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whole history, was full of trraee, of gen
tleness, of kindness. It had none ot its
growth from without, and which is more
or less under the harsh and almost \nl
gar rule of circumstance —which may be
present at one moment, and lost the next,
it had its rise from within. It was the
manifestation ot a sentiment; and %on
saw at once how natural in him the ex-;
pression of that sentiment was. He loved
society. He took deep pleasure in dis-1
course. He sometimes forgot some ot
those convenient conventionalisms which
others value somewhat, and would rath
or be a “ borrower of the night, than be
the first to make a break in the current
thought of his friends. His 4 fine fancy
came always in aid ot his rich memory,
or they worked so well together, that the
product always delighted you. His long
residence abroad —the easy introduction
which exalted genius finds, or makes, to
the very best society—the scholars, the
poets, and the literary men, with whom
he was intimate, —his friends among ar
tists—the incidents oi foreign travel its
adventures, and its strange revelations
his deep love ot reading, and this in ev
ery variety, of topic—his countenjiuce.
getting its expression Iromhis intellectu
al and moral states, and changing m obe
dient to them all —and lastly his voice,
and his whole manner—all these, united
to give a distinctive character to his con
versation, and at the same time stronly to
attract you. Here, as in his art, his ex
traordinarv excellence was the source oi
the strong social respect, and interest,
which lie enjoyed.
In his judgments Mr. Allston was gen
erous, and just. In regard to the works
of living artists, he might almost be con
sidered as fastidious in these respects.
He always withheld an opinion, rather
than wound a feeling. He never wished
to be told of tlic harsh or unfriendly
judgments ot others, in regard to huuself
or his work. He might not always-be
prepared lor such. He felt his imper
fection, and avoided uncalled-for trial.
He was an humble man, and here was
his highest dignity. A ‘disciple’ once
told him of some remarks ot an older ar
tist, about him, which were exceedingly
discourteous, and in his case wholly un
founded. He said little at the time, but
in a day or two alter came to town, and
called on his young friend, and asked
him to go with him oil a visit to some
one. After this was over, he said he
would next call on Mr. , naming the
very person whose remarks had been re
peated to him. llis friend was startled at
this a little, but of course went along.
Air. Allston approached 31r. with
tiie greatest courtesy and kindness. He
examined his pictures, and particularly
praised one which deserved his commen
dation, The whole vis.t was marked by
that manner which was so peculiar to
himself, and which made a part ol him.
Returning to his friend's room he ex
pressed to him the pleasure that visit
<r ive him. It showed him that the un
kindness, nay, trie injustice of another,
had not disturbed Jus own peace, or
unfitted him from extending to him kind
ness and commendation, lie used to
tell an anecdote of Fuseli, i:i which that
very singular man contrived to give an
opinion of a worthless picture without
i ailing the owner. A woman of rank
had paid a high price for a wretched
work. Thinking she had got a great
treasure, she invited Fuseli and Nolle
kins to come to see if. “My Lady, ’ re
plied Mr. F., in his strongest native pro
nunciation, “ it is a most extraordinary
picture.” Going home, Nollekins asked
him how he couldthavo said what was
so wholly untrue 7 “ Not at all so," said
F., “it is a most extraordinary bad pic
ture, Mr. Nollekins.
Mr. Allston was a religious man. The
religious sentiment in him had its char
acter from his intellectual constitution,
and gave tone to his intellectual action.
Christianity with him was habitually re
garded with tiie profoundest reverence.
1 once asked him why among the many
Scripture subjects which he selected for
the canvass, he hud taken no part of the
life of Christ for his theme. “ I have
not done so,” he replied, “ because of
my convictions concerning the nature,
the mission, and the character of the Sa
viour. These exalt him so far beyond
such an apprehension of him as could
alone enable me to communicate any idea
of him l may strive to reach, that l should
fail if I attempted it. 1 could not make
him a study for art.’ He studied the
Scriptures themselves, and road the best
works concerning them. The older
English divines were his special favor
ites' The religious sentiment declared
itself after a manner which was deeply
impressive in the latest hour of his file.
