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J. W. fc W. S. JOKES. AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1840. VOL. IV—NO. 190.
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A ITGUS T A .
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16.
Maryland Election.
The Now York Commercial of Saturday after
noon says:—We have this morning returns
from so ne of the towns which failed to elect their
representatives at the first trial. We give them
below. According to the calculation of the Bob
(on Atlas, the Whigs have now 97' members of
the House, whose scats arc not contested. As
the whole body consists of but ISC members, the
Whigs are now certain of a majority in it. In
the Senate there is a Whig majority of 8.
Whig maj. V. B. maj
Madison and Cr0mwe11.....! 50
Athens aud B ton, 15
Fubec and Trescott 75
Canton and Jay, 6
The correspondent of the Mercantile Journal
points the attention of the editor to the fact that
in Lubcc and Trescott the Van Burcn vote in
the district is precisely the same in the aggre
gate, as at the former election, while the Whig
vote is increased 58, and justly remarks : 11 Please
to take notice that this is a little ominous of No
vember.”
A letter from Fairfield District (says the
Charleston Courier) dated the 1 Ith hist., ex
presses the belief that there is little doubt of Col.
Irby’s election to Congress. Col. Irby has open
ly avowed his preference of Harrison over Van
liuren, but is pledged to vote for Mr. Van Buren
should the election go to the House. He is op
posed by Messrs. Caldwell and Barkley both for
Van Buren, and it elected, will probatily succeed
by only a plurality of votes.
Southern Chronicle—Extra. £
October 15, 1840. 5
Old Richland Redeemed !!
The wordiest political contest that ever Rich
land District experienced, has terminated tri
umphantly in favor of the Whigs/ Their entire
ticket is circled! ! Our opponents did all that
could he done. They brought to bear upon this
election, the voters from seven districts, wh >
owned properly in Richland ! 1 They dragged
the Congarec from Broad River to McCord’s
Ferry—cleaned ant the Jail 1 and raked every
avenue that contained a voter, legal or illegal 1
Weslatfclhcso facts from no vindictive feelings,
but that our friends abroad may know what the
few pent up and much abused Whigs in Rich
land District have had to encounter in this un
precedented struggle. We only claim the grea
ter triumph. The Whigs arc dstermined to keep
the heart of the Stale sound. We confidently
believe, that of the legal resident voters ol Rich
land District, the Whigs have a majority of near
ly £OO I !
Whigs. Locofococs.
James H. Adams, 020 Ben. T. Elmore, 003
Joseph A. Black, 018 W. F. DeSaussure. 596
Jas. D. Tradewcll, 618 William Hopkins, 590
Thomas H. Wade, 009 James Douglass, 586
Virginia.—The Richmond Whig says that
during the recent Convention in that city, an
estimate of the Virginia vote in November was
prepared by the Whig Electoral candidates pres
ent, aided hv the local delegates. “The Whig
majority is estimated at 4,4011 —a calculation (says
the editor) which we and all, feel every confidence
will he more than fulfilled.”
Onto.—An estimate of the vole of Ohio for
Governor at the coming election is published by
John 11. Wood, Esq. in the Cincinnati Gazette
makes the nett majority for Corwin, the Whig
Candidate, 21,380.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
[W lint wc contend for.
We want, as Chief Justice Marshall said in
the Virginia Convention on the adoption of the
Constitution, “ a well regulated democracy.”—
We contend for an administration ol the popu
lar will, through thir chosen represen alives, and
no dictation from office-holders or political agents
of Government. Wc want unbounded liberty,
hut no licentious agrarianism, which assets that
education is a mockery, and that n’l religion is a
lie. We contend for the democratic principles of
Jefferson, not the rn marchial innovations of
Van Buren ; we want the People to govern
their President, not the President to direct the
People’s course. W e want virtue, justice, and
piatriodsm at the bead of affairs, and not a reck
less subserviency to the good of a party, regard
less of the happiness of the nation- We con
tend for the immutable rights guarantied by our
Constitution, and not that Jacobinism which
courts anarchy, arrays the working classes a
gamst their t mployers, excites the baser feel ngs
of our nature by contending for a general distri
bution of property, and strives to abolish all hu
man laws, even the sacred riles of marriage
These principles vve contend for; and, to seiure
them, the banner ol Reform is reared : we muA
cleanse our country of moral pollution and politi
cal degradation, and make it worthy to be again
held upas tne model republic to all the world.
