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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Oh io ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican—
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, - i
JOHN TYLER,i
Os Virginia ;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9S—
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and 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 EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burk-.
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- c
quest the Delegates appointed in each district in the *
county, and those appointed for the city, to make ”
arrangements so as to meet at Fenn’s Bridge, on s
the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of r
August next. s
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Editors 1 Correspondence.
Athens, Thursday, 6th August, 1840.
The deep interest felt by Geoigians generally,
n the prosperity of Franklin College induces me
to furnish your readers some account of the annual I
Commencement, the closing scene of which is about I
being enacted this morning. As is usual on such 1
occasions, a large concourse of persons have been
brought together, from various parts of the State, t
drawn hither by as many and various objects, no c
doubt. For you must know, that here are to be j
found mingling together, without regard to their I
having emanated from the genuine Jog cabin or the 1
palace, all classes, and, occasionally, in the dense
mass may be seen, the couUeous candidate for .
popular favor, tipping his beaver, as though he re- i
garded it a pioud honoi to be permitted to exhibit s
his civilities to the sovereignty. But, on this occa- 1
sion, I think there were fewer of this class of visi
tors than usual. Os the other classes, and the va- ]
rious motives tiiat might be ascribed for their ap
pearance on the stage here, it would tax the pa- <
tience of your readers quite too much to enter into J,
details. I shall therefore be brief: 1
On Sunda}' the Commencement sermon was
preached by the Rev. Thomas F. Scott, a graduate
of the institution. Os this effort, as it was not
heard by me, I can only give you the opinion of j
others, “it was very 4 creditable. ” Commencement (
sermons, however, or rather the manner of con- s
ducting the ceremonies, are like every thing else 1
in this age of tlie march of intellect,” giving away J
to the fashions of the age, which we are so prone ■
to copy from our transatlantic friends, and a plain, s
unsophisticated, pious worshipper would he much ]
more forcibly reminded of the approach of a cara- '
'an or ciicus, than that he was making his advent 1
into the sacred temple. <
On Monday the Board of Trustees met, and, 1
what is quite icmarkable for them, found a quorum
present.
On Tuesday, the Junior exhibition came off, and ;
the young gentlemen acquitted themselves in a i
manner, alike creditable to all parlies. The fol- 1
lowing is the
ORDER OF THE DAY.
Prayer, by the President.
MUSIC. —ORATIONS. 1
Z. L. Nabers, Laurens district, S. C.— I
“Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again, '•
Ihe etern? years of God are hers.” «
Jos. Gibf.rt, Abbeville district,?.C. —Ingenium, I
res adversae nudare solent.” Hor. (
music.
Jos. Le Conte, Liberty county—Genius and Ap
plication.
G. A. Mallette, Effingham county—Patriotism.
music.
J. W. Williams, Henry county—Curiosity.
L. J. Glenn, Henry county — Our Press—its <
abuse. <
music. j
H. Newton, Athens—Moral Influence of Au- (
thors.
G. R. McCalla, Abbeville district, S. C. —Party i
Spirit.
MUSIC.
Samuel Hall, Crawford county—lnfluence ol|
the dead upon the living.
T. R. R.Cobb, Athens—The countenance, an
index of the mind,
MUSIC.
Yesterday, Commencement Day, there was quite
a large and fashionable audience to witness thd
manner in which the graduates performed thei.
parts, who were all more or less pleased with tlr
display of the young gentlemen. The followin
is the progiamme;
ORDER OF THE DAY.
MUSIC. «
Prayer, by the President.
A. L. Borders, Harris county, (D. S.) 2d Hon
or—Latin Salutatory—“ Moral Courage.”
J. W. Greene, Upson county, (P. K. S.) 3d Hon
or —Gradual encroachments on the Constitution.
William Henry Moseley, Abbeville district,
S. C'., (P. K. S.) —Right of expatriation.
MUSIC.
W. J. Perdue, Greene county, (D. S.) Ist Hon
or— “Alma libertas.”
M. A. Graham, Talladega county, Ala., (P. K.
S.)3d Honor—Chivalry.
T. O. P. Vernon, Spartanburg district, S. C. (P.
K. S.) —Moral corruption.
MUSIC.
J. Hubbard Echols, Oglethorpe county, (D. S.)
—Mental wealth.
W. C. Stevens, Liberty county, (P. K. S.) —
Waste of intellect.
S. W. Baker, Liberty county, l(P. K. S.) 4th
Honor —Mental comfort dependent on moral recti
tude.
MUSIC.
W. Williams, Jr., Athens, (D. S.) Ist Honor —
“What is truth?”
J. W. Quarteman, Liberty county, (P. K. S.)
Ist Honor —State of Georgia—Valedictory.
J. Kendall, Upson county, (P. K. S.) Ist Hon
or —Valedictory.
