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The Polk Blood—Charge of Toryism mm in.
As tlie Messenger continues the pub
lication of th«foul aspersions aiul unman
ly slanders concocted by the political
vultures of the whig party to devour the
name of the patriotic and honored dead
to answer to the base and unholy pur
pose of the living, we publish to-day
for the benefit of the Messenger and all
concerned, sufficient proof to rescue the
name of a soldier and patriot from the
foul aspersions of the whole pack of po
litical slanders, great and small, who have
attempted to fix the charge of Toryism
upon the ancestry of James K. Polk.—
We submit the proof to our readers with
the single remark that these' certificates
wofo given when there could be no mo
tive for misrepresentation ; and that most
of them were originally collected and
published under the authority of the gen
eral assembly of North Carolina, not to
promote the base ends of party but to per
petual the testimony in support of an
important portion 6f her'early history—
and td place forever beyond the reach of
cavil her claim to the honor ot being the
first to throw off the tyranny of the Brit
ish ydke and proclaim herself a free and
independent state: and that North Caro
linian, whether in Georgia or elsewhere,
who dares impeach, in the face of all this
proof, the character «f one of thejpatriots
who participated so actively in the try
ing scenes of her early struggles belies
the fame of his native state and is a rec
reast to the glorious principles which
guided her re\ r olutionary struggle. Will
qur friends of the Democratic press in
. Georgia spread these certificates before
their readers that the people may see
what reliance can be plaGed in the state
ments of whig newspapers and whig oru
ors.
OAPT TACK’S CERTIFICATE,
As taken from the documents as publish
ed under the order of General As
sembly, at the session of 1930- 31.
Page 10— Getter C :
Having seen in the newspapers some
pieces in respect to the Declaration of
Independence by the pofle of Mecklen
burg county, in the state of North Caro
lina, in ?.fcy 1775, and being solicited
to state what I know in regard to that
transaction, 1 would observe, that some
time previous to ard at rime those
resolutions were agreed upon, I resided
in the Town of Charlotte in the county
of Mecklenburg—was privy to a number
of meetings of some of the most leading
and influoßtial characters of that county
on the subject before the final adoption
of thtt resolutions ; and at the time they
were adopted, among thoro who appear
ed to take the lead, may he mentioned
Hezekiuh Alexander, who generally act
ed as chairman, John McKnitt Alexan
der’, as Secretary, Abraham Alexander,
Adam Alexander, Maj. John Davidson
(afterwards Genera!,) M illiamDavidson,’
Col Tlios. Polk, EZEKIEL POLK, Dr.
Ephraim Brevard, Sam. Martin, Duncan
Ochletree, Win. Wilson and Rob’t. Irwin.
When the resolutions were finally a
greed upon, they were publicly proclaim
ed from the Court-house door, iu the
Town of Charlotte, and received with
every demonstration of joy by the inhab
itants. I was then solicited to be the
boarer of the proceedings to Congress,
and set out the following month, say
June, and in passing through Salisbury,
the general Court was sitting; at the re
quest of the Court J handed the resolu
tions to Col. Kennon, an attorney, and
they were read aloud in open court.
Major William Davidson and Mr. Avery
nu Attorney, called upon rrjp at my lodg
ing the evening after and observed they
had heard of but one person (a Mr. Beard)
but approved of .them.
I then proceeded on to Philadelphia, and
delivered the Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence of May, 1770, to Rich and
Caswell and William Hooper, the Dele
gates to Congress from North Carolina.
I am now in the SSth y***<r of my age,
residing iu the county ot Elbert in the
state of Georgia. I was iu die Revolu
tionary war from the commencement to
the close. I would further observe, that
the Rev’. Francis Cummins, a Presby
terian Clergyman, iu Greene county in
this state, was a student in the Town of
Charlotte at the time of the adoption of
the resolutions and is as well, or perhaps
better acquainted with the proceedings at
that titpe than any mtin now living.—
Col. Wni. Polk, of Raleigh N. Carolina,
was with his falhcr Fhomas in
Charlotte, then too young to be forward
in the business, yet the leading circum
stances 1 have related cannot have escap
ed his recollection.
JAMES JACK.
Signed, this 7th Dec. 1819, in presence
of JOB WESTON, c. c. o.
