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NEWS & PEANTEItS 9 GAZETTE.
ID. G. COTTIMW, Editor.
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COTTING & BUTLER,
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the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia.
October, 18-13. 28
NELSON CARTER,
DEALER IN
Choice Drugs and Medicines,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,
Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Perfumery, Brushes,
Paints, Oils, Dye-Stuffs,
Window Glass, ts-c. <s*c-
RED MORTAR. | AUGUSTA. Ga.
October 12, 1843. ly 7
HAVILAND, RISLEY & Cos.
Near the Mansion House, Globe and United
States Hotels,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
DEALERS IN CHOICE
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
‘ Surgical and Dental Instruments,
Chemicals, Patent Medicines,.
Perfumery K Oils,
Window Glass, Stuffs,
See. See.
t; Being connected with Haviland,
Keese & Cos., New-York, and Hav
taßTff iland, Harral & Allen, Charles
ton, they are constantly receiving
SSSIW f res h supplies of every article in
ihsirTme, which they are enabled to sell at the
lowest market prices.
EP All goods sold hy them, warranted to be of
the quality represented, or may be returned.
Augusts, August 1843 31
j THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER.
BY LAURIE TODD.
“ Up hill, indulge him—down the deep descent,
Spare—and don’t urge him when his strength is
Impel him briskly o’er the level earth, [spent;
But in his stable don’t forget bis worth.”
Many who keep horses are. not aware
that they are thinking animals, and have
feelings, passions, and affections very much
like human beings, although they cannot
talk. People who do not appreciate the
character of them, are apt to treut him
without love or mercy, and without any ap
peal to his natural intelligence. “ The
horse knoweth his owner,” and much
more; he knows when he is used as a
horse should he; and in respect to treat
ment, the Turk and Aral) have much the
advantage of many Christians I could
name. The Pagans make friends of their
horses—they love each olher—and on the
sandy desert, or the wild plain, they lie
down side hy side, and each is equally
ready to resist the approach of an enemy.
A horse may be taught like a child by
those who have who have won his affec
tions ; but the method of teaching is by
siiowing distinctly what you wish him to
do, not by beating him because he does not
understand and perform the utmost of all
you desire. Horses, like men, have very
different intellectual capacities and tem
pers ; but all may be mastered by kindness,
while the best, the most high-spirited, and
the most generous, will be ruined by harsh
l treatment.
At the circus, you have occular demon
stration that the horse understands the lan
guage of man, and man may learn more
virtues than one if he will observe the hab
its of a horse. “Ask the beast, he will
teach thee!”
To illustrate the position that a horse, by
kindness, may become as docile and as
fond of his master as a dog, 1 will tell the
readers in the New World something of
my horse, Billy. I was out with him be
fore a light wagon; and on a part of the
u'ay a fence was being made with lime,
and the road was encumbered with large
stone, lime barrels, carts ox chains, &c.,
which rendered it almost impassable, even
by daylight. I was detained beyond my
expectations, and by the time 1 arrived at
this dangerous spot, on my return, it was
so dark that l could not diminish the head
of my horse. I thought of getting out to
lead him; but this was impossible, as the
frost was coming out of the ground, and
had I left the wagon 1 should have sunk to
tile knees in mire. When wo came to this
spot, Billy stopped of Ids own accord.—
“ Now,” Billy said I, “ I can’t see and
can’t walk; you must try and not upset
me.” So saying 1 slacked the reins, and
gave him his own way. It was a ticklish
job, but he managed it nobly ; he stopped
now and then and made a survey, as care
fully as did the men who run the boundary
line two years ago ; he turned, and tack
ed, and wore ship like an old seaman
among breakers, & brought me out as safe
as a steamer, beyond the overslaugh.—
“Well done, Billy,” said I. “You shall
have a good bed and four quarts of oats,
as soon as we got home. While I kept
talking, he was at a slow pace as if listen
ing. “Now, Billy,” said I, “ye may
gang yer ain gait.” lie clapped his feet to
the ground—he is a racker—and in ten
minutes we were at home. As I was ta
king off his harness, I kept patting and
praising him occasionally, and then made
a comfortable bed and gave him his oats,
for which he seemed more grateful than
some of those two legged gentry who scour
the third avenue, for they neither thank
God nor man.
