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Newspaper Page Textthirty-seventh sw•lion of the net to which this is supplementary, if it shall be consid ered expedient to grant such discharue. Provided that the court, in pronouncing sentence upon any person nr persons con victed under this act or the act to which this is supplementary, may direct such per son or persens to be detained in prison un til the line be paid, or the person or persons otherwise disposed of agreeable to the pro visions of this act.” It is stated that the motion was decided in the affirmative—yeas 20, nays 12 —and that General Harrison gate his vole in the NEGATIVE. So General Harrison is the advocate for . surrendering the unfortunate debtor, as a ; slave, to a purchaser, because he has the misfortune to be unable to pay a debt which he had contracted, or a fine imposed upon him. At a time when the voice oi the nation calls loudly for the abolishment ol impris onment for debt, an individual is before the nation as a camlidale for the Presiden cy, who has voted t<> sell every honest un fortunate individual into slavery, who can not liquidate a debt. What a picture is . here exhibited to freemen, mid those who; advocate %nd labor in the cause ol human- , ity I! | Mark the consistency of the whigs; ■ their candidate for the Presidency voting I to tell white men as slaves ; and their can- i didate for the Vico Presidency ready to se ver the Union to abolish the slavery of the blacks. We ask the people of both the slave mid non-sk* eholding States to look at these facts — Globe. RHODE ISLAND ELECIONS. Extract of a Letter to the Editor, dated “ Newport, Sept 1,183 G “ GENTLEMEN : Our semi-annual elec tion for the choice of representatives to the next Legislature of this State’was holden cm Turtday last, and the same has show n a very respectable accession to the ranks of democrat y, since our election in April last. In honest truth, democracy is here triumph ant, and as I truly believe, nt this time, more so than in any other State in the Union. “Whiggery, so called, hardly dares to show its head —the floods have come upon it, and the fountains of the great deep seem to have been broken up. In the aris tocratic city of Providence, with its twenty banks, and its Nick Biddle's agency, we have a signal triumph. That city has re turned to the next Legislature, four men who are thoroughly auti-bauk men; one of whom, Mr. John 11. Chirk, is among the most distinguished and able men of this State, and is an ardent supporter of Mr. Van Buren for the Presidency. Let it be remembered, that in August, a year ago, this city gave a majority of six hun dred against the democratic candidates for Congress, and in favor of Tristan) Burges, who thanked God that he never had been i n democrat. Pitmc to beat in mind what 1 now say, that in November next, this ci ty will give n majority of its votes for the Van Buren electoral ticket. “The decisive course of this State will have its influence upon the States adjoining us, and you may, I think, rest assured that Massachusetts will follow the example; which her little sister Rhode Island will now set her. I am no predict, but cir rous.'' Judge White done up! — Mrs. Ann Royal, the spirited Whig-Editress of that most res pectable and useful partisan paper, the “ Paid Pry,” published at Washington ci ty, has deserted the peaceful Standard of Judge White, and enrolled herself under the warlike banner of General Harrison. We sincerely condole with the Judge on the loss lie h:.s sustained, and heartily congratu late the General on the acquisition to the ranks of his supporters. Should a certain significant emblem voted him by the ladies of Cincinati, stand in need of repairs, the hero will now have always near his person, a competent and experienced artist for that pupose. Mrs. Royal, is no doubt as fa mous for mending petticoats, as she is for writing paragraphs.— From the Qnniccy, Illinois Argus. TREASURY CIRCULAR. We publish to-day the Circular from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Receiv ers of public money, and to the deposite banks. This measure we consider of vital importance to the citizens of the western country, who have heretofore been placed entirely at the mercy of the shavers, if mer cy it may be called, the stock-jobbers and the brokers—a species of swindling which every friend of his country must sincerely deplore. By the provisions of the circular the reader will perceive that nothing but gold and silver will be received in payment for the public lands from and after the 15th of August instant, but that until the 15th of December next, the actual settler or the bona fide resident has the privilege of en tering any quattity of land not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres with the kind of money that is now received at the land office, where the sales are made. If this circular had been in force when land offices were first created, the actual settler would not notv have had to bow his neck to the yoke of the shaver—our industrious ami hardy citizens would not have been tramp led upon by the greedy speculator—and in the stead of an uncertain and wavering currency, we would now have had one which would have placed the farmer upon something like an equal footing with the speculator in the public lauds. I lie sagacious editor of the Missouri Re publican, in his paper of July 28, has giv en to his readers a column of stud', to prove , that this new order w ill be the ruin of the western country—that it places our citizens nt the mercy of slaves and speculators, ami that it threatens to stop the sides of the pub lic land* altogether. Now for our own part, we cannot conceive of a state of affairs' under which the citizen* of the west would he more completely in the power of shavers mid speculators, than that which is in ope ration at the present time. 7'en dollar bills of our own State Bank cannot be bad in exchange for Jive dollar bills of the same, for less than five pr cent; and when our cu.Tency becomes thus corrupted, ve think ’• high t ; n>e that n remedy should be appli- ed. Gohl ami silver constitutional currency of