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CHKONICLK AN IJ SEN FIN EL.
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TUESDAY MORMXG, AUGUST 2;>.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican
the patriotic Fairoer of Ohio.
for vice-president,
JOHN TYLER,
0/ Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of 98
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 Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENICS 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.
Death by Lightning.
Our notice of the death of Robertson 1 arver
of this county by lightning in yesterdays daily
paper was incorrect, —it should have been Robert
Tarver of Burke County. The error was cor
rected in the Tri-Weekly paper.
Macon Convention.
We la}' before our readers to-day the proceedings
of this Convention; for which we are indebted to
the last Messenger, to which we invite attention |
The Elections.
The failure of the mail yesterday beyond Char
leston prevents our furnishing any further news
of the late Elections.
By the Highland Messenger, published at Ash
ville N.C., we have the returns of Macon and
Cherokee Counties, which increase Morehead’s
majority 390 votes.
Murder.
The body of an unknown man, was round in the
river about three miles be/ow the city, yesterday,
who had evidently been murdered within a few
days, as the body was not offensive. He was a
small sized man, and had on the apparel of a labor
er.
Pine Top, Burke Co., August 14, IS4O.
To the Voters of Burke County.
Fellow Citizens; —M}' name has been used as a
candidate to represent you in the ensuing Legisla
ture. It is currently reported that I am a candi
date I have been very frequently solicited by
leading men, of both parties, in my
to be a candidate. I have always positively refus
ed. About ten days since, at the special request
the district, 1 visited a Harrison barbecue. 1 was
here again urged and re-urged for the use of my
name for the ensuing canvass. I partiaPy consent
ed, with the proviso, that if there was a sufficien
cy of candidates, I would be allowed to withdraw
ray name. In the last Chronicle and Sentinel, I
observe the names of Messrs. Harris, Evans, Mul
key and Carswell, as candidates to represent the
county. Having every confidence in the talent
j?md capability of the gentlemen to discharge the
duties of Legislators, 1 hope ray friends will unite
their influence on this ticket. I must decline the
use of my name. lam not desiious to bask in the
sunshine of political fame, and never less so than
at present. I am, very respectfully,
T. A. PARSONS,
The Two North Carolina Senators.
Messrs. Brown and Strange, U. S. Senators, have
the credit of resigning their seat' previous to the
North Carolina election, when the fact is not so.
The N. V, Express says, a gentleman informs us,
who had it from the lips of the Governor of the
HTate, that the letter cf these two Senators, re
signing their seats, was sent to him, when the law
and the constitution of the Sta'e, in all cases re
quires the resignation to be made to the Legislature.
The Governor, therefore, returned the letter of re
signation to them, with his reasons for not receiving
it.-—and it theretore now remains with these two
gentlemen to resign or not. As the State has prob
ably gone \\ big, it is inferred they will retain then
seats in the Senate ol the United States. Certain
it is, they did retain them all last Session in defi
;mcc ot the Resolutions solemnly adopted oy both
Houses ot the Legislature, disapproving of their
conduct.
Another “Grand Charge.”-—The Ne v Haven
Palladium states that the Marshal jf his State hes
“ charged ” the Government $1,540 for seventeen
weeks board for thirty-five Amistad negioes, and
gi® ss*4 for two hundred and ninety-two day’s ci-s
--tody of the blacks at $2 per day. Kendall’s order
was for a “ grand charge along the whole demo
cratic line,” and the order has been obeyed from
the swamps of Florida to the green hills of New
The Hard Money Government. —A draft for
$1,250 from the Postmaster Gencial, duly counter
signed by the accounting officer of the Department,
and dated 30th of July, 1840, in lavor ot Johnson
& Strader, and drawn on the postma'tcr at Mai s
viHe, Ky., was protested on the 12th hist. The
Proiest was made, as stated in the Cincinnati Re
publican, on the pretext that there was an errer
ot a letter, in spelling the name of the postmaster
fiP drawn upon; but the said postmaster acknow
ledged to the holders of the dratt, that he did not
owe the Department so much money. This is an
ctiier pretty item, to enter into the'history of this
credit hating, hard money Government!
.The Albany Microscope has d’seovered that
Job was a printer, and that his comforters were
non paying subscribers.
For the Chronicle Sentinel.
The Great Barbecue !! ! or two hundred
and fifty of the Democracy.
