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From the Fede rai Union.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN TALBOT.
At a meeting of the Democratic citizens of
Talbot county, held at the court house on the
first Tuesday in August, 1841, David Sauls,
Esq. xvas called to the chair arid Janies Y.
Gardner and John VV. Turner were appointed
Secretaries—Afier which Col. Alexander \V.
Sneed laid before the meeting the following
preamble and resolutions, which were adopt
ed :
In a country like ours where the govern
ment. is exercised bv the strong bias of party,
it should he the duty of the majority to settle
and define the principles upon which the Leg
islative & Executive powers are to be ..it. mis
tered. Were it not so, the immediate and in
evitable consequence would be to disfranchise
the people of the dearest rights reserved to
themselves—that of instructing their Repre
sentatives through their expressed opinions,
given both at the ballot Imix, and in primary
meetings in reference to the laws .and meas
urcs intended to be pass ><i for their good.—
J fence it follows that the ballot box (even tho’
the term of duration of any one administration
be brief ) should not be the only corrective for
an unfaithful discharge ot the duties and ten
ets confided to our Representatives. In dele
gating the powers which belong to the mass
of the people to their chosen Representatives,
thev do not yield to those agerusa passive ao
-41011 upon all subjects unfettered by their own
views as to the wisdom or inqiolicy of an act
which if passed, is to exercise a painful influ
-ence over their future weal. The liberties of
a people are too much jeopardised by’rusting
n Representative to too great an extent. The
Re | iresentative should not only act up to the
strict letter of the professions upon which he
was elected, but should at all times stand rea
dy to regulate his conduct by the instructions
of his constituents. He should advise them
of all contemplated changes ot measures and
of the reasons therefor, so that they may lie
notified in time sufficient to allow of their ex
pressing assent or disapprobation. \\ hen this
is done we shall have a government of the
people—a literal Democracy. And if this be
the duty of the m ijority it is no less- the right,
of a minority to define its principles and hold
them up for the contemplation ol’ the peuple
and the Government.
But how stands tiie matter with us now ? a
reflecting eye tracing the present dominant
party to its origin, will readJv understand the
matter, llow comes it into power? Was it
upon the advocacy of any high political prin
ciple or measure which was intended for the 1
common good, and which had been rejecte I
by those in opposition! VY r as it upon the
avowal of an intention to restore a violated
Constitution, and that thev point out the par
ticular infraction ? \Y sit upon the declare- j
tion tea: tne g ve Ament was leccming imbr- :
cite at fv'ino mul unable to receive proper re- ;
sped for its flag abroad : and did t bey oner j
evidence of tins ! Did they show that indus- ;
try was stagnant —'hat. the people were borne !
down by taxes and that the government was j
exercising itself in the infl.ction of acts of
petty tyranny instead of confining itself to its ‘
legitimate sphere of action ! It so where j
were their evidences.
There was no high principle advocated ; no j
salutary measure proposed ; no showing made j
that the government was derelict to the Con- |
stitution; no instance offered (hat as a gov-j
eminent we were losing ihe high cas e given !
us by our ancestry. Our stars still shone in ■
one brilliant unbroken constellation, and our!
liable waving aloit. stiii loused upwards tor nis i
pride ot place.
Who then ore these that hold the reins of j
government, and in what manner did they
possess themselves of them ? They are men
emanating from that old school of politicians
who first arrayed themselves against our pre
sent Constitution, and when they failed to
substitute in its place one partaking more the
nature of a monarchy’ sought by 7 torturing the
letter to entail upon us all the evils to which >
their own abortion would have fallen heir.!
The balance are men either of no political |
principles or such who joined thecry of ‘change’;
with no other view than to raise opposition !
against an administration which parti an zeal j
had taught them to hate—deluded too by J
promises which could not be redeemed. Ot j
suc h material is the present administration j
composed. Uniting with no common princi-j
pie, they deluded the country by a species of,
Jackadeism unfortunately too common among ]
us. What has been the result since they
came into power? The people are waking
to rind they have been slumbering in utopia,
and as their senses return they find the splen
did promises made them are but the gav tis
ions of a fruitful fancy unsubstantial and un
usual. Asa party they cannot agree, and are
totterin> r back soon to tall into their original
elements. Os the manifold promises made
the people, how many have been ledeemed .
Where is the mightv change in the conditions
of men that was to take place immediately up
on the certitica ion of the fact that Gen. Harri
son was elected ! Where is the reform and
the retrenchment that was to supply the pro
digilityot tlie late administration ? The cut
timv were to cure has been made worse ; in
stead of drawing a revenue to government
from its legithia'o sources, we find them en
deavoring to bestow the public lands in Con
fess upon tee States- Our Treasury was
abundant in means to defray tne annual ex
penses of the (Jove rumen;'; but directly in
th face of this fact we find them asking for a
] mi to del “a v excuses of their own extrava
gance in railing an extra - < non of Congress,
Which the condition the country could not
THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
VOLUME I.]
have demanded. \Y r e see them making ap
propriations for the family of a deceased Pre
sident who died in affluence. Contrast this
with the fact of our Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe, dying in poverty drained of their
substance by long years of labor in the service
of their country for vvhioh their families re
ceived no extra compensation.
