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Life! thou art gliding by ;
Swiftly thy seasons fly,
Atnl eaclt returning day brings death more near —
llow can thy chains divide 1
, How can I lay aside
The loves, the cares, that hind my spirit here!
For I am not alone;
The loved I call tny own
Are round me, and the 41 voi - cs of my home
Persuade me here to stay ;
Those winning tones—they sav,
Thou art our all—Oh ! leave us not alone.
N..t in the yielded breath
Lies the dread woe of death;
For the helov.nl and left ascends the prayer;
For the unshielded years,
For childhood’s unmarked tears—
Ttie motherless! atone iu lheir despair.
Will the prayer rise i't vain I
May I not here remain !
Vv'tll not our God a little longer spare,
That with recovered strength,
I*repared, 1 may at leftgt t
Cd lichee, with hope unclouded bv despair!
Sojourners Here t*e are ;
Strangers our fathers were—
A fleeting shadow emblem of our days.
God of the earth and sea!
(lur lives are It’d in I hoe
Through life—in death—Thy love surrounds cur
ways.
Then, with submissive trust,
Let “ dust return to dust; ’
Earth's riven chains shall set the spirit free *
Let no vain murmur rise,
No sad tears dint the eyes
That, closed to life, may soon a brighter see.
Know that the “ Lord is God - ’ —
Bow to the chastening rod ;
Our Father’s house has many mansions fair,
Where the beloved oi earth
Shall gain a holier birth,
And all “the image ofthe heavenly” boar.
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MISCELLANY, _
Tne last Hope of the Aged.
During our tedious passage to the north,
I remarked among the steerage passen
gers a man who seemed to keep himself
apart from the rest. He wore the uni
form of the Foot Artillery, and sported a
Corporal’s stripes. In the course ofthe
afternoon, I stepped before the funnel and
entered into conversation with him,
learned that he had been invalided and
sent home from Canada, had passed the
Board of London, obtained a pension of
ashillingaday, and was returning to a
border village where he had been born,
to ascertain whether any of a family were
living from whom he had been separated
for nineteen years. He casually admit
ted, that during this long interval he had
held tio communication with his relations;
and I set him down accordingly as some
wild scapegrace, who had stolen from a
home whose happiness his follies had
compromised too often. He showed me
his discharge—the character was excel
lent—but it only went to prove how
much men’s conduct will depend upon
the circumstances under which they act.
He had been nineteen years a soldier—a
man ‘ under authority”—one obedient to
another’s will, subservient to strict dis
cipline, with scarcely a free agency him
self, and yet during that long probation
he had been a useful member of the bo
dy politic, sustained a lair reputation, and
as he admitted himself, been a contented
and a happy man. He returned home
his own master, and older by twenty
years. Alas! it was a fatal free agency
i'or him, for time had not brought wis
dom. The steward told me that he had
run riot while his means allowed it—had
missed taking a passage twice, and had
on the preceding evening, come on board
when not a shilling remained to waste
in drunken dissipation. I desired that
the poor rouse should be supplied with
some little comforts during the voyage
—and when we landed at Berwick, I
gave him a sterling sum, to assist him to
reach his native village, where he had ob
tained vague intelligence that some aged
members of his family might still be
found.
A few evenings afterwards, I was sit
ting in the parlor of one of the many lit
tle inns 1 visited while rambling on the
banks of the Tweed, when the waitress
informed me that “a soldier was spearin’
after the Colonel.” He was directed to
attend the presence—and my lellow voy
ager. the artilleryman, entered the chain*
be I, and made his military salaam.
‘T thought you were now at Jed
burgh.”
“1 went there, sir, but there has not
been any of my family for many a year
residing in that place. I met an old
packman on the road, and he tells me
them are some persons in this village of
tny name. 1 came here to make inqui
ries, and hearing that your honor was
in the house, 1 made bold enough to ask
for you.”
“ilave you walked over?”
“Yes, sir.”
“’Tis a long walk, go down and get
some supper before you commence in
quiries.”
