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.had loft no Indians behind us, and none have
come in during our absence. 1 herewith trans
mit a certificate of the citizens of Baker coun
ty, that the swamps are now more clear of In- ;
dians, than they have been for five years. j
Under this state of affairs, 1 have left Camp |
Aiford and marched to Lumpkin, preparatory to j
«ur being discharged. 1 am gratified, general,
that my battalion has effected at the point of the j
bayonet, what heretofore no array of force, or
parade of men could otherwise accomplish, the
tolal expulsion of the Indians front Lhickasa-
'naichie swamp. Our time is nearly out; we now
yelieve we have no more work to do. 1 he
opinion is now predicated upon good evidence,
^i.nd tve hope you will order us up immediately
xtnd discharge us.
We have today, to bury one of the best oili-
"'zens of Troup county, who died of congestive
fiver yesterday, Mr. Brinian hvans, a man
of
great merit at home as well as in camp. Before
] close this my final report to you, permit me to
make one suggestion. ’J ho frontier of Georgia
will now be changed from Alabama to Florida.
The war in Florida this winter will send the In
dians hack upon the people of Lowndes, Ihomas,
Irwin and the other southern counties. Our
State ought to prepare for her defence in lime,
and prevent a useles sacrifice of the lives and
properly of our gallant brethren of that portion
of our State. I forgot to mention that in driving
the swamp, we cut off an aged Indian warrior
from tl a bodv of his people, and in attempting
to got round us to rejoin them, he passed a house
in ihe neighborhood, and was there shot and
killed by some boys, very much to the honor of
these little warriors. 1 Tierowith transmit cap
tain Kendrick’s report, of his operations on the
trail you ordered him to pursue.
In closing lliis cora'Uunioation, general, you
will permit me tv subscribe myself your friend
and obedient servant,
JULIUS C. ALFORD,
Mnj. Com. ‘3d Battalion mounted men.
co^mrxicATioxs.
OltATIOV
Delivered hj Alexander W. Sneed Esq.
at Talbot tot, Ga. on the -1 th July, 1S3G.
“Heftfiiri—and lo; tho stars of night,
‘•Forth to her banners flew,
“And morn with pencil dipt in light
“The blushes ere it drew.
‘ (’•.luiiiida'b chiofioin seized the prize
“All gloriously unfurled,
“Soard with it to his native skies,
“‘And waved it o’er a world.”
I deem it unimportant to claim your in
dulgence for die very short time allowed
me t<‘> prepare an address befitting this oc
casion; and h id that lime been given,
’twould have proved a vain struggle, all
presumptuous hope, in me to have ex
pected tbn.t 1 would in the exercise of my
ieeMe abilities produce any tiling upon a
levcu with the high toned rapture this oc
casion is calculated to inspire. Nor do I
belic-ve that the return of the 4th of July
requires frofn us the performance of such
ceremonials as we are wont to hallow it
with, to remind us how sacredly we should
observe it. At no time since we claimed
a place among the nations of the earth as
one of them have our citizens been want
ing in a display of those feelings that
characterize them as patriots worthy the
land that gave them birth, and the institu-
ti ms that nurtured them in lessons of
greatness. What then must be your feel
ings when upon the annual advent of this
day the association unveils the past and
“old tune,” rife with its treasures, pours
iWn out in rich libation at memory’s
shrine!
The custom ol'celebrating anniversaries
is almost coeval with time itself. And
then rites were sacred or festal as the act
to be commemorated dictated—victories
and the emancipation of nations from
bondage have given rise to the majority.
Terrcc the jubilee of the Israclitish nation,
the saturnalia of the Romans—many
among the more rude were in their char
acter sacrificial. Hence the “green corn
dance-” of the Indian. But it docs not re
quire that we should invoke the sanction
of custom, so deeply are the reminiscen
ces of our revolutionary struggles engra
ven upon the minds of all, that our shouts
would break forth, like other unbidden im
pulses of the heart, to hail its return; many
of those who figured upon the stage of
action during the denouement of that great
Iratna have made their exit, and the sur
vivors whose white locks proclaim them as
the rare relics of the mighty Ibrcst that
defied the rude shocks of a storm which
had well nigh desolated our land, intimate
: o us but too plainly that these recollections
.vill soon become only records of history,
>r legends such as we have retained from
hearing them repeated around the domes
tic. fireside to enliven the loneliness of a
winter’s evening. I have cast my eyes
over this assemblage of mv countrymen
to sec if there might possibly be with us a
few of the survivors who yet could tell
how fields were fought, and won. Heroes
of the revolution, where are ye? It might
have been that some one answered, and
yet the echo sends back my call, where
arc yc? But few remain with us, happy
in the rich legacy bequeathed their chil
dren, they, we can but hope have gone to
rest in the mansions of God their father,
prepared alike for the righteous and nobly
brave, we have committed their bodies to
(lie soil they wa tered with their blood, and
the winds of Heaven are moaning • their
requiem, as they whistle to the corn blades
that rustle around their burial place, their
eulogy is in their country’s glory. Peace,
peace to their memory! “They rest from
their labour, and their works do follow
them.” So long as we continue to cher
ish tin' liberty of our country, so long
shall we continue to hail the return of the
4th of July.
Faction may stalk around through the
bind: discord may raise its hellish shouts
to hurry us on maniac-like to disunion and
anarchy; but the return of this day, like
oil poured upon the bosom of the troubled
waters, will calm their strife; and the ex
ample of our sires, like a guardian angel,
will rush to save us from the brink of the
precipice upon whose verge we shall be
tottering.
