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POJLiTWAIt.
Prom the Mobile Register.
WHIG PENETRATION.
The ntilltliers will have it that Van Bu
ren is an abolitionist, Notwithstanding!
his casting vote, notwithstanding as Hop
kins Holsey, of Georgia, says in his late
letter, tl.qt his “immediate friends in Con
gress have been always found side by side
with the South” on the subject us slavery,
w hereas the whigs Granger and Slade and
Others, have in ail cases favored the fana
tics, —Notwithstanding in his message to
the New York legislature, Gov. Marcy
Strongly urged that the agitators, if they
continued their incendiary movements,
should be put down by the strong arm ol
penal euactipents—Notwithstanding Mr. i
Van Buren himself has time after time fur-!
nished his southern brethren with the most |
unexceptionable guarantees of his sound
principles upon this std ject—the nullifiers!
still insist upon it that Mr V. Buren knows
pot himself as well as they do, and that I
their aagacity has enabled them to discover
in spite ofa.ll evidence to the contrary, that!
Van Buren must be an abolitionist!
Now let us try this question upon the!
Strict rules of evidence, such ns would reg- j
ulate the proceedings in a court injustice 1
upon an issue made hi the ease of John C. !
Cnlboun and others vs Marlin Van Buren.
The case js regularly readied. The plain
tiffrises and reads his declaration, in which'
lie charges “in due form of law” that the
defendant Van Buren is a most atrocious
.abolitionist. The court calls on him to’
proceed with bis evidence—he introduces !
a bomb Carolina uullifier; the defendant’s ;
counsel objects to the testimony because
the witness is one of the parties plaintiffs;
tiie testimony is of course rejected. Here
the Court would proceed to nonsuit the
plaintiffs, because they had been tillable to
produce any legal evidence to sustain their
declaration. But the defendant rises and
says, “besides other wrongs I have suffered
by this most groundless action, my charac
ter as a patriot and a friend to the Union
and my country, is deeply involved by 11m
proceedings that have been instituted a
gainst me. lam not content with being
merely discharged upon my plea of not
guilty, and the inability of the plaintiff
strictly to make out his case, but the satis
faction oi ail that this wicked charge may
never be again advanced against me, I pre
fer to introduce two respectable witnesses,
whose testimony, if it avails not to put to
rest forever the malignant aspersions of my
enemies, why then it never can be done,
“even though one should rise from the
dead.”
Andrew Jackson is the first introduced in
to court —a venerable man, whose life has
been spent in the service of his country,
and who it is impossible can entertain any
feeling in regard to the future, but a holy
desire to promote the welfare of the peo
ple, and the glory and honor of the coim-
Jry. He states “that he has been long and
(intimately acquainted with the defendant
Van Buren—that before his (Jackson’s)
election to the Presidency, be bad careful
ly noticed liis private and public character,
and believing him to be both able and hon
est, and deeply imbued with the genuine
principles of true Jeffersonian Republican
ism, as soon as he was installed Chief Ma
gistrate of the country, that he called the
.said defendant V an Buren, to the office of
Secretary ofStatcs, in which office he al
ways found him as his confidential coun
sellor and constitutional adviser, faithful,
firm and patriotic. That ’;e Andrew Jack
son, himself is a large slave-holder. And
a citizen of a slave holding State—that lie
lias long had his eye upon the ominous
movements <>| the abolitionists, and recom
mended in hi. last message to Congress the
passage of a law prohibiting the circulation
of their inflammatory pamphlets through
the Mails of the Government—that when a
.1 Wi, s reported by the present plaintiff
himself in the pursuance of the recommen
dation made, ho was not surprised to find'
* ”■'jG'-'tidant Van Buren and his immedi-!
nte lnei„|, t | M . Senate supporting that
■ 1 httew oetorebaiiil they would !
readily do fur the whole tenor of their pub-
The Standard of Union.
I lie lives, and from the opportunities he had
enjoyed of forming a correct idea of their
| opinions, from the freest ami most unreserv
|ed private intercourse.” Upon the whole,
: the witness testified, “that Van Buret! was
> no abolitionist, but that his political prittci-
■ pies, as was his private life, were of the
purest character, and that as for himself he
1 extended to the defendant, because lie tho’t
1 lie deserved it, his full and entire conli
i deuce.’
