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VI SIX.
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Nov. 30, 1547.
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Jan. 18, 1818.
Iztmmijmmmi 1
J. \V. PRASE,
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
At the olds-'a id, a few doors above Moody Grimes,
4* Cos. East side Broad Street ,
HAS jn<t rfffivcd a complete assortment
of Sehool, Classical, Law, Medical and
M*cellaneous works —Letter, Cap, Note and
Bill paper of every quality. Also, a good assort
ntent of BLANK BOOKS. With every other ar
ticle uama Ily kept in the business. All of which
will be sold on the most reasonable terms.
Columbus, Doc. 7, 1547. 60-3 m
~~ NEW BOOK STGRL
B. B. DrGKAFFCA'KIGD,
IS play'd to annonner to the citizens of
Coiun.bus and vicinity, that he has just open
ed a Store next door below Winter & Eppinur’s,
where he has on hand, and will be receiving, a
New and select assortment of
BOOK* ANl> STATION 13Rl r ;
among which may found School, Classical, Med
cal Law and Miscellaneous Works; a good as
sortment of ANNUALS and GIFT BOOKS; to
gether with Sunday School and Children’s Books
efalmost any kind and quality.
Numerous kinds of ENVELOPES; Fancy and
Note Paper; Printing; Visiting and Playing
CARDS : Bristol and Perforated Boards; Trans
pareal and Motto Wafers ; and all other articles
usually kept in a Book Store.
and persons wanting Libraries,
are invited to call and examine.
Columbus, Dec. 21, 1847. 52—3 m
COBB’S AWALYSXP AND FORMS
|>llfE £). For Mile by
J- b. b. dcgraffenrif:d.
Decembers], 1547. 52—3 m
COBB'S CC3SFXLATION OF LEGAL
FORDS.
1> MfE a rents. For sale bT
-I- B. B. DeGRAFFENRIED.
Decembers!, 1847. 52—3 m
JOB PRINTING,
Mnw and Ornamental ,
* liTl t FEOJtPLY EXECUTED AT THE
OFFICE OF
Columbus Cfrnrs.
Pamphlets, I Hand BiJ | #
Business Cards, | Way BiUs>
Y* 4 **!.*® I Circulars,
Ball Tickets, | Blank Notes,
!*'•** ?“* •**• in th ‘ ‘in* of business
CHEAP, and with Despatch .
828R51A AND ALABAMA BLANKS
m>SL SALE AT THIS OFFICE. ,
orijc Columbus Citues.
VOLUME VIII.
MERCANTILE.
nnLimmu
SADDLERY WARIOB,
At the sign of the Golden Saddle, next
door to Messrs. Hall A Moses, Bast side
Urosd Street.
AT HOME AGAIN.
WADS & MBDLEBROOK,
MANUFACTURERS OF
S ADDLES, I TKUNJCS,
BRIDLES, f * SADDLE BAGS,
HARNESS, 1 VALICBS, &c.
ave constantly on hand, a large assortment, and
are receiving every week from their own manu
j factory one of the largest and best assortments of
Gentlemen and Ladies Saddles, of every variety
of pattern, from the cheapest to the best, which
we are offering to sell lower than ever before of
fered in this market.
HARNESSES.
Coach, Barrouch, Buggy and Sulkey arness
es, of every style and quality.
WAGON HARNESSES.
Collars, a Has, IV l pi aaJ On/ arnesses
Carryal arness—some very cheap.
SADDLERS MATERIALS.
Saddle Tree Skirtings, og Skins, Pad do.,
Straining and Girt Web, and a large assortmentot
Saddlery, Coach and a rness ardware.
CARRIAGE TRIMMINGS.
Top and curtain Leather, Patent Dash do. Rub
ber Cloth, figured and plain; Patent curtain
cloth, Patent mole skin, broad and narrow Laces,
Silk and Worsted Fringes and Tassels, &c.
All of which we are offering very low.
OCr Persons wishing to purchase.any articles
in our line, would do well to call and examine
lour stock and prices before purchasing else
where. v
N. B. —Repairing in all its various Branches
done at the shortest notice and in the best man
ner.
WANTED, a lot of GOOD HARNESS
LEATHER.
Columbus, 23.1 October, 1817. 44-Gm
tCT REMOVAL. JJI
„KESRY KINS 4 SON,
fljf AVE mnovrd lo ths store recently occu-
JLJL pied by A. K. Ayer, a few doors above the
Bank of St. Marys, near the Post Office, where
they oiler for sale a good stock of
AND
OOME3TIG BRY-SOOBS,
consisting in part of the following articles :
Brown and Loaf Sugar, Young Hyson, Impe
rial, and Black Tea, Rio Coffee, Sperm Candles,
Soap, Poland Starch, Window Glass, White and
Bar Lead, Powder, Shot, Nails, Rectified and
Monongahela Whiskey, Hum, Gin, Brandy ; Ma
deira, Tenneriffe, Malaga and Port Wine.
Bleach and unbleached Sheeting and Shirting,
Prints, Kerseys, Blankets, Hats, Shoes, &c. &c.
low for cash, or approved paper.
Columbus, Oct. 5, 1547. 41—ts
WOODRUFF & WHITTELSEY.
HAVE just received from New York an ad
dition to their stock of
§ mm#
among which may be found Wide Black Gro de
Rhine, Silk, for Visittes, Cashmere Shawls, Cash
meres, Muslin de Laines, Orleans and Columbia
Plaids, and Fine Silk Hats, Shoes, &c., &c.
