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COLUMBUS, GA.
TtESDAT, CYR*>BKR -17, 1846.
REMOVAL.
The Poet Office and the printing materials of
fhh'"o4ibtis Times” have been removed to ;
Winter's Exchange cast side of Broad Street
above Randolph.
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atrad of Wednesday moruin .
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the change and hand in their favors on Saturday
or early Monday morning.
YltE MIL.DKDGEVII.tiE JOURNAL &,
THE WAR. ‘
Our notice of week before last of some of the
febsurd charges which form the pabulum of Whig
newspaper assault upon the War Department ot
this Government, has “waked up” the Georgia
Journal. Wethoueht it would make a stir in
the Wigwam. For these Whig gentlemen are
singularly impatient whenever a (w blunt facts
are interposed in the path oftbe stupendous hum
bugs which it is their daily effort and pleasure to
roil against the admin stmtion. In nil our politi
cal experience, we have never known more
downright stuff, gross perversions, and ridiculous
humbugs, worked up into political capital, than
hss been used in this same war. We have had
the fullest opportunity of observing it. For com
ing from the scenes of the Very events com
tneoted upon and twisted out of all truthful
shapes, we have been enabled to compare th**
facts as wc knew them, with the fahles as they
have been related to the country, through the
Whig press. Truth and justice demanded the
exposure of these vile attempts to deceive the
public, and we hut obeyed the.rim pulses in pen
ning the article in question.
The Journal comes hack upon us in reply,
with vizor up and lance in rest, as if boastful of
an easy victory. He evident!} felt as if in
jockey phrase he “had us.” So confident in
deed was the Editor that lie condescended to be
generous, and before inflicting the co:tp-dc-grcce,
ho vouchsafes us a compliment or two, thereby
enhancing the eclat of a victory over what he
admits is a format), in some degree “worthy of
his steel.” So flattering indeed is this part oi
the picture, that wc must bog leave to copy it—
first, from a feeling of gratified vanity, and se
cond, to show with what adroitness the Editor
picks us up for the amiable purpose of again
knocking us down.
** Now, whatever relates to the war, the army,
and so forth, that has appeared from the pi n oi
this Editor, has been looked to, and read with
great interest by every Georgian, lie was one
of our own volunteers—holding and cxerciing
the duties of an honorable appointment—capable
and patriotic in their discharge, but who, from
much suffering and ill-health, was compelled to
abandon a post none knew better, nor was more
willing to fill. When therefore, he abandoned
bis Editorial position, and with the Georgia boys
marched to endure the fatigues, and hardships
and exposures of the Mexican War, it gratified
us much to sec the promise under the editorin’
bead of the Columbus Times, that his reader;
would hear from him often, and none of them
looked to that pajer with more anxiety for hb
account of the army, the war, and our Oravi
Georgia Regiment, than ourself. Not as often
*s we desired, but still on several occasions, we
were gratified in the perusal of his letters, and
we treasured up most that he communicated
not that we expected to use any part of it, as we
low design doing, bat simply because it formed
part of an into esting history of thrilling and tx
eiting events.”
We dont remember ever l o have been compli
mented more prettily or gracefully in our life,
and wc make our lowest bow to the Editor for
it. But this is the rose—here comes the thorn
Let us sec how sharp it is !
Its paint consists in an ai tempt to prove, by thr
testimony of our letters from the army, the truth
of the Whig charge of gross mismanagement.
(“ murderous, carelessness,” some of them call
it”) in the War Department, while in a later
editorial we deny the charge and defend the ad
min ist ration.
Now we aver, that there is nothing contradic
tory or incompatible between the statements o’
our letters and nur editorial. Not even the star
ing capitals in which the Journal places the dis
jointed sentences taken from our letter*, am!
|<araded without the context, from which abnc
the spirit of any written statement or argument
can be truly gathered—not even this most un
fair of all modes of written controversy, makes
ths contradiction apparent, even to a casual rea
der of ordinary intelligence. Let us put to
gether these antagonist paragraphs of ours, in
which the Journal has found a real “ mare’s
nestd” But first let it be remembered, that it
the Whig press was to be credited, the army in
Mexico was in a destitute, sufifering. nay almost
starving condition, and that the fault theieof was
at the door of the “men who set in Washington’”
—the Government!
Every casualty of the war, even- trifling cir
cumstance of disagreeable import which happen
ed in its progress was worked up by these politi
cal panic mongers into paper pellets to hurl ai
the “wicked adminisistratinn” w hich had plung
ed the nation into this impious war. If a sol
dier died, and was buried in the best mannei
the nature of the country, and the circumstan
ces of the case would admit, the Secretary a;
War was a monster not to have foreseen thr
-want and sent oat a ship load of cofiins, as a
part of the camp equipage of the army ! ( Wbat
a pretty sight itjnrouldbo, and how -fine the eflect
-upon the morale of a fighting regiment to b<
•dragging after it, these funeral preparations !)
K the camp fever broke out among our troops
and prostrated and killed many, again the wail
ing note was raised, “oh this wicked adminis
tration.” If the President; after a successful bat
tle, humanely anxious to terinina ea war whicL
h* always regretted, offered the olive branch tc
the infatuated Mexicans, it was, “oh the cow-
ardly administration! Mr. Polk is sneaking.
out of the war,” (rtVe Columbus Enquirer.)—
If when, the overtures were rejected, the Go-
girds up its leans for renewed efforts
t* “conquer a peace,” it was “oh! this rash and
“fool-hardy admmstration, will it never cease to
“lavish the blood and treasure of the country!!!