JAMES OLIVER, Att’y at law.
The following is a literal and true
copy of the original commission of < apt.
Ezekiel Polk of the revolution, viz :
“South Carolina.
fn pursuance of the resolutions ot the
Provincial Congress, we do hereby cer
tify that EZEKIEL POLK, Esquire, is
second Captain in the Regiment of Ban
kers in the Provincial service.
Dated the 18th day of June, 1775.
WM WILLIAMSON,
J. HARRIS,
THOMAS BEE,
ORAS. PINCKNEY,
ARTHUR MIDDLETON,
M. BREWTON,
TIIOS. HEYWARD, Jun.,
WM. H.’ DRAYTON,
JAMES PARSONS,
HENRY LA WRENS,
RAWS LOWNDES,
TIIOS. F ERG IS ON,
REV KI.IJDT*
The following is a copy of a let(er«of
Wm. Polk, now a citizen of Arkansas.
He is about seventy years old, and is the
eldest surviving son of Cant Ezekiel
Polk :
“Sept. 15th, 1840.
“ A/r. Edwin Polk :
Dear Sir : Yours of August 27th,
has come to hand this day, and 1 forth
with comply with your request. The
commission which Maj. Hills referred
you to, in my hands, I have preserved,
and now enclose it herein (after taking a
copy of it) and forward it to I
cannot believe for a moment that such
malignant, fabricated calumnies is or ever
will be believed. Knowing as Ido the
high standing of our father among the
other soldiers of the revolution during
the whole of his residence in N. Carolina.
And there is no man at this time more
venerated than that of old Capt. Ezekiel
Polk, both for his patriotism, unwavering
democratic principles, his talents aRd
stern integrity. I think it was near the
close of the revolution that him and Col.
William Polk obtained a Colonel’s com
mission (both about the same time,)
which title he ever after bore.
W ith high respect, yours
WILL. POLK.”
The following is a true copy of the
statement of George Alexander, viz :
“Panola co., Miss. March 25, ’4O.
Statement ot George Alexander con
cerning the life and character ot the late
Col. Ezekiel Polk, formerly of Mecklen
burg county, North Carolina, during the
revolutionary war.
I was acquainted with Col. Ezekiel
P >lk from the time he came to Mecklen
burg county from South Carolina. I al
ways understood that he was an officer
in the South Carolina Rangers, together
with Col. VV m. Polk, who was an officer
under his uncle Ezekiel Polk. This
Regiment of rangers perfoimed a cam
paign and dispersed the tories at Ray
burn’s Creek, where Col. Wm. Polk was
wounded. This was called the snow
campaign. After this, VV iliiam Polk (as
soon as he could be brought with safety
not yet recovered'Yrom his wounds) remo
ved to Mecklenburg county, N. Carolina,
I think about the year 1778, where my
personal acquaintance commenced with
him, it being also an intimate one.—
From my knowledge, he stood high a
mong the citizens of Mecklenburg coun
ty. Ho then farmed in Mecklenburg
county and accumulated property there.
When Cornwallis overrun the country
in 1780 and came to Charlotte, after
Gate’s defeat, there were no regular or
ganised troops in the field, and the coun
try was overrun, it was my understand
ing that then, in order to save his pro
perty from distribution, he, togethger
with others, took protection from Corn
wallis. When Cornwallis left Charlotte
for the South, he, Ezekiel Polk, remov
ed his property from Cornwallis’ protec
tion, a part of which was taken by Corn
wallis’ troops, when he was croSutss the
Yadkin. He went from there to Pennsylva
nia and returned in the summer of 1781.
That he was a tory, or acted in any wise
for, or with the British, 1 consider a slan
der against him and to be false. He
stood high among the citizens oi Meck
lenburg county.
(Signed) GEO. ALEXANDER.
