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Wales, past, present, and it may bo. fu
ture. . I
In Ireland the repeal meetings contm- 1
in*. O'ConneU marches through the >
country, and is welcomed in the various.!
districts by congregations ol hundreds of
thousands, who listen with great zest ‘to
his unsparing denunciations of “ the
Saxon/’ He, however coun>-els peace,
and so there lias been no disturbance,
nor will there be, if O'ConneU can pre
vent it. He knows the frightful conse
quences, of a collision between his Cath
olic and Protestant countrymen, at the
present moment, to say nothing of the
interference of England, Like honest
Peter, he will “keep the law on his side,"
when he “ bites his thumb"—if he can—
but it is bad playing with edge tools, or
tampering too far with excited multitudes.
In the midst too of his bitterest speeches,
referring to the deeds of Cromwell, and
tlje atrocities of by-gone years, such pas
sages as the following oc^pr:
Asa lawyer and a statesman, I tell
you that you have a right to an Irish
Parliament—that the Queen has a right
to revive it—that she has only come to
Dublin and direct, or to direct in Eng
land that writs be issued to such places
as she may name. Those writs would
return a House cf Commons ; the Lords
who obeyed them would forma House
of Lords, and without the least instru
mentality on the part of the imperial
Legislature, the Irish Legislature would
be restored to the Irish nation. (Enthu
siastic cheeriug.) Now you understand
why it is I ask the countless numbers
that surround me to become repeal. asso
ci ites. I want to have Ireland at my
back, animated, enrolled, associated Ire
land ! Let me have it, and tire Queen
will speedily be advised to issue those
writs.’* 5
Any man of common sense must see
that as a probable or practical scheme,
that the above is all moonshine. There
are many, indeed, who are of opinion that
O’ConneU does not seriously mean re
peal, but that he wishes to make the
movement formidable, so as to secure a
better compromise, lie" knows repeal
cannot be carried peaceably, nor yet by
force unless England be involved in im
mense difficulties in other directions. It
is observed, too, by persons who have
lately visited Ireland, that the greater ex
citement prevails in tne districts where
repeal meetings have not been held, but
are anticipated. Expectation is there on
tip-toe. In places where the demon
strations” have taken place the efferves
cence has subsided. The repeal rent,
which reached its highest in one week,
is the sum of .£2,103 Is 6 1-2, has fallen
subsequently to £,1,258 30s 9cl. There
is nothing impossible certainly, but as a
looker on. 1 am of opinion with the great
majority of people here, that there is as
little’likelihood of a repeal of the English
and Irish Union as of a separation of the
United .States into east, west, north and
south associations. It is to be hoped,
however, that go ;d will result from the
movement, by attention being directed to
the state of tne affairs in Ireland. The
great misfortune is that the Irish will
not agree among themselves. Supposing
the English Government to propose
measures of justice as affecting the Cath
olics, it would be bullied at every step by
the Irish Protestants, ns being guilty of
the basest treachery towards the “ loyal”
Protestants.
The proceedings in Parliament have
not been important. The Irisit Arms
Hill continues to “drag its slow length
along.” It is a worthless measure. Ire
land must be tranquilized by measures of
substantial justice, and not by Arms
Bills. A Mr. Sackville Lane Fox has
made a speech of a most extraordinary
character about Bonaparte, the “ Beast,”
John tire Baptist, Romulus, and “draw- 1
ing the sword in defence of the Protest- \
ant church.” There is one excuse for it, i
and a sufficient one—it is believed that
the man is insane.
The Anti-Slavery Convention lately
heli,! in London, was a good deal startled
by a speech from Mr. Cobden, who at
tended as a delegate from Manchester, j
The gist of it was, that free trade princi
ples were not to be sacrificed to unrea-I
sonable crochets, and that the time was j
come for doing away with the diserimi- j
nating duty in favor of West India su- 1
gar, and that it was gross folly to keep
out slave grown sugar whilst we admit
ted slave-grown cotton, tobacco, &e. A
debate ensued, but the Convention dared
not divide upon the subject, but got clear
of the motion by “ moving the previous
question”—in other words, by not com
ing to any decision.
There has been a fuss in “the fash
ionable world,” occasioned by the mar
riage of the Princess Augusta, of Cam
bridge, (cousin to the Queen,) and a
German Prince. The King and Queen
of the Belgians are on a visit to Victoria
the First."
