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    CHKONIOLE AND SENTINEL.
A IJ G U S T A :; .
FRIDAY MORNING, OC TOBER 16.
FOll FRESHENT t
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Oh io ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
von vice-president,
JOHN TYL ER ,
Os Virginia ■
A State Plights Republican of tuc school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons-u and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriotic statesmen. I
STOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT ANp VICE-PRESIDENT.
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND,t of Baldwin.
B. STRING, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of f'elvalb.
Election.
The New York Commercial <jf Saturday after
tioon says;—We have this ftsorning returns
from some of the towns which Ruled to elect their
representatives at the first trial.i We give them
below. According to the calcination of the Bos
ton Atlas, the Whigs have noj,\ 97 members of
the House, whose seats are ntjt contested. As
the whole body consists of but t 86 members, the
Whigs are now certain of a majority in it. In
the Senate there is a Whig I ’ ajority of 8.
Whig maj. V. B. maj
Madison and Cromwell,.... 150
Athens aud Brighton 15
Fubcc and Trcscott, 75
Canton and Jay, 6
The correspondent of the M.?rcantile Journaj
points the attention of the editor to the fact that
in Lubec and Trescott the Huron vote in
the district is precisely the same in the aggre
gate, as at the former election, while the Whig
vole is increased 58, and justly remarks : “ Please
to lake notice that this is a little ominous of No
vember.”
A letter from Fairfield District (says the
Charleston Courier) «lutcJ the Ilth iu»t., w
presses the belief that there is little doubt of Col.
Irby’s election to Congress. Col. Irby has open
ly avowed his preference of Harrison over Van
Buren, but is pledged to vote for Mr. Van Buren
should the election go to the House. He is op
posed by Messrs. Caldwell and Barkley both for
Van Buren. and ivelected, will probably succeed
by only a plurality of votes.
Southeun Chronicle —Extra. )
October If;, 1840. 3
Old Richland Redeemed ! !
The w Tmcst political contest that ever Rich
land District experienced, has terminated tri
umphantly in favor of the Whig*! Their entire
ticket is elected! ! Our opponents did all that
could be done. They brought to hear upon this
election, the voters from seven districts, who
owned properly in Richland ; ! They dragged
the Congaree from Broad River to McCord’s
Ferry —cleaned out the Jail ! and raked every
avenue that contained a voter, legal or illegal!
We state these facts from no vindictive feelings,
but that our friends abroad may know what the
few pent up and much abused Whigs in Rich
land District have had to encounter in this un
precedented struggle. We only claim the grea
ter triumph. The Whigs are drienmned to keep
the heart of the IBlale sound, jWe confidently
believe, that of the legal resident voters of Rich
land District, the Whigs have a?majority of near
ly 200 ! ! ♦
Whigs. Li tcofocoes.
James 11. Adams, 620 Ren. T. Elmore, 603
Joseph A. Black, 618 W. F DeSaussure, 596
Jas. D. Tradewell, 618 William Hopkins, 596
Thomas H. Wade, 609 James Douglass, 586
Virginia.—’The Richmond Whig says that
during the recent Convention In that city, an
estimate of the Virginia vote ir r November was
prepared by the Whig Electoral candidates pres
ent, aided by the local delegates. “The Whig
majority is estimated at 4,400 —i calculation (says
the editor) which we and all,fet every confidence
will be more than fulfilled.” /
Omo.—An estimate of the vote of Ohio for
Governor at the coming election is published by
Johnjti. Wood,Esq. in the Cincinnati Gazette,
makes the nett majority for Corwin, the Whig
Candidate, 21,380.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
B hat we contenU lor.
We want, as Chief Justice Jlarsuali. said in
the Virginia Convention on tin- adoption of the
Constitution, “ a well tegulatjd democracy.”—
We contend for an administr lion of tlm popu
lar will, through thir chosen representatives, and
110 dictation from office-holder;; or political agents
of Government. We want unbounded liberty,
but no licentious agrarianism, which asserts that
education is a mockery, and that a'l religion is a
lie. We contend for the democratic principles of
Jefferson, not the monarchic innovations of
Van Blues ; we want the SPeople to govern
their President, not the President to direct the
People’s course. We want virtue, justice, and
patriotism at the head of affair... and not a reck
less subserviency to the good (it a partv, regard
less of the happiness of the nation. We con
tend for the immutable rights guarantied by our
Constitution, and not that Jacobinism which
courts anarchy, arrays tho working classes a
gamst their employers, excites the baser feelings
of our nature by contending for a general distri
bution of property, and strive; to abolish all hu
man laws, even the sacred . rites of marriage.
These principles we contend or; and, to secure
them, the banner of Reform is reared : vve must
cleanse our country of moral ] dilution and politi
cal degradation, and make it worthy to be again
held up as the model republic io all Ihe world.