Among his last words was an earnest ap
peal to a young friend, that she would
dedicate herself to the service of God in
an undying faith, and a holy obedience,
and love. His habitual reserve in regard
to a subject which was always so near
to him, and which his reveranceof it pro
duced, was thus taken away in his death
hour, and that last confession of his Sa
viour in the world which fell from his
lips, came in the word of solemn, deep
exhortation. So striking was it, that it
was asked,"if it had not its source in the
fe’.t approaches of death.
I have finished this imperfect sketch.
It is a tribute of affection and reverence.
What a life was this ! look at its stern,
its inflexible fidelity to its rare mission;
now pouring forth its full, and deep, and
various thought, in- a language which
every one might read, and every body
might love—now making visible the
living beauty of the author’s own soul,
and then in perfect hafmony, combining
in one whole, the beauty, and the gran
deur—the solemnity and the pathos, of
the external woild. What a liieol moU
precious toil was this ! The hard, and
the sad, of its deep discipline, ministered
to its very energy. Stern trial took from
it none of its gentleness none of it s beau
ty. It were not possiLle for such a spir
it to think or act otherwise than in per
fect harmony with itself. Waa his age,
were we, true to it ? Did we rejoice in
that light, and that life; and have we
ministered to him, whose great gifts they
were, in the consciousness of their great
ness, of their whole worth, and of our
own responsibility ? Look again at what
he did ! Read any, nay, every syllable
of art which his eloquent hand traced,
and you see at once that it is full of gran
deur and beauty —of surpassing delicacy,
and elliid-like purity. The day and the
night, yes its last day on earth, saw that
great Life at work. Death came at its
latest hour, as on an angel’s wing, and as
it' in love, so gentle was his hand, gave to
it Immortality ! W.C.
July 17.
Correspondence of the Mercury.
New Yoke, July 21, ISI3.
Arc tiie politics of the South, in as sin
gular a position as they are here 7 Not
many weeks ago, the great controversy
of the day, i. the Presidential contest,
exhibited something of the triangular ap
pearance of the famous duel (should it
not be trial,)of Midshapman Easy. There
were three parties, each one tiring away
with right good zeal, at the others. The
democrats shot at the whigs—the whigs
at the Tylermen, and the Tylermen at
the democrats. But now, it seems that
one of these parties lias been completely
submerged, and that the battle wages
alone between the democrats and Tyler
ites. For one, lam vastly sorry that the
dispute has taken this turn. lam sorry
that the Globe, the Bay State Democrat,
the Plebeian, and a lew other democratic
prints, can find no other game whereon
to display their skill as marksmen, than
the present administration.
As to the ability which .Mr. Tyler has
displayed the conduct of public affairs, 1
fancy that my own opinion will not differ
materially from that of the papers to
which I have just referred. 1 think that
has been remarkably tit odds at.d ends.
He is by no means a strong man, and is
less decided and democratic than 1 could
wish. But he has the compensating
trait of honesty of purpose. He has
tried to do right, and if* he has not suc
ceeded, it has not been owing to the
want of will. No one will deny that his
late cabinet was one of splendid charac
ter. .'Such men as Webster, Spencer,
Upshur, and Lcgare,arenoteasily brought
together. The superiority of their tal
ents must be acknowledged, whatever
may be said of their politics. Mr. Tyler
has done wrong; but is that a reason
why he should be made the object of un
measured abuse 7 If we might judge by
the columns of certain prints, there is no
other opponent that the democratic party
has to deal with, than Mr. Tyler. What
is the meaning of this ? AVliy of all the
democratic candidates, is Mr. Tyler sin
gled but for special remark 7
“ Why, Mr. Tyler is not a democrat 7”
But who made you a judge in this case,
my friend 7 Mr. Tyler himself that he
is a democrat; and the world knows
that we are indebted ’to him for several
very* decided democratic acts. For what
purpose then, the strenuous opposition
that is made to him 7 Are not his opin
ions, as recently expressed, as democratic
as those of any of his competitors, with
the exception of ('alhoun and Van Du
ron-? Is lie not as good and sound a re
publican as either Cass, Buchanan, or
Johnson 7
I ask these questions, not because I am
particularly friendly to Mr. Tyler, lie be
ing neither my first nor my second choice
for the Presidency, but because 1 cannot
understand why he is so violently ban
died. The old adage about giving the
devil his due, shadows forth an import
ant truth.
