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POLITICAL.
and never oiauraerany, may be much at tome
and nobody the wiser.
All who are acquainted with my habits,
Ttnuw I deny myself to no one, am always
glad to see any ot my fellow-citizens, anil
happy to give them any Information or ren
der them any service in wiy power.
If my means of uscliihiers are limited, or
more do not choose to avail themselves of my
good disposition, it is not : my fault. ■
About the period in question, however, ’if
my memory does tint fail-me, I "five some,
forme extraordinary proofs, not merely of life
oittl residence, but of interest in wlinl was go
ing on. l ine my tirst and only public dm
ncr, fmd wrote a long letter' on the famous
projector theConventio.n’ for reforming the
representiun of the siuio, by putting trii the
power into a frw safc hnuiU. Now of two
tilings one. Either these rcniiirkablc'ev.jpls
attracted sonic attention, mid then it must be
known I was at home, or else liiey wore en
tirely overlooked, ,und -therefore can’t be coun
ted among my faults. The pa|»er of llio Con
vention, indeed, liaving been crossed by tlio
people, no longer finds rnty ene to acknowl
edge it. Did tiicy utterly’forget I liad previ
ously pronounced it "cimHlerli.'it.”
"But remaining at home is not enough.—
You should have shewn yourself, made in
terest, and requested voles.”'
Now-indeed yon have. hit ration a weak
point.! It can't -lie concealed. —No defeueft
can bo made for me. 'Tis.hut toil trite-: T
hiiye po .passion for greetings in the - market
place, mid am nut gifted wilii tlio iluquciiee
ol. Street-corners. What Would you have !
No mart is without his f-tilts. One? df'miuo
is an impatience df the arts of popularity 1 .—
Believing tlio nobler study was how to serve
the'people rather thou how to pltate them.' 1
devoted myself tot-heir servile with tho sin-
cercst.zciil: and though they may hot be well
phased,'they have been ice'll served, at least,
to tile utmost of my poor, ability. • Upsides,;
no prior experience lmd taught me, there was
a surer “art of pleasing:"' and let <me add,
success could not rccimeile mo to its practice,
nor uan defeat induce mo to lament the want
ufifrf^-■< > - • * I
I have been accustomed to boxer, that with'
mV constituents it was' unnecessary-. : One;
will boast of something though it’s a bod iiab-.
it. Yei I was mistaken only in some twen-
ty-fivu hundred, while twenty-eight thou
sand voters made good my eulogy. “Then-
ydu fiatf’ the less to do arid therefore ;the.
more inexcusable'.” True, I don’t pre
tend uf excuse myself. My pica is- -on-
Bukf And votir Ei-SensraH now
Secretary of State ? Yes. And did not your
Governor' vote for the Bank I Yes. And
are not-a large number of von reel ves for a
Bank or the Bank'? Yes. Siew-ffy** su]i-
port all these gentlemen who are for -a Bank
and have been for the Bank/in both which
respects many of your party' agree With them'
though they vote against vtr, Task, ifimy-|>o-
Jilical consistency on this point may not be
left to tho giiardiriship of rny State Rights
friends, who pardon if they do not justify me ?
They know, that the chief fault of the-Bank
was, not hriug a Ncw-York, JatksoniiYuu
Hunm Hank; and that bv and bye, ihosie Most
clamorous against it, if they find it.'to their
interest, wilt not hesitate to make another
bank, which being a New-York, Jackson, Van
Burcn Bank, will consequently- be a very
good one. But on this subject whum I espe
cially address,-1 need say nothing. Rk.ao
your ow.v memorial. On the currency ques
tion l appeal to time. Suffering and.expe
rience will at length do me Justice. Wis
dom has already acquitted me. P-trt my re
jection on thin ground and if you choose. I
atn satisfied. Fifteen lines in my possession
from ono whom I will not name or designate,
are wortli more to me tiian the seat ol any
member elect. • They contuiu no' promise of
any kind,, and are not signed by.Nie. Bid-lie
either. Indulge mo in this little piece of va
nity, it is probaly the last with which I shall
trouble you, , . • . '' . . '
“ But why were you so imprudent, as to
reject the nomination of-the Union party?"--
I’did not reject it, for they did got -nominate
rue. “ But you refused the pledges they de
manded.” Sly answer was the same to both
parlies, and lias ever been tlio somOto till.—
“ I prefer relying oil the' confidence of illy,
icliow-citizens'without distinction, nfe procu
ring; tho support of particular combinations
