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the supreme court
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>t< whicl^ o!lld fT S '* rt proposed, which
e€ VJ - Thesvstem i»^ ta,l: , and .
:e ' "'X The Judges would not, asm
rot r , h ,h > mere creatures of par-
'
« ‘ tv -p| Governor, the Senate and the
1 I 1 *" p Representatives must all be
e p gam e party, and they must all
liu .* "party above merit, before the
u< FoUrt can be composed of
k*P c | )i)gen inere ]y f o r their political
)03 s. After the first election, this
,S J ppj hardly possibly happen. The
- . parties which now divide the State
will be changed long before the sc
“ Coad election of the Associate Justice;
! r aid b: entirely forgotten, before the
, second election of the Chief Justice.
If the three appointing powers do not
’ ail concur in politics, they will each
e ‘ h ive their representative in the Sa-
F nreme Court; and here is out of the
r handsomest features of ihe system.
The Court so constituted will either
agree or disagree in their decisions.
Iri I f they agree, their decisions will have
t a moral force which belongs to the de
,n cision of no Court now in existence.
, As things now are, the decisions of t
j|’ —Jrrrtgc arc attacked at times, merely
for the purpose of bringing him intc
discredit with the people, in order that
h: mi.iy be dislodged from his placet
' bit what party, from any other motive
(J than a love of truth, would attack the
decisions of a Court in which all Par
r' ties are represented! If the Judges
n t.is igree in a decision, their rie'*’ s
l < j ail be laid before the people, anJ (^/ ’ u e* 1
(| the majority must rule in Can'' 1 ’ thev
can be speedily corrected by thd le
gislature. if they be in error-
Secondly, The very circumstance
of separating the appointing powers
would improve each and®' l them.
The representatives are to be
Ip brought together, and indirect contrast
b l> store the people. This circumstance
.i -alone, would make each department a
» ’liitle more careful io /ts selection, than
it would be, if it had- the appointment
* of all the judges. »ut it would often
' happen (always, » hen the appointing
powers differed * n politics) that it
would be the interest of each to make
° the very best appointments that it could
from its party. 11 P iirt y is to be array
e 1 against part/’ each, from self-i.iter
est, will putfartb its ablest men. Sup
® pose the election now coming on, and
H th it-the i’ flVernor a,,d Senate were
s Uto i n# 3 ’ and the House of Repre
i s •utati»* were State Rights in politics,
wo i ild« 3f the two former foresee that
!S th- ni-'/’rity of the Court was to be com
lf ii )sud°f State Rights men, and would
y t | lvV oot select the ablest men in their
meet them? and would not
* ’ JfF ! ’ usc R e P resentat ives, for like
tbe same? The Court
formed of the best materials of
‘ ijfh parties, would probably not in a
Ke time have to decide a case, which
£#iv-.>lved the points in dispute between
[Wthe parties who elect them; while, up
t <> i all other points, they would be mu-
F tual lights to each other. The misfor
tune, hitherto, has ever been, that no
p.irty ever gained the ascendancy,
E-~Wrtn<TOt excluding from the bench some
of the best men in the country, of an
other party. This has been a crying
evil in our State; for most commonly
ou-r parties have split upon no question
of-government or law at all, but upon
the respective merits of some two men,
as Troup and Clark for instance, and
as tiie p.irties alternately rose and fell,
away went all the talents of the under
most from the Beach. Now it may
s > happen, that it is betterto have a man
oi than oft’ the Bench, who differs
with the whole State upon some Con
stitutional question of vital importance
tithe interest of the State. I put the
strongest ease: Suppose a man of the
first order of talents, of unquestionable
i itegrity, but who is an abolitionist in
I principle; such a man might with per
feet safety, and with very great advan
tage be placed upon the Bench, if the
majority of the Court differ from him
upon the vital point. For here he
would be perfectly impotent, and every
where else, he would be an honor to
the Court and to the country. I put
this case in answer to the objection that
nny be raised to cur plan, because it
does open a door to the admission of
men of all parties, into the Supreme
Court. In ninety-nine times out of a
hundred, it is better that it should be
so; and under the system proposed, it
is next to impossible that any evil can
grow out of it. Suppose such a man
placed upo i the Bench for the longest
term ; the House of Representatives
could ever control him in the objection
able points of his judgment, and the
Senate would here co-operate with the
House of Representatives. No, the
brine of the country has ever been, that
parties have always excluded merit.
Parties have always existed, and ever
rill exist. Without attempting or
hipi ig to remove them, I have endea
voured to turn their prevailing passions
to good account; with what success,
the'pubiic wiH judge.
A. B. LONGSTREET
“ If you love me you would vote for my
Dog.”—During General Jackson’s late
visit to Nashville, he was called on by
an old personal friend, B. S. Caidwell.
Mr. C. was for Judge White, and Gen.
J. insisted strongly on his going over
to Van Buren. “If you were my
friend,” said the General, warming
with the subject and rising upon his
feet, “you would vote to please me;
yes, sir, if you were my friend, and I
requested it of you, you would vote for
my dog! !” This was rather too much
for old Cardwell. A few days after
wards, he want to Mr. Peyton’s public
dinner, where, having related the anec
dote, he gave this expressive toast:
fmeral Jackson —we love him, but
d i..nn his dog.”—Louisville Journal.
jcy" Governor Ritner declares that
tii.: opponents of Van Buren need not
entertain any doubt nbout the vote of
Pennsylvania, for she will certainly go
against Van Buren by fifteen or twen
ty thousand majority.
