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CHROMCLfci AM I SENTINEL.
A U GUST A >
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican—
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN T 1 LEU,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, ana emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee,
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZAR.D, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs,
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The Committee appointed to make arrangements
to carry into effect the object of the meeting held
to appoint Delegates to the Macon Convention, re
quest the Delegates appointed in each district in the
county, and those appointed for the cit} 7 , to make
arrangements so as to meet at Fenn’s Bridge, on
the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of
August next.
It is really amusing to seethe efforts that th e
Van Buren prints of the day are making, and the
charges that they bring forward, against General
Harrison,all of which have been socompletely re
futed. that one would suppose that it would be an
insult to the understanding of the people to repeat
them at this late day. And yet what is strange,
and no less strange than true, Mr. Van Buren is ob
noxious to all the charges of a political nature that
have brought against Gen. Harrison. We
would like to know which of the great questions
of the day he has not both advocated and opposed.
He has advocated and opposed a high tariff; he has
t been for and against internal improvements; far
iher than this, he acted with the party opposed to
the war and Mr. Madison’s Administration, and af
terwards supported his administration; he has es
tablished the right of negroes to testify in the case
of white men—witness the case of Lieut. Hooe;
he voted to give them the right of suffrage; he has
appointed an abolitionist to a foreign mission—wit
ness the appointment of Leggett; and3'et they hold
him up to us as a Northern man with Southern
principles. We desire to be delivered from such
principles; and if we are not wofully mistaken in
the signs of the times, the people of Georgia, and
the Union, have taken this matter into their own
hands, and will, on the first Monday in November
next, rid themselves of this corrupt and corrupting
administration. We would say to the friends of
Harrison and reform, onward, onward —the news is
cheering from all quarters, the cause is gaining
daily.
We were presented the other day, by Gen. Thos.
Dawson, with a twist of Morgan’s Premium To
bacco, and, agreeable to our notions, it deserves the
name. To those who are lovers of the weed we
would saj', call on the General, and taste it for
yourselves.
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Extraordinary Pea.—We were presented,
this morning, by Mr. Thomas H. Roberts, of War
renton, with a Cow Pea, measuring twenty eight
inchesdong —the most extraordinary thing of the
kind we have seen; and, as our friend observes,
may well be called a Harrison cow pea.
From the Richmond Whig.
Gov Wickliffe, of Kentucky.
This gentleman was some time since seized ~9
upon by the Editor of the Enquirer, and pressed
into the ranks of the Feds, in the list of converts
or new recruits. The fact coming to the knowl
edge ot Governor Wickliffe, he addressed the fol
lowing letter to the Editor of the Enquirer, which
he requested might be inserted in the Enquirer,
to correct the misrepresentation the Editor had
given publicity. This the Editor declined doing
—and the friend to whom it was enclosed has
handed it to us for publication, in the hope that
it may reach some whom the Enquirer has mis
led, and whom that paper is unwilling to unde
ceive;
Frankfort, Kentucky, July 7,1840.
Thomas Ritchie , Esq. Editor of the Enquirer:
Dear Sir—Some friend enclosed me by mail, a
few days since, your paper ot the 19th June, and
invited my attention to an editorial article in
which you were pleased to quote my name as one
in Kentucky who had “come or was coming’ to
the support of the present Administration, and of
Mr. Van LJuren’s re-election. I cannot suppose
that the fact of my supporting the one candidate
or the other would impart to the contest anv in
creased importance, *rgive to the strength of eith
er any additional force beyond my own vote; but
as you have attached some importance to it, not
because of my official relation to the People of
Kentucky at this time, I have deemed it due to
you, and to the readers ofyour paper, to correct
the error into which you have been led. by reques
ting an insertion of this and the
letter in your j aper. Ido this under the belief
that your Jove ofjustice and truth will not permit
you to be made the willing instrument of perver-
ting facts through the medium ofyour paper. In
conclusion, permit me to assure you that, of all
the reasons and objections which have been urged
against Gen. Harrison, that rs his being an
Abolitionist and a Federalist, in the odious polit
ical acceptation ot that term, has the least foun
dation in truth or just'ce. My pe.sonal ac
quaintance with Gen. Harrison enables me to
sjicak upon this subject, I
am, with great respect.
Your obedient servant,
C. A. W ICKLIFFE.
Bunker Hill Monujwlnt. —The ladies of
Boston finding that the men cannot succeed in
erecting that monument on Bunker Hill, have
taken it in hand themselves, and are going to ho d
a great Fair for the purpose of raising the means.