athanicl .Macomd North Carolina, was
next introduced, (this is the old man of
1 whom John Randolph said under till the
i solemnity attending the execution of his
i hist Will anti Testament, that lie was “/Ac
hoiiestest tnun" he ever knew.) lie stated
1 “that for thirty odd years oi his life be had
I been in public service—during that time
' he had opportunities of becoming acquaint
ed with the defendant Van Buren, and ipr
' several sessions occupied the next chai; - to
I him on the floor of the United btates’ Se
: tiate—that he has always been convinced
the defendant was an orthodox Republican
i ■ I the good old fashioned school, and that
I he would smne day reach the highest hon
; ors ot the country —that he (Macon) is a
j planter am! resides on the Roanoke River,
; and has a number of likely and valuable
1 slaves ; that he has observed that the plain
tiffs have charged Van Buren with being
•in abolitionist, but lie knows that such js
not the fact, and that the charge must have
1 been started by Calhoun, to break down
Van Bmtm as was the A. B. plot to de
! stroy V. ni. H. Crawford.” In conclusion,
Mr. Macon said “that he had for many
years withdrawn from the strifes of public
life, but highly approving of the adminis
tration ol Andrew Jackson, and believing
that Mr- A an Buren would perfect and car”
iy out the good work he had begun, he
had consented as the last political act of his
life, to the placine ol'his name on the elec
toral Ticket ot his native State,which was
pledged to the support of M artin Van Bu
ren as President of the United States.”
Ihe Jury took the evidence ami have
made up their verdict—lt will be priimm
ced in a voice of thunder in all the month
of November.
Prcm the Richmond Enquirer.
EXTRACT. ‘
J / out the Clh number of “J ieics n>)oit the
Jlubiccn, addressed to the dr< eine.t rj
Virginia, by the editor.
It is time to terminate these addresses.
The election is rapidly sweeping on toils
consuniatioii. Within less than four weeks 1
from this day, you will be called to the
polls. Why prolong this argument? It
the words we have to address you, should
linger much longer upon Orir lip-, they '
would scarcely reach the remotest borders
oi the commonwealth, before you pass tin
Rubicon. A few words more, then, ami
we close the series of Nos. which we have |
thought it our duty to address to the Free
mew of Virginia.
A re you for William Henry Harrison, or
fir Martin A an Buren, as join next Pres
ident.-' Ibis is the true issue which is be
fore us. Ibe Western Whigs of X irginia
go for Harrison. The Whigs from Poto- '
mac to Massachusetts, and on both banks'
of the Ohio, now go for General Harrison.
The most elaborate efforts have just been
made to snow off in the Middle States, am!
enlist their hurrahs, ami suffrages for the
Hero of Tippecanoe. The organ of the
Whigs in this city beheld in him “the next
President of the' United States,” Hugh
Law son W bite is now almost cntirelv eclips
ed by the blaze of the military meteor. —
His ticket in Virginia has been appropria
ted by Harrison’s friends—and but for the
cunning policy of some of the committees
and the presses o! Eastern Virginia, which
i are afraid to run up the flag of Harrison,
ami are s.itll willing to employ the name of
White as a decoy to the State Rights party,
W bite would long ago have been “shoved
j from the stool,” and Harrison proclaimed
.as the only candidate of the Whigs. He
is to al! intents am! purposes their real
candidate. He is their strongest man be
fore the people. He will be their strong
est man in the House, if the whigs should j
' succeed in transferring the election to the I
i tribunal. Harrison or Van Buren, is there
fore, the real alternative which is presented
tothe People of Virginia. Can you long
; hesitate in your decision ?
Do you prefer the candidate, u!io lias'
! not one great principle in common w ith the '
I Htato Rights school of Virginia?—Take!
Wm. H. Harrison.
Do you desire to see a friend of old John
■ Adam s administration, elected vour next
i President?—Take Wm. 11. Harrison.
i Do you admire a Fed- ralist in theory—
a Latiludinarian even ofthe Webster rchool?
I a|u- General Harrison.
Do you prefer a Latitiidimir'ian in his ■
policy and measures—Win. H. Harrison is
- your man.
Do you prefer a politician who recogni
zes no perceptible limit to the powers of
the Genera! Government over the raising!
and expenditure of your money?—Take!
General Harrison.
Do you seek a candidate, who will raise I
! extensive funds by an oppressive tariff
: ami who would adhere to the System, mi-
I til the streets of Norfolk ami ( liaileston I
' should be covered with grass?—Then is '
! the Hero of Tippecanoe yotir man.
, Do you seek a candidate, who would ap-:
propriate the proceeds of the Tariff’ to an il- '
| ligitimate system of Internal Improvement-,
! whether it extend to rivet road or canal i
Then take Gen. Harrison, *
Or, are you in search of a matt, who will
appropriate the whole Surplus Re venue, to !
'the “colonization of those that may be!
I otherwise freed,” and “th'i purchase of the
free.tom of others.”—Here is your candi-l
date.
Or are you desirous of the success of a
candidate who would have no scruple in
I cmitiniiiiig the Tariff, an.J systematically!
distributing the Surplus Rcvemie, among
V S'ChF/; liJLIE, B£TIJJESJDAY MfMttIWIIVCi, 1830.* "
the States ol the Confederacy—arming the
. v.vnerai Government with all the attractions
• oi a beneficiary, am! convertitig the States
into tne stipendiaries ol its bounty. - '—Take
Gen. Harrison.
