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muta. <r—- **r zxssim '• —• • C*ii. lidson K!»if Anwitliun. 'AT present onr readers to-day with another letter ftom GFen. Jackson on the subject ot the immediate annexation of T.X ' to- the l ulled SGUer, in which he I mug? thiiumportent question liefore th«p mniitrv in us true light. This letter omeJoifh .it the nrgoi t request of Gen. birfoon’s riuinerous friends, who have dß4e ;' and him of late, and expressed a esiro i<> know and Iris sentiments havs not Imaged in regard to annexation, since > much information has been brought <bear n|>on this great measure by the •tiers of Mr. Van - Huron and other dis mmished men of our country. HERMITAGE, May 13,’44 _Vi the Editor of the Un ’wn : Sir : lam induced to address vou tlift otter, liecause I have, within a few days •ast, received letters from many of my i iotids, who have expressed a desire to now whether my views in relation.to lie policy of annexing Texas to-.{fit! I nited States have been changed by tire light which the subject lias received froth the recent letters ofMr. Van Ilmen, and other prominent citizens; rod because it seems to be necessary that I' should an-, swer or he misunderstood 1 . Having no connection with thd ques tion except the interest which, in com mon with other citizens, l take in all that concerns my country, what 1 have heretofore said upon it was dictated by no desire to he a prominent actor. It was certainly far from my expectation that there should he ail effort in my quarter to make the question a mere par ty one.. Hence, when it was brought to my notice some twelve months ago, by the honorable Mr. Brown of this State, I answered his inquiries with promptness and frankness. I had not forgotten the principles by which my administration had been guid ed when attempting to obtain Texas by negotiation with Mexico, nor the care which was taken to convince Mexico, afterwards, that this Government had no agency, directly or indirectly, in the steps resorted'to by the people of Texas to es : tablish for themselves an independent government. In tire reference which Mr. Van Buren has made to my conduct as President in these respec’s, he has stated what is entirely true, and lias de lineated with the ability and perspicuity which soVminently distinguish him, the general principles which characterise the course of our Government tu its inter eoursc with foreign powers But just and accurate as he is, ands lbscribing, most fully, ns I do, to all that lie alleges as applicable to the question s it stood in my administration, and as it did tinder his own, I still think that the circum stances arc so far altered-as to give anew asjHict to the whole question, and to au thorise a corresponding change in the discretion with which onr Government may now act upon it. At the present period, it cannot be doubted that Texas is able to maintain her independence of Me* ico, if each State is left to its own resonrees, unin fluenced and unaided by -ny foreign Power. Eight years have elapsed since J the memorable battle ot San Jacinto, and | there has been no serious attempt on the part of Mexico to occupy the< ountry, and n is certain none ran la mad-’ with any j prospect of success. In this state of ;ff fiiirs, acknowledged by ourselves and the principal Powers of the woWd as an in dependent nation, and treated as such, Texas renews to us thr almost unani mens wish of her citizens to he annexed to the l lilted States—telling us, substan tially, that, if now .repulsed, she must tot in* such alliances elsewhere as will best enable her to improve her resources and repair the disasters which she suffer ed from a protracted quasi war. She is sensible that her happiness will be best secured by incorporation into our Union that the disposition and pursuits of her people*- being homogenous with those of j die United States, can receive no ad- j equate protection from any other quarter- We admit the truth of these assertions, and feel that they constitute a powerful moti re for action, indepmidcnt of the con siderations which are. suggested by a pru •lent regard for the stability of our own institutions. " * in reference to Mexico, I would use , the following language : We have Care ful I v abstained froan Ml interference wbh your relations to Tensas except to ac knowledge hei independence, in the same inannei‘and upon the'same principles dial we did your independence when you ;-e pa