From ihe New Orle ans Bee.
THE COTTON CROP.
The accounts from the various cotton
growing regions, all agree in stating that
the coming crop will fall short of the
enormous yield oi' the past season. This
was to be anticipated from the backward
ness of the spring, which will necessarily
retard the picking season, and thus ren
der the plant more exjiosed to the casu
alties which are likely to overtake it at a
later period of the year.
The issue of the last crop, however, ren
ders it more difficult to speak with any
degree of confidence as regards the ap
proximate growth of the next season.—
The extraordinary fluctuations in the
yield during the past few years, have
completely unsettled the opinions rela
tive to supply, and an average crop which
is at present predicted by many parties,
would, with the recent astonishing in
crease of production, be suflicientlp large
to maintain prices at a comparatively
low figure.
With an article, the growth of which
has increased so rapidly in consequence
of the great extension of cultivation, we
need scarcely go back further than four
years for the purposes of establishing
what would be under existing circum
stances a fair average yield. We find
thus that the crop of—
-1810 was 2,100.000 bales.
1841 “ 1,634,000 “
1812 “ 1.084,000 “
1843 ab’t 2,330,000 “
Together, 7,858,000 bales.
Which reduces the average extent of a
crop to 1,064,000. The increase this
year, it is true, is extraordinary, amount
ing to no less than 11 1-2 per cent, above
the growth of iast season, and many years
will no doubt elapse before we shall again
witness the same combination of favora
ble circumstances, which have resulted
in the most remarkable crop on record.
The capabilities of the country for pro
ducing cotton have nevertheless bet n
amply tested, and it is reasonable to sup
pose that the recurrence of a similar sea
son to the one just gone by, would be at
tended with like resuits.
We are not among the number who
believe that the next crop will be nil av
erage one, and are of the opinion that it
will fall greatly short of that point. The
accounts from the interior are gloomy ;
ail the country papers arc filled with
complaints, and although accustomed to
take such statements at their value, yet
in tliis instance we do not believe them
io be exaggerated. We give below some
extracts from various papers, and shall
continue to present them from time to
time to our readers, who, in jiossession ot
the necessary data, can form their own
conclusions.
Tim Chop of 1843.—From all quar
ters the most gloomy accounts reach us
of the condition of the growing crops.
The spring season opened upon us cold
and dreary, and with an intermission of
no more than two weeks, there have
lieen continual and heavy rains ever since.
The cotton crops are very unpromising
—in many places the rust has made its
appearance, and has injured the cotton to
an alarming extent. In some quarters
of the parish, the grass has nearly taken
possession of the fields, and has forced
the planter to abandon a portion of the
land in cultivation. In the rich Bayou
region, we arc informed the planter is
fairing still worse. In addition to this,
it is said that the catterpiilar has com
menced its ravages, which we fear will
consummate what the’untoward season
began. From the best information have
been enabled to gather, we are led to be
lieve that not more than a half crop can
be made, even though a favorable fall
should succeed. —Opelousas Gazette,
loth inst.