The popular medicine operates I—The Mad
isonian of the ICth say s that Mr. Van Buren has
written a lugubrious lettei to his fellow citizens
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., expressing" profound re
gret” for the division among bis political friends ;
“ gicat anxiety” on account of said dissentions in
bis native Suite, and that it is “ not without pain''
that be has found himself " deprived of the approv
ing voices of thousands of the f: lends of my youth,
and the associates of my mat irer years ol many
who were veterans in the po i ical held when I en
tered it.” 'j ho cis no doubt that Mr. \an buren
tegins to feel that remorse which comes too late :
his letter quite affected us. Cut it is all bis own
fault. If be bad taken our advice in 1827, green
as it in', lie might have escaped the “ pain” and
<• regret” he now expresses. But he chose the
councils of Blair and Kendall, and lost the
*« friend' 0 f bis youth” as a conir quince.
MM3 «-T ... ~m -J- -T. I HWIIM ■! MINIMI ■——JMIJM—
The Whigs of Albany, N. Y., offer to bet SIOOO
that the ma ority lor the Harrison electoral ticket
in that State will be larger in seven counties tlun
the Van Buren majorities in all the counties of the
Stale.
It is a remarkable fact, that the only public of
ficer removed by Andrew Jackson, on the very
first day of Ids entering upon the discha ge of his
duties (besides the heads of departments,) was
I William Henry Harrison, Minister to Columbia 1
*• All men are born free and equal, except poop
ones,” as Martin Van Huron said in the New York
Convention, when he made bis celebrated speech
in opposition to the right of universal suffrage.
HU Excellency, Governor Morton of Massachu
setts, was elected by a majority of one vote. The
Boston Mercantile Journal says that the Lo. ofocos
are of opinion that he will be re-clcctcd Governor
this year, but by a reduced majority.
Good news fuk Cotton Planters. — A Northern
Exchange paper says cotton has rj-en materially
in many of our cities, as the IfTcos use it to Slop
their ears from hearing the Harrison rcjoici gs.
New York City. —Ogden Hoffman, Moses 11.
Grinnell, Edward Curtis, and James Monroe, mem
bcis of Congress from New York, have been unani
mously nominated for re-election. The Locofoco
candidates arc not yet announced.
From the Richmond Whig.
The Con petition—Glorious Times.
The convention of the oth will be an epoch in
the existence of the thousands who thronged the
metrop dis on yesterday and the day before. Wc
bad antic pated much, but all our expectations,
sanguine as they w, re, fell far short of the reality.
Never befuie have we seen such an assemblage—
whether respect be bad to the number, the appear
ance, the n speetald ity or me intelligence. There
were not les.. than 15,000, and many accustomed
to estimating Hi num ers of multitudes, put them
down at uo_t Jess than 20,000. The cream of the
Old Dominion was assembled. The good, the
wise, ihe patriotic—the farmer, the mechanic, the
lawyer, the doctor, the merchant, the student, the
fair, the lovely fair —the old and the young, the
soldier of the revolution, the soldier of the late
war, all were here, coming from every corner of
this far-famed old Commonwealth.
Gov. Harbour, of Orange, was ele> ted presilent
of the convention. He responded to the compli
ment in a characteristic speech, teeming with no
fa,c sentiments and patriotic appeals.
The Whig electors who were in attendance
were elected vice presidents, and Judge Beverly
Tucker and James JVI. Garnett, Esq., secretaries.
Mr. Lee then submitted an address worthy of
the spiiit of ’7O, which was adopted by acclama
tion.
As soon as this was over, the president introduc
ed to the convention our distinguished guest, the
illustrious Senator from the Old Hay State. The
welcome, loud and 1 ng continued, which ascended
from lirleen thousand Virginians, told him at once
that he was at home. Os the manner in which he
responded to the hearty welcome the reader can
judge for himself by the faithful report of the
speech in another column. All we have to say is,
that the illustrious lame of the orator, in the opin
ion of tne thousands who heard him, was fully
maintained. He proved himself every thing that
hud teen expected of him, and moic.
Yesterday, at 10 o’clock, Mr. Rives amlres cd
the Convention in a speech of some four hours—
the numbers hut little, if any, diminished from the
day proceeding. Une of the most striking features
in ibis vast asaenihlage lias been that of deep, in
t use unflagging interest of the whole. At mid
night, when the last speakcrconcluded, a universal
cry aiose for more speaking.
At night the log cabin and the Capital Square
resounded with bursts of eloquence again, which
are still delighting vast multitudes as our paper
goes to press.
Mr. Webster, at the earnest solicitations of his
fellow citizens, made his appearance within the
lugs—now the most famous temple of liberty in
the land—the theatre of the most brilliant oratori
cal displays of the age, aud spo,.e for two horns.
