American Democrat. (Macon, Ga.) 1843-1844, August 30, 1843, Image 2

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Foreign Sew». IRELAND. Ireland is still the vr.tex of agitation. The rent flow* in and O’Connell is a* energetic as ever. Sir Robert Peel looks passively on, reserving the deter mination to extinguish the flame when it bursts out. The repeal rent for the last week amounted to XIGOO. The military force now in Ireland amount to 35,000 men. An order has been received at the Royal Artillery, Barracks, Woolwich, for an entire company of that Corps to proceed forthwith to Ireland. The second Tuam Repeal demonstration took place on the 21st ult., on the race course of Gurraws, about two miles from the town. It was very numer ously attended. Several resolutions were passeJ. Mr. O’Connell addressed the meeting, expressing great delight at its magnitude. Mr. O’Connell found great fault with the conduct of the poople of Alias cragh, a small village, who had broken the law by storming and inj u:mg the policemen, one of whom had taken down a triumphal arch. If wrong, the law was open to them, and he promised them that they should not want its protection. But the traitors of Ahascragh, instead of resorting to it, violated at the same time the very first principle of the Repeal Association, which required that there should be no tumult, no rioting, and noviolenceof any description. He felt so strongly on the subject that he would blot Ahascragh from the map of Ireland, and refuse to al low a single one of its inhabitants to be enrolled upon the books of the association, and have tliem held up to the detestation of the people of Ireland for having violated the great and beautiful principle of moral force. If it were fitting to resort to force he would tell them, and they would all turn out together; but as it was not fitting, and as the iaw was predominent, he must declare his determination of erasing from the books of the association the name of every man con nected with the riot in Ahascragh. See, on the oth er hand, what would he done in the case of the man who shouted “ Hurrah for O'Connell!” at Headfort, and who, when one of Mr. St. George's myrmidons knocked him down for tiiat foolish, but certainly, harmless cry, behaved himself like M’Namara, of Clara, and refused to return the blow. He promised them that that man shoulu have the protection of the law and the benefit of counsel. (Hear, hear.) Having dwelt on the tyranny of landlords and oth er grievances, the do-nothing policy of the Govern ment, and on the tottering condition of England, and having put in contrast Lord Morpeth’s evidence of the high morality of the Irish with Lord Ashley’s de scription of the English people, the honorable and learned gentleman announced that be would lie at Castlebar on the following Sunday; at Caltinglass the Sunday after, and at Tara-hill the 15th August. The dinner took place in a large roo :i of the Mitre Hotel, accommodating about 400 gentlemen, and nearly half that number of ladies as spectators. Mr. O’Connell addressed the company for upwards of an hour. They had arrived, he said, at a crisis which would try their souls, a crisis which would leave Ireland a degraded and pitiful province for cen turies, or raise her at once to the dignity of a national independence. While compelling England to do them justice, they had nevea omitted to warn her that they were agitators with ulterior views, and that what they had in contemplation wa3 the nationality of Ire land. Mr. O’Connell alluded to the myriads of de termined repealers who had attended ihe several re peal demonstrations, observing, that even if England Were in a state of perfect prosperity, Ireland now possessed a moral force sufficient to break down ev ery barrier that stood in the way of her independence; but instead of that, the manufactures of England were declining, and her revenue, notwithstanding the in come tax, was diminishing. (A voice, “ M ire of that to her!”) Right, more of that to '.ter, until she did justice to Ireland, and then might every prosperi ty and glory attend her march. He proceeded to show that the condition of Spain, the offer of support from France, and the well attested sympathy of A merica, made England very insecure while Ireland was dissatisfied. Nothing but fear keeps her at pres ent from attempting to coerce Ireland, for when was she stiong that she did not do so 1 As soon as she found that she could not cut their throats she resolved to bully them, and out came the threat of civil war from Peel and Wellington, who were now neither tor coercion, threats, nor civil war, but lor doing no- thing. On the 25th ult., the usual weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association was held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin. Mr. O'Connell gave an account oftheTuam dem onstration, and then alluded to the assault on the policeman at Ahascragh. He had no stronger way, he said, to mark his abhorrence of the conduct of the people of Ahascragh than