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Mexico—they profess adherence as a separate the s.ncient seaport of our State. Bonfires
State to the Mexican confederation, and the blazed in front of the Exchange and of the
principles of the constitution of 1824, and offer | Hotel. Rockets, fire-works, &c. added to this
aid to such other States as will resist the cen. imposing array of popular feeling. Bands of
tral despotism now established. The declara- j music added their enlivening strains, and joy-
tion is published in aaotiicr column. The other ful anticipations glowed in the countenances of
documents are of considerable length. We j the assembled crowd. All of our citizens were
give an abstract of the principal topics of such animated by but one feeling. The whole scene,
MR. KING of Glynn expressed his preference for the
larger specie payment.
MR, WOOD of M'Intosh, The paper of other banks is
available; and there is no need of requiring mure than
twenty-five percent.
MR. POWELL. I have no objection to the amendment
of the gentleman from M'lRloeh; but I sec no grounds fur
The objections of the gemlemdn on tny right. The objec
tions are urged by the enemies of the bll; and 1 call on
the friends of the bill to sustain it, and to place this bank on
the same footing with othpr banks.
The amendment of Mr. Dunegan, as amended by the
motion of Mr. Wood, was agreed to
MR. MM.LLISTER then moved to strikeout that clause
which gives to the corporation a right to increase its stock. | a governor, lieutenant governor and rreneral
'^ MR.'l^NEG^NThvi?nioved'an additional section, pro- ! council, the last consisting of One member from
hibiting the bank from issuing notes under ths d.momina-1 each <»l the U1Uracipo. 1 ,,rtes, elected by the sepa-
tjon of twenty dollar: "" ’ ' - ?
with ths opinion of
that lie will not suffer ifie public money to be deposited
eny bank issuing smaller bills. ! tr;ion. In the governor and council arc vested
it will go into operation under the general law rcgu'^rfng j ^ 10 excc Utlve powers. i iiey are .expressly
the issuing of bills. I empowered to contract for not exceeding a mil- ; eracy
-Co 6 Scop l ' r 2‘ ,,,t W!W rp -i. ec , led ^ .. , , i lion of dollars, and hypothecate the public lands
MR. KELtsh proposed »■: stride &nt that clause au- . , „ , • * .
thorizing the employment in Uinking, of all money paid in I »s security, to impose and collect impoitanl du-
udvanre of a call. j ties for revenue, to treat with the Indians, es-
MR. M ALUSTF.n. 1 hopathc amendment will not.j taW j s ’ n p 0s!o fli ces and custom houses, to create
offices and appoint all officers, to organize, in
crease and reduce the public force, as the pub
lic emergency may require. The regular army
ef Texas is fixed at eleven hundred and fifty
men and a corps of rangers .of one hundred and
fifty men; all officered and subject to rules and
articles as in the army of the United States.—
Volunteers arc to be enlisted during the war,
trom issuing notes unuer nn a.momma- ; cacti 'u mu mor.icipa.bflCS, ClCCtCU DV Hie sepa-
trtxs j ra *° ® «>• «•**•*>»> y
iffcr ihe public monev to be deposited in i s Cd, and ine others to bo chosen by the consul-
tie admitted, t have lieurd no reason for it. I have beard
the gentleman from Glynn say, that the money may lie pnid
;.n advance, and used lbr banking purposes. By another
( louse in the charter, at regular instalments, n certain pro
portion of the money must be employed in building the rail
road. If it shall be jmid in advance, and employed in bank
ing, at £. proper time the credit must be transferred to the
railroad.
H1K. KING of Glynn. Eight years are allowed for the
campletiiin of the road; and as yet no capital has been call
ed in. If the stockholders choose to pay in advance, the
whole amount may lie used in hanking for two years. At
(he end of that tints, they may call in one instalment, and
employ the balance in banking. How can they ever bo re
quire to fransfi-r it to the rail-road, it the directors deem it
more profilable to employ it in banking? Perhaps thedirec-
tor* uill never come to the conclusion, that it may be em
ployed more profitably in constructing the road. The
words embraced in the amendment of the gentleman fiom
Jaeper, ought to be stricken out; because under them, the
corporation maybe made a bank for ihree millions.
MR. M’ALLISTER. A few days ago, the gentleman
from Glynn said, that be would support the bill, if it were
to create a bunk alone; he now opposes it, on the ground
that it may cr« ate a bank alone, 1 know that the gentleman
is not opposed to banks. lie cam'’ here, with n bank char
ter ready drailed in his pocket. The gentleman's construc
tion cf the bill is not just. By taking up detached pas
sages, you can make even the sacred scriptures mean any
thing. This bill, taken in all its parts, will not justify the
construction put on it by its enemies They speak, of the
i.nin 'tise value of its charter to the stockholders; but I
have the declaration of Mr. Sturges, of Robert Habersham,
of Joseph Gumming, of William T. Williams, that they do
rot believe this viluable charter to be worth one cent. It
is doubtful whether the corporation will be organized in two
years; and the only object of the twenty second section is
>f thorn as have reached us. ; in fact, was an exhibition ot that pride of State,
The provisional government is composed of i which refuses to yield advantages, which God
' ! and nature have placed in our hands, to the
superior enterprise of citizens of other States,
It was a tribute, too, rendered to the patriotism
—the intelligence of the legislature of 1835—
a body ever to be remembered by Georgians as
the benefactors of the most favored by nature
(but one) of the Atlantic States of the confed
icy.
