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GEORGIA COURIER.
J. G. M’VVHORTER.
AND
IIENRY MEALING,
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To the Honourable the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United Slates of America,
in Congress assembled:
THE MEMORIAL
Of the Subscribers, Merchants, Tra
ilers, and oilipr Citizens of
Respectfully Represent —
That of ail the evils with which (he A-
tnerican Merchants, Tradesmen, and o-
ther citizens, have to contend in their
competition with foreign capita!, skill,
, . . 1 , f iiy ui me miinitaii iioum, <*>*»* v.iv# w,
and enterprise, there is none pernans oi i - r .
* . J .. , . - our manufacturing establishments. 1 he
equal magnitude, or fraught with conse-j, . • # _ •
^ b , q ... long credit on the duties comes in to their
quences so ruinous and demoralizing, as , . .* . , . „„ A •
\ fin C I . ' aid ; It operates as a bounty ; and in the
those which flow from the present per- i J , „ *•
. ... ^ f , \ course of a short tune it furnishes the tor-
mcious system ot seilmg Goods at Auc
tion—Its paralyzing influence is felt in
inconvenience to the finances of the coun
try. But the system pursued of late by
alien merchants and traders, of selling
nearly the wh'do amount of their im
mense importations at auction, has driven
from the field of competition a large por
tion of the American merchants : hence,
the advantages of an extended credit on
duties, held out by our government for
the protection of her own citizens, is now
almost exclusively enjoyed by foreigners ;
and the liberal credits which were exten
ded as a benefit and blessing to our peo
ple, are by the ruinous operations of the
auction system, actually converted into a
formidable and wide-spreading carse.
From the facilities afforded of effecting
speedy sales of all kinds of goods at auc
tion ; and the short period in which voy-
i ages to and from Europe are of late per-
I formed ; the most powerful inducements
: are constantly offered to foreign nier-
! chants and manufacturers to pour thg
i whole of their refuse and surplus prodtro
j tions into our market, to the serious inju
ry ot" the American trader, and the ruin of
almost every branch of business, and by
every class of the community.
• To that portion of the American peo
ple who have invested their capital in
manufacturing establishments, as well as
those who are engaged in a course ,of fair
and regular trade and commerce, the auc
tion system has been pregnant with nu
merous and fatal consequences.
It lias been deemed strange, that a sys
tem so partial and unjust in its operations:
so calculated to injure the many for the
benefit of the few : to nurture the enter
prise, and sustain the industry of foreign
nations at the expense of the best inter
ests of our own citizens, should so long
have been permitted to take root, and
Spread its baleful influence on the vital in
terests of so great a portion of the com
munity.
So forcibly has this view of the subject
presented itself to the minds of some of
our most learned jurists, and enlightened
citizens, that they do not hesitate to ex
press their doubts of the legality, and even
question the constitutionality of the prin
ciple. The federal compact, say they,
which bound together a number of separ
ate and independent states, by a commu
nity of interests and reciprocity of advan
tages, never did intend to give to a small
portion of the community, an exclusive
.monopoly of any one mode of business to
the manifest injury ofa large portion of
their fellow-citizens.
Of all tRe galling and oppressive bur
thens imposed on their people, by the
despotic governments of Europe, there
was none perhaps that excised a deeper
murmur of complaint, or shat produced a
more general spirit of resistance, than the
odious system of exclusive monopolies, bv
which the parasites of court favour were
enabled to enrich themselves at the ex- |
pease of the wretchedness and misery of
their fellow-subjects. The natural and
direct tendency of this governmental pat
ronage, was to create, uphold, and per
petuate, a proud aristocracy ; who grew
rich in proportion as the rest of the com
munity became impoverished ; who were
rendered callous and indifferent to the mis
er}'which their cupidity had created; and
who appeared to act as if utterly regard
less of the general distress ; while that
distress only tended to enhance the pro
fits and emoluments of their iniquitous
monopolies.
