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CHROiMCLfc AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 11.
Huzza lor Cherokee.
Yesterday’s mail brought us Thirty subscribers
to the Reformer from Cheroke county,—this is a
fine beginning for that spirited youngtounty.
llaitimore Convention.
From tho Correspondence of the National In.
telligencer, we obtain an account of the final pro
ceedings of this vast assemblage of patriotic whigs.
On Tuesday but little was done save the speech,
os from various distinguished gentlemen from dif
ferent Slates. Among others who wore called upon
on the occasion was our talented and zealous dele
gate Dr. P. M. Robertson, a notice of whose ef
fort we subjoin in the complimentary terras, in
which it’has been noticed by the Baltimore Amer
ican.
Mr. Robertson of Georgia, a true Southron,
spoke eloquently of Georgia. His address was
brief, and one of the best made in the Conven
tion. Georgia, he said, was awake to tho impor
tance of the coining contest, and the fires kindled
within her were of her own irresistible and spon
taneous firing.
The Log Cabin,
Is the title of a new paper, which made its ap
pearance in this city on Saturday. As its name
indicates, it will support Harrison and Tyler j its
appearan quite neat, and though sm I, will no
doubt render good service in the cause of Reform.
It is published tri-weekly by Messrs. Brown &
McCaffcrty, at five dollars per annum.
Delegates to the Convention.
Chatham.—Berrien, Law, Paddleford, Hunter,
an Fleming.
Glynn.—Nicho'an, Davis, and A. L. King,
liurke.—Berrien, Bennet, Lawson, Byne.
We understand that meetings have been held in
(Verson and Greene, but have not learned the
n.i.nes of the delegates.
At the meeting of the Convention of the Pro
estant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Geor
gia, held at Clarksville, on the 4th inst., the Rev.
Stephen Eliott, Jr., Professor of Sacred Literature
and the Evidences of Christianity in the College
at Columbia, S. C., was unanimously elected
Bishop of the Diocese.
Loco Foco Convention.
The Baltimore Patriot of Tuesday says :
The Loco Foco Convention which has been hol
ding a session in this city, yesterday and to-day,
we learn, have come to the decision to make no
nomination for Vice President, thus, in effect
throwing Col. Johnson, overboard—and have
adopted an address, which, for malignant misrep
resentation, is without a parallel in the political
contests of the country. Wc only allude to these
things because they may have some interest from
some of our readers, but the time has passed
when a Convention of Loco Focos, whether
Slate or National, can say anything which could
in the slightest degree, control the public voice,
or stop the current of public opinion, except to
bring down upon themselves additional censure.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
Baltimore, Tuesday, 3 P. M.
The enthusiasm continues. The members of
,‘hc People’s Convention are still here; ami, in
stead of seeming tired or fatigued, new life and
new impulses animate the great and patriotic as
semblage at every hour. The front of the Court
house, in Monument Square, was decorated with
the banners of the different delegations to-day;
and there the Convention met and passed several
resolutions. The whole area of Monument Square,
since 5 o’clock last owning, and from daylight this
morning until the present moment, has been filled
with ten thousand ardent and anxious patriots, lis
tening with attention to the hundreds of electrify
ing speeches which have been made by all the dis
tinguished men in Congress, and by many of tbe
most talented young men ia tbe country -, and it
still goes on.
Many speeches were made during last evening,
in various parts of the city, where the delegates
had assembled. Mr. Webster addressed the East
ern delegations from near the Exchange last night,
and was followed by Mr. Cushing and Mr W.
Cost Johnson. In Monument Square the speaking
continued until a late hour. Mr. Clay, Mr. Graves,
Mr. Prolfit, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Crittenden, and
many others spoke last night.
The Whig members of Congress had decided to
take no part in the discussio.i —to leave ti e speak
ing to the Young .Men us the Convention; hut the
most of these, coming from so many quarters of
the Union, were anxious to hear the great men of
the day, and they were forced out.
Mr. Proffit made a capital speech to-day.
Mr. Legare, of South Carolina, arrived last eve
ning; he addressed the meeting this morning.
While one speaker was addressing a crowd of
some five thousand from the Court-house, another
speaker was haranguing to a like number from
another part of the Square. Every window around
and near was blazing with the beauty of Baltimore;
and the shoutings and loud huzzas of tbe enthusi
astic multitude went up at intervals to the great
Heaven above. There was a moral grandeur in the
- scene, which is almost inconceivable but to an eye
* Witness.