The popular medicine operates ! ihc Mad
isonian of the 10th says that Mr. Van Buren has
written a lugubrious letter to his fellow citizens
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y-, expressing “ profound re
gret” for the division among his political friends ;
“ great anxiety” on account of said dissentions in
his native S’ate, and that it is “ nut without pain ”
that he has found himself “ deprived of the approv
ing voices of thousands of the friends of my youth,
and the associates of my maturer years—ol many
who were veterans in the poli'ical field when I en
tered it.” There is no doubt that Mr. 3an Buren
begins to feel that remorse which comes too late :
his letter quite affected us. But it is all his own
fault. If he had taken our advice in 1527, green
as it was, he might have escaped the “ pain” and
i- r egret” he now expresses. Rut he chose the
councils of Blair and Kendall, and lost the
‘- friends of his youth” as a consequence.
The Whigs of Albany, N. Y., offer to bc-t SIOOO
that the majority for the Harrison electoral ticket
in that State will be larger in seven counties than
the Van Buren majorities in all the counties of the
Stale.
It is a remarkable fact, that the only public of
ficer removed by Andrew Jackson, ou the very j
first day of bis entering upon the discha ge of his
duties (besides the heads of departments,) was
William Henry Harrison, Minister to Columbia!
“All men are born free and equal, except poor
ones,” as Martin Van Buren said in the New York
Convention, when he made his celebrated speech \
in opposition to the right of universal suffrage.
His Excellency', Governor Morton of Massachu- j
setts, was elected by a majority of one vote. The
Boston Mercantile Journal says that the Loiofocos
are of opinion that he will be re-elected Governor
this year, but by a reduced majority.
Good news fob Cotton Planters. —A Northern
Exchange paper says cotton has risen materially
in many of our cities, as the locos use it to stop
their ears from hearing the Harrison rejoicings.
New York City.—Ogden Hoffnyan, Moses 11.
Grinnell, Edward Curtis, and James Monroe, mem
beis of Congress fi*m New York, have been unani
mously nominated for re-election. The Locofoco
candidates are not yet announced.
From the Richmond Whig.
The Convention—Glorious Times.
The convention of the sth will be an epoch in |
the existence of the thousands who thronged the I
metropolis on yesterday and the day before. We
had anticipated much, but all our expectations, I
sanguine as they were, fell far short of the reality.
Never before have we seen such an assemblage—
whether respect be had to the number, the appear
ance, the respectability or the intelligence. There
were not Iras than 15,000, and many accustomed
to estimating th • num orsof multitudes, put them
down at not less than 20,000. The cream of the
Old Dominion was assembled. The good, the
wise, the patriotic —the fanner, the mechanic, the
lawyer, the doctor, the merchant, the student, the
fair, the lovely fair—the old and the young, the
soldier of the revolution, the soldier of the late
war, all were here, coming from eve y coiner of
this far-famed old Commonwealth.
Gov. Barbour, of Orange, was elected president !
of the convention. He responded to the compli
ment in a characteristic speech, teeming with no
ble sentiments and patriotic appeals.
The Whig electors who were in attendance I
were elected vice presidents, and Judge Beverly
Tucker and James M. Garnett, Esq., secretaries.
Mr. Lee then submitted an address worthy of j
the spirit of ’76, which was adopted by acclama- |
tion.
As soon as this was over, the presidentintroduc' i
ed to the convention our distinguished guest, the
illustrious (Senator from the Old Hay State. The i
welcome, lend and long continued, which ascended \
from filteen thousand Virginians, told him at once j
that he was at home. Os the manner in which he I
responded ta the hearty welcome the reader can
judge for himself by the faithful report of the ,
speech in another column. All we have to say is, I
that the illustrious lame of the orator, in the opin
ion of tne thousands who heard him, was fully
maintained. He proved himself every thing that |
had been expected of him, and more.
Yesterday, at 10 o’clock, Mr. Rives addres ed |
the Convention in a speech of some four hours —
the numbers but little, if any, diminished from the |
day proceeding. One of tho most striking features i
in this vast asaemblage has been that of deep, in- !
tense unflagging interest of the whole. At mid
night, when the last speaker concluded, a universal
cry aiose for more speaking.
At night the log cabin and the Capital Square
resounded with bursts of eloquence again, which
are still delighting vast multitudes as our paper
goes to press.
Mr. Webster, at the earnest solicitations of his
fellow citizens, made his appearance within the
logs —now the most famous temple of liberty in
the land—the theatre of the most brilliant oratori
cal displays ot the age,and spo e fur two hours.
We reg.et that our limits would not permit us
to give a Miller and detailed account, whit h we
have prepared, of the interesting incidents of this
joyous occasion. It will be forthcomimig to-mor
ruw. In the mean time, we can say with peifect
candor, that it vse had a doubt of ihe vote of Vir
ginia, this vast outpouring of the people, and the
cheering intelligence which they bring from every
quarter, would have dissipate lit entirely. If the
second day of November is a rainy day, we shall
beat Van Buren at least 1.3,000 in the State — v lhc
rank and file ol that party only want a good ex
cuse to their leaders to stay from the polls). But
whether there oe rain or sunshine we have them
by at least 7,000, and no mistake.
