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THE LAW OF LOVE ILLUSTRA- I
TED.
Pat McKet'vr and His Friend.
BY MRS. 1.. ar. CHILDS.
This is so obviously the key-note to uni- |
versal harmony, tliat it is marvellous men i
neglect and despise it as they do. Wheth- j
or applied to the intercourse of nations, or |
to the smallest temptations and most trivial j
difficulties of daily life, it always works I
miracles. Wheresoever it enters, whether i
into written or spoken word, into public or j
private action, it is an embodiment of the j
Holiest—it is God made manifest—and
therefore it is omnipotent.
It is omniscient, too ; for the more per- j
factly we live in Love, the more clearly do
we perceive Truth. In the calmness and
quietude of perfect kindness to all, can we
alono see the just relations of things to each
other, and of all to God. Hence Justice,
in its highest Ideal, is unmixed Love ; and
Wisdom ever speaks through the voice of
Kindness.
He who said that all the Law and the
Prophets hang on the two commandments,
of Love to God, and Love to our neighbor,
likewise tells us that he who keeps the com
mandments shall know of them. And is it
not familiar to all, who observe their in
ward experience, that knowledge is obtained
through purified affections, and ari obedient
life ! Nay, are they not aware that glimp
ses of the highest truths—that is, the most
spiritual—can he thus obtained, and thus
only l •
No wonder the world is so bewildered in
the mazes of error, while it remains such a
stranger to the law of love Howeanirna
ges bo-r effected clearly in the water, while
men so continually stir up the mud of ’per
sonal wrangling and sectarian controver
sy !
That the perception of what is visrht do
pends on purified atfections, is, like every
other spiritual truth, written in tLe laws and
operations of nature. For ono among ma
ny illustrations, observe the following. A
traveller in Turkey writes thus: “I was
aware that oil would calrrj the surface of
the sea ; but I did not know, until recently,
that it rendered objects more distinct be
neath the surface. A trinket of some val
ue bad been dropped out of the upper win
dows of our palace into the Bosphorous—
which at this place was ten or twelve feet
deep. It was so small, that dragging for
it would have been perfectly fruitless ; it
was accordingly given up for lost, when
one of the servants proposed to drop a little
oil on the surface. This was acceded to. |
though with faint hopes of success. To
our astonishment, the trinket immediately
appeared in sight, and was eventually re
covered.^
Priceless, altogether infinite in value,
are the spiritual jewels that maybe restor
ed to the world, by pouring oil on the troub
led waves.
And then this Law of Love, like every
thing that belongs, to the highest in our na
ture, is so open to all ! The most ignorant
may learn it, and the poorest may practice
it, as faithfully as the wealthiest. The
beggar who, sorely tempted by want, vet
refrains from anything like imposture, lest
it should excite distrust in the public against
other sufferers, has fulfilled the Law of
Love ; perchance far more perfectly than
the royal duke who distributes thousands
of pounds among the starving poor.
At a meeting in Massachusetts, in favor
of Normal. Schools, (that is, schools to fit
teachers for the business of education,) I.
M., a hard working mechanic, with a very
small portion of the world's wealth, sub
scribed one thousand dollars. A friend re
turned the paper to him. saying, “ I sup
pose you meant one hundred dollars, and
have accidentally written a cipher too
much.”
“ Why should you suppose that ?” repli
ed I. M. “If you reflect a moment, you
may discover some selfishness in this. I
am a father; and in what way can Iso ef
fectually advance the interests of mv chil
dren, as by educating the community in which
they arc to live ?”
If this was policy, it was of the enlarged
kind, that is learned only in the school of
universal love. Said I not well, that the
highest truths are taught by the atfections ?
And that there is no better Wisdom than
benevolence ?
I will tell you an anecdote, which I learn
ed in casual conversation, from mv excel
lent and kind-hearted friend, Isaac T. Hop
per. You need not weary of my frequent .
mention ot the good man’s name ; for I re- i
coid such things, not that they may redound
to his credit, hut that they may fall like j
good seed into the human heart, and bring j
forth an hundred fold.