Mir Goxernnniit ; and until the people rise in their might, and at once put down these rag banks which are springing into ex istence at every sessionol our Legislature s, just so lung will the precious metals be locked up in their vaults ami the communi ty be flooded w ith their worthless trash in stead. But the electioiieei iiig tirade ofthe Republican will fail to have the effect. The people of the west,*4* those who have stood by the President in all his turns of fortune —the cultivators of'the Soil,” upon whose head the editor predicts this mighty ; ruin is about to fall—they have more con fidence in the intentions of the President,! than to believe the empty murintirings of a man who has never nii'se *an opportunity of decrying the administration and its sup porters. Comment on the above by 'the Globe. • The foregoing article is replete with sound sense and practical wisdom. It is published in one ol the Slates in which the greatest quantity of public land remains to be sold, ami where the people know practi cally the evils, of being shaved for landof th «> money, and the ruin of having to con tend wilh heartless speculators loaded with bales of bank notes, and armed to the teeth with bank facilities. While such things continued, the settler and cultivator was, ! first, shaved, at the rate of five, ten, fifteen I per centum, to get Land Oilice Money, that is to say, paper from a bank which, through d’mt of importunity through mem bers of Congress, had got its notes made receivable for public lands; and after be ing thus shaved, he was out-bid and tramp led under foot by some greedy speculator, I loaded with paper from the same bank. But | this is not all, nor half all. The wosri part lof the whole is, that, by receiving these [ notes for public land, a false credit is given |to them I they are made to circulate a- I mong the people by the circumstance of re ' ceivability for land. This enables the , bank to get credit without capital; and i when at last, those notes begin to return, j the bank first runs to the Secretary of the ; Treasury togetaid <k.forbearance from him ; anti w hen that expedient is exhausted, the poor machine blows up. The Quincey [lllinois] Argus speaks the language of the people, anil the result ol the elections prove it. —The Treasury order w.s issued before the western elections. It was known all over the west and southwest before those elections. The Whig papers were all out, in full cry against it, “ Tray, Blanche, Siccethcrt, and all." It was to ruin the country ! Oh, yes ! ruin the country ! No mistake this time! The ruin is now come! j War, pestilence, and famine—fire, sword, i and water —comets, earthquakes, and fal- I ling stars, —murrain in the cattle, rot in i the sheep, mange in the hogs, sore tongues jin the horses, —itch, biles, chilblains, I mumps among the people—such was the I ruin, horrid ruin, which was now to fall up i on the laud, and of which this Treasury or der was to be the frightful prolific &. met >< r. Os all this, there was no doubt.—But for this univcrcnl ri.in ilie poor weeping whigs hud found a consolation—a sweet consola tion, which was to reconcile them to it— die order was also to ruin its authors!— Ruin to them was now inevitable. Sky high they were all to be blown, and the ; August elections were to do the business. ■Well, Io! August comes. The elections ; take place; and never was such blowing high seen before, only it happened to be ! the other way. The poor lory whigs went i si. 3’ high. Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas. . Alabama —all new States—all full ofpub ' lie land—all to be ruined by the Treasury j order, just stood up in a body, and gave the largest vote for the Jackson party that e ver had been given before.—Surely these prognosticators of ruin should be ashamed ■ and ti«;d of their silly and fruitless occu pation. Forty' times they have had the country ruined since Jackson was elected ; 'yet, what are the results? The highest : prices that ever were known for labor, pro- ■ duce, service, and properly; the readiest I pay ; the silver currency more than dou i bled ; the gold currency restored ; people contented, prosperous, and happy ; and no i thing to mar or disfigure the universal scene of bliss, but the croakings, lamen tations, and pitiful jeremaids ol the lory w hig politicians, to whom all this FELI CITY and PROSPERITY is an EYE SORE ard a HEART-ACHE, because JACKSON and the DEMOCRACY are I in POWER. . JUDGE WHITE DROPPED. I We find a Presidential calculation in a I late Charleston Mercury, which, until now , ■ has been a supporter of Judge White, in which that print allows the Judge the fol lowing votes, and no more : Tennessee, 15 Alabama. 7 North Carolina, 15 Louisiana, 5 ! Georgia, 11 Illinois, 5 Total 53, which lacks 90 of electing him. i Now, we look upon this as pretty good au thority that the Calhoun parly lias dropped the Judge as unavailable. But it is impossible for Judge White to get more than one or two, even of the states allowed him by the Mercury, in Illinois, the White party has been totally routed at ! the late elections, and the scattered frag | merits are going for Harrison. In Alaba [ ma, the candid nullifying papers concede a ■ Van Buren a majority in the Legislature, ■and the same in Louisiana. North Carolina ' and Tcnnesse only, are left then of the Mercury’s six States for White. And will these republican Slates consent to throw a -1 way their votes on the Judge, to aid the old federal abolitionist, Harrison? We cannot believe the democrats of N. Carolina will commit such an act of politi cal suicide. By the light of truth, it has , been discovered that the leaders of the uul -1 lifying federal party have entered into a ' foul conspiracy to cheat the honest republi cans of this State into a support of Judge ■ White, when they know, he has no more I chance of being elected than their other ■ friend Anna Royal-—when they know that every vote cast for the Judge will, and the ; lenders intend that it shall, go to aid Har rison.