ruled from Spain. We have, indeed, L-e.ii more scrupulous with you than with Spain; for without consulting or re porting the feelings of the latter Bower, .'nr Government did not hesitate to open i negotiation with you for the petroepss -1011 of Texas, and that* too, long before you i independence was acknowledged by Spain. But the lime has now come where we feel that this delicacy ought no longer to restrain ns from a treaty with Texas, particularly as we know that our failure to do so will produce results which may endanger the. safety of our own con federacy. I cannot think there is discrepancy between thes* views and those avowed by uiy Administration when proper al lowance is made tor tlm change ot cir cumstances, or that they contain any wed founded cause for <jomplaint on the part of Mexico. It may be now stated, on which we may rely with the greatest confidence, than if Texas be not speedily admitted into our confederacy, she must and will be inevitably driven into alliances and trotmnercia! regulations with the Euro pean Powers, of a character highly in jurious, and probably hostile to this country. What would then be our con dition ? New Orleans and the whole Valiev of the Mississippi would l>e en dangered 'fhe numerous herds of sav C's wtd-.iujl.ir lurnt* of T' \ > and on • rr rolder* 'would he rastl* excited to .« *. qo- e.* (IpP qi f-b -s fVontici I do not deem it necessary to be more explicit here in the enumeration of the reasons which justify, to my mind, the speedy annexation of Texas, to the Uni ted States. My aim is to give to this country the strength to resist foreign in terference. Without Texas, we shall not have this strength! She is the key to our safety in the South west and West.— She offers this key to ns on fair and hon orable terms. I,et us take it, and lock the door against future danger. We can do it without giving.just offence to Mex ico. Indeed, we may say that the mea sure is by the Interests of Mex ico, no less than of our own; for, with out it, she can liayg.no reliable guaran tee against future invasion. As to the form of annexation, I do not., think it material whether it he by treaty or upon the application of Texas by an act or .joint resolution of Congress. 1 cannot close these remarks without saying that rny regard for Mr. Van Bu ren is so great, and my confidence in his love of country is strengthened by so long and intimate an acquaintance, that no difference on this subject can change my opinion of his character. He has evi dently prepared his letter from a know ledge only of the circumstances bearing on the subject ns they existed at the close of his administration, Without a view of the disclosures since made, and which manifest the probability of a dangerous interference with the affairs of Texas by a foreign Power. I am, respectfullv, vour servant, ANDREW JACKSON, Gen. Jackson. Contrasting the position of the old He ro, with that of Mr. Benton and his friends, the Spectator says “The able arguments of Mr. Van Bu ren and others opposed to it, have reach ed him, but have not even raised a doubt as to the necessity and vitality of imme diate annexation. It must lie now, or it may be never ! Now, is the “ golden mo» merit.” Letters from him have beep re ceived in this city, within a few days past, re-affirming all that he has hereto fore said, and adducing new and still stronger arguments in favor of the mea sure. He has no sinister motives to in fluence, or paltry purposes to subserve, in advocating this measure. He is in fluenced by a feeling of unmixed patrio tism. It is his country’s greatest good, and its lasting prosperity, to which he looks. He is al ways on thesideof hi <cdhn try, ant! always against,lts enemies, whe ther they are clothed m foreign uniform, or wear the plain attire of American citi zens. He is for annexation; immediate, unqualified—the great mass of the peo ple are for it; and, those politicians who oppose it, will themselves, ere long, be overwhelmed and condemned by the popular voice, will be lifted up to vindi cate its wisdom and its justice. He is for his country, right or wrong, and with the great mass of its people, whose feel ings are always right. Where are the Giobc and Colonel Benton? Striving, in concert with the old federalists, the Abolitionists, the British, and the Mexi cans, to defeat a great national measure, which General Jackson, and nearly all the truly good andgreat men of the land, with eight