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The Steamer Acadia arrived at Boston
on Wednesday afternoon, having left
Liverpool on the IDtii nit., thus bring
ing news 15 days later than had been
before received.
The State trials proceed very slowly ;
and the only steps which seem to have
been taken appear to have been in favor
of the defendants. In the Court of
Queen’s Bench on the 13th tilt., which
was the last day allowed for pleading to
the indictment against Mr. O’Connell,
that gentleman appeared, not to plead,
but to show cause why the indictment
should be quashed, because the witness
es were sworn before the Grand Jury on
ly, whereas, by an Act of Parliament, 56
George 111, they should have been sworn
in open Court. The greater part of the
day was taken tip with the argument
whether a plea of abatement lodged the
day before was in time or not; the coun
sel for the Crown contending that it
should have been lodged when the par
ties were first charged, and not after the
rule to plead had run. It was finally de
cided by the Court that it was in time,
and thus an important advantage was
gained over the Attorney General; the
counsel for the Crown then demurred,
and contended to plead to the argument
at once ; but the traversers refused to do
so without notice, and the court agree
ing, a four day rule was granted, which
delayed further proceedings until the
next Monday, when the validity of the
objection was to be argued. The ques
tion is entirely one of law, and the mat
ter lies between the technical wording of
two separate acts of parliament. Os
course, if Mr. O’Connell’s objection is
good, the proceedings on this indictment
would be at an end.
A correspondent of the Times says
that if tried, the defendants have 30,000
witnesses to examine, but this is evident
ly a figurative expression, meaning sim
ply a large number.
At a meet ng of the Repeal Association
on the 7lh, a resolution was passed de
claring it the paramount duty of the As
sociation at this crisis, to apply all its
means and influence to the successful
furtherance of the national collection for
the O’Connell Compensation-fund, fixed
for Sunday, the 19th inst. Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, Jr., read the draught of an
address to the Queen, to be presented by
each parish in Ireland.
The Orageimm of Ireland are reorgan
izing, but omit the secret signals and
other parts of their former tests which
have been declared illegal.
Gen. DutF Green is writing in the
Times against Rev. Sidney Smith and in
opposition to the opinions of the Ameri
can correspondent of the Times, “A Gen
evese Traveller,” concerning a Commer
cial Treaty. The General evidently
proves to his own satisfaction that the
Republicans are to return to power in
1844, and that Protection as a part of na
tional policy is virtually at an end in the
United States.
American Cheese continues to arrive
by hundreds of boxes at a time, and A
merican Beef is also coming in freely.
The Anti-Corn Law League are again
going ahe&d. In manchester, the enor
mous sum of £12,006 was collected in
one day towards the League’s new fund
of £IOO,OOO. Most of tile contributors
to the fund have doubled their subscrip
tions on those of last year. This is the
first commencement of the new move
ment. Meetings will shortly be held in
the other leading towns of England and
Scotland.
Mr. Sands, an American mcrcliflht of
great eminence, has been elected Mayor
of Liverpool for the ensuing’ year. A
strange question was mooted—and for a
few days marred his appointment. The
Custom House clerk of the firm had been
in the habit of paying the town dues on
bales as “trusses,” and cases as “boxes.”
The circumstances are singular, and
have excited much interest.
A Liverpool says that all parties in
America, connected with the trade of
that port, will learn not with less sur
prise than did the good people of the port
themselves, that a project has been set
on foot for the erection of docks on the
Cheshire side of the Mersey.
Sir Hugh Evelyn, who is described as
very aged and feeble, was recently dis
charged by the Commissioner of the In
solvent Debtors Court, in London, after
having been imprisoned in the Queen’s
Prison 18 years.
Louis Phillippe has invited the Queen
of England to visit St. Cloud next sum
mer. If she does nol he will probably
visit Windsor.
