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% % UNITED STATES’ SHIP PEACOCK. I caused frequent presents of frosli meat and vege* E«trac( of a letter received i»y John Boyle, Chief Clerk of tables to be sent to tlio ship; itiuj nt Zanzibar, tho Navy Depnoment, dated on board of the I’miwl | Q va ] uab ] G porl 0 f | lj:5 dominions, the ship was so far as their i ce of charge Stares’flagship Ptsicock, liontbay, November Ihh, 183.*, . ...... , published to correct erroneous statements, which rcj*rc-1 entirely supplied, by hlS Order, ire sent the ship ns having been totally lust. during the lime site remained there. Af? Dear Sir-~-\\ o have ut lcngth armed at It id auppoed we shall sail from this pi this 1 * 1 ' ,f * * must not speak of the broken promise under their shadows before.” Be it so. My constitu- of all imaginable evil—they hold them up to slavery and the slave trade, pain oi the displeasure of his fiiehds? Ami to ents did not send me here to make presidents for the people of the south as attempting to inflict votes could do it. be told, when he came into power as as judj- them. That is a business that they like to do upon them all the calamities which follow in We shall look with much anxiety f or -ir eious tariff man, aftor noy fhlvocating his princi- in another manner. I am sent here for other , the train of n servile insurrection—they profess Webster’s views on the subject— ! pics and aiding in his election, believing at the purposes, and shall endeavor to confine myself to hold the north in the highest degree culpa- Gazette. ’ SbUTg ace time in his integrity, though 1 did not believe to my appropriate duties. If, sir, the opposition ; ble for not arresting their career bv summary j s place, and I avail myself of the departure I atj0|U tbp oo.| u q'| ;0 CITW |, ns becn very I him passessed of intellectual qualities—am I to thus announced loan administration not yet iand severe penal inflictions—and the v even of torrow of the steamboat for Egypt, vja^tne 1 healiliv. There is wilting of the cholera at he told, after pledges that have been violated, formed, and as yet unknown, is to come, it may { fer rewards for the pe tomorrow lied Sea, to drop you a lino b\ the rtu\ oi Eng- present ju Hombav. land. ^ -- We left Zanzibar on the 8th September, J steering our course across the Arabian sea for; Muscat, in the entrance of the Persian gulf.-— On the night of Sunday, the 21st, a fresh breeze blowing from the southwest, the ship having studding sails set, and ploughing her way at the mto of right miles per hour, sudjenly'struck Mr c „, holm rus> nnJ m „ d „ m rcmai o» a bed ol coral rocks. It would hardly be |0 lv| , k . h Mr _ Wa „ „ 1M> M f ;, !lmvs persons of such leaders, with (0\MS l>S. DEBATE IN SENATE. February 17, 183<>. Tho Special order colonel Benton’s resolutions, being under consideration— ]*' cnrnn rpmnrlrs. promises that liave been broken, and principles be that we may gather from the past the issue ol j a view to inflict upon them the punishment due set at naught, that 1 must not speak of these the future. Sir, we are taunted about expung- j to what they declare to be their flagitious and possible to describe tho surprise which ensue Those who were below, in bed, catno immedi ately on deck—not to inquire the cause ol this sudden shock, for the repeated thumps, at every tiso and depression of this sea, plainly spoke it; hut the only question asked and reiterated from all sides wore, ‘ where arc we?” “tvhat rocks can these be?” All, however, were satisfied as to our dismal situation; breakers were.foaming j Mr. Y\ ulh Unused and unaccustomed to the course of procedure in this house when he heard the gentleman from South Carolina,on a former Occasion, proclaim that it was on this floor that the great battle of liberty against power was to be fought, he was disposed to enlist under his banner, as he avowed himself tiie champion of liberty. Indeed, if he had not entered into such contest on the side of liberty, he felt that he dul to his constituents, .otm,I; tho rocksn oug-cdo wore tvuiuu two and wouU b „ 8 b;!C „ . „ \ l '“> ftiln'Bnsof tho surface and toe slnp lay I thousands of wheat would, at tluflirsl butlie.crv, ••bard and fast. All sail had been at | rush to , ho aid <>r libortv. He cordially uttitid taken in, and too necessary orders for (Mling | wi(h !lollorabU > senile,nun also in the wish, out tno boats were promptly obeved. 1 rovi- j r.i • > i , , , 1 1 . - , that the doors ol tins cnamber should be opened, iuons nod various oilier articles were thrown o- , , * . • ‘ , , . ~ , , , , , and, it possmie, that the u hole American people ver, and the water, excepting a few hundred gal- * 1 11 Ions, was started in the hold and pumped out, iu order to lighten liic; ship: she remained, howe ver, immovable, at times striking hard. An chors and hedges were sent out; but the crew toiled in vain at the capstan. A boat had been sen! out to sound around, when the deepest wa ter lbra considerable distance was found to 1>..