tenths of the people, deem vital to onr safety and prosperity? What. 1 a position for men who still claim credit with the people, and seek to indtieiKK them, against the very evidence of r ~ • own senses ! Madness and v"y '-.sue no further. The. same paper has the ffi’w v tide Rearing on the same. pc \ call particular attention •' *r' from the. Nashville Li.x -n v: • .ms the remarks of the Speciasw * « LEAVE YOUR FRIEND AMD STAND BY YOUR 'TJUIrT *T This, we learn, was the ttcphstK. ad monition of Geo IscktnQ to a l>Eeg£te to the Baltimore *>• *or and just ar rived in tins city, wbo stopped at the Hermitag . are *-d to the Old Ile rofcis emhafTMOHl at n his friend ship for Mr Vac B'jrei;, and his princi plc*s in re.atiofc to the annexation ofTcx- as. The Nashville Union of May 14, leaves no doubt of th** opinion entertain ed in the Vicinity of the Hermitage of ! the New Coalition, more unholy and I dangerous than that between Adams and Clay in 1825, in which some of the same performers enacted prominent parts. — That Was a mere struggle for office, its j triumph was hut temporary, and it was promptly and effectively rebuked by an outraged and insulted people. But the | present is an issue between our country | and the most powerful nation on the earth one whose hereditary hatred has been increased by her impotent attempts, upon the land ami the ocean, to re-assert that supremacy which was overthrown, de facto and de jure, in 1776. Site is now endeavoring, by her wiles and mach inations, to effect that' in which she was baffled by the courage of- our troops and the gallantly of our tars, in the soc ond war of independence. If she suc ceeds in her present effort, of which the danger is imminent, the evil is irremedia ble, and irretrievable; and. we fear, will ! add another & a melancholy example of . her subjugating by diplomacy, those who | have foiled her in arms. And yet, in this ! the hour of their country’s peril we have j degenerate nicii among us. and those who j have been honored with the highest trusts |of a confiding people who, when their ; vital interests are at stake, are to be found 1 ' on foe side of the enemy. We can well imagine tire outraged feeiings ot the old llero and Patriot, at the recreancy of those whom he trusted, and can picture to ourselves; his venerable aspect, his uplifted arm, and his warning voice V.EAVE YOUR EKIKND AND STAND B V VPf R .COUN TRY!” Texa« W< freqtrentty hear o remarked rhar.! j * h>''•o’fth r- di’inr "ie"t i! ’ie --» «hi ' I<] Jia_.lf.il} <-q !-v* rtrikipr >• ;f’ • issue with the north upon the subject of slavery. The Mind adherents of Mr. Clay and Mr. Van Buren ate willing to overlook the fact* that this issue has been tendered to us, not made by us. The manifestations are on all sides that the on - ly real opposition to the annexation is from the avowed enemies of our domestic institutions. But that patriotism which looks to the election of Mr. Clay or Mr. Van Buren as matter of infinitely more importance than the open advocacy of a measure which is attacked because its identity with southern slavery will see nothing, will hear nothing likely tomiii tate against the siHtfess of the cfwef, !>e forewhom they bow with J»he idolatry of barbarian worship. Not let the hand lie put upon the south, let herbe renounced by our dear brethren 1 ol #s an inferiority, and m politic*! darkness; let thqpa tell us in onr teeth, the Uhion shall not extend in your direction; all this avails not. these patriots hear it not, be cause, perchance, it will break the har mony of a Clay chorus, ,of snap the wires of party machinery. Men of Louisiana, read the language of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Ver mont, and* say whether they do declare that Texas must not be annexed because she is a slave state. The House and Senate of Vermont, in 1537, among other infiamatory resolu tions, adopted the following : Resolved, That as the Representatives of the people of Vermont, we do solemn ly protest against the admission into the Union of any states whose -Constitution tolerates domestic slavery. The resolutions are accompanied by a most violent phillippic against Texas be cause of her slave institutions. The legislature of Massachusetts, in 1838, passed resolutions against the an nexation, assigning as a reason, that it would “strengthen and extend the evils, of a system which is unjust in itself, in striking contrast, with the theory of our