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lie view us >ir. Beutou’s Speech.
We commence wading into this sea of
foam and falsehood with disgust for the
task, prompted by die use madeot it be
fore the public. Being the production of
a no f. inn! and tracer at in a direct line with
modern whiggery, it is the tissue into
which is woven, all of what may be term
'l tot wratic whiggery in the IT. States.
\ it: leaven leaveoeth the whole
i' ‘he tissue be rotten “modern
* ” by its connection with it,
i nrtuke ol its nutridity : that
* .ssue is rotten , will appear by an
> nirmtion of ihe materials out of which
u - constructed, viz. “the three celebra
ted ■ various.
Tiie :1.-st resolution assumes that Me- j
ico and "i xas are at war. Answers to ;
tiie so! ow. notions, such as every
one can n v • i • ctlv, will stamp it as j
a false as upion. When was the!
last butde fought ! when the last flat fit-!
ted out ? when the iast army of invasion i
seen m Texas? Nothing of the kind,
since the battle of San Jacinto. If the i
failure of Mexico to recognize her inde
pendence lie war, then did Spain war
with Holland 70 years. If that principle
be correct, our fathers were grossly ig
norant of what constituted war. When,
upon the capture of Cornwallis, the Brit
ish suspended hostilities, they called it
the end of the war and recorded the du
ration of the American revolution at sev
en years, which was false under this
principle. But hear Mr. Benton in roia
to Mexico. “The deliverance of the
country was complete, and Europe and
America acted upon the knowledge of
the fact. Spanish pride, as in the case
of Holland, defered the acknowledgment
of independence; BUT THAT MADE
NO DIFFERENCE. Colombia, and
other South American Republics, have
not been acknowledged by Spain to this
day ”
Here is a clear sweep of the only ob
stacle in tiie minds of those who oppose
annexation upon any other principle than
that of slavery. All the arguments to
make .Mexico v* >. ign against the con
' of Sf nfold stronger for
"i -xas. claims the indepen-,
of y the act of a Spanish
a . : • . . for altogether another'
i-'.-iU :o treat, and whose right
\ < and I v his king and master ; j
an cinzens of Texas as slaves !
t £ An t ccause he has ackuowl-i
r dependence but once. Is.
i; • o tb.it there is something old- \
rotten at th bottom, when he denies our j
b -.h/en in Texas, who have been rear- ;
ed as republicans, the same rights and 1
privileges that he claims strenuously for
Srnivsh subjects, who have known only
abject slavery?
He takes the correspondence to estab
lish the existence of war be wtren Mexico&
Texas, and harps upon Mr. Van Zandt’s
letter as an acknowledgement, when he
speaks of "the character of rear at pre
ytt' 'fW'L>&f: , 1 it^/cgicof
warfare milecoming the age in which
we live, and disgraceful to any people
professing to be civilized.” As in other
cases, wc show wlmt Mr. Benton calls
war. by his own authorities, published
in his speech, and that ye has perverted
th • :.cts; for Mr. Van Zaudt clearly
snows that it is no honorable warfare
and c ays, “It is not against a war with
' xteo that Texas would protest.” “If
• ■!looses to invade our territory with
r; ose, the President, in the name
i eop'e of all Texas, trill hid her
•v..c." I!is own authorities speak of
■ t > be, and he makes them say,
t /?’•>: j. Mete him his dues, on the
score o! veracity.
T ' his leader of incosistency, he
•Ti ••lligcrent attitude of Spain
ico was altogether different
rs i iOi in 1825 and 1829, to what
ot .Mexico is towards Texas NOW.”