Billy is a white Canadian Poney. I have
fed him for ten years past with my own
hands and generally caress and talk to him
while feeding, so that now he seems to un
derstand every word I say as well as if he
had been born in Scotland. Sometimes he
cuts up a few capers in the clover field,
and will let no one approach him, but as
soon as I go out and call him by name, he
comes stepping gingerly along, as sober as
an old continental bishop.
The war horse, the race-horse, and the
horses in the circus, all partake of the feel
ings of their rider; yet this noble animal
is more abused by a set of twa legged
brutes than perhaps any other animal that
treads upon four feet. To induce rationul
beings to treat their horses with kindness,
(fora merciful man is merciful even to his
neighbor’s beast,) I will give you a few an
ecdotes to illustrate his sound sense, do
cile qualities and attachment to his mas
ter.
Some years ago, a baker in London hav
ing purchased an old horse, placed a pair
of panniers on his back next morning, fill
ed with bread, and, mounting himself, sal
lied forth to supply his customers. One
day happening to pass the gate at Hyde
Park just at the moment the trumpet was
sounding for the regiment of Life Guards
to “fall in,” no sooner did the sound as
sail the animals ears, than he instantly, in
spite of his master’s resistance, dashed like
lightning through the park, with the baker
on his back, into the midst of the regiment.
The poor baker was sadiy confounded at
this adventure, and began to whip, kick,
spur and swear, but all to no purpose ; the
poor old charger was so animated at the
sound of the soul-stirring trumpet, that to
move him from his station was impossible.
The soldiers were much amused at tho gro
tesque appearance of the baker, and his
horse’s deportment, and were expressing
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their surprise, when on old comrade recog
nized the animal as having formerly be
longed to the regiment, but had been dis
charged some years previous, on account
of an infirmity. Several of the officers
kindly greeted their old companion, and
the colonel, delighted with the circum
stance, gave the signal to advance in line,
I when finding all his resistance, useless,
the baker calmly resigned himself to his
situation-; the trumpet then sounded the
charge, and the baker was carried between
bis panniers to a great distance, with the
rapidity of the wind. Various other evo
lutions were performed, in which the ani
mal displayed his martial spirit and disci
plinc with the best of them. At length the
sound of retreat was given, when off went
the sagacious creature contented, having
performed his duty in the field.
In another regiment of cavalry was a
horse of great spirit and beauty, which
from age, had lost his teeth. The two hor
ses which stood on the right and left sides in
the stable would take his rations of hay
arid oals and having chewed them, push
the food thus prepared before their blind
comrade; thus even feeding the hungry,
which is more than some rational beings
will do. “ Ask the beast, he will teach thee.”
Some years ago, an old horse was regu
larly worked in one of the royal dockyards
which would labor all the morning very
diligently till he heard the twelve o’clock
boll ring; after that neither coaxing nor
whipping could induce him to move till the
laborers dinner hours had expired. He
was perfectly satisfied he had performed
his task without stopping an hour in the
time to talk about Bonaparte and the com
bined armies, as some of his twa legged
companions had done and was resolved to
have his dinner hour as well as the best of
them.
Sume months after the battle of Water
loo, on the reduction of the Army, about
twenty horses were to be sold from one
troop belonging to the regiment of cavalry
known bv the name of Scotch Greys, the
horses being grey and the soldiers all
Scotchmen. An officer in the troop being
loth to see the noble animals—who had
scattered Bounaparte’s invincibles like
chaff before the wind—placed before butch
ers’, bakers,’ ash and dirt-carts, and being
a man of vast wealth and landed property,
boughttho whole of them and turned them
into a fine park, to spend their latter days
in peace and comfort, like the old pension
ers in Greenwich Hospital near London.—
After being in the park a few weeks, there
came up a thunder-storm ; at the time, the
horses were busily engaged eating the
grass; with the first flash of lightning the
horses raised their heads, pricked up their
ears, and stood in the act of listening; in a
moment the sound of the thunder came roll
ing from afar, when every horse galloped,
each faster than his neighbor, to the centre
of the field, where they fell into line as
regularly as if backed by the most experi
enced Life-guards. In a few minutes
finding it a false alarm, they quietly re
turned to their grass. Where is the man,
having a soul, that can abuse such an ani
mal ?