British Whigs.
Vv hom do the locofoco papers mean by the
“ British Whigs 1”
The 20,000 yeomen who assembled at Co
lumbus 1
Or the 30,000 who assembled at Baltimore 1
Or the 40,000 who assembled at Tippecanoe 1
Or the 35,000 who assembled at Fort Meigs 1
Or the 12,000 who assembled at Bennington I
Or the 30,000 at Nashville 1
Or the 15,000 at Macon 1
Or the 6,0i'0 at Augusta, Me. ?
Or the 50,000 that met at Bunker Hill 7
Or the 50,00(1 at Syracuse, N. Y. ]
Or the 90,000 at Day ton, Ohi > ? *
Or the 25,000 at Cincinnati, Ohio ?
Or the 10,000 at Richmond, Va.l
Or the 15,000 at Auburn, N. V. ]
Or the 20,000 at t hilicothe ?
Or the 5,000 at Cumberland Gap 1 ?
Or tho 10,000 at Erie, Pa. 1
Or the 8,000 at Hudson, N. Y. 1
Or the 15,000 at Richmond ?
Or the 30,000 in the Park, New-York, on the
anniversary of the Battle of the Thames 1
Or the 3,000 at Patchogue, L. L 1
Or the 5,000 at Jamaica, L. 1. ]
Or the other (unrememkered) thousands that
have met, to deliberate on their grievances and
do honor to the honest farmer of JNotih Bend
since December 1839?
A suspicious person named Francis K. Pierce,
run up board and other bills at Boston, under tne
garbol sanctity and piety. His landlady began to !
get uneasy, which he observed and cautioned her
that perhaps persons had told her not to trust
him, but, said he, if you du not find that I fulfil
my promise to pay you to the utmost farthing,
(hint you cyer trust any body again. The next I
day he absquatulated.
Another Boat Lost.— We hear that the
steamboat Thames has sunk in Missouri river;
but could learn that no particulars have as vet;
come ot hand.— St, Louis (Jazrtlc,
I'rum ike National Intelligencer.
The Maine Election.
The following Letter, which sufficiently ex
plains itself, is an authoritative and effective re
buke of the falshoods circulated by the agents of
the Administration concerning the groundsof the
late Whig triumph in the Cumberland Congres
sional District in Maine:
PonTUNn, (Me.), Oct. 3, 1840.
Dear Sir: —Yours of the 28th September, con
taining several extracts from the Globe touching
the recent election in this Congressional distret,
was received this morning. The charge therein
made upon me of being an abolitionist has before
met my eye in Administration papers from va
rious parts of the country. It originated, I be
lieve, in the Bay State Democrat, was thence co
pied into the New Era, and has since been in
tluslriously circulated, notwithstanding its imme
diate contradiction. I have resolved not to g:vo
myself the trouble of pi rsonally denying the truth
of a report well known here to be entirely un
founded, believing that to me it was of no indi
vidual consequence, and thinking too highly of
the Southern market to admit the idea I hut such
wares could pass there, though manufactured ex
pressly for that region of country. I could not
imagine that an artifice so stale and shallow
would have the least possible effect, when the
motives of those who invented it could not, as I
thought, fail to be understood and appreciated.—
Your communication has, however, induced me
to adopt a different conclusion, and to state the
facts, over my own name.
In a few words, then, all the extracts commu
! nicated from the Globe of the 25th, 2Gth, and
I 2Sth ult. are, so far as they regard my opinions
i and position upon the subject of abolition, entirc
ily untrue. It may be well, however, to say
| something more.
| My father, Mr. Samuel Fessenden, of this city,
has for some } r ears been an avovveu abolitionist,
and was, I am told the presiding officer at a cen
veution h olden in Boston, in May last, which has
been sometimes railed the “Ladies’ Abolition
Convention,” from the fact that ladies were per
mitted to act in it as delegates and members.—
l Immediately after the election in this district, the
| Bay State Democrat designated mo as the indi
vidual who presided at that Convention. The
Boston Courier at once contradicted this state
ment, and published, in proof, the following ex
tract of a letter written by me on a former occa
sion :
“ I am not, and never have been, a member of
J “any abolition society, and have made no secret
| “ ot my unqualified want of confidence in the
“ expediency and beneficial effects of such asso
“ ciatiens.”
Notwithstanding this, tha charge thus made
was reiterated in other administration prints;
and, though again contradicted through a per
j sonal friend in New-York, has been circulated
far and wide, in the hope that some political cap
ital might be made of it. The Bay Stale Demo
crat has since even gone so tar as to asser that I
had given pledges to the abolitionists—that my
father worked night and day to procure my elcc
tion-anil that a placard was published here, ou
the day of election, containing the words “ ,Vo
Slavery in the District." All these statements
are unmitigated falsehoods. No pledge was given
or icquircd—no placard was issued or used —and
my father was absent for more than a week be
fore and until some days after the election, and
took no part in it whatever.
