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Was with it. He seemed pleased with
my praises, and said it was a proof of
taste, for she was perhaps one of the
most lovely women that ever existed.
The emperor usually played cards ev
ery evening, and when we were tired of
looking at the miniatures, &c., he said,
“ Now we will go the cottage and play
whist.”
We all walked down together. Our
little whist-tahle was soon formed, but
the cards did not run smoothly, and Na
poleon desired Las Cases to seat himself
at a side-table, and deal them un il they
dealt easily.
While the grand chamberlain was thus
employed, Napoleon asked me what my
robe de balle was to be. 1 must mention
that on my father’s refusal to allow me
to go to the ball, which was to be given
by Sir George Cockbum, I had implored
the emperor’s intercession for me. He
mbst kindly asked my father to let me
go, and his request of course was instant
ly acceded to.
I now ran up stairs to bring my dress
down to him. it was the hist bail-dress
I had ever possessed, and 1 was not a lit
tle proud of it.
He said it was very pretty, and the
cards being now ready, 1 placed it on
the sofa aud sat down to play. Napole
on and my sister were partners, and Las
Cases fell to my lot. We had always
hitherto played lor sugar plumbs, but to
night Napoleon said,
“ Mademoiselle Betsee, I will bet you
a Napoleon on the game.”
I had had a pagoda presented to me
which made up the sum of all ray word
ly riches, and I said I would bet him
that against his Napoleon.
The Emperor agreed to this, and we
commenced playing. He seemed deter
mined to terminate this day o lespieglerie
as he had begun it. Beeping under his
cards as they were dealt to him, he en
deavored whenever he got an important
one, to draw olf my attention, and then
slily held it up for my sister to see. 1
soon discovered this, and calling him to
order, told him he was cheating, and
that if he continued to do so I would not
play. At last he revoked intentionally,
and at the end of the game tried to mix
the cards together to prevent his being
discovered ; but I started up, and seizing
hold of his hands I pointed out to him
and the others what he had done.
He laughed until the tears ran out of
his eyes, and declared that he had played
fair, but that I had cheated, aud should
pay him the pagoda ; and when I per
sisted that he had revoked, he said I was
mechante and a cheat; and catching up
my ball dress from off the sofa, he ran
out of the room with it, and up to the
pavilion, leaving me in terror lest he
should crush and spoil all my pretty ro
ses, I instantly set off in chase of him,
but he was too quick, and darting through
the marquee, he reached the inner-room
and locked himself in.
I then commenced a scries of the most
pathetic remonstrances and entreaties,
both in English and in French, to per
suade him to restore me my frock, bm
in vain; he was inexorable, and 1 had
the mortification of hearing him laugh
at what I thought the most touching~oi
my appeals. 1 was obliged to return
without it. He afterwards sent down
woid he intended to keep it, and that 1
might make up my mind not to go to the
ball. 1 lay awake half trie night, and at
last cried myself to sleep, hophighe would
relent in the morning; but the next day
wore away, and I saw no signs of my
pretty frockt.
I sent several entreaties in the course
of the day, but the answer was that the
emperor slept, and could not be disturbed.
He had given these orders to teaze me.
At last the hour arrived for our depar
ture for the valley. The horses were
brought round, and I saw the little black
boys ready to start with our tin cases,
without alas ! my beautiful dress being
in them.
I was in despair, and hesitated wheth
er I should not go in my plain frock,
rather than not go at all; when to my
great joy I saw the emperor running
down the lawn to the gate with my dress.
“ Here, Miss Betoee, I have brought
your dress, I hope von are a good giri
now, and that you will like the ball ; and
mind that you dance with Gourgaud.”
General Gourgaud was not very hand
some, and I had some childish feud with
him.
And I was delighted at getting back
my dress, and still more pleased to find
that my roses were not spoiled.
He said he had ordered them to be ar
ranged, and pulled out in case any might
have been crushed the night before.
Napoleon walked by the side of our
horses until he came to the end of the
bi-idle-road which led to the Briars. He
then stopped and remarked on the beau
ty of a house which was situated in the
V&lley beneath us, asking to whom it be
longed and expressing his intention of
going down to see it.