Saturday last was no ordinary era, in the history
of the Locofocoism of Georgia. About eleven
o’clock, a goodly portion of the Democracy rigged
onto la mode in their best “ bib and tucker,” began
to make some display of their all-important dignity
on the Lafayette Course, and ere Sol had reached
his meridian splendor, the Track afforded the
passer-by a Co j d'oeil much more easily imagin
ed than described. If there was no mixture of
“ Black spirits and White,” there was a mingling
of “jolly” spirits, who seemed however, tobe con
sonant and congenial with some of the part). En
tering the circle consecrated to jockcyism, &c., the
first thing that particularly strikes your attention,
is the roasting offering of twenty innocent swine,
sacrificed to appease tiie opicurian divinity. Pass
ing on but a short distance, your olfactory is erect
ed with a soothing flavor varying in some de
gree from “ hard cider ,” and delaying for an instant
before this altar, you may hear twenty Democrats
affirm, that the Kinderhook poney, must win the
race. Pursuing the even tenor of your way, you
may learn on this spot that“ Kentucky is certain,”
t3n yards farther, that “ North Carolina and Indi
ana, will give a majority in November,” and the
next political knot you meet with, will swear cer
tainly for Louisiana. Thus, although their protem
pore barbecue orators may differ upon the points-,
yet they all unite upon the principle that the Al
bany Reg ncy must and will be victorious.
But stop! wl at thunder is that, that reverbe
rates in the distance ? What burst of poetry and
passion is that, which resounds from the centre to
the circumference of the consecrated spot ? Turn
your eyes for a moment to yonder gathering, and
behold one hundred and ninety pounds of Demo
cratic mortality —five feet nine inches in height. —
He is just mounting the rostrum —“ that,” said a
bystander, “is Tom Glascock.” Ay, the same
Tom Glascock who voted foi the Whipping Law,
in preference to an appropriation of SBO,OOO for re
pairing a Penitentiary, because he'Thought if poor
men and women were to suffer a penalty for crime,
it bad better be taken out cf their hides than their
pockets. Well, let us approach this modern Gi
ant's Causeway, abandon worldly thoughts, and lis
ten to the Augustan oracle —Demosthenes,
poetry, the classics, sublimity, virtue, truth, power,
all are thrown into the shade by this political
deity. He "Hands exaited upon a ladder, to the
lowest round of which the genius of Christendom
dare not aspire. He soars above the intellect of
man, and the only thing intelligible to the Chiis
tian pare of his auditory is, “ Go to the death for
Van Buien,” to which they gave three dry and
hungry cheers for the immortal Tom, amidst which
applause, after gratifying his internals, from the
cool offering of aUmpid spring, (it was water , aye,
water, fellow-citizens.) he fell blushing into the
arms of his constituency. But this part of the
6 aow is now over; the voice history, of passion,
nd literature has again become thirsty, and Tom,
followed by some kindred beings, retires to pay
his devotions at the spirit~w\\ counter. Loud
above the din of “ What will you take ?” “ Give
me the Brandy!” “Give me the Rum !” “Pass
the Gin this way !” is heard the roaring of the po
litical lion, poetically exclaiming, “ Come Mat,
Tom, and Bill, let’s take a long pull and a strong
pull together.” The reply was a modest negative;
but he knew them of oil, to be of the fallen angel
species, and therefore ju J ged that their virtue was
not inaccessible ; he had but a second of reflection,
before the worthy trio had twice repeated, “ Tom,
here’s youi health.”
But this General aforesaid, besides being sober
upon the occasion, was also man-of-all-work. He,
like the black Angel of Death, was here, theie,
and every where; now flourishing a decanter of
Holland’s, then at the Bar, bawling with all his
stentorian power, “ Fire and fall back, boys !”
And again, passing a’ong with peculiar agility, ali
the compounds necessary to pacify the thirsting
pala es of his associates. The tumblers are emp
tied, and the decanters no longer overflow with
“Dutch courage.” They are regarded in solemn
and silent respect by “ the party,” as having ence
contaii ed the good “ things that were.” They
hear now the burst and words of on to dinner, on !
and after courageously leaping over benches, up
setting chairs, treading upon corns, the heteroge
neous mass are assembled in the lower story of one
of the stands. Here was a pdeture for the never
failing pencil of a Hogarth —the despair of some,
the resolution o f others, the patriotism of all, gave
a zest and life to the scene, which we cannot rea
dily forget. The manly independence of the many
in seizing the bones of the departed and innocent
swine, amidst the threats and desperation of those
who opposed them, displayed a cool intrepidity,
which would have done honor to Roman fortitulc.
Yes, Messrs. Editors, in this batt’c of contending
interests, we could point you to some, who, in
“days long since vanished,” would have been at
least entitled to a laurel wreath, if not a civic
crown. The tables are now e’eared, and the Bar
becue is over. A trumpeter aanounces that Ed
ward J. Black, one of the three, will lecture the
crowd. After hard struggling and pulling, kicking
and cuffing, Two Hundred and Fifty Democrats
were brought up to the Judgement Stand.
