bethania,
Oct 1, 1840. 5 North Carolina.
Fast JYotice,
ALL persons indebted to us, either by
or OPEN ACCOUNT, are requested to
come forward, and pay up without delay.
We shall place all debts due to’ us in the hands
of an Attorney for suit, on the first day of
January next; therefore,- those who do not wish
to pay cost, &c., can call on us and settle.
LAWRENCE & PETEET.
Washington, Oct 8. (6) ts.
MISCELLMEOT?^
From Alison’s Principles of Population.
DESTRUCTION OF LIFE IN AN
CIENT WARS.
Accustomed as we are to the effects of
war in civilized times, when the most
bloody contests are followed by an increase
in the numbers of the people, it is difficult
to form a conception of the desolation which
it produced in barbarous ages, when the
void produced by the sword is not supplied
by the impulse of public tranquillity. A
few facts will show its prodigious influence
in former ages.
It is ascertained by an exact compu
tation, that when the three great capitals of
Khorassa were destroyed by Timour,
4,347,000 persons were put to the sword.
At the same time, 700,000 people were
slain in the city of Monsui, which had risen
in the neighborhood of the ancient Ninevah;
and the desolation produced a century and
a half before by the sack of Genghis Khan,
had been at least as great.
Such were the ravages of this mighty
conqueror and his Mogul followers, in the
country between the Caspian and the In
dus, that they almost exterminated the
inhabitants ; and live subsequent centuries
have been unable to repair the ravages of
four years.
An army of 500,000 Moguls, under the
stms of Genghis, so completely laid waste
the provinces to the north of the Danube,
that they have never since regained their
forme? number; and in the famine conse
quent upon the irruption of the same barba
rians into the Chinese empire, 13,000,000
are computed to have perished.
During the invasions of Timour, twelve
of the most flourishing cities of Asia, in
cluding Delhi, Ispahan, Bagdad, and De
mascus, were utterly destroyed; and
pyramids of human heads, one of which
contained 90,000 skulls, erected on their
ruins.
During thirty-two years of the reign of
Justinian, the barbarians annually made an
incursion into the Grecian empire, and
they carried offor destroyed, at an average,
oh each occasion, 200,000 persons.
Nor was the depopulation of the southern
and western provinces less during the same
disastrous period.
In the wars of Belisarius, in A'frica,
5,000,000 of its inhabitants are computed,
by a contemporary writer, to have perished
—and during the contest between that
illustrious warrior and his successor,
and the barbarian arms in Italy, the yffiole
Gothic nation and nearly 15,000,000
which followed those sanguinary contests
carried off still greater numbers than the
sword ; and during the 52 years that it
desolated the Roman 1 empire, it is said to
have destroyed 100,000,000 of inhabitants.
RAILROADS IN THE UNITED
STATES.
The Journal of the Franklin’ Institute
contains srdetailed account of thfe railroads
in a number of the Sitates, with fSe length,
costs, Ac., from the tables of which the Na
tional Gazette gives the following :
In Pennsylvania, the number of railroads
are 36; the number of miles opened,
576|; the total length of road,
miles; and the amount already expended,
$15,640,450.
In Virginia, the Carolina*, Georgia, and
Florida, there are 23 roads, and 994 miles
opened; total length, 1,675 j miles.
Amount expended, $18,442,000.
In Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, and Kentucky, there are 27
roads—l9s miles ift operation ; total length
of roads, 1,148;) miles. Already expended,
$9,621,000.
In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois,
there are 29 roads—l 96 miles in opera
tion ; total length of roads, 2,821 j miles.
Amount expended, $5,523,640.
Fe ! Faw ! ! Fum ! ! /—ln a late pa
per “On Suicide,” it is said, that mar
riage is, to a certain extent, a prevention of
suicide. It has been satisfactorily esta
blished, that among men, TWO-THIRDS
WHO DESTROY THEMSELVES ARE
BACHELORS! Lord bless us, how
alarming ! You wouldn’t have men com
mit suicide after they’re married—would
you ? Surely, once is enough for a man
to cut his throat.— N. O. Picayune.
D’lsraeli, the younger, says:—“ A
smile for your friends, and a curse for
your enemies, is the only way to govern
mankind.”
PUBLISHED’ EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
From (He St. Ltiiits Bulletin.
SINGULAR IM'ODE OF COURTING.