Las Cases accompanied the emperor
down the side of the mountain, and we
went on to the ball. He mentioned the
next day how charmed he had been with
the place, and that he had ridden home
on a beautiful little active pony belong
ing to the owner, Mr.’ Hogdson.
The only exception-of the emperor’s
habits of regularity when with us was in
bis hour of rising.
In the midst of our garden was a very
large pond of transparent water full of
gold and silver fish ; and near this was
the grapery formed of trellis work, quite
covered with vines of every description.
At the end of the grapery was an arbor,
and over which a treillage of grapes also
clustered in the richest profusion. To
this spot which was so sheltered as to be
cool in the most sultrv weather. Napole
on was much attached. He would some
times convey his papers there as early as
four o’clock in the Tnornin?, and employ ;
dfeoself until breafciaat-ume m writing, |
and when tired of his pen, in dictating
to Las Cases.
No one was ever permitted to intrude
upon him when there ; and this ltttle at
tention was ever after gratefully remem
bered. From this prohibition, howev
er, I was exempt, at the emperor’s own
desire. I was considered as a privileged
person; even when he was in the act of
dictating a sentence to Las Cases, he
would come and answer my call, ‘‘Come
and unlock the garden-door and I was
always admitted and welcomed with a
smile.
I did not abuse this indulgence, and
seldom intruded on him when in his re
treat.
I remember, however, one day a very
pretty young lady came from the valley
to pass the morning with us. She was
dying to see Napoleon, but the heat was
very oppressive, and he had retired to Ins
arbor to avoid it.
I hesitated tor some time between the
fear of disturbing him and disappointing
my friend; blit at last Miss C ap
peared so mortified at not seeing him,
that i ran down to the garden and knock
ed at the door.
For a long while I received no answer,
but at length by dint of thumping, and
calling to the emperor, i succeeded in
waking him. He had fallen asleep in
the aroor over his papers.
He came to the door and asked me
what 1 wanted.
1 said, “Let me in, and yon shalll
know.”
He replied, “ No; tell me first what it
is, and then you shall come in.”
1 was then obliged to say I wished to
introduce a young lady to him : lie de
clined seeing her, and desired me to say
he was unwell, ito and him she would
oe dreadfully disappointed, and that she
was so pretty.
“Not like the lady I was obliged tc
say agreeable tilings to yesterday I”
I assured him she was quite a differ
ent person, being very young and hand
some.
At last I succeeded in getting the door
opened, as soon as I found it unlocked, 1
ran up to tlie table where he had been
writing, and snatched up his papers.
“Now,” 1 said, “for your ill nature
in keeping me so long at the door, I shall
keep these, and then I shall find out all
the secrets.”
He looked a little alarmed, when he
saw the papers in my hand, and told me
to put them down instantly; but 1 refus
ed and set off round the garden flourish
ing my trophies.
At last he told me if I did not give
them up, he would not be my friend;
and 1 relinquished them.
I then took hoid of the emperor’s hand
for fear he should escape, and led him to
the house where we found Miss C .
1 introduced her to Napoleon, and he de
lighted her excessively by his compli
ments on her beauty, <fcc.
When she was going away, he walked
down the lawn and lifted her on the
uorse. He told me after she was gone,
that she was a very pretty girl, but had
the air of a merchande des modes.
The golden fruit in this modern gar
den of the Hesperides, had for its dragon
an old Malay slave, named Toby, who
had been captured and brought to the
island as a slave many years before our
arrival. The old fellow had lived in the
garden forty years without once crossing
its boundary. He was an original and
rather an interesting character. A por
ted despot in his domain, he never al
lowed his authority to be disputed ; and
the family stood almost as much in awe
of him as they did of the master of the
Briars himself.
Napoleon took a fancy to old Toby,
and told papa he wished lo pnrehase him
and give him his freedom ; but for some
political reason it was not permitted;
The old man retained ever afterwards
the most grateful sense of Napoleon’s
kindness ; and was never more highly
gratified than when employed in gather
ing the choicest fruit, and arranging the
most beautiful boquets to be sent to
Longwood, “ to that good man, Bony,”
as he called the emperor.
Napoleon made-a point of inquiring,
whenever I saw him, alter the health of
old Toby, and when he took his leave of
him, he presented him with twenty Na
poleons.
The emperor was very accessible while
at the Briars, and knowing how much it
would delight us, he seeun and to wish to
return any little attentions we were able
to offer Him, by courtesy and kindness
to our friends.