Road to Ruin. —According to the
Cincinnati Mirror, a man who was
h inge I lately in a neighboring State,
tin- burglary and murder, confessed un.
der th • g dlowsthut his careerofcrime
h ! bv st .ppi Og JI newspaper with
out puyi-g lor it.
FOR THE SOUTHERN WHIG.
Dinner to the Jacknau Couuty Volunteers, j
On Thursday last an unusually large num- I
ber of Citizens from all parts of the County I
assembled in Jefferson, to partake of a public |
dinner given in honor oi Capt. DeLaperiere’s
Company of mounted men, on account of their
late gallant services C reek war.
During the festivities of the day the utmost
harmony and good order prevailed.
The Citizens of the County seemed to vie
with each other in giving some public expres
sion of their kind feelings and deep gratitude
to theirbrave and patriotic County men, whose
services in a savage war cannot be too highly
appreciated.
After assembling at tho table, the Volun-I
teers were addressed in behalf of the citizens, I
by B. H. Overby, Esq. in a very appropriate !
and patriotic, manner, who was responded t,]
on the part oithe Volunteers in a highly chaste
and feeling address from B. S. Esq.
A large number ot patriotic were
given after dining, a few only are appended.
By T. Harrison; h,sq. May our land be a
land of liberty, me seat of virtue, the asylum of
the oppressed, a name and a praise in the Whole
earth, uutil the last shock of time shall bury the
empires of the world in undistinguished ru n.
By D- M. Burns, Esq. The union ot alt is
the happiness of all.
By Capt. A. DeLaperiere. Charles Witt
and B. H. Overby, Esqr’s.—The high minded
8 and accomplished gentlemen—friends to sol
■ ’diers—their zealous and patriotic farewell
’ addresses entitle them to the respect of the
a Jackson volunteers.
yI By A. Cunningham- Capt. A. DeLape
-3 riere—A p itriot «hd a soldier, ever ready to
1 march in hia Country’s defence—may he and
his command be richly remunerated for the
trials «nd dangers they laboured under in the
late Creek Campaign.
Sent by Capt. Thomas Holland of Hall.
The citizens of Jackson ccuttj-Alway-i ready
to dotheir duty.
By Mrs. Matilda Cherry. Capt. DeLape
riere and his brave Compatriots—L idics we
need fear nothing while we have such men to
defen 1 us.
By Mrs. D -vis. T.ie Volunteers • ’ Jackso ;
—Men who promptly rallied and unfurled the
banner of their Country—such spirits will al
ways be received by the ladies with open hearts
and hands.
By Mrs. A. V. Witt. The widows of Tal
bot and H r lii.—Th« soldiers widow has no h
i ig to wai>t or wish for in a Country of t’r < me .
By Mrs Singleton. The Volunteers ot
Jackson county—May they- never again be
called to witness the horrors of a savage war.
By Miss L. M. Davis. We are proud ot
our Volunteers—so longasjwe have men thus
brave we need fear no invasion or foreign foe.
By Miss M. E. Hodge. The Volunteersof
Jackson county —May long life, unfading hon.
ours and lasting happiness attend them.
By Mrs. Appleby. The Jackson boys; an
honour to their Country.
By M rs. Webb. The Jackson Volunteers —
They defended their Country in the hour of
danger—may they- stand preeminent with the
proudest of the land.
By Al rs. Eskridge. We are proud of the
gallant Capt DeLaperiere and his brave com
rades—May they ever merit ouresteeu .
By Mss E. Venable. Capt. DeLaperiere
and Company—May they long live to enjoy
health, honour and happiness, and their names
like Washington’s be handed down to latest
posterity.
By M>-s. M. A. DeL iperiere. The Jack
son Volunteers, speedily flew to the standard
of their Country, and boldly- defended the much .
injured frontiers of Georgia—may their last j
days be their best days, and may they long en
joy the sacred rights of freemen.
By Mrs. E. Adams. Capt. DcLoperiere
and Company—May they- wade* through life
with more ease and better success, than they
did through the Chickasahatchy swamp.
By Mrs. Ripley. Capt. DeL aperiere and
his brave Volunteers —May the mantle of Eli
jah’s God be thrown around them.
By. J. J. Singleton, Esq. The citizens of
Jackson county—they arc ever ready to do
their duty even on the fust Monday in Novem
ber next.
By B. H. Overby, Esq. Capt. Di Lape
riere the fearless undaunted chivalrous and
patriotic officer—l’he laurels he gained in a
former campaign have not degenerated—his
garlands now bloom fresher and fairer than
ever.
By M. Witt. Esq. The revolutionary sol- ;
diers who have honoured our public festival
with their presence, as life ebbs their patriot-1
ism is yet sound to the core—May they long ]
live to witness the prosperity of our Country, '
and keep alive the spirit of ”76.
By Capt. A. DeL iperiere. The noble and j
patriotic citizens of McDonough Henry coun- I
ty, Geo.—Their Kind and liberal reception of •
the Jackson Volunteers, is a token of their j
love to their Country’s cause.
By B. S. Adams. May the cannon of en- ]
mity be loaded with Oceola, waded with Jim ]
Henry, and primed with Nea-Ernathla and shot :
at thq land stealers.
By R. G. Caruthers. M.iy the cannon of
enmity be loaded with th : land stealers, waded |
with Jim Henry, pruned with Neomico and
shot at Oceola.
By L. Hatnard. Mty he who refuses bis
protection to a defenceless female, never taste
the blessings that a womin’ean bestow.
By B. Venable Ist Lieut. I n time of peace ]
we may differ politically, but in war when our
Country is invaded these political differences
all change into patriotism.
