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JJOUSF. OF UEPRESESTATIVES.
Wednesday, January 2, 1828.
Rational Road to Ncw-Orlcans.
Mr. Mercer from the same Committee
submitted the following Report;
The Committee on Roads and Canals to
whom was referred a resolution of the
House of Representatives instructing
them to inquire into the expediency of
making provision by law for the con
struction of n National Road from the
City of Washington to. New Orleans,
have ttccortiingiy performed that duty,
«ir.d Report.
That considering the frequent inter
ruption of the mail between the cities of
. Washington and New Orleans, the great
importance of a more speedy and certain
intercourse between the seat of the G<»-
ith the
vern me lit charged
the liv'ed Stales, and that remote, and
at the same lime, much exnased frontier
of the Union, they can entertain no doubt
of the expediency of constructing the
proposed road.
They are not required to investigate
the authority of Congress to authorize llio
construction of such a road, but feel it to
be due to themselves to state, that altho’
the bill which accompanses this report, in
Conformity with the terms of the act of
the 29'h of March, 1826, to regulate the
laying out and making a road from Cum
bet land, in the State of Maryland, to the
State of Ohio, makes the assent of the
State through which that road was intend
ed to pass, a pre-requisite to its construc
tion, a majority of the committee enter
tain no doubt whatever of the constitu
tional power of Congress to construct the
proposed road without such censent and
Guch appears to the committee to have
been the understanding of the House of
Representatives at tin* first session of the
Fourth Congress, when a resolution was
Submitted and discussed in that body, de
signed to commence a ysfem of post
Toads, of which the incipient measure was
a road ex ending from Maine, lien a part
<if Massachusetts, to Georgia.
To the report of the United Slates En
gineers, on the v arious routes examined
for the content plated road from Washing
ton to New Orleans, so far as ’lie same
has been completed, the committee refer
llie House, and for that reason they have
annexed it to this report.
The committee have, after much re
flection, decided in favor of the 'western
route for the contemplaied road, without
intending, however, to exclude from the
discretion of the Executive such future al
terations, of ih-it rout as the further report
of the United States Engineers, daily ex
pected, or future inquiry may recommend.
In preferring the western totlie middle
or eastern rout, die committee h ive been
governed by a referrence to the abundance
and quality of the material which may
hereafter be required for its more solid
structure, and to the various uses of which
it wiil be susceptible, as well in peace as
in war, in affording, where most needed,
a ready channel of social, commercial and
political intercourse ; and the means of
speedily concentrating nnd directing the
public force to the defence of the nation.
Thev have, in the accompanying bill,
departed but in a very’ few, & no essential
part ; culars, from the prior act of Congress
already referred to in this report, and so
often reaffirmed in the appropriation of the
public money', relative to the construction
of the Cumberland or National Road.—
The most important of these exceptions
are comprehended- in the provisions for
regulating and filling for immediate use,
the entire roads, before it be generally
gravelled, or coveted with pounded stone.
Besides the benefit which will result from
this provision if bringing the whole road
into actual use ;*t a moderate expense, and
in a few years after its commencement
your commi’tee believe that a considera
ble pert of ii will never requhemay other
cover than the natural soil raised a little
above the common level ol the adjacent
county, and drained effectually bv la era!
ditches ; and th t when experience shah
have disclosed the portions <d (he road that
require, for permanent and constant use.
a more expensive formation, the material
put upon their surface, as has been de
monstrated in the recent extension of the
Cumberland road, will prove of greater
value from ’l# .inter or use o! the road
which they cover. By far the tr.os: c- s iy
part of the construction of many .unipikes-,
consists oh the application of gravel or
^Ffnne to cover their surface, while the ex
perience oi i.'.e e .stem Suites, and ol ihe
western part of *he State of New York,
manifests the great utility m suchfoads be
fore they are thus projected, as well as
their moderate rest. M re than 100 miles
of such road has been very recently con
ducted across the n: s! mountainous re
gion of'lie State of Virginia, at the ex
pense of one thousand dollars the mile,
including the cost of all the necessary
br'dges on the way, (and they are numer
ous,) xrpot two erected over very consid
erable rivers.
It is now confidently believed, that the
same work could be again done at a con
side-able reduction; and the committee
am apprised that of the Chicago road, au
thorized to be constructed through' the
rr ‘ mf vocable country for such work.