It was generally known at the time that
Gen. Jackson was negotiating through
3Mr. Van Buren for Texas, that General
Barvados was fitting up a fleet to invade
Mexico—he did invade it and took Tam
pico, the strongest hold in the country;
this Mr. Benton calls “inferior” belige
rancy to what is “NOW” urged against
Texas, when there is not the vestige of
Mexican power in all Texas, nor has
been in eight years ; for when Gen. Wool
made his border excursion, it carried no
power or authority with it, he having run
out faster than he came in, lest he might
see the muzzle of a Texas musket. Is
this assertion of his, worthy of the brand
of veracity ? if not, then it s due. In
the face of this invasion winch all the en
lightened world knows did take place.—
Mr. Benton asserts, that idea of
Spanish re-eonques! of Mexico entered
no mortal’s head.” This may be branded
as positively false, for the facts are be
fore the world and Mr. Benton knew
them.
Let the render follow hire up and brand
the following assertions true or false, as
they merit.
I. “The war (with Mexico) is began
by orders issued by the President before
the treaty was communicated to the Sen
ate ! ’
2 “We are at war withMexicoNOW!”
o ‘ -"V- Mexican population in New
and Governor Armego, or in his
absence .■ Governor ad interim, Don
Mariana haves, may fold themselves
pursued rebels and traitors to the l.ni
ter! States !”
4. • • - ed their (President and Si n
ate) right to no this (make war) by a trea
ty duty rd ; Imt here it is to be done
—IN PAT IS DON I]—by a treaty on
ly signed, -md not even communicated
to the Semite!”
The President has already made
Iprtr.
6. “Ratification will be war by the
President and Senate!”
7. “They (the negotiators, are for war)
an 1 hav n ma le it ! ’
5. “This Mexican war which the Pre
sident has waged !” d*c.
11l “this Mexican war,” what battles
have been fought ? None ! when are
we likely to have a fight I nobody knows!
yet it is war for no other reasou than that
Mr. Benton says so, over and over, and
over again, a few specimens of which we
here presant; and we venture the opin
ion that there is not a considerate man
in the United States, that will unqualifi
edly endorse one of these assertions ;
still they are to pass for truth by the en
dorsement of party leaders. The only'
plausibility is, that they are hung upon
the second resolution as a truth, but
which has no more bearing upon the
Texas question than a resolve, “That
the treaty making power does not extend
to the power to make soap.” If to assert
what no one questions, be licence to say'
whatever one pleases for selfish purpos
es, men talk at a cheap rate, and “know
that the responsibility of a Senator” has
greatly degenerated under such a license.
We charge Mr. Benton in the third re
solution, with duplicity , falsehood by
implication, falsehood positive, and fed
cralisrnoi the most dangerous and black- j
est hue.
See if we can sustain these charges.—
The resolution means any thing or no
thing, as one pleases. Texas “OUGHT
TO BE RE-UNITED”—but it must lie
done by “the consent of a majority' of the
people of the United States and of Texas,
and when Mexico shall either consent to
the same, or acknowledge the independ
ence of Texas, or cease to prosecute
THE WAR against her (the armistice
having expired) on a scale commensu
rate to the conquest of the country.”
We refer to his speech for his argu
ments) the consent of Spain, or ceasing
“to prosecute the war,” was not necessa
ry to make Spaniards and Creoles fiee as
he contends for in the case of Americans,
and proceed to make good our charges.
Refering the question of annexation to a
majority and to Mexico, is equivalent to
saying, that what “ought to be” shall j
never be. Take the argument from it
The friend of annexation says that “Mr.
Benton’s doctrine is, that Texas “ought
to he re-united.” Oh ! but stop! says
the anti-slavery man,—not without our
consent ns the majority and the consent
of Mexico too, and you can never get
the former, if the latter. If this is not
double dealing what is it ! It is cajoling
one, by telling him it “ought to be” done
and giving to another specific reasons i
why it can never lie.
To support the second charge, this du
plicity which gives both consent and op
position to annexation, implies a positive
falsehood, unless one can stand over on
both sides at once—it implies that “the
consent of a majority” is necessary to
make it constitutional, which is lalse—
it implies that the consent of Mexico is
necessary to national honor; we show
the falsehood of that by his ow n language
in reference to Spam and Mexico—“Bl T
THAT MADE NO DIFFERENCE,”
it implies that Me . co is prosecuting “the
quest of the country, - ' which cueryfioety
knows to be false.