W. & W. will sell all their stock of Cashmeres
and Muslin de Laines, at from
Ten to Tift if per cent . below New’
York ( oat, f.r ( ash.
Now is the time, Ladies, to buy Dresses cheap.
Please call and examine for yourselves.
December 14, 1847. 51 —ts
GROCERY AND STAPLE
J, B. BKOOKS,
rs now opening at liis new Store on West
side Broad street, three doors below Hill,
Dawson & Cos., a
Wo 11 Soloctod Stork of Goods,
to which he invite s the attention of his friends,
and former customers.
He will also give liberal prices for COTTON
\n<I‘COUNTRY PRODUCE.
55* N. B.—Those indebted to the late firm of
•f; & J. Brooks, are requested to call and liqui
date their accounts, which are in the hands ofthe
undersigned. J. B. BROOKS.
December 28. 1547. I—ts1 —ts
OHGIGS GROGERIES.
r F I IIE Subscribers have received and ore now
JL opening, a fresh stock of Groceries, fine
Liquors, choice Brands of Cigars, &c., consisting
in part of the following :
BRANDIES, Otard, Dupuy & Co's.; French
and Cognac, American and Peach ; RUM, Jamai
ca, St. Croix, and New England ; GIN, Holland
and American; WHISKEY, Old Monongahela,
Irish, Scotch and Western; WINES, Madeira,
Port, Teneriffe, Malaga, Sherry and Claret; CI
GARS, of the following brands, to-wit: Byron,
Washington,Rionda's, Lei tad Claranda,Lanorma,
Amerilla, Congress, De ’ Cabana, Regalia and
Americana; SUGARS, Loaf, West India, and
New Orleans; Coffee, Tea, Soap, Lard, Butter,
Cheese, Candies, Powder and Shot. Besides a
general variety of
FAMILY GROCFRIFS.
In the rear of our establishment will be found
a genteel Reading Room for the mental, and re
freshments for the physical man.
CODE fc CRICHTON.
December 28, 1847. I—3m
\mw
GEO. A. NORRIS,
WOULD respfctfully announce to liis ens*
turners and the public generally, that he
is now receiving his t'ALJL S'JL'OCK of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
consisting in part of RIC DRESS GOODS, in
great variety, RIC LACE CAPES, and Laces of
every style; BONNETS, AT S, CAPS, BOOTS,
and S CES; BLANKETS, KF.ARSEYS, KEN
TUCKY JEANS, SATINETS, FLANNELS,
&c., together with almost every article kept in
a Dry Goods Store, which he is selling on the
most favorable terms. Please give us an early
cal).
Oct. 5, 1847. 41—ts
UMBRELLAS,
PARASOLS, PARASOLETTES,
AND
WAIKINB SANA UMBRELLAS.
W. H. RICHARDSON’S
Steam Factory, the only one in the United States,
Xo. 104. Market Street, Philadelphig.
Merchants are respectfully informed that I con
tinue to manufacture all the above goods, by the
aid of steam, notwithstanding the great opposi
, tion of parties opposed toßhe introduction of ex
pensive improvements. My assortment is com-
I plete, and prices so low, as to give entire satis
iaction-
53rAs there is an Umbrella Store next door, of
nearly the same name, it is important you should
remember
WM. H. RICHARDSON,
Steam Factory, and Patentee ofthe Walking
’ Cane Umbrella,
Sign ofthe Lady and Eagle, No. 104 Market
Street, — Philadelphia.
Feb. Sth 1848 7 “3t
POLITICAL.
[From the Washington Union.]
THE VOICE OP THE EMPIRE CITY.
IMMENSE RALLY TO SUSTAIN THE
WAR AND THE CAUSE OF THE
COUNTRY.
Wegive op a large space in our columns this
evening to the impressive and most cheering pro*
ceedings of the great War Meeting which has
just taken place in the city of New York. In
view ofthe present crisis of the country, and of
the present position of the democratic party in—
New York, we regard this almost unpreceden
ted demonstration of the enthusiasm and unan
imty of the people in favor of the policy pursued
and recommended by the administration in re
lation to the war, as-an event at once the most
important and auspicious which has occurred of
late in the politics of the country. The spirit of
the occasion cannot be better described than in
the following passages from an introductory arti
ticle upon the subject in the N. Y. Globe: “Nev
er,” says that journal, “have we witnessed with
in the walls otOld Tammany a more numerous
assemblage than that which convened on Satur
day evening last. Among the thousands who
assembled there, but one feeling prevailed; and
that was an enthusiastic determination to sus
tain the administration in the proscution of the
war until an honorable peace is obtained. This
meeting will diffuse joy and gladness throughout
the Union, h was one of the most harmonious
political assemblages we ever saw. Our whig
opponents confidently relied upon disturbance.
The perfect harmony and cordiality that existed
! throughout the entire proceedings astonished
them, as well as some few in our own party,—
who would have preferred to have had a division
among democrats on this important occaion.—
One thing is now certain—the democracy of this
great commercial emporium are determined to
sustain the cause of our country in the war in
which she is engaged.