MUSIC.
Degrees Conferred.
MUSIC.
Address to the Graduates, by the President.
MUSIC.
Prayer.
D. S. and P. K. S. are the initials of the Demos
thenian and Phi Kappa Societies.
When the declamation of the young gentlemen
had concluded, the degree of Bachelor of Arts was
conferred on the following members of the class’
ogether with the speakers: Baxter, r
Brownlee, Bonner, L. Goueke, Gray, T.
Saftbld, Pope, and Winn.
After which the President closed the ceremonies
of the day, with an address to the graduating class,
which was delivered in his usual forcible and im
pressive style, abounding generally in sound prac
tical views, and, but for his sweeping denunciation
of the political press of the country, which was as
unjust as illiberal, was a production admirably
adapted to the occasion.
To-day the scene closes with an address, before
the two Societies, bj r the Rev. Bishop England )
who*e high reputation as a ripe scholar has excited
no little interest to hear him. That it will be all
his mest sanguine friends anticipate, we have no
doubt.
A word on the great and exciting question of the
day, the Presidential question, which, I discover’
pervades all classes in a more exciting degree than
was ever known in Georgia. From almost every
section of the State, I have had an oppoitunity to
obtain information, and the result of ray enquiries
fully confirms my former opinions, that Harrison
and Tyler will get the vote of Georgia by a hand
some majority. The intelligence has equalled my
most sanguine expectations, and proves, conclu- |
sivcly, that the people are deeply impressed with
the necessity of a change of rulers.
Yours, &c.
From the Wilmington Chronicle of the sth.
North Carolina Elections.
The following counties voted on Thursday lasi :
Hyde, Pitt, Washington, Beaufort, Edgecombe, j
Franklin, and Wayne, and Granville on Friday.
We have nothing from Hyde or Washington.
We hear in general terms from Pitt and Beau
fort that both have elected full Whig tickets for
the Legislature, and given Morehead,the Whig
candidate for Governor, large and increased ma- I
jorities. In Granville, the Whigs have gained a
Commoner, returning a full Whig Legislative
ticket—the Gubernatorial vote not precisely
known, but a Whig majority. The vole in
Edgecombe stands 11 30 for Saunders (V. B.)
tolll for Morehead (VV.) This is the same
Whig vote given in this county at the Congres
sional election last fall, and a diminution of the
V. B. of 262.
As compared with the Gubernatorial vote of
1836, it is a Whig gain of 36, and a Van Buren
loss of 49. Franklin and Warren have both
elected full V. B. Legislative tickets, and given
Saunders (V. B.) majorities. Particulars not
known. 'These two counties have ever given
large V. B. majorities.
From the Southern Whig.
Seaborn Jones Balanced.
Col. Bonner, Sheriff of Muscogee County, and
heretofore a warm Union man, has published a
circular, in which he declares his intention to
support the cause of Harrison and Reform. Our
limits will only allow us to extract the closing
paragraph.
Fellow-citizens, I have already detained you
longer than I wished or expected, and in conclu
sion would exhort you to throw aside all your
prejudice and party feeling—read and think for
yourselves—contemplate the wide spread ruin
which threatens to desolate our whole country—
confidence lost—commerce prostrated—credit ru
ined—the currency deranged—the prices of labor
and produce reduced to almost nothing—and in a
word every interest of society has been most in
juriously affected by the unnatural warwdiich the
administration has waged against the credit and
institutions of the country. I call upon the U
nion men of Muscogee, the old Jackson party
with whom I have battled time and again in de
fence of our principles, to rally around the Re
publican standard of the Hero of Tippecanoe and
put down the corrupt and corrupting rulers by
whose measures the country has been brought
to the very verge of ruin. Elect General Harri
son and the sun of prosperity may once more
arise with healing on his wings, bunging good
prices for our labor and produce, with their atten
dant blessings. Let the voice of Muscogee be
heard in even louder tones than in 1836—when
she told a majority of 400 against Van Buren.
Your fellow-citizen,
SEYMOUR R. BONNER.
. Our Prospects.
The prospects of the United Opposition to the
General Administration, grow brighter and bright
er from day to day. Our opponents yield the
Empire State, and they yield all when they do
that. The Prairie fires burn high and clear in
the West, whilst every mountain top in the Old
Dominion sends up a beacon light that illumines
the horison, far and wide. The shouts of the
yeomanry of New England, gathering for the
conflict, are echoed back again by the “Hunters
of Kentucky” and the Back-Woodsmen of Ten
nessee. General Harrison has passed through
the probationary ordeal, come out from
the trial without even “the smell of fire upon his
garments.” It cannot so soon have been forgot
ten, with what a yell of fury, hate and defiance
the old Patriot was greeted, by the watchdogs of
the Administration, when he first made hisappear
ance in the field as the antagonist of Mr. Van
Buren! How like blood hounds have they pur
sued him since. What opprobious epithet have
tiiey not hurled at his devoted head—what dis
graceful slander has not been engendered to sully
his fair name —what envenomed shaft has not
been launched hissing with destruction against
his honorable deeds! But how harmless have
all these missiles fallen at the Old Hero’s feet!
