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AINU SENTINEL.
AIKJUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17.
ruR PHKSI HKNTi
WIUIAN HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
FOU VICK-PRKBI DF.NT,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia ;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriotic statesmen.
FOR r.I.ECTORS OF PKESIDF.NT AND VtCF.-PRF.SIDENT.
GEORGE R. GILMER,of Oglethorpe.
DUN-AN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON ORANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER fl. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
Error. —The article in yesterday’s daily, head_
ed “ Maryland Election” should have been A faint
Elertion.
Hard Pressed.
Tha Locofocos are so hard pressed for documents
to prove that the Northern Locofocos arc the only
Anti-abolitionists, that they are copying the letters
of Northern Whigs and endeavoring to pass them
off as Lorofoeo letters.
The Corporal and the Charleston Mercury exhib
ited a memorable instance of this in the letter of G.
Washington Tyson, of Pennsylvania What say
you to it, Corporal, is that fair irt politics > Will
you tell your readers tint ?
lion. E. Stanly’s Letter. i
The Letter of the Hon. FL Stanly, member of |
Congress from North Carolina, should be attentive
ly read by every Southern man. i
i
From the Columbus Enquirer. 1
lion. J. 8. Calhoun. '
The suggestions contained irt the following t
communication arc both appropriate and well
timed. (Joining us they do from a distinguish
ed citizen of the Mate, and representing the
unanimous feelings of the party ill this section, I
we feel confident that they will meet with thu
consideration which they deserve.
Os the personal claims and qualifications of
Judge Calhoun it is unnecessary to speak,—
Among those who know him best, wo presume
that he is universally acknowledged to he dis
tinguished lor all those generous feelings, as well
as lliosn traits of chuiueter which peculiarly Cl
nun ioi me station oi rrcshlcnt ot Hie Minute.—
As the conductors of the public press, wo aro
perhaps heller able than others to judge of the es
sential service which he has rendered the parly
in its late struggle. Wo know full welt with
w hat sleepless vigilance he watched every move
ment of the enemy, and with what skill and
adroitness he parried their every blow. Let the
good old rule of dispensing “ honor to whom
uoxou is uuk” be observed, and the verdict of
our friends will ho found in favor of the sugges
tions of“ Muscogee.”
Mounts. Em nous: Sufficient returns have
been received from the several Counties to render
it almost certain that there will be a small ma
jority in the Senate opposed to the present Ad
ministration ol the (jieneral Government. In the
organization of that body it will he important
that its piesiding olliecr should he selected with
a view to tne interests of the Stale, and respect
fur those who hate contributed to the success of
the cause from which we confidently anticipate
better times for our country.
In looking over the names of those who have
been honored with a seal in that body, no one
presents more claims than that of our fellow-cit
izen, James S. Calhoun.
As a presiding oflicer, he is prompt and deci
sive, Vourteous in Ins deportment, and conciliatory
in his manners. In the contest through which
we have passed, he was among the liist to es
puuso the cause of Kelorm, and tne columns of
your pape* hear ample testimony to the indus
try, Zealand tnlemt, with which he conducted the
cause. The numbers of •• One of the People,” of
which he was the avowed author, place him a
inoiig the first of the .political writers itt our Mole
and contributed more than any thing else to call
into action that spirit of investigation among the
people to which is mainly to he utiiibuied the
result of the elections in Georgia.
In a sectional point of view, we have some
claims; for, Western Georgia has no representa
tive in her councils—and we deem ourselves for
tunate on having it in our power to present one
so well qualified to represent his political friends,
and so unexceptionable to political opponents.
These suggestions arc made without reference
lo the claims of others and without the knowl
edge of Mr. Calhoun. Mdbcookf..
General Harrison and Foreign Emi
grants.—lu reply to a Idler addressed to him by
Mr. Fhancis J. Gin sn of Philadelphia, making
a respectful inquiry of General Haiiuison in re
gard to his disposition towards foreign emigrants,
the General addressed a frank and generous com
munication, of which we find the following ex
tract in that very excellent journal, the Philadel
phia Standaad .-
North Bend, Sept. 25, 1840.
“ 1 hroughout the whole course of my political
life, I am satisfied that no sentence ever fell f>om
my bps which could lie construed into an unfriend
ly feeling to the Europeans, who have emigrated
hither to enjoy the advantages which our ftco in
stitutions a fiord, or a wish lo extend the period
which is fixed by the existing laws lor their full
admission to the rights of citizenship,”
A Goon Recommendation.—A friend, speak
ing to us of the late Maine election, concedes
with much propriety in the strong words of Mr,
|an Huron’s Message on the subject of the Stan
ding Army. •• As connecting itself intimately
wub thu* iiiipartanl subject,” “I cannot recom
mend ( too strongly to your consecration the
plan of heating the Loco Foeot even / where.
— Nashville Banner.
Another triumph in South Carolina.
We learn by a passenger in the Greenville stage,
that Gcr. Thompson, who declined running again,
is succeeded by Dr. Butler, a warm advocate of
Reform.
Look out, to the South I
Tbc administration parly seem lo think that Hit
people of the South arc a race of gudgeons, to he
caught by any sort of bait, even ..its of rag, white
or black,or almost any other color, that is tossed
out to them. Their last card in the present contest
is a stmiiltanroos, laborious and clamorous attempt
to sti" up in i lie breasts of the Southern people, by
every sort of misrepresentation.and by every trick
of cunning, feelings of sectional distrust against
their brethren of the Middle, Northern and Eastern
States. Let the people of the South, then, be on
their guard and spurn all such attempts as the arts
of desperate conspirators against their peace and
against the public welfare. Let them treat the
foul attempts to alienate them fiom their best
friends as the arts of a common public enemy and
traitor to the best interests of the Union.