The Convention will attend the funeral, at four
» o’clock, of one of the Marshals who was killed
. yesterday.
, There is a quorum of the House of Representa
tives here, and both sides of the House have come
on to see their respective friends.
A genuine Arabian ship, the Sultanee, from
Muscat, arrived at New York on Friday. She
bas a crew of fifty nine Arabs. The collector
and district attorney had their hands full in en
deavoring to make out her papers, not being ve
ty conversant with Arabic.
The People are Moving.
It is a source of unmingled pleasure to witness
with what unanimity tho People arc moving for
ward in the support of the Patriot Statesmen,
Harrison and Tyler. Old Chatham and Glynn
have spoken, and they have been responeded to
by the ever patriotic Clarke in a language which
shows that her Camak, Billups and Dougherty,
in common with her people, are not idle specta
tors of the great work of reform, and that they
join heart and soul with Berrien and Law of
Chatham, and majority of the people of Georgia,
and shoulder to shoulder are determined to make a
united effort to keep the ball in motion.
The following resolutions were adopted at the
Meeting in Clark. We have not room for those
in Chatham and Glynn :
Resolved Unanimously , That it ia the due
deliberate conviction of this meeting, that in the
present posture of public affairs, that the best
interests us tho country would be essentially pro
mated by the election to the Presidency of the
United States of Gen. WILLIAM HENRY
HARRISON, of Ohio.
Resolved further, That in pursuance of this
sentiment our delegates to the ensuing Conven
tion be requested to endeavor to procure the nom
ination of an electoral ticket pledged to tho sup
port of Wm. H. Harrison, for the Presidency,
and John Tyler, of Virginia, for the Vice Pres
idency of the United Slates
The following gentlemen were then unanimous
ly appointed Delegates ;
Euwabd Paine, Esq.
James Camak, Esq.
John Tottt, Esq.
Hon. Chas. Dougherty.
Resolved, That tbe Chairman bo authorised
to fill any vacancy which may happen in this
delegation.
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Com
mittee in each company district in this County,
for the purpose of procuring subscribers to the
Reformer, a paper published in Augusta, by J.
W. & W. S. Jones.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Mr. Editor: —Seethe Van Buren meeting in
Charleston—the mountain in motion, Ac. South
Carolina (the Committee say) has again, in her
“generous nature, raised her standard, and is ad
vancing to the rescue, against the partisans of
abolition,” the Tariff, Banks, Sic., consolidation in
all its various forms,” and every lover of his
country is called upon to resist their further ad
vances against the principles of the Democratic
President! And wc are told that all have united,
save that nameless cohort which gave uncertain
support to the Administration when it was strong
est, &c. Sic. They declare they will support Mr.
Van Buren ; Ist, because he is entirely opposed to
the abolitionists, because the Whigs always are
the proposers of abolition movements, and lead us
by insinuations to believe Gen. Harrison is an abo
litionist, and even in favor of a tariff to be applied
to the purpose. Is this Committee so ignorant; do
they contend that these things “ arc established be
yond doubt,” or call they this “ generous” dealing!
2d Because they always arc opposed to a Nationa
Bank, (how long since?) dangerous to the liberty ol
the people. I wonder if Charleston or the Dear Peo
ple have suffered as much before the Bank was pui
down, as they have since. Answer ye honest mer
chants and mechanics; pay ye now ior 3i pci
cent.; and are bills of exchange more in vogue
than local paper. Answer ye planters; knew yr
ever the produce of the country at a lower ebb
has fluctuations in value ceased, such as “ caused
by the monster.”
3d, Because they desire the establishment of a
constitutional currency—(called in Georgia the
Sub-Treasury,) which they say has been prevented
by the array of influence, interest and prejudice ol
the partisans and debtors of nine hundred Banks,
with the United States Bank at their head, (tbit
should bed Unite States Bank of Pennsylvania—
“ all things that arc alike are not the same,”) am
that those institutions, and their friends, havi
caused all the trouble, Ac. be. But that the sobe
second thoughts of the people will—will do wha
Mr. Editor —will prevent its passage ever I pro
sume. See the Virginia elections. Pause, gentle
men, till Georgia speaks, she will dare oppose ever
the Democratic constitutional currency.
4th, The opposition of the Administration to in
ternal improvement,claim their support. Wondc
if they mean the last vote in the Senate upon thi
Cumberland Hoad ?