How signally have they failed of the designed
effect! Indeed he has only been endeared the
more to the people, who burn with impatience
to avenge the indignities he has received for the) t
sakes, atthe polls. He has already triumphed
Scandal and calumny have ceased to rouse cot.
tempt. Complete success at the ballot boxe?,
will only be a confirmation of the victory ahead,
won. Courage’and constancy, friends, and tb
day is our own!— West. State Journal.
Meeting iu Taliaferro County.
Tuesday, August 4, 1840.
According to previous notice, a meeting of tl ;
citizens of Taliaferro County was this day held i i
the Court House, for the purpose of appointir ;
delegates to the Macon Convention. Gen. Aarc (
W. Grier was called to the Chair, and P. O, Lear
appointed Secretary. On Motion,
Resolved, That the Chair appoint a committee i t
two from each district, for the purpose of nomina
ting delegates.
The committee having been appointed retire ,
and nominated the following persons, viz:
Aaron W Grier, A Colluugh,
John M Anthony, M Brown,
Joshua Morgan, J C Echols,
Pierce O’Leary, J Fluker,
James Moore, B Fluker,
Elisha Moore, G Hixon,
John Wright, I) C Daniel,
John Magruder, W Sagurs,
Joseph Brooxe, E Meadows,
G Overton, G Griffith,
Win B Clemmons, W Lunsford,
C C Luckett, H P Bowls,
May ward Chandler, W T Fluker,
Fleet Fallen, J Bowles
T Moore, J Mulligan,
Wm Little, S Taylor,
W H Carter, W Green,
A H Stephens, W Lunsford,
Thomas Chaffin, J Davis,
R Burch, W II Rhodes,
C Blister, J Pollard,
John Rodes, S Pollard, sen,
W M Harrison, J W Towns,
W II Wilds, C Wallace,
D S Ander son, Wm Evans, jr.
R Edwards, J Evans,
L W Shackelford, E Edwar Is,
J Woodall, R Ogletrec,
J F Mims, D Thompson,
Z Adam«, H D Murden,
M L Jones, M Murden,
A A Smith, C Morris,
W Bird, P Berry,
Wm A Cunningham, J Mitchell,
George Tilly, B Simmons,
Stephen Stephens, B Gresham,
Samuel Chapman, N Cooper,
James Farmer, G C Morris
F Scott, R S Mitche ,
G Kent, G F Mercer,
J M Sandford, J B Derricote,
Thomas Brister, J B Lenard,
R Gunn, A R Taylor,
J Gunn, W Colclough,
A G Rhodes, J M Harris,
J W Harris, J G W Taylor,
T Pittman, John Edwards,
P Jones, B Edwards,
Thomas Holden, T Edwards,
S V Luckett, M Stewart,
James Allen, Allen Rodes,
Wm Gunn,jr- Samuel Alexander,
James Ballard, J Jordon,
W J Overton, Wm Reed,
A E Moore, E Jordin,
Samuel Saxon, C H Colclough,
James Edge, James Peck, sen.
J R Lockett, Singleton Harris,
D A Farmer, A N Brister,
U Fanner, James Reed, jr.
D Ogletree, James Jorden,
J R Campbell, Win Brister,
T Rodes, Thomas Peck,
TC Overton, A R Howell,
W ft Watson, S Johnston,
W Mattox, J A Lightfoot,
T T Towns, B Jones, jr.
R Swain, J H Chapman,
W B Moore, J W Moore,
W Cherry, Wm Johnston,
Jacob Johnston, J Vcasy,
C Johnston, W C Swain,
J Anderson, R Swain,
F Billingsbea, Wm R Luckett,
I M L Pittman, J R Brooke,
D Cohran, Isaac Moore.
Resolved, That all our fellow-citizens in this
county, who are opposed to the election of Martin
Van Buren to the Presidency, be requested to at
tend as delegates from this county, as fully as if
their names were mentioned.
A H. Stephens then addressed the meeting with
great force and eloquence, portraying in the most
vivid terms, the abuses of the General Government,
and defending General Harrison from the foul slan
ders cast upon him by his enemies.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
be signed by the Chairman and Secretary,and pub
lished in the Refoimer.
The meeting then adjourned.
AARON W. GRIER, Chairman.
Pierce O’Leary, Secretary.