Do you prefer a politician who is a quasi
L ink man, ami has even gone so far as to
; say, that he might be disposed to support a
Bmk which should ffici/ita/e,” tlie oper
. ations of the Government ?—Then William
j Henry Harrison is your man.
In ;i word Fellow-Ciuzens, if yon desire
•t Prr-iiert, whois a Latitiidinarian Imtii
; ill tneory am! practice—-w ho is opposed to
. the strict construction school, to which you
have been devoted for forty years—ls yon
| w ish to strike the standard <if Jefferson—
' to undo all the services w hit h Jackson’s nd?
- ministration has rendered—if you prefer a
j President, whois unqualified, either by the
moral strength of his character, or the ex-
- tent of his civil qualifications, to conduct
I the complicated affairs of your Government
—ls you desire to have a President who
will seek his constant advisers in Clay, Web
ster and C alhoun : Then you have the can
didate who has been already pronounced
by the false oracles of the day, to be t4 The
next President of the United States.”
Lut, it you desire a different candidate,
it ton desire one, who has adopted vour
cre6il, and vindicated vour strict construc
tion principles in the Senate of the United
j States one who insists upon such a modi
fication of the tariff, as will produce a re
duction of the revenue to the economical
wants of the Government—one, wno in his
late letter to Sherrod Williams, disclaims
a systematic distt ibiition of the Surplus Rev
enue, but prefers “the only natural safe and
just remeuy (or an excess of revenue, a re
duction of the taxes”—one who maintains
“that Congress has no constitutional pow
er to make roads am] canals in the respect
ive Stater, and he has uniformly voted a
gatnst every measure calculated to extend
a national system <>t Internal Improvement,
except the Cumberland Road,* for which
solitary vote he Inis made a public recanta
tion. If you desire a President, who has
proclaimed “an umpiallifled and uncompro
mising” war against any Batik of the Uni
ted States, one wiio has declared himself
the “inflexible and uncompromising oppon
ent ot any attempt toobolish slavery in the
District of Columbia,” who affirms that
Congress can h ive no power to meddle
with slavery in the States, even with the
consent ol al! the Slave holding States,
without -‘a change of the cons'Hut ion," —
who Ims but recently stamped itis friend
ship for tiie South by his casting vote in the I
Senate—ln a word if you de.*tre a Presi- 1
dent, who is a fi ir-ml to the South—and ad
vocate of the State Rights’ School—and
who will find it his interest, as well as his
duty, to givetotie to public opinion in that
quarter alone, from which the only dauger
can arise to our Southern interests”—one,
who has stood by our side in the support of
Crawford and Jai kso!i—-wlio has done more
than any other man has been reviled and!
persecuted l.y its opponents-theii do we not
hesitate to say, that Martin Van Buren is I
that man. They have called him a Magi
cian, as they oncecalled T homas Jefll rson.
But l>is magic consists in his fine temper,
his strong common sense, bis atlachmtut |
to Republican principles—his possession
ol those qualifications, which constitute the
Statesman, and fit iiini for the highest of
fice in the Union.
Which of these candidates do you pre
fer f We say again, cun you hesitate in
your choice ? But if you were noteven dis
posed to vote for Martin Van Buren, how
canynu for one moment think of support
ing such a politician as Gen. Harrison?
Before any States’ Right man can do it.!
he ought first to forget every 1 sson he lias !
imbibed from the Jefferson School. He !
shotild desire to see expunged from our Re- j
cords, the report of’9B, and ail the glori
ous which we have passed, a
gainst the encroachments of the Federal
Government. —But we may be told, per
haps, that <f you do m>t admire Gen. Har
rison, the V« higs have offered yon another
candidate, in the person of Htigh L. White.
Aye, the very wings that once abused
Judge W Hite for the support of Gen. Jack
son, and the Proclamation, and the Bloody
Bill, are uow holding him up as an alter
native candidate for your suffrages.
B it.l’ eilow-Cilizens, what can have re
commended Judge ’A hjte to their suffrages?
or what entitles him to your support? Itis
tiie course w hich he has lately taken ? Is it
his becoming a trimmer, a turn-coat, and
an apostate? Is it his abandonment of the
best friend he ever Ijad, because that friend
prefers another for the Presidency ? Is il,
that Judge White hasihrown himself in the
arms of the Whigs—ami lias turned his
back upon the men ami measures which he
formerly supported ? He once voted for Ta
ney, am! last winter, lie voted against him.
He lias in like manner, supported and op
posed tiie nomiuaticns of Stevenson ami
Kendall. Formeriyhe resisted Air, Clay’s
Gand bill—last winter be advocated it.
Bel'or? he was re-elected Senator of the
United Slates, he emphatically declared,
that the iuea of bis abandoning tiie’ Admin
istration was all fanciful—Now, who is so
violent agaitin it, a S Hugh L. White ? He
well declined all public dinners, upon the
ground tout it was indecent and improper
lor him to appear at them. Now, who is
mote ready to participate of tiie honor, anti
to scatter hi s speeches through Tennessee?
iVm.'ti he was first brought out, Itismnnimi-
•mg band of 13 ( ii sl .| iJ(l|e ,| a || j nlt . nl j on t 0
ptosei ute their deign, in ease it should
• arcaieii to tin ow tin-election into the House.