‘ As to the protection of which George
Alexander makes mention in his affidavit
that Ezekiel Polk with others took under
Cornwallis after the defeat of Gate’s Ar
my and when there was no regularly or
ganized troops irt the field iu that part of
the state, those who know anything of the
ravages which followed the surrender of
Charleston when the British and tories
overrun the country with the sword of
death in one hand arid the torch of the
incendiary in the other, sparing neither
the honors of age, the helplessness of in
fancy, or the sacred cliims of woman,
will not be surprised that Ezekiel Polk,
who had been active in routing the tories,
and who had become obnoxious to them,
for the part he took against them should
have been compelled when the American
forces in that quarter were defeated, to
save his wife and children and property
from the ravages of an enemy more cruel
and unfeeling than the savage himself—
who ever heard of the brave and gallant
Col. Hayne being a tory? Yet he be.
came a victim and fell a martyr to Brit
ish tyranny and cruelty while a captive
after having been forced to entreat their
mercy and protection when every other
hope around him failed, and when all
was gloom and despondency in that part
of South Carolina. If this made Col.
Hayne a tory, then was Ezekiel Polk a
torv. And the man who makes the ac
cusation-of tory ism against’him after this
exposition of the matter, belies bis Amer
ican blood and is a tory at heart.
“ By my soul the work goes bravely on.”
The democratic republican party of
Jones held one of the largest and most
enthusiastic county meetings on Satur
day last at Clinton, which has been held
in that county for years ; at which the
o-reatest possible ardor and enthusiasm
prevailed among those present. The
meeting was addressed with great
ability by Hon. W. T. Colquitt, Messrs.
Junius Wingfield, of Putnam and Sam’l
M. Strong of this county. Our friends
in Jones seem fully aroused to the great
questions now before the country, and
we doubt not, they will bear themselves
with a gallantry in the coming conflict
Worthy Os their former deeds in the good
dernoorf>tj<’ cafpw’
Toryism.
The following certificates are just a
bout as importantand as rnuchtothe point
as the certificates the Messenger and
some other whig papers keep publishing
every week—and we doubt not that Abel
Mormon, was quite as familiar with the
incidents and history of Eden, as many of
these self-styled revolutionary soldiers
are with the history of Ezekiel Polk, and
other patriots of that period :
ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURE!!!
HENR Y CL A Yfound to be the lineal
descendant of that first old torv,
who brought death into the world and
all our woe f Shall this base author
of the fall be rewarded for his
treason in the person of his imme
diate descendant ? Read the fol
lowing certificate !
Nauvoo, July 4, 1844.
I hereby depose and certify that in the
year one I resided in Eden, and that 1
was well acquainted with its oldest in
habitant, Adam Adam, Esq. and with his
wife, Eve. At that time, the said Adam
was found guilty of a base and traitorous
ciime against the government, and, with
his wife, who was equally guilty,was sen
tenced to death, and all their posterity
were banished and outlawed. And I
further certify and depose that I know
Henry (flay, Esq. the present whig can
didate for the presidency, and am well
acquainted with his pedigree and his re
gular descent; and I know him to be an
“ immediate descendant" of the aforesaid
Adam and Eve, who were old tories and
traitors, known and reputed to be such
from the time of their conviction and con
demnation unto this day.
(Signed) ABEL MORMON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
ENOCH METHUSELAH, J P
I hereby certify that Enoch Methuse
lah is a magistrate duly appointed and
qualified, to whom full faith and eredit
should be given. And further, that lam
well acquainted with Abel Mormon, and
have no doubt that the aforesaid facts,
stated by him, are Veritable and true.
Given at Nauvoo, July 10,1844.
[seal] (Signed) JAPHET HAM, CFk.
AMERICANS ! —Will you give your
votes for the descendant of the fi st, the
original tory and traitor —the author of
so much misery, and the exemplar of so
much crime ? No, never! It never
shall be said that the free and virtuous
voters of these states will raise to their
first magistracy the depraved offspring
of such an ignominious ancestry !! No,
No !
For president who would desire
The sinful son of such a sire 1
How can the country e’er he saved
By one born “totally deprared V'
Sons of the pilgrims! grasp in hand
The weapon which the laws command;
Which rifle halls nor pistol locks
Can ne’er withstand —the ballot-box.”
Onward the Ball ot Victory holds its way.
From the icebound hills of Maine to
the beautiful shores of the Gulph—from
the broad atlantic to the valliesof the far
West, the great democratic ball is bear
ing down all opposition. Hundreds are
leaving the whig ranks daily. Those
who have hitherto acted with them, are
losing all confidence in the piebald a
malgamation of the present leaders of
the whig party. The “Hickory State,”
is shaking herself like a young giant :
“ The Nashville Union says, Mr. W.