Amongst the numerous evils of our
Auction System, it is none of the least,
that it partakes largely of some of the
worst features of a mischievous and un
just monopoly. It is directly calculated,
and actually does concentrate in the hands
of a few individuals, an immense propor
tion of the business of our principal cities ;
it lays the foundation, and affords facili
ties for the practising of numerous frauds
and impositions on both government and
people.
From official and documentary evidence
it appears, that of all the foreign mer
chandize imported into the United States,
and which may be estimated at 85,000,-
000. of dollars annually ; from one-half to
three fourths are disposed of by sales at
auction ; and from the same source it fur
ther appears, that of this enormous a-
mount of the products of foreign indus
try, the greater part is owned by foreign
" manafacturersy and traders.
It is a singular and rather extraordina
ry circumstance connected with the auc
tion system, that in its vast and various op
erations, it is made the instrument of
wresting from the American merchant
and trader, all those advantages originally
intended by our government for the en
couragement of her own citizens ; and of
converting them to the benefit of the
merchants and manufacturers of foreign
nations. To illustrate this position, it
may be observed, that, immediately after
the organization of the present govern
ment of the United States, one of the first
objects that engaged the attention of our
legislators, was the regulation and estab
lishment of a Tariff. Bearing in mind
that the country was but just emerging
from the impoverishing effects of a pro
tracted warfare ; that the limited capital
of our merchants and traders required
from a fostering and paternal government,
a liberal credit on the duties imposed on
foreign merchandize : they, with a prompts
tude characteristic of their enlightened
oigner with United States’ funds equal to
tho whole of his capital originally inves
ted.
From this view of the subject, does it
not evidently result, that tho auction sys
tem is attended with incalculable mis
chiefs to almost every class of American
citizens? It remains, then, for our go
vernment to interpose its authority; and
by tho salutary operation of an ...efficient
duty on sales at auction, to protect our
citizens against that intolerable evil, which
presses upon all the energies and enter
prise of the country. Unless this is done,
and done speedily, most of our laws, a-
vowedly passed for the protection of A-
mcrican commerce and manufactures, will
as effectually be made subserviont to the
exclusive interest of foreigners, and the
injury of our own citizens, as if those laws
were expressly passed for tho solo benefit
of the former, and the discouragement
and ruin of the latter.
Your Memorialists persuade themselves
that vour Honourable Bodies will inter
fere to correct the evils resulting from the
system, to which they again solicit the at
tention of the government ; a system
which, in its more immediate effects, en
courage frauds on the revenue, depresses
domestic manufactures, facilitates impo
sitions on the public, destroys the mer
cantile character, and is ruinous to that
class of citizens to which your memorial
ists belong ; and the injurious results of
which ultimately fall upon the agricultu
ral and labouring part of the population.
They, therefore, respectfully pray
your Honourable Bodies to impose a du
ty of ten per centum on sales by auction,
excepting the effects of bankrupts and of
deceased persons, goods sold for the beu-
efit of underwriters, shipping, and real es
tate.
New-York, June 20.
Fisi< to Sing-Sing.—On Wednesday
morning, at an early hour, the Mayor
and Corporation proceeded, in the Steam
boat Sun, to visit the New State Prison,
now nearly completed at Sing-Sing, West
chester county. Among the guests, were
the Ex-President Monroe , Mr. Gallatin,
the Lt. Governor of the State ; the Judg
es Ministers and Charge des Affaires of
Peru; Mr. Van Buren, General Gaines,
Hon. Mr. Baylies of Massachusetts ;
Members of Congress, from the City, to
gether with the President, and members
f the Senate of the State, and other
guests.
The object of this visit, was of impor
tance to the State, and in the perfection
of a new system of government and dis
cipline in our Stale Prisons and Peniten
tiaries ; a subject in which the People are
deeply interested ; and it was when the
Senate could, at one view, understand the
system in all its bearings, that the Cor
poration resolved to invite their attend
ance.