In short, do what it would, the administration
never could please these fastidious Whig gen
tlemen, for the simple reason that they were de
tarmiued not to be pleased with any thing from
the first
it against this wholesale, twcepjng:
.captious, rote-seeking clamor, eondemmgthe en
tire war policy and management of the Govern
ment, as weak, stupid and inefficient that we
raised our voice in the Editorial of the Journal’s
criticism—while, in out letters, (unconscious of
the hawk-eye* of party that were watching at
home, for any and every circumstance that would
reflect discredit ujKm the American Govern
ment,) we stated some matters of fact which
formed an exception to the general ru'c, of
what we believed then, and believe now, to
have been the energy and vigor of the Depart
ment in conducting the War. In tills light we
present the offending paragraphs to the candid
reader.
From the Editorial of the “ Times]’ Nor. 4th.
“ The Government ha 6 put forth tremendous
energy in the Qr. Master and Commissary de
partments of the army. When we landed at
Brazos in July, we found a fleet of vessels of all
classes employed iu the transportation of food,
arms and ammunition for the army. From the
Brazos to the mouth of the River, the Island was
alive with the immense activity in this Depart
ment. Large store houses filied with rations ;
a small army of laborers employed iu discharg-.
itig vessels and loading a huge train of wagons
that daily transported them to the River. At the
latter place, we found boats loading with these
supplies and constantly starting up the river.—
At Camargo, again, we found supplies of all
kinds in the utmost abundance —every public
house seemed to he filled with them, and as
some writer has observed, the landing at the riv
er, presented the appearance of the Levee at
New Orleans. Again, when we left the Brazos,
there was a large fleet at anchor, and we were
told, that 20,000 barrels of rations for the army
were there on shipboard, waiting for disembrrka
tion.”
*****
“We hold that the war has been conducted
with a vigor and energy, unparalled in the his
tory of this Government. The power which
has been put forth, the brilliant successes which
have been achieved, are but the provocatives of
the wholesale Whig abuse of the Government.
Opposition had to become inventive and active,
in proportion to the energy and success with
which the war has been conducted. And wheth
er we follow the Whig press (logging the heels
ot the American Secretary of the Treasury, and
prostituting their talents and influence to the
work of paralyzing his efforts to raise funds to
carry on the war; whether in the tone of their
editorials so well calculated to encourage the
enemy to believe that this, as a war of the Pres
ident and not of the Nation, would soon be re
laxed; whether in the absurd stories they retail
of Cabinet plans, designs and purposes perverted
to party end‘i; and all calculated to foster the
hopes of the enemy and to dampen the patriotic
irdor of our own people ; we see in the conduct
of Whig editors a course that can be only justly
characterized as “Mexican.
From the letters of the Editor of the “ Times.”
“ I have seen something connected with it
[the Quarter Master's Department] objectiona
ble, and some disreputable.
“The regular army is miserably supplied witli
tents. Solne -companies have not a rag to pro
tect them from te weather. We approached
one of the shabbiest wc saw and were told that
ivas Gen. Taylor’s.”
Now the issue between the Journal and the
writer whom he arraigns is simply this—whether
all we said of the energy displayed by the
Quarter Master and Commissary Department
of the Government, and of which wc gave such
jonvicing proofs, may not be entirely true, and
md at the same time it may not he also true
-hat wc had seen some things (not “something”
is we were incorrectly printed) connected with the
Qr. Masters Department, objectionable—and al
io that the Regulars were illy supplied with
tents. May not the “general current of eflfort”
of the War office, be praiseworthy a*id powerful,
without being perfect ? Will a man deny the
brightness of the Sun because of the spots dis
cern ble upon its disk? But, oar vindication
docs not rest here alone. Now, the “ some
things connected with these departments” might
be the inis-conduct of some of the officers, who
perform their functions in Mexico, which the
War Department at Washington Was as pro
foundly ignorant of as the man hi *ho. moon.—
And as to the tent-less condition of the Regu
lars, it might or might not be the fault of the
Secretary. The army had been a year or more
■.nTexas—they had made a !ong& toilsome march
—their tents were worn out, and some delay
might have occurred in making and sending out
new oi.es. We hardly could have been under
stood as censuring the Government for its cru
elty in lorcing Gen. Taylor to live in a shabby
tent! Our last information from the Georgia
Regiment, was, that they were encamped in the
open air, near Monterey, having left their tents,
(furnished to them bran new in this city,) at Ca
margo, in order not ta be encumbered on a ne
cessary forced march. We presume Gen. Tay
lor’s whole army is in the same condition. Is
this an argumentlo prove the cruel neglectof the
War Department? If our Regiment hud wait
ed for their tents, the detachment which they
were sent tore-inforce on an hour’s notice, might
have been cutoff; and had Gen. Taylor waited
for the means to carry all his camp equipage,
the glories of Monterey might never have illu
mined the pages of American Military Annals.
The Journal accounts for the wonderful dis
crepancies it finds in our letters and editorial,
to the difference of the writer’s feelings and
views, while a “volunteer” enduring the hard
ships of campaigning, and while one of “ Mr.
Polk's officials,” and sitting in our “arm chair”
—ln the latter capacity says he, we again be
come “Mr. Polk’s defender and admirer.” The
Journal makes a mistake. It is the honor of:
our country that wc defend—it is the Govern
ment of our country, making generous and man
ly cft’oits, to uphold that honor and carry this
war to a glorious conclusion, albeit that Go
vernment lie in Democratic hands, that we de
iend against the unceasing exertions of Whig
pens *o cripple, wound and discredit it.
