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CHROMCLfci AM ) SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING; OCTOBER 17.
for president,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio } ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio. '}
TOR VlC£*f UESIKifAT,
JOHN TYIJIi,
Os Virginia >•
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriotic statesmen. |
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT ANjl* VICE-PRESIDENT.
GEORGE R. GILMER, M Oglethorpe.
DUNJAN L. CLINCH, cd Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, ot Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERT;, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND; of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY; of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of I*eKalb.
Error. —The article in yestcr iay’s daily, head_
«ed “ Maryland Election” should have been Maine
Election.
Hard Tressed.
The Locofocos are so hard pressed for documents
to prove that the Northern Locoiocos arc the only
Anti-abolitionists, that they are Copying the letters
of Northern Whigs and endeavofing to pass them
off as Locofoco letters.
The Corporal and the Charleston Mercury exhib
ited a memorable instance of this in the letter of G.
Washington Tyson, of Pennsylvania. What say
you to it, Corporal, is that fail in politics ? Will
you tell your readers thet ?
Hon. 1.. Btanly*s Letter.
The Letter of the Hon. E. Stanly, member of
Congress from North Carolina, should be attentive
ly read by every Southern mar
From the Columbus Enquirer.
Hon. J. S. Calhoun.
The suggestions contained iri the following
■communication are both appropriate and weil
timed. Coming as they do fro in a distinguish
ed citizen of the State, and representing the
unanimous feelings of the pa ty in this section,
we feel confident that they w ill meet with the
•consideration which they deserve.
Os the personal claims and qualifications of
Judge Calhoun it is unnecessary to speak.—
Among those who know him -Rest, we presume
that he is universally acknowledged to be dis
tinguished for all those generous feelings, as well
as ttiose traits of chaiacter which peculiarly fit
him for the station of President ot the Senate.—
As the conductors of the public press, we are
perhaps belter able than others to judge of the es
sential service which he has rendered the party
in its late struggle. We know full well with
what sleepless vigilance he watched every move
ment of the enemy, and with what skill and
adroitness he parried their eve s yiblow. Let the
good old rule of dispensing “ iionor to whom
honor is due” be observed, and the verdict of
our friends will be found in fa.vor of the sugges
tions of “ Muscogee.”
Messrs. Edidors: Sufficient returns have
been received from the several Counties to render
it almost certain that there will be a small ma
jority in the Senate opposed to the present Ad
ministration ot the General Government. In the
organization of that body it will be important
that its picsiding officer should be selected with
a view to tne interests of the State, and respect
for those who have contributed to the success of
the cause from which we confidently anticipate
belter times for our country.
In looking over the names of those who have
been honored with a seat in that body, no one
presents more claims than lhabof our fellow-cit
izen, James S. Calhoun. *
As a presiding officer, he is prompt and deci
sive,[courteous in his deportment, and conciliatory
in his manners. In the conte: t through which
we have passed, he was among the first to es
pouse the cause of Reform, and ttie columns of
.your pape* bear ample testimony to the indus
try, Zealand talent, with which he conducted the
cause. The numbers of “ One of the People,” of
which he was the avowed author, place him a
niong the first of the political writers in our State
and contributed more than any thing else to call
into action that spirit of investig ition among the
people to wiiich is mainly to lie attributed the
result of the elections in Georgia.
In a sectional point of view, we have some
claims; for, Western Georgia has no representa
tive in her councils—and we deem ourselves for
tunate on having it in our power to present one
so well qualified to represent hi* political friends,
and so unexceptionable to pohtkal opponents.
These suggestions are made'without reference
to the claims of others and without the knowl
edge of Mr. Calhoun. v Muscogee.
General Harrison an® I Foreign Emi
grants.—ln reply to a letter addressed to him by
Mr. Francis J. Grund of Philadelphia, making
a respectful inquiry of Genera - Harrison in re
gard to his disposition towards foreign emigrants,
the General addressed a frank and generous com
munication, of which we find the following ex
tract in that very excellent journal, the Philadel
phia Standaad :
North Bend, brent. 25, 1840.
“ Throughout the whole course of my political
fife, I am satisfied that no sentence ever fell from
my lips which could be construed into an unfriend
ly feeling to the Europeans, who have emigrated
hither to enjoy the advantages which our free in
stitutions afford, or a wish to extend the period
which is fixed by the existing laws for their full
admission to the rights of citizenship.”
A Good Recommendation.— A friend, speak
ing to us of the late Maine election, concludes
with much propriety in the strong words of Mr
Van B urea’s Message on the subject of the Stan
ding Army.—“ As connecting itself intimately
with'his important subject,” “I cannot recom
mend too strongly to your consideration the
•flan” of beating the LocoFocos everywhere.
-—Nashville Bantier.
Another triumph in South Carolina.
We learn by a passenger in the Greenville stage,
that G-?r. Thompson, who declined running again,
is succeeded by Dr. Butler, a warm advocate of
Reform.
Look out, to the South !
The administration party seem to think that th«
people of the South are a race of gudgeons, to he
caught by any sort of bait, even mts of rag, white
or black, or almost any other color, that is tossed
out to them. Their last card in the present contest
is a simultan*ous, laborious and clamorous attempt
to stir up in file breasts of the Southern people, by
every sort of misrepresentation, and by every trick
of cunning, feelings of sectional distrust against
their brethren of the Middle, Northern and Eastern
States. Let the people of the South, then, be on
their guard and spurn all such attempts as the arts
of desperate conspirators against their peace and
against the public welfare. Let them treat the
foul attempts to alienate them from their best
friends as the arts of a common public enemy and
traitor to the best interests of the Union.