Wc regret that our limits would not permit us
to give a fuller and detailed account, whii h we
have prepared, of tiie inteicsting incidents of this
joyous occasion, li will be forthcomimig to-mor
ruw. In the mean time, vve can say with peifect
candor, that if we had a doubt of ihe vote of Vir
ginia, ibis vast outpouring of the people, and the
cheering intelligence which they bring from every
quarter, woul.i have dissipate lit entirely. If the
second day ol Novi niber is a rainy day, we shall
beat Van liuren at least 15,000 in the State
rank ami file of that party only want a good ex
cuse to their leaders lo stav from the polls). But
whether there oo rain or sunshine we have them
by at least 7,000, and no niislaKc.
British Whigs.
Whom do the locofoco papers mean by lire
“ British Whigs I”
The 20,000 yeomen who assembled at Co
lumbus I
Ur the 30,000 who assembled at Baltimore?
Or the 40,000 who assembled at Tippecanoe?
Or the 35,000 who assembled at Fort Meigs ?
Or the 12,000 who assembled at Bennington ?
Or the 30,000 at Nashville?
Or the 15,000 at Macon ?
Or the 6,000 at Augusta, Me. ?
Or the 50 000 that met at Bunker Hill l
Or the 50,000 at Syracuse, N. Y.?
Or the 90,000 at Dayton, Ohio?
Or the 25,000 at Cincinnati, Ohio?
Or the 10,i 00 at Richmond, Va. ?
Or the 15,000 at Auburn, N. Y.?
Or the 20,u0i) at I iniicotbe !
Or the 5,000 ai Cumberland Gap?
Or the 1(1,000 at Erie, I’a. ?
Or the 8,000 at Hudson, N. Y.?
Or tho 15,000 at Richmond I
Or the 30,000 in the Park. New-York, on the
anniversary ol the Battle of the Thames?
Or the 3,000 at Palchogue, L. 1, ?
Or the 5,000 at Jamaica, L. I. ?
Or the other \Uiircriiem ered) thousands that
have met, to deliberate on their grievances and
do honor to the honest larmer of Noilh Bend,
since December 1839?
Great Mass Convention in Michigan.—
The last Dsiruit Advertiser comes to us freighted
with the doings o; 15,000 Wolverines in Coun
cil” at Detroit.
We write (exclaims the Ed’tor) surrounded
by FIFTEEN THOUSAND FREEMEN amid the din
aiid tumult of a mighty <•Avalanche of the Feu
- pit !" Our streets are filled with the yeomanry
of Michigan, and the air is vocal with their
sho.Us ! Exciting, glorious beyond description
■ is the scene! Animating, sublime, ocyond the
power of imagination, the spectacle! It is as
the heaving of the tempest wave—the roar of the
hurricane! Now know we that honor will be
rendered Michigan’s early friends; that tie who
was her early deliverer in 13, will be her choice
I J
now.
Another Boat Lost. — Wc hear that the
steamboat Thames has sunk in Missouri river;
but could learn that no particulars have as yet
conic of band.— St. Louis (luzelle.
1 From the National Intelligencer,
1 The Maine election,
i Ihe following Letter, which miflicrently ex
: plains itself, is an authoritative and effective re
buke of the falshoods circulated by the agents of
the Administration concerning the groundsof the
late Whig triumph in the Cumberland Congres
sional District in Maine:
Portland, (Me.), Oct. 3, 1840.
1 Dear Sir:—\ ours of the 28th Scpiemher, con
taining several extracts from the Globe touching
the recent election in this Congressional dislrct,
■ was received this morning. The charge therein
made upon me of being an ahohiitnist has before
met my eye in Administration papers from va
rious parts of tho country. It originated, I be
lieve, in the Bay Slate Dcmnrrat, was thence co
pied into the New Era, and lias since been in
dustriously circulated, notwithstanding its innne
-1 diatc contradiction. I have resolved not to give
1 myself the trouble of p. rsonally denying the truth
of a report well known here lo be en'irely un
founded, believing that to me it was of no indi
vidual consequence, and thinking 100 highly of
the Southern market to admit the idea that such
wares could pass there, though manufactured cx
pre.-sly for tr.ttt region of country. I could nut
imagine that an artifice so stale and shallow
would have the least possible effect, when the
motives of those who invented it could not, ns I
thought, fail to be understood and appreciated.—
Your communication has, however, induced me
to adopt a different conclusion, and lo stale the
facts, over my own name.
In a few words, then, all the extracts commu
nicated from the Globe of the 25th, 261 h, and
2Slh ull. are, so fur ns they regard my opinions
and position upon tho subject of abolition, entire
ly untrue. It may be well, however, to say
something more.