;r Michigan territory, forty mile-
have been contracted for, and in pa >
* ethlmU coniideted, at an uvcra° r e vert
!:"lc exceeding five hundred <Jol!a f§ th’t
xile,
The committee to subjoin their report, j
alorg with that of the United States Engi
neers to relation to this subject, laid be
fore tiie last Congress, a cortespondence ,
with the Post Master General respecting !
j he utility of the contemplated road, re- j
j garded solely as a channel for the future j
transportation of the mail from ihe seat o! j
Government to New Orleans.
The following Resolution, offered by
Mr Maxwell, was taken up.
Resolved, That the Secretary of War
be directed lo communicate to this House
the Report of the Engineers appointed
to examine and ascertain the practicabili
ty of uniting by a canal the waters of
James and the Great Kenhawa rivers.
Mr. Flbvd, of "Virginia, intimated that
t he State of Virginia had obtained from
the government of the United States all
the aid she wanted;. There was some
feeling in Virginia as regards the conduct
of the adnyinisiratiou on this subject.—
The governor of the State had lately
roused the pride of the Commonwealth,
and his opinions were not very different
! from his own.' For two or three years,
the Engineers have been employed in sur
veying a route for a canal between James
river and the Great Kenhawa. He did not
know why this whs done. All the mo
ney in ihe United States could not make
a canal between the riveis. From the
New river to the upper part of James riv
er, a canal may be made. Ho was at a
loss to know why this service was press
ed on the state of Virginia, when she had
■iii engineer of her own fully competent to
the task. He was indeed master of the
science, and was the instructor of the ve
ry brigade which was sent thither l»v the
President of the United States. He un
derstood t’ne Engineers were to go again
the next season.
He moved to .amend the resolution, by
striking out all after die word “ Resolved,”
and inserting the following:
“ That tiie President of the United
Slates be requested to cause to be laid be
fore this House the instructions given to
the engineers who have been ordered to
examine the passages through the moun
tains of Virginia with a view to the loca
tion of turnpike roads, and canals. Also
communicate what progress has been
in the various works ; how many surveys
have been completed; how much has
been done of those unfinished; and how
many unsurveyed, or onexamined,
which it is contemplated to examine.—
How many engineers have been employ
ed in ihat service, their rank and pay ;
likewise'how many men have been em
ployed by those engineers in that service.
And if not finished at what time is it pre
sumed the work will be completed.”
He had put his amendment in a form
different from that which had lately been
the ctisto.ii in framing these resolutions,
but he hoped the mover wuld not object
to it. A new pi act ice had crept int
this House. We call on the Secretaries,
who are the mere creatures of the House,
for informatien.instead ofgoing to thcP es-
dent, who is the proper source. Ii lias al
so become the practice of the Secretaries
to refer the business to a subordinate cie. k
who makes his report, addressed to the
Honorable the Secretary, and the House
is favored with the letter, or an extract
from the letter, of the clerk, and if any
thing is erroneous,no tespunsibility, but it
is an error of a clerk.
Mr.JVIercer expressed regret that his
colleague should have premised his
amendment with the remarks which he had
made, and that he thought them necessary
to sustain his motion. Those remarks re
flect more on the House than on the Ex
ecutive; and but for that he would not
have risen at this time. The proceeding-
of the President, right or wrong, were in
consequence of a request made to him by
thirty or forty Representatives in the
Congress before the last. Had bis col
league looked a little further, and made
himself acquainted with oilier facts
ho might have been induced to spare the
remarks he had made. He would have
discovered that the compact between the
government of the U. S. and the State of
Ohio, was the foundation of the Cumber
land Road ; and that there were resolu
tions of the State of Virginia, all touch
ing this subject, The compact between
the government of the United States and
the State of Ohio, which led to her ad
mission into the Union, provides for one
or more connections between the Atlantic
and the Waters of tiie west a link of
which was the projected canal between the
James river and tlie Great Kenhawa. In
the year 1815, a resolution was almost un
animous!), be believed ho might say un
animously, adopted by the Virginian Le
gislature inviting the government of the
L T oi ed S t it os to co-operate in the con
struction of a rail wav, or other road, be
tween these two rivers. The next year a
similar resolution passed the Legislature.