More has been written and said on the
subject of prison discipline, and reforma
tion of convicts, more money has beeu ex
pended, and more experiments have been
made to perfect the system, in Europe
and in this country, than on any one point
connected with moral and political econ?
omy. We are much mistaken, if we have
not finally reached the true thing. It
will be remembered that, the convicts, at
the Greenwich State Prison, were em
ployed in severaLirades and occupations,
not profitable to the establishment ; they
messed together, and slept several in one
apartment ; of course, tho constant com
munication with each other, had the worst
tendency in promoting future reformation.
The State to commence a new experi
ment, purchased a number ot acres of land
in Westchester, containing an extensive
quarry of excellent marble, & of an inex
haustible quantity. They turned in their
convicts ; made them hew the marble from
the quarry, and build their own prison.—
It is situated on the margin of the river,
three stories high, and when completed,
will probably be 400 feet long. Each
convict, of which there may be, at pres
ent, 300, has a seperate cell, seven feet
long, and three feet wide, and eight feet
in height, built entirely of marble, which
is perfectly dry. They have a mat to
sleep upon, and blankets in Winter, each
cell has an iron grated door, looking into
a long corridor, or hall, of the length of
the prison, the light for which is given
views and sound policy, granted a credit'lfrom small grated windows,
of eight, ten, and twelve months, on all
importations from Europe, and <a still lon
ger credit on goods imported from be
yond the Cape of Good Hope. So long
as the streams of trade and commerce
continued to flow through ‘he ordinary
and regular channels of business, diffu
sing their healthful and salutary influence
among all classes of tlie community, this
liberal policy of the government was at
tended with very beneficial effects to our
citizens, and resulted in but little, loss or
The discipline of the prison is admira
ble. The convicts are at work in the
quarries, or shaping the stone under a
temporary buildiug. They are not al
lowed to speak a word to each other, and
this is one of the great plans of reform.—
When they break off work to go to their
meals, they form in file, and divide into
gangs of forty or fifty, with the close or
lock step, and each man takes his provis
ion in his cell, the floor is locked and they
remain an hour. All is order aitd regu
larity, and 500 men are thus guarded by
four or five centinels, and a dozen keep
ers. The men work hard, but are quite
healthy, and they are glad to get to their
work, to escape the horrors of solitary
confinement. On Sunday, they bathe
in tho river, and attend prayers ; each
man has a Bible in his cell. The food is
coarse, hut wholesome, and the whole
cooking is done by a small steam appar
atus, which consumes a bushel and a half
ofcoals per day. The prison is under
the care of Capt. Lines, formerly of Au
burn, and probably, a more usetul and in
telligent man, for this business, is not to
be found in this country.
Altogether we may pronounce this the
Perfection of the System, the great ob
ject of which is to /prevent, not punish
crime.—N. Y. Enq.
e®e—
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The Albany Argus says, that we have
given it credit for an acccount of the pro
ceedings of the late Administration Con
vention, which that print did not
publish, and which it is not ambi
tious to claim; and it is intimated that
this quotation may bs set down, in chari
ty, to an “ error of tho press,” or a 41 slip
of the pen.”
Wo are willing to be corrected at any
time when in error, and, if the fact be as
stated, we certainly must have been in a
very great error, for who would dream of
finding any accouut of 3 Republican
Meeting in so bewi:chrd a quarter as that
of the Albany Argus? In joining the
Combination to elect General Jacksor,
the Argus has, upon its own shewing, tor-
feited all pretentions to Republican char
acter ; having itself declared, in so many
words, when General Jackson was first
brot’outas a candidate for the Presidency,
that he was not a Republican, and never
could receive the support of the Repub
lican party of that State; assigning, a-
mong the reasons why he had no claims,
on the score of fitness, to be elected Pres
ident, that 44 his habits were quite tpo
summary for that.”