To the third charge, He asserts that
an armistice has existed and expired that
it never hnd an existence is proved by
the correspondence of the two govern
ments to which we refer, where it will
be found to have been lent an effort at
an armistice, ar.d Mr. Benton concludes
m fas speech that no terms were made
under the call for commissioners. An
armistice exist without stipulations? this
is Mr. Benton’s own showing. Then it
appears false that it ever existed, and of
rourse false, that a thing without exist
ence should have ‘expired”. But Mr.
Benton says in his resolutions it has ex
pired, and in his speech, that it “has not
yet expired and cannot expire until the
stipulated notice be given.” llow are
you to take him? Can it all be true?
I if not, where should the people go for
truth? To Tom Benton’s speech or to
the correspondence of the different gov
ernments? One would be ashamed to
offer to affix an answer to that question,
i for an honest man, and would degrade
| the human family l»y doing so for a par
| tv hack.
i To the fourth charge. Who ever heard
I of treaties for the acquisition of territory
j rr.ade by a majority of the people? If
1 die majority is to rule, what becomes of
I the provisions of the Constitution fixing
! this power? Jfthe will of the majority
! is the measure of power, what becomes
of the Constitution itself? The Consti
j intioti says that the President, by and
1 with the consent of the Senate, may make
treaties, &c., but Tom Benton says no !
it shaot be done that way— a tig for the
! constitutional mode - the. people, the dear
: people must consent, and they are called
i upon to lend their aid to strike down the
! only bulwark of liberty that remains as
! fixed by the fathers of the revolution
‘ the only check upon federal encroach
ments to wit: the Constitution, in order
! that federalism may ride into power on
its ruins. Such designers dare not vio
-1 late that sacred instrument, but it isgreat
, lv to be feared that they may lead the
i people to trample under foot its whole
some provisionsas a license to their mach
inations. Tiie constitution was in the
way of Hamilton’s project for a strong
government to control a turbulent and
changing people— it was in the way of
the black cockade administration
with its alien and sedition laics —it was
i in the way ofithe “bill ol abominations,”
and ever will be m the way of Kederal
j ism in all its guises, until it can use the
i “ dear people” whom it represents as “tur
bulent und changing” to blot it out of ex
i isteuee.
In Ins despatch lo the American charge
, at Mexico, Mr. Calhoun says, “ You are
i enjoined also by the President to assure
the Mexican government that it is his de
sire to settle all qnestiotis between the
two countries which may grow out of
this treaty, or any other cause, on the
I most liberal and satisfactory terms, inclu
ding that of boundary. This leaves
‘ (he question of boundary open to be ad
i justed—the Secretary so declares it —the
President so declares it—t:e treaty so
1 leaves if, and any other version must be
| fake. Mr. Benton comes up and speci
fies the limits to the very mark, and as
serts that the treaty takes to it nolens vo
lens—whether Mexico will or not, and
makes the following positive declarations
which u r e put down as false because not
sustained by the terms of the treaty.
1. “ This immense river, (Rio Grande)
second on our continent to the Mississip
pi only, and but little inferior to it iu
length, is to be added in the whole ex
tent of its left bank to the American Uni
on !”
2. “These former provinces of the
American viceroyalty, now departments
of the Mexican republic, lying on both
sides of the Rio Grande from its head to
its mouth, we now propose to incorporate
so far as they lie oti the left bank ot the
river, into our Union, by virtue of a trea
ty of re-annexation with Texas.”
3. “ Taos, 3000 souls ; Santa Fe. the
capital, 4000 souls; Abuqurque, 6000
souls,” with “scores of other towns and
villages * * * the departments of
Chihuaha, Cashuila and Ramniilihas***
now' under Mexican governors and gov
ernments. are PERMANENTLY re-au
nexed to this Union, if this treaty is rati
fied.”