—North Carolina Standard. QUESTIONS FOR HONEST WHIGS. I Would ( Jenera! Harrison ever have been .thought of for President if nr had not been 1 « general 'I Did not all your parly object to General j Jackson because, as they said, he would ; ocx er ht;ve been thought of for President, I bad he not been a successful general ? Is General Ilairison more deserving of| tour support (or any other reason than be- j cause he was an unsuccessful general ? Is an unsuccessful general more deserv ing oi the Presidency thana successful\ getieral ? Ihe whigs call their candidate in this quarter of the Union, farmer II arrison. | Pray, when did he become a “ farmer?" . We thought he was Clerk of the County of Hamilton. Or is he, “like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once;” General, Far mer, and Clerk, and not enough of either to hurl him ? W e suppose he has been dr.boed “ farmer” for the case and grace with which he drove the team of bank whigs through the streets of Philadelphia. West Jersey Observer. 1 he Ly whbu rg Democrat shows oil the coalition candidate itius: The* whig candidates are playing a vfrv pretty elecliontering game. Judge White is making dinner speeches in Tennessee. General Harrison is showing himself oil' as “ a great natural curiosity,” at the North, “just on the eve ol' the election.” Their ally, Frank Granger, the abolitionist, is travelling through Ohio, preaching up “White, Harrison and Granger” whig gerv. Harrison timed his visit so as to make his tour of inspection in Pennsylvania just at the moment of the i lection of Inspectors. This .was to awaken enthusiasm at every onset. He denied every’ where that he was not electioneering. fie told manv whom we have conversed with, that the journey xvas undertaken to show that he xvas not superanuated, or imbecile, but was sane in mind and sound in person. After this profert of himself, should the issue be decided against him, he must cousider'it a verdict of nun compos mentis. White, poor man, is only’ a candidate tor the Presidency in Tennesse, half a candidate in Virgnia, and the rest of the South, and a quarter of a candidate in Illinois and Missouri ! He, therefore, proposes himself as a sort of third rate man to Harrison ; a corporal to a general : and if the verdict of imbecility and incompetency should be pronounced against Harrison, it may be considered that the shadow of* the shade is absolutely nullified. What a terrible catastrophe af ter so much crying aloud of’ the H'ises! and ringing of the Bells! ! QUEER. The friends of Harrison lias dressed him up in pantaloons, and are taking him thro’ the middle States as a show. At the List I dates he was at Philadelphia attracting ve jry respectable audiences.—A’. 11. Fat. j Note.—The above is excellent except that j the portion of the audiences, who harness- I ed themselves, and drew in the collar, could not be so “very respectable.” Let the name of Harrison come before the people divested of party’ associations as a candidate for the Presidency, and west of the Alleghany mountains there could not be found 3000 men so regardless of their country’s good that would cast their ballot tor him. His wannest supporters private ly and candidly deviate his being destitute oi' all qualifications as astatesnfan. Peoples Friend. As for Indiana, they might just as well claim New York for General Harrison ; and no man of good sense could say Har rison has arty chance there.— Lafayi tt ladi | ana Mercury. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Our friends in the country continue to assure us that the democratic Martin Van ' Buren will receive an overwhelming major ity of votes for the Presidency. Indeed, so desperate lias Hugh L. AV bite’s prospects become, by the e'esertien of many sincere republicans, who were temporarily deceiv ed by the unceasing misrepresentations a bout “ original Jacksonism,” that they are convinced of the futility of hoping much longer to gull any number of the people to his side. The object is pretty generally admitted to be, to throw the election into the House, in the hope of elevating Harri son to the Chief Magistracy, who, it is well known, would aid the abolitionists in their unholy and fantastical crusade against the South.— New Orleans Courier. COL. JOHNSON AND THE BAT TLE OF THE THAMES. General Harrison, in his official account of the battle, thus spoke of Col. Johusoti, now the slandered candidate of the demo crats for Vice President. “Upon the left, however, the contest was more severe with the Indians. Col. Johnson, who commanded on that flank of his regiment, received a most galling fire from then), which was returned with great effect. The enemy, receiving a severe fire in front, and a part of Johnson’s regiment having gained their rear, retreated xvith precipitation. Tlieirloss xvas very consid erable in the action, & many were killed in the retreat. “It would be useless, after stating the circumstances of the action, to pass enco miums on Gol. Johnson and his regiment. Vetrans could not have manifested more firmness. Tiic Colonel's numerous wounds prove that he was in the post oj dan ger." This is the man who bore the brunt of the fight, and come out “ covered wiih wounds, and covered with glory.” He is now the ol jecl of the vilest federal abuse. New JI. Register. THE llEftO t'E EKiiNCHTOWN. It will he remembered that Frenchtown is the fatal scene of the battle of the River Raisin. This was the point to which Gen. Winchester advanced.and where the troops alter a successful battle, marie good their i i position for three or four days, awaiting a | reinforcement from General Harrison, who was in their rear with the main body’ of the ' army. Harrison <li<l not send the expected support, and Proctor, availing himself of this stipinencss, marcbed a strong body of bistroops, with a large body of Indians, from Detroit to Frenchtown, and there, af ter obtaining complete victory on the 22d, THE STANDARD OF UNION. delivered over the wounded and prisoners! to the mercy of the Indians. Ail (hose I vv ho were wounded in the successfml battle! oftlfe 13th, as well ns the unfortunate one > of the 22d January, were massacred, as , well its many other prisoners w ho surrender ed to the British upon conditifon oi pro tection front