If oir Southern friends wish to know the truth
icspecting public sentiment in the Eastern States,
instead of listening to feed, interested libellers, let
the.ii listen to the voice of the eastern people
themselves, every where and uniformly expressed
as it is in the following article from the Brattleboro
(Vt.) Flail, ol Sept. 22 :
The organ of Mr. Van Buren comes cut this
week with one of the most glaring and unqualified
falsehoods that ever disgraced its columns. It at- i
tributes the late total defeat of the Van Furen
party in this State to the spirit of abolitionism —
that it is a triumph of abolitionism, &c. We be
lieve we are well acquaii ted with the party con
test which was carried on in this State previous to
the election, and we do know that abolition nor
anti-abolition has ever been, in any form, name or
kind, brought before the people of tins State ; and j
further say, that it has never been, in anyway, a j
qualification for any one put in nomination by ei
ther party, unless it has been used by the Van
Buren party in their nominations for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, who, we believe, are both |
abolitionists : we certainly know the last to be one
of the most ultra and rabid abolitionists in the
whole State. If it is a fact, as the Globe tells us,
that Vermont goes Whig because of abolition prin
ciples, why do not the Van Buren papers in this
State say so ? Not a word about it from them —
they know better. A few days after the election,
a distinguished Van Buren man said, in our hear
ing, tha: he was very glad the State had gone for
the Whigs, as the South would think it the effect
of abolitionism, and they should gain two to one,
as the result would show.
The truth is, the contest on the part of the Whig
party in this State, has been carried on against the
measures of the General Government. Those who
approve of the administration of Mr. Van Buien
voted, without any exception, for that ticket; and
those who are opposed to Mr. Van Buren’s mea
sures, voted for the Whig ticket ; and the question
of slavery or anti-slavery has never been mention
ed in ary of the party papers in the State during
the canvass. The whole article has been got up
by the veracious Globe for the purpose of deceiving
the Southern Whigs. W T e can assure them, and
we can do it without the fear of contraaic ion in
this Stale, that the interests and political views of
the Whigs of Vermont are perfectly identical witli
those of the South.
Major Eaton at Nashville. —We learn from
the Nashville Banner of the 3d instant that Major
Eaton made an address on the previous evening at
the Log Cabin. The Banner says :
“Fiank, good tempered, and free from all de
nunciation, his appeal to his old Jackson fiiends
must, we think, have been felt by such of them as
were present. He defined his position very clearly
—tepefied the imputations that have been cast up
on the motives by which he is actuated—stated the
reasons which had induced him to support Gen.
Hanison rather than Mr Van Buren, and showed
that in doing so, he was only acting upon the good
old Jackson principles which he had so long main
tained.”
From the New York American.
A Great Bargain at Hand.—Notice is here
by given, that a public sale will take {dace at the
White House, on the 4th March next of a splen
did collection of Regal Furniture —consisting of
Tabourets, Lounges, Divans, Damask Curtains,
Gold Spoons, Hemmed Kilc/ien Towels, arm vari
ous other articles too tedious to mention, being
the same collection enumerated by Colonel Ben
ton in his famous description ofihe “PJasl Room,”
during Mr. Adams’ administration—(hut which
articles were neither used or purchased by that
President, but reserved for Mr. Van Buren, as
better suited to a real Democratic President's
habits.) Early notice of sale is hereby given
with a request that the same be published in the
Court Journals of Europe, Egypt and Turkey
that the Princes and Potentatesot those countries
may supply themselves---and the editors or
publishers of said journals will insert said notice,
and send their bills to Kmderhook for payment
Perms of sale, Cash, in gold or silver, or Treas
ury Notes, (provided said notes can be discounted
at the Bunk of America.)
A great bargain is offered at this sale, as the
“ coming occupant" being an old fashioned
Democrat , has neither knowdlege of, or use for,
these luxuries.
Also, at same time and place, will be offered for
s.de, the Official Organ and Extra , with the ser
vices of i heir respective editors. If the value of
these be estimated at their cost to the people
the undersigned can’t spcaK too highly in their
praise, although many d.» class them among the
bad speculations ofihe times, costing more than
they will bring. They will he found, however,
admirably calculated for hard currency countries,
being great issuers of paper in exchange for gold
or silver, i'he people of this country being ignor
ant of their value, will not probably bid high for
retaining them, and a great bargain may be
expected, i ernis ot sale made to suit conveni- ■
ence of purchasers. By order of the People.
ECONOMY, REFORM & CO..
Auctioneers.
General Harrison.—A Correspondent of
the Commercial Advertiser, gives the following
description of General Harrison’s appearance at
Cincinnati on the Ist of October.
The General is tall and thin in person, with a
slight stoop, but he bears his years most gallant
ly ; his eye, of the keenest and deepest blue,
shines like a star, nor docs his air or manner be
tray the east symptom of any decay of his fac
ulties.
He spoke for an hour and a half, and was most
distinctly heard by every one in the vast assem
blage. His language is most beautiful; there is
no straining aftereffect or the graces of oratory,
but the most chaste simplicity was conspicuous
throughout. I will not try to give the substance
of his speech, as it will doubtless he punlished.
I only wish that those of his opponents who have
called him an “imbecile old man” could have
heard his noble and manly vindication of himself
from the slanders neaped upon him. His man
ner of speaking about the opposing candidates
was that of a perfect gentleman, and while he ful
ly exposed the ruinous designs of the Adminis
tration, he was careful not to utter a single word
that could be construed into personal office.—
As far as I can judge, he has all the qualities of a
most able statesman, and will discharge the du
ties of tne office of President with consummate j
ability. The impression is daily gaining ground
that he has been underrated even by his friends
and I have not the least doubt that he will ex
ceed their most sanguine expectations.
