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I J - W. &W.S. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. THURSDAY .MORNING, MARCH 19, 1840. Voi,. IV^—No. 33.
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AUGUSTA.
■ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18.
The Mails.
K For the last two days wo have had no mail
North of Richmond, or West of Columbus,
|( Georgia. Where or with whom failures so fro
r quently take place, vve are 'unable to say. It is,
ho.vevcr, astonishing to us that the Northern
jukluail should ever fail at this season, now that the
Btiansporlation the whole route from New York
H to this city, is by Rail Roads and Steamboats.—
Bit is, however, true that the failures from the
g North are more frequent than from the West,
re There is certainly culpable neglect somewhere,
■ and we should suppose if the Post Master Gen
ii eral used ordinary diligence, the evil of which
E the whole country complains so much, might be
■ corrected, at least on lha great Northern and
■ Western mail route, which is certainly the most
important one in the Union. But nothing short
H of such neglect of the public interest is to be cx
k pectedof an Administration, who heed no com
fe plaints unless they are made by some loyal, rank
K and file administration man.
f ' Wo are aware that it would be unjust, very
unjust, and illiberal to visit upou the bead of the
” department the sins of all its agents, contractors
and sub-contractors. But when we have such
t frequent and repeated evidences of the non-per
| formancc of their obligations to the public, with
s out any appaicnt effort to correct the evil, wo
| must believe that there is a want of proper atton-
I tion on the part of those who control this impor
* tant branch of the government.
Gen’l Harrison.
In redeeming our pledge to present the views
of Genl. Harrsion on the subject of Abolition,
wo give place 10-day to a long article from the
Charleston Courier, in which the Editors of that
press, who are supporters of the present Admin
istration, admit that Genl. Harrison now “ stands
before the republic “ redeemed, regenerated and
disenthralled" from the diabolical genius of nor
thern abolitionism. We proclaim it, us we pro
mised, and sound it trumpet-tongued, that echo
may take it up, and send if, from hilltop to hill
top, with loud and joyous peals, in triumph
through the land."
We cannot take leave of the subject withou 1
inviting the attention of the Van Buren press in
Georgia to the article from the Charleston Cou
rier. It will, we hope, give them some new
lights on the subject of General Harrison s opin
ions on abolition, and will probably enable them,
with some eflhrt no doubt, to exhibit a more strict
regard for truth.
In the first article which we introduced to our
readers, on this subject, wo expressed the opin
ion that Gen. H. was unstained with the doc
trines of Abolition. We think, wc have establish
ed conclusively to the satisfaction of all unpre
judiced minds, the truth of our assertion, with
which wc shall, for the present at any rate, close
the articles on that subject.
Should it be necessary, however, in our opinion l
to open again our columns, to vindicate him from
the slanders of a press that stop at nothing which
stands in the way of their parly success, wc shall
most chcrfuhy do so.
Prof. Davis’ Lectures.
We arc requested to slate that the inclemency
of the weather on Monday, prevented the com
mencement of the course on the evening specified.
It will be opened this evening at 8 o’clock, at the
Medical College, by an Introductory, to which
the public are respectfully invited.
The Silk Culture.
The National Silk Society hasoffered numerous
bounties, varying from slootoslooo each, for
the best specimens of raw silk, to bo produced
during the coming minmer. The whole amount
of the bounties is $16,000.
The merchants of Havre, are raising a sub
scription to build aline of Ocean Steamers, to
run between Havre and New York. The
French Government subscribes a large amount
of their stock.
Naval.— The U. S. Gazette savs : Wc under
stand that Capt. M. G. Perry has been appoint
ed to the command of the steam frigate building
at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, and has in charge
the superintendence of her equipment, &c.
The experimental gun practice commenced
last season by Captain Perry, will be continued
during the present year. The steamer Fulton,
under the command of Captain John T. Newton,
will still be, engaged on that service, together
with several commanders and lieutenants, in ad
dition to those of last year, the whole to be under
the direction of Captain Perry.
No time to ekao papeiis.—All men find
time for every thing that is really a gratification
to them ; and hence the complaint of no time is,
in fact, no taste for newspapers. Every man has
time to read a paper during a rainy day, or a
long evening, or sometimes when waiting for his
meals. If he is not a slave, he certainly can find
time to improve his mind. The most industrious
people always find time to read, and it is the
idle and lazy only who have no time.— Raleigh
Register.
SONG,
Air —“ The Light Guitar.”
Oh ! leave that dull and prosy book,
Here’s Wine that’s sparkling bright,
At these “ Regalias” turn one look,
And ring Tom. for a “ light!”
