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From the Federal Union.
Extract from a Jlcvieic \of the I! hig
“System of Finance
“of taxes.’'
They go mi. “Let us then proceed to
Consider our present system of taxation ;
u careful examination of which becomes
the more necessary, as it is apparent, that
our future reliance must be, in effect, al
most exclusively on taxes.” Well, this
head brings in a vast amount of learning,
all tending to show that the committee
know about as much of taxation as other
jteople ; that they have a feeling regard
for the unequal burthen of our taxes on
cities and commerce, and think it but
right that the tax gatherer should be
sent to the country for money. They
arc for taxing land in which they include
“all buildings and other articles, erected
upon or affixed to the same, all trees and
underwood growing thereon, and all
mines, minerals, quarries and lbsil in and
under the same.” “Also, stock cattle
above the number ; horses and mules
above the number .” Nothing es
capes those keen and hungry politicians.
Mines, minerals, quarries, trees and bush
es—cattle, horses, mules. Verily we had
arrived at the second advent of Roman
power, when there went forth a decree,
that “all the world should be taxed.”
Well, it is one thing to raise money,
but another to use it judiciously. We
have had a hint of the internal improve
ments they had in contemplation—their
colleges and academies we can but allude
to; but their provision for a system of
common schools caps the scheme. After
carefully excluding from taxation all li
braries and all furniture used by the rich,
and taxing the log cabins and plumb or
chards of the poor, they set down for
common schools a capitation tax alone.
The college at Athens was endowed by
the public domain, and many of our ac
ademies by public property turned over
to them. All this is very well, if com
mon schools were supported out of the
same funds. But this is not Whiggery
—-it is not Aristocracy. By one or an
other pretext, common schools in Geor
gia have never been endowed. The poor
have been too ignorant to originate or
carry out such a system and have con
fined their views to a hatred of colleges
and academies. This so far as it relates
to the partiality of our system is just.—
Let a system of common schools be
founded on the property of the country,
and the poor would receive that for
which they might be justly called on to
defend that property. But as it is, we
cannot clearly perceive the reason why J
the man with a property in two hundred |
slaves, should be entitled to call oil the
unlettered citizen to risk his life in the |
support of such rights. But whiggery j
cuts the gordian knot of these difficulties '
it a single blow. A capitation t.x ! A
ax on heads ! ! The property of the
•ountry was to contribute nothing to
he instruction or moral improvement of I
hat large class of citizens whose morals !
aid in many instances on whose personal
>ravery its defence must depend. This
,s whiggery! Georgia whigarery ! The
resentment of the people at this treatment
is felt and seen every time the name of
college is mentioned in our Legislative
halls. The remedy of this sage commit
tee adds insult to injury, it was of course
rejected, almost unheard. Common
schools must rest on the revenues of tiie
country, or they cannot be introduced to
any advantage. A capitation tax is a tax
chiefly levied on the poor, for they too
hare heads —personal services in the de
le.ice of the lives and property of the
ric!i is also levied chiefly on the poor!
This may suit the whigs, but it is the
loathing of the den curacy.
While we are wiiting we are informed
that Absalom 11. Chappell, Esq. is nomi
nated by the Whig Committee as a can
didate for Congress, in die place of J. B.
Lamar, resigned. We are glad the whigs
have dared to endorse the principles of;
.Mr. Chappell. He is but placed the fairer i
by this distinction, and we shall not fail
to' carry out our purpose of exposing his
principles and those ol his party.
'in respect for the great names and great
pretensions of the Commissioners on Fi
nance whose report we have been con
sidering, a joint select committee was
appointed by the Legislature of 1839,
who brought in a bill for carrying their
views. This bill is not on the jpnrnal
of that year, hut was so obnoxious to the
House of Representatives, that it was
with circumstances of singular contempt
laid on the table for the balance of the
session. It was however reconsidered
the next day, not that one halt ot the
members would have touched it, except
with a pair of tongs, but that another bill
might be introduced into the House of
Representatives.
