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AfIEBOMKIUin tMMgMXDIBiIOa - "nr - _ t «. Hit moM perfect Ooveimueiit would he that which, emanating directly from the People, Governs leist —Costs least —Dispenses Justice to all. and confers Privileges on None.—PENTIUM. BY T. & REYNOLDS. AMERICAN, DEMOCRAT, PUBLISHED WEEKLY OVER OLD DARIEN BANK. MULOERUY STREET, MACON, GA. AT 5 2,50 JiKUM, s3“li» variably Paul m Advaiui*«cs Rates of Advertising, &c* Oie *qu ire, ol 100 worJs, or less, in # einnll type, Tj rents tar )'• ir«t iiwerlit»».» and oO cents for each subsequent laser i OQ. \ii Advertisements containing more than 100 anil less than words, will be charged as two squares To Yearly Advertisers, a liberal deduction will be made. N. B. Sales of LAND, by Guardians, are required, Wy to be held on the firs'* Tuesday ill the month, between the hours of 10 in the fore noon and3 in the afternpoto, at the Court House in the Coun ty in which the property is situate*. 7 Noiic*» oI these must he »ivcn in a public Gazette, SIjCTY DAYS, previous to the jay of sale. Sales of PERSONAL PROPERTY, must be advertised iri crhe same manner, FORTY DAYS previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be pul' lishSU FOlltY Days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordi lar v for leave to sell LAND, must be published FOUR months. Sales of NEGROES, must be made at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the legal hours of stle at the place of public sales in the county where the let ters "testamentary, of or Guardianship, shall hive granted, SIXTY DAYS notice being previously _'iwn in one of the publicirazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-House, where such sales are to be held. Notice lui/ leave to sell NEGROES, must be published fo r fOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute shall be made th reon by the Court. \ business of iltis nature, will receive prompt attention, a thftjDfflce of the AMERICAN DEMOCRAT. REMITTANCES BY MAIL. —“ A Postmaster may en close money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a thiyi person, anji frank the letter, if written by himself.” Amoa Kendal! , P. MG. • ♦A 11 Letters of business must be adJiessed to the Publisher, Poet Paid. • ,sn> . li 5 d«i not suppose. EY TUO.M AS HAYNFS HAYLKY Oil! do not suppose that my hours A re always unclouded and gay ; *■ Or that l orns never mix witli the flowers Th t fortune husstreyv.il in uy way; When seen liy the Cold and unfeeling. We s nile through t!ie sorrows we feel: But smiles are deceitful—concealing The wounds which they never can heal The* world is a changeable ocean. And sunbeams and shadows abound While the surface Mt*u.s least in commotion, The ro<Ks ol misfortune art* found A nil monis the pilot*, who, steering, » , Of*every billow thwisport, fciees the gale of prQsjierity veering Which promised lb w ift him to port. Our hopes are the gales tint’ serenely ’Waft onward our sails as we float ; Our tears are the whirlwinds that keenly O’erwhelm our poor perishing boat; And reason’s the beacon that gives us Its light through life’s perilous way, . Eut fully s the ray that deceives us * A nd leads us too often astray. Our moments of mirth may he many, And hope half our sorrow beguiles; But beliavcrtne,There can iot he any Whose features arc always in snides The heart may he sad and repining, fhough cheerfulness brightens the scene, Asa goblet with gems may :»#• sliininj. fhougli bitter the portion within * •littering volume msv cover • \ sterv of sorrow and wo; ill night's gayi !*t ii.rh-ors may . V\ her. dangers It lurking b. low Thus ofl. in t! e unsiiine ot g 1 Th • cheek arjd the eve ;«.«> • dr».-t, Whilst t*eelu -ul i- t m sadn - secret rs * iMyim-’ - v-«■ ■IL" MISCi LLA S'Y. . AuH'ULliviitu stow of .llau Ancient atheistical wliters have pre tended, that men, like inpslwopjis, sprang spontaneously,from and owed their origin to chance, while modern ma terialists very gravely inform us, that their primordial Qxistynce was a necessa ry effect, of we know not what mysteri ous arrangement in their beloved chaos : and some learned naturalists have as wisejy calculated and ascertained the.dif ferent epochs, wherein the primeval el ements of naturc'severally concurred in tha formation of the universe—without, however, condescending to acquaint us hy what .mysterious influence mankind, or the animal species, or the vegetable world, could start forth, from a globe ot chrystal,ail on fire (no matter how) from eternity. Certainly these gentlemen have each of them the merit-of eccentricity.