We conceive the information respect
ing the growing crop, to be as yet too in
definite a character to authorise any o
pinion as to the ultimate result beyond
that of conjecture. In our respect, how
ever, there is mi entire unanimity of o
pinion, and in which there is no possibil
ity of being mistaken, that the crop must
prove a short one under the most favora
ble circumstances. The effects of the
late spring,and consequent backwardness
of the crop will of course be to throw
back the picking season a month later
than either of the large crop years of ’37,
’39, or ’42, an occurrence which is oblig
ed to tell heavily in the result. We have
lmd contradictory reports during the past
week, some complaining of the continued
injurious effects of the wet weather, and
others alleging that the crops were grad
ually overcoming the excessive rains of
June, and promised well. On the lands
subject to the most injury from wet wea
ther, the weed has grown too fast to
branch well, and is in consequence defi
cient in squares. The wenthet has been
less favorable the iast week. —Mobile
Register, 22 ml inst.
The Cotton Crop. —The Red River
Republican of the 7th inst., says that the
rains have done great injury to the cotton
crop of this and the surrounding parish
es, and under the most favorable circum
stances, there will not be more than half
a crop made. If the weather continues
unfavorable there will not be that.
A Large Spur.— We have now be
fore ns an extraordinary Spur, the histo
ry of which we are not well acquainted
with, hut it is supposed by some to Ire
the veritable Spur used hy Tarleton
wilt'll lie broke the black charger, a graph
c account'd' which event we last week
copied front the Petersburg Intelligencer.
It is made of wrought iron, and was found
embedded in a swamp in Marion Dis
trict. The workmanship, although rath
er rough, is very strong and good. In
size, it is unusually large and heavy,
weighing 13 3-4 ounces. Across the
heel it measures 4 incites ; is 9 inches
long from the extreme of the heel to the
end of the rowel—the rowels are two
inches long, and the t hank, four inches.
Take it altogether, it is a curious affair,
and we have little doubt but that it is ol
Spanish origin. Should we hereafter he
able to collect any particulars respecting
it, we will lay them before our readers.
It should he preserved in a Museum, and
we hope the owner will permit it to he
sent to Charleston for that purpose. It
has been covered .with a heavy coat of
rust, but it is now quite smooth from
much handling. —Cher aw Gazette, 'loth
inst.
Maixr. and Nf.w Hampshire.-—-
Both of these States, it isfsaid by certain
over-anxious political papers, are sure for
Van lluren. The truth is, the politicians
in both States, and not the people, have
recommended him. The State Conven
tion of the latter State, spoke favorably
of all the candidates, but recommended
no otic in particular. The legislative
caucuses,might be expected, recommend
ed Mr. Van Buren. The State Conven
tion of Maine recommended Mr. Van
Buren, but tiie people, from all appear
ances, will reverse that recornmenda ion.
Every day adds strength to Mr. Calhoun.
Oxford {Me.) Democrat.
The “Black Tariff.”— The Pal
ladium says that the Tariff is cutting
down our indebtedness abroad, and fil
ing the country with specie. The ob
ject of the Tariff, we are again tqld, is to
shut out foreign products. Now it is
surprising that such absurdities can be
soberly put forth at the present day.—
Dow long will our merchants submit to
be fleeced of the profits of a return cargo 7
Or haw long will our farmers submit to
pay double freight upon their exports 7
For if this is the way the 4 Tariff works,’
our commerce will have to fall orMhe
farmer will have tosupjiort it by a doub
le tax ! But this again shows the empt
iness of the cry of the Protectionists, that
a home market is necessary for our la
bor. Here it is admitted that tiie foreign
markets ar e open tons, and claimed as
the excellence of the Tariff" that it allows
us to steal away their specie in exchange
[for our exports! But the workings of
the Tariff are all of a piece. That a free
people allow themselves to be humbug
ged by the monopolists is passing strange.
—New llaven Register.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1813.
