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follow the lead ofuny man’s dictation, I'r (•>)
own part, while I had military command ovei
them, 1 never once opened my lips in regaid to
any party or any candidate. An officer should
employ his power lor other pm poses while in
the service hi* eesutiy, than attempting to
advance himself of his party. Ihe soldiers ot
the first Pensyl vania regiment were freemen,
men of individual character and reflection.—
They juo'ged lor themselves and followed no
man except where the (lag oftheir country led
them. [T i emondous cheers. ]
The sentiment ofthe editor is Imt an outbreak
of the old federal notion, that the people cannot
judge for themselves, and consequently are not
fit for self government. lie is a bold man who
ventures, in this age, to say that because one
happens to be in authority lie should have the
conscience of all under him in his keeping.—
Giving a man military rank and smothering
him in gold, like beefsteak in onions—[Shouts
ot laughter] —will not and does not make him
letter than his companion, the soldier of the
line. God knows the despotism of military dis
titiction is bad enough, without being to affect
the soldier in his opinions and rights as a citi
zen.
But now that wo are no longer in service, 1
will state, on the best authority, what I believe
to be the truth in regard, not only to the first,
but to the second Pensylvania
fifths arc not for Gen. Taylor, but
trary, in at least that proportion, they go lor
Cass and Butler. [Reiterated cheers.] 1 nev
er sought to find out their feeling on the subject,
for 1 was more than satisfied in kitt ing that
every where and in every way, -fj'thi of
them did all their duty to our country.
Appointments, by the President and Senate.
Francis 11. Mcrriman, attorney of the United
States for the district of Tpias, in the place ol
Gov. IV. Brown, deceased.
James Shields, of Illinois, to be governor <d
the Territory of Oregon.
Kintzing Pritchett, of Pennsylvania, to be
secretary for the Territory of Oregon.
William. P. Bryant, of Indiana, to be chief
justice of the supreme court ofthe United States
for the Territory of Oregon.
Peter 11. Burnett, of Oregon, to lie an assn,
ciate justice of the supreme court ofthe United
States tor the Territory ol Oregon.
Isaac W. R. Bromely, Os New York, to be
attorney ofthe United States for the district ol
Oregon.
Joseph L. .Mcak, of Oregon to be marshal ol
the United States for the district of Oregon.
John Adair, of Kentucky, to be collector ol
the port lor the district ol Oregon, in the Terri
tory of Oregon.
James M. Newell, to be chancellor of the
customs at Bridgetown, New Jersey, rice Lor
enzo F. Lee, deceased.
Daniel S. Vlacullery, consul general at Al
exandria, in Egypi.
E. S. OiHey, consul for the port Smyrna in
the place of D. W. OiHey, deceased.
John Van Brans.—Major Noah relates the |
following instance of this gentleman’s ‘ easy
assurance
He was riding in a carriage with Dad after!
dinner, til the neighborhood of LiiulenwaUl, \
during which young hopelul kept puffing away \
at his Havana. At length by the indulgency the
democratic Chesterfield being overwhelmed by
the clouds of smoke, exclaimed —
‘John your cigar is really very offensive inside
here.
‘ls it?’ said the dutiful son. ‘ Th.cn, why
the devil don’t you get out and ride with the
driver V
The old gentleman (says Noah) now finds
that the smoke his promising son is raising in all
directions, is so offensive, that he is obliged to
come out of his retirement, and ride with the
driver.
Letter from Jt tn.K McLean —Free Soil.
The Cleveland True Democrat publishes the
following letter from lion. John McLean, defin
ing his position on the Free Soil movement.
Colvmih.'s, July 28, 17 18.
Gentlemen--1 have delayed an answer to I
your communication of the 11th inst., that I
might have time for mature reflection* This
was dee to you, to myself, to the subject, and j
perhaps to the country. 1 have endeavored to j
consider the matter in all its aspects and conse
quences.
Tne great and exciting question of slavery j
extension, in the judicial form it has assumed j
by the act ofthe Senate, as it bears upon my j
position on the bench ; the use of my name in
the present canvass, and the rejection of it by
the Ohio delegates to the National Convention,
the relation, which Mr. Van Buren maintains to
the public : have all been deliberately consid
ered, and I am brought to the conclusion that I
ought not to go before the Buffalo Convention
as a candidate for the Presidency. I feel deep, j
ly and gratefully the honor you have done me j
by the expression of your kindness and confi-1
dence, in connection with that high office.
Resting upon the principles of the Constitu- !
tion as they have been judiciously settled, the )
free States, by moderation, vigilance, and firm- j
ness, may prevent the extension of slavery to the j
free territory lately annexed. Without the
sanction ot law, slavery can no more exist in a ‘
territory than a man can breathe without air.—
Slaves are not property where they are not j
made so by the municipal law. The Legisla-'!
ture of a Territory can exercise no power
which is not conferred on it by the act of Con
gress.
With the highest respect, I am, gratefully,
vour obedient servant,
JOHN McLEAN.
James A. Btiggs, Rucben Hitchcock,S. I. No.
ble, Samuel Williamson, 11. C. Kingsley,
Thos. Brown, Irad Kelley, John Delatnatcr,
and T. C. Turner, Esquires.