* three and a half and four fathoms, about two hundred yards south west of the ship. The yards, topmasts, A c. were lowered, in order to case the ship; and though all was done which prudence could suggest in such a situation, all seemed without cfliict. It was not possible to form any accurate opinion as to the nature of the spot where we were. fame supposed we might have run upon some isolated rock in the ocean, not laid down on the charts; others thought we might be on the coast of Arabia Felix, swept from our true course by a mighty current. No thing, however, remained now to do but to a- wait patiently for daylight, in the hope of see ing land, which as yet could in no direction bo discovered, The anxiety of this interval may, perhaps, bo readily imagined. The dawn dis covered tn our view a low, sandy island, about a mile distant, which seemed totally destitute of j tilings as they are, for fear of being denounced ing the acts of the president. No, sir, no tor want of courtesy to the constituted authori- friend of Andrew Jackson, and, if I mav veri ties? Why, to what pass are we come? Are ture to predict, no friend of 4iis country—when we to be gagged—reduced to silence? If no- the acts of Andrew Jackson, as president of the thing else, said Mr. Preston, is left us, the liberty United States, come to be recorded by the im- of speech is left, and it is our duty to cry aloud pariial pen of history, would wish to see one and sparo not, when the undenied, admitted, • act of his administration expunged. They will and declared fact is before us that these pledges add to the proud monuments of his country’s have been made, and have been‘violated. This glory. administration is about to end, and if gentle- y — _ 1 -- "jjv men can succeed in preventing us from com- 1 POLITICAL, plaining of being deceived—if they can reduce i ■ * us to abject slavery, they will also' have to ex- ! From the Daily Albany Argus. punge the history of the country, the president’s Gcrrit Smith and the Nullifiers.—In January written and recorded communications to con- last, Gcrrit Smith, of Peters boro, addressed a gross, and the most ardent professions of his letter to Wm. Taylor, Esq of Virginia, we pre- lriends when fighting Ids battles, before they sume a nullifier, a whig and a slave-holder.— cun conceal the recorded fact that he has made The letter was evidently a volunteer; and was pledges which he has violated, and promises* prompted, perhaps equally, by an unassuaged that lie lias repeatedly broken. If, said Mr. thirst for personal notoriety, by a design to conn- Preston, they succeed in reducing us to slavery, teract the effect of the strong facts and uuan- nnd closing our lips against speaking of the; sweruble propositions of governor Marcy’s abuses of this administration, thank God, the ! message upon abolitionism, and by an unquench- voicu of history, trumpet tongued, will proclaim able spirit of party hostility to the democracy these pledges, and the manner in which they and its candidates. To those who are familiar I PAT iOTIC AFFECTATION! Tho following letter was laid before the l al , Massachusetts Whig Convention: Washington, February 27, 1836 My Dear Sir— The Whig Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, of the lust yonr saw fit to put me in nomination for the office of President of tho United States. Events have since occurred, which wore pro bably not anticipated, and which may be thoimi lt t to have rendered a reconsideration of that no. Marcv and the democracy of the north— who have thus resisted and condemned aboli tionism; and urges, rather, and ns fi t r better, that thev sliould “trust to the f >rbea r anee. the tender mercies, of ihcoppn honest nh->li*ionists,” your Smiths, vonr Tapnans. vour Thompsons . . , . ,1 i i , • c i ; an( I your Garrisons’ Oprn as i< 'his avowal iavc ticen violated, to future generations. with the course, character and object of the j of tbe copartnership existing between the north Neither here nor elsewhere, said Mr. Pres- writer ol the epistle, these promptings are per- j ern and snuthern n „ ifntors ; w „ wprp p arpd ’ ’ I use language with regard to any gem i kctly obvious. It found its way, ol course, m- ; f or so mucb m | pnst> p rnm tbp Ontemitv of criminal acts. Such has been their course in relation to Arthur Tappan and the emissaries Garrison and Thompson. And vet they select the associate of these incendiaries—a co-labor er in al! their schemes of irritation, and inter- ference with southern slavery—and endorse him over to the good people of the south ns t - r »» • • . intelligent, very wealthy and very influential:” j m,na,10 . n expedient. Il this opinion sliould be as one on whose statements “everv reliance! t ‘ nU ’ l U aine,i the W hig Members of the pre. may he placed;” and as the best possible proof | , , r . e i . sll0uId 0XCC( ‘ dm " , .v regret against those who hr and interests of the sot and schemes of this verv individual abolitionist and I iis abolition associates! Pursuing the suggestions of th.is bosom asso ciate