You can readily understand, from these facts,
the object and aim of those who originated and
those who have propagated the story referred to.
It is enough for me to say that my opinions upon
the subject of abolition societies remain unchang
ed, and that no man can he more hostile to any
interference with “ the compromises of the Con
stitution ’ than lam. Justice compels me to add,
that so far as I have known them, the Northern
; abolitionists have always disclaimed any inlcn
s tion or desire to interfere with the slave States in
the management of their domestic institutions.
You will oblige me, sir, by stating, on any oc
casion that may seem to you a proper one,* not
only that I am not, and never was. an abolition
ist, but that my position and views upon this
subject have always been well understood here,
from the fact of ray undisguised difference upon
this point with one whose opinions on most mat
ters of importance 1 have always found it most
safe and advantageous to follow, and with whom
any difference of sentiment or feeling has always
been to me a matter ot profound regret.
I will only add that you are at liberty to make
such use of this communication as may seem ex
pedient to yourself.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. P. FESSENDEN.
Great Mass Coxvkxtiox in Michigan.
The last Detroit Advertiser comes to us freighted
with the doings ot “15,000 Wolverines in Coun
cil” at Detroit.
We write (exclaims the Editor) surrounded
by fifteen thousand freemen—amid the din
and tumult of a mighty “Avalanche of (he Peo
ple!" Our streets are filled with the yeomanry
of Michigan, and the air is vocal with their
shouts 1 Exciting, glorious beyond description
is the scone! Animating, sublime, beyond the
power of imagination, the spectacle! It is as
the heaving ot the tempest wave—the roar of the
hurricane! Now know wc that honor will he
rendered Michigan’s early friends ; that he who
was her early deliverer in 13, will be her choice
now.
From the A ew Haven Palladium.
King Richard and King Martin.
The news of the fall of the Maine Army of Van
Buicn, in the North, will create such an excite
ment m the palace at Washington as has never
befoie been witnessed there. I lie little monarch
will feel much as another “ Sun of York ” did
just before he made the “grand charge that lost
him the crown he had usurped.” The picture be
low, as drawn by Shakspeare, we venture to say
is a good representation of certain men and things
at Washington about these days :
Fntcr Ratcliffe.
Ratcliffe. Most mighty sovereign, on the West
ern roast
Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore
Throng many doubtful, hollow-hearted friends.
Unarm’d to beat them back,
Tis thought Richmond is their Admiral.
Enter Stanley.
King Richard . Stanley, what news with you ?
Stanley. Richmond is on the seas.
X. Rich. There let him sink, and be the seas
on him !
White liver’d runagate, what doth he there ?
Stanley. 1 know not, mighty sovereign, out by
gv.ess.
K. Rich. Well, as you guess?
Stanley. Stirr’d up by Doisett, Buckingham,
and Morton.
lie makes for England, here to claim the crown.
K. Rich Is the chair empty >is the sword un
swayed?
Is the King dead ? the empire unpossessed ?
JI hat heir if York is there alive but we ?
And who is England’s Ki::g but great York’s heir?
then tell me, what makes he upon the seas ?
Stanley. Unless for ihat, my liege, I cannot
guess.
K. Rich. Thou wilt revolt and fly to him I fear.
Enter a Messenger.
Faessen. Sir Edward Courtnay. and the haughty
pieiate.
Bishop of Exeter, his cider brother.
With moio confederates, are in aims.
Eater another Messenger.
2d Messen. In Kent, my liege, the Guilfords
are in arms ;
And every hour, more opponents
1 ioek to the lebels, and their power grows strong.
Enter another Messenger.
3d Messen. My lord, the army of great Buck
ingham — 15
A. j.tih. ( Inter up mg hnn.J Out on ye, owns!
— nothing but songs of Deathl
file strikes him.J There, tike thou that till thou
bring better news.
The Wages ol Labor.
We invite the attention of the laboring class
es to the following admirable extract from the
speech of Mr. Webster, on Long Island, in
reference to the war of Government upon the
wages of labor. They find in it a clear ami con
clusive exposition of the hostility of the Admin
istration to the interests of the laborer and the
poor man, and a full and complete confirmation j
of the excellent speech of Senator Davis in re
ply to Buchanan. After referring to the suh
treasury, he goes on to remark :
“ But this subject draws after it another princi
ple inseparable from its doctrines; ami this is,
that it is useful to reduce the price of labor; that
it is necessary to c urtail the wages of the work
ing man. The supporters of the sub-treasury
scheme have said this: they have ail said it. I
do not see why Mr. Buchanan alone should be
singled out to have this declaration fastened <m
him; he only said in a clear manner what the
others did not say so clearly. They have adop
ted the plan of the sub-treasury ; and this plan,
as a natural consequence, leads to the restriction
and contraction of the currency, and as a mat
ter of course to a reduction ot prices. Well,
they say that wages ought to be reduced. They
must take up that position, or give up the sub
treasury ; and if they give that up, they give
themselves.