My father, one day duringhis residence
with us invited a large party, and the
emperor said he would join us in the
evening. He performed his promise, and
delighted every one with his urbanity
and condescension. When any one of
our guests were presented to him, he usu
ally inquired his profession, and then
turned the conversation upon some topic
connected with it.
I have often heard wonder expressed
at the extent of Napoleon s information
on matters of which he would hardly
have been expected to know much. On
this occasion, a very clever medical man,
after a long conversation with the empe
ror on the subject of his profession, de
clared his astonishment to my father, at
the knowledge he possessed, and the
dearness and brilliancy with which he
reasoned on it, though his theories were'
sometimes rather heterodox.
Napoleon told him he had no faith
whatever in medicine, and that his own
remedies were starvation and the warm
bath. At the same time he possessed a
higher opinion of the medical, or rather
surgical profession than any other.
The practice of the law was too se
vere an ordeal for poor human nature,
and that he who habituates himself to
the distortion of truth, and to exultation
at The success of injustice, will at last
hardly know wright from wrong. So it
is, he remarked, with politics? a man 1
must have a convential conscience.
Os the church also ( es ecclesiastiques)
lie spoke harshly, saying that too much
was expected from its members, and that
they became hypocrites in consequence.
As to soldiers, they were cut throats and
robbers, and not the less so because they
are ready to send a bullet through your
head if you tell them your opinion of
them. But surgeons, lie said, are neither
too good nor too bad. Thei r mission is
to benefit mankind, not to destroy, mys
tify, or inflame them against each other,
and they have opportunities of studying
human nature as well as science. The
emperor spoke in high terms of I *arry,
who, he said, was a man of genius, and
of unimpeachable integrity.*
On the emperor’s first arrival in St.
Helena he was fond of taking exploring
walks in the valley just below our cot
tage. In these short walks he was un
attended by the officer on guard, and he
had thus the pleasure of feeling himself
free from observation. The officer first
appointed to exercise surveilance over
him was a Captain Grately, of the artil
lery, although a mild and gentlemanly
person in his manners, Napoleon took
an unconquerable dislike to him. It was
his duty to attend him in his rides, and
the orders given him on these occasions
were, “that he was not to lose sigh: of
Napoleon.”
The latter was one day riding along
one of the mountainous bridle paths at
St. Helena, with the orderly officer in at
tendance ; suddenly the emperor turned
short to his right, and spurring his horse
violently, urged him up the face of the
precipice, making the large stones fly
from under him down the mountain, and
leaving the orderly officer aghast at him,
in terror for his safety and doubt at his
intentions.
He was either not well enough mount
ed, or his nerve was unequal to the task
of following Napoleon, and giving it up
at once, he rode instant! y ofFto Sir George
Cockbum, who happened at the time to
be dining with my father at the Briars.
He arrived breathless at our house, and
demanded to see Sir George, on business
of the utmost importance, lie was usher
ed at once into the dining-room.
The admiral was in the act of discus
sing his soup, aud listened with an im
perturbable countenance to the agitated
detail of the occurrence, lie then qui
etly advised him to return to Longwood,
where he would most probably find Gen.
Bonaparte. This, as he prognosticated,
was (he case, and Napoleon often after
wards laughed at tlie consternation he
had created.
1 have mentioned being struck with
Napoleon’s seat on horseback on first
seeing him. lie one day asked me
whether 1 thought he rode well. I told
him with the greatest truth, that I thought
he looked better on horse back than any
one l had ever seen. He appeared pleased,
and calling for his horse he mounted,
and rode several times at speed round the
lawn, making the animal wheel in a ve
ry narrow circle, and showing the most
complete mastery over him. One day,
Achambaud, his groom, was breaking in
a beautiful young Arab, which had been
bought for the emperor’s riding.
Tlie colt was plunging anti rearing in
the most frightful manner, and could not
be induced to pass a white cloth which
had been purposely spread on the lawn,
to break him from shying. I told Napo
leon it was impossible that he could ever
ride that horse, it was so vicious. He
smiled, and beckoning to Achambaud,
desired him to dismount, and then to my
great terror, he himself got on the ani
mal, and soon succeeded in making him
not only pass the cloth, but put liis 4 foot
upon it; and then rode him over and
over it several times. Achambaud, as it
seemed to me, hardly knew whether to
laugh or cry. He was delighted with
his emperor’s prowess, but mortified at
his managing a horse so easily which he
had been trying in vain to subdue.