If our Southern friends wish to know the truth
tespccting public sentiment in the Eastern Stales,
instead of listi ning to feed, interested libellers, let
them listen lo the voice of the eastern people
themselves, every where and unifoimly expressed
ns it is in the following article from the Brattleboro
(Vt.) F lail, ol Sept. 22 :
The organ of Mr. Van Huron comes out this
week with one of the most glaring and unqualified
falsehoods that ever disgraced its lolumns. It at
tributes the late total defeat of the Van Bitten
paity in this Slate to the spirit of abolitionism—
that it is a triumph of abolitionism, &c. We be
lieve we arc well acquaii ted with the party con ■
test which was carried on in this State previous to
tlio election, and wc do know that abolition nor
anti-abolition has ever been, in nny form, name or
kind, brought before the people of this Stale ; and
further say, that it has never been, in an; w ay, a
qualification for any one pul in nomination by ei
ther parly, unless it has been used by the Van
Huron paity in their nominations for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, who, we believe, are both
abolitionists : we certainly know the last to be one
of the most ultra and rabid abolitionists in the
whole ur-jto li it in u fuel, as thu Globe tells us,
that Vermont goes Whig because of abolition prin
ciples, why do not the Van Horen papers in this
State say so ? Not a word about it from them—
they know better. A few days after the election,
a distinguished Van Boren man said, in our hear
ing, that he was very glad the Stale had gone for
the Whigs, as the Sooth would think it the effect
of abolitionism, and they should gain (wo tc one,
as the result would show.
The truth is, the contest on Hie part of the Whig
party in this State, has been carried on against the
measures of the General Government. 'I hose who
approve of the administration of Mr. Van Buren
voted, without any exception,for that ticket; and
those who aic opposed to Mr. Van Boren’s mea
sures, voted for the Whig ticket ; and the question
ol slavery or aoti-slavery has never been mention
ed in any of the party papers in the State during
the canvass. The whole article lias been got up
by the veracious Globe for the purpose of deceiving
the Southern Whigs. Wc can assure them, and
«*• can do it without the fear of contraaic.ion in
this State, that the interests and political views of
the Whigs of Vermont are perfectly identical with
those of the South.
Major Eaton at Nashville.—Wc learn from
the Nashville Banner of the 3d instant that Major
Eaton made an address on the previous evening at
the Log Cabin. The Banner says :
•‘Fiank, good tempered, and free from all de
nunciation, ins appeal to Ids old Jac.son friends
must, we think, have been felt by such of them as
were present, lie defined his position very clearly
—repe'led Hie imputations that have been cast up
on the motives by which he is actuated—stated the
reasons which had induced him lo support Gen.
l Unison rather than Mr Van Buren, and showed
that in doing so, he was only acting upon the good
old Jackson principles which he had so long main
tained.”
From the New York American.
A GrkatUntil aisr atH.anii.—Notieeishere
by given. Hint a public sale will take place at the
While House, on the 4lb March next of a splen
did collection of Regal Furniture —consisting of
Tabourets, Lounges, Divans, Damask Curtains,
(lu/d Spoons, Hemmed Kitchen Towels, nun vari
ous other articles too tedious to mention, being
Hie sumo collection enumerated by Colonel Ben
lon in his lamotisdescription oftho “East Room,”
during Mr. AUams’ administration—(hut w1.1,.1>
articles were neither used or purchased by Inal
President, hut reserved for Mr. Van Burnt, as
belter suited to a real Democratic President's
habits.) Early notice of sale is hereby given
with n request that the same be published in the
Court Journals of Europe, Egypt and Turkey
that the Princes and Potentates of those countries
may supply themselves—-and the editors or
publishers of said journals will insert said notice,
nml send their bills lo Ivindcrliook for payment
1 erms of sale, Cash, in gold or silver, or Treas
uiy Notes, (provided said notes can bo discounted
at the Bank of America.)
A great ha, gain is offered at this sale, as the
“ruining occupant" being on old fashioned
Democrat, has neither knowdlege of, or use for,
these luxuries.
Also, at same time and place, will be offered for
sile, the Official Organ and Extra, with the ser
vices of their respective editors, li the name of
Iheso he estimated at tlioir cost to Hie people
the undersigned can’t speas 100 highly in their
praise, although many do class them among the
bad speculations of His times, costing more than
they will bring. They will bo found, however,
admirably calculated lor hard currency countries,
being great issuers of paper inoxchaijge for gold
nr silver. Ihe people o| this country being ignor
ant of their value, will not probably bid high for
retaining them, and a great bargain may be
expected. Terms of sale made to suit conveni
ence of purchasers. By order of the People.
ECONOMY, REFORM & CO.,
Auctioneers.
General Haruison.—A Correspondent of
the Commercial Advertiser, gives the following
description ol General Harrison's appearance at
Cincinnati on the Ist of October.
Pile General is tall and thin in person, with a
slight stoop, but be hears his years most gallant
ly ; his eye, of the keenest and deepest blue,
shines like a star, nor does his air or manner be
tray the least symptom of any decay of bis fac
ulties.
He spoke for an hour ami a half, and was most
distinctly heard by every one in the vast assem
blage. His language is roost beautiful; there is
no straining alter effect or the graces of oratory,
but the most chaste simplicity was conspicuous
i throughout. I will not try to give the substance
jot his speech, as it will doubtless he puolislied.