Here let us pause, for the eyes of the peo
ple aie vigilant and they are now’ intently
scrutinising the conduct of their rulers ? and
if the people have been deluded by aspirants
to office in the Federal Government, equal is
the complaint we the citizens of Georgia have
!to make against our own domestic rulers,
j Let us receive their acts of the past Legisla
ture and compare 1 hem with their promises,
and we shall rind that it was wisely remarked
by a Roman Consul in an early period of that
I celebrated Republic, that a most striking cori-
J trast was observable in the conduct of candid
i ates for office ot power and trust before and
after obtaining them—they seldom carry out
i m the latter case the pledges and promises
made in the former. The world may have
improved much in many respects, in lapse of
two thousand years since the remark was
made by tiie virtuous and indignant Roman—
but a slight examination of the annals of our
last legislature alone is sufficient to develope
a similar instance of violated confidence.—
They promised us a good and sound currency
—we were left to the tender mercies ot Broken
Banks and an unabated deluge ol shin plas
ters. We expected them to put our State In
stitution the Central Bank upon a solid foot
ing—they left it to be cried down by bankrupt
banks and merciless brokers with an open de
claration that 1 lie Institution should wind up
its concerns, thus intending to defraud the peo
ple of the only bank which in the hour of need,
had gallantly stepped forth in defiance ol
threatened rum to yield a temporary relief to
their sufferings. And to crown all, when our
Governor, Charles J. McDonald witnessing
the depressed condition of the country, asked
the Legislature to borrow the small sum of
two millions of dollars to be distributed tolbe
people for their relief upon ample security, at j
a time too when it should have been in the i
plenitude of redeeming its promises, the .an
swer given was “we would not borrow the
money—we would not relieve the people if
we could.” Freemen ! when you had been
promised money to pay vour debts, did you
expect when you asked for it. to be rejected
by an answer like this at a time too when the
Banks and speculators had ruined the country,
and it had pleased the Almighty in the dispen
sation of his providence to cut oft’ the cotton
crop.
jii the midst of all these disasters they
bowed the people in humility to the earth by
placing upon their necks a triple yoke of tax
ation. Under the thrall of debt and burden
some taxation, who can out-grow the paralysis
which must seize upon their energies ?
Where is the encouragement you would giye
to industry when you have sunk it below ex
ertion ? Who shall bid the victim “erect a
temple to time the comforter” when his hands
are lettered and he is chained to the stake.
’Twas thus we were promised, and thus we
have been paid ; but we have an abiding con
fidence that the cause of truth and of justice
will r n prevail. Though tied and fettered
and shorn like another Sampson, of our glory
and strength, we are left still enough of it to
put fortiiour hands to the piiiars of tiie strong
ii.iii of this all-promising, no-paying party,
and urdieave it from its foundation. Wniithis
view let. us rally our united eiFons for the con
test and we must prevail.
Resolved, That the safety-of the South de
pends upon a strict construction of the Con
stitution and the prevalence of Elate Rights.„
doctrines.
Resolved, That the leading measures of
the present Congress to wit: a National Bank,
the distribution of the public lands—the dis
tribution of tiie revenue, and consequent in
crease of the Tariff, as well as the high favor
in which Abolitionists are held, justify our in
dignant, reprehension of a government emi
inently Federal and destructive, alike of our
interests and principles.
Resolved, That wrn do receive Charles J.
McDonald as the regularly 7 nominated candid
ate of our party 7 , and that we do yield him our
support because we know his principles are
of justice and right, and more especial
ly because he has shown himself to be the
people’s friend in recommending die Legisla
ture to borrow two millions of dollars to be
loaned to the people as a temporary relief to
wards healing their embarrassments. We
Ibeheve that that measure should have been
. adopted as recommended. It was never in
j tended to be made a permanent system or be
j come a precedent on common occasions, hut
j solely as a measure to relieve the people at
j an exigency which may never again occur.!
f Resolved, ‘i hat the Central Bank was es
j tablished tor the benefit of the people, and j
j that should we prevail in gaining the Legisla- j
ture, we do require of our Representatives to \
! have it established upon a firm and solid foot- 1
ing and its charter so remodeled and amended
I as to increase its facilities for the accommoda-
I tion of the people.
Resolved, That as we have heretofore ex-j
j pressed our disapprobation of the suspension!
of specie payments by the Banks, we again!
! feel it incumbent upon us to give vent to our |
J indignation for the course they have so ;ei-ti- j
j naciously pursued. We believe no hank eu- ;
1 lit led to confidence which refuses to pay its !
; bills in specie, promptly whenever it is de-j
mantled.
Resolved. That the Independent Treasury ;
I was a constitutional method lor the safe-keep- J
ling and disbursement of the revenue; and i
that the plan of a fiscal bank before Congress ;
j is unconstitutional and liable to ail the objec- j
1 tions of the old U. 8. Bank.
The meeting then proceeded to the nomin
ation of a Ticket tor the Legislature by ballot |
—and Uiion corn.ring tiie votes, .las. T. Burks >
received the unanimous vote of the meeting j
for iSenator, Col. Joseph Riley, Win. Searcy j
and Ezekiel B. Smith were selected as Rep- j
resentatives.
, On motion of Maj. John Smith, it was or- 1
! dered that the resolutions and proceedings of
| this meeting be published in the Federal Union
j and Georgia Argus.
| The meeting'then adjourned sine. die.
DAY l) SAULS, Chairman.
| J-‘MF.> \. Gaednek, ( Secretaries.
John \\ . i ukner. y
From the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist, Aug. 26.
THE NEW TARIFF.