And oth, Because the Administration are op
posed to a Tariff of protection. Wonder how Ion;
since Mr. Van Buren has been —and also, how Ion;
before it will be revived and increased, unde:
the plea of an increased revenue being requisite
Wc in Georgia understand things as they are—
and wc will act as Southern men with Southen
principles. A Charlestonian by birth.
From the St. Augustine Herald Ist inst.
From Florida.
Capt. Holmes, at come place west of St
Johns River, struck a trail, and after following
it up some distance, and not finding the Indians
suspected the Indians might be following him
he accordingly laid four men in ambush, and pro
ceeded on with the rest of his company ; short
ly afterward, two Indians came up, ana were firer
on by the men in concealment—killing one, ant
so badly wounding the other, that he was taken
We did not learn the date of the occurrence
though it happened very recently.
Indians.
Extract <f a letter to the Editor, dated.
Fort Lauderdale, (E. F.) April 24. A
most provoking and unexpected incident occur
red about halt a mile from this post to day.
The water in New River becoming rathe
’ brackish at limes, opposite the post, it has beer
necessary to ascend the river a short distance it
order to procure fresh. Whilst a party of fivi
men were performing this duty, in a small boat
they were fired upon by some Indians, who wen
' concealed in a mangrove scrub, the marshy am
usually inundated nature of which, has alway.
induced the belief that no human being woulr
, ever undertake to enter it. Three of the mei
were wounded, the other two escaping unhurt
Sergt. Holtcn, a man whose exemplary bearing
as a soldier, has always enlisted the most exalter
i approbation of all under whom he ever served
: is thought to bo mortally wounded, two ball:
• having penetrated his body near the liver. Tin
Indians were not seen by any of the soldiers
but, from the number of balls which took effect
there must have been at least half a dozen.
A party of fifteen or twenty men, under Capt.
a Davidson, who commands this post, resorted
-• l^le utmost promptness to the scrub in which
they were concealed, but were unable, with all
’ the unbounded zeal which such a deed could in
i spire, to overtake the sly and murderous rascals,
a they having yelled and retreated so soon as their
j bloody design was accomplished.
From the North American of the 4th.
Later From China.
1 _ Blockade or Canton by tbe English.
f The Portuguese or Macao have taken fart
, with China. —The ship Levant arrived at this
k port yesterday from Canton. She brings dates
to the 15th ®f January, ten days later than those
received from England by the Great Western,
s The blockade of Canton was to commence on
> the day she sailed. The alledged cause was the
seizure of an English merchant in a smuggling
boat, Capt. Eliott had given notice that unless
! this person was delivered up in fifteen days, he
J would batter down the forts.
I Ihe Portuguese at Macao have sent guns and
men to aid the Chinese in defending the forts at
' the Boguc against the British ships. This pre
sents a new act in the drama, and the consequence
will lie, in all probability, a bombardment of Ma
-3 c «° h the English fleet. The American and
other foreign residents are placed in a critical
situation, from tho fear of any sudden outbreak
on tho part of the Chinese. The Commissioner
• Lin is represented as very determined in bis course
though the people at large evince much appre
hension at the result. In addition to the forts at
the Boguc, the Chinese have placed a strong raft
well secured by heavy chains across the stieam.
On this a large force of armed men it at present
placed, and vessels arc permitted to pass through
an openiig which is made for them by letting one
or more of the rafts swing with the tide.
9
From the Richmond Whig.
The False Prophet.
’ Just after the elections for the last two years,
9 when the Administration party was badly beaten
• in the State, the Editor of the Enquirer has rais
ed the consoling cry, “ wait till next spring—then
we will repair tho accidental disasters of tho pre
sent year—then wc will sweep the Whigs to the
I clay, and scarcely leave one to tell the fate of
It their comrades.”
r Such was his language in the spring of 1838
. in regard to the contest of 1839. Thirty-nine
came, and with it, defeat and discomfiture. The
braggart and his party were only saved from the
consuming indignation of the people by a major
lS ity obtained in former years in the check-mating
department. But no whit abashed by the falsifi
c cation of his prophecies, he repeated them for
1840. When that great day should arrive, the
Whigs would certainly be demolished—cut up
by the roots like green gourds, Thasc bragging
• assurances he continued to give until the very
r * ®ve of the election. Caroline, he said would
o elect the Federal candidate by at least 75, Nelson
c by a hundred, Amherst by about tho same raa
s j°rity ; Norfolk County, Princess Anno, Nanse
rnond, Cumberland and various other staunch
Whig Counties, were dead certain for the Admin
istration. Among other bluffing bulletins which
0 he put forth semi-weekly, we extract the follow
s- ing of the 3d of April, by which it would appear
r? that ho it our debtor for the “ best beaver or any
other hat in Virginia.”
of From the Enquirer of the 3 d April 1840.
j. Virginia.