by ‘assurances' that I will “ act with them."'*•
" 1 will,pledge,positive obedience tiud impli
cit.faith to. no party, for ns yet I have found
iioiio wliieli did not at times exact ot-.itsjnjem-
licrs what no bouest.uinn ought, and-no gen
tleman can do.?’ The- conjutence otiyvhich I
rested failed me. ’But at least, I- escaped
pledging myself .Ifi the'Union party " fo act
with them," in tarniiig out nil the Judges; and
my ireasons.for refusing pledges are just ns
they wefe before; The position-is imdeniu-
I.I.. V...ahniltiaa nAnnn/ln 'ito trnlh na In
sight of, like a Haro by the Grey-hound.' You
may quoto me the old’Roman. (I don’t mean
General Jackson) wlip sued for the Oousu-/
lute. It was not by any moans the best thing
lie did, and they, preferred Vatutins to him,
tlio greatest scoundrel of Ids time-* If I had-
canvussed like Cato,-I should liavo been thus
much more fortunate than iiim.t.Messiciiis
the representatives cieot, arc all honest >11011,
mid were ho doulit elected by very iionost,
liien also! There'is another eonsolaiion. it
would lie somewhat mortifying to have takcu
great i.nins and yet foiled to make myself ac
ceptable. As it is, tlio election did not cost
me above'twenty visits and foi ly bows-, at tho
rate of two to each-visit, which is u very mo
derate expenditure of civility even for a do-
rbaled candidate. Fuss 111c 10 some- oilier
count in tlie iniVo-ment. “Tliey say.you’re
a A'vlliftcr," Indeed! Who7 Assuredly I
was cot a Nullifier once. By what ihagic did
I become.one unknown.to" myself? Is it
leasumtblo to iinagiue I changed my creed
atler tho orthodox got possession of theObai-cii
mid wore in full-communion with its invisible
head.lipun earth, the mily, iiilalliblc expoun
der of Republican doctrines 1 St. Martin
himself, if-lio were guilty nfsucli folly, would
liurdly pass for n conjuror.
But cvetpuaw in tlio rpnksof the "greatest
nud best,” good qud -Imio liegemen sworn—
firm believers ill every thing (us lie conalrm-t
it) from Apocrypha of Amos to tho Apocaly
pse of John, (ihe United Simcs lltuik being
die beast .with seven heads mid ten horns)—
even among such, have been found my misu-
1 —■*—■*—■ — c ng this
i ii"
V|* II'MII, imu rn UIII.IIXV 0 1111,11m 1. 1
"But you are a S-i-atk R fours juri, tfud
that’s as bud. 'State Jtights is only yullifica
{fort in disguise;” Patience,'my friends! let
us distinguish. I am gililiy ol beliciyilig that
States mid individuals have some rights: lights
secured by the Cqusii-ution, and not depen
ding on the pleasure of nuy President or nut-
parity iu Congress, any Governor or State
Legislature. I believe moreover,.the rights of
(lie Stutes arc just such as tlio people have not
granted away, all others being ‘reserved:’ anti
1 holt,! diat ill-questions of mere private'liber
ty or properly, where tlio coqstruction of the
CuusUmiRiu is drawn iiito controversy, the
Supreme Court is the ultimato arbiter ; but in
questions purc.Iy political, though involving
the true interpretation uf tliut instrument, the
Court 1ms -no jttrisdieiidn. I. won't affirm
positively, ’out i have my reasons-for bt-lievr
ing tliut this is the opinion of the Court itself.
It is not yet a crime in tho eye's of the Union-
ists to be a State liighls man, at least as fur
as tlie t’tdeuU Judiciary, The time is com
ing, unless tlio omens dccciyc me, when it
will be a great crimo hot to he a State Rights
man much farther. ' 1 .
■ Our present Governor, who,' i presume, is
to be considered tho head of die Union parly,
proposes to the Legislature iu ii.is late mes
sage, to make it highly penal for any inhabi
tant of lids State to fifing what Is'us'uully
calloddio 'Indian questihii’ before any tribu
nal of tltcUuited..Suites. ( 1 ; , . (
Tliat quesiioii I' uudcrstaml lias .nlteady
gone tiicre. Unless tire Governor and diu
Vice-l’rcsidehtj and See.retury of State, can
negotiate it out of Court, it must be decided.
If ihe.di'risinn should happen to be against
ids Excellency'what shall we do ? You can
tdltcli as well as I; so begging portion for
thU dull digression,. which tlie, GoVtruor led
me into, let us talk of something else. “Bout
forget the United States Bank." By no means.
“Min-v do you reconcile your State Rights
doctrine with your support of a lianlt ?” Be-
eausu.l think tlie Constitution gives the con
trol of tlie currency to Congress and forbids it
to tlio States, and die States havo no right 10
violate tho Constitution any inure than others.