A splendid memorial has been erected
to the memory of John Hampden, on the
spot where he received his death wound
two hundred years ago, when fighting
for the liberties of his country. There
has been a Puseyite outbreak at Oxford.
The University did itself credit by pav
ing Mr. Everett, the American Minister,
the compliment of conferring upon him a
degree. The Pnseyites, however, ob
jected, and raised a row on religions
grounds, because Mr. Everett had for
merly been a Unitarian preacher. The
degree, however, was conferred, and the
Puseyites presented him with an address
expressive of the highest esteem for him
self and his country, and hoping that he
would attribute their opposition to con
scientious motives. This was well
enough, but they had 1 etter have kept
theniselves quiet in the first instance.
Charles Kean has purchased a villa in
Hampshire, for three thousand seven |
hundred guineas- pretty well this for a !
thiid ; rate aefpr, range of u fire-proof" 1
ware arc about Jo bo commenced j
si Liverpool. Th#n» lats Ueu ui.
Copenhagen and front 30,000/. to 10,-
000/. of property destroyed:
'l’he news from France is unimport
ant. Unhappy Spain'is again distracted
from end f to end. Espartgro, “ (the
ciqi re h-plu offering, 1 ishpp-W>b ; iilg vil
lain;”- as O’Conueil calls him,) appears
to be the only man of sense and modera
tion in the country.
It. is llje gold of those two royal
trigueTs. Louis Philip and Queen Chris-'
liana, that has created all the difficulty,
l’he two have settled that Louis Piiiiip’s
, son the Due d'Aumale shall marry the
young Queen Isabella, and Espartero
and constitutional government have to
Ire put down as preliminary steps to re
ducing Spain (o trie condition of a French
province.
O. P. Q.
SPAIN.
The insurrection in Spain lias somewhat spread,
yet without materially altering its character. The
events at Barcelona, whence we have intelligi nee to
the 17th, should first tie mentioned. The adhesion
of the Captain-General Cortinn is ascribed to a ru
rious and almost incredible cause. It is said that on
the lltli, the agent* of France and Queen Christi
ana persu ided the non-commissioned officers ot a
regiment in Barcelona (the regiment of Almefia) to
meet and issue a proclamation in favor of the move
ment: tiny did to; the soldi rs were passive; the
non-cumuiissioncJ officers of other corjej ined; they
com; oiled their idliet rs to do to; ami finally their
Captain General y iotded. Ue is sues Ia proclamation,
which staled, that finding the ol j ets of the Junta
I to he loyal and constitutional, end disliking hostilities,
lie adhered to the Central Junta. The consequence
was, that the Junta returned to Barcelona from Bub
adol, on the 11th ; the mother and sister of Bri :i hav
ing entered it in triumph the day before.
The triumph of revolt, however, was far from
complete; for Alonijuicil still held tortile Govern
ment. On the 13th, Col. Pujol, an officer of Corti
nez, presented himself at the gates of Momjuich to
j* take the command of it, with a battalion intended to
relieve the garrison. 1 lie Governor, Col. Echabcau,
reiused to admit him into the tort; hut held a conter
ence with him at the entrance of one of the posterns,
tsing accompanied by frhe commander-of the battal
ion in the tort. Both refused to give up the fort so
long as Zurbano should iiouid out. it was supposed
that a rumor next day of Zurhano’s retreat from
: Hues would remove iheir scruph s; hut Mchubeau
1 now said, that he held his orders from a Central
I Government, and would only surrender the fort on
. ihe rcetipl of similar orders; though concurring in
the sentiment* of I'n: troops and citizens of Barcelo
na, he would com.nit no hostility, if none w. re com
mitted against the fort, and if his despatches were
suliere I freely to pass. The possession of Montjuich
determines the military possession of Barcelona; and
Ihe tort was well furnished wall every tiling, and
had provisions for three months.
Other towns in Catalonia adhered to the revolu
tion: on the 14tti, l-'igueirus; on tiie 15th T.irrogo
| na, where Osorio, the voovernor, and officer's faithful
to llie Urgent, embarked; Girona, on the lltli; and
; near it a son of Zurbuuo converted himself into a
! revolutionary leader! Among other places, Cardona,
with a store id,Odd muskets, had also yielded to the
insuigenls. Lyrida had a slight movement on the
Bth; hut the Govirnor and National Gtr.rd sup
pressed it, and l.>o discontented left the town. Fer
ula is the key ot Catalonia on the side of Arragon.
The desertion of the troops here is attributed to
the unpunctual delivery of their pay.