of Arthur Tanpan. the organ of nullifica tion at Charleston warns the south not to trust the great bodv of ‘he northern people—govern or the best possible proof V/" * 7 \ 3 “ uu,u regret ave maintained the rights i lha f ! . l!;e y st ]“uld forbear to act upon it, from any >uth over ihe movements mt. ivcs of delicacy towards me. Indeed, in the state ol things at present existing in the coun. try, my personal wishes are to withdraw niv name from the place it occupies before the puli, lie, in connexion with the approaching election' and I am restrained from so doing, on!v bv the consideration that there are interests which should witness the contest. But ho could not repress the expression of his astonishment at the kind of battle that he found was to bo fought; and if this was to be the character of it, he _ should regret the presence of even the small lou » o---o- c-- .• D —. . ,. - . , ■■■ audience whom the limits of the gallery could j t!int l»e considered indecorous; and to tlie public journals: and it proved to be, as it | r ef .|ing and action which has been manifest- d accommodate. Ho sliould have felt mortified | *Le question, not easily solved, was, how far we ( des'gncd, c ‘; n S e *'!a | ; fi><*d , or the organs of | dlirln!r a „ lho pr0SPnt SPSsinn nf - ron „ rp<s |, p and humbled, if the eye of the whole American people should have witnessed the manner of the onslaught tiii.s day made. What was it? It was an onslaught against the constituted au- thoritiesoftlie country; against the first and second officers chosen by ihe people; against reprobation, he would express on all occasions. But those who took upon themselves the guar- the sacred principles on which our government j diaiiship ol the Grand Lama, who was surround ed Hy a light which no one was to approach— about whom no one was permitted to speak with out censure, extended that guardianship to the » • * , ' Ilf* • 1*1 r iiii i«ii ii>- .m 111 ,-»r .>,>ii mi i ii i i ii ii r>> i ir - shall restrain ourselves in expressing a just and nullification—prints which profess to hold the, j tween ,| K . nullifiers and the abolitionists and the necessary indignation; whether the expression I abolitionists in tho greatest abhorrence, and to j 0 h v io U s degree to which their schemes of no-?, of such indignation might not ho considered a ! regard their loaders, their efforts and their pur- j ta ,j on . political and incendiarv are identical departure from courtesy. Thai indignation, that j P<*es as entitled only to supremo contempt or | and havo b „ on pilshpd bv m , votPS and B8 * was founded; an onslauglit against the cfiicci whoso constitutional duty it was to preside over our deliberations, ami not m a situation to de fend himself. And how was this onslaught made? Was if made in tho courteous and chivalrous hearing of the gallant soldiers of liberty warring against power? Was it made in language consistent with the decorum and digni ty of a legislative body? In his humble judg ment it was not, and it was t imo that this manner of debate sliould cease in this chamber. Sir, I havo witnessed this day, what 1 nevor . • ... • • ’ i •. i x- i expected to have witnessed, in this,or nnvother vegetation, or any signs ol being inhabited. No; . .. . , , . , , T . , . , , • •,', i i. • i deliberative body. i he president of the united other land was visible around. It was conicc-f , , . - , , , , it • i i -i.i ; r, states lias been charged with laisehoou aud dc- turcu that this small island might be tliat of . . . ,, n , r . . ^ j • T- / ,..,.1 ception on tins floor; and the president ol tins Mazeira, on tne coast of Arabia lebx, but that > , , , , . . 1 , , • iiii ,i body, the chosen officer of tho people, liau been it must be verv erroneously laid down oi* the . ,. . 1 ’ assaned—lie would not say in what language; but he would say iu language which, in his , opinion, one gentleman ought not to us« in im proper course. ' » r> Tho most unceasing cflorls wore m ide during the day, to haul tho ship ofl. It was resolved j ^ Calhoun here requested the gentleman | s ( !,a!l bc enveloped in one universal poiitica to lighten her by every jtnssible means, oven to | ^ Npw j , rt say what lan-ua-e it was •! ^‘t kne.ss. A spirit had got up, which, unless ~ ** l: - mostdis- ed that charts, or that an extraordinary current, or de fective chronometers had led us far from our ibreneo to another, and unsuitable to the deco- 1 lengthen; and it may be the going down of th« rum of this body. j grt'at luminary of the republic, and that wnall unqualified hostility. It was published with t sooia , ed lahors: bllt wp haVP no ffiarsthat a groat avidity by those prints, anu by none «n 0 re propORit ; on to .., r|js . to tbe fnrhenmneo. the so than the Cha.lcaton Mercury. That paper | tP nder mercies, ofthe open, honest abolitionists” accompanied its insertion entire with the follow- j _ aad to rpfusc thp sinCPrR and ptf-etnal efihrts mg itniai i of the northern opposition to these “open and “ur.imiT Smith’s letter.