Gen. Taylor’s Endouseh.—Col. Brough,
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, says :
•The reverend gentleman who recently wrote
a letter endorsing the piety and denying the
profanity of General Taylor, it appears owes
the General a debt ofgratitude, Whilst chap
lain of Fort Jessup, so dull was his preaching,
that it was necessary to detail a section ofthe
garrison on Sunday to hear his sermon. It was
also customary at the garrison to post every one
belonging to the temperance society, who broke
the pledge, uteJ the reverend endorser was one
ofthe posted. A pretty witness to bring before
the jury of the nation ! H isjevidenee will need
collateral tertiuro-n to mike it credible.
£'.'nmi ;hc Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The toils of an old Pioneer.
Lewis Cass was appointed by President Mad
ison, Governor of Michigan territory, July 2lst, s
1831. He was also clothed w ith the important
duties of Superintendent of Indian Agencies
within the territory. He was charged with the
supervision of many such Agencies beyond the
territorial limits ns well as within. And he was
the representative ot the National Government
in numerous treaties with the tierce savages of
the Northwest.
One can hardly realize at this day, in the. full
fruition of the blessings ot civilized lilt-—which
Cass did so much advance —the extent, the haz
ard, the toilsome character ot these services, the
responsibility attending them, and the importance
oftheir results. The extent ofthe country which
they took in, stretched from the northwestern
most point of Ohio at Maumee Bay, more than
1500 miles to the coast, along the British fron- ‘
tier. In addition, various tribes in the States of
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, were placed under 1
I his chanre. The following is stated to be a cor.
| rect estimate of the Indian population whose re- i
j lutions with our government and people?, lie was j
i required to watch and etmtiol, at the period when
Gen. Cass assumed the Executive duties at De- :
troit, in the autumn oi 1813 :
W.trrioirt. Souls.
Wvanilots of (.04)....
■ < llllWl|t.‘CH Ol 4 ‘ 84MI
it v t iii—
I Otiavvad of I he. JicijWsiila ol* .Michigan, 400.... ‘2.000
j Sapioinws, *210.... I,‘JOO
! Poll aw atomics ol S. Josttpli aml I lit? i In run, 100..... ..>OO
I'ottaw atomic.’ ot 4 1 lliimis at lari'c, -400.... *2,000
4"hippcwtis oi l.tikes St. (’lair tuitl Huron,
ami the precincts of Midi illinuc kiiiuc,.. .1,000.... 5,000
(/liippcw.'is of Lake Suprii l r. ami lire re
gion norili to the I.tike of the Woods,
j ami lie.ul ofthe Mississippi, 2,000... 10,000 1
M uomonics t>f (ieen Pay am! I''ox River,. .000.... d,UOO ,
\\ itihclirtirocs of Westi-in Michigan, now
Wisconsin, 1,4)60*... 5,500
i Mi nnies, W in . ami PiniikcsliuwH of the
• Walu.-li, 900 4,500
•Sioux, ami other hinds from the West of
Missiojppi, nml vis ting or lining In
dians, at large, 000.... 3,000
8,290 41,400
The time at. which these most important duties
were devolved upon him, deserves eminent con
sideration. It was pending the war with Great
Britain, in which many >1 these savage tribes
had been hi sod on by our Christian adversary
to deeds of terrible atrocity against the border
settlements. The cabins they had fired were yet
smouldering—scalps they had torn from defence
less children and females alike with men, had
not dried in their wigwams. These hostile and
tierce sons of the Ibrest were to be brought upon
terms of amity, to be weaned of the hostile and
insidious influence of British agents and traders,
to be treated with, and their title to the wilder
ness lands over which they roamed, now consti
tuting nearly five Slates, extinguished, in order
to the possession of the white race. This was
the stupendous duty that devolved upon General
Cass, and never was duty discharged with great
er fidelity and efficiency. Nineteen important
treaties were concluded by him, in fulfilment of
1 this high trust, as follows :
Nrtmos of trihei*. - Dates of treaties.
Wyandot**, Delawares, Slmwiiees, Sene
cas, ami IMiainics, July 22, 1811.
Wyamlots, Shawnee*, Puttu
\\ atomies, Otlowas and (’liippewas, Sept. 29, 1317.
Delawares, Oct. 3, 1810.
Pottawatomies, Oct. 2, “
Miamics, Oct. 6, “
Chippewiiß of Sngtiuuw, Sept. 21, 1819.
(’liippowas ofSault Sic. Marie, Lake Su
pciior, June ls, 1820.
OiuiwwH of 1/Alive Crochc, Lake Michigan, July 0, 1820.
4’hippewas, Ottuwas ami Pottawatomie*
of Illinois, Aug. 29, 1021.
Sioux, Chippewuß, Sues and Poxes, to
wns, Wiunehncocs,
’ Chippewns of Lake Superior^i^mj^^^^
ren northwest, Aug. 5,1826.
Miumics ofthe Wulmsh, Oct. 23, 1824*.
I Pottawatomies,. Oct. 16, 1826.
4 ‘iiippewas, Meiioinniiies iV. Winnebagoes,. Aug. 11, 1827.