There was uo mock support of the war, or hy
pocritical enthusiasm manifested within the old
democratic temple on Saturday evening last.—
Whoever attended there, is convinced tlfbt sin
cerity in the support of our country’s cause, and
a deep devotion to her honor, were marked upon
every brow in that vast assemblage. Each coun
tenance was lit with enthusiasm, and each eye
beamed with glory, when the various speakers
concluded their patriotic remarks. Let us re
mark, now, that he who supposes ihere is any
material ditlerence of opinion among our city
democracy, on the question of sustaining the ad
ministration in a vigorous prosecution of the
war, with a view to a speedy and honorable
peace, must be deranged. And, bear in mind,
it must be a peace bringing with it full indemni
ty.”
In addition to all this, we can, lor ourselves,
undertake to slate, with th<* confidence derived
from an ample opportunity of information, that
no small part ofthe vast auditory thus assemb
led in Tammany Hall was made up of a class of
men not usually found at political meetings in
our large cities. It is that (he most
able and active politicians of the democratic par
ty in New York, took the movement vigorously
in hand, and showed at once, by the energy, the
prudence, anu the noble conciliatory spirit of all
their arrangements, that they were thoroughly
in earnest in their good work. Yet the meeting
washy no means, in its mass, an assemblage ol
those who make political activity a habit of their
lives. Grayhaired men were there in numbers,who
have long since retired from ihe ordinary con
tests of the political arena. Quiet and substan
tial citizens were there by hundreds and by thou
sands, who are hardly known as partisans, other
wise than by their votes, and who now came
foward to take place in a great party dem
onstration, because, upon this occasion, the spir
it of party most manifestly, and in the sight of
all men, identified itself completely with the
maintenance of the highest and most capital in
terests ofthe country. The meeting was made
up of the very brain and body of the people,
together with one mighty impulse in a crisis and
in a cause which imperatively demanded that the
people in their power should rise up and speak—
that the whole popular heart, as it beats strong
and high with love of country in the great me
tropolis where the wealth, and the revenue, and
the industry ofthe na'ion find their centre, should
now make its throbbinga heard through the
length and breadth of cur land.
“ANIMAL. MAGNETISM.”
Mr. Clay seems to have thrown “the fluid”
with wonde.rful effect upon the Whig correspon
dent ofthe New York Tribune, who thus des
cribes the meeting of Messrs. Clay and Adams
in a social re-union at the house of the laiter.
We quote it as a specimen of the grossest adula
tion. Let the Whigs talk no more of the “one
uian-power.”—The kissing scene is a “rich”
specimen of electioneering \ At this game, Mr.
Clay can distance “Old Zac.” We have never
seen any thing in the American press more ful
some or more rediculous than the follow
ing:
“It was worth a journey from the limits of the
Confederation to its centre to see the meeting ol
these two great and patriotic Statemesn. Alter
saluting Mr. Adams, Mr. Clay turned round to
be greeted by the kindled glance of a hundred
eyes, as bright as his own dazzling fame. For
every one he had a pleasant word and a kindly
recognition : for, above all men, when in ladies’
society, he has
“That easy humor, blossoming
Like the thousand flowers of Spring,.”
How wildly and intensely ail who see him
love him ! It is not respect alone;it is not sole
ly esteem ; it is not admiration only, with which
Mr. Clay inspires those who come within the
magic circle of his presence. It is love —deep,
devoted, enduring fore. ‘There is none of that
homage now statedly practiced at the White
House, where “thrift may follow fawning.” It
is the true loyalty of a People’s love for him who
has been too great to be hitherto President.
“The knee if forced had been better unbent.”
See there he presses with the affection of a fa
ther and the devotion of a lover, the hand ol a
fair n presentative of Massachusetts; there, too,
he lays his hand upon her head, as if he would
bless a fair representative of the Whig “star that
never sets.” How kindly he meets the flash of
those bright bluek eyes, from the gallant Whig
State cfNew Jersey, New York City, Uti
ca, Philadelphia, Elizabethtown, Morristown,
Springfield, Washington. What a beautiful
bouquet of the rarest flowers have these combin
ed to night for the delight and admiration of
HiitßYCLir. One lady has just taken off
her white glove because it was pressed by the
hand ofHF..\’KT Cliy, and no other hand shall
ever press it again. It is sacred to that patriotic
grasp. Nor indeed has the hand ol beauty been
the only thing pressed to night; for lips which
might have wc an angel’s kiss, have fell them
selves too highly honored in being pressed by
his. This may almost appear like trifling; yet it
is true;nd marks the deep devotion of the more
patriotic sex for the g'eat Patriot and States
man. What a legacy Mr. Clay could bestow if
he could only bequeath those lips of bis! But
I dare nut trust myself to say more on this sub
ject:’
Gejt. Houston. —At the immense war meet
ing in New-York, Gen. Houston pronounced a
beautiful eulogy on Gen, Jackson; in which he
gave the lie to the assertion that Geo.. Jackson
instigated him (Gen. Houston) to create a rebel
lious spirit in Texas. Gen. Jackson never cor
responded with him upon that subject until Tex
as was free. It wr s mentioned in Europe and
America, but was false and unfounded.
THE UNION OP THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OP THE STATES*
COLUMBUS, GA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1848.
From the Washington Union.
Efforts have been made by the members of
Congress from several States, to procure the
recall of the fragments of volunteer regiments
from douth Carolina, Pennsylvania, &c. The
administration would probably gratify these ap
plicants, if the troops could be spared from the
service. But we have not men enough in Mex
ico and, until the ten regiments are granted,
these volunteers can scarcely be discharged. The
bill is still pending. Two months of the session
have now passed away, and not a regiment has
i>een authorized to be raised. The signs, indeed,
are against its passage at all. The whigsappear
to be organized and determined tu refuse the
supplies of more men to the army. Membeis
who came here with liberal hearts and open hands
to grant the administration everything which
they wanted, have received the magnetic touch,
and all is changed! We repeat, the people
must rise up in the majesty of their strength,
and speak in thunder to their represntatives.