—This important j honest” incendiaries—and that too. at ihe sne. presiding officer of that house. Gentlemen j document, we have had by us several davs. and j rifice of the patriotic and independent repre- wore not permitted to speak of the qualifications j have concluded that the good to be effected by j senlatives of the Charleston district—will enr ol t.iat olliecr lor tho highest office in titc gov-; information of the true character of the cris’s. ^ rr - with it any considerable portion ofoursonth- ernment, lest they may show a want of deco- j and of the real extent of the dangers which | ern fellow-citizens. Thev cannot fail to see its t uni to the constituted autnoiities oi the coun- ; threaten from the north, far outweighs the oh- J object and scope—nor to appreciate it as if de- ti_\. ij.hau \\o, sir, said Mr. 1*., because he is | jeep ms to giving increased circulation to the serves to be appreciated. ucic as picstiling officoi ol this body, keep si- [ abolition sentiments bv winch the evidence is But if this scheme of open roneert with the abolitionists, be thus weak and wicked, in ap pearanceas in ohieef how shall wecharncrer- ize the absurd jumble of cnutr-idiclions nnd ffih rications in relation 1o Mr Beardsfev. with wiiieh the Vercnrv concludes its remarks?— The assertion is. that Mr Beardslcv osfenta tiouslv contributed to the dispersion of the aho. lition meeting in his district, for eff'ct at flip south; hut that subsequently, for effect at the north, his election hein" in great ieopardv and exceedingly doubtful, the organ of the party fbeing also the organ of the abolitionists, and knowing his genuine sentiments, notwithstnnd ing his anparenf participation in the dispersion ) exposes the deep duplicity of j issued a circular on tko pyp of the election lent, v> lien lie is urged upon tho people, who arc | accompanied. The agitation has reached a goaded and driven to his support, lest we be j point at which it is imposssiMe to suppress m- guilty of/.c (r majestatis against those who are . formation ns to the views of the abolitionists— the constituted authorities ol the country?— . and it would be perhaps as wrong ns it w®u!d Thank God, .said lie, it is not my practice to j b e useless to attempt it. Lot all the facts which “crook the pliant hinges of the knee, that thrift ; bear upon onr prospects be pkneed before us: let mav fu.lov. lawning. Ihe practice he alluded I us know the worst and perhaps to meet it, to foteboded much of evil. Coming events! “Gerrit Smith is. we understand, a verv in cast their sliadows before them, deepening and darkening, and as the sun sets, the shadows &e. were stowed. But the utmost efforts to re- i * i * r* . . , , dtgmtv ol this body, move the ship from the s:iol, where she seemed <, J , 1 1 ’ lits Whole sneech. tamrwod atuong the rocks, sffmatmessinking heavily, proved aoaviling, ami the leak which T.T. ,mu)t ‘“1 had conunenccd, teas honrly ineraoinjt. On ! ^ never expected to have ttirocsscd » ... i . it i * i m an American Senate. H bile the senator 1 uesday morning, a boat was dn^uatencJ to. r c. , r + ,• i ■. . , , , , , - r from Sottlh uarohna hesitated not to make such I refer tho gentleman to itocssed another tiling in this Muscat, distant between -two and three bund ret. , . _ . . „ , . •. * ., • .• , i grave charge’s, and denunciations against tno ! Miles, with the view ol obtaining assistance.— f , . 0 . . tlernan from New Jersey had pressed so far pre- 1 vailed, we arc done, said tic—we are gone.— If 1 cannot, said he, be permitted to speak of the president or his successor, or the constituted authoiiiies of the country, in terms that I think they deserve, we are done, and it is useless to • j continue the debate longer. He rose in his i : chosen officers of the people of this country, lie j ! ) ‘ aco P : ° LCS i against such principles. irj— 1 n _v . 1 , • 1 uiuuuih ui uiu uuumiv ui 1 11s eousiti \ , 11- 1 1 * hdmund Roberts, esq. accompanied passed nnd-, - , . . . 1 c ^ „ ^ ,t- ij -o . . •, 1 * • . ‘ • . ! hau arraigned an American senator lor daring Mr. Avail, in snipman \V. K. jaylor with eight men in the - , ■ , r ; . , 7 . . ,, . ...v,-..t. ,^^t 1 , j ' tn his place to challenge tno sincerity and good thathecould nr boat, which took on board six or eight duv t? pro-k c 0 . . - . rt . •, • „ , , , , . . * >„ .1. taith 01 a foreign mo larch in Ins negotiation visions and water, quanrant, chart, cco. lathe, . , ... 0 r . . • _ •' r ,, ", i Witu tuis country; lor investigating and exnmm- lneanumo, the natives 01 the coast discovering . . , • 4 , , , , 1 .1 1 , ^ •** 1 mg the conduct ol that monarch, nnd drawing our distressed situation, gathered round US in. , , . . , V . r ! sucti conckisions as lus judgment sanctioned, n depth, where, thus lightened, she floated, and • . . r .. ~ - e. ,-«• i • . . n . . n . , { l to account lor tne division ofthe South. Sir, 1 immediately setting sail, beat her on the shore, , , T . • „ . . ^ - . n ., 0 ’ , • , , ,, , ; snail enlist under no such banner. It is a war with n hoc still breeze, through a shallow and : • . ., * , . .1,0. i- , against the power or the people, dangerous passage am®ng tne rocks, bianiliug c n f r . „ -, - r A ' . r n-„„. -.7. 