— But their sublime theories will not bear | the light; they quickly disappear when confronted with the simple and unaffect ed narrative ot the sacred historiographer of the book’of Genesis. In the begin ning'God created heaven and earth. . lie said, let light be made , and light was made. And again he said : let us make man to our own image and like ness ; and God created man to his men image. By these lew words we learn our origin : what we owe to God and to ourselves, and what we are to hope trom the bounty of our great Creator. Is then God corporeal like man, ns the -Mateiou.ites of old, the Manichees, the philosophers of the fourth age, and the iuAdeis ot the eighteenth, with o, the present day, erroneously infer ? By r.o means: the principal and the jioblcsf part of man is the soul. This soul is git ted with understanding—with a will and memory, and liberty of action ; is capa ble of knowing, loving, and adoring her Creator. In this it is, that man is like to God In answer to some speculatists, we won and ask, \Y hat then would l e the state ol Adam and Eve.at the moment of their production ; what their felicity before they mrfeited their innocence: and what would have been their future destiny and that of their |iosteriiy, had neither the one nor the other of them fallen into sin? These are queries very interesting, but concerning which holy sciipture has ex plained itself with much reserve. It in forms us that God created man in right eousness and in justice; consequently, not merely exempt from vice, but endow ed, moreover, with sanctifying grace, which rendered him agreeable in the eyes ol his Divine Majesty. It informs us, too, that man was created immortal at least in this sense, that he had it in his power to escape death by avoiding sin ; death having entered into the world hy sin only, and the malice of the devil. — We are likewise given to understand that God had been pleased to communicate to our first parents the science of the spirit. He filled their heart with n isdom and shewed them both good and evil. — Hence it follows that the state of the first man, previous to his fall, was astute of great felicity, although his happiness was not complete, inasmuch as he was liable to forfeit by disobedience that original justice in which he was created, togeth er with all the gifts and privileges annex ed to it. A more consummate beatitude was destined to be the fruit of his volun tary and tin necessitated perseverance in good. How long this probationary state of our first parent might have continued, in order to his peifect confirmation in justice and inadmissibility of grace, the Holy Spirit has not thought good to re veal to men. Had be persevered in tact, his offspring would have enjoyed the prerogative of original justice it. which lie was himself created ; each individual ofl is posterity, would, perhaps, like him have been subjected to temporary laws, exposed to the danger of violating them, and oflorfeiting as he did, all the privile ges of innocence. This is the opinion of the learned Estius, and of the great St. Augustine. On a variety of other questions regard ing which holy scripture is silent, let us beware of imitating the- rich curiosity of our proto-parent Adam ; nor presumptu ously approach the tree ot knowledge in quest of a forbidden fruit. But, why cries modern incredulity with the ancient Manichees—why impose a law on man, and lay on him an injunction which God foresaw that he would disobey? I an swer : because man being created a free agent, lie had it at his option to obey, and strictly ow and obedience to his great Creator, it is by free will, as much as by his understanding that he is distin guished from the brute: and Almighty God most justly required of him a testi mony of submission, in acknowledgment of the benefit of life and oilier blessing conferred upon him; and in con ormily with the universally established disp n sation- of Providence it is expedient that t! . hu pi ness o his civatnr s sho d not .. a -ift in ail respects abso lute i v .gratuitous, but a reoo up- nee mo, awarded to obedience and virtue. Nor ouglii the foresight which God had ot the prevaiication of Adam, in any wise to derogate from this et< rna! and infinitely wise mid equitable dispensation. When infidels also take offence, that God -lion and have prohibited the eating of the fruit which was to impart the knowl edge of good and evil, they affect not to mideistand what kind of knowledge is here in question. Adam possessed al ready the knowledge of moral good and evil, as we learn from sacred writ. He would else have been as incapable of sin ning as the infant that litis m>t yet attain t'd the use ot reason. But he had not the knowledge of physical evil, which he had never yet experienced. He had no idea o» that confusion and remorse at tendant upon guilt. After his sin he was sensible of both, and was thus ena bled to compare happiness with misery and grief: such was the experimental knowledge , from which Almighty God in his goodness was wishful to preserve him. In this sense alone could ilie eat ing of the forbidden fruit communicate to man the knowledge of good and evil. The sacred historian has again incur red the jeering sarcasms of profane ca-, villers—in relating how Eve was temp- , ted, and the melancholy