Then as we sip the social glass,
Os “ Sillery,” ‘ Vic," or “ Star’' —
Quick, with the Wine, rich jests will pass,
And smoke the light Cigar !
I’ll tell thee how a maiden slept
Who quaff'd this nectar plain,
I’ll tell tnee how she woke and wept—
And quaff’d and slept again ;
And how her gentle “Ma” cried “/ye”!”
How darkly frown’d her Pa!
But here’s the “ stuff’!" lot’s both get high,
And smoke a light Cigar !
Then, as the circling wreathes ascend,
The Wine’s bright bubbles rise,
The song and joke in mirth we’ll blend
With humor’s sparkling dyes !
We’ll drink — “The Queen”— in foaming 17c —
Swear “ Vic” shall he our ‘•Star" —
“ Down” to tie logues who live on tick,
And smoke the light Cigar !
The Disputeo Tkeuitoet in Maine.—
The Augusta Ago states, on the authority of
a report lately made to the Governor of Maine,
by Benjamin Wiggin, Esq., who has visited that
territory for the purpose of obtaining information,
under instructions from the Governor, dated Feb
ruary 0, that a house has been built and filled
up for barracks, on the South side of the river St.
John, 22 miles below the mouth of Fish river,
and nearly opposite to the Madawaska river.
This house is 60 feet long, 30 wide and two sto
ries high. It is built of hewn timber, and is fit
ted with bunks sufficient to accommodate 100.
It is now under the charge of one man. Along
the Madawaska river a tow path has been con
structed on each side of the river, a distance of
26 miles. At the head of this tow path, about
two and a half miles below the foot of Temiscouta
Lake, barracks were creeled last season, 80 feet
long and 30 feet wide, with two small out build
ings. Here is stationed a guard, consisting of a
corporal and five privates of the 11th regi
ment.
On the Western shore of Temiscouta Lake,
fifteen miles from Ihe lower end of the lake, eight
buildings are erected, consisting of barracks foi
soldiers, quarters for officers, a hospital, magazine,
store house and commissary’s house, the whole
surrounded on three sides by ditches, breastworks
and stockades, —the works on the fourth side be
ing unfinished. These works were commenced
last Spring. The present force there consists of
175 men, exclusive of their officers and servants.
—The officers are Major Chambri, commanding,
one captain, two lieutenants, and one ensign.
The British have also built on the lake the last
season, a number of fiat bottomed boats, suited
for the transportation of ordnance, and a number
of keel boats, capable of carrying fifty men. A
road has been laid out between this post and that
below the foot of thelake, a distance of 16 miles,
and put under contract, and about 10 miles, ore
finished. The road from the lake of the river de
Loup, on the St. Lawrence, a distance of 34
miles, has been repaired the last season.—Bos
ton Patriot.
Tuscaloosa, (Ala.) March 9th.
Fatal Occurrence. —A difficulty between
Washington Moody, Esq., and Maj. John Cani
ty, bo'll of this city, led to ajrnost tragical issue on
Thursday last, sth instant. It is said, that Major
Cantly had threatened the life of Mr. Moody, and
was near the door of the latter, when Mr. M. pre
sented a double-barre led gun and lodged the con
tents of one barrel in the stomach of his adversa
ry ; and as Maj. C. turned to make his escape,
the other barrel was discharged, which took effect
in the back of his head, when he instantly fell to
the ground.
Mr. Moody delivered himself up to the civil au
thorities, and without a prosecution or warrant
against 1 im, entered into a recognizance before
Judge Williams and A. B. Meek, Esq., in the
sumoffour thousand dollars for his appearance at
the next Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County.
Maj. Cantly died of his wounds in ten or
twelve hours after receiving them. As the (acts
will soon undergo judicial investigation, it is pro
per that public opinion should remain unbiased,
that the accused may, as he no doubt will, have
a fair and impartial hearing. We shall, therefore,
not enlarge on this melancholy affair.
The funeral services were performed on Fri
day afternoon in the Episcopal Church, by the
Rev. Mr. Knapp, attended by the Masonic Frater
nity ; after which the deceased was buried with
the usual solemnities of that ancient Order.
Owing to his misfortunes in business, Major
Cantly left his family consisting of a wife and
" seven children, in a very destitute situation. Pub
lic sympathy is much enlisted in their behalf, and
wc have every reason to hope, that all necessary
kindness will be extended to them in their heavy
affliction.
Wilmington and Weldon Rail Road
open. — Wc mentioned last Thursday (says the
Wilmington Advertiser, of the 12th inst ) that
the cars upon this road would run over the en
tire line on Monday the 9lh inst. The road in
fact was completed on Saturday morning, but as
some preparations bad been made to celebrate
the event on Monday, it was determined not to
run the first engine from one terminus to the
other, until that day. Accordingly on Monday,
at noon, the first car ever propelled upon 161
miles of continuous railroad arrived at Wilming
ton. N. C., from Weldon on the Roanoke.