The insurgent* still possessed Granada and Mal
-1 a '= a '
> Advrvs from Madrid are to the 17th. Oa learn
ing the death of the p ffiti'-al* chief of Valencia, lis
part .ro resolved to head the three* against the itisur-.
gents ; and steps were taken to concentrate troops at
Saragossa. On the ! ith In- issued an address to the
nation, to explain conduct which calumniator* labor
ed to blacken, tie calls to mind Itis solemn oaths on
accepting the Regency ; his public pledges, and dis
claims every intention ot violating them, particularly
tiie imputed tine:,lion of prolonging the term'of. his
office, -lie reviews the history ot’lns Regency; vin
dicating some of Its stronger tneasut es by it*, erring to
toe stale ol the country. Ue disclaims alike the gen
iiii and tiie ambition of Napoleon, who expiated his
usurpations on a rori. in the ocean ; and avows his
determination lo n lire to piivate life whence he came,
lie holde ilia oliire only by virtue ot tire constitution;
without tiie const.Union, them is nothing hut ruin
lor him an 1 his e.mutiy; and he will and. liver up his
sacred trust, not to anarchy, but only to Hie Queen
and Cortes; meanwhile defending it as a soldier.
On the I >t!i, lie reviewed the garrison, and was en
thusiastically cheered. On the llith, the Gazette
contained a proclamation of tile Regent, signed by all
the ministers, declaring illegal and rebellious all jun
tas touml in opposition lo the Government, and or
dering t.icir members to he tried and punished with
all the severity oi Ihe law of the ITt'i April, 18JI.
In an express proclamation, the Bpathsh Govern
ment have contradicted a report that there was an
intention to remove the Queen from the palace of
Madrid towards Fortugal, to marry irer to it prince
of ihe family ot'SaXO Coburg, who was then in that
country . n a vi. it to the King, one of its sms.
Esp.trtcro had leit Madrid, uceotnpanied by Gcner
aU Linage an 1 Forraz, with 8030 men. lie arrived
at Uuilitaiiar de la Orden, a village of La Mancha,
on the road to Valencia, on tire gild of June. There
lie was to meet other ho lies of troops appointed to
rein force him at that rendezvous.
Tire insurrection had spread. Corunna had its
prenuuciauuiito againat the Regent on the 18th; Se
vtlle, on the 13th ; I-urges, the capital of Old Castile,
on tne 25th; and Santiago, Lugo, Orense, Vigo,
13.1a llzos, Cadiz, and other places, had declared
lirerrrselves. An attempt at Rampeluna had been
abortive; and the Basque Provinces remained quiet.
General Van iialcn had assumed the command of
tile troops against t) ranada, arid had comnieiiced the
attack on the It).
1- ears were entertained for the continuance of tran
quility in the capital, which had been a moment en
dangered on the 15th by an individual having cried
as the Queen and sister were walking on the Prado,
‘Long live the niTßolnte Queen I”—pointing at tiro
limned.ate cessation of Esparterp’s Regency. This
imprudence excited such a tumult, that the two
Princesses were obliged to seek refuge in their car
riage ; but nothing more came of it. The National
Guard ot Madrid had issuer! an address to the Na
tional Guard taroughout the kingdom, urging them
to rally round the Queen and Espartero.
Additional intelligence has come to hand from
Gpairi. iho cash t>; Christiana is doing its work
Wit.i Spanish patriotism. On Thursday, in addition
to former large supplies, she sent 1,500,000 francs to
feed tae insurrectionary armies. Zurbauo. who had
declined a battle from an unwillingness to destroy
Barcelona, was hemmed in ly Castro, but the latter
liad not artillery to attack, him. The Luekana regi
ment with the Regent, it is said, had grown tlisor-'
oerly at Gcann, audio have pillaged the regimental
10.c.t. i lie battalion e-t Guinea had abandoned Van
..abn in his retreat. The insurgent* of Granada
iuarened li l’ un Cordova, and eOorts were making to
get u;r an expedition from Purges, K ,,d, other poinst
upbn At ad ml.
nee,* ilout pt stale* that Ah.
pressed down l>y f.gc and infirmities, had joined Us
■ rrandwn with him in the Government, as ica.'ed, or
assistant, in consequence of his successor being an
invalid. Between Ibrahim and Abbas there exists a
long cherished am! deadly hatred,.which, on the death
of the old Bach, will lead, no doubt, to very sangui
• nxry result*.
rr re-
Wr transfer to the columns of the Democrat, the
following just remarks from the Boston Statesman,
upon the Irish Repeal question.
