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know that Mr. Calhoun is such a man,
ml that when lie is nominated for office,
t hey have an opportunity, unless his op
onent is a man of similar character, to
u the sincerity of their petitions.
That Mr. Calhoun is a statesman of
t; ; first class, we need not say : and that
his plans of policy would secure the
peace and quietude of our Union, we are
sure every man believes wha has atten
tiv ly considered his course. The agi
tations of the country have always l>een
?d by strong measures, bearing unc
iy upon the country, and of doubt
i constitutionality. The Southern
icy of construing the powers of the
deral Government strictly, and exer
ng only those which are uuquestion
y conveyed to Congress, would be as
ennnentlv promotive of the prosperity as
o. t iie peace and happiness of thecoun
. We need statesmen whose views
a ■ national; who do not depend upon
blowing the flames of civil war in Rhode
■nd to please the democracy, or an ex
ertion against Oregon to please the
•*\ tern borderers, or a protective tarifl’
i please New England, Pennsylvania,
to Louisiana, at tlio expense of justice
■all other parts of the country. A mild
L expanded policy, securing liberty to
■ very citizen, and imposing necessary
urthens equally upon all, is the govern
nt which this great country requires.
Uh Mr. Calhoun at the head of affairs,
might expect an efficient, yet benig
a and peaceful administration at home,
i a courteous, but dignified policy a
. ad. The corrupting influence of party
vangements would terminate; the spoils
ould cease to he divided among hungry
crarnblcrs; good men will no longer be
roscribed and expelled from office to
ike room for party sycophants; the
v. groveling passions of the vicious
uid no longer be appealed to, but the
triotism which ought to till every A
icrican bosom.
For ten years past, Mr. Calhoun lias
en treated with great neglect and liab
ility at the North. Both the Whig and
democratic newspapers have united to
disparage and misrepresent him. lbs
splendid speeches have almost never
been printed, but caricature sketches giv
en iu their place. The friends of oilier
statesmen, however much opposed to
each other, have united in traducing a
man whose popularity onco overshadow
ed them, and who being the same man
still, would hold the same rank again
with hi.: countrymen, if only his course
if policy was correctly delineated belorc
•iem. He is however popular as lar as
correct views are entertained, and we
have no doubt would be again the most
beloved statesman of the nation, if his
character were but understood through
lie country as it is in South Carolina,
ilis great popularity there, in the lan
guage of Mr. Senator Preston, l- is the
result of his personal worth. No man
becomes acquainted with him who does
not love him to the bottom of his heart. - '
The election which was held in New
.■ rsey on Tuesday and Wednesday has
gone against the whigs.
In the Legislature the democrats have
n majority of G in the council, and a nut
prityof 12 in the lower House.
The democrats, therefore, have the
Legislature, mid consequently the Gov
ern >r, who is chosen by the Legislature.
I’here is no Senator of the U. S. to be
hesen.
Congress. —The State is entitled to
re members. In the first four districts
"i democratic candidates were all eiect
i. In the fifth district the contest was
very exciting. The whole interest seems
* i have been centered in the election for
ougressman. Mr. Kinney, editor of
he Newark Daily Advertiser, was the
'gular nominee of the Whig Convention.
l;:s opponent was William Wright, also
whig, but for whom the entire ino
mtic vote was cast, and who is conse
quently elected by a majority of 1181.
Bv last evening's mail wc received additional infor
tion oi'tlio result of the elections in Pennsylvania
id Ohio. In Pennsylvania il is now well nseer
lincd that the democratic party will have majorities
i both branches of the Legislature. With regard to
i ' utiers of Congress, the democrats have elected 12,
luding Dr. Nes, a democrat, but who opposed the
tllarly nominated democratic candidate, and the
igs have elected It. One district to be heard
a, the23.l, in which it is reported the democratic
i i-iidate has succeeded ; if «o the delegation will
nsist of 13 democrats and Ji whigs.
The information from Ohio is more favorable than
previously received. The democrats have elected 12
embersofOongress and the whigs 9: the State be
ing entitled to 21 members. With regard to the
.■'gislature, it is doubtful yet which will have the
isjority on joint ballot. It is however believed, that
;ere will be a tie or a majority of 2 for the demo
crats.
The charter •U nion in the city of Baltimore went
ill favor of the whigs. — Constitutionalist.
Philadelphia, Oct. ?t!i, ISI3.
