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but there is no alternative.
. should ever reach you, let it
.moi a mighty warning, I am dying l .
■g;i land, surrounded by many to whom I might
..<y for iclief, wore I not a midnight murderer, shunning
the day, and an irreclaimable sat. The weight ot my
crimes has recoiled back upon my heart, with a keen and
undying retribution. I have sewn the winds of intempe
rance and unbelief—l am reaping the whirlwinds of un
utterable monition. The fires of agonizing remorse tiro
burning in my blood ; —the monitory voire of a struggling
conscience is thundering in my cars, and I experience the
©•kindled pangs of a mental hell. Oh, God ! with what
direful punishment have iny iniquities overwhelmed me!
But I must on.
You know the secret of my early love, lou know the
embarkation of Emilie Barton for England, and that 1 fol
lowed her soon. Oh! that I could describe to yon the
Eden of happiness that dawned upon me the first summer
1 spent jn England. We were married; and time went
by with his wings glittering in the pearls of hope, and bis
brow clothed in sunshine. We made a delightful tour
the continent, and returned with joyful hearts to our me
tropolitan home and a lovely daughter was at last the
pledge of our affection. But in an evil hour, I surrendered
myself to the demon of drunkenness, and he bound my
bosnm in fetters of iron. I became a frequenter of the
hells in St. James’; a tippler of Johnson’s spirits, at the
Surry Theatre, and a strut.,ger to my home. I wasted all
my patrimony, ami the splendid estate of my kind Emilie,
in one short week, at the gaming table. I reviled the
Scriptures in her presence ; I neglected our darling child;
—in short, ! became a madman.
I returned home one night and found the bailiffs at my
threshold. Our mansion in town was sold, and wo rented
a pleasant cottage in Hampstead. Here, if I would net
have been more remorseless than the grave, I should have
paused upon my dark career. But I was too much de
praved. I became more and more estranged from the an
gel of my youth ; I repulsed her overflowing affection,
and saw her fading away under the influence of my cruel
ty. She had renounced fashionable life for my sake, and
it had been our intention to return to America, whither her
parents hud already gone, expecting us soon to follow.
Let ne be brief. As I opened, one moonlit evening,
the little gate th?’led up to our Hampstead residence, 1
saw my Emilie leaning upon the shoulder of a young man,
apparently weeping. A hellish suspicion that she had
dishonored me, rushed upon my brain; and stealthily ap
veaching, I drew a stiletto from my bosom and slabbed
-to the be?r', Site turned and fixed upon nie a look of
lite surprise, reproach, and forgiveness—shrieked,
'i lifeless at my feet. It was her brother.
aot long proceed. Since tiiat fatal hour, 1 have
cheil with the lightnings of reproachful thought;
been a scathed and skulking fugitive in the house
erablc fish-woman. 1 have quaffed deeply of the
cup of intoxication ; 1 have found its dregs to be
ormword. My health is wasted—my hopes are
the earth seems yawning to clasp me to its icy
mid that I were dead! Would to God that I
annihilation in which I once believed, hut
’ long ceased to hope! Twice have I
the potent drug has lain harmless with
-1! bids me live and suffer; My wife is
■lurch-yard at Hampstead; and my
prevented me from indulging the
ting at midnight over her peaceful
ves; and is the fair and funny
her. If she ever visits America,
,do not —oh 1 do not acquaint
i of her parents ; of that father
iiat spotless mother who loved me
ll.” I can ”
d. I give it to the reader as I re
.l day the remains, of Graham were
• tier’s Field of one of the alm’s-hpu;r«.
.ad.
’er of my lost friend, is with the parents
nerica. She is a counterpart of her
'ike her mother in her youth, beloved
li enthusiasm. She is the only
bro history of her mother’s sor-
to the London ‘
handed me the'
>re my direction,
Post Office, re- '
>g my efforts in- |
ickct boro my ’
of a guinea; i
.in funeral ob- |
arlv the next I
valet from my i
jpened the packet, |
oki anl mutilated; I
1 read as follows : ;
□X, October, IS—.
nd, now that nil hope
ver, may I now confide
us mv awful life. I shud-
MAN WHOLE.
a feat of Sig. Blitz’s per-
• same as swallowing an
uld do it, and won the
magician to swallow
r s that lie could do
’ on tho spot in
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he following
magician.
