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GEORGE W. CRAWFORD.
WUf InsMtUt SomlosBoss.
II Dnwicr. Bfroo &1 b.rtr-C»«»wo> Bim,
tm very aml.iliuusihat my Loys anti girls should j
( Here comes the O'.d Schoolmaster cr.ce more j a3 evgert in lire elegant art of penmanship ns
to speak lor himself. Tho-ukl man, more'areas-! myself.) 1 looked around and saw my school '
to rcocrus ja».ce .. no snomu ™ , , 0 n& th „ lrath rf the deceit.! titter: (and here I take oecasi.
aas Those “who lire along the coast. .wiU
lister really believes what he asserts, viz: that |
the up-country people are abolitionists, bow is he
suiface” w ill bare to suffer,
sectional In his feelings, should never,
the Governor of the whole State. ;
Me In to* h ft Girnn—IJ- Giosiujatt.
Appllnj..nd Monl,°n.rn--J. Hwujt.
Ft cm the Scu!hcni fl-cmutr.
IIere comes the Old Schoolmaster cnee
to speak lor himself. The *fei man, more ;
. fulness of mere partizanabfp, seems sumowhaJ
be the guardians cf his love, and the up-country astonished at the attempts Uf mate his figure*
' ’* A man who is so tell two tales, and altogether-;Astounded at the I a ' v jieez
be made in <kcertt manner in which ~ the venerable Pike”} the ceili
From lit Suvaznck Br^uUicaa.
Uarrawius aii tiidlan. ...
By the way, wo see that some of tbo “ inside
x to remark. lint Democratic presses are' disposed io take .short
wvU regulated schools, the boys and girls hand ph.eesad* gcltiug liJot Mr. Me Alusiers
Irarnto smother a laugh, and change it into : ** "beat growing" speech, binding *bat too
lie.) Billy had his eyes turned to j white basis will not answer—and Rooking
has been handled by those ,who are
1 tomed to deal in iigures poetical; than in figure
. _ . . ... | mathematical. But if \vc mistake not,-the m\s-1
Dimng Commenccmeot week we .rmled our- IiSc „ win di4COTtf totWl disCllloSlBr< , jllil
ilt with our no. AM i .... i . j .»
e'wotching'tlie work of «HrWiiul*r, 1 with confusion and danu upon Ilia shoj 1 "™ •»<
V Lawodsssnd Wir*-■ 0*«-L J Ksmbt-
VII Oull-Fcb ft Tat'naH—B*** Bsiwv s
VIU *. «crit»»sodEffiiA , m-'W.Mc«*«*oui.
X L»aretw*a«IWiUii«w.ifl-TW. Kfso.
XIV *• Sfewirt and X hdolph—W Botktos.
XVI ' * Mm**** A llsrrw—J.S Calrocw.
XVII * “ H i«»toiiftM»coi»-Jo»ii Bst*"t.
XVIII •* Talbot and M*r»on Dt U- V Smiao.
XXI “ Waalrinfunr and Jeffrnon-D Co*»t.
XXII Richmond andjDofnmbi*—A. J.MaisS.
XXVI “ Monroe and Pike Cass. McDdwii.l.
XXVII “ Crawford ft Bp^m—Wn M Bi««
XXIX " Tn«P end H«»rd—Dr. R. A. T. RipcsV-
XXXIII “ N-wlao & Walion—P G Monn.-w.
XXXIV ** Gre**r and M*r«*n—M*J Tsomas ST-cs^
XXXVI v 4»ert «nd Frjnkl.n-Jiwor.rr » W Allzm
XXXVIII Jtckann and CIs^-Midoi *t<'S Witj.
XXXIX— DcXalkftG^rinnetf—W.t.LU» Nobit.
XLt * C»b«nd CS*w*Wee—Jawcs B«asow
XLVII " Floyd and Chattooga—Wm.ua Saws.
R, McAllister**Opinion •* tlic People «f
the upn^untry. |
Extract from iff. Hall McAllister's oration delivered
in Savannah, 4th cf July, 1834, charging tie up.
country people wUh favoring the abolition if slaxery.
“ No my countrymen, it is from a different quarter
we must expect interference with our rights. look
nUVXt the oistAnt horizon for the coming tempest.
When the thunder-cloud may be ready to burst over
vour heads'. Did Congress legislate upon the inter-
eatto^Wch allusion is now .Sade in the State, of
jj eir York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware!
——Did not the blow come from the respective Legisla
tures of those Sta/es ? Refer to the struggles be
tween the mountain and Atlantic districts ot Virginia
in relation to this species of property, which for
years past has agitated that State, and which
selves ol the opportunity to consult whb our po- J Old Schoolmaster, eecbcw* poetry, he is dcn«h
litical friends from every part of the State. They upon a syllogism, ‘and cant be forced to call a
■as. land raiding away about crab apples, horse op-
s | pies, and apple brandy.
“ Stop, Billy,” said I, “ is that in tho hook.”