The more we reflect on the subject,
thus accidentally brought to mind, the
more we are shocked at the total disregard
of principle which marks the course ot
the leading prints which support Gen.
Jackson. The Richmond Enquirer, the
New-York Evening Post, the Albany
Argus, and the Editor of the New-York
Enquirer, now vying with one another in
zeal and devotion to the cause of the mili
tary candidate, were, four short yeais ago
the most unrestrained of his opponents.—
Indeed, considering the sentiments they
then expressed of him, supposing that
there was the least particle of honesty in
their conduct at that time, their combina
tion to elect him President is one of the
most atrocious conspiracies against public
liberty, that the world has ever furnished.
Their weapons, though so far bloodless,
are directed against the vitals of their
country.
What is it that they have taught their
readers heretofore concerning the public
character of General Jackson? Havr
they r.ot told us that General Jackson’s
conduct as far back as 1815, bespeaks
that species of temper in him, which is
disposed to make his own will the sole
rule of his actions ? (1) That he is of an
impetuous and arbitrary temper, which il
ly qualifies him for the high station to
which he aspires? (2) That the man
who, like him, makes his own will and
pleasure the sole rule and guide of all his
actions, ought not tu be ttusted with the
large powers ofa President of the United
States? (2>) That war is continually float
ing before his eyes; that he is a gentle
man who cannot intepret the plain ex
pressions of law, and one who in any
great crisis, would conduct the whole
country into one great camp, and would
reduce almost every thing under military
law? (4) Have we not been told, by a-
nother of them, that no calamity could be-
fal this country equal to the election ofa
man to the Presidency who sets all laws
at defiance, and whose arbitrary temper
would be tbe cause of fatal disasters to
the Republic? (5) That (alluding • di
rectly to General Jackson) it wpuld be a
sin to confer either the first ofr second
office in the Union on a man who sets laws,
constitution, party, friends, and princi
ples, at defiance? (6)
Yes! This—all this, and more than this,
have these confederated politicians taught
as to the character of the citizen whom
they are now straining every nerve to
raise to that station for which they have
pronounced him to be totally unfit. We,
it is true, oppose the ejection of General
Jackson to the Presidency; we have ev
er done so; we did so conscientiously,
from the begiuing, and we do so still;
but have we ever said any thing half so
harsh as this? Whatever we may think
of the danger of electing him to the Chief
Magistracy of the country, we have never
gone the length of declaring that we would
deprecate his election as a curse upon
the country. (7) Yet, among his leading
supporters are to be found more than one
who has done so, and who is now enga
ged in the pious duty of entailing this
curse upon his country. Stop, rash man,
before it be yet too late! Hold thy par
ricidal hand/ Save thy country from the
curse which thou hast deprecated in thy
better days, and to which, now that the
foul fiend possesses thee, thou wuuldst
ruthlessly doom it!
Such is the language which may be
justly applied, not particularly to the in
dividual who used the expression referred
to, but to all those whose sentiments he
then represented—whose language he
then represented—whose language lie but
echoed, and whose creed he but repeated.
(1) Richmond Enquirer, March 6, 1824,
(2) The same paper, March 19, 1824.
(3) The same paper, same date.
(4) The same paper, May 18, 1824.
(5) The nresent Editor of N. Y. Enquirer,
August 22, 1823.
(6) The same writer, August 26, 1834.
(7) Richmond Enquirer, October 14,1824.
We implore of them to re-consider their
rash and reckless resolves, whilst yet they
have the. power to do so, and before they
reached the verge of the cataract from
which there is no retreat.
To those who have blindly followed
the lead of these persons, can such an ap
peal be addressed in vain ? Have not
these persons, with full knowledge o.
what they were doing, honestly, frankly,
and even'ostentatiously presented to tbe
world the opinions to which we have ad
verted ? They cannot deny it. Have
they changed those opinions ? They will
not confess it. Is it not, then, demon
strated, that they are willfully, and with
intent to biing a curse upon their country,
supporting for the Presidency an individ
ual who is not qualified for the station,
and whose whole public history shows him
to be unfit for it ?