I would here take occasion to repeat
the long catalogue of grievances we suf-
fered ill the hands of our mother country,
.and which engendered a spirit of rebel
lion and kept it alive, until, like a moun
tain torrent, it burst its confinement,
sweeping all before it, until its channel
was kept free to the passage of its own
waters. But you ltuve already heard
them from that manifesto, which was but
a few moments since recited in your hear
ing. It proclaimed to the world the cau
ses which provoked the citizens of these
United States to disclaim their allegiance
loa sovereign, who had wantonly tamper
ed with their lives and trampled upon
their rights and liberties. ’Twas a bold
act; but bravely did they meet the conse
quences it entailed upon them. ’Twas the
will of thousands, the decree of “the
sovereign people" like a Delphic oracle,
thundering the decrees of fate into the
startled ears of these violators of the
rights of man. ’Tis a fearful thing to
rouse the sleeping lion in his den. But
more fearful still is it lo add insult to the
offended feelings of an oppressed people.
I have seen the wild hurricane in its re
sistless fury prostrating the deepest rooted
trees of the Ibrcst; whilst mangled branch
es driven in terrible grandeur through the
atmosphere, shut out the light of Heaven.
Nature animate and inanimate, even man,
proud man, that being fashioned in the
similitude of his maker, yielding to this
destiny of a moment. Yet ’tis not more
terrible than the fury of an insulted peo
ple, when, in their majesty they rise to in
voke their vengeance upon an enemy’s
head.
’Twere needless for me to tell how men
claiming the same parentage, though arm
ed in a different cause, met foot to foot
and hand to hand, in conflict, each shed
ding the blood that had drawn sustenance
from the same breast. I repeat ’twere
needless I should tell you this. Have
you not heard it oftentimes around the
cheerful fireside, from the lips of your
aged :?iic, as lie mid yim o’er and o’er a-
gain the most minute particulars of that
never to be forgotten transaction? And
do you not remember, whilst listening to
his glowing description of some hard con
tested field, have ye caught from his kind
ling words the inspiration which fired his
soul in the hour of battle? How yon
grasped your juvenile arms, and felt »s
though you too could do and die, while you
essayed to wreak your vengeance upon tire
spectral armies your young fancies bad
conjured up? Why then should I tell it
again, if you have heard it, and learred
to hallow its recollection as an act to
which necessity compelled your fathers,
to cherish its recollection as an act which
wrested from the hands of tyrants, that
charter upon which you have built up this
stupendous fabric of a government, offer
ing to confederate millions a happy home,
to liberty an asylum from those lands
where for centuries her revered name hac
been prostituted to the basest purposes?
Could I throw my thoughts into expres
sion, I would tell you how the patriots of
the revolution, few but undismayed,
pledged themselves.
“By oppressions woes and pains,
“By their sons in servile chains,
“They wou’d drain their dearest veins
“But they would be free.’*
And then I would point you to Bunk
ers Hill; to Little York; and as ye mark
ed in fancy the conflict dire, anil saw the
foe falling in countless numbers beneath
the stalwort arm of our veteran soldiers,
the star-spangled banner of our country
waving in triumph over those fields, ye
should rise and echo back the banner-cry
of “victory or death,” with which they
made the welkin ring in that far gone day.
I would then present yam with another
scene. The panorama of the incidents
connected with our revolution. It should
be the representation of a beautiful kind-
scape, interspersed with hills and moun-
ill 111 IllCtXClWV
Immd ami
deep rivers, decked forth in all the gaily
phantom, such as belong not alone to Elfin
land, and the Harem gardens of the
Islamism, renowned for matchless beauty,
their havens crowded with white sails
bearing rich freight to a thousand busy
marts. I would point you to the moun
tain’s side, decked with its myriads of
variegated flowers, yielding their fra
grance in tribute to the passing winds, its
summit clothed in snow-white vestments,
upon which the clouds had pillowed them-
selveSrlor a couch, until they should be
distilled in refreshing showers to enliven
the green harvests in the valleys beneath,
and amply repay the industrious husband
man for his toil, when he should come in
the autumnal months to reap it with the
sickle, and store it away in groaning
granaries. In the foreground of this
picture, I would point you to cities, to use
the words of the inspired Maffet, “stand
ing upon their own alluvial delta, while
the deep ocean, like a monarch at a feast,
was pouring out its rich treasures in liba
tion at their feet—the winds of heaven
laughing through the cordage of her
ships,” that like beautiful maidens at an
eastern bridal, had come cl. l in magnifi
cence to present themselves to their
lovers. I would point you to your classic
temple, the abode of fair science, and bid
you note young genius wing his eagle-
flight, rich dew drops shaking from his
plumes of light, fax above the darkening
clouds that had mantled the varied beau
ties of this world.
Pass not unnoticed your farmer’s hut
embowered in the wildemcws. It is a
lonely and simple structure, but it bears
the stamp of cheerfulness and content
ment; and upon the grassy lawn before it
a group of beautiful boys and girls gam
boling in merriment whilst the anxious
but happy looks of parents as they watch
their every movement, tell too well how
their glad hearts yearn towards them.
The colors are bright; the picture is a
beautiful one, but a rude hand lias touch
ed it, and has changed the aspect—the
fields appear ravaged—the heavens are
lit up with light of burning towns and ci
ties. Mark you, the father dying and bleed
ing upon the threshold of his door, where
he had planted himself to defend the life
of his wife and children. The miscreants
have trampled over him, anil his wife is
kneeling at his murderer’s feet, imploring
in piteous accents the life of herself and
babes, until her cries are drowned in
death. Heaven, where was thy wrath
that it did not blast them? But ven
geance is mine, said the Almighty, and I
will repay it; and he did repay it.—
Whose blood does not run cold at the
recollection of such tragedies as these? I
will dwell no longer upon this subject;
but present you with the closing scene of
this drama.