Vo Hit Editor of Hit Cornier 4* Enquirer:
Sir —ln the Pennsylvania Enquirer,
of the 3d inst, I find an editorial para
graph stating, that among the papers of
the late Judge Cooper, of South Caroli
na, was found an original manuscript
c >py of the famous “ Sunday Mail Re
port,” in the hand-writing of the late
Judge, and indirectly intimating that he
was the author. cLc. Now, to set all
right as regards the author of that “Re
port,” permit me to observe that my late
iertd Judge Cooper, was not the author
of that “Report,” although he was pres
ent, and read it previous to its being pre
sented to the Post Ollice Committee iu
Congress for their approval, and made
,'iis comments thereon, but the author
of that “Report” was a member from
Georgia, and late a Senator in Congress
from that State. If any of your readers
doubt the fact, let a com nunication be
lressed to the Hon. Andrew Steven
son of Virginia, who was the able Speak
er of the lower House in Congress at the
tune Ihe “Report was drawn up and
presented by Col. Johnson, as Chairman
of the Post Ollice Committee.
With great respect,
Your obd’t humble servant,
J. C. L., of Pa.
AC&ISTJ3 tmzes zmm
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, IS Id.
FOR PRESIDENT OF TIIE XMTEI) STATES.
JOHN C. CALIIOUN,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
I„KV1 WOODBFBY.
THE SEASON.
Wc arc truly, anil emphatically,suffering for want
of rain. The duration of the drought with which
wc have been visited, and which still continues, we
have almost, in despair, ceased to calculate. We are
drier than a well kept powder-horn, or the remainder
biscuit aitcr « twelve years ciri umnavigation of the
globe. Dust, dust—nothing but dust. It hang* over
us like a canopy, particularly in Cotton Avenue, our
animated mart, and so intcr|>oscs between the nearest
objects and our visual orlis that it would require a
Telescope of ilcrschcll-like power, to discover if we
are in tin land of the living or not, or making an
serial tour on a fog bank. And then its impalpable
particles—they insinuate themselves into all our or
gans of sense —into the very pores of our body, until
respiration becomes difficult and oppressive, and the
only relief atTorded us, if it comes at all, is a violent
fit of sneezing or expectoration, suffi’ient to tear
your lungs to pieces. Hark ! even now wo hear an
unfortunate wight, across the street, thundering a
nasal explosion loud enough, were it strong enough,
to blow off the roof of Ilia head, and in the distance
you can hear vollies of snorting like the repeated dis
charges of musketry.
O, for a copious shower to lay this Demon Dust.
But to descend from mock heroics—the dry weather
which we have for many weeks past experienced, has
hern any thing but comfortable, and has added noth
ing to the heal' hos the city. On the contrary, it has
increased the epidemical influenza, which has been
prevailing among us for some weeks past—and if a
favorable change does not shortly take place, we are
apprehensive that our sick li-t will notliediminishcd.
In the early part cf last week wc had two or three
sharp and biting frosts, which were succeeded by a
spell of “Indian summer,” which still con'inucs.—
Toe transition was sudden and great—a difference of
some 20 or 30 degrees, we reckon. But, as the old
sawsays.it is a had wind that blows no body any
irood —and we can, at least console ourself with the
reflection, that it has been and still is a most capital
season for picking out Colton, and that very few ca
ses of mortality have occurred among us.
ELECTION RETURNS.
The several statements of the returns of the late
elections vary so much, that we have concluded if
would be more acceptable to our readers to want un
til we received the official table from Milletlgeville,
when we will be enabled to present them with a cor
rect and authentic exhibit. It is pretty well ascer
tained, however, that the Whigs have succeeded in
carrying the Legislature by a majority of about forty
in the [louse and two or three in the Senate; and
that they have elected their Governor and members
to Congress by majorities exceeding 3000.
MR. CLAY’S LAGRANGE LETTER.
Wc have neither room nor time t» notice this
strange produ tion in our present issue. It shall he
att. tided to in our next
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MONTICELLO.
A report is current in the city, that the largest and
most valtuele portion of Alonticcllo, Jasper countv,
has been consumed by lire. It is stated that goods
to the amount of from thirty to fifty thousand dollars
were destioyed. No particulars mentioned.
FIRE ON TIIE CENTRAL RAIL-ROAD.
We understand that on Sunday night last, about
one hundred bales of cotton were destroyed by fire
at the Seventy Mile Station.
governor McDonald.
A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph has sug
gested this gentleman to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Col. John Millen. Avery good sug
gestion we think.
FROM CHINA.