“ I d«»u*t know,” was the innoceut reply.
crooked line straight, nor a line all round the
shortest distance between two points. The eld
man gets bis sum from the records ft the State;
and in working nut the quotient, standing as he
says, on the five fundamental and eternal rules
of arithmetic, be defies truthful contradiction ;
and by the side of “ the venerable Pike,* .spits
upon the imputations of error. -He has got his
sum from the records ; he has worked it out and
proved it.: Let those believe-him false, who in
cline to poetry more than fo numbers—who pre
fer a gingle at the end of iheir poetic lines, rather
than the same sound in the Treasury at the end
of the year. The Old Schoolmaster is no great
things on poetry, so far as heard from; but thirty,
seven years among the fundamentals, is not the
sort of thing to bo overthrown by the spruce as
piring youngsters rearing their heads against him
like mushrooms, some of whom, It is very likely,
xprewed but one opinion, ar.d that was, that
the administration of Governor Crawford would
be sanctioned by the people, and be would be tri
umphantly re-elected. We heard not the first
man, Whig or Democrat, disapprove of a solitary
act of hi* administration, and all admitted that he
had made an - excellent Governor. The office
seekers of the Democratic party, such as Col
our, Cooper, Cobb, dec. dec., held a CAUCUS
composed almost entirely, we understand, of men
holding office or seeking it, at which they come
to the conclusion that they bad no other chance
to succeed, but to excite the people. Their plan
doubt, will be, to have mass meetings through
out the State in the latter part of September, for
the purpose, of “getting up an excitement.”-— , „ , , . „ - , -
iiru . . ” .r . . r .. the Schoolmaster mav have found it utterly im-
What a commentary upon the intelligence of the I ih|e t<) indoctrin ;,, n bv t)irch or ...herwi,.,
people, and what a compliment to tho administra- even into the mysteries of the multiplication
lion of Governor Crawford. Will the people table.
You. made it, Billy.'
Welrt reckon I did.' ^
Take your seat* and get your leSson accord,
tng to the book.” - 7 ;
SCIXPOLMASTER.
impotent Excuse based upon 7 the “variation of
circtunsUipccs and seasons’* which has been is
sued liy'tbe organ in this city-—they have deter
mined toe scape from tbo whole difficulty bv pro-
. nounciag the extract a fprgeiy !. IVe have now
b^sote us a ’letter Trc-iii the 'western part of the
State, requesting us Jo publish the entire speech.
prciH Ik* Louirriflr JoanwL
O.eaon n-rritorr.
Perhaps theie are notwo things which differ
moro entirely in all respects than a fancy picture
of Oregon and a real landscape of that remarka
ble region. In the fancy picture, trees and flow
ers, are most luxuriant and fresh to look upon j
the rivers are broad, silvery, and capable of
bearing on their bosoms the largest vessels; the
atmosphere is as brilliant as that of Greece; all
sorts of animals arc lively; fat, and abundant • and,
in fine, tho country is the most charming that
the man in the moon i» bis peregrinations has
the felicity of beholding.-—This is the picture ot
i Oregon that is painted on the imaginations of
fur the reason that if the exlracl be not qualified \ tiioso who havo made up their minds to make that
RZr. 9IcAltiw|cr*s Fourtb of Jn)j Spcecb.
Acrordiiig to promise, and to the exelusion of
considerable editorial and other matter^ we give
to-day the celebrated Wheat-growing speech of j Irom the simple fact that they have not been cal
explained atray by other parts of the oration,
there are certain propfmeut Democrats there
who have determined trv abandon Mr. McAl’is-
ter's support. Although Wo think any one ought
to be satisiredwith the correctness of our extracts.
of Mr. McAllister's State Rights principles)
it will doubtless serve to quicken the
‘‘of some of those vnchangetl Nullifiera
now supporting him .i * “
of Georgia sanction such a proceeding to gratify
the ambition of it few reckless, broken down,
and dissatisfied politicians? Can it be possible
that they will cast aside a faithful public servant,
to gratify such men as Colquitt and Cooper,
who would belong to any party that will give
ih m office.
A Coincidence.
In 1811, the names of Messrs. Ashley, How
ard and Puimzt, occur among the graduating
f tyi! “cssentini l'o il7]>rofp^y willinaff.u} years tear j class of that year at our State Institution. Last
more fhlly developed in their recent Convention.
look to the surface of your own Slate, and you mil per
ceive that the represent ices in our domestic Legislature
from that portion of the State where our peculiar priper-
no proportion to the number of those who will represent. we ek their three sons graduated, the parents be-
suhtat growing communil), whrrr. “ ing present on the oecasion.
of labor may, and probably will be entirely dispeks- I ® •
tn with. What thee will become of our rights i
LEFT TO THE “ SUPREME SOVEBEIGHTY” OF A MAJORITY
or the teople of the State ? Be not deluded, my
countrymen. The best protection we who five along
tho coast can have for our rights is to be found in an
equal support of the General and State Governments,
in order that each may servo as a check upon the
other.” • > * ’
The Difference between Democratic ft Whig
Expenditure*.
. . TEJUTEHTlARt.
Spent annually % the Democrats, 818.625 00
Saved annually by Gov. Crawford, 25,369 52
PRWTIRO FUHD.