The ladies in the neighboring towns are joining
in preparing articles lor exhibition and sale.
From the Savannah Telegraph rs the 3d.
Fire in Darien. —A friend has favored us
withe fallowing extract of a letter received from
Darien, and dated yesterday morning:—“ Hun
dalfs store burnt up last night with all his goods.
Insured I learn for §6,500. How much his loss
will be I cannot say. Supposed to be set on fire
by lightning, but I think it was done by some of
t he rogues with which this place is infested.”
A Good Receipt—try it. — The following
is the receipt given by the the Vicksburg Whig,
to measure the quantity of falsehood in any
“given loco foco statement.”
“ Observe the nature of the evidence brought
forward to sustain it. If it has a tolerably good
foundation a mere assertion is considered suffi
cient; if it has a very slight one, it is bolstered
up with certificates; but if it has not a particle
of truth about it, they swear to it.”
Meeting in Old Warren.
Pursuant to previous notice, a very large and
respectable portion of the citizens of Warren coun
ty, convened at the Court House, on the 4th Inst.,
for the purpose of nominating Delegates to the
Convention, to be held at Macon, on the second
Thursday in the present month. And on motion,
Adam Jones, Esq., was called to the Chair,and Al
bert Paris, appointed Secretary.
Upon request, Joseph W. Thomas arose and ad
dressed the meeting in relation to its objects, in a
very able manner, and concluded by offering the
following Preamble and Resolutions, to wit :
Whereas, at the Convention of the State Rights
prrty, held in Willcdgeville on the first Monday in
June last, for the purpose of nominating an Elec
toral and Congressional Ticket for the State of
Georgia, said Convention did select and nominate
such persons to compose said tickets, as by their
long tried patriotism and devotion to Southern
rights and interests, are strongly recommended to
the confidence and suffrage of the people of Geor
gia.
Be it therefore Resolved, That we do congratu
late our State Rights friends upon, and do most
heartily approve the several nominations made at
said Convention, and that wc will use our best ef
forts to cany out the proceedings of said Conven
tion, and do most earnestly recommend all the
friends of Southern State Rights, to co-operate
with us by every honorable means, ip effecting the
eletion of said Congressional Ticket, and prevent
ing the re-election of M rtin Van Buren to the
Presidency.
Resolved further. That among other reasons,
why we should not extend our support to »he pres
ent incumbent of the Presidential Chair, we recog
nize the following:
Because he was found in the first years of his
political life in company, and acling with the Fed
eral party, in his support of De Witt Clinton for
the Presidency, in opposition to James Madison,
the former being the notorious Federal and Peace
candidate, and the latter the deserved favorite of
the entire voice of the Republican party, and in
favor of vindicating our claims to national honor
and respect. Because we believe him to be un
sound and opposed to the interest and prosperity of
the South, in his principles and opinions, on the
subject of Southern domestic institutions, manifes
ted in his opposition to the admission of Missouri
into the Union without restriction ; the same in re
lation to Florida—in his course in the New York
Convention, upon the question of negro suffrage—
in his inability to find any tiling calling for his inter
ference in the matter of Lieut. Ilooc, in which he
recognized the policy ol admitting negro testimony
against free white men in a slave holding portion
of the Union—and in deliberately expressing his
opinion, that Congress has the power constitution
ally, to abolisli slavery in the District of Columbia.
Because he has manifested a disregard for the spir
it of the Constitution, and a desire to usurp power
by claiming to be a constituent part of the National
Legislature. Because of his recommendation of
Mr Poinsett’s Bill for raising a Standing Army of
200,C00 men. And in short, because we believe
that his Administration has been, and is character
ised by a corruptive profligacy and disregard of
the public weal, which we consider to be subver
sive of our liberties, and the perpetuation of our
institutions and our national prosperity.
Res lved, That we consider Wm. Henry Harri
son, as a man whose personal and political hones
ty and integrity, numerous and valuable public
services, republican orthodoxy and simplicity,
high-minded and exalted palriotism, and his virtues
as a man, and abilities as a statesman, recommend
him to the support and suffrage of all who desire
to be freed from the power of corruption and mis
rule, to see our government administered with
that economy and simplicity, which is consistent
with republicanism, and the return of that national
prosperity, and haunony of feeling, which it is the
object of our peculiar institutions to secure and
perpetuate, but which has been exiled by the influ
ence of a weak, misguided and corrupt policy. And
Resolved further. That upon these considera
tions, we will most gladly contribute our influence
and exertions, in co-operating with the friends of
reform, in electing the said William Henry Harri
son to the Presidential Chair, and the noble, high
minded, unflinching, and patriotic statesman, John
Tyler, of Virginia, to that of the Vice Presidency,
believing that it is the only course to retrieve the
falling fortunes of our country, and restore it to iis
former exalted place in the scale of nations.
