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We leave the European powers exclu
sive control over matters affecting their
Continent and relations of their different
States.
Th“ United States claim a similar ex
emption from any such interference on
their part. The Treaty with Texas was
n-M'Viated from considerations of a high
c po icy, influencing the conduct of
:n* two Republics. We have treated
with Texas as an independent jMnver,
so’e y with the view of bettering the con
dition of the two conntries. If annexa
tion in any form occur, it will arise from
the free and unfettered action of the peo
ple ot the two conntries; and it seems;
altogether becoming in me to say that j
the honor of (he country, the dignity of i
the American naule, and the permanent
interests of the U. States would forbid ac
quiescence in any such interference. No
one can more highly appreciate the val
ue of peace to both Great Britain and the
United States and the capacity of each to
do injury to the ether than myself; but
peace can best be preserved by maintain
ing firmly the rights which belong to us
as an independent community.
So much I have considered it proper
for me to say, and it becomes ine only to
add, that while I have regarded the an
nexation to be accomplished by treaty as
the most suitable form in which it could
be effected, should Congress deem it
proper to resort to any other expedient
compatible with the Constitution, and
likely to accomplish the object, I stand
prepared to yield my most prompt and
active co-operation.
The great question is not as to the
manner in which it can be done, but
whether it shall tie accomplished or not.
The responsibility of deciding this
question is now devolved upon you.
JOHN TYI.ER.
Washington, June 10, 1844.
Michigan—-eu. Cass's Speech in favor of
the Nominations.
The Democratic association of Detroit
met on the 3d inst., to respond to the na
tional nominations. It was a galling
poke at Whiggery. Gen. Lewis Cass,
the soldier and statesman, who had a
strong support on the second day ot the
Baltimore Convention, appeared in the
midst of his fellow-citizens, and address
ed them. He heartily responded to the
nomination of Polk and Dallas. We
here extract a sentence from his speech :
“ Gen. Cass said lie had come here this
evening to take part in the proceedings
to express his hearty concurrence in the
nomination made by the Baltimore Dem
ocratic Convention, and to announce his
determination faithfully to support it.—
He said the crisis through which the
Democratic party had just passed, had
served hut the better to prove die integri
ty of its principles, and the internal
strength of its cause. After many differ
ences of opinion, differences however,
about men, and not about measures, the
choice of the Convention had. unani
mously fallen upon a man irreproachable
in private life, and who in various public
stations, had given proof of great firm
ness ani ability, of incorruptible integri
ty, and ofa sincere devotion to those prin
ciples which the democratic party deem
essential to the prosperity of our country,
and the perpetuation of her free institu
tions. I know hitn well, said General
Cass, and I know he will fulfil the expec
tation' of his friends, and fully justify
the confidence of the party. Nothing
now is wanting to ensure success, but
united exertion, and that we must and
will have. I>et us put behind us the di
visions and preferences of the past, and
join in one common effort to promote the
triumph of our cause. Victory is in our
power, and let us attain it. Let every
one feel, and fulfil his duty. I am so
persuaded that such will be the general
sentiment and action of the party, that I
confidently predict that James K. Polk !
will be the next President of the United j
States, mid it he is, I know he will follow
in tile footsteps of Washington r of Jeffer
son, of Madison, and of Jackson.
After the adjournment of the meeting,
the company gathered ill front ot the
dwelling of General IJnss, and gave three
hearty cheers. The General came to
the door, and thanked them kindly, and
told them to do their duty to the democ
racy and their country by electing James
K. Polk their next President. The com
pany with one voice replied that they
would and they will.
F'iru the S-iranmih {fcarpian, l Oth i isi.
Pennsylvania.
Extract front a letter received Ly a gen
tleman in tliis city, dated
Harrisburg, Pa. June 5.
1 have sojourned in this city, the capi
tal of the State for nearly a fortnight, and
have heard hut little said upon any sub
ject, except politics. The whig party
are dumb-struck with the nominations of
Polk and Dallas, and confess that that
State will return to her first love, and
cast her vote by at least 25,000 majority
for the nominees of the Democratic Con
vention. Muhlenberg they say will
sweep the State. This no one doubts.—
He is a gentleman of acknowledged abil
ity—of German origin—and the most
popular man in the State.