Spent annually by the Democrats, $17,215 96
do ** do by Gov. Crawford, 9,256 57
CORTIHGSirr pu»d.
Spent anndally by the Democrats, $25,628 00
*do do by Gov. Crawford, 9,180 00
MILITARY TURD.
Spent annually by the Democrats, $2,682 58
do do by Gov. Crawford, 1,980 54
i LEGISLATURE.
Spent annually by tho Damocrats, 83,347 91
do do by tho Whigs, 76,978 86
Showing a saving io the Stato, in ono year, oi
the sum of Sixty-six Thousand Eight Hundred
JLHD Fo»TY«ElOnT DOLLARS AND SEVENTEEN
Cents!! I
non roe ItulI-Uou J bold.
From tho Macon Messenger we learn that this
Road was knocked down to Jerry Cowles,
Esq., at the sum of one hurdicd and fifty-Lve
thousand one hundred dollars. The Georgia Rail
Road Company were the competitors of Mr.
Cowles, and their hightest bid was, $153,000—
Hall of the stock of the Monroe Rail Road
owned by New York capitalists, represented by
Mr. Cowles.
stand aside to let Old Schoolmaster
speak.” Listen, people of Georgia, to his words,
for they are the words of truth and soberness.
And although the rudeness of the bad boys has
in this number excited the old man to the discip
line of the rod sarcastic, even in this, thort is
reality—there is no poetry in the marks it
leaves.
School House. August 1, 1845.
Before I aui proven wrong, the record must
lie disproved.”
These are the brave words of the Schoolmas
ter, uttered calmly, and sustained fully. Their
effects is to be ascertained; their impression,
to the extent of a general observation, has
been to awaken no positive and direct, denials,
e excuses and explanations. Of these,
the whole scope and tendency are to exhibit tjiat
the present administration has not been more fru<
gal than she one which
hearer,” we will give the AdJirss entire
- In the mean lime we append
Mr. McAllister. It is copied entire, with the {ltd in question by the paper from which they were
correspondence fiomthe Georgian, of August 5th,»taken; still, ns the whole speech is a rich sped-
1834. The paragraps to which We. particularly j men * - ” ‘
intite the attention of the public; are those which j and
refer to -the oppressions of the General Gzveto- ] emv
men/—which charge Abolitionism upon the peo
ple of the “ icheal growing” sections of the State,
and \vhich<td/n& the'right of the General Gov-'
ernment to to check a majority of the people in
the exercise ol'iheir supreme sovereignty. Other
parts of the speech . might, and doubtless will,
call forth the criticisms of the press. The whole
speech was lauded and endorsed, of course, by
his o'rganat the time, as a production “ replete
with American feeling, abounding in chaste and
illustrations of our glorious system of Gov.
crumentj and awaking the proudest lecplleciions
of freeman!” As evidence of the favor with
wh*.;b this complimentary notice of the up-coun
trymen of our State was then received by the
assembled Democracy of Chatham, we are told
by the editor in his paperofJuly 7th, that “the
Orator was frequently interrupted by the plaudits
of the assembled citizens, and cheered by the
waving, byr the fair of their hankcrcbiefs ”!!
After this patriotic burst against the “ wheat
growers,” we are further told that a procession
was formed and marched to thq Bay, where
‘ nine cheers to the Orator were proposed, and
responded to with enthusiasm by the vast assem
bly”!
It will be remembered that this was a party
Celebration, gotten up and carried through by
the then Union men of Chatham, so that whatev.
laud their homes. Oregon itself presents a very
different kind of picture to the eye of on artist.—
It is a vast succession of mountains that produce
volcanic rocks, and valleys of sand which pro
duce ticks and prickly pears. Such is the gener
al appearanc of the territory. In vain does the
anxiouseye of the emigrant wander over the ster
ile expanse in search of greenness. He finds it
only in his own person. He comes sometimes
on an enterprising catnmout, that is travelling,
like 1.bn self, in quest of i region in which a cata
mount may pursue his vocation with decency and
dignity, hut has lost his flesh and his heart in
-{the bootless eSort.—There are beavers and
graph which looks a little as it Mr. McAllister muskrats along the rivers, but they are the only
had in those Nullification days a kindly feeling | quadrupeds to lie met with. It is true that the
towards the Tariff. It is true, that tu this ex- entomological department is rich in variety and
... , f , ur honor or shame may herealter attach to it will
... r preclu ded rt at lest, as 11 i }e \ 01 ,g exclusively to Mr. McAllister l and his
nciuded from the nunioers ot a person | assc)C i a te S . If Savannah has been rendered un-
who3e war name is “ Piney W»H»ds.”
I m iy not thoroughly esunprehend the logic of
politicians, but.I do profess a knowledge of the
I'enemble Piko. With tho ski J at syllogism, I
am afraid that the pubiiu may be puzzled with
something iike the catch of the Sophomore who
proved to his father and mother, that /iro birds are
three lirds, after this manner. Tho boy had
~ _ ~— I just returned from College, and maintained as a
^ 41* w» Ilfcitoni. startler to the old people, that his propossitjon
The elecnon news from Alabama .sfrom a few „ true . When two birds had been prepared
counties only, and those Whig counties. It is f or supper;
probable that Gen. Hillard (Whig) is elected J Now, says tho father, prove that these two are
to Congress. The returns are much the same three birds,
they were in November last—neither party-
gaining or losing much.