The soldier bowed and left the room,
and presently the host entered to give me
directions lor a route among the Chev
iots, which I had contemplated to take
the following day. 1 mentioned the
soldier’s errand.
“Sure enough,” returned the host;
“there are an an Id decent couple of the
name here. What is the sodger called ?”
“William,” I replied; for by that name
his discharge and pension bill were fill
ed up.
“I’ll slip across the street to the auld
folks,” said Boniface, “and ask them a
few questions.”
The episode of humble life that follow
ed was afterwards thus described to me
by mine host.
He found the ancient couple seated at
the fire—the old man reading a chapter
in the Bible, as was bis custom always
before he and his aged partner retired for
the night to rest. The landlord explain
ed the object of the soldier’s visit, and
inquired if any of their children answer
ed the description ot the wanderer.
“It is our Jock !” exclaimed the old
woman, passionately, “and the puirne’er
dewecl has came hame at last to close
his mother’s eyes.”
“Na,” said the landlord, “the man’s
name is Wolly.”
“Then he’s nae our barin,” returned
the old man with a heavy sigh.
“ Weel, vveel—His will lie done !” said
his helpmate, turning her blue and faded
eyes to heaven: “1 thought the prayer
I so often made wild yet be granted, and
Jock wud come home and get my bles
sin’ ere I died.”
“He has! he has !” exclaimed a brok
en voice; and the soldier, who had fol
lowed the landlord unperceived and lis
tened at the cottage door, rushed into the
room, and dropped kneeling at his moth
er’s feet. For a moment she turned her
eyes with a fixed and glassy stare upon
the returned wanderer. Her hand was
laid upon his head—her lips parted as it
aboutto pronounce the promised blessing
—but no sounds issued, and she slowly
leaned forward on the bosom ol the long
MACON, WEDNESDAY', JULY 17, 1844.
lost prodigal, who clasped her to his
arms !
“Mither! mither! speak and bless
me !”
Alas ! the power of speech was gone
forever ! Joy like grief, is often fatal to
a worn out frame. The spirit had calm
ly passed- -the parent had lived to see
and bless her lost son, and expired in the
arms of one, who, with all his faults ap
peared to have been her earthly favorite.”
— Maxwell’s wanderings in the High
lands
Punch’s Mirror of PnrDament,
The customs duties bill.— Mr.
Laboucheie complained of the blow that
had been struck at the coopers by the pro
tection that had been afforded to Cana
dian staves. Mr. W. Williams wished
to know whether the protection to Cana
dian staves would extend to the Canadian
Boat Song—the beautiful staves of which
had become very popular in this coun
try. (Hear.) On the motion of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the
duty on foreign coffee should be reduced
to 6d., and the duty on coffee to 2d pei
pound, Mr. Ewart said he was glad the
honorable gentleman was disposed to
take coffee at this early hour of the even
ing, for it was desirable that a sober
viewsliould lie taken. (Hear.) He (Mr.
Ewart,) would ask the house to look at
America. The Chancellor of the Ex
chequer : But America has no grow
ers. Mr. Ewart: Does the honorable
gentleman mean to say that America lias
no growers ? Perhaps he is thinking
of the American dwarf!—or General
Tom Thumb, as he is generally—(a
laugh) yes, I say generally—(much
laughter)—generally called. (Confin
ed laughter, and much cheering.) Mr.
W. Gibson was disposed to put coffee on
one side, and go at once into cocoa.—
Coffee was a strong and powerful inter
est, but cocoa was weak, wretchedly
weak; and he thought it unfair that its
weakness should be taken undue advan
tage of. (Hear, and a laugh.) Mr. Al
derman Humphrey, on the clause about
plums preserved in sugar, expressed his
intention to meet it with a direct tiega
live. He always found, as a family man
that if he put a plum in sugar, it was the
very worst wayot preserving it; for it was
to be carried away by one of the children.