VV e are at war, and while at war, every indi
vidual American citizen is by the laws of Na
tions, the enemy of every citizen of Mexico—
our national foe; and he is as such, bound by
;he impulses of patriotism which knits every true
heart to the land ol his birth and to the Gov
ernment which sheds unceasing political bless
ings on his head, to give his arms and his life, it
necessary, and his encouragement and good
will, at all events, to carry his country gloriously
through the war. It is a pitiful excuse in the
Whig Editors who have stiihd the feelings oi
natural affection, and ridiculed, and abused and
denounced the cause in which their country is
shedding its blood ; to say, it is the “ President’s
war.” It is the war of the Nation—of
ple —declared by the people’s Congress and car
ried on with the people’s valor and best blood.
Let these who croak and raise the raven cry of
a bitter retribution to the Government for the
want ol a few ephemeral c. mforts to tire soldier,
and for the paltry dollars expended in sustaining
National rights and National honor, beware, Jest;
to their own lips is commended the overflowing
and bitter cup of their “ moral treason.”
A Chajccr for —A bookseller in
John street, New York, advertises for sale “ six
hundred volumes of the most famous serin ns in
the language, any one of which is sufficient to
establish a first rate reputation for a young
clergyman” These sermons will be speedily
dispo ed of.
If we believe tliat this war was forced upon
the country for the vilest political purposes, we
shall say so. Ifwe believe that the enemy escaped
from Matamoras because Taylor was unprovided
by the government with the means of pursuit,
and that on the same account time was given
them at Monterey to rally their forces, fonify the
town, and make a despeiate resistance, we shall
say *o. If we are of opinion, as we are, that
the President find his corworkers have been guil
ty of “ moral treason,” in unnecessarily sacri
-ficing the peace and treasure of the country to
gratify a wretched love of power, we shall say
that too.—[Columbus Enquirer.
Certainly, the Enquirer can “ sat so,” to its
heart’s content. No one has Li Id to gainsay its
right to “say so.” If the Editor “believes” the
Moon is made of green cheese, why in Jupiter’s
name, let him “ say so.” But, pray, will it not
be vouchsafed to other folks who entertain a
different opinion, to say, “it aint so!” We have
heard that our neighbors’ party “had all the “ tal
ents and decency,” etc.—4fut, teally we did not
know that they set up a claim to all the opinions
in this free country, or the types to put them be
fore the world. If we believe Whig papers have
put fortli a budget of ridiculous humbugs to dis
credit the administration and deceive the people,
why, we shall “say so”—by all that’s beautiful
we shall. And it is just here that the Whig
Editoria! shoe pinches. They wish to enjoy the
unrestrained privilege of their “sciy so’s ,” without
contradiction or refutation. They wish to scat
ter their sneers and jests and denunciations
broadcast upon the public mind, while no friend
ly hand of the Democratic administration shall;
be put forth to seperate the grain of truth from
ti e bushel of chaff. But, it cannot be done.
The Democratic press will speak out. And at
this particular juncture, it becomes them tospeak
loudly on this subject. It is clear that the Whig
papers (we wont slander the Whig people) are
determined to give the cold shoulder of opposi
tion to this war. If while they arcwillingcnough
to trumpet and share in its glorious military tri
umphs, they are determined to leave it to the
Democrats to shoulder its defence on grounds of
National justice and morality; be it so. The
Democrats have an example before them, in
which a former w ar, with a more powerful foe,
was carried brilliantly through, in spite of blue
lights, and traitcrous opposition at home. Para
graphs, like the following, from the Enquirer, look,
very much, as if, they would have to do it again.
“ The nation feels and knows that the war was
of the President’s own seeking, that thousands
of valuable lives and millions of money is to be
sacrificed to gratify the poor vanity and strength
en the to'tering power of a few men. The peo
ple have seen the war, when thus undertaken,
most ridiculously managed—they have one day
been deafened with threats of exterminating con
quest, and the next saluted with proffers to pur
chase a peace—they will ask who permitted the
infamous Santa Anna to return tp his country,
and what was wanted with the two million loan ?”
This sentence could not have been beaten in
1812.
THE EUROPEAN NEWS.
The mails furnish us with later foreign ac
counts by the British steamer Britannia. Cot
ton and breadstuff's have taken another jump up
wards, caused by an admitted deficiency in the
firmer crop's of this country and of the inability
of Great Britain t> feed her population from the
products of her own soil.
The Queen of Spain and her sister are finally
married to the great delight of Louis Phiilippe
and the equal displeasure of England. Some
sharp passages and angry words between the
two Governments look a little squally.
The steamer “Great ’Britain” was still ashore
in Duiidrum Bay, and all efforts to get her off
have failed.
The condition of the people of Ireland is de
plorable. A large body of troeps have been mov
ed to Athlone to keep down the hunger riots,
and to supply the want of bread with bayonets.
Thu immense efforts of humanity in Great Bri
t iin to supply the demand for food by subscrip
tions, falls far short of the necessities of the coun
try. Tfo relieve the distress, the Dublin Mail
estimates that .£8,640,000 will be required.
Mr. Bancroft, the newly appointed Minister
from the United States in the room of Mr. Mc-
Lanc, accompanied ’by his ladj, has arrived in
London from New York.
Lord Elgin, the new Governor General of Ca
nada, it lies been stated, will take his departure
lor Canada, next month, but up to Oct. 19th,
nothing had been officially announced.
The steamship Cambria, from Boston, arrived
at Liverpool on the 14th of October.
A repeal of the Malt Tax is talked of.
For cotton accounts, see commercial head.
PROM MEXICO.