institutions and condemned by the moral sentiment of mankind. Accomplished Massachusetts! - how courteous her words, how bitter, how deep seated the malice in the heart of them. Rhode Island, in IS3S, after detailing a scries of most extraordinary objections, denounces the annexation of Texas, be cause it will be “for the purpose of en couraging the propagation of slavery, and promoting the raising of slaves with in itsown bosom—the very bosom of free dom. to be exported and sold in those un hallowed regions.” The recent insurrection in Cuba A correspondent of the New York ' Express, writing from Havana, makes the following development:— “The whole population of our island have most narrowly escaped the fate of those of St. Domingo, and even now very liftle security is felt by the greater! portion, from the impossibility of know ing how far the machinations <Jf the mu- Irrttocs and negroes have r-een roumer- i acted. A sfroeg parrel parades our streets nightly, in *dc;li.c»r ts the usual night watch '®/I ft The following j declare* -r. ■* ' ’hr c •:sjnrators was , - rfcaje oce : the military OWBBBaWT.:'; lEKBUT Kttifig : - f*oe negroes and mulnt - - - this horrible ns- j every had been delay ... t i* vr < ■ • .onger, its success could --T ■ «:•• o prevented. The whole, - ure: w< 4 have risen at the same hour. * im t -*xr. interpeter among them, as I j ..p-.ds and was offered jj.0,000 -_r.ranlf of brigadier to induce m« enter into the plot, which, for my mis- i fortune, I accepted, as I supposed the Mow fail. Our provisional king was to have been Mr. Turnbull,, the English consul.' now residing in Jamaica, who has $270,000 to cover the expense of arms, ammunition, and ex penses of agents in the cause. Our chief was ‘Placido,’ the post man of c dinary .knowledge, and deep in the con fidence of the blacks, ami also many of j the whites. The chief in Havana was ‘Caiielfos,’ a retired captain of the black regiment. In Trinidad the chief wrts “Pomastva,” a mason, and a man of great knowledge. He was a general of division. In Puerto { Principe our chief was “Flores,” who was formerly sent to Spain for trial for being concerned in the other conspiracy. The rising was to have begun simulta neously at midnight between Matanzar and Cardenas. The blacks were to set fire to the buildings, murder the whites, take their arms, and proceed at once to the shore near Cardenas, where tltey would find six thousand stand of arms, and ammunition, landed from an Eng lish brig which was to have come from New Providence, and fallen upon Mu tanzas with about 30,000 men, wlicbe they would join their chief. The plan in Matanzas was at first to have distributcdsmalltin cases of arsenic, procured from Now Providence; but the cooks, coachmen, and servants were found so secure in the cause, that it was thought equally effective that Aiiey should set fire to the houses, murder their master?, and bring tfieir head to' the chief. The sarfie fate was prepared for the capital and ether towns of the island.— The signal at Havana was to have been the tiring of rockets, and after firing the Hlouses and murdering all .they could, the blacks were to. eohqeiitiato at the bishop’s garden {about three tildes old) and await order?. 'Every vilktgeor town is comprehended in tlie plot, and the slaves will declare iFfot they were offer ed then liberty, that they stir,aid possess the land aud-the white women, for which reason these latter were not to be killed, unless they were old or ugly. Some will dec! tire the women they had selected, ' other? tin murders they were to commit, tnfiud tie IcrbuatioH: of my a<N dfnpliccs \ fo* re * y u Jill h ■>>.«.> M. JOHNSTON, EHlTOii. "Not the glory of Ccuar, bat the welfare of Home.” MACON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1844. FOR. PRESIDENT, JAMES K. POLK, Os Tenm^see. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, GEORGE M. DALLAS, Os VfnnHylrania. The Nomination. Honor, to the democratic Conven tion, for its excellent nomination. We congratulate the democratic party —we congratulate the country generally at the choice of the Convention. For numer ous as are the distinguished men of our party we believe that there is no one upon whom its entire strength could be rallied more effectively at this time, than upon JAMES K. POLK, of Tennessee —a sound Republican in habit as well as in p rinciple, few public men in tips or any other country, have preserved a firmer, or more eonsistenteour.se, and it has rarely fallen to the lot of any one, to win more rapidly, the esteem and confi denceof his party. From his first appear ance in public life. Col Polk, has.al ways been distinguished, for the sound ness of his principles, and his steadfast adherence to the cardinal doctrines of the Republican creed. Imbued, too, in early life, with that enlightened love of liberty —that noble spirit of independence, and that self sacrificing and lofty patriotism, which was so eminently characteristic of his ancestry in our revolutionary strug gle, he has always regarded our Gov ernment, as a grand design to secure to all, their just rights, and the Constitution as an instrument of specific and limited powers. Entertaining these opinions, he, took ground early against every scheme of partial legislation intended to benefit the few at the expense of the many, and has uniformly stood forward in the front rank as the champion of the people’s rights, whenever they have been threaten ed with invasion at home, or from abroad. Mr. Polk was bom in Mecklenburg county, N. C. on the second of Novem ber, 1735, and is consequently in the for ty ninth year of his age. Hi* ancestors emigrated to this country, more than a century ago from Ireland ; a country from whieh many of our distinguished men derive their origin. The father of Mr. Polk removed to Tennessee in 1806; and was among the first of that hardy race of pioneers who settled in the west ern part of the State ; then a wilderness ; now glcAving with the colours ot civiliza tion. After preparing his son for Col lege, he entered hiire’at the University of North Carolina in 1816. Mr; Polk IvSs distinguished while at College :rs the first scholar in his class, and graduated in 1818 with tfcc lughest honor of tha t venerable institution ; returning to Ten. nessee he became a student of law in the office of the late Mr. Grundy; and in 1820 was admitted to the bar. His rise in his profession was rapid. In 1823 he was chosen to represent his county in the Legislature, and then entered tijfon the stormy field of politics, became at once the leader of his party in the legislature ! and in 1825 he was chosen to represen 1 his district it* Congress ; and since that time his history is before his countrymen. He is now a candidate for tile highest of fice in the gift of the people—for which his fine abilities', distinguished public ser. vices, and republican simplicity eminent ly qualify him. from the lialtimore liejtilican ij- .Irons'. l\lO\ and Harmony—Thr ■h'lUHcr.itic Candidate. Union, harmony and coticess'on, have done the work, and wv. have the inex pressible satisfica-tfon of proclaiming fir our Democratic friends, the nomination of JAMES. K. POLK, Os 7 ennessee, as the unanimous chosen candidate of the Democracy; by the delegates to the “National Democratic Convention,” and we not only respond to the nomination, but do so from the very bottom of our hearts, and shaO erdist under his banner with renewed spirit, enthusiasm, and ar dent devotion; knowing, as we do, frfim his long life of public service,, and that too in the most trving times, he stood boldly f irwaid. and battled faithfully and manfully in defence of the great princi ples of democracy. In those days which tried mens firmness—m the battle be tween the PKORI.U and the MAM MOTH BANK, when the ( ONSTfTIJ- TiON of the country and the liberties*ol the people were fiercely assail Pen audio imment periI,'JAMES K. POLK ;h- 1 nominee of the Democrat.c ?lai.oniu Convention, stood side by, side, lending ins powerful aid jo tin- illustrious JACK SON- /Pile people yit v.ed Ins exeiiion, ■-T app'ot. .rinn. and they will soon. give him his reward by conferring upon him the highest honor in their gift. VVc have ofify time to say, that {lie confirma tion of Mr. Polk’s election "by the Con vention, wasentlnisiastically unanimous. With such a standard bearer of oifr prin cipled—the bosom friend of Andrew Jackson—we now go forth to battle, and are firmly convinced that, under the Hag which he unfurls, tfferc will be a rallying of the friends of Democracy in one un broken, irresistible phalanx—the jieople will ertme forth, from city, town and hamlet. In the East, in the West, m the North and in the South, it will cause confidence, enthusiasm, UNION, HAR MONY AND VICTORY! jkw another column’ Will be found afi abstract of the proceedings of the Conven tion, which remained.in session until too late