After a protracted war of nine years,
England was compelled to acknowledge
our independence. Our government was
then .formed upon a truly republican
mode, differing materially from the re
publics of antiquity in other respects than
in those admirable checks, by which each
department of government is confined to
the limits of its own sphere of operation,
reserving the balance or power to the
people as a special check in the event of
any invasion or conspiracy on the part of
the different branches. A government
that can boast as much energy and
promptitude of action as any European
government, save the despotic, as far as
regards the powers to act upon such ex
tensive relations as are necessarily en
gendered by the law of nations, and such
as to protect it from external foes, ’tis al
together national—so far as regards its
infernal domestic police, ’tis federal;
guaranteeing to the States the rights to
define the tenor bv which its lands shall
be holden, to make and enact laws for the
punishment of crimes and other petty
offences—such then are the distinctive
outlines of this grand federal republic.—
Not intending to lecture upon the charac
ter of our government, or to touch upon
those points that have been the source of
much discord, I shall leave the subject
with you, believing at the same time that
there is too much intelligence among
the people to fear for a moment that these
political bands, bv which we have united
ourselves under the star-spangled banner
to one grand national government, will
ever be dissevered. Remember ’tis un
der this league, ihe result of a compact
that our country has attained that height
of aggrandizement she now boasts at
home, or wherever that banner has
waved. Should- the American flag be
ever torn from its standard, let it not be
by the sons of that country," over which it
has so triumphantly waved. Others can
not, dare not do it. Our constellation is
bright; and the pride of place to which
our eagle towers is safety. A single star
plucked from that constellation, like an
eccentric comet, may never find a resting
place, or revolve in harmony with the
other planets around the grand system of
civil society; but be doomed as it were to
annihilation for years. Europe is looking
upon our growing importance with ajeal-
ous eye, and already the sea-girt isle of
Britain anticipates the time when she shall
no longer be called the mistress of the
seas. They have entitled our government
utopian in the extreme; but let us evince
to them
“’Tis no sappling chance sown by the fountain,
“Blooming ai IMiam, in winter fo fatle,
“When the whirlwind has swept every leaf on tho moun*
tain,
“The more shall Clan Alpin exult in her shade.
“Moored in the rifted rock.
“Proof lo the tempest’s shock.
“Firmer it roots him, the ruder it blows.”
SOUTHERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL.
To the Editor of the Federal Union:
Believing you anxious to subserve the
public interest, in medicine as well as
politics, I think, sir, you will have no re
luctance to insert in your paper the en
closed editorial article, (taken from the
last number of “the Southern Medical
and Surgical Journal,”) together with the
interrogatories and observations which I
append. This article is a fair specimen
of the tact and genius of the editors, and
places their aptitude for induction and
force in illustration as well as industry in
arraying authorities, beyond the ordinary
limits of criticism. Their periodical be
ing in a great measure circulated only a-
mong members of the profession, the ap
pearance of the extract in your columns
will enable the unprofessional reader to
“the Southern Medical and Surgical Jour
nal” and of the profound knowledge and
disinterested philanthropy of Professors
Milton Antony and Joseph A. Eve.
Respectfully, etc.
FORMOSA.
From the Southern Metical and Surgical Journal.
THE WESTERN MEDICAL REFORMER.
Our printers placed in our hands the oilier day a printed
pn|mr of eight leaves, purporting to he The Western Med
ical Reformer—called also hy the editors A. Monthly Jour
nal of Medical awl Cliirurgiral Science. (!!!) Tliis pa
per printed at Worthington, Ohio, last July, and being the
7th number, appears to have eommenoed its eareer tinder
Ihe auspires of this bissextile—an ominous season truly.—
It is a year in which the odd hours of thefuir last aremnn-
nfaetiired into n new day, and adopter! on the last end of
February; and which makes the year 183(5. Now it has
1>ecn generally underslood, that a year eontuined 365 mean
solar days: nrul certainly it is true; but this peculiar time
gives it of eoitrse 366 days.
Years of this curious kind have been observed before:
and have been supposed to possess peculiar virtues, in the
way of reversing the cummnn order of things Some have
believed that waters have on thuse occasions reversed the
laws of gravitation and run up-stream, particularly about
Whitsuntide. Others sav that Ciesir made it by appoint
ing that the 2Ith of February should be twice numbered;
ami thus was form si ail intercalary day, corresponding
with the sixth of the calends of March, long celeb rated by
tin. Komanson account of the expulsion of Tarquin. Oth
ers believe that it leaps over one day in the week, so os to
not alter the day of the week from that of the mouth, ns in
other years. Others again have thought that Venus sallied
forth, wresting from its righlfol owner Ihe how and quiver,
and claiming them for her own, dispenses the missiles of
love lo Cupid's own heart, now made vulnerable to her at
tacks by the wonderful agency of that which reversed the
natural order of things. An easy transition from this, of on
ly half a step, has enabled young maids, by virtue of a su
perior elective affinity which this year dispenses to them, of
power to overrule all prior affinities in exercise between
bachelors and their books, business, or fair ones, to become
successful suitors for matrimony; and old matrons, the men
strua for dissolving together the heterogeneous elements of
the two soxes into one homogeneous compound.