I knew a gentleman, who occasionally
got intoxicated, whose horse knew when his
master was drunk as well as he did him
self, by his vacillating motions when
mounted. Upon such occasions the horse
would regulate his movements so as to pre
vent his master from falling, if possible.—
One moonlight evening he staggered out of
Cato’s, or some of tiiose hell holes near
the Third Avenue, and was helped on the
saddle ; but lie fell off before he had gone
a mile, and his foot hung in the stirrup.—
His horse stopped and stood still. Here
was a theme for a picture—a comment
upon the text: “Ask the beast, he will
teach thee.” There stood the compassion
ate horse, the big tear rolling in his eye,
looking with sorrow upon his drunken mas
ter, and revolving in his mind how best he
should help him. At length he griped the
brim of his hat with his teeth, but this gave
away, and again the drunkard’s head smote
the ground. He then seized hold of the
collar of his coat, and thus hold him up
till he was able to extricate his foot from
the stirrup. His master having now be
come somewhat sobered by the loss of blood
and his fright, was able to mount again
and keep his saddle, and arrived home
safe. Soon after this the man joined the
Temperance society, and is now a useful
and happy man. It is now more than ten
years since this occurred, but the horse is
still kept and treated like one of the fami
ly, and will be till he dies.
I have seen a horse, at an exhibition,
which upon a watch being held before him
and he asked what time it was—happening
to be four o’clock—struck the floor four
times with his foot.
A friend of mine, in Brooklyn had a
horse which, when asked by his master to
salute the company, will place himself
against the wall and, standing upon his
hand feet, nod with his head to the com
pany.
A friend of mine had a valuable horse
stolen for which a large reward was offered
and diligent search made, but to no purpose
Having changed masters several times, he
was at length rode by a gentleman whose
business led him through the place from
which the horse had been stolen, and when
he came opposite his old master’s house,
he marched directly up and put his head
over the half door, and commenced neigh
ing. His rider, kicked, spurred, coaxed,
and whipped, but to no purpose; to move
him was impossible. A crowd gathered
-1 around him, and among these was his old
(master. The rider gave a fair account ot
his purchase, and so did the next and tho
next, until it came to the thief, who was
committed for trial.
Some years ago, a favorite old hunter
belonging to a gentleman in Somerset^iire,
I England, being locked in the stable, and
: hearing the sound of a hreneh horn and
i the cry of the hounds, became very restive,
j The hostler going into the stable thought
I thespiiited animal wanted some sport, and
instantly saddled him. and placing a large
monkey upon tho saddle, turned him loose.
The horse following the sound soon joined
the pack, and was one of the first in at tho
death of poor Reynard. But tho amaze
ment of the sportsmen was greatly height
ened by observing the monkey holding the
reins with all the dexterity of a true spoils
man.
A gentleman who owned a great many
horses, was in the habit of turning them
loose in a field to graze in the summer.—
Among them was a horse stone blind. One
of tho horses attached himself to this blind
horse, and whenever the blind horse strayed
from his companions, this good tempered
creature followed him, and hy laying his
head on his neck, and other signs which
they perfectly understood, would lead him ;
back to his companions. And what was j
still more remarkable, this horse was so
gentle and peaceable that he incurred the
character of a coward, when only himself
was concerned, but if any of them made
an attack upon his blind friend, he would
fly with such fury that not a horse in tiie
field could stand before him. I thought the
conduct of this horse might put man to the
blush.
One of the horses belonging to the Ox
ford Dragoons, having got loose in the sta
ble, marched up a crooked staircase into
the hayloft. When his rider came into the
stable he was thunder-struck on missing his
horse ; and flew like a madman to inform
an officer of his loss ; but he had scarcely
got twenty yards when the animal put his
head through the pitching hole aud neighed
aloud. The astonishment of the soldier
and his neighbors was beyond description.
Every strategem that could be devised was
made use of to lead or force him down, but
in vain : he saw the danger and was obsti
nate. He kept trotting and snorting round
the large hayloft for nearly two hours, un
til at last he stepped upon a trap-door, made
of thin boards, which let him down upon
the floor, about eight feet, without the slight
est injury.