I only wish that those of his opponents who have
called him an ‘•imbecile old man” could have
heard his noble and manly vindication of himself
from the slanders Leaped upon him. His man
ner of speaking about the opposing candidates
was that of a perfect gentleman, and while he ful
ly exposed the ruinous designs of the Adminis
tration, he was careful not to utter a single word
that could be construed into personal off nee.
As far as I can judge, he has all the qualities of a
most able statesman, and will discharge the du
ties ol tne office of President with consummate
ability. Ibe impression is daily gaining ground
that be has been underrated even by his friends
and 1 have not the least doubt tnat be will ex
ceed their most sanguine expectations.
Mammoth Apple—On Thursday last, Mr.
Luther Plunieu, of Dearborn county, Indiana,
sent to the city two of the largest apples we have
ever seen, to be presented lo Gen. Harrison and
Gov. Tyler. One of them measured 16 inches in
circumference, and weighed 1 lb. Boz, — the oth
er 15 inches, and weighed 1 lb. 12 ounces.
This gentleman presented one of the same kind
of apples to Gen. Jackson in 1835, which grew
upon another three. He says that tree has never
borne a large apple since.—Cincinnati Benubli
can. /
Letter from Mr. Stanly, of N. to Mr.
Ilotts of Virginia.
Wasiiihuton Oity, Sept. 23, IS4O.
Mv Dear Sir—l have read with mu. h pleasure
your icticr to your constitacnls, relative to the
celebrated plan of Poinsett, and the llooe case. 1
really pity the President and hit Secretaries, who
have made themselves so ridiculous, in their at
tempts to shield themselves froir pub ic indigna
tion. There arc gross inconsistencies and contra
dictions in their letters, which cannot bt reconciled.
But this you have hand.ed well, and nollin g re
mains for me to say.
1 wish, however, to say a word relative to the
conduct of the Judiciary Comtiitire. The Presi
dent, in his electioneering Utter to Mr., Burras,
says, “ that this committee ite hlenl upon the
subjec t.” After Mr. Storrs, if Connecticut, re
signed. I was placed on that cammittee to supply
the vacancy. The case of Lieutenant llooe was
then referred to us, and the committee, worn out
as we ah were, by the warm weather, silting up
late at night, and the press of bujiaess, found it
impossible, with the little time at'our command,
to consider this case, without neglecting all tho
other business before the Corimittre.
As well as I remember there was not a full
meeting of the Committee tfter I became a mem
ber of it.
But what was it propoed that the Judiciary
Commit! e should do > llt vc lately seen an arti
cle in the Government egan, commenting upon
the vote in the House, <n the resolution of Mr.
Chapman, of Alabama, an of course misiepresent
ing the whole affair. Byrc'erencc to the journal,
you will observe that on he 14th of July, ■■ a mo
tion was made by Mr. Chpman,of Alabama, that
the rules in relation to th. older of business be sus
pended, to enable him to nove the fol'owiug reso
, lulion:”
“ Revolved, That the Jidiciary Committee, hav
ing charge of the case of Aeut. llooe, do foithwith
report a hill to this Hous:, prohibiting the enlist
ment of negroes or folorel petsoßs in the service
of the Navy or Aimy of tie United States.”
i To this resolution 1 wat decidedly opposed, and
I gave ray reasons for it. In these, if i remember
i right, you concurred. By reference to the journal,
, on the 17th July, you will hud I succeeded in.hav
. ing these objections entered on the journal. I
asked to he *xcnsud bom vo ing, that I might he
I enabled to assign my reasons, which were as fol
. lows !
“Mr. Stanly nsked to be excused from voting,
because the Judiciary Committee had not time at
! this period of the session, to examine and ptepare
any law on any subject; oecause the President and
the Secretary of the Navy had already foil power
and authority to exclude them ftoin giving testi
mony against while men, and to set aside the pro
ceedings of cou ts martial, if they saw any thing
requiring their interference j and because he (Mr.
S.) could not consent that the Navy should be de
prived of the services of negroes, as cooks, stew
ards, and servants, for there is no necessity they
should be witnesses; and because, to enact such a
law as the gentleman from Alabama proposes,
would, in effect, make white men negroes, by im
posing on them the necessity of discharging duties
heretofore discharged by negroes.”
This explains my opinions, as a Southern man,
and as a member of the Judiciary Committee. And
after deliberate examination, I bolieve these views
arc correct: and 1 know a huge majority of South
ern men will think with me.
The great laboratory of lies, the Globe, gives the
names of those who voted against Mr. Chapman’s
resolution. <» •
if you will look at the journal, you will .find, on
the nth of July', Mr. Chapman introduced his re
solution to have the rules suspended, and the yeas
and nays are there given. The Globe would have
t’ e South to believe, that all the Locofocos who
supported Mr. Chapman in his motion are good
Democrats, and friends of the South. But to ex
pose this unfounded and hypocritical pretension, I
need only call your attention to the names of H.
Williams, and Win. Pannenter, both of whom are
found voting with Mr. Chapman. Both of whom,
therefore, the Globe intends to palm upon the
South as friends of tue institution of slavery, and
in favor of excluding negroes from entering the
service.
1 have before me copies of the letters written by
Messrs. Parmentcr and Williams,before they were
elected members of t ongress, and I give you an
cxliael from each. The extracts I here give you
I read in the House of Representatives, and they
were not denied by Parmenler and U'ilhams;
Extract of a letter from Win. Parmenter to Dr.
Amos Farnsworth, dated East Cambridge, Oc
tober Hi, 183 s.
“That the existence of Slavery is an evil of
great magnitude is not disputed, excepting by a
very small portion of the citizens of the Union.