By IL M. Niblock. May the cifizetis of
Jackson county be amply compensated for their :
patriotic feelings to •> ard her Volunteers. |
By N. H. Pendergrass. Gen. Sa:ifoi*d^-!
He lost no time, shunned no danger, or avoided !
any labour to prosecute the Creek war and !
suppress the invading foe, for which may he |
be long remembered by Georgia’s brave ;and j
patriotic sons and daughters.
The citizens of Henry county, hospitable ,
warm hearted and noble people—fortheir'kiod |
attention to the Volunteers they shall not be:
forgotten by Joseph Thomas.
By J. R. Stanly. The fair daughters of
Jackson—May they add virtue to beauty, sub
tract envy from friendship, multiply amiable
accomplishments by sweetness of temper, di
vide time by stability and economy.
By John Nixon. Jackson county Volun
teers—gentlemen, brave generous and humane,
we may now look with confidence to the not
far distant day when the savage yell will no
more be heard on our lands.
By H. G. Butler. Liberty—that which !
fires the youthful heart, a comfort to the op
pressed and the glory of nations—-may she ever ]
be protected defended and courted by the citi- j
zens of Jackson.
By S. S. Orr. Republican America— ]
May her national'honour, ever remain uutar-]
nished midst the waste of agos and the rava- I
ges of time.
By S. Mays. Capt. DeLaperiere and Com - ]
pany, who so promptly responded the cull of]
patriotism and humanity, deserve the gratitude ]
of every Georgian.
By R. Pentecost, Esq. 'l’he Jackson Vol- I
unteers are worthy of the full confidence of]
their Country. I
. _ _ _ _ . _ _ __,.
From the U. S’. 'l'd graph.
i*eni s.-.:: ?; tsa 3, ii, tj ‘j x .
I i a lew w-icks the stirring c > lUst u id corn. J
inence. We i..dulge iniio co j ■■■ in. -sastotii
result. From ail we see and h.-.;r. wo sat--
only in say i ig, that it is ci-rtaimv doubtful.
A ie'w moulds ago, arm we Co-;.,,’ ~o Iri, • sai !
so much—but grout cba gnslr w tad -a plac<.
and are daily sccurrl. g, M .of (!..? coo! st
judgm: t, a dih most ’ xte . ivemm'd t.'i.ren
with the publi-c s ■ itim ■ t, sp ; /■ w i h th : ul
tno t co:di.m,;ce that Mr. Va . B :r.-i will be
deflated by a d'cisive im.i >riiv ii the E.n to
ral Coll: ge. Thisishighiv p: bl-—i .d.s d.
it Wo can rely on the i .form .tins we r. c ive,
we do not see how it is pos. :i>io t > avoid this
' result.' Tile sober jmlgm :::!:-. ••tml the pah-'mim
! feelings of the people are ev. ry w'i.-re ri d ig
! up i i open revolt against tie- -d.- m.tion of pox .
I er, and the ckiiaisofa favurit mu id.?d o;i sub-
I sei vieiicy to that power, 'i’h ■ r. suit, wear.
! detitly hope, will tell deeply. Vast are the
! interests involved in the c:o..t- <t. Wc verily
l believe that it may doterimoc iha d sti y ot
j our institutions. If the spiii’ of a.,archy, aid
i its att.'iid.mt spirit, ofde-p m m, are not curb d
lin th. ir wild a.id mail Career, th : days of our
I R. -public arc numbered.
i Wo ciiunot present stroi-ger vi. ws of the
j suhj :ct, than are contained i i tho toliawiog
I article, which we copv from th • Natio-ial G i
zotte. L't those .vho call th 'ins dves W’HGS
sustain their characters now. livery man to
1 the polls, in every State, and county, and pur
! ish, and cit'.’, and hamlet, and 11. us'dio'.d i > th
| Union. Let no one lag beb.iud <> i any pro
; text whatsoever! A single f..'A mnv d.'termine
I the contest, and th : f..te of die U..io:d B.it
! further than this, — It is of the last importance
' that the entire vote of the opp- silioii slum: 1 be
i ascertained in everv State! ’V e feel f.d
\lest assurance that if .Mr. \ .m B.iren be ap-
\ pointed io the Presidency, it win b ■ agaii-st th::
| expressed will, — the recorded sediments if a
' majority of the people! We ees’iee our friends
that be the result, if they wiil dojus
tice to themselvi s, thoircaus ■, and th ircoum
»rv, and record their vote'. Th. ruf>re, let
every man goto the polls! 11 he be ALONE
in his county, or city, or State, I t him go and
1 record his vote. I fit do no; count in the Eli c-
i torn! College, it will count in ihe numerical
' vote. If Mr. Van Buren go itn [tower upo :
a minority vote, if’ he usurp the Presidency
against the will of a majority of the people,
: woe be unto him ! Then sh i w- 1 k '.ow how
Ito estimate his vaunted democracy. We say
j that he cannot be elected by the vot; sos a
] majority of the people, if the iihigs wiil do
1 ju.-tice to themselves, lie holds his present
I station, as we are informed, agai :st the express
ed will of a majority of EiGHTY-FOUR
THOUSAND Freemen! L t th friends of
free representative goveri:mu.,t look to it! Il'
he seize on the Presidency o i:h such a ma
jority against him as this, the voice ofthe peo
ple will make him tremble ! They will para
lyze his efforts to do mischief. They xvill rise
in their strength and p!uek him down from his
high place, in despite of official patronage and
corruption. Again we sav, LET EX EIIY
MAN TO THE POLLS! '
From the National Gazet'e.