Tlio (.’(institution says “no State shall emit
bills of credit." -Is u bank hill a bill of credit?
Can the Siute authorise others to do what'it
euuuut do itself] This Is the \vho)o question
in its smallest compass.' It is liow befure the
Supreme Court. ’Tis a - judicial not a polit
ical question. A question of Constitutional
law, but also of privute tight. We will 'see
how they decide it. We- will see how the
Governor uud his party take dio decision.
But tny good friends oil fur'Union tike my
self, uiul every one else I’foney, us long us
diey think -it can endure nr be endured—my
good bnion friends so solicitous lor ray State
Mights consistency, may I venture to cate
chise through y„u, dial |x>rtiuu of the Union
party who are not my friends.
U not your Senator fur a Bank, not <J)e
t. ^Courier.- Rot the Augusta—but Paul Louis.'
my l .. ..
No! no! yoit-trro against Van Boren as:
iti” 1 am. Are you lor lmri J I
President; , . ,
have found scarcely any one here out 6f of
fice who says yos. “But who ttre yqu for
then ]" It matters very little. " If will pot. lie;
my duty to vote for.you in atiy .'.eveiit. You
have already.chosen, those who,will. If you,
wish id keep hi in from gctting llio eltjctoral
vole of Georgia however. I’ll tell you py o-
piniou. Hugh L. White ofTennessee is your
man. But this is talking politics, mid 1 iu-
temigd to abstain from them. “ You mem
then, to abjure politics hereafter? By uo means,
my friends. [There me certain politics
expect to carry with me to my grave.—
I deetn honesty, tlie best policy though
1 have not tried bodi ways; I think the
Compromise -bedor. than!- civil war though
Clay mado it. I reckon-- two and two four:
and dunk Nullification die same dring -botb
sides of Say.nnna.Ii River.; On thej/two Hist
points I nm nrij nnilo. cei'tniu : if there.is any
erro'r,.It will fie delected id.tills enlightened
uge, when all tlio world argue, and -every ono
can count five on their fingers. . - ". .'
Let mo beg you keep these opinions your
selves. It is time I was cured of.my muiiiu
for reasoning with pvwer; and you should be
aware, tjiere is ho disputing Willi thirty-three
iiibusand voters, wlio, saving five lmndled,
nil diink alike with respect to two tickets -of.
nine members each, presenting at least- seven
hundred ami Itceiily-iiine distinct questions of
comparison and jircfcrence, none Of diem do:
pending on arillmictic and geometry.' -
If this should happen to leak opt t.hrftngh
any mdiscre-tiou, 1 trust ten Uuiusihid of tin;
iliiVly—-(XENoetioN’a ten thousand—-whq
made tho famous retrent—may we soc it rut
pealed in our day !)—will toko - me in good
part. \Vhen a Sovi.i;kion tnrns'an tild friend
into a subject by tlie eai direct, he should ex-
cuso a joke ip return. I don’t quote tile mi*
ecdqte for. fear my taste sliould bodiouglitcx-
jpfic, or lost some of tlio ten thousand might
suppose I cnitipared them to the-tnus('perfect
gopilemea of his dfiy in Europe, or myself 16
itio King, of tho .Dandies, jSUfalj : woiild lie
great presumption. I only ^fieuu'M hmr it’s
dangerous jesting with
tlingly I slmll abstain frtim it hcreaffer inten
ding 'shortly V>be a 80veroigu-TnyseJ|f. Let.no
one take alarm. I don’t mean to dctnmne Mr.
Kendall and usurp *llie Government.’ My pii r-
poee is merely to become—voluntarjly or'in
voluntarily, asyotipleuse—“ one of the peo
ple;” but there will he nothing foreign in my
politics mid no danger from .them to any one
but myeeif.
