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AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER.
By Andrews * Griswold.
Corn# of Randolph, and Broad streets, ( up-stairs ,)
COLUMBUS,.
TERMS. ”
THREK HOLLARS per •noura-i advance.
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[Written for the Aluscnere Democrat.]
To Ur. Beo. N. Phillips and Lady.
Mv I-ove anil Truth, those angels bright
By onr good Father given.
E’er guide your earthly wand’rings right,
In a peaceful path to Heaven.
May it chetjrye on your pathway
And make your burdens light,
r To behold love’s beacon always
,i- , Far glimmering through the night.
* when storms are threat’uing o er ye,
And the darkness gathers round,
T u!k still point above ye
Where unchanging Love is found—
Unlike vain dreams that vanish ever
* With the breaking of the morn,
** like the stars that shine forever
Beyond the clouds and stonu 1
’ So.may your mutual love still brighten,
A* ye travel towards your rest.
And Jim. its charms but heighten
. With never cloying i>“st.
And when ripe old age comes o’er ye,
And, with pilgrim staff in hand,
Ye are waiting calmly for the summons
To join the heavenly band.
Then, may ye joy to pass together
To the brighter worlds above,
And anpelx wall yoiir spirits
realui of Truth and Love.
L.
Time to me this Truth baa taught.
BV CHARLES SVgltta.
Tims to me this truth has taught,
(’Tis truth that’s worth re/eating,)
More offend Irotn want of thought
Titan from nv want ieultng—-*
we would convey. __
s a time
If we've but a word to say,
There’s a time iu which to say it.
Oft unknowingly the tongue
Touches on a cord so aching,
That a word or accent wrong,
Pains tiie heart almost to breaking—
Many a tear of wounded pride.
Many a fault of human blindness,
Has been soothed or tinned aside
-By.* quiet voice of kindness.
Many a beauteous flower decays,
‘ Though we lend it e’er so much—
Something secret in it preys,
Which no human aid can touch;
So, in many a lovely breast
Lies some canker grief concealed,
That if touched is more oppressed— . s’ y
la*ft unto itself, is healed ! S
2tiuna l InteHigencer.
At ROSS MEXICO.
Fitzgerald Beale from the W esteru
coast, together with the wondrous i ews which
he brings of the discovery, now at last, at the
western base of the Siena Nevada, of the real
Dorado—so long searched for all over our
continent—has already been noted in you pa*
per. A brief account of his ride, full of hazard,
and Hcoinplished with such extreme gallantry
and spirit, is due to the service which this brave,
enterprising young officer adorns, and will at
the same time exemplify the deplorable condi
tion of government and police throughout Mexi
co.
Midshipman Beale left the port of La Paz,
near the foot of the peninsula of California, n
the Ist of August; and on the sth arrived at
Mazatlan, on the west coast of Mexico. Thence
he took -passage in a small Mexican goleta, and
after a terrible coasting voyage of live days, in
such weather us is oniy known of)’ that coast,
he madp the harbor of San Bias. At this place
commenced his land journey, southeast one thou
sand miles by way of Guadalajara and Mexico
city, to Vera Cruz. It was with much difficul
ty that he got away, so certaiuly was it held by
*he Mexican Governor of San Bias ami every
body that, travelling thus unprotected, he would
he waylaid and murdered by some of the num
erous bands of fodrones (robbers) who at this
time, more than ever, in consequence of the dis
persion of (ho troops of Parades, line all the
public roads in Mexico. Having undertaken
ibe duty, however, nothing could daunt or de
tain our gallant young officer ; and accordingly
on the 12th of August he started.
He travelled without any other escort than a
guide ; his plan being to ride at full speed, both
day, and night, and thus accomplish his journey
in the shortest space of time, aud also lessen
the dangers of the road by the rapidily of his
transit. His wardrobe for the journey consis.
ted—to begin at the top—of a Mexican glazed
sombrero ; below that, an ample red flannel
shirt, followed by leather breeches, and lermin.
ating in a pair of Ibe hide boot* of the country.