This proud day in the annals of our State, was
signalized by thundering demonstrations of joy.
The great cannon did tell it to the clouds in peals
of earthly thunder.
One hundred and sixty one guns were fired
being one for every mile of road completed. The
guns were managed with such skill, that we have
no accident to record. In the afternoon a general
i nvitalion was given to go up to the depot and
'witness a mixing of the waters of the Roanoke,
Txr, and Ncuse, which had been brought down
for the purpose, with those of the Gape Fear.
The union was cemented with the best “ Old
Nash” —to the most perfect satisfaction of all
the bystandeis, who bailed it as a consummation,
or rather os a combination, highly honorable to
themselves. At night the town was illuminated,
and the houses of Mcssrs.Gwx.vN, M’Rae, Cow
an, and Owen were the thcatresof revelry and
mirth until a late hour of tlie night.
Samuel Arams’ Coneined Riplk and Shot
Gun. —We have had presented to our notice the
above named ingeniously contrived improvement
in firearms. It possesses the grand requisite of
all useful improvements in such things—perfect
simplicity.
The piece when used as a rifle, resembles ordi
nary arms of that description, and may be load
ed as usual, or at the breech by a metallic car.
(ridge. A small piece is unscrewed at the muz.
zlc which loosens the inner or rifle barrel. This
is kept in its place by means of an enlargement
at the breech in that portion of the barrel in
which the metallic cartridge is fitted. The space
thus loft when the inner barrel is removed, leaves
room for a larger metallic cartridge for the shot
gun, which may likewise bo loaded in both ways.
The rifle sight turns on a pivot, ami may bo
put out of the way when the smooth bore is used.
The perfect adaption of all the parts, renders the
united barrels quite ns firm ns if in one entire
piece—and as a rifle it is not heavier—or as a
shot gun, lighter than common arms of those
kinds.
Wc consider it ns completely supplying the
place of two distinct pieces, and combining econ
omy ol space and money. For travellers such a
gun would prove invaluable—while the hunter is
thus enabled to command game of all descrip
tions by a single gun. The change may be made
in half n minute, from a rillc to a fowling piece.
—Rail Road Journal,
Correspondence nf the Journal of Commerce.
Montevideo, Dec. 26,1839.
Wo continue without any alteration in the
stale of the country politically, except the arrival
of Admiral Dupotkt, with one frigate, one cor
vo'te, and six small brigs of war, fitted as bomb
vessels. This makes the French force in the river
La Plata near thirty square-rigged vessels. It is
understood the now Admiral will not take any
other steps than those of Admiral Le Blanc,
and the bomb-vessels are employed cruising in
shoal water, which their light draught adapts
them for. There will not be any thing like the
bombardment of Buenos Ayres, as the French are
aware they could not take possession of the town,
and the property of foreigners only would suffer
to any amount; so that here we arc, and no more
prospect of the removal nf the blockade than there
was a year ago. The port is full of vessels, some
of them have been here a year, all waiting fur
some movement, which has been hoped for “in
a month nr two” for a year past.
The last news from the army of General La
valle was rather unfavorable, ho having had
several small parties defeated, and some desertions.
In this province there has been no movement of
note—both armies remain within a day's ride of
the city, and within sight of each other.
Habeas Corpus Case.— On Saturday morn
ing the Recorder'gave his final decision in the
case of Ottaway, claimed as a fugitive slave, by
Mr. Hatcher, of Chesterfield county, Virginia.
In giving his decision the Recorder stated that
the constitution and the laws of the United Stales
authorized the return to a slave holding stale, of
a slave who escaped therefrom, but did not au
thorize his return to that state, when brought
therefrom by his master into a non-slave holding
state. But inasmuch as the slave Ottaway had
been brought by his master Lorn Virginia, to
Pennsylvania, from whence he escaped to this
stale, and as the laws of Pennsylvania authorised
a master coming into that slate with his slave, to
hold the said slave to labor and service for six
months in that stale, it was right and proper and
in conformity with the laws of ihc United States
of Pennsylvania and this state, to authorize Ihc
said master to take his slave with him back to
Pennsylvania, whence he escaped—and to give a
certificate accordingly. The Recorder therefore
gave a certificate to Mr. Hatcher to take his slave
Ottaway back to the state of Pennsylvania whence
he escaped, and he will be taken accordingly.—
Express.
Webster—Clny—Calhoun.