Let them gainsay it if they can.
South Carolina as she was, and as she is.
In the Charleston City Gazette of the
12ih inst. we find the proceedings of the
“ South Carolina Homespun Company,”
in 1802, as brought to the recollection of
the editor by 44 An Old Subscriber.”—
On the 24th of October of that year, a
procession was formed, for the purpose
of laying the corner stone of an edifice to
be devoted to Domestic Manufactures.—
It is stated, that nearly 6000 inhabitants
attended at the ceremony, 4000 of whom
41 inarched iri procession.” At this peri
od, savs the old subscriber, 14 the question
of Domestic Manufactures was in our
own state, and city, the touchstone of
patriotism,” and those who were opposed
to their introduction and establishment,
“were regarded with suspicion and
distrust.” An address was delivered on
the, occasion by Wm. Loughton Smith,
Esq. which no doubt spoke the feelings
and sentiments of his fellow citizens, from
which we cannot avoid extracting a few
passages, that our readers may contrast
them with the recent proceedings of the
same State, in relation to the same sub
ject.—Nat. Journal.
“ Brethren and Fellow Citizens: You
have just witnessed the ceremony of lay
ing the corner stone ofthe first edifice in
tended for Domestic Manufactures on a
great scale in this part of the Union ; and
you have witnessed the interesting cere
mony with emotion, corresponding with
thq dignity and solemnity of tbe occasion.
Permit me to congratulate you, and my
country at large, on this first step towards
the completion of an establishment, from
which, in spite of the cold support of
doubting friends and the warm opposition
of decided foes, we may entertain flatter
ing an'icipations of the most successful re
sults.
No reflecting citizen can any longer
question the policy of affording every en
couragement to Domestic Manufactures.—
The hostile restrictions, which, from time
to time, have enthralled our external trade,
must have long ago pointed out the abso
lute necessity of enlarging the sphere of
internal commerce ; and the obstructions
which, in times of war, close nearly alto
gether the avenues of foreign markets, and
even in times of peace, abridge in those
markets the vent of our surplus produc
tions, must excite in every American
breast an ardent desire to create a more
extensive demand for them at home.”
44 Ameiica so pregnant with great and
important events as the present, will here
after occupy a large and distinguished
space in the annals of history. Through
the discordance of jarring opinions, her
candid and impartial voice will be heard,
and the torch of truth, dissipating the ob
scure mists of party, will illumine the
deeds of our National Government, and
display to approving posterity the wisdom
of that policy, which, while it has pre
served us from desolating wars, and degra
ding alliances, has given a wholesome and
quickening stimulus to Domestic Manu
factures."
Yes, fellow citizens, let us hail this as
a proud day for Carolina’s sons! We
here see the triumph of reason over pre
judice, of love of country over egotism, of
perseverance over apathy ; we here see,
with exultation, the noble result of indi
vidual enthusiasm, a result which exalts
our national pride, and makes us strong in
the confidence of our own native means.
We have long known that we possess, in
the bosom of our soil inexhaustible resour
ces ; we no - *’ know, and feel, that we
have, in our own boroms, a spirit of pat
riotism to call forth these lesources, and
to make them instrumental to the securi
ty of our rights and to the avenging of
our wrongs. The shuttle and the loom,
operating on the products of your fields
and your flocks, will in this century eman
cipate yctu from commercial thraldom, as
the operations of your arsenals andfound-
eries delivered you, in the last, from po
litical slavery. Your patriot souls, swel
ling with this great thought, with what
multiplied and rapturous emotions must
you have beheld the laying this corner
stone, on which will soon arise, within
the limits of your beloved city, a superb
edifice which her citizens will daily con
template with increasing delight as the
perennial fountain from which will stea
dily flow those essential supplies, now de
rived with difficulty and under disgraceful
circumstances, from unfriendly rivals and
from alien industry.