\ 'l’he Whigs have had to oppose in General
j Jackson a high degree of personal popularity.
| combined with tho most unscrupulous use of
I power. Constitutional effort has b.:en com
! polled to encounter at the same time th • most
I elastic and the most rigid o'
—To what extent been
I made available for le tfivid-
I mil will, and the paW/ ] | );|r _
ty purposes, we hs I
. ted io the yoke ; v, us
| manfully struggling wful
] burdens, but still awe- i/g the period of our
] deliverance. That period in the course of the
cousti’ution is rapidly approaching. It is
worth while to consider what we propose to
gain by it, and by what means our adversaries
intend to deprive us of ths success we hop:
for.
It is proposed by the Whigs to substitute a
system of republican administration fora reig
of prerogative, and to electa President who
] shall execute the functions of his office for tho
i good of the community, instead of the cmolu
s merit of a cabal. It is proposed to substitirte
' independence for sycophancy, subservienev
and manworship; to derange and break t:p a
! domineering and ex dusive uarty, and to restore
to each branch of the Government its due
weight in the formsliu:; of laws, and !*s due
! respect in the eyes of the people. Finally, it
I is proposed to restore the purity of election,
; the proper tenure and sanction to public offic ,
I and the legitimate application of the public
i wealth to the general weal.
These are the purposes ofthe Whigs, winch
he at the foundation oftheir enterprize. They
are to be defeated by means with which the
l ist eight years have made us all familiar.
The reversion ofthe old instruments has been
husbanded for Mr. Van Buren. The purple
has been choicely kept for the adopted Caesar.
Ihe oath of allegiance has been propounded
and sworn during the life and reign of th ■ adop
ter. 'I he faithful pour out the inc; use, and
the priests manage the thunder. They beat
to Kinderhook with a drum borrow i d from
New Orleans, and the trained b uifls are expec
ted to muster and march at the word and the
signal. Mho doubts that the hopes of’dr. Xan
Buren are chii fly founded on the echo of Gen
eral Jackson’s popularity —that he i&a candi
date spru .g from the caldron of the Kitchen
Cabinet? Whose afl’ectior.s is he identified
with—whose hopes, whose interests save theirs
who feed upon its overflow? XX mil doctrines
does he represent, arhat principles or maxims,
that lie should ask for the highest office in the
gift of the American people? What has he
done for them, that his predecessor, on leaping
from heir necks, .should claim a right to place
him there? Let thi an at least choose theirown
task-master, if they are to go in harness.
Mr. Van Buren’s pretensions are less to be
President ofthe United States than tube the
successor of General Jackson. On Riis ground
his advocates adopt him; on the same.ground
bis opponents utterly ref udiate and reject him.
The Whigs would not aid to perpetuate a dy
nasty, were it the best in the world—they will
scarcely unite in supporting the worst. Thiw
are possessed with a thorough stubborn repub
lican antipathy to perpetuities, and protest
against the transfer of office, by sale or gift,
to partisan or favorite.
From the Mobile Advertiser.
EXCECCENT! EXCEEEENT!
Read the following extract of a letter from
Tennessee. The writer gives a fine picture
of the sarcastic and truly eloquent Pevto’i.
He is a wonderfully fascinating orator. We
ourselves have listened to him in the United
States House of Representatives, when he
would at times cause the blood to thrill in ev
ery vein, and anon convulse you with Jaimhtcr,
in spite of yourself. And yet he is grave in
debate. XX’e do not recollect to have eter
seen him smile when addressing the House.
Franklin, Teim., Sept. 7, 1836.
Dear Sir, —1 wrote you a hastv note a fi w
weeks ago, and informed you tin t 1 would
write you more at length i a short time; I
now proceed to redeem that promise.
fb 0 M f Ii C V tt Ii i $ ★
0.. Saturday the 3d instant, we bad the lar- |
gest collection ol people ever known in this
cotioiy 'l’he occasion was a public dinner
given to B ii, Peyton, Maury, Shields and For
rester. 'l’he enthusiasm ol the people "’ as
imiarallel d. Th:: attempt of Jackson to rev
.difm ,iz" the pi.b.ic sentiment of this State, i
:.s cot. o :!y a. I’.dure, but has in.ide M nite |
-tronaer than he has ever been in this State j
1 do m.r suppose that it has added to the num- .
i:■ r of his supporters, but he has roused the
rl-: liig.-i of Ihe people, and caused an enthusi-|
ism i hat they oih rwise would not. have left in i
his cause. 1 perceive from an article in your (
hist paper, that you have some misgivings that ,
f aim .--see will bolt when it. comes to the tug. ,
I ou may dismiss your apprehensions, and set ;
h rdowa ns ten to one in favor of M bite. i
?:lr. Peyton’s speech was the greatest ebul- j
lidoo li vindictive eloquence I have ever heard, j
IL- is t ulv one of Nature’s great, mem , H ;
ymt have never heard him, you have no idea j
ot’the versatiiitv ot his powers. He makes]
veil 10. l at one moment that you could fight .
I me hundred enemies, and at the next you are I
i lying of laughter at some sudden corruscatio.i 1
lof wit. He entertained the audience with|
i several anecdotes connected with the politics
i of the dav, which I will endeavor to put on
! paper in some firm, though you will glean
from them but a f. ii.t i lea ot the ®i.:Ct pro
duced bv them, when related by him.