,t Every thing is cheering in this glorious old
r _ Commonwealth. All the accounts from the va
rious counties show that Mr. Van Buren will
!1 carry the State by an overwhelming majority.
e The correspondence that wo publish this mor
re ning, ia an earnest that the Republicans arearous
i, ed, and mean to do their duty. Let the Madito
,j nian publish its silly letters from Norfolk—Let
the Baltimore Patriot publish its ridiculous let
ters from Petersburg!), claiming as “ the opinion,
there, that the old hard cider candidates will cer
-18 tainly take the purse this time.—Let the reckless
d Richmond Whig affect to congratulate its friends
rs on the cheering prospects ahead, (yes, certainly
, not behind it) —Let it put forth as the confident
- estimate of “ some shrewd calculators, that they
_ will have, on joint ballot, a majority of between
25 and 30," and that “ the most timid say it can-
L not possibly be less than 10”—Let W. C. Rives
re and H. Wise accept a public dinner at Winchea
er ter on the 15th April, for the cunning purpose
at of operating against Opie, Byrd and Woods. In
c . spite of all thesa bravadoes and all these tricks,
we arc most grossly deceived by others, if we do
not carry the State this spring. Wc stake the
in best beaver or any other hat in Virginia on this
result, with the Whig or any of its believers.
a- Let the Whig say yes, any wo think we shall
cr wear a cap at its expense. In a word, we con
,e scientiously believe we shall carry the State in
the Spring. We have no doubt of it in the
fall.
We saw three Democrats from Spottsylvania
’8 on Wednesday ; they ask but a fair field and a
ig bright sky on the 23d to carry Halladay. In
er this (Henrico) county, the Republicans are in
I I hopes of redeeming the county from the influ
_ ence of Richmond and of carrying the Republi
rn can Reins. Heads up, and all will be well!
Well, the 23d has come and passed, and the
Feds are soundly drubbed throughout the Com
monwealth. But the incorrigible old gentleman
renews his cuckoo note, “ wait till next fall!”
He says:
It. “ As at present advised, we hav# no hesitation
ig in giving it as our opinion that the Whigs have
s, carried a majority of the Legislature. That the
i; Van Buren party will carry it this fall, we do
o- not entertain a doubt.”
t- It is somewhere written, and in a good book
sd too, that certain characters are not to be believed
id under any circumstances. We think that the
n. positive assurances of success which the Enquir
e, er has given for three successive years, places it
in the category of those who are not to be be
lieved ; or at any rate, make its statements to be
received with many grains of allowance. It
may carry the State in the fall, but its say-so is
A no evidence of the fact. It has shown itself a
r " false prophet too often already to command tho
confidence of any.
® r But we say in conclusion, as Rasselas says in
; n tho beginning:
ln “Ye who listen with credulity to tho whis
-18 pera of fancy, and pursue, with eagerness the
ll ’ phantoms of hope—who expect that ago will
r 8 perform the promises of youth, and that the defi
-18 ciencies of the present day will be supplied by
the morrow, attend to the saying of Thomas
*“ Ritchie, Editor of the Enquirer.”
>n
■t.
,g From the Baltimore American.
;d The Currency.
d, It is a favorite course of the Administration
Is party to complain loudly of the present disordered
ie state of tho currency, and while they seek to
s. throw the odium of all financial disasters upon
it, the Whigs, they refer to existing evils as so
many reasons why ihe suli-treasury system should
be introduced. We hear continually or “expan
sions,’ “contractions,” "irredeemable paper mon
ey,” the delusive “credit system,” and such like
phrases—yet the fact is apt to be lost sight of
that every derangement which has taken place
in the currency—every disaster in the way of
undue expansion or contraction—every thing in
short which has tended to make paper money ir
redeemable, within the last seven years—may be
traced directly or indirectly to the attacks made
by the Administration upon a system of currency
which, before such attacks were made, was sound,
regular, substantial, and in all respects one of the
best ever enjoyed by this country or any other.
The Government has waged war upon the trade,
commerce and general business of the Union ;
its measures have resulted in unsettling business
relations; in producing disorder in all the estab
lished modes of conducting commercial operations;
and in causing uncertainty want of confidence,
and, ofeourse great anxiety, distress and suffering.