the Indians, and who might; have been marched under their escort to : Detroit. But Proctor, expecting Harri son, lied in haste, leaviog the unfortunate Kvnluckiars to the toniahawk. Harrison, hearing ot the disas'er, instead of advanc ing to avenge his fallen countrymen, he packed up and destroyed bis provisions, ! and retreated in the opposite direction. J ’l’lie brave Major Madison, who saved his 'little band of men by making a resolute stand in the piekelling, in a letter to the War Department, says that if Hatrison iiad sent a support of five hundred men, it ! would have preserved the army. I'or this i failure to do his duty, )>»<> sacrifice ot the ' brave men at the River Raisin, he is exloll jed by the fedi ralists, as the “ Hero (j Frenchtown." We quote this new appella- I lion from a late account ol Harrison’s re-I I cep,lion by Southard and others in N< w Jersey. “Judj e Southard is here, and a grout j number of' the most iuflitential people of the State, w ho have each given to the hero , t)f Tippecanoe and Frenchtown, the most cordial welcome.”—A7w rk. From the Athens Republican. WHO HAS CHANGED ? For sometime after Judge W hite was brought out as a candidate, tiiose of iiis friends who has ■ once l/ecn tor Jackson’s AtlmmistraUou, said they i were stiil the friends of the President, ffiit they ; soon saw very plainly that the great body of ile , piii.iicatiisui m Teimtssec ibulti not believe that ' any man who abused the iTeeitlciil and his lead ing friends and measures could possible be his . liieud. Theieforeit is, that tile leading friends of Judge While, who arc in the constiuit habit of abusing Jackson, sa) —" Jackson bad changed.” Now if Jacksun lots changed, these politicians who have labored with Judge While in support of the Administration, lor several years beiuie the Judge was a candidate, have also changed ; for they are at this time las devoted friends, as they j have altvaysjieen. Ji the President, ami his friends have changed, ■ anti have fell Judge W bite, where have they gone [to/ They have not taken sa.es w nil Webster, Clay amt Calhoun —I.t.t are suit uppuuad to them. But if Jackson and liis tries:ds have left Judge Wimealone, Low does it happen that Clay, Cal houn, W ebster, ik every other enemy of the Prcsi deut m Congress, is loumi in company with the Judge. Have -they changed also'/ r\o. Judge VV hue’s friends dare not assert that one single ene my of the President has changed. To prove that [Judge IVhite iias not changed, you must prove that Clay, Webster, Calhoun amt every other [ Federalist and txulliiierin Congres /rate changed ; ior Judge tv hue was found voting with them on I almost every mportanl quet-tion which came be | lore the lasi session oi Congres. If you prove ! that, then Gtu. Jackson is no longer a Jackson I man; Clay is no h,u era Clay man; or, Jacksotl I is not now ti 1-epubhcau ; Vv ebster is not now a r'tUeraiisl; camoun is not now a Nulhfier. In other wonis, black is white, ami white is black. 1 rove tiluae tiling,*, ami you will piove Andrew’ Jacuseii ami bis u.ciid have changed. But the proot cannot uu made. Vve say Andrew Jackson now, is the same in principles he teas > ia n judge vv hue supported Ins measures. Clay, Catiiouii, and VVebstei, are tiic same m principle note, lli.u they wcic when Judge vv lute was aguiusl them, 'liicy are Uie same op position who abused Jackson tor his tiaiik veto; lor ins proekxmuiiuu ; ior removing the deposites , tor ins r'reucn negotiations ; and tor almo.t every | measure ue ever recommended. Look at Judge j White s votes recorded on theteuate Journal, lor [ tiie last loin years, and liieu say who has chang- W e again say Jackson has not changed, he is the I same man tiiat lioggi’d tile Indians during the Creek and tJemmuie wars; the same that .hogged tile British at i\ew Or.eaiis; the same that put down the IXul.ilieaumi; the same that pvt down inc Bank ot tuc Lmuu -jtates. liutas toe groans oi ihe last two named Aiousters prove them not to be dead, we say to Jacttsou ami his successor, ••Lay on iucDuli', ami damned lie him who first dries hold, enough. ’ Frmn the Augusta Courier. We enquire again, u ti,«; a ulmier to lie elected by CoUee’s death, vv m not resign ! Or vv ill he consid er the old prove,a too nise a say itig to be ilispen- 1 sed on any occasion^ —■• iiimd in the hand is w orth two io Uro bush !” A rc| übliean would consider Cohoe’s majority as Ins imm uc lieu to stay at home mid an boimrubic num would feel cheap in sneak ing into an ohice thus acquired. Give us a fair expiessiou of the public will, mid we will bow to [ 1 it-, mamliile ; Iml to w m a race only by coming in loremost ot all that Were beaten, should term but a ! poor title to either a purse or mi olilce. Can such ;mi one say he ischoveu by the people ! Did not 1 the people say number was our choice ? These I remarks me boitioiaed mainly on the supposition, ■ that Codec, too’ dead received a higher number j of votes than any ol his opponents; but they have force even it be does not get the number.— ft is plain no one will deny it, that it Coffee had udl died none oi his opponents would have been chosen, for vve now consider the Union Ticket cer tainly elected, and Coliee would, but for the intel ligence ot his death, in the adjoining counties have run hand and baud vv ilh his collegiies beating | every opponent as far as lie may now fall behind I in the re.urns. In either alternative, then, we con sider the one, on whose shoulders the lamented Coffee’s mantle has thus accidently fallen, as bound on republican pricipies to appeaj to the peot pie again for his warrant to represent them a WashmgtonCiiy. The election of Martin Van Buren, to the Pres idency, is just as certain as any political event that is to happen, under the sun. Most of his candid mteliigcnt opponents are now willing to admitit—indeed they are compelled to do so.