Mr. Crawford and Mr. Chappell were
both members of the Legislature in 1839;
and appear side by side on the journal in
support of the views of the “Commission
ers of Finance.” The extent to which
they would have gone cannot be known,
for they were kept in check by the dem
ocratic majority of the House ot Repre
sentatives. The next year when the
fortune of the day was with them, we see
the leaven of the old report in the active
energy of Mr. Crawford. Secure as they
thought themselves in the power they
had acquired, they began to develope
their policy without fear. The Commit- j
the of the Whole had made a report on >
the subject of taxes for the year 1841.
Mr. Crawford determined to distinguish
himself by showing his disregard of the
embarrassments of the people, by a tax
law which they would not have forgot- ;
ten had it passed. He introduced a sub
stitute, (see Journal of 1840, page 375,)
. which while it displayed his reverence
for the Commissioners of Finance for the
previous year, showed the measure have
of his intended levy on the pockets of
I taxation, almost in the very words of the
•rreat financial report, not forgetting to
tax trees and bushes, he lixes on die ad
valorem system, and puts it down at 8
cents on the hundred dollars worth ot
property, instead of one-eighth of one
per cent as recommended by the Com
missioners. The sum lie expected to
raise by this tax inay l»e inferred from the
following section, which we copy entire.
Sec. 17. And be it farther enacted,
That in addition to the tax assessed by
and under the act assented to oil the 21st
day of December, eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine, the several tax collectors of
this .State are authorized and hereby re
quired to increase and collect one hun
dred per cent on the amount of the res
pective digests of said year, and which
extra tax imposed by the authority of this
act, shall be paid into the Treasury of this
State.
Thus we have shown the settled pur
pose of those two whig candidates to im
pose the burthen of heavy taxation on
the people, at a time of unexampled dis
tress in private finances. They were
foiled in their purposes by the nearly
unanimous action of the Democratic
party, with such whigs as could not at
once swallow a bait so full of hooks.—
Had their views been carried out, they
would not have been the selected candi
dates of their party —they would have
been a pair of dead politicians.
We are far from having closed this ar
ticle, but want of room cuts us off till
next week.
CIRCULATE DEMOCRATIC PAPERS.
w e noticed a day or two since, propo
sitions from the Concord Freeman, the
Norfolk Democrat, and the Lowell Ad
vertiser, to issue extra numbers of their
journals, at a reduced price, for ten or
twelve weeks previous to the day of our
State election. We are now gratified to
add the B irre Gazette, and the Bristol
County Democrat to the list. The Ga
zette says
“Desirous of contributing our part to
wards the spread of democratic principles,
and the advancement of the democratic
cause, in view of the coming election,we
will send four copies of the Gazette to
one address until the week after the an
imal election, for twenty-five cents each,
or one dollar for the four, in advance.—
This places eleven numbers of the Ga
zette at about one half the subscription
price. Although it involves some sacri
fice on our part, wo are willing to make
all that we are able to promote the great
and good cause i:i which we are engaged.
The Democrat’s proposition is in these
words
“In order to secure a wider circulation
of information respecting our state and
national affairs, vve propose to issue extra
copies of this paper for three months, at
the extraordinary low price of twenty
five cents for twelve numbers, in‘ad
vance. Each number will be of the reg
ular full size of the Democrat, contain
ing the usual variety of miscellaneous
and political matter, the news of the day,
<Ac., &e.
We are convinced that in no manner
can democrats render more essential ser
vice to the cause of democracy in Mas
sachusetts than by aiding these efforts to
circulate correct political information. —
We have eighteen democratic newspapers
in this State, published out af Boston,
and it should be the first oaject of those
republicans who reside in tiie vicinity of
the place of their publication to see that
the subscription to his local journal is ex
tended as widely as possible. A strong
democratic Press is the best guaranty of
the people’s lights. — Bos. Statesman.
The Democratic State Convention of
New York assembled at Syracuse on the
sth inst. Delegates to the National Con
vention which is to assemble in Baltimore
in Alay next, were appointed. A series
of resolutions were adopted, which de
clare :
“ That we retain undiminished oppo
sition to federal measures and principles
in every form and under eftery name.
We arc opposed to a National Bank—to
a large army or navy—to a prohibition
system of duties—to the assumption of
State Debts—to the distribution of the
land money—and to an extravagant and
costly administration of the government
—while we approve and will support an
economical and retrenching system of
expense—ft moderate and reduced naval
and military establishment in peace—a
divorce of the money power from the po
litical power—an independent treasury
—a tariff founded on revenue principles
and wisely discriminating for the encour
agement of labor in agriculture, com
merce, and manufacture—and a policy
of government fostering State authorities,
internal peace and tranquility, and inde
pendence of all foreign influence and
control.”