In this costume, and with bis young moustache
and sun-broxvned visage, and speaking Spanish
he was a counterpart of a native of the couotry;
but his defensive outfit was of another sort, ami
eminently American—four revolvers, six bar.
rels each, and a knife, could only be packed on
the person of a genuine American, expecting
danger and determined to go through it.
“ AS LITTLE GOVERNMENT AS POSSIBLE ; THAT LITTLE EMANATING FROM AND THE PEOPLE, AND UNIFORM IN ITS APPLICATION TO ALL.” ,
Thus accoutred, young Beale left San Bias on
the 12th of August. By bis rapid travelling,
and the formidable character of bis armament.
he accomplished the first jiity miles without
serious interruption. Here, at a sudden turn of
the road, a peremptory call of • Alto, ahi!’ (halt
there,) brought one of the revolvers to bear up
on a party of three ‘genie de camino,’ —people
i-fthe road- -who had IrawC up in his front. To
throw him >£ his guard, tjhey demanded his
pa.-sport. under pretence ut being roadpolice.
JW said
•you cau see one of you cofiie
and get it.’ After some parte.y, the party ap
peared disposed tu go On ; Jfiut Beale insisted
that it was their duty to examine his passport,
and it might be unsafe for them to turn their
backs before they had done so.
-Under this intimation, the leader of the parly
with Beale’s revolver drawing a bead upon
bun as a cau'ion against treachery, approached
within arm’s length, and received the passport,
and at the same time the information that tin*
revolver, with which ‘Sevor ladron was alrea
dy acquainted, was one of four, equally ready
tor set vice. The Caballero was immediately
profuse in apologies for stopping an American
officer; and the whole party were ready at once
to tu. n back, or to turn off by another road.—
Beale however knowing that his safety was in
having them behind him, intimated his prefer
ence for that movement; and after some hesita
tion, they passed on in front of him, under the
muzzles of his revolver, until out of pistol shot;
when he put his horse to speed, and was soon
beyond reach of pursuit.
At Tepic, the dangers of the road had be
come so imminent, and he was so constantly
HSsured (hat he could not fail to be assaulted on
the way, and probably iuse his life, that ke de.
termined at (east to secure the transmission of
the contents of hi* important dispatches to the
Government. He iheiefure, though not with.
■ ’Ui fear of reprooi from the Department, in case
he should get through, opened these papers,
copied them, aud. with a note to the American
Minister in Mexico, enclosed the copies, at orJ*
uanaiy letters, ill,the mail: These would arrive
t ven if be should Ij% murdered on the
the originals thus be I**t.
He continued bis jiurncy,
night and day, w rest than
ground, in ihe brief iltervms ot ten or twelve
iiiinu es occupied at ejarb pdst in bringing out
fresh horses and chaiofing the saddles.
Two days’journey t(ie other aide of Guadala.
jara, a banda (gang) cause out of ihe woods in
hi* rear, just at nightfall,'and, discovering him
gave chase. He bad nothing to do this lime
but show toe in his heels, (in case their eye
sight was good enough to see them ) sirice the
da.kness would prevent the judicious use of his
revolvers, on which he depended in tue day.—
He accordingly increased his already rapid pace
expecting speedily to distance his pursuers ; hut
they were not so easily shaken off. They con
linued the chase some hours, and frequently the
foremost ones gained upon him sufficient to
fire their carbines ut his back ; but he at length
made good his way to the next post.
Having heard of a parly of eleven travellers
ahead ol him, Bealc'-wade speed
them, for the greater security-oHravelling in
company. This party was attacked by a large
band of robbers before arriving at Guadajara,
and on the day following his night pursuit Beale ,
came up to the scene of the encounter. The
whole party of travellers had been killed or
wounded and the blood was still fresh in the
mire which it had formed, the bodies having on
ly just been removed.
From Guadalajara Beale departed at
six o’clock in the evening, choosing that time
for starting, both to avoid losing the night and
in order that his departure might be the more
secret. He made the distance to the village of
Lagos [liliy-live leagues—one hundred an six
ty five miles] in twentv .seven and a hall hours,
arriving there at past nine ofthe night follow
ing his departure from Guadalajara.