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1 'com the Macon Messenger.
At a largo and very respectable meeting of the citizens'
of the City of Macon, called to take into consideration the!
annexed Circular addressed to the Cotton Planters, Mer
chants, Factors, and Presidents and Directors of the sev
eral Banks of the Southern States. Isaac G. Seymour,
Mayor of the City, was called to the Chair, and Washing
ton I’oc, appointed Secretary.
The Chairman after staling the object of the meeting,
preceded to read the said Circular—after which the fol
lowing resolutions were ofl’ered by Absalom 11. Chappell
Esq., and seconded by Mr. Jerry Cowles—and uuani
mously adopted by the meeting.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that cotton,
the great staple of the Southern and Southwestern part
of the Union, Laving become, in a very eminent degree,
the controlling commodity of the commercial world, and
tires influence which it exercises over the agricultural and
commercial prosperity of our own country, and espe
cially of the cotton growing region of it, being of the
most absolute and paramount character. Therefore it
peculiarly behooves the citizens of the Southern and
South-Western States, earnestly to deliberate whether
any and what system can be applied to the cotton trade,
that shall impart to it greater steadiness and certainty,
& secure to the commodity, with at least some approach
to uniformity, what may be properly called its due and
natural price—that is to sav, a price based on the pro
portion of the annual supply, to the annual demand of
consumption—thereby protecting it as far as possible from
those violent, ruinous and incalculable fluctuations which
are of such frequent cccttrence, and which are in numer
ous instances, the tlirect offspring of artificial causes aad
combinations.
Resolved further, That this meeting concur in the views
set forth i r , the circular w hich has been read to the meeting
from the Chair, and that we believe the measures therein
recommended, are sanative in their character, and if ear
ned out ns contemplated, will be conducive to the interests
of the cotton growing States and therefore should commend
themselves to the consideration of qgery citizen of the
South, whatever may be his calling or profession.
Resolved, That fully appreciating tire compliment be
stowed upon our city, in selecting it as the place of
meeting for the proposed Convention, we do most
cordially, and earnestly solicit our Fellow Citizens of the
Southern, and South Western States, and the Territory
of Florida, to meet us at this place on the fourth Tues
day in October next, to deliberate on the important mat
ters disclosed in the before mentioned Circular.
Resolved, That a committee to be composed of twen
ty-one, be appointed by the Chair, to effect the object
embraced in the last Resolution, and that said Commit
tee have full power to adopt such measures as to them
may seem proper to obtain a foil meeting of all interested
in the subject set forth in this circular.
Whereupon the Chair appointed tiie following gentle
men that Committee.
A. 11. Chappell, Everard Hamilton, J. Cowles, Jas.
Goddard, Richard 11. Randolph, Eugenios A. Nisbet, D.
C. Campbell, Elias Beifll, L. L. Griffin, Chas. Cotton,
Geo. Jewett, Leroy Napier, N. C. Monroe, Ambrose
Baber, A. Clopton, Richard K. Hines, E. D. Tracy,
Henry G. Lamar, Levi Eckley, Wm. B. Parker, and
Isaac Scott.
Resolved, That the Chairman be added to the com
mittee.
On motion of Henry G. Lamar Esq., it was Resolved,
That the Editors of News Papers in this, and all the States
interested in the subject, be requested to publish the said
Circular and Resolutions.
Resolved, Tiiat the Editors of papers in this City, are
requested to publish the above proceedings.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
ISAAC G. SEYMOUR, Chairman,
Washington Poe, Secretary.
July 17, 1839.
To the Cotton Planters, Merchants, Factors, and Presi
dents and Directors of the several Ranks of the South
ern States:
CIRCULAR.
Fellow Citizens: Interested like yourselves, in the
cultivation and disposal of the groat staple of American
agriculture and commerce, we have accidently met in this
city, in the midst of a crisis which discloses some striking
ly momentous features in the history of this most import
ant branch of the trade of our country.
When the Cotton Crop of the United States was a mere
item in its trade, and did not reach a production exceeding
five hundred thousand bales, it was perhaps safe to con
sider it as one among many articles of barter and exchange,
which, left entirely to the fortuitous circumstances of com
merce, would find its level under the influence of the or
dinary laws of trade, without the necessity of resorting to
«."y means of precautionary protection.