In passing through Montgomery co.
I was led by curiosity to attend a Whig
meeting. On entering 1 discovered aLout
fifty persons only- It was indeed a slim
gathering for so populous a county, and
particularly so, when we recollect it to be
the residence of Jonathan Roberts, the
late YViiig Collector of the port of Phila
delphia. His popularity is gone, and the
Whig Party in all the adjoining counties,
lias dwindled to nothing, in comparison
to what it was some few years ago. In
addition to fewness of numbers at the
meeting, there existed little enthusiasm
or interest in the great movements and
principles of the party. It seemed as if a
ohi I, a Jes'Kinde.icy, a want ot concert,
and the utter hopelessness of electing
Mr. ‘ .v rested omincrelv over the
j scene. The Democrats in this county
will give Polk. Dallas and Muhlenberg
from 600 to 1000 majority.
I was a little surprised to find, that
wherever I travel through this State, the
universal cry is for Texas, Polk, Dallas,
and Muhlenberg. The Whigs say that
Mr. Clay has killed them and himself on
the Texas question—that he has saerifi
ced himself and his party for the gratifi
cation of the Abolitionists of the East,
and that there is no prospect now of car
rying Pennsylvania by the Whigs.—
Even in this county, Dauphin, where
the Whigs have occasionally obtained a
i victory, they feel defeated, and the Dem
| ocrats feel assured that Muhlenberg will
i carry the State by 25 or 30,000 votes. —
Markle, the whig candidate, although a
popular man in the State, stands no j
chance of even a respectable show of j
election.
The Democrats are surprised that Clay
should even have a respectable number
of supporters in Georgia. They all ask !
what has become of the old State Rights
party, and want to know it the Whigs of
Georgia have adopted the Whig princi- ,
pies of the East, with John Q. Adams,
Tappan and the other Abolitionists to ;
boot. They denounce Messrs Berrien,
Archer, and the other Senators who vo- j
ted against Texas, as favoring British in
terests, and sacrificing the best interests
of the South at the shrine of private feel- j
ing. Mr. Clay, it is said, has expressed
his regret at his Texas letter, and com- j
plains that his friends deceived him in
relation to the popular feeling upon the [
subject.
We have cheering news from Georgia, '
and all Democrats hope that she, as a
Southern State, will be true to her ancient
principles of Democracy. The North
will do her duty. Let the South do hers,
and the lone star of Texas will yet he
added to the “bright constellation that
floats over our Union.”
Large Robbery nt Albany.
We learn from the Albany papers of
Friday, that Mr. H. McKee, of Salem,
Washington county, New York, was rob
bed on his way up the North River that
morning, of the sum of SIO,OOO. He
went from the boat to the City Hotel, and
without mentioning anything of his lug
gage, hung his overcoat and corpet-bag
on a hook, and went directly to the break
fast room. Ob returning he found his
money gone. Inquiry being made at
once, it was ascertained that a stranger
had been seen in the reading room of the
hotel just about breakfast time, and that
the barkeeper not fancying his looks, had
asked him if he wished for breakfast, to
which he replied in the negative. Mr.
McKee offers a reward of five hundred
dollars for the recovery of the money
and the arrest of the thief.
La/er still—Recovery ■ f the money.