The above Preamble and Resolutions were unan
imously adopted.
Whereupon Joseph W. Thomas, Esq., offered
the following additional Preamble and Resolution:
Whereas, it is considered by this meeting expe
dient that the County of Warren be represented in
the Convention to be held in the city ol Macon, on
the 13th instant.
It is therefore Resolved, That the Chair do ap
point a Committee of ten, to report to this meeting
a suitable delegation to said Convention, to consist
of one hundred and seventy members,
\\ hereupon the Chair proceeded to appoint said
Committee, consisting of the following persons, to
wit:
i Thomas Lockett, Sion Hill, Thomas Rivers,
1 Capt. Elijah Jones, Amos Walden, Thomas S.
I Latimer, Esq-, Dr. Wi liam P. Butt, Henry Hight,
1 Esq., James G, Swain, Eilsha Burson, Esq.
Who after having retired a short time, repeited
the following named persons as a suitable dclega
) tion, which report was confirmed by the meeting,
[ to wit:
Col. John Stith, *)
spjrw°u.frss: n -
William Carson, J. lijib.. . .., i
1 James A Chapman, Philip Chalker,
1 W Mi:o Clin, Thos. L Latimer,
‘ Gideon Putnam, Starling Eavans,
I 0 O Moore, Ignitias Robinson,
Augustus Wilson, r i homas Wheeler,
r Robert W Hubert, Adam Ivy,
John Swint, Thomas Holland,
Henry Me Kenney, Wm G Walden,
Henry Pool, James McNiel,
; B Newsom, James Pilcher,
i Abner Norris, Richard Rhodes,
Wm W Anderson, Asa McCrary,
Simon G Harrell, Henry Scott,
E T Synah, Charles Wilder,
1 Anthonj* Jones, David Lowe,
Jno. Veazy, Henry Lockhart,
James Braddy, James S Jones,
; Thomas Kent, Robert A Hill,
Daniel Holomon, James W Thomas,
Jas. Kelly, Henry A Jones,
Samuel Tompkins, Wm P Butt,
Daniel Dennis, Thomas Lockett,
Hugh Armstrong, Reuben Lockett,
Green Beall, R R Palmer,
Thos. H Roberts, James Hobbs,
Bradford T Chapman, Solomon Lockett,
Curran Battle, Franklin Roberts,
Joseph II Butt, Sterling Rate,
C C Cody, Barnaby Shivers,
T P F Threewits, Wm Smith,
Wiliiam Abbott, Wingfield Wright,
Thomas Ivy, Reuben May,
Henry Pool, jr. John Snider,
Nathaniel Chalker, Charles Logue,
C.'airborn Thigpen, Curtis Lewis, ,
John Cheely, Fielding Suvis,
Thomas I Beck, Thomas Jones,
Fielding Hill, Thomas Persons, jr.
Francis Rivers, Elias Lazeuby,
Thomas Rivers, Elijah McMath,
Shadiict Bradshaw, George W Ray,
Matthews Caron, Thomas Rourke,
Wra R Story, Augustus Beall,
Berj Brooks, Erastus Beall,
Jeremiah Perryman, Esq. Eli Brinkly,
Wiley Carter, Stephen Jones,
Lawrence Barnley, Jasper McCrary,
Wm Avery, John Heath,
John Barksdale, Henry Crenshaw,
Chapel Brooks, Benj Crenshaw,
Perry Burnley, John Bishop,
Joshua Lazenby, Allen Sturdivant,
Andrew J Story, James W Langham,
Joshua W Hanford, Daniel Hutchinson,
Marion M Cody, Richard Powell,
Jesse M Roberts, Allen Kelly
Ezra McCrary, Elias Wilson,
John Camp, John M Lazeuby,
Thomas Jones, Nicholas Jones,
Starling Jones, Archibald Smith,
James Wynne, Johalhan Huff
G M Huff, S R Wilson,
Henry Hubert, Woodson Bradshaw,
George S Alien, Joseph Smith,
Adam Broom. Thomas Grier,
James M Broom, John Fettz,
Benj Broom, Samuel Jackson,
Samuel Lazenby, Henry Baker,
John R Eavans, Pierce Baily.