Patrick McKover was a poor Irishman, j
wno lived in Philadelphia, many years ago. j
He was arrested on a charge of burglary,
convicted, and sentenced to be hung. lam
ignorant of the details of his crime, or the !
causes that led to it. But there were pro- 1
bably some palliating circumstances ; fori
when brought, seated on his coffin, in the 1
death-cart, to the foot of the gallows, in j
company with another criminal, In was re
prieved, and the other was hung. His sen- j
tenee was changed to ten years’ imprison- !
ment; and this was eventually shortened’
one year.
Dunnrr the last three years of his term, ‘
Isaac T. Hopper was one of the inspectors j
of the prison, and frequently talked with !
him in a friendly, fatherly manner. The j
convict was a man of few words, and hope*
.seemed almost dead within him ; but tho’ I
ha made no large promises, his heart was ;
evidently touched by the voice of kindness. ,
After his release, he immediately went
lo work at his trade, which was that of a
tanner, and conducted himself in the most
sober and exemplary manner, living re
markable for his capability, and the amount
of work ho could perform, he soon had
plenty of employment. He passed Friend
Hopper’s house every day, us he went to his
work, and words of friendly cheer and cn- ,
couragement were not wanting.
Things were going on thus satisfactorily, !
w.lien Isaac Jic&rd that constables were out
aftr Patrick, on account of a robborvcom- 1
I milted the night before. He wentstraight
i way to the Mayor, and inquired why or
j ders had been given to arrest Patrick Mc-
Kever. “Because there has been a rohbe
ry committed in his neighborhood,” replied
the mayor. “What proof is there that hy
! concerned in it ?” “Noneat all ; but
j lie is an old convict ; and that is enough to
j condemn him.” “It is not enough, by any
means, ’ replied Isaac ; “thou has no right
to arrest a citizen without a shadow of proof
against him ; and in tin's case, I advise thee,
by all means, to proceed with humane cau
tion. ibis man has atoned severely’ for
the crime ho did eor.irnit ; and since ho
wishes to reform, the fact ought never to be
mentioned against him. He has been per
fectly upright, sober, and industrious, ever
since he came outof prison. I think I know j
his state of mind ; and I am veiling to take !
the responsibility of saying that he is guilt
less in (his matter.”
i The mayor commended Friend Hopper’s j
benevolence, but was by no means con vine- [
i ‘-‘d. To all arguments, he replied, “ho is j
an old convict; and thr.t is enough.”
It was in vain to ask whether society
ought to be a mother, or an executioner, to
her erring children “he is an old convict;
and that is enough,” was a satisfactory an
swer to a 11 1 hat might he urged.
Patrick’s kind friend watched for him, as
he passed to his daily labors, and told him
that the ‘constables were after him, for the
robbery that had been committed. The
poor fellow hung his head, the light van
ished from his countenance, and he seemed
e.tterly forsaken of hope. “Well,” said
I he, with a deep sigh, “1 must make up my
mind to spend the rest of my days in pri
son.”
“Thou wert not concerned in this robbe
ry, wort thou?” said Isaac, looking earn
; estly r ,n his face.
j “No, indeed, I was not. God be my
witness, I want to lead an honest life, and
live in peace with all men. But what good
will that do ine ? Every body will say.
He has been in the State prison, and that’s
enough.”
His friend did not ask him twice ; for he
felt well-assured that the poor man had
spoken truth. He advised him togo direct
ly to the Mayor, deliver himself up, and
declare his innocence. This wholesome
advice was received with deep desponden
cy. He had no faith in his fellow-men ;
for they had been to him as enemies. “1
know what will come of it,” says he.—
“They will put me into prison, whether
there is any proof against me, or not; they
will not let me out without somebody will
be security for me; and nobody will be se- j
curiry for an old convict.”
“Be of good heart,” said Isaac, “go to the
Mayor, and speak as 1 have advised. Ifj
I they talk of putting thee in prison, send for |
jmc.'’