THE IRISH REPEAL QUESTION'.
Strange as it may seem, when the
principles involved in the question are
considered, there arc editors among ns
who deny tiie right of Americans to dis
cuss and aid tiie cause of the repeal of
the unjust legislative union now existing
between Great Britain and IrelanJ; —a
union which was consummated by open
bribery and confessed corruption,in 1800,
and wholly unauthorized by the Irish
people, whose representations assumed
powers never delegated to thorn. In con
sequence of losing her domestic legisla
ture, Ireland lias for forty years groaned
under incalculable political evils; and,
to use tire language of Lord Lyndhurst,
the most implicable of her foes, the En
glish government has uniformly treated
her people as “aliens in blood, aliens in
language, and aliens in religion.” With
a population of eight millions, the Irish
people cannot engage in any system of
internal improvement, or general educa
tion, or for the support of Iter poor. For
full fifty years the brave and hardy pop
ulation of the nation have been regarded
ill no other light by tiie imperial gov
ernment than as so much animated bone
and muscle for filling up the armies of
England, to be employed in foreign con
quests. By keeping the masses on the
verge of starvation, by a systematic
course of legislation designed to repress
the developemynt of the natural resources
of the country, the hunger driven peas
antry are forced into the army as the
only means of subsistence.
Such is the destiny in which the mill
ions of Ireland are born, and is it for
Americans to look on their fate and no
ble struggles for disentlnalment with in
difference/ Ireland has been literally
robbed of her legislature—of the power
of managing her own concerns, by rep
resentatives unacquainted with iter re
sources, interests, and wants ; and ruin
and wrath have followed in the train of
the grand outrage on her national inde
pendence. Almost every evil under
which she now groans, may be justly at
tributed to the loss of her home parlia
ment; and how. can any American, who
Is attached to his own form of govern
ment, refuse his sympathy to the efforts
making for the restoration of that parlia
ment. 'Flit' moral, political, and even
religious regeneration of Ireland depend
on the success of the repeal of the un
ion ; for while the handful of Irish rep
resentatives are merged in the British
parliament, the reforms demanded by the
spirit and intelligence of the agecan never
be effected. Therefore, the cause ot re
peal presents claims precisely similar to
the cause of foreign missions to heathen
lands, and it is a well ascertained fact
that, in proportion as the ..missionary
spirit is active, a corresponding ardor in
the cause of religion is manifested in the
bosom of the church at home. Soil is
with regard to political reform. By ta
king an interest in the progress of repub
lican principles in foreign nations, our
people think more deeply of, and prize
more highly, the free institutions, won
for them by their fathers.
The question of repeal presents a clearer
and more intelligible issue than did the
revolts of Poland or Greece, and the
people of Ireland are infinitely better pre
pared for self-government than the peo
ple of thsse countries, or even the South
Americans. Yet with what ardor, elo
quence, nay vehemence, was the inde
pendence of these countries advocated by
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Edward
Everett, and others of lesser note, lit
the North American Review for July,
1827, Gov. Everett wrote as follows in
behalf of the Greeks
“Let the public mind be disabused of
(he prejudices which mislead it on this
occasion. Let it not be operated upon
by talcs of piracy at sea, and fractions on
land—evils which belong not to the
Greeks, bnt to human nature. Let the
means of propagating authentic inttelii
gence of the progress of the revolution
be multiplied. Let its well wishers and
well hopers declare themselves in the
case. Let the tide of pious and Christian
charity be turned into this broad and
thirsty channel. /e: every .rdent and
' igh spirited yonns n an. w oh s an
independent subsi fence es two or three
hundred dot ars a year, embark person-
in the cause and, aspire k to that
crown of glory never yet worn but by
hint* vho so lately tr nmphed in the
entire mill ons of America.”
*Lafayette.
“WEBSTER’S ORATION."
We notice in the last Washington
Globe, .an article copied from the New
York Plebeian, on Mr. Webster’s oration
delivered at the late Bunker Hill Cele
bration, which we are very sorry to see
should come from the pen of a democrat.
It is “ plebeian ” in the very lowest, bas
est, worst sense of the term ; it breathes
the uncharitable, envious, snarling, and
depraved spirit of the veriest scum of the
vilest portions of a degraded city mob.