44 Let the insidious fears of false or sus
picious friends be realized ; let sordid av
arice insinuate the failure of her dividends
let sneering hypocrisy propagate her
doubts and apprehensions ; let it be ad
mitted that our embryo Essays will be un
attended with remunerating profits ; still
will patriotism obtain its sweet reward.—
If we receive no paltry dividends in our
pocket, we shall receive ten thousand
times more precious dividends in our
hearts, the heartfelt gratification of know
ing that we are at length truly independ
ent of foreign nations, and that knowledge
is at length completely brought home to
their rulers. Here, op Ashley’s cheerful
bank, on this judiciously selected site, no
less salubrious than fair, will patriotism
rear the noble sttucture, where domestic
indust^ enhancing the value of our na
tive products by converting them into
manufactured supplies, will be the ex
haustless source of our comforts aud sup
plies, will be the exhaustless source of
our comforts and conveniences, our per
petual security against foreign depend
ence. Here will be found a never failing
asylum for the friendless Orphan and the
bereft Widow, the distribution of labor,
and the improvements in machinery, hap
pily combining to call into profitable em
ployment the lender services of those who
have just sprung from the cradle, as well
as of those who are tottering to the grave;
thus training up the little innocents to
early and wholesome habits of industry,
and smoothing the wrinkled front of de
crepitude with the smiles of competency
end protection. Here too will be found
an everlasting refuge for those unfortu
nates of other climes, expatriated, with
their useful talents, by the iron hand of
unrelenting depotism, or the intolerable
pressure of taxation and hunger, and waf
ted by the sighs of fellow misery to seek
•liberty and bread on these happy shores.”
[fOm the New York American.-j
The President and the Opposition
as delineated by the Editor ot the N y
Evening Post.
[From the N. Y Evening Post of May 25 igag
Congress adjourned at last—We believe
speak the sentiments of nine-tenths of ti r
munity, when we say that from Maine toLr, u 5
na the reigning nations of the people are lb*' 2
of disappointment and dissatisfaction; not
out some share of disgust! U hat erea't an( j*, lt:
notable measures of national policy- e 3th f '°
home or abroad have been adopted ?
plans to promote the common interest have b
suggested and momoted? The chief C!tr ^
a lead » condu^
The Honorable Mr. Van Buren, in
the undf rtaking to which he has resolved
to devote the remainder of his valuable
life, of 44 restoring the lost rights of the
States,” seems likely tc find, in the stu
dents of the South Carolina College, a
number of zealous coadjutors, as soon as
those young gentlemen shall have left
school and entered on the theatre of active
life. The following resolution, which
has boen adopted by them, shews that
they have studied, pretty successfully, the
principles—using almost the very words—
of the great New York reformer :
Anti-Tariff Meeting.—At a meeting held by
the Students of the South Caroliua College, on
the 5th instant, to express their sentiments against
the passage of the late Tariff,itwas resolved, that
from and after the 1st July, 1828, “ they will nei-
therbuy, consume, or wear, any article of cloth
ing manufactured Northward of the . river Po-
tomac, until the rights of this our State shall be
fully acknowledged [“ restored”] and establish
ed by the Congress of the United States.”
Charleston Gazette.
Time was when such a declaration of
non-intercourse would have brought into
question the soundness of the principles
inculcated in the seminary whence it em
anated ; and some there still are, who,
obstiuately holding to the antiquated no
tions taught in Washington’s Farewell
Address, in preference to the improved
maxims of Mr. Van Buren, would look
with alarm at the spread of such a course
of action ; and we ourselves should par
ticipate somewhat in that feeling of ap
prehension, were we not taught that it
can be fully reconciled by the great ex
positor ofthe North with the “just rights
of the States.” To him, as the great
head of the new lights, we should prefer
to look for the origin and justification of
the declaration, rather than to the pre
cepts ofthe worthy President ofthe Col
lege, although he deems that it is almost
44 time for the Southern People to calcu
late the value of the Union.” We in
cline to think, however, that this College
declaration may push the new doctrines a
little too far. Suppose, for illustration,
the Northern spinners were to say in re
ply, 44 we will use no cotton, produced in
South Carolina, or flour from Virginia”—-
a good rule should work both ways—we
rather think it would puzzle Dr. Cooper
or Dr. Van Buren, ay, or the Doctors of
the Richmond Enquirer either, to show
how such a system of retaliation would
redound to the general good, or wliele it
would stop, if, in their scheme of 44 resto
ring the lost rights of the States.” it is
once set fairly agoing. Nat. Intel.