1 ° , •. .1 • 1 1 , 7 Mr.CaIliounsaid.il the senator from New off fifteen or twenty miles, the island we had T , , a . , , , • , . 0 _ 1 „ . . . - , ’ .. , , 1 Jersey had aflorded him the usual courtesv, ny just left bearing nearly west, we discovered al 1 J ’ - sn to our now asce behind the sage between u onu UKi raiu.. uui«. * «>■«;- | DUt0( ] lo hj m . nel abounds in rocks and reels, and has been tne , • M 1, c -.j t u nf t!)P Knnntn . v r,-nm New answer-lo Mr. Preston, said, not consent that congress should take a false position themselves, or place him in a false position. He was not dispos d to be tried on a false issue, or that the honorable gentle man should bring on the trial of a false issue.— The gentleman seems to think that I and those with whom I act, wish to abridge the freedom of debate. 'Flic gentleman is mistaken. Did I, or any one else, attempt to interrupt the de bate, to slop the first gentleman from South Carolina, in the course of debate? Did he not say what he chose, how he chose, and of whom he chose? And how have 1 attempted to abridge telligenf, ve:v wealthy, and v<*rv influential ei tizon of the Van Btiren empire of New York— and abolitionist as lie is. his testimony mav be relied on. fu this case especially ‘fas rst ah lioste doceri,’ nr.d we trust that the south will not be deaf to the honest warning which his letter conveys, fie governor Marcv, the Albnnv Regency, and their subjects, the northern Van Buren men— and apprises us in time what fate mav we ex'- pect and must deserve bv harmonizing with such allies. If the south must look abroad for support, be warns against trusting to such de fenders. Let her not court such fatal help— such deadly assistance. Bi tter trust to the for bearance, tbe tender mercies of the open, hon est abolitionists. Better at once lav down our arms nnd surrender at discretion lo the Brhon —than fraternize with ihe Cowboys and Skin nets. And vet it is on the assurances of that party that our representative has been deluded, into accusing the south nnd fits own party of ex- aggernting the danger, and ‘agitating,’ and into declaring that 1I10 abolitionists are few and con- tomptib'e at the north—in short into saving ‘there’s no danger’—‘all’s well!’ He relied, it seems, upon the interested assurances of men, profound distrust nf whom is the duty of every friend of the south. Can he wonder that he has been betrayed into a fatal step, and has ex cited the indignation and reseniment, never to be appeased, of his state and of his constituents? “We hear from divers quarters that everv ro- the gentlemen ever stopped in the freest course of debate? Yet when l express my sentiments of that course, I am to be reproached as bow ing tny suppliant knee to power, us the minion of power. Sir, I tel! the gentlemen, that they shall not monopolize the liberty of debate. 1 shall maintain my rights, wiliiout abridging theirs. Sir, thank fortune, the people of this country do not weigh or judge of our devotion or attachment to liberty by our professions.— ic should but incumber him in offering his aid; ! They judge by our ucls. By such I am will- guage ing to be judged. But I Lope the gentlemen p. will permit me to profess to be as devoted to lib- the liberty of debate? 1 have dared lo express] fiance mav be placed upon the statements of Mr. an opinion of the manner in which the gentle-1 Smith, and that the language of no anti.slave- man exercised his right. Had I not a right so ; ry man tit the north, is entitled to equal ntten- to do—to judge whether it was consistent with ! tion. the knightly bearing of a gallant soldier of lib-1 “In connexion with this subject we would erty fighting against power? Does the gentle- here mention a transaction, for an account of man mean to monopolize liberty? I shall not 1 which, we are indebted to a correspondent, who consent to it without a struggle. I repeat, were defies Mr. Beardsley and lho oilier parties con- Tucsdav on which they left os. On the 20th, wo anchored in the harbor of Muscat, the Bul- tana in company. Much praise and gratitude are due to tiie Sul tan for his extraordinary kindness and tho very prompt assistance which he has despatched to us fought between liberty nnd power, and 1 say, continued Mr. Preston, that if the content did uot originate here, it is made when we are not permitted cospeak ofthe administration in terms that we believe to be true, without being de- wn-s a erty as they are. I can assure the gentleman that they do me great injustice; they make a i ’ .. . ... , ,, , i nounced for it. It was a contest between on this occasion. Un hearing lrom Air. Roberts 1 ... . , , , . . TJ 1 . P . ... (. liberty and power, and adverse to liberty. He the nature o! our mis ortune, he immediately oj- , ; ... .. . , . - ni' r- . .1 would not agree that thev were not to open fheir lered tbe use of one of Ins frigates to carry the ! •- ... . , ■ , • , ‘ . » n , . .1 r'* •, j ! mouths against those who stood m high places officers and crew of the 1 eaeock to the Lmted vv ; tboul j )e j„g c h ar ged with a want of decorum. 