A. Lindsay, formerly a prominent whig
of East Tennessee, addressed the demo
cratic association of Knox county on the
15th ult. declaring that he had “parted
with the whigs forever.” Alluding to the
charge of the Feds that democrats had
stolen Tyler’s thunder, in taking up
the Texas cry. he said, “This is not John
Tyler’s thunder, but it is American
thunder ; and its peals will yet be so
loud, deep and startling as to drive the
affrighted coons back to their caverns and
caves.” Orville Bradley of E. Tenn.
an active and powerful supporter of Har
rison in ‘4O, a man of wealth, great poli
tical knowledge, and predominating in
fluence, is now exerting himself with
equal efficacy for Polk, Dal las and Tex
as. W<’ are informed by a gentleman, from
Nashville, a distinguished man m our
state,that Mr. Thomas Brown , of King
ston, for many years pasta whig and al
ways opposed to Mr. Van Buren, has
written to Gen. Jackson, assuring him
that he was now with him for Polk and
Texas —and that thousands of his friends
and acquaintances would join him in re
nouncing Clay. Mr. B. is well known
as a man of influence to many of our
townsmen.”
The ‘Buckeye’ state is determined to
keep pace with her democratic sisters ;
she too, is buckling on her armor and
rushing to the conflict with an impetu
osity as irresistable as the floods of her
mighty river:
“In Ohio, the Statesman says, ‘James
Shewnrd, a most talented citizen of Musk
ingum county, a supporter of Harrison
in ’4O, and of whigery previously, and
liis son, an eloquent stump speaker and
Harrison whig, both now go with the
democracy.’ So of Tho’s Alsop, a lead
ing whig of Holmes county, and secreta-
the Clay Club—says" the Bucytus
Republican. So of John F. Thomas, of
Alien county, Ohio, of John McGregor,
H.C. Johnson, Sam’l Wolf, 1.. V. Frizzle,
J. Bunker, Ja’s Treat, all of Wadsworth,
Ohio, Harrison whigsin’4o, warmfriends
of Polk now ; so of John W. Estill of
Columbiana county—and the New Lis
bon Patriot says, “There arefnllysix hun
dred men in Columbiana, who supported
Harrison in ’4O, that no inducement cun
make vote for Henry Clay.” We have
no room to record the lengthy catalogue
of new converts in Ohio.”
The people are preparing for the great
political dance [the Polka.) and when
the hall fairly opens, the democracy will
lead the whigs such a round and leave
them so far below the foot of the figure,
that they cannot dance up in twenty
years.
The Doctors Disagree,
The New York Express, Tribune and
other leading whig Journals at the north,
are laboring hard to prove that James K.
Polk is a free trade man of the strictest
sect. The Georgia Journal. Southern
Recorder, and other whig papers in this
state, are laboring equally as hard to
prove that he is in favor of a high pro
tective tariff, and that the tariff is no lon
ger an issue. Which of those great do
ctors of whigery can the people believe ?
I rawfard.
From this sterling democratic county,
we have the most cheering intelligence.
Our friends there are getting up their
meetings to enlighten the people upon
thegreatissuesbefore them,and if they go
on in the good work, the whigs will not
have a handtul left in that county to bear
the tidings ot their defeat to their dis
comfited brethren, in the adjoining coun
ties. In every change that has occur
red around her, Crawford has always
stood firm in the true republican faith,
and breasted the reeling shock of the ene
my, with more that) Spartan firmness.—
We were informed by an intelligent citi
zen of that county a few days since, that
she was bestirring herself to present an
unbroken front ot her unconquerable de
mocracy at the Mass Convention lobe
held here on the 22d. We bid them
welcome, and assure them that there are
none to whom the democracy of Bibb
would more gladly extend the right hand
of democratic cordiality.
The democracy of Twiggs.
There is no county in this district that
can boast a nobler and more gallant set
of true democrats than our neighboring
county Twiggs. Steadfast in attach
ment to principles; in success or in
defeat, in sunshine or in storm ; they are
always ready to give willingly and liber
ally, and contribute.in every way to ad
vance the great interests of the party.—
We understand that the most liberal do
nations of supplies for the great Mass
Convention to be held in this city on the
22d, have been offered by the democracy
of Twiggs, and that the gallant yeoman
ry of that county, will rally by hundreds
to join their democratic friends at this
place on the 22d. This is the right
spirit,and that man who dallies now when
the institutions and liberties of his coun
try are imperiled, is a dastard, and un
worthy the name of democrat.