result of her prevarication. To these wise s| cculut ists, the narrative ap|>ears, in many in- j stances, absurd. First —they do not conceive the serpent to he more saga-! cious than the rest of his fellow-animals, nor how he could enter into conversa tion with Eve, or fie said to be accursed more than other reptiles like himself. — With respect to the superior sagacity of the serpent, we are not sufficiently acquainted with the serpentinian species, to pronounce how tar precisely it may extend : the extraordinary facts authenti eally recorded ot some other animal, ap pear at first not less fictitious and iucred flile. Doubtless, the wicked spirit mat have been permitted to converse \v ib Eve through the organ ol the serpent, MACON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, ISI4. and Eve, very possibly, had not yet ex perience enough to know whether an animal were naturally capable, or alto gether incapable of speech. That there exists a great variety of tins species of cron ures, is a fact well known to naturalists, and to travel lers : some winged and extremely heau *ifill, which, like the featheied race, can waft themselves with great facility thro’ the air. Consequently it is n~t certain, that some which now crawl upon the ground, did so originally; nor whether the serpent spoken of in the hook of Genesis might not belong to the latter class. Again, we are not sure that none among the different species of serpents actually eat earth for their food ; were this a fact it would sufficiently verify the malediction pronounced against that spe cies for tempting Eve to sin. According to sacred writ, Adam’s pen itential cour e was very long; he lived nine hundred and thirty years. This j long life Almighty God was pleased to grant him, in order the more easily to perpetuate among his descender) ts,the tra dition of those grand truths to which he himselt was qualified to give the strong est attestation, as having received them personally from his Maker, and could mankind desire an instructor more ven erable, or more worthy their a (ten lion ? But—without that promise ot his merci ful Creator, respecting the Redeemer to i be revealed in future ages, Adam must oft have been exposed to the temptation of despair, upon witnessing the frightful evils of every description, which his sin unfortunately entailed upon mankind.— None, however, among the fathers ot the church, have ever entertained a doubt ol his salvation : all without exception were persuaded, that this inestimable blessing was secured to hint by our common medi ator Jesus Christ. Trogress of Geographical discovery in Abyssinia. Meliemet Ali, Pa-ha of Egypt, recent ly sent a party under command of Cap tain Solim ol t lie marines, to explore the country adjacent to the White Hiver, o\e of the principal branches of the Nile, the source of which lias never been discover ed. Capt. Selim was provided by the Governor of Sentiaar with boats, an es cort of 250 men, and provisions for seven months, and took bis departure from Kartown. The accounts given of these curious geographical researches is pub lished in the Cairo Gazette from which we extract the following passage: On a*.tain ng the island of Lesnnkis cliahonr, we found the villages of Ma kok, of Siam, of Chalkan, of Josmalin, and of Oschira. The country very agreeable, and fertile in maize, tobacco, gourds, beans, sesame; we also saw little cott li growing. In this region the riv er is infested with hippopotamus—an en counter with which is dangerous, for they easily break in pieces or sink boats. We saw many of these monsters stretched on the banks in the hot sun.— Captain Selim frequently fired his mus ket at them; but whether they were too ..-,r Ms, or their skins too hard and thick lie penetrated by balls, none of them \e e |<i"ed or (apparently) wounded.— lightened hy the report of the gnu, they mhi g and into the river atiJ we lost sight of them, lbuvever the expedition con tinued to ascend the river, passing through a dry and desolate country, sometimes bristling with mountains mil sometimes immense plains boundless to our view. Alter great fatigue and nu merous pet its, we arrived among a tribe whose custom it is to cast all their dead into the waters of the Nile, instead of burning or burying them. For many miles along the front of the villages, which are quite populous, the river hore human bodies, some mutilated, and some in high putrefaction. All along the river edges and "on the bottom where the wa ter was shallow, we saw human remains, on some of which birds of prey were feasting, while a horrible stench infected the air. Onr boats often, wjiile seeking a passage over the sandy bottom, struck against corpses buried partly in the sands; and then the corpses being disturbed, drifted further down the stream. No thing can give an idea of the horror of this spectacle; and what added lo it, was whole flocks of birds of prey hovering over the river and