The officers, in New York City, on
Monday, were on the look out. A SSO
note of the Commercial Bank of Albany
was changed at Hough's broker’s office,
by a woman She was traced to a hotel
next to the corner of Murray and Wash
ington streets. Subsequently, the wo
man was seen in a cab with a large quan
tity of baggage, and she was overtaken
by an elderly man, who told her the Bos
ton boat had left, fie requested that she
should drive to the Battery Hotel and he
would join her there. Site afterwards
encountered one of the officers, whom
she did not suspect as being on the look
out. and asked hitn if the Boston boat
had left. She then ordered the coach
man to drive to the Battery Hotel. Just
at that moment another officer came up,
and they both concluded to arrest the
woman. Mr. Sweet entered the cab and
told the woman she must consider her
self arrested. She said she would order
another coach, but that she was prevent
ed from doing. They went with her to
the hotel, when the woman took some
thing from one of the small trunks. The
officers finally replaced her in the cab,
and in an instant after, the man who had
spoken with herm the street came down,
jHe .was immediately arrested. The man
j and woman were then searched, when
an immense roll of bank notes was found
!on the woman, nicely closed in a f * bustle”
; that she had used to adoru her person,
: and which, it is supposed, she had
| taken from the trunk immediately before
j she had attempted to escape from the
coach. The two were then taken to the
police office, where the money was coun
ted and found to be $9,195, in notes of
fives, and tens of the Farmers’ and Me
chanics’ and Exchange Bank of Hartford
Connecticut, thus answering to the de
scription of money lost by Mr. McKee,
and within $505 of that amount. The
suspected rogue gave his name as John
Daly. He is about 50 years of age—
hair thin and nearly white, which was
covered with a short cut brown wig, and
a pair of false whiskers was found in his
possession, which he had used, probably
to disguise himself. He appears to be
an Englishman by birth, and from ev
ery appearance is a cunning, shrewd
rogue. Tlie woman is young and good
looking, arid says her name is Elizabeth
Hansom— Sat. Courier.
A sailor went to see a juggler exhibit
his tricks. There happened to be a
quantity of gunpowder in the apartment
underneath, which took fire and blew up
the house. The sailor was thrown in
the garden behind, where he feil without
hurt. He stretched his arms, got up,
shook himself, rubbed his eyes and cried
—conceiving what had happened to be
only part of the performance, and perfect
ly willing to go through the whole—
“ Well, I wonder what the fellow intends
to do next ?”
Sam Slick says, there are two langua
ges that’s universal—the language of love
and the language of money—the gals
understand the one and the men under
stand th“ other, the world over.
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M. JOHNSTON, EDITOR^
“Sot the glory of Cataar, hut the trelfare of Rome.”
MACON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1844.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMES K. POLK,
Os Tenttet iw>c.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE M. DALLAS,
Os Pennsylvania.
jQ* 7 he office of the “American
Democrat” has been removed o the
Second Story of the Building on Mul
berry Street, formerly occupied by the
Branch of the Bank of Darien. It is
noiv easy of access, and well supplied
with Job- Type of every description. —
Bills, pamphlets , and all kinds of Job
work will be done at the Imcest prices
mi SHOR TNO TICE. A portion of
the patronage of our friends and the
public is respectfully solicited.
THE “ DEMOCRAT” FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
The “ Democrat” will be sent to sub
scribers from lsf of June until the mid
dle of November next, for onk dollar
in advance. Postmasters are authorized
to receive and forward subscriptions.
T. S. Reynolds.
s£jf*The communication of Castus was
received too late for this week’s paper, it
will appear in our next. -‘
Bibb Ratification meeting.
'i'he proceedings of the meeting on
Saturday last were not handed us in time
for publication in to-day’s Democrat. It
was, we understand, well attended and
responded nobly and enthusiastically to
the nomination of the lase Democratic
Convention at Baltimore. The follow
ing gentlemen were appointed delegates
to the District Convention to he held at
Thomaston on the 3d Monday in July:
H G. LAMAR, D. C..CAMPBELL,
S. M. STRONG, O. H. PRINCE.
The meeting appointed the following
gentlemen delegates from the county to
the Texas mass meeting to be held at
the Indian Springs on the 251 h of July :
A. P. POWERS, W. G. SMITH,
J M. GREEN, W. F. CLARK,
W. D MIMS, S. J. RAY,
T. E. GORMAN, M JOHNSTON,
JAMES S. SMITH, S. W ODD WARD,
S. M. STRONG, V. M. HULL.
J. G. COLEMAN, J. J. BEANETT,
G. M. LOGAN, T. R. BLQOM,
JOHN LAMAR, WM. GUNN,
JAMES DEAN, HENRY BAJ4EEY,
E. B. COOK, ED. WILCOX,
J. H. POWERS, 0. H. PRINCE.
C. E. BLAKE,
The approaching anniversary of Amer
ican independence will be celebrated by
the Macon Volunteers at Camp Ogle
thorpe at 5 o’clock P. M. where an ad
dress will be delivered by private James
S. Smith. A picnic will be given at the
same time. The ladies and gentlemen
of the city are respectfully invited to at
tend.