In my opinion, the powers possessed by Congress
should be exercssed to prohibit interstate slave
trade, and to abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, whenever such measures can he adopted
consistently with the safety of the nation ; and 1
deem it the duty of Congress to regard the require
ments of justice and humanity as well as the other
obligations of the Constitution of the United
States.”
“ * am not in favor of the admission of any new
State whose Constitution may tolcrateslavery.and
in this sentiment 1 believe the People of this sec
tion ot the country almost unanimously coincide.
Respeclfu Iv, and truly yours,
WILI.IA M PA KM ENTER.”
Extract of a letter of 11. Williams to Rev. P.
Crandall, Eill River, dated Taunton, Novem
ber 1, 1838.
“ Dear Sir —I have this day' received your letter
of the 31st till., propounding to me interrogatories
in hchall of the Bristol County' Anti-Slavery So
ciety, and lor answer refer you to my course in
the Massachusetts Senate, and to a letter written
to Andrew Robi son, Ksq., about one year since,
and published in the newspapers of that time. That
letter contains opinions 1 had long entertained and
olten expressed. 1 have since seen no reason to
change them. / still believe slavery to be contrary
to the lint's of God and the best interests of man ;
that it ought not to be extended by the admission of
new Stales into the Union with Constitutions late
ral mg so great on evil; and that it is the impera
tive duty oft ongress to adopt immediate measures
for its abolition in the District of Columbia.
H. WILLIAMS.
Now, both these men, Parmenter and Williams,
are lull blooded Locufocos, and according to Globe
logic, are genuine friends of tire 'reuth ; and if they
aie deteated at the next election, we shall hear
that the Abolitionists have triumphed over these
immaculate Democrats!
Anti-slavery resolutions were introduced into
tho Massachusetts Legislature. The question was
taken by yeas and nay s upon car h resolution. —-
Hero are two of them :
''Resolved, 1 hat Congress, having exclusive le
gislation in the District of Columbia, possesses the
to abolish slavery and the slave trade therein,
and that the early exercise of such right is de*
irvuidtd by the enlighte ca sentiment ol the civi
lized world, by the principles of the revolution, and
by humanity.
“ Resolved, That slavery being an adm tted mo
ral and political evil, whose countenance,wherever
it exists, is vindicated mainly on the ground of ne
cessity, should be circumscribed within the limits
of the States where it has ..cen already eslablishad,
and that no new State should bo hereafter admitted
into the Union whose constitution of government
shall sanction or permit the existence of damestic
1 slavery.”
\S hi ther those who voted for these resolutions
: were abolitionists or not, I leave the Southern
. people to decide.
' u . 11,1,011, 1,011 * lle . passage of these resolutions, Henry
I \\ illiams, with every other Van Buren Senator
except one, recorded his name in the affirmative !
»ou will have perceived from the course of the
admmi.tr,.turn papers, that the attempt will be
made to delude the Southern country by crying out
f tha .V t,le abolitionists have dele, ted the demon*.s
I in \ ermont. *
s No man of ordinary intelligence cm any longer
. ho deceived by this ridiculous cry. But if there
should he one, I can very easily satisfy him of his
error.
1 here aie but two administration members from
* ermont in the present l ongress, and both of these
are abolitionists. 1 hey have been both defeated,
' and now we arc *old the abolitionists have beaten
I these good democrats ! ,
i On the 16th day of January last, in a speech
. which I delivered in the House of Representatives
1 referred to the fact that many of Mr. Van Huron's
j loading friends in Vermont were abolitionist.
. JP' father, the Locofoco candidate fur the
onice ol Lieut, (governor, was mentioned, among
others. It had been remarked, dining the debate,
that Mr. Slade was a Whig and an bolitionist and
in reply to this, I made the following statement :
“But, Sir, in the district represented by this j
member, the Van Buren abo itionists had a eonven- c
tion,and the secretary ol the Anti-Slavery Society, :
E. D. Barber, opposed his (Mr. Made’s) nomina
tion. 1 understand this F,. D. Barber is well known
as a devoted friend of this administration, the edi
tor of a paper, and an undisguised abolitionist. — ,
There are two audition members from Vermont
on this floor, both of whom are abolitionists. One
of them was here at the last Congress, ( Mr.
Fletcher;) he is in favor of abolishing slavery in
the District of Columbia, thinks that Congress
ought to prevent the buying and selling of slaves
between the States, and has expressed a willing
ness to enter into the customary international re
lations with Hayti.”
These remarks, 1 repeat, were made in the
House of Representatives, in the hearing of the
Vermont members; they were published, and have
never been, and will not be denied.
In the Vermont election which is recently heard
from, the abolition candidate for the ollicc ol Gov
ernor, Mr. Dillingham, the abolition candidasc lor
the office of Lieutenant Governor, Mr. K. U. Bar
ber, and the abo itionists, Smith and Fletcher,were
all beaten.
Some weeks after the publication of the speech
referred to, I received, through the mail, two pam
phlets Irorn Mr. E. 1). Barber ; one of them was
“ Mr. Barber’s Oration, delivered before the Addi
son County Anti-Slavery Socie'y, on the lilt of
July, 1830,” and the other was “ An Oration de
livered before the Democrats of Washington Co.,
at Montpelier, on lit* 4 h of July, 4839, by E. D.
Barber.”
Ouoneof these pamphlets which this impudent
Locofoco sent to me, he w.ote, “ from the author,”
and informed me that what 1 had been told as to
his opinions, was “ true beyond all possible deni
al,” as 1 would perceive by reading these pam
phlets. I think I exhibited these pamphlets to
you when they were received by the mail. 1
have them now before me, and this Mr. Barber,
over whose defeat the Locofocos aie mounting,
writes on one of his orations, that he is ‘'a demo
crat, true to his principles, as taught by Jefferson,
himself an abolitionist /” i quote his own words.