When we contemplate the wonders of leap year, in pre
siding over the expulsion of Ihe Tarquin family from Rome,
to whom she was so much indebted lor her splendor, mag
nificence and power; and when webehoiil its wonder-work
ing transposition of the natural order of things—rendering
the weak strong, and the strong weak, &c. we think we are
brought by the very easy gradation of another half step to
sec why some men beyond the Allegany have been inspired
to embark in the wonderful enterprise of overturning all
science. Why medical science has sprung up on the im
pregnable basis of nature’s truth—risen through seas of pri
meval simplicity, stupidity, presumption and knavery, and
stands like the Andes, in the midst of mighty waters, and
crowned like these, with undissolving honors. And do we
see on the sea beaten granite of its wide base the vermin of
equivocal generation erecting their mucous domicils in the
recess of the surges which try the strength of foundations,
and calling them truths? Or do we behold the vampires of
knavery, seeking the treasure and the blood of the weak and
unwary?
Now these men surely believe in their simplicity; or pre
tend in their knavery; that stupidity will herome philosophy
and philosophy will become stupidity—that falsehood wiU
become t ruth, and truth become falsehood—that sin will be
come righteousness, and righteousness become sin, by the
wonderful transmuting virtues of leap year! They have
herded themselves underlie wing of the literary institution
of Worthington, (whose trustees should have tuid more
sense,) and leil us that medical degrees will he conferred on
the judgment of men who deny the first and all principles of
science; and not only so, but men who either m their sim
plicity or knavevy, prop up falsehood—ruinous falsehood,
at the expense of all truth and humanity.
The first part of this redoubtable “ Western Medical Re
former," is expended in telling us what Ur. Morrow told a
committee of students, he liked, and what he disliked; and of
course, the same of his college*—owning that the same
modicines mainly are used, but denying deriving their no
tions from the steamers. Then we are furnished with a
bird's eye view, condensed from matter enough of the same
kind, to make an octavo of eight hundred pages, of his rea
sons for differing from the old school.
We cannot spare room for quotations of such stuff, as on-
<- tends to prove that the man knows nothing of the “old
school,” as IiS pleases to cal! scierdiSc physiCMBt*; b"' on*
short specimen taken from the beginning of a paragraph
which strikes the eyefwithout selection, as we look from the
pen, we beg indulgence of the reader for giving Alter con
demning all minerals, he says:—
“It is well known that the various preparations of mercu
ry, arsenic, antimony, iron, bismuth, See. are regarded ss the
Sampsons of the materia medlca of modem fiisluunable prac
tice; notwitlistanding the operations of lheat agents are
evidently injurious to health and life.” dec.
When thought gels to the boundary of knowledge, it re
quires some energizing influence to arouse it to step beyond
this terra firms, into the next territory which is the terra in
cognita. In all our perambulations in etiology, we have
found hut two active powers sufficiently potent for this pur
pose. One of theee is an ignorance, loo profound to know
that it is necessary to look, before leaping. Another is a
knavery which would embezzle the very living, by entomb
ing the mental energies of the weak though honest.
There is a truism contained in the expreteion,
“What can we reason from, bat what we know!”
which is a key admirably suited to the purpose of unlock
ing the casement of a man of letters, and shewing the inte
rior; whether the casement be an A M„ or D. D.; or an L.
L. D. or AT. U.—With this key in hand wa need, so long as
troth it truth, and science is science, no more help to know
* A committee of students, it appears, entertained a suspicion,
and not without much reason, that this “reformed college,” wero
a moss of the disciples of Thomson and Howard, and questioned
the principal (whom we suppose Or. Morrow to be» as he appears
to return ihe answer; oa Utv
a little nore of some men, than they know of themselvM;
aiul determine pretty precisely their differential attitude,
than only to wee them publish.their views on some of the
comnan place topics. We see at once the overwhelming of
Nubian sands, or the ingulfing of the dark, deep waters.—
And as effects prove cause, our conclusion is unavoidable,
(fiat these arise from one of the two only competent active
powers, for in reasoning from effect to cause we can only
reason from “what we know.”
We should not have noticed so far, this miserable pro
duction, but for.observing a full page spent in lauding lobelia
inflala as a medicine of sucli virtues, as are calculated to
call it into hourly use. We know but few things of practi
cal importance about lobelia; but we do know amongst these
few things that long since,physicians who have both know
ledge, ami feelings of humanity, have laid it aside on account
of its uncertainty, and its dangerous power, to which they
have resorted only under very peculiar circumstances. Our
chief practical knowledge of its powers which have com
pelled regular practitioners to deprecate its use, has been
derived from observations on numerous cases to which we
have in these latter years been called, for the purpose o
endeavoring to remedy its peculiarly ruinous effects on the
digestive and nutritive powers, and on the general constitu
tion. These lead us to mourn over the mailslaughtering use
of it which has become so common, whenever we reflect,
as we often do, on the scene of misery and ruin which wa
have seen entailed on the bereaved husband, the disconso
late widow, the orphan child, and the last hope of the pa
rent.
This is no new article in the materia m nlica; but a stupi
dity and hard heartedness which can kill—yes, kill, often
in twenty minutes, any and all orders of mankind, and con
tinue the practice for years, and not be able to tee, mourn
over, and forsake the ruinous course, is a novelty in the
profession which has been reserved for tho Thomsoniaiw
and the “reformers.”
Lobelia stands before the profession chiefly o beacon to
tell where danger lies. Its name is looked on by those who
really know its powers, almost as the poisonous atmosphere
of ihe Upas—to be avoided; or, if approached at all, with
the greatest circumspection.
To Drs. Milton Antony and Joseph A. Eve,
of Augusta, Georgia.
It is not my intention, gentlemen, to af
firm or deny the identity of remedial
agents used by the “medical reformers”
and the “steamers.” Any man able to
read can satisfy himself on that point by
comparing Beach’s three octavo volumes
with Thomson’s two small books and the
four volumes of the Thomeonian Record
er. Neither is it my design to extol or
censure Lobelia per sc or in combination.
But avow I must my deep solicitude to
be, together with the public, possessed of
the evidence on which your denunciations
of that herb are founded.