My father, Mr. Samuel Fessenden,of this city,
has for some years been an nvowcu abolitionist,
and was, I am told the presiding officer at a con
vention hidden in Boston, in May last, which has
j been sometimes culled the "Ladies’ Abolition
Convention,” from the fact that ladies were per
mitted to act in it as delegates and members.—
Immediately after tho election in this district, the
Bay State Democrat designated me as the indi
vidual who presided at that Convention. The
Dos tun Courier at onoo contradicted tins state
ment, and published, in proof, the following ex
tract of a letter written by me on a former occa
sion :
“ I am not, aud never have been, a member of
“ any abolition society, and have made no secret
“ of my unqualified want of confidence in the
“ expediency and beneficial effects of such as-o
--“ cialiotis.”
Notwithstanding this, the charge thus made
was reiterated in other administration prints;
mid, though again contradicted through a per
sonal friend in Niw-York, has been circulated
far and wide, in the hope that some political cap
ital might be made ofit. The Bay Stale Demo
crat has since even gone so far as to asscr that I
had given pledges to the abolitionists—that my
father worked night and day lo procure my elec
tion—and that a placard was published here, on
the day of election, containing the words “ A‘o
Shivery in the District.” All those statements
are unmitigated falsehoods. No pledge was given
or lequircd—no placard was issued or used and
my father was absent for more than a week be
fore and until some days after the election, and
took no part in it whatever.
You can readily understand, from those facts,
the object and aim of those who originated and
those wlio have propagated the story referred 10.
It is enough for me to say that my opinions upon
the subject of abolition societies remain unchang
ed, and that no man can be more hostile to any
interference with “ the compromises of tho Con
stitution” than I am. Justice compels me to add,
that so far as I have known them, the Northern
abolitionists have always disclaimed any inten
tion or desire to interfere with the slave States in
the management of their domestic institutions.
You will oblige me, sir, by slating, on any oc
casion that may seem loyoua proper one, not
only that I am not, and never was, an abolition
ist, but that my position and views upon this
subject have always been well understood here,
from the fact of my undisguised difference upon
this point with one whose opinions on most mat
ters of importance 1 have always found it most
safe and advantageous to fellow, and with whom
any difference of sentiment or feeling has always
been to me a matter ot profound regret.
I will only add that you are at liberty to make
such use of this communication us may seem ex
pedient lo yourself.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. P. FESSENDEN.
The Wages ol Labor.
Wc invite the attention of the laboring class
es to the following admirable extract from the
speech of Mr. Webster, on Long Island, in
reference to the war of Government upon the
wages of labor They find in it a clear and con
clnsivc exposition of the hostility of the Admin
istration to the interests of the laborer and the
poor man, and a full and complete confirmation
of the excellent speech of Senator Davis in re
ply to Buchanan. After referring the sub
treasury, he goes on to remark:
“ But this subject draws after it another princi
ple inseparable from its doctrines; and this is,
that it is useful to reduce the price of labor; that
it is necessary to curtail the wages of the work
ing man. The supporters of tho sub-treasury
scheme have said this: they have all said it. I
do not see why Mr. Buchanan alone should be
siiigkd out lo have this declaration fastened nn
him; he only said in a clear manner what the
, others did not say so clearly. They tiave adop
ted the plan of the sub-treasury; and this plan,
as a natural consequence, leads lo the restriction
and contraction of tho currency, and as a mat
t ter of course to a reduction of prices. Well,
I they say that wages ought to be reduced. They
must take up that position, or give up the sub
treasury ; and if they give gthat up, they give
themselves.
You may take Calhoun, and Buchanan, and
| Walker, and Tappan. and you’ll find that they ull
declared this; they ull say that is necessary to re
duce the prices ol labor. I aver that! Mr. Tap
pan declared that labor ought to come down to
1 eleven cents a day. This I did not hear him say;
1 he did not say it in Congress ; but there are nu
merous affidavits of the fact that lie said it out of
Congress. I have heard the declarations of the
r leadois of the parly in relation to this subject; 1
1 nave seen and read their references lo Cuba; 1
e have seen the debates in the House of Repre
s senatives on the subject published by authority ;
e aud this is the burden of the whole, that the wa-
B ges ol labor ought to come down.
u They say that the petty states of the Medite
e raucau, Naples, Corsica, Sardinia, Genoa, and
others, are proper examples for tho people of the
United Stales? Was ever anything heard so
e monstrous? Why, my friends, these gentlemen
; arc party mad ; they have a sort of feeling on
:l this subject that conics near insanity. They for
get where they are. They forget that they are
American fltizins. They forget who and what
are tho labpre/i of this great nation, or they
would never Hold out to them the petty sovereign
ties of Europe as examples.
And is this course of conduct democratic?
Why, the laborers of this country constitute 15
out ol 16 of thcWnlire population ; 1 mean all
who labor; all thpsc who labor on their own
farms, for they art laborers in the truest sense of
Ihe word ; and allthoso who labor in shops, or
in their own humbe dwellings, or on tho capi
tal of others; thcsiiarej 14 out of 15 of the whole
people. And any Wsteni that professes to-re
duce the price of lajor, reduces tho wages of all
those men. Is thatcood democratic doctrines?