According to a letter of the Bth, from
Berlin, in the Journal de Frankfort, an
indisposition with which Prince Albert,
of Prussia, was attacked while on a-visit
to the Duke of Brunswick, had increased
into a gastric fever, attended with jaun
dice. The Prince was in an alarming
state, and the last bulletin says that the
disease has assumed the dangerous char
acter of hepatitis.
A letter in the Augsburg Gazette from
the frontiers of Poland, says that the Em
peror Nicholas has formally expressed
his displeasure at the Greek revolution :
and that he has deprived M. Katakazi
(the Russian Minister) of his situation.
It is added that troops concentrated at
Kiew are directed to march to the Pruth.
The Monitcur Parisien adds, that a com
missioner extraordinary has been sent to
Athens with a protest against the revolu
tion and that the King of Prussia has re
called his representative.
It is denied that there has been any
movement of Austrian troops on the
Bolognese frontier, Italy; a body of
soldiers only went to share in some mili
tary parade mauouvres. The Guerilla
warfare against the government of Rome
and Piedmont continues, and the efforts
to put it down are trifling and inefficient.
The intelligence from Spain is singu
larly uninteresting. At Madrid, the
Committees of the two chambers had re
ported in favor of declaring the Queen’s
majority. Some advantages have been
gained by the government over the in
surgents ; Saragossa opened its gates to
< 'ooelia on the 28th < tetoher ; while in
Barcelona the revolutionists were weak
ened by dissension. On the other band,
Geroua still held out on the 2d inst., and
Prim was waiting reinforcements; disor
ders gained ground in Gallicia ; at Vigo
the government troops laid yielded to
the insurgents, who were masters of the
place on the 4th ; and there are reports
of a fresh conspiracy at Seville.
Letters from Alexandria, of the 17th
Octolier state that Ahmed, Pacha of Sou
dan, had declared himself independent of
Mehemot Ali; who bad given orders to
place 40,000 men under arms, to reduce
bis contumacious subordinate to obedi
ence. Ahmed is forty-five years of age,
cool, and “as brave as a lion.” “In his
youth,” says the Times, “he was pur
chased, with other Circassian slaves, by
•Mehemet Ali. He was brought up a
soldier, and was enrolled in the first reg
ular regiment ever raised in Egypt. He
first served in Arabia and the Hedjaz;
was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and
subsequently sent to Candia, and finally
to St. Jean d’Acre, where he particularly
distinguished himself lor his brilliant
courage.”
The overland India mail brings intel
ligence from Bombay to the 2d October.
All the interest is now concentrated in a
new quarter; for while there is no later
news from China, and India is in'general
comparatively tranquil, there is a revolu
tion in the Puujaub. At Lahore, on the
15th September, the Maharrajah Shere
Singh was slain, with his son, Plutab
Sing, and all the members of bis imme
diate family, at the instigation of Dliyan
Singh, his minister; and a child had
been placed upon the throne. It may he
remembered that our old ally, Rnujeet
Singh, died in June, 1839, and was suc
ceeded by his son, Kurruck.
On the death of Kurruck, his son, Nail
Nebal Singh, succeeded, but lie was kill
ed at his father’s funeral. The throne
was usurped by Shere Singh, who claim
ed to be a son of Runjcet; he was gene
rally considered illegitimate, as his moth
er gave birth to him during so protract
ed an absence of Runjeet, that his pater
nity was more than doubtful. Shere
Singh was addicted to intemperance, mid
recently, after a quarrel with his minis
ter, Dhyau Singh, he somewhat hummed
himself in seeking a reconciliation, and
endured the further humiliation of a lec
ture on his habitual vice, which he pro
mised to reform. Latterly Dliyan had
been observed to be very downcast; and
is supposed that he was jealous of the
favor shown to General Venturn, an Eu
ropean officer in the Maharrajah’s service.
The steamer Hibernia made her run
out from Boston to Liverpool in twelve
days and a half.