TOIt PRESIDENT OF THE EXITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
LEVI
FOIt GOVERNOR,
31 ARK A. COOPER, OF MURRAY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES 11. STARK, OF 111 TTS.
We marked tiie birth-day of 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 course, to the decision of a Na
tional Democratic Convention:
7 he Delegates to be chosen directly
by tiie People —to convene at Balti
more, May, 1844, and there individu
ally express Faithfully, Ihe will of
their Constituents. We ask but a fair
Held and fair /day —and then “ Cod
lefend the Right.' 1 ' 1
“ Let me not bf. misunderstood,
AND LET ME ENTREAT THAT I MAY
NOT BE MISREPRESENTED.” —
[Extract from Mr. Clay's Speech, a short time before
retiring from the Senate.]
The Senator (Mr. Calhoun,) was con
tinually charging him (Mr. Clay) with
the design of violating the compromise
act ? When had he swerved from it 7
He V'as still for adhering to it, as he
understood its principles. Those prin
ciples he <lul not consider incompatible
with the PROTECTION of American
industry, it ( preference to any other.
UK HAD LIVED, AND WOULD
DIE, AN ADVOCATE OF THE PRO
TECTIVE SYSTEM. lIE IIAl)
NEVER CHANGED IIIS PRINCI
PLES. THEY WERE NOW THE
SAME AS THEY had EVER BEEN;
out he submitted to the restrictions of the
compromise act as a matlerol NECESSI
TY. And he did not even now think
it prudent, because not practicable, to go
is far as his inclinations led him, with
the friends ot' PROTECTION But as
far as he COULD GO IIE \V< ULD !”
;Speech in the Senate, 23cl JlTorch, 1913, a still shor
ter time before retiring from that body.]
AVe learn from the Federal Union of yesterday,
that Col. John B. Lamar, one of the Representatives
elected to the next Congress, has resigned his seat.
THE WEATHER, &c.
Vfe have had quite an unusual spell of cold, raw,
rainy weather, for the past week; which, if much
longer continued, would have proved seriously inju
rious both to our grain and cotton crops.
AVith this exception, and one or two heavy floods,
the planters have at present every prospect of mak
inif an average crop. It the long cold rains, that we
have had for some time past, be succeeded l>y the hot
and sultry weather, usual in August and September,
we apprehend much sickness.
There app ars to be a strange and fatal epidemic
prevailing among syme of the plantations in Houston
and Macon counties. Measles and hooping-cough,
together succeeded by dysentery, which frequently
proves fital. Indeed, we have heard of fifteen deaths
on one plantation, in the space of two weeks.
t ——
ELECTIONS.
The general election took place in Tennessee, and
North.Carolinn, last Thursday; &on last Monday, in
Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Indiana amd Illi
nois. In ail of them except Kentucky, there is but
little cause to doubt that democracy will be triumph
ant ; that small, very small doubt, would have been
entirely removed if Mr. Clay had made an election
eering tour in each of these States.
AVe are extremely glad to see that he intends vis
iting North Carolina,, next spring, and consequently
expect an increased democratic majority of several
thousand.
LOSS OF THE SLOOP OF WAR, GRAMPUS.
“ Let us think of them that sleep,
Full many a fathom deep,
By tile wild an I stormy steep.” .
It is with unfeigned emotions of sorrow, that we
learn from our exchange papers, that all hopes of ev
er again hearing from this ill-fated vessel and her
gallant crew have disappeared. The Grampus, like
the Hornet and the President, lias, in all human
probability foundered at sea with the loss of every
soul on hoard. ,
There arc some calamities of so -tupendous a na
ture— so awful a crushing in t|jeir influence, that if
they were allowed to come with unbroken violence
upon the feeble mind of man, his reason would prob
ably be overthrown. Nature here kindly interposes,
and has benevolently constituted the mind in such a
manner that we instinctively seek relief hy refusing
our assent to their reality, and a thousand times a
day we find ourselves like McDuff, “ disputing it
like a man.”