Pottawatomies, Sept. 19, 1827.
’ Sacs ami Foxes, Winnebagoet*, Pottu
watomicH, Ottowns, and Chippewns,.... Aug. 25, 1828.
| Pottaw atomies, Sept. 20, 1828.
Chippewa, Ottawa and Pottawatomies of
the Illinois, Milwankie, and Manitowack, July 2!*, 1829.
! Creeks April 4,1832.
It will thus he seen that almost every rood of
soil in the Northwest, has been acquired through
Gen. Cass. To accomplish these vast results,
he bad to make extensive journies through the
wilderness, on horseback, or in bark canoes—
at one time at Greenville, at another at Prairie
dti Chien, and even far north-west of this latter
point, pushing explorations to the base of the
Rocky Mountains, and meeting with and con
ciliating the fierce warriors of those far interior
wilds. In the discharge of these duties, he re.
ccived and distributed among the Indian tribes,
in fulfilment of treaty stipulations, many hundred
thousand dollars—drawing the money from land
offices in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, atid paying
it out thousands of miles thence, without a cent
of compensation upon the risk incurred. It may
safely he said that no man noxv living lias been
so closely identified by early struggles, hardships,
immense labor and important services with the
great West, as Lewis Cass. The great West
will noxv remember her early friend, and repay
his valuable services with hearty confidence.
Reason why Genius is Democratic.
Some ofthe Whigs seem badly puzzled to learn
the reason why our most illustrious writers, both
in poetry and prose, such as Washington living,
Cooper, Bryant, Willis, Paulding, Bancroft, Al
exander 11. Everett, Forrest, Kendall, and nu
merous others, are democratic in their princi
ples. We can tell them.
Genius has in its nature too much of our coun
try’s emblem, the eagle, to hear the slavery ofa
ristocracy or wear the golden yet galling letters
of wealth. Genius feels itself noble and would
ennoble'humanity at large. It has confidence in
human nature. Genius is full of hope. It has
no pleasure in the crushed and bruised spirit. It
scorns the despot who rides to the summit of
power over a pavement of prostrate hearts.
Genius is educated. It has weighed the rela
! lions of human society in tlie scale of reason—
| andean find no authority for political inequality.
Genius has reasoned on the powers of mind, and
finds the ascending principle developed where
i ever God has left his image,
j Genius is generous. It would not cat its
i morsel alone nor distil one drop from its nectar
! from the tears of man.
Genius has travelled with Irving and Cooper,
and Willis and Everett, Cartwright, and For.
rest, it has visited other climates, studied the
despotic institutions of Europe and Asia, only to
return with a firmer love and a higher devo
tion of feeling to our own free and blessed de
mocracy. Not more gladly did the dove that
could find no resting place on an orb of waters
return to the ark than do the sons of American
genius come back from their old-world wander
ing, and find rest where man by the genius of his
institutions should be equal to his fellow man—
unabashed by the broad and impassible distinc
sidns of birth, caste, wealth, or inheiited power.
Free Trader.
03Q M®(gii ®^K!®(gMlFo
Gen. Taylor’s Income.— Gen. Taylor on I
the score of economy, refused all letters but
tlmsc which are post paid. A Washington cor
respondent of a New York paper, gives the fol
lowing as the amount of pay be receives from
lbs government, and which he still clings to,
notwithstanding bis nomination.
1 find the following items among lits monthly
revenues, payable from Uncle Sam’s strong box
es to wit: cash, 19 rations per day for his own
subsistence, at 20 cts. each, eqnal to sll7 50
per month ; eight rations per day for length of
service, equal to $59 80 more ; forage for seven
horses, computed at SSO per month, and pay for
four servants, S3B per month — total items a lit
tie over sls per day, or $470 00 per month, or
5047 per year.
About this time, it is altogether probable the
General has various small additions by way of
! official gratifications and perquisites, working up
! liiv annual receipts to S7OOO, which is pretty
good pay for a candidate for President.
i ‘
A Coon l'oet on Taylorism and Taylor Har
mony.
Greiner, the whig poet, has worked his muse
iqi to-sticking point, and in the Journal of Satur
day, he grinds out the following :
“ Nine Taylors to make a single man,
We always used lu muster;
Take nine such Taylors as old Zack,
And would’itl he be a busier!’
There is sotiie poetry and much truth in the a
hove. Gen. Taylor by bis nomination busted
the wh.g party into half a dozen factions. Nine
more such Taylors would burst it into fragments
j so small that each particular coon would have a
, party of his own.
Again the same poet, of whiggery, says ;
• O all ye pouting, doubting Whigs,
Who go aliout as mourners,
Come wipe the teardrops from your eyes,
Stop croaking on the corners.”
That’s right, Mr. Poet, stop them. They
have no right to croak at corners, cx'cn though
they mourn wljggery dead and ready to be bur
; led.
The next verse is both poetic and descriptive.
“ Ali me ! to hear these croakers croak,
O, ’tis a ‘sin to Moses !’
They snuffle, they ‘can’t go old Zar.k.’
And then they wipe their noses.”