The clapping and noise being suppressed, a thir
ty eight year o’d in appearance, with well edged
nasal, sharp phisiognomy, and all the sickly hue of
political malady, is led forward to run his race.—
Scanning with a vigilant eye the closely written
stiictures, which he held before him on several
sheets of foolscap, he commenced by addressing his
“fellow citizens of Richmond county,” asking
them not to “believe him for his honor,” (which,
by the way, was a waste of words and an unneces
sary request, if he had only reflected for a mo
ment that many present happened to know him,)
“but to be silent that they might hcai.” He wont on
to assert, that the Convention at Milledgeville,by
which he was governed, had declared lhat Georgia
could not support Gen. Harrison or Mr. Van Burcn,
and yet, with a consistency peculiar to himself,
distinctly avowed that he was a Van Buren man. —
He charged the Chrc nicle and Sentinel, and other
papers throughout the State, with having wilfully
misrepresented and calumniated him, and boldly
asserted that Mr. Dawson had used his name as a
deserter from his party and principles, but that he
would make him personally responsible for that
conduct. He admitted having sold his pay at
Washington for o and G per cent premium, and
urged it as a sub-treasury blessing, that he could
only now obtain 2 or 3 per cent. (If he had
brought it to Georgia, he might have done a better
business.) That he had been mucli abused for
I supporting Blair as government printer; but that
he knew that the Globe was with us upon every
, issue except that of nullification, (which was the
only one involving the sectional question;) that
he conversed with Blair upon the subject, and
‘‘Elan told him he must be satisfied tnth U'hat he
had done;'' and consequently, as a State Eights
man, he supported the Globe. O temporal O mo
res!! lie charged Gen. Harrison with being a de
faulter to tire Government,and promised to produce
i the documents to sustain the assertion. He called
I Mr. Preston “a rhetorical panorama; that he had
i been imported as you would import blood stock;
r was a man of etiquette, a gallant, and that was all.
i And last, but not least, in replying to Mr. Ogle’s
> speech,he asserted that the details were false, and
■ alluding to the President’s dining room,said that it
f contained nothiig but old pine tables, between the
; chinks of which he could lay his finger, and no
■ chairs.
The above is in substance the points to which
‘ Mr. Black alluded. We deem it unworthy our
5 attention to follow this new-born Democrat thro
, all his political gymnastic evolutions. Wc would
’ demean ourselves, did wc answer the many paltry
and flimsy excuses offered to an over-indulgent
constituency—let them at the ballot-box put in
their reply, and we will join issue wit.i him in
' other matters. He positively stated “ that Gen.
Harrison was a defaulter to the Go\cinment in a
1 large amount of money —that he had read (he
document containing the proof, and could produce
' it.”
5 We unhesitatingly declare before the country,
that such is not the fact, and dare, and shall urge
’ Mr. Black to bring forward the testimony, failing
> to do which, he deserves the censure of honest
' men, and will be pronounced a base defamer and
contemptible calumniator. We have wiitten foi
our authority, and when received it shall appeal in
1 the Chronicle & Sentinel.
> The attempted slur upon Col. Preston is as
> miserable as him who would issue it. If he be a
I "panorama,” we thank God, that no such insect
as Edward J. Black, crawls upon the back
ground.
In concluding, wc would say but one word rela
tive to the furniture of the dining room of Mr Van
, Burcn. The statement that, no furniture other
■ than old pine tables, was in that apartment, was
made in contradiction to Mr. Ogle, and for the pui
i pose of invalidating his assertions. If Mr. Og'e
has misrepresented the case, we have only to say
that Mr. Van Burcn, his cabinet, and his clerks,
have kept false records, for upon their authority
and their vouchers, have those facts been publish
ed to the world. We think it, and without fear
proclaim it, that it was below the dignity of any
Member of Congress, or any gentleman, to use as
strong and convincing argument, what in his heart,
he knows, cannot be forced into such a construc
tion, without mean and paltry quibble. Mr. Black
intended to show, by alluding to these Pino Ta
bles, that Mr. Van Buren himself was a plain nan,
and the statements of Mr. Ogle and others, were
volunteer untruths, When it is a matter of historical
. record, and known to every visitor at the Capitol,
and no doubt to Mr. Black himself, that these vein
Vine Tables arc the only relics of the furniture of
General Washington in the President’s House.
, We now ask the “ Prney Woods men,” to whom
he appealed, to take such stuff as that, for what it
[ is worth —and wc call upon them to express their
. opinions, decidedly and firmly through that organ,
; to which all public aspirants, must submit their ac
. tions. Veritas.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
' We say to the friends of the cause of Harrison
’ Tyler and Reform, push the war with vigor, earn
it into the enemy’s camp, and stop not until you
5 banner waves in triumph over the land. See thi
’ we are certain of
’ Vermont 7
Massachusetts 14
r Connecticut 8
> Rhode Island 4
’ New Jersey 8
Delaware 3
Maryland 10
Virginia 23
North Carolina 15
Georgia II
Kentucky 15
Ohio 21
1 Indiana 9
Louisiana 5
Tennessee 15
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168
This makes his election certain by 20 votes.