As to the situation of tho survey. I:
was true, the State of Virginia had in her
employment a respectable gentleman, who
might be a good Civil Engineer, at the
head of the system of Internal Improve
ment. But since the year 1S12, he had
not been able to ascertain the practicabil
ity of mining by a canal tiie James River
and the New River. It wnsneverdecided
until now. As one of the Commissioners
employed by the State, on the subject, he
might be allowed to say that he was as well
'cquainted. wi’li the condition of that part
of the country, as with any lact in natural
history.
Mr. Floyd said that he was not disposed
to retract a single word which he had be
fore uttered. If his colleague had ever
been of the opinion that a canal between
James River and the Kenhawa was prac
ticable, he must now be convinced that
! it was an egregious error. Jle had, in
*s former remarks, admi.ted the New
River and the Janies River might be uni
ted in this way. How could his colleague
find refuge under the compact with Ohio,
(hen it was only now that the United
states Engineers had been emploVed in
: ’e surveys. The Engineers of the Sta’p
. had been employed in the surveys- The
Engineer of the State had previously as*
certained the practicability of a canal from
the New river to James river. He did
not regard this canal as having any thing to
do with the route to Ohio. It is rather
on the road to New Orleans than to Ohio
if he was right in his suppositim as to
which of the routes to New Orleans the
President had determined on. Ills col
league had repeated a bill to lay out and
make this road, but as, contrary to the
old custom, the bill was only read by its
title, he could not tell which road was se
lected. As his colleague had reported
the bill he knew more ajiout it, If the
route through the Great Valley was agreed
on, this projected canal or road, instead
of connecting the Atlantic with Ohio,
would be on the way between us and
Tennpsee. How would it fulfil tlie ob
ject of the compact if it went to Tennes
see? He also knew that some Members
of Congress had requested these surveys
but heliad always thought that when the
Cumberland.road was taken up, that was>
in compliance with the compact with O-
hio.
This he would say to his colleague, and
that the Administration may hpar, that
he know much <>f their oporationsin Vir
ginia, and a time may come when he
wuuld state what he knew. .
Mr. Mercer made some observations in
reply, but as his back was turned towards
us nearly the whole time, we cannot at
tempt to give a connected report of them.
He repelled ihe charge against him of
making an erroneous statement, and reit-
pjated what he had before said, that no'
survey had been made until it was made
bv the Government of the United States.
He repeated his former statement as to
the object of the compact with Ohio, and
its provisions, and went into various other
remarks w-hich, for the reason we have
given, oor ear could not catch.
Mr. Bartlett rose to a question of order.
The first proposition was to call upon the
Sec.tetary of War for a Report of tiie Eu-
gineers. The amendment calls on the
president for information concerning cer
tain roads and raUwavs. As ihe amend
ment so entirely changed the subject mat
ter of the resolution, he suggested that,
under tho 40 h rule of the House, it was
not in order, and could not be received.
The Speaker decided that the amend
ment was in order, as i* did not changcthe
subject of Pie resolution, hut merely ex
tended thp scone of 'he original inquiry.
Mr. F! ovd said he did not regard his j
amendment as a sub-titiite, ha' as merely
an extension of the first proposition.
Mr. Mn \wp1I said he should not he op
posed to granting anv additional informa
tion which his colleague might require.—
But he could not consent to accept h ; s
amendment in *ho room of the resolution
| he bad offered. He would give the rca-
| son which had induced him to offer his re-
| solution. Tt appeared from the message
| that the survey had been marie, and >i was
important that the report upon it should
he made to tiie House at as enrlv a period
as possible. The amendment of his col
league covered a very wide ground, and,
if adopted, would necessarily cause consi
derable delay in the attainment of the in
formation.
The question was then taken, anrl the
amendment was rejected.
The original resolution was then agreed
to.