AVithin a few years we have had many impressive
admonitions of the unfailing mortality which is ever
tho att mlaiit of man, no matter how humble his pur
suits or how distinguished liis avocations. Expe
rience has shown us that neither the highest sla
lion, nor the most brilliant and comprehensive intel
lect, can protect us from the fatal aim of the destroy
ing angel. However, “ noble in reason, or infinite
in faculties, in common, with the humblest insect,
he must yield submissively to this inevitable fiat.—
Nothing shields him, though he should “ take the
wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea;” ‘‘even there he meets the pesti
lence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction
that wastoth at noon-day.” The saute fatality at
tends bis productions, however, exquisite and refined;
the fate of the Hornet, the Grampus, the Pulaski, the
President, and the Columbia, arc pregnant examples
of this truth. No art, no improvement, no refine
ment of knowledge can ever prevent or obviate it.
The loss of an entire crew, together with so splendid
a specimen of human art as a vessel of war, formed
expressly to dare the strife of the elements, is an
event that may well inspire more than usual solem
nity and reflection.
“ Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” Perhaps
the most painful attendent of these occurrences, is
the dreadful uncertainly, the profound and impene
trable shroud of mystery that envelopes them.—
“ They died and made no sign.” The constantly
recurring questions, did they spring a leak and foun
der in the deep ocean 3 or did they like the Columbia
strike a sunken rock 1 Were they blown up acci
dentally, or in conflict with a piratical enemy 3 Did
such a scene occur as is graphically described by By
ron 3
“ Then some leap’d overboard with dreadful yell,
As eager to anticipate their grave ;
And the sea yawn’d around her like a hell,
And down suck’d with her the whirling wave,
Like one who grapples with his enemy 3”
“And first one universal shriek there rush’J,
Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash
Os echoing thunder; and then all was hush’d ”
Did it take place at night, when all perhaps, even
the helmsman, were wrapped in sleep; or during the
day when all were alive to the impending danger 3
These are questions which can only he answered
upon that day, “when the heavens shall be rolled to
gether as a scroll, and the son of man sit in the judg
ment seat of Cod.”
There is one thing that all arc convinced of, that
if aware of it they met their fate of whatever nature,
with the fearless intrepidity, that has ever distinguished
American seamen.
None will hesitate to join in the beautiful aspi
ration.
“ Soft sigh the winds of Heaven o’er their grave,
While the billow mournful rolls,
And the mermaids song condoles,
Singing glory to the souls
Os the brave 1”
THF, “VAULTING AMBITION” OF JOHN C.
CALHOUN.
We find this expression, applied recently, by one
of the Federal organs in this State to indicate, as we
suppose, the presumption of Mr. Calhoun, in daring
to enter the arena, as a candidate for the Presidency
| —vaulting ambition indeed! for the first statesman ol
the age, the acknowledged leader of the Democratic
phalanx of the Senate during the last two sessions,
the creator of the present organization of the W ar
Department, which for completeness, practical efii
ciency, clearness in its details, and facility in its ope
rations, was pronounced by General Bernard, (for
merly aid to Bonaparte) to he unsurpassed by that of
any government in the world. Vaulting ambition,
indeed 1 for a statesman who, to the fearlessness and
prompt decision of Jackson, the cautious, imperturb
able prudence of Washington, the calm, wise moder
ation of Madison, unites a profound knowledge of
those master principles upon the application of which
to governments, depends the preservation of freedom
and the permanent prosperity of nations.
Vaulting ambition, eh! that a republican citizen,
thus gifted (and no liberal opponent denies that he is
so) sliou and aspire to an office which the Federal organ
whose oracles we are considering, vouched the late
William H. Harrison to be consummately qualified
for 1 General Harrison, who previously to the
edict of the ninety-six attorneys of Harrisburg Con
vention notoriety, being circulated, was described by
the Whig editors of the North, as a broken down,
obsolete politician, and under par man; and by their
brethren of the South as an Abolitionist and Tarift
ite. What think you, gentle reader, was Mr. Web
: ster's reply to the proposition, that he should run on
the same ticket with Harrison 3 Why, this—“ I con
sider the proposal a personal indignity—what! place
my name beside a man’s whose weakness, vacillation
and vanity, render him an opprobrium to his friends,
and scorn and pity of his enemies.”