The intelligence from Vera Cruz will be read
with interest. Wc deeply regret that the second
attempt upon Alvarado by a portion of the
American Squadron under commodore Conni r,
has failed. It appears that this gallant officer
and his command did all that men could do, and
that their failure is attributed to untoward causes
bey olid the reach of valor. We shall hear, yet,
a good account of our Navy. If they ever do get
a fair whack at the enemy, they will wipe out
all remembrance of these, to them, mortifying
contretempts.
Sax Juan de Ulloa. —Thisfortress (says the
Picayune) is now in su.h a complete state ot
defence, that many foreign officers consider it
impregnable. There are now 204 guns in it
mounted, and 800 artillery men, principally
Frenchmen, have been lately added to the garri
son. The English naval officer in command at
Sacrificios, is said to have expressed the opinion
hat the entire navies oi England and the United
States would he insufficient to take it;
THE BURNT DISTRICT.
Wc are happy to learn from a stroll through
the lower burnt district, and upon enquiry, that
the owners of lots are very generally making ar
rangements to replace the burned buildings, with
substantial fire-proof houses. This was the more
gratifyHtg, because unexpected to us. We were
led to beiieve that it would be a long lime before
that part of the city would be re-buift.
We find we were greatly mistaken, and the
prospect is, that a twelvemoiAh will show both
sides of broad street in the burned square below
the Market-house, re-built with brick stores. The
fire, which has caused so mftch individual loss
and suffering, will in the end, prove a benefit in
the permanent improvement and adornment of
the city.
1 he citizens of Columbus are just beginning
to wake up from a Rip Van Winkle slumb r, over
the value and interc-ts of their town. The right
spirit is aroused, and while men continue to strug
gle for their individual profit, they are opening
thei- eyes to the importance of a united effort for
the general good of the commonwealth.
The business of the city was - never better.
The merchants all agree, that trade has never
been more brisk and active than it i3 new, and
has bee* throughout the autumn,
GENERAL VEGA.
Col. T. F. Hunt, U. S. A., last Saturday,
(says the New Orleans Commercial Times,)
notified officially to Gen. Vega and the other
Mexican officers, prisoners in New Orleans, that
they have been exchanged for Capt. Carpcnder,
and the crew of the brig Truxton. They were
infore cd that they could proceed to Pensacola,
as soon as possible, whence they would be taken
on board one of the United States men-of-war, to
Vera Cruz. It was, however, left to the discre
tion of General Vega, and the oilier gentlemen,
to return to their country by the way of Havana.
The communication containihg this information
Was dated Washington, the 2Sth ult., and signed
by Gen. Winfield Scott.
The Boston Post, s.iys : “ It is a patriotic em
ployment to gather up and publish every inci
dent, whether true or false, that is injurious to
the army in Mexico, or that may have the effect
to render the war unpopular. It is a peculiarly
gracious task to circulate scandal against distin
guished officers, representing them as political
aspirants, and as fighting for available glory rath
er than for the honor of their country. One
of the Washington letter writers wallows his
falsehoods thus:—
“ The rumor which I mentioned the other day,
that Major General Butler, of the volunteers,
had been censured as wanting in courage at the
Monterey battle, is incorrect, so far as any official
statement is concerned. There are no official
charges against Gen. Butler. In fact there are none
from any quarter that necessarily impeach his
courage.”
“ MORAL TREASON.”
The Blue Lights are not all extinguished in
Massachusetts, as the following paragraph will
show.
“Axti-Waii Meetikg. —An anti-war, and
anti-administration meeting was held at Boston
on the 28th ult. Mr. C. F. Adams was called to
the chair, and made quite a flaming speech, in
which he was pleased to term the Mexican war
“ an unholy and cruel war,” and to censure Mr.
Winthrop \ox voting fur supplies for carrying
it on. A series of resolutions, censuring the
war and its abetters was adopted. The party by
whom this meeting was called, have styled it the
“ independent rully,” but it does not appear to
have thriven, as only 500 persons were present,
many of whom went through mere curiosity.
A BRUSH,
A letter from Capt. Calhoun published in an
Enquirer Extra, and dated Monterey, October
12. gives us the following information:
“ A part of the regiment left at Camargo are
arriving to-day. They encamped last night with
a heavy train of wagons and mules loaded with
provisions for the army, about six miles from this
place, where Canales designed a surprise, but
was foiled by the vigilance of our men. Early
after night fall it was ascertained a party of Ca
nales men were in a neighboring rancho. Lieut.
Home of Capt. Turner’s company, had the hon
or of advancing upon the party, and took ten
prisoners and some of Canalles baggage. Ca
nales had just left the rancho, arranging to make
his assault during the night. Our men had about
one hundred and twenty muskets and were on
duty -during the entire night. Lieut. Horne lias
the honor of being the first of the Georgia regi
ment who has caused Mexican Mood to flow.
One was killed, and of the wounded nothing is
certainly known. Not one of our men suffered
a bruise. All honor to the’ gallant Lieutenant.
I regret to state that Captain Turner’s health i
not good, but he has so tar recovered as to justify
the expectation that he will be here to-morrow.
THE NEW YORK ELECTION.
We invite the attention of our Democratic
readers to the words of cheering uttered by the
time-honored ar.d faithful editor of the “Union,”
who for more than forty years has battled tor the
glorious and undying principles upon which the
Democratic party builds, as upon a rock, its
hopes of permanent success, with a free and in
telligent people. They will he found to be in
unison with the feelings of every Democrat, who
is proud of the political faith to which he is at
tached and unshaken in his confidence of its ul
timate triumph.