by striking it out of the amp of Ireland, and he trusted the association would agree with hinrto strike out of their enrollment the names of every inhabitant of Ahascragh, except the Catholic clergyman, who, unfortunately, was not in town at the time, or the event would not have oc curred. Mr. O’Connell moved the following resolu tions, which were separately put and carried : “That all the inhabitants of Ahascragh, whose names were enrolled in their books, should be struck out, except the Catholic clergyman. “ That no inhabitant of Ahascragh should be al lowed to enrol himself as a member or associate of the association. “ That it be required in all processions and public meetings of the Repealers, that the practice of erect ing arches be abandoned in future. The Dismissed Magistrates.— At a meeting held in Waterford on Tuesday evening, the following resolution was adopted, on the motion of Mr. Hayes, barrister:—“That each of the patriotic gentlemen who, for their advocacy for re|>eal, were tyrannically dismissed from the magistracy, t>e presented by the repealers of Waterford with a gold medal.’’ France. —Lieutenant Laity, who was condemned by the Court of Peers to five years’ imprisonment, as. publisher of a pamphlet relating to Prince Louis Na ixileon Bonaparte, at the time of the attem|>t at Stras bourg having undergone his punishment to the last day has been discharged out of actual custody. FRANCE. The intelligence from France possesses very little interest. The session of tlie Ohnmbersclosed on the 21lh ult., when the royal decree of prorogation was read. Several of the ministers, and about one hun dred of the deputies were present. They were not expected to re-asscmble until the !)th of January.— Tlie Queen mother Christina is busy in the French capital. She held a grand levee in the Hotel de Courcelles, on the tilth ult., her birth day. The King, Queen, the Duke d’Aumale, the Duke and Duthess of Nemours, and Madame Adelaide, succes sively visited the ex-Regent and M. Guizot, and Marshal Souß, presented their homago. The Belle Poule. with Prince de Joinville and his Brazilian bride on hoard, arrived at Brest on the 15th ult., a previous report to that effect having been false. The vessel had been detained by contrary winds. SPAIN. Liverpool, Aug, 4.— The Regency of Espartero has al last been brought to a close. Hefias given up the contest without a struggle, and taken refuge in Portugal. Cadiz has pronounced against his Gov ernment. The troops, hitherto faithful, are going •ver to the insurgents, who, in a few days, will be designated by anotner title, and a government which, but six months since, had the support of almost every province and town in Spain, has fallen at once, as by a stroke of paralysis. Three Telegraphic despatches from Bayonne were rccciveJ in Paris on Saturday evening. The first announces that Cadiz had made its pronunciamtnlo, and that the authorites in Espartero’s interest had left the city. The seconJ announces that Espartero, abandoned by the major part of his troops, had taken refuge in the Portuguese territory, where he arrived on the 17th, with a squrdron of cavalry. The third states it to be certain that the division of Iriarte had (fine over to Aspiroz, as also the troops under Enna. On the 18th General Narvaez sum uoned the capital to surrender, threatening summary vengeance in case of resistance. The official answer of the municipality was as follows:—“The city ot Madrid wishes to watch over the preservation of the person of the Uucen, that precious trust which has been confided to it. It will await the result of the engagement which must soon take place to pronounce itself.” The Paris papers of Sunday and Monday throw considerable doubt on the allegeJ flight of Espartero, and the authenticity of the telegraphic despatches al leged to have been received by the Government. ANTIQUITY OF THE I. O. of O. F. We find in an English paper the fol lowing extract from a speech delivered by a Mr. Cooper, at a meeting of the or- , der, in Greenock, Scotland, on the occa-j sion of a celebration of the institution of j their Widow and Orphan’s Fund, which will give our readers some idea of the standiug and condition of the order in that part of the world. Mr. Cooper said : “The origin of the order of Odd Fel lows is of very great antiquity. It was | first established by the Roman soldiers in ' the camp during the reign of Nero, in the year 55. At that time they were called “Fellow-Citizens.” The present name was given by Titus Catsar, in the year 79, from the singularity of their no ting, and from their knowing each other by night or by day, and by their fidelity to him and their country, he not only gave them the name of Odd Fellows, but at the same time, as a pledge of friend ship, presented them with a dispensation engraved on a plate of gold, bearing dif ferent emblems, such as the sun, moon, stars, the lamb, the lion, the dove, and other emblems of morality. The first account of the order being spread in other countries, is