Col Wm Jones, Elisha Perryman,
George Underwood, Walter D Wilson,
John F Johnson, Richard S Lazenby,
Francis Jones. Wm Watson,
Erastus Parham, Elisha Burson,
Thomas Hadden, Robert Lazenby,
James M Rivers, John McCrary,
Robt ."VlcNier, James Fowler,
John F Cason, Adam Jones, Esq.
Joshua Harris, Esq. Samuel Camp,
Septimus Torrance, Esq. Jesse Beall,
Enos N Hill, Jethro Durden,
Jesse M Elliot, Joseph Barksdale,
Wm Stone, Irby Wynn,
Robert Hall, Payton Harris,
Uriah T Lockett, Edwin Baker,
Sampson Culpepper, Abraham Heath,
Abner Chapman, James G Swain.
Gazway Duckworth, Thomas Wright.
On motion of Gideon Putnam, Esq., the follow
ing Preamble and Resolutions were adopted*
Whereas, The country of oppression and distress
claims the most immediate and decisive means in
the power of every true republican, to throw off
the chain, and restore to purity the Go Vermont.
For this object,
Resolved, That a standing committee of five be
appointed from this town, to be called the Central
Corresponding Committee, for the County of War
ren, to co-operate with the committees now organ
ized in the adjacent towns and counties, for the
promotion of the cause of Harrison and Reform.
Resolved, That a committee likewise of three bo
appointed by the aforesaid committee in each dis
trict in this county, to act in accordance with them
in every lawful way, and by every just influence
to promote the interest of the people, by actively
supporting the election of Wm. Henry Harrison.
On motion of John Harris, Esq., it was
Resolved, That every citizen in this county,
opposed to the re-election of Martin Van Buren,
be recognized as delegates to the Macon Conven
tion.
On motion of Joseph W. Thomas, Esq., it was
Resolved, That the minutes of this meeting be
forwarded to the Chronicle & Sentinel and Re
former for publication, and that other papers friend
ly to Harrison, be requested to copy the same.
On motion the meeting then adjourned to meet
again on the first Tuesday in September.
ADAM JONES, Chairman,
A. Paris, Secretary.
Waynesboro, August 3, IS4O.
Pursuant to previous notice a meeting of the
delegates to the anticipated Macon Convention, was
was held in Waynesboro, Burke county, on the
3d inst.
On motion of John Whitehead, Esq., Mr. A.
Lewis was called to the Chair, and Wm. U. Sturges
appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting
being made known, the following resolutions were
offered and adopted by Enoch Byne.
Resolved, That each and every citizen in the
county of Burke, not alreadv appointed as dele
gates, be and he is hereby invited to attend the
contemplated Convention to be held in Macon on
the second Thursday in this month, as delegates
from this county.
On motion of Elijah Byne,
Resolved, That Mulford Marsh, Enoch B3‘nc,
John Whitehead, and Thomas Moor Berrien, be
appointed a committee to procure a suitable flag
for the delegates, with this device —“Old Burke,
true to her faith ” —and to raise the necessary
funds.
On motion of John Whitehead,
Resolved, That Thomas Moor Berrien, Matthew
Carswell, Muiford Marsh, and Capt. Harman Hurst,
be appointed to precede the delegates to Macon,
and to make suitable arrangements for their ac
commodation, and to nortify the same to them on
their arrival.
On motion of Mulford Marsh,
Resolved, Tlia* Mr. Eli Byne, John Gordon, and
Ezekiel Williams, ne appointed superintendents,
to conduct the delegates to Macon.
On motion of Elijah Byne,
Resolved, That the delegates from this county
are hereby requested to meet at Mr. Hardwick’s
store, at the Double Bridges, on Monday night
next, and proceed from there in a body to Macon.
Resolved, That the minutes of this meeting be
published In the Chronicle & Sentinel at Augusta.
On motion —
Resolved, That the meeting tender their thanks
to the Chairman and Secretary.
On motion the meeting then adjourned.
A LEWIS, Chairman.
Wm. U. Sturges, Secretary.
From the New York Express.
The Question Settled.
The election in Louisiana being over, we now
give the following statement for the cncourage
mentof weak brethren , and a token for those
who “ look before they leap. - ’
In 1836, it will be recollected that Gen. Harri
son received the votes of the following seven
State viz :
Votes. Majority,
Vermont, 7 6,951
Jifew Jersey, 8 545
| Delaware, 3 SSO
Maryland, 10
Ohio, 21 . 8,457
Indiana, 9 .8,803
Kentucky, .*..15 3,662
Total, 73 votes, sure for Harrison
in 1840.
flections held in the following seven States
since the nomination of Harrison and Tyler, in
dicate that they will vote for that ticket by about
the majorities named:
Votes. Majority.