It is now very apparent that the new tariff!
passed by the House of Representatives with |
southern whig cotes, and now before the Sen-!
ate, is an entering wedge to high protective !
duties, which will be attempted to be laid at
the next regular session ot Congress. But
to what pro’ext will the whigs resort for an
increase of duties * The pretext they allege
at this extra session is, that more revenue is
necessary to meet the public expenditures.
How comes it that more revenue is and will
be necessary, to meet the public expenditures i
Because the whigs have laid aside and thrown
to the winds, the pledge they had given to ac
quire power, that they would follow the prin
ciple of an economical administration of the
irovernment. The extravagant and enormous
appropriations proposed by them at this extra
session, and in some instances carried intoet
lect, must convince the people of the United
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1841.
1 States, that all the schemes of the whigs will
be accomplished at the regular session of
Gongre? 3 , tor a splendid government; for a
high, prohibitive, and countervailing tariff; for
an immense national debt, which is to grow
from the seed sown at this extra session ; for
the assumption of state debts, amounting to
more than two hundred millions ot dollars ;
and for a system of internal improvements on
a large scale, under the control and expense
of the general government Can the people
of tiie United States be deceived as to these
gigantic schemes of the whigs ? Can the
people of the South tamely submit to the at
tempts already made, and will be made, to
paralyze their industry, to lessen the value ol
the products of their soil, to ruin them by ex
orbitant taxes in the shape of duties on imports,
and to render them tributaries to the opulent
manufacturers of the north? Canjthe southern
merchants tamely submit tube the mere agents
of the commercial monopolists of the north ?
Lettlitj schemes of the whigs be carried into
operation without successful resistance and
their fatal results will he felt throughout the
southern states. Can we be mistaken in our
forebodings ? Why were the proceeds of the
sales of the public lands relinquished by the
general government ? Why was a national
debt created for twelve millions of dollars ?
And why was anew tariff adopted, w hich is
to produce an increase of revenue of more
than ten millions of dollars? Can the whigs
so deceive us ae to make us believe that all
these measures were necessary for an econo
mical administration of the government!
It is admitted by some whigs that the new’
tariff’ is partially protective. Indeed ? If it
is protective, even partially so, why did south
ern whig members vote for it? In voting for
the bill, did they consult the interest and the
feeling of their constituents? If in the bill
there was but one article protected, thev
should have voted against the whole scheme.
But as a defence for the votes given by those
southern whig members, they say that Mr.
Woodbury, the Secretary of the Treasury,
under Mr Van Buren, recommended a duty
on tea and coffee. Mr. Woodbury made a re
port to the Senate on the 18th of January, 1841,
in accordance with a resolution of that body,
directing him to communicate to the Senate
the plan of a permanent change in the tariff!
&.e. In his report lie submits several modes
of increasing tiie revenue by duties on imports.
By one mode he states that lor raising the rev
enue, duties might be laid on articles then im
ported free, and he names coffee, tea, and silks,
because such articles arc imported in larger
quantities. Mr. Woodbury merely laid be
fore the Senate the various modes by which
the revenue might be raised ; but he seems to
he of the opinion that the best mode would be
to tax articles of luxury ts the extent of 20
per cent and to leave free the necessaries of
life. Can the southern whig members be de
fended by this report of Mr. Woodbury ? We
appeal to the candour of our readers to de
termine the question. But admitting that Mr.
Woodbury did recommend most absolutely a
tax on tea and coffee: how long since I;as that
gentleman become the oracle of southern j
whigs ? Every thing done by the late admin
istration, and especially by Mr. Woodbury,
was wrong, deficient in wisdom, and highly
impolitic. And now, the southern whigs say,
we have voted for a tax on tea and coffee because
Mr. Woodbury iias recommended it in his re
port of the 18;h of January, 1841! We would
have believed, for the very reason that Mr.
Woodbury recommended a tax on tea and cof
fee, that the southern whigs would have voted
against it.
As much has been, is* and will be said a
bout the Compromise act of 1833, we have
■thought that our readeis would like to have
it again placed before them. It is as follows:
AN ACT to modify the act of the fourteenth
July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
two, and all other acts imposing duties on
imports.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the U. States of
America in Congress assembled, That from
and after the 31st day of December, one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty-three, in all
cases where duties are imposed on imports by
the act of the 14th day of July, one thousand
eiglit hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act
to alter and amend the several acts imposing
duties on irnpor s,” or any other act, shall ex
ceed twenty per centum on the value thereof,
one tenth part of such excess shall be deduct
ed ; from and after the 31st day of Decem
ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
five, another tenth part thereof shall be de
ducted ; from and alter the olst day of De
cember, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven, another tenth part thereof shall be de
ducted ; from and after the 31st day of De
cember, o .e thousand eight hundred and thir
ty-nine, another tenth part thereof shall be de
ducted; ana from and after tbe 31st day of
December, one thousand eight, hundred and
forty-one, one half of the residue of such ex
cess shall be deducted; and from and after
the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eiglit
hundred and forty-two, the other half thereof
shall be deducted.
tier. 2. And be it further enacted, That so
much of the second section of the act of the
fourteenth of Juiy aforesaid, as fixes the rate
of duty on all milled and fulled cloth, known
by the name of plains, kerseys, or keiulal cot
tons, of which wool is the only material, the
value whereof does not exceed thirty-five cts,
a square yard, at five per centum ad valorem,
siiail be and the same is hereby repealed. And
the said articles shall be subject to the same
duty of fifty per centum, as is provided by the
said Second section lor other manufactures of
wool; which duty shall be liable to the same
deductions as arc prescribed by the first sec
tion of this act.