The New York Whig party in wedding itself
to anti-Jvcntism lias sealed its own doom, and its
present triumph purchased by that unhappy coali
tion will turn tc? bitter ashes on its lips. The
battle was not fought on issues of National poli.
tics. We are told by an intelligent gentleman
from New Orleans, just from New York that one
half of the Whig members elect from the State of
New York are free trade men, and would not
vote to restore the tariff of 18i2. The remark
surprised us and we asked for an explanation.
His answer was short, but significant—“ Corn,”
said he, “is a dollar per bushel,” thereby giving
a key to unlock to the view the vast revolution
already effected in the agricultural world of this
Country by the triumph of Free Trade on both
sides of the Atlantic.
The more enlightened and law-abiding of the
Whigs of the North witness with displeasure and
disgust the triumph of anti-Rentism. They be
hold in it all that their own presses have denounc
ed in “ Loco-focoism,” as “ agrarianism,” “dis
organization” and “destructiveness” in their
worst forms. Nor are the Whig editors who
helped to produce the triumph satisfied with its
results. They begin already to foresee the recoil
which is to come. One of them says:
“The 2,500 additional that t lie anti-rent coali
tion has gained us, is not woitn the sacrifice of
the lieutenant governor, five members of Con
gress, and the sixteen members of assembly, that
would have certainly secured us the majority on
joir.t ballot in the legis'ature. I-f, now, Mr.
Young should die before his term is out—and his
health is anything but goetd—all the profits of
this coalition will be blasted by making Addison
Gardine., now lieutenant governor, the r-ov-
EH NOR.”
The following is the article from the “ Un
ion.” •
“THE BEGWSOG OP THE END.”
Under this caption, the Intelligencer of this
morning strikes the key note of the whig pceans,
which are rising throughout the country upon
the result of some of the recent elections, and
especially of that in- the State of New York.
The whig organ concludes “ that our President
and his cabinet are by this tune convinced that
they have forfeited the public confidence—that
is. the confidence of their own party ; that of
the other, they rover possessed.” We give a
very different explanation of the result ofthe
New York election, and, in due time, we may
take occasion to lay our views upon it, some
what in detail, before our readers. Meanwhile
we'mark, With some curiosity and interest, the
various forms of braggadocio which the whig
journals, in the first intoxication of a triumph
little hoped, and not long enduring, are parading
before us. We have learned by i xpenence the
value ot whig brags. They are mushroom
growth, and we know how suddenly they spring
up, and how surely they soon disappear. To
boast without scruple, to hope without stint, and
then to bear swift disappointment and defeat
meekly enough, if not in silence—all this be
lor gs to the whig character and the whig desti
ny. Tire “party of expedients” now and then
finds a brief run of luck in its favor, just asthe
gambler turns up a series of trumps for a short
while, before his marked cards are detected.
Less than two years will suffice to prove—what
the next biennial election in New York, will
completely demonstrate — that the “ expedients”
just resorted to by the-whigs in that State, have
l>een unusually desperate and suicidal.
We noti'-e the whig boastings now. therefore,
merely to stale that, m Washington at least,
they have in no whit shaken the matured, and
established confidence felt by the most prominent
men of the democratic party in the soundness and
strength of all its principles arid measures, and in
their ultimate triumph. From the i ecent ver
dicts of Pennsylvania end of New \ork, we Ap
peal with an assured trust to the “sober second
thought of the people !” The great democratic
measures which have been carried out by this
administration, are as yet, in their adaptation to
the present state of the country, untried. Ex
perience will, as we believe, surely commend
them to the public favor.
But while we believe as firmly as ever that the
cause of democracy in the country is safe now
and always, we are free to avow our deep regret
at the defeat of Mr. Wright. Nowhere is the
combination of circumstances, all of them ad
verse, and some of them infamous—circumstan
ces against which no man could have stood—
which have produced the temporary overthrow
ot that great statesman, more profoundly’ or n ore
universally lamented than at V\ ashington. But
there is at least one cons lation, apart even from
our assurance that the popular sentiment in New
York will soon come round again to the right.
It is, that defeat has impaired in no jot the estab
lished confidence of the democracy in the charac
ter and the abilities of Silas Wright. The base
elements which have banded themselves together
in short-lived harmony against him, have turned
even his momentary overthrow into an augury
of future triumph. We have observed in some
of the more utterly mendacious whig journals
suggestions unusually false even for those quar
ters, that Mr. W,’s defeat has not been altogether
unpleasing to some of the members of the admin
istration. The idea has no particle of truth, and
no color of probability. We undertake to say—
and we speak the fact as we know it—that Mr.
Wright carried with him, throughout his can
vass, the strong w ishes of the whole administra
tion for his success.
The Charleston Mercury lias the following,
upon the subject of the N. Y. election;
In such a rabble of questions—federal, state,
local and personal,—we look in vain for any de
cided expression of popular opinion on any one
point,—and in fact that w hich should have been
the greatest question—the character of the Con
gressional Delegation, was swallowed up by oth
ers, and hardly discussed at all in N. York city.
The Juurnul of Commerce has this remark up
on the subject.
“We have been asked whether there is any
thing in the results of the recent election which
indicates a dissatisfaction on the part of the peo
ple, at the adoption of the new Tariff. We re
ply as folows :
“Os the members of the New York delega
tion who voted for thcNew Tariff, only two were
candidates for rc-electien, viz: Maclay of this
city, and Wood of Albany. The former is re
elected by a handsome majority, notwithstand
ing he was opposed by a volunteer candidate of
Iris own party; ai.d the latter Mr. Wood, is de
feated in a district (Albany) which is inherent
ly Whig, and almost always gives a Whig ma
jority; and where also he had to contend with
the torrent of Anti-Rentism. We learn from
the Albany Argus that although he was put in
nomination scare ly a week before election, he
has a majority in that city, of 123; while for Go
vernor there is a Whig majority of 258; for Sen
ator, 490: for Sheriff, 116; for Clerk, 650. This
does not look like being left at home in conse
quence of his free trade principles.