in the fifth century, when it was established in the Spanish dominions, and in the sixth cen tury, by King Henry in Portugal, and in the 13th century it was established in France, and afterwards by John de Ne ville in England, attended by five knights from France, who formed a Loyal Grand Lodge of Honor in Loudon, which order remained until the ISth century, (in the reign of George the Third,) when a part of them began to form themselves into a union, and a portion of them remain up to this day. The Lodges which now re main arc very numerous throughout the world, and call themselves the Loyal An cient Odd Fellows, being a portion of the original body. The Manchester unity is ot more recent date, although there is no doubt of its emanating from the same source. Its first introduction into Man chester was about the year 1800, by a few individuals from the union in Lon don, who formed themselves into a lodge, and continued in connection with them for some time, when some difference caused them to declare themselves Inde pendent. They have kept their word— Independent they have been since. They have progressed in number, in talent, and respectability—and now the flag of Odd Fellowship proudly floats in many a clime, waving over the ruins of poverty and sadness. The genius of Benevolence may be seen pointing the way where sorrows may be solaced, and poverty ameliorated. Look to the in creasing number in Great Britain—the United States, where it has stood the blast of twenty years and upwards—Hol land, Germany, Spain, New S. Wales, Gibralter, Malta, in short, from the burn ing rays of the Torrid Zone, to the cheer less sky of the Frigid Zone, an odd fel low may find a brother who has inspired the same fraternal principles. The in crease during the past year has been more than 100 per day. (Sundays ex cepted.) The aggregate number is now 240,000. It has been calculated that if this vast body were to form a procession two and two, and a yard assuuder, that the line would extend sixty-seven miles, or from Greenock to Edinburg, walking at the rate of three miles per hour, would require twenty-three hours to pass from first to last—so that 10,475 would pass before a standard observer per hour—and among this great and agreeable multi tude, would be found admirals, generals, senators, magistrates, clergyman and gen tlemens of every rank and title, and lust, though not least, the humble and indus trious artizan. Such a spectacle, seen through medium of the imagination, will form some faint idea of the number, the respectability, the talent of the Order, at and in proof, 1 need only to refer you to those around me.— The speaker then gave a lengthened and interesting detail of the principles and government of the Order, and adverted to the same basis oil which it was fonn ded, and gave a luminous description of the working of a system in relieving the sick and the afflicted, and stated that should a brother’s illness be of such a nature-that he lingers long on a i>ed of sickness, his aliment Is not reduced; and instanced a case where a brother had been ill for five years, had received the enormous sum of £lsl 2s 7d (ap plause)—and that the sum of £122,400 was paid by the Order last year for the j sick and the distressed. [This announce ment was received with great cheering.) Nor do we tontine ourselves to our own brethren in particular. No. In ev ery town where Odd Fellowship has raised its head, you will find its dona tions to some benevolent institutions ; I and at the general procession of the deal j and dumb in Manchester, in 1837. for the benefit of that institution, the Odd | Fellows came forward with the sum of £406 18s 4 l-4d., which caused one of the committee to exclaim: “If contribu ting to the charity the handsome sum of near £SOO was a symptom of Odd Fel lows, I can say I wish there may be more Odd Fellows in the world. (Cheers.) — And what will weigh more in the opin ion of the public generally is, that out of 20,000 applications for ‘relief to the poor law guardians of Leeds, not one was from an OdJ Fellow. (Tremendous cheering,) From the New York Herald. MOVEMENT IN MEMORY OF WASHINGTON. We, New Yorkers, are determined not to allow the Yankees to monopolize all the patriotism. They have put up a ve ry respectable column of sftne and mor tar on that Bunker Hill, of which they are so fond of talking, and which serves as an excellent monitor, reminding them of the glorious past, and exhorting to pre sent and future duty. But we think that we will soon show them something in the monumental line, to which they will not unwillingly pay the tribute of admi ration and respecl. We will commence one of these days collecting the funds for the of a magnificent monument in honor of the ‘ Father of his Country,’ and if the arrangements already made he properly carried out, New York will be able to boast of a truly national monu ment. The bill incorporating the “ Washing ton Monument Association of the city of New York,” passed the Legislature on the 18th of April