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AMDBSOIN UMiOllf, Hie most perfect Government would be that which, emanating directly from the People, Governs least —I'osts least —Dispenses Justice to all, and confers Privileges on None.—BENTHAM. VOL. I.i DR. WM. GREEN—EDITOR. An JRICiiK DCnOCKAT, PUBLISHED WEEKLY, IN THE REAR OF J. BARNES 1 BOOKSTORE. COTTON AVENUK. MACON. GA. AT TWO DOLI.AR3 PER ANNUM, rcy- in advance -ca Hates of Advertising, Ac. One square, of 100 worls, or leas, In small type, 75 cents for the first insertion, and 50 ceuta for each subsequent inser* t>on. All Adrertieements containing more than 100 and leas than 200 words, will be charged as two squares. To Yearly Advertiser**, a liberal deduction will be-made. frty N. B. Sales of LAND, by Administrators. Executors. Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the fore* noon, and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court-House in the Coun t y in which the property is situated. 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All business of this nature, will receive prompt attention, a the Office of the AMERICAN DEMOCRAT REMITTANCES IIY MAIL.—“A Postmaster may en close money in a letter to tiie publisher of a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a third person, and frank the letter, if written by himself.” - Ames Kendall, P. M G. COMMUNICATIONS addressed to the Editor Poat Paid. jjWBSIttV; From the Washington City Spectator. The Rally f r Texas. We give below ,; a rallying cry for New England against the annexation of Texas”—published first in the Boston Courier, and commended in the Boston Atias, as an “appeal which cannot Int find an echo in the breast of every man ly freeman.” We deprecate feelings f hostility and enmity between the differ ent sections of the Union; but when ap peals, which are designed not only to produce hatred, but to urge on direct violent conflict, are made and commend ed in one quarter of the Union, it would be inconsistent with truth or fidelity to the rest of the Union to refrain front, exposing them, and bringing them in immediate contact with the intelligence and feelings of the people of the U. S. The South, especially, should be inform ed of the motives and reasons on which it is proposed to deny them the protec tion and security which they once pos sessed, and which the annexation of Texas will now afford It is simply ha tred-direct hatred and hostility—on the part of these “brethern” of :h *irs in the Confederacy, which breathes in such lines as these: '* These cotton ami toWco lards—these of slavery!” Shout “Got! for our New England !” and smite them hip aruf thigh. The cursed race of Atrralek, whose armor is a lie.” We frost this “rally’ 1 will not stop nt the confines of New England; but will go far down the South, along its valleys and echoing bills, and will rail forth from the insulted and assailed, a spirit at least ns high and stern as that which it evokes from insolent and wanton aggres sors and foes. The blood thirsty lip which cries “let it come,” is probably in such lines as these, urging on, in its im- i patient vengeance and lnry, theentnstro- , phe for which it longs and lives. In the French Revolution, a Bible, was thrown into the bloody guiter of the guillotine; and its is thus that religion mingles in these lines, and the fiendish spirit which dictated them. In the following appeal, there is the spirit of Whittier. It cannot but find an echo in the breast of every manly free man.— Boston Atlas. A Rallying.cry for ,\ew England against the Annexation of Texas BY A YANKEE. Rouse up, New England! buckle on your mail of proof sublime, Your stern old hate of tyranny, your deep contempt of crime; A traitor plot is hatching now, more full of wo and shame, Than ever from the iron heart of bloodiest despot came! Six slave §tates added at a breath! One flourish of the pen, And fetters shall he rivetted on millions more of men! One drop of ink to sign a name, and slavery shall And For all her surplus flesh and blood a market to her mind! A market where good Democrats their fellow-men may sell! O, what a grin of fiendish glee runs round and round through hell! How all the damned leap up for joy, and half forget their fire. To think men take such pains to claim the notice of God’s ire ! Is t not enough that wc hare borne the sneer of all the world, And bent to those whose haughty lips in scorn of im arc curled 1 DEMOCRATIC BANNER FREE TRADE; LOW DUTIES; NO DEBT; SEPARATION PRODS BANKS; ECONOMY; RETRENCHMENT; AND A STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE CONSTITUTION.