It was the rainy season as he had experien
ced all the w ty; but at drey time of his leaving
Guadalajara it set in wrtii full force. The un
paralleled fury ot the storms which prevail in
this part of Mexico in the height of the rainy
season is noted by every traveller in that coun
try. The road at night is often visible only by
the immense glare oflightning, which, though
its flashes are nearly incessant, leaves moments
of pitchy darkness. The torrents of rain which
fall tear up rocks and trees on the mountain
sides, and wash them down into the road. The
water courses from that cause, become fearfully
deep aud rapid, so that the traveller, who will
still pursue his journey, must often swim them
at great hazard. It was in this sort of weath.
er and under these ci.cumstanceg that our un
daunted young officer continued his travel, stop
ped neither by fatigue, hardships, nor dangers,
and never putting his head under a roof for re.
pose until he reached the city of Mexico.
This side of Lagos he took passage, for the
security he supposed it would afford, in a dili
gence—the public conveyance. Thera was
i dozen passengers, and of the number two
Mexican colonels ; so that Beale now thought
certainly they wore safe from robbers. He
soon found, however, that the disposition ofthe
party, in case of an attack, was for surrender ;
on - ot the colonels having asstifed them that it
was tho best way, as the robbers would only
•eat instead of murdering them if no resistance
was made. At the end of the first stage, there
fore, Beale bade good-by to the diligence, and
resumed his way with horse and guide. He af.
terward learned, in Mexico, that the diligence
had been atttacked shortly after he had got clear
AND MERCANTILE*! ADVERTISER.
COLUMBUS, Georgia, Thursday Evening;, October 19, IB4S.
of it, and the passengers robbed and maltreated
according to promise.
Among the incidents of his journey was his
meeting at a village on the other side of the
capital with a person who had deserted from the
American army. The scamp was in a most
miserable condition, and, taking Beale for a
Mexican came to him to leg, telling him that
he had fought against his own country tor us,
[the Mexicans,) and was now starving ; and his
appearance, covered with filth and vermin,
rantvA wbe* be sai'j
listened to his story
til his horse was brought, not thinking it pru
dent to disclose his'Teal character. As he put
his foot in the stirrup, however, the rascal still
renewing his entreaties with more earnestness,
and begging for God's sake, and in virtue of his
desert,rn from t'le American’s and his services
to Mexico, something to keep him from Mj-tYiIM
Beale could hold out no longer, and'as hw
into his saddle shouted into the fellowjHy.yj
•Starve and be d—d, you traitorous scoundrel!
and don’t come begging of an American officer!!
The next instaut Beale was fifty yards off; bull
when he turned to look the beggar wasy
standing, apparently stupified. on tho same
spot. Jit
Beale arrived in the city of Mexico on the Bth
day from San Bins. In all the
hardly been under not
for any other
except when at Tepic, to takecupies of his des
patches and put them in tbf anil. . His only
sleep was obtained by throwing himself on thttj
muddy ground, in snatches of ten or twelve ieijifT
utes, while his horses werai changed* WhenT
he arrived, of course he was Mterdßy cased in
mud, and he now dried himself.'fur the first time
since leaving San-Blas-
The H on. Mr.
ter in Mexico, Vo send dejfl
Midshipman Beale 1
day*. -V-. an exairiplc tsHU
isting even itr the Mexican ca[ >; tal HI i
related iliaf a day or two before
ht; hud jSegn'-Trom the balcony of
in the public
in opt 1 n_dav,_aiid the
Jwbpot — ’
>4 7 -vYI
by the Minister, as lias since also repeat,
ed by the head of the Navy Department.
Beale left the gates of Mexico as the serenos
(watchmen) cried the’ hour of midnight, anil tra.
veiled to Vera Cruz with unexampled despatch.
The distance is upward of uinety leagues, (a.,
bout two-hundred and seventy.five miles,) and
he arrived at the city walls on the second night,
as the watchmen were again crying media
noche, (midnight.) making t ie ride exactly in
forty eight hours—a ride I venture to say, not
beaten by any thing on record.