. Anti now, tny good friends, who by the ev
idence of your regard anil patience, have af
forded wo an opportunity of pouring out w.liat
die wittiest and most indulgent of mtr adver
saries may consider’, a little snbaeiduloted bile
—•since you see I do not need quite so Inueti
symnatliy as you ilimight, let me olli-r you a
tv-ltd-'or two of consulaliun in return- Your
regrots arc, iti part iiL.leust, for me, Believe
me they ore unnecessary. Whatever causes
of despondence I may have—if Miavc any—
tile loss of place enn hardly, be counted among
them. 1 know it is whlspered, I seclude-my
self and. bear d«fedr'Bi(il)y". Prhy'donU con
tradict it. The charity ul the world will in
stantly discover n worso reason for my real or
supposed blue devils. To lluisq .who hove
few thonglus they pan endure, retirement is
insufferable. You ennnut convince them that
any one finds it otherwise. Consider, .if.'you
please; however, that public office,, with all
its care nnd fame, is cither ahurtben or a ben
efit. If a-burthen, I liavo borne it long e-
nough. lfa benefit, ’tie time some one else
should share it. I have spent nearly a filth
of my filo and fortune in . your service.. A
few years louger might consume the residue
of both. My children will profit more by
wlidt’s left than my country. I do not state
tlie per contra of the account'. Every body will
rate the honor I liavo acquired a( what they
please. If no greaier than our opponents as
sert, it may bo represented by a cypher.
Receive tlio assurances of my gratitude for.
all your kindness, and allow- mg to add tu
them tlie good old parting saiutatieu—Fare
well! God bless you! !v- hr. M;- 1 .
RICHARD HENRY .WILDE.
Augusta, Nov. ITth, 1834. " ] ;■ ’
Ohio Elect(om.—Complete., rejufns are
now received. .Lucas (the Jackson candidate
for Governor) 3,329 majority—9 members to
Congress; 11 ' Opposition: Legislature, 45
Opposition; 12 Anti-Masohic; -S NliLLlFl-
EKS !! CO in ail opposed to Jacksonism; for
the Ailministration 48. Three Nullifiers l !—
W ell done Ohi6 ! “ A little leaven leavenetb
a great lamp!!” . Coh'Ma Times.. >.
The Chinese LauV.—TIm New York Commer-
ei«I Advertiser s>xys.—“.Madiuno Cfiiug Chang Foe,
die Indy wiihjmln feet. I'rig’iteiied by thfinoi.-M
ot'tho ewrlusuug tory guns on Csatuuli.y nlgln, thst
she took to her heels, nod has not •iacohcca fiord uf."
J; Cram tho 9. 8. Telegraph.
The Charleston Courier says, that the Un
ion party in Georgia will support the doctrine
that ’• the Supreme Court is the last and fi
nal appeal in *11 cases” of dispute between a
State and the General Government. When
we Indk at Governor Lumpkin’s last Message
and find the sentimcut'-g expressed below, il
does not look < much like the course predicted
by the Courier. It looks as roudh like nulli
fication as anything we have ever seen.
“ I consider tho reserved rights ofthe States
of thus confederacy a chief pillar of American
liberty; and if properly understoixi and exer
cised, they will fend to perpetuate.union sad
liberty to our unborn posterity. To secure
these rights, it is a matter of the first impor
tance, that the constitutional laws of the state
should be faithfully executed. We should not
permit their execution to bo defeated by any
artifice of combination whatever. No citizen
should be permitted, directly or indirectly, to
encourage rebellion against, or resistance,to,
tlie constitutional sovereignty and jurisdiction
of the state, which secure to film the inestima
ble blessings of our republican-system.”
From the Columbia Times.
OMENS AND AUGURIES. ’ .
Well dune, Major Noah ! we like to sec
men come to their senses, especially when
we have not had the trouble ourselves of ad
ministering tho medicine. From an extract
which we give below, from lire Editorial
columns of ..the Ncw-York Evening Star, it
will be perceived, that our Yankee coadjutors
against JacksOnism begin to fiuri out that au
guring, railing, denouncing,' petitioning, re
monstrating, with all the other ings that you
may 6tring together, will not.muke an army
strong'endugh to withstand tlio attacks of tlie
determined mdney-scekin,g office-hunting
phalanxes of Federal usurpation; and that e-
ven tlint last resort of regular Government—
that sovereign remedy, the ballot box’, will not
always answer the. purpose of. dispersing the
hired tools and retainers of him who takes
into his own liatids, the sword, the purse,
and ihe RESPONSIBILITY. At last we
hear if asserted, that Slule Rights must .be
looked to, and tliat from “the interference of
(he States themselves in their Sovereign capa
city,we can aloiie expect redress. . We tire
extremely happy tliat the discovery has at
length been made, though it would have saved;
us ti world cf preaching and expounding, if it’
hud been convenient to our Whig brethren to
have arrived at this same simple conclusion
some three years ago. With all our dispo
sition (p look upon the bright side Of human,
nature, mid our firm confidence in tlie pro- 1
gressive .nature of the human faculties, we
wore always inclined fi> doubt the power of
humanity in this country, to withstand-the
temptation of forty ■ thousand federal offices,
nearly the same number of federal- jo&s, and
three or four limes both together of federal ex
pectances. However, wo will not twit our
new allies with tho pardonable dullness of
their perceptibilities. V Bet here i omes" the
Major—" let him apeak for liimscf,'’.