And vet they come ! — Messrs. Samuel Terry,
Thomas Dehart, James Via,Nathaniel Akers, Pey
ton Ross, Baines Carter, Jeremiah Eolcy, Thomas
Morrison, Henry Crum, James Jefferson, Edward
T. Jefferson, Richard Pilson and Moses Pilson,
who had been placed on the locofoco committee ot
vigilance for Patrick county, Virginia, have au
thorized the withdrawal of their names from that
committee.
The Whig Convention met at Little Rock on
the 13th inst. There were about 800 present.
Large numbers were prevented from attending by
the impassable condition of the roads. The
Arkansas river is still very high, but falling.
The application of the hatters of New York
City and State for relief from the importation ol
foreign fur bodies and silk hats, has it seems, been
successful; the bill embodying the protection
sought for having passed both houses of Con
gress.
Toledo (Ohio) Blade.—Andrew Palmer,
Esq., has become editor of this paper. He wields
a ready pen, and the Blade, under his charge,
cannot be otherwise than an efficient ally in the
Whig cause. Let it be remembered that three
months ago, Mr. Palmer was an active member
of Van Buren party, and President of the Toledo
Hickory-Jackson-Van Buren club. “Boys, do
you hear that ?”
The documents to which we refer are subject
to as many constructions and misconstructions as
the Christian’s Bible/’ —Extra Globe.
Read that , fellow-citizens. The documents
and speeches here referred to arc General Harri
son s letters and speeches explanatory of his poli
tical sentiments. Amos Kendall says, that these
letters and speeches are as vague, uncertain, and : *
unintelligible as the word of God!!!
Let a nation s curse follow the hoary headed
blasphemer to his grave! —Louisville Journal.
Col. O’Fallon’s Address* | ei
Mr Fellow Citizens :—I feel deeply sen- 0
sible of the honor you confer upon me, by calling
me to address this vast concourse of intelligent a
freemen. My pursuits in life have led me to re- r '
tirement ; lam wholly unused to speaking in s
public. This fact, although well known to ma- h
ny of you, I had reason to believe, would not ex
cuse me on the present occasion. Aware that 1
my known acquaintance with the eventful scene*
which we have this day assembled to comniemo i
rate, is the only reason for this call, I shall, con (
sequently, in responding to it, state something of <
what I know in relation to them.
It was on the first day of February, 1813, that
the army of General Harrison, pitched their tents
upon, and adjacent to the ground where 1* ort
Meigs was erected, and commenced the construc
tion°of a stockade, which was afterwards sur
rounded by a ditch and embankments, embiacmg
several acres of ground. The snow was deep
upon the ground, and the weather extremely cold;
and although the troops were raw and greatly un
accustomed to such severe exposure, their ardour
never abated. L'nder many deprivations, they
performed their several duties with zeal and alar
city—that zeal and alarcity which spring from the
soldiers deep confidence in the tried skill and
courage of his commander, and his warm attach
ment to his person. Early in April, 1813, the
garrison of Fort Meigs numbered about 1,000 ef
fective men; two brigades of militia having been
discharged in consequence of the termination of
their period ofservice. This fact being early as
certained by the British general commanding at
Malden, an expedition against Fort Meigs was
immediately projected. His army of British and
Indians was near 4.000 strong, and he gave his
Indian allies the most confidential assurances,
that he could carry the Fort by storm, should his
invitation to Gen. Harrison to surrender with the
honors of war, be refused. He had a heavy park
of artillery, and this, with imagined weakness of
our defences, he fancied would give him a ready
and easy conquest of the Fort. And it was even
stipulated between the British general and the
celebrated Tecumseh, that, should the garrison be
taken and General Harrison to remain alive, the
American commander was to be delivered to the
Indian, who designed to wreak upon him his
savage vengeance for the death of his many braves
and warriors who fell at the battle ol Tippecanoe.
Vain calculation ! Vain, this premediated pur
pose of base and barbarous malice! The God of
battles was with the brave American General,
and he was reserved by a wise and far-seeing
Providence, to be, in after times, the proud hope,
the high blessings, the bright prospects, the noble
deliverer of his country !