-- J. C. tVfUfOF.V, Is’t not enough that we must hunt their living chatties hack, And cheer the hungry bloodhounds on that howl upon their track 1 Is’t not enough that we must bow to all that they decree— These cotton and tobacco lords, these pimps of sla very 1 That we must yield our conscience Up to glut op pression’s maw, And break our faith with God to keep the letter of man’s law 1 But we must sit in silence by, and see the chains and whip Made firmer for all time to cornc in slavery’s bloody grip* Must we not only half the guilt and all the shame endure, But help to make our tyrant's throne of flesh and blood secure! If hand and foot we must be bound by deeds our father’s signed, And must be cheated, gulled, and scorn’d, because they too were blind, Why, let them have their pound of flesh—for that is in the bond But wo to them if they hut take a half hair’s breadth beyond! Is water running in our veins? Do we remember still Old Plymouth rock, and Lexington, and glorious Bunker Hill? The debt we owe our fa’.hers' graves ? and to the yet unborn, Whose heritage ourselves must make a thing of pride or scorn ? Gray Plymouth rock hath yet a tongue and Concord is n >t dumb, And voices from our father’ graves, and from the future come; They call on us to stand our ground, they charge us still to be Not only free fiom chains ourselves, but foremost to make free! The homespun mail my mother wove, that was so freely met The British steel, clothps hearts as warm with pil grim virtues yet. Come, brethern, up! Come, mothers, cheer your sons once more to go Forth to a nobler battlefield than with our olden foe! Come, grasp your ancient buckler, gird on your an cient sword, Let freedom be your bastion, your armony God's word, Shout 'Go! for our New England!” and smite them hip and thigh. The cursed race of Amalek, whose armor is a lie? They fight aga'nst the law of God, the sacred hu man heart, One charge from Massachusetts, and their counsels fall apart! Rock the old Cradle yet once more! let Faneuil Hall send forth The anger of true hearted men, the lightning of the North! Awake, New Fngland ! While you sleep the foes advance their lines, Already on your -trong-1 old’s wall their bloody banner shines, Awake! and hurl them back again in terror and de ep ur, The time has come for earnest deeds, we've not a man to spare ! From the Sspectator. Washington, April 1,1844. Mr. Editor : 1 read an effusion of wrath , written in most excellent poetry, copied from the Boston Atlas in your pa per of last Saturday. I should hardly have supposed John G. Whittier, quaker as lie is, even if he felt the foul Fiend within him. wou'd have let him so far overcome his manhood and patriotism, (if he had any,) as to have brought forth such a production. I, to >, am a Yankee , and I thank God my country and her Constitution are dear to my heart. I could not but make an attempt to send forth an antidote to the infernal haneof Mr. Whittier. Such as it is, you have it below. Rouse! Freemen, rouse! “and buckle on your mail of proof 6iiblimr. “Your stern old hate of “crowned heads,” your deep contempt of. rime; ‘A traitor plot is hatching now, more fall of wo and shame, “Then ever from the iron heart of bloodiest despot came. This Union, mouMcJby our sires, so glorious in its birth, Hailed as the home of Liberty, throughout the peo pled earth, A reckless band of maniac men are plotting to o’er throw* Swear, by the blood your fathers shed, ye will avert the blow! 'Tie time to wake: when chartered rights are tramp led rudely o’er! When the old Federalbatllccry—“DISUNION”— peals once more; When frenzied hands, careless of life, and of their country's good, Would strike all fetters from the slave, and steep our soil in blood ! When the dread picture, (bathed in gore, of what our land will lie, When our pierced eaglo screams, in death, the knell of liberty,) Was drawn within your pillared Hall, beneath your fretted Jome, Who shuddered not, to hear one sole', exult, with "jet it come!”* MACON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1814. And, again, I'rutu those old lips, the dreadful sen tence fell, “Oh what a grin of fiendish glee, ran round and round through hell,” And while the infernal mirth arose to heaven, in gibberish wild, A sainted father’s sacred shade wept o’er his recre ant child ! If, Texas, thy bright star shall blaze and glow a niong our own, If Freedom’s altar thou shall choose, nor bow at En gland’s throne, is there one heart, one Yankee heart, that beats in Freedom’s home, That will respond the impious words—“destruction, let it come ?” It must not come! though all the South should to our Union yield, And though our flag a thousand Stars should bear within its field, The thirteen stiipes —the old thirteen .’