But, they now see the evident icudemy of
movement., ami they continue the nom
ination ; the Judge iie'mg “nothing loth” to
run any such risk, ami encounter any other
sacrifice, to {-ratify lii, ambition, or satiate
bis resentment. What I•it to him, that he
is now found fighting side by side with
( lay, l--Inter or Calhoun? That he is
now ai iayed among the bitterest opponents
Osir timesceoice—-Oar i'c>eitctre}—Our J’eerty.
“I tiie Administration, himself the bitterest
of the whole; John C. Calhottn aio„e ex
cepted ? What is it to him, that tiie elec
tion may be transferred from the hands of
the people to tlu- House of Representa
tives ? Or that a latitudinarian in principle
and measure may be elected ? Judge White
knows that stick may possibly be the coi>
sequence of indulging his own passions t
ami vet he consents to become tiie tool of
the Whigs—the very men who have abused
him without mercy, and many <>f whom
now dtspise linn. 1 hey disptse him as a
trimmer, a turn-coat and a canting apos
tate. If he should be elected, they tell us
onenlv, that if they have their own views
to promote by his success. Long since
their organ in this < itv declared that “E-
Im-o-d, if elected at all, by the votes of the
Whigs, he will naturally and necessarily
select his Councellors fr -m their ranks, and i
modify his measures according to their i
views.” Yes—it cannot be concealed, that
the Whigs expect to inanatre him ns thet
please—to regulate Itis Cabinet, and con
trol Ids measures, to use him pretty much
as a nose of wax in their own hand'. And
is that the candidate. Freemen of Virginia,
w hom vou would be w illing to elect ?
Look, too. at the circumstances, tinder [
which these Whig candidates are presented j
to vour support. The Whig party may'
disclaim all intentions to defeat a popular I
election, but such is the inevitable result of
their movements. Mr. Bedford Brown
well observes, in his Milton Speech, that
“It has been reserved for the present time,
to exhibit to our view, the extraordinary
and truly alarming spectacle to the friends!
of the Union, or of the three ereat divisions !
of the opposition, each organizing itself on
geographical divisions, and each urtring'
the claims of its Candidate, by appealing!
to the utmost dangerous sectional prejudl-'
ce.s. Each of the grand divisions of the 1
Opposition, though practising the most
studied courtesy towards one another, yet
mancettverititr to advance its own cause, '
and ali operating to one and the same g^eat!
end, to defeat the Democratic Candidates)
for the Presidency and V ice Presidency be
fore the people and carry the election to!
the House of Representatives. Here then,
is an open declaration of war bv his politic
al alliance, against popular election and
the riglit against suffrage. It seeks to o
vei’tlirow both, by united efforts to prevent
an ejection by the people, and to transfer il
to tie House of Representatives. Tiie,
cause of the Democratic, candidates, against
which this war is now waged, i, the cause
of the country a-id the cause of the Union.
It has ranged tinder its banners, tiie gn at
body of republicans in the South, the North,
t.'ie East, and the West. An Electoral
I ieket is hi nomination for Van Buren, in
tweiity-live Stales, including the two new
ly admitted ones, and ail except South Car-!
o-ina, who elected by her Legislature,
which makes him, emphatically, the can
didate U the Democracy and of the Union..’ !
—
OMINOUS.
T he first flag, say the Jlarrisbnrg Repor- :
ter of tiie 6th inst. hoisted by our antima- !
sonic Commissioners on the spite of tiie !
Court House steeple last spring, in honor'
ol the ivorth Bender, was composed of the ■
Union stripes, mid underneath, on a white
field, the name ol Wm. H. Harrison, in big
black letters, with sundry small sentences i
100 little to be read well witliuut the assist- '
mice ol a telescope. This for a time, like i
the principles of the party that raised it, ■
waved proudly and fitfully to every wind
that blew. Sometimes it fluttered north, !
sometimes south, sometimes pest, and somt> ■
times to every oilier point of the compass ; I
but at length a storm came, and the rains
beat, and the winds blew, and the stitching ■
that united the General to the stripes gave i
way—tiie Union was completely separated, |
and wh:*e the emblem of the Stales floated !
triumphantly in the air, the name of Gener
al Harrison drooped, and wound itself a- i
round llit flag staff for support. The stripes ,
wouki not support it. hi the course of
time this flag was taken down and replaced
by another of the similar import, in which
the ingenuity ol the friends of the Genera!
had to be put in requisition to prevent the
former ominous appearance of the favorite
standard. All manner of stilclting and
contrivances were resorted to, to cement in
separably the Utiitui and the General, but i
it won’t do. Tiie winds and the rains of
Heaven have again shivered it into tatters;
its lower fastening to the staff’ has given
way and it is now “streaming like a pieteor
to the troubled air.” It will now greet the
General, on his arrival in this place, which
is expected to-day, more in shape of a tat
tered, draggled petticoat, tied up by one
string, than the banner of a military hero-
Doylestown Democrat.
l-'rom the Lynchburg (lazcttc.
