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FOREIGN NEWS—NINE 1> VYS
LATER FROM EUROPE.
IRELAND.
A gr eat—p?rh a»s tlto greatest—domon
et ration which lias yet been made in favor
of repeal, took place at Tara Hill—a
mejiflt’able spot in the early history ot
Ireland and its kinzs.and celebrated even
in late years by thq, resistance which w;ts
made there to "the King’s forces by the
“Croppies” in the rebellion of 1793—0n
Tuesday last. AJI the accounts concur
in representing this as as the greatest ot
nil the “monster meetings.” The repor
ters of the various papers, Whig, Tory
and Radical alike* agree with O Connell s
description pfihis being the crowning
gathering of the repeal agitation. The
day selected being a strict holiday in the
Roman Catholic Church—the festival oi
the Assumption —all the ceremonies ol
religion were brought to bear upon the
enthusiasm of the meeting. Mass was
celebrated three or four times before the
commencement of the proceedings, and
prayers were olfered up tor the repose ot
the souls of the “Croppies” whose bones
were mouldering beneath, and who fell,
according to the notions of all present.in
the cause of their country. O'Connell’s
speech was in his best style—more ear
nest and impassioned, and less flippant
than usual, “i feel,” exclaimed lie, “the
awful responsibility to my country and
my Creator which the part I have taken
in this great movement imposes on me.”
We regret our inability to do justice to
this speech, owing to the many demands
upon our space; it is more remarkable,
however, for the chcp and subdued spirit
of earnestness which marked it, than for
anything novel or striking. This meet
ing has excited greater alarm on this side
of tl»3 water connected with the repeal
movement than any former one—or iu
deed all put together. The Times of
yesterday lias the most desponding arti
cle which has yet appeared in its col
umns on this now alarming subject of
repeal. A crisis, it is admitted on all
hands, is not distant.
Tli > repeal rent for the week was an
nounced to be £1,355.
'File Cork Grand Jury have refused,
by fifteen to five, to adopt an Anti Repeal
petition.
Mr. SharmaaCrawford has declined
Mr. O’Connell’s invitation to join the
Repeal agitation. lln could no!, he says,
consistently join a body that desires alto
gether to abolish Imperial Legislation:
he does not desire to destroy that system,
but simply to add to it the principle ot
local legislation.’
'SCOTLAND.
The n -f. and... <'onninrrham, late min
ister of Trinity College Oimfoii, ivji„-
burgh, preached on Sabbath last his laro
welt sermon to his congregation, before
proceeding to America to examine the
vi„„„„„ 0 / education in'the sem
inaries ol that enterprising and rising
K appointed to he one of
tllG l/rolessore Ot i/rvuiiij 111 me iitw
Seminary of the Free Church of Scot
land.
John Fisher, believed to be the last
surviving soldier in Scotland engaged in
the first American war, died at Leslie on
Friday, the 18th ult., at the age of 92
years. In the year 1770, he enlisted in
to the Ist, or Royal Regiment of Foot,
of which Lord Adam Gordon was colo
nel, hut which was at that time command
ed by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Fra
ser.
A young lad in Glasgow, who had for
sometime past allowed himself to be mes
merized by all his companions who de
sired it for tlieir amusement, was for two
days past so completely put into the mag
netic sleep that it was found impossible
.to get him out of it. During this time
his eyes were shut, his jaws firmly fixed,
and neither food nor drink could be ad
ministered to him. It was feared the un
fortunate youth had forfeited his life to
his folly. We are glad to be informed,
however, that he was taken out of this
unnatural sleep on Thursday afternoon,
by a lecturer on mesmerism, after two
hours work. This ought to act as a
caution to inexperienced operators.
* FRANCE.
Louis Philippe and his family left Par
is, for the Chateau of Eli, on Monday.
General Begeaud has been promoted
to the rank of Marshal.
The French news is of little interest.