The January number of the American Bibli
cal Repository contains an interesting article on
Ancient and Modern Eloquence, by N. Cleve
land, Esq. Newbury, Mass. After describing
the Eloquence and peculiar powers of Demos
thenes and Cicero—of the elder and younger
Pitt—and of jßurko, Fox and Canning,—the
writer closes with the following graphic sketch :
“But it is time to ask, whose arc the great
names of American eloquence Whom will pos
erity regard as the Demosthenes or Burke o!
our age and Republic ] Surely if facilitcs and
opportunites for public speaking, with daily and
nightly practice conjoined, arc sufficient to make
great orators, our country must be the most pro
lific region under the sun.
Aside from the pulpit and the bar, we have
neither record nor tradition of American elo
quence, anterior to the disputes with the mother
country. These furnished the exciting theme—
and popular assemblies the most ample scope
for the first o.ators of freedom. This was the
era of Quincy, War-en, Otis, Henry, and the
Adamses. Os the effect produced by their im
passioned harangues, we have abundant evidence
—but the harangues themselves are, for the most
part, lost forever. Wc know not that this is to
be regretted. Their unpolished though vigorous
eloquence was adapted to the times, and accom
plished its objects—hut had it been faithfully
preserved, it might have offended our more fas
tidious cars. The vital interests involved—the
magnitude of the danger—the intense feeling of
an excited community, produced a sympathy
with the orator which could not fully realize, thus
in the estimation of his hearers, redeeming his
vehemence from the charge of extravagance.
But now the medium through which wo behold
them is misty and dim. Time and distance have
surrounded them with a blaze of glory. We
wish in this case no clearer vision, for what the
eye cannot discover, fancy will supply.
With the adoption ol the Federal Constitution
and the organization of the government; the
parliamcn'ary eloquence of our country may be
said to have commenced. Systematized opposi
tion and combined party action then first applied
the stim ilus to debate,—a stimulus which seems
to lose none of its irritating properties by the
lapse of time. Were we called upon to select
from the great ami good, who figured at that
time in our national councils, the two bightest
names on the rolls of eloquence, those names
would be Alexander Hamilton and Fisher Ames.
Our opinion of Hamilton’s eloquence must rest
mainly on the testimony of those who heard him.
His speeches that have come to us, do not cor
respond with our impressions of his remarka
ble powers. Great and eloquent beyond most, if
not all men of his day, he certainly was, if we
may believe the concurrent statements of friends
and foes. ,
Os the powers nf Mr. Ames, we have more sat
isfactory memorials. His eloquence is generally
flowing and delightful,—rising at times to pas
sagesol great power and pathos,— and conveyed
always in a direction remarkably correct, terse
and beautiful. Like Buikc, he is distinguished
by philosophic and comprehensive views. Such
is the skill with which lie draws from human na
ture, and Lorn history, his lessons of political
wisdom, that his orations and writings are as in
structive as they are pleasing.—Hence he is one
of the few writers, whom wc read with interest
long after the occasions and the excitements,
which called them forth, hi ve forever passed
awav.
Wc will not, by a bare enumeration, (and
time would allow no more,) do injustice to the
many respectable, and the few brilliant orators,
whose names apj ear in our Legislative and Con
gressional annals. Let us then at once ask.
Which is our trio of great names 1 Who are
the men who have bent allowed to seize and de
cide the triumval honors of American Eloquence?
Whom would the candid, united sense of ibis
wide empire, selcrlasils ablest men, from among
those, who for the last quarter of a century have
swayed its councils 1 “Os the three huncred
‘name’ hut three.’ For whom, on entering for
the first time the Senate chamber of the nation,
docs the stranger, whether native or foreign, soon
est inquire! Inquire! Nay, the pen and the
pencil, and wide-mouthed Fame, have made the
inquiry needless. How soon his eye recognizes
the features; how soon his whisper breathes the
illustrious names of Webster, Clay, Calhoun !
In. contemplating the qualities of these extra
ordinary individuals, we are again struck with
the fact, that men may ho eminently great, and
yet eminently dissimilar.
Mr. Calhoun is the acknowledged chief of
metaphysical orators. His mind is uncommonly
acute, with a rare faculty of seeing or making dis
tinctions. His reasoning is equally subtle and
plausible. He loves to revel and soar ill the airy
regions of abstraction. He is the great Des
Cartes of the Political Academy. His theory is
always curious—often beautiful —sometimes sub
lime; but it is a theory of “vortices.” The course
of his political fortunes may have affected uncon
sciously the hues of his mind, for his views arc .
often sombre, and his anticipations of the future
ominous and foreboding.