JUDGE WHITE.
The Jackson Mississippian, speaking of
the unprincipled conduct of the leaders of
tiie whig party in forming an union be
tween the While and Harrison parties, re
in.trks;—
“Can it be that Judge White is accesso
ry to this corrupt and ineestueuus union
w ith the w higs and nullifiersj 1 If he is, it is
time for the honest of all parties to si t their
face against a politician who has been the
pliant tool of his political opponents. Let
the people but once .understand the Iciigtli
and breadth of this proposition, and the
prospects <>f Hugh L, White are forever
blasted in Mississippi. The whigs and iml
i fiers may amalgamate in the support of
General JJarristm, but no true republican I
<>r friend of tjie South, can for a moment
li ten to such a proposition.”
I fiat Judge White is accessory to this
corrupt combination between the Suite
Rights whigs, mdli'iers, and latitudinarians
to elevate Gen. Harrison t« ( tl e Presidency,
tines it not admit of a doubt. His course
sim e liis nomination distinctly proves it.—
• • ■■ r 1 ft.**- - I
For a while, under me vam hope that lie
would be selected as the-Candida'e of the
republican party, he solemnly protested
that he would not suffer bis pame to be the
means of dividing that party, and giving
to its inveterate opponents a remote pros
pect ol overthrowing the pt’foeiples which
it cherished, But the moment hediscover
ed his mistake:—tho moment lie found that
i the choice of the democracy of the country
i had fallen upon another individual, who
stood higher in tiie confidence of the peo
ple, and whose chance of se.cce-l was supe
rior to liis own, he threw of the mask, for
got al) hi.- professions, abandoned tiie ad
ntiiiistration which be had been elected to
support, and threw himself into the arms
of Itis old enemies. From that moment we
find kirn In close political association with
the leaders of the various fragments of flte
i Whig party, ready and willintr to do their
j bidding—joining with Clay, Calhoun and
Webster, in their denunciations of the Chief
Magistrate, voting for whig measures which
he had formerly opposed, opposing Presi
dential nominations which had previously
received his sanction and Itis votes, and e
vincing a willingness and a determination
to do all in his power to effect the overthrow
j ot that party to which he was solely indebt
. ed for the little fume and public confidence
jhe had acquired. The Presidential chair
I had become the god of his idolatry, and he
w - as as ready to sacrifice Itis principles ns
his friends at its shrine. Rut he is now re
ceiving the traitor’s reward ; the scorn of
the .friends w hom be shamefully deserted,
and the cold neglect of those to w hom he
looked for the price of his treason.
MR. VAN BUREN AND THE CUR
RENCY.
GOLD AND SILVER,
On the subject of the constitutimial cur
rency, Air. Ahui Buren say»:
That gold’and silver should constitute
a much greater proportion of thecircu'a
tiug medium oi' tite country than they now
do, is a position which few- are disposed to
deny. How great the increase, and how
rapidly it ought to be effected, are questions
in regard to winch a difference in opinion |
may from time to time arise amongst men I
having the same general object in view.—
No beneficial reform in the affairs of the !
world was ever accomplished, in which sin - .- !
dar diversities of opinion were not found i
among its advocates. But it is a consolaJ
lion to know’ the embarrassments arisine '
from, that source have been overcome, and !
may be again. To protect the working i
classes, (w lu> generally speaking, have no:
control over ;i paper currency, and derive
no profit from Bank Stock) against fosse,
arising from deprecations, by securing a
metalic currency sufficient at least for ail
minor dealings, including the payment of I
labor, the most important as well as the I
most blessing use there, is for moneyv-to '
furnish a more substantial specie basis for;
that part of the currency which consists of!
paper, and thereby suve the whole connnu- '
nityfroin loss inconsequence of an v sudden j
withdrawal of ccnfuieuce, should be our j
first object, as our imperative duly. Other i
countries are wiser than we are in that res- !
pect. England prohibits the circulation !
of ail bank notes under 5 pound equal to !
about 835; and France all under 500 francs ;
equal to abount §9O; and there is scarcely 1
a village, or even an inn, in England, .
in which you cannot without the!
slightest inconvenience, change a 5 or:
10 pound note, and even .t|ioseof a higher
denomination, into the gold and silver; and !
in France there are like facilities.