4. “These towns and villages, these
people and territories, these flocks and
herds, this slice of the republic of Mexi
co, two thousand miles long, and some
hundred broad—all this the President
has cut off from its mother empire, and
presents to us, and declares it is ours til
the Senate rejects it! He calls it Texas!
and the cutting off he calls re-annexa
tion.”
5. “It is a seizure of two thousand
miles ot her (Mexican) territory without
a word of enplanation with her.”
These bold assertions held up in all
shapes for effect, (a/ere of the variations
only being here presented) make pages
of the speech, carrying their own refuta
tion on their face ; for it shows concltt
sively that there is “no specific boundary
fixed in the treaty —that the President
proposes an adjustment with Mexico “up
on the most liberal terms,” and that by
calling it re-annexation, it may not go
farther than the former possessions of the
United States.
The position is false that annexation
was based alone upon fear of British ab
olition—^false that the President acted
alone on the authority of a London cor
respondent—false that even that corres
pondent was incorrect as to British poli
cy : for Lord Aberdeen openly avows the
designs of his government upon slavery
“ throughout the world” —false that “the
British minister fully, formally, and iu
the broadest manner contradicted the
whole story” dee —false that Mr. Cal
houn plead Lord Aberdeen’s letter dated
after the signature of" the treaty, as the
basis of the treaty. Pdr. Calhoun in re
jliy, tUtinilCU UUtlovtf i\r vvitrrw*.
Lord Aberdeen’s letter and draws from it
additional proofs of the correctness of the
course pursued by the President, which
?>lr. Benton warps to mean what he rep
resents in his speech. It carries its own
refutation prominently; the treaty was
on foot longeie Mr. Calhoun went to the
Secretaryship, and could not have been
based upon any occurrence that took
place after his acceptance; and whatever
others may do, no one believes that lie
would stake bis character lor veracity
upon a falsehood for effect, hoping it
woiud escape detection— false that the
negotiation carried “an admission that
the consent of Mexico must be obtained,
cost what millions it might,” for the Pres
ident declared that he treated with Tex
as as a sovereign, having full power to
make her own alliances.
We have presented the skeleton upon
which the speech hangs, and ask if it is
not correctly drawn; and shall be con
tent by putting on the skull-cap falsehood
which will be misunderstood by no one,
! and which will be a true index to the
j whole frame. Hear him. “By the treaty of
| 1819, made, as Mr. Adams assures us, by
the majority of Mr. Monroe’s cabinet, who
were Southern men, this Texas and a
hundred thousand square miles of other
territory between the Red river and Ar
kansas, was dismembered from our Uni
on, and added to Mexico, a nonslavehold
ing empire.” At that very time Spain
was more largely engaged in the slave
trade than any other natiou, for the bene
fit of her colonies; and it is notorious
that slavery existed in Mexico ’til about
IS3O, when Guerero abolished it by edict.
Like the balance, it would not do once
told, and we have it again with an
additional feature. “ Southern men
deprived us of Texas, and made it non
slatcholding in 1819.” Texas has had
slaves even on, the edict of Guerero to
the contrary notwithstanding, and eve
ry body knows it. If Mr. Benton stands
convicted of one notorious untruth, is he
to be believed without written proof on
every point ?
He discovers that “ Mr. Tyler wants to
be President /” and that fixes die bur
then upon his own heatt. If the annex
ation tide should not be checked, Mr.
\ an Buren was eternally lost, and Iris
own big with the Secretaryship would
turn out an abortion, without the possi
bility ot a new conception in time to ride
into the Presidency upon the Oregon and
Texas questions. He discovers that the
forty days given to the Mexican Charge
just passes over the Baltimore Conven
tion, and says it “was to sit in 38 days
from that time! and forty days would
give time for the “ Texas bomb ” to burst
and scatter its fragments all over the
Union, blowing up candidates for the
Presidencyand he might have added
! their intended Secretaries and successors
! with them ; this was evidently “sticking
1 o’.it," for so much does it impress him
that lie belabors this one point about the
Coimmiou and its effect upon cuidi
dates five different times in the same
speech.