last, and the following are the names of the members of the cor poration : Morgan Lewis, Peter Cooper, Stephen Allen, John W.j Francis, Moses H. Grinnell, Nicholas Dean, Robert H. Morris, Edward D. West, William W. Fox, James Tallmadge, Chas. W. Sandford, H. T. Kierstead. All good men and true —may their suc cessors be as worthy of their trust ! We have been favored with a descrip tion of the plan of the monument. It is as follows : ** The plan of the Monument is that of a Pentagon, 68 feet in diameter, forming a rotunda of the interior 40 feet in diame ter, and forty feet high ; to he finished in the Gothic style of architecture, with pro ! jecting buttresses, at each angle of 25x31 j feet, and 43 feet high; also, two octagon \ turrets at the angles of the buttresses 6 ! feet 6 inches in diameter, and 68 feet | high from the walk to the top of the crock- I ets, In each buttress there will be a room well lighted by three pointed Gothic windows ; and fitted up for a free library, ! which will contain 400,000 volumes.— Besides, it will contain the History and Memorials of the Revolution; with a gal j lery, communicating with each room, for i busts and historical paintings. Each room and section is approached i from the first rotunda by five entrances, i and five spiral stone staircases, of easy ascent, to the libraries. Over each en trance, will be a marble tablet commem orating the history and progress of the Monument. On the frieze of the first section, will he placed 98 Gothic white marble tablets, on which to record the names of thesign ! ers of the Declaration of Independence ; ' also, the names of the Members of the i Convention who framed the Constitution jof the United States. There will be a terrace seven feet wide, on the topot this section. The second section will be surmount* I ed with a rich Gothic cornice and balus trade; and angular projecting buttresses, with two external and internal ornament al turrets six feet in diameter and 126 feet high, and surrounded with rich Go ! thic canopies. The buttresses are to con | tain 45 richly furnished niches for mar ble statuary. The interior of this section will be the Grand Monumental Rotunda, 1 40 feet in diameter and 100 feet high, finished in the. most splendid style of Go -1 thic architecture, and lit by five pointed Gothic windows, and fivo circular win dows, all glazed with thick ground and 1 stained glass. In this rotunda, is intend ed to be placed Washington’s Statue, in the centre, holding the Declaration of Independence, and surrounded by La Fayette, and our oilier foreign allies. In the thirteen niches are to be placed stat ues of the thirteen Major Generals ap pointed by Congress at Philadelphia, when Washington was elected to take command of the armies; all to he finished in the full military costume of their day. The thirteen columns are intended to represent the thirteen confederated States, supporting a richly ornamented Gothic, canopied ceiling, with an eagle suspended from the centre. Each column is to sup port the States’ Flag. There will be two galleries of light ornamental iron work above the canopy, where can be seen the Statuary and Historical Paintings, illus trating the events of the Rc-voimion. — The third section is a plain Pentagon Tower, surmounted with a rich figured cornice and balustrade, with plain angu lar buttresses. The interior forms a third rotunda of 3Sfect diameter and 86 feet high, well lighted by five pointed Gothic windows 13 feet wide and 43 feet high. This rotunda is intended to be divided into ten separate galleries, for the use and encouragement of young men of gen ius, in the sTudy of the Fine Arts; in executing Historical Paintings to embel lish the Great Saloon ; and in modelling statues of the Revolution, to adorn the interior and exterior niches. The whole will be surmounted by a galvanized cast iron Pentagon pinnacle, ! 36 feet at the extreme angles of the base, and 194 feet high. The pinnacle will he cast in the form of window mullions, and filled in with metal sashes and glazed with glass. Inside is to be wrought with iron spiral staircase, to ascend 146 feel to a platform and a look-out. A platform will Ire erected inside of the pinnacle, 25 feet above the base, where instruments may lie placed for a National Observato ry, which will bc'2?9 feet from the base of the monument. The upper look-out will be 400 feet from the base, making the whole height from the walk to the top of the crocket of the pinnacle 42* feet. The estimated cost of the erection of this magnificent structure is not to exceed $400,000. This sum is to be raised by contributions of one dollar and upwards, from the people of the United States. — Who will refuse his mite? Just before the Alabama election Mr. Delict, the Whig candidate for Congress iu Mobile, addressed the following curi rious note to the public : A Card —I have been informed, that an attempt will be made to circulate a re port at tire various precints in the first Congressional District, on or about the Monday in August —that I am de :d. — Now, however gratifying such an occur rence might be to many —yet, 1 must for the present, disappoint them by stating the report is not true. James Dellet. Claihorn, Aug. 1, 1843. We confess that we are among those to whom “such an occurrence” would huve been highly “gratifying," and we did hope that “on or about the first Mon day in August” the said James Del let would have kicked his bucket and sloped for tne shady cemetery of defunct poli ticians, on the banks of Stilt River. Mr. Dellet has been spared, though he has had a narrow squek for his life, and near ly two thousand five hundred of his friends breathed their last on that hard fought field. Two years hence, how ever, Mr. Dellet may make up his mind to go off"—in which event we trust he will then have the candor to issue his “card,” informing the public that the re port that he is dead, is alas ! too true ! Chas. Mercury. Maj. Noah’s Messenger has been uni ted to the Sunday Times, and the Major remains at the helm. The following hit at the Times is among the Majors say ings : The Age of Bronze. —A genteel look ing fellow, with rather a daudy air, car rying a cane like a shepherd’s crook, ac costed me thus near the Park : “ Good morning my dear Judge, never saw you look so well, pray how do you stand with Tyler now !” “ Well, I hope—l always wish to stand so with him.” “My object in asking, is to solicit your interest, to obtain a place in the customs.” “ Pray, my worthy friend, did I not once try you for swindling?” “Me?” “No sir, you never did ; it is entirely a mistake.” “Ah, that is true, I never did tjy you, I recol lect, you ple.ad guilty, and I sentenced you to three months it the Tombs.”— “ Good heavens, my dear Judge, what a memory you have, but you might assist a clever fellow to get an honest living.” Sir Francis Chantrey, the cele brated English sculptor, caused his tomb to he built during his life, in the church yard of Norton, in Derbyshire,his native place. It is of hammered granite, a com plete tank in form, and covered with an enormous slab of the same material—and in ibis huge granite box, and three times encased in wood and lead, are deposited the remains of Francis Chantrey. Allan Cunningham Was Chantrey’s most particular and intimate friend—and in in this connection, we find in Frazer’s Magazine an intercstiilganecdote. Chant rey, after submitting the drawing of his tomb to Cunningham, said by way of pa renthesis, and with a very serious face— “ But there will he no room for you !” “ Room for me?” said Allan Cunning ham. “ I have no ambition to lie like a toad in a slone, for some future geologist to discover, or in a place strong enough to excite the ambition of another. N T o ! No ! let me lie where the green grass and the daisies grow, waving under the winds of the blue heaven. According to his wish, Allan Cunning ham lies at Kensal Green, rrot in a brick vault, hut in his mother earth, and the grass waves and the flowers blossom over his grave. Wilson, the genuine poet, and the or nithologist, expressed a wish to be buried iu a spot where the birds could sport and sing over his grave ! John Smith, who was probably the inventor of the steam boat, iu his last illness requested that he might be buried on the hanks of the O hio, where “ the song of the boatman might enliven the stillness of his resting place, and the music of the steam engine soothe his spirit.” . Keep him Moving.— TheCleaveland Plaindealer, says : “Henry Clay visited Ohio during the last Fall campaign, ad dressed 150 thousand Buckeyes at Day ton. The vote of the State was changed from 23,000 whig in 1840, to 3,000 dem ocratic, making a gain of 26,000. A few months before the election in Louisiana, Mr. Clay made his grand entre into New Orleans, and harrangued the multitudes there assembled for several days. The rosult is told in the triumphant election of every democratic candidate for Con gress, sweeping the State like a prairie fire, and frightening the coons into a cold sweat. He is next to visit North Carolina.— Hope he will go by way of Vermont, Rhode Island, and the Jarsies. Keep him moving.” Salmon Fishing —A Fish Story. —“ The Taytrout,” says John Storar, I lives iu that river all the year round. “ tis a large and yellow fish with a great ! month, and feedschiefly on salmon spawn, moles, mice, frogs, &r. A curious cir cumstance once happened to me at Pul noy Loch ; one of my sons threw a live mouse into it, when a large trout took the mouse down immediately. The hoy told me what had happened, to I took my fishing rod, which was leaning against my house close to the loch, and put a fly on. At the very first throw 1 hooked a large trout, landed it, and laid it on ihe wall; in two seconds the mouse ran out of its mouth, and got into a hole in the wall before I could catch it. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1843. FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. JOHN C. CALHOUN, FOR VICE PRESIDENT: LEVI UOUDBIIKY, FOR GOVERNOR, MARK A. COOPER. OF MURRAY. FOR CONGRESS, JAMES it. STARK, OF BUTTS, FOR SENATE, COL. A. I*. POWERS. FOR KEFRF.SENTATIVES, STEPHEN WOODWARD, » * ♦ * * * WM. F. CLARK. We marked ihe 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: i 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 Right.” “ Let me not be misunderstood I 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 if violating the compromise ‘ act ? When had he swerved from it) j He teas still for adhering to it, as he understood its principles. Those prin j ciples he did not consider incompatible with the PROTECTION of American industry , in pref erence to any ether. HE HAD LIVED, AND WOULD DIE, AN ADVOt ’ATE 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 not even now think it prudent, because not practicable, to go is far as his inclinations led him, with the friends of PROTECTION Put as far as he COULD GO lIE W( lULl)!” [Speech in the Senate , 23 d March, 1313, a stUl shor ter time before retiring from that body. J Our correspondent " II,” is informed that his re quest will be attended to in a short time. JOHN 11. HOWARD, OF COLUMBUS. We have received intimations from various quar ters that this gentlemen Would lie a highly acceptable candidate to fill the Vacancy ill our Congressional Delegation, occasioned by the resignation of the ! Hon. John B. Lamar. Maj. Howard, has been front 1 his youth an unflinching and fearless advocate of i democratic principles. We arc convinced that no man will secure a more unanimous and zealous sup port than Major Howard—none will yield it more enthusiastically than ourselves. The Democratic party still remembers the patriotic and generous course lie pursued in regard to the la mented Glascock. Gen. Glascock, if we do not mis take, was running as a nominated candidate of the ! Union party, and Major Howard upon the then I State Rights ticket —hut in consequence of the noble : stand assumed liy Gen. Glascock, in favor of the j rights of the South, on the subject of Abolition, Maj Howard resigned his position upon the State Rights i ticket, that Glascock might receive the support of both 1 parties, which he requested his own party to do in a i public address. Such actions should not he forgotten. THE CHEROKEE ADVOCATE. We have omitted to notice heretofore, the entrance into the political arena of this nctv “Advocate” of Democratic principles. It has a handsome and neat appearance, and promises to be an unflinching cham pion of the true political faith. I It is an ardent advocate of the nomination of the ' patriot statesman, John C. Calhoun, to the Presi dency. The Cherokee Advocate is published by N M. Calder, at Marietta, Cobb county, Ga. We regret to notice in the last No. an account of the destruction, by fire, of Vining’s Bridge, one of the structures forming part of that magnificent public work, the Western and Atlantic Railroad ; and hope that if rebuilt, it will be done on some other plan than Long’s patent bridge, for which the State has to pay fifty cents a foot, and of which so many have tosjian the gullies, branches and rivulets in the track of the main trunk. CHANGE OF POLICY. We desire again to direct the pub ic altrntisn to the complete change which has taken place in the policy of the Whig press of this State. Not long since, nothing cuuld divert their attention trom Na tional questions. Now they wdl have none but State Issues. What has produced this change in the spir it of tlieir dream 1 Have they Lund that the “ Old Oglethorpe School” w.U have none . f it. Do they thul the Old State Rights men indignantly refusing tof.liow them in the support of Mr. Clay with lit* 50,000,000 Bank—his High Protective Tariff—his Mutilation of the Constitution. TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Fellow-Citizens : —From the proud elevation to which out paity has been raised by the unbought suffrages of millions of freemen, we should take a calm and deliberate survey of the fii Id of political conflict. In making this review, you wiii find that we have rnA only no ground for desjiondency, or gloomy anticipations—but on the contrary, we have cause for just and rational exultation. State after Slate, pronouncing verdietsof unequivocal condemna tion upon our opponents and their principles, have assumed their positions in the Democratic phalanx, until the mighty array now reaches from one end to the other of this mighty confederacy. Twenty great commonwealths now lieaf aloft the standard of Dem ocracy. It is true that our opponents animated l>y that principle, which never entirely leaves the hu man breast, “eternal hope,” persist in asserting their feeble claims to success, and “to our cheering send us back” a husky and croaking sound, that like the cough of the consumptive betokens a speedy and a certain doom. It may he useful, as well as proper to the occa sion, to take a retrospective glance, only three years back What was our condition then 1 Thousands and tens of thusands of good Democrats, unable to overcame the personal antipathy which had been ex cited in