—shall glow as brightly still, As when unfurled at Lexington, cr glorious Bunk er Hill! It shall not come! though Faneuil Hall should send the treason forth, Engendered in its sacred wall by traitors at the North; New England virtue will remain, firm as New En gland’s rook, For treason will nut, cannot, grow on that old pa rent stock! The stern hold men of her rough soil will stop the pigmy tide, Os those who would the whirlwind raise, that they the storm might ride; They love their chartered rights too well to let s maniac baud, Spread treason, discord, blood, and death, o’er this free happy land! » In the HoUse of Representatives, February 20, 1844, Mr. Dellet quoted from aspeechofMr. Adams, “that slavery will he abolished in this country, and throughout the world, I firmly believe; whether it w.ll be done peaceably or by blood, God only knows But that it shall lie accomplished, 1 have not a doubt; and by whatever means, I say let it come;’’ yes “by whatever means, 1 say let It come.” Mr. Adams. Let it come. Mr. Dellet. Yes, says (he gentleman, “let it come.” Mr. Adams, with much emphasis, "IM it come.” Mr. Dellet. Yes, let it come; no matter what ha voc shall ensue among the 5,000,000 of inen women and children of the South ! Let them all be served up to satiate the Moloch of those assailents of the Constitution, and for the purpose of offering up sweet incense to the holy—thrice holy abolitionist! Mr. Adams. Let it come. MISCELLANY. ‘ From Kendal's Santa Ft Fxpediticn. Salezar, a fiend in the Shape of man. “The 17th of October, the day on which we started from San Miguel, was warm and thowery. Our route lay to wards Santa Fe, und over the same ground myself and companions had trav elled the day on which we first met Ar mijo. About sundown, foot-sore and completely exhausted after a hurried march of thirty miles over a rough and hilly road, we reached the old ruin of Pecos—in former times a mission and a fortress, but now uninhabitable, and fast crumbling to decay. Salezar drove us into an enclosure amid the ruins, and there herded us for the night in quarters not fit evi n for brutes, and without giv ing us a morsel of food ! Immediately to the north of Pecos, and within a few miles, rosea lofty mountain whose summit was now covered with snow. Oil the other side of this mount ain, and immediately at its base, lies the little mud-built city of Santa Fe, a place towards which we had been journeying for months, but which we were not des tined to see. As I have Inifore remarked, the day had been hot and sultry, with a shower in the afternoon sufficient to moisten the ground. The only baggage in possession of the prisoners, besides the slight and ragged clothing upon their backs, was a single blanket for each man. In this each immediately rolled himself, and then stretched his weary limbs upon the cold, damp earth, vainly hoping that he might obtain rest and forgetfulness in sleep—but no such good fortune awaited us. As if to increase our sufferings, a chill, biting wind sprang up, at dusk, fresh from the snow-clad mountain noith of us, and in less than an hour it was so bitterly cold that to sleep was impossible. In vain did we crowd close to each other, in vain did we nestle in the little hollows formed in the uneven ground ; the pier cing wind penetrated our scanty cover ing and benumbed our every energy. I tried to rise, as did many of the unfortu nate prisoners; but the cold wind had so stiffened our limbs, rendered in the first place heated and sore by the long mountain march, that we scarcely move or turn over without enduring tortures the most excruciating. In this way, and without an hour’s sleep, we passed our first night on the long road to Mexico. Early in the morning we were o:dcr ed to continue the march, and without food. Salezar did, previous to starting, distribute some fifty small cakes among one hundred and eighty-seven half-star ved men ; and the manner of this distri bution showed the brutal nature of the wretch. Calling the prisoners around him, each with the hope tha* he was to receive something to allay the sharp era- 1 vings of hunger, he would toss one of these cakes high in the air, and then, with a glee absolutely demoniacal, watch the scramble that ensued as it fell among the suffering throng. It was a game of the strong a ainst the weak, this struggle for the few mouthfuls of food which’Ba lezar threw among them. The better attributes of our nature, the kind sympa thies and generous forbearance which lift man above the brutes, were for a time m’erwhelmed, in n majority of the piis