devouring their fright ful, feast. Gorged with their food, some w re unable to rise on the wing, and re mained stupid on the sandy shore until the burning rays of the sun had hastened and completed the labor ot di.estiou. — But this awful prey was disputed with them by very numerous crocodiles. Captain Selim states that he saw one of those terrible amphibious animals go out of the river, hearing a corpse between his jaws, the weight of which dill not seem to discompose him. The crocodile carried his booty to the middle of a small island covered with reeds, when he dis appeared from view, but we heard the noise of his formidable jaws cutting and crushing whole limbs. This expedition did not succeed entirely in its object. It reached toe mount insol Abyssinia with out being able to discover the sources o. the Nile, particularly of that branch cub ed White Nile. The Natives said ii would require two years to reach the source. Great wealth amt rxlieme poverty in one Family. There lives, or rather subsists in an old hovel on an obscure street in ibis me tropolis, an infirm destitute widow lady, who hasrenched her ninetieth year. Her first husband was one of two brothers of an ancient wealthy Dutch family. She was young and beautiful; lie was ardent, wild and brave. On the morning of the memorable twenty-sixth of August, 177 ti she encouraged her gallant husband to leave her at the welcome mansion of his parents, and Lo cross over to Brooklyn to battle the invading British tfoops. Near the close of the disastrous conflict he fell, nobly, at the head of bis volunteers at Busliwick. Tlip bells tolled bis fimer ial knell in this city, amidst the terror and appalling evacuation of the whole whig population, leaving their homes to the overwhelming army of their oppress ors. The young widow fled into ob scurity, afterwards married another vic tim of liberty, who left her in poverty to rear a family, who remain poor to this day. She encountered a succession of ad versities, and finally; after a lapse of fifty years was impelled by dire necessity to apply to the aged surviving brother of her first love. He had taken and kept all the property and income of his only bro ther that had valiantly laid down his life for his country, and for his kindred —he ! also retained the immense estate of their father. The old patriot wept over Ins i long lost sister, and exclaimed, I will do her justice and more than justice, for 1 j loved her like an old sister, but subse quently the evil councils of those who watclnd over his declining years and his increasing estate, prevailed on him to turn her off with a small pittance.— The arrogant threats of a master spirit and her declining years and pinching want induced her to accept the scanty offer; her protracted life ha* outlasted this small portion of her own just rights. The venerable brother has departed hence. The vast estate has passed into the possession of three or four relatives ! who may walk from their splendid and luxurious mansions in twenty minutes to the comfortless abode of their aged I aunt, behold her destitution and listen to ! her moaniugs and faltering imprecations. —Evening Post. The vit and. advantage of a defect.. — Mons Ik 1 riot, being an eye-witness of an Indian battle, caught the general spirit of l the affray, and, as he afterwards said of himself, “fought like a famished lion !” when, unluckily, his pistol snap; ed in the face of a Sioux warrior, who struck him a blow that felled him to the earth.— j Stepping lightly over the formofhis pros trate fine, the savage grasped a knife in Ins right hand, and seizing the luckless Frenchman’s hair with his left was about to sca'p him; when the knife dropped from his hand, and he stood for a mo ment petrified with astonishment and horror. The whole head of hair was in his left hand, and the white man sat grin ning before him, with a smooth shaven jerown! Letting fall what he believed ! to be the scalp of some devil in human i shape, the affrighted Sioux fled from the spot; while Beriot, replacing his wig, muttered hulfaloud, “ Bravo ma bonne permiuc! je te dots mille remcrcineus !” How SCHOLARS ARE MADE. — TIIC Hon. Daniel Webster makes the follow ing pithy lemark in relation to scholars ; “Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets h ive no magical power to make scholars. In all circumstances, ns a man is, under God, the masterof his own fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The ( reator has so constituted the human in tellect, that it can grow only bv its own action, and by its action it most certainly and necessarily grows. Every man must, therefore, in an important sense, educate himself. His books and teach ers are but helps : the work is his. A man is not educated until he has the a bility to summon, in case of emergency, all his mental power in vigorous exer cise to. effect his proposed object. It is not the man who ha seen most, or who lias read most, who can do this; such a one i. in danger of being borne down like a E ast nfburden, by an overloaded mass of other men’s thoughts. Nor is it the man who can boast merely of native vigor and capacity. The greatest of all warriors that went to the siege of Troy had the pre-eminence, not because nature had given him the most strength, and car ried th** largest bow, but because self dis cipline taught him how to bend it.” Religion.