Analyze the present House of Representatives,
and see how dagrantiy the people are misrepre
sented. Look at Pennsylvania, and see six or
eight of her democratic districts represented by
whigs. The majority of these districts are in fa
vor of a vigorous prosecution of the war until
wc obtain an early and honorable peace ; but
their repesentativesjrefuse obedience to their wish
es, under the factious behests of an infatuated
party. Look at Virginia. Who can believe,
for one moment, that Mr. who has slip
ped into the House between two democratic can
didates, with a majority of near 1,500 against
him, is representing the patriotic democratic dis
trict of Little Tennessee 1 Who believes that
Mr. Flournoy, when he votes against supplies,
is representing the democratic district of Halifax,
with near 500 majority ! or that Mr. Preston or
Mr. Goggin are responding to the wishes of their
constituents 1
We repeat, that the people must speak out,
and carry their remonstrances to Congress. We
are aware that the whigs will rue their infatua
tion when the day of settlement comes in No
vember next. The polls atthe presidential elec
tion will express the indignant voice ofthe peo
ple against those who desert the rights of their
country. They are giving us the vantage ground
in that contest; but we go for the country first,
for our party next. We decline every advan
tage to our party which is at the expense of our
country. If the people will but speak out noiv
—if they will thunder in their servant’s ears that
they will vote for no man os President of the
United States whose friends desert our honor at
the moment of trial— then they may be brought
to their senses, and supplies for carrying on an
honorable war to an honorable peace may he vo
ted. Otl e wise, wc are cor staincd to express
our fears that our glorious banners will have to
be trailed in the dust, whilst our troops retreat
from the country which they have conquered,
without any indemnity for the past or security
for the future. In that case, these vainglorious
Mexicans will again take courage to boast that
they have driven us out of their land ; and new
aggressions and further wars may spring from
our inglorious abandonment of all that we have
gained and all that we have claimed.
From the Savannah Georgian.
“ SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.”
This is the term applied by many of the prom
inent Whig Journals at the North .to the move
ment in favor of General Taylor for the Presi
dency. We remarked yesterday that as yet no
demonstration had been made in New England
of a disposition by the Whigs in that quarter of
the.country to go into the support of old ‘Rough
and Ready.” Nay, so general has been the de
nunciation of the idea in that and some other
portions ofthe North, so unkind the language of
tho Whig Journals to the old hero, that the Dem
ocrats have been called upon to enter the lists in
his defence. How ridiculous in Mr. Cabell to
assert, how silly in Southern Whigs to believe
that a majority of their party at the North is in
favor of “a Southern man (General Taylor ol
course,) for the Presidency,” when a promi
nent Whig Journal makes such a showing as
follows:
Spontaneous Combustion. —lt may have es
caped the attention of calculating politicians who
are already examining the Blue Book, “ calm
as a summer’s morning,” in the confident ex
pectation of a “ Rough and Ready ” result ol
the ensuing Presidential election, that there are
certain parts of the country which have not
yet exhibited signs of “ spontaneous combus
tion.”
Thus, while we observe States of a hopeless
character as to Whig prospects, such as Missis
sippi, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Il
linois and Virginia, coining out for Gen. Tay
lor, and Whig States with Loco Foco Gover
nors such as Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland
and Florida, following a similar course, we
look in vain for these indications among those
great States which possess a controlling influ
ence in a National Convention and the election
of a President. In the great States of N. York
and Pennsylvania, there have been no important
“ Rough and Ready” movements of the great
commercial cities. We therefore class them with
the States not yet committed to any kind of
“spontaneous combustion,” particularly if such
combustion should lead to a destruction of the
Whig party. Here then is a list of States which
will prefer a regular Whig nomination by a Na
tional Convention, to “ spontaneous combus
tion :
Electoral votes.
Maine, 9
New Hampshire, 6
Vermont, 6
Massachusetts, 12
Rhode Island, 4
Connecticut, 6
New York, 36
New Jersey, 7
Pennsylvania, 26
Ohio, 23
Total, 135
This list we might extend, but it is enough to
show where the main strength ofthe Whig party
proper lies, uninfluenced by questions favorable
to the war with Mexico, or any other issue tend
ing to destroy the identity of the Whig party.
[New York Express, 22 d inst.
F rem the Vincennes San, Jan 22-
The following extract is taken from the speech
of the Hon. Mr. McClernand, of Illinois, in the
lower house of Congress, vindicating the admin
istration. It will make its mark wherever
read.