Whig Patriotism.
As the Messenger and its party profess
so much regard for the patriots of the re
volution, as well as for the soldiers of the
last war, will it inform its readers what
party voted to allow the traitor Hull, his
pay after the treason was committed; and
what party voted against refunding the
fine imposed on the patriot Jackson, by
a tory Judge, during the defence of New
Orleans ?
Rhode Island.
Some of the whig papers are crowing
over the easy prospect of getting this
state, at the Presidential election. They
say that 700 fre*. persons of color, have
been lost to our party there on the
Texas question. We were not aware
that free persons of color were allowed
a vote in a state where thousands of her
free white citezens are denied that in
estimable previlege without a property
qualification. But, if it is the case, let
little Royal Rhody tro, and joy be with
her. We would not have our glorious
democratic triumph soiled by the vote of
this mongrel British, and abolition state.
The whigs are welcome, thrice welcome
to her. We wonder if the anti-slavery
| carricatures received by some of the
whigs in this place last week, hailed from
little Royal Rhody ? Who can tell ?
Col. Polk—Toryism.
The Messenger is still harping upon
the exploded slander of toryism against
j Col. Polk, and his ancestry. That pa
| per of last week says, that, “There are
hundreds of N. Carolinians in Georgia,
who are familiar with the tradition, and
who have always heard from their infan
cy, that old Ezekiel Polk, was a British
tory.” We challenge the proof of any
respectable man from North Carolina or
any where else, who knows of himself
any such thing, and we want something
more than nursery tales and foolish tradi
tions from self styled revolutionary
soldiers, who are about as familiar with
the incidents and perils of the revolution,
as they are with the invasion of Egypt
by Cambyses, or of the private history
ofPrester John of Abyssinia. We can
prove by as good authority as they can
the reverse, that Ezekiel Polk was not a
tory during the revolution.
As to the charge against Col. Polk, for
voting against the old soldiers of the re
volution, that is a specimen of little spe
cial pleading that is as unfair as it is tin
candid. Why don’t the Messenger give
the whole of the facts in the case, and lay
before its readers, the details of the bill
against which Mr. Polk voted. Was not
the same bill opposed by almost the en
tire southern and southwestern delega
tion, then in Congress, as well as Mr.
Polk, upon the ground that it would open
the sluices of unnumbered frauds upon
the country, as well as be a powerful
auxiliary in perpetuating another sys
tem of frauds and plunder, under the in
creased burthens of an already onerous
tariff?
[communicated.]
To Hampileti.
Although you have retreated behind
the mighty name of Hampden, from
whence to dart in cowardly security,
your envenomed shafts poisoned with
all the rancorous malignity that per
sonal envy can suggest or political ha
tred invent, you cannot well disguise
yourself: the public is not deceived in
your identity and will appreciate your
motives as they deserve.
It were a wearisome and profitless task
to review minutely the barren and un
meaning verbiage which constitutes the
staple of your first number; reminding
one more of the stilled productions of the
numerous fashionable lectures which
have deluged the public ad nan serin for
some years past than of the sober deduc
tions of reason and argument: and al
though you have thrown the lion skin of
Hampden over your shoulders you could
not “sink the shop” and the bray has be
trayed you. As you have assumed the
character of a moral teacher ns well as
that of a political censor, I will ask you
does temperance consist only in absti
nence from intoxicating drinks, or would
not a just view of the scripture maxim of
“temperance in all things” suggest more
charitable feelings towards our fellow
rnen than is evinced by Hampden? I
have looked attentively over your first
number, and find it made up with grand
iloquent and trite expressions, meaningno
thing; affected wailings over Col Chap
pell’s alleged treason to the whig party;
and abuse of nullification, of which you
wereoncean ultra advocate. You ring the
changes on Maohiavel, Caesar, Cincin-
Brutus, Dorr, Lucifer, and other
worthies illustrious in sacred and profane
history. But yourallnsioutoßrutnsis un
fort u nate, for Caesar was a usuiperand like
Mr. Clay, wished to erect a splendid des
potism upon the ruins of the republic.