A few weeks back, Mr. Editor, to men
tion Benton to the wliigs of Georgia and
you met with the old cravat financier
ing story, and in many instances follow
ed up with the epithets, “a rogue, a liar
ifec.”; now, nothing is heard but Mr.
Benton, Mr. Benton, at every street and
corner from these mouths, and it is even
said he would make a first rate whig. If
he suits their taste let them take him for
he makes a sorry Democrat. In the
union they will have an important point
to settle. “ Tommy is evidently at his
old tricks again.”—whose ground is to be
occupied, his or theirs?
CASTUS.
AA2iiaaaiK3A2g'
31. JOHN STUN, HDITOR.
" Xot the glory of Cttoar, but the trcl/are of Rome."
MACON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 3, 1*44.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAMI'S K. POLS 2,
Os Tennessee.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GSOHGE M. BAX.Z.AS,
Os Pennsylvania.
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Marriage of the President.
We learn from the New York papers
of last week, that President Tyler was
married on Wednesday last to Miss Gard
ner, of Gardners Island and daughter of
the late Col. Gardner, who lost his life
in the unhappy catastrophe on board the
s steam ship Princeton.
Col. Seaborn Jones of Muscogee has
bepn nominated as the Democratic candi
date for Congress, in the second Congres
sional district.
\Ym. If. Crawford, jr. of Sumpter
county, has been nominated by the whigs
as their candidate for the second Con
gressional district.
Appointments hy the Fiesidert.
Geo. M. Bibb of Kentucky, to be Sec
retary of the Treasury.
John Branch of North Carolina, so be
Governor of Florida Territory from 11th
August 1844 vice R. K. Call, whose com
mission will then have expired.
Onr is There.
From Houston, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon
and Twiggs we have the most cheering
intelligence. The work has been well be
gun in all of these counties. Our friends
are doing their duty nobly there, and
will never lower their flag until modern
whiggerv becomes extinct.
Annexation in France.
The people of France, onr old revoln.
tionary allies have planted themselves
on the American side of the Texas
question, and stand where they stood
in the glorious struggle of 1776. —
The subject of the annexation of Texas
to the union has created, it is said,
a great sensation at Paris, and revived the
numerous speculations which were a
float during the previous struggle be
tween the United States and England.
The subject of annexation is the.great
theme of discussion in France, ail class
es are in favor of making common cause
with the United States, and thereby,
striking an effectual blow against the
freebooting & domineering policy which
lias characterised the English govern
ment for the last three hundred years.
Yve have been favored by a gentle
man of this city with the following cx
tract of a letter received by him, from a
democrat of Crawford :
“The whigs are trying to rally their
flying legions. You will be pleased to i
hear, that in the special election for clerk
Superior court, which took place to-day
iu this county, the democratic candidate
succeeded by a majority of one hundred
votes over his opponent. The work goes i
bravely on, and if we are true, to our
selves the state will be safe for Polk
and Dallas. The democracy of old
Crawford were never more united or
animated by a more patriotic spirit, than
at present. Keep the ball moving.”
“ Hurrah hoys the country is rising
Fur Henry Clay and Frelinghuyaen.”
Here is a chance at last for a tempest
in a tea pot. Here is an opportunity for
a tremendous whig flourish. The Sa
vannah Republican of yesterday announ
ces that a Mr. Shin of Virginia and a Mr.
Boring of N. Carolina have actually left
the Democratic party and are now in the
field for Harry of the West. These, with
Col. Stanford of Habersham- make three
votes. “Victory or a cripple”—who is
afraid now.
Thomas 11. Benton's speech.
The whigs are flooding this state with
copies of Benton’s anti-Texas speech.—
We understand that a barrel full arrived
by last nights mail: from here, to he sent
to all parts of the state. We ourself, saw
an individual, with an armful, destined
for Sumter and Lee counties.