The cotton market in Liverpool had
advanced half a cent on a pound on the
arrival of the news by the Switzerland
on the 19th, and 10,000 bales changed
hands at the advance ; but on the arri
val of the Hibernia on the 14th, prices
fell back quarter of a cent, and the mar
ket ciosed quietly. The Switzerland
carried out the first news of a frost at the
South ; the accounts by the steamer
were not so favorable for a rise, hence the
reaction.
The Great Britain, the mammoth
steamer, built and launched at Bristol
this snminor, isexpected at Liverpool be
fore Christmas, and will astonish the cit
izens of New York some fine day in the
ensuing spring.
The England, Bartlett, entered Liver
pool early on the 6th, having performed
the voyage in seventeen days. The
Garrick, Skiddy, and the Oxford, Rath
bone, had arrived off the port.
Several gentlemen, who have carried
on manufactories in Leeds, are about to
proceed to Constantinople, having made
an arrangement with Sultan for superin
tending different departments of a large
manufacturing establishment in that city.
The whole number of deaths in the
metropolis as made up by the registrar
general, for the week ending Saturday,
was 1,060, being 157 above the weekly
average of the last five years, which was
903. A note states that, under the head
“privation,” is the case of a female, aged
50, who died of exhaustion from want;
and, under “atrophy,” the case of a
child who had died from want of breast
milk, resulting from the poverty and des
titution of the parents.
Accounts have been received of the
death ot Dr. A. Petit, who was sent oil a
scientific mission to Abyssinia, by the
Museum of Natural History of Paris. In
crossing one of the branches of the Blue
Nile, he was seized by a crocodile and
devoured.
Irelaml.
Repeal Association, Nov. 7.— The
usual weekly meeting of the Repeal As
sociation was held on Monday. Mr.
Patrick Lalor, of Trinakill, Queen’s
county, in the chair. The first business
was the passing of a resolution moved
(Mr. O’Connell being duly absent) by
Mr. Clements.
“ That the Royal National Repeal As
sociation bolds it as a paramount duty at
this moment, to apply all its means and
influence to the successful furtherance of
the national collection for the O’Connel
Compensation fund, fixed for Sunday,
the 19th instant. On that occasion, the
members and associates of this National
l>ody are especially expected to co-ope
rate personally and energetically with
the respected and patriotic clergy of their
several parishes, in securing results for
this imperative measure worthy of the
crisis and the cause.”
That business disposed of, Mr. O'Con
nell disappeared, lie moved that the
words of Edmund Burke, which the
Banner of Ulster selected for its motto,
be adopted by this Association—namely,
“Religion is the basis of civil society,
and the source of all good and comfort.”
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Jr., read the
draught of nil address to the Queen, to
Ixi presented by each parish in Ireland :
it protested against the military array by
which the Glontarf proclamation was
supported to insure obedience; it infer
ftxl that the disposition of the Irish peo
ple had been misrepresented to the
Queen ; pointed to the peaceable con
duct ot large meetings; atlected to ab
stain from complaining that the right to
meet had been violated, but remarked
that troops had I>een prepared to attack
persons congregated “ in utter ignorance
of the almost nocturnal proclamation;”
Riding, “ yet such was the respect for the
law, that very many thousands of people
dispensed on the mere rumor that the
meeting had been made illegal by an act
of almost midnight legislation !”
Naval Armament in Irrland.—
Limerick, Wednesday.—The naval ar
mament in the Lower Shannon has been
reinforced. Her Majesty* steamers
Comet mid Pluto have arrived at Tarbert
roadstead, head quarters of the force to
be stationed in the Lower Shannon,
whereat present there are four armed
vessels lying—Her Majesty’s ship Lynx
and Snipe, and the Comet and Pluto
steamers. The Lynx is to take up a po
sition at Scaltery for the protection of
that redoubt, and that of Carrick; the
Snipe goes to Carrigabolt, to protect Doo
tia and Kilkredane.
Trance.