(Great laughter.) Perhaps plums might
be said to be preserved when they were
in puddings, but let any one look at a
plum pudding after a few days. (The
rest of the honorable member’s speeches
was drowned in shouts of merriment.) —
Sir Robert Peel was not surprised that
his honorable friend, (Alderman Hum
phrey,) encouraged by his recent success
with lobster and turbot, should have tri
ed his hand at pudding. (Hear.) Some
thing had been said about apples and an
alleged understanding with Lord Mel
bourne. Now he (Sirß. Peel) had had
no understanding about apples, except
that it had been intimated to him (Sir R.
Peel) that some of the late Government
were cut to the core on their being turn
ed out. (Cheers.) Sir E. Knatchbull
begged pardon of the house, but apples
had really made him very uneasy. He
was pledged to the fruit growers of Kent,
a deputation of whom had waited on
him some time ago about their apples,
and “go it my pippin” were the words
addressed to him. After a few words,
all at once,from Dr. Bowring, Mr. Hume,
Mr. W. Williams, and Mr. Roebuck, the
resolutions were agreed to.
The leaving off place.— The
New Orleans Tropic has a capital cor
respondent in Arkansas, who tells the fol
lowing funny story:
111 18—, Gov. thinking the “cir
cumstance of war” looked very belliger
ent at the Arkansas frontier, and antici
pating Indian hostilities, called upon the
militia of the counties B —, W—, etc. to
prepare for a defence and reprisal, in case
of outrages. The county of F- was
not named among the others. This Col.
N. of that county, resented highly, con
voking the citizens, and declaring to
them in a set speech, that they were as
chilvalric as any county in the state or
in the United States. In the course of
his declamation, he mentioned that one
Col. Ross had said, a handful of squaws
might drive the militia to the East of the
Mississippi, immediately and honest yoc
man bawled out, “ T-h-a-fs a l-i-e ! ’
“Do you mean that Col Ross told a
lie, or that I told it?” interrogated the
orator.
“You tell a d-a-m-ne-d l-i-e !” was the
rejoinder. Col. N. turning to Capt TANARUS.,
remarked, “Captain mind where I leave
off,” left his rostrum, went up to the fel
low, and knocked him down.
“Captain T. where did I leave off?”
“Bout the liijin squaws.”
“Yes, Col Ross says the Injin squaws
can drive us beyond the Mississippi
“You tell a d-a-m-n-e-d l-i-e !” again
drawled out the hoosier.
“Do you mean that Col Ross told a lie,
or do you mean I told a lie ?”
“You told a d-a-m-n-e-d l i-e ! ’
Capt. T. miud where I leave off.” So
saying, down he knocked the fellow a
gaiti.
“Capt. T. where did 1 leave off ?■
“Bout the Injm squaws.”
Here Col. N. resumed his harangue,
but was suddenly checked in the very
cream of his tale. The fellow whom he
bad twice knocked down, had procured
a long piece of a heavy grape vine, one
end of which he grasped in both hands,
and, stealing to the back of Col. N.
brought it with a swing over his should
ers, ha-v hak and down he fefehed him,
adding, “Captain T. mind where 1 leave
off!”
This was all done to demonstrate the
chivalry of the county of F .
Go, anti sin no more.
The first words printed in the language
of the Sandwich Islands were, “go, sin
no more;” and the second sentence was,
“cease to do evil, and learn to do well.’
There are now several converted heath
ens in good standing in the church, who
ascribe their first impressions of Christian
truth to these simple words. In farther
illustration of the sublime power of the
plain language of the Bible, I will relate
the following story:
In one of the New England states,
many years ago, a young man was ar
raigned to take his trial before a jury ot
his country, on an indictment for theft.
The testimony bore very strong against
him; but his counsel labored with great
skill to dispose of it so is to produce
doubt of his guilt on the minds of his ju
ry. He was better able to do this, in
consequence of the sympathy which the
good looks of the prisoner excited in his
behalf. Not to occupy time with unne
cessary details, I will proceed to that part
of the case which illustrates my idea.—
The counsel closed the argument for the
prisoner with this passage :
1 must ask you, then, gentlemen of
the jury, to render a verdict in this case
in the spirit of kindness, and at the same
time of admonition. Say to the prisoner,
we are grieved to find that the testimony
bears so strongly against you; but you
may be innocent. Your guilt or your
innocence is known to you and your Ma
ker. We, falliblemen,have some doubts.