(ttT la accordance with a custom that has now
become general, and in order that our sheet inay,
during tho Gubernatorial canvass in this State,
be as widely circulated as possible, we have been
induced to make the following proposition.
We will famish the Whig from the present
date until tho rosult of the October election has
been ascertained—
1 eop» tov
■4 £ CO .MO* to one address, 3,00
, jo »• •• •• „ 5,00
The cash.must in nil instances accompany or
der# (or the paper at the above rates, as no ac
count* will be opened.
Sir- McAllisternnd the Cp-l’annlry,
We have been anxiously waiting for an ex
planation from Mr. McAllister to his up-coun
try friends, for having in 1834, charged thorn
with being abolitionists. Sometimo since, the
Southern Banner said that ho was mistaken In
would cheer
fully acknowledge it. But as yet, not a jpord of
explanation o? acknowledgement. At the Indi-
an Springs, Mr. .McAllister made a public
spaech.and then was the time for him to have
explained to the up-countiy, why he charged
Tennessee Election.
The returns from this State, as- far as heard
team, are very favorable. They show that the
Whigs are gaining ground instead of losing, and
that the Whig ticket will succeed by a respecta
ble majority.
We will publish the'whole of of Mr. McAllis
ter's speech against the up-country next week.
ITlr. Pollcand bl* Administration.
The signs of disaffection among tho partizans
who placed Mr. Polk in power are becoming eve-
day more and more numerous and uueqivocal.
is to no purpose that the “ Union” lauds the in
dustry and patriotism of the President; even the
name of “Young Hickory,” which it is fond of
giving him, fails to allay the rising discontents of
tho party.
Iiow far Mr. Polk is to hlame for thus fallin,
short of his expectations of his supporters we d
not undertake to guess In the first place it is
none ofoui business; and in the second place we
do uotcarc to investigate the subject. Doubtless
those «f his friends who have received office are
well satisfied with his administration ofthe pub
lic affairs, and think that it is very wrong in any
of the party to find fault, with him. Tl ,m “ -tuu
who expect oDw'-'oio piobably ot Opinion ihat Mr.
Polk wifi do very well yet, although they may
i possibly consider that he is getting along rather
too slowly.
The friends of Mr. Calhoun in South Carolina
scarcely preserve the form of adherence to the
administration. They openly stand aloof; they
loudly declare their dissatisfaction. Not one of
them could bo found to accept the mission to En
gland. The rejection of Mr. Calhoun himself
from the State Department was amoral blow toall
If, says the son, I put one bird on your plate,
that is one bird; and then place the other also
on it, that will be two birds; and one and two
make three.
You are right, my son. Wife, you take
these birds, and I the other; tho third is left -to
Billy for his logic and supper.
But upon figures I stand with eternal confi
dence. We have had an acquaintanceship qt
some thirty-seven years, and 1 have found them
always as true as some of tho friendships and
enmities of life.
Y ou can’t cheat them, as was said of a Sur-
compass, by a man who had blazed a
popular in the up-country, they are to bo held
answ’ctttbi© for it. The State Rights party then
as the Whig party now, defended their brethren
of the interior against this attack of the Demo
cratic nominee. In the Republican of the 16th
September, 1834, we find a very able and dis
criminating article appealing to the people not
to make his sentiments their own, by honoring
him with a seat in the State Senate. In the rage
of party excitement this appeal was unheeded,
Mr. McAllister was elected and this very fact
may account in part for tho failure,-in 1835, of
the Central Rail Road Bill, in the Senate, while
it passed the House under the gUatdianehip of
Messers. Gordon & Mi lien with comparitivc
ease. We wish it to bo remembered that the
Democratic party in the Legislature of 1835,
was largely in the majority, and that for some
cause or other, Mr. McAllister’s influence was
not sufficient to rally his own friends to tho sup
port of the measure. Though Chatham-erred
in 1834, she will endeavor to be true to herself
and true to the gallant men of the interior in
1845. This is not a mere party^struggle—item,
braces tho whole subject of good government—
■fr^srfav 8 the friends of an economical State ad
ministration against certain leaders who
fighting only for the spoils of office, and who,
tract the word does not appear. With character
istic caution his expressions are alFselcctcd from
the Van Buren vocabulary. - It so happens how
ever, that tho only oppressions complained of in
the days of Nullification, were supps.-y^d to arise
from the Tariff laws, and the only feltrrs rccog.
nized were those forged in the same shbp.