From tlio N. Y. .Evening star. , ..
Wo are. now redliziug all the evils.which
tho patriots of our revolution apprehended
when framing tlie Cqnstuutiop ofthe United'
States. Withall. the precaution^ the wisdom;
the-foresight,,the checks and balances they a-
dopted, ,s"r ous apprehensions' were indulged
ihauhe time wnald arrive when the'power of
the. general Government would absorb or
control the government- of* Ihe states; thai
the revenue,' and the army, and-the navy, to
gether With the immense patronage placed in
the hands of the executive, would, if corrupt
ly exorcised, regulate the elections and make
Congress a nlefb body to ratify tlio will ofthe
Executive, aqd not represent the interests or
wishusof the people. That time unfortunate
ly Iras arrived; and' the receut • elections in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey;’ mtdrin this State,
are in Proof tliat tlio contests are no longer
between tWo distinct parties, of the country as
they were; but lictween tlio general adminis-
tration, backed, by the favor and energies ol
lie,.government on tlie pi.e side, and
tho whole,..government on tlie one
the friends of liberty and lay, whp.desire a
clrangc of rulers, on the otlier. Whilo politi
cal parties were allowed- to avow their forces
—to draw their Hues and fight their battles, it
was -no nuilter which succeeded, .for tl),e ,ins
were carefully ivntclicd and sedulously guar
ded by lira outs, and tlie republic was safe; but
the moment the gigantic power ofthe general
government was thrown- iu the scale of one
of tho contending parties—tho moment the
aiimitiistratiun anu its patronage sprung into
tlie areua, /reei?om of election was destroyed
nod tho public servants became the public
masters. In this condition ice note stand. As
soon.ps the Executive seized upon tlie public
treasure and was sustained by CongrcsSj iu-
Rteqd of being imj>eaclied, .we wgro satisfied
that all efforts to put down the administration
were almost hopeless—tlie people would nev
er again elect a President, but be would-be ap
pointed by the incumbent, and a limited nioti-
arcliy, throngh a Hue Id favorite " heirs ap
parent,” would-be substituted under tlio name
■of republic; tlie army of .office-holders'spread
over the face of the country—the numerous
expectants of executive favors—tho thousands
.and lens of ihousauds of'post-masters, con
tractors, stuge-oWuers, fee, and the presses in
pay ot Government, together with the ap
pointment of Senators and members of the
House of Representatives to-office, would re
duce tlie once freo and sovereign stnles to
mere Corporations, and establish-on their ruin's
a consolidated Government. It 'has como to
psss. Where has there been a recent election
in a state that the direct agency and interfer
ence ofthe general government huve not.been
dislioct and palpable 7 What free and inde
pendent stale has elected a Senator to Cou-
gress wilhotit great efforts oti the part of the
general Government to have tliat Senator
chosen from among particular, friends ?■■ >
Where is the redress—where tlie protection
the guards, ant} ch«l» to .the approach of thjs
mighty and absorbing power ? We see no
avenue of escape—-no means of averting the
calamity that now threatens us, excepting by
the interference ofthe States themselves in their
Sovereign capacity, by turning our attention
more closciy to STATE RIGHTS, and By
decreasing' the power of the General Govern
ment. ami strengthening the power oj the
States.
The democracy of the country always re-
S irded the sovereignty and independence pf
e Stales os the foundation stone of the re
public, and looked with a jealous eye at the
iucrcusiug. power ofthe Geucral Government,
anil devised wuyS and'means to keep it in'
check. A single state, however, cannot hold
Sampson captive, particularly when intrigue,
ambition aud corruption, are openly,'undis-
guisedly avowed and practised at the Seat of
Government. \\ ho doubts that Audrew
Jackson has the power to choose the. next
President ‘ of (he United States ? Much as
this , may he deprecated, it is- nevertheless
true ; and those Stales which arc determined
to,protect their remaining rights,.uud not per
mit the President. to appoint his successor,
should meet in convention at an.early period,
and adopt such measures as the sajety of the
country at ihis ulurming crisis denianuf. .
Thu subject is pf immense importance, uud
wo' shall again refer toil.
- From die Extauucr.
THE GOLDEN PILL.
In our law paper we undertook to 'show that
t)te late debasement of the gold -eoinage Had
conferred not one discernible panicle of bene
fit ppou the gold producing - Stales, and as
we consider lt'iipportant that-the people of
the South, who liave been, without reflection,
led intoffie belief that they wwe tsrbe made
rich by an'act of Congress, should be put
right on the subject, we will place the matter
before them-ia a more intelligible form.