And this is one of the men, the secretary of an
anti-slavery society, and a devoted fiiend of Mr. I
Van Buren’s, who calls Jefferson an abolitionist —
This i. the man w hom tlie Van Buieu party sup
ported as their candidate for tho office of Lieuten
ant Governor in Vermont! and still we shall bo
told that the abolitionists are all Whigs, and have
beaten the Democrats it. Vermont.
The Whig victory in Maine has ovetwhelmcd
the tones here. They confess their astonishment
at the result. Judging from what they have al
ready said as to the Vermont elections, I should
not be much surprised if they bo dly charge the
Whig victory iu Maine as an abolition triumph.—
You may expect to hear this next Os course the
Whig majorities in Kentucky, Louisisua and North
Carolina, will all likewise be imputed to abolition 1
influence.
As to Maine, it may be as well to refresh the
memories of those who have forgotten the circum- t
stances. Mr. Albert Smith, of Maine, who was
recently defeated, gave satisfactory answers to
the abolitionists before his election. Mr. Smith
said in his letter,” No man can be more decidedly
opposed to slavery iu the abstract, or more deeply
desire the freedom of the who e human family than
myself.” Mr. Smith was also opposed to the ad
mission of Texas, and in favor of the right of pe
tition.
Mr. Fairfield, the Governor of Maine, who has
just boon defeated, was a member of tue last Con
gress. He, also, wrote a letter to the anolltioiiists,
in which ho assured thorn that he regarded slavery
as a moral and political evil, to which he is, and
has ever been, botn in principle an feeling, utterly
opposed, and that its entire abo ition cou d afford
to no one more sincere pleasure than himsetf
But he is now regar cd as one wnom the aboli
tionists have defeated. Mr. Fairfield was in Con- ,
gross when Mr. Calnoou, of Kentucky, on the 13th j
December. 1839, introduced the following resolu
tion, which I copy fiom the journals before me:
“.Mr. Calhoon, of Kentucky, moved that the
rules be suspended to enable him to move the fol
lowing resolution:
“ Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary
be instructed to report a bill making it unlawful
for any person to aid fugitive slaves in escaping
from their owners, and providing for the punish
ment iu the courts of the United Stales of all per
sons who may he guilty of such offence.
“ And that they be further instructed to report a
hid making it unlawful for any person in the non
s.aveltolding States of this Union to use any means i
to induce slaves from their owners, and providing:
for the punishment in the courts of the United
States of all persons who may be guilty of such
offence.”
Now surely no man friendly to the rights of tho
South, ro good democrat could object to trie pas
sage of such a resolution ; but as the entire aboli
tion of slavery could afford to no one more sincere
pleasure than to him, he was found voting against
Mr. Calhoon’s motion. The names of H. J. Ander
son, Thomas Davec, John Fairfield, and Virgil D.
Paris, Lot ofocos from Maine, will be found iu the
journal, with the names of Alexander Duncan,
Isaac Fletcher, William Parmenter, and William
Slade, all opposing this reasonable, just and honest
proposition.
Before 1 conclude, 1 wish to examine a portion
of the President’s letter—a letter full of subter
fuge and prevarication, the reading of which tilled
me with shame at the thought that its author was
President of the United States. The President
says, “ There is no act of Congress which prehibits
the admission ol colored poisons as witnesses in
Courts Martial.” Again, he says: “Ifit be wrong
to admit them, the fault is in the law, and the rem
edy is to be found only in its alteration.”
1 have selected these passages for remark, as the
letter has been already fully exposed, and repeti
tion is useless. The President tells us, with as
much distinctness as he can, that iu all cases here
after, where negro test mouy is admitted against a
white man, he cannot interfere. This should be
understood. If Martin Van Buren is re-elected
(of which thank Heaven there is now no danger,)
he will never interfere iu setting aside tho preceed
ings of Courts Martial, in which such testimony had
been admitted. And he expects the votes of treuth
ern States with this insulting declaration !
Now, in all this, 1 think the course of the Presi
ident merits the severest reprehension. According
lo the inclination of my mind at present, I should
feel bound o oppose such a law, and for several
reasons. In the nisi place, 1 trust we shall never
have a President again who would be guilty
of such conduct, and because 1 prefer to let the
matter rest where it now does —upon that spirit ol
concession, by which, as General Haiuson said our
union was effected, and without which it could nut
be preserved, if we are to depend upon legislative
action for the prelection of all our rights, the Un
ion had as well he dissolve d. There are obligations
ol a higncr characte r than mere acts of Congress.—
Besides, if Congress can pass a law making ncgio
testimony illegal, Congress can repeal that law.—
Suppose a bill should be introduced in the Douse
of Representatives, declaring that Congress should
not, during the next two years, abolish slavery in
this District ? Would any Southern man vote for
it ? Surely not, fur ;t concedes to Congress the
right to aboiisn slavery in this District c)r sup
pose abil: should be introduce.!, declaring that the
people of Virginia should not be molested in talcing
their slaves from that State to Alabama. What
South in man would vote for it ? None, because
Virginia holds her right muck more securely than
if it was only protected by an act of Congress. Tlie
President, therefore, to my mind, docs not regard
this question as a Patriot should —his “ southern
principles” are not found in operation here. The
right of a white man, in a slave-holding Sta’o, to
object to the admission of the leslinionv of negro
servants, cannot he effected by an act of Congress.