an hour for thfi reporters to write out in full the speeches made— fhe result is joy enough for ohe day, and we must defer any longer notice of the proceedings at this time. We will merely remark, that belore the Convention adjourned, the news had been transmitted 1 to Washington by Telegraph, and the following response returned, which was announced to the Convention bv Gen. Halsey of New York:— “The democrat ic members of Congress to the National Convention assembled at Baltimore, greeting;— THREE CHEERS FOR JAMES K. POLK, OF TENNESSEE.” This was responded to by the Con vention in NINE heartfelt and vocifer ous cheers. "We are indebted to Senators Woodbu. ry, Lewis, and Colquitt and to Messrs Tibbetts, Ingersoll, and Chappell, Cobb, and Haralson of the House of Re presets tatives for valuable public documents. Geu. Murphy. The Senate have rejected the nomina tion of this gentleman as one charge to the Republic of Texas, and lie will there fore shortly return. Mr. M’AlliNter. We have witnessed with no little a musenient, the spasms of holy horror with which certain sanctimonious politi cians have been convulsed in rega rd to one or two, not very dangerous oaths used by Mr. M’Allister, in an address at one of the Texas meetings in this place.— Our laughter we confess, was tempered by some surprise when we recollected with what raptuous applause these self same persons greeted she bawdy house tories of the “Buckeye Blacksmith” of two horse wagon memory, and his de lectable companion the “Pump Borer.”— Nor was our astonishment lessened when wccalled to mind tbe“outstretched necks” with which they received the “Ohio Stallion” anecdotes of the Honorable T. Bultler King, candidate for Congress and expectant member of Mr. Clay’s Cab inet. Now Mr. M’Allister by no means, swore so terribly as our army in Fland ers, and we regret diat it produced such a sensation among our nervous oppon ents, who are so well accustomed to the well known profanity of the Farmer of Ashland) not to come neajjgr home. HioWine Hot and Cold. Wc think our whig friends should have a consultation and decide in what manner to view the ■bolitiqp question, before the public. By th*'ir orators abo lition is represented as insignificant and of no importance, and wc are told that ! the abolitionists are a few deluded fana -1 tics, who arc as powerless as they are, contemptible. The whig papers we see, however, sometimes lose or forget tliecge, as we judge, from an article in the last Messenger, on abolition, as developed in the Methodist Conference in New York, in which it is proposed to deprive Bishop Andrew of this state, of his Episcopal functions, on the ground of his being a slave holder. The Messenger states for cibly the-dangerous power that these | agitators have acquired, arid some of the j consequences that may result. As for us, we conscieticiously believe the politi cal influence of the abolitionist to be of a ; most formidable character—that they are i determined to effect their purpose, if it ! converts the “sunny south” into a St. j Domingo, and sacrifices the “lives of FIVE MILLIONS. YeS ! FIVE HUNDRED | millions of people,” as the “Old mail j eloquent” as he is styled by some ! southern prints, emphatically said in the } House of Representatives; wc mean John Quincy Adams. In proof that these fa nqticsjiave acquired a vast political pow er, it is only necessary to refer to the legislative proceedings of the House of Representatives, and the various legisla tures of the North, and most particularly to the deference shown their respect-a --• table portion of tire American people by | Messrs. Clay and Van Buren, in their re i cent anti-Texas letters Sen ft ior Lewis’ lettci We art reluctantly compelled to defer the publication of the very able letter of I Senator Lewis cf Alabama, to fus constit m th: tjjtiili u§on !i»e subject cl r.e annexation oi 'I * xar to tl.e Union.— The argiurarit in .favor ot immediate .nnexashoa ( ~f |. sl< t<er ate unan • wered ftnd linauswerabl?, and we wish it coufifj be read by every ingenuous and candid man in the Union. It will appear m our next. Meanwhile we call upon the friends of immediate annexation ev erywhere, to adopt the suggestion contai ned in that gentleman’s letter, and hold meetings for the expression of your opin ions on this great national question.