“That having expressed our approba
tion of the holding a National Conven
tion, appointed our delegates to the same,
and thereby assumed the obligation of
fidelity, and support to the candidate of
its nomination, we would in the name
and behalf of the unanimous democracy
of the State of New York recommend
our fellow citizen, Martin Van Buren, to
the consideration of that Convention.”
“That we do hereby direct and instruct
the delegates whom we appoint to the
National Democratic Convention, to pre
sent Martin Van Buren of New York, as
a candidate for nomination for the Presi
dency of the United States by that con
vention ; and we further do dirict and
inctruct the said delegates, individually
and uuitedly, to advocate and support his
nomination, and to use all honorable and
proper means to accomplish that result,
, and thus to fulfil their duty to, and the
; wishes of their constituents—the demo
cracy of New York." —Augusta Const.
THE NOMINATION.
We announce, with no ordinary grati
fication, to the young Democracy of
Chatham, that HERSCHEL V. JOHN
SON', who occupies so large a place in
their esteem, has been nominated by the
. Committee, to till the Congressional va
cancy occasioned by the resignation of
Mr. Lamar. The eloquent efforts of
Col. Johnson in IS4O, before the Young
Men’s Democratic Association of this
county, [of which Itodv he is an Honora
ry Member,] won for him the regard of
all who heard him, and wc are sure that
the present opportunity of shewing the
high consideration in which he is held,
will be eagerly embraced.— Vedette.
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON’S ACCEPTANCE.
Louisville, Ga. Sept. 9, 1813.
Dear Sir—
-1 have this moment received yours of
the 4th iust, informing me of my nomi
nation as the Democratic can lidate to fill
the vacancy in our congressional delega
tion, occasioned by the resignation of
Col. John B. Lamar. To me the intelli
gence is both pleasant and painful—
pleasant, because evincive of the high
confidence reposed in my fidelity to de
mocratic principles, and of the unmerited
estimate placed by my political associates,
upon my poor abilities— painful, because
to be elected would operate serious inju
ry to my private interests, and would
throw upon me public duties ani respon
sibilities, which I could not hope to dis
charge’and redeem, either with credit to
myself, or honor to my country. The
time to intervene between this and the
General Election in October, is too short
for the committee to make another nomi
nation were Ito decline. 1 therefore ac
cept, though I should have greatly pre
ferred, that the distinguished honor,
should have been conferred upon another.
I should be pleased to mingle extens
ively with the people, not to play the part
of the itinerant demagogue; but, that 1
might become personally known to them,
and indulge freely in the expression and
interchange of sentiments and opinions,
upon the great questions which now agi
tate the country. But the shortness of
the time and other pressing engagements,
render it impracticable. 1 must therefore
content myself, by assuring my democra
tic fellow citizensj every where, that 1 am
thoroughly identified with them in all the
great principles, which compose the po
litical sclirol to which we are attached,
and which boasts as its founder the illus
trious Jefferson :—that. I cordially unite
with them in deprecating the leading
measures of the Federal Whig Party, as
disclosed by their conduct in the sessions
of the last Congress. 1 deprecate them
ns founded in error of principle—as vio
lative of the Constitution of the United
States, and as ruinous in their tendency,
to the best interest and highest happiness
of the American people. And, judging
from the recent elections in several States,
it would seem that 1 am not singular in
this opinion. They speak a voice which
is any thing but flattering to the prospects
of Henry Clay—that constant and perse
vering traducer of Georgia, the father of
the father of the protective policy, which
is hut another name for southern oppres
sion, the champion of a National Bank,
which is the cynonytn of all that is loath
some in fraud and detestible in political
corruption, and the originator of the mea
sure lor the distribution of the proceeds
of the sales of public lands, with the
view, first, to bribe the people into the
support of his claims to the Presidency,
then to diminish the revanue in
create a pretext for high duties on imports,
and finally, to bring about as a crowning
result, an assumption of the debts of the
States by the General Government. 1
love to battle in the ranks of democracy
againsl such measures, feeling that defeat
in such a cause would be glorious, whilst
victory , under such a leader, bearing a
flag whose inscriptions are so unfriendly
to the welfare of the union and the inter
ests of l lie south, would be shame and
reproach.