Napoleon mentioned once that he had
once ridden a horse 120 miles in one day.
It was to see his mother who was dan
gerously ill, and there was no other
means of reaching her. The poor ani
mal died in the course of that night. He
said that his own power of standing fa
tigue was immense, and that he could
almost live in the saddle. 1 am afraid
to say how many hours he told me he
had once remained on horseback ; but I
remember being much surprised at his
powers of endurance.
His great strength of constitution' was
probably more instrumental than one
would imagine at first view, in his reach
ing the pinnacle of his ambition. The
state of the mind is so dependent on the
corporal frame, that it is difficult to see
how the kind of mental power which is
necessary to success in war or political
turmoil, can exist without a correspond
ing strength of body, or at least of con
stitution.
In how many critical periods of Napo
leon’s life would not the illness of a week
have been fatal to his future schemes of
empire. How might tlie sternness of
by which he subjugated his daring com
peers of the revolution have been shaken,
and his giant ambition thwarted by a tri
val sickness. The mind even of a Na
poleon might have been prostrated, and
his mighty will enfeebled by a few days’
fever.
The successful leader of a revolution
especially ought to be exempt from the
evils to which flesh is heir. His very
absence from the arena for a few days is
enough to ruin him. Depieciating re
ports are spread, the prestige vanishes,
and he is pushed from his stool by some
more vigorous and more fortunate com
petitor.
♦The above conversation is from a note of my fa
ther’s.
In Lowell about S2OOO has been con
tributed for the relief of the Fall River
sufferers.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGtJSt 23, 1813.
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
LEVI UOOIHUiJY,
FOR GOVERNOR,
MARK A. COOPER. OF MURRAY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES 11. STARK, OF BUTTS.
We marked the • 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 11 oodbury, of New Hampshire :
Subject, of course, to the decision of a Na
tional Democratic Convention:
The Delegates to be chosen directly
by the People —to convene at Balti
more, May, 1844, and there individu
ally express Faithfully, the will of
their Constituents. We ask but a fair
Held and fair play —and then “ God
lefend the Ilight.”
“Let me not be misunderstood,
AND LET ME ENTREAT THAT I MAY
NOT BE MISREPRESENTED.”
[Extract from Mr. Clay's Speech, a short lime 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 itl
He was still for adhering to it, as he
understood its principles. Those prin
ciples he did not consider incompatible
with the PHOTLOTION of American
industry, in preference to any ether.
HL HAD LIVED, AND WOULD
DIE, AN ADVOCATE OF THE PRO
TECTIVE SYSTEM. HE HAD
NEVER CHANGED HIS PRINCI
PLES. THEY WERE NOW THE
SAME AS THEY had EVER BEEN;
out h i submitted to the restrictions of the
compromise act as a matter of NECESSI
TY. And he did hot even now think
it prudent, because not practicable, to go
is far as his inclinations led him, with
the friends of PROTECTION But as
far as he COULD GO HE Wt lUUI)!”
[Speech in the Senate, 23 d March, 1313, a stiU shor
ter lime before retiring from that body. J
RALLY DEMOCRATS! —RALLY!!
“ONCE MORE TO THE BII EACII, DEAR
FRIENDS, ONCE MOKE.”
11 e tread the land that bore us ;
Our green flag flutters o’er us;
The Iriends we have tried are by our side,
And the foes we hate before us.’’
On the first Monday in October, the Democratic
Party of Georgia will be called on to to cast their
votes for Governor, tw. Members of Congress, ami
Senators and Representatives to serve them in the
Legislature for two years. Democrats! are you pre
paring for the conflict 3 are you making ready to go
forth to battle for your Country and Principles! We
call upon our friends throughout the State to be up
and doing. Make ready for the great work before
you. The Whigs have formed high hopes of success,
not from the power or popularity of their principles,
hut from the dissensions they have been so zeal>usly
laboring to produce among us, and which they would
fain persuade us do exist. They know, moreover,
that it is more difficult for us to cad out our strength
than it is for them; The Whigs, to a man, they
know will goto the polls and v te, while a large num"
her of Democrats, conscious of the integrity of their
own principles remain at home in the honest, though
dangerous belief that thei; principles are in no danger.