A few days ago, while the great bell
ol the Cathredal of Notre Dame was be
ing rung, the clapper gave way, and the
enormous mass fell down through two
lloors of the tower, and lodged in the
third. Three persons were injured.
An interesting communication was
read in the Academy of Sciences on
Monday. It was relative to a substitute
for white lead for domestic purposes.—
The author, M. de Ruolz, states the flow
ers of antimony give a finer white, mix
more l»eely with other colors,-are more
durable, and cost only one-third of the
price of white lead ; and neither in the
process of manufacture, nor of use, affect
the health.
The King and Queen have both ex
pressed high delight at the accounts of
the reception of the Duke and Dutchess
of Nemours by Queen Victoria, and
their Royal Highnesses are charged to
make a formal and pressing invitation to
the Queen to visit St. Cloud tiext year.
People about Court state that there is lit
tle doubt as to the invitation being ac
cepted ; but that should it be from neces
sity declined, the King will visit Wind
sor in the next summer, if his health,
which is now very good, should permit.
■
Circnmstautial Evidence
The following statement of an actual oc
currence, (says the N. Y. American,)
translated for that paper, from the Deut
j sches Schnellpost, well exemplifies how
unjustly a combination of circumstances
may sometimes accuse a man.
“At a table d’hote at Ludwigsburgh,
one of the company was showing a very
rare gold coin, which was passed round
the table on a plate, and gave rise to
many suppositions as to its age, country,
value, etc. The conversation then gra
dually branched off to other subjects till
the coin was forgotten, and on the owner
asking for it back, to the surprise of all
it was not to be founds A gentleman
sitting at the foot ol the table was obser
ved to lie in much agitation, and, as his
embarrassment seemed to increase with
the continuance of the search, the com
pany were about io propose a very dis
agreeable measure, when Suddenly a
waiter entered the room, saying : ‘ Here
is the coin ; the cook has just found it in
i one of the finger glasses.’ The relief to
all was manifest; and now the suspected
stranger spoke lor the first time as fol
lows : ‘ Gentlemen, none of you can re
joice more than myself at the recovery of
the coin : for picture to yourselves my
painlul situation ; by a singular coinci
dence I have a duplicate of the very same
coin in my purse ! (here showing it to
the company.) The idea that, on the
personal search which would probably
be proposed, I would be taken for a pur
loiner of the coin, added to the fact I am
a stranger here, with no one to vouch for
my integrity, had almost driven me dis
tracted. The honesty of the cook and
lucky accident has saved my honor.’—
'file friendly congratulations of the com
pany soon effaced the remembrance of
their unjust suspicions.”
A couple Facts.
“When England will reduce her du
ties we will reduce ours ; when Eng
land will receive our productions, we
will take hers.” — Whig talk.
Now look at a couple of facts. The
average of the English duty is only 11
per cent, while ours is nearly 40 per
cent, lu IS42,'England received of us,
produce to the amount of more than
FIFTY MILLIONS of dollars; while
we received of her less than FORTY
MILLIONS. Away with your hypocri
cy ! You want a PROTECTIVE
Tariff, and you mean to have it at all
events.
Trinity I hurch.
From our editorial window we have a
fine viewof this magnificent gothic struc
ture, its fine stone tower, is gradually
rising in majestic grandeur above the
houses and busy world below. Opera
tions, we believe, have ceased for the
winter. The highest point of its struc
ture is now one hundred feet above the
pavement, aud has yet to mount one
hundred and twenty feet higher. With
its splendid windows of stained glass, and
superb organ, it will lie one nfthe finest
churches in America. In its ancient
church yard which our window also
overlooks, lies buried the remains of
Alexander Hamilton, and the celebrated
Charlotte Temple, and near the Gazette
otfice is Temple street, named in memory
of that unhappy and til fated girl.
A H Sia»9 .-V SJ I) &
WEDNESDAY, "DECEMBER 20, 1813.
FOR PRESIDENT OF TIIE UNITED STATES.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
LLVI WfiOUßißl.