This quotation, Mr. Chairman, closes my has
ty, and I fear, very imperfect sketch of the inter
nal or domestic policy of Mr. Polk’s administra
tion ; my vindication of tile model President—
the man who has conducted on eof the most bril
liant wars of any age—who has effected the
greatest state reforms of modern times— who,
unambitious and uuaspiring, rose upon the spon
tanous suffrages of his countrymen to the high
est civil station on earth, in which he stands
forth the faithful reflex of their sentiments and
opinions, and the admired representative of a
great nation. Yes, sir, all this, and more, has
been achieved under the auspices of Mr. Polk’s
administration; upon which we, his friends,ten
der you, his opponents, the issues offered by
great principles. Wilierou meet these issues?—
We challenge you to meet them. If yon are
sti.l tor a national bank, a restructive tariff, dis
tribution. schemes of infernal improvement, et
alia enorma of federalism ;if you would still
pursue a policy which must unavoidably make
the rich richer and the poor poorer—-whic h must
dangerously strengthen this government, Bt the
expense of the State am! the people— say so.—
But do not skulk behind a military chieftain, nor
seek to shield yourselves by a temporary excite*
mentor prejudice, which when passed away,
must leave you suuk still deeper in the mire of
your political sins.
Yes, sir, under Mr. Polk’s administration, the
column to democracy has been completed. Ba
sed upon truth, crowned with victory, inscribed
with “equal rights,” “tree trade,” “cheap lands,”
“constitutional treasury,” “hard money,” and
the “onward march of liberty,” it will ever stand
one imperishable monument of the fame of its ar
chitect and the glory of the republic.
But what, sir, have our opponents done in the
mean time X Without recurring to the past, I
will speek only of the present. We know you
voted that Mexico commenced the present war
by her aggressions. We know you voted to place
the army and navy of the United Slates
COO volunteers and $10,000,000 at the disposal of
the President, to wage this war on our part.—
And we know that you have now turned round
and voted that this same war was not commen
ced by Mexico, but unnecessarily and unconsti
tutionally by President Polk. We also know
that southern pro-slavery men and northern an
ti-slavery men, of the same political party, have
united in electing our worthv and distinguished
speaker, who, in moving the exclusion of slavery
from Oregon, where it could not exis 1 ., introdu
ced and provoked the agitation of the principle
of the Wilmot proviso, for which he should be
held responsible, or applauded, according to the
judgment of a patriotic people.
CONGRESSIONAL DIGNITY.
The ultra whigs are doing all that lies in their
power to render their country as ridiculous as
they have rendered themselves. Their votes af
firming that war existed “by the act of Mexico”
—furnishing men andmoney to the fullest extent
for its prosecution—seeking to make one of the
heroes of the war their candidate for president,
and them declaring that they lied in thns voting
and that the war was unnecessarily and uncon
stitutionally commenced, places them in that
asburd position where their blind party rancor
and reckless ambition have so often led them.
Their iast effort to embarrass the administra
tion and to browbeat the executive branch of the
government into a tame submission to their will
unmindful of consequences to the country, is an
impudent attempt at the exercise of dictatorial
power, at the hazard of the interests and honor
of the nation, and directly insulting to a co-ordi
nate branch of the government—a branch which
is more directly the representative of the people
than either of the other branches. These sapi
ent whigs, on the floor of congress, speak of the
executive branch of the government in the most
indecorous terms—they hesitate net to accuse
the president of falsehood, treachery, and every
offence disgraceful to a public officer—they adopt
resolutions ordering him to do this and that and
because, in extreme cases, he exercises the dis
cretionary power placed in him by the constitu
tion, and follows the wise course adopted by the
immortal Washington under similar circumstan
ces, and refuses tu endanger the interests of the
country and to violate its honor meiely to eater
to the low design of party hacks, a great hue
and cry is raised at his “assumption,” and Mr,
Schcnck thinks it is time for the representatives
of the people to assert their rights, and to refuse
to acknowledge Mr Polk as their master ! Let
us tell Mr. Schenck and his co-laborers that Mr.
Polk is as much the representative of the people
as the members ofcongress—that he was placed
in the presidential chair by the votes of the peo
pie of the whole Union, and that the gross and
uujustifiable insults offered to the president by
members of congress are insults offered to the
whole people, through their immediate represen
tative in the government. We think it is time
to know whether, one branch of the government
is to be sustained in gross and blackguard abuse
of a co-ordinate branch,and in the nse of a tone
of insolent command over it—or whether the
constitution is to be regarded, and each branch
protected in the exercise of its legimate power.
It is the congressional branch that is attempting
to coerce, intimidate, nullify and enslave the exe
cutive branch—to destroy the balance of power
provided for in our great charter of liberties.—
The people cannot be hoodwinked by the vi
olence, arrogance and falsehood of the whigs up
on the floor of congress, and will watch that—
branch of the government as jealously as they
will watch the other branches.
The dignity of Mr Schenck and his associa
tes is very sensitive in their intercourse with the
president : but we remember when Nicholas
Biddle, the president of a creature of congress,
openly defied the action of congress, and refused
to allow a committee sent to Philadelphia to ex
amine the books of the “United States Bank”
access to said books ! The same class of poli
ticians that now talk about knowing who is to
be “master,” &c.,tamely ignominiously submit
ted to the gross contumely of King Nicholas,and
John Qumcy Adams and Edward Everett, who
were members of that comtni-tee, bowed to the
arrogance of the bank president with all the
meekness of lambs. Here was a time when the
rights and dignity of congress were outraged by
one of its creatures, yet it allowed “the great fi
nancier,” whose largesses covered its floor, to
pluck its beard and snap his fingers in defiance
ofits authority, without even asking who was
master , —but tho question was not necessary—
it was too evident Who was master. — [Boston
Post.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
THE WHIGS—WHAT ARE THEIR
principles;
The feud now raging between the Clay and
Taylor wings of the Whig party is causing
some curious confessions. We find the follow
ing from the Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Courier % Enquirer.