He fell by the hand of the patriot Brutus
whose name has since been the synon
yme of all that is great and glorious
in the noble passion of patriotism—
Brutus was encompassed at Phi!l ippi by
the minions of tyranny and fell a martyr
upon the altar of freedom; and Col. Chap
pell may be hunted to his political death
by the miniature triumvirate that aspires
to rule or ruin the political destinies of
the third congressional district. But if
he is slain by these modern Romans his
friends will be consoled by the reflection
that he fell in a noble cause, and that his
memory will be cherished when his de
tractors will be forgotten or remembered
only to be despised. You weep over
the pretended treason of Col. Chappell
—cease your crocodile tears. I can fur
nish you with a proper subject upon
which to exhaust the gushing fountains
of your sensibility. Weep for the shame
ful and reckless abandonment of princi
ple by a party who once boasted the
proud motto, “ Principles not men.”—
You accuse Col. Chappell of treachery
and treason—treachery to whom, treason
to what? Has he committed treachery
against persons who irrogate tobe the em
bodiment of whig principles in this dist. ?
ifhe has, I challenge the proofs. Has lie
been guilty of treason by abandoning the
principles professed by the whig party of
1S40? If so, I again demand the proofs,
and not the vague declamatory abuse of
vindictive partisan writers. Every hon
est man in the whig party must admit
that Col. Chappell now maintains the
same doctrines that that party professed
as their rule of faith in 1840, with one
exception—l allude to the Bank —and
the same change has been forced upon
the minds of tens of thousands of other
honest men since that time. If this ren
ders Col. Chappell justly liable to your
reiterated charges of ar.ostacy and trea
son, what will become of many of the
leaders of your party ? You well know
the apostney of J. M. Berrien from the bol
dest advocacy of Free Trade to the most
shameless advocacy of a protective tariff.
Is Hampden mute? I would draw your
attention to the Hon. T. Butler King’s
powerful denunciation of Clay, the Bank
and tariff in ’39. “ Henry Clay is the fa
ther of the American system, and now
seeks to be the father of a $50,000,000
bank. Such a parent, leagued with such
a progeny, would convert this union into
an unmitigated despotism, or break it in
to fragments. He lias to bribe the man
ufacturer with a National Bank, &c.”—
Don’t you know sir that this same man
now unblushingly advocates Mr. Clay &.
all his heresies ?" Where is Hampden’s
righteous indignation 7 I now come to
one of the most remarkable and promi
nent instances on record of change ,
change. Would Hampden call it aposta
cy—treason? It cannot have escaped
your observation. I allude to the Hon.
E. A. Nisbet, who said in. eloquent lan
guage some time since u that opposition
to the bank, tariff, &c. laid deep in the
elements of our party organization.—
That the world might turn around us
but our principles cannot change.” Yes,
The stars shall fade away,
Th’ sun himself grow dim with age,
And nature sink in years.
Or in the language of Hampden, “ the
steadfast king'of day may wheel back
wards to his orient berk but we shall nev
er become the advocates of a U. S. Bank
or a Protective Tariff.”
Are you not aware, and all the world
(in Macon) that this gentleman is now
the advocate at least of all these things.
Where is the consuming lightningand the
dread thunder of I la.npden’s vengeance ?
Echo answers where. Imightgothrough
a long list of whig leadets and editors
equally unchanged and unchangeable,
but these will do for the present. If Col.
Chappell is as you say, a traitor, a Ma
chiavel, anda Benedict Arnold, forcoming
out from such a set of political pnritane,
pray tell me most potent Hampden what
these men are? You accuse Col. Chap
pell of changing from a party. I say
you have apostetised from your princi
ples. You accuse him of treason. Isay
yon are ready to sell your couutry for
an office. Ijwill pass now to your re
marks in reference to the lamented Up
shur. Who made you mi exponent of the
decrees of Heaven and of the will of the
great I AM towards his creatures?—
Hampden impiously presumes to be the
oracle of Heaven upon earth and reads its
providence to the nation. In allusion to
the negotiation of the treaty for the re an
nexation of Texas, this canting mor
alist, this federal blue light says “The
treaty is concluded—not signed, for Prov
idence paralysed the hand of the Secre
tary,” and leaves it to be inferred that the
Secretary was struck down by the hand
of death because he negotiated the treaty.