Mammoth Apple.—On Thursday last, Mr.
Luther Plumen, of Dearborn county, Indiana,
sent to the city two of the largest apples we have
ever seen, to be presented to Gen. Harrison and
Gov. Tyler. One of them measured 16 inches in
circumference, and weighed 1 lb. 8 oz , —the oth
er 15 inches, and weighed 1 lb. 12 ounces.
This gentleman presented one of the samekind
of apples to Gen. Jackson in 1835, which grew
upon another three. He says that tree has never !
ca« Ue U Urge apple since Eepubli - j
' .Letter from Mr. Stanly, of X. L’., to Mr.
Lolls of Virginia.
Washington City, Sept. 23, 1810.
My Lear Sir—l have read with much pleasure
vom- letter to your constituents, relative to the
celebrated plan of Poinsett, and the JHooe case. I
really pity the President and Iris Secretaries, who
have made themselves so ridiculous, in their at
tempts to shield themselves from public indigna
tion. There are gross inconsistencies and contra
dictions in their letters, which cannot be reconciled.
But this you have handled well, and nothing re
mains for me to say.
I wish, however, to say a word relative to the
conduct of the Judiciary Committee. The Presi
dent, in his electioneering letter to Mr. Burras,
says, “ (hat this committee are silent upon the
subject.” After Mr. Storrs, of Connecticut, re
signed, I was placed on that committee to supply
the vacancy. The case of Lieutenant ilooe was
then referred to us, and the committee, worn out
as we all were, by the warm weather, sitting up
late at night, and the press of business, found it
| impossible, with the little time at our command,
to consider this case, without neglecting ail the
other business before the Committee.
As well as 1 remember, there was not a full
meeting of the Committee after 1 became a mem
j ber of it.
But what was it proposed that the Judiciary
I Commitce should do ? Ihe ve lately seen an arti
| cle in the Government organ, commenting upon
| the vote in the House, on the resolution ot Mr.
Chapman, of Alabama, and of course misrepresent
j ing the whole a/fair. By reference to the journal,
| you will obseive that on the 14th of July, a mo
| lion was made by Mr. Chapman, of Alabama, that
j the rules in relation to the order of business be sus
i pended, to enable him to move the following reso-
I lution
“ Received , That the Judiciary Committee, hav
ing charge of the case of Lieut. Hooe.do forthwith
, report a bill to this House, prohibiting the enlist
ment of negroes or c olored persons m the service
i of the Navy or Army of the United States.”
To this resolution 1 was decidedly opposed, and
i gave my reasons for it. In these, if 1 reraemocr
i right, you concurred. By reference to the journal,
on the 17th July, you will find 1 succeeded in hav
ing these objections entered on the journal. I
asked to be excused from voing, that 1 might be
enabled to assign my reasons, which were as fol
lows :
“ Mr. Stanly asked to be excused from voting,
because the Judiciary Committee had not time at
this period of the session, to examine and piepare
any law on any subject; oecause the President and
the Secretary of the Navy had already full power
and authority io exclude them from giving testi
mony against white men, and to set aside the pro
ceedings of cou ts martial, if they saw any thing
requiring their interference ; and because he (Mr.
S.) could not consent that the Navy should be de
prived es the services of negroes, as cooks, stew
ards, and servants, for there is no necessity they
should be witnesses ; and because, to enact such a
law as the gentleman from Alabama proposes,
would, in effect, make white men negroes, by im
posing on them the necessity of discharging duties
heretofore discharged by negroes.”
This explains my opinions, as a (southern man,
and as a member of the Judiciary Committee. And
after deliberate examination, I believe these views
are correct: and 1 know a laige majority of South
ern men will think with me.
The great laboratory of lies, the Globe, gives the
names of those who voted against Mr. Chapman’s
resolution.
If you will look at the journal, you will find, on
the 14th of July, Mr. Chapman introduced his re
solution to have the rules suspended, and the yeas
and nays are there given. The Globe wou.d have
the South to believe, that all the Locofocos who
supported Mr. Chapman ia his motion are good
Democrats, and friends of the South. But to ex
pose this unfounded and hypociitical pieten.ion, I
need only call your attention to the names of H.
Williams, and Wm. Parmenter, both of whom are
found voting with Mr. Chapman. Both of whom,
therefore, the Globe intends to palm upon the
South as friends of tne institution of slavery, and
in favor of excluding negroes from entering the
service.
1 have before me copies of the letters written by
Messrs. Parmenter and Williams,before they were
elected members of Congress, and 1 give you an
extiact from each. The extracts I here give you
I read in the House of Representatives, and they
were not denied by Parmenter and Williams:
Extract if a letter from Wm. Parmenter to Dr.
A mos Farnsworth, dated East ( arnbridge, Oc
tober 16, 183 s.
“ That the existence of Slavery is an evil of
great magnitude is not disputed, excepting by a
very small portion of the citizens of the Union.
In my opinion, the powers possessed by Congress
should be exercssed to prohibit interstate slave
trade, and to abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, whenever such measures can be adopted
consistently with the safety of the nation ; and 1
deem it the duty of Congress to regard the require
ments of justice and humanity as well as the other
obligations of the Constitution of the United
States.”
I am not in favor of the admission of any new
State whose Constitution may tolerate slavery, and
in this sentiment I believe the People of (his sec
tion ol the country almost unanimously coincide,
Respectfu ly, and truly yours,
WILLIAM PA KM LATER.”