But let me illustrate the unsoundness of ihc
President's argument further. The act of Congress
ol I <94, which presides fur a naval armament, di
rects hat there shall be employ ed on bu..rd each of
the ships of 44 guns, me,Captain, four Lieuten
ants, Ac., &c. lue act says nothing of white Cap
tains or Lieutenants. What prevents the Presi
dent from appointing a negro Captain or Lieuten
ant? flic act ot 1708, wliicn establishes the de
partment ol tiie navy, m the first section provides
as follows:
Sec. 1. Ue it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United rial s of America, in
( ongress assembl d. J hat there shall be an Execu
tive Department, under the department of tlie na
vy, the chief officer of which shall be called the Sec
retary of the .xavy, Sic., Si c., &c.
The law does not say he shall be a white “ chief
officer.” According lo the President’s argument,
he would be authorized to aopoint a negro secreta
ry of the Navy ! Again, the act of 1809, which
authorized the employment of an additional naval
lurce, authorized and empowered the President of
the UHired Stales “ to appoint, any cause to oe en
gaged and employed as soon as may tie, three hun
dred midshipmen, three thousand sis hundred able
seamen, ordinary seamen and boys,” &c., &c.—
Nothing said of white midshipmen, ovwhite able
seamen. No one can doubt that undsr- this law
many white midshipmen wore employe.l r and many
Hack sailors. But acco:ding to the ai»nnhent o£
the President and his Secretary of the Navy,
“ there is no act of Congr ,-ss which prohibits-tiro ad
mission of colored persons,” as midshipmen- in the
navy. And 1 cannot see, according-to Hie views
of the President, why he should not appoint a few
negro midshipmen in the navy of the United-
States, and I should be glad t) hear any supporter
of his give any reason for his not doing so that
would not A-i:h equal force apply aga.nst their
being admitted as witnesses against white person.*.
And if a President should appoint a negro as liU
Secretary of the Navy, 1 suoulj like to see ai
Southern Senator who would confirm the nomina
tion, and then return to his constituents an 1 tell
them “ there was no law forbidding it,” and he
might say so wilh as much truth and propriety as
the President has said in the case of Lieutenant
Hoce. A President who disregards the moral
sense of the whole Southern country, who pays no
respect to their prejudices, except so far as the
laws of Congress compel him, is unfit to preside
over the destinies of these United States,-which
could never have been united without concession,
and which will be disunited when that patriotic
spirit of concession shall depart from among us.
The President understands his game with the
Abolitionists. They may quarrel with him for his
promised veto, but then, as in the case of William
Legget, who boasted he was an abolitionist, lie can
send a few of tbeir leaders abroad as foreign min
isters. The abolitionists already praise him fur his
conduct in the case of Lieut. Iloue. and the Eman
cipator remarks, “ unless the President has given
“some very foolish reasons, (which is not uulike
“ ly) his conduct in this case will redound as much
“ to fils honor, and atford him as much satisfaction,
“in a future day, as any one measure of his ad
“ minlstra ion.”
As to Mr. Secretary Paulding, his feelings have
always been of a very unfriendly character to
wards the South. Some years ago Mr. Pau di.ig
I wrote a hook called “ Letters from the South,” in
which he endeavors to make the people of Virginia
contemptible in the eyes of her si-ter States. In
the hist volume of this book, in Letter the llih,
Mr. Paulding gives the fo.lowing a, count, winch 1
copy from the book before me:
“Joggng along from the house where we left
the caitiff, who will one day 1 fear bring down
some great calamity on the countiy of his birth,
it was our fate to meet with another example of
the tricks men play “ before high Heaven,” when
not only custom but the laws sanction oppression.
The sun was shining out very hot, and in turning
an angle of the road we encountered the following
group: first a litt'e cart drawn by one horse, in
' which live or six half naked black children were
| tumbled like pigs together. The cart had ho cov
ering, and they seemed to have been actually broil
i ed to sleep. Behind Hie cart marched three blatk 1
women, with their head, neck, and breast uncover
ed, and without shoes or stockings; nexteame three
men bare beaded, half naked, and chained together
with an ox chain. Last of all came a white man—
a white man! Frank, on ho.seback, carrying pis
to « in his belt, and who, as we passed him, had the
impudence to ook us in the face without blushing.
1 should like to have seen him hunted with blood
hounds. At a houre where we slopped, a little
further on, we learuod that he bad bought these
miserable beings in Maryland, and was marching
them in this manner to some one of the mo.e
Southern Staes. Shame on the State of Maryland )
I say, and shame on the State of Virginia ! and
every State through which this wretched caval
cade was perrftiited to pass .' Do they expect that
such exhibitions will not dishonor them in tbeejes
of strangers, however they may be reconciled to
them by education and habit !”
i hen Mr. Paulding speaks of this picture drawn
from his imagination, as “ a flagrant and indecent
1 outrage on huraamty.” This 1 copy Irom his let
ter published soon after his journey through Vir
ginia. But aflerwar s, in 183;), Mr. Paulding pnb
| lished a new edition of his woik, and in tins edi
tion of 1833 all that I have quoted is entirely emit
ted. 1 In the old edition the letter 1 Ith “occupies
more than thirteen pages, but in the edition of
1833 (published alter Mr. Van Buren became a
“Northern man with Southern principles,”) this
, letter the 11th occupies only three pages! No
wonder such a man will say the President had
; nothing lo do with the proceedings in Hooe’s case,
and also say that it had oecn the uniform pmctice
to admit negroes to testify against white men, when
he was not aulc to produce a sing.e instance.
This letter lias already extended much farther
than I expected, but before 1 conclude, let me ap
prise you of some of the contemptible designs of
the Loco-focos.
1 have seen two letters from gentlemen of char
acter and intelligence, communicating the fact,
Dial the Van Buren party intended shortly befoie
the Presidential election to issue hand bills, and
start reports of intended insurrections in the South.