Massachusetts, 14 8,000
New York, 42 15,000
Connecticut, 8 5,000
Rhode Island, .4 1,500
Virginia, 23 2,500
Michigan, 3 1.000
Louisiana, 5 2,000
Total, 99
Add Harrison’s capital
in 1836, S 7 i
172
Whole number of electoral votes 294—neces
sary to a choice 148. We have therefore 24
votes to spare from the above list. Should we lose
more than that number, we will give “ the grand
hailing sign of distress,’’ to the following respec
table Stales, all considered good for “ Tip and
Ty
North Carolina, 15
Tennessee, 15
Illinois, 5
Pennsylvania, 30
65
“ A word to the wise,” is sufficient.
Jacksonville, July 28.
Indian News.—On Tuesday, 4th instant, two
discharged soldiers left Fort Fanning for New
nansville, and after remaining over night at Fort
While, recently abandoned, they left this latter
place on Wednesday morning on their journey.
After having travelled about six miles eastward,
near a place called “Cow Creek,” they were kill
ed and scalped by Indians, where their bodies
were found bythe*exprcss rider from theSinvanne.
Capt. Ellis, in command of Fort Gilliland, as
soon as the intelligence reached him, repaired to
the spot with twenty men, and interred the bodies.
He found it impossible, however, to trail the In
dians, and returned to Newnansvillc. It is sup
posed they followed the creek to its mouth, where
it empties into the Santa Fe, and there crossed
the river, about two miles from the scene of mur
der.
Signs are also reported near Alligator.
Still further. —On Thursday, 16th inst.
two dragoons, hearing the express from Pilatka
to Fort King, were killed when about nine miles
from the latter post. After they fell from their
horses, they ran about a hundred yards, when the
Indians over took them, and cut and mangled
Uieir bodies in a horrid manner, the head only of
one being found, and of the body the other.
On Sunday, 19th inst. two men attached to the
Infantry Corps, were passing between Fort Fan
ning and Fort White, and were killed within
about seven miles of the latter place.
On Monday, two others belonging to the same
Corps, were killed about 19 miles from Mican
opy, being on their way to Fort Fanning.
On the same morning (Monday) the express
rider, after having left Micanopy about a mile,
saw two Indians standing in the road, but man
aged to elude discovery until he had passed them
so far as to be beyond the reach of their rifles.
They discharged he supposes, about fifteen rifles
at him, after he had got beyond them. The re
port of the rifles, and yell of the Indians, was
heard at Micanopy, and on repairing to the spot,
signs of from 80 t > 100 Indians were found.
From the Savannah Telegraph of Ihe 3 d.
7 he steamer Gen. Clinch, Capt Brooks, arrived
this morning from- Black Creek, brings the news
that the ten horses taken from the Dragoons, near
4 ort Mellon, (the particulars of which appeared
in the Georgian of the 29th,) had been recovered.
One of the dragoons was found dreadfully man
gled, the other missing. Some of the latter’s
clothes were found fastened to a tree, but no signs
of blood appeared.
From the National Intelligencer.
Opinions of Senator Tappan.
If there be any one individual in public life
who more distinctly than another personifies the
politics of the party now in power, and w*hich is
seeking to perpetuate its power to carry into ef
fect the projects that “ lie behind” those which
it has already consummated, it is perhaps Mr.
Senator Tappan, of Ohio.—Of this. Senator per
sonally we know nothing, and have nothing to
say. But of his political movements we have
not been inattentive observers. We have no
ticed his course in the Senate, in reference espe
cially to his anti-bank and anti-credit doctrines,
which he carried t« such an extent in the case of
the District banks, that,domineering in the pride
of party power, he could not forbear adding of
fensive taunts and sneers to the oppression and
injustice he was assiting to perpetrate upon the
District. Wc have nowr before us the evidence
of that Senator’s real opinions, and of the pur
poses which “ lie behind’ his support of the
Sub-Treasury scheme, and the measures which
have been avowed to “lie behind” it; among
which purposes the reader will perceive, from the
subjoined testimony, is to put down the Banks, I
as a moolis of uemtcixc the wages oi la*
non to eleven pence a i>AT. ( he price ot
WHEAT TO SIXTEEN CKX7iB A lILSHEL, ami tVtriJ
thing else in proportion.
Read what follows, and reflect upon it .
From the Steubenville Gazette.