Y’cnierday alter the general parade was dismissed,
the Hon W. T. Colquitt addressed a large concourse
of the citizens of this county friendly to the annexa
tion of TeXas to the union in a speech of great elo
quence and power, which was received by the meet
ing with the most enthusiastic plaudits. Ihe Texas
fire is sweeping over the State with ..n -impetuosity
as irresistible as the mighty current of the Mississippi
—the great king of floods itself. Georgia is safe.
The following named gentlemen have been nomi
nated by the YV hig Convention as whig electors for
the State of Georgia—Hon. Joel Crawford and Jos.
Henry Lumpkin for the State generally. Dr. Mc-
Connell, Thacker Howard, Dr. Ridley, C. B. Strong,
W. C. Dawson, Chas. J. Jenkins, Chas Dougherty,
and David Irwin.
Senator Tali.mage of New York has
been nominated and confirmed by the Sen
ate as Governor of Wisconsin territory, at
the expiration of the term for which the
present Governor was chosen.
Congress.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned
on the 17th inst. * We havt not received
our YYashington papers of test week, and
are unable to give the proceedings at the
close of the session.
Ujr’ Doct. Homer Virgil Milton
Miller of Floyd has been nominated
by the whigs of the sth Congressional
District as their candidate for the next
Congress. Doct. Miller sports a very
long name, it will be seen—but if he
gets to Congress from that district, he
will have to pay his own mileage
£3= James S. Green, of Near
has been appointed by the President for
the office of Secretary of the Treasury
! vice John C. Spencer resigned.
£3" Col.* ClI A RLEE MURPH Yof CasS,
has been selected as the Democratic elec
tor, and Col. David Irwin, of Cobb, as
whig elector iu the sth district.
Democratic Meeting in Hancock.
In another column will be found the
proceedings of a meeting of the Demo
cratic party held on the 15th inst. The
resolutions adopted breathe the true spirit*
and it is only necessary to strip the ques
tions before the people of the country at
this time of the fallacies the whigs have
thrown afound them and keep the naked
issues fairly in view to sweep whiggery
and all its heresies down the winds.—
Men of Georgia be up and doing. Roll
on the Ball. Let the issues be fully sub
mitted to the people, and all will be well.
Hon. A. H. Chappell.
Someone, probably James A. Meri
wether, has addressed the Hon. A. H.
Chappell, through the Southern Recor
der, (and purposes continuing thrtse in
flictions on the public) toprrtvrt shat Col.
Chappell has been inconsistent in voting
against the present tariff, and that the
moderate tariff proposed by McKay of
North Carolina, in lieu of the black tar
iff would be more onerous and oppressive
to the South than the whig tariff of 1842
or that of 1828. If the writer succeeds
in doing this he ought to be voted a leath
er medal.
ttjpHow do the whigs at (he South
like the following lines of poetry, written
by the notorious abolitionist, William
Lloyd Garrison in praise of the whig
candidate for Vice President. Do they
think Mr. Frelinghuysen altogether sound
on the subject of slavery? We shall see :
“ Our land —once green as Paradise—is hoaTy.
Even in its youth, with tyranny and crime;
Its soil with the blood of Afric’s sons in gory,
Whose wrongs sterility can tell—not Time ;
The red man’s woes shall swell the damning story,
To be rehearsed In every age and clime.”
“Yet FREELINGHUY’SEN, gratitude is due
thee,
And lofter praise than language can supply
Guilt may denounce and calumny pursue thee
And pensioned Impudence thy worth decry;
Brilliant and pure posterity shall view thee,
Asa fair planet in a troublous sky.”
Mr. Frelinghuysen in his letter decli
ning to attend the late New Jersey Ratifi
• ration Convention, says, “The public
! life of Henry Clay illustrates the political
! history of the United States !”