By the.act of 1791,.thp gold dollar con
tained 24 3-4 grains' of pure ' gold. By the
late act, the gold dollar contains 231-5 grains
of pure gold, which is a reduction of a little
more-than 6'2-3 per cent. This'clipping of
the gold dollar, is assened by those who got up
the measure, to be so much clear gain to the
producer of gold, inasmuch as 23 1-4 grains
of gold since tlie passage of the law, is worth
as much as 2-13-4 grains used to bo "before
tho passage of tlio law. Now this assertion
supposes tliat people when tliey give commo
dities for gold, give them not for specific quan
tities of metai, but for denominations, and
such reasotiers might with equal propriety ail-,
lege, that 10 grains of gold would bo worth as
much as. 24 3-4 grains,.if Congress should
only by law call that quantity oue doUar.—
Now would any man of common sense, who,
last May, had a bushel of wheat wortli one
dollar, and which if paid- for in gold would
have produced him 34 3-4 grains of pure met
al, sell it now-fqf.lO grains, merely- because
Congress had in June declared that" 19 grains-
were a dollar? The affirmative of this pro
position .is too absurd to be for a moment en
tertained. No man would be gnilty of such
folly, and hence it may be taken for granted.’
and as admitting of uo dispute, that Congress
ha.s it notin, its power by any act it candevise,,
to raise, the intrinsic valuti ' of gold, any more
.than. that of- any other-; metal, j Would it.be
possible for Congress, for-example,.to-raise
the value of iron by declaring that a toil of
iron should henceforth’consist pf fifteen hun
dred weight instead tweniy hundred weight,’
or; to raise the intrinsic value of leddi by de
claring that tHe hundred’weight should con
tain one. hundred pounds,’ and notab hundred
and twelve. No one would pretend thnt. it-
would be, and is thero any ntpre rpason for
supposing that it could rai6o the price Of gold;'
which differs!nothing from the other two met
als, in its liability to be governed by the .laws.
Which make-value to depend .upon the pro
portion which the supply boars to , the de
mand ? -We may then safely and certainly
conclude*, .that ah trance of gold canr bo ex-
receivalby ail ihe wiseacres pr»sehf, <: wirtl
acclamatiop. The decree was passed ; all
the persons who rented lap'le payable in bush
els of wheat, paid off their landiords wi th’t fio
new measure; those who had wheat Tot sa(e,
finding themselves to have doubled the -num
ber of bushels which they thought they had,-
felt as if suddenly- enriched; others who liad.
merchandise to sell, received. two. bushels, in
exchange .for it, as repdily as they received
one the day before nnd considered themselves- *
at once placed beyond the reach of fomme,*-
Prospcrity seemed to have come upi^ir them.
by enchantment, and the whole i cp^q^unity,
Went on,living and eating as freely as if ’they
;were in the lap' of abundance; until all - at
once,'the awful truth' stared themrin the fate,
that this glorious scheme was ahntnbugqwhich
benefitted not a. single soul, but those who
were in debt under contracts stipulating'for
the payment of bushels of-wheat.
‘Tho Union of tho ^tatoi, and ibo Sovereignty ofthe 8Uteo.“
' COLCMBPSl
Saturday’ -Horning, November 39.
COTTON MARKET.
Large quantities are daily-coming in. Pri
ces good, say, 15 a 15 1-2. We, fcar.aomo
decline from the constant run- the Farmers are
making on the Banks. ■ It requires .money to
buy Cotton, purchasers cannot be accom moda-
ted with-funds when eveiy dollar paid out
comes Immediately back for redemption; As
a matter of self defence the .Banks must stop
discounting, ,and the consequence is the price
of the staple, must fall. Our Banks are as sol
vent and as Well managed as any in the State,
and a more liberal policy on the part of .thq
cotton sellers,.whilst, it cokld not injure them,
might and.we have no doubt, wouid ensure
•r.— prices.' : , . \ ' . . . i *
changed at this day, for no more merchandise;
or commodities that ire. OQuld have heon ex
changed for, before tTio’alteration of the coin
age, and cousenncnily.that 23.1-5 g«ins will
not boy ns much as 24, 3:4 grains used to do.