The Whigs, who did their utmost to resist those
measures, one by one, as they were successively
brought forward, are now reproached as the au
thors of the very evils which they sought to avert.
The disasters of the times are charged upon them
in connection withthecredit system. Who made
the credit system what it is? Who destroyed its
efficiency—paralyzed its operations? The very
parly which now complains of it. When the
Whigs advocate the credit system it is not in
view of such n system as the one now existing,
which has been crippled and prostrated and made
to be but the shadow of a system.—Give us that
which W AsiiiKUTOiv introduced, or one like it;
or that which Mmiioir sanctioned ;—or restore
to thecountry that excellent currency which it en
joyed before the hostile measures of Government
were directed against it—a currency which no one
found fault with, which was equal and sound in
all parts of the United States, and which had a
substantial specie basis to test upon.
It is time that all delusion on this subject was
dissipated. The industry and enterprise of the
country have been shackled long enough in sub
serviency to political designs; reproachful term*
used without meaning and applied without rea
son, are beginning to lose their force with men of
sense, who can see through pretexts, and who, as
men of business, perceive that every pretended re
form ofthe party in power has only made things
worse, after having destroyed what was good.
But our purpose in making these remarks was
not so much to discuss the subject as to introduce
the following extract from the able speech of Mr.
Davis of Massachusetts, in reply to Mr. Buchanan,
in the U. S. Senate. It contains a fair statement
of facts at they are known to rave existed in refer
ence to the financial history of the last seven years,
shows clearly how the ruinous results which have
been so severely felt, year after year, during that
period, have followed naturudy from the measures
ofthe Administration—so naturally that it is
difficult to see how such causes could have pro
duced any other consequences. We ask for the
extract an attentive perusal on the part of all can
did men without regard to political distinctions:
Before tho late President (Jackson) seized the
public money and took it into his own custody,
in 1833, there was no complaint about the curren
cy ; all the people know this; for alt, even the
President himself, in one of his messages, united
in declaring, in substance, it was sound, and
equal to that of any nation on earth. There
was no complaint, no inconvenience, no embar
rassment, from this source, in doing business;
but contentment and satisfaction every where.
About this there can be no mistake, nor will any
one here attempt to refute the well-known facts.
But from that act of the President, which was
the first movement to reform the currency, to this
day, there has been what the Senator is pleased
to call ‘expansion, contraction, and explosion,’
in rapid and fearful sucession ; crisis upon crisis,
pressure upon pressure, panic upon panic, have
succeeded, till we have reached a state of sus
picion and alarm that has deranged and almost
suspended business. Tho storm in its fury has
swept over the country, once and again, uproot
ing the stateliest and firmest trees, and leaving
in its track a dreary and desolate waste. Its
marks are too deeply engraven, too distinct, 100
well defined to leave any thing uncertain—any
thing unequivocal.—lt fell upon us with such
withering energy, as to leave no doubt whan,
where, and how it began.
Gentlemen may tax their ingenuity, they may
task their inventions, to discover other causes of
distress —they may belabor and hold up to scorn
and execration the banks as long as they please,
they cannot change tho facte, for they cannot ob
literate history. Things were well, and every
body knows it, till 1833. Then began the bank
reform by the removal ofthe deposites—and then
began this rapid series of ‘expansion, contraction
and explosion’—then followed crisis after crisis—
then came the derangement of cxciianges, and
then the embarrassments which have overwhelm
ed the country—then came, too, the nine hundred
banks of which the Senator speaks, though he has
probably swelled the number beyond historical
truth.
The Senator admits, what cannot be denied,
that the Administration proposed ami carried in
to effect tho State bank deposite system. It was
in this place and by them that Slate banks were
taken into favor, petted, and boastingly held out
to the country as affording a better and safer cur
rency. Into them was the revenue put in enor
mous sums, and they were directed to loan freely
upon it by the President for the accommodation
ofthe people, and it was his pride and pleasure to
make known to us that tba public money was
thus employed, instead of being locked up; a stri
king commentary upon the presentplans of vaults
and safes, Mr. President.