• Respect for the memory of the worthy, kind heart
ed old gentleman, for such we believe lie was, and
the reverential feelings we entertain for the privileges
of that last sanctuary of human infirmity, the grave,
.prevents our quoting more of the obloquy flung at
the time referred to by the disguised Federalists on
the man they ultimately victimised, than is indispen
sable to establishing our case and bringing out what
followed in its proper colors.
IVY 1 recur to these particulars with painful reluct
ance, hut owing it to our fellow-citizens to recall
their attention to them, we shrunk riot from our duty.
What a discouraging, what a melancholy picture
of human nature, does the following pi esent 1 The
ink that marked the contumelies noted above, on
Gen. Harrison, was scarcely dry, when the very
same whig editors that aspersed him, turned short
round, and with a reckless disregard of public opin
ion, decent consistenccncy, and of that truth, sin
cerity and independence, held so dear by all honora
ble men, commenced puffing to the skies, that iden
tical Wm. H. Harrison as a great sage, a states
man, a second Washington, as a chief, above all
Greek, above all Roman fame, and in the perform
ance of this degrading labor, seems to have chosen
as their model, Mother (lunches Fairy Talcs, and
the travels of the veracious Munchausen. “ Think
of that master Brooks.”
Now, our readers know that in the interval be
tween the abuse and glorification of Gen. Harrison,
not the slightest change could have occurred in the
good old gentleman—the miracle was wrought on the
cd.tors. How did that happen 3 Aye, that's thtf
question—we shall have a word or two to say on the
subject one of these days—in the mean time, who
can credit assertion of persons, who have ti us act 'd 1
h-uch are the men who busy themselves in reviling
and slandering Mr. Calhoun—such, they who have
the hardihood, tiie insensibility to honest shame, to
charge that gentleman with habitual deceit and false
hood, (one of them says “there is no truth in him,)
with advocating Centralism, a magnificent and ex
pensive government, and all the republic-destroyimr
abominations of the American, that is, the old Ham
iltonian System of Federalism, in its last stage of de
formity and mischief. Such the characters, that are
palming on the people the cunningly devised fable,
that Mr. Calhoun intends supporting the government
by direct taxation, and not by a reasonable Tariff.
Shame seems to be as scarce an article as truth,
among those disguised Federalists. We shall notice
hut one item more, in the candid, veracious and rx
trcmely ingenious article we have been hastily glanc
ing over—hut that would in common parlani*e, iix
our wild country here, be called “a whop[irr,” name
ly, the intimation or assertion, that the late W. H.
Crawford, was to the time of his death, in favor of a
U. S. Bank—what sad work Federalism must have
made in the memory or moral sentiments, before such
assertions could be hazarded.
Mr. Crawford’s letter to the Hon. Mr. Dickerson,
of Pennsylvania, and another to the Georgia Consti
tutionalist, have long been before the [ üblic, both
disclaiming the Bank amt rxjrcssing his deep regret
that he ever sanctioned the chartering of that insti
tution—to his political friends he lamented it as the
most blamcablc act of his public life.
e bog leave to recommend to attentive and can
did persusal the remarks over the signature of Henry,
transferred to the columns of to-days paper, from the
Petersburg ta. Republican. A\ edo so, because vvo
consider it an able and dispassionate exposition of
the subject alluded to by the writer, and one that
cannot fail to interest every Democratic Georgian
who considers the success of his piinciplcs paramount
to every other consideration; to every one who re
gards their success and progre-s as the great cause
of liis country, as the cause of liberal principles and
of human improvement, and not as the cause of an
individual. To all such the remarks of Henry will
tie acceptable. We cannot, ar.d wo will net believe
that the Democratic parly of Virginia, of this, or any
other Stale, with the lessons of the past, and the
clear perceptions of the present lo guide them, will
persist in a fool hardy course calculi e ! lo endanger
tho constitution of their country, simply to gratify the
vanity of any man 3 We do not believe that Vir
ginia will weigh the interest of any man living in the
balance with her own wishes for the success of the
great principle* of government promulged by Jeffer
son, and which she has maintained and defended
with a chivalrous devotion and singleness of purpose,
equal to the best days of Republican Rome. Wo
hope for the honor of Virginia—for the sake of the
respect in which she is every where held by the
Democratic party—for the sake of the greater and
dearer cause of Republicanism. That she will not
sully her well earned fame by jeopardizing tho suc
cess of her most cherished principles in the coining
contest.