Fellow-citizens! shall we stop here? Shall-
we not rather urge the call of internal improve
ment? Should we not, forthwith, enter into
honorable competition with our fcliow.citizens
of South Carolina, to bring the rich and valua
ble products of the northwest, and of the in-
termediate country, to our shores? Now is the
time—now, or never.
Let us, like our neighbors, look beyond our
State, and by rail-roads and canals seek to en
rich not only our own State, but bind this happy
Union in bonds never, no, never to be sundered.
and the militia is comnosed of all able bodied ; Go on, and perfect the good work, which has
t j give them time inr organizing.
MR. REESE. '
MR. REESE. I assure the friends of ths hill, (hat Ido
not intend any hostility to it. After twenty-five per cent,
ehall have been paid in, §250,000 must be employed on the
mad; and the balance may be applied to banking. If the
ttockholders choose to pay m a larger sum, it may be em
ploye I in banking. I feel my mind relieved by amendments
to itbcr parts of the bill.
MIL HEPBURN- D-ies the gentleman from Jasper
moan, that when the corporation shall have received a
million und a lntifol ili/Hiirs, ii shall not be permitted to em
ploy it in banking? If stockholders who have paid in
twenty-live per cent, ch.iose u> pay in the balanee, why re
fuse them th° privilege of banking on such stun? They
cannot exceed the sum of a million and half, tlia amount
limited in the first section; they cannot hank on ^the sum
appropriated to the rail-road. If the stockholders choose
to pay for th-ir banking shares in ad vance, what objection
ran there In*?
MR. REESE. The first section is limited by expressly
referring to future provisions in th?bill, arid therefore does
not restrict.
MR. GORDON. The senator from Jasper I believe is
correct. If *250,000 he applied to the road, the company
will comply with the charter,and there will be no forfoit-
i:re. If th>-y choose to pay the balance in advance of a call,
they may do it, and give up the road. It opens a door for
large capitalists to coins and pay in advance of a call, and
make the corporation, for the entire balance, a bank.
(The vote was then taken on tho amendment proposed by
Mr Reese; and it was Lai.:
-MR..MITCHELL offered a proviso, prohibiting the
company from employing more than half of its capital in
banking, bcfire the completion of tho road; which was
agreed to, without opposition.
MR. KING of Glynn proposed to strike out the section
giving authority to establish branches of the bank: in sup-
I .ytof it he remarked, the gentleman from Chatham riglil-
- ly says, that I am not an enemy to banks. I am willing to
give to Savannah a banking capital sufficient tc secure her
commercial prosperity; but not a power to control the cur
rency of the State. I would give to different parts of the
State, their own banks. If we are disposed to give equal
chances to our commercial cities, we should not give to one
tho power to establish branches at other places. If this is
permitted, you cannot tell what amount of capital to allow
for other banks. The fcilate bank employs five times as
much capital in its branches, at at Savannah. Stipjiosc
this corporation chops: to emply $ 1,200,00J at Brunswick,
under this charter, they may place it there.
MR. I)A\5 SON moved to amend tho amendment, by
authorizing the establishment of one branch at Macon.
• MR. KING accepted the amendment.
MR. STEELMAN. I hope the branches will not be
struck out. I received letters from home yesterday.
MR. DAWSON. It is understood that every part of the
Slate is expecting n bank. If any place is to have a bank,
lei their own people control it. Bills payable at the parent
bank in Savannah, may be sent to Columbus: and when
presented there, payment may be refused. The panol code
endeavours to enforce the payment of bank-bills; this power
would enable the bank to evade the law.
MR. ALFORD. There is another view of this question.
The legitimate object of this bill is, to establish a rail-road
from Savannah to Macon—why then have a branch in
Habersham? If my charges are not true, why extend this
bank over the State? I ask if any promises are out?
MR. M’ALLISTER. No promise is out.
MR. ALFORD. Why does the gentleman claim a
branch for Habersham?
MR. STEELMAN. I will vole fur a bank any where
but in my own county; I desire none there. My remark was
made in sp irt.
MU. ALFORD. The gentleman should stick to his good
principles.
MR. BABER called for ndivisinn of the question, that
(he question might be taken first on striking out. The
vote was then taken; and the motion to strike out the clause
authorizing the establishment of branches was lost.
MR. BABER movod to strike out tho clause authorizing
the establishment of agencies; which was agreed to, with
out apposition.
MR. LAMAR proposed to oni»nd, by prohibiting tho
establishment of a branch in any place, in opposition to the
wishes of a majority of its inhabitants.
MR- DAWSON. It lias been said, that the object is, to
increase bank capital in Savannah If this is the case, it
ought not to be forced on other places.
MR. CROWELL. The hanks in the villages may oppose
the establishment of a branch that is wanted by the people
of the country. And there is no provision for an election.—
The local banks have influence and may control the people.