If this be true we should like to ask
Mr. Frelinghuysen, who is professedly a
religious man, what Mr. Clay’s private
life “illustrates?” Does it “illustrate”
the moral history of the Union?— N. Y.
Plebeian.
The Treaty of Annexation*
Has been rejected bv the Senate, and
clogged up by the humbuggery of Ben
ton. But it is not yet dead, it will rise
reinvigorated like Antaeus of old after
touching his mother earth, the higher for
the fall. The leaders of the wilier'party
in this State affect to treat the question of
annexation as an obsolete idea—as dead
and defunct entirely. But it will not do,
its rejection by the Senate in connexion
with other events which have recently
transpired have only tended to awaken
public atiention upon the subject—
and the quietus given to it by that bcH
dy, may be regarded only as the calm
which precedes the gathering storm.—
The people are in favor of annexation
immediate—instant annexation; and will
cast off, as they would fire from their bo
soms, every man who opposes if. Docs
any onrt believe that if Mr. Clay had not
thought it necessary to conciliate that ve
ry “respectable portion of the American
people,” the abolitionists at the North,
i that he would have raised his voice
\ against the annexation of Texas to the
Union, at this time, or is there a man in
the limits of this State, or in any South
ern State, who believes that if Mr. Clay
| had not come out in opposition to the an
nexation of Texas, that there could be a
man found in the whig party at the South
so blind to reason, or so devoid of every
patriotic feeling as either to cry out that
there is no danger, or openly to further
the views of the abolitionists in this coun
try or England, when our old*enemy is
on the one hand using all her strategy
to possess herself of Texas on our South
ern borders and the abolitionists on the
other hand, are doing all they can to wea
| ken and destroy the political as well as
j the moral influence o( the South ; yet we
■ are told by some of the whig leaders that
there is no danger—that the cry of an- j
nexatiou is entirely a political move,
seized upon by the Democratic party to
defeat Mr. Clay. Would to heaven that
there were no real grounds for alarm—
and that the people of these States, wheth
er at the south or at the north would in
the proud confidence of Americau patri
otism, rebuke the lusolence of England
in her attempts to meddle with slavery
in these States. But we cannot turn
from the painful prospect, the evidence of |
a design against the south and its mstitu- j
lions meet us on every hand. Look at
the recent action of the Methodist Gene
ral Conference in New York, as well as
the proceedings of the abolitiouists in
other sections of the country. Is there
nothing in all this —)■ ’.here no
cause of alarm in these movements?—
People of the South* upon the issues uow
before you rests the peace, happiness—
and more too—the very salvation of the
South itself.
If you fail now to re-annex Texas to
the Union and thereby counteract the in
fluence of the a’bolitiUnists at home as well
as abroad, the golden moment will be
lost and the sceptre will pass away trom
Judah forever.
Men of Georgia, these issues are now
fairly presented to you. The reckless
managers of the whig party of Georgia
are ready to risk the peace, prosperity,
safety and honor of the State, if by do
ing so, they can elect Mr. Clay. Need
we ask if you too are willing to mak“
such sacrifice? are you willing to
this fair land surrounded as it were by
wall of fire, with abolitionists at thesoV 'i
as well as at the north ? are you willing
to see your brethren and friends driven
from the high places of the church as
well as of the State, because they happen
to be slaveholders? are you willing to
relinquish evrtry privilege of any value
to free' men at the behests of party ? no,
you are not yet, thank God, reduced to
that extremity you are yet ready to de
fend the sacred precincts of your homes,
and firesides at every hazard. The
proud and haiighiy spirit of freemen and
of Georgians yet animates your bosoms
—it moves everywhere throughout your
State—on the seaboard—in the midlands
and on the mountains—it is fell every
where—it glows in your evening sunsets
and flashes in your morning and noon
day splendors.
Tbe Washington Spectator.