At Pian del Rio he was again chased by
robbers who had got in his rear, and was twice
fired at by them. The road, like the highways
in all mountainous countries, is flanked in many
places by narrow paths, which cut off the curves
made by the roads in winding around the gor.
ges. These byways are travelled by horsemen,
and the places where they connect with the
road are favorite resorts, in countries infested
with banditti, for awaiting and* waylaying the
traveller, whose heavier conveyance or non ac
quaintance with the country keeps him to the
highway. w
At the approach of evening ofthe first day ou 1
Beale saw a horseman in front of him, with his
carbine not swung, as is usual in travelling, but
in his hands, as for immediate use. H-e was
near the entrance of one ofthe byways I have
spoken of, and after taking a sufficient survey
of Beale and his guide, turned into the path as
if to depart. Beale hailed him to know where
he was going. The man replied that he was
hunting his mule. ‘But you don’t go mule-hun
ting with your carbine in your hand, and no
lasso.’ Then hr said he was hunting for game.
His different stories betrayed that he was out
for no good, and Beale was convinced that his
design was to wait for him, probably
complices, at the other end of the path.
His only chance, then, was in making the
circuitous length of the road so rapidly as to
anticipate ibe arrival ofthe robbers at the ter
mil.alien of the cut off. Calling to his guide,
; heref ire, to lead the way, he put his horse to
the utmost speed down the mountain. But the
guide replied that his horse could go no faster.
Beale was presently in the lead, with the other
shouting after him to slacken his pace, or their
horses would be killed and they left afoot.—
Both, however, saved their distance, and a few
moments after pussing the inlet of the pathway
a couple of vain carbine shots behind them leg.
lifted at once the narrowness of their escape,
and that they had judged rightly of the cbarac.
ter and purposes of the mule.hunter.
Two day* and nights of such travelling, and
through such adventures, brought our traveller,
as I have said, to the gates of Vera Cruz, at
midnight. The gates were closed and he was
kept outside till daylight. Getting into the city
he went direct to the seaside, and took a row
boat for Anton Lizardo, twenty miles distant,
the anchorage ofthe naval squadron ; hoping
to get passage immediately. Not being able
to accomplish this, however, he returned to Ve.
ra Cruz, arriving there at night, and having a
night’s sleep under a roof—the first since leav.
ing Mazatlan, with the exception of the time he
was detained in the capital.
The next day he was waited on by tho po.’
lice to answer for the man who had come as fiis
> guide from the city of Mexico, and who sfnee
his arrival had been talking and acting so
strangely as to make it necessary to scctfwf
him. It t*-rued out that the fatigue and exCTPf’
m -nt and dangers of the journey had disturbed
the unfortunate man’s mind, and the city au
thorities were’otdiged to semi him. hack, under
charge, in tho diligence. Such were the ter
rors of the t*oad. “
Four day* after his arrival Beale left Vent
Cruz in the Moop of.war Germanlown, ai*d after
at Mobile, whence
, > ■Jjfcvched - the city oil I
ravel, including
a,| deiaj^^H s four days’ detention at Vera
Cruz passage to Mobile ) was ac
complished Paz, on the coast of Cali
fornia, to j„ forty. seven days.—
-]{est, and in many res.
trips that
■HBnHH.ii).
through au (<■
Bernard to San
sent to the Ann
named place,
lUrous ri4?3^U
our
rs, , For
getii tVull street, the war <>!
carts and she reads fanciful tales ol
Onplies and outlie floor of our en
try ro*kcaJ|Kijagic circle ’ tor Queen Mab.—
VVhat nifitters to her the exchanges of millions
of money or the gigantic transactions of the
street? VVhat il'ship* are laden and unla len, for.