Bee. 3. And be it further enacted, That,
until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-two, the duties im
posed dv existing laws, as modified by this act,
shail remain and continue to be collected.—
And from and after the day last aforesaid ; all
duties cn imports shall be collected in ready
money ; and all credits now allowed by law,
in the payment of duties shall be and hereby
are abolished, and such duties shall be laid for
the purpose of raising such revenue as may
be necessary to an economical administration
of the government; and from and alter the
day last aforesaid, the duties required to be
paid by law, on goods, wares, merchandise,
shall i e assessed upon the value thereof at
the port where the same shali be entered, un
der such regulations as may be prescribed by
law.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in
addition to the articles now exempted by the
act of the fourteenth July, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two, and the existing laws,
from the payment of duties, the following ar
ticles imported from and afier the 31st day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-three, and until the thirtieth day June,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two,
shall also be admitted to entry, free from duty,
to wit: bleached and unbleached linens, table
linen, linen napkins, and linen cambrics, and
worsted stuff’ goods, shawls and other manu
factures of silk and worsted, manulactures of
siik, or of which silk shall be the component
material of chief value, coming from this side
the Cape of Good Hope,except sewing siik.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That,
from and after the said thirtieth day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and forty.two;
“THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREjpfri’Y OF THE STATES. ’
the following articles shall be admitted to en
try free from duty, to wit: indigo, quicksilver,
sulphur, crude, saltpetre, grindstones, refined
borax, emery, ooium, tin in plate and sheets ;
gum Arabic, gum senega], lac dye, madder,
madder root, nuts and berries used in dying,
saffron, tumeric, woad or pastel, aloes, amber
griss, Burgundy pitch, cochineal, chamomile
flowers, coriander seed, catsup, chalk, coculus,
horn plates for lanterns, ox horns, other horns
and tips, India rubber, manufactured ivory,
juniper berries, musk, nuts of all kinds, oil of
juniper, unnia tufactured rattans and reeds,
tortoise shell, tin foil, shellac, vegetables used
principally in dying and composing dyes, weld,
and all articles employed chiefly lor dying,
except aliura, coperas, bichromate of potash,
prussiate of potash, chromate of potash, and
nitrate of lead, aqua fortis and tartaric acids.
And all imposts on which the first section of
this act may operate, and all articles now ad
mitted to entry free from duty, or paving less
rate of duty titan twenty per centum ad valo
rem, before the said thirtieth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two, from
and after that dav may be admitted to entry
subject to such duty not exceeding twenty per
centum, ad valorem, as shall be provided for
by law.
Sec. f>. And be it further enacted, That so
much of the act of the fourteenth day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and .hirly two, or!
of any other act as is inconsistent with this
act, shall be and tbe same is hereby repealed:
Provided , That nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to prevent the passage pri
or or subsequent to the said 30th day of June,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, of
any act or acts, front time to time, that may be
necessary to detect, prevent, or punish eva
sions of the duties on imposts imposed by law,
nor to prevent the passage of any act, prior to
the 30th day of June, one thousand eight hun
dred and forty-two, in the contingency either
of excess or deficiency of revenue, altering
the rales of duties on articles which, by the
aforesaid act of fourteenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are
subject to a iess rate of duty than twenty per
centum ad valorem, in such manner as not to
exceed that rate, and so as to adjust the reve
nue to either of the said contingencies.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
From the Federal Union.
WORSE AND WORSE.
We drop the Recorder to take up the Co
lumbus Enquirer. The campaign of last
year seems to have unhinged tbe morals ot
the great mass of the Harrison presses. The
success which followed the shouts and huz
zas of multitudes, and the impunity which
attended tbeir thousands of misstatements,
have so bewildered them that they no longer
think the truth ol* their statements a matier
of any consequence. We shall teach them
that there is some value in truth.
The people who gave credit to the Harri
son party when they promised relief and
reform, have been astonisned to see that party
forget every one of their promises the moment
they were clothed with power. Instead of
reform they find only a struggle for office, and
in place of relief they find their taxation in
creased to an alarming degree. The En
quirer, with the spirit with which prince
Feter demonstrated that a loaf of bread was
a shoulder of mutton, demands of the people
to jutily the increase of taxes. To do ibis he
seems determined to swear trutti (tut of the
country. His statements are without a par
allel in this day of infamy and shame.
To justiiy tbe taxation of which the people
complain, they manufacture State debts to an
amount perfectly frightful, and but that it is
before us, we could not have believed it pos
sible that any man who could rise on two legs
would have ventured on sucb statements. —
Their random assertions cannot be reduced
to order. But they too find the Stale “bead
and ears” in debt. They sav the bonds sold
in 1838 amount to $1,500,000 —tbe protested
debt is $300,000. Central Bank bills 1.000.U0U
—expense on Western and Atlantic Hail
Road prior to July Ist, 1840, $3,206,788 —
amount since spent on said road $1,000,000 —
the work not half finished and that which is
done to do over. Tbe end and consequence
of all ibis they do not sum up, but if true as
stated, the Slate cannot get off with a debt ol
less than $10,000,000, and the people must
therefore be taxed, by Harrison men because
these enormous debts were created by the
“ Locofocos.” The author of these state
ments will not repeat them, he will shrink be
fore tbe truths winch we will offer.