Queen Christina continued busy in her
labors to recover .power in Spain; and
rumors as to the marriage of her daugh
ter abound; at present they i actuate be
tween the Due d’Aumalc, and the Duke
of Cadiz, the son of Don Francisco de
Paula.
The Frencli Minister of War has re
ceived despatches from the Governor
General of Algeria, dated the 19th ult.,
announcing the submission of the Flit
tas, a tribe which reckons 40 fewer than
40,000 souls, and also different succes
sions in part of the province of Oran
which lies on the confines of the desert.
The Moniteur publishes the official
returns of the imports into France during
the first six months of the present year.
They show on the aggregate a marked
improvement. The consumption of su
gar which lias increased considerably,
for, independently of the result ns to the
imports, the stock on hand has much di
minished. In May last It was 43,000,000
of kilogrammes, including beet-root su
gar, whereas, it is now little more than
30,000,000.
'Fhe approaching departure of M. do
Lagranee, Ambassador to the Emperor of
China, is spoken of; but with regard to
this appointment there appears to lie some
difiicu ties raised on the part of the Eng*
li h Government. M. de Lagrange, it i
said, will sail in a fine vessel of 80 or 90
guns, accompanied by three frigates and
two corvettes.
Te-.'-eVi .a D b r . j a Qliio .-V.
S.lcfi a iiani Uautc, I.la. .. 1a.a.0 uuu.
Kiea and two boys to pronounce if.
The , object of the fnllowijig extract lias been too
seldom looker! at in the ifuc aspect here presented.
Wo are indebted for it to the U. S. Magazine & De
mocratic Review—a periodical, which, for the great
soundness of its political doctrines, the ability of its
articles, anti the fine cla-sical taste of its literary de
partment, cannot he praised too highly.
Tire writer in the Review has been discussing the
so much talked of Mississippi Repudiation question,
and of course takes the side dictated by justice,
honor and democratic principles—the fiat of jus
tic - is, the debt must be paid. In this instance as
perhaps all others, mans weakness and folly has
been attended by sonic benefit.
We beir leave to recommend the earcful perusal
of the extract to our readers—it is not only valuable
for the information it ail">rds, hut for the caution and
prudence it should impress respecting die present
and the future.
One <rood remit, however, at least, may
lie ascribed to the agitation of this ques
tion in Mississippi—and we are duly and
sincerely grateful for it. We allude to
the of file European
market for our public stocks. Our only
tear is, that this effect may prove but tem
porary, and that a revival of the confi
dence of the foreign capitalists may re
new yet-again this pernicious system of
•national borrowing, from which through
the last ten years we have suffered so
much. Our public credit is down now
to so low a point that we can borrow
no more —Heaven forefend that it should
rise again ! —except to the extent of do
ing justice to the creditors on our actual
existing debt. Such a state of tilings we
often hear spoken of as a national calam
ity ;it is rather a national blessing. In
fact, the doctrine of public credit may he
regarded as one of the most pernicious
inventions of modern times. Witness its
awful fruits in England ! —as well as
under other foreign governments to
which it has alone furnished, by the un
righteous mortgage of the labor and prop
erty of unborn generations, the means of
carrying 011 the wars, and sustaining the
military establishments, with which they
have desolated provinces and kingdoms.
And within the pa -t ten years in our own
country, extravagantly as we have used
it, what good have we and -rived from it ?
Useful or useless, good or had, our inter
na! improvements constructed within that
period—is it the money which lias been
borrowed on the strength of the State
credit that has called them into being ?