A Georgian by birth, by education, and
in interest, I am proud of her inexhaust
ible natural resources, and the integrity
and industry of her citizens. And 1 re
joice in the fond anticipation, that the day
is not far distant, when, by the wisdom
of her councils, and the intelligent direc
lion of her energies, her stores of wealth
shall have been exhumed from their
mountain beds, her works of public en
terprise and internal improvement, shall
have been prosecuted to a successful con
summation, and her people shall have
been properly awakened to the incalcula
ble interests of popular education and
public virtue. It may be said with truth,
that in the brightness of her lustre and
the steadyness and uniformity of her rev
olutions, Georgia is surprssed by-no star
that bestuds our glorious national banner.
' Aly thanks to the committee who have
thus honored me, and my grateful ac
knowledgements to you for the kind man
ner in which you have communicated
the bestowal.
hi haste your obedient and humble
servant,
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON.
Air. P. C. Guieu, Chairman, etc.
THE CAT LET OUT.
The following sweet morceau we copy
from the Bellows Falls Gazette, a staunch
Whig paper, and we commend the editor
for the fairness, and open manner in
which he speaks, although we abhor his
principles. Democrats read it! They
are the true sentiments of the Whigs no
doubt; and the South will again have
to tight over the great battle, should the
opposite party ever be so lucky as to come
in power.
We hope, however, that the people of
the South are tired of Connery, and will
not sutler themselves to be bamboozled
by windy speeches and big fusses gen
erally. —Hamburgh N'. C. Journal.
Tennessee all higiit Tariff
safe! — The result of the Tennessee
election is a most gratifying event. It is
the only State Election this year in which
■' a full vote lias been cast, and it shows
what the W higs in other Stales might
do, if they would feel the interest in their
, cause which it merits. The battle has
been contested in Tennessee upon the
broad ground of Whig principles —a
Protective Tariff, Distribution of
the proceeds of the Public Lands, a Na
tional Bank, and the One 'Perm—and
upon those principles it has been won.
A W hig majority is secured in the Uni
ted States States Senate for the next Con
gress—the Tariff is safe for two years,
for however great may be the majorities
of destructives in the House, it cannot
compel a Whig Senate to join in carrying
out its ruinous measures. The prosper
ous day just now dawning will not be
clouded. The exertions of the Whigs
in Tennesseo have saved the country
from another ruinous check in its pros
perity. Tennessee has most nobly done
her duty. Let not Vermont be backward
in the same cause.
From the Independent Democrat.
A DISINTERESTED WITNESS.
The talented Editor of the New World
(a periodical devoted to polite literature)
thus hits off the political minnows who
nibble at Mr. Calhoun’s great name. Had
the editor been acquaintad with the char
acter of those who hereabouts have made
the charge of inconsistency against Mr.
Calhoun, and their puny attacks, he
could not more aptly have delinerated
both. The extract 1 send is taken from
the New World of the 12th ultimo :
Mr. Calhoun’s Consistency. —We ob
serve that several “mousing politicians”
are denouncing Air. Calhoun for want of
consistency, because his opinions on cer
tain political questions have undergone
some change during the last thirty years.
The charge is supremely ridiculous, and
can have no influence whatever upon in
telligent minds. To suppose that during
the long public life of the distinguished
statesman, his opinions had remained the
same, would, in fact, be to suppose that
lie had made no intellectual advancement.
In love of country and manly patriotism,
in bis moral and religious character, Mr.
Calhoun has been perfectly consistent.—
We dont write this paragraph as political
partizans, for any particular purpose, but
simply to expose the folly of the charge
of “inconsistency” so frequently and so
foolishly brought against public men.—
W r e commend the following fine senti
meat of Cowley to the puny assailants of
Air. Calhoun:
‘Where honor or where conscience dors not bind,
No other law shall shackle me;
Slave to myself I will not be,
Nor shall my future actions be confined
To my own present inind.”
New Orleans, Sept. 8.