The Rev. Dr. L -n, an emhrbfit Scotch
divine,. And professor of Theology, Was re
markable for absence of mind, und indiff
erence to worldly affairs. His mind, wrapt
up in lofty contemplations, could seldom
stoop to the ordinary business rtf life, and
when at any time he did attend to secular
affairs, lie generally went about them in a
way unlike any body else, as the history
of his courtship will show. He was great
ly beloved by his elders and congregation ;
was full of simplicity and sincerity, and
entirely unacquainted with the etiquette of
the world. Living the solitary, comfort-’
less life of a bachelor, his elders gave hint
frequfetit hints, that his domestic happiness
would be much increased by his taking to
himself a wife, and pointed out several
young ladies in his congregation, any one
of which might lie a fit match, or compan
ion for him. The elders, finding all the
hints had no 1 effect in rousing the doctor to
the using of the means, preliminary to en
tering into a matrimonial alliance, at last
concluded to wait upon him, and stir him’
up to the performance of his duty. They
urged on him the advantages of marriage
—its happiness—spoke of it as a divine in
stitution, and as affording all the pleasures
of friendship ; all the enjoyments of sense
and reason, and, in short, all the sweets
of domestic life. The doctor approved of
all they said, and apologized for his past
neglect of duty on account of many difficult
passages of Scripture he had of late been
attending tct, and promised to look after it,
“the first convenient season.” The elders,
however, were not to he put off any longer;
they insisted on the doctor at once making
use of the means, and requested from him
a promise that, on Monday afternoon, he
would straightway visit the house ofa wid
ow lady, a few doors from him, who had
three pretty daughters, and who were the
most respectable in the doctor’s congrega
tion. To solve any difficult passage in the
hook of Genesis—reconcile apparent dis
crepances, or clear up a knotty text, would
have been an easy and an agreeable task
to the doctor, compared with storming the
widow’s premises. But to the arising of
the siege the doctor must go, and, with
great gravity and simplicity, gentle reader,
you can image you see him commencing
the work.
After the usual salutations were over, he
said Mrs. W n “my Session have of
late been advising me to take a wife, and
recommending me to call upon you ; and
as you have three fine daughters, I would
like to say a word to the eldest, if you
have no objections. Miss W n enters,
and the Doctor, with his characteristic sim
plicity, said to her “my Sessiou have been
advising me to take a wife, and recom
mended me to call upon you.” The young
lady who had seen some thirty summers
was not to be caaght so easily ; she laugh
ed heartily at the Doctor’s abrubtness ;
hinted to him that in making a sermon, was
it not necessary to say something first to in
troduce the subject properly before he en
tered fully upon it; and as for her part she
determined not to surrender her liberty at
a moment’s warning—“the honor of her
sex was concerned in her standing out.”—
This was all a waste of time to the Doctor,
and he requested to see her sister. Miss
E. W n then entered, and to save time
the Doctor says, “my Session have been
advising me to take a wife, and I had been
speaking to your sister who has just gone
out at the door, and as she is not inclined
that way, what would yon think of being
Mrs. L n.” “Oh! Doctor! I don’t
know, it is rather a seriousfquestion. Mar
riage you know binds one for life, and it
should not be rashly entered into—l \U)uld
not consent without taking time to deliber
ate upon it.’ My time, says the Doctor,
is so much occupied, and as my Session
has said so much to me, on the business I
must finish it to day, if I can, so you had
best tell your mother to send in your young
est sister to speak to me. In a moment
comes the honest, lively Miss Mary W
“come away iny child, it is getting on in
the afternoon, and I must get home to my
studies; I have been speaking to both of
your sisters on a little business, arttd they
have declined' —I am a man of few words,
and without mispending presious time,
what would you think of being made Lrs.
L n I —lndeed, I always thought a
deal of you Doctor, and if ray mother does
not say against it I have no objections. —
The Doctor left Miss Mary in a few min
utes, enjoining her to fix the day, for any
would suit him, but to send him up word a
day before-
The Doctor was scarcely home till a
keep dispute arose in the family among the
three young ladies, all claiming the Doc
tor. The eldest one said the offer was first
made to her, and she did not positively re
fuse. The second declared that she wish
ed’ only a little more time to think upon it;
and the youngest insisted that it was com
pletely settled with her. The mother of
the young ladies was in such a difficulty
with her daughters, that she was obliged
to call upon the Doetor himselfto settle the
dispute. She called, and the Reverend
Doctor, in his characteristic way said, —
“My dear Mrs. W n, 1 am very fond
of peace in families ; it is all the same
thing to me, which of them, and just settle
it among yourselves, and send me up
word.”
The Doctor was married to the youngest,
and one of his sons is at this day a respect
able clergyman, “in the land of the moun
tain and the flood.”
SLAUGHTER OF ELEPHANTS.
