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graving* in endless profusion.
While (he vi*iicr was yet lost in the con
templation of these treasures of the arts and
sciences, he wa« storied hy the approach ol a
strong and sprightly step, and turning with
instinctive reverence to of entrance,
he was met by the tall, animated,
stately figure of the patriot himself—his
countenance beaming with intelligence and
benignity, and his outstretched I,and, with
Its strong and cortlia! pressure, confirming
the courteous welcome of his lips. And then
came that charm of manner and conversation
that passes all description—so cheerful—so
unassuming—so free, and easy, and frank,
and kind, and gay—that even the young,
and overawed, and embarrassed visiter at
once forgot his fears, and felt hitnsell by the
side of nil old and familiar frieud.O
POLITICAL.
From the Suvanruih iltorgian.
uov. t.II.'IKK uihl llir VKtFI.tIOK*.
The Okefinok*swamp, where the po
litical fume of our Governor took its birth,
is destined also to he its burial place.—
lli* fame is trnljr like on ignis falnns,
lotions ofn swamp, in whose bog it will
ultimately sink. In 1819, at tile dawn
of Ids political greatness, our illustrious
chief magistrate signalized his statesman
ship, by a proposition to explore and
survey the Okefinoka, and in 1838, lie
there hogs Ins reputation, if wo mistnke
not, forever. I low completely his Ex
cellency is hogged, nnd bothered too, is
well portrayed by the convulsive efforts,
nnd desperate llmmderitigs, which lie
makes in the last Recorder, to extricate
himself Irom the difficulties, in which
his conduct in the south-eastern part of
the State has involved him. Hut let him
he assured, that the more lie struggles to
get out, the deeper he will sink.
A fortnight since, in answer to a ques
tion which wc had “specred” at his Ex
cellency, as to the cause which had in
duced the di-haniling of the militia of
Camden and Ware, and the abandoning
of those counties to the murderous incur
sions of the Indians, the Recorder, re
jecting the grounds which it had before
ussmned in defence of its patron, produ
ced in vindication of his conduct, cer
tain letters, written hy the Governor, on
the Tilt nnd llth of August, to Major
Hopkins, (Jen. Taylor, and the Secreta
ry ol War. Could '‘impudence go far
ther?” What! adduce letters of that
date, tis the rausr of nit act which had
been done some weeks before? It will
he home in mind, that the order dis
charging the militia was issued prior
to the 17ih July, nnd it surely partakes
of the most egregious* effrontery, to al
lege as the cause of that order, letters
written hv him nearly a mouth nfter
- r «..>pie, than
J J. ‘ V him to present a letter,
which he should write next year, or five
years hence, as the cause of that fore-
gono net. •
lint tho nttempt to draw nn excuse
from those letters, is worse than impo- j
tent. With that fatality which nlways at- !
lends guilt, Ins Ivxcelleney only the more j
eflcctually entoils hi nisei I', hy the very |
means to which he resorts for extrication. J
’l’lie letters themselves display the de- ;
fenceless condition to which that part of,
the country had been reduced, hy the
improvident order of tho Governor, it ini
also that protection would have lieen as- j
sored to it, hud lie not, in criminal dis- j
regard of Ins duties, discharged tho mi-j
litia who hnd rallied to it* defence.— ;
They are written in consequence of re
presentations made hy Col. Hilliard,
ftlnj. Hopkins, and the citizens of Cam- j
den and Wayne, of the exposed condi- j
lion of that section, and of tho necessity ]
of employing; tho militia, to give security j
to it, and confidence to its inhabitants— j
representations, therefore, which demon- ]
strnte that its defenceless situation was .
the result of the withdrawal of the mill- I
tin, and that security would he given to j
it by restoring them to service. W hat,
indeed, does the (iovernor himself say,
in his letter of the 7th of August, to Con.
Taylor.
“I send you the copies of two
from Mnj. Hopkins, commanding otli
ter of the militia of Camden county, and
the copy of a letter from Col. Hilliard,
of Ware county. You w ill perceive that
both of those oißcers arc of opinion tho!
* , * ;/» 'n i nj' »w . Stf '.r if
counties is necessary to restore confidence
to the people."
And in his letter of the succeeding day,
to Onpt. Dade, lie says—
“ You are requested to receive into the
United States service, as many compa
nies of the militia of those enmities,
(l Care and Camden,) as may'be suffi
cient to quiet the fears oj tfie people, and
secure than against the future, attacks of
the Indians."