Tho Senator admits that this was the policy
of the Administration, and that the disastrous
consequences predicted by the opposition have
been verified. He might have gone further; for
it is truth equally undeniable, that this policy
sowed the seed of nearly or quite one-half of the
whole number of banks—between eight and nine
hundred—and of more than one half of the capi
tal; that it was the parent of the paper, ‘expan
sion, contraction, and explosion,’ of which he
has spoken in terms of just severity; that it is
alike the parent of the bloated credit system
which he affirms has made us all gamblers; and
that the mad speculation which raged over tho
country, and lias furnished the tbernc for declam
ation and denunciation in these balls for three
years past, was begotten by it. Much are the
facts, and on the projectors of this policy, let the
responsibility rest. We bad had 'no expansions
contractions, or explosions,’ for a long period that
did not fairly belong to the vibrations of trade;
none that excited alarm or seriously disturbed
public confidence, till we came to this reforming
.olicy; but since then the public mind basscaicc
!v been tranquilized. In 1834 came the first fell
swoop, which overturned and bankrupted thous
ands; and it originated here.
In ’35- 6 came the great era of bank making
and trading upon the public money, then accu
mulated to sixty or seventy millions, as nearly as
I remember, which threw the country into a fe
verish excitement, and even firm, well-balanced
minds out of their adjustment- There was a
rage for fortune-making and fortune-hunting such
as bad never been witnessed, and which nothing
but this policy was capable of generating. The
Senator might and ought to have limited the
bloated credit system that made us nil, as he affirms
gamblers, to this period, and left the offspring to
stand beside its parent as a proof of the disasters
ot this policy, and ol the fulfilment of the predic
tions of tho Opposition; for go together they
must, and live together they will in history; and
no sophistry, no ingenuity can ever separate
them. While the Senator admits this policy to
belong exclusively to the Administration, and to
have been strenuously opposed by us, and its
melancholy consequences predicted, ho now re-
Eudiates it as erroneous, and wo must allow to
im and his friends whatever credit belongs to an
abandonment of it after it had literally exploded,
and tho mischief was accomplished. But, sir,
he and they must be reminded that I could, if I
would, read from the messages of the President,
and from the successive reports of the Secretary
of the Treasury, language of exultation, trium
phing m tho entire success of the policy, boasting
that the currency was on a better footing than
ever, that the exchanges were greatly improved
and that, too, at the very moment when the bloat
ed credit was roost expanded, and speculation
was the most rife and rank. Such was the delu
sion thil the madness whicli had seized multi
tudes was trumpeted forth ns evidence of success
and general prosperity. The Senator clearly rea
sons from false premises when he makes the
banks the origin of our embarrassments, for they
were only instruments in the bunds of those who
projected the measures that have made them what
they are.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Martin Van Huron and the Last War.
From the Albany Argus.
“A month since the Evening Journal deliber
ately gave to the public a “ a political slander,”
charging Mr, Van Burcn with offering at a meet
ing in Columbia county in 1813, resolutions de
claring the war “ impolitic and disastrous,” and
the employment of tho militia in an offensive war,
“ unconstitutional.”
A month aince wo “ deliberately gave to the
public” tlie following statement which ia literal
ly true.
From the Evening Journal of March 31.
“Martin Van Burenin 1812labored,intrigued
and voted to defeat tho re-election of James Mad
ison, to the Presidency and elect the “ Peace
Party” Candidate.”
The practice of the Argus to change an issue
that it cannot meet, by slyly instituting another
in its place, is so notorious and inveterate that
any animadversion even upon the flagrant at
tempt before us would he entirely thrown away.
But the Argus, emboldened, perhaps, by our
silence and made desperate by its reverses in Vir
ginia, hazard a declaration that every man conver
sant with the history of our war or tho course of
our politics knowiis to he false. It says “ that
Mr, Van Buren t'ave to the war,v hom th* fibht
to the last till the support of his talents, his
station and his best eneriries.”
War with Great Britain was declared in Juno
5312. The Legislature convened at the Capitol
the begining of November. Martin Vanburen
took his seat in the Senate of this State for the
first lime on the 3d November 1812. For more
than fifteen months preceding tins period, tho ag
gressions of Great Britain upon our commerce
had been uninterruped. Its emissaries had been
at work among the Indiana on the Wabash early
in 1811, and its secret agents engaged in foment
ing disaffection and treason oven in Massachu
setts in the begining of 1812. Tito country, to
use the language of Mr. Madison in a confiden
tial Message to Congress, had long exhibited “on
the side ot Great Britain a state of war against
tho United Hiatus, estate of peace towards Great
Britain.”
During tins whole period an active and acri
monious Presiden ial Canvass had boon carried
on. The friends and advocates of tho National
honor and the war—the republican parly of 1811
and’l9—zealously supported Mr. Madison for
re-election. The peace party comprising a great
portion of the federalists, were anxious to elevate
Mr. Clinton, then Lieutenant Governor of this
State, to the Presidency in opposition to Mr.