Patrick did accordingly. He was treat- !
-edas he had expected. In the absence of
j any thing like a shadow of proof, his being
| an “old convict” was deemed sufficient rea- j
j son for sending him to jail.
Friend Hopper appeared in his behalf. |
, “1 am ready to affirm,” said he, “that this j
I man is innocent. It will be a very serious |
| injury to him to betaken from his business, !
! until such timeasthis can be proved ; and j
i moreover the effects upon his mind may
|be most discouraging. 1 will be security
j for his appearance when called; and i know
I very well that he will not think of giving !
i me the slip.
The gratitude of the poor fellow was |
| overwhelming. He sobbed, till his strong I
I frame shook like a leaf in the wind. If
I the blessing of'the perishing can save a soul,
| that Prison Inspector is sure of heaven.
| The real culprits were soon after discov
| ered. Patrick, until the day of his death,
continued to lead a virtuous and useful life;
I for which he always thanked Friend Hop
per, as the instrument of God.
| Men write oi bloody battles, by sea and
j larui, and call the butchers heroes, and
| their actions History: but incidents like
j these are 61aced in the archives of heaven;
: for in them do rfngels read the History of
j Man.
Matrimonial Lottery .—At Samarang, the
j second town in the island of Java, there ex-
I isted a species of matrimonial lottery, which
gives,rise to many singular speculations.
| Orphan children, rich as well as poor, are
! all brought up in a public establishment,
j The most profound silence as to the fortunes
jof these children is enjoined to every per-
I son employed in or about the institution.—
j These fortunes are placed under the man
agement of persons at Batavia, on whom a
similar injunction of secrecy is imposed.
| The female orphans are kept in the estab
lishment until marriage. Every man pos
j sensing an annual income of 730 florins or
| two florins a day, is at liberty to choose a
wife from amongst them, but the amount of
I her fortune is not made known to him till
I several days after the marriage. A ser
vant of tho military hospital at Samarang
j lately selected one of these damsels, with a
! fortune 0f65,000 florins. Since his good
j luck, the application for wives from the
j asylum have become very urgent; for a re
j port has got abroad that there is a rriar
■ riageablegir! still left, who will bring with
: tier a prize of 290,000 florins.
Curiosities. —We have the following an
i eedote from a respectable stone mason :
! “A young chap (said bo) in the uniform of
i a midshipman, came into my workshop one
day apparently in a great hurry, and de
. sired me to let him have some broken pie
ces ol marble, or lumps of rock. Finding
1 paid but little attention to his odd request,
lie urged me to accommodate him bv say
ing that he must have the articles immedi
ately as lie was going off in the steamboat,
and was apprehensive that lie would be left.
“I came in the other day,” said he, “in the
I return to my friends in . they will ex
! ppet me to show them some curiosities from
i foreign parts, which I neglected to pick up
! while abroad ; but some of your chips of j
marble and stone will do just as well when ,
, I exhibit them with a few iaugh yarns.” I
1 was much, amticpd with tffo lad’s ingenuity
and supplied him with what he desired.—
Pvohably the curious antiquities of the old
world, which the young gentleman carried
home with him for the gratification of his
friends, were quarried not a year before,
and within a hundred miles of their resi
deuce.— Norfo ll; Herald.
GIANTS, <Vc.
The Boston Transcript has given a chap
ter on old age and giants. Passing from
longevity to longitude, he says there are
some families who seem to grow to an im
moderate height. “Their altitude overtops
that of all their neighbors. They “over
look” their eotemporaries. The Rible tells
1 us of the sons of Anak, and that there were
1 “ffiants in those days.” Occasionally we
j find one of these “tall customors,” such as j
j Mons. Bihim, who was here a year or two ;
i ago, and the Kentucky Giant, and Mr. Free
-1 man. the American giant, who, we believe,
jis now in Boston. But they are mere pig
j mies to what existed in former days, if we
may believe what tradition and history tells
us.