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
Marshal Bertrand, one of the warmest
friends and most distinguished Marshals
of the Emperor Napoleon, is now in this
city. He arrived yesterday from Havana,
accompanied by his son, and will remain
for a few days only. France boasts, in
all her long and high array of noble sons,
few that have achieved a prouder distinc
tion, than the time-honored veteran who,
crowned with years and honors, now
moves in the midst of one of the greatest
cities of the Western World. He is one
of the few survivors who performed a
conspicuous part in the stirring events
which marked the early part of the pres
ent century —events that dazzled and as
tounded the whole civilized world. The
bosom friend of Napoleon, lie followed
the eagle banners of that extraordinary
chief, from the moment of his elevation
to his fall. In battle, brave and impetu
ous—in coumcil, cool and wary, he ad
hered to his great leader with unalterable
affection, throughout his long and brill
iant career; and when the star of his
glory was quenched in rayless night up
on the fated field of Waterloo, “faithful
among the faithless,” stood the gallant
and battle-worn Bertrand !
When he who had “ made thrones his
playthings, and kings his puppets,” was
exiled to his ocean-girt home, among the
long-tried followers who accompanied
him on Lis last march, the Alarshal Ber
trand stood conspicuous, hi all of his
long exile, he clung to his fallen chief
with a devotion which never faltered un
til the object of his faith had surrendered
his great soul to the God who gave it.
The visit of such a man to our city,
cannot fail to excite the liveliest gratifi
cation with all who admire the many no
ble qualities concentrated in the person
of Alarshal Bertrand, and we feel well
assured he will be treated with all honor
and attention by the citizens of New Or
leans.— Tropic.
O'Connell’s pay, or rent, is thus ex
plained by the Newark Advertiser: —
When he was first elected to Parliament,
in Clare, his practice at the bar is said to
have been worth ten thousand pounds
sterling (fifty thousand dollars) a year.
As an Al. P. he gets no pay, and in order
to enable him to support bis family, then
numbering ten children, from twenty-two
down to eight years of age, and devote
himself to tiie public service, his country
men instituted a fund, to which every
Irishman would have an opportunity of
contributing Lis portion. One day was
set apart for the collection of the fund,
which, a member of the Dublin Repeal
Association writes, has frequently reach
ed seventy thousand dollars annually.—
It has been as low as fifty thousand dol
lars only twice. Pretty good pay lor pub
lic service, certainly.
According to the Christian Spectator
! the contributions to forty-nine religious
and charitable institutions in England
amounted last year, to upwards of £320,-
000.
Planets, &.c. —A writer in the Cour
ier Des Etuts Unis says, that twenty two
planetary orbs are visible at this time on
the same side of the heavens. These
are .Mars, Juno, Jupiter, Saturn, and Ve
nus, with their respective satellites.—
They may be seen about 8 o’clock in the
evening, in the southern sky, near what
i are called the five zodiacal constellations.
ZDSaZtOCgaiViFc,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMRER 20, 1843.
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
LETI WOODBURY,
FOR GOVERNOR,
MARK A. COOPER ot Murray.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES 11. STARK, of Butts.
IIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON, of Jefferson.
FOR SENATE,
COL. A. I*. POWERS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
STEPHEN WOODWARD,
WILLIAM F. CLARK.
JOHN LAMAR.
Tie 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:
Subject, of course, 'to the decision of a Na
tional Democratic Convention:
The Delegates to be chosen directly
by the People —to convene at Balti
more, May , 1844, and there individu
ally express Faithfully, the will of
their Constituents. We ask but a fair
held and fair play —and then “ God
lefend the Right.”
“Let me not be misunderstood
AND LET ME ENTREAT THAT I MAY
NOT BE MISREPRESENTED.”—
] Extravt from Mr Clay's Speech, a short time before
retiring from the Senate.]
The Senator (Air. Calhoun,) was con
tinually charging him (Air. Clay) with
the design of violating the compromise
act l W hen had he swerved from ill
He teas still for adhering to it, as he
understood its principles. Those prin
ciples he did not consider incompatible
with the PROTECTION of American
industry, in preference to am/ other.