It undertakes to ridicule the patriotic
pride, native Americans every where feel
tor the immortal renown acquired by the
patriots of the revolution, and particular
ly in their early and brilliant, achieve
ments in New England; and speaks of
their puritan ancestors, who came to this
great western wilderness to escape relig
ious tyranny, as “land speculators, who
left their country for their country’s
good.!’ The author of this bqastly spite
venom, is probably some scape gat-
lows penny-a-liner, who has been vomit
ed upon our shores from the stews ol
London —such feelings never could have
liecn engendered in any American breast.
We <ro tor the “ hugest liberty” princi
ple, tor the equal rights of the people, but
from all such “ levelingism,” from all
such p ebeians as this, in the language
of the Litany, we most fervently pray,
“ Good Lord deliver us.” We regret to
see so disgraceful an effusion approved
by the Globe.— Ala. Plaindcaler.
lilWjWWgHßTfcPg
iMKr-jaram <mw idssm oosayol
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1813.
FOB PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN 0. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
L.EYI WOi»9BVKI,
FOR GOVERNOR,
31 ARK a. COOPER, OF MURRAY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES 11. STARK, OF BUTTS.
We marked the birth-day nf our
Journal, by unfurling' to the breeze
the broad banner of Democracy, and
inscribing upon its bright field the
stainless name of John C. Calhoun,
the American Aristides,' as our First
Choice for President of the United
States; and for the Vice Presidency,
the name of that wise, honest and able
Statesman and unswerving Patriot,
Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire :
Subject, of coai’se, to the decision of a rela
tional Democratic Convention:
The Delegates to be chosen directly
by the People —to convene at Balti
more, May, ISI4, and there individu
ally express Faithfully , the will of
their Constituents. We ask but a fair
field and fair piny —and then “ God
defend the Right.' 1 ' 1
The Senator (Mr. Calhoun,) was con
tinually charging hint (Dir. Clay) with
the design of violating the compromise
act! When had he swerved from it ?
He was still for adhering to it, as he
understood its principles. Those prin
ciples he did not consider incompatible
with the PROTECTION of American
industry, in preference to any ether.
Till HAD LIVED, AND WOULD
DIE, AN ADVOCATE OFTHE PRO
TECTIVE SYSTEM. HE HAD
NEVER CHANGED HIS PRINCI
PLES. THEY WERE NOW THE
SAME AS THEY iiad EVER BEEN;
but he submitted to the restrictions of the
compromise act ns a matter of NECESSI
TY. And he did not even now think
it prudent, because not practicable, to go
as far as his inclinations led him, with
the friends of PROTECTION But as
far as he COULD GO 11E WOULD !”
| Speech in the Senate, 23d March, 1813, a still shor
ter lime before retiring from thal body. J
A BOLD ANSWER TO A PLAIN QUESTION.
No mincing matters here, But a plain, clear, fear
less ami unequivocal av wal of decided opinion and
fixed principles. We wish the above extract to lie
taken in connection with that which is stereotyped at
the editorial head of the Georgia Journal. We should
like to know if there is a single individual in the
Slate of Georgia, who, after reading the two extracts
in connection, could or would deny that Mr. Clay
was an advocate of a Protective Tariff.
MR. CLAY’S SPEECH ON THE TARIFF.
Our correspondent ” S-” will sec that we have
complied with the request of himself, and friends,
in publishing the greate r part of Mr. Clay’s speech,
on the first page of this days paper, it should have
been done earlier, hut the paper containing-it was
accidentally mislaid and not found until a few days
since.
“THEATHENS BANNER AGAIN.”
Passing over the remarks of the Banner, as to the
election and insturction of the delegates appointed to
represent this state, in the Democratic Conven
tion, and its fiipancy about “wit” sarcasm and the
like, we some to the controversy between that paper
and the Democrat. The Banner says, “we would
very willingly here drop tiie controversy, but we can
notconsentto see our friends, aspeised by men profes
sing our own principles w ithout a word of defence.”