— Send your petitions to \rnur Senators and representatives in Congress that they may have a true and emphatiff expression of the public will on this subject. Rally and go up to the meetings friendly th an nexation with the spirit and determina tion becoming a free people, and worthy - of the great cause in which you are en gaged. Come up to the rescue of your dwt» sunny clime— “ Coma as the winds come when forests are renJed Come as the waves come when navies are straajej." The Work rocs brnvelf on. Governor Bibb of Kentucky, is out in ah able letter, in favor of annexation,and Thus F. Marshall, late whig merrfberm Congress, from that state, is stumping it for Texas and the treaty. The Texas fire is spreading rapidly in defiance of all opposition. The letters of Messrs. Clay and Van buren, to the contrary notwithstanding. ‘ S. S. Prenti m Formerly a distinguished member of Congress from tlieS tate of Mississippi and great high priest of the Whig party in that state, talks very hard, if is said, a hout the awkward position in Which Mr. Clay’s letter on Texas has placed his friends in that state. Let them adopt the advice of the gallant old Hero, who saved the south wlreiT thrCjVfcned by England in 1815— and she will bo safe in 1844 , “lea-tie your friend and Stt'tnd by your country. Some of Mt. Wftwt'Ti objection* to ffnncxn- Don considered. Mr. W. is 4d verse' to flie measure at any period, on the ground that it must be attended by an extension of slavery, which, by the North will nbt be permit ted. Now if by the ‘extension of slavery’ be meant 1 increasing the number of slaves beyond what wotilff naturally ac crue in their present locations,’ the objec tion loses all claim to attention, unless it be shewn that changing Texas'from an' independent republic to a territory, our confederacy would cohfef dh the coloretf race in that region augmented powers of procreation. Did we think Mr. W. it* earnest we should call his apprebetision merely a dagger of the mind, a bugbear of the imagination, unless the Hon. gentle man himself emigrate to Texas—then, indeed, something of the kind might hap pen, for if the many fonguedgossip, com mon fame, may be trusted, Dan’s prowess is by no meanb confined to the feats he performs as an orator, he being physical ly as well as metaphysically a great, a prodigiously great man. This, perhaps, accounts for bils being called the “godlike,” as the reader may recollect, Jupiter was a rather notorious roue—a fact rendered indubitable by Ovid and the old song, “Jove roguish and loose in the shape of a goosp, did’ Lada, so lovingly bill,” &c. &.C.. Rut this is not all, the high authority,eoiminn fame, invests the immaculate Daniei with propensities that seem to indicate an affinity between him and the feather footed Hermes, or Meretvry, another dei ty ol Olympian celebrity, who patronizes such honest men as the ex Governor Doty—the officials of the late bank of the United States and many other hanks that might be noted—the contractors for the Lithographs, and most other government agents —theTarifites—the legalized pick pockets who get internal improvements, beneficial only to themselves, made at the expense of those who derive no ad vantage, whatever, from them ; and last, though not least, Mr. Clay’s travelling, orators. A friend present- suggests the addition of the hoary Jesuit's of the Intel ligencer; we say nny to this ; they set tled the four or five hundred thousand' dollars borrowed from the U. S. Bank honorably, by services rendered. Be side, they were sanctioned in so doing by high authority, members of congress, cabinet ministers, <fcc. but that to be sure was some few years back. Our friond begs us to add Tom Benton of Chapel hill notoriety to the list, we again refuse. Mr. B. is doing his own business to en tire satisfaction, proving to the world “that'which is bred in the bone cannot be got out of the flesh,” and : that a low fellow can never become a gentleman, or a selfishly corrupt*one, rise to the purity and dignity of true patriotism. If these considerations explain satisfac torily the grounds of Webster apotheasis, we really have nothing better to offer — it was a burning shame, however, for him to play off so gross a hoax on the gullibility of his aboliSion clients. No one knows better than he does that im mediate annexation tends to chcck, rath ithan increase the extension ol slavery Texas now permits the importation c | :.]nves, whereas by the United States it i^ | totally prohibited, consequently admit j tmg.tlit ‘lone star’ into our coftstellatrot#