'Flic representations, therefore, of
those on the spot, with adequate nnd
ample means of information, and fully
competent to judge, was, that the em
ployment of the local militia would en
sure protection to the inhabitants, and
the (iovernor himself acts upon that con
viction.
Aiow Col. Hopkins and .Major Hilli
ard were vested, by law, with authority
to call out this force, which the (iovern
or deemed "sufficient to quiet the fenrs
of Ihe people, and secure them against
the attacks of the Indians.” All, there
fore, that was necessary to effect this se
curity, w as that those officers should be
left to the exercise of tluir authority :
nnd soloug ns thev were permitted to
exercise it, uiicontioiled by executive in
terference. the country was eflcctually
protected from the ravages of the enemy.
Hut in nn evil hour, and under a penu
rious devotion, as it seams, to cents, the
Governor withdraws from them this uu-
I thority, and thus threw open the country
to Indian sack and massacre. Not only
did lie do this, bin lie rejected their m
treaties, to which an intensity, that
should hate shaken any human heart,
i was given hy the wailings from Ware,
| to he allowed again t«|call the in-
I to service.
And yet with this flagrant evidence of
misconduct, which hiuisclt fortunes he
. tauntingly appeals to these very letters,
I tis triumphant proof of the admirable a
bility with which he has acquitted him
self, in this, to him, most disgraceful
affair. They are ushered into notice, in
the official paper, with the following
flourish :
• “From-the following correspondence
it will he seen, that all that lies in the
: power of the. Executive to do, has been
i done, to give security to them, (the citi
zens of Camden and Ware,) and that the
Governor Inis been endeavoring for some
! time post, to hare the Indians driven
j from the Okefinoka .”
i What nu illustrious exhibition is here
I made, of the prowess of the chief execu
| tive magistrate of the sovereign Stute of
Georgia. Has he been calling into ac
, *•—- C ft tW td lii'lVt?
from its soil a hand of savage invaders?
Has lie gallantly placed himself at the
head of its physical force? Has he sum
moned the ruilitia to the field? Has he
allowed them to remain there, even when
they voluntarily turned out, under their
own generous impulses? No—no. But
he ha* been endeavoring to get another
Government to drive die frightful red
skins away. For how long a tune past,
pray, has he been so endeavoring? Why,
the earliest letter in the correspondence,
from “which this can be seen," is that
to (Jen. Taylor, (at Tumpa Ilav,) of the
Till August, fully two months after the
Indians had made a lodgement in the
Okefinoka ; nnd this is the first exhibi
tion of any effort towards the protection
of south-eastern Georgia, hy him who
“had done all that la;/within the power
of the Executive to do, to give security
to it." And how, we demand, had lie
exerted his mighty powers? Hold up
your heads in pride, yevaunters of State
Rights, and of the chivalry! of George
R. Gilmer, at the glorious, the astound
ing announcement —by liumhlv crouch
ing to the Secretary of War, and beg
ging his leave to call the militia into ser
vice. It is thus that he addresses that
functionary of the Federal Government:
“I therefore propose, that the Govern
ment ted/ authorize this department to
cull out two regiments of militia, to act
against the Indians—that they he mus
tered into the serv ice of the U. States,
nnd the necessary provisions and sup
plies ho provided for them its soon ns
they are organized.”
And the request of this permission is
“all that lies in the power of the Execu
tive” of a State “to do,” to protect it from
invasion, ami “to give security,” to its
citizens, from the attneks of marauding
snvuges. Yes, the Governor of a State
cannot call out its otvn citizens, to de
fend it* soil, and to maintain its own au
thority—aye, its existence, within its
otvn jurisdiction, without the previous
authority of the Federal Government!
Anti yet, what bellipotcnt men are not
these State Rights commanders ! They
are famous for “going to the death for
thoir sugar.”
We would fain presume, in charity to
the Governor, that it was because of the
want of this permission from the nation
al Government, that lie did not accept
the services of the one or two regiments
tendered to him by the gallant Nk.i.so.v,
as early as the 13th August, were we
not deprived of nil ability for the exercise
of such charity, by his failure to accept
their services, since authority has been
given hy that Government to raise a re
giment.