1 venture to assert, overthrown. But it is against j eralshipof New York. Now it is acknowledged folates, it necessary; and to Mr. K. another, in . jj e wou j d nal dollv that a proper degree of 1 general denunciation nnd sweeping abuse, and on all hands tliat Mr. Beardsley was the most which to prosecute ius voyage, and accomplish 1 courtGSV j n t | iat j in ‘ f ] v waa bf ,t|, w.nmimr nnd the manner of it, tha* 1 object. * Sir, it may be j respectable of the New Y r ork delegation in con owing to my ignorance; it may be owing lo my j gross. With such allies, who have reduced hy coi ned, to contradict him. It is but another act of the play in which the Van Buren puppets have been set in motion to amuse the ground lings of the south. Our readers doubtless re member the ostentatious .agency of this Mr. Beardsley, (decidedly the ab'est Van Buren partisan ofthe New York delegation) in the dis persion, or rather postponement of an abolition meeting in his district. That was for effect south: but see how he was serving his sovereign in the north! At the last canvass his re-olction was in great jeopardy—exceedingly doubtful. Tho organ of the parly in his district had the congenial duty of being the organ ofthe aboli tionists also; and toserve both, tho editor know- great mistake, if they really suppose that 1 or ' ing Mr. Beardsley’s genuine creed, issued a cir- my friends wish to abridge the liberty ofspcech. j cular on the eve of the election calling on tiie Let them enjoy it in all its length and breadth, j friends ol abolition, who were very strong in aye, even to its utmost verge; let them speak ofl that district, to rise in their strength and elect the constituted authorities ol tiie people in what- Mr. Beardsley, udio teas with them irt sentiment, ever language suits them; let them make auv and would sustain their principle in congress.— distinct issue, any specific charge, and they will j To save him from the consequences of commit- ho met without shrinking; let them put their fin- : tal, either by the fulfilment or the violation of ger upon any act of the constituted authorities j this pledge, the regency have transferred him of the country, and they will be met, and, I j from tliis place in congress to the attorney gen- callingr <->n the friends of abolition to rise in their strength and eb*ct Air. B.. who. it was claimed, was with them in sentiment and would sustain their principles in congress: and that to protect him from the consequences of fulfilling or vio lating this pledge, the regency have transferred him to the place of at'ornev general! Such is the allegation. Mn rk how utterly gratuitous and false, facts and dates show it to be! The abolition convention, dispersed by Mr Beardsley and his friends, was attempted to b'- convened on the 21st October, 1^35: The elec tfon of Mr. B. took place nearly a y p nr previ ous, viz in November, 1834 This, of course, is a conclusive answer to this miserable piece of nullification coinage. But it is a paltry fab rication in all its parts. At the election in 1834, the abolition agitations had not been commenced. No paper, professing to he democratic, in Mr. B’s. district, was then an “abolition organ.”— The disorganizing sheet, alluded tobv the Mer cury, was brought up nearly a year afterwards, by Alvan Stewart and other incendiarv politi cians (the political and abolition associates of Gerrit Smith.) Mr. Beardsley’s election was never “in jeopardy,” or in the least degree doubtful: his majority in the district was one thousand and sixty over Mr. Peter Sken Smith, brother of Mr. Gerrit Smith, and the candidate of the affiliated opposition—whigs, nullifiers. embryo abolitionists. &c. &c. No appeal was ever made in his behalf to the abolitionists, nor any pledge given that he was with them in sen timent and would sustain their principles in con gress. He has ever been an open and avowed opponent of their principles and their course. Nor are the abolitionists “very strong” in Mr. R’s district—they are comparatively a handful; with such noisy demagogues and pretenders as Alvan Stewart at their head; and to a man, the political allies of :he Charleston Mercury and its associates in their unavailing attempts to prostrate the democracy of the state and nation. the objects'of his mission. courtesy in that body was both becoming and necessary; but, on the other hand, he was more ortunalely, However, we weres.tvcu 1 ora 1110 , romoto f ; om lbat spirit , whether it be the spirit extreme necessity of throwing ourselves thus far j of thc moltcn ca]f> ‘ or tl)al prostration and de- 1 »n hw rrisitV. f)ur sum having been tn . ..... incapacity to distinguish; it may bo owing to ; pocrisy to system, who can say that the open ... ...... ...... «... | my inexperience iu parliamentary usages; but I abolitionists are not formidable?” on his generosity. Our snip having been tn 1 basemc nt of spirit that would seal the lips a- j 1 must claim thc privilege of persisting in that j If one had not become familiarised with the dock here, (from which she came out yesterday,;; ffa : nst questioning tbe conduct of those in power, j objection. " j absurdities and contradictions of nullification, it has had all her co p per ran G ' ve d >_ it” c w “ *. j 'f| ie president of thc United States certainly Sir, I do not rise, to enter into this debate, but ! might be a matter of surprise that the statements I L.lmrim l ..cf ♦ i.