Far, fat from it. We have gone into
debt to European capital to an amount of
nearly two hundred millitftis ol dollars,
on which', independently oi'the principal,
which will soon begin from time to time
to fall due, we must pay an annual tax
on our whole industry and wealth of
about twelve millions of dollars, —hut
does the simple reader suppose that it is
money wo have been borrowing, through
all this period ? If lie does, we hog
leave to undeceive him. It is 110 such
thing, though we have been most ingeii
*"■ W »>g l” m Ivlievo such to be the
(act; and that tli« surplus ne.a.i, S fn..
ropean accumulation was thus seeking a
mutual advantageous investment in our
public works of improvement, at rates of
interest attractive to the foreigner, while
lower than the value of the use of capita!
among us. Ino trum »n,u though we
have contracted so enormous a debt, ex
pressed in figures, and payable, principal
and interest, in real money, we have ac
tually received scarce a dollar of it from
Europe. The process lias been simply
this. We have imported an excess of
imports equivalent to the amounts of
public stocks we have sold to the Euro
pean market. We have eaten, and drunk,
and worn, and in various ways consumed
them. Little if any tfrice of them now
remains, except the debt which we have
thus contracted to pay for them, and
which must itself be paid by the s\vcat of
our own and our childreivs brow* An
inflation of our own paper currency at
home; and an unhealthy expansion ol
private commercial credits, have repre
sented the amount of money presumed
to be brought into the country as the
proceeds ol the salt- of these public stocks.
And if any one wishes to trace out the
ultimate sequel and result of the whole,
and ascertain what has become of the
nominal amounts of European wealth
brought to our shores by tliis stock-job
bing financiering, he will find them as,
soon as the Bankrupt Law goes into ef
fect, like the fairy money which the next
morning converts into dry leaves, stand
ing in imposing array of figures and ci
phers, among the worthless assets of
many a broken bank and ruined specu
lator.
To some of our readers the proof of the
assertion here made will be necessary to
enable them fully to realize its truth. It
can easily be drawn from a comparative
view ot the exports and imports of the
country, taken in connexion with the
simultaneous issues of State stocks, with
in the period referred to. It was in the
course of the year 1839, that 11 jo Europe
an money-market for American slocks
may be said to have been destroyed.—
No considerable amounts have been sold
since the summer of that year, putting
put of view the mere hypothecations
which may have been made of some
amounts in the possession of die Bank
of the United States, and some few oilier
institutions. The heavy issue of State
stocks may be said to have commenced
about 183(1. The amounts created prior
to that date had been comparatively
small, though after that they went, up to
and including 1~33, rapidly crescendo.
We use tlie tables compiled by an able
hand, in the fall of 1839, from authentic
official sources.
The amount of stock authorized to be
created by eighteen States, in each peri
od of five years, from 1820 to 1838, was
as follows, viz:
From 13JO to UUi, $12,799,723
“ 1825 to IS,to, 13.ti7J.659
“ H3 >to 1335. 4t),0- --J.7G9
“ 1335 to 1333, (say 3 1-2 years) 103-2211103
And die fobowintr are the objects for
which these del ts were authorized by the
respectivlegi I attires to Ire cr._at; and. viz :
i ■ v
j “c. iio.jOl.Ssl
J. 7I. 1 st
■V ,'J'I
fcl 70,3.\ ,3)7
An examination of the imports and ex
ports, as shown by the annual re| oils of
the Secretary of the Treasury during the
same time, furnishes the following re
sults. 1-Vjr the sake of the comparison
I between them, it is divided into two pe
riods, the first from 1820 to 1830, and the
second from 1831 to 1838, both inclu
sive :
Year. Import*. Exjiorts. Ex, of tin. Ex. of Ex
1020 §56,111,971 *31.633, 460 §1,753,331
!H2l 41,933,336 43,671 394 $2,333,653
1322 60,966 33‘J 49,374.019 11,0311860
1323 50,025,595 47,! 55.103 2.370,137
|3-»l 55.2 1t,350 59,649,51)0 4,562 350
,325 63,759,132 66,911.745 3,135,3:3
~3-6 tvutti -5 53,055.710 7,379,115
1 56,030,932 53,921,691 2,310,759
1,323 66.91 i,3 *7 50.669,669 16,215.133
I* --J 57,5:;i,0!J 55.709,193 2,23.1,356
1330 56,5 ij.yll 59,462,02.) 2,952,539
$625,151 517 $587,70-558 §13,029277 $11,36.,3 13
1.367 313
§37,662,959
\ r ar. Tmporfs. Export*. Ex. of Imports,
1331 83,162.803 61,277,057 21.335.551
I 12 76,9 (9.703 63,137,170 13.35 2.223
HYJ *8,295,5 f. 70,317,693 17,977.3-8
I S3l 103,2 18 521 81,021 162 22.131,359
1835 129.391,257 101,16.1,0.82 23.2.)-'.175
1 - :j-; 163,23.1.675 106.916.630 C1.316.9Jj
1337 119431.255 95 561.414 2.3 5-9.311
1 -.33 1>],361609 96,633,321 5,330,733
$.369,7.19,304 $575,460,384 $191,379,920
From this table we see that the total
excess of imports over exports (all kinds
included) in the first period,eleven Years,
was 837,092,059, or an annual average
of only three millions four hundred
thousand dollars.