Extract of a letter of If. Williams to Rev. P.
Crandall, Fill River, dated Taunton, Novem
ber 1,183 S.
“ Dear Sir —I have this day received your letter
of the 31st ult., propounding to me interrogatories
in behalf of the Bristol County Anti-Slavery So
ciety, and for answer refer you to my course in
the Massachusetts Senate, and to a letter written
to Andrew Robeson, Esq., about one year since,
and published in the newspapers of that time. That
letter contains opinions 1 had long entertained and
olsen expressed. 1 have since seen no reason to
change them. I still believe slavery to be contrary
to the laws of God and the best interests of man ;
that it ought not to be extended by the admission of
new States into the Onion with Constitutions tole
rating so great an evil; and that it is the impera
tive duty of Congress to adopt immediate measures
for its abolition in the District of Columbia.
H. WILLIAMS.
Now, both these men, Parmenter and Williams,
are full blooded Locofocos, and according to Globe
logic, are genuine friends of the South ; and if they
aie deleated at the next election, we shall hear
that the Abolitionists have triumphed over these
immaculate Democrats .'
Anti-slavery resolutions were introduced into
the Massachusetts Legislature. The question was
taken by yeas and nay s upon each resolution.—
Here are two of them :
“ Resolved, 1 hat Congress, having exclusive le
gislation in the District ol Columbia, possesses the
right to abolish slavery and the slave trade therein,
and that the early exercise of such right is de
manded by the enlighterea sentiment of the civi
lized world, by the principles of the revolution, and
by humanity.
“ Resolved , That slavery being an admitted mo
ral and political evil, whoso countenance,w’hcrever
it exists, is vindicated mainly on the ground of ne
cessity, should be circumscribed within the limits
of the States where it has oeen already established,
and that no new State should be hereafter admitted*
into the Union whose constitution of government
shall sanction or permit the existence of domestic
slavery.”
Whether those who voted for these resolutions
were abolitionists or not, I leave the Southern
people to decide.
Upon the passage of these resolutions, Henry
V\ ilhams, with every other Van Buren Senator
except one, recorded his name in the affirmative !
\ou will have perceived from the c ourse of the
administration papers, that the attempt will be
made tu delude the Southern country by crying out
that ‘ the abolitionists have defeated the democra.s
in Vermont.”
No man of ordinary intelligence can any longer
be deceived by this ridiculous cry. But, if there
should be one, I can very easily satisfy him of his
error. -
There are but tw r o administration members from
ermont in the present Congress, and both of these
a ‘ e a lolitionists. They hav« been both defeated,
and now w T e are told the abolitionists have beaten
these good democrats !
On the i6tii day ol January last, in a speech
which 1 delivered in the House of Representatives,
I rcleircd to the fact that many of IVlr. Van .Huron’s
leading tiiends in \ ermont were abolitionist s .
k' P‘ T >ai ber ? tbc l' oc °foco candidate for the
office ol Lieut. Governor, was mentioned, among
others, it had been remarked, dm ing the debate,
•that Mr. blade was big and an abolitionist, and
in reply to this, I made the following statement:
“But, Sir, in the distiict represented by this
member, the Van Buren abo itionists had a conven
tion,and the secretary ol the Anti-Slavery Society,
E. D. Barber, opposed his (Mr. Slade’s j nomina
tion. I understand this K. D. Barber is well known
as a devoted friend of this administration, the edi
tor of a paper, and an undisguised abolitionist
There are two audition members fiom Vermont
on this floor, both of whom are abolitionists. One
of them was here at the last Congress, (Mr.
Fletcher;) he is in favor of abolishing slavery in
the District of Columbia, thinks that Congress
ought to prevent the buying and selling of slaves
between the States, and has expressed a willing
ness to enter into the customary international re
lations with Hayti.”
These remarks, I repeat, were made in the
House of Representatives, in the hearing of the
Vermont members ; they were published, an I have
never been, and will nut be denied.
In the Vermont election which is rccentlj’ heard
from, the abolition candidate for the office of Gov
ernor, Mr. Dillingham, the abolition Candida e for
the office of Lieutenant Governor, Air. E. D. Bar
ber, and the abo itionists, Smith and Fletcher,were
all beaten.
Some weeks after the publication of the speech
referred to, 1 received, through the mail, two pam
phlets Irom Mr. E D. Barber ; one of them was
“ Mr. Barber’s Oration, delivered before the Addi
son County Anti-Slavery Society, on the 4th of
July, 1836,” and the other was “ An Oration de
livered before the Democrats of \\ ashington Co.,
at Montpelier, on the 4 h of July, 1839, by E. D.
Barber.”
On one of these pamphlets which this impudent
Locofoco sent to me, he w:Ote, “Irom the author,’'
and informed me that what I had been told as to
his opinions, was “ tme beyond all possible deni
al,” as I would perceive by reading these pam
phlets. I think I exhibited these pamphlets to
you when they were received by the mail. 1
have them now before me, and this Mr. Barber,
over whose defeat the Locofocos are mourning,
writes on one of his orations, that he is a demo
crat,true to his principles, as taught by Jefferson,
himself an abolitionist /” 1 quote his own words.
And this is one of the men, the secretary ol an
anti-slavery society, and a devoted friend ol Air.
Van Buren’s, who calls Jefferson an abolitionist —
This is the man whom the Van Buren party sup
ported as their candidate for the office of Lieuten
ant Governor in Vermont! and still we shall be
told that the abolitionists are all Whigs, and have
beaten the Democrats in Vermont.