Times, nC wevcr » * iave ‘ hanged. Cotton has passed from
the condition of a mC.-e article of commerce, to the per
formance of the mighty functio*" o * r being in a great de
gree the regulator of the exchanges, anJ the standard of
value of our country. If the nature of this materia! for
bids its entering into our circulation, it is scarcely less the
basis of our currency, than the precious metals; for the
fluctuations in its price arc felt with a sensibility equally
as acute and searching, as any of those variations which
belong to the demand and supply of these sensitive and
mysterious tokens of national value.
The production of this staple, has now become so im
mense, that it behoves those who produce it by a large in
vestment of capital at a high rate of incidental cost, and
in a climate perilous to human health, to consider well,
whether there are not some material circumstances in re
ference to the mode in which this product of their labor
is shipped from this country, and is brought to market at
the point of its final sale and consumption, which demand
the application of a prompt and effective remedy. In one
word, is not the important fact disclosed, that such is the
unwieldy amount of this great staple of Southern industry,
that it cannot be sent forward and disposed of at fair re
munerating prices, through the ordinary medium of the
mercantile establishments of this country and in Europe,
without the direct co-operation of our banking institutions!
If we have become satisfied of this fact, ought we not to
otganize a system, which shall give perfect security to this
rcat interest in the commerce and finances of our conn
ry ? The unwise and ruinous system of sending the crop
forward to houses of circumscribed means on the other
4e of the water, who are incapable of holding their con
signments an hour beyond the maturity of the bills drawn
ag-antst such shipments, subjects in fact, nearly the whole
amount of American interests to foreign combination,
which might act, wot only with entire concert, but with a
pet feet knowledge of the period, when from the maturity
of the acceptances in question, propeity to a stupendous
amount belonging to this country, may be ready for sacri
fice.
The great and vital change which must be operated, is
to sustain American interests, by American credit. To
realise at home, the resources necessary for the protection
of our property abroad, without the necessity of large
and inconvenient drafts on the capital and means of our
jreat customer. In other words, the commercial reform
■■ desire, is to send our great staple to market, without
cried being determined by the date of a Bill of Ex
when it is to be brought forward fer absolute and
-try sacrifice. We believe that the steadiness in
■'ild result from a portion, at least, of the
■rnpt from the disastrous fluctuations
would in the end be scarce
’ consumer in England,
A fact, which we
''dates, which
the one hand from any great and undue speculative action,
which might inflate prices above the natural rate —and on
the other, from any derangement in the money market, or
any other accidental cause, which might depress it below
that rate. The effect of great and'tmdue speculation be
ing to derange the money market and to produce reaction,
with an undue dep ession of prices.
3. Ihe state of the currency mainly depends on the
means which the country possessesses, to pay its foreign
debt, by shipments ol its produce. To the extent its pro
duce or manufacture falls short of that object, exports of
specie may be induced, the effect of which must be a re
duction of the circulation, with depreciation of propeity
atid general distress.
4. Cotton, in this country, being by far the most import
ant produce, and affording the great means of paying its
foreign debt, it is the interest of the community, and pai
ticularly of the monied institutions, that the price of it in
England, (the great market,) should be steady, and that
the article should be of current sale, so as to be the means
of large and effective remittance. It follows, that the in
terest of the banking institutions here, are the same as
those ot the three classes first mentioned, namely, that the
price should be natural, that it may be steady, and of easy
realization.
5. The interest of the British Government, of the Bank
of England, and of the banks of that country in respect
to this article, are the same as the interests of the banks
here. The importation there being immense, and the em
ployment of a most numerous body of the laboring class
es, depending on the steadiness of prices. When they are
not steady—the foreign demand for manufactured cotton is
reduced greatly, the operatives are thrown out of oinploy
ment, and the great means of settling the balance of trade,
without the exportation of the precious metals are with
drawn. Manufactured cottons affording by far, the most
important branch of their export trade.
6. Consequently, any arrangement that could be formed,
by which the article would be protected from the effects of
undue speculation, and from depression in the money mar
ket, and by which steadiness of price, with currency of
sale, would be promoted—would save some of the greatest
and bestginterests in both countries.
7. It is therefore proposed to form a system by which,
with the commencement of the new crop, advances on
Cotton shall be made with the capital or credit of Banks
here, thereby relieving the consignee in Europe from all
care or consideration, except the advantageous sale of his
stock, which would promote all these interests, and afford
general satisfaction on both sides of the water, provided
it were not made the means of directly or indirectly, of
undue speculation or monopoly.