IfaM who •snuffle and can’t go old Zaek,’ per
firm the operation mentioned in the last line,
hnnkcrchicfs must be in demand, and washing
dog cheap.
Flour for doughfaccd whiggery, and poetry for
the desponding, is riz.— Ohio Statesman.
C O M MCNICAT I O 8 S „
[Written for the Mupcogce Democrat.J
Essay on Female Education.—So. J.
BY MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ.
Tim education of the young immortals is a se
rious and solemn charge, Yet notwithstanding
the sacrcdncss of the trust, and the melancholy
consequences resulting from its betrayal, it is as
tonishing with how little reflection parents often
send their children to some distant Institution,
recommended perchance by stramiera. as the*
most lashiiamble and flourishing, and pH
by the, wealthy and influential. %
Hew many parents have withdrawn tIH
! dim li, .in .Seminaries entitled to
c>a l l idi■ hi• e and support, and where lliflH
were gradually moulding and sticngtlH
brightening under the happiest ami puH
‘■air-, ami transfer!ed them to
tints, that they might obtain a lew
n's, at the ee.-tly juice of simplicity, digH
genuine worth. “Iflgo to a distant H
the thaii'Jitlcss girl, in the blush of
teens. “ nml graduate at some celebrate® hf
I may not acquire more knowledge,
gain consequence in the eyes of my
and my manners will become polished by itnH
course with the fashionable world.”
One would suppose that the Christian mother
would tremble at these outbreakings of youthful
vanity, and interpose the shield of maternal au
thority between her offspring and the temptji
tions of that world for which she is jianting.l—
But it is not always so. She hails these sugges
tions as the daxvnings of a loftier ambition, end
convincing herself that she should sacrifice evtry
selfish consideration for the good of her cHki,
j sends her abroad into untried scenes, to be mir
j tured in the bosom of strangers.
In the meantime, the teacher, who has bleu
planting the seeds of knowledge in her you g
| mind, is repaid with neglect and ingratitude, a id
j robbed ofthe guerdon of his cares. He has sm it,
that another might reap the harvest, or blast ty
unwholesome instructions the green promises of
her youth. When parents thus withdraw tM'ir
influence and patronage from Institutions, wwsc
claims to their confidence have been fully esjib
lished, from a love of novelty, a desire ol disftic
tion, aristocratic pride, or a weak indulgent* to
the restlessness and waywardness ofyoulhJhey
strike a deathblow at the root ofthe noble* eu
terprize, and paralyze the energies of thejnost
vigorous mind. The husbandman, xvh<i he
| prepares the stubborn glebe for the seep.
! tiou ofthe embryo plant, and watches its Joxvtli
1 day after day, from the dew of mornfg till
: sunset’s latest glow, is cheered by the futici
j pation ofthe ripened fruitage, the garners rich
ness ofthe corning season. Assure him liat all
• he must enjoy as the reward of his labors is the
■ silken (asscilitig ofthe grain, and the eaif blos
i som of the fruit—that another must gatipr the
golden harvest, and sit in the shade oft** vine
yard he lias reared, will not the strongjsinews
he relaxed, the bounding hopes laid jipstrate,
( and the living j)rinci|)le of honest exertiin com-,
pletely destroyed 7
Do they who toil in the field of intellcdtual ex
-1 ertion, need less encouragement to animate them
in their weary task ! What is bodily lab r, com
j pared to the wear and tear ofthe mind, 1 ic heat
and burden ofthe day of mental exertion ?
Let us examine some ofthe duties that (evolve
upon the teacher, and we will be oven iclmed
by the mere view of such responsibility . Let
j us imagine her a woman, (for to worn* i is the
education ot lier own sex more esjtecil lly en
trusted,) endowed with all the delicacy, gentle
ness and sensibility, supposed to be woman’s
peculiar dower. It would be little to go through
the regular routine of duties, with exact functu
ality, to the exclusion of every selfish enjsyment
and every interfering pursuit—to devote to the
improvement of those committed to her care, ev
ery faculty ol the mind, every energy ofthe soul
and all the fervor of the heart, if that were all,
and the sacrifice were deemed sufficient. But
j more, far more is required : She is expected to
I illumine the depths of the profoundcst ignorance,
j to polish the roughness of the rudest manners,
I subdue the violence ofthe most stormy passions,
and bend the intlexibility of the most stubborn
j will. She must elicit the confiscations of geniu6
from the dull brain of apathy, and warm with no
ble ambition, the frozen breast of indifference.
I She must bear with patience and meekness the
ebullition of passion, the flashing of anger, and
the unreasonableness of pride. A mental Ariadne,
she must possess a clue to the labyrinthian ma
zes of every mind : A moral enchantress, she
must open the most secret recesses of every
heart. AH this she must endeavor to accomplish,
and if she be a Christian teacher, she will strive
to fulfil still higher duties. She will not only pour
into the darkened mind the light of knowledge,
but the holy radiance of religion : While with
one band, she kindles the torch of ambition, she
will be ready to subdue with the other, the flames
that may too fiercely burn.