It may be gratifying to those jSullificrs who
are now in the support of Mr. McAllister, to know
that in ’34, he looked with sevtnuch complacency
and coolness upon ihe fetters which they supposed
were chafing their patriot arms, and that he could
even Mtmi, them by calling upon then) to shake
them in his ears, in order that he might know
of a truth that they were net holders out of false
pretences. “Show us your fetters— show usyoitr
fetters/” was his language to the old State Rights
mcif in 1834! Now that he is a candidate, and
as his-organ has said about his “wheatgrowing
speech, as circtimstanccs and seasons vary,” he
most modestly takes the poor enslaved Nullifiers
into his embraces, appoints them to posts under
him, and is proclaimed by hisf organ—the groat
“ vindicator of all those republican ‘ principles
which were sustained by the bid Sla'cJflights par
ty in 1832” / Oh, hush! Wc have read the
laughable hoax about the renowned Mr. Fig-
the real Tecumseh killer—and the man who bor
rowed the Indian from Col. R. M, Johnson-
wo have understood that the whole community
havo been laughing in their sleeve for tho last
ten days at the most amiablo tomi.er displayed J 0 ( surg i ca ] instn ilirats and leeches. They bleed
by our opponents in regard to a certain letter— I tin, pretty offrcuiitlly. They bleed him in lie
■o nevpT dreamed that the Democratic - stan- j j„ ,)l« l.e!d, by night and by day, a: ill
dard bearer” would be compelled to borrow that j an j 11 -
Nullification Indian for the campaign ! Is it not
too bad that nobody wiilloan Mr. McAllister
line on his neighbor’s land. 1 hey will go w j, en j„ power, brought the State of Georgia to
their own way, and that is always the same way., t j ie v verge of bankruptcy.—Suwannah Rc-
To them I appeal in the examination ot the ta- J p U f ) ii cant
bles it has pleased “ Piney Woods” to put forth, | —
and see whether he has not done up tho thing . The Subtreasury,
afittle too brown. Now for his figuring—■ | “Among the resolutions adopted by theBalti.
632,000 j more Convention,” (says the Union of Wcdnea-
To pay Peuitentiary debts,
Stock of materials on hand,
Appropriations for repairs and subsis
tence for 1844 aud 1845.
44,452 . fiay,) “ was one in favor of tho Independent Trea-
anety i
character; there is no region in which block
and musquitoos flourish more abundantly,
arid it the happiness of n pei«oa'-i? in proportion
to the nuniber ot bites made on his body by hun
gering and thirsting insects, Oregou is the very
clime, tb«> El Dorado, fur him.
It happens once in while that n fellow hn»
been to Oregon in quest ofhappiuces manages
to save enough muscle from tho depredations of
fevers and musquitoes to bring him buck to the
United States. Such miraculous escapes have-
happened, and may possibly again occur. One
person was recently so lucky as to get back to
New York from the beautifying Oregon, ana he
has given the New York Tribune an account of
the conntry. He found that Oregon is a remarka
bly hard country to make a living in, as the soil-
is sterile and miserably rocky. Of tho climate-
he was greatly enamored. Although the winters
are not very cold, they are very rainy, and the
summer nights, instead of being warm, are cold
and frosty.
Now this is very true, and, inconsequence of
the heat ofthe day and the chilliness of the nights
in summer, Bilious fevers and old-fashioned fe
vers aud agues invade every body within their
reach. Men, Women, and children burn up
and freeze up every day in the alternations of
disease; In these diseases there is no neces
sity to resort to the lancet, ns the musquitces are
Iways ready to save the poor devils the expense
i ali places.
Indian in his distress. We are inclined to think
that by the aid of one he might even be able to
get over that impassable gulf which seems to cx-
betwcen 'him and his cedebrated letter to
Johnny Q. Indeed jve almost fancy that we
hear him with husky voice calling upon Gener
als Sanford and Nelson for aid and exclaiming :
■ “An Indian ! an Indian!
A kingdom for an Indian”!
However, we will not louger keep our readers
from the Tariffcxlreri of the celebrated Fourth of
July speech of 1834. The whole speech will
appear to morrow ;
“Should you bo called on by tty? advocates of
exclusive-State sovereignty to contradict the evi
dence of your own senses, and be rceiiired to be
lieve that you are an enslaved or oppresssed peo-
pie, point them to the past and prestnt prosperi
ty of your State, and ask of them a parallel in all
histoiy for the rapidity with which ’ the fifteen
individuals who disembarked
When you aro in Oregcn you cannot get to
any spot from which you may not sec mountains
clad in eternal snows ; and every night in sum
mer as well as in winter, old Jack I rest conics
ihing down from these snowy cliffs and chills
those little rills of blood in the neighborhood of
the human heart into which neither musquito,
sand-tick, or gallinipper can plunge his sucker.
The frosts kill every thing that cannot, like white
bears, live on frost and icicles. Henco prickly
pears is the only plant that flourishes,ami one can
have just as many patches of that beautiful, Vbl-
vety; and firiger-and-shin-dclighting plant as ono
pleases without incurring expense ol labor.
Corn cannot grow in Oregon, and hence the
indication of dodgers and pones is a felicity
which -like one’s first love, is w dream ofthe past.