A letter from the U. S. Ship Constellation, dated
Manilla Bay, May Gth, says, that just before the
leaving China, the Commander addressed a commu
nication to the Viceroy of Canton, relative to Amer
ican affairs and interests, and that the Viceroy ap
peared to lie of opinion that A inericans will enjoy tl e
same pri\ileges as other foreigners, without the ne
cessity of treaty stipulations. Our Government,
however, we presume, would a lectlc rather have her
interests secured hv treaty stipulations than Try the
niddity-noddings of a Chinese Mandarin. Assuran
ces were reiterated that the claims of our citizens for
damages sustained in the December riot at Canton,
would he promptly paid at the stipulated time.
THE CLAY FORGERY.
Some of the Clay papers still continue to circulate
the base forgery, which would make the departed
sage of Monticello endorse the political reputation of
Mr. Clay. It certainly argues a very corrupt state
of political society, when the friends ofthe latter gen
tleman are reduced to the desperate necessity of re
publishing forged certificates of his character.
CHARGE D’AFFAIR3 TO SARDINIA.
NVe learn from the Lexington (Ky.) Gazette, that
R. Wickliflc, jr., to whom the appointment of Charge
d'Affaires to Sardinia has been tendered, will accept
the office. The Gazette says, that “the President
has made a very judicious selection, and secured the
services of a gentleman of high and patriotic feeling,
and every way qualified to do creJit to his country
abroad both by the ability with which he will main
tain her interests, and the firmness with which he
will maintain her honor.”
DEATH OF SENATOR LINN.
This distinguished Senator died at his residence in
St. Genevieve, on the 3d inst.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says, wc have to
( announce the death of Mr. I’. W. Mathews, a re|>-
rrsentative elect to the State Legislature from the
county of Lumpkin. This gentlemen died at his
residence in Auraria, on Friday last, much regretted
by all the citizens of that section of the State for his
. excellent qualities and unbending integrity.
w c are informed that Israel Bird, I’sq. member
! elect to the next Legislature, departed this life on
j \V ednesdaj last, at his residence in Bryan county.
I Sawirtoh Gtorgian i 20 th. irut. j
THE ELECTORAL ELECTION.
The Act of our Legislature to proscribe the mode
of choosing the Electors of President and Vice Pres
ident of the IT.l T . S. must be altered by the ensuing
session, or an extra session will have to he called to
carry out its provisions—and, as this would involve a
great and unnecessary expenditure of money, we
presume that such in alteration of the act will he
made as to suit its provisions to the biennial sessions
which are hereafter to take place.
The act as it now stands, make# k tie duly of the
Governor, on the eighteenth day sAmt the elections
shall have taken place, to lay before both branches of
the General Assembly a consolidated tciurn of the
persons voting, &c. and immediately to worify the
Electors of their election, and require thsOr attend
ance at the scat of government, on the Monday pre
ceding the first Wednesday in December, to vote tor
a President anti Vice President of the United istalca.
It is provided, in the event of none ofthe persons
votcJ for having received a majority, the General
Assembly shall proceed by joint ballot to the election
of Eln tors; and in the event of a majority of th*
votes not having been givsn to a number of the per
sons voted for, equal to the whole numli’rof Electors
to which the State is entitled, that number shall be
supplied by the General Assembly, who shall proceed
to elect by joint ballot a number of Electors, who
with those having received a majority of votes, shall
lie equal to the whole number of Presidential Elec
tors to which the State is entitled. And, it is further
proviJed that in case of the death of any of th* Elec
tors, or of their declining to accept the appointment,
&c. it shall be the duty ofthe Legislature to fill the
vacancy by joint ballot.
It will thus be seen that the provisions of the ex
isting act cannot he executed without convening on
extraordinary session ; and as this would saddle the
State with a heavy and unnecessary expense, it is
hoped that the approaching session will take the sub
ject into early consideration, and so change and re
model the act as to give it full efficacy, without re
sorting to the supererogatory work of a called session-
MR. CALHOUN AND MR. VAN BUREN.
Most especially do wr invito the attention of our
Democratic fiiends to the third nun her of “RIP
RAPS” on our first page. The able author com
mence* with a lucid analysis of tiie unequ. 1 opera
tions of the protective Tariff of the Whigs, and'
strongly sets forth the consequent injury and injus
tice inflicted by that odious measure upon th* great
interests of the South. 11c then |K>inls to tha ele
vation of Mr. Calhoun to the Presidency as the su
,re«t and most effectual means of correcting the mal
administration of our National affairs, and of dispen
sing equal and exact justice to each and every mem
ber of our wide-spread confederacy. “Rip Raps”
view ; the contest as between Mr. Calhoun and Mr.