Having thus indicated the principles on which the pro
posed system must find its justification and basis, we will
now as succinctly as possible, detail of carrying
it into effect.
We are far from imputing any premeditated hostility of
the Bank of England to American interests; on the con
trary, it is one of the benevolent influences of commercial
intercourse, to promote peace and good will among nations
and men. Hence this great engine of the commercial
grandeur and opulence of Great Britain, acting under an
enlightened instinct, must rather desire that its best custo
mer should at all times be in a condition to meet her en
gagements with entire punctuality and success.
But there are epochs in the commerce of England,
whether from insufficient harvests a languid demand for
her manufactures, or political combinations, when the
bank may, from an urgent policy, limit her discounts, and
increase her rate of interest. This event can never occur
without its having a blighting influence on any surplus of
our great staple, which might be unsold in England. Sure
ly, if the Bank of England can exercise (unavoidably,)
an influence thus prejudicial, we may resort to our own
American banks, as a means of security and protection,
without the invidious clamor of combination and monopo
ly. It is time that the absurd and senseless cry on the
subject of hanks making advances on Cotton, should be
understood, and finally put down. The truth is, that by
the mere purchase of the foreign exchanges of the coun
try, they advance on nearly every bale of Cotton subject
to foreign export, and this without the security of the bill
of lading and policy of insurance, on the mere personal
responsibility of the drawers and indorsers of the bill.
Hence these losses are most comprehensive and disastrous
after every commercial crisis and revulsion.
New we propose giving to the banks ia all cases, the
higher protection of these seeurites, and that early next
autumn, one or more banks in each of the great commer
cial Cotton markets of the South, should commence
making advances on the crop, according to a scale to be
graduated by what will be a safe calculation of its proba
ble amount, assuming 12J cents at home, to be about the
fair natural average and remunerating price of this staple,
on a product of sixteen hundred thousand bales, which is
about as large a return as the actual labor of the country
now engaged in this branch of iifflustry, is capable of har
vesting. The embarrassments of the South Western
States having prevented the planters in these States from
making any purchases of slaves from the Atlantic Slates,
during the last two years, whilst not less than 10 per cent,
of ill? slave labor of the South, has been abstracted in the
same period, from the cultivation of Cotton, and applied
to tho raising of provisions, and to the construction of
those expensive rail-roads now in progress, throughout that
portion of the Union.
For these advances, we propose that the Banks should
issue to the planters, merchants and factors of the coun
try, on the production of the bill of Lading, and the as
signment of the policy of insurance, Post Notes of such
description, and payable at such periods as a Convention
hereafter contemplated, may suggest; notes, which may
be made to answer both tho purposes of currency and ex
change, the details of which we refer to that body. By
this arrangement however, we feel satisfied the credits can
he so distributed, that from the day of the shipment of our
cotton, it may probably bo held at least six months in Eu
rope, without the foreign consignee being underan advance
of one farthing, and we think it quite easy to confer on
the houses, to which tho shipments are confided, sufficient
strength, to enable them to hold over for even a longer pe
riod, should safe remunerating prices not be obtained on
the maturity of the bills.
With the view of securing this strength, it is indispen
sably necessary, that the consignments should not be too
much diffused, but confined to a limited number of houses
in Liverpool and Havre, who, acting as the agents of all
those who’will come into this conservative system, will
feel a common interest, and will naturally aid and assist
cadi other under all and tvcry contingency.
'Phis, Fellow Citizens, is but the brief outline of a great
scheme, for the protection of our Commerce, Finance, and
Exchanges, the details of which, must be left for profound
deliberation, and concerted action. To accomplish this
object, we hereby invite the planters, factors and cotton
merchants of each district or county in the Southern
States, and Territory of Florida, together with the Banks,
in each of the said States and Territory, to send Delegates
to meet us in Convention at Macon, Georgia, on the Fourth
Tuesday of October next, which will be on the 22nd day
of that month, that we may carefully consider the impor
tant matters disclosed in this Circular.
We invite a candid examination of this whole scheme,
for the protection, not alone of southern interests, but for
the security of the commerce of the whole country.