In the absence of corn and carrion, crows and
buzzards are very scarce indeed, as these sooty
birds are for too smart to go where such luxuries
m ms iiiiec arc un ^ no ' vn * B* a nubbin shall ever be raised
yoiKler strand]!Oregon, we hope it may be sent to this part
havo expanded into a population of half a million j °*^rld to disprove,
of freeman ? Demand from them a tight of your ‘ ^°^4ryVe w nfen who °
894,452
Ho immediately says—
The penitcutiary has been a tax upon the pe^-exA
812,000 each, year siwe-i-^creatiou in 1816.
Guv. Crawt't'r4,a^ , 4k> years,
.*.« erage for two years previous,
894,452
24.000
rtUuh .MW**- «.a dubbea «hc» St
u aurface.” During the Commencement week,
just pa*t» ha had a fine opportunity of doing jus
tice to that portion of the country he has so wan
tonly slandered, that is, it he had been convinced
of his qrror. We cannot imagine how he can
bare the hardihood to travel among a people, that
lie believed would rob those “ who live along
the coast” of their negroes. We .are unable to
perceive how he can reconcile it to bis conscious
to go about. soliciting votes from that com mun i ty
he declared to be the “surface,” in other words
tho scum ofthe State. He has very little deli
cacy in appearing before -the up-country, after
making the remarks he did in 1834, that we keep
at the head of our columns. He has mistaken
the up-country people, if he thinks he can-, call
them by all sort ot names, and that they have so
little resentment that they will turn round and
lick the hand that smites them. But the worst
feature in this whole affair is, that by his silence,
be persists in the remarks he made in 1834.
If he was mistaken, why does he not come out
and say so, if he has done the up-country injus-
tico, why not like an honorable man, come out
and acknowledge it. No, the truth is; he knows
that it will not do to speak well of the up-country
people, for fear those “ who live along the coast”
might not approve it. Bes'des, he no doubt sti.I
believes that we are abolitionists, and that we are
the w surface,” in other words the scum of the
State. This is tho construction that charity
would plaoe upon his insulting silence. Towards
Mr. McAllister, we entertain no ill will, hut
we hesitate not in declaring it as our honest opin
ion, that there is not such another instance upon
record of a man, without provocation, abusing a
pie as he has, and then solicit their votes to
i that office wheie he may govern
a in hi# own peculiar way. If Mr. McAl-
Tariff! They do not seo how he can reconcile
his own declarations, os made to Pensylvania,
with bis anti-tariff views held out to the
South*
Again j the position of Mr. Benton is otie ol a
doubtful character. He cannot forget the part he
acted in the annexation b siness; still less can
he forget tho part he was forced to act in that bu
siness. Ho cannot overlook the ominous dis
missal of the conductors of the Globe from their
post,ajournalcstab!isment by General Jackson as
Let us stick a pin here, 870,452
Again, he says— , ,
Expenses and expenditures ofthe Whig Legisla
ture of1843. $227,217
Expenses and expenditures of the De-
moctatic Legislature of 1841- 169,055
In favor of the Democrats, . , " $58,162
If by the second of tho five fundamental rules
ofaritinnetic, the sum of $109,000 should be ad
ded, (it being spent in part payment of the pablic
debt by'Gov. Crawford,) I asseverate and main
tain. according to the doctrine cf numbers; that
they make in the total two hundred and twenty
eight thousand six hundred aud fourteen dol
lars.
As above. ~ 870,452
58,102
Paid on the public debt by Gov, Craw,
fort! 100,000
Grand total, $228,614
Now, I ask. in the name of the tax payers,
»n official oFg&o, and devoted to the interests 0 f| where did the money come from ? . - « . .
that portion of the party with which Mr. Benton ! DYJov. Crawford has wasted, and paid soTOncfc'TX3ti«oaree of issue; and the clause ot the Con-
. ... ... * . . I 1.1. 11] n nn v» pnmiirv i o otihillnn CtrViIrDanrr fKa .Qlol— tn omit tilth frfr.TRn.
... These resolutions have ever been regard-
18,000 . ed by the President as indicating the .pnUcy tiy
which his administration » v '*>a»u be governed.
The IndependeDi Treiisury was sustained by the
vote of jth« President and of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and further experience .has only con
firmed the vie^s taken by both. The specie
pokey will be sustained in all its vigor; the coin
age will be increased ; the foreign gold coin,
which does not circulate, will be converted as
rapidly as possible into the half and quarter ea
gle ; and all other proper means will be used
(including the recommendation of the Indepen
dent Treasury) to secure to the people an abun
dant supply of the constitutional currency.”