“There is a very general feeling abroad, that
the state of the country, and consequently the
state of parties, has very greatly changed within
a few years past. The old issues which in 1848
and 1844 divided the country have been entire
ly swamped by the new and momentuous ques
tion growing out of the Mexican war.—lt can
not be justly said that the country is divided as
to the expediency of creating a national bank
—as to the necessity of a higher tariff, or on the
question of distributing the proceeds, of the pub
lic lands. All parties tacitly agreed to let these
matters alone. The present tariff works well
enough—a bank nobody wants :—and the land
distribution, however ju6t, is out of the question.”
This is nothing more nor less than a trium
phant testimonial to the wisdom and correctness
of Democratic policy. It is an impressive rebuke
to the party that so loudly proclaimed the virtues
of a National Bank, and the justice of a protec
tive tariff. They poured forth fiery denuncia
tions against those who would dare to lay hands
upon their tariff of 1842, fraught with such un
numbered blessings, and predicted the most dis
astrous results as the certain fruits of the present
tariff. As for a National Bank, it is not only
admitted that “a bank, nobody wants,” bat it is
consigned by the highest Whig authority to ob
livion as “an obsolete idea.” The distribution
ot the public land sales among the States, one
in the series of great Whig measures, is also
given up as out of the question—and, qttere, the
veto power l Have they concluded not to touch
that!
Let us respectfully inquire, then, what meas
ures are the Whigs contending for ‘k—What prin
ciples of domestic policy do they seek to carry
out ? It would seem that they are convinced
’ that the Democrats were right, and they wrong in
ihe leading questions of revenue aud of finance.
The Wbigs no longer find fault—no longer
suggest a different policy.
On what ground then do they claim a efaauge
NUMBER 9.
of administration X “New and momentous ques
tions growing out of the Mexican war,” it will
be replied, furnish ground for a change of admin
istration. But are the Whigs agreed upon any
policy among themselves t When their nation
al convention meets, will it set forth the princi
ples and policy which the Whig party of the
country is prepared to anite upon and to i arry in
to effect, in the event of hstriamph in the Pres
idential canvass now at hand !
We hardly think that convention will do any
such thing. The Whigs have not agreed, anil
cannot agree upon any such settled line of poli
cy—or any fundamental principles.
Will the convention recommed a peace with
Mexico without indemnity 1 It dare not take
that step.
Will it recommend the acquisition of territory
as a sine qua non of peace 1 The party is di
vided on that, and therefore this will not be
done.
Will it assert that the Wilmot Proviso princi
ple shall he applied to all territory acquired, or
hereafter to be acquired from Mexico! This
will not l*e done, because the Southern Whigs
and the Northern Whigs are at'‘daggers drawn”
on this point—all the Northern Whigs without
exception being Wilmot Provisoes, and, (it is
hoped.) all the Southern Whigs without excep
tion. being Anti-Wilmot Provisoists.
Will the convention recommend the absolute
withdrawal of our troops from Mexico, and total
abandonment of our conquests X This they will
not—dare not do. Such a proposition has been
tested, in the House of Representatives. It got
a respectable vote among the Whigs, and notone
vote amng the Democrats. But that vote show
ed that on this question also the Whigs were di
vided.
Will the convention recommand a defensive
line to be taken and defi ruled, and our troops
withdrawn from the rest of the conquered coun
tryl On this also the Whigs are distracted and
divided. They cannot unite upon any plan-
Consequently the convention can recommend
none.
Having then abandoned the old issues of 1848,
and 1844, and being torn into factions and di
visions on the new questions growing out of the
Mexican war; there is no principle of cohesion
for the Whigs, except the cohesive power of
public office. The desire to get into power will
be with them the only principle of union. Oppo
sition to the administration-opposition to the war,
and sympathy for oppresed and injured Mex
ico is the only broad feature of similarity which
seems to offer the Whigs a common platform
for marshaling their strength; and even here,
when the test is put to the public, thousands and
tens of thousands of patriotic citizens who have
hitherto voted with the AVhigs will bo found vot
ing on tho side of Democracy and their coun
try-
We cannot see, under the present aspect of
the case, how the nominee of the Whig Nation
al Convention can stand any chance for an elec
tion. That there will be such a convention, and
that it will put torth a candidate, there can now
be no doubt.
From the N. O. Delta.
VERY ELOQUENT.
In the aiddress delivered by Mr. Senator Dick
inson, before the “Jackson Democratic Associa
tion of Washington City,” on the occasion of the
recent, celebration of the Glorious Eighth, in Jack
son Hall, occur the lollowing passages, which
should be remembered by all. They are truth
and history, glowing in the words of eloquence.
R.