“Os the New York friembers who voted a
gainst the new TariffbiH, eight were again can
didates; and of these, three have been superseded
by free trade men, viz: Seamen in the 2d
district, Miller in the 3d, and Campbell in the
6th. Four of the remaining five are Whigs, &
three of them reside in strong Whig districts.—
The eighth (a Democrat) has been left at home,
and a Whig substituted in his place.”
To shotv what confusion reigned in the elec
tion, as far as general politics are concerned, it
need only be stated that a Whig is chosen Go
vernor, a Democrat Lieut. Governor, and, as is
believed, a Whig and a Democrat, for Canal
Commissioners. ‘The ‘explanation is found in
the fact that these four successful candidates
were the nominees of the Anti-Rent Convention.
The following comparison of the vote in the
more notorious Anti-Rent counties, at the present
ent and the former election, will show decisive
an influence this new movement of radicalism
has exercised over the politics of New York.
1746. 1844.
Counties. Young. Wright. Clay. Polk.
Albany, 2900 293
Rensselaer, 1807 742
Columbia, 669 369
Greene, 100 520
Schoharie, 624 537
Ulster, 50 21
Delaware, 1500 1159
Sullivan, 204 225
7854 956 2810
1854 956
Whig gain in
these counties, 9708 1854
The difference is 11,562 votes.—or more than
equal to Young’s majority in the State.
The union of the Whigs and Anti-Renters
has also given two of the latter party to the Con
gressional Delegation, and the new doctrine that
every man has a light to as much of his neigh
bor’s property as he desires, will henceforth il
lustrate and diversify the Capitol. Truly New
York is a wonderful State.
TO MERCHANTS.
If there are merchants in this city who have
never considered the important element in suc
cessful trade, referred to in the following article
they will find it profitable to pause and reflect
upon it now. We have not a doubt of the truth
of the proposition intended to be proven. We
never knew a great and successful merchant who
did not acknowledge and act upon its truth.
Advertising. —lt is an’ indisputable fact,
says the New York Mirror, that persons who
advertise largely and judiciously, never fail to
make fortunes. Take the case of Dr. Brandreth,
for instance, who is now classed among our mil
lionaires. He made a simple pill and advertised
it—aiid as long as human nature is subject to ills
“ventral and subventral,” and as long as the
remedy is kept constantly before the people, it
will be the source of an immense income to the
proprietor.
Day <$- Martin got up a preparation for black
ing boots, a little better, perhaps, than anything
in the market, employed a poet to puff it, and in
a few years succeeded in establishing a fortune
almost without a parallel.
Dr. Sands's Sarsaparilla has built him houses
and stores, and a reputation that has travelled
round the world. Dr. Skerman lives artong the
“ upper ten,” and drives down to his lozenge
factory m his splendid carriage, drawn by a pair
of dashing greys. Dailey's Magical P'ain Ex
t actor is already worth to the proprietor half a
million of dollars. Now the money paid for
advertising in all these cases is about all the
capital invested ; and we are beginning to think
this is the only way to make a fortune. The
first thing is to get up an article of some intrinsic
value—and the next thing is to give it celebritv
through the newspapers. It matters not so
much what kind of merchandise a man deals in ;
all he has to do is to recommend Hto the public,
until the public is convinced that the article in
quest on is quite necessary to its comfort, and
even to its existence.
Oex. WAsaiMTOjr and Lord Erskixe.—
A volume was presented to General Washington,’
in 1797. by Thomas Lord Erskine, on a blank
page of which he wrote the following note, con
taining, perhaps, the happiest eufogium of the
many bestowed on that wonderful man.
* Sir:—l have taken the liberty to introduce
your august and immortal name in a short sen
tence which is to be found dn the book I send
you. I have a large acquaintance afnong the
most valuable and exalted class of men; but you
are the only human being for whom I have Icit
an awful reverere. I sincerely pray God to
grant a long and serene evening to a life so elo
riowslv devoted to the happiner£-of the world.’’
Correspondeuce of ths Ttmes.
No. 14.
Washington City, Nov. 10, IB4S.
For some weeks past I had anticipated the
defeat of Silas Wright. This became apparent
to those well versed in the local politics of New
York when it was discove-ed that the Whig par
ty were willing to adopt anti-Rentism as its creed
to secure anti-reri! support, and agaift, when saT
isfied of the utter impossibility of settling the
Barn-burner and Hunker squabbles before elec
tion day came round. The “Union” newspa
per of this morning publishes an analysis of the
vote in the anti-rent district which may be sum
med up in a few words ; as follows :
the eight anti-rent counties, the aggregate ma
jority for Polk in ’44, was 1854. Now, they
give a majority of 7854 for John Young, the
nominee of the anti-rent convention, who was
also the candidate of the Whigs. This shows an
anti-rent ‘Whig gain of 9708 in the eight couri.
ties. Now every man who will trouble himself
to think, must be struck with this question—
Did Young achieve this gain in the anti-rent
district, by and through the attachment of the an
ti-renters to “conservative” Whiggery? Or did
they rally around him as the nominee of their
own convention I
In crowing over this victory, the New York
Tribune places the fact that it is an anti-Rent
triumph in strong light; see what that paper
says of the result in the bloody town of the bloody
county of the infected district.