Elephant shooting is commonly practised
in Ceylon by a single spoilsman, with ortl v
a steady servant or two to hold his
spaj'e gunsaitd stand by him. Thus equip
ped, ho will boldly encounter a whole herd.
Thus provided, Captains R —and
K both now of the Ceylon rifles, 1
went out shooting together, and fell in with
a herd of six. , The elephants made tor |
the jungle, and were pursued by both offi
cers ; hut Captain R being the youngest
and the most active of the two, gained upon
them and lost sight of his friend, and while j
toiling up a hill, heard three double barrels j
ftred in rapid succession', pnd,on reaching
the scene of action, found Captain It
coolly reloading, with five dead elephants i
around him. In the end of 1836, or the be
ginning of 1837, five gcntlei'M'ii in Ceylon, j
who are known to us, killed, in the course ;
of five days shooting in the jungle,•no’ less !
than 104 elephants ! The gentlemdtt who
was the best shot and the must active of the
party (he had killed about thirty the first
day,) was taken ill anil Obliged to leave the
party on tlie third day. Two of the remai
ning sportsmen had not much experience,
and consequently coulu not he expected to \
do much. The feat of Lieut. G **, of
the 90th, is well known here. This gentle
man killed 83 to his own gun, and that too
on his first trip. Several gentlemen in Cey
lon, who are in the habit of practising ele
phant shooting, think nothing of killing fifty
in the course of four or five days. There
are those amongst them who are ready to
bet (and who will he backed for arty sum
of money) that they will individually kill
fifty elephants in one week. The directions \
for killing an elephant are simple enough, i
In fact, pluck and coolness are the chief re- j
quisites. For front shot allow the brute to j
come within twelve yards, and then hit j
him somewhere in the line from temple to j
temple, not below the level of the eye, and 1
notmorethan two inches above it—lie will
in most cases fall instantaneously. Fora j
side or slanting shot, the butt of the ear or |
just before it on the temple,are deadly shots, j
We have known an elephant, when in the j
actof running away, killed at twenty yards,
by a diagonal shot taking him behind the
ear. As for firing into the body or neck,
or upper parts of the head, or lower down
than the trunk, it only serves to infuriate
the animal, and does hot give the most re
mote chance of killing him. No elephant
shooter eVer thinks of pulling trigger beyond
fifteen or sixteen yards. Thousands of ele
phants have been killed here by single balls
fired according to the above directions ;
Capt. R , above mentioned, has killed
upwards of five hundred, ami we could take
on us to say without expending a single
—not to say “ salvo”—of either round or
grape. Perhaps the proof of the little risk
that is run by encountering these animals,
is, that only two European sportsmen have
lost their lives by elephant shooting in sd
many years. —Ceylon Herald.
PUBLIC SPEAKERS.
When you mount the stage, be puzzled to
know where to put your hat. Look round
as though you were quite cool and collect
ed, and suddenly put your hat upon the
floor. Turn then to the audience—-pass
your fingers lightly and gracefully through
your hair, and say—Feller Citizens”—-
Extend your right hand—put your left on
your vest, on which ever side it might be
your private opinion that your heart lies—
swell out your chest ds though all the God
desses of Liberty in the world had left their
respective Countries, had taken hoard and
lodging in’your expansive bosom, and Were
now struggling to find their way out at the
front door. Repress their generous efforts
for a little While, and then out with them in
a blaze of g lory. The effect will be tre
mendous.
At a Whig meeting at New Bedford,
Capt. McKenzie, who commanded the whale
boat on thi; cruize to Bunker Hill, being
called oti for a whale story, related the fol
lowing :
He said, that in his last whaling voyage
he had a boat named “ Daniel Webster,”
which was always remarkably successful.
Whenever she fastened to a whale, it was
sure death. Off Cape Horn he spoke aU.
S. man-of-war, which gave him a file of
the Globe,- and having leisure he perused
them with great attention, and relying upon
their assertions, he came to the conclusion
that the Whigs were a mutinous set of fel
lows, and ordered a boy, who went in his
boat to erase the name of “Daniel Webster,”
and paint over it that of “ Martin Van Bu
ren.” The boy happened to be a good
Whig, and neglected to obey the order, un
til it had been repeated the third time, when
the captain told him if it was not done by
the next day they should be obliged to have
a round turn together. The thing was
done. “ And,” exclaimed the gallant cap
tain, “ I could never after that get the boat
within a mile and a half of a whale !”
A lady was recently teaching a boy to
spell. The boy spelt, c-o-l-d, but could
not pronounce it. In vain his teacher
asked him to think and try. At last she
asked him—
“ What do you get when you go out
upon the wet sidewalk on a rainy day, and
wet your feet ?”