One remains. In ail the qualities of the ora
tor and statesman, fitted to confer present power
and lasting fame, Mr. Webster’s pre-emineneo
will he denied by few. In him wc behold a mind
ofgreat native vigor; early roused to energv by
the very necessities of his early origin;—discipli
ned to habits of severe thought by the laborious
study of law; —trained in all the arts ol intellec
tual warfare on the hard arena of forensic strife;
and finally expanded to its present mighty range
ol eloquence, philosophy, and statesmanship, on
the broad and stirring theatre of the, public coun
cils. Those who have heard Mr. Webster, are
well aware that he owes a portion of his power to
personal advantages. The lofty brow, the dark
and cavernous eye, and the heavy, deep-toned
voice, might alone enchant a gazing auditory.
These impart to his calmer and ordinary dis
course, a serious earnestness, and a Senatorial
dignity; but in moments of high excitement, bv
no means of frequent occurrence, they seem like
the blackness, and fire rolling peals of the o’er
charged and bursting cloud.
Not so with Mr. Clay. He loves to move on
the surface i»f our earth, and amid the throng of
his fellow men:—or if at any time disposed t)
climb, ’tis only to some sunny hill-top; that he
may get the wide view of the busy, happy scene
below. He is the orator of popular principles
and common sense. His views are expansive,
rather than deep—his grasp of subject not so
strong as it is broad. He needs no interpreter to
make more clear his meaning, nor any other in
dex to the kindness of his character, than his
homely, hut open and expressive face. As a
speaker, his style is Ciceronian; graceful and
winning, rather than impetuous. Witty, and
prompt at repartee,he is more skilful and icady
in the skirmish of debate, than either of his great
competitors.
His style is remarkable for its simplicity. To
utter thoughts of the highest order, in language
perfectly simple; by lucid arrangement and apt
words, to make abstract reasoning and the most
recondite principles of commerce, law, and polities
plain to the humblest capacity, is a privilege and
power, in which Mr. Webster is equalled, proba
bly, by no living man. This simplicity, which
is apt to be thought so easy of attainment, is nev
ertheless, in this, as in most cases, undoubtedly
the result of uncommon care. Like the great
Athenian orator, Mr. Webster is always full of
his subject. Like him, when most simple in his
diction, ho is yet admirably select. Like him 100
he can adorn when ornament is appropriate, and
kindle, when occasion calls, into the most touch
ing pathos, or loftiest sublime.
As a public man, Mr. Webster is eminently
American. His speeches breathe the purest spi
rit of u broad and generous patriotism. The in
stitutions nf learning and liberty, which nurtured
and cherished him—is his manly privilege to de
fend, if not to save.
In no emergency, on no occasion, where he
has yet been tried, have the high expectations
formed of his abilities, been doomed to disap
pointment. The time-honored rock of the Pil
grims; Bunker’s glorious mound; and old Faneuil
Hall, have been rendered even morn illustrious
by his eloquent voice. Armed at all points, and
ready alike for attack and defence, he has been
found equally great, whether wrestling with the
champions of the Law, before its most august tri
bunal, or contending on the broader field, and in
the hotter conflicts of Congressional warfare. Wc
cannot say that it is matter of regret to us that he
is no longer a candidate for office, though that
office bo deemed the highest. The Senate,—
the Senate is undoubtedly his true sphere of be
neficence and glory. There may he long ho
found, foremost amid Ihc mighty names, which
arc at once our crown of pride, and tower of
strength.
From the Charleston Courier.
The candor, which you have shewn, in regard
tn the charge, attempted to be fixed upon Gen.
Harrison, of favoring the movements of the Abo
litionists, induces me to suppose you will do him
the ju»' ice, to insert the following extract of a let
ter of his to a friend, accompanied by sumo evi
dence from a newspaper of the day.
I am one of those who thought with you, (hat
it was important he should hold a plain and deci
ded language on that subject. Not that I think
the South ought to count in the smallest degree,
upon the professions of any man, in regard to that
matter. She must defend herself; she must rely
upon herself; she must lean on no foreign aid |
whatever, and above all, she must rejoctand spurn i
the idea of patronage and protection. With the I
principle of instructions, universally received and
acted upon, nothing is more empty than a proles- I
sion of the kind, on the part of most public men.
It holds good, just so long as it is not required to i
be put iu practice, and not a moment longer. So
long as public opinion at the North is against the
wicked movements of the Abolitionists, nothing is
safer there, than to declare war upon them, but
should they get the upper hand, and instruct their
Senators and Representatives, you will sec them
do, on that subject, what they did on the Tariff
in 1828—vote most reluctantly, no doubt but
still vote, against their professed principles, and
their Southern friends. The yeas and nays, at
such a moment are the only test to be relied on.