tunes lost ? VVhat if news; a,>ers are
to be publislit'd , what if the prices of the auc
lion room dis-jipoiut the sellers, or cotton and
grain have (fallen, or a steamer is below with
news of wal and revolutions ? She has no
thought or care for all this. She is far removed
fro n any effect of changes in the stock market:
the storms that shuke thrones are in an atmos
phere shelnjus not aspire to; and the thunder
bolts that overturn nations, strike on mountain
peaks too high to be felt or heard by her. Her
tUe is in the valley, yet she leaves it and lives
another life among the beauiiful creations of
fancy. God has made none of us too low to
dream, aud none too high. The same book
which occupies that girl’s mind on the floor,
has once been the companion of the hours
of some wealthy child, as its gilden leaves
and rich covers (now stained and soiled) indi
cate. The lounger in aiich fauteuil or on a
costly sofa, had the identical pleasure, no more
or less keenly, than this poor reader of fanciful
stories. And what, after all, is the great dif
ference between her and us? We all dream
dreams continually, and our ambitions are too
often school-boys fancies, that we forget not in
our lives. We gra-p at hubbies which break
iu our hands; we pursue phantoms that fly be
fore us ntid vanish only in the graveyard!
The girl is sitting there still, but her hook has
her head has fulle.n against
life is on the liook and the other
on the floor, her bonnet is crowded somewhat
over her face : but she is farther ofT than be.
tore from all care, for she is sound asleep.
[iV. Y, Journal of Q6m. ft
Where tiif.y learn it... -‘I don f t see where
my children learn sueh things,’ is one of the
most common phrases in the mother’s vocabu
lary. A little incident, which we happened to
be eye-witness to, may perhaps help to solve
the enigma. We smiled a little at the time, we
have thought a good deal since, and we trust
not without profit.
‘Bub.’ screamed a little bright-eyed girl,
somewhat under six years of uge, to a youngster
who was seated on the curbstone making hast)
pudding of the nmd in the gutter; *Bub, you
good-for-nothing, dirty little scamp, you tarnal
imp ot~* child come right into the house this
niiriutrvor I’ll spank you till Ihe skin comes off!
‘Wny, Angelina, Angelina, dear, what do
you mean ; where did you learn such talk V
exclaimed her mother in a wandering tone, as
she stood on the steps courtesyiug an adieu to a
friend.
Angelina looked up very innocently and an.
swered ; ‘Why, mother, you see we’re playing
and he’s my little lioy, and I’m scolding him
just as you did me this morning, that’s all.’
Too Good to be Lost.—— A small party of
gentlemen, a few days since, speaking of Chan
cellor Walworth, our justly popular candidate
■ (or Governor, am! Ls!Je tV.< giw
•whig demijohn’ ol Ky., one of them remarked
6 that, -they were the greatest drinkers of brandy
find water of any two. men in the country.’—
‘What,’ says a zealous friend of temperance.
‘Walworth a brandy and water drinker; it is
not so. sir, it is not so.* Oh no,’ replied thfc,
wag, ‘I did not say that—Coombs drinks the
brandy, and Walworth takes the water.’ -..This,
was so literally true, in both cases, that a gen-,
eral shout ofcoqrse was raised. 1
• - * IN. Y. True Si n.
’ Oregon— Hie Borne—State of the
Too Lancaster (Fa.) t'armer publishes tV*?
following portion of a letter from a young na
tive of that country, now in Oregon, to his fa
ther, written in March last:
* * * lam now in Oregon City, near
the Pacific, 4,000 miles from the place of my |
nativity. * * * * I have a claim for 040 i
four miles distant fiom the i
I as soon a- a title, properly
■f l intend to sell out to
arriving.
we passed through
Jj* V.au> ; saw mill- !
aeer, antelopes, mountain
ild animals. Our route lay
of the ‘Solitary Tour’ and
le former looking very like
the latter like a large build
rising above the roof. Both
about 690 feet above the
distance, wear the appear
habitation of civilized man.
’ is truly a great natural cu
pr w hich continually boils tip
ti hie cauldron is sufficiently
of meat. Our dogs immedi
ring* to slack their thirst, hut !
th their noses so much scald-1
[•vied off. The Soda Spring. 1
note, being a natural and in.
juutain on a large settle, pn
m u mnftance without tin* j
iu-tr iic its. The water i
,, iii* i,- the iniuera watei
r{ h y,.