Can Virginia forget her principles and tamely fol
low the fortunesof one man in any direction his van
ity or caprice may lead her 3 Shall the interest and
cupidity of those whom a career of unchecked dicta
tion has invested with a fancied supremacy ho put in
the scale with the Democratic party 3 Virginia will
never do this. She will never forget herself so far ns
to narrow down the great Democratic contest of 1844,
to the caprice or personal interest of the Editor of
the Globe. Thecountrymen of Washington, Jeffer
son, Wythe, Madison, Randolph and Taylor. The
descendants of those who fought at Camden, Eu
taw, Trenton. Monmouth and Yorktown can never
forget the virtuous renown of their fathers, and like
the Romans, even in sight of the statues of their an
cestors, who drove tile t:\rquiiis from their country,
submit to the dictation of a self-constituted triumvi
rate.
An article appeared in the last Richmond Enquirer
signed “Poblicola,” and editorially endorsed. It was
our intention to have noticed it, hut our correspon
dent “Henry” has left us nothing to say on the sub
ject.
A disposition seems to have pervaded a large por
tion of the Democratic press for some time, not to
come out boldly, and at once canvass the merits of
the different Republican candidates for the Presiden
cy ; and an unwillingness to place before the party
those matters which must he presented, sooner or la
ter, for its decision. This may not he the result of a
mere unwillingness to take up the weapons of a fam
ily feud, and as such without any hidden meaning j
hut, on the ontrary, the result of a cool calculation
ol political effects, and if so, of deep significance to
ad. We daily see blows, dealt as if through acci-
hut with all the skill of design, by combatants
with harmony, and brotherly love, and strict neutral
ity on their lips. Does this spring from an earnest
desire not to distrait the parly; not to divide a house
against itself whose united strength is well-nigh ir
resistible! or is it at tha cunningly devised scheme,
and deep policy of the friends of Mr. Van Buren,.
whose popularity, acquired as the follower of a polit
ical chieftain, has long since reached its maximum,
and has been rapidly decliming since lie succeeded to
Geri. Jackson’s position ; and, by virtue of that suc
cession, became leader of the democratic yarty. Is it
the purpose of these men. to create no movement, no 1
spirit of enquiry in the Democratic ranks, in order
that they may take advantage of the r is insertiae in
herent in ad bodies, and quietly under the mask of
harmony, and strict neutrality, advocate the claims of
their favorite, and cunningly bias the minds of tho
Democracy before any furmal issue is made up and
formally presented 3
Indeed, it must seem to a cool and candid observer
that this is but a portion of that system of party man
agement, shadowed forth in the manifest desire of a
portion of the Democratic press, to excommunicate
ad those who, although willing to support Democrat
ic principles, arc not willing to suppoil Mr. Van Hu
ron and who aie now ready to give in their adher
ence to the States Right creed, hut not to swear al
legiance to him. This desire is plainly manifested
on the part of the Globe in its bitter denunciation of
the “refugees of the Harrisburg Convention,” when
it unequivocally rijeets any additional suppoit to its
wn principles, - ny accession toitsuwn party, if the
rc-inliirceiHent acknowledges Mr. Calhoun as it*
leadtr. The end end object of ad of which is to fori *
Mr. Calhoun into the Convention without an in
crease in the number of his supporters, and * ,-r » L*