Gen. Harrison, in voting for the admission of
Missouri, in the face of the opinion of his own
constituents, and forfeiting his place in Congress
rather than violate the Constitution, and shake
the foundations of the Union, gave the strongest, I
because a practical pledge, of what he would do
in future. He shewed himself, at uucc, a brave i
man, and a good citizen. ,
But, although I think, so far ns our ponce and
interests arc concerned, neither his declaration,
nor Mr. Van Buren’s, on this subject, are likely
to prove of much practical utility, yet I agree that
a public man, aspiring to the Presidency of this
I great country, ought to speak out, on a subject so
i fundamental, and so important to its future peace,
i It is an issue no one ought to shrink from meet
ing, on whom any share of public responsibility
is cast, least of al , he that asks to be trusted with
the chicfExecutivo authority of the land.
(■on. Harrison’s declarations have been suffi
ciently explicit to repel the idea, that ho has any
objections to make them, at a moment when they
may bo turned against him by an equally skilful
and unscrupulous foe. He stands as fully com
mitted as his competitor; and whether his prom
ise is not at least as much to bo relied on, he puts
himself upon the country to decide, on the evi
dence of their past coduct—the Missouri restric
tion, and the Tariff of '2B.
But I am far exceeding what I had in view,
whon I sat down to write these remarks—l will
conclude by copying from a late letter from Gen.
Harrison, to a member of Congress from this
Slate, the following passage. You will sec that
it has par.icular reference to you.
“1 saw some time since an article from the
Charleston Courier, stating that my Vincennes'
speech conta ned all that the South had a right
to expect on the abolition question. In a subse
quent article, however, the Editor says that I had
concealed my sentiments, on the subject, after I
had been brought out as a candidate for the Presi
dency. In this the Editor greatly errs. The
speech was delivered at Vincennes, in June 1835.
At that time my name was upon every anti-ad
ministration paper in Indiana, as the opposition
candi late, and upon most of those in Ohio, and I
had been nominated, in a very considerable num
ber of public meetings, many months before. My
first nomination at Harrisburg, Pu. look plarc in
the fall of 1833. I enclose you an Albany pa
per of Feb. 7, 1835, to shew how extensively I
was then regarded as a candidate for the Presiden
cy-” A SunscßiuGit.
Gun. Harrison. —Wo cheerfully give place
to the remarks of our correspondent, “ A Sub
scriber”; and he would have been just as wel
come with any other title or any other name.—
It has been rendered manifest, we trust, by our
course, hitherto, that wo are not among (hose
who, merely because we favor another candidate
for the Presidency, would vilify Gen. Harrison,
misrepresent his views, or rob him of the laurels
lie earned so well, by his skill and prowess in
the wars of our republic, both against the ruth
less savage and the haughty Briton, or the civic
wreath to which ho has so well entitled himself
by his eminent services in the civil lino. We de
clare, in all sincerity of heart, that it affords us
pleasure to do justice to Gen. H., or to any other
distinguished man to whom we may he political
ly opposed. It is with gratified, and not with
reluctant feeling, therefore, that we open our col
umns to the vindication of that tried and veteran
pal riot against any charge affecting his fame, and
especially against the foul charge of abolitionism,
of which ever since our knowledge of his Vin
cennes’speech, we have believed nim, and still
believe him, to he ns innocent as wc arc. J\'o
one is more ready than wc, to extol the conduct
of Gen. 11., in Congress, on the Missouri ques
tion, when his sense of duty to the Constilulion,
the Union and the South, induced him boldly and
fearlessly to oppose the infamous Missouri re
striction, against the sentiments of his constitu
ents of the Cincinnati (Ohio) District, and at
the hazard of political martyrdom, which was, in
fact, subsequently indicted upon Him for his
course on that memorable occasion and perilous
crisis. So, too, although wc cannot hut con
demn, and still do condemn the doctrines and
spirit of on oft cited extract, from his Cheviot
speech of 1833, in which he expressed himself
in favor of appropriating the whole surplus na
tional revenue, with the assent nf the slave-hold
in/' Slates, to the united purposes of emancipa
tion and colonization in inseparable connexion,
and broached the dangerous heresy that such a
measure, if assented to by the slave-holding
States, would he within the constitutional com
petency of Congres--, without an amendment of
the Constitution—which is equivalent to giving
Congress constitutional and therefore full power
over the abolition of slavery—the qualification
proposed by him being one, not of right, hut of
expediency merely; yet we have always admit
ted and proclaimed that the extract in question,
was an isolated one—found in the midst of an
address, replete with sound doctrine on the ques