'lifts letter is explicit also. It is up t<s !
the mark; and without flinching or dodg
ing, it goes for the suppression of the small |
note currency, and fur the complete restor- |
ation of gold and silver for tbe-currcncy ol !
the country. He does not fix tiie limit at
which the suppression should stop, but lie
quotes two examples with applause and up?
probation; that of England, where ali
notes under 5 pound sterling are suppress
ed, and that of France, where all are sup
pressed under 500 francs ; and shows tiie
good advantages resulting from these-sup
pressions in the abundant supplies of gold
and silver which prevade every part of
those counfrics, aad especially
Infaet, there are but two denominations of
bank noJes issued in France, one for 500 i
francs, and tiie other for 1000; and .in Eng- |
lafld, even Adam Smith, the champion of;
the credit and paper system, expressly coy- I
demned all paper currency under 10 pound I
sterling ($48.) Even he was for confining
bank tjotes to large payments, and preserv
ing gold and silver for the common cur
rency and daily transactions of the body
of the people. But the faa is, also., that!
even in England banks of circulation are j
not necessary to commerce or manufac
tures; for where is a greater manufacture I
ing citv in the whole world than MAN-|
CHESTER? ora commercial city greater j
than Ll\ ERPOOL? let nedther ofthese i
have banks of circulation! They have I
banks of discount and deposits to lend mo
ney, am! keep money, and to but’ and sell
bilk of exchange ; but they have no banks
that issue bank notes; and their accommo
dations io the community, and the mer- ’
chant, are in money, i. e. goid, and in bills
ol exchange. T his is a fact which should
be known to some people, who think that
comjnerce and manufactures caynot be car
ried on witliout banks of circulation.
Pursuing this intejest’mg subject, he
says;
It is time, high time, that we should re
turn to the constitutional policy; and the
first step iu the way ol reform, is that tiie I
Federal Government confine itself to the I
creation of coin, and that the States uffopl i
11 a lair chance for circulation. Can any
one assign-even in a plausible reason why I
the United States cannot maintain as staple
a curi( ney as either France of Great Brit
ain r None, 1 imagiife; pthe]’ than shat it
lias not been the policy of the (lot eminent!
that it should be so. In all material res
pects, so far as I can judge, w e are in :tn
equally lavorahje, il not a superior condi
tion. Whilst both those counti ies. must re
ly upon importations abroad for gold for
their minis, we derive three-fourths of a
iniliiop annually from our mines, and are
besides nearer the great supplies of’ jn
South America. Nothing, therefore, but
a faithful prosec-uiion of tiie GeneraKGpvr
ernmentand the Slates, of die policy oifhe
present administration in regay i to a spe*
cie circulation, is necessary, toplace usJph
a fooling of equably in this respect wAtfT
other nations. Such a result once accoih
cotn| lished, it will require no laboured ar
gument to prove that more will have Im-cOi
done for the permanent interests m»d im
provement of the currency, than was ever
accomplished by tiie Bank of the United
States, ortlianever could, in the nature of
things, be accomplished by such an institu
tion. We may find in what has already
been done, (he greater encouragement to a
vigorous prosecution of this policy.
THE PEOPLES CANDIDATE.
It appears from the following that the
most ardent of Judge Wiiite’s Washinirton
caucus managers, finds it necessary to con
fess that there is no prospect of the peo
ples candidate being elected. Tiiis comes
from Colonel Forester’s home:
From the MrMamviUe Gazette, Sept. 24.
CQL. FORESTER—THE PRES
IDENCY.
On Monday last, the first day of the
present term ol’the Circuit Court, tiie Court
having adjourned for the purpose, Colonel
; I’oi estef addressed his constitueuts io the
i court house in this town. His ostensible !
! object was to justiiy his course in Congress .
! am! to defend himself against tiie charges I
•oi inconsistency and political apostacy, !
preleried against him by tijany of his old :
friends.
'1 he Colonel was cool and deliberate!
I tliroughout liiseffort; but we do not think
! he tidier euelits his breputatiou or liis cause,
i lit the course of his address, he distinctly de
i ciared, dial lie had no hope oj elect in er Judge
! i! fire by the People! This assertion as »iy
' think, seemed to startle and astonish liis
| friends. Many seemed either mortified al !
tiie knowledge of the melancholy fact, erat I
| the impudence of its r.dmissi.m, perhaps]
both. The Colonel said that it was now !
) certain that the election would go into the
: House, prophesied that Judge \Vfiite would
I there be elected. We were ficre some
! wiiat astonished that the speaker declined !
! the slightest allusion to the memorable fact, '
that the caucus ot eleven, h lio mujv Uiot
Judge a candidate, solemnly declared to!
the nation, that Judge White should he j
withdrawn rather than sailer the election to '
go into the House. As th ■ Colonel did
nut attempt xo excuse the tinbius ing in- ■
consistency of these two as,er ions, we were !
left to infer that he cousiueis it, as all men |
of sense must, utterly inexcusable.