; acros. the
b snort oi
i ■■ ‘*■*”
plenty We soon tell !■
with a maurrotn tnirseitleinents having in chargj
seveial pack-horses loaded with flour, frnifl
whom we purchased sufficient for our necessi”
ties.
We are now at war with the Indians, and
are fully able to fight our way through. This
war was orgiuated by the following circum
stances : White Mr., Whitman and his men
were employed in slaughtering a beef, the C)T
anese Indian-, approached with their guns con
cealed under their blankets, and before the
whites apprehended foul play, fired, killing Dr.
Whitman, wife, and eleven others, and took the
women prisoners. This occurred at a mission
ary station. We all turned out and started in
pursuit, aud after killing about thirty of the
Indians, succeeded in recaptuiing the women.
The winter has been remarkably mild ano
no snow in the valleys, though there i- plenty
of it in sight all the year round. We can see
the growing crops in the valleys and snow upon
the high peaks of the mountain at the same
time. The praries are large with groves ol
white oak, pine, fir, cedar, and ash timber. Tbc
country is much broken, aud tine faints may be
found.
Farmers are under no necessity of making
hay, as pastures are good in all seasons of tin
year. Garden vegetables, cabbages, turnips,
peas, and the like, grow all winter. I have
seen turnips here weigh five pounds. Wheat
produces on an average from thirty to flirty
bushels per acre, if well got in. It is customary
when the first crop is harvested, to drag the top
of a tree over the stubble, when without further
cultivation, a crop offrom 15 to 20 bushels is
taken off the following year. Corn docs not
produce well—the seasons are too cold, and
without sufficient rain.
The Columbia river is as large as the ©ns
quehanna, and navigable for ships and steam
boats —there are now seven British and Amer--
ican vessels in the river. Willamette river is
about one fourth of a mile wide, and the falls
are about thirty feet nearly perpendicular.—
Here we have water power equal to any in the
world almost. There are now two flouring and
two saw mills, six stores, and two or three hun.
dred dwelling houses in Oregon City.
Goods are very high. Pantaloons $9 per
pair, and other clothing in proportion ; wheat,
$1 ; flour, $G per barrel; oats 91; potatoes,
75 cents per bushel ; onions, 93; pork, $lO
per hundred lbs ; beef, 95 ; butter, 20 cents
per lb; eggs do; coffee 25 cents ; sugar, 10
cents ; tobacco, 40 cents to $1 ; molasses, 50
cunts per gallon.
Horses sell ironi 815 to 100 : cows, $25 ;
claims for land sell from $lO to $h)00.
J. N. Metoar.
Contradictory.—lii his Beloney letter Gen.
Taylor says *1 fully coincide with you in opinion,
•that it is a right inherent in every freeman to
possess himself of the political principles and
opinions of those in whose hands the administra
tion of the Government may be placed and in
his letter to McKonkey ho says: •! have laid it
down as a principle not to give my opinion upon,
or prejudge in an> way. the various questions <■’
policy now at issue between the political part . •
’ of h- •’runt V.’
__ Political.
• A CAPITAL SOIML~
• Tunk—“ Carry mn bask lo old VirgjaK?*
,1 Young Michigan, and o'd Kentiw*,
Sent out two heroes.
. Whose valor and whose honest worth,
f> VViti naiwc - hi night nor sold ■,
proved themselves from youth to age, .
“I True patriots to the core,
jMMmI we’ll carry them to the old while bouae,
olii Potomac's shore ;
1 ‘ ,rr V thetn to the old whit* house,
■PPFTyo~! 3 ihoref" — •. *
Gainst British force and Indian foea
Their gallant Hhaal was shed,
They foil'jrlit where noble Harrison,
And vul iant Jackson led.
At Thames, Detroit, and New Orleans,
They linvetl the cannon’s roar.
And w • II carry tlcon to the aid white house.
By old Potomac’s shore.
They’re like their mighty tutors brave,
In congress and in held,
An I there with tearless tongues and pen,
Oft proved our country’s shield;
Cass proved our right to Oregon,
Clean up to 54;
And we’ll carry him to the old white house.
By fair Potomac’s shore.