Notwithstanding these glaring eviden
ces offexecutive misconduct, and nltho’
the Recorder itself claims credit for the
Governor for not continuing "the militia
in service from their homes and oc
cupations, at the expense of the State," the
editor of that paper in his last impression
makes another vain effort to rescue his
Excellency from the just and we believe,
almost universal condemnation with
which his extraordinary course has been
visited, —and in doing so, resorts to wil
ful misrepresentations or mean equivo
cation.
Arc we to understand the Recorder, ns
•■lyingllmt ot the time the Governor is
! sued the order for the immediate dis
! charge of the militia he tvasiii possession
I of (Jencral Taylor’s letter of the 13th of
July and that hence, he was informed
licit the Foiled States troops were in po
sition around the Okefinoka ? If so, the
task Will he easy to convict him of asser
ting whnt lie knows o he untrue.
'Flic order of the Governor was issued
if not before, certainly ns early as the
17th July, and the whole history of the
operations in Ware proves that in no in
stance has information been transmitted
between that county and Millcdgeville in
a time as brief as was the interval be
tween the date of that letter and the Go
vernor's announcement, on the 17th Ju
ly, to the Secretary of War, that lie had
issued the order. Why, with the pater
nal anvietv of the Governor to relieve
the militia front their arduous service,
1 and the State from the burthen of ma
king a loan to the Federal Government
for her defence, his order disbanding the
militia, issued certainly as early as the
i 17th July, was not received in Ware ac
cording to the Recorder, “until the Oth
August.” But it is not necessary to re
sort to inferences—we appeal to facts.
It was not miu. the -4th July, that
the Governor acknowledged the receipt
of Gen. T’s. letter, of the 13th—and it
would but ill accord, as wrll with the
imputed “ability and foresight” of the
Executive, as with his feigned anxiety
for the citizens of Ganfieii
null Ware, to believe that his
important a eomurWTcalion,®rßßKot i
vv t it t * ii outlie wry day it HpAj
I tlic
In
1 '
■ ii
swer to such a
such a subject. Wc must believe then,
that the- assertion, that the Governor was ,
in possession of this information at the
time the order was issued, is a great ca
lumny on his Excellency, of the Recor
der’s otvn coining. And if the Governor
were in possession of this letter, prior,
even to the 24th July, why did not the
Recorder of that date, in the effort it
made to account for, and sustain the or
der, adduce this, among the other pa
per»it then published ? Yet it did not,
at all, advert to it.
But let us ascend from the organ to
his principal, and inovke the testimony of
the Governor himself. In his letter to
(Jen. Taylor, of the '2lth July, in reply
to that officer’s letter of the 13th, so
fur from pretending that this Jetter fur
nished u motive for issimmtiiiLUUiUiMMH
says— ' *"
“ Upon receiving a communication f/fn i
the A. A. Adjutant Harden, of the ■
inst. giving information, that provisiiK 1
and troops had been ordered by you jo '•
the neighborhood oft he Okefinoka sivalp
all the troops that were called out by lie
militia officers of Camden &. Ware emp
ties, were ordered to be discharged.” ;
It is manifest, then, upon the testing •
ny of his Excellency himself, that he w»>
not in possession of the letter of GeneJkJ
Taylor, at the time he issued the order!— I
that he was ignorant of (Jen.
position at that time, and that the
was founded alone on Lieut. Hardei«M|
letter.
'Fhe Recorder sensible of this, is fov j
ced to retreat upon the letter of A. J. j
Adjutant Harden, ns a dernier resourej, I
and lias the recklessness to adduce it >« ]
evidence that the Governor llU.f* 1 rrtrm
edge ot (Jen. Taylor’s being in position.*
Vi s, truly, as well as lie had of the posit
lion of wandering Arabs. Had the Re*
carder seen the remarks of the Georgian
of the 23d and 25th inst. it would scarce
ly have indulged in tin inference so un
warranted hy this letter, from which it is
affected to bo drawn. But without re
peating the remarks we then made, ivr
content ourselves with referring to the
above extract from the Governor’s lettety
to show, that even he did not pretend ;
that Lieut. Harden’s statnents that troop* !