Has it never occurred to this political
Pharisee that
“ Bigolry may swell
The sails she spreads for Ileav’n with hlastafrom hell!”
It Providence struck down Secretary
Upshur for his connexion with the Tex
as treaty, by whom, and for what was
Gen. Harrison stricken down ? As you
have taken it upon yourself to explain
the Providence Os Heaven in one of these
cases, you can doubtless do so in the
other.
In conclusion, I will only remark in
passing, that the futile charges made by
Hampden against Mr. Calhoun, and the
motives he ascribes to him in connexion
with the Texas treaty are so senseless
and absurd in themselves and so entirely
unsupported by any credible authority,
that they are the best proof how few are
the points on which calumny can assail
him. BRUTUS.
A BANNER.
The Democratic Republican voters
of Bibb, propose giving a handsome Re
publican Banner to the county having
the largest Delegalion in attendance at
the Mass Convention, to be held in this
city, on Thursday, the 22d inst.: and
would respectfully call the attention of
their Democratic brethren in every coun
ty, to the Banner offered by Democratic
Bibb ; and hope each will go to work,
with a determination to hear off the prize.
TO RENT.
THE Dw’gHouse occupied by S. Menard, Esq. >
Os Bridge Street. (
K. F. Lewis, 1
On Bridge Street. >
“ “ “ “ Mrs. Thomas, /
Over Graves’, Kibbee, ACo., Commerce Row*. S
“ “ “ “ Mrs. Bivins, l
State Bank Ga. (
F. Sims, Esq. >
Cent. R. Road Bank. J
I. G. Seymour, )
OnChcrby Street. (
Several Brick Store* on 3d Street, and one do. >
On Cherry Stbert. (
One Ware house opposite R. McCall’s bouse, i
On Third Street. ,
Apply at Bank State Ga. to
ISAAC HOLMES, Agent.
Macon, August 7—l2—6t.
IlitlUS.
\ GENERAL stock of DRUGS AND MEDI
i a CINES receiving, of the best selection. All
persons wishing to purchase will be supplied with
superior articles on fair terms.
ALSO
Patent Medicines.
ROWAND’S TONIC,
BALSAM OF LIVERWORT,
BERNARD’S CHOLERA REMEDY,
EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA,
TOMATO PILLS,
PETERS’ Do
HULL'S Do &r. &c.
ALSO, American Gentlemen’s shaving Soap.
Rousell’s superior shaving Cream.
Superior old French soap
Do American,
Pearlash.
Potash.
Salaratus.
Vinegar.
Starch, &c. 4c. For sale by
.1. H. * W. S. ELLIS.
Cotton Avenue, Macon-
Maeon, August 7. 12—ts
Northern Irish Potatoes
I Q BBLS. fresh Northern Irish Potatoes received
J. O yesterday—and will be sold by the barrel or
otherwise. C. A. ELLS.
Macon, July 31, 1841.
W. M. RUSSELL,
Portrait Painter
NOT from New York, but from the back woods of
Georgia, has the audacity to offer his professional
services to the citizens of Macon, where so many
northern Artists have successfully flgApd. He de
fies all competition.
Room opposite the Floyd House, over Dr. M. S.
Thomson’s Botanic Drug Store.
Macon, July 31, 1844. 11—ts
7V»»lic*.
ALL persons Indebted to the estate of Thomaa
Seals, late of Warren county deceased, are re
quested to n.ake payment. Those having demands
against aaid estate, must present them according to
law. R. BURNLEY, Adm’r
SI. A. SEALS, Adni’x
July 8, 1344. tl-40d
New Yotk Equitable
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Ci!|iitiil $300,000.
HOUSES, Merchandize, Cotton in Ware Houses,
and Furniture insured against loss or damage
by fire. ISAAC HOLMES, Agent.
Macon, June 266 —ts.
Received this day,
A LARGE lot of fancy Soaps, Cologne Water,
and a general assortment of fancy articles, and
for sale by JAMES W. BAILEY.
July 10
Receiv ed this day,
5 CASKS Po,aßh ’ for “IaMES w. BAILEY.
July 10 8