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