Let us shewtlie Whigs when we go to the ballot box
in October, that they have again miscalculated—let
us shew them that they are again in fogs; and how
ever much we may differ as to our choice of men for
the Presidency—that whether friends and admirers
of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Van Buren, Gen. Cass, of
some other Democratic candidate—we are neverthe
less united as to our own principles, and whenever
they are threatened with danger we will stand shoul'
der to shoulder in their defence with the unanimity
of one man—that whenever or wherever that issue is
made, we will he found handed together like brothers
who have “ pledged their word and will not falter.”
We take this occasion to warn our Democratic
brethren throughout the State—in the East and in
fee West—on the Seaboard and upon the Mountains,
whether old or new panel men—we warn them against
the dissensions the Whigs are so artfully endeavoring
to create among us. We warn them against this
Panderaonian Mischief—this Trojan Horse of De
struction which the Whigs are so zealously attempts
ing to introduce among us. There are no dissensions
in our ranks. We are all agreed as to our principles
—there is no dissensions about them: why then should
there be any distractions or dissensions among us l
We wish not to elevate Maj. Cooper to the Guberna
torial Chair, or send Mr. Stark to Congress, or to'
elect a majority of Democrats to the Legislature, for
their own sake merely, but because they are the cho
sen representatives of oar principles—because we be.
jieve that they will carry out our measures faithfully
—vouchsafe arid defend the rights and interests of the
State, and thereby promote the security, prosperity
and happiness of our People.
If the Democratic Party are true to their principles,
we have no tears. They have a large majority in
this State, and if they are up and doing, our prinei'
pies will be sift and our triumph complete. We
hope they will ’net slumber on duty as we fear o - j r
friends in Tennessee and North Carolina did, and let
• •victory go by default. We call upon our Demo'
C itic friends again to be up and doing. We warn
lln m again against the designs of their enemies to sow
d.s ensiuns in enr ranks. We call upon them to
avoid such a disaster, to fly f.oin it as they would
so lie great mo a! plague. If they do this and are up
and doing, all will be well.
DEMOCRATS OF 8188 COUNTY.
Fellow-Cit.zf.ns
You are aware that a general meeting of our breth
ren has been appointed, to convene at the Market
House, or other convenient location, in this city on
the ensuing Saturday, the 2fith inst. at 11 A. M.
The circumstances of our common country, of our
own State, the bearing the approaching election may
have on that of for.y-four—the struggle before us at
that peiiud—the strength, honorand ultimate success
of the Democratic party, all appeal to the manhood of
every democrat in the county, who can come without
actual serious inconvenience, to be present. In the
name of Liberty, the Constitution and the Union,
let us not he outdone in vigilance, exertion and self
devotion, by our opponents, who would sacrifice them
all at the shrine of their Clay idol.
It is a lamentable fact that this important duty has
often been negligently and heedlessly performed—
that selections have too often been made, without any
regard to the standing for moral worth, intelligence
and appropriate information of the individuals selected
—yet these perquisites are indispensable to form a safe
legislator, even for a Stale, and a still higher degree
of them necessary, to prevent a man from being a
useless, or dangerous member of Congress. If anv
one doubt the accuracy of this statement, let him ex
amine the cruJe mass of incongruous, often mischiev
ous, and sometimes palpably corrupt laws and reso
lutions passed in our legislature during the last forty,
aye, the last twenty, aye, the last ten years and be
convinced.
Would to Heaven these remarks were not on ma
ny occasions applicable also to the proceedings in
Congress. We are disgusted at the piti.'ul, the silly
or knavish proing and coming crimination and re
crimination, ttiat has been bandying backward and
forward.
The Whigs did the mischief—no, no, it was the
Democrats—truth says they both did their share of it
Patriotism says the evil exists and must be reme
died- the nuisance is palpable it must be abated.
There is no peaceable mode of effecting the refor
mation indispensable to the preservation of the Union,
as the restoring purity of purpose and disinterested
and jiatriol action to our election proceedings. We
are extremely solicitous that the vacancy in our Con
gressional ticket, should be filled on just principles.