If the great Apostle of the Gentiles, who had
been taken up to the gates ofthe Empyrean, and
favored with a vision of his glorified Saviour,
was constrained to exclaim, in view of the mag
nitude of his responsibilities, “Who is sufficient
for these things?” surely feeble woman may well
lift up her prayerful eyes to heaven, and repeat
the thrilling ejaculation.
But let her gird iter heart and sheath her
nerves, and go on with unfaltering steps, regard
less of the ruggedness of the way, and a still
voice, sweet as an angel’s accents, shall whisper
in her ear, “The strength of God shall be made
peflect in thy weakness.”
Misrepresentation Corrected!
Columbus, Aug. 29,1818.
To the Editors of the Columbus Enquirer :
As the article published in the columns of your
paper of this morning; integded to prove that, in oppo
sition to my present relation to the question of the
constitutionality and expediency of a National Bank.
I, when a member of the House of Representatives of
the State Legislature, from the county of Harris, in
1834, voted in favor of the measure, is, in effect an
attack on my veracity in the repeated assurances giv
en by me to the contrary, as well as mv political con
sistency, it would seem to be proper that I reply, in
person and over my own signature, to the unfounded
aspersion. You will, ot course, at the usual rates of
charge, (if it be agreeable to you to accept compen
sation) insert, at my respectful request, the answer
to the attack. Irf-t me premise, that the article in
view, appears on its own showing, to be not editorial;
and that 1 would concede, if I could, that it is within !
the limits of possibility, that a deliberate and known j
misrepresentation may not hate been designed by the j
anonymous author ot it I
The following are the resolutions, which, together 1
with the vote represented to have been cast by me ;
against the passage of thorn, are cited to show that I !
was at the time referred to, favorable to a Bank : j
1. Resolved, by the Sarnie, S(c. That the Blink of the :
United Slates ought not to be reclinrtered on anv terms, i
and that our iSeiiatoi's in Congress be, and they are hereby
instructed, and oar Kcprescntulivca requested to vote u
gainst the recharter of said Bunk in any form or shape in
which it may be presented.
2. That the hold, putiiutic, nml constitutional course ‘
pursued liy the President ol the United States, to arrest
the powerful ellbrts made by that Bank to compel a re- j
charter, which must, if successful, have resulted in the j
destruction ofthe liberties and hafqiiness of the American j
people, deserves and lias the unqualified approbation of
the people ot Georgia, who pledge io him their support I
while he steadily moves onward in Ii is coarse to arrest
and dually destroy this nnynmoth of aristocracy.
And whereas the power of Congress, under the Consti
tution, to charter u Bank, is denied by a targe portion of
the people of this State, and is acknowledged by another
poition, who assert (he power to bn of too disputable u
character to admit its exercise w ithout on amendment of j
tile Constitution expiesaly granting it; and the opinion
of this General Assembly being that Congress should ex
ercise inr power not expressly grained, or necessarily
(lowing from one so granted, nm, 1 “jun tht to
a hank is not pne of this el-Tj;.''.® 1
‘ Jleit/H oV- .rtw, that our Senators be instruct
ed j l| jJ(j||g*p"csc“tutives requested, lo use nil proper
ilia charter ot any Bank of the United
until
H[ lr -'I"! II 1,.;w hr, 1, Mi l ii! I lied lo I lie Males,
, ■tilled.
Ht" l '’ : win II narrnu !y Innkml into.
# ] ■ uflitm in part, and in part implv.sov
. Hp’- b:n:n;: imt tjm mm", oomu.xion
/ .* *4? St!! 1 | ,r .|"*r ol tii” coiotitutioiialitv or
;tticiuit Bank. Tim lir.-t as.-uinos
Mb’ ,1 q>ii!e,l rs ~ tl„. Stale 1.0-
- ’V- ; (J . moor.- ol t|,o tmorioan S, n
- nj>*n !•-.tv \\! j;i t. it :ii:v |mf*r.
4 ‘ %>*’ s;i!,|oct. at tlio
bvi.ni-'y 01., n.li to all who know
|. : ("iilm.i! bi-',.: v id the times ttnilor
Il ; e removal, in tin*
f’-r ..j f ■’ h :i! •h” L e:i. ,i| the I >cpo-:Vs ot
v ,nr ’a” Batik— a inous
4k* * iL* opin’ Ml Ot -i,ini*, questions ot
•V ut-tii ■ ri" y, m that ot oilicrs
hi ‘
t< Dank,
o;' ’( ,c supposition that it were png-i
sessed by •’ Now, to that measure, to wit: the j
removal of the public JeJSKiU., ‘ 2, .;il r *'.Tu 7,.
ivitb others, opposed. Again: the resolution proceeds
to assert, without qualification, that the recharter of!
the Bank “must have resulted in the destruction of
the liberties and happiness of the people ” ! May it i
not have been that gentlemen, very honestly opposed j
to the re-charter, may have thought the resolution as ;
representing their objection to it, in this respect, in 1
extreme and possibly exaggerated terms? The reso- j
lotion under discussion, concludes with a pledge (in I
general terms) of the “ support of the peopleof Geor
gia to the I’resident, while lie steadily moves onward
in his course,” &c. it eati be no injustice to you,
gentlemen, to remind you, that though the Veto by
President Jackson ol the re-charter ot the Bank on a
previous day, and other State Rights measures of
policy, had united nil parties in Georgia in support of!