We take the liberty of recommending
this paper to the favorable notice of otir
friends and the Democratic party gene
rally. The Spectator is one of the most
ably conducted journals in the union.—
It is ot the true republican stamp, & while
it advocates the great principles of the
Democratic republican party of the coun
try it defends the peculiar institutions
and interests of the southern portion ot
the confederacy with a zeal and ability
rarely equalled. To such of our friends
as wish to take a paper published at the
Seat of government, we would say sub
scribe for the Spectator. It is published
daily at $5 per annum; weekly at $3;
and persons ordering more than one copy
will receive them on the following terms:
two copies for $5; five copies for sl2;
and ten copies for S2O
Who killed Cock Robin T
The Messenger of last week in a sort
of scrap and shred article on whig pros
pects, indulges in a strain of harsh;and
bitter invective against the democratic
party, and with a' kind of gusto flourish
dispatches and kills off the entire party
with as much ease as the renowned hfnn
chausen released his equally renowned
charger from the difficulty of his aerial
suspension. It is not a little amusing to
notice the ease with which the democrat
ic party is weekly slain. Flayed and re
vivified in the erttwnns of this redoubta
ble champion of whiggery—nay, in one
and the same breath the democratic party
is declared to be dead, defunct, and duly
interred: and the whig sentinels are
warned to buckle on their armour, to be
vigilant and sleep not. If “the Demo
cratic party has virtually ceased to ex
ist? why all this effort to raise the sink
ing fortunes of whiggery. But aguiny
after charging the Democrats with being'
political marauders. Hessians , and the
like, the Messenger goes on to animadvert
upon democratic principles and democrat
ic faith—hear him :
Theirs has indeed' been worse than
Punic faith. With flattering promises
they have deceived a Confiding people—
with songs of liberty, sweet and false as
Syren strains, they have lulled the patri
ot into a short but dangerrths sleep—they
have wooed the nation tb repose, that
they might drain its very life-blood
with many fine speeches’, concerning
constitutional restraints and delegated
powers, they have infringed almost every
provision of the sacred instrument, which
they profess to revere—they have preach
ed economy, and extravagantly squan
dered the money of the people—They
have denied proteciion to'the industrious
Manufacturer and Mechanic, but have
not failed to protect themselves, by crea
ting sinecures, with fat salaries, monopo
lizing existing offices, and feeding vora
ciously upon the public crib—they have
opposed a Tariff for Revenue, and now
advocate Direct Taxation, thereby seek
ing to send among us “ swarms oi officers
to harass our people and eat out onr sub
stance”—they oppose a distribution of
the proceeds of the public lands among
the different States, in order that they
may be lavished upon vile partizans, by
corrupt Presidents—they have, opposed a
National Bank, with a' sound National
Currency, and advocated the Sub-Treas
ury, or any other financial project which
will serve to unite the sword and the
purse in the hands of the Executive—
they have reduced the government to
bankruptcy and destroyed its credit
abroad—they have sought in violation of
the commandment, “Thou shalt not steal”
to seize upon territory belonging to a
friendly power, with whom Ware bound
by subsisting treaties—they have sought
the most unconstitutional and iniquitous
measures, to plunge us in an unjust war
with Mexico
We have no room to-day, to waste on
these silly charges of the Messenger, and
will barely remark in passing, that they
come with an exceeding bad grace from 1
a party who have deserted openly and*
unbliishingly almost every principle they
have ever supported— to prove this we
have something more than random alle
gations. Asa specimen in part, we ask
the Messenger in all seriousness, what
kind of faith he calls that exhibited iu the
extracts which follow—is it punic—j s
not the faith of the present whig party par
ticularly in Georgia, yearning towards
the spoils—is it not somewhat like that of
the redoubtable Falstaff when he ex
claims “ Hal where shall we take a purse
•o-day.” But here are the documents,
ve leave the public to judge.
“ Mr. Clay has long since forfeited all
claims to the suffrages of the South by
his zealous support of the Tariff. ., lu l his
advocacy of the Force Bill will afford
an additional reason for his receiving the
determined opposition of the State bights
Party.”— Go. Journal , Dec. 25, 1838.
“We can never support the distinguish
ed Orater, whose powerful eloquence has
in so many instances been directed
against the interests of the South. We
can never support ntl advocate of the
w Force Bill”—we cannot support “ Har
ry of the West.”— Ga: Journal, Feb. 26,
1859.