Manufactures in the South.—An opin
ion has been ventured some years since,
that the cotton growing states of the South
would in a short space of time become
the seat or seats of cotton manufactures.
This opinion was formed upon a consid
eration of existing facts, leading' to that
result, to wit, the superabundance of the
raw material ptoduced in that part of our
country, and the plenty and cheapness of
the means of converting into manufac
tures, and the growing improbability of
the United States continuing to depend on
Europe for the cotton fabrics of her con
sumption. South Carolina for instance,
furnishes cotton to any desired amount,
steam-power to any rational extent, and
hand labour, (of slaves before capable of
field work) such as is usually employed in
manufactories, by children, inexhaustible.
With these advantages, it cannot be ex
pected that she will remain insensible to
her own interest, and neglect to use the
means in her power, in self-defence, if
not from rivalship and competition with
her sister states. And- notwithstanding
the fulminations of Dr. Cooper, that
Boanerges against American manufac
tures, although formerly so strenuous a-
gainst foreign commerce, a paper-mill,
the first in the state, has been erected at
Columbia, the residence of that learned
Pundit; and a cotton manufatory is about
to be established in or near Yorkville
distict, in the same state. In Virginia
and North Carolina, a number of manu
factories have been erected and carried
into successful operation, and several 1 '
shipments of yarn, and we believe
other cotton goods, have been tirade from
the south to our commercial empettmun.
This is certainly, as remarked by the
Charleston City Gazette, a more placa
ble and agreeable method of counterac
ting the principal evils of the tariff, than
some others which have been suggested.
N. Y. Statesman.
suggested and pioinoted
men who ought to have taken
iug our public affairs, and whose object it 8 h
have b-en to advance the good of (heir co ,
seem to have been altogether engrossed In Un,r -
izing an indiscriminate opposition to th■ ; T*?*’
tration which should hamper and embarr^'f*
all its movements. Nor have they sen, / f Ir ‘
adopt means for it, that, in our o, i:,j 0n , to
little credit to their candor and their 1)115
Among the artifices in which they hate g?* 6 '
course, that of speaking against time f ,. re
termed, has been a favorite one. till the/ '' '*
not only exhausted the subject before theni h'*!
the patience of all descriptions of people
thatthey sickened at the sight ofa public jour, t
whose columns were freighted with tho^r c " '
gressional effusions. The only individual
has derived the least benefit from this ill-jud*.,
opposition is the President, who must and f '
be thought invulnerable in his leading measure
since nothing better can be brought against the’’
by the united abilities of the party professe f
opposed to him. When he entered upon far
reer, perhaps no one felt less disposed to yield h,-
whatever support our humble abilities could f o-
mand. than the author of th sparagraph; but
are constrained frankly to acknowledge, that ft-
one or two exceptions, his measures hare ever si--,
prawn upon our approbation, and entitled hmul
whatever addition it may be in our feeble power to
afford.
We have taken the liberty of italici
sing certain expressions in the above ex-
tract, in order that those who may yet at
tach importance to the opinions ofthe
Evening Post, may contrast these eipres-
sions, used only two years ago, with those
now habitually applied by it, to the same
44 invulnerable” (we thank it for the word)
President, and to the same 44 indiscrimC
nate opposition.”