—There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storms and tempests; there are thase whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity: there are those too, who have heard “ its still small voice” amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge that causeth not to err is mo t frequently impressed upon the mind during the seasons ol affliction ; and tears are the sofiened showers which cause (he seeds of heaven to spring and take root in the human heart.— Walter Scott. POLITICAL. From the "Sober Second 'Fiouykl.” Hurrah f.u- the Democratic Pyramid ! OHIO 22 MAINE 9 INDIANA 12 NEW-YORK 3fi ILLINOIS 9 VIRGINIA 17 A LA B A M A 9 MICHIGAN 5 MISSOURI 7 A R KANSAS 3 L O U I S I A N A 6 MISSISSIPPI fi NE W HAM PS H l R E. 6 SOU TII CAROLINA 9 P E N N 3 Y 1- V A N I A 20 183 Necessary to elect, - - 138 To spare, 45 Is there a stone in it that does not be long there? Let us see. Ohio. —What a splendid capital she makes for the column ! Ohio has now a democratic legislature and Governor. Her votes were cast for Harrison in 1840 by means of the most extensive, syste matic, and audacious pipe-laying ever perpetrated even by the whig party. It cant he done again. All the Kentucky whigs are wanted at home ; there is not one to spare. Maine. —Now democratic—(hat is to say, all of her that Webster did’nt sell to England. The people of Maine might as well be expected to vote for “re-an nexation to Great Britain,” as to vote for Henry Clay. But the whigs don’t claim Maine, 4 so there is enough said. Indiana. —Democratic now by thou sands. And since the whigs have es poused native Americanism, they can’t hope to come within sight of the win ning post in Indiana, to say nothing of the popularity of annexation in that state, or the aversion to Henry Clay for his hostility and numberless insults to the pioneers and squatters. Indiana is sure for Polk by 10,000. The Indiana American, a coon paper, lately said of Mr. Clay and his prospects : “ He never received the votes of Ohio or Indiana, and it is worse than idle to calculate that he ever will. YVe have heretofore excited all our strength for the election of Henry Clay—and we be lieve him superior to any man living —but it is worse than folly to endeavor to sustain him, whom the people have so often condemned. And although we woo and rather see him President than any man who has been named for that sta tion, still we believe he will he distanced more than 10,000 voles in this state, al this time or any time to come.” New York. —Our friends in this state would laugh at us for speaking of her vote as doubtful. Onr majority on the popular vote last fall was only 20,000 and upwards '; rather small number, to be sure, in the eyes of some hard-faced whigs, deciphned at “brag.” Every one in the state knows perfectly well that the coons only claim it because to give it up is virtually to abandon the field without an effort. Set down the vote of New York for Polk as inevitable! Illinois. —We have not yet seen a sin gle coon barking up this tree ; it would Ik; too evidently the wrong one. It is hard to remember the time when Illinois was a federal state. She is democratic now, and our mail, Governor Ford, is at this moment battling nobly for t lie su premacy of the laws over a reckless su perstitious nnb. Illinois is as safe ns New Hampshire; is’nt tha' safe enough? Virginia. —The Gibralterof democra cy. She never has given a icderal vote, and never will. About half of the “glori ous 'Tenth Legion” are subscribers lo the Sober Second Thought, and they all tell us that there is cor//*- de reserve in that part of the state more than strong enough to sink all the strongest whig counties put together. YY'e refer any whig, who dreams of carrying Virginia, to the “ Tenth Legion” generally. The Fre ling-huy-sen coons give up Virginia; they don’t p!ay “brag.” Alichigan. —The whigs will scarcely run a ticket in Michigan, except as a mat ter >f form. They intend to use as ma ny of the votes as possible in the western part of New York. Mr. Clay does not believe that Ylichigan is a state, (see his Raleigh speech,) of course he would not take her vote it he could get it. Here’s a sample of Michigan : Another sign. —At the militia train ing, on YYednesday, by the militia of this city and Humtrainck, a city coon propos ed to take a vote on the presidential ques tion, which resulted as follows : For Polk, .... 250 For Clay, .... 