“But the triumphs of democracy were not des
tined to be arrested at this point. From the na
ture of the several municipal and governmental
institutions of Europe, privileged classes were
established, recognized and protected—the inter
ests of the favored lew Were constantly and pain
fully in collision with those of the great mass of
the people—overgrown wealth and boundless
rapacity had concentrated themselves in institu
tions from whence they were able, at will, to con
trol the commerce and the industry of the nation,
to overawe itslegislatisn, and to cripple and par
alyze all its energies. The result of this system
was (he building up of an enormous fabric of
external prosperity and wealth, at the expense
of all that was intrinsically valuable in the civil
and social polity. Looking at Great Britain as
the most splendid and perfect embodiment of the
aristocratic principle, we find a strong and pow
erful government, supported by a long line of
hereditary counsellors, and surrounded by all the
elements of civil and military greatness. Yet,
when we come to view the people, for whose sole
benefit this gorgeous pageant ot king, lords and
commons should exist, how mournful and degra
ding ip the spectacle ! Destitute of all power,
of all influence—deprived of every incentive to
exertion beyond such as is absolutely requisite
to the sustentation of life—compelled to toil all
their lives long, that a few individuals may riot
in luxury, and transmit their honors and their
wealth to a still more worthless and impotent
posterity-—the toiling millions of the “Sea-girt
Isle” are crushed to the earth with a burden
which they can neither shake off nor carry.—
What is it to them that Her Majesty the Queen
and his Royal Highness the Prince, and the star
red and gartered nobility of the realm, are ena
bled to wield the truncheon of command—to
secure the “balance of power” on the continent
—to keep in check Louis Philiippe, subsidize the
Elector Palatinate, cozen the Emperor of Austria
beard the Russian “lion in his den,” and rule
With despotic authority over hundreds of millions
ot crouching slaves in the torrid zone! What
is it to them that the iron vaults of the Bank of
England overflow with gold and silver—that her
lordly Board of Directors, in their magnificent
parlor, contract at pleasare, and expand, the sin
ews of wealth—or that Liverpool, and Birming
ham, and Manchester, are enabled to supply the
world with the manufactured products of their
industry ! The throne, the nobility, the coun
cil chamber, the bank, the manufactory—ail are
alike beyond their reach ; and not even a solitary
reflected ray beams upon thir desolate abodes
from these “chambers of imagery.” The with
ering, nopeless blight of exclusive privileges, ex
clusive legislation, splendid governments, has
lodg since, snd most effectually, dried up all the
springs of their prosperity, happiness and welfare.
Existence—a scanty, meagre, suffering, toiling
existence—is the sole boon left to them; and
when we have said that by no possibility short
of absolute famine or desolating pestilence could
their condition be made more hopeless, more de
grading, more utterly impotent and imbecile, than
it has been rendered by. a series of governmental
measures, based upon aristocratic institutions, we
have pronounced a verdict upon those institutions
and their results which ail coming time will ratify
and approve.
And yet, had the representatives of the people
of the United States followed the counsels of the
eminent leaders of the federal party, in the con
vention that framed the Constitution, our institu
tions would have been modeled upon those, the i
legitimate workings of which stand out in such ,
bold relief upon the page of history and the records ,
of experience. And mso far as we have listen- |
eJ to the suggestions of this policy—in so far as
we have adopted and engrafted upon our legisla
tion and our political economy, the theories of th< ,
European school, to that extent have we retro
graded as a nation from the primitive simplicitv
of our free institutions. When disregarding the I
monitory lessons of centuries of feudal oppression, i
aristocratic and oppressive privileges, and partial i
legislation—overlooking the manifest advantages, ;
responsibilities and duties of our position as a free ]
republic, uncommitted to any one of the baseless (
fabrications of an ignorant age, and untrammel
led by any ofcits restrictions, we deliberately In- 1
copporated into our statute bock the principle of ■
a protective and discriminating tariff—discrimi- i
■ating ia favor of • particular interest, and ui*Q
ifesfly designed to buiid up that. interests tike
expense of every other—we then and there Hid
the foundation of a series of legislation at varianoe
with the most firmly established principles of a
sound political economy—repugnant to the high'-
est interests of the commonwealth—subversive
of that confidence in the paternal justice of the
government which should form the corner stone
of every political fabric—and fraught with the
most disastrous consequences to the prosperity
of all Claeses, including those for whose special
and exclusive benefit this important measure was
primarily designed ; and it required half a centu
ry of earnest and perserving effort on the part of
the democracy of the coimtry, to bring back the
vessel of state-to its true moorings, on this point.
Among the signal triumphs of that democracy,
none has been more dearly purchased, or more
unwillingly and reluctantly yielded, than th s.—
Interests of vast magnitude and undoubted impor
tance were combined and concentrated in oppo
sition to the dictates of the profoundest political
wisdom; the sound, uncorrupted sense of the
country was denied utterance by the unintennit
ted clamor of “vested rights” and overgrown char
tered privileges—the lowest passions of the mul
titude were appealed to, national pride and na
tional interest were thrown into the
the boldest statesmen quailed before the formida
ble array which the advocates of “protection'*
marshalled to the defence of their great idol.——
The daring inconoclast, however, has appeared p
and the flag of democracy floats at length, proudly
and gracefully over the last entrenchments of th*-
“protective policy.” Great Britain and America
simultaneously led the attack, and a “crowning,
victory,” more lasting in its consequences than
that of Waterloo, or even New Orleans, ha*
! sounded the death knell of restrictive legislation.
Long, too, and strenuous, was the resistance
which that overshadowing monopoly, the late-
Bank of the United States, interposed to the pro
gress of democratic principles; and to no will lea*
indomitable, to no energies less powerful, to no
influence less commanding, than that of the He
ro of New Orleans, the chosen standardboarer of
the democratic legions, could its fierce front bo
made to quail, in its hour of pride and strength.