their minds against the Democratic candi date for the Presidency, by a most unexampled sys tem of misrepresentation, swelled the ranks of* the enemy. Suffering from an unparalleled revulsion in the business of the countiy, principally induced by the dyingstrugglesof that leviathan of corruption, the U. S. Bank, now happil/ gone to that bourne from which even Mr. Clay will he unable.to bring it bark, the People deserted the standards of Democratic faith liy States, leaving us hare seven, to preserve our principles unsullied and begin the contest aneiv t What is the contrast now 1 It required but a short ex[icrien('e to show the hollow heartedness of whig pr. fissions. The people finding that they had been misled by “a sounding brass and a tinkling symbol,'* have returned to the faith of their fathers, and have left the Whigs never to return. We have a good cause. Illustrated hy the clas sic renown of the democracies of ancient Greece and Rome, it has been rendered sacred by the glorious patriotis nos a long line of illustrious patriots. The pure fire of Democra y kindled upon the altars of these early republics, though often obscured, has like the sacred fire of the Ghehir, never been extinguish ed. Transmitted “foal bleeding sire to son,” it burned bright in Sidney, Milton, Marvell and Vane, and glowed with an unquenchible fire in the bosom of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Tay lor. Upon whom has the mantle of Jefferson fallen 1 Need 1 name him 7 It remains with you to transmit the sacred fla lie in undaunted lustre to your chil dren. Our principles are known. “Our cause has gone forth, our declaration is planted”—contemptuously repudiating the Whig policy of no farther declara tions far the public eye, we boldly declare ours for the scrutiny and examination of a candid and intelligent [icople. “Unfurling to the breeze the broad banner of democracy,” we have inscribed upon its bright folds, No Protective Tariff to im|ioverish nineteen twentieth* of the people, to enrich one-twentieth. No Rotten and corrupt Fifty Million Bank, to bribe Congress and regulate the currency. No Na tional Debt, a;.d no assumption of the two hun dred millions of dollars of the State debts, to make the unindebled States pay for the • profligate expenditures of the others. No connexion between Government and Banks. The most rigid economy in the expenses of government, and an inviobly strict adherence to the Constitution. And above all, no mutilation or modification of that sacred charter of our liberties to suit tile present necessities of political demagogues. Contrast this candid avowal of prin ciples, with the course ptirsuej by the opposition. Not long since they would have nothing but Na tional issues, now finding these objectionable they will have nothing but State, and finding that they cannot longer deceive an intelligent |ieople with these, they will soon resort again to National ques tions. THE ORIGIN OF “NAIL THE RAP TO THE COUNTER. To perceive the gist of this expression it is neces sary to premise that counterfeit coppers, or’half-pence are in Great Britain and Ireland called raps and when detected by the shop-keepers, nailed to their counters. Hence, ‘rap,’a cheat, a charlatan. On the occasion of a trial in the court of King’s bench, in Dublin, the celebrated counsellor, John Phi!|iot Curran, and an attorney named Halfpenny were en gaged on opposite sides. Halfpenny, in eonsequence of attempting some over sharp practice in the pro ceeding, was rebuked sternly, bv the Judge, and of dered down from where the attorneys usually sat, anil directed to take his stand at llie foot of a large, heavy, green cloth covered table, in that court culled the counter. On this Curran rose and thanked the court warmly—closing with “ Your lordship never performed a more righteous act than nailing that Rap. to the counter.” In the electric quickness with which Curran de tected those latent resemblances before unnoticed grouping together in a|q>arently natural connection, things usually deemed entirely discordant, and cloth ing them, at tile instant, in felicitous expression, Curran had few equals and was, wc believe, never excel led. The wit of John Randolph was net less rapid, or less brilliant, but he lacked Curran's exuberant fancy —his inexhaustible vein of rich and playful humor— these, Randolph’s higher toned, less sympathizing, and intensely egotistic nature precluded. The characteristic differences between those two gifted individuals were, however, greater than their points of resent lance. They both possessed wit irk ihe highest degree both were men of genius and acoonqdished scholars—here tlur siuiilneJe ends. — Randnfph’s sarcasms wi re remorseless, sometimes; fcroci -..sly so, and una companicd by any thing to mitigate tlieir severity. Curran's, on lire contrary, were generally so mingled with peasantry, they tick led, while they smarted their victim. Herr the reader may naturally inquire, ‘What the deuce, Mr. Editor, has this to do with nailing the r*j»