Let old Suffolk ansvjcr. (Loudcries of "No I”
“No!”) Is that the doctrine which constitutes
- ll' o greatest good of (ie greatest number ?
1 his doctrine, mylrionds, originated in a total
misapprehension of (ie stale of the laborers here,
and the laborers in oilier countries. Look at
Suffolk for instance. You are not quite us dem
ocratic here us wc arc in old Massachusetts.
T ou have many larje farms of from three hun
dred to five bundle! acres in each, that have
come lo you by inheritance and other ways. Wc
have scarcely any of these in Massachusetts.
Well, how is it here ? Don't you labor on your
own farms? You know how you arc enabled to
manage in this way. But how many of you, 1
would ask,can educate families on more lent roll
property ; linw many can give their children pro
per education by their income they obtain from
land which they pay a rent for ? None. In
Mnssachusitts. none can afford to spend S4OOO
or SSOOO tubring up a family out of property
which they rent. But hero nine-tenths of you
work on your own land. In Europe, ninety-nine
out of every one hundred work on other men’s
lands Is ycur labor, by your own hands, nt your
own ploughs, in your own burns, reaping and
thrashing your own wheat—lords of tne soil, as
you really are—to be compared lo that of Eu
rope, where 10,000 of the laborers don't own
amongst (lie whole o( them enough land to make
one a grave? No. ’There’s a vast difference in
the state of the two. And tho idea of computing
(hem, arose together from a missapprehension of
the condition of the laborers of the two coun
tries. The example of Europe has miserably
misled them to advocate the propriety, of redu
cing the prices of labor hero to Ihe European
standard.
A year ago I was in England ; in the south
of England, which is a little the poorest part of the
country—and I was in the centre of England,
and in the north. And I was very particular to
find out how the laborers fared there. It was a
subject that deeply interested mo, and I made
particular inquiries to find out all about it. I
wanted to know every tiling about it. Ami if I
went away from my country an Amcrcun, I came
homo 300,900 times more an American, to the
back bone, than I was when 1 left here. (Im
mense cheering.)
On the 22d of September, last year I was in
the south of England; and 1 found tho price of
labor therefor a good man was seven shillings a
week, and he has to board himself und his fam
ily. In the centre of England, wliicli is the rich
cat and tho best part of the country, and whore
the soil is more productive, in the midst of the
harvest time, a good man can only get eighteen
pence a day, or about 33 cents a day, biiaid him
self and bis family. In the south of Scotland
he gets no more and In tl,r north ho J0..,',,,
' so much.
And in tho midst of the best season of the year
for laborers, I have seen thousands of them going
along the road side with sickles on their shoulders,
desirous of working for Is. 7d, a day, and couldn't
get it. That's labor in other countries—that's
labor in Europe. Do we want to come to that?
[Cries of "no, no.”]
And now what 1 wish you lo do is, not to take
my opinions or statements for this ; but to go
borne and examine the subject for yourselves.
Andyouwill see that the Sub treasury leads lo
this. Its friends say it docs. Mr. Tappan says
that the wages of labor must and ought lo come
down to eleven cents a days ; and they 1 think
must be disposed to thank him for little who will
thank him for that. But go home and inquire all
about this. Don’t take the statement of that old
aristocrat, Mr. Webster, for truth, unless you find
it so,
'There is not a more thoroughly independent
set of people in the world than the community in
this same county of Suffolk. Here you arc all of
you farmers. You have your fine lauds, slocked
with cattle, your wouds filled with game, your
broad and beautiful bay ; and when you have no
desire to plough the land, yon can lake your boat
and plough the ocean. [lmmense cheering, and
cries of “ Inn !” “true!”]
It is that true your soil is not so fertile ns that
of Michigan, Kentucky, or some of the western
and southern Slates. But you have one great
advantage winch they have not. You are near
a great market, and that market must bn supplied.
Il prices are bad, it is true that you suffer a little.
But prices arc never so bad ns to distress any of
you, on account of the many resources which you
have to avail yourselves of.
Well, in tins respect you are fortunate. But
remember that the country is not all so fortunate,
and so well situated as you are. 'There is the
great commercial interest that has suffered, and
that is still suffering so deeply ; and there are the
great manufacturing districts that are suffering. ;
I do not mean merely the large cotton and wool
ten manufactories of ihe Eastern States, but the j
small ones scattered ull over the Northern Stales, !
where they make shoes and hats, carriages and
harness. All those are completely cut up, und
their business is gone.