oners, by long starvation and great bodi ly suffering ; and now, as the savage who had charge of them tossed the miserable pittance in the air, it was a study to watch their eager faces as it descended, to see with what wolf-lilce ferocity they would rush to secure the priz>», and the terrible struggle which was sure to ensue ere someone. stronger than his fellows, could secure it. Salezar was accompa nied by our oid acquaintance, Don Jesus, in this distribution ; and the satisfaction with which they watched the fierce con flicts marked anew leaf in the dreadful chapt'T of human depravity. This revolting scene was scarcely over before we were ordered to com mence the day’s march. Sore and stiff in every bone and joint, we started, ma ny of the men being hArdly able to hoi - ble and halt along over the rough and rocky hills which now intervened be tween Pecos and the valley of the Rio Grande; but as the sun gradually dis persed the morning mists, and exercise warmed our limbs and reduced the stiff ness in our joints, we were enabled to move with less pain. Our course was now nearly south. The road forks near Pecos, the right-hand branrh leading directly towards Santa Fe, while the left, which we were now to take, is the regular thoroughfare towards Albuquer que and the other towns on the 11.0 Grande.” The above extract will afford some in sight into the character of that all-detesta ble monster. The fact that he, with abundant means of wagon, m mule con vevarice, in cold blood murdered five or six of the unfortunate Texians, so utterly exhausted as to be unable to walk, pre sents him in an aspect infinitely horrible, hut less hellish, perhaps, than the prece ding. We rejoice to learn justice has at length overtaken the execrable villain, while on a scouting, or horse stealing expedition. He was met, or ambushed by a party of hostile Indians, who toma hawked and scalped Salezar und his gang and left their vile carcases a ban quet for the dogs. We should be still more gratified to learn that a fate similar- Ij condign had befallen Armise, the mis creant governor of Santa Fe, and the Ju das-hearted traitor Lewis who sold his Texian comrades to their enemies We again invoke the attention of the public to Mr. G. W. Kendal’s Santa Fe Expe dition. It present: a more satisfactory view of the Mexicans, their character, domestic habits and usages, their govern ; merit, their future prospects as regards | civilization, &c., than any other work we ■ are acquainted with. Our relations with Mexico, whether of an amicable or belli | gerant character, are we believe, fated to |be intimate. Authentic information re ! specting that republic becomes an object of no trivial importance to our country. Mr. K.’s style, though not always strictly accurate, possesses the natural life, warmth and earnestness with which a man recites to his friends the exciting or perilous adventures he has recently ! participated in and has much of the see* ■ nic and dramatic effect which renders Steven’s Travels in Palestine and his first visit to Central America so peculiar ly attractive. The publication places its gifted editor of the Picayune before his countrymen in u point of view highly favorable to him, both as a man and an author. It is to be regretted the high price greatly impedes its circulation.— Every kind heart will rejoice at learning that the long-suffering Texians are liber ated and on their return to their friends and country. 1 a»swba Salines. We find (he following interesting par agraph in the last Kanawha (Va.) Re publican : 4 We have said before that the subter raneous wonders of the upper Kanawha valley were not half explored, and every day proves that there are not only myste ries but treasures of wealth, of which the preceding generation had no conception. When, a year or so ago, Mr. Tompkins turned the gas that forced up water un der the kettles to aid in converting the brine into salt, thereby saving oue half of the fuel, it was thought to be a vast stride |in the march of improvement discov ' cry: hut now Messrs. Wurth wrC ngiisb, at their now furnace, have actually ob tained the Irishman’s desideratum in the proposed purchase of two stoves— they save all the fue’. The gas has suffi cient power to force a column of water, three inches in diameter, fiom the depth ofa thousand feet to the height of about fifty feet above the surface of the earth. It is’lhen turned under the furnace igni ted, and boils the water till it is brought to the state for crystallization, and then conveyed to the cisterns for evaporation, C<*nerates the steam that parses through the cisterns, and produces the heat that carries on the process of evaporation.