“had been sent” amounted to more than !
that tut order had been given, and if this!
will not satisfy the editor, wo will pre- !
sent the Recorder itself as a witness to j
disprove its own assertion. To estah-1
lish the fact that the troops were in posi-J
tion the Recorder invokes the letters
urKlnh a*ceusSTT\inl ‘ 1
troops did not reach their position on the#
Smvanoehee until the 9th of July, andJy
yet lie affirms that a letter written on the j
7th, from the other side of Black (’reek,
gives information ofn fact which did not.i
occur until two days afterwards in the |
| county ol Ware.
j But the truth is, that tiio Recorder
j unable to meet the charge vve have pre
| seated against his Excellency, is con
j strained to resort to an unworthy eqttivo
j cation, and to accomplish its purpose,
i adds to it misrepresentation. In treat
ing of the official misconduct of the Go
vernor in reference to the defence of the
south-eastern frontier and in inquiring
therefore into the causes of his conduct,
wc have charged that at the time the (io
vernor issued his order, disbanding lltt.
militia, he was ignorant 1 li " t '
States troops were in position. Dq
Recorder meet this charge ? Not
} —but, hy evading, admits it. And to
1 effect a disgraceful retreat, uncnudidly
1 asserts, that the charge vve made was
that at the time the murders were commit
ted in Ware, the Governor had not re
ceived Gen. Taylor’s letter. And tp
palm this misrepresentation upon t!«;
public credulity has the disingenuous
ness in quoting, with inverted comma)
too, a sentence from us to interpolate |t
passage which we never wrote, lie :,~
droitlv fabricates for us a charge whiji
; we did not make, and then most gi
lantly overthrows it. He turns aw:f
! from the charge vve have presented o
i him, knocks down a man ol straw ol 'is
own making, and running away fr (i
us, boasts of the v ictory lie has woo
Lo, the skill with which lie
| ty work.
But says the Georgian, “his Excelle i
j cy’s knowledge (at that period, the 2 and
July,) extended to the fact that Genet il
Taylor had been at Black Creek andw s
moving in the direction of the Okefiuo a
i Swamp.” (
Sncli is the quotation which the Rt
eordrr professes to make of our languaje.
We affirm, and there is no reader of tip
Georgian who does not know, that t|e
words embraced in the parenthesis, le
ver were employed by us in any remarls
| vve have made on the subject. But tie
Recorder, not content with forgery, m
fabricating words for us, is also guilty of
mutilation. To accomplish the decep
tion he was attempting to practice, it be
came necessary for him to troncat- ony
paragraph, and hence lyi Jtins
' words which immediately preH !I(J > ! mlp
professed quotation. Our words lets
“when his Excellency ordered the /i,. js
to ho disbanded, and before be couldjos
sihly have Jtceti informed that Gen. 'liv
ior was in position ; bis knowledge -x
--tended to the fact that Gen. Taylor lad
been at Black Creek, &e.
W e turn with disgust, from sttdi a
shameless specimen of forgery, and with
>vtnputhy, for a chief magistrate
State, witose condition is so deplorufle
\ as to need such aid and such a defender. ,
Wc would leave an admonition with t’-c
Recorder. The Governor is in a hog,
and the more he stirs the deeper he will .
sink.
From the Charleston Mercury.
.Messrs. Editors : As many of those
■io are entitled A vote at the ensuing e
'ection fffrrfmemlßr to Congress, are m
tVly in the dark, as respects the SubT
! Treasury scheme, you would confer a
Ivor rtrt many who desire to be enligbt
iied thereon, before giving their votes,
w placing before them, through the co
jmns of the Mercury, the meaning of
jub-Treasury, its practical operation,
lud the final advantage to the South, by
j* adoption.
The question has been repeatedly ask- |
and ‘what is the nature of this Sub-Trea
iiry scheme?’ and those asked, have
enerally acknowledged their ignorance,
j As many, from not understanding vvliat
jhev are to vote for, will give their votes
jo Mr. Legare, I think your compliance
with the above request will have a bene- ;
Icial tendency in influencing the votes
ts many.
Tlir IXUEPKXDEXT TBEASI'BT.
\y, readily comply to the best of our
jihiliry with the wish of our correspond
ent ‘M v.nv,’ and to begin, we will to-day
do little more than recapitulate the heads
of the excellent letter of Mr. Calhoun,
which we had the satisfaction of present
ing to our readers yesterday.
The parties who met on Friday last to
nominate Independent Treasury candi
dates, have in truth united to raise again
in a cause than which none was ever
more worthy of it, the old republican
banner of ’95, the standard that led the
friends of Jefferson to victory—and the
movement of the Democratic party of
Hiurlestnn, once more rallied to a con- j
Sited effort, is now as it was then in
TOhalf of State Rights Republicanism a
gainst Federal usurpation and consoli
dation.