FOR CONGRESS,^
JOHN IV. A. *AAFORD,
OP BALDWIN.
We are indebted to the Hon. Howell
Cobb for a copy of the President’s Mes
sage.
We are indebted to the attention
of Cox.. Powers, our Senator at Mil
ledgeville, for copies of valuable public
documents.
We have received the report of Gen.
Nelson, the principal keeper of the Peni
tentiary, containing a minute account of
the condition of that institution for the
past year.
We return our thanks to our New
York correspondent for his welcome fa
vor in our last; and most candidly as
sure him that his communications are
not a whit more welcome from their re-
augels’ visits, i. e., being so
few and far between. Jesting apart, we
hope he will redeem his promise and fa
vor us with long, and epistles a
bout the wise and other men of Gotham.
Suicide.
Mr. Charles Julien, committed suicide
last Friday evening, by placing a pistol
in his mouth and shooting himself
through the head causing instant death.
He was we believe, a native of France,
but for several years past a resident of
this town.
The Southern Reformer
Is the title of anew democratic paper
established at Jackson, Mississippi. It is
a large and beautifully printed sheet, and
will no doubt be conducted with great
ability by the talented editor Mr. Wm.
M. Smyth. It will advocate the nomina
tionof Mr. Calhoun : but like every oth
er good democrat will support any other
of the distinguished democrats named in
connection with that high office, should
they be preferred by a majority of the
party.
New York Gazette.
We direct the attention of our renders
to a capital article which we have trans
ferred to our columns from the money
article of a late number of the daily Ga
zette. It relates to the mode in which
ihe financial business of the Bank of
France is conducted, and some portions
of its history in which can be traced the
impress of the master hand of that won
derful and comprehensive genius Napo
leon Bonaparte. We again take occa
sion to recommend this paper to the pat
ronage of the commercial community.
The New Orleans Tropic. This
able and spirited opponent of democratic
principles comes to us on a much en
larged aud beautifully printed sheet.—
We are indebted to the Boston Shipping
List for an extra containing the latest
mercantile intelligence in that great com
mercial emporium of the East.
Maratime Inteiests of the South.
We have published on the first page
of this days paper, the first half of an ad
mirable article, by Lieut. Maury, U. S.
N., upon the Maratime Interests of the
South. Lieut. M. is a native of Virginia
we believe, and feels as a Southerner
should in reference to the gross and pal
pable neglect, and contempt with which
the vita] interests of this section of the j
Union has been treated by the General
Government. No matter what party has
been in the ascendant, our interests in I
this matter have been treated with equal j
indifference. While countless millions
have been lavished in protecting the
comparatively barren shores of the North-!
ern and Eastern States, and a gun plant- I
ed on every three hundred and eighty [
yards of their rocky coasts, ready to |
belch forth their far hissing messengers J
of death upon the slightest hint of of- :
fence. The sunny South, and the mighty I
West, the land of unbounded fertility—
the land whose annual harvests freight
the commercial navies of the variPlis
nations of the earth, and furnishes the
means of exchange between the old and
the new world—the land whose pro
ducts have built up Lowell and the other
manufacturing towns of New England
—that section of the Union which derives
less advantage from the Union than any
other, and pays two-thirds of the annual
taxation, is treated with a miserable nig
gardliness, contumely, and neglect as
short-sighted as it is unpatriotic.