The Globe having recently asserted that
it had authoiity for denying the statement
heretofore made by Mr. James Wallace, of a con
versation between him and Benjamin 1 appan,
Esq., in which the latter expressed himself in fa
vor of a specie currency, the effect of which, as
stated by Mr. Tappan, would bo to reduce labor
to twelve and a half cents a day and wheat to
sixteen cents a bushel, <fec. we have been furnish
ed with the following affidavits Irom Mr. James
Wallace and Mr. James Little, both respectable
woollen manufacturers, and Adam W isc, Esq. at
the time of the conversation a machine maker,
and now a justice of the peace, all of Steuben
ville. W*c understood also that the facts sot forth
in these depositions can be sustained by other
individuals. Any further remark on our part is |
unnecessary.
DEPOSITIONS.
Personally appeared before the undersigned,
James Wallace, who deposes and says: That a
short time previous to the last October election he
had a conversation with Benjamin Tappan, Esq ,
one of the Senators in Congress of the United
States from the State of Ohio, during which con
versation Mr. Tappan remarked : “You manu
facturers, Mr. Wallace, stand very much in your
own light, that you do not go with us for the
hard money system; and you woujd go with us
if you did not look through other peoples specta
cles.” This deponent inquired how the manu- j
factures were to be benefilted by the adoption of i
that system? Mr. Tappan replied that “wages
were entirely too high in this country, and that
there was no reason why labor should not be as
cheap in this country as in Europe. It is the
banks (continued Mr. Tappan) that keeps up the
price of labor and the price of produce; if you
can put down the banks, labor will be reduced
to eleven pence a day, wheat to .sixteen cents a {
bushel, and every thing else in proportion. The
The Sub-Treasury will produce this icsult; it
will put down the banks, and reduce the price of
labor and the price of the produce of the coun
try. It will be the best tariff the manufacturers
can have ; and instead of being compelled to ask
your Government for protection, it will enable the
American manufacturer to compete with the En
glish manufacturer even in his own market.”
JAMES WALLACE.
State of Ohio, Jefferson comity, ss.
Personally appeared before the undersigned, a
notary public, within and for the county of Jef
ferson, James Wallace, who being duly sworn,
deposes and says, that the foregoing statement,
by him subscribed, is true in substance and in
fact. Witness rr.y hand and official seal at Steu
benville, this 20th dav of July, A. 1). 1810.
J. COLLIER,
[l. s.] Notary Public, Jefferson county Ohio.
At the same time and place came James Little
who being duly sworn, says: That sometime
previous to the last election, the deponent had a |
conversation with Benjamin Tappan, Esq., in I
which Mr. Tappan observed, that it was the banks
that kept up the price of labor and the price of
produce, and if we could put down tbefbanks,
and bring e'ery thing to the specie standard, in
stead of foreign goods being brought to this coun
try, we could take our goods to Europe and un
der sell them. JAMES LITTLE.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20th Ju- i
ly, 1840. J. COLLIER, Notary Public.
At the same time and place came also Adam
Wise, who being duly sworn, says : That some
time since he had a conversation with Benjamin
Tappan, Esq., in which Mr. T. remarked, that
the banks were a great injury to the mechanics;
that they (the banks) kept up the price of pro
duce, and that every dollar which banks received
for interest on loans was just so much out of the
pocket of the laboring man. Mr. Tappan also said,
that the banks ought to be put down, and then
we should have nothing but a specie currency,
and it would be much better for the mechanic if
itweieso. ADAM WISE.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20th Ju
ly, 1840. J. COLLIER, Notary Public.
From the Baltimore Po sf.
Sargent Joel Downing to General Jack
sou. »
Downingville, away down east in the Slate of)
Maine, July, 1840. 5
Dear Gineual:—
In respect of your letter, dated at the Hermit
age, 23d ofJune, and sent to the editor of the
Nashville Union, I think down along here it’s
all working ’tother way from what you meant it;
and it seems to me our cause and Mr. Van Huron's
is getting along about as fast as a crab would run,
and pretty much the same way.
Co where you will, it’s all log cabin and hard
cider, and there’s no stopping on’t. I found it so
all the way from the Hermitage here, and it’s
been so here ever since I got here. It aint now
as it was a few years ago, when I and my cousin
the Major used to be fighting for you. Then we
could carry every thing jest as we’d a mind to.
All we had to do was to hurrah for old hickory,
and folks would turn out and give us a lift, and
carry any election we wanted to, all over the coun
try. But folks down this way say they’ve got
tired of Mr. Van Buren. They dont think he’s
sich a great President as you’ve cracked him up
lobe. Uncle Joshua says he dont come up to
Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Madison, no touch to it.