The Sub-Treasury system is emphat
ically a measure of ‘Deliverance At Ltb
mms' til ITii fiffTple of the South. In-
of the revenues of the country be
ing placed under the keeping and con
trol of a Bank or Banks, to be hy them
loaned and speculated upon, in direct
opposition to the constitutional provision
which prescribes the only modes in which
money shall he taken from the public
treasury —instead of there being given to
the Northern commercial cities the ad
vantage of the use of the greater part of
the taxes of the country, which taxes
are derived chiefly from the South ; in
stead of-tlie Banks being thus encoura
ged to extravagant over issues—the Sub-
Treasury system makes the recognised
servants of the people the keepers ot the
people’s money —forbids them to use the
money entrusted in their keeping, or to
speculate thereon, and acts as a check
Aupply of specie properly proportioned
to the amount of their paper circulation.
It gives the Executive no more con
trol over the public purse, nor near as
much as he possessed tinder the Bank
and State system. For by the very same
process by which he could draw monies
under the one system, he could draw
thorn under the other: and as to patron
age, the appointment of tircnti / new of
ficers as receivers or Sub-Treasurers, is
a feather in the balance compared vviih
the immense power he would wield bv
subsidizing the Banks of the country,
or the ruling Bank of the country, with
*ll the thousand Bank agents and inter
ested connexions.
Mr. Calhoun shews that the Bank
connexion is a truly Federal measure—
rjginuting with, —always supported hv,
-Limit nlivv urged with unanimous zeal,
Tortile Federal or National party, the
friends of a strong Government, of cen
tralization and consolidation; the ine
vitable effect of which must be the sec
tional oppression and subjugation of the
South, the minority section of the con
federacy. The Nationals never were
more united than now; they acknowl
edge their end to he a National Bank; they
will tolerate a pet Bank System or the
use of State Banks as keepersof the pub
lic money as a 'half-way house' because
experience has proved to them that such
a system is impracticable, must fail and
be merged in their great mammoth scheme.
They oppose the Sub-Treasury system,
because they believe that it will certainly
succeed if adopted—and that its success
will he fatal to their cherished hope ot
wielding die united political and money
power of the one through the other.—
Alexander Hamilton, the father of Fed
eralism, the avowed friend of the politi
cal corruption and strong monarcliial
features of polity, originated by his own
act the connexion between the treasury
and banking. It was a most effective
blow against State Rights and popular
rignts—and has weakened the Demo
erftie party in all subsequent struggles.
Tie opportunity is now arrived to cure
the Commonwealth radically of the evils
it i filleted.
If the Bank or a league of Banks is to
ha'e the revenue of the country as so
much banking capital, they will of course
strive to secure a large revenue hy hea
vv duties. The greater the duties, the
expenditures and the surpluses, the lar-
the Bank profits, if the Banks have
useVrfrlie Treasury—but separate them
and the interest of the Banks will be op
posed to those corrupting and opptTssin
results of misgovernment —and the South
will have the Banks, with their mighty
influence, bound by their own interest
to fight with us for justice. The uncon
stitutionality of a National Bank has
been proved to the satisfaction of all tiie
Republicans of the school of '9S; the
constitutionality of a divorce lias never
Been disputed. None doubt the power
of the Government to collect its own mo
ney in the constitutionally recognized
shape—and to keep it through its ('fleers.
But all State Rights republicans— w ith
few exceptions—believe the other system
unconstitutional. There is no power
4he constitution to charter a Na
tional Rank. li the pmver irfre given,
ftic location of the Mqtlier could
not be fixed, without sestionnl paYtinlitv
and injustice, and if the State Banks
were used a* depositories, yyhat right
has the Government to intermeddle and
regulate State Institutions?
Every departure from strict construc
tion endangers the peculiar institutions of
the South—and the departure proposed
by the advocates of a Bank would not
only be dangerous as a precedent—but
would give the money power to our ene
mies—and while it bound the South
hand and foot—would give the Anti- j
Slavery and Abolition section the sinews
of war—enable them to keep our com
merce in a state of enduring vassalage.
' ■ It would he unequal in it* operation, (
giving to those engaged in Banking eve- i
ry advantage over citizens engaged in j
other pursuits.