The Speaker laid before the House the
following letter from the Secretary of the
Treasury:—
Treasury Department, 1
28th Doc., 1827. f
Sir—In obedience to the resolution of
the House of Representatives of 26th Fe
bruary last, referring to this Depar mem
the memorial of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, claiming allowance
and pay for advances of money and sup
plies furnished during the late war in de
fence of that city and the country adjacent,
I have the honor to transmit heiewith a
letter from thp third Auditor, dated the
27th of March, accompanied bv an ex
planatory statement marked A. This
statement particularly sets forth the items,
constituting in thp whole the sum of fifteen
thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dol
lars nine cents, heretofore suspended or
disallowed on the settlement of 'he above
claim, under the direction of the Secreta
ry of War, with the reasons for such dis
allowance or suspension. The claim sests
upon services highly meritorious, the good
effects of which were felt by the nation ;
and a large portion of the rejected items
appears to have horn thrown out, not
from a.nv objection to their eqtdtv, hu
from the fixed rifles and limited powers
under which the Executive and account
ing officers are obliged ; o act in. the set
tlement of the public accounts. From
these rules they did not feel at liberty to
swerve even in such a case as the prrsent.
The want of vouchers formed the objec-
tion upon which the disallowance of other
items rested : all which is fully explained
in the document above mentioned. The
efforts of the memorialists were identified
with the common cause of the country at
a season of difficulty and peril, and it fol
lows from the letter and statement of the
third Auditor that they cannot receive
adequate indemnification of the expendi
tures which those efforts involved, (and
thev ask nothing beyond indemnification,)
but through Congress.
Returning tho papers which accompa
nied the resolution of the House, I have
the honor to remain, with great respect,
voor obedient servant,
RICHARD RUSH.
Gent al Thomas Flournoy.
The House then resolved itself into a
Committee of the whole, on the Bill for
the relief of General Thomas Flournoy—
Mr. Dravton, in the Chair.
This bill authorizes the satisfaction of a
judgment against the petitioner. The bill
and report having been read, and no pro
position being made to amend the bill,
the Committee rosoand reported it to the
House without amendment. The bill was
then ordered to bo engrossed, and read a
third time to-morrow*
Oen. Lafayette's letter t® Mr. Clay.
La Grange, Oct. 10,1827
jMy Dear Sir : Having accidentally o*
mitted the last opportunity to answer your
most valued favor, August 10, I avail my
self of the next packet to offer my affec
tionate thanks, and request, as much as
the pressure of business will allow it, the
very high gratification of your correspon
dence.
Your diplomatic accounts from Europe
leave little to say ; and, although a member
of that House, by courtesy, called Rep
resentative, I am not the wiser nor shall I
be the more useful for it. A dissolution
of the House is much spoken of—-the
ministry are recording the new electoral
lists in consequence of a late bill mingling
the vote of election with the duties of ju
ror, to which, however, some additions
have been made. As the public mind is
progreesing, and several wilful errors have
been forcibly rectified, a liberal opposition
cannot fail to be more numerous: The
question with government is-whether they
will this year meet a larger minority, with
a seven years new lease, or hereafter risk
to have a majority against them, or at
least a stronger opposition than that to
which, in case of dissolution, they must
now submit.
The account of the funerals of Manuel
having been indicted before an inferior
tribunal, and our speeches on his tomb
making a part of the impeachment of the
publishers, it became the duty of Mon.
L.ifitie, ' ,and myself to claim our share
in the trial, which we could not obtain;
but a judgment of the Court, very proper
ly and liberally worded, has acquitted the
selected objects of the accusation. An
appeal from that decision to the Superior
Court, lias, it is said, taken place.
The interveution of three great Pow
ers in the affairs of Greece seem to pro
mise a respite, although it has not preven
ted the arrival of an Egyptian fleet a d a
body of soldiers. There is, however,
some good i:i the notification made by the
French and English Admirals impeding
further progress. The mediation has been
accepted by the Greeks. The Ottoman
Porte hitherto refuses it. So far, they o-
blige the mediators to commit themselves
a little more, and if they are sincere,, the
Porte must yie'd at last. It is obvious to
every looker on that those powers are
jealous oflibertv, of complete emancipa*
tion, and jealous of each other, if any
body can play the difficult game, it must
be Capo D’istria, who is now on his third
station, that of Paris, befote he proceeds
to the President'a 1 Chair. He unites in
bis person an exclusive coincidence of hap
py circumstances. After he has managed
those discordant elements, there will be
other discordances to be managed at home,
for which he also seems to be the proper
and exclusive man. Upon the whole, the
ex s nnce of G - eece is rather more secu
re 1 than it has been of late.