But it nray betsaid, admiftingHliis to bo true'
as regards commodities in gen'e/al, there is
however one exception,trhich.-is (he. eommo-'
dity called sil ver. The effect of tlie law is to
enable fhe owner of an ounce of gold, to get fori
it sixteen, ounbes of silver, whereas beferev.its'
passage,- he 'could only-obtain for. it . fifteen
o'unces. In our former article wa showed,
Jhat t}ie real difference effected by tire- law
was only a trifle over 2 per cqnt. but -admit
ting it for tlie sake of argilmeiit .to be true to
the full extent, what benefit .would this confer
upon the producer of gold, .except indeed so.
for as he wishes to provide himself immedi
atoly with silvqrplate T So long as he em
ploys his sixteen ounces of silver as coin, he
can purchase with them no more commodities’-,
thun he can with his ounce of gold, and we
have seen that with ah ounce of gold .he can
now purchase nd mbre comniridities than he'
could before. If ho Wished -to put into his
pocket tho profit-lie thinks ho can make -bv
converting his gold info silver, ho. can only
ncpompfisH it, by ex porting thcsil ver, iti-which
case he is.benofited, not as n producer of gold,
but as an exporter’of silver: or by’ hoarding
untH .it has risen in lire market, as bullion;
f; above its valno as coin, wliich 1 migli(- possibly
1 ims. aitendcd by a loss' of- interest equal to tbe
E49 1 byd 1 ®- n? c -. .Besides thbso two- modes,
no tither can - be imagined, and even thev
wntllf] nrtt liA'f/lrw* nun! hI.Im 1.4 * 1>*!. *>- ’
cease any. longer fo • obtain sixteen ounces of.
it, for ontr ounce' of gold, and thus, the only
possible advantage lie could have derived Froni
the change, would entirely disappear.
It would seem then that the effect ofthe'
Gold Bill, which was as greedily swallowed
by the Southern people as if itha.jbcen a gol
den pill,.is to enable the producers of gold to
get for on ounce ofit, precisely as m/my com
modities as they used to get before, With the,
exception of silver. Of this commodity they
can get two pei cent, more, but oftor they
have gotten it; the additional quantity,is of no
value'to them, seeing that with sixteen ouh;
ces thoy can buy 116 more commodities than
with the ounce of gold. They aro'just where
they started, and for the sake'of an ideal gain,,
they have sanctioned a violation of the public
faith, have authorized all.exialing creditors to
be cheated out of a jrart of their property, by
compelling them to take 23 1-5 grains of gold,
iu fulfilment of n cuntract Made for the ,pay-
ment-of 24 3-4 grains, have Weakened file
cause of free trade, by courting a legislative
protection of their supposed focal interests;
and have opened the rloCr for futtiro tamper
ings with the coinage by Congress, which at
somefuture daywiil in alt'probability, clip
the silver dollar,-as they have'now. clipped
the gold dollar, and tiius create a new fraud
Upon creditors. If we havo hot made ourselves
well understood, perhaps tlie following story
willhelp us uut,
A certain king, who once governed c ; coun-
try which was threatened with. n. farniud,
caused ah.- estimate to .be made of tho whole
quantity of grain in his domiuiuns, and hav
ing called his wise men .together, he consul
ted them as to the best-mpdo of making , tlie
Stock of grain hold out. Bomb of them’ re
commended, that the price should be fixed
high by law, in order that people -sliould - be
forced to eat less. Others recommended, that
it should be equally distributed, no that all.
sliould fore alike, whilst others werb in favour
of letting every man do with his own wheqt,
just -what lie pleased, believing that iu consul-'
ting his own. interest, he would best- consult
ihe-interest of all the rest. One of the coun
sellors, however, wiser than, all his fellows,
aljer the others had given iheir. opinions,
rose, up and addressed the King as follows: •
“Please your majesty, I have a plan to pro-
p.ise wbivli cannot fail to be more beneficial,
than any that has yet been suggested. Ills
simply to increase the quantity of grain. This.
I propose to do by . a very easy process. -The
bushel of this' country you know, contains
.four pecks: Now.as it appears by the state
ment of.the number of bushels of grain on'
hand, that doubling the quantity will-give us
all an abundance, i propose to effect this iu-
crease by reducing the size of the bushel.—
Ypiir majesty therefore, Jias 'nothing to do, but
to'issue a -decree, declaring that henceforth,'
the bushel’shall-cuutuin only two peeks iu-
siead 01 four, uud the immediate effect will be
tfiat the number ol bqsbels of wheat in the
country will .be doubled.” Tfic scheme was
; v.l :; THE LEGISLATURE. .