“ We consider that a choice of either
(Van Buren or Clay) would lie a great
evil ; therefore We shall choose neither.”
— So. Recorder, May 7. 1839.
“ We were among those who believed
Mr. Clay Was wedded ti a United States
Bank, but events as they have transpired
convince us that we were in error. “We
are pleased that he has abandoned the
project, and sincerely hope that the ener
gies of his great and powerful mind will
be directed to the support of what we
conceive to be more beneficial to the
country.”— Ga. Journal, May 28,1839.
“ Our correspondent with all his zeal
cannot arrive at the forced construction,
that we necessarily because Mr. Calhoun
is in favor, and (’lay and Webster oppo
sed to the Sub-Treasury scheme, are
tinctured with Clayism, AVebsterism,
the American System and Abolitionism.
Os these sins we never have been
accused by o\tr enemies, and it is too late
in the day for us to be catechised by our
friends.”
To answer onr correspondent categor
ically, we have to say, that we are nei
ther a (’lay nor Webster man and so far
as the Sub-Treasury is concerned we are
not a Calhoun man.” — Ga. Messenger ,
April 2 6, 183$.
“ YVe will strive to promote the cause
of State Rights, by placing before the peo
ple the acts and opinions of a distinguish
ed son ot Georgia; (G. M. Troup) in con
trast with those of Martin Van Buren
and 1 Henry Clay.”— Ga. Journal, July
9, 1539.
“As to the other charges of minor con
sidtefatirth, but no less false, v'Z :
That the Georgia whigs are in favor
rtf a National Bank,
That flirt Georgia whigs are in favor
of Henfy Clay,
That the Georgia whigs are panegyr
ists Os Daniel Webster,
We would express our denial in a very
emphntirt monosyllable, were not the use
of it offensive to “ears polite.”— Ga. Mes
senger August 23, 1838.
“ My best reflections and most careful
investigations have confirmed the opin
ion, that Congress has no power to char
ter a Bank.”
“Opposition to a National Bank lies
deep in the elementa of our party Organi
zation. YVe shall in vain expect the re
spect due to consistent pi liticians, if we
become ad vocates of a National Bank.”
“ I belong neither to tne house of York
or Lancaster. My principles will not
penmt mq to support either Van Bnren
or CL AY.”— E. A. Nisbet, July 24,1838.
“The opposition which is made to
ffenry day by the States Right Party is
one of principle. Tliev have no predi
lections foi him as President of the Uni
ted Stattes, nor love lor his political creed.
Me has always been the open and avow
ed, but generous opposer of their doc
trines. They cannot, to be consistent,
cast their suffrages in his favor; and op
position to his election will be as firmly
persevered in, as will be the opposition
of the same party to Martin Van Buren
— Ga. Journal , July 11, 1830.
“ I was born in (ireen when tnat was
a fro ititr county, and knew not the lux
ury bf a'pine cradle, but -ras rocked in a
Gum l." — <_/ rosby Dawson , in his address
t& t/ie citizens of Carnak , in 1840.
The true America > Spir t.
The following remarks on immediate
annexation are from that able Democrat
ic paper, the Petersburg Republican.—
This is the true feeling, the spirit m
which every man in the'Union should
view the question of annexation, who is
not willing to sink the honored name ot
American in to that of a drivelling pot*
tizan:
“ From the moment that the projected
annexation was before the people, we
have been told of the opposition it would
meet in Great Britain, and the first intor
niation of its reception confirms the truth
of the conjecture. Is it lor us to yield to
their barely suppressed threats, or to be
deceived by the flimsy veil which it cast
over their designs? Shall we allow this
opportunity which we have so good rea
son to believe will shortly pass away so ° n
to escape us? When in peace and trail
quility, without giving to England even
an excuse for interference, the great o
ject may be obtained, »hall we let *
hour slip unheeded by, and with 1
vain deliisiou of future success ena>e
our foe to acquires controlling iuflut* n< f
over the destinies of a country, w l,c .-
united with us, would tc a bulwark