A few years since, the servant of Mr.
Walker led his horses to the corner of New
and Broad streets to drink, and was always
followed by a fine Scotch terrier dog, which
had fondly attached himself to one of the
horses, and always slept under the manger,
by the fore-feet of his favorite. On going
tod rink one morning,the terrier was attack
ed by a powerful mastiff, (the prototype of
Buonaparte, the great bull-dog of murder
ers,) and was in a fair way of being torn
to pieces. The favorite horse, seeing the
unequal contest, slipped his halter, gallop
ed to the spot, and with his hind feet gave
the tyrant a blow so well directed and pow
erful, as to send him, head over heels, a
cross the street, and down tho steps of a cel
lar. Having performed this act of justice,
he returned to the well, finished drinking,
and then escorted his canine friend to his
soft bed under the manger.
Sir Walter Raleigh makes mention of a
horse which lived in his lime, belonging to
a Mr. Banks, of w hom it is related that he
would restore a glove to its owner after his
master had whispered the man’s name in
his ear. When shown a piece of money,
and asked how many pence it contained
suppose it to be a shilling—he would strike
the ground twelve times with his foot. This
renowned horse is alluded toby Shakspere,
in “ Love‘s Labor Lost,” Act 1, Scene 3.
The following sublime description of the
horse, is from the book of Job, chapter 30,
v. 19. God speaking to Job, says, “Hast
thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou |
clothed his neck in thunder ? Canst thou !
make him afraid as a grasshopper ? The
glory of his nostrils is terrible ; he paweth 1
in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength ; !
he goeth on to meet the armed men, he
mocketh at fear and is not affrighted ; nei
ther turneth he back from the sword ; the
quiver resteth against him, the glittering
spear and shield. He swalloweth the
ground with fierceness and rage; ncilher
believeth lie that it is the sound of the trum
pet ; he saith among the trumpets, ha, ha ;
and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thun
der of the captains, aud the shouting.”
This eloquent description of the horse
was written about 5000 years ago; yet no
language could better portray his nature,
though it were written the day after the bat
tle of Waterloo, where the British horse
contributed so much to gain that splendid
victory over Buonaparte and his invinci
bles.
I might fill a volume with such anecdotes;
but fts I intend to continue the subject, I
will with a few hints on their treatment,
whiejp I have learned from experience.
When a horse shys, don’t beat him—
that only makes him worse next time; check
him to a walk, and give him time to see the
object, and he will take little or no notice
of it.
If a horse stumbles, don’t strike him for
it; that will add the fault of springing for
ward ; for the next time he stumbles he will
expect the lash to follow, and will natural
ly spring forward to be out of its way. The
remedy is in keeping a good look-out, and
when yon come to a rough or stony part of
| the road, tighten the reins, and enliven the
i horse by talking to him, but never strike
! him after accident.
As you would save the strength and wind
of your horse, drive him slow up a hill;
and as you would save vour own, and your
| horses limbs, drive slow down a hill. Do
i not feed with grain: especially corn;
| when your horse is warm, or much fa.
I tigued ; if you do, you may founder and
I ruin him.
Never wash you’ horse with cold water
; when he is hot, or let him drink f'eelv ; hut
if the water is quite warm it will not hurt
him. Yours, T.
P6LIT IC AL.
“ORATOR PUFF HAD TWO TONES
TO lIIS VOICE.”
The position which tho Locofoco candi
date for the Presidency occupies relative
to the Tariff is certainly an unenviable
one. So long as views on this subject
were to be applied to his own State of Ten
nessee, where the Locos one and all are
open in their opposition to that measure, he
was safe enough. But when, with great
unanimity he was nominated for the Presi
dency on the ninth ballot, after all the oth
er candidates had been pitched overboard,
it became necessary for him, like his great
prototype, Orator Puli', to assume “two
tones to his voice,” on the subject of the
Tariff.
in his address to the people of Mecklen
burg in 1843, he said—“ [ am opposed to
the tariff act of the late Congress,” and
“ I am in favor of repealing that act.”
The Harrisburg Union, a Locofoco print,
says Polk is in favor of a tariff’ that will
afford the amplest incidental Protection to
American Industry.