’’Rtr' bUsines* of the corporation (formerly
the State) of (Jeargip is swimitig slowly'along
■off the tidsf’ef the Legislative action. (The
citation is dispwed of;' the'Judiciary reformed,
‘thct’Horse races over/and tbe lawgivers have
now time to attend' to matters of store .interest
(to wit) naiming and'legalizing dryers stray
'CllHthdn,' allowing-'men to build loll 1 bridge*
over! ndmbotloi«'eroeks,-4ccr'&e. > -
Thcrait rbad 'sysfeiri’ appetrs ttr-be' db’gros-
sing considerable' attention'. ' Nothing-’eeems
so easy %s ti) Raild a foadfrdm 1 ' gav«('nah to
Macon (at least'orr paper)—and men 4 talk «f
expending' two or'three bullions .of’-'money
with tho same assurance -of illtiniBtfe ittetfess,
as. if millions ^ad not already: been idipmvi-
denily ex|>onded without benefit to thb State
or the people. \Ve are in ifaVor’of internal
improvements; but when this is to bedqne.by
the atate instead' of public spirited and-enler-
prizing irijiyidoal's," wo cdnt'belp thinking of
the iuoney.'wasted heretofore in'opening, wa
tercourses, taking IdVels Bf'the *ounuy v &c,
by the eeleSntted Mr.'Fultdn and his tfeputy,
finfrltt. r .- \
A bill to appropriate'-a-sum -of.money £4
Ctrl out and put in good order the read lately
marked out from Columbus to the town of St.
Mary’s, -Bits been passed by the Hoibse of Re
presentatives! ’ .*
Mr. VVoolfolk, orijeave^ranted,'reported a
iho jdvyneorrimoiis of said to^'il'i*'anii' to'sell
the preseut a'ende.my. squarer-wiitch' was rend
cu, f! .*?/ , !i!I ,0 !Pt.trps'ifcea for the same,' and <0
autfiorise ah appropriation for "the establish-
radnt'of the said schoreli-v. ’■* os’- - .
nieRHTto bo entitled .ha - act fo sell with
the coiwm,pCaiie reformer all . jots of land
drawn in the -Jt 7 - 1 --
™ •. *)l e . lottery, of the Cherokee
dulcntly drawn, pa'ssc'a ihe Sbifate.' : -r”
- M r 0'will'endeavolr 10* givo an account of
Vacli‘proceedings as seCni io-.hdsoflttterest to
oUr Tcaders. To piiblish the whole/of what
is done by tho AVise and the unwisc men at
Millctlgevillcr would ho labor- losk'fo'riour pat-
Voris would 8urolynot;tlrauk ai.fozntso much
vilotrash, &c;!’-’ • ..j.'
” ELECTION OF Ui S; SENATORS.
On AVcdnesday last, Hon. Johu ‘t*. JKing,
was elected for six years from and afterthe 4th
day-of•March next, to the Senate ofthe Uni
ted States—Anti Col.. Alfred. Cuthberf was
elected to. occupy the vacancy oceasioiied by
the resignation of the Hon. John- Forsyth—
tlie term expiring on the dth Marehi -lS®'.
Oh Friday last, the election look-place; for
a Brigadier General to command the.2d Brig
ade, 6>h Diy. G, M. to fill tl)e vacancy oo-
casioned by the rcsiguatioh'of'Gen; -John
Coffee; Which resulted in the-Eleetion r of-Maj.
Mark-A- Wilcox of Telfair county. •
!■ .• ^ 'r.-.-' . .'. Standard^
* Tfirf letter or MrirVYiide to his friends in
Augusta', will be read; like every-thing els*
from this distinguished individual, with inter
est and profit. Its biting sarcasm will go
home -to some men.. There are few -.oondi-
tions lees'enviable than that man’s, wlio ha*
aided in discarding Un able and honest pub
lic servant, without so ranch as the semblance
of ah excuse for so tioin’g; 1 Like many others*
we have been unable to discover why the do-
minhtif party have become so ^suddenly pro*
voketi with Mr. AVilde, or why at the late E-
lectioh they votcd against him with such u%
nanimity; AVhat is lie now tliat he has not
always been ? What change has been dis
covered m his political- opinions since 1832,
when that party gave liim’the right hand of
fellowship ? Is he ices talented, itiss honest,
less efficient in. the councils of the country
than at that period, when all bands, and oil
hearts, aided to sustain him ? We think not.
He was then, as now, known to be opposed to ‘
the doctrine of Nullification ‘as-practiced in a
sister state : He was then', as now, known to
•be opposed to the’ exercise of arbitrary power
by any branch’of'the' government: He. was
io short every thing two years ago tliut he is
now, except a public servant discarded by
one party without cause. AVell then indeed,
may he look’back to that brief period mid eu-
quire “what have 1 clone to merit the discoun
tenance of my cousutuents ?” !