— Thus 350 bushels of salt of the first qual ity are made per day, without one parti cle of other fuel than the gas. At these works but one cistern is yet erected, and they are able to use only half of the wa ter that is forced up; another is in prog gress of erection; when completed ail the water will be used, and 70 or 80 bar rels of salt manufactured daily, without coal, wood, or even the genial rays of the sun.” From the Savannah Georgian. Bth inst. Letter from Gen. Jackson, in reply to a letter from Mr. Thomas Mooney, re questing him to preside at a meeting of the Repeal Association in Nashville, Ten. on the 27th May, 1842; Hermitage, Muy 23,1842. Sir—l have the pleasure to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant enclosing me letters of introduc tion from Col. R. M Johnson and other gentlemen, and acquainting me with the objects of your visit to this country, as the agent of the Young Men’s Irish Re peal Association of New York. No individual can take a deeper inter est than 4 do in whatever concerns the welfare end happiness of the Irish people. And there .s nothing more grateful to my feelings than the anticipation autho rized by the progress of liberal principles throughout the world, that the day is not far distant when, without violence or commotion, Ireland will regain the privi eges she lost in 18U0, and be in posses sion of all the blessings that flow from a government deriving its authority from the will of hes people and administered ; with a view to their security and happi-' ness. That the measures calculated to produce this happy result may he crown ed with speedy success is my fervent prayer. But nt the same time that I express thus freely my sympathies for the noble hearted and gener ms people, aitd my hopes that the exertions they are making peaceably and constitutionally to recover , the blessings of Representative govern-1 merit, may be successful, it is proper for j me to say that I do so without meaning | to transcend that maxim which teaches; us not to interfere offensively with the internal affairs of other nations. The preservation of the principles on which this maxim rests is far more important to the good of mankind than any benefit which can possibly be obtained by a de parture ffom it, and no people I am sure would be less willing than the Irish to occupy a position which would bring into question the justice of the principle. Entertaining these views it would give me great pleasure to attend the meeting which you propose, hut the feeble state of my health will not permit me so to do. Thanking you for the too favorable terms in which you aro pleased to allude to me personally, and assuring you that the Irish blood which alone flows in my veins will never cease but with my life, to beat in unision with those who have nt heart the security of Irish Liberty, I subscribe myself very truly, your obedi ent servant. ANDREW JACKSON. To Thomas Mooney, Esq. Agent of the Young .Men’s Irish Re peal Association of New York. Fellow Countrytnen— The noble con test in which you are engaged, in uni ion with the. millions in Ireland, is one which no lover of equal liberty can oth erwise than approve of. Cast your eye for a moment to the pre ceding letter of that worthy, that venera ble, that pure patriot, and say, is a cause sanctioned by his great mind de serving of your most persevering and hearty support ? Aloof irom the iu. ino.l of political partisanship, and in the sin cereity oi his generous heart, the above lines were penned—lines which should be engraven on the. heart of every Irish man, .and gratefully acknowledged. But other evidence may be produced. At adinner recently given by the ■ Friend ly Sons of St. Patrick.”.in Philadelphia, on th?ir aniversnry, no fewer than thirty six letters were received from some oi the most distinguished citizens of the United States in favor of the cause of Irish legislative independence. Among others, were letters written by Mr. Van Bnren, John Tyler, W. H. Seward, Gen. Cass, Com. Stewart, Senators and Re presentatives to Congress, Judge.