Let it at least be tested by patient investigation, and
enlightened research ; if by this plan one third of the en
tire cotton crop of the country can be placed beyond the
possibility of sacrifice, it will give security to the residue,
not by entrenching it behind the guards of a speculative
monopoly, but by holding it in that state of security, which
the jnst relations of supply and demand will always in the
long run, establish and sustain in the trade of a great and
civilized country.
r, 'hat no time may be lost, we beg leave to apprise you
’. having our confidence, will leave thisshort
-1 vV’itli ample instructions, to make
rents with the houses in Liver
. by the sanction of the Con
”3'.gnmcnts.
We arc aware of the very potent opposition, which a
plan looking even to self-defence, must invite both at
home and abroad, as it runs counter to a variety of inte
rests, too powerful and 100 susceptible of combination, not
to be aroused into active, and perhaps inexorable hostility.
II our apology is not to be found in the plea, that we have
a light to hold our own property by the means of the
credit of our own country, then we fearlessly say, we
mean at least to attempt it, in despite of an opposition
however eager and implacable.
We have seen in the face of a crop of 1,350,000 Bales,
an effort made, and very nearly resulting in success, to
coerce the acceptance of the same prices, which were
incident to one of 1,500,000 bales. We ought not to rest
our security on the adverse omens of the crop, which is
now growing under the will and dispensation of Provi
dence, which has already suffered in many quarters from
an intense drought, and in others from the ravages of the
insects so destructive to its growth and maturity. We
should look beyond the era of the short supply of the last
year, and an apprehended deficit during the coming season.
The lessons of economical wisdom belong to all seasons,
and all times, and there is a salutary truth in the homely
aphorism, that those who do not take care of themselves,
are not likely to be taken care of by others. We there
fore submit this call and invitation to you, with the earnest
hope, that you will be prepared to co-operate with us in a
measure, in which we believe the highest interests of our
common country are involved.
We remain, very respectfully,
Your ob’t. sev’ts.
NATH’L. A. WARE, of Mississippi.
JOHN G. GAMBLE, Florida.
THOMAS E. TARTT, Alabama.
W. 11. PRATT, Alabama.
D.P. HILLHOUSE, Georgia.
J. J. HUGHES, Yazoo Miss.
NATHAN McGEHEE, Louisiana.
GEO. McDUFFIE, South Carolina,
D. K. DODGE, Florida.
J. L. HUNTER, Alabama.
JAMES HAMILTON, South Carolina.
A. B. DAVIS, Georgia.
HENRY W. HILLIARD, Montgomery Ala.
JOHN BRANCH, North Carolina.
New York, July sth, 1839.
P. S. All tho Southern Papers, will oblige the signers
of the above Circular, by giving it an insertion in their re
spective papers.
STATE RIGHTS AND UNITED STATES RIGHTS.
THE TKITE ISSUE.
Shall ours be a GOVERNMENT OF THE BANKS,
or a GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE? Shall we
hare a CONSTITUTIONAL TREASURY, or an UN
CONSTITUTIONAL NATIONAL BANK? Shall we
have a CONSTITUTIONAL CURRENCY of gold and
silver or one of IRREDEEMABLE PAPER? Shall
u>e live under the despotism of a MONIED ARI STOC RACY,
erunder the safeguards of a FREE CONSTITUTION.?
[Washington Chronicle.
MILLI-DGE VfLLEt
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1839.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHM FORSYTH.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
TWIGGS DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
We announce the following Ticket for Twiggs county, al
the coming election.
Well known—well tried—good and true—the Democracy
will stand by them.
Maj. Benjamin B. Smith, For Senate.
Gen. Hartwell H. Tarver, ) Represen-
Josiaii Daniel, Esquire. ) tatives.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We have received two communications upon the retail
question: “Fair Play,’’ in favor of repealing the licence
law, and “Equal Rights,” against it; both of very great
length, and from the bands of talented individuals; but which, |
in accordance with a rule prescribed to ourselves, and pub
lished several weeks since, are excluded from our columns.
We cannot for a.momeut, think of making the Standard
of Union the arena upon which this battle is to be fought, to the
exclusion of matter far more interesting to our readers. More
over, this subject is one, which iu our judgment should not
be connected with politics, or made a test in candidates for
public favor, but finding that it is running rapidly into that
channel, we can see no occasion for fanning the excitement.
Under this view of the subject, we shall continue to act
upon our own judgment, standing ns we always have done,
in the clear, open ground of self-control, where there is inde
pendence of word and will.