Tbe Western and Atlantic Rail Road was
undertaken in 1836 during the administration
of Gov. Schley. Two appropriations were
passed for it, one for $60,000, and another
for $200,000. The State bad the money and
paid these appropriations. The section of
this law which authorized the issue of sl,-
500,000 of Slate bonds proved defective and
not a single bond was issued under it. The
act under which these bonds were issued was
assented to by Governor Gilmer, 20th Dec.
1838. This is the whole amount of Slate
debt which is authorized on account ol the
roa4 and these bonds are not all sold, the
commissioners still having in (heir possession
about $600,000 of them. Ihe whole amount
of the State’s debt on account ot’ the road
cannot therefore exceed $900,000. There is
but one other State debt authorized by the
laws of Georgia, and that is founded on the
circulation of the Central Bank. To take up
the bills of this institution, bonds bearing 8
per cent, interest, are authorized to he issued;
only a small sum, less than $50,000 we think
have been issued. Thus the whole indebted
ness of the State up to this day is less than
one million of dollars and the interest on it
not ntoie than half the ordinary profits of the
Central Bank. To finish the road may re
quire at most, a million more, and thus ends
the big bug bear introduced to frighten the
people into a love ot taxation.
But the Enquirer seems not to desire to
know that the State, has other resources be
sides taxation. We will tell them that she
has the Central Bank, which they pronounce
entirely helples, threatening to become a
greater burthen to the people. No institution
has ever been so slandered, misrepresented
and abused as this. We have examined its
reports for some years past and know its
valuable contributions to the Treasury, We
state then on the incontrovertible authority
of the records which cannot be falsified and
which will not pass away. We challenge
and defv contradiction.
The profits of the Central Bank according
to its reports are us follows:
In 1835 $62,059 90
1836 67.459 26
1837 149 079 93
1838 109 621 17
1839 84.680 72
1840 128,008 25
$600,909 28
Thus it has brought into the Treasury an
average of more lhan SIOO,OOO each year for
the last six years. The profits of its bank
stock which has averaged about sixty thou
sand dollars during the same years will in
crease the gross amount of its contributions
to one million of dollars in the above time.
This large sum could not arise from a heg
garlv institution. The funds of the Ceutral
1 Bank which had arisen lrom the saving off
the Stale lor many years, were in the year
1833 increased by the addition of the surplus
revenue, to the large sum off $3,174, 196 13.
But its enemies with a settled determination
to destroy it and a few of its friends seeming
to think no burthen too heavy lor it to bear,
have taken lrom it by appropriations, not its
profits only, but a large proportion off its cap
ital. Whatever appropriations they could
get through the Legislature, and they were
wasteful and extravagant in the extreme,
were ordered to be paid by the Centra! Bank.
But it is curious enough to observe the cer
tainty with which the votes offevery conspic
uous enemy off the bank were cast in favor off
every appropriation. The exceptions are
“lew and far between.” The sums thus
taken lrom the bank were
In 1835 . S7OO 28
1836 138.621
1837 396,059 33
1838 491,003
1839 512,542 44
1340 400,757 60
$1,943,679 60
Thus the resources of the bank which, in
1837, are reported at $3,174,196 13 were in
1840 reduced to $1,982 003 53. The pre
sent year will shew a iurther reduction of
about half a million of dollars, leaving the
bank worth about one million and a half after
paying all its liabilities, and remember this
includes its circulation.
The enemies of the Central Bank perceiv
ing that it is not destroyed by the heavy
exactions made on it, and determined to have
excuse for their favorite mode of relieving the
people by taxation, have ordered that it shall
pay $75,000 every year towards taking up j
the State stocks which may not fall due for
near thirty vears. (See laws of 1840, page
150.)
Our notice or the scandalous production of
the Enquirer is already too long. But the
facts slated by us are unquestionable, and
the reader can now judge for himself whether
the promises of the Harrison party have been
made good and whether their excuses for the
enormous increase of taxation are sufficient.
We have shown that the whole debt of
the State on thirty year bonds is not more
than ONE MILLION of dollars $1,000,000
That it cannot under present
laws be increased more than 500,000
Making in all $1,500,000
To finish the road and put it in
operation may require 500,000
Creating a public debt of $2,000,000
To pay this debt which will not tail due
before 1868, the Harrison Legislature of
1840, when the people are more embarrassed
than they have been in our times, require the
Cemral Bank to pay 7 on the principal of that
defct $75,000 per annum and order the people
to he doubly taxed. Such proceedings can
not be vamped up by the fabrications of a
degraded press. The people will bring them
to their account quickly.
From (he Federal Union.
THE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
The Recorder of the seventeenth mat. has
distanced lire lubrications of the Tippecanoe
Ciubs off the last year. The reckless random
statements it makes are of themselves so
gross and palpable as to deserve not the
slightest notice and would be treated with the
silent contempt they merit, but that we find
lrom experience that such statements left un
comradicted, work their way into the public
confidence, and in the minds ot many sup
plant the truth.