We have thus, with very little addi
tion of our own, repeated the substance
of Mr. Calhoun’s views ;& we shall from
time to time follow up, with others, the
result of our own reflection and investi
gation. We shall conclude now with
stating a few facts illustrating the perni
cious effect of a National Bank upon the
interest of Southern Agriculture and
Commerce.
The Mother Bank in Philadelphia
controlled the branches in the several
states. It has, in direct hostility to the
best interests of the planters and mer
chants of this market, directed the branch
here to stop taking exchange, and cur
tail its discount, against the earnest pro
test of the directors here. The only ob
ject was to make money for the Bank
and for Pennsylvania, without regard to
local interests in the South. The result
was a stagnation of business—a fall in
the price of Rice and Cotton—and em
barrassment to all our merchants who
had not calculated on this arbitrary and
unjustifiable interruption of the due
course of business. Sterling exchange
fell from 10U to 9.3, making an adverse
difference of 11 per cent, upon all the
Cotton & Rice sold that year in Charles
ton. This sacrifice of our interests, we
are assured too, was uncalled for hy
the necessities of the case. Mr. Biddle
then began to buy up foreign exchange
! at the reduced rates, through his agents
! here. {£/“ The Mother Bank never al
| lowed the Directors here to know any
thing about its dealings in foreign ex-
J change, that it could keep from them—
j but owing to strong remonstrances of
the Directors at the time, the agent
: here, who was Cashier of the Branch,
| was induced, for his own justification,
Jl'he Bunk
sterling exchange here.
V he profits all went to the Mother Bank.
Now the Bank of Charleston, for in
stance, a Southern Bank, buys up both
j sterling and domestic exchange in this
i market, and sells both here —instead of
| our having, after the sterling exchange
i is bought hy the Bank, to send to the
j North and pay commissions for buying
| it—as well as sending the profits of the
I sale out of the State.
By such a course the Bank caused
I more distress in the South, than was
j caused hy removing the deposited, or by
| any government act; and it shows the
! power ofthc Bank to exert an influence
j upon particular points, either from polit-
I ical or avaricious views—which would
j not be known as the cause, although the
! evils would he severely felt hy the people
j generally. The use of Government de
posites and credits, cannot fail to build
tip at the expense of tiie less favored
! parts of the country, the commerce and
1 wealth of the place where it centres.—
Every measure of the present Pennsyl
niu Bank of the United States has re
i gard to the interest of Pennsylvania—
: She receives $9,000,000 for the charter
| alone, which $0,000,000 is not raised out
1 of her citizens; nnd Mr. Biddle promises
i also to complete by it her Internal Im
provements, nnd relieve her people from
taxes on real estate. At whose expense ?
Y'et vve find South Carolii inns subscri
bing and Itoldingstock in ihat institution;
j subscribing to advance Northern trade at
the expense of our own—to build up
Northern cities nt tiie expense of Charles
ton—and to maka Northern roads and
canals to the neglect of our own, The
stockholders of a National Bank would
also thus use their money in fact against
the South. If the millions of stock held
by our citizens in such a foreign institu
tion were withdrawn, and placed in the
great Rail Road Bank, or divided among
our other Banks at home, Charleston and
8. Carolina would soon realize the ben
efit of the policy of States taking care of
their own banking concerns, and using,
their own capital for their own improve
ment, instead of entrusting it to foreign
ers, to be used against themselves.
From the Mobile Commercial Register.
Doctors hate to swallow their own phy
sic, because none know better the na
ture oftlie vile compounds which they
prescribe. Politicians who are the most
expert in coining nicknames, and deal
ing in caricature and burlesque, are the
most sensitive under similar retorts; and
the real thief, like Oliver Twist’s nimble
fingered fellow disciples, are the loudest
brawlers and swiftest pursuers of the im
aginary rogue. Whig editors and scrib
blers have a dictionary of new and
Whig-fangled epithets of odium and rid
icule, which they shower upon the Ad
ministration and its friends, with a lav
ishttess which shows that the brain
which conceived them is prolific quoad
hoc a; least. Who hot the most practi
sed in this cynical school, who but a
Thcrsitcs would ever think of calling a
political opponent a “microscopic ani
mal,” or an’“ephemeral nothing,” and
above all, who not embraced in all the
“grammar party,” would have thought
I of so faroversteping the modesty ofprose
as to call a class of people the “futura of
a day.” Tfie word (ins not a locaHtab
, nation or a name in all the regions of
moods, tenses, or declensions.