Wc will not therefore confine you in
prison, and shut you out from society.
We will not put you in a cage, and treat
you like a wild beast. You look like a
man; yes, you look like a man —g J forth,
then, and enjoy the free air of heaven.
Mount up on the hills; look down thence
upon the streams and vallies below; wan
der among the forests and fields; look
upon the smiles of children, and listen
to the songs of the birds. Go forth; go
free—go—go, and sin no more.
In saying these last words, tears came
into his eyes, his voice faltered, and he
sat down. At the same time, the prison
er arose from his seat, and as if acting
under the influence of a command he
could not resist, deliberately descended
from the prisoner’s box, and was making
his way out of the court room, when the
sheriff grasped him by the collar. His
counsel arose again, and said he hoped,
if the prosecuting attorney and the jury
had no objection, the court would order
the sheriff to let him go.
The prosecuting attorney, though un
used to the melting mood, turned to the
court with strange damp spots on each
cheek, and with unusual quivering and
softness of voice, said he had no far
ther remarks to offer the jury.
The court turned to the jury, saying
‘gentlemen, wc have no charge to give.’
Foreman.-- We have a verdict to ren
der, of not guilty.
Clerk.— So say you all, gentlemen ?
The jurv bowed, and the prisoner like
an uncaged bird, went on his way rejoic
ing.
Now the prisoner goes to pay his law
yer’s fee, and is told by him, not a dollar
will he accept that has not been honestly
acquired. “If,” said he, “you have stolen
this money, let none of your future earn
ings be considered your own, until you
have paid up the utmost farthing.”
Useful man ! I honor you. The very
next day the young man was seen doing
service in the employment of the man
who had lost the money.
Many years have elapsed since these
incidents occurred) and the rescued per
son cannot now see or think of the words,
“go, sin no more,” without weeping.—
He is at this time a good citizen of Cin
cinnati, a prosperous, an honest, and a
pious mail.
Sir Edward Bnlwcr Eytton.
It should be remembered, to the hon
or of Fi. L. Bulwer, that, although born
to an independence, and to the prospect
of a fortune, and inheriting by accident
of birth, an advantageous position in so
ciety, he has yet cultivated his talent with
the most unremitting assiduity, equal to
that of any ‘poor scholar,’ and has not
suffered his ‘natural gifts’ to be smother
ed by indolence or the pleasures of the
wolrd. He is one of the most prolific
authors of our time; and bis various ac
complishments, habits of research, and
extraordinary industry, no less than his
genius, well entitle him to the rank he
holds as or.c of ths most successful, in
that branch of literature in which he
eminently excels. We must not be daz
zled by his versatility; we entertain no
doubt about his real excellence, and we
shall endeavor to fix his true character
and definite position. Sir Edward Lyt
ton Bulwer is the youngest son of Gen.
Bulwer, of Heydon Hall, in the county
ofNorfolk, and of Elizabeth, daughter
and heiress of Henry Warbnrton Lytton
Esq of Knehwortb. Park. Herts, to the
possession of which estate lie has just
succeeded; and is connected on both
sides ofthe house, with many noble and
ancient families. He sat in parliament
at an early age for the borough of St.