The Whig victory in Alaine has overwhelmed
the tones here. They confess their astonishment
at the result. Judging from what they have al
ready said as to the Vermont elections, 1 should
not be much surprised if they bo diy charge the
Whig victory ia Maine as an abolition triumph.—
You may expect to hear this next Os course the
Whig majorities in Kentucky, Louisisna and North
Carolina, will all likewise be imput' d to abolition
influence.
As to Alaine, it may be as well to refresh the
memories of those who have forgoite.i the circum
stances. Air. Albert Smith, of Alaine, who was
recently defeated, gave satisfactory answers to
the abolitionists before his election. Air. Smith
said in his letter," No man can be more decidedly
opposed to slavery in the abstract, or more deeply
desire the freedom of the who e human family than
myself.” Air. Smith was also opposed to the ad
mission of Texas, and in favor of the right of pe
tition.
Air. Fairfield, the Governor of Alaine, who has
just been defeated, was a member of tne last Con
gress. He, also, wrote a letter to the abolitionists,
ia which he assured them that he regarded slavery
as a moral and political evil, to which he is, and
has ever been, both in principle an . feeling, utterly
opposed, and that its entire ah# ition cou d afford
to no one more sincere pleasure than himself.—
But he is now ieg.ii ed as one wnom tiie aboli
tionists have defeated. Air. Fairfield was in Con
gress when Air. Calhoon,of Kentucky, on the 13th
December, 1839, introduced the following resolu
tion, which 1 copy from the journals befuie me :
“Air. Calhoon, of Kentucky, moved that the
rules be suspended to enable him to move the fol
lowing resolution:
“ Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary
be instructed to report a bill making it unlawful
for any person to aid fugitive slaves in escaping
from their owners, and providing for the punish
ment in the courts of the United Btates of all per
sons who may be guilty of such offence.
“ And that they be further instructed to report a
bill making it unlawful for any person in the non
s.aveholding States of this Union to use any means
to induce slaves from their owners, and providing
for the punishment in the courts of the I niled
States of all persons who may be guilty of such
offence.”
Now surely no man friendly to the rights of the
South, i o good democrat could object to tne pas
sage of such a resolution ; but as the emiie aboli
tion of slavery could afford to no one moie sincere
pleasme than to him, he was found voting against
Air. Calhoon’s motion. The names of H. J. Ander
son, Thomas Davte, John Fairfield, and Virgil D.
Paris, Lo< ofocos from Maine, will be found in the
journal, with the names of Alexander Duncan,
Isaac Fletcher, William Parmenter, and William
Slade, all opposing this reasonable, just and honest
proposition,
Beiore I conclude, I wish to examine a portion
of the President’s letter—a letter full of subter
fuge and prevarication, the reading of which tilled
me wilii shame at the thought that its author wras
Piesident of the United States. The President
says, “ There is no act of Congress which p.ohibits
the admission of colored persons as witnesses in
Courts Alartial.” Again, lie says: “Ifit be wrong
to admit them, the fault is in Hie law, and the rem
edy is to be found only j n its alteration.”
1 have selected these pa sages for remark, as the
letter has been already fully exposed, and repeti
tion is useless. The Piesident tells us, with as
much distinctness as he can, that in all cases here
atler, where negro test mony is admitted against a
white man, lie cannot interfere. This should be
understood. If Alailiu Van Buren is re-elected
(of which thank Heaven there is now no danger,)
he will aever interfere in setting aside the pioceed
ings of Courts Martial, in which such testimony had
been admitted. And he expects the voles of South
ern States w ith this insulting declaration !
Now, in all this, 1 think Hie course of the Presi
ident merits the severest reprehension. According
to the inclination of my mind at present, I should
feel bound o oppose such a law, and for several
reasons. In the first place, 1 trust we shall never
have a President again who would be guilty
of such conduct, and because I prefer to let the
matter rest where it now does—upon that spirit of
concession, by which, as General Harrison said our
union was effected, and without which it could not
be preserved, it we are to depend upon legislative
action for the piotection of all our rights, the Un
ion had as well be dissolved, t here are obligations
ol a higner character than mere acts of Congress.—
Besides, if Congress can pass a law making negro
testimony illegal, Congress can repeal that law.—
Suppose a bill slioula be introduced in the house
of Representatives, declaring that Congress should
not, during the next two years, abolish slavery in
this District ? Would any Southern man vote for
it ? Surely not, fur it concedes to Congress the
right to abolisn slavery in this District. Ur sup
pose a bill should be inGoduced, declaring that the
people of Virginia should not be molested in taking
their slaves from that State to Alabama. What
South rn man would vote fur it ? None, because
Virginia holds her right much more seeurelj than
if it was only protected by an act of Congress. The
Piesident, therelore, to my mind, does not regard
this question as a Patriot should—his “Southern
principles” are not found in operation here. The
tight of a white man, in a slave-holding Mate, to
object to the admission of the testimony of ne’-'ro
servants, cannot be effected by an act of Congress.
But let me illustrate the unsoundness of ihe
President’s argument further. 'The act of Congress
ot 1 /94, which provides for a naval armament, di
rects hat there shall be employed on board each of
the ships of 44 guns, one Captain, four Lieuten
ants, Ac., &c. The act says nothing of white Cap
tains or Lieutenants. What prevents the Presi
dent from appointing a negro Captain or Lieuten
ant f The act of 1708, whicn establishes the de
partment ol the navy, in the first section provides
as follows:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Represmtatives of the United states of America, in
ongress assembled, 'That there shall be an Execu-
T der the department of the na
-01 Which shali be called the Sec
teta yof the Navy, & c ., &c.,
o ffic er ” aW w eS " 0t Say hG Shall be a white “ chief
fieum.in t T i n> Z t 0 the President's argument,
rv of tie * U ?° llZed tu aDp mta ? e S ro Becreta
aut inr/cH tl “ -*gain, the act of 1809, which
f. V? U em Pl°yment of an additional naval
the UnLe(t°Smf d *« d em P°wered tne of
the Lm.ed Mates to appoint, and cause to be en
5 trarrd and employed as soon as may be. three hun
- died midshipmen, three thousand six hum,red aluc
, seamen, ordinary seamen and boys, H.c.