his re-election in the fall of 1832, yet that the doc-j
trines of the Proclamation and tiie Force Bill that j
emanated from hint in the winter of that year, drove
you, myselt, and others ot the more zealous advocates
of that system of commercial policy—which you are
pleased to denounce, in my humble advocacy as “ an
ti-American, ’ to-wit: the doctrine of free trade, into
a relation of vehement opposition to the General.—
Recommending, as lie did, the gradual abandonment
of the miscalled and fraudulent policy of protection.
we had not then forgiven him for the blow levelled by
hint, merely at the extreme and hastv remedy of
nullification by individual States of the then odious,
but now by you so much cherished system of protect
ive tariffs. Hence ire were in no Irame of mind in
1834, despite our agreement on other points, to
“ pledge him the support of the people of Georgia.”
To this member of the 2d resolution, I vx'as al-o averse.
\et for ail these objectionable propositions and
pledges—quite aside from the point in issue—i must
have voted, in order to have not recorded mv name
among the 52 nays quoted by your correspondent!—
But yet more, your correspondent's stealthy object
would have been in still greater danger, had he gone
further and stated a little more of the whole triitlT, to
wit : that the throe resolutions copied, are followed
up by four others, embracing quite a variety of topics,
some of which met my approval, and from others I
equally dissented. The fifth one, for example, (see
Journal) professes to instruct our Senators and re
quest our Representatives to vote for the celebrated
“Expunging Resolutions,” as they were called; that
is to say, lor certain resolutions to expunge front the
journals of the Senate the record of a portion of its
previous proceedings, touching the act of the removal
ofthe deposites, to which allusion has been made.
Here I was called to look into tiie nature and offices
of iecords, and I might add, in this instance to violate
my I . own convictions on a point, than which nothing
certainly is more foreign to the one in respect to
which I am assailed.
Finally, the commentator for the Enquirer shows
liat the vote complained of was given on the passage
ofthe resolutions —that is, the resolutions as a whole—
and yet it is artfully, or rat her I should say malicious
ly, intended to leave the impression that because I
vould not consent to take and approve a common
mixture of what was deemed good and bad, right and
vropg, as attempted to be forced, in tiie violence of
tie times, upon a determined minority by a vastly
preponderating majority, that I opposed all that was
curtained in the resolutions, or, at all events, so much
qi them as relates to the Hank. While the truth of
the case is, that there were not, at the time of the
psssage of these resolutions, I verily believe, five—
nc, not three—of the members present, who, on joint
ballot, would have voted for a National Bank had the
subject been brought before them. Do I hazard any
thing in saying that every man of decent information
and remembrance upon this subject, knows this to be
true ? But I have sufficiently exposed this fruitless
attempt at imposition, and have done with it.
MARSHALL J. WELLBORN.
FOR PRESIDENT,
LEWIS CASS,
of Michigan.
FOR VICE I'REgIDBST,
Win. O. Butler,
of Kentucky.
DEMOCRATIC ELECTORAL TICKET.
Waller T. Colquitt, of Troup, )
M. Ilall McAllister, of Chatham, \ 6
J. W. Anderrion, Cimtliau), I Lewis Tntnlin, Chic,
Leonidas B. Merrer, Lee, J Kohl. R. Mc.Millcn, Albert,
Allen Cochran, Monroe, j \V. McKinley, Ojrlelhorpe,
John I). Stell, Fayclle, |J. Gardner, jr. Kiclmioiid.
ALTERNATES.
Wm. B. Wofford, of llnbersliuin, ) m , .
K. It. Brown, Si inner, $ S,ftfc “ l ,ar?C ‘
Mark Wilcox, Telfair, I Ira It. Foster, Forsyth,
Tiino. M. Furlow, Houston, | James Jackson, Walton.
Jesse Curler, Talbot, | Junius Wingfield,.Fulnam.
Dennis F. Huinuiond, I It. W. Flournoy, Wasli'n.
For Congress , 2d District:
MARSHALL WSJL&SOBIL i
3d District—John J. Cary, of Upson.
4th “ HUGH A. IIARRAI.SON, of Troup.
sth “ THOM AS C. IIACKETT, of Floyd.
6th “ HOWELL COBB, of Clark.
Bth “ A. J. LAWSON, of Burke. ]
MUSCOGEE DEMOCRAT.
BY l_. F. W. ANDREWS.
Ah little nor eminent on possible; that little emanating J
from and controlled by the People, and uniform
in its application to alt.”
Columbus, Thursday, Aug. 31, j
Drowned.— One of the Mexican lads brought ;
to this city by Lt. Col. James S. Calhoun was ;
drowned in the Chatahoochec, above the bridge, ;
on Sunday evening last.
Noutii Carolina.— The ‘Carolina Gazette’ \
of Wilmington N. C. gives the following com
plete returns of the election in that slate:
Manly (\V.) 4024(1 Reed (Deui.) 39393.
39393
847 maj. for Manly.
i The same paper states that the Whigs will
i have a majority ot Orb on joint bitnot.” A/oc rs.