1 have no doubt that some such plan is in contem
plation. We know that many of them are wicked
enough to do any thing. They are not only strug
gling for bread, and they fear the investigation
which is to come. Let our friends, therefore, be
prepared for these villainous tricks; but let it be
understood that when lire insurrection takes place,
Benjamin Tappan lias pro mised lo furnish live hun
dred dollars, to nuy powder and shot for the ne
groes, and lie is a good Van Buren democrat.
Our friends, every where, are full of confidence,
and feel assured of victory. No man can doubt
any longer, that Gen. Harrison will be clectid;
elected spite of the persecutions of unprincipled of
fice-holders, and the furious assaults ol Hie Globe
and the abolition papers, which continue to de
nounce him, most violently. I hope, in this most
important struggle, Virginia, the land of Washing
ton, Madison, Henry, and Marshall, will be found
as she was in the revolution, among the first, in re
sisting, strenuously, the encroachments of power,
I trust she will, not only, in defence of the char
acter of her own distinguished son. but for the
sake of the whole country, express her opposition
to the man who has, by wretched experiments,
brought a prosperous country almo-t to ruin, who
has by pitiful equivocations , caused every patriot
to feel ashamed of his country, and who has sanc
tioned the admission of negro testimony against
one of her own sons, and declared he must contin
ue to do so.
I have travelled through the State of New York
and of course, saw many of the people of that
State, an I many from New-England ; I saw them
in private social intercourse, and saw them in pub
lic meetings, consisting of ten thousand ami twen
ty thousand persons, and I assure you, every de
cent man 1 met, with whom 1 conversed upon the
subject, spoke with contempt of the abolitionists,
and) expressed surprise that any southern man
could imagine the majority of the people were in
fected with that villainous heresy. This I speak
of my own knowledge.
1 believe nearly nine out of ton of the cut-throat
abolitionists, the Human and Tappan abolitionists,
are real “barn burning” Loco-focos.
1 congratulate you upon the glorious prospect
he fire us, that our country will soon be free from
the dominion of the plunderers, who have so long
neglected and crushed her best interests.
Very truly, yours,
EDWARD STANLY.
Hon. John M. Botts, Richmond Vu.
The two Blacksmiths. —Mr. Orr of Dela
ware, a blacksmith and man of sound sense, was
a short lime since u memoer of the Van Buren
party. He went to Ohio, to ascertain the charac
ter ol the Buck Bye Blacksmith, fur the purpose
of destroying his usefulness. What was the
consequence I lie found that the Buck Eye Black
smillTs account of himself was true—what'lbcnl
He extended his enquiries a little further, and he
luuml that Gen. Harrison was a calumniated man.
j He (or the first time saw his wurlh. W hat
j then 1 As an honest man he is now his support
er. Let all his calumniators go and do likewise,
and atone to their own consciences,
\ ou can’t commit! —Under this head lliat
spirited little paper, the Democratic Press, (ills
(he following capital story :
A Lucofoco office holder in this city lately called
upon an honest Irishman, who resides in the sixth
ward, wilh a request that he wovld subscribe one
dollar fur the purpose of electing a hickory tree.
“By jabers,” said the Irishman,“do you wantme
lo buy a whip to be scourged wilh I Gel out of
me house, youdesavng villain, or I'll lave me
jmarkonye. Pack oft' wid ye!” The offire hol
der did not wait for a second bidding.
Reader, listen how Prentice illustrates tli ■
potence of the efforts of the cohorts of I
to silence the roar of the Harrison hurries,,.? 0 I
“Nothing can exceed the rage of H le i '
leaders at their utter inability to restrain at\ I
the overwhelming force of public op lftLan •*? I
vor cm otii 1 ippecanoe. n **• I
It reminds us of a crazy man we heard of
years ago who ihought to silence the I
Niagara cataract. Ho stood up before it I
calmly but sternly bade it be still. Umar’? ul
and bis words were inaudible. Then lifii {*?' Ctybv
voice to a High pilch, lie cried, “silence*”" SIB
cataract roared on, ami again his voice was i I
in Ihe mighty noise. Frantic wilh ra» e amt ? I
appointment, be yelled, and screamed I 1
cd all in a breath, “stop that
I he cataract roared majestically on, and V
madman s yeils and curses seemed un-ible t, r I
their way through the atmosphere an ' inch f I
his livid lips. Such is the fury and such /? I
i mpotency of the demagogues, who are trvin ,7 ■I
quell the earthquake roar of public sentiment!” *
The American Mechanic.—Whatever m
he the •• pomp, glory, and circumstance” O fT I
great men of the world—whatever may be h I
dazzling pageantry of high life-lhe glitter I
fashionable society, and splendid misery of thn 1
who believe that “Those who think mist goven.
those who toil;’ there is no situation ml I
viable than that of the plain American median
ic-lree from every thing for which heaven d ‘
signed him, untrammelled in his opinions ,„i
left lo the guidance cl hi i own genius, he walks
erect in the full stature of man. Earning with
his hands the means by which he support" him. >
self; protected by a government, which like the
snn, sheds its light—its fostering care upon all
who shall gainsay his right lo enjoy the fruits'
his labor, in the way which best may please hind !
Under our government, prudence, indusliy aw a
economy, are sure to meet with their reward, and
it sbouid ne rememnered by every mechanic that
the mad to preferment and official dignity is open
to every one. All that the people want in those
that serve them is fidelity and patriotism—truth
to the Constitution and intelligence enough to !
perform (heir duty. It is the duly of every Amer- 1
tcan to render himself competent to act on all isl
occasions as becomes an American citizen In
diligence, education and study, are within the 1
reach of every human being.