Van Buren alone, and runs a parallel between them
and their relative prospects, in which he makes a
critical estimate of tiie elections in 1810, for the pur
pose of shewing tiie decided advantages which would
result fiom the nomination of Mr. Calhoun.
“ Rip Raps” is a profound thinker, and a clea 1 ', de
liberate, analytic and energetic reasoner. His style
is elegant and impressive, and hi* intimate ae.ju.rtnt
a:ice with political statistics, if we may so tern them,
imparts so much truth to his premises and deduct ins,
that we rise from their perusal sat’.ficd that they
must ire correct. In our next, wc will present our
readers with his fourth and most able and splendid
number.
As another and beautiful tribute to the lofty en
dowments of Mr. Calhoun, and the high moral influ
ence which the purity of his life and actions would
operate upon our national character both at home
and abroad, we refer the reader to the article from
the New York Journal of Commerce, which will be
found on the same page with that of Rip Raps.
CHEERING!—THE OLD DOMINION.
The following paragraph from the Pctrrburg Re
publican of the lllh inst, evinces a return to that
harmonious a lion and feeling that should always
characterise the conduct of the gre.it Jeffersonian
Democracy of the Union. It augurs well for the
success of pure and correct principles, and is an an
erring index of the rapid advances which Mr. Cal
houn is making in the best affections of a State,
which has given to mankind two of its brightest ex
am; lers and patriotic benefactors— Wxsiiikoton and
Jefferson;
“DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN RICHMOND.
Yesterday evening the Democracy of Richmond
metal the City Hull, and organised a Democratic
Association. Our worthy old friend, Capt. Win. D.
Wren, was appointed President, Air. Posher and
Col. Wicker, Vice Presidents. The meeting was
addressed by the Editor of the Republican, Air. Cas
kie, Mr. Crump, Mr. Alunford, Air. Young, and the
Editor of the Enquirer. The best spirit prevailed,
and every thing argued a determination on the part
of the Richmond Democracy to do their duty in the
coming contest Avery large Clay audience had
assembled for the purpose of witnessing a division in
our ranks, or to use their own classical and elegant
phrase, a “dog fight”—these good people were un
fortunately disappointed, and from wliat we saw last
night, we venture to predict that the Democratic As
sociation of 1813, will doas the Democratic Associa
tion of 1810 did, conquer the Log Cabin, and carry
the Old Dominion for the Democratic nominee.”
A CARD.
grtf LEGS & CO., tender their respects to the
Municipal Authorities of the City, and inform them
th xt there will he an exhibition of Ground and Lofty
Tumbling at the HOLE IN THE PAVE, near the
corner of Cherry and Fourth streets, this evening at
5 o’clock P. Al.
Gumbo Sam will make his appearance on the in
teresting occasion, and after performing the celebra
ted dance of Zip Coon, will jump into the HOLE
and dislocate his ancles and as quick as lightning,
immediately afterwards, jump hack again with the
bones firmly reseated in their sockets. After the ex
ecution of this astonishing feat, Gumbo Sam, with a
magnetic apparatus, expressly constructed for the
purpose, will concentrate the impalpable dust with
which our atmosphere is now surcharged and fill up
the HOLE IN THE PAVE free gratis for nothing.
lip Tickets, SftjOO.-CuilJ.cn, half prise.
WHIG ANTICIPATIONS AND THEIR
CONSEQUENCES.
It is not a little arnu-ing to notice the swaggering,
the inebriated exultation, and the magnificent scenes
of future and permanent domination—the Whig ora
cles and their deluded followers, arc indulging, pend
ing their temporary success.—A Whig Governor —
forty majority in the House—two in the Senate—ail
the State House Officers—all the Judges—as Geor
gia goes, so goes the Union.
llenry Clay in the Presidential Chair, a sweeping
majority in both branches of Congress, a Biddle U.
S. Bank, Assumption of tiro hundred milium of State
debts, Distribution of the land revenue among the
States, a splendid National debt, say five *r six hun
dred million, paralysis the veto power, all the spoils,
all the loaves anil fishes, all the jobs, all the contracts,
alt, all to themselves. —“ Visions of glory, spare t eir
asCflng sight”—Oh, dear! Oh dear ! Then will the
Milieaiu il of Ne.v light Whiggery and Old light
Federalism be consummated, and the democrats, poor
wights, must creep about to find unhonored graves,
or succumb to the fate assigned by the Hon. John
M. Berrien, (in his great Nullifying speech in oar
Court House) to those who resisted Nullification,
namely, they must submit, or emigrate. And mark
it reader, this indulgent and considerate sentence,
was pronounced by the orator, upon the very men
who, now in the shape of L T nion Whigs, have cho
sen him for their chief and oracle. “Mr. Berrien
say.—this, Mr. Berrien says that, there’s no mis
take! Is not that all sufficient I”
As an individual, as a gentleman, none hold Mr.