— recent demonstrations of public sentiment, in va rious parts of the Union, have prostrated the last | hopes of vvliigisin. v\ e are uo prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but we venture to predict and w e beg our readers particulmly to inmk the pre diction, that Martin Van Buren will certainly get the votes ol the follow ing States—let it be remem beied, that there are in all 194 electoral votes, ne cessary to a choice 148—Maine 10 votes; New Hampshire 7; Rhode Island 4; Connecticut 8; New York 42; Pennsylvania3o ; New Jersey 8 ; Georgia 11 ; Arkansas 3 ; Missouri 4 ; Ohio*.’! ; IndianaO; Illinois 5; Michigan 3; in all 188. being a majority of4o electoral votes. The above States was set down, as certain for Vmi Buren. The only States that are certain, i for the opposition, are Massachusetts, 14; \ ei'mont |7; Delaware 3; Maryland 10: South Carolina 111; mid Kentucky In all <»0. Tile remaining ! live States, we put down as doubtful ; though we believe the most of them will vole for Van Buren: I North Carolina 15; Alabama 7 ; Louisiana 5; I Mississippi 4; Tennessee 15; in all 3;> doubtful.— [ i Give \ an Buren half of these, and his majority is 11>3 electoral votes. VVe are firmly persuaded, that I file Ides of’Novemhcr, will show that his estimate is rather under 'han above the majority be will actually get.— Columbus JJcmocrot. From the Columbus Democrat. MR. MADISON- SENATOR WALKER. It lias been clearly ascertained since his death, that Mr. Madison was decidedly in favor ot all 1 the leading measures of the present administra tion, mid was particularly friendly to Marlin Van Buren. Mr. Bancroft, one of the ablest politicial writers in tlie Union, who spent some time with him last spring, declares that this was the case.— We shall publish Mr. Jimicioft’s remarks upon the subject hereafter. Against the opinions of two sucii men as J ames Madison mid Nathaniel! i the Globe, makes the following remarks: “llej | Macon, the denunciations of the Mushoon Whig i nolitK.iutis of the day w ill weigh hut as a feather |in the balance. Here are two patriarchs of the [ land ; men whose patriotism and purity of chm- I actor are above suspicion, who come out openly I mid hear testimony in favor of the much persecu - | ted stulesman ol New York. 'J heir voice must I and will have inllueiice w ith their countrymen. | Another gentleman who visited Mr. Madison j but a short time previous to his death, mid who ; conversed w ith him freely on political topics, in I detailing an account of his visit to the editors of [ (Mr. Madison) spoke very freely of nullification which be altogether condemned ; remarking that ! Mr. Walker of the Senate, in a speech lie iiad delivered on some occasion, xvas the first person | who had given to the public w hat. Mr. Madison [ considers the tine views of Mr. Jefl'erson’s lan ] guage on Jtis subject. Mr. Madison went further > on that subject than, I think, he did on ativ other j m the way of condemnation. They expected to I make Charleston (said he) a great commercial emporium, the mart ot the Southern country ; hut they never could by such means.” This is a great compliment to our Senator, and toshoxv how justly he deserved it. xve give below an extract irotti his speech afluded to by Mr. M. This speech was published in most of the leading democrat jourmilsin the Union, w ith the highest encomiums . upon the author. It completely prostrated I‘oin - uexter and his parly in this State. It is true, they are again rallying under the burrowed name of Judge VVhite; but the wound sunk too deep. II hey can neveragimi completely recover their; ground. '1 hi-extract below, xve presume is that | portion of the speech particularly alluded to bv j M>*. X3«,1L<,,,. Vlr. Walker, it may be proper to i state, is urging objections to Poindexter’s Scnato ) rial career, and among others, mentions nulliftea | lion.. Upon this subject lie remarks: *T'elloxv < iiizens, ivhat is the doctrine of nul lification? It is, that any one State tnav take up the volumes containing all the acts of denounce them all unconstitutional, and render them all as mill ami void l.y one sxveepiug edict ofnullifieat ion, and remain a member of the Un ion, and under the government and protection of Ihe laws of the Union; without a single one of these laws being in force w ithin ttte limits of the State. Such is the broad and comprehen sive pew er claimed for each State in the Union by its own separate action, by the advo cates of nullification, for if each State at its own discretion, may taito up any aet of Congress it ' chooses to consider unconstitutional and render itmiil am} void within its limits, by its edict of [nullification; It may in the same maimer pro ; nouttee ami execute its sentence of death upon i ■ all the laws of the Union. This is not and never ! xvas the true republican doctrine of Jcfi’erson and ■ Madison, of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolu- j [ tions. Where nullification in tho Kentucky Res- I | olutions, as adoptee!, is spoken of as a right- I ; ful remedy, it is not only by a single State,; but by “those sovereignties, the several States,” by a declaratory amendment of the constitution, annuiing the pow er by which the law w as passed; and where nullification is spoken of by Mr. Jef ferson in the rough draught ofthe Kentucky Res olutions, i' is not even pretcnr'ed to be a constitu tional right, hut a “natural right.” Now natural rights, ami constitutional rights, are entirely dis similar. The latter is the right of a State, as an organized body politic, manifested by a legisla tive act or convention ordinance, under the con stitution. But a natural right, is not derived un der, or dependent upon constitutional compacts. It is of a higher origin ; it is derived from the God of nature, it is the right to resist intolerable im pression, and by a revolution, to burl the oppress oi, from poxver. Such xvas Mr. Jefi’erson's view of this subject, and it. is asdifl'eretit from the Car olina doct/ ine and ordnance of nullification, as tho declaration of independence, as variant from an imperial ukase, or the edict of the great Mogul.