.Ur. P. said when h : first went to Congress,
he was on very intimate terms with the Presi.
il nt. On one occasion, he accompanied him
mid Mi. Van Buren to tho Central Course, to
witness a trial of speed between Belisarms and
Emily. When the former was brought on
the Cours::, he appeared very restive. Ihe
old man became verv much excited —Ins whole
i ; ml was engrossed in the sport that was just
: about taking place. He [laced himselt erect
; 'ii his stirrups and speaking to the tr liner, says
| —‘Boy, hold that horse—don't let him run
I th 's w.,v—you should break him of such tricks
—I coni.l lir.-ak him in an hour. Here, Mr.
P vton, stand here and time—th--re is but one
! proper place to time—Mr. \ an Buren, get be
i hind me, that horse will run over you.' ‘And,
! s iid .Mr. Peyton, ‘Van got behind the old Gen
! oral, and there, fellow citizens, ho has been
I ev- r 1 .co.’
There was a certain lady about Washiiig
! ton, in whose society the President was in the
; habit of spending a great portion o! his leisure
I time. Th<? lady was m the habit of relating
! every little occurrence that she thought would
please the old man, and Van was not. slow to
' find out this avenue to the General’s feelings.
Accordi lily, he chooses an opportunity when
1 in company with this lady,and introduces the
topic of great men. Said Van, ‘Cicero and
. Demosthenes were great men; Hannibal and
Bonaparte were great men; Charles XII was
i a great man; Washington was a great, man;
! but, TUadatn, ot all tne great men the world has
! produced, General Jackson is the only great
man who is entirely without a fault. But, my
| dear Madam, I would not for the world that
i you should whistier to Gen. Jackson that this
is my opinion of him.’ Well, the lady, as
Van foreknew, and intended she should, tells
; the President every word that Van had said.
: When th:: old man heard it, the tear trickled
i in his eye.—‘Ab! .Madam,’ said he, ‘I always
knew that that man loved me—he loves me—
he loves me —he cannot conceal it from me.
I can al ways tell my f riends from my enemies.’
1 have thus given you a hasty sketch of the
, way we are doing things up here, and have
1 not time to draw my details out to a greater
I.' !gth.
r hi HBsanc— w:
AiUienisj Ga. Saturday? October 22? 1836.
FOR PRESIDENT.
I OR VICE-PRESIDENT.
J Oli’TJ W
V.-'itri- EUECTORAE TICKET.
DR. AMBROSE BABER, of Bibb,
COL. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
COL. GIBSON CLARK, of Henry,
COL. HOWELL of Houston,
vIEORGE R. GlJp. ", of
DR. THOM AS \ . ofass,,
CH ARLTON Hh’he ESQ. of liberty,
WILLIAM W. HOLT. ESQ.
i i
<; EN. EZ EKI EI
W«: Gc -A O/C Q. ’oa™!!"
W illiam C. Dawson, of Greene, has been
selected as the B HITE CANDIDATE, to fill
the vacancy in the present Congress, occasion
ed by the death of the Hon. John Coflee.
TliF, KN .UIiEKBOCKEIS.
The October number of this highly interes
ting periodical, issued from the press of Wiley
& Long, New York, is on our table. A tabic
ofcmitents will be found in another part of to
day’s paper. This is now advanced
in the Bth volume; and we may in justice re
mark, that with its age, it lias more than grown
a pace in interest. It is a periodica] of great in
terest, and admirably adapted to every class of
readers—blending as it does “instruction with
amusement, erudition with wit;” and affording
such a rich repast to “allure the studious and
the grave, the dissipated and the idle.”
We therefore take great pleasure in recom
mending it to our readers—and to those who
desire to be numbered on their list of friends,
we promise to forward their names to the pub
lishers. 'l’he terms are Five Dollars p.r annum-
TJie J-'ra-nSsing- Privilege.
Tiie Hon. Jabez Jackson, member ofCongress
from Georgia, and letter writer to the Van Bu
ren Journals, has invented a new mode of exer
cising this important privilege.
Shortly prior to the late elections in this State,
thosands of printed tickets for the Van Buren
Congressional ticket were sent from this place
through the State, bearing his frank. And
strange as it may seem, the gentleman has not
been in the State during the year.
via m ■t;:',.
The times are indeed portentous, and the fate
of the little Magician is sealed beyond all doubt,
'l’he late elections in Maryland for the members
of the Legislature, have resulted in a most sig,
nal defeat of the Vanites—only 19 of whom has
been elected.
Such lias been the force of public opinion,
that one of the electors, who so nobly attempted
the destruction of the Constitution, for the bene
fit ol Van Burenism, has been driven to his seat,
and at our latest advises, it was thought that
many others would follow the laudable exam
ple.
In Pennsylvania no doubt exists that the State
will be carried against the little Magician, by an
overwhelming majority-some say twenty thou
sand votes; and even the party press in the
State admits, that defeat certainly awaits him
in that State
New'York too, the birth place of him to whom
“it would be glory enough,” is moving onward
in the cause of the Constitution and correct
principles. Already lias the Loco Focos, a
large party who have dissented from the Jack
son ranks, refused to give their adhesion to
Van—which circumstance many think will cast
the vote of that State against him.