Berrien in higher estimation than we do, hut the ul
tra federalism ofhis political life, except a compara
tively short interlude of ultra Nullification, are too
well, too generally known, to need additional evi
dence. With the intermission noted, Air. B. has for
the lust thirty-five years, been the acknowledged head
ofthe Federal party in this State—lie is now the un
doubted head of tile Whigs in G'eotgia. He is the
personification of their creed, and the zealous apostle
ill diffusing their doctrines; the r eteran Federalist,
the unro npro,lining Whig, in the same [arson.
The choice of this gentleman as their Senator, as
the President of their Convention, and as the ac
credited chief ol tlie AVliig party, settles the identity
of Federalism and New light Whiggery. Were oth
cr proof necessary, we have enough and to spare at
their service. Far be from us the ungracious office
of applying the opprobrious term Federalist, to the
thousands of our republican fellow-citizens, who
have been betrayed and crimped into the Federal
ranks. No, no, we arc speaking of the men, who
deceived them, ofthe Whig leaders.
But to return to the gasconading pean the Whigs
are singing, the dawnings of the paradisical state of
Federalism, our imaginative friends, the Whigs, ate
luxuriating in.
The insane anticipations of Hassan. the glass ped
lar, in tiie Arabian Nights, were rati nal to these
day dreams cf Whiggery.
But what will the American people, from whose
diminished comforts, or increased necessities, the
Clay system can alone be supported, say to the
schemed What will they do in the premises 1 Will
the Grain and Cotton, and Cattle farmers—the Mer
cantile, A'jricullural and Shipping interest, tamely
submit to have their prosperity blasted, to curse their
country, with a domineering dictator, a bribed and
servile Congre.-s, an army of office holders ami a
moneyed aristocracy, too wealthy and power.til tor
the safety of a republic and Will not the farmers of
the West and the eotton growers ol the South, recol
lect in time, that for every bale of foreign merchan
dize excluded from our ports, by the present exorbi
tant tariff, a proportionate sunoupt of their cotton and
provisions remain on hand, or must he sold at losing
m ices. Will the American people longer tol
erate a system, which, while it depresses and withers
the staple interests of the country, diminishes the
revenue and combined with the extiavagant ex,end
ilure contemplated by the Whigs leads inevitably to
heavy direct taxa’ion and
In forty-four, the people will meet the Whigs at
the hallol-tiox and marshalled under the banner of Low
Duties. Retrenched Expenditures, Free Trade. Cal
houn and the Constitution, sweep the leaders into
merited obscurity.
REPUDIATION, Ac.
Just as the canvass of the recent election began to
wax warm, and when the plan of the campaign
was pretty well defined, it was our chance to have
a little confabulation with one of our antagonists,
as to the question, “ l/ou> iciil go the War / 1 ’
He was a free, frank, and undisguised parlizan, as
all Soldiers of Fortuwe are, and after a little skir
mishing, pro el cun., he, unreservedly,observed to us,
“ AVe will whip you.”
Being somewhat skeptical, wc, very modestly,
course, put in a demurrer, and replied,
“Impossible! You haye got no Rank of the Uni
ted States, with its Hydra-headed brandies and agen
cies to help you out—and, you know my line fel
low,that log-cabins, eoon-skiss, red pepper and hard
cider have had their day.”
“ 1 know it,” he promptly replied, “but are yo . so
remarkably verdant, that you are to be told at this !
late day, tint there are more paths to the wood titan
one 1 We humbugged vou in 1840, and we will
I
humbug you in 1843. Our Harry of the West has i
more ways than one to stock his cards.”
“ But,” we asked, “ will you not concede the pen- j
pie. some intelligence—some discrimination some I
I
political virtue—and, does it not moreover enter into \
your calculation, that it is probable we may put them ;
upon their guard, and thereby defeat your strategy I” ;
“Yes,” continued he, “all these little estimates j
enter into our calculation—but. like the Cat in the i
fable, we will roll ourselves into the meal-tub and i
whiten our claims to public confidence. With prom
ises, we will not only pay the debts of the people, hut j
we will pay the debts of the (Rates, and also the i
debts of all such Corporations as may desire help, in
addition to the peculiar and exclusive privileges al- |
ready conferred upon them by their charters—and, j
after having done all this, the minds of the people j
will be prepared to receive the multiplied charges of
inconsistency, corruption, &c., which we mean to ■
luing against Mr. Calhoun, and other distinguished I
Democrats, not forgetting Alatty of Kinderhook. It
is thus we will whip you. It is easier to humbug
the people titan you imagine; and that too, time after
time, repeatedly, if you will but only masquerade it
aright, and always appear in a new domino, when
the old one is worn out anti detected. 'File people
are ~ftrn duped by promises —se-dotn by reasoning.’’