And now, my friends, it is for you, us you val
ue not only your own prosperity, but the welfare
of die whole community, the prosperity of your
neighbors and fellow-citizens, to say whether you
don’t wish to see all portions and classes of this
great country flourishing and happy. An i then
look at the sub-Treasury scheme, and say if il is
a scheme under which ail classes of the com
munity can (ioi rish.
Enquire carefully and fully into the state of
business all over the country; ascertain what has
caused all the prostration in trade and commerce.
For I think you hear and sec much morn of the
storm than you feel yourselves. Providence has
kindly protected you from the violent changes
that have affected all these communities in the
country whotc prosperity depends upon the
production and disposal of some one great article,
as the cotton and tobacco of the Soudi, or the
wheat of Ohio and the West.
How fortunately are not you situated! You
raise all that is necessary to supply your wants
yourself. You live well—l believe you have a
sort of universal taste for that kind of tiling, by
what I have seen since I have been amongst you.
(Laughter and ch ere.) You send the surplus
of your produce to market. Remember, only tl e
surplus. If prices are high, that affects only the
surplus. If they are low, still it is only the sur
plus that is affected. And if prices are down
one-half, only the surplus feels that fall.
But it is not so with the cotton of the South.
1 The planter can’t cat it, nor he can’t drink it, nor
ho can’t smoke it. Ho lias to sell tho whole of it,
and if prices fall the fall runs through the whole.
And ho has to buy all that be wants for his own
vuio out of the diminished sum which his produce
yields him.
But with you the case is very different. You
consume nine-tenths and sell one-tenth. The
same thing holds true of tho great grain regions
that. 1 have stated, ol the cotton regions, und so
on of all those districts that raise provisions and
produce for exportation. You have the great
market of New York close to you; the people
there must out and you must feed them. But take
Ohio and Michigan. If the market for their pro
duce fulls, it affects tho farmers’ products und la
bor for the whole year.
Now, then, carefully examine these subjects,
and you will find that the war against labor is a
war against the very vitality of the United Stales,
And I wish the price of labor to ne kept up.
There is no more sure criterion of tho prosperity
of a country than when you hear every body say,
“Our wages are high.” If wages are high, de
pend upon it tho great mats of tho community
are happy ami prosperous.
How different is the situation of our glorious
American from tho condition of Europe. Do
the laborers of the countries there ooml ikuit <• Ivll
- to schools, furnish them with ull kimli of
excellent books, and educate them in a maimer
to fit them for filling any station in the country ?
Why there, such a thing is never heard of. Such
a thing is not known in those countries whore
the cncup jackets come from, that you hoar so
much of the cheap labor obtained through the
land. They never arc and never will he able lo
do as you do.
Away then, with the insane project of redu
cing the price ol the labor of those hard hands
and honest hearts who are the pride, s upporl, ami
glory of the country. Away, ut once and forever
with all comparisons that are to degrade these
men—such men, —to the level of the laborers in
Europe.
And now, then, in leaving that subject, I say
that the whole doctrine of the Adminstralion, in
regard to the price of labor, is nut a very demo
cratic doctrine.
Denunciation of Washi noton. — -tart not,
reader, il is even so. 'The Spoiler papers have
the effrontery to condemn the Administration of
the "Father of his country,” and to contrast il
unfavorably with that of Martin Van Buren!!
'The New York Evening Post says:
“For half a century the democracy have been
struggling to recover the government from the
fatal direction given lo it by tho first Adminis
tration.”
The New York Gourier says: "Wo learn
from an authentic source that advices were re
ceived by the Great Western to the effect that the
Governments of Holland and Belgium had
authorized their Ministers in London to treat
with General Hamilton for tho conclusion of a
treaty of recognition, umlly, und commerce with
tho new Republic of Texas; and that Gen. Ham
ilton, the diplomatic plenipotentiary of Texas,
was about to repair to London for that purpose.”
Bringing men to their senses.— Getting them
drunk to secure their votes.— Locofoco Dictionary.
From the Mew Haven Palladium.
Ring lticlmr.l ..ml ** i.t.r .vi.triiii,
tub news of itie full of (lie Maine Army of Van
Buren, in the North, will create such an excite
ment m the palace at Washington as lias novel
before been witnessed there. Ibe little monarch
will feel much as another “ Sun of Yurie ” did
just before he made Hie “ grand charge that lost
him Hie crown lie bad usurped.” The picture be
low, as drawn by Shakspeare, wc venture to say
is a good representation of certain men ami things
at Washington about these days :
Enter Ratcliffe.
Ratcliffe. Most mighty sovereign, on the West
ern coast
Ridetli a puissant navy; to the shore
Throng many doubtful, hollow-hearted friends.
Unarm’d to beat them back,
’Tis thought Richmond is their Admiral.
Enter Stanley.
King Richard. Stanley, what news with you t
Stanley. Richmond is on the seas.