Og, King of Bashan, who is spoken of in
Scripture, is said to have been more than
twelve feet high. Goliah was about 9 feet
8 inches high, or 11 feet, according to some
commentators. The Emperor Maximus is
said to have been 9 feet high. Turner, the
naturalist, mentions having seen, on the
Brazil coast, a race of gigantic savages, one
of whom measured twelve feet! Thevet,
in his description of America, published at
Paris in 1575, declares that he saw and
measured the skeleton of a South Amer
ican which was 11 feet five inches in length.
Dimerbroeck saw at Utrecht, a well pro
portioned living man, measuring 8 feet six
inches ; and Becamus was introduced to a
youth who was nearly 9 feet high, a man
almost 10 feet, and a woman quite 10 feet.
The Pantagonians have been represented
as a nation of giants. The “Philosophical
Transactions” of the Poyal Society con
tain accounts of skeletons dug up in Eng
land, measuring 8 or 9 feet in length, which
probably were Roman. In the 41st and
42d volumes ofthe same work are two en
gravings, taken from an “osfrontis” and an
“os femoris,” the former of which is reck
oned to have belonged to a person between
11 or twelve feet high, the latter to a giant
jl3 feet 4 inches. Walter Parsons, porter
! to King James 1, was 7 feet some inches in
| bright.
The Chinese pretend that they have gi
ants fifteen feet in height, but before they
have done with John Bull—or John Bui! is
done with them—we suspect they will not
j loom up quite so tall as they would make
l the barbarians think them to be.
DUELLING.
j An affair has just occurred in a certain
I Nothern city, which has occasioned some
| amusement to the lieges. A young gentle
man belonging to the beaumonde, was am
! bilious to become possessed of a pair of
{ whiskers, and applied to a friend to whom
j nature had been particularly bountiful in
1 regard to that article, to be instructed as to
j the method of furnishing himself with the
desired ornament. The friend promised to
I comply, and presented him with a pot of
! ointment with which he was to anoint the
| parts on which he wished to raise a crop.
The ointment was used accordingly, and
produced, not whiskers, but blisters. A
I challenge was given and accepted, the par- I
i ties met, and somewhat abated of their first
; ardor, faced each other with mortal intent,
i and weapons loaded with cork; though it
is due to their valor to mention that they
believed them to bn charged with a heavier
material. The word was given, shots were
duly exchanged, and one of the party, the
challenged, fell, overpowered by deadly
terror. The seconds, to continue what
they intended for a joke, but which was
certainly carried a little too far, applied a
handkerchief stained with red ink to his
side. At this sanguinary’ spectacle, the
challenger, believing he had done murder,
took to flight, and was with difficulty so
much reassured as to appear again in pub- r
lie.
A Highway liobber Shot.— -The Sunbury
American says a gentleman direct from
Tioga county, informs us that a traveller
who had a codsidorable sum of money with
him left Wellsboro’ on horseback, about
ten days since, on his road west. About 12
miles west of Smithport, he stopped at a
house kept by a man named Brush, of sus
picious character, but the only house on
the road, and but a few miles before he en
tered the wilderness. There was nothing
that occurred in the house that excited his
suspicion, but lie had scarcely entered into
the woods, when a rabbit came running in
to the road. He drew his postol to shoot it,
but it missed fire. He then tried another
with the same effect. This excited in his
mind some suspicion, and on examining his
pistols, found that the charges had been
drawn from both, and filled with bran. He
immediately re-loaded both pistols, and be
fore lie had proceeded a mile on his road, a
man with his face painted black, rushed out
from the woods, and seized the bridle of his
horse. The traveller drew a pistol, and
told him lie would shoot him if he did not
; let go. The robber replied that he was not
afraid of his pistol. The traveller then
fired upon him, and shot him through the
heart. He immediately rode back to the
house for assistance, to which the robber
was speedily removed, and washing his
face, discovered to be the landlord.— Phila.
Sentinel.
A Yankee Arab. —The celebrated Arab
Chief, who has for several years baffled the
French generals that have been sent to Af
rica, is accompanied on all his expeditions
by a regular dovvn-easter—one Zachariah
Coffin, a veritable descendant of the old
Admiral. He sports the Moorish dress,
rides a magnificent barb, heads a squadron,
lays by the dollars, but refuses to change
; his religion.