The Recorder begins by charging iiii with
attempting to saddle the dishonored debt of
Geo gia on Governor Gilmer.” We at
tempted no such thing: we stated that tiie
act authorizing the loan was sanctioned by
Governor Gilmer, 25th Dec, 1837 —the loan
obtained by directors of his appointment, and
disnonored during his administration. This
statement of fao-ts not controverted, we made
because Governor Schley and Dr. Fort had
been charged with these very acts and the
charge garnished with the assertion that they
were done “ without authority.” Thousands
ol Georgians had read these charges gross
and ffa'se as they are, and not a word to en
lighten the public mind had appeared in any
paper giving them currency. Gov. Gilmer
was nut censured by him now either lor that
act, or tar more fatal project of building our rail
road through the mountains where the heavy
expense off its construction would render a
renumeraiing profit, almost impossible; and
turning over to private monopolists, at! that
part off the line to tiie Atlantic which would
from its easy construction yield saving profit
to the whole undertaking. This was the fatal
mistake of the day, publicly opposed by us at
the lime, but which captivated the minds off
many abler men than Gov. Gilmer.
But the Recorder says: “ The first thing
on taking possession off the cuair, that met
the view off the new Governor Gilmer—was
a State head and years in debt.” “Our op
ponents had not only exhausted the Treasury
and the Central Bank in their projects, hut
had likewise spent every cent off the surplus
revenue which Georgia received from the
United States Treasury.”
“ A State head anil ears in debt.” To
whom and for what was the Slate indebted?
We deny the statement, and cha'ienge the
production off the evidence. On toe first off
November 1837, when Governor Gilmer en
tered on the duties of his office, the State had
an ample I'reasury and was out oj debt.
We deny that the Democratic party ever
became remarkable for the lavish expenditure
of public money ; and if the expenses of this
State for the year 1835 have rapidly in
creased, the modern Whigs in the Legisla
ture will not deny a full share of the respon
sibility. The great source of expense, the
Western and Atlantic Rail Road was deter
mined on by an act dated 21st Deft. 1836, and
voted for by ail parties, For this great un
dertaking the sum of $290,000 set a
part and appropriated for 1837, besides six
ty thousanus doliars for their Engineer de
partment. These appropriations when con
sidered in relation to their object, were mod
erate- Much heavier sums were demanded
for other appropriations especially for the
“ payment off Volunteers ’ which has absorbed
neariy S4OO 000—and will not even by the
Recorder be charged to the account of Gov.
Schley or his party. But these sums lavish
as thev were, did not encumber the Slate
with debt. The Central Bank was ordered
to make her payments and did so as is shewn
inj her report off 6th of November, 1837, to
the amount off $396,055 38. This all
fihe demands of the government to that date
and Gov. Gilmer went into office finding the
State not a dollar in d ebt\ !
Thus one charge is nailed to the counter;
but the Recorder is not done. Il goe3 on to
sav that Gov. Gilraei’s opponents had “ ex
: hausted the Central Bank.” This is, if pos
sible, a more flagitious statement than that
we have disposed of. The lowest sum to
which the capital stock of the bank had been
reduced was $-2,123,774 04, but bv the addi
tion of the surplus revenue in 1837, Gov. Gil
mer found it increased to $3,174 196 18.—
These facts are from the record and detv
[NUMBER 30.
| contradiction. Hut this published stttem*** t
is nothing in the nay of the Recorder. That
print declared that every dollar ol this money
nad been spent by the Vaußureu party. So
lar is tins from being true that not a cent ol
this money was spent, but the whole in con
formity with a special act, loaned to the peo
ple on interest; and more than sixty thousand
dollars protit from the operation turned over
to the State. Such were the ample stoies of
the Treasury when Gov. Gilmer Went into
office, but we shall not quit the subject with
out shewing how rapidly it disappeared tin
der his rule.
The Central Eank had no circulation be
yond its means of paving on demand. Ji
paid specie till about the clos-e of Gov. Gil
mer’s administration, it paid silt its debts to
oilier banks, and theiefore dates all its embar
rassments since ilie report of 1837. The
failure of the United States, to pay the fourth
instalment cl the surplus revenue, required
the temporary use of money to carry out the
distribution which had been advertised by
the direction of the bank. Tins sum under
a law or resolution of the Legislature was
borrowed from several of the chartered banks
of this Stale. These loans were all punctu
ally paid. They never became a subj oi of
public clamor, and have nothing to do with
the famous or infamous $300,000 debt.
We have not said whether the obtainment
of this money was blameable or praisewor
thy ; but such as it is, Gov. Gilmer’s admin
istration shall not escape the responsibility
of the loan and the protest. The qioney was
borrowed by him for the uses oi’ his own ad
ministration and nothing else. It was ob
tained to meet the lavish expenditures of his
two years which not only took every cent
which came in the Treasury, but consumed
more than one third part of the capital of the
Central Bank. This we shall demonstrate
though contrary to our custom of consider
ing Gov. Gilmer’s a dead administration,
since the people decided against it by electing
Gov. McDonald. The law under winch the
debt to the Plienix Bank was contracted, was
signed by Gov. Gilmer on the 25th Dec. 1337.
The reason for the measure as stated in the
law itself was ‘'for the purpose of meeting
the expenditures of the government for the
political year 1838.” The money obtained
under this law was paid to the wasteful ap
propriations of that year and taken from (lie
capital of the Central Bank. Governor Gil
mer’s hostility to that institution is well known.
It is less known that his two years took from
ii one third of its resources: one more period
of two years so bent on its destruction, will
give it the finishing stroke. We believe that
the hope of destroying the Central Bank ren
dered every appropriation welcome to Gov.
Gilmer. In 1838 he took from it $491,003 —
in 188ij $512,542 44, more than a million of
dollars in two years. Here is the great cause
of the embarrassments of the Central Bank
—the sole reason of its inability to pay the
$300,000 debt at an earlier day.