In the second period, eight years, the
same excess rises to the enormous sum ot
$191,319,920, or an annual average of
more than twenty four millions of dol
ors.
In order to ascertain the actual surplus
importations of merchandize within these
periods, it is necessary to deduct from
these sums the respective surplus imports
over the exports of the precious metals
within the same periods, A view ot the
latter is presented by the following table,
similarly divided as before by the year
1830:
IMPORTS AXd'eXPORTS OF GOLD AND SILVER COIN.
1821 ss-)61,89!) $10,173,059 $3,413,169
1322 3,36.),3i6 10,8 it), I<9 8,410,331
1.323 5 097.396 0,372.037 1,275,091
IS2I 8,37 J, 335 7 011,55 2 01.65.233
1325 6.159.765 8.797 055 2,646,290
1826 0.330,965 4,093,673 2 732,233
1-127 8,151.130 .8,011,330 136,250
1 (23 7, IS'.) 711 8,213.17 i 753, 73j
ICO 7,103,612 1,921,020 2,179.592
1831 8,155,961 2,173,773 5,977,131
$69,144,615 $70,932,650 $12,710,604 sl4 523,619
Excess of Experts, $1,783,015
133 t 7.305',915 >9,011,931 1,703,986
18.12 5.907,5)1 5.656 340 251.144
183.1 7,(i70,3G3 2,011.701 4,153667
1831 17.911,63 s 2 074.7 V. 15,831.374
1835 13,131,447 6,177,775 6,653,672
1334 12,10 ',311 4,321,336 6,076.515
1337 10-516,5i 1 5,976,219 4.510,165
10.13 17,717,117 3,5-93,0(6 14,239,071
$92,991,393 $39 616,136 $55,051,158 $1,703,936
1,703,936
uaco-su $33,315.17*
From this tabic \vc sec that there was
an excess of exports over imports of' gold
and siivet iu tUo Drat of these periods of
§1,788,015, or an annual average of
about a hundred and seventy-nine thou
sand dollars.
In the second period there is an excess
of imports over exports of gold and sil
ver amounting to $53,345,172, —or an
annual average of about six millions six
hundred thousand dollars.
Comparing together these tables, and
confining our view to the commerce of
merchandize alone, it appears that in the
first period the excess of the imports of
merchandize over the exports of the same,
was §30,150,971, —or an annual average
of $3,580,453.
Inth ’ of the
imports of merchandise over the exports
of the same, is in like manner seen to be
§140,971,718.—-or an animal average of
$17,0:41,813.'
'Flie amount of State stocks issued
within the first period, we have seen to
have been $-.>,470,417. In the second
we have seen them to rise to 1-18,220.177.
The Whig papers of New York arc
much divided as to whether the party
shall attempt to make a grand rally at the
next State election. The Courier and
Enquirer vehemently argues not—most
of the rest oppose. The Courier says if
we fight we shall be beat, and it will be
laid to .Mr. Clay. 'Flic others urged that
as far as appearances go, certainly, it ar
gues the greatest possible weakness when
a party dare not come out at ail—and
that the elfeet will be quite as disheart
ening and injurious to Mr. Clay. And
then they add (die Whigs are celebrated
for their “ excellent sentiments”) that it
is a high duty they owe to the country to j
die, if they must meet the fate of gone
coons, fighting valiantly, &c. The dis
sentient parties will probably compromise
their by agreeing to do their
utmost before the election, and then when i
they get thrashed, swearing unanimously
that they made no effort at all.—Charles
ton Mercury.