“ I gets a whipping.”
Any man so base as to strike a woman
should be placed on the back of a hard trot
ting horse, and made to collect newspaper
accounts for the balance of his life.
I ANTI-VAN BUREN TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT :
WILLIAM 11. HAUL ISON.
. ’ KOII VICK PRESIDENT :
JOHN TYLER.
IF® OS ELECTORS,
(Os President and Vice President.)
ELECTION ON THE SECOND OF NOVEMBER.
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe,
Gen. BUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden,
Cm.. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee,
M*J. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock,
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON Git\NTLAND. oj Baldwin,
Gen. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass,
Gen. VV. W. EZ//ARD. of De Kalb,
C. I!. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke,
Gen. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs
“ Resolved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the. Slate 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
j of Tippecanoe, he well deserves the warmest
thanks nf his country and his nation.”
Legislature of Kentucky, Jan. 7, 1812.
j “ General Harrison has done more for his
I country, with less compensation for it, than
! any man living.” President Madison.
“ I profess to be somewhat acquainted with
the history of General Harrison’s political,
j military, and private life. 1 am his neighbor,
and live in his county. As to his private life,
1 know of no stain that for a moment sullies
| him.” Dr. Duncan, of Ohio.
Colonel Richard M. Johnson, now Vice Pre
sident of the United Htates, 6aid, in Congress:
“ Who is General Harrison ! The son Os one
of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, who spent the greater part of his large
fortune in redeeming the pledge he then gave,
of his ‘ fortune, life, and sacred honor,’ to se
cure the liberties of his country.
“ Os the career 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 m the field. Dur
ing the late war, he was longer in actual
service than any other General Officer; he
was, perhaps, oftener 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 himselfto be wise, prudent, and brave.”
On (he night before the final question on the
Missouri restriction was taken, General Har
rison was warned by one of his associates, that
if he voted against the restriction, he would
ruin his popularity at the North ; he fearlessly
replied:—
“ I have often risked my life in defence of
my country —I will now risk my political po
pularity in defence of the union.”
General Wm. H. Harrison says :
“ In all ages, and in all countries, it has
been observed, that 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 subject of selling white men for
debt. General Harrison says, in a letter to Mr.
Pleasants:
“ So far from being willing to sell men for
debts, which they are unable to discharge, l
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 tor debt, under any
circumstance but those where fraud is alleged,
is at wai with the best principles nf our Con
stitution, and ought to be abolished.”
In a speech at Cheviot, Ohio, on the 4th of July,
1833, General Harrison made use of the follow
ing language :
“ There is, however, a subject now beginning
to alarm them, in relation to which, if their alarm
has any foundation, the relative situation in
which they may stand to some of the States, will
be the very reverse to what it now is. I allude to
a supposed disposition in some individuals in the
non-slaveholding States, to interfere with the
slave population of the other States, for the pur- 1
pose of forcing their emancipation. * * * * i
If there is any principle of the Constitution
of the United States less disputable than any !
other, it is, that the slave population is under the
exclusive control of the States which possess
them. * * * * What must be the conse
quence of an acknowledged violation of these
rights, (for every man of sense must admit it to
be so,) conjoined with an insulting interference
with their domestic concerns! * * * * j
Is there a mail vain enough to go to tiie land j
of Madison, of Macon, and of Crawford, and tell !
them that they cither do not understand the j
principles of the moral and political rights of man;
or that, understanding, they disregard them !
Can they address an argument to the interest or
fears of the enlightened population of the slave
States, that has not occurred to themselves a
thousand and a thousand times! To whom, then,
are they to address themselves but to the slaves !
And what can be said to them, that will not lead
to an indiscriminate slaughter of every age and
sex, and ultimately to their own destruction!
Should there be an incarnate devil who has lma-
11. J. KAPPEL, Printer.
gined with approbation,iuch a catastrophe to his
itdlow-citizens as 1 have described, let him look
to those for whose benefit he w ould produce it *
* * I will not stop to inquire into the motives of
those who are engaged in this fatal and unconsti
tutional project. There may become who have
embarked in it without properly considering its
consequences, and w-lio are actuated .by benevol
ent and virtuous principle?. Bid, if such there
are, 1 am very certain that,should they continue
their present cOurse, their fellow-citizehs will,
ere long, * curse the virtues which have undone
their country.’ *********
It I am correct in the principles here ad
vanced, 1 support my assertion, that the discus
sion on the subject of emancipation in the non
slaveholtfmg States, is equally injurious to the
slaves and their masters, and that it has no sanc
sion in the principles of the Constitution.”