K. Rich. There let him sink, and be the seas
on him I
White liver’d runagate, what doth be there >
Stanley. 1 know not, mighty sovereign, out by
guess.
K. Rich. Well, as you guess?
Stanley. Stirr’d up by Dorsctt, Buckingham,
aud Morton.
Me makes for England, here to claim the crown.
K. Rich Is the chair empty >is the sword un
swayed f
Is the Kmg'dcad ? the empire unpossessed /
What heir of York is there alive but wc ?
And who is England’s King but great York’s heir?
Then tell me, what makes ho upon the seas f
Stanley. Unless for iliat, my liege, I cannot
guess.
K. Rich. Thou wilt revolt and Hy to him I fear.
Euler a Messenger.
Messen. Sir Edward Couitnay.and the haughty
prelate,
Bishop of Exeter, bis elder brollit r,
Willi many more confederates, are in arms.
Enter another Messenger,
2d Messen. In Kent, my liege, the Gullfords
arc in arms ;
Ami evcr.v hour, more opponents
Flock to the rebels, and their power grows strong.
Enter another Messenger.
3d Messen. My lord, the army of great Buck
ingham—
j K. i.ich. (Interrupting him.) Out on ve, owls!
—nothing hut songs of heath!
(He strikes him J 1 here, take thou that till theu
bring better news.
John Hancock.
HV h, H. THOM AH.
The memory of this great patriot, statesman,
and orator, has been most grossly neglected;
while hundreds, whose services in lire cause of
Independence were not a lythe of his, have been
eulogized to the skies, and lie mi couvass and in
, marble, this great patriot's name but seldom
, finds a place, even when celebrating that freedom
I be was among the veiy first, it not the first, to
risk bis life in obtaining. I have for years no
ticed this neglect with feelings of unfeigned re
gret. Never was a man more beloved by any
people, than Hancock was by the people ol Mas
sachusetts. With the exception of a single year,
when Uowdoiu was put in, he was, for sixteen |
successive years, elected their Governoi, and
closed his patriotic and illustrious life in that
i hign station. Hundreds of times have 1 seen
him, when so worn out aud crippled by disease,
[ that lie could not stand, taken Irom bis carriage
into the arms of two faithful servants, (who reg
ularly attended for the purpose,) and carriid up
to the Council Chamber, a distance of nearly fifty
yards Irom tho street. The last time he ad
j dressed his fellow citizens was the most impres
; sive scene I ever witnessed. A town meeting
i was called upon a question of great excitement.
Old Faneuil Hall could not contain the people,
. and an adjournment look place to the Old South
i Meeting-house; Hancock was brought in and
carried up into the front gallery, where the Hon.
Benjamin Aus:in supported him on the right,
r and the celebrated Dr. Charles Jarvis on the left,
m ~-— t -wiii in I I !■ I IJL—MU I.
while he addressed the multitude. The Govor
nor coinnienced by slating to his fellow citizens
tlmt i% he felt” it was the last lime he should ad
dress them, —that “ the teem of mnrlulili/ are
growing fast with n him” The fall of a pin
might have been heard, such a death-like silence
pervaded the lisleninc crowd during the whole
of his animated and souhslimrig speech, while
tears ran down (he cheeks of Thousands. The
meeting ended, he was conveyed to his carriage
and taken home, hut never again appeared in
public; his death followed soon after. The
corpse was emlmwelled and kept for eight days,
to give an opportunity to the citizens from the
distant parts ol the .Slate to render the lust tri
bute ot respect to his memory. They came by
thousands and tens of thousands; the procession
was an hour and a halt in passing. The post of
honor among the militniy was given to the Con
cord Light Infantry, under Captain Davis, the
same who commanded tnem on the over-momo
rnhlc nineteenth nf April ’76. It was the most
solemn and interesting, and incomparably tbo
longest funeral procession I ever saw. Samuel
Adams, who was lieutenant-governor, became
governor cx-olficio by the death of Hancock, and
followed the birr, (there were no hearses with
nodding plumes in those days,) as chief mourner,
hut tho venerable patriot could not endure the
fatigue, and was compelled to retire from tne pro
cession.
Hancock, before tho Revolution, was a man of
vast fortune, and though he permitted it to (low
in the cause of hilcountry, like water, he had
still enough left to support a splendid establish
ment, and lived and entertained like a prince.