From the Mobile Tribune.
STATE OF DEMOCRATIC OPINIONS IN ALA
BAMA.
The continued obstinacy with which
this State is set down for Mr. Van Buren,
in preference to Mr. Calhoun, is without
any shadow of truth or excuse. Within
our own borders, the pretence is merely j
ridiculous, but it may tend to serious
mischief elsewhere, and we therefore, ve
ry deliberately proceed to blow it up.
Let tacts speak for themselves.
Ot the seven members elected to Con
gress, five are for Mr. Calhoun against j
the world, and one for Mr. Clay. Os the
lour recent democratic candidates for !
Congress in south Alabama—to wit.
Judge Goldtlnvaite, Mr. Dixon 11. Lew
is, Air. Reiser, and Mr. Bayne, all are
friends ot Mr. Caihoun. It is now seen,
and generally conceded, that, if the first
named gentleman had run more avowed
ly on the Calhoun strength of the dis
trict, his election would have been cer
tain.
'1 lie preference of that staunch and
u iver-aby popular democrat, our pres
ent governor, is the same.
Os the last Legislature, Ewing, of
Greene, McClung, of Madison; Hubbard,
of Lawrence ; Finley, of Jackson ; Mar
tin and Cochran, of Benton; Moore, of
Perry ; Calhoun, of Dallas ; Bridges, of
Wilcox; and Campbell, of Mobile, all
prefer Mr. Calhoun. Inis legislative
list, embracing but a fraction of his
strength, is tiie backbone of democracy
in Alabama, embodying a weight of char
acter, influence and personal popularity,
altogether overpowering, and not to be
surpassed by any given number of men
in the Legislature then or now. Yet in
these leading minds, and their present
position, how strikingly visible is the im
press of Mr. Calhoun’s influence upon
the Democratic party. With but two
exceptions, every man we have mention
ed was enrolled binder the old union
standard in 1833—some of them having
been lenders of the union party in tixe
counties of their residence.
In south Alabama no man can serious
ly pretend that Mr. Van Buren could
muster u party at all against Mr. Cal
houn.
In a few counties of North Alabama,
it is conceded that Mr. Van Buren would
obtain a majority. To wluit extent this
may he true, we have, as yet, no authen
tic information. But in the southern,
eastern, and western sections of the State,
there would be no contest whatever; and
looking with our present lights, over the
map of the state politically, no unpreju
diced man can doubt for a moment that
Alabama is to be numbered among the
staunchest of those democratic states
which will stand firmest and foremost
for the great champion of the Constitu
tion. We say this for the information
of our friends abroad, for here the facts
are too palpable to bo debated with a se
rious countenance.
We believe, then, there is no serious j
contest about the relative strength of the ;
two conspicuous democratic candidates
—we trust there will be none seriously
made as regards tlieir merits or availibili
ty. We trust that the next session of
Congress, by a practical application of
democratic principles ; by the reduction
of federal expenditure; by the honest
and permanent settlement of the tariff
question; and by confining the federal
government to that limited rank of duties
for which it was created, will satisfy the
people of the south that the pledges of a
Baltimore convention are of sincere and
efficient obligation, and are not designed
to make worthless capital and worthless
candidates. That convention (A. IJ.
1810,) told the people these two plain
stubborn and undeniable truths.
Ist. “ That justice, (and what is that
in a free country but constitutional right?)
anil sound policy forbid the federal gov
ernment to foster one branch of industry
*l.- .Wmaut of another; or to cher
ish the interests of one portion ufunmn.
ion to the prejudice of our common coun
try —that every citizen and section of our
country have a right to insist upon an
equality of rights and privileges, and to
complete and ample protection rs person
and property from domestic violence and
foreign aggression.