tion of Slavery, and its constitutional inviolabili
ty in the several States, save by their own volun
tary action; and when wc read his Vicennes
speech, of 1833, reiterating those sound doctrines,
lashing the abolitionists with merited severity,
for their fanaticism, folly, and infidelity to their
constitutional duly, and taking the high ground
that the discussion of the abolition of slavery,
in a non-slaveholding Sta.e, was an abuse and
violation of the constitutional privileges of speech
and the press—we at once admitted and announ
ced, that the anomalous passage in the Cheviot
speech, the particle of chaff in the bushel of
wheat, was amply atoned for—and that it would
thenceforth be unfair and unjust to attempt to
identify Gen. Harrison, with abolition, or the
abolitionists, especially as those vile wretches hud
then vilified and repudiated him, through the
Emancipator, their leading organ, and the anti
slavery Almanar, one of their insidious publica
tions, to abuse and excite the public mind of the
North, against the rights, institutions and inter
ests of the -South. With unfeigned delight then,
not liecausc we have at all abated our political
opposition to Gen. 11. for the Presidency, hut
because wc love to do justice, and we take sin
cere pleasure in arraying the distinguished men
of the Union in favor of the conslitutianal rights
of our own loved and cherished South, do we
this day, in the communication of our corres
pondent, give place to an extract of a letter from
I Gen. Harrison, dated a few days since, and ad
i dressed to a distinguished member of Congress
j from this Slate, (and which wo know to be gen
uine) record his full and unqualified indorsement
jof his Vincennes’ Speech. We said, a short
; lime ago, in one of our editorial articles, that hut
a line was needed, from Gen. 11., to clear his
; skirts, so utterly and thoroughly from abolition
ism, as to disarm even his bitterest foes of that
weapon against him, and to render them asham
ed to wield it any longer. That line has been
/riven ; and Gen. Harrison stands before the re
! public “redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled”
from the diabolical genius of northern abolition
ism. Wo proclaim it, as we promised, and
sound it trumpet-tongued, that echo may take it
J up, and send it, from hill lop to hill top, with
l loud and joyous peals, in triumph through the
land. Wc, at least, rejoice to he assured that
whether our own favorite candidate, Mr. Van
Huron, or his opponent, Gen. Harrison shall
succeed, overwhelming discomfiture and defeat—
j that isolation of them for the scorn and indigna
tion of the republic which the gallant and gencr
i ous Henry Clay declared should lie their merited
| doom—awaits them ; and the rights of the South
4 —■ - - ■■■- ■ " ■
will stand uninjured, unimpaired and in panolpy
of safety, under the sacred banner of thooonstitu
tion. We oppose Gen. H., therefore, not as an ah
o.itionist, but ns a tariff and internal improvement
man, and one whoso views of the constitution,
generally, are too lalitudinarian for our creed of
“ Union and State Rights,” and especially and de
cisively because he is in opposition to an incum
bent, who boldly and generously came to the aid
and rescue of the South, at a moment when her
rights or the Union were imperilled by the fran
tic efforts ol criminal fanaticism, and because no
bly planting himself on the constitution, he free
ly and unequivocally, staked his political fortune
on the maintenance of the institutions of the
South, in their whole constitutional integrity.
Hero the Courier assigns the reasons which
influence it in preferring Mr. Van Huron to Gen.
Harrison for the Presidency, and defends itself
against the impression of Gen. H. that he wa*
charged hy it with seeking concealment, both of
which wo exclude us not necessary to our pur
pose, and then concludes in the following manly
strain:
Wc repeat, however, that Gen. Harrison now
stands rectus in curia with the South—he has
nobly scorned all concealment and thrown off all
reserve, and, occupying a position, hy the side of
Mr. Van Huren, on the platform of the Constitu
tion, he is justly and honorably entitled, so far us
the slave question is concerned, to compete, on
equal ground with Mr. Van Duren, for the votes
and favor of the South. Let either be elected,
ami the Constitution is safe, the South is safe,
and the Union, —the Mood bought Union—the
temple of Liberty—is safe and sanctified.
Sinolk Women —Chambers’ Journal says it
is among the most vulgar of errors to consider
women useless because they are single. Only
look round your acquaintance—who is the one
universally useful, the one applied to in every
lime of difficulty uud trial? The single sister of
the family.
Carter, at the last dates, whs making a clear
profit of {ISOO per week in Paris. Van Am
burgh hud experienced another misfortune.—At
Rouen, a lion bit him in the wrist, and has ren
dered him incapable. The lion he took out origi
nally, died ; and was sent over. It was this that
bit him. This s the second serious accident
which has befalleu him.