:
When fishermen sing, which part do they
prefer? They take the Pas
From the Milledgeville Recorder.
There has been, perhaps, an error on the
part ofthe advocates of domestic retrench
ment and reform, in the mode of presenting
their arguments, which we think has much
injured the cause they so zealously and so
| honorably maintain. There is a wide dis
! ference between absolute self-denial, and
a true application of the principles of do
mestic and political economy in supplying
ourselves with all that is necessary for our
comfort and happiness. Thus when we
insist that our peopleshall not incur further
indebtedness, at present, for manufactures
from abroad, we do not by any means in
tend that they shall be less comfortably and
respectably supplied than before ; but that
the procurement of those supplies shall it
! self he a source of profit to themselves, in-
I stead of a grievous and ruinous burden.—
The farmer who makes his own clothing of
i all kinds to the amount of fifty dollars, has
done good service to the republic. Let us
look into the matter a little. Fifty dollars
of substituted labor is equal to about two
bags of cotton —he has profitably diverted
this amount of labor from the culture ofan
article already greatly over supplied.—
Again, lie keeps within our own State fiftv
dollars which would have been carried out
of it; again, he has saved to the Statp me
exchange in the payment to the creditor,
which is a clear gain : end lastly, he has
proved himself a ‘.Vue economist, by gain
ing all this clear, and supplying himselfto
all talents and purposes as respectably and
as comfortably as he would have done by
the foreign purchase with all its injurious
incidents.
The same reasoning applies to every oth
er article included in the subject. When
we recommend our friends not to purchase
cotton bagging from abroad, we do not mean
that their cotton shall remain unpacked,
hut that they shall make it themselves,
which they can very easily do. And just
look at the result. We now send out of the
State for this article alone, three hundred
and seventy-five thousand dollars, which
would be kept at home. It would take
from eight to ten thousand bales of cotton to
make the article. Here would be a capi
tal sale for this much of an over produced
article. We should divert most profitably
from the culture of the over produced arti
cle, the labor of three thousand hands; these
hands would require their supplies from the
others, and besides adding to the value of
the cotton crop, would also add to the value
of our other products, our corn and pork,
and all necessaries for their support. What
a balance of good in our favor from this sin
gle article alone !
The same facts apply with even more
force in regard to the raising of our own
supply of horses, mules, hogs and cattle.
We shall not enter into detail on this point:
the benefits frotr. such a course are too ob
vious to every body to require illustration.
The same may be said in regard to lea
ther manufactures. On this point, howev
er, we are either strangely ignorant, or
perversely stupid to our interests. The
importance of this manufacture is almost
incalculable. We were astonished to be
informed, that one State of the Union. Mas
sachusetts, ofthe articles of shoes and boots
alone, manufactures about fifteen millions
ofdollars, about twice as much as.the whole
cotton crop of Georgia. When will Geor
gia thus add millions to her prosperity, by
learning and pursuing her true interests.
Although we have extended this article
about as far as we designed for this week,
(knowing full well that brief articles most
surely command attention,) we cannot con
clude without glancing at a few matters in
connection with this subject, in regard to
which we feel peculiar soreness. For in
stance, who looks into a store in Georgia,
out of the cities, without being confounded
with the sight of whole range of wooden
pails, countless piles of hat boxes, and whole
forests of Northern brooms, and corn broom
brushes. Is it possible we can’t make our
own water pails, or do we not grow broom
corn enough to brush our clothes with? —
These illustrations ofour spendthrift policy
may seem to the unreflecting and unobser
vant, trifling in every point of view. The
| reverse is the fact. We have enquired at
the proper sources for correct information,
among other things, what they imagined it
costs Georgia to brush its clothes, and that
only with corn brooms. We will give one
case as a criterion to judge of this single
and apparently inconsiderably expense.—
A merchant of our town, of enlarged views.