Another attempt at the Subtreasury! Veiy
wellthe Union is frank and explicit. Are we
Jo have a bankrupt law for corporations also l
Mr. Van Buren; who looked further ahead in this
matter than any other man of his party, was ve-
ry particular about that. -
. .Taking the Subtreasury as a sytera, final and
conclusive in itself; It is ono ofthe most absurd
devices that over deluded a demagogue-ridden
people. As an initiatoiy step to something else, it
presents a different aspect. With a bankrupt
law for corporations, requiriug every bank, on a
failure to pay specie» to be put in liquidation, the
whole banking system of the country could lie
swept away by the agency of the Subtreasury ac
tion; aided by the power of the Government over
the disposal ofthe public deposites. Upon the
ruins'of the system thus overthrown a national
system of currency might be erected, ha vingbut
statement of the im-
n*n in that climate.
filters-aad ifthey poiat to I „ *«7'«» man who™ to Oregon ivith theintan-
Ihe legislation ofC»Wi iSch, tell them to "* ol 90t,lln S 'hamaelvea there, remain more
looje'abrc£a "upon the surface eftbeir extended ! 'j! 1 " ™ e sn f°"' " ot - bow9TCr >>«ause hey all
country to contemplate the diversity of her soil, 1 ,, le . , . 19 ^ r3t year, though many do drag
ouuuiry iu cuiuemiuaie 'lie uivursuy oi uer soil,) , . . ° ° -----j ~
her climate, her productions, the extent of her ^‘‘e^ miseraUo carcases thither oiffy to .find rois-
D united. We observe rumors to the effect that more than his predecessor, the next enquiry is,
Mr. Be ut on w II oppose the course ofthe Admin-! whatd »d his predecessor do with the public mc-
istration in its Oregon negot ations—perhaps he I ne J ? The ,ax * aW <^1844: andl84o,is the same
will condemn it tor negotiations at all. as ’bat of 1843, and yet m the latter year, no part
With so many rival interests to conciliate, with * *be public debt was paid- Of a surety, these
so miny conflicting Views'to harmonize, pressed • Whigs and their Governor must he,
on all sides by contradictory advisers and cm- 1 = 1 “~ l * nm
barrassed by his own indiscretions, offending one
faction by his efforts to appease another, without
force and to hold on to a definite course, the
President has probably found out before now that
bis place is not one of enjoyment, and he is per
haps now finding out that the prospect Of the fu
ture offers no likelihood of tho disappearance of
his difficulties, hot rather the assurance of their In
crease.-
The meeting of the next Congress may bring
bis troubles tc their first crisis and open adefinite
developement of a series of dilemmas. The as
pirants to the next Presidency will ihen begin to
lay out their courses and distanced—and what
a hurly-burly of intrigues may wo then expect!
Public business, the interests of Ohe country. Its
honor and safety—what are these in comparison
with the advancement of this man and his friends,
the overthrow ol that pretender and his followers 1
The spoils, the spoils—-ah, how engrossing is the
prospect of the rich plunder of the offices and
emoluments of the Government! The glittering
vision of Mexican wealth, by and bye to be held
up os tho allurement to some new movement, is
not moro fascinating than the rich aspect ot offi
cial aggrandizement which Democracy now offers
to her votaries.—Baltimore American.
We often
school, mart fellows, if from a pile of mo-
territory, and tell them that it is as much to be
xpected that the waters ofthe Atlantic will bear
equally at the same time upon e very part of the
coast, as that the legislation of Congress will
operate with perfect equality at one and the same
time upon ©very portion of this wide spread con
federacy. Tell them that these inequalities have
been endured by other portions of our country,
and that a redress for them is to be found in that
spirit of forbearance and concession of which our
Constitution was the offspring, and by a timely
pplication of those remedies so amply provided
by that instrument.”
A Firo nt St-Augustine.
The St. Augustine News fthe 26th ult. con
tains an account of afire in that city, in which
'buildings belonging to Major Hernandez
and Mr. Crespo were destroyed.
The account closes thus:
We have had a conversation with Mr. Gres-
ney*of the same size, they can waste more, and
still pay more, than any ofthe tried Democrats!
Try it again, Mr. “ Piney Woods,” your fox skin
is too fet; you have done great harm by sinning
against figures. Stick to them truly, and they
will truly stick to you; pervert them as you
have, and they ore more innocent than your
self. . ,
You remind me of Bffly Schlipe, a vain dreamy
boy, who never could correctly recite bis lessons.
I remember once, when Billy had advanced from
spelling to reading, and was called up by my side
to read the first fable in Webster’s spelling book.
At the same time one of the pupils brought his
writing book, that I might set a copy. Billy and
myself took an even start. He squeaked out,
“ An old man found a rude boy on one of his trees
stealing apples”—and I commenced writing,
“ Evil couunuuicatioii3 corrupt good manners.”
When I had finished the copy with greats care, (as
• Can you not prove by figures, Messrs Editors,
that tho Democratic pile was larger by reason of
the sale of reverted lands, and payments af mil
itary claims ofthe Stato by the Federal Govern
ment ? I want the figures of arithmetic, and not
of taftcy. ' O. S.
stitution forbidding the State to emit bills of cred
it could be strictly applied.
> Mr. Van Buren’s ierm of four years was almost
entirely taken up in. efforts to get the Subtieasu-
ry bill through Congress. If he had succeeded
in 1827, when he first proposed it, there would
have been time enough perhaps for bringing its
action to bear efficiently, as the shrewd states
man of tho safety fund system most probably de
signed. He failed until success was of no.avail,
and in that failure was Involved the loss of-the
Presidency in the election of 1840. The Sub-
treasury lay an unwidply form, without the spb
rifof life in it—useless, impracticable .—‘Balti
more American.