The favorite designation by Whig«di
tors, of a Democrat, is “Loco Foco,”
and the latest, “Tory.” Besides these,
many a weary column of senseless ap
pellatives arc to be found in their vocab
ulary—lnfidel, Jacobin, Fanny Wright
man, &c. and any thing that conveys
ridicule and odium. So much accus
tomed are we to these Tuliian elegancies
of diction, and so naturally do they flow
front the grand reservoir of all
can refinement, polish, and
we look for them as for frost in Decem-®
her, and Ane bugs in summer. The
weapon is a truly old Federal one, and
• the skill of the modern and degenerate
progeny of that once great party, in its
use, is one of the most marked of the
features which make up the tout ensemble
; an admirable family likeness between
the sire and the scion. Great efforts
have been made of late to rob the true
Democratic party of the country of its
rightful name, and to christen it with
another not so unfortunately popular.
The \Y bigs, advocating Federal princi
ples in all their latitude, cannot bear to
be called by name. Attaching more im
portance to name than to principle, they
speak of themselves as the Sunon Pure
j Democracy, and of the Democracy as
j the “self-styled” Democracy, that is,
when they don’t apply a slang term.—
The attempt is likely to he, as it has
j been, eminently unsuccessful, because
| the people, contrary to the estimate of
| these reformers, have sense enough to
! know the difference between a principle
| and a name.
Some how or other the Democratic
| party lias contrived to make the most o
i dious names, which its opponents have
I applied to it, popular ; while the Whigs
have never been able to preserve the per
fume of the most odoriferous names, more
than three month’s together.
1 lie following is the correspondence
between Mr. Stevenson, the American
Minister, and Mr. O’Connell.
London, August loth.
THK ABEIIICAX MIM vn u AMI HU.
O’tUXXEI.I,.
23 Portland Place, Aug. 9.
Sir—My attention has been called to
the publication in the last Spectator of
a speech which purports to have been de
livered by you at a public meeting in Bir
mingham, in which you are reported to
have used the following language in re
lation to myself:
TT_7i»gs
fho rear up slaves for the purpose of
traffic. Js it possible then America would
send here a man who traffics in blood,
and who is a disgrace to human nature.”
1 desire to know from you whether this
is a correct report of w hat yon said oil
that occasion, and with that view, ad
dress to you this communication.
1 am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. STEVENSON,
lo Daniel O’Connell, Esq. &c.
Id Pall Mall, Aug. 10.
Sir In consequence of your letter of
yesterday’s date 1 have examined tire re
port of my speech at Birmingham in the
Spectator, of the 4tli inst. and have no
hesitation in saying that the paragraph
you have selected is not a correct report
of vv liat I said on that occasion.
Ihe very next sentence does, in my
mind, show that the report could not be
correct, and having examined another
report since, as well as from distinct re
collection, 1 repeat, that the report is
not correct.
I have the honor to be, sir,
Your obedient servant,
Daniel o’connell.
23 Portland Place, Aug. 11, 1838.
Sir I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of last evening,
in answer to the one from myself of the
| preceding day.
[ 1 resuming that you intended your re
ply as a disavowal of the offensive ex
pressions contained in that part of your
reported speecli which had allusion to
mysell, and to which your attention was
; called, I am satisfied with the answer
| you have given.
As nn incorrect report of your speech
lias been made public through the press,
l beg to inform you that I deem it due to
myself that the correspondence which
lias taken place should also be published.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. STEVENSON*
To Daniel O’Connell, Esq. &c.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
SCENES IX CONDON.
MU. STEVENSON AND DANIEL o’cONNEI L.
“Long's Hotel, London, Aug. 15, 1838.
“Dear Sir— Knowing the deep inter
est which you feel in every thing which
concerns the American Minister, I has
ten to enclose you hy-the packet of to-
I morrow from Liverpool, his correspon
! deuce with Mr. O’Connell.
“You will of course have seen the re
ported brutal outrage, which this Irish
Caliban made on both our country and
Mr. Stevenson on the first ot August, at
Birmingham, w here the abolition of ne
gro apprenticeship in the British West
Indies was celebrated with verv extraor
dinary manifestations of blackguardism
and abuse.
“The moment Mr. Stevenson read Mr.
O'Connell’s speech, he hastened to my
lodgings, and requested me to convey