IVe have done with the Recorder.
Prom the Buffalo Comfnercial Advertiser.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE UES
TRUOTION OF THE STEAMBOAT
ERIE.
Little did we think yesterday in penning a
brief paragraph in commendation of the Erie,
that to-day we should be called upon to record
the destruction of that boat, together with a
loss of life unequalled bn our own or almost
any other waters. The Erie left the dock at
10 minutes past 4 p. m. loaded with merchan
dize destined to Chicago* and as nearly as now
can be ascertained, about two hundred persons,
including passengers and crew on board.
The boat had been thoroughly overhauled,
and although the wind was blowing iresh,
every thing promised a pleasant and prosper
ous voyage. Nothing occurred to mar this
prospect till about 8 o’clock, when the boat
was off Silver Creek, abont eight milks from
shore, and thirty-three miles from the city,
when a slight explosion was heard, and im
mediately, almost instantaneously, the whole
vessel was enveloped in flames. Capt Titus,
who was on the upper deck at the time, rushed
to the ladies cabin to obtain the life preserv
ers. of which there was from 90 to 100 on
hoard, but so rapid had been the progress of
the flames; he found it impossible to enter the
cabin.
He returned to the tipper deck, on his Way
giving orders to the engineer to stop the en
gine, the vidnd and the headway of the boat
increasing the fierceness of the flames and
driving them aft. The engineer replied that
in consequence of the flames he could not
reach the engine. The steersman was in
stantly directed to put the helm hard a star
hoard. She swung slowly round, heading to
the sh r re, and the boats, there were three on
board, were then ordered to be lowered. Two
of the boats were lowered, but in consequence
of the heavy sea on, and the headway of the
vessel, they both swamped as soon as they I
touched the water.
We will not attetrpt to describe the awful j
and appalihg condition of the passengers.—
Some were frantic with fear and horror, others
plunged headlong madly into the water, oth
ers again seized upon any thing buoyant upon
which they could lay hands. The small boat
forward had been lowered. It was alongside
the wheel, with three or four persons in it
when the captain jumped in, and the boat
immediately dropped astern filled with water.
A lady floated by with a life preserver on.—
She cried for help. There was no safety in
the boat. The captain threw her the only
oar in the boat. She caught ihe oar and was
saved. It was Mrs. Lynde of Milvvaukie, and
she was the only lady saved.
In this condition, the boat, a mass of fierce
fire, and the passengers and crew endeavor
ing to save themselves by swimming or sup
porting themselves by whatever they could
reach—they were found by the Chnton at
about 10 P. M. The Clinton left here in the
morning, but in consequence of the wind, had
put into Dunkirk. She laid there till nearly
sun.-:et —at which time she ran out, and had
proceeded as far as Barcelona, when just at
twilight, the fire of the Erie was discovered
some"2o miles astern. The Clinton immedi
ately put about and reached the burning wreck
about 10.
It was a fearful sight. All the tipper works
of the Erie had been burned away. The en
gine was standing, but the hull was a mass
of dull, red flamer The passengers and crew J
were floating around, screaming in their ago- j
ny, and shrieking for help. The boats of the !
Clinton were instantly lowered and manned, j
and every person that could be seen or heard,
was picked up, and every possible relief afford
ed. The Lady, a little steamboat lying at
Dunkirk, went out of that harbor as soon as
possible, after the discovery of the fire, and
arrived soon after the Clinton. It was not
thought by the survivors that she saved any.
By 1 a. m. all was still except the dead
crackling of the fire. Not a solitary individ
nal could be seen or heard on the wild waste
of waters. A line was then made fast to the
remains of the Erie’s rudder, and an effort
made to tow the hapless huik ashore. About
this time the Chautauque came up and lent
her assistance.
The hull of the Erie was towed within about
four miles of shore, when it sunk in eleven
fathoms water- By this time it was daylight.
The lines were castolf The Clinton headed
for this port, which she reached about G o’cl’k.
Os those who are saved, several are badly
burned, but none dangerously injured so lar
as we have heard.
Origin of the Fire. —Among the passen
gers on board were six painters in the employ
of Mr. W. G. Miller of this city, who were
going to Erie to paint the steamboat Madison.
They had with them demijohns filled with
spirits of turpentine and varnish, which, un
known to Capt Titus, were placed on tho
boiler deck directly over the boilers. One of
the firemen, who was saved, says he had oc
casion logo on the boilerdeck, and seeing the
demijohns removed them. They were re
placed, hy whom is not known. Immediately
previous to the bursting forth of the flames, as
several on board has assured us, a slight ex
plosion was heard. The demijohns had prob
ably burst with the heat, and their inflammable
contents, taking fire instantly communicated
to every part of the boat, which had been
freshly varnished and caught as if it had been
gunpowder.
Not a paper nor an article of any kind was
saved. Os course it is Impossible so give a
complete list of those on board. Ol cabin
passengers Capt. Tilus thinks there were
between *3O and 40 of whom 10 or P-2 were
ladies. In the steerage there were about 140
passengers, nearly all of whom were Swiss
and German immigrants. They were mostly
in families with the usual proportion of men,
women and children. The heart bleeds at
the thought
It is a singular coincidence that the Erie
was burned at almost identically the same
spot where tlie Washington was burned in
June, 1888. Capt. Brown, who commanded
the Washington at that time, happened to be
on board the Clinton, and was very active in
saving the survivors of the Erie.