2d. “ That it is the duty of the gov
ernment io enforce the most rigid econo
my in conducting our public affairs, and
that no more revenue should be raised
than is requisite to defray the necessary
expenses of the government.”
'Fbc Southern States are now paying
a tribute to northern manufacturers of
of above §3.000.000 per annum, extorted
under the tariff act of 1842. A just law
was repealed, and an unjust law substi
tuted. we are ashamed to say it, by dem
ocratic votes. Two leading men, pledged
with their party to stand by the resolu
tions we have quoted, proved faint-heart
ed and recreant, when every other mem
ber of tlie party was true to his duty.
Yet Air. Silas Wright dictates to the par
tv upon the best mode of otganizing an
other convention, and talks of the “om
nipotence of majorities, and of the here
sies which give any political weight to
the rights of minorities ;” and Mr. Buch
anan is offered by his friends for a cau
cus nomination as candidate for the Pres
idency ! These are samples of that kind
of party action which “good policy” re
quires to be handled with rose-colored
gloves—the same “good policy” which
feeds the lazy whipster and muzzles the
ox which treads out the grain. What
ever prudence may have dictated some
time ago, the tint? is come when an un
derstanding among southern democrats
can be no longer delayed.
Now we ask whether with such Facts
staring us in the face, the south has any
business in a national convention, or to
involve herself in any equivocal con
trivance whatever, to gain temporary
strength, until this glaring act of party
infidelity be undone, explained, or amply
atoned for ?
THE DEU'AMER.
The New York Courier ij* Enquirer
uses the following language in regard to
Lewis Tap pan,- who is now delivering
speeches respecting his recent mission to
the “ World’s Convention,” in London,
and the Editors of papers who have giv
en to these disgusting falsehoods, public
ity in their columns:
“ Lewis Tappan has been delivering
speeches at Williamsburg and elsewhere,
touching his late wonderful mission to
the World’s Convention, in London, and
the Editors of two or three papers in this
city have deemed it a duty to give the
rigmarole at full length in their columns.
We quarrel with no man’s tastes, but it
does really seem to us that a respectable
American Journal might he much better
employed than iu thus ministering to the
vanity of a self-conceited mass of fanati
cism like the concoctor of this absurd
v< rbiage. Mr. Tappan’s hnrrafltfiies are
not only made up of exceedingly disgust
ing egotism and flatulent stupidity, but
of sentiment, feeling and opinion in the
highest degree derogatory to the
ter of the country. If the AbolitionisW
of England really took this individual]
as an average sample of his countrymen,
we blame no soul of them for believing
in the dogma of Buffon. They are per
fectly warranted in the opinion that the
human race degenerates on this side of
the Atlantic. A man who goes to Eng
land and utters such stale falsehoods of
his own countrymen, as this man has
not only done hut glories in having done,
ought to have called himself a Hottentot;
he iiad no right to assume the name of an
American.”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1843.
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT:
IzSiVl IVOCiDBURir,
FOR GOVERNOR,
M ARK A. COOPER of Murray.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES 11. STARK, of Rutts.
IIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON, of Jefferson.
FOR SENATE,
COL. A. I*. TOWERS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
STEPHEN WOODWARD,
WILLIAM I'. CLARK.-
JOHN LAMAR.
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 Woodbury, of New Hampshire:
EJubjoct, 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
Cicld and fair play —and then “ Cod
Icfcnd the liightJ
“ Let me not be misunderstood
AND LET ME ENTREAT THAT l MAY
NOT BE MISREPRESENTED.”
]Extract from Mr. Clay's Speech, a short time before
retiring from the Senate .]
'Flie Senator (Mr. Calhoun,) was con
tinually charging him (Mr. Clay) with
the design rs violating the com promise
act ! When had he swerved from iff
He was still for adhering to it, as he
understood its principles. Those prin
ciples he did not consider incompatible
with the PROTLCTION of American
industry, in preference to any ether.