“OCj’Andks, Delaware Cos. was the scene of
the deplorable affray which resulted in the death
of Sheriff Steele last year. It was a Whig town
Os old, giving 265 to Clay to 131 for Polk. It
now gives 399 for Young—or, more than its
total cX any formed’ Election ! Will Governor
Wright-feel obliged to declare it again in a state of
insurreciiort 1 What saysthe Attorney General 1
that is, if iiis opinion does not cost too much.”
Silas Wright not only refused to patter to an
ti-rentism for the favor of its votaries, or victories,
as they will eventually prove, but bearing him
self proudly, he defied the worst efforts df the
abolition horde which concentrated on John
I Young,who was indeed the chief champion of
their universal negro suffrage clause submitted
for the decision of the people apart from the ques
tion of the adoption or rejection of the new con
stitution. Young not only openly votfed in fa
vor of this free negro suffrage amendment, but
exerted all his influence to induce the Whig
party throughout he State to come to its rescue.
However, it is rejected by an overwhelming ma
jority, and as a consequence, Federalism must
wait until the constitution of New York shall
again be revised to obtain the additional strength
which will accrue to it when the 15,000 disfran
chised free negroes in the State shall be permit
ted to vote in favor of Federal nominees for Con
gress and the Presidency. To <-’ra\v public at
tention, in the South, froih the efforts of Young
in behalf of negro suffrage, the National Intelli
gencer and other federal prints have lately repub
lished a letter written in 1838 by Addison Gar
diner, the Democratic Lt. Governor of the State,
in which he says that under the then existing,
circumstances, he saw no reason to object to the
extension of the right to vote to the Free Negroes.
But, hark you ! they are careful not to mention
the fact that, Now, Mr. Gardiner is as strong an
opponent of this clause as any man in New York.
Then, it was but a local question. Now, it is
broadly national. Then, the abolitionists were a
weak ar.d contemptible faction without reasona
ble hope of ever gaining strength, and a position
to do serious mischief—-to invade the constitution-,
al rights of southern States. Now, they vote
an hundted thousand strong, and dl Whiggery
in the non-slave holding States, to obtain thei.
favor, offer practically to adept the anti-s!aver\
issue as one of the principles of Whig organiza
tion from Maine to Texas ! Under these circum
stances, Mr. Gardifeer is as bitterly and actively
opposed to giving Free Negroes the right to vote
as any other man in the State. Every abolition
ist voted against him, and yet he is probably
elected. This is the result more especially, o!
the support afforded to him by the Democratic
party proper—Hunkers and Barn-Burners. Un
like Silas Wright, he was obnoxious to neither
wing of the Democracy. Mr. W.’i peculiar
friends are the Barn-burners, whose bitterness
towards the hunker.- has done much, not only to
defeat their leader, but also, those of our candi
dates for Congress who were unsuccessful. It
seemed as though both wings were completely
crazed with enmity towards each other, in mak
ing a selection of their recent nominees. For
whenever the Barn burners obtained a majorih
of the nominating conventions, they made can
didates of their men most obnoxious to the bun
kers, who of course returned the compliment in
other districts. Thus, the latter, to a man, not
only refused to vote for Mr. Wright hut threw |
away their votes for Congress when the nominet
was a barn burner, while the friends of Mr. V/.
threw away theirs, rather than aid in the election
of a hunker to Congress. Your readers will here
see how we came to elect so few members from
New York to the Hext Congress. On the whole
this result has satisfied all democrats in this cits
of two or three important fkcls. First—that the
Whigs cannot possibly carry the State of New
ork in 1848, unless they afford the anti-renters
the relief promised in the election of Young as
the late W big candidate. He must not only at
once open the prison doors of the anti-renters
convicted of murder, arson, &c., but the Whig
party in the legislature must cn masse, vote for
such relief law's as the anti-rent members (of
whom 11 are elected) choose to propose. Next
—an open and avowed sympathizer with anti
rentism must be the Whig nominee for president!
Now, the mass of conservative whiggery accepted
Young afc their candidate in the confident belief
that his anti rent pledges were hat intended to
catch the gulls. They supposed that he had no
more intention of carrying them out in practice,
than had Harrison going against a United States
bank when he gave his Cincinnatti pledge to
that effect. Indeed, they look on this anti rent
ism of Young as being a-kin to Clay’s devotion
to the principles of the compromise act, which
you will recollect he reiterated with such an air
of solemnity in the “Slashes of Hanover,” just
prior to the election of Harrison. If this new
Whig Governor of New York essays to play the
anti-renter, now that he is in oflicc, Whiggery,
proper, will surely desert him, as it deserted John
Tyler when he undertook to carry out Harrison’s
anti hank, and Clay’s anti protective pledges !
No man knowing ought of the efsentia! elements
of Federalism, can for an instant doubt this fact.
Then, again, the Whigs must succeed in keep
ing open the feud between the Barn-burners and
Hunkers, which not having any reference to
principles, but to men, will give them too” diffi
cult a task to perform to admit of the possibility
of success against the united effo’ ts of the lead
ers of both wings to heal the breach. Wright,
personally, is popular with the hunkers who in
this election opposed him only on account of his
opparcnt'idcntification with the ham burner:?. In
’44 tin* former sustained him with great (Mini
fy, and it is only since that contest that he has
rather leaned to the barn-burners. Already,
Measures are being devised by our friends in
New York to heal this difficulty. No sooner
did this election show them the depth of the split
and the danger, it threatened to Democratic as
cendency, than like men of sound principles, they
resolved to chine together again to fight the
common enemy.