To avoid ambiguity and preclude mis
understanding, it is proper to observe that,
in the United -States, the genus Lobelia
comprehends twelve species, dortmanna,
cardinalis, syphilitica, INFLAT A, lcalmii,
claytoniana, puberula, cphylla, ameena, glan-
dulosa, fulgent, and michauxii, and that the
species used hy “the steamers” and
Beachites is Lobelia Inflata, the “Indian
tobacco” of Cutler and Bigelow—to which
your remarks must be considered as re
lating.
t You assert then that Lobelia Inflata “is
no new article in the materia medica.”—
Do you wish to be understood as meaning
that it had a place there previous to the
prosecution of Samuel Thomson in 1809
lor administering it? If so, be kind
enough to name the class in which it was
placed, the author, cite his words, and give
the year and the imprint.
You aflirm that it “can lull—yes, hill
often in twenty minutes.” Do you mean
that it has killed—yes, hilled often in twen
ty minutes? If so, then, from your own
personal knowledge, mention names,
dates, places, exhibitors, disease, quanti
ty and preparation of Lobelia Inflata,,and
avow upon your honor that no opiate, or
mineral or metallic salt, or drastic cathar
tic, was, in such instances, administered
by any attendant or regular practitioner.
You declare that, in numerous cases,
you have been called on to remedy its
[Lobelia Inflata’s] peculiarly ruinous ef-
“** «N»»<1 nutritive* prvvv-
ers, and on the general constitution. Do
you positively vouch that in these cases
no mineral or metallic preparation or dras
tic cathartic or preparation of opium, ig-
natia amara, or nux vomica had been
given? If so, be so good as to favor the
public with your opinion as to the partic
ular mode, irritable or sedative, in which
Lobelia Inflata induces consequences so
deplorable; and by all means furnish the
names of the injured, places, dates, ori
ginal disease, and the names of the “steam-
quacks” that did the mischief, as well as
what quantity and preparation of the poi
son were used.
You boast that you really know the pow
ers of Lobelia Inflata, and you aver it to
be as poisonous as the atmosphere of a
certain tree represented by Dutch fabulists
as growing in Java, but which Sir Stam
ford Raffles, while governor of that island,
with the whole British and native force at
his control, could not find or learn that it
had ever existed. Being so positive as to
the extent of 3*0ur knowledge, y*ou can
have no delicacy wounded in stating what
number of grains of Lobelia Inflata, in
substance, will in twenty minutes or twen
ty hours, kill a male adult in ordinary
health.
I am aware, gentlemen, that the pre
ceding interrogatories and requests evince
strong symptoms of incredulity. But
such skepticism cannot rightfully be to
3 T ou matter of offence. In support of
your opinions and denunciations, }’ou have
not even attempted to reason nor advanc
ed a single fact except y*our simple decla
ration—which, how high soever y r ou may
hold your word or value 3 r our judgment,
cannot, without collateral testimony, out
weigh the experience of more than three
millions of North American freemen, con
sisting not alone of the needy and ignor
ant, but embracing judges, governors, de
legates in congress, and the y*ery chief
magistrate of the republic. The position
you occupy in this affair being of 3'our
own selection, you are morally* bound to
respond; and remember that not only your
reputation, as critics, physicians and pro
fessors, is at stake; but 3'our pretentions to
truth, honor and humanity as private
members of society are involved in the
issue. Silence has no excuse, but must
entail infamy, unmitigable and unchang-
able. Should you however establish the
tithe of your accusation, the gratitude of
the country will be your’s, and no one
will more readily admit it than
FORMOSA.
POLITICAL.
From the Washington Globe.
THE MODE IN WHICH THE NULLiFIERS HOPE
TO OBTAIN PREPONDERANCE IN THE SOUTH.
Mr. Calhoun (who never told the truth
when falsehood would serve his turn)
says, on the subject of abolition, in a late
letter in reply to a dinner invitation:
“So intent are the two parties which divide and distract
all the non-slaveholding States, on getting or retaining pow
er, that neither will directly oppose the abolitionists on our ac
count, from the fear that by incurring their displeasure they
might lore the asctnden&y in their respective Stales, or defeat
their prospect* of rising to power. As strong as may be their
sympathy for us, their regard for tltrir party at home is still
stronger. Of this we may be perfectly assured. Nor
would it be less vain to look to congress. The same cause
that prevent! the non-slaveholding Stales from interference
in ouy favor at home, will equally prevent congress. We
must not forget that a majority of congress in both houses
are the representatives of 1 hose Slates, and of course actu
ated by all the feelings and calculations which govern their
respective States; but, if true to ourselves, we need uoitber
their sympathy uur aid."
This is in perfect keeping with the state
ments of that mifror of truth, the Tele
graph, which has always reflected the
shadows of Calhoun’s heart, instead of
the substance of things. No party in the
north, says honest Iago, “will directly op
pose the abolitionists.” No man who did
not wear a face of bronze, could make
such an assertion. Have not the abolition
ists been opposed in every northern State?
Have not Tappan’s conventicles been
broken up? Has not Tappan been oblig
ed to abscond, while bis dwelling and
those of other incendiaries have been ran
sacked in pursuit of them? Has not Gar
rison been compelled to fly for safety, to a
jail? Has not Thompson been compelled
to fly the country ? But a few days ago
we received an account that a small com
bustible congregation of incendiaries, in
one of the eastern States, was put out by
the use of a fire engine; and in Cincin
nati, a little Jimmy Birney*, who had
been warned by a most respectable meet
ing, through a committee of the gravest
and most distinguished of all parties in
the city, to give up his firebrand press,
upon refusal had it consigned by univer
sal acclamation to the boitom of the Ohio.