(Fj- The result of the general election must •
satisfy every candid man that the State ofGeor- i
gia, true to Southern interests, does not intend to I
vote tor Martin Van Buren. Notwithstanding |
the parties ol the State have for years been in- ]
veterately divided upon State policy which has !
greatly augmented the Litter character of their
opposition. Notwith.st Hiding they have more
recently been divided upon the docti ines of
Nullification against which the demagogues
have i .llamed the weak and timid almost to
madness,yet they have been fined voting to- ■
gather in the late election against their own
friends and partisans merely because they are
supporters of Van Buren. Instead of our riot
succeeding, the wonder i., that a majority of
3000 last year should have been reduced to
200 this, seeing that old party friendships, long
continued partialities, greatly Lightened by
concert of action, by community of interest,
and by repeated triumphs, were to be broken
: down and new affections formed for men that
] have been so uniformly and heartily opposed
to each other. It speaks volumes for the fate
of Van Buren and the friends of good order
and the South, every where, may rest assured
! the little Magician’s days are numbered in
Georgia. All that now- remains to be done is
to goto the polls on the first Monday in next
month. We earnestly exhort the voters not
to neglect this duty. As they value the peace
j of the South, as they prize the government of
j their choice, as they desire to purify it from
the corruptions which have so lately and alarm
ingly beset it by laud speculators and office
holders, they are bound to speak in a voice of
thunder on the 7th of next month. The Van
Buren papers m the State has already com
menced operations to try to counteract the ef
fect of the last election. They know and feel
they are defeated—They read their death
warrant in the issue of that contest, and they
are now moving heaven and earth to avert its
I consequences—Handbills and tickets are prin
j ted, agents are dispatched in all quarters to
| scatter them, and no means’are spared to turn
the current that is rushing down upon them
with inevitable’’destruction, if the people only
continue faithful to themselves. The White
Presses should take warning by the conduct of
j their adversaries. No pains should be spared
to counteract their operations or rather their
machinations—Handbills, for there are abun
dant materials for them, should also be destri
buted among the people. They should be fur
nished with printed tickets, and thev should in
an especial manner be exhorted and entreated
to turn out to the election for there is no mis
take that the honest voters of Georgia are op
posed to the emancipation or their Slaves---are
opposed to free negro suffrage---are opposed
to marriages with negroes and consequently
are opposed to making Martin Van Buren and
Rich’d. M. Johnson the President and Vice
President of these United States.
The Governor has doubtless ordered the
election to fill Gen. Coffee’s vacancy on the
same day of the election, for the Electors, with
a view to enlist the party feelings of the State
in favor of Van Buren and R. M. Johnson. If
the people can be diverted from properly con
sidering the consequences of the election, for
electors, and have the contest thrown upon the
Congressional election, so that the question of
Nullification can be well stirred on the occa
sion, it is hoped that ,Vdoe'dVu‘ 1 ui r tiifijr"<
ted ticket,s be
■
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tWH. tiffin)
some other monied engag .ments with that na
tion.
JU»GE WHITE.
We call the attention of our readers to the
fallowing extracts and certificates, in relation to
the infamous libels which have been for some
weeks circulated through ihe Standard of Union,
and the other Van Buren Presses in Georgia,
upon the authority of their veritable friend and
libeller, B. L. Lester. We do not envy Mr. L.
his condition; but it is a position in which the
advocates of his party are so frequently caught,
that we should suppose that ho is by no means
sori under it. We are pleased to see that the
Federal Union has been honorable enough to
acknowledge its want of truth; but we equally
regret that it should in the same article, endorse
for the respectability of Mr. Lester—for no man
who deserves the name of respectable, would
have asserted a thing, which the mind of every
reflecting man would pronounce false without
hesitation. Nor has the Southern Spy been
wanting in readiness to do justice to Judge
White. What say you, gentleman of the Ban
ner, Standard of Union and other like prints,
who have given utterance to this infamous libel,
which your better judgement told you was a
| wanton calumny? will you retract, or persist
I in the degradation to which you have descend
ed, if indeed it was a discent?
From the Federal Union,
HEXHEK TO AEE THESIS KUES.
We repeat what we have before stated, that
- BENJAMIN L. LESI’ER Esq.,given bvlh.e!
j Standard of Union as the author oftfie state- I
] meiit, that Judge \\ bite walked arm ;ugy :S '
with a free negro to the polls, is a man vA*''
respectability, and bigb'y esteemed '
the county ot his residence, But.
head that he was deceived in
Judge White, and that his statements'
neous. The certificates of Cui.
opponent of Col. Williams, at the election re-1 1
ferrod to, and of several citizens of. and old
residents in Knoxville, where the election was |
held, sufficiently prove, we think, that the fact
cannot be as stated by Mr. Lester.
Knoxvillh, (Tenn.) Sept. 3Q.h, 1836.
The undersigned citizens of, and, for many
vears past, residents in Knoxville, have no
ticed an Editorial paragraph in the “ Standard
of Union,” charging Judge White with being
favorable to free Negro suffrage, and assert
ing, that upon one occasion, viz : in 1825, he
actually “locked arms with v. Free A’egro and
walked with itim to the Ballot Box.” The
sain: charge, substantially, his appeared in
other quarters, and met such rebuke as its false
hood and baseless merited. Had it not been
so repeatedly and gravely urged, in portions of
the country where Judge White is personally
unknown, the undersigned would not have
deemed it necessary or proper to bestow any
notice upon a charge which is here universally
known snd pronounced lobe false and unfound
ed in every respect. No man in this commu
nity, however credulous he may be, or how
ever much he maybe prejudiced against Judge
White, pretends to believe or countenance the
aforesaid charge. So far from Judge VV bite
taking an active part in the canvass of 1825,
it is known to all Here, that he was so indiffer
ent to the result, that he merely voted without
exercising any exertion or influence whatever.