Ives, and, subsequently, lor the city of
Lincoln. His parliamentary cafeer was
highly creditable, and in one respect, in
special, has left an honorable testimonial
to his exertions : we allude to the bill
for the protection of dramatic copyright,
which he brought in and carried. Me
distinguished himself, at the same time,
as an able political writer. Asa speaker
he had won the respect of the house, tho’
his voice is weak, his manner is some
what hesitating, and his style more flor
id than accords with the taste of that as
sembly. Histrain ofargumeutsiirmoiitD
ted these disadvantages, and, what was
more difficult still, induced honorable
members to overlook a certain appear
ance of fastidious nicety in dress, which
by no means accords with their notions
in general. He was made a baronet; the
date and occasion oi which even we for
get. His political labors interfered not
in the least with his literary career, to
the progress of which we now turn.—
The development of his literary taste is
ascribed to the influence of his mother,
to whose charge lie was early consigned
by his father’s deatht The ‘Percev’s
Reilques’ was a favorite book of his
childhood, and he wrote some ballads in
imitation, when only five or six years
old. He was never sent to atiy public
school, but graduated at Cambrige. He,
however, found for himself, a kind of
education, which was of more importance
to the development of genius than any he
received at the University—by wander
ing over the greater part of England and
Scotland on foot during along vacation,
and afterwards making a similar tour of
France on horseback. He began to
publish when only two or three and
twenty, at first in verse : next anony
mously a novel, now forgotten, entitled
‘Falkland.’ It hence appears, that his ;
early attempts were failures. His first i
successful work was ‘Pelham,’ and this
established his reputation as u clever no
velist. It was rapidly follo wed by ‘The
Disowned,’ by ‘Devereux.’ and then by
‘Paul Clifford,, which stamped him as a
man of genius. ‘Eugene Aram’ well
sustained the high reputation thus gain
ed.—New Spirit of the Age.
The names of the judges who pro- 1
nouiiced the infamously outrageous sen
tence upon the persecuted patriot, Tho
mas VVilion Dorr should be handed down
to the indignant execration of all posteri- j
ty. They are Job Durfee, chief justice,
William R. Staples, Levi Haile, and j
George W. Drayton, associate juslices.— j
The fame of Algernon Sydney lias im
mortalised Jeffries, who otherwise would
not have lived an hour in memory alter
his death, and the fame of the martyred
Emmet has done the same for the butch
er Lord Norberry. The Rhode island
judges may hope for a like immortality.
Dfrith of Mrs. Margaret Davidson.
—This remarkably talented and excel
lent woman died at Saratoga Springs, the
place of her residence, on Thursday,
27th inst, aged 57 years. She has long
been afflicted with a painful disease, nnd
has been a patient nnd submissive suffer
er. She was the mother of the two
young poetesses and authoresses, Lucre
tin, and Margaret Davidson, whose works
have lieen the subject of admiration both
in this country and Europe. — N. Y. Tri
bune.
Another “ Sister of Charity" Case . —
Another one of those cases which dis
grace humanity and “ Native American”
proscription nnd sectarianism, occurred
last Saturday. One of those gentle, ami
able and benevolent creatures, the “ Sis
ters of charity,” who saved so many val
uable lives here during the tearful chol
era season, was passing up Market street
when she met a young man with a roll of
paper under his arm. “ You d— Papist
b—said he to her, as she approached,
and he struck her across the lace with
his bundle. The helpless, humble, un
offending woman made no reply, but tur
ning up her eyes meekly towards Heav
en, while a tear stole gently down, siie
murmured a prayer for the wretch's for
giveness. We ask every unprejudiced
reader, how long are these things to be?
If such be the beginning of Native Amer
ican manliness and justice, what will be
the end? If such be the genuine offspring
of the “spare, oh spare the bible!” feeling
of Nativism when it obtains the National
Church for which it is laboring ?— Phil.
Times.
Os Abuses. —There is a time when
men will not suffer bad things, because
their ancestors have suffered worse.—
There is a time when the hoary head
of inveterate abuse will neither draw re
venge, nor obtain protection.— Burke.
When you ‘pop the question’ to a la
dy, do it with a kind of laugh, as if you
were joking. If she accepts you, very
well, if she does not, you can sny 1 you
were only in fun’.
VOL. II—NO I).
| POLITICAL.
-Issi! ‘Tim i't Parvo.
The following is Gen. Hamilton's re
ply to an invitation to attend a Texas
meeting in Macon comity Ain. Tt com
: prises in the compass of a tint-shell, the
great points in the Texas question.
Oswtt HEE Bi nd, June 28, ’44.