Lieut. Maury commences the subject
by taking a complete and masterly re
view of the great agricultural, mineral,
and other products of the South, and
their paramount importance in a Nation
al point of view, and shows conclusively
that the commerce of New Orleans
and the Mississippi valley, is of vastly
greater importance than that of N. York,
and that a blockade of New York would
be of far less injury to the country than
one of New Orleans. He then proceeds
to show by extracts from English papers
of that date, the great alarm and injury
that was inflicted on the commerce of
Great Britain by three American Slfips
of War, appearing on the English coast
in 1777, and the vast preparations made
by the Government to protect their citi
zens. He now by parity of reason,
shows how easy it would be to destroy
the commerce of the South and West, by
a few British cruisers in the Gulf, and
how easy and how absolutely necessary
it is to institute a proper system of de
fence, by fortifying a few stations in the
Gulf, and setting on foot a steam fleet for
which we have the most unlimited ma
terials, in men, from the steamboats of
the Mississippi, and other Southern wa
ters; minerals, coal, &c., and timber of
the very best kind. One important point
that is insisted on, is that these defences
should be in Southern hands, men who
feel that this is their own, their native
land.
We are glad to notice that this subject
has come under the consideration of the
present able chief of the War Depart
ment who seems to view the subject in
much the same light as Lieut. M.
Johnson’s Agricultural Dictionary—Liebigs
Chemistry—Danas Muck Manual, and
Johnson’s Lectures.
We do not know how to confer a
greater favor on our Agricultural friends,
than most earnestly to recommend to
each and every one of them to procure a
copy of each of the above mentioned
books, and to make them matters of dili
gent and daily study. It is a crying sin
that Agriculture, the most important of
all pursuits to the prosperity of our coun
try, indeed the very basis and origin of
all true prosperity, should be in so rude
and primitive a condition as it avowedly
is in the Southern States. In some
countries ten or twenty years of cultiva
tion seems only to fertilise and invigor
ate the soil, so much does scientific Ag
riculture improve the gifts of benevolent
Nature. Look at a field in Georgia af
ter ten years cultivation of cotton, it
seems as if stricken by tires from Heaven,
and as incapable of producing a crop of
cotton as the burning fields around Ve
suvius or -Etna. This should not be so.
We bold the land in trust for posterity,
and should at least leave it as good as
we found it; if like the unfaithful ser
vant, we have not improved it. The
coarse which has been so prevalent for
several years back, of pursuing the cleuti
culture until the land is emphatically
worn out, and then moving South, and
thus successively travelling from the
Larolinas to Texas, is as unwise as it is
in direct opposition to the glorious senti
ments of patriotism inculcated by the far
mer and poet, Sir Walter Scott when
he exclaimed with poetic fervor—
"Lives there a man, with soul so uead
That never to himself hath said
This, is my own, my native land.”
But to return to our subject. We be
: lieve that the money laid out in purchas
i ing the above mentioned books, would
be returned a thousand fold to any who
would study them carefully. In con
nexion witfi this subject we would re
commend to our friends to patronise the
Southern Agriculturalist, published at
Columbia, in South Carolina, and the
Southern Cultivator, published at Au
gusta, by the Messrs. Jones.
The Western & Atlantic Kail Road.
We are told in the sacred writings that
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of
pottage. We are sorry that our State
; has, through the legislature, determined
to obtain a similar glorious immortality,
1 by selling our magnificent public im
! provement into the hands of the stranger.
Verily, we shall indeed become a rnock-
I word. We shall see.
Monroe Rail Road Appropriation.
] "What the devil should move me to undertake the
I recovery of this drum. Being not ignorant of the
impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose, t
must give myself some hurts and say I got the m in
the exploit.”— Monsieur Parolles.
We regret to state that the hill before
the Legislature, making an appropriation
of 5200,000 for the payment of the States
subscription to the Monroe Rail Road
Company, was on Friday last lost in the
House of Representatives by a vote of 48
to 141. And the motion for reconsider
ation subsequently offered, was lost by a
large majority. We confess our aston
ishment at the fate of this bill, and our
disappointment and mortification at its
defeat—and the vacillating policy which
has distinguished many of those who
stood prominently forward as its cham
pions and advocates in its progress thro’
the House, but upon its being taken up
for passage, voted against it. In the
front rank of these consistent politician
stands eminently distinguished a gentle
man from Putnam, now a representative
of that county in the Legislature, better
known as one of the faithful and im
maculate SIX. This gentleman it i s
understood advocated in a speech of con
siderable force and ingenuity, the appro
priation before the House, and gave his
views at length upon the heresy of repu
diation, but upon the passage of the bill
a change came over the spirit of his
dream and he cast his vote against it
Alledgiiig as a reason for his singular
and extraordinary defection, “that it
would not pass, and he did not wish to
kill himself at home by voting for it”
Verily, this is an instance of political
consistency and gallantry which has
scarcely a counterpart since the days 0 f
Monsieur Parolles himself. “Is this
your long Spanish sword ? Call you this
backing your friends?”