But rottoin purchasers may need a branch.
MR. DAWSON. The Athens company must have its
branches also; and these corporations should not he allow
ed to establsll banks every where, against the will of the
people,
(The amendment of Mr. Lamar was agreed to; and the
Senate adjourned.
men, between sixteen and fifty years of age.—
The 2J Monday of December is fixed for the
organization of the militia. The governor is
vested with plenary powers—courts are estab
lished in the several municipalities—judges ap
pointed and the whole machinery of domestic
government put in order after the model of An
glo American institutions.
Locations of lands are to be suspended until
proper offices are established, and careful di
rections are given to preserve in each munici
pality all the records and archives concerning;
land titles. All persons now in Texas, who !
have not received their quantum of land, and |
all who emigrate there during the conflict, and
been commenced, and posterity will regard you
as the patriot sons of patriot sires. We cannot
look into futurity—but had we room, we could
anticipate the blessings which a grateful posteri
ty will heap upon your memories. Patriots
need no other reward. Their deeds live in the
hearts, the prosperity of their children.
Near sixty years we have existed an inde
pendent—a united people. Who, but ourselves,
can prevent us front existing—-forever? None
—but the God of nature, who smiled on our
WASHINGTON.
Anguita, Tuesday evening, Dec. 15.
A numerous and highly respectable meeting
erform the'duty of citizens, are entitled to the j of ' P 0 ™ f j ien t fy to the establishment of the
contemplated college, at Midway, near Mtlledge.
ville, in this State, to be styled Oglethorpe Uni
versity, was held this evening in the Presbyte-
rian lecture room. After an iuteresling and
benefit of the existing rules of apportionment.
These are the principal features of the new
plan of government, and in conformity thereto,
a governor, lieutenant governor, and a general
council were elected from among the members
of the consultation. The following persons
were named and compose now the government
do facto of Texas.
For governor Henry Smith.
For lieutenant governor J. W. Robinson.
For members of the general council. From
the Municipality of
San Augustin—A. Houston,
Austin—William Menifee,
Nacogdoches—Daniel Parker.
Washington—Jesse Grimes,
Vicsco—A. G. Perry,
Mina—D. D. Barrett,
Liberty—Ilenry Millard,
Tenchaw—Martin Palmer,
Gonzales—J. D. Clement,
Metagorda—R. R. Royal,
Harrisburg—W. P. Harris,
Columbia—E. Waller,
Bevil—W. Banks.
General Samuel Houston, late of Tonues3.ee,!
was elected Major General of all the forces of:
Texas. [
Commissioners were also sent to New Or- j
leans and to Washington city.
The new governor forthwith sent a message j
to the consultation.
From the Savannah Georgian.
GEORGIA AND HER RAIL ROAD.
eloquent, address from the Rev. Charles How
ard, one of the agents of the board of trustees
of the College, in which he stated the consider
ations which bad induced the friends of educa
tion in Georgia to desire the establishment und
organization of another literary institution, and
the benefits expected to result from it: on motion
Wm. J. Hobby, sen. was called to the chair,
and James W. Davies appointed secretary,
j H. V. Johnson, esq. after a few remarks, of-
! fered tho following preamble and resolutions,
\ which were seconded by William T. Gould
j esq. and, after some debate, were unanimously
j adopted.
Whereas, the general diffusion of knowledge
; and morality, is not only conducive to the best
I interests and happiness of men, but is the surest
I guarantee for the preservation and prosperity
j of our free institutions, and should, therefore
he most ardently desired both by the Christian
; and patriot: And whereas this can bo effected
only through the agency of well endowed, and
well regulated schools and colleges: And where
as the contemplated college, to be styled Ogle
thorpo University, and be located at Midway
near Milledgeville, appears to us to be eminent
ly calculated to accomplish these desitable ends
Be it, therefore,
Resolved, That this meeting do most cordial
ly approve of the establishment of Oglethorpe
University, and that we do earnestly recom
command were called out, and remained under the “sinews of war” against the democracy of
arms during the night—and a guard of twelve Pennsylvania first, and then upon that of the
men stationed at the out-posts; Mr. Dunlap and whole nation. Thus “a glorious independence”
Mr. Hogans went out on express to PiekcU’s,; is to be secured to the Bank,
six miles distant, and on their return reported : The people of Pennsylvania are now told,
that the alarm had originated from the passing; that a “new era” has arrived, one of “conslitu-
of the Nassau trqqps, under tlsc command of, tional” government, “which dates from the late
Major Hart, near Suwarez’s dwellings—it ap- electron for governor.” They are also told
peared that they discharged several guns and that “a resolution has been made to secure every
made some noise. This morning every thing real good for tlie State, while it may he secured
is perfectly tranquil. j What isrthis but telling them that, during* tire
D. S. GARDINER, captain commandant, j existing minority administration, originating in
Three o'clock, P. M.—An express has just i fortuitous circumstances, the bank is resolved to
been received from the camp at Whitqsville,! have a charter? that it will keep together the
dated tins morning; Colonel Warren states, i millions in its vaults belonging to British lords
Judge will not venture to whisper a hard ffiourin
against the opposition, or speak of tl, c ass U
ances they gave him. Having, by their deceit’
encouragement, put him on the
ful
course—
that there are three companies of the regiment
ht- that point, and will take up the line of march
for Wetumpka tomorrow. The colonel reports
one- hundred and twenty horsemen equipped,
and expects more.