Bin there is still another important task to Le
accomplished before the vote of New York can
possibly he thrown for a Whig presidential can
didate. The New York abolitionists must also
be induced to vote for him to adopt him as the
regular candidate of their convention, This,
they will not do, unless the Whigs en masse
adopt their sentiments. The Feds must become
Whig abolitionists, os arc the 91 members of the
late Whig convention of Massachusetts who
voted for the resolutions of Sumner, Charles
Francis Adams and Phillips, declaring that “the
primary object of Whig organization is to accom
plish the eradication of slavery hr the United
States.” They will not be content to sustain a
Whig nominee who is but an abolition \Vhig to
get their favor, will only go as far as the majority
of this Massachusetts convention tvent, in avow
ing that the principles of Whiggery were, in the
main, in unison with those of abolitionism ; and
that by identifying themselves with Whiggery
they might calculate eventually to make it work
out their purposes.
Although the course of the whigs towards the
abolitionists of late years has certainly inclined
the latter to joih forces ; it has also strengthened
and emboldened them to hope that in a short time
they will draw over all the Whigs of the North
to their faith. The abolition vote has at every
election been increasing and increasing, until they
already feel themselves almost as -dfrbfcg at the
north and east as whiggery proper. They wi 4
not, therefore, be coaxed to range under the
whig banner in the next contest unless the whigs
consent openly arid avowedly to incorporate the
abolition creed into the resolutions of their next
presidential nominating convention. If, count
ing on the attachment of the whigs ofKcntuckv,
Tennessee, Maryland, North Carolina Georgia
and Louisiana to federalism, they do essay to
adopt abolitionism, without disguise, they can
not carry one of the States I here name, or I know
little of my fellow citizens of the south and south
west. And if they lose them, a victory in N.
York will be barren indeed. As under existing
circumstances, Maryland, Kentucky, North Caro
lina and Tennessee arc of far more important
to them than New York with so slight a pros
pect of success there. 1 do not believe that
they will come square up to the demands of the
abolitionists, and therefore feel assured of the
vote of New York against their nominee in 1848,
be he who he may.
But euohgh of New York politics. Our re
cent reverses have warned us where harmony is
necessary, and where our principles must be ex
plained and enforced before the people. As yet,
we have never failed to act unanimously when
aware of its pressing necessity; nor have wo
omitted to organize and labor faithfully in behalf
of the principles of Thomas Jefferson whenever
the want of such organization and labor is knowh
before hand, as in this instance. The shoals
and rocks threatening the destruction of the good
ship Democracy, are now known to her pilots ’
and that they will successfully bring her safe to
the end of the voyage, is guaranteed in almost
every line of the history of parties from the date
of the first contest between John Adams and
Jefferson, to the ever memorable defeat of Clay
and special privilege in 1844.
We arejstill with out Washington news proper,
and not being disposed to fill your columns with
rumors, I shall refrain from repeating in this let
ter any of the thousand and one stories which
always flow about the bar rooms of the Metropolis.
Commodore Nicholson, a gallant old bachelor
seaman, died here on the night before last.—
Yesterday the volunteer companies buried the
bones of Col. Cross, with martial honors. You
will recollect he was the first American officer
killed in the fampaign, having been lassooed bj?
Roman Falcon, arancheroscamp. The remains
reached W ashington a few days ago, having
been brought from Brasos Sant lago- to Balti-
more by sea.
The K on. Messrs Roberts of Mississippi, and
R. M.T. Hunter of Va., are the only members
ol the House of Representatives at present in’
this city.
Col. Benton returned from Missouri two or
three days ago, locking fat and hearty. Bagby
of Ala. Wescott of Florida, and himself are the
only Senators now here.
The news by the Britannia is of importance on
this side of the Atlantic, as settling the question
that the present remarkable European demand
for American provisions is to continue. Prices
of produce of ai! kinds (including cotton) have
’already more than recovered their late decline,
which the Whigs had commenced to regard as
permanent. The repeal of both the English and
American tariffs has been followed by a few con
sequences which, though simple and natural,
were denied at first by the Whigs, who main
tained thatsuch results would not then be brought
about. They are—first—Higher prices for alt
the American farmer raises, and ten times as
great a foreign demand for the fruits of his la
bour as existed before these changes in the laws.
Next , an important increase in the price of
freights both inland and sea ward; from which
has sprung higher wages for seamen, steam-boat
men, canal boat-men, and in fact, for all whoso
labors ire required to speed produce from the in
terior to the coast, and from thence to distant
quarters of the world. This rise in the price of
freights, of course helps the ship building interest
which has already become one of the most im
portant in the country. All kinds of manufac
tures required by the masses except iron have
fallen in price ; and the price of iron keeps up
only because the admission of cheap American
provisions into England has so stimulated busi
ness that an unexpectedly large number of Kail
Roads arc about being constructed which wilf
require nearly all the iron that English manufac
tures can furnish for some years to come. The
manufacturers of New England, instead of clos
ing their establishments, are building additions
to them, the tarifl’ of 1846 to the contrary not
withstanding. They have wisely niade up their
minds that as the pe-.-ple will not legislate to af
ford them dividcntfyof 30 or 40 per ccn'. per an
num, they had better rest contented with a profit
ol from ten to fifteen per. cent, while at the
same time all other branches of business, agri
cultural, commercial; Arc., are prospering as
they have not prospered under the tariff of
1842. Instead of discharging laborers by thou
sands, their agents are scouring the New Eng
land villages and farm houses lor more operatives
at better wages!
This stfc te of things exists at the time being
beyond dispute. Docs it encourage the hope of
Federal politicians that the people can be soon’