I have received a loiter from our friend
Poinsett, and cannot but observe with him
the general and especial attempts that
have been lately directed against ihe
peace, harmony, and institutions of the
Republican States of South America and
Mexico. Ii is very natural to see the Re
publican minister of \ T . America, oppose
to those monarchical and aristoc.atical
factions. That tiie imputation is given
from Europe, is not. I think, to be ques
tioned ; but I have'recpived with deep re
gret the part of your letter alluding to a
min whose glorv, great talents, and hither
to experienced patriotism I have delight
ed to cherish. Sevetal painful informa
tions had reached me, which, altogether,
and many more besides, could not weigh I
so much with me as your own sense of the
matter. I beg you to continue to write
on the subject, and on every matter re-
lative to public concerns, to my friends,
and particularly to you who know my old,
grateful, and sincere affection.
Blpssed as I have latelvJieen with the
welcome, and conscious, as it is my happy
lot to be, of tiie affection and confidence
of all parties, and all men in every party
within the United States, feelings which I
most cordially reciprocate, I ever have
thought mvselfhound to avoid taking any
part in Ural or personal divisions. In
deed, if I thought that in these matters
mv influence could be of any avail, it
should be solely exerted to deprecate, not
by far, the five, republican, and full dis
cussion of principles and candidates, but
those invidious slanders which, although
they are happily repelled by the good
sense, the candor, and in domestic instan
ces, bv tlm delicacy of the American peo
ple, tend to g've abroad incorrect and dis-
: paraging impressions. Yet that line ot
j conrluc*, from which I must not deviate,
| except in imminent cases now out of the
i question, does not imply a forgetfulness of
j facts, nor a refusal to state them orca-
; sionally. My remembrance concurs with
! your own on this point that, in the latter
• end ofDpcember, either before or after
mv visit to Annapolis, you being out of the
Presidential Candidature, & after express
ed my abovementioned motives ofhaving
forbearance, I, by wav of a confidential
exception, allowed myself to put a simple
unqualified question respecting your elec
tioneering guess, and your intended vote.
Your answer was that, in your opinion,
the actual state of health of Mr.Crawford
had i-mited the contest to a choice between
Mr. Adams and Gen- Jackson, that a
claim founded on military achievements
did not meet your preference,and that you
had concluded to vote for Mr. Adams.—
Such has been, if not the literal wording,
at least the precise sense of a conversation
which it would have been in consistent for
me to carry farther and not keep a secret,
while a recollection of it, to assist your
memory, I should not now deny, not on
ly to you as my friend, but to any man in
a siniital situation.
Present my affectionate respects to
Mrs. Clay—remember roe to all your
family, and to our friends in Washington.
I will write by the same packet to the
President. Believe me forever your sin
cere obliged friend,
LAFAYETTE.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Richmond Enquirer still affects to
deny its belief in Mr. Jefferson’s latter
opinion concerning General Jackson’s civ
il merits being the same as his admitted
earlier judgement, and ca ls upon us for
our authority for such assertion. Now,
considering how impenetrably ’deaf the
Editors of the Enquirer have been to
a like call upon its Editors, during the
late summer, in a case of misrepresenta
tion (or blunder) beyond all question, we
marvel with what face they can make any
call upon us for names, even if what we
have stated c 'uld be questioned. They
shall not be gratified by any public answer
to their call; and yet, any gentleman
who feels a curiosity oil the subject, and
will pledge himself that our informants
shall not, directly or indirectly, be pub
licly compromitted, shall be gratified, by
calling upon us in person. So the Edi
tors of the Enquirer may, through their
distinguished Representative in Congress
(the honorable Speaker) be advised of the
nature of our information Upon the sub
ject; though they have information enough
upon the subject nearer at hand. Con
sidering what an instance we have, in their
own case, of prominent public men whol-
ly changing their views of things, so as to
embrace to-day him whom yesterday they
cursed, it would not have been so very
astonishing if Mr. Jefferson really had
uttered opinions in 1826, totally different
from those which every body now admits
that lie uttered in 1824, touching the civil
qualifications of General Jackson. But
we must religiously believe, that the Edi
tors of the Richmond Enquirer can find,
in the true history of Mr. Jefferson’s lat- j
ter days, no such apology for llieir abso
lute abandonment oftheir mostsolemncon
victions, repealed and asseverated,from the
winter of 1818-19,up toFebruary,1824,of
General Jackson’s unfitness, not only for
civil, but for military sway. It is with a
comical, and, at the same time, melancho
ly effect, that one turns over the files of
that paper, during the period to which we
refer, adverting to the uniform it now
wears, and the attitude in W’hich it now
stands.