Neither “ Blair’s Great Globe, nor Col. Benton, so
far as we are able to discover, are attempting to dic
tate to the party. The Globe has hardly expressed
its preference, and Col. Benton has only done what
every Democrat has a right to do, frankly indicated
his choice. Now we do not believe there can be found
a man in the darkest corner of the state, much less
an intdlig -nt reading man—besides the editor of the
Banner, who docs not know unless like him he is
wilfully Mind, thal the Globe and Col. Benton have
done something more than merely indicated their pref
erence, in reference to the next candidate of the dem-
mocratic party for the next Presidency. The G one
especially, has presumed to hold itself as the grand
dictator of the patty, and claimed for itself a sort of
infallibility, attempting to read out eminent and well
tried Democrats, who happen to differ with it in their
choice of men. That paper has long been a “fin
of lead” upon the party—and unless it changes its
course, its columns will cease to be regarded as the
pure fountains of Democratic orthodoxy—we desire
not to be misunderstood, we have no disposition to
interfere with, or question the preferences of the
Globe, Col. Benton, the Danner, or any one else;
we arc willing to allow the n what we claim for our
self—and what is the unquestioned right of every
American freeman I Freedom of opinion and freedom
of choice. In our advocacy of thcclaims of Mr. Cal
houn, we have no interest to advance hut the oood of
our country—art I believing that he is the choice of a
majority of the Democratic party, we will yield him
an active, steady, anj zealous support, until we are
convinced thal he is not by the decision of a Nation
al Convention ; in doing this, we will not quarrel
with the Banner, or any one clse i for an equally zeal
ous advocacy of Mr. Van Buren’s . laims. But we
will not submit to insolent dictation from any quar
ter —we will here take leave of the Banner, and are
willing to [tart “ fair friends.”
CALHOUN AND CLAY.
The course tinny of the Federal writers are pur
suing towards the former of those eminent citizens,
h nota little extraordinary to themselves and to those
who countenance them disreputable, to Mr. Clay,
certainly useless or injurious, and we have little
doubt, “ Harry of the West” scorns such auxiliaries.
I'heie is so much appearance of personal animosity,
of virago-like spite exhibited in several of the arti
cles alluded to, that Thimble’s scolding-wife were
she on this side of the Styx, would envy the style
in which they are executed —and Ann Royal, herself,
allow, she had been out done in venom and inde
cency.
The Georgia Journal, at it is at present conducted,
the most talented and liberal Whig paper in the state,
forms a distinguished exception to the preceding
observations —for while it advocates Mr. Clay’s
claims with earnestness and ability, it is not afraid to
be just, to the splendid endovmcnts and vast public
services of his great competitor. Why is there not
a generous, chivalrous reciprocity of this manly de
scription established? The democratic press in this
State, has we think set the example. Why not con
duct these competitions on principles, that an editor
with the feelings of a gentleman, can enter the are
na, without disgust and a sense of degradation ? Why
cannot the organs of each parly, prove all they can
favorable to their preferred candidate, without at
tempting to depreciate, traduce, or vituperate his
opponent? The profligate, abandoned disregard of
this principle, as well as of truth and justice, on the
part of too many of those who contr.-I political jour
nals, during important contested elections, goes di
rectly among the oilier powerful causes, that have
long operated to demoralize the people, lead them to
despise that palladium of free institutions, the press,
ar.d e'*cn to doubt the value of liberality and the ex
istence of virtue—shame and anathema of their
country, on such foes to liberty and humanity.
It is difficult to ascertain what the object is of the
incessant stream of reckless misrepresentation, flow
ing from some of the Federal presses on Calhoun as
the original contriver, or at least a participant in the
advocacy of that curse to our country, and opprobium
to a free people, the American System. The fact,
that Clay entered Congress in 1903, that Calhoun
did not become a member of that body till 1911, and
that Clay, in the interval, developed all the essential
features of his system—the Bank of the U. S. ex
cepted, irretrievably negative, the first branch of
the slander—to a candid reasoning opponent, ac
quainted with the subject, refutation of the residue
of the calumny would be needless—we shall, how
ever, notice it succinctly.
The gist of the case soughtto be made out against
John C. Calhoun, by his Federal traduCers, is that in
the early part of thirty two years’ congressional ser
vice, he committed two or three acts of political her
esy as had as some Mr. Clay has spent his whole po
litical life in attempting to establish. The difference
between the course pursued by Calhoun and Clay
is essential--the former repudiated his errors (and
they were errors more in appearance than reality)
more than twenty years ago—the latter (Clay) sus
tained and declares hi3 determination to die in them,
the jesuitial misrepresentation made to the late
Whig Convention at Milledgcville, to the contrary,
notwithstandm .