He here suddenly closed his little lecture upon polit
ical ethics, turned a|>on his heel, and humming the
beautiful and popular air of
“ My old shoe,
And Tippecanoe,”
waved us a TalleyranJic adieu, with indiscribabh
tact and grace.
The aliove is not a Fancy St.ctch —it really occur
red, and has been forcibly recalled to uor recollection
by the following true and well-timed remarks which
appear in a laic New York Evening Post. They go
to prove in connection with other measures of policy
adopted by our adversaries, that, to effect the eleva
tion of Air. Clay to the Presidency, they will use all
means within their reach to delude the pcoj.lc; and
that they, our adversaries, stand ready to sacrifice
every mor.il and constitutional obligation, if they can
but obtain the “had eminen o” anti object at which
they aim—that eminence and object contemplate the
adoption of our Elate Sovereignties into a Consolida
ted Federal Government, before which they would
make the [H-ople full down and worship. The Old
Federalists of the North and East have since our
recent Election, already hailed Georgia as a Protec
tive Tariff State—a Clay State; and. as their hopes
of a regular built United States Batik are annihilated,
they are now actively engaged in endeavoring to
make the Treasury of the Federal Government an
swer the same purpose by a process of political arith
metic and financial alchemy in which Mr. City is re
cognised as the most consummate adept that ever
graduated in the Biddle School.
From the New York Evening Post.
Not long since, a fellow entered a house in the
up|»’r part ofthe city, under the pretence of being a
di-lril.utor of tracts, and carried off two coats and an
umbrella. A linost all dishonest designs arc cloaked
under some show of philanthropy. A convict in tile
State prison, whose letter was intercepted the other
day, desired his friend to get up a petition relating to
Sunday Schools, and, having obtained a few thou
sand signatures, to cut them oft', anil attach them to
a petition for his pardon. Wc remember an instance
in which a very pious utan had his pocket picket! by
a fellow who was lalkingto him very earnestly about
the new birth.
The knaves of the political world are as much al
home in these stratagems as any set of men what
ever. When you find them seized, of a sudden,
with fervent zeal on some point of morality, you
may take it for granted that they have a design in il
A vehement zeal has lately blazed forth in regard
jto the payment of the debts of the States. Men
who have all their lives been indifferent to the obli
gations they are under to their own creditors -cool,
placid, contented debtors—magnanimous spendtlnifts
who hold the maxim of Ralph Bigod, in Clu b
Lamb s Essays, ‘that money kept longer than lltret
i days stinks;‘ borrowing wherever they could coax
i motley into their bunds, and taking no more thought
of repayment than the lilies ofthe field —have sud
j * *
denly become the great suppo ters of pecuniary faith,
! have made speeches against the enormity of being in
: debt; anti declared il’lltey belonged to a debt r Mute.
| they would work their arms to the elbows, such was
I the exquisitely chosen phrase of a great orator—and
faceall tile miseries of penury, before they would s’!
| down under the ignominy of repu barton. Journ di ts
who have always acteJon the tnaxim of ,J neient Pis
; to], ‘base is the slave that pays’—can now conceive
J of not ling so profligrate as the conduct of the State
which neglects to pay its bonds. One would sup
pose, if he were to take lite r word for it, that insol
j vency was some rare, unnatuial crime, almost un
heard of in society, and that they who were guilty of
it were regarded with more horror than they who
had committed parricide.
While all this ranting lias been going on, we have
quietly asked ourselves, what next 1 Whose closet
to he plundered now 1 whose pocket is to he picked 1
what robbery ate these preachers of morality medila
ting 1 what scene of political knavery is to follow this
sudden gush of honesty l
The secret is at length disclosed. These deed din
ers, who make insolvency worse than murder, are
I hut the van guard of Cost Johnson and his scheme,
j Mr. Johnson has just made a speech in Maryland,
1 in which he renews ids proposal to charge tiie debts
ofthe states upon toe treasury ol the eric al Gov
eminent. Ilissgcecn is published in the National
! Intelligencer. The Baltimore American comes out
j in defence of it. and social of the W! ig presses at
the North have followed in the sane tr.ick.