I and ofthe first respectability, informed us
j that he enquired of the agent in New York
of one corn broom establishment, how much
of this article he sold to the south. He was
informed that the season had but begun,
was not half advanced, and that he had al
ready sold for the single house upwards of
thirty thousand dollars of tjje article. Now
it may be supposed that for the whole sea
son, this single establishment must have
sold from sixty to seventy-five thousand dol
lars worth of corn brooms to the South ;
and we leave the reader to judge for him
self, if one house sold this amount, what
must have been the amount of the whole
trade to the South on this article alone,
from New York to Boston. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars at least! Truly Geor
gia and the South pay severely lor brush
ing their clothes.
Let us stop this criminal waste of our
means, and at once. Already has our pros
perity been enough blighted by this sense
less course of conduct. Let us once again
make our Declaration of Independence, and
enjoy its blessings. Let us eat our own
Flour and Pork —let us wear our own clo
thing—let usmake our cotton bagswithour
own bagging—let us wear our own hats
and shoes—let us use our own saddles, bri
dles, and harness—let us churn out of our
own churns—drink out of our own pails,
and brush our clothes and sweep our hou
ses_vvith our own brooms, and the cry of
hard times, pressure, distress and suffering
will quickly subside, to be heard no more in
all the broad extent of our own rejoicing,
prolific and renovated country.
Why is a toper like a bull? Because
lie tak"= hi® bonis wherever he goee.
From the Georgia Journal.
THE TAX LAW.
We have refrained touching upon this
subject for some time past, notwithstanding
in the interim ofour silence, it has been al
most officially announced, that the tax act
of 1841, passed by the Legislature, has not
been approved of n>v Gov. McDonald—he
has vetoed it. We are not at all surprised
ai this act ofthe Governor. We kn ”W, and
we told the people last summer, that all
the fuss that was made by the Democratic
press in Georgia about the tax law, was a
trap set to catch their votes. Time has pro
ven that we were right.—But let us, with
the reader, recur for a moment, to the his
tory ofthe present tax law of Georgia.
In 1840 the Harrison party had control
of the Legislature. For the very reasons,
we presume, that induced Governor Mc-
Donald to veto the tax law of last session,
they, the Harrison Legislature, passed the
act of 1840. In brief, those reasons may
be found in one simple statement. The
absolute necessities of the Government re
quired the passage of the law, and the Le-
gislature of that year was not composed of
men, who would shrink from the discharge
of thoir duty. Scarcely, however, had the
Body adjourned, when the Standard and
Federal Union ofthis place, opened, in full
cry, upon their action. The tax law was
held up as a most hideous monster of iniqui
ty. The people were told that extrava
gance, corruption, and oppression had all
been exercised by the Harrison Party.—
They were told that their taxes had been
increased over a half million of dollars. —
That from paying a tax of something less
than $200,000, they had to pay one amoun
ting to over $700,000. All this too. was
displayed to their senses, by the exhibition
of a table, purpoting to be the amount to be
paid in, by each county —and so cunning
ly was the whole affair managed, by those
who were working to deceive, that, notwith
standing the truth of the whole matter was
placed by our papers, time and again, be
fore our readers, the statement made by our
opponents found favor with the great mass
of the people. In the contest we were de
feated. The tax law and the Relief ques
tion, were, no doubt the cause of this defeat.
The tables now are to be turned. Truth
is mighty and will prevail.
Well, the Legislature of 1841, a Van
Buren Legislature, a Relief Legislature,
assembled, and what is about the first an
nouncement made to the Body, by his Ex
cellency, the Goveruor? Is it that the peo
ple have been oppressed by taxation ? No!
Is it thatthe Treasury needs not the amount
collected, or about to be collected and paid
over to it ? What is it then? W.hat does
His Excellency tell the Representatives of
the people? Hear it, and heed it, people
of Georgia. In his annual message to the
Legislature Gov. McDonald says:
“From information derived from the
Comptroller General, the anticipated net
receipts into the Treasury,will be about the
sum of two hundred and thirty thousand
dollars.” Now, the above piece of infor
mation communicated to His Excellency,
is given by the same individual that told the
people they were taxed the enormous a
mount oi $720,000. Think of that reader,
as we pass along.