Messrs Editors:—Mr. McAllister’s “ Wheal
growing speechhas furnished quite a harvest to
the wags. I send you two samples ofthe crop,
which may be classed from “ fair -to middling.”
A friend of mine, afier reading the speech in
your paper of the 6th instant, on being asked
how he thought it would affect the “standard
bearer” in the up-country, replied that it would
work decidedly against the grain with him.
A prominent Democrat is also reported to
have said that, McAllister’s wheat speech, would
cause him to make many rye feces, before the
election.
“ Many a true word is spoken in jest,” say the
aid adage. Please publish and oblige, Q-
[Savannah Republican.]
able graves. They who have strength enough
withstand the depredations of disease and in
sects, leave on the opening spring, for California,
where there is a fine opening for emigrants. It
is said by some rather unroinantic individuals
that there are valleys in Oregon where humau
life is endurable and we suppose the statement is
true, as we occasionally hear from persons who
have contrived to live a little while in the neigh
borhood opr tho VVallametie river.—How they
live we have not been informed, notwithstanding
we have long felt an irrepressible curiosity to
learn.
Some of the Locofocos talk of taking possess
ion of Oregon. That is absolutely impossible.
The United Sratcs Government may and wo
hopo will continue to call Oregon a portion of its
territory, but to take possesion of it in any other
sense is against the laws of Nature. Oregon
will never be divided out into States, counties, .
wnships, and forms, because such divisions
po, who states that several bundles of wearing 1 j m ply population, and population there is utterly
apparel were thrown from his balcony into the impracticable. Mehomct Ali may as well under
street ; in one of them there was a package of take to populate the Great African Desert, as
money—about eight hundred dollars; these bun
dies were carried off by somebody, and his fami
ly are nearly destitute of clothing. Mr. C. earn-
estly requests any of his neighbours (or any
other persons) who may meet with said bundles
or any of them, particularly the one containing
the money, to give him information ofthe feet, or
to send the same to him athis houses The mon
ey was chiefly in South Carolina' bills, about
thirty dollars in gold, and a few dollars in silver.
We hope thefinlcr will make immediate resti
tution, as’Mr. C.’s losses are very great, (ip pro-
portion to his capacity tobear loss) and he has a
very largo family dependent entirely upon his ex
ertions for support. Mr. Crespo states his losses
to he $2,200.” ' -
“Public sentiment” has had little to with re.
movals under Mr. Polk » the interests, consolida
tion; and permanent strengthening of party have
been the great objects. In Philadelphia, Cal
vin Blythe has been removed from the Custom
house to make way for Henry Horn. - Where are
the evidences that “ public seutiment”. demand,
ed the change t In “honesty and capacity,.’
the Jeffersonian touchstones, is Mr. Blythe in.
feriortohis successor? But as “the Union’
says “ removals” have been called for imperi
ously by “public sentiment,” we would ask if
the same cause has operated on the “ appoint
ment!’ of divers members ofthe Empire Club to
rcsp^nsable stations in New York f If so, pub
lic sentiment is a dangerous dictator.—Phila
delphia Gazette.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
the United States undertake to populate Oregon,
tvhich is one vast desert larger and as sterile as
Sahara. It can’t be populated with men, or any
olher tribe of animals that we know Of with the’
exception of chameleons and lovers, which crea.
tures, it is said can live on air.- All animals,
with the exceptions we have made, have stom
achs which must be fed, and blood-vessels jvbich
must be filled, and as nineteen-twentieths ofthe*
whole territory is incapable of producing food that
will subsist bipeds and quadrupeds, it is alto
gether absurd to talk of taking possesion of it.
Graham as it is said, shown very conclusive
ly that the human body can be, nourished by saw
dust bread, and if some enterprising philosipher
shall transcend the sublime discovery of Graham,
and contrive a plan by which volcanic rocks, and
pudding stones can be converted into bread, and
tiic prickly pear can be elevated to the rank ofSm
edible, digestible, and nutritious vegetable, then,
we grant, that human life and other sorts of life-
may become possible in Oregon. But so tong
as gastronomy remains in its present imperfect
state, and so long as science is unable to con
vert stones into. loaves of bread and the prickly
pear into an esculent, why just so long will it
continue to he impossible for the United States*
Great Britian, or any Power to take possesion ot
that country. In our humble opinion, the play
that is enacting is not worth the candle ; and if
Sir Robert Peel and Mr Polk would he good
enough to visit Oregon in person, we hare no
doubt they would advise their respective Govern
ments of the feet that the fag-end of creation
about which they are how disputing, is not worth
a war of words, to say'nothing of a war in which
the more destructive implements of warfare shall
he employed. . . ^ ,
Flowers of Rhetoric.—A young barrister,
intending to be very eloquent, observed :—“ Such
principles, my lord, as these, are w’ritten in rihe
book of nature.” “What page, sir ?” enquired ... . . .... t
Lord Ellenborough, in a bland tone. By this ill- Hon. Ashbel Smith, Secretary of State of Texas,
timed witticism the orator was silenced _fojr anq Texian^Cha^e^toVjrealJBritain and France,
arrived in New York by the Great Western*