D. S. GARDINER, captain commandant.
Indian disturbances ht Florida.—Wc publish
ed on Friday last, an article from tire St. i
Augustine Herald, of 5th instant, shewing that I
Charley O’Mathla, one of the most intelligent
chiefs of the emigrating party, had been shot
by a party of the Micasuky tribe, headed by
their chief, Powell, and that five or six hundred
warriors were assembled, causing great con
sternation in the territory.
We last evening received, by the steam
packet Florida, captain Hubbard, the Jackson
ville Courier, of Thursday' last, from which we
and ladies, as the “sinews of war, and the
means of a glorious independence!”'
It behooves the people oF Pennsylvania to he
on the alert. The common enemy is now a
mong them. For the accomplishment of its
purpose, it will expend millions if necessary, (to
use the language of the memorial we publish,
in the “ATTEMPTTO DEPRECIATE THE
STERLING VIRTUE AND REPUBLICAN
INTEGRITY OF OUR PEOPLE.”
From the Washington Globe.
THE WASHINGTON INTRIGUE.
It seems the Kentucky managers begin to
show their hands. We take the following let
ter of the Hon. Robert P. Letcher to Mr,
Breck, from the Frankfort Argus. Its broken
hints throw much light upon the last winter’s
extract the two following articles. It will be maneuvering carried on through Mr Clay’s
seen that there is a great want of muskets. If j son-in-law s brother-in-law, Mr. Bell, upon
the want of men were expressed, we would; White, and through him u|>o n the south-
suggest a meeting of our spirited, volunteer ern democrac y
corps, and citizens generally, to consider the j
propriety of sending volunteers to the relief of
our fellow-citizons in Florida. Such aid, we
doubt not, would be promptly 7 and cheerfully 7
tendered, and we are not so certain that it is not
required—if it is, we are ready.
At any rate, we think that the city council
should request the military store-keeper in this
city, to furnish such muskets as may be deemed
necessary to forward to our brethren in Florida.
O.u.r citizens would cheerfully sustain their cor
porate agents in s.ucli a course, even, if they
were never returned, which there is no reason
to fear. Ammunition should also, forthwith be
forwarded. We learn that the Florida will be
detained until Wednesday night, to convey
such arms and munitions, as may be furnished
lor the protection of our Florida brethren.
Ulnce the above was written, we learn verbal
ly that twelve hundred warriors have assembled,
and are determined to attack Fort King.—
General Clinch has, it is said, a force of regu
lars and volunteer militia, amountrng to one
thousand.—Savannah Georgian.
Yesterday was a day of rejoicing in our city, j , rjenc j j t t o the favor and liberal patronage of
The intelligence from Milledgeville that the j tlfis community.
Central Rail Road bill had, as amended, passed j Resolved, That this meeting will ondeavoxto
the house, and consequently wanted but the | procure means for the endowment of one pro
signature of the governor to become a law, f c3S orship in the said university, and that a com
electrified, with joy, all classes of our citizens, j m ittce of five be appointed bv the chairman, to
Preparations had been made by Mr. William j a jj t |ie agents in obtaining subscriptions for that
Williams, under the direction of a committee of j purpose
the city council, to lay the first rail at 3 o’clock, | The chairman appointed on the committee the
P. M. It was understood that a procession of! followin'* <*entlemen
our citizens would be formed on the bay, to!
proceed to the spot designated for this spirited ;
commencement. When that hour arrived, the i
bay was thronged with citizens, old and young, j
and with our citizen soldiers, who stepped forth ;
in the garb of tho soldier to render honor to the j
occasion. !
An imposing procession
of citizens headed
ROBERT CAMPBELL, Esq.
II. V. JOHNSON, Esq.
Dr. PAUL F. EVE,
Dr. F. M. ROBERTSON,
JAMES W. DAVIES, Esq.
On motion it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be signed by the chairman and secretary,
by the acting mayor and aldermen, under the j am j published in the papers of the city,
direction of Francis M. Stone,
esquire, as
marshal of the day, and his assistants, and j
escorted by the Georgia Hussars, Lieutenant
Kollock, Chatham Artillery, Captain Stephens,
Republican Blues, Lieutenat Anderson, and
Savannah Volunteer Guards, Lieutenant Bay
ard, the whole escort under the command of
Captain Jackson of the Guards, moved from the
bay and after passing through some of the
principal streets of our dear Savannah, marched
to the south common. Ou passing the canton
ment, they received the salute of the United
States’ corps of artillery, stationed in this city,
under the command of Captain Merchant. The
military escort afterwards formed inline and
tendered the usual salute to the civic procession,
which dispersed, after viewing the imposition on
the soil of Savannah of the first rail of the
future Central Rail Way of Georgia. After a
| brief address from Alderman Purse, who offici-
Fro:n ths Mobile Register. ! ated in the absence of our worthy mayor, (who,
Texas.—By the New Orleans mail yestcr. j in the legislature has been urging this impor-
I
day we were put in possession of a number of
highly important and interesting documents from
Texas. The arrivals there arc from Brazoria,
Metamoros and Quitulana. The military e-
vents arc not of moment, though all have been
favorable to the Tcxians.