We ask the Editors to turn to their file
for April, 1819, and recant, if they can—
reconcile if they can, with their present
course—the sentiments then expressed of
the candidate whom they now support for
the Presidency. Let them urn to their
number for April 16, 1819, and declare
who was the author of the-paper, therein
addressed to President Monroe, and mak
ing certain charges against Gen. Jackson,
which charges were repeated and re-echo
ed about the same time by the editor (or
editors) of tho Enquirer. Who was the
author of that paper? Was it not John
W. Eppes ? And how can the Enquirer
answer to the country for having present
ed arms and fixed bayonets against us,
and all who think with us, for having ven
tured to entertain the same opinions with
that deceased statesman, whose memory,
even now, in the extremity of their infatu
ation, they will not venture, in the face of
all Virginia, to disparage ?
—®Qt©-
The following resolutions, accompanied
by a suitable preamble, have been pre
sented to the H >use of Representatives of
Kentucky, by Mr. Beatty, of Mason:
Resolved by the Gen'l. Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, that the Na
tional Government is vested with power,
by the Constitution of the United States,
to make roads and canals of a natin#al
character, and for national purposes,
i through the soveral States.
! 2. Resolved, that, in the opinion of this
Legislature, sound policy requires that the
comprehensive system of internal im
provements, commenced by the General-
Government, ought to be prosecuted
with all the energy the resourses of the
country will admit of, without arresting
the progress of other useful woiks, or in
fringing upon the annua! appropriation of
ten millions of dollars towards extinguish
ing the principal and interest of the pub
lic debt.
3. Resolved, That the National Go
vernment is vested vith power to give en
courage men’ and protection to the agri
culture and manufactures of the United
States, by a tariff of duties upon foreign
goods and agricultural productions.
4. Resolved, That, in the opinion of
this Legislature, a more effectual protec
tion ought to be extended to the agricul
ture of tho country, by increasing the duty
on foreign hemp, fla^wool, and spirit
uous liquors.
5. Resolved, That a more effectual pro- j
tection ought to be extended to the man- ■
ufactory of iron. m
6. Resolved, That manufactures of wool,!
&the fitter kinds of cotton fabrics, includ
ing calicoes, ought to receive an adequate
protection against the influx of foreign
goods.
7. Resolved, That manufactures of hemp
and flax ought ! o receive a more effectual
protection.
8. Resolved, That such other branches
of domestic manufactures , as are adapt
ed to the ci-icumstances and wants of the
country, and which expesience shall prove
to be capable of being succesfully prose
cuted, with a reasonable degree of pro
tection as will enable then to encounter
the difficulties and disadvantages incident
to all first attempts in any new branch of
manufacture.
9. Resolved, That in the opinion of
this Legislature, it would be sound policy-
in the National Government, and an act
of justice to the South-western States, to
extend a branch of the national road from
Zanesville, in Ohio, to Maysville in
Kentucky, and thence-through the States
of Kentucky, Tennessee & Mississippi, to
New-Orleans: and that it would comport
with the wishes of Kentucky, and the in
terests of the Union, that the section of
said road between Maysville and Lexing
ton shonld be commenced as soon as prac
ticable and prosecuted with the utmost
vigour.
10. Resolved, That our Senator! in
Congress be instructed, and our Repr e .
sentatives be requested, to use their best
efforts to carry into effect the foregoing
resolutions. ®
11. Resolved, That his excellency the
Governor he requested to transmit a copy
of the foregoing resolutions to each of our
Senators and members of the House o'
Representatives.
Yesterday was the day fixed for \th«
Meeting of the Pennsylvania Conven
tion of Friends to the Administration; 0 f
which we may, in a day or two expect an
account.