HE HAD LIVED, AND WOULD
DIE, AN ADVCM 'AT E OF THE PRO
TECTIVE SYSTEM. HE HAI)
NEVER CHANGED HIS PRINCI
PLES. THEY WERE NOW THE
SAME AS THEY had EVER BEEN;
out he submitted to tiie restrictions of the
compromise act as a matter of N ECESSI
TY. And he did not even now think
it prudent, because not practicable, to go
as far as his inclinations ffid him, with
the friends of PROTECTION But as
far as he COULD GO HE WOULD !”
[Speech in the Senate, 23 d March, 1813, a still shor
ter time before retiring from that body. J
TO OUR DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS.
We shall have blit one more opportu
nity before the election of addressing you
upon those important subjects, to which
it is our high duty and privilege to direct
your attention. Are you certain thut
you have duly weighed the present cri
sis in our political affairs? Have yon
remarked the insidious efforts that our op
ponents are making to pledge you to
measures that, you have stamped again
and again, with the marks of your disap
probation. The ingenious and subtle
efforts they are making to break and di
vide our serried ranks, and beguile a part
of our array into the support of Henry
Clay, the great high priest of their fede
ral sanhedrin, upon whose tablets are in
scribed, “a high protective tariff,
A NATIONAL BANK, ABOLITION OF THE
veto and distribution. We invite
you to consider well the fact that in vo
ting for our Democratic candidates, you
are voting against Henry Clay, who
though a man of brilliant abilities bos al
ways been considered by the people of
Georgia as a dangerous and unsafe poli
tician, and as peculiarly inimical to our
State. And that in voting for Messrs.
Crawford, Stevens and Chappell,you sup
port Mr. Clay and all his obnoxious mea
sures ; of this, however, we have no
fears, for we speak advisedly when we
say that we never knew the democratic
party more united and compact, more
calmly and steadily resolved to conquor
than they are at present. No nomina
tions ever made we believe have been
more universally satisfactory to the party
than our present ones. They are all men
of superior abilities, cultivated minds and
business habits. Men, the purity of
whose private lives are guarantees that
they will make honest and faithful pub
lic servants.
But it is not only necessary that you
should vote right yourselves, but you
should each and every one of you exer
cise your influence to secure the success
of our general and county tickets. Rec
ollect that our enemies, aie using the
most persevering and untiring energy to
make up for their want of strength.
Recollect that Eternal I igilance is
the price of Liberty.
MARSHAL BERTRAND.
We see by the Jeffersonian and Tropic, that this
war worn veteran is in New Orleans, where he Was
received with the eclat and distinction that he so
richly deserves. Marshal Bertrand was one of the
most cherished and attached friends of the hero of a
hundred battles, and accompanied him in his exile to
St. Helena.
He was created M rshal of the French Empire,
during that brilliant episode the hundred .ays. II
is one of the last relics of the Grand Army. The
New Orleans papers speak of him as a hale hearty
old gentleman.
WHIG CONSISTENCY.
Our readers will recollect the hue and cry raised
against Mr. Van Buren as an Abolitionist, on the
ground that he had voted for the admission of color
ed persons (owning a certain amount of property) to
the right of suffrage in the Stale of New-York,
where from their comparatively small number, no
inconvenience could possibly arise from their exercise
of the privilege.
Well, reader, mark the sincerity and consistency
of these same Whigs and their prints. They now
press on the people of Georgia for their chief magis
trate, a gentleman (Mr. G. W. Crawtonl) who urg
ed the passage of a law conferring the privilege of
citizens, and among them, that of voting at our elec
tions, on a certain descriptions of colored persons.
Though we viewed Mr. Crawford’s proposal, as
indicating kind feelings, rather than prudence, or po
litical sagacity, yet were he alone, concerned, w«-
would scorn adverting to the fact. On the present
occasion it is here noticed not as a censure on Mr,
Crawford—not for the purpose of lessening his vote,
but simply to call the attention of the citizens of
Georgia, to the character and motives of the party
leaders with whom he is leagued, and for whom he
lms forsaken the political creed in which he was nur
tured—the creed of iris illustrious relative, the late
William H. Crawford. We repeat, we notice the
fact, not to discredii, or injure Mr. Crawford withd
his party—that it will not do. With them, to be/
an out and out United Stales Bank man, a thor-i
ough going friend of Clay’s Tariff—does he go
for diddling the Veto for distributing the land mo
ney among the States—compelling the general gov
ernment to assume, between two and three hundred
millions of State debts, and incur twelve millions ad- j
ditional taxes tor the interest—does be hate his old
State Rights or Democratic comrades, as a true Whig;
ought to dot If he can go all these without balking, )
or wry lace making, and get up something on the/
plan of Butler King's five million hill for completing J
the Railroads—why, then, he is the man for the Whig!