The report of the capture of San Antonio, is
not confirmed. But it is certain that Cos is
hemmed in closely by a superior force, and is
without the prospect of succor. The besciging
troops are waiting for the arrival of heavier ar
tillery to make a general assault, the issue of
which will be no doubt fatal.
General Mehit is in possession of the town of
Tampico, and the whole slate of Taumalipas is
with him in support of the federative principle.
The supplies from New Orleaus have reach-
o 1 the Texians, and were received with grati-
t id and thanks. Mr. Ed. Hall is the Texian
agent to New Orleans to make purchases on
the public account.
The chief and important intelligence is from
the consultation, which reassembled at San Fe
lipe on the 3d of November. This body re
presenting the people of Texas, have adopted a
bill of rights—published a declaration of their
political objects and position, organised a pro
visional government, established all the neces.
sary departments of administration, and elected
the functionaries, of an independent State. Re-
tar.t work,) and in the absence of Alderman
Charlton, the chairman of council, called from
the city by professional engagements. Aider-
man Purse read an official communication from
W. W. Gordon, esquire, announcing the sue-
cess of the bill. A national salute was then
fired by that ancient and spirited corps, the
Chatham Light Artillery, in their usual excel
lent st)dc, succeeded by a salute from the patri
otic infantry corps, the Blues and Guards, the
whole concluded by a feu dejoie.
The military escort then returned to the bay,
and was dismissed.
In the evening, the Exchange; the City Hotel,
The meeting then adjourned.
WM. J. HOBBY, sen. Chairman.
James W. Davies, Secretary.
on the Bay;the
square, attached
Pulaski House, on Johnston
From the Jacksonville Courier.
Indian War!—During a few days past, our
town has been the stirring scene of busy prepara
tion lor a campaign on the Indian frontier.—
-By tho last accounts, the Indians evince a de
termination and preparation for hostilities little
anticipated. The friendly chiefs, (qr such as
professed themselves friendly) are said to have
removed from the Fort and joined" the hostile
tribes, with the exception of two or three tm
mediate dependents of Cha rles O’Mathla, who,
it will be recollected, was a few days since
murdered. They have retired in a body to a
targe ssvamp near their villages, and are carry
ing their wives and children to places of secu
rity. They are roported to have made an
attack upon a party of whites, and plundered
and burnt iwo or three more plantations.
In obedience to the call of general Clinch,
who has the command of the United States’
troops, general Hernandez has ordered out the
militia. Colonel Warren left this place yester
day morning at the head of bis regiment, leav
ing only a number sufficient for the protection
of the posts near this. Every man is enrolled
for the service on the frontier, or for service at
home. At such a time as this, a great want of
muskets is felt. Such as have rifles, have taken
them. But a great part have been compelled
to take their fowling pieces, or such guns as
they could lay their hands upon. There has
been an alacrity in their preparations, credita
ble to all, and.particularly to the officers who
have directed the movements. We hope, that
to the Hotel; the Georgian
>ffice, and the public houses of Messrs. Ludding- ■ by such a timely display of militia, the Indians
ton and Thompson, of Mr. Nayel, Mr. Fidlor, : will be induced to abandon their intention of
Mr. liulty, Mr. Scranton, and other buildings further hostilities, and submit to the stipulations
were brilliantly illuminated. At the Exchange, ; of the treaty made at Payne’s Landing, without
transparencies exhibiting a full length portrait further resistance.
of the immortal Washington, and of the
GodJcss of Liberty were exhibited. At the
Hotel, a transparency with the words Internal
Head Quarters, Jacksonville,
December 10, 1835.
Last evening, about 8 o’clock, a report was
Improvement, displayed to view the names of: circulated in this city and the neighborhood,
our efficient delegation—M'Allister, Gordon, that the Indians had attacked the dwelling of
Millen and Shick, in harmonious conjunction Mr. Raphael Suwarez, and had murdered his
wlt\r Hepburn, ths senator from Muscogee, sister and family; this report was brought to
which county on the extreme western confines Jacksonville by said Suwarez and John Huffing,
of Georgia, is by this splendid project to be in- ham,—the town was in a considerable state of
fusing all obed?&nce to tho existing authorities of idtssolubly united with the capital of Chatham—- alarm and excisemen?—the corps under
mv
From the Washington Globe.
THE BANK AND ITS PLANS.
In another part of our paper we give the me
morial of a large number of inhabitants of Pitts
burg, Pa. to Congress, in 1811, opposing the re-
charter of the old Bank of the United States.
This document speaks the lunguage of some of
the sturdy democrats of the State of Pennsyl
vania at that day, against continuing an uncon
stitutional and corrupt institution. The greater
part of it is as applicable to the present bank as
it was to the old one.' The existing one is much
more powerful in means; and, in proportion, no
doubt, it has as much more widely extended its
corrupt influence.