« rwciii,m -.nUiitM • of an avowed and embittered abolitionist, who has labored with much zeal but with little effect ,,p , , . i lho president ol the l keel fitted, and ah t le othoi jcqui&iio ie k aus >, demanded a degree of forbearance from his ! being up, 1 must object to the position and atti winen will no doubt now ion er ic. pei ec.fv I political opponents; but am I to be told, said | tudo which the honorable gentlemen from South competent lo continue the cruise. lie, that we can only allude to him in thc humble Ibc Enternrize (with which vesse we parted ; , . r „ , • , , . P , ... • g, ' , .. tT , language ot a degraded Roman senate, sprak- beforo doubling Cape Good o Hope, and ound • * .. ° ... , • • ’ 1 , . • • n * . , , ' . , ing ol their emperor with his rrctorian guards her m this port on our arrival here) also goes ■ ,■ 1 • . T . i . ii » , , , • . . . . , , '. n surrounding the capitol? Am 1 to bo told, when into dock tins day, having rubbod up her copper oa a reef at Zanzibar, at which plac^ she arrived fijur days after we left there. At Muscat, the Sultan gave to the Commodore and his officers a splendid dinner at tho palace, served up entirely m the oriental style, lie has • A dure i* a boat with hi that cor.iittj - no came into power on principles of reform, af ter “keeping the word of promise to our ear, and breaking it to our hope”—am l to be told that I must close my lips, or bo denounced for want of decorum? Am 1 to be told, when he promised to prevent official influence from in- tcrfl’ring wi'th the of elections, that I Carolina seem disposed to assume for them- i to interfere with aud violate the constitutional selves and their friends, as the only exclusive * rights of the slave-holding States, should be friends of liberty on this floor. Sir, they arc I caught up with avidity, and urged upon the pub- mistaken; gentlemen here, who do not follow i lie as proofs against those who have been ear- their lead, and perhaps never will follow it, are nest and efficient in their support of the just and as much devoted to the great principles of liberty as they can be, and will go as far in their sup port and defence. I beg leave to make another temark. Tho gentleman lias alluded to the contest for the next unquestionable claims of the south, under the federable compact, and who have resisted and counteracted, with unexampled unanimity and powerful energy, the wicked designs of the in cendiaries. The nullifiers stigmatise the lead- prosidenev. and said that “coming events casticrsof abolitionism as the authors and instigators Tribute from an Enemy!—Abolition of Sla very.—We publish to day, an account of the proceedings of the Senate ofthe United States, on the motion of Mr. Buchanan, to reject the memorial of the Cain Quarterly Meeting ofthe Religious Society of Friends, for the abolition of slavery, and especially the slave trade.— Surely a Pennsylvanian might have committed the task of making such a motion to some other Senator. Our readers will perceive that there were but six votes against this motion, viz: Webster and Davis of Massachusetts, Swift and Prentiss of Vermont, Knight of Rhode Island, and Hendricks of Indiana. The Southern Senators, whether Van Buren or Anti-Van Buren, went in solid column for the rejection. This was to be expected. But when we look for the names of the Northern Van Buren men. we see at once the finger of the Magician. Every Senator under the cor>. trol of Mr. Van Buren, without an exception- voted for the rejection. Look, or instance at Tallmadge and Wright, from New York, the confidential agents ofthe Magician. Look at Hill, and Sheplcy. and Niles, and Hubbard, from New England, Wall from New Jersey. Buchanan from Pennsylvania. Look wherever the Magician has influence, and there, there is a vote against the memorial. We wish our readers to bear this in mind, and then to recollect that in the lower House the case was just the same. The Van Buren men from New York in that House went in solid column lor resolutions declaiing anv mod dling with slavery in the District would be a breach of faith. Thus in fact perpetuating might be a fleeted by such n movement, in re.