IVe trust the people of Georgia, will, im all instances,
require irom the aspirant, who desires to represent
them in the council ol the nation, high-minded integ
rity, untarnished moral character, respectable, at
least, intelligence and information, and the manners
and deportment of a gentleman.
These perequisites are equally essential for sus
taining the honor of the State, anJ the beneficial ful
filment of congressional duties.
MISAPPREHENSION RECTIFIED.
We have been cuarged with being unjust to great
merits and eminent talents of AJurlin Van Buren,
and speaking of that gentleman as a third- rate po.iti
eian —to both chaiges, we plead not guilty. Were
we ou t.ial for the alleged offence, we suuuld deny
the specifications—we have never spoken of Mi.
v’au tiuren, but courteously. We have been accus
ed ol designating him a t.ird-rate politician—nothing
can be more remote from the fact. When noticing
nis splendid success, both as a private individual anu
an aspirant tor public honors, we did indeed place
uis mind (and it was done with candor and delibera
tion) in the third order. But while so doing, we had
no notion oi dishonoring Mr. Van Buren by com
paring him with the dabblers in politics, that some
times cumber tlie seals in Congress, and that, too ol
ten render ihtate legislation at once absurd and mis
chievous. No, truly, we were thinking of the giant
intellects, the master spirits of our race, that justify
the poet when he exclaims, “What a piece of work
is man ! how noble in reason, how infinite in facul
ties, in apprehension, how like a god,” we thought
of such men, and tuose in various grades of approxi
mation to them, and we still think, that in our classi
fication of Van Buren’s mind, we were both just and
respecllul. Let the reader recollect how tew men of
the first order, the histories ot Greece and Rome have
handed down to us. Two generations have furnish
ed but one Bonaparte. Since the group of which
Edmund Burke was the chief, passed -way, England
has not had a public man of the Jirst order of talent.
Brougham is scarcely entitled to be placed in the se
cond class, and the Peel is the wisest and ablest
practic.il statesman she possesses, his uiinU cannot be
ranked higher than the third. Certainly, neither
Van Buren, or his admirers, can reasonably complain
at our placing him in such company-. The frank
ness with which we have spoken on this subject has
been used by some interested and a few mistaken
persons, to get up a little crusade against the Demo
crat it has cost us a few subscribers, but they have
been replaced by double the number of those who
understand the value of a fearless and independent
press, about which there’s no shuffling.
We now add, the more we consider Van Bufen’s
present position, the less we are satisfied with bis
conduct—the more dubious and extraordinary docs it
•appear.
He avows in his published letter, that his country
(and he may well say so,) has more than amply re
warded all his services—that “he does not want the
Presi iency.” Why then is he in the field 3 Why
is he, after enjoying all the honors she has to bestow,
seeking a re-election 3 Why is In? thrusting himself
between Cass, Johnson and Calhoun, and the grati
tude of the American people3 Why is he wilfully
jeopardizing the predominance of the Constitutional
Republic&n party 3
We say again, his course is a dubious one. There
is but a single step between Mr. Van Buren and ah
immortality of fame in the history of his country—
Will he have the magnanimity to take it 3 ' Nous
Verrons.
“DEMOCRATS OF BIBB."
We to call your attention to the adjourned
meeting, to We held at the Market House, on Satur
dry morning, the 2Gtli, at 11 o’dook, for the pur|>ose
of nominating a Senator and Representatives to servo
in the next Legislature, that service being for two
years, makes the present election an exceedingly im
portant one. We trust therefore, that our friends in
town and country, ofd arwfyoung, will rally in score*
at the meeting on Saturday. Come forward and or
ganize for the contest in Oetolier. Let os prepare Ur
keep pace wilh our Democratic brethren throughout
the State, by increasing our majorities in Bibb at the
October ejection. In another column will We foarnl
a notice of the meeting alluded to. Again we say.
to our democratic friends in town and country,
u Come one, come all.”
THE GEORGIA JOURNAL.
Surety »ur lilieral cotcmporary, the Journal, wilf
not attemt to perstraW us, that in Mr. Clay’s dela
tion, that he had always been, was then, and would
remain until death, an advocate of the Protective
System, meant only an apology for the past.