A Picayune Sub-Treasury Joke.—Some
thing “Disptshus.’ —“Sambo, 1 devise you to
sleep wid one eye open dese dark nights; dere’s
something berry dispishus comin I”
“What on airth you mean, I’ke, what’s de
matter! tell us all about cm ; don’t keep a pour Wf
nigger in dispense.”
“Wal de iae is, Hat are Scroub Treasury bill
has passed by Washington Fullrnondelfy, an he
aim left a spec oh skin on de shin ob any nigger
dis si'*e ob desoufpole! He’ll be here fore long,
dat’s sartin—den look out for your ole wool, Sam
bo ! #
“What ! dat are criltur comin here! Don’t
get. dis chile out arter dark without a Spanish
knije —mind dat, I’ke!” 1
■
A Tkbiocs Medicine.—We see in a Mas- fcl
sachusctts paper, an advertisement of a patent
medicine, which, tube of any use, the advertiser
says must' he applied internally and eternally.
MARRIED,
On Wednesday evening, 14th hist., by the Rev
Mr. Cunningham, Dr. Walter E. Johnson to Misg I
Sarah W. Walker, both of this city. I
On (he loth inst., by the Rev. Mr. Dwight, Wm
Henry Bat rev, Esq., of Jefferson county, Ga., to I
Bcaih Isl?ud NC S *C U '’ dlUgl “ Cr 01 CoK Whatley of
f ( i"r T a U u ' ia J eveni:, g- Cct - Is( > *“ the residence
0 A.frcd B. Seymour, Esq., at Mount Pleasant,
Horns ' ounty, N. J., by the Rev. M. Osborn, Mr
Andrew B. Decker, of this city, lo Miss Rebec
ca C. Cooper, daughter of the late Win. Cooper
01 Augusta, Georgia. ’
C onsignees per Month Carolina KailKoatT.
Hamburg, October 10, ISIO.
S R Smith & Co.; J Black ; W Murphy ;J L
Maddox; C A Greiner; Scranton & Smith; L Dwelle;
Clarke, McTier & Co.; Mrs Ingraham; G T Dortic;
C L Bray ton ; Ilaviland, Risley & Co.; G A Sim
mons; I S Slot-; J M & W Adams; Kerrs & Hopei
V Lamback; W Hattie.-; Dunlap & Hyde; E B
Beall; ‘. t .vail, Simmons & Co.; T Dawson ; Hand
& Scranton ; Hopkins k Stovall ; S Kneeland &
Son; Rankin, Bofgs k Co.; Gould & Bulkley ; J &
S Bones; Hitt & Co.; H p Peck; Wyatt & Warren;
ED Cooke; J 1) Clark ft Co.; Lindsay St E ; How
ard & Garmony; G Parrott; II L Jeffers; and J F
Benson.
M AKIN E IJN TE LLIGENCE.
Charleston, Oct. 16.
Arrived yesterday —Ship Eutaw, Allen New
York ; Ship Emblem, Talbot, Portland ; brig Cath
arine, Bouncy, Havana; Sp. sclir. Deseada, Taulcr
Xt'iara. (Cuba.)
Cleared —Brig Aldrick, Cope, Philadelphia.
S3* Mrs. CHAPMAN’S SCHOOL for Young
Ladies, is now open, first door below the Augusta
Bank, Broad street. oct IG-d&tnvlw
AUGUSTUS RISES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
sept 3-ly Madison, Morgan county, Ga.
JOHN It. STANFORD, "
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
j.vl7] Clarkesville, Ga
B. H. OVBRBV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
feb 23 Jefferson, Jackson county, Gl
CjWc arc authorized to announce R. F. M.
TICKER, as a candidate fur Justice of the
Peace, in the Bloody Gi-fith.
O' JEUEMI\H H. CLARK is recommended
as a suitable person for the office of Justice of the
Peace, for the GOOth District, and will be supported
by (octS) Many Voters.
03" The undersigned, if elected, will serve the
GUI In District as Justice of the Peace,
oct 7-ts R. P. SPELMAN.
03“ Miss MARY A. NEVINS has taken a room
in the house owned by Mrs. Barrett, on the North
side of Bread street, where she will give LESSONS
ON THE PIANO at §l3 per quarter, including 36
lessons, or separate lessons at 30 cents each,
oct 3 ts
Cj-’ Miss TRAIN will resume her School at
S munerville on the first Monday in November.
Board can be obtained on the Hill.
aog 12 ts
C.j’ Cr KLNNON lias removed lo the new
j bouse opposite Benjamin Pyne. oct 3-3tw
C3* The Office of the AUGUSTA MIRROR is
removed to the brick building on Mclntosh street,
directly opposite the Post Ollicc. oct 7-trw3t
cry j- A. CLEVELAND, DENTIST, has « ken
rooms over J. Nortons Shoe Store, one door below
Washington Hall in Broad street, Augusta. During
his absence, and at all other times, his brother,
Thomas P. Cleveland, I enlist, will occupy them,
whose services may he bad. J. A. Cleveland con
fidently recommends him to Hie patronage of his
friends and the public generally. oct S-w3t
The Subscriber lias taken an office in Mrs.
Camiield’s buildings on Jac ksnn-strect, nextdoor to
the one formerly occup.ed by Judge Longstreet,
where bis piofessinnal services can be at ail times,
commanded He intends to rc-commence, on the
first Monday in November, the LAW SCHOOL,
which lie formerly conducted, on the same plan,
and the same temis, as before,
ott 2 dlwwlm WM. T. GOULD.