- of the Supreme and other Judicial Courts, and other celebrated men. In accordance with the desire of the Nation Executive Committee (appointed at the late convention of delegates from the different Repeal Associations in the United States) a list of the members of INO. 49. each Association is requested to be for warded to this Committee, to ascertain the numerical strength of the United States Repealers, which is considered to amount to near one million. It is also suggested, that a monthly contribution be collected, to show our friends, yes, and our enemies too, that our patriotism ex ists, not in the impulse of the moment, but that our united efforts will be pre severed in till successful. It is there fore hoped that a full attendance will be presem this evening for enrolling than' names. Is there an Irishman so lost to all pa trioticfeelings for the Ocean Isle in which thehappicM hours of his early life have been spent—a land whose evergreen vales, whose delightful scenery, whose monuments of ancient days, both Pagan and Christain, are unsurpassed in any nation on earth ? Can there be a native of that Island who desires to see her ap proach her once proud station?— to whose universities the first born of Europe were indebted for their education ? Can there be one who desires to see his native coun try free? If there b”, como forward, 1 say, enroll your names as members of this association, subscribe your monthly mite, whether 25, 50 cents or sl, and this will be the proof. The meeting will be held at 8 o’clock this evening at the Exchange. Jasper. POLITICAL. —'i M ( ( From the Augusta Constitutionalist ] As the time approaches when the peo ple of the United States will be called upon to decide which of the two great parties is most worthy of their confidynce, the excitement increases, and political movements and organization become more earnest and active. It cannot be otherwise. Though impressed with the belief, and we may say the conviction, that our liberties would not be entiiely destroyed, nor the foundation of our political institutions materially weaken ed, by the elevation of one or the other party, yet the people of this country are sensible, by judging of the future from the past, that there is ntore danger in placing political power in the hands of one party than in the hands of another, and thHt public safety and the integrity of all our organic laws, require that no danger should be incurred. The people then will have to choose between the Whig and Democratic parties; and in making a choice will they be influenced by the means which were resorted to in IS4O } Will they again be led astray by appeals to their passions, and not by ap peals of reason 1 Will they again be de ceived by the daily movements and wan derings of political leaders ? Will they again be blinded by promises, which could not be fulfilled; by pledges, which were violated; and by declarations, which had their origin in selfish ambition ? Will they have faith again in misrepre sentations, in a distortion of facts, in mis constructions of historical truths, and in perverted and false allegations against men and men’s actions ? No; they will not. Though the same means are again in progress, because once successful, yet we cannot believe that the people of tho United States can again be made the | tools of unprincipled and ambitious lead j ers, who have become more desperate, since 1810, because the death of Gen. Harrison has deprived them of the m£ans of realizing their ambitious hopes and of establishing their pernicious principles i on the rums of the Democratic party. — The Whigs arc resorting to the means they employed in 1810; though we be i lieve that they cannot aguin succeed; i yet the members of the Democratic party owe tt as a duty to their country, to ! meet their adversaries with the same ; means and fight them with the same weapons, so far as party organization is concerned, and the concentration of par !iy strength is involved. This is all that is required from the Democratic party. ! With party organization and concentra tion; with a faithful exposition of their principles—principles which have been adhered to from the days of Jefferson and Madison —and a solemn pledge that the Democratic policy shall continue to be followed in the administration of tho lederal and statu governments, victory cannot fciil to follow the Democratic ba . ner It is to be hoped that in Georgia the Democratic party will he in complete organization before the meeting of the National Convention in May next. Al- I ready several counties have given a no | ble example: the other counties of tho State-will follow it. Let us then be pre pared after May to meet our adversaries, to repel their attacks, to overthrow their ! charges, and to expose the pernicious ! tendency of their principles. Should the Democratic party of Ceor ' gia be prooerly organized, the victory will be nearly achieved, especially if ell the members are determined to QffmnQ the following positions: , 1. The necessity, absolute modified, ofa firm adherence to princi ples, without regard to men. 2. To consider the choice of men a subordinate question, v-hca principles art- involved-