His generosity was unbounded. I well remem
ber that one evening in each week during sum
mer a lull hand ol music, at his own expense,
attended in front of his venerable stone mansion,
to entertain the citizens who were promenading
on the mall. He seldom left Boston to visit at
any distance, hut when ho did he was escorted
by a volunteer troop of cavalry, who hold them
selves in readiness for that purpose. He was
very loud ol joke and repartee, so much so that
a worthy citizen of Boston, Nathaniel Bulch,
Esq., a halter, who never failed to appear among
the invited guests at his hospitable board, obtain
ed the unenviod appellation of " the Governor’s
Jester." The celebrated Brissol, in his travels to
the United Stales, speaks of his meeting this
gentleman ot Hancock's table; and such was tho
mutual attachment between the Governor and
Mr. Bulch, that if the former was culled away, no
matter w hat distance, Squire Ualch attended him
like his shadow, which the following circumstance
most happily illustrates; Governor Hancock was
called on a visit to the then province «( Maine,
on which occasion ho travelled in stale, and was
attended by the Hon. Gol. Ornc, one of the Exe
cutive Council, and Nathaniel Haleb, Esq. Their
arrival ut Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was
thus humorously announced: “On Thursday
last, arrived in this town, Nathaniel Bulch. Esq.,
accompanied by His Excellency John Hancock,
and the Hon. Azor Orne, Esq.
Tho events of hy-gone days have been brought
to my recollection by the following short para
graph from the W. Y. Evening Star.
Valuable relic. — Wo have hud left for ns at
onr office, lor inspection, the original commission
appointing John Hancock first Major-General of
tho Massachusetts Colony, his dated May 30,
1770.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
A B 100 nr Tiuokiiv. — Tho “Olive Branch”
of the 23d ult., published at Monroe, in this
.State, contains the account of a fatal and bloody
rencontre which lately occurred on Bayou Ma
son, in the Parish of (Jar.oil. Tho particulars
were given to the editor of the Olive Brunch, by
a gentleman from Lake Providence.
It appears that suspicions hud long been enter
tained of a secret association of robbers on Island
No. 92 in the Mississippi. The whole country
was rife with accounts of their depredations. Af
ter the lute murder of a Mr. Webb, on Bavou
Mason, it become tho determination of the people
to use every means for their extermination. One
of the clan, a man by the name of Laverty, was
known to boat the house of Garrett P. Rollins,on
tho Bayou, and was extensively known as a ne
gro thief. Mr. William A. Clonian. deputy
shcr.fi of Carroll, determined to arrest him, and
for that purpose started, in company with three
others, in pursuit, tin arriving near the house
they separated, Cloinan and one of the men go
ing in front, and the other two to the hack part.
Laverty, in the meantime, had been informed
that there was a warrant out for him, and when
he spied Cloinan and his companion nearing the
house lie snatched up a double barreled gun and
rushed to the door, t 'lonian commanded him to
surrender. He then asked Cloinan if he inten
ded to shoot him. Cloinan replied that, unless
ho surrendered he most certainly would. At
this instant they both raised their guns and fried
so nearly together that the difference could scarce
ly he distinguished. Cloinan was shot with u
double barreled shot gun, and fell dead on the
spot, one buckshot entering his throat, another
his chin, and twelve just below the no»e. Laver
ty was shot with two rillo hulls, both entering the
nipple, and the other about two inches to the right
a little above. He did not fall, hut grasped his
gun with desperate firmness, and attempted to
cock the other Irairel. He was then fired on by
Clmnan’s companion, who, missing him, rushed
forward and knocked him doe n with the hut of
his gun. At tills instant one of the men who
had gone to lire hack part of the house came up
ur.d placing the muzzle of his gun against La
verty ’s head fired, scattering his brains over the
yard. The neighbors soon assembled, under a
great excitement; a hole was dug in the earth,
and Laverty, hoots, shoes, hat and all, were pitch
ed in and covered up.
I.vniAivs. — We learn, that a few days since,
Captain Baily, captured in the vicinity of St,
Marks, a negro who formerly belonged to the In
dians. This negro slates that the Indians intend
ed attacking St. Marks and Port Leon, the first full
moon, and was sent with five Indians to examine
their situation. 'l ire negro gave an accurate ac
count of their proceedings, with the exact situa
tion of the places. .Ie says the Indiana intend
ed to have attacked Madison a few weeks since,
hut were prevented by the constant firing of guns
by the citizens, who il seems suspected their in
tention. and done it to intimidate them. The In
dians in that section, he snys, number several
hundred, and among the parly to which ho be
longed, two white men were connected, and a
number of Clock Indians, and does himself be
long to the Creeks, and was at the burning of
Roanoke. —Ajwlachicula Gazette, ‘id inst.
A suspicious person named Francis K. Pierce,
run up board and other hills at Boston, under the
garb ot sanctity and piety. His landlady began to
get uneasy, which he observed and cautioned her
that perhaps persons had told her not to trust
him, hut. said ho, if you do not find that 1 fulfil
my promise to pay you to !he utmost farthing,
do’nt you ever trust any body again. Tho next
day he absquatulated,