I’he time never was when he would have con
descended to act in the manner represented,
and rnsre especially would he not have done
so on the occasion specified. Ihe individual
who gave the information to the Editor ot the
“Standard ofUnion,” has either been imposed
upon himself by some malignant slanderer, or
he has wilfully and wickedly given currency
to a base falsehood. The charge, in all its
features, is a fabrication. We make this as
sertion confidently, and challenge contradic
tion from any respectable source. Judge
White’s opinions and principles on the subject
of slavery and various questions connected
therewith, have so recently been expressed by
himself in his public capacity, that it is supur
fluous to repeat them.
We have made the foregoingstatement with
out the knowledge of Judge White, and in his
absence from home, deeming it but a simple
act of justice due from his neighbors and
friends.
JAMES PARK.
S. D. JACOBS,
W. C. MYNA IT,
W. B. REESE.
LUKE LEA,
PRYOR LEA,
R. KING,
WAI. G. HOWELL,
MOSES LINDSAY,
NICHOLAS NELSON,
M. D. BEARDEN,
ROBT. TITUS,
SMP. BELL,
PLEASANT CIEW.
Knoxville, 29th Sept, IS3G.
In the Standard of Union, a Newspaper
published at Milledgeville, Georgia, 1 have
seen an article asserting that in 1825, in a
warmly contested election at Knoxville, in
which Col. Williams was one of the candi
dates, Judge White, who took an active part
for his brother-in-law, locked arms with a free
negro and walked with him to the Ballet Box.
This charge is said to rest on the testimony of
a respectable citizen of Georgia. I was my
self the opponent of Col. Williams in 1825,
and it was a closely contested election. If
such conduct had taken place with Judge
White and a free negro, I have no doubt t/iat
it would have been noticed by myself or my
friends. I never heard the charge against the
Judge until I saw it in the paper above alluded
to. lam therefore inclined to believe that the
story is without foundation. It is so foreign
from Judge White’s character and principles
to have acted in the way represented, that a
] contradiction ofthe charge where he is known,
would seem to be entirelv useless.
JAMES ANDERSON.
From the Knoxville
The above we take from
Union, a paper alike dis-tiie^U^^j'’ '
i consistency of its
t.d iii>i'i-gard !
gia, lest its
cited the positive and satisfactory co tradic
tion, with which it was known it Could ba met.
The first Constitution of die State of Tennes
see was adoptedjn 1796, when Judge White
was too young to take an active part in its
provisions, and in the formation of which he
iia Ino agency. This Constitution provides
that “Every freemen of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, possessing a free hold in
, the eoum '•■>(! being an
I inhabit/® Seminole War, and be-
J iug anfnipaigne, by a Lieutenant of& i H the
' State st /Seeding the
td,iv c-fsningtonis Vita Awttten £ vote for mem.
is mibly, for the countv
uder this clause ofthe
• . ... nL ’‘‘us have been admiited
-’[lf n CF ’ t’utifieuiion m I 79f>,
. ■ , H • iicuiion ofthe
the 29th ult. betwcci provisions of
u, d ure > ‘’ c^ < !k->fted from voting.
?.is we have before stated, Judge White hid
no agency whatever in forming the Constitu
tion of 1796, and as by one of its provisions,
free negroes were entitled to vote, he, together
with every other citizen, was bound to submit
to the practice of voting with free negroes for
thirty-eight years, however much he may have
condemned such an indiscriminate extension of
the right of suffrage.
But as to the more specific charge t hat Judge
White did ever or on any occasion, go to the
ballot box arm and arm with a free negro, we
most positively deny it. We pronounce tiie
charge to be falsi:, and we demand the
proof. We challenge the Standard of Union
or any one else to prove it, either by his respec
table citizen of Georgia, or by any other re
spectable witness. He has made the charge, |
and holding the affirmative side, is bound to ■
prove it. It is impossible for us to prove a ]
negative, unless bv proving some positive facts
inconsistent with the charge—this we promise
to do. so soon as the proof is brought out on
the affirmative side, with the time, place and 1
other circ instances so as to eaeable us to ap- i
ply our contradictory testimony.
Ail that we can now say is, that the whole |
charge is false —that we have conversed
with Joi. Anderson, who was the competitor ]
of Col. Williams, in 1825, and he informed us ]
that he knows nothing, nor did he hear any
thing occurring in the contest of that year, i.i
the remotest degree calculated to establish the
charge. And surely if such a thing had taken
place he would have seen, or at least have been
told, of a circumstance so remarkable.
From the Cassville Pioneer.
f/dly intermeddle with
3 1 justiei'
■* ‘["’U'Ut
*
with a free ne<rra?±.'--1.* 1 .
and especially ;A*
Judg/ V.
need no relitiation. j' . * f
■he people h ive b -eti * I
ed oi his [tohtie.il course™
racter, it is necessary 'haWy,
the charge should be I >Wt
is aceotnpi'.tiie 1 bv a
the editor to sustain it by rcspe?^|pW^Rn)oiiv.
I’he proposition of an Editin' to prove his own
statement, is certainly no recommendation of
his own character for veracity, and is only held
in requisition vhen he is conscious that his
own unsupported assertion will not obtain cre
dence from the grossness of the falsehood, or
from the frequency of their repetition.
“It so happened that we were citizens o>f
Tennessee, and neighbors of Judge VV hite at
the time when the occurrence is alledged to
have transpired, and knew all the circumstan
ces under which the election in 1825 took
place; and we most positively assert that there
is not a particle of truth in the Editorial arti
cle from which we have extracted the above.