: the Whig members, elect, has since died, hut
; his place will he probably be supplied by one of
the same politics.
President Polk—ilis Message and Protest.
The Oregon Bill which recently passed Congress
and which contained the principles of the “ Wilmot
Proviso ” as applicable to that Territory, but leaving
the question open as to New Mexico and California,
has received the sanction of the President. On re
turning the Bill with Iris signature, Mr. Polk sent in
j a message to the House giving Iris reasons for signin'*
; and protesting against the introduction of the Wilmot
Proviso” into any future enactments, touching the
| organization of territory south of the Missouri Com
promise line, (36.30.) The president distinctly rc.-ts
j Iris sanction to the Oregon bill, on the ground ol its
j being inconsistent with the terms of that coinpro
inise, and as distinctly declares that he should he
| constrained by a sense of duty to withhold his official
| sanction from any bill extending Wilmot Provisoi.-m
Ito Territory south of 36 degrees 30 minutes. An
other reason for signing the hill is the pressing ne
cessity or <.. “-''•"• ‘ion of our laws over
the people of Oregon, now sorely beset by <avagc
enemies.
In the document before us wc do not observe that
the Executive considers the constitutional question
of slavery, or the right ol Congress over the subject,
in territories. His sense of duty seems to have aris
en from the expediency of previous compromises on
the subject, without reference to the constitutionality
of such compromises. In this wo think he has egre
giously erred. He lias had a must favorable oppor
tunity of arresting, by his veto, what the whole south
and much of the North considers to he unconstitution
al legislation on this vitally important topic, but has
not done it, and by his course, we fear, has given
strength and force to that sort of legislation, by adding
another precedent to the series of wrongs already per
petrated against the rights of the South. Nor do we
find any justification tor the signature of Mr. Polk to
the Oregon Bill, on the ground of protection to tiie
settlers in that region. As commander in chief of
the armies of the Union, Mr. Polk has the right, if
we mistake not, to give such protection as they may
need. Col. Washington was recently ordered to
California without any act of Congress authorising
it. Besides that, Congress did, a while back, au
thorize the raising of a mounted regiment for Oregon
which, we believe, was diverted from its original
destination, to Mexico. The President should then,
in our humble judgment, liave akpted this course for
the protection of Oregon, and saved himself from the
reproach to which lie is now subject, of regarding ex
pediency more than the Constitution! Had he vetoed
the Bill, he would have immortalized himself and giv
en a blow to fanaticism which would have sent it
staggering and reeling to perdition.
Nevertheless, the Whigs liave no reason to abuse
Mr. Polk for signing the Bill. It was a whig mea
sure—that feature of Abolitionism in the bill. A
Whig House of Representatives insisted upon it af
ter it had been twice thrown out by the Democratic
Senate! Moreover, Mr. Polk has only done what
the Whig presses are contending Gen. Taylor will
do, viz:—declined to oppose his “one man power”
against the will of Congress! Mr. Polk has, in
truth, carried out, in this instance, tiie doctrine of
Gen. Taylor’s “ Allison Letter,” and should therefore
be hailed by the Whigs, as a convert to their princi
ples, instead of being denounced as a “traitor” to
the South and a “ betrayer ”of its interests. In all
consistency, gentlemen, if Mr. Polk is a “Traitor”
because he has NOT vetoed the Oregon Bill, what
names will you give Gen. Taylor and Millard Fill
more for pledging themselves to the same course, in
all cases, not only in reference to slavery north of 42
degrees as in the Oregon Bill, but south of 36, 30, if
Congress should so enact! “ Don’t all spoak at
once.”
Lt. Col. Calhonn and his Supporters.
“ Cincinnatus ” and other writers in the Enquirer
are trying to make a marvellously great man of Col.
Calhoun. Not only his patriotic services in the late
Mexican war (and they are acknowledged in their
fullest extent, without any drawback which might
be made on the score of honors and emoluments,') are
brought into view and urged upon the people as
claim* to their suffrages, but special reference has
been made to the Colonel’s Banking skill, in days
gone by. as additional inducement for their support,
in the coming election ! This is trading on so small
a capital, that, we opine, the colonel will make a
worse “bust-up’’with it than he ever did before.—
“ Cincinnatus ” says as follows :
“True, Col. Calhoun lives in “the city of broken
Banks”—yes, and already has it been sounded by
certain plunderers of honest men’s reputations that
he himself was once the President of a broken Bank,
It is true, Messrs. Editors, and upon it I plant the
loftiest plume in his character for integrity. “The
Farmers Bank of Chattahooche ” during his presi~
dency did fail, and to his honor and credit, be it re
membered, that it has been the only Bank in Georgia
in such circumstances that has done strict justice to its
creditors. Eyery bill and every liability of said Bank
was redeemed without discount ordimuuition and in
their redemption, Col. Calhoun from a state oj afflu
ence was left poor.”
This statement is exaggerated. Wc have seen
more than one note of the said bank floating about as
worthless “ lamp black and rags,” since we canje to
Columbus, and we think it probable that something
of a pile might yet be “ russled up ” if it were known
that Col. Calhoun would still redeem them “ without
discount or dimunition.” At all events, if there is
any merit in the banking operations of the Colonel,
in days past, or any thing that exhibits his financier
ing capabilities in an extraordinary light, we move
for a full devplopement of the interesting history, not
forgetting the sum of slo,ooo payable to widow P., of
Russel, from the Cuba income, &c. The Colonel’s
patriotism we have, time and again acknowledged.