— The one is the exercise of a natural right; it is the rght of revolution, the other is an imlustrioiis •attempt to overthrow the Government of the Un ion. under the forms and sanction ofthe constitu tion. The Vjrginia resolutions are of a similar import, and Mr. Madison, their author, and who ought to understand them best has most empathet icaily denounced the Carolina doctrine, and de clined that it firn's no sanction in tho Virginia res olutions'. Virginia, herself has disclaimed the doctrines, not only by her resolutions unanimous ly adopted in 1808, but more recently since the adoption of the Carolina ordinance; and so has Kentucky denounced tho doctrine, and so have all the twenty four States, Carolina alone except ed and xve find Mr. Jefferson, and the Democratic party enforcing the embargo in every State, and Mr. Madison and the Democratic party enforcing the xvar, agaimt the declared judgment of sove reign States, pronouncing both these laws of Con gress, uncotisitutional. From the Mississippi Free Trader. Extract of a letter from Major Bcujathin W. Ed xvards, of Clinton, to a gentleman of Adams county, dated at Jackson, September 10, 1836. “ 1 came here (Jackson) to-day, 'o learn xi hat was going ou, and find that Mr. Gholson, of Mon roe county, is announced as a candidate for Con gress. 'Urns, so far, the question is settled ; and it is necessary uoxv that the democrats should be up ami doing, for vigilance, never-ceasing vigi lance seems to be the price set upon our liberties; ami, although our political horizon seems at pre sent calm, there never was a time in our history when exertion and union were more necessary in the democratic ranks. “2/e ye always ready,', is a scriptural injunction, as imlispensible in politi cal as in spiritual matters. It is w'hen the shep herds slumber that the wolves come and destroy the flock. Our modern aristocrats, of every hue and color, under the plausible name of Whigs, after abusing and abandoning every variety of politi cal name they have assumed in the last forty years, and after ueteiviug. ruining, and deserting every political leader that has trusted them during the same time—unsettled and unprincipled as to measures and men among themselves, arc uneeas- I ing in their hostility to democratic measures, and to democrotic men. Their vigilance deserves a better cause, and if their cause was good, they ] xvould, indeed, he inviheible. Through the deser lion of Judge White, John Bell, and a few others whom they have caught in their political trap of destruction, they are momentarily strengthened by renegade Jackson men, and it is xveli knoxvn that one renegade is xvorse than twenty Turks. But iu this they also deceive themselves, fora mong them are numbers of honest men, who w ill not jump and wheel about at the bidding of ambi tious and disappointed demagogues, whose xvhole end and aim is to rule or ruin the country “1 cannot consent to be considered a candidate at this time, although it seems to be the desire of | the demoeratie party, having received pressing I invitations from almost every county in ihe State; yet I could not on any consideration consent is be the instrument of dividing or distracting the demo cratic vote of ibis State at any time, and much less so on the present occasioh; added to this, my pecuniary ait'airs require my special attention du ring the ensuing w inter. From the Albany Argus. MASSACHUSETTS. Extract of a letter from a highly intelligent resident of Massachusetts, dated the 3d hist “ The democratic parly is rapidly gaming ground in Massachusetts; true it is. the whigs may probably carry the election this autumn; but xve shall gain ten taousand votes, and three or four, perhaps six members of Congress. Wc shall carry the Senate of Massachusetts, without much doubt. As to the electoral vote, I am by [ no means sure it will go against, us; there miy he a whig majority, but of less than three thou sand. “In tho Congressional district in which Mr. Bancroft lias been nominated by the democracy, the present member was elected by a majority of more than fourteen hundred ; he will probably be re-elected, but by a majority of not. more than txvo hundred. You sec the tendency; the result, is inevitable. “Mr. Webstci is on a tour through the west of our State, lie is .leisurely making his way.thro’ /he towns in Berkshire. He has turned farmer, and takes tho deepest interstin farming, farmers, cattle shows and country toxvns. lie buys mul berry trees ; and hopes to raise from the soil a popularity which lie has not aequired in Slate ! si-reel. But Mr. W. does not travel for political | I purposes. Ono! < )t;r western counties are fa-i i moiis for tho formation of their mountains ; the | | fossil remains arc exceedingly curious—-Mr. W. i 'has come to see the antediluvian turkey tracks I xvliieh Professor Hitchcock lias lately discover .ed! I “ Our whig Governor follows this week. But lie, as in duty bound, is engaged in reviewing the militia. He does not. go about to shake hands and win votes—his object is wholly to aw aken in the public mind a regard for the militia—that so much neglected institution 1” THOMAS JEFFERSON A AIAGL C.-lAN.—The editor of the Scheneetaday Reflector slates that he lias recently had in his possession a pamphlet, written in a sa i lirical strain, against Mr. Jefferson, which ■ is entitled 11 Some account of Thomas the \ Magician." No statesman, of days gone i by, has been more reviled and persecused i than 1 hornas Jefferson. The people tri [ timphanily sustained the patriarch of de mocracy, and interposed between him and ' bis enemies the buckler of tlieir favor. So i will it be in the case of “ the great magi ician” of our own day. The political co j incidence alluded to by the Reflector is cti . rious and instructive. We have heretofore ; considered Mr. Van Buren as the only de | mocrat who bad been called a “ magician” Iby his enemies, it seems, however, that [ the title is not a new invention, lint merely the repetition ot a piece of stale slang made use of against a man whom the people de lighted to honor, and xvliose name is, held in reverence by the democratic party. We doubt not that the coincidence will be carried still further. ‘'The magician, Jef ferson trioumpiied over all his opponents.” “The magician” Van Buren will also be sustained by the people. The magic by which he has won their favor, has been a warm devotion to their best interests, and they will show their trust in his magic pow ders by electing him to the highest office in tlieir gift./— N. Y. 