Madison and the war parly. The legislature as
we have said, mol on the 3d day of November
1812. Their first id was to select twenty-nine
Electors of President and Vice President. Mr.
Van Burcn introduced into the Senate a concur
rent resolution to proceed to the choice of these
Electors on the 6th of November. It was post
poned however, until the 9th.
Now let us see whether Mr. Van Buren gave
the support of “ his station, his talents and his
best energies” to the war. If 11 from the first to
the last," as the Argus asserts, he was a zealous
and untiring advocate of the war, it would follow
as a natural consequence that wc should find him
improving tho occasion before him at this period,
in defence of Mr. Madison, the great champion
of the war, and of course voting for Electors
friendly to the re-election of Mr. Madison.
Instead of assuming this proud position, Mr.
Van Buren gave the support of “ his station” to
the political enemies of Mr. Madison and openly
nominated in his place in the Senate twenty
nine electors friendly to Mr. Clinton and the
peace parly —Gen. Root and other true Republi
cans voting against him. For proof that we do
not rniarepresent the conduct of Mr. Van Burcn,
i the Argus may consult the Senate and Assembly
Journal, volume 36, page 24, dec. His vote will
i be there found recorded as we slated, an everlast
ing testimony of the hollowness and hypocrisy of
the claim interposed by his friends, that he was
i “ from first to last” the political friend and advo
cate of President Madison, and the last war!—
The lower branch of tho Legislature, which
the Argus has recently and repeatedly stigmatis
ed as the federal brunch, concurred in the nomin
ation of the Presidential Electors made by Van
Burcnisrn and
Throughout the summer and autumn of 1812,
Mr. Van Buren with his usual art and assiduity
was laboring, intriguing and coquetting to bring
about the result thus consumstcd in November.
He expected to profit by the elevation of Mr.
Clinton and the overthrow of Madison. That
he did not appear at a political meeting in Colum
bia county and openly move a resolution denounc
ing the war as “ impolitic anil disastrous” is pro
bable. That duty we believe was allotted to bis
political friend Jsmes Vandcrpocl. Tho “ mous
ing propensities" of Mr. Van Buren at that early
period of his political career were strikingly ex
hibited and give abundant promise of the perfect
system of finesse and non-committalism which be
afterwords practiced, until Amos Kendall and
John C. Calhoun finally found means (never dis
covered by his party friends in this State) to
“ call him out."
Wo have conclusively shown that Mr. Van
Burcn did not give his support to tho war “ from
first to last.” We have shown that he opposed
the war by opposing Mr. Madison at a roost im
portant and difficult crisis. Nearly five months
after the open declaration of (lie war by Congress
ami at least a year after actual hostilities bad
commenced, and we find Mr. Vaw Barm, al tka
very first opportunity afforded him of exhibiting
his political principles under the solemn sanction
of his senatorial engagements, striving to pal
down a Republican President and elevate the
“ Peace party candidate.”
Now let the Argus bring forward evidence
equally indisputable to prove, if it can, that Mr.
Van Botch at any time prior to the 9th Noveaw
ber, 1812,.“ gave to the war the support of hi*
talents, ids- station and hit beat energit.”—
Surely those who coneoot its paragraph and seek
to plaster over the political tergiversations of their
chief, tnuHt be sufficiently conversant with the
course of politics to know where such evidence
is to be found if it really exists. Assertion proves
nothing, however, bold and audacious it may be.
We admit, and have never denied , that Mr.
Van Boren' pretended great arid in the support of
Mr. Madison and the war,after it was ascertained
that Mr. Clinton cmtM not be made President
and that the mar hail become popular with the
nation. The celerity with which he abandoned
that gentleman and' lUs supporters shows that
unlike Fnfstotti he had’no “alacrity at sinking.”
Mr. Van Huron Inis urtifbmdY preferred to swim
with his enemies- than to gD’down with his friends.
Ho attained Ida present elevation by attaching
to the skirts of rising mao, and seasonably trim
ming hie opinions to- any pattern that promised
to become popular. Happy would it bavs been
for the country if he had- sdheied to this policy
after ho became President. He would then have
been remarkable in history ns another example
of successful demsgoguism. He must now des
cend to posterity with that deeper infamy that be
longs to one who rose to power by the arts of
intrigue, but ruled by those of the worst and
darkest species of corruption.