We think the repetition of these oft-refufed libels
on Mr. Calhoun, must he injurious to Mr. Clay’s in
terest —as their exposition uniformly places the
salesman's sagacity, and patriot motives of the for
mer in alight that necessarily elicits the admiration,
and secures the confidence, and wins the attach
ment of his countrymen, and every liberal and judici
cious whig we 1 clicve deprecates them, & considers
them as poor return, for the forbearance of the dem
ocratic press in general, towards Mr. Clay. As wc
shall shortly resume the subjects merely touched
upon in the preceding rctnaiks—wc close them for
the present.
THE INFLUENZA.
We think it not an unseasonable caution, to warn
our fellow-citizens of the approach of this formidable
malady. It appeared in Boston about the close of
Ihe Bunker’s Hill celebration, and has journied
slowly southward and as appears by the Savannah
papers, is now prevalent in that city. The type of
Ihe disease, we are glad to learn is comparatively
mild, but it generally fastens with peculiar severity
on the aged anil those with broken down and debili
tated constitutions, by such, too much precaution
cannot ha exercised—an ahs'enence from animal
food and stimulating fluids, till the foe has retired,
would be prudent on the part of every one—also an
avoidance of night atr, draughts from doors and win
dows, damp atmosphere, or hot sun.
To these precautions, a beneficial addition w ill he
bathing the head and washing the neck, shoulders,
and breast with cold water every morning succeded by
a perfect drying with a warm napkin. These sim
ple appliances will in many cases prevent the attack
and in all, render it milder.
Notwithstanding the hot and humid weather we
have had, for some time past, our city still continues
healthy—how long that blessing may he enjoyed, is
extremely uncertain. The flooded cellars, the lar*re
surfaces, that have been recently covered with wa
ter, now evaporated leaving considerable spaces ex
posed to the action of a burning sun, consequently
throwing off momently volumes of fever producing
effluvia—if to these sources of danger, be added the
pestilential miasms, eliminated from the decaying an
mal and vogetable matter scattered so profusely over
our city, if it be admitted, these elements of disease
and death, may Ire mingled with the atrial poison,
producing i iflucnza, we think the most indifferent
should he roused into active exertion toward off" the
evil, or at least, to lessen it as much as is practicable.
As far as our city is concerned, if any amendment
in its condition be made, it must be effected by the
citizens—the council, from her almost hopeless finan
cial embarrassments, they found the city involved
when they took office, are, however desirous, una
ble to effect any thing in tire way of improvement—
we believe, both the present council and their offi
cers have doncevcry thing, circumstances permitted
for the benefit of their fellow-citizens.
These remarks were due to the community, we have
made them.frankly ami trust, they will he, neither
misunderstood nor neglected.
Clay a Whale. —The Oxford (N. V.) Times calls
Mr. Clay a whale ; probably because he is a spoutjr.
“THE EMPIRE STATE.”
Wc premise the following excellent article from
theDutchrr* county, New York Anti-Bank Demo
crat, l>y stating that the reasons which it sets forth
why the'Democratic Party should rally under Mr.
Calhoun are gaining ground with the party rapidly
and from the indications Hot only in that state, hut
in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, C. n
necticut, North Carolina and other states. We are
every day more and more convinced that Mr. Cal
houn will receive the nomination of the LVmocralic
Convention in May, 1844. It is idle nonsense, it
is an insult lo the intelligence of the American peo
ple Cos say that the overthrow and defeat of the party
in 1810 was caused wholly by the artifices and delu
sions of our opponents, the Whigs,— ctery candid
and ingenius mind must admit that the personal un
popul rity of the Democratic candidate hung like an
incubus upen the party, the Democrats like Sinltad
the sailor with the old man upon hisbacli, were borne
down by the weight which they carried.—Mr. Van
Burcn made an able and worthy chief magistrate—
hut he lias never had, nor never will have, that hold
upon the affections of the American people, which
bore itis republican predecessors in triumph, over
their opponents in every emergency—and secured
the ascendancy of the principles of the republican
parly in the midst of every danger which has threat
ened them since the foundation of the government,
dovvu to 1840.
F R PRFSIDENT.
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
"The signs of the times” clearly indicate Mr. Cal
houn as the proper, and, we think, probable candi
date of the democracy for the next Presidency.—
•Since wc placed itis name at the head of our columns
we have had frequent opportunities of conversing
with our friends in this county, and we are agreea
bly surprised to find so many true men ready to ral
ly under the banner of the intrepid champion of free
trade and equal rights.