A whig fact caught and caged.
It is with feelings of unmingled satis
faction that we announce the above
remarkable piece of intelligence. As
the animal is somewhat rare and recher
che, we take great pleasure in exposing
it to the admiring gaze of its “friends
and the public,” and not knowing when
we shall he fortunate enough to meet
with a similar article, we take the liberty
of bespeaking the careful attention of the
curious in such things.
Here it it is, look for yourself. It
seems that there was an association
formed in Savannah, in 1842, to raise
funds and send volunteers to Texas, at
the time Mexico made her last impotent
threat of invasion, and this association
elected Mr. Gnzaway. B. Lamar, as their
treasurer, who in a card published in the
Savannah papers, declined acting in that
capacity. Well ! the Sac. Republican
lately republished Mr. Lamar's card, to
show by a rigid and logical process of
whig reasoning, that because ?»ir. L.
was opposed to sending volunteers to
j Texas in ’42, lie ought to be opposed to
annexation now. The Richmond H hig
i pumping at the straw, republishes the
I card without qualification, as a recent re
! valuation of Mr. Lamar’s opinions, in fa
j vor of annexation, and says th; t he “is
I no doubt iu the condition ol thousands,
who, at first, warmly in favor of tiie Tox
i as scheme, have been brought by reflec
tion to renounce their original opinions.”
The Charleston Mercury justly denoun
ces it as a wanton and deliberate lalsili
cation. Every body knows that Mr. La
mar is one of the most zealous advocates
us imtntJiiiio umioiratuiu in this state.—
However, we present it as n “whig fact,”
showing the retrograde progress of the
great question of annexation, which is
destined in its onward progress to sweep
whiggerv, with its idols and its errors,
down the winds.
Trias—The South.
f
| Six months ago, when it was known
! that the people of Texas desired to be an
nexed to the American Union, all men
of every party, Whigs as well as Demo
crats responded with the patriotic shout
of welcome, welcome, Texas. Mean
time a treaty of the most favorable char
acter was negotiated for the annexation
of that Republic to the sisterhood of
American States. Put Mr. Clay, for rea
sons beet known to himself, comes out
and declares against annexation now;
and inferantinily forever—and straitway
the scene is changed.
The swiss minions of the “Dictator of
Ashland” take their ewe and the treaty
must not be ratified. And although this
government, as well as those of the great
powers of Europe, have solemnly ac
knowledged it, these learned doctors of
whiggery declare that Texas is not yet a
free and independent State, but that she
is still a department of Mexico—and that
government as well as England must be
consulted, before the treaty can can be
sactioned. They virtually declare that
Texas must fight her battles over, and
that another offering must be made upon
the bloody altar of Spanish tyranny—
that the bones of the Georgian, the Ken
tuckian, the Virginian, the Mississippian,
the Alabamian, the Louisianian, the Car
olinian, and the descendants of the Pil
grims from the green hills of New Eng
land that are now bleaching upon her
plains, were all offered in vain. That
the Alamo and Goliad, and Son Jacinto,
must bleed again. This is the decision
of Mr. Clay and his leaders, and it is
from that dscision we desire te appeal to
the plain, and honest people of the coun
try, who are yet uncorrupted by the lit
tleness of party management,to the warm
hearted and generous American, whose
blood is not chilled by the blighting
curse ot party; it is to these and such
as these, we submit the issue,—are you
willing to say that Texas is not yet a
free and independent State ? Do you
too, require the consent of either Mexi
co or England, in order thnt Texas may
he admitted into the family of American
States? No, no, you do not, you will
not. until Lexington,and Bunkerhill, and
Camden, and Eutaw, and Yorktown are
forgotten. As for ourselves, we are for
Texas, we are for the South, “the land
of our birth and the home of our sires.”