- Nothing said of white midshipmen, or white able
, seamen No one can doubt tint under this law
- many white midshipmen were employed, and many
- black sailors. But according to the aigument of
t the President and his Secretary of the Navy,
e “ there is no act of Congr.ss which prohibits the ad
mission of colored persons,” as midshipmen in the
a navy. And I cannot see, according to the views
s of the President, why he shoul 1 not appoint a lew
s negro midshipmen in the navy ot the I uited
- States, and 1 snould be glad to bear any supporter
-of bis give any reason for bis not doing so that
would not A ; i:h equal force apply against tbeir
; being admitted as witnesses against white persons,
e And if a President should appoint a negio as his
e Secretary of the Navy, I should like to see a
Southern Senator who would confirm the nomina
d tion, and then return to his constituents and tell
- them “ there was no law forbidding it,” and he
r say so with as much truth and propriety as
- the~ President has said in tiie case ot Lieutenant
e Hone. A President who disregards the moral
sense of the whole Southern country, who pays no
li respect to tbeir prejudices, except so far as the
- laws of Congress compel him, is unlit to preside
s over the destinies ol these United States, which
- could never have been united without concession,
f and which will be disunited when that patriotic
spirit of concession shall depart from among us.
, 1 Phe President understands his game with the
i. Abolitionists. They may quarrel with him for his
promised veto, but then, as in the case of William
t Leggct, who boasted he was a« abolitionist, he can
” send a few of their leaders abroad as foreign min
-0 isters. The abolitionists already praise him for his
conduct in the case of Lieut. Hooe, and the Lman
- | cipator remarks, “ unless the President has given
u “some very foolish reasons, (which is not unlike
-1 “ ly) his conduct in this case will redound as much
•, | “to iiis honor, and afford him as much satisfaction,
| “in a future day, as any one measure ol las ad
- j “ ministra ion.”
, | As to Mr. Secretary Paulding, his feelings have
. I always been of a very unfriendly character to
-1 wards the South. Some years ago Mr. Pau.ding
•. j wrote a book called “ Letters from the South,” in
- | which he endeavors to make the people of Virginia
- i contemptible in the eyes of her sLter Slates. In
- j the fiist volume of this book, in Letter the lltli,
; i Mr. Paulding gives the following a count, which 1
2 | copy Loin the book before me:
“ Jogg.ng along from the house where we left
i i the caitilP, who will one day 1 fear bring down
t 1 some great calamity on the countiy of his birth,
- it was our fate to meet with another example of
I the tricks men play“ before high Heaven,” when
3 not only custom but the laws sanction oppression.
- | The sun was shining out very hot, and in turning
j an angle of the road we encountered the follow ing
i group: lust a lilt.e cart drawn by one horse, in
i which five or six half naked black children were
' tumbled like pigs together. The cart had no cov
-3 . ering, and they seemed to have been actually broil
- ed to sleep. Behind the cait marched thiee black
5 women, with their head,neck, and breast uncovcr
-3 ed, and without shoes or stockings; nexteame three
i men bare headed, half naked, and chained together
with an ox chain. Last of all came a white man —
a white man ! Frank, on horseback, carrying pis
i to *in his belt, and who, as w e passed him, had the
- impudence to ook us in the face without blushing.
I should like to have seen him hunted with blood
■ hounds. At a house where we stopped, a little
■ further on, we learned that he had bought these
miserable beings in Maryland, aad was marching
, them in this manner to some one of the rnoie
Southern Staes. Nhameon the State of Maryland !
i I say. and shame on the State of Virginia .' and
< every State through which this wretched caval
-1 cade was permitted to pass ! Do they expect that
- such exhibitions will not dishonor them in the eyes
of strangers, however they may be reconciled to
- tnem by education and habit !”
i 1 hen Mr. Paulding speaks of this picture drawn
■ from his imagination, as “ a flagrant and indecent
outrage on human.ty.” This 1 copy Horn his let
‘ ter published soon after his journey through Vir
• ginia. But afterwar s, in 1835. Mr. Paulding pub
lished a new edition of his woik, and in this edi
tion of 1835 all that I have quoted is entirely umit
-1 ted! In the eld edition the letter IHh “occupies
I more than thirteen pages, but in the edition of
1835 (published alter Mr. Van Bureu became a
- j “Northern man with Southern principles,”) this
: letter the Jlth occupies only three pages! No
i wonder such a man will say the President had
- nothing io do with the proceedings in Hooe’s case,
5 and also say that u had neen the uniform practice
, to admit negroes to testify against white men, when
1 he was not able to produce a sing e instance.
i This letter has already extended much farther
than 1 expected, but before 1 conclude, let me ap
‘ prise you of some of the contemptible designs of
■ the Loco-locos.
• I have seen two letters from gentlemen of char
• acter and intelligence, communicating the fact,
that the Van Huron party intended shortly befoie
■ the Presidential election to issue hand hills, and
■ start reports of inten led insurrections in the South.