In what we have written upon this question, there has been
but a single object, and this was to allay, if possible, the ex
citement existing in several counties, and not to provoke a
controversy with anyone, or wound the feelings of a solitary
individual. We have but spoken our own sentiments like
free citizens, and leave to others, the freest exercise and en
joyment of their own.
We may write again upon tho subject, or not, as the spirit
may move us. We may publish communications or not,just
as our reason and judgment may dictate, but that we shall
open our columns to a general, or indiscriminate discussion
of the controversy, cannot be expected, to the exclusion of
“the weightier matters of the law.”
The articles above referred to, are at the command of their
authors.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
The news by the arrival of the Great Western at New
York, is of the most important character.
Cotton has declined throe fourths of a penny—there is
great pressure in the money market, and a series of bloody
riots have taken place at Birmingham.
War has commenced between Turkey and Egypt, and
great apprehensions are entertained of disturbances in India.
The wo: Id is shockingly out of joint.
“ Where was Judge Dougherty in those fearful times?”
Answer—Tn the Legislature of Georgia, declaring by his
vote, that tho President could rightfully arrest the authorities
of Georgia in tho exercise of her sovereign rights, as follows:
“ And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act con
tained. shall be so construed, tts to authorize tho Governor to
order the surveyors to proceed w ith the survey as contempla
ted by this act, until he shall be satisfactorily informed by the.
President of the United States, that the public rosew
of the United States will not be employed to prevent said sur
vey and occupancy.”*
Judge Dougheity voted for this section, “in those fearful
times," fearful were they indeed, to him, when ho bowed in
humble submission to the will of the president, and the terror
of the public force."
They call him the “State Rights candidate," too?
* See Journal House Reps. 1830. Pago 243.
MR. CLAY AND THE RECORDER.
If the Recorder has announced the name of Governor
Troup with the wish or expectation that he may be elected, it
could well devote a part of the time it occupies in getting Mr.
Van Buren out of the way, to pointing out such objections t»
Mr. Clay, as might also very probably lessen his influence
with the Southern people; for let it be disguised as it may,
ho is a formidable candidate ; and admitting for the sake of
argument, that the Recorder succeeds in driving Mr. Van Bu
ren from the field, it would be found a pretty tolerable labo
rious job to make Governor Troup beat Mr. Clay. There
fore, if the Recorder desires tho election of Governor Troup,
*t must firs: prostrate Van Buren and Clay, it being essential
to such a result, that both these aforesaid gentlemen Mtftould
be killed off,” and at pretty short notice, too.
But wo can assure our neighbors, that their present plan o f
operations, so far from weakening Mr. Clay, has a tendency
to encourage his friends and advance his cause in other States,
from the fact, that they do not consider Governor Troup aa a
competitor, and that this movement of the Recorder is mere
ly a russe for Mr. Clay’s benefit; indeed some people nigher
home are inclined to the same opinion. For ourselves, we
award to them, sincerity in their professions, and as they may
peradventure trip Mr. Van Buren, (a pretty severe job by the
way) and as in that event we should prefer Governor Troup
to Mr. Clay, because he is in favor of the Sub-Treasury, and
opposed to a National Bank, we take leave to offer a few
hints to our neighbors, and to point them to certain incident*
in the life of Mr. Clay, which will enable them with proper
amplification, to hold him up in nn attitude sufficiently de
formed, to scare off the largest kind of children.
First—lie is a duelist. lie fought Mr. Marshall, of Ken
tucky, many years ago, and received a bullet in his leg,—not
many years ago, he fought Mr. Randolph of Roauoke, and
received his life as a present, from the hand of that high min
ded and chivalrous Virginian. "
Secondly—He was an early advocate for negro emancipa
tion—-so avowed himself in Kentucky, a long time ago; and
for several years past, was the advocate of abolition petition*,
and voted in the Senate, to receive and discuss them; and
it was not until last winter, that he came out against them, to
curry favor with the Southern people.
Thirdly—That in 1811, he opposed the recharter of the U.
S. Bank, in an unanswerable speech, aud that bo is now s
Bank man.
Fourthly—That he was the father and champion of the Ta
riff, which oppressed us so much, and about which the Union
was endangered.