leaders. But, will the honest yeomanry, the hard-f
working mechanic, the merchant, the trader consent. 4
at tilt sacrifice of whose rights and interests—at
expense of whose comforts and those ol their wives (
and little ones, all of those liberty destroying schemes e
of Federalism, are to he realized 3 We guess not. ft
Will they he coaxed, or driven to the ballot box on jj
the first Monday of next month, as sheep arc lcd,,“
by those who intend to shear them, and profit by t
their fleece. No, the people remember the demociat-Pj
ic triumphs ot ' forty-one ad forty two. The guard
ian genius of the Union, which then bore their stan-ih>
dard, and led them to victory, again beckons them to
conquest. On the eleventh day from this, Constitu-A
tional Republieans of this State, meet for tiie third
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time, in poi.tical conflict, the retain rs, and ad- y
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vocates of the Bank and Tariff—Clay and Bid
dle, of the Money Aristocracy and Factory Nobility.*!
Democials of Bibb! on that day Georgia expectA*
ertry man to do his duly, and that their bulletin from •
lire field must he, “ W T E HAVE MET THE EN- J
EMY AND THEY ARE OURS.”
DESULTORY REFLECTIONS ON AN IN
TERESTING SUBJECT. |
Are the articles for domestic and plantation con- 1,
sumption, really cheaper now than they were soma,
years hack, previous to the passage by the Whig*)
Congress, of Mr. Clay’s present Tariff law, and had*
that law any effect in producing their apparent
price! These are questions well worth considering,
vve therefore offer a few brief remarks on them, la
tile first place, however, startling it may appear to
many of our readeis, we affirm that the articles
ally purchased for family and plantation consump
>g
lion, (clothing, groceries, &e.,) are not nuio really'
cheaper, than when they cost twice, or two and
half limes as much as they do at present. No prin*
ciple of Political Economy can be more firmly estab
lished both, by reason and experience, than that
The demand remaining the same, the market value'
of any commodity, depends on its abundanct, or scar-r,
city for the time being.
This rule is as rigidly applicable to money, as tr
any other commodity. p
The immediate and potential cause of the appar-' J
ently low prices of the articles we have noted, is prin-c
cipally I he scarcity and consequent dearness, or high-,
ly increased value of money, compared with
years, and has in truth no mote dependence on the
Tariff, than on what may be passing in the planet,-
Jupiter.
To the reduction in the nominal prices of merchan
dize, several causes have concurred. As far as-cot- 1
ton goods are concerned, every Southern planter must
have a clear, though not a satisfactory conviction on
the subject, as the manufactures, obtain the produca.
of his fields almost for nothing.
From the vast improvement in the smelting and
other processes in the manufacture of Iron in
land and on 'he Continent, that article has fallen in
the European market, near sixty per cent.
The marvellous discoveries in labor saving ma
chinery, within the last few years, ami the conse
quent fall in the cost of producing manufactured ar
ticles, would he nearly sufficient to account for the
presen prices. One instance out of many, we men
tion —some years back, the spinning a pound ot fine
woolen yarn cost sevenpence, it is now done for less
than a cent.
Similar, though perhaps not equal advances to
wards perfection, have been made in the manufacture
of silk and cotton. The vastly increased production
of the raw materials, the pabulum of manufactures
and of tea, sugar and coffee, in the places of their
arowth, are also strongly operative in lowering prices.
Asa further illustration, we learn from a Western
journal, that a process has recently been discovered
in that region, by wiiich salt can he manufactured
from their brine pits, at two cents per bushel.
All the above enumerated causes have concurred
to produce the present nominally low prices, and but
tor the Farid they would be fifty per cent lower, as
foreign goods, though loaded with that duty are still
imported into tins country, and the monopolist will
tiw .... ,rg up to the price of the imported article.
W» have s. id the present prices are not really
~jver, i:.au in witat was most delusively called the
period ol trigu prosperity between 1830 and