I bad a serious talk with uncle Joshua last
night about matters. You know he always went
for you through thick and thin, all weathers; and
when we had a tight pull here in Maine, he was
commonly the main spoke in the wheel for us.
So when I see him chairman of the log cabin
meeting the day I got here, and see him swinging
his hat with the rest of’em, I begun to feel a lit
tle streaked, and was afraid we was a goiu to lose
him. So I got a chance to get him alone last
night, and had a long talk with him. I went
right at him in what I thought would be his sorest
pint, in the first place, and says 1.,
‘Uncle, you’ll lose the post office, as sure as
your name is Joshua Downing, il you go to wa
vering about and giving up Mi. Van Buren, and
taking sides with Old Tippecanoe.”
At that he snapped his fingers at me, and says
he, ‘Joel, you need n’t think to come here to
teach me politics. I knew politics before you
was born. I was a republican of the old stamp,
and was the first one in Downingville that come
outfor Jefferson against, old John Adams. Then
was the days. Joel, to larn politics. We used to
have it hot and heavy, up hill and down. I went
right into the front of the battle and fit it out, till
I brought over three quarters of Downingville to
my side, «o ’twas pretty much all over the
country. When we begun the battle, most every
body was for Adams. He come in under Wash
ington, you know, and every body thought of
course he must sarve eight years jest as Wash
ington did. But when he begun to have his
alien and sedition laws, and gag laws, and I dont
know what all, why, by jings, the democratic re
publican blood of the country was right up. You
could hear the rumbling of the young earthquake
clear from the District of Maine to Georgia; and
alter fighting like tigers, we brought Jefferson
in.
‘ Well, now,’ says I, ‘uncle Joshua, whal does
a t is rigmarole about Jefferson aqd Ada ms I
amount to ? . I want you to stick to Mr. Van Bu
ren, so as not to lose your post office.’
At that he snapped his fingers in my face again,
and says he,
‘I veil you, Joel, I dont care that for the post
i ?!“ ce ’ com Pared with the good of the country.
1 Weare fighting over almost jest sich a battle as
wo did in the days ol J.ff erßon
Here’s Van Buren, you know, Coln j A( V
Hickory, and in the first on’t h G ma 7 Un,!tr okj
the country in his favor, and if h e 1 ); , I C , a|J
ought to, he might a stood hj» eight v' ° n * asf ie
only see what a pickle he’s g.,t u .' ' Us ’
turned the whole country topsy-turv** 110 ’
every body’s business, and made usall’i
And I think it’s high time to have .S'
And I tell you what ’lis,Joel, the j c “ dla f;i
publican blood of the country has got ° ad,:c
if it dont put things straight again'Vin° U * e<,,a *l
There’s^been little kind of flußtrati ons " llStakt '
a goon many limes in this country sin"
been a government: hut there has’m bT
three times when the republican blood I ? ° ! " f
over. The first time was when it
John Adams and put in Jefferson;arid tl I D, °H
time was when it turned out John U *
ains, and put in old Hickory; and lothe
now, when it is Idling over to turn out V 'if “
and put in the old hero of Tippecanoe
do it, Joel, and no mistake.’ ‘ •i’ll
‘ Well, now, uncle,’ says I, ‘what f an i. ,
find with Mr. Van Buren? it is’m - o ’ l
brought on these difficulties. Biddle’s K I
done all Ihe mischief.’ iaD * Us
At that, unde Joshua rolled up his eyes
and puckered the corners of his mouth?*’
was half laughin, and says he,
• Joel, a man that’s been about the cou
’ much as you have, ought to have more sere V s
; that. Squire Biddle’s bank has been out y
I government this long time, but things (?.
! growing worse and Wbrse all the time,
: quite too late now to shoulder ilollon to
j ‘ Well,’ says I, ‘uncle after all your talk
have’nt brought up a single thing yet against?
| \ an Buren or his government, and until v 0u ‘ r '
do that, I think you ought to be in better W
| ness than to be coming out against him.'
{ ‘ There’s one fact alone,’says Uncle la
! ‘ that ’ s enough to satisfy me that things aimS
i at head quarters and that is, (he expenses of !
! r >’»ng on the government. About a dozen v?
! ago, our government expenses was only ih,?*
or fourteen millions of dollars a year "
it. , . . J "I'd Kow
| they ve got up to between thirty
lions a year. Now, Joel, you cant make me? 1
lieve that things is all right when money i 3s „,, ai '
dcred away at that rate, and the people
nothing about where it goes to.’