We yesterday had sight of a letter from
a highly respectable citizen, living in tb e
Interior of that State, which confidently
calculates upon a majority, at the elect-op
against the Combination Ticket. Yne
opponents of the steady, pacific, and truly
American, measures of this Administra
tion, are he savs, very loud and verv vio
lent ; and if noise and passion were anv
test of strength, they would carry. But
he says they deceive people at a distance
and perhaps even deceive themselves into
a confidence in their having the majority
with them, a point upon which, this writer
says the ballot box, will undeceive them
by next Nov, In Backs County alone,
ho says there will be a majority of no less*
than a thousand votes for the Administra
tion Ticket.
We offer this information fur the con-
solution of the Editors of the Richmond
| Enquirer, in the visible distress into which
they are thrown bv the late allusions to
their prostration at the foot of an idol
whom for six years before the 4th of
Ma rch, 1825, they had uniformly denottn.
! ced in stronger terms than they ever ap-
plied to any other individual—except, per
haps, or.e other, now also the object of
their adoration.—Nat Intelligencer Jan. 5
Kentucky.—Private letters inform us
that the Convention of Delegates, friend
ly to the present Administration of tho
General Government,assembled at Frank-
fort, on the 17th instant—present up-
wards of two hundred members. Gene
ral James Garrard was called to the chair,-
and General Bodlev appointed Secretary.
For character, as to talents and integrity,
it is said that the convention miirfit com
pare to any assemblage got up on such an
occasion in any State in the Union. An
electorial ticket was framed with great
unanimity. General Thomas Metcalfe
(now a Representative in Congress,) was
recommended, With only three dissenting
votes, as the candidate for the office of
Governor, and Joseph K. Underwood for
that of Lieutenant Governor.
Nat. Intelligencer.
From the Louisville Focus, Jcc. 25.
Election*.—The only authentic infor
mation we have from the eieciion in ihe
eleventh district is, that Calhoun got 271,
and Chilton 117 votes a* H trdi sburg on
the first day; and at Sugartree Run pre
cinct, Calhoun 102, Chilton 3, at 1 o’clock
—making Calhoun's majority nearly 100
greater than it was at the same time and
places last election.
Plagiarism.—Mr* Niles, in his Regis
ter of the 17th ult. states that a “grave ’
and reverend senator,” of the United
States, had adopted as his own, and given
to the nation as a part of his speech, in
the most dignified legislative body in die
world, several pages of a pamphlet writ
ten many years ago by Mr. Niles himself.
The said Senator is not of Mr. Niles’ po
litics, but diametrically opposed to him
on the question of national protection of
Manufactures. It would he amusing to
read the speech apd pamphlet in parallel
columns. Tho name of the Senator and
that of the author of the East Room letter
ought to be kept secret, for the credit ot
the country md the body to which they,
belong.—Alex. Gazette.
With what sincere pleasure do we turn
from the factious and disorganizing senti
ments which a certain contemptible party
in South Carolina are urging against (hr.
Union, to the patriotic couduct of A. P.
Butler, at the recent session of our Leg
islature. It 13 only on such men tha we
ought to Tely ; it is by an adherence to the
principles he has advanced and supported
with manly eloquence that the republic
can alone prosper.
The idea that any danger can arise to
tiie Union from South Carolina, is ridicu
lous. The people are not always to be
cheated ; the motives of the demagogues
among us, who are so vociferous 'about
State Rights and the encroachments of the
General Government begin to be seen;
that they would prefer a general wreck
of the Republic, rather than have their
ambitions hopes disappointed we believe;
but where will they and their schrme3
be, when the people find them out ? Had
the opinions avowed by Col. BctleB
proceeded from a less respectable source
their public expression might have been
ess serviceable, but the weight and influ
ence of his character is felt throughout
Carolina; equally distinguished by his
magnanimity and devAtion to the Repub
lic, what he does, te' r, We look upon him
as a man who has no selfish objects to
gratify, he is for his country ; he is' one,
who, in a desperate political contest,
would throw himself in the breach to
save the State, or perish; and we believe
another thing—that some yelping curt
who are barking so loudly in favor of
disunion, would skulk when he appears
among them, like vermin when they hear
the roar of the lion.
Greenville Republican. ~
Seeing the World—The late Sir Joh»
Barnard, a most respectable and worthy
citizen, had a sou who very little resembled
him This young gentleman one day told
his father that he was tired of England,
and earnestly desired to see the world.—
“Jack,*, replied his father, “ I should not
have the least abjection to your travelling ;
but while you are seeing the world, l
afraid tht world wiR scc f/ov,'.