The Committee of the Legislature ap
pointed to investigate the appropriation
question, vve are pleased to state uttered
the true and unanswerable doctrine, they
embody in strong and clear language,
vvliat will, we believe, be the opinion of
tin; liberal and just of both parties, and
of the dispassionate in every section of
the State, to whom the facts shall be
come fully and correctly known. In
the face of all this, the whigs with a ma
jority of forty iii the Legislature, not
withstanding the oft reiterated promises
made by them in the late canvass, that
as soon as they were in power the sacred
iEgis of Whig protection should be
thrown around the much abused honor
of the State—that its plighted faith should
be held inviolate at every hazard. But
with some of them these maxims seem
to have become obsolute idea-, at least
on the appropriation question, and they
might successfully challenge the palm
for consistency with a Walpole, or the
most enthusiastic admirer of Machia
velli himself. Our animadversion on
the course, a majority in the Legislature
have thought proper to adopt in relation
to the appropriation, are not suggested
by our local position, nor l>y any differ
ences in political opinion with the ma
jority of that body. In the discussion of
what we deem sound and enlightened
public policy, such considerations shall
not weigh a feather with us—this ques
tion, is not confined by the narrow limits
of party#—it is one in which every Geor
gian, cherishing a becoming pride of
state, be be whig or democrat, native or
adopted, is deeply interested. We con
tend that it is not a question of expedi
ency, whether a contract made by the
Slate with its citizens, under all the forms
and solemnities required by the law for
the inculpation of the State for a loan or
debt, shall be complied tvith—or violated
witii impunity. As to the validity of the
claim of the individual stockholders upon
the State for its subscription, we pre
sume there can be but little doubt, as the
subject lias been deliberately examined
by committees composed of gentlemen
of probity and intelligence, from both the
Senate and House of Representatives,
who have reported favorably, and re
commended the appropriation; notwith
standing all this, the Legislature refuses
to make good the engagement on the
part of the State upon the miserable pre
texts of expediency —and “tilling our
selves at home." The question of expe
diency or inexpediency, we humbly
think has nothing to do with the ques
jion at all, any such plea is an unmanly
evasion.
Tlie Calhoun and Van Guren Campaign.
We again return to this not over at
tractive subject, for the purpose of ma
king a few remarks in mitigation of the
censure direct and incidental, thrown
upon that portion of the democratic press,
(our own humble labors included) for
the decided stand taken in favor of John
C. Calhoun ; and point public attention
to the objections interposing to Mr. Van
Buren’s nomination, in the existing cir
cumstances of the country.
This, as far as we are concerned, was
done with candour and courtesy —for
while we stated our belief in Van Huron's
qualifications and honest disposition so
administer the government on constitu
tional principles, with an impartial view
to the general welfare of all its sections
and interests, we, after a conscientious
retrospect of his career and character as
a public man, were forced to the conclu
sion that he was not fitted to the present
crisis, nor to meet the coming events
whose shadows are now before us, too
distinctly <o be mistaken, and too formi
dable to be disregarded.
Regardless of these men, and thinking
only for our country; loathing the de
generacy of the present, and almost de
sponding for the dark future; ready to
exclaim alas ! for man, is he, indeed , in
capable of self-government ? Our
thoughts turned with renovated hope to
that mighty intellect, equally practical,
profound and perspicuous, which lnipU 5