Still further particulars of the re
cent terrible calamity on Lake Erie.—
By Pomeroy’s Express last evening, we re
ceived Buffalo papers of Wednesday, in ad
vance of the mail. They contain further
particulars of the awful affair On Lake Erie.
—N. Y. Herald.
We hoped thdt we should learn something
today to releivo the details published yester
day, but every thing we hear serves to deepen
the horror. All that the imagination can con-”
ceive of the terrible and heart rending was
realized in the awful destruction of the Erie.
Scores sank despairingly beneath the wild
waters, but there is reason to fear that many,
very many, strong men, helpless women and
tender children perished in the flames
“Alexander Lamberton, musician, front
Erie, and Frederick Pannalee, barkeeper,
were picked up by a small boat after the Clin
ton had left. Parmalee was on the water
seven hours, aud showed great presence of
mind in exerting himself to save Mr. Gelston,
the brother-in-law of Colonel Reed. He
gave Mr. Gelston a plank, which he had ae
cured for his own preservation—and when
the boat had ceased to move, after waiting td
find someone else to whom lie could render
assistance, he took one of the fenders of the
boat, and by managing to keep upon it, he
succeeded in preserving his own life. Small
pieces of charred wood aud portions of the
boat were found floating, as well as part of
the goods that remained without being entire
ly consumed. The boat alstr picked up the
wheat measure; which was the means of
saving Mr. Williams. This is about all that
has not already come to our knowledge.”
Notwithstanding the heroic and self-sacrifi
cing act of Parmalee, we fear there is no rea
son to hope that Gelston was saved. Jri
addition to what is stated respecting Parma
lee’s gallant conduct, we learn from the
Republican of this morning that Mr. Edgar
Clemens, too, the engineer, abandoned a plank
on which lie was floating to three children,
and after some searcli found a box or bale,
which he also resigned to an old man, aud
alter being some time in the water, at length
reached the boat to which Capt. Titus was
clinging.
W e leafn that Mrs. Lynde, too, the only
lady saved, evinced as much coolness and
intrepidity as any one on board. Iler pres
ence of mind never forsook her lor a moment;
VVe give below a correct list of the lost and
saved. It is far from being perfect—the full
extent of the calamity will probably never bo
known—but after diligent investigation if is
as full as we could make it.
John C. Poole, who is lost, formerly a clerk
in Atwill’s Music Saloon in Broadway.
We have also gathered the following facts
and additional names from Parsons & Cos,
On examination of the eighty-seven names of
Swiss emigrants given yesterday, th&v actu
ally count one hundred and eight persons, to
which must be added some ten or twelve in
fants, not before enumerated, of whom no
charge was made. To this list must also be
appended the following from the same house,
omitted yesterday.
The loss of property by t,lie Erie was heavy.
She had on board the first large invoice of
merchandise shipped for the tipper lakes this
season. Some 130 tons, worth at least $20,-
000. The emigrants had alo a large amount
of specie, not far from SIBO,OOO, and the boat
herself must have cost all ol $75,000, making
in all a little short of $200,000 loss.
DESTRUCTION OF THE StEAMBTAT ER*.J
BY FIRE AND LOSS OF NEARLY TWO HUNDRED
lives. —The steamer E le left BuflLlo on
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock for Chicago
Ihe precise number on board of her not
known, but it is estimated by the captain,
from a glance at the register before leaving
the harbor, to have exceeded two hundred
souls. Amongst the number, were several
painters, who, with their materials, were on
iheir way to, some port up the lake for the
purpose of painting a boat lying there. A
strong wind and rough sea prevailing at the
lime, Captain Titus Hesitated for some time
to put out, but the De Witt Clinton having
left about three hours previous, he was finally
induced to start on the fatal voyage.
At about 8 o’clock the vessel was suddenly
wrapped in flames from the bursting of at
carbuov of varnish on the boiler deck, whilst
so sudden was the combustion that the pas
sengers were at once forced overboad. in mu
ny instances, without the slightest article to
sustain them.
Fortunately, ihe De Witt Clinton had put
into Dunkirk, and, discovering the Erie in
flames, hastened to her relief.
She picked up twenty-seven only of she
whole number on board, whilst about two
hundred tell victims to ihe devouring element.
Only one female was saved, as also were the
captain and one of the crew.
The Erie, in addition to a full complement
of had on board a larsre quauiity
of merchandise for Chicago and intermediate
places.
For the above particulars we are indebted
to a friend who came down in the boat this
morning; and they may be relied upon as
correct in all leading features attending this
most melancholy occurrence.—N. Y. Her
ald.
Wetmderstand,sayß the Macon Telegraph
that Gov. McDonald lias appointed receiv
ers for ihe Bank of Columbus and the Plan
ters &. Mechanics Bank, to take charge oh
their asset--, which render the redemption of
their notes very uncertain, and we „re una
ble to give a proper quotation this week.
Il Gov. McDonald has made an appoint
ment it is new to us.—Edrs. Fed. Union.
Is it True:—A rytnor and a handbill
have come over Irojo N'ew Orleans to the
effect that a gigantic system of swindling
been practiced on the Canal Bank of that
city.
A million and a half is the amount, of plun
der—that is the on dit. The New Orleans
papers of yesterday sav nothing upon the
subject.—Mobile Cum. Keg. Aug. 20,