Wielding at its sovereign will and pleasure th*
vast revenues of the Republic—exercising despo
tic sway over its tributaries, dispersed in every
portion of the Union—concentrating within it
self the immense pecuniary resources of our
great capitals—and swaying, t its option, th*
energy and enterprise of the whole community
—it might well assume to set at defiance the
clearest expressions of the public will and laugh
to scorn the anathemas of its crushed and help
less victims. Not more firmly seated on his re
gal throne was the Emperor Napoleon, when
in his pride of power and of place, he distributed
thrones, and principalities, and kingdoms, among
his obsequious followers, and “dared • world in
arms,” than the Emperor Nicholas, when the
first blast of (he trumpet of i’e nocraey summon
ed him to surrender the keys of the golden for
tress of his strength. Not more astounding te
the ears of awed and trembling Europe, was the
intelligence of the overwhelming rout of Water*
100, than to the expectant hosts of democracy
was (he clarion peal of victory which announced
the fall of the Bank of United States—-the final
demolition of that toweling engine of oppression,
which, for so many years, had crushed its heca
tombs of victims, and had even dared to measure
its fearful strength with that of the government
and people of the Union itself. Not more mourn
ful and instructive was the gloomy termination
of the brillant and meteoric career of the great
conqueror of Europe, than the falling of the cur
tain at the close of that exciting drama which
had been enacted before the American people,
during the eventful administration: of the patriot
Jackson. Posterity will do ample justice to the
origin, progress, and termination of this great
contest, which everthrew this dragon of federal
ism, and terminated in separating the revenue*
of the government from the business of the coun
try, by a constitutional treasury. And the im
partial pen of History will record the victory
thus achieved, under circumstances of unparallel
ed difficulty, as one of the noblest triumphs of
dem< cratic principle. All honor to him who
bared his noble breast fearlessly to the encoun
ter—whom neither flattery nor intimidation—
neither false friends nor vindictive enemies—nei
ther calumny, nor vituperation, nor violence—
could induce, for one moment, to waver from th*
path he had determined to pursue.
From the John Donkey.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXICO.
IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIL.
We have the following extract for our na
ilers (transmitted by telegraph) fromanable anil
influential Mexican journal, of the of De
cember Ist. Our famous countrymen will no
doubt be gratified by the proper appreciation of
their services, shown by the Mexican wri
ter.
F rotn La Union de Mejico.
We have always censured the strain of invec
tive in which many of our cotemporaies indulge
against the North American cnnfedeiation (fedt
ruciun). Unjust as is this war now waged a
gainst our magnanimous nation, brutally as it
has been conducted, we should not forget that
the Mexican people have many sympathizers in
the North. To come, however, to facts.
Our readers have long been aware that a growl
( grilo ) of much importance has been heard
throughout a'll the northern republic ( republi•
cano del norte). This finally has subsided into
an absolute attack on the government (pronun
eiamento,) the Statesman (gefe de provincia) of
Ky. havmg, at an early day of the past month,
placed himself at the head of the valiant riflemen
( \riJleros ) and pronounced against the actual
president. For this very decided act, Don Ex
mco Clay deserves well of all humanity; and
may almost be said to have earned a right to
stand by the side of that well deserving (buen
meriio) of Mejico, the illustrious Don Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna.
Nor do we end here in the catalogue of the in
testine troubles of our hostile neighbor, which
are, ot course, triumphs to Mejico. That dis
tinguished Senator, Don Tomas Corwin, who,
it is said by those who know, bears a strong phy
sical resemblance to the worthy Don Pedro de
Ampuuia, now with the army if the Sooth, ha*
also pronounced again. This high official (offi
cio) it will be remembered, pronounced during
the past winter, but unfortunately Was then pre
mature, the utter inquity of this war not having
then burst upon the simple but pure-minded
people of the North. Don Tomas Corwin, a
man now of note, is precisely tbe person cnlcn
ted to lead the people into rebellion (promineia
menlo); for though at present one of th*
Whigs, or aristocrats, he was at one time, w*
are assured by a prisoner of tbe distinguished
regiment of Indiana, a wagon-boy ( arriero ). In
this attack (pronunciamento), Don Toma*
will certainly,be followed by the Bocays (ojosde
damn) of tbe State of the Ohio.
Don Dexiel “Webster, also at tbe bead of
the whale fisherman and nutmeg-makers of Mas
sachusetts—the legitimate Yankez—and the
ferocious Quakers of Pennsylvania, it is said,
will march in arms, from Boston to Washington,
and there depose Don Santiago Polk, who
has so violated all the prejudices of Mejico, and
its friends and admirers in the confederation of
the North (federacion del Norte), These vari
ous movements, added to one from Donna Joan
na Christo Calhoun an oM lady of great in
fluence, and tbe head of th* Qtattlebums, of
Black Mingo— caonot but terminate this disas
trous war between the two great republics. I*
is certain thateither Don Santiago Polk, must
withdraw his army, or leave the National palace.
Don Juan Botts, who slept two in a bed, with
the preftdious friend of the Texans (amigo de
lot Tejitnm), Don Juan Tyler, has openly
said that the actual President will have to do
both. Courage compatriots, and long live Don
Enrico Clay, Don Tomas Corwin, Daniel
Webster, and Donna Juanna Christo Cal
houn. God and Liberty l
“We have our own crude thoughts regarding
the course which onght to be pursued by the
whig party, in relation to the war, but we will
not now set them up against tbe well considered
and deliberate judgment of an enlightened, eit
perienced and devoted statesman and patriot,
(Clay.)— Albany Journal.
“Set’em up” l‘v ail means, says the Bqgton -
Post. They can't t e cruder than those of the
‘devoted statesman,” nor easier knocked
Jcwn. *