'l'inies. HURRAH FOR DELAWARE Bv letters received last evening from our attentive correspondent in New Castle, Iwe learn that in Newf’astle Hundred on | Tuesday, thefriends of Van Buren carried j their whole ticket, Inspector, Assessor, ! and Road Commissioner, by a handsome I majority. At the last election the whigs were succes'sftd by a majority of fifty-seven votes. It was a strict party vote. In Wilmington, nearly GOO votes were polled, and the Van Buren party had a ma jority of 20. In Brandywine Hundred, the Van Buren majority was 40. In Christiana Hundred, the whig majority is greatly reduced. Ou. (fiends in Dela ware are redeeming their promises, and will be found where we wi>h them in the great struggle. The great “reactions go on gioriousiy.”— Pennsylvanian. IMPORTANT FROM FLORIDA The steam packet Dolphin’ Capt. I’emioyer, arrived here yesterday from St. Augustine, with Major Pierce, and other officers of our gallant lit tle army on board. By this arrival xve have re ceived mi extra, from the St. Augustine Herald, which furnishes the important intelligence which we give beloxx’, The first extract explains the mission of Maj. Pierce, whose conduct in Florida has already ex cited the admiration of our readers We hope that he will be successful in procuring all the ma terial necessary foi the prossecution of the xvar. From the Herald, — Extra, Oct. 21. We are pleased to learn that Gov. Call has con ferred upon Maj. Pierce the appointment of Quartermaster General. We feel satisfied that the office could not be in better hands. He pro ceeds immediately in the Dolphin, to Savannah and Charleston, with discretionary powers to procure every requisite for the Army. From the same. i To the Editor ofthe Florida Herald. 1 Sir : —As it is desirable to your readers and to the public generally, to learn, the operations of the army commanded by Gov. Call, you xvill be pleased to publish the following short, but correct statement nirnished by one xvho xvas wiih him. On the 28th, the Gov. passed the Suxvannee, at the Old Town, xvith 125 U Volunteer Tennessee ans and 125 Floridians, ail mounted. He had or dered an abundant supply of rations and forage, which nas then afloat, at the mouth of that river, ‘mt owing to ihe sickness of the crews of three steamboats lying in the river, had not been bro’t to the depot. Such xvas the impatience of the Volunteers to find the enemy that they prepared to make a sudden rush on the foe, presuming that they might be surprised; and although an express from Gen. Reed, then at Old Toxvn, overtook Gov. Call xvithin ten miles from that post to in form him of the reception of a full supply of eve ry thing wanted by the army', both officers and men expressed a decided unxvillingness to delay’ their inarch. On their route to Camp Draue, se ven Indians xvere killed, and few, if any, disco veied by the spy guard in advance, escaped the unerring shot of the volunteers. On the Ist ol October, the Governor reached 1* ert Brane and found the fires of the enemy still burning. They had escaped xvith their women and children by a few hours only, and but for the accidental escape of a spy, found about VVacahon ta, who xvas hotly pursued, but in vain, xve should have surprised and perhaps destroyed this whole gang of Micasuckies, xvith Powell at their head. As it was, four of their numbet xvere run doxvu i and killed. The army remained encamped at Fort Drane until a juncture could be effected with Major Pierce, then at Black Creek, on whose zeal and ability, the Governor relied to supply his army xvith rations. Nor did he rely in vain. On the night ot the 41h, at 10 o’clock, an express reach ed the Major from San Tafe,giving information that 100 Floridians had reached the latter place, to aid in escorting previsions to Camp Draue—at 12 o’clock, 2 hours alter the express, the Major xvas in the saddle, and his whole commaud on the move, it is zeal and energy like this that the ; times require ; it is this that gains the confidence lof the General in chief, ami saves tin army from want. Ou the morning of the sth, the movement was made from black Creek, and on the evening ot the nex? <Lay, Major Pierce with his detach ment, reached Fo-t Drane, ami furnished to Gov. Call, 7 or 8 days rations for Ins whole commaud, a distance of 65 miles. [ VVith this supply it wits deemed advisable to press on to the B ithlaccjochy, pass it at the cove, it toned fordable, and capture their xvomeu and children if the warriors should elude us: or should the xx aters of the river be beyond the banks, fall down ihe rivorto the depot directed to be estab lished at Graham’s Ohl Camp, and unite xvith Gen. Read and Col. Drane, at the head of the Iriendly Creeks. On the xvay the advanced guard fell in xvith a small encampment of Mickasuckics, ihe most warlike and hostile of the tribe, killed 13 men who did not fire a shot, and took prisoners, 4 xvometLand 8 children After an examination of the sqttaxvs it xvas found that vve had reached the river nt the point most desirable; that the body of the Indian families were on the opposite side, and the negro town, so called, xvas 3 miles above ns. protected by a deep creek, running through a thick swamp hammock, and fordable only at a very dry season. To this last place a detachment of 3iHI Tennessee Volunteers under Col. Gill proceeded, xvho returned in the evening with-” killed and seven wounded, by a shot from an unseen foe, unable tocioss the creek from the ' depth of water. The main hotly continued tlieir march to the river, and on reaching the banks, after passing tho most villianous swamp over passed on horseback, i found the river flooded greatly above its bank, and i 250 yards over whilst standing on the edge of wa ter, and mortified that a barrier so unlocked for xvas throxvn in our way, a fexv shot were fired from tiie other side, and it was with much difficul ty that the impetuosity of our men could be re strained—the firing was continued on both sidee without our seeing the Indians. When the vol unteers had