It is nut a very great stretch of candor to
make this admission, considering thai ii re
quires o.xe it.ixDitEi) and Foirry-EiGirr
electoral votes to elect a President—that ;
• While lias but m.xety om: .cmxiitiutes for :
the electoral college—that of these, his i
Virginia, Missouri, and Illinois tickets a; - e !
pledged logo for .Harrison if there is any
• prospect of.electing him, there being con- !
fessed no possibility for \\ bite, gi\ieg hi-xn '
the vote ol’every State he asks—anti that i
the 9! votes, twenty-three are to come from
; \ irginiun, four f’rotg Mississippi, five from j
.Illinois, seven frogj Aiabiuna, three from ';
I Missouri, three fiom and five;
i from Louisiana—in all of’ w.hieb Staler liis !
ticket, although supported by every branch ’
ol the opposition, have .beat entiiieiy - de
feated in the last elections for the State of- i
licers and legislative assemblies. Deduct J
these hopeless votes, and Judge White w ill i
have only forty-one if lie should succeed in i
getting Tennessee and North and South
Carolina ; and upon these three votes in
the House .of Representatives, it seems, I
Col. Forester prophesied ti;at “.Judge j
White would there be elected! I” And up- ;
o;i what ground does tiie Colonel indulge j
the hope that Judge White w,ill be taken 1
tip by the opposition States, in'which lie!
lias not been abie to get an electoral tick
et, in preference to their s.uceesa'.ul candi- !
date before the people, who must get thrice I
three States in the electoral college to bring I
the election into the House, with tjie aid of!
Judge Whiter There is not one of the 1 ;
whole caucus who entertains the remotest j
hope that White can be elected in zxr o.ut of
out of Mie House. If they tell the people j
ofTeunessee so, they do it merely - to cheat !
them, and to morfify the President, by
throwing the Stale into the scale of the op
position.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
The signes of the th.nes in Georgia, mid i
oilier Southern Slates, cannot be mistaken; 1
if it is tiscertamed., t>s it will hd, that All - , :
W bite .cannot obtain more that) one <>r two i
States, Gen. Harrison is to receive the !
votes ol .the eleciors origitially rhosen us j
friendly to the election ol Mr. White. Caii ;
the union men of Georgia, who arr in fa
vor of Mr. White’s claims be mistaken at
the signes of the times? Can they not
perceive that a gross deception is intended ;
to be palmed upon then; ? What is the tone
of ainost til! the nullification presses in Gcor- i
gia? They are iio;v attempting to vindi-!
cate Gen. Harrisop from the admitted char
ges of being a federalist of the old school ; :
of being a tariff and internal improvement;
man: pf being a bank man; and, especial- ■
ly, of being an abolitionist. W by - attempt!
to vindicate him from charges which have i
been proved against him ? V- e must' not ;
deceive ourselves. The electoral ticket of!
the iHillifii rs of Georgia, if elected, may 1
vote for Gin. Harrison; and it is to pre
pare l|ie minds of the people fpr si eli an e
vent, that the nullifiication ] k ssvs in Geor
gia hate taken up jhe ipdjca'.iiip iifthv 1
IM.’EZ.ISSEEEJ in I>. r.
AO. I ?5,
Gateiul, am! llle emleavmfog 10 hold him
h 'T ‘«s every thing so p„|: licill
• ..mi sotmdness of southern principles. So
■'apfou-eniis the object ol’his polhiJ al move.
•. mems, that tl. e e..itors of the Chrot.icle,
: (w'llo, we render them justice in J; \ ing S() ,
• have shown u.o le cousistem y than any oth
er null ficatioii papa- so l!ic h()ul |.J have
. come out agamst taking U p Gen. Harrison,
under any nnit j n VV | )ile
’ ornnot surely h an< t!o t) the transfer of
‘ -heir votes from White to Harrison; ami
they cannot vote tor r .n electoral ticket,
vv men will mq b e pledged for the camlidafoi
bf their cituiec. I’hat this transfer will be
foade v>e have every rya>oii to believe,
JWid what is passing in Virginia and South
-j UWolirra., Tbe Irteuds ofMr. White adop,
; ted utt electoral ticket in Virginia. The
; i’iiei;ds ol General Harrison rnet in ConxetH
j tmn. Did. they organize an electoral tick,
[ et ? 1 hey adopted the White ticket,
| with the undersfomlfo.,-t| hat tht . White elec
| tos m e to vote lor Htrrisoii in a certain eon
i littgency; and w hat m a k c> us believt , lhat
j the White ticket vill v«eTor Hahison is,
i Uiat tne leading bite presses have Opettly
; taken up Gem Ha; - risoa, and are - mtemp|-
! ing, as ts the case m Georgia, to represent
i Him as favorably disposed towards the
Sotfoh, and as innocent of the charges al
leged against him, of being an abolitionist.
The same game i» played in Sotnh Caro
lina. A lie leading miiljficatipn presses
there, are endeavoring to. clothe Gem Har
i rison with a southern garment, ami to . how
I that fie is no übo|;iio;nst. V-'liy this politi
! cal movement oji the part of the opponents.