Let others do as they may, we will cling
to her honor and the rights guaranteed
to her people by the Constitution; come
what may, we will adopt in this great
crisis of her fortunes, the language of one
of her most eminent and gifted sons,
who is now sleeping with the honored
and lamented dead. “For some of us it
may not be allotted to survive the Re
public. But if we are only' true to our
duty, our example will, in that dark
hour, be a rich legacy to our children ;
and which of us would desire a higher
reward than to have it inscribed on his
tomb, “here lies the man who sacrificed
himself in a noble effort to retain the li
berties of his country.” Fellow-citizens,
this is our own our native land, it is the
soil of the South whicli has been enrich
ed by the precious blood of our ancestors,
shed in defence ot those rights and liber
ties, which we are bound by every tie,
divine and human, to transmit unim
paired to our posterity. It is here we.
have been cherished in manhood, by' the
generous confidence of our fellow-citi
zens ; here repose the honored bones of
our fathers; here the eyes of our child
ren first beheld the light; and here when
our earthly pilgrimage is over, we hope
to sink to rest in the bosom of our com
mon mother. Bound to our country by
such sacred and endearing ties, let oth
ers desert her if they will, let them
revile her if they can, let them give aid
and countenance to her enemies if they
may ; but for us we will stand or fall
hy her side.”
Ilose Hi!! CrmeJery.
The monuments and improvements
erected in memory, or in honor of the
dead, in every age and among every peo
ple, while they’ have been objects of curi
ous speculation and enquiry to the living,
cannot fail to improve as well as in! r
est, every reflecting mind, led and, i;
some cases, these nun nor
the only history that has-reach* and ir. -
whole nations, who were probabiy once
as powerful and cultivated in many of
the arts and sciences as those of modern
times, and while every other trace of
their social as well as public economy,
have ages and ages ago, perished from
the world, those proud monuments have
defied the ravages of time and have stood
out in bold relief in perpetuation of the
cultivation and fame of the people 1 y
whom they were erected. Without en
tering any further upon this subject at
present, we may he nermited to remark,
that we believe, that there is something
too, in these memorials, effecting as they
do, a double purpose, either of which is
worth the expenditure and toil bestowed
on their erection or improvement, which
cannot fail to recommend them to every
enlightened community. The monuments
to the lamented and honored dead, while
they perpetuate and embalm their mem
ories with the living,will be guides to reli
gion, virtue nndeducation, and the grave
vard will be an holy sanctuary, whose
influence will never cease to be felt, ar.d
which, if rightly considered, will urge
the ambitious young in the paths of vir
tue, religion, honor, fame, and their coun
try’s good.
We have been led into these remarks
from visiting and seeing the improve
ments now going forward under the dir
ection of our enterprising and public
spirited cotemporary of the Messenger —
Mr. R ose. He lias, we believe superin
tended iri person, all the improvements
of these grounds since they were first ap
propriated by the city as the final resting
place of our dead. His good taste, in
laying them off and his unwearied atten
tions given to improve them, entitles
him to the lasting gratitude of the whole
community. While we are upon this
subjert, we take the liberty to suggest
to our citizens, the propriety of adopting
measures, whereby additional improve
ments may be made in beautifying th e
grounds. Satisfied that if a move was
made in the matter, it would meet the
favor and approbation of our people.
AVhich party is the most fav.ible to ttic
Abolitionists.
Thomas Jefferson, with that far
seeing sagacity that rendered him as su
perior to all other statesmen, as Shakes
pearistoall other observers of human
nature, long since remarked tluit the
Democracy of the north whs the na
tural ally of the south. The wnoon
and truth of this observation has been
proven in a thousand install' es and m
no instance has it been evinced more
clearly and emphatically, than in <h e
course of the democratic party of the
north upon the delicate, agitating and
exciting subject of slavery. We do not
pretend to say that the democracy ot th®
north, are in lavor of slavery as an ab
stract question, farfrom it, we know they
are not. But we do say, and without
fear of contradiction from any honora
ble or honest man, that the democracy