The Charleston Mercury says, “ that he
(Polk) is for free trade,” &c.
The Harrisburg Union says, “ we hap
pen to know that he (Polk) holds the doc
trine of free trade in actual abhorrence.—
Ife has never advocated it, and he never
will.”
“ A Protective Tariff,” said James K.
Polk, at Jackson, Tenn., in April, 1843.
“ is a measure which 1 consider ruinous to
the interest of the country.”
“James K. Polk,” says the Harrisburg
Union, “is opposed to the disturbance of
the present tariff.”
“The provisions of the present tariff,”
says the Nashville Union, “are viewed
with abhorrence hy Gov. Polk and his
friends.”
“ James K. Polk,” says the Harrisburg
Union, “ is opposed to the disturbance of
the present tariff, believing permanence in
our laws to be of incalculable value.”
“Mr. Polk’s views on the tariff are
Southern to the back-bone,” says the
Charleston Mercury—that is, he is for
Free Trade.
“Mr. Polk holds the doctrine of free
trade in actual abhorrence,” says the Har
risburg Union.
“I am opposed to the Tariff’ act—l am
in favor of its repeal—l view its provision
with abhorrence—l am for free trade—l
consider a Protective tariff injurious to the
interests of the country,” says James K.
Polk.
“1 am in favor of a tariff with reason
able incidental protection—l hold the doc
trine of free trade in unqualified abhor
rence—l never advocated free trade and
never will—l am opposed to the disturb
ance of the present tariff, believing perma
nence in the laws to be of incalculable
value. lam in favor of the amplest inci
dental protection to domestic industry—l
am the special friend of the coal and iron
interest,” says James K. Polk, through his
Locofoco organs; and, say they, “we
state these facts upon the eery best authority.
and caution the democracy against listen
ing to the misrepresentations of the Coons.”
Hurrah then, for Polk and free trade !
Hurrah for Polk and no free trade !!
Hurrah for Polk and a Protective tariff’!'!
Hurrah for Polk and no Protection !!!!
[ Albany Advertiser.
FACTS FOR CANDID LOCOS,
1. Every candid Locofoco should be ,
startled at the undisputed fact, that the mo- |
ment one of the leaders of his party is pla- |
ced on the bench of the United States Su- j
preme Cpurt—where he is above and be- |
yond the influences of party—he becomes a ;
Whig in principle, and gives Whig deci
sions !
2. It should strike every candid Loco- !
fooo with amazement to reflect upon the
well-known fact, that for the very first hon
orable, high-minded, open-hearted act ever
performed by Martin Van Buren, when a
contest was going on in which his prospects
were at stake—his late Texas letter—he
was, by the demagogue leaders of his party,
unceremoniously thrown overboard ! Too
honest, for once, to answer their purposes.
3. It cannot but cause any candid Loco
fooo to pause in wonder when he reflects
upon the ludicrous fact, that James K. Polk,
who has for years been fishing for the rep
utation of being considered a free trade
man, and who last year denounced the pre
sent tariff from one end of the State of Ten
nessee to the other, and wrote out and pub
lished those denunciations, now, being un
expectedly nominated for the Presidency,
and wishing to get the votes of as many of
the friendsof the tariff as possible, writes a
soft, smooth, demagoguical letter to a tariff
man in Pennsylvania, for publication, in
which he professes to he in favor of a “ju*
! dieious tariff,” that will raise revenue e-
ITI. J. KAPPEL, Printer.
i nough to carry on the government, eco
! nomically administered, and at the same
! time afford incidental protection to our home
; industry !
4. No candid Locofoco can retrain from
[ surmising that something must he wrong
; with his candidate for the Presidency, when
he ponders upon the tell-tale fact, that that
j candidate is eagerly striving to borrow and
: appropriate as his own, two of the cardinal
! principles supported by Mr. Ciav and the
Whig party, to-wit : “ One T> rm,’’ and
I “ Friendship for the Tariff.”
1 Let all candid Lrccfocos reflect upon
[ these four considerations, for to them .hey
I are in good faith addressed.
Baltimore Patriot.
“THE BLOODY MAN.”
A Loco Foco editor out in Ohio, who is
! quoted by the Globe, arraigns Mr. Clay be
fore the people as the “ Man of Blood.”