Fort Meigs was invested and cannonaded with
bomb shells, and red hot balls for seven days, du
ring all which time General Harrison was ever
at the point of danger, planning and directing
the defence, and by his manner, his voice, his sa
gacious conduct, and his undaunted courage, in
spiring his officers with an abiding con
fidence of ultimate victory. Gen. Proctor, was,
at length, driven to confess that he was contend
ing with a commander whose courage and mili
i tary talents were equal to any emergency ; and
I despairing of redeeming the pledge he had given
! to his army, to make an easy conquest of the gar
rison, and being informed by intercepted commu
nication, that Gen. Harrison was in daily expec
tation of reinforcements, he determined to effect
that by stratagem, which he now despaired of
accomplishing by open warfare. He calculated,
by a timely and well concerted deception, to de
; coy into an ambuscade, a large detachment ofour
garrison—then scarcely sufficient effectually to
man the defences. Should he succeed in this,
the ready sacrifice of the Fort would inevitably |
follow. Suddenly a brisk and sharp firing was I
beard in a thick woods near the Fort, through
which passed the road to the interior. The alarm
strongly represented, as it was designed to do, an
Indian engagement. Shortly afterwards, loud
wailing and groans were heard, as would natural
ly proceed from wounded and dying men. The
whole garrison, at once concluded, that an attack
was made on our brothers in arms on their way
to our relief, and who had the strongest claim to
our assistance. Not so, however, with General
H arrison. Ho alone was incredulous. Many of
his officers waited upon him, and almost demand
ed permission to fly to the rescue. For a time
the greatest excitement prevailed in the garrison
at the idea of the sacrifice of their gallantcomrades;
without an attempt to save them. Gen. Harri
son’s sagacity caught the design of the enemy in
a moment, and it required the exercise of all his s
powerful influence and authority to subdue the ;
impetuosity of his officers and men, and to con
vince them of this cunning device of the enemy, j
planned for ‘.heir destruction.
About 2 o’clock on the morning of the sth i
" May, 1813, two officers came, expresses from
General Green Clay, who had passed the Indian
lines, under cover of the night, at the most immi
nent hazard of their lives. They brought infor
mation that General Clay with his brigade of
Kentucky militia, was encamped on the river, a
few miles above the Fort, to which he would pro- I
ceed early that morning. This was most cheer
ing intelligence to General Harrison; and with
this addition to his force, he determined at once,
to commence offensive operations, by attacking
the enemy at every assailable point, dislodge them
from their position, destroy their batteries, and
thus terminate the siege of Fort Meigs. With
this view, two officers were immediately despatch
ed to General Clay with orders to land about a
mile above the Fort, on the opposite side of the
river, a detachment of 800 men under one of his
most trustworthy officers. To move upon the |
British batteries, to carry them, spike the cannon
destroy the ammunition with their carriages, and
immediately upon the accomplishment of this, to
cross the river to the Fort, under cover of our ar
tillery.
The brave Col. Dudley did, in a most gallant
manner, take the British batteries and spiked
some pieces of their cannon; but, too confident of
his own strength, and ignorant of that of the en
emy. to be soon made available, he was induced
in violation of his instructions, to occupy the
ground taken until the enemy had time to collect
their forces in an adjacent wood, into which he
was cunningly enticed by a partial firing of a
few Indians, where, after a bloody conflict, the
largest of his command was taken.
Gen. Harrison displayed, in the judgement of
all his officers, the highest order of military ta
lent during the siege—for his efficient plans of
defence, by traverses through and across the en
campment, as a cover for his—the manner of
protecting his magazine, the object of constant
attack as well as for the plan, and direction, and
most opportune execution of the grand objects
of the two sorties, made by detachments from
the garrison of Fort Meigs on the sth of May
1813.
The first sortie was directed against that por
tion ol the Indians, and Canadian militia, inves
ting the south and west end of the Fort, for
the purpose of drawing them from the river,
whilst Gen. Clay s detachment was effecting
the entrance into the Fort,
The second sortie commenced its movement
just at the moment of the appearance, on the op
posite side, of Dudley’s detachment, advancing
upon the British batteries, having the double ef
fect of engaging the Indians and preventing them
from crossing the river to co-operate against Dud
ley, and accomplishing the destruction of the en
emy s batteries on the south east side of the riv
er.
On no occasion during the last war, were great
er honors acquired than by Gen Harrison; who
conceived and directed, and the gallant men who
executed his orders m these two brilliant sorties.
Jn both engagements our troops, whiht utter
ly exposed, advanced upon and repulsed the en
-my, sheltered as he was by his position, and
mtnumbering our men 4to 1. f ,
In the last sortie our mm marked as lirm y
M veterans, to the mouths of the British cannon
receiving unmoved, their constant, hre o grape
shot, accompanied by a galling and destructive
fire from thousands of Indians and militia on our
front and flanks. Although a large number ot
men fell and peiished upon the bed of honor, their
surviving comrades never paused intheir forwar
march, until the batterries. with a large portion
of the British regulars in charge of them, were
captured, and the whole Indian and militia force
was dispersed and routed. Thus ended the
memorable siege of Fort Meigs.
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, allow me to say
that I had the honor of serving under Gen. Har
r:son at the battle of Tippecanoe, during the
siege of Fort Meigs, and at the battle of the
Thames. Ic m say that, from the commencement
to the termination to his military services in the
last war, I was almost constantly by his side. I
was familiar with his conduct as Governor and
superintendant of Indian affairs of the Territory
of Indiana, and after the return of peace, as Com
missioner.to treat with all the hostile Indians ol
the last war, in the Northwest for the establish
ment of a permanent reconciliation and peace. I
saw also much of Gen. Hai risen whilst he wa
in the Congress of the United States.