50 After this, the militia gave three cheers for Polk and Dallas. —Detroit Free Press. Missouri. —Thomas H. Benton repre sents Missouri, and has done so for some time past. Arkansas. —\Y r e have never heard of blit one coon in Arkansas; he was a no tably tat one, though, represented him self in the whig convention at Baltimore. That party in the state is perfectly uni ted, as mhy be supposed. VOL. II—NO 12. Louisiana. —The whigs don’t men tion it. Louisiana is just as strong for Polk as Texas would be. Mississippi. There is no use in spending time about the particular states of the southwest. The whigs give up the whole region. Mississippi is now democratic throughout her state govern ment. New Hampshire. —Need any one ask the price of twenty-shilling boots'/ South Carol rta votes through her legislature. She cast a unanimous vote for Martin Van Bureti, and probably will not do more for Polk and Dallas; any tiling less is not looked for from the no ble birth-place of Sumter, Lawrence and Calhoun. Pennsylvania. —The pedestal of the column—the key-stone of the democratic arch. We have the state now by more than 20,000. 'The whigs will undoub tedly carry Philadelphia hy an increased majority, provided the “ Native Ameri can” mob doesn’t clinch with Gen Cad wnllader’s brigade again. In Philadel phia there is not an even bet on the state to be found. Air. Clay does not hold that card. There our pyramid stands ! resting on the rock of Pennsylvania republicanism, and crowned by the gallant, aspiring head of young Ohio “Ilyporion’s ourls ; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the Herald Mercury, New-hghted on a heaven- kissing hill. There is not a state in the whole pile which is not already ours; and every letter we receive, and every messenger we meet, from any part of the Union, tells us of daily accessions to oar num bers. YVc are getting stronger every hour; already able to sweep the feder al Philistines from power, with our “ Young Hickory,” who is hold enough to define the limits of ottr power at the ballot-box when November shall arrive. Hurrah for Polk, the Young Hickory, Dallas and Victory. Fro ol V le Bjston Statesman. Texas and ihe i ederalists in ISl3—Texas nndthe Whigs in ISI4 The federal whig party have always been consistent in one thing: the prefer ence of Bi'tish interests and principles to American. 'They are now opposing the re-annexatinti of Texas, and prefer to have her a colony of Great Britain; and they were doing the same thing in her struggle for independence in 1813. The Poston Atlas of to-day stands on the 'Texas question just where the tory Pos ton Centinel stood in 1813, nndthe Post stands on the other side, where stood tfie Republican Independent Chronicle. — An extract, worth preserving, will show this identity of o!d and new parties. From the Boston Chronicle qf Sor. 15, I8E! “ Wherever the cause of Britain rears its snaky crest, federalism appears ;ts advocate. Whether Britain supports a horrid juggernaut in India, n cruel in | quisitiou in South America, or a tribe of ! savage bloodhounds in Canada to butch er our own frontier women and child ren, federalism of the pious Poston stamp is her most prominent advocate.” “ In the province of Teras, the inde pendents, after having been very success ful, have Ijitely met with a repulse from the British party, u'ho are fighting to subjugate the province to old Spain, un der the hope that England will cb;ve the French from the country, and get possession of it. The Boston Centinel , with its charac teristic zeal in lhe British cause, seizes upon this circumstance and exuiiingly proclaims that ‘theSpanish revolutionists have been completely disc-unfitted in Texas hy the loyal party!’ But this exultation will be of short duration. 'The great cause of Mexican independence will eventually prevail, and the centre of the Allonti be the jurisdiction boundary of every foreign despot. We hope the time is near at hand when the sceptre of no foreign tyrant will lie acknowledged in the new world; and even the vast do minion discovered by Columbus, after being purified of all foreign domination, will harmonize in every part.” There spoke the republicanism of 1812 when battling for the security of Ameri can independence In the annexation of Louisiana, they had carried out the democratic doctrine of Jefferson, '“to spread the blessings of freedom and equal laws.” In the annexation of Texas every true democrat must take the same republican side!of the question, and maintain the glorious doctrine of Jackson, ‘'extend the area of freedom .” Toryism, The following article from the Nash ville (Term) Union will be read with in terest by the friends of Mr. Polk. The Union is published in Mr. Polk’s neigh borhood : GOV. POLK’S ANCESTORS—REFUTA TION OF A VILE SLANDER. Every good man, without distinction of party, has seen with indignation and regret, a vile slander circulated through the whig papers—the Richmond (Va.) \Y hig, Louisville (Ky.) Journal, Mobile (Ala.) whig paper, and other kindred