Mr. Calhoun has a strong and abiding hold upon
the young men of the party. Those who are as yet
uncontaminated by the base intrigues of politics—
who are nit allied to the “old Hunkers”—who have
never yet bowed the knee to the Albany Regency,
nos liecn touched by the wand of conservatism; —
those who cone forth fresh, free, honest and unpre
judiced look to the eminent South Carolinian as
“the man for the limes,”—upright, able and willing,
to preserve the sacred principles of Republicanism
from further prostitution and restore them to their
native simplicity and purity. In this state especially,
we feel the need of such a man ; for we have been so
often cheated arnl defrauded by those who Were elec
ted to office by democratic votes, and then seduced
into conservatism or whiggery by the central power,
that we can no longer trust those who are stamped
with the approbation of Croswell &. Cos. And we
hail it as an unerring sign of the progress of truth,
that Mr. Calhoun is daily gaining ground hi tha
north, anil the emanations nf the Albany Arcus,
whether in the shape of non-committal editorials, or
Presidential candidates, are more and more regarded
with distrust.
We have heretofore expressed our conviction that
the connection between Mr. Van Buren and the Al
bany Regency must injure his piospects of nomina
tion. That body has at last become appreciated—it
is looked Upon as a collartion of rotten, selfish, un
principled politicians. The people despise them and
will soon crush them. Even Croswell, although
contemptible in weakness, and wholly destitute of
all political honor or honesty, awaits a speedy retri
bution at the hands of the insulted and abused de
mocracy of the State.
Such is the progress of public opinion against that
most vascillating and treacherous of all paper* —the
State paper—that wc should not he at all surprised
it .Mr. Van Burcn should lose the vole of his own
State in the nominating Convention, unless he can
contrive to divest himself of the odium of being con
necred with the Argus. The warfare which is now
being waged on the part of the sound democracy,
headed by Col. Young and the Albany Atlas, and
supported by all the virtue and talent of the demo
cratic press in the s ate, against conservatism must
soon annihilate the political imjiortance of such men
as the State printer, and Mr. Van Burcn can hard
ly os tape the penally of being found in bad com
pany.
Itis in vain for the warmest friends of Mr. Van
Buren to deny that he is rapidly losing ground while
hts great antagonist is constantly gaining strength. —•
1 lie issues which they have tendered must inevita
bly be decided against them. Mr. Van Bun n has
staked his all upon a November Convention, and
the election of delegates by Slates ; yet it is certain
that convention can never l>e held ; and it is equally
clear that the principles of democracy are directly
opposed to this mode of selecting delegates. The
friends of Mr. Calhoun, on the other hand, insist
upon a convention to he held in May, 1844, and
that each district shall choose its own delegate. It
is obvious that upon these test questions tiie argu
ment is all in favor of the position of the southern
candidate, The month of May is the usual time for
holding the Nationai'Convcntion : and no good rea
son can he given for changing the tiino. Tile very
fact that Mr. Van Buren wishes to chance it, and
has ten the nomination, is in itself a suspicious cir
cumstance. It is because he finds the tide settimr so
strongly toward* the south that he fears that delays
may he dangerous?
The attempt on the part of Mr. Van Burcn’s
friends to forestall public opinion, and fasten on the
party a nomination a whole year before the election,
we consider highly Injudicious; and it must fail.
Already eleven states have declared against it, and
hut three in favor: There is, therefore, no* chance
of a November convention, and but little chance of
Mr. Van Buren’s nomination in May. We hope
and believe that the high honor is reserved for Jons
C. Caliioun.
Wc have heard it hinted that if Mr. Calhonn
should be nominated he cannot get the electoral vote
of this state. We spurn such a suggestion. We be
lieve that Mr. Calhaun will carry as strong a tote
as any other num. It is true, that we have some
conservatives who will never vote for the successful
candidate unless their candidate succeeds; but the
great body of tire democracy will support the candi
date who receives a fair and regular nomination.—
The democracy of t c" Empire State” arc not so
wedded to men that they cannot sustain principles.
They will remember that in the great struggle of
1810, when even his own state deserted her ‘favor
ite son,’ South Carolina tea# true to him ; and the
sentiments of gratitude and the principles of honor,
as well as the great cause of truth and justice, will
stimulate them to return tire like honor upon South
Carolina’s noble and favorite son.
We clip the following from an exchange paper,,
the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
Fact.— Joe Smith, in a late number
ot the Nauvoo Times and Seasons, has a
review of Millerism, in which he avows-'
his belief that the world has a decided
liking for being humbugged. There is>
not a greater truth to be lbund within thfi'
|>ages of Joe’s Bible.