As the Post and Enquirer are now
birds of a feather, we cannot perhaps bet-
ter follow up the above sample of consis
tency from the Post, than by another
from the paper then published by the Ed-
itoroftho Enquirer, recording his opin
ion, not given 44 in jest,” of the character
of General Jackson, and of the unequal
led 44 calamity” which his elevation to
the Presidency would cause to this ca-
tion.
[FromM. M. Noah’s paperofthe22d Aug.1823 ]
“The Cincinnatti Republican seriously ask.
me if I credit my own opinion in ielation to the
character given of Gen. Jaekson; on such occa
sions I am not disposed to jest Ao calamity
could befal this country cqaal to the election of c
man to the Presidency who sets all law at defiance,
and whose arbitrary temper would be the roust of
fatal disasters to the republic But there is i.o
prospect of such a calamity, and we wil not talk
about it.”
What in regard to such editors is the du
ty of 44 the public,” may be learned by a-
nother extract from the said last named pa
per.
“The public must compel the editors of news
papers to be consistent; they must not be permit
ted to abuse their readers by commending mea
to-day whom they denounced yesterday."
——
Judge Washington.— It must be mat
ter of satisfaction to the friends of the Ad
ministration, every where, to find such
men as Judge Washington, of ihe Su
preme Court, adding their unqualified
conviction to that of the venerable and il
lustrious Chief Justice ot the l nited
States, of the purity and fituess of the
National Executive. If the opinions of
any citizens deserve to have weight with
their countrymen, it surely should be
those of men whose virtues and taleuts
have placed them in a station «liich re
moves them from the agitations and in
fluence of party warfare ; which raises
them above the reach of hope or ot fear
from political fluctuations ; which there
fore frees them from all interested na
tives ; and which enables themtotorro
calm and unbiassed opinions of men and
things.—National Intelligencer.
The following from Judge Washington
is in reply to the request of the Anti-Jack
son Corresponding Committee of Fair tax
County for permission to add his name
to that Committee :
Mount Vernon, July J7tb, 1828.
To John C. Hunter, Esp. Chairman, bye.
Dear Sir : I have received your letter
of the 26th, in which you communicate
the unanimous wish ofthe Anti-Jacksou
Corresponding Committee for * air v
fax County, that I would allow myse *
to be considered a member ol that bo }•
Believing that the utmost purity l | co ^'
duct attended the election of Mr. J- y
Adams to the office which he now holu-
and has so ably administered, I have
er hesitated, when a fit occasion offers-
to express my sentiments in tavor ct ■ *
re-election to the Presidential Chair, y
should, of course accede to the wis*
the Committee, if, by doing so, I, CC ^‘.
promote the object which the} a '
view. But expecting soon t0 _ * ea ' 8 I'fj *
comity, not to return to it until a er .
election has passed, I shall but ootoiO' .
occupy a place in that body, whicn
be beneficially filled by some more el
uent member. ,.l
vWilh a due sense of the honor w “
the Committee has conferred °P on
and with sentiments of very great rem
and esteem for yourself,
Iain, dear sir, your most ob,dl ^ t se j r T 0 s-
BUSHROD WASHI5GJU-
The clerk ofa church in England, late
ly gave notice of a parish-rate in the fol
lowing manner: “ I am desired to give
notice that the third levy is assessed five
pence in the pound,” (and without paus
ing, added,) 44 Let us sing to the praise
and glory of God,
“ Lord what a wretched land this is,
“ That yields U9 no supplies,"
Near $6,000,0000 in specie were «*
ported from Canton to India m
ending in January last-and $4,000,000,
from India to England.
-A
Veterinary Surgical ^P era ^°e e o0 -
case of Lithotomy in the Horse
ly successful one of the kind we . ^
upon record,—has lately occurre■
town. The operation was perform®
on a very valuable draught o .
complete success, on the 20th elt. hy • .
Robt. Lucas, at the Veterinary t
in Great Charlotte-Street.—Lon.