Opportunities have thus been afforded me ol
knowing him in all the relations of life, as an
officer and as a man, and of being enabled to form
a pretty correct estimate of his military and civi'
services, as well as his qualifications and fitnes
for office. I know him to be open and brave 11
his disposition, of active and industrious habits
uncompromising in his principles, above allgui ■
and intrigue, and a pure, honest, noble mindec
man, with a heart ever overflowing with warn
generous sympathies for his fellow man. As a
military man, his during, chivalrous courage in
spired his men with confidence, and spread dis
may and terror to his enemies. In all his plans,
he was successful. In all his engagements, he
was victorious. He has filled all'he various civi'
and military offices committed to him by his coun
try, with sound judgement and spotless fidelity.
In every situation, he was cautious and prudent,
firm and energetic, and his decisions always ju
dicous. His acquirements as a scholar are varied
and extensive, his principles as a statesman,
sound, pure and republican.
If chosen President he will he the President
of the people, rather than of a parly. The Gov
ernment will then be administered for the gener
al good and welfare. His election will be the
dawn of a new era! The reform of the abuse.-,
of a most corrupt, profligate and oppressive govern
ment. Then will end the ten years war upon the
currency and institutions of the country. The
hard money cry and hard times will disappear
together. Then will cease further attempts to
increase the wages of the office holders, and re
duce the wages of the people to the standard o
European labor.
Then shall we see restored the general prosper
ity of the people, by giving them a sound local
currency, mixed with a currency of a uniforn
value throughout the laud. The revival of com
merce, of trade enterprise and general confidence |
Then the return of happier more peaceful and
more prosperous days, when cheerfulness am’ t
plenty will once more, smile around the poi
man’s table.
From the New York Express.
We have heretofore suggested the idea that the
Van Burenites, if they should find that they were
likely to lose the election of Van Bure >, would, i
they could muster up courage enough for the pur
pose, resort to Baud, and even force, to avoid suci
a result. Some persons considered the bare sug
gestion as too extravagant to be entertained for v.
moment. There arc two ways in which an un
principled and desperate patty may, in the last re
sort, attempt to defeat General Hatrison’s e!ei
tion, should they find the prospect so dark as fi
leave them no ground to hope for the success o
their own candidate—one hy some fraudulent act
for the suppression or prevention of votes for thei
opponent, or by actual pc.sonal violence and fore
That these are not nere phantoms of the itnagina
tion, we present our readers with an article from
the Extra Globe, and of course, from the pen o
Amos Kendall, lately Postmaster General of tin
United States, and a member of President Vai
Bureu’s Cabinet. It is the first and only article
we have ever seen from tne Extra Globe, not hav
ing hitherto met with a single number of that pub
lication. And we call tiie particular attention o 1
our readers to the style and spirit of this extraor
dinary publication. It exhibits the ferocity of a
bandit, and tne desperation of a corsair. Tak«
for example, the following passage. After bavin,
informed the “ Democrats” that it would not be
come them to celebrate the anniversary of Indepen
dence “this year with hilarity and mirth,” bi
with “ solemnity and fervor,” and moreover de
daring that the danger to liberty is not less now !
than it was in 177 b, addressing himself to the
“ Democrats,” he makes use of the following lan
guage:
“ it is not note that they are called upon to de
fend their libeity in fields of blood. Through you
own right of suit rage, Democrats of America, tin
enemy attacks you, and in that is your presen
defence. Vour weapons aie, as yet those o
peace, and, by a resolute use of them, the occa
sion for a resort to other means of defence may bt
for ever averted.”
Can any person of the most ordinary discern
ment fail to understand the meaning of this r Tin
article was published before the 4th of July ; :
day on which we usually expect to find feelings o
festivity prevalent. If there is any day in the yea
in which the virulence of party animosity migh
naturally be supposed likely to be laid aside, it i
the anniversary of independence.
The man who, on such an occasion and for such
an object, could use such language and utter such
sentiments as these, is farmoie dangerous than tin
miscreant who plunders a house at midnight, and
to protect himself, sets fire !o lire bin ding anddes
troys the family. This is the language, and thes«
arc the sentiments of the savage butcheis of Pari
duiing the most bloody period of th. ir revolution
The language and the sentiments are those of Mu
rat and Robespierre, and their tendencies are t
lead a desperate party to imbrue their hands in th
blood of their opponents. “ Swear on the Fowl.
of July,” says the American Robespierre, “ to a vei
that catastrophe that is, suffering the opponent
ot Van Buren to get possession of the Government
its 1\ easury, and its Army —“band together, an
prepare to march to the polls, not with arms, o
knives, rr clubs, to beat and butcher your fellow
citizens, but with hearts firmly resolved by a
honest and independent exercise of tire right c
suffrage, to avert the possible necessity of march
tug hereafter in battle array to put down usui
pat ion.”