“ I have no doubt that some such plan is in contem
» plation. We know that many of them are wicked
1 enough to do any thing. They are not only strug
t j gling for bread, and they fear the investigation
i which is to come. Let our fiiends, therefore, be
1 prepared for these villainous tricks ; bullet it be
understood that when the insurrection takes place,
Benjamin Tappan has promised to furnish five hun
dred dollars, to ouy powder and shot for the ne
groes, and he is a good Van Buren democrat.
Our friends, every where, are full of confidence,
and feel assured of victory. No man can doubt
• any longer, that Gen. Harrison will be elected;
elected spite of the persecutions of unprincipled or
ifice-holders, and the furious assaults oi the Globe
and the abolition papers, which continue to de
nounce him, most violently. I hope, in this most
1 important struggle, Virginia, the land of Washing
' ton, Madison, Henry, and Marshall, will be found
as she was in the revolution, among the first, in re
sisting, strenuously, the encroachments of power,
I trust she will, not only, in defence of the char
acter of her own distinguished son. but for the
sake ot the whole country, express her opposition
to the man who has, by wretched experiments,
brought a prosperous country almost to ruin, who
has by pitiful equivocations, caused every patriot
to feel ashamed of his country, and who has sanc
tioned the admission of negro testimony against
one of her own sons, and declared he must contin
ue to do so.
1 have travelled through the State of New York
and of course, saw many of the people qf that
, State, and many from New-England ; 1 saw them
in private social intercourse, and saw them in pub
lic meetings, consisting of ten thousand and twen
ty thousand persons, and I assure you, every de
cent man I met, with whom I conversed npon the
subject, spoke with contempt of the abolitionists
and( expressed surprise that any southern man
could imagine the majority of the people wore in
fected with that villainous heresy, This I speak
of my own knowledge.
I believe nearly nine out of ten of the cut-throat
abolitionists, the Duncan and Tappan abolitionists,
are real “barn burning” Loco-focos.
1 congratulate you upon the glorious prospect
lieljre us, that our country will soon be free from
the dominion of the plunderers, who have so
neglected and crushed her be.-t interests.
5 cry truly, yours,
TI T EDWARD STANLY.
Hon. John M. Botts, Richmond Fa.
The two Blacksmiths.—Mr. Orr of Dela
ware, a blacksmith and man of sound sense, wu
a short time since a memocr of the Van Burrn
party. He went to Ohio, to ascertain the charcu
ttroi the Buck Eye Blacksmith, for the purpose
of destroying his usefulness. What was tin
consequence 1 he found that the Buck Eye Black
smith s account of himself was true—whaffthen
He extended his enquiries alitlle further, and h
; found that Gen. Harrison was a calumniated man
He lor the first time saw his worth. Who
then? As an honest man he is now his support
cr. Let all Ins calumniators go and do likewise
and atone to their own consciences.
KnDhJt u„T’ T co « »t!—Under this head thr'
,hl c n 6 paper ’ lhe De,n ocratic Frets, tel!
! the following capital story ;
| nn i LOC °L fOCO of l ice ho,der in this city lately calle
; upon an honest Irishman, who resides in thesixt
j y*i*| ( ’ 'J 11 * r equest that he wovld subscribe on
“Rvq.r >’ P ur P ose °f erecting a hickory tre
j t erh ' . the Irishman, -do you want a.
uy a whip to be scourged ivi/hf Get out . '
, me house, you desavmg villain, or Til lave rr/
: inark on ye. Pack off wid ye !” The office ho/
der did not watt for a second bidding.
Header, listen how Prentice illustrates ff,
potence of the efforts of the cohorts of focof 0
lo silence the roar of the Harrison hurrica,,'!**
“Nothing can exceed the i age of t| .“
leaders at their utter inability to restra’ ° , f Cl
the overwhelming force of public «./"•
vor of old Tippecanoe, 1 ' niJll in fa.
It reminds us of a crazy man w e heard r
years ago who thought to silence 'ih° m,D J
Niagara cataract. He stood up betbr Sreat
calmly but sternly bade it be still. j t ° lf ' ari! l
and his words were inaudible. Then nv' (I 0r) ’
voice to a high pitch, he cried, “silencer*"®. hi|
cataract roared on, and again his voice*',
in tiie mighty noise. Frantic with rag ,l,Bt
appointment, he yelled, and screamed U u dls ’
ed. all in a breath, “step that infernal Sh ° UN
The cataract roared majestically o n and „ '
madman’s yells and curses seemed uirible Ts
their way through the atmosphere an i. i f
his livid lips. Such is the fury and such '
impotency of the demagog ues,'who are t
quell the earthquake roar of public seining
The American Mechanic. —Whatev
be the “ pomp, glory, and circumstance’’ V
great men of the world—whatever Inav ™
dazzling pageantry of high life—the 'd,n
fashionable society, and splendid miser/nfm ° f
who believe that “ Those who think ra L * hnse
those who toilthere is no situation
viable than .hat of .he plain Atne™"
IC _free from every thing for which heaven !
signed him, untrammelled in his oninirJ
left to the guidance of hi: own genius, hewSf
erect in the full stature of man. Earning '
his hands the means by which he supports r'
self; protected by a government, which like
sun, sheds Us ligh.-its fostering care upon lIU
who shall gainsay h.s right to enjoy the fruit r
>; s at,or - ln ,hc "hich best Ly p| e , e j
Lu.lerour government, prndence, inJuMty
economy, are sure to meet with tbeir reward
. should pe ren.em..c,«l by every mechanic Hat
the rood to preferment and official disnilv i,' .“
.0 every one. All that .be people
that serve them ,s fidelity and patriotism-, r „*
to the Coneututton and in,eliiget.ee enough b
perform Ihe.r doty. I, i. theduly of every An»
tea,, to render himself competent , 0 act ,
occasions as becomes an American citizen T n
tcll.gence, education and study, arc within the
reach of every hyman being.