! We then have a certain prospect of carrying
New York 42
, Pennsylvania 30
Michigan 3
75
168
243
It is said that South Carolina will be neutral, 1'
and Van Buren will only get the following, an
that is b}-no means certain, viz:
Maine 10
New Hampshire 7
Alabama 7
Mississsppi 4
Illinois 5
Missouri 4
Arkansas 3
40
But, Mr. Kendall says, he objects to the suppor
ters of Harrison, because the party is not composed
of the people. Verily, take away the office-hold
ers and expectants, and how many of tire people
would remain in his party? Not enough to escort
Mr. Van Burcn to Kinderhook!! o. p. h.
Boys, do you hear this!
“There is a fact, in the history of General WIL
LIAM HENRY HARRISON, that of itself should
oc sufficient to win our gratitude and respect.—
Most of us are familiar with the history of tire
bloody revolution of 1790. Hundreds of our coun
trymen fled to the United States, as an asylum,
from e ruthless persecutions which were then in
flicted upon them. In the city of New York, the
number became so large, that it was found neces
’ sary to form a society for their relief. It was call
, ed the “New York Irish Emigrant Society.” At
the session of Congress, in 1816-17, tire society
petitioned Congress for a grant of lard io their
countrymen, who wore ihcn destitute, having lost
all their property in the rebellion. The question
was debated in Congress, and the petition was re-
L jected by a majority of twelve voles. Among
those who advocated the measure, and whose name
: is recorded among the yeas, stands tne name of
William Henry Harrison, now a candidate for
| President. In the remarks that he made on that
occasion, he repudiated the idea that is often enter
tained, that the influx of foreign emigration would
be dangerous to the liberties of the country. He
was willing to extend to them a helping hand —to
relieve the destitute —and to contribute our public
domain to those who had suffered as martyrs in
thecause of liberty. This one act of Ges. Ham
son —performed at a time when the sincerity of
his motives cannot be impeached—should commend
him to the favorable regard of every United Irish
man. At the coming election, let us prove “that
Irishmen never desert an old friend in time
OF NEED.”
f
The following are the proceedings of tl»«
Harrison Convention.
Macon, Thursday, June 13, 1840.
In pursuance of the resolution adopted by the
Anti-Van Buren Convention, assembled in Mil
ledgevillc, in June last, responsive to the call
made by the Tippecanoe Club ©f Macon, a con
vention of the people opposed to the re-election
of Martin Van Buren to the Presidency, assem
bled in this city on Thursday, the 13th instant.
The several delegations having been assembled,
the assembly was called to order by Gen. L
Beall, President of the Bibb County Tippecanoe
Club. After prayer, by the Rev, George F.
Pierce, invoking the special guidance ot Divine
Wisdom in the harmonious and conceded action
of the Convention; upon motion ot Col. William
B. Parker, the Hon. John McPherson Berrien
was unanimously chosen President of the Con
vention ; the surviving patriots of the Revolution
then present, were elected Vice Presidents, and
John H. SUcle, Thomas N. Beall, John J. Gres
ham, Samuel M. Strong, and Samuel R. Blake,
Esqs,, were appointed Secretaries.
The President, in assuming the duties assign
ed him, tendered his acknowledgements to the
Convention, and after adverting to the Resolu
tion of the June Convention, and detail: :.g the
evil and corrupt action ot lire present Adminis
tration, introduced to the attention of the Con
vention the Hon. William C. Pr on, of South
Carolina. Mr. Preston rose amid the acclama
tion of the Convention, and tendon d his acknow
ledgements for the notice which had been taken
of him, and made a review ol the leading corrupt
measures of the Administration.
The Marshals then reported to the Secretaries
the several delegations. After which the Con
vert! ion adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow.
Friday mornino, ?
August 14—10 o clock. 5
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Absalom H. Chappell, Esq., ot Bibb, intro
duced the following Preamble and Resolutions:
The people of Georgia, opposed to the corrup
tions and misrule of the Administration ot Mar
tin Van Buren, and friendly to the election of
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON to the Pre
sidency, and of JOHN T\ LER to the A ice
Presidency of the United States, having come
together, in Macon, from all quarters of the Slate,
in a Convention unprecedented in the vaslness of
the assemblage, and the patriotic enthusi aiwilh
which it has been characterised, cannot separate
for the purpose of returning to their widely dis
persed homes without sending forth to their fel
low-citizens of their own State, and of the whole
Union, their ardent congratulations on the tri
umphant prospects which surround them in the
great struggle in which they are engaged.