The pi n has evidently been to Ihlcn e public
, opimon n regard lo tin* enormity oi' tate insolven
cy, by connected appeals of every kind; and thin
by tiie aid of the feelings so excited, lo carry the
pi nos plundering the national treasury and the sol
vent States. We are satisfied, for the present, with
having pointed out the hvpocricv ofthe proceedings ;
at another time we may remark upon the arguments
with which the scheme is attempted to lie justifiel,
OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT.
1 he recent destructive conflagrations in Mooticel
loand New Orleans, should admonish us to he vigi
lantly u;s>n our guard against similar visitations.—
; Wc believe that our Fire Department, and its appa
ralusgenerally, are not in that state of organization
they should he, tnenahlr us successfully to encoun
ter a sudden emergency. AVe have heretofore called
the attention of our citizens and the Municipal Au
thorities to this important subject, and hope they will
no longer neglect to give it full and due consideration.
Bince writing the above, wc arc glad to per
ceive that the City Council hits adopted a llcsoluticn
for the re-organiztion of the Fire Department upon
some piacticul and efficient plan
THE “O. IU.-.”
Since the result of our late Election, these old ini
tials have been sported in great glee by the Whig
Federalists. “Now, (says the Portland American,)
there are several meanings to those cabalistic signs
One of these w< give as ajiproprtate to the late vic
tory :
“ O. A.”
“ Oil Korrupt.”
Or, if the Federalists adopted th» ui*J hard cidar
motSe of electioneering, it would .i»ran.
“"o. a; 1
“ Oil KornedA
lion. i.tctiAßD H Wilde, is shortly to leave
litis, hts native State, and lake up his residence in
New Orleans, with a view of pursuing hi# proieszton.
THE DISTRICT SYSTEM &c.
In our last we proposed that a call should be made l
upon the Democratic Parly in our approaching Le
gislature, for the p urpunc of referring the election o*
Delegates to the Convention at Baltimore to the peo
ple by apportioning tiie State into Distrits, either hy
our friends in the legislature or by a Convention ti/
be held for the purpose, sometime in March or early
in April next. We now renew the proposition more
particularly,-with a view of eliciting the opinions of
our democratic coreniporartc*, relative to this im-'
poriant subject, upon which, wc hope, sonn aarly ai.cf
decisive action will he had.
The District System gives lull and unrestricted
play to the exercise of the elective franchise, and .T
therefore the best mode that could be adopted to’
ascertain the legitimate wishes of the people. It
gives them a fair chance ol reaisin" ficir votes, and
precludes, as far as it is possible to preclude the little'
low and corrupt schemes of Log Hollers, which would
barter away art honest expression of public opinion,
by covertly chaffering for and selling il in the politi
cal market to the highest bidder. This abominable
abuse ofthe freedom of election should be corrected
by bringing the immediate vote of the people more
directly in contact with the candidate voted for ns is
contemplated by the District System. Indeed no
other mode could give so full and fair an expression
of public sentiment, unless our Chief Magistrate was
elected by a direct vote from the people themselves
—a measure which was proposed, and ably advocat
ed by the Hon. Air. McDuffie, during his former
sittings in Congress. It must wc think be evident to
to the most superficial discrimination that the farther
the votes of the people are removed from the candF
date voted for the greater becomes the dan erof
ihrir votes being vitiated by a:i irresponsible man
agement, a management that might have the power
as well as inclination to transfer to B. the suffrages
nl a State, three fourths of which were intended C.,
should it suit the selfish and aggrandising spirit of a
bargaining and corrupt Coalition do so.
These are some of our reasons lor preferring the
District System—and as regards the time we have
suggested for carrying it into effect wc think it the
best dial could be possibly selected. For if our
Delegates are elected in March or April next, they
wilt then go fresh lrotii the people, and will he cloth
ed with a power and moral influence wiiich they can.
wield with full lorce and effect.
We are well aware that in recommending this
course it is probable that Mr. Calhoun may lose a
vole or two iu Georgia. Bui this is of secondary
consideration with us, a . il is, wc have good reason
for believing, with all the true and reflecting friends
of that eminen. Statesman throughout the Union. —
In contending for the System, wc base it upon i.s
intrinsic merits alone because wc view it as the only
mode through which the most direct expression of
public semiincut can, under existing circumstances,
be attained, and one that is belter lakulaicd tuan
any other to give equal weight and full efficacy to
the representation principle of our contcdcralid
Government. Besides, it is more in accordance,
and harmonises belter, with the doctrines and prin
ciples ol the Democratic State Rights School; and,
althoug h we repose unlimited confidence in tiie gen
tlemen nominated by the last Convention, and would
willingly trust to them the vote of Georgia, yet, wc
teel conscious, that we could more effectually sub
serve the great cause we are balding for, by pursu
ing the plan we have taken the liberty to suggest.