The northern democratic party in all the
States has risen as one man, protesting
against the slightest interference with the
constitutional rights of the south in regard
to its slave property; and the democracy
has been found in opposition to abolition
as in opposition to nullification, and has
been joined by at least two-thirds of the
federal party. The same unanimous de
monstration was made in congress at the
last session, by the democratic party, a-
gainst the abolitionists, and it w r as sus
tained b}' a greater body of their adversa
ries than on any other question; and 3'et,
in the non-slaveholding States, neither
party says Calhoun “will directly oppose the
abolitionists;" and “a majority of congress in
both branches arc the representatives of those
States, and are actuated by all the feelings and
calculations which govern those. States!'!"
But mark tire conclusion to which all
this deliberate fraud and deception tends.
“But if true to ourselves, we need neither their
sympathy nor aid." This is the point to be
attained. To sever “the sympathies" of
the two sections—to persuade the south
that it lias no need for the north—is the
grand object of all Calhoun’s .appeals to
the south to “be true” to itself. The scope
of all liis policy now is to make a sectional
party of the whole south—a. geographical
party, against which Washington warned
his countrymen as the rock which threa
tened the Union; and against which Mr.
Jefferson, in one of his most eloquent and
prophetic letters, invoked the Providence,
under whose guidance and care our hap-
py government was established, to guard
and save it. It was to get up this geo
graphical party that Judge White was
brought out in Tennessee. This was to
undermine, at the point where it was sup
posed General Jackson’s influence was
strongest, the bulwark which his reputa
tion and the support of Tennessee would
oppose to the sectional principle on which
Calhoun relies to effect his objects. State
pride was appealed to—a succession of
presidents was the flattering inducement
held out to Tennessee for an abandon
ment of the patriotic and commanding
posture she held towards the first attempt
of nullification. The abolition chimera
was worked up by the joint labors of Cal
houn’s partisans and those of Judge
White, byway of terrifying and awaken
ing southern apprehensions; and then
Judge White, as president, was held out
as a temptation to the south to be frighten
ed into a sectional array 7 . To be true, to
itself, it is necessary* that the south should
never vote for a northern president. The
south has “no need of the sympathy of the
north—no need of its aid!!!” Judge
WHITE, the Calvin Edson skeleton and
death’s head, handed over by John Bell
to the nullifiers, is of vastly more import
ance to the south than the sympathies
yvhich bind together the Union! His gra
tification is of infinitely greater conse
quence to the south than any exhibition on
its part of a just sense of the liberal feel
ing in the northern democracy*, which has
united with that of the south and given it
forty years out of forty-eight in the presi
dency 7 ! And then the very* spectre of the
judge will prove more available in appall
ing the abolitionists, when our countty is
divided by 7 contending geographical par
ties, and a black and white boundaty is
made the limit of patriotism within each,
than that overwhelming power which the
love of our Union—which the general de
votion to our constitution at this moment
brings to bear upon them, and which in
ever} 7 State drives them into corners and
crannies, like spiders and snakes!
*
From the Washington City Globe.
INSULTS OFFERED TO TIIE PRESIDENT AT
HOME BY THE BELL AND yVHITE JUNTO.
The last Nashville Banner contains a
column of contemptuous sneering against the
President, beginning:—
“A Plain Statement.—The people of Tennessee de
sire to vote for judge White for president of the Uuiled
States.
“They not only want to vote for judge White, but t hey
hare proclaimed their intention of so doing to the people of
the United States.
“By recommending him to their fellow’-cilizensof the dif
ferent States, as the most suitable candidate they have in
the strongest manner pledged themselves to support him.
“General Jackson, on the other hand, wants the State of
Tennessee logo for Mr. Van Buren. In hi) first Gwin tet
ter ho dial molly indicated to them his wishes on the subject.
“His wishes, however, thus authoritatively announced,
did not produce the desired effect. The hint was not taken.
The people of Tennessee thought they were fully compe
tent tojudge for themselves, without the assistance of the
president of the United States, which, in truth, they never
solicited. They accordingly proceeded lo nominate judge
W hite by an almost unanimous vote of their representatives
in ihe State legislature.”
Is it not someyvhat derogatory to the
good breeding of those supporting White
in Tennessee, to say nothing worse, that
the president should be so bayed at by
them, from the moment he entered the
confine$ of th§ State? One would have
supposed that the man whose great pub
lic services, and yvhose renown and ven
erable age, had secured for him even in
Boston (the most inimical spot on the con
tinent, to his political course,) not merely
courtesy, but kindness, and the proudest
marks of public respect, might at least
have paid a visit to his home, to make his
final arrangements for approaching retire
ment, without being met With insult from
any party. Throughout New England,
the president spoke his opinions as frank
ly as he does among his neighbors at the
Hermitage; and yet New England feder
alists did not, fora moment, imagine that
they had a right to enforce a gag law on
him, or that the candid expression of his
sentiments authorized denunciations and
contumely, such as are served up to him
daily at Nashville, by the two organs of
Bell and White, and their partisans. Do
these people seek to make the impression
abroad, that Tennessee is ready to visit op
probrium upon the head of the president,
because he happens to think that judge
White has apostatized from his professions,
and lias-abandoned the cause and the par
ty which alone gave him importance in
Tennessee? This is, doubtless, one of the
objects of the editorial anathemas with
which he is continually assailed. We
think the instruments of this persecution
will fail as much in this design, as they
have evidently in the attempt to stir up
the people to mark his reception by an un
gracious feeling. He was never welcom
ed with more affectionate feelings, not
even when he returned in triumph from
New Orleans, by the great body of the
people, than he is at this moment.