Fifthly—That he elected John Quincy Adams, the federal
abolitionist, to the Presidency, for the chief seat in his Cabi
net, and became a federalist himself.
Sixthly—That ho voted for the bloody bill because ho
thought it was right.
Seventhly—That he voted for the compromise tariff, not
because he thought it right to do so, but to save the necks of
the nullifiers from the halter, as he s;ud himself in the Senate.
Eigthly—That he is opposed to tho sub-treasury, and that
Governor Troup is in favor of it.
Ninthly—That be has been uniformly in favor the Chero
kee Indians, and has done every thing in his power to fasten
them upon us.
Tenthly—That he is the open antagonist of State sovereign
ty, and claims for Congress, the exercise of every power,,
which may be deemed expedient—lnternal Improvement*,
Banks, &c., &c.
Eleventhly—He is in favor of gag laws, and opposed to
the right of suffrage—witness Mr. Crittenden’s bill ol the
last session.
Here you might end the first chapter, unless it may be con
sidered advisable to allude to his moral habits, particularly
that of gambling, in which it is said, he figured very largely for
many years of his life. •
If our neighbors will act upon this hint, they will kill two
birds with one stone. They will do much to weaken Mr.
Clay, as well as to convince the people that they are in ear
nest about Governor Troup. Unless they do this, very few.
(ourselves excepted) will put the least faith in their profes
sions, and treat it as humbug, from beginning to end.
THE RECORDER.
We publish from the Georgia Macon Telegraph, the follow
pig palpable bit at tho Recorder, in which the zig zag course
of that print is admirably taken oIT
It is true that the Recorder has shifted and veered so oft*n.
t hat it is difficult to trace out all its windings and turnings,
but enough is very well known to furnish the engraver with
one of the crookedest subjects imaginable. The route of Mr.
Van Buren to New-York, would be no more to it, than tho
cuive of a reap hook, to the doublings of a sagacious old
Fox, in a four hours chase.
“ The Southern Recorder makes matter of grave comment,
the route taken by the President of the United States, from
Washington City, in his recent visit to New-York! And to
give piquancy to their remarks and inuendoes, the Editor*
have gone to the expense of procuring an engraving, showing,
the supposed track of the President, during his join ney. It
appears strange to them, that the President instead us pur
suing “ the usual route of all travellers,” who are in a huiry
to get over the ground, and actually fly as last as wind and
steam can carry them, chose to travel in his own carriage,
and on such roads, and through such villages, as his leisure,
inclination, or friendship dictated. We are glad they have
nothing more serious to bring against Mr. Van Buren, than
that he does not travel over the land, while in search us health,
and recreation, with the speed of a U S. Bank Circular, or
the haste of a Whig panic speech-maker. By the by, wo
leave it to the Whig moralists to decide, whether this dogging
the steps of a political opponent, while enjoying a temporary
relaxation from severe mental labors among his personal’
friends, from house to house, aud from room to room, with
such precision as to give an accurate diagram of the whole)
route, without a single break, hiatus, or interruption whatev
er, comes under the cognizance of lheir moral code?
It strikes us, the political course of tho Southern Recorder
itself, has not been the most straight-forward imaginable.—.
Had that immaculate journal been giving a chart of its own
political course, it would not have presented fewer zig zago
ries, than does the spirited engraving in their paper. W?
recommend it to the Mouse-Owlery Club of Milledgeville, tn
pieserve the plate among their valuable collections, not only
as a sac simile of the autog-raph of the Recorder, but as a
compendious auto-biography of the same illustrious hebdotn
edal. Is it not a “ most admirable delineation of its zig zag
political road ? For Van Buren and against Van Buren—
against nullification and for nullification—for southern rights,
yet hurrahing at tho success of Northern Abolitionists— for
an Independent Treasury and against it—against a U. States
Bank aud for it—for Clay secretly, and against him openly I
—against the “Divorce” (in Martin Van Buren) and for the*
Divotce (in Goo. M. Troup)—opposed to the Bloody Bill (in
Andrew Jackson) and for the Bloody Bill (impersonated in
Hugh L. White)--against Jackson and for Jackson and against
him again ? and so on to the end of the chapter.
Are the old consistent State Rights men of Georgia prepa
red to follow the dictation of a leader, whose course is *n
“awfully crooked ?”
WELLERISM.
“ The day we celebrate,” as the fat pig said to tb«
turkey on the last 4th of July.