You may take Calhoun, and Buchanan, and
Walker, and Tappan. and you'll find that they all
declared this; the}' nil say that is necessary to re
duce the prices ot labor. I aver that ! Mr. Tap
pan declared that labor ought to come down to
eleven cents a day. This I did not hear him say;
he did not say it in Congress ; but there are nu
merous affidavits of the fact that he said it out of
Congress. I have heard the declarations of the
loadeis of the party in relation to this subject; I
have seen and read their references to Cuba; I
have seen the debates in the House of Repre-
I senatives on the subject published by authority ;
and this is the burden of the whole, that the wa
ges ot labor ought to come down.
They say that the petty states of the Meditc
ranean, Naples, Corsica, Sardinia, Genoa, and
others, are proper examples for the people of the
United States] Was ever anything heard so
monstrous? Why, my friends, these gentlemen
arc party mad ; they have a sort of feeling on
this subject that comes near insanity. They for
get where they are. They forget that they are
American citizens. They forget who and what
are the laborers of this great nation, or they
would never hold out to them the petty sovereign
ties of Europe as examples.
And is this course of conduct democratic ?
Why, the laborers of this country constitute 15
out of IG of the entire population ; I mean all
who labor; ail those who labor on their own
farms, for they are laborers in the truest seme of
the word ; and all those who labor in shops, or
in their own humble dwellings, or on the capi
tal of others; these are 14 out of 15 of the whole
people. And any system that professes to re
duce the price ot labor, reduces the wages of all
these men. Is that good democratic doctrines ]
Let old Suffolk answer. (Loud cries of “No !”
“ Xo!”) Is that (he doctrine which constitutes
the greatest good ot the greatest number ?
This doctrine, my friends originated in a total
'misapprehension of the slate of the laborers here,
and the laborers in other countries. Look at
Suffolk fur instance. \ou are not quite as dem
ocratic here as we are in old Massachusetts.
\uu have many large farms of from three hun
dred to live hundred acres in each, that have
come to you by inheritance and other ways. We
have scarcely any of these in Massachusetts.
Well, how is it here? Don’t you labor on your
own farms ? sou know how you are enabled to
manage in this way. But how many of you, I
would ask, can educate families on mere rent roll
property ; how many can give their children pro
per education by their income they obtain from
land which they pay a tent for ? None. In
Massachusetts, none can afford to spend S4OOO
or SSOOO to bring up a family out of property
which they rent. But here nine-tenths of you
work on your own land. In Europe, ninety-nine
out. of every one hundred work o;t other men’s
lands. Is your labor, Ly your own hands, at your
own ploughs, in your own barns, reaping and
thrashing your own wheat—lords of tnc soil, as
you really are—to be compared to that of Eu
rope, where 10,000 of the laborers don't own
amongst the whole of them enough land to make
one a grave ? No. There’s a vast difference in
Ihe state ot Ihe two. And the idea of compaiing
them, arose togetner trom a missapprehension of
tiie condition of the laborers of the two coun
tries. The example of Europe has miserably
misled them to advocate the propriety, of redu
cing the prices of labor here to the' European
standard.
A year ago I was in England ; in the south
ol England, which is a little the poorest part of the
country—and I was in the centre of England,
and in the north. And I was very particular to
find out how the laborers fared there. It was a
subject that deeply interested me, and I made
particular inquiries to find out all about it. I
wanted to know every thing about it. And if I
went away from my country an Amercan, I came
home 300,000 times more an American, to the
back hone, than I was when I left here. (Im
mense cheering.)
On the 22d of September, last year I was in
the south ot England ; and I found the price of
labor therefor a good man was seven shillings a
week, and ho has to hoard himself and his fam
ily* I' l the centre of England, which is the rich
est and the best part of the country, and where
the soil is more productive, in the midst of the
harvest time, a good man can only get eighteen
pence a day, or about 33 cents a day. board him
self and his family. In the south of Scotland
he gets no more and in the north he does'nt get
so much.
And in the midst of the best season of the year
for laborers. I have seen thousands of them going
along the roadside with sickles on their shoulders,
desirous of working for Is. 7d, a day, and couldn't
get it. 1 hat s labor in other countries—that’s
labor in Europe. Do we want to come to that I
[Cries of “no, no.”]
And now what I wish you to do is, not to take
my opinions or statements for this ; but to go
home and examine the subject for yourselves.
And you will see that the Sub treasury leads to
this. Its friends say it does. Mr. Tap nan says
that the wages of labor must and ought to come
down to eleven cents a days ; and they I think
must be disposed to thank him for littre who will
thank him for that. But go home and inquire all
about this. Don’t take the of that old
aristocrat, Mr. W ebstcr, tor truth, unless you find
it so.
1 here is not a more thoroughly independent
set of people in the world than the community in
this same county ot Suffolk. Here you are all of
you tarrners. You have your fine lands, stocked
with cattle, your woods filled with game, your
.broad and beautiful bay ; and when you have no
desire to plough the land, yon can take your boat
and plough the ocean. [lmmense cheering and
cries of “ true!” “true!”]