But again, the Governor says to the Le
gislature, “it is to be hoped now thatthe re
venue is paid into the public treasury, that
there will be no necessity for resorting to
loans lo any considerable extent, to sustain
the Goverment, or Us policy.’’ This is a
strange language indeed to men, who, but
a short month before, were made to believe
that enormous taxation, the Treasury was
to be fil led to overflowing !
But the Governor in his inaugural address
comes out much plainer. He there tells
the Legislature in emphatic language “The
State Treasury is exhuusted.” More, “ the
revenue now about to be received is not suffi
cient lo reimburse the expenditures of the po
litical year just ended, cannot be made a
callable for future exigencies.
There was the plain truth. All the e
lectioneering fibs that were promulgated
with so much industry, were exposed naked
to the country, ere the Legislature had as
sembled throe days. And in what a quan
dary did it place the party—yes, in what
an unenviable attitude does it place those
who at the head of the press, so degraded it,
as to use the weapon that they did!
But the party in the Legislature had to j
do something, and they knew not what.—
They had promised to loan the people mon
ey through the Central Bank ; this they
were told by those in authority could not
be done. They had to resort then to the
poor alternative of reducing salaries of pub
lic officers, and by passing a tax act, redu
cing the taxes 20 per cent ; and this latter
act of theirs Governor McDonald lias ve
toed? The old tax law—the tax law so
much reprobated—the tax law passed by a
Harrison Legislature—is adopted by our
present Democratic Governor as the law
for 1842 ! How mortified must the feelings
of those, who so vigorously battled for His
Excellency, and, in battling, used a wea
pon which their chief discards as an un
worthy, a dishonorable one ! We leave
the subject. Let the reader reflect upon it,
and with his conclusions we know, we shall
be satisfied.
Spirit of the Times. —The ex-Editor of
the “Sf. Joseph Times,” has, to use our ve
nacular, “sloped” —GTT. Last week a
Colonel Milton, a gentleman of notoriety in
New Orleans, Mobile and Columbus, by
some achievements in matters of honor, gal
lantry, &c., arrived here in the Steamer
Jas. Y. Smith and chartered a Schooner
for Texas. The Rov'd Mr. Peter W. Gau
tier, Senior, and his son, the ex-Editor, ar
rived about the same time in St. Joseph.—
The schooner immediately proceeded there
and took fifty-three negroes on board, a
part, as is said, of the moveable assets of
the Union Bank, together with the Editor,
the old Gentleman and Col Milton.
Another schooner appeared in St. Jo
seph’s Bay, last Wednsday, with about fif
ty or sixty negroes on board, and several
white persons, recognised as having come
from Port Leon. They were bound! t
Texas !
A Mr. A. Formy Duval, of Tallahasl <
we are informed, had nearly come the sal
go upon the Tallahasscuns, but the bloc
hounds of the law, were too nimble for hit _
Apalachicola Journal. $ a
From the National Intelligencer.
TRUE PROPHECY.
Having met in the Cincinnati Gazett
received yesterday, with an article origir
ally published in this paper a year or tw
ago, entitled
“ The predictions by wise Statesmen of
consequences of the Experiment
and having the curiosity to reperuse tha
article, we were absolutely startled at tin
life-like delineation which it shows to have,
been made, ten years ago, of the consel
quencesthat might be expected to result
from a perseverance in the wanton anc
foolish experiment upon the national pros!
perity which has brought the country tc|
the condition it is now in. Every day, foil
four or five years past, we have realized
more and more forcibly the truth of these!
predictions, and now more forcibly than*
ever.
Our readers will bear with us whilst wo
quote as follows, one or two passages, full
of instruction and illustration, from the ar
ticle to which we refer.