Having nearly despaired of obtaining a re
newal of its charter from the present Congress,
it now is seeking for means to keep together
that portion of the capital belonging to individu
als, under the hope that at some future period
changes and events may occur which will enable
it again to obtain a monopoly, and again extend
its baneful influence to every corner of the
Union.
Its present design is openly avowed. It in
tends to obtain a charter for a capital of ten
millions of dollars from the Legislature of the
State of Pennsylvania, if it can be accomplish
ed. No efforts will be omitted, no influence left
unemployed, to effect its purpose. Every one
who opposes these designs of the managers, must
expect to fall under its ban. The same spirit
governs now, as in the memorable punic war.
The simple communication, a few days since,
of our intention to lay before tho people of
Pennsylvania, the arguments of some of her
citizens against rechartering the old Bank, has
brought frotn the Bank, through its organ, the
following denunciatory article:
“In the Globe of yesterday, the old enemy is
at work about the Bank of the United States, in
order to deprive Pennsylvania of the sinews of
war, and the means of a glorious independence.
According tp the Globe & Co. our Legislature
must not charter any large bank, that being con-
trary to Governor Wolfs homily, and the rig
marole on the subject of monopoly in the Presi
dent’s recent message. The official editor
threatens to publish shortly—“the language of
some of tho citizens of our State, who memorial
ized Congress to refuse the charter of the old
bank, iq 1811.” The Kitchen Cabinet might
be sagacious enough to discover that their reign
is at an end in Pennsylvania. Their interfer
ence begets greater distrust and repugnance.
We have begun a new era—one of constitutional
and salutary self-government, which dates from
the late election of Governor. The Washing
ton yoke and bandages have been cast off finally.
A resolution has been made to secure every real
good for the State, while it may be secured; and
the more earnestly for any dissuasives or mena
ces from a quarter of which the overweening
spirit and selfish designs arc fully understood.
The Kitchen Cabinet and Pennsylvanian are at
this moment in a relation similar to that of
Queen Titania and Bottom the Weaver, in the
Midsummer Night's Dream, after the spell was
broken.
M Titania.—My Oberon! what visions have i seen!
Alethuught I was enamoui’d of an ass.
Oberon.—There lies your love.
Titania.—IIow came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loath his visage now!”
In the foregoing article we recognise the dis-
appointed malignity of Mr. Biddle himself.
We acknowledge that we have been an “en
emy” to the Bank of the United States—to its
corrupt managers, and to its corrupt influence.
We will ever continue such, as long as it lasts,
whatever form. As faithful sentinels, and
true to our purpose, we feel it our duty to warn
the democracy of Pennsylvania of the designs
of the Bunk. Their object is to obtain a char
ter, with a capital of ten millions of dollars, and,
in that charter, to have trust powers embraced,
which will enable them to keep together the
whole twenty-eight millions of dollars papital
belonging to individual stockholders in the Bank
of the United States. This, when accomplished
is to furnish the “sinews of war, and the means
of glorious independence.” Ye*, it is to furnish
Mr. Breck, to whom Mr. Letcher writes, is
an able lawyer in Mr. L’s. old district—a tho
rough bred federalist of the old school, and mem
ber of the Kentucky Legislature, from Madison
county. Mr. Letcher is well known to every
body in Kentucky, as Mr. Clay’s right hand
man—or, in the phraseology of their sportive
familiarity, his right bower.
1th February, 1833
Dear Breck—1 would write you a letter if I could, but I
can hardly use a finger of my right hand, owing to a rheu
matic attack in my shoulder mid wrist; besides, this is one
of the coldest days that ever blovyed. Judge White is run
ning Jtead and tad up. lie has become a good deal excited,
and won’t get off the turf upon any terms; and if he even
wished it, his wife would never allow him to do it.
If yon remember, I told you early in the session, we should'
have a French war before many months. 1 believe it still.
As certain as you live, Jackson will have a war. He is
bent upon it; and old Johnny Q. will go with him. tie
made the strangest speech to-day that any man ever did;
praised the President for his spirit dnd patriotism, and decla
red the country would be disgraced, Ate. without doing
something to protect its honor. He is in a passion, because
tits Legislature would not send him to the Senate; ond the
suspicion is, (but I cannot credit it,} that he is about to leave
his party—some say he wants to run on the Jackson side fur
President. 1 think it would have been very proper for the
Legislature to have given some strong token of regard for
Clay; but I know liow the matter stands, and thedifBciiUy
of carrying any proposition, when one's own friends are
against him.
If the Government succeeds in getting up a war, the whole
iSouth, as one man, will call upon Clay to, run for President.
Your cordial friend,
R. P. LETCHER.
“Judge White is running head and tail up. IIk iias be
come A GOOD DEAL, EXCITED, AND WONT GET OrF THE
tvrf ufos any terms, and even if he wished it, his wife
would never let him.”