They view that struggle as one, the issue of
which will he decisive of the destinies of their
country. A President of the United States, who
is indebted for his elevation to the first office in
tlris free and mighty confederacy—not to the
high estimation in which his character, qualifica
tions, and public services, were he’d by ins coun
trymen, but to the sycophantic arts by which lie
ingratiated himself with his immediate predeces
sor, and led that predecessor to exert the whole
power and patronage of the Government for his
advancement—seeks a re-election at the hands of
tho American people. Without having repented
of the deep original sin of Executive dictation,
by which he was brought into office, but perti
naciously clinging to it, and practising it ; with
out having done aught during his administration
to make amends for the unworthy manner in
which he gained the Presidential chair, but hav
ing done every thing that could cause his admin
istration to be felt, not less as a curse than his
election had been a stain on the country, he
comes before the people for the renewal of his
grossly abused lease of power—relying on no
means of success but the utter and shameless
prostitution of that power to his own re-election.
If he shall be permitted to triumph in the effort
he is thus making, it will have become a settled
point in the actual working of our political sys
tem. that a President of the United States may
control and dictate the choice of his successor,
and that such successor, when thus invested with
office, will be strong enough to secure his con
tinuance there for a second term, in despite of all
objections growing out of the most giicvous mis
rule and consequent public detriment. When
such a principle shall once ho practically estab
lished—as it most certainly will be by the re
election of Martin Van Burcn—our Government
will have lost all of Republicanism but the forms
and corruptions, and lack nothing of despotism
but the trappings and title. For, if Mr. Van
Buren he re-clectcd, will not the power and pa
tronage oflhe Government, in his hands, be as
effective, for all purposes of dictating the appoint
ment of his successor, as they have been found
to be in bringing about first, his own election,
and then his re-election. And when Mr. Benton,
or Mr. Buchanan, or some other such parly fa
vorite shall aspire, in his turn, to the Chief
Magistracy, what ground of hope can we have
that the same engine of Presidential power and
influence which have forced such a man as Mar
tin Van Buren on the country, will not be po
tent enough to elevate a Benton, a Buchanan, or
even an Amos Kendall J as his successor?
When to this unanswerable ground of objec
tion to Mr. Van Burcn’s re-election, we add, the
manifest design and tendency of his whole poliev
measures and recommendations, to augment the
already overgrown power of the Federal Execu
tive, by fresh and fearful accessions; when we
recollect that his predecessor, in whose footsteps
he is pledged to follow, broke down the indepen
dence of the Senate of the United States, by and
with his concurrence and co-operation—and that
he himself has instigated and abetted his party
in subjugating the House of Representatives to
his will, even though that subjugation had to be
effected at the cost of the disfranchisement of a
Sovereign State of the Union; when we reflect
that his vast band of office-holders is selected with
a confolling regard to mere Party devotion and
Party efficiency, and arc trained to know no rule
of action but subserviency to the Executive will;
when, to all these things, we further add the alar
ming fact, that he has at last succeeded, after
years of systematic struggle, in causing the
Purse-strings of the Nation to he placed in his
hands, by Congressional enactment, and lhat he
n nv reigns supreme in the collection, custody and
disbursement of the moneys ; when from these Iris
actual measures, we turn to his recommendations
and behold him calling on Congress to place the
Banking Institutionfi of the Stales at his merev,
by a Bankrupt Law of which they may be made
the compulsory victims—calling, moreover, for a
new and unconstitutional organization of the
militia system which would be tantamount to
placing a Standing military force of 200,000 men
at Ins disposal, it cannot be doubted that our Re
bulican Institutions are, at thi? moment, strug
gling in every crisis ot their destiny, and lhat if
the power which now wars against them, shall
triumph in the existing contest for the Presidency
it will he rendered by the victors too strong even
to be afterwards successfully resisted by the Peo
ple.
In this pursuit of new acquisitions of power,
the Federal Executive has not hesitated to over
ride and trample in the dust all the great interests
of the country.—The seizure of the money pow- 1
er has been consummated by a series of measures i
W . lc * a ' e orought disaster, derangement and
rum on the currency, the commerce—the whole
pecuniary prosperity of the People They have 1
>een reduce to embarrassment and comparative j
po\ert\ »y a policy whose only merits are its ten
dency to strengthen the Executive arm. and to
enrich monied men and salaried office-holders.