But the sneer that the president has
undertaken “to hint” to the people of
Tennessee that they are not “fully compe
tent to think for themselves without the assis
tance of the president of the United States,"
is followed up by others of the same cast.
Bell and his editor charge that the presi
dent has gone home, 'as a public servant,
(a work of supererogation in him) to attempt
to limit his superiors to the selection of a par
ticular individual to succeed him;" that he
“next proceeds to bring all the weight of his
own popularity and the vast patronage of the
government to bear upon the Tennessee candi
date, in order to blight his prospects and de
feat the expressed wishes of the people of the
State;" that “the Globe, general Jackson's
official organ, teemed with the vilest abuse of
judge White; nor did the president hesitate to
circulate these calumnies under liis ownfrank;"
that “Ac comes among the people of Tennessee
and charges them, in effect, with gross incon
sistency and a dereliction of principle in their
support of the judge."
This is a sample of the crimination
with which the president is saluted on his
arrival at the Hermitage.
It will be perceived that the whole turns
upon the false assumption that the people
of Tennesse have nominated judge White
as president—that they wish to vote for
him—and that general Jackson, prefering
another, has resolved to make them vote
against their wishes. Now, if there be
any man in Tennessee so silly as to sup
pose that general Jackson believes that
he can make him vote against his wishes,
he may put faith in Mr. Bell’s slander,
and at the same time, by a vote forjudge
White, prove that it is a slander.
But the leading fact upon which all the
accusations of the president’s Nashville
assailants are predicated, is wholly with
out foundation. Judge White never was
nominated b3* the people of Tennessee to
the presidency. He was nominated by
John Bell, Bulie Peyton, and others, in a
caucus at Washington. The Tennessee
legislature, which followed up this lead,
did not consult their constituents, and
were not authorized by them to nominate
Wliite; and if the vote were now taken
b3 7 the people of Tennessee whether
Wliite should be a candidate or not, they
would decide, we confidentfy believe, by
a majority, against his becoming a candi
date. The enlightened voters of Tennes
see know that the onty purpose which, as
a candidate, he can serve, is that of the
opposition. The3* know that it will serve
the purpose of Calhoun and Bell to make
a sectional southern party—that it will
serve the the purpose of the nullifiers,
abolitionists, bankites, and federalists of
evety hue, to bring the election into the
house, that the presidency may become
the subject of political barter; that it will
serve the purpose of Clay, and the other
personal enemies of the president, to have
Tennessee to vote for the man who has
abandoned the republican cause, who of
late has voted against all the great mea
sures of the administration, and has, so
far as liis vote would do it, thrown the
influence of Tennessee against expunging
from the journal the stigma recorded there
by Clay, and the creatures of the bank,
against the first chief magistrate given by
Tennessee to die Union. A great object
of the opposition in appealing to the pride
of Tennessee to support White in the pre
sidential election, is to get her sanction to
this vote of White’s, to perpetuate the re
cord of the senatorial attainder of general
Jackson.
To answer these purposes of the oppo
sition, White and Bell have undertaken
to sever Tennessee from her republican
friends—from those who have, with un
flinching firmness, sustained her chief
magistrate in all his trials. Bell and
White are to become great men with the
opposition, if they can effect this. They*
have sold Tennessee to the enemies of
the president and her own principles, for
the gratification of their own private
malice, and their very remote hope of
political advancement. It is quite natural
that one who has been devoted to Tennes
see from youth to age, and who is justly
proud of her support, should wish that this
plot of liis enemies against his peace and
fame should fail. But if the people of
Tennessee wish to gratify Messrs. Bell and
White in making the disposition of her
vote in the electoral college, to subserve
such a scheme of the opposition, the pre
sident knows that the wishes of the peo
ple must prevail. If he had absolute
power to control their wishes, he would
not do it. Their vote is of no importance
to him, but as an indication of their wishes.
TAPPAN’S GENERAL ORDERS.
While White and his Calhoun friends
in the south are rallying a sectional party
against Mr. Van Buren, upon the false
assertion that he is supported by the abo
litionists of the north, Tappan and the ex
ecutive committee of the abolitionists pkty
their parts, by appealing to the fanatical
feelings of their followers. They seek to
direct their embodied strength as a sect
against Mr. Van Buren, by telling them
not to barter “freedom of conscience, of
speech, of the press, and of legislation," for
“northern Presidents and other officers!P'
Mr. Van Buren and his friends voted last
winter, that the constitution inhibited the
interference of congress with the rights of
the southern States in regard to slavery.
Tappan and his executive committee tell
the abolitionists not to vote for such men.
“We do ask you (say they in their circu
lar) to give your suffrages hereafter only to
such men as you have reason to believe will
not sacrifice your rights and their own obligor
f Executive Committee
I
tions, and the claims of mercy, and the com
mands of God, to an iniquitous and mercena
ry compact." In plain English, Tanp an
and his committee entreat their friends to
“let all the appointments at Washington be
given to the south," rather than their votes
to elect a northern President, who is rc .
solved to support that “iniquitous and
mercenary compact,"—the constitution.
But we give the context entire of thy
remarkable address, which embraces thn
appeal to the abolitionists in regard to the
disposition of their suffrages—in which it
will be observed, nevertheless, that thev
are exhorted, as Bell exhorted his White
party, not to be of “any political yartit."