Steamboat Sunk Ann Seveual Lives
Lost. —The St. Louis Republican of the 87th
ult. stales that as the steamboat Bedford was de
scending the Missouri river, on the 251 h, about
six o’clock, lietween one and two miles above the
mouth, she struck a snag which knocked a large
hole in her bottom, and she commenced filling
immediately. The passengers bad just raised
from supper. So great was tho injury that in
about two minutes sliu sunk within a few in
ches of the hurricane deck. As soon as slio
commenced sinking, the yawl was filled with as
many as it could contain and sent ashore. Those
who remained and could do so, escaped to the
hurricane deck. Five or six, it is believed, were
unable to get there in time.
An old man, a Kevolvtionary soldier of the
name of Moore from (dole county, is named a
mong the lost. A negro woman and her three
children ure reported as drowned. It is also stated
that a Herman woman on board loat her child.—
A vote was taken in the cabin and deck a short
time previous, in relation to the President, when
fifty-two voles were counted. Wo presume there
must have been this number exclusive of the
women. A dreadful storm of rain and wind
was raging at the time.
The boat and cargo are a to'.ul lias. It is sup
posed there was not much corgo on board. She
was owned we believe in Louisville.
Landslide. —We regret to learn, that on night
before last the banks of the river, on the opposite
side from the city, caved in for some distance.—
The point where the landslide is, is below the
Willow House, immediately above the lower fer
ry. Fortunately, the village was protected by a
double levee. The old levee sunk, and several
buildings with it. Tho space between the old
and new levee, which is near fifty yards in width,
and four hundred in length, is overflown with
water from live to six feet deep. The buildings
that disappeared were three frame houses, between
the old brick powder-house and the river. Tho
inmates, al about 10 o’clock at night, were a
wakened by a crash, and the rush of water into
their rooms. They had time barely to escape
with their lives, losing all of their goods. Since
that, the west gable of the powder houso has
caved in, and there are indications that the un
dermining of the bank continues to an alarming
extent. The damage to tho Willow Grove Hotel,
we understand is serious, the lower apartment
being covered five feet deep in water, as well as
the yard and garden. Hopes are entertained that
tha landslide will not extend to the new levee an
event that must drown the whole city of Algiers.
The inhabitants for their own protection, would
do well to raise another levee, in the rear of the
one that now constitutes the only harrier against
the encroachments of the river,— N. Q. Bulletin,
The movements of the Indians on our Wes
tern and North-Western border are giving rise to
much apprehension. The lowas and Otoes were
continuing their depredations, and the report was
that they would be joined by the Sacs. Thor
union of the throe tribes will bring a stout and for
midable force into the field, numbering about
twelve hundred warriors. Accounts say that the
preparation for defence along the whole frontier
are very defective. The military posts were all
weak, and poorly supplied with garrisons. The
knowledge of this fact will be sure to stimulate
the ferocity of the savages.— JV. O. Bulletin.
Shave Them!— We learn from a late number
of the Glasgow Herald, that it was the practice
in that city a few years since to shave the heads
of all persons, who were carried drunk to the
Police office—a practice which was attended with
the most raaiked benefit to tho moryhty of the
city. The ediior says:
“Well do we remember the effects produced hy
thia unii/ue punishment—and how astonished
were those who had been “dressed” the preceding
night, when they appeared before the Magiatiate
in the morning. Their hands wandered over
their smooth patee—in some instances they could
not be convinced of their own identity—they im
agined tho bar officer had brought forward the
wrong man, and upon the whole, ao well did the
system work, that it was a perfect rarity to aao a
shaved man brought hack to the office a second
time; indeed, so alarmed did the habitual tiplers
become from the method, that one incorrigible of
the squad always carried a wig in his pocket, in
anticipation of finding hininelf docked some morn
ing.”
Petticoat Editor The factory girls in
Nashua. N. H., recently presented the editor of
the Nashua Ornette with a petticoat for stigmati
zing them as slaves. Spunky girls those about
Nashua, and always wets.
A Pious Captain in Distress The brig
Emetine, of Newport, thirty days from Boston,
for Texas, was spoken on the 4th inat., off sand
Key Light. She hud lost her rudder, jib-boem,
and bulwarks, and bad her decks swept several
days previous but was determined to proceed to
Galveston without putting into any port for re
pairs. She was full of passengers, and ber com
mander appeared to be perfectly resigned to his
fate, a'nd was last seen reading the Bible. Bet
ton Post,