- gard to which the opinions of others ought to bo consulted. I wish you, therefore, my dear sir, to signify to our friends, that not only would it give no pain to be no longer considered a candidate, but that suea a change in my relations to the coun try would be altogether agreeable to tnv per. sonal feelings. At the same time, 1 wish it may a’so be said to ihetn. that 1 shall no! act in opposi tion to their judgment, of what is required by the public good. I shall not separate from them, nor trom those principles*which we have hither, to maintained, and which, I trust, we shall main, tain, whether in majorities or minorities, or in prosperous or adverse f >rtnne. If in their opi. nion, our common principles and common cause notwithstanding what has occurred, do still re. quire of me that I remain in mv present posi- lion, I shall cheerfully abide by their determi. nation, confident that in no event hetcaficr to happen, can it Dcome matter of regret tome that I have conformed to what seemed host to iheir honest patriotism and intelligent sense of public dutv. With this distinct expression of mv own per. sonal wishes, therefore, I leave the subject for their decision; desiring them to consider no. thing, hut what just and consistent principle, sincere, patriotic duty, and the great cause of constitutional liberty may appear, in the present posture of public affairs, to demand from them and from mo. With verv true regard vour obedient scr. vnnt. ’ DANIEL WEBSTER. To IT IF Ki nsman, Esq. His friends, however, did not consider it expe dient to withdraw him, and adopted resolutions declaring that “their common principles nnd common cause” require of them and of him to remain steadfast in their political re ations to each other. Virginia.—The Richmond Enquirer of the 1st inst. announces the resignation of the Go. vernor of that State, as fill lows: Thc Governor actually resignedl—Yesterday Littleton Walker Tazewell resigned his office in a letter addressed to the members of the Council. This is tho first instance we recollect of anv Governor of Virginia having resigned since the revolution. Mr. Tazewell would have resigned on Friday last the very day after the Legislature adjourned—but for considerations which suspended his resolution until yesterday. We would have taken much more pleasure in taking n respectful leave of Governor Tazewell —But the times call upon us io speak. The indignity upon the Legislature has been mark ed. He would not pav to them the compliment of putting it in their power to appoint a succes sor—He has prevented the Commonwealth from having a Governor as such, fitr nine months or more—and why was this? Because he was determined to show his want of confidence and respect for them. It is of a piece with his refusal to transmit their Expunging Resolutions to our Senators What Mr. Leigh said two years ago may now be applied to Littlctou Walker Tazewell. “Whatsoever shall succeed in bringing our Legislature in to general con tempt, will do more to impair its just authority than any single measure this Government possi bly can.” The Ex-Governor has made the attempt—but it will recoil upon the author and his advisers. “Jfthe spirit of our fathers vst hums in our bosoms” we “will not bear” these indignities ofthe Whigs and their leaders. Mr. Daniel yesterday took his seat in the Executive Council—Yesterday Governor Taze- ewell resigned—This morning, he leaves Rich mond for Norfolk—The Lieutenant Governor, Wvndham Robertson Esq. henceforth acts as Governor of the commonwealth. The American at Paris.—There is an Ameri can gentleman ofgreat wealth, residing at Paris, who rivals nobility itself, in the splendor of his equipages. The Paris Messenger, of January 20th, thus notices him: “The attention of the numerous promenaders in the Champs Elysees, on Sunday last, was irresistibly attracted by the equipages auu the brilliant suiteof an American, M. Thom, who has resided some time at Paris, in an hotel in the Faubourg St. Germain. M. Thorn exhibited himself with two carriages with four horst s each, two others with a pair each, and foliowed by a great number of out- riders. There is scarcely any one but the Duke of Pembroo in England, who can rival M. Thorn!” This Mr. Thom is the gentleman who made himself rather ridiculous about a year since, by his correspondence with Mr. Livingston, our late Minister to France, on the subject of being presented at Court. The Ministers presentation list being full, he would not take the Thorns under his wing, and he was forth with pestered with a series of letters coiicheu in the most inflated diplomatic style, and using language, which would almost have induced the belief that the fate of empires depend upon pricking Louis Philippe with a Thorn.—Gentle man’s Vade Me cum. Avoid entertaining suspicion; and however just cause you may have of suspecting a man ot dishonesty or unfair dealing, let not your suspi cion be expressed or discovered; condemn n° one on mere suspicion, but rather seem to consider all men incapable of dishonesty or chentery. ., When you feel yourself unfit for society,.avoid it entirely; take a walk or a canter on horse back, exercise and a communion with nature are the best and easiest cures for an uneasy mind, Ulcus irritability, and nervousness-