My dear Sir: I most deeply regret. I
have made engagements for to-morrow I
cannot violate, which preclude the pos
sibility of my accepting the invitation to
the public meeting, to be held at Auburn
in Macon county; to discuss, without dis
tinction of party, the annexation ques
tion. 1 left in the Post Office in Colum
bus, on Wednesday evening last, a letter
to the committee of arrangements, com
municating my regret to them of my in
ability toaccepf theinvitation, with which
they likewise honored me.
You will permit me, my dear sir, to
say, that the question itself involves one
of those selfevident propositions, which
requires no elaborate course of reasoning,
at least as far ns the South is concerned,
to elucidate or enforce.
The proposition for the south is, shall
we have an ally on the weakest point of
our whole frontier, in entire sympathy
with our interests and institutions, who
shall have sworn allegiance to our Flag;
or shall we build up there in effect a for
eign power in hostility to them ! A con
sequence inevitable, from the rejection of
the proposals of Texas to become a
member of our confederacy.
The proposition for the whole nation
is, shall the supply of the navigation,
trade and manufactures of Texas belong
to us, under our confederate legislation,
or belong to a foreign or foreign nations,
under discriminations in favor of their
tonnage and exports.
The question for loth is, shall these
advantages he periled by delay ? In o’h
er words was not immediate annexation
necessary to secure them ? I believe it
was. You will see I treat it as a question
settled under the unfortunate rejection of
the treaty by the senate of the U. S. that
Texas is not to be annexed.
The letters of Mr. Clay and Mr. Van
Buren have so entirely fortified the pre
tensions of Mexico, (for they are mere
pretensions,) and so far justified the in
terference of foreign nations, that it is now
probably impracticable, except through
theimmediate action of thcsoutliernstates;
speaking in a language not to be misun
derstood through a convention of them
all. But from the unhappy divisions a
mong ourselves, this, I presume, is just
ns impossible as any human event can
well be, although through the organ of
u public meeting in this county 1 felt it
my duty to submit such a proposition.—
No, my good sir, these two, these candi
dates tor the presidency, one of them still
abiding in the field, have argued the
question so thoroughly against their own
country, and so effectually in favor of tho
enemy (for Mexico is such essentially
and irreversibly) that under the time
serving submission of a majority ofthe
senate of the U. States, the south haspsp
bnbly lost forever an impregnable boun
dary, and a staunch ally in the hour of
danger and difficulty, and the whole U
nion one of the most productive and co
pious theatres for our commerce, naviga
tion, and manufactures in die whole
world.
As to the northern senators, who have
gone against us, we must leave them to
1 the tK-uleful garlands with which they
I will he crowded by the abolitionists of
their own country. They have certain
ly labored most successfully in the voca
(ion of our worst enemies. But what
| shall we say to the senators of the south,
1 who, from no other motive but to sustain
I Mr. Clay, and to prostrate Mr. Tyler
and Mr. Calhoun, have sacrificed the in
terests of their own states, by fixing us
forever in a hopeless, degraded and colo
nial minority ? Such au obedient senate
has certainly not sat since the time of the
Emperor Commodus.
I must confess I lake a very gloomy
view of public affairs. The south is di
vided, prostrate, nnd undone, and pros
trate and undone because she is divided.
There is no invocation among us uffici
ently powerful to recall the“buried warlike
and wise.’ and the living seem to have
no other fate but to diink deeply of the
waters of bitterness and humiliation.
I remain, mv dear sir,
With esteem, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. HAMILTON.
John J. Harper, Esq.
Webster says n national bauk is "an
obsolete idea.” Clay says “we want a
national currency,” and undertakes to
nrove that we ought to have a national
bank, because “England, France, Aus
tria, Russia, Holland, and all the great
powers of Europe (!) have their national
banks ” By the example ot those coun
tries lie could just as readily prove that
we ought to have a queen and babies by
a foreign husband, supported by a star
vin'’' people; that we ought to have a
kin*' and barricades; despotic and cruel
emperor#, nn<l ft population of ignorant
serfs, working (or two com* a day.