It is that ti ue your soil is not so fertile as that
ot Michigan, Kentucky, or some ot the western
and southern States. But you have one great
advantage winch they have not. You are near
a great market, and that market must he supplied.
II prices are bad, it is true that you sutler a little,
ut puces arc never so bad as to distress any of
I ou ’ on accoUllt of the many resources which you
have to avail yourselves of.
M ell, m this respect you are fortunate. But
remember that the country is not all so fortunate,
and so well situated as you are. There is the
great commercial interest that has suffered, and
that ,s still suffering 80 deeply; snd (here sre the
great manufacturing districts that are suffeciug.
I do not mean merely the large cotton and wool
len manufactories ot ihc Eastern Stairs, but tb.c
email ones scattered all over the Northern States,
where they make shoes and hats, carriages and
harness. All those arc completely cut up, and
their business is gone.
And now, my friends, it is for you, as you val
ue not only your own prosperity, hut theweliare
of the whole community, the prosperity of tour
neighbors and f fllow-citizens, to say whether you
; don’t wish to see all portions and classes ot this
great country flourishing and happy. Am then
look at the sub-Trcasury scheme, and say it it is
a scheme under which all classes of the cora
muntty can flourish.
Enquire carefully and fully into tire stale of
i business all over the country; ascertain what has
caused all the prostration in trade and commerce.
For I think you hear and see much more ot the
storm than you feel yourselves. Providence has
kindly protected you from the violent changes
that have affected all these communities in the
country whose prosperity depends upon the
production and disposal of eome one great article,
as the cotton and tobacco of the Soudi, or the
wheat of Ohio and the West.
How fortunately are not you situated ! You
I raise ail that is necessary to supply your wants
yourself. You live vs eil—l believe you have a
sort of universal taste for that kind of thing, by
| what I have seen since I have been amongst you.
(Laughter and ch crs.) You send the surplus
•of your produce to market. Remember, only ti c
j surplus. If prices are high, that affects only the
! surplus. If they are low, still it is only the sur
plus that is affected. And il prices are down
one-half, only the surplus feels that fall.
' | But it is not so with the cotton of the South,
i The planter can’t eat it, nor Ire can’t ci ink it nor
he can’t smoke it. IJc has to sell the whole of it,
i and if prices fall the fall runs tlm ugh tne whole.
I And he has to buy all that he wants for his own
ujc out of the diminished sum which his produce
yields him.
But with you the case is very different. You
consume nine-tenths and sell one-tenth. The
I same thing holds true of the great grain regions
that I have staled, of the cotton regions, and so
on of all those districts that raise provisions and
produce for exportation. You have the great
market of New York close to you; the people
there must eat and you must feed them. But take
Ohio and Michigan. If the market for their pro
duce fads, it affects the farmers’ products and la
bor for the whole year.
Now. then, carefully examine these subjects,
and you vviil find that the war against labor is a
war against the very vitality of the United fStafes
And I wish the price of labor to be kept up.
There is no more sure criterion of the prosperity
of a country than when you hear every body say,
“Our wages nre high.” If wages are high, de
pend upon it the great mass of the community
are happy and prosperous.
How ditfirent is the situation of our glorious
American from the condition of Europe. Ho
the laborers of the countries there send their chil
dren to schools, furnish them with ail kinds of
excellent books, and educate them in a manner
in lit them fur station in the country!
Why there, such a thing is never heard of. Such
a thing is not known in those countries where
the cheap jackets come from, that you hear so
much of the cheap labor obtained through the
land. They never arc and never will be able to
du as you do.
Away then, with the insane project of redu
cing the the labor of those bard hands
and honest hearts wfio are the pride, support, and
glory ot the country. Away, at once and forever
with all comparisons that are to degrade these
men—such men, —to the level of the laborers in
Europe.
And now, then, in leaving that subject, I say
that the whole doctrine of the Adminstration, m
regard to the price of labor, is nut a very demo
cratic doctrine.
Denunciation of Washington.— ''tart not,
reader, it is even so. The Spoiler papers have
the effrontery to condemn the Administration of
the “Father of his country,” and to contrast it
unfavorably with that of Martin Van Burenl!
The New York Evening Post says :
“For half a century the democracy have been
struggling to recover the government from the
fatal direction given to it by the first Adminis
tration.”
The New York Fourier says; “We learn
from an authentic source (hat advices were re
ceived by the Great Western to the effect that the
Governments of Holland and Belgium had
authorized their Ministers in London to treat
with General Hamilton for the conclusion of a
treaty of recognition, amity, and commerce with
the new Republic of Texas; and that Gen. Ham
ilton, the diplomatic plenipotentiary of Texas,
was about to repair to London for that purpose.”
Bringing men to their senses. —Getting them
drunk to secure their votes. —Locofoco Dictionary.
John Hancock.
uv L. S. THOMAS.