Here Mr. Clay’s jockey, at the very moment
of starting Judge White, communicates, through
a leading member of the party, the cheerful in
telligence. He ruhs his rheumatic fists toge
ther, and assures him “the Judge has become a
good deal excited, and won't get off the turf upon
any terms." And who excited him? This very
same Mr. Letcher was the principal agent. We
know, and w'ill prove, if necessary, that he gave
assurances that Mr. Clay would not be a can
didate. Judge White’s friends, and several ho
nest friends of the administration in Tennessee,
and many through different portions of the
South, were persuaded through John. Bell, who
repeated the assurances of Letcher, that the
Clay party would support the Judge’s preten-
sions, and thus the old man was sot agojng.
“head and tail up," “a good deal excited," and
induced to give the obligation to Bell that lie
would not “gel off the turf upon any terms
This, loo, at the time that Bell and others were
writing to Alabama and elsewhere, that Judge
White would decline if the opposition broqght
another candidate into the field. But, accord
ing to Mr. Letcher, they had taken security
against this, in addition to the written pledge,
and we find the Judge continually, in every let
ter ho writes, declaring “1 will not withdraw my
name," as if prompted by some influence to repel
the application, which he has reason to expect
from many who declared for him upon the con
dition suggested in the letters of his friends, and
which obtained the contingent Alabama nomi
nation.
But the public will perceive how perfectly
Judge White was duped by the assurances of
Clay's friends and the arts of Bell. At the very
moment that Letcher was giving out at Wash
ington that Clay would not be a candidate, he
was writing to Mr. Breck, that “it would have
been very proper for ihe Legislature to have giv
en some strong token tf regard to Clay"—
that, “as certain as you live, Jackson will have
a war”—and, “if the Government succeed in
getting tip a war, the whole South, as one man,
icill call upon Clay ip run for President
This shows the motive Clay had in getting
up the difficulty between our Government and
the French Government. It shows how- Mon
sieur Serurier became infatuated with the idea
that the President would be obliged to consent
to renew negotiation, and take half of the stipu
lated indemnity. Why Mr. Clay, in his report
on the message, talked about the opening of the
negotiation—why he suggested the propriety ol
explanations for what he assumed to be a me
nace to the French—why he forbade bis party
in the Senate to pass any act indicative of sup.
port of the p resident, in case the honor and
rights of the country were violated by a contin
ued refusal to fulfil the treaty—and why oyr
poor old Judge was deluded to vote against the
three millions appropriation of the House of Re
presentatives. He, poor man! was persuaded
that the whole South would rise in his lavor, if
the breach with France could be made irrepa
rable; and yet Clay had the most settled con
viction, from his pre-eminence, that he would
be the anti-war candidate, if the French Ring
could be induced, by the prospeGt of finding di
vided counsels and a divided country, to make
a resort to war our only redress*
The time has nowconqe, when the Punic faith of
the opposition must be apparent to Judge White;
and yet neither he nor his friends dare Gom-
plain. He cannot, without confessing his bar
gain with the enemies of the cause with which
he was once identified, and thus acknowledging
a faithlessness to his own political friends, which
would leave him without title to sympathy from
any party. How could he complain of treach
ery from his old avowed enemies, while admit
ting that he had beep faithless to bis own true
friends, and that be hod bargained to divide and
conquer them, nod betray their egos?:?. Tba
tg, head and tail up ”
—they now turn round to take all advantage
of circumstances to advance the cause of thr
own leaders and party, and do rot hesitate to
set up their own candidates, against all ih,.'
protestations to the duped Judge.' Hear tlie last
Richmond Whig, the earlies't and most devout
advocate of White, when the signal was gi Vca
last spring by the Washington caucus: °
A NEW CANDIDATE.
The name of Henry Clay ha* iwrn brought forward
Philadelphia as a candidate for the Presidency Had it
previous measures of the Whig partv been such as t>. Dr
raise unammity.or any thing approaching it, we should run
sidor the proposal of another candidate, at this late period
an inauspicious event. But we are inclined to think that
Ihe addition of Mr. Clay to the candidates already proposed
can do no possible harm, while it may lead to a henefirhi
result. If we understand the object of those by whom hi.