HF. 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 ha 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
as far as his inclinations led him, with
the friends of PROTECTION But as
far as he COULD GO HE W< )ULD !”
[Speech in the Senate, 23d March, 1913, a still shor
ter time before retiring from that body. J
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DEMOCRATS OF BIBB!
An important duty will soon devolve upon you—
That of Electing the individuals whom you have
already nominated to represent you in tlie General
Assembly for the next two years. Your candidates
were selected by yourselves, in a general convention
of the Party. They are all good men and true men
and it is our dut/to elect them. We hope there is
not one among us of whom the question might be
asked, “ Why stand ye there all the day idle 7” We
know there is not. We have the most cheering ac
counts fiotn every portion of the State, of the zi;J
and ardor with which the Democracy are preparing
for the coming conflict! The enthusiastic Democra
cy of CHEROKEE promises to give us a larger ma
jority than ever. Shall we—shall Bibb County he
behindhand in the cause of Democracy'! In the
cause of Truth and Justice, you answer, NO!—
The:, letevery man he at his post, and exercise his
utmost energy and activity in securing the success of
our regularly nominated Ticket.
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ARRIVAL OF THE BRITTANIA —NINE
DAYS LATER.
In adddition to the foreign news in oar columns
we are pleased to notice that our great staple, Cotton,
has an upward and buoyant tendency, and the mark
ets generally have an improved appearance.
J. Horsely Palmer, Esq. late President of the Bank
of England, has arrived in New York, it is supposed
to reside there.
Money is so plenty in England, the leading bank
ers have reduced the interest to 1 1-2 per cent.
Part of a paved street was blown up in London by
the explosion of foul air in a sewer, doing considera
ble damage.
Father Matthew is making converts to total absti
nence by the ten thousand in London.
Parliament has at length adjourned, after a most
protracted sitting. The tory government seems to
he evidently failing.
Rebecca riots as active as ever.
That funny man, Lord Brougham, made a furious
onslaught upon President Tyler and his son iu the
House of Lords.
In reply to LorJ Palmerston, Lord Stanly ssid that
■he governors of English colonies had orders to c.r-
P lnd protection to stores in vessels driven to English
ports by stress of weather.
Espartero has published his proclamation acknowl
edging l.is defeat, and took-refuge at Lisbon; but
was not allowed tlie rites of hospitality by the cow
ardly inhabitants, and has continued his journey to
London.
THE WHIG TICKET.
The V\ hig Party have nominated the following
gentlemen, to rcpiesent them in the next Legislature.
For the Senate.
WILLIAM SCOTT.
Representatives.
THOMAS A. BROWN, '
SAMUEL R. BLAKE.
ROLAN BIVINS.
All good mm and gentlemen, and in fact, the only
possible iihjauinn that can be made to them, is that
they are and supporters of Mr.'Clay, and ne-
advocate Mr. Clay’s great measures. A
United States Bank. Protective Takipf, modifi
cation of the Vito, and that most obnoxious measure,
the distribution of the land fund among the States.
Mr. Clijy and his supporters pretend to new born
moderation in their Tariff notions—look at the ex->
amplification in their last hill, concocted under his
own rye, by his own satellites, as entirely under his
control, as his negro man Charley—look at it—wo
have exhibited some of it* beauties—why it is morar
atrociously unjust—more oppressive and insulting trr
the South, more disastrous in its operation on tlie
commerce and agriculture of the whole Union and
consequently to the whole population of the United
States, (the factory nobility and their retainers ex
cepted) than the infamous Tariff bill of 1828.
For Salt, an ABSOLUTE NECESSARY of lilb,
Mr. Cloys Whig Tariff' charges a duty of one hun
dred |ier cent., or ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS,
on a hundred dollars worth of Salt.
On Sugar, another NECESSARY of life, Mr-
Clay’s Whig Tariff imposes a duty of ONE HUN
DRED per cent.
.17cn’s fnc Bools, worth seven or eight dollars, Mr.