The memory of this great patriot, statesman,
and orator, has been most grossly neglected;
while hundreds, whose services in the cause of
Independence were not a tythe of his, have been
eulogized to the skies, and lie on convass and in
marble, this great patriot’s name hut seldom
finds a place, even when celebrating that freedom
he was among the very first, if not the first, to
risk his hie in obtaining, i have for years no
ticed thisnegl tct with feelings of unfeigned re
gret. Never was a man more beloved by any
people, than Hancock was by the people ot Mas
sachusetts. \\ ith the exception ot a single year,
when Bowdoin was put in, he was, for sixteen
successive years, elected their Governor, and
closed his patriotic and illustrious life in that
kign station. Hundreds of times have I seen
him, when so worn out and crippled by disease,
that he could nut stand, taken trorn his carriage
into the arms of two faithful servants, (who reg
ularly attended for the purpose,) and carritd up
to the Council Chamber, a distance of nearly fitly
yards from the street. The last lime he ad
dressed his fellow citizens was the most impres
sive scene I ever witnessed. A town meeting
was called upon a question of great excitement.
Old Faneuil Hall could not contain the people,
and an adjournment took place to the Old South
Meeting-house; Hancock was brought in and
carried up into the front gallery, where the Hon.
Benjamin Aus m supported him on the right,
and the celebrated Dr. Charles Jarvis on the left,
while he addressed the multitude. The Gover
nor commenced by stating to his fellow citizens
that "he felt” it was the last time he should ad
dress them.—that “ the seeds of mortality are
growing fast with n him.” The full of a pin
might have been heard, such a death-like silence
pervaded the listening crowd during the whole
ol his animated and soul-stirring speech, while
tears ran down the cheeks of Thousands, The
meeting ended, he was conveyed to his carriage
and taken home, but never again appeared Tn
public; his death followed soon after. The
corpse was embowelled and kept for eight days
to give an opportunity to the citizens from the
distant parts ol the State to render the lan tri
bute of respect to his memory. They came by
thousands and tens of thousands; the procession
was an hour and a half in passing. The post of
honor among the military was given to the Con
cord Light Infantry, under Captain Davis, the
same who commanded tnem on the ever-memo
rable nineteenth of April ’75. It was the most
solemn and interesting, and incomparably the
longest funeral procession I ever saw. bamuel
Adams, who was lieutenant-governor, became
governor ex-uliicio by the death of Hancock, and
lollowed the bier, (there were no hearses with
1 ■x’Jdin.g plumes in those days ) as chief mour ,
mi the venerable patriot con!,! not endue th’
fatigue, and was compelled to retire from AcV
cession. ' P rj *
Hancock, before the Revolution, was an ~ n f
vast fortune, and though he permitted h mp °
in the cause of his country, like water, |‘ le ‘u'T
still enough le!t to support a splendid estab'i
merit, and lived and enteitained like
tt* • •* prirKv
His generosity wms unbounded. I well rL'm
her that one evening in each week during SU n,*
mcr a full hand of music, at his own ex e .<.
attended in front of Ids venerable stone m’,!,.! M '’
to entertain the citizens who were promon' i.i’’’
on the mull. Hr seldom left Boston to visa ?
any distance, but when he did be was escorted
by a volunteer troop of cavalry, who held ,
selves in readiness for that purpose. }i! ,
very fond of joke and repartee, so much so tw
a worthy citizen of Boston, Nathaniel 13.1 T,
Esq., a hatter, who never failed to appear a
the invited guests at his hospitable hoard „!■•' T ?
ed the unenvied appellation of “the GoveZoX
Jester. The celebrated Brissot, in his travel
the United States, speaks of his meeting 'fl-G
gentleman at Hancock’s table; and such it!
mutual attachment between the Governor a
Mr. Balch, that if the former was called awav
matter what distance. Squire Balch attended him
like his shadow, winch the following circumstance
mast happily illustrates; Governor Hancock was
called on a visit to the then province ot M a ; ne
on winch occasion he travelled in state, and
attended by the Hon. Col. Orne, one of the Fxe
cuiive Council, and Nathaniel BaMi, Esq. Their
arrival at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was
thus humorously announced: “On Tl.ursd- v
last, arrived in this town, Nathaniel Balch E«o
accompanied by His Excellency John Hancock’
and the Hon. Azor Orne, Esq.
Tiie events of by-gone davs have been brought
to my recollection by the following short pau
| graph from the N. V. Evening Star. 1
j Valuable relic—We have had left for us at
our office, for inspection, the original commission
I appointing John Hancock first .Major-Genial of
| the Massachusetts Colony. It is dated May 30
1776. I
i- rain the New Orleans Picayune.