name U brought forward, it is that it shall be added p. th„s 8
of Messrs. Webster, Harrison ami White, in the dt lihera
tions of the convention which is to meet at Harrisburg diil
ring the next month. While we cannot but forhode thn
success of Mr. Van Buren as the result of Want of decision
among the Whig party, we do not think flint tlie eonsid.-ra
tion of Mr. Hay’s claims will increase the evil, while our
high opinion of his qnulifirations and virtues, would lead us
strongly to desire, although we cannot say we have any hope
that he might be the favorite candidate of the party. There
is one ground upon which it may turn out that Mr Cl iv\
being placed before the party a candidate, will result in
good. If we rightly comprehend the intentions of the
friends of Mr. Webster, as expresaed by ilieir leading jour-
nals;lhey are resolute in the determination not to yield t| tf r
preference of Mr. W. in favor of either General" Harrison
or Judge White. Notwithstanding tlie imprudent rosolii
tions which they have so offen repented to this effect—they
may, when convinced of tlie fact that Mr. Webster is not
available, lie willing to unite upon Mr. Clay. If we are not
mistaken, the editor of the National Gazette—the most stub
born and reckless advocate of tlie “northern statesmen"—
committed himself in some degree on this point in one of his
controversial articles during his recent argument wiih the
Dnily Advertiser. Our position'in regard to these contend
ing claims, cannot, we trust, bo mistaken. We desire that
the Whigs slwuld select and support that man as a ceodtduie
for th“ Presidency, who is the surest to unite the partv and
thereby to defeat tho election of Martin Van Buren—an ob-
ject far more important than any consideration personal to
either candidate, beyond the fact of his competency for ths
duties"of the station, and the honesty of his intentions
Hear Walsh, once so propitious to the nomi-
nation of White,—any body to boat Van Bu
ren:
“Judge White, of Tennessee, supported the Jackson ad
ministration in every point and respect. The legislature of
that State recently, in nominating him, claimed for him and
themselves a constant concurrence with the president in
those pretensions and proceedings, and that whole doctrine
and policy, which the whigs specially condemned and resist
ed. In the debates of the Tennessee legislature, the thief
speakers on the side of judge White, argued in his behalf
that he had Seen a thorough Jackson man, and had steadily
voted and acted with the administration, and was proscribed
simply beenuse his friends deemed him prcferahla to A lr
Van Buren for the office of president.”
And he concludes from his whole view:
‘A whig of the school of the VVebsters and Clays, haa
nothing to do with either of the Jackson candidates, consis
tently with his former maxims, tenets and effort-*;—in short
that the case for a whig, is not susceptible of option or sus
pense.”
From the Tuscaloosa Flag of Union.
GLORIOUS NEWS.
The nomination of Judge White has been
rescinded! Alabama stands “redeemed, rope,
nerated and disenthralled” from the shackles of
unauthorised and unconstitutional dictation!
The House of Representatives, by a vote of
forty eight to thirty.six (a majority of twelve) on
Thursday List. “rescinded and revoked" the no.
initiation of Judge White, made last winter by
by that body.
Hot :se of Representatives, >
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1835. )
Mr. Winston introduced the following pream
ble and resolutions:
Whereas, at the last session of the General
Assembly, certain resolutions were adopted, ex.
pressing the confidence of that body in Hu^h
Lawson White, of Tennessee, and recommend-
ing him to the people ot the United States, as a
suitable candidate for Chief Magistrate, at tho
ensuing election; and, whereas such recommend
ation was made upon the express condition that
it was to be considered as withdrawn, should
circumstances indicate the probability of the
election of President devolving on the House of
Representatives;
And whereas, there is now a multiplicity of
candidates for the presidency before the Ameri-
can people, and distinctions and divisions exist
among those whose harmonious action is highly
necessary to the proper administration of public
affairs, and the perpetuation of the true princi
ples of the Constitution:
Be it therefore Resolved, by the House of Re-
presentatives of the State of Alabama, That the
contingencies contemplated in the resolutions of
^he. last session of the General Assembly, nomi
nating Hugh Lawson White, for the Presidency,
have happened, and that the said nomination be,
and the same is hcrebv, RESCINDED AND
REVOKED.
Resolved, That this House deprecate, as an
evil, that cannot be too cuutiously avoided, the
election of a President of the United States, by
the House of Representatives of Congress, and
that it recommends to the people to pursue such
course as will secure to them, directly, the elec
tion of their own chief magistrate.
Resolved, That the speaker of this House be
requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions
tq tlie governors of tire respective States in the
Union.
On the 10th inst. these resolutions were agreed
to, by a majority of forty-eight to thirty-six'.
We understand major Mounrfort, command
ing at Fort Pike, has received orders from tro-
vernmeut to hold himself in readiness to mat ch
into Florida, if the Seminole Indians, who have
lately shown some symptoms of disinclination to
be removed, are not willing and ready to leavo
Florida by the end of the year.
At a meeting yesterday cf tlie directors of the
Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, Pe-
ter Bennock, esq. was unanimously re-elected
president for the ensuing year.—Augusta Cou
rier, I8f/t inst.
Veracity.—The editor of the nullifying, alias
whig, alias White Banner, Mr. C. C. Mayson,
publishes an extract of a letter, the author of
which, although a whig, expresses a determina
tion to sustain Martin Van Buren, because he
voted to give free negroes possessed of a certain
amount of property, the privilege of voting, and
therefore thinks he will lend his influence to
emancipate uegroes. The cause of truth de.
manded that Mr. Mayson should inform his
eaders tha; Hugh L. White, in the convention
which formed the constitution of Tennessee,
voted for giving free negroes, indiscriminately,
the right to vote. If we are not mistaken, the
party opposed to Mr. Van Buren in the conven
tion of N* w York, were desirous of giving to
negroes indiscriminately, the privilege of voting,
and Mr. Van Buren compromised the matter
with them, by agreeing to confer it upon negroes
possessed of a certain amount of property, and
who in consequence would be more deserving
than those who were runaways and paupers.
Hugh L. White voted that free negroes indiscri.
minutely should cxcrciss this
jnan,