! olMr. V. B ’ ? They htiow that Air. Wiiite’s
' popularity in the South L at its lowest ebb,
j ana that he camfol! pretend to the votes of
! no other Stales, but South Carolina, and,
■ potsibly, Temietsce. Should lite election
i be ihioy.n into the House of Representa
! lives, what chance could (ie jtaye wjjji ,2Q
i electoral xotes? None. Mi. A T an Buren
• must, at any rate, be defeated: and what 'l4
.pi’mc’qde; what are the interests of the
Smith, the 11 ion of the States, and the
prosperity of the country, in compt.nsuu
with the defeat of Van Buren! Every
thing is to be sacrificed, provided Mr. Van
Buren js dcleate.d ; atui as jt apppeaj * thaj
j Gen. Harrison’s efiame is better than Mr.
I ‘.'.'hue’.-, the efocloi.d xojesof the Souti;
, are to be given to onc jvlio, .if .cirgted, vyilj
; introduce into tiie admimsir’ation of liiegov-
eiuiitcm, those principles v. hicli must prove
.must disastrous to the la st interests iif Hie
South am! us lite 11ni .11 of these States.
, L syme ol our unimi friends are deleruJUt*
led to xote for Vi bite, ami not for Getiyrul'
H.iri ison, they should require from tiie <-au
j dhlmes on the While ticket, a solemn pledge
i 1.. - at they will not, under any contingency,
I vote lor Gem Harrison, 'if they do iml
require and lime that pledge.' anti the
Vi nitejicket shotij.d be elected, they will be
jdea iv.pd ? some, if not all of ;be electors,
will be very apt to give their votes for Gen.’
Harrison. W e admit that there are on the
\\ bite cicx’tor.al ticket ol Georgia, men hoy-,
oralle enough to fulfil the declaration they
[have made of voffog mr White and Tyler';
: but there, a re ethersw ho have .mad no such
declaration ; these last may, u ithoi.it eoii
shlering-itas a vindication of faith, v me I’op
Geiier.al Harrjstm. The union Vv’hite met;
should, .therefore, require from their elec
, tors, a soleiim pledge that, in up coniingeiis
'ey, will they \etelor General Harrison.
vt.:r V. bile yu.o.u frit mis expe.et their can
didates I'u.; - to vote for Air. Tvlep.
How cau they reconcile this support of an
! mowed mijihivr of the Calhoun School,
with their union principles? Bv support:
ing such a utai), tfo-y sacrifice thejf princi:
: pk - s rs and indirectly acknowledge shat this
uob.le statid they took in 1832, against thp
introduction in our State ol the pernicious
• doctrine ci nullification, was any thing Lu;
; patriotic ami praise-worthy, and that, they
are desirous ofattiming for their errors, by
jliie support of Air,. Tyler for the Vice Pre:
sideticy . Their support of Mr. White is
more consistent; this gentleman voted for
the Bloody Bill and approved the Procla:
' iiiulioii; but how happens it, not withstand:
■ ing his former declarations, that the nullifl-.
j ers jun e bee.tt induced to take him up as their
1 candidate? Ami Low comes that a zealous
j opponent ol nullification is placed on lliix
satin, ticket y>,ills a zealous mtljifier ? Qup
! union A' bitg men may reconcile such polit
ical contradictions in political metisures;
; but they should reflect, and consider wrlj
• tiie w hole subject, under its various aspects
: before #1 is too late ; for the time approach:
; cs, when the ballot-box w ill have to devidq
j the question.
lIABRISGN’S VOTE FOR
WHITE SLAVRS.
In IS2Q General Ilari'lson was a n’cml;»p
ol the Ohio Legislature, where a niotioq
vyas introdticed in relation to the law of
! creditor ami debtor, w hich is taj>ep Irmq
! tkejoiii lials as follows:
“ ALLEN TRIMBLE, Specter.
i “.Mr, Fithian then moved to strike out
die 19th section of said bill, as. follows:
j “ lie il further enacted, That when any
' person shall be imprisoned, either upon ex
ecution cr otherwise, tor the non-pjiyinent
of a fine, or costs, it shall be lawful tor the
sbei ii’l'of the county tp sell out such persop
as a servant to any person w ithin this Stale,
who w ill pay the amount due for the short
est period of service, of which sale, public
notice shall he giyep of at least ten dnys,
and trpoq giu-b . a | <{ being effected the slier-*
iff shttlli give to the purchaser a certificate.
thereof, mid deliver over the prisoner fft
him; Iroin which time tiie relatiun
such pur< hnser and prisoner shall be
; ol master umi servant until the time ofscr-
• vice expires, mid for injuries done by either
remedy shall he had in the stime manner M
is or may be provirh d by law - in the ensC«»£
master ami appremices. Hut nothing l>rrr-j
'm contained sfudl he eoiistrit'ed to
persons neiug discharged from imprison
trfint uctofding to the provisions of tho