Whilst the People have been thus curtailed in
their resources of wealth and income, and sub
iccted to a progressive but sure impovens inicnt l
that same Federal Administration, headed by «
Martin Van Buren, from which have cmaniud i
so many professions of economy, has signalised
itself by the extravagance of its expenditures, and
the profligate waste of the public Pressure. It
has carried up the annual expenditures of the
Government loan average of thirty seven millions
of dollars— more than double what was known
under the ten preceding Administrations ; and
we now behold the anomaly of a Bankrupt Ad
ministration sustaining itself by yearly issues
of its own notes, and yet vaulting itsell on the
establishment of a system which makes money
trebly secure and difficult to be obtained.
When we look through the long political life
of Mr. Van Buren, we find nothing to relieve the
dismal prospect which a review ot his Adminis
tration spreads out before the eye. In all tie
great and characteristic acts of lus puo.ic hie
we find him against the .South, and that Re
publican Party to which he professes devotion.
In the outset of his political career, at the com
mencement of the War with Great in
1312, we behold him a member of the New
York Legislature voting tor De Witt Clinton,the
Federal candidate, for the Presidency, in opposi
tion to Mr, Madison, ihe candidate of the Repub
lican party, and of the entire
as a member of the same Legislature, we find
him entering into a political coalition with Rufus
Ring, e then head and leader of the Federal
party of the Union, by which Mr. King was that
year elected to the Senate of the United States,
and by which, also, Mr. Van Buren was himself
elected as his colleague in the same body, the
ensuing year. In 1820, also, he gave his sup
port to tl'ic celebrated Missouri restriction, by vo
ting instructions to that effect to the Senators
and Representatives of New \ ork in Congress.
In 1821, as a member of the Convention which
framed the present Constitution of New \ ork,
he supported the principle of allowing to
Negroes the right of suffrage. In 1822, as a
Senator in Congress, he voted for the restriction
of Slavery in Florida. In 1824. he supported
thoroughly the high Protective tariff of that year.
. In 1828, he voted for the celebrated Tariff Law,
well known throughout the South by the just
and emphatic name of the Bill of Aboinations.
In 1826, he vo for the erection of Federal Toll
gates on the Cumberland Road, and afterwards,
during Gen. Jackson’s Administration, he sub
scribed to his doctrine that works of Internal Im
provement by the General Government were con ■
stitutional, when of National utility ; ami that
the President, in the exercise of the Veto power
was to determine for himself, over the head of
Congress,the question of their nationality. Thus
not taking the power out of the hands of the
Fed :al Government, hut merely shifting it from
Congress to the President. As Secretary of
State, under Gen. Jackson, he compromised lire
honor of his Country in his negotiations with a
great Foreign power, by availing himselfofan ar
gument drawn from the party divisions of our
own People, and the triumph of the party to
which the then President belonged.
It is needless to extend further the detail of
the grounds of objection which Mr. Van Buren’s
political life, and Presidential Administration, so
abundantly furnish against him. Enough has
been presented to show that in whatever view we
contemplate the subject, all things call aloud for
a change of the measures and policy of the Gov
ernment, and of the man at the head of the
Government.
That change, so vitally important to the coun
try, can only be brought about by the election of
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,to the Presi
dency of the United tSlaUs. His public life and
character, from early youth to the present hour,
are familiar to his countrymen, and they give
assurance abundant an indubitable that such a
change as his elevation to the Chief Magistracy
' would bring, would be in accordance with the
most enlightened conviction of public opinion,
and promotive of the redemption of the country
from the misrule, corruption and distresses under
which it now so greviously labors. The confi
dence of a Washington, of a Jeffe’son, and a
Madison —his able, successful and well-approved
conduct in all the great and responsible stations,
in Peace and in War, which he filled for more
i than thirty years—are vouchers irrefutable of his
patriotism, his integrity, and capacity.
The People of Georgia, opposed to the present
Administration, have made him the man of their
choice; and will spare no efforts, becoming free
men and patriots, to advance his election.
’ Resolved, therefore. That it be recomcnded to
the citizens of Georgia to lay aside, in the present
alarming emergency of the Country, all pre-exis
ting Party divisions and to come to the examina
tion of the issues involved in the existing contest,
with minds unbiassed, unprejudiced, and deter-
I mined to consult no end but their Countiy’s
good, and its deliverance from the mal-administra
lion and misery with which it is now overwhelm
; ed.
r Resolved, That the People be recommended to
hold meetings in their respective counties, neigh
borhoods and districts, for the purpose of diffusing
a full and correct knowledge of the true character
and merits of the pending contest, and promoting
the election of General WILLIAM HENRY
HARRISON to the Presidency, and ol JOHN
T\ LEK to the Vice-Presidency, of the United,
Stales.