Judge White so far from elbowing free negroes
to the polls, took no active part whatever in the
1 contest, and gave no sort of support to his
! brother-in-law, Col. Williams. They have,
I ever since the origin of party in Tennessee,
I been political opponents. Col. Williams has
' always been an anti-Jackson man, and could
■ only be turned out of the United States Senate
I by the overpowering popularity ofthe “ Hero
I of Orleans,” who was his last competitor for
that appointment. It is needless for us to say
what has been Judge White’s politics: he has
been constantly distinguished as Gen. Jack
son’s most warm and efficient supporter in the
State; and yet the Standard of Union makes
such a charge against him, in the hope that at
this distant dav, and in this distant land, there
is no one who can contradict it.”
From the Macon Messenger.
The charge, againt Judge White of ’walking
arm and arm with a free Negro, refuted.
As was anticipated, this charge turns out to
I be a base and wicked falsehood.
The accusation at first came in such a ques
! tionable shape, that it required the most credu
| lons dupe to give it a momentary credence.—
i The time and circumstance, the when and
• where the story originated, carried with it its
' own refutation; but we are now able to give it
a direct and positive denial, which should,,
were it possible, overwhelm the originators of"
this pitiful tale, with shame and confusion.
This was like many other of the electioneer
ing stratagies used by our opponents to bolster
up their corrupt candidate by vilifying Judge
White, but its falsehood has been opportunely
detected, and will, with a moral people, recoil
upon the cause of those who were driven to
such miserable shifts, to pander to a depraved
taste for the strange and marvellous.
The Standard o] Union has challenged a
denial of the charge. We give the annexed
certificates, denying it in unqualified terms.
One ofthe certificates is from Col. Anderson,
who was the opponent of Col. Williams, the
very br< ‘her-m-law of Judge White, who was
I a candidate on the day and year certified to, by
the “respectable citizen of Georgia.” Thet
! other certificate is from fourteen ofthe citizens:
■ of Knoxville, (Tenn.) and we in our turn,,
i challenge a denial of their veracity of respec
| lability.
A generous enemy who has been the medi
: urn of propagating a false charge, will quickly
repair the injury he may have committed, by
giving as public a refutation of the calumny.,
If it will not be taxing too severely the dispo
sition and habits of our opponents, we would
ask of them to do an act of justice, and append
to the charge ofthe Standard of Union the an
nexed certificates.
I n justice to Judge White, we would observe.,
that the paragraph copied from the Standard of
Union, charging ! : ”*♦ "W---ying walked with
I locked ar - . ' Bot
*i • w
®jeoj >a
his character for veracity, by making so pub
licly, an assertion, incorrect or insusceptible of
proof. — Southern Spy.
LEY. HAltltlSOX.
We are not the partizans of Gen. Harrison,
nor do we advocate bis election to the Presiden
cy; but we deem it our duty as public journal
ists, to correct the vile calumnies which have
been ciiculated through the columns of the
Southern Banner and Standard of Union, in re
lation to his opinions on the subject of slavery.
We confess we are at a loss to think, what must
be the opinions of an honest, unbiassed mind,
in relation to a party, xvho rely so exclusively
upon misrepresentation for the support of the
cause they advocate? It is but a short time
since we had occasion to expose a similar trick,
of the collar gentry, relative to the opinions of
Mr. Van Buren on the the same subject. A
Pennsylvania Editor appealing to the society of
friends, to support Mr. Van Buren, because of
bis friendship to the cause of Abolition—while
his more reckless partizans at the South claim t
for him an attachment to the institution of slave
ry, not surpassed by that of any Southern man.
When exposed in this trick, not one dared to,
contradict, but with the readiness ofthe slander-,
er, in a desperate emergency, they immediately
charge upon Gen. Harrison Abolitionism, while
their brethren at the North, as zealously affirm.
that he is a decided advocate of slavery.
The following extract is from a Pennsylvania
Van Buren paper, which we will ask our rea
ders to place by the side of the Editorials of the
Southern Banner and Standard of Union, and
see how they agree. All must be irresistablv
forced to the same conclusion, that either the
Pennsylvania paper, or the Georgia papers must
have made a gross and wilful misrepresentation
of the General’s opinions. And who has been
guilty of this wanton violation of truth, we leave
our readers to judge, after informing them what
these veritable Georgia editors both knew, that
Gen. Harrison was a decided opponent of the
Missouri Restrictionists,among whom xvas their
Idol Martin Van Buren; and in which opposi
tion he was not sustained by the citizens of
Ohio.
Can it be possible that the people tolrnd-
ed, by their devotion to party, as to suffer them
selves gulled in this manner? hi different sec
tions ofthe Union, the advocates of Marlin Van
Buren claim for him a devotion to principles, as
opposite as the polls, and they are endeavorin;
to detract from the well earned reputation of
distinguished officer and statesman by the sam
base trick. We cannot be mistaken in the coi
elusion, that no honest man can look upon a caxu
(Which ' tr NA'l v u P on misreprese
.■TN it Mni.t the greatest n
>|> o r
tsjhaw-.
ItatFtf an 'iofW?Hymnot.
flmete sides H arrison’s attachment to slaver
kindftpQt consist only in his denial ofthe po
( to abolish it in the Distric
vliv fi ut 1 have been lately informed t.
? J f >A Governor of the Indiana Territory.
favor of iutrodueitig slavery into t
—and this too against the expres
of Congress. I am not surpri
that the General should be in favor of slav
He is a native of Virginia—has southern 1
ings; and I see by a late paper that he is t
on an excursion through \ irginia, with v
view it (snot difficult to infer. Why doe.- '
not pay us ofthe middle and northern se<
a visit! Is it not because the leading slax
men of the S'Hlh, "ho go farthest iq the