A Bloody Tragedy.—The “Olive Branch” !
of the tilt,, published at Monroe, in flij g
State, contains the account of a tatal and bloody
; rencontre which lately occurred on Bayou Ma
i son > in t!l « Parish of Car oil. The particulars
• were given to the editor of the Olive Branch, by
1 a gentleman from Lake Providence.
it appeals that suspicions had long been enter
tained of a secret association of robbers on Island
No. 92 in the Mississippi, 'l ire whole country
was rife wilh accounts of their depredations. Al
ter the late murder of a Mr. Webb, on bayou
Mason, it became the determination of the people
to use every means for their extermination. One
of the clan, a man by the name of Laverty, was
known to beat the house of Garrett P. Rollins,on
the Bayou, and was extensively known as a ne
gro thief. Mr. William A.' Cloman. deputy I
sberift of Carroll, determined to arrest, him, and
fur that purpose started, in company with ilm ;
others, in pursuit. On arriving near the house
they separated, Cloman and one of the men go
ing in front, and the other two to the back part. *
Laverty, in the meantime, had been informed
that there was a warrant out for him, and when
he spied Cloman and his companion nearing the
house he snatched up a double barreled gun and
rushed to the door. Cloman commanded firm to
surrender. He then asked Cloman if be inten
ded to shoot him. Cloman replied that unless
he surrendered he most certainly would. At
this instant they both raised their guns and tiled
so nearly together that the difference could scarce
ly be distinguished. Cloman was shot with a
double barreled shot gun, and fell dead on the ||
spot, one buckshot entering his throat, another
his chin, and twelve just below the nose. Laver
ty was shot with two ritie balls, both entering the
nipple, and the other about two inches to the right
a little above. He did not fall, out grasped his A}'
gun with desperate firmness, and attempted to
cock the other barrel. He was then fired on by J 9
Cloman s companion, who, missing him, rushed
forward and knocked him down wilh lac but of |
his gun. At this instant one of the men who \
had gone to the back part of the house came up X
and placing the muzzle of his gun against La
verty’s head fired, scattering his bruins overlhc «
yard. The neighbors soon assembled, under a
great excitement; a hole was duj in the earth, 11
and 1 ,averty, bools, shoes, hat and all, were pitch
ed in and covered up.
Indians.—Wo learn, that a few days since, j
Captain Baily, captured in the vicinity of St. ]
Murks, a negro who formerly belonged to the In- *
dians. This negro states that the Indians imend
ed attacking St. Marks and Fort Leon, ihe first fall i
moon, and was sent with five Indians to examine I
their situation. The negro gave an accurate ac- B
count of their proceedings, with the exact situa- K J
lion of the places, ilc says the Indians intend
ed to have attacked Madison a few weeks since, I
hut were prevented by tiie constant firing of guns I
by the citizens, who it seems suspected their in- I
tention, and done it to intimidate them. The In- I
dians in that section, he says, number several B
hundred, and among the party to which he he* I
longed, two white men were connected, and s I
number of Creek Indians, and does himself be I
long to the Creeks, and was at the burning I
Roanoke. — Apalachicola Gazette, 3a inst. s.
From the Sherbrooke Journal.
The North Eastern Boundary.—A fe*
days since we met with a gentleman from to* BB
stale of Maine, who informed us that on thes.- I
uit. a party of surveyors under Capt. A. Tar J
cott, U. S. Commissioner, left Canaan, Nt. f° r f
the head wati rs of Connecticut River for the I
purpose of tracing the sources of the I
way river. A branch of the party, to which ottf I
informant belonged, proceeded through 9H
and arc now examining the sources o Am* 4
river, at the head of Megan tic Lake, where the* ft
expected to meet their companions from the hr B
of the Connecticut. ~ I
The party are then to proceed along the dt f - I
ding highlands to the Kennebec road- A ll k
other party under Professor Renwick lw*'*P fr I
cecded_to the Restigouche Bay, bom I
they are to trace the highland agreeable to I
treaty, and expect to meet the first party m- e J
vicinity of the Kennebec road. A thml p 3,l b I
under Major Graham, is employed in runni“3 I
the meridian line from Mars Hill.
Cause and Effect.— 1 “ I shut gain te5V ? |
long, mamma.” “Why not, you sarpint- "
“ Cors my trowsis is all tored out behind- n
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, L I
Latest dates from, Havre ,
New Orleans '
Cotton —Arrived since the Gtli inst., oi «| ■
iana and Mississippi 7960 b iles. Tcnne :Se Bk
Arkansas 42, together 5033 bales. Clemcd » gK
same time, for Liverpool 20'Nl bales, l uVie r P»
Havana 45, Boston 706, Baltimore 00, t 0? ? e rj jj B
5650 bales —making an addition to stock ol - «
bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of all ull T jf IB
board, not cleared on the 9th instant, a
37532 bales. . , . pi
In consequence of the accounts received ! .Vj, I
Great Western, our market has continuer* fNt I
ingly dull and inactive throughout Wednesday
Thursday, the sales of botli Jays scarcely a " l k
iug to 500 bales. On Friday, however, l! ,
finding that it was tiie firm determination o $
ers notloopjiate any longer at previous u
length acceded to lower offers, and the rc^ 1 | j
that 2500 bates immediately changed hands. j