The question being upon the adoption of the
Preamble and Resolutions, Robkkt Toombs,
Esq. ot Wilkes, offered the following amendment
which was carried by acclamation :
Resolved by 1 his Convention, That while we
as State Rights Republicans, must ever repudiate
and condemn the principles embraced in the
Proclamation and Force Bill, yet we feel ourselves
called upon as Patriots to foicgo our peculiar
opinions of the means to secure the great ends of
State Rights, popular liberty, an honest adminis
tration of the Government of the people, and give a
cordial invitation to our country men of the Union
Party to unite with us in the deliverance of our
common countiy from the hands of “the spoilers.”
In this great struggle, we proclaim to the world
that we stand upon the great platform ofPopular
Rights, which is wide enough, and loi g enough
and strong enough for every friend ol his Country
to stand upon, without any sacrifice except
Party to Country !
The question then being upon the adoption of
the Resolutions, with the amendment, the Hon.
C, B. Stuoxg, of Bibb, introduced the following
additional amendment, which washy unanimous
vole superadded to the main resolution ;
Resolved, That this Convention of the People
approve of the able and patriotic conduct of the
faithful six of our Representatives in Congress,
to wit: Alford, Dawson, Habersham, N sbet,
King and Warren ; and will support them, with
Foster, Gamble and Merriwether, and use all hon
orable means to promote their election.
The Resolutions, and amendments, were
advocated by Andrew J. Miller, Esq. of Rich
mond, William Law, Esq. of Chatham, Rob
ert Toombs, Esq. of Wilkes, and Henry W.
Hilliard, Esq. of Montgomery, Alabama.
The question then recurring upon the amen
ded Resolutions, it was unanimously adopted.
The following resolution was introduced by E.
Bird, of DeKalb:
Resolved, I hat this Convention approve of
the Ticket nomir.ated at Milledgeville, in June
last, for Electors of President and Vice President,
and will support the same by every honest exer
tion in their power.
The question being tiken upon the adoption
| of ttie resolution, it was adopted nem. con.
Mr. Lyman Beecher, of Wetumpka, Alaba
ma, was presented, by the President, to the Con
vention, as a delegate from the “Tippecanoe Club
I* etumpka. Mr. 8., after making his ac
nowlcdgements, and tendering to the Conven-
tion the assurances of the Clul, whose views 1
represented, of their united and untiring co . * F
ration, was conducted to a seat amomr i, °^ e *
, o mem
bers.
S. T. Beecher, Esq., of Baldwin, introduce
the following resolution, which was adopted •
Resolved, That the proceedings of this C on '.
tion be signed by the President and Secret
and that Edilois friendly to the great princi *****
of Reform in the Ad.i Lustration of ih,>r . ’ es
, • “v Vjrovcrn.
merit he requested to give publicity to the sir
through the medium of their papers, e ’
On motion of A. J. Miller, Esq.. 0 f p
mom!, it was Resolotd, That the thanks of ti "
Convention be tendered to the Tippecanoe
of Macon for their kindness and attention u/th"
members of the Convention, and to the cither °
of Macon generally for the hospitality 0 f uu''
entertainment.
On motion of Hon. C. B,Strong, of B ; l s
was unanimously Resolved, That the thanks'
this Convention are due, and arc noft tenderd
to the Hon J. McPherson Brkuien forth
dignified ability with which he has presided over
its deliberations.
On motion of A. H. Chappell, Esq., h!,
a Resolution of thanks to the Secretaries f 0 ’
their attention and efficiency in the discharge of
their duties was submitted and adopted. *
The President then addressed the Comm
tion, commending its deliberations, together with
the consequent acting of its individual member*
to she guidance and supervision of Divine Be
mgnity ; after which Prayer was made by the
Rev. Jonathan Davis, of Lee, and the Pres
dent then adjourned the Convention sine da
J. McPHERSONBERRIEN,President.
James H. Steele,
Thomas N. Beall,
John I. Gresham, y Secretaries
Samuel M. Strong,
Samuel R. Blake, J
Virginia Elections.
The following is a particular statement of the
votes cast by the people of Virginia, at the recent
election of mombeis of the legislature in that
Mate, compared oy Congressional districts and also
in Ihe total, with the vote for President in IVhi
1840. *
Uhl,'. Adm. Whig. \dm
1 * Banks 873 15’ 3 1426 1731:
2 IHotts 1221 858 1315 550
3 *Biernc’s 1738 1804 2333 1597
■4 *Cole’s 1302 1738 1540 ]’m
5 * Craig’s 1013 2331 2617 oTsd
6 *Uiomgoole‘s 683 1041 1008 I 3 fi
7 +Gai land's 1060 1008 ISnO pip
8 iGoggin’s 1274 519 1776 ’O9”
9 fHill’s 9.00 1289 1146 1353
10 *Hollcman’s 1043 669 2002 1833
11 *Hopkin’s 400 2873 1434 2703
12 iHunter’s 671 900 1135
13 ’'Johnson’s 1358 1 762 2131 2270
14 624 1105 719 887
15 *Lucas’ 1503 1560 2367 2073
16 fM’Carty’s 1614 793 1779 840
17 *llives’ 6-8 693 899 j 033
18 " Samuels’ 973 2SOO 1146 2209
!9 *■ Steen rod’s 1554 2440 2559 255 s
20 fTaliaferro’s 827 883 1239 ipj
21 * Wise’s 1433 325 1730 435
Total, 23,402 31,134 34,402 31,695
Van Buren’s majority in 1836 7,73-3
Harrison’s majority in 1840 0 797
Nett Harrison gain 10,439
* Van Bur. n members. tHarrison do.