Our good humored antagonist » certainty playing
off one of his hoaxes—why, here is the ease stripped
of all disguise, a man avows be had hern doing mis
chief all his life, and was determined to pursue the
same course till he died—would any one interpret
the declaration respecting the present and the future,
into an apology, or expression of regret for the past
and for the future! Mr. Clay himself has settled
the point conclusively—left it “ past praying for” in
his celebrated speech, after his return to Kentucky,
near Lexington, June 9th, 1842. Page 5G4, 2d vol.
speeches. In that speech he expressly avers that be
never in his life ct.anged but one opinion and that was
on the U. S. Bank.
These shewing* having in our opinion “nailed the
rap to the counter.” We are willing to leave the
question to the country.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.
It has rained every day we believe except one, for
the last two weeks. We understand that the worm
and the rot have already bi'guri their ravages. A
rainbow at sunset is said to be an infallible sign of
dry weather, but we have bad it three evenings in
succession, accompanied by drenching rains every
day.
If the rain continues one week longer, we may ex
pect a serious diminution in the cotton crop of this
section. We have heard many complaints from va
rious sections in the last few days.
THE LAST “END” OF THE FLORIDA WAR.
We know our readers are ready toexelaim, ‘What,
Monsieur Tonson come again 3’ We are assured
by the Savannah Republican, that there is no mis
take about this “end” of tlie always ending, but ne
ver-ending Florida A\ ar. The Republican pays a
just tribute to the indomitable energy, and persever
ance, and the military ability of Gen. Worth, who
lias contributed so much to bring this tedious and ir
ritating warfare to a definite conclusion.
LOCO FOCOISM.
The term Locofoco, which performed soconsj icu
ous a part in the system ot slang and humbuggery,
by which this country has been distracted, and A
merican people deluded lor the last four years, since
it was found to lie merely identical with democrats
has been but little used by the wliigs.
We notice symptoms of its being revived by them.
The New York American has certainly barked up
the wrong tree on the subject. That print lias made
an attempt at being witty on the poor democrats, by
representing Locofoco, to mean a wandering light, a
will of the wisp, &c., leading its benighted followers
into swamps, quagmires, quicksands, and all scats of
disagreeable places.
Now we don’t think it becoming for folks, them
selves, up to their chins in the “ slough of despond’*
to talk so big about these matters.
How this Clavism disturbs the perception of its
votaries 3 The American evidently confounds Lo
eofbco, with Locomotive, and it instead of the Demo
crats, be wandering that lurid arid disaster-shedding
meteor the American system. So far from Locofoco,.
signitying motion, wandering, it necessarily indicates
fixedness, permanence, as appears from, its derivation
—locus, place—focus, health, or fire-place, (the gen
erally used by classical writers to denote the domestic
hearth.)
The whigs may follow the flickering, crackliDg,
delu ive blaze of Clayiatn—the Democrats will still
be guided by the flame of Liberty, the light of the
Constitution, and feel their fire sides and the dear
ones around them encircled and shielded by the Un
ion.
PARTY DECEPTIONS.
Among the little artifices set a float to distract the
attention, and produce division, and consequent
weakness in the democratic ranks, is a hue and cry,
circulated in some of the counties of this State, against
the majority in the last Legislature, and the whole
democratic party, on account of a bill passed last ses
sion, extending the time during which executions
could lie stayed, from three months lo four, whereby
a few individuals allege they have suffered loss by the
debtors absconding in the last month of the period.
This may have happened in a few instances, but
seems to be more justly chargeable on the want ot
vigilance on tlie part of the plaintiff, or bis attorney,
than on the law, bad as that certainly was. Tins
and other charges we have seen urged against that
majority, are at least ungenerous. Our readers will
remember the clamor for relief raised over the State,
some months previous to the session, and urged on
vehemently, by the Whig journals, and street and
court-house orators, they knowing conclusively, tb e
Legislature were utterly destitute of the power to af
ford any serious relief to the suffering people. No
reflecting and observant person admitted that any
Legislation either State or National, could reli* vff
the country from the measureless embarrassments
the wide sprdad antl'dedp rooted distress, produced by
seven years of unexampled prodigality of expenditure!
indulged in by all ranks, and the blind infatu- ted
spirit of speculation, that had fallen upon the |
during that memorable epoch like an epide nic. h’®*
ry reasoning mail knew that no Banking, or