When in July, 1832, a bill for rechar
tering the bank of the United States, having
passed both Houses of Congress, and been
sent to the President for his signature, was
returned by him to the Senate with his ob
jections, a solemn debate took place un
der the question, arising under the Constit
ution, whether the bill should pass notwith
standing the President’s objections ; in the
course of which debate, as recorded in the’
Register of Debates, the following remark
able passages occur :
Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, said : “ If this insti
tution is really to be prostrated—if it have
now received its death-blow, and is but tc
wait and prepare for its final fall—the dis
tress and ruin which it will occasion rests
not with the wealth}’ money-h r ' ld<> ''j “I'ost
funds an investment in its stock,
but it must come with fatal and unbroket
force upon the industry, the enterprize, th
public prosperity,‘and private comforts o
the whole extended West. The Bank c
the United States must withdraw its issue
&e.” And then Mr. E. cuuilnued a.-> !L>f
lows; “ But this is not all. You sap th
morals at the same time you thus rudely sliak
the prosperity of a people. Their first rc
sort will he to legislative aid, and relit
laws follow, or in other words, laws to prt
vent the collection ofdebts, (for what Li
gislature can withstand the appeals of
whole people suffering under a general vi
itation?) or, if not that, the creation of
host of banks with fictitious capital, whic
may seem for a time to suspend the bio'-
but will make it fall the heavier at last-
And then, instead of the safe and sound cu
rency which we now enjoy, we shall aga
have a depreciated and worthless mass
trash, which will pass into the hands of t.
People, and there sink into nothing, leavit I
them to bear the loss. 1
Mr. Clayton spoke in the same spiri I
“The prediction of Mr. Lowndes in 1811
must be fulfilled : “that the destruction I
the United States Bank would be followi I
by theestablishment ofpaper mony he fire I
ly believed ; he might also say lie knev I
It was an extremity’, he said, from whit I
the House would recoil.” The farme I
must again stdl his grain to the counti I
merchant for State bank paper at a discoui I
of from ten to twenty, or even thirty pc I
cent, in the nearest commercial city,” &c I
“The loss of confidence among men, the U I
tal derangement of that, admirable system c I
exchanges which is now acknowledged 11
be better than exists in any other comm
on the globe, overtrading and speculate) I
on false capital in every part of the com
try. that rapid fluctuation in the standard(
value of money, which , like the unseen pest
lence , withers all the. efforts of industry, wlii.
the sufferer is in utter ignorance of the cam
of his destruction ; bankruptcies and ruii
■it the anticipation of which the heart sic!
ens, must follow in the long train of evil
which are assuredly before us.”
A FAIR HIT.
The following (says the Buffalo Con
mercial Advertiser,) is too good to be los
It was written on the wrapper of a newspa
per that passed through our Post-Office
few days since. The Post- Master-Gonerr
must promulge some new regulation to pre
vent the transmission of private intelligene
by means of newspapers, or give up beat:
“ The wrapper forms no part of the pack
age,neither is postage paid thereon, ’-p.m.g
“EZRA D. BARNES, ESQ.
One Paper. Byron, Michigan.
Now I wish to have it understood b
all the P. M’s. along the route betwee
here and away out there in Michigan—an
there too —that we are all well down her
in De Reytor, from grand-mother to littl
bub; and also that there is no ‘wvitin
within the wrapper, or on tho margin <
this newspaper—no underscoring, dottim
or pricking letters or words,’ or other m
moranda—nevertheless, I enjoin it up<
him of Byron to tear off the wrapper at
examine it closely, and then, on demaf
deliver it to my brother, a little south
Uncle ‘ Jake Canouse’s,’ —we had pc
sleighing, but very fat turkeys, Tbanksg j
ing day—a long night and a short serrr
from Priest Johnson before Christmas
good deal of wind and some weather,. N
Year’s day —bells jingling and belles and .
cing through the evening—money scflj >
and office circulars plenty ever since. > i
. |
Chance lo Indulge Taste. —A bill tepf,
ing the law forbidding blaeksand white*
intermarry, has passed the Senate of Ja
saehnsetts bv a vot° of t? 1 t° 0