Let it be remembered that the writer of thes
daring, desperate, and sanguinary sentiments w;
lately one ot President Van Buron’s confidentia
counsellors and advisers ; that he was taken from
station at the head of one of the Departments t
the Government, and put into the office of the Glob*
the confidential paper of the Executive; that 1.
writes what is published in an extra sheet, and i
distributed by thousands and tens of thousands int
the hands of the most desperate members of th
community, where it is read in secret, and, to
great extent, is concealed ftom the public eye, an
of course, is left to produce its full effects, unex
posed and uncontradicted, upon the minds of thos
to whom it is addressed. Has it not become nece
sary, indispensably necessary, for the opponents .
Van Buren to rouse themselves to new and moj
vigorous exertions in defence of their rights, priv.
leges, and freedom I
From the third number of the Extra Globe.
Fourth oi July.
“ H becomes Democrats this year to go into th
celebration of our great anniversary, not with hi
lairty and mirth, but with solemnity' and servo.
They should go into it with something of the feel
mg whch our fathers did in 1778 and 177 P, whe
British hirelings were attempting to quern h tl.
flame ot liberty in the best blood of America. Th
danger is now less than it was then. The hirt
lings, not of the British Throne, but of ‘ that powt
behind the Throne greater than the Throne itself,
the British Bank, are marching and countermarch
ing through our land, exploring and invading even
nook and comer where liberty has b ,
camp, to mislead, debase, and corrupt he eJ hr
and induce them to desert her gloria,, * soll hi-i
In the Congress of the United States a i st . ID! W
led by the people of the Stales to watch* Crtl *
ramparts the movements of the enerm
an organized band of adherents resolmVl S ’ e fin 'b
in seducing the garri on from its ail e .r' V en * a N
preparing to throw open the gates to Im^ 00 ’ a °>i
approach. The power and privileges vesica • C ° aie
Representatives of the people lo° facilit lnti *
business and make liberty perpetual ai t
ganized and resolute effort, now pei vc-it T ai1 ° r ‘
debasement of the people and the tl)e I
all they weie designed to secure. Uctl °u of I
“ Let Democrats reflect on these thi n <«
igo to celebrate the Fourth of July, jjn * S t,le I P:
flection make them serious and thought!’ re ‘ !
them remember the pie Iges of their I'oTefath
each other on this sacred day in 1777 ? ~e rs to
and ’Bl, when fire and the sword droy’
ihem, and the penalties of treason iveio
them Let tuis remembrance inspire
the resolution of then fathers, and induced?
swear their father’s oath, to livf, frf.f. ,ern, °
It is not now that they are called on ta°a
i their liberty in fields of blood. Through v i
i right of suffrage, Democrats of America u 0 * 1 Jp
j my attacks you, and in that is you prf s ‘ lteile *
fence. Your weapons are, as yet, those qT 11
and by a resolute use of them, the occasion*?** l
resort to other means of defence may be f ° r a j
averted. But should you, by IN
ferencc, suffer the enemy to get possession I
1 Government, of its Treasury, and its Arm • W
may not be able hereafter to place in Co'^‘ VOu
in the Executive Chair, or even in your Staf f'' I
gislalures the representatives of vour choi e> . f
usurpations attempted at Harrisbuig ma\ b c °*’•
where successfully consummated,°and voaf
j Government be at once transformed inr.* !r( *
usurj ation and of arms. '
“ Swear or, the Fourth of July to avert that cal
trophe. Band together, and prepare to mar ,*"
the polls, not with arms, or knives, or clubs t
beat and butcher your fellow-citizens, b ut 0
hearts firmly resolved, by an honest and inde"
dent exercise of the t ight of suffrage, to avnnf
j possible necessity of marching hereafter in CVT -
array to put down usurpation. TIE
j “ Organize democratic associations every uie, *
There is no more fitting time for it than the F u 'w
, of July. Call upon every Democrat vvhocanf til
: to discuss our principles, and challenge the adve-'
1 sary to the discussion. But discussion is not ai*
that is necessary. Work in season and oul j
season,’ is the motto of the enemy, and by ‘wort’
he must be countcrai ted. By ‘ work ’ 1() .
be sent among the people. By ‘work’\ he
j must be aroused, the wavering stiengthened, aij ,
the honest among the adversaries converted.
' finally, by ‘work’ every Democrat in every coviatv •
I and town in the country must be brought to
poll?.
“ Let us organize—organize for ‘ work’ as well
1 as for talk —organize in such away as to pemjc
! every neighborhood, and reach every freeman.