Clay’s Whig Tariff imposes a duty of ONE DOL
LAR AN D TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Ihcol
lecl that.
And don’t forget that on Mens Coarse Boots, such
as thousands of good men have to wear, worth $2 o()
to $3 00, Mr. Clay’s Whig Tariff imposes a duty of
TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS; al
though the poor man’s boots cost one third less, they
charge him twice as much. Fellow Cilize is! when
you go up to the polls to vote for Mr. Clay’s friends,
the Whigs, recollect these startling facts. Women's
Nine Bootees, value Six Dollure a pair, JJr. day's
Whig Tariff’ charges fifty cents a pair; but on B’o
llien's Coarse Bootees, costing only one dollar and fifty
cents a pair, only one fourth as mu 11, Mr. Clay's
Whig Tariff Law, charges exactly the same amount,
Which, in effect, makes the poor woman pay four
times as much.
Fellow Citizens! I fancy I can see the rising blush
of honest indignation, mantling upon the cheek cf
every independent voter in the State, be lie Whig or
Democrat.' 1 tli it in the streets and proclaim it in
every Log Cabin in the State of Georgia!
Men's Leather Gloves, embroidered with SILVER,
worth Five Dollars a pair, Mr. Clay’s Whig Tarift'
imposes the Enormous Duty of TEN CENTS !
Yes, Fellow Citizens, ten cents.
But what do you think their duty is on Men's
Coarse Leather Glares, value, Fifty Cents 1 Why,
exactly the same duty, although they co t only one
tenth as much. This is protecting the poor man
with a vengeance!
Saddles value $lO, duty Three Dollars and Fifty
Cents, more than one third.
bellow Citizens —\ ou know how iaqiortant an
item Iron is to us, in every situation in life, and how
intimately it is associated with our necessities, com
forts, and conveniences; and what duty does Mr.
Clay’s Whig Tariff impose upon this article ? Why
more than one half !he value.
Unmanufactured Ilcmp, duly Forty Dollars a ton,.
Cotton Bagging, Fire Cents a Yard.
'>Vbo pays that, Fellow Citizens'? Every man
that grows a Bale of Cotton can answer.
And what do they offer us in return for the bare
faced robbery 1 Why, they insult us by imposing %
liars Cotton of Three Cents a [ iu;n<l. We
don t want their PROTECTION; we want JUS
TICE, and will have it.
TIIE DIRECT TAXATION HUMBUG.
. R has been said that political partisanship is well
calculated to develop the bad feelings of the human
heart. We are uafeignedly sorry to witness so ma
many evidences of this truth developed in this cam
paign. W c had hoped for latter things.
Among the various outrages upon truth and prob
ability now attempted to be palmed upon the people
by some of our political opponents, none is more
remarkable for its reckless impudence than the charge
that »it is the wish or intention of the Democratic
party, or its illustrious leader to substitute Direct
Taxes in the place of the usual mode of raising rev
enue,” for the economical support of government, by
a just and really moderate Tariff of duties upon im
ports.
Were not Mr. Calhoun’s letter on the subject, M
fore the public, Containing as far as he is concerned,,
an unanswerable refutation of the wretched fabrica
tion, the miserable calumny, were there net an utter
destitution of even the shadow of evidence, to sustain
the libel, its ultra absurdity, would to any reasoning
mind, be sufficient proof of its falsehood. For the
advo-aoy of direct taxation, instead of a revenue
raised from a reasonable Tariff on foreign imports,
would involve any party, any administration, in this
country, in well merited discomfiture, and the most
acute casuist could not assign any benefit the Demo
crats could derive from such a measure, nor a'ny in
ducement wilfully to bring unnecessary defeat upon
themselves.
In patronizing such a notion, the Democracy,
won! I realize the purport of Sheridan’s sarcasm upon
the British Whigs, whin they supported Fox’s East
India Bill. Sheridan said he “had heard of men
dashing tlieir brains nut against a wall, hut this was,
he believed, the first instance, when a wall had been
erected for the express purpose —gentlemen had rett-