In a speech, delivered at Vincennes, Indiana,
(when General Harrison was before the people
as a candidate fur the Presidency,) speakingof
the abolitionists, he says :
“ 1 have now, fellow-citizens, a few- out
wore to say on another subject, and w ! . ,in
my opinion, of more importance than her
that is now in the coune of discussion my
part of the Union. I allude t the ... rues
which have been formed, and the ‘ m , milts of
certain individuals, in some oi the Slates, in rela
tion to a portion of the population in others. The
conduct of these persons is the most dangerous,
because their object is masked under the garb of
disinterestedness and benevolence; and their
course vindicated by arguments and propositions
which in the abstract no one can deny. But,
however fascinating may be the dress with which
their schemes are presented to their fellow
citizens, with whatever purity of intention they
may have been formed and sustained, they will
be found to carry in their train mischief to the
whole Union, and horrors to a large portion of it
which it is probable some of the projectors, and
many of their supporters, have never thought of;
the latter, the first in the series of evils which are
to spring from this source, are such as you have
read of to have been perpetrated on the fair plains
of Italy and Gaul by the Scythian hordes of
Atilla and Alaric; and such as most of you ap
prehended upon that memorable night, when the
tomahawks and war-clubs of the followers of Te
cumseh were rattling in your suburbs. 1 regard
not the disavowals of any such intentions upon
the part of the authors of these schemes, since,
upon the examination of the publications which
have been made, they will be found to contain
every fact and every argument which would have
been used if such had been their objects. lam
certain that there is not in this assembly one of
these deluded men, and there are few within the
bounds of the State. If there are any, I would
earnestly entreat them to forbear, to pause in their
career, and deliberately consider the conse
quences of their conduct to the whole Union—to
the States more immediately interested, and to
those for whose benefit they profess to act. That
the latter will be the victims of the weak, injudi
cious, presumptuous, and unconstitutional efforts
to serve them, a thorough examination of the sub
ject must convince them. The struggle (and
struggle there must be) may commence with
horrors such as I have described, but it will end
with more firmly riveting the chains, or in the
utter extirpation of those whose cause they ad
vocate. Am I wrong, fellow-citizens, in apply
ing the terms weak, presumptuous, and uncon
stitutional, to the measures of the emancipators 1
A slight examination will, I think, show that I am
not”
The following paragraph, from a memoir of
General Harrison, by J. R. Jackson, Esq., bears
valuable testimony to his religious character:
“An incident which occurred at Philadelphia,
will serve to illustrate his character. On the
evening preceding a Sabbath he was to spend in
that city, two gentlemen waited on him, and
stated, that there were two sects there, more nu
merous than others ; and, therefore, it would be
good policy in him to attend one of these sects in
the morning and the other in the afternoon.
‘ Gentlemen,’ he replied, ‘ I thank you sincerely
for your kindness, but I have already promised
to attend divine service to-morrow ; and when I
go to church, I go to worship God, and not to
electioneer.’ ”
In a letter to the Hon. Sherrod Williams,
dated “ North Bend, May 1, 1836,” General
Harrison says:
“ I have before me a newspaper, in which I
am designated by its distinguished editor,
‘ 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.”
POLITICAL!
From the Chronicle and Sjpnunt
WILFUL AND DEL ilF.ilA i,
SLANDER.
“ 1 am not unwilling to belie- . that many
of the Southern Whigs cordially hate abo
lition—although 1 cannot help suspecting
that some of them would like to see raging
its threatened storms, in the delusive hope
of attaining, amid the general confusion,
some personal distinction.”
Dallas’ Letter.
Remarking on the above, and another
similar extract from the late letter of G. M.
Dallas, the Fredericksburg (Va.) Arena
says:
“ The insinuation here made, that any
Southern Whig would be so false to him
self, to his family, to his own interests, to
his country, as to wish to see the consum
mation of the fell schemes of the fanatical
abolitionists, and that for ‘ personal distinc
tion,’ is a base and infamous slander—such
as could have been uttered by no one but a
fool or the lowest party hack. In another
place, he says, ‘ they, (the abolitionists,)
do not, perhaps, constitute the whole of the
opposition.’ Mark this perhaps. Os the
Southern States, three-fourths are well
known to be in opposition, and will vote for
General Harrison, and yet this well paid
partizan has the audacity to do more than
insinuate that abolitionism and opposition
to Van Buren are identical.”
BETS are offered in Philadelphia, and
not taken up, that Harrison will carry
Pennsylvania by 15,000 votes.
(VOLUME XXVI.