We then, once more, most respectfully urge our
p.oposi.ion to the serious consideration of the De
mocratic Press and people, and would be glad to
hear the responses ot tiie former as soon .IS possible.
ATTENTION CALHOUN MEN.
Below we publish the Prospectus of anew paper
to be published in the city of New which will
advocate the cause of Free Trade and Democratic
principles in tne most able and vigorous manner A
primary object too will he the elevation o'i ou. patri
ot statesman, Jons U. C.ci.Bui s, to the highest office
n the gift of a fr« e people Among’ the most efficient
means of supporting our principles, is that of sus
taining ami circulating deaiocr tic p:'|>crs Uat lt an.!
every one of us could and should do something in
tins way, it it ih suhsciihiiig lor oiny one paper VVe
earnestly rcqmst our t'ncmfs iu (Ursd tLetr patron
age liberally to this our organ m the great commer
cial metropolis of the Union. While upon this sub
jwt we might mention tliat it is essential to our in
terest to sustain an influential organ at Washington
and for this pur|>oee we recommuieiKl to the patron
ags of our frit mis, the Wasiii.vcton Sp-f.ltatoh, as
every way worthy of their confidence ami sop port.
Wc have a -übscription list of the New York pa
. anti wil ~ke pleasure in forwarding any sub
- ■r.j.tions that nay be plucust n our hands.
C IRCIi L A R .
The rime has arrived, when, it lias become neces
sary for the Friends ot Free Trade to unite in sus
taining their cause.
The coniinercial community and agricultural pop
ulation of the country, have been subjected to the
operation of an unequal and unjust Tariff Law. A
law, admitted by its framers ami advocates, to have
bccit hastily devised and hurriedly acted on, forced
through Congress at the close of an extia session,
a.ml adopted by a single casting vote. A law, which
makes lorced loans from importers, in the way of
cash dudes, amounting on an average to 30 per cent,
of their capital. A law, which by heavily taxing ma
terials used in ship building, being equal to per
ton, which, on a vessel of fiOQ tons, amounts to the
enormous sum ot 83,500 is driving our ships from the
foreign carrying trade. Foreign and cheaper built
I vessels monopolize to a great extent, the business
i which was formerly done by . ur ships.
! The friends of Free Trade, contend that justice to
the Merchants, Ship Builders, and Ship Owners, and
to the Farmers ot tiie country, demands an immedi
ate modification of this oppressive Tariff Law. They
coutend, that, the Agricultural and Commercial in
terests of the United Slates are indissolubly united.
That, the pros, erity and extension of trade and com
merce, necessarily promotes the extension and pros
perity of agriculture.
They believe the power granted to Congress by
the Constitute ti, to regulate commerce, was not in
tended to be used for its deslruc ion.
They believe it bad policy for the government, in
time of profound peace, under pretence of passings
revenue bill, to pass a bill destroying revenue, and
tlirn borrow money wiili which to carry on tilt gov*
eminent, and at the same time laying the foundation
of a targe public debt.
They belt ve a crisis lias been reached in the af
fairs of the country, when these measures must be
nu t, resisted and ovctcome, by the united and effi
eiem action of tiie lriendsof free trade.
From the signs of the limes, should the advocates
of commercial restriction and unequal taxation, suc
ceed in electing their candidate for the Presidency,
the disastrous result will be, that we shall have the
severe grievances of which we justly complain, tau
tened upon us as the pcrinancui policy of the coun
"T-
To avoid an event fraught with such evil conse
quences, it behooves us to unite with others in the
support of a Free Trade Candidate for the Presiden
cy. The time for action is short. In a tew mote
months, an individual may be selected, as Presidium
whose opinions, power and influent e, might he tear
fully exerted against us. Or otic, whose views, fecl
iugs and opinions coincide with our own.
Something should be done. At the present time,
the Picss of this city occupies a position unlavorabl*
to the success of our cause. Toe necessity lor a
new paper is evideut, from the fact that al present*
none of the papers of this ciiy advocate to the lull
extern, and with sufficient r nergy and zeal, the pnn
ciples for which •-'c contend.
A paper of tins character seems at the present
juncture indispensable, it should lie in its endsaud
aims, essentially a Free Trade paper; audaithe same