been recalled. Major Gordon gal lantly volunteered xvith 2MJ of his men to silence the tiring on the opposite side. To this the com mander in chief xvas reluctantly induced to give his assent, and the gallant baud inarched to the banks, two feet deep in xvater, and after much in effectual firing, wlucb, our officers 'observed, was only useful in getting rid of ammuiiitiou, of which we had none too much, xvere recalled at tho sound of the bugle, Major Gordon, being wound ed iu the breast by a spent ball. The army, thus foiled by the high water iu their attempt, to cross the river, and end tho war at a blow, and almost without rations, had but one or txvo courses to pursue. The first was to fall back to Black Creek or Volusia for supplies, or to advance onward to the mouth of the river to communicate with General Read or Col. Lane, to obtain provisoes there. The last course was preferred by the General, and by a council of war; and the march xvas commenced—greatly to oui disappointment, no depot was establishail, at the point so peremptorily ordered, and the army was directed to Fort Drauo and Gary's Ferry. Luck ily the main object of the expedition xvas effect ed, a junction was formed xvith Col. Lane, who crossed the Withlacoocheat Gains’ battle ground on the 3 miles above our eucampmeut, having been governed in his march by the sound of our artillery, as we fired daily a signal gun. Thus has ended for a time our operations. Ma ny horses have been lost and must be re- placed. Depots must be established, we have discovered the proper locations. We have found the ene mys strong hold and the means to assail it. We have found willing and able guides in the prisoner squaws, and derived much valuable informaliou fiom them. They tell us that there is a large peace party in the nation who would have sent in an envoy, but from dread that xve would sheot him. They tell us that their’ powder is nearly exhausted, and above’ all, that the two head chiefs, the most warlike and the most hostile, next to Powell, the one of the Micasukies, the other ofthe long swamp tribe, were killed by Major Pierce at Fort Drane—from that, or some other cause, perhaps, the defection of tho Creeks, we believe that there is discention among them, that their war spirit is broken, and that they will ba whipped, humbled, and perhaps shipped before Christmas. A high spirit prevails in our army, harmony between the regulars and volunteer mi litia, and zeal, courage und ardour thorougheut all. In addition to the above, the HERALD has the felloxving: ' Maj. Pierce marched on the sth, in the morning at 2 o'clock, and arrived at Fort Draue on Satur day the Gth, with ten days provision for the Teo nessce brigade. Gov. Cali marched on Monday, the Bth,for the Withlacoochy, taking a new di rection xvith a viexv to surprise the Indians ; to do this.it xvas necessary to cut a nexv road for tho Artillery and wagon train, for more than 50 miles, which was performed by the battalion of 200 ar tillery under Major Pierce, in 5 days, and [altbo’ attended with considerable fatigue, was croxvued xvith success, and mite morning of tho I2th, the advancep guard surprised and attack-da large party of Indians, routing and dispersing them, killing IS warriors and taking 12 female prison ers. x st"' ' v "The friends of the Union are our friends, and its enemies, our enemies." TUESDAY MORXUVG, November 1« Vssiost Democratic Jttepublicnn TlcTcet. FOR PRESIDENT, MARTIN VAN BUREN. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, RICHARD M. JOHNSON. Extract of a letter from a gentleman of high standing in Washington City, to his friend in Georgia. • If'cshinglon, October 20th, 1836. Dear Sir: The returns of your election xvhich xverepnblhhed in our city papers, had almost assured me, before I obtained your letter, that your State had strangely gone for the party in the North, which has been weeping over the fate of die “ poor Indians in Georgia," during the last teu years; which has hitherto prevented their removal from your terri tory, by creating false hopes among them, that the new coalition would succeed against the party in poxver, and give them protection ; which has ad ded to the Indian, the African question, the Bank of the United States, the Tariff, and indeed, every thing almost, against xvhich, the sound, old south ern Democracy has been warring, ever since the days of our fathers. But the latest informa tion has given us hopes, that this barrier is not yet broken doxvn. Georgia xvill not leave her co-states, that have so long contended side by side xvith her for vital principles. We noxv feel confident, that your ticket is elected, and that the electionin December xvill he much moie decisive. After that, there w ill be no danger, for tho new administration wiW have to contend, as every democratic administra tion has, since the days of Mr. Jefferson, for a strict construction of tho constitution, against the schemes of visionary' politicians and philan thropists, and the cupidity of speculators in banks, stocks, public lands, &c. fcc. and it will not be found wanting. The Pennsylvania election seems 4o have set tle the great •question here, and although, some hopes were entertained by the opposition, xvben the./irs'< returns were received from Ohio, I have been told that, xvithin the last txvo days, masy who were betting freely last week, have not only refused to take any more bets, upon the general election, but some have offered to forfeit half the amounts already staked, to be let offwiththe -other half. Sincerely, yourob’l serv’t.” ANY BODY BUT VAN BUREN. The Whigs say “any body but Van Burttn.” When the declaration xvas first made, and. tdicy were asked xvho xvas meant by “any body,” the aitsxver xvas. Judge White of course, but since the White prospects have darkened, and the Harrison experiment has been looking up, why the answer is not always so ready and dis tinct. Some say now, they xvill take Hahri son—some that tliey have no second choice, and others answer by cursing Van Buren and Harrison both ; but now and then, there is ©m? to be found, who conies out openly for Buren against Harrison*, but they are Like