LxniJi Caiioo.—The ship John Dolton, Capt.
Toulon, cleared at New Orlerns on thn 6th Inst,
for Liverpool, has on board 2013 bales, or 1,276,-
408 pounds of Colton. This is said to bo the
largest cargo ever shipped in one vessel from that
port.
A Liverpool letter writer says:—“You can have
no idea of ihe ferment of “loyalty” which has
agitated England. Ireland and Scotland, on the
recent “happy occasion.” From London, the
modern Babylon, to the pettiest village, Monday,
the 10th of February, was kept as a general
holiday. For the British people arc exceedingly
“loyal”— to the latest occupant of the throne."
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Savannah, March 15,
Cleared. —Ship Hamilton, Kilham, Liverpool;
Ship Argo, Purely, Liverpool j Ur. ship New York
Packet, Downing, Liverpool; Br. ship Ben Nevis,
Burns, Liverpool.
Arrived. —Brig New England, Colley, New
York ; Brig Augusta, Sherwood ; Steamboat Chat
ham, Wray, Augusta; Steamboat Hamburg, Wood.
Augusta.
Charleston, March 17.
Arrived. —Ship Duchess d’Orlcans, New York ;
Srhr. Mary, M’Curdy, Maracaibo; Sthr. America,
Somers, Itirlunoml.
Cleared —Brig Tybce, Herhcst, Havre ; Brig
Delaware, Boss, Havana; Schr. Virginia, Antoin
ette, Place, Havanna.
Went to sea —U. L. brig Moses, Loveland New
York.
At Quarantine. —Ship Adrian ; and barque Po
tomac, (Jorham, from Boston, and Schr. Emma,from
Philadelphia.
CLOCKS, WATCHES, & JEWELRY.
No. 242 Broad street, near the United States Hotel,
Psa The subscriber having
bought out Mr. John B.
m fScOmAk Murphy, now offers, at the
old stand, a rich and fash
t ionable assortment of GOLD
// •THxk la and SILVER PATENT
I \ / "W LEVERS, DUPLEX, V
/V, V EPINE and VERTICAL
iWiAJL tVAT CUES, of the most
approved manufacturers; —
also, tine MANTEL CLOCKS. A gcncial assort
ment of JEWELRY and SILVER WARE, with
a vaiicly ol other articles, which he will sell on
reasonable terms, and respectfully solicits a share
of public patronage. G. C. GORDON,
ffj-Clocks, Watches, and Jewelry repaired,
feb 1 _ w2m
From an acquaintance of six years with Mr. G
C, Gordon. 1 cheerfully recommend him to my old
customers, as uemg wortny of their confidence and
patronage, and respectfully solicit lor him a share
of the same. JOHN B. MURPHY.
BALLOON ASCENSION.
rpHE undersigned announces to the citizens of
J_ Augusta and the adjacent country, that his
third and, from the United States, (for the present,
at least,) his last “Balloon Ascension” will be
made in a silken Balloon of mammoth dimensions,
on Friday, March 27th. For the production of
hydrogen gas for the inflation of the Balloon, an
extraordinary chemical apparatus will be cmp.oy
rd ; and as ail the operations will be conducted in
the spacious warehouse of General Dawson, through
whose politeness the use of the warehouse has
been tendered lor the ascension, it is needless to
add (when the expense of such exhibitions is con
sidered,) that those who visit Augusta to witness
his voyage, will be expected to purchase admission
tickets. Those will be sold, both on the day and
previously, in the city, at ; Children admitted
at half price. N afire will be introduced, nor smok
ing permitted within the warehouse. For other
particulars see large kills. S. HOBART,
march 3—w3t
MULBERRY AND SILK CtLTURE.
WARD CHENEY & BROTHERS.
MASON SHAW, have now grow •
tOtf} ing, in the most flourishing condition, i i
Augusta, Georgia, adjoining the Ham|>-
<“3196*. (on Race Course, about 80,000 Morns
M ulticautis Trees, which they offer for sale in lots
to suit purchasers. For further information enqui
ry may be made of Messrs. Cheneys, at tbeircocoon
cry in Burlington, New Jersey, or of Mason Shaw,
at the Eagle and Phoenix Hotel in Augusta.
Having bad several years experience in cultiva
ting the morus multicaulis from buds,cuttings,
they will furnish each purchaser with printed in
structions of the best and most approved manner of
planting and cultivating the trees, the kind of soil
most suitable for growing the same ; and also for
roaring the silk worms and reeling the silk. They
will also have for sale, Silk Worm Eggs of the
most esteemed varieties, from moths selected willi
great care for their health, strength and perfection
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