*• Let us make the Fourth of July, 1840, memo. ,
rable in the annals of our country' for the rallyc:
i the People to preserve the libeity and indepeaj. -
ence which were proclaimed in 177 ti. A decide! I 1
! rally on that day will stiike terror into the ray. i .
of our already' wavering enemy, make the confer
j short, and the victory decisive.
| Serious and resolute, let every dcmocratc;
out to the celebration of the glorious day, foe;,
j mined, by' devoting himself anew to his countr.
to brighten its glories and make them perpetui
— • ‘
Another Slick.-—We understand,says % I
Fort Wayne Sentinel, that Col. Spencer of _ s f
i place is a defaulter to the amount of from slots *
$15,000. Suit is brought for 33,000 wliicii is f
i the balance of account against him. 1
! understand the Marshall to say that the Colonel *
had funds on hand and on deposite, which y | *
not been passed to his credit, sufficient to reduce s
! the claim to the amount first mentioned, L
i p
j The following puzzle we find in the Vermont $
Herald it will afford ample employment for tie I
ingenious : *
A Puzzle.—What has Martin Van Bures *
clone either before or since his elevation to the c
presidency, to commend him to the intelligent *
people of the United Slates, or-to entitle him to *
a re-election ?
An early answer is desired. j
All Thieves at Washington;
BEING A FREE PAR APHRASE OF THE ROMAIC SOIL.
11l fl
Klepteis pole PargaA
, Tune—“ There’s na luck about the home.'
! js
\\ hi 1c Benton rules the Senate, ooys,
And Dr. Niles the Post,
And Frank Blair turns the Kitchen spit,
Where Kendall rules the roast: p f
With Levi in the Treasury, s
And little Van for Chief,
O' who would be an honest man? J
W ho would not be a thief J r
For ah are Thieves at Washington, '
And many Thieves they be, 1
O! the ranting Thieves of Washington,
Are just the bovs for me. 5
’ c
( O! some are Thieves for love of pelf, I
And sevne fur love of pleasure, a
i And some to keep the People pure,
By stealing all their treasure ; <
I For Gold’s the bane of Liberty,
Philosopher’s agree, * *
So let the Palace slaves be rich.
The People pure and free.
Hence all are Thieves, £kc.
Each crime there stalks personified,
In cveiy shape and mode ;
For Benton’s murder, Van is Fraud,
Kendall Ingratitude.
Blair’s Gorgon-head is Falsehood’s mask, V
H is Pen —her poisoned Lance ; I
And beastly' Lust, in greasy Dick,
Is Vice, par ext etlence.
But all aie Thieves, &c. &c. *
£
* Aot having Greek letters, we arc cotnpfb
to use Eng ish.
6 <
From the Boston Mercantile Adveriser. - *
Slander. (
“He who filches from me my good name, j®
Takes from me that which not enriches f
But makes me poor indeed.” S
The freedom of speech was never greater thw (
|at the present time. A man or a woman
utter all sorts of stories discreditable to I
j neighbor, with impunity. We have laws again
j slander, but it is seldom that they are eutdae ’ j
i A prosecution for defamation of character is I
dom resorted to, excepting on occasions
offence has been of the most aggravated th - ■ |p
It is thought the wisest course to treat | |
tory tales, and the slanderous rumors,
they may be the very essence of talsehoodi
silent ante nipt. The result of a trial in 3
of justice being uncertain, and all legal i n? ,
gallon requiring a great sacrifice ot patience,
and money. ,a er .
But our ancestors managed these thing s [ -y|
ently. To “ bear false witness against 3 dj
bor,” was regarded as a heinous crime,
of severe and disgraceful punishment. - •■
character in olden time was worth s>e m g ,
To rob him of that, was to deprive h l ®
treasure worth more than gold or lane*-
We have now before us an account ot t
at a Consistory Court, held at the chtirc rj
Peters, Tunbridge, England, ot
ley, on a charge of being a general dej
his female neighbours—he having sau. ■
English, “ There is never a S oo^! 00 ,’^’pv J
cpt my wife and three others, in Cm 1 ff ; t , tU
ish.” Plenley denied the charge ‘' ut , l^_ a nd N te,
nesses testified to the fact under ° at 1 3
was convicted. The sentence of “ iC , c ° j gVi lit
that in the morning of the next Lor 5
should be whipped at the head of d ie P r .
in his own parisii church, being c ° vcre .^ 3 iiil .t|
linen cloth, after the manner of l ic ! llt j wt vtl#
holding a wax taper in his hand; an 1
the procession was ended, ho s^oU |. P -qft'
knees, declare to bis neighbours, ‘
worse of your wyffs than I do f
and therefore } pray you all men
forgive my prait/ngf j w th^
Henley very unreasonably 1,1,111