Here is the general order, in canitaU-
“WE HAVE NO CANDIDATES TO RECOMMpvii
TO YOUR FAVOR—WE ASK NOT YOUb S
PORT FOR ANY POLITICAL PARTY; BUT WP
ASK YOU TO GIVE YOUR SUFFRAGES HFRFad
TER ONLY TO SUCH MEN AS YOU HAVF Rpf"
SON TO BELIEVE WILL NOT SACRIFICE Yo. d
RIGHTS, AND THEIR OWN OBLIGATION'S aU
THE CLAIMS OF MERCY AND THE COMMa vw
OF GOD, TO AN INIQUITOUS AND MERCFNarv
COMPACT. IF WE CANNOT HAVE NORTH
PRESIDENTS AND OTHER OFFICERS optuS
GENERAL GOVERNMENT EXCEPT l\
CHANGE FOR FREEDOM OF CO.NSOIF.NCF
SPEECH. OF TIIE PRESS, AND OF LEGISI \T fiv
THEN LET ALL THE APPOINTMENTS a-p
WASHINGTON BE GIVEN TO THE SOUTH
“In behalf of the American Ami-Slavery Society
“Arthur Tappak: * 1
“William Jat,
“John Rankin,
“Lewis Tappan.
“S. S. Jocelyn,
“S. E. Cornish,
“Joshua Leavitt,
“Abraham Cox,
“Amos Phelps,
“La Roy Sunderland, j
“Theo. S. Wright, I
“Eliz.ur Wrigiit,jr." j
The scope of this circular is plain to
the meanest capacity. Tappan, Jay, in
deed all the leading abolionists who have
figured in any of the States, as well as
those who displayed themselves in the
last congress, are inveterate political ene
mies of Mr. Van Buren upon principle;
their alxdition scheme has but given ad
ditional acrimony to their opposition to
him. Imbued, as they arc, with the saute
hostility to the south that nullifiers have
to the north—the two factions pulling at
each end of the Union to separate "it—
neither of them can bear the man who
reveres a constitution which both of them
consider “an iniquitous and mercenary com
pact." Tappan and his crew argue with
themselves, that if Mr. Van Buren (at
whom they* point as the northern presi
dent,) should be elected, they will not lie
able to resist the influence, which, as
chief magistrate, lie would undoubtedly
wield to defeat their incendiary move
ments against what the3 7 stigmatize as the
“iniquitous and mercenary compact,”
that lies at the foundation of the Union of
the north and south. As a northern presi
dent, they cannot rouse that sectional pre
judice against him which th.C3* are firin'*
to engender. They cannot rouse a sec
tional feeling against him to help their
abolition excitement. They cannot ex
claim against the south, as overweening
and asserting an unjust share in the au
thority of the clxief magistracy*; as havin'*
forty out of less than fifty years in the
presidency, and grasping at more, unless
the office goes to “the south." Therefore,
says Tappan and his executive commit
tee, “let the offices at Washington be g/rrs
to the south." It is perfectly clear from
this that this Arthur Tappan faction would
multiply causes ot discontent in the north.
Upon this same calculation, Duff Green
proclaimed openly in the Telegraph that
he yvould rather see Webster elected,
than a northern man who lias always sus
tained the doctrines of Jefferson and Jack-
He preferred Webster at the head
of the government, because lie could array
southern feeling ogains: him.
The people in the south yvill do well to
mark hoyv cordially Judge White’s Ten
nessee organs respond to the feelings of
the abolitionists. One of the Judge’s
Nashville prints expressed great satisfac
tion at the late election in Kentucky, from
which is augured the success of Harrises
and Granger ticket in that State. White’s
Nashville papers once claimed Kentucky
for him. Why do the3 7 now so cheerfully
resign it to Harrison, yvho proclaimed in
a published speech that “the General
Government can aid the cause of
emancipation,” a;id that “it has long
BEEN AN OBJECT NEAR MY HEART TO SEE
THE WHOLE OF ITS SURPLUS REVENUE DE
VOTED TO THAT OBJECT?” Why (fo tllCV
now rejoice at the propect that Harrison
and Granger arc to carry Kentucky— 1
both notoriously* co-operating in the cause
of ihe abolitionists? Is it not simply be
cause it holds out a hope that the man,
who is looked to by the democracy* of the
north and south, as its candidate, may be
defeated, and the government, founded on
the mutual affections of every section, be
put at the disposal of the factions by
which it is assailed?—Globe.
THE WAY IT WORKS.
The “Toledo Gazette” has changed
hands and changed politics also. “The
Old Flannel Banner" could not yvithstand
the breeze that w*as setting in so strongly
for the Kinderhooker. It has hoisted the
Van Buren flag.
And. yet another!—The “Toledo Blade,"
heretofore neutral, (which, in modern par
lance, means whig,) has inn up the S an
Buren colors. We opine, from its ap
pearance, the “Blade’ ’ yvill do execution.
Only three papers in that (Lucas) coun
ty, “the disputed territory” advocating the
claims of Van Buren. ’Pon honor, onhj
three, whilst the frnmds of Mrs. Harrison
can’t raise even a seven by nine. 01
North Bend, North Bend, O!!
And yet another'—The “People’s Pal
ladium,” a paper published in Logan
county, and heretofore, in politics, “six of
one and hzlf a dozen of the other,” has come
out decidedly for the little Magician.
And still another!—The “Lymchburgb
Democrat” has pulled down the Harrison
flag and runup that of Van Buren.
And another yet! The “Pittsburg
Times,” the leading Antimasonic journal
of yvestem Pennsylvania, disregards the
nomination of the Heroine of “Petticoat
Ripple,” and openly advocates the elec
tion of Van Buren.
And another still!—The “Pennsylvania
Advocate,” one of the most influential and
respectable whig papers of the Keystone^
State, says he never was an admirer of
the character of Joan of Arc, and there
fore cannot support a bad imitation of a
bad prototype, for the highest office
‘known among men.’
And the cry is, still they come!!! The
“Democratic Herald,” of Philadelphia, a
Ritner paper in the last gubcrapatoriul
election, of that State, refuses to support