A Picatune Strii-TuEASUHY Joke Some
thing “Dtspishus. —“Sambo, I devise you to
sleep wid one eye open desc dark nights'; J ere ’ •
something berry dispishus comin !” ’ 8 1
‘•What on airth you mean. I’ke, what’s d e
matter. tell us all about em ; don’t keep a poor
nigger in dispense,” 1
“ VVal de sac is, dat are Scrotib Treasury bid
has passed by Washington Fullmondelfy, an hi
amt left a spec ob skin on de shin ob any ri itr K
ob de soufpole ! He’ll be here fore ion?
dat s sartin—den look out for your ole wool.Saai
“What ! dat are crittur comin here! Don; I
get dis chile out arter dark without a Spanui
knije —mind dat, I’ke!” 1
A Tin tors Mkhicixe.—We see in a Mas- j
sachusetts paper, an advertisement us a paeat
medicine, which, to he of any use, the advertiser
sa ys must be applied internally and eternally.
MARRI ED,
On Wednesday evening, 14th inst., by the Rer
Mr. Cunningham, Dr. Walter E. Johnson to fe
Sarah W. Walker, both of this citv.
On the 15th inst., by the Rev. Mr. DwHit Wx I
Henry Battev, Esq,, of Jefferson count?, Ga..to
to Miss F rances R., daughter of Col. Whatley of I
Beach Island, 8 C. i
Ou Thursday evening, Oct. Ist, at residence ]
of A tied B. Seymour, flsq., at Mount Pleasant, j
Morns • minty, N. J., by the Rev. M. Osborn,Mr,
Andrew B. Decker, of this city, to Miss Rebec- I
ca C. Cooper, daughter of the late Writ. Coopt:, I
ol Augusta, Georgia.
C onsignees per South Carolina Kail Koad.l
Hamburg, October 16, IS4O.
S R Smith & Co.; J Black; W Murphy;Jl
Maddox; C A Greiner; Scranton & Smith; L Dwelt;
Clarke, Mo Tier & Co.; Mrs Ingraham; G T Don;
C L Bray ton ; llaviland, Risiey & Co.; G A Sim
mons; T 8 8toy; Jsl Sr W Adams; Kerrs & Hope I
FLamback; W Hauler; Dunlap & Hyde; E E 1
Beall; •• t ■ vali, Simmons & Co.; T Dawson ; Hstt
& Scranton ; Hopkins & Stovall ; S Kneelandl
Son; Rankin, Boggs k Co.; Gouid & Bulldej; JS
S Bones; Hitt k Co.; H P Peck; Wyatt & Warren;
E D Cooke; J I) Clark & Co.; Lindsay k E; How
ard & Garmony; G Parrott; II L Jeffers; and J f
Benson.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE. |
Charleston, Oct. :6.
Arrived yesterday Ship Eutavv, Allen New
York ; Ship Emblem, Talbot, Portland ; brigCatb
aiine, Bonney, Havana; Sp. sclir. Dcscada,Taulc
Xibara. (Cuba.)
Cleared —Brig Aldrick, Cope,Philadelphia.
IKr Mrs. CHAPMAN'S SCHOOL for Your;
Ladies, is now open, first door below the August
Bank, Broad street. oct 16-dNtnvD
AUGUSTI N HUES,
ATTORNEY AT LAIC,
sept 5-ly Madison, AlorganxountVjf" 1 -
JOHN K. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
jy 17] Clarkes villc,^,
B. li. OVJUKKY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson co mty,Gi^_
CjYVe are authorized to announce K. f-' 1
TUCKER, as a candidate for Justice ol
Peace, in the Bloody GfiOth. -
(O* JEREMIAH 11. CLARK is rccom
as a suitable person for the olfice of Justice oW
Peace, for the 600th District, and will be support
by (octS) ManyVote*^
(Lj" The undersigned, if elected, will serve 0
600th District as Justice of the Peace,
oct 7-ts R. p. SPELMA-t
WT Miss MARY A. NEVINS has taken a**
in the house owned by Mrs. Barrett, on tbe
side of Broad street, where she will give LkbbO
ON THE PIANO at sls per quarter, including-’
lessons, or separate lessons at 50 cents each,
oct 3
C ZT Mis s TRAIN will resume her School * %
S immerville on the first Monday in November.
Board can be obtained on the Hill. .
aug 1,2
C3* Dr KENNON has removed to neW j
house opposite Benjamin Pyne. oct3->> — A
(Xj" The Office of the AUGUSTA ■
removed to the brick building on Mclnto-h Jj
directly opposite the Post Office. oct <_t * AV - m
(Tj- J. A. CLEVELAND, DENTIST, has ft
rooms over J. Nortons Shoe Store, one d°° r . lß ,t ■
Washington Hail in Broad street, Augusta. ■
his absence, and at all other times, lu ? /I
Thomas P. Cleveland, Dentist, will occup) tj
whose services may be had. J. A. Cicveian a
fidemly recommends him to the patrona? e^„ t |
friends and the public generally. OC A/1- 1
GC/* The Subscriber has taken an office „ 9
Camtield’s buildings on Jackson-street.nextu ■
the one formerly occupied by Judge I
where his professional services can be a ‘ $ |
commanded He intends to re-commeuce, »
first Monday in November, the LAW I
which he formerly conducted, on the same p
and the same terms, as before. n
oct 2 dlwwlm WM. T. GOITV