Brave Butler made the tory wliigs,
Hand hack great Jackson’s tine,
He probed the black schemes of McLeod,
Who burnt the Caroline ;
In the sorted streets of Monterey,
He shed a hero’s gore,
And we’ll carry him to the old white house,
By old Potomac's shore.
When two such noble heroes lead
The democratic van,
Democracy lifts up her voice,
Amy cries “ heat them who can,”
Thus doubly arm’d they’re bound to win.
As they did in ‘44 ;
Weill carry them to the old white house,
By old Potomac’s shore,
. And we’ll carry them to the old white houafr,
V By fair Potomac’s shore.
J Gen.- t’ass and ths Neutral Press*
“he billowing auicle trom the New York
■ lifts is so just in all its sentiments, and so truth,
“ii witiial, that we lake pleasure in transferring
ito our columns. The Allas is a neutral pa.
|i"' : and therelore free from all partizan bias :
I Gen\*Lkwis Cass is a prominent candidal*
Ilnr the Pie>!dency. He was put in nomination
|as such, by a convention held in the city of
consented lo “run lor that of.
we lielwwe, that he it*
nr*.ic/;
iarn the ttonTltuition. As soon as it was award,
•■d, he retired from the Senate, returned to the
bosom of his family, in Detroit, and there ha
waits the decision ol his countiymen. He ha*
not invaded the right of any one, or the right*
ol any party : but lias simpry consented to bo.
come the President of the U. S. if the peopl*
shall think fit to elect him.
Prior to his acceptance of the nomination—
with the exception of the aliuse that was heap*
t‘ti Yipon him because of the position he assumed
injrelerence to the Oregon question and the
Mexican w ar—he was not assailed or abused by
any one. On the contrary, hp was a favorite
witlfalmost all parties ; so highly esteemed wae
he, tvhen lie was in the Cabinet of Gen. Jack*
son. he was regarded by the then opposi.
lion, as a minister who actually relieved the Ad*
ministration from a portion of their hatred. He
was eulogized by the opposition of those times;
and the N. \. Courier dj’ Enquirer , and sever*
•tl other influential papers, was deemed the heat
man the opposition could select as its candidate
for the Presidency.
Gen. Cass has already passed through the vis*
taos three score years and upwards ; and ner.
er, during that long period, with but a single
exception has bis good name been assailed.—
In the year 1838, soon after the defalcation of
Swartwout, and others, it was charged that he
too was a defaultei, to the amount of eight hun*
died thousand dollars. He was in France at
ihe time; and of course had no means of de
tending himself. And ere he could have made
i defeucp from the other side of the ocean, the
infamous story of his defalcation had refuted it.
sell, and left its calumnious authors to blush for
their own falsehood and infamy.
A purer, a better, nobler-minded man than
Gen. JLkwis Cass, we do uot believe ever lived.
“You may take his private history, from infancy
to manhood and from manhood to old age, and
you shall not iitid in it a spot worthy of reproach.
As lor his litness for the Presidency, no mor.
tal man can, we fancy, doubts it. His talents,
ill the world will admit, are of the highest or*
der; his experience has been fast ; his patriot,
ism is undoubted. Asa man, he is frank, gen.
erous. bold, and open-handed; as a Statesman,
he may be ranked with the ablest of the age.
Fatal Admissions.— The incapacity of the
’ederal candidate for the Presidency, has been
repeatedly admitted by himself!
His incx|M‘i ience has also been time and a.
gain admitted by himself.
Mr Webster admits that Taylor is a mere
soldier, and has had no training in civil aflairs.
Mr. Crittenden admits that Taylor never vo
led.
Mr. Greely admits that Taylor is ashamed of
whig principles.
All the Whigs admit that Taylor was first
nominated by the Nativists.
Mr. Bolts admits that Taylor is for adding
more territory to the Union.
Willis Hall and Dudley Selden admit that
Taylor was nominated by fraud !
Anti yet the people are asked to rote for this
; candidate for President.
Changed his no me. —ln the old army order*
pen. Taylor’s name appears ns >f!aeht>riah'—y
l- V.v; w i-ft'eu H j* nt‘ yais,
No. 42.