I Neutral. His district Harrison.
Tnr. Tyrant alarmed.— the President of the
United States is alarmed at the manifestations
of the people, and is exerting himself an t urging
upon his official rctaincis to prevent the immense
gatherings of the true sovereigns of the country.
It is known that the great Whig Convention of
Massachusetts, held at Worcester, in that State,
on the 17lh June last, adjourned to meet again at
Bunker Hill on the 10th of September. It is said
Mr. Van Buren has written a letter to Georg*Ban
croft, the Collector at Boston, inquiring of him
“ whether some steps could not be taken to pre
vent so vast a cotlcc ion of citizens on Bunker
Hill, as it is evidently intended to assemb.e there
on the 10th September; which from presentap
pearances, will be so great as entiiely to discou
rage the democratic party of Massachusetts ?”
The Collector, in accordance with these wishes
of the President, is said to have written to a loco
foco Postmaster, who is acting by appointment of
Gov. Morton, as Major General of the 2d Division
of the Mas-achu.sects Militia, suggos ing to him
the expediency of appointing the lOf/i dan °f s e P m
tember for the genera: muster of his Division, and
that the suggestion will be acted on, if orders have
not alieady been given to carry out the wishes of
the President.
“If these things be true,” remark* a correspond
ent of the Boston Atlas, “ lot us. while we expro-s
our indignation at the gross inteilercnce of the
Presidci t, in the affairs witli which he has no right
to meddle, hail this interference as anoiher evi
dence ot the LEAR OF AN INSULTED PEOPLE, which
has seized upon the Tyrant at Washington.”
Gen. Jackson says, that he “never admired
Gen, Harrison as a military man.” He once
said too, by a vote in Congress, that he never ad
mired Gen. Washington as a military man. Ac*
verlheless the people admire both the one and the
other.
George Washington was a Farmer.
John Adams was a Lawyer.
Thomas Jefferson was a Lawyer.
James Madison was a Lawyer.
James Monroe was a Lawyer.
John Quincy Adams is a Lawyer.
Andrew Jackson is a Lawyer.
Martin Van Buren is a Lawyer.
WILLIAM H. HARRISON IS A FARMER
Like causes produce similar effects; under
Washington the country was prosperous and
happy. Let us have another farmer President
and another age of prosperity and plenty.
Van Buuknism in Maine.—At a \ an Buren
celebration, at Eastport, Me., on the 4lh of Juht
the following was one of the regular toasts drank.
“The Trading community —A CURSE
THE NATION !”
Almost an Accident.—We have been told,that
while one of the Hudson River steamboats was on
her passage up or down a few days since, a 10-o
--foco on board proposed to the Captain to call the
passengers together and take the vote on the Pres
idency. The Captain consented, and requested 31
who were in favor of Harrison to t.ikc one
of the boat, and those in favor of Van Buren, to
take the other side, and he would count them.
When behold the Van Buren man stood alone on
his side the boat, all the other passengers taking
the Harrison side, and came near capsizing the boat,
the solitary loco clinging to the first thing he co'i
catch to prevent himself from sliding to the 1 ai
rison side be fore ho was counted. — Troy M lag- .
The Baltimore Patriot alludes to the rumor ot
a quarrel between Mr. Van Buren and Gov, For
syth, and slates that Mr. Eaton, whilst minister
at Madrid, was in the habit of drawing l° r 1,9
quarter’s salary in advance, as all our f° rt ' ! ? n
ministers have always done. Mr. Rothchik* ca- ■
ed his drafts. But our Government in one 0
its eccentric fils of economy, without ad'|' l "
Mr. Eaton of its intention, gave notice to h u “
schild, that, if he negotiated any ot the drafts •
Mr. Eaton, after the first day es May, 1840, *»*
would do it at his own peril, as they would
be accepted. Mr. Eaton, justly indignant at toi’
attempt to discredit him whilst representing ’
country abroad, in the capacity of minister, l3 ‘
refused to visit the President; and both ho a j“
his wife, as we understand, do not hesitate tu 1
nounce him in the plainest terms.