Uncle Joshua run on in this way, and h!k f
about the Florida war and the sub treasury
sich like, and said he thought it was lime togr
to have honest men in the government, till I,
gun to feel satisfied we mus’nt expect any
help from uncle Joshua. And, to be honcstaiwr
it. Gmeral, I’m really afraid the jig is up whhfe
for I find uncle Joshua aint alone in turnii*,'
gainst the government and coming out for c
Tip, I find sich ones all round in every q Uan( ,
I was out electioneering ’(other day, and
along through Baldwin. the4lh of July, 1 n;t! ’
great crowd of people out a celebratin. There*
was full of’em, marching along with theirii*
ners and their mottoes, and one of’em r,;
large printed letters, ‘lsaac Dyer and forty*
others.’ And I asked a chap what that me
an J he said Isaac Dyerand forty-two
used to be Jackson and Van Buren men, but *
bad come out for old Tip.
You may depend upon it, Ginera!, Down:;;,
ville is gone as slick as a whistle, and I’m
afiaid the State of Maine is gone too. I thick 1
shall be off soon in some of the other States,®
try my luck at electioneering there. I wish t,-j
would write to me and let me know howyoca
along out west, and whether the tide is goii?
gainst us there too; but I would’nt send any»
letters to the printers to publish, for I dont ihim
it helps us along a mile.
I remain, your old friend,
Sargent Joel Dowxnre,
History vs. Tory Slang.
“ On the Niagara frontier there was much ban
fighting, but every campaign opened under i
new general, and sometimes before its close tbs:
general was superceded. After the fall of Gen
Pike, the war was carried on without any seltiei
plan, and ended without accomplishing any ok
of its objects. It served, however, to affordcp
portunily to a number of officers to dislinguii *
themselves for their military talents and inlrcpdi-1
ty ; among these, Generals Brown, Scott,
Miller, Ripley and Towson, are deservedly
nent. To the North-west our military afiaia
were conducted on a systematic plan, ams under
a commander who was completely successful*
what he undertook. In the South the war** 1
also confided to a single individual, who ws
found abundantly competent to (he duties» 7
signed him. HARRISON and Jacksox,
fore, are the only persons who canbesaiit
have conducted an entire plan of operation In
successful issue, and their names are dccidti
the most conspicuous in the history of them-
Brackenndge's History of the War—page i *
“ I his (the battle of Tippecanoe) is one of tk I
most desperate battles ever fought with tbeln :
ans, and but for the caution and cflcitnajdfo
Commander-in Chief, might have j
the night attack on Gen. Sinclair. UesoluM
were passed by the Legislatures of the States
Kentucky, and the Territory' of
complimentary of Gov. Harrison, anti the office
and troops under his command; and the rcpifl
tion ol the commander-in-chief as an ABU |
AND PRUDENT GENERAL, was establish- v
ed on the most sold foundation.”— Bra f M 1
ridge's History—Page. 2G.
From the New York Star.
Steamboat Accidents—Frichtfci P
tails. —It is to be regretted that (he law lot
mend the statute of Congress on this subject' 1 "
not passed in the long session of eight month*
just concluded, and during which there was r
prodigal a waste of time and the people’s root"
by the administration party. The statistic*
the committee of the house show that but lit
good has been affected by the law. During 1' .
there were on the western waters alone 41 i> tC I
dents, 23 of which were a total loss. Loss
property one million of dollars; lives, 46; f
which were by explosions 1 There were • ;
snagged. Yet add to these the losses by i
eluding the Lexington and 150 lives! f ,
have occurred 272 accidents in the United
since Fulton put his first boat afloat. O' 1 .;,
103 were explosions, and in all a loss of
souls! and 450 wounded.
Greatest number of Jives lost at any one l '
by explosion: ,
On the Pulaski, coast of Carolina in
1838, jj
On the Oronoko in the Mississippi, in 1838, ‘
On the Moselle, Ohio River, in 1838,
Greatest number by collision:
On board the Monmouth, on the Mississiffi 1 *
in 1837
Greatest number by fire :
The Lexington, in Long Island SounJ,
1840, about $
The Ben Sherrod, in the Mississippi) 18 >
Greatest number by foundering :
The Home on coast of Carolina 183/,
Os the 272 accidents, there occured on
Western rivers, f!
On the Eastern waters and the lakes,
The aggregate loss of property by t
ters is estimated at about
mount of steamboat tonnage in th jgjjti l ' 3 ’
according to the returns of 30lh Sept
-199,668. . .
Per Contra.—Though Great BnW gjjtcs
a minimum of steamers compared to the 0 (
yet the chapter of disasters is greatly 1°