Asa gentleman of fair intelligence we yield him the
tribute of our respect. Asa Senator from Harris
and Muscogee in the State Legislature and the able
advocate of Chattahoochee “Slaekwater” navi
gation, and gallant supporter of “ woman’s privi
leges,” under the Constitution, we have conceded to
him all the credit to which he may be fairly entitled.
But when incomes to going to Congress and repre
senting the 2d District of Georgia—and a Democrat
ic District at that—we are incredulous as to his
ness for the station to which lie aspires, and
really be excused for hinting our opinion
would be “ like a cat in a strange garret ”
to be elected to Congress. This is, however,
silde. He nor bis friends have any such
pectation. He runs, not for victory but for
tion. It is to effect the November election, that
bus taken tbe field, and yields himself a sacrifice updH
■ tbe altar of party ! In this view of the case we shall
not, unless (breed into it, take the trouble very nar-I
rowly to investigate iris pretensions or canvass hi J
, claims. That lie will he defeated is certain, hufl
! such defeat will be no disappointment to him, but on
‘l :..*--~-”trarv, blessing, for “ blessed are they who cxA
1 peel nothing, for their expectations sßailfie wnTiudlf®
,i : ° (■
Accepted. —“ (£rThc ‘llat’ which ourbiJ
therol the “Muscogee Democrat” threatens*
i send us for our impartial account of the rt#iß
! Democratic Mass Meeting—if it be not a renP
i “ old hat, ’ a black hat, or a hat without brim or
, crown—will be thankfully received, provided it
reaches us in time to “splurge” at the. great
gathering of the friends of “Old Rough and
dy, in this city on the 14th proximo, liy.thel
w ay, Doctor, you must visit us on that “ interests
j ‘**B occasion.” There “'ill be a host of your
i Democratic contctnpories here, who will mistep.
i resent things awfully, and we want you to coma
and give a “ reliable account ” of our doings.”
Atlanta Miscellany,
M e will have the ‘Hat,’ sent according tol
promise, and the Colonel can pass it over to/
Gen. \\ illiamson when he has done wearing it,
provided he does not make out the number, at
the •Rough & Ready’ meeting of the 14th proxi.
mo to be less than 50,000! Don’t ‘fall a snake,’
Colonel, below that, or the laurels heretofore
“on, and of which the ‘hat’ is the fitting ‘emblem*
“ill wilber and die! For thy invitation to be
present on u,e 14th we give thee thanks, but we
tire something like Jacob Crook was about
choosing the old favorite Ram ! M’e ‘don’t like
your crowd !’ Old Zach’s praises we could
stand well enough, hut the effluvia stirred tip
from Fillmore's corporosity would he ‘orful,’ par
ticularly il'the stirring was done by that cadaver
ous anatomy of a Georgia Congressman, who
; went with the North or rather led the North a.
| gainst the Missouri Compromise ! Our politi
| cal stomach is to weak for that!
Stupidity !—We clip the following item from a
I witty journal published at LaGrange, Ga. It was
aimed at us:—
“ Will the “Democrat” tell where he was born ?
| we are certainly convinced by his late uncalled for
attack upon Gen. Williamson, that he belongs to the
horse species—the c.ASS stock ”
| I* die intelligence is of any importance wc will in
form our cotetnporary, that tbe place of onr nativity
was near the “State of Buncomb,” in North Caroli
na. That lias nothing to do, however, with his root
ing into tbe offal shoveled out from the “ John Don
key s stable at Philadelphia, and the appropriation
to his own use of the grains of pabulum therein dis
covered ! IT The witticism on Gen. Cass’ name,
contained in the above extract, came from “ John
Donkey’s ” dang hill! “ Xuff ced.”
Old Zach’s opinion of Democratic Em
tors.—ln a late letter of Gen. Taylor, to a mm.
deman in Memphis, the old General indulges j n
something of the same ribald strain against
Democratic Editors that he indulged in against
the Ohio Volunteers at Marin, Mexico.” Ho
called them ‘unscrupulous,’ ‘hired Demagogues,
without regard to truth, decency or any thing else,’
liars, etc. etc. The old man had better not bo
so petulant about having the tnUliWid. on him !
It is a bad sign to see him scolding at such an
awful rate!
District Court— The Bill for dividing the
State of Georgia into two judicial districts, pass
ed both branches of Congress. The counties of
Harris, Talbot, Upson, Monroe, Jones, Putnam,
Hancock, Warren and Columbia, and all the
counties south of them shall compose the South
ern District, and the Court to he held at Savan
nah, at the times now authorized by law. The
comities of Troup, Meriwether, Pike, Butts, Jas
per, Morgan, Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes, Lin
coln, and the remaining counties north of them
to compose one district to be called the North,
ern District, and the Court to be held at Mariet
ta, Cobb county, to begin on the second Monday
in September.— Col. Enquirer.