He charges Mr. Clay in the first place, with
having been horn in 1777, a blqody epoch
in the history of the country : next, he
charges that Mr. Clay challenged'a gentle
man in 1805; next, he was challenged in
1808 ; and next, he challenged Mr. Ran
dolph in 1825, but no injury except a
scratch resulted from the three duels.—
Next, Mr. Clay is charged with having
been consulted by one of the parties to the
Cillcy duel, which resulted in the death ot
that gentleman; and lastly, he is charged
with having been challenged by Mr. King,
of Alabama, the present Minister to France,
but no fight ensued ; so that the Ohio editor,
backed by his worthy and pious compeer of
the Globe, have only succeeded, after all
their efforts, in proving that a friend of Mr.
Clay has killed a man in a duel.
Now, let us try Mr. Polk. It was about
tho bloody period of Mr. Clay’s birth, 1777,
that Mr. Polk’s grandfather, a Tory,
“saved his bacon” by joining the British.
But for that act of “ discretion,” which he
thought “ the better part of valor,” the Lo
cofocos in this campaign of 1844 would
have been minus a candidate for the Presi
dency—that is to sav, such would be their
predicament unless Mr. Polk could have
found his way into the world without the
aid of a grandfather.
It was about the year of our Lord 1812
or ’l3, that Mr. James K. Polk escaped out
of Rutherford in Maury, in order to avoid
the service of a draft for soldiers to fight
the British—the friends and protectors of
his grandfather. Mr. Polk and his grand
father have improved upon the advice of
Hudibras. That facetious author lias 1
in his quaint way, that
He who fights aial runs away,
Will live to fight another day.
Mr. P., as well as his ancestor, read the
couplet thus:
He who runs and gets away.
Will live to run another day.
In the tiiird place, Mr. Polk displayed
his hereditary dislike of “ vile guns,” when
Mr. Wise called him “ a d—d petty ty
rant,” and grossly insulted him in the
House. It is true Mr. Polk’s brother lias
“ killed his man” in a most brutal fight,
which he provoked by striking a gentleman
of weakly frame with a cowhide ; and it
is likewise true that Old Hickory has kill
ed two men in duels ; and that in reference
to one of them, ho wrote to a friend that he
had “ left the d — d rascal weltering in his
blood;” and since “Young Hickory” has
been thrust into the shoes of Old Hickory,
he must vicariously answer for these
bloody deeds- a: the bar of public opinion.
But Young Hickory, in his proper person,
never did and never will fight. As the
representative of General Jackson, never
theless, he must he held to a strict account
for the blood shed by the old heto.
Some persons may wonder where, upon
what field, in what “ imminent deadly
breech,” Mr. Polk won for himself the ap
pellation of Colonel. We can inform all
such, that Mr. Polk was some years since,
at a time of profound peace, the command
er of a regiment of Tennessee militia, and
that, like his friend Crary, of Michigan,
whose prowess has been celebrated by Gov.
Corwin, he has won his laurels hy charg
ing, sword in hand, upon a patch of water
melons ; while his reputation as a tactician
has been acquired by retreating out of a
shower of rain into a neighboring barn.—
Whig Standard.
The manner in which a portion of the Lo
cofoco press is crowing over professedly
favorable anticipations in regard to the
Presidential election, reminds us of the
similar course which they pursued in 1840
even after the election of Gen. Harrison
was absolutely certain. Thus we find the
following evidence of the foresight and sa
gacity of their nominee for the Vice Presi
dency, George M, Dallas, in a letter to
John Willis, Esq., of Virginia, written as
late as August, 1840, declaring as follows :
“I shall be surprised if Pennsylvania does
not give Mr. Van Buren a majority exceed
ing twenty thousand. My information jus
tifies a confident expectation of the same
enlightened patriotism from New Jersey,
Maryland and fiorth Carolina. Os Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New
York and Ohio, our friends sends us ac
counts which relieve us from every appre
hension.” Now, when it is remembered
that every one of the States, except solita
ry New Hampshire, gave a majority for
Harrison amounting in the aggregate to
88,042 votes, some estimate can he made of
the present random calculations of the
“ Democrats,” as well as of the honesty or
‘ greenness of their leaders Beg.
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